Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 823

During the Warring States Period, the Seven Kingdoms united vertically and horizontally. They told the descendants of China long ago that the essence of the alliance is the combination of interests. The other weak countries are called Lianheng.

Zhu Yihai's alliance did not call on Tsarist Russia, nor did it call on Ottoman. Firstly, these two powerful countries are too far apart. Secondly, Ming Dynasty has already declared war on Tsarist Russia and is fighting for the Far East. There are even conflicts of interest in Central Asia. There is no need to attract this polar bear.

As for the Ottoman coyotes, Zhu Yihai did not want them to come. These people thought they were Turks, and even recognized their ancestors as the Xiongnu Chanyu who was hanged and beaten by Wei Qinghuo. However, there are many Khanates in Central Asia who think they are Turks.

Including the Mughal Empire under the banner of Mongolia, it is also unlucky to mention Mongolia, and has always advertised itself as a Turkic people.

"Idayetura is plotting a riot in Turpan, Batur Khan has personally led the Junggar cavalry approaching, and he has mobilized a full [-] Junggar cavalry."

Zhu Dadian told the emperor the latest situation.

The Western Regions can roughly be divided into three parts, the northern and southern borders and the eastern border, or Congling can be added.Dongjiang has three core sections, the East Gate Hami, the Turpan Basin and Wucheng.

The Uighur language of Turpan originally means low land. This is a basin oasis on the southern slope of the eastern Tianshan Mountains, a typical graben basin. The Uyghur, Khitan, and Mongolian nomads fought for it during their westward march. It was the military fortress of the Central Plains Dynasty, and it was also the only place that the Silk Road led to the Western Regions.

Turpan people used Karez to make this oasis in the desert a pearl of the Western Regions and formed a unique oasis civilization.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there was Gaochang State here, which was a Han civilized country established by the descendants of Han immigrants during the Han Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Later, the Tang Dynasty destroyed Gaochang and established Xizhou.

"As long as His Majesty gives an order, the imperial camp can take the first step and take down Turpan." Zhu Dadian said directly.

There are three major oases in Turpan, which are no worse than Hami in the east gate, and its arable land has tens of millions of acres. Using Karez, the farming in the three oases is very developed, and the grape, cotton, and winemaking industries in Turpan are also very developed. .

The emperor smiled.

"If we go ahead again, Batur will probably turn his back on him immediately."

"Then give it to them like this?"

The emperor picked up the glass wine glass and gently shook the wine inside. It was brewed from Turpan and tasted very mellow.

"Of course we can't let them achieve their goal so easily," the emperor called Ma Jixiang, the commander of Jinyiwei, "disclose the information you have collected on Turpan and Luntai to the Yarkand people, and tell Amulun and Babai that the Baishan faction wants to There is a riot, and the Junggars are coming."

Amulun and Babai are two brothers, one is the governor of Turpan and the other is the governor of Hami. Amulun is the second child, and Babai is the fourth child. Both are the sons of Abdul Rahin. Their elder brother Abdul Raha Khan is now Yarkand Khan.

Abdullah established himself as a Khan for more than 30 years because of the separatist rule of Eastern Xinjiang, but the Yaerqiang Khanate was in chaos for more than [-] years, and passed down nine Khans.

Relying on the solid foundation laid by his father, Abdullah, Abdullah led his troops to conquer the west after inheriting the throne of Khan in the eighth year of Chongzhen. It took only a few years to invade Yarkand, ending more than 30 years of Yarkand. The division and internal strife, reunification, and then sent his younger brothers as the governors of Turpan and Hami.

Abdullah is a relatively capable person. When he was seven years old, he followed his father to the west, but was tricked into the city by the governor of Kuche and captured. But the governor of Kuche was as powerful as the emirs of Yarkand at that time. They are all separate parties.

He did not kill Abdullah, but entertained him with good wine and good food. He also married his daughter to him and stayed in Kuqa to raise him. Through this son-in-law, he made friends with Abdullah in the east. As soon as Abdullah died, the governor of Kuqa sent troops to send his son-in-law back to inherit the Khan throne. When his son-in-law went west, he also sent troops to support him. He contacted many emirs to support his son-in-law and help him rule Yarkand.

After Abdullah Khan unified Yarkand, what he faced was that the central government had no authority, the princes from all over the country supported themselves, the Khan's power was weak, the powerful and important ministers were rampant, and the black and white factions became stronger and stronger, stealing power and fighting fiercely.

After succeeding to the throne, he boldly re-appointed and removed a large number of central and local officials, exiled a large number of former dignitaries, and executed more than 200 nobles in Kashgar, including some upper echelons of the Black and White faction. Yarkand also executed more than 100 people.

