Chapter 488: Good Protection
"If they don't come during the autumn harvest this year, then it should be next year's spring ploughing."
Wanyan Zonggan says:
"That Xu Shiyang especially likes to delay our farming, and winter is not suitable for the army to attack, we still have time to prepare."
"We don't have many mutinies, but we can reserve more gunpowder, guns, grain and grass."
Wanyan Zongbi also said:
"In a war with the Qi army, guns and gunpowder are very important, their artillery is too powerful!"
"If we fight head-on, even if we win, we will lose a lot, and we have to think of other ways."
Wanyan Zongwang finally said:
"Let's hope the people we sent out will convince Zamuhe and the Han Emperor to the south."
……
"Your Great Khan wants to ally with Ben Khan?"
Zamuhe sat on a large bearskin chair, squinted his eyes, and said nonchalantly to the Jurchen envoy kneeling at his feet:
"It seems that you were really beaten by that Xu Shiyang."
The Jurchens have always been able to suppress the Muguls militarily, especially last year when they annihilated the main force of the Mughal army, and almost took the life of Zamuhe himself.
Whether it is the Jurchens or the Muguls, for these barbarians, the one who can win on the battlefield is the master, and those who lose can only be slaves.
Simple, right?
Now that the Jurchens have won the war, they have taken the initiative to form an alliance, and are even willing to show some goodwill and release some of the captured Mughal captives.
As long as they are not stupid, anyone can see from this that the Jurchens are in a desperate situation.
"Great Gul Khan, our Dajin is indeed very difficult now, but we are confident that we can defeat the weak Han Chinese."
The Jurchen envoy kowtowed respectfully, and said in a calm and relaxed voice:
"It's just that if Daikin loses, will it really be good for Gulhan?"
"The death of your Jurchens is the greatest benefit to Ben Khan."
"Really? Not necessarily, right? ”
The messenger smiled and said:
"The minions have heard that the great Khan should value the interests of the whole country more than personal honor and disgrace."
"There have indeed been many conflicts and misunderstandings between Jin and Meng before, but the minions reminded Gulhan to think carefully, if the Han defeated Dajin, would they stop there?"
Hearing this, Zamuhe sneered: "That's a good question, but that was after you Jurchens perished first, so it has nothing to do with you." ”
"King Khan, don't forget, in the past twenty years, it is not only us Jurchens who have plundered the Han land! If the Han people want to take revenge, they will not only trouble us Jurchens! The minions heard that this year, the Han people also took advantage of the weakness of the Khan King to plunder the grassland? ”
These words pierced Zamuhe's sore spot.
Until now, he still feels that Xu Shiyang's original practice was to stab his allies in the back, which is quite immoral.
As for the previous small-scale raids by the Muguls who continued to enter the south of the Great Wall, it was not a matter at all in Zamuhe's eyes, on the contrary, he wondered why Xu Shiyang reacted so violently to such a trivial matter.
Although Xu Shiyang later signed a peace treaty with him, and both sides made a lot of benefits through the large-scale trade of wool, horses, tea, and salt, but immediately Xu Shiyang sent someone to force the Shanxi Shihou team, in Zamuhe's eyes, this is Xu Shiyang once again put his hand into his pocket.
Moreover, if the Shanxi Shihou switched to the Qi State, then there is a big difference between placing the market traded by Qi and Meng in Datong and placing it in the Qi State?
Zamuhe has always felt that, at least at this point, he was deceived by Xu Shiyang.
The silence of Mughal Khan made the Jurchen envoy see an opportunity, and he continued in a slightly excited tone:
"Is the Great Khan really willing to let all the Muguls live forever in the barren steppe? In fact, the Jurchens and the Muguls are friends who should stand together! ”
"As long as the Qi State is destroyed, our Great Khan is willing to share all the wealth and silk women of the Qi Kingdom with you equally!"
Zamuhe asked coldly, "Deuce?" How to divide it? ”
"This can wait until after the destruction of the Qi State, and then you will discuss with our Khan King."
"It's not that Ben Khan can't talk to you, but Ben Khan thinks you may not live that long."
Zamu said thoughtfully:
"Ben Khan got the news that the Qi army is gathering on a large scale, although I don't know where it is going, but Ben Khan guesses that eighty percent is going to you, right?"
"If they really go to Liaodong, it won't be a trivial matter of thousands of cavalry harassing for a month or two, and I don't think I should make friends with people who are dying."
"Hehe, before the Han dog is dispatched, his whereabouts have been exposed, and my Dajin has half a year to prepare, so why can't I win?" The Jurchen envoy forced a smile and said, "If my Dajin wins this time, will the Khan King be willing to negotiate an alliance with my master?" ”
"Yes, as long as you can win."
Zamuhe doesn't mind being a wall between the Qi Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom at all, and reaping the benefits at both ends.
"So, can the Khan sell some of our grain and livestock?"
The messenger then asked:
"I can pay for it."
The Jurchens were rich.
In the past, it was the Jurchens who plundered the Central Plains the most, and their productive forces were underdeveloped, resulting in a large number of gold, silver and jewelry that could not be eaten or drunk piled up in the cellars of various noble families.
Now that the Bo Jilie have also figured it out, these riches are piled up in their hands, and sooner or later they will become the spoils of the Qi army, so it is better to spend them to buy some urgently needed supplies.
"Ben Khan doesn't have that much food here, but if you want, a hundred and a stone, Ben Khan will help you raise a little from elsewhere."
The Mengwu grassland borders Qi, Xia, the Western Regions and other places, and if the money is in place, he does have a way to smuggle some grain.
"Okay, the slave can agree first, our master plans to buy 10,000 stones first."
One million guan buys 10,000 stones, this bit of food is nothing to the entire Jin country, but it is a charcoal in the snow, so that the Jin army can have rations to survive the most dangerous spring next year.
That's enough.
"The minion has one more request." The Jurchen envoy gave another head to Zamuhe.
Zamuhe said lazily: "Say, it's not bad. ”
"The slave wants to borrow the grassland to go to the mountains."
"What are you going to do there?"
"Let your masters, your worldly people recognize the situation clearly, and don't follow the Han dog of Qi State to go the wrong way."
The envoy deliberately emphasized the "Age of Zamuhe", which made him feel that it was indeed quite acceptable.
"If you think this works, go for it." Zamuhe said indifferently: "Ben Khan sent someone to send you. ”
"Xie Da Khan!"
Another rattle.
"By the way, after talking about it for a long time, Ben Khan still doesn't know your name."
Zamuhe finally asked:
"You sound a bit like you're Han Chinese."
"The slave is good at protecting it, he is a real Jurchen, he just likes the culture of the Han people and has read a lot of Han poetry and books."
"I see."
……
After Shanbao left, Zamuhe waved a cronie and ordered, "Send someone to follow him and see what he has to say to the world." ”
"Ben Khan thinks this man is as cunning as the Han Chinese."