The turning point of this matter was in the second year of Yongle, on this day, an Annam man named Chen Tianping entered the Ming Dynasty from Ailao (Laos), claiming to be the son of Chen Yizong, and informed Ming Chengzu of Hu Jichen's usurpation. Ming Chengzu sent the imperial historian Li Qi to Annan to investigate the matter. Hu Jichen was afraid of being discovered, so he sent people to hunt down Li Qi, who successfully escaped back to the Ming Dynasty and sued Ming Chengzu all of them, causing the anger of Ming Chengzu Zhu Di. After Hu Jichen usurped the throne, Annan took advantage of the new funeral of Luo Hao, the king of Zhancheng, and repeatedly launched a large-scale crusade against Zhancheng. Cham Champa King Lai (Vietnamese historical sources called "Ba's officials") repeatedly asked the Ming Dynasty for help, asking the Ming Dynasty to crusade against Annam, this matter immediately aroused Zhu Di's vigilance, but at this time he ascended the throne not long ago, the situation in the DPRK and China was unstable, and he ignored it for a while, but in front of the Hu Dynasty's envoys, arranged for Chen Tianping to meet with them, so that all the envoys were stunned and bowed, and even wept. The Ming court then interfered in the political situation in Vietnam and sent personnel to check and verify the situation, but Hu Chao understood that he had no choice but to admit responsibility and demand that "the balance be returned".

Who knows, Zhu Di's step back, the whole Hu Dynasty still thought that Zhu Di was afraid of himself, just three years after Zhu Di ascended the throne began to make trouble on the border of the Ming Dynasty, Guangxi Province Siming Tuguan and Yunnan Province Ningyuan Prefecture Tuguan complained to the Ming Court, the jurisdiction of the territory is slow, Luzhou and other places are occupied by Vietnam, so that Zhu Di is very angry, intent on raising troops, but do not want the Ming Dynasty to spread the news that Emperor Jianwen fled overseas, Zhu Di relied on disgraceful means, took away his nephew's country, for his nephew's death has been relieved, the fire that year burned to death does not know whether it is true or false, As soon as he heard that his nephew was still alive, where could he still take care of the Hu Dynasty, he immediately sent Hu Ying and Zheng He to find Emperor Jianwen on land and water, Zheng He and Wang Jinghong were ordered to build ships, select men and horses, and for a time the entire Ming Dynasty was preparing for going to the Western Ocean, and the selection of people and horses was more than 27,800 people, divided into 208 ships, among them, the largest, 44 zhang long, 18 zhang wide, followed by 37 zhang long, 15 zhang wide. At that time, Zhu Di thought that this was the first priority, and in the face of the restlessness of the Hu Dynasty, he only sent an envoy to rebuke the Hu Dynasty and ask for the return of Luzhou, and the Hu Dynasty was forced to hand over the fifty-nine villages such as Gulou to the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Di is a generation of strong masters, can not tolerate the Hu Dynasty such a small country restless, when this was done, but it was a moment to free up, the Ming Dynasty first went to the West, looking for Emperor Jianwen, but also to promote the Ming Dynasty's national prestige, the fleet from Suzhou Liujiahe (now Liujiagang, Jiangsu) crossed the sea to Fujian, and set sail from Fuzhou Wuhumen, began a voyage of more than two years, Zhu Di had to put his mind on the government.

Then Suzhou, Songzhou, Jiading, and Huzhou have been repeatedly flooded, and the land has not been harvested. On June 20 of the same year, Zhu Di then ordered Xia Yuanji, the secretary of the household department, and Yu Shiji, the imperial history of the capital, to go to the hungry people. He admonished: The people of the four counties have suffered from floods year after year, and now there are no old valleys, no new seedlings have yet to grow, and the old and young are crying and starving. You rushed to urge the county to send grain relief urgently. At the same time, 300,000 stone of millet was sent and cattle were given to the hungry. Yu Shiji went to Huzhou and saw that the land was in arrears of 600,000 stone in taxes and grain, and he decided to make a statement. However, the magistrate was afraid of being reprimanded, and wanted to cover up the truth, so he begged Shiji to report it in small numbers. Shi Ji resolutely said: I can't do anything to bully the king and the sick people! Then he truthfully reported to the imperial court, and all the arrears of taxes and grain were exempted. By September of the same year, 3.38 million stone of land rent for the above four flood-damaged fields was exempted, and he was very busy for a while.

