Chapter 19: Thousands of Miles to the Western Regions 5
Timur smiled faintly and said, "This is already a secret known to the world. I heard that when Zhu Di entered Nanjing, Zhu Yunwen was not burned to death, but fled overseas, so Zhu Di sent Zheng He to lead a fleet to the West several times to find the whereabouts of Zhu Yunwen, but he could not find it. ”
After hearing this, Zhang Shixing breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Since even Zheng He can't find Zhu Yunwen's whereabouts, how can the Great Khan find Zhu Yunwen, make him emperor, and call on his subjects?" ”
Timur pointed at Zhang Shixing and said with a smile: "Far away in the sky, close in front of you." ”
Zhang Shixing became nervous again and asked, "What did the Great Khan say?" ”
Timur said: "You are Zhu Yunwen, I want to make you the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and call on my subjects to come and pay allegiance." ”
Zhang Shixing hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Thank you for the kindness of the Great Khan, but I am indeed not Zhu Yunwen, I am just a monk, how can I be the emperor?" I can't even dream of it. ”
Timur said angrily: "I said yes, you are." Are there still few things in your Chinese history that refer to deer as horses? ”
Zhang Shixing waved his hand again and again: "If virtue is not matched, there will be disaster." The poor monk did not dare to do it. ”
Timur said fiercely: "Battle, I look up to you, so I let you be the lord of China." If you don't agree, I will kill you, find your brothers and sisters to be the emperor, if they don't will, I will kill them, and then find others, I don't believe that such a big flower and mountain is sent to the front, no one is willing to accept it. ”
Zhang Shixing pondered for a moment and said, "This is a big matter, I want to go back and discuss it with my master and brothers." ”
Timur snorted and said, "You return to me tomorrow, or I will send someone to kill you immediately." ”
Zhang Shixing smiled: "Thank you for the kindness of the Great Khan." With that, he toasted Timur with a glass of wine.
The two gossiped again, and Timur drank too much wine, and was very old, and after a while fell asleep.
Zhang Shixing hurriedly withdrew from the Golden Tent, returned to his tent, and told Timur's words to Zhu Yunwen and others.
Zhu Yunwen sighed: "Sure enough, Chen Cheng said that Timur wanted to make me the emperor in order to deal with the Yan thief, whether it was true or not, to call on the world." This is a cruel plan, how do we deal with it? ”
Huang Zhan said: "Master, we will push the boat down the river and promise him, and when the Yan thief is overthrown, we will wait for the opportunity to expel Timur." ”
Zhang Shixing shook his head and said: "It's not proper, if that Timur enters the Central Plains and returns to the whole place, my Ming Dynasty will be destroyed and the species will be wiped out, and we will become puppets when we become this emperor, but we will become sinners in China through the ages." ”
Huang Zhan said: "Senior brother, you have a clear mind, even if we don't be this emperor, that Timur will find someone else to do it." ”
Wang Shu said: "Then let's find a chance to escape, and find King Zhongning as soon as possible." ”
Zhang Shixing said: "Right now, the weather is freezing and the wasteland is long, where can we escape." I don't think it's better to do this, let's pretend to agree to that Timur first, and let the master be the emperor. After entering the customs, wait for the opportunity to escape and join the king of Zhongning. Besides, Timur's establishment of his master as emperor will at least wait until he takes Guanzhong. ”
Zhu Yunwen sighed and said, "That's it." "Fate
Early that morning, Zhang Shixing came to Timur's Golden Horde, asked to see the Great Khan, and prepared to tell him that his master was willing to be emperor.
The guard replied, "The Great Khan is still asleep, so come back later." ”
Zhang Shixing had no choice but to return to his tent and wait until the afternoon to ask for a meeting, but the guards said that the Great Khan was still not awake.
Zhang Shixing felt strange, the Great Khan was a little drunk this time. He saw the Imperial Doctor going in and out of the Golden Tent again, and he vaguely felt that something was wrong.
Timur fell asleep in the big tent like this for more than ten days, the potion did not enter, the needle and stone were ineffective, and the imperial doctors were so anxious that they could not do anything.
On this day, suddenly a group of cavalry galloped from the east, headed by a man, who was long and jade, and also had a bearded face, came to the front of the Golden Horde, jumped off his horse, and quickly stepped into the tent, this person was the emperor's grandson Haril.
