The office held a three-day meeting, and the upper management struggled to persuade them, and finally came to an end. The upper echelons, who were afraid of long nights and dreams, immediately issued an official document that the province of Europa agreed to accept the Mongolian sailors who were the sailors of the Yuan State to participate in the shipping activities, and if something happened, Hao Ren, the lord of the Yuan State, would have to take responsibility in accordance with the provisions of the Quadripartite Alliance.

After reading the official document, Hao Ren felt that a stone fell to the ground in his heart. He originally planned to be sponsored by the Yuan Kingdom's willingness to help Mongolian sailors, but he only hoped to give Mongolian sailors the opportunity to participate in shipping activities from the Black Sea to the Eastern Mediterranean. Finally getting an answer, Hao Ren immediately went to see Timur Khan and presented his plan to the Khan.

After listening to Hao Ren's plan, Timur did not make a decision, but said a little unhappily: "It will be the Naadam Conference soon, and we will talk about it then." ”

"Great Khan, can't you be sure now?"

"Where do I have 20,000 men for you now?" Timur's voice was unhappy, and the flavor was even stronger.

Hao Ren was also greatly unhappy in his heart. Based on his experience in dealing with the Great Song Europa Province, those Great Song civil officials did things in waves, and they would be rejected if they delayed a little. Not to mention Mongolia, which has a deep enmity with the Great Song Dynasty, even if the Yuan Kingdom can't catch up, it will be ruthlessly rejected by the officials below. This time it was not in the name of Mongolia, but the Yuan Kingdom came forward to guarantee it.

I wanted to say something more, but Hao Ren couldn't help but say nothing. However, the Great Khan Timur opened his mouth and said: "Prime Minister, this year we still need two million stone of food for the Mongolian banner army. I don't know when it will arrive. ”

Hao Ren was even more unhappy in his heart, so he replied: "It is being transferred, and it is not yet the summer harvest season, and there is no grain stock." But now the tax revenue of the Grange ......"

As soon as he said this, the Great Khan Timur shook his head and said, "Prime Minister, now I don't want the princes to come over and make trouble again. Let's wait until the Mongolian flag army is stabilized. ”

Hao Ren has been listening to this kind of talk for half a year, and he has long been tired of hearing it in his heart. He agreed to come to be prime minister in order to completely change the system of the Mongolian court, not to be the unjust leader of the money and efforts. But there has been no progress in the past six months, and the money and grain have been transported from the Yuan State to the territory of the Great Khan at a flowing price. This time, he was not going to add any additional burden to the Yuan Kingdom, and said: "Wait for another two or three months, and the grain will be transported after the summer harvest." ”

Neither side could achieve their goal, and when the meeting ended, the Great Khan Timur sent Hao Ren away, and the anger in his heart could no longer be suppressed. Along the way, his face tensed, and he tried to adjust his mood before he arrived at the Queen Mother's bedroom. When I saw the Queen Mother's greetings, I heard the Queen Mother ask: "Timur, who are you angry with?" ”

Timur was reluctant to say anything, bowing his head and remaining silent. Kuo Kuozhen sighed slightly, "Timur, I guessed correctly, you should be angry with the prime minister." ”

"Nope." Timur muttered.

"Timur, I don't say whether what the prime minister did right or wrong, how much food and property the prime minister has brought in the past six months. I asked someone to pour you a glass of water, you still know that you have to thank you, the prime minister has done so much, why are you angry? ”

"Mother, you give me water to drink because you feel sorry for me, and the prime minister brought food and property just to let me listen to him. This cannot be compared. ”

Kuo Kuozhen's brows furrowed, and his eyes became stern. After a moment of silence, she said: "I asked Hao Ren to be the prime minister, since you can't trust Hao Ren, I'll let him go back." ”

"Don't." Timur was quick to object.

Kuo Kuozhen's voice became more and more stern, "The prime minister is high and powerful, so you have to use someone you can trust." If you can't trust Hao Ren, let him go, the sooner the better. ”

"Don't." Timur's opposition was even weaker. If Hao Ren left first, the two million stone grains would naturally be lost. Timur has worked hard in recent years to build the Mongolian Banner Army. The Mongols formed the Yellow Eight Banners, the Semu people formed the White Eight Banners, and the True God Cult formed the Black Eight Banners. In the past, there were many difficulties in forming a flag army, but in the past six months, great progress has finally been made, and it is about to be completed. He didn't want any more twists and turns.

