Zhao Peng discovered that there was actually his old acquaintance in the foreign envoys! Li Laiheng also saw Zhao Peng, turned around and nodded to him and greeted him.

Next to Li Laiheng, there was a young general in white robe. He had thick eyebrows, big eyes, fair skin, and very young. Zhao Peng estimated that the young general was about the same age as him. Later he learned that the young general was named Zhang Dingguo, and he was Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son. When he learned that the Ming Emperor's wedding, Zhang Xianzhong sent his adopted son Zhang Dingguo to celebrate and present a gift.

Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and the Mongols all sent people to send congratulatory gifts, and even enemy countries like the Qing Dynasty sent envoys.

However, the envoys from the Qing Dynasty were extremely arrogant and refused to surrender to the Ming Dynasty. They also claimed that the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty were brothers, and were on equal terms.

Because it was a happy day, Zhu Cilang suppressed his anger and Zhao Peng did not have an attack. He just patiently watched the performance of the Qing Dynasty envoy Li Shutai, and asked him to go back wherever he came. But out of politeness, the gifts they sent were still accepted with a smile.

Zhao Peng has seen all the gift lists given by envoys from various countries. The most realistic gifts were sent by Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and Japan. The gifts sent by other countries, such as Siam, Annan and Myanmar, Elephants sent by India, a pair of Bengal tigers, an English East India Company sent a pair of Indian leopards, and even a lion sent by the distant Kunlun continent.

Zhao Peng accepted these animals one by one for Zhu Cixuan. Not only did he accept them, but he also personally negotiated with the envoys from Myanmar, Siam and Annan, and proposed to buy a large number of elephants.

Elephants are a good thing. If they could form a war elephant soldier composed of a few cents of elephants and step into the Central Plains, the cavalry of the Qing Dynasty had never seen these giants before. When war horses saw elephants, they would inevitably be in trouble.

Mongolian cavalry archers could not beat the war elephant. One war elephant carried three soldiers, a musketeer, an archer and a spearman. He sat on the back of the statue and used an archer to shoot archers. The range was much further than that of the Mongolian cavalry's cavalry. Moreover, the elephant was not afraid of arrows, and the war horse would be injured if it was hit by an arrow.

The Qing Dynasty did not know how to deal with war elephants. Once they encountered elephant soldiers, they would inevitably be a result of a crushing defeat. However, Zhao Peng knew how to deal with war elephants. When he sent troops to the countries in Southeast Asia in the future, he would naturally have a way to deal with it. The best way to deal with war elephants is rockets.

The elephant has thick skin and flesh, and the rockets actually cannot harm the elephant. However, the war elephant is much less courageous than the war horses, and is particularly afraid of fire. Once the infantry rockets fire volleys, the war elephant will be disorganized and will trample on its own infantry when it turns around, which will lead to a disastrous defeat.

Another way to deal with war elephants is to use cannons to bombard them. Although the cannons are extremely accurate in this era and only hurt a few elephants, the elephants will be scared when they see fires coming out and make loud noises. As long as the cannons blast, the elephants will turn around and escape, and trample on their own infantry.

By the same token, muskets can drive away elephants.

North Korea sent Korean ginseng and spices from the island countries in Nanyang. The value of these gifts was far less than that of the return gifts given by the Ming Dynasty. Although Zhu Cixuan and Zhao Peng were unhappy with the gifts from these countries, they had to accept them and gave them a certain return gift.

After the morning court meeting, the Ministry of Rites and the Honglu Temple arranged the envoys from various countries to attend the banquet at Fengtianmen Square.

When Zhao Peng walked forward and talked to Li Laiheng, Li Laiheng introduced the young general in white robe next to him: "General Zhang is Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son. He is not only very skilled in martial arts, but also resourceful."

Just now, when Zhang Dingguo presented Zhu Cilang with a gift, he had already introduced himself. Zhao Peng knew that his name was Zhang Dingguo. So he turned around and saluted Zhang Dingguo: "General Zhang is such a young hero!"

When Zhao Peng said it, he thought to himself: Didn’t Zhang Xianzhong have an adopted son named Li Dingguo, who is a famous general and a national hero? Who is this Zhang Dingguo?

