Chapter 644: My Emperor Ming said that even if you watch it casually, you won't be able to learn it!
In the face of Timur's anger, Zhu Yunxi just quietly watched him perform.
He did not believe that Timur was a man who could not control his emotions, and since he took the initiative to express his emotions, it proved that he must have ulterior motives.
Timur had a seizure for a while, and when he saw that no one paid attention to him, he immediately threw his sleeves away angrily.
To Timur's surprise, he left the main hall of the banquet without any hindrance.
When his carriage walked out of the Kangju Palace, the coachman's words made him hesitate for a moment.
"Your Majesty, are we going back to the palace in Samarkand, or to Isfahan."
After a slight hesitation, Timur finally gave up the idea of returning to China now.
"Go back to the palace!"
"Oh......"
The groom dragged Timur back to the palace, and the palace guards did not stop him, but allowed him to enter the former palace of the Timurid Empire.
Returning to the palace, Timur did not rush to his dormitory, but walked around the former palace.
There are a lot of confidential departments of Daming here, and he has not been embarrassed to visit them in order to avoid suspicion.
Now that Zhu Yunxi has torn his face, there is no need for him to ask for face.
Timur walked backwards to a yamen with a plaque on the Ministry of War, and when he saw a group of young clerks busy, he couldn't help but slow down.
After the people in the military department found out that there was an uninvited guest in the yamen, their faces showed a little curiosity.
Just as Wang Shilang, who was on duty, wanted to send someone to stop him, a person who looked like a eunuch ran over and whispered a few words in his ear.
"It turned out that His Majesty Timur arrived, and he was disrespectful and disrespectful!"
"Someone!"
"Tea for His Majesty Timur!"
"No!"
After a while, someone walked in with a tea tray and filled Timur and Wang Shilang with tea.
Timur held the teacup and kept turning it in circles, sniffing the fragrance coming from the teacup.
"What do you call Your Excellency?"
"Wang Mian, Xi is the squire of the Kangju Military Department, you can call me Xiao Wang......"
"Little Wang, ......"
"I wonder if I can visit you here?"
"Absolutely!"
"Your Majesty, you are a distinguished guest, and you can visit any place in the city if you want."
When Timur heard this, a meaningful smile appeared on his face.
"What if I want to visit your arsenal?"
Wang Mian didn't even stumble when he heard this.
"Welcome!"
When Timur saw Wang Mian's attitude, he wondered in his heart and was more puzzled.
Of course, he had just seen the small movements of Wang Mian and the eunuch, and he also knew that the official in front of him must have been instructed by Zhu Yunxi.
It's just that he can't figure it out, Zhu Yunxi will be so generous, and he won't be defensive at all.
Could it be that Zhu Yunxi is so confident, even if he is open to himself and lets him look at it casually, he can't see Daming's secrets?
Timur did not believe in evil, so he picked up an official document that the scribe was copying.
It was written in both Persian and Daming, and he easily understood it.
"You want to transfer people from Samarkand back to Daming?"
"Yes!"
"The Ming Dynasty is now in ruins, and the people's strength can't keep up, so we need to send some people from Samarkand."
"Some?"
When Timur heard this, he almost threw the paperwork in the man's face.
"You have such a big mouth, 300,000 people are some in your mouth!"
Hearing this, the clerk looked at his chief officer aggrievedly, and said in his heart that these are all prisoners selected from the prisoner of war camp, how to arrange it is a matter of the Ming Dynasty, where did the old man point fingers?
Seeing this, Wang Mian hurried over, encouraged the scribe a few words, and then explained to Timur with a smile.
"Your Majesty doesn't know, 300,000 people is a lot in your country, but it's really nothing in my Ming Dynasty."
"Among the projects that I am now presiding over in Daming, there are more than five employs of more than one million!"
"Five million people?"
"Are you crazy, isn't this going to exhaust the people to death?"
Timur was also a man who had been an emperor for decades, and he had not dared to use more than one million people in the south and north for so many years.
Now he heard that Daming had more than five projects of more than one million alone, which scared him a lot.
Hearing this, Wang Mian patiently explained again.
"Your Majesty doesn't know, my Ming Dynasty territory is very large, from the Golden Continent in the east to the ...... in the west West to Borneo, as well as France and England. ”
"There are supply stations of my Ming Dynasty all over the world, and every supply station is the land of my Ming Dynasty."
"Many of the projects we entrusted to local nobles managed and built on our behalf."