When Khalil came to Timur's bed, he saw his grandfather's eyes closed, his face flushed, and the smell of alcohol. He leaned down, took Timur's hand, and whispered in his ear: "Great Khan, I am Khalil, I am coming." Wake up. ”
Timur seemed to hear his cries, and slowly opened his eyes to see his grandson standing in front of the bed, with a smile of relief on his face.
With the last of his strength, he said to Haril: "Good grandson, do not show weakness to the enemy, take up your sword, and go east!" East! ”
After saying that, he tilted his head and died at the age of seventy-two.
With the support of his courtiers, Khalil succeeded him as the Great Khan.
After Haril ascended the throne, he decided to withdraw his troops and return to the west, in order not to be killed by the Ming army from behind, he was determined to reconcile with the Ming Dynasty, so he released Chen Cheng and other envoys, and also released Zhu Yunwen and others, and returned their luggage.
Chen Cheng said goodbye to Zhu Yunwen and the others and asked, "Master Kongwen, where do you plan to go in the future?" ”
Zhu Yunwen said: "Traveling all over the world, there is no fixed place to live. ”
Chen Cheng said: "Then the masters take care all the way. Hopefully, we will see you again in the future. ”
The two sides parted in tears.
Zhu Yunwen and others traveled all the way east, crossed the Tianshan Mountains, entered the Western Regions, passed through Turpan, walked for several months, and finally came to the city of Hami.
Hamiwei, a military institution established by the Ming Dynasty in the Kingdom of Hami (present-day Hami, Xinjiang), was also the northwest end of the Ming Dynasty's territory. It is the three major intelligence centers of the Ming Dynasty (the other two are Duoyan). Hami is geographically important, located at the hub of the ancient Silk Road, the Silk Road is a trade route with extensive political, economic and cultural exchanges, so this route is also known as the "Golden Road". "Bengu Yiwu Lu land, in the north of Dunhuang County, outside of the Great Sulphur, to the present-day Suzhou 1,500 miles, for the northwest Zhuhu road." "Bao Hami so Bao Gansu also, Bao Gansu so Bao Shaanxi also". Therefore, "the ancestors established Hexi, and the territory reached Shazhou and Hami. The people of the Ming Dynasty believed that "the so-called Hami, Qiqin, Mongolia, Handu, Anding, and Huduan Chasun are all the borders of China in the previous generations, and the so-called Dunhuang, Jiuquan, and Yiwu's hometowns, Hongwu and Yongle are guarded by their native chieftains, and they are located near our borders, which are thinner than the north, and cannot be regarded as foreign." ”
From the establishment of Andingwei in the eighth year of Hongwu (1375) to the setting of Handongwei in the thirtieth year of Hongwu (1397), the Ming Dynasty has gradually formed a strategic encirclement of the Hami area. "Since it is a fanrong intimidation, the military power is extremely superior to the Western Regions"
In the first year of Yongle, the Ming Dynasty sent envoys to Fuyu in Hami and allowed Hami to enter the Chinese market with horses. This edict was different from that of the Taizu period, giving the power of the late Yuansu king of Hami, Anketemer, to exchange horses with the Ming Dynasty, and the king of Hami, who had received huge economic benefits, responded by supporting the Ming Dynasty politically, and sent an envoy to Chengzu and asked for a knighthood. Due to the repeated requests of the envoys sent by Anke Timur, the king of Hami, the Ming Dynasty named Anke Timur as the loyal king on the grounds that "the previous kings were insufficient, but now they take their abilities, return to the imperial court and seal them, so that they can guard their land and appease their people". Hami has become a border outpost of the DPRK, causing uneasiness among the surrounding forces of Hami: "Tatar sweeping Hu'er and his younger brothers Jingrachi Basutai and Die'er will be lost." Sahu'er Arutai's subordinates also said that the ghost power was red and heard that Wuliangha and Hami belonged to the imperial court, so they guessed and sent people south to watch. Soon after, Ankh Timur, king of Hami Zhongshun, was poisoned by the ghost. In March of the third year of Yongle, "the leader of Hami sent an envoy to play the king of Zhongshun Anke Timur and died. The Ministry of Rites sent officials to give sacrifices, and the edict was sent to the king of Zhongshun to take off the attack and return it to Hami. Tokhtar, Anke Timur's brother, has been a captive of China since childhood. On the throne to seek it, raise even. And when he heard that Ankh Timur had died and had no heirs, he wanted to take off his heirs, fearing that his people would not obey, so he tried to send back to Kechajir and others to visit his grandmother Sukeshili and her leader. As a result, the leader of Hami came to mourn, and asked him to take off and return to his people. He ordered to get rid of the