Daming: I help my wife be the empress

The day after he was placed in the Huitong Hall, Sima Yi submitted the letter of credence, expressing that the Yarkand Khanate was willing to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, a list of tribute items was also presented.

Then he waited for Daming's reply with peace of mind.

Sima Yi doesn't like beauties, but loves to eat and drink.

Although he just walked through a street when he entered Nanjing yesterday, the delicious food and drinks in the restaurants and restaurants along the street have already aroused the glutton in his stomach.

Therefore, after submitting the credentials, he couldn't wait to let his entourage go outside the Huitong Hall to buy all kinds of delicious food, wine, and fruit drinks from the Ming Dynasty.

The mission did not carry musicians or dancers, and the congregation did not have this service.

There was nothing to entertain, so the three of them chatted while eating.

"Fourth prince, do you think the Ming Dynasty will accept us as a vassal state?"

After seeing the power and wealth of Ming Dynasty, Mamaiti, the deputy envoy, was worried that Daming would look down on the Khanate and was unwilling to accept the Khanate as his younger brother.

Sima Yi was cooking roast duck without any princely demeanor.

Hearing this, he chewed the delicacy in his mouth, and said vaguely: "Don't worry, I did some research on Daming through domestic documents and businessmen before coming here.

The Ming Dynasty most liked to accept small neighboring countries as vassals, and was particularly generous to the missions from the vassal countries who came to pay tribute. "

The military officer Chi Lesu is greedy for money, his green eyes lit up when he heard this topic, and he asked, "Does the Fourth Prince know how Da Ming is generous? Will he reward us with many gold jewels?"

Sima Yi smiled and said, "Among the tributes we presented were several boxes of precious stones and gold ornaments, do you think Daming will give us the same things? Even if we reward them, they will not be many.

Our tributes this time are mainly camels, horses, and jade. Not surprisingly, Daming should reward us with top-quality silk, porcelain, as well as pens, inks, papers and inkstones.

The individual value of these things may not be as high as gems and gold, but the gifts from Daming may be as many as several carts.

If this is the case, we can definitely make a fortune by bringing these rewards back to the country and selling them to the west. "

"That's great!" Chi Lesu applauded happily, and then went to the hall to drink and dance with the flagon.

After admiring Chilesu's dance for a while, Mamaiti said: "Fourth prince, I think that if we want to get more rewards from Ming Dynasty, we should give some benefits to those in power, or even please the emperor of Ming Dynasty.

This is like doing business. On the surface, we give some goods, but in the end we get absolutely more. "

Sima Yi nodded, "You're right, let's ask someone to find out which minister of the Ming Dynasty is in charge of the tribute and rewards, and what the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty likes."

"Yes."

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Two days later, the Yeerqiang Mission had no idea who was in charge of the tribute and rewards in the Ming Dynasty, but they found out the preferences of Empress Zhaowu of the Ming Dynasty.

"Emperor Zhaowu likes beautiful women?" Sima Yi said incredulously, "Are you sure you haven't been deceived?"

It was really hard for him to imagine that the female emperor didn't like handsome men, but actually liked beautiful women.

It's too weird.

Mamaiti said: "I have inquired about this matter very clearly, and there is absolutely no falsehood. However, Emperor Zhaowu didn't like ordinary beauties, but talented beauties."

"A talented beauty? What kind of talent do you mean? The talent to serve women?"

"No, it's said to be a female warrior, or a housekeeper."

"Hiss," Sima Yi frowned, "If we talk about beauties who can sing and dance well, our Khanate has a lot of them, but it's hard to find such female warriors, housekeepers, and beauties."

Mamaiti said: "Our Khanate is so big, we must be able to find a few. This time there is no chance, next time you might as well bring a few over to present and try."

Sima Yi nodded.

Mamaiti added: "If our Khanate can't find a suitable one, we can still buy it from the west. There are frequent wars in the west and the thriving slave trade, so there must be a suitable one."

Another day.

Yuan Shu, Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, brought Yan Ermei, the diplomatic envoy, to negotiate with the Yaerqiang mission.

After the two parties got to know each other, Yuan Shu said bluntly: "Yerqiang is free to become my vassal of the Ming Dynasty, but I have never heard of any vassal encroaching on the suzerain's land.

In the past, my Ming Dynasty had seven guards including Hami Guard in Kansai, but today there are still five guards occupied by Yarkand.

Since Yeerqiang wanted to recognize Daming as suzerain, he asked to return the occupied land of the five guards first. "

Sima Yi couldn't help being stunned after hearing the translator's words.

Return the occupied Hami and other places?
Did Hami belong to Daming?
Although he knew some things about the Ming Dynasty before he came, he didn't know about it.When I heard it now, I was very surprised.

When he came back to his senses, Sima Yi couldn't help asking: "May I ask Yuan Shaoqing, which lands are the Hamiwei and other five guards referring to? Is there a map for us to look at?"

