In Zhu Ying's opinion, it is really not too easy to deal with these so-called things when the Ming Dynasty holds absolute advantage.

Zhu Yunwen had absolutely no idea how to use the power in his hands.

This kind of small matter can be easily accomplished by any corrupt official, let alone a department like the Jinyiwei.

Zhu Ying naturally didn't know, and even Lu couldn't think of any good solution.

Lu was quite smart, but he had never been an official, so he didn't understand some things.

After listening to his elder brother's words, Zhu Yunwen took his leave and went to find Song Zhong.

"Song Zhenfu Envoy, I'll leave this matter to you."

Zhu Yunwen bowed and briefly explained the whole story.

He knew that it was his elder brother who asked him to follow and learn. In fact, he also wanted to know how to break the current situation.

When Song Zhong saw the King of Wu bowing, he quickly stepped aside and said, "Your Majesty, you are too polite. This is only my duty."

Zhu Yunwen asked curiously, "I don't know what Envoy Song is going to do. Can you tell me a little bit about it first?"

Song Zhong was a little embarrassed.

This is not the right way, but just by listening to it, Song Zhong knew how to deal with it.

These things are professionally related to the Jinyiwei.

In the final analysis, it's just a means of bullying men and women.

It is quite embarrassing to talk about such methods in person, after all, everyone usually acts in secret.

But since the Crown Prince has given the order, there is nothing to hide.

"Your Highness the King of Wu has lived in the palace for many years, so he is naturally seldom familiar with these low-level methods. In fact, it is relatively simple to explain. He just relies on his power to punish these nobles first. After making them pay a sufficient price, they will know what choice to make."

"As the saying goes, the King of Hell is easy to deal with, but little ghosts are hard to deal with. Now all we have to do is deal with little ghosts."

Song Zhong's words were still quite tactful, leaving Zhu Yunwen unable to resolve his confusion.

"Could Envoy Song please be a little more specific?" Zhu Yunwen asked again.

Song Zhong had no choice but to speak frankly: "These nobles of Champa have been in power for a long time, so they will definitely commit crimes. We only need to find evidence of them and we can easily force them to submit."

"If you encounter someone who doesn't know what's good for him, you should interrogate him according to the law. These people who have been pampered for a long time will naturally become obedient if you use some torture to force them."

"The interests of the nobles are not as important as our own safety. As long as we discipline a group of them, most of the nobles will obey us. We don't need to worry about them uniting."

After listening to this, Zhu Yunwen suddenly realized that this was actually possible.

Then someone asked with some doubt: "It will be very troublesome for us to check their evidence. With so many people, how long will it take?"

Song Zhong smiled sinisterly and said, "We don't need evidence, we just need a list. Arrest these people and torture them in jail. They will tell us the evidence and the crimes they have committed."

As the pacification envoy of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, Song Zhong had already trained his skill points to the maximum level when it came to forcing confessions under torture.

Zhu Yunwen opened his mouth slightly. Song Zhong's words really opened up a new world for him.

Then he asked, "Wucheng is my vassal state, so there is nothing wrong with doing this, and no one will say anything. But what about other places in Champa? What you mean is to open schools in the entire Champa."

"If we send people to other cities, the nobles there will naturally not be willing and will try to stop us."

Song Zhong said without thinking, "That's easy. We can just find some excuse to frame them and force them to hand over the person."

"Don't worry about setting up a school for now. Let's do something else. These nobles are not united and it's easy for them to fight for interests."

"We are fully capable of arresting one group, collecting another group, and finally fighting another group to disintegrate them from within."

"When the time comes, we can bring up the idea of ​​setting up a school, and it will be a natural thing to do."

Such an approach is based on the huge disparity between the upper and lower classes. At present, the Ming Dynasty is fully capable of interfering in the internal affairs of other countries.

In fact, to disintegrate the alliance of nobles, all you need to do is find some spies in Champa.

In the following days, Zhu Yunwen followed Song Zhong around everywhere.

We can’t do anything now, after all, it’s the New Year, just collect the information.

It’s not too late to take action after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

But in comparison, Timur was not so particular.

As a person who grew up in the Middle East, he has no concept of Chinese New Year.

