Chapter 185: The Storm Outside the Fortress (3)

The reason for the vacillation of the Menggu high-level attitude towards the Liao army's breaking through the border and entering the customs is very simple: the risk of breaking the border and entering the customs is too great.

The concerns of the Menggu high-level are the same as those of the Manshu high-level.

This concern is not without reason. The Great Zhao Empire is constantly weakening, this is obvious. But the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and although Da Zhao is declining, he still has some strength.

Perhaps he was frightened by Peng Chaodong's Qin army, and when he talked about breaking the border and entering the customs, Temu Khan's face changed slightly.

The last time the Meng ancients entered the customs was several decades ago, and the Meng ancients entered and exited the Great Wall when they were strong, as if they were in a no-man's land, and once surrounded the Jingshi City. It became the biggest frontier hidden danger in the north of the Zhao Empire in the middle and late periods.

This situation was reversed after Peng Chaodong ran Shaanxi and suppressed the local bandits. After that, the Qin army continued to defeat the Meng Gu and drove all the forces of the Meng Gu people out of the Yellow River Loop. Qin Jun is a term equivalent to the devil in the eyes of the Meng ancients.

The Qin army is still there, and the Meng ancients are afraid of entering the customs, largely because they are afraid of the famous Qin army and Peng Chaodong. After so many years, the Meng ancients were scared by the Qin army.

In addition, there is another point, the Meng ancients still can't let go of the meager self-esteem in their hearts, and they are unwilling to completely become a vassal of the Liao State.

"It's okay for Liao to borrow the way, but we won't enter the customs in Menggu." Temujin's attitude was very clear, he could support the Liao army to enter the customs, and he had no opinion if the Liao army wanted to borrow the channel, and the Liao army would pass through the territory of Menggu casually. But you have to coerce the Meng ancients to enter the customs together: no way.

Temu Khan did not dare to take such a big risk, although entering the Central Plains was also his dream for decades. But if you really want to enter the heart of a vast empire, no one can predict what the consequences will be.

"Qiao can understand why Meng Gu is in a slump, and the Great Khan doesn't even have the courage to enter the customs, which is not like the real style of the Meng Gus." Qiao Shaoyuan said in a mocking tone, trying to provoke Tiemu Khan.

Temu Khan didn't care, he didn't care, he ate mutton by himself, the mouths of his hands were already greasy, and the paste was pasty: "Boss Qiao, you don't need to provoke me with the agitation method, Ben Khan admits that Ben Khan doesn't have the courage, although the current Meng Gu and Liao Guo have a big difference in strength, but as you said, the real style of the Meng ancients, one of which Boss Qiao may not know, the style of the Meng Gu people will never become a vassal of other clans." We are allies with the Liao State, and the two clans are married, unlike the Goryeo State, which is a vassal state of the Liao State, and we are not, so we will not follow the Liao State in everything, but the Liao State will be the leader. ”

"Although the ancient people are weak at present, we also have our dignity. ”

This topic is unpleasant, poking at the sore spot of the Meng people, a few decades ago the Meng people were still the largest nomads outside the Saiwai, and they were also the most powerful nomads, there was only one Khan in the Meng Gu at that time, and the Khan of the Meng Gu people was also the Khan of all the tribes in the grassland.

At that time, it was the golden age of Menggu, and any meadow on the grassland was allowed to gallop by the Menggu knights. The ancient people can choose the best place for their own water and grass as their pasture, even if there are already other tribes in this place, as long as the ancient people take a fancy to them, these tribes must give up the pasture to the ancient people, otherwise they will be greeted by the butcher's knife of the ancient people. This history is the history that the ancient people have always been proud of, but unfortunately it has become a thing of the past now, and it will never return.

Whenever I think of the achievements of my ancestors and the current situation of the fragmentation of the ancient times, Temu Khan is very uncomfortable. This kind of taste is unwilling, now, even the Manshu people who were looked down upon by the Meng ancients are riding on the heads of the Meng ancients. A few decades ago, the Manshu people were a small tribe that had to pay tribute to the Meng people every year, and the world was so changeable.

Qiao Shaoyuan did not continue to change the topic in a timely manner, and said to Tiemu Khan in a calm tone: "Is the Great Khan interested in hearing the story of our Qiao family?" ”

"The story of the Qiao family?" Temujin teased, "Are you going to reveal your Qiao family's trade secrets to Ben Khan?" Aren't you afraid that Ben Khan will rob your Qiao family's business? ”

Qiao Shaoyuan was upright, shook his head very seriously and said to Temu Khan: "Like the current Menggu, our Qiao family was still very weak at that time. In Shanxi, it is just a relatively large business family. There are many merchant families in Shanxi, and there are countless Shang families like the Qiao family a few decades ago, especially in Taiyuan, Pingyao and Datong, where wealthy families abound, and the Qiao family is just a very inconspicuous one. ”

Temujin put away his joking gesture, the Qiao family is now the largest merchant family in Shanxi, and a few decades ago it was just a very ordinary merchant family. From an ordinary merchant clan to the largest merchant clan in Shanxi in just a few decades, monopolizing all the trade on the border, there must be something secret that is not known to outsiders. Temu Khan was still very interested in these.

"It wasn't until my grandfather came along that he changed that." Speaking of his grandfather, Qiao Shaoyuan's pupils were deep, and his eyes were full of respect, "Before the Qiao family, it was the Qian family in Datong who monopolized the trade in the border town. ”

Temu Khan nodded, in his father's generation, the Shang clan that traded with Meng Gu was indeed the Qian family, not the Qiao family. This point of Temu Khan is still reflected.

At that time, my grandfather made a decision that was incomprehensible to the clan, my grandfather gave up all the business in Taiyuan City, sold his wealth, came to Datong, and begged to join the Qian family, run for the Qian family, and run the business outside the city. At that time, everyone in the clan, including my father, opposed my grandfather's practice of abandoning the family business, but my grandfather still insisted and resolutely sold all the family property. ”

"It does take a lot of courage." Temu Khan affirmed that Qiao Shaoyuan's grandfather's practice was simply gambling on the fate of the entire family. This is not something that ordinary people dare to do and can do.

Qiao Shaoyuan rubbed his greasy hands, the scar on his face was very conspicuous under the lamplight. Although Qiao Shaoyuan has not yet passed the age of establishment, Qiao Shaoyuan has been experienced since he was a child, running around doing business, and his experience is much richer than that of his peers. looks more mature, don't say that it is a year of establishment, even if it is said that Qiao Shaoyuan is close to the age of confusion, some people will believe it.

"Because the future of the entire Qiao family is tied to this trade route, as long as it is the people of the Qiao family, whether it is doing business with the town army or doing business with various tribes, they are extra careful." Qiao Shaoyuan paused and looked at Tiemu Khan, "Later, the Qiao family gained a good reputation in the town army and the tribes on the side of the Great Wall, so that it developed to the point that the town army of the tribes and border towns only recognized the Qiao family, and the Qian family behind the Qiao family was gradually forgotten. (To be continued.) )