Rule over Ming Dynasty

Chapter 184 What is the intention of thousands of horses and mules going south?

In the scorching summer, the grass and trees hang their heads, and the birds and beasts have lost their traces. Only the heat-resistant flocks are gnawing on the green grass.

A few shepherds sat under a tree or under a stone to enjoy the cool air. When they heard their stomach growling, they didn't plan to do anything to their flock, but planned where to get some food.

One of the shepherds with a broken arm pointed to the west, and the other five immediately understood, but they knew that they were going to rob the Meekli Ministry over there.

In their law of survival, as long as they are strong enough, they can loot anything.

call out!call out!call out!
A Mongolian cavalry suddenly appeared on the hillside. Before the shepherds could react, they drew their bows and arrows, and arrows shot from the hillside.

puff!puff!puff!
Several shepherds were about to flee, but sharp arrows had already been shot into their bodies. The shepherd with the broken arm had his throat pierced by the sharp arrow and was killed on the spot.

In this land, killing has become commonplace.

There is no rule of law.

No mercy.

There is no humanity.

Some are naked predators of the jungle.

"Damn Mekeli, I'm sworn to death with you!" A shepherd who escaped by chance got on his horse and fled eastward, angrily saying to the Mongolian cavalry who came to avenge him.

puff!puff!puff!
The leader of the cavalry of Mekeli ignored the shepherds who had fled. Seeing that someone here was shot by an arrow and was not dead, he immediately stepped forward to make up the knife.

Blood stained this area red, but in this land without the rule of law, it has long been commonplace.

It's just that this group of shepherds is completely to blame. They came to loot, but they even killed the daughter afterwards, so someone came to chop their scum into pieces.

Tumochuan, sweat account.

News of the frequent killings of their "Dayuan" people by the Nekeli tribe came from the west, causing the leaders of various tribes in the Dayuan to gather here to discuss countermeasures.

Dayan Khan is now a 15-year-old strong boy with a maturity that does not match his age, and he is sitting on the Tiger Skin Khan Seat.

I don't know whether it is true or not, but many people claim that Dayan Khan and Genghis Khan were carved out of the same mold.

Originally, this kind of thing could not be verified at all, but after more people said it, many people gradually believed this statement, even Dayan Khan thought so.

Khan Yanhan is an arrogant person. Since he was a child, he has been fighting with Mandu Hainan in the North and South Wars, and he has been injured. Now he has gradually grown into a brave general in battle.

Facing the frequent disturbances from the Nekli tribe, the young Khan immediately expressed his opinion: "This matter can no longer be tolerated, let's gather troops to fight against the Nekli tribe, and we must kill them all! "

Master Tuohuo Chi heard Dayan Khan's statement, and he knew that the young Khan in front of him was too impulsive, but he looked at his nose and his heart.

The tribal leaders grew up watching Dayan Khan, and they were used to the impulsiveness of this young Khan, but they all remained silent like old foxes.

Zhiyuan Tongha coughed lightly, then turned his head to look at the middle-aged woman sitting beside him and said respectfully: "Mandu Haihatun, what do you think?"

In this sweat tent, the person who received the most attention and love was not Dayan Khan, but a middle-aged Mongolian woman sitting next to Dayan Khan—Manduhai.

Manduhai is over [-] years old, with a slightly fat face, healthy wheat-colored skin, and a very strong body. She is wearing traditional Mongolian women's clothing, with a heroic look in her eyes.

She is from the Wangji tribe, one of the special tribes in Mongolia. The women of this tribe are the in-laws of Genghis Khan's golden family for generations.

In the eyes of later generations, this kind of thing is not considered an honor, but the people of the Wangji tribe have always been complacent, and the women of the Wangji tribe are all proud of being able to marry a man from the golden family of Genghis Khan.

Manduhai was also influenced by this kind of thinking since he was a child, so he has always been obsessed with marrying a man from Genghis Khan's golden family.

She first married Mandulu, the great Khan of Mongolia, a descendant of the golden family of Jisi Khan, and gave birth to two daughters with Mandulu, but Mandulu died after four years of reign.

Originally, according to the Mongolian tradition, the next Great Khan could take over his wife, tribe, property, cattle and sheep.

