Desert Eagle Suletan Khan

Chapter 162 Black Mountain and White Mountain are gone (Part )
"Then Yikuli understood the situation and surrendered obediently. Well, he was named a member of the Yarkand Army Command and transferred to Yarkand to serve. His department was placed under the command of the surrendered general Rejiefu." Suletan had just taken over When they arrived at the army, they reported that Yekuri, the Khotan commander-in-chief, had surrendered. Khotan is one of the six major return cities and a strategically important place, so I couldn't help but feel very happy.

In fact, the land of Yarkand is connected to Yuledus and Turpan to the north; to Hami and Quxian to the east; to the south, it looks upon Uszang; to the west, it threatens Bukhara and Kazakhstan. Obtaining it greatly facilitates his attack on the snowy region. At least you don’t need to go around Qinghai to enter Lhasa like before, you can go directly south from Yarkand.

While he ordered people to station troops and accumulate food in the Kunlun Mountains east of Khotan and prepare for war, he also set about consolidating his rule in Yarkand.

First, the Yarkand Province was established and civil and military officials were appointed. He appointed his confidant Luobuzang as the governor of Yarkand to guard this place for him; Ishagar Bek Aheqi, the former Kashgar, was quite talented in politics and was appointed as the envoy of the Chengdu; Salamat offered Yarkand Qiang City had meritorious service and was proficient in the law, so he was entrusted with punishment and inspection. He also appointed Urigendalai as the commander-in-chief of the Yarkand army and Yikuli as the Yarkand army. In this list, Aheqi, Salamat, and Yikuli are all native Yarkand people, accounting for more than half, which fully reflects his thinking of using Yarkand people to govern Yarkand people.

The entire Yarkand Province consists of eight prefectures: Yarkand, Asu, Wuchi, Atebashi, Yingjisha, Kashgar, Salikul, and Khotan. There are officials from all provinces, prefectures and counties, both Baishan and Heishan factions, mixed with officials from other places to divide and rule.

Yu Sufu and Zhuo of the Baishan Sect were very dissatisfied. He originally thought that he would be appointed as the governor of Yarkand and take charge of the power. Unexpectedly, he was only allowed to preach freely and was not given any official position. In order to appease his heart, Yarkand Altun Temple was awarded to him as a place of worship. On the surface, it was a generous reward, but in fact it was to allow him to leave Kashgar, the base camp of the White Mountain Sect, and come to Yarkand, the base of the Black Mountain Sect, for easier control.

During the war, a large number of royal relatives and dignitaries were killed, freeing up a large amount of unclaimed farmland. In addition to allocating farmland to the surrendered troops, Suletan also rewarded his confidant Shaobu, the great shaman of the Huit tribe, with a large amount of land, allowing him to build temples and develop shaman believers in Yarkant. He also donated a large amount of land to the Sakya, Nyingma, Kagyu and Gelug sects and allowed them to build temples and promote Dharma. In short, he believed that the more people believed, the more stable his position would be. Euphemistically called: freedom of belief.

These moves to consolidate rule have attracted praise from various factions. The dharma platform of the Nyingma sect Dorje Zha Monastery in southern Lhasa once wrote a letter to the dharma platform of the Nyingmapa sect Talbalin Monastery in Buba, praising Khuteiji Sultan of the Oirat Mongol Huite Tribe as a "person of high moral character" . Unlike the Sakya, Kagyu, Gelug and other sects, which all have their own central monasteries, this sect has always developed independently in each temple and has no unified monastic force. However, because the founder of the sect is Padmasambhava, his influence is extraordinary.

In order to win the hearts and minds of Yarkand people, Sultan ordered that the remains of the dead Sutan Ahemakhan be sent to the Khan's Mausoleum (Altun Mazar) for burial.

When they heard that Khan was going to be buried, the people of Yarkand City spontaneously lined up on both sides of the road, prayed silently, and saw Khan off.

