stubborn thief

Chapter 401 Gambling

Liu Chengzong's handsome account was moved outside Bajiao City.

Hearing the news that Lindan Huduntu was running out of time, Batuer Huntaiji celebrated with the Junggar nobles. The leaders of Oirat agreed that the defeat of this war was a glorious one.

This is not a funeral, but Oirat's strategic goal has been achieved while he failed at the war level.

Human beings revolve around political activities. The so-called politics means that politics is a game against reality, and governance is the practice of the results of the game.

As for war, it is only a tool of political subjects in the game or practice process.

Oirat ran five thousand miles away, not to come over and be slapped to the ground by Liu Shizi, but to find a place for the Heshuo Special Department, inherit the fine traditions of Oirat, and send the Khan of the Golden Family to heaven.

The former is related to the internal contradictions of Oirat, and the external transfer can avoid internal strife; the latter determines the future free development of Oirat. The Great Khan does not have to die, but he must not live in Moxi.

This involves the grievances between Oirat and Mongolia. Genghis Khan's Mongolia was an empire, but in the era of Kublai Khan, Mongolia became an alliance.

Up to now, this alliance includes not only the Tatars of the Yuan Dynasty, but also the three Khans of Khalkha in Mobei, and the four tribes of Oirat.

The appeal of the Great Khan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty to Oirat was basically the appeal of the Han family clan to the generals of Cao Wei.

Yes, but not many.

This is also the reason why Junggar Taiji is willing to help Liu Chengzong build momentum and make a reincarnation of Genghis Khan.

A Han person became the reincarnation of Genghis Khan, which can directly minimize the legitimacy of the Mongolian Khan, and relying on this thing, Batur Huntaijin was able to firmly tie Liu Chengzong to Oirat's chariot.

He neither violated the non-golden family's tradition of being invincible, but also put Oirat in the same political position as Khalkha, and it was easier to annex others.

It's a pity that Liu Chengzong is not this way.

Relying on the army to gain power means bearing the cost of soldiers' deaths and injuries; relying on monks to bring power also bears the responsibility of taking care of the monks.

Everything in the world is a double-edged sword, and there has never been a thing that only goes well without cost.

Even so, the Generalissimo decided to keep Heshuote in Qinghai and give him a piece of pasture land, which solved Batur Huntaiji's confidant's troubles.

Now that Lin Dan Huduntu is dying again, Junggar Taiji is elated. What does this war mean to him?
It just means a small defeat, a battle to separate him and Liu Chengzong into kings and kings.

He admitted that Liu Chengzong was a great king, and he exchanged the casualties and retention of five thousand soldiers for fixed gun support. This may not be a big profit for him, but it is definitely not a loss.

Because of this, Batur Huntaiji could say unceremoniously to the nobles of Junggar: "Zungar is the biggest winner of this war."

Of course, in name they may have a suzerain called the Marshal's Mansion, and there are many nobles who need to travel on the road all year round, but this hardly poses a threat to his rule of Oirat, on the contrary, it is a powerful boost.

After all, they are too far away. If the garrison of the Marshal's Mansion wants to live well in Tianshan, it needs the power of the Junggar Ministry; and after he ruled Tianshan Oirat, he also needs this garrison if he wants to sit firmly.

What remains unresolved now is to see what title Liu Chengzong will confer on him.

Batur Huntaiji was not in a hurry. He believed that the most important thing for Liu Chengzong right now was to take care of the Mongolian Khan's funeral as a landlord.

This Junggar Taiji was not polite to the Great Khan at all. The Great Khan hadn't died yet, and he had already asked people to prepare the coffin to be buried with the Great Khan.

Liu Chengzong meant that he was a profuse sweat anyway, and the burial should not be too shabby, so he had to get the best coffin.

Where is the best coffin in the Marshal's Mansion?In Daming.

Han Xiaowang in Pingliang City must have prepared a coffin for himself, and the grade must not be bad, but the journey here is too far, and I am afraid that he will not be able to catch up with the burial of the sweat, so the easiest way is to find Sufan of Lanzhou and blackmail the coffin of King Su. come over.

It is unlikely that King Su dared not to give it, and he might send more funeral objects to show that the Marshal's Mansion has fulfilled the friendship of the landlord.

But Batur Huntaiji felt that it didn't need to be so laborious, so he split the wood from the middle and hollowed it out according to their tradition, turned his head to restrain the profuse sweat, nailed it and buried it.

He said to Liu Chengzong: "Don't worry, Commander, the coffin is already being made, and it will not delay the return of the Khan on time. The Commander tells you a time. If he doesn't leave, I will send him away."

Batur Huntaiji had long been impatient to send the Mongolian Khan to heaven.

But Liu Chengzong is not in a hurry.

He and Lin Dan Huduntu did not have a deep hatred, and the Mongolian Khan who commanded thousands of troops was no threat to him, let alone a dying person who was dying of illness.

It's really not that Liu Shizi underestimated Huduntu.

