At the end of April, in Bauktu, the sun was covered with flags and trumpets on the vast prairie, and thousands of officials and ordinary people lined up to welcome the most distinguished guests of Toyosu to date. Li Yu and the Qierji Lama looked north, the Khalkha people entered the Fengzhou River from the pass of the Daqingshan Middle Road this time, the number reached more than 2,600 people, and they also carried a large number of livestock, Yunrong and Dongsheng left guard Zabutu rushed to meet the meeting a few days ago - this meeting is too important, Fengzhou now needs a market, and even more needs allies, and all the official offices of Fengzhou have important officials to come to greet them.

A trumpet of response was heard in the distance, and a troop of Fengzhou cavalry galloped in to report to Li Yu that the guests had arrived. Li Yu patted the snow-white Khalkha northernland horse sent by Dege, led the officials to meet it, the drum music immediately sounded, the people sang and danced warmly cheered, as soon as the Khalkha people approached, there were girls who greeted them with flowers, flour cakes and milk tea, the warm scene frightened the Khalkha people, and they were a little flattered - there are so many Khalkha people, in addition to nobles, lamas, traders, and a large number of guards and herdsmen, this is their old habit, they take a large group of people wherever they go, and the people of Fengzhou have long been prepared, Delivering a cart of grain, forage and salt to the guests, the Khalkha merchant Derge was an old acquaintance of Fengzhou, and immediately led his people to give back cattle and sheep, and laughter and laughter resounded on the grassland.

Chechen Khan, Tushetu Khan, and Zasaktu Khan appeared, and the three of them seemed to have something on their minds, waved their hands to the welcoming crowd, reluctantly said a few words of thanks, and walked towards Li Yu accompanied by Yunrong and Namur.

"I answer, you frown, is there something I didn't do well?" Li Yu smiled and opened her arms to greet them.

"No, I will answer, you lent us pasture, gave us grain and grass, this enthusiasm is beyond our imagination, but we do have troubles to discuss with you as soon as possible." Gonbu shook his head in reply.

"However, I have already arranged to go to Ordos to pay respects to the ancestors' tombs." Li Yu hesitated.

"Then go to Ordos and talk about it as soon as you pay homage to the ancestral tomb." Shuo Lei replied eagerly.

Namur interjected on the side: "Great Commander, it is an important matter related to the Jin Kingdom, the three Great Khans hope to discuss countermeasures with you in time, I think so, we will leave tonight, and the others will stay here for the time being." ”

That night, the Fengzhou people and the Khalkha people were still singing and dancing by the bonfire, Li Yu and the three Khalkha Khans quietly went on the road, the road to Ordos had been repaired, and the ferry boat was also prepared by the Yellow River, and the next afternoon they successfully arrived at the tomb of Dajith Khan, the Eight White Chamber.

Dongsheng right guard commanded Nuo Min to arrange the sacrificial livestock and items in advance, and also arranged guards around, the scale of the eight white rooms was not large, and the worship was completed before dusk, and the group then entered a large tent, eating and drinking while discussing important matters.

"I answer, the Jin State conquered the savage tribes of Heilongjiang, and also asked us for white camels, white horses and white oxen, we got the exact news, the Jin Khan wants to be the emperor, you must know about this, right?" Tushetu Khan Gunbu asked as soon as he sat down.

Li Yu nodded and didn't make a sound, and continued to cut off a piece of meat with a knife, dip it in salt and put it in his mouth, chewing it with relish.

"The Khan of the Jin State is ambitious, the lord of the Jin State can no longer satisfy his desires, he wants to be the emperor of the whole world, but we have the blood of our ancestors, and we will never bow to this lowly savage, he doesn't want to get anything from us," the Chechen Khan Shuo Lei stared at Li Yu and asked word by word, "Tell us, can we trust you?" ”

"Last autumn, Jin Guo Khan asked me to take the so-called jade seal of Chahar Khan, and in the spring of this year, he imitated the official system of the country and called the emperor, we already knew this." Li Yu replied unhurriedly.

"What, you gave him the jade seal of the heirloom country, you aroused the ambition of this hungry wolf, do you want to be his lackey." Zasaktu Khan Subadi stood up sharply.

