Wooing Zarayier is the only choice for Zhu Di at present......

Even if they have become Turkic, they are still Mongols after all, and as foreign conquerors, they have long been weakened, and now they are even weaker.

Historically, they were finally completely annexed by the Black Sheep Turkmen more than twenty years later.

But now that the Ming Dynasty is here, relying on the Ilhan signboard in his hand, although no one recognizes this signboard, but this is not difficult to solve, as long as the Ming Emperor supports them, then they are the Ilkhan, and then with the Ming Dynasty on their backs, they can continue to exist as a force in Baghdad with the Ilkhanate.

And not to be swallowed up by someone else.

Baghdad.

The fertile land of the Plain of the Two Rivers and the convenience of trade in the East were enough for the descendants of their former conquerors to continue to enjoy the happiness of the conquerors by stepping on the souls of the Mustai Suimu.

And all they need to pay is to pay tribute to the Ming Emperor.

Perfect choice.

As for the Kurds......

Of course, it's time to welcome the king!

When Zhu Di arrived in Van City, the Kurdish Emir of Van had already greeted him outside the city and, with true gratitude, offered a gift to the Prince of the East who had avenged their revenge.

When Timur captured the city of Van that year, he threw more than 7,000 young men who surrendered from the city wall and fell to their deaths.

Because his killings even caused a constant famine.

After all, all the young and middle-aged people were killed by him, the young women were also snatched by him, and the remaining old and weak women and children were not able to cultivate in the war, so that they all appeared to eat people, and it can be said that all the survivors in this city can be said to have gritted their teeth and hated him. Now that Zhu Di has defeated Timur's military might, coupled with the Ming Dynasty's leniency towards his vassals, the emir of Fancheng, who had already been a vassal of Timur, will certainly not make a mistake, and his welcome to the king has also made the emirs and sheikhs of other Kurdish cities to the south and west from here all choose to welcome the king and offer various gifts to the prince of the east who avenges them.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty vassal system in West Asia was established.

Georgia State ......

Their knighthood is the prince of the county, and their language translation is the grand duke, but their king can still be called king.

It is a vassal state similar to Korea and the Wa Kingdom.

The Ossetians received a vassal state alone.

In fact, they were in the north and south of the Caucasus, and the northern part belonged to the Golden Horde, but the king of Yan was in charge, and the Golden Horde Tokhtamysh generously took out this part.

In the end, the Kazbek family, who was the strong and powerful of Ossetia and contributed the most in the last blockade, got the position of the king of Ossetia.

Hilvan Country.

Hilvan Shah successfully advanced to King Hilvan of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, like them, they will definitely give new country names, but this is not something that Zhu Di can care about.

Yousuf, the chief of the Black Sheep Turkmen, returned from the Mamluks and met with the king of Yan to pay tribute to the Ming Emperor.

Eventually, he also got the Taoli Temple as a feudal state.

But before that, he signed an agreement with his good friend and father-in-law Ahmed, originally he was a subordinate of the latter who robbed the Taoli Temple, and now he signed an agreement, Ahmad officially recognized his rule over the Taoli Temple, but he gave Ahmet some gold coins as compensation, because he definitely couldn't take it out at once, so he paid in installments under the auspices of Zhu Di, and at the same time demarcated the ruling scope of Taoli Temple.

And in total, the Armenians launched five so-called princes.

In fact, they were the five chieftains hiding in Nagorno-Karabakh and the nearby mountains, and they were the only five remaining lords of the Armenians.

So together they form the state of Armenia.

As for the king, the Ming Emperor can choose one from it, anyway, they are all lords, and the king is the lord of his own territory.

The Zarat people got the most, and as the Ilkhan, they ruled the Kurdish cities south of Lake Van in the plains of the two rivers.

Of course, the emirs and sheikhs of these Kurdish cities will also be given the title of Emperor Ming, which is nothing more than a bunch of seven-rank prefects of long lawsuits.

In the official explanation of the Ming Dynasty, the Great Khan is the title of the leader of the nomadic tribe, and the Ming Emperor gave a certain area as the ranch of the Great Khan, but this pasture is not the Great Khan's, but the Ming Emperor's, so the Ming Emperor can set up a separate administrative district in this area for agricultural and commercial cities, and the governor of this administrative region is indeed under the control of the Great Khan, but the Great Khan has no power to appoint and dismiss, and even the Ming Emperor can also set up guards, of course, these guards are also under the control of this Great Khan......

At present, these Great Khans of the Ming Emperor are like this.

