Chapter 418 Akbar
Just the same month when the emperor wanted to let the Jinyiwei supervise the world and restart the Western Factory set up by the Wuzong Dynasty, the western border of the Ming Dynasty became unstable again.
This west is not Uszangdus, but Goa from the Atlantic Military Palace.
The news came from Jiayuguan to Beijing. Envoys from Mughals and caravans passed through the Yarkand Khanate and asked to visit Beijing to meet the emperor. They had been waiting for two months in Suzhou Guard, the westernmost part of the Ming Dynasty.
The one who came to report to Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty was a flag army of Suzhou Guards, a descendant of Chagatai who had escaped from Yili, and an old man of semen.
The sand-beaten skin, patched military uniforms and rusty armor easily reminded the emperor of his border defense. It is difficult to see the true appearance of the border defense of the Ming Empire in Beijing, which makes the emperor feel glad.
If Chen Mu hadn't impressed him and told him that the exchanges between countries in this world would be more proactive, because this would be more beneficial to the strong, and the empire would probably miss this group of messengers.
What the veterans from Suzhou Guards wanted to express was that several caravans from Yarkand entered Suzhou Guards, one of which claimed to be an envoy from Mughals and wanted to meet the emperor with a letter proclaiming to be Mughal King Akba.
According to the original handling regulations, they would leave after seeing the thousand households of the Xidianzibao garrison. If they left the Grand Fortune, they would meet the Jiayuguan guerrilla general or the commander of the Suzhou Guard. This was the end of their trip. However, because of the emperor's edict, the Suzhou Guard sent people to travel through the entire empire to report the news of the arrival of the Yi envoy to Shuntian Prefecture.
There were countless groups of envoys like this in the past, and the business travelers in the Western Regions wanted to pretend to be all over the country to deceive the Ming Dynasty's tribute rewards.
The Silk Road once made the Central Plains dynasty profit greatly, but it was not the case in the Ming Dynasty.
For the Ming Empire, which occupied the Southeast Ocean and sailed to Africa as early as the early Ming Dynasty, and communicated with all the trade routes along the way, Guangzhou Prefecture was a more important trade center than Xi'an Prefecture. It was impossible for the Ming Dynasty to attack the northwest in order to survive the pitiful cap tax in the Han and Tang Dynasties.
Isn't it good to have that spirit, and let the Maritime Bureau sell 100,000 more silk to Persian merchants?
The Silk Road on Land has long been out of date.
The emperor only saw the veteran and handed over the letter he sent to the foreign affairs room in the palace. At the same time, he sent his left and right to go to the military room to find the letter on the sail of the Wanli ship.
To be precise, there are all military men in the foreign affairs room. Every year, there are at least eleven or twelve years, and at most thirty or forty eunuchs of age who are well-selected, strong and flexible in mind, and are sent to the North-South martial arts lecture hall to learn the latest knowledge of various military subjects in the ** country. However, the Forbidden City did not have the place where they learned the dragon-slaying technique. Most of the time they were just a container of knowledge.
Bring the latest and best military knowledge back to the Forbidden City, and they give the emperor a lesson in his spare time.
Anyway, we cannot take power. Although the imperial power has grown year by year as we age, all we can deal with is just some minor matters.
For Emperor Wanli, who was full of hormones and young vitality, what else can a boring life do besides endless sleeping daughters and studying?
As for the letter on the sail, he was looking for a report from the Western Military Office to the Mughals.
In the report of the Western Military Office to the Mughal Kingdom, it is said that the Mughals were not large in northwest India. They were established by the descendants of Timur. They had neither large nor strong troops, but were easy to fight. Some Portuguese who were unwilling to serve the Western Military Office ran to fight for them, separated from the Ming Dynasty by an insurmountable snow-capped mountains and desert.
Moreover, this is very important, because the great and invincible Emperor Wanli has focused on it - and, Akbar, the country's master, called himself emperor, has continued for three generations.
The emperor they came there? Timur was the emperor from the place where birds were not laid eggs. After Timur's demise, his descendants ran to northwest India to become emperor?
The fake emperor!
The Emperor of Ming Dynasty was heartbroken and expelled the Yuan Dynasty from the north. This was the unsuccessful career of the ancestors. The imperial seal of the Central Plains is still held in the hands of the Tuman Khan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty. Do you, a descendant of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, dare to bluff and be called emperor in India?
Now I'm sending envoys to me?
Of course, Mr. Yijun was not angry. The so-called emperor was heartbroken and was just a joke. It had been a lifetime. Perhaps Qi Jiguang and other military generals in the north were still preparing to offer the imperial seal obtained from the profits, but the civil officials had shattered the myth of the jade seal in the past hundreds of years.
In the past, it was said that he was obedient from heaven, but now everyone pays attention to obedient from virtue.
As for the emperor's view of this jade seal, it was necessary to distinguish people. When the founding of the country, several emperors needed to strengthen their confidence. They did not get the jade seal from the Northern Yuan Dynasty, so they had to expand their army and carve seventeen pieces at once.
When Jiajing, who was found to be the emperor, he needed a jade seal to strengthen his confidence, so he carved seven more pieces, such as "Treasures for Heaven and Heirs", "Treasures for the Ming Dynasty", "Treasures for the World", "Treasures for the Training", and "Treasures for the Destiny", and even even if he was punished for the people and ordered all the people to carve a seal.
For Emperor Wanli, who had unprecedented confidence, he did not need external objects to enhance his confidence. If he needed it, he would just pick up a stone covering the red cloth and even if he had it.
If you really can't find the stone, it's fine.
This reason made Emperor Wanli naturally unwilling to communicate with Mughals.
Not long after, the military eunuchs who had studied in the martial arts lecture hall in the palace sent a translated letter. Wang An, who was holding the letter, seemed angry and said, "Your Majesty, they called his king Akba the emperor and called the Ming Dynasty Khitan."
Generally speaking, this diplomacy should end here.
If you go to the door and call the person the wrong name, do you still have to chat?
But Wanli Ye is very new.
"Don't be angry, and then say what the letter said." The young emperor Yun Tanfengqing seemed not to care about his own face, but instead comforted Wang An, who was full of humiliation, and said, "It is necessary to be divorced. He doesn't understand. I can teach him what the first principle of diplomacy in the martial arts hall is? It is to use force as a backing, seek national interests, and exercise force by non-violent means."
"The Western Military Palace is at the door of Mughal's house. Should I hear what he says."
Emperor Wanli, who was sitting on the deck of the Wanli ship, suddenly raised his eyebrows and raised his hand and said, "By the way, don't forget to inform the Ministry of War later, and punish Jiayuguan guerrillas for half a year's salary."
Wang An, who was organizing the language to state the letter, did not keep up with the emperor's willful thinking, and responded to him that the emperor sighed deeply.
Chapter completed!