Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

Chapter 520 Lao Zhu's Teaching Emperor's Philosophy! (monthly ticket)
Zhu Yunxi's showing off to Old Zhu Xian is only one aspect, the most important thing is to show off to overseas diplomatic missions, let them know how far he is from Daming.

Zhu Yunxi took the time to look at the Damingyang delegation, seeing their stunned looks, he felt a sense of relief.

Looking at some nobles from Europe, I feel even more proud.

Zhu Yunxi invited many people this time, not only Korea, Japan, Ryukyu, Vietnam and other countries around the Daming Ocean, but also envoys from Central Asia and Europe.

It's just that Europe is in chaos at this time, at the end of the Holy Roman era, and the early days of the independence of the principalities. Looking at the whole of Europe, there are only a few dynasties, plus a group of grand dukes who have just split from Rome. .

However, he is still very concerned about the Mamluk dynasty in Egypt, and has been arranging special people to be in charge of reception.

The reason why Zhu Yunxi paid special attention to this interest in the Mamluk dynasty from Egypt was mainly because they occupied a very important location, guarding the throat of the Daming Ocean connecting the Mediterranean Sea.

If Zhu Yunxi wanted to build a canal here, he could not do without the support of the dynasty established by the descendants of the Kipchak Khanate.

As for the envoys of other European princes, whether it is France or England, they are all other small countries to Ming Dynasty.

After all, their real rise will be 200 years later, and they are too small now...

The entire West is now the era of the Kipchak Khanate and the Timur Empire. These two peoples on horseback are whipping the entire Western world with a whip and plundering endless wealth from them.

Even a certain Mao, who was hailed as a fighting nation in later generations, is now just a Principality of Moscow, and has not yet completely escaped from the shadow of the Golden Horde.

At Zhu Yuanzhang's birthday banquet, both the Timur Khanate and the Chincha Khanate sent envoys to present gifts.

Naturally, Zhu Yunxi could not be disrespectful when dealing with these two countries. Not only was he equipped with special escorts, but he also had a relatively front seat to observe the ceremony.

In addition to these distinguished guests, there is another envoy from the Holy See representing the current Pope Boni IX.

Now the European Holy See is more like Japan, split into two organizations, two popes.

Boyi IX wanted to use the power of this mysterious crown prince from the East to unify the Holy See and restore the glory of the Holy See.

Of course, Zhu Yunxi has 1 support for this request. After all, if the Holy See is not strong, Europe cannot continue to remain dark!

Therefore, Zhu Yunxi had long ago sent envoys to express his respect for the Holy See and provided them with considerable financial support, but Bo Yi IX's proposal to convert to God was rejected by him.

Although this action aroused great dissatisfaction with Boyi IX, Boyi IX still forgave this lost lamb from the East because of seeing the [-] glittering gold coins.

When Zhu Yunxi helped Lao Zhu introduce the Jinling North Suburb Industrial Park, these distinguished guests invited by Zhu Yunxi were also looking around curiously, asking about the surrounding facilities from time to time.

"Oh, cake seller!"

"What is such a tall chimney for? It must not be the stairway to heaven, right?"

"Sir Andre, this is the chimney of my Daming factory, it's mainly for exhaust..."

"Then what about these buildings, are they really for humble craftsmen to live in?"

"Yes!"

"But I would like to remind you kindly that agriculture, industry and commerce in our Daming Shi are equal status, craftsmen are not inferior to others, and it is also a very honorable job!"

"Oh, sorry, I don't know that your country still has such rules..."

"May I visit where they live?"

"can!"

This Sir Andre from France, accompanied by a translator, walked into the dormitory of a machining workshop.

As soon as he arrived at the dormitory, Andre felt that his eyes were not enough.I can't say how luxurious this dormitory building is, but many facilities are simply unheard of and unseen.

"What is this clean and tidy room for?"

"Oh, this is the hut!"

"The hut?"

"It is specially designed for people to deal with the body..."

"Oh, I see, we have similar things there, but it's not as clean as yours."

"By the way, I'm sorry to ask, I didn't see any excrement openings outside, how did you deal with... those dirty things?"

The interpreter pointed to the pottery pipes in the toilet.

"We use this kind of pipeline to connect one layer to the next, and then discharge it directly into the ground, and then send it to the treatment plant through the underground pipeline..."

"Oh sweetheart, you Daming are so rich, it costs so much to dispose of such dirty things, and using such exquisite ceramics as pipes is simply too extravagant!"

Listening to Andre's flattery, the interpreter secretly wondered what the other party was making a fuss about, and wondered how they handled these things there.

"Dare to ask this envoy, how do you deal with these things in your country?"

Hearing this, Andre walked to the window, opened the window and pointed outside.

"It's easy!"

