Zhu Yunxi and Lao Zhu Xian are only one aspect, the most important thing is to show off with overseas envoys, so that they can know how big the gap between them and Daming is.

Zhu Yunxi took the time to look at the Da Mingyang delegation, and saw that they were all stunned, and his heart was dark.

Looking at some nobles from Europe, I am even more proud.

Zhu Yunxi invited many people this time, not only Korea, Japan, Ryukyu, Vietnam and other countries around the Ming Ocean, but also envoys from Central Asia and Europe.

It's just that at this time, Europe was relatively chaotic, at the end of the Holy Roman era, and in the early stage of the independence of the various principalities, there were only a few dynasties in the whole of Europe, plus a group of archdukes who had just split from Rome, and he was too lazy to entertain them alone, and they were collectively called envoys.

However, he is still very concerned about the Mamluk dynasty in Egypt, and has always arranged special people to be responsible for the reception.

The main reason why Zhu Yunxi is so interested in this Mamluk dynasty from Egypt is that they occupy a very important location, guarding the choke point connecting the Ming Ocean to the Mediterranean.

Zhu Yunxi wanted to build a canal here, and he could not do without the support of this dynasty founded by the descendants of the Kipchak Khanate.

As for the envoys of other European princes, whether it was France or England, they were other small countries for the Ming Dynasty.

After all, their real rise will not be until two hundred years later, and they are too small now......

Now the whole West is the era of the Kipchak Khanate, the Timurid Empire, and these two peoples on horseback are whipping the entire Western world with their horsewhips, plundering endless wealth from them.

Even a certain Mao, who was known as a fighting nation in later generations, is now only a Muscovy, and has not completely broken away from the shadow of the Golden Horde.

At Zhu Yuanzhang's birthday banquet, both the Timurid Khanate and the Kipchak Khanate sent envoys to offer gifts.

Zhu Yunxi's treatment of these two countries naturally cannot be rude, not only is there a special escort, but the position of the ceremony is also relatively high.

In addition to these distinguished guests, there is also an emissary from the Holy See, representing the current Pope Boyi IX.

Now the Holy See in Europe is more like Japan, divided into two organizations, two popes.

Boyi IX wanted to use the power of this mysterious crown prince from the East to unite the Holy See and restore the glory of the Holy See.

Of course, Zhu Yunxi has 10,000 support for this kind of request, after all, if the Holy See is not strong, Europe cannot continue to remain dark!

Therefore, Zhu Yunxi had already sent envoys to express his respect for the Holy See and provided them with a lot of financial support, but he rejected Boyi IX's proposal to convert to God.

Although this move caused great dissatisfaction among Boyi IX, Boyi IX forgave the lost lamb from the East on the face of seeing 100,000 glittering gold coins.

When Zhu Yunxi helped Lao Zhu to introduce the Jinling Northern Suburbs Industrial Park, these VIPs who were invited by Zhu Yunxi were also looking curiously, inquiring about the surrounding facilities from time to time.

"Oh, the cake seller!"

"What is such a tall chimney for, surely it is not a stairway to heaven?"

"Sir Andrew, this is the chimney of my Daming factory, mainly for exhaust ......"

"And what about these buildings, are they really for lowly craftsmen?"

"Yes!"

"But I would like to kindly remind you that in my Damingshi agriculture and industry are equal status, craftsmen are not inferior, and it is also a very honorable job!"

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know there were such rules in your country......"

"Can I take a tour of where they live?"

"Yes!"

Sir André, from France, was accompanied by a translator into the dormitory of a machining workshop.

As soon as he arrived at the dormitory, Andrei felt that his eyes were not enough. This dormitory building can't be said to be luxurious, but many of the facilities are simply unheard of and unseen.

"What is this clean and tidy room for?"

"Oh, this is a hut!"

"Thatched house?"

"It is specially used for human treatment ...... in the body"

"Oh, I see, we have something similar there, it's just not as clean as you guys."

"By the way, with all due respect, I don't see a vent outside, what do you do...... Those dirty things? ”

The interpreter pointed to the clay pipes in the toilet.

"We do this through this kind of pipe, one layer to the other, and then it is discharged directly into the ground, and then it is transmitted to the treatment plant through the underground pipes......"

"Oh cake seller, you Daming are so rich, just to deal with this kind of dirty things, it costs so much, and it is too luxurious to use this kind of exquisite ceramics as pipes!"

The interpreter listened to Andrei's boasting, and while secretly saying that the other party was making a fuss, he wondered how they handled these things there.

"Dare to ask this envoy, how do you deal with these things in your country?"

André walked to the window, opened it and pointed out.

"It's easy!"

"Just pick up the toilet and pour it out!"

"This ......"

Andrei's words caused the interpreter to feel so unwell that he almost vomited in front of him.

