The woman didn't even tell her name, and when she entered the civil fort, it seemed that she was ready to leave. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

But Shen Xi won't do what she wants, she doesn't want to leave, and she will send people out of the city when the time comes.

Use me to be your springboard in the field of power, and don't look at what this place is, what kind of person I am...... I have never been the only one who uses others to achieve my goals, and there is no reason for others to use me!

With the envoys entering the city, the Tatar blockade network around the Tumu Fort was officially formed, except for the southern water source direction, where no Tatar trace was found.

Even if the city sent a horse team to carry water, no one harassed it, giving the soldiers in the city a false impression...... It is possible to escape from the south of the city.

After the deserters were found in the city one after another, Shen Xi ordered to strictly guard against death, and resolutely did not allow similar situations to occur, and all the passages out of the city in the civil fort were intensified, on the one hand, to prevent the Tatars from attacking the city, and on the other hand, to prevent the soldiers in the city from escaping.

Shen Xi and Zhang Yong gossiped for a while, and after calming down the resentment in the old eunuch's heart, the two entered the side hall together, ready to negotiate with the woman again.

The woman sat on the simple wooden chair, looking a little lazy, Shen Xi glanced at it, and thought: "The women of the Han family attach great importance to etiquette, standing with a standing appearance, sitting with a sitting posture, how have you ever seen such a wide-open and nondescript woman?" ”

In addition to Zhang Yong, there were several generals who came with Shen Xi, but they were not Hu Songyue, Liu Xu and Zhu Lie, but five commanders who were representatives.

Now in addition to welcoming the envoys, the civil fort also has to strengthen the city's defenses, the three of them have a heavy overall responsibility, Shen Xi has arranged the affairs in advance, and the three need to cooperate with the implementation, so five subordinate officers were selected to attend the meeting.

"Your Excellency, what do you call it?" After Shen Xi entered the side hall, he came to the chair opposite the woman's seat and asked condescendingly.

The woman sat on the chair, looked up at Shen Xi, and said with a smile: "Doesn't Lord Shen feel abrupt to inquire about a woman's name like this?" But since Lord Shen asked, it is inconvenient for the concubine to hide it, my family's surname is Yue, my husband's surname is Lu, and now I am from the grassland, and my name is changed to Awulu, whatever Lord Shen calls it! ”

Shen Xi sat down slowly, and waited for the guards to bring tea to everyone in the hall, and then said in an orderly manner: "According to the custom of the Han people, Mrs. Lu should be called Lu Yue, or Mrs. Lu." But now that you are no longer Han Chinese, it is more appropriate to call the name of the grassland...... Awulu, huh? This name seems to have only finals and no initials, which is really awkward, so it's better to call Mrs. Alu! ”

Ah Wulu frowned, what kind of vowel initials, she couldn't understand it at all, but she really heard Shen Xi's abbreviation, she was originally a three-syllable name, which was directly abbreviated into two words by Shen Xi, and it seemed to be a southerner's title for women, with a "Ah" in front, just like a cat and a dog, which made A Wulu very dissatisfied.

Ah Wulu said: "Mrs. Awulu is much better than Mrs. Alu, is it too rude for Lord Shen to change people's names casually?" ”

"Really?"

Shen Xi smiled disappreciatively and said, "Maybe it's a bad habit of this official, he always likes to simplify people's names as much as possible, for example, there is a general Hu Songyue in our army, I like to call him Lao Hu." Another example is the prison army Zhang Yong......"

Zhang Yongzheng sulked beside him, and when he heard this, he said: "Lord Shen, don't get involved with me for example, I don't have any abbreviations for this poor person!" ”

Shen Xi shook his head: "That's not the case, on weekdays, we have a lot of respect for the prison army, so naturally we can't call them by name, we need to call Zhang Gonggong honorably!" ”

Shen Xi explained seriously, Ah Wulu listened quite seriously at first, and soon she found that this question seemed to be a little biased, Shen Xi didn't discuss the negotiation topic with her after she came in, and actually told her the name and abbreviation of the person.

Ah Wulu thought to himself: "This kid, isn't it sincere to entertain me?" This civil fort has been heavily surrounded, although there is no shortage of water and food in the city, but it seems that there are not many soldiers and horses, just the army outside the city is enough to wipe out the defenders in the city, the disparity between the outnumbered, he can still be so easy? ”

After thinking about it again, she immediately sensed the danger: "It's not good, he must be afraid that after I leave the city, he will tell the truth about the city, so he will find a topic to drag me and prevent me from leaving the city......"

At this time, Shen Xi's eyes narrowed into a slit when he laughed, like a cunning fox. Now that he was meeting with the Tatar envoys in full view of everyone, gags were no problem, and he even felt that he could discuss more of this aspect, but now he had nothing else but time.

Ah Wulu took the initiative to get to the point and said, "The concubine came to Lord Shen's army to discuss the exchange of the female general Huoya who was captured by you. ”

Shen Xi was relieved: "It turned out to be an exchange of prisoners of war, very good, very good...... I wonder what terms Lady Alu is going to exchange for the people you need? ”

"If Lord Shen is willing to let people go, the concubine guarantees that Lord Shen and your subordinates can leave the Civil Forts safely and return to the Inner Great Wall Pass, and by the way, they will also give a large number of jewels, which are worth about 100,000 yuan according to the value of the Ming goods!" Awulu said.

When they heard the amount of 100,000 yuan, the eyes of the commanders present widened.

