In a tent in Shangdu.

Han Shantong carried a lot of money and went to meet the Mongolian royal nobles and ministers of Dayuan, while Liu Futong, Mr. Guan, Wang Shicheng and other generals were looking for the members of the White Lotus Sect here according to their prior calculations.

This place is a gathering place for Han Chinese in Shangdu.

Emperor Zhao Xian of the Song Dynasty lived here, and the Empress Dowager Xie of the last Southern Song Dynasty, so there are not only wooden houses in the Jiangnan style, but also some Jiangnan special snacks, Liu Futong and Mr. Guan and others are eating yusheng.

It's also about time.

Dayuan northern grassland, Mobei everywhere, originally most of the desert before, but after the great seizure of the world, rain year after year, floods continued, at this time in the Mongolian Mobei grassland, there are Haizi in many places, there are fish everywhere, and Genghis Khan's order of the big Zaza, not allowed to bathe in the river and the sea, wash clothes, throw dirty things, pee, etc., so the Mobei grassland fish at this time is very fat.

And because there is a lot of water and fish in the Duolun Haizi next to it, it is even more common to eat fish than beef and mutton.

Liu Futong had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his face was majestic, he picked up a piece of yusheng with chopsticks, and after glancing at each other left and right, he asked: "The sect leader ordered us to look for the royal blood of the Southern Song Dynasty, can it be effective?" ”

This time, Han Shantong came to Kaiping, the capital, not just to bribe the Mongolian princes and magnates.

He came this time to look for the descendants of the Southern Song Dynasty royal family in Shangdu, and it was best to find a young son, or a young child, who was brought to be cultivated in the church since childhood.

Since ancient times, whenever there is a big event, it has been justified.

That's why it's very important.

Mr. Guan's eyes flickered, and he shook his head and said: "It's not easy to talk about at this time, the Mongols are very shrewd, they named Emperor Song Gong as the Duke of Yingguo, they kept his residence secret and strictly guarded him, I heard that he went to Tibet to practice Buddhism, and there are Han Buddhist scriptures flowing out, it is said that he personally translated, but he has been sitting for ten years." ”

Liu Futong snorted coldly, rolled his eyes, and said, "I think most of this matter has to be found in Hama's Tartar." ”

"Oh? What does this mean? ”

Liu Futong squinted and said: "Hama is the housekeeper of the Great Yuan Emperor, he has always been in charge of the goods and caravans for the Great Yuan Emperor, and he knows a lot of inside information. ”

Mr. Guan hesitated: "Wise people and fools often show weakness, although Hama seems to be greedy for money and reckless, but in fact he is a meticulous beard, you should not take it lightly." ”

Liu Futong sneered: "Don't worry, I have my own measure, after all, there is Ning Xiang'er to do the internal ......"

Thinking of Ning Xiang'er, they settled down a little.

……

Upper Capital Castle.

The palace tent is mostly surrounded by wooden fences, and there are only a few halls of real brick and stone buildings, which appear rough and heroic, especially the main hall of the main hall, the shape of this hall is like a tent, the blue bricks and green tiles, the precious gold bricks, the expensive glaze, the corner of the eaves corridor is domineering.

The main body of the building is mainly in the Tang and Song dynasties and Liaojin styles.

This is mainly by the descendants of the Liao royal family, deeply influenced by the sinicization of Yelu Chucai, when Genghis Khan recruited Yelu Chucai, Wokotai will Yelu Chucai as the prime minister, that is, the Taishi, Yelu Chucai suggested that their palace retain the Liaojin system, and the old Liaojin system basically inherited the Tang style, so the building is very atmospheric.

Outside the royal city, there is another style, next to the nearest is a Tianfang Temple, which is built by Ahma, who is the most trusted by Kublai Khan after Yelu Chucai, and next to it, Kublai Khan in order to contain Ahma, the seat of the Dharma King Ba Sipa, the White Pagoda Temple.

