Chapter 62 The last fireworks in the Empire sky at the end

Once King Timur died of illness, the empire could no longer remain intact. The territory in western Persia was first occupied by the Turkmen Black Sheep Dynasty, and then the Black Sheep Dynasty was destroyed by the White Sheep Dynasty. Shah Ruth won the throne and moved the capital south to Harleh. The original capital Samarkand was handed over to Prince Ulugh Beg. In this way, the empire actually formed two political, cultural and economic centers. Only the recognition of the father's royal power can maintain the unity of the empire. Uluh Beg reigned for two years and was assassinated by his ambitious son, Radif. After ascending the throne for half a year, he was killed by Baba.After the death of Radif, internal strife continued within the empire, which eventually split into the Hezhong regime and the Khorasan regime, and the separatist forces in various places also sought to get rid of the central control.

In the 855th year of the Muslim calendar (about 1451), the Yuejibie Empire, which once dominated the fate of the Golden Horde, gave birth to a baby who later shocked the world. Chi's son) with the same name, later generations will call him Shaybani Khan.In the 906th year of the Muslim calendar (about 1500), he led his army to occupy the Hezhong area and captured Samarkand, and the Hezhong area formed the Central Asian khanates established by Yue Jiren. Seven years later, Shaybani Khan led an army to capture Khorasan. At this point, the once prosperous Timur Empire was ruthlessly submerged by the long river of history. After the storm passed, only the sound of huge waves beating against the rocks remained.

The year the empire fell, Cecia was already a hundred and twenty-six years old. Every morning, Cecilia sat in a comfortable rattan chair by the Saintess Spring. The servants carried her here and left. At noon, they brought her wild fruit puree, bread and fresh milk with almond powder. Only then took her back to the cave.Cecia's back was already bent like a bow, and the skin on her face and neck was like dry bark.However, her eyes became more and more determined iron gray.She can still walk dozens of steps along the Saintess Spring with a cane.If she sat still, her old eyes would have been looking over the jagged and strange rocks in front of the lake, watching the rugged mountain road hidden behind the stones.This mountain road is the only way for the outside world to enter the Sethia Cave of the Holy Maiden Spring. Its entrance is submerged in the mountains and it is difficult for ordinary people to find it.In fact, since Cecia celebrated her one hundred and eleventh birthday, few strangers appeared in her field of vision.

The Venus between Cecia's eyebrows suddenly disappeared one morning, and Cecia knew that she would soon disappear between the sky and the earth like Venus. She no longer misses the world.She was going to find her princess, and she knew that this woman like her mother would greet her with her warm arms, as she always did. Cecia never doubted that Longevity would patronize Timur.Even though Timur and his descendants had been Islamized long ago, he was regarded as the favored son of heaven just like Genghis Khan whom he worshiped all his life.Relying on the blessing of longevity and the protection of Timur's spirit in heaven, his descendants did not die because of the subjugation of the country. Among them, Umar, who occupies the Fergana Basin, was lucky to keep a small village in the upper reaches of the Syr Darya River. kingdom.

Umar was the fourth son of Buzain, the grandson of Tamerlane's son Miranshah.When Buzain was alive, he once again unified the area in the middle of the river, but he failed to reoccupy Western Persia and West Asia throughout his life.He entrusted his territory to several of his surviving sons. After the empire fell, only Umar could dream of recovering the Timurid Empire while protecting himself. However, he also clearly knew that the land of 20,000 square kilometers could not be compared with Timur's huge empire of tens of millions of square kilometers! The remote kingdom has long lost its prestige, but fortunately, King Umar married a queen who was worthy of his lifelong pride with the glory of his ancestors.The queen is the daughter of the Queen of Chagatai who ruled the Ili land of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, and the noble blood of the "Golden Family" flows in her body.

And luckier than this, the queen gave birth to an outstanding son for the king.The king named his son Babur (meaning "hero" in Mongolian). At that time, he didn't know that the tiger cub under his knees would one day dominate the South Asian subcontinent and establish another powerful and powerful country that lasted for more than three hundred years. dynasty. This dynasty was historically known as the Mughal Empire.Mughal is the Turkic inflection of the word Mongolia. The Mughal Empire is also the Mongolian Empire. Babur dedicated it to his mother, to his sixth ancestor Timur, and to his ancestor Chagatai. Khan, Genghis Khan.

Cecilia has seen Babur, or Babur is fortunate to have met this Venus saint.That was fifteen years ago, when Babur was nine years old and Cecia was one hundred and eleven. In fact, for Babur, the short one hundred days he spent in the Saintess Spring were the happiest time in his life. First of all, the Holy Maiden Spring has a remarkable curative effect as people have heard. After taking a bath, the skin itching that made him feel like dying was gradually relieved until he was cured. Secondly, he met two playmates of his age in Cecia Cave. One of them was Baba Ula, the grandson of Cecia's servant Baba, who was one year older than him. The girl, named Zoweiran, is one year younger than him.

