Emperor Wanli had read Elizabeth's letters to himself, so he knew those routines.

But Wang An said that Akbar was a different person.

"In the letter, he proclaimed himself the emperor of the guardian of peace, called the king of Beishu Bali and the king of Yili as the sultan, and the two countries of the Western Regions seemed to be united, and called His Majesty the Khitan Great Khan."

Wang An shook his head as he spoke, helpless: "These small countries in the Western Regions change frequently, and thanks to the emperor's grandfather setting up a foreign affairs room in the palace, even so, our students have been comparing the tributary list for a long time, and they have not been matched until the Yongle Dynasty. ”

The emperor was also a little confused: "Shouldn't they all be cities, how can you listen to this letter, it seems to be a country." ”

To be precise, the current Western Regions is indeed a country, starting from Kashmir in the west, reaching Jiayuguan in the east, and commanding the envoys in the south, and the great name is the Yarkand Khanate.

At this time, the ruler was Muhammad, and the country was quietly established in the west of the Ming Dynasty for more than 50 years, with almost no border friction, because although the name of the Yarkand Khanate sounds bluffing, it is actually a tragedy on the steppe.

The only thing that can make the Yarkand Khanate muster up the courage to go to the Uszangdu Division in the south belongs to the Ming Dynasty in addition to being beaten, but there are all kinds of Dharma kings, gods and Buddhas there, it's not that they haven't tried, and the grandfather of the current Yarkand Khanate Sultan Muhammad Saeed has tried.

At that time, Saeed had just established the Yarkand Khanate, and was beaten by the Kazakh Khanate, which also belonged to Chagatai, and the Kyrgyz under his command also defected on a large scale because they wanted to start a war with Eastern Chagatai. With no choice but to think of invading the Uszangdu Division south, in order to evade the fierce enemy and expand his land and power.

As a result, not to mention the Ming Dynasty, the provincial-level administrative unit of the Usizangdu Division alone did not realize the beginning of this war at all, and it was over.

As soon as Said entered Uszang, he was killed by altitude sickness.

If he had been wiser to gnaw at Jiayuguan, he might be able to change his way of dying in a more beautiful way.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty knew almost nothing about the Western Regions, simply because the Yarkand Khanate and the Kazakh Khanate both pretended to be Yili to pay tribute, and the official documents believed that the country of 'Yili Li' might still exist.

It doesn't matter if you are the Arab Empire, the Timurid Empire, or the Ottoman Empire, the Ming Dynasty only recognizes the countries recognized by the ancestors in history to the west, if you come, or that scale, or that national letter, or that what you have seen and heard, then you are the head of the ground in Tianfang, Samarkand and Rumi.

As for what the real country looks like, what has happened over the years? The Ming are ignorant and too lazy to understand.

In fact, the above three countries, except for the Ottomans called the Rumi Kingdom, the remaining two are gone, and the Ottomans have no heart to come here to pay tribute, they ...... All of them were impersonated by the Eastern Chagatai Khanate in the past and now by the Yarkand Khanate.

Is it worth knowing about such a condition?

During the time period of the existence of the Ming Dynasty, limited by the times and the ability to deliver, the countries that are eligible for attention cannot be seen or touched, and a few words are only distorted rumors when they are heard; And what can be seen and touched? Both are younger brothers, and can hardly bring any possible progress.

So much so that when Matteo Ricci and others came to China, the scholars would rather endure drowsy preaching than absorb new knowledge from different lands like sponges.

In the forest of the world's countries, until the night before the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, she was lonely.

"King Akbar said in the letter that he had no intention of being an enemy of the Ming Dynasty and treated the merchants from the Ming Dynasty with courtesy at home, but some merchants from the Ming Dynasty mistakenly supported the rebellious Bengali nobles, which caused him to fail to quell the rebellion last year, and King Akbar hoped that his grandfather would restrain those merchants from the Ming Dynasty."

