Central Asia, Tashkent.
This is an ancient city with a long history. Since the Silk Road began, it has been a transportation hub on the Silk Road and was once quite prosperous. But when the Mongol Emperor Kangxi and the Han Dynasty conquered this place, this ancient city located on the Chirchik Oasis had only 60,000 to 70,000 residents left, and it had long lost its former prosperity. This is because it is already the Age of Discovery! The hub of transportation between the east and the west has now become a closed and forgotten place.
Even Kangxi Khan, a bereaved dog who was exiled from the Central Plains, looked down upon this small stone city. His goal was in the far south, on the other side of the mountains.
However, in June of 1682 AD, around mid-May of the third year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, the area around Tashkent suddenly became a gathering place for hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world!
With the city of Tashkent as the center, there are tens of thousands of felt tents distributed in the east and west on the grassland with a radius of ten miles. There are also countless groups of cattle and sheep flowing on the green grassland.
The originally peaceful and peaceful city of Tashkent suddenly became noisy and noisy, with people of various nationalities coming and going. Teams of camels and teams of carriages and horses kept passing through the city.
There are Uzbeks wearing gorgeous embroidered silk robes, holding white cloths on their heads, and wearing long beards. The two khanates of Bukhara and Khiva are descendants of the Uzbek Khanate of the Golden Horde. Their ancestors can be traced back to the Golden Horde. The brothers of Batu Khan in the khanate parted ways after just one month. There are Horqin Mongolians and Qing Eight Banners wearing mandarin jackets, robes, Qing-style hats, and braids on the back of their heads. There are Ruyong who wear bulging clothes, blue cloth headbands, and a circle with the word "Yong" on the front of the clothes. There are also Kazakhs wearing fur coats and hats. They all gathered in this small city, crowding the small town to the brim. . These people looked at each other, their eyes full of vigilance and questions.
There were also some Qingba Banner and Ruyong soldiers who were on duty, carrying flintlock guns with bayonets on their backs, patrolling the streets and alleys, all of them filled with murderous intent.
The whole city was filled with the smell of gunpowder that was extremely tense.
In the Khan Palace in the center of Tashkent, the Kangxi Khan had not yet appeared, but Kong Shenggong, the regent of the Qing Dynasty, and Wang Yuele, the emperor's uncle who had just arrived from afar, were both sitting on their chairs with golden swords. I stared blankly at a group of Mongolians in the main hall who were dressed and looked like the "Western Regions". They were chattering in a language they couldn't understand... anyway, they were definitely not speaking Mongolian.
There were also nobles from the Junggar Khanate in the palace who could understand their language. Yue Le could speak fluent Mongolian, so he asked: "Celing, what are these people talking about?"
"As far as the prince is concerned, most of them are opposed to Long Live Lord becoming the Great Khan!"
The person who answered was a Junggar boy named Cering Dunduobu. He was Galdan's nephew and stayed behind in the Ili grassland with his father Bumu. Because Kangxi needed a translator who could understand Turkic and Mongolian, he brought him to Tashkent.
"What?" Kong Shenggong also learned some Mongolian and immediately started shouting, "How dare you not support the Great Khan? Why did you ask them to come if you don't support it?"
“It’s not that they all support it,” Sering Dundo preached. “Some of the leaders of the Kazakh Ulus still support the Great Khan... The Great Khan defeated them miserably in the Battle of Shymkent. I dare not not support it! But those Uzbeks still don’t buy it. They feel that they are the descendants of Genghis Khan, but the Great Khan is not.”
"Can they be considered the descendants of Genghis Khan? They are the descendants of Jochi..." Kong Shenggong shouted, "Jochi is a bastard!"
Some Uzbeks in the main hall also understood Mongolian. They immediately turned back and glared at the regent Kong Shenggong, as if they wanted to beat him.
