Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

Chapter 605 The Great Ming Threat Theory!
Compared with the Golden Horde who fell into trouble, Bayezid, the monarch of the Ottoman Empire, was just gloating.

The rise of Timur not only eroded the Chagatai Khanate, but also had a considerable impact on neighboring countries.

For example, the Ottoman Empire, the Golden Horde, and the Mamluk dynasty in Egypt are the first victims.

Bayezid is also a well-known figure throughout Europe. He once came to the city of Constantinople and almost forced the Byzantine emperor to flee from Constantinople.

It was because of Timur's invasion that he was forced to suspend the war against Byzantium and instead put all his troops into the Eastern battlefield.

However, the emperor, who was invincible in the European continent, lost consecutive defeats after meeting Timur, the son of destiny.

If it wasn't for the help of the Ming Empire from the far east, he might have been beaten by Timur and lost his way.

In the city of Bursa in the Ottoman Empire, Bayezid is celebrating the fall of the capital of the Timurid Empire with the merits of his subordinates.

Under his instigation, the banquet quickly reached its climax.

All the military and political ministers celebrated this rare failure for Timur with wine, singing and dancing.

However, when the Ottoman monarchs and ministers were celebrating enthusiastically, the guards guarding the gate suddenly ran over.

"Your Majesty Sultan, the Timur envoy is asking to see you!"

As soon as Timur's three words came out, the originally lively scene suddenly cooled down, and everyone's heart couldn't help trembling.

Bayezid also trembled instinctively, but soon became annoyed by his cowardice.

"Bring up the messenger!"

"No, no, let him crawl in!"

As soon as Bayezid said this, the silent hall suddenly burst into laughter.

"His Majesty Sultan is right, the stinky Mongol should be allowed to crawl in, hahaha!"

When everyone in the hall laughed wantonly, a young prince was frowning, thinking about how to persuade his father who was too happy.

This man was none other than Bayezid's wisest son, Muhammad bin Bayezid bin Murad, or Murad for short.

However, just as Murad was about to get up, he was pressed down by a big hand.

Murad looked at his teacher Bayezid Pasha in confusion, and asked in a low voice.

"teacher……"

"Your Highness be careful!"

"At this moment, His Majesty Sultan is in high spirits. If you offend His Majesty, it may be bad for your future!"

Murad could only shut up in resentment when he heard the words, and then went out to let the wind out with the excuse that it was too hot.

Bayezid Pasha hurriedly followed after seeing this, and the two came to the pool in the palace. Murad couldn't bear it anymore, and complained to Bayezid Pasha.

"Teacher, the Tamerlane Empire is already so powerful, and we have been beaten back and forth. Now that an even stronger Ming Dynasty has come, it doesn't look like our luck, does it?"

Bayezid Pasha smiled bitterly upon hearing this.

"Your Highness is wise!"

"As the proverb goes, the lions in the west eat people, and the lions in the east also eat people."

"The rise of the Ming Dynasty has become inevitable. If we cannot unite with the Timurid Empire to suppress the Ming Dynasty, we will eventually follow in the footsteps of the Timurid Empire."

Murad was startled when he heard this.

"Teacher, aren't your words too alarmist?"

Although Murad felt that his father's actions were inappropriate, he didn't think that Da Ming could reach their country, but that his father shouldn't be so short-sighted.

Once Timur loses to Ming Dynasty, he will definitely intensify his efforts to earn back from their Ottoman Empire.

Therefore, at this time, we have formed a good relationship with the Timur Empire, and when we meet again on the battlefield in the future, we will not be immortal.

Seeing that Murad questioned himself, Bayezid Pasha did not open his mouth to explain, but took out a notepad from his arms.

"Your Highness, this is an anecdote recorded by the teacher in recent years. Many of them are heard from merchants traveling between the East and the West. I don't know if it is true or not. It can be used as a reference."

"You may wish to take a look at it when you have free time, and broaden your horizons."

Murad took it respectfully, and then sat on the steps of the veranda by the pool and looked at it with relish.

Bayezid Pasha didn't bother seeing this, and quietly went back to the main hall to continue drinking with the crowd, and stopped by to see if Timur's envoy could crawl in.

The result was just as he expected, even if the Timur Empire was down and beaten, it was powerless to fight back when it was beaten by a stronger empire, but it still maintained enough pride in the face of its former defeat.

Ulugh Beg, the envoy of the Timurid Empire, heard that Bayezid was so rude, and even let him crawl into the main hall, and cursed at the gate of the palace on the spot.

