"Yang Feng, the envoy of Daxia Kingdom, has met the princess."

With a false smile on his face, Yang Feng joined in the meeting with his sister-in-law.

"It is thanks to the ambassador's creativity that the widow can take part in this grand event. May the Buddha bless the ambassador."

Princess Lu, who had already taken off her mourning robe, returned the gift in a hypocritical manner, like a virtuous, chaste and virtuous woman. Then she ignored him and continued to talk to her sister-in-law. She had already left her mourning period and was a married daughter.

It only lasts for one year, and she is one of the biggest sponsors of this grand event of hundreds of monks traveling to the west, so it is natural that she will be there in person.

The little princess and her sister-in-law had a very happy chat.

After all, her sister-in-law is also a big customer of the bank. Even if the future King Lu is not born to her, she is still the real Princess Lu...

My aunt!

Therefore, she still has the final say on Lu Fan's property.

Although there is no King of Lu now, the vassal fields of Lu Fan still exist, as do the various industries operated by the Prince of Lu's Mansion. These add up to a huge amount of wealth, because without King of Lu, there are only a few women and one child. On the contrary,

Expenses are reduced sharply, and wealth is accumulated rapidly.

The little princess is always full of affection for people who can give her money.

Yang Feng stood next to him indifferently, while Zhang Ying watched coldly...

"ambassador!"

A voice shouted from behind.

Yang Feng quickly turned around, followed by the envoys of the trip.

"I, Mr. Qian Guxun, have been sent as envoys to the West as envoys. This is Li Sicong, deputy envoy, Mr. Sixing. Before leaving, Your Majesty has a decree. This trip should be carried out in accordance with the instructions of the ambassador.

I wonder if the ambassador is free?"

The leader said.

There are also some things that are obviously conspiracy in this trip, which of course cannot be mentioned by His Majesty the Emperor, and others don't understand. This is indeed Yang Feng's job, and Zhu Yuanzhang has already said hello to him.

Yang Feng looked at the two sisters-in-law reluctantly. They were holding hands and chatting happily. Princess Lu would occasionally laugh out loud while holding a round fan to block her laughter...

The smile made Yang Feng's hair stand on end.

But in the end he left with the two of them, looking back from time to time as he walked.

"Ambassador, is there any danger in the princess meeting Princess Lu's sister-in-law? Why does the ambassador look worried?"

Qian Guxun said with a smile.

He is a new Jinshi, ranking in the 30s among the top three.

"Well, how can it be dangerous for my sisters-in-law to meet each other? What's more, there are all soldiers here!"

Yang Feng said.

They are indeed not in danger!

But he is in danger!

If the little princess sees something wrong, she can cause trouble when she goes back. This little girl is getting smarter and more alert now. She is no longer the good child she used to be. If she knew that he and she were widowed,

If his sister-in-law really hooks up, it's hard to predict her reaction. Yang Feng really misses the little princess who had no evil intentions and directly helped him seduce Zhang Ying...

How innocent and lovely!

The good times of the past are gone forever.

Of course, now we can only leave it to fate.

He and two pedestrians immediately boarded the latter's ship.

Pingrensi was very important in the early Ming Dynasty.

This yamen currently has one chief executive, two deputies, and thirty-seven pedestrians.

but……

All travelers are Jinshi.

Among the top three Jinshi, in addition to being assigned to serve as county magistrates and the like, they are mainly responsible for arranging human affairs.

Forty Jinshi!

How many yamen can have this kind of treatment?

These pedestrians only work according to the imperial decree, and no other yamen have the right to interfere, and they are not limited to such things as envoys. In fact, the current duties of pedestrians are very complicated, including sending envoys to vassals, comforting chieftains, inspecting vassal fiefdoms, and even investigating for the emperor.

People's sentiments, they do everything.

A bit like a patrol censor.

But it is not like the patrol censor who fixes a certain area.

