Two days later, Su Tai accompanied Lin Dan Khan to a hundred miles away to welcome a Tibetan monk into the monastery, and it took three or four days to go back and forth.

Zheng Haizhu rarely had leisure, and wanted to visit He Zhuo, but when he found the servants and maids who stayed behind under Su Tai's tent to ask, several people waved their hands in panic.

Zheng Haizhu was even more suspicious, and when he returned to the tent, and was thinking about how to go up the mountain, Man Gui and Chang Zhongxin returned from visiting the market in Wangcheng.

Although Chang Zhongxin is young, he is already quite capable of doing things, and he praised Man Gui like a flower when he opened his mouth, saying that if it weren't for General Man's fluent Mongolian dialect like a surging river, he would definitely not be able to complete the task assigned by his wife to investigate the power and customs of the khan.

"Oh?" Zheng Haizhu sat down on the birch couch covered with animal skins and said to Man Gui, "Tell me, what have you heard in the past few days." ”

Man Gui picked up the milk tea bowl with a big smile, took a few sips of the cow, wiped his beard, and said: "What the Mongolians lack, what are the rarity, what do they like to buy, and what are the prices, I told Chang Gongzi that he can write and calculate, and turn around and let him play like in a play, and present a thoughtful book to Mrs. You." As for me, I'll tell my wife about the Mongols, their vision. ”

Zheng Haizhu found it interesting, if she wanted to learn her new vocabulary, the fastest one to learn was this thick and fine Man Gui.

"Good prospects, or worrying?" Zheng Haizhu handed a piece of dim sum to Man Gui, and Wen Yan asked.

"It's a big worry," Man Gui shook his head, "Didn't Madame specifically ask me to ask them more about believing in Lamaism?" In the past few days, I have naturally inquired in detail about this matter, and only then did I know that the Yellow Sect, which originally came from the Mongolian tribes and believed in Wu Sizang, several Great Khans stipulated that every family should have a son and become a monk. If it stops there, forget it, after all, there are other sons who will inherit the lineage. However, as a lama, there are people who provide food and drink, and there is no need to herd herds and endure hardships, do not have to bear forced labor, and do not have to fight and die, so more and more men from herdsmen's families have become lamas. In the long run, where else can Mongolia have any warriors? They are all chanting in the temple. ”

When Zheng Haizhu heard this, he did not hesitate to praise and said: "General Man knows what he knows. ”

Man Gui grinned: "This word means to praise us for being right, right?" ”

"Yes. What General Man said, in fact, said a reason, thinking that the predecessor of Wu Sizang, the Tibetan people, was so brave in the Tang and Song dynasties, but the exhaustion of the combat strength in the Ming area should be related to the fact that the people of Wu Sizang began to believe in the Yellow Religion. The teachings of this religion are mild and advocate asceticism, which is completely different from the shamanism practiced in the past. Altan Khan of Mongolia just wanted to borrow the reincarnation theory of the Yellow Sect to beautify his identity and achieve the goal of inheriting the throne, and he couldn't think so far. ”

Man Gui listened to the praise, his face became thicker, and he talked more and more eloquently: "Madam, let's figure out something more from what we have seen and heard." You said that Lin Dan Khan, why did you give up the Yellow Sect and push the Red Sect again? ”

Zheng Haizhu pretended to recall: "On the way, I heard He Zhuo say something, it seems that Lin Dan Khan started fighting when he was a teenager, he has a rough temperament, he doesn't like words, the Red Sect is not as difficult as the Yellow Sect, and there are many illusion tricks, which makes Lin Dan Khan find it even more interesting." ”

Man Gui pursed his lips: "Hey, that Hezhuo, in the end, is a girl who is not married, she doesn't have deep eyesight." ”

He immediately realized that Mrs. Zheng, who was staring at him with a pleasant face, was also unmarried, and she didn't plan to marry for the rest of her life.

Man Gui hurriedly put away the playful and contemptuous attitude of being underbeaten, scratched his head, and choked for a while.

Zheng Haizhu disagreed: "Briefly, don't talk about it." ”

Man Guicai continued: "Madam, that lama of the Red Sect, just like our Taoist priests in the Central Plains, can marry a daughter-in-law. It is said that it is because of their teachings that they advocate double cultivation, that is, men and women practice together. Since you can't help but marry a wife and have children, won't you reduce the number of dingkou? I also heard from the traders and men in the market that there are all kinds of tantric methods in double cultivation, and Lin Dan Khan will definitely like them. Since ancient times, there is no one who is not lustful. ”

In Mangui's heart, in fact, he neither regarded Zheng Haizhu as a person from the court, nor did he treat her as a woman, so he didn't keep the door open, but his tone was not obscene.

