Carrying AK into Ming Dynasty

Chapter 549 Depressed Borochi
"Your Highness, are you interested in the huge pasture in Chahar that is rich in cattle and sheep?"

Liu Hongjian was noncommittal about the cabinet's opinion, but turned his head and said something to Zhu Cihong suddenly, Zhu Cihong was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes lit up.

As an emperor, being able to expand the territory is definitely an inexhaustible feat. Chongzhen may have been struggling all his life. His greatest wish is to hope that Ming Dynasty can be peaceful. What an attraction.

But Zhu Cihong is different. He is naturally interested in expanding the territory of Daming at a young age. Although he is only supervising the country on behalf of his father, if he can add a territory to Daming during the period of supervising the country, wouldn't that just show his ability?

If this is true, then when he becomes the crown prince, he will increase the territory of his ancestral property, and this alone is enough to make Zhu Cihong tempted.

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In the quadrangle courtyard where the subordinates of Honglu Temple were in charge of entertaining external hires, Bo Luochi, the deputy prime minister of the Chahar Khanate, was fidgeting restlessly.

The [-] troops of the Raksha Kingdom have been stationed in Erkou City and Chukubaxing City around Lake Baikal for more than ten days, making the tribes in Chahar Khan sleepless and sleepless.

After nearly a year of repairs, although they have 12 troops in Chahar, they are no longer facing enemies with swords and arrows.

This time when he came to the Ming court, Bo Luochi brought the expectations of the Empress Dowager Su and the entire Chahar. He had to persuade His Majesty the Ming Dynasty to send troops, otherwise Chahar might face immeasurable disasters.

"Bo Luochi, the palace has summoned you, hurry up and pack up, and enter the palace with me!" Just as he was thinking about it, an official from Honglu Temple walked outside, with a very unkind tone.

"Oh, is His Majesty finally willing to summon me? The old man can enter the palace now."

Although Bo Luochi was surprised by the official's attitude, after all, the official was very polite when he first came, but he had more important matters in his mind, and he didn't have time to think about these details, so he followed the official directly to the palace.

"Bo Luochi, the envoy of the Chahar Khanate, has seen Daming..." Bo Luochi saw a man in yellow clothes sitting in the middle of the hall, and he bowed down, only to realize that this person was not the Emperor of Ming that he had seen earlier. , I was a little speechless for a while.

"Your Majesty is not in good health and cannot come to court. This is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Ming Dynasty." An official from the Ministry of Rites said coldly.

Since the news of the crown prince's supervision of the country was not announced to the world, but an imperial decree was issued to inform the courtiers all over the world, and it didn't take long before the officials of Honglu Temple didn't say anything, so Bo Luochi didn't even know about it.

"Bo Luochi, the envoy of the Chahar Khanate, has met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Ming Dynasty." Although he has not seen the Emperor of Ming, since he is the Crown Prince of Ming, he will soon be the new emperor of Ming, so Bo Luochi can't help but look at it twice more. Eye.

It's good to be young, young means unstable and impulsive, Polo said heartily.

"With regard to your country's request for assistance, after discussing with the cabinet ministers, this palace has decided not to send troops. I hope your country will know it well." Zhu Cihong's tone was calm and there was no trace of sadness or joy.

"Why? Doesn't His Royal Highness know the allusion to the death of lips and cold teeth?" Bo Luochi's heart skipped a beat when he heard it.

"Presumptuous, I am the crown prince of Ming Dynasty, is it something you can talk about?" Li Banghua, the chief minister of the cabinet, scolded angrily, saying to himself that you deserve to be cheated by the prince.

Zhu Cihong was not angry, and waved his hand to signal Li Banghua to sit down.

"Your Highness, please forgive me, Bo Luochi is just impatient, your country has an alliance with Chahar, and we rely on each other.

I have always heard that Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty emphasizes benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness. Now that Chahar is facing a strong enemy, shouldn't your country provide some help within its capacity? "

Bo Luochi argued vigorously. To be honest, he was not too worried when he came. After all, based on his understanding of Confucian officials in the Ming Dynasty, he definitely would not sit idly by.

It's just that he never expected that the old His Majesty is no longer the one in charge, and the cabinet officials of the Ming Dynasty whom he saw last time have also been replaced by several unknown ones.

"It's not that my palace doesn't want to help Chahar, but now my vassal Korea of ​​Ming Dynasty has been invaded by the remnants of mite people. In two days, the imperial court will send troops to North Korea. I really can't spare any manpower to support you. Country!"

Zhu Cihong was very sincere, saying that you, Chahar, are not a vassal state of my Ming Dynasty, so there is no time for me to care about you.

Brother Liu is right. There are only permanent interests between the two countries. There is no permanent friendship. The alliance with Chahar was signed because of the elimination of this powerful enemy. Now that the powerful enemy is gone, the effectiveness of this alliance will be greater. Discounted.

"Bo Luochi also heard about the North Korean incident and expressed deep regret, but Ming has hundreds of thousands of strong troops, can't your country send some frontier troops?
Even if there are only [-] people, as long as they are stationed in Nerchinsk at the foot of Daxing'an Mountain, the Raksha country will not dare to act rashly, and even retreat in spite of difficulties. "

Bo Luochi felt that for Ming Dynasty, tens of thousands of troops were nothing more than a trivial matter, how could the Ming court ignore the covenant.

"Your Majesty Bo Luochi doesn't know that our Ming Dynasty is currently suffering from internal and external troubles. Although we have hundreds of thousands of troops, we still have to guard against overseas enemies, and there are still scourges that cannot be completely wiped out.

In addition, there are successive droughts in Ming Dynasty, starvation everywhere, sending troops to North Korea has already made the imperial court stretched, there is really no extra money and food to supply more troops, I hope your country understands. "Second assistant Fan Jingwen stood up and replied.

"This... what if my Chahar tribe is willing to pay the money?" Bo Luochi originally wanted to say that their country would be responsible for the supply of the Ming army, but he didn't dare to say it after thinking about it.

After the two countries entered into an alliance in the past two years, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty liked to buy cattle and sheep on the grasslands most, and the tribes knew that the money could buy all the products of the Ming Dynasty that the tribes needed except grain and rice. Except for keeping the tribe for food, all of them were sold to these Ming merchants.

So much so that the various tribes in Chahar Khan have been calculating their lives with the cattle and sheep in their hands, and there is no surplus food to support the tens of thousands of Ming troops.

It's just that although there are fewer cattle and sheep, there is really a lot of money in hand. Although the necessary things for life are purchased, the tribes should still have a lot.

Presumably, if the difficulties of Chahar can be solved, the tribes should not be stingy.

"My Daming is not short of money, but rice. I really can't help this matter. Ambassador Bo Luochi, please go back." Zhu Cihong said in his heart, the treasury is still full of silver, so why do we need you barbarians? The three melons and two dates.

Afterwards, Porochi racked his brains, and his three-inch tongue was trembling, but Zhu Cihong and the cabinet refused to send troops, and the sincerity of the words and the sufficient reasons made it impossible for Porochi to find fault.

Po Luochi walked out of the Daming Palace almost in a daze, thinking about how to explain to Da Khan and Empress Dowager Su all the way back, but suddenly slapped his thigh while thinking hard.

"Changshengtian, why did the old man forget the An Guo County King of Daming?"

(End of this chapter)