Kun Timur was the Great Khan, and Yan Ran commanded the envoys, and Yan Ran commanded the envoys and guards to be controlled by him, but he had no right to appoint and dismiss the generals of these guards.

Ugqi Hashha is the Great Khan, and the pastoral Dawan is in command of the envoys, and the guards of the Dawan are also under his control, including the naturalization of the chief lawsuit, but he definitely has no right to appoint and dismiss Yang Feng's concubines.

So the same is true of the Great Khan of Ahmet, whose realm will also be divided into commanders.

The same was true of the Great Khan, including Tokhtamysh, whose territory had even been divided into commanders.

In short, after Zhu Di's operation, the Ming Dynasty officially expanded Western Asia, at least the territory on the map has advanced to the Dnieper River and the Euphrates River.

But there is still one force left.

"Aries Turkmen, who is this, and what is the relationship with you Black Sheep Turkmen, it sounds like brothers?"

Zhu Di looked at the map and said.

"Your Highness, we are enemies!"

Yusuf said without hesitation.

"Huh?"

Zhu Di looked at Ahmed suspiciously.

"Your Highness, their sects are different."

Ahmed said with a smile.

"And who are you with?"

Zhu Di said.

"I'm with the Aries Turkmen."

Ahmed said.

"You are different from his sect, and one Mongolian and one Turkmen, but you can still marry, and the white sheep who are also Turkmen are enemies because they are not a sect? Forget it, I'd better respect your reality. ”

Zhu Di said somewhat messily.

"Your Highness, the leader of the Aries Turkmen, Kara. Uthman was Timur's dog, and he had been leading his people to fight for Timur, so Timur rewarded Diyarbakr to him, where the Kurds lived, and now he still refuses to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, for this kind of people we should not care about their relationship with the Black Sheep Turkmen, they refuse to submit to the Ming Dynasty, then damn it, and we crusade against Kara. Ottoman words, the Kurds in Diyarbakir will support us.

Ahmed said.

Of course, the main thing is that Diyarbakir has counted his territory.

His dominion will include east of the Euphrates River and south of Lake Van Lake, all of which are under the jurisdiction of the Ilkhan.

To the east of the lake, to the north are Yusuf's.

Lake Sevan, roughly equivalent to modern Armenia, was surrounded by the Kingdom of Armenia.

But Armenians are not only in this range, Armenians in other places are also under the protection of the Ming Emperor.

It's just that it needs to be ruled by other places.

"Alright, then go and crusade against him."

Zhu Di said.

"But a crusade against him is likely to bring Bayezet."

Yusuf said.

"Didn't you say they had a bad relationship with Bayezet?"

Zhu Di said.

"It's really bad, but Kara. Osman has no other choice, who else can he vote for but Osman? Mamluks? The Mamluks could not help him, and the only one who could help him was Bayezid, who had already begun to gather troops in Sivas. In addition, they married Trabzon, and now the only people in this land who have not submitted to the Ming are the Ottomans, the Aries Turkmen, the Trabzon, and the Mamluks, and they can only unite if they don't want to submit to the Ming. The Aries Turkmen's desire was Diyarbakir, and they were afraid that the Ottomans would take their territory, and as long as the Ottomans promised to give it to them, of course they would join the Ottomans, and the same was true of Trabzon. ”

Ahmed said.

"You two coalition forces are crusading against Aries, and I will take the other coalition forces to Erzinjan, are there any Armenians there?"

Zhu Di asked.

"Your Highness, the name is Armenian, not only Erzincan, there are also a large number of Armenians in Sivas, Bayezid is assembling troops in Sivas, because he is afraid that the Armenians will rebel."

Yusuf said.

"Why won't the Trabssons submit?"

Zhu Di asked.

"Your Highness, they claim to be the monarchs of the entire East, how can they submit to the Ming Dynasty, in the world they think even the Ming is their territory, they used to even call themselves Caesar, the monarchs of the Romans, including the Balkan countries, the northern Russians, the Georgians, the emperors of all those who believe in their religion, although they only have a palm-sized place."

"Well, I have only seen such a man of arrogance in my life, so why did Georgia and Armenia not hesitate to submit?"

"The Georgians have surrendered a lot, whoever fights here they will eventually surrender, at most they have to struggle a little bit to make people feel that they have a backbone, but in fact they still have to kneel in the end, as for the Armenians, they don't even struggle, as long as they don't kill them, they will quickly kneel, they resist Timur because Timur really killed them, so there are more Armenians than Georgians who have survived until now."