"Pick up the toilet and pour it out!"

"This……"

Andre's words caused strong discomfort to the translator, and he almost vomited in front of him.

Before Daming laid this kind of underground pipeline, he never heard of it being dumped directly on the road.

If anyone dares to do that, not only the government will fine him, but his neighbors will scold him to death!

I don't know about other places in Ming Dynasty, at least in Jinling City, there are special people pushing carts to collect them.

"Then your streets are full of these things, people are not afraid to step on them when they walk?"

"Of course I'm afraid!"

"So we all wear these shoes!"

Andre proudly raised the high heels on his feet.

"With this kind of shoes, you won't be afraid to step on those dirty things!"

"Uh uh..."

"But when I return to France, I want to speak to our king and ask him to try your method of underground pipelines in the capital..."

While the British and French ambassadors were fascinated by Ming's sewer technology, Bishop Allen from the Holy See was visiting craftsmen at work.

Allen looked at the busy craftsman standing in front of the huge machine, and issued a torture from the soul.

"Dare to ask my respected Mr. Kong, don't your Ming craftsmen have no faith?"

"Yes, I have!"

"What do they believe in?"

"They believe in hard work to get rich!"

Allen smiled meaningfully when he heard this.

"Can hard work really make you rich?"

Kong Yanjin could naturally hear Alan's disdain, but he had strong confidence in Daming and the emperor's grandson.

"It may not be possible in your far west, but it will definitely be possible in my Ming Dynasty!"

"The craftsmen you see can earn at least two silver coins a month, and as many as a dozen to dozens."

Allen showed a surprised expression on the spot when he heard this.

"Is it the silver coin with your emperor's image on it?"

"Yes!"

"Oh, God, how can you Ming pay such a high wage, the work they do is not worthy of the wages!"

Kong Yanjin snorted coldly when he heard the words.

"Not worthy of you, but they are worthy of us!"

After hearing Kong Yanjin's confident words, Allen fell into silence for a while, and he spoke quietly after a while.

"Dear Mr. Kong, if you can convince your grandson to agree with me to preach here, I can guarantee that these craftsmen will be more obedient and create more wealth for your grandson!"

Kong Yanjin refused without thinking.

"no!"

"His Royal Highness the Emperor Taisun has already said that you will never be allowed to preach in Daming!"

"why?"

Bishop Alan was 1 dissatisfied. He had been in Daming for a while, and he knew that Daming not only had local Taoism, but also Buddhism from the West.

Since Daming can accept the Western Buddha, why can't he accept the more Western God?

"Because you don't know how to be grateful!"

"what?"

"You say we don't know how to be grateful?"

"Mr. Kong, I have to reason with you. You are slandering us and prejudice against us..."

"Everything in your teachings is given by the Lord, completely ignoring individual efforts. This is contrary to what I, Da Ming, have always advocated. Heaven is healthy and a gentleman should strive for self-improvement..."

In the name of work, Kong Yanjin exported the thoughts from the Book of Changes to Bishop Allen.

Amidst the gradually heated debate between the two, the two envoys from the Timur Empire and the Kipchak Khanate had already picked up the arrowheads processed on the lathe and commented.

"This thing is so neat and sharp!"

"If you are shot by this thing on the battlefield, you won't be immune even if you wear three layers of leather armor!"

"It's not just that leather armor can't be spared, ordinary lock armor is also bad enough..."

The Kipchak Khanate and the Timur Empire have been in constant conflict, but during the period in Daming, the two envoys temporarily put aside their prejudices and discussed all the novelties they saw in Daming.

After all, although the two belong to different camps, they have many similarities in culture and religion. Compared with the people of Daming who are not familiar with their places of life, they still have more common languages.

"Dare to ask this lord, can you tell me how much this thing is produced every day?"

The translator looked at the arrow in disgust and said.

"This item is almost obsolete in my Ming Dynasty. Only some old frontier soldiers and newly naturalized Mongolian soldiers have equipment."

"Now is the production control stage, and about [-] pieces can be produced every day."

"what?"

"Such regular and sharp arrows, can you produce [-] pieces a day?"

The translator said proudly.

"What's so strange about that?"

"If it weren't for the emperor's grandson deliberately restricting production capacity, fearing that there will be no place to put it in the warehouse, we will be able to produce millions or tens of millions a day!"

"hiss……"

The two envoys of the Khanate took a breath when they heard the words, and reconsidered their foreign policy with Ming.

Originally, they came to visit Daming with a condescending attitude. After all, Daming asked for them, and hoped that they would jointly send troops to deal with Beiyuan.

However, seeing Daming's military strength now, the two couldn't help murmuring.

Daming is already so powerful that it can beat Bei Yuan, why should it form an alliance with them?

