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Chapter 229 Lin Dan's gift
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Although Lin Dan and Lama Sharpa had a good plan, Song Xiance, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, Abai and Bao Chengxian, the envoys who established slaves, were not stupid. It is clear that Lin Dan, an insatiable guy, intends to sit on the ground and raise the price, and let Daming and Jian Nu bargain face to face, so that he can take advantage of the opportunity to reap the benefits and maximize the interests of the partner he chooses to form an alliance—in other words, the price offered there is high. , you can buy Lin Dan, a grass-roots ally!
While despising Lin Dan for treating the country's diplomatic and strategic stances as a bargain, Song Xiance, Abai, and Bao Chengxian glared at each other fiercely, and then threw out their own alliance bait.The conditions given by Song Xiance are of course real. Daming will increase Lin Dan’s annual reward by 1%, and at the price of [-] taels of silver per year, lease the sovereignty of Karaqin and Horqin Grasslands from Lin Dan for ten years. During these ten years, the Ming Dynasty will send officials to manage the various Mongolian tribes on these two grasslands, and have the right to station troops on these two grasslands, and troops and caravans can also pass through these two grasslands unconditionally. Lin Dan has the right to take back the two grasslands or raise the rent, and the specific situation will be resolved through negotiation after ten years.In addition, the Ming court guaranteed the supply of food and salt materials from Daming Border City to Mongolia to help Mongolia survive the famine. The prerequisite was to limit the number of transactions, and the specific number of transactions was determined by the two parties through negotiation.

Compared with the real benefits offered by Song Xiance, Jiannu's promise is much more empty, and it's completely using the cake to coax Lin Dan's stomach.Bao Chengxian told Lin Dan that as long as Lin Dan agreed to form an alliance with Jiannu to resist the Ming Dynasty, then Jiannu would conclude an eternal non-aggression peace treaty with Lin Dan, stop all support for Mongolian separatist forces, and recognize Horqin and Karaqin Grasslands as Lin Dan's inseparable Territory, if necessary, troops can be sent to help Lin Dan take back these two border cities by force.At the same time, Jiannu will fully open the border market to Mongolia, and Lin Dan will be allowed to purchase any materials in the Jiannu border market without limit—of course, things that Jiannu himself does not have will be excluded.In addition, Jiannu can also conclude an alliance with Mongolia to divide the world equally. As long as Mongolia and Jiannu join hands to destroy Ming Dynasty, the land in the Central Plains will be divided equally between Mongolia and Jiannu. As for the fertile land that Mongolia wants, they can negotiate!

"Joining hands to destroy the Ming Dynasty?" Song Xiance sneered: "If you want to destroy our Ming Dynasty, when you little bastards who built slaves cry at night, and when you hear the name of my boss, Master Zhang, you won't be scared to shut up, then slowly Have this dream."

"What kind of a little crazy dog ​​is Zhang Haogu?" Bao Chengxian, whose parents, wife and children were all flying a kite by Young Master Zhang in Shengjing, yelled with a livid face, "Last time in Liaodong, he was just lucky. He has the ability to fight with us. Dajin's main force will try a decisive battle head-on?"

"But how do I remember that there was such an opportunity in front of me, but unfortunately there was an old wild boar who didn't cherish it--Don't you want to say that if the old wild boar is presented with this opportunity again, the old boar will say: I want it?" Song Xiance sneered bitterly: "The last time in Nonggu Pagoda, who heard that my boss had arrived at Nonggu Pagoda, and immediately frightened the [-] main force to turn around and run away? It's this old wild boar skin, just hearing my boss's name, he didn't even dare to hit him face to face, and immediately ran away like a shit, it would be more appropriate to change to fleeing on hearing the wind."

"And this thing? Why haven't I heard of it?" Lin Dan heard about it for the first time, and he couldn't help asking the enslavement envoy in great surprise.Over there, Bao Chengxian and Abai didn't answer, but their faces turned from green to black, tacitly acquiescing to the existence of this battle.Seeing this scene, Lin Dan and Lama Sharpa couldn't help being horrified, secretly knowing that this was true, and inevitably became even more jealous of Young Master Zhang, "The old Jian slaves who have been running rampant in the world for decades have been scared away by Zhang Haogu. How powerful is this little barbarian?"

