Yang Fan looked at the master. He said with burning eyes: "Actually, what you need is a status, a status granted by a noble and powerful court. If the Ming Dynasty supports you, it will be more important than the Mongolian tribes." Lan
The master was silent for a while and then said: "But you only believe in the Han tradition. Back then, Xue Chan Khan canonized Master Pasiba as a national teacher, and he accepted the initiation ceremony three times."
Yang Fan thought for a while and said: "After all, the situation is different. Back then, Kublai Khan was just a prince, and he needed your support to seize the throne. The Ming Emperor will not accept initiation and become a believer. But I can write to the emperor to confer the master as the king. Master. Yongzhen Snowy Plateau. We can imitate the old affairs of the Yuan Dynasty."
Yang Fan's meaning was very clear, that is, the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the Snowy Plateau could be handled by following the old rules of the Yuan Dynasty. Except that the emperor cannot accept your beliefs and initiation ceremonies. Yang Fan can fight for the others.
Because, based on Yang Fan's understanding of Chongzhen, it is absolutely impossible for him to accept the initiation ceremony. So there is no need to mention this one.
In the history of the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan received Phagpa's initiation ceremony many times, which greatly strengthened the relationship between the two parties. After Kublai Khan came to the throne, he also respected Phagpa as the "National Preceptor".
After the Yuan Dynasty established its capital in Dadu, in the first year of the Yuan Dynasty (1264), Kublai Khan established the General Council in the central government and appointed the national master Pasiba as the chief minister. From then on, Basba began to take charge of religious affairs across the country, and personally managed and governed the military and civil affairs of Tubo.
In the second year of Zhiyuan (1265), Pasiba returned to Sakya on the orders of Kublai Khan to prepare for the local government of Xizang. Lan
According to the plan agreed between him and Kublai Khan, the political organization form of the Snowy Plateau was reorganized according to Mongolia's ten thousand household system. Pasiba conducted a population census, rectified the post roads, and divided the entire territory into 130,000 households.
After this reform, the governance structure of "National Adviser - General Administration - Xuanwei Division - Wanhufu - Qianhufu" was formed. This series of measures taken by Pasiba led to the formal establishment of local political power under the rule of the Yuan Dynasty.
But now Zang Bahan's secular government and the masters can't get along, and they are already at war. If the masters get the support of the Ming Dynasty, imitating the old system of the Yuan Dynasty will undoubtedly be the most beneficial plan for them.
Yang Fan could tell that the master was tempted.
"Is the Ming Dynasty willing to send troops to help?" the master asked with burning eyes.
If you don't clean it, the dust in the house will not escape by itself.
Say a thousand words and ten thousand words. It all comes down to a war. Lan
The territory of any political power or country in history was determined recently by the last war.
Yang Fan said with a smile: "Of course, we not only need to help the master get on the horse, but also take him for another ride."
Seeing Yang Fan's signature smile, Zhang Shize felt a chill and had goose bumps. He knew this smile all too well. Whenever this smile comes out, it means someone is going to be unlucky.
"I have prepared an army of 40,000 for you, Master, led by a very capable general. They will escort you back to the Red Fort, where you will be canonized by His Majesty the Ming Emperor. After that, these armies will be stationed in Qinghai and around Zang. However, they are mainly responsible for maintaining the emperor's canonization of you and supporting you, and will not interfere in local affairs. Unless there is an invasion by foreign enemies."
"Master only needs to organize the local people and provide them with supplies. By the way, you also need warm leather robes and yaks for transportation. There are also foods such as highland barley and butter. Master has to worry about these."
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The master was very happy to have so many troops supporting him. Far beyond his expectations.
He had stayed here to see how the Ming Dynasty's Forbidden Army defeated the Tumuts and their allies the Alxa people. This shows that these people are more powerful than the Mongols. The Ming Dynasty was the orthodoxy of the Central Plains for the past three hundred years. Justified. Lan
However, on second thought he said with some worry: "Our place is vast and sparsely populated. After the Tang Dynasty, the climate became colder, especially in the plateau area. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the climate was warm. The plateau was lush with vegetation. At that time, we had a population of 10 million . But now, alas, it’s okay not to mention it.”
Yang Fan said with a smile: "I know there are only 700,000 or 800,000 of you, but the war is not over yet, Jiuyuan and Linhe have not been captured yet, the Tumut people still have some reinforcements, and I haven't gone to deal with the Ordos people yet. . Don’t worry, there are still many fierce battles to be fought, and the court also needs to discuss this matter, which will take time."
"When everything settles, I'm afraid many of these 40,000 people will die, and the dead don't need to wear clothes or eat. By then, your pressure will be much less." Yang Fan said with a smile.
Zhang Size said to himself, "I knew there would be no good results if I fell into your hands. Now it's good, these unstable factors have been brought to the snowy plateau." They have taken root there since ancient times. I will never be able to return to the Central Plains in this life.
In fact, it is not just the rise and fall of the Han people. The unified period and the period of strength in history were all periods of warm climate. Tubo developed rapidly after Songtsen Gampo married Princess Wencheng. During their most powerful period, they had controlled 5.1 million square kilometers. land with a population of tens of millions.
This is also the capital that allows them to control the entire Western Region, conquer Chang'an, and compete with the Tang Empire with a population of 80 million.
Starting from the Northern and Southern Dynasties, as the climate became warmer and rainfall increased, the snowy plateau changed from a barren landscape. Everywhere is lush. Cattle and sheep fill the mountains and plains. Lan
Against this background, the Tubo Dynasty rose to prominence in the early seventh century. They possessed very advanced metal smelting technology and were able to create the best weapons and armor in the world at that time.
After the Tubo people unified the Qiang tribes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau by force, they once again embarked on a road of external expansion for nearly two centuries. They have ruled over millions of non-native people.
Many scholars believe that the Tibetan dynasty had approximately 10 million people under its rule in the seventh century.
But the good times did not last long. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the climate became cold again and began a thousand-year decline, entering a long-term downward channel. It reached its lowest level in the late Ming Dynasty. It is one of the two coldest periods in 10,000 years.
The living environment in the plateau areas began to deteriorate rapidly. When Pasiba sorted out the population and divided it into 130,000 households, there were only more than 780,000 people left on the plateau. All other previously occupied territories and populations were lost.
In less than a thousand years, the population decreased by 9 million, a loss of 92.2%. What's more, the famous British Tibetan scholar Richardson believes that the Tibetan population could not have exceeded 300,000 when the Mongols unified Tibet in the 13th century. This is very scary. This shows how terrible the impact of climate change is in an ecologically fragile area like the plateau.
The year when Chongzhen hanged himself happened to be the lowest temperature in 10,000 years. Starting from the second year, the temperature became warmer. If he could persist for another three years, maybe the Ming Dynasty would not have died. Unfortunately, history did not give him this opportunity. Lan