Before Daming laid this kind of underground pipeline, he hadn't heard of dumping it directly on the road.

If anyone dares to do that, not only will the government be fined and beaten, but the neighbors will also scold him to death!

The rest of Daming is not clear, at least there are special people in Jinling City who push the cart to collect it.

"Aren't your streets full of these things, and people are not afraid to step on them when they walk?"

"Of course I'm afraid!"

"That's why we all wear these shoes!"

Andrei triumphantly lifted the high heels he was wearing.

"With these shoes, you won't be afraid to step on those dirty things!"

"Uh-uh......"

"But I will return to France and make a proposal to our king that he try out your underground pipes in the capital......"

While the British and French ambassadors were fascinated by the sewer technology of the Ming Dynasty, Bishop Allen from the Holy See visited the craftsmen at work.

Alan looked at the craftsman who was busy standing in front of the huge machine, and let out a torture from the soul.

"Dare to ask the respected Mr. Kong, do you Ming craftsmen have no faith?"

"Yes!"

"What do they believe?"

"They believe in hard work and get rich!"

Hearing this, Eren smiled meaningfully.

"Can hard work really make you rich?"

Kong Yanjin could naturally hear Allen's disdain, but he had strong confidence in Daming and the imperial grandson.

"It may not be possible in your far west, but it must be able in my Ming Dynasty!"

"The craftsmen you see can earn at least two silver coins a month, and the most can range from a dozen to dozens of coins."

Alan looked surprised when he heard this.

"The kind of silver coin with your emperor's image on it?"

"Yes!"

"Oh God, how can you Ming give such a high salary, these jobs they do are completely unworthy of these wages!"

Kong Yanjin snorted coldly when he heard this.

"Not worthy of you, but worthy of us!"

Alan fell silent for a while after listening to Kong Yanjin's confident words, and it took a while for him to speak quietly.

"Dear Mr. Kong, if you can convince your imperial grandson to agree to me preaching here, I can guarantee that these craftsmen will be more obedient and create more wealth for your imperial grandson!"

Kong Yanjin refused without even thinking about it.

"No way!"

"His Royal Highness the Imperial Sun has long said that you will never be allowed to preach in Daming!"

"Why?"

Bishop Allen was not convinced, he had been in Daming for a while, and knew that Daming not only had local Taoism, but also Buddhism from the West.

If the Ming can accept the Buddha of the West, why can't he accept the God of the West?

"Because you don't know how to be grateful!"

"What?"

"You say we don't know how to be grateful?"

"Mr. Kong, I have to reason with you, you are slandering and ...... prejudice against us."

"Everything in your teachings is given by the Lord, and you completely ignore your personal efforts, which is contrary to what I have always advocated in the Ming Dynasty, Tianxingjian, and a gentleman should strive for self-improvement......"

In the name of his work, Kong Yanjin exported his thoughts from the I Ching to Bishop Allen.

In the increasingly heated debate between the two, two envoys from the Timurid Empire and the Kipchak Khanate had already picked up the arrowheads machined on the lathe.

"It's so neat and sharp!"

"If you are shot by this object on the battlefield, even if you are wearing three layers of leather armor, you will not be spared!"

"Not only leather armor is not spared, but ordinary chain mail is enough to choke ......"

The Kipchak Khanate and the Timurid Empire were in constant conflict, but during this time in the Ming Dynasty, the two envoys temporarily put aside their prejudices and discussed all the novelties they saw in the Ming Dynasty.

After all, although the two belong to different camps, they have a lot in common in culture and religion, and they still have more common language than the Ming people who are not familiar with each other.

"Dare to ask this lord, can you tell me what the daily production of this thing is?"

The interpreter glanced at the arrow in disgust.

"This thing is almost eliminated in my Ming Dynasty, and only some old border troops and newly naturalized Mongolian troops have equipment."

"Now we are in the stage of controlling production, and we can produce about 100,000 pieces per day."

"What?"

"With such a neat and sharp arrowhead, you can produce 100,000 arrows a day?"

The translator said with a proud face.

"What's so strange about that?"

"If it weren't for the emperor's grandson's intention to limit production capacity, I'm afraid that there will be no place to put it in the warehouse, and we will be able to produce millions or tens of millions a day!"

"Hiss......"

The two khanate envoys gasped when they heard this, and each reweighed their foreign policy with the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, they came to visit Daming with a condescending attitude, after all, Daming had a request for them, hoping that they would jointly send troops to deal with the Northern Yuan.

However, now seeing the strength of Daming's military industry, the two couldn't help but mutter.

The Ming Dynasty is already so strong, it can completely beat the Northern Yuan, why do you want to form an alliance with them?

"Dare to ask this lord, Da Ming has the strength to defeat the Northern Yuan, why do you need me to help?"