However, Kong Shenggong will not be afraid of them. Behind Kong Shenggong stands a few very scary Sauron warriors, all of them carrying waist knives. Although their faces are expressionless, their murderous intent is still enough to frighten the five scum of Bukhara and Shiva—— This group of people was bullied by the Kazakhs before the rise of Junggar. After the rise of Junggar, they were bullied by Junggar and Kazakh in turn. Now the Kangxi Khan's men came and beat the Kazakhs into younger brothers, and Ge Erdan, the king of Junggar, was him. Senior brother...
Kong Shenggong knew that some of these Uzbeks understood Mongolian, so he began to educate them, "I have told you that although Kangxi Khan was not a descendant of Genghis Khan, his martial virtue was enough to serve as the Great Khan of Mongolia... And he is now the only Great Khan in Mongolia! If any of you are not convinced, I, Kong Yuqi, will bring you ten thousand musketeers without using the elite soldiers of the Great Khan! Let me ask you whether you are convinced or not?"
Ten thousand musketeers!
They were all carefully trained by Zhou Peigong, Shi Lang, and Fu Honglie according to the military tactics and drills of the Eight Thousand New Army of the Qing Dynasty. They were all capable of lining up and shooting!
Several Uzbeks knew that Kong Shenggong was the "grand imam" of Kangxi Khan, and he was a master who was not easy to mess with.
And he also has ten thousand musketeers...it seems very powerful!
Just when a few Uzbeks were about to give up, someone suddenly shouted loudly: "The Great Khan is here!"
Kangxi is here!
When the people in the hall heard this, they quickly stopped noisy, stood up according to their status, and then waited for Kangxi respectfully.
Kangxi did not come out alone, but one on each side, pulling two Uzbeks in gorgeous robes with white cloths on their heads.
One of them was chubby, with a doughy face and a long black shiny beard. He was the Khan of Bukhara, named Subhan Quli.
The other one is tall and thin, with a gray beard, sunken eyes, and a hooked nose. He looks quite fierce, and his name is Anusha Khan. He was the Khan of the Khiva Khanate. The Khan of Khiva Khanate comes from the Khanate of Bukhara, and the main ethnic group is also Uzbek... This khanate is actually a brother country of Bukhara Khanate. However, their combat effectiveness is stronger than that of the Bukhara Khanate, because the Khorazm Oasis they occupy is poorer, and they face each other across the Caspian Sea from the territory of the Ottoman Empire, so they can obtain some advanced firearms by surrendering to the Ottomans.
If external powers such as the Kazakh Khanate and the Dzunggar Khanate did not intervene in the river, the Khiva Khanate could still suppress the Bukhara Khanate.
By the way, the Bukhara Khanate has not always failed... they have also achieved brilliant victories. That was many years ago, when Aurangzeb, who had not yet become the emir of the Mughal Empire, was ordered to lead his Asan army in the northern expedition to the river, hoping to regain his "homeland", but was defeated by the Bukhara people.
These two khans were originally a little dissatisfied with Kangxi Khan as an outsider, and originally wanted to join forces to cause some trouble for Kangxi Khan at the upcoming Kuritai Conference. But for some reason, he is now just like a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, following Kangxi Khan with his hands down.
Judging from the meaning...are you already impressed by Kangxi Khan's martial virtue?
Just when the people below felt confused, Kangxi Khan had already sat down on his throne, smiling and looking at the people below without saying a word. Two Uzbek khans stood on either side of Kangxi, looking like they were loyal to their master.
Anusha Khan from Khiva coughed and spoke: "The great Mongolian Khan Kangxi Khan said that as long as he gets the support of Bukhara, Khiva, and Kazakh tribes and becomes the Great Khan of all Mongolia, he will Lead us to climb over the mountains of Afghanistan and conquer India, the richest country in the world! Are you willing to be the conqueror of India?"
What? Are you going to rob India?
The Uzbeks and Kazakhs in the hall were stunned for a moment, then showed expressions of ecstasy at the same time, and then they shouted together: "Long live the Khan! Long live the Khan! Long live the Khan..."
