When Chongzhen announced the decision to establish the cowardly Xue Wei at the banquet, the young people of the Mongolian tribes who participated in Naadam suddenly boiled.

In an era without the material resources of the industrial system, nomadic life seems to be romantic, but in reality it is an extremely brutal struggle for survival. The black and white disasters on the grassland, once encountered, can make the entire tribe disappear into the world.

This is also why, although the Ming State took a strong blow to the Mongol nation after the founding of the country, these Mongols were still unwilling to stay away from the frontier of the Ming State. Although the Ming Kingdom was only an agrarian society, the handicrafts exported by the Ming Kingdom were enough for these Mongol tribes to stay on the frontier of the Ming Kingdom at the risk of constant wars with the Ming Kingdom.

Compared with the natural disasters on the grassland, the danger of war from the Ming Kingdom is simply not worth mentioning. Therefore, the Mobei Mongolian tribes, which are far away from the Ming Kingdom, have developed for more than 200 years, and the population is only a few hundred thousand.

However, the Mongol tribes of Monan, which had fought dozens of wars with the Ming Kingdom, once again developed to a population of millions. The closer the tribe was to the Ming Kingdom, the more prosperous the population became. Because through the mutual market with the Ming Kingdom, these tribes can feed a larger population.

The decades of peaceful relations between the Mongolian right-wing tribes and the Ming Dynasty have also gradually diluted the fierce contradictions between the two ethnic groups in the past. Lin Dan Khan moved westward and tried to annex the right-wing Mongol tribes, which made the Shunyi king further submit to the Ming Kingdom, and also made the Mongolian right-wing tribes psychologically closer to the Ming Kingdom.

In today's Mongolian right-wing tribes, it is not a matter of violating the consensus of the Ming tribes to invest in the Ming army and fight for the Ming State. Moreover, those who can be accepted by the Ming ** team are all children from upper-class families in various ministries, and it is difficult for ordinary herdsmen to get such an opportunity.

On the other hand, with the westward migration of Lin Dan Khan, the migration of the Mongolian left-wing departments, and the reclamation of the border people of the Ming Kingdom, the population composition of the traditional territory of the Mongolian right-wing is changing dramatically.

Although there are now Ming officials and Shunyi kings, the right-wing Taiji who have divided the fixed pastures for each tribe, for the Mongolian tribes in this land, their grazing areas have been greatly reduced, and the young people in the tribes have begun to do nothing.

These idle young people, envious of the wealth obtained by the children of the Mongolian nobles who joined the Ming army, complained that their own tribal elders kept selling pastures to those Han immigrants, although there were no signs of anti-Ming, but it was certainly not a good thing in the long run.

Now Chongzhen is preparing to select people in various tribes to form Xue Wei, which undoubtedly gives these young people a way out. Therefore, when Zhuo Erbi began to select personnel, the young people of all tribes surrounded his tent enthusiastically, and it was three points more lively than Naadam's venue.

Although some tribal leaders felt that it was a problem for the emperor to use the name Tixue to form an army, after all, it was the name of Genghis Khan's pro-army. His Majesty the Emperor may have the intention of challenging the Golden Family's natural power over the Mongol tribes.

But looking at the enthusiasm of these young people in front of them, they buried this doubt in their hearts with interest. This is a battle between the Golden Family and His Majesty the Emperor, or let the bloodline of the Golden Family question His Majesty the Emperor on its own.

Just when Zhuo Erbi was busy selecting personnel to form the cowardly Xue Wei, a team of men and horses from the west also arrived in Chengde. 3. There were both Han Chinese and Mongols in the ranks of the 40s, but surprisingly, Liu Jingting of the Ethnic and Religious Committee was also in this unit.

After Liu Jingting informed his identity, Chongzhen quickly summoned him. Liu Jingting then led a richly dressed Mongolian nobleman in the team into the official residence where the emperor lived.

In the study in the backyard of the official office, Chongzhen saw the two of them. After saluting the emperor, Liu Jingting pointed to the Mongolian nobles around him and introduced to the emperor: "Your Majesty, this is Lin Dan Khan's second brother-in-law, Gunchuktaiji.

Lin Dan Khan and the Kuiktu Taiji of Mobei Outer Khalkha discussed dealing with the Yellow Sect, and heard that His Majesty had gone to Jizhou to preside over military exercises against the Houjin, so he sent Gunchuk Taiji to meet His Majesty. ”

After more than a year of investigation by Liu Jingting and the Social Investigation Department on the historical origins of the Mongolian ministries, Chongzhen at this time was no longer blind to the relationship between the Mongolian ministries and the origins of powerful figures.

On the left wing of the Mongols there were two Gonchuktaiji, one of which was Wanhu Jinong of the Naiman Division, who had now been subordinated to Huangtaiji. One is the brother-in-law of Lin Dan Khan in front of him, a Mongolian relative of the left-wing tribe.

Zhu Youzhen beckoned the two of them to sit down, and talked to Gunchuk Taiji, before turning back to the topic and asking, "Who is this Ketu Taiji?" What is the power in Transkhalkha? ”

Lin Dan Khan sent his second brother-in-law, Gunchuktaiji, as an envoy to see Chongzhen, mainly because his trusted eldest brother-in-law Guiyingcha always explained the emperor's good words in front of him, and the Ming emperor touted Guiyingcha as the first Mongolian warrior, and the two of them touted each other's words, which was really a bit suspicious.

