Seeing that the atmosphere was awkward, if the stalemate continued, I was afraid that it would not be possible to talk, so the task assigned by the Great Khan ...... He approached Damuddin and whispered a few words again.

Damudin stared at Li Zicheng angrily, but Li Zicheng's only target now was on the tea water, and his eye sword lost its purpose.

After a stalemate for a moment, Damuddin couldn't help it, so he had to reluctantly kneel under the pull of Luo Busan, "Damuddin, the messenger of the Great Khan, has seen the Grand Dudu!" Without waiting for Li Zicheng to reply, he got up on his own.

Li Zicheng didn't care, he just wanted to probe Damudin's inner bottom line, and he was willing to deign to kneel, that was enough, he piled up a smiling face, and said busily: "Lord Damudin is the messenger of Lin Dan Khan, and his status is noble, please get up, sit, millet, tea, good tea!" ”

Luo Busang's heart was slandered, the Han people are all hypocrisy, and they want to cover up, last time they treated me like this, can I not see through it?

Damudin glanced at Li Zicheng, sat opposite Li Zicheng with anger, and didn't look at the tea sent by He Xiaomi, and held his head high.

Li Zicheng said with a smile: "Damudin is the envoy of Lin Dan Khan, and when he came to our army's camp, he is really a rare guest, I don't know what your envoy has to say?" ”

"Your threshold is too high, where can you learn from here?" Damudin was obviously still worried about kneeling, glanced at Li Zicheng, held the tea cup with both hands, and said faintly: "Luo Busan's suggestion last time, I don't know what the Metropolitan Governor has to say?" ”

In a word, I pushed it back, this Damuddin doesn't seem to be a good hand at talks!

Li Zicheng's face fell with deep regret, "You mean the exchange of food?" Hearing that Lin Dan Khan was short of food and clothing, the governor of Pontus was very uneasy, even if he asked his brothers to cut down on food and clothing, he also wanted to help Lin Dan Khan and his subordinates tide over the difficulties! ”

False friendship!

Would you be so kind to the Mongols? Damuddin snorted secretly and said, "So the Metropolitan Governor agreed to exchange food?" ”

"Of course I agree," Li Zicheng looked at Damudin with a smile on his face, "Lin Dan Khan knows what we need, as long as he is sincere, I agree to exchange food!" ”

Damuddin looked at Li Zicheng's appearance, but he was stunned for no reason, and he wanted to unscrew off his windy ears and make them into ear dry wine, but he had a request for others, and he had the mission of the Great Khan, so he didn't dare to make a mistake, so he bit his thin white glutinous rice teeth, "The Great Khan knows that you have taken a fancy to the war horses of the Mongols, say, how much do you need, if there are too many of them, I don't dare to agree......"

"According to my needs, the more the merrier," Li Zicheng's face showed a harmless smile on his face, "The grain and grass of the Pontus are not too rich, but for the sake of Lin Dan Khan and the Mongolian brothers, this time it is out of the way." ”

Why is he so annoying with such a face? If it weren't for the food, Damuddin would have raised his neck and walked away, but the Great Khan's trust was ...... He had to deign to deal with Li Zicheng, "Then according to the Metropolitan Governor, how to exchange war horses and grain?" ”

"The Pontus Governor has always been very fair in his deals, everything is voluntary on both sides, and he will never bully the market," Li Zicheng smiled, and even deliberately lowered his figure, "Each war horse is exchanged for one stone of grain, and the Pontus Governor has as many grain as you have as many war horses!" ”

"What?" Damudin screamed, slapped the case, his face turned purple from anger, and his head stretched out from the square table, almost reaching the top of Li Zicheng's head, "A war horse only changes a stone of grain?" You hypocritical thief, you just said that you care about your Mongolian brothers......"

"Presumptuous, in front of the Grand Governor, dare to ...... like this" He Mi took a step forward, stopped in front of Damuddin, raised his right hand, pulled out his waist knife, and glared at Damudin angrily.

"Don't be impatient!" Li Zicheng looked at Damudin and He Xiaomi, still sitting on the wooden chair, playing with the tea cup in his hand, with that faint smile on his face, he suddenly smelled a smell of beef and mutton, mixed with a trace of aroma, and his heart moved unconsciously: Could it be that this Damudin is a woman? Didn't I hear that Lin Dan Khan had an adult daughter, did ......

Damudin looked at Li Zicheng's bearing, and was secretly surprised in his heart, if he fell in front of him...... He didn't dare to look at Li Zicheng, but just glared at He Xiaomi's waist knife, and sat in place with hatred, and his anger was still unsettled.

He Xiaomi also glared at Damuding, and under Li Zicheng's signal, he slowly retreated and put the knife into the sheath.

Li Zicheng saw that everything was back to square one, so he said: "Since it is an exchange, both sides must be satisfied, if your envoy is not satisfied with such a result, we can talk again until both parties are satisfied!" ”

"That can't be exchanged for a stone of grain for a war horse......" Damudin glared at Li Zicheng angrily, but the anger in his eyes, when he met Li Zicheng's smiling face, was like hitting a mountain rock, and was immediately shattered, so he had to lean on the back of the chair angrily, sulking with himself.

