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"Another way is to replace gold and silver in another way!"

"Another thing instead of gold and silver?" Lobanov's eyes widened in surprise: "How is this possible?" Are you Ming people willing to accept it? ”

"Mr. Lobanov, you and I are both merchants, is it true for us that the greater and more trade between the two countries, the more the merchant earns?"

"No!" Lobanov shook his head: "No, if you buy too many things and have to sell them at a loss, not only will you not make more, but you will lose money." ”

"Exactly, what if no matter how many things can be sold?"

"That's for the best!" When Lobanov said this, he smiled dumbly and said, "But how can there be such a good thing in this world?" ”

"Naturally! If he has no gold or silver, as long as he has land and property, he can lend it to him, and how can he not sell it? “

"Lend it to him?" Lobanov only felt as if there was a flash of light sweeping in front of him, and he saw many things that he had never seen in the dark, but this flash was fleeting, and those things that he had never seen before, or even thought about, disappeared into the darkness again, and he subconsciously turned his gaze to Liu Cheng, his eyes full of anticipation and pleading.

Liu Cheng didn't continue, he smiled, stood up and said: "It's not early, let's get here today, I'll rest here for a few days, and we'll talk about trade next time!" ”

Lobanov had to send Liu Cheng out, and as soon as Liu Cheng went out, he whispered to Zhao Wende: "Don't let these Russians run around, and." The guy with a wooden leg will keep an eye on me and let me know if there is any situation! “

"Yes, sir!" Although Zhao Wende didn't understand why Liu Cheng paid so much attention to that lame man, he had followed Liu Cheng for a long time and knew that he often inadvertently left behind, and he just had to do it seriously.

Liu Cheng jumped on the war horse but did not leave. Instead, he leaned down and said to Zhao Wende: "Jiansheng, when you come back this time, you won't go to the Jungger people again, I want to use your talent here to do a great career!" ”

"Big business?" Zhao Wende said with a smile: "Breaking Lin Dan Khan's 70,000 people, the head of the list, capturing his wife and concubine, offering prisoners to the Jingshi, Le Shi Yanran, Wei Gong breaking the Turks is just like this, thousands of years later, there will naturally be descendants to recite the deeds of adults!" What else do you have to do, my lord? ”

"That's merit? Not a career! ”

"So what's the difference?" Zhao Wende asked puzzled.

"Jiansheng. Let me ask you, where is the Yanran Mountain where Dou Xianle Shi Jigong is? “

"This-" Zhao Wende was dumbfounded for a moment, he thought for a while and replied: "General Dou Xian sent the five colonels of the Northern Army, Liyang, Yongying, and the knights of the twelve counties on the edge of the border, as well as Qiang Hu Yicong and the famous kings of the Southern Xiongnu to go out of the fortress for more than 3,000 miles, and broke the Northern Xiongnu in Jiluo Mountain, pursued until the private canal Bibi Hai, captured millions of livestock, and eighty-one people who feared the power of the Han Dynasty came to surrender, more than 200,000 people. Then climb Yanran Mountain. Lingban Gu made an inscription and recorded the merit of the stone. Gi Hanweid. However, the specific location of Jiluo Mountain, Private Canal Bi Bao Hai, and Yanran Mountain, I don't know what the name is today, it must be the land of the extreme north. “

"Jiansheng, you have a good memory, and you can even remember these messy names clearly."

"Your Excellency praises it!" Zhao Wende said with a smile: "Fan Weizong (Fan Ye, the author of the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, the word Weizong) Although his character is not good, his talent is peerless. Such a good article, once you look at it, you can't forget it! “

"That's you, too, I can't remember!" Liu Cheng patted Zhao Wende on the shoulder, and his intimate behavior made Zhao Wende a little embarrassed. But it was quickly swept under the rug.