Through these thunderous methods, the powerful forces were attacked and the power of the local governors and lords was weakened. Afterwards, they sent troops to conquer foreign countries many times, plundered and looted. They jointly defeated the Junggar people's looting, and it can be said that their prestige was unparalleled for a while.

However, the Yarkand Great Khan, who has been in power for more than ten years, has raised the banner of the Yarkand war that has been interrupted for decades and won many battles, but he has not been able to expand the territory. The territory of the heyday of the Yarkand Khanate was restored.

But this ZTE was very short-lived. Although he raised troops with local separatists, he finally destroyed the Khan Court and unified Yarkand, and then suppressed the original local separatist emirs by entrusting his brothers as governors. It is long gone, especially when the struggle between black and white factions is too fierce.

In the past, the Khan court all respected the Montenegro faction, and Abdul Raha, who established himself in Eastern Xinjiang, respected the Baishan faction, but Abdullah was captured at a young age and lived in Kuqa all the time. After Qiang, he still respected the Heishan School, and after the death of Heishan School and Zhuo Shadi, he continued to respect his son Mamut as He Zhuo, the national teacher.

However, the Baishan faction is somewhat entrenched in Eastern Xinjiang. Yusufu and his son even took the opportunity to support Abdul Raha Khan's eldest son, Yao Lebas. Those people in Eastern Xinjiang have been planning to support this prince, and then look for opportunities to mutiny to seize the throne. As long as the prince supported by the Baishan faction sits on the throne of the Great Khan, then the Black Mountain faction can be suppressed from the root.

As the governor of Kashgar, the prince also actively supported the Baishan faction, so now the Baishan faction in Kashgar is also very strong.

Father and son are separated from each other.

According to the tradition of the Yarkand royal family, although Abdullah Khan appointed his own brothers as the local governors, after they stabilized their power, they began to plan for more power and became new local separatists .

Yarkand fell into such an endless loop.

If you don't use your own brothers and sons, you can't control the power of the central and local governments, and you can't establish the Khan power. You can use your own brothers to replace the other governors of the royal family, Burkes, which will lead to new separatist regimes. .

The younger brother wants to seize the power of the elder brother, and the son wants to rebel against his father. The Yarkand tradition is like this, and there has been no moral order in the slightest.

The winner is king.

Zhu Yihai didn't like these people who claimed to be descendants of Genghis Khan, especially Babai, the former Governor of Hami, who was ambitious and always wanted to invade the Hexi Jin District of Ming Dynasty. Now that Hami is gone, he is eager to make a comeback.

They thought that the Baishan faction was raised by them, but they didn't know that the Baishan faction had already packaged and sold them to the Junggar people.

They didn't even know that Da Ming had been watching them from the dark.

"If they need weapons, we can support them. Of course, the price will be high, and it must be several times higher than usual."

Ma Jixiang understood what the emperor meant.

When others were fighting, the onlookers were handing out knives. This was not a big deal.

The Baishan faction colluded with Junggar to carry out riots, and the plan was very secret. The Babai brothers were bound to lose, but the emperor wanted to pull them in, not only selling information, but also selling equipment. Junggar, Apak and Zhuo wanted to seize the city as easily as Hami , I'm afraid it will be difficult.

Turpan and Wucheng may turn into meat grinders. What would have been riots that came and went quickly like a storm may turn into a meat grinder for a protracted war. At that time, several forces may be deeply involved in this. This is naturally in the best interest of Daming.

The emperor didn't care how many people would die. Anyway, none of them were his own. As long as the land was still there, he wouldn't be afraid of all the people dying. When the time came, he would immigrate directly to save some trouble.

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Bokda Mountains.

Slap Mountain, Hongshan Pass.

Amulun, governor of Turpan, waited a little restlessly at the mountain pass with a group of confidant Kiligis.

"Father, are they really coming?"

"Did Father believe what they said?"

"Has the Baishan sect really betrayed us? Father has always treated Apache and Zhuo father and son well. Why?" Amulun's sons were full of doubts.

They even suspected that this was a trick of alienation by the Han people, and they didn't believe that they would sell them firearms, etc., but my father still ignored the dissuasion and brought people here.

Father only brought Gilikis, and it was obvious that he was very cautious.

The Kyrgyz people call themselves Kirgiz. It is said that Gekun, one of the northern tribes conquered by the Huns a long time ago, was their ancestor. By the time of the Tang Dynasty, there were hundreds of thousands of Kyrgyz people engaged in nomadic and hunting activities, and among them they were victorious soldiers. Eighty thousand, already able to smelt iron and make weapons. In the Tang Dynasty, they were ruled by the Turks and were called Qigu. They were ruled by the Turks and married with them. Later, the Turks were destroyed and attached to Xue Yantuo. Spitfire.

