Chapter Eighty-Six: Uszor

Yu Qian naturally did not feel completely at ease with Li Wen, he had other ways to ensure the idea of unifying the various health centers. Remove resistance everywhere.

But these things will not be said in front of Li Wen.

Yu Qian said: "Do you know what you know about Wu Sizang? ”

Wusizang is Tibet, called Tubo in the Tang Dynasty, called Wusizang in the Yuan Dynasty, inherited this title in the Ming Dynasty, and there is another name called Weizang, but this, the two titles are different in the aftersound, in the Tibetan writing, but they are generally the same. At other times, he also wrote Wu Sizang.

Li Wen said: "From Xining to Wusizang, there are 5,000 miles away, only the Yuan Dynasty opened up the post station, called Qinghai Road, also known as Qinghai-Tibet Heavenly Road, and the sub-road from Songpan to Sichuan, most of them are from Xining to the east, and the lower officials have also received many envoys and monks of Wusizang. I am also familiar with the situation of Wu Sizang. ”

"Is this the only way?" Yu Qian asked. This was not what he saw in the court archives.

There are three ways for the imperial court to enter Wusizang, one is the Qinghai-Tibet Road, the Sichuan-Tibet Road, and the other is the Yunnan-Tibet Road. It's just that during this period, the main road was still Qinghai-Tibet Road, that is, Qinghai Tianlu.

The main reason is that although this road is farther, on the whole, it is easier to walk.

Of course, you might say, what's the best to go?

This road overlaps with a considerable part of the route of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway in later generations, and this Hoh Xili, which has been repeatedly killed recently, is near this road

This is still the case in later generations, and how difficult it was to walk this road in ancient times.

No, this one path is not easy to walk, but the other two roads are more difficult to walk.

The Sichuan-Tibet Road and the Yunnan-Tibet Road are just opened up, and if you think about it, you will know that one Shu Road is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky, and the other is the Hengduan Mountains, although it has been greatly shortened by one or two thousand miles.

But if you really want a large team, you are still willing to take the Qinghai-Tibet Heavenly Road, rather than the two roads of Sichuan-Tibet and Yunnan-Tibet.

The Sichuan-Tibet-Yunnan-Tibet Road really arose, but it was only after Mongolia entered Qinghai and blocked the Qinghai-Tibet Road that it was used as a substitute route and slowly emerged.

It's just that Li Wen in front of him can only see this part of Xining, so naturally he can't consult the archives of the Ming Dynasty, and he doesn't know that there are these two roads.

Li Wen thought for a while and said, "Except that you can go west from the Qinghai-Tibet Road through the Guanxi Qiwei and enter the Western Regions, I haven't heard of any other roads. ”

Yu Qian is also very familiar with this road. This is not found in the documents of the imperial court, but in the history books. That's right, this road is an auxiliary road of the Silk Road. Of course, it is not called at this time, but this road to the Western Regions, Yu Qian knows. Not only Yu Qian knew, but Zhu Qizhen had already counted this path in his decision-making.

This is also Zhu Qi

The prerequisites for the town to trade indirectly with the tile spurs.

However, he doesn't know much about the details of this road, and Zhu Qizhen doesn't know much either, he just knows that there is this road, after all, the imperial court has always taken the Jiayuguan area when it goes to the Western Regions.

said: "In this way, the Mongols can come to Xining through the Kansai Seven Guards. ”

Li Wen said: "Yes, but adults don't have to worry. This road, which is full of deserts, is really difficult to travel, and they will not come to Qinghai from this road unless they have to. Although this road is an ancient road, it is now a yellow sand road, and many times you have to walk in the desert, and it is half abandoned. ”

"In a few years, I guess I won't be able to leave at all."

Yu Qian didn't care.

In fact, he did not approve too much of the imperial court's acquisition of horses through the tile thorn trade. In Jingshi, I saw an extreme shortage of war horses.

There is even a feeling that there is no supply.

Several battles with the tile spur have overdrawn the resources of the Ming war horse, and I don't know how much.

Now the cavalry of the border army of the Daming Jingying is completely accumulated by Zhu Qizhen in the past few years of recuperation.

But if the war is fought at the current frequency, if one or two battles are fought every year, the resources of the Ming War Horse will be exhausted sooner or later.

Therefore, for the sake of war horses, Zhu Qizhen almost reached the point of not compromising means.

But when Yu Qian arrived in the northwest, he found that in fact, Daming Ma Zheng was promising.

