The roar of artillery fire was endless, but at this time, the handsome tent was as quiet as water, and almost everyone looked at Sun Jiagan silently, as if they were pinning their hopes on using this invisible pressure to overwhelm the arrogance of the other party.

Tushetu Khan Wangzar Dorji's face was even more gloomy as if he was about to drip water, he looked at Sun Jiagan coldly, and after a long time, it seemed to change his face, and he smiled bitterly and said: "Mr. Sun, Ben Khan has just offended a lot, and Mr. forgive me." ”

Sun Jiagan no longer had the arrogant look just now, but smiled: "The Great Khan is polite, Sun also has a place to do things, since everyone can talk about it, then it is better to talk about the following things." ”

With the easing of the attitude of the two, the atmosphere in the big tent also eased instantly, and Dashdun Dobu hurriedly ordered the servants to bring up a roasted whole sheep that was roasted to a golden brown, and the rich aroma came to the nose, coupled with the fat that was almost dripping from it, but it made everyone's hearts move.

Sun Jiagan was funny in his heart, he ate dried naan when he didn't wait to see him before, and now he eats roasted whole sheep when he asks for it, which shows that the Mongolians are not really honest people, and the skills of seeing the wind and steering the rudder are not bad.

Tushetu Khan pulled out the small silver knife on his waist, cut off a piece of meat on the leg of mutton, put it on the silver plate in front of Sun Jiagan, and said with a smile: "Mr. Sun, the three Khalkha tribes are not only my Tushetu Khan department, but also the Chechen Khan department and the Zasaktu Khan department....... Even if you want to take refuge in Da Chu, you have to make a price, don't you? ”

"Everything is as old as the Monan Tribes."

Sun Jiagan's face was very calm, and he spit out a sentence lightly.

"Bang-"

Tushetu Khan stabbed the silver knife on the leg of mutton, and due to the excessive force, the silver plate and the table made a collision sound, and he stared at Sun Jiagan with murderous aura in his eyes.

The atmosphere in the tent changed abruptly, and the rest of the Mongols also glared at Sun Jiagan, and some people had even pressed their hands on the hilt of their swords, waiting for the Great Khan to give an order, and then beheaded the damned Han man.

Sun Jiagan didn't have the slightest emotion on his face, he just grabbed the mutton under the silver knife of Tushetu Khan, put it directly in his mouth, chewed the mutton in a big gulp, and said with a smile: "Since there is good meat, how can there be no good wine?" ”

"Come on, give Mr. Sun a jar of stuffy donkeys, Ben Da Khan wants to accompany Mr. Sun to drink."

Tushetu Khan waved his hand, but he did not have a murderous aura, but instead teased Sun Jiagan.

From time to time, someone brings a jar of wine, which is pasted with mud seals, and can smell a strong aroma of wine when it is not approached, this so-called stuffy donkey wine is actually the liquor brewed by Monan Mongolia, it is said that it has appeared as early as the Wanli period, because of the strong aroma of wine, provoke the donkey in the downtown to drink drunk and lie down, loud and loud, and was ridiculed by a scholar, and this wine is named because of the poem with "stuffy donkey".

Although the name is very rough, Sun Jiagan has also tasted this kind of wine in Shanxi, knows that the wine is quite powerful, and understands that Tushetu Khan is interested in seeing him joke, and immediately said: "The Great Khan has good wine to give, Sun naturally does not dare to disobey, but also asks the Great Khan to know that Sun is fine when he is drunk, but if he is drunk, he will delay the big event." ”

Tushetu Khan sneered, and then asked the mud seal to be opened, poured the wine into the bowl of the two, and drank a bowl each, but both of them were massive, so there was no change.

"Mr. Sun, Mobei is not as good as Monan, even if he was Kangxi Ye at the beginning, he never turned my Khalkha Sanbu into his dog in the Qing Dynasty....... Today, Mr. Sun, don't you want to let Ben Khan follow the old example of Mo Nan with just one sentence? ”

Sun Jiagan sighed softly, "Great Khan, Sun naturally didn't just come with his mouth, but also brought His Majesty's sincerity......."

Before he could finish speaking, Sun Jiagan took out a fold from his arms, and on the cover it was written "Discussion on Ensuring Production and Promoting Commerce and Development of the Ministries of Monan", which was obviously a text version of the policies implemented by the Ministries of Monan, of course, all of which were translated in Mongolian.

Tushetu Khan took the fold, opened it and looked at it carefully, but as he looked at it, his expression became more and more unpredictable, and he was silent for a long time when he saw the end.

"Great Khan, what did His Majesty of Chu State say?" Seeing that Tushetu Khan was silent, Dashdun Dob hurriedly asked, and it was obvious that everyone in the tent was tickled by this letter.

