786, Imperial Conference III on Northwest Issues

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Sun Chengzong

I heard the emperor's question. It is obvious that the Ming Dynasty has recovered the entire province of Gansu and separated Qinghai-Tibet from Mongolia. How did the Mongols get involved with Qinghai-Tibet again?

He nodded. Although the emperor was young, his eyes were sharp and the questions he asked were all on point. The elders and bachelors in the cabinet were all interested. In fact, the cabinet members were very interested in the Ming Dynasty's rule and historical changes in the northwest.

Almost nothing is known, and there is an extreme lack of understanding.

This is also a common problem among officials who have passed the imperial examination. Except for the Four Books and Five Classics, and even Zhu Xi's "Collected Commentary on the Four Books", they have a very lack of understanding of actual things.

"The peace in Qinghai-Tibet lasted less than 150 years. In the 16th year of Chenghua (1480), Dayan Khan succeeded to the throne. He once again unified the Mongolian plateau through conquests in the south and north. The fifteenth generation grandson of Genghis Khan,

The son of Polohu Jinong Bayan Mengke, the originator of Chahar Mongolia. He is also the ancestor of today's Lin Dan Khan."

Many civil servants did not know the specific lineage of Lin Dan Khan. At this time, Sun Chengzong waved his hand, and several Hanlin bachelors hung up a chart, which showed the lineage of the Yuan Dynasty emperors from Genghis Khan to Lin Dan Khan.

"During the process of Dayan Khan's unification of Mongolia, Yebula, the right-wing lord of the Yongshebu tribe in Eastern Mongolia, always refused to marry Dayan Khan. In 1510, Dayan Khan attacked the Yongshebu tribe, but Yebula was defeated. Later, for

Evading the Chahar people, he led the remaining troops and moved to Qinghai through the Gansu area controlled by the Ming Dynasty."

Li Banghua, the Minister of War, asked: "What was the attitude of the imperial court at that time? First, did it allow Dayan Khan to unify Mongolia without interfering? Second, why did the Gansu garrison allow the Yongxie Bu tribe to pass through the border?"

Both of these questions are very pointed.

Sun Chengzong pondered for a moment and said: "At that time, Emperor Wuzong of the DPRK had great differences with his ministers, and they focused on containing Mongolia. Dayan Khan expelled the Oara people and forced them to move westward to the Western Regions, becoming the Mongolian Mongolia. He annexed Monan and Mobei.

After Mongolia and the Eastern Mongolian tribes basically unified Mongolia, they led a large-scale attack on Datong in an attempt to reoccupy the Central Plains and restore the Yuan Dynasty's rule over the Han lands."

The cabinet and civil servants all looked at each other in shock, not knowing anything about it.

Sun Chengzong smiled bitterly. Wu Zong was the Ming emperor who was most blackmailed by civil servants. In his short life, he did indeed do a lot of great things. Unfortunately, what was recorded was the leopard room, going to Jiangnan to fool around, doting on Jiang Bin and other black materials. Other things.

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Jiang Bin was a famous general with extraordinary bravery. When suppressing the uprising of Liu Liu and Liu Qi, he was hit by three arrows, one of which hit his face. However, he had no fear and fought again. He gained the favor of Emperor Wu.

Later, regarding the problems existing in the Ming Dynasty, it was proposed that the frontier army and the Beijing camp should take turns to change defenses, and the battle effectiveness of the Beijing camp could be restored through the battlefields of Xuanda and the Mongols.

Under the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, the border army and the Beijing army were not allowed to interact with each other. Because if the border army was weak, Mongolia would invade; if the Beijing army was weak, the border army would become a disaster. This was a system designed to strengthen imperial power. Wu Zong ignored the fierceness of his ministers

Opposition, the ancestral system was broken and the border troops were sent to Beijing, and the East and West Government Offices were set up, commanded by Jiang Bin and Xu Tai.

At that time, in order to regain his military power, he even settled in Xuanfu Town for a period of time.

In the twelfth year of Zhengde (1517), Emperor Wu Zong and his entourage came to Xuan Mansion in great force to build the "Zhenguo Mansion". He also renamed himself Zhu Shou, and later he was named "Zhenguo Gong".

