The sun sets in the west, the sunset glows lightly,
The top of the mountain is covered with white snow, glittering and translucent, sometimes bright red and lavender, sometimes light dark blue, like an ice dragon flying through the flowers, changing in countless ways.
At Biandukou Pass, the western pass of the Ling Dynasty, the emperor inspected the garrison officers and soldiers here.
"It's really infinite scenery, beautiful rivers and mountains!" The emperor exclaimed. Since traveling to the west, he has seen countless beautiful rivers and mountains. Although the west is not as prosperous and prosperous as the Central Plains, the scenery is majestic and intoxicating.
Biandukou is located in the hinterland of the Qilian Mountains, interrupted by the rolling Qilian Mountains. A mountain gorge passage runs through Gansu and Qinghai.
This natural and dangerous pass has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.
"Your Majesty, this place was called Dadou Bagou in ancient times. The name of Biandu is a variation of the Tibetan word Bianmaduo, which means golden dew plum. There are this kind of low shrubs everywhere under the Qilian Mountains. They have a lot of flowers and delicate flowers, which are often golden yellow.
There are also silvery white and pink ones, such as Jinyintan, where the newly established Haiyan County in the east of Qinghai Lake is located. There are a large number of this kind of golden plums there. In summer, they are everywhere.
Every summer in Biandukou Canyon, golden plum blossoms bloom all over the mountains and plains, attracting countless herds of flower-eating deer."
The guard general stationed at Biandukou excitedly introduced the young battalion officer to the emperor in person. He held the rank of fifth-grade Ranger General. He also wore a soldier's soul gifted by the emperor on his waist and a red cotton armor on his chest.
Also adorned with several medals.
There are several scars on his young and resolute face, which prove his bravery better than the bright Purple Gold and Silver Star Medal on his chest.
This disciple of the Emperor who graduated from the Jiangwu Hall in the capital of the Ming Dynasty has a very impressive resume. In the first year of Shaotian's reign in Ningbo, he joined the Emperor's King's Division. After that, he made a northern expedition to Wuyue, and then was selected into the emperor's bodyguard, and then entered the Jiangwu Hall, and then in
If I had not been seriously injured during the attack on Nanjing and recuperated for a year, I would have missed many opportunities, and I would have been far more than a battalion officer.
"This is the most convenient passage from eastern Qinghai to the Hexi Corridor in Gansu. It has been very important for military and trade in the past dynasties."
Biandukou is not just a pass, but a dangerous and long valley. It is an important passage for the ancient Guanlong and Hehuang areas to enter the Hexi Corridor and lead to the Western Regions. The canyon and Shaanxi Pass are deep and the valley is nearly sixty miles long.
Sometimes wide and sometimes narrow, it is extremely dangerous.
On one side is the Qilian Mountain grassland, on the other side is the Ganzhou Zhangye Southwest Folk Music in the Hexi Corridor.
To the south of the canyon is the ancient Ebao City built in the Yuan Dynasty. After restoration, it still guards the south entrance of the canyon. To the north is the Biandu Pass.
Two passes guard this dangerous canyon passage that is nearly 60 miles long.
There is even a customs office here, as this canyon was also an important route on the ancient Silk Road.
To the south of Ebao Pass is the Yema River, and to the north of Biandukou Pass is the Tongzi River.
Ebao passes through the grassland valley of the Qilian Mountains, that is, the Datong River Valley can pass through Menyuan County, cross the Daban Mountain, and enter Xining in the Hehuang Valley, or pass through Tonghuangyuan, Haiyan, Qinghai Lake, or pass through the Yema River in the Qilian Valley.
The river goes west to Qilian County, then crosses the Niuxin Pass and goes south to the Mole Valley, then south to Datong Mountain and the Hargai River, and reaches the north bank of Qinghai Lake.
Shandan Royal Racecourse is just north of Lenglong Ridge and not far east of Biandukou.
Excellent pastures, dangerous passes, and important passages.
Whether it is from Xining to Menyuan, Ebao, Biandukou, or from Ebao to Qilian or Haiyan, when the Ming Dynasty is planning Qinghai-Tibet, this important road is becoming more and more busy.
