Chapter 245: Lin Dan Khan's Peace
Since he inherited the throne of his grandfather Buyanxue Chan Khan at the age of thirteen, Lin Dan Khan, based on the Chahar department, directly controlled five tribes, including Inner Khalkha Bahrain, Zalut, Bayout, Uqiyat, and Hongjirat, and also remotely controlled other Mongolian tribes. In the early period of Lin Dan Khan's reign, the three Khalkha Khans of Mobei and the Kundulun Khan of Karaqin in Monan, the Chegen Khan of Alu Korqin, the Horqin Obahongtaiji, and the Tuba Jinong of Ordos regularly went to Chahanhot to meet Lin Dan Khan, and discussed major government affairs with the Great Khan, and participated in the banquets, hunting and other activities held by the Great Khan.
In the forty-seventh year of Wanli, Nurhachi attacked Fushun and Kaiyuan in the Ming Dynasty. On the occasion of Tieling and Liaoyang, Lin Dan Khan also took the opportunity to personally lead the five divisions of Chahar and Nekharkha to capture the Guangning City of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, in order to prevent Nurhachi from uniting with Lin Dan Khan, so that the Ming Dynasty was attacked in the east and north, the Ming Dynasty constantly sent people to try their best to curry favor with Lin Dan Khan, hoping that he would maintain friendly relations with the Ming Dynasty. Lin Dan Khan is left and right, and his life is very good.
However, from this year onwards, Nurhachi fought with the Mongols and captured many Taiji alive, and then Nurhachi formed an alliance with Inner Khalkha and Korqin to jointly deal with the Ming Dynasty, but the relationship between these Mongol tribes and Lin Dan Khan became worse and worse. And after he converted to the Red Religion, Mobei Mongolia no longer obeyed his orders and began to go their own way.
Houjin gradually stopped taking him seriously, and began to invade the Chahar Department from time to time, capturing a large number of people and livestock, but Lin Dan Khan did not dare to confront Houjin, and was restrained everywhere, and was about to be eaten by Houjin.
At this time, after the Ming Dynasty shrank its forces from western Liaoning, it began to attack Houjin from southern Liaoning, so that Houjin had to turn his attention away from the Mongols and concentrate on dealing with the Ming Dynasty. This is equivalent to saving Lin Dan Khan's life, and he made up his mind to meet the source again between the two, but Da Ming quickly defeated Hou Jin, and Korqin, Nekhalkha and other ministries who originally swore an alliance with Hou Jin turned from an alliance with Hou Jin to an eyebrow with Da Ming, anyway, they no longer really support Lin Dan Khan.
The Ming Dynasty wanted to take back the Hetao, but of course Lin Dan Khan was unwilling, but he also wanted to take the opportunity to teach the disobedient Ordos and Tumut tribes a lesson, so he wanted to use the threat of the Ming army to make the two tribes get closer to the Chahar department. I didn't want the Ming army to defeat Ordos in a very short period of time, forcing him, the Mongol communist master, to fight with the Ming army.
The Mongols were afraid of the weak Ming people, and did not want the Ming army to have the advantage of firearms now, so they easily defeated themselves, and then pressed forward step by step, and after revealing their intention to sue for peace, they still forced themselves to retreat fifty miles a day. War cannot be fought, and retreat will also be retreated to nowhere to retreat, so seeking peace has become the only way out.
Thirty-eight-year-old Lin Dan Khan, in the more than 20 years of conquest, the strongest opponent he has encountered is the current Ming Emperor. Wanli still has the advantage, and when he gives less gifts, he will grab them himself, and then get more gifts. During the Apocalypse, the annual gifts became less and less, and in the end they had been cut off, and they occupied Guangning, and they wanted the Ming people to redeem it with money, but they didn't want the Ming people to ignore him at all, and retreated to Shanhaiguan. He had just despised the cowardice and uselessness of the Ming people, but the Ming people began to attack Houjin from southern Liaoning and occupied Shenyang, so that he had to withdraw from Liaodong and continue to graze in the grasslands.
After many failures, people will form a strange thought: Could it be that this person is specially trying to restrain himself? Lin Dan Khan sometimes wondered, could he really not win against the Ming army? From the defeat of Naturalization City to the defeat this time, he understood that he really couldn't win against the Ming army.
If you can't beat it, then surrender! The men on the grassland are not brainless desperate players, Lin Dan Khan remembered the ancestor Temujin, wasn't he also driven by the enemy to run around? Isn't it that even his wife was snatched away? I haven't reached that point yet, so surrender to Daming first, and have a chance to make a comeback in the future.
Lin Dan Khan said: "Ben Khan is willing to add Mongolia to the Ming Dynasty and become a subject state of the Ming Dynasty. ”
Lu Xiangsheng said with a smile: "Welcome to the wise decision of the Great Khan, the Han and Mongolia are friendly, and the Great Khan should be the first credit." ”
Xiong Tingbi smiled and said: "The Great Khan has finally made the best decision, I believe that the Great Khan will not regret it in the future, and all the Mongols will thank the Great Khan for giving them peace." ”
Seeing that he no longer scolded himself, Lin Dan Khan felt a little uncomfortable, so he said: "The Ming people will also thank Ben Khan for giving them peace." ”
Xiong Tingbi shook his head and said: "Great Khan, the peace of the Ming people can only be given by His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty does not need peace at this stage, because the Ming Dynasty is invincible now." ”
Lin Dan Khan was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood, but he also knew that Xiong Tingbi was telling the truth, in just a few years, Daming had fought many wars with Houjin, Wa, Spain and other countries, all of which were overwhelming victories, not to mention that Daming had to surrender himself. Xiong Tingbi is a person who is rampant when he gets his will, and he is humiliating himself.
Lin Dan Khan didn't want to deal with him, so he said to Lu Xiangsheng: "Master Lu, some tribes in Mongolia have been occupied by the Ming Dynasty, and there are still some tribes who don't obey Ben Khan's orders. Ben Khan wanted to ask the Ming to hand over the occupied places to Ben Khan to manage, and lent Ben Khan 5,000 elite soldiers to suppress the disobedient tribes, so that the Han and Mongolian friendship could be implemented. ”
Lu Xiangsheng groaned: "It is impossible to hand over the land of Hetao to the Great Khan, this Great Khan should understand. As for the rest of the place, this is negotiable. ”
Xiong Tingbi sneered: "The place we laid will be returned to you free of charge, and you think it is really good for the Great Khan." If you want a place, okay, take the money to redeem it. One hundred taels of silver for a mile, this price is cheap. ”
Lin Dan Khan smiled bitterly, how could the Mongols exchange money with the Ming Dynasty, exchanging cattle, sheep and horses for the Ming people's iron products, cotton cloth, tea, mirrors, candles and other things? He tried: "This price is too outrageous, how about a horse and a mile?" ”
Xiong Tingbi said: "Do you want a sheep for ten miles?" The Great Khan was thinking too simply. No two prices, you can buy if you want to buy, and you don't want to buy and pull down. ”
Lin Dan Khan looked at Lu Xiangsheng, and Lu Xiangsheng said helplessly: "If the land that my Ming soldiers have laid down with their blood is handed over to the Great Khan for free, I am afraid that the soldiers will not accept it." Otherwise, fifty taels of silver for a mile, that is, one hundred yuan, what does the Great Khan think. ”
Lin Dan Khan couldn't afford this price either, so he had an idea and said: "There are many places in our Chahar that are suitable for farming, why don't Ben Khan take them out and exchange them with you for grassland?" ”