stubborn thief

Chapter 225
The vast mountains in the north of Qinghai Lake, the sky is high and the clouds are light.

White birds flitted across the lake, yaks were leisurely in the grassland, and a few felt tents with horses tied to them stood alone at the foot of the mountain.

The woman is chopping firewood outside the tent, and the child holds the firewood and looks into the distance with sad eyes.

In the felt tent, Chen Qindai, the commander of the Lion Camp with Mongolian descent, is sitting around the fire with the owner, roasting barley buns, holding tea bowls and chatting happily.

The owner is a herdsman from the Seventh Tribe of Khalkha. They are not tall, but they are strong. They said that they used to station herds in Mobei, and the leader brought them here because they lost their grazing land after losing a battle.

The reason for the war was that the Great Khan Lin Dan wanted to conquer the tribes of Tumed, Yongxiebu, and Ordos by force. There was civil strife in Monan Mongolia.

Many feudal lords of Khalkha fought to snatch these populations.

The war continued, but the herdsman Nayan lost, and Nayan's Chok Tutaiji also lost, so that he was driven out of the nomadic land of his ancestors by other Nayans.

Therefore, since the year before last, they have been wandering and pasturing all the way, stopping from time to time, living in no fixed place, being beaten back and forth in Hami, and beaten by Han people in Gansu.

From Gansu to Xining, seeking tribute all the way failed, and the herdsmen were finally brought to Qinghai by his Nayan, and attached to Xiaolazun Qiqing Hadaiji who was stationed at the border of Gansu and Qinghai.

At this time, they were fighting against Xiao Lazun's elder brother, Gu Ru Huang Taiji.

As he spoke, the herdsman showed Chen Qindai his armor, which was a complicated cowhide armor.

The helmet is shaped like a bowl, and it also has a helmet spear and a neck, but there are only two finger-width iron plates horizontally and vertically on it, and the rest are all cowhide, with copper nails on the edge.

The same is true for the armor. There are square cowhide sheets nailed with iron nails on the cowhide armor. There are more than [-] pieces of old iron armor pieces.

The herdsmen also said that Daming Khan, like him, spoke Mongolian and believed in Xifanism.

Chen Qindai asked him not to interrupt, and continued to say Guru Huang Taiji.

In Mongolia, the only real great Khan is Chahar Khan; Jinong or Ji Nang is the prince; Huang Taiji is the crown prince, the eldest son of the Great Khan and Jinong or the title of prince; Taiji is the son of the Great Khan and Jinong Plus title.

In the earliest days, when this title was mentioned, people knew who it was referring to, but now it is no longer possible, and the Khan court has lost power. As long as it is far away from Chahar Khan, no one dares to name the child Huang Taiji.

Naming his son Huang Taiji has a very obvious symbolic meaning, which means that he is equal to Chahar Khan.

The basic distribution range is west of Chahar, from Tumed to Oirat, and there are yellow Taiji all over the place; east of Chahar, there is only one Huangtaiji from the commander of Jianzhou Guard.

So Nurhachi is very fierce.

After all, Mongolia is a basket, and everything can be put in it. The slave mother of the Yongxiebu Ten Battalion is a Han Chinese archer, and she is a group of Jurchens who raise eagles. They all come from the Yunxiu Mansion of the Yuan Dynasty.

Qinghai is as ancient as Huang Taiji, and has nothing to do with Lin Dan Khan of Chahar. It belongs to the Doro Tuman tribe and is an important branch of Tumote Wanhu.

In the past, their camp was six or seven hundred miles north of Piantouguan, and they responded positively when Altan Khan worshiped the Buddha. Chi's son.

Huoluochi was the most powerful Mongolian leader who entered Qinghai since Wanli.

Lazun is the respectful name for the sons of nobles who became monks. Huo Luochi had two sons who became monks. To distinguish them, the people of Xihai called them Da Lazun and Xiao Lazun.

Chen Qindai lived here for two days, and the herdsmen knew everything, which gave him a basic understanding of the general situation in Qinghai at this time.

Can be divided into eight pieces.

In the northeast is Xining of the Ming Dynasty, in the southeast are many Nama Fans and Xiaola Zun Qiqing Hadaiji, in the southwest is Guru Huangtaiji, and in the northwest is the Second Camp of Yongxiebu.

Beyond the Northeast there was Chahar Lindan Khan who wanted to reconquer all of Mongolia.

Outside the northwest, there is Khalkha Chuoke Tutaiji who is stationed outside Gansu, trying to find a place to live.

On the Uszang snow mountain in the southwest, there is Zangba Khan, the benefactor of the Baijiao who fought endlessly for the Weijiao and Qinghai.

Chen Qindai summed up the news, licked the dry skin on the corner of his mouth, and showed a complicated smile.

But before he could leave, there was the sound of trampling horseshoes outside the yurt, and more than a dozen Khalkha cavalrymen in leather robes and sabers had surrounded the outside, shouting: "Spy out!"

Chen Qindai turned his head, the owner of the felt tent had already held the knife and said to him: "Don't draw the knife, go see my Nayan, you spy!"

