Chapter Thirty-Eight: Borrowing Strength to Fight Strength, Pointing to the North and Fighting the South

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That's to beat them up without saying a word, telling them that the stick is real, their butts are real, and the pain is real!

Even a proud and bullish Tartar man like Batu can't stand the two sticks of a man in brocade, let alone those philosophers who are not diligent in their limbs and do not distinguish between grains and grains.

When Batu almost broke his leg and fell to his knees, Battle reacted strongly.

The man with a thick mane knelt up straight and yelled at Xie Qian, "Old horseman, is it just to insult us when you asked me to wait today?" ”

Yes, there is no mistake here, it is Xie Qian.

He is destined to carry this pot, who made him so sharp-tongued.

Xie Qian was anxious to sweat profusely, and he glanced at Liu Jian vigorously, according to the prince's dry method, he still talked about a fart in the mutual market, and if he didn't turn his face after he went back, he would already be burdened with humiliation.

Liu Jian didn't have any good way, the envoys of the foreign feudal clans came to Beijing to enter the table, and the bow salute was the ancestral system left by Emperor Chengzu, in order to show the majesty of my ****.

How dare he, Liu Jian, say that Zhu Houzhao is not half of it, and the old pavilion is helpless for a while.

But you have to find someone to take the blame, there is no valid reason for the Tatars to turn their faces or not, it doesn't matter, I'm afraid that the prince will really kill the killer, so that the two sides have no room to maneuver.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Qi, the Admiral Siyi Pavilion is guilty!" Xie Qian heard someone beside him say something inaudible about the Admiral Siyi Pavilion, and his eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately blurted out.

Zhu Houzhao looked blinded, the Tatars scolded you Xie Qian, how can you Xie Qian still be involved in the Admiral Siyi Pavilion, this pot is too far beyond time and space, right?

"The Admiral Siyi Pavilion is in charge of the tribute affairs of the Quartet Pavilion, knowing that the Tatar envoy does not understand Chinese etiquette but does not teach him, so that today's incident is disturbed, please order the Admiral Siyi Pavilion Shaoqing to make amends to the Tatar envoy!"

Zhu Houzhao glanced at the Admiral Siyi Pavilion Shaoqing, who dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, and finally waved his hand and said: "That's it, the prince will no longer pursue the issue of etiquette, let's get down to business." ”

was originally unhappy to find the Tatars, but this Xie Qian pointed the finger at his own people who had been working hard, which made Zhu Houzhao even more unhappy.

Battle stood up, took the congratulatory table and other items from Batu's hand, and began to read out the letter written by the Tatar Khan to the Ming Emperor, as well as the tributes sent to cattle, sheep, horses, etc.

I read it in Tatar language for almost half an hour, but Zhu Houzhao didn't understand a word.

Admiral Siyi Pavilion Shaoqing opened his mouth to translate, but was rejected by Zhu Houzhao with a wave of his hand.

Then Zhu Houzhao pretended to be like I understood everything and yelled: "What! You Great Khans want to pay tribute? And let me pay you a tribute of 100,000 taels of silver and 50,000 horses of silk every year? ”

Battle was blinded, but immediately reacted and said, "Yes, we have already negotiated these things with your cabinet minister!" ”

Xie Qian was also blinded.

When did Lao Tzu talk to you about the tributary of the ministers?

The Manchu civil and military were stunned.

Isn't this a tribute, I think the Great Song Dynasty sent money to others every year before finally dying of the country, which bastard talked about, traitor!

If the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty knew that his descendants had become a tribute to the point of being a minister, he would have to jump out of the mausoleum angrily, Zhu Yuanzhang did not have the concept of Hedong and Hexi for thirty years, and his old man has always been Hexi!

Xie Qian couldn't sit still, and immediately jumped out and shouted wronged: "The minister didn't say anything about paying tribute, but just discussed the matter of the border market." ”

"Battle, if you know that your Tatar Khan has such a tiger and wolf intention, this official will slap you even if he fights for this old life, and he will never be slandered by you!"

