Yishiha made great achievements in promoting Nuerqian. As Liaodong became more and more prosperous, while the Tatars continued to lose battles and became sluggish. The leaders of various tribes in Nuerqian region respected Yishiha and showed their willingness to surrender to the Celestial Empire. Meaning, Yi Shiha seized this opportunity, struck while the iron was hot, and warmly invited the leaders of Nuerqian area to pay homage to the Emperor.【】
After some preparations, the leaders of several large tribes in the Nurgan area, such as Ci Daha and Gu Lu, rushed all the way to the capital. When the news came, Zhu Di was overjoyed. But tracing back to the source, this credit is inseparable from Xia Xun Jing Zhu Di couldn't help but think of the dispute he had with Xia Xun at Dabaoen Temple.
Xia Xun expressed his different opinions on Annan face to face with him. Although Zhu Di was angry, he would not blame Xia Xun for it. Zhu Di was not a person who could not agree with his opinions, whether it was during his period of crisis or when he became emperor. After that, he always allowed the voices of different opinions to come out. If he was a person who only knew how to obey orders and had no way of doing things of his own, he would never be sent out to stand alone.
Once Zhu Di made a decision, he would definitely make an arbitrary decision, and his decision to make an arbitrary decision was precisely after he listened to various different opinions, repeatedly considered their opinions, constantly improved, supplemented, and revised his own method, and finally made his own decision. Many of Zhu Di's decisions were taken out, not because of his wisdom to the point of being wise and wise and never making mistakes, but because of the wisdom of many people gathered in this process.
But now he is still fighting against Annan under the banner of punishing the rebellion of the vassal countries as a suzerain and in the name of "succession of prosperity and destruction". He cannot reveal his intention to annex Annan. His plan is to bribe several people through a close minister. A family of powerful officials in Annan asked them to take the initiative to request the Ming Dynasty to restore counties and counties according to ancient times. Only then did it become a matter of course.
Zhu Di deliberately met Xia Xun alone at Da Baoen Temple. It was difficult for him to express his true feelings to him. For this reason, he had no one to discuss with him now. After he mobilized the Annan officials and people to "take the initiative to petition for surrender" Before, he could not let people know that he coveted Annan. This was contrary to the country's moral thoughts formed by thousands of years of cultural inheritance. If he raised it rashly, it would inevitably arouse opposition and criticism from many scholar-bureaucrats in both the government and the public.
Xia Xun did many secret things for him. When he was in Liaodong, he fought for every inch of territory with North Korea. These actions made him feel that Xia Xun was the most likely to agree with his opinions, and Xia Xun really had no objection. Xun's lack of objection means that Xia Xun really did not talk from a moral standpoint, imitating those rotten Confucians and talking about the Celestial Kingdom and the Land of Etiquette.
Xia Xun was even more "vulgar" than Zhu Di. He was completely based on gains and losses. He was like a businessman who had to compare pennies. After repeated comparisons, he felt that the gains were not worth the losses, so he raised objections, so he did not It did not arouse Zhu Di's resentment. He also knew that although Xia Xun had different opinions on taking the opportunity to annex Annan, if he still wanted to send Xia Xun to conquer Annan, Xia Xun would still go all out.
But Zhu Di's temperament also has its own stubbornness. Since you are not good, I don't need you. I want you to see with your own eyes whether I am right or you are right! With this in mind, he gave the order Zhang Fu does it, hoping that Zhang Fu can live up to expectations and win back this breath for him.
Now that the leaders of Nuergan tribes went to the Ming Dynasty to request surrender, Zhu Di couldn't help but think of Xia Xun's performance in Liaodong. Xia Xun was very good at managing Liaodong. He thought that Xia Xun could be the best candidate to annex Annan, but who knew that Xia Xun actually
Strongly opposed. Think about Liaodong, with Tatar oppression in the west and Korean constraints in the east. The environment should be more dangerous than Annan. Why is Xia Xun so keen on consolidating Liaodong and constantly encroaching and annexing and expanding territory, but he doesn't take Annan seriously?
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Could it be that I was really wrong?
Zhu Di carefully recalled what Xia Xun had said. After thinking about it for a while, he still didn't agree with Xia Xun's statement, but he no longer took it lightly. He asked someone to inform Hu that he was looking for Jianyi.
During the tracking process, pay attention to inquiring about news from all directions. Those who are looking for people in the north should pay attention to collecting some information about Tatar Wala.
Because if there is chaos in the north, as Xia Xun said, he will have to focus his main energy on the north, which is the biggest concern of the Ming Dynasty. Annan is the icing on the cake for the Ming Dynasty, and its importance cannot be compared with that of Saibei. In this regard, he
When the Jurchen and Mongolian tribe leaders from the Nuergan area arrived in Beijing, Zhu Di held a grand welcome ceremony. At the request of the tribal leaders, he set up Nuergan guards and appointed four tribal leaders including Ladaha as commanders.
It is known that many leaders such as Gu Lv were pacified by thousands of households and were given imperial seals, crowns, robes, banknotes, etc.
