On the afternoon of 13 November, after the rain and snow of the previous few days, the streets of the city were covered with a layer of several inches of snow, and the Mongolian people have always been not good at running the city, not to mention these Chahar tribes, who are still accustomed to nomadic life, so no one clears the snow on the streets of the city, and the roads are a mess.

Guihua City is located on the alluvial plain formed by the Yellow River and the Dahei River, where the land is fertile, the terrain is flat, and the irrigation is convenient, which is also known as the Qiantao Plain. In the sixth year of Longqing, Altan Khan summoned Han craftsmen, imitated the capital of Yuan, and broke ground to build this majestic and beautiful city with eight towers and glazed gold and silver halls in the yin of Daqing Mountain and the bank of the Yellow River.

Because the city wall of this city is built of blue bricks, it is also called Qingcheng by the Mongolian people, and the transliteration is Hohhot. This was the first Xiongcheng built by the Mongols themselves on the steppe, because the city was so beautiful that the Mongolian tribal leaders who visited the city in the following decades were envious, and after returning to their tribes, some people built a small city in imitation, although it could not be compared with the naturalized city, but they still named it the Qingcheng of their tribe.

Originally, Guihua City was only a city for the upper nobility of the Tumut tribe, but with the peace between the Mongols and the Ming Dynasty in the years following the Longqing Peace Conference, the Mongols and the Han Chinese interacted more and more frequently. In particular, Shanxi has always been a narrow and densely populated land, and after the two ethnic groups lived in peace, the number of people who crossed the border wall to trade in Guihua City began to increase.

The Mongols were not good at farming, but Altan Khan's wife, Sanniangzi, was a Mongol leader close to Han Chinese culture. She not only assisted her husband in building the Naturalization City, but also used the large vacant fertile land outside the Naturalization City to recruit the Han poor to enter Mongolia for pioneering, trying to truly build the Naturalization City into a city where the Tumut tribe could settle down.

The Three Ladies' plan was quite successful, and the city of Naturalization soon changed from a Mongol capital used by Altan Khan to show off his exploits, to a real city for people to live and settle. A large amount of fertile land has been developed in the Qiantao Plain near the Naturalization City, which has enabled the residents of the Naturalization City to completely solve the food problem.

The Mongolian right-wing tribes basically solved the living needs of each tribe through the material trade in the naturalized city, and for the upper nobles of the Tumut tribe, the greatest significance of the city to them was that they could already live a life of abundant food and clothing by collecting taxes on the Han Chinese who pioneered on the Qiantao Plain and the commercial trade in the naturalized city, instead of living a nomadic life of eating and sleeping in the open as before.

By the time the Chahar tribe moved westward, the city of Guihua was not only the political center of the Mongolian right-wing tribes, but also the most important position of the economic center of the Mongolian right-wing tribes. The richness of Naturalization City had long been coveted by Lin Dan Khan, but it was only after he led his troops to defeat Naturalization City that he realized that things seemed to have gone wrong.

The wealth of Guihua City came from the fertile land developed by the Han people, and the transactions of various Mongolian tribes with Han merchants in Guihua City. However, the war made those Han pioneers outside the naturalized city began to flee back to Guannai, and the Mongolian right-wing tribes were uniting to actively resist the westward migration of the Chahar tribe, so naturally no tribe would rush to naturalize for trade, and without the cattle and sheep skin goods of these Mongolian right-wing tribes, the Han merchants in the Guannai lost interest in going to the naturalized city.

Even though the Chahars plundered a large number of cattle and sheepskins during their westward migration, out of fear of war and the fact that the Mongol right-wing tribes occupied the area between the border walls of the naturalized Ming people, these Han Chinese were unwilling to risk losing both their lives and money to trade with the Chahars.

Therefore, Lin Dan Khan suddenly found that he had conquered the richest Guihua city on the right wing of the Mongols, but except for some useless skins, the wealth obtained was not enough to reward those meritorious soldiers. To add insult to injury, the Chahar tribes moved westward, leading to the Ming refusal to pay the annual rewards given to the Chahar tribes, which the Ming claimed required them to return to Liaodong in order to pay these annual rewards, and the Ming also demanded that the Chahar tribes stop their military operations against the Mongol right wing tribes.

