The news that the tribes of Riyue Mountain rejected Natemba soon spread like legs on the small river bank on the south bank of the Yellow River.
When the news reached Xiao Lazun's ears, the leader of the Mongolian tribe, who was less than thirty years old, was wearing a yellow hat and a purple robe that reached to his feet. He was accompanied by the monk Quzang and several leaders at the Fatai of Youning Temple.
Next, watch the craftsmen of Youning Temple casting large bronze vessels in Baishiya Bajiao City.
However, what Xiaolazun cast was not a cannon, but a bronze statue of Guanyin weighing more than 200 kilograms.
The exquisite bronze statue was cast by the lost wax method and has entered the final polishing stage.
Little Lazun's piety was interrupted by news from afar. He turned to Monk Quzang and asked: "Teacher, a Han army captured the Timba given to me by the Seventh Division of Riyue Mountain in Ju'erwan. Do you know they are
Who?"
Monk Quzang closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then said a Chinese name: "Liu Chengzong."
Qu Zang is one of the few people in this land who can travel everywhere.
In his early years, he studied scriptures at the Drepung Monastery in Uzang. He was assigned by the fourth lama, the great-grandson of Amada Khan, to go to Qinghai to preach for the Huoluo Chibu. He was also the Buddhist altar of Youning Monastery in Xining.
As early as when Liu Chengzong set out from Pingliang to the west, Qu Zang was in Xining to collect copper materials and craftsmen for Xiao Lazun. He already knew that the emperor appointed Liu Chengzong, the leader of the Shaanxi rebels, as the consolation envoy to Qinghai.
But he didn't say.
Knowledge is a priceless treasure in the world. It only gets its due value when others ask about it.
Xiao Lazun asked again: "Who is Liu Chengzong?"
Monk Quzang said seriously: "Evil man."
Little Lazun did not have much reaction to this evaluation. He just nodded slightly, preached a Dharma chant, and then said: "There are too many evil people in the world, and my brother Huang Taiji is also a evil person."
In the accompanying team, a leader emerged from the crowd, and Baiyan Taiji, who was also the son of Huo Luochi, advised: "He is your brother."
When Xiao Lazun, who had always had a calm expression, heard this, he finally said angrily: "You are also his brother, why don't you go and persuade him? I have the largest number of tribes and the largest pasture. After my father's death, my concubine should belong to me, so why let him snatch it away?"
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"In the Year of the Rat and Ox, during the war, Jishedi Ba took the treasure and asked Aba Dai of Khalkha to borrow three thousand troops to enter Weizang. After losing the battle, he got the treasure."
Little Lazun turned to look at Monk Quzang: "Ten years ago, we invaded Weizang to protect the Yellow Sect and beat the shit out of Zangba. What did I get? They gave me a bowl with a human head!"
Taiji sighed, it was really a confusing battle.
During the Jiajing period, the head of the Later Tibet, Xin Xiaba Caidan Dorje, rebelled and joined forces with the Bai Jiao. They gradually became more powerful and occupied the Later Tibet, calling themselves Zangba Khan.
By the end of Wanli, when the great-grandson of Amada Khan died and was enthroned, the fourth Zangba Khan expanded outward, gradually encroaching and conquering many small kingdoms, such as Bhutan, Aliguge and other small kingdoms.<
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Jixue Diba was the local governor in the lower reaches of the Lhasa River and a benefactor of the Yellow Sect at that time. In order to protect himself, he took out his own treasure "Lugexiare" and sent people to invite the Khalkha Mongols who believed in the Yellow Sect to come to Tibet to defend the religion.
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When entering Tibet, win first and then lose.
At that time, the Huoluo Chi tribe did not fully believe in the Yellow Sect, so the Yellow Sect asked the leader of Mobei to launch an expedition.
Aba Dai's younger brother from the Khalkha tribe came with his army. Before they even entered Tibet, the battle had already begun.
Tsangba Khan was frightened by the Mongolian cavalry that sporadically entered Tibet to rob, so he fortified himself in Lhasa, intending to use the geographical advantage to resist to the death.
Who would have known that the monks and soldiers from Sera and Drepung temples, as the main force of the Yellow Sect, were in internal strife with Jixue Diba's troops.
Zangba Khan picked up the plane and launched a counterattack with 10,000 troops. He attacked the two temples and killed more than 5,000 monks and lay people. The two temples subsequently surrendered. Aba Dai's brother arrived in Weizang after a long journey, and the Yellow Sect had surrendered.
After all, the reinforcements had arrived, but Zangba Khan did not dare to go too far. The only price the Yellow Sect paid was the seizure of two temples. Later, the two temples lost three hundred taels of gold and returned to the hands of the Yellow Sect.
After a round of fighting, tens of thousands of people died, and the battle line remained unchanged. The only result was three hundred taels of gold, and the situation was back to where it started.
The world of Zangba is so big. After winning the Yellow Sect, he thought he could sit back and relax. He promulgated the Sixteen Dharma and ordered all the castles in Tibet to be demolished except for the fourteen major sects, as if he could sit back and relax.
