Bayezid listened quietly to the discussion between his son and Ulugh Beg, without the slightest intention of interrupting them.

It wasn't until he heard the two of them say the Ming threat theory that his pupils narrowed, and he began to seriously think about his relationship with the Timurid Empire.

Bayezid was a brilliant figure in the entire Ottoman history, except for a little personal grudge with the Timurid Empire, which affected his judgment of Timur, and in general he was very enlightened and wise.

After all, not everyone could withstand the Crusades and advance the front under the city of Constantinople.

Although he failed to capture Constantinople, he was able to force Western Christians to sign an alliance with him, and he was already the holy lord of the Islamic world.

"Father, my son thinks that we should ally with the Timurid Empire to fight against the demons from the east!"

Bayezet nodded with a smile.

"Yes!"

"But there are some details that need to be discussed!"

Murat looked at Ulugh Beg happily.

"Father has agreed to form an alliance with you, and we will be brothers from now on!"

Ulugh Beg was also very happy, happy that he had completed his mission, and at the same time happy that he had found someone who was like-minded.

"Good!"

"The details are slowly being agreed upon!"

"If His Highness Murat has time, you can follow me to the inn to see the Ming books I brought......"

"Great, I'm desperate to see everything about Daming now......"

Seeing that the two young men were happily leaving the main hall, Bayezet immediately ordered the banquet to be withdrawn, and discussed the alliance with the ministers on the spot.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the alliance is a foregone conclusion, now let's discuss how to not suffer losses when forming an alliance......

"Yes!"

While Bayezid was discussing the details of the alliance with his ministers, Manuel II of distant Constantinople was discussing the matter with his wife, Jelena Dragaz, a Serbian nobleman.

"Your Majesty, the Ming Empire from the far east attacked the Timurid Empire, is it that the Ottomans have no energy to attack us?"

"Yes!"

"The Timurid Empire and the Ottoman Empire were close to each other, and once the Timurid Empire was attacked, the Ottoman Empire would certainly not be able to sit idly by."

"After all, the two countries are similar in terms of faith and culture......

Jelena cheered happily when she heard this.

"Great!"

"Our Byzantines can finally breathe a sigh of relief!"

Manuel II shook his head when he heard this.

"Queen, you are happy too early, this matter may not be a good thing for us."

"Why did Your Majesty say that?"

"Think about the Mongols more than a hundred years ago......"

"Uh-uh......"

Yelena was speechless when she heard this, especially when she thought of the brutality of the Mongols and slaughtered the city at every turn, her heart was even more chilling.

"Your Majesty is saying that the Ming Dynasty, like the Mongols, will bring us great disasters?"

Manuel II still shook his head.

"I don't know!"

"We know too little about the Ming Dynasty, and now all we can contact is the merchants from the Ming Dynasty, as well as the silk and porcelain produced by the Ming Dynasty, which are as gorgeous as smoke......"

When Yelena heard this, she couldn't help but look at the silk dress she was wearing, which was sewn from the Daming silk she had spent a lot of money on, which earned her enough face at the ball.

"Your Majesty, if the Ming Dynasty can produce such exquisite silk, it looks like a highly civilized empire, shouldn't it be as barbaric as the Mongol Empire?"

Manuel II smiled bitterly when he heard this.

"Since the Ming Empire is so civilized, why did he cross many mountains and attack an empire in the Islamic world?"

When Jelena saw her husband say this, she couldn't help frowning.

"Your Majesty, since you are not worried about the Ming Empire, why don't you send an envoy to the Ming Empire, on the one hand, to express your willingness to make friends with them, and on the other hand, to probe their reality and understand their culture and thoughts, so as to prepare for dealing with them in the future?"

Manuel II's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he kissed the queen excitedly.

"You are truly my angel!"

"I'll let Andrew Nix go to Daming to express my best wishes for the new emperor of the Ming Empire to ascend the throne!"

……

After Lan Yu attacked Samarkand City, he asked the new monarch several times what to do, but Zhu Yunxi did not give him any reply.

The reason why Zhu Yunxi didn't reply to Lan Yu was just to see if his uncle could understand his thoughts.

This made it difficult for Lan Yu, so he could only call a few veterans and two or five Chang Sheng over for a meeting.

"Ladies and gentlemen, our nephew and grandson ignore us, you ponder for us, what does our nephew want us to do with Samarkand?"

When Feng Sheng heard that it was a matter of using his brain, he pretended to be dead on the spot.

