As soon as he walked out of the wall, he saw a young man in a green shirt standing at the foot of the steps, looking up at the door of his residence with his hands up. He hurriedly stepped over the threshold and walked down the steps quickly, and walked up to the young Han man and gave a warm greeting.

"When did Brother Chang arrive? I was still thinking about whether to send someone to send you a message, but I didn't expect you to go with me, and I rushed over at this time. Let's go inside and talk. ”

After Chang Haochun returned the salute with Mongolian etiquette, he bent down and said: "King Khan is very loving, as soon as the villain arrived in Fengzhen, he heard that Lord Taiji took the title of Chahar Khan, so he quickly brought some gifts to congratulate King Khan." King Khan's identity today is different from the past, but he doesn't dare to treat the villain like this anymore, otherwise it will be too rude for the villain. ”

Zhentu stepped forward and helped him up, put his arm around his shoulders and walked into the door and said, "Brother Chang, why do you want to see me like this, you treat me with a naked heart, how can I treat you as an outsider." Besides, I, Chahar Khan, am just an empty title, not worth anything..."

The two walked into the front of the hall all the way to the court, and soon after they sat down, when they were waiting for the servants to serve tea, Chang Haochun looked at the situation in the room and couldn't help but smile and said: "King Khan, your house is a little cramped, I heard that the council will be held in Fengzhen every year in the future, since King Khan will come here often in the future, I think it is better to find a place outside the city to start a house, wouldn't it be more convenient?" ”

But he replied with some interest: "This council can't be opened, it's not interesting to me, everyone has one vote, who will listen to what I say?" I shouldn't have borrowed so much money from you in the first place, and now I'm a little worried about how to repay it in the future. ”

Regarding the dejected appearance of the picture, Chang Haochun couldn't help but smile and said: "Why should King Khan be like this, I didn't come to ask for debts today." 3. What is the debt of 50,000 yuan worth to the king of Khan..."

After hearing Chang Haochun's statement, Zhentu finally put down a stone in his heart, but he was also quite slanderous about Chang Haochun's statement in his heart, thirty or fifty thousand yuan was really a lot of money for him.

Although he is Lin Dan Khan's only younger brother, his eldest brother regards himself as Genghis Khan's second everywhere, but he really does not have Genghis Khan's broad mind, and he has to grasp some power and wealth in his own hands.

He was both affectionate and wary of his own brother, and the people assigned to him were not as good as his two sisters. If he hadn't moved westward, his life would have been passable, anyway, there were people grazing cattle and sheep for him and paying tribute, except for taking out some leather and mountain goods every year to exchange necessities, he and his subordinates basically had no needs.

Thinking about it this way, he is nostalgic for his old life. Since the Mongols retreated from the Central Plains to the steppes, the farther away the tribes from the Central Plains, the more civilization has degraded. What he misses is the degraded tribal system.

In such a tribal system, with the exception of a very small number of people with private property, the majority of the people were merely shepherd slaves of the tribal chiefs. They tended their livestock, toiled hard, and fought on horseback if necessary, in exchange for a small reward from the chieftain to feed their wives and children.

In such a tribal society, money is almost meaningless, and only by gaining the favor of the leader can you have the opportunity to break away from the bottom of the tribe and let your family get more material distribution, so as to live a slightly more comfortable life than the bottom.

After they moved westward, they lived in the Hetao area near the Central Plains, and began to have frequent contact with Ming merchants. Here, due to trade with Ming merchants, the primitive tribal economy maintained by the Chahar tribe and its vassals was quickly disintegrated.

Whether it is the upper class Taiji, Nayan, or even the eight Fujin, or the middle and lower class soldiers, herdsmen, and herdsmen, they are all paying more and more attention to what is their own property and what is the public property of the Chahar Department in such exchanges of commodity economy.

They are complacent that they can dig a piece out of public property and put it in their pockets; But they will also be annoyed by the fact that someone in power has forcibly turned their private property into public property. Taiji and Nayan, who are the superiors, lament that the current subordinates are too difficult to manage, but at the same time, they desperately resist the superiors who are more noble than them, and want to keep their private property.

The merchants of the Ming Dynasty collapsed even better than the army of the Ming Dynasty, and the Mongol tribes were divided by tribes. Driven by money, the ordinary Nayan began to oppose the leaders of the clan, while the low-level herdsmen and herdsmen began to oppose their masters, each trying to keep their own interests, and no longer had the strength to sacrifice their lives for the interests of the clan.

Compared with the Chahar tribes, which occupied the Tumut River, the commoditized economy of the Mongolian right-wing tribes was clearly better. After the Ministry of Internal Affairs took the lead in establishing a livestock trading company with these tribal leaders, these tribal leaders and the merchants of the Ming Dynasty were clearly on the same side as the merchants of the Ming Dynasty in terms of how to squeeze their own tribes for more profits.

