To be precise, the Babai Chamber is not the location of Genghis Khan’s mausoleum.
The White House built in Ordos is a spiritual palace to worship the soul of Genghis Khan, more like the Ancestral Temple of the Ming Dynasty.
On the banks of the Ulan Mulun River, members of the Besuti tribe were fishing on the river. Sa Nang stood on the bank and looked at the sheepskin but didn't know where to start, so he had to bite open the cork of the wine bag irritably and pour milk wine into his mouth.
Paper is a very precious thing on the grasslands. The Mongolians cannot make it themselves. Most of it comes from Tibet and Han. Moreover, this problem that has troubled the Mongolians has lasted for a long time, as long as history.
As early as the Hongzhi period of Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty, Dayan Khan, the leader of the Mongolian resurgence, who was called the little prince in the Central Plains, was short of paper and his envoys refused to send back official documents when they needed to be rewritten.
Sa Nang had paper, but he believed that he would only be making drafts for the next ten or even twenty years, and it would be more appropriate to use sheepskin.
Because the establishment of the Ming Dynasty marked Mongolia's entry into the dark age of comprehensive cultural regression. This was not just a problem of no iron pots and no iron knives. In fact, until Anda Khan paid tribute, no book in the entire Mongolia was written in those two hundred years. history books between the years.
So it was very embarrassing. Sa Nang had made all preparations, and even had ten carts of sheepskins transported to his felt tent, but he was horrified to find that he could not write a book at all!
After drinking, Sa Nang sat cross-legged on a stone and played the matouqin for a while. It was not until evening that he made up his mind and introduced himself on the sheepskin.
"My name is Sa Nang. I come from the golden family of Genghis Khan. I have the title of Erke Chechen Hongtaiji. I was born in the year of Jiachen."
"My father was called Batur Darhan Chechen Hongtaiji; my grandfather was called Orzhe Ilduzi Darhan Batur; my great-grandfather was the famous Kutuktai Chechen Hongtaiji. .”
"The fourth generation ancestor's name is Nomu Tarni Guo'an Taiji. He is the fourth son of Dayan Khan's third son Balsbrot's eldest son Gun Bilikjinong. He has been granted the title of Yi of the right wing of Ordos for generations. In the place of Ke Sibel, he is the lord of Besuti and Wushen."
After writing, Sa Nang looked at the sheepskin carefully and frowned a little dissatisfiedly. Judging from the titles of his ancestors, each generation was getting better and better than the previous generation, but he himself was not as good as the previous generation, as if he was very useless.
However, this dissatisfaction was quickly forgotten by him. When the entire Northern Yuan Dynasty fell apart, and he was not the only one who was inferior to each other, this was definitely not his problem. There was something wrong with this era.
In fact, Sa Nang may not be as good as his great-grandfather Kutuketai in terms of talent and learning ability, but that is not because he is weak, but because his great-grandfather was too strong, and Sa Nang simply cannot think of comparing himself to him.
Kutuketai has another name that is even more famous: Qiejinhuangtaiji.
Even the literati of the Ming Dynasty who wrote "Wanli Martial Arts Record" compiled a biography specifically for him.
The Ordos Wanhu tribe has a very high status in Mongolia, and the leader has always been Jinong. However, starting from his fourth generation ancestor, Sa Nang's family was neither the eldest son who inherited the position of Jinong, nor the youngest son who guarded the stove, so his status was not very high. .
Up to now, their aristocracy has a strong influence in Ordos, relying on Huang Taiji's merits, prestige, cultural governance, and martial arts, and they have always been Jinong's best assistant.
In terms of title, Sa Nang is indeed not as good at fighting as his father. His father bravely won the three armies at the age of thirteen and went to Ningxia to fight. His opponent was the Ming army during the Wanli period. He achieved a record of capturing one person alive and was awarded the title of Darhan. At the age of 18, he led his army on an expedition and won the battle, earning him the title of Batuer.
As for him, the two titles of Chechen and Huang Taiji were awarded when he was eleven years old simply because his great-grandfather Chechen Huang Taiji was the "first person among 60,000 households to practice Buddhism". Ancestors are shaded.
But no matter what, I was born into such a noble family, lived a prosperous life, and was influenced by culture and politics since childhood. I was much better than others under the influence of my ears and eyes, not to mention that Sa Nang was easy to learn.
In this dark age of decline of Mongolian culture, a normal Mongolian noble would not think of writing history books, because they have never seen history books at all and do not know the concept of history books.
Sa Nang is different. Since his great-grandfather cut off Huang Taiji, he has mastered four languages and writings: Mongolian, Han, Hui, and Tibetan. He also has an entire collection of books in a large ger, whether they are Buddhist, Confucian, or Tibetan, Indian, Mongolian, There are books from the Central Plains.
There are even three sets of white histories, which are the books on Buddhism and civil affairs formulated by Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan Dynasty.