"Timur, why are you doing this? The prime minister is to appoint heroes who are of the same heart and mind as you, Genghis Khan said, once you meet heroes, you must hold them firmly in your hands and do not let them stay away from you. If you can't trust them, let them go, it's good for you. ”

Seeing that the old lady was pressing forward step by step, and that he had accumulated too much dissatisfaction with Hao Ren over the past few days, he turned his heart on his side and told the truth, "Queen Mother, when the two million stone grain arrives, I will let Hao Ren go." ”

Kuo Kuo really wanted his son to know the difficulties and let go of the knot in Hao Ren's heart. Unexpectedly, she forced out her son's truth, and she was stunned. After adjusting his mentality, Kuo Kuo really asked: "What do you think is wrong with Hao Ren?" ”

"Queen Mother, Hao Ren wants to negotiate peace with Song Guo, which is very wrong. All the princes did not agree! If it weren't for the fact that the Kalaba bowl was too bad, I wouldn't have pushed the boat back to Song Guo. Hao Ren not only had to negotiate peace with the Song State, but also with the slave dynasty on Tianzhu's side. When did I, Mongolia, suffer such a gas! Just today, Hao Ren asked me to recruit 20,000 Mongols as sailors. Who doesn't know that the Yuan State monopolized the shipping of Mongolia, and 20,000 people were handed over to Hao Ren, which was to add another 20,000 elite soldiers to him......"

Timur originally just wanted to talk about Hao Ren's mistakes, but the more he talked, the more angry he became, and the louder he became, "When something happens, Hao Ren asks me to collect taxes from the Grange, and I have already told him that arranging the Grange for those princes is to let them not come out to make trouble." Doesn't collecting taxes from them force them to rise up and make trouble......

One by one, Timur said it all. waited for him to explain clearly, but saw that his mother Kuokuo was really in tears. At this time, Timur was frightened, and hurriedly asked, "Mother, what's wrong?" Don't be angry with Hao Ren. ”

Kuo Kuozhen wiped away his tears and said sadly: "Timur, you are the prince, the leader, and you are the leader of the people, what did those people give you?" Help you open up territory, or help you solve problems? I asked Hao Ren to be the prime minister, not because the Yuan country was rich, but because the Yuan country was prosperous in ten years. When Kublai Khan was alive, Hao Ren reorganized the army and made many contributions. When your father Zhenjin was alive, he said that Hao Ren really wanted to do things for Mongolia. You can put the prince in your heart, why can't you tolerate Hao Ren? ”

When his mother told him this, Timur was not happy. He said in a muffled voice: "Mother, Hao Ren and Mongolia are not the same heart. ”

"Those princes are of the same heart as Mongolia?" Kuo Kuo really asked.

"It's not the same. I know what those princes want to do and want. They all know what I'm going to do. As long as I build a banner army, those princes and leaders will be obedient when they see that they can't fight me. Hao Ren is different! Mother! Hao Ren has hundreds of thousands of cavalry in his hands, and he also controls the naval army. You also know the situation in the Yuan State, and now the Yuan State is not in power, but the Han Chinese. You said that he did a lot of things for Mongolia during the time of Kublai Khan, but where did the Great Khan really dare to use him, didn't he let him go west of the Dnieper River? Even the Great Khan didn't dare to use him, how dare I really put him in power. ”

Her son's words made Kuo Kuozhen feel colder the more she listened, and she finally understood how jealous her son was of Hao Ren. The so-called hope that Hao Ren can assist the imperial court turned out to be Kuo Kuozhen's own wishful thinking. Holding the last trace of expectation, Kuo Kuozhen said: "Timur, you must not do anything to Hao Ren. ”

I heard Timur reply: "Mother, you finally understand my difficulties. Too many princes have told me that while Hao Ren and his son are in Baghdad, I will kill them to avoid future troubles. I didn't say yes. Those people wanted to kill people with knives, and in the end they made me shoulder the responsibility. Hum! It's a beautiful idea! ”

The last glimmer of hope was dashed, and she stopped mentioning it, just letting Timur leave. Listening to his son's footsteps getting farther and farther away, Kuokuo was really heartbroken. She once believed that her son could be as powerful as Genghis Khan, and later felt that her son could become a person like her husband's real gold, or at least a hard-working person. When Zhenjin was alive, he often talked about making the Mongolian court completely sinicized. Just like those Han courts, the imperial examination was used to select scholars, and Confucianism and Buddhism were respected as the state religions, so that Mongolia would be passed on for generations. Now even such a desire to settle for second place has finally been shattered.

The son was just a Mongol, like the princes of the steppes, who believed only what he believed and accepted only what he could control. There is a lot of distrust and rejection of people like Hao Ren who can really spark change. Timur only wants to control Hao Ren, only wants to use Hao Ren, and has no other ideas.

Kuo Kuo really regretted that he was too bent on going his own way, his son Timur shouldn't be talking nonsense, and now there are too many princes who want to kill Hao Ren. If Hao Ren was killed by these men, the Yuan Kingdom, which had hundreds of thousands of iron cavalry and a huge naval army, would surely vent their vengeful anger against the Mongol Empire.

