Chapter 210 Should I abandon my martial arts skills or harm myself?
Although the marriage between Dacheng Taiji and Zhongjin Hatun seems to make right-wing Mongolia completely unite, Gao is not worried about this, because as long as Butashri exists, this situation will not happen at all.
Dacheng Taiji already has a son. Although he is young, as the eldest son, he will definitely have his own power in the future, and may even be the next Great Khan.
However, Zhongjin Hatun also has sons, and it is not just Butashri. She and Anda have three sons. The eldest son Butashri is the seventh among the sons of Anda, the second son Shachixing is the eighth, and the youngest son Yi'er
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These three are all the sons of Ada. Butashri was assigned to the tribe, and Sha Chixing and Yi'er General Xunke were still young and didn't receive anything. Wouldn't Zhongjin Hatun consider it?
But even if Butashri is satisfied with Xin'ai's subordinates, and Dacheng Taiji can leave him alone after he becomes the Great Khan, what will happen to Sha Chixing and Yi'er General Xun? They are not the sons of Dacheng Taiji, and they are not the sons of Dacheng Taiji.
Dacheng Taiji is also worried that the combined strength of the three brothers will exceed his own, and he will not be willing to give them subordinates. In this case, how can he and Zhongjin Hatun be truly indistinguishable from each other?
Therefore, this contradiction, at least for the time being, is impossible to resolve, and Gao Pragmatic can rest assured.
Of course, the worst possible outcome is that when Dacheng Taiji and Zhongjin Hatun give birth to a son, both of them can put aside their selfish thoughts and designate this son as the next heir to King Shunyi.
In time, when that child grows up, he may be able to unite the entire Tumut tribe.
But, even if they are really so smooth and selfless...it will have to wait until more than twenty years later.
After more than 20 years, I still can’t master Tumut?
So this matter, calculated at this point, can be turned over.
After solving this big problem, Gao Pragmatic began to examine the strength of the right-wing Mongolia.
The third point mentioned by Cao Gan alerted Gao Pragmatic. Although it was Gao Pragmatic's acquiescence to sit back and watch Anta Khan introduce Yellow Sect lamas into Mongolia, because the introduction of Lamaism to Mongolia was actually a typical self-defeating martial arts.
Gao Jingshi was very happy to see this, and he even quietly promoted it - for example, he had instilled certain death-seeking ideas into Han Naji back then.
But now, the matter seems worth revisiting.
First of all, I need to explain a question that few people in later generations understand: everyone knows that Ananda Khan introduced the Yellow Sect to replace Shamanism, but why did he do this? Is it just because Shamanism likes to perform blood sacrifices and slaughter livestock?
That would be too much to underestimate Anda Khan. He began to suppress shamans when he was at his most powerful. It could not be because of this small loss of financial and material resources.
In fact, the root of this problem lies with Anda's grandfather Dayan Khan. Dayan Khan was the leader of Mongolia's resurgence. After he came to the throne, Mongolian society was relatively stable.
Dayan Khan redivided the left and right wings with 60,000 households, appointed his third son Balsbrot to command 30,000 households on the right wing, and stationed 10,000 households in Chahar to control 30,000 households on the left wing.
In order to maintain his rule, Dayan Khan not only made important adjustments and deployments in politics and military, but also made corresponding reforms in religion.
Dayan Khan closely connected the "Destiny Thought" of Shamanism with the Golden Family of Genghis Khan, and used religious theory to clarify the legitimacy of the Golden Family. Thus, theoretically, he applied the ancient Shamanism "Destiny Thought" to the feudal hereditary system.
As an ideological weapon, it ensures the permanent inheritance rights of the Golden Family.
Dayan Khan passed away, and his eldest grandson Bodi Arak Khan ascended the throne. Since then, a system has been formed in which Dayan Khan, the descendant of Genghis Khan's golden family, inherits the Khan's power. The "Destiny Thought" of Shamanism has become the ideological weapon for inheritance by the eldest son.
