Ambassador Yang provided these rulers with the most perfect mode of governance......

It must be understood that even they were precarious in the past, and Ma Heima was the Taiji of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate system, and their system itself was the result of the internal strife of the Chagatai Khanate.

The Chagatai Khanate was divided in civil strife.

Their branch is east, and the river and Khorasan are west.

During his grandfather's time, Eastern Chagatai was strong, and even reconquered the river, but by his uncle's time, it was lost due to the resistance of the nobles of Western Chagatai.

And this rebellion was led by Timur and his good brother, Hussein, who was later destroyed by him, and finally his uncle was defeated, and the Dugrat department, which was originally subordinate to his family, took the opportunity to destroy him almost all the door, led by Kumada his uncle, only his father escaped, and after the defeat and disappearance of Kushada and his uncle in the struggle for hegemony in the Western Regions, he was re-supported by Kushada.

And all this for decades.

Countless nomadic Taiji of the Golden Family, and countless emirs who originally ruled one city after another, all died in the reshuffle of the civil strife of the former Chagatai Khan.

The bottom layer is indeed like a mustard.

But in such troubled times, the nobles are just as grassy.

His grandfather had a bunch of sons, and in the end, only his father escaped!

Hussein and Timur were originally side by side, but they were eventually destroyed.

No one in the troubled times can escape the fate of grass mustard, and they can't see the sun of the next day at any time, but since Yang Feng and Zhu Di went west and incorporated the Western Regions into the Ming Dynasty, they suddenly felt the long-lost stability, although this stability is at the expense of the bottom, and the bottom is struggling with hunger and cold with a heavy burden, and at the cost of supporting these Tusi and Ming officials, but what does this matter to the ruler?

For Ma Heima, are they still human beings at the bottom? Aren't they just big animals that feed themselves?

It is their duty to feed their masters with meat and blood.

In the past, I was afraid that they would rebel, but there was indeed a bit of a bottom line.

But now they are not afraid of their rebellion at all, they dare to rebel next to the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty will take action, and the Ming Dynasty will solve the problem of rebellion at the bottom for these rulers, and then give these rulers the stability of food and clothing, so Yang Feng is right, for these rulers, the most important thing is to continue to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and then at the same time weaken their subjects to the greatest extent......

The weaker, the better.

After all, the weaker the repression, the lower the cost of repression.

The weaker it is, the better it is for squeezing.

When they are so weak that they all become half-dead sick men, these rulers will not be able to resist even if they knock out the marrow.

So......

All armor is forcibly confiscated, those who dare to hide it kill the whole family, hand over all bows that can shoot armor, only keep those that cannot shoot even leather armor, long-handled weapons are not allowed to be kept, and weapons that can break armor are all confiscated.

Now that the Ming Dynasty is prosperous, and there is no threat of war, what are you keeping weapons for?

Delivered.

Hand them all over.

Especially firearms, those who dare to steal kill the whole family, and even sit with the neighbors, who told you not to report.

The soldiers originally recruited by the subordinate people were all disbanded, and they all went home to herd sheep and farm, and then hired retired veterans from the Ming Dynasty with a full set of plate armor to act as the personal guards of these Tusi, and the entire Shule Propaganda and Consolation Envoy Division belonged to all the cities did so, starting from Shule, and then Yarkand, Yingjisha, all the way to Khotan, all the Tusi all carried out the collection of armor weapons, and disbanded the original army, and changed to recruit troops from outside.

Although there is indeed serious dissatisfaction among the people, the Western Expeditionary Corps led by Ambassador Yang is in Shule, who dares to resist in this situation.

Besides, the vast majority of the people actually accept it.

After all, they did enjoy peace, in this land where the average few years are a war, and even vendetta against each other is commonplace, because the rule of the Ming Dynasty has truly achieved peace, as long as the Ming can maintain the peace here, ordinary people have little interest in keeping weapons and armor. In the past, they were essentially all soldiers, and now they don't have to bear the obligation to fight in the future, and they don't have to bear the obligation to fight in the future.

In this way, Shule preached and comforted the subordinates of the division to quickly enter the storage of swords and guns, and the horses were put into the peace of Nanshan.

At this time, the army led by Zhu Di also completed his sweep of the Ottomans......

