Chapter 1127 Craveyo's Journey to the East - Prepare to Face the Holy Spirit
"Dear His Majesty the King, it has been more than half a month since I last wrote to you."
"As mentioned in the last letter, on August 17 (the Western Julian calendar, the predecessor of the current international calendar), the 18th day of February in the Tianfang calendar, which is also the first day of August in the Ming calendar, Emperor Zhu Yunxi of the Ming Dynasty and Sa
Timur, the Great Khan of the Markand City State, mobilized more than 500,000 and more than 400,000 troops respectively, with a total of nearly one million soldiers to fight. After seven or eight hours of fierce fighting, Timur was defeated and about 200,000 soldiers fled.
, the rest were surrounded or destroyed. The next day these surrounded soldiers surrendered or were destroyed, and Timur himself was captured and died that night."
"The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty originally wanted to forgive these prisoners, but because he found the people who were mistreated in Timur's camp, the emperor was furious and decided to execute most of the prisoners."
"At that time, Alonso and I, as well as envoys from other countries, were also regarded as civil servants of the Samarkand City State and were almost executed. Fortunately, Fu An, the envoy sent by the Ming Dynasty to the Samarkand State, came forward to prove that we were not Timur's subordinates.
officials were spared."
"I won't go into details about the specific circumstances of the massacre. It is just a common thing all over the world. Ming soldiers did not have very novel ways of killing people."
"At the same time, the Ming Emperor sent a general and troops to pursue the retreating soldiers of Samarkand, stopped most of them under the city of Urumqi, and killed them all."
"Then the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was in Hami. Your Majesty, your minister was wrong. Now that Timur has been defeated, I have become a prisoner of the Ming Dynasty people. I should be called Yiwu according to the name given by the Ming Dynasty people. The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is here
Yiwu held a celebration banquet to reward all the generals who made contributions in this battle."
"I was not able to witness the celebration banquet with my own eyes, but after questioning some of the people who attended the celebration banquet, I learned that the scale of the celebration banquet was huge, with hundreds of generals participating. This number has exceeded
The number of knights in many small countries around the kingdom. But in the Ming Dynasty, this was only the number of generals, and did not include all the generals who participated in this battle. The food and wine consumed in this banquet were also very large. According to estimates, its value was approximately equivalent to that of the kingdom.
Save a year's fiscal balance. The wealth and power of the Ming Dynasty are undoubtedly revealed."
"Then the emperor of the Ming Dynasty sent the King of Qin, who was originally enfeoffed in Yiwu, to lead an army to march westward. It was said that he wanted to capture the land of Qihe east of Lake Balkhash. However, King Zhu Shangbing of Qin led a full 150,000 soldiers to march westward and capture Qihe.
The Land of the River does not need so many soldiers, so I guess the Ming Dynasty’s goal is not just the Land of the Seven Rivers.”
"After sending King Qin to the expedition, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty planned to return to his capital. I became anxious. In these days, in addition to moving us from the precarious original camp of the army in Samarkand City to a house in Yiwu City, the Ming Dynasty again
No official has spoken to us. I have no idea how the emperor of the Ming Dynasty plans to arrange for us. I think he probably doesn’t care about our envoys who are far away from the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the officials up and down don’t care either.
So we were forgotten.”
"I can't do anything about it. This is not a place where the glory of the Lord can shine, nor a place where the king's reputation can be spread. In fact, on the contrary, I feel that after this war, the entire West, including Germany, France and even England,
The nobles of the Ming Dynasty will know the name of Emperor Zhu Yunxi of the Ming Dynasty, but the people of the Ming Dynasty still will not know the name of the king of any country in Europe."
"But fortunately God blessed us, and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty thought of us and decided to summon us. After getting the news, I immediately put on my most gorgeous clothes with Alonso, and went with the officials of the Ming Dynasty to the temporary residence of His Majesty the Emperor.
Wait outside the yard."
"Now the emperor of the Ming Dynasty has received Fu An and others and is preparing to summon foreign envoys. This letter will be written here for the time being. After I meet the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I will write another letter detailing the relationship with the Ming Dynasty.
The process of meeting the emperor."
"May God bless you, my lord. September 10, 1404 in the year of the Lord."
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"The emperor of the Ming Dynasty summoned foreign envoys, why didn't he summon us first?" Claviyo put down his pen and heard Quijano's complaint. He looked at the people not far away calling for envoys from Western countries.
An official of the Ming Dynasty said dissatisfied when he heard the words translated into Khorezm. In his opinion, the two envoys Timur brought to Yiwu this time represented the strongest countries, and the others were just a few.
As a small country that is not popular, they should be ranked first.
"Alonso, I think the emperor of the Ming Kingdom may know whether the country represented by the envoy waiting for him is strong or weak, but he doesn't care about it because it has no meaning to the Ming Kingdom. And with the strength of the Ming Kingdom,
It's enough to do that," Clavijo said.
