Chapter 1084 Conversation with the Strongest Man - A Big Lie
After the conversation just now, Yunxi and Timur had a preliminary understanding of each other. Timur stopped talking about these sensitive topics for the time being, raised the teacup on the table in front of him, took a sip, and said: "This is
,Tea?"
"Yes, this is tea." Yunxi replied.
"I have drunk tea from your Ming Dynasty before. How come the taste is so different from this one? I have also heard that the best things of you Han people are only sold at home and not exported. It is completely different from other ethnic groups.
, but how come there is such a big difference between the tea exported and the tea sold domestically?" Timur was surprised.
"It's not that we don't export good things, it's just that good things are expensive, exporting is risky, and the demand is small. Besides, people in the Ming Dynasty can also afford it, so there are not many businessmen selling it outside." Yun Xi said.
Businessmen have always had little confidence in their integrity. The reason why you can't see the best products made in China in foreign countries in this era is purely because the profits are not much higher, but the risks are much higher, so no one sells them to outside.
"But when it comes to tea, it is different. For the peoples in the west and north, tea is of great benefit to them and is a necessity. In order to deal with them, our country has always strictly controlled the export of tea, and the tribes who do not obey the Ming Dynasty
Just refuse to export tea to him. Under such circumstances, those who are willing to transport tea all the way to the northwest for sale will not have good tea."
"In addition, the tea you are drinking is the best tea in the Ming Dynasty. It only produces a few dozen taels a year. Only the royal family can drink it. It is naturally much better than the tea you drink brought by merchants.
." Yunxi explained with a smile.
"It tastes so good! Since I got older and the doctor told me to drink less, I can only drink cow's milk and goat's milk, which are very fishy and not tasty. Later, I heard that the Han people produced tea, so I sent someone to buy it. At that time, I thought it was
It’s already the most delicious thing in the world. I didn’t expect you to have such delicious tea here.” Timur sighed.
"Aren't you Tianfang believers not allowed to drink?" Yunxi noticed this.
"There are no people who lead troops in war who don't drink!" Tamerlane said: "Although it is written in the Quran, you can't follow it exactly! If you don't practice it, you can't drink, and you will have to die of suffocation.
"
"That's right!" Yunxi said with a smile: "I didn't like drinking before, but I started to drink later."
"Yes, yes!" Timur echoed: "How can you be a man if you don't drink? I just happened to bring a bottle of good wine, you..." Before he could finish his sentence, he suddenly started coughing.
"Mr. Xuan! Call Timur's servants to come up!" Yunxi immediately ordered in Chinese.
The guard Song Liang who followed him was already bored to death. He couldn't understand Mongolian and had no idea what Yunxi was talking to Timur. He was very bored. Suddenly he heard Yunxi's instructions and hurriedly agreed and walked over.
At the door of the carriage, he said a few words to the waiter waiting outside. The waiter immediately jumped out of the carriage, first ordered Timur's servants to get on the carriage, and then went to find the imperial doctor.
The servant got on the carriage and gently beat Timur on the back. Slowly, Timur recovered and said to Yunxi: "I wanted to taste wine with you, but I have to forget it."
"But I have another drink here, I guarantee you haven't drunk it." At this point, he turned his head and told the servant in Khorezmo: "Samach, take out the coffee beans." He turned his head again.
He said to Yunxi: "This is a kind of drink from Africa. Oh, Africa is a continent further south than the place where the great cannibals are. The locals are very black, and we all call them black people. This drink is only produced there,
Now only the cannibals will eat it or drink it by soaking it in water. The taste is very unique. Would you like to have a taste, Your Majesty?"
Yunxi knew what it was the moment Samach took out the coffee beans, and immediately smiled and said: "Of course I have to try it."
Samaqi then led the waiter to make coffee in the tea room on the carriage, brought it and poured two cups and placed them in front of Yunxi and Timur. Timur raised the cup in front of him and said to Yunxi again
Made a 'please' gesture.
Yunxi raised the cup and took a sip, and suddenly a familiar yet unfamiliar smell came over him. 'It is indeed something brewed from fine coffee beans. It is completely different from the instant coffee I drank in my previous life. In my previous life,
, at least a few hundred cups.'
Perhaps due to the effect of coffee, the atmosphere in the carriage became more relaxed. Timur asked about the unusual customs, peculiar culture, and various specialties in the East; Yunxi also asked about the anecdotes of Central Asia, West Asia and other places.
Strange things happened, laughter could be heard from time to time in the carriage, and the conversation was very pleasant.
However, of course, such a relaxed atmosphere could not last long. Timur would rather be captured than meet Yunxi, and of course he was not here to talk about this. Slowly, although he was still sitting opposite Yunxi, he was already leaning against the window.
.
At this time, the carriage was approaching the central camp of the Ming army. He looked at the endless flow of Ming army soldiers outside and suddenly asked: "There is something I have never understood. According to the Semu people who surrendered to our country, there are enough five people in Hami City.
