Although the marriage between Dacheng Taiji and Zhongjin Hatun seems to make right-wing Mongolia completely unite, Gao is not worried about this, because as long as Butashri exists, this situation will not happen at all.
Dacheng Taiji already has a son. Although he is young, as the eldest son, he will definitely have his own power in the future, and may even be the next Great Khan.
However, Zhongjin Hatun also has sons, and it is not just Butashri. She and Anda have three sons. The eldest son Butashri is the seventh among the sons of Anda, the second son Shachixing is the eighth, and the youngest son Yi'er General Xixing Jiu.
These three are all the sons of Ada. Butashri was assigned to the tribe, and Sha Chixing and Yi'er General Xunke were still young and didn't receive anything. Wouldn't Zhongjin Hatun consider it?
But even if Butashri is content with Xin Ai's subordinates, and Dacheng Taiji can leave him alone after becoming the Great Khan, what will happen to Sha Chixing and Yi'er General Xun? They are not the sons of Dacheng Taiji, and Dacheng Taiji is worried that the combined strength of the three brothers will exceed his own, and he will not be willing to give them tribes. In this case, how can he and Zhongjin Hatun be combined? Really indifferent to each other?
Therefore, this contradiction, at least for the time being, is impossible to resolve, and Gao Pragmatic can rest assured.
Of course, the worst possible outcome is that when Dacheng Taiji and Zhongjin Hatun give birth to a son, both of them can put aside their selfish thoughts and designate this son as the next heir to King Shunyi. In time, when that child grows up, he may be able to unite the entire Tumut tribe.
But, even if they are really so smooth and selfless...it will have to wait until more than twenty years later.
After more than 20 years, I still can’t master Tumut?
So this matter, calculated at this point, is ready to turn the page.
After solving this big problem, Gao Pragmatic began to examine the strength of right-wing Mongolia again.
The third point mentioned by Cao Gan alerted Gao Pragmatic. Although it was Gao Pragmatic's acquiescence to sit back and watch Anta Khan introduce Yellow Sect lamas into Mongolia, because the introduction of Lamaism to Mongolia was actually a typical self-defeating martial arts. Gao Pragmatic was very happy to see this at the time, and he even quietly promoted it - for example, he had instilled certain death-seeking ideas into Han Naji back then.
But now, it seems worth revisiting.
First of all, I need to explain a question that few people in later generations understand: Everyone knows that Antan Khan introduced the Yellow Sect to replace Shamanism, but why did he do this? Is it just because shamanism likes to perform blood sacrifices and slaughter livestock?
That would be too much to underestimate Anda Khan. He began to suppress shamans when he was at his strongest. It could not be because of this small loss of financial and material resources.
In fact, the root of this problem lies with Anda's grandfather, Dayan Khan. Dayan Khan was the leader of Mongolia's resurgence. After he came to the throne, Mongolian society was relatively stable.
Dayan Khan redivided the left and right wings with 60,000 households, appointed his third son Balsbrot to command 30,000 households on the right wing, and stationed 10,000 households in Chahar to control 30,000 households on the left wing.
In order to maintain his rule, Dayan Khan not only made important adjustments and deployments in politics and military, but also made corresponding reforms in religion.
Dayan Khan closely connected the "destiny thought" of shamanism with the Golden Family of Genghis Khan, and used religious theory to clarify the legitimacy of the Golden Family. Thus, in theory, the ancient shamanistic "destiny thought" was applied to the feudal hereditary system, and used as an ideological weapon to ensure the permanent right of succession to the throne of the Golden Family.
Dayan Khan died and his eldest grandson Bodi Arak Khan came to the throne. Since then, a system has been formed in which the eldest descendant of Dayan Khan, a descendant of Genghis Khan's golden family, inherits the Khan's power. The "Destiny Thought" of Shamanism became the ideological weapon inherited by the direct descendants. Chahar Ten Thousand Houses, the residence of the Mongolian Khan, also became the center of Mongolian politics, economy and culture, and became a symbol of Mongolian orthodoxy.