Chen Qindai originally wanted to fight to the death, but when he heard that he was going to see his leader, he relaxed his tight fists. Immediately, someone approached him and punched him in the abdomen, and was picked up by the waist and thrown onto the horse's back.

They walked northward for almost a whole day, and passed by three yurts for grazing. Chen Qindai regretted that he stayed in Handi for a long time, which made him misjudge the value of armor.

He should realize that the set of armor is very valuable after leaving the fortress, and it would be nice for an ordinary herdsman to have a jacket.

It was a Khalkha warrior, whose pastures, yurts, wives, and children were all robbed.

On the way, Chen Qindai heard from people that they drove away the Tumote tribe who had been grazing in Haibei not long after they left for the expedition, and harassed the Red Hats who were farming in the mountains to the north.

The herdsmen who escorted him said that the Qinghai Fanmin can be roughly divided into two types, one is the Red Hat Fan who is good at arrows, and the other is the Zanza Fan who is good at swords.

The former is the remnant species of Anding Siwei, and the latter is the same species as Uzang.

Along the way, it was a long road over mountains and mountains, until Chen Qindai vomited until he had nothing left in his stomach, and finally came to a big stockade by a small river.

The stockade is not big, scattered with dozens of felt tents and more than ten houses. The houses are different from the Han area. A large one is seven or eight feet high, with layers of stones like pagodas, and a small one is two or three feet high, covered with red soil. , the wooden ladder goes up and down, and the lower floor is a stable for large animals.

In the village, yaks and horses are domesticated, and a few Mongolian soldiers by the well are executing punishments for the leader of the Fan tribe and the family of the shaman. There are various forms of life. Curse.

Chen Qindai was pushed away, and those people were killed one by one, and the blood was stained everywhere around the stone well.

The people of the Fan tribe were driven to the fortress, carrying out bags of highland barley noodles, tea and crisp cheese, and put them on the shoulders of yaks.

The shepherds who escorted Chen Qindai took him outside the tall blockhouse, pushed him inside, and stopped before the wooden ladder.

"Go in, spy, that Yan is paying respects to the Buddha."

The wooden ladder has decayed for a long time, and the gaps in the wood are filled with soil and grass blades grow, making a creaking sound when stepped on.

Chen Qindai's inexplicable sweet smell lingered in the blockhouse. He searched for it everywhere. The smell came from the nine butter lamps lit in the dark room.

Mongolian Nayan is holding a rosary and holding a big hat, with a strand of hair on her head, braided at the temples, wearing a wide blue leather robe with a slanted breast, and a necklace of silver and Tibetan red corundum beads. She doesn't look young. Chang, said to him: "Come closer, let me see you."

When Chen Qindai approached for five steps, two monks stood beside him, one with a red hat and one with a yellow hat, who raised their hands to stop him from going forward. Nayan said: "I am Mo Ergen Daiqing, Let me guess who you are."

Morgan means sharpshooter and proficient, Dai Qing is a good fighter, and Dorgon of Hou Jin defeated Chahar Khan Lin Dan two years ago, and also won this noble title.

The later Qing Dynasty also used this word.

Chen Qindai was not afraid of being killed. The situation outside the Great Wall was different from that in the Great Wall. For Meng Nayan, who had traveled a long way and hadn't seen anyone, intelligence was much more important than murder. He had someone who didn't know the news.

"Tumed's old is like Huang Taiji?"

Chen Qindai shook his head.

"Yongxiebu?"

Chen Qindai still shook his head.

"Wara Zhungeer?"

After Chen Qindai shook his head again, Dai Qing was a little irritable.

The yellow hat monk looked at Chen Qindai and said something in his ear, and Dai Qing then asked, "Da Ming Khan?"

Chen Qindai was said to be fooled. He thought that only the herdsman who had little experience said that the Ming emperor was a Khan, and the source of the trouble was here.

They were all taught by monks, including the Khan of Tumed, the right-wing Jinong, the kings of Uzbekistan, and the Khan of the Ming Dynasty.

Invisibly, it creates a feeling that the whole world believes in Fan religion. Only the Great Khan of Chahar doesn't believe it, but he incites Mongolia to kill each other and start wars, which is a bad sweat.

Chen Qindai didn't know how to answer this sentence of Ming Khan, he thought for a while and said: "The Han people are so beautiful."

Dai Qing asked: "How about the Han people in Gansu?"

Nayan was the first chief of thousands of households in Mongolia, and has been extended to nobles so far, and can be collectively referred to as all nobles from Jinong to Taiji.

So they also called the local officials of the Ming Dynasty Nayan, the Han people, just like the people of the Ming Dynasty called Nayan outside the Great Wall the leader.

Chen Qindai shook his head and pointed to his feet: "The Han people here have that face."

"Ah!"

Dai Qing laughed in surprise, and then said: "There are Dada, Wala, Red Hat, and Zanza here, but there are no Han people. If your Han Nayan wants to find Han people here, let him go to the top Let’s go, there are still a few households.”

"It will be soon. My Nayan fought with the Ming emperor and asked the emperor for this piece of land. The Han army will come soon."

Dai Qing was not unhappy when he heard this, but just smiled.