In the same way, the imperial court began to privatize the pasture land by dividing the fixed grazing areas of the banner and the league, which further severed the personal dependence between the low-level herdsmen and the upper-class lords, and also allowed ordinary herdsmen and former herdsmen to have their own livestock and pastureland, replacing the past labor, military service and irregular tribute taxes with fixed taxes.

It is precisely because of the collapse of the old political and economic model within these Mongolian right-wing tribes that they behaved so well at the Kuritai Conference. For today, it is these tribal leaders who rely on the authority of the imperial court to maintain their power in the clan, not the other way around.

Of course, these Mongol tribes, who were completely dependent on the Ming Dynasty, were not without rewards. First of all, the imperial court lifted the ban on trade and tariffs on goods against these tribes, which not only allowed these Mongol tribes to obtain a large amount of cheap living materials, but also greatly increased the price of their livestock.

For example, the Ming merchants bought adult sheep from the banner alliance where these tribes were located, and most of them were seven or eight anal. And selling iron pots to them is about five corners. However, when the same sheep were purchased in Guihua City, the price dropped to five or six corners, while the iron pot sold rose to six or seven corners.

The annual income of Jintu is about one or two thousand yuan, which is indeed a rather staggering number for ordinary people, but for Taiji of his status, this amount of money is not enough to support 2 or 30 personal guards.

What makes these Taiji and Nayan feel even more helpless is that with the more frequent naturalization of Ming merchants, although the market of Guihua City has prospered, which has greatly improved the quality of life of the Chahar Ministry, it has also caused the dissipation of the morale of the Chahar Ministry.

Now even if a family rewards a cotton cloth every year, some people shout that this life is really unbearable, and it is better to go to Mobei for those merchants.

In order not to make the guards around them resentful, the Taiji and Nayan of the Chahar Department could only ask Lin Dan Khan for a reward, or find a way to borrow money from those Ming merchants.

Before Lin Dan Khan had an accident, Zhentu already owed Chang Haochun thousands of silver dollars. After Lin Dan Khan's accident, at the instigation of Gunchuktaiji, Bintu finally planned to compete for the position of the Great Khan of Mongolia.

It's just that in the past, in addition to the bloodline of the golden family, the battle for the Mongol Great Khan also required strength and prestige. But now, it seems that the power of money is better than strength and prestige.

So under the persuasion of Gunchuk Taiji, Zhentu borrowed tens of thousands of yuan from Chang Haochun twice, which owed Chang Haochun a debt of nearly 50,000 yuan. Then what he got in his hands was just a meaningless Chahar Khan, which made him really unable to pretend to be a Khan King when he faced Chang Haochun.

Just when he was thinking about how to deal with Chang Haochun away, the other party smiled and said to him: "Actually, I came to the door today, in addition to congratulating the King of Khan, I also wanted to send a sum of money to the King of Khan, I wonder if King Khan is interested?" ”

"What money, yes, of course interested." Huo's sober up picture couldn't help but look at Chang Haochun eagerly and said, "What kind of money is Brother Chang talking about?" ”

Chang Haochun took a pair of scrolls he brought from a few cases on the side, and then walked to the Eight Immortals table on the side of the map and spread it out, before he said, "King Khan, why don't you take a look at this map." ”

This map is very detailed, and the rough ink map was only seen after looking at it for a while, so he opened his mouth and said: "Isn't this the map of Hetao, Daqingshan and Shanxi Pass, these black lines are railways, but what do these red dotted lines mean?" ”

Chang Haochun immediately explained: "King Khan really has a good eye, just by looking at the map, he knows that the key is on these red dotted lines. These red dotted lines are the railways that our Jin Chamber of Commerce intends to invest in, the double dashed lines represent the double-track railway, and the single dotted line represents the monorail railway..."

Zhentu subconsciously frowned and interrupted Chang Haochun's words: "You want to build railways in these places, but aren't these places my brother Khan has refused to build them?" You've added a couple of more, what does that mean? ”

Chang Haochun said with a smile: "But isn't Lin Dan Khan gone now?" These places are all Chahar's places, and now it's not the Khan King who has the final say. As long as you sell 5 kilometers of land along these lines to our Chamber of Commerce, we are willing to give you a 2.5% stake after the entire railway network is completed. According to our estimates, it is worth nearly 100,000 yuan. ”

He hesitated for a while before asking, "How much do you plan to pay for these lands?" ”

The smile on Chang Haochun's face was even more sincere, and he said sincerely: "We plan to pay the price by the length of the railway, and the land price per kilometer of railway is 400 yuan, but we will claim that the land price per kilometer is 200 yuan." ”

Tu Tu suddenly asked a little anxiously, "Why?" Where is the other 200 yuan? ”

"There are still 200 yuan at your disposal, King Khan, and if you want to sell these lands, I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to make a decision alone. I think the Khan needs to find some help in the Chahar Ministry..."