When Emperor Kangxi's team marched to Shanhaiguan, the ninth-fifth emperor of the Qing Dynasty was walking side by side with a lama who was about the same age as him, with dark skin, very dignified facial features, and a very majestic appearance. And they were still talking and laughing.
The lama who could be so friendly with Emperor Kangxi was certainly not an ordinary lama. His name was Sangjie Gyatso. He was the proud disciple of the fifth great lama, the senior brother of Kangxi and Galdan, and he was also the Diba general manager of the Snowy Yellow Sect. .
Today, the people who rule the snowy plateau are the Hoshuote Mongols from the Mongolian Oirat Alliance in the desert. Their leader Gu Shihan was invited by the fifth great lama to come to Tibet to "protect the Dharma" during the Chongzhen period. At that time, Gu Shihan led the Oirat Allied Forces with the Heshuote Mongols as the main force to leave the Ili Grassland, pass through the territory of the Yerqiang Khanate, first enter Qinghai, and sweep away the Mongolian tribes there, and then invade the snowy areas and eliminate them. The Zangba dynasty opposed the Yellow Sect and thus established its rule in the Snowy Region and Qinghai.
After Gu Shihan pacified Xueyu and Qinghai, he adopted completely different management methods for the two places. He implemented Mongolian rules on the Qinghai grassland and enfeoffed the Qinghai grassland to his ten sons for management. At the same time, a "dual governance model" that seemed very strange to the Central Plains regime was established in the Snowy Region, where the Khan and the Great Lama co-governed - not a government with two heads, but two completely different systems. Ba came together.
The Diba General Manager is the general manager of the Great Lama system, equivalent to the Prime Minister.
Since the two Khans after the death of Gu Shi Khan were relatively mediocre and had little interest in the politics of the Snowy Plateau, the fifth great lama held the power of the Yellow Sect with one hand and controlled most of the political power in the Snowy Land. He successively took in two outstanding disciples, Galdan and Kangxi. So now he has ridden on the head of D Lai Khan, the grandson of Gu Shi Khan, and has become the actual leader of the Kashote Khanate!
And that's not all. The great lama is also very keen on interfering in Mongolian affairs and issues decrees from time to time. Because of the existence of Galdan, a gold medal thug, no one dares to treat the great lama's decrees as waste paper. Over time, the great lama He really has a little bit of power as a "head of the Holy See". .
And now Sangyi Gyatso, who accompanied Emperor Kangxi to Shanhaiguan, is the fifth great lama’s most trusted and caring disciple... As early as three years ago, when he was only twenty-three years old , the great lama wanted him to be the governor of Diba, that is, the prime minister of Xueyu.
Because he was too young, he attracted opposition from a large number of eminent monks and nobles. So the Great Lama asked him to go to Emperor Kangxi to "gild" - to teach the Dharma to Emperor Kangxi on behalf of the Great Lama.
Sangyi Gyatso had a close relationship with Galdan, and now he was very familiar with Kangxi. His two junior brothers supported him, and no one else dared to object even if he became the Tibetan king, let alone the Diba manager.
Therefore, last autumn, the Great Lama issued another decree, conferring Sangyi Gyatso, who was far away in Beijing, as the chief administrator of Diba, and asked him to return to the snowy land as soon as possible.
After receiving the Grand Lama's decree, Sangye Gyatso immediately set off from Beijing and first went to see Kangxi to say goodbye. Kangxi was leading his army back, so the two met outside Shanhaiguan, and then entered Shanhaiguan together.
When Emperor Kangxi rode a war horse in Shanhaiguan, the Qing emperor who was already quite familiar with military affairs looked at the wilderness in Shanhaiguan and said to Sangjie Gyatso with emotion: "In the past, we had hundreds of thousands of heavenly soldiers of the Qing Dynasty. It was here that Li Zicheng's 150,000-strong army was defeated. More than half of Li Zicheng's elite soldiers were lost in this battle, and from then on he began to fear our Qing heavenly soldiers... It can be said that this battle created the beginning of It’s a great situation for our Qing Dynasty to take over the Central Plains!”
Sangye Gyatso was an extremely smart lama... and like Kangxi, he was a scholar who learned everything very quickly. Therefore, he had many things in common with Kangxi and understood the thoughts of the young emperor. Then he smiled and said: "Your Majesty, is it time for the Qing Dynasty to decide the outcome through a battle?"
