Wanli Xinming

Chapter 346 Conflict
When Chen Hongyou was looking for a large army on the grassland, Ma Dong was not idle. While investigating the site of the city, he also began to communicate with the forces of Tangtu Wulianghai.

After passing through Tangnu Mountain, the army saw the big river flowing on the vast grassland. The locals called it Yenisei and Selenge.Jin Yiwei, who was traveling with him, took out the map and reported back to Ma Dong: "This river is called Jianshui, and the Central Plains is called Qianhe - the one that joins with it has no name yet. The population here is very large, not when I came here. Barren land."

Ma Dashuai waved his hand and said: "Although the name of Jianshui is good, it is such a big river that it is not fishy. From now on, these two rivers will still be called Xiaoqianhe. As for the population—" So the names of the two rivers were decided. What is the population, Ma Dong did not say.

At the place where the Daqianhe Rivers converge, there are Jikun people (Kirgiz) living together, with thousands of tents and more than [-] soldiers, under the rule of Zaktu Khan.The Likun race is a mixture of yellow and white. Although most of them have black hair, they have deep eyes and high noses, which are different from those of the Central Plains.

When Genghis Khan rose, the rich and beautiful Tangnu Ulianghai once belonged to him.Genghis Khan set up five officials here, arranged for troops to garrison the fields, collect taxes, etc. At that time, there were many ethnic groups living here - many Han people.

In the Ming Dynasty, when Oara rose, most of the Han people moved inland, leaving only the livestock herders here.Hundreds of years of expeditions against each other have long ago destroyed the farming civilization left by the Han people.After the Gekun people occupied this place, they still lived on animal husbandry, forming more than ten tents as one "Aiman", more than ten Aiman ​​as a "Bi", and above the "Bi" was the common lord political structure in the grasslands of Otok. , The production level is extremely low, there is no writing, some believe in shamans, and some believe in Tibetan Buddhism.

Although they surrendered to the Zaktu of the Oirat tribe, the Gekun and the Oara did not deal with them.It has its own four kings - Tuva, Yezer, Aletir and Aletisar. Each kingdom is divided into several Ortoks. King Aletisar is the head of the four kings. .

Thousands of Ming people's brigade, armed with live ammunition, and tens of thousands of camels and horses, came from across the mountains, which has long alerted the Gekun tribes here.

Because the Military Intelligence Bureau had also made plans here before, and they had established contacts with the various ministries of Li Kun, so the two sides were not smearing each other.After Ma Dong led his army into the Tangnu Wulianghai, several "fur merchants" who were "living" three years ago and struggling to survive in this place finally made it out.

Azamat, the current king of Altisar, contacted these fur merchants and said that he would lead the other three kings, the whole family of Gekun, Otok and above, to visit Ma Dong. Not thoughtful, I hope these Han people can tell the people from their own family that this king is very grateful - and hired them to be an interpreter with good leather.

This is of course a good thing. Ma Dong, who has already set the location of the city, also needs to establish contact with the locals. After listening to Jin Yiwei's report, he readily agrees. At the same time, he also rewards these Jin Yiwei, who are thousands of miles away from home and are exploring for the country.

In order to avoid misunderstanding, the kings of Likun did not dare to bring more people, and each of them had a few close people around them, holding kumiss and chasing the sheep.Although it is like visiting relatives to give gifts, the Qikun people have no etiquette at this time, and they do not know how to deal with the Han people. This is the result of several days of discussions between King Azamat and other people. .

When Ma Dong met them in the tent, he saw that the nobles from Likun did not look dirty. Most of them wore white felt hats, round-neck linen shirts, sheepskin coats without collars, long leather jackets, and leather boots. Clean and neat, I admire it secretly in my heart.

After the group entered the camp of the Ming army, what they saw along the way had long exceeded the limit of their imagination, and the more they walked, the less courageous they became.When he entered the tent of the Chinese army, he was even more dazzled when he saw Ma Dong's generals dressed up.

Azamat is in his 30s, tall and strong.After entering, he took the lead to take off his hat and bow, and performed the Mongolian chest touching salute-except for the only son with four hairs before the age of ten, the rest of the men in Gekun were all bald and without beards.At this moment, more than 20 people took off their hats and bowed together, which made Ma Dong feel that the originally dark tent seemed to be lit up.

Although the Gekun people did not have written characters at this time, they had their own language.In addition, due to the rule of Oara for many years, the people above Aiman ​​also speak Oara, which is similar to the Mongolian dialect. Thanks to Yingzong, there are some translations in Daming.After the salute, Azamat opened his mouth and said: "Azamat of the Al-Tisar Department led the leaders of the headquarters to pay a visit to the general."

Ma Dong bowed his hands in return after the handsome case.According to the local customs reported by Jinyiwei, the large tent has been covered with carpets and coffee tables and water cups. After returning the salute, Ma Dong turned the table and waved his hand to signal them to take their seats.

Azamat saw that Ma Dong and the generals were sitting on the chairs, but let himself sit on the ground—although he didn't usually sit on benches and chairs, his heart was filled with fire.

Before he could say anything, he heard Ma Dong shout: "Come on, remove the table in the tent! Put on the futon coffee table like the guests!" Several red-faced "interpreters" translated loudly, Azama I was overjoyed - Ruo Ma Dong withdrew the case first, but it didn't have such an effect.

