In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Wallachians reached their peak and could hang the Ming army and even capture the Ming emperor. However, after the decline, the Wallachians were forced to migrate westwards after leaving their homeland, and in the process the Wallachians split into several tribes.
At the turn of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Dzungars became strong and established the Dzungar Khanate. Don't look at the population of The Gar is not large, but the territory is not small. During this period, the Qing Dynasty was busy entering the Central Plains, and stabilizing the rule of the whole country could not take care of the northwest at all. Since this was the case, how good it was for the Dzungar Khanate to honestly develop its own country, the two sides merged and coexisted, and had to confront the Great Qing, and as a result, the war lasted intermittently for 70 years, but it was eventually eliminated by the Qing Dynasty.
So why didn't the Dzungar Khanate be honest and have to challenge the Qing Dynasty?
The Dzungars were nomadic by origin, and those who had originally grown up in the steppes had an innate sense of domineering and conquest. Hundreds of years have passed since genghis Khan's heroic deeds, but Dzungar still hopes to restore his former prestige.
This is from the nature of the nomadic people, it cannot be changed, if it is weak, it is enough, it is precisely the strength of the Dzungars is not weak, so there is no reason not to expand abroad.
Since we want to expand, there will undoubtedly be contradictions with several neighboring countries. Geographically, Dzungar is bordered by the Qing Dynasty to the east and south, Tsarist Russia to the north, and the Kazakh Khanate to the west, which can be said to be very dangerous.
The early Dzungar Khanate and Tsarist Russia fought a lot of wars, and in the face of the invasion of Tsarist Russia, the Dzungars waged a long and indomitable struggle. It thwarted its ambitions to expand the aggression of the Dzungars, and prevented the plot of the Tsarist invasion from the south.
The Dzungar Khanate and the Kazakhs were even more at odds, but for a long time the Dzungars were only fighting the autumn wind and did not attack the Kazakhs, especially after the rise of the Dzungars
Gardan
During his reign, he repeatedly severely damaged the Kazakh Khanate and forced a large number of Kazakhs to submit to the Dzungars.
Therefore, it cannot be said that the Dzungar Khanate was bent on dealing with the Qing Dynasty and ignoring other countries. merely
Dzungar Khanate
The focus is on Daqing, but this is not blind, it has deep strategic significance.
The Dzungar Khanate dreamed of unifying the Mongol tribes, establishing a unified Mongol regime, and restoring its former glory.
There were no more Mongol tribes on the Russian side, and there was no point in expanding west to north, and only by fighting the Qing Dynasty could the Qing Dynasty spit out the former Mongol homeland.
In order to make an enemy of the Qing Dynasty, Gardan did not hesitate to conspire with the tiger and use the power of Tsarist Russia to force Kangxi to obey, so to speak
The gradual expansion of the Dzungar Khanate made the Great Qing like a fish in the throat.
On the side of the bed, it is not allowed for others to sleep soundly. Both Kaldan and Kangxi actually thought so, so the Dzungar Khanate and the Great Qing Dynasty were going to fight to the death sooner or later.