Sultan came in person and ordered Ahqi to preside over the funeral. When he walked into the mausoleum, he found that the mausoleum of Said Khan, the first king of the Yarkand Khanate, was actually round, shaped like a yurt on the vast grassland, with the strong color of the grassland nomads, and he couldn't help but curiously asked : "Why does this tomb look so much like our Mongolian ger (ger)?"

Aheqi, who has an exquisite heart with seven orifices, naturally understood the original intention of Hutaiji's question, and immediately said loudly: "Hutaiji, Said Khan is a descendant of the Chagatai Khanate and a descendant of the Golden Family. The blood of the Mongols rushes in the veins, and the totem of the Mongols is engraved throughout his life, and his tomb is naturally shaped like a grid."

"Let me just say, as soon as I arrived here, I felt the breath of the grassland. It turns out that the Mongols and the Yarkand people are all one family," Sultan said with emotion.

"Yes, the Mongols and the Yarkands are all one family," all the civil and military officials agreed in unison. Anyone who didn't know that agreeing would be a political idiot. "Huh? Whose tomb is this?" Sultan asked, pointing to a tomb next to the tomb of the second king Rashid Khan.

"Huntaiji, this is the tomb of Rashid Khan's princess Amanisha Khan and her daughter who died in infancy. All the royal tombs buried in the royal tomb are respected men of the royal family, only Amanisha Khan and her daughter are women." , Aheqi hurriedly replied.

"Why?"

"Because Manisha Khan is kind and versatile, she has perfected and standardized the format of "Twelve Muqams", so that each Muqam suite consists of big songs, narrative suites, and songs and dances. She is deeply loved by the people, so she was allowed to die. Then enter the royal tomb."

"What an amazing and strange woman, I want to hear her story," young Huitaiji's curiosity was aroused.

"Emmanisha Khan came from a humble background. Her father was a woodcutter in a small village on the east bank of the Yarkand River. She lost her mother when she was eight years old, and she was dependent on her peaceful and honest father Mahmuti. She is talented, good at singing and dancing, and is not only good at playing the piano and writing poetry. , with eyebrows like willow leaves, eyes as bright as the moon, a graceful figure, and a slim figure, she was as beautiful as a fairy at the age of 14. That year, Rashid Khan, who was 23 years older than her, came here to hunt, fell in love with her at first sight, and welcomed her into the palace. She became the princess of the Khan. She bid farewell to the fields and turned from a natural mountain flower into a fragrant rose in the palace."

Ahqi was so eloquent that Suletan listened with great interest and couldn't stop. "I want to listen to "Twelve Muqam"," he suddenly said.

Being powerful is good, and anything you want is easy. Soon the melodious melody of "Twelve Muqam" sounded, accompanied by a beautiful girl dancing.

"Wonderful! Thousands of miles of desert and thousands of miles of majestic winds are all in this "Twelve Muqams"," Suletan praised repeatedly, and suddenly said: "I want to build a great mausoleum for the great Emmanisha Khan." .

Huitaiji Jinkouyu said that a memorial mausoleum for Manisha Khan was quickly built. Climbing up the stairs and entering the mausoleum, you can see the title of the ancient and classic "Twelve Muqam" on the wall. The 14 steps of the memorial mausoleum symbolize that Amanisha Khan entered the palace when she was fourteen years old; the 34 lotus flowers on the fence symbolize the 34 spring and autumn years that Amanisha Khan spent in the world; the 20 white ones around it The pillars symbolize the twenty years that Emmanisha Khan spent to eliminate the obscure Persian verses and religious content in "Twelve Muqams" and perfect and standardize the form of "Twelve Muqams"
The days of peace were short-lived. News came from the south: the two supreme monks in the Snowy Region were driven out of Lhasa. Sultan couldn't help laughing, "Warriors, feed your horses, polish your spears, and prepare to become the master of the snowy plateau with me!"

(End of this chapter)