After the officials of the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Tang Dynasty officially negotiated with Tagri, Tagri was helpless and speechless!

These officials of the Tang Dynasty said that the conditions were basically the same as those discussed before, and they wanted horses but did not want to pay the price, so he could only propose once again that he had a secret letter from Altan Khan in his hand, hoping to hand it over to the Tang Emperor in person.

However, the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs still rejected the request cleanly!

If you have a secret letter to submit, you can, just hand it over to us and hand it over, why do you have to hand it over in person, how can the Son of Heaven see it if you want to.

Tarri really can't help it, it's not a matter to continue to drag it on like this, although Altan Khan said that he should hand over this secret letter in person, but now, he can only be flexible, and then proposed, it can also be transferred, but the secret letter is very important, it must not be transferred at will, and it must be handed over to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in person.

He can't see the Tang Emperor, but he should always be able to see the book of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs!

For Tagri's request, the negotiation team of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs discussed it, and then submitted it to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the squire to make a decision, and finally the Ministry of Foreign Affairs agreed to Tagri's request, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Shangshu personally went to pick up the letter, and then forwarded it to the Holy Son of Heaven.

After all, Tagri has always been talking about how important this secret letter is, although he doesn't know what is written in it, but he just handed over the letter to take a look, and it won't lose a single hair, so soon, this secret letter was in Li Xuan's hands.

Hearing the secret letter from Altan Khan, Li Xuan was naturally a little interested, although he didn't know what kind of confidence the Tatars had to make them so confident, saying that they would change their minds after seeing this secret letter.

Lao Tzu is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and he never changes the decisions he makes, unless he ......

Well, this is unless, let's study it carefully according to the situation......

At first glance at this letter, it is written in Chinese, well, this character is quite ugly, not bad, but thinking that this is a letter from Altan Khan, Li Xuan is not surprised, you can't expect a barbarian leader to write a handful of elegant Chinese characters.

The ugliness of the words proves that it is very likely that this letter was written by Altan Khan himself, and not by someone else!

Unfolded the letter and looked at it carefully, but Li Xuan's eyebrows slowly wrinkled!

The number of words on this secret letter was not much, and he quickly read it, but the content of the letter made him unhappy.

On the secret letter, Altan Khan didn't say much, just two things, the first thing, Altan Khan said that according to the news on their steppe, the central Mongolian ten thousand households, that is, the Chahar Department, have been determined to be co-opted by the King of Liaodong Hui, and 100,000 iron horsemen are about to be used by the King of Liaodong Hui!

Moreover, many of the Jurchen tribes in the Northeast were also pulled in by King Hui of Liaodong.

Not to mention the Duoyan Sanwei who was originally in this area.

There is more definite news that King Hui is about to unite with the above-mentioned departments and prepare to launch a large-scale counteroffensive, and the goal is directly aimed at Youzhou!

This Liaodong Huiwang, the means are not simple!

In the past few months, Li Xuan has always believed that there is only one obstacle left to unify China, that is, Sichuan Jingwang, or more precisely, Zhang Yue in the southwest, as long as Zhang Yue's supervision is killed, Sichuan Jingwang will basically be finished.

That's why after conquering Youzhou City this year, the strategic center of gravity was shifted to the south and placed on the Huguang side, but the military presence was maintained in the Hebei region, although there were small and medium-sized battles, but the large-scale strategic offensive has been stopped.

But what he didn't expect was that in just a few months, the situation in the north had changed so significantly!

Ma Dan, these two sons of Emperor Zhengde, none of them are fuel-efficient lamps, no wonder the Military Intelligence Department said earlier that the battle for succession on the side of the Ming Dynasty was very strong, and the prince, the third prince, and the six princes fought endlessly.

In the first half of the year, they successfully killed Emperor Zhengde, and then it didn't take long for the prince to be killed, but there was an idea that King Hui, who went to Liaodong, and King Jing, who went to Sichuan, were able to make such a big noise.

In the past, I still didn't understand that Emperor Zhengde wanted to abolish the crown prince for Mao, and wanted to set up three princes or six princes, but now it seems that Emperor Zhengde's idea is correct, if his prince is as waste as Emperor Shaowu of the former Ming Dynasty, he will also want to abolish this person and change his son to be the prince!

King Jing, the third prince, now has the support of Zhang Yue in Sichuan, and he is very stable.

The sixth prince, King Hui, tossed around in Liaodong for a few months, and it turned out that he had won the support of so many Mongolian and Jurchen tribes, and even North Korea supported them.

You must know that after the Chahar Department moved, it had been fighting with the Ming Dynasty, but King Hui of Liaodong didn't know what means he used, and he actually united the Chahar Department.

Madan, I'm so angry!

I am the Holy Monarch of the Ages, the awesome figure who unified China, you second goods, you are not optimistic about Lao Tzu to please Lao Tzu, and you actually went to help King Hui of Liaodong!

To be honest, this incident made Li Xuan very unhappy, very unhappy, quite unhappy!

The second thing Altan Khan said was to pay tribute!

Altan Khan said that he was willing to accept the canonization of the Tang Dynasty, so as to be a vassal of the Tang Dynasty, and the two sides of Mongolia and the Tang Dynasty were reconciled forever, and later he also said that if the Tang Dynasty was in need, then he could also help the Tang Dynasty attack the Mongol tribes in eastern Mongolia, including the Chahar and other tribes.

