"I have been detached from the Handu Lei Xiya, crisscrossing thousands of miles of grasslands, so far more than 30 years, since 12 years ago, with the Great Khan to attack the Ming realm, a total of more than 70 times, I have seen the Ming people and important ministers and generals do not know how many, but there is no one, today this Gao Qin envoy is generally ...... There is nowhere to do it. ”

In the yurt outside the ancient city in the clouds, Chataiji sat in the first place and sighed. There was a large bowl of mare's milk wine on the low moulded bed beside him, which was still full until now, and it was evident that he had no heart to drink it.

There are four people in the tent, who are the four generals under the command of Chataiji, namely Yatouzhi, Ding Shibu, New's Harm, and Yuan Zhichi, and these four people are also very ugly, looking at each other, but they don't know how to persuade them.

After a while, the girl Zhi tugged at her beard and said: "Taiji, do you say that this envoy is too idle to do, who is going to do Chechen Khan, who is going to do it, and you want him to stick a bamboo pole?" ”

It seems that his name is very bad, and he really only has the IQ of a girl.

Chataiji had long been used to it, and when he heard this, he just shook his head slightly and said, "Idle? This is not idle, this is a demonstration, and there may be even bigger attempts. ”

"Demonstrations?" New's harm interjected and asked, "Is it just to use the Tonggong market to scare us?" What are you afraid of, it's great, let's go directly to Mingren to grab it just like more than ten years ago! ”

"Shut up!" Chataiji said angrily: "How much effort has it taken for the Great Khan to have more than ten years of mutual trading, do you want the Great Khan to waste all his previous efforts!" ”

Mongolia's No. 1 general was angry, and even Niu, who was a close confidant, couldn't help but shrink his neck in fright, and lowered his head and didn't dare to say more.

Chataiji still refused to let him go, and continued to scold: "I also said that I went to the Mingren to rob it, did we rob it back then?" You told Bentaiji that at that time, I went to rob it every year, but in what year could the tribe not starve to death? Now, you haven't starved or frozen to death in your tribe for a few years? Say it? ”

New's head bowed deeply, not daring to argue with Chataiji.

Ding Shibu coughed lightly and said: "Taiji is right, it is not possible to rely on robbery, it was not possible when the Great Khan was there, and it is even more difficult now." ”

Yuan Yanchi also nodded in agreement, and said: "Yes, it's better to exchange markets, you can exchange anything you want, as long as there are enough cattle, sheep and horses, there is nothing that can't be exchanged, and the tribe is very happy." ”

Chataiji didn't speak, but the girl Zhizhi opened her mouth again and said: "Not everything can be changed, iron tools can't be used, only those pots in Jinghua are considered ironware, but that thing can only be boiled and eaten, and it can't be made into arrows, let alone scimitars...... Why didn't Lord Gao open back then? ”

Gao Buddha said that Gao Gong, because he presided over the opening of the market and persuaded the emperor to agree to sell the pot to the Mongols, after the introduction of the Yellow Sect, the Mongols of Tumut regarded him as a Buddha and a Bodhisattva.

At the mention of Gao Gong, Cha Taiji's heart moved, and he suddenly said: "There is also a Buddhist temple in the city, and there is a statue of the Buddha Gao in it, or ...... Tomorrow I will lead the Gao Qin envoy to pay homage? ”

Seeing that he didn't scold himself, he hurriedly came out to save a little score for himself, and hurriedly said: "Taiji's idea is good, I heard that Gao Qin envoy is the nephew of Gao Buddha, if he goes to the Buddhist temple to see us admire his uncle so much, he will definitely have a good impression, maybe it doesn't matter who is the Chechen Khan." ”

The other three immediately applauded when they heard this, but Chataiji himself, who proposed this idea, shook his head and said, "I don't doubt that taking him to worship the Buddha can make him feel good, but because of this matter, he doesn't care about the belonging of Chechen Khan, that is impossible." ”

Everyone was busy asking why, and Chataiji sighed: "In the words of their Han people, it is his private matter to worship the Buddha Gao, but it is a public matter to canonize the king of Shunyi, and judging from his performance today, it is impossible for him to confuse private affairs with official affairs." ”

"Does that Taiji still want to take him to worship the Buddha of God?"

Chataiji thought for a while and said, "Go, why don't you go?" It's better to give him some liking than to make him feel bad. Besides, don't you all have to trade with Jinghua Trading Company, then it will not be a bad thing to have a better relationship with him, the owner of Jinghua. ”

When everyone heard this, they suddenly realized that they were good.

At the same time, in a mansion in the city of Getaway, where Gao Pragmatic temporarily stayed, Ma Gui was explaining to Gao Pragmatic the current changes in the deployment of troops in front of a map provided by Jinghua.

