Zhu Jingyuan walked out of the Wenhua Palace, got into the car and returned to the palace where he lived, and then summoned the representatives of Persia.

The three kingdoms of Anxi also arranged for representatives to participate in this peace talks between the Ming and Taixi.

It's just that they are not parties to the war, they do not directly participate in the negotiations, they just wait for the results and possible orders from the sidelines.

In today's Persia, the ruling family is still the Safavid dynasty, which has been severed in history.

Seventy years ago, the last emperor of the Safavid dynasty of Persia, the puppet monarch Abbas III, was rescued by the Ming Dynasty and became a monarch with partial de facto ruling power, and the dynasty was continued.

Abbas III dedicated the title of Emperor of Persia, that is, the title of King of Kings, to the Ming Emperor as an honorific title.

In the eyes of the Taixi countries, the Ming Emperor actually has the titles of three emperors of China, Tianzhu and Persia.

Of the four emperor titles of the classical era in the Old World, only the Roman Emperor is now left and is not in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

There is a group of people fighting for the title of emperor in Taixi countries, so the Taixi countries feel more and more that the Ming Emperor is noble.

In fact, the operation of Abbas III's dedication to the title was also learned from Chinese history books.

More than a thousand years ago, the last prince of the Sassanid Dynasty of Persia, the father and son of Balus and Nines, fled to the Tang Dynasty after the destruction of the country.

They dedicated the title of King of Kings of Persia to Li Zhi, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty at that time.

Li Zhi built a Persian governorate, and theoretically the Tang Dynasty has a claim to Persia from then on.

The behavior of the two Persian princes opened the habit of giving the emperor honorific titles, and Li Zhi and Wu Zetian became the emperor and queen.

The Ming Emperor of this world, following the will of Emperor Shizu, no longer gave titles to foreign clans, so he did not give Abbas any title.

But Abbas himself was sensible, and after offering the title of Emperor of Persia (King of Kings), he changed his name to King of Persia.

The current king of Persia is the great-grandson of Abbas III, known as Abbas VI.

The Persian representative to the Western Cape was the twenty-eight-year-old Prince Suleiman, the son of Abbas VI.

Suleiman came to Zhu Jingyuan's palace, saw Zhu Jingyuan in the middle of the living room, and directly knelt down and kowtowed:

"Suleiman, the little prince of Persia, meet His Royal Highness the Prince of Da Ming and Great Food."

Zhu Jingyuan waved indifferently:

"Okay, get up, don't kneel in the future."

"His Royal Highness Prince Xie."

After Suleiman thanked him, he got up, savored Zhu Jingyuan's sentence "Don't kneel in the future", and found that it seemed to have a different meaning.

There is no kneeling etiquette between the monarchs and ministers within the Ming Dynasty, but it doesn't matter outside the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, a prince like himself, who does not belong to the Ming system, will take the initiative to kneel and salute.

Let yourself not salute in the future, is it because you will accept Persia as a vassal state on time?

Suleiman was a little unable to believe this speculation, so he could only ask cautiously:

"Dare to ask His Highness what he commands?"

Zhu Jingyuan seemed to ask very casually:

"Does Persia want to become a vassal of the Ming Dynasty?"

Suleiman was taken aback, his guess came true directly, and he fell to the ground again:

"We in Persia have dreamed of becoming a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and if Your Highness can promote the establishment of a vassal in Persia, it will be a grace for Persia to recreate."

Suleiman was genuinely excited.

Nominally independent countries such as Persia, Khiva, and Kazakhstan were very embarrassed in the camp of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, the top and bottom were indirectly controlled by the Ming Dynasty, and the main industries were in the hands of the Ming Dynasty's royal consortium.

But theoretically, if their country is beaten, the Ming don't have to care.

They dreamed of getting out of this situation.

It is impossible to be truly completely independent, and it is impossible to join the Taixi camp, and the only way out is to become an official Ming vassal state.

Zhu Jingyuan learned the posture of the old emperor, and did not directly accept the other party's stubble, but said noncommittally:

"Get up first, come and look at this map, I want a piece of land in your Persia."

Suleiman carefully got up and walked in front of Zhu Jingyuan, looking at the map of the Great Food Region on the table next to Zhu Jingyuan.

Zhu Jingyuan drew a circle around the Caspian Sea coast, the capital of later Azerbaijan, that is, the Baku region:

"I heard that there are oil seedlings here, so I wanted to buy a piece of land here, try to dig oil wells, and build a factory."

The Baku region has had natural oil and gas spills since ancient times.

In many areas, fires burn all year round, and the name "Azerbaijan" means "fire".

Such obvious oil and gas characteristics make the Baku oil field the earliest large-scale oil field in the original history.

