Volume 1 Chapter 161 Aftermath
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In August of the seventh year of Chongzhen, the Battle of Monan ended dismally, and the Mongol Chahar tribe temporarily escaped the annexation of the Jurchens.
But for the new Mongol Great Khan Ezhe, such a result was far from satisfying him, and he could not take the opportunity to bring the five Mongol tribes together, which meant that the fate of Chahar had not been fundamentally changed.
The snipe and the clam competed, the fisherman profited, the Ming Dynasty stood on the sidelines, and took the opportunity to continuously transfer the border army from Liaodong Town into the Central Plains to suppress bandits, and the fire of the people's rebellion army has burned half of the country, and even the Fengyang Emperor's Mausoleum has been dug up by Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng's troops. Emperor Chongzhen knew that he was ashamed of his ancestors, and issued an edict against himself, and officially appointed Lu Xiangsheng as the prime minister of the Central Plains to suppress bandits, and Hong Chengchou as the governor of the northwest to suppress bandits.
Without the threat of the Jurchens, the town of Xuanda of the Ming Dynasty became a corner of peace, and Liang Tingzhen, the governor of Xuanda, was ecstatic when he found out that the Jurchen army was coming and going in Mo Nan in a hurry. Winter is coming, at least this year's Xuanda Town is safe. Both the Mongols and the Jurchens had to hide in their nests and lick their wounds, and they would not go out to hurt others until they had regained their vitality.
In the Monan grassland, the surging Yellow River separates the Chahar and Tumut tribes. The fact that the two divisions fought side by side does not mean that the hatred between the two sides has been completely resolved. Ezhe strictly forbade the Chahar tribe to enter the east of the Yellow River and the Tuoketuo steppe for nomadism, and he did not want to cause any more trouble.
Occasionally, Chahars crossed the Yellow River to trade in exchange for necessities, but the attitude of the Tumuts was unfriendly.
The outspoken nature of the ordinary herdsmen was that they would treat the Han Chinese who had helped them warmly, and they would also find fault with the Chahar people who had brought disaster to Tumut, and the Great Khan's ban did not help.
After learning that the Chahar and the Tumuts had several disputes, Zhai Zhe decided to open a large bazaar in the Hetao. The Shang League could not have a permanent shop in the Hetao as it did in the City of Naturalization, but every seven days a huge bazaar would be set up in the Hetao, and the big bazaar would provide whatever the Chahars needed.
The Chahar people had an arrogant attitude and often bought and sold by force, and the Han people were afraid to argue, so Zhai Zhe decided to take the initiative to discuss the important matters of the mutual market.
After the Great War of Monan, the Han tribe urgently needed to find new friends in the steppe and align with Chahar's interests in the fight against the Jurchens.
There are some houses sparsely lined up on both sides of the Junzijin ferry, where the Han people set up stations to ferry passing merchants. After Mo Chang flourished, even this place became popular.
Zhai Zhe led five hundred cavalry, including Zong Mao and Feng Qin, to cross the river.
This was the first time he had seen Ezhe alone. The Chahar people at Monan Station gave Zhai Zhe a good impression, but the attitude of the Chahar people towards the Han people was a problem for him.
The Han cavalry crossed the river, and the western steppe ran with a thousand cavalry, and the herdsmen along the way dismounted to meet them.
Ezhe actually came to pick it up in person.
Zhai Zhe urged the big black horse to step forward, dismounted three hundred steps away, stood with his hands bowed, and saluted: "Meet the Great Khan!" ”
A smile bloomed on his face in the distance, urged the horse to come closer, dismounted and patted Zhai Zhe on the shoulder and said, "No need to be polite, you set up a big bazaar in Hetao for my Chahar convenience, I should thank you!" “
He is half a head taller than Zhai Zhe and is the same age, but he has been growing up in the grassland, and he has been cut by the wind all the year round, and he looks five or six years older than Zhai Zhexiang.
