Zhu Youzhen refused Wu Huai's request to accompany him, and also refused the suggestion to go with a large group of people, and just wanted to set off with two personal guards. However, before he could leave the mansion, he was stopped by Hai Lanzhu, who insisted on going with the emperor, and she said to Chongzhen: "Your Majesty knows nothing about my Mongolian customs, and I know very little about the Mongolian language.

Although Mr. Liu is one of the few people in the Ming Dynasty who understands Mongolian affairs, does he really know the relationship and origin between the Chahar tribes, Taiji and Nayan? Although the concubine is just a woman and child, after all, she is the daughter of Zaisang of the Horqin Tribe, and she still understands the relationship between these Taiji and Nayan. has a concubine by His Majesty's side, or he can do his little bit for His Majesty. ”

Hai Lanzhu's words persuaded the officials present, and Zhu Youzhen pondered for a moment and said, "It's okay, you and I are the same person, and there is no problem with accompanying me on a trip." ”

After signaling his entourage to bring a mount for Hai Lanzhu, Zhu Youzhen and his party walked out of the mansion and walked along the street towards the pass of Zhangjiakou. However, on the street just before the pass, Methwald, the general manager of the British East India Company in Asia, also stopped the procession and asked to follow the emperor to a meeting with the Tatars.

Chongzhen, who has almost forgotten that there is a person by his side these days, is very curious about his actions, so he can't help but bend down and look at him and ask, "Why?" I'm not going to drink and have fun this time, I'm going to negotiate with the Mongol leaders, so what's the use of bringing you? Besides, this time, I can't guarantee your safety. I think it's better for you to wait and wait for news in the gate. ”

After taking a deep breath, Meswold looked at Chongzhen's eyes and said sincerely: "His Majesty the Emperor has a meeting with those Tatar leaders, how can there be no witness. Although he is only an overseas person, he is willing to stand by His Majesty's side and witness a great historical moment, so as to ensure that His Majesty's foresight today can be propagated and not buried in the wilderness.

What's more, the Tatar aristocracy has always liked to be treacherous, and if you have a testimony below, Your Majesty will be famous in the future. As for the danger or something, I believe that Your Majesty's luck will be able to shelter you and return safely. ”

Regarding Methwald's remarks, Zhu Youzhen went through it in his heart, and finally nodded and ordered him to give him a horse left and right, and then continued to walk outside the gate.

Although Methwald said that Chongzhen's luck could shelter them from returning safely, in fact, Zhu Youzhen was really not gambling with luck. It has been almost two years since the great war between the Ming and the right-wing Mongolian tribes against the Chahar tribe, and the ethnic and religious committee in charge of Liu Jingting and the merchants of the Ming Dynasty not only actively contacted the right-wing Mongolian tribes, but also made good friends with the Chahar tribes.

With the exception of Lin Dan Khan and some Mongol aristocrats, who opposed the smearing of the liquid from livestock on their bodies and insisted on refusing to inoculate themselves with cowpox, most of the Mongols began to accept this medical technique to prevent smallpox.

Therefore, Chongzhen's reputation among the left and right wing departments is not generally good. In his contacts with the left-wing ministries Taiji and Nayan, Liu Jingting has always been aware of the dynamics of the upper echelons of the Chahar Ministry. According to the information that Chongzhen has mastered, the biggest contradiction within the Chahar Ministry is not the contradiction between the Chahar Ministry and the Houjin, nor the contradiction between the left-wing and right-wing departments, nor the contradiction between the Chahar Department and the Ming Dynasty, but the contradiction between Lin Dan Khan and the Chahar Ministry, Taiji and Nayan.

Lin Dan Khan's westward migration policy failed to win the unanimous approval of the Chahar subordinates from the beginning. It was only after the Houjin subdued the five Inner Khalkha Divisions, and continued to dig the corners of the Chahar Division, so that the Chahar headquarters was directly exposed to the front of the Houjin army, and under the threat of the possible demise of the Chahar Division, everyone had to listen to Lin Dan Khan's proposition.

However, after the left-wing tribes moved westward, not only did they fail to complete the plan of the integration of the two wings of Mongolia envisioned by Lin Dan Khan, but completely forced the right-wing Mongolian tribes, which were originally nominally subordinate to the Chahar tribes, to the Ming side, forming a hostile relationship between the left-wing and right-wing Mongolian tribes, which made many people in the left-wing Mongolian tribes feel very disappointed.

In order to ensure the safety of the naturalization city, Lin Dan Khan had to tighten the control of the left-wing tribes and refused to let them stay away from naturalization and grazing. The biggest difference between nomadic and agrarian people is that the former is extremely inefficient in the use of land.

The Ming could divide the right-wing Mongol tribes into pastures and require them to be stationed. That's because the Ming had enough agricultural output in these places, plus the supplement of trade, so that these settled right-wing tribes could live. However, the restrictions on the left-wing tribes were much greater than those on the right-wing tribes, and the benefits of trade were first embezzled by the direct tribes of Lin Dan Khan, and those tribes who were far from Lin Dan Khan found that after moving west, they were not doing as well as before the migration, so there were more voices asking to move to farther pastures or return to Liaodong.

