Start by capturing Zhu Chongba alive

Chapter 28 Zhu Chongba, the second hand of the Three Immortals (asking for tickets and investment)
That night, Long Jiao ordered the caravan to rest at this small station.

This place is not far from Duolun Haizi, so there is water, Long Jiao ordered the female slave to fetch water and boil it, ready to take a bath, and have a good time with Chen Sijiu.

Unexpectedly, it snowed heavily that night, which was a snowstorm.

When the storm came together, the sky and the earth were suddenly vast. The climate in the prairie is very extreme. Blizzards in May and June are rare, but it has snowed repeatedly in the past two years. This is a faint sign of the country's subjugation. In the center, a stove was set up to burn firewood and cow dung to keep warm, while the Han people driving the mouth of the caravan and the slaves all curled up in the cattle and sheep pens, curled up in a ball and slept with the cattle and sheep fodder, otherwise they would freeze to death.

Long Jiao's big tent is very spacious, inside there is a huge wooden barrel, the water temperature is dense, her green and white jade-like tender hands slid across the wooden barrel, lingering in the water, looking forward with pretty eyes, raised sword eyebrows, and asked: " Little Hannu, what are you doing sitting there?"

Chen Sijiu sat on her bed and meditated, looking at the silk and satin around her, cherishing the fur, she couldn't help but think of those Han slaves outside.

"Sure enough, what the second master said is right, the status is low, you can't have the heart of the Virgin."

"No matter what I do at this time, I can't change the fate of those Han slaves. Maybe for them, death is a better relief. Hey..."

Outside the tent, white fur and heavy snow were blowing wildly, like a ghost screaming.

Inside the tent, there are many free foods piled up, as well as pastries and vegetables from the south. At this time, the northern grasslands are extremely short of vegetables, but Long Jiao can eat spinach, water spinach, bean vegetables, and Sarilang (wild garlic) and Hailar (scallion wild leek) and other vegetables, white rice, pure yellow corn, millet with light red skin, green barley, and fried corn and wheat.

Even, there are imperial food of the Yuan court, such as Mobei mutton, hash mud from Central Asia, pepper from Tianzhu, mixed salt from Central Plains, chopped coriander, and pies fried in hot oil. Royal food is a hundred times more precious than fried flour.

But the slaves outside the tent, not to mention the millet, even the alfalfa for the cows and horses had to fight to eat, otherwise they would starve to death.

Those who are strong and strong can eat some wild barnyard grass seeds on the side of the road, or pick up fresh mushrooms, sand onions, wild garlic, etc. on the grassland. .

"You have to be ruthless in fighting the country, and even more ruthless in the country. We really can't do it."

Chen Sijiu gritted his teeth and thought in his heart that he had to work hard to climb up now, so that he would have a chance to save more Han people in the future.

Dayuan at this time, according to the master, belongs to the Little Ice Age, where severe droughts and floods are more likely to occur in summer, and extremely cold in winter, and white snow in May and June, and snow in July and August. In the northern part of the Great Yuan Dynasty, droughts, floods, locust plagues and plagues are rampant. In Taoist terms, this is because when a country is about to perish, there must be evil spirits.

It must be freezing cold outside the tent.

Inside the tent, Long Jiao thought the stove was too hot.

Seeing that Chen Sijiu didn't answer, Long Jiao picked up the gourd ladle, scooped up a gourd water and poured it on Chen Sijiu, directly pouring it on his face.

"you!"

Chen Sijiu opened his eyes and saw that Long Jiao was both lustful and evil, with a powerful arrogance looking down on the world, he couldn't help feeling angry, and gritted his teeth: "Do you want to test whether my sword is sharp!?"

Long Jiao snorted coldly, and said sharply: "Little Hannu, do you have the guts!?"

Chen Sijiu gritted his back molars, his masseter muscles bulged, and carried Long Jiao out of the bucket. Regardless of the water stains on her body, he drew his sword out of its sheath, sang with her, using his body as the sheath, and pulled out the sword. Take up your sword.

For a long time.

Long Jiao lay softly on Chen Sijiu's body, looked at his handsome face, took a cup of camel milk in a gold cup, and handed it to Chen Sijiu.

"Can you give some food and shelter to the Han people outside the tent?"

Chen Sijiu asked.