The interpreter replied without thinking.

"Oh!"

"The imperial grandson said that I have few people in the Ming Dynasty and can't withstand consumption on the battlefield."

"There are few Ming people?"

When the envoys of the two khanates heard this, they only felt that this was the biggest joke.

Who doesn't know that the Ming Dynasty is rich in products and has a large population, and it is the most populous country in the world.

However, their imperial grandson is too few......

If the Ming Dynasty thought that they had few people, then they would not be able to see a living Kipchak Khanate for dozens of miles, and the Timurid Empire would not have to cry to death.

"I'm really good in the Ming Dynasty, only more than 10,000 people......"

When the two envoys heard this, they secretly clenched their fists, eager to beat this unashamed official to death with one punch.

This guy is so annoying to talk about, 10,000 people is too little!

It's a number we can't even think of, right?

"But now, after the vigorous management of our imperial grandson, the survival rate of newborns in my Ming Dynasty has been greatly improved, and more than 300,000 newborns survive every month. And this number is increasing every month, and it is expected to reach 400,000 ...... by the end of the year."

The envoys of the two khanates looked at each other, and both saw shock and horror in each other's eyes.

It is not necessary for a small country to have so many people in their territory......

It can be said that the newborn population of Daming in one month is equivalent to a country in the Amu Darya region!

The two fell into a long silence after coming out of the machinery processing factory, since they came to the land of Daming, they have seen the wealth and prosperity of Daming, so Daming's money is definitely not lacking. Today, after seeing Daming's military workshop, I appreciated Daming's military productivity, which shows that Daming weapons, armor and other equipment are also not lacking.

Later, I heard that the number of births per month in the Ming Dynasty was extrapolated, and the population of the Ming Dynasty was not lacking, and it could even crush their two khanates.

Now they have only one hope, that is, the combat effectiveness of the Ming soldiers is not good, and they really fight on the battlefield, far less than their people who forget to die.

But will this wish come true?

After all, the Ming Dynasty is also an emerging empire, and it has only been established for more than 20 years, so it should still retain the blood and courage of the founding period, right?

After some struggle, the two could only make a presumptuous proposal.

"Dare to ask this lord, can you sell a set of arrowheads in your country to my country?"

"Our country is willing to exchange equal weight of gold and silver!"

When the interpreter heard this, he immediately smiled.

"No, you can't!"

"I, Daming, have just legislated, and it is regarded as complicity to transport lathes and other machines out of the territory of Daming without permission!"

"This ......"

As soon as the two of them heard that even the charges of rebellion came out, they immediately extinguished the idea of buying a machine.

However, both of them expressed full concern about their country, and felt that it was a very unwise choice to be the enemy of Da Ming on the battlefield in the future.

Compared with these overseas envoys from the Mingdong region and the European region, the overseas vassals around the Ming Ocean were much calmer.

Because they have seen too much of the strength of the Ming Dynasty, they have long been overwhelmed by the terrifying strength of the Ming Dynasty.

The two emperors, Huairen and Xicheng, did not think about reviving the plan anymore, and began to think about how to tie up with the Ming Dynasty, send more envoys to the Ming Dynasty, and learn more advanced technology of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Chenggui, who is from the peninsula, has already considered giving up the throne, immigrating to the Ming Dynasty, and becoming a courtier of the Ming Dynasty.

As for the mess on the peninsula, leave it to the sons to toss it themselves, he doesn't bother to take care of it.

Just as everyone was visiting the mechanical processing workshop, Prince Balkuk of the Mamluk Dynasty from Egypt, accompanied by officials of the Ministry of War, turned into an inconspicuous small workshop to visit the production base of the new musket of the Ming Dynasty.

Prince Balkuk had arrived with an alliance mission, his father's regime was unstable, there were constant rebellions at home, and there was an external threat from the Timurid Empire, and he urgently needed to find a strong ally.

Originally, they agreed that the Ming Dynasty was too far away to effectively contain the Timurid Empire and the Kipchak Khanate, and they were not optimistic about forming an alliance with the Ming Dynasty.

However, the Ming warships gave them great impact, especially the guns equipped on the warships were even more powerful, which could easily tear apart the fortresses and castles along the coast, and the blows to the coastal villages were even more devastating.

Therefore, the princes and ministers in their country decided to send the prince to visit Daming to inspect the strength of Daming.

Balkuk fell in love with the land of Daming as soon as he set foot on it, and the climate here is warm and humid, which is simply a dream paradise.

The scenery here is even more picturesque, revealing a dreamlike and unreal feeling everywhere.

Coupled with the abundance of the people here, and the happy smiles on everyone's faces, he once thought that this was the legendary sacred place flowing with milk and honey.

What surprised him even more was that every one of the people here was gentle, polite and elegant.

