On February 11 of the second year of Jianwen, Zhang Sheng finally returned from the Mongolian Khan's court, and the accompanying 193 people not only returned unharmed, but he also brought the surrendered Mongolian nobles, the prince Zhao to Gan, Situ Zhao Gray Neighbor Timur, Liu Hara Timur, etc., led more than 300 people to join the King of Yan.

King Yan was naturally overjoyed, he could only make these people commanders now, but agreed with them to deal with the imperial army together, and after the matter was completed, he was promised a knighthood.

Zhang Sheng made a great contribution this time, Zhang Zhaohua was ready to call him into the palace, hold a family banquet, and called Zhang Qi Wang and Zhang Chang to come, waiting for Zhang Sheng, and waited for a long time, because this time he made a hundred times a profit in the trade with the Mongols, dumped almost all the goods, brought back iron, bows and arrows, munitions, and more than 420 horses, most of which were handed over to King Yan, of course he still had some things left, he had channels to sell them, and he was so busy these days that he was simply spanking eggs.

Zhang Zhaohua saw that there were more than 20 scimitars among the things he brought back, and he didn't know why he only got so little. Zhang Sheng took a sip of wine and wiped his mouth before saying, "This scimitar can't be bought, it's all given by others!"

It turned out that Zhang Sheng went to the Khanting this time, and he was also afraid that the road was far away, and it would be difficult to treat a sick person, so he brought a cart of herbs for backup, but he used less of his own people, but saved many Mongolians, these people were grateful to him, so they gave Zhang Sheng their waist knife, which means to be friends.

Zhang Zhaohua became interested, picked up the scimitar and gestured, and said, "It's not as easy to use as the Yanling knife." ”

"The strength of the Yanling knife is not enough, but it is flexible. Gao Chi said: "The full moon scimitar is at the moment when the fast horses are staggered, ensuring that the blade and the enemy's body are in diagonal contact, which is conducive to cutting the opponent's body. The Mongolian cavalry, in the past, was invincible with heavy armor and scimitars. ”

Zhang Zhaohua saw that the center of mass of this scimitar was far away from the hilt, which undoubtedly increased the lethality of the knife. The cavalry uses the powerful impact force formed by the speed of the horse to drive the scimitar to complete tactical actions such as chopping, which is equivalent to "dragging the knife", which can cause a relatively large wound to the opponent, while the street performers are invulnerable, and the blade is "smashed" on the belly, and they dare not use the drag knife, which is the reason.

"The scimitar was given by the Mongols," Zhang Zhaohua said, "The other things are not always sent! I heard that the more than 400 horses were a reward from the Khan King?"

The horse brought back by Zhang Sheng is not a Mongolian horse, depending on the horse breed should be an Arabian horse, the Mongolian horse is stout and strong, and the staying power is very strong, but the explosive power is not as good as the Arabian horse, and the Mongolian horse is superior to the European horse and the Arabian horse for long-distance roundabouts in terms of combat alone, but the horses born from the Mongolian horse and the Arabian horse may have the advantages of both. However, because Arabian horses are relatively scarce in Middle-earth, they have always believed that this kind of high-headed horse is a "good horse", so King Yan is very satisfied that Zhang Sheng can bring such a horse this time.

"King Khan?" Zhang Sheng shook his head: "When I went, their King Khan had just been killed, and when I was leaving, they set up a new king. ”

The 19th Great Khan of Mongolia was born to the Emperor of the Yuan Zhaozong Emperor Ryat Ugqi, who was attacked and killed by the Minister of Turghut, Buriyat Ugqi.

"The reason why this Nikoqi Khan was killed," Zhang Sheng couldn't help but show a mysterious look when he mentioned it: "Because he once killed his own siblings and usurped his half-brother's wife." ”

At the suggestion of the leader of the Yakira, Haohai Dayu, Nikoqi Sukeqi Khan seized the beautiful half-brother's wife Huoahatun and killed his half-brother Harguchuk Dugulent Mur Hongtaiji. Huoahatun avenged his husband and asked the Great Khan to kill Haohai Dayu. This action provoked retaliation from the Khāṇa, and the Great Khan appeased the son of Haohai Dayu, Mahamu, but the Minister of Turghut, Buriyat Ugqi, attacked and killed the Great Khan.

