Chapter 21 three

In the year 771 of the Muslim calendar (about 1370), Timur officially ascended the throne in Balihei. He put on the crown and the belt of the king of God, and stepped onto the throne surrounded by princes, nobles, ministers and soldiers.This year, he was thirty-four years old. Although Timur regarded himself as a descendant of Genghis Khan and Chagatai Khan since he was a child, when he really took the Chagatai Khanate as his own, he couldn't do what he wanted.After the founding of Genghis Khan, it was clearly stipulated that only the direct descendants of the "golden family" can be called "Khan".Although Timur's ancestor was the brother of Genghis Khan, his paternal line and Genghis Khan's blood were in the same line, and his mother was a direct descendant of Genghis Khan, but strictly speaking, he still belonged to the collateral line, so he could only be called "king" throughout his life.

Whether it is "Khan" or "King", the pragmatic Timur has always paid more attention to the power he holds. He was called King Timur.From this day on, Timur became King Timur. King Timur's capital is Samarkand, and he is about to start his long journey of conquest from here, but before that, he needs to consolidate the throne and establish kingship. Since he is a descendant of Genghis Khan, he must be loyal to the "Great Zhasa" (Mongolia's first written law) established by Genghis Khan. Therefore, King Timur first restored the military-political integration system and the kuliltai (assembly) system.A Khuriltai is a consultative meeting originally founded by Genghis Khan.In the Mongolian Khanates, all major military affairs such as campaigns, succession to the throne, and promulgation of laws must be discussed and approved by the majority before they can be implemented. Strictly speaking, this system is both a political system and a military system.King Timur re-established the Khuriltai system to show his identity as the successor of Genghis Khan.

At that time and in the later battles, there were many tribes conquered and controlled by King Timur, and he mainly composed twelve tribes among them to form an elite army.The establishment of the army is based on ten, hundred, and thousand people as the basic unit. A wise and brave person is selected at each level as the leader of ten, hundred, and thousand people, and reported to the Supreme Command for appointment by the minister in charge of military affairs.The arms of the army are divided into infantry, cavalry, bridging soldiers, transport soldiers, technical soldiers, express soldiers, sailors, artillery, military police, etc. Among them, cavalry is the main force, followed by infantry.

King Timur also ingeniously established mobile military police to assist officials at all levels to maintain military discipline. In addition, King Timur established a strict tax system, and anyone who evaded or evaded taxes would be punished once they were investigated.With the help of talents at all levels, King Timur's harsh laws played a role, and the order and economy in the middle of the river were quickly restored. Business travelers from all over the world came to Samarkand for trade. The beautiful city once again showed its vitality. From the age of twenty, King Timur finally became the veritable master of the Xichagatai Khanate after fourteen years of hard work.However, for King Timur, the Western Chagatai Khanate was only the embryonic form of his career. The Timur Empire he really wanted to build had to include the entire territory of the Chagatai Khanate—even, More.

Sitting on the supreme throne, he turned his gaze to Khwarazmo. Khwarazm, which extends from the Caspian Sea in the west, the Aral Sea in the north, Turkestan in the east, and Khorasan in the south, was originally the territory of the Golden Horde, and was later transferred from the descendants of Batu by the descendants of Chagatai. After that, Khwarazmo became an integral part of the Chagatai Khanate.Soon, Khwarazmo was divided again. In the fierce competition, the Golden Horde regained possession of the Syr Darya Delta and Jade Dragon Jiechi, and the Chagatai Khanate firmly occupied Keti and Qiwa Er in the south. city.

In the middle period of the Golden Horde, the domestic situation was unstable. A leader from the Hongji tribe established an independent kingdom in Khwarazmo, and then captured the two cities of Keti and Qiwa.At that time, Timur was not yet in power.However, after he became king, the first thing he did was to ask the leader of the Hongji tribe for the second city.His request was of course rejected, which provided him with an excuse to launch a large-scale war against Khwarazmo. He first besieged Yulong Jiechi by force, forcing the leader of the Hongji tribe to donate the two cities of Keti and Qiwa.

Everything seems to be off to a good start.However, the good times didn't last long, and the leader of Hongji's assassination soon regretted this concession, and re-invaded these areas, and King Timur had to go out again. In the next ten years, wars, deaths, surrenders, rebellions, marriages, rebellions, and one conspiracy after another were intertwined. After four battles, King Timur finally completed the battle against Khwaraz. The conquest of models.So far, King Timur has completed the grand blueprint of the Empire State Building in his hands, and the first cornerstone for the construction of the Empire State Building is to regain the city captured by the Eastern Chagatai Khanate.

