stubborn thief

The Eight White Room is not exactly where Genghis Khan's mausoleum is located.

The White House built in Ordos is a spiritual palace dedicated to the soul of Genghis Khan, more like the Taimiao of the Ming Dynasty.

On the banks of the Ulan Mulun River, the tribes of the Besuti tribe were fishing on the river. Sa Nang stood on the bank facing the sheepskin but didn't know where to write.

Paper is a very precious thing on the grasslands, and the Mongols cannot make it themselves. Most of it comes from Tibetan and Han areas, and this problem that plagues the Mongols has lasted for a long time, as long as history.

As early as the Hongzhi reign of Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty, Dayan Khan, the leader of the Mongolian revival known as the little prince in the Central Plains, refused to send back the official documents when they needed to be rewritten due to lack of paper.

Sa Nang has paper, but he believes that the next 20 or even [-] years can only be regarded as drafting, and it is more appropriate to use sheepskin.

Because the establishment of the Ming Dynasty marked that Mongolia has entered a dark age of cultural regression. This is not just a problem of no iron pots and no iron knives. In fact, until Alta Khan paid tribute, there was no book written in the whole of Mongolia in those 200 years. among the history books.

So embarrassing, Sa Nang made all the preparations, and even had ten cartloads of sheepskins delivered to his felt tent, but was horrified to find that he couldn't write a book at all!

After drinking, Sa Nang sat cross-legged on the stone and played the motouqin for a while. It was not until evening that he made up his mind and introduced himself on the sheepskin.

"My name is Sa Nang. I was born in the golden family of Genghis Khan. I have the title of Erke Chechen Hongtaiji. I was born in Jiachen Year."

"Father is called Batur Darhan Chechen Hongtaiji; grandfather is called Erezhe Yilduzzi Darhan Batur; great-grandfather is the famous Kutuktai Chechen Hongtaiji .”

"The fourth ancestor is called Nomu Tarni Guowo Taiji. He is the fourth son of Gon Bilik Jinong, the eldest son of Dayan Khan's third son Baer Sborot. The K Siber area is the lord of Besuti and Ushen."

After finishing writing, Sa Nang looked at the sheepskin carefully, and frowned a little dissatisfied. From the title of the ancestors, it seemed that each generation was better than the last generation. Only when he realized that his generation was not as good as the previous generation, he seemed to be very useless.

But this kind of dissatisfaction was quickly forgotten by him. When the whole Beiyuan fell apart, and one generation was not as good as the next generation, it was definitely not his fault. There was something wrong with this era.

In fact, Sa Nang may not be as good as his great-grandfather Kutuktai in terms of talent and learning ability, but that is not because he is weak, but because his great-grandfather is too strong, and Sa Nang simply has no desire to compare with him.

Kutuktai has another name that is more resounding: Qiejin Huangtaiji.

Even the literati of Ming Dynasty wrote "Wanli Martial Arts Record" and specially compiled a biography for him.

The Ordos Wanhu tribe has a high status in Mongolia, and the leader has always been Jinong. However, since his fourth ancestor, Sa Nang's family has been neither the eldest son who inherited the position of Jinong nor the youngest son who kept the stove. The status is not very high. .

Up to now, their aristocrats have a strong influence in Ordos, relying on Huang Taiji's merits, prestige, martial arts, and martial arts. He has always been Jinong's best assistant.

In terms of title, Sa Nang is indeed not as good at fighting as his father. His father won the three armies at the age of 13 and went to Ningxia to fight against the Ming army in the Wanli period. He led the army to go out, won the encounter and won the title of Batuer.

As for him, the two titles of Chechen Huang Taiji were awarded when he was 11 years old, entirely because his great-grandfather Qiejin Huang Taiji was "the first person to practice Buddhism among [-] households", and he was awarded these two titles. Overcast.

But no matter what, being born in such an aristocratic family, living a good life, being influenced by culture and politics since childhood, he is much better than others, not to mention that Sa Nang is easy to learn.

In this dark age of Mongolian cultural decline, a normal Mongolian aristocrat would not think of writing history books, because they had never seen history books at all, and did not know the concept of history books.

Sa Nang is different. Ever since his great-grandfather cut off Huang Taiji, he has mastered the four languages ​​and characters of Mongolian, Han, Hui, and Tibetan, and has a whole collection of books in a large yurt, whether it is Buddhism, Confucianism, or Tibetan, Indian, Mongolian, or Tibetan. There are books from the Central Plains.

There are even three sets of white histories, that is, the ordinances and works of Kublai Khan, the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, who formulated Buddhism and civil affairs.

