The purpose of Armenia's pledge of loyalty is simple......

Just for the right to business.

They were the dominant merchant nation in West and Central Asia.

As for the Jews, they needed to be protected by the Ottomans after the fall of the castle, and later because of the attack of the Spanish Inquisition, they relied on the help of the Ottoman navy to migrate to the Ottoman Empire on a large scale, and with the support of the Ottoman Sultan, gradually controlled the Ottoman trade on the Mediterranean coast.

However, Armenia remained the commercial controller of Central and West Asia.

Commerce in the Ottoman Empire was basically controlled by Armenians, Jews, Greeks.

Generally speaking, the secular monarchs of their system like to support these heretics to control commerce, because as Dimi, they need to pay heavy taxes, which can make the secular monarchs more profitable, after all, they can't expect the guys who drink fermented grape juice and eat short-nosed elephants to have too high discipline. But the result is often that the infidels are better off than their co-religionists, and eventually leads to widespread hatred, which is suppressed when the monarchs can suppress it, and when they can't, they let it be killed, and then take the opportunity to slaughter these fattened guys.

Very conventional routine.

I also like to deal with salt merchants and gentry in this way.

But these merchant people don't care, anyway, after the killing, the secular monarchs still have to rely on them to make money.

As long as it's not you who kills, then keep singing and dancing.

And then history goes forward in repetition over and over again,

And now Zhu Di's strong force has obviously made the Armenians see a good opportunity to open up a broader market.

Faith doesn't matter.

Ethnicity doesn't matter either.

Only money counts.

Because of Yang Feng's weight, the Armenians can already go directly to the Ming Dynasty to trade, that is to say, the source and the transportation line to the river have been unblocked, although there is still the obstacle of Timur, but they know very well that Timur will not be able to jump for a few days. Just Zhu Di with a bunch of miscellaneous cards has forced Timur to the current predicament, so it is needless to say how the real Ming is crushed, and those Armenian merchants who have been to the Ming are all praising the strength of the Ming Dynasty. The vastness of the territory, the size of the population that people look up to, the mighty army and the man who is said to be the sacrificial king John, all these come together, what can Timur fight against, with his army that even the prince of the Ming Dynasty cannot defeat?

It is said that there are more than a dozen such princes in the Ming Dynasty.

So for Armenia, their future depends on the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Zhu Di also needs them......

Need their money.

Zhu Di knew very well that Daming, at least in his foreseeable future, would also find it difficult to have too many immigrants to the West, and it would take at least a few decades for Anxi and Beiting alone to be filled with immigrants.

But his expansion into the West could not wait that long.

His guard is his body, but he still needs two hands, one with a knife to kill for him, and the other with goods to make money for him, the killing knife is already available, and the Zhao Shengjun is the best thug.

And what about the money-making hand?

Armenians, of course.

This nation is in an environment where enemies are on all sides, and without the protection of strong forces, they are torn apart in minutes, and Zhu Di can provide them with protection, and their commercial ability is beyond doubt. In the same way, his development also opened up more markets for the Armenians, made more money, and supported him to expand his military power, and such a nightmare group for the West moved forward step by step.

Perfect.

Bayezette, who had lost for a while, did not realize that Zhu Di was destroying the morale of his men, and after receiving Zhu Di's invitation, he readily agreed to the second round of engagement.

Even he prefers this way of engagement.

His army is really just like Zhu Di said, it is essentially a rabble, except for his own Janissaries Janissaries, the Sipahi cavalry, the Kapukulu cavalry, the Akinsi cavalry, the conscripted Azap infantry, the remaining Serbs, the Aries Turkmen are just vassal forces, the former is still a past enemy, and the latter is not a friend. Not only them, but also the Beys of the Anatolian plateau who formed the main force of his army, whose loyalty to him was also extremely limited.

The Ottoman Empire did originate in the Anatolian plateau.

But......

The Ottoman Beys on the Anatolian plateau rebelled against His Majesty the Sultan, which was also a regular practice.

Zhu Di's way of fighting allows Bayezid to engage in skirmishes while controlling the overall situation to ensure that the situation does not get out of control.

He had an army of eighty thousand.

With such a large army and such a complex composition, it is already half of the victory if it can be done without chaos.