"Don't pull me in on this, you don't know, I'm notoriously brainless......"

Lan Yu glared at Feng Sheng with disgust.

"The old man didn't dare to count on you at all, I didn't expect Ying Guogong to help me find a way!"

"Old man!"

"We can only count on you now, you can't shirk us!"

Fu Youde didn't want to wade into this troubled water, in fact, he didn't want to continue tossing after defeating the Northern Yuan.

The credit of his life is enough, and he is old enough, how can he be crowned king if he tosses it again?

Therefore, after saving enough military merits for his few unsuccessful young sons, he didn't want to continue fighting, and only wanted to go home to retire.

But Lan Yu has already talked about this, and it is unrealistic for him not to help at all.

"Liang Guogong, how did you report to Your Majesty before?"

"What's ...... with you"

"Old man, think about it, that's what we told our nephew grandson, saying that we have already sent Samarkand to him, and asked him what to do with Samarkand......"

Fu Youde said angrily when he heard this.

"If you ask that, your majesty can deal with you, hell!"

Lan Yu asked unconvinced.

"And what should we ask?"

Fu Youde snorted coldly.

"You should ask this, please give the name of the new city!"

Lan Yu was quite unconvinced, thinking that Fu Youde was deliberately squeezing him, but when he heard Fu Youde's words, he was dumbfounded, and after thinking about it again, he slapped his thigh excitedly.

"Oh, look at my pig brain, why can't I think of such a good idea!"

"Someone, hurry up and send a telegram to our nephew and grandson, asking him to give the new city a name!"

Lan Yu's telegram was quickly responded to by Zhu Yunxi, who typed only two words on the telegram.

"Kangju!"

Lan Yu looked at the word "Kangju" on the telegram and fell into doubt again.

"What do you mean by our nephew, is it to name Samarkand Kangju?"

Feng Sheng echoed when he heard this.

"It should be!"

"But what does Kangju mean?"

Feng Sheng and Lan Yuqi looked at Fu Youde, and Fu Youde shook his head helplessly.

"What do you look at the old man, the old man doesn't understand!"

Lan Yu didn't care about these details, and when he saw that Zhu Yunxi had changed the name of Samarkand, he immediately ordered someone to re-engrave the plaque, and hung a new plaque on the city gate of Samarkand the next day.

Since then, Samarkand, the largest city in the Western Regions, has officially changed its name to Kangju!

Next, the problem that Lan Yu had been troubled with was also solved, and Zhu Yunxi also gave a series of political measures after giving the name of the new city.

First, civilians must not be harmed.

Second, to safeguard civilian property.

Third, respect local customs and laws.

Fourth, hire local scholars to participate in urban management.

Fifth, immigration......

Sixth, spread the Confucian culture of the Ming Dynasty......

Lan Yu received Zhu Yunxi's instructions, and he carried it out without compromise whether he could understand it or not.

Soon, Kangju City came out of the haze of war and returned to its former prosperity and liveliness.

Zhu Yunxi really wanted to see the demeanor of this largest city in Central Asia, but he was destined to have no time to take a look in person, so he could only send hundreds of Ming officials over and let them govern Kangju City for him.

Although Kangju City has stabilized, the battle for Kangju City has not subsided.

After Timur fled from the city of Samarkand, he sent people to contact the surrounding countries, while gathering resources and organizing waves of attacks.

However, no matter how many soldiers he integrated to fight back, they were all scattered by the Ming army without exception.

Fortunately, the Ming army was not ambitious, and after occupying the city of Samarkand, he was complacent and did not attack other cities, giving him enough respite to gather the army more calmly.

After a long time, Timur even had the illusion that the Ming only wanted Samarkand, and after defeating Samarkand, the Ming would have nothing else to ask for.

If it is really as he thinks, what if Samarkand is given to Daming permanently?

When Timur thought of this, he immediately sent people to Samarkand to discuss peace talks with the local generals of the Ming army.

After Lan Yu managed a section of Kangju City according to Zhu Yunxi's orders, he inexplicably won the support of the people of all countries in Kangju City.

Not only did they no longer curse him behind his back, but they even knelt down collectively in the City Lord's Mansion and gave him the title of a merciful lord.

This made Lan Yu very happy, and he couldn't wait to send a telegram to Zhu Yunxi that day, showing off his name as a blue madman, and now he changed his name to Lan Renci!

As for the conditions for Timur's peace talks, he also sent them to Zhu Yunxi and asked Zhu Yunxi to do it himself.