It's just that the situation at that time was special, and the matter eventually evolved into that whoever can marry Manduhai can take over Mandulu's old ministry, and thus ascend to the position of Great Khan.

Facing the temptation of such great interests, countless tribal leaders wanted to marry Manduhai, so as to ascend to the position of Great Khan by taking over Mandulu's old tribe.

Manduhai has been a strong martial artist since she was a child, and she has outstanding political and military talents. She is a very assertive and ambitious woman.

Faced with countless suitors, she made a decision that shocked everyone in the entire prairie, but she chose Dayan Khan who was only four years old.

Many people don't understand her choice, but she has quietly taken the first step of her ambition.

It is similar to Cao Cao who held the emperor to make the princes. After marrying Dayan Khan, who was only four years old, she carried the banner of maintaining the unification of Mongolia by the golden family of Genghis Khan through Dayan Khan.

The Golden Family of Genghis Khan was indeed so glorious that many tribes still miss the period of the Golden Family's rule, so they support Manduhai one after another.

Manduhai inherited the [-] households directly under the Mandulu Great Khan and part of the former Deputy Khan Bayanmengke, and now has the banner of maintaining the unification of Mongolia by the Genghis Khan Golden Family, and has resolutely become one of the most powerful forces in the grassland.

Ordinarily, Dayan Khan is young, and Mandulu should recuperate, but making Dayan Khan, who is only four years old, the heir is only the first step of her ambition.

After Manduhai took power, he did not stop the pace of unifying Mongolia.

Her first goal was to conquer the Oirat tribes, the old enemies of Mongolia. Because Dayan Khan was young, Manduhai put him in a quiver and carried him on his body for protection.

Manduhai personally led the cavalry to go out and cleared the way for the Kehui Keten tribe to fight against the Oirat tribe in Tespurdu. After the victory, he conquered [-] Oirat tribe.

In the 19th year of Chenghua, the most powerful Grand Master Yisi Mayin was severely injured by the coalition forces of Manduhai and Wuliangha Sanwei. Grand Master Yisi Mayin escaped to his old lair in the north of Hami by chance to recover his old life.

In the 22nd year of Chenghua, the impoverished Yisi Mayin Taishi did not escape their suppression, and Manduhai's general Tuohuo Chi Shaoshi shot him dead.

So far, after the killing of Grand Master Yisiyin, the Mongolian left-wing lords, large and small, have surrendered to Manduhai, and now the biggest opponents are the Oala and Mekeli tribes.

Although Manduhai has been unifying Mongolia in the name of Dayan Khan, Manduhai has been in charge for so many years, and now she is really in charge.

"Big Khan, the strength of the Miekli Department cannot be underestimated! Even if we want to conquer it, our supplies can't keep up with it now, so it is not appropriate to send troops to the Miekli Department immediately!" Manduhai is the real head of the family. Explain the current plight of the tribe.

Although they are a people on horseback, they can resupply themselves with their strong hunting ability, but this method has never been 100% effective, and they have always carried dry food.

What's more, they have been fighting in Mongolia for many years, resulting in a sharp decline in bows and horses, so now they are willing to conquer the Miekli Ministry but are powerless.

Dayan Khan's character was reckless. Although he maintained respect for Manduhai, he still frowned and said, "They are harassing us frequently now, should we just sit idly by?"

"Great Khan, we naturally can't sit idly by!" Manduhai's determination to unify Mongolia is stronger than anyone else, so he looked at Dayan Khan seriously and said: "The most urgent thing for us in Dayuan is to exchange tribute with Daming , exchange supplies from Daming, then we will be able to fight against the Nekli Ministry for a long time, and we will definitely be able to completely wipe out the Nekli Ministry!"

Now that they have harassed the large and small lords of the left wing of Mongolia, their strength is naturally higher than that of the Miekli tribe, but it is not easy to encircle and suppress the Miekoli tribe in the grassland.

The military strength of Ming Dynasty is obviously far superior to them, but they are not afraid of the Ming army at all.Even if the Ming court sent a large army to invade, they could evacuate to the north without confronting the Ming army at all.

In the same way, the Nekeli Ministry was originally strong, but now they want to defeat the Nekeli Ministry, they need to go through a long-term siege to have a chance to completely defeat it.

