Timur seized envoys from various countries, on the one hand, felt that his army was already strong enough.

On the other hand, he lacks slaves.

With the construction of cement roads, a large number of slaves in the Timur Empire died, and the daily consumption was huge and terrifying.

The post stations around Samarkand have been laid, but the border area is quite different.

For this reason, Timur can only build a single road leading to the border.

But this requires more slaves.

The inner city of Samarkand.

This is the gathering place for the nobles, and merchants and slaves are not qualified to enter.

Pierma Heima and his brother Ma Heima Sultan walked in this majestic city.

The noble robe made of oriental silk, combined with the various jewelry it carries, and the exquisite sword equipped on the waist, let the nobles of the past stop and bow down to salute after seeing it.

"You said that in that far east, the kings of the Ming Dynasty all live as many as millions of people. Do they really have such a big city?"

"Do you know that when I come back this time, the poisonous king has been defeated by me, captured a large number of their nobles, and brought enough slaves to my grandfather."

"Is the Ming army even more powerful than the poisonous army?"

Because of some specific relationships, Pier Ma Heima, who had originally led a large army to defeat the poisonous army in history, went to the Ming Dynasty, and his brother Ma Heima Sultan led the army.

Ma Heima Sultan's personality is even more violent, and with the strong cavalry of Timur's army, there is no possibility of resistance on the side of the body.

The bloodthirsty Ma Heima Sudan massacred the city wildly. If Timur had not ordered to bring more slaves back, he would have killed him even more.

After returning, I saw the cement road built and learned the secret recipe brought back by my younger brother Pierma Heima, so I felt very happy because it meant that his army would arrive at the battlefield faster.

As the future crown prince of the Timur Empire and the current heir, Ma Heima Sultan has this strength and prestige.

When he was very young, he showed ruthlessness similar to Timur. He was very fond of Timur and personally gave him a lot of military power.

Pierma Heima heard his brother's question and nodded and said, "The Ming army is really powerful. Their cannons are no worse than ours. The most important thing is their muskets, which have farther and stronger killing than our muskets."

"When I came back from there, I had seen the power of the Ming army's muskets. Even light armor could be penetrated within twenty steps, which had unimaginable great power."

"And the improvements of these muskets were all led by the Ming Dynasty."

"In fact, we shouldn't seize the envoys of the Ming Dynasty, which gave us a powerful enemy out of thin air."

Hearing this, Ma Heima Sultan stopped.

After thinking a little, he said, "It's my grandfather's meaning. You know, my grandfather has always been following the Yuan Dynasty's law, but my grandfather just doesn't want the Ming Dynasty to make trouble when we fight all directions."

"We have more than two million troops now. I heard that the Ming army was only more than one million. There is no need to worry about so many."

"When we take down the Golden Horde, the next step is to see how to fight against the Ming Dynasty."

"You know, my grandfather has always longed for the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty. It has a lot of gold and endless food, and it is also the place our ancestor Genghis Khan wants to occupy the most."

"At this point, even I cannot go against my grandfather's wishes."

Pierma Heima thought for a while and asked, "Is Grandpa ready to march into the west in full?"

There was a Eastern Chagatai Khanate between the Timur Empire and the Ming Dynasty.

Although Timur has always won more than loser than defeats against the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, he has no strength to conquer completely, and the land he has captured is often easily taken back.

Because they are all Mongolian cavalry, Timur doesn't want to suffer too much.

There is no need to worry about the Ming Dynasty at present, but it is not the time to attack the Ming Dynasty.

Mahema Sultan nodded: "Ottoman Empire defeated the European Union on the battlefield and occupied most of the Balkan land. Nearly 10,000 Crusaders were captured, and except for three hundred noble knights who were redeemed by huge sums of money, almost all the rest were killed."

"The Byzantine Empire no longer has the ability to stop the expansion of the Ottoman Empire again, and they are very arrogant now, especially the Ottoman envoys. This time they came to our Samarkand, to ask grandpa to surrender directly to the Ottoman Empire."

"You know grandpa's temper. It is because of this reason that grandpa directly detained all envoys, including the envoys of the Ming Dynasty, and no longer surrendered to anyone."

Pierma Heima was busy with the construction of water roads and post stations outside, so when he came back, he realized that his grandfather Timur had a very angry temper, detained all the envoys from various countries, and declared war on all countries.

It turned out that it was because the envoys of the Ottoman Empire were too arrogant.

Ma Heima Sultan continued: "Actually, grandpa did not say that he wanted to seize all envoys, but only targeted the envoys of the Ottoman Empire."