Zheng Haizhu fell into deep thought.

The teachings of Nyingma and Gelug are indeed different. However, the "double cultivation" mentioned by Man Gui is a tantric method, and it must not be simply regarded as a difference in sects. However, now in this time and space hundreds of years away from later generations, it is true that Man Gui's "research" should not be rejected based on respect for religious theories.

Lin Dan Khan's conversion to the Red Sect may not have been motivated by any enlightenment and conversion, but because he was worried that the Yellow Church would increasingly have a negative impact on his heroic aspirations, and that he was also more inclined to the Red Sect in terms of the king's personal interests.

I only heard Man Gui say again: "Madam, that's why I feel that Lin Danhan is doing this, it's not good." Don't say that the right-wing Mongolia, that is, the big tribe of the left-wing who obey the orders of Lin Dan Khan, has also believed in the Yellow Sect for decades, and suddenly forced them to change, so as not to provoke them? ”

Zheng Haizhu added goat's milk to the black tea bowl, and saw that the white liquid swirled out a complex pattern, and quickly melted with the brown color, and couldn't help but say with a little ridicule: "Yes, if I were Nurhachi, I would like Lin Dan Khan to do this, and I, if I take my sons to grab something from the Ming Kingdom, I must give some resources to build a temple and invite a god to the tribes of the Yellow Sect on the left and right wings of Mongolia, so as to win their favor, pry them, and work against Lin Dan Khan." ”

As he was talking, Ma Xianglin lifted the curtain and entered the tent.

Man Gui was surprised: "General Ma, weren't you dragged by that Angel to drink with a group of Taiji?" ”

Ma Xianglin felt reluctant to be assigned the task of public relations to the upper lord of Mongolia by Zheng Haizhu, but at this moment, he even sneered, and said coldly: "After drinking a few sips of wine, I saw them fighting." After asking the interpreter, I learned that there were a few people who believed in the Yellow Sect, and one who believed in the Red Sect was not disrespectful. It is said that one by one, Abba, are all leading the troops to fight, but the children do not care about the art of war, do not study the bow and arrow, for which Bodhisattva is right, their own people fight each other, which is ridiculous. ”

When Man Gui heard this, he looked at Zheng Haizhu with a look of "look at how accurate we say", and then smiled at Ma Xianglin: "Young Master Ma has drunk a few sips of good wine, Man Gui and I have been on a business trip for a day, and I also want to drink some wine to relieve my fatigue ......"

Ma Xianglin didn't react, and said angrily: "Su Tai didn't send mare's milk wine, you just went and got it." ”

Zheng Haizhu understood. Man Gui wanted to go to the wine and meat singing and dancing field in Wangcheng, but he had no money around him.

So she took out her coat, picked out a larger ingot, and handed it to Man Gui: "It's okay to be happy, but don't make trouble, don't be jealous with the Mongols." ”

Man Gui took it politely: "Don't worry, Madame, I'll go back when I go, I'll go back when I go, and I'll find out more news for Madame by the way." ”

Although Chahanhot is not as prosperous and beautiful as the Yuan capital of the year, in the end, it is also the royal city built by Lin Dan Khan with the financial resources of the entire Chahar, even in this bitter cold winter wax moon, the city is not dead and silent at night.

Whether it is a tent dome or a rammed earth terraced house, there are noisy voices accompanied by the sound of sheng songs.

Zheng Haizhu stood in front of the burning fire, overlooking the scene in the city for a while, and was about to go back to the tent to rest, when he suddenly saw someone walking slowly on the snow illuminated by a long row of torches.

Looking at the struggle, it turned out that he was still carrying one on his shoulder.

"Man Gui? But you? After Zheng Haizhu recognized some situations, he took a few steps and called.

"Isn't that the unlucky guy Lao Tzu?" Man Gui responded, and when he approached Zheng Haizhu, he suppressed his voice and added, "Miss Hezhuo's ancestral grave is smoking, if she hadn't met Lao Tzu, she would have frozen to death in the wilderness." ”