Chapter 303: Missionary in the Western Regions
"Lord, the messengers of the Khiva Khanate are here, let's send troops to save them! The combined forces of the Bukhara Khanate and the Khiva Khanate were defeated! The great armies of the Mughal Empire have invaded the territory of the Khiva Khanate! "Someone has come to report to Galdan. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The Khiva Khanate was ostensibly a vassal state of the Dzungar Khanate, but the Khiva Khanate, which was also Turkic, did not really submit to the feet of the Dzungar Khanate. In real history, the Dzungar Khanate lost the battle with the Qing army, and later the Khiva Khanate was defeated by the Iranian king Nadir Shah and became a vassal state of the Persians. It later became a vassal state of the Russian Empire, and was eventually destroyed by the Soviet Union, establishing the Khorezm Soviet People's Republic, and finally being incorporated into the Uzbek Tansu and Turkmenistan Soviets.
Although the Russian Empire now borders on the countries of Central Asia, the main goal of the Russian Empire is against Turkey, and the war between Russia and Turkey is going on for two hundred and forty-one years.
At present, the greatest threat to Central Asia is the Mughal Empire in the South Asian subcontinent.
"Send troops to save them!" Li Guang said, "We can't let the Mughal Empire expand any more!" ”
"Aren't we waiting for the Mughal Empire to fight with them before we send troops?" Lee Rae-hyung asked.
"With the Bukhara Khanate and the Khiva Khanate, how much strength can the Mughal Empire consume? We might as well send troops now, and after defeating the Mughal Empire, we can take control of these two khanates. Li Guangdi shook his fan and said with a smile.
"How to control these two khanates?" Galdan asked.
Li Guangdi turned his head and looked at the big living Buddha sitting on the side: "Preach!" They believe in Heavenly Buddhism, so we will teach them Tibetan Buddhism! ”
"Missionary?" Fifth Shi Dalai's eyes lit up, "This is a good way, but those stubborn Heavenly Sect disciples, they can't get in, how can we make them give up the Heavenly Sect and turn to our religion?" ”
"Imitate the Mughal Empire and collect a poll tax! Didn't the Mughal Empire collect a poll tax from Hindus, and their emperor stipulated that those who did not believe in the Celestial Religion should be taxed twice as much as others? We do the opposite, and as long as we don't believe in Tibetan Buddhism, we will be charged twice as much tax as others! Li Guangdi replied with a smile.
The Great Living Buddha frowned slightly: "At present, the Heavenly Sect cultists we control are only one part of the Yarkand Khanate, if we take this method, I am afraid that when we enter the Bukhara Khanate and the Khiva Khanate, we will be strongly resisted by them." In addition, there is another thing, there are also many Hui soldiers in your army who believe in the Heavenly Fang Sect, if this method is adopted to preach, will those Hui soldiers mutiny? ”
"In fact, we only preach to the Turks, and those Hui soldiers in our army are not engaged in production, and they do not have to pay taxes, but they are supported by the taxes paid by others, so how can we collect taxes?" Li Guangdi smiled and said, "Of course, we are only preaching first, and we are not in a hurry to implement the poll tax law." ”
In the city of Turpan, a large group of lamas, escorted by Turkic soldiers, walked into the city. The Turkic soldiers who escorted the lama were obviously dressed as the personal soldiers of the Khan kings Apak and Zhuo, which gave a hint to the local Turkic civilians that the Khan kings Apak and Zhuo supported Tibetan Buddhism in southern Xinjiang.
Although the Turks showed anger against the infidels, the Turkic soldiers around the lamas were not vegetarian with scimitars in their hands, and anyone who dared to attack the lamas would be beheaded immediately.
Inside the city, the imams and mullahs of the major Tianfang monasteries looked at the lamas escorted by the Turkic soldiers, and their eyes erupted with anger. One of the imams lowered his voice and said to the big mullah beside him, "Damn Apak and Zhuo, who, as our Khan King, has brought in evil infidels!" ”
The big mullah lowered her voice and said, "Be quiet! Apak and Zhuo were originally pseudo-Khans! He was the one who killed our most revered king, Ismaye Khan! It was with the support of the Tibetan and Mongol pagans that this puppet khan was able to kill our khan! This puppet Khan, in gratitude to the Mongols and Tibetans, allowed these pagans to preach in our land! ”
The imam said, "The heretics are about to come to the gate of our Tianfang Sect monastery to preach, what should we do?" Do you just watch them come and preach? ”
The big mullah sneered: "The hearts of the people are on our side!" Let the infidels preach first! How many years have our people believed in the Heavenly Religion, and our religion encourages equality for all, and it has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people! Just those heretics from the plateau, who can steal our hearts and minds? Now that our strength is weak, let's bear with it for a while! When we are stronger, we will wage a great holy war to kill all these abominable infidels! ”
Although the lamas who came to preach were not attacked by the local Turks, few people came to listen to the lamas' missions, and the local civilians, whether men and women, the elderly and children, saw the preachers from afar, and all took a detour to avoid them.
The effect of the mission did not seem to be good, but soon Galdan gave another order: to build a Tibetan Buddhist temple next to the Tianfang monastery!
When the news of the construction of the lama temple broke, very few Turks responded, and there were no young people willing to help the pagans build the temple. But it doesn't matter, you don't want to come out to build the temple, Galdan naturally has a way to get the Turkic young people to come out and use as laborers to build the temple.
The order for young men to perform hard labor was issued from the foot of the Tien Shan Mountains, and the local Turkic soldiers belonging to Apak and Zhuo immediately began to move, arresting people everywhere to serve in labor.
According to the regulations, every young adult must serve two months of labor every two years, which is actually a disguised tax. The king's order was issued, and Apak and Zhuo's soldiers were more active than the Mongols, and they went around arresting people according to the roster. As long as the Turkic young men who had not served hard labor in recent years, they were all arrested.
The locals were escorted to the construction site by the soldiers, and although they were reluctant to learn that the lama temple was to be built, the young men began to work under the threat of the soldiers' scimitars. As soon as they want to be passive and slack off, someone immediately beckons them with a leather whip.
Although the big mullahs and imams were angry about Apak and Zhuo's intention to build a lama temple in the local area, they dared not speak out when the knife was in the hands of others.
"Let them fix it! It's repaired, and no one goes to the lama temple! A large mullah said.
"Damn Apak and Zhuo, he has betrayed the true God, and one day he will go to hell!" An imam said.