Chang'an County is about the same as Lantian County, and it is bigger than Lantian County. There are more than 20,000 mouths in Lantian County and nearly 30,000 in Chang'an County.

There are not many large and small grain merchants in Chang'an County, and there are always 14 or 5 of them.

However, among the fourteen or fifteen grain stores, except for one that was opened and controlled by Jinyiwei, so the price remained the same as usual, and the remaining ten or so all adjusted the price of rice to five taels of silver and one stone.

However, these grain merchants have also fallen into bad luck.

If the county order of Chang'an County is fine, even if the price of grain in the county is high or low, even if it is all set at five taels of silver, as long as it can ensure that the victims of Chang'an County will not go hungry, then there is nothing to do. Emperor Chongzhen was not going to make a big fuss for the sake of a dozen or so grain merchants.

The bad thing about this thing is that the big guy just paid the killer to kill the ignorant county order, and before he had time to celebrate the unification of grain prices, Emperor Chongzhen came.

Of course, there is no need to think about celebrating or anything now, the army takes over the city defense, the brocade guards ride out, and take people according to the list, no one has to think about some things anymore.

If these grain merchants are famous in history, such as the level of the Eight Locust Merchants, or the level of Yuan Chonghuan, even if it is the level of Li Zicheng, then Emperor Chongzhen is still interested in personally trying the first instance and taking a look.

Now it's a lack of interest.

Zhu Gang was very interested.

For Zhu Gang, as the Eagle Dog of the Son of Heaven, he has the responsibility and obligation to share the worries of the Son of Heaven - since these people dare to dig into the corners of the Ming Dynasty and make the emperor unhappy, then he can't let them have any possibility of being happy.

Therefore, in the Chang'an County Prison that was taken over by Jinyiwei, a few prisoners who were supposed to be executed after the autumn enjoyed the treatment of early execution, and the rest were concentrated in a cell to make room for these dozen grain merchants.

Zhu Gang looked at the owner of Zhang Ji Grain Shop who was tied up with five flowers in front of him, but he didn't even bother to ask for a confession, so he directly reached out and picked up the leather whip stained with salt water and smoked it, which made the owner of Zhang Ji Grain Shop howl miserably.

After more than a dozen whips, Zhu just looked at the owner of Zhang Ji's grain shop in front of him and said, "Zhang Laocai, let's talk about it." There's somebody's business here. ”

Zhang Laocai knows very well that he is not a tough man at all, and the good meal just now, coupled with Zhu Gang's flying fish costume on the brocade guard, also made Zhang Laocai no longer report any hope: "The other dozen grain shops, Wu Ji, Chen Ji, Lu Ji, Xu Ji, these four are the leading, especially Wu Ji, his family is related to the Wu family in Zhejiang, so he is the most active." ”

Zhu Gang smiled: "Look, how good is this, you answered happily, and you don't have to suffer from these flesh and skin, right?" ”

After a pause, Zhu Gang continued to ask, "Then what does the owner of Wu Ji want to do?" ”

Zhang Laocai shook his head and said: "The villain doesn't know, he only knows that the Wu family in Zhejiang is collecting a lot of grain, and he is willing to buy it at the price of four taels of silver and one stone." ”

Zhu Gang saw that Zhang Caicai's expression did not seem to be fake, so he nodded, and continued: "Very good, you can go back." ”

After ordering someone to free Zhang Laocai and throw him back to the cell, Zhu Gang went on to interrogate Wu Ji's owner.

Just like the same style when interrogating Zhang Laocai, Zhu Gang first smoked Wu Youfa, the owner of Wu Ji, and then asked: "What does your Chang'an Wu family have to do with the Wu family in Zhejiang?" ”

Wu Youfa is used to being rich and noble on weekdays, how could he have been beaten like this? Wu Youfa felt that if he hadn't had too much fat on his body, he was afraid that he would be sucked to death at this time.

Wu Youfa, who felt that fat meat was a good thing for the first time in his life, gasped for a while, and then said to Zhu Gang: "Hui Yu, the villain is a distant relative of the Wu family in Zhejiang, but because the Wu family in Zhejiang said that they wanted to buy a large amount of grain at the price of four grains and one stone, so the villain collected grain in Shaanxi and other places, as for what to do with the grain over there, the villain is not clear." ”

Zhu Gang then asked, "Do you know Wu Qi?" ”

Wu Youfa nodded and replied, "Yes." A few years ago, when the villain went to Zhejiang, he met once. It's just that the villain is a side branch, his identity is embarrassing, and he is not as respected as the son of the head of the house, so he has no friendship. It's just that this time the price of grain has been raised, and the eldest prince is actually running. ”

Zhu Gang nodded, and ordered someone to send Wu You back to the cell, and then went back to report to Emperor Chongzhen.

Emperor Chongzhen, who got the reward, is also a big head - how can everything be inseparable from the wealthy businessmen in the southeast, are these fools dead without a bottom line?