The leaders of the Khalkha tribe and other tribes couldn't help but nodded slightly, and they were very relieved that Manduhai was in charge.

"Then let the Nekli Ministry be more arrogant!" Dayan Khan did not dare to disobey Manduhai's decision, but even agreed.

Tuohuo Chi Shaoshi is Manduhai's confidant general, he immediately turned his head to look at Dayan Khan and said, "Khan, I don't know what's going on with the Ming court, have they agreed to exchange tribute?"

After all, Dayan Khan was still a boy of fourteen or fifteen years old, but he relied on his confidant Zhiyuan Tongha for this diplomatic matter, so he turned his head and looked at Tongha.

"Governor Zuo Yu of Datong is a man who is greedy for life and afraid of death. The previous Shangzuo deliberately exaggerated the strength of our troops suppressing the border. No exchange. Based on what I know about the Ming emperor, they absolutely have no reason to refuse our Dayuan tribute!" Zhiyuan Tongha has been paying attention to the situation in Datong, and he promised very optimistically.

"We have already paid tribute to them, and the Ming court can't wait for it!"

"The Ming court wants us to pay tribute, but this time we are calling ourselves Emperor Dayuan!"

"Our Khan is the Dayuan Khan, how can he deny it?"

"If their city walls weren't strong enough, our Great Yuan would have wiped them out long ago!"

"Now that our Great Yuan pays tribute to them, the Ming court's peacemakers are probably going to burn their noses!"

"It's not just the peace-seekers, I think the Emperor of Ming Dynasty must have a banquet to congratulate him when he heard about this!"

……

In response to the reaction of the Ming court, Mongolian Zhenbu Huoshai and other tribal leaders expressed their views one after another.

Although some people are worried, because of their understanding of the Ming court, the voice that thinks the Ming court compromised has become the absolute mainstream.

Originally, several tribal leaders were worried that the Ming emperor would not agree, but seeing that everyone strongly believed that the Ming court had compromised, they all denied their earlier judgments.

All the tribal leaders came here today, in addition to discussing the issue of the Nekeli Ministry, in fact, the more important thing is to discuss the next tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

Manduhai wanted to cultivate the young man he had chosen, so he looked at Dayan Khan and told him earnestly: "Khan, this time the tribute exchange with Daming is up to you! Now our top priority is to unify all the tribes of Mongolia, only Daming The mutual market can replenish enough supplies, so we must pay attention to it this time!"

After so many years of fighting, not to mention other tribes, even their own headquarters have been seriously short of supplies.Not to mention that the number of arrows is already insufficient, and even a pot for cooking is hard to find.

The days in summer are better now. If winter comes, it will be too difficult for the tribe to cook without a pot.

No matter how much they squeezed out the Ming court, judging from the current situation in Mongolia, their Great Yuan really needed this ally with sufficient supplies.

"Hatun, please rest assured that Ben Khan will handle this matter properly!" Although Dayan Khan did not like to pay tribute to the Ming court, he expressed his position seriously for the sake of the overall situation.

Man Duhai nodded lightly, but knowing that Dayan Khan agreed, he would not break his promise.

In fact, she had a hidden worry in her heart. Originally, Dayuan had lowered their posture a little bit, and Daming would have no reason to reject their Dayuan Tonggong mutual market request, but Dayan Khan actually followed Zhiyuan Tongha's suggestion to use Dayuan Great Khan Self-proclaimed.

However, she also felt that she was worrying too much. After all, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were not as good as the previous generations, and the important ministers of the Ming court were all greedy for happiness. It was really unreasonable to refuse the truce that Dayuan rewarded them with the Ming Dynasty.

Just imagine, they had to capture Emperor Ming first, and now their Great Yuan is definitely not much weaker.

Since they had already decided to go to Daming as an envoy, and with Zhiyuan Tongha's guarantee, after finalizing the number of envoys from each tribe, they began to report the number of horse mules going to Datong Mutual Market.

"Our Khalkha department sends out 1000 horses!"

"We have 1000 horses from the Zhenbu of Mongolia!"

"Our Ordos Department sells 2000 horses!"

