"Prime Minister, Totoku will only make some small tricks that can't be put on the stage, and you must not reuse him."

"Why do you have to say that, the envoy is full of tricks, but it has helped me a lot."

"His little calculations are all clever, and there is no comparison with Hao Kang at all."

"Hao Kang's eyes are low, and if no one helps, his eyes will be blackened. After being in the imperial court for so long, let's see what kind of plan he has come up with! What doesn't work, no matter how well planned, is useless. ”

Both fathers praised 'other people's children', and picked on their own children's biggest shortcomings. At Hao Kang's residence, Hao Kang and Totoku set up a table, two cold dishes, four main dishes, aged cherry soju, Hao Kang toasted Totoku with a glass of wine, and praised: "Brother Toto, this time I rely on you." ”

"It's still the prime minister's medicine." Tokhtar praised: "If there is no elixir of the prime minister, this matter will not be possible." Brother Hao Kang, can you give me some medicine? The queen mother is full of praise for the elixir, and I use it to give away people very decently. ”

"This medicine...... The medicine is very strong, so you should be careful when taking it. Hao Kang admonished. The medicine given to the Queen Mother is a mixture of cannabis essence and purified opium. Hao Kang was very uneasy in his heart after knowing the ingredients. Da Song medicine is very developed, and when it is promoted, it specifically points out 'controlled drugs'. Among them are opioids and cannabis essence. These two types of drugs work wonders in many ways, and excessive use can make people's brains feel euphoric, and it is very easy to develop strong drug dependence. Once the drug is addicted, the person is wasted. The Criminal Law of the Great Song Dynasty also has relevant content, and the sale of controlled drugs is a felony of killing the head, and the 'drug addict' is also likely to be executed.

Compared to this huge risk, the efficacy of controlled drugs is also very high. The Queen Mother had an excellent sleep condition after taking it, and she was full of energy after waking up, and there were no adverse reactions. It was precisely because he knew that it was powerful, Hao Kang did not dare to mention the ingredients of this 'elixir'.

Not daring to continue this topic, Hao Kang said what he was most concerned about, "Brother Tokhtar, this time the Great Khan has decided to return the Gabala bowl made of Song Lizong's skull, including the shadow bowl. Thanks to Big Brother Tokto. But it helped the prime minister a lot. ”

He picked up the crystal wine glass complacently, but did not speak. He also put a lot of thought into making this happen. First of all, he used the different reactions of the Queen Mother before and after taking the medicine to successfully make Timur Khan think that a certain magic weapon in the hands of the national teacher was causing trouble. Then he arranged for the mage he knew to point out that it was Song Lizong's Gabala bowl that was causing trouble.

The best thing is that Da Song happened to ask for this thing, and the mage who took off said that Song Lizong Gabala bowl was okay before, because Da Song did not find a mage to cast a spell in the air before. Now a yin qi came from the east, triggering the resentment contained in Song Lizong's skull. Since this thing has already aroused resentment, it is not suitable for reuse. It's better to send it back to the Great Song Dynasty and let the Great Song people bear the grievances.

These words were wildly blown, even if Tokhtar knew that it was made up by the mage, but with the mage's expression and tone, Tokhtar himself was a little convinced. Now one genuine product and two shadow bowls have been handed over to Hao Ren for disposal, and the handling is seamless.

After drinking all the aged cherry shochu, Totoku said with a smile: "Alas, Brother Hao Ren, if you want a beautiful woman given by the Great Khan, someone can pour the wine." It's boring for the two of us to drink like this. ”

"Haha, my brother said so, brother, I'll be a little bit more reckless. In order to repay my brother, my brother wrote a letter asking the province of Europa to send a group of courtesans. Hao Kang wanted to get closer to Toto, and all the tricks he had come up with.

"What's so fun about prostitutes." Tokhtar is very dismissive of this.

"Brother, the courtesan is the saying of the Great Song Dynasty, but she is not a prostitute in the eyes of our Mongolians, let alone a camp prostitute." Hao Kang said with a smile: "The courtesan is probably a bard on the grassland, and she is respected wherever she goes. If they come, my brother can be happy with them, and they will be happy together. If you want to be tough, brother, I don't dare to agree. ”

It is very rare for Tokhtar to have a woman who cannot go to Tokhtar at will, and in Mongolia there are only people from high-ranking families who are higher than Tokhtar. Playing with low-status women is the power of the Mongolian strong, and the strong do not do it because they don't want to get into trouble, not because they don't have this power.

Hearing Hao Kang say this, he was excited and asked, "What will happen if you are strong?" ”

"Then brother, I won't have the face to see my brother again." Hao Kang was unhappy in his heart, and replied with a smile.