He is too lazy to use his brain now, and since he is old, it is time to think about retirement.

Zhu Yunxi smiled helplessly after receiving Lan Yu's reply, and then handed over several telegrams to Yang Shiqi, Qi Tai, Zhang Zongjun and others on the side to circulate.

In order to meet the needs of the war, Zhu Yunxi divided the cabinet into two, and the cabinet of Nanjing Chengbei Palace handled the domestic affairs of the capital and the Ming Dynasty, referred to as the government affairs cabinet. The mobile cabinet of his companions is responsible for handling major military aircraft affairs on a full-time basis, referred to as the military aircraft cabinet.

Qi Tai was already familiar with military affairs, but he went to the Ministry of Rites for a turn due to fate, and now he is returning to his own work to play a role.

After reading the telegram circulated by Zhu Yunxi, Qi Tai thought for a while.

"Your Highness, what do you think about this matter?"

"If you just want to follow Genghis Khan's example to conquer the two river valleys, Weichen thinks you can agree to Timur's conditions and draw a boundary with him, with the Amu Darya River as the boundary, the east belongs to our Ming Dynasty, and the west belongs to Timur."

"If you want to turn the entire Lianghe River basin and the land further west into the territory of the Ming Dynasty and establish a county system, then you have to think long-term."

"In the short term, it is not unacceptable to negotiate peace, but in the long run, it will take us ten years or more to work hard and establish a sound and sound system......

Qi Tai, a member of the military cabinet who later joined the military aircraft, won the favor of Zhang Zongjun, Yang Shiqi and others on the spot with his words.

Zhang Zongjun even laughed and teased.

"I have long known that Qi Shangshu is brilliantly written, and the golden bottle plum you wrote is known as a strange book of ancient and modern times, I didn't expect you to have such insight in military affairs, which makes the old man admire it!"

Qi Tai glanced at Zhu Yunxi with resentment, and said in his heart how many years he had carried the black pot for this guy!

"Zhang Ge praises the old man, the old man is just a small skill of carving insects, not enough to worry about......"

After Zhang Zongjun praised Qi Tai, Yang Shiqi also stood up to express his position.

"Fortunately, His Royal Highness has his face in the ear, and he has barely learned some skills, otherwise he wouldn't be able to understand Qi Shangshu's words, hahaha."

In the praise of Yang Shiqi and Zhang Zongjun, Qi Tai finally found a little bit of the feeling of being a cabinet member.

"I still have a lot to learn from them."

Zhang Zongjun said a few polite words to Qi Tai, and then showed his ability as the cabinet elder himself.

"What Mr. Qi said is very reasonable!"

"However, His Majesty's previous six suggestions for the governance of Kangju City have already expressed His Majesty's views on the Western world."

"Respecting its customs and laws, immigrating to the real border, spreading culture, and changing customs, this is to govern it as the land of the Ming Dynasty."

"This official guesses that the reason why Your Majesty is like this is just to give the countries of the Western Regions a chance to understand the Ming Dynasty and understand Your Majesty, right?"

Zhang Zongjun's words instantly caused Qi Tai and Yang Shiqi to think deeply, and Qi Tai nodded affirmatively while thinking about it, agreeing with Zhang Zongjun's statement.

"Does Your Majesty want to use Kangju City as a window to show the strength of the Ming Dynasty and Your Majesty's benevolence to the people of the Western Regions?"

Zhu Yunxi saw that several people had almost guessed their thoughts, and immediately opened his mouth to speak.

"Yes!"

"It's easy to take down the land of the Western Regions, but it's hard to defend it."

"It took the Mongol Empire's iron cavalry to reach Egypt in a few years, but in less than a hundred years, it lost most of its territory and retained only a few khanates."

"To this day, apart from the only remaining Golden Horde, is there any other khanate that is a direct descendant of Genghis Khan?"

"Therefore, if you want to govern the Western Regions for a long time and completely incorporate the Western Regions into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the most important thing is to change customs, fundamentally destroy their own culture, and let them accept the Datong concept of the Ming Dynasty in an all-round way!"

"However, in order to do this, there is another precondition, that is, the local Ming population must occupy an absolute advantage."

"Population......

Zhang Zongjun and the others all fell into deep thought when they heard the question thrown by Zhu Yunxi, population reproduction is a problem in all dynasties, and no emperor thinks that he has many people under his rule......

But it takes time for the population to grow, and that time is measured in twenty years!

(End of chapter)