My Daming New Empire

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Now that the Timurids have been beaten, it is somewhat difficult to send someone to secretly draw a map.Although the Iranian plateau is not as barren as it will be in the future, most of the ethnic groups here are nomadic, so it is difficult for people who look like foreigners to survive here.

In this case, Zhu Zhanji simply sent a large army in the name of fighting, leaving only 4 Habayashi guards and half of the navy in the local area, and mobilized an army of more than [-] people, pretending to attack the capital of the Timur Kingdom go.

In fact, the army has been gathering near the trading point, and nearly a thousand Yulin Weixue and more than 2000 elite musketeers of the young army have been ordered to gallop north in three directions.

There are a thousand musketeers in a team, and they will not be afraid even if they face thousands of enemies, because the enemy has only knives in their hands and no muskets.

For more than half a month, and all on horseback, you can explore two thousand miles to the north.

This is not a desert, there are a large number of indigenous gatherings, there are roads everywhere, and there are drinking water points.After getting some local maps, as long as they are not surrounded by enemies, their safety can be assured.

The maps drawn by their locals, like the previous maps of the Ming Dynasty, have the problem of disproportion, but the roads and rivers are basically drawn.

According to these maps, and then measure the accurate latitude and longitude points along the way, then the scale of the map can be adjusted.

So this time drawing the map, you don't need to be too detailed, just master the basic route.

This is also a helpless move. Who beat someone and killed more than 3 people!

In Krumos, the eunuchs happily counted the goods that originally belonged to the Timurid kingdom. Those wools, carpets, and tents had all become Daming's spoils of war.

More importantly, there are countless gold.

At one trading point alone, more than 10 taels of gold were counted, which is more than three tons of gold.

They originally wanted to trade with Daming, but they didn't expect that just because Daming's army was prevented from entering the bay, the army would be dispersed and all the gold and goods would be robbed.

Now, they haven't got the goods from Daming yet, and every businessman is in mourning.

However, those who can do business with Daming are not ordinary businessmen. This place has been monopolized by the big tribes of the Timurid Kingdom. Small businessmen can't get in at all, so they can only choose to cooperate with big forces.

So even if he robbed these goods, Zhu Zhanji didn't feel any guilt in his heart.

When departing from Kochi, dozens of merchant ships in the fleet were empty. Daming did not need much goods in India, and the goods from dozens of ships were exchanged for two ships of gold and silver. But now, all these empty ships have been loaded. full.

The porters at the docks, after more than a dozen people died at gunpoint, could only move goods honestly.

Before the soldiers of Habayashi Weixue came back, Zhu Zhanji was not in a hurry.It took a full half a month to load the mountains of cotton, silk, wool, etc. onto the ship.

At this time, except for Zhu Zhanji's spare flagship, all other ships in the fleet were fully loaded with cargo.

Zhu Zhanji asked people to leave two ships of cotton, and the other ships were ready to return to Daming.

In addition to loading the ship, Zhu Zhanji also sent a small fleet to pursue the escaped Emir, but after turning around the bay, he only found the burned ships they had discarded, and no one knew where they went .

But the Ming Fleet didn't run away either. They searched a large circle, and as soon as they found a large ship of more than [-] shi, they all set fire to it.

They did not know how many ships they burned, and the tribes along the coast of the Persian Gulf, one by one, dared not speak out, and all returned to the primitive society.

The construction of a large ship has never been an easy task. Just the wood used to make a large ship would have to be dried in the shade for more than three years.

Once the Ming army ignited the fire, within two or three years, they may build a large number of warships.

Zhu Zhanji is not interested in going ashore to chase the enemy, so let Zhu Di do it later!

What's more, although the current Timur country is torn apart, their soldiers are very powerful in combat. If the Ming people did not have muskets in their hands, they might not be opponents one-on-one.

If Zhu Zhanji launches a war on land, even if he can win the battle, the process will be difficult.

He doesn't have many people around him now, and he is the one who loses his heart, and he won't make Zhu Di happy.

Let others do this kind of thankless work.

As long as you can draw a map of the south and go back to Zhu Di to do business, it will be a great achievement to go back.

When the 3000 people sent out came back one after another, Zhu Zhanji deliberately stated in front of Saifuddin that the road was dangerous and it was difficult to send troops, and he was not going to fight Timur.

At this moment, Saifuddin was about to cry.

He had always hoped that Da Ming could fight Shah Ruh so that he would be frightened and dare not go south.

But if Daming doesn't fight now, when he leaves, he will be the one who will be unlucky.

Of course Zhu Zhanji didn't bother to care about him, anyway, they were a nation, and Shahru would never kill him, he was just asking him for some goods.

Their deal with Daming will make a lot of money this time, even if they hand it all over to Shaharu, it won't hurt them.

It's not that Zhu Zhanji didn't think about robbing them, but he couldn't do it after thinking about it.

First of all, after the Ming Dynasty conquered Timur, such a stronghold was needed in the south.If there is nothing here, a large number of Ming soldiers will come in the future, and logistics will be a big problem.

Secondly, it is still a matter of national image. The Ming Dynasty, as a country in the sky, can never act like a robber. This will be very detrimental to future rule, management, and the formulation of international rules.

What's more, grabbing it once will cause a century of hatred, so it's better to keep it and earn their money slowly.

Zheng He has not been idle during this time, but his energy is not on dealing with the Timurids, but on the Arabian Peninsula across the strait.

Most of this land is desert, with only a few mountains and oases.So whether it is the Mamluk Dynasty or the Ottoman Kingdom, including the Timur Kingdom and the Black Sheep Dynasty that now occupies Baghdad, they have no interest in this place.

In the northwest of the peninsula, it still belongs to the Mamluk dynasty.But the southwest is still composed of small tribes, who struggle to survive on the oasis in the desert.

Taking advantage of the large army stationed in Hulumos, Zheng He also went to the other side to learn about the situation among the tribes, and wrote an overview of the countries in the Western Regions like Chen Cheng and Ma Huan did.

Zhu Zhanji did not restrain him, but supported his actions, because the current Daming just lacks understanding of the outside world.

For thousands of years, Huaxia has always been in a corner because of its rich land, and has never developed to the outside world.

And its influence in the world is pitifully small.

Putting aside their own national pride, the influence of the Chinese on the world is actually very little.

Among the world-recognized influential empires, there has never been the name of the Eastern Empire.In this regard, not to mention compared with the Mongolian Yuan Empire, even compared with the small Ottoman Empire and the Persian Empire, it is far inferior.

Why the Chinese are still being bullied at the top in Nanyang, and why the Chinese are disliked all over the world in later generations, this is because the influence of civilization has never been accepted.

Confucianism is the foundation of a country in the East, but apart from a few East Asian countries, who knows what Confucianism is?

After the prosperity of later countries, they have spared no effort to promote the integration of oriental culture into the world, but they are struggling.On the contrary, because the economy has developed, there are quite a few people who take advantage of it.

Zhu Zhanji wants to promote global colonization and allow Chinese to occupy most of the world. It is not enough to fight and kill, but more importantly, to promote the influence of Eastern civilization on the world.

If the later generations, regardless of whites or blacks, can follow the oriental code of conduct, this will be the greatest success.

The Persian Gulf in April is already extremely hot, especially on the boat.

Zhu Zhanji would not stay in the cabin on weekdays, and specially built a gazebo on the third deck to work in it.

"Today, another 400 workers were recruited from the local area to polish the shells. However, the stonemasons here are all beginners, and the production of shells has not yet made up for the needs. Weichen has ordered more manpower to speed up the grinding of shells."