Chapter 613: Balance of Danger
The position of Jinong, the leader of the Ordos Tribe, was not self-appointed, but hereditary.
Moreover, this Jinong's position has been hereditary by the Ordos Ministry for nearly 200 years, how can it be said that it will be abolished?
Jinong, also known as Ji Nang, is a Mongolian transliteration, and its meaning in Mongolian is actually the meaning of deputy khan.
After the Tatar prince Dayan Khan unified the Tatar tribes and expelled the Warat, he divided the eastern and western parts of Mongolia into six Tumen Wanhu on the left and right wings, and appointed his second son as Jinong, that is, the deputy Khan, stationed in Ordos in the Hetao, on behalf of the Mongol Great Khan, to manage the 30,000 households of the Mongolian right wing.
The left wing of 30,000 households was passed on to the eldest son, and then passed on to Lin Dan Khan from generation to generation.
The 30,000 households on the right wing were passed on to the second son, and then passed on to the hands of the ministers from generation to generation.
Therefore, it is said that the Elu Chen and Lin Dan Khan were the same family two hundred years ago, and they are both descendants of the little Tatar prince Dayan Khan.
Because of this, when the time of Dayan Khan became history, and the leader of Tumut, Alta, rose to prominence as Altan Khan, he did not dare to abolish the hereditary Jinong position of the Ordos Ministry.
When Lin Dan Khan led his troops westward and finally came to Kuku and Tun, he not only expelled the Shunyi king Bu Lost Rabbit, the grandson of Tumut Altan Khan, but also abolished the position of Jinong of the head of the Ordos tribe in one fell swoop.
Just from this move, you can see how capricious this Lin Dan Khan is.
It can be said that no matter where he goes, he is an enemy on all sides, almost all those who can be blamed, and almost all potential allies have become his enemies.
Fortunately, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and although the Chahar Department is not what it used to be, there are still as many as 100,000 people and horses who followed Lin Dan Khan to move west.
Such a team, which had fought against the Jurchens in the Xilamulun River valley for many years and escaped the pursuit of the Jurchen cavalry, was an irresistible force for the Tumut tribe, who had become accustomed to a settled agricultural life.
At the end of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, at the beginning of the first year of Chongzhen, when the Chongzhen Emperor was busy clearing the eunuchs, stabilizing the court situation, and going all out to invigorate the finances of the imperial court, the Gu Zhan Magpie's Nest became the master of Lin Dan Khan of Kuku and Tun, and also commanded his own elite in a hundred battles, and quickly suppressed the resistance of Monan Mongolia.
The king of Shunyi and the grandson of Altan Khan, the king of Shunyi and Altan Khan, led thousands of people to escape west of the Yellow River and enter Ordos while the Yellow River was freezing.
And the Ordos leader who took in Bu Losttu, the Mongolian right-wing Jinong Eluchen, was also abolished from Jinong's post by Lin Dan Khan.
The leader of the Yongshebu tribe, who had submitted to Lin Dan Khan in time, won the trust of Lin Dan Khan, and was granted the position of Jinong in charge of 30,000 households on the right wing of the Mongols, as the eastern barrier of Kuku and Tun, and stationed near Lake Dalainuoer.
Originally, in history, after Lin Dan Khan expelled the Shunyi King canonized by the Ming Dynasty, he asked the governor of Datong for mutual markets and rewards, but the Ming monarchs and ministers at that time categorically rejected him.
First, the Ming Dynasty itself was very financially difficult, and even the annual reward of the Saibei barrier of the Ming Jingshi, that is, the Karaqin Department outside the edge of Jizhen Town, was canceled, where was there any extra money and food for him!
Second, the Shunyi King who was canonized by the Ming Dynasty was expelled by Lin Dan Khan, and you belong to the authority of the Ming Dynasty that completely ignores it!
The Ming court is not capable of sending troops to administer justice for the king of Shunyi, it is a bit too much to say, if you and you, Lin Dan Khan, who expelled the king of Shunyi, trade with each other or give money and grain relief, where is the face of the Ming court!
Therefore, after the historical Lin Dan Khan was rejected for mutual markets and rewards, he immediately led his army to attack Datong, and almost broke through the Great Wall defense of Datong Town.
But in this life, it's completely different.
Lin Dan Khan's request was not refused.
