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Chapter 37 The Great Yuan Wizard Wang Baobao (ask for tickets and investment)
Long Jiao's car tent can be parked directly at the resident and used as a big tent.

This place is close to the camps of the royal family and princes. There is a special fence for raising elephants, and the lake is specially dug out for elephants as a washing pond. In the capital city of Beiping, the elephant washing pond is called Shichahai, and this place is a huge pond. , the elephants specially used to pull chariots for the Yuan emperor were playing in the mud comfortably in the pond, and several dark-skinned Burmese Rakshas were watering the elephants.

Not far away is the tent of the Dayuan Gold Family, among which there are many princes and nobles, some are having banquets, barbecues, some are watching opera, and some are calling for warriors to fight for fun.

The Mongols are very fond of wrestling, so there are many wrestling grounds here. Many merchants bought tall and strong Slavic gladiators from the Golden Horde, and came here to wrestle with Mongolian Bokers. The warriors of Batulu are very respected. Often get a lot of gold and silver rewards and women.

Long Jiao took Chen Sijiu and some warriors to inspect the tribe's business here.

Strictly speaking, Long Jiao's tribe had a deep connection with Xiliao, which was built by Yelu Dashi back then.

When the Liao Kingdom was destroyed by the Jin people, Yelu Dashi, the royal family of the Liao Kingdom, fled westward with only two thousand cavalry, conquering a huge territory in the Western Regions, destroying more than ten small countries in a row, and dominating West Asia.

To this day, the Slavs of the Golden Horde still call the Han people "Khitan".

Xiliao was very strong in cavalry at that time, and Yelu Dashi led the elite of the Xiliao royal family. A thousand cavalry can fight 1 people, and they have fought hundreds of battles in the Western Regions without losing a single one. The female emperor of Xiliao, named Juerhan, when Yelu Dashi was still there, in order to declare that she was still the lord of the east, she was always attached to the old land of Liao on the Eastern Expedition, so she often sent troops to declare sovereignty on the Mongolian grassland.

At that time, the Southern Song Dynasty also repeatedly proposed to join forces with Xiliao to fight against Jin.

Therefore, under such circumstances, Xiliao also supported the Mongolian tribes against the Jin people. Although Xiliao destroyed the country later, the Mongols were more friendly to the nobles of Xiliao. The queen of the great emperor Kublai Khan, Queen Bicha, was Xi The descendants of the Liao royal family, their family tents in the Hezhong area and the intermarriages of the various royal families in the Hezhong, have already become absurd, but the family does ensure that the Han blood of the Liao Kingdom is preserved.

The reason why it is called Han blood in the Liao Kingdom is, of course, because the Liao people believe that they are the ruler of China who has inherited the grace of the Tang Dynasty, and the founding monarch of the Western Liao Dynasty, Yelu Dashi, has participated in the imperial examination, passed the imperial examination, and is proficient in all kinds of poetry and songs , written good Chinese characters, when Mongolia conquered the countries in the far west, the tribe of Queen Bicha played a great role.

Although later, because the tribe of Empress Bicha supported Kublai Khan as emperor, they were slaughtered by the Wokuotai Khanate, leaving few direct blood descendants, but this did not hinder the strength of their tribe, mainly in business. Jiao, an orphan girl, now owns more than 100 camel caravans, more than [-] cattle and sheep, [-] cities in the Hezhong area, [-] seagoing ships in Quanzhou Shipsi, and tens of thousands of hectares of land in Henan. tax fields.

Now that the new emperor of Dayuan wants to marry her, it is better to say that he is marrying the dowry behind her.

Walking along the way, all the Mongolian tribe Xiaogenjiao who saw Longjiao would kneel on their left and put their hands on their chests, see Longjiao.

Long Jiao returned the gift lightly.

Chen Sijiu asked suspiciously: "Long Jiao, do you have a high status here?"