I wanted to mention Wu Qi for a good interrogation, but this person is still being detained in the prison in Lantian County, and there is no good way to do it for a while.

Thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen simply decided to make things bigger-tens of thousands of heads landing together should be considered big?

After making up his mind, Chongzhen asked, "Wei Zhongxian, where are they now?" ”

Zhu Gang bowed down and replied: "Back to Your Majesty, according to the Jinyi Wei Feinu summons, Gonggong Wei and Tian Dudu should arrive in five or six days." ”

Chongzhen snorted and asked again, "How are the few people sent to the grassland before?" ”

Zhu Gang, who had long been accustomed to Emperor Chongzhen's leapfrog thinking, bowed down again and said, "Back to Your Majesty, the news from three days ago said that they had found Lin Dan Khan's royal court and moved dozens of miles east. ”

And Ren Zhen, the envoy of Lin Dan Khan, was standing at the gate of Lin Dan Khan's royal court with a dozen or so Mongolian cavalry and a dozen brocade guards, waiting to be summoned.

After Lin Dan Khan's order, Ren Zhen ordered the cavalry of the Mongol Ten Thousand Cavalry and most of the Jinyi Guards to wait outside, while he went to the two Jinyi Guards, ignoring the eyes of each in the royal court that wanted to cut him to pieces, and entered the king's tent with their heads held high.

Lin Dan Khan deliberately imitated the Zalu Huchi (judge) set up during the Great Yuan Dynasty to see Ren Zhen standing in the king's tent with such a big grin, and immediately shouted angrily: "When you see the Great Khan, don't kneel down!" ”

Ren has always smiled indifferently, and raised his head and said: "A certain is the envoy of the Heavenly Empire, and he does not worship the little king of foreign tribes in Fanbang!" ”

Zalu Huchi hadn't said anything yet, but his words annoyed Ezhe, who was standing aside, and he reached out and grabbed his saber, and prepared to go up and hack to death a dead eunuch like Ren Zhen.

Ren Zhen watched Ezhe approach step by step, but his face was not afraid, and he still had a sarcastic look on his face. Although the two brocade guards who accompanied him scolded the dead eunuch for his death, they drew their knives in their hands without saying a word, and protected Ren Zhen behind him.

Seeing that the battle between Ezhe and the two brocade guards was in front of him, Lin Danhan, who had been sitting on the sweat seat and never spoke, shouted: "Ezhe retreat!" ”

When Ezhe heard this, he glared at the two brocade guards hatefully, put the knife into the sheath, and retreated to the side.

The two brocade guards also secretly breathed a sigh of relief and retreated behind any real person.

Lin Danhan looked at Ren Zhen, who was still smiling and groaning in the tent, and said coldly: "Anyway, what did the emperor of the Ming Dynasty send you to do?" ”

Ren Zhen said: "According to the emperor's instructions, because of Lin Dan Khan's previous unfriendly behavior, it has brought great harm to my Ming and all ethnic groups in Mongolia, especially my Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the emperor of my family said that he ordered Lin Dan Khan to pay tribute of 10,000 catties of wool, 1,000 cattle, and 500 good horses to compensate.

In addition, as far as I know, it was Lingzi Ezhe who put forward the proposal to kidnap the people, and my emperor said that he took pity on the Great Khan to stop this son, so he charged Xixi to ask the Great Khan to kill the gentleman who taught Ezhe. ”

I want to fucking kill you bastard right away! And your bastard emperor!

Lin Dan Khan was already laughing angrily at this dead eunuch: "Don't you know what your emperor did on the grassland?" If you want to talk about compensation, it should be your emperor who compensates me for Great Mongolia! ”

Ren Zhen looked at Lin Dan Khan with a foolish look and said, "What does that have to do with me as a slave?" My emperor said that either you, Lin Dan Khan, obediently pay tribute and compensation, or my emperor will bring a large army to fetch it himself! ”

Lin Danhan was speechless for a while, and he pondered for a long time before he said: "Your envoy has worked hard from afar, why don't you rest first and talk about it tomorrow, okay?" ”

After speaking, regardless of whether Ren always agreed or not, Lin Dan Khan directly ordered: "Come here, take the messenger of the Ming Dynasty down to rest, send someone to protect it, and don't have a little bit of a bad pool." ”

After Ren Zhen went down to rest with the people arranged, Lin Danhan looked at the expressions of everyone in the tent, and suddenly felt tired in his heart.

For these heads, Na Yan, Lin Danhan only felt that this was a pile of mud, and there was no need to paste at all. Even if they were forcibly glued to the tent, they would not last three days.

