Beginning in the spring of the twelfth year of Hongxing's reign in the Ming Dynasty, countless trickles of Mongolian herdsmen appeared in the deserts and grasslands of Northeast China, heading west toward a legendary blessed land belonging to the Mongols with abundant water and grass. ——Mughalstan (this is Persian, meaning the place of the Mongols).
In the eastern part of Mongolstan, on the grassland near the northwest foot of the Tianshan Mountains, a group of people was walking, which was considered to be a huge group compared to other Mongolian teams traveling westward. Horse-drawn carts were packed with various items. There is a blue triangular flag with a white falcon flying on it - this is the unique flag of the Golden Family!
Around the cart, there were Mongolians riding on horseback, men, women, old and young, wearing dirty leather robes, carrying bows, arrows and scimitars. Everyone was a little unkempt and thin, looking very down and out and tired. .
Surrounding the large convoy and the large group of Mongolians riding in, there were also some very capable-looking riders, guarding them everywhere. Most of them were wearing cloth armor, some were holding long guns, some were carrying matchlocks, and some were galloping for a while, then reined in their horses, then stood on their horses and looked around, very surprised. alert.
In the middle of the large convoy were more than a dozen people-carrying carriages and sedan chairs. The horses pulling the cart are all fat and strong, and are smooth with oil and water. The drivers sitting on the shaft of the carriage all looked particularly strong and well-dressed. They were all dressed in brightly-colored clothes. They were all Qing Dynasty military attache uniforms with black and blue satin. Some of them had flintlock pistols in their waists, and all of them had straight waists.
Directly in front of the large convoy, there were two to three hundred knights leading the way. They looked more powerful, and they were one person with two horses, riding a walking horse and leading a taller war horse. These two to three hundred Mongolian knights were guarding two old men in their fifties and sixties, who looked extraordinary and were wearing Western-style plate armor. These two old men were Wu Keshan, the father-in-law of Emperor Shunzhi, and Manzhu Xili, Wu Keshan's brother. The less than a thousand warriors and thousands of old, weak, women and children who followed them were the remnants of the powerful King Horqin Banner in the past.
To be honest, Prince Horqin Wu Keshan was extremely astute to be able to bring out these most loyal people from the dangerous situation after the sudden collapse of Manchuria.
In contrast, the Tushetu Khan, Zhasak Tuhan, and Chechen Khan of the three Khalkha Mongolian tribes were in misery. The banners of the Khans were all defeated by the Ming, Tumut, and Chahar coalition forces. The three major Khans The clan was almost wiped out by the Tumote and Chahar clans - unlike the Horqin clan, which came from the blood of Genghis Khan's brothers, the three great Khan clans of Khalkha Mongolia were all descendants of Dayan Khan, and were the most orthodox golden clans, with Qualified to compete with Chahar and Tumote! Therefore, the Chahar and Tumote tribes are not willing to leave the banners of the three Khans of Khalkha, while the banners of the Khans of the Horqin tribe are not so hateful...
Of course, the Horqin tribe, which was unorthodox in the eyes of Chahar and Tumut, had a different identity when it came to the Oara Alliance!
Gu Shihan, the previous leader of the Wala Alliance, was a descendant of the Horqin tribe!
Gu Shihan's ancestors failed in the internal fighting of the Horqin tribe, fled to Mongolia, and were taken in by the Oara Alliance. In the end, they actually squeezed out the Choros family and became the leader of the Oara Alliance!
I really wonder if Troos Sengge will have a grudge because of this?
In addition, even if Sengge is broad-minded and accepts him as the Khan King of the Horqin tribe, can the great emperor in the east just let it go? If he sent people to put pressure on Sengge, would Sengge cut off his own head and send it to Nanjing?
Thinking that his head might not be safe, Wu Keshan let out another long sigh.
His sigh was heard by a rather dignified-looking middle-aged Mongolian man riding beside him. The man suddenly laughed: "Wu Keshan replied, don't worry. Today's Oara Alliance has strong troops and strong horses. Shelter guests from far away.”
The man who spoke was a relative of Wu Keshan, his name was Galdan Muba. He was the son of Oqiltu Khan, the leader of the Heshuote tribe who stayed in the Wala Alliance, and he was also the father-in-law of Sengge, the leader of the Junggar tribe. His daughter Anukodon is the wife of Sengge.
And that Eqirtu Khan was the nephew of Gu Shi Khan. After Gu Shi Khan's death, he took over as the leader of the Oara Alliance...
