Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Wind Rises in the Western Regions

Lu Yong must have been as if a gust of wind had blown across the entire south.

The gentry from all over the south knew the emperor's determination in this matter, so naturally they had no intention of defying the law, of course. Even so, when the Ming Dynasty was in the Qing Dynasty, it was also very measured.

Among them, the interests and compromises depend on the skill of the person who implements it.

But as Zhu Qizhen stopped chasing and beating the tile spur, the tile spur slowly recovered.

Because Zhu Qizhen has been diplomatically isolating the actions of the tile spurs, no matter how many envoys the tile spurs send, they are tributes, ministers, and so on.

can't make Zhu Qizhen change his mind.

Zhu Qizhen was bent on isolating himself from the tributary system centered on the Ming Dynasty.

As a result, one of the most important financial revenues for the tile spurs, that is, the Silk Road trade in the Western Regions, was also interrupted.

There were even Tibetan merchants who bought supplies from the Central Plains in Xining as the king of Yanhua, and then transferred them to Lhasa, and then took the western route from Lhasa to the Western Regions.

That's a big circle.

The other route, which is a smuggling route, is from Longcheng to the area north of the Tianshan Mountains, and most of this road is a no-man's land where the two countries meet.

It goes without saying who the people involved are.

In this way, although there are some agricultural areas in the Western Regions, which can supply some grain and handicraft products, on the whole, how can they compare with selling materials from the Central Plains.

In this way, although the tile spur has recovered in recent years, it has weakened in terms of financial resources, and it is also a big step ahead of the times.

I'm dry

This is a place name, west of the Green Mountains, if placed in later generations it is no longer in the territory of China. It is Andijan, Kazakhstan, and you can tell from the name that it was originally Chinese land.

But that's all for later.

At the moment, it is a relatively western part of the territory of the tile. It is the station of the Heshuo Division.

The main force of the tile spur was defeated from the north of the desert, although Aci Timur is still very capable, and the Western Regions is also the traditional territory of the tile spur, so Azi can still control the situation.

But Azi Timur also had to face one thing, that is, he sat down with the special department.

The Heshute tribe is the tribe of the brother of Adai Khan, as mentioned above, because of the unequal distribution of the family property among the elder brothers, and defected to the detached Uruktemur.

And the Heshuo Special Department is still the name given by Dehuan.

Now, the Heshute Department has gone through three generations and is in the hands of Kuntu.

Although after Ah Ci ascended to the throne, he reversed the policy and made peace with the Erjin family, and the ministries were relaxed. This is actually a big step backwards in politics.

Because the first two generations of Tuhuan and Yexian wanted to build an empire like the Great Yuan or the Great Ming, they wanted to strengthen their control over the various tribes, and they were not willing to accept this state of tribal alliance.

But by doing so, Aztimur was tantamount to completely abandoning the policy of his father and ancestors. The internal political structure of the Tile Thorn is content with a mere tribal confederation.

In this way, the relationship between the eldest and the second in the tribal alliance is quite important.

The nomads differed from the Central Plains regime.

For them, the best recuperation is to fight.

After Timur was sure that the Ming Dynasty would not interfere in the Western Regions, he launched a western expedition and captured Yili Jiangli, and the army swept through the Western Regions. It was the capital of the Western Chagatai Khanate.

During this expedition to the west, the Heshute Department and the Waspur Headquarters were divided into separate routes, and the military achievements of the two sides were not much different, but also because of the annexation of the strength of the Chagatai Khanate, so that both divisions were strengthened.

And at this time, Quintu received an order.

Azi Timur waited for him in Yili, that is, the Ili of the Hereafter, and asked him to go to the audience.

This order made many people in the Heshuo Department suspicious.

Without him, because of the rapid growth of the Heshute Division, it has caused many people in the Tile Spur Headquarters to be uneasy. In addition, because of one reason or another, there is such and such friction between the two parts.

Many people feel that Kuntu is also trying to do it, and there is more than luck. It is likely that this was the plan of Attimur.

