115 The Road to Decay I
In April of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Nurha Chiqin led tens of thousands of troops to attack the Mongolian Khalkha tribe, and he claimed that there were two reasons for the attack: one was that when his youngest daughter went to visit her sister who had just married in the Khalkha tribe, the Mongols did not protect her and died; Second, Zaisai, the leader of the Khalkha tribe, personally hacked to death Nurhachi's envoy.
Nurhachi's youngest daughter was the rib girl who was caught and put back by the internal guards of the Ming Dynasty, and she fell ill and died not long after she returned. An eleven or twelve-year-old girl, who is thin and has little immunity, is tied up and tossed back and forth in winter, and it is normal for her to die soon after returning from poor medical conditions. The account was put on Zaisai in the Khalkha Ministry, firstly because the death of the rib girl was indeed related to Zaisai's poor protection, and secondly, because Nurhachi needed a reason to start a war, and the death of his daughter and the death of the messenger were enough to start a war.
It is said that there were at least hundreds of thousands of people who could cut people with knives in Mongolia at that time, and it was not enough for Nurhachi to attack, but because the Mongolian tribes at that time were not united, there were many people who could not be rescued and fell into the well, so Nurhachi was confident that he could take chestnuts in the fire. To explain why the Mongols were not united at that time, it is necessary to talk about the general situation at that time.
When the Ming Dynasty was established and the Mongols were driven north of the Great Wall, Mongolia became a piece of loose sand according to the general understanding, but in fact, there was still a political regime within Mongolia at this time, and some people called them the Northern Yuan regime. Although this regime did not unite all the Mongols closely, it did have some cohesion and centripetal force, and the suzerainty of the Northern Yuan during the Apocalypse was Lin Dan Khan, who commanded the Han Dynasty.
Lin Dan Khan is very young, because he is young, so he has no experience in management, originally he himself led a number of large and small tribes composed of the Khan Department, the surrounding Khalkha Department, Korqin Department, Karaqin Department and other relatively large tribes all obeyed his orders, at least on the surface. Even the Tumut Ministry, which squeezed out the Han Insertion Department back then, privately recognized the authentic suzerainty status of the Han Insertion Tribe.
Altan Khan, who could not defeat the Tumut Department in that year, was forced to move to Liaodong, and after many confrontations with Fuyuwei and Tainingwei in the three guards of Wuliangha, who had been obedient to the Ming Dynasty for many years, and finally annexed the two departments of Fuyuwei and Tainingwei together with the Khalkha Department.
In the matter of Fuyuwei and Tainingwei being destroyed, the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty did something inauthentic, Wuliang Ha Sanwei in the Ming Dynasty Chengzu Zhu Di raised troops to fight for the emperor with his nephew Emperor Jianwen when he made a contribution to the stability of the north of the Ming Dynasty, and now there are difficulties that are gradually swallowed up, and the Ming court actually turned a blind eye is indeed a little unreasonable. However, during this period, the Ming court was not easy, Jiajing and Wanli ruled the Ming Dynasty for nearly a hundred years, except for caring about themselves, they have never seen who they cared about, they don't like to see officials and don't like to see their sons, even their own sons don't care about people, to ask him to care about the Mongolians thousands of miles away, it is estimated that it is not realistic.
The most unbelievable thing is that when the other Mongols annexed the two departments of Fuyuwei and Tainingwei, they found that these two departments could exchange things with the Ming Dynasty, and they were overjoyed to impersonate these two departments to continue to do business with the Ming Dynasty on a regular basis. It is possible that you can't recognize people clearly, and you may be afraid of trouble, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty actually turned a blind eye to each other as usual, and it is estimated that their thoughts are who you are, I don't want to care about it, and I can't care, as long as you are obedient and don't make trouble. In fact, the new Khalkha Ministries and Khan Ministries are indeed very honest, even if there is friction, it is because they have divided things less or are unfairly divided, and there is no idea of overthrowing the Ming Dynasty.
The loyal people are gone, in exchange for a group of honest but unfaithful people, in the eyes of the Ming officials, there is no difference between the two groups of people, but in fact the difference is very large. One of the things that was a headache for Altan Khan of Tumut was that whenever he led his troops to attack the Ming Dynasty, the men and horses of the Wuliang Ha Sanwei would attack him from the side, and finally he accepted the title of King Shunyi given to him by the Ming Dynasty, which is estimated to have an impact on this aspect. With such three loyal tribes defending the border for the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was able to ensure the safety of the border under the rule of the extremely mediocre Jiajing and Wanli.