king and give him a seal, a jade belt, and a Wenqi, and gave his grandmother and his mother Wenqi." The descendants of King Anding, the righteous son who served as a personal guard in the palace, parachuted into Hami and attacked King Zhongshun, which can be said to be a major move for the Ming court to intervene in Hami's internal affairs and re-carry out the strategic layout of the northwest, in which the personal will of Emperor Yongle played a decisive role. Under strong pressure from the Ming court, the Hami ruling class was forced to accept the fact that Tokhtar had been crowned the king of Zhongshun. The Hami royal family recognized the legitimacy of secession as the succession of the Golden Family. In the first month of the fourth year of Yongle, "Song Shengyan, the chief military officer of Gansu, Xining Marquis, said that Hami was loyal to the king and was driven away by his grandmother Brother Su. Then he sent (envoys) to the day of the big and small leaders of Hami: Anke Timur died, and the people of the side of the Nian side had no subordinate, and his nephew Tokh had been guarding the court for a long time, and I caressed him like a son, so he ordered to attack the king, and still returned to Hami to inherit his clan worship and soothe his people. It is better to hear that his grandmother could not bend flattery than to get rid of it, and once it was expelled. However, it was established by the imperial court, although it had its faults, and it was a slow court to drive it away without playing. The old man is faint, willful, and disregards etiquette! The big and small leaders don't know that there is a court, so they sit back and watch what they do and don't say anything? I remember this matter, the beginning is not out of your heart, so hold the edict to the edict and so on, it is advisable to return to the liberation, so that it can be restored, you and so on praise and assist with all your heart, good deeds grandmother, filial piety as before, then the people of Erhami will always enjoy the blessings of peace in infinity." The expulsion of Tokhtar reflected that he had no roots in Hami, and no one from the king's grandmother to the big or small leaders showed his support. Ming Ting had no choice but to intervene forcefully. In March of the fourth year of Yongle, "set up Ha Miwei, give seals, and take its leader Maha Ma Huo as the commander, thousands of households, and suppress it, Gu Sicheng and Ha Ma Ma as the experience, Zhou An as the loyal and obedient Wang Changshi, and Liu Xing as the discipline and goodness, and assist the detachment." "Like a prince." And sent at least a hundred households of troops as a backup. Obviously, the detaching and reinstatement was the result of pressure exerted by the Ming Dynasty and sending official troops into Hami. Emperor Yongle had a very close relationship with the king of Zhongshun, and the Ming court also regarded Hami as the prince of the Zhu family. On the first day of the seventh month of the fifth year of Yongle, Song Sheng's Hami leader Lu Shi and others made a rebellion, and the loyal Shun Wang had killed him, fearing that he would change, and sent people to invite troops for the garrison. Zhu Di and Song Sheng took 500 or 1,000 soldiers, selected talented generals to lead, and went to them. And make the familiar plan to make the generation new. What's more, because the ancestor has been by his side for a long time, he Fu, the governor of Zuodu, the chief military officer of the Yongle Emperor Gansu, said: "From now on, the king of Zhongshun will send people to eat gifts, and they should be aware of it." Gai Qi is simple and ignorant, knows the border of the army, and he is afraid. Gifts are suspicious, and it is better to be happy to accept them. "The Hami garrison and He Fu with heavy troops on his side ensured the Ming court's control of Hami, but it did not eliminate the hostility of the Hami ruling class to Tokhtar. "Ming Shilu" and "History of the Ming Dynasty" all record that "Anke Timur's wife went to Yigui Lichi", and "Guixian Lineage" also shows that Anke Timur has an heir, indicating that Anke Timur was actually forced to leave Hami and has since withdrawn from the political situation in Hami, so Zhushuyun's "no heir" is an excuse and does not conform to the facts. The detachment attack position is a veritable dove occupancy magpie's nest. In order to ensure the rule of the Tokhtar clan over Hami, the Ming court rejected the descendants of Ankh Timur, fearing a comeback. In November of the fifth year of Yongle, another thousand knights were sent to "take the road from Gansu to the north of Hami, and to capture the movement." The history is called "ascending the altar and cutting Loulan, and passing on Hami." Success Le Tianshan, Guanhe Jinyi. Let it "welcome and protect the envoys, lead all the fans, and shield the west", "destroy the heart of Xirong and the east, and cut off the arm of the north and the south".
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