They each offered a price, and the next step was to bargain with each other. Lin Dan directly expressed to Song Xiance shamelessly that Mongolia and Ming Dynasty are friendly countries with a long history, and he is also happy to continue the friendly relationship with Daming that has lasted for more than half a century—— It’s just that Lin Dan thinks that the 4000 taels of silver that Daming gave him every year is too little, and the rent of 1 taels a year on the Horqin Grassland and Harqin Grassland is also too little—if the Ming court can give him the annual rent of 4 taels The reward was increased to 3 taels of silver, and the rent was changed to [-] taels, so Lin Dan was more than happy to sign an alliance with Daming Song Xiance on the spot.

The annual reward plus rent of 7 taels of silver is actually not much, and the Daming Finance under the control of Wei Zhongxian can also get it out, but Song Xiance paid Lin Dan the original price in order to show his performance and of course work hard for the Ming court to reduce losses. Add 50.00% to the new price tag.Lin Dan smiled and did not answer, but Bao Chengxian jumped out to increase the price, promising that as long as Lin Dan formed an alliance with Jiannu, Jiannu would consider recognizing Mongolia as the suzerain, enter the court every year, and pay tribute every year. assigned to Mongolia.

"Nu'erhachi surrendered to me?" Lin Dan showed a sly smile, still noncommittal, and turned his gaze back to Song Xiance, implying that Song Xiance would increase the price.It's a pity that Song Xiance was not fooled at all, so he stood up and said, "Khan, the envoy thinks that this negotiation cannot go on at all, and Khan, you, as the king of a country and the leader of the allies of the Ming Dynasty, openly received my Ming Dynasty The envoy of the enemy flirts with him. The envoy has the right to suspect that you have no intention of continuing the covenant between Ming and Mongolia, the Great Khan, so the envoy decides to terminate the negotiation until the envoy who established slaves was expelled from Chahanhot by the Great Khan. Consider reopening negotiations."

After finishing speaking, Song Xiance turned his head and left. Lin Dan was a little anxious, and hurriedly winked at his eldest son E Zhe. E Zhe understood, sneered and said in a strange way: "Mr. Song from the Ming Dynasty, you can think about it. If you go out At the gate of this hall, next time your envoys from the Ming Dynasty want to negotiate with my father Khan, they may negotiate at the gate of the Jimen Great Wall."

"Maybe it's under the city of Chahanhot!" Song Xiance was not frightened, and immediately replied with a cold snort: "When Song's employer recommended Song to be the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, he once told Song that if The Jimen Great Wall is in danger, and my master is happy to lead the slave-slaughter army and the Xuanda army to the north to visit Chahanhot City. Moreover, the famine situation in the north of the Ming Dynasty is also very serious, and the Ming Dynasty court will also consider the border city. The grain on the river is intercepted and used to feed the hungry people."

"Great Khan, if this is the case, then Dajin is happy to send troops to help you solve the food shortage problem by force." Bao Chengxian and Abai shouted ecstatically.Er Zhe shouted arrogantly: "Zhang Haogu dares to come to Hanhot? He is so kind, and it saves our 40 Mongolian army from going all the way to Xuanda for those who were killed by Zhang Haogu. The Mongolian people take revenge!"

"E Zhe, shut up, you idiot!" Lin Dan, who didn't want to turn against Daming at all at this time, was in a hurry, stood up and stopped the eldest son who publicly supported Lianjin Kangming, and chased after him personally to hold Song Xiance, and said with a smile : "Mr. Song, don't be angry, you misunderstood, today I brought the envoy of Jiannu to you and negotiated with you in front of the envoy of Jiannu, in fact, I wanted to tell Jiannu that I, Lin Dan, should change my position and abandon Daming is daydreaming to let them die. If Mr. Song thinks they are getting in the way here, I can drive them away now to prove my sincerity in Mongolia's desire to continue the covenant with Daming."

After that, Lin Dan, who turned his face faster than the book, immediately turned to the guards and shouted: "Come on, invite the envoys of the Kingdom of Jin out of Wan'an Palace. From now on, without my call, the envoys of the Kingdom of Jin will not be allowed to enter the palace. "The Mongolian guards followed the order and immediately went forward to drive Abai and Bao Cheng out of the palace first.Abai was furious, and was about to explode, but Bao Chengxian tugged at his sleeve and winked. Abai knew something was wrong, so he got up angrily, cursed a barbarian, and led Bao Chengxian away.The idiot Ezhe over there was also anxious, and hurriedly shouted: "Father Khan, you can't treat the envoy of the Great Jin Kingdom like this."

