At Zhang's house, Zhu Zhanji met Karlsoli, whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

Among the more than 13,000 Europeans and Arabs that Zhu Zhanji brought back from the West, Karsoli can be regarded as one of the best mixed people.

Sophia put aside her appearance, her gentle personality, and the tenacity that Ming women lacked, and soon won the love of the old Mrs. Peng Chengbo, who was originally a small family.

Mrs. Peng Chengbo has a straightforward personality, if her daughter becomes the crown princess, she is the kind of lively person in the countryside.

This kind of character is very pleasing in the royal family, otherwise, she would not have been liked by Zhu Di and allowed her to enter and leave the court.

And although she became Mrs. Peng Chengbo, she couldn't stay idle, and worked as a matchmaker among the nobles all day long, which made her get a good popularity.

Zhang Wu followed Zhu Di on the expedition, she Youningwei fell in love with Sophia, and did not dislike her at all for being a Xiyi person, not only did not lock her up at home, but also took her out all day long.

It wasn't until she found out that Sophia was pregnant that she was serving her deliciously and deliciously.

Because of her relationship, Karsoli was also accepted by the Zhang family, the nobles accepted Karlsoli, and the officials accepted it even more, which was very important for him to integrate into the Ming Dynasty.

Although he hadn't seen him for a long time, he had heard a lot about him. The construction of the arena that he is now presiding over has completed the foundation casting and the wall has begun.

This arena did not attract attention at first, but when the scaffolding was erected and the height exceeded ten meters, it attracted countless people from the Ming Dynasty to see the strangeness.

In terms of height, this arena cannot be compared with the pagoda of Bao'en Temple, which is twenty stories high. The arena, on the other hand, is only more than twenty meters high at most.

But before that, there was no building of this size, except for the city walls. With a length of more than 200 meters and a width of more than 100 meters, such a building can be considered a behemoth.

In the past, many people in the Ministry of Industry, including Wu Zhong, were still a little unconvinced that Zhu Zhanji had made Karsoli the chief engineer.

But in terms of high structure, the West does have techniques that Eastern craftsmen need to learn.

Now those people in the Ministry of Industry are also convinced, which makes his life more leisurely.

Because everyone knows that technical officials are low-level officials in Daming, and no matter how capable Karsoli is, he can't become a big man, and he doesn't pose a threat to others.

Now that he has Zhu Zhanji as the backstage, and his daughter is married to Pengcheng Bofu, it is not a huge interest involved, and no one will quarrel with him.

And he is still in the stage of understanding Daming, so naturally there will be no huge interests involved, so no one will embarrass him, and he is happy now.

After the old Mrs. Peng Chengbo drove away the nobles around him and let his beloved grandson rest for a while, Zhu Zhanji had time to call Karsoli to chat a few words.

Karsoli hadn't learned to be tactful and could talk to Zhu Zhanji, so he was very happy and asked directly: "Your Highness, it is said that the palace and the Temple of Heaven and Earth are the most splendid buildings, but I can't enter these two places, can you give me a handwritten letter and let me go in and have a look?" ”

Li Liang, who most maintains Zhu Zhanji's image on weekdays, couldn't help but laugh, and he didn't feel that Carl Soli was offending Zhu Zhanji.

Wang Yan almost burst into tears of laughter. "Your Highness, this old card is really a two-pole temper."

Karlsoli had long been accustomed to the Ming people calling him Lao Ka, and he not only had no intention of correcting him, but also felt that it was a kind of affectionate title.

He didn't care about Wang Yan's ridicule at this time, staring at Zhu Zhanji's face, wanting to get an answer.

Zhu Zhanji smiled and ordered: "Eunuch Wang, this matter will be handed over to you, as long as it is not a sensitive area, it will be open to the old card, including the architectural drawings." I hope that it won't be long before I can train a master builder who combines Chinese and Western styles for Daming. ”

He kept science and technology secret, but Zhu Zhanji did not have the intention of keeping architectural design secret. He also hopes that the architectural style of the Ming Dynasty can be directly spread and affect every country in the world.

