Chapter 171: The Two Heroes Meeting, Heroes Cherish Each Other
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Chen Di and Altan Khan arrived as promised.
Altan Khan didn't expect that the commander of the Ming army on the opposite side was only fifteen or sixteen years old!
Chen Di arched his hand and said: "You are the Altan Khan who asked me to kill myself and gave my wife to you as a side sweat concubine?" β
Altan Khan smiled and said, "You are the one who asked me to give my mother to your emperor as a foot-washing maid and sent my wife and daughter to the Daming Qinglou?" β
Altan Khan is a hero on the steppe, and a hero has always cherished heroes! Chen Di, a fifteen-year-old boy, dared to take thousands of infantry and tens of thousands of Tatar iron horsemen to the death, is he a hero? Absolutely!
The two looked at each other and smiled, and Chen Di said, "It's rude!" β
Altan Khan laughed: "It was my rudeness first!" β
Altan Khan threw the Mongolian scimitar at his waist outside the tent, and Chen Di threw the handcuff that Tang Shunzhi gave him outside the tent.
Don't think that the two of them are honest with each other! In fact, both of them left their hands behind! Altan Khan's wide Mongolian robe hides a three-inch sharp blade, and Chen Di's boots also have a small dagger pinned!
The two of them sat down. Altan Khan said: "Since both of us want to negotiate peace, then naturally we must divide one weak side and one strong side!" The strong side puts forward conditions, and the weak side only needs to answer yes or no! β
Chen Di is well versed in negotiation. You know, in modern times, in addition to being an associate professor of history, he is also the instructor of the school's debate team!
Chen Di said: "I want to ask, who does the Great Khan think should be the weak side and who should be the strong side on both sides?" β
Altan Khan replied: "My Tatar iron cavalry broke through your Datong guard, drove straight in, and annihilated your army of more than 100,000 in Zhili!" Under your capital, naturally I am the strong side! β
Chen Di was not to be outdone: "The reason why your Tatar iron cavalry can drive straight into it is because you haven't met me!" In today's battle, our side suffered no more than 1,000 casualties, but you paid the price of almost 5,000 people! Who is stronger and who is weaker on both of us? β
Altan Khan was speechless for a while!
Chen Di said: "Since it is a negotiation, it should be reciprocal!" β
Altan Khan retorted: "Reciprocity? I'm nearly ten times as strong as you! There is a huge disparity between strength and weakness, how can it be equal? Even if you get a small victory today, it's my mercy! If I let my men take turns attacking, will you be able to withstand it? β
Chen Di said: "40,000 Tatar cavalry, if you don't count the casualties of the charge, no matter how sharp my firearms are, I can't carry them!" It's true! β
Altan Khan laughed and said, "Governor Chen is an honest man! β
Chen Di also laughed and said, "But Great Khan, can you really do it regardless of casualties?" β
I replied to Khan's question, "What do you mean by this?" β
Chen Di, a modern associate professor of history, began to tell Altan Khan about the current situation in the Mongolian ministries: "Great Khan, as far as I know, the Mongolian steppe is not your own! The three major tribes of Tatar, Warat, and Uliangha coexist! Decades of war! You Tatar just have the upper hand for a while! Warat and Uliangha are still eyeing the Tatars!
And even your Tatar ministry is not monolithic! Genghis Khan's descendants are the Golden Family, the Heshut Family, the Dulbert Family, and the Turghut Family, and are known as the four major families of Tatar! Between the four major families, the interests are intertwined and there are many contradictions! With my elite firecrackers here, regardless of casualties? After running out of your headquarters, can you still sit in the sweat seat when you return to the grassland? The devil believes! β
These words hit Altan Khan's sore spot.
Altan Khan said: "Although what you said is reasonable, you must insist that you are the strong sideγγγγγγ You have an idiom in Mingguo, called covering your ears and stealing bells, right? β
Chen Di said: "Okay! I'll admit first that I'm on the weak side! You can negotiate conditions! But if you continue to talk about the harsh conditions put forward by Jean Darilachi, let's go back to our own army at once and prepare to fight to the death! β
Altan Khan said boldly: "If I hadn't met an opponent like Governor Chen, the conditions I proposed would still be those ten!" Now that I have met an opponent like Governor Chen, my conditions will definitely change! β
Chen Di said: "I want to hear it in detail!" β
Altan Khan said: "Shanxi can not be ceded to the Tatars, but the fortress of Datongwei must be ceded to the Tatars!" Don't forget, the fortress is still in my hands! β
Chen Di shook his head: "No!" Datongwei is the gateway to the north of my Ming Dynasty, given to you, you can enter the hinterland of Daming from Datongwei at any time! β
Chen Di is well versed in the way of negotiation, and just now he told Altan Khan about the form of the Mongol tribes, and Altan Khan must have been weak-minded. He got up directly and arched his hand: "Great Khan, your conditions are too harsh. I'm leaving, and so are you! Let's go back to the army and prepare to fight to the death! β
When Altan Khan saw that Chen Di was leaving, he was a little flustered! He pressed Chen Di's shoulder: "Governor Chen!" Don't rush to go! I put forward the conditions, you can not agree! There is no need to directly let this negotiation fail! β
Chen Di said: "So, Altan Khan no longer insists on letting Daming cede Datongwei?" β
Altan Khan said: "Okay, I think the Ming army is vulnerable. If I really want to enter the customs again, I only need to send 10,000 iron horsemen to easily defeat the Datongwei! β
Altan Khan, this is a picture of the mouth of the mouth. Anyway, he didn't get any benefits, and he wasn't allowed to be happy?
Chen Di agreed: "That's it! We have a poem in the Ming Dynasty, called the Great Wall of China to defend itself! The defense of the border does not depend on what is strong, but on the people! Since it is the same whether Datongwei is given to the Great Khan or not, then the Great Khan still leaves Datongwei to Daming! β
Altan Khan continued: "Reopening the border Guanma City, can the Ming Kingdom agree to this condition? β
In fact, the horse market trading between the Central Plains and the grassland has a long history. The nomads on the steppe sold their horses to the Central Plains and then exchanged them for cloth, salt, tea and other necessities, which was a good thing for both sides. Ming Taizu expelled the Meng Yuan, and the great war between the Mongol tribes and the Ming army broke out every few decades, and small frictions continued every year. Since the two sides were belligerents, they could not trade. Therefore, during the Taizu period, the border gate horse market was closed!
Chen Di nodded: "This condition is not excessive, I can agree!" β
Altan Khan continued: "In this dispatch, I mobilized 40,000 men and horses from my headquarters, traveled a long distance, and spent a huge amount of grain and grass. How about your Ming compensate us six million taels of silver? β
Chen Di bargained like a business: "Three million taels, a fixed price!" β
It's not that Chen Di is worried about money. Chen Di has always believed in the saying "nothing that can be solved with money is nothing". But there is another sentence in this sentence: "If you are afraid, you are afraid, if you don't have money, that's a thing!" "He just led his troops to break into the Taicang Silver Treasury of the Ministry of Households, and the Taicang Silver Treasury has a total of five million taels of silver, of which two million taels are to be given to the Franco mercenaries, and the remaining silver is only three million taels! The mercenaries of Francois are willing to work for him Chen Di is nothing more than for silver, if people really don't give money when they do something, it will inevitably cause more trouble! The Fur mercenaries were not holding burning sticks, but more than 2,000 firecrackers!
Therefore, the reserve price of the indemnity is three million taels of silver!