As far as the 10,000+ Mongols from various tribes under the Marshal’s Mansion were not under the control of his Han army and the Xining Mansion, these people would be able to beat their own brains all over the floor.

When a Tummet sees Khalkha, he will definitely fight, but if they see a Chahar at the same time, they must join hands and beat him up.

So even if Liu Shizi doesn't care about the Mongols under his command, Chahar Khan raised his arms and shouted, the result can't be said to be a gathering of followers, at most it is a common enemy.

Coupled with the great Khan's superb depopulation technique, Batulu Genghis Khan, the lord of 40 Mongols, has only been a few years old, and he has become the lord of [-] Chahars.

Give him 10,000+ people, three to five years, whether it should be or not.

Political ability is there, and it is not a problem that can be solved by tens of thousands of troops. The Ming problem cannot be solved by Chongzhen Lord, and Huo Guang is needed; the Mongolian problem is not solved by Lindan Batulu, they need Yan Timur.

On this basis, Liu Chengzong didn't mind having some pity for the dying, at least showing the friendship of the landlord of the Marshal's Mansion on the issue of treatment.

He ordered the doctors to do their best to treat him and obey the destiny.

For the complications caused by smallpox on the profuse sweat, even if one is singled out, the best doctor in the marshal's mansion can only be [-]% sure of the anti-inflammatory and detoxifying decoction.

So many complications rushed together, not to mention this era, even if it is left in 300 years, it will be impossible to save, and it can still be considered in 400 years.

At the same time, at the request of Ji Tutaiji, he asked Liu Guoneng, the magistrate of Haixi County, to bring all the relatives and family members of Huduntu Dahan.

Summoned by Liu Shizi, Liu Guoneng personally led two hundred horse soldiers and one hundred Mongolian guards, and sent Lin Danhan's sisters, sisters-in-law, eight concubines, and a pair of children to the outside of Bajiao City.

People didn't cry loudly when they came over. Everyone knew what it meant to be infected with smallpox, but it was unavoidable to be anxious after all.

The Mongolian Khan’s harem is also called Ordo or Oruduo, which means palace tents. In fact, each Ordo is like a tribe, with subjects, troops, and pasture land.

Therefore, Liu Guoneng reminded him that these eight concubines were not so much eight women as eight tribal leaders.

Chahar has been fighting for years, and so far the tribes have suffered heavy casualties and almost perished. The eight Ordos of the Great Khan also lost a lot in the escape. Relatively, the ministries are still considered to have survived, and have become the most powerful force in Chahar today.

In the afternoon when they arrived in Bajiao City, Liu Chengzong slaughtered a sheep outside the commander's tent, put on a leather apron, and prepared to skin it. Zhe came to see..."

Seeing Liu Shizi's appearance, he felt that the commander-in-chief was a bit rude, and asked carefully, "Do you want someone to clean it up?"

Liu Chengzong looked around, thinking that there was nothing to clean up, he shook his head and said, "No, let them come, and call Dai Daozi to be an interpreter."

But after a while, several wives were led by Liu Guoneng and entered the vicinity of the handsome tent. He and Dai Daozi both looked a little embarrassed.

Dai Daozi was originally in the Junggar camp. When he heard that the concubine Lin Danhan was in charge of the eight Ordos had come, Batu Luhun Taiji also ran out, and one of them entangled Ezhe on the way, trying to coax Ezhe to Tianshan .

Ezhe will be the sweet pastry on the grassland. Batur Huntaiji just received the news early. If the news of Dahan's death in Qinghai spreads, he will not be the only one who wants to coax Ezhe away. people.

The three Khans of Khalkha will send people over, hoping to take Ezhe away.

Liu Shizi laughed, waved his hands to tell them not to pay attention, turned his head to look at Lin Danhan's harem, took off his leather skirt and signaled Liu Guoneng to finish his work, then turned around and sat in front of the tent, waved his hand to let everyone Madame sits down.

The eight wives were of different ages, backgrounds, and attires were also very different. Dai Daozi stood beside Liu Chengzong, pointed to the lady on the left of the center, and said, "Commander, that's Er Zhe, son of chief tiger, His biological mother is the third wife of Tiger Chief, Yehenara Sutai."

Liu Chengzong looked over, and Ezhe followed the third wife, Su Tai. He was only twelve or thirteen years old, wearing a small Mongolian satin robe, and took off a big hat with beads. After saluting, he obediently stood beside his mother.

He asked: "Jurchen Yehe tribe?"

Dai Daozi nodded, and added: "Her sister is the wife of Jin Guo Belezirharan."

Liu Chengzong nodded. He didn't know who Jierharang was, but said, "Ask them what you plan to do in Bajiao City to visit Tiger Chief. I'll make some preparations for them."

It stands to reason that the Tiger Chief Khan tent has been affected by smallpox, so they should not be allowed to go, but this is human nature.

