Shen Shixing, who was his best friend of the same year, knew very well what Wang Xijue was capable of. Since Wang Xijue couldn't bring Gao pragmatism into the ditch even if he took action, then if it were him, Shen Yuanfu, who went into battle in person, it would probably be nothing more than that and would not be able to change the situation.
Therefore, trying to win or at least gain an advantage on this battlefield was in vain. It would be better to try it again on another battlefield.
Later generations of the Red Dynasty once proposed the theory of "overtaking on a curve" in their early years. Later, with the development of the country and changes in the situation, the term "overtaking on a curve" became "overtaking on a curve". Now Shen Shixing's move can actually be regarded as a kind of "changing lanes and overtaking".
Of course, it can also be said that a second battlefield was opened to break the deadlock and strive for a side breakthrough.
Whether it is changing lanes to overtake or the second battlefield, in the final analysis it is because it is difficult to succeed on the original battlefield, so we take the initiative to change to a battlefield where our own side already has an advantage and compete again.
In the battlefield that Shen Shixing changed this time, the Xin School actually gained an advantage just now - thanks to Gao Pragmatic's previous abandonment of his direct influence on the factory guards, the Xin School, which had not been suppressed by the emperor, now has a better position among the Jinyi Guards. Gao Pragmatic became more influential, so they learned some intelligence from Chahar earlier.
According to Jinyiwei's information, about two months ago, Tumen Khan, together with his military advisor Burihatu, led the Khan Court Chahar's main force of 60,000 cavalry to sneak out and advance toward the northwest.
In just about a month, Tumen Khan's army, which had been traveling thousands of miles, suddenly appeared in Haraholin. Abadai Saiyin Khan of Outer Khalkha was so shocked that he only led the Khan's personal guards out of the tent to greet them and greeted them with courtesy. It's a shame.
Halakhalin, also known as Helin and Hening, was the capital of the Mongolian Empire and the capital of the Lingbei Province of the Yuan Dynasty, which was founded on the basis of the Kle tribe in the deep steppe and the Uighur capital in the earlier period. It was the center of the world in the mid-13th century. The geographical position is extremely important. There is a saying that "Huanhuan of Tiance controls the upper reaches, and all the side courts are paid to the Jin vassal. The rivers and mountains are connected to the mid-summer, and the wind, snow and floods guard the north tower." "Those who return to the frontier, so protect Mongolia, protect Mongolia That's why he is called the "Wei Jingshi".
Mongolian Ogodai Khan established his capital here in the seventh year (1235). Its location was the upper reaches of the Orkhon River in central Mongolia. Specifically, it was located at the southern foot of Hangai Mountain in Houhangai Province, central Mongolia, on the right bank of the upper reaches of the Orkhon River. It is near Erdenizhao, 365 kilometers southwest of Ulaanbaatar.
The area where Hara Korin is located is also the center of the Mongolian Plateau, where forests are dense and the fields bloom in midsummer. After Kublai Khan established himself as Khan in Kaiping and defeated Ali Buge, the political center moved south to Han Dynasty, which was no longer the capital. After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, the Northern Yuan Dynasty took this as its political center. Although Helin was gradually abandoned in the constant civil war, it is now the seat of the Khan Court of the Outer Khalkha Tribe.
Precisely due to geographical location and historical reasons, controlling Helin basically means controlling the Mongolian Outer Khalkha region.
But the problem is that the Outer Kalkha tribe with Helin as the center has always respected the left-wing Mongolia as the Great Khan, at least in name. The reason why the northwest rebellion broke out before was because Burihatu took a detour to Outer Kalkha. He went to the northwest to contact him. Later, when he returned to Chahar, he also took the route of Transkarkha.
In this case, why did Tumen Khan lead his troops to Helin?
Shen Shixing explained this point, saying: "It is said that it is because Abadai Saiyin Khan refused to implement some provisions of the "Tumen Khan Code". Based on the intelligence analysis that has been detected, Jinyiwei believes that the most critical among them is One thing is probably that Abadai Saiyin Khan refused to cancel the sacrifice, which led to Tumen Khan's secret crusade."
Gao Pragmatic said "Oh" and quickly reviewed the news in his mind. In fact, he knew that Shen Shixing must not have finished what he said, but this alone had attracted Gao Pragmatic's attention.
Speaking of which, Tumen Khan is really a figure worth mentioning in Mongolian history. This Mongolian Khan is not a simple figure. When he took office at the age of 20, he planned to implement a new policy throughout Mongolia in order to consolidate his position and ease the internal conflicts in Mongolian society.
According to original history, during his 35 years in power, there were no major wars, killings or bloodshed within Mongolian society. Tumen Khan thought that in order to compete with the powerful Ming Dynasty, he must achieve unity within Mongolia, and to achieve this goal, he must coordinate the relationships among the tribes within Mongolia and take care of the interests of all parties.
At that time, the young Tumen Khan thought about it for a while, found a way, implemented drastic changes, and implemented Tumen Khan's New Deal.
