A few days later, Commander Qi Jiguang, who had always been calm and composed, stood in front of Gao Pragmatic with an awkward expression, explaining to him the unexpectedness and helplessness of all this. Gao Pingshi could only sigh after hearing this. His head felt as big as a bucket, but he still asked Qi Shuai to sit down and talk slowly.
After listening to Qi Jiguang's description, Gao Pragmatic couldn't say he was angry. After all, the other party was Zhongjin Hatun, with a very special status. With Qi Jiguang's identity, it was difficult to refuse her request at the time, and it was difficult to regret it after learning the truth.
In fact, let alone Qi Jiguang, Gao Pragmatic asked himself, even if he was in the situation at that time, I am afraid that he would not be able to find a way to refuse without causing serious consequences.
Now trouble is coming. The Butashri people have arrived in Yanqing Prefecture and have brought gifts and personal letters from Zhongjin Hatun. Can I refuse? Obviously not.
It's easy to say no, but the problems it may cause are hard to predict. Originally, with Chahar's flight to the west and the Transkalkha tribe actually being handed over to the hands of Erdemutu, the balance of power in the Mongolian grassland has been seriously changed. At this time, it is best to help Hannaji and his son stabilize the situation. , turning the new situation into normalcy best meets the needs of Ming Dynasty.
This need is an overall need, that is, not only must they maintain a pro-Ming Tumote, but also require them to be able to concentrate relatively strong forces to a certain extent to deal with threats in the west and cooperate with the Ming Dynasty's westward expedition in the near future. Restore and expand Ming’s power in the Western Regions, regain control of the Silk Road, and determine Ming’s absolute land power advantage in East Asian geopolitics.
However, judging from Zhongjin Hatun's actions, I am afraid that everyone has underestimated this famous third lady in original history. Sanniangzi's political acumen far exceeded previous imagination. Not only did she realize that the situation had undergone major changes, but she was also very likely to see through Gao Pragmatic's idea of "strengthening the centralization of power of Han Nagyi and his son", so she took the initiative to seek changes. .
As for why he went to Gao Pragmatism instead of the court or the emperor, it was of course because Zhongjin Hatun knew very well that the Ming Dynasty made almost all decisions based on Gao Pragmatism's decision-making in all matters involving Mongolia. In this case, what's the point of looking for the court and the emperor? In the end, don't you still have to return to Gao Pangshi?
Only by eliminating middlemen from making price differences can profit margins be guaranteed. Even Mongolians, who are not known for their commerce, understand this truth.
It’s just that the problem now comes to Gao Pragmatic. The first point is: what will Zhongjin Hatun do if he doesn’t agree?
This question is difficult to answer. Although Zhongjin Hatun, as a member of the rulers and with so many years of experience, should be very rational in nature, Gao Pragmatic feels that it is not necessarily safe.
Because, judging from the performance in the original history, Jongjin Hatun's reason often appears at the "last second", and before she feels that the end of the road is over, she actually has a very strong gambler character, which is really very dangerous. .
In the original history, because there was no high pragmatic intervention, Ada Khan's eldest son Xinai Huangtaiji successfully succeeded to the throne. In the eleventh year of Wanli, the Ming Dynasty appointed Xin Ai Dulong Khan as King of Shunyi, and a ceremony for the title of king was held in May. Not long after he attacked King Shunyi, a large-scale war broke out among thousands of Tumut households, which was the so-called "Battle of Dabansheng".
The Battle of Dabansheng had a profound background. Originally, during the Longqing period, the direct inducement for Anda Khan to pay tribute was the conquest of Han Naji. Therefore, Ming Dynasty always thought of his "first contribution". Therefore, in the fifth year of Longqing, the Ming Dynasty awarded Han Naji the rank of commander, which was the highest rank after Ada Khan himself, second only to Kundulun Khan and Xinai Huangtaiji, who were ten thousand households in Karaqin. job.
After Han Naji returned to Tumote Ten Thousand Houses, Anda Khan returned the custody of the Bansheng people and the Xishaoljin tribe to Han Naji, allowing him to directly command them. However, in April of the eleventh year of Wanli, Han Naji fell off his horse and died while hunting. His wife Dacheng Biji took possession of his tribe according to traditional customs, and these tribes immediately became the coveted objects of other tribal lords.
At this time, it was Sanniangzi who was the first to provoke internal strife. The third wife and Altan Khan gave birth to three sons: Butashili, Shachixing, and Yi'er Jiangxun, who were also the three youngest sons of Anda Khan.
Because before they were born, Anda Khan had already enfeoffed his tribe to six brothers including Xin Ai, Huang Taiji, etc., the three Butashri brothers failed to get the enfeoffed tribes. This is obviously not commensurate with Anda Khan's favor for them and the political status of Sanniangzi, so Sanniangzi always seeks to obtain direct subordinate tribes for them. Therefore, the death of Han Naji provided an excellent opportunity for Sanniangzi to realize her intention, and leaving Han Naji to her family naturally became her goal.
