Forbidden City, Taihe Palace.

"Long live the emperor, long live, the empress dowager, thousand years old, thousand years old!"

When the Empress Dowager of the Zhang family led the orthodox emperor wearing a dragon robe into the main hall, the civil and military officials in the main hall knelt down and saluted, shouting long live and a thousand years old.

Originally, it was supposed that Empress Dowager Sun led the orthodox emperor to listen to the government, but firstly, there was a lot of controversy about the position of Empress Sun, and secondly, she did not have the prestige of the Empress Dowager Zhang to deter the ministers, so it was natural for the Empress Dowager of the Zhang family to listen to the government in the Taihe Palace.

After all, the auxiliary ministers are just providing solutions to the affairs of the orthodox emperor, and in the end, the orthodox emperor has to take the idea, but the orthodox emperor is young and needs others to do it for him, and it is obvious that the person who takes the idea for the orthodox emperor is the Empress Dowager Zhang.

"Zhuqing's family is flat!" After the orthodox emperor sat down on the dragon chair, the Empress Dowager Zhang sat down on the seat on one side, and the orthodox emperor raised his hands forward in the void and said in a dignified manner.

"Emperor Xie!" The ministers kneeling in the main hall thanked them in unison and stood up one after another.

Li Yuntian is at the head of the noble queue on the right side of the main hall, and his status has surpassed that of Zhang Fu and Zhou Zheng and other highly qualified nobles standing behind him, after all, the king with a different surname in the Ming Dynasty is now only Li Yuntian, and Zhang Fu and Zhou Zheng's qualifications are only behind him, and they can't mess up the dignity and humility of the hierarchical officialdom.

"The emperor has a decree, there is something to play, and there is nothing to retreat from!" Standing in front of the Orthodox Emperor to the left was Song Dashan, the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Eunuch, who first bowed to the Orthodox Emperor, then shook the dust in his hand, and shouted in a sharp voice.

Since the Orthodox Emperor ascended the throne, Song Dashan and Wang Zhen have been promoted as playmates of the Orthodox Emperor since childhood, Song Dashan has become the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and Wang Zhen has become the Young Eunuch of the Imperial Horse Eunuch.

As the orthodox emperor grows older, the market of Song Dashan and Wang Zhen is also bullish, even the eunuchs of the celebrant are polite when they see the two, the so-called son of heaven and a courtier, everyone knows that Song Dashan and Wang Zhen will definitely become the chief celebrant with the support of the orthodox emperor in the near future.

"Enlighten the emperor's ......" Immediately, an official of the Ministry of Officials walked out of the queue and came to the front of the palace to inform the orthodox emperor of the affairs of the Ministry of Officials.

It is worth mentioning that the performance in the main hall should also be in a certain order, and it is not that anyone who wants to play can play it, otherwise everyone will compete at that time, and the scene will not be a mess.

Taking the five prefectures and six departments as an example, the five military prefectures performed in the order of the front, rear, center, left, and right prefectures, and the six ministries performed in the order of the officials' department, the household department, the officials' department, the criminal department, the Ministry of industry, and the Ministry of agriculture.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple, and the General Political Envoy are located behind the six departments, and then it will be the turn of the other small yamen.

Generally speaking, the officials of the five prefectures and six ministries and other yamen are the first to report on some routine affairs that are easy to solve, and the important affairs should be reported by the governors of the five prefectures and the officials of the six ministries in the finale, so as to avoid delaying the handling of the daily affairs of the five prefectures and six ministries and other yamen.

Finally, the yamen of the various ministries and courtyards in the capital reported the affairs of their respective ministries one by one, and the atmosphere in the Taihe Hall became tense and depressing, and everyone knew that it was the turn of the court to discuss whether to send troops to aid the Eastern Chagatai Khanate.

"Your Majesty, recently, both the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and the Western Chagatai Khanate have sent missions to the Ming Dynasty and handed over their respective credentials, waiting to meet the emperor." As everyone waited with concern, an official of the Ministry of Rites walked out of the queue and came to the front of the hall to perform a loud speech.

Because the Chagatai Khanate split into the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and the Western Chagatai Khanate at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty still called the Timurid Empire the Western Chagatai Khanate, and the Timurid Empire was the name of the descendants, and Timur also called himself the Great Khan rather than the emperor.

Seeing this situation, the officials in the main hall couldn't help but feel a little surprised, it stands to reason that this matter should be performed by the officials of the Ministry of Rites to Emperor Xuande, but they didn't expect that it was only played by the officials of the Ministry of Rites, which seemed a little unreasonable.

However, the civil and military officials who can appear in the Taihe Hall have experienced many years of officialdom and rich social experience, and they soon realized from this abnormal plot that the senior officials of the cabinet and the six ministries do not seem to want to intervene in the matter of whether to send troops to the Western Regions now, and there must be something unknown going on.

Due to the suddenness of the incident, only a few officials knew that Li Yuntian had an emergency military information from the Timurid Empire, which made the cabinet members and the officials of the six ministries have to be cautious and wait for the reason to be clarified before making a decision.

Correspondingly, the members of the military cabinet and the governors of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies also learned about the urgent official document, and they were both surprised and overjoyed, which meant that they could justifiably send troops to the Western Regions this time, as long as they could defeat the menacing Timurid Imperial army, they could justify the name of the Weisho army.