……

The leaders of the various tribes seemed to have been beaten with blood, but they wanted to take this opportunity to go to Datong to exchange for more supplies, so they reported to the tunnel one after another.

Zhiyuan Tongha passed the statistics and couldn't help but gasp. The total number has reached 10000 horse mules, of which more than [-]% are horses.

According to the conversion of Daming taels of silver, if a horse is calculated at 10 taels, then the materials that their various tribes wanted to exchange for this time in Datong turned out to be as high as [-] taels.

The supplies of 10 taels will undoubtedly greatly resolve their plight, and this trip must be a rewarding experience.

Chirp!

At the end of the meeting, Manduhai suddenly sneezed loudly with an itchy nose, but a faint feeling of uneasiness arose in his heart.

A Mongolian girl appeared like a butterfly, but she pestered Manduhai who just wanted to leave: "Eji, my daughter wants to go to Ming Dynasty together!"

Facing the girl's request, Manduhai immediately said with displeasure on his face: "Ikexi, you are about to get married, why do you still want to run around?"

Yikexi is the daughter of Manduhai and Mandulu. Because of her pure and lovely appearance and very lively personality, she is known as the first pearl of the grassland and is pursued by many tribal leaders.

"Eji, you just obeyed my daughter this time. My daughter wants to gain knowledge in the capital of Ming Dynasty!" Ikexi begged pitifully, shaking Manduhai's arm.

Dayan Khan noticed that the pair of charming eyes suddenly stared at him fiercely, so he said excitedly: "Hatun, why don't you let Princess Yikexi go!"

Manduhai originally didn't want his daughter to be in danger, but seeing his daughter pleading hard, and Dayan Khan stepped forward to intercede, he seemed reluctant to agree.

The advantage of horse mules is that they can move quickly. After the horse mules of various tribes gather in Tumochuan, these tens of thousands of horse mules will follow the mission and head towards Datong in a mighty way.

Zhiyuan Tongha has always been in charge of the mutual exchange of tribute with Daming, and has the closest relationship with Daming, so this time he will be sent to Daming as an envoy of Dayuan.

As for the honorable Princess Yixi, she went with her disguised as an ordinary member of the mission.

In just two days, the Datong side wall is far away.

woohoo...

A flute sounded, and countless Datong soldiers rushed to the border pass of the town, looking like they were facing a big enemy.

Chen Jian, the deputy commander of Datong, found out that these Tartars came with a large number of horses and mules, so he asked a bit puzzled, "What do you want to do?"

"I am Zhiyuan Tongha, the envoy of the Great Yuan Dynasty. Please report to the governor immediately, and ask the governor to arrange for our mission to go to the capital to pay tribute!" I mean it.

The soldiers standing on the pass looked at each other, but they didn't understand which song the other party was singing, or were they pretending to be stupid?
Chen Jian, the deputy general of Datong, pointed to the Huang Jin calligraphic letter hanging on the top of the city, but said in a calm voice, "Didn't you send someone over to read this call-out letter two days ago?"

what?
The little leader who was in charge of scouting was suddenly dumbfounded, and turned his head to look at Zhiyuan Tongha in fear.

Zhiyuan Tongha realized that something was wrong, and immediately asked: "What do you mean? Could it be that your Ming emperor disagrees with our Dayuan tribute?"

"Hehe... Are you guys going to read this proclamation carefully, or is this general going to read it for you?" Chen Jian raised his mouth slightly, and asked with an air of pride.

"what happened?"

"Master Zhiyuan, I can't read, I... I came here two days ago and thought it was a banner to welcome us, who... who knew it was a call to action!"

"What is written on it?"

"Since ancient times, emperors have come to rule the world, and they have lived in China to control the barbarians, and the barbarians have lived outside to serve China. Today, the little prince wants to be emperor and stand on his own, but he refuses to submit. It is beyond my power! For the people of China, God China must be ordered..."

……

Dayan Khan and the gang of self-righteous Mongolian tribal leaders are probably ashamed of themselves here. They kept saying that they would succumb to their Emperor Ming, but Emperor Ming came to act and slapped them hard.

Tonggong mutual market does not exist, and some will be a battle that cannot be tolerated.

(End of this chapter)