Yunxi looked at Fang Mingqian's retreating figure and did not sit back for a moment.
This time Yunxi asked Fang Mingqian to lead the navy to explore the northern seas. In addition to paving the way for the exploration of America, there were other reasons. If it weren't for these other reasons, Yunxi would not have had to rush Fang Mingqian to Beijing, and then let him
He'll be out soon.
The reason for being so anxious is related to the fact that the envoy team from North Korea has arrived again.
It is said that since Zheng Yi, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty who came to celebrate the New Year in the first month of the Ming Dynasty, came back from the Ming Dynasty and told the people in the country that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty agreed that they could trace their ancestors, the entire Korean family was in a state of excitement!
Previously, someone from the Min family became the queen of Joseon, so the emperor of the Ming Dynasty recognized her as Min Sun. It may have been a special case. It may be that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty wanted to be a favor to the Joseon Dynasty, so he specifically admitted it. But this time Zheng Yi went to request and got it.
With the consent, it can be seen that the emperor of Ming Dynasty did not prohibit this kind of thing.
This person's needs are hierarchical. After satisfying his survival needs, he will think about other things. The aristocratic families in North Korea are all in this situation. Everyone wants to put gold on their faces, so they all want to send people
Go as an envoy to the Ming Dynasty and ask for permission to trace your ancestors.
It’s not that there are no smart people in North Korea, and it’s not that no one suspects that Yunxi has other agendas. But what does this have to do with everyone? Even if the emperor of Ming Dynasty had other agendas, the unlucky one would be the monarch and his family, and it would not affect families like them. History
That's how it is.
So everyone is vying for the opportunity to go to the Ming Dynasty again, not to mention the deputy envoy, there are many people vying for it. But as for the lower position, no one is competing for it, which is lower than the deputy envoy's chance to meet Yunxi in person.
None, and of no use.
Zhu Fangyuan naturally did not want them to rush to Ming Dynasty to recognize their ancestors, but he had no choice. Even when Zhu Chenggui was there, he could only fight and pull against these aristocratic families, and he did not dare to deal with the common core interests of the aristocratic families.
Not to mention Zhu Fangyuan.
The only thing Zhu Fangyuan could do was to use his own power to appoint the chief and deputy envoys to exchange benefits with the aristocratic families. In the end, two families were awarded the positions of chief and deputy envoys because they were willing to pay the most.
These two families were also anxious and asked Zhu Fangyuan to send them as envoys to the Ming Dynasty immediately. Zhu Fangyuan also felt that there was no point in stretching, so he agreed.
But this time Yunxi was not so easy to talk to. After Yunxi's envoy team in North Korea arrived in Daming and learned the names of the chief and deputy envoys, they studied the families behind them, and finally formally received the North Korean envoy earlier today.
He agreed to the deputy envoy's family's request to recognize their ancestors, but rejected the Zhengzhi's family's request to recognize their ancestors. It is estimated that the Zhengshi will be scolded to death by his own family after he returns, but this has nothing to do with Yunxi.
Originally, the reason for this incident and whether Yunxi was anxious to send people to explore it was mainly because of a piece of news brought by these North Korean envoys.
The North Korean envoy arrived in the capital on March 15th and was placed in the vassal hall of the Ministry of Rites. One of the first things the North Korean envoy had to do after arriving in the capital was to submit a gift list.
Yang Ben of the Ming Dynasty was still serving as a doctor in front of the host and guest. When he saw a lot of furs on the gift list, he casually asked: "There are a lot of furs this year."
Unexpectedly, the North Korean envoy said: "In the first month of this year, our king personally led his troops to attack the Jurchen tribe in the northeast despite the heavy snow. Because the Jurchens were unprepared for the snow, our country captured thousands of Jurchens alive at once and killed hundreds.
A large amount of furs were captured, so I paid tribute to the superior country."
At this time, the Jurchens were barbarians, and it was normal to expel and attack the Jurchens, so the envoy said it without hesitation.
However, through his contact with Yunxi, Yang Ben felt that Yunxi seemed to attach great importance to such things, so he went to the palace to report to Yunxi.
Yunxi suddenly became anxious. It would not be good if the North Koreans crossed the Tumen River. So Yunxi urgently decided on the commander of the northward exploration and asked him to immediately send troops to go northward to explore.
Yunxi returned to his seat at this time and took out a hand-drawn map. Although Yunxi had never learned drawing, he benefited from his familiarity with the Northeast region in his previous life. If he had ever explored there,
You should be able to tell that this is a map of the West Japan Sea coast.
Yunxi's fingers slid along the coastline from north to south, and finally settled on a place, muttering to himself: "This place is the most valuable place in the entire south of Heilongjiang and east of the Wusuli River. It must be here."
Nine thousand six hundred miles west from Jiayuguan is the city of Samarkand, which was one of the three largest cities in the world along with Constantinople, the capital of the Ming Dynasty and the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. At this time, the city was nearby
It also had a population of nearly one million, and was the only large country in the world at that time that could be compared with the Ming Dynasty, the Timurid Empire.