This second thing made Li Xuan a little happy, but Li Xuan felt that it was not enough!

Called the minister Nagong? If Altan Khan really surrendered, led the tribe to join the Tang Dynasty, became a vassal state under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, accepted the governance of the officials sent by the Tang Dynasty, let the Tang Dynasty garrison the army, and then by the way, Altan Khan could not recruit the army himself, then Li Xuan naturally welcomed this matter very much, he didn't care whether it was a vassal country or a province, as long as the tribe could be used for its own use, then it would be enough.

But the meaning of Altan Khan is obviously not this, the title of minister and tribute in his mouth is only in name, in fact, the Tang Dynasty has no way to actually govern Tatar, let alone garrison or something.

Nominally called the minister Nagong, Li Xuan didn't dare to be interested in this matter!

When the Tang Dynasty frees up its hands and pockets the entire grassland in the future, what other vassal states are needed there, it is the territory directly under the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty!

As for helping him attack the many tribes in the east, Li Xuan would not believe that he was kind, he even believed that it was Altan Khan who originally wanted to fight the Chahar tribe.

Altan Khan's Tumut and Chahar tribes were mortal enemies, one was the left wing of Mongolia and the other was the right wing of Mongolia.

And similar relations are actually Warat and Tatar, they are all peoples on the grassland, in order to unify the grassland, fight each other for hegemony, similar relationship is the same as the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, that is the real mortal enemy, the kind that never dies.

The Tatars and the Tang Dynasty can still have room for an armistice and peace, which is nothing more than an exchange of interests, but it is impossible to reach any peace agreement between the Tatars and the Warats, the Tumut and the Chahar tribes.

Even if the Tang Dynasty did not appear, it is estimated that Altan Khan would think about how to fight Chahar or Wara every day.

After carefully analyzing the situation on the steppe, and then looking at the current situation of Altan Khan, Li Xuan felt that Altan Khan's current situation was probably a little bad.

Before Altan Khan led 50,000 cavalry south to the Central Plains, although it was said that he occupied a lot of border towns and cities, and also plundered a lot of property, but it was a loss of soldiers, with more than 10,000 casualties, which was definitely a strategic mistake for Altan Khan.

Moreover, most of the Tatar cavalry in the south at that time were killed and wounded by soldiers from other tribes, but the Tumut department directly under Altan Khan did not suffer many casualties, which caused dissatisfaction among other tribes.

Although it is not possible to know the situation inside Tatar in detail, Li Xuan can think of it with his toes, and it is estimated that Altan Khan will always be busy suppressing civil strife after returning to the steppe.

There is internal strife, and there is an external threat from the Chahar Department and Warat, it is conceivable that Altan Khan should now urgently need to stop the war with the Tang Dynasty, and it is best to get some supplies from the hands of the Tang Dynasty to tide over the immediate difficulties.

Take advantage of this opportunity and it is entirely possible for you to reap greater benefits!

At this time, he can continue to fight Altan Khan, let Altan Khan fall into a three-sided siege, and there is internal chaos, Altan Khan is very likely to be completely finished.

However, if you do this, there is a great possibility that the Chahar Department will be cheaper, and the Chahar Department is now joining forces with King Hui of Liaodong, and the Chahar Department is strong, and the strength of King Hui of Liaodong will be even stronger.

Now, Li Xuan is faced with a choice, whether to choose to let Altan Khan survive the difficulties and face a strong or even unified Mongolia in the future, or to sit back and watch Altan Khan finish, and then face the combined forces of King Hui of Liaodong and Chahar who have greatly expanded their strength.

Faced with such a choice, Li Xuan naturally couldn't make a decision at once, but handed the letter to a few ministers on duty in the imperial study and asked them to read it.

And after reading it, these courtiers also have different opinions, and even their opinions are directly opposite.

Qian Mengjiu thinks that King Hui of Liaodong is the henchman of the north, and he must give priority to killing them, if necessary, he can properly stop the war with Altan Khan, and even open the mutual market, so that Altan Khan can attack the Chahar Department to reduce the pressure on the Tang Dynasty, in this process, the Tang Dynasty can also get valuable horses, which can be used to develop large-scale cavalry, and after solving Liaodong in the future, send troops to attack Altan Khan!

But Liu Bagou and Tatar are the biggest threat, and King Hui of Liaodong is just a clown who jumps off the beam, at this time, it is necessary to fall into the well and weaken the strength of Altan Khan, and it is best to let the steppe fall back into chaos.

After the threat of Liaodong is resolved, the steppe troops will be sent to sweep through the steppe tribes, and in the process, horses can be obtained through other channels, such as Warat and Central Asia.

The opinions of these two parties, in fact, are unified, that is, they must kill King Hui of Liaodong and Altan Khan and completely solve the threat to the north, but the current difference is the order of priority, one thinks that King Hui of Liaodong should be fought first, and the other thinks that Altan Khan should be fought first!

Listening to everyone's discussion, Li Xuan set his eyes on Lei Wan, he needs the judgment and opinion of the army in this matter!

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