"Let's put it this way, if you talk about martial arts, I don't dare to compare with General Dou, he crossed the Hanhai Sea, went out of the fortress for more than 3,000 miles and fought to the death with the Northern Huns, I am a Tartar who broke the border wall and besieged Ningxia Fucheng, and I sent troops to rescue the thieves inside and outside. The degree of difficulty of the two cannot be remembered. Historians of later generations who have a little conscience will never compare me with General Dou. But the general, the commander of the country, the Son of Heaven to teach the people of the country, can not only consider their own martial arts. General Dou came out of the empty country with the troops of the country, out of the fortress for more than 3,000 miles, and broke the Northern Xiongnu, but where is this Yanran Mountain, Jiluo Mountain, and the private canal Bibahai where today even a well-informed person like Jiansheng you doesn't know, presumably the Eastern Han Dynasty couldn't control it at that time, right? “

"Yes, the land is barren, the climate is bitter and cold, the land cannot be cultivated and weaved, and the people cannot be driven, and China is tired. And although the Northern Xiongnu went, Xianbei resurged, and it was a great disaster for the Han Dynasty for the rest of his life, which can be described as a thief and a thief! At this time, Zhao Wende had already understood what Liu Cheng meant, and said in a low voice: "My lord, don't you want to restore the old frontier of the Qin and Han dynasties?" “

"Jiansheng knows me!" Liu Cheng nodded: "The Hetao is backed by mountains and rivers, the land is flat, and it is cultivated at the age of one year, which is ten years, which is the food that God has given me." If you take it now, take the strength of Chahar, Tumut, Jungar, Yarkand, and Shuote as the precursor, and take the elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty as the successor, and the Jurchen is not enough! ”

"My lord has done a hundred-year plan for my Ming Dynasty, and Jiansheng dares not to do his best?" Zhao Wende bowed down, raised his head and asked, "Then Lord Lu and Hu Jianjun know about this?" ”

"Not yet!" Liu Cheng shook his head with a smile: "Now that everyone in the court has formed friends, it is too late to attack each other, where are there still people who do things?" We can only do this thing, not say it, otherwise it won't be able to be done, and I'm afraid we won't be able to save our own lives! ”

When Zhao Wende heard this, he remembered what happened to his old master Yang He, his expression was gloomy, and he sighed and said: "What your lord said is very true, this matter must indeed be kept secret. ”

"Well, send this group of Russians away, and you will come back and take over this mess!"

"Yes, sir!"

Northeast, Shenyang.

In winter, the sky in Shenyang City takes on a leaden gray color, as if it could snow at any time. Huang Taiji looked up at the sky, which made him a little uneasy, because it would delay the construction of the city wall. Outside there was the sound of saws and hammers, and it was the craftsmen who were working day and night to build a new yamen. In the Ming Dynasty, the official name of Shenyang City was "Shenyang Zhongwei", as the name suggests, it was a military fortress, and most of its inhabitants were soldiers and their families, as well as craftsmen and merchants who served the army. The fortified city wall stretched for nine miles and ten steps, reaching a height of two feet and five feet. However, in the long war between the Jin and Ming kingdoms, the city walls were almost completely destroyed, except for the north gate. In 1625, Nurhachi moved the capital from Liaoyang to Shenyang in order to rule over the vast and fertile Liaohe Plain. But Nurhachi did not invest much in rebuilding the walls, and the man, who had spent most of his life on horseback, believed in his battle-hardened army. Rather than a towering city wall, the reconstruction of Shenyang City actually began after Huang Taiji ascended the throne, since he succeeded to the throne, every autumn harvest, he would levy a large number of people around Shenyang to participate in labor, even the subjects of the Eight Banners are no exception, and build Shenyang City into a capital worthy of the rising Houjin State. At the banquets of the Manchurian aristocracy, Huang Taiji often heard people complaining in a low voice, saying that the first khan would never call the banner people like this when he was there. Even the days of the nest have to be pulled out to dig the earth, and besides, is the city wall useful? The Han people have built such a long city wall, is it blocking us? Huang Taiji had a disdainful attitude towards these complaints, had they forgotten how much blood they shed when facing the Ming people's city walls and Hongyi cannons?

