Sun Chengzong
Hearing the emperor's question, it is clear that the Ming Dynasty has recovered the entire province of Gansu and separated Qinghai-Tibet from Mongolia. How did the Mongols get involved with Qinghai-Tibet again?
He nodded. Although the emperor was young, his eyes were sharp and the questions he asked were all on point. The cabinet elders and bachelors all aroused interest. In fact, the cabinet members knew almost nothing about the Ming Dynasty's rule and historical changes in the northwest, and they were extremely lacking in understanding.
This is also a common problem among officials who passed the imperial examination. Except for the Four Books and Five Classics, and even Zhu Xi's "Collected Commentary on the Four Books", there is a very lack of understanding of actual things.
"The peace in Qinghai-Tibet lasted less than 150 years. In the 16th year of Chenghua (1480), Dayan Khan succeeded to the throne. He once again unified the Mongolian plateau through conquests in the south and north. The fifteenth generation grandson of Genghis Khan, The son of Bolohu Jinong Bayan Mengke, the originator of Chahar Mongolia. He is also the ancestor of today's Lin Dan Khan."
Many civil servants do not know the specific lineage of Lin Dan Khan. At this time, Sun Chengzong waved his hand, and several Hanlin bachelors hung up a picture. On it was the lineage of the Yuan Dynasty emperors from Genghis Khan to Lin Dan Khan.
"During the process of Dayan Khan's unification of Mongolia, Yebula, the right-wing lord of the Yongshebu tribe in Eastern Mongolia, always refused to marry Dayan Khan. In 1510, Dayan Khan attacked the Yongshebu tribe, but Yebula was defeated. Later, for Evading the Chahar people, he led the remaining troops and moved to Qinghai through the Gansu area controlled by the Ming Dynasty."
Li Banghua, the Secretary of the Ministry of War, asked: "What was the attitude of the court at that time? First of all, did they allow Dayan Khan to unify Mongolia without interfering? Second, why did the Gansu garrison allow the Yongxie Bu tribe to pass through the border."
Both of these questions are very pointed.
Sun Chengzong pondered for a moment and said: "At that time, Emperor Wuzong of the DPRK and his ministers had great differences, and they focused on containing Mongolia. Dayan Khan expelled the Oara people and forced them to move westward to the Western Regions and became the Mongolian Mongolia. Annexed Monan and Mobei After Mongolia and the Eastern Mongolian tribes basically unified Mongolia, they led a large-scale attack on Datong in an attempt to reoccupy the Central Plains and restore the Yuan Dynasty's rule over the Han lands."
The cabinet and civil servants all looked at each other in shock, not knowing anything about it.
Sun Chengzong smiled bitterly. Wu Zong was the Ming emperor who was most blackmailed by civil servants. He did indeed do many great things in his short life. Unfortunately, what was recorded was all kinds of dark stuff such as the Leopard Room, going to Jiangnan to fool around, and favoring Jiang Bin. Everything else has been deleted.
Jiang Bin is a famous general with extraordinary bravery. When suppressing the uprising of Liu Liu and Liu Qi, he was hit by three arrows, one of which hit his face. However, he had no fear and pulled it out to fight again. After he gained the favor of Emperor Wu Zong, he faced the problems existing in the Ming Dynasty. It was proposed that the border army and the Beijing camp would take turns to change defenses, and the battle effectiveness of the Beijing camp would be restored through the battlefields of Xuanda and the Mongols.
Under the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, the border troops and the Beijing troops were not allowed to interact with each other. Because if the border army is weak, Mongolia will invade; if the Beijing army is weak, the border army will become a disaster. This is a system designed to strengthen the imperial power. Regardless of the fierce opposition of his ministers, Wu Zong broke the ancestral system and mobilized the border troops to Beijing, setting up the East and West Official Offices, commanded by Jiang Bin and Xu Tai.
At that time, in order to regain his military power, he even settled in Xuanfu Town for a period of time.
In the twelfth year of Zhengde (1517), Emperor Wu Zong and his entourage came to Xuan Mansion to build the "Zhenguo Mansion". He changed his name to Zhu Shou, and later he was named "Zhenguo Gong".