, Chahar Ten Thousand Houses, the residence of the Mongolian Khan, has also become the center of Mongolian politics, economy and culture, and a symbol of Mongolian orthodoxy.
However, after the mid-Jiajing period, Tumut's Anda Khan had become the de facto leader of the 30,000 households on the right wing. As Anda Khan's wings became increasingly full, he was eager to compete for the position of Great Khan. To this end, he expanded his territory in Qinghai, Hexi,
Trade with the Ming Dynasty and vigorously develop agriculture and handicrafts, laying a solid material foundation for the struggle for sweat power.
However, Anda Khan clearly knew that the deep-rooted orthodox ideas among the Mongolian people were a huge ideological obstacle. According to tradition, Anda Khan could only be a "fan screen", but according to reality, Anda Khan was
The de facto leader of the 30,000 right-wing households, he still has fresh memories of his father’s lesson of violating regulations and arrogating authority, and was eventually forced to hand over his power.
This is a contradiction between tradition and reality, and we urgently need new solutions.
At this time, the "natural right to sweat" of shamanism was contrary to his political goals, and the Taoism introduced from the farming society of the Central Plains could not take root in Mongolia.
In the fifth year of Longqing's reign, the meeting between Ashing Lama, an eminent monk of the Gelug sect, known as the "Eqig Lama" (the father of Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia), and Ada Khan was a prelude to the second introduction of Tibetan Buddhism to Mongolia.
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In this historic meeting, Azing Lama quoted history and deliberately compared Ananda Khan to the incarnation of Kublai Khan. Azing Lama explained in detail the specific meaning of the "Three Jewels, Six Paths, and Eight Precepts" in Buddhism, and his influence on Buddhism
The classics "Gangyur" and "Tangyur" are briefly introduced.
But that is not the key. The key is that he advised Ada Khan to get in direct contact with Sonam Gyatso, the religious leader of the Gelug sect. Ada Khan readily accepted it and made the decision to immediately send people to Tibet to welcome Sonam Gyatso.
In fact, the situation of the Gelug sect was also very bad at that time, and they needed the help of authoritative rulers.
There is no need to say much about the things in the middle. Anyway, at the end, Sonam Gyatso officially announced that Ada Khan and he were the incarnations of Kublai Khan and Phagpa respectively.
What does this mean? It means that the leaders of the Gelug Sect are determined to rely on Mongolia to revitalize the Yellow Sect, and the intentions of both parties coincide.
When it came to the official meeting, the Mongolian and Tibetan monks and lay rulers shook hands and exchanged honorary titles. The Living Buddha Sonam Gyatso honored Aman Khan as "Turning the Thousand Golden Wheel Zakravardi Chechen Khan", which is the same title as Kublai Khan (meaning
That is, the wise and wise wheel-turning king).
Ada Khan respected the Living Buddha Sonam Gyatso as the "Holy Consciousness All Wazilda Lama" (meaning the great master with boundless Dharma sea). This is the highest title "Da" for the Mongolian and Tibetan Yellow Sect monks.
The origin of "Lai Lama".
Living Buddha Suonan Gyatso was later named two generations later and claimed to be the third Dalai Lama. Corresponding to the "destiny thought" and "natural power" of shamanism, Living Buddha Sonam Gyatso announced the Buddhist "reincarnation theory" and "Buddha's teaching".
"The kingship of the wheel" in Aanda Khan.
In other words, Anda Khan is the reincarnation of the wheel-turning kings Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan, and his reincarnation is the will of the Buddha.
Therefore, Living Buddha Sonam Gyatso legitimated and legalized the succession of the throne of Ada Khan, who was not the direct eldest son, in a religious form.
Anda Khan followed the example of Kublai Khan and implemented the policy of paralleling the political and educational systems. He promulgated the law "Ten Good Blessings Law" to promote the Yellow Sect, which established the dominance of the Yellow Sect from a legal perspective.
The Yellow Sect connects Anda Khan with Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan, which not only maintains the Mongolian people's admiration for Genghis Khan, but also eliminates the traditional concepts of "natural right to sweat" and "inheritance by direct descendants" and uses a complete religious theory as its basis.
