my days with tyrants

Timur had practically no other choice.

Intellectually, of course he is very clear about the consequences of this, only Zhu Di can give it a go...

It can only be a fight.

He is very clear that this person is as terrifying as Yang Feng, even purely based on military and political skills, Zhu Di is actually more terrifying than Yang Feng, Yang Feng just relies on brutal force to deter those messy forces from following along, but Zhu Di is truly benevolent and powerful. their allegiance.The ability to subdue the chiefs of Wala like loyal dogs is already amazing, but Zhu Di does not have Yang Feng's invincible force value. After all, force is the first in this era, a real meaning An invincible general can make up for many deficiencies.

A force can show allegiance to Zhu Di because of his kindness, but when they encounter a powerful enemy like Yang Feng who makes them desperate, they can still betray Zhu Di.

After all, ungrateful people are the most disturbed conscience, but Yang Feng's berserk giant sword will make their heads fall to the ground.

So from this point of view, Zhu Di is still inferior to Yang Feng.

But he is not as good as Yang Feng!
Those bastards in Wala even killed the Mongolian Khan if they wanted to, but they were as loyal to Zhu Di as a dog. This is definitely a real strong.

Timur is very clear that even if he compares himself with Zhu Di, he can only say that they are comparable.

So simply confronting Zhu Di, he can only say a fight. The power he can mobilize in the Western Regions is not much stronger than Zhu Di. He has the support of gods, and Zhu Di also has the support of Buddha. He has Turkic Mongols, Turks, and Persia. In this group, Zhu Di also has the genuine Mongolian and Oirat groups, and his Persian group also has ulterior motives, and Zhu Di also has the Ming Army group.The troops he can mobilize in the Western Regions are actually only 10,000+. Even if Zhu Di ignores the grassroots in southern Xinjiang, the Ming army, Oirats, and Mongols he can mobilize are actually 10,000+.

This is not Song Sheng.

The latter can also reinforce Zhu Di with the [-] Gansu Army.

And once Song Sheng enters the Western Regions, those idiots in southern Xinjiang will turn into loyal dogs of Ming Dynasty without hesitation.

Timur can't win Zhu Di steadily.

Really.

He knew that even if he faced Zhu Di, he would not have an absolute advantage.

If they face Yang Feng again, the chances of winning will be even slimmer, at least in the current situation.

As for being the new Genghis Khan, that’s enough to talk about. He’s not even a member of the Golden Family. Who cares about the real Mongols and Oirats?

In the past, people didn't give a damn about him.

but……

If he doesn't, it's time to face the mutiny of his men.

His sons and grandchildren, his generals, and the emirs who supported him, they will not accept another leader who dare not do anything in this situation.

What everyone supports is a powerful sultan, not a coward who dares not do anything after being humiliated time and time again, even in the face of the opportunity of revenge at his fingertips. , and then bowed to the Ming people.

Are you worthy to be our boss?
For their system, hacking the boss to death is not a big deal, even if his children and grandchildren lead the generals to hack him to death, it is not a big deal. The leader is like the old wolf king in the wolf pack. It is reasonable for those young descendants to kill him and replace him. However, he has been considered old and incompetent by bowing his knees to Daming again and again. If he still bows his knees now, then wait for him This is the inevitable end of an old wolf king.

He had to let his subordinates know that he was still that powerful leader.

He is not old and incompetent.

"King Pingxi, I'm going back to answer the order. Please rest assured, King Pingxi. The first batch of cannons and guns will be sent to Basra by the end of the year."

Chen Cheng said with a smile.

Timur finally accepted Jianwen's canonization.

As for the knighthood that Jianwen gave him...

King Pingxi.

Although he was still the king of the county, he was given the crown of the vassal king, and the governor of the seven capitals of the Western Regions, who supervised the vassals of the Western Regions and ruled from the west of Jiayuguan.

Of course, the premise is that he kills Zhu Di.

After all, Zhu Di is now in charge of this job.

Moreover, this canonization may not be made public for the time being, until Timur officially raises his righteousness.

That is to formally send troops to capture Guihua City and kill Yang Feng's concubine, so as to formally break with Yang Feng. Only then will the identity of King Pingxi of the Ming Dynasty be made public.

Chen Cheng is also an old fox. It is impossible for Timur to be a white wolf empty-handed. If he wants Jianwen to really give him the support he wants, then he must openly break with Yang Feng and kill Yang Feng's woman. Jianwen's nomination certificate, as long as he kills Yang Feng's concubine, the craftsman will send him to Baghdad.