That's it. After saying "that's it", I stopped.The setting sun poured the afterglow on Babur's pensive face. I looked at him and felt a little dry. I am amazed at Babur's patience.This nine-year-old child has an appearance similar to that of his sixth ancestor King Timur, with a full moon face and delicate features.The only difference is that his sixth ancestor King Timur was a rebellious wild boy at his age, but he is polite and gentle. Like Shannai, I don't like to talk too much about war.A century ago, at that time, I was not much older than Babur now. Shanai asked me to sit in front of him, just like Babur was sitting in front of me at this time, and he talked to me about his relationship with Timur. Erwang's friendship, and the love between him and Aya, even though he is always being bullied by Aya, he still smiles and talks about it.However, he cherished words like gold for the wars that King Timur conquered Khwarazm and the Eastern Chagatai Khanate after he ascended the throne.I remember that when I pressed him and wanted to know more things, he thought for a while, and then said that he had forgotten, and he did not remember many things.

A century later, I have passed my 111th birthday enviably. The skin all over my body is wrinkled like bark that has been drained, most of my teeth have long since fallen out, and my lips are getting bigger and bigger day by day. The shriveled old woman understood Shanai's forgetfulness. Memories of war seem to be always associated with death, fear, conspiracy, dilapidated people, scorched earth and black walls. It will not make people feel happy. Therefore, Shanain prefers to keep his memories more in the beautiful cities, warm friendships, and would not detail any of the wars to me. Actually, neither do I.

However, the performance of King Timur's life is inseparable from the war. It is the war that made him, and it is also the war that made his dream of becoming the second Genghis Khan. I lived in such an era, and what I saw with my eyes was often contradictory with what I thought in my heart. This contradiction was due to the contradictory personality of King Timur.I don't know how to evaluate King Timur. Undoubtedly, King Timur is a character who created history, but I can't say that he is perfect. In fact, in terms of cruelty, he is by no means inferior to anyone in history books. Recorded Conqueror.

