"The above are the terms and conditions of the dynasty for you!"

On the sixteenth day of the twelfth lunar month of the 22nd year of the Apocalypse, when Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen were paraded, the officials sent by the Ministry of Rites arrived in Luntai County (Urumqi) by train, and after a two-month trek, they finally arrived at Xinhala and Lin.

The official who sent the envoy was Yang Lian's eldest son, Yang Zhiyi, who is now a member of the Ministry of Rites.

Yang Zhiyi is forty-six this year, although he is an official fan, his appearance and conversation are still good, so Hong Chengchou sent him to Xinhala and Lin after careful consideration.

Xinhala and Lin is a stone city built by Lin Dan Khan, with a circumference of no more than two miles and a height of only one zhang, and it is not as grand as a county town in the Ming Dynasty.

The facilities and buildings in the castle are also very primitive, and most of them are randomly built civil and stone buildings.

Although Yang Zhiyi only brought a few dozen guards, he confidently read out the decree of King Qi in the humble palace of Xinhala and Lin.

In the face of Yang Zhiyi, Lin Danhan and others attached great importance to it, but the peace conditions he read out were unacceptable to Lin Danhan and others.

However, they didn't dare to express their dissatisfaction directly, after all, Yang Zhiyi also said that this was the condition proposed by Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi in the Ming Dynasty, who knows if he refused these conditions in person, and when the news came back to Daming, would it make Zhu Youzhen, the madman, mad.

As soon as he went crazy, the Great Mongolia was uncomfortable......

"Please Mr. Yang go to the next door to rest first, and let us discuss before giving a reply."

"Yes!" Although Yang Zhiyi is not stage frightened, he will not show no one in his eyes, after all, this is still in other people's territory.

Therefore, he nodded that he could, and then walked out of Lin Dan Khan's humble palace, which covered less than an acre.

It was also after he left that many Mongolian nobles in the palace began to discuss:

"Cedion the steppes east of the Volga, then we will have to graze on the west bank."

"Yes! The pastures on the west bank will certainly not be able to support 800,000 people. ”

"Besides, just negotiating peace will not do us much benefit, and the follow-up firearms deal is what we need."

"Alas...... Zhu Youzhen's bid is too high, and at his price, even if we sell all the cultivated land and grassland in our hands, we can only sell it for one or two million taels. ”

"One or two million taels, after buying the cloth and tea that the people need, at most you can buy tens of thousands of guns and a thousand cannons."

"It seems powerful, but it's difficult to buy gunpowder."

"The price of gunpowder in the Ming army is too high, and you can buy more than a dozen catties of gunpowder from the Rakshasa ghost for one or two pieces of silver."

"There's no way, we can't take out so much gold and silver, and then it shows that the quality and power of the army's gunpowder are better."

"In my opinion, it's still a good deal......

"It's a good deal, but if we can't immediately defeat Muhammad's wolf cub after we get the stuff, then our people will starve to death."

"Alas......"

In the dimly lit stone palace, the Mongolian nobles sighed and discussed the problem, but the tone was uncomfortable.

They are not fools, no one offered to rob things without giving land.

If they don't give it, the Ming army will come to rob it when the time comes.

This time they had no ability to flee westward, as the Ottomans and Crimean Mongols had blocked their way westward.

The current situation, no matter how you look at it, is to obediently accept the terms of peace, and then take the purchased firearms and destroy the Crimean Khanate first.

With the Ming as a backer, it is not difficult to destroy Crimea, and even the Caucasus can be packaged and sold to the Ming in the future, and after obtaining enough support, the Cossacks will also be tamed and incorporated into the tribe.

At that time, they will have much more confidence whether they will go south to conquer the Ottomans or go west to destroy Poland.

Everyone understood that under the attack of the Ottomans and the Crimean Khanate, it was right for the Great Mongols to fall to the Ming Dynasty, no matter how harsh the conditions put forward by the Ming Dynasty.

Isn't it just a screen domain...... It's not that I haven't done it back then, from Hongwu to orthodoxy, the ancestors have been a vassal of the Ming Dynasty for decades, and it is not ashamed to continue to be a vassal now.

If there's one person who might feel ashamed, it's probably ......

All the nobles glanced at Lin Dan Khan vaguely, and Lin Dan Khan, who was fifty years old now, was also entangled.

