Located on the key road to the Western Region, it is a treasure land."

Originating from the Yema River in the Qilian Mountains, the Dang River flows from the southeast through Dunhuang (Shazhou) into the Shule River, and flows northeast, connecting several oases, Anxi Prefecture (Guazhou), and Yumen.

The Shule River is also the second largest water system in the Hexi Corridor originating from the Qilian Mountains. It used to flow into Lop Nur. It is said that water flows eastward, but the Shule River is a reverse flow river flowing westward.

The sun and the moon go west, and the water flows east, but the Shule River also goes west like the sun and the moon, and eventually disappears in the desert.

The Shule River, which is more than a thousand miles long, is a river flowing with gold and silver in Guanxi. It irrigates every oasis agricultural area.

The majestic Qilian snow, the rolling Shule River, and the Crescent Moon Spring made the emperor look at the Jietian Battalion in the distance. They were the troops of the Khans of Mobei, the Western Regions, and even the Turgut Khans and Yi Khans who were far away on the Volga River on the north bank of the Caspian Sea.

Envoys from the Kazakh Khanate west of Bohai also came.

This time the emperor visited Dunhuang in the west, and the war against the green Yarkand was about to break out. The entire Central Asia region was paying close attention, and even became uneasy and nervous.

The Khiva Khanate in the river, the Bukhara Khanate, the Safavid Dynasty in Persia, and the Mughal Empire in Tianzhu, as well as the leaders of the Uzbek Mingge tribe from the Fergana Basin also sent representatives, and they are still here

It belongs to the Bukhara Khanate and was once occupied by the Yarkands, but the leader of the Mingge clan has always sought independence.

The Minge tribe is a branch of the Uzbeks who moved south to the river from the former Golden Horde. Both the Bukhara Khanate and the Khiva Khanate claimed to be descendants of the Uzbek hero Shaibani. Bukhara was once the strongest, but now

At that time, its power was already weak, and its actual controlled territory only remained in the Hezhong area where the capital was located.

In the Fergana region, the Kho Zhuo who believe in the *mystical* Sufi sect have already begun to automate their territory. The Minge tribe, led by their leader, has been resisting the religious regime and trying to establish their own khanate and get rid of the rule of Bukhara.

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The Ming Dynasty wanted to unite with the Mongolian khanates and even bring Kazakhs together to attack the Yarkand Khanate, which believed in Christianity. Although several countries that also believed in Christianity were worried about death, they had their own agendas. This time, each country

The purpose of sending envoys here is to seek personal gain.

Two Uzbek khanates and an Uzbek tribe seeking independence. They are all descendants of the Golden Horde and Mongolian descendants, but they are a mixture of Iranian, Turkic, Mongolian, Kipchak, and Garolu people.

It can be said that it is a green Turkic country ruled by the Mongolian aristocracy. Anyway, it is a very complex group of people. Because it is located in the river, Eastern and Western cultures continue to pour in, and various forces compete here, gradually forming the Uzbek Seventies.

Two.

In terms of race, culture, and religion, they are indeed closer to the Yarkands. After all, they are almost the same green forces ruled by the Turkic Mongols. However, they themselves often fight back and forth, so there is no talk of brothers.

Affection.

They are basically a mixed ethnic group, but the upper class is Mongolian, has become Turkic, and has accepted Christianity.

Uzbeks, Tajiks, Kazakhs, Yarkands, etc. were all nomadic tribes in the past, and their history of settlement was very short.

They have a bad relationship with the Oirat Mongols. Although they originated from Mongolia, one side has become Islamic, while the other has embraced Tibetan Buddhism. Several countries in Central Asia have even become Turkic.

The Turkic Mongols are a very interesting thing. They are not simply a concept like the Sinicized Hu people. The Mongols conquered the west and ruled various places, but there were too few Mongols. As the core ruling class, they had to compete with the locals.

Integrate.

Because they were too few in number, they were assimilated after such integration for a long time. Not only did they not look like Mongolians, they could not even speak Mongolian. They spoke the local Turkic language and were even accustomed to Turkic customs.

wait.

Tamerlane, who once conquered Central Asia, was a representative of the Turkic Mongols. After decades of conquest, Timur established a huge empire by force. When the Timur Empire flourished, the land under its jurisdiction included not only

Transoxiana, Khwarezm, and areas near the Caspian Sea, as well as parts of India, Persia, and the South Caucasus.

He does not know Mongolian, but is proficient in Turkic and even Persian.

"History of the Yuan Dynasty" records that Timur was born in the Baluras tribe of Mongolia. His ancestors, Harachar and Genghis Khan, were from the same clan. They were out-and-out Mongolians. However, Timur did not really identify himself as a Mongolian.

It is cultural consciousness that leans towards Persia.

Many Central Asians and even Westerners believe that Timur is just a Turk pretending to be a Mongolian noble, but even the history of the Yuan Dynasty writes that Timur was a Mongolian.

Just like some people deliberately say that the Sui and Tang Dynasties were not Han dynasties and that Li Shimin was actually a Xianbei person, it is nonsense.

They refer to the Ilkhanate, Chagatai Khanate, Golden Horde, Kazan Khanate, Nogai Khanate, Crimean Khanate, Timurid Empire and Mughal Empire as Turkicization

Mongolian country.

It is also said that there are many Turkic Mongolian ethnic groups living in the territory of the Chagatai Khanate, which are called Mughalstan, with Yarkand in the west and Uighurstan (Turpan Khanate) in the east.

The Turkic Mongols are regarded as a class, not an ethnic group, but in fact, two or three hundred years have passed since the Mongols' Western Expedition. The Mongolians have ruled various ethnic groups for hundreds of years, and they have long since integrated and become indistinguishable from the locals.

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But they insist that they are Mongolians, but they speak Turkic or Persian, use Turkic characters or use traditional Turkic customs, and they don’t even look like Mongolians at all, but they still insist that they are Mongolians.

people.

Nowadays, the Yarkand, Khiva, Turpan, Mughal and other Turkic Mongols can be regarded as one side on the surface, with the intention of uniting to fight against the Oirat Mongols. But in fact, Zhu Yihai believes that this group of believers likes to fight.

Those who attack and invade others in the name of war are not the same people at all.

The relationship between them is far less close than that between the Oirat Mongols, let alone the blood relatives between them in Eastern Mongolia. Even the leaders of the various tribes in Eastern Mongolia had the same ancestors six or seven generations ago.

They are still fighting hard to distinguish each other. No one is convinced by the other. The leaders of the Khans of the Turkic Mongolia can only go back hundreds of years to pursue Genghis Khan, their ancestor. How can there be any unity at all?

Maybe they will threaten you, but just ignore them.

*war.

It’s not just the church that fights.
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