Just when Zhou Xin picked up the pen and was about to write a report for Yingtian, Xia Yuanji had already arrived at Yingtian.

In fact, only the section of the grassland is dangerous and difficult to walk, as long as you enter the Great Wall, it is not only safe, but also easy to walk.

After entering the Great Wall, it doesn't take far to be Shuntianfu, which will become the new capital of the Ming Dynasty in the future, and the convenience of transportation is naturally self-evident.

Out of Shuntianfu, you can directly take a boat, go south along the Grand Canal, turn into the Yangtze River, and finally go straight to Yingtian.

"Your Majesty!"

When he returned to Xia Yuanji in Yingtian, the first thing he did was to enter the palace, and he came to the Qianqing Palace in a hurry.

Of course, Zhu Di has already been prepared, after all, the eight-hundred-mile rush is much faster than Xia Yuanji's return to Beijing.

"How's it going, are you hurt?"

When he saw Xia Yuanji again, Zhu Di didn't care about the things on the grassland for the first time, but asked if Xia Yuanji was injured.

"Nope." Xia Yuanji shook his head, he was so anxious that he even forgot the number of courtesies.

"Your Majesty, this matter must have been premeditated, we must let Warat give an explanation!"

As the saying goes, those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to ink are black.

has had a lot of contact with Zhu Zhan Gully, and Xia Yuan Ji has more or less been infected with Zhu Zhan Gully's temperament.

In Zhu Di's opinion, this style of not asking about indiscriminate and directly asking Wara to give an explanation is very similar to Zhu Zhanqi.

"Don't worry." Zhu Di patted Xia Yuanji's shoulder, and at the same time motioned to the palace maid on the side to bring a chair to Xia Yuanji.

"Even if we know that Varat is at fault, we can't just ask for the guilt indiscriminately, at least we have to give them a chance to defend themselves."

"I don't want to do it, but I have to, because now we can't find anyone who can suppress Varat in every way."

"Who says you can't find 1? World ......" Natsuhara Yoshi blurted out, but stopped halfway through.

There are some things that everyone knows, but they can't say.

Especially some people.

For Zhu Di, it's not that he can't say this, but he doesn't want to say it, because now he has been swayed by family affection, and the most reluctant to mention is Zhu Zhanyan.

From the seventh year of Yongle to the present, you don't care what Zhu Zhan Yan really thinks, what he does is for the good of the Ming Dynasty and the expansion of territory for the Ming Dynasty.

From Annam to the Wa Kingdom, to the current Siam, Nanzhang, as well as the Khmer and Cham countries, and even the future Manchuria, Zhu Zhan Yan directly asked Ying Tian to send officials to deal with it.

Not to mention that Zhu Di already felt that he owed his second son and this grandson, even if he didn't feel so, even if he could find fault, he might not be able to find any point of attack.

Maybe, at most, just like Chen Ge and Huang Huai and others at the beginning, let's start from the aspect of indiscriminate killing.

"You go back and get some rest first." Zhu Di sighed lightly and patted Xia Yuanji's shoulder again.

"This matter has to be done slowly, I have already sent Liu Sheng and Tan Zhong to lead 70,000 soldiers to prepare to leave the Great Wall and enter the grassland."

"In this regard, we will not be bad, if Warat really harbors evil intentions, then we will definitely not just expose it."

Natsuhara Ji was disappointed.

"Wechen retired ......"

……

Looking at Xia Yuanji's back, Zhu Di let out a long sigh.

Didn't he want to directly attack the steppe? No, he can't.

Daming couldn't find a second Zhu Zhan Valley, and he couldn't find someone like Zhu Zhan Valley, who could let the Wara people settle down for a whole year with just one Jingguan.

Even if you know that Jingguan is the greatest demonstration of a general's merits, even if you know that the imperial court is no longer forbidden to build Jingguan, even if you know that the current people will applaud the construction of Jingguan.

But the mainstream of the Ming Dynasty is still Confucianism, or Cheng Zhu Lixue.

Don't look at the current Zhu Zhan Yan in the limelight, but if Cheng Zhu Lixue does not die and the mainstream thought of Confucianism remains unchanged, a hundred years later, the history books will definitely be criticized throughout Zhu Zhan Yan.

The words fame and fortune are not easy for everyone to let go.

If it was in the past, he Zhu Di would still be able to drive the expedition in person, but now......

Not to mention the royal driving expedition, since the imperial driving expedition in the eighth year of Yongle returned to the dynasty, Zhu Di didn't even dare to tour Shuntian in the north.

Why? Because now he is the Dinghai Divine Needle of the Ming Dynasty, once he leaves Yingtian, the entire Ming Dynasty will be in chaos in an instant!