Just a prisoner of war can be exchanged for the safety of the whole army, and there is a ransom of 100,000 yuan. Now even if you add the people in the city, there are only 8,000 people, and an average of one person can get more than ten silver in the hands of each person, even if these commanders in front of them feel that it is a "huge amount of money", not to mention that they can get far more money than ordinary soldiers, not to mention those people.

Seeing that Shen Xi was silent, Ah Wulu asked, "Lord Shen, are you satisfied with this figure?" ”

Everyone looked at Shen Xi, even Zhang Yong was looking forward to it. Although the old eunuch scolded Ah Wulu before, in the face of the road to survival, he didn't care about personal grievances, and his life was more important than anything else.

Just when everyone was expecting Shen Xi to agree, Shen Xi shook his head categorically: "Not satisfied!" ”

"Huh?"

Ah Wulu was not much surprised, but Zhang Yong and several commanders widened their eyes...... Shen Xi actually refused such generous conditions?

Ah Wulu asked curiously: "Lord Shen, I hope you understand, we use such conditions only to exchange for one person in exchange for Huo Aya, as for the rest of the Tatar soldiers, you like to escort them away, or kill them on the spot, and it is not the turn of the concubine to take care of them." The concubine body only needs to complete the task, and all this is ...... All with the permission of the Great Khan, I can assure you that we steppe people will not break our promises. If you open your mouth, you're being insincere! ”

Zhang Yong sat on Shen Xi's side, looking nervous, quietly pulled Shen Xi's shirt, and reminded in a low voice: "Lord Shen, think twice before acting!" ”

Shen Xi ignored Zhang Yong and said, "Mrs. Alu, I hope you can understand that now that people are in our hands, it should not be you, but us, right?" ”

A Wulu said: "Lord Shen, please speak!" ”

"Since you want the official to explain, the official will speak bluntly." Shen Xi talked eloquently, "The so-called gold of the prosperous era of jewelry, now that the Tatars have invaded our Central Plains, they are about to break the Xuanfu, and throughout the northwest, only the civil fort has 50,000 soldiers and horses led by the official......

At the beginning, Shen Xi said that "gold in the troubled times of jewelry in the prosperous era", and Ah Wulu's first thought was: This kid is very greedy, and he actually doesn't want jewelry, but asks for gold. Later, when he heard Shen Xi say that "the Xuanfu is about to be broken", Ah Wulu's heart sank, because Shen Xi broke the Tatar battle plan in one word.

When she heard Shen Xi talk about "50,000 soldiers and horses", Ah Wulu couldn't help but want to laugh, she had roughly seen the soldiers and horses in the Tumu Fort, and she might not be able to make up 5,000 people if she was full, so Shen Xi dared to say 50,000 when she opened her mouth. Ah Wulu thought to himself: "This is bullying me and a woman and children, and I can't even count them?" ”

"Lord Shen, can you get to the point?"

Ah Wulu interrupted Shen Xi's words and said bluntly.

Shen Xi nodded: "Since this is the case, then the official is not welcome, 50,000 taels of gold or 10,000 horses, and when the soldiers and horses retreat for ninety miles, the official will naturally release them!" ”

Although Ah Wulu had already expected that Shen Xi would open his mouth, he didn't expect Shen Xi to exaggerate to such an extent.

She wanted to say at this time: "You're not exchanging, you're just robbing!" ”

Fifty thousand taels of gold is of little significance to the Tatars, as long as the Ming Dynasty blocks the trade routes, the Tatars cannot spend it even if they have silver and gold, and can only circulate internally, while the steppe is more barter, and gold, silver and jewelry are not useful at all.

Throughout the Ming Dynasty, the interaction with the northern nomads was to stop and stop, and when the war started, the city fortresses were closed, and when the Ming Dynasty had the pain of the skin, they wanted to make peace, and had to open up some trade places to allow the grassland to communicate with the Ming Dynasty. When the Ming Dynasty's national strength recovered, it closed the land of trade, and prepared to send troops, and the cycle repeated.

In the end, the grassland people fought with the Ming Dynasty for two purposes, one was to plunder, and the other was to force the Ming Dynasty to open a treaty port.

The grassland is a place where it is difficult to be self-sufficient, and they rely on the Central Plains far more than the Central Plains need for the grassland.

No matter which tribe rises, if you want to really live a good life, you still have to deal with the Ming Dynasty, either war or trade, you must choose one of the two, and it is very difficult to defeat the giant of the Ming Dynasty.

Since a few years ago, the border trade has been cut off, and the Tatars have accumulated a lot of money, 100,000 taels of silver can be taken out, but 50,000 taels of gold is not possible, and even the Ming treasury may not be able to come up with so much gold.

So the first one, direct negation.

As for 10,000 horses, that is the lifeblood of the grassland people, and it is impossible for any tribe to give 10,000 horses to other tribes at a time, let alone to the greatest enemy, the Ming Dynasty.

Second, the Tatars will never agree.

As for the statement of withdrawing from Ninety Miles, Ah Wulu thinks it is acceptable, but she said that she will let Shen Xi return to Juyongguan, which is not true, her purpose is only to save Huo Aya, as for whether she will fulfill her promise in the end, it has nothing to do with her.

At the speed of the Tatar cavalry, even if they retreat 90 miles, and wait for the Ming army to return to Juyong Pass after the Ming army unearthed the wooden fort, it is estimated that it has not yet gone out of 30 miles, and it can catch up again.

Shen Xi's offering of such conditions is equivalent to blocking the way for A Wulu to continue, because the conditions offered by the two sides are too different.

"Lord Shen, you obviously don't have the sincerity to negotiate!" Awulu frowned.

Shen Xi said with a smile: "It's not about business, there is no forced buying and selling, everything is voluntary!" ”

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