Sima Yi still held the last bit of luck in his heart, hoping that the translation was wrong, and Yuan Shu said that Hamiwei and other places were not Hami in the east of Turpan.

It should be known that Hami is now an important city ranked among the top ten in the Khanate, and it even ranks second in the Turpan area, which is very important to the Khanate.

Yuan Shu nodded to Yan Ermei.

Yan Ermei unfolded the map of the Western Regions that he brought in front of Sima Yi and the others, pointed to the five places marked with Chinese characters, and said, "Look, these are Hamiwei, Shazhouwei, Andingwei, Quxianwei, Atanwei."

Sima Yi compared this map with the map of Turpan in his memory, and suddenly found that if the territory where the five guards were located was given to Daming, more than half of Turpan would be lost!

Just as Sima Yi was frowning and thinking about what to do, Mamaiti whispered a few words in his ear.

Sima Yi frowned slightly, and then said: "Yuan Shaoqing, this matter is too important, and I am not an envoy who can make the decision. Please allow me to report to the Great Khan when I return home."

Yuan Shu smiled and said, "Yes."

He also didn't say what would happen if Yarkand didn't return the five guards—anyway, if the court felt that it could send troops to attack Yarkand, it wouldn't be too late to justify taking back the five guards.

Now threatening to send troops will only make Yarkand wary.

Then Yuan Shu said: "My emperor has already seen the tributes of Yaerqiang and rewarded them. This is the list of rewarded items, you two can take a look first."

After finishing speaking, Yuan Shu asked Yan Ermei to hand over a bilingual list of Chinese and Mongolian.

As the continuation of the Chagatai Khanate in Yaerqiang, Sima Yi naturally recognized the Mongolian language.

As a result, he saw that the silk and porcelain in the reward were more than half less than he expected, and there were not too many four treasures of the study, but a lot of top-grade glassware, Sima Yi's eyes lit up immediately.

Mamaiti leaned over and saw a large number of names of glassware in the second half of the list, and his eyes lit up.

Because glassware is more expensive than porcelain in the Western Regions nowadays, if the glassware rewarded by Emperor Zhaowu is really top-grade, then they will make a lot of money in this tribute.

So Sima Yi tentatively said: "We are just paying tribute of some camels, horses, jade and jewelry, but we have to give so many precious glassware. We are really flattered by the great emperor's generosity."

Yuan Shu said, "A few top-grade glassware may be priceless in the Western Regions, but they are not considered precious in the Ming Dynasty."

What Yuan Shu said was the truth.

The price of these things that Aunt Zhu rewarded in Nanjing was basically the same as the tributes from the Yeerqiang Mission.

Sima Yi and Mamaiti thought that Yuan Shu, an official of the Ming Dynasty, was habitually modest, and they were secretly delighted.

Therefore, when Yuan Shu and Yan Ermei had business talks with them, both of them became easy to talk to.

For example, the Ming Dynasty has a great demand for cotton in recent years, and it is hoped that the Yarkand Khanate can grow more cotton.Daming can sign a contract with Yarkand and pay a deposit.

For another example, the Ming Dynasty hoped to send envoys to the Yarkand Khanate to strengthen official ties with each other.

And some private firms in the Ming Dynasty hoped to enter Yarkand to carry out trade activities, and hoped that Yarkand would give them some care, and so on.

In the view of Sima Yi and Mamaiti, the trade that Daming hoped to conduct with Yarkand could have benefited the Khanate.

With the generous rewards from Emperor Zhaowu of the Ming Dynasty, they would feel embarrassed if they did not agree to these "requests".

After negotiating these matters, a few days later, Zhu Yuxi summoned Sima Yi and Mamaiti at the Great Court Meeting, formally accepted the tribute from Yaerqiang and issued a decree reward, and completed the official process.

The next day, Sima Yi happily left Nanjing with the Yarkand mission...

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【historical data】

(Yerqiang Khanate) Abdullah Khan (also translated: Abdullah Khan), inherited his father in 1635, and unified the split Yarkand in 1639. Abdullah defeated the Zhungeer tribe, Kyrgyzstan people, ZTE Yarkand.

However, Abdullah was suspicious by nature, and even worse in his later years. He neither trusted the clan nor honored nobles, frequently changed important ministers, and suppressed his eldest son Yao Levas.

After 1656, the Zhungeer tribe continued to invade the south, and Abdullah was defeated by the enemy.

The Muslims, clans, nobles and others in Yarkand have been dissatisfied with Abdullah for a long time due to Abdullah's long-term autocracy.With the support of the White Hat Hui, Yao Lewas's power expanded day by day. In 1667, under the strong pressure of his eldest son, Abdullah had to give up his Khan throne and went on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He died in Delhi, India on the way home.

Two years later, Yao Lewas was murdered, and Sima Yi (also translated as: Isma Yele) succeeded to the Khan throne with the support of the black hats, and fought with the white hats, struggling for 13 years.

In 1680, Yarkand was destroyed by Galdan.