Tumeng: I am a national advisor in the Golden Family

"Oh! It seems that the ruler of the East finally wants to have a good talk with me." Pearl Twig said with a charming smile.

They hoped that the Eastern monarch would be sensible and agree to their request, so that in the future all Eastern merchant ships would be protected by the Egyptian dynasty, and their goods would only have to be shipped to Egypt and then handed over to her.

If this deal could be done, Egypt's finances would immediately show high profits and his rule would be more stable. After all, although he actually controlled the entire Egypt, she still had to marry the Sultan in name.

Moreover, a certain caliph was very dissatisfied with his existence. If there were not the threat of Europe forming a crusade again, the great caliph might have taken action against him.

"Go and bring those European merchants over!" Pearl Twig said.

"Great Queen, Your Majesty, these envoys from Europe, they, they left immediately after leaving the envelope. They said they were not envoys, but simply came to deliver a letter." said the servant kneeling on the ground.

The Queen of Egypt frowned when she heard this, but didn't say much.

"Okay, I get it. Bring the letter here and let me take a look." Pearl Twig said.

The servant nodded, took out Zhang Yong's letter very respectfully, and handed it to Pearl Branch lying on the bed.

Unfortunately, the Egyptian queen did not know Chinese, and few of the Persians who accompanied her seemed to know Chinese either.

Zhang Yong was in no mood to write it in Persian so that they could understand it. He went to find a translator himself. From now on, everyone should learn Chinese from me, not me from you.

So the Queen of Eshi had to spend a few days to find an official who was proficient in Chinese from the country.

But after reading Zhang Yong's letter, this official, who was fluent in Chinese, changed his face drastically, sweat even flowed down his forehead, and his legs began to tremble.

"What's wrong? Tell us what's in the letter. What did this oriental monarch say?" Pearl Branch asked impatiently.

What's going on? Judging from this performance, it seems that something bad has been written. Could it be that this Eastern monarch is hostile to him?
But what if you are hostile to me? Can you still hit me? Can you still come and attack me? Even the Ayyubids and Abbasids who are closest to you.

Even the old man in Yingbao Mountain, which is a little further away, is thousands of miles away! Moreover, the Eastern army is not good at expeditions.

"My great queen, I can tell you the contents of the letter, but please forgive me, please forgive my sins. Otherwise, I will never read out the contents of the letter." The official knelt on the ground, bowed to the Egyptian queen Pearl Branch, and spoke with a serious face.

"Hmph! Just say it! No matter what vicious words he uses to attack me, I don't care." Pearl Twig said.

The Eastern dynasties had threatened them many times, but what happened in the end? Even during the Han and Tang dynasties, when they were at their most powerful, they were completely helpless.

"My great queen, the monarch of the East, he said, he said, I heard you are very beautiful.

She says she wants you to go to the East and be her maid. Yes, you can bring her water to wash her feet, take off your clothes, and dance for her.

Your country, we, we Egypt will also submit to him and become his vassal state, if, if you don't agree.

Soon he will organize his soldiers on an expedition to completely and utterly destroy your country, then capture you alive, tie you up, put you on a leash, and move you back to the East.’ Sweat was beading on the official’s forehead.

This letter is so humiliating and contains so much vicious words.

"What did you say? Are you sure you didn't lie to me? The monarch of the East really said that." Pearl Xiaozhi could no longer sit still at this point. His face turned ashen and he was even very angry.

“My great queen, I absolutely dare not deceive you about this letter. This letter is indeed full of many, many vicious verbal attacks.

You are even asked to dress up as a Persian dancer and lead 100 of the most beautiful women in Egypt to dance for her.

Then he wants you to kneel at his feet and kiss his toes.

If so, he will promise not to massacre your people. "The official said helplessly.

This letter was written in a very bold and explicit manner. No wonder those European merchants ran away immediately after delivering the letter. It turned out that this was the reason. They must have read the letter in advance.

These European merchants are very thieves. If they come to deliver the letter, they will definitely be killed by the Queen, right? But it will be hard for me. In this case, the Queen will not kill me, right?

"I heard that the monarchs of the East are all polite. They call themselves a country of etiquette. They shouldn't write such a vulgar letter to me, right?" Pearl Twig asked with a frown.

After all, she had been in the harem of the Abbasid Dynasty and had read a lot of history books. She also knew that the East claimed to be an ancient civilization and that the letters sent by the monarchs were generally very polite.

Even if there were any complaints, they would not be written too viciously. Such frivolous and even provocative words would not be written by an Eastern monarch.

