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Chapter 677 Ordos
Who should they look for? Actually, there was no need to look for them deliberately. Xin Aihuang's tribe was the most suitable. And they couldn't escape whether they wanted to go or not. There was no discussion. So, Xin Aihuang's tribe went out in full force with the idea that if they won, they would share the Kharchin tribe with the Chahar tribe, and if they lost, they would still have the protection of the Chahar tribe. They quietly took a detour and headed for Xinghe City.

It turned out that Su Nang Taiji's information was really accurate. He happened to catch the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty meeting with the two leaders. The reason why he did not kill Bai Hong Taiji and allowed him and Shunyi King Bushitu to lead their troops to escape from the north was entirely for the sake of the overall situation.

The current situation is obvious. The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty quietly left the country to meet with Baihong Dataiji and Bushitu. If they were attacked by the Mongolian army, the culprits must be the leaders of the Kharchin and Tumed tribes. As for whether there were other people secretly making trouble, the Ming court could neither take care of it nor find out clearly. It was a confusing account.

As long as the trade between the Kharchin and Tumed tribes and the Ming Dynasty is disrupted, Shunyi King Bushitu will surely fall first. By then, Su Nang Taiji's status will be guaranteed, and the Xin Aihuang tribe will be able to return to their own clan and occupy a good pasture. They will no longer have to survive in the cracks, and will no longer have to worry about revenge from the Kharchin tribe.

"Although the method is stupid, it works. But when did the Han people's firearms become so sharp?"

On the left of Ombuchu stood an old man with gray hair and beard. He was not very strong and looked very much like a northern Han Chinese. He did not have braids, but wrapped his hair with a cloth.

He is the grandson of Sanniangzi of the Tumed tribe, Su Nang Taiji. He looks a bit old, but he is actually two years younger than Bu Shitu.

This time when he came to attack the Ming Emperor, he not only brought in 8,000 reinforcements from the Ordos tribe, but also mobilized all the thirty young and strong Otog tribesmen who supported him, gathering a total of 25,000 cavalrymen, intending to burn his boats.

But after the initial test last night, the original feeling of being foolproof seemed to be shaken a little. The Han army on the opposite side had no similarities with the Ming border army in terms of equipment, weapons and tactics, and their combat effectiveness was even more amazing. In just two small-scale charges, they lost more than 200 people.

"If Sunang Taiji is afraid, he should send the warriors of Ordos to the battlefield first. According to Mongolian custom, those who contribute more will get more. Whoever breaks through the Ming army's position will be the emperor of the Han people!"

The man standing on the right of Ombuchu was younger than Su Nang, about forty years old, very thin and tall, the skinny and tall type, a body type rarely seen among the northern nomadic peoples.

His name was E'linchen, and he was Jinang, also known as Jinong, from the Ordos tribe. This position was originally established by Genghis Khan. There was only one in all of Mongolia, and his status was quite high and his power was great, roughly equivalent to a prince with real power in the Han dynasty.

The Jinong system was not established until the reign of Dayan Khan. The Great Khan led all the Mongolian tribes, including the Chahar tribe, and Jinang led 30,000 households of the Right Wing of Mongolia and the Ordos tribe.

But after Dayan Khan, the Mongolian tribes fell apart again, and some rules were gradually abandoned. Many tribes had their own Khan and Jinang, which became less and less valuable.

Mongolian tribes are usually formed by blood, just like a big family in a village. When the offspring grow up, they have to separate. Each child has a homestead and a piece of land. Although they live their own lives, they are still relatives. But Ordos is different. It became a part of Mongolia because of work.

After Genghis Khan's death, his portraits, relics, clothes, bows and arrows, golden saddles, horse gear, etc. were enshrined as the objects of the gods and placed in four ordos. The word ordo comes from the Turkic language and was later used by the Mongols, meaning a large tent. In addition to Genghis Khan's four ordos, his four queens also had four ordos. After their deaths, these four ordos also became holy places for worshipping the queens' heroic spirits.

In 1235, Ogedei Khan built the capital Karakorum on the southern foot of the Hangai Mountains and merged the eight ordos dedicated to Genghis Khan and his queen into a single place, commonly known as the Eight White Rooms.

The tombs of ancient emperors would have tomb keepers and military guards. For example, Zhu Yuanzhang's tomb in Nanjing was specially guarded by the Nanjing Shrine Supervisor and the Imperial Guards.

After the Mongols founded their country, they also learned this system. So the group of people responsible for guarding Genghis Khan's Ordos were called Ordos. After it was introduced into the mainland, it was transliterated into Chinese as Artos, Woldusi, Ordos, etc.

But these tomb keepers did not come from a certain ethnic group, but were selected from the generals who were most loyal to Genghis Khan, such as Muhuali, Zhebie, Subetai, as well as the imperial guards and members of the Golden Family. After hundreds of years of settlement, they gradually formed an ethnic group, which was called Ordos or Ordos by outsiders.

Before the Ming Dynasty, the Ordos people had lived near Kharakhorum for generations. In addition to grazing and farming, their most important task was to guard the Eight White Rooms.

In 1380, the Ming army went north to attack Karakorum. In order to prevent the Eight White Rooms from being destroyed in the war, the Ordos tribe led the Ordos tribe to retreat northward to the Orkhon grassland a month in advance. After the Ming army left, Karakorum was also burned down. The Ordos tribe was afraid that the Ming army would attack again, so they had to choose to migrate.

They set out from the Orkhon steppe, holding high the Suled flag of Genghis Khan, and escorted by archers and horsemen, drove eight large ox carts loaded with the Eight White Rooms all the way west to the foot of the Hangai Mountains.

After that, they went to the Altai Mountains, the Ili River Valley, the Hami Grassland and the Alashan Grassland. After wandering for nearly a hundred years, they never chose to settle in one place for a long time. It was not because the local Mongolian tribes could not accommodate them, nor because the water and grass were not rich enough, but because they were fulfilling a responsibility.

When Genghis Khan was alive, he passed by Ordos on his way to conquer Western Xia. Seeing many deer running, he exclaimed: This is the habitat of sika deer, the hometown of hoopoes, the place where declining dynasties are revived, and the country where white-haired old men enjoy themselves. I want to be buried here after I die!
After Genghis Khan's death and before Karakorum was built, the Ordos tribe had settled Ordo here, and later moved to Karakorum. However, a small number of people stayed in Ordos for hundreds of years, waiting to complete the Khan's instructions.

As the saying goes, heaven rewards those who work hard. After the Battle of Tumu, the Ming Dynasty entered a strategic passive position, drastically reduced its defense lines, built the Great Wall, and gave up the Hetao and Ordos regions.

This news soon reached the ears of the Ordos tribe, and under the leadership of Boluo Hujinang, they began a large-scale migration to the east. They crossed the Helan Mountains to reach the vast grassland in front of the Yin Mountains, and then crossed the Yellow River to enter the Ordos grassland. It took almost 30 years, which is known in history as "the Northern Barbarians were trapped."

When Dayan Khan became the leader of the Mongol Restoration, the Ordos tribe was handed over to his third son, Barsbolot. From then on, this tribe that guarded the mausoleum of Genghis Khan also had the blood of the Golden Family.

(End of this chapter)