my days with tyrants

Chapter 21 Yang Feng, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Daming

night.

"You think I won't kill you?"

His Majesty the Emperor said grimly.

He said this because Yang Feng rejected his summons, and the reason was very simple...

"I'm a modern person, and I'm still a fighter, so why should I be summoned by a feudal emperor like you?
I admit that you are an emperor who reigns over the world and has the right to life and death over the subjects of the Ming Dynasty, but this has something to do with me. I am not a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, and I am not a subject of yours. To me, you are just like us at that time A foreign leader, such as the president of a country that is hostile to us.I didn't get in touch with the country before, and I could consider taking orders from you in the future, but now that I have been able to receive orders from the country, you can only be a foreign leader to me.

Take orders from you?

Didn't I become a traitor to the country? "

Yang Feng sat on his recliner and said in an obviously inferior posture.

"Don't forget that you are on my land!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said.

The eunuch next to him quickly carried his short couch forward...

"Give Long Live Lord put this guy on the top!"

said the old eunuch.

The eunuchs hurriedly carried the short couch past Yang Feng.

This bastard sat slightly lower on the top of the mountain. Unless Zhu Yuanzhang's short couch was placed behind him, he would either sit on the same level as him or be below him.

Only behind him can you be taller than him.

Of course His Majesty the Emperor cannot sit on an equal footing with him.

Zhu Yuanzhang proudly walked past him and sat down on his short couch, facing the back of his head.

"Put that cannon in front of me."

His Majesty the Emperor said.

Jin Yiwei hurried forward with a Hongwu cannon, put it under the feet of His Majesty the Emperor, and aimed the cannon at the back of Yang Feng's head. On the couch, you can also ignite the fuze to shoot this bastard, so he nodded in satisfaction...

"I am indeed in your land, but at most I can only be counted as a diplomat here. You should understand this term, right? We had more than 100 countries at that time, and these countries were all equal, although there were powerful They are weak, big or small, but at least they are equal in face, and then send diplomats to each other, we call them ambassadors. These ambassadors are stationed in other countries, representing their own country, and dealing with the exchanges with the host country. Set aside a piece of land on their own land to build embassies for these ambassadors. The host country has the responsibility to protect these embassies and diplomats, and diplomats have immunity. Even if they commit a crime, they can only be deported, and the host country’s police are Officials cannot enter the embassy to arrest people.

Even the vehicles of the embassy are protected on the street, so as long as they enter the embassy, ​​they cannot be caught.

In short, diplomats enjoy various privileges in the host country. "

Yang Feng said without turning his head.

"So you want me to give you the status of a diplomat? But why should I give it to you? My Ming Dynasty does not have such diplomatic relations. Those who come to my Ming Dynasty all pay tribute to me.

They all had to kneel before me and beg for a favor. "

Zhu Yuanzhang said while playing with a torch.

"Trade!"

Yang Feng said confidently.

Zhu Yuanzhang continued to play with torches...

"You don't think that all you can get from me is a few pistols and a few grenades? Now that I can communicate with them, do you want to know how to make these weapons? Even if it is really difficult to make my musket It’s too realistic, but matchlock guns are totally okay? With new muskets, you need new gunpowder, so do you want to know how to make new gunpowder? Do you want to know new musket tactics?

You see, you can benefit enormously from this kind of friendship.

Make you invincible. "

Yang Feng said.

"Isn't I already invincible?"

His Majesty the Emperor said proudly.

"That's not necessarily true. If the world is really invincible, why can't you clear Mobei?"

Yang Feng said.

"I can't sweep away Mobei, it's for the people to recuperate.

The difficulty in Mobei is not how to fight. If it is really an upright battle, the defeated soldiers of Canyuan are not enough for me to destroy them in the first battle of Ming Dynasty, but it is not difficult to win, but it is difficult to clear them. Inhabited.There are no roads, no food to plunder, and no wells except for a few rivers. All the needs of the army are almost entirely dependent on transportation from the rear. Millions of civilians have traveled from north to south, and the military supplies transported are not enough for tens of thousands of elite soldiers. They often need to be accumulated for several years. In order to support the crusade for several months.

The world will be exhausted if we keep fighting.

Now that the world is under new order, what the people want is to cultivate themselves.

Remnant Yuan has already been defeated, and there is no power to break through in a short time. In the first month of the year before last, the Yan and Jin feudal clans went to the north, and the Jin feudal clan went out of the fortress to see no remnant Yuan troops.

Then I don’t need to waste money and people anymore, I just need to continue immigrating to Yan Dynasty and Liaodong, set up guards one by one, turn those good pastures into fertile fields, build cities after cities, block all business roads, seal Their salt and iron, so constantly eroding the grasslands, trapped them to death in the few cold and barren lands in Mobei.

Then guard the frontier fortresses with various vassals, and attack with cavalry when the opportunity is right, defeat their tribes, kill their people, seize their livestock, and burn their pastures.

