The eldest grandson of Emperor Ming Dynasty!

Zhu Ying does not object to the vassal kings developing their overseas influence, he does not want to suppress the vassal kings too much.

In history, the emperor always suppressed the vassal kings, because he was worried that his throne would be unstable, and he was even afraid that the vassal kings would seize the throne.

Of course, in history, vassal kings had never successfully rebelled. Now that Zhu Ying entered the palace, Zhu Di naturally had no chance again.

It's just because of the particularity of the Wa country that the four major vassal kings are prohibited from causing war conflicts.

If it was in the Middle East, Zhu Ying wouldn't care so much, he could develop however he wanted.

The first month of the 30th year of Hongwu.

This year's Zhengdan is as lively as ever.

With the rapid development of Jingshi's economy, the current Jingshi is in a thriving state regardless of all walks of life.

The most important thing is that the law and order in the capital is very good.

With the permission of Zhu Ying's order, the Department of Public Security expanded rapidly, and the number of personnel in the Department of Public Security registered in the capital alone was nearly 4.

Including all the streets and alleys of the capital.

Any petty theft will be severely cracked down immediately, and anyone who finds out will be sent to labor reform immediately.

Due to the shortage of construction land in the country, as long as a person commits a crime, the starting point is two years of labor reform, and the free labor is not in vain.

Especially those idlers who have no life skills themselves, it is a good thing to be reformed by labor.

No matter which industry they are sent to, they will always learn professional skills, so that after they are released from labor, they can be reborn as human beings.

For recidivists, the second conviction will double the punishment, starting with four years.

Under such a governance environment, the law and order of the capital can be described as keeping their doors open at night, especially for businessmen from other places and foreign countries, the business environment is unimaginably good.

In order to prevent unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, Zhu Ying reserved the power to apply for a joint trial among the three divisions after the people are convicted.

Similarly, once an unjust, false or wrongly decided case is caused by an official, dismissal is considered light, and a strict investigation will be carried out.

The rules and regulations are driven by people, and there will always be some people who violate them. There is no way to prevent these things. At least for now, Zhu Ying has made the current Ming Dynasty, at least on the surface, no officials dare to do anything wrong.

In the 29th year of Hongwu's case, most of the offenders were the second sons of nobles and concubines. Many of these people were sentenced to hard labor, and they were not allowed to use any privileges.

Because in any case involving the heirs of officials and honorable sons, Zhu Ying would involve the officials.

The speaker, who was usually holding his breath, naturally used all his strength.

It was also in this year that the situation in Europe changed a lot.

The Ottoman Empire is the overlord of the Middle East, especially after the succession of the monarch Murad I, it launched a large-scale military operation to the southeast of its country.

Occupying Adrianople, an important town in the Byzantine Empire, and changing its name to Edirne, it became the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

This put a lot of pressure on many European kings, but Europe, which itself was full of contradictions, could hardly say that it united against Ottoman.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ottoman conquered Western Thrace, Macedonia, Sofia, Thessaloniki and the entire northern part of Greece, forcing the rulers of Bulgaria and Serbia to pay tribute.

Subsequently, in the Battle of Kosovo, the Serbian, Bulgarian, and Hungarian coalition forces were defeated.

Great pressure forced the whole of Europe to unite against the Ottoman Empire.

Just like the current grassland united against Timur, the entire European army assembled on a large scale to support the Byzantine Empire.

In things like war, sometimes it really doesn’t matter who has more soldiers. Even if Europe sends a large number of reinforcements, the strength of the troops on the surface is far greater than the invading army of the Ottoman Empire, but it is still a disastrous situation.

There are many factors involved. Perhaps the European coalition forces also had many opportunities to turn defeat into victory, but they missed it after all. In the end, after the defeat of the entire European coalition forces, nearly [-] crusaders were captured, except for [-] noble knights who were redeemed by huge sums of money. Back outside, almost all the rest were killed.

Europe has no way to stop the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, and can only watch the Byzantine Empire getting closer and closer to its demise.

It is precisely because of the winning streak along the way that the Ottoman Empire has become more and more arrogant.

Such arrogance is now from top to bottom with the new successor, the Ottoman monarch Bayezid I.

Therefore, the envoys sent to the Timur Empire were also very strong, annoyed Timur, and thus detained the envoys of all countries.

Of course, it is also an excuse for this matter.

