That night, Long Jiao ordered the caravan to rest at this small station.

This place is not far from Duolun Haizi, so there is water, Long Jiao ordered the slave girl to fetch water and boil water, prepare to take a bath, and have a good time with Chen Sijiu.

Unexpectedly, it snowed heavily that night, and it was a snowstorm.

Storm together, between heaven and earth suddenly a vast, the prairie is now very extreme, heavy snowfall in May and June is very rare, but in the past two years but it has snowed repeatedly, this is a vague sign of the death of the country, the nobles all live in tents, set up stoves, burn firewood and cow dung for warmth, and the caravan of slaves, all curled up in the cattle and sheep pen, curled up into a ball holding cattle and sheep forage to sleep, otherwise they will freeze to death.

Long Jiao's big tent is very spacious, there is a huge wooden barrel inside, the water is warm, her green and white jade tender hand on the wooden barrel, splashing water, pretty eyes look forward to it, sword eyebrows hooked, asked: "Little Hannu, what are you sitting for?" ”

Chen Sijiu sat on her bed and meditated, looking at the silk and satin around her, cherishing the fur, and couldn't help but think of the Han slaves outside.

"Sure enough, what the second master said is right, the status is low, and you can't have the heart of the Virgin."

"Humble and light, no matter what I do at this time, I can't change the fate of those Han people who drove slaves, maybe for them, death is a better relief, hey......"

Outside the tent, the white-haired snow was blowing wildly, like a fierce ghost howling.

In the tent, there are many white foods in piles, as well as cakes and vegetables in the south, at this time the northern grassland is extremely short of vegetables, but Long Jiao can eat spinach and water chestnut, soybean vegetables, as well as vegetables such as Sarilang (wild garlic) and Hailar (shallot and wild leek), white rice, pure yellow corn, millet with a light red skin, green barley, and fried corn and wheat.

Even, there are the imperial food of the Great Yuan court, such as the mutton of Mobei, the hash mud of Central Asia, the pepper of Tianzhu, the long pepper mixed with salt from the Central Plains, the chopped coriander, and the pie cake fried in hot oil, which is a hundred times more precious than the oil fragrance fried in white flour.

However, the expulsion slaves outside the tent, not to mention the millet, even the alfalfa grass eaten by cattle and horses, had to rush to eat, otherwise they would starve to death.

Those who are strong and strong can pick up some wild barnyard grass seeds on the side of the road to eat, or pick up fresh mushrooms, shallots, wild garlic, etc. on the grassland.

"We have to be ruthless in fighting the country, and we have to be even more ruthless in sitting in the country, we really can't have the heart of the Virgin."

Chen Sijiu gritted his teeth and secretly said in his heart, he can only work hard to climb up now, and he will have the opportunity to save more Han people in the future.

At this time, Dayuan, according to the master master, belongs to the Xiaoice River period, summer drought and flooding are more likely to occur, winter is extremely cold, and what May and June white hairy snow, July and August snow also often appear in the north of Dayuan, drought and waterlogging locust plague plague rampant, in Taoist terms, this is because the country will die, there will be demons.

Outside the tent must have been cold to the bone.

Inside the tent, Long Jiao thought that the stove was too hot.

Seeing that Chen Sijiu didn't answer, Long Jiao picked up the gourd scoop, scooped up a gourd of water and splashed it on Chen Sijiu, pouring it directly on his face.

"You!"

Chen Sijiu opened his eyes and saw that Long Jiao was lustful and evil, and with a sense of arrogance that looked down on the world, he couldn't help but feel a fire in his heart, gritted his teeth and said, "Do you want to test whether my sword is sharp!?" ”

Long Jiao snorted coldly, and said, "Little Hannu, do you have the guts!?" ”

Chen Sijiu gritted his back molars, his cheek masseter muscles bulged and took Long Jiao out of the bucket, regardless of the water stains on her body, he directly pulled out the sword from the sheath, and made a harmony with her, made a sheath with his body, and pulled out the sword.

For a long time.

Long Jiao lay on Chen Sijiu's body softly, looked at his handsome face, picked up a cup of camel milk with a golden cup, and handed it to Chen Sijiu.

"Can you give some food and cover to the Han people outside the tent?"

Chen Sijiu asked.

