Chapter 19: The Lone Star, Part 4: Bogra Khan
According to the tradition of the Khanate, as long as those with a status of being a higher than the official position, they are qualified to elect Bogra Khan. However, since most small tribes depend on large tribes, they will be swallowed up by large tribes at any time. Therefore, the qualification for the election is still in the hands of several large tribes to compete with the official position.
Now Xiao Yuzi has defected to the Kingdom of Daxia as a whole. Only Dayuzi and Zhongyuzi's tribes are qualified to elect Bograhan. Specifically, there are Durat, Wusun, Alban of Dayuzi, Argen, Kelie, Naiman, and Qincha of Zhongyuzi, a total of seven tribes.
In the seven major tribes, each of which has more than 10,000 herders. If it is placed in the northern part of the desert, it will be called Khan independently. However, the situation in the Kazakh Khanate is very different.
Speaking of it, it was a Khanate. In fact, the Kazakhs did not have a strong national consciousness at this time, but were more tribal consciousness. They were just that the upper class barely belonged to a stronger opponent for their own interests.
Although the Kazakh tribes generally believed in the Tianfang Sect, they were not as strong as later generations (in later generations, the country was also a fairly secular Tianfang Sect country). Although most of the Lamaism and the shamanism brought about by the Mongolians as the core of the Western Expedition were transformed into the Tianfang Sect after hundreds of years of integration with the Tianfang Sect, traces of the previous religion still existed.
The more powerful believers of the Tianfang Cult are in the Bukhara Khanate in the Amu River Basin and the Ghazni region further south, an area that was repeatedly contested by the Bukhara, Monguer and Safi countries.
Of course, at this time, the Yarkand Khanate was influenced by the Hezhu, who was known as the descendant of the saints for hundreds of years, and his faith in the Tianfang Sect was far above the Kazakh Khanate.
Therefore, for the Daxia Kingdom, it was the time to take over the Kazakhstan area at this time. If it was later, the traces of Shamanism and Lamaism on them would be even smaller.
For the people of these tribes, unless a person with great talent and talent suddenly appeared in the Khanate, and was widely circulated in the form of narrative poems by people with ulterior motives in the Khanate, the phenomenon of only knowing the tribe chief and not knowing who the Khan was will continue to exist.
A loose tribal alliance is not as good as the relatively close Junggar Khanate. This is the current situation of the Kazakh Khanate.
The Ghazni region, which is the northern part of Afghanistan and southern Tajik in later generations, the Great Qinzhou in the Tang Dynasty, the Tiaozhi Governor's Office, and the old nest of the Great Yuezhi, is now the territory of the Mongol Empire, and is closely related to the Tianlang, one of the protagonists of this volume. It will be a climax of this volume, and will not be repeated here.
Among these seven tribes, the Khan throne, Garantor of Tashkent, Garantor of the Southern Legion, controls Wusun and Alban tribes. After Haddadi said that Garantors wanted to support Garantori, and his own Sultan was also qualified to elect, Garantori had four votes at once - plus the vote of the Durat tribe represented by Garantori!
Iresh was dumbfounded.
This is embarrassing. I originally wanted to see the joke about Gahangyier who also made a bone call, but I didn't expect that this happened!
But he hasn't lost yet.
Zhongyuz, including the Tachicha Alliance, Krei and Naiman, has a total of three votes, as well as Argen's vote. If Argen can be won over, he will still have hope, and then Naya'an.
According to the rules, after the election is completed, the list should be handed over to the palace chief to take it back so that the Khan can determine the final list? Of course? Since it is an election, it naturally represents a certain civil righteousness, and the Khan cannot deal with it at will. Most of the time, it is determined based on the number of votes.
If it is a Khan who is highly respected by everyone? All these procedures are exempted and one is appointed directly. However, the Kazakh Khanate cannot help but be surrounded by powerful enemies and has lost Xiao Yuzi for the first time. The Lord is young again, so this scene appears.
The flesh-faced Sultan Hamad from Argent looked around and saw that everyone's eyes were on him, and he couldn't help but feel a little proud. He stood up.
The big tent suddenly became quiet, so quiet that even the breathing of some people could be heard.
"I recommend Galantos!"
As soon as these words came out, the sky was shocked.
According to the rules of the Khanate, the tribes elect at most three candidates, and then the Khan chooses one of them. Those with the sultan status can also choose themselves. At present, there are two candidates, Yiresh and Gahangyier. As the Argent tribe who is closest to the Khan king's court, if they are willing to participate in this game, they will definitely choose their own. In that case, although there is little hope, under the current situation, as long as the court chief is dealt with, everything is really possible.
The big tent immediately changed from silence to buzzing.
Hamad laughed and said, "I am starting from the overall situation of the Khanate. In terms of closeness and alienation, Galantos is the cousin of the Khan and a descendant of a grandfather. It is natural to let Galantos succeed Bogra Khan."
Yiresh was a little helpless, and now he couldn't help but regret that he had neglected the Argen chief who appeared to be one of the Zhongyuzi tribes. He did this obviously express his dissatisfaction with his failure to send troops in time when the Junggars invaded Argen last time.
