Of course, it is not clear yet that what Burihatu did was highly pragmatic, but he vaguely guessed in this direction.
Of course, highly pragmatic guesses are not blind guesses, there must always be some basis. He made a summary based on the motivations of all parties, geographical patterns, historical processes, etc., and then what he formed was called speculation, otherwise it would become random thoughts.
Here, although the historical process was somewhat disrupted by him, as for the Western Region, it was nothing more than the Chahar magpie nest dove that he drove away, which in turn ruled the original so-called Yarkand. When the Chahar troops arrive there, the situation they face will not be much different from that of the original Yarkant.
If there is, it may be that Burihatu will feel that he is surrounded by enemies on all sides in the short term, especially since he has Tumut in the northeast, Ming Dynasty in the due east, and Qinghai Tumut in the southeast. These three places are clear. of hostility.
Directly to the north is Junggar, where the enemy and friend should be undecided. This is because the Junggars have always had ambitions for the Yarkand region. The original Yarkands have obviously begun to decline, and the Junggars are definitely ready to make a move. Unfortunately, the problem is that the Junggars are not united internally and are also conquering each other, so they cannot put their ambitions into practice. .
However, with the arrival of Chahar, the chance of the Junggars swallowing Yarkand is greatly reduced, which will definitely affect their attitude towards Chahar - even in name, the Junggars recognize the Chahar tribe as the "Great Khan of Mongolia" "Khan Court", but that is useless, because for the Mongols, the name is worthless in the face of actual interests.
Further south is Uzang, but you don’t need to pay attention here because it is too difficult to get there, and it is almost impossible for people there to come to the Yarkand area. In addition, for Burihatu, even if Uszang is given to him to rule, I am afraid it will not arouse much interest in him. After all, the transportation between the two places is too inconvenient, and the current situation in the Uszang area is very serious for their Chahar headquarters. It's not going to help, there's no need to be distracted.
The west side is more complicated. The first thing to talk about is the so-called "Three Khanates of Central Asia".
The so-called "Three Khanates of Central Asia" refer to the three khanates established by the newly formed Uzbeks in Central Asia after the demise of the Shabani Dynasty, namely, the Khanate of Bukhara, the Khanate of Kokand, and the Khanate of Khiva. Khanate.
The history of these three khanates should be said to basically constitute the modern history of Central Asia. Since the three khanates were basically born out of the Shaibani dynasty, and because of the chaos of the ruling groups in Central Asia, there are different opinions on the establishment time and division of each khanate, which is quite confusing.
Some divisions divide the Bukhara Khanate into different dynasties. The Shaybani dynasty was the first generation and Shaybani was the founder. However, some say it began with the establishment of the capital in Bukhara in 1583, which was already the eleventh year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty.
After Shaibani Khan died in battle in 1508, his nephew Obaidullah took over the real power of the Uzbek Khanate, and his headquarters was Bukhara. Obedullah was said to be a man of many talents, and under his rule, Bukhara became the center of literature, art and scholarship in Central Asia.
By 1539, the upper-level ruling group of Bukhara split again and fell into internal strife. Prince Abdullah Sultan stood out and gradually became the most powerful one. This prince succeeded to the throne of Khan in 1583, and Bukhara was officially established as the capital of the Khanate, so some people call this time the time when the Bukhara Khanate was established.
The second generation dynasty of the Bukhara Khanate was the Astrakhan dynasty, and its rulers were the Zani family, descendants of the Astrakhan dynasty who were originally tributaries of the Kipchak Khanate. However, their story has nothing to do with Gao Pragmatic and Burihatu for the time being, so I won’t go into details here and just fast forward to the Khiva Khanate.
The main territory of the Khiva Khanate is in Khwarezm, and its capital is Urgenchi, which is the famous Jade Dragon Chijie in history. Yulong Chijie is a place that has suffered many disasters. It was destroyed many times due to wars and rebuilt many times. Later, it was renamed Urgenci.
Since the Khanate's government eventually moved its capital to Khiva, it was called the Khiva Khanate. The establishment of this khanate essentially stemmed from resistance to Persia.
The approximate history of the Khiva Khanate is as follows: After the decline of the Timurid Empire, the Persian Empire took the opportunity to invade the Khwarazm region. As a result, Shaibani Khan was defeated by Insmail II of Persia, and the Khwarazm region Then it was annexed.
Although both Persia and the Hezhong area believe in a certain religion, Hezhong belongs to the Xn sect and Persia belongs to the Yin sect, so there are constant conflicts between the governments of Khwarezm. Later, Khwarezm's political group secretly welcomed Yin Lebas, a descendant of the Golden Horde Khan, and established a khanate in 1515 to resist Persia.
