Burihatu said: "First of all, please pay attention to the Great Khan. Gao Pragmatic's title of imperial envoy this time is very strange."
Tumen Khan frowned: "What's so strange? Isn't it just to confer the so-called Shunyi King?" Tumen was canonized by both the Northern Yuan court and the Ming Dynasty. This has always been a problem for Tumen.
There is a thorn in my heart that I usually don’t want to face directly, let alone think carefully about the importance of the title of imperial envoy in a highly pragmatic way.
However, Burihatu said: "Gao Pragmatic's title this time is 'Plenipotentiary Envoy for the Imperial Envoy's Conferment of King Shunyi'. Compared with the titles usually given to imperial envoys by the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the most obvious one is the addition of 'Plenipotentiary'."
Not only that, after giving this title, the imperial edict also clearly stated the tasks and powers of his trip, which was to 'go north to the fortress to preside over matters related to canonization'...
The Great Khan should know that Mingren's imperial edicts are always carefully worded and usually there is no room for ambiguity. However, these two sentences actually fully point out one thing: King Shunyi's canonization does not matter who is finally canonized.
What kind of cooperation is needed? The young emperor Wanli has completely left it to Gao Jingshi to decide - as long as it is related to canonization, all the town governors and general soldiers involved must follow Gao Jingshi's unified arrangements.
"
Tumen Khan was so surprised that he was even a little stunned. He was stunned for a long time before he asked: "Is this true? For such a big event, the little emperor directly handed it over to his little classmate without asking any questions? Are you sure you are not mistaken?
What does the imperial edict mean?"
"I can be sure, and what happened next can also be corroborated by me." Burihatu replied calmly without any fear on his face.
Tumen Khan's eyes flickered for a few times, his face became more cautious, and he nodded: "Okay, continue talking."
Burihatu said: "Next, Gao pragmatic led his troops out of the customs, but he did not go directly to Guihua City to preside over the canonization, nor did he go to Dabansheng City to meet Bahan Naji. Instead, he went to find Tuo Tuo inexplicably.
Take it off."
"So what?" Tumen Khan asked puzzledly: "Although Tuotuo has a great reputation, after all, he only has 6,000 people under his command. What's the use of looking for him? Is Gao pragmatically crazy and wants to make him the king of Shunyi?"
"That's naturally impossible." Burihatu shook his head and said, "When he went to find Tuotuo, it seemed a little baffling at first, and even seemed a little random, as if he couldn't distinguish priorities. But what happened later was
It proves that his move was completely premeditated, because Tuotuo and Bahannaji complement each other perfectly."
"Perfect complementarity? What kind of complementarity?"
Burihatu said: "Hannaji's army is strong throughout the Western Post, but because he has never fought any big battles, his prestige in the army is not good, and his combat ability is hard to say; Qataiji's headquarters is very weak, even if
Including the three thousand Great Khan's bodyguards, he is not very powerful. However, he is the most trustworthy adopted son of Chechen Khan, a Zhebei marksman, and the most powerful general of Tumote. His prestige in the army is,
Except for Chechen Khan himself, Tumut was not inferior to anyone else during his lifetime, including my Echige."
He said and sighed: "Look, Khan, if the two of them work together, everything will work together. They need strength and power, and they need prestige and prestige."
Tumen Khan understood something now and nodded: "You mean, when the two of them join forces, not only the strength of the Qatai Jibu, but also the strength of the Dachengtai Jibu can be fully utilized?"
"Exactly, and more than that, once the two of them join forces, the only person in Tumut who dares to oppose is probably my father. Even Zhongjin Hatun will never dare to resist, and she even doesn't know how to do it in the first place.
confrontation."
"Don't dare to fight, or even don't know how to fight in the first place?" Tumen Khan frowned and said: "Why? After the death of Alatan Khan, wasn't Zhongjin Hatun the regent?"
Burihatu looked sarcastic: "She is regent? What kind of regent is she? 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 not only come from the title of Hatun, but also from her control of the mutual trade between Dongshao and Ming Dynasty!"
Burihatu's eyes were cold and he said: "Since Gao Pingshi could think of wooing Tuotuo, how could he not think of wooing Zhongjin Hatun? Besides, it is not difficult to win over Zhongjin Hatun... Not to mention that he, a plenipotentiary envoy, has
The power to decide the ownership of King Shunyi, just by saying that he is Jinghua's boss, he can force Zhongjin Hatun to obey his orders. Otherwise, the Great Khan can think about it, if Jinghua does not trade with Dongshao,
Where can I get enough goods on Dongshao?"
Tumen didn't know much about trade, but he still had some doubts about this and asked: "Why, can't other merchants from the Ming Dynasty replace Jinghua Trading Company?"
