Batu laughed: "It's really enjoyable!"

Chang Wei rubbed his face and scolded: "It's a fart, I'm about to be hammered to death by you!"

Tang Jinyi said, "You're not going to fight, are you?"

"Don't fight!" the two said in unison: "If you fight again, you will die together!"

Ma Lie said: "One win, one loss and one draw, the tie ends! Lord Jinong, how to calculate the bet?"

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Back at the Golden Horde, Ezhe hurriedly asked about the results of the battle, while Su Tai looked at Chang Wei, who was covered with scars and a blue nose and swollen face, with a concerned face.

Ma Lie said the result of the competition, Su Tai said without thinking: "Jinong wins, according to the gambling agreement, General Ma sends a message to Qin Guogong and asks for sweat and blood BMW; General Ma wins, Jinong, you must fully accept the plan of the Ming Dynasty and Qin Guogong; Zongkang and Batu are drawn, so that the conditions of Qin Guogong's apology and General Ma's military power cancel each other." Can the six of you be convinced by such a ruling?"

Chang Wei and Batu and Tuoba had no opinions, and Chahan wanted to say something, but found that he had no helper, so he had to nod and obey.

After the internal opinions were unified, they began to study the conditions set by the Ming court, and if Ezhe wanted to officially succeed to the throne, he must first get married. The customs on the grassland are more peculiar, Lin Dan Khan died and Ezhe wanted to inherit his woman, in addition to Ezhe's own mother Sanfu Jin Sutai and the dead Sifu Jin Boqi, the rest of the Dafu Jinna Mu Zhong, Erfu Jin Siqintu, Wufu Jin Subahai, Liufu Jin Wuyunna, Qifu Jin Orzhetu, and Bafu Jin Tesna all had to marry Ezhe.

It is not uncommon for a woman in the Central Plains to marry at the age of thirteen on the grassland and marry at the age of twelve on the grassland, because the life expectancy of people in this era is not long, the climate on the grassland is harsh, the living conditions are difficult, and wars are frequent.

Su Tai gave birth to Ezhe before he was fifteen years old, so these six Fu Jin are not very old, the eldest Namu Zhong is only twenty-eight or nine years old with Su Tai, and the youngest Tesna is only twenty.

This is an ancient rule handed down from generation to generation, and the six Fujin have nothing to say, Chang Wei deliberately paid attention to the Wufujin Subahai, this woman is quite beautiful, but her body exudes a cold temperament, facing Chang Wei, her face did not show half of the assassination conspiracy revealed.

Chang Wei really wanted to get her out and get rid of her! But now is not the time, the 30,000 households on the left wing of Chahar are the largest force in Tatar, if they kill the important women of their tribe now, they will form a mortal enemy, which will be very detrimental to the eastward advance in the future, so they can only endure it.

Although Ezhe's power is limited now, the marriage of the Great Khan cannot be hasty, at least it is necessary to inform all the tribes of the steppe and hold a formal wedding. As a result, the official canonization ceremony will also be postponed.

Hong Chengchou was an old and cunning man, and the place he set for canonization was in the north of Datong, outside the Great Wall, at the Dry Horse Terrace, where the Tumo River and Chahar tribes meet. However, his reasons were sufficient, because Hanmatai was the place where Alta and Sanniangzi were canonized, and more than five generations of Tatar khans had been canonized there since eighty years ago, so Su Tai and Ezhe had no reason to object.

However, if you want to go to Hanmatai, you must first solve the Tumo Chuan Department, Su Tai said that with the current strength of the Khan's court, this cannot be done, and the Ming Dynasty needs to send troops to help; Hong Chengchou said that this matter is the responsibility of Qin Guogong, and follow-up matters can be discussed with him.

After setting the tone of the matter, he began to talk about mutual markets and rewards, and finally got a satisfactory result for both sides after talking for three or five days, after Hong Chengchou said goodbye and went south, Su Tai first sent a letter to the three tribes of Alxa, Hangjinqi and Etuoke near Houtao, who originally supported Lin Dan Khan, inviting them to Houtao to participate in the wedding and coronation ceremony of Ezhe Khan.