However, after the mid-Jiajing period, Tumote's Ada Khan had become the de facto leader of the 30,000 households on the right wing. As Anda Khan's wings became more and more full, he was eager to compete for the position of Great Khan. To this end, he expanded land in Qinghai and Hexi, traded with the Ming Dynasty, vigorously developed agriculture and handicrafts, and laid a solid material foundation for the struggle for sweat power.
However, Anda Khan clearly knew that the deep-rooted orthodoxy among the Mongolian people was a huge ideological obstacle that stood in front of them. According to tradition, Anda Khan can only serve as a "fan screen", but according to reality, Anda Khan is the de facto leader of the 30,000 right-wing households. He still remembers the lesson of his father who violated the rules and used the title and was eventually forced to surrender his power. Still new.
This is a contradiction between tradition and reality, and we urgently need new solutions.
At this time, the "natural right to sweat" of shamanism was contrary to his political goals, and the Taoism introduced from the farming society of the Central Plains could not take root in Mongolia.
In the fifth year of Longqing's reign, the meeting between Ashing Lama, a senior monk of the Gelug sect, known as the "Eqig Lama", and Amada Khan was the prelude to the second introduction of Tibetan Buddhism to Mongolia.
In this historic meeting, Ashing Lama quoted history and deliberately compared Amada Khan to the incarnation of Kublai Khan. Lama Ashing explained in detail the specific meaning of the "Three Jewels, Six Paths, and Eight Precepts" of Buddhism, and gave a brief introduction to the Buddhist classics "Kangyur" and "Tengyur".
But that is not the key. The key is that he advised Ada Khan to get in touch directly with Sonam Gyatso, the religious leader of the Gelug sect. Ada Khan readily accepted it and made the decision to immediately send people to Tibet to welcome Sonam Gyatso. In fact, the situation of the Gelug sect was also very bad at that time, and they needed the help of authoritative rulers.
There is no need to say much about the things in the middle. Anyway, at the end, Sonam Gyatso officially announced that Ada Khan and he were the incarnations of Kublai Khan and Phagpa respectively.
what does that mean? This means that the leaders of the Gelug Sect are determined to rely on Mongolia and revitalize the Yellow Sect, and the intentions of both parties coincide.
When it came time for the formal meeting, the Mongolian and Tibetan monks and lay rulers shook hands and exchanged honorary titles. The Living Buddha of Sonam Gyatso honored Amada Khan as "Zankravardi Chechen Khan who turns the Thousand Golden Wheel", which is the same title as Kublai Khan.
Anda Khan respected the Living Buddha Sonam Gyatso as the "Holy Consciousness All Wazilda Lama". This is the origin of the highest title "Dalama" for the Mongolian and Tibetan Yellow Sect monks.
Living Buddha Suonan Gyatso was later called two generations later and called himself the third Dalai Lama. Corresponding to the "destiny thought" and "natural right of Khan" of Shamanism, Living Buddha Suonan Gyatso announced the Buddhist "reincarnation theory" and "Buddha's teaching of wheel-turning kingship" to Amada Khan.
In other words, Anda Khan is the reincarnation of the wheel-turning kings Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan, and his reincarnation is the will of the Buddha.
Therefore, Living Buddha Sonam Gyatso legitimated and legalized the succession of the throne of Amada Khan, who was not the direct eldest son, in a religious form.
Anda Khan followed the example of Kublai Khan and implemented the policy of paralleling the political and educational systems. He promulgated the law "Ten Good Blessings Law" to promote the Yellow Sect, which established the dominance of the Yellow Sect from a legal perspective.
The Yellow Sect links Anda Khan with Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan. It not only maintains the Mongolian people's admiration for Genghis Khan, but also eliminates the traditional concepts of "natural right to sweat" and "inheritance by direct eldest son" and uses a complete religious theory as its basis. Anda Khan fought for the power of Khan to pave the way.