"Your Majesty!" A gloomy voice said, "Lord Fan asks to see!" “

"Let him in!" Huang Taiji put down the brush in his hand, rubbed his somewhat sore wrist, and looked at the mountains of paperwork on the bookcase. I couldn't help but smile wryly. As an emerging, the bureaucracy has not yet been fully formed as the ruler of the country. Huang Taiji is not as lucky as Emperor Chongzhen, there are so many people under his command to share the chores for him, many things that should have belonged to the bureaucrats must be handled by himself, he must be the son of heaven, commander, prime minister, no wonder he died in his early fifties.

"Weichen see Your Majesty!" As soon as Fan Wencheng entered the door, he knelt down and kowtowed, and said in a low voice: "There is an urgent letter from the Zalut Department. Lin Dan Khan is dead! “

"Lin Dan Khan is dead?" Huang Taiji couldn't help but be taken aback, he stood up and asked, "Mr. Fan, you get up and speak, how did he die?" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Fan Wencheng kowtowed and stood up. He said in a low voice: "It is believed that the envoy was killed by the Ming army, Lin Dan Khan's department encountered a snow disaster, and many soldiers died, so he led the troops to attack the Ningxia town of the Ming State, and won the first battle to break through the border wall, but the siege of Ningxia Mansion City was not down, and after the reinforcements of the Ming State arrived, the inside and outside were defeated, and they also died in the hands of the Ming army. ”

"Where did this news come from?" Huang Taiji's expression was quite nervous.

"It's a small leader of the Chahar tribe, and his sister is the little Fujin of the prince of the Asut tribe, and after being defeated, he defected to his sister."

"That means he didn't confirm with his own eyes whether Lin Dan Khan was dead or not?" Huang Taiji asked.

"Well, but there should be other news coming soon, so it's enough to compare and analyze it."

"No, I want real news about this matter!" Huang Taiji waved his hand and said in a deep voice: "Mr. Fan, you pick a few trustworthy people and go over there, don't want us Jurchens, it's too conspicuous, want Mongols or Han Chinese, I want to be sure whether Lin Dan Khan is dead or alive, understand?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Fan Wencheng knelt down and kowtowed, he was working in the Wenguan at this time, on the surface, this was just a civilian place for translating Chinese books and annotations, but in fact, under his hands, a group of intelligence personnel mainly from the people had been gathered, and a small but highly efficient intelligence collection and analysis agency had been established, which was quite trusted by Huang Taiji. He secretly glanced at Huang Taiji's face, saw the hidden joy in the other party's heart, and said boldly: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty!" ”

"The Ming Kingdom is my great enemy, and Lin Dan Khan may not be dead, what is there to be happy about?"

"Please forgive Weichen for bluntly saying that Lin Dan Khan is the mortal enemy of our country, and the Ming Kingdom may not be the mortal enemy of our country!"

"It's new!" Huang Taiji laughed: "Since my father Khan swore to defeat the Ming Dynasty with seven hatreds, the Ming army has died in dozens of famous generals of my Dajin, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers have been killed and wounded in the two countries. ”

"Great Khan, do you think Ming can destroy me?"

Huang Taiji said with a smile: "The territory of the Ming Dynasty is vast, and the people are billions of trillions, but it is centrifugal up and down, the generals do not practice martial arts, all kinds of disadvantages are accumulated, and it is difficult to return, even if there are one or two heroic people, it is difficult to succeed, and it can be known from the battle of Dalinghe." On the other hand, my Dajin has already obtained the land outside the border, and has also obtained the wings of the Mongolian tribes, the soldiers are refined, and the generals are all experienced in a hundred battles. ”

"Then what if my Dajin wants to destroy the Ming Kingdom?"

