my days with tyrants

Chapter 365 The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Kingdom

The purpose of Armenia's loyalty is simple...

Just for commercial rights.

They are the most important commercial peoples in West and Central Asia.

As for the Jews, it was only after the fall of King’s Castle that they were protected by the Ottomans because of their efforts in the capture of King’s Castle. Afterwards, because of the attack of the Spanish Inquisition, they migrated to the Ottoman Empire on a large scale with the help of the Ottoman Navy. With the support of the Ottoman Sultan, he gradually controlled the Ottoman trade along the Mediterranean Sea.

But Armenia remained the commercial controller of Central and West Asia.

The business of the Ottoman Empire was basically controlled by Armenians, Jews, and Greeks.

Generally speaking, the secular monarchs of their system like to support these heretics to control business, because as Dimi, they need to pay heavy taxes, which can make the secular monarchs get more benefits. After all, they can’t expect to drink fermented grape juice and eat short-nosed elephants. The guys have too high morals.But the result of this is often that the heretics live better than their brothers of the same religion, and eventually lead to widespread hatred. When the monarchs can suppress it, they suppress it, and when they cannot suppress it, they let the killing go, and then take the opportunity to slaughter these fattened guys.

Very routine.

My Qing Dynasty also likes to deal with salt merchants and gentry in this way.

But these commercial nations don't care, anyway, the secular monarchs still have to rely on them to make money after the killing.

As long as the one who kills is not yourself, then continue to sing and dance.

Then history moves forward over and over again,
And now Zhu Di's powerful force clearly shows the Armenians a good opportunity to open up a broader market.

Faith is not important.

Ethnicity doesn't matter either.

Only money is the most important thing.

Because of Yang Feng's respect, the Armenians can go directly to Daming for trade, that is to say, the source and the transportation line to the river have been unblocked. Although there is still the obstacle of Timur, they know that Timur can't jump at all. A few days.Just Zhu Di with a bunch of miscellaneous names has already pushed Timur into the current predicament, so it goes without saying how the real Ming was crushed. Those Armenian businessmen who have been to Ming are all extolling the strength of Ming.The vast and boundless territory, the impressive population size, the incomparably powerful army and the man who is said to be the sacrificial king John, all these gather together, what Timur can contend with is that he can't even defeat the prince of Daming. army?
It is said that there are more than a dozen princes like Daming.

So for Armenia, their future depends on Daming.

Of course, Zhu Di also needs them...

need their money.

Zhu Di is very clear that at least in the future that he can foresee, it will be difficult for Ming Dynasty to have too many immigrants to the west. Anxi and Beiting alone will take at least several decades to be filled with immigrants.

But his expansion to the West could not wait that long.

His guard is his body, but he still needs two hands, one with a knife to kill for him, the other with goods to make money for him, the knife for killing is already available, Zhao Shengjun is the best thugs.

What about the hands that make money?
Armenians, of course.

This nation is in an environment of enemies on all sides, without a strong force to protect them, they were torn apart in minutes, but Zhu Di can provide them with protection, and their business ability is beyond doubt. In the future, the Armenians will continue to make money for him, and he relies on these Qian expanded his military strength, and then continued to expand westward.Similarly, his development also opened up more markets for the Armenians, made more money, and supported him to expand and strengthen his military power. Such a group that is a nightmare for the West is moving forward step by step.

perfect.

Bayezid, who lost for a while, didn't realize that Zhu Di was destroying the morale of his subordinates. After receiving Zhu Di's invitation, he readily agreed to the second round of fighting.

Even he prefers this way of fighting.

His army is really just like what Zhu Di said, it is essentially a mob, except for his own Yeniceri guards, Sipahi cavalry, Kapukulu cavalry, Akinsi cavalry, and Azapu infantry conscripted , the remaining Serbs and Aries Turkmen are just vassal forces. The former is still an enemy in the past, and the latter is not a friend.It's not just them, the main force of his army is also the beys on the Anatolian plateau, and the latter's loyalty to him is also extremely limited.

The Ottoman Empire did flourish on the Anatolian Plateau.

but……

It is also a routine operation for the Ottoman Beys on the Anatolian Plateau to oppose His Majesty the Sultan.

Zhu Di's way of fighting allows Bayezid to conduct small-scale battles while controlling the overall situation, ensuring that the situation will not get out of control.

