"Senior Brother Chesan!" Seeing this, another lama beside Nakel had no choice but to say: "If it is about knowledge and virtue, you are naturally qualified to be the first seat of this temple, but with the current situation, if you are the first seat of this temple, I am afraid that it will bring disaster to the Jokhang Temple!" ”

"Doom? Where does this begin? ”

"Senior Brother Chesang, let's open the skylight and say something, you can crusade against the traitors and traitors, and find the Maha Kala Golden Buddha by relying on the power of the Ming army, there is nothing wrong with this, all beings are equal in front of the Buddha, and there is no need to forcibly divide Mongolia and the Ming Kingdom. But now that the Ming Kingdom and the Jurchens are in a big war, you use the power of the Ming Kingdom to ascend to the first seat, will you involve this temple and cause a catastrophe? “

When Chesang heard this, he knew that he had encountered a fierce enemy, and he wanted to invite the leaders of the various tribes to come, and then rely on his two great achievements to eliminate the apostate Lin Dan Khan and find the Maha Kala Golden Buddha. But he didn't want to provoke such a big reaction, although that Naker had a loud voice, it was not difficult to deal with; But this was very troublesome later, after all, he had just received the title of Dahu Tuketu from Chongzhen, and it was not long ago that the Jurchen army burned down the Naturalization City, and he was the reincarnation of Su Qin and Zhang Yi, and he could not deny that after he succeeded to the throne, the Silver Buddha Temple could no longer maintain its current transcendent status, and was in danger of being involved in the war.

"Senior Brother Noyan!" Che Sang thought about it for a while, and decided to avoid the relationship between himself and the Ming Kingdom for the first time, and take a step back for the time being to defend and attack: "If it is based on what you see, who should be the first seat of this temple?" ”

"I don't know who is the first person to be the head of the temple. But the Ming Kingdom and the Jurchens are like two elephants, and the Jokhang Temple is just a little mouse, when the elephants are fighting each other and the outcome is undecided, the rats should not intervene in it, so as not to harm themselves, Senior Brother Chesang, do you think I am right? ”

Hearing this, Che Sang couldn't help but secretly agree with Nuo Yan's point of view, if he stood in the position of the Silver Buddha Temple, it was indeed the wisest choice, but the problem was that he was already standing on the boat of Liu Cheng, and it was impossible to stand on the position of the Silver Buddha Temple. He thought about it for a while, and decided not to avoid the other party's question anymore: "Senior Brother Nuoyan, although what you said is reasonable, if an elephant has already walked to the rat's nest, if the rat is still hesitant, I am afraid that it will not even be able to keep its own nest, so what else can we talk about?" “

"Chesang, are you relying on that Ming general to coerce us?" Na Ke'er was furious when he heard this, and shouted: "In front of the big golden soldiers, the soldiers of the Ming Kingdom are just local chickens and tile dogs-"

"Shut up, that's Ke'er!" Nuo Yan shouted to his companion, and said in a deep voice: "Senior Brother Qiesang, you have your reason for this matter, and I also have my reason, the Han people have a saying: 'The Tao is different, and we don't conspire with each other', let's talk about it here!" With that, he stood up and walked out of the hall proudly, and the lamas on his side also got up and followed, and there were only a dozen or so lamas standing on Chesang's side in the Buddha hall, and a lama who knelt beside Chesang whispered in his ear: "Master, this Noyan and that Ke'er are stubborn, do you want to-" At this point, he made a knife slashing gesture.

"That's okay, Nuoyan has a very high prestige in this Silver Buddha Temple, if we are useful, it will be difficult to clean up next! That's the last resort, so don't use it yet! Chesan looked at the back of Na Ke'er's departure, his eyes faintly indistinguishable, like a deep well.

"How should that be?"

"Let's wait and see what happens!" Che Sang smiled: "I thought about things too simple before, but I didn't think that there was a smart person in this Silver Buddha Temple, and it was good, sometimes dealing with smart people is much less labor-intensive than dealing with stupid people!" ”

In addition to the Buddha Hall, Nuyan walked straight along the prayer corridor to the back hall, which is the most secret and important place in the entire Silver Buddha Temple, enshrined a large number of precious scriptures, archives and relics of the ancestors and the Great Khan, only a very few of the most senior monks can be allowed to enter. Na Ke'er followed closely behind Nuoyan, he looked at the back and saw that there was no one left, grabbed a few steps and said in a low voice: "Senior brother, why did you let go of Chesang?" ”

"Spare it?" Noyan stopped, turned around and asked, "What do you mean?" “

"Naturally, I cleaned it up!" Na Ke'er stretched out his right hand and made a downward gesture: "Our people are three or four times as many as that guy, as long as we start, that guy will definitely not be able to run!" ”

"Killing people in the Buddha hall, or is it a personal disciple of Lobsang Chokyi Gyaltsen?" Noyan's eyes widened, and he looked at Na Ke'er in surprise, as if he was a madman in front of him.

