Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 198 The Situation in Mongolia (Part [-])
Zhang Juzheng had known for a long time that Gao Gong had put a lot of effort into the situation in northern Xinjiang. From a general point of view, he and Gao Gong had quite the same idea, and both wanted to change the bad situation that Daming had been passively beaten for many years.He also has some understanding of Gao Gong's thinking, and he fully approves of it.

Gao Gong's idea was mentioned by a logistics master in later generations, but it was sprayed miserably-to fight against the outside world, we must first secure the inside.

In fact, however, this idea itself is not a problem.As for the bitter fruit that the master of logistics suffered back then, the reason was that the foreign aggression had reached the point of subjugation, and he had no ability to secure the internal affairs but insisted on securing the internal affairs first. Show off.

But the situation Gao Gong is facing now is obviously different from that of the logistics master back then.

From the inside, due to the almost unreserved trust of Emperor Longqing, Gao Gong has the ability and authority to suppress internal noises and forcefully promote reforms in all aspects, thereby strengthening the strength of Ming Dynasty, forming a "strengthening the iron requires one's own hard work" "The situation has already been said a lot, so I won't repeat it here.

But from the outside, it's worth mentioning.The most important of these is that the Mongols themselves have already split in fact.At this time, Mongolia, not to mention not having the strength to destroy Daming, even such thoughts have long since ceased to exist.The reason for their frequent invasion is very simple in the final analysis, that is, they cannot survive without looting some supplies.

How did this happen?Especially after the left-wing Mongolia moved southward, this division became more and more obvious.So much so that at present, even the dull empire of Ming Dynasty has felt that the division of Mongolia is a foregone conclusion. People of insight represented by Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng realized that the Mongols can't even manage their own internal affairs. Has the power to swallow the brilliant Ming Dynasty with "billions of people and millions of heavenly soldiers"?

Therefore, Gao Gong invited Zhang Juzheng to re-analyze and plan the strategy for Mongolia.

In fact, the splitting process of Mongolia and the real situation at present, whether it is the policy of Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng and other cabinet elders who are in power at the moment, or the strategy of "economic penetration and political management" planned by Gao Pragmatic in the future, are very important. It is very important and worth mentioning.

If this matter goes back too far, it will be troublesome, but at least it must start from the Dayan Khan era.

At that time, with the disintegration and decline of the Oala tribe, the Tumed tribe of the Tatar family gradually rose under the leadership of Dayan Khan, and in the process of Dayan Khan's rise and domination of the grassland, there was a tribe called the Chahar tribe. The tribe also made great contributions to the Khan of the golden family.Because of this, the Chahar tribe was greatly expanded during the reign of Dayan Khan, but because Dayan Khan divided the Chahar tribe to several of his eleven sons, causing the Chahar tribe to It is inevitable to be involved in the power struggle of the Tumed Khan Court.

In the period of Buchi Khan, the Chahar Department ushered in another important distribution.In this enfeoffment, the subordinates of the Chahar Department expanded again.However, although the left-wing Mongolian Chahar tribe became an important pillar of the Tumet Khan court, while it was greatly expanded, it was also hated by the right-wing Mongolia.

Especially during Bu Chi Khan's period, Bu Chi Khan, as a left-wing Mongolian lineage, relied on the power of the Chahar tribe to successfully win the Khan position, and thus continued to suppress the right wing, greatly weakening the right-wing Mongolia, so that they could only Subservient to the left-wing Mongolian Golden Family headed by Buchi Khan.

But it is clear that right-wing Mongolia will not be so content with the status quo.In order to better deter right-wing Mongolia and maintain military pressure on the Ming Dynasty, during the era of Buchi Khan, the Chahar tribe moved southward for the first time, arriving outside the Xuanfu and Datong towns of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the good times didn’t last long. Due to the Wulianghan rebellion that broke out later, the Chahar tribe had to leave the Monan area and return to Mobei to guard again. The return of the Har tribe to the north also directly reduced the military pressure on the right-wing Mongolia. At the same time, because of Buchi Khan's mistakes in enfeoffment, the right-wing Mongolia became bigger again.

Along with the northward relocation of Chahar, under the leadership of Alda, the right-wing Mongols continued to follow the left-wing Buchi Khan on the one hand, and quietly began to expand southward at the same time. Opened up a new Tumote pasture.At the same time, the far-sighted Altan Khan actively accepted the fleeing Han people and organized them to cultivate land and build towns in Tumochuan.

When Bu Chi Khan finally completed the rebellion of Wulianghan in Mobei, he originally wanted to integrate the right-wing Mongolia in order to stabilize his power, but at this time the right-wing Mongolia obviously had the power to overthrow the left-wing Khan .

At this time, Altan Khan had already controlled the entire right-wing Mongolian Zhutaiji.What's more serious is that with the northward relocation of the Chahar tribe due to the needs of the war, the pastures that originally belonged to the Chahar tribe have already been quickly occupied by the right-wing Mongolia. The left and right wings of Mongolia have been completely divided.

As for Daraisun Khan, who succeeded him later, Alda simply tore up the previous disguise, and he unceremoniously asked the young Khan for the Khan position of the right-wing Mongolia.And Dalai Xun Khan himself knew that the years of fighting had actually seriously consumed the strength of the Chahar Department. It was obviously not a wise choice to confront Alta head-on at this time.Therefore, Dalai Xun Khan did not lead the Chahar tribe back to the original pasture in a daze, but shrank in Mobei.

However, for the huge Chahar tribe, the environment in Mobei is obviously too harsh, and staying in Mobei will only get weaker and weaker.In desperation, Daraisun Khan eventually led most members of the Chahar tribe to move south.He didn't know that the southward migration of left-wing Mongolia this time, in the original history, eventually changed the history of the entire Northeast Asia and even the world.

Dalai Xun Khan began to prepare for the southward migration in the 29th year of Jiajing, but such a huge movement, the risk of its existence is naturally self-evident, so Dalai Xun Khan divided the huge Chahar tribe and left A considerable part of it continued to be stationed in Mobei, and this branch of the Chahar tribe eventually evolved into the later Khalkha Mongols and the Kalmyks in later Russia.

This time, Dalai Xun Khan's purpose was not to lead the Chahar tribe back to the old pastures north of Xuanfu Datong, because it had almost become the ruling center of the right-wing Mongolia, and it was impossible for them to occupy it.He set his sights on the Ji Town of Daming and the pastures north of Liaodong, but the fertile pastures in this area have already been owned: the people who live here are the Mongolian "Duoyan Sanwei" who are the fence and vassal of the Ming Dynasty. Readers of Ming history must be familiar with it, so I won’t go into details.

In this way, the large-scale southward migration of left-wing Mongolia became Dalai Xun Khan's war of conquest against Duoyan Sanwei.Compared with the huge Chahar Department, the strength of Duoyan Sanwei is obviously not enough to contend.Therefore, in the 30th year of Jiajing, Duoyan Sanwei had to surrender to Dalai Xun Khan.

However, due to Ming's military deterrence, Dalai Xun Khan did not annex Duoyan Sanwei at one stroke, but left a small amount of pastures for the use of the remaining Duoyan Sanwei troops who had already suffered heavy losses.Most of the Duoyan Sanwei, under the leadership of their leaders, left the asylum of the Ming Dynasty and chose to seek refuge in Tumed Mongolia ruled by Altan Khan, and eventually disappeared in the long river of history.

(End of this chapter)