Chapter 297: The Prairie in Fan Yongdou's Eyes (Ask for Subscription, Recommendation, Collection)
Seeing that all the generals in the palace showed contemplative expressions about the expedition to Korea, Huang Taiji changed his words.
"However, if we really want to go on an expedition to Korea, then we have to mobilize a large army. But Amma's body is ...... now, and without Amma's order, how can we dispatch a large army? ”
This time, Huang Taiji showed a real helpless look on his face.
This went around and around, and things still went back to Old Khan's condition.
Hearing Huang Taiji mention Nurhachi's condition, the hall was quiet for a while.
Regarding Nurhachi's condition, although no one said it explicitly, anyone with a discerning eye could see that Nurhachi was afraid that he would not be able to hide this time.
After all, Nurhachi is already an old man who is nearly 70 years old, and at this age, he is so sick that he can't get out of bed.
If it is said that it will not work suddenly, it is not impossible.
As Nurhachi's condition became more and more serious, chaos began to appear within the Houjin Eight Banners.
After the Jin generals were unconscious, they began to think about their future.
If Lao Khan is really gone, who will take over Lao Khan's position is already an imminent major event for Houjin.
Houjin is now more than one person, and he is qualified to take over the position of Lao Khan.
Just like the four Baylors, Azig and even Dorgon and Duoduo actually have the possibility of taking over.
Around this matter, Houjin has become very sensitive and sharp.
The dark tide is even more surging.
However, more people are still waiting.
They are waiting for the wise and powerful Nurhachi to decide a candidate to succeed them to the throne.
Unfortunately, this time they were disappointed.
Nurhachi, who was wise and martial in the past, is now unsure of who will take the throne.
Even if they are all sick and unable to manage politics, Nurhachi would rather let a group of people discuss politics in a mess than determine a person who can really make up his mind.
This has to be disappointing.
Old Khan, is this sick and confused?
On the grassland, a huge convoy is braving the severe cold of early spring, trudging forward with difficulty.
Raising his head and looking at the sky, Fan Yongdou immediately calculated.
In front of it is the land of the Horqin Tribe.
I don't know if the team that picked up the goods has already arrived.
According to the agreement with Mr. Na Li, the two parties agreed to deliver the goods on the land of Horqin.
Originally, like this kind of transportation, Fan Yongdou didn't have to make this trip. This route of Horqin has long been an old line that the Fan family caravan is used to.
Since the completion of the Zhangjiakou Horse Market, it has been more than 50 years since the Fan family openly ran the line of the Horqin Department.
If you count the time of smuggling by your ancestors, then the Fan family has been running this line for a hundred years. On this section of the line, Fan Yongdou can rest assured.
In addition, although the amount of 20,000 stone of grain transported this time is relatively large, the Fan family has transported more than this number of times, and this is not the reason why Fan Yongdou came in person.
Fan Yongdou came in person just because the other party was a new customer of his.
Previously, Fan Yongdou had never seen everything about the other party, but only heard about it.
But now that you're going to make a deal directly with the other party, you can't just hear the information you hear.
This time, Fan Yongdou is going to go to the other party's territory in person to see if the other party is worth his increased investment, and make this line a century-old line like the Horqin Department.
Originally, Fan Yongdou was originally reluctant to make a direct deal with the other party.
Because the other party is still in a hostile state with Daming.
Fan Yongdou has always been very clear in his heart.
Over the years, many of the materials that their Fan family sold to the Horqin Ministry should have been resold to Houjin by the Horqin Department.
But after all, that was only done by the Mongols, and it had nothing to do with the Fan family. The Fan family could not command the Mongols to do things.
And trading directly with Houjin, that's not the case.
Directly trading with Houjin, for Daming, the Fan family is betraying the country and the rebellion of Daming. Once the incident happens, the Fan family will die without a place to be buried.
It's so dangerous, why should the Fan family take this risk?
Just to earn tens of thousands of taels of silver at a time?
His Fan Yongdou's eyelids are not so shallow.
In fact, what really persuaded Fan Yongdou was Mr. Li's strong momentum of disdain for the Horqin Department.
Although Mr. Li was just a lobbyist, the fact that he dared to set the place of delivery directly on the land of the Horqin Department can prove that he is not just pretending.
That Mr. Li has such confidence, which shows that the relationship between the Horqin Department and Houjin is probably already a dependency relationship.
It was the Mongolian Horqin Department that took the initiative to attach itself to Houjin.
Fan Yongdou, who has been walking the grassland for many years and is familiar with the inside of the grassland, knows what the status of the Horqin Department is in the grassland.
The Mongols on the steppe are divided into several large tribes, except for the Chahar tribe, the Uliangha tribe, the Khalkha tribe, the Tumut tribe, the Ordos department, and the Yongshaobu department, and the ten thousand households set up by the six Mongolian Zhongxing Great Khan-Dayan Khan, only the Horqin department can be called ten thousand households.
Between these seven Mongolian households, the difference in strength is not too big.
Counting it up, the Chahar Department where the Khan Court is located, is slightly better in strength. However, the Chahar Ministry did not have an absolute advantage over most of the other ministries.
These seven ten thousand households represent most of the strength of the Mongols on the steppe today.
As one of the seven major departments, most of the Mongolian Horqin Department with such strength actually took the initiative to take refuge in Houjin, which was definitely shocking news for Fan Yongdou.
Fan Yongdou has always been particularly concerned about the news of the grassland.
He knew that the six ten thousand households left by Dayan Khan had been torn apart because Lin Dan Khan could not serve the people.
To be honest, Lin Dan Khan really doesn't look like a real Great Khan.
Since Lin Dan Khan officially took power, he has repeatedly made stupid moves.
Lin Dan Khan first summoned the Mongol tribes to attack the Ming Dynasty, but due to the existence of Zhangjiakou, most of the Mongols did not respond.
As a result, he attacked Daming and became a chahar to harass Daming.
Under the strict defense of the Ming Dynasty, Lin Dan Khan harassed the Ming Dynasty and failed. He turned his energy inward and dreamed of reunifying Mongolia.
At the end of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Lin Dan Khan wanted to subdue the Horqin Department by force, but he was too frightened by one of the Later Jin's partial divisions to start a war.
At the end of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the Khalkha Ministry was attacked by Houjin, and Lin Dan Khan did nothing, without the slightest intention of rescuing the Khalkha Ministry.
Lin Dan Khan actually sat back and watched the Khalkha Ministry being crippled by Houjin.
Stringing together these news, Fan Yongdou found that as long as the Mongolian tribes could not twist into a rope, then Houjin would have no opponents in the grassland.
And the Mongols have such a great khan as Lin Dan Khan, how can they be twisted into a rope again.
Years of experience in walking the grasslands told Fan Yongdou that after receiving resolute refuge from the Mongolian Horqin Department, Houjin already had the posture of the grassland hegemon.
Now that Houjin has such strength, the forces have begun to penetrate deep into the grassland again. Now he is directly connected with the Fan family.
Of course, Fan Yongdou has to personally observe the specific situation of the other party, so as to form a good fate.
After all, their Fan family still has to rely on the grassland to make a fortune.