Due to the increasing prosperity of Liaodong, and the Tatars suffered defeats and became more and more sluggish, the leaders of the Nuergan region were respectful to Yisha Habi, showing their willingness to belong to the Celestial Empire

After some preparations, the leaders of several large tribes in the Nuergan area, such as Thorn Daha and Gu Donkey, rushed all the way to Beijing, the news came, Zhu Di was overjoyed, and tracing back to the source, this credit is inseparable from Xia Xun's achievements in Liaodong, and it can be determined that this is the result of Liaodong and radiating slaves, Zhu Di inevitably remembered a dispute with Xia Xun in Dabao'en Temple

Xia Xun expressed his different opinions on Annan face to face with him, although Zhu Di was angry, he would not complain about Xia Xun for this, Zhu Di is not a person who does not tolerate dissenting opinions, whether it is during his martyrdom or after he became the emperor, he always allows the voice of different opinions, if he is a person who only knows how to obey orders and do things, and never has his own opinions, he will never be sent out by him to block one side

Once Zhu Di made a decision, he would inevitably make an arbitrary decision, and his decision to make an arbitrary decision was precisely after he listened to all kinds of different opinions, repeatedly scrutinized and considered the opinions of these people, and constantly improved, supplemented, and revised his own views, and finally came up with them

But now he is still under the banner of punishing the rebellion of the vassal state as the suzerain, and fighting against Annan in the name of "rising and destroying and succeeding", he is not good at showing the intention of annexing Annan, and his plan is to buy several powerful ministers of Annan through a close minister, so that they can take the initiative to ask the Ming Dynasty to follow the ancient system to restore the county, and it is only logical at that time

Zhu Di deliberately met with Xia Xun in the Dabao'en Temple alone, and it was a little difficult to say before the brocade night sketch confided in him, it was for this reason that he had no one to discuss now, and before he launched the Annan officials and people to "take the initiative to ask for attachment", he could not let people know that he had a covetous heart for Annan, which was contrary to the moral ideas formed by China's thousands of years of cultural inheritance

Xia Xun did a lot of secret things for him, and when he was passing through Liaodong, he fought with the court for an inch of land, and these behaviors made him feel that Xia Xun was the most likely to agree with his opinions, and Xia Xun really did not oppose Xia Xun did not object, which means that Xia Xun really did not stand on a moral standpoint and talk about those rotten Confucianism, talking about the heavenly kingdom and the state of etiquette

Xia Xun is even more "vulgar" than him Zhu Di, he is completely based on the gains and losses of interests, like a businessman who must compare the baht, after repeated comparisons, he thinks that the gains outweigh the losses, so he raised objections, so he did not arouse Zhu Di's disgust He also knows that although Xia Xun has different opinions on taking the opportunity to annex Annan, if he still wants to send Xia Xun to conquer Annan, Xia Xun will still go all out

But Zhu Di's temperament also has his own stubbornness, since you are not optimistic, I don't need you, I asked you to watch it with your own eyes, to see if what I said is right, or what you said is right With such a mind, he instructed Zhang Fu to do it, hoping that Zhang Fu can live up to expectations and fight for him to get back this breath

Now that the leaders of the Nuergan tribes went to the Ming Dynasty to ask for annexation, Zhu Di couldn't help but think of Xia Xun's performance in Liaodong Xia Xun was very good in Liaodong, he thought that Xia Xun could be the best candidate to annex Annan, who knew that Xia Xun was strongly opposed to thinking that Liaodong, there was Tatar oppression in the west, and there were Chao Xian constraints in the east, and the environment should be more sinister than Annan, why Xia Xun was so keen to consolidate Liaodong, and constantly encroached on annexation and expanded territory, but he didn't think so?

Am I really wrong?

Zhu Di seriously recalled what Xia Xun had said, and after careful consideration for a long time, he still didn't agree with Xia Xun's statement, but he no longer ignored it, he asked someone to inform Hu Hu, in the process of searching for Jianwen's whereabouts, pay attention to the news from all directions, and those who went to the north to search for it, pay attention to collecting some information about Tatar Warat

Because if there is chaos in the north, as Xia Xun said, he must focus on the north, which is the great trouble of the Ming Dynasty, and Annan is the icing on the cake for the Ming Dynasty, and its importance cannot be compared with the Saibei at all, and he and Xia Xun's views are highly consistent

When the Jurchen and Mongolian leaders of the Nuergan region arrived in Beijing, Zhu Di held a grand welcome ceremony, and at the request of the leaders of the tribes, he set up the Nuergan guard, and named the four tribal leaders such as Radha as the commander of the Tongzhi, and the ancient donkey and other leaders were pacified by thousands of households, and gave seals, crowns, belts, clothes and banknotes

