Zhu Biao summoned Fu An and Chen Wende in the morning. Under the attention of a group of officials, the two excitedly walked into Fengtian Hall again.
The last time Fu An came here was seven years ago, and the person sitting on the dragon throne was the late emperor who had high hopes for him.
"My lords, Fu An and Chen Wende, pay homage to the emperor. Long live the emperor!"
"Pingshen!" Zhu Biao looked at the two of them with a smile on his face, "The two beloved ministers went on a mission to the Western Regions and returned after seven years. They not only made the Ming Dynasty famous in the Western Regions, but also allowed Timur to pay tribute. They have made great contributions."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
There were tears in their eyes. Under the emperor's words, they felt that all the hardships they had endured and all the sins they had endured in the Timur Empire were worth it.
Next, Zhu Biao summoned the two of them alone in Qianqing Palace.
"I am quite curious about the countries in the Western Regions, but I have been suffering from not having much news. Fu Aiqing has been on mission to the Western Regions for many years, why don't you tell me about the customs and customs of the Western Regions?" Zhu Biao said curiously.
The emperor has a decree, and Fu An will naturally not refuse.
And even if the emperor didn't ask, he was still going to write a memorial about what he saw and heard and present it to the emperor.
Fu An quickly bowed his hand in return and said: "I obey the decree. Your Majesty, all the countries in the Western Regions have been destroyed by the Timur Empire. Now there is only one Timur Empire."
"Oh? Tell me carefully."
Although Zhu Biao had long heard about the Timurid Empire from Han Du, Han Du didn't know much about it. Since Fu An had been in the Timur Empire for seven years, Zhu Biao naturally wanted to hear some details about the Timur Empire.
"Your Majesty, we were all deceived by Timur. He was not an envoy of the Western Chagatai Khanate at all. He was the leader of the Western Chagatai Khanate, and he was also the Eastern Chagatai Khanate. After the death of the leader of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, he instigated the three princes to fight each other. In the end, he took advantage of the situation and captured the entire Eastern Chagatai Khanate in one fell swoop, and then merged the Eastern and Western Chagatai Khanates. Renamed the Timurid Empire. Now the territory of the Timurid Empire is bordering the Ming Dynasty." Fu An reminded with a worried look on his face.
Zhu Biao's expression also became solemn, "The leader of the Timur Empire is the same Timur who came to the capital in the first place?"
"Exactly." Fu An sighed and nodded, "I also arrived in Samarkand, and I didn't know until I saw him that he was the king of the country."
After a pause, he continued: "Your Majesty, you must not underestimate this person. This person fought in the Western Regions, first destroyed the Golden Horde, and then destroyed the Delhi Dynasty. His favorite thing was to massacre cities, and the entire Western Regions were killed by him. Corpses litter the fields, and the ground is covered in red for thousands of miles.”
Zhu Biao couldn't help showing disgust when he saw Timur's bloody massacre. He said in a deep voice: "He is only fighting for land, so why is he killing people wantonly?"
Fu An shook his head and explained: "Your Majesty, you don't know. Although the Timur Empire is fighting everywhere, they don't care about land or people."
"Then what do they care about?" Zhu Biao was confused. It was neither for land nor for population, so why were they fighting everywhere? are you crazy?
Fu An continued: "There is a sect in Timur's empire named Yin Silan."
"I've heard of this." Zhu Biao nodded slightly. When Timur came to the capital to pay tribute, he also brought people from the sect with him. Moreover, those people also called Han Jingyun a goddess at that time, trying to trick Han Jingyun into being a goddess.
Fu An smiled: "But the emperor must not know that this sect is extremely xenophobic. Anyone who does not believe in Yin Silan will be labeled as a heretic. And the Timur Empire has only one way to deal with heretics, and that is massacre."
"What? If you don't believe it, kill him?" Zhu Biao was shocked. What kind of crazy person would it take to do such a heartbreaking thing?
Fu An nodded: "That's right! The Timur Empire is fighting everywhere, not for territory and population, but to make more people believe in their sect. Wherever the army goes, they either go with the Timurid people Believe in the sect and become what they say is a believer, or you will be massacred, there is no third possibility!"
After hearing this, Zhu Biao was silent for a while, and then solemnly uttered a few words, "What a bunch of lunatics!"
"The emperor hit the nail on the head, these people are a bunch of lunatics!" Chen Wende interjected, "I was sent by Timur to travel around, and I have met the Timur people countless times. They were extremely crazy when they believed in the sect. One person in the family believed in the sect. , then everyone in the family must believe it.”
"What will happen if you don't believe me?" Zhu Biao asked casually.
Chen Wende took a deep breath and said with a terrifying expression: "If the husband doesn't believe it, kill the husband! If the wife doesn't believe it, kill the wife! If the son doesn't believe it, kill the son! If the parents don't believe it, kill them all!"
When Zhu Biao heard this, his eyes suddenly widened. Compared with the Ming Dynasty, which established a country based on filial piety, which emphasized respecting parents, harmony between husband and wife, and caring for young children, they are simply two extremes.
"Crazy, crazy, these lunatics!"
It has to be said that when Fu An and Chen Wende first arrived in the Timurid Empire and saw such a scene, they were completely frightened by such crazy behavior. It took a long time to slowly recover. After all, they had never seen such an inhumane person after reading all the books.
Fu An nodded and said: "Your Majesty, Timur's ambition towards the Ming Dynasty has become clear. The Ming Dynasty should be on guard and make preparations in advance."