That's a good question. Theoretically speaking, private commerce in the Ming Dynasty is actually quite developed now. If Jinghua doesn't do it, there should be more people doing it.
However, Burihatu said calmly: "Maybe, but do they dare?"
Tumen Khan was startled: "Why don't you dare? Wasn't this mutual market opened by the Ming court? It's not smuggling. What are they afraid of?"
"The Great Khan may not understand the strength of Beijing. Let me put it this way: In the Ming Dynasty, at least in the northern provinces of the Ming Dynasty, the merchants may not even be afraid of the emperor, because they have their own supportive civil servants who will speak for them, but
They must be afraid of heights and pragmatism, and they must be afraid of Beijing.
As long as Jinghua wants to deal with them, they will soon find that either they cannot buy the goods with money, or they have produced the goods but cannot transport them, or they have shipped the goods but no one dares to collect them, or even... they are attacked by bandits on the road.
Robbery by bandits is also undesirable.
And there is a more powerful method, that is, when they buy goods, they find that the goods have been taken away by Jinghua at a high price; when they sell the goods, they find that Jinghua dumps them locally at a loss... In short, no matter what you want to do with this transaction
If you do it, you will lose money and make money.
Great Khan, think about it, which businessman is willing to do this? Therefore, if you don't listen to Jinghua's instructions, it will be difficult to do any business in the northern provinces of the Ming Dynasty."
Tumen sweated for a while and was speechless. Then he swallowed and vomited, and asked: "But isn't this killing the enemy by a thousand and damaging himself by eight hundred? If Jinghua does this, he will also lose money."
"But he is pragmatic and can afford to lose money. Besides, with such great financial resources, he can control all the goods. Only he will have these goods at that time. If he wants to raise prices, others can only stare.
no?"
It was the first time that Tumen Khan knew that he could play like this. He was stunned for a long time before he said: "Go on."
"So, Zhongjin Hatun will definitely be 'persuaded' by Gao Pragmatism. Even if she hasn't yet, it will only be sooner or later, otherwise her foundation will be lost." Burihatu looked at the Tumen and asked: "
The Great Khan should know by now how much of the entire Tumut belongs to Mongolia, right?"
Of course Tumen Khan could hear it. What he meant was that only Xin Ai Huang Taiji still wanted to be with Mongolia. The others, whether they were Han Naji, Zhongjin Hatun, or even Totto Qataiji, had all fallen to the Ming Dynasty.
Under the bombardment of mutual trading, I knelt down and surrendered, unable to stand up anymore.
In other words, if Tumen Khan did not support Xin Ai and Huang Taiji, and when Xin Ai was defeated, the entire Tumote would probably have to change their surname to "Ming" instead of "Meng".
Tumen Khan's face was cold, as if he could drip water, and he asked solemnly: "Then what about the actions of Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang and his son later? Why do you say they were to lure the tiger away from the mountain, or even to link up with each other?"
Burihatu said: "Great Khan, don't you think the timing of Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang's father and son's dispatch is too coincidental? At the beginning, the news came out that Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang were both preparing troops, but we felt that they were just spreading suspicion.
…Please pay attention to the Great Khan, if the Great Khan did not go on a western expedition, it is very likely that they were just spreading suspicion.”
"How to say?"
Burihatu asked in reply: "If the Great Khan does not move, what are the chances of my Abu winning?"
"Well..." Tumen shook his head and said, "I'm not saying it's frustrating, but your chance of winning by Abu is no more than 50%."
"Thank you, Great Khan, for taking care of my Abu's face." Burihatu said with a bitter smile: "In fact, in my opinion, my Abu's chance of winning is no more than 30% at most."
He said with a worried look on his face: "I am even worried that Abu might overlook a huge crisis because he is waiting for the Great Khan to come for reinforcements."
"Huh? What crisis?" Tumen Khan asked with a frown.
"Abu feels that Han Naji will first go to Guihua City to declare that he is Tumed Chechen Khan, and then justifiably send troops to attack him, so if Han Naji is not in a hurry to announce that he succeeds Chechen Khan,
, but if you attack me Abu first... I'm worried that Abu will be unprepared and suffer some losses."
Tumen shook his head and said: "I don't think so. Since Han Naji wants to be Tumed Chechen Khan, and naturalization is not far away, he should naturally go to naturalize first and declare to inherit the throne of Khan, and then
It is only right to mobilize all the troops in the name of the Great Khan and then attack you Abu. How can we not be naturalized and go to attack you Abu first?"
"If Han Naji himself has the final say, I'm not worried. I also think he will do this." Burihatu sighed: "But with Gao Pingshi by his side, that's not necessarily the case."
