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Chapter four hundred and nineteen

Emperor Wanli read the letter Elizabeth wrote to him, so he knew the routines.

But Wang An said that Akbar is a different person.

"In the letter, he called himself the emperor who guarded peace, and called King Beshibali and Yili the King of Li as the Sultan. The two countries in the Western Regions seemed to be united, and called His Majesty the Khan of the Khitan."

Wang An said, shook his head and could not help: "These small countries in the Western Regions have frequent changes, thanks to the emperor's establishment of foreign affairs rooms in the palace. Even so, our students have been comparing the tribute list for a long time, and they have been comparing their names until the Yongle Dynasty."

The emperor was also a little confused: "They shouldn't be all cities? Why do they hear this letter? It seems like they are a country."

To be precise, the current Western Regions are indeed a country, starting from Kashmir in the west, reaching Jiayuguan in the east, and ending at the Uszangdu Commander's Office in the south, and the name is Yarkand Khanate.

The ruler at this time was Mohammed. This country was quietly established in the west of the Ming Dynasty for more than 50 years, with almost no border friction, because although the name of the Yarkand Khanate sounds frightening, it is actually a tragedy on the grassland. The otakus in the east is the Ming Dynasty with a strong pass, and the border in the north is the Oirat who wants to fight whoever he wants to fight, and the Kazakh Khanate whoever he wants to win the west is the Kazakh Khanate who will win the gap.

The only one who can make the Yarkand Khanate muster up the courage to fight while being beaten is Uszangdus, which belongs to the Ming Dynasty in the south, but there are all kinds of Dharma kings and gods and Buddhas everywhere. It’s not that I haven’t tried it. Sayed, the grandfather of the Sultan of the Yarkand Khanate, has tried it.

At that time, Sayed had just established the Yarkand Khanate, and was beaten up by the Kazakh Khanate, which belongs to Chagatai. The Kyrgyzstan under his command also defected on a large scale because he wanted to go to war with East Chagatai. There was no way, Sayed could only think about invading Uszangdusi to the south to avoid fierce enemies and expand land and forces.

As a result, let alone the Ming Dynasty, the provincial administrative unit of Uszangdus alone did not realize the beginning of the war, and it ended.

As soon as Said entered Uszang, he was affected by altitude sickness - and died.

If he had wisely gone to Jiayuguan, he might have a better way of dying.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty had almost no understanding of the Western Regions, simply because the Yarkand Khanate and the Kazakh Khanate both pretended that they had paid tribute to Yili, and the official document believed that the country "Yilibali" might still exist.

No matter if you are the Arab Empire, the Timur Empire or the Ottoman Empire, the Ming Dynasty only recognizes the countries recognized by Cheng Zuye in history. When you come, you are still the same size, the same letter of the country, and the same experiences and words, then you are the top man in the ground of Tianfang, Samarkand and Lumi.

As for what the real country is like, and what has happened after years of changes? The Ming Dynasty was ignorant and too lazy to understand.

In fact, except for the Ottomans called Rumi, the remaining two of the three countries are gone, and the Ottomans are not in a good mood to come here to pay tribute if they have anything to do. They... were all pretended to be from the Eastern Chagatai Khanate in the past, and now they are pretended by the Yarkand Khanate in the past.

Is this the quality worth knowing?

During the period of existence of the Ming Dynasty, due to the times and the ability to send, countries qualified to be concerned were invisible and intangible, and a few words were only distorted rumors; and those that could be seen and touched were all younger brothers, and they could hardly bring any possible progress.

So much so that when Matteo Ricci and others came to China, the literati would rather endure sleepy missionary preaching than absorb new knowledge generated on different lands like a sponge.

She was lonely in the forest of countries around the world until the night before the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.

"The King Akbar said in his letter that he had no intention of being an enemy of the Ming Dynasty and treated merchants from the Ming Dynasty with courtesy in China. However, some merchants from the Ming Dynasty mistakenly supported the rebellious Bengal nobles, which led to his defeat in suppressing the rebellion last year. The King Akbar hoped that his grandfather could restrain those merchants from the Ming Dynasty."

Wanli stood up suddenly and pointed at himself with wide eyes: "He is my grandfather?"

