The serious illness and death of King Sengge of the Jungar Kingdom, as well as the subsequent series of overt and secret struggles surrounding the throne of Jungar, the Kulitai Conference on the table, and the "Geldan" event that will surely go down in history. The "Constitutional" events all occurred within the year from the autumn of 1671 to the autumn of 1672 in the Western calendar.
For the people of the Jungar Kingdom, this series of events was a series of ups and downs, and in the end, there was a result that no one expected - the Jungar Kingdom actually achieved a constitutional monarchy in a hurry!
Regardless of whether this constitution was too much progress or whether it would seriously weaken the power of the Jungar court, it still made those around the Junggar Kingdom long for the Junggar people to start an internal strife because of the death of the king. All forces are greatly disappointed!
Not only did the Jungar Kingdom not stage a fratricide that was almost routine for the nomadic grassland regime due to the death of the king, but it also absorbed the power of the Uszang and Shuote tribes and adjusted its relationship with the Han people. The relationship between the kingdoms has become stronger and more cohesive.
Moreover, the decline in the authority of the Jungar court did not weaken the expansion power of this emerging aristocratic republic integrating agriculture and animal husbandry (the current constitution of Jungar is not a bourgeois constitution, but a typical aristocratic republic).
It is not only empires that need expansion. Kingdoms (republics) of aristocratic republics sometimes also have vigorous expansion motivation... Because the king in power needs a war to establish his authority, and the nobles below also need to go through war. Get land, wealth, serfs!
Who said that Zhungeer's group of people were not good at anything except fighting and robbing things?
Speaking of which, they are similar to the bandit Dashun who sneaked into Myanmar. They are all pursuing the development path of "it is better to build than to buy, and to buy is better to rob".
The Zhungar people are in a worse situation. They cannot rob India. If they want to rob, they can only rob the Khiva Khanate in the Khwarezm Oasis and the Kazakh Alliance of Zhongyuzi and Xiaoyuzi.
Around the Jungle Kingdom, they seem to be easier to rob, and they still have some oil and water.
Therefore, the news of "Geldan's Constitution" reached the Kazakh royal court in Xiaoyuzi and Khiva, the capital of the Khiva Khanate in Khwarezm, and immediately caused great panic.
These two countries are really in a miserable state now. Since the end of the reign of Sengge’s father, Batur Hutaiji, the Kazakhs have not lived a good life. They were first robbed by Batur Hutaiji, and then his son. King Sengge robbed, and then Zhu Sanhui Taiji came... He didn't rob much, but he robbed people!
In recent years, his eight thousand Fujin households have often captured Kazakh herdsmen on the Dayuzi and Zhongyuzi grasslands to work as serfs and herds slaves!
What's even more annoying is that Zhu Sanhun Taiji is robbing people and trying to do business with the Kazakhs and Rakshasa people... He sent many surrendered Kazakhs to the Ural River in Xiaoyuzi to find Rakshasa people. Touq Khan (the Khan of the Kazakhs and a vassal of the Rakshasa Kingdom), who was supported by the people, requested trade!
It's so shameless...
And this evil and shameless Zhu Sanhuitai Ji got the Chuhe Mansion he dreamed of from Galdan after Zhungeer's "Geldan Constitution".
As the price for obtaining the Chuhe Mansion, Zhu Sanhun Taiji finally abandoned his "Silk Road Policy" and turned to be a bandit with Geerdan.
Since you can't do business, then grab it!
Therefore, Prince Zhu's third prince, Daiguo, now stands together with Zhungeer and Heshuote, rolling up his sleeves and preparing to grab a big grab.
The fate of the Khiva Khanate in the Khwarezm Oasis was not much better than that of the Kazakhs. They were tricked by Aurangzeb and lost tens of thousands in the Battle of Samarkand and the Battle of Fergana. Strong man.
For the Khiva Khanate, which had a limited population, losing tens of thousands of strong men at once was enough to make them unable to recover.
