After some conversation just now, Yunxi and Timur had a preliminary understanding of each other, Timur stopped talking about these sensitive topics for the time being, raised the teacup on the table in front of him and took a sip, and said, "This is, tea?" ”

"Yes, it's tea." Yoon-hee replied.

"I've also drunk tea from where in your Ming Kingdom in the past, why is the taste so different from this? I've also heard that the best things of your Han people are only sold domestically and not exported to the outside world, which is completely different from other ethnic groups, but how can the difference between the tea exported and the tea sold in the country be so big? Timur was surprised.

"It's not that we don't export good things to the outside world, it's just that good things are expensive, and the risk of exporting them is high, and the demand is small, and the local people in Daming can afford to buy them, so there are few merchants who sell them out." Yun Xi has always had little confidence in the conduct of businessmen, and the reason why the best things made in China cannot be seen abroad in this era is purely because the profits are not much higher, but the risks are much greater, so no one sells them.

"But when it comes to tea, it's different. For the peoples in the west and north, tea is of great benefit to them, it is a necessary thing, in order to deal with them, our country has always strictly controlled the export of tea, and the tribes who do not listen to the words of the Ming Dynasty refuse to export tea to him. In this case, those who are willing to travel thousands of miles to transport tea to the northwest to sell will not have good tea. ”

"In addition, the tea you drink is the best tea in my Ming Dynasty, which only produces a few dozen taels a year, and only the royal family can drink it, which is naturally much better than the tea you drink brought over by a merchant." Yun Hee explained with a smile.

"It's delicious! Since I was old, the doctor told me to drink less alcohol, I can only drink milk, goat's milk, very fishy, not delicious, and then I heard that the Han people produce tea and sent people to buy it, at that time I thought it was already the best thing in the world, I didn't expect you to have such a delicious tea here. Timur lamented.

"Aren't you Heavenly Sectarians forbidden to drink?" Yun Xi noticed this.

"How can anyone who leads troops to war not drink!" Timur said: "Although it is written in the Gulan, it cannot be completely written according to it!" You can't drink alcohol if you don't change, and you can't suffocate to death. ”

"That's right!" Yun Xi smiled: "I didn't like to drink before, but then I did. ”

"That's it, that's it!" Timur echoed: "How can you be considered a man if you don't drink?" I happened to have brought a bottle of fine wine, you ......" He didn't finish his sentence when he suddenly coughed.

"Doctor Xuan! Call Timur's servants up! Yun Xi immediately commanded in Chinese.

Song Liang, the guard who followed him, was already suffocated to death, he couldn't understand Mongolian, he didn't know what Yun Xi was talking to Timur at all, and he was very bored. Suddenly, he heard Yun Xi's order, hurriedly agreed and walked to the door of the carriage, and said a few words to the waiter waiting outside, and the waiter immediately jumped out of the carriage and ordered Timur's servant to get into the carriage first, and then go to the imperial doctor.

The servant got into the carriage and gently beat Timur on the back, and slowly Timur eased up and said to Yunxi: "I wanted to taste wine with you, but I can only forget it." ”

"But I have another drink here, so I promise you haven't had one." At this, he turned his head and said to the servant in Khorezm: "Samache, take out the coffee beans." Then he turned his head to Yun Xi and said, "This is a kind of land from Africa, oh, Africa is a continent further south than the place of the great cannibals, and the natives are very dark, we all call them blacks." This drink is only produced there, and now only the big cannibals will eat it or soak it in water, and the taste is very unique. Would you like to taste it, Your Majesty? ”

Yun Xi knew what it was the moment Samache took out the coffee beans, and immediately smiled: "Naturally, I want to taste them." ”

Samachi then brewed coffee in the pantry of the carriage under the guidance of the waiter, brought it and poured two cups in front of Yunxi and Timur. Timur raised the cup in front of him and made a 'please' gesture to Yunxi.

Yun Xi raised his cup and took a sip, and suddenly a familiar and unfamiliar taste came. It's really a good coffee bean, and it's completely different from the instant coffee I've drunk in my life. In the previous life, it would be at least a few hundred cups. ’

Perhaps it was the effect of coffee that made the atmosphere in the carriage more relaxed, and Timur asked what unusual customs, peculiar cultures, and various specialties of the East were; Yun Xi also asked about the strange things in Central Asia, West Asia and other places, and laughter came from time to time in the carriage, and they talked happily.

However, of course, such a relaxed atmosphere could not last long, and Timur would rather be captured than meet Yun Xi to talk about this. Slowly, although he was still sitting opposite Yunxi, he was already leaning against the window.

