The Puzhao Temple in the southeast corner of Lanzhou City is a temple built during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty. The temple sits in the north and faces south, and the halls and pavilions are complete, which can be described as magnificent in this northwest place. The most outstanding scenery in Puzhao Temple is a picture of the Great Pessimistic Guanyin Buddha painted on the wall, the portrait is eleven heads, forty-two arms, splendid, gorgeous and colorful, foreign pilgrims and visitors are all impressed to see it. Puzhao Temple is also called the Great Buddha Temple because of this portrait.

In addition to this huge Buddha statue, there is also a * hall built in the Yuan Dynasty in the temple, the hall enshrines a wooden Mani *, 10 meters high, eight sides and six layers, each side of each layer of the Buddha statue of a statue, a total of 48 statues. *Although it is huge, it can be turned by an adult with a strong push, and the design can be described as very delicate.

Sons are only catty. When Tulu Baihu came here for more than half a month to admire the Buddha statue and *, he couldn't help but be amazed, thinking that it was a miracle.

However, today he revisited his old place, and when he looked at the words "* Hengzhuan" hanging in front of him, his face was a little blank. At this time, he couldn't help but think in his heart, he would actually be captured by those stupid-looking Ming soldiers, could he really respond to these four words?

As soon as he remembered how he had been discovered by the Xining defenders, Tulu Baihu felt that this was simply an unwarranted disaster.

Because of the request for help from the 5th Emperor last year, under the strong advocacy of the Yellow Lama and him, the 4th Oirats finally reached a temporary reconciliation with the 3rd Transkhalkha Ministry.

Although the war with the Transkhalkha tribe was stopped, whether to go to Uszang to rescue the lama and how to get to Uszang became a dispute within Oirat.

The conflict between the Oirat Mongols and the Kazakh Khanate began more than 100 years ago with the rise of Dayan Khan in Eastern Mongolia, which forced the Oirat Mongols to move further west to the steppes, thus clashing with the Kazakh Khanate, which occupied Central Asia.

After more than 100 years of war, the two sides have formed a feud. In 1628, after the death of Esmu Khan, he was succeeded by his son Yangjir (Jangar) Khan. The Dzungar tribe, which was adjacent to the Kazakh Khanate, wanted to take advantage of the fact that Yangir Khan had not really grasped the power of the khanate and wage a large-scale war against the Kazakh Khanate in order to weaken the other party's power.

On the other hand, Batur Huntaiji also believes that the relationship between the Yellow Lama and Tulu Baihu is too close. If he took the Oirat coalition army to the Qinghai-Tibet region, where he was unfamiliar with his life, the command of the coalition army might be stolen by the cooperation of the Yellow Lama and Tulu Baihu, which was naturally not in the interests of the Dzungar Ministry.

However, this dispute within Oirat over the use of troops in that direction soon came to a halt with the news that Lin Dan Khan had disappeared and that Houjin had raised troops to attack Chahar headquarters.

Even if the Oirat Mongols were no longer convinced by the Chahar tribes, they could not change that the other party was the successor of the Mongol Great Khan recognized by the Mongol tribes. If the Later Jin had eliminated the Chahar tribe, it would have meant the disappearance of the legitimacy of the Mongol Great Khan.

For this historical event that has the potential to change the pattern of the Mongolian steppe, the attack on the Kazakh Khanate and the rescue of the Uszang Lama have become somewhat insignificant.

The news of Houjin's defeat and retreat undoubtedly relieved Oirat Mongolia. But the leaders of the Oirat tribes also understood that if Lin Dan Khan did not appear, or if there could not be an appealing tribe among the Mongolian tribes, then the situation of the Mongolian steppe being divided and encroached upon by the Ming and Houjin would be inevitable.

It was precisely because of the chiefs' fears about this outcome that the opinions of the Oirat Mongols to rescue the Uszang Lama prevailed. Without the legitimacy of Lin Dan Khan, the Mongol Great Khan, if you want to call on the Mongol tribes, you can only start from the religious beliefs of the Mongols.

The support of the lamas, who controlled most of the Mongol spiritual world, became a powerful weapon for those who aspired to unify the Mongol tribes and restore the Mongol Empire.

Among these Mongol chieftains, the most active was the Son. Tulubaiam. In order to find out the route into Tibet, the attitude of the Ming people towards Uszang, and the price that the Uszang Yellow Sect lamas were willing to pay, Tulu Baihu took the risk of disguising himself as a member of the Transkhalkha Mongols who went to Uszang to boil tea, and the so-called boiling tea actually means charity.

In the past, the officers and soldiers of Gansu would not embarrass these Mongols who went to Qinghai and Wusizang to make tea. First, it is easy to cause disputes between the two parties; Second, these Mongolians who boil tea can bring some economic benefits to the local area.

However, with the financial support of the imperial court to Gansu, the local officers and soldiers became somewhat disciplined. After the news of the emperor's arrival in Lanzhou on his western tour spread, the officers and soldiers in Gansu became even more cautious, worried that when the emperor was stationed in Lanzhou, there would be problems with the flood land they guarded, and they would be arrested by the emperor.

Tulu Baihu's team that went to Wusizang to boil tea was because after the emperor arrived in Lanzhou, the Lanzhou government was too strict with the inspection of these foreigners, so they had to leave Lanzhou City and go to Qinghai.

However, in winter, there have always been few teams that go to Wusizang to boil tea, and the general of the Ming army stationed in Xining wanted to make meritorious contributions, so he intercepted Tulu Baihu by mistake.

