The Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 321: Guge Dynasty

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Dan Jiong Wangbo was shot in the thigh and was unable to escape. The guards picked him up, carrying an adult, and the guards couldn't run fast. The Ming army swept over from both sides.

The other guards didn't look good, so they quickly separated more than a hundred people and blocked the muzzle of the Ming army with their bodies, hoping to give Dan Jiong Wangbo some time.

There were thousands of gunmen in the Ming army, and these hundreds of guards quickly fell to the ground. The gunmen stepped on their bodies or corpses and continued to chase Dan Jiong Wangbo and his guards.

A guard who fell to the ground injured has lost his scimitar, but he clung to the ankle of a gunman.

The gunman struggled twice, but failed to break free. He dropped the flintlock and slammed it on the guard's head severely. The guard snorted and slowly softened.

The Ming troops on both sides did not stop for a moment. They had caught up with the hundreds of guards from Danjiong Wangpo and surrounded them.

Seeing that they couldn't escape, the guards had to put down Dan Jiong Wangbo, drew out the scimitars from his waist, and confronted the Ming army.

But they lacked bows and arrows, and lacked the ability to strike at a long distance, and the Ming army didn't get too close. They could only use a scimitar to embolden themselves.

Flintlocks relentlessly harvest the blood and lives of the guards.

Seeing that they fell one by one under the guns of the Ming army, finally some of their guards couldn't stand it. They danced scimitars in their hands and yelled at the Ming army.

The guard who leaped over happened to be the target of the flintlock.

The gunmen were not stingy with bullets, and the guards who came forward fell under the guns of the Ming army first.

There are more than a hundred guards left. Dan Jiong Wangbo already knows clearly that the Ming army wants his life. He pushed away the guards around him, "You go quickly, the Ming army wants me, you want to give The Tibetan and Pakistani army keep some seeds.

"We are the guards of Zangpa Khan. If Zangpa Khan is gone, what does it mean for us to live?"

"Hahaha..." Dan Jiong Wangbo smirked up to the sky, "You are all my closest guards. Since the Ming army refuses to let us go, we shall die today."

He pushed away the guards, drew out the scimitar he didn't use frequently at his waist, and walked towards the Ming Jun staggeringly, his eyes flashed with unyielding and helpless flames, and every step he took, there would be a puddle of red blood on the ground.

Nearly a hundred guards did not stop him, and they all moved towards the Ming army step by step following Dan Jiong Wangbo's steps.

I don’t know if it’s a demonstration, or showing the Tibetans’ unyielding spirit, or comparing the number with the Ming army. Danjong Wangpo and his nearly 100 guards lined up in a long horizontal line.

"boom."

I don’t know which soldier who didn’t open his eyes fired the last shot at Dan Jiong Wangpo. The bullet penetrated through the center of his eyebrows. The blood flowed out of the hollow left by the bullet. The speed at the beginning was very slow and slow. When the blood was empty. Filled up, and quickly left from the cavity, stamping a long line of blood on Dan Jiong Wangbo's face.

Dan Jiong Wangbo's body shook for a moment, then shook suddenly, and stood firmly again.

The guard seemed stunned, and no one stepped forward to help.

Danjiong Wangpo is like a thousand-year-old tree that has been eaten away by insects. It was blown by the wind and slowly tilted. With a "poof", he fell on the instep of a guard and bounced up slightly. At one point, he fell again, his eyes still staring wide, and he looked like he couldn't squint, but there was no more sound in his nose.

The fall of Xigaze and the death of Danjung Wangpo marked the total collapse of the Tibetan regime.

The Nineteenth Army and the 20th Army of the Ming Army slashed all the Tibetan soldiers in the city, including the serfs who had just been armed, and then began to purge the surrounding remnants.

When the soldiers were purging the remnants of the enemy, they also accidentally killed many Tibetans, mainly because of language barriers. In addition, when Tibetans faced soldiers of the Ming army, they often made a series of "mami mami bombings", which made it impossible to understand the Tibetan language. The soldiers of the Ming army were very annoyed.

However, when the soldiers found a large amount of gold and silver in the temple, as well as the red coral, emeralds, and dzi beads of the three major gems of Uthzang, their anger disappeared immediately.

Lin Chengxiang's 20th Army was temporarily stationed in Shigatse, while Mu Qiyuan's 19th Army came to the Ngari region on the northeastern plateau of Ust-Tibet.

The Second Army guarding the Ngari area was ordered by Danjong Wangpo and immediately surrendered. Danjong Wangpo was dead. Both the front and back Tibetans fell into the hands of the Ming army. The army of only three thousand people just did not surrender, but was able to surrender. How long does it last

Mu Qiyuan's soldiers occupied the Ali area without blood. This time, he was in a good mood and did not massacre the Tibetans. He really had no reason to massacre the enemies who voluntarily surrendered. Moreover, they also offered all the gold, silver and jewelry in the city.

But the war was not over yet. In the westernmost part of Ustizang, in a place called the Guge Dynasty, Mu Qiyuan met a stubborn stubborn boy.

The history of the Guge dynasty can be traced back to the ninth century AD, the second year of Huichang of the Tang Dynasty (842 AD), and Tubo, which had been confronting Datang in the southwest. The last generation of Zan Prang Dama was killed because of the intensification of domestic conflicts. With the support of the royal family and foreigners, the two princesses competed for the throne for their sons, and the royal family was divided into two, and they did not belong to each other.

