December of the fourth year of the Great Tomorrow Road.

At this time, the Mediterranean coast can already feel the slightest coolness, and thousands of miles away in the northeast is close to the left of the felt, and the wind and snow are like knives.

A heavy snowfall was sprinkled all over the world. In the wind and snow, a group of more than 100 people was struggling through the snow.

This group of people was wrapped in thick fur, and in addition to the dirty fur, there was a layer of leather armor that looked dirty and messy. Each group had mounts. These horses don't know how many miles they have walked and how much they have suffered, and they all look thin and long-haired. Trekking through the snow with difficulty.

The group had come to the outside of a dilapidated village, outside which was surrounded by earthen walls, and it seemed that the years had been a long time, and the gate was tightly closed, and the sound of laughter could be heard from inside. The leader of the group shouted a few times outside the gate, and it was in Turkic.

"I am Wang Yuanbao, the leader of the Eight Banners of the garrison of Buhuara City, and on the order of the general guarding the city, I escorted the envoys of the Mamluk Kingdom to Kuyu, and I will spend the night here with you tonight, so that your lord will come out to meet you quickly."

Immediately from inside the gate came a Turkic voice of promise: "Please wait a moment, the little one will go to rule Lord Arut." ”

The Eight Banners Uncle, who called himself Wang Yuanbao, breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly turned around and beckoned everyone to dismount. Immediately, the knights all turned over and scolded, and the accents that came out of their mouths were all Chinese, or the accents of the Shanxi area. Needless to say, they are all the masters of the Eight Banners, and now the "two devils" here in Central Asia, due to their outstanding performance in the Battle of Sarai, the status of these "two devils" is rising, almost on par with the Mongols.

These Eight Banners are all "generational eyes", and those in later generations (this time and space) who have nothing to do all day in Paris and London, and only carry cages and birds to blow their ancestors, are not the same thing. They dismounted, and they did not rest, but went to loosen the horse's belly belt. He also took out a blanket and wrapped it around the mount to warm it, smashed the ice lump on the horse's tail, and took out the material bag and added a handful of coarse salt to it to replenish the horse's strength.

From these actions, it can be seen that the ancestors of these Eight Banners are not easy, and they are all people who have been in battle for a long time. Knowing that no matter how tired you are, you must put others before horses - although Kublai Khan suppressed the Turks in Central Asia, the resistance still exists, and you must be ready to fight at any time!

That Wang Yuanbao was stout and had a rough complexion. He took care of his mount before turning his head and said with a smile in Chinese to Pu Shougeng and Pu Shiwen, the envoys of the Mamluk Kingdom who were already sitting down on a big stone and were wearing rough clothes: "The two of you have found this village later. We're going to have a good day tonight...... Hot rice and hot wine, and a warm bed for the girls at night! ”

Lustful...... Warm the bed!

Pu Shougeng and Pu Shiwen's faces were about to darken—they were also lustful people! I think that when Pu Shougeng was mixed in the Great Mongolia, the Semu people were a high-ranking second-class person, and the Han people were a lowly third-class person. But now......

The soldiers of the Eight Banners next to him complained while taking care of the mounts: "This errand is really unlucky, seeing that it is the New Year, and there is a heavy snowstorm, but what kind of bird envoys do we send!" Or two third-class colors. What is it! ”

Another Eight Banners soldier interjected: "Maybe it's a good thing, those two third-class colors must have a background." Otherwise, the general guarding the city would not have taken care of us. Maybe I'll get a reward when I get it......"

"That's right," echoed another Eight Banners, "now is a critical time, I heard that the Great Khan is preparing to go west to conquer Europa, and maybe he is also planning to make peace with the Mamluks." If his old man saw these two semu envoys, he might be happy and reward us with a few families of semu serfs. ”

Is Kublai Khan really going west to Europe? The father and son of the Pu family showed a hint of joy on their faces. If Kublai Khan wants to go west to Europe. Then the Heavenly Sect can probably breathe a sigh of relief. Let's just look at the three-way battle between the Mongols, the Christians and the Ming Dynasty.

Squeak. When the gate of the village opened, I saw a group of low-eyed and pleasing people surrounded by two stout Mongolian men, swaggering out of it. Pu Shougeng knew that these two people must be the Mongolian lords of the village.

In the present-day Land of the Three Rivers, the villages around Ayutthaya were given to the Mongol knights. Basically, there is one Mongolian family in a village. The Semu people in the village are all serfs of these Mongols, and they naturally live a dark life......

"It's a coincidence that you're here, the lustful people in our village are marrying their daughters-in-law and drinking wedding wine!"

When Pu Shougeng was bitter in his heart, a Mongolian over there, Mr. Arut, who was a little older, had already laughed and talked with Mr. Wang Yuanbao of the Eight Banners.

"Someone marries a daughter-in-law? Then I'm going to have good luck for you! ”

What is the relationship between the Semu people marrying their daughters and the Mongol knights? Why did Wang Yuanbao say hello? Pu Shougeng listened to it, and it was very strange.

