The grass is green, and the wild flowers are swaying in the wilderness.

A small tent was erected in the green fields of the paddock steppe, and there were only five people in this tent now, and there were dozens of guards around the lonely and small tent, and the demarcation of these dozens of guards was clear, the soldiers in Ming army uniforms were on the south side, and those with braided hair and Mongolian clothes were guarding the north side.

Yan Bingtai and a young Ming officer sat firmly cross-legged in the tent, while sitting opposite them were two nobles dressed in luxurious Mongolian attire; Gu Lu Siqi, the leader of the Karaqin tribe, the Mongolian prince of Korqin Zhuo Liketu, and the eldest brother of Empress Wen of Xiaozhuang Wen of the Qing Dynasty, Wu Keshan. The other is a translator who is fluent in Mongolian and Chinese languages.

This is a negotiation, a preliminary negotiation, because this time the Ming army went out of the customs to carry out negotiations.

"The steppe is open-minded, welcomes all guests, and will be sincere, but the eagle of the steppe is never afraid of the invasion of outsiders, and we will defend our territory with our swords and bows and arrows."

The first to speak was Wu Keshan, the Mongolian prince is not only the uncle of the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, the nephew and brother of the empress, but also the son and daughter of the late Qing Emperor Huang Taiji. Yatu. Therefore, Wu Keshan's status is very noble and qualified to sit here.

The Mongol nobles and the Qing royal family almost all had inexplicable in-laws of various kinds, which transcended generations and were intricate, and were entirely an alliance maintained by marriage and force. The most typical is the Mongolian Horqin Division, in the Qing army into the customs and the conquest of the Mongolian tribes in the war, the Mongolian Horqin Department is stubborn and stubborn, charging into battle, it can be said that it has made great contributions to the establishment and consolidation of the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, it ranked first among the twenty-four departments, and the lords were high, and the silver and satin were higher than those of other Mongolian departments, and it was an important reliance of the Qing court to rule the Mongolian region. It also had the closest relationship with the Manchurian aristocracy.

Manchu and Mongolian marriage is the national policy of the Qing Dynasty, and in Chinese history, Zhaojun went out of the Sai and Princess Wencheng entered Tibet, she was not a close friend of one or two women, but a large number of people. It was this large number of women who later enabled the Manchus who entered the Central Plains to maintain intermarriage with the Mongols in the border areas for three centuries, establishing a generational relationship of marriage. It was precisely this kind of in-law relationship that played an important role in the long-term reconciliation of the two martial and brave ethnic groups in northern China, and in the Qing court's rule and governance of the border Mongolian region.

Negotiations, there are threats and discussions, and of course there are temptations. Wu Keshan is undoubtedly tempting, as for the threat, it seems that it cannot be talked about in the current form, because the infantry of the Ming army seems to have come up, and there are more than 300,000 of them.

"As an official of the Ming Dynasty, I would like to take the liberty of asking, have the people of the Immortal Heaven followed Jiannu to the territory of the Ming Dynasty before, and have they fought with the defenders of the Ming Dynasty?"

There was some burning meaning, and it was not the old man who responded. The commander of the cavalry of the Ming army, who has a higher official rank, is a young man beside him. The young man was tall, heroic, and unusually sharp. These few sentences made it difficult for Wu Keshan to answer. There is no need to question the Mongols sending troops, and there is no need to question whether they are engaged in war, but how can this negotiation continue.

Just when Wu Keshan was thinking about how to phrase it, the heroic young officer spoke again: "Our army is out of the customs this time to crusade against the Jianzhou people who invaded the Ming Dynasty. The Mongol warriors may have just been coerced and bewitched by the Jianzhou people, and the main task of our army this time out of the customs is to recover the homeland of Liaodong, and by the way, to bring back the head of the slave chief to give an explanation to my Ming emperor Bixia and thousands of people. The Han people are not good at herding horses. I'm not interested in the grasslands here, but I'm just chasing after the Jianzhou people. ”

This seems to be the most hopeful and the most hopeful result, there is no mention of using troops against Mongolia, let alone occupying the grassland, but Wu Keshan doesn't understand, how can this young man call the shots for such a big thing, so he didn't dare to respond.

The young man was very calm, and he continued to explain without hurry: "This is the instruction of my marshal, our army will not go deep into the desert and grassland, but only chase the remnants of Jiannu, we will go east in these two days, and we will enter Jianzhou Wei eastward, that is our goal." And the marshal of my family has also negotiated with the imperial court, and if it is feasible, he will implement comprehensive trade with Mongolia, and the court's reward will naturally not be stingy. ”

Except for greeting, Yan Bingtai never spoke, but Yan Bingtai knew that if Mongolia believed the young man in front of him, it was estimated that Zhou Huchen would be played with at will, and he would be played into scum, and he would lead his nose to count the money for him. And this young man is not Zhou Huchen, who is it? It's just that the two Mongolian nobles don't know him.

"Since it is a borrowed way, you can avoid the disaster of swords and soldiers, but please restrain the commander of the Ming Dynasty, the people of the grassland have always been reckless, if you collide with the imperial army, don't blame, trade matters can be discussed, but you also have to ask the leaders of all departments to negotiate together."

Wu Keshan didn't mention the reward, the Ming reward is forgotten, after all, the Mongols still belong to the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but it seems that comprehensive trade with the Ming Dynasty is good, this is a wish of the Mongols for many years, and it has been looking forward to it for hundreds of years.

At the same time, this is equivalent to no betrayal of the alliance with Jianzhou, no need to worry about the retaliation of the Qing Dynasty, at both ends of the end, interests above all else is the way to survive, this condition is quite tempting.

Of course, the Mongols still have to look at the direction of the wind and wait for the price to sell. Zhou Huchen knew the habits of the Mongols, the interests of the tribe were above everything else, survival was above all else, and the alliance with the Jianzhou people would be regarded as his victory as long as there was a rift now. It takes time to completely surrender the Mongols, and it also needs the right opportunity, Zhou Huchen can play with them in the future, and now it is the most important thing to take down the entire Jianzhou Guard.

The Mongols were not stupid, they also knew the meaning of the Ming army, and they did not want to make enemies in many ways. And the Mongols don't want to ignite a beacon fire in their own territory, this is very easy to communicate, if you don't take the initiative to attack me, I can bear with it, and the rest can continue to discuss.

The two sides come and go, that is, a verbal agreement, abide by it or not depends on their mood in the future, the matter is done, smiling slightly, Zhou Huchen got up: "It's so decided, my Ming army marched east two days later, has harassed Karaqin for a long time, and also affected the herdsmen of Karaqin, please Gulu Siqi Leader then send a messenger to discuss compensation, my marshal said that you will definitely be satisfied, and I leave!" ”

Putting down these words, Zhou Huchen got up, Yan Bingtai also quickly got up, and the two turned their heads and walked out of the tent.

Zuihou's words made Gu Lu Siqi dizzy, he didn't get up to send him off, and Wu Keshan, the prince of Zhuo Liketu, stood up, but he was thinking about the words that the young man had just left, it seemed that something was wrong, as for what was wrong, Wu Keshan faintly guessed.

The verbal agreement is also an agreement, but this agreement is what Zhou Huchen needs for the time being, with a strong force as a guarantee, the Mongols can't turn the sky, Yan Bingtai and Zhou Huchen easily got out of the tent and got on the horse, and soon Yan Bingtai couldn't help it: "Young marshal, how are you going to play these Mongols?" ”

"Did I say I wanted to play?" Zhou Huchen turned his head and rolled his eyes. (To be continued......)