Not to mention, last year, Gui Yingcha sent troops to assist the Ming State in fighting against the Houjin, and reaped a lot of benefits for his own clan. So with his distrust of Gui Yingcha, Lin Dan Khan simply sent Gunchuktaiji, who was more estranged from him, this time.

However, what he didn't know was that Gonchuk Taiji had already caught up with Liu Jingting, and he had always expressed to Liu that he was willing to move closer to the Ming Kingdom.

Therefore, Chongzhen asked him about the Kuiketu Taiji, and this Gonchuk Taiji did not hesitate to shake off the origin of the Kuiketu Taiji.

The great-grandson of Dayan Khan's son, he was the most powerful Taiji in the Transkhalkha left. Born in the year of the Iron Snake, he is 50 years old this year and has nearly 50,000 tribes under his command.

It was different from the Mongol Empire, where Lin Dan Khan wanted to use the Red Religion to unify the Mongol tribes and restore the centralized system. However, he was an out-and-out religious fanatic, and his life's work was to promote Tibetan Buddhism in various parts of Mobei.

Choktu Taiji and his mother have always been the biggest supporters of translating Tibetan Buddhism and establishing Tibetan monasteries in Transkhalkha. However, both of them believed in the Red Kagyu sect.

The rise of the Yellow Sect made the Yaktu Taiji very dissatisfied. Just like the Sakya monk Shalhutuktu whom Lin Dan Khan trusted, the monk who was most trusted by Kyuktu Taiji was one of the leaders of the Red Sect, Shamar Lan Zhanpa.

Therefore, under the hatred of the Yellow Sect, Lin Dan Khan formed an alliance with the Khketu Taiji, but this alliance was not only because of the anti-Yellow Religion faith.

After Lin Dan Khan moved westward, the war between the left and right wings of Mongolia forced some Mongolian tribes to move to areas close to the Ming Kingdom, but it also caused some tribes to defect to Mobei Mongolia.

In the vast and sparsely populated Mobei, population is the biggest resource. These subjects from the tribes of Khozit, Abagar, Abahanar, Uzhumuqin, Sunit and other tribes soon aroused the contention of the Transkhalkha nobility.

Naturally, he is no exception, he has a lot of influence in the left wing of Transkhalkha, but in the whole of Transkhalkha it is the most powerful right-wing force. Because the right wing is not only close to the Hexi Corridor of the Ming Kingdom, but also backed by the Moxi Mongol tribes north of Turpan, it is more developed commercially than the left wing.

In addition, the Ming State relaxed trade restrictions on Mongolia, and many caravans chose to detour from the territory of the right wing of Transkhalkha in order to bypass the trade routes controlled by Turpan to Moxi Mongolia.

This not only brought a large amount of materials to the Mongolian tribes of the right wing of Transkhalkha, but also brought them a lot of wealth.

Many herdsmen heard that the right-wing Mongolian tribes of Transkhalkha were fighting against the left-wing anti-Huangjiao Qiuketu Taiji, and they did not hesitate to abandon the contract with the caravan and help the right-wing Taiji to fight.

In the face of the right-wing coalition army, which had received financial support from the Han people and manpower support from the Mongol herdsmen in southern Monan, the right-wing coalition was even more defeated, and even a lot of his own territory was occupied.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Choktutaiji had no choice but to go south to contact Lin Dan Khan, hoping to persuade the ally to go north and help him fight against the right-wing Mongol tribes of Transkhalkha.

Lin Dan Khan was very tempted by the invitation of the Khketutaiji, after all, his ambition was to rebuild the Great Mongol Empire, to reunite the fragmented Mongol tribes under the banner of the Golden Family, and Mobei Mongolia was also a part of the Mongol Empire, which was the object of his conquest.

But at this moment, he didn't dare to easily agree to the invitation of the Yaktutaiji. Because his original purpose of moving westward was to annex the right-wing Mongolian tribes first, so that the entire southern Mongolia would become a whole again. In this way, the tribal population he left behind in Liaodong could be compensated from the right-wing Mongols.

However, because of Mingguo's sideways, his plan was not completely successful. Although he occupied the richest Tumut region in right-wing Mongolia, he made the right-wing Mongolian tribes hate him to the core, and would rather defect to the Ming Kingdom than kneel under his banner.

Under the mediation of the Ming state, Lin Dan Khan was able to gain a foothold in the Hetao region, but he also lost the direction of development to the west and south. Even if Lin Dan Khan wanted to fight with the right-wing Mongol tribes supported by the Ming State, the subordinates who complained about him had already reached the limit of patience.

At this moment, if he led his troops north, Lin Dan Khan would have to worry about whether the right-wing Mongol tribes would copy his back road and recapture the Hetao area. Therefore, after hearing that Chongzhen went north from Beijing, he sent his brother-in-law to come to find out Chongzhen's attitude towards his interference in Mobei Mongolia.

Zhu Youzhen thought for a long time before he asked Gunchuktaiji, "Then how do you think it is better for me to reply to Lin Dan Khan?" ”