One hundred thousand people eat enough food for half a year, and it is said that there is still a lot of food in the cities east of Hami City."
"I have also arranged spies in your country's Hexi Corridor. None of them reported that a large amount of grain has been shipped to the northwest recently. Even after the witchcraft case that occurred in Guangzhou at the end of the year before last, the grain shipped to the northwest did not increase much.
. And after investigation, they found that the amount of grain transported to the northwest has increased since six years ago. At the same time, you sent a eunuch to the northwest to preside over the construction of the tramway. "
"This shows that you have been preparing for this war since at least six years ago. So," Timur looked at Yunxi: "How on earth did you know that I planned to conquer your country?" Before Yunxi
Everything he did had no other reasonable explanation except that he knew that Timur was planning to march eastward. Even if he had enfeoffed a prince in Hami, he would not have needed to prepare so much food.
This is one of the two questions Timur wanted to ask Yunxi.
Facing Timur's burning eyes, Yunxi could not help but feel dazed for a moment, and then said: "What if I said that I planned to invade Samarkand eastward?"
"This is impossible!" Timur said flatly: "I have carefully read all the records since you came to power. You have always been very cautious and would not do such irrational things."
"Can't I just be impulsive?" Yunxi asked with a half-smile.
"This is also possible. But if you plan to conquer Samarkand, you should not make such arrangements. All your arrangements are defensive arrangements, not offensive arrangements. So you should have known that I was going to
Therefore, we have made these preparations for the Eastern Expedition." After Timur said these words, he stared at Yunxi again.
"You are right. I did know in advance that you were going to conquer the Ming Dynasty. But I didn't know it by arranging spies in Samarkand or other places in your country, but because of the revelations of Buddha and Taoist ancestors."
Yunxi successfully saw the confusion and puzzlement on Timur's face, raised his coffee cup and drank a cup of coffee, and then continued: "It was Buddha and Taozu who let me know your plan, so it started six years ago.
Prepare for your eastern expedition."
"This is impossible!" Tamerlane lost his voice: "No matter which deity it is, no god will issue an oracle because of such a thing!"
As the king of a country, Timur still believed in Tianfang religion, but the countless experiences he accumulated made him half-doubtful about whether gods and Buddhas really existed. He just pretended to believe in it in order to unite his subordinates. He knew clearly.
, all the oracles during his lifetime were without exception false, used to appease people's hearts or realize his ambitions. But now the emperor of the Ming Dynasty actually told him that it was the revelations from Buddha and Taoist ancestors that let Yunxi know his plans.
Eastern Conquest of the Ming Dynasty.
He looked at Yunxi's expression very seriously, trying to find signs that he was lying, but Yunxi just looked at him with a frank look on his face, without any trace of lying. Not only him, but his servant Samaha also looked at him with a frank look on his face.
He looked at Yun Xi in shock.
"Even so, it won't happen. Different religions should be hostile to each other. You Han people are not devout in your faith. Even if an oracle is sent down, it will not be sent down to a country like the Ming Dynasty." Timur said again.
"Under normal circumstances, it is like this, but this time it is not an ordinary situation. Both Buddha and Taoist ancestors told me in their revelations: If you are not prepared, Timur will win this time when he conquers the Ming Dynasty. Ming Dynasty, this is allowed today
The country with the strongest spread of Buddhism and Taoism will become a country of Tianfang religion. Buddhism and Taoism will never recover from this. Other countries that believe in the two religions cannot stop the iron cavalry of the Kingdom of Samarkand, so give me a revelation.
"Yunxi continued to say without blinking.
"This, this," what Yunxi said seemed to make sense, but why did it always feel wrong?
"In addition, you should have heard Salha talk about the appearance of the Buddha in the camp of the Ming Dynasty's Eastern Expeditionary Army last night. This was the Buddha's help in order to prevent the Tianfang Sect from spreading eastward. It's just that the Buddha can use it in the human world.
He doesn't have much magic power and cannot directly interfere with the situation in the human world. He can only rely on mortals to fight against mortals, so he only used Master Fangzheng to appear like this once." Yunxi continued to say without blinking.
After a while, until the carriage had entered the Chinese army camp and came to the tent where Yunxi usually rested, Timur calmed down and said to Yunxi: "No wonder, no wonder. It turns out that this battle is in the sky.
The war between the gods in order to compete for believers."
"Thinking about it now, so many people told me about the risks of conquering the Ming Dynasty in the east, and the probability of victory was extremely small, but I still insisted on going my own way and decided to conquer the Ming Dynasty. It was probably God who dropped a hint in my mind to let me go to the east, so
I just marched eastward."
"That's why all the troops I will lead in this Eastern Expedition are all troops who believe in Tianfang religion. There is no army composed of people who believe in other religions: because this is a war between gods, how can pagans participate!" Posted
