Mughal Khan Zamuhe has been in a very bad mood lately, so much so that the closest concubines and the most honorable captains do not dare to approach the Great Khan easily.

Is it the reason, isn't it that Xu Shiyang first played the Great Khan like a monkey, and then stomped on the face of the Great Khan in public.

Originally, the Great Khan and the prince of the Qi State had already negotiated that the market would open in Datong, and merchants from both sides could trade freely.

The Great Khan felt that Jin Province was his territory, so for the sake of the Mengqi Alliance, he agreed.

As a result, the ink of the peace treaty was not dry, and the Qi army attacked Jin Province, and the two princes who originally belonged to the Mengwu were either defeated or directly transferred to the Qi State, completely out of the control of the Mengwu.

As a result, Datong naturally fell into the hands of Qi under the protection of the wings of the Muguls, and the Mughurs went to Datong to trade, which became a trade in the territory of Qi.

In the country of Qi to do business, the bow and knife are not used, in the past, if they saw something that they could not afford, the Mughal people could directly rob it, but in the country of Qi, this is definitely not possible.

That's not all, the Mughurs trade in Datong, and they also need to pay stamp duty and customs duties, which is very annoying - it has been a long time since the Han people dared to collect taxes from the Muguls.

In addition, Shanxi entered the control of the Qi State, so the 1.4 million yuan of wealth and silk that the prince paid every year in the past was naturally canceled.

This was a lot of money for Zamuhe, and when he was defeated in successive battles on the battlefield against Jin, he relied on this money to win over the small Mughal tribe and maintain his status as the co-leader of the Mughu.

Now that he has no money, what will Zamuhe do to reward the foreign tribes who support him?

If there is no benefit, why should people continue to support him?

In fact, the Mughurs are still only a geographical concept, and even in their own eyes, all the Muguls are not the same people.

For example, the Monghurs in Mobei like to call themselves Khalkha, and the Mongwu in Modong are Korqin, Warat in Moxi, Tumut in Monan, and Chahar, the core tribe under the control of Zamuhe.

Except for Chahar, who was truly loyal to Zamuhe, the other tribes actually had their own khans, but among these khans, Zamuhe was the most powerful and had enough money and food to buy the lower herdsmen, so he became a co-lord to some extent through several internal wars.

A long time ago, the Mughurs once had a co-master, at that time the Liao State that suppressed the grassland was destroyed by the newly rising Jurchens with lightning speed, and the shackles imposed by the Khitans on the Mughurs were shattered, so the Mughurs quickly rose up and unified into a country called Dayuan.

However, as the Zhou people moved south, the Jurchens repeatedly failed to cross the river, and when they began to set their sights on the grassland, the Mughal Great Yuan, which was actually just a large tribal alliance, was quickly defeated and died.

This is also the main reason why the Muguls always do not deal with the Jurchens, and in fact, it is also one of the reasons why the Xu family was able to survive in the cracks and eventually grow into the behemoth of the Qi State.

Of course, this is not important, the important thing is that Zamuhe has always wanted to rebuild the original Great Yuan that unified the entire grassland, so he attaches great importance to his prestige.

And Xu Shiyang's deception and cruel methods against the actions of the Mughal envoys made Gulhan Zamuhe lose face.

There were already many high-ranking nobles who privately rumored that Zamuhe was not the Great Khan favored by the Immortal Heavens, and was not suitable to lead the entire Mughul people.

Reflected in reality, even in the grassland, the desert Khalkha, which is also regarded as a frontier wilderness, began to evade the conscription of Zamuhe, and the tribute to him became more and more thin.

Instead, the Khalkha began to try to avoid Zamuhe, while trading with the Wanyan Zonggan and Qi people in the Heilongjiang valley for various necessities.

The Horqin people have the intention of clashing with the Qi people, and they have always had a bad idea of the fertile Liaodong.

The Warats preferred to participate in the war in the Western Regions, as they were devout Buddhists who needed to resist the Zoroastrian invasion of Pars.

Whether they wanted to go east or west, the only unanimous view was that they could not accept the rule of a weak Great Khan.

Zamuhe was very anxious about the gradual detachment of his subordinates, but he really didn't dare to turn his face with Xu Shiyang, go to the battlefield to find face, and take back Shanxi.

A few days ago, when Xu Shiyang stripped his deputy and tied him upside down on a donkey and sent him back, he really had the impulse to set up a large army to fight Xu Shiyang.

But then, in the process of assembling troops, information came from the south that the Qi State mobilized an army of 500,000 (real number) to defeat the million-strong army (imaginary number) of the Zhou people in Jiangnan, and at this time, Xu Shiyang himself was still besieging Datong with his army.

This means that the military strength of the Qi State is unfathomable, far more than the 100,000 field army that is claimed to the outside world on the surface.

What's more, there is also the lesson of last year's Qi Army's War to Sweep the North, and Zamuhe lacks full confidence in the combat effectiveness of his subordinates.

He didn't dare to fight, and he couldn't come up with a peaceful solution to the problem, so Zamuhe could only sulk by himself.

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Like Zamuhe, who was in a very bad mood, there was also Emperor Longdao of the Great Zhou.

He had just received news that the officers and troops led by Tong Guanshuai had retreated to the south of the Huai River and confronted the Qi army across the river.

Therefore, this military campaign that Emperor Longdao insisted on advancing has ended in complete failure.

Of course, Tong Guan reported that after a fierce battle, the whole army lost 300,000 people (taking the opportunity to erase some empty salaries and pay more for compensation), killing and wounding 400,000 Qi troops and turning into victory.

What is the actual situation, even Emperor Longdao, who grew up in the deep palace, can figure out a thing or two - how many people are there in the entire Qi country? killed and injured 400,000 people at one time, how could it be that a city of Qi was not taken down, and Weng Shuping was trapped.

The failure of this military operation had serious political consequences.

It is nothing for the State of Qi to officially break away from the Great Zhou and stand on its own, after all, it is a matter of time before it is a matter of time.

The political credibility of Emperor Longdao is a big problem, because he failed to get the unanimous support of the political hall when he sent the army, and the defeat of the army is naturally not to blame on the deacons, and it can only be the emperor who bears the responsibility - Tong Guan is a eunuch, and no matter how high his status is, he is not qualified.

This means that he has given the political hall a good excuse, and if he does anything in the future, the political affairs hall will remind him of the failure of this obstinate military operation, and use this to veto the emperor's decision.

The emperor couldn't say anything more, after all, he had suffered such a fiasco for the first time when he had made such a major decision.

Emperor Longdao was bent on reviving the dynasty, but now he found that the more he did, the more he made mistakes, how could this be reconciled?

Therefore, Emperor Longdao was very depressed, and he decided to be quiet for a while, and let the political affairs hall do his best, if they could suffer a similar fiasco, then he would have a chance to re-dictate himself.

During this period, he only had to quietly develop the forces of his most loyal ministers—such as Weng Shuping, the right-hand governor of Huainan who actively responded to his efforts to cut down the Qi domain.