Long Jiao's beautiful eyes flickered, and said: "You don't need to say that we will be like this, we can do work and graze, if we die, we also need silver money, I saw earlier that you are very concerned about the little monk Peng Yingyu, so I ordered someone to give those Han slaves mare's milk wine and bean feed for the horses, and also allowed them to cover sheepskins for warmth, and our caravan brought thousands of sheepskins, all of which were sold in most of them, enough for each of them to have one." ”

Chen Sijiu was moved in his heart, stretched out his hand to take Long Jiao in his arms, and said softly: "Thank you, I have one more thing to ask you, is there any way to gain the trust of the Great Emperor?" ”

Long Jiao no longer had the domineering appearance she had before, she was as docile as a little sheep at the moment, she wrapped her hair around Chen Sijiu's nose, and wondered: "Become the emperor's favorite?" ”

"Just like the one who was favored by Emperor Kublai Khan returned to Ahma? This is not simple, as long as you can collect enough taxes for the Great Emperor, let him have enough gold and silver pleasures, and have many beauties to please him, then you can gain the trust of the Great Emperor. ”

"However, you are a Han Chinese, and you are still a southern man, which is very difficult."

"The Daru Huachi (the town keeper and the seal officer) of the provinces of the Great Yuan must be Mongols."

Chen Sijiu grinned and sneered: "Dayuan's country is not stable, haven't you noticed it?" ”

Long Jiao sighed: "I naturally found out. ”

She pulled out a stack of money.

"There is a proverb among the Han people in Shanxi, which I heard on the way to Shangdu, talking about this treasure banknote, a car of charcoal, more than 1,000 catties, the palace envoy will not regret it, half a yuan bill to the old man, tied to the twist of the head to fill the charcoal straight."

"When Emperor Kublai Khan was the Emperor, the treasure money of the Great Yuan was still very valuable, and now a cart of treasure money has no effect on the people, and can only be used as coal."

She took out a few more copper coins.

"Look at this copper coin, this is the Great Dynasty Tongbao, it was issued by Hanchen, at that time, Dayuan only laid down the gold, received millions of silver ingots in the treasury of the Dajin State, so this money is minted with silver, to the Kublai Khan Emperor to conquer the four khanates, consumed countless military expenses, the silver ingots ran out, and then came out of the Great Chase Treasure, the Great Ingots, all of them are copper coins, the Great Chase Treasure contains more copper, to the Great Ingots, most of them are lead, it can be seen that the Great Yuan's account treasury does not have much gold and silver to use."

Chen Sijiu was surprised: "You actually know the knowledge of economics? Our master said that this is because the currency has depreciated a lot and is worthless, which will lead to inflation and soaring prices. ”

The corners of Long Jiao's mouth hooked, and she bit Chen Sijiu's arm again, raised her head and stared at him, and said: "That's natural, the reason why I can be the leader of our clan as a woman, except that I am the only direct bloodline of the Ogedai Khanate in the river, is because I am very good at business, our family has hundreds of camel caravans in the river, and the farthest caravan has to go to the green clothes and food." ”

"Green food? Isn't that Egypt? ”

"Egypt? I don't know, our Great Yuan calls the ruler of the green clothes and food Mixier. ”

"There are many people who come to Dayuan by land from the very far western countries, when I was very young, I saw a man named Marco Polo who returned with green eyes, who believed in the Jingjiao Cross Temple, he walked more than 100,000 miles, came to Shangdu, and also served as an official in Shangdu, and now, he may have taken a boat from Quanzhou and returned to the Western countries through the old port."

Chen Sijiu grinned and said, yes, the upper-class nobles of Dayuan are definitely knowledgeable.

Although the lineage of Emperor Kublai Khan of the Great Yuan had a feud in the war for the throne after the death of Möngke Khan, the commercial exchanges between them were very prosperous, and several khanates around them were also very powerful, and they often fought abroad, and the Ilkhanate even wrote letters to the king of Egypt to ally with them against the Celestial Sultan on the peninsula.

And when the Great Emperor Kublai Khan was still there, he fought Burma, Java, Japan, and Annam to deter East Asia.

The Mongol Khanate in the west was also very powerful, drinking on the Madanube, and the western countries called the Mongols the whip of God.

Although it is said that the defeat of Burma and Java Annam and other countries, the defeat has attracted the ridicule of the surrounding small countries, but the martial arts of the Great Yuan are very strong, and when the Yuan Wuzong was in power, he also attacked the "Eight Hundred Daughters-in-law" country of Siam (Thailand) and ordered them to pay tribute to the elephants to pull the chariot for the emperor.