However, to say that because of this, Zhu Di retreated to the Hu Dynasty, it would be too underestimated to underestimate Zhu Di. He was born in war, and he was very fond of war, and the reason why he ignored such a small thing as Hu Chao was that at this time, there was a powerful male lion sleeping on the side of the couch, and this person was Timur, the Great Khan of the Timurid Empire.

Timur was born in Jieshi (present-day Shahri Sabz), south of Samarkand. His ancestors were ministers of the Chagatai Khanate, and after his father's death, he became a feudal lord of Jieshi. Although Timur was a Turkic Mongol, he was a Persian at heart, and taking advantage of the turmoil in the Central Plains, Timur rebelled near his hometown. While fighting the Mongols, he was wounded and lame. Therefore the enemy was called Timur the Cripple. Later, in order to consolidate the political power, he adopted a marriage relationship and took the princess of the queen of the Western Chagatai Khanate as his wife and concubine, and became the concubine of the Chagatai Khanate. Therefore, he was also called Timur the horse, and soon supported Hussein to become Khan. But five years later, he killed his brother and sister Hussein and established the Timurid Empire.

This person has great ambitions, has always wanted to restore the territory of the Yuan Dynasty, since the establishment of the Timurid Empire, everywhere to fight, Zhu Yuanzhang to establish the Ming Dynasty is even more eyeing, but the Ming Dynasty of the year is like a cloud, is the former Mongolian iron cavalry that dominates the world is also defeated in the hands, he is a newly emerging empire, since not Zhu Yuanzhang's opponent, seeing that the annexation is hopeless, he will curry favor, in the first year of Zhu Yuanzhang's establishment of the Ming Dynasty, sent an envoy to Zhu Yuanzhang to show goodwill.

Hongwu ...... In September of the twentieth year, Timur sent back to Manchuria, Hafisi and others to come to the court, paying tribute to the fifteenth and the second camel. The edict feasted its envoys, and gave eight ingots of platinum. Since it is a frequent tribute horse camel. Twenty-five years and six tribute velvet, nine green shuttles, two red and green saharats, iron swords, armor and other things. "Zhu Yuanzhang has a very good impression of him.

In the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu, Timur wrote a diplomatic letter to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Hongwu ...... In August of the twenty-seventh year, Timur paid tribute to two hundred horses. Its expression said: 'Gong Wei Ming Emperor was ordered by the heavens to unify the four seas, benevolence and virtue, grace and support, and all countries admired. Xianzhi wants to rule the world peacefully, and the emperor is specially appointed to be the lord of billions of trillions. The light is vast, like a mirror in the sky, there is no distance or near, and the salt shines on it. The minister Timur was thousands of miles away, and he heard that the saints were magnanimous, beyond eternity. The blessings that have not been available since ancient times have been shared by emperors. The emperor obeys the unconquered country. Far away, ignorant places, all clear. The old are not happy, the young are long, the good are blessed, and the evil are fearless. Now and the grace of the distant country, all the merchants who come to China, so that the view of the capital, the city, rich and majestic, such as out of the darkness, suddenly see the day, how fortunate it is! He also undertook the letter of grace and soothed the labor, so that the stations and posts were connected, the roads were not strong, and the people from distant countries could get their help. Admiring the Sacred Heart, like a cup shining on the world, makes the minister's heart suddenly bright. The tribes in the vassal country, hearing the sound of Zde, dancing and wearing. There is no way to repay the favor, but to look up to the heavens to bless the holy longevity and blessings, just as the heavens and the earth are eternal and endless. ’”

