In the summer heat, the grass and trees hang their heads, the birds and beasts have lost their traces, and only the heat-tolerant sheep are gnawing on the grass.

A few shepherds sat under a tree or under a rock to cool off, and when they heard their stomachs growling, they did not intend to do anything to their flock, but to think about where to get something to eat.

One of the shepherds with a broken arm pointed in the direction of the west, and the other five immediately understood it, but knew that they were going to the Pyclix on the other side to plunder.

In their rules of survival, anything can be plundered as long as they are strong enough.

Shout! Shout! Shout!

A Mongol cavalry suddenly appeared on the hillside, and before the shepherds could react, they had already drawn their arrows with their bows and arrows, and arrows were fired from the hillside.

Burst! Burst! Burst!

Several of the shepherds were trying to flee, but the arrows had already been fired into their bodies, and the shepherd with the broken arm was killed instantly by the sharp arrow through the throat.

Killings have become commonplace in this land.

There is no rule of law.

There is no mercy.

There is no humanity.

Some are naked and prey.

"Damn the Grickli, I'm not with you!" A shepherd who had narrowly escaped mounted his horse and fled eastward, angrily at the Mongol cavalry who had come for revenge.

Burst! Burst! Burst!

The leader of the cavalry of the Gekli tribe ignored the shepherds who had fled, and when he saw that there were people here who had not died from their arrows, he stepped forward to mend his sword.

Blood stains the region, but it is a common thing in this land where there is no rule of law.

It's just that this time these shepherds are completely to blame, they came to loot, and even killed someone's daughter afterwards, so naturally someone came to break their scum into pieces.

Tumo River, sweat tent.

The news of the frequent killings of their "Dayuan" people by the Pakli tribe continued to come from the west, causing the leaders of the various tribes of the Dayuan to gather together to discuss countermeasures.

Dayan Khan was now a fifteen-year-old sturdy boy, with a maturity not befitting his age, and was sitting on the throne of the tiger khan.

I don't know whether it's true or not, many people claim that Dayan Khan and Genghis Khan are carved out of the same mold.

Originally, this kind of thing could not be verified at all, but after more people said it, many people slowly believed this statement, and even Dayan Khan thought so.

Khan Yan Khan was a man of a haughty temperament, who had followed the Mandu Hainan expedition to the north since he was a child, and was wounded, and now he has slowly grown into a brave general.

In the face of the frequent disturbances of the Grakli Ministry, the young Khan immediately said: "This matter can no longer be endured, let's gather people and horses to go to the Grakli Ministry, and we will definitely kill them to the ground!" ”

When Young Master Dehuo heard Dayan Khan's statement, he knew that the young Khan in front of him was too impulsive, but he looked at his nose and his nose and his heart.

The tribal leaders had grown up watching Dayan Khan, and they were accustomed to the impulsiveness of the young Great Khan, but they did not say anything like an old fox.

Zhiyuan Bucket Ha coughed lightly, then turned his head to look at the middle-aged woman sitting next to him and said respectfully: "Mandu Haihatun, I don't know what you think?" ”

In this sweat tent, the person who receives the most attention and love from everyone is not Dayan Khan, but a middle-aged Mongolian woman sitting next to Dayan Khan - Manduhai.

Manduhai is over forty years old, his face is slightly chubby, his skin is healthy wheat color, his body is very sturdy, he is wearing the traditional costume of Mongolian women, and there is a touch of heroism between his eyebrows.

She is a native of Wangjibu, one of the more special tribes in Mongolia, and the women of this tribe are generations of in-laws of Genghis Khan's golden family.

In the eyes of later generations, this kind of thing is not a special honor, but the people of the Wangji tribe have always been complacent, and the women of the Wangji tribe are proud to be able to marry the man of Genghis Khan's golden family.

Manduhai has also been influenced by this kind of thinking since he was a child, so he has always been obsessed with marrying a man from Genghis Khan's golden family.

She was first married to the Mongol Great Khan Mandulu, a descendant of the golden family of Jith Khan, and gave birth to two daughters with Mandulu, but Mandulu died after four years of reign, and there was a dispute over the throne due to the lack of heirs.

Originally, according to the Mongolian tradition, the next Great Khan could inherit his wife's subordinates, goods, cattle and sheep.

