"The poor monk Galdan respectfully wishes His Majesty the Great Emperor to greet you. Long live my emperor, long live, long live."

A short lama with a big head, small eyes and a very dark complexion knelt in the audience hall of Huangjue Temple, kowtowed to Emperor Zhu who was sitting high on him, and spoke fluently

Chinese.

Zhu Cixiang looked at the little lama, imagined him traversing the grasslands and conquering all directions, and then asked with a smile: "Can you also speak Chinese? You speak it well. Where did you learn it?"

"Returning to the emperor, I learned Chinese in Yulin." The young lama said, "My master, Lama Celing, got seriously ill when he was in Yulin because he was not accustomed to the acclimatization. So he lived there for several months and learned Chinese.

Chinese."

"Do you recognize Chinese characters?" Zhu Cixiang asked again.

"I know a few of them," said the little lama, "and they can write their names in Chinese characters."

"Really? Write it for me to see." Zhu Cihong immediately ordered the left and right to get paper and pen, and asked the young Lama Galdan to kneel down and write the name. After writing, he asked Huang Xiaobao to take it over.

"Ge Erdan?" Zhu Cihong almost laughed out loud when he saw the three Chinese characters written crookedly by the little lama.

Good Galdan, why is it written as Ge Erdan? Who did Galdan learn Chinese from? It couldn’t be a village scholar in the countryside of Yulin, right?

"Erdan," Emperor Zhu affectionately called Galdan by his nickname, "do you know why you came to Nanjing?"

"I know," Galdan nodded, "E'ada (father) asked him to come to Nanjing to be the emperor's hostage so that he could exchange some muskets for fighting the Kazakhs. If E'ada dares to oppose the emperor, he will die."

This Baturhuntaiji is really a real person! Zhu Cihong said to himself, but if you talk about death and other things to a nine-year-old monk, will it hurt the young mind?

Zhu Cixiang smiled gently: "Erdan, don't be afraid."

"Well, don't be afraid!" Galdan also laughed, "Well, he is the fourth Wensa Living Buddha. Even if he passes away, he can be reincarnated as the fifth Wensa Living Buddha."

Can you still be reincarnated?

Emperor Zhu was speechless when he was told by "Er Dan"!

Now that we have been reincarnated and passed away, can we still have such a hostage?

"In addition to being a living Buddha, are you going to do anything else?" Zhu Cixi had to change the subject.

Galdan, there is always ambition!

Galdan shook his head and looked at Emperor Zhu with a confused expression, "Well, you don't know anything. You know how to chant sutras and become a living Buddha."

"You can learn if you don't know!" Zhu Cixi said with a smile, "I have set up a primary school here in Laoshan, you can go there to study."

"What do you teach in primary schools?" Galdan asked, "Do you teach chanting sutras?"

Why do you just want to recite sutras? Zhu Cihong thought to himself: If you like reciting sutras so much, why are you a big sweat in history? Can't you just be a living Buddha and go to Emperor Kangxi for alms?

"Of course primary schools don't teach chanting sutras!" Zhu Cihong said, "But the courses at Laoshan Primary School are also very useful. Laoshan Primary School offers courses in arithmetic, Confucianism, martial arts, geography and French. I also hired a proficient Chahe for you.

Teachers of Taiwanese and Farsi will give you extra lessons."

Galdan's happy childhood is over!

He has to learn six languages ​​including Mongolian, Tibetan, Chinese, French, Chagatai, and Persian, as well as mathematics, Confucianism (Confucianism courses include Chinese) and geography (mainly studying the geography of Central and West Asian countries).

), and also learn traditional Mongolian skills such as horseback riding and archery

Of course, after returning to the temple from school, you still have to chant sutras and study Buddhism! If you fail to pass the exam and become a prostrate, you can still become a living Buddha.

In short, as long as you study hard, you don’t have to worry about your future.

"Great Emperor, this is the memorial for Erdeni Batur Hutaiji of the Junggar tribe to declare himself a minister!"

Galdan's study issues have been discussed, and the monks from Huangjue Temple are now taking him to settle in. Lama Celing, who brought Galdan to Nanjing, took out Batur Huntaiji's memorial

.

The name of this Batur Huntaiji is Batur. Huntaiji is a title. It was originally the Mongolian word for the crown prince, and later evolved into a title. Because Choros. Batur was not from the Golden Family, he was called the Khan Society.

