How to deal with the 6,000-strong Chahar army is a big and pragmatic matter, and it really needs to be considered a little before making a decision. ，

In fact, the fact that Magui and Chataiji each contained 3,000 surrendered troops is quite telling.

Ma Gui took these 3,000 troops in his hands, it must be out of the consideration of "offering prisoners to the Jingshi", in order to not only save face of the Ming Dynasty, but also his own credit, and Chataiji is more direct, presumably to strengthen his own strength, which can be both himself and the entire Tumut.

Gao Shipraji's prestige is now in full swing, and it is not impossible to force Chataiji to hand over the prisoners, but it is easy to cause Tumut's centrifugal tendencies, which conflicts with the entrapment plan that he has already made up his mind, and Chataiji's exploits in this Monan War can be said to be the best in Tumut, and forcibly taking the prisoners from him is too ugly.

If it is directly distributed according to the actual situation of Magui and Chataiji each getting 3,000 prisoners, it is actually not very appropriate, the main reason is that the battle in which Magui obtained these 3,000 prisoners was fought with the remnants of Xin Ai, and it was obtained after Chataiji dragged the opposite side tired, and the Ming army itself did not contribute to this battle.

Gao Pragmatic thought about it and decided to take these 3,000 captives as favors, after all, these 3,000 people were sent to Daming, and they were sacrificed to the Taimiao for a purpose, and they couldn't get anything except 3,000 heads.

In this case, it is better to send it to Tumut to make up for some of their losses in the Great War of Monan. The 3,000 people of Chataiji were kept for him, which was regarded as a reward for his great achievements, and the 3,000 that Magui had in hand could be directly handed over to Hannaji and asked him to distribute them to the various departments participating in the war for supplementation.

In doing so, of course Magui didn't dare to disobey, but Gao Pragmatic still had to give some benefits. How to reward Ma Gui depends on the deliberation of the court and the decision of the emperor, but Gao Pragmatic, as a civil official who directly commands Ma Gui, has a great right to suggest this, so he simply found Ma Gui and told him bluntly that he wanted him to hand over the 3,000 people to Han Naji for disposal, and Gao Pragmatic would recommend promoting Ma Gui to the chief soldier and Ma Chengxun to the deputy chief soldier when he was in the court. ，

Ma Gui has no objection to this, mainly because the things he had been worried about before were taken care of by Gao Pragmatic, and the Ma family already had a general soldier of Ma Jin.

If the Ma family has another general soldier, then in terms of official position alone, it has even surpassed the Tieling Li family, after all, "East Li and West Ma" and the Li family has only Li Chengliang himself as the chief soldier, and Li Rusong is still in the Shenji Battalion "temporary training". Even if Li Rusong also made a great contribution to killing Dong Fox this time, but he is a general soldier, and the Ma family can still compete with the Li family.

What's more, the Ma family also has Ma Chengxun, the deputy chief soldier of the younger generation, on the whole, faintly can still form a little advantage over the Li family Of course, the Ma family has fewer family members than the Li family, but this is another matter.

After dealing with Ma Gui's side, Gao Pragmatic brought Hannaji and Chataiji over, and didn't mention the matter of continuing to pursue Tumen, anyway, he would definitely not be able to catch up, let him go.

Gao pragmatic first told them about the decision to dispose of the captives, and when they heard this, both of them looked relieved, glanced at each other, and stepped forward together to express their gratitude.

Gao pragmatic accepted it with a smile, and then said: "Since this matter has been decided, the Tumen side must be able to stop for a few years, the overall situation of Tumut has been decided, and this battle of Monan has come to an end, so the two things that have been discussed before should be done, one is that Brother Naji wants to marry Zhongjin Hatun as soon as possible, and the other is that after the marriage, a Kuritai conference will be held immediately after the marriage to inherit the position of Chechen Khan." ”

Hannaji was naturally delighted, and nodded his head in approval.

Gao pragmatic smiled and said, "By the way, there is still a small happy event that you can tell Brother Naji in advance." ”

Hannaji's face was overjoyed, and he asked, "I don't know what it is?" ”

Gao pragmatic said: "This time the canonization of the king of Shunyi, the previous seal of the king of Shunyi will be withdrawn, and a new seal will be given again, and this time the king seal is a real gold-plated silver seal." ”

Hannaji was overjoyed to hear this, stepped forward and bowed down solemnly, and helped him up with a pragmatic smile.

Just give a seal, why is Hannaji so grateful? There's a bit of history to be said about this.

Previously, when I was first crowned King of Shunyi, there was a book and an edict, but it was not sealed. In the Wanli martial arts record of later generations, it is recorded: "The Taishi was given a golden book, and I was named the king of Shunyi, and he was given an edict." ”

At the beginning, when Wang Chonggu was planning the tribute, he determined that I should be crowned the king, and it should be given a gilded silver seal, but it was not awarded when Longqing was canonized in the fifth year. Therefore, in May of the following year, Wang Chonggu asked for four things for Altan Khan, one of which was to "ask the king to seal, such as the previous dynasty was loyal to the king".