Troops, business travelers, immigrants, supplies, and commercial goods all come and go in a steady stream, and there are often even queues to clear customs.
At the two passes between the north and the south, two bustling commercial towns have been built in just a few years. They have even become a distribution, processing and trading town for cattle, horses, alpacas, furs, tea, etc. It is also a post station and an important military warehouse.
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There are several Gansu-Qinghai passages, but this one is undoubtedly the most convenient and important.
Coming from the Shandan Royal Racecourse, Zhu Yihai stopped at Biandukou to get a deeper understanding of the real side of the military, civilians, merchants, and Tibetan people here, and even often wandered around the market incognito.
He was very satisfied with the development here. After the turmoil in Shaanxi and Gansu was put down, it was the first place where the imperial camp was stationed and the first place to restore industry and commerce.
A large amount of grain and other materials from the agricultural areas of Huanggu Valley in the Eight Hundred Mile River were quickly transferred to Hexi and even transported to the Western Regions.
"Your Majesty, the Khan of Qinghai is here and is asking for customs clearance and a face-to-face interview in front of Ebao."
Qinghai Khan Dalai Batur is a little worried now. Khan was elected, but he failed to become Heshuote Khan. Now he can't even control Qinghai. Laowu refused to obey orders in the southeastern meander area. It is obvious that he
Following the self-reliant son of Kham, Handu, the father and son became close to each other.
Dalai tolerated it for the time being and wanted to lead troops into Weizang first, except for Dayan Khan. But now the emperor issued a decree saying that the evidence for Dayan's murder of Gushi Khan was somewhat flawed, and Dayan Khan provided new evidence to prove his innocence.
, the emperor needs to send someone to conduct a detailed investigation, and before the results are obtained, order the Heshuote ministries to temporarily suspend their troops.
Following the emperor's decree, other Taijis in Qinghai immediately led their troops back to their tribes, and the nephews and general managers in the already wavering Kashgar area also responded immediately.
Isn't this going back on one's word?
Dalai was dissatisfied, but the emperor's envoy told him that this was the imperial edict of the Emperor of Heaven, and that they were here to announce the edict, not to discuss it.
If anyone disobeys the emperor's will, dares to send troops beyond the current actual control line without authorization, and dares to provoke a civil war in Heshuote, then the Ming Dynasty will unite with other Heshuote troops to punish him.
These words are full of murderous intent.
Even Dalai's sons were afraid.
Other Taiji people even persuaded him to wait for the emperor's investigation results and said they believed in the emperor.
Kada Lai was considered by Gushi Khan to be the smartest son. If you think about it for a moment, you can understand why the Ming Dynasty had such a series of tricks. This was to split the Kashote Khanate.
What happened next was just as he expected.
The situation changes suddenly.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Dayan Khan fought against Jisheba and other rebels in Houzang, and many surprising surprises occurred. First, the coalition forces of Dayan Khan and Ganden Phodrang defeated Jisheba.
The rebel alliance suddenly happened, and the Red Sect and others rebelled in the middle of the night. Heshuote stood still and refused to save them, and Suonan Raodan was defeated.
Then Jisheba actually met with Dayan Khan at the foot of Gyangze Fort, and then, with the mediation of the envoy, they went to Tashilhunpo Monastery in Shigatse to pay homage to the fourth master, and asked the 80-year-old leader of the Dharma Assembly to preside over it.
A formal alliance between the two.
The envoy of the Ming Dynasty, the first of the fourth generation, came forward together. Dayan Khan shook hands with Jishediba and made peace. In fact, the entire peace talks had been reached long before they came to Shigatse. They were all presided over by the Ming Dynasty. The main conditions were drawn up by the Ming Dynasty.
Determined.
Dayan Khan was stationed in Shigatse, rear Tibet, and Jisheba was stationed in Lhasa, front Tibet. The front and rear Tibet were divided, and at the same time, politics and religion were separated.
Gyantse Fort was garrisoned by General Weizang of Weizang Yamen and led the Ming army to maintain peace in the middle.
