In the evening, Li Yuntian leisurely took a cool ride in the courtyard, chatting and laughing with Lei Ting and others, and in two days he would leave for Beijing to return to the orthodox emperor to settle the matter.

After more than two years of governance, the plague that had plagued the coastal state capital of the Ming Dynasty for a long time has been completely cured, and the Ming army sailors swept away the strongholds of the Japanese on various islands in the sea with the momentum of destroying the withering and decaying, and the Japanese shogunate also began to vigorously rectify the Japanese invaders entrenched on Kyushu Island.

In this way, the Japanese invaders quickly collapsed under the attack of the Ming Dynasty and the Japanese state, and the remaining Japanese invaders ran to the Korean country one after another when they saw that the situation was not good, which made the coastal situation of the Korean country suddenly become tense, and the Japanese invaders even occupied the islands and even land along the coast of the Korean state, and fought happily with the army sent by the Korean state to encircle and suppress it.

To tell the truth, before Li Yuntian left Beijing to quell the troubles, no one thought that Li Yuntian would be able to solve the problems that had plagued the Ming Dynasty for a long time, but the facts surprised them.

Li Yuntian not only recovered Xiaoliuqiu Island and Qiongzhou Island occupied by the Japanese invaders, but also captured a Japanese vassal king who had sheltered the Japanese from the Japanese state, and made the Japanese state vigorously manage the local Japanese troubles, eliminating the basis for the survival of the Japanese from the source, and then causing the Japanese to quickly collapse when they were rampant on the sea.

In fact, Li Yuntian was just tempting the Japanese shogunate to take advantage of it, and the shogunate was also very troubled by those uncontrolled Japanese invaders, so he wiped out the Japanese invaders along the way.

In any case, Li Yuntian has successfully fulfilled the last order given to him by Emperor Xuande, and now he can easily return to the capital and take a good vacation.

"Report, the capital is eight hundred miles in an urgent hurry!" Just as Li Yuntian was smiling and chatting with Lei Ting and the others about some past events, a guard suddenly walked into the courtyard quickly, bowed down and handed Li Yuntian an urgent document with both hands.

"Eight hundred miles expedited!" Li Yuntian couldn't help but feel a little surprised when he heard this, and stretched out his hand to take the sealed official document, the people in the capital should know that he was going back to Beijing soon, and he didn't know why he had to send him an urgent letter with eight hundred miles, could it be that something big happened in the capital?

However, Li Yuntian had not received any information about any unusual movements in the Beijing Division in advance, and if something major happened, the intelligence network in the capital would definitely notify him.

With the doubts in his heart, Li Yuntian opened the official document and quietly checked the text inside, Lei Ting and the others looked at him curiously, wanting to know what was happening in the capital, and even asked the auxiliary ministers to rush eight hundred miles to inform him.

"The internal strife of the Chagatai Khan intensified, and the western Chagatai attacked the eastern Chagatai in a big way, and the eastern Chagatai was unable to resist and retreated."

After reading the contents of the official document, a solemn look appeared on Li Yuntian's face, and then he looked up at Lei Ting and the others who were looking at him and said, "Now that the envoys of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and the Western Chagatai Khanate have arrived in the capital at the same time, the Ming Dynasty has to make a choice between the two!" ”

"Chagatai Khanate?" Hearing this, Chen Ningning couldn't help but show a look of surprise on her face.

If she is not mistaken, the Chagatai Khanate is one of the four khanates of the Mongolian Empire, founded by Genghis Khan Chagatai, located in the Western Regions of the Ming Dynasty, it seems to be very far away from the Ming Dynasty, I don't know why the imperial court is so anxious to recall Li Yuntian back.

"The Western Chagatai Khanate, no, it would be more appropriate to call it the Timurid Empire now."

Li Yuntian knew that no one at the scene knew about the Chagatai Khanate except Lei Ting, so he sighed for a while and explained, "At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Chagatai Khanate was divided into the Eastern Chagatai Khanate ruled by the royal family and the Western Chagatai Khanate ruled by the nobles. ”

"Not much different from the territory of the Ming Dynasty?" Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou couldn't help but glance at each other in surprise, in their opinion, the territory of the Ming Dynasty is thousands of miles, except for the Mongol Empire back then, which country is bigger than the Ming Dynasty?

"Do you know that although Timur paid tribute to Emperor Taizu, he was ambitious, and used twenty or thirty years to sweep away the surrounding countries, and beat those Western powers to terrify them, and reproduced the glory of the Mongol Empire."

Li Yuntian nodded, and then said something with a stern expression, "Soon after Emperor Taizong ascended the throne, Timur, who had been preparing for many years, gathered an army of one million and wanted to conquer the Ming Dynasty in the east, but unfortunately he died of illness on the way, and the matter of the Eastern Expedition disappeared. ”

"They actually want to go east to conquer the Ming Dynasty?" Zheng Wanrou couldn't help but say coquettishly when she heard this, her eyes were full of incredulous looks, everyone knew that the Ming Empire was the most powerful country in the world, and no matter what, she would never have thought that there would be a country that dared to take the initiative to attack the Ming Dynasty.

"The Timurid Empire is almost the same as the Ming Dynasty in terms of territory and population, and its soldiers are more powerful in combat, if a million troops enter Shaanxi and Gansu from the Western Regions that year, I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty will experience a catastrophe."