Zhu Biao looked at Fu An with an ugly expression.
I saw him continue: "When I saw Timur, he had just destroyed the Golden Horde, and he uttered arrogant words, 'If China is far away from me, how can the emperor be like me?' In my opinion, if it weren't for him If you want to pacify the countries in the Western Regions first, you may have already conflicted with the Ming Dynasty. But now there is only one country left in the Western Regions that has not yet been pacified. Once Timur pacifies the Western Regions, he will definitely point the finger at the Ming Dynasty."
Zhu Biao nodded repeatedly after hearing this, "Ai Qing's words are very true. Timur, a lunatic, cannot be treated with common sense. Once he eliminates the threat to the west, he will inevitably turn his attention to the Ming Dynasty in the east."
Fu An couldn't help but smile slightly and felt relieved when he saw that the emperor's chest was clear and organized. Then he thought of something and quickly took out a memorial from his arms and said: "Your Majesty, I was escorted by Timur to travel through various lands and recorded a lot of situations in Timur's empire and the countries in the Western Regions. Please ask your Majesty for your help. View."
"I have also written down some of them and asked the emperor to read them." Chen Wende also took out a memorial.
Wang Yue quickly stepped forward to receive it and forwarded it to Zhu Biao.
Zhu Biao opened it and saw that it turned out to be very important information such as the characteristics of the Timurid Empire's soldiers and horses and city maps. He was immediately overjoyed: "Okay, in the past, the Ming Dynasty knew too little about the Western Regions and the Timurid Empire. With the information you provided This information will be of great use regardless of whether there is war or peace between the Ming Dynasty and the Timurid Empire in the future. You have really made a great contribution to the Ming Dynasty!"
Fu An and Chen Wende laughed together. To be honest, they did not expect that Timur would choose to send people to take them to travel throughout the Western Regions in order to let the Ming envoys feel the prestige of Timur.
With such a good opportunity, the two of them would naturally not be polite at all. Along the way, he recorded all the key intelligence information of the countries in the Western Regions. Sure enough, these things were a great achievement after returning to the Ming Dynasty.
...
Timur sent three thousand cavalry to pursue the Ming envoy, but was easily escaped by Fu An, who was running wildly. Although Timur was extremely unwilling to catch up with the envoy, on the eve of the war with the Ottoman Empire, he did not dare to go to war with the Ming Dynasty again.
Therefore, he transformed the cavalry into a mission on the spot and ordered the mission to go to the Ming Dynasty in the name of the Timurid Empire.
Under Timur's forced order, the mission moved very quickly. Not long after Fu An and others returned to the capital, the mission also arrived in the capital.
Chen Di received the news of the arrival of the Timur Empire envoy and quickly entered the palace to ask for an audience with the emperor.
There have been many good things going on in Ming Dynasty these days. Zhu Biao was in a good mood and immediately summoned Chen Di.
After Chen Di saluted, Zhu Biao stretched out his hand to signal him to get up: "Chen Aiqing, why are you here?"
Chen Di quickly took out the credentials handed over by Timur and said: "Your Majesty, Timur's delegation has arrived in the capital. I will temporarily place them in the joint hall. When will the emperor summon them?"
Zhu Biao was stunned and motioned to Wang Yue to take the credentials. Then I read it again and found that the credential was indeed authentic.
You must know that the Timur Empire has not had any contact with the Ming Dynasty for seven years. Even Fu An and others were lucky enough to be released back.
Fu An and others had just returned, and Timur sent an envoy to meet him?
Zhu Biao couldn't help but ponder for a while, and slowly began to guess the purpose of Timur's mission to come to Ming Dynasty: This mission was probably here to raise troops to investigate crimes.
After all, although the officials did not know what Han Du did in Timur, he did.
Seeing the emperor deep in thought, Chen Di couldn't help but ask again: "Your Majesty, have you summoned them?"
Zhu Biao certainly didn't want to see the Timur mission, but he also knew that if there was no explanation for this matter, they would definitely not let it go.
After thinking for a moment, he said, "I've been busy lately, so I'll talk about the summons later."
Chen Di could only nod: "I obey your order."
When Zhu Biao saw Chen Di leaving, he immediately said to Wang Yue: "Get ready, I'm going to Zhen Guogong's Mansion."
To untie the bell, the person who tied it must still be tied. If this matter is to be resolved, Han Du must come forward.
...
Although Han Du goes to the academy every day, he only goes for half a day in the morning and spends the afternoon hiding in the house and lazing around.
When Zhu Biao arrived, Han Du was setting up a barbecue grill in the yard and enjoying rare time with An Qing.
"I pay my respects to the emperor, long live my emperor~"
"Get up." Zhu Biao walked straight to the table and sat down.
Han Du left the barbecue to the cook, put a plate of mutton on the table and sat down.
"Your Majesty, you must have come here because of the smell. I have just baked it and haven't eaten it yet!"
An Qing immediately rolled his eyes at Han Du and thoughtfully prepared a bunch for Zhu Biao: "Brother, try it."
Seeing Han Du's careless look, Zhu Biao couldn't help but sneered twice and said jokingly: "I came here because of the smell, and it's not just me, there are people who came because of the smell!"
"Who is it?" Han Du looked back nervously and looked out the courtyard door. He had to say that he really didn't prepare much food today. If Zhu Biao was alone, it would be enough for three people. If there is one more person, it will really not be enough to eat.
