Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 858 Brihatu Talks about Tumen (Part [-])
Brihatu said: "First of all, please pay attention to Khan, Gao Yushi's imperial envoy title is very strange this time."

Tumen Khan frowned: "What's so strange, isn't it the canonization of the so-called King Shunyi?" Tumote was canonized by both the Northern Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, which has always been the same for Tumen. A thorn in my heart, I usually don't want to face it directly, let alone think carefully about the importance of a high-level imperial envoy title.

But Brihatu said: "Gao Yushi's title this time is 'Imperial Envoy Canonized Envoy with Full Powers for the King of Shunyi'. Compared with the titles usually given to imperial envoys by the Ming Emperor, the most obvious one is the addition of 'full powers'. Words, not only that, after the title was given, the imperial decree also clearly stated his tasks and powers for this trip, which is to 'go north to the fortress to preside over all matters related to canonization'...

The Great Khan should know that the imperial edicts of the Ming Dynasty are always cautious in terms of language, and there is usually no possibility of ambiguity. In fact, these two sentences fully point out one thing: the canonization of King Shunyi does not matter who is the final canonization, nor does it matter. What kind of cooperation is needed, the Wanli little emperor has completely left it to Gao Yushi to decide - as long as it is related to canonization, all the governors and commanders of the towns involved must follow the unified arrangement of Gao Yushi. "

Tumen Khan was greatly surprised, even a little stunned. After a long while, he asked: "Is this true? Such a big matter, the little classmate that the little emperor handed over to him directly, didn't even ask? Are you sure you didn't make a mistake?" What does the decree mean?"

"I can be sure, and what happened later can also be used as evidence for me." Brihatu replied calmly without fear.

Tumen Khan's eyes flickered a few times, his expression became more serious, he nodded and said, "Okay, you continue."

Brihatu said: "Next, Gao Wushi led his troops out of the customs, but he didn't go directly to Guihua City to preside over the canonization, nor did he go to Dabansheng City to meet Bahanaji. take off."

"So what?" Tumen Khan asked puzzledly: "Although Tuotuo is famous, after all, he only has 6000 people under his command. What's the use of looking for him? Could it be that Gao Yushi is crazy and wants to make him King of Shunyi?"

"That's naturally impossible." Brihatu shook his head and said, "He went to find Tuotuo. It seemed a little inexplicable at first, and even a little messy, as if he couldn't tell the priority. But the situation later It proves that his move was completely premeditated, because Tuotuo and Hanaji can just form a perfect complement."

"Perfect complementarity? How is complementarity?"

Brihatu said: "Hannaji is strong in the whole west post, but because he has not fought any big battles, his prestige in the army is not good, and his combat ability is hard to say; Chataiji's headquarters is very weak, even if he With the addition of [-] Great Khan's guards, it's not that strong, but he is the son of Chechen Khan's most trusted son, Jebe's sharp shot, and Tumet's number one hero. His prestige in the army is Except for Chechen Khan himself, Tumed was not inferior to anyone, including my Echige."

He said and sighed: "Look, Khan, if the two of them work together, can they do everything together? It takes strength to have strength, and prestige to have prestige."

Tumen Khan understood a little now, nodded and said, "You mean, when the two of them work together, not only the strength of the Chataiji tribe, but also the strength of the Dacheng Taiji tribe can be fully utilized?"

"Exactly, and more than that, once the two of them join forces, the only person in Tumet who dares to oppose him is my father. Even Zhong Jinhatun would never dare to fight, even she would not confrontation."

"Don't dare to fight, or even wouldn't fight?" Tumen Khan frowned, "Why? After Alatan Khan passed away, wasn't Zhong Jinhatun the regent?"

Brihatu showed sarcasm: "Her regent? What kind of regent will she take? After Dacheng Taiji and Chataiji join forces, can she stop them both in terms of strength? No, unless she falls to me, Abu."

"Then why didn't she fall to you, Abu?" Tumen Khan asked again.

"Because her strength and status come not only from the title of Hatun, but more from her control of the exchange market between Dongshao and Daming!"

Brihatu's eyes were cold, and he said: "Since Gao Wushi can think of wooing Tuotuo, why can't he think of wooing Zhong Jinhatun? Besides, it's not difficult to win Zhongjin Hatun...not to mention that he, the plenipotentiary envoy, has The power to determine the ownership of the king of Shunyi, just saying that he is the owner of Jinghua, he can force Zhong Jinhatun to obey his orders. Otherwise, Dahan can think about it, if Jinghua does not trade with Dongshao, Where can I get enough goods on the east post?"