Although he made the decision to negotiate peace with Da Ming, when it really came time to make him the king of Da Ming Shunning, he still felt a little embarrassed.

It's just that if he doesn't put down his face now, who dares to guarantee that the Ming army will not march west in a few years, and the Ottomans will not go north again?

At that time, I am afraid that it will not be a question of face, but a question of who will own the big head.

Therefore, it seems that confession has become Lin Dan Khan's only choice......

In the eyes of many nobles, Lin Dan Khan instantly aged a lot.

"I ...... Accept Zhu Youzhen's conditions and let that Ming official come over. ”

Lin Dan Khan's voice trembled a little.

For a person like him, who is over half a hundred years old, what he cares about most is actually face.

It's just that although he has no face now, he has finally joined the system of the Great Ming Sect.

"Great Khan, what the tribe needs most now is cloth and iron, tea, and grain."

Su Budi saw that someone was going to inform Yang Zhiyi, and he was also afraid that Lin Dan Khan would do a stupid thing of only trading firearms, so he hurriedly reminded:

"We can sell the land in the north of Hala and Lin to Daming first, the north is cold, and it is close to the Rakshasas."

"Now that we have taken refuge in Daming, the Rakshasas will definitely be very dissatisfied, and selling this land to the Ming will prevent the Rakshasas from attacking us."

"With the size of that piece of land, as well as the six towns above and the abandoned tens of thousands of acres of cultivated land, it is not a problem to sell two or three hundred thousand taels."

"Two or three hundred thousand taels will first buy cloth, tea and iron armor, and when this batch of goods arrives and the land changes hands, we will sell the new land to buy firearms."

Subu Di wanted to stabilize his subordinates first, but Lin Dan Khan shook his head and said:

"Winter is almost over, and it's useless to ask for cloth."

"Zhu Youzhen is a trustworthy person, we can consider selling all the land in exchange for enough firearms and supplies, and then immediately launch a westward expedition."

Obviously, Lin Dan Khan was obsessed with being stolen by the Ottomans and Crimea at a critical moment, and almost killed his eldest son.

He was to sell all the land, including the Hara and Lim, which had already been established, in exchange for enough firearms to launch his expedition.

The Mongols did not have much land west of the Volga, only a few thousand square kilometers.

If they can take the Crimean Khanate, then they will have tens of thousands of square kilometers, and the Crimea, which has no severe cold in winter and no heat in summer, is more suitable for grazing in Greater Mongolia than in the Volga Delta.

Of course, the most important thing is that Lin Dan Khan wanted to use the slave trade to make peace with the Ottoman Empire while destroying the Crimean Khanate, repelling the Ottoman Empire, and recovering the northern Caucasus Mountains.

The Ottoman Empire sent troops to help the Crimean Khanate, and in addition to political and religious interests, the main thing was economic interests.

The Crimean Khanate's main source of income was to go to Eastern Europe to capture slaves through warfare.

This was called the harvest of the steppe peoples, and all the slaves they captured were sent to Kafatau for sale.

In the 112-year history of Crimea, they continued to capture Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Russians for slavery, the largest of which was the siege of Moscow in 1570, which captured 150,000 inhabitants.

They killed the old and weak, stuffed the Moskva River with their corpses, and sold the remaining women and young men as slaves to the Ottomans, Egypt, Western Europe, Southern Europe, and other regions.

Lin Dan Khan knew very well that the Great Mongol Empire could not only rely on nomadic raids to make a living, but had to have a stable source of land and income.

If he could get enough silver, then I think Daming would not refuse to buy firearms with gold and silver.

The destruction of the Crimean Khanate, taking over its slave trade, and then forcing the Ottomans to make peace by force and profit was the plan of Lindan Khan.

The Mongols were strong and strong, and the only thing they lacked was firearms, and as long as the Ming made up for this shortcoming, he would have the confidence to defeat the Ottoman Empire.

Just as he was thinking this, Yang Zhiyi led someone into the hall.

Looking at the expressions of everyone in the hall, Yang Zhiyi probably had a bottom in his heart, and he couldn't help but be a little happy, but he couldn't show it.

"I agree to become the Ping vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and I am willing to dedicate the land east of the Volga."

Lin Danhan's words finally came out in front of Yang Zhiyi's words, but Yang Zhiyi couldn't speak, Lin Danhan opened his mouth and added:

I am also willing to sell the land west of the Volga, and I ask for forty percent for gunpowder, and sixty percent for tea, armor, iron, silk, and sugar.

