My Daming New Empire

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That Fang Bin had been staring at Zhu Di's movements, and when he saw Zhu Di looking at him, he knew that he was about to appear.

"Start playing if there is something to do... retreat to the court if there is nothing to do..."

Wang Yan's sharp voice came out, and the orderly eunuchs lined up by the wall of the main hall spread his words throughout the entire Fengtian Hall.

Fang Bin moved two steps to the left, hugged the chao wat with both hands, bowed and said: "I have an announcement!"

Zhu Di hummed and said, "Fang Aiqing, please speak..."

Fang Bin took a deep breath, straightened up, and said loudly: "In the second year of Yongle, that Xiyi Timur led an army of 20 in a vain attempt to invade our Ming Dynasty. Although Timur died, his heirs now dominate the Northwest. It has become a serious problem for my Ming confidant. As the Minister of the Ministry of War, facing this powerful enemy will not be peaceful for a day, and I ask Your Majesty to send troops to destroy the enemy and return me to a bright and clear world."

The ministers below were immediately awed, although it was well known that Zhu Di was going to send troops and had been preparing for it for several years.

But today it was brought to the court for discussion, which shows that the dispatch of troops is ready.

Zhu Di asked: "What is the origin of this Timur kingdom?"

"When the Mongol Yuan was strong, they made great efforts to conquer the west and established the Chincha Khanate, the Chagatai Khanate, the Wokuotai Khanate and the Iraqi Khanate in the conquered areas. The rulers of the four Khanates were descended from The so-called "Golden Family" also regards the Great Mongol Kingdom as their suzerain.

This Timur came from the Xichagatai Khanate and had an intermarriage relationship with the royal family.

Later, there was civil strife in the Xichagatai Khanate, and Timur supported Huxin, a relatively weak family of the Xichagatai Khanate who was related to him by marriage.

In the first year of Hongwu, he killed the brotherly Xichahatai Khan Huxin, declared himself the heir of the Chagatai Khanate, and established the Timur Empire.

This Timur country was the former Xichahatai Khanate.And the Eastern Chahatai Khanate is now attached to our Ming Dynasty. Regardless of Turpan or Yili, these areas are all the Eastern Chahatai Khanate that was once split from the Chahatai Khanate.

Now all ethnic groups are being bullied by the Timurid Kingdom, and now there is the Principality of Turpan, the special envoys of Yilibali and other countries have asked my Ming Dynasty for help, hoping that my Ming Dynasty can eliminate foreign troubles. "

Zhu Di asked loudly, "Where is the special envoy of Yilibali in the Principality of Turpan?"

Wang Yan shouted loudly: "It is said that the envoys from the Liucheng, Huozhou, and Turpan tribes of the Principality of Turpan have an audience... It is said that Yili has received the envoys of the Uyghur, Kazak, Kirgiz, Mughal and other tribes..."

A group of envoys wearing national costumes entered the hall under the leadership of the servants.There are 14 people in their party, they are the envoys of seven tribes, one prince and one envoy minister.

Entering Fengtian Hall, they knelt down on the middle wooden board on the bottom floor and kowtowed together.

Zhu Di's expression was very kind at this time, and he said a few words to the envoys one by one to "comfort".

Of course, these people have already communicated with each other. No matter when the Ming Dynasty sends troops, it must be a "justice army" and there must be a just reason.

And this time, of course, it is to save the various ethnic groups in the Northwest who have been bullied by the Timurid Kingdom.

The turmoil in the audience seemed to have nothing to do with Zhu Zhanji. He changed his normal style today and behaved abnormally heavy, keeping his head down all the time.

However, Zhu Gaochi was very happy, and his eyes glanced down from time to time, flirting with a group of civil servants.

Zhu Di's western expedition was originally opposed by many people, mainly because of lack of money.

The cost of the Western Expedition was too high. According to Da Ming's consistent war capabilities, the manpower and material resources consumed in the journey of tens of thousands of miles were beyond the affordability of Da Ming today.