This khanate is the Khiva Khanate. In 1594, five years earlier, the country had been briefly annexed by the Bukhara Khanate, but was soon restored.
There were internal strife within the Khiva Khanate and powerful neighbors outside, so the struggle had always been fierce. Even the Khan King was often deposed at will. This unfortunate situation was not changed until the late Khanate period, when there was a hereditary dynasty called the Hongji Ci Dynasty. This dynasty lived until... the Soviet Union came. However, this has nothing to do with this book, so I won’t mention it for now.
The last one is the Kokand Khanate. This can actually be said or not, because it does not exist at all now. The Kokand Khanate was the latest to be established among the three khanates. Its territory is mainly in the Fergana region, so it is also called the Fergana Khanate. The establishment of this khanate was gradually formed in the struggle with the Junggar Khanate in original history... Then forget it, there is no need to explain.
Roughly speaking, the Bukhara Khanate and the Khiva Khanate came from the dynasty established by the Uzbeks who originally settled in the river. The ancestors of the Kokand Khanate were the Mingge tribe of the Uzbek tribe. They were originally a tribe of Bukhara. The restraint part only became independent later.
The relationship between the three is also very subtle (of course there are only two at the moment), and they often take advantage of each other. For example, when Bukhara wanted to seize the city of Kokand, Khiva came over to attack Kokand, causing the Bukhara Khanate to be unable to fight against Kokand with all its strength. When there was civil strife in Kokand, Bukhara would also intervene. interfere in their political affairs. For example, the ascension of Hudoyar Khan was the "masterpiece" of the next Imi Muzaffar al-Din, the son of Bukhara Imi Nasrallah.
Now the Three Kingdoms do not exist, there are only two, so the relationship is not too complicated, because it is more straightforward: the daily mentality is "one of us must die."
However, although the Kokand Khanate does not yet exist, there is another larger "third country", which is the Kazakh Khanate located to the north of them.
The Kazakh Khanate belongs to the Mongolian Khanate and is a country founded by the descendants of the Mongolian Golden Family between 1456 and 1847. It was founded by Sultan Kelei Khan and Janibek Khan of the Jochi family.
They officially broke away from the Golden Horde in 1456 and migrated to Mughalstan, Chu River and Talas. Ye Xianbuhua II and Yunusi of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate set aside a place in Mughalstan, Kuchibash, for them to live. From 1465 to 1466, a large number of nomads broke away from Abu Haier. He died in battle in this year, and his land was taken over by the Kazakh Khanate. A purely nomadic country was established and officially established in 1470, also known as "Turkistan".
At its peak, the Kazakh Khanate occupied a large territory. The area they lived in was called Qinchak Grassland, which was divided into Big Yuzi, Middle Yuzi and Xiaoyuzi. Also known as the big account, the middle account, and the small account.
The middle tent is in the central highlands of Kazakhstan, the smaller tent is from the Ural River to the Caspian Sea, and the big tent is from the west of Lake Balkhash to Turkestan. Due to the geographical relationship, Xiaozhang also attracted many Nogai people.
At that time, their territory was vast, extending to the Irtysh River in the east, the Inshim River, Turgai Oblast, and Omsk in the north, the Caspian Sea in the west, and the Syr Darya River in the south. In the era of Hasmukhan, the country had a population of more than one million and a military strength of 300,000.
After the death of Janibek Khan, Hasmud Sultan came to the throne. The country became prosperous and occupied Tashkent. He also repelled the attack of Shaibani - the one mentioned when talking about the Bukhara Khanate earlier.
Hasim Khan once received Said Khan of the Yarkand Khanate in Turkestan, and his winter grazing land was in the Haratal Valley. This period was also a period of great expansion for the Kazakh Khanate.
By 1525, the fourth year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty, the forces of the Kazakh Khanate finally met with the Kyrgyz in Mughalstan, and jointly defeated the Yarkant army of the Chagatai Khanate.
However, it may be that "Hu has no luck for a hundred years." After the death of Hasim Khan, the Kazakh Khanate began to decline - of course it was not the kind that fell into decline in an instant. To a certain extent, they gradually began to decline after that. reached a brief peak.
In 1568, the second year of Longqing, the year when Gao Gong was forced to leave his job and go back to teach Gao pragmatic reading, the Kazakh Khanate also defeated the Nogai people on the Emba River and extended its power to Astrakhan.
From 1583 to 1598, that is, from the eleventh year of Wanli to this year (referring to the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, but it is already the end of the year and the New Year is about to begin), Tavukal Khan exercised his khan power, and the Kazakh Khanate's military strength and political influence reached exactly A peak.