Of course, the point is that the previous engagement did not allow him to see the absolute superiority of the Ming army, and he admitted that these soldiers with rat tails on their heads were very brave, but they defeated the Serbs, who were originally defeated by the Ottoman conquests, and if he had sent his Sipahi cavalry, he might have won. So in the next battle, he chose to dispatch his Sipaxi cavalry, and Zhu Di still did not send out the guards, but handed them over to Tokhtamysh.

The latter dispatched his descendants, that is, led from Siberia, and the two elite cavalry did not engage in anything fancy.

The level of equipment and combat effectiveness of both sides are at the same level.

Bump into it and fight!

And at this time, far south Xinjiang.

The dusty Ambassador Yang was greeted by the Khotanese emir or the Khotanese Governor of Khotan, who belonged to the Ming Shule Propaganda Envoy, and the commander of the Gansu Metropolitan Command Envoy, Aduanwei, with his 30,000 troops into the Aduan Acropolis......

In fact, these two are the original Khotan in the west and Khotan in the east.

Or the modern Hotan and Yu Tian, the former is the emir and the latter is the Buddhist Sari Vul, after Yang Feng's last expedition to the west, the two forces that originally killed each other were all honest, and then with Celle as the boundary, the west belonged to the Khotanese governor, and the east belonged to Aduanwei. But Aduanwei belonged to the Acropolis, and belonged to the direct command of the Gansu Metropolitan Envoy, so the imperial court had a thousand Han households here, and then there were banks, and there were land customs, and all trade with India had to go through the formalities and pay taxes here.

So it became a commercial center.

However, the commander of Aduanwei was still a Mongol from the Hami system, and he also gathered 2,000 cavalry to follow the Hami king during the last expedition to the west.

From here all the way to Hami, there are seven such guards in all.

The commanders were the Mongols of the Hami royal family, all of whom were the descendants of Chagatai Taiji, and the subjects were Buddhist Mongols or Sari Vultures, and then maintained the trade routes to India for the imperial court, which belonged to the Gansu Metropolitan Command Envoy.

"Are the quartermasters ready?"

Ambassador Yang looked at the two guys kneeling on the ground in front of him.

"Ambassador, the little one has slaughtered a thousand cows, five thousand sheep, and smoked them into jerky, and five thousand catties of cheese for the king to eat on the road."

Commander Aduanwei hurriedly said.

"Good job, the court doesn't want you for nothing, here are 20,000 yuan, which can be regarded as buying these things."

Yang Feng said with satisfaction.

Immediately afterwards, an officer held a box full of treasure money and handed it to the commander of Aduanwei.

The latter was overjoyed to take it, although these are paper money, but his two grandsons have spent more and more money in the capital over the years, just sent a letter asking for money, it is said that he is obsessed with raising orchids, that orchids have all kinds of miraculous effects, and now many people in the capital are raising this. The other is obsessed with a kind of divine bird, saying that it was brought back from the overseas spiritual mountain, a bird thousands of times, raising this can purify the dirt on the body, and after death, it becomes a pure and pure soul that can directly become an arhat.

The masters say so.

Although the commander didn't understand these and felt a little unreliable, when he thought that his grandson was in the capital and he was in such a remote place, his grandson must know a lot.

They don't have to worry about anything else, they just give it if they want money.

Anyway, he also forced his subjects to hand over the cattle and sheep.

As long as the subjects eat one less sheep, they can let their grandchildren have money to spend in the capital, why not do this kind of good thing?

What if the people are dissatisfied?

He is the commander of the imperial court, can they still dare to rebel?

"What about you?"

Yang Feng asked the chief officer of Khotan.

"Back to the ambassador, the little one has prepared 20,000 stone of military rations for Wang Shi."

The latter hurriedly said.

He is different from Aduanwei there, mainly relying on farming, and they are the main jade producing area, so there are still many jade merchants in the past who are mining jade, but the consequence of this is population growth, and they are all people who do not farm, so it is already exhaustive to gather 20,000 stone of grain. But jade brought him a steady stream of banknotes, these banknotes allowed his son to live a rich life in the capital, befriended the powerful, and has been rewarded by the queen mother from overseas new crop sweet potato, it is said that this thing yields thousands of catties per mu, as long as the sweet potato can be planted in the future to solve the food problem.

It is also drought tolerant.