The first volume is the collection of Jinong in Ordos, the other is the Yuan Dynasty manuscript that Qiejin Huang Taiji accidentally obtained in Wuliangha, and the third volume is Qiejin Huangtaiji’s continuation of the Ming Dynasty manuscript based on the previous two manuscripts, cross-checked and adapted. History of Mongolia, the creation of a book.

This kind of thing that can be regarded as a national treasure in the hands of Lin Danhan is the enlightenment reading material of Sa Nang when he was a child.

Because of this, Sa Nang stepped onto the political stage of the Northern Yuan Dynasty at the age of 17, continued the family tradition, assisted Ordos Jinong to manage the government, not only as an envoy to negotiate with the Ming Dynasty, but also as a representative to discuss government affairs with the Tumote Ministry.

He deserved a good life, a better life than most people in the world.

But just like those Daming people who were born in the last years of Wanli, Sa Nang was at the pinnacle of prosperity when he was born, and then went east, west, north, south, no matter where he went, every step he took was downhill.

As a representative, he resolved disputes with Ming and dealt with the endless conflicts in Ordos under the drought. When his boyhood ended, the Mongolian tribes at that time were not weak in any way, but they were always weak in the complex environment. .

Sa Nang is always thinking, what happened to Mongolia?
he does not know.

In the days that followed, the situation was like clouds and mist, the environment was changing rapidly, the great nobles were precarious in the chaos, and the herdsmen were suffering from the war. When he was a child, the overwhelmed Han people fled over the side wall to Mongolia. Build the north of the side wall into the south of the Yangtze River.

And in his youth, both Han Chinese and Mongols ran south across the wall.

Because the Monan Grassland is always at war, with Daming, with Houjin, and with himself.

This status quo has become a dark cloud hanging over Sa Nang's heart, and it finally became a reality as Lin Dan Khan moved westward to Tumote to avoid Houjin.

The lord of Sa Nang, Erdos Jinong Elinchen, was deprived of the Jinong by the Great Khan, and the whole Ordos was forced to be involved in that battle. They followed Lindan Khan and fought against the Tumed tribe who had been neighbors for generations, and took the lead in the tragic war. After winning and losing, he was coerced and continued to move westward, and was involved in the war to attack Ningxia, Gansu, and Qinghai.

It has to be said that during that period of time, he was indeed coerced at the beginning, but after a long time, Sa Nang was still unavoidably influenced by Lin Danhan.

After all, Lin Dan Khan is the orthodox Khan of all Mongolia. Although he is impatient and has no image of a king, after all, how many Mongolian Khans today are like a king?Lin Dan Khan is already the most heroic person among the Khans everywhere.

Therefore, even if the lord Elinchen was taken away by Lin Danhan, the noble soldiers and horses of the entire Ordos tribe had a negative attitude towards Chahar, but passive cooperation is also cooperation.

And to some extent, Sa Nang thinks that Lin Dan Khan's theory is correct: the weakness of Mongolia is that they are scattered, Lin Dan Khan is only the Khan of Chahar, and Emperor Chongzhen is the emperor of the whole Ming Dynasty, and Nurhachi and Huang Taiji are the emperors of the entire Hou Jin Dynasty. sweat.

Just using it the wrong way.

Sa Nang believes that this result is not a matter of Khan power, but that while Mongolia has lost its cultural heritage in the dark age of the past 200 years, it has also forgotten the noble lineage and long-standing great history of the Golden Family.

Those who forget the noble lineage of the Golden Family here are not the most ordinary herdsmen. The herdsmen always remember it, but those members of the Golden Family forgot. Sweating all over the place.

They were able to persevere even in the situation of extreme lack of material, but they were lured into confusion under the background of the Ming Dynasty, and became shameless people who did not know honor or disgrace.

Without spirit, the defense against temptation will be extremely low, and people will take advantage of it.

But weakness is weakness, and decline is decline. All the Mongolian nobles don't think that they will really be defeated.

It’s not that they won’t fail, and it’s not that they won’t be driven to a corner, but since Temujin became the Khan of the Qiyan tribe and established Mongolia more than 400 years ago, the Golden Family has no concept of extinction at all.

People can't think of things they haven't heard or seen.

Until Lin Dan Khan died of illness in Bajiao City, the Ordos army separated from Lin Dan Khan at that time. When they received the news again, Liu Chengzong had already obtained the Jiuzhe Baizhu and the Jade Seal of Chuanguo, and he was about to declare the Great Khan of all Mongolia.

A huge change happened within a few years, and both Sa Nang and E Linchen were stunned by fate.

The nobles of Ordos looked at each other in blank dismay, just like the most normal choice when people suffer a huge blow, they did not make a choice, they just took one step at a time to see what was going on, and returned to Ordos, back to the territory where they lived for generations.

