Chahar Khan accepted Li Yu's kneeling salute, and then turned over and dismounted, walked to Li Yu to help him up, and the two hugged each other to do the Mongolian hug ceremony, this set of etiquette was negotiated by Li Fugui, Ortai and Yunrong, Li Yu wanted to give Chahar Khan a face, and kneeling to show his submission, while Chahar Khan reciprocated with a hug salute, indicating that the two were like brothers.

After the two finished saluting, Chahar Khan took Li Yu's hand and said: "Li Yucha, your name has spread all over the grassland, and the Chahar people also recognize you as a hero. ”

"The Great Khan is also younger than I thought." Li Yu smiled embarrassedly, he wanted to compliment Chahar Khan a few words but couldn't find anything to say, Chahar Khan looked less than forty years old, his face was fair and delicate, his body was thin and thin, and the hand holding Li Yu was also smooth and round, weak and boneless, Li Yu felt that he was more like a scholar from a rich and noble family, and he did not have the majesty of the steppe Khan at all.

"The Great Khan is the hero in his prime, Li Yucha is a young hero, and the Great Khan is assisted by Li Yucha, who will definitely be able to unify the steppe and reproduce the majesty of Mongolia." Sangha Erzhai Jinong came up and said, Wu Langha was also busy introducing his younger brother Tu Taiji, sister Princess Taisong, and brother-in-law Gong Chuk Taiji to Li Yu, and Geng Tu and Gong Chuk snorted and turned their heads, but Taisong threw a wink at Li Yu.

"Great Khan, don't let everyone call me Li Yucha, I'm just a poor bastard who hunts and farms, I can't be a nobleman, I won't fight in the future, I still have to go home to herd horses and farm." Li Yu always felt that the title "Li Yucha" was weird, which always reminded him of the dead ghost Gui Yingcha, and hurriedly corrected.

"Ben Khan thinks that you deserve this title, and that a person from a commoner background can be a noble man as long as he has talent," Chahar Khan continued, ignoring the Bhutu and Gunchuk on the side, "Mongolia cannot rely on those Taiji and Noyan who do not do their proper work, so they should go home to herd horses and herd sheep." ”

Li Yu didn't expect Chahar Khan to say such a thing, and couldn't help but have a good impression of Chahar Khan, the servants had already laid out the carpet, and put on fine wine and food, Chahar Khan pulled Li Yu to sit down, and beckoned Tuntu, Gonchuk and Sanghar Zhai to also sit around, Wu Langha and Taisong sisters took the opportunity to run to the side and laugh, and Yun Rong stood behind Chahar Khan.

"Li Yucha, I heard that you have a hot fight with the Ming Kingdom, and you still have the official position of the Ming Kingdom, and now you have taken refuge in our Chahar people, should we treat you as a guerrilla of the Ming Kingdom, or as the commander of Mongolia?" Illustration suddenly sneered and said.

"Li Yucha is very smart, Yong Shaobu, Tumut and Ordos are all finished, he knows that his master of the Ming Kingdom can't help him, so he takes refuge in us and wants to step on two boats, Li Yucha, if we can break through the border wall of the Ming Kingdom, we can sweep your Barbarian Mountain, you have to figure it out!" Gonchuk said in a strange way.

Yun Rong was stunned, these two bastards were about to stir up trouble, he immediately glanced at Sangha Erzhai, but Li Yu spoke first, he said coldly: "The people of Barbarian Mountain are all desperate poor people, we just want to live, whoever is good to us, we will treat him as a brother, whoever dares to bully us, we will fight him to the end, you are indeed very strong, we can't beat you, but we can drag you down, we may have a chance to escape into the pass if we lose, if you fall, then wait for death." ”

Sangha Erzhai hurriedly played a round: "Li Yucha, don't be angry, Guitu Taiji and Gunchuk Taiji are joking with you, we are now a family, the Great Khan married Princess Wulangha to you, it proves that the Great Khan trusts you very much, and it is not harmful for us that you have an official position in the Ming Kingdom, at least we can get the opportunity to exchange markets through you, Great Khan, right?" ”

Chahar Khan was very dissatisfied with Gantu and Gunchuk, these two guys who were not successful enough and had more than enough failures were almost bad, he glared at the two fiercely, waved his hand to signal the two to retreat, and then turned his face to Li Yu and smiled slyly: "Li Yucha, there is a little bit of Ben Khan's misjudgment, before I met you, Ben Khan thought that a person who openly stepped on two boats and mixed up with the wind and fire must be cunning and smart, and he is very thick-skinned, but you make Ben Khan feel more like a young man herding horses on the grassland." ”

