Chapter 639 Qi New Year

Author: Beicheng Erqian

Chapter 639 Qi New Year

"The above are the peace terms negotiated by the country and the DPRK for you!"

On the sixteenth day of the twelfth lunar month in the twenty-second year of the Apocalypse, when Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian were touring Jiaozhi, officials sent by the Ministry of Rites arrived in Luntai County (Urumqi) by train, and after two months of trekking, they finally arrived

New Harrah's Forest.

The official on the mission was Yang Lian's eldest son, Yang Zhiyi, now a member of the Ministry of Rites.

Yang Zhiyi is 46 this year. Although he is a fan of officials, his appearance and conversation are still good. Therefore, Hong Chengchou sent him to Xinhara and Lin after careful consideration.

Xinhalahelin is a stone city built by Lin Dan Khan. Its circumference is only two miles and its height is only one foot. It is not as impressive as a county town in the Ming Dynasty.

The facilities and buildings in the city are also very primitive. They are basically random civil buildings and stone and wood buildings.

Although Yang Zhiyi only brought a few dozen guards, he confidently read out King Qi's decree in the simple palace of Xinharahelin.

Facing Yang Zhiyi, Lin Danhan and others paid great attention to it, but the peace terms he read out were unacceptable to Lin Danhan and others.

However, they did not dare to directly express their dissatisfaction. After all, Yang Zhiyi also said that these were the conditions proposed by Zhu Youjian, the king of Qi in the Ming Dynasty. Who knows if they refused these conditions in person and waited for the news to be sent back to the Ming Dynasty, that lunatic Zhu Youjian would be let go.

Get mad.

When he gets angry, Mongolia will feel uncomfortable...

"Mr. Yang, please go next door to rest first and let us discuss it before giving you a reply."

"Yes!" Although Yang Zhiyi doesn't have stage fright, he doesn't act arrogant either. After all, this is still his territory.

Therefore, after he nodded and said it was okay, he took his guards and walked out of Lin Danhan's simple palace covering an area of ​​less than an acre.

It was after he left that many Mongolian nobles in the palace started talking:

"Ceding the grasslands east of the Volga River, we will have to graze on the west bank."

"Yes! The pastures on the West Bank are definitely not able to support 800,000 tribesmen."

"Besides, just negotiating a peace will not be of much benefit to us. The subsequent firearms transaction is what we need."

"Sigh... Zhu Youjian's bid is too high. At his price, even if we sell all the farmland and grassland in our hands, we can only sell it for one or two million taels."

"With one or two million taels, after buying the cloth and tea leaves that the tribe needs, you can only buy tens of thousands of muskets and a thousand artillery pieces at most."

"This seems powerful, but it is difficult to buy gunpowder."

"The price of gunpowder for the Ming army is too high. One tael of silver can buy more than ten kilograms of gunpowder from a Rakshasa ghost."

"There is no way, we can't get that much gold and silver, and the gunpowder of the army is of better quality and more powerful."

"In my opinion, it's still a good deal..."

"It's a good deal, but if we can't defeat that wolf bastard Mohammed immediately after we get it, our people will starve to death."

"well……"

In the dark stone palace, the Mongolian nobles sighed and discussed the problem, but the tone made people feel uncomfortable.

They are not fools, and no one suggested that they would steal things without giving them land.

If they don't give it, the Ming army will come and snatch it away.

This time they had no ability to escape westward. The Ottomans and Crimean Mongols had blocked their path to the west.

No matter how you look at the current situation, it is most practical to accept the peace terms obediently and then use the purchased firearms to destroy the Crimean Khanate first.

With the Ming Dynasty as a backer, it is not difficult to destroy Crimea. You can even package and sell the Caucasus region to the Ming Dynasty later. After getting enough support, you can tame the Cossacks and incorporate them into the tribe.

By then, they would be more confident whether they went south to conquer the Ottomans or went west to destroy Poland.

Everyone understands that under the attack of the Ottomans and the Crimean Khanate, it was right for the Mongolian Kingdom to turn to the Ming Dynasty, no matter how harsh the conditions proposed by the Ming Dynasty.

Isn't it just to be a screen vassal... It's not like I haven't done it before. From Hongwu to Zhengtong, my ancestors have been vassals of the Ming Dynasty for decades at least. It's not shameful to continue to be a vassal now.

The only person who might feel embarrassed is...

All the nobles glanced at Lin Danhan secretly, and Lin Danhan, who was now fifty years old, was also in a dilemma.

Although he made the decision to negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty, when it came time for him to become King Shunning of the Ming Dynasty, he still felt a little embarrassed.

However, if he doesn't let go of his dignity now, who can guarantee that the Japanese army will not go westward in a few years and that the Ottomans will not go north again?

At that time, I'm afraid it won't be a matter of face, but a matter of who gets the big head.

Therefore, it seems that giving in has become Lin Danhan’s only choice...

In the eyes of many nobles, Lin Danhan instantly looked much older.

"I...accept Zhu Youjian's conditions and let the Ming official come over."

Lin Danhan's voice was trembling.

For someone like him who is over fifty years old, what he cares about most is face.