Timur's current army is getting stronger and stronger, and is about to carry out larger-scale military operations to expand its territory.

Seeing that the Byzantine Empire was about to perish, Osman and Timur ended up doing it.

The Mongolian cavalry is really a nightmare for the entire Middle East and Europe. The Ottoman Empire, which has never tasted the taste of failure, is willing to let it go. Naturally, it will have a big fight with Timur.

"Mobilize 50 troops, this time I will personally go to Ottoman."

During the first month, Pierma Black Ma was also called back from Delhi Sultan to attend the meeting.

Compared with the Sultan of Delhi, Ottoman, the hegemonic empire in the Middle East, is obviously more important.

Even Timur was not treated seriously.

The Sultan of Delhi is like a lamb on a sticky board, and Timur doesn't think he can turn a big wave.

But the Ottoman Empire is completely different. At least as far as the entire Middle East is concerned, the current Ottoman Empire seems to have no opponents to speak of.

Before attacking the Sultan of Delhi, Timur wrote to the Ottoman Empire to warn: "You are like ants, remember not to provoke elephants, otherwise we will be ravaged and retaliated by us."

The Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I naturally replied very strongly: "If I am scared away by your army, then my wife will abandon me. But if you flee from my army, all your women will find another His husband."

The two overlord-level kings had a dialogue, and neither of them refused to show weakness. This made the relationship between the Timurid Empire and the Ottoman Empire tense.

The Turkish princes who had been driven out by Bayezid and took refuge at Timur's court created a casus belli for the Ottomans.

Soon Bayezid demanded the allegiance of the emir who had defected to Timur, creating a diplomatic pretext for war.

At the same time, the Ottoman Empire withdrew its siege of Constantinople, the Byzantine Empire, and adjusted its forces to face the war with Timur.

With the exchange of intelligence, the Ottoman Empire's understanding of Timur deepened, and at the same time began to fear.

Even Bayezid regretted that he shouldn't have provoked Timur. The Byzantine Empire is already a boiled duck, but now he can only look at it.

But the words have already been released, so we can't be subdued, then we can only use war to solve the problem.

It's not that Bayezid was afraid of Timur, it's just that from the interests of the empire, it is the most optimal to capture Byzantium first to seize wealth.

Now Byzantium's wealth has not been obtained, and it has fallen into another quagmire of war.

Timur's prosperity has risen in the past 20 years. Although he has achieved great victories in North India, these were not taken seriously by the Ottoman Empire.

A large number of Mongolian cavalry gathered towards the border. With the newly built concrete roads, Timur easily gathered almost 40 troops.

Just after the cold winter, Timur set off from Samarkand with [-] elite cavalry, and after the beginning of spring, he was going to have a great battle with the Ottoman Empire.

The size of the army this time can be said to be where all of Timur's elites are located, and it was under the condition of Timur's personal conquest.

Except for the 30 troops of the Sultan of Delhi, these 50 troops are all the troops that Timur can use. After all, other border areas also need troops to maintain stability, and it is impossible to say that all of them will be taken away.

Of course, it is said that it is an army of 50. In fact, Timur's core elite does not have so many, and most of them are composed of slave troops.

Timur's core elite is probably more than 32 cavalry and a few elite infantry, as well as [-] war elephants.

The main force on the Ottoman side is 5000 people, consisting of the powerful Janiceri Guards, Sipahi cavalry, and cavalry from Serbian ally Stefan plus mercenaries.

If Timur loses this time, it will be a huge crisis for the entire Timur Empire.

"Unfortunately, the distance is too far, there is no way to participate in it at all."

When Zhu Ying received the news, it was already three months later, which was already the fastest.

Normally speaking, even the fastest journey from Samarkand to the Ming Dynasty capital would take nearly half a year.

In order to get better news from the Middle East, Zhu Ying specially built a post station military route specially used to deliver information, and sent special people to deliver the news at a speed no less than a hundred miles away.

Moreover, the information transmission of this special route is carried out at least once every seven days, even if it is usually, and if there is any important information, it will be set off overnight.

For this reason, the Ming court naturally spent a lot of manpower and financial resources. The postmen who conveyed the information were all one man and two horses, and the main members were Mongols, and even the Northern Yuan cavalry.

The reason why a large number of Mongols are used is mainly because they have the ability to sleep immediately.