"May I ask this lord, Daming is fully capable of defeating Beiyuan, why should I wait for help?"

The translator replied without thinking.

"Oh!"

"The grandson of the emperor said that I have a small number of people in Ming Dynasty, and I can't afford to be exhausted on the battlefield."

"There are few people in Daming?"

When the two khanate envoys heard this, they felt that this was the biggest joke.

Who doesn't know that Daming is rich in products and has a large population, and it is the most populous country in the world.

However, their emperor's grandson is too small...

If Daming thinks that they have few people, then the Kipchak Khanate and the Timurid Empire, where they can't see a living person for dozens of miles, will cry to death.

"My Ming people are really nice, there are only more than [-] million people..."

When the two envoys heard this, they secretly clenched their fists, wishing to punch this brazen official to death.

This guy's words are too irritating, ten million people are still too few!

This is a number we can't even imagine, okay?

"But it's better now. Under the vigorous governance of our emperor and grandson, the survival rate of newborns in my Ming Dynasty has greatly improved. More than 30 newborns survive every month. And this number is increasing every month. It is expected that before the end of the year Reaching 40..."

The envoys of the two Khanates looked at each other, and both saw shock and fear in each other's eyes.

This is in their territory, the population of a small country may not have so many people...

It can be said that the newborn population of Ming Dynasty in one month is equivalent to that of a country in the Amu Darya region!

The two fell into a long silence after they came out of the machinery processing factory. Since they came to the land of Daming, they have seen the wealth and prosperity of Daming, so there is definitely no shortage of money in Daming.After seeing Daming's military workshop today, I got a taste of Daming's military productivity. It can be seen that Daming's weapons, armor and other equipment are not lacking.

Later, I heard about the number of births per month in Ming Dynasty and inferred that there was no shortage of population in Ming Dynasty, and it could even crush the two Khanates.

Now they have only one hope, and that is that the Ming soldiers' combat effectiveness is not good enough. When they really fight on the battlefield, they are far less willing to sacrifice their lives than theirs.

But can this wish come true?
After all, Daming is also a new empire. It has only been established for more than [-] years, so it should still have the blood and courage of the founding period, right?

After debating for a while, the two could only make a presumptuous proposal.

"May I ask my lord, can you sell a set of arrowhead machines in your country to our country?"

"Our country is willing to exchange gold and silver of equal weight!"

The interpreter immediately smiled when he heard this question.

"Can't!"

"My Ming Dynasty has just made a law that privately transporting lathes and other machines out of the territory of Daming is considered treason!"

"This……"

As soon as the two heard that they were accused of treason, they immediately gave up the idea of ​​buying the machine.

However, both of them expressed full concern about their own country, and felt that it would be a very unwise choice to fight against Daming on the battlefield in the future.

Compared with these overseas envoys from Mingdong and Europe, the overseas vassal states around the Daming Ocean are much calmer.

Because they have seen too much of Da Ming's power, they have long been oppressed by Da Ming's terrifying strength and lose their temper.

The two emperors, Huairen and Xicheng, no longer thought about the revival plan, and began to think about how to curry favor with Daming, send more Ming envoys to Daming, and learn more about Daming's advanced technology.

Li Chenggui, who is from the peninsula, has already considered giving up the throne, immigrating to Ming Dynasty, and becoming a courtier of Ming Dynasty.

As for the mess on the peninsula, just leave it to the sons to deal with it themselves, he is too lazy to take care of it.

While everyone was visiting the mechanical processing workshop, Prince Barkuk from the Mamluk dynasty of Egypt, accompanied by officials from the Ministry of War, turned into an inconspicuous small workshop to visit the production base of the new-style firearms of the Ming Dynasty.

Prince Balkuk came with the mission of forming an alliance. His father's regime was unstable, with constant domestic rebellion and external threats from the Timurid Empire. It was urgent to find a powerful ally.

Originally, they all agreed that Ming Dynasty was too far away to effectively contain the Timurid Empire and the Kipchak Khanate, and they were not optimistic about forming an alliance with Ming Dynasty.

However, Ming's battleship gave them a great impact, especially the artillery equipped on the battleship is even more powerful. It can easily tear apart the forts and castles along the coast, and the blow to the villages along the coast is even more devastating.

Therefore, the princes and ministers in their country decided to send the prince to visit Daming to check the strength of Daming.

Barkuk fell in love with this land of Daming completely after he set foot on it. The climate here is warm and humid, and it is simply the paradise he dreams of.

The scenery here is even more beautiful, revealing a dreamy and unreal feeling everywhere.

In addition, the people here are rich and happy, and everyone's face is filled with happy smiles, which made him think that this is the legendary sacred place where milk and honey flow.

What surprised him even more was that everyone here was gentle, polite and elegant.

