Starting from the spring of the twelfth year of Hongxing in the Ming Dynasty, in the desert and steppe of the Northeast Shenzhou, there were countless trickles composed of Mongolian herdsmen, heading westward to a blessed land belonging to the Mongols in the legend of abundant water and grass - Mughulstan (this is the Persian language, meaning the place of the Mongols).

In the eastern part of Montustan, near the steppes of the northwestern foothills of the Tien Shan Mountains, there was a large contingent of Mongols compared to the other westward marching Mongol teams. Horse-drawn carts with all sorts of items bundled to the brim. A small blue pennant with a white falcon flying on it - this is the flag exclusive to the Golden Family!

Around the cart were Mongols on horseback, men and women, young and old, dressed in dirty leather robes, carrying bows and arrows and scimitars, all of whom were a little unkempt, and looked emaciated, looking very depressed and tired.

Around the large convoy and the large crowd of Mongols on horseback, there were also some rather skilled-looking riders, guarding them everywhere. Most of them were dressed in cloth armor, some were armed with spears, some carried arquebuses, and some of them galloped for a while, then stopped their horses, and then the whole person stood on the back of the horse and looked around, very vigilant.

In the middle of the large convoy, there were more than a dozen horse-drawn carriages and pannier sedan chairs carrying people. The horses pulling the cart are fat and strong, and the oil and water are smooth. The coachmen sitting on the wheels all looked particularly strong, and their clothes were bright, all of them were black and blue satin-faced Qing Dynasty military attache uniforms, and some of them still had flintlock pistols in their waists, all of them with straight waists.

In front of the large convoy, there were two or three hundred knights who opened the road, looking even stronger, and they were also one man and two horses, riding a walking horse, and leading a taller war horse. These two or three hundred Mongolian knights were all guarding two old men in their fifties and sixties, who looked extraordinary and wore Western-style plate armor. These two old men are Emperor Shunzhi's father-in-law Wu Keshan and Wu Keshan's brother Manzhu Xili. And the less than a thousand warriors and thousands of old and weak women and children who followed them were the remnants of the former powerful Horqin King Banner.

To tell the truth, to be able to bring out these most heartfelt subordinates from the sinister situation after the sudden collapse of Manchuria, Wu Keshan, the prince of Horqin, can be regarded as extremely astute.

In contrast, the three Khalkha Mongol tribes of Tushetu Khan, Zasaktu Khan, and Chechen Khan were miserable, and the Khan's banner was all broken by the Daming, Tumut, and Chahar coalition forces, and the three khans were almost slaughtered by the Tumut and Chahar tribes - unlike the Korqin Department from the bloodline of Genghis Khan's brothers, the three Khalkha Mongolian khans are all descendants of Dayan Khan, the most orthodox golden family, and they are qualified to compete with the Chahar and Tumut tribes! Therefore, the Chahar and Tumut tribes refused to leave the Khalkha Three Khan Banners, while the Korqin Khan Banners were not so hateful......

Of course, the Korqin tribe, which is unorthodox in the eyes of the Chahar and Tumut tribes, is a different identity when it comes to the Warat Alliance!

The previous leader of the Warat Alliance, Gushi Khan, was a descendant of the Korqin tribe!

Gushi Khan's ancestors failed in the internal strife of the Korqin Tribe, left Western Mongolia, and were taken in by the Warat Alliance, and finally squeezed out the Golos family and became the leader of the Warat Alliance!

I really don't know about Ross. Will the Sangha be upset by this?

In addition, even if the monk was broad-minded and contained him, the Khan King of the Korqin Tribe, the great emperor in the east would be able to give up? If he sent someone to put pressure on the Sangha, would the Sangha cut off his own head and send it to Nanjing?

Thinking that his head might not be safe, Wu Keshan let out a long sigh again.

His sigh was heard by a rather dignified-looking middle-aged Mongolian man who rode a horse beside him, and the man immediately laughed: "Wu Keshan answered, you can rest assured, the current Warat Alliance soldiers are strong enough to shelter guests from afar. ”

The man who spoke was a relative of Wu Keshan, named Gar Danmpa, the son of Ozirtu Khan, the leader of the Heshute tribe who remained in the Warat Alliance, and he was also the father-in-law of the head of the Dzungar tribe, Sangge, and his daughter Anukodun was the wife of Sangha.

