"I see!" Batur nodded, although he valued trade, but his purpose was to strengthen the Dzungars and add chips to his conquest. Therefore, Batur had strict restrictions on the export of goods, such as war horses, which were directly related to military power, were strictly forbidden, and unless he had his permission, anyone who bought or sold more than five war horses without permission was punished by beheading. Batur weighed the pros and cons in his heart and asked, "Lord Xu, but I don't know how many war horses your friends need to let go?" ”

Xu Hecheng was secretly happy when he saw Batur's relief, pretending to be considerate, and replied: "My friend is a general, and there is a battalion of soldiers under his command, about 3,000 people, according to the ratio of ten steps and one horse, if there are 300 cavalry, it should be enough." “

"Three hundred horses?" Batur nodded: "Okay, it's three hundred!" "Although he is rude on the surface, he is extremely shrewd on the inside, and there are thousands of good horses under his own account alone, and taking out three hundred war horses is only a drop in the bucket, but if it can open a channel for the import of firearms, it will be of great significance.

"It's not three hundred war horses, it's three hundred cavalry!" Xu Hecheng turned his palm with his right hand in the depths of the depths: "According to the calculation of one horse and two horses, it is three hundred people and six hundred horses." ”

Batur's face suddenly became gloomy, and Erji on the side sneered when he saw this: "Lord Xu, don't get an inch, it's better to accept it when you see it." “

Xu Hecheng was not afraid, and said with a smile: "Great Khan, we Han people in the Central Plains are farmers, unlike you Mongolians who were born on horseback, even if you give my friend 300 good horses, where will he find so many warriors who are good at riding for a while?" Besides, if there are only horses, it is just a trade; If the Great Khan sent 300 cavalry, it would be a friend who came to his aid. There are successful and unsuccessful transactions, but if a friend asks for it, how can there be a reason to refuse? ”

After listening to Xu Hecheng's defense, Batur did not speak. The meaning of the other party is very clear, if it is just to sell war horses, it is just doing business; But if it is an army, it is an alliance, and the difference between the two relationships is self-evident. After a while, Batur asked, "If I agree, will your friend be willing to sell firearms?" ”

"If it doesn't work, the villain will definitely give an explanation to the Great Khan!" Xu Hecheng replied in a deep voice.

Batur stared at Xu Hecheng for a while, and suddenly shouted: "Get the wine!" As soon as she finished speaking, the slave girl came up with a silver wine jar. Min Min snatched the wine jar from the slave girl and said with a smile: "Father Khan, Lord Xu, I'll pour wine for the two of you!" After that, she couldn't help Xu Hecheng to say, so she poured the wine bowl in front of the two of them full of mare's milk wine. Batur picked up the bowl, dipped his finger in the bowl, flicked it to the sky, and talked to the ground. He said solemnly: "Proprietor Xu, this jar of mare's milk wine is squeezed out of a mare's nipple, and if you drink a mare's milk, you will be a foal!" "Say it. He drank all the mare's milk wine in the bowl.

Xu Hecheng also imitated Batur's movements and drank the mare's milk wine, and Batur saw that he had finished drinking, and a smile appeared on his face. laughed out loud: "Minmin, my little bird, sing!" Jump! Let the guests see the most beautiful flowers of our Dzungar people! ”

Min Min answered. walked out, compared with the ladies of the Han people, this Mongolian noble girl did not have the slightest twist and shyness, and her vigorous and graceful figure danced and jumped in the big tent with the music of the horse-head qin and Dongbula, like a toned doe. This unique charm can't help but fascinate Xu Hecheng a little.

Although Batur possessed many of the qualities necessary for a good chieftain, like the vast majority of the Mongols of his time, he was a complete drunkard, and Min Min had just jumped two rounds before throwing what little patience and wisdom he had left into his glass. She walked up to Xu Hecheng and patted the other party's shoulder gently, and laughed softly: "How can you thank me today?" ”

"Thank you?" Xu Hecheng was stunned when he heard this, some of the second monks were confused, Min Min saw him like this, and smiled slyly: "You don't have to pretend to be stupid, if it weren't for me, how could you make it?" Didn't you want to borrow troops from my father Khan in the first place? “

Xu Hecheng was shocked when he heard this, showing a wary look, Min Min saw this, took a bunch of grapes and said while eating: "Forget it, forget it, you men are like this, I always think that women are stupid, only I am smart, I play those little tricks, and when I am exposed, I am annoyed and angry, as if I want to eat people, it is really boring!" “