"Oh, no, no, no, he hoped that Your Majesty would deal with the merchants in his letter." Wang An couldn't help laughing and said, "It was the call of me."

"This is almost the same." Wanli rolled his eyes, as if he was called grandpa, and then he calmly sat on the deck of the Wanli boat table. Looking at the map hanging on the wall to find the location of Bangladesh, he spoke sarcastic words: "This Mughal is not big, but a few merchants can influence him to suppress his rebellion... Is it a little weak?"

Wang An took a breath slowly and vomited out again: "That's because Your Majesty doesn't know what the Ming merchants mean in places outside the Ming Dynasty."

"According to the report of the Sanyang Military Office, except for the establishment of unified management companies in the East Ocean, the South and Western merchants have no warships, and most of them are blessed ships and bird ships. However, the Southwest Eryang Military Offices sell guns and cannons to merchants, and they have all large guns except General Zhenshuo."

As he said that, he looked at Zhang Jing on the side. Zhang Jing waited for a long time, and then jumped out and said like cannons: "From Luzon to Lumi, wherever the merchants of the Ming Dynasty went, they built the earthen building there. The earthen building was a kind of earthen city that could live as many as hundreds of thousands of people. There were windows on the building, each equipped with muskets, bows and arrows, bird guns, bowl mouths, wolf machines. Whenever the merchants arrived at a place, they first set up the earthen building, and then recruited the people of various countries to carry goods. When they went out, they could carry the cannon ships across the sea, and when they entered, they ran horses and soldiers, and they were like a country in the country."

Zhang Jing said this with a heartache: "Ship Chen harmed the reputation of the empire and appointed pirates as merchants. They just barely accepted the law in China. They went out and were barely abide by the law. They could not abide by the law. I don't know the situation in the East, but I have been to the South and West."

"Like Lin Feng, there are many dead soldiers under his command, and they will kill people without blinking; many others are not very good, let's talk about Aceh only." Zhang Jing was frightened that time to confer the title of king Lin Feng, and never had the chance to sue: "King Aceh tortures his country, and the state religion is not allowed to drink alcohol or eat pork, otherwise they will be executed, and the same is true for foreign people."

"There are many Portuguese who are unwilling to serve in the West. The Nanyang military government had to wander among the countries. Anyone who went to Aceh and who was unwilling to abide by the laws of their country were executed, but King Aceh only pardoned the Ming merchants there."

"Someone asked him why, but he said that the Ming merchants would not eat pork... The Western ministers didn't care. The Sanyang ministers were the same. As long as they could transport silver and goods, they didn't care what the merchants were doing outside."

Zhang Jing spread his hands: "Original words."

Can't you not eat pork?

"It's really a messy person everywhere...hehehe." Emperor Wanli scratched his hair and pursed his lips. After laughing, he clapped his hands and said, "It should be rewarded, it should be rewarded, the merchants should be rewarded, and the King Aceh should be rewarded, too."

"Isn't that enough for my merchants and military administration to transport silver and goods to the Ming Dynasty? As long as they listen to me, they will leave the two capitals and thirteen provinces, Nurkan and Uszang, and they will do whatever they want and live wherever they want."

"But then again," Emperor Wanli said this very maturely pointed to Akbar's letter, saying: "A handling method like the Akbar king of Mughal is very good. If you don't have to hurry, write a letter to me first. Even if you complain, he respects me very much. This should be recommended as a customization for all ages. No matter which country, if you have any slight ties with my Ming people, write a letter to me first."

"It would be even better if he didn't call me the Khitan Khan, not to call himself the emperor. Although he does not respect silver enough, I think he should be a good king."

As the emperor said, he finally found the place in Bangladesh on the map, shook his head and handed the letter back to Wang An, and said, "Go and send this letter to the cabinet for the teacher to see. I told the teacher that my intention is to ask the King Akbar to discuss with the merchants. The merchants are just for money. If the King can make the merchants earn more silver, they will naturally support the King."

"We must also let him know that there is only one emperor in this world, and I, the Emperor of Ming; if he agrees with this matter and sends envoys to pay tribute again, and presents objects and maps above, I am willing to treat him as a vassal country. Even if he cannot discuss with merchants, I can still issue orders to merchants."

"Go and ask the teacher what it means."
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