"I just said that Gao Pragmatic regards the entire Monan Mongolia as a whole chess game. Since he mobilized Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang and his son to create suspicion on the left wing, he will definitely take the lead on the right wing and try to defeat me, Abu!"
Tumen Khan frowned and said, "But this Khan sent troops."
"That's right, so Li Chengliang and his son and Qi Jiguang also took action!" Burihatu spread his hands and said: "Gao Pragmatic wanted to use this method to make the Khan hesitate...
Ji Liao had laid out a suspicious formation, and if the Great Khan did not move, he would capture the chess piece of Abu, and then grab the entire Tumote in his hand, and the Great Khan would not dare to move lightly from now on.
If Ji Liao's suspected formation is ineffective and the Great Khan sends troops to the west, Ji Liao's side will immediately turn the illusion into reality and defeat the Nekalkha Subahai tribe without the backing of the Great Khan, as well as the Duoyan Dong Fox and Chang Ang tribes.
At first, the Great Khan might feel that his retreat was blocked, and worried about the safety of Chahar's headquarters, so he turned back to attack Qi Jiguang's Daning (geographically speaking, he could only attack Qi Jiguang first, otherwise he would have to take a detour of nearly a thousand miles to find Li Chengliang, and Li Chengliang's troops were cavalry)
, not easy to find yet)…
The great Khan worked hard on an expedition and withdrew his troops before any success was achieved. The morale was definitely not high, and Qi Jiguang's troops were extremely good at defending. Didn't Chang Ang say that that car camp had almost no flaws except that it could not catch up with him?
—The Ma Gong Zan can’t shoot as far as the Longqing II type, and the Ming people also have artillery; they directly charged into the formation and were stopped by the car camp. They couldn’t rush in at all, and they were shot dead by muskets in vain..."
"That's Chang'ang's incompetence!" Tumen said angrily: "This guy is simply a waste. I don't believe it. Qi Jiguang's tens of thousands of troops can really run rampant in Monan!"
Burihatu doesn't feel that Chang'ang is really a waste. Judging from his previous performance, this guy can still fight, but the strength of his troops is not up to par, so he refuses to fight any tough battles to avoid too much loss.
.
After all, in Mongolia, people care more about how many tribes you have, how many string controllers you have, and how many cattle, sheep and horses you have than whether you are brave or not. If these capitals are lost, no matter how brave you are, it will be useless.
use?
Is Tuotuo brave enough? Can he replace Han Naji's position? What a sweet dream!
Burihatu was too lazy to argue with Tumen on this issue, but changed the subject and continued: "No matter whether Chang'ang is incompetent or not, the current situation is that the defense of Chahar headquarters is open. This situation looks like
Li Chengliang can take Chahanhot at any time, and Qi Jiguang can immediately restore Daning to a military town."
Burihatu said in a deep voice: "But I dare to predict that this is still just a fictitious move. The only function of this move is to force the Khan to return to the army!"
Tumen Khan's temples were throbbing with veins, and he asked: "When I return to the army, can't I force Qi Jiguang, Li Chengliang and others back?"
Naturally, Burihatu couldn't say no, so he just asked: "Yes, of course it is possible, but so what? Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang could even just retreat without fighting the Great Khan at all... But the Great Khan
, in this case Tumute will be completely controlled by the Ming Dynasty."
He didn't wait for Tumen Khan to get angry, and immediately continued: "Does the Great Khan think that it will not be too late to recover Tumut in the future? No, Great Khan, it will really be too late in the future!"
Tumen Khan's face was livid and he asked coldly: "Why is it so late?"
Burihatu chuckled, and then his face suddenly turned cold, and said: "The Ming Dynasty and Tumut have only traded each other for more than ten years, and Tumut is completely inseparable from the Ming Dynasty. If Gao Pragmatic is given a few more years to operate,
The entire Tumut tribe has to rely on him to maintain the luxurious and enjoyable life of Jinghua Trading Company. Who dares to oppose him then? As long as the Great Khan sends troops, not only will no one from the Tumut tribes respond to the Great Khan, but they will even become
The most loyal eagle dog of the Ming Dynasty has come to become the enemy of the Great Khan!"
His cold eyes were mixed with a bit of worry, and he sighed: "Besides, if the Great Khan sends troops to Tumote today, Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang can come out to stir up trouble. If the Great Khan sends troops to Tumote tomorrow, will they just sit back and watch...
Can the Great Khan complete the Western Expedition?"
Finally, he expressed his conclusion, knelt down on one knee to Tumen Khan, and said loudly: "If the Great Khan does not save Tumote today, the Great Mongolia will lose Tumote forever. Please make a decision!"