The two children hit it off with him and were inseparable.Babur has been wondering what "Zoviran" means. The name sounds nice, but he has never heard of anyone with this name before.After getting along well, Zoweiran told him quietly that she was actually an orphan girl. When Cecia walked out of the cave one morning, she saw a girl who was abandoned by someone at the entrance of the cave. The mink swaddle wrapped in the girl was very luxurious. , and the girl was found together with a solid gold collar and two ruby ​​tiaras, also wrapped in swaddling clothes.Of course, although everything displayed in front of Cecia's eyes showed the girl's very unusual family background, when Cecia found the girl, the girl was already dying.

At that time, Cecia leaned over to pick up the girl, but the girl opened her eyes with difficulty, glanced at her, and then fell into a coma again.Zoweiran said that Cecia told her later that it was this sight that inspired Cecia's dormant maternal love, made Cecia feel pity for her, and determined to save her and raise her no matter what.In the following days, Cecia held her to bathe in the hot spring every day, and held her to sleep at night. Cecia's persistence touched Changsheng Tian. The defective baby became the healthy girl that Barbur sees now. Zuo Weiran's experience made Babur believe in Cecia's magic even more.In addition, sitting by the Holy Maiden Spring every day, bathed in the dappled sunlight at noon, let the breeze linger around him, and listening to Cecia talk about the great achievements of his sixth ancestor, King Timur, also fascinated him.

Of course, even if all these things were put aside, the silver fruit bread he ate in Cecia Cave alone was enough to make him unforgettable for a lifetime.The raw material of silver fruit bread is unique, because there are two unique fruit trees growing beside the holy water spring. Every autumn, when the silver fruit on the tree ripens, Cecia asks Baba to pick the ripe fruit, remove the peel and core, and then Dry the pulp and grind it into powder to get two bags of incomparably precious raw materials.When Babur recovered from his illness, it was just in time for the silver fruit bread making season.He saw with his own eyes that the fruit powder ground by the above-mentioned method is as fine as flour. Just add an appropriate amount of water to knead it into a dough and put it in the oven without adding any other condiments, such as milk, sugar, oil, etc., and it can be baked. Soft and sweet, fruity silver fruit bread.

Two bags of silver fruit powder are only enough to make 60 breads. Even when King Timur was alive, except for King Timur, the queen, the princess and a few princes, few others were lucky enough to have a good meal.After the death of King Ulugh Beg, silver fruit bread became even more magical legend.Unexpectedly, Babur ate the legendary silver fruit bread in Sethia Cave, and he felt that all this heralded his good luck in the future. A hundred days later, Babur was sent by his father to pick him up, and he said goodbye to Cecia, Baba Ullah and Zoviran, and told them that he would definitely come to visit them again.If in case he can't come, he welcomes them to come to him at any time, and they will always be his friends. On the day Babur left, it started to rain lightly in the sky. Cecia asked him to take the last two silver fruit breads to eat on the road. Babur kissed Cecia's wrinkled cheeks, and then embraced Babaula and Zovian, He didn't expect that from then on, he really had no chance to return to Cecia Cave. On the day when the Holy Maiden's Spring stopped gushing out, Cecia passed away peacefully beside the Medicine Pond at the age of one hundred and twenty-six. After Cecia died, according to her will, Baba Ullah, a loyal servant, left her body in the cave together with all the things she had used during her lifetime. Baba Ullah was Baba's grandson, and Baba entrusted Cecia to his care before his death.Baba said to his grandson, take good care of Sethia, she will be a blessing to you and your descendants.Baba Ullah kept his promise to his grandfather and stayed with Cecia.He doesn't care about the future, but Cecia and Cecia Cave saved him from being killed in the chaos of war.He was lucky to be alive and married his beloved Zuo Weiran as his wife.Not only that, but his wife also gave birth to him two healthy sons and a well-behaved and lovely daughter, all of which are already a great blessing to him. Baba Ullah made elaborate arrangements for Sethia Cave.The inside of the cave is filled with wooden piles, branches, and rocks, and the outside is filled with huge stones. In this way, it is difficult for outsiders to enter the cave even if they find it here. What's more, without the spring water, it means that there is no medicine pool, and without the medicine pool, there is no need to look for the Holy Maiden Spring and Cecia Cave.Cecilia designed everything behind her. Baba Ullah is about to leave for Fergana (Dawan) to seek refuge with Babur. Cecia predicted that his life expectancy may not exceed that of his parents (both of whom were only 34 years old when they died), but his Among his wives, children, and grandchildren, there will always be someone who enjoys the glory and wealth of the world because of his choice. Babaula didn't care.In the years of being with Cecia day and night, he has long looked down on life and death. Deep in his heart, death is life. He is willing to accept Cecia's open arms to him, and run in the brilliance of the sunset like he did when he was a child. Go back to Cecia's side. He would like to leave his blessings to his wife and children, and to his descendants. Standing on the rugged mountain road, Baba Ula looked back at the dried-up Saintess Spring and the medicine pool that was about to dry up for the last time.There was a trace of desolation and confusion in his heart. The only consolation was that Cecia allowed him to take away the incomparably precious incense burner when he returned to Changsheng Tian. , will surely bring good luck to his descendants. Because, Cecia left the blessing of longevity to them.