However, he still did not lose. Although Hamad chose Galantos, according to the rules, Khan could only choose one of him and Gahangyier. Although he lost one vote, it was not fatal. The key is to rely on Khan's meaning.
Now the Great Khan Az Touk is just a thirteen-year-old doll. How can he distinguish? He is not obeying the Great Imam and the court chief in front of him, especially this Ya'an. He has a large army under his command, and his speech may be more than the Imam. At this time, the Imam is called on believers to fight. There may be many people, but they are still not as large as the regular army.
As a result, the importance of the Ya'an, who had been silent and smiling, became increasingly prominent.
Although he came here just to bring everyone's decision back to the royal court, the amount was no less than that of any large tribe.
But Ya'an still didn't say anything. In fact, what was even more surprising at this time was Hadadi, the Galantos confidant who had just elected Gahangyi. When he saw Hamad electing his master, he looked surprised and uncovered on his face. He thought to himself: "How could this happen? Hamad has reached a deal with Hamad in private? But if so, why didn't he tell himself? Or Hamad said randomly, just to disrupt the situation?"
Now, Iresh, who was a little manic and uneasy just now, calmed down completely. He saw the look on Haddadi's face, and an idea took shape in his heart: "It seems that this Hamad of Argen is purely coming out to make trouble, not really wanting to recommend Galantos."
"At present, as long as we have a good relationship with Ya'an, we will at most agree to send him some herders, men, wealth, and women. He is a slave and has no foundation. Even if he is Jianger's brother-in-law, he has no tribe to rely on, and he will be a water without a source after all."
He suddenly thought of the lower reaches of the Sir River, near the Chincha tribe near the Aral Sea. They were nomads near Kizil Orda in later generations. The tribe chief was his younger brother. Mizar, who originally depended on Xiaoyuz, surrendered to the Kingdom of Daxia. After he was too close to Zhongyuz, he finally returned to his elder brother's arms because he was too close to Zhongyuz.
If this part was sent to Ya'an and Ya'an had some support, Ya'an would have turned to him. As for his younger brother, he had left Zhongyuzi and attached to Mizar because of conflict, but now he directly attached to the Khan's confidants. In addition, Kizilorda and Turkestan were both on both sides of the Sir River, he probably wouldn't disagree.
You have to ask here, with such good conditions, why can't I defect to Ya'an by myself?
There is something here to pay attention to the Qinzha tribe of Kizil Orda (hereinafter referred to as Orda) is one of the Qinzha tribes in the Western Regions. Although all of these Qinzha tribes surrendered to the Khanate Khan on the surface, they still have to accept the instructions of the chiefs of the Qinzha people. Of course, these instructions cannot violate the major policies of the Khanate.
After Orda's tribe returned to Zhongyuzi, he naturally had to obey the instructions of Zhongyuzi Sultan, let alone the situation where the khan was young and weak.
Orda's tribe is about 5,000 households, and almost occupied the entire lower reaches of the Sir River. If he wanted to gain a foothold in the Khanate, there would be no reason to refuse such a powerful force!
On such occasions, as the confidant of the Khan and the chief of the palace, he could not express his opinion casually. Therefore, Ya'an still sat with a smile on his face, and now he picked up another cup of milk tea with Daxia tea to taste it.
The descendant of Tahagan, who was sent by Gahangyil to attend the meeting, also completely relaxed from the tension just now, and he also imitated Haddadi to eat and drink as if no one was around.
He thought to himself: "I originally wanted to recommend him on behalf of my master, but I didn't expect someone to do it for him. This is really great. Not only did I avoid my embarrassment, but I also had several more votes. Now the total number of votes is still the highest, and I didn't run away in vain this trip."
The knife in his hand had just been handed over to a grilled steak, and suddenly he found some blood on it. If it were in the past, whether it was beef, mutton or camel meat, it would have been eaten with blood. However, in the current scene, Hafez suddenly remembered the genocide-destroying disaster more than 20 years ago.
In that disaster, tens of thousands of men who were entrenched in Tashkent for thousands of years, who were over the wheels of the Taha cadre, were killed by Yesmuhan and Jianger Khan, and women and children were either assigned to be slaves or sold to Orenburg.
He was less than ten years old at that time and knelt on the ground and saw that scene. That day, the blood in the valley where the tribe was located could cover his ankles!
Hafez's right hand trembled a little.
For most of their tribes like the Western Regions based on the Lite people, which integrates Turks, Tuqishi, Gelulu, Uighurs and other tribes, their inheritance was cut off that year. From that year on, most of their tycoons on the Silk Road disappeared at least on the surface.
If the Kazakh Khanate's national reign lasts forever, the Tahagan tribe, no, no, this name will disappear in the long river of history.
Originally, according to his idea, if Gahangyier could become Bogra Khan, and then succeed to the throne of Khan and restore the Taha cadre, it would be a great joy, but he also knew that the probability was very low. Iresh in the north and Galantos in the south were stronger than him in terms of prestige and strength.
Unexpectedly, Galantos suddenly appeared and recommended Gahangyier. It was naturally not that simple. Usually, the relationship between them on the north bank of the Sir River was not good.
Chapter completed!