Long Jiao's beautiful eyes flashed, and she said: "Needless to say, we will be like this too. We can work and graze cattle, and if we die, we need money to buy them. I saw you cared about that little monk Peng Yingyu earlier, so I ordered someone to give it to you. Those Han slaves shared the kumiss and the bean food for the horses, and allowed them to cover sheepskins to keep warm. Our caravan brought thousands of sheepskins, and most of them were sold, enough for each of them to have one.”

Chen Sijiu was moved in his heart, stretched out his hand to wrap Long Jiao in his arms, and said softly: "Thank you, I have one more thing to ask you, is there any way to gain the trust of the Great Emperor?"

Long Jiao no longer had the domineering appearance before, now she was docile like a little sheep, wrapping her hair around Chen Sijiu's nostrils, and asked doubtfully, "Become the emperor's favorite?"

"Just like the emperor Kublai Khan's favored eyes returning to Ahema? It's not easy, as long as you can collect enough taxes for the emperor, let him have enough gold and silver to enjoy himself, and have many beauties If you can please, then you will be able to gain the trust of the Great Emperor."

"However, you are a Han Chinese, and you are still a southern Han, which is very difficult."

"The Daluhuachi (guardian and seal officer) in all the provinces of the Yuan Dynasty must be Mongolians."

Chen Sijiu grinned and said with a sneer: "Dayuan's country is not stable, didn't you realize it?"

Long Jiao sighed, "Of course I found out."

She took out a stack of treasure notes.

"There is a proverb among Han people in Shanxi. I heard it on the way to Shangdu. It is about this precious banknote. A cart of charcoal weighs more than a thousand catties. The palace envoy will not cherish it. Give the old man half a yuan banknote and tie it to turn his head. Charcoal straight."

"When Kublai Khan was the great emperor, the banknotes of Yuan Yuan were still very valuable. Nowadays, a carload of banknotes is useless among the people, and basically can only be used as charcoal."

She took out a few more copper coins.

"Look at this copper coin. This is Dachao Tongbao. It was issued by Hanchen. At that time, Dayuan had just laid down Dajin and collected millions of silver ingots from the treasury of Dajin Kingdom. Therefore, this money was cast with silver. When Kubi Emperor Lie Da spent countless military expenditures on the conquest of the Four Great Khanates, and when the silver ingots were used up, the Zhida Tongbao and Zhida Yuanbao that came out were all copper coins, and the Zhidatongbao contained more copper. Most of them are lead, so it can be seen that there is not much gold and silver to use in Dayuan's treasury."

Chen Sijiu was surprised and said, "You actually know economics? Our master said that this is because the currency devaluation is worthless, which will lead to inflation and skyrocketing prices."

The corners of Long Jiao's mouth curled up, and she bit Chen Sijiu's arm hard again, raised her head and stared at him disdainfully, and said, "That's natural, the reason why I can be the leader of our tribe as a woman is that I am He Zhong The only blood descendant of the direct lineage of the Ogodei Khanate is because I am good at doing business, our family has hundreds of camel caravans in the river, and the farthest caravan has to go to Green Clothes Dashi."

"Green clothes and big food? Isn't that Egypt?"

"Egypt? I don't know. We Dayuan call the ruler of Green Clothes Dashi Mixier."

"Many people came to Dayuan by land from far away western countries. When I was very young, I saw a green-eyed man named Marco Polo who believed in the Nestorian Cross Temple. He traveled more than [-] miles. , came to Shangdu, and was still an official in Shangdu, and now, he may have taken a boat from Quanzhou to the old port and returned to the western countries."

Chen Sijiu grinned and said, yes, the upper nobles of the Great Yuan are definitely knowledgeable.

The territory of the Great Yuan is vast, far away from the Han and Tang Dynasties, and many Mongolian Khanates under the command of the Great Yuan in the West. , but the commercial exchanges between them are very prosperous, and the surrounding khanates are also very powerful, and they often fight abroad. The Ilkhanate even wrote letters to the king of Egypt, allying with them to deal with the Tianfang Sultan on the peninsula.

When the great emperor Kublai Khan was still there, he fought against Burma, Java, Japan, and Annan to deter East Asia.

The Mongolian Khanate in the west is also very powerful. It drinks horses from the Danube River, and the western countries that fight it call the Mongols the whip of God.