Later, they continued to grow stronger, sending [-] troops to invade the Uyghur Khanate, killing the Khan, and forcing the Uighurs to move south and west, while the Kyrgyz people occupied their land and established the once powerful Kirgiz Khanate, with its capital in Yeni Tuva south of the Sayan Mountains on the upper Sai River.

After the rise of the Khitan, the already weakened Kagasi belonged to the Liao Kingdom. Later, with the rise of the Mongol Yuan, the Jirijis were invaded. After the Oala tribe became stronger, they became a vassal of the Oirats. Only then did they get rid of Oara, and later they established four kingdoms, namely, the Kingdom of Tuva, the Kingdom of Yezer, the Kingdom of Altire and the Kingdom of Altisar, with Altisar as the head of the four kingdoms.

With the strength of the Junggar tribe, most of the Jirijis became the tribes and subjects of the Junggar tribe, and the Altan Khan of Eastern Mongolia competed with the Oirats for them many times.

Many of the Kyrgyz people who migrated westward have always been the vanguard of Junggar's attack on Yarkand. However, in the years of war, Yarkand has also conquered many Kyrgyz people, whether it is the Yarkand Khan, The governors of Turpan, Hami, or Kuche gradually began to like to use these Kyrgyz people as the main force of the army, and even became their own guards.

These militant and heroic Kyrgyz people also became the main force of the Yarkand army.

Even in the war between Yarkand and Junggar, the main forces of both sides were sometimes Kyrgyz people.

There are still many Kyrgyz people in their hometown of the Sayan Mountains, but most of them have already moved south and west to the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, serving in Junggar, Yarkand and even the Bukhara Khanate.

This is a group of good mercenaries who can fight and have professional ethics. As long as the money is paid on time, they will be easy-to-use knives.

"Wait!"

Amulun has always been opposed to his brother Babai's invasion of Daming Gansu. After taking over from his elder brother as governor of Turpan, he began to send tribute to Daming missions to open up the Silk Road in the Western Regions. He was dubious about the information that Daming suddenly provided, but after all he did He has been the governor for more than ten years, even if he was betrayed by the Baishan faction, as long as he secretly checks, he can find many clues.

The Red Mountain Pass is an important mountain pass from Hami to Turpan. Amulun waited while thinking about the current situation.

Ming has united with the countries of the Western Regions to destroy Yarkand, but now it suddenly wants to sell weapons to Yarkand. This is really incomprehensible, but considering the complicated situation now, especially Hami's sudden fall and loss of contact, a group of fog.

Daming said that Hami was a riot of the Baishan faction, who seized the city and planned to dedicate it to the Junggar people. The Ming army just took advantage of it.

He half-believed what he said. Hami suddenly lost contact and was taken over by the Ming army without any sign. In fact, it is very puzzling. After all, no matter how powerful the Ming army is, it is impossible to capture Hami so easily. The Ming army said The Baishan faction rioted and seized the city, but it made sense.

"coming,"

In the distance, an army appeared on the mountain pass.

Sun and moon flag.

The Ming army is here.

Approached slowly, and stopped hundreds of steps away.

A small party came on horseback.

Amulun also came forward with a small group of people.

The two sides meet.

"Why help us?"

"This is just a transaction. Swords, firearms and ammunition are exchanged for your gold, silver, jade, grain, cattle and sheep."

The officer of Ming Dynasty gave him a list, which listed the selling prices of various equipment, which were several times higher than normal, but among them were matchlock guns, lead ammunition, gunpowder, matchlocks and some iron cannons, which surprised him.

"Just these conditions?"

"The emperor hopes that you can submit to the Ming Dynasty and be loyal to the emperor. As long as you pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, the emperor will not only sell you weapons and ammunition, but also canonize you as Turpan Khan, King of Loyalty, and Protector of Beiting."

"You want me to betray Abdul Raha Khan?" Amulun said harshly, but in fact, he finally felt relaxed in his heart. It turned out that what Daming did was just to win him over, and wanted him to leave Yarkand. This makes sense on the contrary.

"We are saving you. Baishan sent Apak and Zhuo to collude with the Junggar people. If we hadn't reminded you, you would have been kept in the dark, and the city would have been destroyed and slaughtered like Hami without knowing anything. .

Surrender to Daming, otherwise you will not be able to resist the collusion between Junggar and Baishan faction. Even if you know this now, you are no match. As long as you submit and surrender, the Emperor of Ming will canonize you as Turpan Khan! "

(End of this chapter)