Bursa.

"So the other side is yours too?"

Zhu Di stood on the shore of the Marmara Sea, looking at the blue sea in front of him with a telescope.

"Your Highness, not only on the other side, but most of the Balkans are currently ours, Amasia, Rumelia, Eldine, all have my brother as governors, and there is still a small piece of Constantinople and the surrounding areas still in the hands of the Romans.

Their walls are too strong for us to break down at the moment. ”

The Ottoman beside him said.

This is Issa, the son of Bayezit, who originally followed his father into the war, but when his father was defeated, he ran fast and ran all the way back to Bursa, and then quickly proclaimed himself Sultan.

After all, he still has a bunch of brothers.

But then Zhu Di's westward advance, after weighing his brother or the enemy, he was sure that the enemy was more trustworthy than his brother, so in the face of Zhu Di's army, he simply chose to surrender, and it turned out that he was indeed a smart man, because Zhu Di accepted his surrender very kindly. Even the title of Sultan can continue to be used in the future, but he needs to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty in the name of the Ottoman Sultan, and then accept the canonization of the Ming Dynasty.

He is also the king of the county.

As for what to do with the territory of the Ottoman Empire, of course, this is not something that Zhu Di can decide, after all, the territory of the Ottoman Empire is a bit large.

But the area west of the Euphrates to the strait must have belonged to Isa.

"It's strong, it's just that the cannon isn't big enough, and I don't believe that the city walls can still hold off the siege artillery."

Zhu Di said.

So Constantinople was already in his next goal.

The main thing is that he has discovered that this side is obviously richer than the Golden Horde, and behind him thousands of camels are carrying countless gold and silver treasures, which are being transported to the east under the protection of the moon and others, which is Issa's contribution to him and the Ming Emperor. Of course, just pick a few random pieces for the Ming Emperor, and the vast majority have to be divided, Zhu Di will definitely take the largest part, but everyone else involved in this western expedition has a share, and Zhu Di is not only supported by force by these chaotic forces, but also that he is fairer than Timur. The wealth plundered by Timur was basically transported to Samarkand and swallowed alone, but Zhu Di never swallowed it alone, he would give everyone a share, even if the weak forces followed him, they all had a share.

It's a rarity.

After the last battle of Erzincan, even those Kurds shared part of the spoils, and the Kurds, who had never expected such a good thing, were simply pleasantly surprised.

After all, the battle of Erzinjan was theoretically fought to protect them.

It's good that they don't pay for thanks, but they still have money?

Of course, the main thing is that King Yan's vision is not comparable to Timur.

The latter is nothing more than a big chief, King Yan is from the Ming Dynasty, and even the Ming throne can be given up, let alone some money.

Besides, there are so many good places to grab ahead.

"Great King, the Trabssons beg."

Zhu Neng walked up to him and said.

"It's useless to be clever after all, it's not an honest surrender, but they are no longer qualified."

Zhu Di sneered.

The Trabsons are very cunning, they rely on their special position, and in any case, they have to be the last turn of the war, so they deliberately insist on not surrendering, and contact the Aries Turkmen and Bayezid, showing a posture of everyone working together, and even promised to pay tribute to Bayezid, and promised to send 2,000 soldiers to the battle, but when the war really started, not a single soldier was dispatched......

In fact, they may not be able to make up even 2,000 soldiers.

Two thousand soldiers were more than thirty years ago, when they did gather two thousand soldiers to show their strength to the Aries Turkmen, but according to the recorded use of the army, it was basically a few hundred, including some Latin mercenaries. But their position is special, attacking from land must climb over the mountains that are almost still in the state of primeval forest, and attacking from sea requires a strong navy, so for now, it is not easy for Zhu Di to attack them.

"Give it to Fancha, and everything there will be theirs."

Zhu Di said.

Mountain area?

Forest?

Vancha and his men have lived in this environment for generations.

"Who are these?"

Zhu Di looked at the warships on the sea and said.

These are all row-row warships, a dozen in total, and many people can be seen on the deck, all looking this way.