The first volume is from the collection of Jinong in Ordos. The other volume is from the Yuan Dynasty manuscript that Huang Taiji accidentally obtained in Wuliangha. The third volume is from the Yuan Dynasty manuscript that Huang Taiji collected from the first two manuscripts and continued to write the Ming Dynasty manuscripts. Mongolian history, the creation of a book.
This kind of thing that can be regarded as a national treasure in the hands of Lin Dan Khan was the enlightenment reading for Sa Nang when he was a child.
Because of this, Sa Nang entered the political stage of the Northern Yuan Dynasty at the age of seventeen, continuing the family tradition and assisting Ordos in Jinong administration, both as an envoy to negotiate with the Ming Dynasty and as a representative to discuss politics with the Tumote Ministry.
He should have had a good life, a better life than most people in the world.
But just like those Ming people who were born in the last years of Wanli, Sa Nang was at the peak of his prosperity when he was born, and then from east to west, north and south, no matter where he went, every step he took was downhill.
As a representative, he resolved disputes with the Ming Dynasty and dealt with the endless conflicts in Ordos under drought. When his boyhood ended, the Mongolian tribes at that time were not weak in any way, but they were strangely always at a disadvantage in a complex environment. .
Sa Nang always wonders, what happened to Mongolia?
he does not know.
In the following days, Sa Nang was like falling into the clouds and mist. The environment was changing rapidly. The nobles were precarious in the chaos, and the herders were suffering from the war. When he was a child, the overwhelmed Han people climbed over the border wall and fled to Mongolia. Build the north of the border wall into a fortress south of the Yangtze River.
In his youth, both Han and Mongolians crossed the border wall and ran south.
Because the Monan Grassland is always at war, with the Ming Dynasty, with the Hou Jin Dynasty, and with itself.
This status quo became a dark cloud hanging over Sa Nang's mind, and finally became a reality as Lin Dan Khan moved west to Tumut to avoid the post-Kin Dynasty.
The lord of Sa Nang, Ordos Jinong Erlinchen, was deprived of his Jinong title by the Great Khan, and the entire Ordos was forced to be involved in that battle. They followed Lin Dan Khan and fought with the Tumut tribe who had been neighbors for generations. In the tragic war, they were the first to fight. After victory and defeat, they were coerced into continuing to move westward and launched into the war to attack Ningxia, Gansu, and Qinghai.
I have to say that during that period, he was indeed coerced at first, but as time went by, Sak Nang could not help but be greatly influenced by Lin Danhan.
After all, Lin Dan Khan is the orthodox Great Khan of Mongolia. Although he is impatient and impatient, how many of the Mongolian Khans today are like a human king? Lin Dan Khan is already the most heroic person among the Khans everywhere.
Therefore, even if the lord Erlinchen was deprived of the title of Jinong by Lin Dan Khan, the entire Ordos tribe's noble soldiers had a negative attitude towards Chahar, but passive cooperation was also cooperation.
And to a certain extent, Sa Nang believes that Lin Dan Khan’s theory is right: Mongolia’s weakness lies in their fragmentation. Lin Dan Khan is only the Khan of Chahar, while Emperor Chongzhen is the emperor of the entire Ming Dynasty, and Nurhachi and Huang Taiji are the entire Later Jin Dynasty. of sweat.
Just using the wrong method.
Sa Nang believes that this result is not a matter of Khan Power, but that while Mongolia has lost its cultural heritage in the dark ages of more than two hundred years, it has also forgotten the noble bloodline and long-standing great history of the Golden Family.
The people here who have forgotten the noble lineage of the Golden Family are not the most ordinary herdsmen. The herdsmen have always remembered it, but those members of the Golden Family have forgotten. They pursue fame and fortune, and they have turned themselves into the feudal feudal lords on the grassland. Sweating all over the place.
They were able to persevere even in the face of extreme material scarcity, but under the background of the Ming Dynasty's mutual market, they were seduced into confusion and turned into shameless people who knew no honor or disgrace.
Without spirit, your defense against temptation will be extremely low, and you will be taken advantage of.
But weakness leads to weakness, and decline leads to decline. All the Mongolian nobles do not think that they will really be completely defeated.
It's not that they won't fail, nor that they won't be pushed into the corner of the earth, but since Temujin became the Khan of the Qiyan tribe and established Mongolia more than 400 years ago, the Golden Family has never had the concept of destruction at its roots.
People cannot think of things they have never heard or seen.
Until Lin Dan Khan died of illness in Bajiao City, the Ordos army was separated from Lin Dan Khan. When they received the news again, Liu Chengzong had obtained the Nine White Paper and the Imperial Seal, and wanted to declare the Great Khan of all Mongolia.
Huge changes occurred in just a few years, and both Sa Nang and Erlin Chen were struck dumb by fate.
The nobles of Ordos looked at each other, just like the most normal choice for people when they suffered a huge blow. They did not make a choice. They just took one step at a time and saw what was going on before returning to Ordos and the territory where they had lived for generations.