The Ming people's interference in their unification of the Mongol tribes in southern Mo made Lin Dan Khan extremely annoyed. He fought with Houjin several times, and lost more than he won, so he had some psychological shadows against the Houjin troops. However, he did not have any psychological shadow about the crusade between the Mongol tribes and the war with the Ming army.

What's more, Lin Dan Khan thought that he was dedicated to the military operations of the Ming State against the Houjin. As a result, the Ming army was defeated by the Later Jin army again and again, and even implicated him couldn't stay in Liaodong. Now he temporarily avoided the edge of Houjin, and wanted to take the Mongolian right-wing departments in his hands, first strengthen the strength of the Chahar headquarters, restore the strength and then fight back to Liaodong, but the Ming State actually stood up to obstruct himself, which is really a bit of a means of crossing the river and demolishing the bridge.

Lin Dan Khan then decided to teach the Ming people a good lesson, so that those Ming people knew that the Ming people were not qualified to intervene in the war between the Mongols. But unfortunately, the war planned by Lin Dan Khan to completely defeat the Mongolian right-wing tribal coalition and teach the Ming people a profound lesson finally failed.

The defeat of this war greatly shook the prestige of Lin Dan Khan, especially many tribes whose roots were still on the Liaohetao grassland, heard that the Houjin army defeated the Dorot tribe of the Chahar tribe left in the Liaohetao area, and after receiving the news that the Chahar tribe was left behind in the Liaohetao, they were even more thoughtful and wanted to recapture their own people from the hands of the Houjin.

As a result, the Mongol nobles of the Chahar tribe soon divided into three factions, one wanted to fight back to Liaodong; One is that they want to live in Tumut River for a long time; The other is to continue westward, into the Qinghai region with abundant water and grass, away from the threat of Houjin.

The number of Mongolian nobles who returned to Liaodong was the smallest, and those who wanted to settle in the Tumut River were second only to the Mongolian nobles who wanted to continue to move westward. The reason why the Mongol nobles who wanted to move west was the largest number, on the one hand, they hoped to avoid the harassment of the Later Jin army, which wanted to attack Qinghai through Gansu and Ningxia of the Ming Kingdom, so it was almost impossible for them to pursue Qinghai.

On the other hand, if the Chahar tribe was defeated by the right-wing tribal alliance and the Ming army, and the Ming people continued to economically blockade the naturalized city owned by the Chahar tribe, the Chahar tribe not only failed to achieve the goal of moving westward, but stayed away from the war and recuperated. It was also necessary to face the hostility of the Later Jin, the Mongol right-wing tribes, and the Ming at the same time, which was obviously more disadvantageous than in Liaodong.

On the contrary, after moving to Qinghai, the Chahar tribe was able to obtain some material support through the relationship of Zangba Khan. In order to resist the alliance between the Gelug sect and the Vetara-Mongols, the current Tibetan Khan, Karma Dan Wangpo, has sent people to contact Lin Dan Khan several times in an attempt to form an alliance with him against the Yellow Sect.

As early as the sixth year of Wanli, the Yellow Sect, also known as the Gelug sect, formed a holy alliance with Tumut Altan Khan at Yanghua Temple on the shore of the Western Sea. Altan Khan honored Sonam Gyatso as the holy Wazir Dara* Lama, while Sonam Gyatso called Altan Khan the incarnation of Kublai Khan and gave Altan Khan the honorific title of Kublai Khan.

Because of this relationship, there are a large number of 30,000 tribes from the right and left wings of Mongol who believe in the Yellow Religion, and the fourth* Yunden Gyatso is the great-grandson of Altan Khan.

Lin Dan Khan was the eldest grandson of Buyan Chechen Khan, who was the leader of the Chahar tribes, the head of the Mongol tribes who were forced to move to Liaodong by Altan Khan.

