Merchants, it is impossible to run a business alone, what about your partner? Wang Zezhi put on his fur, filled the bonfire with firewood, and asked casually.

"You're smart and alert, and my buddies are dead." The merchant spoke lightly, as if he were talking about a trivial matter.

"You're lying." Wang Zezhi didn't believe it.

"Oh, let me guess, you're chasing a man from the Golden Family, who used to be the overlord of the grassland, and now he doesn't know the situation...", the merchant said mysteriously.

"Where did he go?" Wang Zezhi looked at the bonfire in front of him and asked nonchalantly.

"Oh, I'm scared, I don't know." The merchant spread his hands and said indifferently.

"What do you want?" Wang Zezhi thought about it for a while, and he understood that this businessman was trading with him, and he didn't want to tell Lin Dan Khan's whereabouts happily.

"Ah, our caravan has encountered some robbers, and one of them is the noble leader of the Golden Family.

They plundered my caravan and slaughtered my companions, and I was the only one who escaped. ”

The merchant looked sadly at the darkness in the distance.

"That's a lot of nonsense, you've disappointed me so much, you don't have a trace of the noble qualities of the Turks." Wang Zezhi listened to the merchant's words and said impatiently.

"They went north, and I hope that the Ming Dynasty will allow our people to return to our homeland, Juyanhai."

Juyanhai is the tail lake of Heihe, the second largest inland river in China.

In the Han Dynasty, it was called Juyanze, and in the Tang Dynasty, it was called Juyanhai, which originated in the Heihe River in the depths of the Qilian Mountains, flowed through Qinghai, Gansu and Inner Mongolia for more than 800 kilometers, and then merged into two Gobi depressions on the northwest edge of the Badain Jaran Desert, forming two major lakes in the east and west, which were collectively called Juyanhai.

The surface of the lake in Juyanhai has changed from time to time due to the diversion of the Ejina River, and since the Yuan Dynasty, it has been divided into three seas (lakes) of Yijinai, Habanhabal, and Talasu, and the Tuerhut Department is stationed in Yijinai.

"Is there any useful news that you don't have?"

Lin Dan Khan's movements, Wang Zezhi will know sooner or later, there is not much difference between what this businessman says and what he doesn't say, at most he will know later.

If the merchant could only provide such a small amount of information, then he would be of little use.

"Oh, I'm afraid you don't know what the Golden Family represents..."

The businessman talked eloquently about the history of the Golden Family.

The "golden family" of Bao Erchijun (孛儿 only jin) clan refers to the descendants of Genghis Khan's family in a broad sense as the golden family.

After the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, the Golden Family in a narrow sense refers to the descendants of Torre and even Kublai Khan, and other descendants of Genghis Khan.

Most of the golden families that remained in the Central Plains at the end of the Yuan Dynasty were integrated into the Han people.

After the restructuring of the Golden Family Dayan Khan, which fled to the northern part of the Mobei, the Golden Family was limited to the descendants of Dayan Khan, and the royal court descendants of the Great Khan of the Mongolian Chahar Department were exclusively enjoyed.

Born in 1592 A.D., the last emperor of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, Lin Dan Khan, was a direct descendant of Genghis Khan, the founder of the Mongol Empire, and the seventh grandson of Dayan Khan, so there is no doubt that Lin Dan Khan was a member of the Golden Family.

The power of the Mongol Khan has been sluggish for a long time, Lin Dan Khan can only control the Chahar Department of Liaohetao, Mongolia has the ruling power of the Ming Dynasty in the south, and the Jurchen tribe in the east has also quickly embarked on the road of unification and prosperity under the leadership of Nurhachi, surrounded by strong enemies, Mongolia to rise, it is not easy to say.

However, since Lin Dan Khan was a member of the Golden Family, his rule was supported by a considerable number of steppe tribes.

Although Lin Dan Khan is now at the end of his rope, there are still some herdsmen in the steppe who support him.

