Road.

Zephyr.

Skinny horses.

A monk rode a horse and walked slowly on the official road.

Because of the new emperor of the Great Yuan, Mingzong's eldest son Tuhuan Timur was about to ascend the throne, which was a major event in the whole of East Asia.

From the Chagatai Khanate, the Golden Horde, the Ilkhanate, Annam, Burma, and even Luzon and Java, and then to the Goryeo State, it is necessary to send envoys to inform them, such as the Chagatai Khanate, the Golden Horde, Goryeo and other countries, and also to send envoys to congratulate and observe the ceremony.

After the death of Emperor Kublai Khan, although there were seven or eight emperors in more than 30 years, all of them were short-lived.

But the ceremonial sense of the emperor's accession to the throne has not diminished in the slightest.

Even, because several emperors were usurping the throne and seizing power, they looked at the "justification" of the enthronement more than the Han people, and the surrounding countries could use this to pay tribute, so the caravans on the official road were endless.

Chagatai merchants dressed in robes and riding camels, dressed in black robes, pulled their goods in horse-drawn carts and ox-carts. There was a caravan of the Ilkhanate of Kunlunnu beside him, leading camels and horses, shouting in three or five.

There were also tall, blonde, blue-eyed white Slavic serfs from the distant Golden Horde, pulling cattle and horses, carrying the Mongolian lord and the elders of the Jingjiao Cross Temple in the tent.

The Tubo monks and lamas from the Xuanzheng Yuan sit on the small top of the shoulder, with the three-flower Buddha flag hanging on their heads, and several strong Tubo Buddha slaves below carry the shoulders and walk in the middle of the avenue, the status of the Tubo monks in the Xuanzheng Yuan is very high, so the merchants of Chagatai and the merchants of the Ilkhanate and other places need to give way to the quasi-Tibetan monks.

Chen Sijiu and Peng Yingyu are no exception.

These lamas are the heads of the Buddha in the temples in Tibet, their status is respected, and they need to have the Buddha name and Buddha flag when they travel, even if they arrive in Shangdu, they still do not reduce the style of the time in Tibet.

Peng Yingyu stared at the monk lama, scratched her crotch and said, "I don't know why, seeing the monk and lama doing power, I feel uncomfortable." ”

Chen Sijiu shook his head and said: "The Buddha also has a good Buddha, Tibetan Tantra, which is different from my Middle Earth Buddhism, the Middle Earth Buddhism also talks about not holding money precepts, but you see that the monks and lamas in Dadu and Shangdu are all married and have children, keep slaves and raise prostitutes, how can there be the appearance of Buddhism." ”

Peng Yingyu pursed her lips and retorted: "I said master, aren't you Taoists the same?" I remember that Quanzhen Taoism used to be a fertile land. ”

Chen Sijiu shook his head again.

"I see the Buddha, the Buddha sees me, I hear the Tao, and the Tao hears me."

After speaking, he pulled the reins of the horse, rubbed the black dirt on his chest in the appearance of Peng Yingyu, looked ahead and said: "Our master said that when Tubo was in Tibet, the Qinghai-Tibet grassland was rich in water and grass, so Tubo was strong for a hundred years, and when the national fortune was at its peak, it fell into Chang'an three times, and the prairie was favored by natural luck, and the precipitation was abundant, and there were herds of cattle and sheep, so Genghis Khan ruled the world. ”

"But Hu Wudao, Han Bichang, throughout the ages, Hu Wu's luck for a hundred years, you don't want to be so decadent, let's teach you the knife technique, you are good to practice, wait for your body to be stronger, swing the knife 500 times a day, when the time comes, you will accept a lot of apprentices, monks and color people, you don't do any bad things done by the Mongols, and then accept more apprentices, and soon you will be able to argue with the injustice in this world."

Peng Yingyu pursed her lips and said, "It's the same." ”

He glanced at Chen Sijiu's arm and asked, "Master, how is your arm, if your arm is good, quickly teach me how to hold the knife, and when I can handle the thirty-five catties of Mo knife as heavy as you, master, and then there are monks and people with colored eyes bullying me, I will ask him to try the knife in his hand!" ”

Chen Sijiu touched his arm, and the wound on his arm gradually healed.

"Don't worry, our arm will be good one day."

Before I knew it, I was walking on the grassland for another day.

In fact, from here to Shangdu Kaiping, if you ride a few horses to change and go fast, you can reach it in two days, but the difficulty is that many of the Haizi and Naoer along the way are the Aral Sea, and there is a shortage of water.