In other words, if Lin Dan Khan recognized the Yellow Sect, it would undoubtedly be equivalent to agreeing with the holy alliance between Altan Khan and the Yellow Sect, and recognizing Altan Khan as the incarnation of Kublai Khan, and the Tumut Department would enjoy the same status as the Chahar Ministry, which was an unacceptable existence for Lin Dan Khan.

Therefore, the proposal of the anti-yellow alliance put forward by Zangpa Khan Karma Dan Wangbo naturally quickly impressed Lin Dan Khan. However, the power of the Gelug sect in southern Mongolia was too strong, and even the persuasion of Lin Dan Khan in Shalhutuktu to convert to the Red Religion did not deal much blow to the Yellow Religion beliefs of the Mongol tribes in Southern Mongols, but made the Mongolian tribes who believed in the Yellow Religion dissatisfied with him.

Lin Dan Khan did not think that this was a problem of his sudden conversion, but felt that it was a demonstration of the Yellow Sect monks who had formed an alliance with Altan Khan, so he hated the Yellow Sect even more.

However, in view of the prevalence of the Yellow Sect forces in the Mongol tribes of Southern China, Lin Dan Khan did not dare to act rashly and openly suppressed the Yellow Sect forces. He himself was inclined to stay in the Tumut River for rest and recuperation, after all, the Hetao area was the most central base of southern Mongolia, and only by mastering it could he truly have the manpower, material resources, and appeal to unify the various Mongolian tribes.

The Mongol tribes who had lost the Hetao region were hardly convinced that they were the suzerains of the Mongol tribes. Just like when the Chahar tribe was driven to Liaodong, the Tumut tribe became the de facto Mongol suzerain. The Mongol tribes of Southern Mongolia and Northern Mongolia obeyed Altan Khan's orders, and were no longer Chechen Khan, who held the jade seal of the Mongol Yuan dynasty and proved that he was the supreme ruler of Mongolia.

However, the defeat against the Mongol right-wing coalition army and the Ming army, and the blockade of the city by the Ming people, coupled with the epidemic of smallpox and other epidemics in the naturalized area in the past two years, made Lin Dan Khan also hesitate to continue to stay in the naturalization.

However, just when Lin Dan Khan was seriously considering whether to move west to Qinghai and defeat the Yellow Sect forces in Tibet first, so as to gain control over the beliefs of the Mongol tribes, the Ming who defeated the Chahar tribe sent people to talk to them about peace.

The Ming people, who had won the war, expressed their willingness to continue to pay the city rewards of the Chahar Ministry, and for the time being, they would not ask them to return to Liaodong, but asked the Chahar Ministry, to make a truce with the right wing departments, and to demarcate their own grazing areas. Although the conditions for Lin Dan Khan to receive the city rewards from the right-wing departments were worse than before, he was finally able to have enough money to reward his subordinates.

After the peace treaty was signed, the Ming people not only offered to continue to lease land for cultivation and continue to trade in Guihua City, but also hired many people from the Chahar tribe to transport goods to Mobei and the forest area for trade, and also sent doctors to teach the Mongolian tribes how to avoid smallpox.

With the help of the Ming people, the Chahar tribe finally gained a foothold in the Tumut River, and also recovered some of the vitality lost during the westward migration. Although Lin Dan Khan felt that the attitude of the Ming people was a little weak, he would not destroy the relationship with the Ming people at this time, as long as there was a development of three to five years, he thought that even if the Ming people joined forces with the right-wing ministries, they would not be able to expel the Chahar tribe from the Naturalization City.

However, his good news was not limited to this, when the days of the Chahar Department in Guihua City were thriving, the army of Houjin finally stopped biting him, and turned to attack the Guannai region of the Ming Kingdom.

The Ming then sent an emissary to him asking for help, asking him to send someone to intercept the army's rear route, and promising that all captured Mongols would go to the Chahar tribe. But Lin Dan Khan hesitated a little, and to be honest, he really didn't want to provoke those Jurchen Tartars now. Moreover, the Ming people fought with Houjin to the death, but they could give him more time to recuperate, so he used the excuse to dry the Ming envoy for a few days.