And in this year, Timur completed his investigation of the Ming Dynasty and learned that in October of the second year of Yongle, "Geng Bingwen, Marquis of Changxing, committed suicide." In November, "Li Jinglong was imprisoned." Geng Bingwen and Li Jinglong's character and talent are insignificant, but after all, they are the heads of the generals, and the two offended for no reason, and Zhu Yunwen's former ministers will inevitably endanger themselves. The situation of the Ming Dynasty was unstable again, Timur believed that the capture of the Ming Dynasty was the best period, in November of that year, led the army to leave Samarkand, embarked on the "Chinese Holy War" journey, he first let the army, in the winter over the snow-covered Tianshui, to avoid the Tarim Basin of the hot summer, the Timurid Empire's army, advance to the Syr Darya, and Yongle three years, the New Year over the Tianshan Mountains, January to advance to the Ili River. In late February, it advanced to Beishu Bali (now Beipo Chengzi, Jimsar County, Xinjiang, located in the northeast of Turpan, and the map above is wrong to the northwest of Turpan, which is actually Urumqi), where there are still about 400 kilometers left from Hamiwei, an important town on the western border of the Ming Empire, and the news reached the imperial court, and Zhu Di immediately began to prepare.

Seeing that a big war was about to break out, but he didn't want God to help Zhu Di a big favor, a great news came back from the border, Timur Khan's health was not good, and he couldn't drink, but the army arrived after the assassination. Timur drank bitterly, not only wine, but also Arak shochu – a strong alcoholic beverage in the Middle and Far East, usually extracted from fermented palm juice, rice or molasses. On the night of 11 February, Arak soju suddenly burned his body temperature, and it burned higher and higher. He was surrounded by the best doctors of Asia, Europe and Africa, but all of them were helpless, and seven days later, the invincible Timur died of illness and assassinated the Great Tent, because no heir was officially chosen. The three sons also died shortly after Timur's death, and Timur's two nephews fought each other for the throne, and the Timurid Khanate was divided into four major forces like the Mongol state established by Genghis Khan, and there was a struggle between the sons.

went to the heart of the trouble, Zhu Di immediately freed his hands, began to clean up the Hu Dynasty, he first sent people into Vietnam, to investigate the mountains and rivers and roads of dangerous places, and then selected soldiers, prepared grain and grass, after doing this qiē, the rest is an excuse.

In the fourth year of Yongle, Zhu Di sent envoys to lead soldiers to escort Chen Tianping back to Annan. In April, when this group of men and horses crossed the border into Langshan, Annam, they were ambushed by the Annamite people, the Ming army was defeated, and Chen Tianping and some soldiers were captured. After Chen Tianping was interrogated by the Hu Dynasty, he was "sentenced to the crime of late conviction." When the news was sent to Nanjing, Zhu Di was furious when he heard it, so he "decided to rejuvenate the division".

In July, the Ming soldiers officially went out of the division, Zhu Di personally went to Longjiang to make a trip, this day the wind and the sun were beautiful, hundreds of boats on the river contended for the stream, the flag covered the sky, the drums and horns sounded in unison, the Ming army was mighty and majestic, and the prosperity of the army was unprecedented since the founding of the country.

After a year of fierce fighting, the Hu army was defeated, a large number of soldiers drowned in the river, countless ships and military rations were sunk, the Hu father and son were defeated and fled, and finally captured by the Ming army at the Qiluo Haikou on the 11th day of the fifth lunar month, the Hu Dynasty was destroyed, and the territory was recovered by the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Di issued an edict saying that "the crime of cutting down (referring to the Hu Dynasty) will hang the people, and will rise and fall and continue to extinct it", and planned to "set up officials and govern the Yue people who have been "dyed with customs for a long time, and teach Chinese etiquette and law", so as to achieve "the benevolence of the people who are widely treated, and the rule of peace and tranquility". In order to respond to the request of the local officials and elders to "the original retro county", it was renamed "Jiaozhi" (also written as "Jiaoluan" and "Jiaozhi"), and in accordance with the administrative division model of the interior of the Ming Dynasty, the "three divisions" such as the Command Envoy Division, the Chengxuan Political Envoy Division, and the Punishment Envoy Division. Subsequently, the Ming court set up 15 prefectures, 36 prefectures, more than 180 counties, and five prefectures directly under the political department, with 29 counties under its jurisdiction, and 11 guards, 3 institutes, and one city in important places. It will be directly under its jurisdiction, and since then Annan has been the land of the Ming Dynasty.

But the people of the Hu Dynasty were not convinced, and launched a rebellion many times, the Ming army sent troops to Annam many times, although it can be assessed, but the Ming officials are not good at appeasement, and the internal intrigue is intrigued, the people of Annam are not attached, Annan Qinghua Prefecture Oro County Tuguan Patrol Li Li convened the troops in Lanshan to meet the alliance, raised troops to resist the Ming, quickly formed a trend of burning the plain, the Ming army was unable to suppress, to the fourteenth year of Yongle, Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, the Ming Dynasty's business focus gradually moved north, Jiaozhi became a heavy burden.