The main measures of Tumen Khan's New Deal are roughly as follows:
The first is to formulate a code of law, the "Code of Tumen Khan", to standardize and coordinate the relationships between and within the various Mongolian tribes;
The second is the distribution of power, that is, the power of the Mongolian Khanate was redistributed. Amudai Hongtaiji of ten thousand households in Chahar, Basu Haitaiji of ten thousand households in Khalkha, and Kutu of ten thousand households in Ordos Ketai Chechen, Hongtaiji (i.e., Qiejin Huangtaiji in Chinese historical materials and this book) and other leaders of the left and right wings of Mongolia held important positions in the Khan's court. When major events occurred, they held meetings to consult the leaders of various ministries. , thus strengthening the power of sweat;
Thirdly, it is about easing relations. The most important thing is to ease the conflict with the Mongolian right-wing Tumote Ten Thousand Houses Ada Khan and avoid the situation of division of Mongolian society;
The last step was to change taxes and increase revenue. According to historical records, Tumen Khan changed the tax and corvee system of paying tribute and apportioning taxes, and levied taxes and corvees from the three tribes of Jurqit (i.e. Jurchens), Ericht and Dajhur who had surrendered. Taxation increased the Khan's fiscal revenue.
According to the opinions of later generations of Mongolian historians and experts on the history of Mongolia during the Red Dynasty, Tumen Khan reigned for more than thirty years, and he was considered a leader in the world and governed well. Therefore, Mongolian society at that time presented a scene of peace and prosperity for the country and the people.
To be honest, Jingtianweidi is a bit too exaggerated, but overall, the performance of this Great Khan is indeed pretty good at least among the rulers of Mongolia.
In the current "history", Tumen Khan's efforts to ease relations with Tumut have failed due to high pragmatic interference. Although peace within Mongolia is currently maintained, the two sides have already had a war before, and in the future I'm afraid it will inevitably happen again.
Therefore, from the perspective of "diplomacy" - or perhaps we should say "internal diplomacy" - Tumen Khan's reforms have already failed half the time. In this case, the remaining other half will obviously pay more attention to him.
What's left? Basically, most of them can be said to be internal affairs. There are two most important points in internal affairs. One is the "Tumen Khan Code", and the other is reforming financial laws and increasing taxes.
We will discuss financial law issues later, but let’s talk about the Tumen Khan Code first. In later generations, the main body of the "Code of Tumen Khan" has been lost, and scholars rely more on the clues in the "Code of Altan Khan" to trace the "Code of Tumen Khan".
Altan Khan is the Mongolian name of Ada Khan, and his code is called the "Altan Khan Code". In the Mongolian historical materials that can be found in later generations, the "Altan Khan Code" is often called the "small law", while the "Tumen Khan Code" is called the big law.
Why can later generations use the "Altan Khan Code" to refer back to the "Tumen Khan Code"? Because in the original history, although Anda Khan was canonized as King of Shunyi by the Ming Dynasty, he did not completely break up with Tumen Khan. In name, he also respected Tumen Khan as the Great Khan of all Mongolia.
Therefore, Anda Khan implemented both the "Tumen Khan Code" and the "Altan Khan Code" within his "Da Ming Jin Kingdom" (that is, the country founded by the Tumote Department), and there are many others in between. Something in common.
As mentioned earlier in this book, the two key reasons why Ada Khan accepted Lamaism were that one was seeking orthodox status, and the other was hoping to abolish the traditional sacrifice of shamanism - the biggest disadvantage of this system to rulers is Because it will seriously damage national strength.
Mongolia is a nomadic country, and sacrifice means killing livestock to bury nobles with them. This practice is similar to the human burial in ancient China, and the disadvantages are so obvious that they don’t even need to be analyzed.
Living burials have long been abolished in China, but Zhu Yuanzhang himself reversed history once and practiced living burials after his death. Fortunately, this was a special case. This is not the case in Mongolia. The sacrificial system has persisted until now and there is still a large market.
Tumut had abolished animal sacrifice after Ada Khan converted to Christianity, and his strength gradually became stronger. Therefore, Tumen Khan, who also had a high political vision, naturally couldn't sit still. He was concerned about the abolition of animal sacrifice in his "Tumen Khan Code". The regulations are becoming more and more important. After Burihatu returned from the northwest last year, the headquarters of Chahar Ten Thousand Households has completely abolished animal sacrifice.
It is obviously not easy for Mongolia, which is only nominally unified, to implement certain policies. The area where Tumen Khan can control it is actually the headquarters of Chahar Ten Thousand Households. Over in the Outer Khalkha Ministry, Abadai Saiyin Khan basically turned a deaf ear to the abolition of animal sacrifice. Not only did he not follow up on the implementation, he did not even give any feedback, which angered Tumen Khan.
Tumen Khan also seemed to understand the principle of "results from teachers". He first gave an order to Abadai Saiyin Khan, asking the Outer Khalkha Ministry to immediately abolish their "White Birch Code" and then uniformly implement the "Tumen Khan Code" 》.