Cultural export is what every country is trying its best to do in later generations, and no one has noticed this aspect in this era, but Zhu Zhanji will not be negligent.

When the whole world is beautiful in the architectural style of the Ming Dynasty, and when the whole world is proud of learning the culture of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty at that time naturally came to the top of the world.

The Imperial Palace and the Temple of Heaven and Earth were the most sacred places in this era, but in Zhu Zhanji's view, it was just like that, and the symbolic meaning was greater than the actual meaning.

As long as Calsoli did not deliberately desecrate these occasions, it was not a big deal for him to observe and learn.

The wedding of the Zhang family was very lively, with the Zhang family and Zhu Zhanji personally in charge, and the civil and military ministers all gave some face.

However, the wedding was not over, and Sun Lin in the palace sent news that Tang Sai'er, who was on the border between Asia and Europe, had a large-scale conflict with a Warat tribe.

Miraculously, in the face of the onslaught of more than four thousand light cavalry, they won.

Zhu Zhanji had thought many times that Tang Sai'er and they would face the attacks of the tribes of the Golden Horde, since two hundred years ago, the Mongol Yuan people established the Golden Horde, and today's Golden Horde is no longer the original tribal alliance with the Mongol Yuan people as the main body.

In the thirteenth year of Hongwu, the White Horde Khan Tokhtamysh defeated the powerful minister Mamai of the Great Khanate's court with the help of Timur's power, controlled the main territory of the Kipchak Khanate, and became the Great Khan of the Kipchak Khanate.

The Golden Horde was in decline, with Khorezm, Crimea, and Bulgar gradually splitting from the Golden Horde, and at the same time the Golden Horde was invaded by the Timurid Empire in Central Asia.

However, they still controlled the western part of the Irtysh River in the east, northwestern Uras (Russia) and Ukraine, the lower reaches of the Danube, the western part of Lake Balkhash, the northern Caspian Sea, the Black Sea, northwestern Turkmenistan, and the vast expanse near the Arctic Circle (including Novgorod) in the north.

Even the Timurid state was far from what they could control.

Zhu Zhanji has always regarded the Golden Horde as the main rival of the Ming Dynasty on land, because Russia is derived from the Muscovy among them.

This principality, which was still a small local power, became the world's largest power in later generations due to its greed for land.

Zhu Zhanji paid attention to the Golden Horde, but he didn't expect that most of the tribes had now belonged to the Warat people of the Ming Dynasty and took the initiative to attack Tang Sai'er and them.

"Back to the palace, I want to know the whole process of the battle, where they fought and where the tribe fled now."

The difference between ancient and modern place names makes Zhu Zhanji see information many times and don't know the location. Only when he saw the map would Zhu Zhanji know that this battle took place here......

After the 5,000 Shandong athletes arrived at Beiming Mountain, they were welcomed by the prison army, and even Zheng Heng, who had been out to contact various tribes, returned to meet them.

They successfully received all kinds of weapons, gunpowder, salt and other materials prepared for them by the imperial court from Yishaha's hands, and then ignored Yishaha's dissuasion, only rested for two days in Beimingshan, and then embarked on a long road to the west.

Under Zhu Zhanji's arrangement, the 5,000 of them could have received a month's formal training in Beimingshan. But whether it was Lin San or Gao Yang'er, they were worried that their brothers would be co-opted by the imperial court, and they did not dare to accept the training of the imperial court at all.

However, they did not refuse the imperial court's letter of war, as well as the training personnel sent by them.

There were only a small number of bandits and bandits, and most of them were honest and conscientious people, who had not received regular marching formations.

They didn't dare to receive training in Beimingshan, but it didn't mean that they couldn't recognize their shortcomings, and they were ready to use the few months they spent in Tanglin City to train well.

The imperial court sent a total of 200 people to follow them to Tanglin City, most of these 200 people were veterans, scouts, and the main and deputy commanders were two young garrisons Xie Zhenghe and Liu Gao who graduated from the first phase of Yulin Weixue.

They provided various services and training to Tang Sayer and the 5,000 people, acting as guides to take them to their destinations.