After that, a number of guard posts were set up in the Onan River, the north and south areas of the Heilongjiang River Basin, as well as the Songhua River, Wusuli River, Green River, Henggun River and other river basins. These guard posts were still mainly occupied by local tribal leaders.
The method of granting titles was to transform them into officials of the Ming Dynasty. Then, of course, some Han troops would be sent there to further strengthen the rule of the area.
When these guard posts are stabilized and connected into lines one by one, penetrating the entire Nuergan area through each line, and finally controlling the entire Nuergan area through military and economic and trade development, then we can
Local military and political offices were established in the Nurgan area. This development model can be partly borrowed from the development model of Liaodong.
In order to achieve this goal, preparations must be made early. Zhu Di is really busy these days. He frequently meets with tribal leaders in the Nuergan area, has banquets, holds discussions, learns about the detailed situation in the Nuergan area, convenes the cabinet, and the five armies.
People from the Governor's Mansion and the Ministry of War made arrangements for the Nuergan area. In the afternoon, Zhu Di had just discussed some matters related to the Nuergan area and sent people from the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion and the cabinet to leave. Mu En praised
He brought it up with a musical box.
As soon as Zhu Di looked at the secret box, he knew that it was a secret memorial that passed through the General Affairs Department and the inner study room and went directly to the imperial court. His tired body immediately sat up straight. He opened the secret box and took out the first memorial. It was delivered by Hu Yi quickly.
The news coming back to Beijing only mentioned one thing: "In the Mongolian region, Emperor Timur's troops are active frequently and their troops are increasing day by day. It seems that they are suspected of invading eastward!"
Timur is indeed going to the east!
Timur's military achievements in the West have reached a glorious peak. In the past few years, he attacked India, massacred Delhi, occupied Iran, invaded Turkey, fought Syria, captured Iraq, captured Baghdad and Damascus, and captured the Ottoman Turkish Sultan Bayezid.
, it is already invincible in every battle and invincible in every attack.
Europeans were trembling. Six years ago, the Ottoman Turkish cavalry had just severely damaged the Holy Roman Empire in Bulgaria. The coalition forces of the Byzantine Empire and France were recognized as the best armies in Europe at the time, but Timur defeated them in one day.
Killed until the entire army was wiped out.
Africans were also panicking. A century ago, the Egyptian Mamluk cavalry wiped out the then-invincible Mongolian expeditionary force in Palestine, but Timur defeated it twice in one year.
The native Yuan Dynasty and the four major khanates of the Great Mongol Empire established by Genghis Khan and his descendants. Long before Timur, the Ogedai Khanate was divided and destroyed by the other four countries. Now there are three more Chagatai, Ir,
The Golden Horde surrendered to Timur, and the remaining Yuan Empire had long ago collapsed on its own, leaving only a few tribes that did not belong to each other fighting each other on the Mongolian plateau.
Since the beginning of the world, there has never been an armed force as powerful as Timur in the universe. This lame Turk who pretends to be a descendant of Genghis Khan will be unstoppable whether he marches into Europe or Africa!
Everyone is going to die! All the monarchs are making the most devout prayers to their God and Allah, but they still desperately believe that they will soon return to heaven under the butcher's knife of Timur.
But……
But……
The prayer took effect, the Almighty God appeared, and the lame man who was more terrifying than Satan suddenly retreated.
The terrible Tamerlane suddenly gathered his troops and returned to his splendid capital city of Samarkand, leaving behind a bunch of frightened Western monarchs to tremble to restore their dilapidated countries.
Because Emperor Timur was no longer interested in them, he had a new goal of conquest. He was going to the east, and he wanted to conquer the Ming Empire!
When he sent Altusa and Gesuyedin to the Ming Dynasty, the original emperor had become Zhu Yun. When Timur came, Zhu Di only occupied a corner of Beijing to fight against the whole country. There was no hope of victory at all. He
At that time, he didn't pay much attention to the so-called rebellion of the vassal king named Zhu Di. But when his envoys arrived at the country, the emperor of the country had changed from Zhu Yun to Zhu Di.
When his envoy rushed back to report the news to him, Tamerlane was shocked. Only then did he realize that he might be facing a strong opponent!
Zhu Di had just ascended the throne and had conquered the world as a rebel king. At this time, his political situation was bound to be unstable and the people's hearts were bound to be unstable. This was the best opportunity to attack, so Timur gave up those vulnerable positions.
Opponent, quickly assemble the army. This is what he has always regarded as the ultimate goal. He wants to go to the country, first conquer the country, and then conquer Mongolia. Only in this way can he legitimately become the Great Khan of all Mongolia and replace Genghis Khan!
For this purpose, he has been preparing for many years. He has conducted reconnaissance in the northern, central and western parts of the country for more than ten years and collected a large amount of intelligence. He has explored several routes for the eastward expedition. His forward army
It had already entered Mongolia (western Xinjiang), captured Khotan, and advanced all the way to the Tarim River.
It's time. He has launched countless jihads. This time, he will launch a "national jihad!"