"For example, the Hongwu Grand Canal, which is located in the narrow strip of the Mamluk Dynasty, was managed by the Mamluk Dynasty on our behalf, and there are more than a million people there."
"I don't know the specific number of people, we are only responsible for providing the wages and food of the people, and the rest is managed by the local government!"
"Another example is the Grand Canal in the Golden Continent, which is jointly managed by the local West Lake Taal Kingdom and the Nigua Kingdom."
"We provided these two kingdoms with weapons, armor, food, and cloth, and they were to integrate the surrounding tribes and small states, and recruit people to build the Datong Canal connecting the two oceans of the East and the West."
"As for some small projects of 100,000 to hundreds of thousands of people, I have countless people."
"Conservative estimates, the number of people in my Ming gap is more than 10 million!"
"Hoo ......"
Timur listened to Wang Mian's words, and only the grass left in his heart.
He found out that he underestimated Zhu Yunxi, who would have thought that under this guy's immature appearance, there would be such a big ambition hidden?
According to them, now the number of people driven by their Ming Dynasty will exceed 10 million, and then they will be short of at least 10 million......
Is this to make the whole world give them coolies?
However, in this way, Timur understood one thing, that is, Zhu Yunxi could obviously destroy himself in a battle, why did he go to great lengths to invite himself to Samarkand and resolve the dispute through negotiations.
It turns out that this guy is only afraid of too many dead people, which will delay his plan!
When Timur had this thought, he did not panic in his heart.
He is not afraid that the enemy has no needs, but he is afraid that the enemy has no weakness.
Since Zhu Yunxi's weakness is the people's husband, then he put on a posture of burning jade, forcing Zhu Yunxi not to act rashly!
Timur knew such a big secret after reading one document, and he was even more curious about other documents.
"Xiao Wang, can I read other documents?"
Wang Mian replied without hesitation.
"Yes!"
"Our Majesty said that when it comes to people of your level and his, there are not many secrets in the world."
"It's not that you don't know a lot of things, but you don't know what to do if you do."
"So whatever you want to see, look at it."
Timur's face sank when he heard this, and he snorted coldly.
"He understands the emperor's heart!"
"He's right, at our level, there's nothing in the world that we don't understand. But even if we do, there are many things that can't be changed. ”
Timur said as he picked up a paperwork.
This document has a high gold content and is written in the Ming language.
If it weren't for the fact that Timur had deliberately made up the Great Ming text before coming to Samarkand, Leng Buding really couldn't understand this thing.
This is a document about the transshipment of grain and grass, and it is clearly written that one million stone of grain will be transported from Daming to Samarkand......
One million stones, which is enough for at least 300,000 people to eat for a year......
Could it be that Da Ming wants to prepare for war with himself?
In addition, Daming and Samarkand are thousands of miles apart, how can they transport so much grain?
Wait, what I just saw!
Hamiwei?
Shipped from Hamiwei to Samarkand?
Isn't Hamiwei a place near the Chagatai Khanate, when will so much grain be produced there?
Timur discovered one of the great shortcomings of his empire, that is, his knowledge of intelligence was too weak.
Ever since the destruction of the Chagatai Khanate, he knew nothing about the Ming Dynasty and the Chagatai region.
Now that there is such a large grain-producing area in the Chagatai region, he, as the emperor of the Western Regions, doesn't even know it!
After Timur was shocked by this, he felt bored when he looked at other documents.
The documents of the Ministry of War are nothing more than how many soldiers were recruited from where, and where the troops were moved.
Although these things are important military secrets, they are not very important in the national war of his size with Da Ming.
However, the number of conscriptions made him very interested, and he could not have imagined that the Ming Dynasty had recruited more than 400,000 soldiers in Samarkand.
Could it be that Da Ming is really so confident that he is not afraid of these locals rebelling?
Timur took his leave after reading some more documents, and Wang Mian warmly sent him away from the yamen of the military department, and intimately asked him if he wanted to go to the arsenal to see it.
This embarrassed Timur and excused himself slightly.
"Don't look at it, how can you say that it is also a secret of your Ming Dynasty, I am an enemy emperor, how can I look at your Ming secrets?"
Wang Mian replied very honestly.
"It's okay!"
"My Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty said that even if you watch it casually, you can't learn it!"
Timur almost vomited blood when he heard this, it was simply humiliating!
"Humph!"
"I want to see if I can learn it!"
Wang Mian saw that Timur was so unconvinced, so he could only lead him to visit the arsenal in the city with a smile.