"Yes, but I have to measure the specific amount of land, and you need to send someone to escort the ordinary materials yourself, and the number of people cannot exceed a thousand,"

"As for the firearms, we will escort them to you."

Yang Zhiyi agreed after a little consideration, after all, Zhu Youzhen expected these things, and also reminded the Ministry of Rites, he naturally knew the bottom line of Daming.

"Okay, I'll send someone to protect your land later."

Lin Danhan breathed a sigh of relief, and then gave a gift with a smile.

It was one hundred taels of gold, Yang Zhiyi was not as pedantic as his father, and knew that it was easier to accept gold to reassure Lin Dan Khan, so he accepted the gold with peace of mind, and then read out the holy decree of the Ming Dynasty to canonize Lin Dan Khan.

Under his reading, the Great Mongolia became the Ming Dynasty's Ping Vassal Mongolia, and Lin Dan Khan also became the Shunning King of the Ming Dynasty.

In the following days, Yang Zhiyi led people to measure the land of Mongolia like a horse circle, and soon roughly counted their grassland as 9 million mu and cultivated land as 146,000 mu.

At the initial price, Mongolia would receive 1,180,000 taels of trade.

Lin Danhan has no opinion on this, because they can't measure their own land clearly, and they can only look at Yang Zhiyi's mood.

After all, Yang Zhiyi is quite kind, with a quota of 1.18 or 20,000 silver, Lin Danhan bought 40,000 rifles, 600 Yanshan five-kilogram artillery, and 100,000 kilograms of gunpowder, up to 560,000 taels of arms trade orders.

The remaining 620,000 taels were used by him to buy armor, iron, cloth, silk, tea, sugar and other rich materials.

According to the agreement, Lin Dan Khan sent his son Ezhe to lead a thousand men to accompany Yang Zhiyi to Daming to transport supplies, and at the same time learn how to use rifles and artillery.

Not surprisingly, they will need to return before the winter of next year.

At the same time as they returned, the Ming army would also send people to take over all the land they had sold.

In other words, the Mongols were able to graze on this land for eight months as Ming courtiers.

With a melancholy mentality, in the Zhengdan Festival when the Daming firecrackers sounded, Ezhe followed Yang Zhiyi to Daming.

Compared with the melancholy psychology of the Mongols, at this moment, all the countries under the Daming Sect system are happy because of the New Year's Day.

The time has crossed from the 22nd year of the Apocalypse to the 23rd year of the Apocalypse, and many Han people in the vassal kingdoms welcome the New Year.

For a time, the sound of firecrackers resounded in more than 60% of the earth's territory, and among them, except for the Ming Dynasty, the Qi country was the most lively.

"Crackling—"

Since the Qi Kingdom was six hours later than Daming, when Daming had already begun the New Year, it was only the thirtieth month of the Chinese New Year's Eve and the vigil.

"Be careful, be careful!"

"A little further to the left, okay! That's it! ”

The noisy sound of firecrackers had already sounded on the night of the thirtieth day of the lunar month, and in the voice of Zhang Huangyan, a giant lantern was erected.

At this moment, he is in the Suzaku Square covering an area of 3,000 acres in the western capital of Qi Kingdom, and with 3,000 soldiers and horses, he is building a giant lantern and fireworks landscape.

Not only are the statutory holidays more than twice as large as those of the Ming Dynasty, but the attitude towards curfews on holidays is also quite open.

During the year, there are 32 days of holidays in the country of Qi, and there is no curfew.

For example, the current Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhengdan Festival, and Lantern Festival are connected to have 16 days of lifting the curfew.

On such days, even if they don't return home until they play, it's okay to even get drunk on the streets, because the Qi Kingdom is in full bloom for sixteen days, and even at night, the streets are as bright as day.

It's Chinese New Year's Eve, and people need to stay until four o'clock (0:00) before they can go out.

Therefore, Zhang Huang said that they had to check the lanterns on all the streets in Xijing City.

Not only Xijing City, but also the other twenty-five prefectures.

The lifting of the 16-day curfew is not as easy as lifting the curfew, but to maintain the lantern festival on the 16th, so that everyone can spend the New Year's Day and Lantern Festival happily.

