Gao Pingshi was so busy in Annan that he devoted all his attention to the foundation of southern Xinjiang. He was inevitably a little lax about other aspects. Until an urgent letter from Cao Gan arrived, he suddenly realized that there was going to be something in the north. Changed.
Cao Gan could barely read at first, and his literary talents were not mentioned. However, since he surrendered to Gao Pragmatic, due to the unique position of Jinghua Trading Company in the trade with right-wing Mongolia, it monopolized at least half of the right-wing Mongolia. In the trade within the Mongolian sphere of influence, his status gradually improved, and he gradually felt that he needed to strengthen his cultural accomplishment.
Especially when his son Cao Ke, after serving as Gao Pragmatic's companion for ten years, is now the "First Secretary of Jinghua". Although he is only a book boy in name, his position within Jinghua is very unique, which makes it even more important. This in turn forced Cao Gan to strengthen his cultivation, so the head of Cao Da, the Bald Heavenly King at that time, hired several teachers to teach him how to read and write, and his skills gradually improved a lot.
The letter he wrote to Gao Pangshi this time was not written by anyone else. It was entirely written by himself.
This letter from Cao Gan is a long letter, and it is very long, with tens of thousands of words in it. Of course, he did not write so much to show off his literary talents in the letter, but he gave a detailed and pragmatic analysis of the situation of the Mongolian right wing, from the headquarters to the Ordos Department, Qinghai Tumote Department and other departments. This confirms his speculation.
Cao Gan's speculations mainly include three:
First, Anda Khan is seriously ill and may die within a few months or at most a year or two. At that time, there may be a power change or even a struggle within Tumut. I hope you can prepare for it in advance.
Secondly, the two major allies of the Ming Dynasty - or even Gao Pragmatic - in Tumote, Dacheng Taiji and Zhongjin Hatun, did not have much conflict of interest when Anda was still alive, but as long as Once Anda Khan dies, their interests will immediately conflict, and I hope the master can make preparations quickly.
Cao Gan even said worriedly here: Maybe the master will choose one of the two allies as his only ally in the future. Obviously, he was not optimistic that Dacheng Taiji and Zhongjin Hatun, that is, Han Naji and Sanniangzi, could still maintain harmony after Anda's death.
Third, Cao Gan specifically pointed out that with the conquest of Qinghai three or four years ago, he brought Tibetan Buddhism back to Mongolia and used his best efforts to promote it in Mongolia. Now Mongolian Lamaism is obviously gaining momentum, and Things are tough for shamanism.
However, Cao Gan always felt that this Tibetan Buddhism was "extremely lazy" and "lifeless" and might ruin the bravery of the Mongols. Please consider carefully whether you support or oppose it.
Finally, Cao Gan also mentioned an "extra topic", saying that five years ago, Tumen, the "Zhasak Tuhan" of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, held the "Kulitai Conference", reformed the Khanate system, and delegated important positions to other parties. Ten thousand powerful figures assisted the Khan in handling major government affairs to consolidate the Khan's power.
Among them, Amudai from Chahar Ten Thousand Households, Wei Zhengsubahai from Ten Thousand Households from Khalkha, Kutuktai from Ten Thousand Households from Ordos, and Nomuda Lagulaqi from Yongshaobu Ten Thousand Households arrived first and later. Ren, Anda Khan had no choice but to send his eldest grandson Zalik to serve.
However, due to the longevity of Ada Khan, his eldest son Xinai Huangtaiji is now over sixty years old. In Mongolia, he is completely old. Now his eldest grandson is far away from the Beiyuan Emperor in Chahar. Bian, if Anda Khan dies suddenly...
Cao Gan vaguely expressed that perhaps the master could choose to support Dacheng Taiji or Zhongjin Hatun's son Butashri to ascend to the throne of Khan over Xin Ai and Zalik.
Gao Pragmatic finally turned his thoughts away from Annan, and carefully recalled the situation in Mongolia. He took Cao Gan's letter and read it carefully again, and then slowly figured it out. Got the idea.
Anda's death is something that cannot be avoided. This old Khan is already in his seventies. He must have been fighting all his life, just like Ma Fang and Liu Xian. He was covered in injuries and illnesses, but he can survive until now. It's already amazing.
When did he die in history? The ninth year of Wanli, or the tenth year of Wanli? Gao Qingshi couldn't remember clearly, but he probably only had one year left to live anyway.
As for there being a power struggle after his death, that's for sure. It has happened in history, and the current power structure within right-wing Mongolia has not changed much from that in history. The probability of it happening still is infinitely high.
Cao Gan thought that there would be a conflict between Dacheng Taiji and Zhongjin Hatun, which slightly surprised Gao Pragmatic.
What surprised him was that not long after Anda's death, Dacheng Taiji accidentally fell off his horse and died while hunting. As a result, there was no obvious fight between him and Sanniangzi, so that he was so pragmatic. He forgot to consider what would happen if Dacheng Taiji died, but Cao Gan discovered this keenly.
It seems that Lao Cao has made great progress in recent years...