Alxa is in the southwest of Houtao, separated from Zhenyuan Pass by the tall Helan Mountain, and Hangjinqi and Etuoke are in the southeast of Houtao. The three tribes are no more than three hundred miles away from Houtao, and they belong to the backyard of the Khan's court, and they must be conquered first, otherwise there will be endless troubles.

Ten days after the news broke, the three tribal leaders arrived with more than 1,000 cavalry. At the same time, Namu Zhong and Su Tai became pregnant one after another.

When I went to Rengen Peak, Lin Dan Khan died for nearly a month, and at that time Namu Zhong had signs of pregnancy, and now it has been fully confirmed, although Sutai is a little later, it is not an accident, it seems that it is really useful to go to Rengen Peak and Mumen Cave to worship.

After the death of Lin Dan Khan, the leaders of the three tribes had been in a wait-and-see state, but now that the canonization of the Ming court had established the status of Ezhe Khan, and the mutual market gave them the opportunity to make a profit, the three tribes immediately swore allegiance after negotiating the share of the mutual market.

The mutual market is a sharp weapon for the Ming court to deal with the grassland tribes!

Speaking of mutual markets, we must first talk about the role of the Great Wall.

The Great Wall is not high, but it is built on top of a high mountain. It is so high that the war horse cannot climb over, as long as the beacon tower is built to garrison the soldiers, the safety of the border can be guaranteed.

With the Great Wall, the people in the border areas can safely and securely weave men and women, multiply, and the Central Plains Empire can avoid establishing a huge standing army. Once the nomadic tribes tried to cross the Great Wall and invade the Central Plains, the soldiers guarding condescended to light the beacon fire as soon as possible, and the Great Wall beacon fire quickly ignited in turn, transmitting the news to the capital, and then the emperor began to mobilize throughout the country. This is the first function of the Great Wall - early warning.

After that, they can calmly mobilize and gather troops, and when the nomadic army crosses the Great Wall, they will face the heavily armed Central Plains army. In fact, the nomadic tribes who conquered the Great Wall purely militarily did not have any at all, and the Eight Banners of Jiannu were known as invincible, but they had no choice but to pass the Shanhaiguan Pass, and needed to make a detour to the Monan grassland and raid the weak places of the Ming army.

The Great Wall is not just a lonely Great Wall, there are a series of strongholds inside and outside it, with large and small barriers, fortresses, cities, and forts. These strongholds are usually used as early warnings, and the stronger the dynasty, the more strongholds there are on the periphery, and when the dynasty is weakened, the fewer strongholds.

After the Great Wall, there are a series of logistical supply points and military stations in important areas. For example, there is an inner wall within the outer wall of the nine sides, and there are military towns and fortresses nearby, when the nomads control the strings with scimitars and fight over, they first have to pull out the outer strongholds one by one, and finally arrive at the Great Wall exhausted, and find that there is already an army with sufficient soldiers and fully armed troops hiding in the castle obscenely, shouting to the outside world: "Boy, there is a kind of you coming up!"

Nomads usually die miserably if they want to fight hard. Just like the battle of Zhenyuan Pass, Chang Wei brought Qian'er 800 people to block the mountain pass, and the Tatar tens of thousands of cavalry were completely useless. Therefore, they can only pick up cheap looting and quickly retreat, and as soon as the enemy retreats, the imperial army will cross the Great Wall and regain its stronghold, which is the second function of the Great Wall - to maintain the battle line.

So the nomads traveled day and night over the mountains and mountains, and finally, finding the weak point of the Great Wall and preparing to attack, suddenly discovered, General Li of Datong? Why did you run from Shanxi to Yansui in Shaanxi? General Li said that Lao Tzu followed the Great Wall and looked at the beacon fire and rode a horse. Faced with the border army that was in good fight, the nomads had no choice but to return again. This is the third function of the Great Wall - the transportation channel.

In this way, the battle cannot be fought?