Battle said that he was very aggrieved, I didn't say this, did your prince misunderstand and blame me? My Great Khan just wants to exchange money.

Zhu Houzhao looked suddenly enlightened: "It turned out to be a border market, this is a good thing!" My Ming Dynasty lacks war horses, and you Tatars lack tea, so you take what you need, very good! ”

Seeing that Zhu Houzhao was rarely satisfied, Xie Qian hurriedly wiped the sweat on his forehead.

Battle settled down and said with a smile: "We did come with the friendly intentions of the Great Khan, but we only exchanged markets, and we didn't have the idea of making the Ming Dynasty a minister!" ”

"Then please tell me about the details of your friendship with the Great Khan of Tatar!"

"We, the Great Khan, hope to gain the friendship of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty through this court, and allow our Tatars and the Ming Dynasty to trade with each other on the border.

We are willing to exchange the best cattle, sheep and horses on the grassland for tea, grain, cloth, salt and iron tools from the Ming Dynasty. ”

"I see, the Tatar Khan's idea is very good."

Zhu Houzhao said this, but he sneered in his heart.

The Tonggong market was nominally a trade between the two countries, but in the eyes of the Tatars it was just a better way to say looting.

You must know that the agrarian people are far less fierce than the nomads, those who put down the knife are herdsmen, and when they pick up the knife, they are the most elite knights.

In the history of China, except for a few dynasties with strong soldiers, the rest simply lived in the shadow of the iron hooves of nomads.

The mutual market is basically the way for nomads to exchange non-necessities for necessities. Its means are often to take out a few inferior horses when they are happy, and directly use knives to rob when they are unhappy, which is outrageous without faith and righteousness.

And this time, in addition to asking for salt, tea and other things, they even started the idea of ironware, which was not discussed at all.

Zhu Houzhao directly refused: "Salt and iron don't need to be discussed, tea and cloth can be discussed." ”

Battle was immediately unwilling, although this time he brought the little prince to Daming to step on the point, but the king of Khan was in great need of reaching a mutual market.

Iron and salt were scarce in the Tatars, especially iron, and once they had weapons, they could have an absolute advantage in the battle against the remaining tribes. Lay a good foundation for the future to go south.

So you can do without salt, tea and other things, but iron is absolutely indispensable.

"Honorable Royal Highness the Crown Prince, these are all discussed by Elder Xie Ge with the foreign ministers, how can you say that change will change?"

Zhu Houzhao looked at Xie Qian with a smile, but it made Xie Qian's heart suddenly chill.

Sure enough, I immediately heard Zhu Houzhao say: "This prince remembers that during the Taizu period, there was a strict prohibition on the entry of any bit of iron into the Northern Yuan Dynasty, I wonder if Xie Ge still remembers?" ”

As the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty, the Northern Yuan Dynasty can be said to be the number one enemy of the Ming Dynasty, and in order to limit the combat power of the Northern Yuan, Ming Taizu has specially ordered the Northern Yuan to ban the sale of weapons.

Xie Qian naturally knew this.

"Back to the prince, the old minister knows. But a little iron weapon, not a sword soldier, is not a prohibition. At the same time, the old minister also thought about Han Feizi's different world, and when things are different, he will be prepared, and he thinks it is very reasonable......"

This old man wants to use what Zhu Houzhao said to block Zhu Houzhao's mouth!

But Zhu Houzhao was waiting for him here, and before Xie Qian finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhu Houzhao's applause.

"Can't iron be forged into swords?"

"But since Elder Xie Ge agrees, things are different, and things are different. He also set a precedent to change the ban issued by Taizu to the north, and the prince naturally agreed.

But good things have to come in pairs, the north and the south are the important places of my Ming Dynasty, and we must not favor one over the other, so can the reopening of the southern sea ban also be changed according to the rules? β€œ

Zhu Houzhao said with lightning speed.

Before all the ministers could react, Zhu Houzhao continued ruthlessly: "The matter of reopening the sea ban will be handed over to Elder Xie Ge, this is a major matter of the country, and the charter must be taken out as soon as possible!" ”