In short, as long as he has sweet potatoes, his Hetian will be able to feed more jade mining workers in the future, and then let him earn more money.

However, the cultivation techniques of sweet potatoes are all taught by Ambassador Yang.

Therefore, even if he tried his best, even if he let his subjects endure it, and even starved to death some old and immovable waste, he had to make up 20,000 stone of military rations for Ambassador Yang.

Isn't it just bitterness?

For a good life in the future, bitterness should be bitter, without the bitterness of the present, how can there be sweetness in the future?

"20,000 stones, I'll give you 20,000 yuan, after all, you can't favor one over the other, the price of rice in the capital can always buy three stones now."

Yang Feng said.

Then the officer also held 20,000 bills to the governor of Khotan.

Of course, the latter sincerely thanked Ambassador Yang, although he really wanted to buy it with treasure money here, and it was almost five stones.

There are many people and little food, and those jade merchants also use treasure money, resulting in a large circulation of local treasure money.

However......

Ambassador Yang has given money, what else do you care?

He just doesn't give money, doesn't he have to pay food as well?

He can take it directly, but he actually pays back the money, which is too touching.

"They are all loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty!"

Ambassador Yang said with emotion.

At this moment, a pair of eyes were looking at him from the window of a small building on the side of the road......

"Yang Feng actually really recruited himself."

He Feng, a businessman from Guangdong, looked at Yang Feng with interest, as well as the seemingly endless carriage behind him.

These four-wheeled carriages were drawn by two horses, and the carriages were all equipped with shields, and the soldiers of the Beijing camp in red uniforms were riding in carts or riding horses and camels, and horses could be seen from time to time in the procession dragging cannons, which were followed by ammunition carts for supplies. However, after thousands of miles of long-distance marching, it seems that they are all dusty, and they simply cover their faces in order to shield themselves from the wind and sand, and only show their eyes, even if they all take a boat to Kaifeng before turning to the land, they have already marched more than 7,000 miles.

Even if they ride in a carriage, it is seventy or eighty miles a day, so they have been walking for more than three months, and they have to continue walking.

This expedition was not important.

This is the most elite legion of the Ming Dynasty at present, and if it is really a field battle, even the camel cavalry will not be able to defeat them.

It is very simple to deal with the camel city, as long as there are enough artillery, and the most important thing in the Beijing camp is artillery, even if it is an infantry battalion, it also has two catties of field artillery.

As for infantry engagements......

At this time, what infantry can break through tens of thousands of divine salvos?

They are truly invincible in battle.

But the march was the hardest.

A 10,000-mile expedition.

A real thousand miles.

"Let's go, hurry back to Dhaka, get the news back to Guangzhou as soon as possible, Yang Feng has arrived in the Western Regions, and is still moving forward, it is estimated that he will not return to the capital within a year, it will take a few months for the news of the capital to reach the Western Regions, whether our son of heaven can return to the capital depends on this time."

He said.

He was a subordinate of Ho Di......

At this time, Guangdong's merchant ships had already established stable trade with Dhaka and other eastern Indian ports, and even had their business names in Dhaka, because Guangdong's textile industry was developing rapidly and was in urgent need of more cotton, India's cotton was undoubtedly the best choice, and India also needed spices from the South Seas, silk, porcelain, sugar, etc., which were just shipped to Dakar, and then transported back to cotton. The use of schooners has also greatly shortened the sailing time between Dhaka and Guangzhou, and even a merchant ship has set a record of one and a half months from Guangzhou to Dhaka, which will be faster if it is an empty ship.

They are now leaving for the return, and the arrival card will only be a month and a half at most, and then there is one and a half months left to send the news to Guangzhou, and Guangzhou has already been prepared, and even they know about Yang Feng's expedition to the west, but they don't dare to confirm whether it is true or not, after all, Yang Feng likes to play a false shot the most. But now that he has appeared in Khotan, there is no such thing as a false shot, he is really a westward expedition, as long as Guangzhou moves quickly, he will be able to come to the capital in less than three months, not to mention Yang Feng to kill back, in such a short period of time, he can't even know the news of Guangzhou's troops, as long as he can take the capital before returning, Jianwen can command the whole country as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and sweep away Yang Feng's henchmen in one fell swoop.

What if he goes back then?

What's more, as long as the princess is captured, it is enough to threaten him.