A little further on, it is a Taoist temple.

This place was built by Zhao Zhijing, a disciple of the Quanzhen Dao Living Immortal Hill, but it has been dilapidated recently.

Beside it, there are tents for all kinds of weapons, goods, and baggage in the royal city, huge tents, or wooden fences, in which piles of weapons, food, and treasures are placed, and these treasures come from all over the world.

Bands of samurai patrolled the royal castle with thick shoulders and round waists, wearing heavy armor and armed with swords, axes and blades.

In the main hall, the most powerful man in Dayuan today, the Great Prime Minister Yan Timur, sat in the nearest position on the left side of the throne in a grand manner, and looked proudly at the ministers of Dayuan below.

And the thirteen-year-old boy on the throne didn't say a word.

Yan Timur did not have many beards, his face was red and bearded, his cheekbones were high, he was tall and burly, his body was strong, he was wearing a gorgeous official uniform, and he wore a hat wrapped in a yellow veil, showing his good status, at this moment his eyes flashed, and he was listening to the envoys who came to worship below.

He is not only greedy for money, but also very lustful, is now the most powerful prime minister of Dayuan, Taishi, after the death of Yuan Renzong, Mingzong, Emperor Taiding, and Wenzong, not only recruited the emperor's concubines, but also directly included the queen of Emperor Taiding into the harem, and there were dozens of stunning beauties in the big tent, and there were many emperor's concubines.

And the young son of heaven Tuhuan Timur, that is, the young son of heaven with the Chinese name "iron pot", pursed his mouth gently.

He has fair skin, a handsome face, and his figure is not like an ordinary Mongolian, but he looks a little literate, because his mother used to be the wife of Emperor Zhao Xian of Song Gong, and his own uncle, Emperor Wenzong of Yuan and his own nurse all said that he was not the bloodline of the Golden Family of the Great Yuan.

The Mongols speak with strength, and the strongest is the king, and the old woman in the palace still has the habit of poisoning.

Many of the Emperor Dayuan, the crown princes, were most likely killed by doves.

For example, Kublai Khan's carefully cultivated, Confucian-influenced prince, Zhenjin, who was more like a Confucian than the Han people, died violently after drinking, and several emperors in the back had the habit of drinking, and died after drinking.

He was born in the Great Yuan Beiting, that is, the old place of the Tang Dynasty Beiting Duhufu, when he was young, he was in various places when he was young, his body was bound with shackles for a long time, his hands and feet were worn out and bleeding and scarred, he was first imprisoned in Daqingdao, Goryeo, the Korean people deliberately did not send food to the Dayuan royal family, and was almost starved to death, and later Yuan Wenzong accidentally heard that his nephew was still alive, so he sent him to Guangxi in Huguang Province.

At this time, in Guangxi, the miasma was heavier, and the mountain roads in the deep mountains and dense forests were difficult to travel, and a little unaccustomed to water and soil could kill him.

When the Great Yuan conquered Burma and Annam, many northern soldiers did not die on the battlefield, but because of the miasma and plague in the south.

Who would have thought that the iron pot not only did not die, but devoted himself to practicing Buddhism in Jingjiang Temple in Guangxi, practicing Chinese and calligraphy, learning Buddhism and sinicization from many Han monks.

This also doomed him not to be liked by the princes of the Mongolian headquarters.

"Great Emperor, in half a month, my Dayuan will hold a Kuritai (Great Dynasty Meeting), and then all the Mongolian princes and envoys of all countries will come here to visit, but are you still used to it?"

Yan Timur has a majestic face and looks rough, but in fact he is a meticulous person.

In his early years, he had studied under the teacher of Kublai Khan's prince Zhenjin, and learned a lot of secret scripts of the Eight Sipas, as well as Chinese, Uighur, Tibetan, and his military ability was also very outstanding.