Territorial exchanges and business travels also brought a large number of fresh crops.

For example, cotton is cultivated in large quantities in Dayuan, as well as various vegetables in the West, and most importantly, carrots, which were only grown in the Yellow River basin by the Han people in the past, and now they are also cultivated in large quantities in the Yangtze River basin.

When Dayuan destroyed Jin and destroyed Dali in Western Xia, he killed a lot, causing the north to be almost destroyed, and a large number of farmland was barren and uncultivated.

In the later period of Kublai Khan, he attached great importance to the population, because Mongolia was slavery, the Han people drove too few slaves, no one farmed and graze, he listened to the opinions of the Han Chen, lightly dismissed the meager endowment, and encouraged agriculture, and later several Mongolian emperors, although they were busy with alcoholism, abuse of school, and power struggle, but they still attached great importance to the obedient and hard-working Han farming, and for this reason, he also vigorously promoted the "Agricultural and Mulberry Compendium" written by Wang Zhen of Hanchen, and guided the Han landowners to plant cotton and mulberry hemp and grain.

"What do you say this new emperor of Dayuan will like?"

Chen Sijiu asked.

Long Jiao sneered: "What else can you like?" If he was a Mongol, he would have worked hard like Emperor Kublai Khan in the early stage, drank heavily, killed innocents indiscriminately, was arrogant and arrogant in his later years, and was finally poisoned by the prime ministers on the left and right......"

Chen Sijiu's eyes flashed.

Yes, I have been caught in a misunderstanding before.

Although the second master told himself many times that the new emperor Iron Pot who was about to ascend the throne of Dayuan was an emperor who was very sinicized and had the appearance of a martyr, but now he is only a thirteen-year-old and a half-year-old, and he has been bound by shackles for a long time and locked up in the temple.

Long Jiao sighed: "What's more, Tuhuan Timur is not necessarily the heir of the Dayuan Golden Family, even if he ascends the throne, he can only be a puppet emperor, and the emperor can control it." ”

Chen Sijiu was puzzled: "He is not the heir of the Golden Family?" Isn't he the eldest son of Yuan Mingzong? ”

Long Jiao shook her head and said, "It has always been rumored that he is the last emperor of your southern Han people, that is, Emperor Song Gong, the son of Zhao Xian, the Duke of Yingguo of the Great Yuan. ”

Chen Sijiu was stunned for a moment, this is the first time I have heard of it.

He hurriedly asked.

It turned out that the four-year-old Emperor Song Gong was promoted as the emperor by the traitor Jia Nidao, and the Empress Dowager Xie held power alone, and finally the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty Lin'an was breached, and Kublai Khan captured the Empress Dowager Xie and Emperor Song Gong Zhao Xian to the capital Beiping, and named Zhao Xian as the Duke of Yingguo.

Kublai Khan was very good to the two of them, and he could still support nine catties of mutton every day, and the food and clothing treatment were good, compared with many kings of the dead country, he was already benevolent and righteous.

Relying on these two gold-lettered signboards, the Southern Song Dynasty hardly did much resistance, and many of the Southern Song Dynasty forbidden troops surrendered and were organized as new annexed armies, also known as the Jiangnan Army.

After Zhao Xian became an adult, because of the continuous uprisings of the Great Song Dynasty in various places, Zhao Xian begged Kublai Khan to let him become a monk, and also took the initiative to go to the Great Yuan Xuanzheng Yuan, that is, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and worshiped a Buddha master as a master to study Buddhism.

As a result, on Zhao Xian's way to Qinghai-Tibet, this woman was favored by the then King of Zhou, that is, the later Emperor Yuan Mingzong and Shi Ling, and plundered the Hanlu Lu clan as a wife, and Tuhuan Timur, the eldest son of the Yuan Mingzong Emperor, happened to be born to the Hanlu Lu clan.

So, at that time, there was a legend that Tuhuan Timur was the son of Emperor Zhao Xian of Song Gong, because Hanlu Lu was pregnant at that time.

Emperor Wenzong of Yuan and Emperor Mingzong of Yuan, are brothers, Dayuan has the tradition of brother and brother, originally after the death of Emperor Yuanmingzong, according to the unification and customs, the position of the emperor should be passed to the eldest son of Yuan Mingzong and Shiling, Tuhuan Timur.

