Ah, there is another Junggar to the west!
When Zhu Cihong heard Wu Guoyong's words, he thought of Galdan. He should still be a child now, maybe a lama in Tibet. However, he and his Junggar Khanate did not appear out of thin air, but had a process of accumulation and rise.
The Junggar Khanate has not yet appeared, but its predecessor, the Choros tribe, one of the four tribes of Lat Mongolia (Wara), should be doing well now.
In fact, since Huang Taiji defeated Lin Dan Khan, who was based on Monan Mongolia, the power of Eastern Mongolia and the Khalkha Mongolia in the north declined sharply, and they were successively ruled or suppressed by the Qing Dynasty. The nomadic Oara tribes in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains got the opportunity to take the lead and began to expand eastward, annexing some tribes in Khalkha Mongolia and Monan Mongolia.
The best among them was the Heshuote tribe, leader of the four Oara tribes. In the ninth year of Chongzhen, the leader of the Heshuote tribe, Gu Shi Khan, was invited by Suonan Qunpei, the regent of the Gelug sect of Tibet, to send troops to Tibet to support the Yellow sect Gelug. group. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Gushi Khan successively destroyed the troops of Hongtai Jichotu Khan on the left wing of Khalkha (belonging to a branch of the Tushetu Khan family), Dunyue Duoji, the Baili chieftain of Xikang (who believed in Bon religion), and controlled Weizang Zangba Khan of the headquarters. He also established the Heshuote Khanate in Qinghai and became the supreme ruler of most of Qinghai, Tibet, Xikang, and the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains (Gushi Khan was still the leader of the Oara alliance).
If you just look at the map, the Heshuote Khanate established by Gushi Khan is a big country that can compete with the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
"Your Majesty, although the Heshuote Khanate has a vast territory and a large number of people, it has no ambition to conquer the Eastern Han Dynasty. Long before Gushi Khan's Eastern Campaign, he sent envoys to Shenyang to pay tribute to horses and supplies. Last year, they even joined forces. Twenty-two leaders of various tribes in Oara jointly submitted to Donglu to express their surrender. The Donglu court gave them armor, bows and arrows, and ordered Gushi Khan to rule the tribes... Therefore, Wu Sangui was now surrounded by enemies from both sides, with tigers and wolves on all sides! "
Wu Guoyong was Wu Xiang's godson, so he naturally wanted to speak for Wu Sangui and make the situation of this Qing Green Flag **** as difficult as possible.
Zhu Cihong glanced at Wu Guoyong, smiled and said: "The Heshuote Khanate is large and loose. Gushi Khan must not be able to subdue the leaders of the Oara tribes, so he wants to scare people by pulling the tiger skin of Donglu. Donglu wants to count on him. It is a fool's dream to contain Wu Sangui... A well-run Xining Guard is enough to resist Gushi Khan."
"The emperor's words are very good," Wu Guoyong said, "but how can Wu Sangui have the spare capacity to run the Xining Guard? Gansu and Shaanxi have been intertwined for more than two hundred years. Who will obey him, an outsider?"
Zhu Cixi thought for a while and said with a smile: "This is easy to handle... I have a way!"
Wu Guoyong said sincerely: Of course you have a solution, but Wu Sangui, who is trapped in Shaanxi and Gansu, is a little desperate!
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The hat of Wu Sangui, the **** with the green flag of the Qing Dynasty, is actually not all green...but has a black border, red weft, and a ruby top. There are only two double-eye flower feathers stuck on the back of the hat. Bird feathers, a little green.
But Wu Sangui doesn't like just a little bit of green!
Therefore, he will basically not wear this slightly green hat, unless he meets with officials sent by Beijing, then he will wear it reluctantly. Otherwise, Wu Sangui, the Pingxi King of the Qing Dynasty and the official with the green flag, would either have a bald head without a hat, or wear a black gauze hat.
To be precise, he wears a black gauze hat and a scarlet python robe most of the time. In the front of the python robe is a unicorn patch symbolizing the Duke of the Ming Dynasty.
That's right, he is now dressed like a Duke of the Ming Dynasty, with the hair on his head growing out and a small bun on top of his head.
However, he did not return to the Ming Dynasty. Although he dressed like a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, he still held a bowl from the Qing Dynasty in his hand.
The small amount of land he currently occupies in the remote countryside is not connected to the Ming Dynasty, so it is difficult to get the support of his deceitful brother-in-law Zhu Cixiang; secondly, it is also bordered by the forces of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. He and Li Zicheng have a blood feud, and Lao Li was originally good In order to unify the country, Wu Sangui was the one who made it impossible; thirdly, his rule in Ningxia and Gansu was very unstable. After all, he was an outsider and had no foundation in the area. He could not do without the Qing Dynasty as his backing.
So he was still the King of Pingxi, General Pingxi, a bastard with a green flag in the Qing Dynasty, and he was also a big traitor!