Oil can be produced at 50 meters in the shallowest places, and 500 meters in most areas is enough for oil wells.

Mining began in the seventies of the nineteenth century, and by the beginning of the twentieth century, the production of oil once reached half of the world's.

By the forties of World War II, oil production accounted for 70% of the Soviet Union's production.

In this world, many people also know that there is probably oil here, because the oil seedlings on the surface are too obvious.

But this land belonged to the Kingdom of Persia and was the most marginal buffer zone between the Ming and Lucia.

Lucia and Tessie countries did not dare to come over to invest, and Daming did not need to come here to extract oil, and Daming's oil fields were mainly in the Nanyang region.

After the start of the war, this place could become a battlefield at any time, and no one thought of coming here to dig for oil.

When Prince Suleiman heard that Zhu Jingyuan wanted this land, he agreed almost without hesitation:

"Why do you still need to buy it, you are really too polite, the entire lower plain of the Kura River is a gift from Persia."

Zhu Jingyuan was stunned when he heard this, and then couldn't help but smile and say:

"You're so smart, I'll give you Lucia in the future, right?"

Zhu Jingyuan said smartly, it was not this prince who flattered himself, he just wanted a small piece of land in Baku, and he gave himself the entire Azerbaijan region in later generations.

Rather, it is because Azerbaijan is the junction of Persia, Lucia and Ottoman.

If this land was given to Zhu Jingyuan as a whole, then Persia and Lucia would not be in direct contact.

Lucia invaded Persia in the future, and the first thing she occupied was the land of the Prince of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming court could not ignore it.

As for oil, in the world and in this era, it is far from being important, not at all comparable to the Cold War era.

At this time, most of the ships were still burning coal, and only the still scarce number of cars, and the limited consumption of oil lamps needed to burn oil.

The world's fuel consumption is relatively limited, and as a result, oil fields are not particularly valued.

Moreover, the oil here in Baku, outsiders dare not mine it at all, and it is the best choice to give it to the Prince of Daming to ensure his own safety.

What's more, this prince still proposed to set up a vassal for Persia.

When Su Laiman heard Zhu Jingyuan break his mind, he immediately became a little nervous and hurriedly made a guarantee:

"Please also ask Your Highness to suffer, and after the deed is completed, the whole Persia will be thanked."

Suleiman thought that Zhu Jingyuan was "corrupt" and demanded benefits from Persia in exchange for helping them set up a vassal domain.

In fact, setting up a vassal is Zhu Jingyuan's goal, and asking Baku is just ordering things by the way, and he is really ready to spend money to buy them.

So in the face of the misunderstood Suleiman, Zhu Jingyuan reprimanded with an expressionless face:

"If you don't know your position, then don't ask for anything west of Tehran, and the Ming Dynasty will set up another vassal state to deal with Lucia and the Ottomans.

"Don't ask for anything east of the Sahad Plateau, let those Afghans build a state alone, and hand over the southern part to the vassal state of Tianzhu......"

Zhu Jingyuan's sentence is that on the basis of modern Persia, he slashed into the western part of Persia and cut the capital Tehran into a border.

Prince Suleiman was taken aback, but at the same time immediately understood his position.

Daming took Persia, that was to let Persia be a hunting dog, staring at the two beasts of Lucia and Ottoman.

If you hide behind the Ming Dynasty and let the Ming block Lucia and Ottomans for you, then what else does the Ming want you to do?

This must not be killed to eat meat?

Suleiman once again decisively and directly knelt down on Zhu Jingyuan:

"Your Highness is angry, the whole Persia must do everything in their power to prevent Lucia and the Ottomans from crossing the line!

"But Persia's strength is limited, and it is not Lucia's opponent of the barbarians, so please ask the soldiers of the Great Tomorrow to help!"

Zhu Jingyuan nodded lightly:

"Rest assured, you only need to send your troops to the northwest frontier and keep an eye on Lucia and the Ottomans for the time being.

"The main force of the Ming Dynasty will enter your northwest region again through the railway line at the same time as the establishment of the domain.

"In the future, the army of the Ming Dynasty will not leave, and the subsequent war will also be in Lucia."

Suleiman was pleasantly surprised, and once again hurriedly bowed and promised:

"Understood, Xiao Wang understood, I will fully cooperate with Persia!"

Zhu Jingyuan sent away the Persian prince and called Wang Lai from the Ship Department of the Ministry of Industry.

After Wang Lai bowed, he sat down in the guest seat on the side of the lobby.

Zhu Jingyuan sat directly opposite Wang Lai and asked about the Ministry of Industry:

"Director Wang, has the news of the Beijing Division mentioned the situation of the plane in the past few days?"