Hao Kang belongs to the people who refuse to provoke Toto, seeing Hao Kang like this, Totoku hurriedly promised: "Brother Hao Kang, brother, I only know Mongolian rules, don't take it to heart." can make her brothers say that she is capable, and such a woman needs to be invited by her brother to let her brother see her. My brother will definitely not mess around. ”

Hao Kang nodded, and agreed to come down. The longer he left the Great Song Dynasty, the more Hao Kang felt that he missed the life of the Great Song Dynasty. It was a nostalgic day. Especially in the Great Song Dynasty, there are too many things to be attached to, singing and dancing, music, and horse racing. Mongolia is known as a country on horseback, but when it arrived in Baghdad, it was found that the so-called good horses were just that, and they were completely incomparable with the horses at the Hangzhou Horse Race. Not to mention the official prostitutes of the Great Song Dynasty, Hao Kang still remembers that he once took a ticket from the Mongolian Embassy to watch the official prostitute performance with Classmate Mu, before going to Classmate Mu, he was still very prejudiced, and after watching the performance, he admired the beauty and talent of the official prostitute to the point of jealousy.

Youth......

Prime Minister Hao Ren and Imperial Envoy Yuxi Timur, who had long since died of youth, had already counted out their son's major shortcomings at this time, and the two old men began to face the tricky government affairs. In a sense, Prime Minister Hao Ren also agrees with Yuxi Timur's evaluation of Tokhtar. Hao Ren originally hoped that the Gabala bowl that returned the skull of Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty would lead the Mongol ministers and even the Mongol Khan to give up the idea of fighting with the Great Song Dynasty, but he did not expect that Tokhtar would completely avoid these major events and only use small means to achieve his goal.

Hao Ren asked Yuxi Timur, "Imperial envoy, is there really no one in the court who doesn't want to fight now?" ”

"The Ilkhanate recently saw that the Yuan State had not advanced, and they began to loot the northern border of the Great Khan's territory again. What do you eat without fighting? Yuxi Timur sighed sincerely. During this time, Yuxi Timur was also considered to be politically allied with Hao Ren, and wanted to promote changes in the Mongol court. When he was not so close to Hao Ren before, Yuxi Timur only felt that Hao Ren was a powerful lord who could govern the poor countryside of the Yuan Kingdom. Now he has a deeper understanding of Hao Ren, and fully understands why many Mongolian nobles call Hao Ren 'Han Chinese'. Killed by the Han people, they had to flee the steppe and flee to Baghdad, and the Mongols now have no contempt for the 'Han people'. Hao Ren's idea is really completely different from that of the Mongols.

Faced with Yuxi Timur's truth, Hao Ren also felt helpless. The Mongols didn't necessarily get anything by looting, they just thought they could get rich by robbing, and they didn't get rich by looting because they weren't lucky enough. If you continue to loot unremittingly, you will definitely have a chance to make a big profit.

As long as the Mongols still have this kind of thought, they will not be able to understand the thinking of the Great Song Dynasty in any case. The Great Song Dynasty believed that looting was a crooked way, and bandits were a situation that only existed in troubled times. After going south to the Song Dynasty, Hao Ren just couldn't continue to accept the Mongol tradition, established the Yuan State, and joined the Quadripartite Alliance, and now Hao Ren can't bear such a fallacy.

"The nobles of the imperial court really feel that it is bad luck to lose to the Great Song Dynasty." Hao Ren couldn't help but sigh.

"Prime Minister, the most important task at the moment is to help the imperial court relieve the predicament first." Yuxi Timur reminded Hao Ren.

Being reminded like this, Hao Ren, who was already extremely depressed, couldn't help but complain, "It's not impossible now, at present, the eastern Mediterranean shipping is developed, Mongolia controls the east coast of the Mediterranean, and there are many good things that can be traded to make money." But the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean refused to do business with Mongolia. Emissary, I ask you. If the court saw that there were so many good things, what was the first thought? ”

“…… Find a way to grab it. Yuxi Timur said helplessly. After forming an alliance with Hao Ren, Yuxi Timur finally saw the current predicament, which is the tradition of Mongolia, and when he saw wealth, he couldn't help but plunder. Looting externally, but also looting internally. It was no surprise to do so in the era of Genghis Khan's invincible cavalry, and now the surrounding countries are strong. The deep impression that this tradition has left on other countries has made them wary of Mongolia.