Many things in the world are like this, some things will only feel precious when you lose them, but when you realize the preciousness of the lost person or thing, he will not come back.
The characteristics of the steppe peoples are that they are full of wolf nature, living in groups, eating meat, wearing fur, and if they see it, they will strike a blow, and they will go away if they miss a blow. If the peoples of the steppe do not eat meat or eat less meat, and their bellies are full of rice and flour, the wolf nature will degenerate, and the war will be fought from generation to generation. The distant ones are like the three guards of Wuliangha, and the close ones are like the Han Department and the Khalkha Department.
Lin Dan Khan of the Han Department was very young, and it was not a mistake to be young, but because he accidentally did something wrong, he slowly lost the support of the tribes, and finally became a lonely man and died miserably in a foreign land, this wrong thing is that he had an anachronistic belief at the wrong time.
In the forty-sixth year of Wanli, Shalba Hutuketu of the Tibetan Red Sect came to Lin Dan Khan's tent and performed several magic tricks and small acrobatics for him, and Lin Dan Khan was stunned and did not know what to do. This Sharba Hutuketu is very good at observing words and feelings, and as soon as he saw that his few small tricks had frightened Lin Dan Khan, he immediately began to promote his Red Sect. It is said that Lin Dan Khan was twenty-six years old at the time, not a six-year-old child, and should not be so easily deceived, but probably because he was born and grew up in the grassland, his mind is more straightforward and his nerves are rough, so he immediately believed it and believed it more thoroughly.
As an individual, he believes that he has his freedom to do anything, but as the suzerain of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, he should ask the people around him before he believes anything, he didn't ask, it's not that he doesn't know, but he doesn't have the heart to think about it, and he believes it on impulse. At that time, Tibetan Buddhism was already very influential in the Mongolian tribes, but the leaders of the Mongolian tribes believed in the Yellow Religion, and everyone believed in the Yellow Religion. Draw a line with everyone or don't trust everyone anymore?
It stands to reason that there should be no difference between Tibetan Buddhism, just as Middle-earth Buddhism is divided into Tantric, Sutra, Pure Land and other sects, Tibetan Buddhism is also divided into different sects such as Red Sect, Yellow Sect, White Sect, and Flower Sect. The classification of Middle-earth Buddhism is mainly in how to fool the common people, or how to benefit sentient beings, and even within the same bodhisattva, there are different divisions of labor, for example, Guanyin Bodhisattva has different forms of work corresponding to different forms such as Guanyin with a fish basket, Guanyin with a thousand hands, and Guanyin with a child. It doesn't matter if the people don't understand, they can ask him for anything, he can know and help you across industries, and everyone has the same purpose in terms of division of labor.
Tibetan Buddhism, on the other hand, is different, and the Yellow Sect and the Red Sect have very different applications in practice, and their main difference is not in the color but in the content. The Red Sect talks about very ancient and primitive doctrines and canons, many of which are the original Tibetan secret mantras from Tianzhu, and the form of inheritance is mostly passed on from father to son and master and apprentice among the people, and the content is more colorful and varied. Subdivided into ten disciplines, such as logic, phonology, drama, rhetoric, and craft, it makes people wonder if these things have the genes of the ancient Celaean Platonic school.
The Yellow Sect is very strict, it requires that there must be strict precepts, monks must be like monks, you can't learn Buddhism while marrying a wife and having a son, otherwise you are not a monk and can't learn Buddhism. This is a bit unkind, and Middle-earth Buddhism does not allow monks to marry wives and have children, but allows lay people at home to learn Buddhism, and it is not wrong to pass on the lineage and cultivate themselves. It is said that there are not many people who like the Yellow Sect so strictly, but the Yellow Sect can be favored by the Mongolian nobles because it has a reincarnation theory, as long as you have money and status during your lifetime, it is easy to get a wheel king, wisdom king and the like in the ground after you die, how can this not make these nobles yearn?
It is precisely because of the difference in beliefs that the surrounding people began to drift away from Lin Dan Khan, gradually drifting away from Germany, slowly becoming more and more estranged, and many things were not discussed. As soon as the people's hearts are scattered, it is difficult to lead the team, and Lin Dan Khan then made another mistake, so that Nurhachi found an opportunity to develop and grow, and this mistake was to die and not save the people.