Li Yuntian knew that this matter sounded unbelievable, but this was a real historical fact, when the Yongle Emperor had just ascended the throne, more than three years of Jingyan War had greatly damaged the vitality of the Ming Dynasty, once Timur's million-strong army swarmed into the Ming Dynasty, he would definitely suffer a big loss in a hurry.

Perhaps it was the providence of God, who would have thought that Timur, who had the ambition to restore the former glory of the Mongol Empire, would die without warning on the way to the east.

It is rumored that Timur's death was related to his love of drinking, not only wine but also spirits, when Timur was over sixty years old, and the fatigue of the journey and the injury of spirits could easily cause some accidents.

Since reaching a cooperation agreement with the Wa shogunate, the Timurid Empire has been the object of Li Yuntian's close attention, and now its large-scale attack on the Eastern Chagatai Khanate has made the Eastern Chagatai Khanate have to ask for help from the Ming Dynasty, which means that the situation has become quite serious.

In Li Yuntian's view, the Eastern Chagatai Khanate was an excellent buffer zone between the Ming Dynasty and the Timurid Empire, and as long as the Eastern Chagatai Khanate existed, then the Ming Dynasty would not directly conflict with the Timurid Empire, and it also hindered the eastward advance of the Timurid Empire.

It was precisely because Li Yuntian attached great importance to the relationship between the Timurid Empire and the Eastern Chagatai Khanate that the auxiliary ministers sent him an urgent report, asking him to return to Beijing to deal with the issue of the envoys of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and the Timurid Empire.

"Xianggong, is that Timurid Empire trying to start a war with our Ming Dynasty?" Chen Ningning had already realized the severity of the situation at this time, and couldn't help but ask curiously.

She has now figured out that the Eastern Chagatai Khanate is a natural barrier between the Ming and the Timurid Empire, and once the Eastern Chagatai Khanate is lost, the army of the Timurid Empire can drive straight in, march into the Kansai region of the Ming Dynasty, and then go straight to Shaanxi and Gansu, so that the northwest of the Ming Dynasty is in danger.

"No matter what their goals are, the Eastern Chagatai Khanate cannot afford to lose, otherwise we will face the troops of the Timurid Empire." Li Yuntian pondered for a while and said, the so-called precautions, the Ming Dynasty cannot wait until the Eastern Chagatai Khanate is captured by the Timurid Empire before taking countermeasures, and this kind of situation that has an adverse impact on the Ming Dynasty should be avoided now.

"Tomorrow we will leave and return to the capital!" Due to the urgency of the situation, Li Yuntian quickly made a decision, first admonished Lei Ting in a deep voice, and then said to Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou with a smile, "You guys have only come back for a long time, and this time you will stay here for a few more days." ”

"The concubine remembered." Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou glanced at each other when they heard this, and then bowed to Li Yuntian and promised, the two of them came back this time to take a vacation, just take this opportunity to relax.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps at the gate of the courtyard, Zhao Hua walked over quickly with a thing shining in the moonlight in his hand, and when he got closer, Li Yuntian found that it was a Damascus scimitar, and from the decoration and pattern on the scabbard, it looked a little familiar, as if it was the one that Tianyi sold on the street at that time.

"The prince is mighty, those foreign merchants heard that the prince was going to try the case in person, and they were so frightened that they almost collapsed to the ground.

Zhao Hua smiled and gave the Damascus scimitar he was holding in his hand to Li Yuntian with both hands, bowed down and said, "Tianyi Baihu said that this knife was originally bought by the prince, and now he has returned it to its original owner. ”

"This king once said that a gentleman does not win people's love, since this knife is still by his side after so many things, it proves that he has a fate with this knife, or stay by his side." Li Yuntian glanced at the Damascus scimitar and asked Zhao Hua with a smile, "He's not in a hurry to buy medicine and go back, why hasn't he left yet?" ”

"The medicinal materials he wants are in short supply on the market, and they won't be available until next month." Hearing this, Zhao Hua withdrew the Damascus scimitar in his hand, and replied with a smile, "Actually, he has always wanted to find an opportunity to give this knife to the prince, and the prince had actually bought this knife at that time, but later the man inserted a rod into it, which ruined the prince's interest." ”

"You go and make arrangements, prepare the medicinal herbs he needs, and let him return to the Northwest Guard as much as possible." Li Yuntian felt that this Tianyi's luck was really good, and he was able to meet him twice when he had an accident, so he instructed Zhao Hua.

Although for Tianyi, the medicinal materials he needed were in-demand goods that were difficult to buy on the market, but for Zhao Hua, it was a piece of cake, and he could easily get those things he wanted.

"Humble duty understands." Zhao Hua bowed to Li Yuntian when he heard this, and retreated with the Damascus scimitar in his hand, if it wasn't for Li Yuntian asking him to return the knife to Tianyi, then he really wanted to buy this precious scimitar from Tianyi, no matter what, he was also a military attache of the Ming Dynasty, and he naturally had a soft spot for such a rare weapon.

Early the next morning, Li Yuntian and Lei Ting and their entourage went to the dock in a light car, quietly boarded the boat parked on the pier, and left Baishui Town in the soft and refreshing morning light.

In order not to alarm the people in the town, even Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou did not go to the dock to see off Li Yuntian and Lei Ting and others, Li Yuntian didn't want to cause any big disturbances in the town, it was better to let the townspeople who had been tired all day sleep peacefully.