Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 7 The strongest son-in-law, Uncle Timur

For these reasons, the relationship between Rome and the Yuan and Ming dynasties in Java is actually quite delicate.

On the one hand, the Han court was not satisfied with the restrictive policy of the Ming Dynasty, because it would undoubtedly create obstacles to trade and affect income.On the other hand, the Javanese dollar is not really a good guy.They are essentially a group of second-hand dealers, and these people have really controlled the Nanyang waters. In the future, they will buy any oriental goods, whether they are resold goods from the Ming Dynasty or Nanyang’s own spices, silk, and porcelain. The price will definitely increase together.

But the Purple Horde is too far away from the east. If you take the sea route, you will either go to Syria and then go ashore; or go to Egypt and then turn to the Red Sea.In short, there is no way to directly reach the Indian Ocean and directly participate in trade.In the later period of Basil Yerigo's reign, the Khan Court began to turn part of its attention to the south, trying to find a breakthrough in the sea.

At this time, it was the time when the Mamluk dynasty of Egypt fell into frequent civil strife and Timur rose rapidly in the East.

The decline of the Mamluks was actually expected.Although this country was once militarily strong, its political system is too rough.

During this period, the core of the Mamluk dynasty was the Kipchak slaves.These people were trafficked from the southern Russian grasslands, carefully selected and trained, and became the personal soldiers of the Sudan and military officers at all levels.

Although they are called slaves in name, every qualified Mamluk warrior can get a fief, which is actually a kind of fief knight.Officers were allowed to have different numbers of Mamluks according to their ranks, while the Sultan himself controlled the most elite and largest force within the dynasty.

However, the politics of the Mamluk dynasty was very unstable.Whenever a new sultan comes to the throne, the former confidant officers and slaves will be purged.Of course, these people are not reconciled and will fight back with all their strength.More than a hundred years later, the Mamluks, who have been fighting internally for a long time, no longer have the vigor of the past.

The rise of the Purple Horde also inadvertently dealt a blow to the Mamluk dynasty.

During the reign of Alexios Miergan, the Khanate began to expand eastward along the northern shore of the Black Sea, which eventually triggered an all-out war between the Purple Horde, the Green Horde, and the White Horde within the Golden Horde Khanate.The fragmented Golden Tent could not hold back the Purple Tent army, so they were either annexed or fled.

No one thought that this result would not be a good thing for Zi Zhang.It caused the army of the southern and northern yamen of the Khan court to lose balance, which led to the assassination of Alexios and the first civil war known as the "Civil War". The period in power had a profound impact on the subsequent history.

And it's not just them who are affected.

In the Mamluk dynasty, in order to maintain the rule, the upper class basically did not accept locals, and only recruited Kipchak slave soldiers.However, after the Zizhang war on the grasslands ended, the Khan court worked hard to restore order, and a large number of grassland people were appeased and incorporated, which greatly reduced the Qincha slave trade.This made the Kipchak Mamluks, whose status had begun to waver, be challenged by the Caucasian Mamluks, and the regime became increasingly unstable.

At this time, the rise of Timur in the East gave the Zizhang Khanate a better chance.

Timur was originally the small leader of the Western Chagatai Khanate, with few people and weak strength, he had almost no sense of existence.In the civil war between the East and West Chagatai Khanate, it was able to rise by relying on both sides.

Although it is called the "Tamerlane Empire" by some people, Timur does not even have a prestigious title because of his embarrassing background.Because he was not a member of the Golden Family, the Mongolian and Turkic tribes in Central Asia did not recognize him as Khan, so Timur could only use the title of emir all year round.

Later, Timur defeated Hu Xin, another great warlord, and took over the princess of Xichagatai from him. After that, he began to call himself "Guliegan".

This word means "son-in-law" in Mongolian.At that time, Genghis Khan recruited a group of men from other clans through marriage marriages and incorporated them into his subordinates, so he became one of the titles with a little bit of a connection with the Golden Family.In this way, Gu Lieqian became Timur's most recognizable name, so much so that in the history books of the Ming Dynasty, he was directly called "Consort Timur".

Later, Baizhang Khan, an agent supported by Timur, lost his way and turned back. Relying on the old place of Jinzhang, he frequently plundered Timur's old nest - the middle river area of ​​Central Asia.In order to solve this scourge, Timur personally led the army to go out, and at the same time looked for allies everywhere to curb the lost forces of Tuotuo.

Coincidentally, the Purple Horde Khanate was also at war with various ministries on the grassland at this time, and the two sides hit it off.Timur set out from the middle of the river, went north into the grassland, and marched from east to west; the famous general of the Purple Tent, Taishi Tutuo Mamatinikus, led his army from Crimea and invaded the Don River, the hinterland of the Golden Tent, Volga River Basin.

The Timurid army was huge and was actually a Persianized composite army.Therefore, Tutuo Lost plans to use the traditional grassland tactics to consume them as much as possible during the movement, and then choose an opportunity to attack.However, Memathenicus' army crossed the Sea of ​​Azov, directly threatening Toth's lost rear base.

The golden tent nobles who stayed behind were unable to break through the purple tent camp for a long time, and were even defeated in the opponent's counterattack.This made the White Tent army lose the strategic space to turn around, lost their patience, and was forced to fight a decisive battle with Timur's army in advance, and eventually lost.

This war established a good relationship between the two countries.The Zizhang Khan Court discovered the serious lack of legitimacy of Timur’s rule—until now, Timur’s theoretical legitimacy still comes from his Xichagatai wife and the puppet Khan’s father-in-law.

The country is so big, and it is really unreasonable to bear the title of a son-in-law.So the Zizhang side offered to propose that they had a wealth of information on their side, and that the old place of the Chagatai Khanate had been through war for a long time, and many records may have been lost.They can send professionals to examine Timur's family tree and see if he is a member of the Golden Family.

A group of scholars set off from Constantinople with great fanfare, and with the cooperation of the Timur regime, they made publicity all the way, and finally came to Samarkand.

The old scholars brought a lot of files of the Golden Horde that were said to be from the Batu era. According to the local documents in Central Asia, after some research, they found that Timur’s family was also a member of the Golden Horde that had been lost for many years. .In terms of seniority, it is Zizhang Khan's uncle generation.Therefore, everyone immediately persuaded him to come in, and suggested that Emperor Timur sit on a felt and say sweat in order to rectify his name.So far, the Timur regime has finally become the well-known "Tamerlane Khanate".

Timur was very useful for this, and sent a large amount of gold and silver treasures to the purple tent as a thank you gift, and also sent his fourth son Shaharu to lead a return visit.However, before the two sides enjoyed the victory for a long time, there was news of Tuotuo Lost's comeback.

Tutuo Lost is also a generation of heroes, quite prestigious on the grasslands, after the defeat, there are still many followers, and soon drove away the puppet nobles supported by Timur, and re-occupied the old capital of the Golden Tent - Beer Gosarai .

Tuotuo Lost also learned a lesson this time, and learned the experience of the enemy's victory.He sent people to contact Ottoman, the overlord of Asia Minor, and the Mamluk dynasty entrenched in Egypt, and joined forces to make trouble for Timur.

Timur was forced to contact Zizhang again to dispatch troops, preparing to deal with the culprit Tuotuo Milo first, and then transfer the army to go south to wipe out other enemies.

(End of this chapter)