Even if Anusha Khan's son Niyaz Khan won the short civil war, successfully unified the Khiva Khanate, and formed a five-nation alliance with the neighboring Turkmen, Kazakhs, Rakshasas, and Persians, he would still be powerless. Resist the powerful Jungar state.
After finally surviving the death of Seng Ge, they did not wait for the civil war in Jungar they wanted. Instead, they waited for the "Geldan Constitution" and the three alliances of Jungar, Heshuote and Daiguo.
Zhungeer, Heshuote, and Daiguo were originally vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, but they were not really united before the "Geldan Constitution". In particular, Zhu Cijiong's Daiguo was largely under the influence of Monk. Grid is holding back.
However, with the rise of Galdan, the "constitutional king", the Heshuote Kingdom no longer worried about being annexed by Zhungeer (Anu Ketun came from the Heshuote royal court), and Prince Zhu San also got the coveted territory.
The three Ming vassal states could finally unite.
Facing the coming Ming Mongols (Zhu Cijiong is of course not a Mongolian, but he always sends Mongolians to rob people, so they are mistaken for Mongolians), Kazakh Tou Ke Khan, Khiva Niyaz Khan, as well as Marquis Golovin, the governor of the Rakshasa people, knew that big trouble was coming.
So Tou Ke Khan sent his son Khalid, Niaz Khan sent his son Haji, and Marquis Golovin personally left Orenburg, the stronghold of the Rakshasa Kingdom in Xiaoyuzi, and the three of them went to Moscow to report to His Majesty Tsar Alexei I asked for help.
In addition to asking for help, of course there is also the need to surrender.
In fact, Touq Khan and Niyaz Khan had already professed vassalage to the Tsar, but the previous vassalage was informal... It was just a superficial attitude, and there was no specific treaty stipulating the vassal status of Kazakhstan and Khiva. Obligation, in fact, Kazakhstan and Khiva are playing a side game, hoping to exchange a worthless status for the support of the Rakshasa Kingdom.
The Rakshasa Kingdom is also pretending to be confused, providing some support at will, letting Kazakhstan and Khiva serve as cannon fodder, while it continues to expand in the Xiaoyuzi area and builds more than a dozen bastions, large and small. Moreover, with the help of the Khiva Khanate, the trade route with Persia was opened up - this made Prince Zhu San miserable!
But this time Touq Khan and Niaz Khan can no longer fool the Tsar. If they want the Tsar to send troops to save their lives, they must truly be loyal to the Tsar!
And this year 1672 was really a harvest year and a victory year for Tsar Alexei I!
In the summer, His Majesty the Tsar got a healthy man, his third son, named Peter Alexeevich... who would later be Peter the Great!
In late autumn, when winter was approaching, news came from Siberia and Central Asia almost at the same time that a "Tatar country" was coming to seek refuge!
It should be good news that Fanbang is coming to invest, right?
But why did Yakutsk Governor Alexander Stroganov kneel in the Kremlin's audience hall wearing a dervish's robe, looking like he was apologizing? Could it be that he made too much money from corruption and bribery and was caught by Count Lev Naryshkin?
His Majesty the Tsar looked at the unlucky Alexander Stroganov and then at his uncle, Count Lev Naryshkin, and felt very strange - he sent Count Lev Naryshkin to patrol Siberia. The purpose is to let him make a profit. When you encounter corrupt officials, you should extort them, not bring them to Moscow!
How can officials in Siberia not be corrupt? Why go to Siberia without corruption?
"Lev, why did you arrest Alexander Stroganov?" the Tsar asked in a reproachful tone, "How much money did he embezzle?"
Count Lev Naryshkin shook his head quickly and said: "No, he didn't corrupt much...and it wasn't me who caught him. He came to plead guilty himself!"
"What crime did he commit?"
"He..." Count Lev Naryshkin frowned. This crime is quite strange. "He lost power and humiliated the country by accepting the surrender of China's Heilongjiang Governor Ao Bai and Anding Deputy Governor Yue Le! How self-conscious! The sin is so serious that I took the initiative to come to Moscow to plead guilty..."
Alexander Stroganov said with tears: "Your Majesty, I have sinned so much..."