It was not a difficult task for Timur to personally lead an expedition against the Sultan of Delhi.

After all, the Delhi Sultan had no chance of fighting against Timur.

But the insects from the East made him feel a little annoyed.

Otherwise, the Delhi Sultanate’s capital would have been captured within just half a month.

At present, there are 200,000 troops besieging the city of Delhi Sultanate.

"After the city is captured, tell the soldiers to slaughter the city for three days without stopping."

Timur said coldly while looking at the Mongolian, Tibetan and Han soldiers on the wall.

These people have caused him a lot of losses recently.

The capital of the Delhi Sultanate has hundreds of years of heritage. It is very different from ordinary cities, with strong walls that are difficult to cross.

Attacking a city is no easy task, especially against a wall this high.

Even if it is bombarded by artillery fire, it still stands firm.

At present, Timur's army's artillery inventory is running low, which makes Timur quite angry. He can only keep sending slave troops to consume it.

In fact, Timur's army was not good at siege warfare.

The most elite troops under his command were the cavalry rather than the infantry. If they were on the plains, they could easily destroy the Delhi Sultan, but unfortunately they were not.

However, although there were some troubles, the Delhi Sultan had no external aid. Fifty thousand soldiers were a lot, but it was impossible to save the Delhi Sultanate.

In order to attack the city, Timur is now forcibly recruiting people from all over the Delhi Sultanate. All the young and strong men will be incorporated into the slave army, and then used as cannon fodder to consume the Delhi Sultanate.

The powerful offensive showed no sign of stopping. It didn’t matter how many people died because they were all Delhi Sultans anyway.

"What are they shouting?" Deputy Commander Zhou Cheng asked.

He was a little puzzled, watching Timur's army below suddenly become very excited, and he didn't understand what it meant.

The commander, Wang Jinyi, said unhappily, "I don't understand Turkic, so how would I know what to shout?"

After that, Wang Jinyi asked someone who knew Turkic to translate.

The soldier trembled timidly and said, "General, they said that if the city is captured, they will massacre the entire capital for three days."

After hearing this, Wang Jinyi became furious: "He is not a worthy son of man and he even wants to massacre the city. He simply doesn't take us seriously."

Zhou Cheng said quietly, "We may not be able to hold on for much longer."

As soon as these words came out, Wang Jinyi lost his temper.

Because the situation in the Delhi Sultanate capital is too bad now.

In fact, in terms of the offensive of both sides, defending the city has a great advantage.

There were a total of 160,000 troops in the city, including Wang Jinyi's 50,000 troops.

Timur's own army had about 200,000 soldiers, and with the slave army, it was only 500,000 soldiers.

This is not much, especially for a royal capital like the Delhi Sultanate. It would be no problem to hold out for not only a few months, but even half a year.

However, the problem lies in food reserves.

Originally, the food in the city was enough to last for more than half a year, but seven days ago, some soldiers in the city suddenly rebelled and secretly burned all the stored food, which caused a big problem for the besieged capital of the Delhi Sultanate.

There was no possibility of reinforcement for the Delhi Sultan.

In order to block the reinforcements from the Delhi Sultan, Timur personally sent a large army to attack the Eastern Chagatai Khanate. The Khanate was already unable to take care of itself, so how could it possibly support the Delhi Sultan?

Now the entire territory of Delhi Sultanate has basically been brought into the hands of Timur, which means that the royal capital is the last isolated city in the country.

Combined with the fact that most of the food was burned, this meant that the demise of the Delhi Sultanate was an established fact.

Now it is just a fight of a trapped beast, a final struggle.

"The Delhi Sultanate is about to be destroyed. Look at those noble ministers. They don't even think about how to defend themselves. Instead, they are clamoring about surrendering."

"A few days ago, if our soldiers hadn't been alert, the city gates would have been secretly opened by those traitors in the city."

"The fall of the capital is inevitable. Timur has his army shouting like this in order to stimulate the cowards in the city. They will definitely become even crazier. This means we are being attacked from both inside and outside."

"I think we have done well enough to get to this point. After all, we are mercenaries."