Although Zhu Zhanji established the Daming Development Bank and became the court's purse, he provided Zhu Di with more than 500 million taels of silver.But in the past two years, Daming also spent an additional 500 million taels of silver in military expenses.

All of this was carried out slowly with the support of generals and the strong promotion of Zhu Di.

But gradually, the ministers changed their thinking, because Zhu Di went out to fight, leaving more room for them to toss.

No matter how you look at it, Zhu Gaochi is much easier to fool than Zhu Di.

When Zhu Zhanji returned from the West, no one in the court opposed the Western Expedition.

The military generals want to make contributions, and the civil servants hope that Zhu Di will run as far as possible.

Zhu Zhanji looked at Zhu Gaochi's radiant face, thinking that he was about to face the biggest blow in his life, and felt pity in his heart.

This is also the reason why he changed from normal today and behaved very low-key and heavy.

Zhu Di wanted to keep him in charge of the country, so he couldn't possibly say that he didn't know anything about it at the beginning.

As a son of man, fighting for power with his father, if he still behaved happily, it would be too shameful.

On the general's side, Zhang Fu, who stood at the top, was very calm.

Since Zhu Di insisted on keeping him in the capital, he knew that Zhu Di would never act according to everyone's expectations, he just liked to catch everyone by surprise.

Zhu Di wanted to let the grandson supervise the country, and he had specifically told him a few days ago that he should stay in the capital to assist the grandson.

At first, when he knew about it, he was also surprised by Zhu Di's boldness, but after thinking about it later, it was in line with Zhu Di's character.

Moreover, in Zhang Fu's opinion, the grandson is definitely more suitable to supervise the country than the prince.

It's just a pain for the prince. He has always wanted to be a good prince these years, but compared with the genius grandson, he is still much worse.

Regardless of his ability, he is much worse in terms of vision.

In the court, there was a talented prime minister like Jian Yi, a pragmatic person like Xia Yuanji, and a capable person like Yang Rong, all of which he couldn't seem to see.

Yang Shiqi, whom he valued, is quite knowledgeable about current affairs, but he is just a man with high eyesight and low abilities.As for the people raised by Zhan Shi's house, they all recite poems against each other, and they are good at writing stereotyped essays, but how many of them can do things?

On the other hand, Taisun, all the people he wins over are pragmatic people, and each of them can play his own role.

Even he himself bowed down in front of Taivu Mainland.

He was the first one on the right, facing the crown prince sitting on the second floor, seeing his radiant face, what Zhang Fu thought about was his miserable expression later.

Zhu Gaochi saw Zhang Fu's gaze swept over, and also looked over.The eyes of the two met in the air, and Zhu Gaochi smiled and nodded to Zhang Fu.

This assistant is a British duke. Although he is not the tallest among lords, there are several dukes who can compare with him.

But he is the highest position among the nobles, and he is also a highly respected person who is highly respected by generals and honored.

His sister is the noble concubine in the palace, and his daughter is his respected concubine. No one can match this honor.

The father was about to go out, but he called Zhang Fu back from Jiaozhi, which must have been prepared for him to supervise the country.

Zhang Fu's eyes were calm, and he nodded lightly with Zhu Gaochi, regretting that he married his daughter to him.

Zhang Fu withdrew his gaze, followed the group of civil servants, and finally landed on a group of envoys kneeling in the hall.

All this in front of me is just acting, and everything is preparing for the expedition.

When Zhu Di and this group of envoys finished their performance, they left the hall, and the real meat of the show came.

The little eunuch held out a seven-color imperial decree, and silently came to Wang Yan who was obliquely in front of Zhu Di. Everyone held their breath and waited for Wang Yan's voice.

"Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, the imperial edict said: There is a remnant of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty in the northwest, Timur, who refused to obey the king, repeatedly harassed our Ming Dynasty, and spied on the civilization of the Central Plains.

Yilibali, Turpan and other countries have been our Daming vassals for more than [-] years since the Qing Dynasty.