It's just that the situation at that time was special, and the matter eventually evolved into whoever could marry Manduhai would be able to take over Mandulu's old ministry and thus ascend to the position of Great Khan.

Faced with such a great temptation of profits, countless tribal leaders wanted to marry Manduhai, so as to ascend to the position of Great Khan with the help of the old tribe that received Mandulu.

Manduhai has been strong in martial arts since she was a child, with outstanding political and military talents, and is a woman with considerable opinions and ambitions.

In the face of countless suitors, she made a decision that shocked everyone in the entire steppe, but chose Dayan Khan, who was only four years old.

Many people don't understand her choice, but she has quietly taken the first step of her ambition.

It is similar to Cao Cao, who coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, after marrying the four-year-old Dayan Khan, she carried the banner of maintaining the unity of Mongolia in Genghis Khan's golden family through Dayan Khan.

Genghis Khan's golden family is indeed too glorious, so that there are still many tribes who are nostalgic for the period of the golden family's rule, so they have embraced Manduhai.

Manduhai inherited 10,000 households directly under the Great Khan of Mandulu and a part of the former deputy Khan Bayan Mengke, and now has the banner of maintaining the unity of Mongolia of Genghis Khan's golden family, and has resolutely become one of the top two forces in the steppe.

Supposedly, Dayan Khan was young and Mandulu should recuperate, but making Dayan Khan, who was only four years old, his heir, was only the first step in her ambitions.

After Manduhai took power, he did not stop the pace of unifying Mongolia.

Her first goal was to conquer the long-cherished enemies of the Mongol headquarters, the Oirats, and because Dayan Khan was young, Manduhai carried him in an quiver to protect him.

Manduhai personally led the cavalry to the expedition, so that the Kehui Keten tribe opened the way, and went to the land of Texburdu to fight with the Oirath tribe, and after a great victory, he subdued 40,000 Oirat troops.

In the nineteenth year of Chenghua, the most powerful Yisima was severely damaged by the combined forces of Manduhai and Wuliang Ha Sanwei, and Yisima escaped to the nest in the north of Hami to pick up an old life.

In the twenty-second year of Chenghua, the desperate Yisima Yin Taishi could not escape their purge, and the general under the command of Manduhai shot him to death.

At this point, after the killing of Yisiyin Taishi, the large and small lords of the left wing of the Mongols have surrendered to Manduhai, and now the biggest opponents are Warat and Qikeli.

Although Manduhai has always unified Mongolia in the name of Dayan Khan, it has been Manduhai who has been in charge for so many years, and now she is really in power.

"Great Khan, the strength of the Akris Department should not be underestimated! Even if we want to levy it, now that our supplies can't keep up, it's not appropriate to send troops to the Grakli Department immediately! "Manduhai is really a family, even if it explains the current predicament of the tribe.

Although they are a people on horseback and can supply themselves with their great hunting ability, this method is never 100% effective, and they always carry dry food.

What's more, they have been fighting in Mongolia for many years, and their bows and arrows and horses have been drastically reduced, so now they have the intention to conquer the Gikeli tribe but are powerless.

Dayan Khan's personality was reckless, and although he maintained respect for Manduhai, he still frowned and said, "They are frequently harassing us now, can we sit idly by?" ”

"Great Khan, we naturally can't sit idly by!" Manduhai's determination to unify Mongolia was stronger than anyone else, so he looked at Dayan Khan seriously and said his strategy: "Our Dayuan's top priority is to exchange tribute with the Ming Dynasty, and exchange materials from the Ming Dynasty, so that we can fight against the Gikeli Department for a long time, and we will definitely be able to completely eliminate the Grakli Ministry!" ”

Now that they have harassed the large and small lords of the Mongolian left wing, their strength is naturally above that of the Gikeli Division, but it is not easy to encircle and suppress the Gikeli Department in the grassland.

Like the Ming Dynasty's military strength is obviously far superior to them, but they are not afraid of the Ming army at all. Even if the Ming court sent a large army to attack, they could evacuate to the north and not confront the Ming army at all.

Similarly, the Gyrsian Division was originally strong, but now that they want to defeat the Grakli Force, they need to go through long-term encirclement and suppression to have a chance to completely defeat it.