After the alliance meeting in Shigatse, we notified Lhasa. In fact, it was just a matter of notifying them.
The chief minister came to Lhasa in person, and the fifth generation had to give him face. Jin Shengtan also invited Dayan, Jixue Diba, Hua, Hong, Baiji sects, and the Diba rebels from Gongbu, and even
Ladakh, Sikkim, Bulukba and other vassals formed an alliance together.
The emperor's envoy read out the emperor's edict, and the situation in Tibet changed drastically.
Although the fifth generation was dissatisfied, his chief steward Suonan Raodan died in Gyantse under unclear circumstances. It was said that he died in an attack in the rebel army. However, the fifth generation received news that in fact Suonan Raodan did not die that night and was later killed.
Dayan was placed under house arrest because Suonan Raodan refused to agree to the partition of Tibet and Tibet, and Dayan Khan secretly handed him over to Jishe Diba for execution.
Dayan Khan and Jishe Diba murdered Sonam Raodan.
Without this capable agent, the fifth generation was in chaos.
In the end, under the aggressive pressure from all parties, they had no choice but to agree.
Jin Shengtan had already talked to him privately, saying that Qinghai Khan Dalai respected him very much and wanted to build a Gelug Temple by the Qinghai Lake, and then invited him to come and station in Xi.
When the fifth generation was still young, after the Jisheba family was defeated by Zangba Khan and rushed to Amdo, Qinghai, they planned with Chitu Khan to force the fifth generation to Qinghai. Suonan Raodan ran away with the fifth generation.
I went to Shannan to hide for a long time.
He knew very well that once he left Weizang, he was like a fish out of water, and he would be completely controlled by others from now on.
Under the Ming Dynasty's multi-pronged coercion and inducement, the fifth generation, without a powerful assistant like his right-hand man Suonan Raodan, had no choice but to compromise.
Not only did he follow the imperial edict of the Ming Dynasty, but he also recognized the division of Tibet and Tibet, allowing Jishe Diba to take over as the second Ganden Phodrang Dipa. He also took over the Ganden Phodrang, civil affairs, taxes, etc.
It was managed by him, and local officials of various sects and clans were nominated by him and then forwarded to the imperial court through the Weizang Yamen for review and approval by the emperor.
Even the two main branches of the Gelug sect, Ban, were completely separated from front and rear Tibet. The Gelug sect temples, monks, manors, monk soldiers, and temple subjects and serfs in back Tibet were all handed over to the Ban clan. The Ban clan was in front Tibet.
Temples, monks, manors, serfs, etc. were also handed over to the Dalai clan.
But it is obvious that the front bank suffered a huge loss.
Ganden Tripa, the nominal pope of the Yellow Sect, is no longer directly selected by Dalai. Instead, he is jointly nominated by the two and then conferred by the Emperor of Heaven for a term of five years.
The emperor intended to elevate the titular pope.
The Diba families who rebelled in Gongbu and other places were also appeased by the court this time. Not only did they restore their status and retain their hereditary manor wealth, they were also given a formal canonization edict to establish their manor territory.
Protect counties and townships and grant them the same autonomy privileges as monasteries.
The emperor guaranteed and strengthened their territorial sovereignty, even granting them exemption from taxes, and they could manage the land and subjects in the territory.
The emperor even awarded them various titles of the Ming Dynasty.
They have the obligation of vassal loyalty to the Ming Emperor, and are required to pay tribute to the Ming Emperor on a regular basis, according to the size of their territorial fiefdoms.
In fact, it is equivalent to a disguised fixed quota tax system. The emperor does not tax them, but he must pay tribute. The amount is fixed, based on the size of the territory and economic strength of the lords and nobles. Once it is set, it will not be easily changed.
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These powerful local nobles, large and small, directly became the vassals and lords of the Ming Emperor. The two local governments of Kashote Khanate and Ganden Phodrang were in charge of them in name, but in fact they could only rule them directly.
The private lands of non-aristocratic lords and the parcels of temples and manors are equivalent to the Wei-Zang version of the parallel system of prefectures and states.
