In June of the first year of the Great Tomorrow Road, and Lin City.

This famous capital is recognized as the capital of the great Mongolian state. In the mid-to-late 13th century in history, with the expansion and conquest of the Great Mongol State. It has almost become the center of the world. Any country or people who dare not obey the Lord of the Forests must be prepared to face the most terrible army and punishment in the world.

And the conquest and victory of the Mongol army brought more than prestige and power to the city. There is also untold wealth and slave labor. These slave laborers naturally came from civilizations that had been destroyed and conquered by the Mongol armies - the unwilling warriors, peasants, merchants, and intellectuals of these civilizations were seen by the Mongols as "useless" and often subjected to exterminating massacres.

Most of the craftsmen who had a skill were "lucky" to save their lives and become slave laborers in Mongolia. They were captured back to the grasslands and became artisans for generations...... If only they had a chance to leave offspring!

Some of these slave laborers who worked for the Mongols all their lives came from Samarkand, Buhuara, and Yulong Jiechi in the valley of the two rivers, some from the Taoli Monastery (Tabriz) in Persia, some from Baghdad and Damascus in Great Food, and some from the city-states of Urros, of course...... The largest number of slave laborers in Helin City were Han Chinese from the Central Plains!

Han slave laborers were the lowest level of existence in the city, and they had almost no chance of getting ahead, and they were not as good as the Semu people, and they could be promoted step by step from slaves to the courtiers of the Great Mongolian State - most of the second-class Semu who served as officials in the Central Plains were promoted from the slaves of the Mongol nobles. Ahma, the famous prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty in history, was the dowry slave of Empress Chabi (Kublai Khan's empress).

However, Han slave labor has absolutely no chance of rising, because the Han servants of the Mongols are either Han marquis or Confucian students, and Han slave labor has no chance. They are the lowest beings in Helin. You can only exchange hard work for the resources necessary for life, and it seems that there will never be a day to come.

Most of the weapons used by the Mongol army in the expedition against the Quartet. It's all from their hands. Most of the costumes and ornaments on the Mongolian nobles are the masterpieces of Han Chinese skilled craftsmen. A variety of utensils used by the Mongols on a daily basis. If it wasn't shipped from the Central Plains, it must have been built by these Han craftsmen. Even the glorious and magnificent Helin City itself, which can be said to be unique on the grassland, was built brick by Han craftsmen.

Just look at the appearance of this famous grassland city to know how many Han Chinese have worked hard here.

The city of Helin is completely Han style, with square city walls, towers with eaves and arches, palaces and mansions with pavilions, and straight and open streets. It seems to be a big city in the Central Plains, standing alone on the vast and boundless prairie.

There are only white yurts in the mansions of Mongolian nobles in Helin City. It reminds people that this is a Mongolian city.

Summer is the best season in Helin City and the entire Mongolian steppe, even if the mountains and rivers are now in the Great Mongolia, but the summer in Helin City is still noisy and noisy. Caravans from various tribes of the steppe gathered here. Fleets of camels, caravans of horses and chariots kept passing through the city. Furs, livestock, tea, wrought iron, salt, spices, silk and cloth were all transported here.

However, the number of good things shipped in was much less than before, especially the tea, wrought iron, salt, silk cloth and spices from the Central Plains were reduced by at least seven or eight percent. And the price has risen several times!

This seems to be taken for granted, after all, Great Mongolia has lost the Central Plains! The news of Xue Chan Khan's series of defeats had already reached Helin, and the news was so bad that it could not be added. The central Ulus of Mongolia and the four Ulus of the host province combined to mobilize more than 200,000 warriors with bows and armor. In the time of Genghis Khan, such a force could have leveled the whole world, but in the hands of Kublai Khan, it was again and again. Repeated failures! Within two years, almost 100,000 Mongols were lost, and every thousand households in the Mongolian steppe lost thousands of their best warriors, and finally people were driven out of the Central Plains!

When the news of a series of failures reached the grasslands. Almost all the Mongols were so disappointed with Kublai Khan! If Kublai Khan had not fled to the Western Regions with the Mongol tribes that were most loyal to him, but had returned to Horin. I'm afraid that if Chen Dexing didn't need to send troops to crusade, he would be killed by the angry Mongol nobles.

Therefore. When the armies and tribes led by Haidu came from the west. None of the Mongol tribes belonging to the Central Ulus and the Tulei Ulus in the steppes resisted. He Lin Cheng even opened its doors to welcome the grandson of the Great Khan of Ögedai to become its master.

At that time, all the Mongolian nobles in the steppe pinned their hopes on Haidu, fantasizing that he was the reincarnation of Genghis Khan, who could lead the Mongols to conquer the Huahua world of the Central Plains again.

But what happened next disappointed the nobles of Helin. He Lin Zhihai didn't know what was going on, but he actually believed in the Heavenly Taoism - this is the religion of the Han people in the south, and Chen Dexing, who defeated Kublai Khan and seized the Central Plains, is the leader of the Heavenly Taoism! Haidu actually embraced the enemy's religion!