The grandson generation of Rangdama was hit hard by the outbreak of civilian and slave uprisings. The second son of Rangdama, Osong’s son Bekaozan, was condemned to Niangruoxiangbao (later Gyangze). Rangdama's great-grandson, Gideni Magong, fled to Ali after the defeat, and married the daughter of Tashizan, the king of Burangtu, the local power of Ali, and gave birth to three sons.

Gidney Magong inherited the local power in Ali, and in his later years, he entrusted the domain to his three sons.

The eldest son Begigon occupied Mangyu (the Leh city in the Kashmir region of India today) and later developed into the Ladakh dynasty; the second son Tashigon occupied Boujan (now Burang County, Tibet) and established the Bourang dynasty, also known as the Purang dynasty. Later it was merged into the Guge dynasty; the youngest son Dezugong occupied Zhaburang (now Zada County, Tibet) and developed into the Guge dynasty.

The Ladakh, Bourang, and Guge dynasties are called "Ali Sanwei".

In the eleventh and twelfth centuries AD, all the ancient records of Ali Sanwei were blank. In the 13th century, Ali Sanwei belonged to the Mongolian Yuan together with Uszang. "Ali Sanwei" was called "Narisu Gurusun". , Meng Yuan set up Nari Suguru Sun Xuan comfort here, and the three areas of "Ali Sanwei" were sealed as Ali 30,000 households.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, he inherited the old system of Meng Yuan. In order to strengthen the defense of the Ngari area, in the eighth year of Hongwu (1375 AD), the "Olisi Military and Civilian Marshal Mansion" was established, and the local leader Susi Gong was appointed as Marshal Mansion. Marshal, governs Ali Sanwei, "Olisi" is the transliteration of "Ali Sanwei".

Although the Ladakh, Boujang, and Guge dynasties are of the same origin, they have continued to war with each other. Later, the Guge dynasty annexed the Boujang dynasty, and the king of Ladakh, Bejigon, gave his third brother Dezugong. The country that annexed the second brother Tashi Kung was very disgusted. It used to attack the Guge dynasty. In the 11th and 12th centuries AD, the Ali Sanwei disappeared in ancient books. Perhaps it is related to this matter. Some people want to eliminate this disgraceful history.

After the Boujang dynasty was annexed by the Guge dynasty, the ruling area of the Guge dynasty was called Upper Ali, and the ruling area of the Ladakh dynasty was called Lower Ali, but the war between the Guge dynasty and the Ladakh dynasty continued. .

Their endless wars have prevented a large number of young and middle-aged laborers from engaging in production or digging for gold mines. The people lack food and clothing, and the country is impoverished.

In the 40th year of Ming Wanli (AD 1613), the last king of the Guge dynasty was Chitashi Zabad. After giving birth to a son, his queen completely lost her mind and became dementia. After two years Tashi Zabad decided to marry a new queen. In order to resolve the conflict with the Ladakh dynasty, he decided to marry Nozinwang, the daughter of King Jamyang Nanjie of Ladakh. Mu is the queen.

After the marriage contract was booked by an intermediary, the bride Nozin Wangm left from Mangyu, the capital of the Ladakh dynasty (now Leh in Kashmir), to the capital of the Guge dynasty. On the journey of the sky, Chitashi Zabad prevented her from moving forward and ordered her to return to Ladakh.

King Jamyang Nanjie of Ladakh immediately declared war on the Guge dynasty, which was fought on and off for fifteen years.

The two sides hold their own opinions on who violated the marriage contract. However, judging from the fact that King Jamyang Nanjie of Ladakh became angry and immediately declared war, it should be Chitashi Zabad who broke the contract. Otherwise, the tricks of "fighting and rake", except The Han people, these extremely backward and religious Ladakh dynasties should not be used. Moreover, the war between the two countries at that time, the Ladakh dynasty was still more likely to win.

This endless war ended with the destruction of the Guge dynasty.

However, the demise of the Guge dynasty is also related to the domestic civil strife.

The cause of the civil unrest was the prevalence of Tibetan Buddhism in the Guge dynasty. A large number of young people entered the temples to practice Buddha. These young men who practiced Buddha did not cultivate the fields, did not perform military service, did not marry and have children, and the temples occupied a large amount of fertile land in the country. No taxes.

The Guge dynasty needed human and financial resources to develop production internally and to fight with neighboring countries externally. With the expansion of Tibetan Buddhism, the contradiction between the king and Buddhist leaders became increasingly acute.

In order to protect the king's power, Chitashi Zhabad severely cracked down on Tibetan Buddhism. He demolished many temples, confiscated the temple properties, and forced the monks in the temples to return to the vulgar.

The monks did not sit still. The great lamas headed by Chitashi Zhabad’s brother used their influence to communicate secretly. They used the sentiment of the people of the Guge dynasty to dislike the long war with neighboring countries to mobilize the people extensively, and at the same time Local officials and officers in the army were also connected, looking for opportunities to fight against the king.

In the third year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty (1630 AD), the lamas took advantage of Chitashi Zhabad's illness to launch a large-scale armed riot and invited the Ladakh dynasty to send troops.

The new king of Ladakh, Sengonangje, was ecstatic when he received the message, and he personally led his troops to Zhabunya and surrounded the Guge Palace with the support of the lamas.