The Ming Dynasty was not the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty lacked a place to raise horses, even so, after the Song Dynasty got the land of Hehuang, the shortage of war horses was greatly slowed down.

And Daming itself has horse breeding land, but it is just not well managed.

After the change of the tea law, Yu Qian focused his work on the operation of the northwest, and Ma Zheng and Tun Geng were the focus of Yu Qian's work, and he was confident that in a year or two, he would supply enough war horses to the imperial court.

But since the emperor has this meaning, Yu Qian naturally has to deal with one or two. Although the decision made by the boss may not be smart, the subordinate can't be slapped in the face, right?

Since the Western Regions Road is still there, it means that Yu Qian has already done something, as for whether the people of the Tile Spur can come to Xining through the difficult trek of the Western Regions Road, what does this matter to me Yu Qian?

Yu Qian nodded and said, "How much do you know about the inside story of Wu Sizang?" ”

Li Wen said: "Wusizang is too far away, and the inside story is not well understood, but the imperial court from the beginning of the founding of this dynasty, it has built many seals on Wusizang, and sealed the eight kings of Wusizang, among which the king of interpretation is the leader, but in the past few decades, the line of the king of interpretation is not very peaceful. According to the opinion of the following officials, it is estimated that Wu Sizang will be in chaos for a while to elucidate the king's lineage, and the prospects are not very good. ”

Yu Qian frowned slightly when he heard this, this is the situation that Yu Qian can't hear if he doesn't come to Xining.

The imperial court enshrined eight princes in Tibet, three of which were three

The Dharma King, the King of Interpretation, the King of Praise, the King of Auxiliaries, the King of Apologetics, the King of Teachings.

Among them, the three Dharma kings are all high-ranking monks, although they are very influential, but the real control of Wusizang is the Lang family of the king of interpretation.

The Pazhulang clan has a long history.

It is said that the Pazhulang family is the descendant of Sai Jongzha in Tibetan myths and legends. In Tibetan mythology, where heaven and earth are located, there is earth, fire, wind, water, and air gathered into a big egg, and the big egg was born. Sangpo Bangmei, Sampo Bangmeidi passed down three generations, these three generations are gods, and the third son of the leader of the god in the third generation has passed down the human lineage. It is said that the gods had a total of thirty-five sons, and each of them was born to the daughters of the gods, so their sons had their mother's surname among their names.

The Joan of Sai Jongza, translated into Chinese, is the Dapeng bird.

Therefore, the Lang clan can be called a god and rule Uszang.

Of course, these words of ghosts and gods are naturally not enough to be trusted, but the Lang family has a long history, and it is said that his family emerged in the war between Tang and Tubo, but in fact, this part cannot be regarded as a history of faith.

But in the Southern Song Dynasty, the Lang family was already a powerful place in Wusizang, which is beyond doubt. In the Yuan Dynasty, the Lang family seized the historical opportunity, and when the Yuan Dynasty entered Wusizang, they attached themselves to the Yuan Dynasty and became one of the 130,000 households in the Wusizang area sealed by the Yuan Dynasty.

Before that, the Lang clan had no territory.

Later, the Lang family also had its ups and downs in history, and once fell in power, but under the rule of Jiangqu Gyaltsen, he learned from the pain and reformed the new policy, forming a special system of the Lang family, making the rule of the Lang family in Tibet more stable.

Jangqu Gyaltsen also set the law for Lang.

It is a theocratic system, the influence of Buddhism in Tibet is deep-rooted, and the rise of the Lang family is also with the help of Buddhism, specifically, the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, and the Lang family has also served as the head of the Sadanti Monastery for generations.

The first rule, the head of the seat and the first person, must be a person from the Lang family.

Among them, His Holiness is the supreme leader of the entire Uszambi, in charge of the Dharma, and does not deal with government affairs on weekdays, and only intervenes after the first person cannot handle it, or when there is a conflict with other families.

And the first is also the beginning of the Jiangqu Gyaltsen, which in Tibetan is the person who is in charge of the Uszang. That is, the one who is in charge of all mundane affairs.

That is, the king of interpretation sealed by the Ming Dynasty.

The second is that you must be a monk and must not mingle with a woman.

Thirdly, each generation of the Lang clan leaves an heir to reproduce at home, and the first son and the lord choose from among these heirs.

This dual-headed politics of the Dharma King and the First Si stabilized the authority of the Lang clan. Under such a system, his heir and nephew unified Wu Sizang and obtained the canonization of Zhu Yuanzhang, stabilizing the Lang regime.