Before the Great War of Monan, Chahar never took the Han people seriously. The day before yesterday, Ezhe had witnessed the power of the Han cavalry, and had learned from Mobei Mongolia that the Han people could supply them with the iron arrows and weapons they had always dreamed of.
"The merchants of the Han region will do their best to meet the needs of the steppe people!"
Ezhe smiled knowingly and said, "That's very good! I would also like to be friends with Han Chinese! "Business is business, this is what reality forced him to learn, the weak Mongol suzerainty finally put down its shelf and no longer refused any allies, if Lin Dan Khan could do this back then, Chahar's fate would not stop there.
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Ezhe stretched out his hand and motioned for Zhai Zhe to get on the horse, and the two walked side by side. chatted all the way, both sides deliberately made friends and got along very happily. When preparing to expand his power, Zhai Zhe had never needed money more than he did today. All the Mongol tribes were his business partners.
Entering the Han Tent, Zhai Zhe briefly introduced the details of the Grand Bazaar and the dilemma it faced, and Ezhe immediately said that he would let the sweat tent cavalry maintain order.
These bazaars were just an introduction, and Ezhe couldn't bear it, hinting: "In addition to my daily needs, I need a lot of Han things, can you provide them?" ”
Zhai Zhe pretended to be stupid and asked, "What is it?" ”
"Don't be taken from you is what we want, don't try to lie to me, I know that the Qiē owned by the Tumuts is also stuffed by your hands." Ezhe's laughter was hearty, and he stretched out his index finger and tapped it at Zhai Zhe.
Zhai Zhe smiled and nodded, and admitted: "We are businessmen, and it is my honor to serve the Great Khan." "He finally went further and further on the path of separation from the Tumuts.
"The weather is nice today, if you are free, I would like to ask you to stay and share our roast lamb from the Chahar Department in the evening!" Ezhe's heart was full of joy.
The Hetao was too narrow for the Chahar tribe to be nomadic, and to the east it was blocked by the Tumut tribe, and Ezhe was distressed by this matter. The Hanbu's actions in this way were akin to betraying Tumut, and the loss of one and the other, gave them hope of gaining a foothold in Monan.
The Jurchens were swords hanging over their heads.
August.
In Hanzhai Nan'an, Tumochuan and Liangcheng, the Han people harvest mature rice millet.
After a few days of horror, the Jurchens left without ruining their year's gains, allowing the Han to ensure that they could survive the winter. In Datong Town, the Great Wall, the people are also doing the same thing, year after year, the fate of the world is not the emperor and the general, but the growth of the crops in the field.
In the road between the two mountains entering the customs, fifty or sixty cavalry trotted all the way, Zhai Zhe was in the middle, accompanied by Xiao Zhiyan, Feng Qin and Zong Mao. Zhai Zhe intends to cultivate Zong Mao and Feng Qin, and gradually let them participate in all the affairs of the Han Department.
Out of the old crow mountain in the early morning, the light ride is fast, and the danger of killing Hukou before noon is in sight.
"When was the last time you entered customs? I want to die! Xiao Zhiyan lay on the horse's back with a strange smile. When he was in Zhangjiakou, the most he went to on weekdays was either a tavern or a brothel, and he was not so free in the grassland in recent years, Zhai Zhe asked him to marry a daughter-in-law, but he was unwilling.
"It's not good to bring bad young people!" Zhai Zhe couldn't help laughing.
The affairs of his trip were not as relaxed as Xiao Zhiyan's. After consulting with Zhai Zhe a few days ago, he had a lot of gains, exchanging livestock for iron horses, which was the biggest business for the Mongols and Han Chinese, but he had to convince Jiao Yuan, the governor of Datong, to make it easier. The two sides have been dealing with each other for a year, and Zhai Zhe has a good sense of Jiao Yuanbo, although they also use each other, Jiao Yuanbo is one of the few Ming officials who dare to use it.