Although Tulubaihu knew that it seemed bad to reveal his identity, he could not watch the Ming army clash with his subordinates. In such a season and such a geography, they could not escape the arrest of the Ming army at all, especially since these Ming soldiers were not the kind of old and incompetent people.

So Tulu Baihu was sent back to Lanzhou and placed under house arrest in the Great Buddha Temple, which he admired. At this point, he could only give up the idea of fleeing and began to think about how to face the reception of the Ming Emperor.

Although he was known as Gushi Khan by his clansmen and was the leader of the four tribes of Oirat, Tulubaihu was not as glamorous as outsiders looked.

First of all, Tulubaihu was not the rightful successor to the leader of the Hoshot tribe and the leader of the Oirath League, which was originally the legacy of his eldest brother Baibagas. During his lifetime, Baibhagas was not only more famous than he is now, but also owned more livestock than he did.

Baibagas himself had two sons, but they were too young to take over the responsibility of leading the Heshute Ministry, so the nobles of the Hoshute Ministries chose Tulubaihu to temporarily overtake this time.

Now the legal heir of Baibagas, Tulu Baihu's nephew Punzir is an adult and has a good relationship with Batur Huntaiji of the Dzungar Yuros family. Some of the Hoshut nobles who had once attached themselves to his brother Baibhagas were privately spreading rumors that Tulubaihu should return power to his adult nephew.

And the strength of the Dzungar Turat family not only forced the Turks to move westward, but also eyed the title of the leader of the Oirat League of the Heshute Tribe.

In fact, the Oirat Mongols were not in the narrow sense of the Mongol tribe, but the general name of the nomadic people in the north who were attached to the Mongols during the time of Genghis Khan, and this tribal army that was dependent on the Mongols was under the control of Genghis Khan's brother Habtu Hasar, and finally formed the Mongols in the broad sense.

In the four parts of Oirat, Heshute is the descendant of Habtu Hasar, and it can be regarded as a branch of the Golden Family, so he naturally inherited the title of the leader of the Oirat Alliance for three consecutive generations. It's just that this alliance leader is not the lord of Oirats with unlimited power, but the role that summons the leaders of the various Oirats to a meeting.

But even so, the Dzungar Khiros family couldn't help but want to put this title on their heads in preparation for the integration of the Oirat tribes and the establishment of a unified Mongol khanate.

In fact, the Ross family is not an unknown person, and the once powerful Tile Thorn is ruled by the Ross family. Rose. The descendants of the royal family of Tuhuan Liyuan became the Khan and became the prime minister, and they have basically unified the Mongolian tribes.

It's just that Tokhtarbuhua was not willing to be replaced by the Golden Family by the Oros family to become the heir of the Mongol Great Khan, and made a lot of small moves behind his back, which caused Tokhun Zi to also kill Tokhtarbuhua by force first, which caused the dissatisfaction of the entire Eastern Mongolian tribes, and was finally killed first, and the tile spur collapsed and returned to Moxi, becoming Oirat Mongolia.

With such a black history, it is naturally difficult for Tulubaihu to bow his head. But under the attack of internal and external forces, he also had to find a way to break the situation for himself.

The Moxi steppe is under the shade of the Altai Mountains, and although the climate is less severe, this land is almost unable to withstand the nomadic population of the four Oirats.

In the past few years, there has been continuous infighting in Oirat Mongolia, and it is not the root cause of the large number of people and the narrow land of various departments, and the competition for grazing pastures. The 250,000 people of the Turkut Department moved westward, first, to avoid the increasingly powerful Dzungar Department; The second is also to be able to find a new grazing land to support the development of the tribe.

The grassland vacated by the westward relocation of the Turkut Department was basically acquired by the Dzungar Ministry, and for the Heshute Ministry, which was cramped around Urumqi, this was a process of eliminating the advantages of one and the other.

Once the Dzungar tribe digested this grassland, it would be even more difficult for the power of the Heshute tribe to compete with the Yuros family.

It was Tulu Baihu who was willing to take the risk of entering Tibet from the Ming Kingdom, hoping to find out the reality of the Ming Kingdom and the Qinghai-Tibet region, and prepare for the southward movement of the Heshute tribe.

Tulu Baihu actually had a plan, once the time was right, he would take his troops south to Qinghai and Wusizang, and after controlling the Qinghai-Tibet region, he did not plan to return to Urumqi.

Although Urumqi is a "beautiful pasture" in the Junggar Mongolian language. But in the current situation, it has become a cage for the Ministry of Prison and Shut.

However, Tulubaihu, who was full of confidence, became a prisoner before he left the territory of the Ming Kingdom, and he thought about it in his heart, and all the thoughts he thought about it were all empty at this moment. Even his life was in the hands of Mingren's thoughts, if it weren't for Tulubaihu's stronger heart, he might have collapsed at this moment.

Just as he was in a daze, there was a sudden movement from behind him, and Tulu Baihu turned to look and found that a middle-aged official wearing a horned hat, a woven gold python robe, and a white jade belt around his waist was walking towards him.

Tulubaihu turned around and bowed to the visitor, then raised his head and tried to ask: "Tulubaihu of the Heshute Department see your lordship, I don't know what your official is called?" ”

After Mei Zhihuan nodded in return, he replied with a calm face: "Mei Zhihuan, the governor of Ganning, has seen Gushi Khan, should we find a place to sit down and talk?" ”