"The Turghut Department is the majority of the tribe," Zhang Sheng went to Mongolia, made a lot of preparations in advance, and went up and down after arriving in Mongolia, so now the situation in Mongolia, he knows it well: "This Great Khan was already very drunk, he was a faint king, and the Mongols were very heavy and slaughtered siblings, in their words, they turned their backs on the gods." ”

In the Yuan Dynasty, there was a period of sibling rivalry caused by the throne, which harmed the descendants of the children, and for fifty or sixty years before and after, the wives and concubines of the brothers were killing each other, and the Nikoqi Sukeqi Khan still did not learn the lesson, and the strange way led his subordinates to attack and kill him.

After his death, the Khan's court set up his son, which was another wrestling, because Zhang Sheng seemed to have the intention of establishing himself as the king, but the Mongols only respected the descendants of the golden family as Khan, and although Ugqi had strength, he could not get support, so everyone set up Timur to succeed the Great Khan.

"How did you mediate with the Mongolian nobles?" This is what Zhang Zhaohua is interested in, doing business in his own country, doing business up and down, and communicating with each other, it can only be said that Zhang Sheng is indeed a business material - but he can go to other countries, live up to his trust, and return without danger, especially if this country is still an enemy country, that Zhang Sheng really makes her think highly of it.

Zhang Sheng recalled that he had entered the Golden Horde, and in the face of the scrutiny, vigilance, hatred, and disgust of the Mongol nobles, he could not find a trace of kindness in this gaze.

Before he reached the place, he was caught first, and the Mongols cut all his carriages with knives, and Zhang Sheng just watched, knowing that his men might have losses, but the goods would not. Sure enough, when they saw the silk cloth, these people's knives froze.

The Mongols are now afraid of the Han Chinese, although there are many nobles who are clamoring to kill Zhang Sheng - but this is just catharsis, and those who have a little brain know that Zhang Sheng should not have gone north to the Khan's court for no reason.

"The Mongol regime was in turmoil," Zhang Sheng recalled, "and they were afraid that our Ming would take advantage of it." ”

At the beginning, Zhang Sheng and his party were tightly imprisoned, and the people thought that they were from the Ming people to spy on the truth, and when Zhang Sheng faced the powerful Ugqi, he claimed to be one step ahead of the imperial court envoy to express his good intentions.

Zhang Zhaohua then remembered that when Jianwen ascended the throne, he was busy with the plan to cut the feudal domain at the beginning, and he did not send an envoy to inform Mongolia. Zhang Sheng took advantage of this loophole and told the Mongols that China had changed an emperor, which had some meaning of Yanwu Xiuwen. He claimed to be not a chief envoy, but his ambiguous rhetoric led Ugqi to think that he was a precursor to the tentative contact between the two countries, and that he was also sent by the emperor of the Han Chinese.

Although the Mongolian people shouted from time to time to fight back to Middle-earth, they were really scared by Xu Da and Lan Yu, and if the Ming Dynasty emperor stopped his army, they would naturally be ecstatic. If Ugqi wants to compete for the throne of Khan, he needs the support of the Ming Dynasty to a certain extent, even if he doesn't support it, when he is competing, he doesn't want the Ming Dynasty to suddenly use troops and cause chaos for him. As everyone knows, this is precisely the wish of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, who hopes that when he competes with Emperor Jianwen, Mongolia will not suddenly go south, so that even if he is an immortal, he can't save it. In this way, King Yan's side knew the reality of Mongolia and grasped the opportunity, and the Mongols did not know that Middle-earth was using troops, so it was convenient for Zhang Sheng to spit lotus flowers in his mouth, which made these people unhappy.

"I calculated that they don't want to use soldiers," Zhang Sheng was also quite proud: "Even if they use soldiers, they kill the merchants of trade, and they have a fart!"

Since the Mongols retreated to the grasslands, trade with Middle-earth has become more and more difficult, and now there are merchants who automatically deliver goods to their doors, which is like a hen that lays eggs, if they are greedy for a little profit in front of them, they will kill people and intercept goods, so will there be any merchants who dare to deal with them in the future? Therefore, Zhang Sheng took all the things that Zhang Sheng brought with him this time, and the Mongols took all the things he brought with him, and returned them with things of equal or even higher value.

"To be honest, the Mongols have not been troubled for a long time, why, because all their gunpowder, I look at the mark," Zhang Sheng said: "It was all produced during the Zhizheng period, and since they were driven out of the Central Plains, they did not rely on the Han people, and they could not make firearms themselves." ”

When the Mongols were rising, Genghis Khan swept through Asia and Europe, and firearms and gunpowder also played an important role, but now this descendant is not angry, and he drove people out of the Central Plains, and restored the golden knife and horse, but the Ming Dynasty has always paid great attention to the research and development and promotion of hot weapons.