Yuan Wenzong retorted, saying that Tuhuan Timur was of the Han species, firstly, he liked poetry, literature and painting, not like the Mongols, and secondly, his biological mother Hanlu Lu was born as the wife of Emperor Zhao Xian of Song Gong, not Mongolian.

Even the nurse of Tuhuan Timur came out to testify.

This caused a lot of trouble.

And the reason why Yan Timur and Boyan supported Tuhuan Timur was also because his identity was unclear, he had no legal rationality, and he relied on the two powerful ministers for many things, and he could use birth as an excuse to kill the iron pot emperor at any time.

Chen Sijiu said in his heart, no, no, this iron pot, maybe it's not really the seed of the Dayuan Golden Family.

Because there have always been rumors among the people, when the Northern Song Dynasty Emperor Zhao Kuangyin gave the Southern Tang Emperor Li Yu to death, the poetry and painting emperor Li Yu was reincarnated as Zhao Ji, the Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, and died in the Northern Song Dynasty.

If we look at it according to the theory of causal cycle and retribution.

More than 100,000 people of the Yashan Song Emperor of the Great Yuan Dynasty threw themselves into the sea and died, and this iron pot that was about to ascend the throne, if it was really the reincarnation of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Ji, was indeed somewhat convincing in some aspects.

Chen Sijiu asked again: "Then what do they like the most about the two prime ministers of Dayuan, Yan Timur and Boyan?" ”

Long Jiao said with a smile: "Yan Timur, he likes women the most, he has forty or fifty wives and concubines in his mansion, and he also likes the wives of sleeping courtiers, he not only practices Tantric Dahuan Technique, but also likes your Taoist elixir, and he likes to drink and money." ”

"As for Boyan, this person is very disgusted with the Han people, he has mentioned more than once that the Han people's Zhang Wang, Li and Zhao have too many people, especially in the north, the big landlords and large households are mostly these four Han people, and they want to kill all the Han people with these four surnames, take back the land and plant grass to feed horses and cattle, this person is difficult for you to approach, he doesn't like Taoism, likes Lamaism and Jingjiao, they used to believe in Jingjiao cross temple, so they are close to Jingjiao elders."

Chen Sijiu's eyes flickered when he heard this.

"We, the new concubines of the Great Emperor, are afraid that they will fall into the hands of Yan Timur, so he slept with the Great Empress of Emperor Wenzong......"

Long Jiao thought of this, and suddenly clapped her hands.

From the curtain outside the big tent, four stunning women walked in, ringed fat and thin, each with their own characteristics, one of them was Ning Xiang'er, who stopped him when he assassinated Hama that day.

There was another person, it turned out to be Cheng Yining.

Chen Sijiu hurriedly pulled the futon, covered his body, and wondered, "What are you going to do?" ”

Long Jiao sneered, pinched Chen Sijiu's waist and abdomen and said, "Do you think I don't know, you stared at that Han girl before, called Cheng Yining, and your eyes can't leave, yes or no?" ”

Chen Sijiu was puzzled: "So what? ”

Long Jiao clapped her hands again, and the four girls took off their robes and clothes respectively, and pretended to be ugly at the end of Danjing, which was the bewitching female ghost who hooked up with the scholars in the famous song "A Chinese Girl Leaving the Soul" by Zheng Guangzu, a master of Yuanqu, instantly enchanting and charming, beautiful and indescribable, and the ghost could not be spoken.

These four women are all virgins, and Ning Xianger and Cheng Yining are all stunning, and the other two girls are not inferior to Ning Xianger and Cheng Yining, they are all beautiful Han women, wearing thin shirts and costumes,

Chen Sijiu swallowed his saliva and moved his eyes away from them with difficulty: "What do you want to do?" This Ning Xiang'er, isn't it the White Lotus Sect dedicated to the new emperor of the Great Yuan? ”

Long Jiao sneered: "For the emperor of Dayuan, only the empress is his own, and the other concubines are like playthings, which can be rewarded to courtiers and generals at any time, besides, they are all Han women, and the first red power of Han women is the great lama of Tantra, and at the time of the wedding, such a stunning woman will be selected as the lotus girl, and the grand mage will first break the red, and then practice with the emperor of Dayuan." ”

After speaking, she suddenly looked at Chen Sijiu and hooked Chen Sijiu's chin with her hand.

