The opportunity Shu Lan is talking about is an ancient parchment scroll, which is a treasure map left over from the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, and the person who drew this map was a woman named Zhong Qihai.

This name is not unfamiliar to me who loves history.

Zhong Qihai, the princess of the Mongolian Junggar tribe of the Qing Dynasty, her father is the famous Boshoketu Khan Geerdan.

Speaking of which, it is necessary to first tell the story of this Mongolian princess and her father.

Geldan is the sixth son of the famous leader of the Dzungar tribe, Batur Huntaiji, who entered Tibet to study Buddhism as a teenager and was once considered to be the reincarnation of the Living Buddha of Wensa. After the death of Batur Hunteiji, Geldan's elder brother Sangha succeeded him as the head of Dzungar, who later died in tribal strife. After his brother's death, Geldan took off his monk's robe, returned to Dzungar, and with the help of his brother's subordinates, his uncle Chuhur Urbashi and Orqitu Chechen Khan and other nobles, he seized the leadership of the tribe and became the Great Khan of Dzungar.

After he succeeded to the throne, Dzungar embarked on the road of expansion, successively defeating his uncle Chuhur Urbashi, who had helped him seize the throne, and then eliminated the forces of the Orzitu Chechen Khan, attacked Turpan, and extended his power to the Gansu region. In that year, at his request, the fifth ** made him a quasi-Gelboktu Khan.

After ascending to the throne, he commanded the Dzungar Iron Cavalry to conquer the southern Tianshan Mountains, and after defeating the Kazakh Khanate and the Uzbek Khanate, he set his sights on the eastern Mongols, the Khalkha Mongol tribes.

In the minds of the Oirats, Khalkha is their feud. From the source, Khalkha, Chahar, Korqin and other eastern Mongolians are basically descendants of Genghis Khan's golden family, while Oirat Mongolia is descended from nomadic peoples in the upper reaches of the Yenisei River. Genghis Khan's tribes are divided into two parts: the steppe people and the forest people, the steppe tribe is Genghis Khan's headquarters, and the forest people are considered to be the Mongols' partial teachers, and Oirat is their descendant.

In the Ming Dynasty, Oirat was once powerful, and at that time they were called Warat, and there was a very great leader called Yexian. In the Battle of Tumubao, he defeated the 500,000 army of the Ming Dynasty and captured the town of Zhu Qi, Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty. In the fourth year of Ming Jingtai, he also defeated the Great Khan at that time, became the Great Khan of Mongolia, and put all the Eastern and Western Mongolia under his rule, and the power of Warat reached its peak.

However, they are not the Golden Family.

He also usurped the title of Khan, which caused the dissatisfaction of many Mongol nobles, and finally he was assassinated by his own subordinates. After his death, Warat's power gradually declined, splitting into two tribes, Dulbert and Dzungar, and its rule was constantly reduced. Under the continuous attack and encroachment of the eastern Mongols, they continued to retreat until they reached Moxi.

In Oirat's heart, Eastern Mongolia is their homeland, and they do not want to fight back all the time to restore the glory of the Warat era.

Geldan is a descendant of Yexian, and he thinks so.

But at this time, Khalkha, Chahar, Wengniut, Horqin and other eastern Mongolia have been incorporated into the sphere of influence of the Qing Empire, and Geerdan's enemy is the eloquent Kangxi Emperor.

Although Junggar was very strong at that time, compared with the Qing Empire, people were rich and handsome, and Geerdan was just a ** silk.

In the twenty-seventh year of Kangxi, Geldan led 30,000 troops to attack Khalkha, defeated Tushetu Khan, and defeated the two tribes of Chechen Khan and Zasaktu Khan, causing the three Khalkha tribes to move south on a large scale and seek refuge from the Qing Dynasty.

Originally, if he was like Ma Ye and me, he would accept it, and it was estimated that Khalkha's hometown would be his, but he was not satisfied, and he set his greedy eyes on the rich Inner Mongolian tribes.

At this time, the son of his elder brother Sangha, who had fallen out with him, returned to Xinjiang with his own men, and occupied the land of Geldan's summer camp. When the old nest was taken by his own nephew, Geldan did not return to the division to rescue, but waved his army south, preparing to fight a piece of heaven on the edge of the Qing emperor's bed.

As it turned out, this was an act of death.

The Qing Dynasty did not have many troops stationed in Mongolia at that time, and it was led by an official named Alani. This Alani is also a man with backbone, Kangxi ordered that he was not allowed to fight with Geldan. But before the order could be given to him, this buddy couldn't bear it anymore, and led 6,000 Mongol soldiers to take the initiative to attack and fought with Geldan's 30,000 iron cavalry.

This is the battle of the Urhui River, 6,000 against 30,000, and there is no suspense in the result.

According to Lao Maozi's historical data, Geerdan's war annihilated 20,000 Qing troops, which was actually bragging and not paying taxes. The soldiers of the Qing Dynasty are far from being as many as in TV dramas and people's imaginations and legends, and the eight banners and green battalions in the country together are about 800,000. In Mongolia, the Qing Dynasty didn't have many troops at all, where did the 20,000 soldiers come from?

Returning to the main story, the Qing Dynasty lost the first battle, and the whole country was shocked. Sigeldan was overjoyed and took a **lama Jilong Hutuktu to the south, directly threatening the security of the Gyeonggi region of the Qing Dynasty.

At this time, Gao Fushuai couldn't sit still, Kangxi mobilized a large army, and he was also ready to drive the expedition himself, ready to compete with Geerdan. Halfway through, Kangxi was ill, and he had no choice but to let his eldest brother Prince Yu and the emperor's eldest son lead troops to fight.

