open sea

Chapter 1102
Emperor Wanli had read the letter Elizabeth wrote to him, so he knew those routines.

But Wang An said that Akbar was a different person.

"In the letter, he claimed to be the emperor of peace and protection, and he called the king of Beeshabali and the king of Yilibali the sultans. It seems that the two countries in the Western Regions have become one, and he called his majesty the Great Khan of Khitan."

Wang An shook his head as he spoke, helplessly: "Small countries in the western regions change frequently, thanks to the emperor's grandfather setting up a foreign affairs office in the palace. their names."

The emperor was also a little confused: "They, shouldn't they all be cities, how come you hear this letter, it seems to be a country."

To be precise, the current Western Regions is indeed a country, starting from Kashmir in the west, Jiayuguan in the east, and Uzangdu in the south. It is called the Yarkand Khanate.

The ruler at this time was Muhammad, and this country had been quietly established in the west of Ming Dynasty for more than fifty years, with almost no border friction, because although the name of the Yarkand Khanate sounded bluffing, it was actually a tragedy on the grassland. In the east, Daming sits on Xiongguan, on the north border is Oala, which can fight whoever wants to fight, and on the west, the Kazakh Khanate can fight whoever stares at me.

The only place that could make the Yarkand Khanate muster the courage to go to fight after being beaten is Uzangdusi, which belongs to Daming in the south, but there are all kinds of Dharma kings, gods and Buddhas in the sky, it is not unheard of. Said, the grandfather of Sultan Muhammad of the Yarkand Khanate, tried it.

At that time, Said had just established the Yarkand Khanate, and was beaten and disarmed by the Kazakh Khanate, which also belonged to Chagatai, and the Kyrgyz people under his own hands were still fighting for war with East Chagatai. , there was a mass defection.There is no way, Said can only think about invading Uzangdusi to the south, in order to avoid fierce enemies and expand land and power.

In the end, not to mention Ming Dynasty, the provincial administrative unit Uzangdusi alone didn't realize the beginning of this war, and it ended.

As soon as Said entered Uzang, he suffered from altitude sickness—he died.

If he was wise enough to go to Jiayuguan, he might be able to find a better way to die.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty had almost no understanding of the Western Regions, simply because the Yarkand Khanate and the Kazakh Khanate pretended to be Yilibali, and the official documents believed that the country of "Yilibali" might still exist.

Regardless of whether you are the Arab Empire, the Timurid Empire, or the Ottoman Empire, the Ming Dynasty only recognized those countries in the west that were recognized by the ancestors in history. When you come, it is still the same size, or the credential, or the experience. He is the leader of Tianfang, Samarkand and Lumi.

As for what the real country is like, what has happened to it over the years?Daming was completely ignorant and was too lazy to understand.

In fact, the above three countries, except for Osman called Lumi, the remaining two are gone, and Osman has nothing to do to come here to pay tribute. It is now impersonated by the Yarkand Khanate.

With such fineness, is it worth knowing?

During the period of Ming Dynasty's existence, limited by the times and delivery capabilities, the countries that were eligible to receive attention were invisible and intangible, and a few words were only distorted rumors; but the visible and tangible ones?Both are younger brothers, hardly leading to any possible improvement.

So much so that when Matteo Ricci and others came to China, the scholar-bureaucrats would rather endure the drowsy preaching, but also absorb new knowledge produced in different lands like a sponge.

In the forest of countries in the world, until the night before the collapse of Ming Dynasty, she was lonely.

"King Akbar said in his letter that he had no intention of being an enemy of Ming Dynasty, and he treated businessmen from Ming Dynasty with courtesy, but some businessmen from Ming Dynasty wrongly supported the rebellious Bengali nobles, which caused him to defeat the rebellion last year. , King Akbar hopes that grandpa can restrain those merchants from Ming Dynasty."

Wanli stood up suddenly, pointed at himself with wide eyes: "His name is Grandpa?"

"Oh, no, no, in the letter he hoped His Majesty would deal with the merchants." Wang An couldn't help laughing, and said, "It was called by the slave."