If it causes a lot of disputes, it will be fine if you call it "Huntai Ji".

Erdeni is the title given to Batur by the Tibetan lama, which means "treasure".

If this "Erdeni. Batur. Huitaiji" is translated, it means the crown prince baby Batur

Zhu Cihong took the memorial and unfolded it. He saw that it was written in both Mongolian and Chinese languages. The general idea was that Batur Huitaiji of the Zhungeer tribe led his people to carry the Qing to the Ming Dynasty, sent his son as a hostage, and requested the imperial court

Assistance with guns, gunpowder, etc.

Zhu Cixiang finished reading the memorial, thought for a while, and asked: "Can I make Batur Hutaiji the Protector of Beiting? The status of the Protector is the same as that of Jiedushi. They are all vassals of the Ming Dynasty. I don't know that Batur

Are you willing to let the Junggar tribe become an internal vassal of the Ming Dynasty?"

The Ming Dynasty now has internal vassals and external vassals. The outer vassals have greater autonomy than the inner vassals, but they can get less support from the Ming court. The inner vassals have less autonomy, but they can get more support.

Even though both Wu Sangui and Zhu Cizhao were involved in loan sharking, the two vassals were still able to receive financial and weapons assistance from the imperial court.

Now the Ming court's aid to Pingxi and Shuofang is 350,000 taels per year! Western Sichuan and East Sichuan are 250,000 taels, and Jin'ou and Jinghai are 150,000 taels. Dongning is turning over 1.5 million taels, which seems okay.

It’s a tie!

"Batur Hutaiji is willing to guard the Beiting for the Ming Emperor!" Lama Celing replied.

Of course Batur Hutaiji is willing to become an internal vassal, because only when he becomes an internal vassal can he get money!

Emperor Zhu would not give money to foreign vassals. There is a difference between inside and outside!

"Okay!" Zhu Cixi is willing to pay, but he won't pay for it in vain!

He said: "The military salary I issued to the Beiting Protectorate is 250,000 taels of silver per year. However, the silver is not found, but is broken into guns, artillery, ammunition, cloth and iron tools. But these things are not given in vain. First of all, you

Beiting must cooperate with the imperial court in the battle to regain Anxi! Are you willing?"

"Yes!" Lama Celing said, "Batur Hutaiji has long wanted to send troops to teach the Yeerqiang Khanate a lesson!"

Want to grab something? Zhu Cihong thought to himself: The Yeerqiang Khanate is an unlucky guy. Anyone from the surrounding area can come to grab it! If the surrounding areas don’t come, their own Mongolian tribes will also come to steal it.

Zhu Cixiang added: "After Anxi is restored, Batur Hutaiji must lead his troops back to the north of Tianshan Mountain, and the Shannan area should be handed over to the Pingxi Army. Pingxi Jiedushi Wu Sangui will also serve as the Great Protector of Anxi. From now on, Anxi and Beiting will use Tianshan Mountain as their base."

Jie. Do you, Beiting, have any objections?"

You can get 250,000 taels a year, but of course you have to work!

"No objection!" Lama Celing's answer was straightforward.

What Batur Hutaiji is interested in are pastures and wealthy cities, and there are neither in southern Xinjiang. Because of the nonsense of the Yerqiang Khanate, the people of southern Xinjiang are now extremely poor, and southern Xinjiang has an oasis economy.

There is no pasture.

So Batur Hutaiji got the muskets and cannons and wanted to conquer the two khanates of Kazakhstan and Bukhara (Uzbek Khanate). After completing the conquest of these two khanates, Batur Hutaiji

Kyrgyzstan will also consider an eastward expedition to the Mongolian grasslands.

"I have one more condition," Zhu Cihong said. "After the Beiting Protectorate defeats the Kazakh Khanate, the Protectorate must also build a basic city at the place designated by the imperial court. The imperial court will provide part of the cost of building the city. And

Master craftsmen will also be sent to help with the construction of the Beiting. In exchange, the Beiting Protectorate needs to hand over one-third of the land inside the newly built city to the officials sent by the imperial court."

This condition was newly added by Zhu Cixiang, with the purpose of establishing a trading city in the Western Region that could connect the East and the West.

Only when the Silk Road in the Western Regions is reopened can the economy of Anxi, Gansu, and Shaanxi improve.
Chapter completed!