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know the real situation of the Timurid Empire at all, and was deeply moved by this almost shameless Ayu praise article, "The emperor has a table, and Jiaqi has a text." “

In the second year, he was ordered to give Fu An and others the seal book and currency silk to report it. His tribute horses, one year old and again, in thousands, and gave money to compensate them. In fact, the territory and national strength of the Timurid Empire and the Ming Empire were almost the same, and Zhu Yuanzhang did not have a plan to operate Central Asia. Although it is set to pay tribute every five years, it is still unwilling to comply, and the Celestial Empire cannot make it difficult. ”

Since then, the two countries have continued to interact. Timur pacified the Ming Dynasty and began to conquer Persia and Khorezm. by the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, he conquered the Ilkhanate and Afghanistan; He then marched north to attack the Golden Horde, and everywhere he went, a triumphant army was found, except for a foreign rebellion in Salaboka (in present-day Iran), which changed the direction of the Mongol Empire's glorious march and shifted its conquest from the Mongol khanates to the surrounding countries. Timur originally wanted to restore the glory of the Turkic Empire, so he originally targeted the khanates. Later, however, he found that the Mongols were not enemies, and that other ethnic groups were more likely to hinder his cause than the Mongols. From then on, he learned from the slaughtering strategy of his ancestor Genghis Khan, and slaughtered the rebellious Sarabaka, and the territory of the empire became larger again and again.

But at this time he did not know much about the Ming Dynasty, and did not dare to act rashly, he sent envoys to continue to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and on the other hand, secretly inquired about the news of the Ming Dynasty in preparation for future battles, but the news of the defeat of Muhammad at the Indus River by his grandson Pier •, the Timurid Empire and the Indian Holy War began in advance; Military clashes with Ottoman Turkey and Egypt broke out in succession, and the agenda of "Chinese jihad" was postponed again and again.

In the thirty-first year of Hongwu, Timur heard the news of Zhu Yuanzhang's death and Zhu Yunwen's succession. A year later, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, rebelled, and Zhu Yunwen sent Geng Bingwen, Li Jinglong and other generals to crusade. In Timur's view, Zhu Di only occupied a corner of Beijing to confront the whole of China, and there should have been no hope of victory, but the war dragged on for a long time, fully exposing the military weakness and incompetence of Zhu Yunwen and his generals, of course, this is related to Zhu Yuanzhang's wanton massacre of heroes and generals in his later years. In a letter to Bayesid, Timur expressed his ambition to restore the entire territory of Genghis Khan's empire. Almost on the same day as the Battle of Ankara, Zhu Di's rebels broke through the Ming capital Nanjing, and Zhu Yunwen disappeared. When the news reached Asia Minor, Timur immediately decided to spare his defeated generals Turkey and Egypt and return to Central Asia to prepare for his Chinese expedition. Only by conquering Mongolia and China could he rightfully become the Great Khan of all Mongolia.

This ambition, from the Timurid Empire's army to attack the Ottoman Empire, even down several cities, the front of the army to Ankara after the news reached the Ming Dynasty, immediately greeted Zhu Di's surprise, and the DPRK did not spread the news that the spies of the Timurid Empire flowed into the Ming Dynasty, the most surprising thing for him was that Timur already had an extremely detailed map of the Ming Dynasty, this map of the army, according to the route selected by Timur himself, with cavalry from Khotan to Beijing need to walk one hundred and sixty-one days to complete, which made Zhu Di keenly felt, Timur's intentions for the Ming Dynasty, based on the fact that this opponent was too strong, rashly sent troops to Annam, which was extremely unfavorable to the Ming Dynasty that had just stabilized, which made Zhu Di as tough as Zhu Di's various expressions against the Hu Dynasty have been triggered.

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