In the vast Gobi Desert and the vast grasslands, finding a place with few people to make a gap in the Great Wall can also allow the army to pass through! This is a common incident in history of "destroying the border wall and entering." But there are border fortresses in the Great Wall, and even the Inner Great Wall, therefore, the nomads can only plunder and retreat, and if they want to really conquer the city and occupy the Central Plains, this is not possible at all!

After countless lessons learned by the powerful dynasty, the nomads said that I would not fight anymore? No, another important function of the Great Wall came -- the blockade line!

The production mode of the nomads determines that their harvest is very unstable, and at the same time, due to the backward science and technology, they almost do not know how to mine and smelt, and things such as iron pots and kitchen knives can only be obtained by trading with the Central Plains Dynasty, not to mention swords and iron arrows.

The Northern Yuan was driven back to the grassland by the Ming Dynasty, and thirty years later, it was reduced to the point of using animal bones as arrowheads, not to mention fighting, it was difficult to live.

The Great Wall was the watershed between farming and nomadic civilization, and the nomads north of the Great Wall, even if they controlled a million, were only a group of herdsmen, and at most they only had the advantage of cavalry. The nomads who enter the Great Wall and take root in the Central Plains will become a steppe empire, and they can use the craftsmen, technology, military equipment and technical capabilities of the agricultural civilization to increase their strength hundreds of times.

The existence of the Great Wall greatly improved the fault tolerance rate of the Central Plains Dynasty. Han Gaozu had the siege of Baideng, but it was outside the Great Wall, and you let the Huns attack the Great Wall?

After the return of Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, three generations of accumulation, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty created a martial art unprecedented in the Han Dynasty! There is the Great Wall, in the face of nomads, you can be militarily defeated, you can be politically incompetent, you can be diplomatically brainless, you have enough time to make mistakes, and you also have a lot of time to correct mistakes.

The Northern Song Dynasty, which did not have the Great Wall, maintained 300,000 troops in Hebei and a standing army of one million all year round, but in the face of the Liao people going south, they could only pay New Year's coins, and the Jin people crossed the river, and they had almost no power to fight back.

The tragedy of the Song Dynasty has been doomed since Shi Jingjiao cut the sixteen states of Youyun, even if there is no Meng Yuan, there will be other nomads to complete the historical cause of conquering the Song Dynasty. Because the Great Wall is a security line, it can keep the largest nomadic center in Eurasia under control.

From here, another key function of the Great Wall is introduced - economic blockade!

The Great Wall can reconstruct the economic ecology, and can shrink all merchants to a few key lanes to monopolize trade, so that it can carry out an economic blow to the outside of the Seychelles.

That wall may not be able to withstand the strong attack of the army, but it is still more than enough to block its own people in peacetime, as long as it can effectively control its own people, especially the free entry and exit of merchants, the trade monopoly will be realized.

The passes on the Great Wall became key points on the network, floodgates to control the flow of commerce, and when they were closed, trade was completely blocked. For example, the Ming court once closed the Houjin mutual market to carry out an economic blockade, and in the late Nurhachi period, the price of rice in Liaodong soared to eight taels of silver per bucket, nine taels of cotton cloth, and two hundred taels of python forging could not be bought at all.

If the other side can be brought to its knees without the use of force and the strategic objectives can be achieved with the least casualties and the lowest cost, why not do it? Economic warfare can achieve such an effect.

Economic warfare can bring economic depression and even social turmoil to foreign enemies, making the enemy unable to wage war, and is a very effective means of defense and attack.

So, why did the steppe people need merchants, and how did the Great Wall reconstruct the economic ecology and control the steppe khans?

There are many products on the grassland, horses, cattle and sheep, furs, medicinal herbs, in the eyes of nomads, these things are everywhere and worthless, but in the Central Plains, these are all sought-after commodities.

The Central Plains cloth, wine, tea, sugar, silk, porcelain, handicrafts, cosmetics and other goods that need to be finely processed, are very scarce by the nomads, this price difference gave birth to trade immigrants, a large number of merchants shuttled through the Central Plains and the grassland, looking for various trade opportunities, and frequent trade exchanges gradually formed a trade network, and along the network also gave birth to scattered settlements, villages and towns.

