Chapter Fifty-Nine: The Ancient King's Tent

Outside the Sai, the camp of the Chahar Menggu Department.

A few lonely figures stood outside the camp waiting for the summons of the Temu Khan of the Chameng Ancient Chahar Division, and they looked so lonely in the vast Saiwai wilderness.

These lonely figures are Xu Hongqian's carefully selected envoys for peace, who are responsible for the mission of negotiating peace between the Great Zhao Empire and the Meng Gu tribe.

The Menggu soldiers of the Chahar Department looked at them with unfriendly eyes, and in the battle of Jianshanmen, the Qin army of the Zhao Empire beheaded the head of the Menggu Twelve Tribes Alliance Army of 10,000 levels, of which the heads of the Chahar tribe were 3,000 levels! Chahar Menggu is still licking the wounds of the battle of Jianshanmen. Chahar's soldiers naturally did not have a good face towards the envoys of Zhao State.

Yang Changguo didn't care at all about the unfriendly gaze of the Meng ancients, the Meng Gu tribe was already at the end of the road, and the real threat to the Great Zhao Empire came from the Liao State in Liaodong. The purpose of his secret peace with Chahar Menggu this time was to encircle the Menggu people, reduce the pressure on Peng Chaodong, the governor of Liaodong, so that Peng Chaodong could let go of his hands and concentrate on dealing with Manshu Liaoguo.

Thinking of Peng Chaodong, Yang Changguo was full of emotion. Yang Changguo's career is not smooth, and there is no official luck, he entered the office with a meritorious reputation. More than 20 years ago, he was a small scribe in Ganzhou, Shaanxi, and Peng Chaodong found that he was good at bookkeeping when he was rectifying the Ganzhou town army, so he asked him to be a staff member. His greatest achievement in Ganzhou was to envoy the Washen tribe for Peng Chaodong. On that mission, he showed outstanding diplomatic skills, after which Peng Chaodong recommended Yang Changguo to the imperial court, and Yang Changguo entered Beijing as a member of the Ministry of Rites, and then was promoted to the Ministry of Rites, becoming one of the few officials in the Great Zhao Dynasty.

In the eyes of outsiders, a person can be a five-grade official, or a Beijing official, this is already the limit of a person's career. Yang Changguo himself has no intention of continuing his career, he has already made a plan: he resigned and returned to his hometown to farm and teach his children in this term of honor, and he died for the rest of his life. At this time, he took over the errand of sending Chahar Menggu.

"Zhao Envoy, the Great Khan is invited!" I don't know how long it took, and finally a Menggu commander came out of the Menggu camp and invited Yang Changguo and others to enter the camp. The commander's tone was very blunt, and his tone said that it was an invitation, but it was better to take them into the camp with a perfunctory remark.

Yang Changguo shook his head secretly: The ancient people of Meng Gu are so small, no wonder they have not been able to achieve any big climate in the past few decades, and they can only keep running for their lives in the depths of the desert. Yang Changguo couldn't help but worry, for the Meng Gu people with such a small amount of energy, can this secret peace negotiation be successful? Is Temu Khan of the Chahar Department also a narrow-minded person like the ancient commander in front of him?

When he arrived in front of the tent of the ancient king of Chahar, Yang Changguo put on a whole blue official uniform, and the four messengers behind him, those who held the papers, held the documents, and the ones who held the talisman festival were correct, and adjusted their manners and followed Yang Changguo in the order of respect and humility to prepare to enter the king's tent. At this moment, the commander of the Menggu Thousand Commanders stopped them: "The Great Khan only ordered the envoy of the Zhao State to enter the king's tent, and the rest of the people waited outside the king's tent." ”

"How can it be!" Yang Changguo sank his face, "We are all envoys of the Great Zhao, and when we arrive at the king's account, there is a reason that only the main envoy is allowed to enter the account, and other envoys are not allowed to enter the account!" ”

"This is my ancient rule, and if you offend, please ask Lord Haihan." The Meng Gu envoy bowed slightly, which was regarded as an apology.

"Absolutely not!" Yang Changguo refused to give in, although this matter is only a minutiae, but this is related to the dignity of the empire, he will not make concessions in this matter, "This is not related to my Da Zhao's regulations!" You go into the king's tent and ask Temu Khan, is this how you Chahar Menggu treated your envoys?! ”

The commander looked very embarrassed, Yang Changguo had a tough attitude, he stood there and didn't know what to do.

"Commander." Gan Hanjie, a member of the deputy envoy and ceremonial department, stepped forward and broke the embarrassing situation, "You Meng ancients have your Meng ancient people's rules, and our Da Zhao naturally has our rules. We still need to deliver the peace papers, and we must not let the chief envoy carry the documents into the king's account. ”

"This" the commander was moved, but still hesitated.

