4,000 taels of silver, let the Mongols defend Quang Ninh together. Of course, the price was raised to 40,000 taels of silver the next year. To put it bluntly, this is not actually a close alliance, but a mercenary system that is more common among ethnic minorities.

But the poverty of the Mongols is real.

Comparing the productivity of the Ming Dynasty with the productivity of the Mongols, once the two sides started trading, the precious metals of the Mongols naturally lost quickly, especially for these Mongol nobles to enjoy. The Mongolians can produce leather goods, wool and these things, and do not know deep processing, of course, they know a little processing technology, but too backward, the things made are more practical, the appearance is not good-looking, and no one wants to sell it to the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the Mongolians sell raw materials, and they can only exchange some tea.

The only thing that is valuable is the war horse, but it is not worth much to sell it to the Ming Dynasty official, and it is actually only slightly worth a little money when it is sold to the Jin merchants.

The Jin merchants went deep into the Mongolian steppe to trade, and they had to take risks, and they had to bribe the soldiers at the border or something. People don't have enough profits, so naturally they won't do this. To be profitable, the price of horses is naturally not very high.

As long as you have more silver, you can buy more luxuries. For a social structure like Mongolia, where the aristocracy controlled a large amount of resources, the Mongolian aristocracy felt that the great meaning of life was enjoyment. But the Mongols are destined not to produce many luxury goods, but they want to enjoy them, and no amount of money can naturally withstand such spending.

For a Mongol Khan like Lin Dan Khan, it was not particularly short of money, but those tribes under his command. Some are very poor. Some are even so poor that they jingle loudly.

But even Lin Dan Khan. The treasures you have are also limited, enough to spend on yourself, but if you want to envelop other Mongolian tribes, you are so poor in economic strength.

The reason why Lin Dan Khan chose to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty, or to be hired by it, was mainly because after Lin Dan Khan inherited the throne, he also launched several plundering activities against Guannai in the early days, but with little success. Didn't grab anything. The tall city walls of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the artillery on the city walls, simply made Lin Dan Khan no longer have the slightest way to plunder south, although he also wanted to plunder south.

For the sake of life! In order to live a good life! It is also normal to accept employment from the Ming Dynasty to earn some silver. As a result, because of this, he had a bad relationship with the wild boar skin. The wild boar skin spoke to Lin Dan Khan, surrender to Lao Tzu, and Lao Tzu will take you to attack the Ming Kingdom together.

Lin Dan Khan: Lao Tzu has 400,000 Mongolian warriors, and you are only 30,000 Jurchen minions, and you dare not be ashamed!

Lin Dan Khan, who felt deeply faceless. It's on the bar with the wild boar skin. People live a breath! Lin Dan Khan wants to let the wild boar skin see who is the boss.

So Lin Dan Khan before he was defeated by Jiannu. They are all allies of the Ming Dynasty, but when they contribute, they are not too active, and the life still has to go on, just depending on how much silver the Ming Kingdom gives.

But not long ago, a very unpleasant thing happened, Sun Chengzong expelled the Mongol tribes from Quang Ninh. The annual employment salary of 40,000 taels is gone, which makes Lin Dan Khan very angry.

When the Ming envoy came to Mongolia, Lin Dan Khan asked the envoy and said, "Why did your Ming expelled our tribe in Quang Ninh? Is this an attempt to make an enemy of our Mongolia? ”

"The Mongol Khan is a little restless, our Ming has never thought of being an enemy of the Great Khan, but those Mongol tribes harassed and plundered my Ming Baixin in Guangning, and we always can't sit idly by. And we also want to ask the Great Khan, why did he enter my Ming Yan'an Mansion at the beginning of the year? ”

"It was not Ben Khan's idea to loot Yan'an Mansion, it was the tribes of Hetao who did it themselves." Lin Dan Khan flatly denied it, "But you also attacked our tribe in Quang Ninh. ”

"Since both sides are at fault, how about revealing it? We, the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia, should be united at this time, after all, we have a common enemy. If we are unhappy because of these things at this time, I am afraid that in the end we will still be proud of Jiannu. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty needs the help of Mongolia, and Mongolia also needs to trade with the Ming Dynasty. The messenger said to Lin Dan Khan.

"I don't need to trade with your Ming government." Lin Dan Khan pouted at this time and said, the envoy smiled and said, "The Great Khan is talking about trading with our Shanxi smugglers in the Ming Dynasty, right?" But did the Great Khan ever think that those smugglers were illegal, and we only needed to crack down on these smugglers on the border, not to mention those silk and satin, not even a pound of tea would flow into Mongolia. It's just that we, the Son of Heaven, took into account the friendship between Mongolia and the Ming Dynasty, and didn't attack those smugglers. ”

Lin Danhan's face changed, and then asked, "Then what do you want to do this time?" ”

"This time, we are at the behest of my great son of heaven to formally form an alliance with the Great Khan and jointly deal with Houjin Jiannu." The messenger replied.

"We suffered a snowstorm in Mongolia last year, and we will be powerless for a while!" Lin Dan Khan is not stupid, he doesn't do things that are not profitable.

"The Great Khan is assured that there is no need for Mongol troops after the alliance." The envoy said, making Lin Dan Khan roll his eyes, since he doesn't want to hire our Mongolian cavalry, what the hell are you talking about? So he asked angrily, "Then what kind of alliance is there?" ”

"We can change the way of alliance, Mongolia does not need to send troops, as long as the Great Khan is willing to sell us some war horses, we are willing to exchange all kinds of goods with you. After the alliance, the two sides must no longer harass each other, and if Mongolia is attacked by Jiannu, we are willing to send troops to support Mongolia. The envoy said, Lin Dan Khan couldn't help but think about it, and asked, "How many war horses do you want to buy?" ”

"Twenty or thirty thousand horses, we want as many as we want." The envoy's words made Lin Dan Khan frown and said, "It's too much, we Mongolia, it is impossible to sell so many war horses to your Ming Kingdom." ”

"The Great Khan is a little restless, our Ming is very sincere in buying war horses. We have some gifts here, and I would like to ask the Great Khan to take a look. Everything in the gift can be used to trade with the Great Khan. ”

After opening the boxes, I saw that they were full of all kinds of silk and satin, as well as iron pots, tea, and shochu needed by the Mongols, as well as sugar, tobacco, spices, porcelain, and all kinds of rouge gouache for the nobles to enjoy, and washing products with incense, Han flowers, and fragrance.

Seeing these exquisite goods, Lin Dan Khan's eyes suddenly flashed with greed.

The envoy then added another fire and said: "As long as the Great Khan is willing to ally with our Ming Dynasty, our Ming Dynasty is also willing to help the Great Khan stabilize his rule over the Mongol tribes, and he will definitely make the Great Khan's rule over the Mongol tribes as stable as Mount Tai." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Lin Danhan was stunned and hurriedly asked the envoy. At this time, Lin Dan Khan, because of the conversion from the previous Yellow Religion to the Red Religion, gradually separated from other Mongolian tribes who believed in the Yellow Religion, and internal rebellions had appeared. (To be continued......)

PS: First update!