After arriving at Xuanfu, Emperor Wuzong reorganized the army, ate and lived with the soldiers, got along well, and quickly gained military morale. The emperor could not win over the civil servants in the capital and could not get military power, so he simply stopped playing with them and went to Xuanda University himself.

Seizing military power caused a collective panic among the civil servants in the capital. He ordered that all ministers were not allowed to come to Xuan Mansion, and only the personal followers of Baofang could come in and out at any time.

Wu Zong transferred the border troops to Beijing to replace the Beijing camp, which was the focus of his civil struggle. In the end, Jiang Bin's subordinates were deceived, and Jiang Bin was killed by the civil officials. Wu Zong was also poisoned. In the Ming Dynasty, as long as the emperor wanted to cheer up, the result

They are all similar. All his direct descendants were killed, and the emperor died young. This was the case after Yingzong returned, and the same was true for Wu Zong.

Of course, Sun Chengzong would not say this explicitly.

"Dayan Khan is the Mongolian little prince known to us in the Ming Dynasty. He was raised by his wife Manduhai. When Wu Zong found that Mongolia had grown bigger, he settled in Xuanfu Town and built a government palace. He appointed himself the general of the government.

Then Dayan Khan relied on the military might of unifying Mongolia and marched south to attack Datong. Wu Zong gathered the Xuan army and Dayan Khan to fight in Yingzhou and defeated the Mongolian army. Dayan Khan was defeated and died that year after returning to Mongolia.

Maybe he was injured on the battlefield, just like Nurhachi, the slave chief who founded the slaves."

After hearing Sun Chengzong's explanation, Chongzhen and the ministers were silent. Although Sun Chengzong did not say it explicitly, of course they all understood what was going on.

The reason why Dayan Khan was able to unify Mongolia without interference from the Ming Dynasty, and the Yongxie Bu tribe did not cross the border without being blocked by the Gansu border troops, was mainly because the Ming Dynasty was busy with internal struggles. The emperor and civil servants were fiercely competing for power.

"Since the Taizu Dynasty, the northwest has been in peace for a long time. It has not experienced war for 150 years. The combat effectiveness of the army has dropped greatly. The officers and soldiers are afraid of fighting. They have neither the ability nor the courage to block the Yongxiebu tribe's Yibula crossing the border.

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Chongzhen took a deep breath and said: "After Yong Xie Bubu's Yibula enters Qinghai, I'm afraid the northwest will not be stable."

"Your Majesty clearly saw that after Yibula entered Qinghai, he led his troops to defeat the "Four Guards of Western Fan" entrusted by the Ming Dynasty. After seeing his strength, the Mongolian princes of the seven Kansai tribes also defected to Yibula.

Allowing his strength to rapidly expand."

"He is not a person who is the opponent of Dayan Khan. He has very strong military ability. He roams all over the northwest, as if he is in an uninhabited land, and he is not a assassin."

".This caused the Ming Dynasty's defense system in Gansu to collapse."

"After his power increased greatly, he often led troops through the Gansu region to attack the Mongolian region. He retaliated against the tribes that had surrendered to Dayan Khan in an attempt to encroach on Dayan Khan's western territory. He also tried to collude with those who were

The Oara people were forced to move westward. He had become Dayan Khan’s biggest worry at that time.”

"At that time, the Ming Dynasty's Gansu garrison did not intercept and did not dare to intercept Yibulu's behavior of freely traveling through Gansu as if he were at home. Gansu was reduced to the former right-wing lord of Eastern Mongolia, Yongxie Bubu, and Yibulu and Da

The battlefield where Yanhan repeatedly seesawed."

The academicians and officials were very surprised. No one would tell them these things. It turned out that such things happened in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Chongzhen looked ugly, this was simply a humiliation for the Ming Dynasty. The imperial court was fighting internally, and the border troops were isolated and helpless. The Mongols were in an uninhabited land in Gansu, fighting back and forth, and raiding each other. However, he clearly knew that this was

Facts. This period of history told by Sun Chengzong is a difficult learning opportunity.

"Dayan Khan will not tolerate the lords of the Yongxie Bubu tribe and will not try to make it bigger," Chongzhen said. "The Mongols will invade Qinghai later."

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