"So what, who asked him to fight for this first seat?" Na Ke'er sneered, and replied nonchalantly: "When the time comes, it will be said that it is the manifestation of the gods and Buddhas, and this anti-law disciple will be executed on the spot!" ”

"Shut up!" Nuo Yan drank sharply, he looked at the surroundings and saw that there was no one, and then lowered his voice and said, "Do you think this Qiesang is the kind of monk who travels alone?" His master is the presiding officer of Drepung Temple and Sera Temple, the first person of our Gelug sect, and the Ming Emperor named him Dahu Tuketu, how can such a person be killed with a knife? You're crazy! ”

"Senior Brother Nuoyan, I know what you said!" Na Ke'er sneered: "But now the situation has changed, Dajin is rising like the sun, Huang Taiji is magnanimous, last time he led the troops to the west, Guihua City was burned clean, only our temple has not even damaged a single grass or tree, it can be seen that his heart for our Jokhang Temple!" “

"Say no more!" Noyan interrupted Na Ke'er's words: "Do you want me to repeat what Fang just said again?" Our Jokhang Temple guards the Dharma, whether it is the Ming Kingdom or the Jin Kingdom, it has nothing to do with us, whoever wins, we obey him, but when the two powers compete, interfering in it will only bring destruction! ”

"But the Great Golden Soldiers are invincible, and Huang Taiji has not tasted defeat since he succeeded to the throne—"

"There's a first time for everything! We can't afford to lose, and neither can the Jokhang Temple! Nuoyan's eyes stared at Na Ke'er, and he said in a low voice: "I know that you have a connection with the Jurchens behind your back, junior brother, you promise me, don't do stupid things!" ”

Na Ke'er lowered his head, trying to avoid Nuoyan's direct gaze, but Nuoyan grabbed his head with his hand and lifted it up forcefully, his eyes facing him: "Chessan, he wants to sit on the first seat justifiably, if possible, he won't use force, as long as you don't do stupid things, he can't do anything with you, no matter what, he's always an outsider!" “

"Well, I'll listen to you!" Faced with the forced gaze of the senior brother, Na Ke'er finally nodded helplessly.

Back to his residence, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, he was the eldest son of a big nobleman in the Horqin Department, according to the customs of the Mongols, the family business was inherited by the younger son, and the older sons were either assigned to a part of the family business to go out independently, or become a monk, he could only come to the Jokhang Temple to become a monk because of his mother's humble status. When the Later Jin army marched westward, Lin Dan Khan abandoned the city of naturalization and fled, entrusting it to Huang Taiji, who commanded the Later Jin army. Faced with the Naturalization City that was engulfed in flames, the monks in the Jokhang Temple were at a loss, and finally they could only push Na Keer out and go to the Jurchen camp to intercede. (The Horqin tribe was the first Mongolian tribe to attach itself to the Houjin, and many tribal nobles had an in-law relationship with the Houjin nobles) But to Na Keer's surprise, when he nervously informed the Houjin generals he met of his intentions, he was soon received by Huang Taiji in person. Moreover, Huang Taiji was very happy with the request of the monks, and issued a military order prohibiting the Houjin soldiers from invading the industrial grange belonging to the Jokhang Temple and returning the looted slaves in the temple. In the end, Huang Taiji also told Na Ke'er very kindly: Although the Jurchen Mongols are two ethnic groups, they are actually one family, and he sent troops to the west this time only for Lin Dan Khan alone, and he has no ill will towards others. In addition, Huang Taiji also took out 1,000 prisoners, 2,000 taels of silver and some miscellaneous animals as his own donations to the temple. This successful mission greatly improved Na Ke'er's status in the Jokhang Temple, and at the same time made him completely fall to the side of the Later Jin, forming a small number but not a small group of pro-Jurchen around him, but with a lot of energy, they closely linked their future prospects with the Later Jin's conquest in the Mongolian steppe.

"Damn Nuoyan, if it weren't for me, the Jokhang Temple would have been burned to the ground by the Dajin soldiers, and you would have become a ghost under the knife a long time ago, and today you actually favored that Qiesan!" Na Ke'er slammed his hateful fist on several cases beside him, and the oil lamp on it shook violently. Maybe it's out of some kind of jealousy in her heart, but the one she hates the most in her heart is not Chesan who is on the opposite side of her, but the Noyan who stopped herself from doing it today.