If he hadn't seen the brutality and strength of the Ming Navy, he would have really thought that he had come to a country full of sages and benevolent righteousness.

You must know that before the emergence of the Ming Navy, the protection fee on the Mediterranean side was collected by them and the Arabs.

Now that they have the Ming Navy, they not only can't collect protection fees, but they also have to pay protection fees to Daming......

"Prince Balkuk, please go this way......"

"This is our gunsmith factory, and the cannon processing plant is also in this area, so I'll take you to visit it later."

Prince Balkuk looked into the processing plant, and saw craftsmen rubbing iron rods on strange machines, and punching holes into the iron rods from the outside in, and couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Is this the barrel of a flamethrower?"

"Yes!"

"But it has to go through drilling, rifling and other links to become a qualified barrel!"

"If your country agrees to form an alliance with us and assists us in the construction of the Hongwu Grand Canal, we will sell you 3,000 of these firearms to help you put down the rebellion in your country!"

"At the same time, the excavation of the grain of the workers during the Hongwu Grand Canal, our country will also solve part of it."

When Balkuk heard this, he did not say anything on the spot, but asked for some details.

"How long do you plan to finish digging the Grand Canal?"

"The deadline given by our imperial grandson is three years......"

Hearing this, Balkuk quickly shook his head.

"No, no, no, it can't be!"

"According to the requirements of your imperial grandson, the canal is at least more than 400 miles long, and it can't be dug in three years!"

"No, no, no, Prince Balkuk, you don't know the strength of our Ming Dynasty, our imperial grandson said three years, then it must be three years!"

"You've seen the power of our cannons, we can supply a lot of gunpowder to blow up ......"

"As long as you can get enough laborers to help us dig up the earth and rock......"

Hearing this, Balkuk still did not nod, but asked for a fire gun to go outside for a test shot.

Under the guidance of the Ming craftsmen, Balkuk shot the target three times in a row, and after checking the power of the firecracker, Balkuk said with excitement on his face.

"10,000 such firearms!"

"If your country can agree, this prince will promise your country to persuade my father to form an alliance with your country and help you build a canal!"

Zhu Yunxi, who was accompanying Lao Zhu to visit the factory, heard Chang Jizu's report and pondered slightly.

"10,000 ......"

"The number is really a bit much, and there will inevitably be some resistance to quell the chaos after the canal is built."

When Lao Zhu heard the eldest grandson say this, he immediately asked curiously.

"What's a little too much?"

"What bad things did you do to hide from us, a rebel grandson?"

Zhu Yunxi immediately took out a map from his sleeve and pointed to the narrow strip between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.

"Grandpa Huang, if we want to transport the silk, porcelain, and tea of the Ming Dynasty to this part of Europe, we have to go ashore through here, and then be stuck in the neck by the people here."

"My grandson wants to open up these two sea areas, so that Daming's goods can go directly to Europe, and earn money from this group of people......"

Lao Zhu pinched his chin and pondered when he heard this.

"This amount of work is not low, it's about to catch up with Emperor Yang of Sui."

Zhu Yunxi nodded in agreement.

"Not really!"

"If it is placed in our Daming, it can force the people to rebel."

"Therefore, I plan to use the strength of the locals, wait for them to dig through the Grand Canal, and then occupy the land around the Grand Canal and make it the land of Daming!"

Lao Zhu took over the topic and said.

"But now they've made an excessive request to buy 10,000 firecrackers from you?"

"yes!"

Lao Zhu smiled confidently.

"It's easy to do!"

"There is a lifespan of this thing, generally speaking, it will be scrapped after a few hundred rounds, you can do something on it."

Zhu Yunxi's eyes lit up when he heard this, originally he wanted to control the other party through ammunition, after all, firearms fight for the amount of ammunition, and a firearm without ammunition is a burning stick.

However, after listening to Lao Zhu's advice, he found that Lao Zhu's method was more secure.

What if the other party hides ammunition and suddenly gives himself a blow?

Or directly control from the quality control aspect, and limit the life of their firecrackers to a minimum value!

"Grandpa Huang is wise!"

Lao Zhu listened to the eldest grandson's sycophancy, and laughed so hard that the dragon's eyes narrowed into a slit.

"This is only one thing, and the second is to remember to nurture other people and keep their country in civil strife. As long as they have a request for Daming, we will always be invincible. ”

"In addition, you can find them a few enemies and keep them under constant threat from them."

"In short, we can't let them have time to breathe, only if they are tired all the time, they don't dare to have bad thoughts!"

While teaching Zhu Yunxi the philosophy of the emperor, Lao Zhu sat on the stone pier on the side of the road to rest, until he had spoken well, and then he suddenly realized that he hadn't eaten lunch yet!

"Reverse grandson, you won't let us not even have lunch on our birthday, right?"