On the contrary, after Emperor Chongzhen set up the Li Fan Yuan, he immediately instructed Wu Weiying, the envoy of the Li Fan Yuan, to open up a trade and mutual market in the old land of Dongshengwei outside the Datong border, and then, salt, tea, grain, ironware, cloth, silk, medicinal materials and other scarce materials from the interior of the Ming Dynasty began to enter Kuku and Tun through the trade of the Yuan Dynasty, and entered the southern Mongolia under the rule of Lin Dan Khan.
Lin Dan Khan, who was already poor and weak at this time in history and had an extreme shortage of materials, finally took a breath of relief in the same historical period of this life.
The archers of Chahar finally had enough iron arrows to hunt for arrows from the corpses of their comrades after each battle.
The herders of Chahar also finally have an iron pot to boil meat and tea leaves to make milk tea.
And the border soldiers and people in Datong Town also began to get a steady stream of war horses, cattle and sheep from Lin Dan Khan through the field.
Although Lin Dan Khan's price for the war horses imported into Datong through the field is still much higher than the market price in the mainland of Daming, at least since then, the war horses in Datong Town are no longer priceless, but have a relatively stable source of war horses.
Zu Dashou's dream of building a Guanning iron horse similar to Liaodong Town in Datong has also been realized.
In such a way, Emperor Chongzhen acquiesced in the status of Lin Dan Khan's entry into Kuku and Tun and in southern Mongolia.
The king of Shunyi, who fled to the land of the Ordos Loop, saw that the new Ming Emperor was doing this, and he could only stay in the territory of Ordos honestly and wait for the opportunity.
Now that Emperor Chongzhen is doing this, it will certainly restore and strengthen Lin Dan Khan's strength, and even make Lin Dan Khan's ambition even more inflated.
From the perspective that Lin Dan Khan was the enemy of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen's doing this was tantamount to supporting the enemy.
But in line with the principle that the enemy of the enemy is a friend, it may not be a good thing for Lin Dan Khan to restore a certain strength.
Historically, when Huang Taiji led an expedition to Chahar, Lin Dan Khan, who had been a hero for most of his life, fled in despair.
Huang Taiji won the victory of the expedition almost one-sidedly, and easily recovered the Mongol tribes in southern Mo.
Could it really be that the Jurchens are not satisfied with 10,000 and are invincible?
Not at all.
One of the reasons for this, when it comes out now, may be incredible.
That is, the Chahar people under the command of Lin Dan Khan are so poor that they don't even have pants to wear.
They had sheepskins, but no cloth.
They had mare's milk and mutton, but no tea and vegetables, not even an iron pot to cook the meat.
They had enough archers, but no arrowheads.
They have a large number of young men who are not afraid of death, but these people do not have decent weapons in their hands.
The economic blockade of Mongolia by the Ming Dynasty did not block the Jin merchants who came out of Zhangjiakou to trade with Jianyu, but made Lin Dan Khan, who came from far away from the border and was unruly, suffer enough.
At the same time, it also fulfilled Jianyu and cheapened Huang Taiji in vain.
When Huang Taiji heard that the Monan Mongols under the rule of Lin Dan Khan were in such a situation, he quickly led an expedition to Chahar.
And Lin Dan Khan really collapsed at the first touch, and he didn't even have the courage to fight head-on, so he fled west with his men and horses to Qinghai Dacaotan.
Lindan Batur, who once claimed to be the lord of Mongolia with 400,000 troops, Baturu Genghis Khan, why has he become so vulnerable in just a few years?!
The reason is that after Lin Dan Khan entered Monan Mongolia in history, the Ming Dynasty imposed a severe economic blockade on him, which made him unable to solve the problem of survival of the various tribes in Monan.
If the problem cannot be solved, it can only be ruled by high-pressure means, and the continuous resistance of the Ordos Department and the Tumut Department has also consumed a lot of Lin Dan Khan's manpower and material resources, and Lin Dan Khan, who is trapped internally and externally, has no resistance in the face of Huang Taiji's army.
It's a different story today.
Originally, in the first and second years of Chongzhen, Monan Mongolia, which was in chaos in history, was quickly settled in this life because of the acquiescence of the Ming court to the status of Lin Dan Khan, as well as the exchange of borders with Mo Nan under the rule of Lin Dan Khan.
The head of the Ordos Tribe, who had been deposed of Jinong's position, saw that Lin Dan Khan's position was gradually stable, so he also endured it and quietly waited for the opportunity to retaliate.
Therefore, after Lin Dan Khan entered Kuku and Tun in this life, the situation in southern Mongolia maintained a dangerous balance with turbulent undercurrents and calm surfaces.