With one blow, he retreated quickly.

In this way, it is trapped in a famine, and the rest is to wait for its civil strife.

Over the years, the ministers of the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty have continued to attach themselves, and this is the right strategy. It has only been more than ten years. As long as there is no civil strife in my Ming Dynasty, they will be boiled to death even if they are boiled. "

Zhu Yuanzhang said.

Then Daming was in a state of difficulty, and then he shrank, throwing away all his arrangements.

"Then do you know why Canyuan recovered?"

Yang Feng said.

"Say!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily.

"It's very simple, your strategy is fine, but the problem is that your guards in places like Liaodong can't support themselves!
Especially for those guards closest to the grasslands, the food they produce is not enough to eat, and it depends on you to keep delivering food to them. Of course, you understand that this is very necessary. Even if the cost is high, you have to keep giving them food. Transport food, give them rewards, and let them rest in peace.

But for your descendants, this kind of place is completely a bottomless pit. Instead of transporting the collected grain to those military households, why not stay and enjoy it?
Just dismantle those guards.

It is estimated that those military households are also willing to move inland. After all, compared with Kaipingwei, even Jidong is a good place.

You can't expect your descendants to be as thoughtful as you are. "

Yang Feng said.

Zhu Yuanzhang was silent.

He also knew that those guards were actually very miserable.

But it is necessary in strategy, so he can only keep transporting food every year, and keep giving them rewards, but even this can't make those military households in the guards feel at ease, and it is not impossible to escape. There were also military households who fled in the Hongwu Dynasty, like Kaiping, In places like Daning, in the farming era, and there is still no farming era of potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes, who would not run away if there is a chance!
Compared with these places, Jidong is really a good place. The Kaiping guards who moved from Duolun to Tangshan are definitely grateful.

"So, you need to make those military households self-sufficient, or even have more than enough, so that their defense in the frontier is no longer a chore, but a good thing to make a fortune.

At that time, even if you don't have to force it, some people will naturally run to the frontier by themselves.

And I know how to make them rich. "

Yang Feng turned around and said.

Then he took a look at the Hongwu cannon facing him...

"Your cannon is too small. In another 60 years, the cannons made by the Ottomans in the west will be heavier than your cannon just by using shells."

He said contemptuously.

"Huh, can I push that kind of cannon to the grassland? Or is there a city on the grassland that is worth bombing with that kind of cannon? I use hundreds of horses to drag a tens of thousands of kilograms of cannon to the grassland to bomb a few tents." ?”

Zhu Yuanzhang sneered.

"Then I also know a kind of artillery that is suitable for you, and it is also your Ming's favorite. It can be said that all armies love to use artillery. It is light and can be fired in bursts, but its power is weaker, but it should not be weaker than yours. Pig iron can be cast without using copper. At most, there are more chambers, but it can increase the firepower of your army in the shortest time. It may not be enough to bomb the city and the heavy armored soldiers, but it is enough to bomb the residual cavalry. That will be your Ming Dynasty later. A sharp weapon against remnant cavalry."

Yang Feng said.

Just let him build a bunch of Fron machines.

Later in the Ming Dynasty, Franji had a bad reputation, mainly due to its shoddy manufacturing. After all, you can’t expect good quality for six cartridges for less than ten taels of silver, but this problem will not exist under Zhu Yuanzhang’s quality supervision system.

Moreover, the Fron machine can also be improved appropriately, such as working on the sealing.

Zhu Yuanzhang held the torch and looked at him with a deep expression. A gust of wind blew by, and the flame on the torch swayed...

"Your Majesty, can you take it a little farther away?"

Yang Feng said.

"Are you afraid of death too?"

Zhu Yuanzhang said.

But the torch did move back.

"I'm not afraid of death, but it's not good to die by accident after all."

Yang Feng said.

"Let the Hanlin Academy draft an edict, what is your country called?"

Zhu Yuanzhang said.

The old eunuch next to him quickly took out a pen and paper and waited.

"Summer."

Yang Feng said quickly.

"It is a good thing that Yang Feng, the envoy of the Great Xia, came to our Ming Dynasty, because that Great Xia is not one of the nations in the world, so there is no need to follow the tribute ceremony. My Ming Dynasty and Daxia have equal diplomatic relations, and I gave Wutai Mountain to establish an embassy for the envoy of the Great Xia. As for the embassy The privilege, according to what he said, in the future, Da Ming and Da Xia will be brothers and have good relations, and exchange what is needed, so as to announce it to the world."

Zhu Yuanzhang said.

The old eunuch hurriedly wrote these down.

"Tell me first how your cannon was cast?"

Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"Well, the consulting fee?"

Yang Feng said.

Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he wanted to pick up the torch again...

"Okay, okay, this is a gift for the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries."

Yang Feng said.

(Thanks to book friends The Strange Trace of the Sea of ​​Clouds, Benjamin Siegberg and others for their rewards)
(End of this chapter)