After the two parties were seated, Azamat first introduced the characters on his side, and Ma Dong also introduced them equally. Azamat and others felt more and more relaxed.After the greeting, Ma Dong expressed his intentions and said: "Da Ming inherits Mengyuan's destiny, and His Majesty the Emperor wants to restore the former territory-this commander is here to build a border city and bring this place under the jurisdiction of the imperial court."

Azamat was not surprised to hear that, the Han people led a strong army, crossed the vast sea, and crossed the mountains, definitely not here to play.After the rise of Oara, Gekun has been under his command for more than a hundred years, and the successive Oirat (other name for Oara) Khan had only the share of looting the tribes under his jurisdiction, and Gekun had suffered for a long time.

Therefore, it is not a sad thing for the Gekun people to change their masters. Today, all of the above Otok are here, and not even a single person has asked for sick leave. He, King Altisar, who had long wanted to betray the Oirat Ministry, didn't even have to preach.

But as the co-owner of Li-Kun, his stoicism is still very deep.Wen Yan just made a stunned expression first, and then nodded as if he had realized something, but he was not in a hurry to express his position.Although there were internal struggles among the various ministries of Ge Kun, they were very united when they were outside. Seeing that he did not answer, the nobles of Ge Kun were also silent.

After Ma Dong said a word, seeing that Azamat had no response, and that he had no idea, he looked at the "fur merchants".These people had already informed the commander about Li Kun's attitude towards Oara, and when they saw him looking over, one of them nodded and smiled and said, "Master, why is the little prince Garidi not in the account? He also promised to sell me two Firefox skins. Woolen cloth."

Wang Dong was stunned for a moment, and then he secretly scolded himself as a pig head for being the leader of an army.

In fact, this was due to arrogance. Wang Dong thought that his family represented the court, and the court was naturally the court of the Han people. Therefore, when meeting with the various ministries of Gekun this time, he even threw the most important political chips out of the account.

After hearing it, he changed it. Ma Dong winked at his own soldiers, and said with a low smile to Azamat: "Monan Mongolia, all have been sealed by the imperial court, Mobei Khalkha tiger Lahachi and others have also They all obeyed the emperor's will, called the ministers and paid tribute, and Hu Lahachi was awarded the first-class county king and bestowed the prince's robes - do you know these things?"

Azamat bowed slightly and said, "Know something. We people outside the Great Wall have also heard that the reincarnation of Xue Chanhan is the emperor of the Han people. He held an alliance meeting in Saihanba, and our family is thousands of miles away from Saihanba. Yao, clan Xiaoliwei, but did not get the opportunity to meet."

Ma Dong smiled and said, "Azamat, you may not have the opportunity to meet His Majesty in the future, let's see what you do." Azamat was still silent after hearing this.

Ma Dong knew in his heart that he wanted to sell, but he was still slightly annoyed even though he knew that this was the intention of the negotiation.

At this time, the soldiers outside the tent reported to enter, and His Royal Highness Prince Garidi wanted to enter the tent.Ma Dong nodded and said, "Let him in."

After Garidi entered the tent, he looked around the sky with his nostrils, clasped his fists and cupped his hands and said, "Commander, who are these people?" Deputy Commander Fan Guangchun got up from the ground and said, "This is the leader of the Gekun tribe, Azamat and his subordinates. All Otok, etc. This is so-and-so-" It's about to introduce a circle.

Garidi's mouth twitched, interrupting Fan Guangchun's words, and complaining to Ma Dong: "Master, are you giving them too much face? Even if my father is here, I can't let you sit on the ground - these Ge Kun What are people? Dare to talk to the commander? Let them kneel and finish talking is a kindness!"

This guy's Mongolian words are eloquent and his voice is loud, and with his cocky expression, he suddenly filled the hatred of the Likun people and glared at him.

King Altiyar was very self-disciplined, turned a deaf ear to Garidi's words, nodded to Ma Dong and said, "Zaktu Khan didn't participate in the meeting of Saihanba for some reason. Later I waited for his Golden Horde meeting. , Zaktu Khan looked down on Hu Lahaci, thinking that he sold all the Mongolians, but only changed a set of prince's robes, which is too cheap."

He speaks Oirat, and Garidi can hear it roughly.With a shocked expression on his face, he listened to Azamat insulting his father.

Azamat said this in return for what he owed Garidi's mouth. He was ready to shoot from the ground. He stretched out his hands and grabbed Garidi's shoulders.

Azamat's Qikun language means "warrior", and Garidi Mongolian means "phoenix". Although the name does not represent the force value, the difference in the force value between the two is as big as the name.

Garidi lowered his head and rushed, but Azamat took advantage of the opportunity to shorten his body, grabbed his shoulder and slammed it, and lifted it up.He was just about to throw the lotus-spitting prince on the ground when he suddenly saw Ma Dong covering his face with frost, staring at him with cold eyes.

Azamat froze in his heart, and hurriedly put Garidi down gently.When Garidi was about to start, Fan Guangchun shouted, "Garidi, that's enough! This is the commander's tent, do you want to die?" After hearing this, Garidi also calmed down.

Ma Dong threw the tea bowl on the table, snorted coldly, and said, "Drag out all those who are in my tent, and hit twenty military sticks!"

(End of this chapter)