In May in the Northland, the grass grows and the warbler flies.

Although the summer here came very late and was very short, Tang Sai'er and the others traveled thousands of miles in the most suitable season, and with the positioning of the Yulin Weixue soldiers and the guidance of scouts, they did not encounter too many difficulties.

However, in this era when there are no roads, the difficulties encountered in the trek of thousands of miles are still unimaginable to them.

From Beimingshan to Tanglin City, a passage had been opened during Mengyuan's westward expedition.

But this passage was mainly for the light cavalry, and it was very difficult for the vehicles to move on such a road.

Especially when crossing many rivers, because some local tribes demolished the original bridges on the river for safety, so that they had to open roads and build bridges in the mountains and waters.

The Warat tribe originally lived in the Bahe region, which was dominated by the Yenisei River, and they moved south during the Great Prosperity of the Mengyuan Dynasty and occupied the Seleng River region in northern Xinjiang.

In other words, the whole of East and West Siberia in later generations, all the way to Mongolia and Xinjiang, was their territory.

In the twelfth year of Yongle, Zhu Di marched north to Wara and reached the Tula River. The following year, Mahamu and others were captured by Arutai and transported to Yingtianfu to die.

After Mahamu, he was succeeded by his son Tuhuan. He established the descendants of the Yuan royal family to take off and not spend as a khan, and made himself prime minister.

However, the Warat tribe declined because of the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, and many of the tribes in their east belonged to the Ming Dynasty, and the remaining tribes who did not want to belong to the Ming Dynasty retreated to the Bahe region.

They were no longer the opponents of the Ming Dynasty, and their cavalry, in the face of the Ming Dynasty's muskets, had completely lost their threat.

But in the Eight Rivers region, they are still the undoubted overlords, whether it is the barbarian tribes in the north or the Golden Horde tribes in the west, they dare not make enemies with the Warats.

Tang Sai'er and his 5,000 men marched all the way west, carrying enough food for them to eat for a year.

Zhu Zhanji also invested heavily in them, providing each of them with 500 catties of wheat flour and 20 catties of seeds for each of them.

Although this food is not enough to meet the needs of a year, they have weapons and tools in their hands, and the forests of the Northland contain countless prey.

As they traveled westward, the grain, as well as the salt and cloth, became the target of many tribes.

But they were outnumbered, and the average tribe did not dare to fight their ideas at all.

Until they crossed the Yenisei River and reached the Vajzara tribe in the western part of the Warat tribe.

The Vajjra tribe lived in the primeval forests of the upper reaches of the Deleger River to the Yenisei River in later generations, and lived in the Eight River basins.

They live a life of hunting and fishing, supplemented by fishing and herding, and are part of the "people in the forest". There are a large number of people, and it is known as "bald cotton (10,000) and Yiyi".

After being expelled from the Mongolian Plateau by the Ming Dynasty, they did not dare to go east and go south, so they could only hide in the forests of the north to survive.

For these tribes, whether it is cloth or salt, it is something they urgently need.

Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty treats the tribes to which they belong and is willing to provide all kinds of fine cloth and salt, including spices. But these transactions were strictly controlled by Daming, and they had enough to eat themselves, and it was not enough to resell them.

The Wai Thorn La tribe is wild and untrained and refuses to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, so they naturally have no salt to buy, and many people in their tribe have already suffered from weakness.

Reality forced them to trade or plunder the White Horde in the southwest, the Kazakhs had not yet formed their own tribal power, and the Turks could not withstand their ferocious attacks.

However, they could only bully some small tribes, and because of their strength, they did not have the ability to directly attack the salt pools of Central Asia.

The materials they carried were full of great temptation.

Tang Sai'er and his team have been practicing various tactics during their march for more than a month.

Since Da Ming had a reliable musket, the drills of various formations have become mainly based on superior firepower to destroy the enemy, and these formations are not suitable for Tang Sai'er and them, who only have fifty muskets.

But Tang Sai'er and the others didn't need to study the battle in the wild, because they went to the extreme west and established Tanglin City for survival, not for conquest.