Xu Hecheng was made to laugh and cry by the other party, and he didn't know what to say for a while, and only after a while did he ask: "Since you have seen my plan, why don't you reveal it?" “

"Why should I uncover it?" Min Min laughed: "Your bird gun is indeed very useful, my father Khan is in urgent need of firearms, he is the most powerful Khan among the Erut people, there are thousands of warriors under his command, isn't it a good thing to take out three hundred people in exchange for a friend who can provide firearms?" The truth has a use for the truth, and a lie has a use for a lie, so why should I expose it? “

When Xu Hecheng heard this, he looked at Min Min's pretty face, and he didn't know what to say for a while, so he finally had to smile bitterly: "The villain has never seen a strange woman like Min Beiji, and today is really an eye-opener." “

"That's nature, heaven and earth, and there has only been one Amur since ancient times. Minmin! Speaking of this, Min Min laughed conceitedly, she looked back at her father, who was already immersed in alcohol, and suddenly lowered her voice and asked, "You just said that the flannel cloth and bird gun you brought were made of running water, is this true or false?" “

"It's true!" Xu Hecheng replied, his fingers were dipped in wine, and he explained while drawing on several cases, explaining Liu Cheng's hydraulic spinning, weaving machinery and hydraulic forging hammer to the other party one by one. ”

Xu Hecheng saw Min Min's somewhat incredulous appearance, and he couldn't help but feel a little pleasure of revenge in his heart, he smiled slightly: "It's also a nose, two eyes, no different from ordinary people, and it's a few years younger than me." “

"How many years younger than you?" For the first time, Min Min showed a look of disbelief on her face, she looked Xu Hecheng up and down, although the other party's face was full of weather, but if she looked carefully, she would be in her early thirties at most. If he is a few years younger than him, then this "General General" in Xu Hecheng's mouth and the smart man who invented so many tools are not more than ten years older than him, which is too appalling!

"Not bad!"

"So how did he have time to do so much? Isn't his father also a Great Khan? ”

Xu Hecheng laughed: "My brother grew up in the temple, you may not believe it, he did these things in more than two years." ”

"What's so strange about this!" Min Min turned his head a little unconvinced: "Many of our Mongolian children will go to the temple when they are six or seven years old. It turned out that at that time, the Mongols generally believed in Lamaism, and most of the children of the nobles had to go to the temple to practice except for the inheritance of the people, and it was not uncommon for them to return to the lay people to inherit the family business after becoming senior monks.

"We Han people are different, and my brother should only be a middle-class family." Xu Hecheng couldn't help but laugh when he saw Min Min showing a hint of innocence. He told the other party about a series of things such as his acquaintance with Liu Cheng in the barren mountains, working together to defeat the rebels, and then joining the army, defeating the thieves, cleaning up the tuntian, building Pitang, and establishing factories. Although Na Minmin is very smart, she is only a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl after all, and she has never heard of such an experience. When Xu Hecheng finished speaking, she couldn't help but sigh and said, "Hey, if only your friend was a Mongolian." ”

"What about the Mongols?"

"Then I'll marry him. Just like Manduhai married Dayan Khan, help him conquer the entire steppe and become the Khan of all the Mongols! Min Min smiled, her pretty face full of confidence.

Xu Hecheng couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this. It turns out that the Mandu Sea in Min Min's mouth is the famous Mandu Sea Queen and Mandu Sea Sage in Mongolian history, this woman was born in the Juros clan, and her father was the famous leader of the Erut people and the prime minister, and later married the then Mongolian Khan and the son of the Jin? Mandulu as his wife. At that time, the Mongols had been fighting for many years. The tribes are killing each other, the Eruts are strong, and the position of the Great Khan, which belongs to the Golden Family, is already in name only. 1475 BC. Is it only a pound? Mandulu and his brother Yanmonk, who served as deputy khan, were defeated and died in internal conflicts, and the position of the Great Khan fell into a storm. At this critical juncture, Manduhai took charge of the Khan's court as the widow of the Great Khan, and raised his nephew and son-in-law? Bayan Munch's son is only a pound? Batu Mengke, thus uniting the two tribes, and in the Baba only Jin? At the age of six, Batu Mengke proclaimed him the Great Khan of the Mongols and married him, the Chahar Mongol Dayan Khan. Manduhai helped Dayan Khan conquer the east and west, defeated the enemy, and re-established the Golden Family's rule over the Mongol tribes, and was considered by the people of the time to be a heroine among women.