"It's just a broken stone, there's no need to make a fuss, with the ambition to dominate the world, I don't give it to him, he also has a way to get another one, I use this broken stone for a large piece of land, this deal is very good," Li Yu waved his hand indifferently, and then his face changed and he stood up and said, "Fengzhou is an independent state that believes in freedom, equality, and benevolence, and will never give in to anyone, and has the ability to resist any enemy, the Ming Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom do not want to enslave us, you should trust me!" If you still have any concerns, please let me know. ”

Shuolei, Gunbu and Subati glanced at each other, and Gunbu hesitated for a moment and said: "I answer, we do still have concerns, Khalkha is a poor place, the strength is too weak, whether it is Jin or Fengzhou to eat us, it is not difficult, but that is the land left by our ancestors, we will never surrender to Jin, you should also tell us frankly, how will Fengzhou treat Khalkha in the future?" ”

Li Yu refilled the three sweats with tea, and then paced in the big tent and said: "I understand you, Fengzhou was also weak, at that time we were always worried about being enslaved by foreign enemies, and had to bear pain and suffering, this kind of thing must not happen between Fengzhou and Khalkha. The Han sages once said, do not do to others what you do not want to do to yourself, this is the "benevolence" in "benevolence", Khalkha and Fengzhou should be as benevolent as brothers, free and equal friendly exchanges, if one day the Khalkha people voluntarily accept the "Naturalization Oath", and at the same time the people of Fengzhou also voluntarily accept the Khalkha, then the two sides can be integrated, but that is in the future, Fengzhou and Khalkha will never have the problem of who eats whom, so you can dispel your concerns. But I also want to be frank and say that if the Khalkha surrenders to the Jin Kingdom or other evil forces, such as the Rakshasa Kingdom as you mention, then the Toyoshu army will immediately enter the Khalkha, because I absolutely cannot tolerate any danger to the security of the northern part of Toyoshu. ”

"Well said, I answer, we trust you, we have another request, I answer that as a Mongolian great jinong, it is natural to assume the responsibility of protecting Mongolia, you should be called Khan, we all support you." Gon Bu said excitedly.

Shuolei's grassland is the closest to Jinguo, and it is inevitable to be beaten, so he is also the most anxious, so he grabbed Li Yu and said: "Yes, I answer, you should be called Khan, the three of us have discussed, support you as Khalkha Batulu Khan, and our Khan will be canceled." ”

"No, the Khalkha is still yours, I said that I will never call it Khan," Li Yu suddenly became vigilant, suspecting that the three guys were going to shrink back, and immediately cheered them up, "Don't worry, the Khalkha land is vast, the population is large, and with my Fengzhou as the backing, the Jin Kingdom has not eaten your appetite yet." ”

"No, we don't have iron tools, food, cloth, nothing but cattle and sheep, how can we fight with the tiger and wolf army of the Jin country, and besides, there is a Rakshasa country on my side eyeing us, I answer, you should protect us." Subadi also cried out.

Li Yu was surrounded by the three Khalkha Khans, and he was a little embarrassed for a while, Na Mu'er and Yun Rong had been sitting behind him, the two of them looked at each other and smiled quietly, these three guys had hot brains and stood up for sweat, and their strength had not changed, but they threw themselves into the limelight, Jin Guo may not dare to hit Fengzhou, but he definitely has to fight the three most famous ones, regret it, it's too late now, the commander won't be fooled.

"The three Great Khans, Fengzhou has its own decrees, and you can't be an official without public discussion, let alone be a Great Khan, and you should keep the Khalkha throne by yourself." Namur smiled and said - the Khalkha wanted to hide back, but they pushed our commander to the front, and there was no door!

"Well, the Khalkha people are talking about our Khan, it's always okay, right?" Gunbu immediately answered.

"That's not good, the Khalkha people have discussed it, and it also has to be approved by our Fengzhou public council, and then we will be the Great Khan of Khalkha, how many people, land, cattle and sheep have you prepared? We can't let the commander work for nothing. Yun Rong replied with a slight mockery.