There won't be much action on the surface, but there will definitely be no less in the secret!

has been suppressed by Zhu Zhan for so long, and even the leading Huang Huai and others have folded in, how can Wen Chen be willing to be so angry at the moment?

Therefore, even if Zhu Di knew that Zhu Zhanyan was resting and recuperating in Sukhothai and preparing to move away from Yunnan, he didn't make any moves, not even a word.

Because he knows that he can control the present, but it is impossible to control the future, and when he is a hundred years later, if Zhu Zhanyan is still in Yunnan, he will inevitably be counterattacked by civil officials.

For this reason, even the officials sent to Yunnan and Annan and other places tried his best to choose new scholars, rather than those old oilmen who had been assimilated by officialdom.

Those old oilmen have forgotten their original ideals and their feelings of serving the country and the people, and have long been impregnated with power and interests, and have become the mud that exudes a foul smell all the time in the quagmire of power.

Only the younger generation, whose ideals have not yet been assimilated by this stench, can sincerely think about the country, instead of targeting Zhu Zhanyan for the sake of interests.

Raising his head and looking at the roof of the Qianqing Palace, which symbolized supreme power, Zhu Di sighed deeply.

——

At this time, Zhu Zhanyan didn't know what was going on in the grassland and Beijing, and even if he knew, he didn't have time to care.

Because now he is in Malacca.

That's right, it's Malacca! And in this era, the state of Malacca is the northern shore of the Straits of Malacca.

At the beginning, Jian Xiao was ordered by Zhu Zhan to lead the army south from Xiangzhou Mansion and set off along the Malay Peninsula towards Manraka.

Manraka is a country that straddles both sides of the Strait of Malacca, occupying the southernmost tip of the Malay Peninsula and the northern tip of Sumatra, which is why the Straits are named Malacca.

Malacca, in fact, is the homonym of Manraka.

And now, after returning to Manraka, Bairi Missoula of Manraka immediately sent people to retreat from Phang Nga and Songkhla, where he took advantage of Zhu Zhan to attack Siam and Siam.

However, everyone knows that the purpose of Zhu Zhan is to conquer the whole of Manraka, not to Panga and Songkhla, which were taken advantage of by Manraka.

Therefore, although it was effortless to regain places such as Phang Nga and Songkhla, Jian Xiao was not satisfied, nor did he stop, and advanced directly towards Kedah, Manraka.

Bairi Missoula knew very well that Daming would not give him any more help, neither solidarity nor actual help.

In fact, the imperial court did not send troops to reinforce Zhu Zhanyan, which was already to save face.

Therefore, Bairi Missula did not have any luck mentality, and directly made people abandon the territory at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula and retreat to the northern tip of Sumatra.

However, this is not of much use.

Because, Zhu Zhan's purpose has never been to occupy half of the control of the Strait of Malacca, but to occupy all of it.

It's okay to give it to the old man, but is it possible to leave it for others to make a wedding dress?

I'm sorry, Zhu Zhanyan doesn't have that habit.

"His Royal Highness ...... the Prince"

Just when Zhu Zhanyan was looking at the sea, or at the other side of the strait, a voice sounded.

"Got it figured?" Zhu Zhanyan turned around and looked at Zhu Sanfeng, who was dressed in military uniform.

"Or are you going to go?"

"His Royal Highness, let Sanfeng go." Zhu Sanfeng lowered his head.

"Staying here and meeting those people from the Timurid Empire doesn't mean anything to Sanfeng."

"They are not the culprits in the first place, and they will not hand over those culprits, and staying here, although it can humiliate them, but in fact it is also useless."

"His Royal Highness the Prince of the World can leave the opportunity to slash the enemy to Sanfeng, Sanfeng is already very grateful, but Sanfeng feels that for now, it is still necessary to focus on His Highness's plan."

"Alas...... Whatever you want......" Zhu Zhanyan sighed slightly.

The day before yesterday, news came from the Timurid Empire that there would be envoys to visit Zhu Zhanyan, and he knew what they were doing with his toes.

It was nothing more than Zhu Zhan's act of giving potato seeds to Khalil and the Ottoman Empire......

Well, they don't dare to express their dissatisfaction, after all, now Zhu Zhanyan has only given them a small part of the seeds, and they still need Zhu Zhanyan, so naturally they don't dare to compete with Zhu Zhanyan.

If they don't find a way to win over Zhu Zhan Gul, then Zhu Zhan Gul is very likely to continue to supply potato seeds to Khalil and the Ottoman Empire.

When the time comes, the Timurid Empire will be far behind the enemy in the rate of potato harvesting and accumulation, and the final result will be self-evident.

Zhu Zhanyan originally wanted to take Zhu Sanfeng with him, firstly, to let Shaharu know what he was angry about, and secondly, to let Zhu Sanfeng humiliate the other party by the way.

