The Chongzhen Emperor in front of him, when he gave the two serious imperial uncles Zhu Changxun and Zhu Changjie, the king of virtue, didn't even blink his eyes!

Now he condescends to call this pickled man from the left-wing Mongolian tribe of Horqin, Saibei, his uncle!

Emperor Chongzhen's words seemed to be just following Concubine Lan's words and casually said, but in the ears of the people around him, the meaning was extraordinary.

Gong Yonggu, Fang Zhenghua, Wang Chengen and other close ministers and ministers around the emperor did not understand Mongolian, so they did not understand the mystery.

However, Lan Guifei Hai Lanzhu, Gongshun Hou Wu Weiying, the two deputy envoys of the Li Fan Yuan, as well as Manzhu Xili, Agrabari and others really listened to it:

His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty in front of him actually followed the noble concubine who was born in Horqin and called Ilduqi his uncle together!

Hai Lanzhu and Manzhu Xili, a pair of sisters and brothers from the Horqin grassland, looked at each other, and both of them had a look of surprise on their faces.

Especially Ilduqi, who was personally supported by Emperor Chongzhen and was excited with a grateful look, suddenly heard Emperor Chongzhen's words, and hurriedly knelt down again, prostrating on the ground while kowtowing, and on the other hand, there was a burst of gurgling Horqin Mongolian.

Before coming to the Ming Dynasty, as one of the important figures of the Horqin left-wing Mongol tribe, Ilduqi was actually full of doubts about the idea and practice of betting on both sides of the Zhaisan.

Although he had read most of the letters written by Hailanzhu and Manzhu Xili to Jaisang Belle, he was still a little uneasy about Zaisang's decision-making.

First, the Mongol nobles of the Horqin tribes were attached to the Jurchens of the Later Jin Kingdom, and it was about thirty years before and after.

Moreover, before they were annexed, the war between them and the Jurchens also lasted for many years, basically losing more and winning less, and they were full of fear of the Jianzhou Jurchen Department that rose in the white mountains and black waters.

Second, Ilduqi still has a little distrust of the strength of the Ming Dynasty, worried that the Ming Dynasty is not as good as the Jurchen Houjin State, and once the Horqin left-wing Mongol tribes really betray the Jurchens, they will not be able to eat and walk around in the future, and the end may be even worse.

After all, just a few years ago, the Southern Dynasty, the old empire that looked like a behemoth, had been defeated again and again in front of the Jurchens of the Later Jin Kingdom.

In his mind, once the Horqin left-wing Mongol tribes secretly defected to the Ming Dynasty, or they could bet on both sides, although they could get a lot of Southern Dynasty products from the Ming Dynasty, but the risks were everywhere.

Moreover, Ilduqi, who was born in the Mongolian tribe of the Saibei steppe, had heard a lot of rumors about the weak folk customs of the Southern Dynasties, especially the Southern Dynasties, and had always thought that the Ming Kingdom of the Southern Dynasties in the Great Wall was a weak and bullying country, and he was not too eye-catching.

Therefore, he never thought that one day the Horqin left-wing Mongol tribes would have the option of defecting to the Southern Ming State outside the Later Jin State.

It was only because his cousin niece Borzigit Hari Zhula coincidentally became the concubine of the emperor of the Southern Dynasty, and his cousin Manzhu Xili was left in the Ming Dynasty Jingshi, and he also naturalized the Southern Dynasty, which made the Horqin left-wing Mongolian tribes suspicious of the Jurchens and lost the trust of the upper echelons of the Later Jin Kingdom, that he had to start thinking about other ways to live.

This time, Zhaisang chose to let him come, and after struggling in his heart, he agreed to come to the Ming Dynasty as an envoy, just to see with his own eyes whether the current Ming Dynasty is worth the Horqin left-wing Mongolian tribes, and he took a huge risk to take refuge.

If after taking refuge in the Ming Dynasty, once there is something in the Mongolian steppe in the future, or when the news leaks out, and the Jurchen army of the Houjin State is questioned, the Ming Dynasty has no ability to rescue the left wing of Horqin, or has no ability to protect the safety of the Mongolian tribes of the left wing of Horqin, then he will resolutely not support Zhaisang to defect to the Ming Emperor.

And Jaisan asked Ilduzi, whom he relied on, to come because he trusted Ilduzi's judgment more.

He asked Ilduqi to replace himself and personally come to the territory of the Ming Dynasty to see the true strength of the Ming Dynasty and the true wishes of the Ming Emperor.

In fact, as early as the end of the second year of Chongzhen, the Horqin left-wing Mongolian armies such as Zhaisang and Ilduqi had already followed the yellow banner of the Houjin State and had seen the strength of the Ming Dynasty in Saibei.

It's just that at that time, the official army of Saibei under Sun Chengzong, as well as the Xuanfu Ming army in Dushikou, all of them could not hold out, and they mainly defended.

Although the Ming army at that time relied on the fortifications prepared in advance, and also caused great losses to the Horqin servant army of the Yellow Banner and the Jurchens who launched the onslaught, the banner owner of the Yellow Banner Haoge and his ministers, as well as the leaders of Horqin Left-wing Mongolia such as Jaisan and Ilduqi, were very unconvinced by that defeat.