Timur followed Wang Mian to the Ming arsenal, and immediately recognized where this place was, wasn't this a military camp built during his reign, and it was transformed into an arsenal by the Ming Dynasty?
Timur looked at the rows of tall houses, and couldn't help but tremble in his heart, how many weapons did Daming hide!
Wang Mian greeted the general guarding the arsenal, and showed his waist card to the other party, and then the other party opened the gate and let them in.
"Your Majesty Timur, I wonder what you want to see first?"
Timur snorted coldly when he heard this.
"Humph!"
"What do you all have to show me!"
Wang Mian replied proudly when he heard this.
"That's a lot!"
"In terms of firearms, there are guns and artillery."
"Among them, firebolts are divided into arquebuses, flintlock firecrackers, continuous firecrackers, multiple firecrackers, and so on......"
"Artillery is divided into heavy siege artillery, light horse-drawn artillery, city defense artillery, individual combat light artillery, and so on."
"There are also many models of shells, solid shells, flowering shells, etc., ......"
"There are also many traditional weapons, such as new bows and arrows, swords, armor and so on."
"Hiss......"
Wang Mian burst out so many weapons as if he was in the name of the dish, so that Timur listened to it and breathed cold air.
He never imagined that Da Ming would invent so many firearms.
There are many firearms that I don't even know about them, or I haven't even heard of them.
Timur summed up several defeats in his life, and felt that it was the artillery that had the greatest impact on him, and decided to go to see the artillery first.
"Can I see your artillery?"
"Of course!"
Wang Mian skillfully led Timur through the houses, and stopped in front of a house that covered a huge area.
"Open the treasury and let His Majesty Timur go in and have a look!"
"No!"
When the heavy warehouse door opened, Timur felt only a pungent smell of grease on his face.
Just when he disliked that it was too dark to see clearly, and wanted people to light a torch, Wang Mian on the side spoke.
"Open the main light gate!"
"No!"
Then Timur heard only a click, and then a bright light lit up in the huge warehouse, illuminating the whole warehouse as if it were day.
"This ......"
"Oh, this is a kind of electric light invented by Daming, which is lit by electricity, which can avoid fires caused by fireworks to the greatest extent."
"But this thing is also very dangerous, if there is a fire, you can't save the fire if you want to, so you can only cut off the power supply."
Timur was dumbfounded, he just heard the merchant talk about the Ming Dynasty having a lamp that could emit light on its own, but he didn't know what electricity was and what was lighting.
Seeing it today made him feel a deep sense of frustration.
Unconsciously, is the gap between his empire and the Ming Dynasty so big?
The people have mastered the indescribable divine power, and they are still riding their war horses, waving and slashing until they are charging......
Wang Mian didn't care about Timur's mood, he just flaunted the tarpaulin of a cannon.
"Your Majesty Timur, please see, this is the Hongwu armor cannon specially developed by my Ming Dynasty specifically for siege, also known as siege artillery."
"This kind of cannon has a small range, but it has extremely strong penetration and explosive power, and can easily tear down city walls, gates and other defensive measures."
"The rammed earth walls built against your empire are extremely destructive, and are perfect for dealing with your imperial city-states."
When Timur heard this, his old face turned black on the spot.
Even if the two countries are hostile, don't say it so bluntly!
Besides, is there anything magical about this cannon?
Isn't it just that the muzzle is thicker, the barrel is longer, and the barrel is thicker?
When I returned to Isfaham, I ordered someone to copy it, and I didn't believe that I couldn't make a bigger cannon than this thing!
"This thing is so huge, and the cannonballs used must be extremely special, right?"
Timur was shocked and shocked, still maintaining his cunning nature, and wanted to take the military secrets of the Ming Dynasty as soon as he opened his mouth.
Wang Mian was undecided, and ordered someone to carry out a box and put it in front of Timur on the spot.
"Your Majesty's words are very true, the shells used in this siege cannon are indeed very special."
"Someone, pry the box open, and let His Majesty Timur see what our siege cannon looks like!"
Timur looked at the box in front of him, thinking that there would be a lot of shells in the box, but he thought that after the box was opened, only one shell was lying alone inside.
"This ......"
"Siege artillery, naturally, is a little bigger than others."
"I'm asking why the shape of this thing is so weird, the head is just pointy, and the tail has a few more pieces of iron?"
Wang Mian smiled awkwardly.
"Well...... This belongs to our Ming secret, please forgive Weichen for having nothing to say, hehehehe......"