The lantern festival on the 16th day can be said to be a lot of consumption for the Qi country, even if the degree of industrialization of the Qi country is already very high, but the limited technology is still only in the middle of the nineteenth century, so the price of lanterns does not have much room to fall.

It's just that kerosene glass lamps, which are street lamps, are much cheaper and can illuminate many streets for pedestrians.

"A 16-day New Year Lantern Festival costs 40,000 taels, if Your Highness knows, I'm afraid you will have to write a letter to scold us and other losers......"

In a thirty-zhang tall building in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, Huang Long looked at the Xijing City as bright as day, and couldn't help but sigh a little.

Behind him, Man Gui, Sun Yingyuan and others in the high-rise building were eating and drinking with their subordinates on duty.

"Dad, I'm afraid that His Highness will not only not feel a loser, but will praise us!"

Huang Long's third son, Huang Xian, shouted at his father and justified their suffering.

Yes, the people who have been tired for a year can only relax during the Spring Festival Lantern Festival.

Therefore, hearing Huang Xian's words, Huang Long just smiled and nodded, turned to look at the empty streets of Xijing City, and couldn't help but look forward to the excitement after the vigil ended......

Not only him, but almost all the officials and people in Xijing City are looking forward to it.

Some of the children in ordinary people's homes, even if they have already sat and napped, still do not want to go back to sleep and insist on spending Chinese New Year's Eve.

This is true for children, let alone adults.

Therefore, many people are holding pocket watches and watching the time carefully, and even as the time approaches, they are excited to take their families to the door.

"Ten... Nine... Eight... Seven... Six... Five... Four... Three... Two... One! ”

"Bell...... Clang...... Bell ......"

When the son arrived at four o'clock, the bell tower in Xijing City, which was thirty-three feet high, emitted a melodious bell, and all the people and officials, as long as they were resting people, they broke out of their homes one after another.

Just for a moment, the empty Xijing City on the street was immediately crowded with people, and they were amazed by the various lanterns and colorful lights on the street, and this moment was also what Zhang Huang was waiting for.

"Ignition!"

Listening to the melodious bell, Zhang Huangyan, who was in Suzaku Square, announced the ignition.

With his words, the huge "Ao Mountain" in Suzaku Square began to flicker with colorful lights of various shapes.

In the sound of "bang bang bang", the gorgeous fireworks kept going off.

At the same time, a number of huge horse-drawn carriages suddenly appeared on the streets.

Each carriage has thirty-two large horses, which pull a stage with different heights and distinct layers.

On the ground floor are the musicians of the Bell and Drum Division, who play their instruments and immerse the people who pour out of the streets in beautiful music.

The women selected by the middle class and the folk markets wore dance costumes and long sleeves and danced to the music.

On the top floor, fireworks bloom from time to time to bring a wonderful visual impact.

For the people of Xijing City at this moment, such a view is simply a wonderful audio-visual enjoyment.

With performances, there must naturally be a market.

What can be compared with the Spring Festival Gala of Qi in the Ming Dynasty is the "Spring Festival Hypermarket" of Qi State.

The streets are filled with small vendors, from drinks and snacks to fortune-telling and massages, to musical lantern riddles, horseback riding and pitching pots......

The stalls of all kinds of goods and entertainment were lined up in one go, and they were able to occupy all the Yamen streets in Dongcheng.

Looking at them, Xia Yunyi at the gate of the Changshi Mansion couldn't help laughing, and a six-grade official next to him laughed even more:

"I'm afraid that there are more vendors selling oil, salt, sauce and vinegar tonight than we did tonight."

"Hahaha......"

His words won the laughter of his colleagues, and although they had worked hard for half a month because of the 16th New Year, it seemed that everything was worth it now.

The small stalls and vendors in the market all need to pay a fee, although it is only 30 wen a day, but it can't stand the thousands of small merchants and vendors in Xijingcheng.

Just for the booth fee on Chinese New Year's Eve, the Changshi Mansion earned three thousand taels of silver, and there are still sixteen days of such a day, so it can be seen that there is no big problem in returning to the capital.

The people were lively, the court was taxed, and the merchants made money, and the New Year Lantern Festival in Qi was not unsuccessful.

The officials on duty looked at the people in the market with envy, and occasionally saw Mu Xiu's colleagues, first laughing, and then when they saw the other party carrying a pot of rice wine and drinking it with a smile, they gritted their teeth angrily.