Long Jiao heard this, and smiled softly: "What they value is not my status, but the wealth behind me. Back then, when Emperor Kublai Khan competed for the throne, my tribe was surrounded by Kuotai Khanate and Chagatai Khanate. They united and strangled, resulting in countless casualties. In order to compensate us, the emperor gave us more than a dozen big cities in the river with tax packages, as well as taxes for tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land, and even allowed our family to print Jiaozi treasure banknotes in the river, so these people Treat me with respect."

"what?"

Chen Sijiu was stunned.

"Your family can actually print treasure money?"

Long Jiao asked back: "Why not? Our family used to be the wealthiest in Hezhong, our ancestors were the royal family of Xiliao who married wealthy merchants in Hezhong, and we must check the eldest queen. According to your seniority, in the words of you Han people, you can be regarded as my aunt. "

"Great Yuan's treasure banknotes Jiaozi can be printed in many places. This is the Huihui Prime Minister Ahema who was appointed by Emperor Kublai Khan back then. He is very smart in calculations. Ahhema will print the Jiaozi treasure banknotes. The power has been distributed to many big Semu merchants, and now the treasures are worthless, which has a lot to do with Semu's return."

It turned out that it wasn't just Long Jiao. In the life and death of Kublai Khan, Yuan Wuzong, Yuan Yingzong and other emperors basically fought for power and fought endlessly. Taxation rights, as well as the right to print Jiaozibao banknotes, and many local princes secretly wooed Semu Huihui to print them privately, which soon caused the banknotes to begin to collapse.

Originally, before Emperor Kublai Khan came to the throne, the territory of the Yuan Dynasty was not so wide. When the Southern Song Dynasty was not recovered, relying on the Xixia and Jin Kingdoms that had been conquered, Dali’s internal treasury of gold and silver stocks could still maintain the treasures. gold standard.

However, after the Southern Song Dynasty was defeated, the Chagatai Khanate was conquered, and after the Wokuotai Khanate was destroyed, the territory of the entire country expanded many times. The commercial exchanges among the people were very prosperous, and a lot of treasures were needed, but the gold and silver reserves could not keep up. Above all, we can only print a large number of precious banknotes, plus the above-mentioned private printing. All these, Baochao Jiaozi has become the lottery money scattered by the Mongols and Tubo Tibetans when offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, colorful treasure banknotes Jiaozi was sprinkled between the sky and the earth, but no one picked it up.

Chen Sijiu sighed, "It's no wonder that many local fairs now use barter."

Long Jiao said: "Yes, you see why Du and Dadu are prosperous in business. This is because a large amount of gold and silver are in the hands of princes and nobles. Merchants all over the world like to bring their goods to Dadu to sell, so that they can be exchanged from princes and nobles. Come gold and silver vessels."

At this time, the front came to an arena.

In fact, the arenas of the Mongols, in addition to the Mongols themselves, are also an activity brought back by the upper class nobles from the West after the conquest of the West. In the early days when Kublai Khan became emperor, the entire Mongolian royal family did not have any etiquette at all. Kublai Khan adopted the opinions of Yelu Chucai and Ahema, and used the old man Wanyan of the Jin Kingdom to revive the edict, Liu Bingzhong, etc., and synthesized the Jin Kingdom’s Etiquette, together with some Western Tianfang etiquette, created the court etiquette unique to Dayuan.

The arena is the same, Dagenjiao nobles of the Yuan Dynasty can only sit, and other slaves or servants can only kneel and sit on the ground, and they are not allowed to walk in front of their masters.

Chen Sijiu and Long Jiao walked side by side, naturally attracting everyone's attention.

This arena is huge.

There are hundreds of square meters, surrounded by wooden fences, with a ring in the middle, and expensive woolen felt on the ground. Many Mongolian warriors and Slavic warriors, wearing boxers and gladiatorial uniforms, shouted and fought in the arena.

Xuexue, the account manager of Emperor Dayuan, was sitting with his brother Ha Ma to watch the gladiatorial fight. Only two people could sit in the arena. There were stools and tables, and millet, millet, and beams were placed on the table. , Shu and other fried refined grains, as well as tea soup, kumiss, and various white food, oily aroma, burned with Shanxi coal.