The Mongolian Khanate, which lasted for four hundred years, was gone.
Why did it break?
The cruel reality and terrible future hit Sa Nang's heart, making him full of worries. However, Hou Jin and the Marshal's Mansion were pressing harder on the Monan Grassland. He knew that he had to do something, but he was powerless to change the general trend. He could only Seeing Beiyuan falling apart, there is no way to save it.
In fact, let alone the general situation, when Yang Qi and the Mobei Allied Forces marched into Monan, he even lost the pastures of the two tribes under his family's control for generations, the Besuti Tribe and the Wushen Tribe. As a lord, he Can't keep it.
Many nobles of the Wanhu tribe in Ordos were the same. Faced with Yang Qi's large-scale enfeoffment in the Monan grassland and the enfeoffment of four to five thousand Mobei Mongolian cavalry in Ordos, even Jinong Elinchen dared not speak - Mongolian Ji The army controlled by Nong Yan is not even as large as the cavalry sent by Yang Qifeng.
Of course, sometimes it is not the number of troops that determines the war, but the actual conflict of interests. The Monan Governor's Mansion does not have much involvement with Monan Mongolia in this regard. The current population of Ordos does not have enough use for the vast pasture land.
Although these are not ownerless lands, there is indeed only one owner left. The herdsmen have gone to Ningxia and Yansui to serve as soldiers and raise horses for the Ming Dynasty.
When it got dark, the sound of horse hooves was heard outside the yurt. Sa Nang opened the curtain and saw his master Elinchen coming.
E Linchen dismounted and hugged Sa Nang tightly. Then he called on the accompanying horsemen to carry milk wine, paper, pen and ink into the tent. Sa Nang hurriedly saluted, and then asked: "Why is the Khan here?"
E Linchen's name and title are Lin Qin·E Ye Qi Daiqing. He had a khan title earlier, Jinong Khan.
He himself claimed that the last Jinong was his brother, and the last one was his father. His brother was unlucky and died of illness. Erlinchen got the support of the Mongolian leader and living Buddha Maidali Hutuktu, and he took the title of himself. Jinong Khan.
However, the elder brother was unlucky, and Erlinchen was also unlucky. He had arrogated the title a few years ago. Anyway, Ordos has been their family's territory for generations. As long as the interests of the elders and brothers are coordinated, the position of the farmer will be stable.
What's more, there is Sa Nang beside him. Because Sa Nang is a descendant of Huang Taiji, he has a high political and religious status in Ordos. People are very convinced of him and let him promote the Khan's name to various ministries. It can be said that It's foolproof.
It just so happened that the year he arrogated the title was the first year of the Apocalypse. The Mongolian Khan Lin Dan had already decided on the strategy of "first moving inside, then moving outside" and led the Chahar army to move westward. Just when he saw that the Mongolian Khans everywhere were angry, he came here. Destroyed his position.
Waste to waste, this Khan number was claimed by Sa Nang himself all over Ordos. Even if Lin Dan Khan didn't recognize it, he had to recognize it. This was still his Jinong Khan.
E Linchen sighed and shook his head: "Those nobles come to my place to complain all the time, and they are very annoyed. It is better to come to you."
"Because of the division of pasture land by the Han governor?"
E Linchen nodded and said helplessly: "The situation is like this. What can I do? Is it possible to mobilize all the soldiers and horses to fight against Governor Yang? If we are all dead, we don't have to worry about the pasture anymore."
"Those Han people can't produce food, and they have no clever way to divide our pastures in order to stabilize the soldiers and horses from Khalkha. They already knew that the Marshal's Mansion was not a good thing, and Governor Yang was full of bad ideas. .”
Yang Qi enfeoffed the nobles of Mobei in Monan in order to divert trouble eastward. Enfeoffment is decentralization of power and responsibility. The lord has sovereignty over the land and population. If those people don't have enough to eat, it must be because you, the lord, are incompetent. , what does it have to do with me, the governor?
The vassal's vassal is not my vassal, so I don't have to take care of the vassal's vassal.
"Khan, I don't think this is a bad thing. If Hou Jin comes again, there will always be soldiers and horses to resist him." Sa Nang saw that the herdsmen and cavalry had all walked out of the felt tent, so he said to Erlinchen: "There are soldiers and horses who can stop Hou Jin. Only Khan has a chance.”
E Linchen said: "But with people from Mobei everywhere, our Ordos Ten Thousand Households Department has become too weak."
"No."
Sa Nang shook his head and said categorically, looking at E Linchen with piercing eyes: "It is other people who have become weak, not the Khan who has become weak. Since Governor Yang likes to make lords, the Khan's top priority is to let the marshal become weak. The government recognizes that the Khan is a Jinong. The more Mongolian soldiers and horses in Ordos, the safer the Khan will be!" (End of Chapter)