Li Yu's face turned red, and he lowered his head and whispered in defense: "Great Khan, I also want to live!" ”

"Ben Khan doesn't blame you, Tumut has always been like this, the chiefs are their taiji and tabu on one side, and on the other side they also hold the official positions of generals and governors of the Ming Kingdom," Chahar Khan put away his smile and said coldly, "But Ben Khan wants to remind you that the Han people in the Ming Kingdom are different from the people on our steppe, they are scheming and untrustworthy, and they will definitely give you benefits when they want to use you, but when they think you are useless, they will immediately throw you away like a bone, what you should really trust is me- The Great Khan of Chahar in all Mongolia. ”

Li Yu nodded, he knew that the Ming Kingdom was indeed using him, but the Chahar Great Khan was not like this, Li Yu didn't care about it for a long time, it was precisely because he had use value, so he still had something to eat, if no one wanted to use him, then he really had no way to live.

Sangha Erzhai Jinong changed the topic and asked Li Yu with a smile: "I heard that you went to Yanghe to meet the governor of Xuanda, is there any sincerity in the peace negotiation of the Ming Kingdom this time?" ”

"Li Yucha, you tell Ben Khan honestly, how much money can Ming Guo give us this time? If they want to deceive us like before, we have no choice but to go to war with the Ming Kingdom. Chahar Khan immediately opened his eyes wide and asked.

"The Ming State sent Wang Xiangqian, the former governor of Jiliao, as the governor of Xuanda this time, he came to the peace conference at the behest of the imperial court, and he should be sincere, but how the peace law will not tell me, the Ming court wants to save face, and the Great Khan should be able to gain something as long as he is willing to condescend to ask for peace."

"Wang Xiangqian is not dead yet! He dealt with us when he was the governor of Jiliao, and this person can be regarded as a rare person in the Ming court," Sangha Erzhai immediately remembered this old acquaintance, and then said with a wry smile: "Great Khan, let's give the face of the Ming Kingdom to seek peace, we won the battle of Ordos, but the days are poorer than before, we don't have many livestock captured this time, Li Yucha helped us go to the horse market to exchange some grain." ”

Seeing that Li Yu was a little puzzled, Sanghar Village briefly talked about the battle of the Ebuha River, the Mongolian right-wing coalition army gathered 100,000 people to cross the Yellow River, and went deep into the area of the Ebuha River east of the Yellow River, when the Chahar army arrived, I thought there was a bad battle, but I didn't expect the coalition army to fight among themselves first, Tumut's Boshuo Ketu Khan and Erdos's Erinchen turned their faces for the position of the right-wing alliance leader and the sharing of money and grain, Chahar took the opportunity to launch a fierce attack, Erinchen was defeated and surrendered, Boshuo Ketu Khan and Yongshao Bu's Baiyan Taiji soldiers were defeated and died, The Chahar army easily entered Ordos, but Ordos was too poor, and the Chahar people who won the battle could hardly find anything to grab, and Chahar Khan was angry and dismissed Erdos Jinong from Erdos, and helped Erlinchen's younger brother into Jinong, and then quickly withdrew from Ordos.

"Ben Khan has lost all his people for this food since he went west, so let's ask for peace with the Ming Kingdom," Chahar Khan also sighed, he hesitated for a while, looked at Li Yu and whispered: "Li Yucha, this time you can give Ben Khan some more food, just give two hundred stones." ”

Li Yu's face flashed with a hint of anger, Yun Rong stood behind Chahar Khan and glared at him, Li Yu reluctantly nodded in agreement, but he felt that he was too much of a loss, and immediately asked: "Great Khan, you want money from Mingguo, can you give me some shares?" It's okay to give me one percent. ”

Chahar Khan said solemnly: "We are a family, don't ask Ben Khan for money in the future." ”

After talking about business, Chahar Khan seemed very happy, and told Li Yu to take care of his sister, and then patted his ass and left, Li Yu looked at Chahar Khan's back, and couldn't help but scold in his heart, slamming the door, it was too picky, and he didn't even give Lao Tzu a lunch meal.