But the question he raised really needs to be considered carefully. After all, falling off a horse to death might just be an accident of history. What if Hannaji didn't get into trouble this time and survived fine?
You know, Dacheng Taiji is quite powerful in Mongolia on the right! On the other hand, apart from controlling the Khan Court on a first-come-first-served basis because of Anda's worship of Buddhism and neglect of government in her later years, Sanniangzi's actual strength is very limited, especially since her child Butashri is young and has not yet received How many enfeoffments.
In other words, if Anda's eldest son Xinai Huang Taiji is ignored, once Anda dies, Dacheng Taiji will have great strength, and Zhongjin Hatun will have the name of the Khan Court.
Will the two of them fight? It is very possible, because there is already a prerequisite here: Xin Ai is old, and his eldest son Zalik is far away from Tumen Khan. If civil strife breaks out in Tumut, Tumen Khan may think that there is an opportunity to take advantage of it. He was detained or put under house arrest in left-wing Mongolia to wait for the opportunity.
"Sister-in-law..." Gao pragmatic muttered.
Of course, he didn't have any special thoughts about Zhongjin Hatun, but he thought of the Sanniangzi in history... She was a good friend of the Ming Dynasty, so she was highly praised in many documents of later generations. .
However, Gao Pangshi knew very well that this "loyal friend of the Ming Empire" might be the culprit that led to the collapse of the grassland hegemony that Anda had spent his whole life building in just over thirty years.
His nectar is my dove's poison. vice versa.
This is not a pragmatic attempt to impress people, it is just the fact. At that time, after the death of Anda Khan, the eldest son Xin'ai Huang Taiji inherited his father's Khan title, throne and power. Considering that Zhongjin Hatun had always been in charge of the trade with the Ming Dynasty, this was of great importance to the right-wing Mongolia, so he He also adopted his father's beloved concubine Zhongjin Hatun as his wife.
Xin Ai and Huang Taiji have been fighting with their father for many years. As long as An Da divides his troops into two groups, if one of them is led by himself, then the other must be Xin Ai. It can be seen that as long as An Da is no longer around, his prestige in the army is unquestionable.
With such prestige, Tumut could have been safe. However, when he came to the throne, he was already over sixty years old, suffering from injuries and illnesses, and was unable to handle many major government affairs and found it difficult to control the political situation. As a result, Zhongjin Hatun took the opportunity to manipulate the real power of thousands of Tumut households.
Zhongjin Hatun and Amada Khan had a son, Butashri, who was the youngest and least powerful among the sons of Amada Khan. As a mother, Zhongjin Hatun naturally tried her best to help her son obtain the most benefits, even if it was unreasonable.
The direct tribes, Kuku and Tuncheng commanded and owned by Anda Khan were all owned by his beloved grandson Dacheng Taiji after his death. As a result, in the second year after the death of Ada Khan, Dacheng Taiji fell from his horse and died while hunting.
Now the trouble is serious. Zhongjin Hatun is afraid that Dacheng Taiji's inheritance will fall into the hands of others. He personally comes forward and actively arranges for Dacheng Taiji's widow Dacheng Biji to marry his son Butashri so that Dacheng Taiji can get Dacheng Taiji's inheritance. Taiji's inheritance was transferred to Butashri.
But this trick was too obvious, and some nobles led by Anda Khan's confidant Qataiji strongly opposed it, which triggered the Tumut civil war - Qiataiji was loyal to Anda, and he was also loyal to Dachengtaiji. , he believed that after the death of Dacheng Taiji, his fiefdom should belong to his son.
If they couldn't reach an agreement, they had no choice but to fight. Then the two sides fought with swords and swords in a bloody battle, and many soldiers died in the internal fighting. In the end, it turned out that it was the eldest son Chelik, who loved Huang Taiji, who married Mrs. Dacheng Taiji, and the dispute ended.
However, this was only the first time that Sanniangzi, an old friend of Ming Dynasty, disrupted Tumote's empire.
In the fourteenth year of Wanli, Xin Ai Huang Taiji passed away. His eldest son, Zaili, took the throne as the successor Khan. At the same time, he proclaimed himself the third generation King of Shunyi. Zhongjin Hatun, who failed last time, once again made trouble. He took the military symbols used by Chechen Khan to mobilize troops and the special seal used by King Shunyi for mutual trade with the Ming court in his own hands, claiming to give them to Butashri. Zalike was furious, so he sent troops to attack, and internal fighting broke out again.
This time, the Ming Dynasty court came out to act as peacemaker, officially canonizing Zhilike as the "King of Shunyi", forcing Zhongjinhatun to hand over the military talisman and seal to him. At the same time, Zhongjinhatun was named "Mrs. Zhongshun" and asked her to Collaborating with Zalik, he presided over and supervised the mutual trade activities between the Mongolian right wing and the Ming Dynasty.
Zalik also made concessions. He gave up Kuku and Tuncheng to Butashri. After two internal fights, the vitality of Anda Khan's direct line was severely damaged, and its control over the 30,000 households on the right wing was greatly weakened. It was also gradually out of reach of Qinghai, Hexi Corridor and other places.