"Min Min Beji, but as far as I know, Namandu Hai is a Chahar people, and you Erut people are mortal enemies!" Xu Hecheng smiled bitterly.

"So what?" Min Min smiled: "We Mongolian women will only fall in love with the strong, if you are strong, even if it is my father-killing enemy, I will also fall in love with you; Otherwise, even if it's a friend, I still won't take a fancy to it. “

Hearing this, Xu Hecheng couldn't help but have an idea, the Mongolian girl in front of him was as beautiful as a flower, and there was a powerful Jungar Ministry as a backup, it was a good match for Liu Cheng, it was better to say something to test it, if it didn't work, just say that it was a drunken joke, and look at the other party's temperament, presumably he would not blame himself.

"Min Min Beiji, my brother is not married, although he is not a Mongolian, but he is already a Ming Sanpin general before he is thirty, and you have seen how sharp the firearms are. Although he himself could not unify Mongolia, he could help your father Khan fulfill his long-cherished wish to unify the steppe, so why bother whether he was a Mongol or not? ”

Hearing Xu Hecheng's words, Min Min's face was slightly red, and she didn't know if Fang Cai's dance warmed up her body or was shy, but she still smiled and said: "Dong Zhu Xu, no matter how big your brother official is, he is also a courtier of the Ming Emperor." Is my Min Min husband a man who bows down to men? It is not difficult for me to marry him, as long as he establishes himself as king. ”

"Minmin, Minmin, come here, come over here!" A shout interrupted the conversation between the two, it turned out that Batur was already six or seven minutes drunk at this time, and when he looked up, he found that his daughter was sitting on the side talking to the Han merchant, neither drinking nor dancing, and he couldn't help but be a little confused. Min Min stood up, smiled apologetically at Xu Hecheng, and said in a low voice: "Lord Xu, maybe one day Min Min will also go to the Central Plains to see the things you said, as well as your interesting brother." ”

The banquet dispersed, the slave girls cleaned up the tent, a few cases ago Batur gently held his forehead, drinking warm milk tea, Min Min obediently slapped his father's shoulder behind him, after a while, Batur suddenly said: "What do you think the businessman surnamed Xu is planning?" ”

"Three hundred cavalry should be just a façade!" Erji paused: "In the words of the Han people, it should be a stone throwing to ask for directions." ”

"Not bad!" Batur nodded: "The merchant surnamed Xu has good firearms and other goods, but you have to find out what they have behind their backs, Erji, who do you think is better to send to lead that cavalry?" “

"I'd like to go!" Erji replied.

"How can I let you go!" Batur smiled: "Erji, you are my arm, I can't even live a day without you!" Erji put forward several more candidates, but they were all vetoed by Batur one by one, and finally Batur sighed and said: "Some of our Mongols are warriors, but there are too few smart people. “

"How about choosing one of the two Chechen Taiji and Zhuot Babatur? Let the prince go to Daming's side to train? "Erji once again made a suggestion.

"Well, that's a good idea!" Batur nodded, it turned out that Chechen Taiji and Zhuot Babatur were both Batur's concubines, but they were older than his intended heir monks, Erji's suggestion could be described as killing two birds with one stone, that is, sending a suitable person to command the cavalry to Daming, and by the way, eliminating a hidden danger that might threaten the heir monk in the future.

Batur and Erji Junchen discussed important matters, but they didn't notice Minmin behind him, firstly, because Minmin was a woman and there was no question of inheritance; The second is because Batur loves him very much, and he thinks that he is still young and does not need to care. But he didn't know that Na Minmin was born precocious, and he was very familiar with the power struggle in this tribe, so he just took his father's words to heart and quietly returned to his tent. Just saw that Chechen Taiji sent the lottery head that he lost the bet on, Min Min's eyes rolled, and he said with a smile: "Brother Chechen Taiji really deserves to be the descendant of Yexian, and he just lost the bet, so he sent the bet here." (To be continued.) )

PS: Weber saw that the discussion forum complained that I arranged a Tatar daughter-in-law for the protagonist, but this Tatar daughter-in-law can bring tens of thousands of iron horsemen as a dowry, and compared with Eastern Mongolia, the Erut Mongols have more Caucasian ancestry, for example, many Tajik girls were actually part of Erut Mongolia at that time.