At this time, in the city's luxurious palace, a man who was not tall, but very burly, sat on a luxurious seat and listened to the introduction of the person standing below. Although this man was not good-looking,
But he has an extraordinary aura. If you look carefully, you will find that there is something wrong with one of his legs.
This man was the ruler of the vast area from Asia Minor to the Western Regions, from the Kazakh steppe to the northern shore of the Arabian Sea, Pozi Timur.
He listened to the envoy Manlaha in front of him who had returned from his mission to the Ming Dynasty and said: "... Great Khan, the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty had completely taken over the political power of the country and guarded the vassals everywhere when I returned from the Ming Dynasty.
The king and the leading generals have no intention of independence or rebellion."
Timur said: "Oh, the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty is only twenty-one years old this year. Last year, he was only twenty years old. He completely took over the country. No one from the vassal kings rebelled?"
Manlaha said: "Yes."
Timur didn't say anything for a while, as if he was thinking about something. He didn't speak, and others didn't dare to speak, so for a while there was no sound in the hall, and it was so quiet that it seemed like there was no one there.
Manlaha guessed that Timur was thinking about why Eastern countries could inherit so smoothly, but since Timur didn't speak, he couldn't rashly put forward his research results.
After a while, Timur calmed down and said: "Don't mention anything else. You already reported it when you were on a mission to the Ming Dynasty last time. Just tell me what you think of the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty, called '
What do you think of Zhu Yunxi?" He said the three words "Zhu Yunxi" in Chinese.
Manlaha was also well prepared. After hearing Timur's words, he immediately said: "According to my observation, the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty is still very smart. Eastern countries are different from our country in that there is no local feudal lord class.
There is a huge bureaucracy. The bureaucracy has no military power, let alone independent administrative power, so it cannot compete with the emperor. If the emperor is willing, he can spread his orders to every corner of the country."
"But the bureaucracy also has its own collective interests. If the emperor touches their collective interests, the bureaucracy can resist by sabotaging work. The former emperor of the Ming Dynasty once used the method of massacre of the bureaucracy to purge, but
The effect is not obvious,”
"The reason why I think the new emperor is smart is because he obviously wants to reform the bureaucracy, but he does it step by step carefully. Each step does not touch the bottom line of the bureaucracy, but he still wants to achieve his goal step by step.
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"Also, the Ming Emperor led troops to fight the Mongols three years ago."
"Oh," Timur suddenly became energetic and asked, "What's going on?"
Man Laha said: "I don't know exactly what happened. After all, I can't ask directly. But according to the information I got, it should be an unexpected war. The current Emperor of the Ming Dynasty went to
During the northern patrol, when they were more than a hundred miles away from their northern border, they were attacked by the Mongols and suffered heavy losses."
"The current emperor of the Ming Dynasty escaped by chance, and immediately organized an army to fight back. The Mongols fled all the way, but in the end they could not escape. They were wiped out at a place on the banks of the Onan River. All the young men of the tribe were killed, but they survived
women and children were exiled to an island.”
"They were all killed," Timur pondered. "The emperor of the Ming Dynasty was always tolerant of foreigners, but he was so cruel this time."
Manla laughed and said: "Great Khan, I have no experience of tolerance, so I cannot empathize with it. I have experienced this myself, and **10% of the guards around me died. Who can still be tolerant?"
Timur said: "That's true, no matter how good-tempered a person is, he will get angry if he is bullied."
Then Timur asked Manlaha many questions about this battle. Of course Manlaha knew that Timur would be very concerned about this battle, so he also collected as much information as possible.
Tamerlane added: "It seems that the Ming Emperor most likely did not command the battle himself, but ordered a general to command it. This is rare. He still retains his sense when he is so angry. He is a man who does great things. You continue
Say, is there anything else?"
Manlaha said: "In addition, when I met with the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I felt that the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was very confident and felt that all his methods were correct. Because I am not very familiar with the political systems of Eastern countries.
I understand, so I dare not jump to conclusions about whether he can successfully reform, but confident people are difficult to deal with."
After listening to Manlaha's words, Timur pondered: "A confident emperor who is cautious when doing things, but can still be rational at critical moments, coupled with the system of the Ming Dynasty. Attacking the Ming Dynasty from the east has little chance of winning.
ah."
Feisi on the side said: "Who in the world can stop the army led by the Great Khan!"
Timur ignored this flattery and said: "There are also the Mongolians in the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and the Mongolian grassland. As a descendant of Genghis Khan, I rashly called the Mongol Khan. They must not want me to conquer the Ming Dynasty again."
country, then their Mongolian headquarters will have no room to stand up. So they are also enemies and not friends."
However, Timur was obviously a very ambitious Khan, and he said with great enthusiasm: "No matter whether the Eastern Expedition is won or lost, no matter what the odds are, I will compete with the Ming Dynasty! Wait until the Western Expedition defeats the Ottomans again.
The empire, relieved of its worries, will march eastwards!"