The people of the Ming Dynasty liked to drink rice wine and rice wine, but did not like to drink too strong distilled spirits, so the streets were full of people who drank alcohol.

The low-alcohol rice wine can make people slightly drunk and immersed in the lively lantern festival.

However, normally speaking, there are not many people who drink alcohol on Chinese New Year's Eve, because in the Ming Dynasty, which had strict etiquette, the first thing to do after the time passed was to pay homage to the New Year.

In fact, just look at the officialdom, the New Year greeting is really not tired, every household has prepared pen, ink, paper and inkstone on Chinese New Year's Eve, and there is no need to give any gifts after the guests come, even if it is a New Year's greeting, but it is not so easy to greet relatives and friends.

Three days before the Zhengdan Festival, the ancestors should be worshipped, and on the day of the Zhengdan Festival, the whole family should first worship the heaven and earth, and then they should go out to worship the New Year.

As long as you meet relatives and friends on the road, you must prostrate in the street.

In the description of Qiu Jun, a famous minister in the Ming Dynasty, he went out for a walk on the first day of the New Year, and when he came back, he could break his waist.

Compared with the Ming Dynasty, the New Year's customs of Qi are not so tiring, and they only need to give gifts.

However, the people of Qi are good at drinking, so they also put wine at home, and the guests who come to visit the New Year have to drink three or five elements of rice wine before leaving.

The experience of many people on this day is to go out to watch the lantern festival in high spirits, and pay a New Year's greeting by the way, but they are drunk and can't return home.

Therefore, the people who go out to pay New Year's greetings will carry a wooden plaque with their names and addresses written on them, and what Zhang Huangyan and other soldiers and horses in Xijing City need to do also include picking up drunk people on the road to pay New Year's greetings, take out their wooden cards and identify them, and send them home to rest.

However, with the temperature in the western capital, it is estimated that if you sleep on the street overnight, you will not have a cold and fever the next day.

In addition, during the Spring Festival of the Ming Dynasty, when the opera culture was developed, the 16th Lantern Festival of Qi was also a "blockbuster" when it was staged.

For example, now, when Zhang Huangyan was patrolling the city with soldiers and horses, there were people in almost every street who invited the opera troupe to sing in the hall.

The neighbors of each city even pooled money to invite opera troupes to perform, and they all invited the most famous and powerful troupes to perform the most difficult plays.

For example, the kind of drama in "Social Opera" in later generations was a popular repertoire in the Ming Dynasty.

This is not just singing on the stage, but also somersaults and drill fire rings plus all kinds of stunts, the props and sets cost tens of thousands of dollars for a performance, and the salaries of the actors in each performance are tens of thousands of dollars, which is a sky-high production.

is also a sky-high production, and the most famous troupes of Qi will also appear on stage one after another on Suzaku Square to perform for the people of Qi for free.

Every scene provoked crowds of people along the street, and when they saw joy, many people would take out copper coins and throw them on the stage one after another.

On this night, not only young people went into temple fairs and other entertainment venues, but they did not have the pleasure of playing in black and white.

Even in the rural areas outside Xijing, it is very lively, and even the old peasants who are frugal on weekdays will deliberately wear gorgeous silk clothes during the lantern festival and ride out to the banquet with a few hundred dollars.

When Zhang Huangyan patrolled to the Vermilion Bird Gate in the outer city, he saw many peasants outside the city wearing silk and satin, riding into the Xijing City, eating and drinking, laughing loudly, and it was not lively.

Looking at them, the patrol soldiers were also infected, and they couldn't help but laugh happily.

"I don't know if Daming is so lively."

"There should be, our Qi country has only been developing for more than ten years, and the atmosphere in Daming is much better than ours."

"Also to ......"

Many young soldiers discussed the atmosphere of the Spring Festival in the Ming Dynasty, they were so young when they came to Qi that they had forgotten how the Spring Festival was spent in the Ming Dynasty.

However, their words were a little melancholy for Zhang Huangyan, who had been in Jiangnan for more than ten years.

The New Year of the Ming Dynasty is lively, but if you want to compare it with the Qi State......

Zhang Huangyan sighed and continued to patrol with the soldiers and horses.

In this Lantern Festival on the 16th day of the Chinese New Year, the people can relax and be lively, but they must be careful, especially the yamen in charge of fire fighting.

However, seeing the smiles on the faces of the people, their hard work is nothing......

(End of chapter)