Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 758: Mutual trade in the north benefits the Mongolian people. The new Khan is worried and eager for a decisive battle.

After the two mediocre people Ala and Totuobuhua were killed, Mongolia finally replaced them with a Khan who had some long-term vision.

In terms of strategic direction, Agabarji chose to fight the Ming army as soon as possible.

Every eight years comes around, and now is another period when the Ming army in the north is relatively weak. If we do not engage in a decisive battle at this time, once the elite Ming troops return to the capital one after another and the reform of the guards has achieved results, it will be even more difficult to invade the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.

Can we just stop fighting? If you pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, you can just herd sheep on the grassland.

This sounds wonderful, but in fact it is a slow suicide.

Once the mutual trade in the north is opened, the life of the Mongolians will become very comfortable.

For the Mongolians, hardship is not terrible, but comfort is.

The lessons learned from the past are there. It has only been a few decades since the Yuan Dynasty took over China, and the combat effectiveness of the Mongolian cavalry has been almost corrupted.

Nowadays, the emperor has opened up mutual trade but does not collect taxes. Isn't this purely intentional?

Mongolians can lead their cattle, sheep and horses into Kaiping, Daning, and Guangning, and trade directly with merchants in exchange for food, tea, cloth, fine salt and other items necessary for daily life. No deception.

If you still have excess after exchanging necessary supplies, you can also exchange them for some porcelain, tools, and toys; or exchange them for silver coins or copper coins, store them, and spend them at any time.

The silver coins and copper coins minted by the Jingtai Dynasty were of good quality and had high reputation. As long as the sun can shine, you can use the silver coins and copper coins minted by the Ming Dynasty to buy things.

In the past, the Ming Dynasty prohibited the circulation of silver and copper as currency, and only allowed the use of treasure banknotes. Even the Mongols are not stupid enough to hoard treasure money.

If you hoard treasure money for one year, its value will be cut in half; if you hoard it for three years, its value will be cut in half. Whoever hoards it will be stupid.

But silver coins are different.

From the perspective of an ordinary Mongolian, raising a large herd of cattle, sheep, and horses, there was no place to exchange supplies before. It's so cold in winter, and we still have to take care of these animals. If it snows a few more times, we will really suffer a lot.

But now that there is a mutual market, it is completely different. In the autumn, when the cattle, sheep, and horses were fat and strong, most of them were sold. Except for the necessary supplies, the rest was exchanged for silver coins.

No matter how heavy the snow falls in winter, silver coins will not feel as cold as animals. If you sleep with a lot of silver coins in your arms at night, it will make people feel warm.

Every time they have a perfect dream, these people have to give a thumbs up and praise: "On this day, the Lord is truly benevolent and virtuous."

Agabarji is keenly aware of this problem. This is the first year that Kaiping, Daning, and Guangning mutual markets have opened up, and only some Mongolians have been attracted there to conduct tentative transactions.

But this part of the Mongolians had tasted the sweetness, and they passed it on to ten people and hundreds of people. Within two or three years, no one would have the heart to follow the Great Khan to plunder the Ming Dynasty.

The fate of Ye Xian and his son is there. Invading the Ming Dynasty will lead to death. If you can do business fairly and justly, why risk your life to plunder? Isn't it better to herd sheep and horses comfortably?

Agarbarji explained it to his son earnestly, and then sighed: "I don't have to take the risk. If you don't fight this year, in a few years no one of our men will be willing to fight with you.

Conspiracy, this is all the conspiracy of the Emperor of Heaven. He seemed to be silent, but in fact we were all being led by him. "

Khala Kuchu asked: "Don't the news coming from Beijing all say that the Emperor of Heaven has become more arrogant and arrogant after conquering North Korea and Japan?"

Agabarji smiled bitterly: "If the Emperor of Heaven is really proud, complacent and arrogant, then it will be the blessing of the Immortal God.

If he proceeds step by step, steadily, and then divides and disintegrates us, and then tries to win over and contain the khanates in the Western Regions, it will be troublesome. "

Hearing this, Hara Kuchu sighed heavily: "I was born at the wrong time. Alas, it's all my fault. Why did he capture the orthodox emperor so well?

The orthodox emperor would definitely be proud, complacent and arrogant, and he would have no understanding of the reality of the place, so it would be easy to deceive him. You see, the current emperor goes to extremes all the time. He never trusts the civil servants and generals in Shanxi for a day, nor does he trust the defense of the imperial city of Ming Dynasty. Guarding against people every day is like guarding against thieves. "

Agabarji then sighed: "When the weather gets warmer, you can lead an army of 30,000 to attack Guangning, so as to make the Ming Dynasty mistakenly think that we want to occupy Liaodong.

After they are fooled, we will send our main force to attack Ningxia and occupy Hetao.

I want to move the capital to Haralin. From now on, you will be responsible for guarding the old Khan's palace in Kuadi'e'alal, and leading our tribe to manage the Hulunbuir grassland.

If I'm defeated, we have a way out.

In addition, you will be solely responsible for the feint attack in the Liaodong direction. From now on, you will be solely responsible. "

Hara Kuchu accepted the order happily.

The father and son were not very suspicious of each other.

……

The twenty-fifth day of the first lunar month.

Spring has returned to the earth, the weather is getting warmer, and it’s the season that’s ready for action again.

But Zhu Qiyu has been relatively quiet recently. When he got up this morning, he sat at the coffee table obediently and drank the ginseng chicken soup made by his little concubine.

Linglong sat aside and complained in a rare way: "Towards the end of last year, I worked hard to make supplements and supplemented my husband for almost two months.

Originally, we thought that in the spring, the five of us would accept the ravages of our husbands.

As a result, those sisters suddenly insisted on having children, and after only half a month, they emptied their husbands, and they felt aggrieved when they thought of their concubines. "

Zhu Qiyu hugged the beauty and comforted her gently: "I am also very helpless. It's pointless to do well with them. I just move but don't dare to speak.

I was afraid that if I accidentally blurted out a few dirty words, I would be punished for no reason.

Fortunately, they all have a physique that makes it easy to get pregnant, so they can just deal with it and be done with it.

The main reason is that I really need a son. The four princes who have not yet been crowned kings will all be crowned and sent to Japan.

The large area in the north, including Mongolia, Ili, Lake Baikal, and Nurgandusi, can be enfeoffed casually, and even seven or eight sons will not be enough.

It was finally possible for them to take the initiative to give birth, and I had to cooperate with them with tears in my eyes.

Dear concubine, please bear with me. After this period of time, I will give you ten days of special pampering. During those ten days, I will only use your body. "

Seeing that there was compensation and understanding, Linglong's worries turned into joy.

Qianxue asked from the side: "In the past few days, Wang Yue, Yu Zijun, and Ma Wensheng have written memorials and sent them to me. I have summarized them. From October last year to now, Kaiping, Daning, and Guangning have received a total of three memorials." Fifteen thousand horses and no less than one hundred thousand cattle and sheep.

They asked, what to do with these cattle, sheep and horses? "

"What do you say?"

(End of this chapter)