"Shut up! Come on, get Er Zhe out of here too!" Lin Dan yelled hypocritically, and kicked his eldest son out of the Wan'an Palace. The current famine is indeed very serious. It can be said that he cannot do without the Daming Border Market for a day, so Lin Dan had to lower his attitude and change his original intention of using enslavement envoys to blackmail the land and raise prices.

After driving away Jian Nu and E Zhe, who openly supported the war with Daming, the atmosphere in the Wan'an Palace suddenly eased a lot. Song Xiance, who also needed to buy time for Young Master Zhang, despised Lin Dan in his heart, but He sat back to his original position with a smile on his face and restarted the alliance negotiations with Lin Dan.This time without Jiannu as a hindrance, Lin Dan also softened his tone a lot, like a middle-aged woman who went shopping for vegetables, and after some bargaining with Song Xiance, Lin Dan finally answered Song Xiance's new conditions. The Ming court allowed Lin Dan to pay 1 war horses every year in return for a reward of 4000 taels of silver to Lin Dan. In addition, Lin Dan leased the sovereignty of the Horqin and Karaqin grasslands to the Ming court for ten thousand taels of silver at a price of 8000 taels a year. The rent was paid year by year. Lin Dan allowed the Ming court to send officials to manage the Mongolian tribes on the two grasslands, allowed the Ming army to station and pass through the two grasslands, and promised not to take back the two grasslands by force during the lease period. grassland.

Rent and rewards are easy to talk about. Wei Zhongxian and officials at all levels in Daming are less greedy, which is enough to satisfy the short-sighted Lin Dan's appetite. The real concern of both Ming and Mongolia is the scale of grain trade in the border city of Daming. Because of the Little Ice Age, grain production has been greatly reduced. Of course, Daming hopes to reduce the loss of grain. It is best to sell grain according to the real number of Mongolian population, so as to prevent Mongolian tribes from taking risks due to famine and harassing the border between Ming and Mongolia. Mongolia secretly resells food for huge profits—No matter how stupid Ming Xizong and Wei Zhongxian are, they will not be so stupid as to use the life-saving food of the people of Ming Dynasty to make a lot of money for Lin Dan.For the sake of his own interests, Lin Dan did not want to be pinched by Daming on the food issue. At the same time, in order to secretly support the establishment of slaves and consume Daming's national power, of course he would not agree to the restrictions on the sale of grain and salt proposed by the Ming court. Regarding the fundamental interests of Guan Daming and Lin Dan, it is impossible for Song Xiance and Lin Dan to make any concessions. While insisting on limited sales of grain, they demanded that restrictions be relaxed, purchases allowed, and supply guaranteed.

"Mr. Song, I don't understand this." Lin Dan asked pretending to be puzzled: "Why do you, Ming, have to limit the amount of grain traded? We in Mongolia don't have money to buy, so we take your grain for nothing? Let it be a chance to make money." , you don’t want it either?”

"Khan, you should have heard that there is also a famine in the north of our Daming, right?" Song Xiance replied neither humble nor overbearing: "Because of the famine, a group of thieves in Shaanxi in my Ming Dynasty joined forces to murder and set fire to invade the state capital. Don’t let the friendly country Mongolia fall into the same situation. The food shipped from the south will be given priority to the border markets, so that you can buy food to overcome the famine! Under such circumstances, should our Ming Dynasty continue to supply unlimited food? All the people in Mongolia starved to death? Besides, our Ming Dynasty did not say that we wanted Mongolian people to starve to death, but we wanted to count the exact number of Mongolian people and sell food by head to ensure that Mongolian people would not starve to death because of the famine. Conditions, does Da Khan still feel that he is not satisfied?"

"Mr. Song, I understand the benevolence and righteousness of the Ming court, and I also understand the difficulties of the Ming court." Lin Dan said shamelessly: "But the problem is that our Mongolia has a vast land and the people are nomadic. The head agrees on the amount of grain purchased. How about this, the Ming court should not limit the amount of grain traded, and after I have carefully counted the population of the Mongolian people, we will discuss the restricted amount of grain trade.”