Originally, these nobles were still thinking about how to deal with the obstacles of the civilian clique in sending troops to the Western Regions, but now that Li Yuntian has obtained such an urgent military situation, then they don't have to worry about this matter anymore, it is obvious that Li Yuntian will definitely persuade those civil cliques to agree to send troops to the Western Regions.

Judging from Li Yuntian's previous style, he would definitely not compete with the nobles for the right to command the troops in the Western Regions this time, so the nobles are now in a calm state of mind, and they can be said to be sitting firmly in Diaoyutai, waiting for the Empress Dowager Zhang to nod and agree to send troops.

"Xuan!" When the orthodox emperor heard that two Western Regions missions had come, his face suddenly showed a look of excitement, he had never seen what the people of the Western Regions looked like, so he said to Song Dashan who was standing aside.

"The emperor has decreed that the envoys of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and the Western Chagatai Khanate will meet you!" Song Dashan first bowed to the orthodox emperor, and then shouted to the attendant at the entrance of the main hall with a sharp voice.

"The emperor has decreed that the envoys of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and the Western Chagatai Khanate will meet you!" The attendant at the entrance of the main hall puffed up his strength and shouted to the interior standing under the steps of the Taihe Palace.

"The emperor has decreed that the envoys of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and the Western Chagatai Khanate will meet you!" So, the attendants standing on the square of the Taihe Temple passed the decree one after another, and the voice of the subdued and frustrated voice floated over the huge Taihedian Square.

According to the rules, in addition to the civil and military officials of the previous dynasty, those who are waiting to meet the orthodox emperor must stay in a row of court rooms outside the Taihedian Square, and only after the orthodox emperor has ordered the summons can they enter the Taihedian Square until the upper hall is heard.

The envoys of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and the Timurid Empire, like the ministers of the previous court, got up and entered the palace as soon as dawn, and were identified by the palace attendants and guards and searched before being allowed to enter the court room outside the Taihedian Square to rest.

Since the two countries were now at war, the chamberlains who were in charge of receiving the emissaries of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and the Timurid Empire placed both sides in the rooms on either side of the row of court houses, and arranged for them to be guarded by men to prevent these barbarians from fighting at odds.

"Humph!" When Dorul, the envoy of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, led Narsha out of the room, the envoy of the Timurid Empire, Bahu, also came out of the room, and the two looked at each other coldly, and a contemptuous snort came out of their noses.

Then, Bahu's eyes lit up, and his eyes fell directly on Narsa's body, and he was stunned for a while.

Narsa did not wear a veil this year, wearing a traditional women's dress in the Western Regions, standing there slimly, and her whole person looked extremely charming and charming under the background of the dress.

Seeing Ba staring at herself blankly, her ambiguous gaze swirling on her towering chest and slender waist, Narsa's face couldn't help but flash a look of disgust, and she turned to look at the huge and magnificent Forbidden City complex on the side, she never thought that there would be such a magnificent building in the world.

In the past, Narsa had heard people talk about how the palace of the capital of the Yuan Dynasty was golden and imposing, and now the Forbidden City is better than the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, which can be called a miracle, and she walked a long distance from the gate of the palace to the court alone.

It has to be said that the wealth of the Ming Dynasty is incomparable to that of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, and Narsha has known why Timur, the founding Khan of the Timurid Empire, who had outstanding military achievements, also wanted to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, even if it was only a nominal vassal, it was because the Ming Dynasty was too rich and had a huge population base, so that Timur had to obey it.

In fact, Narsa hoped that Timur could fight with the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, in that case, even if Timur could defeat the Yongle Emperor, he would definitely be greatly injured.

After all, the people of the Ming Dynasty had already experienced the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, and they certainly did not want to be under the rule of Timur, who claimed to be a descendant of Genghis Khan, and then the uprisings in various parts of the country alone would make Timur tired to deal with.

Moreover, Timur's chances of defeating the Yongle Emperor were very small, and the Ming Dynasty not only had a vast land and a huge population, but also had the military system left by the Hongwu Emperor, and the people of the Ming Dynasty had a strong cohesion.

Don't look at the decline of the guard system now, when Emperor Yongle ascended the throne, the guards still had strong combat effectiveness, and the military households to which the guards belonged were also diligent in drilling, which made the Ming Dynasty have huge potential for soldiers.

Most importantly, unlike Timur's conquest of the West Asian states ruled by large and small rulers, the Ming Dynasty had a strong cohesive force, and the people of the Ming Dynasty's two capitals and thirteen provinces would join the war against Timur's invasion under the summons of the Yongle Emperor.

In addition, the Ming city was the strongest in the world, which would have caused Timur to pay a heavy price for each city he captured.

It is worth mentioning that although Timur conquered the countries of West Asia and plundered Europe, his rule in those occupied areas was not stable, and once the Ming Dynasty fell into a bitter battle, the conquered countries in the rear would definitely rebel.

In fact, after Timur died on the way to the Ming Dynasty, the Timurid Empire fell into war, and the subjugated West Asian states rebelled one after another, which meant that Timur's rule over those countries was not stable.

It's a pity that Narsa's face showed a look of regret, if Timur did not die on the way to the Eastern Expedition to the Ming Dynasty, then the Eastern Chagatai Khanate would have the opportunity to take advantage of the internal strife in the Timurid Empire to recover the territory of the Western Chagatai Khanate in one fell swoop.