Therefore, when the old Zangba died and the new younger Zangba Khan succeeded to the throne, the Huoluo Chi tribe, such as Huang Taiji and Xiao Lazun, entered Tibet in the first year of the Apocalypse.
They didn't see any decent fortifications, so there was no decent resistance.
There is no castle, no fortifications, and the purpose is only robbery. Is there anyone in the world who can be the opponent of the Mongols?
Not to mention Weizang, even Shaanxi and Gansu have nothing to do with them.
There were three roads for the Mongols to enter Tibet from Mobei. Except for Hami, the other two were within the territory of the Ming Dynasty and crossed into Amdo. The road was unimpeded.
I tried to stop it, but found that my efforts were thankless, so I just stopped trying. Just go through it if you want to, and just don't cause trouble.
Seeing that he could not persuade his younger brother, Baiyan Taiji saluted Monk Quzang and said, "Teacher, please persuade him."
The teacher doesn’t want to persuade.
Sometimes, the monks around the Mongolian leader have the same interests as the leader; but sometimes, their interests are not the same.
Monk Quzang is proficient in medicine, Buddhism, Confucianism, several kinds of knowledge and Chinese, Tibetan and Mongolian languages.
Not only was he sent by the fourth lama to preach in Huoluo Chibu, he was also a friend of Sun Juxiang, a native of Qinshui, Shanxi.
Sun Juxiang was the governor of Shaanxi during the Tianqi period. He was entrusted with a very important task, which was to serve as an envoy between Huang Taiji and Xiao La to try to escalate the conflict between the two.
Unfortunately, the results of this work could not be reported later. Sun Juxiang retired from politics because of Wei Zhongxian's involvement in politics, and the Hezhou Councilor Yuan Panlong who was directly contacted was promoted to the deputy general of Dingbianying.
Therefore, this commission cannot be completed.
But fortunately Huang Taiji was not his disciple in ancient times, and Liu Chengzong was not a good person when he led his army to rob and rob in the mountains of Shaanxi.
Then there are still two good people left by his side, namely the Ming Dynasty Court and Huo Luo Chi Xiao Lazun. As long as they don't fight, Monk Quzang has nothing to do with other matters.
So he didn't speak, which made Taiji very angry.
But Xiao Lazun said happily: "Look, the teacher also thinks that what Gu Ru did was wrong. My father's concubine should be given to me. If he takes my concubine, I will take his horse!"
Taiji said, "Now that the Han people are snatching your Timba, what are you going to do?"
Little Lazun said nothing.
Huo Luochi's family had eight sons, and four of them died in the decades-long war against the Ming Dynasty's border guards.
Three died directly in the hands of the Ming army, and the other died in the hands of the Fan soldiers who robbed the emperor's protection.
On the other hand, the Huoluochi family's wish to build a temple in Baishiya, Nigongchuan River, has been going on for decades, and has been destroyed several times by the Ming army.
They said that if the imperial court would build a temple for me, I would surrender and never betray them. The imperial court firmly believed that they wanted to build a city and sternly refused.
Then I figured out how to get the wood to build the temple. I saved tens of thousands of large logs to dry, put them on a toothpaste to dry, and finally dried them.
The Ming army sent twenty soldiers and five additional soldiers to sneak over from Hezhou and burned it for a day and a night, leaving behind a pile of charcoal. They would not have to worry about keeping warm for ten years.
Later, when the Ming army tightened its defense line at the end of Wanli, Huoluo Chibu secretly built a few small temples in Xiaohetao. Until now, he has never thought of building a big temple again.
This kind of aggrieved thing happened throughout the growth process of little Lazun.
Even now, he is still very afraid of the Ming army.
If Taiji hadn't asked about it as a pretext, and he didn't want to think about it, he would have just robbed the seven poor tribes of Riyue Mountain.
But Baiyan Taiji stopped him when he asked about it. He could only say: "Shh... don't disturb the casting of the holy statue."
Baiyan knew his mentality and further sarcastically said: "Can you bear it when the Han people rob you of Timba? Gu Ru just took over his father's concubine, so you sent seven troops to rob him of his pastureland in Haibei?" p>
"Then rob him!" Xiao Lazun was aroused and said angrily: "If he robs Riyue Mountain, I will go to Hezhou and rob their women and sell them all to Dajian Road!"
He shook his head and sighed with an unteachable look. He wanted Xiao Lazun to stop robbing each other with Guru Huang Taiji, but his younger brother would rather fight the Han people than rob his older brother, which made him very helpless. p>
The environment they are in now is not safe. For example, there were Khalkha people on Huang Taiji's side, and there were Khalkha people on their side.
Baiyan vaguely felt that there were already too many people and horses in the Khalkha tribe entering the Western Sea.
Besides, there are only a few kilns on Dajian Road. You rob a few tribes and seize a few women. Sichuan Han merchants who occasionally do business will buy them back and sell them to the kilns on Dajian Road. p>
If you rob hundreds of people, if you want to sell it, someone has to buy it.