But Zhu Sanfeng felt that it was not necessary, she thought that instead of wasting this opportunity, it would be better to let Zhu Zhan Yan sell the Timurid Empire a good son, so as to win more benefits.

For the three of Qian Yong, Zhu Zhanyan's attitude is from the initial relief to trust, but now it has become a debt.

In the past two years, since he went to sea with Zheng He's fleet and brought new grain seeds back to Daming, Zhu Zhanyan owed a little to Qian Yong and the others.

If it was just a normal voyage to sea and return, Zhu Zhanyan would not feel guilty, but he knew that they were for those grains......

Or, it should be said that they have paid for themselves.

It can be said that in addition to life, they have paid for the rest, whether they can or cannot give.

In the distance, the shadow of a sailboat appeared at the junction of the sky and the sea, Zhu Sanfeng gently stepped back, shook the scabbard on his waist, made a slight sound, and then turned to leave.

Zhu Zhanyan tilted his head slightly, but in the end he still didn't turn around.

beckoned, and the Shizi guards, who were far behind them, quickly moved, and there were hundreds of people heading in the direction of Zhu Sanfeng, and as Zhu Sanfeng boarded the boat, they headed in the southeast direction.

And the rest ......

On the coast of Malacca, more than 30 ships moved quickly, although it was not as powerful as the treasure fleet of the Ming Dynasty, which was famous in the West, but with the escort of the prince standing on the bow of the ship, its momentum was not weak at all.

The ships transferred from Annam moved quickly and headed for the flotilla in the distance in an orderly manner.

The Strait of Malacca is 800 kilometres long, with the widest northern outlet being 370 kilometres wide and the narrower southern outlet being only 65 kilometres wide.

Even, at the narrowest point, it is only about thirty-seven kilometers.

The telescope cannot be said to be the standard configuration of Zhu Zhan's prince guard now, but the popularity rate is also very high.

In fine weather, people can see a distance of about 20 kilometers on the sea, and with the help of telescopes, the entire Strait of Malacca will be in full view of the Shizi guard.

If you want to escape, it is basically impossible.

Soon, the ships of the Timurid Empire were intercepted and blocked to the coast by the prince's guards.

Originally, the people of the Timurid Empire were still very angry, especially Prince Ulugh who came in person to show his sincerity.

But after seeing Zhu Zhanyan, his anger disappeared without a trace.

Originally, Ulugh Beg planned to cross the Strait of Malacca, go directly to Thang Long City, and then go overland to Yunnan to visit Zhu Zhan Gully.

However, because of the distance and the underdeveloped transportation, the transmission of information over this span was quite slow, and in the end, Ulugh Beg did not know what was going on here.

"Prince Ulugh Beg has come from afar, and although I have gone out to greet him, the way of greeting him may still be a bit rude."

Zhu Zhanyan smiled and walked slowly, but there was no welcome in his tone.

So much so that when Ulugh Beg heard this, he knew that something bad was wrong.

"His Royal Highness the Prince of Wu, this time ......"

Although he knew that Zhu Zhanyan was unhappy, Ulugh Beg still had to force his smiling face and use his hot face to stick Zhu Zhanyan's cold buttocks.

Although, he knew that it might not have much effect.

In fact, it really didn't work.

"Huh!" Zhu Zhanyan stretched out his hand to signal Ulugh Beg to stop, and spoke with a bit of mockery.

"Prince Ulugh Beg doesn't have to be like this, I can't afford such courtesy from a prince of the Timurid Empire."

Ulugh Beg was dumbfounded, and for a moment did not know what to say.

Previously, when he returned to Timur from the Ming Dynasty and talked about it with his father Shahru, Shaharu was very reluctant, but he did not resist the temptation of potatoes and agreed to the trade that Zhu Zhan said about it.

But because of the influence of Timur, the founder of the Timurid Empire and the first Great Khan Timur, his behavior of preparing to go east to the Ming Dynasty brought arrogance to many people in the Timurid Empire, including Shahru.

They think they are the first power in the world, for the Ming Dynasty, Shaharu only thinks that the current Timurid Empire is in a state of division, once unified, with the help of potatoes, then the matter of the Eastern Expedition to the Ming Dynasty will be put on the agenda again.

Ulugh Beg had seen Zhu Zhan with his own eyes, and he had also seen Zhu Di, and knew that the Ming Dynasty was not as simple as the Timurid Empire imagined.

But he wanted to persuade him, but his father couldn't listen.

In the end, in the transaction with Zhu Zhanyan, most of the 1,000 people were at the bottom of the society, even slaves, and only the white slave transaction that was promised to Zhu Zhanyan did not do anything.

Because in the Timurid Empire, before entering the Age of Discovery, white slaves are really worthless.

The time to get off work is really not enough, and the efficiency of left-handed code words is still too low......

That's 10,000 words for today.

(End of chapter)