Tushetu Khan didn't care, and directly handed the excerpt to Dashdun Dob, and he also had a complicated face after reading the excerpt, and then handed it to others, but when those who were hot-tempered and didn't finish reading it, they only saw the so-called strategy to stop the nomadism, but they roared loudly: "What? Let's honor him as the Great Khan of All Mongolia, and stop the nomadism? ”

Sun Jiagan rightly said: "That's true. ”

"Woo Leng—"

When the Mongolian prince saw Sun Jiagan admit frankly, he immediately pulled out the scimitar at his waist, put it on Sun Jiagan's neck, and sneered: "Since this is the case, then I will look at your head and send it to your Mongolian Great Khan!" ”

"Montugui, stop!"

Tushetu Khan had a little anxious look on his face, he didn't dare to let Sun Jiagan be killed, otherwise Emperor Ningchu would be angry and attack Khalkha from the rear, but it would not be something that the current three departments could easily resist.

Sun Jiagan was not half afraid at the moment when the scimitar was on his neck, if he was really afraid, he would not agree to Ning Zhongyi to come to Mobei, for a Confucian scholar like him, death is not a way back, but a kind of performance of dying, especially dying for the country, which is even more glorious through the ages.

Thinking of being able to go down in history in the future and be admired by thousands of people, Sun Jiagan was not only not afraid of death, but looked at Montuji with a provocative eye, and the meaning was quite obvious.

Come on! Kind of kill me!

Montugui is also a hot-blooded man, how can he be so provoked? Regardless of the moment, he waved his scimitar, ready to chop off Sun Jiagan's head.

At this moment of crisis, Dashtondob hurriedly swung his knife to block Monttuji's knife, and then angrily reprimanded: "The Great Khan told you to stop, how dare you do this? Don't quit yet! ”

Montuji stared at Sun Jiagan for a while, and then snorted coldly, put the scimitar into the scabbard, and came out of the big tent.

Sun Jiagan smacked his lips, as if he was more or less disappointed, and no longer continued to provoke, but said very sincerely: "You should read it first, and then talk about it after reading it." ”

After such a turmoil, the others also watched it one by one, and because of the precedent of Montuji, no one did anything else, and Tushetu Khan kept watching coldly and did not express any opinion.

Dashdun Dob took the lead in speaking: "Your envoy doesn't know, my Mobei Mongolia and Monan Mongolia have always practiced different systems, and Mo Nan has the inland aid and can also carry out the policy of stopping nomadic herding and revitalizing industry and commerce, but my Mobei Mongolia is even more desolate and remote, even ordinary merchants will not come here, if they are not nomado, I am afraid that everyone will starve to death......."

Sun Jiagan also considered this issue before he came, and said with a smile at the moment: "Stopping nomadism is not an overnight thing, according to Your Majesty's plan, after Mo Nan completely stops nomadism and carries out the county restructuring, Mo Northern Mongolia will start to stop nomadism....... It will take at least ten years or so. ”

"In the past ten years, you can also look at the changes in Monan Mongolia, especially the living standards of their people, which will definitely be more than double that of now, dare not say anything else, at least from this year, Monan Mongolia will never starve to death because of the white plague."

Hearing Sun Jiagan's words, the people in the tent began to whisper, you must know that in the Mongolian tribe, the white plague is no better than others, it is a real catastrophe, whether it is the population or livestock, a large number of people will die in the white plague.

Generally speaking, in the Mongolian steppe, every year from October to May of the following year, there may be white disasters, if it is just an ordinary heavy snow, livestock may still pick up the snow layer to eat grass, but if the snow is warm and then cool, it is easy to form a layer of ice shell, livestock not only can not eat grass, but also susceptible to ice shell scratches, it is easy to starve to death.

In the tribe, livestock is the most important productive force, and the big guys usually eat goat's milk or cow's milk, and it is impossible to slaughter livestock in their spare time, even if they are like the Great Khan, they will not eat roasted whole sheep all at once.

However, when the snow disaster comes, the livestock will die in large numbers, and the population will not have enough cow and sheep milk and its auxiliary food supply, and they will also starve to death in this season, so it can be said that every time the white plague comes, the tribe will lose a large number of people.

Tushetu Khan also understood this truth, so he really couldn't believe what Sun Jiagan said, so he could only sigh and say: "Mr. Sun, if this is really the case, this Great Khan naturally does not dare not disobey my Great Chu, but now it is just your empty words, how can you teach people to be convinced?" ”

Sun Jiagan smiled slightly, "It's better to do this, Sun Mou made an agreement with the Great Khan, and when Sun Mou returned to the court, he should personally ask His Majesty for reinforcements for the Great Khan, and the Great Khan waited until next year, and then saw if there would be people starving to death in the southern Luoli of the desert this year, if not, then the Great Khan would immediately accept my Great Chu's request, if there are people who starved to death, and follow the old practice and give the name of the Great Khan Zasak, how about it?" ”

Seeing Sun Jiagan's confident look, Tushetu Khan was really a little hesitant at the moment, but no matter what he said about this bet, he would not suffer, and he agreed immediately: "Okay, if this is really the case, not only my Tushetu Khan is willing to listen to Your Majesty's handling, but even the Zasaktu Khan and Chechen Khan, Ben Khan is also willing to persuade Your Majesty." ”

"Okay, then it's a deal!"

