Amin glanced at it again in annoyance, and the two of them, Gu Santai and Hushbu, who were sitting there standing still. So far, these two people have not come up with any good ideas for him, and they only know how to persuade him vigorously not to try to break away from the Houjin Kingdom.

This made Amin hesitate slightly, if even Gu Santai and Hu Shibu were unwilling to break away from Houjin and establish their own country with blue flags, then how many of the generals under his banner would follow him out of Shenyang.

Gu Santai and Hu Shibu supported his purpose, at most, to maintain the independence of the blue flag and the ability to influence the court in the Later Jin State. They never thought that they would completely break away from the Houjin State and become independent from the Eight Banners.

Amin now understands why he went to Korea last year, and when he first entered North Korea, everyone fought bravely, and even the city of Tieshan controlled by Mao Wenlong was defeated.

But when he told Benqi that he wanted to stay in Korea, the army was demoralized and had no will to fight, so when Mao Wenlong took the island soldiers ashore, after the Benqi army was defeated, they rushed all the way to the Yalu River.

Feelings have always been, and the idea of turning the blue flag into a second post-Jin country only exists in his mind. These bannermen have become accustomed to the privileged life of being waited on by Nikan, and they are disgusted to build their homes from scratch despite all obstacles.

When Amin complained that his subordinates had forgotten the hardships of his father's business, he had completely forgotten that as the owner of the blue flag, he was the largest slave owner in the banner, and there were thousands of Nikans who cultivated the fields and production tools for him in the farm.

Amin finally couldn't bear it anymore, he snorted in his nose, and said to Gu Santai and Hu Shibu: "Forget it, let's discuss it here today, you all go back first and then think about it, how to deal with the means of the four beylers to weaken our blue flag." If this flag continues to decline, none of us will be pleased. ”

Gu Santai and Hu Shibu said yes in unison, and then hurriedly left Amin's study as if they had been amnestied.

After watching the two leave, Amin sat down in a gloomy manner, and the eldest son Erli, who had been standing on the side and listening, carefully said to his father: "Amma, otherwise we will simply surrender to the Great Khan, and with the Great Khan's person, we should not be killed completely." ”

Amin immediately reprimanded: "Did you drink Huang Taiji's ** soup?" Who is Huang Taiji, I don't know better than you?

At the beginning, the eldest concubine Abahai begged bitterly, willing not to get involved in court politics, and just wanted the kings to spare her life. Da Baylor and I were both soft-hearted, but Huang Taiji insisted on not allowing it, and personally hanged the concubine with a bowstring.

Huang Taiji seems to be benevolent on the outside, but he is insidious and vicious on the inside. If I had supported him in the first place to ascend to the throne of Great Khan, perhaps he would have let me go. But today, in an unsustainable situation, I surrender to him.

Not only will he not let me go, but I am afraid that he will speed up his pace against me, swallow the whole blue flag and hurry up. ”

Under Amin's reprimand, Allie suddenly gave up on what he had thought. And after Amin finished reprimanding, he said, "How is our trade with Ming these days?" ”

Ai Erli, who was reprimanded by Amin, took a breath and said: "Xu Fan has made two trips back and forth to Jinzhou, and the value of cloth and silk transported back is nearly 30,000 taels, and the value of these goods in Shenyang has almost doubled by one to two times.

However, according to Amma's orders, most of the cloth and silk were distributed among the cattle under his control, so we didn't make any profit..."

Amin immediately interrupted him and asked, "Now the bannermen of this banner, do you have any complaints about me?" ”

"That's not the case, and the cattle that got the cloth and silk all sang praises to Amma, and they also sent a lot of local products. Several Niu Lu Ezhen also wanted to come to meet Ama and thank him. ”

"Thank you for this, you just arrange the time. Let Xu Fan continue to arrange the convoy and increase the number of barters to Jinzhou. Huang Taiji defeated the Chahar tribe left behind in the Liaohe Upper Loop, and brought back a lot of cattle, sheep, horses, and population.

At present, cattle and sheep are cheap and cloth, grain and other things are expensive in the market, and the grain trade has always been in the hands of Huang Taiji, and we cannot interfere. But cloth and other supplies are not restricted. Taking advantage of this opportunity, we can make a good profit and make up for last year's losses. Amin instructed his son.

However, Erli did not respond immediately, he hesitated for a moment before he said to Amin: "Amma, I am afraid that we have encountered some problems in our trade with Jinzhou. The ginseng and good fur that the Nanban likes, we don't have so much.

This banner has been busy fighting in the past two years, and it can't send people to dig ginseng and hunt. The best ginseng and furs were in the hands of the Haixi Jurchens, but this trade route was controlled by the people of the Great Belle and the Great Khan, who transported them to the Ming Dynasty through the merchants of Shanxi to make huge profits, and we could not intervene at all.