The politics of the Mongols is very rough, and it can be said that political murders such as poisoning are not uncommon, and this idea is also very normal.

It's just that Kuntu thought about it for a while, and finally announced, saying: "Azi Timur is our Great Khan, and the Great Khan summons me, and I can't go away." ”

"If I can't come back. It was my younger brother, Ching and Temur, who continued to lead the tribe. ”

Kuntu did not trust Azi Timur, but was well aware of the reality that the Heshute Department was no match for the Waspur Headquarters. Even when the tile spur retreated from Mobei, his vitality was greatly damaged, and more than half of the elite was lost.

However, the tile spur is still a force that once wrestled with the Ming Dynasty, although the Heshuo Special Department has been operating for three generations and dozens of years, because it did not participate in the war in the east, it has been recuperated, and from the war against the Chagatai Khanate, it has received a lot of war dividends, but even so, the strength of the two sides is not on the same level.

If the Watts decided to attack the Heshute Division, Kuntu said that all he could do was to take his men and horses to the west, to the west, and to continue to the west.

I didn't dare to turn around and engage in battle.

Strength and heritage are not something that exists.

And the following people support them, but how many people are fighting to the end for their family when they really fight?

Hardly.

But when he went to see Azi Timur with a posture of submission, and he was not tolerated, then everyone knew that the purpose of the thorn was to raise the heart of despair.

Therefore, if Azi Timur really wants to kill him, he can also go.

So Kuntu took more than 100 guards all the way to the east, and came to Yili in the winter of the twenty-sixth year of orthodoxy.

It has become the capital of the Tile Thorns.

Of course, nomads rarely have the word "capital", but the production and life mode of the tile spur is very different from before, the reason is simple, the silage method has been passed to the tile spur.

Maybe it's not as authentic as the Ming Dynasty, but it's enough.

In essence, the silage method is not high-tech, and the use of fermentation has been used by the Mongolians for a long, long time, but they do not want to use this thing on forage.

The Tile Thorn was able to recover so quickly, so it drank the blood of the Chagatai Khanate, but it also had the effect of this innovation in the mode of production.

In this way, the various departments of the tile spur also slowly have a fixed grassland.

And the Ili River Valley is one of the few places in the Western Regions that can be cultivated and planted, and where water and grass are abundant, it is also very normal for Azi Timur to leave his headquarters here.

Quintu came here, and his heart calmed down.

But he didn't want to open the city gate with all his might, but he saw the iron horsemen of the brigade rushing out, and then they lined up on both sides, and a man came on horseback, none other than Azi Timur.

Seeing this, Quintu immediately turned over and dismounted, saluted and said, "Great Khan." ”

At this moment, Aci Timur has changed a lot from before.

At the beginning, Acitimur still had some youthful meaning, but now it is impossible to see a trace of thought from his face, I saw that his face was full of enthusiasm, and he helped Kuntu up, hugged him in his arms, and said: "Brother Kuntu." ”

It's very cold.

As the two spoke, they turned into white mist, but the enthusiasm of Azi Timur seemed to burn all winter.

Without waiting for Quintu to speak, he pulled him into the city of Yili.

With a wave of his hand, countless horns and drums were beaten.

Because of the silage method, even in winter, the impact on the Mongols is not too great, not to mention that there are already intact houses in Yili.

For the Mongol aristocracy, even more so.

So in the palace of Yili Jiangli, a feast began, and Azi Timur specially took Kuntu's hand and said: "This time the western expedition is fought in Chagatai, and the Heshuo Department is the first hero. ”

So Quintu became the celebrity of the banquet, the focus of everyone.

In the midst of this hot welcome, Kuntu's worries before coming seemed to be superfluous, but only Kuntu became more and more worried in his heart.

Without him, he knew Aztimur.

For Watts, Azi Timur can be said to be ordered to be in danger and ordered to be in the midst of defeat. After the defeat, the various tribes of the Tile Spurs were in shock, but now it is like this.