Moreover, it was not only Haidu who took refuge, but all the Mongols and Han Chinese who migrated with Haidu claimed to be "Heavenly Daoists". As soon as he arrived in Helin, he transformed a luxurious mansion that originally belonged to Kublai Khan into a Tiandao Temple, and made a heavenly ball floating on it to fool people. He also sent many Taoists all over the city to distribute the "Taiyi Light Sutra" to attract people into the Tao.

And this Haidu Khan actually proposed at the meeting of the heads of thousands of households in the steppe that all the Mongols in the steppe should be converted to Tiandaoism!

Let Tiandaoism replace shamanism and lamaism and become the state religion of the Mongols!

Such a "surrender line" was undoubtedly unanimously opposed by the Mongol nobles of Horin and the chiefs of the thousand households of the steppe. After all, the Mongolian steppe is the territory of the Tuolei system and the Central Ulus, and the Haidu from the Wokotai family does not have much influence here. The Mongolian nobles here will not be as obedient as the thousands and hundreds of households of the Wokotai system.

But in June, when the best season on the prairie came. Once again, Haidu Khan, who ruled Horin, made a decision that surprised the Mongol nobles.

Haidu released all the Han slaves in the city of Helin, gave them civilian status, and ordered all the thousands of households in the grassland to send their Han herdsmen to Helin.

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"Brother Haidu, have you stayed in the West for too long and forgotten that we are Mongols? We Mongolians are the darlings of the Immortal Heaven, the eagles of the steppe, and the bravest warriors in the world. As long as we show our scimitars and bows and arrows, we are the masters of the steppe, and we will defeat any enemy who dares to invade the north. So we don't need to be afraid of the Han people, and we don't need to curry favor with Emperor Chen in the south! We should show enough toughness to the weak Han Chinese in the south, and if they won't obediently offer silk, tea, spices, salt, porcelain, and whatever we want, we'll take it ourselves! ”

In the splendid and splendid palace in the city of Helin, Haidu Khan was patiently listening to a few nobles here in Helin talking nonsense.

This is a compulsory course for him every day, because he did not enter Helin as an enemy, but as the defender of the Mongol legal system, so he is not now the monarch of Helin and the steppe, but the theoretical supervisor of the Great Mongolian State.

The Great Mongolian State also had a legal system, and Kublai Khan was a pseudo-khan who was not legally unified. Therefore, after Haidu occupied Horin, he immediately abolished Kublai Khan's throne (theoretically, Kublai Khan is not even a pseudo-khan now), and then managed the steppe in the name of the prison state and prepared for the Kuritai Conference. Therefore, we must patiently listen to the nonsense of the high-ranking Mongolian officials and dignitaries here in Helin, and not put them all in prison.

And now the person who is talking nonsense is called Bo'er only catty. Asutai was the son of Möngke Khan. After Meng Ge's death, he supported Ali Buge, and after Ali Buge was killed by Kublai Khan, he returned to Lin to enjoy Qingfu, and did not participate in the vicious battles with Chen Dexing, so he didn't know how powerful he was.

However, Haidu knows very well how powerful Chen Dexing is. Because he had just received news from the Land of the Three Rivers that Kublai Khan had defeated Aruhu on the banks of the Kuzhang River, and was now the Lord of the Three Rivers!

In the past, Aruhu, who was defeated by Kublai Khan, overwhelmed the entire Wokutai system -- Chen Dexing was stronger than Kublai Khan, and Kublai Khan was more powerful than Aruhu, and Aruhu was more powerful than Haidu...... In such a comparison, Haidu certainly knew that his strength was not enough in front of Chen Dexing.

If you want to go to the southern Han land to grab something, that's a dream! If you want to maintain the situation in Helin, there are only two ways, one is to endure hardships together and live like the Mongols before the rise of Genghis Khan; the second is to curry favor with Chen Dexing...... Of course, you must have a good sense of proportion, and it is not okay to call yourself a vassal to the Ming Dynasty, because he is now the supervisor of the Great Mongolia State and represents the entire Great Mongolia State. So what Haidu can do now is to enter the Heavenly Taoism and free the Han slaves of Helin. The former is nothing but religious beliefs, and should not be nothing. The latter is nothing in Haidu's eyes, because Mongolia has no way to get a large supply of raw materials from the Han land, and without raw materials, what can the craftsmen of Helin do? What's the point of keeping these people?

It is better to let these Han slaves go to the Ming in exchange for the support of the Ming Dynasty, so that he can defeat Kublai Khan and get the land of the Three Rivers. When the time comes, he will be able to ascend to the throne of the Great Khan of Mongolia, and he will be able to reorganize the Great Mongolian State, and then lead a united Mongolia to compete with Chen Dexing's Ming Dynasty...... (To be continued......)