According to the Mongolian feudal hierarchy, Anda Khan stipulated that the corresponding upper-class monks of the Yellow Sect should enjoy the same political and economic treatment as the Mongolian nobles and be exempted from taxes.
From then on, it has become the obligation of every Mongolian to respect the Yellow religion and lamas.
Therefore, the Yellow Sect could be introduced by An Da Khan, just as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty only respected Confucianism in the past, which was the need of the rulers.
But the trouble is that although Anda stabilized his position and made the right-wing Mongolia more and more independent from the "Great Yuan", he still could not completely break away from the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasty, and still had to send his eldest son Lalik to the left-wing Tumen Khan of Mongolia held important positions around him.
At the same time, what Cao Gan felt he had to report to Gao Pragmatic was the rapid development of the Yellow Sect in right-wing Mongolia.
According to him, after the Yellow religion was introduced into right-wing Mongolia, it rejected, attacked, transformed, and integrated Mongolian traditional religion Shamanism. For example, at last year's Chapqal Conference, Anda Khan stipulated that Shamanism should be prohibited from killing and sacrificing, and Shamanism's sacrificial rituals should be replaced by Yellow Sect's rituals such as chanting sutras, worshiping Buddha, and burning incense; burning all Weng Gong statues, and replacing Shamanism's sacrificial rituals with Yellow Sect's rituals. The six-hand main statue of Wisdom replaces Weng Gong. When worshiping the Buddha, only three whites are offered, and flesh and blood are prohibited.
During the process of preaching, Yellow Sect monks often appeared as doctors, advocated asceticism, got close to the lower-class herdsmen, experienced Mongolian customs and customs, and grasped the most common thoughts among the people. In response to the psychological demands of the lower-class herdsmen, they put forward the slogan: "Turn the river gushing blood into a pure sea gushing milk." In addition to advising the Mongols not to kill at will, they also had an additional benefit for the Ming Dynasty, that is, they also persuaded some The restless Mongolian nobles stopped provoking the Ming Dynasty.
Gao Pragmatic also appreciates this, and the Yellow Sect has other benefits. For example, the Yellow Sect promotes compassion and not killing, and has abolished the bad habit of slaughtering a large number of livestock in shamanistic sacrificial rituals to offer "line food" to the dead, so now The price of beef and mutton on the border of the Ming Dynasty continued to fall. Cao Gan said that the price of beef and mutton in the capital was already 30% cheaper than pork.
However, Cao Gan also told him that many Mongolians now feel that war is an extremely sinful thing, and they should be as merciful as the Buddha who cut off meat to feed eagles in the face of everything.
At the same time, under the personal demonstration of Anda Khan, Yellow Sect temples were being built rapidly, and the number of lamas was also increasing. Cao Gan was worried that if this continued, who would be herding cattle in the future? Can we, Jinghua, still do business in Mongolia in the future?
Well, it's not surprising that Cao Gan has his own limitations.
Gao Pragmatic was actually more worried than Cao Gan - the precept of lamas not to marry would definitely lead to the slow development of the Mongolian population. No, it should be decreasing year by year, which would cause the Mongols' military power to continue to weaken, and the producers to become increasingly weak. reduce.
It doesn't matter if there are slightly fewer Mongolians. After the Ming Dynasty completes the transformation of the Gunpowder Empire, it will no longer have to worry about any nomadic intrusions.
However, if you do this now, how can I use the Mongolian cavalry to fight against Hou Jin who may show up? How can we use the Mongolian musketeers in the future to fight against the Russian Cossacks?
By then, even if the Ming Dynasty has become a gunpowder empire, it can't send hundreds of thousands of infantry to hide and seek with the Cossacks on the grasslands, right?
Therefore, it is not impossible for you to abolish your martial arts, but you cannot just break all your limbs!
Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but sigh: I'm such a miserable person. I'm so busy with my own affairs that I'm almost bald, and I still have to think about other people's affairs...