At this point, Zhou Cheng couldn't help but spit: "Damn it, sometimes I feel like we are the people of the Delhi Sultan. Look at those soldiers, they have no intention of fighting to the death."

In the corrupt Tugrulk Dynasty, these soldiers in the royal capital are almost all just for show, and have long lost the bravery they had in the glorious moments of the Tugrulk Dynasty.

On the contrary, the ragtag troops recruited from Tibet and Mongolia were all fearless and brave.

Wang Jinyi said helplessly: "You are right, we should think about ourselves. I suspect these idiots will cooperate with Timur to secretly attack us."

"That Mahmud is totally courting death. He has already found out who the traitor is, but he still says he'll let him go for the sake of our old friendship. Isn't this just encouraging them to betray him?"

"There's no hope. Let's just leave it at that. We'll find a time and break out under cover of night."

"It seems that Timur knows some military tactics. We should go directly from the north gate."

Zhou Cheng thought about it, hesitated and said, "Since we have made the decision, should we take advantage of it?"

"Anyway, in the end, it will benefit Timur, so it's better for us to benefit."

Wang Jinyi was a little hesitant when he heard this: "Will it affect the reputation of the Ming Dynasty? This would be more trouble than it's worth. After all, we are mercenaries."

Zhou Cheng suggested: "Perhaps we can convince Karamo that the guards under his command will probably be liquidated by Timur, so it is better for them to follow us."

"At least there are more than 4,000 people. We can get some more after we have suffered such a heavy loss."

There were originally 50,000 people, but after several months of fighting, only more than 30,000 were left, with a loss of over 10,000.

The Karamo that Zhou Cheng mentioned is the commander of the royal guard of Mahmud, the monarch of the Tughlaq Dynasty, and is also considered a truly combat-capable team in the royal capital.

Wang Jinyi was thinking in his heart.

If Karamo were to take action and plunder the wealth in the royal capital, this would basically have no impact on the reputation of the Ming Dynasty.

After all, it was their own people who did it.

Karamo would definitely have nowhere to go in the future, so he could only return to U-Tsang with him.

After returning, most of the Mongolian and Tibetan soldiers will leave, after all, they are only following temporarily.

But as for Karamo, there is a great possibility that he will always be by his side. After all, the Delhi Sultan has been destroyed, and they are all homeless wanderers.

They can even be incorporated into the Ming Dynasty's system.

He returned to the Ming Dynasty with thousands of elite troops and made many contributions.

Besides, most of the wealth of this royal capital will fall into our pockets.

"Okay, I'll do as you say. I can't leave the city now, for fear that something unexpected might happen. I'll leave the task of persuading Karamo to you."

Zhou Cheng nodded: "Don't worry, I drank with Karamo before. He is not a native noble, but was promoted later. He has resentment towards these nobles in the city."

"Now that there is such an opportunity, I believe he will not refuse it."

After saying this, Zhou Cheng left with dozens of people.

The call of Timur's army had a great impact on the Sultan of Delhi.

The Delhi Sultanate only had this capital left, which meant that its fall was only a matter of time.

Many people have already thought about surrendering.

When Zhou Cheng arrived at the palace, there was already a fierce quarrel.

"I've said it before, there's no need to struggle in vain. So many civilians and soldiers have died in the war, and their lives are lost in vain. Those outsiders are completely untrustworthy, they just want to get their own benefits."

"That's right. These foreigners are from the Ming Dynasty. Most of them are Mongolian and Tibetan soldiers. The Ming Dynasty will never send troops to help us. They are just acting in the name of others."

"If we don't surrender, Timur will really massacre the city. You know how many cities have been massacred by Timur. Even if we surrender, the Delhi Sultan will need our assistance to govern. Timur will not stay here forever."

"For us, we are only temporarily ruled by Timur. The Delhi Sultanate will eventually restore its kingdom again."

"I suggest that we take the heads of those foreigners as gifts to Timur, so that Timur can feel our sincerity."

In the palace hall, the situation had become one-sided because of Timur's call for a massacre in the city.

Mahmud, who was sitting on the throne, seemed unable to get a word in.

However, listening to the ministers' discussions, Mahmud felt somewhat conflicted.

Maybe giving 100,000 gold to Wang Jinyi was a wrong decision?