But Zhao Peng, a novice in history, didn't know at all. In fact, Zhang Dingguo was Li Dingguo, and his original name was Li Dingguo. Later, because he became an adopted son of Zhang Xianzhong, he changed his surname to Zhang, so he was called Zhang Dingguo. In the original time and space, after Zhang Xianzhong's death, Zhang Dingguo restored his original surname and changed it back to Li Dingguo.

Through conversations with Li Laiheng, Zhao Peng knew that Li Zicheng was not having a good life at this time. Although the Qing army could not break through the front Hangu Pass and the Fenhe Valley defense line in the northeast, a Qing army detoured through Mongolia and fought from Yulin and Yan'an to the north. The Dashun army was building a defense line in the north of Xi'an to support it.

Li Zicheng, who originally disliked each other, had no choice but to give up his plan to attack Sichuan, temporarily joined forces with Zhang Xianzhong, and asked Zhang Xianzhong to send troops to help him resist the Qing army together.

Zhao Peng asked: "I wonder if the Daxi Army is willing to send troops to assist Dashun?"

Zhang Dingguo replied: "The father only wants to protect himself, so how can he send troops to resist Jiannu? If we send troops and Li Zicheng will not trust and instead conquer Sichuan, what should we do?"

Zhao Peng said: "General Zhang Xiao, go back and tell you the king that Dashun and Daxi's lips are gone. Once Dashun is defeated, Jiannu will inevitably lead his troops south to take Sichuan. Can you resist Jiannu then?"

Zhang Dingguodao: "The loyal and brave generals understand this and have advised their father many times, but their elder brother Zhang Kewang repeatedly opposed the generals, slandered his father and stopped him from sending troops to assist Dashun."

"Has Mr. Chen Zilong, the envoy of our Ming Dynasty, arrived in your great western world? I wonder where Mr. Chen Zilong is now?" Zhao Peng thought of Chen Zilong and asked again.

Zhang Dingguo replied: "He has already traveled along western Sichuan to Qinghai and Tubo, and asked the Tubo people to discuss the purchase of war horses. Originally, he was buying war horses with our army, but our Daxi Army now does not have many war horses."

The fifth day of the emperor's wedding was the matter between the emperor and the empress at home. The emperor had to bring the empress to familiarize himself with the palace situation, arrange eunuchs in the palace, and also have to accompany his family to have a family banquet, because Zhu Cilang was only left with Princess Kunxing, and the fifth day was the emperor and the empress accompanied the eldest princess to use a family banquet. After the fifth day, the emperor's wedding was completed.

But what surprised Zhao Peng was that on the fifth day, Zhu Cixuan actually invited Zhao Peng to attend the family banquet.

Han Zanzhou, who came to announce the imperial edict, said: "Zheng Yonghou, the emperor treats you as his family. He goes to the palace today, but the emperor, the empress, the imperial concubine and the princess share the family banquet."

Zhao Peng entered the palace and went to the Qianqing Palace to attend Zhu Cixuan's own family banquet. Although there were only five people sitting at a table, the table was filled with delicacies of mountains and seas. There were eighteen cold dishes alone. It was expected that the hot dishes to be served will not be less than this number, and there would probably be desserts, fruits and so on. Such family banquets were something that I could not even imagine during the Chongzhen period.

Now that Zhu Cilang is rich, he naturally becomes much more generous and can spend money with his hands and feet. After all, this is the last day of the emperor's wedding ceremony, so we can't be too vague.

When Zhao Peng arrived, the emperor, empress and imperial concubine had not arrived yet. Even Princess Kunxing had not arrived yet. Zhao Peng stood alone at the wine table and did not dare to sit down, so he could only stand there and wait.

After a while, Zhu Cilang walked out, on the left was the queen Shi Yuting, on the right was the imperial concubine Ma Lianer, and Princess Kunxing followed her brother and sister-in-law and walked into the Ganqing Palace.

"I will meet your Majesty, long live my emperor!" Zhao Peng hurriedly bowed and bowed.

Zhu Cixuan stepped forward and helped Zhao Peng up with his own hands: "Brother-in-law gets up quickly, they are all their own family members, why should the family banquet be too polite?"
Chapter completed!