"Hey!" Quijano knew that what she said made sense, so he could only sigh and stop talking. Clavier did not speak anymore after meeting this, but opened the first few pages of the diary and thought about his relationship with Mingguo after a while.
What did the emperor say?
The purpose of their mission to Samarkand this time has been ruined. The original purpose of King Enrique III of Castile sending them to Samarkand was to unite Timur to fight against the Ottomans. Because at this time, Kas
Tilia has already controlled Sicily and some islands off the coast of Greece, and is competing with the Ottomans for Greece. It is hoped that Timur can continue to contain it from the east.
Unexpectedly, when they arrived in the city of Samarkand in September 1403 (the eighth month of the Ming Dynasty), they found that all the civil and military ministers and nobles in the country were talking about the Eastern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty, and no one wanted to send troops to attack the Ottoman Kingdom again. And there was no one.
Within a few months, hundreds of thousands of troops were on their way to the Eastern Expedition.
Claviyo and Quijano were helpless, but they could only follow Timur to participate in the Eastern Expedition. At that time, they still imagined that Timur would defeat the Ming Dynasty, and then give up the plan to continue the eastern invasion, and fight with the Ming Dynasty with Handong or
Jiayuguan was the boundary, and then he led his troops back to the city of Samarkand and sent troops to attack the Ottoman state again.
But things were far worse than the worst outcome they could have imagined! The Ming Dynasty actually won the battle, and it was a complete victory. They almost wiped out all the soldiers of the Samarkand City State during the Eastern Expedition. Timur himself also died.
When he learned that Zhang Fu led his troops to annihilate the last organized army under the city of Urumqi, Jihano said sadly: "The city-state of Samarkand originally only had a total of more than 20 million people, but this battle lost a lot of people."
Seven hundred thousand, it has been in ruins since then, and it can no longer be relied upon to hold back the Ottoman state." Although Klavyo did not speak at that time, he was thinking the same thing as him.
But then things turned around. The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty sent the King of Qin to lead an army to march westward, and the number of troops was far more than needed to capture the land of Qihe. Although it was not included in the letter just now, after careful study, he still
After discussing with the city of Samarkand, it was believed that the destination of King Qin of the Ming Dynasty was very likely to be the city of Samarkand.
This gave them hope. Once the Ming Dynasty occupied the city of Samarkand, the situation in Central Asia and even West Asia would change dramatically. Even if the city-state of Samarkand would not be destroyed, it would be completely divided.
Persia and eastern Anatolia will fall into a power vacuum. Seeing this, the Ottoman nobles are likely to turn their main attention to the east and compete for land on the mainland, and the power invested in the Aegean Sea will be reduced.
, the Kingdom of Castile can temporarily take a breather. Although the Ottoman Kingdom will be stronger after consolidating its territory in the east, that is a matter of the future.
Therefore, "Alonso, after we see the emperor of the Ming Dynasty in a while, we should work hard to get him to let the King of Qin march west to capture more cities and make the situation in West Asia even more chaotic." Clavio said to Quijano.
"I'm afraid it won't be easy. Even if we want to use our speaking skills, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty can't understand the language we speak and can only listen to translation; and speaking skills are greatly reduced after translation." Ji
Hano said.
"Even if it doesn't work, I still have to say that I have made an effort." Claviyo himself knew that the hope was slim, but he still wanted to give it a try.
"But what I hope even more is to visit the mainland of Ming Dynasty."
Claviyo continued: "Before I went to the city-state of Samarkand, I happened to read the travel notes written by Marco Polo. In his travel notes, he described the country of the Seris people as a place where gold is everywhere, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and everyone is happy.
There is a lot of wealth, a lot of money, a developed business, and a country where beggars don’t exist.”
"I never believed that such a country existed in the world before. But this time I came to Yiwu and saw with my own eyes the war between Samarkand and the Ming Dynasty, and heard with my own ears the extravagant banquet held by the Ming Dynasty emperor. Now I actually hate Marco Polo.
I believe some of the things I wrote.”
"Me too!" Quijano also said: "I didn't believe that such a country existed in the world before, but I also believed it after seeing the luxury of the Ming Dynasty. I really want to go to those cities that Marco Polo once visited.
Take a look and see if it is the same as what he wrote in his travel notes. I especially want to go to Khanbali (Beiping) to see how prosperous this most prosperous capital city in the world is."
"The current capital of the Ming Dynasty is not in Khanbali. Khanbali was the capital when the Mongols ruled the Seris people. The newly established Ming Dynasty arranged its capital in 'Yingtian'" Claviyo said these two words in Chinese
words, and continued: "The location of this city is near Yangzhou, which Marco Polo described. It should now be the most prosperous city of the Seris people."
"No matter where it is, I want to take a look." Quijano said nonchalantly.
As they were talking, they suddenly heard words in Khorezm from the front: "Your Majesty has summoned the envoys from the country of Castile." It was then repeated in several other languages.
Hearing this voice, Claviyo and Quijano immediately straightened their clothes, straightened their hats, wiped their shoes, walked to the translator who was speaking, and followed him to see Yunxi.