If he hadn't seen the brutality and strength of the Ming Dynasty Navy, he would have thought that he had come to a land of benevolence and righteousness full of sages.

You must know that before the emergence of the Ming Navy, the protection fee on the Mediterranean side was collected jointly by them and the Arabs.

Now with the Daming Navy, instead of receiving the protection fee, they have to pay the protection fee to Daming...

"Prince Balkuk, please go this way..."

"This is our firecracker processing factory, and the cannon processing factory is also in this area. I will take you to visit it later."

Prince Barkuk looked into the processing factory and saw craftsmen rubbing iron rods on strange machines and punching holes into the iron rods from the outside to the inside. He couldn't help asking curiously.

"Is this the barrel of a flamethrower?"

"Yes!"

"However, it has to go through drilling, rifling and other links before it can become a qualified barrel!"

"If your country agrees to form an alliance with our country and assist our country in building the Hongwu Grand Canal, our country will sell [-] of these firearms to your country to help your country quell the domestic rebellion!"

"At the same time, our country will also solve part of the food for the workers during the excavation of the Hongwu Grand Canal."

Barcook did not express his opinion on the spot, but asked for some details.

"How long does it take your country to dig the Grand Canal?"

"The time limit given by our grandson is three years..."

Barkuk shook his head hastily upon hearing this.

"No, no, it's impossible!"

"According to your emperor's grandson's request, the canal is at least 400 miles long, and it can't be dug out in three years!"

"No, no, Prince Barkuk, you don't know the strength of our Ming Dynasty. Our grandson said three years, so it must be three years!"

"You have seen the power of our cannons, we can provide a large amount of gunpowder to explode..."

"As long as you can grab enough laborers to help us dig the earth and rocks..."

Barkuk still didn't nod when he heard that, but asked for a firecracker to try shooting outside.

Under the guidance of the craftsman of Ming Dynasty, Barkuk hit the target three times in a row, and after checking the power of the firecracker, Barkuk said excitedly.

"Ten thousand such firearms!"

"If your country can agree, this prince will agree to persuade your father to form an alliance with your country and help your country build a canal!"

Zhu Yunxi, who was accompanying Lao Zhu to visit the factory, thought for a while when he heard Chang Jizu's report.

"Ten thousand handles..."

"The number is really a bit too much. After the canal is built, there will be some resistance to calming the chaos."

When Lao Zhu heard what Dasun said, he immediately asked curiously.

"A little too much of what?"

"What bad things have you done without telling us, you rebellious grandson?"

Zhu Yunxi immediately took out a map from his sleeve and pointed to the narrow strip between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.

"Grandfather, if we want to transport the silk, porcelain, and tea from Daming to Europe, we have to go ashore through here, and then get stuck in the neck by the people here."

"Grandson wants to open up these two sea areas, let Daming's goods go directly to Europe, and earn money from these people..."

Hearing this, Lao Zhu pinched his chin and pondered.

"The amount of work is not low. It will soon catch up with Emperor Sui Yang."

Zhu Yunxi nodded in agreement.

"No way!"

"If it's placed in our Daming, it can force the common people to rebel."

"So, I plan to use the strength of the local people, wait for them to dig through the Grand Canal, and then occupy the land around the Grand Canal, making it the land of Ming Dynasty!"

Old Zhu took the topic and said.

"But now people have made an excessive request, wanting to buy [-] firecrackers from you?"

"Yes!"

Old Zhu smiled confidently.

"It's easy to do!"

"The firecracker has a limited lifespan. Generally speaking, it will be scrapped after firing a few hundred rounds. You can do something about it."

Zhu Yunxie's eyes lit up when he heard the words. Originally, he wanted to use ammunition to control the opponent. After all, firearms are all about ammunition. A firecracker without ammunition is just a fire stick.

However, after listening to Lao Zhu's suggestion, he found that Lao Zhu's method was more secure.

What if the other party hides ammunition privately and suddenly hits me all at once?

Or directly control from the aspect of quality control, and limit the life of their firecrackers to a minimum value!
"Grandpa Huang is wise!"

Listening to Dasun's flattery, Lao Zhu laughed so hard that his eyes narrowed.

"This is just one thing. The second thing is to remember to support other people so that their country will continue to have civil strife. As long as they ask Daming for something, we will always be invincible."

"In addition, you can also find a few enemies for them, so that they are always under the threat of the enemy."

"In short, we can't let them have time to breathe. Only by keeping them exhausted will they not dare to have bad thoughts!"

Lao Zhu taught Zhu Yunxi the emperor's philosophy while sitting on a stone pier by the side of the road to rest. After talking for a long time, he suddenly realized that he hadn't had lunch yet!
"Ni Sun, you won't let us not even have lunch on our birthday?"

(End of this chapter)