The Khalkha Three Khans closed their mouths, and after being silent for a while, Shuo Lei was a little open-minded, and shouted to Li Yu: "I answer, if we give you population, land, cattle and sheep, will you promise to be the Khalkha Great Khan?" ”

"Since we are allies and brothers, we will not stretch out our hands to you," Li Yu was a little impatient, waved his hand and said, "Three of you, let's talk about it here today, I will accompany you to Ordos and Baoketu in the next few days, and then go to naturalize and make a covenant oath." ”

The little abacus all failed, and it was really not a taste in my heart - when Chahar Khan was driven out of the Xiliao River, the Mongolian tribes fell into chaos, they took the opportunity to establish themselves as Khan, but they didn't expect that the Jin Kingdom was developing too fast, and the knife was immediately put on the neck, others were secretly called Khan, and there was a chance to retract it, but they blew their name too loudly, and it was difficult not to be beaten, so it was best to find someone to shelter them from the wind and rain, and the three of them discussed on the road, how to not only pull Li Yubai to work, but also keep their population, land, cattle and sheep, But people are not interested in Khalkha at all, they don't even want a name, which is too frustrating.

"Three Great Khans, your land still has to be guarded by yourself, so that it can be steady, but Fengzhou will do its best to assist you, weapons, food, cloth, and even army training, we can provide it, we are brothers in an alliance." Yun Rong said with a smile.

Three days later, Li Yu accompanied the Khalkha Three Khans back to Baoketu, and when the Khalkha people saw their Great Khan, they excitedly talked about what they had seen and heard, and the young nobles such as Subutai also shouted that the Khalkha should implement the reform and learn from Fengzhou in an all-round way - they visited all over Baoketu these days, and they were pleasantly surprised by everything they saw, Baoketu was rich in coal and iron to be mined, there were vast grasslands to graze, and there were long green mountains to be logged, especially the two rivers of Kundulun and the Yellow River, which not only moistened a large area of fertile land for farming, It is also a large channel that drives the development of industry and commerce along the river, and the river can transport materials when it is warm, and the ice bed can also be used as a road for cars and horses when it is cold. The natural conditions are so superior, the development of Baoketu is changing with each passing day, large areas of land are planted with crops, herds of cattle and sheep roam the grasslands, factories and workshops are popping up one after another, the Khalkha people originally only wanted to sell some necessary iron, grain and cloth, but now they suddenly found that they lacked everything, wanted everything, including soy sauce and stinky tofu, and hated their cattle and sheep for being too few.

Khalkha Sanhan came to be interested, and also ran to see the freshness, but the more he looked at it, the more he lost, no wonder Fengzhou didn't want us, the Khalkha where the birds don't had nothing but cattle and sheep, compared with others, it was simply poor, look at people's factories, workshops, and herds of cattle and sheep, crops everywhere and pigs raised by farmers, especially the artillery cast by the iron factory, the woolen cloth woven by the woolen mill and the four-wheeled carriage built by the wood factory, which made people look really red. No, everyone is a Mongol, you have a good life, and you can't watch us suffer poverty - the three khans have figured it out, you are the same as the deputy khan, and it is our answer, don't think about us, we must come to your side, just starve and freeze next to you, pretend to be pitiful, if you can't stand it, you will have to bleed, anyway, we should have what you have. Just as they racked their brains and were about to stretch out their hands to Li Yu, the group of Khalkha lamas who accompanied them ran and said that Fengzhou was bullying the Khalkhas, and the lamas on both sides had already quarreled.

The Khalkha Lama has not been idle these days, and went to Meidaizhao at the invitation of the Gurji Lama, and after two days of good food and drink, the Khalkha Lama asked them how they had considered the things they had discussed last year, and the Khalkha Lama pretended to be confused. After some patient persuasion, he categorically announced that he refused to recognize Zanabazar, that is, the two-year-old son of Tushetu Khan Gunbu, as the reincarnation of Maidali Gyakan, and asked the Khalkha Lama to send Zanabazar to Fengzhou to study Buddhist scriptures, fully qualified for this.

