The Khan looked at Zhu Gui, the acting king, who had only brought a few personal guards, and a look of surprise and confusion appeared on his face.

"The acting king found Ben Khan this time, but the holy decree of the Ming court has already come down?"

Several other Mongol leaders in the account also looked at it, but their expressions were different, and it seemed that they also had different opinions on the decision to cease war with the Ming people.

Zhu Gui said: "The holy decree has not yet arrived, but there are some other things, and this king wants to negotiate with the Khan of Yihao." ”

"Before Ming Ting's attitude is unclear, what else do we have to talk about?" The Khan said with a frown.

"Of course it's a matter of trade, and you don't have much food, right?" Zhu Gui said lightly.

"What do you mean by that?" The Khan immediately tensed.

"It's not interesting, I just want to buy some of your cattle and sheep." Zhu Gui took out a stack of silver tickets and said.

His action immediately made the Mongols in the tent laugh.

Especially the Khan, but he was more annoyed.

"Acting King, what we lack is food, but you want to use these silver tickets to buy our cattle and sheep, don't you think it's a bit funny?"

Zhu Gui glanced at Xu Miaoqing next to him, who had already made preparations, and immediately said, "Yi Ji Khan, you don't understand this, right?" In the future, if you want to do business with our Han people, you will need to use silver tickets, and the Mongol habit of bartering will not work on the Han side. ”

Xu Miaoqing noticed that the Khan was about to interject, and immediately raised his hand to stop the other party: "I haven't finished speaking, as far as I know, the Mongols don't have the habit of treating cattle and sheep as food, right?" That's why a large number of cattle and sheep freeze to death in winter, and we came here to solve this problem. ”

"The grain team of the Datong Chamber of Commerce is already on the way, and it can be reached in a few days, and then you don't have to drive a large number of cattle and sheep, you only need to use silver tickets to trade, isn't it more time-saving and safe?"

Xu Miaoqing's words stunned the Khan for a moment.

He glanced at the other Mongol tribal leaders in the tent and saw that most of them also looked confused.

"That's true, but how do we know it's not a trap? What if you don't accept these bills by then? ”

A Mongolian tribal leader stood up and said.

"You can rest assured that the reputation of the acting king has already spread in the grassland outside Datong Mansion, you can send someone over there to inquire and find out."

"Also, the acting king has already thought of the worst-case scenario, that is, the imperial court does not agree to this trade agreement, and when the time comes, you can also consider moving outside the Datong Mansion, and we can continue to maintain trade relations."

Xu Miaoqing finished speaking, and then turned around and winked at Zhu Gui proudly.

Zhu Gui smiled, nodded at her, and then said unhurriedly: "What does the Khan want?" This king can give you three days to think about it, and in three days, the Mongolian elite can go back and forth to the Datongfu grassland, right? ”

"Okay, since that's all the talk, let's talk about it in three days."

The Khan said helplessly.

……

Zhu Gui and Xu Miaoqing returned to the city, and they were immediately blocked by Xu Yingxu, who was waiting at the gate, and there were a thousand cavalry ready to attack behind him.

"How can you go to the Mongol camp without permission? It's too dangerous. Xu Yingxu said solemnly.

"Brother, let's talk about trade, the Mongols are also suffering from food shortages, we are their saviors, they won't do anything to us." Xu Miaoqing said with a smile.

"Even so, it's too dangerous to do so, you must discuss with me before making a decision in the future, at least I can bring someone to escort you back and forth safely, lord?"

Xu Yingxu looked at Zhu Gui with a pleading gaze.

"General Xu, this king knows, don't take it as an example."

"By the way, how about sending teams to buy food from other counties and cities?"

Zhu Gui remembered something and asked Xu Yingxu.

"There is not much food in the recent counties and cities, and the team that went to 300 miles away has not returned, but it is estimated that the situation is similar, and this war has lasted too long."

Xu Yingxu said helplessly.

Zhu Gui nodded, war has always been a matter of labor and money, even in the period of the strong Han, the war with the Huns dragged down the national strength.

Therefore, what Zhu Gui needs to do now is not only to use trade to settle small disputes, but also to greatly shorten the time of the war, and even turn the war into business.

It's just that his stage is too small to fully realize this idea at the moment.

……

The victims in the city have less and less food to distribute every day, from the first white rice and steamed buns to the current gruel, which makes many people complain.

It's just that about one-third of the young and middle-aged people who are able to work have been recruited as people's husbands, and their situation is better than that of the disaster victims who are only left with the elderly, weak, women and children, so even if someone wants to make trouble, they do not have enough strength.

But after three days of this kind of thing, someone finally came forward.

He held the banner of 'Princely General Xiangning has a kind of', and directly led the victims to rob several large households in the city.

Unexpectedly, there was a lot of food in this big family, which made the victims even more excited, and some people even felt that the acting king, who had been helping them, was uneasy and kind.

As a result, the situation of the people in the city who were disturbing became more and more intense.

In just half a day, more than a dozen gentry's houses were breached by the victims, and food and property were looted.

Suwangfu even dispatched border guards, but the situation did not improve, but instead provoked a larger-scale popular uprising.

And due to the large number of victims, it seems that the entire city of Ganzhou is about to be shaken.

As a last resort, Su Wang Zhu had no choice but to personally bring people to the military camp to find Zhu Gui, who was drawing a map.

"Acting king, the city has been turned upside down by those untouchables, and now only the cavalry in your hands can control the situation, you must help this king."

If these victims were driven out of Ganzhou City, even if Zhu Ao could keep the position of vassal king, his face would be lost.

Zhu Gui said: "Brother Wang, don't panic, you stay in the barracks, this matter has already been heard by the king, but now that the disaster is on fire, sending troops at this time can only cause greater contradictions, it is better to wait for them to calm down, and then catch the troublemakers." ”

"Wait for them to calm down? When will that be? Zhu Ao was anxious.

"Naturally, until all the big families in the city have been robbed, these people are full of their own pockets, regardless of the danger of the country, and they are no different from moths, and someone should punish them."