"I am the grandson of the great Timurid Sultan, the son of the great King Khorasan, how can I be humiliated like this!"

"Since your majesty is so rude, the messenger can only reply truthfully to our majesty, and let our majesty lead an army of millions to teach your country etiquette in person!"

Hearing this, the gate guards rushed into the hall and told Bayezid what Ulugh Beg had said.

Bayezid was silent for a moment when he heard the words, feeling a little regretful in his heart, regretting his arrogance just now.

But I have already said what I said just now, so I can't take it back now, right?
When the other people heard that the other party turned out to be Timur's grandson, their hearts were pounding.

If it was an ordinary messenger, humiliation would be humiliation, but if you humiliate Timur's grandson, it might anger Timur and let Timur personally lead the army to fight.

"Your Majesty Sultan, since the other party is the grandson of Timur, no matter how you say he is a nobleman, he really shouldn't be insulted..."

At this time, the Middle East still attaches great importance to noble blood. Even if a hostile country is at war, the victor will not kill the enemy general, but ask his family to pay a ransom to redeem him.

Although Timur's background has been criticized, Ulugh Beg is a real nobleman and should be respected accordingly.

As soon as this proposal came out, it immediately won the support of everyone.

After all, they are also nobles. If they are captured on the battlefield in the future, they also hope to receive the same courtesy.

Not long after, Ulugh Beg was led into the hall by guards.He first presented his credentials to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and then expressed his intention to come.

"Honorable Majesty Sultan!"

"I am the grandson of His Majesty Sultan of the Timurid Empire..."

"This time I came here to promote an alliance between the two countries, and jointly deal with the evil empire of the East, the Daming Empire, which is brutal and bloodthirsty, and has an endless desire to plunder the land..."

"The Ming Empire attacked our country for no reason, burned, killed and looted on our territory, and did all kinds of evil. Its evil deeds are comparable to those of the Mongol Empire back then..."

"If you leave it alone, all of our country will be trampled under its feet in the future..."

When Ulugh Beg heard about the alliance, the people in the hall did not respond.

Because they knew that with Bayezid's temper, it was absolutely impossible to agree to form an alliance with Timur.

However, when Ulugh Beg mentioned the Mongol Empire, everyone's hearts trembled, subconsciously thinking of the man-made disaster more than 100 years ago.

At that time, the entire Mesopotamia was completely reduced to the grassland of the Mongol Empire, and all ethnic groups and countries were reduced to slaves of the Mongol Empire.

They struggled for decades before they got rid of the control of the Mongol Empire.

Even now, the Golden Horde, ruled by the direct descendants of the Mongol Empire, still rules over a vast territory, causing them trouble from time to time.

Therefore, no one wants to see another powerful country similar to the Mongol Empire, let alone become someone else's slave again.

The same was true for Bayezid, but he didn't believe Ulugh Beg's words, thinking that Ulugh Beg was making alarmist remarks.

"Your Excellency Ulugh Beg, your words are too exaggerated, right?"

"As far as I know, the Ming Empire and Ottoman are separated by mountains and seas, so it is impossible to hit me?"

"Besides, the Ming Empire is prosperous and prosperous, so there is no reason to seize our barren land..."

This was the impression of Daming in the West at that time, that is, a wealthy Daming, a prosperous Daming.

Ulugh Beg sneered when he heard this.

"Your Majesty Sultan, do you think our Timurid Empire is prosperous?"

Bayezid nodded subconsciously when he heard the words. If it wasn't prosperous, how could he covet it?

Seeing this, Ulugh Beg laughed loudly.

"I never thought His Majesty Bayezid would be so short-sighted!"

"Let me tell you the truth, all the wealth of the Timur Empire is worth a fraction of that of the Ming Empire!"

"The prosperity and wealth of the Ming Empire has long exceeded your imagination!"

"They have trains that can run day and night without human or animal power, they have artillery that can shoot miles, they have guns that can pierce armor, they have..."

When Ulugh Beg was preaching the "Ming Threat Theory", Murad outside the main hall was looking at the experience recorded by the teacher with relish.

He just casually flipped through what he had seen and heard about Byzantium, and stopped paying attention when he saw nothing new.But when he turned to the Eastern chapter, he became interested immediately after seeing the merchant's description of Daming.

A merchant once said that it is very convenient to do business in Daming. Every city has shops that exchange currencies of various countries. They call them "banks".

If you do business in the Ming Dynasty, the bank can also issue gold and silver tickets for you, so that you no longer need to carry heavy gold and silver coins, and you can go to another city to do business with only a few pieces of light paper.