As for this King Pingxi...

Everything west of Jiayuguan belongs to him, so of course he is King Pingxi, and all the lands west of Huawai will be conquered by him.

King Pingxi!
So far, the alliance between Timur and Jianwen has been established.

"Chen Shilang is going well all the way, after I put down the chaos of the Golden Horde Khanate, I will attack Yang Feng for His Majesty."

Timur said.

"Your Majesty, the next official should play the role."

Chen Cheng said.

To pacify the rebellion of the Golden Horde is of course to kill Zhu Di.

Speaking of it, Chen Cheng did not expect such an unexpected joy. Although Jianwen secretly contacted Zhu Di, he actually hated his fourth uncle very deeply. In his opinion, his failure was completely because Zhu Di betrayed him. He certainly would not think that is their own responsibility.And in fact, he has already recalled at this time that he was really played by Zhu Di like a monkey. Zhu Di deliberately supported him, even asked his subordinates to help him raise troops, and then betrayed him at a critical moment, making him a regicide and treason in the end. sinner.

It can be said that he has been played by his fourth uncle all the time.

Now that Zhu Di was besieged by the Golden Horde because of his aggressive advances, Timur sent troops to help the Golden Horde to kill Zhu Di, and the Western Regions could no longer fight against Timur.

The latter moved eastward in a big way.

Yang Feng was forced to lead troops westward.

Jianwen's army led the Northern Expedition and recaptured the capital in one fell swoop.

How perfect!

"Shaharu, arrange someone to take Chen Shilang to Basra, and don't meet anyone on the way."

Timur looked at Shaharu and said.

He can't let the Persians and Arabs get in touch with Chen Cheng, at least he can't let these people know what he is going to do. Of course he knows very well that several places in Persia are powerful and have been secretly colluding with Hazhi. The same is true for the Arabs and Bayezid They are also in the same group. If these people know that he is going to attack Zhu Di, the Persians will definitely tell Ha Zhi, and the latter is like Yang Feng's loyal dog. It won't take long for Yang Feng to know.Similarly, if the Arabs know that he is going to give up going west, then Bayezid will know it soon, and then Bayezid will quickly gather his troops, wait for him to go north to fight Zhu Di, and give him a knife in the back without hesitation .

This is all inevitable.

Common beliefs are not worth mentioning at this time.

He must deal with Zhu Di secretly and quickly.

As long as he can quickly deal with Zhu Di, he will be able to gain the allegiance of the Golden Horde, at least the latter will continue to follow him, and then he can quickly defeat Bayezid with the troops of the Alloy Horde.

In the final analysis, it is impossible for him not to deal with Bayezid, otherwise the latter will still stab him if he goes east.

If Bayezid is defeated, he will be the boss of their system, and he can even play a very attractive banner to recruit all forces to join the Eastern Expedition.

But that's not possible now.

Because Bayezid is just as ambitious and wants to do the same.

There are no two tigers in one mountain. If you fight against the outside world, you must first secure the inside. If you don’t unify the Western Regions, he can’t go east. God doesn’t work these days. Bayezid’s main thugs are Serbs. Tutuo Lost can unite with Lithuania, and he can surrender to Ming Dynasty , God is only optional in front of interests.

To say that the real caliph is still in Egypt!
It's just that even the Egyptians themselves put him there as a vase.

Ah, this caliph is a descendant of refugees who fled to Egypt after Hulagu killed his whole family.

"Chen Shilang, please!"

Shaharu immediately stepped forward and said to Chen Cheng.

"The fourth prince is here."

Chen Cheng said quickly.

He still has a good impression of Shaharu, the latter can even speak a few words of Chinese, and there are a few businessmen who came back from Daming, explaining the books of Ming to him...

Although it is a novel.

But obviously this kind of barbarian is not uneducable.

He followed Shaharu out of the big tent, and the latter immediately mobilized three hundred cavalry, and even presented him with gifts of dozens of camels, which of course included a tribute to the Ming emperor. Just ransacked a circle before going north to Georgia to suppress the Georgians.So now he has no shortage of treasures in his hands. In fact, he has always been very rich. After all, he has looted too much. There is almost no one in the Middle East and West Asia that is not at his hands, so no matter what Yang Feng or Zhu Di wants, he will happily give it.

He has money.

There is no shortage of that.

Shaharu personally led the troops to escort Chen Cheng out of Tbilisi, and then the cavalry escorted him to continue southward.