So along the way, they practiced more defensive battles.

Although Lin San was the nominal leader of this team, there were less than a thousand people he could control, and the five thousand people were divided into seven small groups, each with its own interests.

Xie Zhenghe and Liu Gao had been instructed a long time ago to secretly sow discord between the families and prevent them from forming a complete group.

They were originally a loose alliance, and now they needed the imperial court to provide them with various services. Even if they gain a firm foothold in Tanglin City in the future, they still need to trade with Daming to maintain the survival of the base.

It is necessary to be able to cooperate in the face of foreign races, but if they are also an iron plate in the face of the Ming Dynasty, it is not conducive to the imperial court's restraint on them.

So in this group, although Lin San is one of the strongest leaders, like Gao Yang'er, they are definitely not obedient to Lin San.

On the contrary, because of Tang Sai'er's status as a woman, she has become an excellent lubricant among major groups, and her words are more effective than Lin San's words in many cases.

Crossing the Yenisei River, the Donsayrs passed through the later Krasnoyarsk, the most famous mining city in Russia.

Here, they went straight into each other's encirclement.

The battle takes place in a plain area outside of a forest, and the Waijapura tribe wants to take advantage of the flat terrain to increase their agility and combat effectiveness.

But Tang Sai'er and the others had already prepared, and 1,200 carts full of supplies quickly formed a huge circular phalanx, with hundreds of women and thousands of horses surrounded in the middle.

Although they all had horses, most of the horses provided to them by the Ming Dynasty were horses, and their riding skills were certainly not as good as those of the Waija people who lived on horseback since childhood.

Therefore, they will not use their own shortcomings to meet the enemy's strengths.

Because this huge phalanx stretches for several miles, it is naturally impossible to be free of loopholes. But don't forget, they had fifty muskets, and their bows and arrows were far superior to those of the outer thorns.

The battle was not fair from the beginning, and the Waispura people surrounded and annihilated them for three days, and they did not take advantage of the slightest advantage, so they could only retreat.

But they weren't prepared at all, Gao Yang'er and they were all bandits, and they weren't good people, so how could they suffer this loss in vain.

Xie Zheng and them helped explore the lair of the Outer Thorn Pullers, and they quickly mastered the details of the Outer Thorn Pull people.

On the night of the third day of the fifth month, most of them left the majority of them, and in one night they rushed outside the tribe of the Transjilla people.

The next day, when it was getting dark, they lit fires, released their livestock, and then launched a general attack.

Although there were only 2,000 of them, they suffered a catastrophe before they could wake up and were not aware of their calculations.

In this battle, which lasted from early morning to noon, they killed more than 3,000 men in the prime of life and captured 5,000 women and children.

The old man and the children were all killed directly by Gao Yang'er, leaving only the women and girls, still more than 2,000 people.

Of this tribe of nearly 10,000 people, less than 2,000 people escaped.

However, Gao Yang'er's losses were not large, less than 300 people were killed, and another thousand were seriously injured, but it was all worth it, because of this battle, they made a name for themselves.

When Zhu Zhanji saw these battle reports, he was still very happy in his heart.

Because the Chinese nation is an agrarian society, it has always lacked the heart and wildness of external strategy.

Gao Yang'er They can be called mobs and chaotic people in the Ming Dynasty, but now that they have arrived at the border, they can clear the peace of the border for the Ming Dynasty.

Although they had not yet reached the Ural Mountains on the dividing line between Asia and Europe, Zhu Zhanji had already seen the advantages of sending them there.

I only hope that they can give more strength, gain a firm foothold over there, and with them opening the way, as long as it takes a few years, Daming will be able to form an adequate supply of local materials and governance.

Without the region east of the Ura Mountains, the Russians only had Europe, and it would not have been possible to form a strong empire.

Moving his gaze south on the map, Zhu Zhanji looked at the Persian Gulf, wondering if Zhu Di had arrived there now......

(I'm sorry, today's New Year's Eve, there are a lot of things, and this chapter is not well written, so I can only change five thousand words first.) ）