"The result was that the envoy said that his grandfather was originally a servant of the Ming Dynasty, and it should be natural that he became an Ottoman servant."

Hearing this, Pierma Heima was speechless.

Who gave the Ottoman envoys so courageously still felt that they had defeated the European Union, so they didn't take Samarkand seriously.

Pierma Heima was very clear at this time that in the next stage of foreign war, the entire Timur Empire must have begun in the direction of the Ottoman Empire.

It will definitely teach them a profound lesson.

However, thinking of the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, Pierma Heima still said: "When I was in the Ming Dynasty, I went there as an envoy of the Timur Dynasty and received preferential treatment from the Ming Dynasty. Not only did I give me a good life, but the cement secret recipe was also given directly to me by the Ming Dynasty's grandson."

"Although we have no relationship with the Ming Dynasty now, I still want the envoys of the Ming Dynasty to live at least a little better."

Pierma Heima knew very well what kind of treatment he would be treated in Samarkand.

Especially in the anger of my grandfather.

Hearing this, Ma Heima Sultan didn't care.

It is definitely not possible to release people without authorization, but it is a trivial matter. Grandpa Timur's anger was mainly in the Ottoman envoys, and other envoys were considered to be accomplices.

After the two brothers agreed, they went to the prison where the envoy was imprisoned.

Unlike the Ming Dynasty, there is no dungeon in Samarkand, but a separate prison.

There are a large number of wooden cages here, whether they are imprisoned with ferocious animals or slaves, they are all made of these wooden cages.

Zhou Rongliang, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, was in a wooden cage and was almost exhausted.

He didn't expect that the Ottoman envoy would be so stupid and would directly stimulate Timur.

Unexpectedly, Timur was furious and imprisoned all the envoys.

It is said that it is detention, but in fact there is no difference between enslavement. In just two days, I suffered a lot of whipping.

With a long whip with a barb, every time I hit, my skin was blooming and flesh was dripping with flesh.

Then, you will pour salt water directly.

As an envoy of the Ming Dynasty, he and other members were symbolically whipped three or four times, and his entire back was already completely burning and painful.

The Ottoman envoys were almost beaten to death by living.

Only one or two were left lying in the wooden cage, and the slight ups and downs proved that they had not died yet.

At this time.

Pierma Heima and Ma Heima Sultan had already arrived here. After meeting the commander, soldiers immediately came to release the envoys of the Ming Dynasty from the wooden cage.

They will be imprisoned in the room instead and can be treated by a physician, with two meals available every day.

This is all Pierma Heima can do.

.........

In the Ming Dynasty, May 29th year of Hongwu.

It's another year, the day for the enrollment of the Ming Dynasty's Military Academy.

All those with scholars and above started to get up before dawn and rushed to the registration point set up in the suburbs outside the city.

It's very different now than before. At the beginning, people looked down on those who were in the army. The Ming Military Academy still needed publicity to recruit people, most of whom were in-service soldiers.

Now everyone knows very well that the military pay for soldiers has become very generous, and as long as they successfully graduate from the Ming Military Academy, the youngest will be the beginning of a small flag.

The officialdom is now very introverted. Whether it is a Juren or a Jinshi, it does not mean that you can become an official with fame and fame. You also need to practice in the smallest yamen and accumulate enough merit to be a candidate for a ninth-rank official.

That's right.

Now no matter who it is, it must start from the most basic ninth-rank official. Except for the emperor's special tricks, no one must violate this latest regulations.

This ninth-rank official is not the ninth-rank official in the capital.

The first thing to do is to go to the local area. If you don’t perform well in the local area, it means you may be staying there in this life.

This is a difficult thing for scholars and scholars today.

Of course, even the youngest officials from the ninth rank now have much richer salary than before. At least they don’t have to worry about food and clothing, which is enough to support a whole family.

The biggest problem is that with Zhu Ying's free education and the improvement of printing technology, the knowledge barriers of the former class were directly broken.

Book museums were set up in more than 1,000 counties across the Ming Dynasty.

There are all the books related to the assessment here. As long as you pass the children's examination, you can read and copy them for free.

With the reform of the assessment content, the children's examination has become much simpler than before.

No matter what kind of exam it is, there is no age limit, which means that even in your thirties or forties, you can still take the children's exam.

This also caused the number of scholars in the entire Ming Dynasty to soar wildly.

It is also for this reason that the privileges of those scholars and juren were basically all cancelled. The land that was once granted by scholars and juren still belonged to individuals and were not reclaimed.

At this time, people discovered that it seemed that it seemed easy to become an official, but it became extremely complicated.
To be continued...