Except for those pilgrims who went to Tibet in Qinghai, those who stay here are the losers of the tribal power struggle. Daiqing's Taiji Chuoketu was the loser in the Mobei War and also the loser outside the border of Gansu.

Just the year before last, Chuoketu led [-] elite riders to Gansu to ask for rewards, and was bombarded by the general officer of Gansu Xu Jiashou with artillery. Since then, he has not dared to approach Suzhou.

Successive failures have greatly affected the prestige of Chuoke Tutaiji among many nayans.

But in Dai Qing's eyes at this time, Chen Qindai's Nayan is a loser among the Han people.

He whispered a few words with the two monks of the Red Sect and the Yellow Sect beside him, and said slowly: "These are really two frightened birds, meeting on a big pine tree."

The two monks beside Dai Qing belonged to the Red Sect. In the past, when Khalkha was in Mobei, they all believed in the Red Sect.

The one wearing the yellow hat is the Yellow Sect. Outside the border of Gansu, the Yellow Sect monk approached his Taiji Chuoketu, and was immediately expelled by the Red Sect's Chuoketu.

Later, Chuok Tutaiji was bombarded by the general soldiers in Gansu, and Daiqing separated from Taiji on the pretext of going to Qinghai to explore the road, and here he attached himself to Xiao Lazun, the reincarnation of the Yellow Sect of Tumote.

The monks from the Yellow Sect came to him, so now he has monks from the Red and Yellow Sects around him.

Just now, the monks of the Yellow Sect told him the story that Tumote Altan Khan used the white lotus to teach Zhao Quan, a Han Chinese, and achieved great things with Tumochuan.

The story was just what he wanted.

The little Razun he is attached to now is not someone who can be relied on.

Since the two brothers invaded Uzang for the Yellow Sect a few years ago, they have been fighting each other, as if they were the only brothers in Qinghai.

No matter how powerful this kind of person is, he will eventually decline due to civil strife.

Chuok Tutaiji watched the situation in Qinghai from a distance outside Gansu, and planned to ask Dai Qing to incite the two brothers to fight harder, so that the bereaved dogs of their Khalkha tribe could reap the benefits and enter Qinghai.

For Dai Qing, this is an unprecedented era.

Lin Dan Khan of all Mongolia wants to reunify Mongolia. He wants to earn a fortune for himself. He believes in whichever one can help him get his identity.

In this way, when Lin Dan Khan's Chahar army came to kill him, as long as he surrendered to the Khan, he would be able to confirm his identity as Taiji.

There will be many wars in the future, and it is not a bad thing for some Han people to make equipment and watch their homes.

The monk said that if there are too many Han people, there will be chaos, but it is not that there are no Han people here. They have already seen several Erlang Temples.

It's just that those Han people left the Central Plains Dynasty, and in order to survive, they either became Xifan or Dazi.

If there are Han Chinese to help, maybe Taiji's identity will be simpler, at least there will be no worries when going out to fight.

As for the strength of the Han people, he probably wouldn't send too many such a single spy.

Dai Qing smiled at Chen Qindai: "The two worthless sons of Huo Luochi don't dare to provoke the Han army, they only kill each other. I'm attached to them and I can't help but fight."

"I have [-] households in Qinghai. Do you have [-] Han soldiers in Nayan? I can form an alliance with him. When the time comes, I will send troops to rob Da Dazi and leave my wife and children in the tent. I rely on you to take care of me." ,how?"

Chen Qindai didn't know what the monk had said to this Nayan, but seeing the rapid change in his attitude, he had some suspicions about the conspiracy in his heart.

But he doesn't care, alliance or not, it's not up to him anyway.

His first task is to keep himself alive until Liu Chengzong leads the Lion Battalion to Xining and gives the information about Qinghai to the commander.

As for Dai Qing, who imagined that there would be hundreds of Han Chinese households, what would he think when he saw tens of thousands of Han Chinese... Hey, that doesn't matter about Chen Qindai.

He was pleasantly surprised: "Are you really willing to accept my face?"

"From where you came to here, it is now my pasture. I allow you to pick a place to cultivate. You can also build a plate here, just like Tumochuan."

Dai Qing raised his hand and said: "I only have two requests, if someone attacks here, you will also fight; other than that, you will help me to ask Nanchao for a gold medal as a tribute."

After finishing speaking, he waved to Chen Qindai: "You can stay with me first, and wait for your Na Yan to come over."

Chen Qindai thought to himself, when his commander-in-chief came over, he would not only repair the boards, but not to mention the gold medals for the tribute.

He may not be able to get the general to ask for a gold medal for Dai Qing, but Dai Qing can directly pay tribute to his general.
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Note:
The situation in Qinghai and the tribal residence refer to "Research on the History of Mongolia in the West Sea in the Ming Dynasty", "Research on Sect Disputes and Local Changes in the Snowy Area in the Ming Dynasty", "Tea Horse Exchange and the Monetary Economy of Qinghai in the Ming Dynasty", "Research on the Commodity Economy and Market System in Qinghai in the Ming and Qing Dynasties"

　Good morning!

　　
　
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