When the emperor iron pot heard this, he smiled faintly and said, "The Taishi arrangement." ”

Yan Timur saw him talking in a wooden manner, and suddenly felt in his heart that he had seen the emperor here, and in the future, Dayuan was in his control, so he couldn't help but sneer, and proudly pinched the gold ring inlaid with gems on his hand.

All this was seen by the right prime minister of Dayuan below, that is, the second prime minister Boyan.

Boyan is burly and strong, with five big and three thick, a tiger's back and a bear's waist, a stocky figure and a big belly, but he is not slow, but very agile, with high cheekbones, red cheeks, a pair of slightly narrowed eyes flashing, and he reached out to stroke his goatee.

Yan Timur mastered the army, and his subordinates had several great dependences, which were the taxes and taxes in the Jiangnan region, relying on the sea trade and taxes in the Jiangnan region of the Great Yuan, as well as the trade income brought by many caravans in the north, he firmly grasped the 350,000 troops of the Great Yuan in his hands, and his caravan was able to go from Beiping, the capital of the Great Yuan, to the extremely distant western countries, Egypt and other places, which can be called one of the richest people in the world today.

And Boyan is not bad at all.

Yan Timur's main source of taxation is all kinds of maritime merchants, Semu Hui, Jiangnan maritime merchants, Boyan mainly rely on many royal families, the Western Regions, Semu Hui, Chagatai Khanate's large caravans, etc., with hundreds of millions of family assets, he can gain power, but also because he has a wide range of money, and he is very powerful in the royal family and ministers of the Great Yuan today.

Seeing Yan Timur's expression, Boyan smiled coldly, and said secretly in his heart: "The prime minister really drank too much wine, and even thought that this emperor's iron pot was a small insect, he was not an ordinary little insect, the Han had a few more brains than our Mongolians, and this iron pot was taught by the Han and Confucian ministers, how could it be easy?" ”

He then looked at his nephew again, and stood aside.

Totoh is Boyan's own nephew, although he is young, but he has grown up with long hands and feet, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and excellent arm strength, standing among the royal ministers at the moment, like standing out from the crowd.

He narrowed his eyes, thinking about inserting his nephew in the emperor's iron cauldron, waiting for an opportunity to seize power.

It was difficult for the emperor of Dayuan to grasp the imperial power after Kublai Khan, so the few prime ministers in charge of military taxation were basically the most powerful, richest and strongest people in the world.

In fact, since the flood of the Great Yuan's treasure money, the whole country has now become a strange tribal free-range grazing system, the north and the south are very seriously divided, the rich areas of the south, as long as there is no disaster, is every day big fish and meat, live freely, merchants and Han landlords live like the emperor, as long as the taxes are paid, no matter how much you bribe the tax collectors, no one cares what you do.

However, the north has suffered from disasters year after year.

In particular, several major grain producing areas in Dayuan, Henan in the Central Plains, and Qinchuan in Shaanxi.

Because the Yellow River flooded year after year, and then drought and locust plague broke out, resulting in the starvation of Qinchuan in Shaanxi Province, the royal princes of Mongolia simply occupied the Qinchuan River for 800 miles to raise horses, cattle and sheep, and used for grazing.

Many Han people in Shaanxi have no land to live, no houses to live in, and nowhere to go, so they either go to the south to become slaves, or they rely on major temples, Taoist temples, or incense religions such as the White Lotus Sect and the Ming Sect in the north to protect themselves, otherwise they will starve to death.

The entire Great Yuan, the collapse is just around the corner.

And the most powerful people in Dayuan, the princes and nobles, are all playing their own small calculations, how to defeat the other party and make themselves the Taishi of Dayuan.

Boyan and Yan Timur suddenly had a sense of urgency, and glanced at each other on and off the stage.

On the throne, the iron pot like a puppet was slightly hooked at the corners of his mouth, his eyes flashed with a hint of melancholy, he looked outside the royal city, and sighed in his heart: "The Chen Sijiu Dao Chang that the three immortals said, where are you......