Far away on the frontier, the armor of the garrison was stained red with blood, and the merchant brigade never stopped, carrying a shocking news into the grassland.

With the sudden drop in temperature after the winter, the grassland people are not full of food and clothing, and people in various tribes are starving to death every day.

Lin Dan Batur of the Chahar Department unified the southern tribes and suppressed the three guards in the north, if it were not for the forced conversion, he would have been a powerful lord in the hearts of the Mongols.

The Mongol cavalry easily crossed the border pass, killing the Ming soldiers guarding the pass, and even one of the commanders died under the sword of the Mongol cavalry.

This is the most heard news by these Outer Mongolians during this time.

But they did not understand that even in such a situation, the trade at the border was still going on, no, today the merchants' caravan is coming again......

The chariots and horses are swaying, accompanied by the cold wind that pierces the face on the grassland in winter.

After a short time, the merchant's procession came to a halt in one of the most remote tribes north of Datong Town.

The tea and porcelain that the Ming merchants brought out of the customs had always been desired by the Mongols, who were accustomed to these rough places.

As soon as the caravan came to rest, countless Mongolian herders with curious eyes gathered.

Although it was not the first time they had seen them, these delicate things in the gate still made them both curious and in awe.

It is often said that the people of the Ming Dynasty are weak and can be bullied, and they only rely on the border passes of the Great Wall to guard their crumbling country.

But everything that came from the gate, they thought it was so magical, so magical that they had never thought that there would be such a thing in the world before.

Tea leaves with full color and taste, all kinds of porcelain, oops, the life of the Han people is really good, much better than the days when we only knew how to herd sheep and ride horses.

The profits of this small tribe were not high, and the leaders of the caravans did not even look down on their lords, so they just took a short rest, and then continued to the north without stopping, and then went around in a circle, returning from Xuanfu to Jingshi.

It was this kind of caravan that made many Mongols yearn for Han culture even more, and also made more people covet it.

Of course, the news that the caravan brought with the pass spread throughout the Mongolian steppe.

On this day, Kangkar, the minister of the Chahar Ministry stationed on the left wing, was summoning the lords of the left wing to dine at the main tent, on the one hand, to win over the hearts of the left wing who still had some respect for the Chahar Ministry, and on the other hand, to see if there were any thorns.

Suddenly, a Mongolian soldier with a scimitar at his waist walked into the tent and said:

"Newspaper, in the past few days, there have been rumors on the left wing that the Ming Emperor in Guannai has designated Guihua City as a religious trade center, and he wants to help the various ministries convert to Huangjiao there."

"It is also said that the three guards of Saibei have received an edict, and the leader of the three guards wants to take down the naturalization city of Tumut and hand it over to the Ming Emperor for merit."

The lord of a small department said casually:

"This little thing is also worth reporting today? Since the second year of the Apocalypse, which month has not been the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month? ”

"Chiefs, I thought that the city of Guihua was well defended, the Great Khan personally led the army to invade the Guannei, and the Ming Dynasty was too busy to take care of itself, even if the three guards of Saibei dared to send troops, they would not easily defeat the Tumut Department."

"The Tumut Department is now second only to Chahar among the Monan tribes!"

Kangkar thought about it, and finally felt that this news was not groundless, and if he went south to fight the grass valley, the Ming Dynasty would have a countermeasure, he said:

"Left-wing leaders, whether these rumors are true or not, it is better to be cautious!"

"In this way, from today onwards, the appearance of these rumors must be strictly prohibited in all departments of the left wing, and I think that the root of these rumors is those caravans that come out of the gates!"

"Only by cutting off rumors can we appease people's hearts, and fundamentally we must prevent caravans from going to various departments to sell goods!"

In the first half of the sentence, it hadn't stirred up too much wind and waves, but when I heard it, the lords on the left flank stopped doing it.

Without customs and trade, the annual "city reward" of several thousand taels will definitely be cancelled, and it will be a heavy blow to the left-wing departments at that time.

"Wait!"

One of the lords stood up, looked at Konkar coldly, and said:

"Maybe the left-behind ministers don't know that the customs and trade with Daming is a joint request from the leaders of our left-wing departments and Daming. Whether it is war or peace, it will not be affected, and it has not changed for decades! ”

"Many lords and subordinates in our ministry are waiting to trade with Daming before they can sell their cattle, sheep and horses, whatever they want, customs and trade must not be canceled!"

When it comes to self-interest, no one is not careful, especially these impoverished left-wing tribes, if there is no customs trade and "market rewards", their tribes will be even poorer.

The position of Konkar has been handed down since the time of Genghis Khan, and the remaining officials of the Mongol Great Khan in the left-wing tribes hold great power.

Although he no longer has real power now, Konkar himself is a close confidant of Lindan Batur and the lord of a powerful tribe, how can he allow these people from the left-wing tribes to jump in front of him.

He smiled faintly and asked rhetorically:

"If this is what the Great Khan meant, could it be that the left-wing tribes, like the Trans-Khalkha tribes, do not recognize the Great Khan of the Khar tribe?"

There is still no one in the left-wing tribes who does not dare to speak out about the great Khan of Lindan Batur, who is different from the Trans-Khalkha and the Inner Khalkha.

The five major tribes of Inner Khalkha, each of which is equivalent to an Eastern Tumut, also have a common alliance leader, once the Chahar Ministry is in a hurry to promote the union of the five major tribes, this power should not be underestimated.

Transkhalkha is now unified by a powerful lord, inseparable from the mysterious Tsarist Russia, and even Lindan Batur does not dare to act with it easily.

The left-wing tribes, to put it bluntly, are dozens of small tribes on the left side of Monan.

Next to them is Monan Mongolia, not far from Chahar headquarters, as soon as this truth comes out, Lin Dan Batur has an excuse to send troops to the left flank.

Lindan Batur has not been involved with the left, partly because he can't find an excuse at all, and partly because he is unnecessary.

The water and grass in this area of the left-wing departments are not as abundant and beautiful as those in the south of the desert, and they are generally poor.

The strength of the left-wing tribes is completely inferior to that of Monan, and with the current strength of Chahar, they can be easily defeated.

Konkar used this as a pretext to forcibly announce the order, and there was nothing to say, and the lords of the left wing had no choice but to respect the order, but they were very dissatisfied in their hearts.

Today's left-wing departments are actually trying to survive in the gap between the rising and growing Chahar Department and the Ming Dynasty.

They disobeyed Lin Dan Batur in order not to give him a good word so that he could attack him.

But at the same time, the left is heavily reliant on the Ming Dynasty's decades-long tariffs and market rewards, which would be a heavy blow to them if they were to be canceled.