The guards didn't cause him any trouble, and Zhang Guang, the guard who killed Hukou, let them go with a smile. In the past two years, Zhai Zhe has fed him to his heart's content, and now even if he exchanges the position of a guerrilla general or even a general, he is not willing to do so now.
Liu Quan, Ning Sheng and Geng Guang had already received the news and personally came to kill Hu Kou to greet them. I haven't seen him for more than half a year, and Liu Quan's form is thinner than at the beginning of the year, but Ning Sheng is a little blessed.
"The owner has been frightened in the grassland for half a year!" Ning Sheng stepped forward to show his face, and his voice seemed to be a little choked, thinking that he had been worried about it for half a year.
Zhai Zhe's eyebrows flew, and he said loudly: "That's all in the past, the Jurchens have been driven to Liaodong by us, and we will kill Hukou soldiers in the future!" ”
The subtlety of the grassland war situation is difficult for even the parties involved to explain, let alone to these outsiders. If you want to tie these people firmly to yourself, you must at least give them a bright future. The more he experienced, the more hypocritical he felt himself, but every lie had enough reasons to think about.
"Owner, Yuelai Restaurant is ready." Liu Quan hid behind him and waited for a few people to greet each other before he stepped forward to interject.
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After the Zhangjiakou incident and not seeing each other for more than half a year, he felt that there seemed to be an invisible wall between himself and Zhai Zhe.
Zhai Zhe didn't feel this way, stepped forward and patted Liu Quan's shoulder, and said, "I'm outside the gate, and you are inside the pass, each with its own hardships." ”
He took Liu Quan's arm, and the two walked side by side in front of everyone, and whispered: "I have won another big business in the grassland this time, and what I am most worried about now is that the war horse has nowhere to be sold...... The two walked and chatted all the way.
Ning Sheng followed the two of them, and heard the muttering in front of him getting smaller and smaller, and the expression on his face was very unnatural.
"Half of the world's wealth is in the south of the Yangtze River, only in Datong, just like watching the sky from the bottom of a well!" Liu Quan has been to Jiangnan twice in the past two years, and he feels very deeply.
Zhai Zhe restrained his smile and said solemnly: "So, I want to ask you to put aside the affairs of the northern border port this time and make every effort to push the business alliance to the interior of the Ming Dynasty." ”
Liu Quan was shocked, the foundation of the Shang Alliance was to kill Hukou, what does Zhai Zhe mean by this?
"You don't have to worry, only by making the business alliance bigger, you will profit more from it! It's too small to kill Hukou! Zhai Zhe calmly faced Liu Quan's gaze, and he finally showed his ambition.
He carefully calculated the expansion of his army, and his cavalry was similar to recruitment, unlike the Mongols, who were nomadic on their own. With the current ability of the Shang Alliance, if you want to assemble armor and eat food, the cavalry that the tower can support in three years will only be five or six thousand, and you will also face the danger of the trade route being cut off by the war at any time. A large part of the wealth of the grassland still has to flow away from Zhangjiakou.
"Northland's business?"
"I will ask someone to assist Ning Sheng, the caravan cycle to Mobei is too long, give up for the time being, and the focus of the business alliance in the future will be on naturalization and Hetao." This is Zhai Zhe's deliberate decision. You can also imagine it with your ass, and after this big defeat, the Jurchens will not give up. With the chaos of war, the caravan to Mobei is like a kite with a broken line, and life and death are unpredictable.
While speaking, Yuelai Restaurant was already in front of him. Zhai Zhe raised his hand and motioned to Liu Quan first, and said, "When these things come to Datong, we will discuss them carefully." ”
Shang Meng chartered the entire restaurant that day, and even Zhai Zhe was unusual, drunk seven points, his eyes were blurred, his cheeks were slightly red, and the pores of his whole body were as comfortable as if he had eaten the fruits of life, which was relaxed after the war. (To be continued)
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