A drop of cold sweat flowed from Ahn'Qiraj's forehead.
She truly felt the majesty from the emperor. This majesty was countless times stronger than that of his brother Alexander II and made people feel suffocating.
To be honest, she suddenly regretted taking up this diplomat position.
"Actually, we know why you are here!"
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the foreign woman below and was so frightened that he couldn't speak for a while. He couldn't help but continue: "You should be here for the noble generals who were captured by the Ming Dynasty, right?"
"yes……!"
"This time I brought gold, jewelry, and various specialties from Tsarist Russia, hoping to redeem those poor people!"
"After all, their wives and children are still waiting for them at home!" Ahn'Qiraj said respectfully.
"that's it?"
"Aren't you going to return the lands ceded to you by the Manchu Qing Dynasty?" Zhu Yuanzhang said with great interest.
"Your Majesty, those are international treaties signed between us and the Qing Dynasty on the basis of mutual consent, and are approved by the international community." Ahn'Qiraj said seriously.
"Who sets the international rules?" Zhu Biao asked with a smile.
Ahn'Qiraj opened his mouth, but was speechless.
She suddenly realized that those countries that had set rules seemed to have been defeated by the tyrant in front of her.
"Forget it, it doesn't matter who decided it!"
Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand: "We will personally ask Alexander II for those lands back!"
"Yang Xian!"
After saying this, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly looked down at Yang Xian, who had been standing beside him.
"I'm here!" Yang Xian saluted respectfully.
"Take this envoy to see what happened to those Tsarist Russian invaders!"
"After seeing it, whether she leaves or stays, whether it's war or peace, we, the Ming Dynasty, will take care of it!"
"Tell her clearly our rules. The invaders have been duly punished, but Tsarist Russia, as a defeated country, still has to have the attitude of a defeated country." Zhu Yuanzhang said.
Ahn'Qiraj didn't understand what Zhu Yuanzhang meant.
But it was obvious that Zhu Yuanzhang had lost interest in continuing the conversation with her, and she had no choice but to follow Yang Xian out of the hall.
Soon, she understood what would happen to an intruder.
Head.
The heads of countless Tsarist Russians were piled together to form a high platform.
She had never seen such a scene in her life.
Looking at the pale Ahn'Qiraj, Yang Xian next to him smiled and introduced: "This is called Jingguan, and it is the punishment for intruders!"
"You can't redeem their lives with gold and silver."
"But you can consider ransoming their bodies...!"
What surprised Yang Xian was that the princess did not choose to return to Tsarist Russia immediately despite being so provoked.
Instead, she settled down in Peiping.
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care at all about this. He still had a lot of things to do and didn't have time to scheming with a Russian envoy.
Following Ahn'Qiraj from Tsarist Russia, envoys from Britain, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Spain, Portugal and many other countries also arrived in Peking.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not meet with these people again, leaving them all to Yang Xian and Lan Yu with full authority.
He has already informed Yang Xian about the foreign policy after the Ming Dynasty, and I believe Yang Xian will not let him down.
Compared with the previous meeting in Guangzhou, the attitude of the envoys from various countries who came this time was obviously much more humble.
Whether they were treating Yang Xian who received them or the ordinary people, they all appeared to be very polite and gentlemanly.
Naturally, Yang Xian would not be deceived by their appearance. Since he was sent here by Zhu Yuanzhang to take charge of foreign affairs, he has been studying the family history of these Xiyi people carefully for several years.
Finally, he concluded that these people were simply savages disguised as civilization.
What they advocate is the law of banditry where the weak prey on the strong.
They began to conquer the world from the discovery of the New World, and everything that followed was blood and fire, not civilization.
The reason why they behave like gentlemen now is just because they were severely beaten by Ming Dynasty.
While Yang Xian was secretly observing these people.
Envoys from these countries are also observing the situation in Peiping.
Contrary to the expectations of most of them, the city of Beiping was not as chaotic as they imagined. Even compared to the Beiping under the control of the Qing court, the current Beiping, especially the people who had cut off their braids, seemed more alive.
Some foreigners have been to China before, and they still have fresh memories of the numbness in the eyes of the Chinese people.
But now, in just a few months, the numbness in these people's eyes has disappeared, replaced by the light of hope.
“Incredible!”
"This city doesn't look like it just went through a war!"
"What did the emperor of Ming Dynasty do?"
"He completely inspired the vitality of these people!" Pismer, the envoy from Germany, exclaimed in amazement.
You must know that Europe is currently in a critical period of the Industrial Revolution, and what countries are most in need of is qualified labor.
China has a population of 40 million.
This population is larger than the entire population of Europe.
In the past, the common perception in Europe was that yellow people, like black people, were uncivilized races and could only be slaves and do simple labor.
But now Pismer has changed his mind.
He found that there was not much difference between the Chinese and the Germans in front of him.
If Germany had such a large population to industrialize, it would no longer be a dream for Germany to unify or even dominate Europe.
"Haha, I didn't do anything. Before, they were just slaves under the rule of the Qing court. But now that our majesty is here, we have assigned them fields and given them hope. Their future lives will be headed forward, so it will naturally be different!"
Yang Xian suddenly turned around and said something to Pismarck.
Pismer didn't expect that Yang Xian would talk to him, so he couldn't help but be stunned.
Yang Xian glanced at the British and French envoys in the distance, and continued with a small smile: "I heard that Germany has a lot of grievances with France, Britain, and even Tsarist Russia in Europe. They even prevent Germany from unifying the country.
War, isn’t it?”
A trace of surprise flashed in Pismer's eyes.
He was really shocked.
This new Ming Empire was completely different from the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
The high-ranking officials and aristocrats of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were obviously backward and did not have much strength, but they all regarded them as foreign barbarians.
They don’t even bother to understand things that are thousands of miles away in Europe.
But the Ming official in front of him actually knew about the grievances between Germany, France, and Britain, which was incredible to him.
"How about working with Daming?"
"I believe you already have an understanding of Daming's strength!"
"After all, there should have been German warships in the previous showdown between the Eight-Nation Alliance fleet and our Ming fleet!"
"The Ming Dynasty can forget about this, our two countries can form a trading partner, and the Ming Dynasty will do its best to support Germany's development!"
"And Germany only needs to help us contain Tsarist Russia on the European battlefield. How about that?" Yang Xian asked again.