On the journey from Samarkand to the capital of the Ming Dynasty, especially the section passing through Tubo, it is difficult to build a post station that is too short, and the distance between two post stations is often hundreds of miles.

This special ability of the Mongols allows intelligence to travel through the vast Tubo area day and night.

Three months is already the fastest.

"This is already very good." Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile.

The establishment of the intelligence line and the transmission of a large amount of information allowed Zhu Yuanzhang to see the world with his eyes open.

For Zhu Yuanzhang, the Tubo area was already the farthest border that Ming could touch. Although he knew that there were many countries outside of Tubo, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know about it and had no interest.

We must know that without the special intelligence line established by Zhu Ying, normally speaking, it would take at least three to five years for news from Europe and the Middle East to reach the Ming border naturally.

And if there is no special person to collect this information, it will never spread to Ming Dynasty, let alone Zhu Yuanzhang to find out.

It is also mixed with the influence of cultural differences. Even if someone hears it, no one cares. No matter how the Middle East and Europe fight to death, it will not have the slightest impact on Daming.

You know, in order to maintain this special military line and pass on seemingly useless information, the Ming court would have to spend nearly 40 guan of precious banknotes every year. Before Zhu Ying entered the palace, this was an impossible price for the Ming Dynasty .

Only now that Daming is rich and powerful, can he afford such a money-consuming intelligence line.

The key is that there is not only one intelligence line like this.

Although others are not as costly as this long journey, the total annual consumption is almost 200 million coins.

The 200 million Guanbao banknotes are nothing now, but before the reform of official salaries, this is the total annual salary expenditure of officials in the entire Ming Dynasty.

"When the Ottoman Empire fights with the Byzantine Empire, Da Sun thinks which one will have a better chance of winning."

When the grandfather and grandson were chatting, Zhu Yuanzhang asked along the way.

Zhu Ying didn't hesitate at all: "Of course Timur won the victory."

Zhu Yuanzhang was a little surprised: "Is Dasun so sure?"

Zhu Ying shrugged and analyzed: "In today's world, there are really few people who can beat Timur. Even our Ming Dynasty, if we are close to Timur, the outcome can be regarded as a [-]-[-] split."

"The area where Timur is now located was once the historically powerful Persian Empire. Due to the nature of the geographical area, Timur is now a semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic composition. Such a composition is very easy to form a powerful combat force. "

Hearing the word Persian, Zhu Yuanzhang also nodded in agreement.

In fact, Persia had a lot of exchanges with the Central Plains Dynasty, even very intensive. Compared with the Central Plains period, it belonged to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Even now, Ming Dynasty has been influenced by Persian culture.

The Ming religion in the novel comes from the branch of Persian religion in the Central Plains.

Although the current Timur Empire is said to be dominated by Turkic Mongols, it has already been assimilated by Persian culture.

Including the current court language is Persian rather than Turkic.

The official institutions that Timur now controls in various places are basically composed of Persians, and the Persians are also the most populous group in the Timur Empire, and they are the main body of the entire empire's human and material resources.

There is a saying that troublesome people come out of poor mountains and bad waters. The geographical conditions of the Timur Empire are very harsh.

The high mountains of the Zagros Mountains, and then the endless, rugged and complex Iranian plateau, and many arid and water-deficient deserts are comparable to the strong city and Libitong of Ming Dynasty.

In other words, when Timur played against Ottoman, Timur could enter Ottoman without worrying that Ottoman would come over.

The Ottoman Empire, located on the Anatolian plateau, would have a lot of discomfort when entering Timurid territory, which is equivalent to a natural barrier.

To put it simply, I can send troops to fight you at any time, but you have no conditions to send troops to fight me.

"When Osman and Timur fight, our ocean-going fleet should be almost approaching, and we can put some pressure on it then."

Zhu Ying said with a smile.

This pressure, of course, is for Timur.

Who said that the current Timur is too powerful, this is not in line with Ming's interests in Central Asia and Europe.

Especially now that Timur has detained the envoys of Ming Dynasty, which gives a good excuse.

Although the strength of the ocean-going fleet is only over 1, the deterrent power of the treasure ships of Ming Dynasty is more than that.
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Thank you guys for the monthly pass. It was originally two days to add more changes, but ended up with pulpitis. The pain was so painful that I stayed up all night.

After tooth extraction the day after tomorrow, I will gradually return the fillings and additions, thank you for your understanding.