But at present, the finances of the Mongolian court are really unbearable, and Yuxi Timur tried his best to recommend Hao Ren not to let him express his criticism of Mongolian tradition. Yuxi Timur persuaded: "We will strictly restrain our subordinates, and if we have a prime minister sitting in the imperial court, we should be able to reassure other countries." ”

"That's all there is to it." Hao Ren sighed. The current situation was very different from his original plan, which was to first make peace between the Mongols and the Great Song Dynasty, and then to gain wealth through trade through cooperation with the Quadripartite Alliance. On the face of it, the plan can go ahead. Sending out the Song Lizong Gabala bowl, the Great Song Dynasty envoy said some words. But the Great Song Dynasty could never accept the act of dismembering the late emperor, and seeing the skull covered with gold and silver with his own eyes, Hao Ren could see the anger in the expression of the envoy, the anger from the heart. It takes time to smooth out the scars.

"Forget it, I'll order some more food to be shipped to Baghdad." Hao Ren said helplessly.

"That's great!" Yuxi Timur felt that a stone had fallen to the ground, and his heart was greatly relieved. Those Great Khans who were sent by the Empress Dowager Kuokuozhen to help Hao Ren in his western expedition came back and vigorously preached the wealth of the Yuan Kingdom, and one or two people would be regarded as an exaggeration when they said this, and a thousand people would say the same thing, and no one would believe it. If the 1,000 Great Khan's pro-army had not described the power of the hundreds of thousands of national railway cavalry with extreme admiration, probably the Mongol coalition army would have killed the Yuan country. Hao Ren had such a powerful Yuan State, and when the situation in the imperial court was not good, he naturally thought of getting some food from the Yuan State for emergencies.

Hao Ren said with a gloomy face: "Although the grain has to be transported, the imperial court also has to order to recruit 20,000 sailors first. I went to the fleet on an errand. Envoy, I also ask you to make it clear to the Great Khan that you do not impose additional taxes on these people. ”

“…… Good. Yuxi Timur replied. But he sighed very much in his heart, if he ate Hao Ren's meal according to Mongolian rules, he would have to give Hao Ren his life. If other Mongolian princes had the ability to feed these 20,000 people and even make money. will definitely make these 20,000 people not recognize their own mothers, and they can only recognize this prince. With 20,000 desperate subordinates, the Great Khan is a bird!

That is, Hao Ren will consider letting these 20,000 people really make money and set an example for others. Such a Mongolian prime minister......

Yuxi Timur sighed in his heart.

After making this decision, Hao Ren wrote a letter to the Europa provinces of the Quadripartite Alliance and the Eastern Roman Empire, describing his proposal to allow Mongolian ships to participate in shipping and hire Mongolian sailors. Although he was the prime minister of the Mongol Empire, Hao Ren was the lord of the Yuan State. When the Quadripartite Alliance was established, it was made clear that this alliance was xenophobic. In particular, the intervention of the Mongol Empire was excluded.

When the letter arrived in Constantinople, the comprador Sheila was giving half of her monthly salary to her mother. Getting the stack of square bills, Sheila's mother pinched the thickness and said, "Sheila, I want to have a ball." ”

"Prom?" Sheila was stunned. Didn't you just finish a drinking party, why did you think about holding a dance party again! The reception does not require much space, and the two-story house of Sheila's family can accommodate it. The ball required a special venue, and it was a social event that could only be held by the middle and upper aristocracy. The courtyard of this level of aristocracy is big enough, and the house is big enough to accommodate dozens of people to dance. Sheila's house is also able to provide space for a drinking party for 30 people, and any band can't fit it.

"Don't worry, I told my neighbors that when the time comes, we can remove the fence in the yard first, and we can accommodate so many people." Sheila's mother explained: "This time it's for your brother to marry. Several families are interested in your brother. ”

Sheila, of course, hoped that her brother would find a good girl to marry, but she couldn't believe it. The eldest brother, Cicerus, is now a 'Roman' and has to fight everywhere. Sheila was a little skeptical that the people were interested in the 'Roman' Sicellus or the comprador Sheila. Her eyes drooped, and Sheila saw the envelope in her hand again. When Sheila handed over her first month's salary to her mother, her mother's eyes widened in disbelief. This is the money that my father can earn by teaching people for two or three months. Sheila didn't dare to tell her parents that she was only paid half of her salary for the first three months of probation.

Sheila didn't mention it after that, and still gave the family money according to the amount she gave to her mother in the first month. The remainder was deposited in the Constantinople bank of the province of Europa. Now this money is enough to buy an ordinary small house. After three years of work, Sheila issued a certificate from the provincial office of Europa in accordance with the benefits stipulated in the comprador system, and borrowed a sum of money from the Great Song Qian Zhuang to buy a house of her own. The money can be repaid in installments, up to ten years. The interest rate is very favorable.

So Sheila had to have a thought about whether there was something that hit Sheila. The current lady is obviously unreliable, and the father ....... It seems that the only one who can be relied on is the big brother of the 'Romans'.