Wherever the emperor thinks of them, let them go there. Even the tea-horse trade and even recruiting talented people have them. They will even participate in the trial of some special cases. In fact, if you calculate carefully, they are actually

It overlaps with the power of those eunuchs later...

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang, who did not use eunuchs, used them to do what later eunuchs did.

In other words, later emperors who could no longer trust civil servants replaced the power of pedestrians with eunuchs.

Many of them, including envoys, were also eunuchs.

"You two, actually you only have one real mission, which is to coax the Sultan of Delhi to offer a horse.

None of the other things matter.

For example, if you don't talk about it, he would rather join forces to deal with Timur. Timur is his mortal enemy. For example, trade, this is also their dream, but they can't cross Nanyang. The small countries in the Strait of Malacca simply can't.

They are not allowed to pass. So don't worry about these things, just make promises and coax them as much as possible. The key is to ask them to donate horses. As long as they are willing to donate horses every year, everything else is easy to talk about. The more they donate, the better.

If they agree to donate the horses, you can bring some of them by sea when you come back.

The main route is by land.

Your Majesty will arrange for Song Sheng, the commander-in-chief of Gansu Province, to send troops out of Jiayuguan and go south to pick up their envoys."

Yang Feng said.

This is the value of the Delhi Sultanate.

In addition to providing good horses for the Ming Dynasty, they really have nothing else. Even if they do, they can be solved through normal trade. War horses have never been included in normal trade. In fact, ancient India has always valued Marwari horses.

It is controlled and not open to foreign trade.

This kind of war horse is also very precious to them.

Unless, of course, you give too much.

Besides, compared with Marwarima, it was more important to get a strong support to deal with Timur.

They were later destroyed by Timur.

The transportation of large quantities of horses must take the land route, that is, taking the Karakoram Pass trade route from India. At this time, the Khotan area belonged to the Handong Guard of Jixi, and the entire route from Khotan to Jiayuguan was already an active area of ​​the Ming army.

.In fact, before Yang Feng appeared, Lan Yu led his army there. After that, the King of Jin was forced to march westward. Several chiefs from Hami to Khotan, including Qinghai, surrendered. Now Song Sheng and King Su are guarding Gansu and marching towards the goal.

It has begun to turn to Turpan. Therefore, this transportation line is already very safe. Even the Uzbek tribes that can threaten from the other side have surrendered. In short, as long as the Delhi Sultanate is willing to sacrifice horses, then they can continue to send horses through this line.

Hand over to the Ming Army.

At this time, there was no shortage of places to raise horses in Ming Dynasty...

There are wastelands everywhere!

Especially when the soybean planting industry is started, and the sorghum planting is also started, there will be enough feed in the future, and horse breeding will be allowed.

Not only cavalry, cavalry does need good horses, but transportation also requires horses. The wooden rails in Liaodong have been built to the Liaohai Acropolis. According to the response there, the effect is very good. The manpower used remains unchanged. The transportation volume over this distance is better than

It has doubled in size in the past, so it is continuing to extend forward, preparing to build it all the way to Jilin City.

But this is supported by a carriage.

It's impossible without horses.

"What if they want firearms?"

Qian Guxun said.

"Give!

You just brought some rapid-fire cannons and three-eyed guns.

These will have to be eliminated from the Ming Dynasty's firearms within ten years at most, and become junk that no one wants, and will only be used by ordinary people to hunt wild ducks. There is no need to care about these things."

Yang Feng said.

There's really no need to care about these.

After all, the production of matchlocks has begun to increase steadily. The last actual combat exercise made Zhu Yuanzhang very satisfied with this thing. It was a real actual combat exercise and fully tested its value. As for the light cannon, it is also being cast, but because the combat object is not sturdy

City wall, so Zhu Yuanzhang chose to cast one pound of cannonballs. Of course, the lighter the better when chasing nomadic cavalry on the grassland. In fact, the Ming army loved rapid-fire cannons, especially those carried on camels. Even some generals now are not interested in light cannons.

very interested.
To be continued...