"In September of that year, the third lady saw Dacheng Biji supporting the tribes and Bansheng left behind by Anda. She was very powerful, and she wanted to do something disrespectful to him (that is, the translation of Butashri). She thought that it would be beneficial to her. There was a political rift between Taiji and Sanniangzi, so she could not follow her. Sanniangzi urgently asked the chiefs Pull Bu, Tuguchi, Jilong and others to lead 2,000 elite soldiers to surround Dabansheng. Hui Mo [Twilight] was unable to engage in the battle. Qiatai Ji and Mangu's house was built for a day, so they organized the army like pulling a cloth. They put on armor and fought in Bansheng. They killed more than eighty people of the barbarians including pulling cloth, and killed twenty people. The wounded were dead. By the end of the day, we captured thirty pairs of armor and more than a hundred camels and horses. We also killed the Qatai Jiyi people Bao'er Guda and five other people, six of them were killed, and they were also injured."
In short, starting from September of this year, the battle for Dabansheng began. Sanniangzi and Qataiji are each on one side, and the two sides are evenly matched in battle.
The outbreak of the "Battle of Dabansheng" caused quite a shock among tens of thousands of Tumut households and even thousands of Ordos households: "Therefore, the tigers and the careless and swaying people have all gone away, and only Duoluo Tu Manmai Ligen and Ao'er both cut off Huangtai Jiji, which is really meaningful."
This record says that due to the impact of the Battle of Dabansheng, the tribes harmed by Huer, as well as tribal leaders such as Wu Shen and Bayuet, led their people to stay away, while Mailigan Taiji and Ordos Wanhu of the Duolun Tumed tribe Huang Taiji of Kutuketaijie paid close attention to this and tried to play some role in it.
At that time, most of the leaders of the Tumut tribes sympathized with or supported Qataiji's side. However, Qataiji had only more than 2,000 elite members of the original Anda Khan Court, which was far less than what Sanniangzi received. The rest of the herdsmen in the tribe were definitely Not as good as the elite Khan Court.
Therefore, in order to support Chataji to persist in his struggle against Sanniangzi, Meligantaji provided material assistance to Chataji. In November of that year, Qia Taiji took the opportunity to rob Sanniangzi of more than 100 good horses.
At this time, Zhu Taiji came forward to coordinate and negotiate peace between the two parties, and made a three-part agreement, stipulating that neither party was allowed to kill people or drive horses. If they broke the contract, Zhu Taiji would be punished together. However, Sanniangzi did not take the agreement seriously and sent people to Zhubansheng to plunder livestock, which attracted Dacheng Biji and his crowd to rush to Bansheng's aid.
At this time, not only was the unity and stability of the Tumut households severely threatened, but there was also a situation where the tribesmen were "exhausted from the military" and full of complaints. Even the Sanniangzi's own camp had differences of opinion, but the Sanniangzi still insisted on going her own way, actively preparing for war, and would not give up until Chataiji was captured.
But at the same time, besides Sanniangzi, there is also Lalik who is spying on the Dacheng Biji tribe. Among the thousands of Tumut households at that time, he was second only to Xin Aidulong Khan and Sanniangzi.
When Sanniangzi wanted to take in Han Naji's remnant, Zalik saw that his father Xin'aidulong Khan was old and sick, and most of the government orders came from Sanniang. Under Butashri's account, a group headed by Sanniangzi, Butashri's mother and son will appear within Tumut, which is superior to itself in terms of political status and population. It is obviously a huge threat for Zalik to become the lord of thousands of Tumut households in the future and to seize the title of King Shunyi.
From Zi Like's point of view, the key to solving the problem is to bring people like Dacheng Biji under his command. Therefore, the legacy of Han Na Ji has also become the goal that Zalik is determined to win.
In May of the twelfth year of Wanli, when Sanniangzi and Qataiji were at loggerheads, Zalik was also involved in the battle of Dabansheng. At that time, he heard the news that Sanniangzi had sent people to Dachengbiji to deliver gifts, so he discussed countermeasures with Qataiji and decided that Qiataji would accompany Zalik to the Dachengbiji camp behind Daqingshan to marry Dachengbiji. .
Zalik's actions were discovered by Sanniangzi's subordinates. After receiving the news, Sanniangzi realized that Zalik was also involved in the fight and took the lead. Therefore, the third lady did not hesitate and immediately sent troops to the rear. When they arrived at the back mountain, they learned that Zalike had joined Dachengbiji on May 11th, and that the Western Sentinels led by Dachengbiji had fallen under Zalike's command. Therefore, although the battle of Dabansheng has come to an end, serious opposition has formed between Sanniangzi and Zalik.
Let’s not mention the funeral for the moment. From this period of history, we can actually see that although Sanniangzi was submissive to the Ming Dynasty, she was extremely tough internally and dared to strike hard at any time. She even dared to fight with Chaterji, who was recognized as the number one warrior in Mongolia, and relied on the strength of the Khan Court elites to always maintain an offensive posture.
Such a woman, whether she simply loves her son or has a strong desire for power by nature, makes Gao Pragmatic find it quite troublesome.
