For modern countries, military parades are not only a way to declare national strength and enhance national cohesion, but also an important means to expand national influence. In the history of the People's Republic of China, several military parades have made people excited. In the history of the Ming Dynasty, our Yongle Emperor Zhu Di also had a "great military parade" that shocked the world and lasted for nearly a month, which opened the eyes of envoys from all countries, praised them, and showed their goodwill to them. In March of the nineteenth year of Yongle, the "hunting" officially began in Huailai, north of Beijing, with a total of 100,000 troops, a wide range of troops and a wealth of weapons, enough to make the viewers stunned. There are not only infantry phalanxes, cavalry phalanxes, bow and arrow phalanxes, spear phalanxes, firearms phalanxes, but also Sichuan "coyote soldiers" and "white pole soldiers" phalanxes with local characteristics. In particular, the various and novel and advanced high-tech weapons displayed in it, such as "Fire Dragon Gun", "Fire Dragon Car", "Tiger Cannon" and so on, are even more eye-opening.
In order to show the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di also invited envoys from 27 countries to "watch the ceremony" together. What did the envoys of these countries think after watching the ceremony? Needless to say, it is said that before the military parade, the envoys of the Timurid state refused to bow to Zhu Di, but after watching the ceremony, they obediently performed the kneeling salute to Zhu Di without saying a word, and also personally presented the mount of his king's father to Zhu Di. It is reported that the military parade was held for a month, and the momentum caused a sensation throughout Asia. It is the most cattle parade in ancient history. Why did Zhu Di raise the army to hold such a grand military parade?
The Ming Dynasty overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, but three of the "Four Great Khanates" established by Genghis Khan are still there. In the second year of Hongwu (1369), Zhu Yuanzhang mobilized 400,000 troops to march north in three ways, completely beating the Northern Yuan Imperial Court that had fled to the desert north into a "nomadic people", but after that, a large number of Mongolian and Hui officials who had served in the Yuan Dynasty were exiled to Central Asia and West Asian countries, and these "foreign monks" desperately encouraged the monarchs of their host countries to adopt a hostile attitude towards the Ming Dynasty. After Zhu Di ascended the throne, on the one hand, he sent Zheng He to the West to preach national prestige, and on the other hand, he sent Chen Cheng to the Western Regions, and the successor of the Timurid Empire, Shaharu, abandoned the policy of hating China and sent envoys to Ming tong, restoring the relationship between the "suzerainty" in Zhu Yuanzhang's era. However, the "anti-China forces" in central Asian countries were still in Yongle for four years, Tamerlane went on a large-scale crusade, known as a million troops, the actual strength of 200,000 troops, and soon after the princes of the Timurid Empire competed for the throne and fell into a civil war, the so-called eastern crusade to China, can be described as a fool's dream.