"Hahaha, what's so good to say, isn't it just to sleep **, my son has taken a fancy to someone else, let him sleep."

The Mongol named Arut pointed to the young Mongol beside him and laughed. Pu Shougeng's face was already pitch black, like a black eunuch...... He knew that what the other party was talking about was "** right", which was a privilege of the feudal lord to the serfs. At this time, it is not uncommon in the territory of Europa and Tianfang, and there is also such a "** right" in Granada.

But the problem is that in the past, it was someone else's wife and someone else's daughter who was slept with. And now...... Pu Shougeng's daughters and wives, little wives and daughters-in-law are all staying in Granada now, if they don't die, I don't know who is sleeping with them? Could it be some Aztec from Mingzhou?

When he was lamenting, Wang Yuanbao was already greeting Pu Shougeng, "Mr. Pu, we will spend the night here tonight, staying at Lord Arut's house, and there is good wine, good meat and lustful girls......"

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At this moment, the city was also covered in wind and snow, but the palace of the Great Khan was as warm as spring. Kublai Khan was drinking and feasting in the palace with a few of his confidants. These days, he, the Great Khan of the Mongols, seems to be in a good mood, the Golden Horde has been subdued by him, and although there is still a Khan on the surface, it has actually been shattered to the ground. Nahai, who became the king of the Khan, was unable to command the king of the Batu system. And Ilkhan Abha saw the power of Kublai Khan, and became more and more submissive. He promised to come to Kulitai in person tomorrow spring to attend the Kuritai Conference and discuss the matter of the Great Mongol Western Expedition.

Of course, there is also bad news, from the East!

First of all, under the pressure of the Ming army's westward advance, the four kings of Hetao and Hexi still refused Kublai Khan's will to move westward, and took the tribe north to the Mongolian headquarters and took refuge in Haidu. And their arrival made Haidu qualified to convene the Kuritai Assembly - there was the king of the Ogedai lineage, as well as the king of the host sect, plus some of the kings of the Jochi and Chagatai clans. Haidu will be able to hold a decent meeting and become a Great Khan in accordance with the tradition of the Great Mongols.

The news that has just come from the east that Haidu has ascended the throne of the Great Khan and has begun to engage in two Mongols!

Then there was bad news from Wusizang, Guo Kan, Wang Dechen, Liu Chuan and Yu Xing had begun to attack Wusizang, and the four thieves divided into four routes and captured Xining Prefecture, Hezhou, Minzhou, Baoning and Yazhou respectively. Pasipa had already sent someone to ask Ku Yu for help, hoping that Kublai Khan would send a large army into Tibet.

But everyone knows that this is not something that can happen. Kublai Khan's current national policy is to go west rather than east. What's on the snowy plateau? In addition to the ice and snow is the lama, oh, now there are tens of thousands of Han troops, although they are not the soldiers of the Ming dynasty, but no one wants to fight them. Everyone's eyes are on the rich Europa, although it is not as good as the Central Plains, nor is it as good as Tianzhu. But the West does not have the powerful Ming Empire, nor is it as hot as Tianzhu, and the road to the West is relatively easy to walk. You can get to Poland by taking the Kipchak-Rus steppes.

As for the situation in the West, Kublai Khan had already inquired about it from the other side of the sea. People in the West call their territory "Europa". There is no unified country on the Europa side, but it is similar to China's Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States, and a large number of small countries are fighting each other, and they are all about to fall into pieces.

And in the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a Son of Heaven of Zhou, but there seemed to be two "Sons of Heaven" in Western Europa, one was the "Ampu" of Holy Rome, as if it was the meaning of the Great Khan of Rome; One is the Dharma King of Christianity. Moreover, the relationship between this Roman Khan and the Christian king was not good, and the two sides fought for an unknown number of years. More than ten years ago, after the death of the previous Roman Great Khan, the new Great Khan has not been elected. Without the Great Khan, Rome would be a mess. Now standing in the way of Mongolia's westward advance are Poland and the Teutonic Knights. The situation of the former is also similar to that of Holy Rome, there is no Great Khan who has the final say, only one Duke of Krakow is at the head, and one sea is enough to bully them. The strength of the latter seems to be stronger, but there is nothing, and they were defeated when Batu went west in the past. If it weren't for the death of the Great Khan of Ogedei, he might have become the Great Khan of Europa.

Therefore, no one inside and outside Kublai Khan's court thought that Europa could not be defeated, and there were only two troubles: the first was how to unite the forces of Kublai Khan's headquarters and the Golden Horde and the Ilkhanate for the western expedition; The second is how to rule after the occupation of Europa...... It's a daunting problem.

At least in Kublai Khan's view, the weakness of the Mongols was not to fight the world but to rule the world. If the turf is not well governed, it is a big problem that the regime cannot take root. This is the reason why Great Mongolia lost the Central Plains! Moreover, the situation in the Golden Horde and the Ilkhanate was similar, and the rule of the Mongols was only superficial, that is, to ask the Semu and Rus' below to eat and drink women. This kind of rule is nothing when the force is strong, and once the force is a little weak, it is easy for people to overthrow it! (To be continued......)