It was this year (1598) that he personally led the army to capture the city of Samarhan and surrounded Bukhara and Khiva. In the autumn of this year, Bukhara negotiated peace with Turkestan, and the two parties signed the Bukhara-Kazakh Treaty.
The Bukhara-Kazakh Treaty stipulated that the entire southern Kazakhstan and Tashkent areas, Samar Khan, including the entire Fergana area, were merged into the Kazakh Khanate from Bukhara.
The national power of Kazakhstan and its relationship with the Bukhara Khanate have been discussed here. Now we will introduce another force, a force that the Ming Dynasty is quite familiar with: Oara.
Volume 1 of this book mentioned briefly that due to the squeeze of Eastern Mongolia after the reorganization of Dayan Khan, the Oara gradually moved westward. Next (it seems to be a bit too far...), we will talk about the conflict with Kazakhstan that began in 1524 after the Wala moved westward.
Around 1525 (still the fourth year of Jiajing), the so-called "Two Hundred Years War" between Oirat and Kazakhstan began.
In 1572, which was the sixth year of Longqing, the Anda tribute had just been completed. The Anda Khan sent Qeji Huangtaiji to march to the west (for the specific process, please refer to the introduction of Qeji Huangtaiji's life in this book when Gao pragmatically pacified the northwest), and marched in Tuo Kemoke——that is, Broken Leaf City.
Huang Taiji defeated Aksar Khan at Shi Lamo Leng, plundered the people, and captured Qiugeyi Fujin and Qingbatur as his wife.
However, the main reason for the expedition to wipe out Huang Taiji was that Anda Khan wanted to show his strength and came back after killing all directions. The purpose of this move is very simple: we in Eastern Mongolia are always orthodox, and you Weitra no matter in Central Asia No matter how powerful you are, you will always be our vassals.
This move actually doesn't have much practical significance for Anda Khan, but for Weitra Mongolia - that is, Wala, it is big bad news, because the western expedition that wiped out Huang Taiji greatly weakened their strength. .
In original history, from 1615 to 1652, the Kazakh Khanate finally defeated the Oirat attack and occupied the western region of the Oirat Khanate, dominated by Junggar, namely the Seven Rivers region. But it won’t start before this happens.
In short, the Kazakh Khanate is not said to be at its peak, at least it is definitely considered a powerful power in this region. However, it not only has to face attacks from time to time by the Oara tribes, but also has to compete with the Bukhara Khanate. The strategic situation is not very good.
Oh, I seem to have forgotten to mention a very important relationship: the famous "Junggar" in later generations is actually only one of the "Four tribes of Wala". Of course, they are currently the most powerful of the four.
To sum up, Central Asia as a whole is a mess. But if you break it down, the three companies of Wala (Vitla), Kazakhstan, and Bukhara are quite powerful.
How powerful is it specifically... At least judging from the paper data, the Chahar tribe only counts the troops who brought Yarkant, and any of these three families may be stronger than them. Fortunately, Burihatu's methods were clever and he had stabilized the Yarkand region in just a few years, and he could also use the local people to do some things to a certain extent - except for fighting.
But that's it. The Central Asia that Burihatu faces is a chaotic Central Asia. It's hard to say whether these three are enemies or friends. Maybe they are still friends today, but they have already come to kill them early tomorrow morning.
The reason is not complicated. No matter which one of these three families, they all coveted Ye Erqiang in the past. Although Yerqiang now has a new owner, this new owner was expelled by the Ming Dynasty. It can be seen that even if it is not weak, at least it is in a state of "current strength is greatly damaged."
If it is the former, since you are not strong, then everyone is nomadic, so it is normal for me to covet you. It is also the purpose of the question to send troops to test and find out the details.
If it's the latter, then you need to be more alert and deal with it, but don't wait until you regain your strength and then turn against me with ill intentions. Therefore, it stands to reason that we should try it out. If it is easy to fight, we should attack it early to expand our power. If it is not easy to fight...then find a small notebook and write it down first. In the future, you will be my next target after defeating the enemy at hand.
After thinking about it this way, Gao Pragmatic could quickly deduce that although the Chahar tribe had grabbed a geomantic treasure after moving westward, they were actually in a disadvantageous situation where they were surrounded by enemies on all sides and were even surrounded by wolves.
Under such circumstances, Burihatu will never sit still and wait for death. With his vision and ability, he will definitely choose to take the initiative by himself, create something first, and let others revolve around his baton - - Just like when he single-handedly contributed to the rebellion in the northwest.
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