changed into the clothes that Zhu Yuanzhang had rewarded, went to the toilet again, brought everything with him, and returned to the hall to follow Xu Huizu to meet Yun Xi.

"Fu An, I have seen Your Majesty, long live long live, long live!" Fu An knelt down in front of Yun Xi, who was leaning on the Luohan bed, and said loudly.

"Fu Aiqing, please." Yun Xi closed the book in his hand and said with a smile.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Fu An stood up and said after kneeling three times and bowing nine times.

"Fu Aiqing, I read your self-report, and I am very relieved that you can still follow Su Wu's story under Timur's coercion and coercion." Yun Xi smiled.

"Your Majesty has praised it." Fu An bowed down and said: "The minister is an official promoted by the first emperor, and if he receives the kindness of His Majesty, how can he take refuge in the barbarians of the West." ”

"Hey, Aiqing doesn't have to be too humble. It's not like you've been captive for a few days, but you've been captive for more than eight years, and it's not easy to be consistent, and I'll be rewarded. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Fu An originally thought that Yun Xi would ask a few more words about how he was loyal and unyielding under Timur, but he didn't expect His Majesty to say this, so he raised the book in his hand and smiled at him: "I see what you wrote in your self-report, you have traveled through dozens of countries in the West?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. The minister followed the men sent by Timur and himself through the west for tens of thousands of miles, visiting dozens of countries. Fu An replied.

"Where have you been? You tell me in detail. ”

"Your Majesty, in the twenty-ninth year of Hongwu, Timur sent an envoy to lead his ministers to visit the place in the heart of his country, which was called the Western Regions in the Ming Dynasty but called Central Asia in his country. Your Majesty, Westerners divide the land of the world into three continents, Asia, Europe and Africa, of which Asia is a large area of land including the Ming Dynasty, India, Tianfang, etc., Europe is the most western piece of land in the entire continent and the Ming Dynasty plus Mongolia and the West Fan is about the same land, Africa is separated from Asia and Europe by the sea, and only a small piece of land in the northeast is connected to the heavens. Among them, the hinterland ruled by Timur is the middle of Asia, so it is called Central Asia. ”

Hearing Fu An's introduction to Western geographical terms, Yun Xi frowned, but didn't say anything.

Fu An continued: "In Central Asia, Genghis Khan's westward expedition was massacred, just like in the Jin Kingdom, because the population of the land was sparse, and the population before the Mongol massacre has not yet been restored. It is also a pity that many books and advanced skills were lost due to the killing of the Mongols. ”

"Around 30 years of Hongwu, there were about 10 million people in the entire Central Asia, basically under the rule of Timur, and the ministers looked at it all the way, but it can be called living and working in peace and contentment."

"To the north of the kingdom are two states, one White Horde and the other Blue Horde, both founded by Genghis Khan's descendants, which were once very powerful, but now they are weakened and forced to pay tribute to their vassals. But they were still not convinced in their hearts, this time Timur's soldiers were defeated and died, and they probably rebelled. ”

In the following two years and thirty-one years, Timur went south to conquer India and carried out it with his vassals. At this time, India was ruled by a single country called Delhi. The monarch of this country was originally not Indian, but Afghans who had passed from Afghanistan, and believed in the Celestial Religion, while most Indians believed in Brahmanism, because of the extremely serious sectarian conflict, and the rule of his country was already unstable. Timur's southward attack easily defeated his kingdom and for a time occupied the city's capital, Delhi. ”

However, Timur had no intention of ruling India directly, and he probably could not rule it directly, so after plundering the city of Delhi, he returned north to Samarkand with his craftsmen. Later, the minister heard that the country of Delhi suffered heavy losses as a result of the war, and the Indians everywhere revolted one after another, and the country was in turmoil. Because Fu An thought that the Afghans ruled India unjustifiably, he used the word uprising in response to the Indian revolt.

After that, Fu An gave a general introduction to the Indian customs he had seen, and continued: "In the first year of the next year, Timur passed through Persia to conquer Anatolia. Anatolia is a piece of land west of Persia, roughly equivalent to the sum of the four provinces of Shandong, Hebei, Shanxi, and Henan. The eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea is Anatolia and the Celestial Sphere, the northern shore is Europe, and the southern shore is Africa. To the west of it is said to be a sea known as the Sea of Atlantic. This sea is as endless as the sea east of Fuso, enclosing the land in the middle. ”

"Timur went west to Anatolia, along the way most of the countries surrendered, only the black sheep country did not surrender, Timur led the army and the battle, the big break, the lord of his country Yusuf fled south, it is said to have fled to Egypt. After that, other countries became more subservient to Timur, and Timur received offerings from various countries and temporarily stationed troops in Persia. ”

But his attack on Anatolia displeased another power. The name of this country was the Ottoman State, and the minister wrote in his own account that it was located in western Anatolia and was a powerful state. The country fought with Timur for eastern Anatolia for the next two years, and fought repeatedly until Jianye was defeated in the fourth year and his ruler was killed in battle. Timur then divided the Ottoman kingdom into four and gave each of his four children and grandchildren a share and divided and ruled. Timur then returned to Samarkand with his troops. ”

Fu An also talked about what he had seen and heard in Persia, Anatolia and other places, and continued: "For more than a year after that, Timur was preparing for the Eastern Expedition to the Ming Dynasty, and during this period, he also sent people north to attack the White Horde, the Blue Horde and the Golden Horde. On the 16th day of the first month of this year, he decided to go east to conquer the Ming Dynasty, and officially sent troops at the end of the month, and the rest of the battle was this battle. ”

"Is the West so big?" After listening to Fu An's introduction, Chen Ji and Xu Huizu said in unison. They have long adhered to the traditional Chinese concept, believing that the Ming Dynasty is the center of the world, and the size of the West should be very small. But Fu An's answer subverted their cognition.

"Your Majesty, two lords," Fu An said cautiously: "Although the Ming Dynasty is the first powerful country in the world, regardless of the land and population, it is the first in the world, but the land in the world is tens of thousands of miles, and the Ming Dynasty only accounts for one-tenth of one-two, even if you count Fusang, Korea, Siam, Mongolia and other countries that submit to the Ming Dynasty, it is only three or four out of ten." ”

"Haha, the world is so big, when Temujin's grandson Batu once went west to the extreme west, about the Europe in your mouth, due to the death of Ogedai illness and led the troops from Europe to gallop back to the river of difficulty, even if the horse did not stop traveling a hundred miles a day, it took half a year to return, which shows the vastness of the world." Yun Xi smiled.

"Your Majesty!" Fu An said immediately. Chen Ji and Xu Huizu also bowed down and agreed.