Gao Pragmatic listened expressionlessly, until a certain moment, and then suddenly interrupted: "You mean, the current Dabansheng City is different from twelve years ago, and it has built city defenses now?" ”

"Yes, although the last general has not seen it in person, according to the detailed report of Jinyiwei, it is probably equivalent to a middle government."

The Ming Dynasty is divided into three levels of counties and prefectures, and the middle government is also a medium-level prefecture.

However, Jin Yiwei doesn't know whether he is talking about the central government in the interior or the middle government in the nine sides, although in terms of the division of the Ming Dynasty, there is no difference between the central government in the interior and the middle government in the nine sides, but this is no difference refers to the population, acres, taxes, etc., in the city defense is not.

The middle government on the nine sides is much stronger than the city defense of the middle government in the interior. For example, Fenzhou Mansion in Shanxi Province and Qingyang Mansion in Shaanxi Province, if you compare the city defense with the mainland, their urban defense systems may exceed that of Wuchang Mansion.

Fortunately, Gao Pragmatic felt that even if it was the level of urban defense of the central government in the mainland, it could be regarded as extremely strong for Tumut.

That's enough.

Then he asked again: "You just said that the West Whistle is stronger than the various departments, because in addition to the strength of the West Whistle, it also has at least 50,000 Han Er in Dabansheng City?" ”

The west post refers to the soldiers and horses led by Hannaji, and the meaning of Yanshen is the tribe and territory he leads.

Here it is necessary to briefly explain what the east and west posts were like at that time: Altan Khan divided the Tumut part into two parts, the east post and the west post. His Khan's court sat in the eastern outpost, that is, the royal court of Fengzhou Chuan, and the command of the western outpost, Altan Khan, was handed over to Hannaji.

This is because Hannaji threw his anger on the Ming Dynasty, no matter what the cause of the matter, anyway, the final result was that the Ming Dynasty and Tumut realized the Tonggong market, and Altan Khan was also named the king of Shunyi.

This is the purpose of Altan Khan's endless struggle with the Ming Dynasty for more than 40 years, because the reason for Hannaji was finally realized, so Altan Khan not only did not blame Hannaji's Nantou Ming Dynasty, but also gave him the command of the western outpost. Shi Zai: "At the beginning, Han Naji was returned, and I answered the main board to rise, called Dacheng Taiji, and his wife said Dacheng Biji, and the soldiers and horses were all in charge."

Of course, the "soldiers and horses of the heroes" here do not include the entire eastern outpost, but refer to the strength of Hannaji's soldiers and horses, except for the headquarters led by Altan Khan, there are no opponents, including the troops led by Xin Ai.

However, the soldiers and horses of the headquarters of Alta are not particularly concentrated, for example, of the 6,000 cavalry here in Chataiji, 3,000 are from the headquarters of Alta. However, after the death of Alta, Chung Kim Hatun, who was actually in the position of regent, only had nominal control over this army and horses, and in fact could not be adjusted at all—unless Chataiji agreed.

At the same time, because Chataiji had been in the position of "first general" under Alta's command for a long time, it is very likely that the soldiers and horses that Alta had divided would be more willing to act on Khattaiji's orders after Altaji's death and before the new Chechen Khan was elected.

Therefore, the current situation of the strength of the Tumut headquarters is like this: assuming that the strength of the east and west outposts of the original Alberta is "ten percent", then Hannaji is in charge of about forty percent from the beginning, and the remaining six costs are directly controlled by the Ta, but in fact, I have been believing in Buddhism since the sixth year of Wanli and have not taken care of things.

When it came to the affairs of Gonghu City, he also handed them over to Zhong Jin Hatun and Han Naji respectively according to the east and west posts.

Now that I am dead, there is no problem with the West Sentinel, because the West Sentinel has always put Hannaji in charge alone, and no one shares power with him.

However, the problem of the east post is very big, and there is a tendency to divide into three: the naturalization city where the royal court is located is controlled by Zhongjin Hatun, which is considered to be two percent of the strength; The easternmost territory bordering with left-wing Mongolia is in the hands of Xin Ai, accounting for 20% of the strength, but because there are still some Uliangha and Yongshebu tribes in Xin Ai's hands, the real strength is a little stronger; The other two percent belong to the free forces, of which Chataiji has the highest prestige.

Therefore, in terms of military strength on paper, Hannaji must be the "male tribe", because he monopolizes forty percent of the strength of Tumut's headquarters. And Zhong Jin Hatun, Xin Ai and Chataiji all theoretically account for 20% of the strength, but their respective advantages and disadvantages are different.