Wang Lai reported in a very relaxed tone:

"According to the news of Li Rui, the director of the Ordnance Division, when we set off, we started to build a small-scale production line according to your instructions, and then directly started small-scale mass production.

As His Highness had expected, the first batch of fifty aircraft was produced a few days ago, and they were sold out at the same time as they were manufactured.

"This is only the list of the Governor's Office, the shipyard, the Royal Flying Machinery Company, and the Daming Airlines, and it has not yet been sold publicly.

"Ten days ago, the design of a combat aircraft equipped with machine guns and bomb buckles was officially completed.

"Eighty horsepower rotary cylinder engines were used, and the maximum speed exceeded 120 kilometers per hour, and the Governor's Office of the Fifth Army directly ordered another 100 aircraft.

"Half of this order was given to the Royal Flying Machines Corporation, and now the two sides are hurrying to build these 100 'fighters'.

"Your Daming Airlines also built a primary production line a few days ago.

"The aircraft required for testing purposes by the subsequent government agencies, as well as all civilian unarmed aircraft, are produced by Daming Airlines.

"The transport aircraft and passenger planes you designed have also been designed, and the Ministry of Finance and the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces have ordered ten planes to explore how to use them.

"The incendiary bomb test was also successful, and the effect of hitting the airship with ordinary bullets was very good."

Airplanes of this era were very simple, even simpler than cars of their time.

At the very least, you don't have to put power on the wheels, and you don't have to think about the design of the steering wheels, differentials, etc.

The simplest planes, even if they were made by hand, would not take much time.

Under the direct promotion of the Ministry of Industry and the consortium of the Ming Dynasty, it is not a problem to save dozens of such aircraft a month.

The production line must have been transferred from a factory such as a car, and it was not completely built, which is why it was so fast.

Zhu Jingyuan nodded lightly:

"Well, the aircraft that can be used in combat has been directly mass-produced, and this progress is already very good.

"Then, in my name, notify the Ministry of Works and the Royal Flying Machines Company to continue the expansion of the production line immediately.

"I will notify the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and ask them to add another two hundred orders and send them directly to the front line of Dashi and Northern Xianbei."

Wang Lai was taken aback:

"Your Highness, of course it's okay to increase production, but the pilot training can't keep up.

"The people who used to toss the glider are now basically called up to be pilots.

"The Governor's Office of the Five Armies directly opened a military training course and began to select clever soldiers to train.

"But there are too few teachers, and it is difficult to see the effect in the short term, and it is even more impossible to go to the battlefield.

Zhu Jingyuan smiled and explained his thoughts:

"Pilot training, you have to have enough planes to train faster.

"It's the time of the start, don't think about one step at a time.

"It's too slow to let the teacher take the lead and directly train the pilot to become an elite.

"Now we just need to teach the first step clearly, so that the students can take off and land on their own, and the rest can be explored by the students themselves.

The teacher immediately continued to teach more new people.

"Airplanes have just been invented, what experience can those masters have?

"Those experiences are also summed up by the master himself, and they may not be absolutely correct.

"Now if we want to quickly scale up the number of pilots, we have to give talented students the opportunity to explore the use of aircraft on their own.

"And that's going to require a lot of aircraft, so let's start with production."

Wang Lai quickly reacted.

When something new is born, there is no mature teaching and training program at all.

Directly let more talented and interested smart students explore and learn on their own The efficiency is not necessarily lower than that of teachers to learn.

Although the risk is certainly higher, it may not be unacceptable to Daming.

But Wang Lai has another concern:

"Logically, this can be done, but does His Highness mean that the existing pilots should be sent directly to the battlefield? Will this work? And isn't it all a truce now? ”

Zhu Jingyuan laughed directly when he heard it:

"We have the final say on the truce, and I didn't plan to stop the truce from the beginning, at least not just like that.

"We also need to put pressure on Xiyi to create a greater real threat to them and make them give up their illusions.

"The new weapon of the aircraft is a great tool.

"The existing anti-aircraft guns of various countries are used to attack airships and even balloons, and it should be difficult to hit such a small and flexible machine as an airplane.

"The enemy also has no planes to fight with us, airships and balloons are live targets in front of planes.

"In the early days, bombs can be dropped at high altitudes as much as possible, without going to the ground to strafe targets, and the probability of damage to the aircraft is very small.

"Moreover, it is impossible to fight without casualties, and pilots must have actually been on the battlefield to know how to fight."

Zhu Jingyuan said this, and Wang Lai no longer asked, he was not a military-related person, and he was not involved in these plans.

Wang Lai continued to confirm some details with Zhu Jingyuan, and then left and went back to contact the Beijing Division.

Zhu Jingyuan instructed his two staff members to write out their plans according to their own verbal complaints and send them to Zhu Jianyan, the father of Jingshi.