The Khan on the steppe was the largest supplier of goods to the merchants, and the goods obtained by the Khan were on the one hand for his own use, but more importantly, they were distributed to the big and small chiefs in various places, because the goods in the hands of the Khan were also obtained from the hands of the various leaders. The Khan had a partnership with the chieftains, and with these incomes, the chiefs were able to maintain the obedience and support of their own people, and the Khan ruled the chieftains in the same way.

The perfection and coherence of the Great Wall was a great weapon to end the trade routes. The coherent Great Wall, coupled with the early warning and patrol of the beacon system, can effectively prevent "profiteers from bypassing". Merchants have families and businesses, not outlaws, and it is okay to secretly explore the road and smuggle, but destroying the Great Wall will cost their lives, and no one can afford this kind of risk.

With the Great Wall, merchants had to pass through passes to enter the grasslands, so everyone could only trade at the passes, and the passes became ports for opening up to each other. The imperial court saw that the grassland tribes were unhappy that day, and they would immediately launch an economic blockade to prohibit the flow of goods from the Central Plains into the grassland, which could strongly weaken the power of the khans and their leaders.

In addition, the Great Wall has an unexpected side effect. In the absence of large crowd movements, many villages and towns away from the pass will shrink, and the disappearance of human activities will reduce the damage to vegetation. The trade routes that merchants had painstakingly carved out in the mountains would gradually be submerged by vegetation with the construction of the Great Wall.

As a result, there were uninhabited no-man's lands along the Great Wall, and this barbaric ecology also played a role in hindering enemy forces, where the enemy from afar had neither supplies nor roads, and was helpless against dense bushes and trees.

The economic blockade and the strategy of "razing and razing", while effective, also destroyed trust between the northern nomads and the Central Plains dynasty. After the Longqing collegiate meeting, the Ming court began to support the Altan Khan and the three ladies of the right-wing Tumochuan, and opened mutual trade to them, which kept the northwest border peaceful for 80 years!

However, under the strategy of "razing and razing", the left-wing Chahar Department was suppressed for many years, which kept Liaodong in a state of war, and it was not improved until the economic blockade was relaxed during the Wanli period.

After the rise of the Jurchens, the Ming court imposed an economic blockade on the Houjin and began to win over and buy the left-wing Lin Dan Khan. At the same time, because of the wrong decision to betray Chahar and reach an alliance with Huang Taiji, the Tatar left wing departments completely defected, and Lin Dan Khan was driven directly to the northwest in a limited way.

As a result, the economic blockade was so effective that it became the trigger for war.

The three major tribes of Alxa, Hangjinqi, and Etuoke were originally supporters of Lin Dan Khan, and now, the Ming court canonized Ezhe Khan and gave them the right to interact with each other, so that everyone can make money, what are they dissatisfied with? Today's Tatars do not have the strength to compete with the Houjin and the Ming Dynasty for the world!

After leveling the rear, Chang Wei pointed the spearhead directly at the largest enemy of Dongtao, the Erdos tribe, and first secretly ordered Wuding and Chang Ping to lead the volunteer battalion out of the Great Wall to deal with the Wushen Banner, a subsidiary tribe of Ordos.

Alxa, Hangjinqi, and Etuoke each led 10,000 cavalry to sweep along the Yellow River from west to east; the Khan's court was divided into two divisions, Dafu Jin Namu Zhong and the dangerous Wufu Jin Subahai and Tuoba Tomb of the Urad Division, which led the headquarters of 10,000 cavalry to garrison Houtao and closely monitor the Yinshan Pass to prevent the northwestern Wara from leading troops to raid; Ezhe led the headquarters of 10,000 cavalry and Sutai to enter the Wuyuan City of Malie to prevent the Tumo Chuan Department in the east from advancing westward.

Chang Wei and the others, Ma Lie's 3,000 horses, Badubaihu's 10,000 horses, and Chahan's 10,000 horses, crossed the Yellow River from Wuyuan and went straight to the Ordos tribe station 300 miles southeast!

The Great War is on the verge of breaking out! )