Wang Xi separated from Yun Xi when he left the lecture hall, and took a few guards to visit him in the public rental house assigned to Luo Guanzhong.

When Luo Rong opened the door and saw that it was a person wearing the costume of a four-grade eunuch, he immediately opened the middle door and said to Wang Xi with a smile: "The grass people have seen this father-in-law. ”

Wang Xi guessed that he should be Luo Guanzhong's nephew or something, because he thought that Yun Xi attached great importance to Luo Guanzhong, so he didn't put on the stand of the emperor's cronies and eunuchs, and said with a smile: "Mr. Xiao Luo doesn't need to be polite, our Wang Xi is here to visit Mr. Luo Guanzhong by the will of His Majesty." I don't know if Mr. Luo is here? ”

"Of course the grass people's father is here. It's just that in the past two days, because the weather is too hot, I have some heat stroke, and I am resting in the house. The grass people immediately took the prince to see the grass people's father. Luo Rong said, he was going to lead them to the backyard, and at the same time sent someone to wake up Luo Guanzhong.

"Don't wake up Mr. Luo, Your Majesty told our family not to disturb Mr. Luo, and don't wake him up if he is sleeping. Let's take a look on the sidelines, and it's okay to see Mr. Luo. Wang Xi said.

Luo Rong stopped his subordinates, and while taking Wang Xi to the house where Luo Guanzhong lived, he said: "My father is old now, and his body is not as healthy as when he was young, so he often suffers from various minor diseases. ”

"It's not a sloppy thing! When a person reaches this age, a small illness may become a major illness, so no matter what illness Mr. Luo has, you must not be careless. Wang Xi advised.

"Yes, Princess." Luo Rong said.

While talking, they had already walked to the door of Luo Guanzhong's house, the two stopped talking, Luo Rong gently pushed the door open, and let Wang Xi walk in.

Wang Xi looked at Luo Guanzhong's complexion, and then probed Luo Guanzhong's pulse, and felt that there should be no problem, so he planned to leave this house.

He looked around and saw a manuscript on the desk next to him, thinking that it was probably a new script or script that Luo Guanzhong was compiling, and he had to look at it casually when he picked it up.

But just then, he heard someone say, "Don't touch my manuscript!" ”

Wang Xi was startled, turned his head to look at Luo Guanzhong, who had woken up, put down the manuscript and said, "Mr. Luo is up?" Your Majesty asked our family to come to visit Mr. Luo. ”

Luo Guanzhong also came to his senses at this time, sat up straight and was about to go to the ground. Wang Xi hurriedly stopped him and said, "Mr. Luo doesn't have to be like this, our family is just visiting the old man on behalf of His Majesty, and the old man can just rest in bed." ”

Luo Guanzhong is indeed very weak now, and it is very difficult to stand up, so he sat on the edge of the bed without standing up, and said: "Your Majesty's kindness to the minister, the minister is grateful for the five. ……”

Then the two of them exchanged a few words with each other, and Wang Xi retired after completing his purpose.

But on the way back to the palace, he kept thinking: 'Why didn't Luo Guanzhong want me to read the manuscript I picked up?' Is it just the fault of the literati? ’

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On the morning of the second day, Yun Xi went down to the court, first replied for a while, and then went to the Jinshen Hall in the middle of the day, and announced the messenger sent by Shami Chagan.

When he came to the temple, Shang Bing had already arrived, and after saluting him, he sat on a chair on the side. Yun Xi sat down on the main seat and said to Chen Di, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites: "Xuan Yili has brought the envoy to meet him. ”

The guards in the palace spread the words one after another, and after a while, a sturdy and swarthy young man walked in, saluted him and said, "Chen Yili has brought the country to Mahama, and I have seen His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty." ”

"Flat." Yun Xi said. Ma Hama's Chinese has a pure Gansu flavor, Yun Xi didn't understand it too well, or Shang Bing 'translated' him before he knew what Ma Hama was talking about.

After that, the two of them replied normally. Then Yun Xi immediately asked: "You also sent you as an envoy at this time, but there is something to ask me to be Ming?" ”

Ma Hama was very impatient with the red tape of the Han people, and was relieved to hear Yun Xi so directly, and said: "Your Majesty, I am here to be ordered by the Great Khan of the Li Kingdom to ask His Majesty the Emperor for something. ”

"First, I also try to produce enough swords, guns and armor, please Your Majesty reward me with a total of 100,000 knives and guns, 5,000 pieces of chain mail, and 5,000 pieces of steel helmets invented by Your Majesty last year. I am also willing to use the good horses from the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and even sweat and blood horses in exchange. ”

"Second, in the lunar month of the Han people this year, I also tried to send the Great Khan Shami Chagan to the White Horde to meet his Khan King Kolijak, and sent envoys to the Blue Horde and the Golden Horde, and I have received their promise to deal with Timur together. Koli Jak Khan also sent an envoy to my Yili Li, wanting to come to the capital on the first day of the next year to meet His Majesty and ask the Ming to accept his tribute. ”

"Thirdly, on behalf of me, I will also try to ask Your Majesty's consent to request your Majesty's consent that if anyone who escapes from my Yili is caught, whether it is a Mongol, a Vulture, or any other person, he shall not be taken in, but must be repatriated to our country. If someone from the Ming Dynasty escapes into my Yili Force, my country will definitely be sent back. ”

"I'm right to give 100,000 pieces of swords and guns, but 5,000 pieces of chain mail is too much, I can't give you so much, how much can I give you, and then I will let the people of the Ministry of Rites tell you." The helmet I invented last year is not even fully equipped with the Ming army, and there will be no rich one for you for at least three or five years. If you want the helmets that were originally given to the generals, I can allow you some. ”

"However, I will also send people who are skilled in horse breeding to receive horses from you, and if you fool you with inferior horses, neither I nor the King of Qin will follow."