This is the first battle between the Qing Dynasty and Geerdan, the battle of Ulan Butong, Geerdan lost, and since then he has become an armed vagrant.

Four years later, that is, in the thirty-third year of Kangxi, there were only more than 10,000 troops left in Sigeldan's hands, and he still did not stop. sent people to plot against Horqin, the most hardcore Mongolian tribe in the Qing Dynasty, and Prince Horqin was unequivocal and immediately told Kangxi about it.

Kangxi will do what he wants, and ordered Salad to pretend to promise Geerdan, and then fooled him into leading troops to attack, and the Qing Dynasty mobilized heavy troops to prepare to encircle and annihilate him.

The naïve Geldan was really fooled and led an army of six thousand to enter Khalkha again. He felt that his self-confidence was justified, because Tsarist Russia still supported him as it had in the past, or at least it paid lip service.

This time, Kangxi mobilized an army of more than 70,000 people, and the troops were divided into three ways to surround Geerdan, and the ratio of troops has exceeded ten to one!

This battle took place in Zhaomoduo, Geldan was almost completely annihilated, and his beloved wife Anu was also killed by the Qing army, and he himself took dozens of cavalry and ran away.

It is said that Zhong Qihai was born by Anu.

After this war, Geldan was completely sad, and the hinterland of Junggar was occupied by his nephew Alabutan, and the people around him came back one after another. His only hope was to pin his hopes on the Russians, hoping that Tsarist Russia would continue to give him assistance and help him take revenge on the Qing Dynasty.

It's a pity that at this time, Tsarist Russia had signed the "Treaty of Nebuchu" with the Qing Dynasty, and the two bosses were reconciled, and Lao Maozi didn't care about this little brother.

Immediately after that, Kangxi once again started the pro-conquest mode with the rhythm of forcing people to die without paying for their lives, this time he led not many troops, but for the 1,800 people in Geerdana, it was enough to frighten them.

Betrayal of relatives!

Godan is poor and destitute, like a lost dog. When the Mongolian tribes saw the emperor coming to Ningxia, they came to show their loyalty and service. So Qinghai Mongolia, Khalkha Mongolia, and Inner Mongolia sent troops one after another, encircled and intercepted, and vowed to force Geldan into a dead end.

He fled to Kobdo, where he died a violent death shortly after. His subordinate Danzira brought his daughter Zhong Qihai and the remaining hundreds of tribesmen to the Qing Dynasty.

This is the life of the Junggar hero Geldan!

So the question is, he can be said to be poor and died in the end, where is the treasure?

"yes, where did the treasure come from?" Zhao Sichen also came back to his senses and looked at Shu Lan.

"What happened to Zhong Qihai?" Shulan asked me rhetorically.

"Well," I cleared my throat, "she was brought to Beijing, and Kangxi treated her and her brother pretty well. Her younger brother Saibuteng Barjur was made a first-class guard and given a mansion, and Zhong Qihai also lived there. Later, Kangxi assigned her to the second-class guard, the Mongolian Shakzhur, and the Qing history manuscript said so much, and I don't know anything else. ”

"That's not right!" Zhao Zamao couldn't figure it out, "According to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, isn't the rebellion to punish the nine clans?" Geldan is a rebellion, why did Kangxi still make his son a royal guard? Aren't you afraid of his revenge? ”

I glanced at him, "You have watched too many TV series, you are also looking at the right person of the Nine Clans." Geldan was dead, Zhungeer was still there, and the minister at that time was at least subservient to the Qing Dynasty on the surface. Kangxi disposed of Zhong Qihai's sister and brother like this, that was a political manoeuvre, understand? ”

Shu Lan smiled slightly and applauded, "He deserves to be a top student in the history department!" ”

I smiled, "The captain has won the award, so it's easy to say." ”

"And what's going on with this treasure?" Miao Yi asked.

Shulan looked at us and picked up the parchment roll, "I have heard the legend that when Geldan first attacked Khalkha, he plundered on a large scale. Although the Mongol tribes lived nomadically, the Mongol nobility was still very wealthy. Moreover, among the lists he plundered at that time was a man named Zhebo Tsundampa, one of the two living Buddhas of Mongolian Tibetan Buddhism. The Qing court respected him very much, and the Qinghai Mongolian, Khalkha and Inner Mongolian tribes were even more unremitting in supporting him, so this is a rich master! ”

Miao Yi nodded, "So, Geldan made a fortune at that time?" ”

"It's not just a big fortune, it's a windfall," says Shulan, "and Geldan received a great deal of rare treasures as well as gold and silver from Jebo Tsundamba. He had planned to use this wealth to recruit troops and buy a large number of muskets and cannons from Tsarist Russia. It's just that before the guns of Tsarist Russia arrived, he suffered a defeat in Ulan Butong. His army was plagued as they retreated, and no more than a few thousand men returned to Kobdo. In order to prevent the Qing army from pursuing the victory and uniting the Eastern Mongolian tribes to attack Kobdo, he ordered his wife Anu to transport the remaining treasures to a secret place, buried them, and prepared to use the treasures to buy weapons from the Russians and borrow troops to go south, and fight to the death with the Qing Dynasty to the end......"

I suddenly realized, "So before the start of the later battle of Zhaomodo, there were rumors that Tsarist Russia would aid him with 60,000 elite soldiers, it seems that this is not a rumor, it is a real thing!" ”

Shu Lan smiled slightly and handed me the parchment scroll, "Is it true, you can use your magic to perceive it." ”