He has an army of eighty thousand.

Such a large army, with such a complex composition, is half the victory if it can not be chaotic.

Of course, the key point is that the previous battles did not allow him to see the absolute advantage of the Ming army. He admitted that these soldiers with rat tails on their heads were brave, but they defeated the Serbs, who were originally defeated by the Ottoman conquest. If he had dispatched his Sipahi cavalry, he might have won the battle.So in the next battle, he chose to send out his Sipahi cavalry, but Zhu Di still did not send out the guards, but handed it over to Tutuo Lost.

The latter dispatched his direct line, that is, led from Siberia, and the two elite cavalry did not do anything fancy.

The level of equipment and combat effectiveness of both sides are at the same level.

Hit and fight!

And at this time, the far southern border.

The dusty Ambassador Yang was being greeted by the Emir of Khotan, or the head of the Tianchang Department of the Shule Consolation Envoy of the Ming Dynasty, and the Commander of the Aduanwei of the Gansu Command and Envoy Division. He brought his [-] The army entered the Acropolis...

In fact, these two are the original West Khotan and East Khotan.

Or the modern Hetian and Yutian, the former is the emir and the latter is the Buddhist Sari Uighur. After Yang Feng’s last western expedition, the two forces that originally killed each other were all honest, and then they used Cele as the boundary , the west belongs to Khotan Changjusi, and the east belongs to Aduanwei.But Aduanwei belongs to the Acropolis, and is directly under the command and envoy of Gansu Province, so the imperial court has a Han Chinese thousand households here, and then there are banks and land customs. All trade with India must go through formalities and pay taxes here.

So it has become a commercial center.

However, the Commander of Aduanwei was still a Mongol of King Hami's system, and he gathered two thousand cavalry to follow King Hami during the last western expedition.

From here all the way to Hami, there are seven such guards in total.

The commanding envoy is a Mongol from King Hami’s family, all Taiji descendants of Chagatai, and his subjects are Buddhist Mongols or Sari Uighurs, who then maintain the trade line to India for the imperial court and belong to the Commanding Envoy of Gansu govern.

"Are the military supplies ready?"

Ambassador Yang looked at the two guys kneeling on the ground in front of him.

"Ambassador, the younger one has slaughtered [-] cows and [-] sheep, smoked them into dried meat, and has [-] catties of cheese for Wang Shi to eat on his way."

Commander A Duanwei hurriedly said.

"You did a good job. The imperial court didn't want you for nothing. Here are [-] guan notes, which can be regarded as buying these things."

Yang Feng said with satisfaction.

Immediately afterwards, an officer held a box full of treasures and handed it to Commander A Duanwei.

The latter was overjoyed to accept it. Although these were banknotes, his two grandsons spent more and more money in the years of studying in the capital. They just sent a letter asking for money. It is said that they are obsessed with growing orchids, which have various miraculous effects. Now many people in the capital are raising this.The other is obsessed with some kind of divine bird, which is said to be brought back from overseas Lingshan. A bird has thousands of pens, and this bird can purify the dirt on the body. After death, it will become a pure and pure soul. Be an arhat.

That's what the masters say.

Although the commander doesn't understand these things, and feels a little unreliable, but when he thinks that his grandson is in the capital and he is in such a remote place, it must be that his grandson knows a lot.

Don't worry about anything else, just give them money if they ask for it.

Anyway, he was forcing the subjects to hand over their cattle and sheep.

As long as the subjects eat one less sheep, they can make their grandsons have money to spend in the capital. Why not do such a good thing?
What if the people are dissatisfied?

He is the commander of the imperial court, how dare they rebel?

"what about you?"

Yang Feng asked the chief of Khotan's chief justice department.

"Back to the ambassador, I have prepared [-] shi of military rations for Master Wang."

The latter said quickly.

His place is different from Aduanwei, mainly relying on farming. In addition, their place is the main jade producing area, so there are still many jade merchants from the Ming Dynasty who are mining jade, but the consequence of this is population growth, and they are all people who do not farm. , so collecting [-] shi of food is already doing everything possible.But what jade brings him is a steady stream of banknotes. These banknotes allow his son to live a rich life in the capital, make him friends with powerful people, and have been rewarded by the Queen Mother with a new crop of sweet potatoes from overseas. It is said that the yield of this product per mu Thousands of catties, as long as sweet potatoes are planted in the future, the food problem can be solved.

