My Daming New Empire

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Walking out of the red carpet, at the end is Zhu Zhanji's dragon chariot.The newly built cement road is wide and smooth, and everyone stands on both sides to welcome them.

The soldiers of Habayashi Guard had already disembarked and lined up on both sides of the road to prevent anyone from colliding with Longjia.

They were all carefully selected, each tall and expressionless, one holding a musket and the other holding a horizontal knife handle, and they were lined up crosswise, separating the distance from Zhu Zhanji's local natives.

Not to mention, this posture is very intimidating. When the natives saw these soldiers, their legs went limp.

Zhu Zhanji sat on the dragon chariot, and under the guard of three thousand feather forest guards, the dragon chariot walked slowly.

After his dragon chariot passed by, the natives waiting on both sides could line up to follow in turn and drive towards the newly built palace.

Now there is no welcome ceremony for future generations, because of the language barrier, and the imperial decree will not be read out.

When they arrived at the palace, it was time for Zhu Zhanji to meet them in turn.

Zhu Zhanji was also thinking about it. Although this kind of ceremony is already in place, it seems that some music is still missing.

In the future welcome ceremony, playing some drum music will add some momentum.

Standing beside Zhu Zhanji was Liu Wan. He also put in a lot of effort to build the palace this time.I haven't seen Zhu Zhanji for half a year. At this time, I introduced the construction of this palace to Zhu Zhanji.

The palace is not far from the wharf, covering an area of ​​about 1.5 square meters. There is a moat outside. There is no city wall inside the moat, but a wall of about [-] meters high is repaired with bricks and cement.

This height is also the height at which Ming soldiers stand and aim.

There is an urn city in each of the four corners of the palace, plus the urn city at the front and rear gates, there are six in total.Each urn city can accommodate [-] soldiers, and they are also responsible for the security of the entire palace.

For a newly built palace, there are walls, Wengcheng District, and the front and rear palaces are divided into the inside, which already satisfies Zhu Zhanji.

He praised Liu Wan a few words casually, and the guy laughed contentedly.

After Zhu Zhanji entered the palace, he went directly to the main hall without going to the harem to change or wash.

After the internal servants and the Ministry of Rites and Jin Yiwei made arrangements, they began to summon the vassal kings.

Because there were too many people, a banquet full of Ming flavor would be arranged after the interview, so this interview did not come one by one, but entered the meeting hall together.

If the king and the prince come together, the two will meet, but if the king does not come, only the prince or the envoy will be seen.

Even so, when the representatives of each city-state met in turn, and everyone simply said a few words through the official, more than an hour had passed.

Everyone was hungry, so they directly arranged to eat on the flat ground of the martial arts field in the side yard.

For this banquet, Wang Jinghong has been preparing for two months.From the Eight Immortals table for eating, the Taishi chair, to the position that everyone should arrange.

From the order of each dish to the preparation of raw materials, he spent a lot of thought.

There were nearly 600 guests, and Daming's side was not limited to this number, and each table had to be arranged with a high-ranking general or clan, and an interpreter. A total of 150 tables were set up in the courtyard.

Such a large-scale banquet and a wide variety of dishes all make the small vassals of these city-states look like bumpkins who have never seen the world.

They don't have the habit of using chopsticks at all, and they don't know how to use them. In order to accommodate them, most of today's dishes can also be grasped.

This was convenient for them, but it also made most of Daming's accompanying guests not eat well.

They don't use paper to defecate, they just wipe it with their left hand and then wash it. Although they don't use the same hand, it's also disgusting!

After eating, all the vassal kings went back to their palaces contentedly, waiting for Zhu Zhanji's private interview.

The ten-mile-long and five-mile-wide island on the inner side of the bay of Kochi had been sold to Daming by the country of Kezhi for [-] gold coins.

The north side of the island is the wharf area and Daming's palace, but the south side was provided by Daming to the feudal lords in other parts of India free of charge, so that they could build palaces or consulates.

Almost all the vassal kings have built their own houses on the several mu of land allocated to them. Even if they don't live here, they will trade with Daming in the future.

So some poor vassals simply built a large warehouse.

"Your Highness, this is the order in which you will meet the vassal kings. Four hours a day, each country takes a quarter of an hour to meet, and it will take eight days to meet all of them."

As a leader, there are certain things that must be done, just like this kind of interview, which cannot be shirked.

Zhu Zhanji also knew that this was a necessary procedure, so he took the list and asked, "In what order is this sequence arranged?"

"The first is the leader of the Kochi Kingdom, and then the representative of the most powerful Delhi Sultanate here. The latter order is arranged in the order of the thousand-character text after the country name is translated into Chinese characters."

What Wang Jinghong didn't say was that for this order of interviews, the leaders of all countries were arguing, and he had to mediate for a long time before he persuaded the countries to follow the rules of Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "This arrangement is good. Although this is the Western Region, since Daming is recognized as the suzerain, we should follow our rules."

Wang Jinghong smiled bitterly and said: "That's what I said, but now in the Western Regions, there are only more than [-] countries that recognize me as the suzerain country, and most of them are countries that are close to the sea. Those who are not close to the sea are almost all the first time with my Ming Dynasty. It is not easy to get in touch and make them obedient."

Zhu Zhanji can also understand that I am far away from the emperor, and I have little to do with you. There is no threat to survival, so why find yourself a father.

Those countries that are close to the sea want to take advantage of Daming.Just like Ariel Kunel, the lord of the Mount Ceylon Kingdom, saw that Ming Dynasty was making a lot of money trading with Indian countries, so he became jealous and wanted to grab money and ships.

It's just that he overestimated the strength of his own people and underestimated the strength of Ming soldiers.

The [-] soldiers were easily defeated by less than [-] naval soldiers organized by Zheng He.

With only two thousand soldiers led by Zheng He, he was able to directly attack their capital and capture Ariel Kunel alive.

"The Delhi Sultanate refused to let other countries come, but at the same time sent people here. Do you know what they think?"

Wang Jinghong was clearly prepared, and said calmly, "Your Highness, it is clear that the Delhi Sultanate became the Sayyid dynasty the year before last. Their king still needs the support of the Timurid kingdom because of his first accession to the throne..."

"What does the Saeed dynasty mean? A sultanate still has so many halls?"

Wang Jinghong said: "The Delhi Sultanate has gone through four dynasties since its founding 200 years ago. They have a similar succession pattern to the Mongols. When the previous king died, they inherited the throne according to their power. Although these four dynasties were all It's the Delhi Sultanate, but it's not related by blood."

Zhu Zhanji understood that this is a new ruler who has seized the throne, and his influence is definitely not very great.It is necessary to please the Timur country while bullying the neighboring small countries as ordered to sow discord.

He thought for a while and asked: "You have been here for several months, what's your opinion? Do you need me to teach you a lesson?"

Thank you, thank you for the reward, brother, for your support

Chapter 39 The Delhi Sultanate

Since his voyage to the West, Wang Jinghong has basically understood what kind of person his highness is.

In many ways, he is very similar to the majesty who ascended the throne with great military exploits.

Although his personality seems to be very good, he never gets angry easily, and likes to be reasonable in everything.But in terms of cruelty to the enemy, it is even worse than that His Majesty.

Many times, His Highness did not look like a young man at all.He is meticulous in thinking, sophisticated in action, good at taking advantage of situations, and very good at layout.

This trip to the West, he has a complete plan for everything, and he doesn't need anyone to point him out.

Not to mention that he is still a young man, even an adult is not as good as him. The prince is 40 years old this year, but in many respects, he is still not as good as the grandson.