Therefore, he suspected that the letter was not written by the so-called Eastern monarch at all, but was written by this group of European merchants, with the purpose of angering him and then making her fall out with the East.

These evil believers of God, these evil believers of Christ, they have always wanted to harm the believers of Allah, using all kinds of methods and all kinds of vicious words to attack them.

The manner of writing, and the tone of voice, of this letter are more like those of a Christian than of an Oriental monarch.

"Your Majesty, this is indeed possible. Eastern countries have always been polite and would never write such vulgar letters, or even ask you to dance for them. Only those vulgar Europeans would write such letters." Another prince and minister said.

Unlike European countries, they started dealing with Eastern countries a long time ago, even in the Han Dynasty, and they have some understanding of these Eastern countries.

"I think so too. These damn Christians must be trying to sow discord between us." Pearl Branch said angrily.

But you are overthinking this. I have received a very good education, unlike you crude Western barbarians.

"These European merchants left immediately after leaving the letter, which means they must have read the contents of the letter. This letter was definitely written by them pretending to be the ruler of the East."

"But, but, it is stamped with the official seal of the Eastern monarch!" A prince and minister expressed a different opinion.

"A dynasty has just been established in the East and a new monarch has come to power, so we don't know what his seal looks like. It may be forged by these Europeans, so don't pay attention to it." Another prince and minister said.

"How long have those damn European merchants been gone? Send a fleet to chase them immediately. They dared to attack me with such vicious words. I will not let them leave Egypt alive." Pearl Twig said.

"Your Majesty, we were delayed for several days in finding an interpreter. These letters were delivered to the port. By the time they reached you, these European merchants had already left for two days. If we send someone to chase them now, it will take about five or six days. I'm not sure if we can catch up with them?" said a general of the Mamluk dynasty.

"In order to maintain the dignity of the great Sultan, we must eliminate these shameful European merchants. They used shameful words to seriously attack me, the Sultan's concubine and the queen of all Egypt.

So immediately send out five ships to chase them, and do your best to chase them. If you find them, immediately capture them and hand them over to me for processing. "Pearl Branch said.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the great Queen. We will set off now." Several naval generals nodded, turned around and left immediately, leading their troops to pursue.

"Your Majesty! My suggestion is to send an envoy to the East to communicate with the monarch of the East." A prince and minister said.

There was no way. Although they guessed that the letter was a fake, since the other party had sent an envoy, they had to send an envoy symbolically as well.

"Well! Then prepare an envoy, select twenty followers, drive the ship to the East, and negotiate with the Eastern monarch! Oh, and take a copy of this letter with you, and ask the Eastern monarch what he says." Pearl Branch said. According to the habit of the Eastern monarch, after seeing this extremely vulgar letter, he should apologize to them generously, and then let the envoy team leave with a lot of gifts, and then agree to their request.

Agree to the new trade method between the East and the West, and all goods will be shipped to them for sale.

In fact, this matter is not a big problem for the East. The commodities that the East really values ​​are various gems and spices. They don't even look at those commodities of Europeans.

And these things are produced in abundance in their own country and the entire YSL world. They can trade with the East alone. As for the goods sold from the East, they just need to sell them to them at a low price, and then they can sell them to the Europeans.

In this way, the journey for Eastern merchants can be slightly shorter, and basically a round trip can be completed in more than one or two months.

It's much easier than taking the ground route.

"Your Majesty, was the letter sent in the Sultan's name or in your name?" asked an official.

"In the name of the Sultan! No! I remember there is also a queen in the East, right?" Pearl Twig asked.

"Yes, the great Egyptian Queen Dongfang Jushu also had a female monarch emperor who once ruled the entire country during the prosperous Tang Dynasty hundreds of years ago." said an Egyptian official.

"Then send him a letter in my name, in the name of the Queen of Egypt, and tell him that Egypt has changed its master now. The Sultan is only a nominal ruler, and I am the real ruler." Pearl Twig said.

The letters sent by these Europeans were really too strange, considering the character of the Eastern monarchs.

Even if the letter was sent, it should be received by the great Sultan, not herself, the queen, even though she was nominally married to the Sultan.

"I understand, Your Majesty. We will write a reply letter and arrange for a messenger."

"We need to be tougher in our words and attitude. We must maintain our position and tell them that the trade routes between the East and the West must pass through our territory. We have the right to get a part of the profits. If they don't give us this part of the profits, then no one can do this business." Pearl Branch said.

The accompanying official nodded immediately, and soon a letter was written, and then the messenger went to the East with the letter.

