Möngkejire Khan was still thinking, but the Tatar nobles on the side were outraged by Marin's words:

"Yes, Muscovites just don't pay tithes!"

"yes, it's so damning!"

"They should be taught a lesson!"

"Yes, teach me a lesson!"

……

Möngkejire Khan looked at the generals below, where would he not know what they thought?

In the past, for the slave trade of an average of 70,000 or 80,000 gold coins a year, Möngkejire Khan would usually give half of it to his subordinates, and only half of it himself. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Now, seeing the windfall profits of more than one million gold coins every year, these subordinates are red-eyed again......

You must know that every year one million gold coins, according to the rules of the grassland, you will share half of it yourself, and your subordinates will share half of it. In the end, the annual benefits of his subordinates will exceed that of the slave trade by more than ten times, and the bastards under him will not be excited.

Of course, not only his subordinates were excited, but Möngkejire Khan himself was also very excited. Don't look at the fact that you can make a profit of 30,000 or 40,000 gold coins from the slave trade every year, but these 30,000 or 40,000 gold coins are to cover the expenses of the palace and the expenses of the direct subordinates of the Great Khan under his command.

The Crimean Khanate originally had a population of 250,000, and about 40,000 people were directly subordinate to the royal family of the Gelai Khanate. These 40,000 people are also an independent military and civil organization. It also costs a lot of money to manage and operate these 40,000 Khan Clans directly under the Khan Court every year. For example, those thousands and hundreds of households belonging to the Gelai family, as well as various civil officials, as well as the 2,000 elite soldiers directly under the Khan's court, all have to pay for themselves. Therefore, even if you can get 30,000 or 40,000 gold coins every year, you still can't make ends meet. Sometimes, the salaries of the subordinates are not paid in cash, and they can only be compensated with cattle and sheep. However, in the steppe country, who is short of cattle and sheep? Therefore, gold and silver were what the Crimean Khanate needed most. Because livestock may not be universal, and it is inconvenient to carry, but gold and silver are common throughout Europe and even the whole steppe......

To be honest, Möngkegire Khan also wanted to force the Grand Duchy of Moscow to pay tithes to him, but the thought of the 200,000 troops raised by the Grand Duchy of Moscow against Aheima Khan made Montgogire Khan also have a numb scalp. After all, although the Crimean Khanate was able to muster 70,000 or 80,000 cavalry, only 40,000 elite cavalry were really capable of fighting power.

Although the headquarters of the newly conquered Golden Horde contributed 150,000 people and was able to recruit more than 20,000 cavalry, Möngkejire Khan did not trust them much. With 40,000 cavalry against 200,000 troops, Möngkejire Khan himself was not very sure.

Thinking of the 200,000 troops, Möngkejire Khan came to his senses, and he calmly said to Marin:

"I suppose this is the true purpose of your envoy, right?"

Seeing the calm face of Möngke Jire Khan, Marin was also a little surprised. However, he did not panic, but said very calmly:

"Yes, that's one of my purposes, but Great Khan, am I wrong?"

Möngkejire Khan was also stunned when he heard this--yes, he knew that the other party was instigating himself to confront the Muscovites, but what the other party said was indeed right......

He claimed to have inherited the position of Great Khan of the Kipchak Khanate, but as the Great Khan of the Kipchak, he did have the right to tithes the Rus' states. Therefore, Marin said, there is no problem at all......

However, Möngkegire Khan continued:

"But Moscow can send 200,000 troops!"

Marin knew that it was an army of 200,000 people who were afraid of the Muscovites...... Earlier, I had a reason......

Marin had read the relevant history and knew that the decisive battle between Ivan III and Aheima Khan was very lucky. Strictly speaking, the Muscovites did not win, but forcibly scared away Aheima Khan. Moreover, Ahema Khan did not die at the hands of Muscovites, but from the army of the Siberian Khanate, which attacked halfway.

So, Marin replied:

"Great Khan, although the Grand Duchy of Moscow can muster an army of 200,000, only 20,000 of them are standing armies. Most of the remaining 180,000 people were recruited from among the peasants. Excuse me, can those peasants compare with the 40,000 elite cavalry soldiers under the command of the Great Khan? ”

Möngkejire Khan shook his head, and the Tatar nobles on the side were also full of disdain, looking arrogant and confident......

"Let's talk about the battle between the Muscovites who mobilized 200,000 troops and Aheima Khan, think about it, did the two armies fight in the end?"

Möngkegire Khan and the Tatar nobles shook their heads......

That's it, in fact, Aheima Khan was also frightened by the number of Muscovites' army of 200,000. After all, there are more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and there is no bound...... But in fact, the Grand Duke of Moscow at that time, Ivan III, was even more frightened than Aheima Khan, and fled back to Moscow halfway, and was forced to return to the front in fear only later......"

"Huh? Is there anything else going on? "The Crimeans present were full of interest. They all knew the ins and outs of the battle, but they didn't know the details. And those details were recorded by Muscovites at that time and passed down to future generations. In this day and age, it's impossible to leak it out casually. After all, the process is too humiliating......

Then, relying on memory, Marin told the humiliating performance of Ivan III in the battle in Tatar to all the Crimean nobles present. Möngkegire Khan and the Tatar nobles laughed with joy when they heard the plot of Ivan III being frightened into desertion. At the same time, they finally learned that most of the 200,000 Muscovites were used to support the façade......

At this time, Möngkegire Khan and the Tatar nobles were no longer afraid of the 200,000 troops of Muscovy......

Seeing that the Tatar nobles were relaxed, Marin took out the parchment drawings that had been prepared long ago and beckoned the Tatar nobles to come and watch. Möngke Gire Khan also followed curiously to watch......

Pointing to the map of the boundaries of the territory on the paper, Marin said to Möngkejire Khan:

"Great Khan, look, here is the Crimean Khanate, here is the Grand Duchy of Moscow. The Grand Duchy of Moscow is more than ten times larger than the area controlled by the Great Khan, and its population is also more than ten times that of the population under the Great Khan......"

The faces of Möngkejire Khan and the Tatar nobles who were watching changed. They usually didn't pay much attention to it, but it wasn't until someone put the map in front of them that they realized that the "little brother" they didn't think much of, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, had completely destroyed the Crimean Khanate in terms of land and population......

"Great Khan, my teacher once said that there is no room for two tigers in one mountain. In the Kipchak steppe, there is a country that far exceeds the Great Khan in terms of land area and population, and it is by no means a blessing for the Great Khan......"

Möngkegire Khan did not speak, but stared at the map specially marked in Tatar by Marin, and pondered for a long time...... Obviously, he was very touched......