Huang Taiji frowned, shook his head and said: "Although the Ming Kingdom has accumulated deep disadvantages, but it has been established for more than two hundred years, the grace is very deep, the people are numerous, the people are rich, and the world is beyond reach. Even if I can break the country, I'm afraid I won't be able to see it! “

"What Your Majesty said is very true, since I can't destroy him, and he can't kill me, then why should I attack each other and hurt my soldiers in vain? Wouldn't it be beautiful that there are no two or three talented people who turn hostility into friendship and make good relations between the two countries? “

"Hehe, Mr. Fan laughed, the Ming Emperor regarded us as barbarians, how could he negotiate peace with us?"

"Your Majesty, in the early years of the Song Dynasty, the Khitan and the Song Dynasty had no grudges, and the two countries fought for decades, and even Song Taizong was wounded and died of serious injuries. But in the end, the two countries did not form an alliance with Tanyuan, and there was no conflict on the border for a hundred years? Can the enmity between the Ming Kingdom and me be greater than the enmity between the Song and the Khitan? ”

"What Mr. Fan said is very true, I hope that the Son of Heaven of the Ming Kingdom can judge the situation and admit that the land outside the border is owned by my Dajin, open the door to trade, and communicate with each other, and the two countries are very fortunate! The people are very happy! Huang Taiji nodded and said with a smile: "In this way, the Ming Kingdom is indeed not my mortal enemy of Dajin, but why do you say that Lin Dan Khan is my mortal enemy?" ”

"Your Majesty, the situation of our country, with Liaodi as the heart, North Korea and Mongolia as the wings, this world is like a hand talk, if there is no Mongolia, it is cramped in a corner, even if the chess strength is superior, it is difficult to win? Lin Dan Khan is a descendant of the blood of the sons of the Jin, the Miao of Dayan Khan, and is orthodox to the Mongols. As long as Lin Dan Khan does not die one day, he can compete with my Dajin one day, how can it be said that he is not the sworn enemy of my Dajin? ”

Huang Taiji listened to Fan Wencheng's words, and couldn't help but nod again and again. Although Fan Wencheng's words are only a few words, they clearly analyze the strategic relationship between the Houjin, Mongolia, and Ming Dynasty. If you have an understanding of the history of ancient East Asia, you will find that with the economic center of the Central Plains moving eastward, the birthplace of the grassland overlord is also gradually moving eastward, since the Tang Dynasty, the two foothills of the Changbai Mountains have become the cradle of the grassland overlord, Xianbei, Khitan, Jurchen, Jin are all originated in the place, and then use this to conquer many tribes on the grassland to the west, and then enter the Central Plains. The reason for this is that although the plains at the foot of the Changbai Mountains are located outside the Guan, the rivers formed by the snowmelt on the top of the mountains and the rain clouds blowing over the eastern Pacific Ocean give enough water to the plains on both sides to make agricultural production possible, and to the west through the valley roads of the mountains, you can enter the vast grasslands, so that the peoples who take it as the birthplace can have the dual advantages of agricultural people and nomads, both the handicrafts brought by the farming people and the stable bureaucratic state, and the strong mobility and mobilization advantages of the nomads, in Xianbei, Khitan, Jin, and Jurchen are all embodied in these peoples. And the quality of the control of the grassland, for these regimes is also related to the survival of life, the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Yan State established by Murong Xianbei, Rouran and the Six Towns to the Northern Wei Dynasty; Mongolia is a striking example of this; The reason for this is that the steppe is not only an easy direction for these regimes to expand, but also a source of military power (the source of war horses). Not being able to enter the Shanhaiguan Pass is just a few children for Huang Taiji, and after a few years of hard life, losing Mongolia is a life-threatening matter.

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PS: First of all, Weber wishes book friends a happy May Day, and a happy International May Day!

Secondly, someone asked Weber in the discussion forum that trade is for the Don hippopotamus and the scimitar, let's put it this way, trade is a very magical thing, once a trade relationship is established, you can not only get a certain commodity, but also influence the internal affairs of the opponent through this trade relationship, and surrender the army without a fight, so you ask me for a certain commodity, I don't know how to answer, the important relationship is established, and everything else will follow.