When conquering Azherbaizhan (now Azerbaijan), King Timur even used the heads of the defeated to pile up a tower of human heads.It was an unimaginable horror scene. Although I didn't see it with my own eyes, just hearing about it made me tremble all over.I've seen people who lost everything because of war, and I've seen families crippled by war.Once, I saw a mother and son. The son was shot blind by the enemy during the war, and his body became rickety. He was led by the old mother and begged from passers-by in a low voice.For some reason that day, the son suddenly clamored like a child to eat a melon. For this reason, he refused to eat a bowl of batter boiled with melon rind that his mother had just begged for.His mother gently coaxed him, promising to buy him a melon when he ate the bowl of batter.The desire to eat the melon made the son reluctantly eat the batter, as if he didn't know that his mother couldn't even take a bite of it. He was so self-willed, only urging his mother to fulfill his promise, but he couldn't see his mother's embarrassed face, and he couldn't see his mother walking tremblingly on the street, asking a street vendor to give her a melon.The hawker hurled her from one melon stall to another like a stray dog. One of the stall owners thought the mother's pleading annoyed him, so he pushed her to the ground viciously.Of course, the son finally got to eat melons, because she was lucky enough to meet the princess who was on a short trip to that small town. The princess bought ten melons for the poor mother, but she knew from the beginning that she only helped the poor mother. I got this poor mother and son for a while, but I couldn't help them for a lifetime. In the war, such examples are too numerous to enumerate.God knows how much bitterness is covered up by the bustling surface. It always takes a long time for people to forget the fear they have experienced. King Timur was such a demon, where his horse's hoof passed, life was like a mustard, and unarmed people avoided it for fear. But it is also him, this demonic figure, the founder of the Timurid Empire, who took in the princess, me, and Ayilai with a broad mind in successive wars. Generosity, generosity.While he was alive, he did everything in his power to bless us and fulfill our every little wish.Since he is such a person, how can I forget and ignore his kindness? That's why I said that I am too small and not noble, and I am not worthy to comment on King Timur.What's more, from the bottom of my heart, I am just a willful girl who was spoiled by the princess. Even though I have experienced more than a century of vicissitudes, I am still a girl who refuses to grow up. moment.I am neither a scholar nor a historian. I do not have enough knowledge to cite scriptures and classics to argue that Timur was "good" or "bad" or both. I would rather just state the facts. Babur stared at me with bright eyes, and I knew he had something to say, but I didn't have to ask him. I comfortably rocked the recliner, letting the cool mountain wind blow my cheeks and white hair. I feel the care of Changshengtian for me with my heart.Yes, if it weren't for the blessing of Changshengtian, how could I live as long as the two of us according to the princess's request? When I was born, the Timurid Empire was like a sun rising from the east, and what I saw was its radiance and overwhelming power.When I am getting old, the Timurid Empire seems to grow old with me. Even if the last bleak, chaotic halo can still struggle through the clouds, after all, there is no power that can stop the sunset. Of course, the sun will rise again, on another day and in another age.When the sun rises again, my life and soul have already turned into the starry sky of the Timurid Empire. I am not sad, nor do I feel sorry. The rise and fall of a country is just like the life and death of a person. It is the same thing when you look down. Life is luck, and death is liberation. What's more, I should have no complaints than anyone else. I am as old as me, but my eyes can still see the youthful face like a flower, and my ears can still hear the wind blowing the fallen leaves.In addition, I am not confused at all, my memory is like a dictionary of the empire, which contains too many anecdotes, so you can find the entry you need from me at any time.At this moment, I am glad that the one who is flipping through my memory is a child. This child has the blood of King Timur. Maybe one day, he will be able to follow in the footsteps of his sixth ancestor and achieve great achievements. Among the four sons of King Timur, Shah Ru was the longest-lived one.King Timur’s eldest son Jihanjar and second son Ogilvy died on the battlefields of conquering the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and Persia in 778 (about 1377) and 795 (about 1394) respectively. .In the same year that Jihanjar died, King Timur got the son Shahru.In addition, Miran Shah, who was ten years older than Shah Haru, died in the 810th year of the Muslim calendar (about 1408) on the way to conquer Ajaer Baizhan.As for Shah Ruh, he finally inherited the throne after his father died, but he had six sons, except for the eldest son Ulugh Beg, the other five sons all died before their father. Ulugh Beg accepted his father's order after Shah Rug ascended the throne, and has been dividing the north and south of the empire with his father.He is loyal and filial to his father, and loves peace and dislikes war.He devoted his whole life to the development of economy and culture, and he was more sympathetic to the sufferings of the people than any other monarch.It can be said that the forty-two years when Ulugh Beg and his father Shah Rug were in power were the most stable and richest forty-two years in the Timur Empire.At that time, Samarkand and Harleigh were both advanced in science and technology, full of talents, artistic creations were innovative, and literati and scholars were leading the way.If you don't take into account the regret of Western Persia's separation from the empire, the empire can be said to have entered a real golden age. However, what is puzzling is that Ulugh Beg's personal advantages cannot dilute his few shortcomings. On the contrary, the greatest advantage he possesses is also his most fatal defect. For example, Uluh Beg was kind and humble in nature, and it was because of his kindness and humility that he pampered and loved his children more than he disciplined them. In the end, this kind of fatherly