Tumen didn't know much about trade, but he still had some doubts about this, and asked, "Why, can't other businessmen from Daming replace Jinghua Trading Company?"

Good question. Theoretically speaking, private commerce in Ming Dynasty is quite developed now. If Jinghua doesn’t do it, there should be more people wanting to do it.

However, Brihatu said indifferently: "Maybe they can, but do they dare?"

Tumen Khan was taken aback: "Why not? Wasn't this exchange market established by the Ming court? It's not smuggling. What are they afraid of?"

"The Great Khan may not understand Jinghua's strength. Let me put it this way: In Daming, at least in the northern provinces of Daming, merchants may not even be afraid of the emperor, because they have their own supporting civil servants who will speak for them, but They must be afraid of high pragmatism, and they must be afraid of Jinghua.

As long as Jinghua wants to deal with them, they will soon find out that either they can’t buy the goods with the money, or they can’t ship out the goods produced by themselves, or they can’t ship the goods out, or even... Bandit robbery is also bad.

And there is an even more powerful method, that is, when they buy the goods, they find that all the goods have been taken away by Jinghua at a high price; If you do it, you will lose money and make money.

Think about it, which businessman is willing to do this?Therefore, if you don't listen to Jinghua's call, it will be difficult to do any business in the northern provinces of Daming. "

Tumen sweated for a while, then gulped and asked, "But isn't this killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred? If Jinghua does this, he will also lose money."

"But he is so pragmatic and can afford it. Besides, he has such great financial resources, he can control all the goods. At that time, these goods will only be in his hands. If he wants to raise the price, others can only stare blankly. no?"

It was the first time Tumen Khan knew that he could still play like this, and he stayed for a long time before saying, "Go on."

"So, Zhong Jinhatun will definitely be 'persuaded' by Gao Yushi, even if she hasn't yet, it will only be sooner or later, otherwise her foundation will be lost." Brihatu looked at Tumen and asked: " Now the Great Khan should know how much of the entire Tumed belongs to 'Mongolia', right?"

Of course Tumen Khan could hear it, what he meant was that only Xinai Huang Taiji still had his heart towards Mongolia, and the others, whether it was Hannaji, Zhong Jinhatun, or even Tuotuoqiataiji, had already fallen to the Ming people. Under the shells of the exchange market, he knelt down and surrendered, unable to stand up.

In other words, if Tumen Khan did not support Xin Ai and Huang Taiji, when Xin Ai was defeated, the entire Tumot might have to change their surname to "Ming" instead of "Meng".

Tumen Khan's face was gloomy and cold, as if dripping water, he asked solemnly: "Then what about Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang's father and son's actions later, why do you say that they diverted the tiger away from the mountain, and even linked each other?"

Buri Hatu said: "Khan, don't you think the timing of Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang's dispatch is too coincidental? At the beginning, the news came out that Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang were both fighting hard, but we think they are just suspicious. ...Please pay attention to the Great Khan, if the Great Khan does not go west, it is very likely that they are really just suspicious."

"How to say?"

Brihatu asked back: "If the sweat doesn't move, what chance do I, Abu, have of winning?"

"This..." Tumen shook his head and said, "It's not that I'm saying something depressing, the probability of your Abu winning is no more than [-]%."

"Thank you, Great Khan, for taking care of my Abu's face." Brihatu said with a wry smile, "Actually, in my opinion, my Abu's chances of winning are no more than [-]%."

He said, with a worried expression on his face: "Even the minister is worried that Abu may ignore a huge crisis because he is waiting for the Great Khan to come to reinforce him."

"Huh? What crisis?" Tumen Khan asked with a frown.

"Abu thinks that Han Naji should go to Guihua City to announce that he is Tumed Chechen Khan first, and then send troops to attack him in a legitimate way, so in case Han Naji is not in a hurry to announce that he is succeeding Chechen Khan , but to sneak attack me Abu first... I am worried that Abu will be unprepared and suffer some losses."

Tumen shook his head and said: "Ben Khan doesn't think so. Since Han Naji wants to be Tumed Chechen Khan, and naturalization is not far away, he should naturally go to naturalization first to announce his succession to Khan, and then In the name of the Great Khan, it is better to mobilize all the troops, and then go to attack you Abu, how can it be a bad luck to go to you Abu first after naturalization?"

"If Hannaji decides for himself, I don't worry about it, I also think he will do so." Brihatu sighed: "But with Gao Wu by his side, it's not necessarily so."