At this time, the carriage was already approaching the Chinese army camp of the Ming army, he looked at the endless flow of Ming soldiers outside, and suddenly asked: "There is something I have never understood. According to the people of Semu who surrendered to our country, there is enough food for half a million people in Hami City to eat for half a year, and it is said that there is still a lot of food in the city east of Hami City. ”

"I have also arranged spies in the Hexi Corridor of your country, and none of them have reported that a large amount of grain has been transported to the northwest recently. Even the grain that happened in Guangzhou at the end of the previous year, after the Wu and Wu Gu cases, did not increase much. And after their investigation, they found that since six years ago, the amount of grain transported to the northwest has increased. At the same time, you sent an eunuch to the northwest to preside over the construction of the railroad track. ”

"It shows that you've been preparing for this battle since at least six years ago. So," Timur looked at Yunxi: "How the hell do you know that I plan to conquer your country?" "There is no other reasonable explanation for what Yun Xi had done before than to show that he knew that Timur was planning to go east. Even if he divided a prince in Hami, he would not need to prepare so much food.

This was one of the two questions Timur wanted to ask Yunxi.

Facing Timur's burning gaze, Yun Xi couldn't help but be in a trance for a moment, and then said: "What if I say that I plan to invade Samarkand eastward? ”

"It can't be!" Timur said categorically: "I have carefully read all the records since you came to power, and you have always been very cautious and will not do such an irrational thing. ”

"I can't just be impulsive?" Yun Xi asked rhetorically with a smile but not a smile.

"It's also possible. But if you're going to go east to Samarkand, you shouldn't make that arrangement. All your arrangements are defensive, not offensive. So you should have known that I was going to go on a crusade, so you made these preparations. After Timur said this, he stared at Yun Xi with burning eyes again.

"You're right, I did know in advance that you were going to conquer the Ming Dynasty. But it is not known by the fact that there are spies arranged in Samarkand or elsewhere in your country, but by the revelations of the Buddha and the Taoists. ”

Yun Xi successfully saw the confused and puzzled look on Timur's face, raised his coffee cup and drank a cup of coffee, and then continued: "It was the Buddha and the Taoist Ancestor who let me know your plans, so I began to prepare for your crusade six years ago. ”

"It can't be!" Timur lost his voice and said: "No matter which sect of immortals, they will not send an oracle because of such a thing!" ”

As the king of a country, although Timur still believes in the Heavenly Religion, the countless experiences he has accumulated make him doubt whether the gods and Buddhas really exist, but in order to unite the people under his hands, he pretends to believe in them very much. He was well aware that all the oracles during his years of life were invariably false, and were used to appease people's hearts or fulfill their own ambitions. But now, the emperor of the Ming Kingdom actually told him that he was inspired by the Buddha and the Taoist Ancestor, so that Yunxi knew that he planned to go east to conquer the Ming Dynasty.

He looked at Yun Xi's expression very seriously, trying to find out the signs that he was lying, but Yun Xi just looked at him with an honest face, and there was no trace of lying. Not only him, but his servant Samaha also looked at Yoon-hee with a shocked expression.

Even so, different religions should be hostile to each other. You Han people are not devout about the faith, and even if you send an oracle, you will not descend in a country like Ming. Timur said again.

"Normally, that's true, but this time it's not the usual situation. Both the Buddha and the Taoist Patriarch told me in the revelation: If you are not prepared, this time Timur's eastern expedition to the Ming Kingdom will be victorious, and the Ming Dynasty, the most powerful country that allows the spread of Buddhism and Taoism today, will become a country of Tianfang Religion, and Buddhism and Taoism will collapse from now on, and other countries that worship the two religions will not be able to stop the iron horse of Samarkand, so they will send me a revelation. Yun Xi continued to say without blinking.

"This, this," Yun Xi said as if there was some truth, but why did it always feel wrong?

"In addition, you should have heard Salha talk about the Buddha's apparition in the camp of my Ming Eastern Expeditionary Army last night, which is also the Buddha's help in order to block the Eastern Transmission of the Heavenly Sect. It's just that the Buddha can't use much mana in the world, and he can't directly interfere in the situation in the world, so he can only rely on mortals to fight against mortals, so he only uses Master Fangzheng to manifest his spirit once. Yun Xi continued to say without blinking.

After a while, it was not until the carriage had entered the camp of the Chinese army and came to the camp where Yun Xi usually rested that Timur came to his senses and said to Yun Xi: "No wonder, no wonder. It turned out that this battle was a divine war caused by the gods in heaven in order to compete for believers. ”

"Now that I think about it, so many people told me about the risks of the Eastern Crusade, and the probability of victory was extremely small, but I still insisted on going my own way and decided to go on the Eastern Crusade, most likely because Allah sent a hint in my mind to let me go to the East, so I went to the East."

"That's why all the armies led by this crusade are all armies that believe in the Heavenly Sect, and there is no army composed of people who believe in other religions: because this is a divine war, how can it be participated by infidels!" Timur put everything on Allah.