Although it is said that they were repeatedly defeated in Burma and Java Annan and other countries, and attracted the ridicule of the surrounding small countries, but Dayuan's martial arts were very strong. Tribute elephants pull chariots for the great emperor.

Territorial exchanges and business travel have also brought a lot of fresh crops.

For example, cotton is grown in large quantities in Dayuan, as well as various Western vegetables, the most important being carrots and onions. In the past, the Han people only planted them in the Yellow River basin, but now they are also planted in large quantities in the Yangtze River basin.

When the Dayuan eradicated Jin and Xixia Dali, the killings were quite heavy, causing the north to be almost destroyed, and a large number of farmlands were barren and unplanted.

In the later period of Kublai Khan, he attached great importance to population, because Mongolia was a slavery system, and the Han people had too few slaves, and no one farmed and grazed. Although the emperor was busy drinking, abusing schools, and fighting for power, he still attached great importance to the obedient and hard-working Han people farming. For this reason, he also vigorously promoted the "Nongsang Collection" written by Hanchen Wang Zhen to guide The big landlords of the Han people planted cotton, mulberry and hemp, and grain.

"What do you think the new emperor of Dayuan will like?"

Chen Sijiu asked.

Long Jiao sneered: "What else can I like? If he was a Mongol, maybe he would work hard like Kublai Khan in the early days, drink heavily in his later years, kill innocent people indiscriminately, be arrogant and arrogant, and finally be poisoned and killed by the left and right prime ministers..."

Chen Sijiu's eyes flashed.

Yes, I have been caught in a misunderstanding before.

Although the second master told himself many times that the new emperor Tieguo, who is about to ascend the throne in Dayuan, is a very sinicized emperor with Jie and Zhou appearances, but now he is only a 13-year-old boy, and has been chained for a long time. Locked up in the temple, even a great talent like Jie and Zhou could not compete with the two power ministers Yan Timur and Boyan.

Long Jiao sighed and said: "What's more, Tuo Huan Timur is not necessarily the heir of the Dayuan Gold Family, even if he ascends the throne, he can only be a puppet emperor, and the son emperor can control it."

Chen Sijiu asked suspiciously: "Isn't he the heir of the Huangjin family? Isn't he the eldest son of Yuan Mingzong?"

Long Jiao shook her head and said: "It has been rumored that he is the last emperor of your southern Han people, that is, Emperor Song Gong, the son of Zhao Xian, Duke Ying of the Yuan Dynasty."

Chen Sijiu hiccupped and was stunned. This was the first time he had heard of it.

He asked quickly.

It turned out that the four-year-old Emperor Song Gong was promoted by the treacherous minister Jia Sidao as the emperor, and he and the Empress Dowager Xie took power alone. In the end, Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, was captured. For Ying Guogong.

Kublai Khan was very kind to the two of them, he was able to provide nine catties of mutton every day, and his food, clothing and treatment were good. Compared with many subjugated kings, he was already benevolent and righteous.

Relying on these two gold-lettered signs, the late Southern Song Dynasty hardly made much resistance. Many Southern Song imperial guards surrendered and became the new attached army, also known as the Jiangnan Army.

After Zhao Xian became an adult, because of the constant uprisings in various places to restore the Song Dynasty, Zhao Xian asked Kublai Khan to let him become a monk, and he also took the initiative to go to the Dayuan Xuanzhengyuan, that is, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and worshiped a Buddha-headed master as his master. Studying Buddhism, Kublai Khan was worried, so he gave him a marriage of Hanlulu, a Mongolian noble woman.

As a result, on Zhao Xian's way to Qinghai-Tibet, this woman fell in love with the king of Zhou at that time, that is, the later Emperor Yuan Mingzong and Shiyu, and plundered the Hanlulu family to be his maid wife, while Tuohuan Timur, the Yuan emperor, fell in love with him. The eldest son of Emperor Mingzong happened to be born to the Hanlulu family.

Therefore, there was a legend at that time that Tuohuan Timur was the son of Song Gongdi Zhao Xian, because Hanlulu was pregnant at that time.

Emperor Wenzong of Yuan and Emperor Mingzong of Yuan are blood brothers. There is a tradition in Dayuan that brothers and brothers will last forever. Originally, after the death of Emperor Yuanmingzong, according to Datong and customs, the position of the great emperor should be passed on to the eldest son of Yuanmingzong and Shijiu. Tuo Huan Timur.