"Khan, how long do you need to count the Mongolian population?" Song Xiance asked with a smile.Lin Dan slyly replied: "This is not certain. We Mongolians are different from Han people. Han people like to settle in one place, so it is easy to count the population of the people, but we Mongolians like to camp around with cattle and sheep. There is no fixed place of residence. So it will take a long time to count the population, maybe three years, maybe two years, who knows."

Lin Dan's excuse is really a bit unreasonable. Nomads live in no fixed place. Everyone knows this. Song Xiance will not be able to refute it for a while. It is precisely because of this that Song Xiance dare not agree to completely liberalize the grain trade. Scale—Master Zhang has just eradicated the eight major locust merchants in Zhangjiakou with great difficulty. Song Xiance doesn't want to support Cao Lindan to inherit the mission and financial resources of the eight major locust merchants.After thinking over and over for a long time, Song Xiance said to Lin Dan: "Khan, this is a big matter. The envoy dare not make decisions on his own. Let the envoy completely let go of the grain trade. Please allow the envoy to report to the Ming court before I can give you an answer."

"It's easy to say, Mr. Song, please do as you please. If you need a good horse to deliver the letter, please feel free to ask." Lin Dan pretended to be generous and agreed-Lin Dan is not in a hurry. If it is not achieved for a day, the Ming court will not dare to limit the scale of grain transactions in the border market. Lin Dan can also take the opportunity to sell more grain for storage.

"Thank you Khan, the little envoy will leave and go back to prepare." Song Xiance thanked him, and led the interpreter to leave.Looking at the back of Song Xiance leaving, Lama Sharpa, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke, and said darkly: "Khan, you can proceed to the third step. Send an army to Angchen Naoer to serve the Ming Dynasty. The court exerts a little pressure."

Lin Dan nodded, and then ordered: "Come here, go and call E Zhe here." After a while, E Zhe, who was driven away by Lin Dan, was called back to Wan'an Palace, and received a call from Lin Dan to ask E Zhe The ecstatic mission-to lead [-] troops to the south, under the pretext that thieves are rampant in the grassland and the business roads need to be protected, stationed at the bank of Angke Nao'er Lake, more than a hundred miles north of Zhangjiakou, to put pressure on the Daming border!However, Lin Dan is also very aware of his elder son's pro-Jiannu jealousy of Daming's virtues, and specifically explained: "After you arrive at Ang Chi Nao'er, you must act carefully. If the Ming army negotiates with you, you will say that you need to garrison troops to protect the commercial road. If The Ming army did not attack you, and without my order, you are absolutely not allowed to take the initiative to provoke and attack the Ming army!"

"Understood." Ezhe agreed grinningly, and then asked tentatively: "Father Khan, what if the barbarian army takes the initiative to attack me?"

"That depends on your ability." Lin Dan said arrogantly: "It shouldn't be difficult for your [-] troops to take down Zhangjiakou and Xuanfu, right?"

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E Zhe, who has always believed that joining hands with Jiannu to destroy the Ming Dynasty is the best choice for Mongolia, received the task of putting pressure on the Ming Dynasty. E Zhe himself was full of ambition, and led fifty thousand nomadic cavalry to Zhangjiakou. The Xuanda officials who were worried about fighting on both sides received a report from a Mongolian businessman who had been bought by the Ming army, but panicked from top to bottom, and rushed to send the news to Baode, who was entangled with the rebel army like a gangrene. Young Master Zhang, who was worried about himself, called the police urgently.Hearing this news, Young Master Zhang's little face turned pale with fright once in a while, almost thinking that Song Xiance's mission had failed and Lin Dan was ready to go to war with Daming.But fortunately, at this time, Song Xiance's letter reporting the negotiation process was also delivered to Young Master Zhang by a fast horse.

"Understood! Lin Dan is putting pressure on Daming!" After reading Song Xiance's letter, Young Master Zhang suddenly realized, and immediately guessed Lin Dan's true intentions, "Lin Dan doesn't want to be controlled by Daming on the food issue, and maybe he wants to use reselling They made a lot of money in grain, so while negotiating with Song Xiance, they sent troops to the border of Daming to put pressure on the Ming court to force the Ming court to let go of the grain trade and allow Mongolia to buy it!"