Just as Na Ke'er was sulking in the room, there were two gentle knocks on the door, and then someone asked, "Is Master Ke'er there?" ”

"What's the matter?" Na Ke'er frowned, who was going to bother him at this juncture?

The voice outside the room paused slightly, and then a somewhat muffled voice came: "O descendant of Ghazal (Temujin's second brother, a famous hero of the Mongols, known for his bravery, of which the Korqin tribe is his descendant), you are a fierce dog of Temujin, and there is no one among the descendants of the Qiyan tribe who can compare with you!" “

Hearing this poem but not a poem coming from outside the window, Na Ke'er's face changed greatly, it turned out that this was the secret word agreed between Huang Taiji and him at that time, and the one who came with this secret word was the secret envoy sent by Houjin. He hurried to the door, opened the door and said, "Come in and talk!" “

Ah Gui quickly got into the house, and almost came in with him with the black dog, he saw that Na Ke'er poked his head out to see that there was no one around, so he closed the door and asked in a low voice, "How did you come into the temple, did anyone see you coming?" ”

"I infiltrated in disguise as a slave of Gulba Beji of the Asuth Division!" Ah Gui looked at the lama in front of him and could see that the other party was very excited, which made his heart flash an ominous premonition, it was not a good sign to partner with such an emotionally exposed person.

"Good!" Na Ke'er nodded, he looked at the dirty black dog lying on the exquisite carpet with disgust, but he still resisted the rudeness of not scolding the other party: "The Great Khan asked you to come over, but what marks do you have?" “

"Yes!" Ah Gui nodded, took out half of the bronze medal from his waist, Na Ke'er took the bronze medal, carefully opened a small closet from the wall, took out the other half from the inside, put it together tightly before he breathed a sigh of relief, smiled and handed back half of the bronze medal and said: "Give it back to you, did the Great Khan say when he would send troops to the west?" ”

Ah Gui frowned and replied, "Master, I'm just a spy, and I've been ordered by my boss to come here to inquire about something. As for your question, I can't answer it! ”

"Oh!" Na Ke'er sighed in disappointment, he sat next to a few cases, with a decadent look on his face: "It's a pity!" “

"It's a pity? What do you mean by that? Gui asked in surprise.

"The Ming people are already going to capture this temple, and if the Great Khan doesn't send troops, the Jokhang Temple will fall into the hands of a puppet of the Ming general." Speaking of this, Na Ke'er sighed: "Originally, this Jokhang Temple was preserved because of the benevolence of the Great Khan, and it should belong to Dajin!" ”

Ah Gui looked at Na Ke'er, and finally decided to avoid this topic and leave here after getting the information he needed as soon as possible. The impulsive lama in front of him gave him a premonition that was already very dangerous, and he coughed: "Master, I came to the Jokhang Temple this time to confirm whether Lin Dan Khan is dead, and the current situation of the right-wing departments. ”

"Lin Dan Khan?" Na Ke'er smiled: "He has long been dead, he was killed by Bu Lost Rabbit Khan, a few months ago he was defeated by the Ming army when he was besieging Ningxia City of the Ming Kingdom, his wife lost all his baggage, he happened to meet Bu Lost Rabbit Khan when he was running away, and the old enemy immediately wanted his life." ”

"Are you sure?"

"Is Lin Dan Khan dead? Of course! Na Ke'er smiled: "The general of the Ming Kingdom held a grand funeral for him, and his wife and subordinates watched from the side, even if he really didn't die, what was the difference between being dead and dead?" “

"So who's in charge of the right now? Lost Rabbit Khan? ”

"Lost Rabbit Khan?" Na Ke'er suddenly laughed, as if he had heard something very ridiculous: "This unlucky guy is also dead, he wants to get back the tribes and pastures that he was taken away by Lin Dan Khan from the Ming people, but the Ming people invited him to attend Lin Dan Khan's funeral, and handed him over to Lin Dan Khan's wife and subordinates at the funeral site, and the result is like this-" At this time, Na Ke'er picked up a piece of sheepskin and tore it hard, and the sheepskin became two pieces.

"So who's on the right now?"

"I don't know!" Na Ke'er shook his head: "Lin Dan Khan's wives and concubines were all sent to the Jingshi of the Ming Kingdom, leaving only a child who was still nursing to inherit the Khan's throne, and the various departments of the right wing and the Chahar Department of Lin Dan Khan were all dismantled into eight pieces, divided into twenty or thirty Zasaks (the Mongol name for tribes). (To be continued.) )