Zhang Sheng suddenly remembered the beautiful woman he saw today, so he asked, "King Yan—is there a Mongolian concubine?"

Zhang Sheng didn't know about Duoyan Sanwei yet, Zhang Zhaohua told him, Zhang Sheng couldn't help smacking his lips and sighed: "It's really a national color!"

Zhang Sheng also met the widows of Nikosu Sukeqi Khan in Mongolia, and their appearance was mediocre. Only Huoahatun, which he forcibly snatched, is indeed beautiful, but if it is compared with Pucha, it is much worse.

Zhang Zhaohua looked at him and asked unexpectedly: "Second brother, you won't have a dewy relationship with any woman this time, right?"

Zhang Sheng's face suddenly turned red, and he choked on a sip of wine. He did meet a lot of difficult Mongolian women this time, some of these women were the concubines of the Khan King Erduoli, and some were the wives of powerful people, but they all had a common problem, that is, they were greedy for cheapness, but the good price was not delivered in time, and they also found fault with his goods, and tried their best to lower the price - they couldn't hold it down, and even sneaked into his yurt in the middle of the night to roll the quilt with him, saying that they slept for one night, and the goods they took before didn't need money.

"Then what did you do?" Zhang Zhaohua asked.

Zhang Sheng couldn't help laughing, these women were reluctant to make money, but he saw that the Mongolians had a large amount of Su Ma Liqing material, these hard mud blocks, women didn't know where the value was, Zhang Sheng proposed to exchange this thing, and they really changed it.

"What about the green material in Mongolia now?" Zhang Zhaohua couldn't figure out.

"They still have a big cannibal there," Zhang Sheng said, "He is also a merchant, and he was sent by Timur, a horse." ”

Now in Central Asia, this man named Timur has built an unprecedentedly large empire, and this man married the princess of the Chagatai Khan, so the Mongols called him Timur the horse.

In the northwest of the Western Regions, there was the Chagatai Khanate, one of the four khanates of the Mongol Empire, which was administered by Chagatai and his grandson Hara Hulie and his descendants. This khanate was divided into the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and the Western Chagatai Khanate at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

The Eastern Chagatai Khanate, at this time was called Beshbali, and was named after the capital of the country. Don't lose Bali, which means "five cities" in Turkic. It is also known as the North Garden, because it is the location of the Beiting Protectorate in the Tang Dynasty, and its Khan King is named Hei's Erhuo, who married his daughter to Timur, and the relationship with the Ming Dynasty is quite harmonious, because he once sent an envoy to the Beijing Dynasty to meet Emperor Gao.

The Western Chagatai Khanate, has been fighting for the throne of the Khan, Timur, who was born in the Baru Rath tribe, gradually grasped power and killed the Khan King who was like a brother, the Western Chagatai Khanate actually died in Timur, Timur married the princess of the Eastern and Western Chagatai Kingdom, and the capital was Samarkand, even the people on the Khan's side knew his reputation, because he expanded too fast, and whenever he fought, none of them failed, and he also learned the methods of Genghis Khan, and loved to slaughter cities.

"Ah, Timur," Zhang Zhaohua remembered: "Timur Empire!"

In her meager historical knowledge, she still vaguely remembered that the Timurid Empire rose very quickly and perished surprisingly quickly - as if the Mughal dynasty in India was founded by the descendants of Timur in the south.

"In the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu," Gao Chi said, "Emperor Gao sent someone to Samarkand, and I heard that the envoy was detained by Timur, and he has not returned yet!"

"Don't say it's Fu An and Guo Ji," Zhang Zhaohua said: "Have you forgotten, it's still our Beiping envoy Chen Dewen who was sent to the Western Regions, and it's been two years, and he hasn't come back!"

"The Western Regions have been deserted for a long time," Zhang Zhaohua said: "Emperor Gao specializes in internal affairs, and the Western Regions is only restrained, and there is no way to build a document. ”

The Western Regions is a big game that needs to be operated for a long time, the Han Dynasty passed through the Western Regions to balance the Xiongnu, the Tang Dynasty followed the Han Dynasty, the Turks were balanced, the soldiers once arrived in Persia, and established the Persian Protectorate in Persia.