Unexpectedly, Monk Quzang became anxious after hearing this, and quickly stopped him: "Lazun, Hezhou and Liu Chengzong are not from the same family."
Little Lazun was speaking angrily, but now he could not control his anger and glared: "They are all Han, what's the difference?"
Monk Quzang had never experienced Liu Chengzong's situation, so he thought about how to describe it: "Although the emperor granted him an official position, he and the emperor are not the same family. Attacking Hezhou will not retaliate against him, but will provoke powerful enemies outside."
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"Impossible!"
Xiaola spoke with certainty, waving his hands and saying: "The messenger said he is the Qinghai Xuan Comfort Envoy, riding a third-rank official."
Monk Quzang was also stunned and thought for a long time in surprise.
He has lived in Xining and Lanzhou for a long time, and has seen everyone from high-ranking officials to low-ranking peddlers.
He frowned and said, "You shouldn't. The customs in China are different. They don't ride people there."
Little Lazun shook his head, confused.
But he could figure out one thing: "The teacher said that he and the emperor are not from the same family, which means that these people have no family now."
When Qu Zang nodded, what appeared on Xiao Lazun's face was not excitement, but worry.
As Huo Luo Chibu, who has been competing with the Ming frontier army for decades, he knows what kind of structure the Ming army is.
So he said: "Over there, let me send someone to talk to Liu Chengzong...Brother."
Xiao Lazun looked at Baiyan Taiji and said, "Go and talk to him for me and see if his troops are tens of thousands of Han people or tens of thousands of Han troops."
Xiao Lazun calculated his strength and found that he had 5,000 cavalry. Counting the tribes attached to him, he probably could mobilize less than 20,000 herdsmen.
Brother Gu is like Huang Taiji. He has three thousand cavalry and can probably mobilize nine thousand people.
Because of this, the brothers were able to occupy the fertile pastures of the Xiaohetao and the less fertile pastures to the west of the Yellow River.
And they can rely on their troops and horses to move in and out between Qinghai and Uzang. Although they are untenable in the Uzang area, Zangba Khan can't do anything to them.
For him, if Liu Chengzong's people were tens of thousands of Han people, they would be able to provide him with a lot of help if they could get along well with each other.
But if more than 10,000 homeless Han troops appeared in the north of Riyue Mountain, it would be more frightening to Xiao Lazun than hearing about a tribe with 5,000 tents entering Qinghai.
The reason for fear is not the strength of troops and equipment, but the fact that they believe in Buddhism. Then the Yan people will have manors around the temple, and the herdsmen will also have homes around the temple.
If that is a Han army without a home, what does that mean?
That means it’s not that they were coming in and out of the Han area, but that the Han people were coming in and out of the pastures surrounding the temple.
The desperado has become someone else. Isn't it easy to stop attacking and defending?
"On the one hand, I sent people to meet him, and on the other hand, I sent people to prepare for war."
Monk Quzang said: "Give him the things Zangba gave you and see if he uses them. If he uses them, there will be no need to fight."
"What did Zangba give me?"
Little Lazun thought about it, thinking that apart from fighting with Zangba, he had no friendly exchanges. What valuable things had he given to him? No!
Monk Quzang said expressionlessly: "Sixteen methods."
"Sixteen methods?"
Little Lazun knew that. It was the law promulgated by Zangba Khan in Uzang. Nowadays, some tribes in Qinghai also use that law, and more of them use the fifteen laws of the past.
But the Mongolians don’t use it. The Mongolians in the West Sea use my answer method.
Little Lazun asked: "What's the use of giving that to him? Can I give him my answer?"
"When Anda Khan was doing the Anda law, he had Han people around him to help him. The law is very similar to that of the Han people, so it is useless to give it to him."
Monk Quzang shook his head and said: "If you give him the sixteen methods of Zangba, and he is willing to use them, you can give him a piece of pasture land and collect Timba from him, and he will be willing to give it to you."
"If he doesn't want to use it, be prepared to fight him."
Monk Quzang did not explain the reason for this.
It is a set of laws for nobles to enjoy. If those Han people are willing to use it, they will naturally become people without ambition like Zangba.
How can people stop themselves from enjoying themselves?
It's impossible, unless he pursues farther and greater happiness, he can stop himself from enjoying it in the short term.
What is farther and bigger?
Qinghai.
The whole of Qinghai.
"Then I will listen to the teacher. Brother, you can meet him for me and give him Zangpa's sixteen methods. If he wants to use them, Lazun will give Haibei to him for one year..." p>
Xiao Lazun thought about it again and again, not knowing how much timbah should be given to Liu Chengzong.
Before he could figure out the problem, Baiyan frowned and said, "Haibei, do you want him to fight Gu Ru?"
"If Gu Ru doesn't fight him, it will be over. I won't fight him either. Let Haibei be given to him. I won't fight Gu Ru either."
Little Lazun chuckled: "Isn't this what you want? I have an idea."
With that said, Xiao Lazun happily patted his elder brother on the shoulder and said: "One thousand horses, if you give me one thousand horses a year, I will give him all of Haibei."