They believed that if it weren't for the steep fortifications and sharp firearms of the Ming army that held on that time, they would not have failed at all.

They firmly believed that if the Ming army dared to come out from behind the fortifications and fight with the Jurchen army and the cavalry of the Korqin people in an upright manner, then they would definitely succeed.

In particular, the leaders of the left wing of Horqin, in that war, did not enter the Xuanda hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, nor did they fight with the legendary Ming Royal Guard.

Therefore, after they followed the Jurchens all the way to naturalization, and then made a detour from the city of naturalization to Mobei and fled back to the Horqin grassland, they had always been a little puzzled by the confusing rout at the end of Chongzhen's second year.

In addition to the blind commands of the Jurchens such as Huang Taiji, the leaders of the Horqin left-wing Mongolian tribes such as Jaisan and Ilduqi have always had a little disbelief and resentment in their hearts.

Of course, a year and a half have passed since the war at the end of Chongzhen's second year.

And Jaisang, Ilduqi and others have also vaguely known from several letters from Hailanzhu and Manzhu Xili that in the past year and a half, many new and unheard of changes have taken place on this side of the Ming Dynasty, and the national situation of the Ming Dynasty seems to have come out of the trough and is thriving.

At the same time, they were also surprised to find that the once powerful Jurchens were greatly damaged after experiencing the defeat in the borders of Mo Nan and the Southern Dynasties, and the situation in the Later Jin Dynasty was declining, and the days of the Jurchen Eight Banners seemed to be getting worse day by day.

In the past, whenever it was the time of Zhengdan to congratulate, whether it was the former Heavenly Mandate Khan or the current Tiancong Khan, he was very generous to the various tribes of Horqin, and the things that were in short supply on the grassland, such as armor, carved saddles, swords, arrows, and materials such as iron tools and salt tea, would be rewarded in large quantities.

However, at the time of the latest New Year's Day, Huang Taiji could not take out anything except reward some gold, silver, pearls and jade that could not be eaten or clothed by hunger.

Moreover, Jaisang, Ilduqi and others have heard that thousands of people starved to death in the first winter of the first year in the Later Jin Dynasty.

The Mongols of the four banners, such as Uzhumuqin, Zalut, and Zarat who moved eastward to the old land of the Jurchens in Haixi, were even more miserable.

In contrast, the leaders of the Horqin left-wing Mongolian tribes, including Ilduqi, also believed in the scepticism and half-pushed and half-supported the choice of Horqin's left-wing co-leader Zhaisang.

That is, bet on both sides and see before talking.

The man who was sent to see the reality was Ilduzi.

It didn't matter if Ilduqi looked at it like this, he himself had not yet arrived in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, but deep down in his heart, he had already accepted the views and suggestions of his cousin and nephew in the letter.

The Guiyi King City in Karaqin is the Ulan Hada Mountain City where the Guiyi King Burhatu lives, needless to say, this time Ilduqi and his entourage did not dare to pass by there at all.

The first stop on the southbound route chosen by Ilduqi was the Kulen territory south of the Tar River, which had once belonged to the Korqin Left Mongols.

The Kulen tribe, which used to be low-status, sparsely populated, and impoverished, is still very different now, not to mention that its subordinates have numbered tens of thousands, just the Kulen city that rises from the ground is enough to stand out in the Eastern Mongolian steppe.

Chaganhot, which is regarded as a treasure by the Mongolian tribes of the left wing of Horqin, and the city of Kulun are simply dilapidated cottages.

In addition to the Kulen City, which rose from the ground, Ilduqi and the others followed Agrabari to the south, and also passed through Yingzhou City, Ning Castle, Balihan, Rehe Fort and other famous cities in the north of Ji.

In addition to these fortified cities, which were garrisoned by heavy artillery men, there must have been one or two garrisons and permanent fortifications of the border guards every thirty or sixty li between the cities.

All of this made him more and more frightened the more he looked at it.

After he followed Agrabari around the distance, and finally entered the territory from Zhangjiakou, and then walked through the military capital of Huang Taiji and Juyong Pass, where Huang Taiji led the Jurchen army to return from defeat, and the official road of western Beijing that was about to be completed in its entire line, Yilduqi's previous doubts about the strength of the Ming Dynasty all dissipated.

After entering the city of Beijing, the only anxiety that lingered in his heart was the true will of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty to deal with the Horqin left-wing Mongolia.

Therefore, when Emperor Chongzhen stepped down from the throne and personally helped him up, and called him Abaga according to Concubine Lan's words, a stone suddenly fell to the ground in Ilduqi's heart.

At this moment, he didn't know whether he was more panicked or more surprised.

In short, after listening to Emperor Chongzhen's words and Lan Guifei's translation, Yierduqi hurriedly knelt down again, and said all kinds of words of gratitude in his mouth.

As for the condition that Emperor Chongzhen said, that is, to accept the canonization of the Ming Dynasty, this is not a problem for Ilduqi.

The Ming Dynasty's consistent strategy for the Mongol tribes outside the northern border of the Ming Dynasty was to carry out tribute trade.

This routine is familiar to Ilduzi.