The Khalkha lamas quit, this is obviously the Fengzhou lama wants to kick them away, so as to control the Khalkha lamaism, and he must not agree. They immediately argued that the honorific title of the Mongolian lama has always been determined by the local princes and nobles, so why did the Fengzhou lama meddle in the affairs of the Khalkha Lamaism? If the Fengzhou Lama does not recognize Zanabazar as the reincarnation of Maidali, then they also do not recognize Li Yu as the reincarnation of Altan Khan. The two sides threw aside the Buddhist scriptures, and in order to protect their rights and interests, they quarreled for two days, and the Khalkha lamas felt bullied and ran back to Baoktu to complain to their Great Khan.

It's not easy to mess with the Yuerji Lama of Fengzhou Beach, after the death of Maidali, he counts his old man's prestige and the highest qualifications, and there is a powerful Dajinong standing behind him, if he bites to death and doesn't admit it, Zhanabazar, the reincarnated spirit boy, is a fake, and it's a troublesome thing - Gunbu feels a little headache, but Shuo Lei and Subadi don't care, this is originally a ghost name made by Gunbu privately, and it has nothing to do with them, so he can't worry about other people's families.

"Gunbu, we don't care whether your son is the reincarnation of Maidali or not, but we must admit that Dajinong is the reincarnation of Altan Khan, otherwise it will be the demolition of Fengzhou, and Li Yu will not give us a son." Subadi reminded Gunbu, and Shuo Lei immediately nodded yes.

"Okay, as long as Li Yuyu agrees to give money, he directly says that it is the reincarnation of Emperor Shizu, and I will admit it." Gun Bu was a little helpless, but he planned to ask Li Yu for mercy in private, his son is an impostor, he is not a liar, he really can't afford to lose face.

The three Khans went to see Li Yu together, and they didn't notice that the faces of the people in the big tent were wrong, and as soon as they entered the door, they said with a smile on their faces: I answer, the many disasters and disasters on the grassland are all because there are no heroes, now it's okay, Tengger gave you to us, the poor Mongolian people are finally saved, your merit is so great, we don't support you, and Tengger won't agree, so we think you should still be called Khan, and you must be a grade higher than us, Khan's name is called "Khalkha Hutuktu Batulu Khan", This is the majesty, you must not postpone, the Khalkha people are looking forward to you, the population, land, cattle and sheep are easy to do, the population, land, cattle and sheep of the whole Khalkha are yours, ours is also yours, we will live with you in the future.

After patting the horses, Sanhan complained pitifully and pitifully: Khalkha is located in the bitter cold land of the extreme north, except for grazing cattle and sheep, there is no other livelihood, and it coincides with a bad year, the winter is cold and snowy, the spring drought and water shortage, thousands of livestock freeze to death and die of thirst, and there is a more powerful plague, if you want to kill people, no one can tell how many people have died in the past few years, no one can say, only know that there are fewer and fewer cattle, sheep and shepherds on the grassland, we are so unlucky, the people of the Jin country still don't let us go, and the Rakshasa ghost also takes advantage of the fire to rob, The common people of Khalkha can't live anymore. I answer, you can help us, we don't want much, you give us 20,000 stone of grain, 3,000 pieces of cloth, and 1,000 iron pots a year, and we will naturally have weapons when we fight, you train 3,000 cavalry for each of our families, and the weapons and armor will be equipped according to the same as the Fengzhou cavalry.

The three sweat lions opened their mouths and waited for Li Yu to bargain, but Li Yu and the other Fengzhou officials in the tent all looked at them with strange eyes, and no one answered after waiting for a long time.

"I answer, we are your people, you can't be stingy!" Shuo Lei asked breathlessly.

"Let's talk about return, I just got the news, on April 11, Jin Khan ascended the throne in Shengjing and became emperor, changed the name of the country to the Qing Dynasty, he is now not the lord of Jin, but the emperor of the Manchu, Han and Mongolian tribes, ready to fight." Li Yu waved the letter in his hand and said - the letter was sent by Fan Erxi urgently, and he himself accompanied the new trade ambassador of Jin Guo on the way back.

The face of the Khalkha Khan changed greatly, Shuo Lei almost sat on the ground, Gunbu rubbed his hands vigorously, Subadi was still calm - there were Shuo Lei and Gunbu in front of him. It's not his turn to be beaten yet.