For Ding Yi, who arrived in Crete, he had little time to pay attention to the anger of the Venetians. Because Yao Kui came to Ding Yi to spray again, this time along with Liu Ji and Xu Bin, who retired back to Huaxia, also sprayed: "If Your Majesty wants to conquer this entire territory of Asia Minor?" Back then, in Beijing, didn't His Majesty say that there were many pears that could be picked? ”

"Why did you set up the Jingshi in Smyrna? Even if you take back Egypt and set up the capital in Cairo, it will be far more reasonable than Dingdu Smyrna! Then Yao Kui sprayed Liu Ji as a villain, saying that he bent his mind to serve his relatives and trapped Ding Yi in injustice; sprayed Xu Bin again, "Mr. Yanghao is greedy for power, he is too old to look at things, and he doesn't want to beg to go, so he insists on relying on Dingdu to reach the end before he is willing to return, which is really shameless!" ”

Because Yao Kui believes that Xu Bin is responsible for this matter: "He is the consul, and Mr. Jie'an is the governor of the canal yamen, so Mr. Yanghao is really like the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, and this matter should be admonished!" The Ming Dynasty guards the country with the Son of Heaven, because the deep continents are connected, and Smyrna is surrounded by enemy countries, how can this really be true! ”

Ding Yi had no choice but to appease him, saying that he had delayed his arrival in Smyrna, and that Yu Qian would discuss with him after he had also passed over from Egypt.

Yao Kui was originally in Daming, and his temper was not so big. One is because there are still many Wen ministers who can rule the world in the Ming Dynasty, think about how many emperors, some people go to war, some people do not go to court, some people do carpentry, they all dragged on for so two hundred years before they died, or spread on the Xiaoice River period, it can be seen that there are still Wen Chens who rule the world; One is that the Ming Dynasty has its own set of structure, which may not be ideal, but it can still be modified, and there is such a national bureaucratic system as the basis.

It's a double none. followed Liu Ji's staff clerks, who were basically also military staff officers; Then it was when Yao Kuixi came. The seventy or eighty low-level officials who asked for it by name were in the middle of the work that the Beijing teacher was unwilling to do. or those who want to do a career, such as editing; There are also one hundred and ten scribes who have been lifted, can't get into the taxi, and have no hope on the right path, I think they want to come to Ximing to mix up an official and a half-job, or it would be difficult to become an official in Daming.

It doesn't sound like much, but if you count it like this, it's nearly 200 people.

But there are too many things, and these two hundred people are not enough at all! Yao Kui is so busy every day. Not only is there none, but there is no foundation.

Twin stateless, it's no wonder he went berserk.

So Ding Yi could only comfort him with good words and appease him.

And when Yao Kui finally temporarily extinguished his anger and resigned, Ding called Liu Ji over:

"Envoy from Cem, go and see him, and then send someone to Constantinople to tell him that our support for him is due to his influence in the Ottoman Empire. to deal with it. Of course, Bayezette is my student, so I will have to pay less to get support. ”

"If he refuses to cooperate with us. Then it's his freedom. Ding Yi instructed Liu Ji so.

Jem, Bayezet's brother, was also the chair of the caliphate. A strong contender.

Of course, Liu Ji immediately arranged to do it, but after a while, he came back with a wry smile: "Sir." But there is no need to send an envoy there. Cem had been defeated by Bayezet and fled to Rhodes Island to seek refuge, while the Knights Hospitaller ordered them to do so. Obey the saints and be loyal to you. So they sent Jem to Crete. ”

When did the Holy See, the order of the Holy See, be so good to the Knights Hospitaller? The key is Ding Yi, the Knights Hospitaller was beaten honestly! Just like the popular joke of the Knights Hospitaller: "Poseidon has always been virtuous and convincing, and what he said is not ordinarily reasonable." Note that if you don't understand what he's saying, that's okay, you just have to make sure it's correct and follow it. ”

"Why?" Then there will be one who will act as a compliment.

"Because you won't want to reason with Poseidon's naval guns."

What they obeyed was probably not the order of the Holy See, but the doctrine of the naval guns.

Either way, Jem, Bayezet's brother, was sent to Crete.

And when he came to Ding Yi, he began to scold his brother Bayezet angrily, and even said to Ding Yi: "Your Majesty! Bayezid is an unreliable man, he has spoken ill of you many times in the presence of the Caliph, and if he rules the Omans, then it will be a country hostile to Emperor Simin! ”

However, Ding Yi was obviously not moved by his words, and only after letting him speak for a full twenty minutes, realizing that he was naïve and shutting up, Ding Yi spoke to Jem. He said very directly, without any intention of saving any face for the other party: "In the dueling arena, I killed your father, and if you want to avenge Mehmed II, I can give you weapons." ”

Ding Yi waited with interest for the other party's reply, it was a test, if Jem wanted to avenge his father, then he would not have been given the weapon at all, he would have been dragged down and given to Bayeselli. Because of that, he was just a puppet, not enough to cause any trouble for Bayezet.

