Chapter 48: The Difficult Sutra
"Hao Ren Wanhu, how are you doing?"
"Husky Wanhu, I've been worried about your body."
"Could the Southern Barbarian shaman doctor you were looking for last time have any other witchcraft?"
“……”
Because of the meritorious service of the envoy, plus the previous merits, Hao Ren has been promoted from 1,000 households to 10,000 households. At this time, he and Wanhu Husky Wanhu met near the parking lot of the Confucius Temple in Dadu. Hao Ren sent his wife Bao Xi to the Confucian Temple to offer incense, and the husky Wanhu came from the Jiaojun field. After the two met, they had something to say, and Hao Ren asked the maid to send his wife to the Confucian Temple to offer incense and talk to Wanhu himself. Listening to the questions of Husky Wanhu, Hao Ren Wanhu was speechless.
After thinking for a moment, Hao Ren thought that the husky Wanhu himself was not malicious. So he asked, "What's so uncomfortable about being stumped?" ”
Husky Wanhu quickly shook his head, he looked at his left arm with an iron hook and sighed: "That shaman's witchcraft is very powerful, and I have never felt any pain in my hand since he did it." I had a lot of shamans, monks, Taoist priests, True God Cults, Cross Sects, and all kinds of spell magicians. It was useless for them to treat my hands, and this Nanban shaman healed them in one go. Now I can finally be sure that my left hand is gone. So I was a little worried about whether he would put some other curse on me. ”
Hearing that the husky Wanhu regarded the medical treatment of the Great Song Dynasty as shamanism, Hao Ren was even more speechless. There were five members of the Song delegation this time, and they were not only shamans, but they all claimed to be materialist atheists who did not believe in any religion. However, Hao Ren can't talk about it directly, because he has already said it before. After thinking for a moment, Hao Ren said: "You are ten thousand households, and just the official authority here can deter many ghosts and gods. You see how the cured kid is so thin and thin, how is your opponent. Don't say he doesn't know witchcraft, but even if he does, what can he do with you? ”
The official position and combat effectiveness are the content that Husky Wanhu is very proud of, and they are also the source of his self-confidence. Hearing Hao Ren use this as a reason to be able to defeat any weaker person with lower status, Husky Wanhu couldn't help but nod slightly.
Hao Ren looked at Wanhu and was still a little uneasy, and he continued: "This treatment is in Dadu, on the territory of my Mongolia. When we built the city, we did many rituals and laid out many circles. How can you worry that other people can harm you in most places? Was the Great Khan such a careless man? ”
Thinking of his 'home advantage' again, Husky Wanhu nodded again and again, and the last bit of uneasiness dissipated cleanly. He smiled happily, "That's true." When Hao Ren Wanhu said this, I completely understood. ”
Hao Ren just nodded, with a wry smile in his heart. Before he went to see Zhao Jiaren, he had a kind of agnostic suspicion and uneasiness about the gods and ghosts. After seeing Zhao Jiaren and knowing Xunzi's materialistic stance, he lost the feeling of believing in gods and ghosts. In particular, the treatment that deeply touched the husky Wanhu used the illusion of a mirror to make people who had lost their arms hallucinate that their arms were still there, and as long as the arm that was the root of the image was healthy, the patients would feel that the lost arm would no longer be painful.
After seeing several treatment cases, Hao Ren determined that Zhao Jiaren was talking about 'the brain is the organ of thinking, the organ of processing and understanding of bodily feelings'. For gods, ghosts, and ghosts, they are even more respectful. But now Hao Ren has discovered another effect of this understanding, that is, in the face of guys who truly believe in gods and ghosts, as long as they can pull down their faces and make up blindness, it is easy to bluff them.
People who use ghosts and gods to cheat money don't actually believe in ghosts. Hao Ren has a new understanding.
In order to make himself feel better, Hao Ren asked, "What is going on with that Yang Lian Zhenjia?" ”
Mongolia still does not have a clear judicial system, and the Han handed over the matter to the husky, and he took full control of everything from arrest to interrogation. The husky sighed: "That thief monk is really a lard blinded heart." ”
Yang Lian Zhenjia uses 'shadow? Song Lizong? Is Gabala Bowl 'impersonating' real? Song Lizong? The Gabala Bowl is dedicated to the national teacher Basba, which is already very bold, and it is also something that Hao Ren knows. The relationship between the whistleblower behind it is more complicated. Yang Lian Zhenjia's lover Dakong Monk has another lover Dazhi Monk in private, because he is a third person who will never see the light, Dazhi Monk is difficult to accept. It just so happens that the monk Dakong is responsible for finding a master craftsman to make a 'shadow? Song Lizong? Gabala Bowl', the Great Wisdom Monk felt that if he could kill Yang Lian Zhenjia, he could have true love. So under the fire of jealousy, he acted irrationally.
Hao Ren and Husky are both straight men. In the 21st century, the United States belongs to the type of people who support GLBT and probably want to burn to death. So the husky scolded and simply talked about these things, and Hao Ren felt that he was about to vomit. He waved his hand vigorously and said, "Okay, okay." Don't mention it, kill them all. ”
"I also think it's good to kill them all. As soon as the Great Khan gives the order, I will do it immediately. Husky Wanhu replied with a bitter and hateful expression.