We have a stock of ginseng and fur in our hands, and we can only support it 3-5 times at most. As for cattle, sheep, horses, and other large animals, the Great Khan has once again reiterated that it is not allowed to sell them privately to the Ming Kingdom. My son suspects that our trade with Jinzhou has been detected by the Great Khan. ”

Amin's face became extremely ugly, and he was silent for a while before he said, "What does Jinzhou say?" ”

Erli replied cautiously: "Jinzhou has already said that whether we take out goods or gold and silver, they are happy to accept it. ”

Amin suddenly cursed a dirty word, and then said with some annoyance: "Where did Lao Tzu get so much gold and silver to buy their goods, these southern barbarians are really some rich people who love money like their lives." That Huang Taiji is really not a good thing, Lao Tzu changed some daily necessities for Qiding, and he also had to intervene sideways. ”

After swearing like a vent, Amin's emotions finally calmed down, and then he said to his son: "You sent someone to send a letter to the envoy of the Ming Kingdom, saying that tomorrow I will invite him to go out of the city to hunt..."

The grasslands and hills in the northeast of Shenyang are mixed, followed by endless mountain peaks. The area is full of rivers and lakes, so the scenery is extremely beautiful.

Since the Jurchens came to Shenyang, they used this pasture as a grazing and hunting area, and the Han people were forbidden to cultivate it.

As a fishing and hunting people, the Jurchens generally forbade hunting in the spring to allow the animals time to mate and reproduce.

However, when the Jurchens moved from the mountains and forests to the cities, hunting was no longer a way to obtain food, but became a military training activity to cultivate the military literacy of the children of the tribe.

As a result, some of the previous hunting habits were gradually abandoned, and some Jurchen aristocrats who regarded hunting as a pastime no longer cared much about the custom of not hunting in spring.

In particular, the spring horseback parade on the grassland like a brocade carpet is particularly pleasing to the eye, and whether you can hunt prey or not is not so important.

Running from the noisy Shenyang City to the refreshing, colorful wildflower grassland made Yang Hao feel refreshed.

Amin, who has always liked to pay attention to pomp and circumstance when traveling, wore a simple hunting suit today, and came out very low-key with his two sons and 3 or 40 family members, and Yang Hao only brought two domestic servants and two guards by his side.

Such a simple and simple team is obviously not as good as Amin's status, but it is also extraordinarily unnoticeable.

However, such a team can't hunt much of the prey in a large area, and can only rely on luck. And Amin didn't put his mind on hunting today, and by noon, the group had hunted three yellow sheep and more than a dozen hares.

When he saw a river in the distance, Amin instructed his family to camp on the flat ground on the riverbank, then wash and skin the game, make a fire and cook, and prepare to stop and rest at this place.

Amin's family found a vacant lot on the shore, quickly stepped on the grass and came out, and then took off the cutlery and matza from the pack horse, and simply made a temporary resting place.

When Amin invited Yang Ho to sit down, his family stopped Yang Ho's entourage with half politeness and half force, and asked them to get some firewood.

Soon, the vicinity of Yang Ho and Amin became empty. Before Yang Hao could react, Amin had already bowed his hand to him and said, "Please rest assured, Yang Jingluo, I don't have any malicious intentions, I just want to have a good talk with you, and I don't want to be disturbed by idle people." ”

Yang Hao said quite unhappily: "Is there anything that Erbeile can't say in the city, so that the old man has to be brought to this wilderness to talk?" As an envoy of the Ming Dynasty, the old man and Erbeile meet alone, I'm afraid it's not a good thing for you and the old man. ”

Amin couldn't help but retort: "My lord, as a messenger of the Ming Dynasty, shouldn't you think about the Ming Dynasty first?" I tried to talk to you alone several times, but you repeatedly refused me. In that case, why did you stir up the relationship between me and Huang Taiji in the restaurant in the first place? ”

Yang Hao blinked his eyes and was silent for a while before he said: "If Er Baylor is distressed by a few words from the old man in the restaurant, then the old man can solemnly apologize to you Er Baylor, and you can be the old man who didn't say anything at the beginning." ”

Amin was suddenly a little dumbfounded, his face turned red and white, and he said angrily after a while: "Lord Yang, are you playing with me?" I finally made up my mind and wanted to reconcile with your Ming Kingdom, but now you say that you don't mean that. Aren't you afraid, I'll block the peace talks and let you go to Shenyang in vain? ”

Yang Hao touched his beard, and then sighed and said: "After the old man stayed in Shenyang for these days, he found out that whether Houjin and Ming can negotiate peace is not what everyone wants, but only the Great Khan alone.

If the Great Khan wants peace, the war between our two countries can be eliminated, but if the Great Khan does not want peace, even if the three major Baylors want peace, this peace talk will not continue. ”