Touch her? Obviously inappropriate. She is a complete pro-Ming sect, so what's the point of touching her properly? All Mongolians may feel panic and uneasiness because of this - the Ming Dynasty even has to deal with such a thorough pro-Ming faction leader, so what is its attitude towards other people? Naturally, life and death are completely free, which is likely to cause a right-wing chaos. Even Ordos will not be spared, let alone the newly acquired Transkarkha.
What's more, with Sanniangzi's character, if Da Ming really shows signs of trying to touch her, who knows if she will fight back? It may be impossible to attack Daming, after all, she should be very afraid of Daming now.
However, Guihua City has always been held in her hands as Anda's inheritance, and Han Naji is still her current husband. What if she pretends not to know and waits for Han Naji to return to Guihua City? , what kind of tricks will be used to "deal with" Han Naji? How will this matter end?
From the perspective of the Ming Dynasty, the first step was to quickly confer Erdemutu as the new King of Shunyi. However, the problem was that Tumote's ruling structure had not changed, and the foundation of his rule was still the "Western Sentinel + Khan Court Elite" alliance. In other words, no matter how Han Naji was killed, Erdemutu had to continue to form an alliance with Sanniangzi if he wanted to secure his position.
So in this way, if Ming Dynasty did not want to see Tumut's internal division and rule out the possibility of sending troops to quell the rebellion on its own, then it could only go back and persuade Erdemutu to marry his stepmother Sanniangzi to maintain political stability.
This is so fucked... Gao Qingshi's head hurts just thinking about it.
Qi Jiguang obviously knew the reason. When he saw that Gao pragmatism, a talented Wang Zuo who always had the most wisdom, frowned deeply, thought hard and remained silent for a long time, he couldn't help but advise: "Jingtai, I will not be fooled by this battle." , I, the Ming Dynasty, have already shocked Mongolia. Even if what I do is not in line with Mrs. Zhongshun’s wishes, I expect that she may not dare to act rashly..."
"This is the truth, but you can't rely on luck when it comes to major national affairs unless you have to." Gao Pragmatic sighed, suddenly thinking of Japan, and added: "Small countries may often have to do it because of their strength, but big countries are not like that. If you can use a majestic formation, you can't stick to surprise troops; if you can think of a perfect strategy, you can't think of luck. Qi Shuai is a great military strategist, and he should be the most familiar with the truth."
Qi Jiguang smiled bitterly and said: "But how can we solve the current difficulties?"
"Is it currently..." Gao Pragmatic pondered: "I think the difficulty seems to lie in the present, but in fact it lies in the future. Therefore, if we want to solve the current difficulty, we must focus on a few years later."
Gao Pragmatic's words were purely based on political considerations, so Qi Jiguang rarely failed to follow the train of thought and said in shock: "Jiguang is stupid, please give me a clear explanation."
Gao Pragmatic did not show off, and explained: "The reason why Mrs. Zhongshun did this was not for herself, but for her son. She and Anda had three sons, and none of the three sons were enfeoffed. Although Mrs. Zhongshun had Anda's inheritance, A few, but there are only two core parts: one is the elite of the Khan Court that I originally answered. After more than ten years, these people still suffered some losses during the period, and now they do not exceed 20,000..."
"Less than 20,000, probably only around 14,000 to 15,000." Qi Jiguang added.
"Well, let's count it as fifteen thousand." Gao Pragmatic followed the good example and continued: "This is the trump card of force in her hand. Besides this, the most important thing is Guihua City. This city is also called "Guihua City" among the Mongolians. Sanniangzi City (naturalized as Hohhot in later generations, also known as Sanniangzi City) was not only the core of Tumut rule and the capital of the Ming Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom, but also the most populous city.
According to Jinghua's information, except for the blacksmith shop and weapons industry, which are not as good as Daban Shengcheng, the other industries in this city may have surpassed Daban Shengcheng, Han Naji's home base. The population has also surpassed Daban Shengcheng due to the advantage of the national capital. It is said that it has reached ten There are tens of thousands of people, which should be very rare in Mongolian history. "
That must be rare. After all, the Mongols used to be purely nomadic and had no interest in cities. During the Yuan Dynasty, although several cities were built in Monan and Mobei, the permanent population was very small after the cities were built. Ordinary people had to go to herds to make a living. What would they eat if they lived in the city? The Mongols don't have nuclear-powered money printing machines.
When Gao Pragmatic said this, Qi Jiguang followed his train of thought and said, "What Jingtai means is that although its military force is elite, its total strength is insufficient, and its economy is too concentrated, so it is difficult to satisfy the three sons?"
"Yes, this is the internal reason why Sanniang is eager to change now." Gao Jingshi narrowed his eyes slightly and said: "But there is a paradox here, that is, if the inheritance she leaves to her three sons in the future is too rich, it may turn out to be too rich. Come and threaten Erdemutu's rule.
If we, the Ming Dynasty, want to solve this problem, we must find a magic solution, which is to respect and satisfy a mother's desire to protect her son, and at the same time ensure the stability of the Ming Dynasty's Jin Kingdom regime and military power. "
Qi Jiguang frowned: "This... seems difficult." It seems that these two premises are contradictory at all, so it is naturally difficult.
However, Gao Pragmatic laughed and said: "It may be difficult, but now I have some new ideas."
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