Thinking of this, Kuo Kuozhen suddenly laughed, and then shed tears again. His son, Timur, thought that he knew the princes and the chieftains, so he could suppress them. But is this true? If they were really invaded by hundreds of thousands of yuan of national iron cavalry, the princes and leaders who really wanted to kill Hao Ren were afraid that they would immediately surrender to the Yuan Kingdom, and then cut off the heads of Tiemur and Kuo Kuozhen to lose their sincerity to their new masters.

Thinking of this, Kuo Kuozhen suddenly became passionate after a period of despair, she couldn't let her son come to her. Wiping away his tears, Kuokuo really said: "Please enter the palace." ”

More than an hour later, Hao Ren appeared in front of Kuo Kuozhen. At this time, Kuo Kuozhen had already refreshed and dressed, and he couldn't see his previous sad appearance at all. She exchanged a few words with Hao Ren and asked, "Prime Minister, I don't know why you want to recruit 20,000 sailors?" ”

Hao Ren didn't want to talk about this topic, after all, there were too many topics involved. The secret covenant of the Quadripartite Alliance is better not to let the Queen Mother know. So he said perfunctorily: "I just want the Mongols to make more money." If you see that these 20,000 sailors have extra income, there will naturally be some people who are willing to earn it. ”

"Do those sailors really get those salaries?" Kuo Kuozhen continued to ask

"Yes."

"Then why didn't the prime minister make it clear to the Great Khan?"

“…… The Great Khan asked his ministers, in addition to the salaries given to the sailors, how much did those people give the Great Khan? ”

After hearing this, Kuo Kuo could already imagine the situation of the conversation at that time, and she smiled and said, "If you hire the Mongols, you won't give us head money?" ”

"The Queen Mother, the minister has consulted the Great Khan about forming a banner army. The Great Khan told his ministers that he wanted the Mongols in the Great Khan's territory to have food for everyone, whether rich or poor. Those capable Mongols who come out as banner soldiers can take more than other Mongols......"

"Hehe, a big pot of rice, everyone can get a spoonful." Kuokuo said with a smile. At least sixty percent of this smile came from Kuo Kuo's true sincerity, and she thought it was not bad.

"The cauldron cooks rice...... the Queen Mother Shengming. The Great Khan wanted the Mongols to eat a big pot of rice. The minister also thought that this method was good, and the Mongolians had a big pot of rice to eat, so everyone could really feel at ease. There were several inconsistencies in doing so, the first of which was naturally to require a large amount of food and money, and now the Great Khan's domain was full of granges, and taxes had to be collected from the granges. But the Great Khan felt that it was not yet time. The minister felt that the Great Khan was a little taken for granted. The second is that those poor families who want to do more things have no chance, if they can open up more livelihoods and let everyone earn more money. Everyone eats a big pot of rice and has extra income, so they can really understand the benefits of the big pot of rice. ”

Hao Ren carefully recounted his views, and he was happy to listen to it. I don't think Timur will tell Hao Ren the truth, but Hao Ren can follow himself

“…… The Great Khan asked his ministers, in addition to the salaries given to the sailors, how much did those people give the Great Khan? ”

After hearing this, Kuo Kuo could already imagine the situation of the conversation at that time, and she smiled and said, "If you hire the Mongols, you won't give us head money?" ”

"The Queen Mother, the minister has consulted the Great Khan about forming a banner army. The Great Khan told his ministers that he wanted the Mongols in the Great Khan's territory to have food for everyone, whether rich or poor. Those capable Mongols who come out as banner soldiers can take more than other Mongols......"

"Hehe, a big pot of rice, everyone can get a spoonful." Kuokuo said with a smile. At least sixty percent of this smile came from Kuo Kuo's true sincerity, and she thought it was not bad.

"The cauldron cooks rice...... the Queen Mother Shengming. The Great Khan wanted the Mongols to eat a big pot of rice. The minister also thought that this method was good, and the Mongolians had a big pot of rice to eat, so everyone could really feel at ease. There were several inconsistencies in doing so, the first of which was naturally to require a large amount of food and money, and now the Great Khan's domain was full of granges, and taxes had to be collected from the granges. But the Great Khan felt that it was not yet time. The minister felt that the Great Khan was a little taken for granted. The second is that those poor families who want to do more things have no chance, if they can open up more livelihoods and let everyone earn more money. Everyone eats a big pot of rice and has extra income, so they can really understand the benefits of the big pot of rice. ”

Hao Ren carefully recounted his views, and he was happy to listen to it. I don't think Timur will tell Hao Ren the truth, but Hao Ren can follow himself

(Battlefield Literature)