After that, a number of guards were set up in the north and south areas of the Yangtze River basin and the Songhua River, the Ussuri River, the Green River, the Heng Rolling River and other river basins, which were mainly still dominated by local tribal leaders, and were transformed into officials of the Ming Dynasty in the form of feudal edicts

When these guards stabilized, they were connected into a line by point, penetrated the entire Nuergan area through one line after another, and finally controlled the entire Nuergan area like a big net through military and economic and trade development

In order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to prepare early, these days Zhu Di is really busy, he frequently meets with the tribal leaders of the Nuergan area, drinks banquets, discusses, understands the details of the Nuergan area, convenes the cabinet, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and the Ministry of War, and deploys the arrangements for the Nuergan area This afternoon, Zhu Di has just agreed on some things about the Nuergan area, and sent the people from the Governor's Office and the cabinet of the five armies away, and Mu En sent it up with a music box

Zhu Di looked at the secret box, and knew that this was the secret music that crossed the Tongzheng Department and the inner teng room, and went directly to the imperial front, and the originally tired body immediately sat up straight, he opened the secret box, took out the music and saw that it was the news that Hu Hu sent back to Beijing on a fast horse, and only one thing was mentioned in it: "In the Mongolian Stan area, the ** team of Emperor Timur has frequent activities and increasing troops, which seems to be suspected of eastward invasion"

Timur was indeed going on a crusade to the east

In recent years, Timur has conquered India, slaughtered Delhi, occupied Iran, invaded Turkey, fought Syria, captured Iraq, Baghdad and Damascus, and captured the Ottoman Turkish Sultan Bayesid

The Europeans trembled, and Timur had slaughtered the Holy Roman, Byzantine and French armies in Bulgaria six years earlier, when they were considered the best armies in Europe at the time, but Timur had wiped them out in a single day

Africans were also terrified, for a century earlier, the Ethiopian and Mamluk cavalry had annihilated the invincible Mongol expeditionary force in Palestine, but Timur had beaten it twice in a year

The native Yuan Dynasty and the four khanates of the Great Mongol Empire established by Genghis Khan and his descendants, long before Timur, the Ögedai Khanate was divided by the other four states, and now three more (Chagatai, Il, and Golden Horde) have submitted to Timur, and the remaining Yuan Empire has long since collapsed on its own, leaving only a few tribes that are not affiliated with each other to fight each other on the Mongolian plateau

Since the beginning of the world, there has never been such a powerful armed force in the universe as Timur, a Turkic cripple who pretends to be a descendant of Genghis Khan, whether it is marching to Europe or Africa, will be invincible and invincible

Everyone is doomed, and all the monarchs are praying their most devout prayers to their God and Allah, but they still believe in despair 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 cripple, who was more terrible than Satan, suddenly withdrew

The terrible Timur the Great abruptly gathered his army and returned to his splendid capital, Samarkand, leaving behind a bunch of terrified Western monarchs to restore their ruined state

Because Timur the Great was no longer interested in them, he had a goal of conquest, he was going to the East, he was going to conquer the Ming Empire

When he sent Aldusha and Gaisuyaddin to the Ming Dynasty, the emperor of the Central Plains had already become Zhu Yunwen, in Timur's view, Zhu Di only occupied a corner of Beijing to fight against the whole of China, and there was no hope of victory, he didn't care at all about the so-called rebellion of the vassal king named Zhu Di, but by the time his envoys arrived in China, the emperor of China had changed from Zhu Yunwen to Zhu Di

When his mission rushed back to report the news to him, Timur was taken aback, and he realized that he might have to meet a strong opponent

Zhu Di has just ascended the throne, and is to take the world as an anti-king, at this time his political situation must be unstable, the people's will must be uncertain, this is the best opportunity to attack, so, Timur gave up those vulnerable opponents, quickly gather the army This is the ultimate goal he has always regarded, he wants to go to China, first conquer China, and then conquer Mongolia, only in this way, can he justifiably become the Great Khan of all Mongolia, and replace Genghis Khan

For this reason, he has been preparing for many years, he has been doing reconnaissance in the northern, central and western parts of China for more than ten years, collecting a lot of intelligence, he has explored several routes that can be used to the east, his forward army has already entered the western part of the Mongolian stan frontier, captured Khotan, and advanced to the middle reaches of the Tarim River

It's time, he has already launched countless holy wars, and this time, he is going to launch the "Chinese Holy War"