"The minister said just now that Gao Wushi regards the entire Monan Mongolia as a whole game of chess. Since he has mobilized Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang and his son on the left wing to set up suspicious positions, then he will definitely attack first on the right wing and try to defeat me, Abu first!"

Tumen Khan frowned and said, "But Ben Khan sent troops."

"That's right, so Li Chengliang and his son and Qi Jiguang also made a move!" Buri Hatu spread his hands, and said, "Gao Wushi just wanted to use this method to make Da Khan hesitant...

Ji Liao set up a suspicious formation, and if Da Khan didn't move, he would eat my Abu chess piece, and then hold the whole Tumot in his hand, and Da Khan would not dare to move lightly ever since.

If Jiliao's suspicious formation is invalid and Da Khan sends troops to the west, Jiliao will immediately turn the vain into reality and defeat the Neikaer Kasubahai Department without the backing of Da Khan, as well as Duoyan Donghu and Chang'ang's troops, and so on. As soon as Khan came, he might feel that the way back was cut off, and he was worried about the safety of Chahar headquarters, so he turned back to fight Qi Jiguang's Daning (geographically, he could only fight Qi Jiguang first, otherwise he had to detour nearly a thousand miles to find Li Chengliang, and Li Chengliang's troops were cavalry , not easy to find)...

Khan labored his troops to go on an expedition, and withdrew his troops before he had achieved an inch of merit. His morale must not be high, and Qi Jiguang's troops were extremely good at defending. Didn't Chang Ang say that that car battalion had almost no flaws except that it couldn't catch up with him—— ——The horse bow shooting is not as far as Longqing's second style, and the Ming people still have artillery; directly rushing into the formation was stopped by the chariot camp, and they couldn't rush in at all, or they were shot and killed by muskets for nothing..."

"That's Chang Ang's incompetence!" Tumen said angrily, "This guy is a piece of trash, Ben Khan doesn't believe that Qi Jiguang's tens of thousands of troops can really run rampant in Monan!"

Brihatu didn't think that Chang Ang was such a waste in his heart. Judging from his previous performance, this guy can still fight, but the strength of his unit is not high enough, so he refuses to fight any tough battles to avoid too much loss. .

After all, in Mongolia, people are more concerned about how many people you have, how many people who control strings, and how many cattle, sheep and horses you have, rather than whether you are brave or not.If these capitals are wiped out, what's the point of being brave?

Tuotuo is brave enough, can he replace Bahanaji?What a sweet dream!

Brihatu was too lazy to argue with Tumen on this issue, but turned the topic back, and continued: "Regardless of whether Chang Ang is incompetent or not, anyway, the current situation is that the defense of the Chahar headquarters is open. This situation looks like Li Chengliang can take Chahanhot at any time, and Qi Jiguang can immediately restore the Daning army town."

Burihatu said in a deep voice: "However, I dare to predict that this is still just a false move. The only function of this move is to force Da Khan to return to the teacher!"

Tumen Khan's temples were throbbing with blue veins, and he asked: "Ben Khan returns to the teacher, can't we force Qi Jiguang, Li Chengliang and others back?"

Naturally, Brihatu couldn't say no, so he just asked rhetorically: "Yes, of course it can, but so what? Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang don't even have to fight Da Khan at all, just retreat directly... But Da Khan In this case, Tumed will be completely controlled by Da Ming."

He didn't wait for Tumen to sweat, and immediately continued: "Did Khan think it's not too late to recover Tumed in the future? No, Khan, it will be too late in the future!"

Tumen Han's face was ashen, and he asked coldly, "Why are you so late?"

Brihatu chuckled, then his face suddenly turned cold, and said: "Now Daming and Tumed have traded each other for more than ten years, and Tumed is completely inseparable from Daming. If Gao Yushi is given a few more years to manage, The whole Tumed has to rely on his Jinghua Trading Company to maintain that kind of life of luxury and enjoyment. Who would dare to oppose him? As long as the Khan sends troops, not only will no one respond to the Khan, but even all of them will become The most loyal eagle dog of the Ming Dynasty, come to fight against the Great Khan!"

There was a bit of worry in his cold eyes, and he sighed: "Besides, the sweat sent troops to Tumed today, Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang can come out to stir up trouble, and the sweat sent troops to Tumed tomorrow, will they just sit and watch?" Can the Great Khan complete the Western Expedition?"

Finally, he made his own conclusion, knelt down on one knee to Tumen Khan, and said loudly: "If the Great Khan does not save Tumed today, the Mongolian Kingdom will lose Tumed forever. Please make the decision!"

(End of this chapter)