The leaders of the Khalkha tribe and other tribes couldn't help but nod lightly, and the Manduhai chief made them very relieved.

"Then let the Grickly Ministry be arrogant for a while!" Dayan Khan did not dare to disobey Manduhai's decision, and even agreed.

The young master of the fire is the confidant general of Mandu Hai, and immediately turned his head to look at Dayan Khan and said: "Great Khan, I don't know what is going on in the Ming Court, have they agreed to pay tribute to the market?" ”

Dayan Khan was still a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy after all, but he relied on his confidants to know the courtyard for this kind of diplomatic matter, so he turned his head to look at the bucket.

"Zuo Yu, the governor of Datong, is a man who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and the previous performance deliberately exaggerated the strength of our troops, which will definitely exacerbate the panic of the Ming Court! According to the report from Datong, the Ming court has never increased its troops to Datong, and even the officials have not been changed. From what I know about the Ming Emperor, they have absolutely no reason to refuse our Great Yuan tribute! Zhiyuan Tongha has been paying attention to the situation in Datong and seems to be very optimistic and assured.

"We have already paid tribute to them, and the Ming Court can't ask for it!"

"The Ming court wants us to pay tribute, but this time we call ourselves Emperor Dayuan!"

"Our Khan is the Great Khan of the Great Yuan, how can he not recognize it in the Ming Court?"

"If it weren't for their city walls being firm enough, our Great Yuan would have wiped them out long ago!"

"Now that our Great Yuan is paying tribute to them, I'm afraid that the peace faction of the Ming Court will burn high incense!"

"Not only is it a peace-seeking faction, I think the Ming Emperor must have set up a banquet to congratulate him when he learns of this!"

……

In response to the reaction of the Ming court, tribal leaders such as the Mongolian Zhenbu Fire Sieve expressed their opinions.

Although some people are worried, out of their understanding of the Ming court, the voice of the Ming court's compromise has become the absolute mainstream.

Originally, there were still a few tribal leaders who were worried that the Ming Emperor would not agree, but seeing that everyone was so strongly convinced that the Ming court would compromise, they all denied their earlier judgments.

Today, the tribal leaders came here, in addition to discussing the issue of the Brakli Department, in fact, it was more important to discuss the matter of going to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute next.

Manduhai intended to cultivate the little minister he had chosen, so he looked at Dayan Khan and said seriously: "Great Khan, this time the exchange of tribute with the Ming Dynasty is fully managed by you!" Now our top priority is to unify the Mongolian tribes, and only the Ming mutual market can replenish enough materials, so we must pay attention to it this time! ”

After so many years of warfare, not to mention other tribes, even their own supplies are already seriously scarce. Not to mention that the number of arrows is already insufficient, and it is difficult to find even a cooking pot.

Now the summer days are better, and when winter comes, it will be too difficult for the tribe to cook without a pot.

No matter how much they squeezed out the Ming court, judging from the current situation of Mongolia, their Great Yuan really needed this ally with sufficient materials.

"Hatun, please rest assured, Ben Khan will take care of this matter!" Although Dayan Khan did not like to pay tribute to the Ming court, he also took a serious stance for the sake of the overall situation.

Manduhai nodded slightly, but he knew that Dayan Khan would not break his promise.

She actually had a hidden worry in her heart, originally their Dayuan lowered their posture a little, and Da Ming would have no reason to refuse their request for Dayuan Tonggong to exchange markets, but Dayan Khan actually followed the advice of the Zhiyuan Barrel Ha and used Dayuan Dakhan as his own person.

However, she also felt that she was too worried, after all, the Ming Emperor was not as good as the generation, and the important ministers of the Ming court were all greedy for happiness, so there was really no reason to refuse their Dayuan to reward them with a truce from the Ming Dynasty.

Just imagine, they had to capture the Ming Emperor first, and now their Dayuan must not be much weaker.

Since they had already finalized the envoy to Daming, and had the guarantee of the Zhiyuan Barrel Ha, after finalizing the number of envoys from each tribe this time, they began to report the number of horses and mules going to Datong City.

"We have 1,000 horses from the Khalkha department!"

"We have 1,000 horses from Mongolia!"

"We have 2,000 horses from Ordos!"

……

The leaders of various tribes were like chickens, but they wanted to take this opportunity to exchange for more supplies in Datong, so they reported to the tunnels one after another.