Noble lords, monasteries and manors, and then the two local governments of front and rear Tibet, and the third and fourth Tibet.
As soon as the emperor's decree came out, the local nobles who had endured the hardships of Heshuote Khan and Suonan Raodan for a long time were all overjoyed. Many Diba families have been passed down for thousands of years. Who is willing to give up their family?
Hand over the territory?
Heshuote's reform in Weizang was not complete, but it also touched the fundamental interests of the old nobles. Strong men like Suonan Raodan had a very difficult time implementing it. Now the Ming Dynasty came over and issued an imperial edict,
Now that the nobles have a strong backing, they naturally support it with both hands.
As long as they can keep their hereditary manor territory, subjects, and autonomy, they are willing to pay tribute to the emperor. After all, the previous new policy of Heshuote Ganden was much more ruthless than paying tribute to the emperor.
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Heshuote wanted to dig out their ancestral graves, while the Ming Emperor just wanted to get some food.
Moreover, the Emperor of Heaven also gave them real things in exchange. He gave them titles, titles, official titles, silver seals, bronze medals, and official uniforms.
It is endorsed and guaranteed by the Ming Dynasty Court and the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.
With these things, their status as hereditary lords can be more stable, and they no longer have to worry about such things as Khoshot Khan snatching their estates, Ganden Phodrang collecting their subjects, collecting taxes from them, and sending soldiers.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In this way, when Gushi Khan and Suonan Raodan wanted to integrate Weizang and create a unified Weizang court, it was impossible to realize it. Emperor Ming
This set the stage for them to reverse course. In the future, Zangdayan Khan and Jishepa were divided and ruled, and they could not truly unify the two groups.
But this is most beneficial to the Ming Dynasty, it is also beneficial to the nobles and powerful people of Tibet, and it is even beneficial to the temple monks of other sects.
After all, they maintained their privileges, did not pay taxes, did not perform servitude, and even continued to occupy huge manors, subjects and serfs. They could still have monks and soldiers and have the power to govern their own manors.
In the future, Uizang will still be an alliance of several powerful strata, and it is impossible to become a unified and centralized Khanate. The biggest loser is actually Dayan Khan and the fifth generation.
But they fell, and a group of people were full, even to the point of being full. There were so many people supporting the will of the Emperor of Heaven, and even if the two of them were dissatisfied, they were still outnumbered.
This is the advanced technique of fighting against the enemy, dividing and drawing together, separating the weak and combining with the strong, just eight words, but it is invincible.
Daming took the large pieces of fat meat from Wei Zangqingkang and Ali Nanjiang in his hands, cut it left and right, and poured it over and over. In the end, it seemed that they were all divided, but in fact, his hands were already full of oil, and besides, here
In this plan, Dayan Khan actually handed over Yarkand, Khotan, Hotan, and Qiemo to the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty still temporarily handed over the management of these places to the grandsons of Gushi Khan, but they had broken away from the rule of Dayan Khan of the Khoshote Khanate and were not under the control of Qinghai Khan or Saiyin Khan.
"Is Dalai Batur still unwilling to give up? He is a little greedy. I thought that a smart person like him should have known it well for a long time. Since he wants to use my power to sit on the throne, there must be corresponding sacrifices and exchanges.
Yes, he has to accept the current result, and he can only accept it."
"Come here now, what do you want to do? You haven't eaten yet and you want to wipe your mouth and deny it?"
Zhu Yihai dared to plan like this, in addition to his insight and understanding of the entire situation, it was also the pattern in his mind. Of course, it was also supported by the powerful strength of the Ming Dynasty that was now at its peak.
"Let him go back and forth from wherever he comes. He can lead the left and right wings in Qinghai, graze with peace of mind, and don't push too far. I have issued a clear decree, so don't say it was unforeseen."
Zhu Yihai didn't mind showing his toughness or even domineering to Dalai Khan appropriately.
If you are strong, you are a domineering threat; if you are weak, you are just talking.
What the Ming Dynasty wanted was to weaken and balance, and it would not wholeheartedly help Dalai Batur to unify the Heshuote Khanate, even if he was Zhu Yihai's cheap son-in-law.