This recital is extremely long, Zhu Gaochi has seen a full half pillar of incense, his body is not good, relying on these two days to eat more, only to move this thought, at this time the forehead has overflowed with beads of sweat, he stared at the recital carefully for a long time, and wrote out his opinion.

For Annan he did not have the ambition of his father, but his father handed over the dragon chair to him, as a descendant of the Zhu family, the ancestors laid down the country can not be lost, although Annan has been merged for several years, but it is still not pacified, and even for the Ming Dynasty is already a burden, but he still does not want Annan to be lost in his own hands, so for this piece of the proposal to withdraw the troops, he will categorically not agree, he is more inclined to use the Annan people to quell the internal turmoil in Annan, it is best to recognize the legitimate throne of Li Li, but in this way, it is bound to cause the dissatisfaction of the Manchu ministers, and the time is not ripe to do so at the moment, so for Annan, the best way, is to follow the father's method of dealing with the Mongols, the policy of luring Li Li, in this way, divide the Hu Dynasty, so as to achieve the effect of razing the raze, but in this way, it is necessary for a Ming official to dispatch from it, the previous Jiaozhi turmoil, Zhu Di ordered Huang Fu to go to Liangguang to govern the army. After the turmoil subsided, Jiaozhi Dazhi, the people's hearts were satisfied, the society was stable, the economy was prosperous, and it became a famous new state in the Ming Dynasty, and Huang Fu's prestige was increasing, but at this time and that time, today's Annan was in turmoil, and it was necessary to quickly stabilize the Ming Dynasty's current government was the most beneficial, and Huang Fu was talented, but he was too cautious, if he continued to stay in Annan as a municipal councilor, he was afraid that the current situation with Annan was useless, and the person he liked in his heart was Rong Changbo Chen Zhi, this person is Rong Changbo Chen Xianzi, a native of Shouzhou. Former meritorious service as the commander of Changshan's right guard, heir to his father, brave, capable, and young, Yu Annan's current situation, I am afraid that it is very advantageous......?"

After this recital was written, he couldn't support it anymore, so he had to stop and drink a sip of tea soup and eat a few steamed cakes, this kind of small pastry, the traditional food of Nanjing people, the cake seller has a pair of picks, one end is rice noodles, and the other end is a small stove, which is now processed, steamed, and hot.

Under the steamer is a small stove made of clay, and the chopped woodwood is burning in the hearth, and the small fire in the furnace is never extinguished. Rice noodles are placed in a small basin, covered with white gauze, the cake sellers are all using mussel shells to shovel rice noodles, it is very brushed and scraped, the steaming speed of the cake is very fast, steaming a piece of less than a cup of tea, this kind of cake generally has two ways to eat, one is to sandwich the sugar in the cake, flatten it with a clean small cloth towel, it tastes sweet and delicious, it is also very bitten, you can fill your stomach by eating a few; Oil brewing, blended into a paste, ordinary people for children and the elderly to eat, Zhu Gaochi was caught by Emperor Jianwen as a hostage in Nanjing, after being fortunate to eat a few pieces of this pastry, he has always liked it, until he became the prince, and now he is the emperor, he still has a soft spot for this steamed cake.

It's a pity that he is obese, and this kind of pastry is delicious because of the sugar, Taiyi Jian yì He can't eat more, and he can only eat one or two pieces when he wants to.

After eating the pastry, I felt that my body was a little better, and I was about to go to the imperial garden for a walk, when the little eunuch Huang Jin quietly walked in, carrying a brocade box in his arms, glanced left and right, and then knelt down outside the zhang: "Your Majesty ——?"

Zhu Gaochi was picking up the pen to continue to read, only after hearing this did he raise his head, only glanced at the brocade box in Huang Jin's arms, his eyes immediately lit up, and then put down the Zhu pen in his hand, and said, "Quickly present it to me?"

Huang Jin responded cautiously, got up from the ground, and carefully handed over the brocade box in his arms, Zhu Gaochi stretched out his white and fat palm, took the brocade box with some trembling, and some couldn't wait to open it, only to see a few red pills in the brocade box, bright as fire, with some bewitching light, and a faint fragrance filled his nose, making him can't help but take two sipes.

"When was this tribute?" Zhu Gaochi glanced at Huang Jin, who was kneeling on the ground, and asked coldly.

