Chapter 684: One Hundred Thousand Fires
The mission was finally going back, and Ulube and his group were also very excited, especially Shaharu and Haril, who had regained their freedom, were eager to return to Samarkand early. After all, even if Timur was in charge, the situation in Samarkand was not very optimistic. Rebellions occurred everywhere, and Timur was also tired of dealing with it.
So after taking Shaharu and Haril back, Ulube immediately said goodbye to Zhu Yunyu. Li Jie happened to be here, and Zhu Yunyu did not make things difficult for Ulube anymore. He let them go and leave very happily.
Of course, the premise for Ulube and his friends to leave is that Timur can deliver the subsequent compensation to the Ming Dynasty. Only in this way can the border be released from the expedition group, otherwise even if Ulube and his friends arrive at the border, they will be detained.
After receiving Zhu Yunxi's permission, Wulube was very happy and immediately stood up to tell him that Zhu Yunxi asked Li Jie to send Wulube out of the palace on his behalf. After all, he also knew that Li Jie and Wulube had a good personal relationship.
Li Jie accompanied Wulube out of the warmhouse and chatted while walking: "When are you going to leave Beijing? I will see you off at that time."
"The morning after tomorrow, my father and cousin urged me to leave. If it weren't for the faction that there were too many people in the delegation, I'm afraid they would set off today." Wulube replied helplessly.
"Your father and your cousin have been fighting all the time. It's hard for you to get stuck in the middle, right?" Li Jie suddenly asked.
Wulube suddenly became alert. Although he didn't like power struggles, he didn't understand at all, so he said vigilantly: "The prince-consort misunderstood. Although his father and cousin had some misunderstandings, there was no big difference. During this period, they were determined to go back early, so they joined forces to urge me."
Hearing these words from Ulube, Li Jie couldn't help laughing: "Ulube, you don't have to worry about me testing you. In fact, I know more about the fight between your father and Haril than you know. If your grandfather was not alive, I'm afraid they would have killed you to the death long ago, so you wouldn't dare to cover it up for them."
Wulube also showed a silent expression when he heard this. After a while, he smiled helplessly and said, "The Ming Dynasty is really terrible. Even the internal struggles are so clear. My grandfather's defeat is indeed not unfair!"
"Actually, your civilization is destined to be a tragedy of brothers' strife. I even think this situation was driven by your grandfather!" Li Jie suddenly spoke again at this time.
"Why do you say that, prince consort? Do you think we are just a group of savages who are not etiquette?" Wulube blushed and said angrily when he heard this. He had a good impression of Li Jie, but Li Jie's words deeply hurt his heart. After all, he considered himself a scholar and was very resentful of this kind of tragedy of flesh and blood.
"Wulube, don't be angry. I'm just telling the truth. Your grandfather said he was a Mongol, but your family's living customs are more like Turkic people. One of your old enemies is the Ottomans who were born in the Turkic people. Their inheritance of the throne is even more bloody. You should know this better than me." Li Jie said again with a calm expression.
When Ulube heard the name "Ottoman", he calmed down suddenly. Timur claimed that he was a Mongol, but in fact Ulube knew that their family was actually more like Turkic people, and even their origins were closely related to the Ottomans. Both sides could be called Turkic people.
The Ottoman inherited the throne is even more famously bloody and cruel, because when the old emperor dies and the new emperor ascends the throne, the new emperor will kill all his brothers to ensure the stability of the throne.
In fact, this is also related to the tradition of the Turks. After all, the Turks were driven from the northern grasslands to Central Asia and West Asia by the Tang Dynasty. The suffering they experienced was unimaginable to outsiders.
So in this difficult environment, only the strong are qualified to survive. The strong are not born, but need to win in layers of cruel competition. Therefore, the Turks are in competition since they were born. If they are eliminated, it also means that they will lose everything.
Compared with the bloody and cruel inheritance of the throne in the Ottoman Empire, Timur was already very kind to his children and grandchildren. He had even long since divided the land he had captured to his sons, so that they could become governors with real power.
However, Timur did not prohibit competition among his sons. Shaharu was obviously the winner among Timur's many sons. However, Timur liked Haril, the grandson, more, which led to an irreconcilable conflict between Shaharu and Haril. The conflict between the two was not possible to be resolved.
Wulube was also very clear about his family, so he saw that he was silent for a long time before sighing: "Mr. Concubine, although your words are not nice, but when you think about it carefully, it seems that this is true. I even suspect that the reason why my grandfather acted like a cousin was actually to provoke a fight between his father and his cousin. Only the final winner is qualified to inherit his grandfather's position."
"I have the same guess. Actually, I understand your grandfather. After all, in a war-torn place like Central Asia, if there is not enough force, the security of the empire cannot be guaranteed, so I can only use this method to screen the heirs. However, this approach will make the struggle in your country more intense, and this kind of struggle will intensify the tragic struggle of the throne, and will eventually evolve into the situation of the Ottoman Empire." Li Jie said again at the end.
Li Jie was not an exaggeration. After Timur's death, almost all his heirs took over the corpses of others. Ulube successfully inherited the position of his father Shaharu, but in the end he died in a palace coup. The one who killed him was his own son, and his son later died in assassination. It can be said that neither the father nor the son had a good death.
This kind of internal struggle in the Timur Empire also led to a sharp decline in their national strength. You should know that when Timur was the most powerful, even the Ottoman Empire had to tremble under his iron hooves. Persia, Egypt, Georgia and other prominent forces were all defeated by Timur and became the actual overlords of Central and Western Asia.
However, after Timur's death, the strength of the Timur Empire declined rapidly. After only a few decades of support, it split into several small forces. It was destroyed after decades of destruction. However, a descendant of Timur fled to India after being defeated and established the greatest Mughal Empire in Indian history. However, this empire could only be limited to India and no longer had the strength to compete for the hegemony of Central Asia and West Asia.
"What is the purpose of telling me about these things?" Wulube had already noticed something in Li Jie's words at this time, so he asked directly.
Li Jie was about to answer, but he didn't expect that he would just see a cavalry breaking in from outside the palace gate and shouting: "Highlights of 100,000!"
Chapter completed!