The straight men were silent for a moment, and in order to divert their attention, Husky Wanhu asked, "Hao Ren Wanhu, I heard that you are in the new army that the Great Khan wants to form?" ”
Hearing this question, Hao Ren nodded slightly to indicate that there was such a thing. The husky leaned closer to Hao Ren and asked in a low voice, "I heard that someone wants to use Han Chinese as pikemen in the phalanx?" ”
Hao Ren didn't answer immediately this time, because Husky Wanhu was not wrong. After fighting Zhao Jiaren's Song army, the Mongol generals noticed the weak position of the Mongol cavalry in the face of the Song army. The pikemen with their artillery and firearms were a cavalryman's nightmare, and even the onslaught of the heavy cavalry could not shake the pikemen. Therefore, Marshal Boyan has long been preparing to form Mongolia's own large phalanx.
"It's hard to let the Han army kill the khanate?" The husky Wanhu's voice was full of doubt.
At this time, most of the infantry in the Mongolian army were northern Han Chinese, and most of the pikemen in the troops formed by Marshal Boyan were also northern Han Chinese. At that time, the opponent of the phalanx was the Song army, so everything was not a problem. The Great Khan, however, prepared to send the new army north against the Mongol Khanate. The next Mongolian nobles are not happy, it doesn't matter if the Mongols kill the Mongols, why let the Han people kill the Mongols. Is this to let the Han people know that they can also kill the Mongols?!
Hao Ren's current view of the country is 'the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister'. From this point of view, all he had to consider was to ensure the loyalty of the Han Chinese to the Mongol Great Khan, and as for who killed whom, it was not a question at all. It was the Mongols, not the Han, who now raised the banner of rebellion against the Great Khan.
Seeing that Hao Ren was silent, the husky did not have a certain opinion in his heart, so he changed the topic and continued to ask: "I heard that someone wants to buy weapons from the Song Kingdom. ”
Hao Ren nodded again. During the war, the Mongol army fully experienced the Song artillery carriage and spear head at close range. The Mongolian cart was already a very good tool for long-distance travel, and it was extremely cumbersome and slow compared to the Song artillery cart. As for Song Jun's spear head, it is a two-foot-long iron pipe and spear head integrated product. Not to mention that Mongolian craftsmen say that it takes two or three days for a craftsman to make such a spear head. A spear head of this kind weighs at least five catties, and 100,000 pieces will cost 500,000 catties of iron. Mongolia can get about 2 million catties of iron a year, and iron must be used everywhere, where it can easily take out 500,000 catties to make gun heads.
Seeing Hao Ren's statement, Husky Wanhu was firm, "I don't think it's appropriate to do this." Where do we have so much money to buy things from the Song Kingdom. ”
"I don't think it's appropriate, either." Hao Ren also sighed. The Mongol court had already asked the envoy of the Song State, and the envoy's offer was a spear head of ten guan and a gun carriage of five hundred guan. According to the price quoted by the Song State, the Mongol army should have at least 600,000 copper coins to spend.
"I don't think money is a problem, this southern expedition has robbed so much, hundreds of thousands of yuan is not difficult. The question is how can we trust the Song people! Husky Wanhu expressed his opinion.
Because Husky Wanhu did not participate in the Southern Expedition, Hao Ren Wanhu shook his head and replied: "I think this money is a big deal, not a small matter. "The Great Khan marched south, and his real income was what those traitors of the Song State handed over. What the Mongols plundered along the way was divided among the army itself, and without these benefits, whoever had enough to eat would go to war. Therefore, 600,000 copper coins put a lot of pressure on the finances of the Mongol court.
After listening to Hao Ren's explanation, Husky Wanhu was first surprised, and then looked angry. He thought that the Mongol court would become stronger after the war, but he didn't expect that the court didn't get much benefit. But after thinking about it, Husky Wanhu was also a little relieved, he went to copy Yang Lian Zhenjia's temple, just put the 'true? Song Lizong? The Gabala bowl is given to the Great Khan Kublai Khan, and everything else is the benefit of huskies. As for those under him, they also received benefits from the husky households. If you think about it this way, where do Husky Wanhu still have the position to criticize the Mongol army of the Southern Expedition to reap the benefits for themselves.
Just as he was about to say something more, Husky Wanhu saw Hao Ren Wanhu turn his head and look in the direction of the Confucian Temple. The husky also looked over and saw a Han maid stumbling through the crowd. It looks like one of the two maids who followed Hao Ren's wife just now.
Hao Ren hurriedly greeted him, and the husky felt that it was not a trivial matter, so he followed. I heard the little maid crying: "Master, there are people in the temple who don't know whose family, and when they see their wife, they come up to tease." We drove them away, and not only did they not leave, but they also did ......"
Hearing this, Hao Ren beckoned the guards to go straight to the Confucian Temple. He never expected that in broad daylight, someone would molest women in the Confucian Temple and kidnap people.
Seeing this, Husky Wanhu also knew that he dared to kidnap people, but he was afraid that it was not good stubble. He had come from the military field, and turned around and shouted to the soldiers who followed: "Take the good guy, follow me!" ”
Two ten thousand households, two groups of people with weapons, murderous and went straight to the Confucian Temple.