"Today, you will pretend to be the scholar Ning Caichen in "A Chinese Girl's Soul", and I will pretend to be the sucking female ghost, see how capable you are!"

After saying that, he beckoned, and the beauties hesitated closer.

Chen Sijiu said: "Don't! ”

But I was thinking in my heart, master, master, second master, third master, although you have repeatedly warned me not to indulge in the love of children and daughters, and not to be troubled by beauty, but the apprentice can't do it, wow, which apprentice can withstand this kind of test!?

"Don't be like this, I'm just an innocent little scholar!"

……

This day is the whole night.

Chen Sijiu woke up slowly, looked at himself in the bronze mirror, and then looked at Zhongmei sleeping on the bed tent, and couldn't help but say bitterly: "I was hurt by the wine, and I was so haggard......"

"From this day on, quit drinking!"

He dressed neatly, sneaked out of the big tent, it was already noon at this time, but the climate was still cold, the camp curtains of the Mongolian nobles of the Yuan people, the Han slaves leaned on the cattle and sheep pen, curled up in a ball, the stench was smoky, yesterday the snow froze to death several Han people drove the mouth, even the old horses froze to death a few, stiff but not falling, at this moment the vulture is in front of the camp tent cattle and sheep pen to compete for the dead horse and the corpse of the dead, the broken meat and intestines are all over the place, so a desolate scene.

This is still the result of Long Jiao's distribution of the sheepskins in the caravan to the Han people to drive slaves yesterday, if you don't do this, I'm afraid that more will freeze to death.

Chen Sijiu suddenly looked sad and slapped himself hard.

This kind of extreme weather in Dayuan is becoming more and more frequent now, which is a sign of great disasters and famines, and the destruction of the country.

He walked among the Han slaves, and saw the slightly chubby woman who had been told before, although she was wearing sheepskin, she was still shivering from the cold, and looked at Chen Sijiu in horror.

Long Jiao is relatively good to Han slaves, this desert grassland is so extreme weather, I don't know how other Han people survive......

He took a deep breath and came to the small tent where Peng Yingyu lived, this small tent was built on the axle covered with cowhide, which was better than the cattle and sheep pen, but there were not many good ones, when Chen Sijiu arrived, he happened to see Peng Yingyu and another little monk, one left and one right, holding a mastiff in his arms, and the two were chatting while using the mastiff to keep warm.

Seeing Chen Sijiu, Peng Yingyu shouted in surprise: "Master, are you here!?" ”

Another little monk also shouted at Chen Sijiu: "Master, are you here!?" ”

Chen Sijiu looked at the other little monk suspiciously, and scolded speechlessly: "Little bald donkey, we are not your master, how can you scream?" ”

The little monk grinned and said, "We believe in the Buddha, Brother Peng also believes in the Buddha, isn't Brother Peng's master our master?" ”

Chen Sijiu was stunned.

"You little monk, there are some crooked and heretical principles."

"That is, let's go all over the world, rely on a mouth to eat, in addition to the big bird, it is sweet mouth, our second master said, the mouth is sweet and eats all directions, the bird is stable, and everything will be said in the future."

Chen Sijiu stumbled, stared at the little monk with wide eyes, and hurriedly asked, "Who is your second master, is it a lame old and astringent bull-nosed Taoist priest!?" ”

The little monk scratched his head, his eyebrows were clear, his thick eyebrows were big, his cheeks were broad, his eyes were extremely clever, and he grinned and said: "Yes, we have three masters, the master is good at martial arts, the second master is good at writing, I know five hundred years before, and five hundred years after that, as for the third master, I heard that she is weak and sickly, we haven't seen it." ”

"This time, we went all the way north along the way, just to go to Liaoyang Sanxian Cave to see the three masters, but I heard that the emperor of Dayuan is going to ascend the throne, let's prepare to come and take a look, we have seen the little emperor, thin and small, the bird is not bigger than us, we don't understand, how can he be an emperor as a Mongolian, can't we?"

Chen Sijiu's body trembled again, grabbed the little monk's shoulders, stared at it with wide eyes, and asked, "What's your name!?" ”

The little monk clasped his hands together, said a Buddha name, and said with a smile: "Little monk Zhu Chongba." ”