After finishing the meeting with Chahar Khan, Li Yu returned to the camp of Barbarian Mountain, and as soon as he told Chahar Khan about asking for food, Ortai jumped up: "I said, why is Chahar Khan in a hurry to see you, it is really a bad idea, it is too shameless!" If you want food to go to the poor, you won't give it, and you won't give a grain of food! ”

The officials of the Great Commander's Mansion began to scold Chahar Khan, Li Yu lowered his head and said nothing, Ortai scolded enough, pointed at Li Yu and said: "It's just that you are too soft, you have to be a good person, Chahar Khan is looking for people like you to bully, I can't listen to you this time." ”

Li Yu didn't raise his head and muttered in a low voice: "It's better to give some food than to fight!" ”

Ortai was even more angry, and slapped Li Yu on the head, this time Li Yu didn't dare to speak, and Ortai pointed the finger at Li Fugui again: "Li Fugui, aren't you usually the most picky, why don't you say anything this time?" You say, "Do you give this food?" ”

"I don't care, Yuzi said to give it, the Chahar people are poor and crazy, if we fight, we will definitely spend a lot more food," Li Fugui didn't care at all, Ortai was even more popular, and he was about to have another attack, Li Fugui hurriedly held him down, and said with a smile: "Brother Duxing, don't get angry first, you will understand as soon as you listen to me, in fact, we don't suffer at all when we deal with the Chahar people." ”

Seeing everyone's puzzled looks, Li Fugui beckoned Li Yu, Zhao Ji and Na Mu'er to his side, and then looked out of the door with a ghostly head, and then came back and whispered triumphantly: "Chahar Khan wants food to our door, then give him one or two hundred stone grains, brother and I can pit those turtles these days, we will make a lot of money!" ”

Li Fugui then talked about his pit Chahar, after the Barbarian Mountain and Chahar swore an oath, Chahar took advantage of the Barbarian Mountain to build a bridge, and indirectly had the opportunity to exchange markets with the Ming State, the Chahar people were in distress, and they had to fight with the Mongolian right wing, and had to put a large number of livestock through the Manhan Mountain into the Ming State Horse Market in exchange for necessary living goods, which gave Li Fugui the opportunity to make profits from it, and the Manhan Mountain turned his face with the officials of the Taifu Temple Branch of Guanma City because of the looting of the Victory Fort, and these officials did their tricks, The price of livestock in the horse market was very low, and the price of grain, cloth and iron tools was raised, Li Yu was-for-tat and no longer sold livestock to the Ming Kingdom.

But the real situation is that the arrival of March and Fang Zhikun opened the door to the Ming Kingdom for the illegal trade in Fengzhou, and the smuggling and trafficking in Fengzhou became more and more rampant, Ma Qi and Fang Zhikun also divided the work, Fang Zhikun was responsible for purchasing livestock and selling goods outside the Guan, and Ma Qi swaggered back to the Guannai, openly claiming to the creditors that whoever dared to be his way, he would not pay back anyone's money, a group of merchants who made money by border trade immediately merged with him, and many officials of the Ming Kingdom secretly partnered with Ma Qi to do business, They are even more afraid that March will be unlucky and his money will be wasted, so they turn a blind eye to what March did, March came back from a trip to the customs more energetic than before, and anyone who wants to eat the bowl of rice in the border trade has to cooperate with him. Ma Qi and Fang Zhikun were both mixed in Datong Town, and they were also in important positions, and they were familiar with a wide range of connections, so they took the opportunity to pull many Ming troops who were guarding the border walls into the water, opening the door for their illegal activities, without the control of the Ming government, the traders inside and outside the border walls traded freely, and the price of livestock in Fengzhou more than doubled, and the price of buying grain, cloth and iron tools also dropped a lot, and Fengzhou inside and outside actually took advantage of it, among which the thousands of cattle and sheep sent by the Chahar people one after another made Li Fugui make a lot of money. Li Fugui was counting on the Chahar people to hand over all the cattle they had stolen from Ordos to him for sale, and of course he didn't want to lose this unjust head for 200 stone of grain.

"Now you understand? Chahar people are our big customers, we can't afford to offend! Li Fugui said disdainfully, and everyone closed their mouths.

Chahar Khan got the grain sent by the Barbarian Mountain, and immediately pulled out his legs to ask for food from Mingguo, he was still quite satisfied with Li Yu, Wu Langha found him a new brother-in-law who was just right than Guiying, and he could get some benefits from him from time to time, but Li Yu was also a poor bone, and he had to turn his face if he was forced to be anxious, and he still had to find a big family like Mingguo.