Huang Jin hurriedly kowtowed and said: "Back to Your Majesty, this is the red pill sent by the people from the post station to His Majesty this morning, this kind of pill is used, take the menstrual blood of the Chu female menarche, called "congenital red lead", plus the first drop of dew in the middle of the night and black plum and other medicines, boiled seven times, turned into a medicine paddle, plus red lead, autumn stone (human urine), human ru, cinnabar (cinnabar produced in Chenzhou, Hunan), pine resin and other drugs concocted. The medicinal properties are much better than the pills that His Majesty took in the past, and King Han said that this pill is very good for His Majesty's body?"

PS: A word about Timur. During his lifetime, Timur divided his territory among his descendants and appointed his eldest grandson, Pier•; Mahema (son of Timur's eldest son, Jahangir), as his heir. Immediately after the death of Timur, the struggle for the throne began for his descendants. Pir•; Maheimain was far away in Afghanistan, and Samarkand was seized by Timur's other grandson, Khalil, and established himself as Khan. All the territories of the original Timurid dynasty, with the exception of Western Persia, were united by Shahru. At the same time, the Turks, Jalals, and Turkmans began to regain lost ground in the west. As a result, the descendants of Timur in Western Persia were soon wiped out by the Turkmans Black Sheep Dynasty, whose territory fell into the hands of the Black Sheep Dynasty (possessed Armenia and Azerbaijan) and the Aries Monarchy (possessed Diyarbakr and Azerbaijan). Shahru's districts were confined to Transoxiana, Afghanistan, and eastern Persia.

Shah Ruh ordered his eldest son, Ulugh Beg, to garrison Samarkand to guard the river, while he remained in Herat. When Shahru was in power, there were constant exchanges of tribute envoys between Persia and Central Asia and the Ming Dynasty of China, and official and private trade was very active. But after Shaharu's death, there was civil strife in the empire. During the war for the throne, Ulugh was killed by his own son Abla•; Radib, who in turn was killed by Ulugh's cronies. Power in the Transoxiana region eventually fell into the hands of Abu•; Said, the grandson of Milansha. The Khorasan region was occupied by Timur's second son, Umar•, Shaheh•, Mirza's descendant, Sultan•;Hussein•, Baikara. Shaharu's dynasty was then divided into two.

In 1451, Abu•Said•Mirza unified most of the old Timurid Empire, defeated the great eastern enemy Chagatai Khanate, and reextended the tentacles of the Timurid Empire to Persia. It then reached an agreement with its ally, the ruler of the Black Sheep dynasty, Jahan•;Shah, to divide Persia. In 1466, the Black Sheep monarch Jahan•; Shah invaded the Aries dynasty and was defeated by the Aries ruler Uzong•; Hassan, at the request of Jahan•; Shah, Abu•; Saeed. Mirza also joined the Black Sheep side in the fighting, eventually with Jahan•; Shah and Abu. Said. Mirza was successively defeated by Uzon•; Hassan, and in 1469 Abu•Said•;Mirza was captured and executed by Uzon•Hassan.

Abu•Saeed•;After the death of Mirza, the Timurid empire of Khorasan fell apart, and the Timurid dynasty of Khorasan was ruled by Haissein Mirza, and the rest of the empire was divided into Bukhara under Ahmed, Samarkand, Hissar (the three were divided after Ahmed's death), Ferghana under Umarmirza, Balkh under Mahmud, and Kabul under Mirza Uluha. In 1500, Shaybani Khan, a descendant of Jochi (Genghis Khan's eldest son), led the Uzbek nomadic tribes to conquer Bukhara and Samarkand, establishing the Uzbek Khanate of Bukhara, and the Timurid Empire fell. In 1501, the Uzbek Khanate destroyed the Timurid Dynasty, and in May 1507, the Timurid Dynasty of Khorasan was destroyed. The Transoxiana region formed a feudal dynasty founded by the Uzbeks.

However, Timur's family did not disappear completely, and Timur's fifth grandson, Babur, used Kabul as a base to try to restore it, and after failure, he entered India and established the Mughal Empire in 1526. Thus in a certain sense continued the Timurid Empire. The Mughal dynasty is arguably the greatest dynasty in Indian history, encompassing the entire Indian subcontinent, with a complete administrative rule, harmonious relations between religions and central and local powers, and unprecedented economic and cultural prosperity.

Regarding Timur's reconnaissance of the Ming Dynasty, according to the historical records, Timur did have an extremely detailed military map, and according to the route he chose himself, his cavalry needed to travel 161 days from Khotan to Beijing. The biggest challenge of marching in Turkestan and Gansu and Shaanxi was the scarcity of water. The military map marked all the important water sources, but they were still difficult to supply his army. Therefore, Timur decided: he first led 200,000 elite soldiers to the east, and left some soldiers along the road to Tuntian, and then transferred reinforcements from Central Asia year by year. Strength was not a problem, he used 800,000 troops in the Indian war, 300,000 in the Russian war, and more than 500,000 in the Turkish war. What's more, Muslims and Mongols in Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Sichuan and other places are also potential sources of soldiers.