Why should the pragmatic and upright person bring the topic to the lama?

Because Lamaism is an important part of the highly pragmatic "taming wolves into dogs" plan, and Altan Khan's generation is the most critical time node! Even, if it weren't for the incident with Hannaji, Altan Khan might have already started his conversion program.

Altan Khan fought in the north and south all his life, not only went south to graze horses, but also went to the west to blow the wind, before Hannaji this time to the south, Altan army has gone to Qinghai, only because of his grandson so troubled, he had to change his plan and return to Fengzhou Sichuan.

Historically, in order to better control Qinghai and penetrate deep into Tibet, Altan Khan picked up the plan of the westward expedition again after the tribute with the Ming Dynasty was fully reached, and went to Qinghai to meet with the Tibetan lama leader Sonam Gyatso at Yanghua Monastery, announcing that the Mongols had fully converted to Lamaism - of course, he had no control over the Mongolian left.

Since Lamaism absorbed many of the teachings of shamanism, it did not encounter strong resistance in its spread. Moreover, because Lamaism opposed shamanism's sacrificial rituals that consumed a lot of wealth, such as funerals, blood sacrifices, and animal sacrifices, which greatly improved the living standards of herders, it quickly spread in pastoral areas.

In the process of spreading Lamaism, the biggest opponent is, of course, shamanism, so there are stories of the Buddha taking away the shamanic scriptures - there are many stories about the fighting between lamas and shamans in the pastoral area.

However, of course, Gao pragmatic did not have such good intentions, and supported Lamaism to replace shamanism simply in order to improve the living standards of herdsmen, and the reason he supported Lamaism was that he knew that Lamaism for Mongolia was completely "wanting to practice divine skills and wielding a sword from the palace".

Lamaism did make a great contribution to Mongolia's economic and cultural development in the early days, and with the help of the Buddhas, the Mongols had their own written language, and the Ming Dynasty was no longer in tension, and border trade was in full swing.

However, with the prosperity of Buddhism, the last vestiges of Genghis Khan's era of simplicity and martial arts gradually disappeared, and the people at the bottom pinned their hopes on the ethereal afterlife, and the princes and nobles poured everything they had in exchange for happiness in the afterlife, especially boiling tea in Tibet, resulting in a large amount of wealth flowing into the hands of lamas.

The price of the abnormal distribution of wealth, the lack of work and taxes for monks is that Mongolia can no longer compete with the Ming and Qing dynasties, and because young men aspire to become lamas, the population has decreased sharply - of course, the Ming Dynasty is still much more benevolent than the Qing Dynasty, and has not insisted on "reducing Ding" in Mongolia for more than 200 years like the Qing Dynasty.

Well, although Gao Pragmatic has always thought that the Qing Dynasty was a scumbag, I have to say that this policy is still very thoughtful, but the wild boar skin is the wild boar skin, and the action is too simple and rude, so the benevolent and generous Gao Shiyu has already planned to use some softer and more high-sounding means to do this "minus" work in the future.

The purpose is such a purpose, as for why he wanted to talk about Lamaism with Hannaji in advance, it was because in history, I was delayed by Hannaji's incident for nearly ten years, and it was not until the sixth year of Wanli that he decided that the tribute and peace of the right-wing Mongolia and the Ming Dynasty had been a complete success, so he took time to go to Qinghai.

It's been too long!

How could Gao Shiyu, such a humble gentleman who was helpful and did good deeds without leaving a name, tolerate the Mongolian people to enjoy the light of the Buddha for so long?

This kind of thing is to swing a knife from the palace, and the action must be fast! What are you hesitating about, is it cut or not?

As for Gao Shishi's mention of the great lamas of Jingshi, this is not nonsense. Don't look at Daming in the eyes of Gao Pragmatic, there are simply so many internal problems, and if you continue like this, you will be terminally ill and have no medicine after a few decades, but none of the countries around Daming dare to underestimate this Chinese Celestial Empire.

In particular, the Central Plains Dynasty has always paid attention to the freedom of mission, as long as the doctrine seems to persuade people to be good rather than under the guise of religion, Chinese civilization will never simply and rudely say no, so Lamaism also has many eminent monks in the Ming Dynasty, especially in Beijing, there are a lot. When Altan Khan asked for tribute during the Jiajing period, he specifically asked the Ming Dynasty to send Lamaist monks to Mongolia to preach, and hoped that the Ming Dynasty could print a batch of scriptures for them, but it was obvious that Jiajing refused.

That's a ...... Gao pragmatic thinks about it, and it hurts.

As a small cadre of the Red Dynasty, Gao Pragmatic has always very much recognized the words of the Taizu of the Red Dynasty: Politics is to make more and more of our people and fewer and fewer of the enemy's people.

How? Kill all the enemies? Killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 self-inflicted losses, how many people who challenged the world in history have died well? In the final analysis, war can only be a means to serve politics, and if we can solve the problem without fighting, of course, it is better not to fight.

This is like the Pingjin Campaign, one of the three major battles, when Siye and the North China Military Region joined forces, and it was not difficult for a million-strong army to take Pingjin, but why should we still strive for a peaceful solution? That's it – yes, but not necessarily.

The same is true of Mongolia's internal reforms, financial adjustments, military development, and reorganization of the new army...... After all this is done well, in the future, a hollow phalanx composed of fixed-loading flintlock pistols will be put out, and of course it will be able to pacify Mongolia, which is called "can".

However, after pacifying Mongolia in this way, they still had to garrison, they had to send troops to station, and they had to pay their own money and efforts to build cities and forts on the steppe, and they had to worry about the Mongols rebelling. Then why not directly use both soft and hard, first let the Mongols realize that the Ming military strength is not something they can resist, and at the same time, they can eat and drink spicy food with the Ming Dynasty, and no longer have to worry about not having enough food and clothing. And then take advantage of the situation and control in terms of religion and culture, this group of hungry wolves will sooner or later have to become the dogs of the Ming Dynasty in northern Xinjiang, and after decades or hundreds of years, they will simply integrate with the Ming Dynasty and not distinguish each other?

Why was China able to invent the artifact "since ancient times"? Because many countries and nations that have fought and died with China since ancient times have eventually become part of China!

Not only did they become a part of China, but their entire nation was assimilated by the "Chinese nation"!

So, you can fight, but there is no need to be obsessed with fighting.

Gao Pragmatic adheres to this viewpoint and seduces Hannaji: "What shamans do is based on their personal likes and dislikes, how can they be worthy of the wisdom of the great lamas?" Moreover, these priests often demanded the killing and wounding of large numbers of livestock for sacrifices, prayers, and practices, so how many cattle and sheep were killed every year for no reason? Taiji, do the math, if it weren't for these shamans, although your disaster situation would still be severe, would so many people still starve to death? When Gao Pragmatic said this, he sighed and said in a voice of compassion for the heavens: "These starving people are all the people of the Great Khan, and even your people of Taiji!" ”

Hannaji was a little distracted and muttered: "Yes, the herdsmen are starving to death, who will help me raise cattle and sheep?" ”