"The Genoese, they have commercial strongholds in Constantinople and Trabzon, and they control the trade from the Black Sea to the West, but there are also Venetians like them, and the Genoese have a good relationship with us and can go to the ports we control, but the Venetians are enemies of us. They both have strong navies, and at least for the time being, it will be difficult for our navy to defeat them, so we can only cooperate with Genoa, and they earn huge amounts of gold from these trades every year. Many of these goods were shipped from the East, from Timur to Trabsson via Tabriz, where they were loaded on ships and shipped back into the Mediterranean.

They probably didn't know how His Highness would treat them, so they didn't dare to dock. ”

Issa said.

"Go, drag a few field guns over and see if we can sink one of their ships."

Zhu Di said.

"King, the power of the field artillery is not enough, these ships are not small, at least they have siege guns, but it is better to use mortar cannons or rockets so close, mortar cannons use flowering shells, and if the rockets hit their sails, they can almost ignite, although the mortars are not accurate, but they are now parked at sea, and the fixed target is almost the same."

Zhu Neng said.

Field artillery is two catties of shells, even if it can penetrate the plank, it is difficult to cause too much damage, like this kind of large sea ship itself The plank is thick enough, the distance is far and even can't penetrate, in fact, the Ming warship currently has to be the lowest large cannon such as a thousand catties rapid-fire guns, as for the main force has been replaced with six catties of shells, but the cannons of those giant battleships have reached eighteen catties, which is the real decisive battle at sea.

It is said that the four battleships in Guangdong, in order to ensure the victory over the imperial navy, began to load 24 catties of shells on the ships.

"Then change the mortar."

Zhu Di said.

Then he looked at Issa, who was puzzled.

"Do you want to squeeze more money out of them?"

He said.

"Well, of course."

Issa said with a smile.

"Is there your fortress on the coast of Constantinople?"

Zhu Di said.

"Yes, Üsküdar is across the sea from Constantinople, and is now under our control."

Issa said.

"I leave there an artillery force, and they will carry enough heavy artillery to sink these ships, and then you order all ships passing through the strait, they must go there to collect their vouchers and pay taxes, and without this vouchers, all the ports on the eastern shore of the Black Sea are forbidden to trade, including yours, and then we will collect half of the taxes. If they come ashore and try to attack the fortress, then you are responsible for solving the problem, and my men are only responsible for blocking the strait, and ships entering the strait will have to pay taxes according to the date.

After all, they entered the Black Sea and most likely went to trade somewhere else. ”

Zhu Di said.

"Your Highness's cannons can attack ships across the strait?"

Issa said in disbelief.

Although the Ottoman Empire had long controlled both sides of the Dardanelles, it was not until 1462 that the construction of the Sultaniye Fortress began, because even if the narrowest part of the Dardanelles Strait was only 1.3 kilometers, they were unable to control it, and without weapons of such range, they could not defeat anyone in naval battles, and they could not even control the narrowest Bosphorus.

"Absolutely."

Zhu Di said.

Of course, he was mainly preparing for the assault on Constantinople.

At this time, Zhu Neng came over with a mortar artillery team, and a total of sixteen mortar cannons were quickly lined up on the shore.

Zhu Di had already been replenished with ammunition, and while pursuing Timur, Zhu Gaoxu sent a transport team to supply him with some ammunition, and would continue to supply him, after all, there was no one on the Kipchak steppe who dared to be an enemy of the Ming Dynasty at this time.

The Genoese at sea looked at this side suspiciously, because the distance was almost three hundred meters, they could not see the situation on the shore, they could only watch some people busy, and then they parked the ship there and quietly watched the mortar team complete all the preparations. Until one after another, the shells dragging the traces of smoke flew into the sky with the smoke of gunpowder, and then fell again in their stunned gaze, because of the ranging of modern telescopes, plus the experience of these gunners can be said to be extremely rich......

Of course, mainly Genoese ships were parked in large numbers.

The concentrated attack of sixteen shells allowed three shells to accurately hit the largest of them, but one shell bounced off the deck and exploded as soon as it flew out of the ship's side, and the other shell was caught in the sail and then exploded inside the sail, and only one shell landed on the deck and then jumped down in a pile of rigging with a flaming woodpipe fuse under the blank gaze of the Genoese, and then turned into the flames of explosion......

"Now you can order them ashore."

Zhu Di looked at the Genoese warship that was already burning and said.