At that time, the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Rites discussed and thought: "The seal of the king of Shunyi should be cast as Chonggu as the ancient proposal, and all the seals should be sealed Gongjin." Gao Gong also supported it, and Longqing naturally allowed it, but for some reason, this time the decision to give the seal was not implemented.

In April of the first year of Wanli, Altan Khan, the king of Shunyi, once again "please give the seal and show it to the ministries", and the Ministry of Rites "agreed to give a gilded silver seal according to the title of the king, and sent the official to the governor's office to listen to the answer". In this way, two years after the title of king, Altan Khan received the seal of the king of Shunyi.

According to these records, the seal of the king of Shunyi agreed to be issued by the Ming Dynasty was the same gold-plated silver seal as the seal of the king of Hami Zhongshun. However, in the Zhengluo Fuyi Chronicle, there is a record that the original seal of the king is not tied to gold, and there are some different situations in it:

Yi envoy and cloud, the day before yesterday China Feng Shunyi King said that it was a gold seal, today Jiulu is copper, Shunyi to return the gold seal, and the original gold, but it is copper, please redeem the crime.

Yu Ji laughed and scolded the clouds: "Foolish Dazi, don't say anything to laugh for the world." Where in the world is there a gold seal, gold is precious and weighs the ear. "If I am a minister, I am a golden belt, and I am extremely noble, but you see that this belt is bronze." If I use gold to make this belt, it will cost memor, but I have always called it gold with ears with copper belt. The seal of the king is also copper. My governor of the three towns, in ancient times, hung gold seals, and now it is also copper. He replied to the king and said, "Don't make people laugh at you anymore." "The envoys are the only ones who approve of each other.

At that time, the captives took the copper seal hostage as a matter of success, and they didn't have time to think about it, that is, they replied casually, so the captives were speechless. If you think about it, or argue that it is originally a golden seal, you will have to insist on it, and you will not be able to deal with it.

This account apparently tells later generations that the seal of the king of Shunyi, which was declared by the Ming Dynasty and regarded as a golden seal by the Mongols, was actually a gold-plated copper seal, and for this reason, Altan Khan even sent envoys to negotiate with Zheng Luo, the governor of Xuanda of the Ming Dynasty, asking for a golden seal and punishing those responsible, but Zheng Luo casually dealt with it.

So, what exactly should the Shunyi royal seal look like?

According to the history of the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Huidian, the Ming Dynasty was printed, the prince was the gold book, the turtle gold seal, the county king was the gold-plated silver book, the silver seal, the first grade of the hundred officials, the second grade of the straight new silver seal, the third grade below the copper seal, the general seal was the tiger new silver seal, and the general system, the governor, the governor and the town guard were the straight new copper customs defense.

The foreign king's seal is divided into three grades: gold seal, gold-plated silver seal, and silver seal.

Among the foreign king's seals awarded by the Ming Dynasty, Goryeo had the highest grade, which was the Gui Niu Gold Seal, followed by the Tubo Bailin King, who was the camel New Gold Seal, and Annam and Champa were the gold and silver seals of the Camel New

Among the royal seals awarded to Mongolia during the Yongle period, the three kings of Shunning, Hening, and Wara were gold seals, among which the seal of the king of Shunning was the gold seal of Huonu, and the seal of the king of Hami Zhongshun was gilded and silver.

It can be seen that there is a clear distinction between gold, silver, and copper. What Zheng Luo said was indeed a "casual answer", because there was no gold-plated copper seal in the king's seal, that is, bullying the Mongols to have a poor understanding of these things, so they could fool the past.

Therefore, if it is based on the seal of a foreign vassal king, the seal of the king of Shunyi should at least be a gold-plated silver seal If it is printed according to the prince and the hundred officials, the seal of the king of Shunyi should also be a gold-plated silver seal or a silver seal, and there is no reason for a gold-plated copper seal.

However, what was actually awarded to Altan Khan by the Ming Dynasty was a gilded copper seal. Whether the gold seal changed to a copper seal, whether the Ming Dynasty deliberately lowered the specifications and level of the Shunyi King by lowering the seal, or the arbitrary private exchange of the directors, is an unsolved mystery sealed in the dust of history in later generations.

Now, Gao Pragmatic has no interest in investigating how the Shunyi King Seal that is currently in the hands of Zhong Jin Hatun deteriorated, but he has personally taken care of the Ministry of Industry, and this time the Shunyi King Seal cannot play tricks, and must be given in accordance with the system.

Han Naji knew that there was a problem with the previous Shunyi King Seal, but Da Ming refused to admit it at the time, and he couldn't help it, who knew that Gao Shi could even take care of this kind of "small things", how could he not make him feel relieved and grateful?

Once the matter was discussed, the battle of Monan was truly over, and the next step was to take advantage of the victory to go through the process.11