After Lin Dan Khan heard these voices, he did not think that this was everyone's dissatisfaction with the decline in material life, but suspected that those Taiji and Nayan who believed in the Yellow Sect wanted to make trouble in tandem, so he mercilessly increased the suppression of the Yellow Sect belief in the tribe.

The majesty of the Golden Family and the whip of Lin Dan Khan did not silence these voices, but instead prompted the disgruntled Taiji and Nayan to truly unite, setting off a wider demand for the return of Liaodong among the people of the Chahar tribe.

In the face of such a fierce contradiction, Zhu Youzhen felt that Lin Dan Khan should no longer destroy the friendly relationship with the Ming Dynasty, unless he was really a madman, and looking at Lin Dan Khan's decision to move west in the face of Houjin, he knew that this was a person who cared about his life very much, not a madman.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen's decision to accept Lin Dan Khan's invitation was not completely risking his life. It's just that what he didn't expect was that Hai Lanzhu and Methwald would take the initiative to ask to go with him.

Lin Dan Khan came to meet with Chongzhen this time, and brought 3,000 elite horsemen with him, nearly one-third of which were Gui Yingcha's direct subordinates. In order to suppress Chongzhen's momentum before the meeting began, so as to prevent the other party from underestimating him, Lin Dan Khan arranged five hundred heavily armed iron cavalry outside the camp, but decorated a simple camp with a murderous appearance.

However, after Chongzhen saw Lin Dan Khan's posture on the city wall, he did not refuse Lin Dan Khan's invitation to enter the camp, but asked the two little princes to pass the word, saying that they would come to the banquet after bathing and changing clothes.

failed to make Chongzhen retreat timidly, Lin Dan Khan naturally did not change his order at this time to recall the cavalry standing outside the camp, so he could only bite the bullet and let them continue to guard outside the camp. However, the wine and food brought back by Ezhe and Arslan, the cavalry who were not on duty in the camp did not leave it alone, waiting for the brothers who lined up outside to come back and enjoy it together.

As a result, the Mongolian cavalry arrayed outside the camp could only wear heavy armor and listen to the comrades in the camp drinking and eating meat. Half of these grievances were directed at the nobles who had ordered them to come out to line up, and half were on the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom, who had not come for a long time.

When Zhu Youzhen came to the front of the camp accompanied by Gui Yingcha, he immediately found that the cavalrymen who had just looked murderous on the city wall were now sitting on their horses and staggering, like children who were angry with people.

Gui Yingcha looked at the slackness of his subordinates, and suddenly felt that his face couldn't go up and down, so he lowered his face and stepped forward to reprimand.

Originally, Zhu Youzhen didn't want to intervene in Guiying's education work with his subordinates, but when he came to the gate of the camp, Lin Danhan didn't bring anyone out to greet him, which was obviously a bit unreasonable. He had come to make an alliance with Lin Dan Khan, but not to meet the Mongol Great Khan.

So Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but lightly bring the reins of the horse, and walked to the place where Gui Yingcha reprimanded the team of 100 households, and said to Gui Yingcha: "Your general doesn't have to be so angry, I think it's because I have been delayed for some time to bathe and change clothes, but these soldiers are tired." ”

Chongzhen's persuasion made Guiying suffer a little, and he couldn't help but go down the steps and said: "It makes Your Majesty laugh, if you don't teach these rough embryos a day, you won't know what your surname is..."

Zhu Youzhen glanced at the hundreds of households who were reprimanded by Gui Yingcha, and suddenly pointed to one of them and said, "You are not the warrior who helped me resist Houjin last year and beheaded three Jurchens, you are the one named Hazar, right?" ”

Being able to be called by the emperor by his name, Baihu Hazar, who was still aggrieved, suddenly straightened his waist unconsciously, and replied loudly with a red face: "Yes, Emperor." It was me Hazar, and the emperor gave me a pot of wine and a collar of armor. ”

At this moment, Hazar felt that there was no grievance, he had fought for the Great Khan for so many years, the Great Khan sometimes couldn't remember his name, and he couldn't imagine that the emperor still remembered his name, and at this moment he felt unexpected satisfaction.

Seeing that Lin Dan Khan did not come out of the camp to greet him, Zhu Youzhen simply chatted with this Mongolian hundred, completely ignoring Gui Yingcha's urging with his eyes.

Knowing that Hazar and the others were dissatisfied because of a meal of wine and meat, Zhu Youzhen immediately smiled and said: "I see, I was negligent, wait for me to have someone prepare a copy for you again, and then enjoy it after you get off duty." ”

After hearing Chongzhen's personal promise, the cavalrymen who had been arrayed outside the camp for half a day suddenly became overjoyed, and the previous grievances disappeared.

I didn't know if it was the second stunned man, so he shouted to Chongzhen regardless of his joy: "Long live the emperor, long live..."

The other cavalry outside the camp only hesitated for a moment, and then shouted loudly, so in Gui Yingcha's ugly face, the 500 Mongolian elite cavalry outside the camp let out a roar like a landslide and a sea crack. At this moment, Chongzhen was not like an invited guest, but more like a monarch who came to patrol his army.