And Liu Futong, who came to visit Hama with a lot of money, and Mr. Guan are not far away.

Han Shantong went to visit the more powerful ministers of the Yuan Dynasty, and they came to Hama to inquire about the whereabouts of Zhao Xian, the last emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Seeing Chen Sijiu at this moment, Liu Futong's eyes lit up.

Xuexue and Ha Ma are siblings, they look very similar to Ha Ma, he is wearing a Mongolian robe, dragging, wearing a hat, a golden belt bestowed by the emperor on his waist, and five fingers on his left hand are wearing expensive A turquoise, ruby ​​ring, high cheekbones, less beard and blush, shrewd eyes.

Because their mother was the wet nurse of Emperor Yingzong of the Yuan Dynasty, and the family was once the tribe of Empress Bicha of the great emperor Kublai Khan, they have been favored by the Yuan royal family for decades and have been favored from generation to generation.

Ha Ma was pouring the fried corn into the tea soup. Seeing Chen Sijiu walking in, he couldn't help shrinking his eyes, and threw the tea bowl heavily on the tea table.

"Humph!"

He snorted coldly, his eyes flickered, pointed at Chen Sijiu and shouted: "Where is this man from, he dares to walk with the nobles of my Great Yuan and Mongolian Kingdom!" Although his younger brother Xuexue was puzzled, but also The person who lived beside the emperor for a long time knew that this person should be the man who entered Longjiao's tent, and he couldn't help but snorted coldly.

When Hama shouted loudly, the gladiators and Mongolian bloggers around all turned their heads and looked over. They are the best gladiator wrestlers in the world at this time, especially in wrestling. , all of them have thick shoulders and round waists, burly bodies like mountains, and they are outstanding people from all over the world. Those who came to Kaiping in Dayuan are all for the fame and wealth of gold and silver.

Seeing that Ha Ma was angry at this moment, they all looked at Chen Sijiu.

Chen Sijiu grinned.

He stood up, looked around, and said, "Me? I am the personal guard of Chief Long Jiao."

Hama said angrily: "Since you are a bodyguard, what are you capable of!?"

Chen Sijiu said: "How high is the sky? How wide is the land? How much do I have to do!"

"Insanity!"

Hama was furious again.

He stood up angrily, pointed at Chen Sijiu and scolded angrily: "Come on, take down this ignorant guy for me, I will castrate him and send him to the emperor's palace tent to be a firefighter." (Eunuch)!"

At this moment, it was said that all the boker gladiators present were looking at Chen Sijiu, ready to move.

But Liu Futong laughed and said to Ha Ma, "Master Ha Ma, I only think that the Mongols are the bravest men in the world, why do you want to bully the few with more today?"

"This place happens to be an arena, and there are the strongest poker players and gladiators in the world. Since this guy is uttering wild words, why not let him fight with all the warriors and judge success or failure by victory or defeat!"

Ha Ma glanced at Liu Futong, with a strange expression on his face, and coldly snorted, "Okay!"

He looked at Long Jiao and asked, "Boss Long Jiao, since you are a bodyguard, you have some skills. Do you dare to compete with my warriors?"

He immediately took off his hat decorated with gold and precious stones, held up the hat and said: "Whoever defeats this guy, I will reward him with this hat!"

Xuexue turned her eyes, and laughed loudly: "In that case, I will reward you with two hundred dans of rhubarb tea leaves!"

After the two spoke, Long Jiao burst out laughing, she is the pride of Mobei, with a luxurious bearing, naturally she cannot be restrained in such a small scene, her beautiful eyes swept across the scene, and said to Chen Sijiu: " Little Hannu, did you hear that?"

Chen Sijiu grinned and said, "Since that's the case, I'd rather be respectful than obedient!"

Hama is overjoyed.

His eyes flickered, and there were quite a few gladiators captured from the distant Grand Duchy of Ross in the Golden Horde. They were all burly and extremely strong Hercules with a height of more than two meters, and there were also a few Mongolian bloggers. , are the enemy of all.

It's not easy to capture this little Han slave.