"Is there still a Wala Alliance now?" Wu Keshan asked in a low voice.
"This..." Galdan Muba didn't expect the other party to be so direct, and smiled awkwardly, "Of course there is, how come there isn't..."
"Then where we are going now is..."
"It's Chuhe City." Galdan Muba sighed softly.
Chuhe City is located between the south bank of Chu River and the northern slope of Tianshan Mountain, roughly near Suiye City during the Tang Dynasty. This city is not the "capital" of the Oara Alliance. The Oara Alliance is a very loose alliance of nomadic tribes and has no capital or capital.
Chuhe City is actually the residence of the Beiting Protectorate of the Ming Dynasty! The location of the city was decided by Zhu Cixang, who was thousands of miles away. At that time, his Ming Dynasty was still fighting with the Qing Dynasty in the north, but he was already considering the issue of Zhun Geer moving westward.
If the center of the Jungar Department is placed in the later Jungar Basin, then the Jungar Department will have the convenience to develop eastward.
On the contrary, if the center of the quasi-bu is moved to the Chu River Basin, it will be more convenient for the quasi-bu to develop southward.
In order to facilitate the westward migration of the Zhungeer tribe, Emperor Zhu even allocated a sum of money to Sengge. After the Battle of Anxi, he had people transport it to the Zhungeer tribe for the purpose of Sengge building a city on the Chu River.
Silver is of course of no use on the prairie, but in the Chu River area close to the Bukhara Khanate, it can be used to purchase items from Bukhara merchants and hire craftsmen.
Under the constant work of craftsmen from Bukhara and Kazakh captives (slaves) captured by the Jungar tribe, in the summer of the twelfth year of Hongxing, a brand-new building was built that mixed Chinese, Tibetan and Central Asian styles. A city of this style has appeared on the banks of the Chu River.
In addition to its political and military role, this Chuhe City is now also an important trading station on the Overland Silk Road.
Tea bricks, silk, porcelain, and gunpowder from the Central Plains came to Central Asia through Hexi and Anxi, furs and livestock from the Mughal grasslands, salt from the Siberian Salt Lake, ironware, blankets, and various daily necessities from Bukhara , all meet here.
Large tracts of farmland also appeared on the fertile and flat land outside the city, where farmers from Anxi grew cold-resistant oats and rye. Many lamaseries were built inside and outside the city, where eminent monks from the Central Plains chanted sutras, worshiped Buddha, and prayed for the Jungar tribe and Sengge Khan.
The area around Chuhe City seemed to have returned to the prosperous Tang Dynasty overnight, and became the forefront of the intersection and integration of Eastern and Western civilizations.
The owner of this city is Choros Sengge, also known as Sengge Khan or the Great Protector Sengge.
In fact, he has never been called Khan - his honorary title within the Oara Alliance is Huitai Ji. Eqirtu Khan, the grandfather of Sengge's wife Anukotun, was the Khan of the Wala League. This "Old Khan" now lives in the Ili Valley area. He has no ambitions and just lives a comfortable and comfortable life. It was precisely because of the disappearance of Eqirtu Khan that Sengge became the de facto Khan of the Wala Alliance. Over time, everyone began to call him Sengge Khan.
However, he, the Khan, did not have his own khanate, only an empty Duhufu (it was not completely empty, the Duhufu owned Chuhe City), a Jungar tribe, and a loose Oara alliance... ..There are as many as one million Mongolian heartland!
It can be said that he is now stronger than his ancestor Ye Xian Taishi, stronger than Dayan Khan who revitalized Mongolia, and even stronger than Genghis Khan when he first established the Great Mongolia.
So powerful, he should be a big sweat, but now he is just a Huitaiji... Sengge himself feels a bit unreasonable.
But to sweat...
"Taiji, Taiji..." A voice like a silver bell interrupted Sengge's thoughts. He turned around and saw a tall, plump and somewhat beautiful young woman, who was Sengge's wife. Anuktun.
Anuktun held a letter raft in his hand and said to Sengge with a smile: "I just received a letter from your sixth brother Hutuktu."
"What did the letter say?" Sengge asked.
"The letter says that he will come to Chuhe soon to have a marriage contract... he should be on his way now." Anu said, "There are also nine Chinese characters."
"Chinese characters? Do you recognize them?" Seng Ge asked.
"I recognize it, but I don't know what it means?" Anu said, "The nine characters are: build the city high, occupy more land, and sweat slowly."
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