love sent him to his grave. The brutal Radif killed his father and stood on his own. He was spurned and cursed by the world, and his rule lasted only half a year amidst civil strife.One day half a year later, I contributed to the flames and personally sent this beast to the place where he should go.I firmly believe that if his soul wishes to find peace after death, he must ask his father for forgiveness. After Radiff's death, Miransha's grandson and Omar's son Buzain seized the opportunity to seize the throne that originally belonged to the Shahru family, and completed the unification of the river area in his hands. Buzain was a young man with ambition and achievements. When Omar was dying, he called Ulugh Beg to his bedside and entrusted his beloved son Buzain to his nephew with confidence.Ulugh Beg lived up to Omar’s trust. He carefully raised and educated Buzain, who was still young, and let him rule alone, all of which created conditions for Buzain to stand out in the future. Although Buzain was unable to reproduce the glory of Timur, Shah Rug and Ulugh Beg, he was far more suitable for ruling a dilapidated empire than Radif.In addition, Buzain's four sons gave birth to him an outstanding grandson. When I was still alive, this child named Babur had already emerged and became the last exciting star of the dying empire. tinder. Through half-closed eyelashes, I saw Babur leaning towards me, eagerly shaking my hand, and asking, "Secia, are you asleep?" I said, "No." "But, Cecia..." "how?" "Since the war to conquer Khwarazm is so important, your description is too simple." "yes?" "Yes. Can you tell me more about it?" "No, my little prince." Disappointment appeared in Babur's eyes: "Why?" "The person who told me this history can't remember many things clearly. I don't know much, how can I play tricks in front of you? This is not my style. Besides, Babur, at that time, I myself They haven't been born yet." Babur expressed his understanding: "Oh, so that's the case. Then, what happened after you were born? Are there any wars that you still remember so far?" "some." "So, can you tell me the details?" "As far as I can remember." "Okay, we've made a deal." "It's a deal." "But I don't want to listen to you talking about wars and wars, I want to hear you tell us interesting stories." The one who said this was Zoweiran, a girl I accidentally found and adopted a few years ago, when she She was still a baby with a disability, and was taken to Cecia's cave by her cruel parents and thrown away. Over the years, she has grown into a beautiful and healthy child. She regards me as her great-grandmother. She already knows how to repay me and take good care of me at a young age.And I, because of her cuteness and sensibility, spoiled her no less than the most important woman in my life back then spoiled me. Beside Zoviran, beside me in Sethia's cave was a little boy, the grandson of my faithful servant Baba, whom I named Baba Ullah.Baba Ullah, Zoviran, and Babur, these three children are about the same age and have the same temperament, and they don't have much concept of superiority and inferiority among each other. Just now, when I told Babur about the war that King Timur conquered Khwarazm, Zoviran took Baba Ullah to make tea for me and Babur.Now she came back to me, brought me a velvet shawl, and put it on me carefully, while Babaula, who came back with her, was busy with a crystal with a thin neck and round belly and a handle like an ear. The bottle is in my hand. Don't tell me, I'm really thirsty right now. The bright green tea soup leaks out of the crystal bottle, making it even more attractive. This is the main reason why I like drinking tea with crystal utensils.In addition, I only drink tea once a day at noon, and I only drink a fixed amount each time, and I will drink the tea soup while it is hot, no matter in winter or summer, so that the crystal bottle with handle I made is just right Meets all my requirements for drinking tea. I am not at all surprised that Zoviran disagrees with Babur.When I was young, when Shahru and I were pestering the princess to tell stories, we often had disagreements.This is the difference between boys and girls, not surprising.I motioned Zoweiran and Baba Ullah to sit down next to Babur, and then I deliberately asked Baba Ullah: "You haven't expressed your opinion, what do you think?" When we are together, my gray eyes no longer twinkle coldly. Baba Ullah looked at Zoviran and then at Babur, and replied without offense: "I like to listen to what Cecia says." I smiled and scolded him: "Little slicker." Babur and Zoweiran looked at each other, and each of them pinched one of Baba Ulla's ears in a tacit understanding, and pulled it down a few times, indicating that they agreed with my evaluation of Baba Ulla.Baba Ullah grinned in pain and begged for mercy, all three children laughed happily. I let them laugh and play around me, drinking the tea soup with a long aftertaste from the crystal bottle with gusto.I know very well that such happy and abundant days will not be too long. When the pruritus that plagued little Babur is cured after bathing in the medicine pond, he must return to Fergana, the fief of his father, King Umar.In troubled times, presumably King Umar will not let his eldest son leave his side for a long time. At that time, Zoweiran and Baba Ullah may still have a chance to meet each other, but I am afraid I will never see this child again. After laughing and making a fuss, Babur suggested: "Well, Cecia, the wars that King Timur fought in his life, you might as well pass them over if you are not familiar with them, and tell us about the interesting ones if you are familiar with them." story, okay?" As far as I know Babur, he is really a generous and kind child, and he took the initiative to make concessions to Zoviran like a real man. In fact, since the day Babur came to Cesia Cave, Zoviran and Baba Ullah have been taking care of him with all their heart. The three children get along well and have deep feelings. Even if it is just for this, Babur will not choose to be stubborn. .After all, stubbornness is meaningless compared to friendship. I put the crystal bottle on the stone table and closed my eyes: "Go and play, I'm tired." They stood up obediently, held hands, and ran to the mountains to play.They have no doubt that tomorrow, and the day after, and many days to come, I will tell them more and more interesting stories. But at this time, I am indeed a little tired.