It's just that although he has lost his face now, he has finally joined the Ming Dynasty vassal system.

"Great Khan, what the tribe needs most now is cloth and iron materials, tea, and food."

When Subudi saw someone going to notify Yang Zhiyi, he was also afraid that Lin Danhan would do something stupid and only trade firearms, so he quickly reminded:

"We can sell the land in the north of Hala and Forest to the Ming Dynasty first. The north is colder and is close to the Rakshasa people."

"Now that we have taken refuge in the Ming Dynasty, the Rakshasa people will definitely be very dissatisfied. Selling this land to the Ming Dynasty will prevent the Rakshasa people from attacking us."

"Given the size of that piece of land, the six towns on it and the tens of thousands of acres of abandoned farmland, it's not a problem to sell it for two to three hundred thousand taels."

"Two or three hundred thousand taels will be used to buy cloth, tea, and iron armor first. When these goods arrive and the land changes hands, we will sell new land to buy firearms."

Subudi wanted to stabilize his tribe first, but Lin Danhan shook his head and said:

"Winter is almost over, there's no point in asking for cloth."

"Zhu Youjian is a man of his word. We can consider selling all the land in exchange for enough firearms and supplies, and then immediately launch a western expedition."

Obviously, Lin Danhan has never forgotten the fact that he was stolen by the Ottomans and Crimea at the critical moment, and his eldest son almost died.

He wanted to sell all the land in one fell swoop, including the established Hara and Forest, in exchange for enough firearms to launch a western expedition.

The Mongols do not have much land west of the Volga River, only a few thousand square kilometers.

If they can capture the Crimean Khanate, they will have tens of thousands of square kilometers, and compared to the Volga River Delta, the Crimea region, which has neither severe cold in winter nor scorching heat in summer, is more suitable for the Mongolian grazing.

Of course, the most important thing is that Lin Dan Khan wanted to use the slave trade to make peace with the Ottoman Empire while destroying the Crimean Khanate, repelling the Ottoman Empire, and recovering the northern part of the Caucasus Mountains.

The Ottoman Empire sent troops to help the Crimean Khanate. In addition to political and religious interests, the most important thing was economic interests.

The main source of income for the Crimean Khanate was to travel to Eastern Europe to capture slaves through war.

They called this the harvest of the grassland peoples, and all the slaves they captured were sent to Kafatao for sale.

In the 112-year history of Crimea, they continued to arrest Ukrainians, Belarussians, and Russians and sell them as slaves. The largest war was the siege of Moscow in 1570, and captured 150,000 people in Moscow.

resident.

They killed the old and the weak and filled the Moskva River with their corpses. The remaining women and young adults were sold as slaves to the Ottomans, Egypt, Western Europe, Southern Europe and other regions.

Lin Danhan knew very well that the Great Mongolia could not only rely on nomadic raiding to maintain its livelihood, it must have a stable territory and source of income.

If he could get enough silver, then Ming Dynasty would not refuse the condition of using gold and silver to buy firearms.

This was Lin Dan Khan's plan to destroy the Crimean Khanate, take over its slave trade, and then use force and profit to force the Ottomans to make peace.

The Mongols have strong soldiers and horses, but the only thing they lack is firearms. As long as the Ming Dynasty can make up for this shortcoming for them, then they will have the confidence to defeat the Ottoman Empire.

While he was thinking this, Yang Zhiyi led people into the hall.

Looking at the expressions of everyone in the hall, Yang Zhiyi probably had an idea in his heart. He couldn't help but feel a little happy, but he couldn't show it.

"I agree to become a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and I am willing to offer the land east of the Volga River."

Lin Danhan's words were finally spoken in front of Yang Zhiyi, but Yang Zhiyi couldn't speak. Lin Danhan added:

I am also willing to sell the land west of the Volga River. I require 40% to be exchanged for gunpowder and 60% to be exchanged for tea, armor, iron, silk, and sugar.

"Yes, but I have to measure the exact amount of land myself. In addition, you need to send people to escort the general supplies. The number cannot exceed one thousand people,"

"As for the firearms, we will escort them to you."

Yang Zhiyi thought about it for a while and agreed. After all, Zhu Youjian had anticipated these things and reminded the Ministry of Rites. He naturally knew the bottom line of Ming Dynasty.

"Okay, I will send someone to protect you later to measure the land."

Lin Danhan breathed a sigh of relief, then smiled and was given a gift.

It was one hundred taels of gold. Yang Zhiyi was not as pedantic as his father. He knew that accepting the gold would make Lin Dan Khan feel at ease more easily, so he accepted the gold with peace of mind, and then read out the imperial edict of the Ming Dynasty canonizing Lin Dan Khan.

Under his announcement, the Great Mongolia became the Pingfan Mongolia of the Ming Dynasty, and Lin Dan Khan also became the Shunning King of the Ming Dynasty.

In the days that followed, Yang Zhiyi led people to measure Mongolia's land like a horse race, and soon roughly calculated that their grassland was nine million acres, and their cultivated land was 146,000 acres.

According to the initial price, Mongolia will receive a trade quota of 1.18 million taels.
To be continued...