Tushetu Khan smiled and cut his palm with a silver knife, dripping blood into the wine bowl, and then handed the silver knife to Sun Jiagan, looking at the other party with a smile.

Sun Jiagan took the silver knife, but he was embarrassed, although he was not afraid of death, but he was afraid of pain, just looking at the smile on Tushetu Khan's face, he had to feel a little heart, gently cut his fingers with the knife, and dripped a few drops of blood into the wine bowl, and the red blood rose and fell in the wine.

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Nanjing City, Fengtian Palace, Great Dynasty Meeting.

For the officials of Ning Chu, today's great court meeting is naturally the most important court meeting since the beginning of the year, because this year is the first year that the Jingcha system is truly fully implemented, and Xue Haiyun, the new imperial historian of the left capital of the Imperial Procuratorate, has become the focus of attention of the court, and he is also the elder brother of Xue Haifeng, the political envoy of Jiangxi.

The two brothers of the Xue family have made great contributions in the previous gentry imperial examination cases, among which Xue Haifeng successfully replaced Qingfengzhi and became the political envoy of Jiangxi Zuobu, and Xue Haiyun was appreciated by the emperor when he presided over the investigation in Beijing, and successfully took over Li Fu's position as the imperial history of the left capital.

This time, Xue Haiyun, the new Imperial Shi of the Left Capital, took the lead in launching an attack on many power departments of the Executive Yuan in order to start the battle of Jingcha, such as the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Education, and many other departments were among them, and the most important crime was corruption, and an anti-corruption storm began to gradually blow to the entire imperial court.

For a time, the struggle over the Jingcha incident gradually expanded to the political dispute of the imperial court, such as today's Dachao meeting, where the cabinet and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will engage in a confrontation over these Jingcha lists and corruption cases, and almost all of them represent different forces behind both sides, most of whom hope to profit from this struggle.

When a few whips sounded, Ning Yu, escorted by the female officials, walked to the throne on the Fengtian Palace, and quietly looked at the courtiers below.

"If there is something to do, it will be played early, and there will be nothing to retreat."

Normally, there would be no deliberations at the Imperial Court, but today everyone knows that the Cabinet and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will be clear about the Jingcha matter, so someone will play it soon, but they will just watch quietly.

"The minister has a play."

Sure enough, Lin Yufeng, the right deputy of the Imperial Inspectorate, decisively fired the first shot, he was a middle-aged man in his early forties, holding a fold in his hand and handing it to the female official, and then said loudly: "Back to Your Majesty, the results of the Jingcha have been released, and I also ask Your Majesty to make a decision on the Imperial Inspection." ”

Ning Yu nodded lightly, he knew that Lin Yufeng was a cronie promoted by Xue Haiyun all the way, and he had been supervising the imperial history in the local area in the past, because he was upright and strong, some people even called him 'Lin Gangfeng', you must know that 'Gangfeng' is Hai Rui's number, but it is not a title that ordinary people can afford.

Thinking of this, Ning Yu glanced at Lin Yufeng, and then looked at the folds that had been rolled out, only to see that many of the evaluations written on it were extremely spicy, and most of them only got the middle and lower, like the lower middle and lower There are also many people, and there are even several of them.

In the end, there are very few in the middle level, the middle and the upper and lower, and they can be counted clearly with two hands, and there is no one in the upper middle, and as for the upper and lower levels, it is customary not to grant ministers, so it is normal that this is not not.

According to the practice of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the law of Jingcha is usually examined with the "four grids" and "eight laws", the so-called four grids refer to the guard, government, talent, and year, and each grid is listed as competent, diligent and service according to its achievements. Among them, like Shou, on behalf of integrity, honesty, peace, and greed; Politics, on behalf of government affairs, diligent, peaceful, and lazy; Cai, divided into long, flat and short; Nian refers to age, which is divided into young, middle, and old.

As for the so-called "Eight Laws", they refer to greed, coolness, inaction, carelessness, old age, illness, impetuousness, and weak talents, and those who violate the "Eight Laws" will be punished by questioning, dismissal, or demotion, and those who are old and sick will retire.

Because during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Jingcha system basically existed in name only, so Ningyu did not choose this way to inspect officials, or according to the examination law to approve, among which those who were ranked inferior would be removed from the list and dismissed, and those who were ranked higher had the right to be promoted to the examination.

Of course, the Jingcha is aimed at officials of the sixth grade and above, and the officials below the sixth grade are handed over to the provincial procuratorate for external inspection.

Therefore, if it is dealt with according to the Jingcha in front of Ning Yu, then a large number of officials above the sixth rank of Ning Chu will be laid off.