After arriving at Xuanfu, Emperor Wu Zong reorganized the army, ate and lived with the soldiers, got along well, and quickly gained military morale. The emperor couldn't win over the civil servants in the capital and couldn't get military power, so he simply stopped playing with them. He went to Xuanda to seize military power, which caused a collective panic among the civil servants in the capital. He ordered that all ministers were not allowed to come to Xuan Mansion, and only the personal followers of Bao Fang could come in and out at any time.
Wu Zong transferred the border troops to Beijing to replace the Beijing camp, which was the focus of his civil war. In the end, Jiang Bin's men were deceived and Jiang Bin was killed by a civil servant. Wu Zong was also poisoned to death. In the Ming Dynasty, as long as the emperor wanted to cheer up, the results were similar. All his direct descendants were killed, and the emperor died young. This was the case after Yingzong's return, and the same was true for Wu Zong.
Of course, Sun Chengzong would not say this clearly.
"Dayan Khan is the Mongolian little prince we know well in the Ming Dynasty. He was raised by his wife Manduhai. When Wu Zong found that Mongolia had grown bigger, he settled in Xuanfu Town and built a government house. He appointed himself the general of the country. Then Dayan Khan relied on the military power of unifying Mongolia and marched south to attack Datong. Wu Zong gathered the Xuan army and Dayan Khan to fight in Yingzhou and defeated the Mongolian army. Dayan Khan was defeated and died that year after returning to Mongolia. Maybe he was injured on the battlefield, just like the slave chief Nurhaci who established the slaves."
After hearing Sun Chengzong's explanation, Chongzhen and the officials collectively remained silent. Although Sun Chengzong did not say it explicitly. Of course I knew what was going on.
The reason why Dayan Khan was able to unify Mongolia without interference from the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, the Yongxie Bu tribe did not cross the border without being blocked by the Gansu border troops. Mainly because Ming Dynasty was busy with its internal struggles. The emperor and the civil servants were fiercely fighting for power.
"Since the Taizu Dynasty, the northwest has been in peace for a long time. It has not experienced war for 150 years. The combat effectiveness of the army has dropped greatly. The officers and soldiers are afraid of fighting. They have neither the ability nor the courage to block the Yongxiebu tribe's Yibula crossing the border. .”
Chongzhen took a deep breath and said: "After Yong Xie Bubu's Yibula enters Qinghai, I'm afraid the northwest will not be stable."
"His Majesty clearly saw that after Yibula entered Qinghai, he led his troops to defeat the "Four Guards of Western Fan" enfeoffed by the Ming Dynasty. After seeing his strength, the Mongolian princes of the seven Kansai tribes also defected to Yibula. Allowing his strength to rapidly expand."
"He is not a person who is the opponent of Dayan Khan. He has very strong military ability. He roams all over the northwest, as if he is in an uninhabited land. He is also not a assassin." ". This caused the Ming Dynasty's defense system in Gansu to collapse."
"After his power increased greatly, he often led troops through the Gansu region to attack the Mongolian region. He retaliated against the tribes that had surrendered to Dayan Khan in an attempt to encroach on Dayan Khan's western territory. He also tried to collude with those who were The Oara people who were forced to move westward. He had become Dayan Khan’s biggest worry at that time.”
"At that time, the Gansu garrison of the Ming Dynasty did not intercept and did not dare to intercept Yi Bu La's behavior of freely traveling through Gansu as if he were at home. Gansu was reduced to the former right-wing lord of Eastern Mongolia, Yong Xie Bubu, and Yi Bu La and Da The battlefield where Yanhan seesawed repeatedly.”
The bachelors and officials were very surprised. No one would tell them these things. It turns out that something like this happened in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty.
Although Chongzhen looked ugly, this was simply a humiliation for the Ming Dynasty. The court was fighting within the court and the border troops were isolated and helpless. The Mongols were in an uninhabited land in Gansu, fighting back and forth and raiding each other. However, he knew clearly that this was the fact. This period of history told by Sun Chengzong is a difficult learning opportunity.
"Dayan Khan will not tolerate Yongxie Bubu lords and do not want to become bigger," Chongzhen said. "The Mongols will invade Qinghai next."