After the merchant escaped, he saw with his own eyes that a herdsman led the way and led Lin Dan Khan and his party to the north.

He estimated that the herdsmen were planning to take Lin Dan Khan from Tushetu Khan's territory somewhere.

The emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and this time Wang Zezhi finally figured out why he chased Lin Danhan for so long and didn't catch up.

Because, along the way, there were herdsmen who were familiar with the road to lead the way for Lin Dan Khan.

In addition, these herdsmen will also secretly report to Lin Dan Khan, revealing the whereabouts of Wang Zezhi's army to Lin Dan Khan.

Herdsmen can be seen everywhere on the grassland, and Wang Zezhi can't kill them all.

"These two pieces of news are not enough, if you want to return to Juyanhai, the Ming will have to be the enemy of the Dzungars, this is not a wise decision."

"Our clan is willing to submit to the Ming Dynasty." The merchant knelt down on one knee and said sincerely.

Wang Zezhi pondered for a moment, the Turks still had to come back after all.

"It's unrealistic to directly give Juyanhai's Yiji to you as a resident pastor, so let's retreat to the next best.

I have allowed you Turks to come to the city of Naturalization to trade, and I will give you the greatest support in terms of grain and iron. ”

Far away from the lower reaches of the Ezil River (Volga) in the Caspian coastal region, it was a good choice for the Turks to make them rich by doing business.

It is impossible to directly send the Yiji of Juyanhai to them as a pastard, as this area currently belongs to the Dzungar Department of the increasingly powerful Oirat Alliance.

After the departure of the Turghut Division, there were the four Weilats (this period belonged to Moxi Mongolia): the Heshute Division, the Dzungar Division, the Dulbert Division, and the Huite Division.

The leader of the alliance was the head of the Heshute tribe for a long time (the ancestor of Gushi Khan, his elder brother and eldest nephew).

During this period, its leadership was "Taiji", whose status was lower than that of the Khan, and it was not a khanate (the Khan was divided into two levels: tribal Khan and national Khan).

Dzungar was the Warat Department that confronted the Ming Dynasty, and later the Warat Department migrated westward and split under the blow of the rising Mongol Tatar Department, and was also known as the Oirat Department in history, and the following was divided into the Dzungar Department, the Heshute Department, the Turghut Department and the Dulbert Department, also known as the Moxi Oirat Department.

The area under its jurisdiction extends to the upper reaches of the Irtysh River, the Ob River and the Yenisei River in the north, the Tianshan Mountains in the south, the dividing line between the Altai Mountains and the Hangai Mountains in Mongolia in the east, and the Balkhash Lake area in the west.

Later, the Dzungar tribe became strong and oppressed the Turghut tribe to the west, so that it and a part of the Dulbert and Heshute tribes were forced to move to the lower Volga region.

To the east, he oppressed the Dulbert Ministry, seized its territory, forced it to attach the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and attempted to annex the Heshute Ministry, invading Qinghai.

The Dzungar tribe defeated the Kazakhs again, crossed the Tianshan Mountains to conquer the Hui Chagatai Khan and the Baishan faction and the Montenegrin faction, flew troops to Lhasa, and took Tibet, and finally established a powerful Dzungar Khanate.

Its territory extends to the upper reaches of the Irtysh River, the Ob River and the Yenisei River in the north, the Ali region of Tibet in the south, the Balkhash Lake in the west, and the Sayan Mountains and the Seshangge River basin in the east, reaching more than 4 million square kilometers at its peak.

During the Chongzhen period, the Dzungar tribe was not only equipped with traditional bows and arrows, sabers, and shuttles, but they were also able to produce gunpowder and equip themselves with firearms, which was why they were able to become more and more powerful.

With Wang Zezhi's current strength, he can't make too many enemies, otherwise, the little family foundation he has built up with great difficulty will be lost by him.

Therefore, he had no choice but to settle for the next best thing, and to use a gentle method to contain them by supporting the Turks.