Yang Changguo turned his head and glared at Gan Hanjie, blaming Gan Hanjie for not bowing his head in front of the Meng ancients, which would damage the great Zhao Guowei.

Gan Hanjie smiled apologetically at Yang Changguo, looked at the commander of the Menggu Qiangu, and aggravated his tone: "Since the commander of the thousand is embarrassed, I will say goodbye, the Menggu tribe is not only your Chahar, we can go to Mobei to find the Shan Li Khan of Mobei Menggu to discuss peace and go back to restore his life." Leave! ”

With that, Gan Han's masterpiece was indignant and turned around to leave.

"Zhao is slow!" As soon as Gan Hanjie said that he was leaving, the commander of the Menggu Thousand Masters finally became anxious and hurriedly said, "Envoy Zhao waits for a while, and allows me to enter the account to report the Great Khan." ”

Mobei Menggu is the second largest Menggu tribe after Chahar Menggu. If the envoy of Zhao State and Mobei Menggu negotiate peace, it means that Zhao State recognizes that Mobei Menggu is the suzerainty tribe that can represent the eighteen Menggu tribes, and the prestige of Chahar Menggu among the eighteen Menggu tribes will be greatly damaged.

The commander of the ancient thousand turned back to the king's tent, and Yang Changguo smiled and nodded at Gan Hanjie in approval. Gan Hanjie smiled back at Yang Changguo, buried his head as if he was thinking about something, and his hands holding the brocade box trembled slightly.

After a while, the commander of the ancient thousand men walked out of the tent: "Lord Envoy, Lord Deputy Envoy, the Great Khan is invited." ”

Yang Guochang stood tall with his head held high, his posture was handy, and he strode into the Chahar king's tent, and Gan Hanjie followed behind Yang Changguo with a brocade box in both hands.

The king's tent of the Menggu Great Khan was divided into a front account, a main account, and a back account. The front tent was the smallest, so small that it was more like a small road, and twenty majestic Menggu guards stood in the front tent to protect the safety of the king's tent. Walking through the front tent like Yongdao, you will arrive at the main account of the ancient king's account, the main account is several times larger than the previous account, and the main account makes people feel suddenly enlightened. This is the place where Temu Khan discussed with the elders of the Meng Guchen and Gong clans, similar to the Tianhe Hall where the Great Zhao held court meetings. The back tent after the main tent is where the Menggu Great Khan lived, similar to the dormitory of the Jingshi Palace.

On the chair of the main tent sat a middle-aged man about forty years old, the middle-aged man wore a gold-rimmed thin felt hat, the felt hat was not very close, and the middle-aged man's hairstyle could be seen if he looked closely, and when he looked down, he was wearing a long-sleeved robe with a leather collar and small sleeves, and a short knife for self-defense was pinned to his waist. Undoubtedly, this middle-aged man is the king of Chahar Menggu Khan, Tiemu Khan.

"Yang Changguo, the envoy of the Great Zhao, has seen the Great Khan." Yang Changguo bowed to the Tiemu Khan on the chair, and the envoys of the Great Zhao only needed to bow their hands when they met the foreign king, and there was no need to bow down.

Gan Hanjie's gaze swept through the main tent at a very fast speed, there were more than thirty Menggu guards in the main tent, all standing on the edge of the main tent, there were only two extremely strong Menggu guards in front of Temu Khan, and there was a Menggu descendant with a sword behind him, it seemed that it should be the prince of Temu Khan. The rest were the twenty or so Chahar Menggu ministers and clan elders sitting in the middle of the main tent. Gan Hanjie's gaze paused for a moment on the short knife on Temu Khan's waist, and quickly withdrew his gaze, frowning slightly.

When Tiemu Khan saw that the official robes worn by Yang Guochang and Gan Hanjie were cyan, he first felt a little disliked, and the official ranks of the Great Zhao civil officials were divided into nine grades, the official robes of the first and second rank officials were crimson, the official robes of the third and fourth rank officials were purple, the official robes of the fifth to seventh rank officials were cyan, and the official uniforms of the eighth and ninth rank officials were green. The official robes of the two envoys of Zhao State in front of them are all cyan, indicating that they are at most officials of the fifth grade of Zhao State, and according to the regulations of Great Zhao, the envoys of the envoy shall not be lower than the fourth grade, and none of the two Zhao envoys have reached the fourth grade! Da Zhao is despising them and the ancients!

The elders of the Meng Guchen Workers who were close to Yang Changguo saw the white pheasant and small miscellaneous patterns embroidered on Yang Changguo's complement, as well as the black horn belt decorated with silver and arcade flowers, and shook their heads one after another, and the two or three general-like Meng Gu ministers were still angry. The Zhao State actually only sent five-grade officials to the Meng people to negotiate peace, and it was obvious that the Great Zhao Empire looked down on the Meng people

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