"I know that it is extremely difficult for the Mongols to feed and train a war horse," Li Zicheng smiled, but the language betrayed his mind as a profiteer, first boasting about the other party's goods, and then his own, "But it is more difficult for the Han people to grow grain, they have to plough the land, weed, sow seeds, fertilize, water, and manage the fields, and then they have to harvest, dry, transport, and put into storage...... If the wind and rain are smooth, if you catch up with floods and droughts, it is very likely that there will be no harvest, and the hard work of a year will be in vain......"

"Don't talk about it...... Damudin was really speechless, these farm work of the Han people is too complicated, no wonder the Mongols can't get it...... Well? Who knows if what this hypocritical person is saying is true? Whether it is true or not, the Mongols need their food now, and if they do not bring it back from Kadang, the tribes will starve for two days at most......

Damudin couldn't help it, so he swallowed his anger and said: "Dadudu, the hardships of the Han people in serving food are also known below, but the hard work of the Mongols in raising horses...... If you catch up with the black and white disasters, the tribe is likely to become extinct...... This kind of hardship is definitely not something that the Han people can appreciate and endure......"

Is it no wonder that some nomads disappeared and disappeared forever in the dust of history as they walked.

However, whether the Mongols can die out naturally is a matter for the Mongols, before officially becoming a member of China, Li Zicheng has no time to care about their life or death, maybe the Mongols are gone, and the northern border of China will be stable...... It is impossible, without Mongolia, there are new nomads rising, the steppe of Monan, the attraction of nomads is too great, as long as there is enough pasture, there is never a shortage of nomads!

Then give them an idea, maybe the Mongols adopted it, and the threat to China will be eliminated naturally.

"In fact, it is not impossible to solve the hard problem of nomadism!"

"Huh?" Damudin didn't know what Li Zicheng meant, frowned and said, "Is there any way?" ”

Li Zicheng looked at Damuding's frowning appearance, more and more like a woman, and said with a smile: "In fact, the Han people have already solved this problem, that is, settlement and animal husbandry, as long as it is done, there is no need to live in pursuit of water and grass." ”

"Settle? Animal husbandry? "Damuddin thought about it, when the Great Khan was in the Xilamulun River, he had already built the city of Vazartucha Khan in the Abagarhara Mountain, and the Great Khan and his Fujin people could stay in the city all year round, and if they built a few more cities, let the people live in the city......

No, if the tribe lives in the city, then how can they graze horses, cattle and sheep? The pasture in one place has been eaten up by the livestock, and the livestock must be transferred to find a new season pasture, otherwise the livestock may starve to death after half a year.

After a moment of silence, Damudin suddenly realized that this despicable and shameless governor was almost fooled, whether the Mongols settled and raised animals, and what did it have to do with him, a Han Chinese? Even if you settle down and raise livestock from now on, you can't exchange it for food.

There is also the price of this exchange.

Previously, when they were in Monan, the Ming Dynasty and the Mongols traded with each other, and an inferior war horse could be exchanged for fifty or sixty stone of grain, or thirty taels of silver!

No, Li Zicheng said to him left and right, he couldn't fall into his trap, food was the right thing.

"Settlement and animal husbandry, let's talk about it later, we are talking about grain and war horses, in the eyes of the metropolitan governor, how much grain can a war horse be exchanged for? In the past, in Monan, the Ming court traded with our Mongols, and a war horse could be exchanged for at least sixty stone of grain! ”

"At this time and that time, at that time, the Ming Dynasty was rich in grain, and the warehouse really couldn't accommodate it, and if it was left in the Han land, it could only rot in vain," Li Zicheng could only follow his own assumptions, anyway, the Mongols didn't know the actual situation of the Ming Dynasty, "And at this moment, the northern part of the Ming Dynasty is suffering from a drought that has not been encountered in a century, and the Han people's own grain is insufficient, how can there be surplus grain and exchange war horses with the Mongols?" Let's see, does the imperial court still advocate mutual markets? ”

"This ......" Damudin was speechless for a while, and Li Zicheng's words seemed to have a certain amount of truth, this thief ......

"Don't hide it from your envoy, in Kadang City, there is only ten days' food," Li Zicheng's mind was still collecting information to see how short of food the Mongols was, "The key is voluntary, there is a voluntary basis, and the exchange is fair - if the noble envoy thinks that the price of the war horse is cheap, we can completely stop the exchange......

"You ......" business matters, Damudin didn't understand, he was originally going to refer to the previous transaction price, as long as Li Zicheng agreed, the two parties could immediately execute, but now ...... The price of grain can rise, and it has risen so fast that it is really a big surprise to him, can it rise dozens of times?

It seems that the Ming Dynasty has suffered from a drought, and there are thieves in the north, but the people are waiting to be fed......

"To tell the truth, the soldiers and horses of the Pontus Governor are all in Kadang City, and the war horses are not in short supply, but food," Li Zicheng decided to further probe, "For example, the Mongols only have two days' food now, if the food is exhausted, not only will these war horses be useless, but people will also starve to death......

He stared at Damuddin unscrupulously, hoping to see some clues.