It seems that the bigwigs of the Yellow Sect are quite jealous of the Red Sect, but they also look at people, and they still have a little bit of incense for Lin Dan Khan, and they are unwilling to bear the charge of killing the contemporary head of the Golden Family, the Mongolian co-owner, and for the half-hung son of Chotu Khan, who is the backbone of the Red Sect, that is, he wants to kill him and then hurry up. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This kind of murderous appearance, willing to send troops to help the war, does not have the tone of unwillingness to stain the blood of the Mongols just now. Speaking of Lin Dan Khan, he is a Chahar and a serious Mongolian tribe, and the Khalkha people were originally slaves of the Mongols and descendants of the people in the forest, and they are not all the way to the serious Mongols, but they would rather let Lin Dan Khan go, but they also want to do something to the people of the Khotu Khan.

Zhang Han was not surprised, he knew that it had always been the case, and the cruelty of religious conflicts was much more severe than that of military and political conflicts, and he was more tolerant of foreign races and pagan religions, and those who were different from his own race and religion were regarded as heretics, and he had to focus on killing them.

Lama Tenzin also spoke: "This person has repeatedly invaded the pastures of our tribe this year, and he is unruly and cannot be ignored. ”

The rest of the living Buddhas didn't speak out, they didn't have their own territory, and they weren't as confident as the two who were talking right now.

Zhang Han thought for a moment and knew that this was the real temptation and price offered by these living Buddhas.

They have no opinion on the westward advance of the Chahars, and it is best for Hutchison to block it, and if it can't stop them, they won't care much, and they just live their lives behind closed doors.

Lin Dan Khan is determined to go west, and will not come to the north, so the influence on these lamas and living Buddhas is not great.

However, the Khan of Chotu has been pressed from the northwest, and the threat to the Saiyin Noyan and Zasaktu Khan is very great, with the Red Sect tribe on one side and the Yellow Sect on the other, and they are crowded on the same territory, and the war is cloudy, and the situation is quite bad.

In fact, the various behaviors of Chotu Khan, as well as Zangba Khan and Lin Dan Khan, these great khans, including the fifth * lama, are also important promoters of the changes in the situation in Xinjiang, Mongolia, Tibet, and Qinghai in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and can also be connected with the changes of the Oirats, directly affecting the dislocation and complex territorial evolution of various forces in half of China's territory in the next 150 years or even 200 years, including the evolution of major religions such as shamanism and red religion and yellow religion, which can be said to affect the whole body.

In order to seek a foothold and a place for development, he took a fancy to the declining power of the Qinghai Tumut Division, so he led his troops south to Qinghai, defeated the remnants of the Tumut Division, ruled the vast area around Qinghai Lake, and called himself Khan, known as "Chotu Khan" in history.

Regarding the religious beliefs of Chotu Khan and his people, there are different records in various historical sources. Previous studies generally believe that Chotu Khan was a follower of the Karma Kagyu sect before he settled in Qinghai, but there is considerable reliable evidence that this person also believed in the Gelug sect, also known as the Yellow sect.

It can be seen that this person has no fixed opinion on religious beliefs, but it changes with changes in political needs.

After Chotu Khan occupied Qinghai, he began to covet Tibet. He invited Lin Dan Khan of the Chahar Tribe, who was defeated in the battle with Huang Taiji and led the remnants of his army westward, to come to Qinghai and plan Tibet together. Lin Dan Khan died of illness on the way to Qinghai, so that the attempt of Chotu Khan to win the strength of the alliance failed, but he still did not give up his ambitions for Tibet, Chongzhen six years, his troops have reached the northern border of Tibet, defeated the upper part of the Hall, etc., posing a serious threat to the whole of Tibet. It should be noted that at this time, although Chotu Khan was persecuting the Gelug sect in Qinghai, he had not yet formed an alliance with the Zangba Khan and the Karma Kagyu sect, and all subsequent indications indicated that some people in the upper echelons of the Gelug sect in Tibet still maintained some contacts with him. The reach of Chotu Khan's troops brought a crisis to both the Tsangpa Khan and the Gelug faction. The common interest temporarily unites the two opposing sides against external humiliation. While gathering an army of 130,000 households and preparing to confront it, Zangba Khan sent people to instruct the 4th Panchen Lama and Qiangzo Sonam Raodan to go to the Mongol army garrison for mediation. This crisis was eventually resolved through the mediation of the 4th Panchen Lama and Sonam Raodan, and the Khalkha Mongols retreated to their homeland, and the Tibetan armies were disbanded.

Later, Arslan, the son of Tu Khan, led more than 10,000 elite cavalry to invade northern Tibet, and controlled the great politics of Tibet. This frightened Tsangpa Khan, who immediately changed his attitude towards the Mongols and decided to adopt a strategy of active alliance, trying to preserve his own strength while using Arslan's forces to eliminate the Gelugpa. Chokyi Wangchuk, the living Buddha of the Karma Kagyu lineage of the Red Riding Hats, rushed to Dangxiong as a representative of the Tsangpa Khan side and reached an agreement with Arslan, "It was decided that Sadampa would occupy Lhasa and Rakrongpa should occupy Rezhen, so as to completely eliminate the Gelug sect and become the benefactor of the Karmapa and the Lord Pa Kagyu sect."