Seeing that these leaders and Na Yan were all bowing their heads and silent, Lin Dan stroked his forehead with his hand and said, "What's wrong?" All dumb? Let's talk about it, what should I do with the envoy of the barbarian emperor today? ”

After pondering for a long time, Zalu Huchi Siqin spoke first: "Great Khan, the request of the Han emperor may not be dead, everything is still to be discussed. If he refuses, he is afraid that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty will not agree. ”

Ezhe, who has always been close to Jiannu in his heart, glared at Siqin and said, "Father Khan, my son thinks that we should continue to move eastward, join forces with Dajin State, and then go south to the Central Plains in the future. ”

Siqin looked at Ezhe, but sneered: "And then? We will become the minions of the Jurchen savages in the future? We also have to be like those traitors in Horqin, who were made up by the Jurchen savages why the Mongolian Eight Banners? I'm afraid that the face of the Golden Family will be lost by us! ”

"Then if we lean towards the Ming people, won't we lose the face of the Golden Family?" After speaking, Ezhe no longer paid attention to Siqin, and said directly to Lin Dan Khan: "Father Khan, when you continue to interrupt, you will suffer from it." If we meet the request of the Barbarian Emperor this time, I am afraid that there will be a next time, and next time, what will we do to satisfy the appetite of the Barbarian Emperor at that time? ”

I have to say that Ezhe has a very good grasp of Lin Dan Khan's psychology, and now Lin Dan Khan's heart is now gradually inclined to form an alliance with Dajin State.

If it was the emperor before the Ming Dynasty, he would have asked for some of it. Even if the arsonists enter the pass and plunder, as long as they say something nice afterwards and lower their posture, then it will still be what it should be. As for how many people died, that was not something that the superior should consider.

However, the current emperor of the Ming Dynasty is obviously different, and the current dog emperor is clearly going to borrow his own hand to balance the Dajin Kingdom, and he can't afford to lose, and the killing is too heavy.

Thinking of this, Lin Danhan couldn't help but shudder. According to legend, such an emperor has appeared several times in Daming - hatefully, he encountered such a bastard thing!

Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard someone report: "Qi Great Khan, the envoy of Dajin has arrived." ”

Lin Danhan swallowed back the words that came to his lips and ordered, "Bring them in." ”

After the envoy entered the king's tent, he first saluted Lin Dan Khan according to the rules: "Dai Lei, the envoy of the Dajin Kingdom, see the Great Khan." Compared with the style of the barbarian envoy of the Ming Dynasty, the envoy of Jiannu obviously won the favor of everyone in the king's tent, which makes people have to sigh that they are also Han people, and the Han people of Dajin Kingdom are much more lovely than the Han people of the Ming Dynasty.

Lin Danhan looked at the envoy and said lightly: "Your envoy has worked hard from afar. ”

Dai Lei bowed down and stroked his chest and said: "I heard that some unpleasant things happened between the Great Khan and the barbarian emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and my Great Khan of the Great Jin Kingdom is very concerned. On the orders of the Great Khan of my family, I came to discuss the alliance with the Great Khan. ”

Lin Dan Khan smiled: "What kind of alliance? Ben Khan and the Ming Dynasty have their own covenant, how can they be easily betrayed? ”

Easy betrayal? If you don't take it easy, will you betray? Dai Lei complained while saying to Lin Dan Khan: "How does the Great Khan not know the truth of cold lips and teeth? Now it's not that my Dajin country is powerful, but the barbarians of the Ming Dynasty are powerful, if you and I don't ally again, my Dajin country sits on the land of Liaodong, and there is nothing, how can the Great Khan deal with himself?

If you move north, you will be the Xiongnu of the year, and you will not go north again, will the Great Khan have to go back to the west? ”

Lin Danhan chuckled, Lao Tzu knows, but you don't give fucking benefits, so you want to form an alliance with Lao Tzu? Where is there such a good thing: "The truth is such a truth, but the noble envoy is also a Han Chinese, how can you not know, as long as this Khan is soft, it will still be normal in the future, sitting in the north and facing the south on this 10,000-mile grassland, why should you form an alliance with your Great Khan and be constrained by your Great Khan?"

Besides, your Khan is not having a good time, is it? ”

Dai Lei chuckled, bowed down again and said, "What the Great Khan said is extremely true, my life in the Great Jin Kingdom is indeed not easy. It's just that the days of the Great Khan may not be easy?

My Great Khan said that as long as the Great Khan is willing to form an alliance and move eastward and jointly put pressure on the Shanhaiguan area of the Ming Dynasty barbarians, he will never interfere in the affairs of the Chahar Department, and the Great Khan is still the Mongolian Great Khan who is full of words. Even if the Great Khan wants to regain the glory of the Golden Family, it is just around the corner. ”

Lin Dan Khan just snorted, still saying ambiguously: "Ben Khan knows." Your envoy has worked hard from afar, please go down and rest first, and talk about it tomorrow? ”

Dai Lei also knew that it was good to be able to talk about the current situation, and if he continued to talk about it, he was afraid that there would be no definite result, so he bowed down and said: "It depends on the arrangement of the Great Khan." ”