Another team of European merchants who were delivering a letter to Zhang Yong were now sailing quickly towards their own country. After all, the letter was really too exaggerated.

Let the Queen of Egypt dress up as a dancer and dance for you, kneel before you, kiss your toes, and tie her up with a dog leash and lead her in front of you.

God! Any ruler would be furious when seeing such a letter, so they secretly opened the letter, read it, and immediately decided to leave the letter and run away.

"God bless us and pray that we can return to our homes safely. This journey is too dangerous." said a European businessman.

Really, King John, no wonder you asked us to come and deliver the letter for you! After all this time, this letter is like this.

"Oh no, Captain, we have discovered that an Egyptian fleet is chasing us. There are five ships in total."

"What was supposed to come finally came. Although we were very fast, the enemy's ships were warships after all."

"Order all the sailors to get down and row. We have to move forward as fast as possible and make sure we get rid of them." said the captain.

Soon, dozens of sailors ran under the cabin, and then the sailboat raised the huge oars, and began to accelerate forward with the help of wind and rowing speed.

If they were caught up by the Egyptian army, who knows what would happen, but fortunately they had made preparations in advance, and now they were not far from the forces controlled by the Europeans. Once they reached their territory, these Egyptian ships would no longer pursue them.

In the East, Zhang Yong was also stepping up deployment of the Western Expedition, and through the intelligence department, he told some teahouses, taverns, and storytelling places that the West had detained Eastern envoys and even killed Eastern merchants.

"Our Daqian Dynasty has just been established, and these barbarians dare to challenge our majesty."

"How can this be? It is really outrageous that they dared to seize our cargo ship and kill our merchants."

"These barbarians have no moral principles at all. When the two armies are at war, why don't they kill the envoys?"

"It is said that His Majesty is also furious and is now organizing a westward expedition to deal with those people from the Black-clad Arab Empire."

"Do you think we can win this battle? Can Your Majesty really handle them?"

"Of course, about seven or eight years ago, your majesty organized a westward expedition. At that time, he led the army and beat those European ants to a pulp."

"That is to say, Genghis Khan also launched a western expedition several decades ago. And don't forget that there are a large number of Mongolian soldiers in your majesty's army. We Han people are not good at expeditions, but these Mongolians love to go on expeditions."

"Anyway, as long as we don't go to the battlefield to fight, it's fine. We can just stay at home and farm the land. When we have nothing to do, we can go out to listen to music and have a drink. That's the best."

"Hahaha! Old man, you are right."

The voices from the public about the expedition became much quieter. After all, the Han people did not need to contribute much to this war, and it would not even affect the lives of ordinary people.

All localities only needed to concentrate all the tax grain they had collected in Daxing Prefecture. In Daxing Prefecture, Zhang Yong opened a food processing factory that produced compressed biscuit powder day and night to store military rations.

Zhang Yong had already made all the preparations. The food and fodder in the government treasury, the horses on the grass, and the cattle and sheep were enough to support this war.

At the same time, action also began on the Mongolian grasslands, and the Mongolian army began to gather. This time, Zhang Yong mobilized 100,000 troops from the entire Mongolian grasslands, plus 50,000 troops from the Ogedei family.

There were also tens of thousands of troops from the Chagatai Khanate and tens of thousands of troops from the Tolui family, totaling nearly 180,000 Mongolian cavalry.

As for the Han army in the east, Zhang Yong selected 50,000 prisoners from across the country, formed an army with them, and promised them that as long as they could make meritorious services, their crimes would be forgiven.

At the same time, Xixia and Tubo also symbolically sent some troops to participate in this war.

On the Mongolian grasslands, Zhang Yong promised all the herdsmen that as long as they were willing to join the Western Expedition, each person could bring two family members, and their family would receive ten livestock as compensation, and a large amount of food would also be distributed.

But if he is the only son in the family or is too old, he can be exempted from military service this time.

The most active among them was Hulagu of the Tolui family, who was looking forward to this Western Expedition very much.

Because this is what Zhang Yong promised him. He did so many things for Zhang Yong, the emperor of the Daqian Empire, wasn't it just for this?

After moving away from the West, he would be able to establish his own Khanate in the western territories and no longer be restricted by the Mongolian steppes.

Now anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Mongolian grassland is doomed, unless the monarch dies suddenly. Otherwise, based on the opponent's policies, the entire Mongolian grassland will be destroyed.

In the future, all the kings of the East and West will lose their military power, and all Mongolian cavalry will be loyal to Zhang Yong, even his own troops. (End of this chapter)