And also drought tolerant.

In short, as long as there are sweet potatoes, his Hotan will be able to support more jade-picking workers in the future, and then let him earn more money.

But the sweet potato planting technology is all taught by Ambassador Yang.

So even if he tried his best, even if he made his subjects bear it, and even starved to death some old immobile waste, he still had to scrape together [-] shi for the army rations for Ambassador Yang.

Isn't it suffering?

For the good life in the future, it is right to suffer. Without the bitterness now, how can there be sweetness in the future?
"[-] shi, I'll give you [-] guan. After all, you can't favor one over another. The price of rice in the capital can always buy three shi."

Yang Feng said.

Then the officer also handed over [-] guan notes to the Khotan chief.

Of course, the latter thanked Ambassador Yang sincerely, although he really wanted to buy it with precious banknotes, almost five pennies for one stone.

There are more people and less food, and those jade merchants also use precious banknotes, resulting in a large circulation of local precious banknotes.

however……

Ambassador Yang has already given money, so why care about how much?

If he doesn't give money, doesn't he also have to pay food?

He obviously could take it directly, but he actually returned the money, which is so touching.

"They are all loyal ministers of Daming!"

Ambassador Yang said with emotion.

And at this moment, a pair of eyes were looking at him from the window of a small building by the side of the road...

"Yang Feng actually conscripted himself."

He Feng, a businessman from Guangdong, looked at Yang Feng with interest, and the seemingly endless carriage behind him.

These four-wheeled carriages are all drawn by two horses, and the carriages are all equipped with shields. The Beijing soldiers in red military uniforms are all sitting in carts or riding horses and camels. In addition, horses can be seen from time to time in the team. The cannon was dragged, and the ammunition trucks followed behind the cannon.However, after thousands of miles of long-distance marching, they all looked travel-laden, and all of them simply covered their faces to hide from the wind and sand, and only their eyes were exposed. Seven thousand miles.

Even if they took a carriage, it would take them seventy or eighty miles a day, so they had been walking for more than three months, and they had to keep going.

This expedition to fight the war is not important.

This is currently the most elite army of Ming Dynasty, even the Camel City Cavalry can't defeat them in a field battle.

Dealing with Tuocheng is very simple, as long as there are enough cannons, and the most important thing in the Beijing camp is cannons. Even an infantry battalion has two catties of field cannons.

As for infantry engagements...

At this time, what infantry can break through tens of thousands of gun salvos?

They are truly invincible in battle.

But the march was the hardest.

Thousand miles expedition.

True Miles.

"Let's go back to Dhaka quickly so that we can get the news back to Guangzhou as quickly as possible. Yang Feng has arrived in the Western Regions and is still moving forward. He probably won't return to the capital within a year. The news from the capital has only reached the Western Regions." It will take a few months, and it depends on whether our emperor can return to the capital."

He said.

He is He Di's subordinate...

At this time, merchant ships in Guangdong had already established stable trade with Dhaka and other ports in eastern India, and even had their business in Dhaka. Because Guangdong’s textile industry was developing rapidly and more cotton was urgently needed, India’s cotton was undoubtedly the best choice. , and India also needs Nanyang spices, Ming silk, porcelain, sugar, etc., which happen to be shipped to Dakar, and then shipped back to cotton.The use of schooners has also greatly shortened the sailing time between Dhaka and Guangzhou. Even a merchant ship set a record of one and a half months from Guangzhou to Dhaka. If it is an empty ship, it will be faster.

They are now leaving for the return trip, and it will take at most one and a half months to reach Kaka, and then the remaining one and a half months is enough to send the news to Guangzhou, and Guangzhou has already been prepared. They even know about Yang Feng’s expedition to the west, but they are not sure if it is true. Fake, after all, Yang Feng likes to play feints the most.But now that he has appeared in Khotan, there is no such thing as a feint. He is really marching to the west. As long as Guangzhou moves quickly, he will be able to reach the capital in less than three months. Let alone Yang Feng, it is so short At that time, he didn't even know the news about the dispatch of troops from Guangzhou. As long as he could win the capital before returning, Jianwen could command the whole country as the emperor of Ming Dynasty and wipe out Yang Feng's gangsters in one fell swoop.

What if he goes back then?

What's more, as long as the princess is captured, it is enough to threaten him.

(End of this chapter)