"Anyone who walks into the dueling arena should have the consciousness of death." Jem was silent for a while, although his eyes were a little red, but there were no tears, he raised his head to look at Ding Yi, "I am saddened by the loss of my father, but I dare not have any resentment towards His Majesty. This duel, in particular, was initiated by my father in itself. ”

Ding nodded, took a sip of the tea brewed by Cao Jixiang, and said to Jem: "I can send someone to escort you to the Pope, you know, Pius II is extremely uneasy about the expansion of the Ottomans, maybe he will support you, with the Crusaders as your backing, let you return to the Ottomans, and fight with Bayezet for the right to rule again." ”

I don't know if it was the arrival of Ding Yi that changed history; Or is it because historically, after arriving in Rhode Island, Jem was kidnapped by the Knights Hospitaller, and there was no choice at all. In short, he did not hesitate in the face of this choice: "No, Your Majesty, if I can, I hope to get your help." ”

He didn't know that this sentence had changed his own fate.

If he had gone to the Pope, it would have overlapped with the trajectory of history, and Bayezet asked the Pope to imprison Jem for 30,000 gold a year, until more than thirty years later, Jem died of an abscess.

"Do you know the Persian Sufi Order?" Ding Yi put down the teacup in his hand and asked Jem.

"Back to His Majesty's words, know, Sophie. The order that Ding created, they are Shia. "Obviously Jem isn't a completely useless guy either.

This made Ding a little interested in him at first: "I have only one condition, freedom of belief. If you can do that, go to Persia, go to the 'red heads', and lead them as the son of Muhammad II. I'll give you some instructors and weapons, not for free, of course, but after you take Tabriz, you can settle the payment for weapons and personnel. ”

"I would prefer to fight my dear brother in Asia Minor, Your Majesty, if you can allow it!"

Ding Yi stroked his short beard and laughed, he leaned down and asked Jem, "Do you know the difference between yourself and Bayezet?" ”

'Bayezet knows very well what I allow him to do or what he is not allowed to do.

"Obviously, you're turning to me for help, and I need an agent on the Persian side, and this is a job, and I think you're fit for the job. You can accept it or reject it. As for Asia Minor, do I ask your opinion? Ding Yi said the back, almost showing eight teeth of a smile.

And Jem lowered his head deeply, and he felt the horror, real as the texture of the horror.

"Yes, Your Majesty, Jem is willing to accept this, this job." He said it with some difficulty, but finally expressed a tame attitude.

"Very good, your probationary period is half a year, and it will end early if you take Tabriz, and if you can't complete the tasks of this probationary period, then you will be unemployed after half a year. Do you understand? You're going to lose this job, and then I'm going to send you to the mines, and you're going to have to carry the ore with the blacks, and you're going to have to pay back my investment for half a year with your own labor, and you're not going to be free until you pay it off, and normally, you can't pay it off unless you live for two hundred years and work all the time. Okay, you can step down, and there will be officials to negotiate the details with you. ”

According to Cao Jixiang's teaching, Jem kowtowed to Ding Yi to thank him.

"Sir, why don't you put him in Asia Minor?" Liu Ji didn't understand what Ding Yi meant, so he threw Jem in Asia Minor, gave him some cold weapons, gave him some military expenses, and asked him to make trouble with Bayezet, isn't it just in the interests of Ximing?

"Because I am afraid that after my husband and Yao Dazhang meet in Smyrna, they will question me together on the question of the capital of Smyrna, and make it difficult for me. And I won't be able to answer. So, perhaps, for the best thing, we should take all of Asia Minor. Ding Yi sighed and said, "I hope that after the age of forty, I can retire." No, don't say anything for eternity, you want me to be the emperor, I will be the emperor, but the royal family just let it be a kind of inheritance of honor, you must not try to make me do so many things after the age of forty! ”

Speaking of this, Ding Yi couldn't help but scold: "Fuck, I don't even have time!" ”

Liu Ji turned his face away, just when he couldn't hear it, he was very good at not hearing things he shouldn't hear.

The fact that Ding Yi was really busy, because the fleet of the Venetians soon arrived, nearly two hundred galleons, they poured out of the nest, ready for naval battles and landings. I am afraid that all the men in Venice who can pick up swords and guns have been conscripted.

"So what are you waiting for?" Ding Yi looked at Liu Ji puzzled and asked, "Do they have plans to bring one million taels of silver ashore?" ”

Ding Yi said to the Venetian messenger: "You have made my mood even worse by doing this. ”

"Majesty, we only ask for one concession! Venice was in the Mediterranean and did not have to follow the rules of the Western Ming Empire. Otherwise, the Venetians are not afraid of war! "The gunboats alone, sixty against six, and so many galleons, the messenger does have the confidence to say this. (To be continued......)