Immediately ordered to clear the field, tidy up the felt in the field, and immediately ordered people to move to bet. At this time, the Mongolian grassland has a great demand for tea, because there are no vegetables in the bitter cold winter in Mobei, and tea soup is a vitamin that can be eaten directly. The most important item is rhubarb, which is laxative. Mobei eats meat all the year round in the grassland, and it is not uncommon to have abdominal distension and pain. Two hundred dans of tea rhubarb can be sold for a lot of money.

Not to mention the hat on Hama's head.

But Long Jiao whispered in Chen Sijiu's ear: "If you win, I'll call five more girls tonight to perform the Nine Heavens Happy Bodhisattva dance with you..."

Chen Sijiu blushed, and turned to look at Long Jiao, but saw that she was glamorous and unruly, like a peerless arrogance, and she couldn't scratch her head when she whispered just now, so she couldn't help gritting her teeth, and said through her teeth: "Tonight I I will kill you little fairy!"

As he spoke, he took out the wine gourd, took a sip of high-concentration spirits, and meditated for a while to breathe.

It is a rare thing for Han Er to challenge Mongolian Hercules and Slavic Gladiators, because at this time, the Mongolian Hercules and Slavic Gladiators are tall and strong, and Han Er is not full because he cannot eat enough. Warm, generally short and thin.

What's more, although Chen Sijiu has a strong body, he is still far behind those strong fighters and gladiators.

Under the deliberate publicity of Hama, this arena surrounded by giant trees was crowded with dignitaries from all over the world, even the Dayuan Mongolian Dagenjiao who could sit on a stool, and some Hanchens were also attracted, and they all gathered around Watching, Zhu Chongba and Peng Yingyu followed along with Peng Yingyu's nine little apprentices.

The nine apprentices were named Zhou Ziwang, Kuang Putian, Yang Puxiong, Ding Pulang, Xiang Pulue, Ou Puxiang, Chen Puwen, Zhao Pusheng, and Zou Pusheng according to their family names. Han Nu, follow Chen Sijiu.

Zhu Chongba heard that Chen Sijiu was going to compete with the Mongol strongman here, scratched his crotch and said with a smile: "Little bald donkey, you have good eyesight."

Peng Yingyu said angrily, "I'm not a little bald donkey, aren't you a little bald donkey too?"

Zhu Chongba found a comfortable place, sat down against the wooden fence, scratched the scab on his chest, rubbed his nose, grinned with his missing front teeth, and said, "As I said, I didn't shave or become a monk. Not a monk."

Peng Yingyu also sat down on the ground, picked her stinky feet, just like Zhu Chongba, reached out and scratched her crotch, put her finger on her nose and sniffed, looking at the strong men who were as strong as hills around her Said: "Chongba, I'm a little worried about the big guy, look at these bloggers, they are all very strong."

The nine little apprentices around them saw them stretching out their hands to scratch their crotches and pick their feet, so they also learned from each other.

Zhu Chongba said: "You know what, it's not that we are sorry for you, your three-legged cat's self-created kung fu is very different from my senior brother, and my senior brother can hit ten."

Peng Yingyu pursed her lips, her eyes flickered, and said in a low voice: "One day, sooner or later, I will also fight ten. By then, each of my nine apprentices will be able to fight ten Mongolian Tartars!"

……

Seeing Chen Sijiu's demeanor, Liu Futong sighed inwardly.

"Good manners, what a strong man!"

Mr. Guan also said: "Yes, when my Han family was prosperous in the past, one Han was equal to five Hus. Now that Hu is strong and weak, it is really rare for Chen Sijiu to have such a bearing."

On one side, a scholar dressed as a scholar heard the words and couldn't help but said to them: "Listen to your accent, are you from Hebei?"

Liu Futong and Mr. Guan turned their heads.

They saw a slender, muscular, tall Han Confucian scholar standing beside them. He had thick eyebrows and big eyes, a well-proportioned appearance, and looked quite courageous.

"I am waiting for Han people, brother, are you?"

Liu Futong laughed.