The most deadly word in this order is the word "immediately" that means "repeal immediately."
As we all know, reform is not about treating guests to dinner, and it is not so easy to just leave. Many of the foundations for Gao Pragmatic’s reforms were laid as early as 20 years ago. However, today, 20 years later, the “changes” are still far from being completed and require a lot of struggle.
The "White Birch Code" of the Outer Khalkha Ministry is not a piece of waste paper. It also has a long history. The historical inertia is there. How can you, the Great Khan of Tumen, abolish it at your own discretion? Therefore, Tumen Khan's order itself was not a normal order. If Abadai Saiyin Khan's political thinking was sharper, he should have known the seriousness of the matter when he received this order.
It is a pity that compared to Abadai Khan and Tumen Khan, Abadai Saiyin Khan is really just a typical Mongolian Khan with well-developed limbs and simple mind. He did not realize that the danger was close at hand, and even responded to this order. Dismissive.
He thought that Tumen Khan had too much time to take care of himself: the Ming Dynasty had already rebuilt the city in Daning, and the next target was obviously Chahanhot. If Tumen Khan has the time to care about our "White Birch Code" in Zaikaerkha, you might as well hurry up. Thinking of ways to slow down Mingren's march north, so as not to end up like a lost dog.
At that time, Dalaisun Khan had to move the Chahar headquarters eastward because he was forced by the strength and prestige of Anda Khan. Now Tumut not only has improved his strength, but also has Ming Dynasty as his backer. At this moment, your Tumen Khan's status and even the safety of your tribe are already in danger, but you still have time to interfere with my business in Transkalkha?
However, Abadai Saiyin Khan made a mistake in his judgment, and it was a big mistake. Under Burihatu's suggestion, Tumen Khan made up his mind, and regardless of his own illness, he led the main force of Chahar headquarters to They went out, not even letting go of any of the Outer Khalkha Sentinel Rangers along the way, and went straight to He Lin.
As soon as Helin fell, the Outer Khalkha tribe completely surrendered. Although the distance was somewhat far away, Tumen Khan still insisted on establishing a much more direct rule here than before. At this point, the Chahar Headquarters and the Outer Khalkha Headquarters were no longer unified in name, but quickly reached actual unification, and the abolition of the sacrifice system in the "Tumen Khan Code" was also strongly implemented.
Gao pragmatically knew that as long as the sacrifice system was abolished, Mongolia would not only gradually become stronger, but at least it would not continue to decline. Tumen Khan, who unified the Outer Khalkha tribe, will definitely have his own strength significantly enhanced. This will definitely be bad news for the decisive battle of Chahar in the near future, if not bad news.
Not only that, after Shen Shixing and other Gao pragmatically digested the news, they went on to throw out the second bad news: "After that, Tumen Khan returned to Chahanhot and decided to launch an offensive against Horqin's tribe for the same reason. This has been confirmed by Jin Yiwei - they obtained the information through Ye Hebu, Horqin's Jurchen ally."
Shen Shixing sighed softly and said: "It is said that the Yehe tribe is also very nervous at the moment, because the Horqin tribe is their loyal ally, and the alliance between the two parties has been maintained for many years. If the Horqin tribe is attacked by Tumen Khan, the Yehe tribe will It’s hard to stay out of it.
Besides, from the perspective of the previous Tumen invasion of Yehe, since the Tumen attacked Horqin this time, there is a high possibility that they will attack Yehe again - Oh, by the way, Da Situ has a concubine from Ye He? Well, then this news must have reached the ears of Da Situ in the near future, even if this news was not mentioned by the Ministry of Cabinet today. "
When Shen Shixing reached this point, why didn't Gao Pragmatic know his intention of opening a "second battlefield"?
The existence of Ye He's tribe is a key piece to maintain the balance of the Jurchens, and the balance of the Jurchens is the key to ensuring that the upcoming war to aid Korea will not be attacked from both sides, so Ye He must not allow any mistakes at this time.
This is of course not because of Meng Guzhezhe, a concubine who has not yet consummated the marriage, but because the national policy cannot be taken lightly!
To put it more bluntly, with this move by Tumen Khan, Ming Dynasty must immediately focus back on the Liaodong-Jurchen front line and actively prepare to ensure that the situation will not get out of control and Ye He will not perish.
Even for Gao Pragmatic, since he has been quietly infiltrating Horqin since the last battle in Liaodong, it is best that Horqin itself will not have any changes, let alone perish.
In short, what the Ming Dynasty has to do at this moment is not to allow Tumen Khan to continue to expand his power and actually unify the various tribes around his Chahar headquarters that were originally surrendered in name only, creating trouble for the future Chahar decisive battle. form obstacles.
Since it is necessary to concentrate on dealing with this major danger, Ming Dynasty should certainly not make too many moves internally, lest it is too busy to take care of both ends.
This is Shen Shixing's "Changing Lanes and Overtaking" and "Second Battlefield"!
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