"Your Highness, are you interested in the huge pasture of Chahar that is rich in cattle and sheep?"

Regarding the cabinet's opinion, Liu Hong gradually did not say anything, but turned his head to Zhu Cihong and suddenly said something, Zhu Cihong was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes lit up.

As an emperor, it must be an immortal feat to be able to open up the territory, Chongzhen may be because he has been struggling all his life, his greatest wish is to hope that the Ming Dynasty can be peaceful, and the expansion of the territory is not very attractive to Chongzhen.

But Zhu Cihong is different, he is naturally interested in expanding the territory of the Ming Dynasty at a young age, although he is only in charge of the country on behalf of his father, but if he can add a territory to the Ming Dynasty during the prison period, doesn't that show his ability?

If this is really the case, when he is the prince, he will increase the territory of the ancestral industry, and this is enough to make Zhu Cihong tempted.

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In the courtyard of the Honglu Temple, which was responsible for entertaining the outsiders, the anxious deputy minister of the Chahar Khanate, Polochi, was restless.

The 80,000 troops of the Rakshasa State have been deployed in the cities of Erkou and Chukubaixing around Lake Baikal for more than ten days, making it difficult for the tribes in the Chahar Khan to sleep and eat.

After nearly a year of repairs, although they had 120,000 troops in Chahar, they were no longer facing an enemy with all swords, axes, bows and arrows, and the Battle of Lake Baikal had greatly damaged the vitality of the Chahar tribes.

This time he came to the Ming court, Polochi brought the expectations of the Empress Dowager Su and the entire Chahar, he must persuade His Majesty of the Ming Dynasty to send troops, otherwise Chahar is likely to face immeasurable disasters.

"Polochi, summon you in the palace, hurry up and pack up and enter the palace with this official!" While thinking about it, an official from Honglu Temple walked outside, and his tone was very unkind.

"Oh, is His Majesty finally willing to summon me? The old man can enter the palace now. ”

Although Polochi felt strange about this official's attitude, after all, this official was quite polite when he first came, but he had more urgent matters in his heart, and he didn't have time to think about these details, so he followed this official directly to the palace.

"The envoy of the Chahar Khanate, Polochi, has seen the Ming Dynasty......" Polochi saw a man in yellow clothes sitting in the middle of the hall, and his body bowed down, only to find that this person was not the Ming Emperor he had seen before, and he was a little speechless for a while.

"Your Majesty is in poor health and can't come to the court, this is His Royal Highness the Prince of Daming." A Ministry of Rites official whispered coldly.

Because the news of the crown prince's imprisonment was not announced to the world, but only a holy oracle was sent to inform the courtiers of the world, and it was not long before the officials of Honglu Temple did not say it, so that Polochi did not know about it.

"The envoy of the Chahar Khanate, Polochi, has met His Royal Highness the Prince of Daming." Although he didn't see the Ming Emperor, since he was the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, he would be the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty after thinking about it, and Polochi couldn't help but look at it twice.

It's good to be young, young means unstable, it means impulsive, Polo Chi said.

"As for your country's request for assistance, after deliberation between the palace and the cabinet ministers, it has been decided not to send troops, and I hope your country will know about it." Zhu Cihong's tone was calm, and he couldn't see joy or sorrow.

"Why? Doesn't His Royal Highness the Crown Prince know the allusion of the cold lips and teeth? When Polochi heard this, his heart chuckled.

"Presumptuous, how can you put your beak on my Daming prince?" Li Banghua, the first assistant of the cabinet, scolded angrily, and said in his heart that if you are like this, you deserve to be pitted by the prince.

Zhu Cihong was not angry, and waved his hand to signal Li Banghua to sit down.

"Your Highness, please forgive me, Polochi is just in a hurry, your country and my Chahar have an alliance first, and the agreement depends on each other.

I have heard that Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty emphasizes benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith, and now that Chahar has encountered a strong enemy, shouldn't your country provide some help within its capacity? ”

Polochi argued with reason, but in fact, he was not too worried when he came, after all, with his understanding of the Confucian officials of the Ming Dynasty, he would definitely not sit idly by.

It's just that I never expected that the person in the court was no longer the old majesty, and the last time I saw the Ming cabinet officials had changed several people I didn't know.

"It's not that this palace doesn't want to help Chahar, but now that my Ming vassal state of Korea has been invaded by the remnants of the mite, the imperial court will send troops to North Korea in two days, and this palace really can't spare manpower to support your country!"

Zhu Cihong was very sincere, and said in his heart that you Chahar are not my Ming vassal states, where is the palace concerned about you.

Brother Liu is right, there are only permanent interests between the two countries, where there is permanent friendship, and the alliance with Chahar was signed before, but because there was a strong enemy of Mites, and now that the strong enemy has been destroyed, the effectiveness of this alliance has been greatly reduced.

"Polochi also heard about the affairs of the Korean country and expressed deep regret, but the Ming Dynasty has hundreds of thousands of strong troops, can't your country send some border troops?

Even if there are only 50,000, as long as Nebuchu is stationed at the foot of the Great Xing'an Mountain, the Rakshasa country will not dare to move, and even retreat in the face of difficulties. ”

Polochi felt that for the Ming Dynasty, tens of thousands of troops were just a small matter, how could the Ming court ignore the alliance.

"Your Excellency Polo Chi doesn't know that my Ming Dynasty is now suffering from internal and external troubles, although there are hundreds of thousands of troops, but we have to guard against overseas enemies, and there are mites that have not been completely eliminated.

In addition, now that the Ming Dynasty has been suffering from successive droughts, all parts of the country are starving, and sending troops to North Korea has stretched the imperial court, and there is really no extra money and food to supply more troops, and I hope your country understands. Second assistant Fan Jingwen got up and replied.

"This ...... What if I, the Chahar tribe, will give out the money? "Polo Chi originally wanted to say that their country could be responsible for the supply of the Ming army that went out, but after thinking about it for a while, he didn't dare to say it.

In the past two years, after the two countries signed an alliance and traded with each other, the favorite of the merchants of the Ming Dynasty was to buy cattle and sheep on the grassland, and the tribes knew that this silver could buy all the Ming products that the tribe needed except for grain and rice, and all of them were sold to these Ming merchants.

So much so that now the tribes in Chahar Khan have always calculated the cattle and sheep in their hands to live, where is there still excess food to feed tens of thousands of Ming troops.

It's just that although there are fewer cattle and sheep, there is really a lot of silver in their hands, although in addition to buying the necessary things for life, there should be a lot of them in various tribes.

I think that if we can solve Chahar's predicament, the tribes should not be stingy.

"My Daming is not short of silver, but lack of rice and grain, I really can't help this matter, Ambassador Polochi, please go back." Zhu Cihong said in his heart, now that the treasury is still full of silver, where do you need the barbarians and the jujubes.

Then Polochi racked his brains and said that his tongue only trembled, but Zhu Cihong and the cabinet just refused to send troops, and the sincerity of his words and the full reason made Polochi unable to find fault at all.

Polo Chi walked out of the Daming Palace almost in a daze, thinking about how to explain to the Great Khan and the Empress Dowager Su when he went back, but suddenly slapped his thigh while thinking hard.

"Immortal Heaven, how did the old man forget the King of Anguo County of the Ming Dynasty?"