"Well, you're interesting here, too."

……

And at this moment, the distant Ancient Jade Gate Pass.

"The bright moon rises out of the Tianshan Mountains, and the vast sea of clouds. The long wind is tens of thousands of miles, blowing across the Yumen Pass! ”

Yang Feng looked at the seemingly endless yellow sand in the distance, and then chanted loudly.

Behind him were the same seemingly endless soldiers......

Of course, he couldn't wait for Zhu Di's secret letter, but Zhu Di was also the empress's uncle and patriarch of the imperial family, so it was impossible for something to really happen, and those civil ministers and military generals also unanimously asked the imperial army to march westward, and asked Ambassador Yang to accompany him again. The main thing is that he stayed in the capital, and many things are not easy to operate, as for his identity, of course, he is a guide, and no one else in Daming is familiar with Eastern Europe and Siberia, so this kind of thing can only ask Ambassador Yang to be a guide. As for the official commander of the Western Expedition, it was Xu Huizu, the Duke of Wei, and Ambassador Yang took the two armies of Jingying to Xi'an Hui and Wei Guogong first, and then added an army drawn from Shaanxi and Shanxi, and then marched west together, and then added Song Sheng's army in Gansu.

At this time, the establishment of the army has become a wartime establishment of the Ming army, and each guard who was transferred to participate in the war drew troops to form a brigade, and the number of brigades formed an army.

Each army has a general soldier, and it is the rank of governor.

As for the army in Beijing, it is a fixed establishment.

Four infantry brigades, an artillery brigade, plus a cavalry brigade, but the infantry was in carriages.

On the contrary, the armies formed by Shaanxi and other countries were camel cavalry.

So at this moment, following Yang Feng was the Fifth Army, with a total strength of more than 80,000, and the number of horses and camels even exceeded 150,000.

At this time, the number of horses and camels in the Ming Dynasty has reached an astonishing level, the whole country does not include the Jianwen Dynasty control area, not counting those fetters and guards, Tusi, vassal states, Khan-controlled areas, simple horse farms directly under the imperial court and the people combined, all kinds of horses have exceeded one million, especially the proportion of high-quality war horses is increasing, and even began to breed special horse breeds.

More than half a million camels.

"The ambassador is so Yaxing!

It's just that I don't know if it's too late, King Yan is too reckless this time, how can tens of thousands of cavalry go on an expedition of thousands of miles to attack the enemy's capital.

Instead, he beat it crookedly and forced out Timur's true face. ”

Xu Huizu said.

They received an urgent report from Zhu Gaoxu in Lanzhou that Timur had led an army to engage him at war on the Ural River.

Of course, this result has long been expected, Xu Huizu has also been on the western expedition last time, of course he knows what the situation of Timur's submission is, Zhu Di is about to ride to his neck, and it is strange that Timur still doesn't do it.

"Rest assured, Timur has not yet been able to retain King Yan."

Yang Feng said.

At this time, a group of cavalry rushed wildly, Xu Huizu waved his hand, and the personal soldiers beside him immediately stepped forward, stopped the group of cavalry, and soon came over with the officer at the head, who walked in front of them and saluted, and then held an urgent report sealed with an iron can in both hands. Xu Huizu took it, and then handed it directly to Yang Feng, Yang Feng took the can opener to open the tinplate can, this is the best means of secrecy, after all, it can't be restored if it is opened, he took out a parchment letter from it......

"Wei Guogong, you still don't know enough about your brother-in-law, he is not just reckless, he can be regarded as a madman, he broke through from Be'er Gesale, but instead of going east to meet his son, he went directly south to Persia, this is what he wrote in Baku, and it is really worthy of being a man who was originally going to be the emperor, I have a little bit of a weak heart for such a crazy play, he actually succeeded."

Ambassador Yang sighed.

Xu Huizu's face changed, ignoring his sentence that the man who was originally going to be the emperor, took the map as quickly as he could......

"Don't look at it, you don't have it on the map at all, he is now outside your map, we have to divide the army into two ways, I will go south from here to Khotan, and then go north to take the Wakhan corridor, you and the Marquis of Xining continue to Gaochang, and then the troops will divide into two roads, you go to Dawan, the Marquis of Xining go to Kunling, gather all the vassals along the way, Timur can't open the ear class, that place is the same as Shanhaiguan, he will definitely go to the Caspian Sea and return to the river, you have to prepare for a decisive battle with him, I will go to Persia to meet the king of Yan."

Yang Feng said.