On the wasteland outside Tbilisi City, the fourth prince stood there quietly watching Chen Cheng go away.

"Go to Baku!"

he said suddenly.

The confidant next to him nodded in understanding, and then urged his horse to go straight to Baku.

"To be a man, one must be self-aware, and not be an enemy to those who cannot be defeated."

Shahru stood there talking to himself.

and so……

"Whether this Shahru said is true or false, I always feel that it is impossible. He is Timur's son, and he is the only one alive among Timur's sons. If Timur dies, he is very likely to die. succession."

The little princess looked at the urgent report in her hand and said.

It was already three months later, and in fact the capital had already entered spring. Shah Ruh’s confidants went to Baku and told a businessman there. Although the latter was an Armenian businessman, he was actually from Gulina. Said to be an employee of Yang Feng.Yang Feng's business system in the Western Regions has been completed, and Khujand or Guihua City controlled by Gulina is the end of this system. There are already hundreds of employees from the Ming Dynasty there, and then a large number of Armenian employees are hired.

That's what the latter is supposed to do.

Armenian Christians have always been the main commercial nation in the Western Regions. They have continuously surrendered to the overlords of Central Asia and then obtained protection and acted as merchants.

Originally, the first missionary who traveled to the Western Regions to Daming at the end of the Ming Dynasty entered the Western Regions as an Armenian businessman.

So Yang Feng also hired them, using their natural hatred for Timur, who also massacred during his conquest of Armenia, and the Armenians also had a deep hatred for him, so that Yang Feng could use them as his merchants in Central Asia , after all he doesn't have that many people moving on from Khujand.These Armenian businessmen can not only get the protection of Gulina, and conduct trade in various parts of the Western Regions as her subordinates, but also directly conduct trade in Daming as employees of the Yang family.Although it cannot be said that they are loyal, they will choose Yang Feng without hesitation between Timur and Yang Feng. Shaharu is also very clear about this, so he sent someone to tell the Armenian businessman, who immediately crossed the Caspian Sea to Guihua City reported to Gulina, and then Gulina sent it to the capital by secret letter through the post road.

Of course, even this took three full months.

In fact, even if Shahru didn't tell the truth, Yang Feng would still know about it. Many people already knew about Chen Cheng from Basra all the way to Baghdad and then to Tbilisi.

Most do not know his true identity.

But it was very strange for someone like him to appear there, and he could basically guess it.

"So first Timur had to die."

Yang Feng said with a deep smile.

"You mean, he wanted his father to die sooner, and he informed him in advance, so he is a loyal minister of Daming, and he must be the successor after his father's death?"

said the little princess.

"Smart man!"

Yang Feng said with emotion.

Indeed, Shah Ruh is a wise man...

He was indeed the most insidious and cunning of Timur's four sons.

He knew very well that it would be difficult for Timur to win this war, but Timur's death would be beneficial to him, and Pier Maheima supported the start of the war, just like recruiting nuclear staff, so all he needed to do was to support Timur Go to war to avoid being hacked to death by the recruiting staff, while secretly informing and acting as a loyal minister of Ming Dynasty.Once Timur is defeated, he will be the new master of the river. He also knows that Daming will not be able to develop the river in the foreseeable future.

After all, Hezhong needed a vassal.

And he doesn't have any great ambitions, all he wants is to be the king of Kangju in the Ming Dynasty. Originally, he could even kneel to Zhu Di in history.

After Timur's death, his grandson Khalil succeeded to the throne himself. Pier Maheima led an army to compete for the throne and was defeated. He took the opportunity to attack Samarkand to seize the throne, then stopped killing everywhere, and released the Ming Dynasty who was detained by Timur. The envoy returned to pay tribute to Zhu Di, and went to recuperate in the Timurid Empire.Because his original fiefdom was Herat, and after he seized the throne, he took Herat as his capital, and the Ming Dynasty called it the Kingdom of Harleh, and because he entrusted his eldest son Ulug Beg in Samarkand as the governor of the river, the latter often used it for trade. To pay tribute separately, the Ming Dynasty generally counted father and son separately.

During his rule of the Timurid Empire, he had frequent exchanges with the Ming Dynasty, and it can be said that the relationship between the two sides was the most stable period.

"But how can we help fourth brother?"

said the little princess.

"Help me, he's been beaten up now."

Yang Feng said very simply.

Indeed, Zhu Di is already being mobbed and beaten.