People can hold on without water, but livestock and horses will run to death if they don't drink water.

Chen Sijiu rode on a horse, still by the crotch of the horse while walking and grazing, according to the master master, this time of the Dayuan belongs to one of the most abundant periods of water and grass, although the precipitation is not as good as the era of Genghis Khan, but if you look at history, the grassland precipitation at this time is extremely rare before and after a hundred years.

Although it also brought floods, and too many aquatic weeds led to the overflow of yellow rats and green rats, plague was rampant, but at this time, the Mobei Prairie was indeed full of cattle and sheep, and the people were thriving.

On the grassland not far away, there are Dayuan's post station households grazing cattle and sheep, they are all from the Dayuan Emperor's Tanma Red Army, responsible for the safety of the encirclement of the official road.

A horse on the horse, the Red Army galloped on horseback, he was a typical Mongolian stationer, wearing a dark and shiny leather robe, a hat, a trolling and leather boots on the lower body, looking at the belt around his waist, he seemed to be a high-ranking postman.

Sigh~

Most of the Mongolian Tanma Red Army are skillful in riding horses, galloping horses, but they can be pulled and stopped by pulling the reins in two steps, and then the Mongolian Yicheng squinted his eyes and swept Chen Sijiu and Peng Yingyu, and was surprised how a Taoist priest and a monk were mixed together.

"You two Hans, come with me!"

As soon as he came over, he gave orders directly, pointed ahead with the whip in his hand and said, "There is a big man's carriage stuck in a mud puddle and can't move, you go over and help push the cart!" ”

Peng Yingyu learned the knife technique from Chen Sijiu yesterday, and today she was a little swollen, and she was about to refute, but Chen Sijiu smiled and asked: "Master Yicheng, dare to ask where the post station is ahead, if we help push the cart, can we give some wine and food?" ”

"Humph!" Mongolian Yicheng snorted coldly and said in a low voice: "Do you have any money?" ”

Chen Sijiu took out the usual copper coin from his arms and stuffed it into the hands of the Mongolian Yicheng.

Seeing the silver money, who doesn't like it, this Mongolian post man immediately changed his face, full of smiles, Dayuan's post station is very difficult, all over the country station horses, cattle and sheep, as well as supplies to and from the officials to and fro food, all need to be operated by the post station, many officials are greedy, the station horse is better, and they ride away directly.

The post man is humble and does not dare to ask for it.

But the lost post station horse needs to be replenished by the post man himself.

It's good to raise horses in this desert grassland, in the Central Plains, Henan, Hebei and other places, the post station has a fixed amount of horses, many Mongolian and Semu officials, and even the Tubo monks of the Xuanzheng Yuan, deliberately greedy for ink post horses when passing by, and use them to ride for the entourage, called "drifting".

In Kublai Khan's later years, the Tanma Red Army in the post stations of the Central Plains basically all became poor, and many of them were still their own Mongolian tribes, and they became poor peasants, and finally committed to the Han landlords as a driving force.

And the post station has to manage the food and lodging of officials, especially the diet, mutton is a standing stock, and the daily need for meat supply, even if it is a post station post in Shangdu, at this time it is not as good as a dog, not to mention the debt owed to the Lama Temple, and it is also owed a debt to the color eye, all of which are posted to the state.

The Jiaozi treasure banknotes issued by the imperial court, at this time basically belong to waste paper, can be used, but can not be used, Dayuan expressly forbade the use of gold and silver as currency, but the people have long been ignorant, all only recognize copper and silver money, and do not accept treasure money.

At this time, if there is a person of insight, you can see that the economy of the Great Yuan country has collapsed, if there is no Holy Lord, only a locust plague or flood, there is no need for the southern part of the Great Yuan to rebel, the northern part of the Great Yuan, the Mobei Mongolian headquarters of these Tanma Red Army stations, as well as the princes and nobles of the Ministry of the herdsmen, will be unveiled.

If it weren't for the fact that Emperor Dayuan was in charge of the summer capital and winter capital, and he was tightly controlled along the way, these post station households would have turned into robbers.

This Mongolian post man took the money, counted dozens of pieces, couldn't help but smile, and saw that Chen Sijiu's waist seemed to be bulging with a lot of silver, squinted and pondered, but gave up the dirtiness in his heart, and said, "You come with me!" ”

"Let's help the Han official Jia Lu first, and lift his carriage up."