Anda Khan fights for the power of Khan to pave the way.
According to the Mongolian feudal hierarchy, Anda Khan stipulated that the corresponding upper-class monks of the Yellow Sect should enjoy the same political and economic treatment as the Mongolian nobles and be exempted from taxes.
From then on, it has become the obligation of every Mongolian to respect the Yellow Sect and respect Lamas.
Therefore, the Yellow Sect could be introduced by Ada Khan, just as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty only respected Confucianism in the past, which was the need of the rulers.
But the trouble is that although Anda stabilized his position and made the right-wing Mongolia more and more independent from the "Great Yuan", he still could not completely break away from the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasty, and still had to send his eldest son Lalik to the left-wing
Tumen Khan of Mongolia held important positions beside him.
At the same time, what Cao Gan felt he had to report to Gao Pragmatic was the rapid development of the Yellow Sect in right-wing Mongolia.
According to him, after the Yellow religion was introduced to right-wing Mongolia, it rejected, attacked, transformed, and integrated Mongolian traditional religion Shamanism. For example, at last year’s Chabqal Conference, Anda Khan stipulated that Shamanism was prohibited from killing animals and offering sacrifices, and the Yellow religion chanted
Sutras, worshiping Buddha, burning incense and other rituals have replaced the shamanistic sacrificial rituals; burned all Weng Gong statues, replaced Weng Gong with the six-hand main statue of wisdom from the Yellow Sect, only offered three whites to the Buddha, and prohibited flesh and blood offerings.
During the process of preaching, the Yellow Sect monks often appeared as doctors, advocated asceticism, got close to the lower-class herdsmen, experienced Mongolian customs and customs, and grasped the most common thoughts of the people. In response to the psychological requirements of the lower-class herdsmen, they put forward: "Let the river of blood flow into the river"
The slogan "Turn it into a pure sea of overflowing breasts" - in addition to advising the Mongols not to kill at will, it also had an additional benefit for the Ming Dynasty, that is, they also persuaded some restless Mongolian nobles to stop provoking the Ming Dynasty.
Gao Pragmatic also appreciates this, and the Yellow Sect has other benefits. For example, the Yellow Sect promotes compassion and not killing, and has abolished the bad habit of slaughtering a large number of livestock in shamanistic sacrificial rituals to offer "line food" to the dead, so now
The price of beef and mutton on the border of the Ming Dynasty continued to fall. Cao Gan said that the price of beef and mutton in the capital was already 30% cheaper than pork.
However, Cao Gan also told him that many Mongolians now feel that war is an extremely sinful thing, and they should be as merciful as the Buddha who cut off flesh to feed eagles in the face of everything.
At the same time, under the personal demonstration of Ada Khan, Yellow Sect temples were being built rapidly, and the number of lamas was also increasing. Cao Gan was worried that if this continues, who will be herding cattle in the future? What can we do in the future when Jinghua comes to Mongolia?
Business?
Well, it's not surprising that Cao Gan has his own limitations.
Gao Pragmatic was actually more worried than Cao Gan - the commandment of lamas not to marry would definitely lead to the slow development of the Mongolian population. No, it should be decreasing year by year, thus causing the Mongols' military power to continue to weaken, and the number of producers to increase.
reduce.
It doesn't matter if there are slightly fewer Mongolians. After the Ming Dynasty completes the transformation of the Gunpowder Empire, it will no longer have to worry about any nomadic intrusions.
However, if you do this now, how can I use the Mongolian cavalry to fight against the Hou Jin who may show up? How can I use the Mongolian musketeers in the future to fight against the Russian Cossacks?
By then, even if the Ming Dynasty has become a gunpowder empire, it can't send hundreds of thousands of infantry to hide and seek with the Cossacks on the grasslands, right?
So, it’s not impossible for you to abolish your martial arts skills, but you can’t just break all your limbs either!
Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but sigh: I'm such a miserable person. I'm so busy with my own affairs that I'm almost bald, and I still have to think about other people's affairs...