Yuan Wenzong retorted, saying that Tuohuan Timur was of Han origin. First, he liked poetry and painting, unlike Mongolians. Second, his biological mother, Hanlulu, was from the wife of Song Gongdi Zhao Xian, not Mongolian Dagenjiao.

Even Tuohuan Timur's wet nurse came forward to testify.

This caused a lot of trouble.

The reason why Yan Timur and Boyan support Tuohuan Timur is also because his identity is unclear and he has no legal rationale. He has to rely on the two powerful ministers for many things, and he can use his birth as an excuse to make this iron pot big at any time. The emperor goes on.

Chen Sijiu said in his heart, no, no, maybe this iron pot really isn't from the Dayuan Gold Family.

Because there have always been rumors among the people that the Emperor Zhao Guangyi of the Northern Song Dynasty bestowed the death of the Emperor Li Yu of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and Li Yu, the Emperor of Poetry and Painting, was reincarnated as Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty Zhao Ji, who died in the Northern Song Dynasty.

If we look at it according to the theory of causal loop and unsatisfactory retribution.

More than [-] Song emperors in Yashan, who were harmed by the Yuan Dynasty, threw themselves into the sea and died. If this iron pot, which is about to ascend the throne, is really the reincarnation of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Ji, in some respects, it is indeed somewhat convincing.

Chen Sijiu asked again: "Then Yan Tie Mu'er and Boyan, the two left and right prime ministers of Dayuan, what do they like most?"

Long Jiao smiled and said: "Yan Tie Mu'er, he likes women the most. There are forty or fifty wives in his mansion, and he also likes wives who sleep with his courtiers. He not only practices the Great Joy Technique of Tantric School, but also likes your Taoist's Helping Pill." Drugs, and like drinking, like money."

"As for Boyan, he hates the Han people very much. He has mentioned more than once that there are too many Han people with the four surnames of Zhang, Wang, Li and Zhao, especially in the north. Kill all the Han people and take back the land to plant grass to feed horses and cattle. This person is very difficult to get close to. He doesn’t like Taoism, he likes Lamaism and Nestorianism. They used to believe in the Nestorian Cross Temple, so they got close to the Nestorian elders.”

Chen Sijiu's eyes flickered upon hearing this.

"We, the emperor's new concubines, are afraid that they will fall into the hands of Yan Timur, so he slept with Emperor Wenzong's empress..."

Thinking of this, Long Jiao suddenly clapped her hands.

From the curtain outside the big tent, four stunning women walked in, fat and thin, each with their own characteristics, one of them was Ning Xiang'er who blocked him when he assassinated Hama that day.

Another person turned out to be Cheng Yining.

Chen Sijiu hurriedly pulled the quilt over his body, and asked doubtfully, "What are you going to do?"

Long Jiao sneered, pinched Chen Sijiu's waist and said: "You think I don't know, you were staring at that Han lady called Cheng Yining, you couldn't take your eyes off it, didn't you?"

Chen Sijiu asked doubtfully, "So what?"

Long Jiao clapped her hands again, and the four girls took off their robes and dressed up as Dan Jing Mo Chou. They were the enchanting female ghosts who hooked up with the students in the famous song "A Chinese Girl Leaving the Soul" by Zheng Guangzu, a master of Yuan opera, and they were instantly enchanting and charming. , the glamor cannot be square, and the ghosts cannot be described.

These four girls are all virgins, and Ning Xianger and Cheng Yining are both stunning. The other two girls are not inferior to Ning Xianger and Cheng Yining. They are all beautiful Han girls, wearing thin shirts and costumes,
Chen Sijiu swallowed his saliva, and moved his eyes away from them with difficulty: "What do you want to do? Isn't this Ning Xianger dedicated to the new emperor of Dayuan by the White Lotus Sect?"

Long Jiao sneered and said: "For the emperor of the Great Yuan Dynasty, only the Great Empress is his own, and the other concubines are like playthings, they can be rewarded to the courtiers and generals at any time, besides, they are all Han women, the first red power of Han women It belongs to the Great Lama of Tantra, and at the time of the wedding, these stunning women will be selected as lotus girls, and the Great Master will break the red first, and then practice with the Great Yuan Emperor."

After she finished speaking, she suddenly looked at Chen Sijiu, and raised Chen Sijiu's chin with her hand.