"As for the affairs of the White Horde and other countries, if Kolijak is willing to submit to my Ming Dynasty, I am naturally willing to accept their tribute."

"I can also agree to your last request, if there are fugitives who escape from Yili, I will definitely ask the yamen of the Shaanxi Xingdu Division to hand over these people you want. The same goes for the Qin Domain. Yun Xi said.

However, Yun Xi had some doubts in his heart. It's normal for Shami Chagan to ask for iron weapons, and it's understandable to say that he has achieved diplomatic results in the west against the various countries of the Jochi system: for the sake of pretending.

However, it is a little strange that he proposed that the people who escaped from Yili should not be detained, and that he also specifically named the Mongols, which is even more strange. The Mongols were the rulers of Yili, how could they be willing to flee from there?

Yun Xi then used language to try to find out the reason, but Ma Hama didn't know if he didn't understand Yun Xi's words or what, so he didn't react to his words at all, and just responded normally.

Yun Xi was a little annoyed by this, and looked sideways at Ke Leak to see that it was noon, so he let Ma Ma retreat.

But as soon as he retreated, Yun Xi immediately called Qin Song and Guo Hongtao into the palace and said to them: "We must find out why Sha Mi Chagan will ask our country not to accept people who escaped from Yili Jiangli." ”

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After having lunch at noon and sleeping again, Yun Xi went to the Jinshen Hall again to meet another envoy from Fanguo.

The envoys who sent people to Daming in June and July were not the only ones who came to the Ming Dynasty. The Mongol Great Khan Uruk Timur, who was commanded by Yunchuanwei and Xu Youde to change his name to Guilichi without authorization, returned to the banks of the Martyrdom River in March, and with the support of a group of half-hearted or simply hypothetical tribal leaders, he announced that he would officially succeed to the throne of the Great Khan, and abolish the name of 'Yuan' and restore the title of Mongolia.

He immediately sent people to the Ming Dynasty's guard on the Monan grassland, expressing his willingness to end the hostility with the Ming Dynasty, restore peace, and reopen the mutual market on both sides.

The people from the border guard post sent the letter of state to the capital in an urgent manner of 600 li, so that Yun Xi could see it.

Yun Xi had already seen the twists and turns sent by Yun Chuanwei in early February, and learned that Gui Lichi had killed Kun Timur and established himself as the Great Khan, and he was ready to negotiate peace with him. Therefore, after seeing Ghost Lichi's letter of state, Yun Xi immediately drafted an edict to express his willingness to accept Ghost Lichi's title as a minister, and agreed to open a mutual market in Datong.

Yun Xi's will was sent to the grassland, and Gui Lichi was originally a little reluctant to be a minister to the Ming Dynasty, but under the temptation of the mutual market, he finally expressed his willingness to be a minister, but he was only a minister in name and would never enter Beijing to pay tribute.

Yun Hee immediately agreed. The so-called actual title of minister is actually meaningless, and his subordinates will still be under his jurisdiction, just entering Beijing to show deference, and it is useless for Yun Xi to come to such a false name. If it weren't for the fact that Gui Lichi didn't agree to nominally claim to be a minister, and the ministers in the court wouldn't agree to negotiate peace with Mongolia, he wouldn't even be a nominal minister.

Gui Lichi immediately sent envoys to the capital of the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute, and asked to open a mutual market immediately. After careful consideration, Yun Xi opened a mutual market outside the Weisho City in the north of Datong, using various goods from the Central Plains to exchange furs and horses on the grassland. Of course, all kinds of iron weapons are strictly forbidden to trade, and even iron pots are available in limited quantities.

Yun Xi sat in his seat at this time, while waiting for the envoy of Gui Li Chi to be seen, while listening to the introduction of Lang Zhong Yang Ben of the main guest department of the Ministry of Rites: "Your Majesty, the Mongolian envoy Ashulu is the brother of his lord Gui Li Chi, although he is not a brother-in-law, but he is also an important minister of Mongolia now, and he is proficient in Chinese. Ghost Lichi sent him over, which shows that the sincerity of paying tribute to His Majesty is very sufficient. ”

Yun Xi just smiled indifferently at Yang Ben's words and didn't speak.

After a short time, Ashulu, who was already not young, walked in, and immediately said after greeting Yun Xi: "Your Majesty, since Your Majesty has accepted the title of my Mongolian state, then my Mongolian country is a subject state of the Ming Dynasty on the same level as Korea and other countries. In this case, His Majesty has opened a market on the sea and allowed all the merchants of the Fan Kingdom to come to the Ming Dynasty to do business, so the minister on behalf of my Mongolian Khan King Gui Lichi asked His Majesty to allow the border pass to open a mutual market all year round to do business with the people of Mongolia. ”

Yun Hee was not surprised by Ashuru's request. The Mongols on the Mongolian steppe now have two requirements for the Ming Dynasty, one is peace, no more wars, and Gui Lichi does not want to have to guard against the Ming army going north every day, ready to move at any time; The second is to get the goods of the Central Plains, since now the army of the Ming Dynasty cannot kill the Great Wall to rob, so you can only get the much-needed goods through the mutual market.

"The border pass is different from the sea, and it cannot be generalized, but if all the Mongolian tribes on the grassland can not intrude on the Ming border pass, I can agree to hold an exchange market in Xuanfu Town, Datong Dusi, and Yansui once a year." Yun Xi said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Ashuru bowed and said. Although he knew that Oni Lichi was not sure that he would be able to restrain all the tribes, this did not prevent him from agreeing first.

After that, Ashuru had nothing to ask for, and bowed down. 12910