In addition to the seal of the king of Shunyi and the nominal regent, Zhongjin Hatun also has a naturalized city, which is Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia in later generations.

Xin Ai's advantage is that he is in a state of preparation for war all the year round, and he himself can be regarded as a veteran general for many years, plus there are also some "bonuses" of Uliangha and Yong Shebu, and the real strength is second only to Hannaji.

From the perspective of Chataiji's side, he is undoubtedly the weakest side, with no strong cities such as Dabansheng City and Naturalization City to defend, and no military advantage, relying entirely on his personal prestige to call on those wandering forces, which is really slightly inferior.

But his personal prestige is too strong - how strong?

For example, in the twenty-ninth year of Jiajing, Chataiji had just turned 20 years old, and he was already a general who had won the title of "Jebe Marksman", and even the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty.

This year, Qiu Luan, the general soldier of Datong, said in his report to Emperor Jiajing: "All sides are in trouble, but Xuanda is the most urgent...... The four major thief camps of the captive chieftain I answered, took off, Xin Ai, and Wu Shen, and took charge of my big side pier platform, and the army was in charge of the dun army, and the army was able to herd horses, so the mainland was a virtual and real captive who knew everything......"

Look, the four "captive chiefs" - Totokh, that is, Chataiji's ranking is second only to Alta, and even before my eldest son, Xin Aihuangtaiji!

The reason why Gao Shishi came here to pay tribute, did not go to Naturalization City first, but came here first is because Chataiji has now become the key to the change in the strength of Tumut's headquarters.

If Chataiji chooses to stand on the side of Hannaji, then adding Hannaji and Zhongjin Hatun to him will directly occupy eighty percent of the strength of Tumut's headquarters, plus there is a high pragmatic representative Daming to support him, Xin Ai will not be able to win this battle even if he is possessed by me.

At this time, Ma Gui also replied and said: "In the service, the saying of 50,000 Han'er in Daban Shengcheng is still the situation ten years ago, and it may have increased a lot now." ”

As he spoke, his eyes flickering a little - a lot, how much is a lot? He didn't dare to say it directly, for fear of angering Gao Shipra, because as far as he knew, there might be 100,000 Han people in Dabansheng City now.

This is also one of the reasons why Hannaji is strong, because the Han people's cultivation level is much stronger than that of the Mongols, so more Han people means more food, and because the Han people are also more able to operate, so the wealth is also more abundant.

In fact, it is better to say that the various departments of Hannaji are the most hardened part of him.

In addition, Dabansheng City is not only rich, after the completion of the tribute, due to the transfer from the hands of the White Lotus Sect to the hands of Hannaji, the original reason for refusing to let Dabansheng City build a city defense no longer exists, and now it has been renovated, with a city defense level equivalent to "Daming Zhongfu", it is even more unbelievable - this means that Hannaji can be attacked and defended, and it is almost invincible.

In history, the three ladies have played the idea of the big board to ascend to the city several times, but they have always failed to rob it forcibly, and one of the very important reasons is that they can't beat the big board to ascend to the city.

The Mongol cavalry fought well in the field, but the attack was far less than in the most powerful period of the Mongol Empire in the past - they originally had the return artillery brought back from Central Asia, but now...... Iron pots can only be bought by Daming, what else is there to say?

But Ma Gui didn't know that there were many Han people in Dabanshengcheng, although it was a very shameful thing in the eyes of the whole world, but it was too pragmatic and not more important, and maybe he would be happy in his heart.

Because the more Han people, it means that the higher the degree of sinicization of Dabanshengcheng, and if Han Naji is surrounded by some Han people all day long, his heart towards Han will definitely not be weak.

"Leave tomorrow and go to Dabansheng City......" Gao Pragmatism had just started to speak, but was interrupted by the herald outside.

"Report! The envoy of the Qin, the envoy of the northern captives Chataiji, came to report and asked to take the envoy to Zhongyi to worship tomorrow. ”

Calling, that is, the temple.

Gao was stunned for a moment, and went to the temple to worship? The Buddha is not my ancestor, even if you go to worship the Buddha, you can't say to worship, are you so bullish that you actually verified that the Buddha is your ancestor?

Gao Shishi frowned and asked, "Did you say the wrong thing, even if the official goes to worship the Buddha, how can he say worship?" ”

"Envoy, the little one is not wrong, that's what the people of Chataiji said, they say that there is a separate side hall in the Zhongyi Zhao, and the side hall is Gao Wen Zhenggong...... Idol. ”

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Gao Pragmatic was dumbfounded: You Mongolians are really awesome, even if you worship the portrait of my third uncle in private, even dare to erect statues in the temple, do you really make my third uncle a Buddha?

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