The scholar also cupped his hands and said, "I am the supervisor of the Imperial College of the Great Yuan Dynasty, Du Zundao."

"Oh?"

Liu Futong hurriedly stepped forward to grab the hand of the Dayuan Imperial College Supervisor, pulled him over, and asked about his health. The Imperial Imperial College Supervisor in Dayuan is basically a reserve talent base for Dayuan officials, and people in this kind of place are worth wooing.

Not far from them, there is also a group of Mongolian royal nobles.

A man is tall and burly, with broad shoulders and a thin waist, wearing a hat, wearing silk aristocratic clothing in the Han style, and a belt decorated with cow leather around his waist. He is not like a Mongolian, but more like a Han, with sword eyebrows and star eyes. god.

Expanded profile Timur, meaning blue iron, Chinese name Wang Baobao.

Although he is not a nobleman of the Dayuan Golden Family, his father is a Dayuan Hanlin scholar and Taiwei Sai Yinchi Dahu, and his mother is a descendant of the Dayuan Golden Family, who is well-educated in Sinology and known for courage.

At this moment, he could only stand outside the wooden fence, but he stood out from the crowd.

Another Mongolian boy stood beside him. He was also tall and burly, with a strong figure, wearing aristocratic costumes, but the costumes on his body were more like Han people. The Chinese name was Li Siqi, and they were all Sinicized Mongolian nobles in the Central Plains.

Although the two of them are young, they already look like strong men.

As long as the Mongols’ children are higher than the wheels, they can fight on horseback and serve as guards. After Kublai Khan won the position of the Great Emperor, his cowards (Guardian Army) originally planned to seal the four cowards, but they couldn’t make it There are four people in Qi, and there are only three. Among them, Antong, the descendant of Muhuali, is thirteen years old, Yue Chichaer, the descendant of Borhu, is twelve years old, and Yuxi Timur, the descendant of Borhu, is twenty years old. .

These two are also a little over ten years old, and they are about the same age as Da Yuan's new emperor, Tie Guo.

Seeing that Wang Baobao was in a daze, Li Siqi asked, "Baobao, why are you distracted?"

Wang Baobao sighed: "I lament that this man has the courage to challenge the Mongolian Batulu warriors, and I also lament that our Dayuan may be in danger."

"Ok?"

Li Siqi looked at him suspiciously.

Wang Baobao said with twinkling eyes: "Look at you and me, do you look like Mongolians or Han people?"

Li Siqi was also stunned.

These heavily Sinicized Mongolians are no different from Han people. They speak Chinese, write Chinese characters and wear Chinese clothes. Wang Baobao’s father is a master of Confucianism.

Seeing the lively scene here, Wang Baobao deeply felt that he, a Sinicized Dayuan Mongol from the inland, had nothing to do with Mobei Mongolia.

Li Siqi was also in a daze...

"I bet the Mongolian warrior wins!" A Mongolian prince laughed loudly with his nostrils upturned.

"Everyone knows the prestige of my Dayuan Mongol Batulu warrior!" Someone beside him was very dissatisfied and smiled contemptuously.

But Wang Baobao took out some silver and said to Li Siqi, "I bet this guy will win."

All the Mongolians around looked at Wang Baobao.

"Are you crazy? How could my Dayuan Baturu warrior lose?"

Wang Baobao smiled.

"A wise man is not brave, Si Qi, have you seen the giant bow with horns behind that man's back?"

"It takes at least ten stones to move it. This guy is definitely not a reckless person. Just wait and see..."

sidelines.

Chen Sijiu withdrew his breath, his eyes flickered, and he opened them suddenly. He jumped up instantly, and jumped into the arena, like a boulder thrown into a river, instantly stirring up waves. With a faint golden light, he slightly twisted his neck, looked at Ha Ma, stretched out his hand and hooked his fingers: "Hama, choose your three most powerful strongmen, let's go together, I'm in a hurry. "

Hama is furious!
　Little knowledge; Zhu Yuanzhang recruited Wang Baobao seven times, calling him a strange man in the world

　　
　
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