Wanli stood up suddenly, staring at himself with wide eyes: "His name is Grandpa I?" ”

"Oh, no, no, no, he said in his letter that he wanted His Majesty to deal with Shang Jia." Wang An couldn't help but laugh and said, "It's the slave who called it." ”

"That's pretty much it." Wanli rolled his eyes, as if it was a big insult to be called grandfather, so he calmly sat on the deck of the Wanli ship's table, looked at the map hanging on the wall to find the location of Bengal, and said cool words: "This Mughal is not big, but a few businessmen can influence its counterinsurgency...... Weaker, right? ”

Wang An took a slow breath and spit out a long breath: "That's because Your Majesty doesn't know what it means to be a Ming merchant outside of the Ming Dynasty." ”

"At present, according to the report of the Sanyang Military Government, except for the establishment of a unified management company in the Great Eastern Ocean, which needs military ships to resist the pirates rampant on the sea, the Nanyang and Western merchants have no warships, and most of them use lucky ships and bird ships, but the Southwest Eryang Military Government sells guns and artillery to the merchants, and they have all the big guns except for General Zhenshuo."

Speaking, he looked at Zhang Whale on the side, Zhang Whale waited for a long time, jumped out and said like a cannon: "From Luzon to Lumi Country, where the merchants of the Ming Dynasty go, they will repair the Tulou there, Tulou is a kind of round earth city that can live in hundreds or as many as 1,000 people, there are windows upstairs, each with firearms, bows and arrows, bird guns, bowls, wolf machines, rich businessmen and giants set up Tulou first in a place, and then recruit the people of all countries, run ships to move goods, out of the gunboats across the sea, into the horses and Chen soldiers, like a country in the country. ”

Zhang Whale said these with a sad face: "Chen Shuai has harmed the reputation of the empire, and appointed Haikou as a businessman, they are only barely accepted by the law in the country, and they are all destroyed in all directions, where can they abide by the law, the situation in the Great East is not known to the slaves and maids, but the slaves and maids of the Nanyang and the West have been there." ”

"For example, Lin Feng, there are many dead soldiers under his command, and he kills people without blinking; Many others are not much better, not to mention anything else, just Aceh. Zhang Whale was frightened when he gave Lin Feng the title of king, and he never had a chance to complain: "The king of Aceh tortured in his country, and the state religion is not allowed to drink alcohol and eat pork, otherwise they will all be executed, and the same is true for foreign people." ”

"There are many people who are unwilling to serve in the Western and Nanyang military governments, so they have to wander among the countries, and all those who go to Aceh and do not want to obey the laws of their country are executed, but the king of Aceh only pardons the Ming merchants who are there."

Others asked him why, and he said that Ming merchants couldn't eat pork...... The ministers of the West don't care, the ministers of the Sanyang are the same, as long as they can transport silver and goods, they don't care what the merchants do outside. ”

Zhang Whale spread out his hands: "Original words." ”

Can't you do without pork?

"It's really full of people...... Hee-hee-hee. Emperor Wanli scratched his hairkerf and pursed his lips and smiled, and after laughing, he clapped his hands and said: "It should be rewarded, it should be rewarded, the merchant should be rewarded, and the king of Aceh should also be rewarded." ”

"My merchants and military government can transport silver and goods to Daming, but this is not enough? As long as they listen to my words and go out of the two capitals and thirteen provinces, Nurgan and Uszang, they can do whatever they want, and they can live wherever they want. ”

"But then again." Emperor Wanli said that this was very mature and pointed to Akbar's letter, and said: "Like the Mughal king of Akbar, this way is very good, in case of trouble, write a letter to me first, even if it is a complaint, he respects me very much-this should be pushed to the custom of eternity, no matter which country, and my Ming people, write a letter to me first." ”

"It would be better if he didn't call me the Khitan Great Khan and didn't call himself emperor, although he didn't respect silver enough, I think he should be a good king."

As he spoke, the emperor finally found the place in Bengal on the map, shook his head and handed the letter back to Wang An, saying, "Go and send this letter to the cabinet for the teacher to see, and tell the teacher that I mean to ask the king of Akbar to consult with the merchants, and the merchants are only for money, and if the king can make the merchants earn more silver, they will naturally support the king." ”

"I also want him to know that there is only one emperor in this world, and it is me, the son of tomorrow; If he agrees with this and sends an envoy again to pay tribute, offering his goods and maps, I am willing to treat him as a vassal state, and even if he cannot consult with the Shangjia, I will be able to give orders to the Shangjia for him. ”

"Go and ask the teacher what he means."