Chahar Khan led the army to the mouth of the tiger, the Ming State was really sincere this time, Yang and the deputy envoy Song Tongyin, Datong Fuyi general soldier Wang Mumin with a group of Zixuan Da civil and military officials arrived at the appointment, and the two sides immediately began negotiations. Song Tongyin soon found that he had prepared a bunch of nonsense in vain, Chahar Khan didn't need to be appeased by Da Ming at all, he was willing to surrender himself, as long as Da Ming was willing to give him money and food, Chahar Khan even thought about his title, if Da Ming felt troublesome, he would replace Bu Lost Rabbit as the Shunyi King of Da Ming, and guard the border for the Ming Kingdom, Song Tongyin heard it, and he didn't dare to say anything about appeasing Chahar Khan, this guy was shameless.

There is no confrontation of words and swords in the negotiations, but it is like bargaining for a deal, Chahar Khan opened his mouth to swallow the Ming Kingdom and give the Mongolian right-wing departments a city reward of 400,000 taels of silver, Song Tongyin of course did not do it, if you want the city reward, you have to pay tribute horses, every year the Mongolian right-wing departments want to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty more than 50,000 horses, can you Chahar get it? You don't want to cheat and cheat, Chahar Khan is a little discouraged, all the horses in his hands are only more than 50,000, unless he doesn't want to live in the future, he will definitely not be able to take out a few horses.

Chahar Khan finished mentioning the city reward, and asked for the New Year's coin, this time he was right, the Ming Kingdom Liaodong Jingluo Wang Zaijin did promise to give him 40,000 taels of silver per year, and after the king left Liaodong, the Ming Dynasty did owe him, Chahar Khan thought that the Ming Kingdom did not keep his promises, so that he could not stay in his hometown, and now his life is even more sad, so he wants to raise the price, less than 100,000 taels, don't want to send him, Song Tong was angry, he was a deputy envoy of the Ming Dynasty to the point of buying vegetables on the street, he stretched out an open hand in his heart: "Okay." , give you 50,000 taels, love or not. ”

"Don't think about it, 90,000 taels, I'll continue to make trouble if there is one less." Chahar Khan did not show weakness either.

"Count you ruthless, 60,000 taels, if you don't want it, it's gone."

"If you don't do it, I'll grab it if you don't have it, it's a big deal that the fish dies and the net is broken."

"If you dare to rob me, I will fight, seventy thousand taels," Song Tong was so angry that he got up from his seat, "The last time, eighty thousand taels, if you don't agree with this official, return to Yanghe immediately." ”

Song Tongyin waved his hand to Wang Mumin and other Xuanda officials, turned his head and walked outside the big tent, and only after a few steps, Chahar Khan rushed over and grabbed him, changed his smile and begged: "Lord Deputy Envoy, don't be angry, just add more, just add a little more." ”

Song Tongyin couldn't cry or laugh, and deliberately muttered for a while before saying: "The official sees that you are also deferential, so I will add some more to you, and the price is 81,000 taels." ”

"Okay, it's 81,000 taels, take the money!" Chahar Khan stomped his foot and agreed.

Song Tongyin smiled slightly, and said mockingly: "The official promised to give you money, but he didn't promise to give you money now, this year you have made trouble, robbed and robbed, most of the year has passed, do you still want this year's New Year's coins?" If you want to get the money, you will have to wait after the spring next year, so you can wait with peace of mind! But the horse market can be open to you now, think about it. ”

Chahar Khan was almost angry and cried, after spending so much time and having to wait until next year, he had a feeling of being deceived again, Song Tongyin sneered and turned around and left, Chahar Khan hesitated for a while, and shouted loudly: "Next year will be next year, but I also want to pay tribute." ”

Song Tongyin returned to Yanghe, and quickly reported the peace meeting to Wang Xiangqian, Wang Xiangqian was very happy, 80,000 taels of silver for a peaceful value, he discussed with Yuan Chonghuan in Shanhaiguan, it was also estimated that it should be about 80,000 taels, but Zhang Zongheng was not satisfied, he thought that the imperial court must not agree to Chahar Khan tribute horses, this guy is now left with a few old and sick horses, how many horses can pay tribute, obviously take the opportunity to blackmail the court.

Wang Xiangqian became more and more disappointed with Zhang Zongheng, this little fellow is simply a dead brain, worse than Song Tongyin, Wang Xiangqian shook his head in his heart, but said mildly on his face: "Hudun Rabbit wants to pay tribute to the horse, and it can be regarded as being obedient to me, and when the time comes, the price will be judged according to the number of horses, so why should Shilin care a lot." ”

"No, this is a big deal, the younger generation must start playing to the court, be sure to prohibit the tiger dun rabbit Han Gong horse, and the court must not be allowed to suffer." Zhang Zongheng said that he ran out to do his big thing.