In contrast to the reaction of Zangpa Khan, the Gelug side showed great calmness about the incident. At that time, the Fifth Lama was in retreat at Gepei Monastery near Drepung Monastery, and when Dadong Chungni reported this "earth-shattering incident" to Qiangzo Sonam Redan, the Fifth Lama calmly analyzed the situation and believed that "the Mongols would not come to Lhasa anytime soon" and still insisted on retreat. As the Fifth Lama* expected, Arslan's army did not enter Lhasa until the beginning of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, and soon after entering Lhasa, this man was instead conquered by his personal charm and believed in the Yellow Religion, which led to a series of changes, Lhasa was occupied by Gushi Khan, and Zangba Khan and his Red Sect regime perished. The struggle between the Mongols and the Tibetans eventually led the Oirats to take advantage of the situation, and Tibet and most of Xinjiang, including Qinghai, as well as the Central Asian region occupied by the original Oirats, became part of the Geldan Khanate, which at its peak had 7 million square kilometers of land, and was not just a Mongol tribe as people imagined.

From the beginning of the Qing Dynasty to the Qianlong period, the Geldan Khanate of the Oirats has been fighting with the Qing Dynasty non-stop, and the Qing government spent more than a hundred years to sort out the homeland from Qinghai to the Western Regions and Tibet, from the battle in Mobei in the early years of Kangxi to the struggle for Xinjiang and Tibet during the Qianlong period, and finally killed all the 100,000 quasi-men in Qinghai.

Zhang Han doesn't remember the specific process very clearly, but the nail of Tu Khan must always be removed, not to mention that if this person goes south, it will have a bad impact on the situation in Qinghai, including the situation in the entire suite and the west of Tumute, just to stabilize Mobei, this battle must be fought.

Without thinking about it for too long, Zhang Han said: "Please rest assured, within half a month, we will send troops to the west to solve the Chotu Khan Department." ”

Jebtsundamba said with some uneasiness: "Isn't it too eager? ”

"Since we want to fight, of course, we must ...... as quickly as possible," Zhang Han muttered: "However, it will take time to transfer troops, and it will take time to set off to the west. ”

The lamas did not say anything, and there were disapproving expressions on their faces.

Chotu Khan was originally the Taiji of Khalkha, and he was a very powerful Taiji!

After losing the battle with Zasaktu Khan, he led his troops to stand on his own, and his troops had more than 30,000 Dingkou, and there were several thousand armored soldiers, which was quite a strong strength among the Mongolian tribes, otherwise Tu Khan would not have been respected as a great teacher by the living Buddha in the west, and gave the title of Chotu Khan, which was also like a pattern of a great khan.

Jebzundamba thought about it again and again, and still persuaded out loud: "My lord doesn't know, but in our three parts of Mobei, the wildness of the Khan still exists, because it has been in the northwest direction, there are many mountains there, the pastures are rugged, and life is difficult, so under the hardship, the shepherd's wildness still exists, and when it comes to strength, it is actually not under any of the Khan, or even on it. ”

Although the Zangba Khan and other departments are waste, it still proves that these Mongols in the northwest of the desert are still relatively fierce, and it is no wonder that the Tutu Khan can occupy a foothold in Qinghai and beat the Tumut set to the dust.

Zhang Han was noncommittal to Jebtsundamba's words, but just smiled.

Seeing Zhang Han like this, the Mongolian lamas couldn't say anything, so they could only pull the topic elsewhere.

Of course, the garrison and daily supply of the Hutchison merchant regiment have relied on themselves so far, but the Mongolian high-level also understands that since surrender must have a surrender appearance, these issues are not mentioned by themselves, and when Hutchison brings them up, the effect will be different.

In addition, the daily communication, the etiquette of high-level meetings between the two sides, etc., as well as the conversion of the pastures of each department, whether it was decided by the Mongols themselves according to the previous rules, and even used small-scale friction and war to determine the ownership, or whether it was decided by the Hutchison, these things were also proposed by the lamas on their own initiative.

"Here in Mobei, as long as you sell us cattle, sheep and horses at the market price." Zhang Han groaned: "Our Hutchison wants you to supply supplies, even if it is a tax, and we can't talk about this for the time being." But I have to say it first, if time goes by and the situation reaches the point where taxes can be levied, then don't complain that we are treacherous, and that our words do not count. ”

The lamas were expressionless, but judging from their breathing, they were all relieved.

The future is to talk about the future, and the present surrender is definitely surrender, and the people of Hutchison can swagger in Mobei, and build the official road all the way to Kulun and the trading city on the north side, which is the proof.