This story greatly shocked Murad and greatly expanded his vision.

If such a bank is also established in the Ottoman Empire, wouldn't it be able to boost the tax revenue of the empire under the prosperity of Ottoman's business?

It's just that this story doesn't mention how the bank operates, and it doesn't say what the gold and silver tickets look like...

After Murad pondered the viability of the bank, he was quickly drawn to another story.

Another businessman once said that he had the honor to visit a Daming factory. The entire factory was powered by a steam engine, which greatly saved manpower. The cotton cloth produced was not only denser, but also extremely efficient.A factory with a thousand people can produce more than [-] meters of cotton cloth in a day...

This story shocked Murad again, and made him yearn for this mysterious Eastern Empire.

"If I have a chance, I really want to go to the east and see for myself what this loom that can weave [-] meters a day looks like..."

Murad continued to read, and seeing the fast-moving trains, telegrams that can be reached in an instant, and smokeless electric lights that can be lit without kerosene, his yearning for the Ming Empire turned into fear.

"If everything written in the teacher's notes is true, how powerful would the Ming Empire be?"

Murad quickly read the last page, and he closed his notebook with a lot of thought, staring blankly at the water column in the pool in a daze.

He felt powerless like never before, and was full of fear and worry about the unknown, mysterious, and powerful Da Ming.

Will such a rich empire take a fancy to the barren Ottoman?

Just when Murad doubted himself, a subordinate hurried over.

"Your Highness, His Majesty Sultan has called you into the palace to discuss matters!"

"Oh?"

"what's up?"

"Just now the Timurid Empire envoy said that he would form an alliance with us..."

"oh oh……"

Murad immediately put away his notes when he heard the words, and followed his followers back to the hall.

Compared with the excitement when he left, the hall at this time seemed to be shrouded in a cloud of dark clouds, filled with oppressive and dull atmosphere.

There was no pride or pride on the face of the father, and the ministers of the empire also silently closed their mouths.

When they saw him walking into the hall, they even looked at him in unison.

"My wisest son is here!"

"Your Excellency Ulugh Beg, please tell me what you just said to my smartest son, Murad..."

"Yes!"

Ulugh Beg was not at all displeased, and methodically repeated what he had just said to Bayezid.

However, compared to the wonder and questioning of Bayezid and others, Murad was extremely calm.Instead of questioning his own words, he asks some very professional questions.

"His Excellency Ulugh Beg, do you know the operating principle of the train, is it related to the steam engine?"

Ulugh Beg was shocked by Murad's erudition and praised him sincerely.

"You are worthy of being His Majesty Bayezid's smartest prince, your erudition deeply impressed me..."

"You are quite right. Trains are indeed propelled by steam engines."

"The principle of the steam engine is also very simple. According to people who have traveled in Daming, the so-called steam engine is the force that the water vapor pushes the lid of the kettle when the water is boiled."

"It's just that the smart Ming people built more sophisticated machinery and used the power of this water vapor to all walks of life."

Murat's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"May I ask Your Excellency Ulugh Beg, have you seen the real steam engine, and can you get the blueprint of the steam engine?"

Ulugh Beg smiled bitterly upon hearing this.

"His Majesty Murat, it's not that Ulugh Beg is stingy, it's just that we don't have the real objects and drawings of this kind of thing."

"It is said that the emperor's grandson of the Ming Dynasty once issued a strict order not to allow a steam engine to flow out of the border of the Ming Dynasty!"

"In the Ming Empire, selling steam engines privately is tantamount to treason and will be subject to very severe sanctions..."

Murat sighed regretfully.

"Ugh!"

"If we can get the blueprint of the steam engine, we will have the ability to fight against Daming!"

Upon hearing this, Ulugh Beg immediately introduced Murat as his confidant, and warmly took his hand and said.

"You are really my bosom friend, I think so too!"

"The strength of the Ming Dynasty lies in the steam engine. With the steam engine, they can build large quantities of weapons and armor quickly. With the steam engine, they can easily transport supplies to the front line. With the steam engine..."

The more they talked, the more speculative they became. They completely forgot that they were in the main hall at this time, surrounded by His Majesty Sultan and dozens of princes and ministers watching.

However, the strange thing is, whether it was Bayezid or dozens of princes and nobles, instead of interrupting their thoughts, they listened very intently.

The two chatted from Ming's technology to Ming's military, and from the military to Ming's system, and finally came to the same conclusion.

——The Great Ming Threat Theory!

(End of this chapter)