Liu Chengzong didn't have many good ways to prevent smallpox, and it was too late for temporary vaccination, so he could only prepare some sackcloth masks for them and visit them in a short time to avoid infection as much as possible.

Unexpectedly, Liu Guoneng, who was wearing an apron, turned around and said, "Marshal, none of the eight wives have had acne, and they have discussed it on the way here, hoping to wait for the scab on Dahan's body to fall before visiting."

Liu Chengzong froze for a moment, nodded and said, "That's fine."

This is insurance, but no one knows whether the sweat can last until the scabs fall off.

On the contrary, Dai Daozi, who had just seen them, said to Liu Chengzong: "Commander, I have talked with Junggar Hun Taiji, and he estimated that these eight ladies came here not so much to see Da Khan for the last time, but to say It’s here to discuss the attachment of the Chahar tribes.”

"Now that the catastrophe is imminent, there are not many things in the Chahar headquarters for people to fight for inheritance. After all, the eight wives still have their own ordos that need to be taken care of by the commander."

As soon as Dai Daozi finished speaking, perhaps because he heard the words Junggar and Chahar in the speech, the third lady who was sitting not far away held Er Zhe and said something with a smile on her face.

Dai Daozi immediately got into the mood. As a competent interpreter, he stood up straight and said, "I heard that Han nobles seldom cook by themselves. The generalissimo is a scholar, isn't that true?"

Liu Chengzong was taken aback for a moment before he realized that what Su Tai was talking about was a gentleman far away from the kitchen.

He didn't think that Lin Danhan's concubine was a woman who didn't understand anything. Liu Guoneng had already reminded him that these eight wives were eight leaders.

These words may be a sign of weakness, using things you don't understand to open up the topic to reduce embarrassment; or it may be pretending you don't know, to draw out the topic you want to talk about.

Liu Chengzong followed the words and said: "The third lady said what Mencius said. When a gentleman sees animals alive, he can't bear to see them die; when he hears their sounds, he can't bear to eat their meat. So a gentleman stays away from the kitchen."

After all, Liu Shizi smiled, and the third lady Su Tai who was sitting opposite obviously knew the context of this sentence, which was a conversation between Mencius and King Xuan of Qi.

The state of Qi wanted to sacrifice an ox. When King Xuan of Qi saw it, he felt compassionate when he wanted to kill the ox, so he asked people to replace the ox with a sheep he had never seen before. The people in the country thought he was stingy and could not understand.

The focus of the story is not on the cook, but on compassion.

As for the third wife, the focus is not on Liu Chengzong killing the sheep, but on Liu Chengzong's compassion for Chahar's orphans and widows.

But this is playing the piano against cows, Liu Momoo only finds it noisy.

"Madam knows this story." He laughed: "But Madam may not know. The gentleman enjoys the world in the Forbidden City. This is useful to him. In my opinion, there is another version of this story. Madam wants to hear it." ?"

Mrs. Su Tai's expression changed, she choked on what she wanted to say next, so she could only nod.

"In my eyes, the Ming Dynasty's war in the Northeast is the cow in the story, and Chahar was one of them. In order to prevent the cow from dying, the gentleman chooses to let the other sheep die. Why is the sheep guilty?"

Liu Chengzong's eyes were dark: "I am a sheep!"

These words directly made Dai Daozi, who was in charge of the interpreter, break his defenses, pulled away from the state and said angrily: "The fucking handsome man is right, I am also a sheep."

Mrs. Su Tai was stunned. She bowed her head for a moment, but she couldn't hold back what she should say. She just kowtowed to the ground and kowtowed: "If you sweat profusely, I hope the Generalissimo can take care of our orphans and widows, and help Ezhe inherit Chahar Khan, we will never betray the Generalissimo."

Generally speaking, anyone who kowtows to Liu Chengzong will be pulled up.

Only this time.

Liu Chengzong stood up by himself and took two steps to the side, saying: "You don't have to kowtow to me, we are very clear about the current situation in Chahar, the world is so big, Jin Guo, Khalkha, Oirat, they all have to sweat profusely , there is no place for you to stay."

"It's better to spread it out and say that it's like playing leaf cards. The big and small cards in your hand are only temporary. As long as you don't get off the table, there is always a chance to come back. Once Jianzhou was swept away by Liting, Now it’s not too late to annex Ye He and show off his power.”

"Chahar gets down from the poker table, and I will ensure that Ezhe will live in peace and wealth with you forever; or that Ezhe will inherit the Khan throne and become the Khan of the country. When I rule the Central Plains and the world is stable, he will die unexpectedly. I will not kill him. My son will be killed too."

"You are E Zhe's mother. I think it's better to let you decide this matter. Whether it is a stable life or a gamble for Chahar's comeback."

In the silence where the eight ladies looked at each other, a messenger came to report: "Commander, Chief Tiger has woken up and wants to see you."

Liu Chengzong nodded and told the messengers to retreat, then squatted down and waved to E Zhe: "E Zhe, come here, uncle will roast lamb for you tonight."

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)