"Today, you will come and pretend to be Ning Caichen, the scholar in "A Chinese Girl Departing Soul", and I will pretend to be that ghostly ghost, to see how brave you are!"

After saying that, he beckoned, and all the beauties approached hesitantly.

Chen Sijiu said, "No!"

But I was thinking in my heart, master, second master and third master, although you have warned me again and again not to indulge in the love of children, not to be troubled by beauty, but my apprentice can't do it, wow, which apprentice can withstand this kind of test! ?
"Don't be like this, I'm just an innocent little scholar!"

……

This day is the whole night.

Chen Sijiu woke up slowly, looked at himself in the bronze mirror, and looked at Zhongmei who was sleeping in a ball on the bed curtain, and said bitterly: "I was hurt by wine and sex, so I am so haggard..."

"Starting today, quit drinking!"

He dressed neatly and sneaked out of the big tent. It was already noon, but the weather was still relatively cold. The barracks of the Mongolian nobles in the Yuan Dynasty and the slaves of the Han people were leaning on the cattle and sheep pens, curled up in a ball, and the stench was suffocating. Many Han people froze to death, and even old horses froze to death, stiff and not falling down. At this moment, the vultures are fighting for dead horses and dead bodies in front of the camp cattle and sheep pens, with broken meat and intestines everywhere, so desolate. scene.

This is also the result of Long Jiao distributing the sheepskins in the caravan to the Han slaves yesterday. If she didn't do this, more people would freeze to death.

Chen Sijiu suddenly looked sad, and slapped himself hard.

The extreme weather in Dayuan is becoming more and more frequent nowadays, it is a sign of great disasters and famines, and the subjugation of the country. Countless Han people are suffering and suffering, but they are addicted to beauty.

He walked among the gang of Han slaves, and saw the slightly fat woman who had reported before, although she was wearing sheepskin, she was still shivering from the cold, and looked at Chen Sijiu in horror.

Long Jiao is pretty good to Han slaves, the extreme weather in Mobei Grassland, I don't know how other Han people can survive...

He took a deep breath and came to the small tent where Peng Yingyu lived. This small tent was built with cowhide covered on the axles. It was better than the cattle and sheep pen, but not much better. When Chen Sijiu came, he happened to see Peng Yingyu And another young monk, one on the left and one on the right, holding a mastiff in their arms, and they were chatting while keeping warm with the mastiff.

Seeing Chen Sijiu, Peng Yingyu shouted in surprise: "Master, you are here!?"

Another young monk also shouted at Chen Sijiu: "Master, are you here!?"

Chen Sijiu looked at the other young monk suspiciously, and cursed speechlessly: "Little bald donkey, we are not your master, how can you bark?"

The little monk grinned and said, "We believe in Buddha, Brother Peng also believes in Buddha, isn't Brother Peng's master our master?"

Chen Sijiu was stunned.

"You little monk, you have some crooked principles."

"That is, we travel all over the world and eat with only one mouth. Apart from the big bird, we have a sweet mouth. Our second master said that if the mouth is sweet, the country is stable. Everything will be discussed later."

Chen Sijiu staggered, stared at the young monk with wide eyes, and hurriedly asked: "Who is your second master? Is he a lame, old, bull-nosed Taoist priest!?"

The little monk scratched his head. He had clear features, thick eyebrows, big eyes, broad cheeks, and a pair of extremely clever eyes. He grinned and said, "Yes, we have three masters, the master master Shanwu, and the second master Shanwen. They have known for 500 years before and after For 500 years, as for the third master, I heard that she is weak and sick, but we have never seen her before."

"This time, we went north along the way for alms. We just wanted to go to Liaoyang Sanxian Cave to see the three masters. But I heard that the son emperor of Dayuan is about to ascend the throne. We are going to come and have a look. We have seen the little emperor before. He is thin and small. , the bird is not bigger than us, we don't understand, why can he be the emperor of the Mongols, we can't?"

Chen Sijiu trembled again, grabbed the young monk's shoulders, stared at him with wide eyes, and asked, "What's your name!?"

The little monk clasped his palms together, said the Buddha's name, and said with a smile: "Little monk Zhu Chongba."

　Little knowledge: During the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan Opera formed the modern opera Sheng Dan Jing Mo Ugly Eight Immortals
　　
　
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