"It's more or less the same." Wanli rolled his eyes, as if being called grandpa was an insult, and then calmly sat down on the deck of the Wanli ship table, looking at the map hanging on the wall to find the location of Bangladesh , Talking about sarcastic remarks: "This Mughal is not big, but a few merchants can influence its counter-insurgency... a little weaker?"

Wang An took a breath slowly, and let it out again: "It means that His Majesty doesn't know what it means to be a businessman of the Ming Dynasty in a place other than the Ming Dynasty."

"Currently, according to the report of the Sanyo Military Government, except for the establishment of a unified management company in Dadongyang that needs military ships to resist the pirates rampant on the sea, none of the merchants in the South and the West have warships, and most of them use blessing ships and bird ships. Selling guns and guns, they have all the big guns except General Zhenshuo."

As he said that, he turned his eyes to Zhang Jing, who waited for a long time, then jumped out and said like a cannonball: "From Luzon to Lumi Kingdom, wherever the merchants of Ming Dynasty go, they will build the earthen buildings there." , Tulou is a kind of round earth city that can accommodate hundreds of people as many as a thousand. The earth building, then recruit people from various countries, run boats to carry goods, go out with gunboats across the sea, enter with galloping horses and soldiers, just like a country within a country."

Zhang Jing talked about these things with a sad face: "Chen Shuai damaged the reputation of the empire and appointed pirates to act as merchants. They only reluctantly accepted the law at home. When they went out, they were barbarians everywhere. How can they abide by the law? The people of Dadongyang The slaves don’t know about the situation, but the Nanyang and Western slaves have been there.”

"Like Lin Feng, there are a lot of dead men under his command, and he kills without blinking an eye; the others are not much better, let alone Aceh." Zhang Jing was frightened when he made Lin Feng king I have never had a chance to file a complaint: "The king of Aceh tortured his country. The state religion forbids drinking alcohol and eating pork, otherwise they will all be executed. The same is true for foreign people."

"There are many Portuguese people who do not want to serve the Western and Southern Ocean military forces, so they have to wander among the countries. Anyone who goes to Aceh and refuses to abide by the laws of his country is executed. But the king of Aceh Pardon the Ming merchants there."

"Other people asked him why, and he said that Ming merchants can't do without eating pork... Western ministers don't care, Sanyo ministers are the same, as long as they can transport silver and goods, they don't care what merchants do outside."

Zhang Jing spread his hands: "The original words."

Can't you not eat pork?

"It's really troublesome people everywhere...hehehe." Emperor Wanli scratched his hair scarf and pursed his lips and smiled. After laughing, he clapped his hands and said, "I deserve it, I deserve it, businessmen deserve it, and the king of Aceh should too."

"My merchants and military government can transport silver and goods to Daming, isn't that enough? As long as they follow my advice and leave two capitals, thirteen provinces, Nurgan and Uzang, they can do whatever they want , live wherever you want.”

"But then again." Emperor Wanli said that this was very mature, pointing to Akbar's letter, and said: "It is very good to deal with it like King Akbar of the Mughals. If there is no rush, give the letter first. I write a letter, even if it is a complaint, he respects me very much—this should be regarded as a custom for all generations, no matter which country has a gap with my Ming people, write a letter to me first."

"It would be even better if he didn't call me the Great Khan of Khitan, and didn't call himself the emperor. Although he doesn't respect Baiyin enough, I think he should be a good king."

The emperor said, and finally found the place in Bengal on the map, shook his head and handed the letter back to Wang An, saying: "Go and send this letter to the cabinet for the teacher to see, and tell the teacher, what I mean is Please ask King Akbar to discuss with the merchants, the merchants are only looking for money, if the king can make the merchants earn more silver, they will naturally support the king."

"Let him know that there is only one emperor in this world, and it is I, the Son of Heaven; if he agrees with this matter and sends envoys to pay tribute again, presenting objects and maps, I am willing to treat him as a vassal state, even if he I can't discuss with merchants, but I can also issue orders to merchants for him."

"Go and ask the teacher what he means."

　The king of Aceh executed the Portuguese and pardoned the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, saying that 'they can't do without pork' are the original words, but it didn't happen at this time, but it happened in the seventh year of Chongzhen.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)