The Mongolian Khan system that lasted for 400 years is gone.

How did it break?

The cruel reality and the terrible future hit Sa Nang's heart, making him full of worries, but Hou Jin and the Marshal's Mansion pressed hard on the Monan Grassland. He knew that he had to do something, but he was powerless to change the general situation. Seeing that Bei Yuan fell apart, he was powerless to recover.

In fact, let alone the general situation, when Yang Qi and the Mobei coalition army marched into Monan in mighty force, he even took over the pastures of the two tribes under the family's control for generations, the Besuti tribe and the Wushen tribe. Can't keep it.

Many aristocrats in the Wanhu tribe of Ordos are the same. Facing Yang Qi’s enfeoffment in the Monan Grassland, enfeoffing four or five thousand cavalrymen from Mobei Mongolia in Ordos, even Jinong Erlin dared not speak——Mongol Ji The army under Nong's current control is not even as large as the cavalry that Yang Qi sealed off.

Of course, sometimes it is not the number of troops that decides the war, but the actual conflict of interests. The Monan Governor's Mansion does not have much involvement with Monan Mongolia in this regard. The current population of Ordos really does not need the vast pasture land.

Although those lands were not unowned, there was indeed only one owner left. The herdsmen went to Ningxia and Yansui to serve as soldiers and raise horses for the Ming Dynasty.

When it was dark, there was the sound of horses' hooves kicking outside the yurt. Sa Nang opened the curtain and saw his lord Elinchen coming.

E Linchen got off his horse and gave Sa Nang a firm hug first, then called the accompanying shepherds to carry milk wine, paper, pen and ink into the tent, Sa Nang hurriedly saluted, and then asked: "Why is Khan here?"

The name and title of Elinchen is Linqin·Eye Qidaiqing. Earlier, he had a khan name, which was Jinong Khan.

He himself claimed that the last Jinong was his elder brother, and the next one was his father. His elder brother died of an illness due to bad luck. Elinchen got the support of the Mongolian head teacher Maidari Hutuktu, and he assumed the title Jinong Khan.

However, the elder brother was not lucky, and so was E Linchen. He was abusing Fan Fan a few years ago. Anyway, Ordos has been their family's territory for generations. As long as the interests of the elders and brothers are coordinated, the position of Jinong will be stable.

What's more, there is Sa Nang by his side. Because Sa Nang is a descendant of Huang Taiji, he has a high status in Ordos, both politically and religiously. Be foolproof.

But the year he claimed was the first year of the Apocalypse. The Mongolian Great Khan Lin Dan had already decided on the strategy of 'inside first, then outside', and led the Chahar Army to move westward. He was angry with the Khan everywhere in Mongolia. Come here Abolished his position.

Abandoned and abandoned, this Khan number was proclaimed by Sa Nang himself who traveled all over Ordos to others. Even if Lin Danhan didn't recognize it, he had to recognize it. This is still his Jinong Khan.

E Linchen sighed and shook his head, "Those nobles come to my place to complain all the time, they are very irritable, they might as well come to you."

"Because of the division of pasture land by the Han governor?"

E Linchen nodded, and said helplessly: "The situation is like this, what can I do, could it be that some Qi soldiers fight against Governor Yang? If they are all dead, then there is no need to worry about pastoral land."

"Those Han people can't produce food, and there is no clever way to divide our pastures to stabilize the soldiers and horses from Khalkha. I have known that the Marshal's Mansion is not a good thing, and Dudu Yang is full of bad water." .”

Yang Qi entrusted the nobles of Mobei in Monan for the purpose of bringing disaster to the east. Dividing, decentralization of power, decentralization of responsibilities, the lord has the sovereignty over the land and population, if the person can't eat enough, it must be because you, the lord, are incompetent , What does it have to do with me as the governor?
A vassal's vassal is not my vassal, so I don't have to take care of the vassal's vassal.

"Khan, I don't think this is a bad thing. When Houjin comes again, there must be soldiers and horses to resist it." Sa Nang saw that the shepherds had all walked out of the felt tent, so he said to Elinchen: "There are soldiers and horses that can stop Houjin. Khan has a chance."

E Linchen said: "But with people from Mobei everywhere, our Ordos Wanhu Department will become too weak."

"Do not."

Sang Nang shook his head, made the statement categorically, looked at Elinchen with piercing eyes and said: "It is others who have become weak, not Khan who has become weak. Since Dudu Yang likes to be a lord, Khan's top priority is to let the marshal The government recognizes the Khan as Jinong, and the more Mongolian soldiers and horses there are in Ordos, the safer the Khan will be!" (End of this chapter)