"Zhang Xiantai, will the Tatars take the opportunity to attack Zhangjiakou?" Shi Kefa asked nervously.Young Master Zhang pondered for a while, and quickly replied: "At least [-]% probably not. The food shortage in Mongolia is worse than that of Daming. Lin Dan will not turn against Daming for a while. And according to Lin Dan's past military habits, Da Ming He usually leads the army in person, this time he sent his eldest son to lead the army, which proves that he is only intimidating the Ming court and has no plans to start a full-scale war."

"Strange." Sun Chuanting, the future famous general under Young Master Zhang's command, saw that something was wrong, and said puzzledly: "If the Tatars want to put pressure on the imperial court and force the imperial court to agree to the terms of their grain trade, why don't their troops go directly to Go to Gubeikou, which is closer, and come to Zhangjiakou instead of near and far?"

"I'm afraid this is Lin Dan's plan to kill two birds with one stone." Master Zhang analyzed: "For Lin Dan, the bigger the rebellion in our Ming Dynasty, the better, and Xuanda is the front line to block the expansion of the rebellion, so Lin Dan sent troops south Zhangjiakou played two roles, one is to force the imperial court to agree to his greedy conditions, and the other is to force my main force to go north to strengthen the defense of the Xuanda Great Wall, thereby weakening Xuanda’s ability to suppress the rebels.” Said. At this point, Young Master Zhang grinned grimly, and added: "You've got a good plan, it's inconvenient to start a war with Daming directly, so I will use the method of increasing pressure to contain my main force in a disguised form, and support the thieves in a different way! Unfortunately, just Er Zhe's [-] cavalry are not qualified enough to contain my main force!"

"That's right. The Xuanda Great Wall has always been the front line against the Tatar invasion. The castle is strong, and the defenders' combat effectiveness is not bad. Ezhe's [-] cavalry can't make too much trouble." Sun Chuanting nodded in agreement, "And sit in Xuanfu Master Lu Xiangsheng and General Heiyunlong are the ones stationed, and there are [-] slave-slaughter troops stationed there. With their strength, whether it is guarding the gate or fighting in the field, they are enough to counter Ezhe's cavalry, so there is no need for us to transfer the main force to go north, or... . "

"Wait." Young Master Zhang interrupted Sun Chuanting suddenly, and asked, "Master Sun, what did you just say?"

"Hey, Mr. Zhang, your ears have the same problem as mine?" Sun Chuanting, nicknamed Sun Deaf, was taken aback, and repeated: "I just said that the current strength of Lu Xiangsheng and Hei Yunlong is enough to counter E Zhe's army. There is no need to send the main force north for reinforcements."

Young Master Zhang stopped talking. After closing his eyes and thinking for a long time, Young Master Zhang suddenly opened his eyes and said with a sinister smile: "Look at my stupid head, Lin Dan is here to give us a big gift, why didn't I pay attention to accepting this?" A big gift?"

"Lin Dan gave us a gift? What gift?" Sun Chuanting and Shi Kefa asked in surprise.Young Master Zhang replied with a sly smile on his face: "What gift can I have? Of course, they are the thieves who have been pestering us all the time. Without Lin Dan's help, I really can't think of a good way to deal with these annoying thieves. Hehe , huh huh huh huh..."

Shi Kefa and Sun Chuanting continued to be dumbfounded, they couldn't figure out why Young Master Zhang was so successful.After Young Master Zhang had had enough of his sinister smile, he immediately ordered: "Shi Kefa, Sun Chuanting, you give me two things now. Shi Kefa, please write back to Song Xiance for me, and ask him to delay the negotiation time as much as possible. Before receiving my order, you are not allowed to End the negotiations. Sun Chuanting, you go and send me an order that all the troops stop chasing and killing the rebels, withdraw across the east of the Yellow River, and return to Shanxi Town."

"Withdraw the troops? Why do you want to withdraw the troops?" Sun Chuanting was even more confused.Young Master Zhang said with a sly smile: "Don't ask why, remember, the withdrawal speed must be fast, the faster the better, and throw all the food, grass and supplies that are too late to me in the city of Kelan Prefecture. Also, remember to take the Tatar The news that the army is marching towards Zhangjiakou, spread it to me."

(End of this chapter)