Through statistics, Zhiyuan Barrel Ha couldn't help but gasp, the total number has reached 10,000 horses and mules, of which the number of horses is more than ninety percent.

According to the conversion of Daming silver taels, if a horse is calculated according to ten taels, then the materials that their various tribes want to exchange for Datong this time are as high as 100,000 taels.

100,000 taels of materials, this can undoubtedly greatly resolve their predicament, and this time they will definitely return with a full load.

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At the end of the meeting, Manduhai suddenly had a loud sneeze as soon as his nose itched, but there was a faint uneasiness in his heart.

A Mongolian girl appeared like a colorful butterfly, but she pestered Mandu Haidao, who just wanted to leave: "Eji, my daughter wants to go with me to envoy Daming!" ”

Man Duhai faced the girl's request, and suddenly said with displeasure on his face: "Yikexi, you are about to get married, why do you still want to run around?" ”

Yikexi is the daughter of Manduhai and Mandulu, because of her pure and lovely appearance and very lively personality, she is known as the first pearl of the grassland, and is pursued by many tribal leaders.

"Eji, you just rely on your daughter this time, your daughter wants to go to the capital of the Ming Dynasty to see it!" Ikxi shook Manduhai's arm and pleaded pitifully.

Dayan Khan found that the originally beautiful eyes suddenly glared at him, and he said excitedly: "Hatun, why don't you let Princess Iksin go!" ”

Manduhai originally didn't want his daughter to be in danger, but when he saw his daughter begging bitterly, and Dayan Khan stood up to plead again, he reluctantly agreed.

The advantage of horses and mules is that they move quickly, and after the horses and mules of various tribes gather in Tumo River, these tens of thousands of horses and mules should follow the mission and march towards Datong.

Zhiyuan Tongha has been in charge of the affairs of the Ming Tonggong market, and has the closest relationship with the Ming Dynasty, so this time he is the envoy of the Ming Dynasty as the envoy of the Great Yuan.

As for the noble Princess Ixis, she went with her as an ordinary member of the mission.

It's only been two days, and the side wall of Datong is in sight.

Whining......

A flute sounded, and countless Datong soldiers flocked to the pass at the edge of the town, looking like they were facing a great enemy.

Chen Jian, the deputy chief soldier of Datong, found that these Tartars were actually driving a large number of horses and mules, so he asked with some puzzlement: "What do you want?" ”

"I am the envoy of the Great Yuan Zhiyuan Barrel, you quickly pass the governor, and let the governor arrange for our mission to go to the capital to pay tribute!" Zhiyuan Barrel Ha does not take the side generals in his eyes, and even arrogantly shows that he intends to be authentic.

The soldiers standing on the pass looked at each other, but they didn't understand which one the other party was singing, or did they deliberately pretend to be stupid?

Chen Jian, deputy chief soldier of Datong, stretched out his hand and pointed to Huang Jin's text hanging on the head of the city, but said in a calm voice: "Didn't you send someone over to see this document two days ago?" ”

Yes?

The little leader in charge of the sentry was dumbfounded, and suddenly turned his head to look at the Zhiyuan bucket in fear.

Zhiyuan Bucket Ha realized that something was wrong, and immediately asked, "What do you mean by this?" Could it be that your Ming Emperor doesn't agree with our Dayuan tribute? ”

"Huh...... Do you read this text carefully, or will General Ben read it for you? The corners of Chen Jian's mouth rose slightly, and he asked as if he had raised his eyebrows.

"What's going on?"

"Lord Zhiyuan, I can't read, I'm ...... I came here two days ago and thought it was a flag to welcome us, who ...... Who knew it was a text! ”

"What's written on it after all?"

"Since ancient times, the emperor has been in the world, all of China has lived inside to control Yi Di, and Yi Di has lived outside to serve China, and now the little prince wants to be the emperor and stand on his own, and he will not surrender, which is not what I can tolerate! Cover my Chinese people, and heaven will ornate my Chinese ......"

……

Dayan Khan and the self-righteous Mongol tribal leaders are already self-conscious here, and they will definitely submit to their Ming Emperor, who will slap them in the face.

There is no mutual market in Tonggong, and some will be a war that is incompatible.

(End of chapter)