And that Ozirtu Khan was the nephew of Gushi Khan, and after the death of Gushi Khan, he took over the position of leader of the Warat Alliance......

"And the Warat Alliance?" Wu Keshan asked in a low voice.

"This ......" Kar Danmpa didn't expect the other party to be so direct, and smiled awkwardly, "Of course there is, how can there be no ......"

"Then where we're going now......"

"It's Chu River City." Kar Danmpa sighed softly.

Chu River City is located between the south bank of the Chu River and the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains, roughly near the Broken Leaf City during the Tang Dynasty. The city was not the "capital" of the Warat League, which was a very loose confederation of nomadic tribes and had no capital or capital.

Chu River City is actually the residence of the Daming Beiting Protectorate! The location of the city was decided by Zhu Cihong, who was thousands of miles away - at that time his Ming Dynasty was still fighting with the Qing Dynasty in the north, but he was already thinking about the westward migration of Zhungar.

If the center of the Jungar Department is located in the Jungar Basin in later generations, then the Zhungar Department will have the convenience of developing eastward.

On the contrary, if the center of the Quasi-Ministry is moved to the Chu River Valley, then it will be more convenient for the Quasi-Department to develop to the south.

In order to promote the westward migration of the Junggar Ministry, Emperor Zhu even allocated a sum of silver to the Sangge, and after the Battle of Anxi, let people transport it to the Junggar Department for the Sangha to build a city on the Chu River.

Silver was of little use in the steppes, of course, but in the Chu region, near the Bukhara Khanate, it could be used to procure goods from Bukhara merchants and hire artisans.

Under the unremitting labor of craftsmen from Bukhara and Kazakh captives (slaves) captured by the Dzungar tribes, by the summer of the twelfth year of Hongxing, a brand new city with a mixture of Han, Tibetan and Central Asian styles had appeared on the banks of the Chu River.

In addition to its political and military role, the city of Chu River is now an important trading station on the overland Silk Road.

Tea bricks, silk, porcelain, and gunpowder from the Central Plains, furs and livestock from the Mughal steppe, salt from the Siberian salt lakes, ironware, blankets, and various daily necessities from Bukhara all converge here.

Large tracts of farmland have also emerged on the fertile and flat land outside the city, where farmers from Ancy have grown hardy oats and rye. Many lama monasteries were also built inside and outside the city, where high monks from the Central Plains chanted sutras and worshiped the Buddha, and prayed for blessings from the Dzungar Department and the Sangha Khan.

The surroundings of Chu River City seem to have returned to the Tang Dynasty overnight, and it has become the forefront of the convergence and integration of Eastern and Western civilizations.

The owner of this city is Zaros. Sangha, also known as Sangha Khan or Dadu Sangha.

In fact, he never called Khan - his honorific title within the Warat League was Huntaiji. The Sangha's wife, Anukodun's grandfather, Ozirtu Khan, was the Khan of the Warat Alliance. This "old khan" now lives in the Ili valley region and has no ambitions, just to live his life in comfort and comfort. It is precisely because of the seclusion of the Oziertu Khan that the monk has become the de facto Khan of the Warat Alliance. Over time, everyone called him Sangha Khan.

However, he did not have a khanate of his own, only an empty Duhufu (not completely empty, the Duhufu owned the city of Chuhe), a Jungar Ministry, and a loose Warat Alliance...... And as many as a million Mongolian hinterlands!

It can be said that his current strength is stronger than that of his ancestor and Taishi, and he is also stronger than the Dayan Khan who revived Mongolia, and even stronger than Genghis Khan when he first established the Great Mongolian State.

is so powerful, it should be a big sweat, but now it is just a Huntaiji...... The monk himself felt a little too much to say.

But you have to be called Khan......

"Taiji, Taiji......." A silver bell-like voice interrupted Sangge's thoughts, and he turned his head to see that it was a tall, plump and somewhat beautiful young woman, who was Sang's wife, Anukodun.

Holding a letter raft in his hand, Anukodun smiled and said to the Sangha, "I just received a letter from your sixth brother Hutuktu. ”

"What does the letter say?" The monk asked.

The letter said that he would soon come to Chuhe Province to ...... It should be on the road by now. Anu said, "There are nine more Chinese characters." ”

"Kanji? Do you recognize it? The monk asked.

"Yes, but I don't know what it means?" Anu said, "The nine words are: build a high city, occupy more land, and slowly call Khan." ”

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