Kangxi laughed loudly and said: "Sure enough, I can't hide it from my senior brother... Now is indeed a critical moment. Although it cannot determine the fate of the Central Plains, it can determine the fate of the grassland."
Sanji Gyatso rolled his eyes, "So, Genghis Khan, like Li Zicheng, came to die on his own?"
Kangxi smiled and nodded: "Now I am afraid that he will suddenly wake up and escape from Kuku and Tun."
Sangyi Gyatso already understood what the emperor's junior brother meant. He clasped his hands together and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, this poor monk is about to return to the snowy plateau. Perhaps he can pass by Kukuhetun and be your messenger. Can you Do you have anything to say to Donor Burni?”
Kangxi's current mood seemed quite good, and he laughed loudly and said: "Then it's Senior Brother Lao... If Senior Brother comes to the rescue, Burni, the traitor, will definitely be fooled!"
Sanji Gyatso was a little dumbfounded when he heard the compliments from his junior brother. As soon as he became a monk, he obviously didn't lie, so how could he say that Burni must have been deceived?
Thinking of this, Sangyi Gyatso said to Kangxi a little embarrassedly: "Your Majesty, this poor monk has always been honest and not good at hypocrisy... I don't know what to say to the donor of Burni?"
Kangxi glanced at Sangyi Gyatso and said with a smile: "I know that my senior brother is an honest gentleman... Well, you go and tell Burni that I will soon move the capital to Shengjing, so I don't want to War with the Mongol Khan.
As long as the Great Khan agrees to a ceasefire, I am willing to cede the herdsmen and pastures of the Xilingol League to the Great Khan, and I am also willing to give the Great Khan an annual coin of five hundred thousand taels of silver.
I also heard that his Fujin died last year, and I can decide to marry the eleven princesses from Prince An's family to him as his successor. "
Sangyi Gyatso thought for a while and said honestly: "If the emperor can write a letter in his own hand, the poor monk is confident that he can coax the donor of Burni."
Kangxi laughed again: "I knew that senior brother would be able to do it!"
I have to say that Kangxi, a wise king, was quite accurate in his judgment of people. Although Sangyi Gyatso was handsome and majestic, he was able to coax great people like Kangxi, Galdan, and Cewang Alabutan (Galdan's nephew) into turning around in history. After the death of his mentor, the fifth great lama, he kept secret and did not mourn. He claimed that the great lama was practicing in seclusion and that he would convey all the will.
Then he used the name of the great lama to issue orders and instruct Galdan to send troops to the east twice to attack the Qing Dynasty. He also used the name of the great lama to mediate the conflicts between Galdan's uncle and nephew, and also used the great lama's decree to order the Heshuote clan. Taiji aided Galdan.
It was like this for more than ten years. It was not until Galdan passed away that Kangxi caught the eminent monk sent by Sanji Gyatso to Galdan and learned that the great lama had passed away long ago...
It was such an "honest monk" who, with a letter written by Emperor Kangxi and a large group of accompanying lamas, arrived at Kukuhetun, the blue city on the Tumed River grassland, on the first day of April. .
Although Burni did not deal with the Yellow Sect very much, he still learned the lessons of his grandfather Lin Dan Khan and tried his best not to conflict with the fifth great lama.
Especially after Galdan was ordered by the Fifth Grand Lama to help Hezhuo of the Yerqiang Khanate fight the "War of Gods", he also sent his father Abu Nai to personally lead a team into Tibet to make tea (equivalent to burning incense). ), the old man is still on the snowy plateau!
So Burni was very happy when he heard that the most famous disciple of the Great Lama of Snowland came to Kukuhetun. Immediately, Wu Yingqi, who had just arrived with his troops in late March, and the Khan King of the Three Khalkha Mongols went out of the city to greet him. They invited the "honest monk" Sangyi Gyatso, who had come from afar, into the Kukuhetun. Please enter the Silver Buddha Temple in the city.
In the Silver Buddha Temple, Sangyi Gyatso took out the autograph letter of Emperor Kangxi in public, and said to Burni sincerely: "Great Khan, the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty has begged you for mercy. As long as you do not send troops to attack him, he is willing to Land cession, compensation, marriage...and he will soon move the capital to Shengjing."