And the reason why he dressed up like a Duke of the Ming Dynasty was to show that he had a patron in his heart and was ready to switch sides and return to the Ming Dynasty to become a minister at any time. Only in this way can Wu Sangui temporarily stabilize the gang of Gansu and Shaanxi military leaders under his command.
These people were all from the northwest frontier army of the Ming Dynasty. They were not so afraid of Manchurians, and they were not in the same system as Wu Sangui. Why should they regard Wu Sangui as the boss? Isn't it because Wu Sangui came here under the banner of the Ming Dynasty?
At first, everyone thought that Wu Sangui had become the third minister and was following Zhu Cihong's order to revive the Ming Dynasty's northwest frontier army. At that time, Li Zicheng's Dashun was not doing well and was about to collapse. Everyone had no way out, so they wanted to make progress together - these local snakes in Shaanxi and Gansu had been following the Ming Dynasty for generations. When Dashun didn't come, they Don’t you think Ming Dynasty is any good? Therefore, not many people resisted desperately, and most of them surrendered to Li Zicheng. But after the surrender, this group of people discovered that Ming Dynasty was actually good!
During the Ming Dynasty, they ate the bottom food and took the top food, and they could also protect Shaanxi merchants in smuggling. Although they could not make a big fortune, they lived a pretty good life.
But as soon as the Dashun came, all Shaanxi businessmen in Shaanxi pounced, and there was no source of goods and no sales for smuggling! The Dashun court above is even more desperate - they can't even take care of their own veteran soldiers, but will they take care of you guys?
As for what's next... King Chuang doesn't pay for his food when he comes!
Although these ministers who voted for Dashun will not be exempted from the tax, the difficulty of searching has still increased a lot.
Therefore, everyone’s life is getting worse day by day, and they miss Ming Dynasty more and more. As soon as Wu Sangui arrived, of course everyone rushed to join him.
But who knew that Wu Sangui, the third official, was just faking it! He is still a despised minister... The generals of the northwest frontier army who are reluctantly following him are all the three ministers who have served in the Ming army and the shun army, and now they are serving in the Qing army. Return to the Ming Dynasty and become a minister.
You, Wu Sangui, have only been a second minister so far. How can you convince the public?
So Wu Sangui had no choice but to pretend to be an alternate minister every day!
And the green flag-mounted soldiers under him are not green, but red. The ordinary soldiers are still wearing the mandarin duck war coats of the Ming Dynasty. Officials were issued two official uniforms, one from the Qing Dynasty and one from the Ming Dynasty, which could be changed at any time depending on the situation.
There were times when mistakes were made. Last autumn, Zu Zepu was startled when he passed by Ningxia accompanying the Qing envoy to Qing and Tibet.
The cavalry brought by Liu Sheng to meet Zu Zepu and others were all dressed in Ming Dynasty. Zu Zepu thought that Wu Sangui had rebelled and returned, and was about to abandon the dark side and join the bright side, only to realize that he had made a mistake.
Accompanying him was University Scholar Sony, who was even more unlucky. He had just gotten out of the carriage and was about to accept Wu Sangui's bribe. Unexpectedly, he saw three thousand Ming cavalry arrayed in front of him. He was so frightened that he cried. The knives were drawn out, ready to fight Wu Sangui, a repetitive villain.
Fortunately, Zu Zepu stopped him in time - he was knocked to the ground with an old punch! This prevented Sony from being hacked to death by the opponent.
Later, Zu Zepu found out that the day after he arrived in Ningxia happened to be the day when King Zhu Dingshan, the envoy of King Zhu Cijiong of Zaoqiang, came to visit. He somehow got mixed up, and as a result, the angels of the Qing Dynasty were frightened. ....This is really a huge misunderstanding! I don’t know if Dorgon will send troops to attack Wu Sangui because of this?
Zhu Cijiong was also forced to make a lot of progress in the days when he went to Luliang. He worked vigorously on Luliang Mountain. He not only withstood several encirclement and suppression attacks by Qing soldiers, but also gathered many wandering Ming Dynasty ministers and clan members. Among them There is this Zhu Dingshan of the old generation king system.
This Zhu Dingshan had no other skills, except for her clever mouth, which was very good at deceiving people, and she could also watch people serve food, so she was sent around by Zhu Cijiong to pull people's heads. Lu Liang was fighting against the Qing Dynasty. Everyone knew that there were many capable soldiers in the Ming Dynasty's northwest frontier army, so Zhu Dingshan ran to Wu Sangui every now and then.
And Wu Sangui neither stopped nor arrested him, and entertained him well every time - he had to let the Gansu and Shaanxi military leaders under him know that he was loyal to the Ming Dynasty! Moreover, there were a surplus of warriors in Gansu and Shaanxi, and Wu Sangui had no place to arrange them and could not afford to support them. It would be better if Zhu Cijiong could take some away.