After this rebellion, there was peace for more than ten years. In the thirty-fifth year of Wanli, Lalik passed away. His eldest son, Chao Tu Taiji, had died before that. His eldest grandson, Bushitu, was stationed in Qinghai at that time. Hearing the news of his grandfather's death, he hurriedly returned to Tumote from Qinghai to prepare for the throne of Chechen Khan and Shunyi.
At the time of the change of power, Jongjin Hatun stepped forward for the third time and decided to carry out the dòngluàn to the end. This time she came out to support her grandson, Suangtaiji, the son of Butashri, in launching an uprising and fighting for the supreme rule of Tumut Ten Thousand Households.
The leaders of Tumut's headquarters and even the right-wing ministries all believed that Bashtu was the legitimate heir, and they were enemies of Zhongjin Hatun and Su Nang. However, under such a confrontation, Bashtu was unable to ascend the throne. It was not until the thirty-ninth year of Wanli that Zhalik's younger brother Wulu Huang Taiji contacted 30,000 households on the right, a total of 73 Taijis. At the Tumote meeting, they unanimously decided to resolutely support Bushitu.
Zhongjin Hatun was frightened by the military threat from the right-wing leader, and was forced to make concessions and hand over Chechen Khan's military symbols, mounts and King Shunyi's seal. Soon, Zhongjin Hatun, who caused three civil strife in Tumut households, passed away.
However, the matter was not over yet. In the 41st year of Wanli, Boshitu finally officially ascended the throne of Chechen Khan, and the Ming court also recognized him as the fourth "King of Shunyi". However, Su Nang Taiji still refused to obey the jurisdiction and repeatedly provoked troubles, causing thousands of households in Tumote to be in turmoil.
Gradually, the royal court's orders in Kuku and Tuncheng could only take effect on 10,000 Tumote households, while control over the 30,000 households on the right was completely lost, and the tribes in Qinghai, Hexi Corridor and other places no longer obeyed orders.
Anda Khan's hegemony was completely destroyed in the hands of the woman he loved most during his lifetime, just thirty-one years after his death.
Of course, it is still the same sentence, the nectar of others is the poison of doves.
On the other hand, the dove's poison is my nectar.
Gao Pragmatic doesn't care at all whether Anda Khan can maintain his hegemony. What he cares about is the chain reaction caused by this situation.
At that time, compared with the turmoil in right-wing Mongolia, other parts of Mongolia were even worse.
When Dayan Khan divided the princes, the ninth son Gechen Senza was in charge of Outer Khalkha. In the fifteenth year of Wanli's reign, his third son Abadai, son of Nonuohe, went to see the Dalai Lama and was awarded the title of "Great Majesty Wazir Khan", becoming the first leader in Mobei Mongolia to have the title of Khan. ,
From then on, the leaders of the Khalkha tribes successively called themselves Khans. Zhasak Tuhan, Tushetu Khan, and Chēchén Khan appeared successively. They were the "Three Outer Khalkha Khans". They replaced Tumut and began to fight against Oirat. People conduct conquests.
At this time, the Oirat people were also divided into four major tribes: Heshuote, Junggar, Durbot, and Turgut, forming the "Oirat Alliance". The Heshuat tribe was officially recommended as the leader of the alliance, and the leader of Heshuat Baibaga Si was also granted the title of Khan by the Dalai Lama. The four alliances have been at war with the three Khan tribes of Outer Khalkha for years.
In the 20th year of Wanli, the last Mongolian Khan who could issue orders to various tribes, "Zhasak Tuhan" Tumen, passed away. His son Buyan came to the throne, named "Chechen Khan". The only thing he could control was Chasak Tuhan. Harwanhu.
Mongolia was in great internal chaos. Although there were "sweats" everywhere, no one could stabilize the situation and reunify.
This seemed to be a good thing for Daming, but because of another thing Cao Gan mentioned just now, Gao Pragmatic was worried about whether this thing was really good or fake.
Ten years ago, Gao Pragmatic had already begun to implement his plan to secretly influence and gradually control Mongolia. This included both economic control, such as making Mongolia inseparable from the living supplies provided by the Ming Dynasty through mutual trade; and political control, such as supporting the Ming Dynasty. Han Naji became a powerful ally of the Ming Dynasty in Mongolia.
As for the third wife, Zhongjin Hatun...she is actually the same as Bhannaji, who is a disciple of the Ming Dynasty.
But the chaos in Mongolia is not what Gao pragmatically wants - he only needs small chaos, because small chaos is enough to ensure that his plan can be implemented, and if it is a big chaos, even if it is successfully implemented, it will be of little use.
Historically, Lin Dan Khan took advantage of the decline of the Mongolian right wing and finally unified Mongolia in name only, but was defeated by Nurhachi and Huang Taiji. In the end, the Mongols became the lackeys of the Manchus.
Of course, various reasons such as the decline of the Ming Dynasty led to this, but if Mongolia itself did not decline so quickly, how could it have ended up in such a situation?
Therefore, it is difficult to answer the multiple-choice question of Dacheng Taiji or Sanniangzi.
