Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2242 Temujin Wants to Make Money from War

Although Temujin had suffered a great loss at the hands of Li Xiang, he had only suffered a great loss at the hands of Li Xiang. Apart from Li Xiang, at the hands of whom else had Temujin suffered a great loss?

  In the war of unification of the Northern and Southern Huns, Wanyan Aguda was also brave and good at fighting. Generals such as Wanyan Loushi and Wanyan Xieye were both wise and brave. Generals such as Wanyan Jindanzi and Shanshituo were even more powerful and mighty. But, so what? Didn't they still retreat step by step after being beaten by Temujin?

Now, how many of those brave and powerful generals of the Southern Xiongnu are still alive today?

  Even among the few who are still alive, who among them is not living under someone else's roof now?

In the war to annex the Western Xianbei, Yelu Abaoji's performance was not as good as Wanyan Aguda's. Even though he had the support of Li Xiang, after several defeats, he still could not avoid the fate of being killed and his clan being exterminated. The Yelu clan was now divided into four parts, each living under the protection of others, but they lived cautiously.

If it weren't for Temujin who started to establish a country and changed the system to become emperor, how could Tuoba Tao and Aisin-Gioro Nurhaci have the idea of ​​becoming emperors and establishing a country? It can be said that on the grassland today, the Yuan, Wei and Qing dynasties coexist, and in the final analysis, the initiator of everything is Temujin.

In the war of conquering the west, Temujin didn't even take part in the battle himself, but the countries in the Western Regions were already defeated.

Although the Kushan Empire once took advantage of the Yuan Mongols, it was just a deliberate move. They took advantage of Temujin's ignorance of the situation in the Kushan Empire and thus were able to catch the Yuan Mongols off guard.

Apart from that battle, has the Mongols ever been at a disadvantage in military confrontations with the Kushan Empire?

In today's world, in terms of the strength of the various forces, Li Xiang's Great Jin has entered a period of decline, but the Kushan Empire, which is in a rare period of recovery during its decline, should be ranked first and second. In addition, Genghis Khan's Yuan Mongols are probably ranked only behind these two forces.

In the world today, besides Temujin, who else is qualified to pose a military threat to Li Xiang?

In these years, among all the forces in this world that have been against Li Xiang, which one is doing well now?

I don’t know how high the grass on the graves of Liu Xiu, Yang Jian, Liu Che and others has grown!

  Zhao Kuangyin also perished not long ago!

Zhu Yuanzhang, it won't be long before he follows the path of others.

Yuan Shao, Liu Bei and Qin Zheng were also trapped in the north.

There is only one Temujin, who is Li Xiang's neighbor. While there are constant frictions between the two, he can still continue to develop and expand strongly.

Temujin naturally had a sense of the overall situation. This time, he put all the power of the Yuan Dynasty and Mongolia into attacking the two states of Xihe. Not only because it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but also because if he allowed Li Xiang to take over all of the southern and central plains of the Han Dynasty in one go, Temujin would probably not have the possibility of ruling the Central Plains in the next few decades.

At least, in Li Xiang's generation, he probably won't see this hope by then! He can only count on Li Xiang's next generation.

But you have to know that Temujin is much older than Li Xiang.

In recent years, Temujin's physical condition has begun to decline. How could he possibly outlast Li Xiang in this regard?

Therefore, when Yuan Shao's envoy arrived at the grassland, Temujin, who was at the front line of the battle, did not return, but immediately summoned his most important right-hand men.

"You've heard it, right? Zhao Kuangyin of the Central Plains is dead. With only Tian Dan and Tian Rangju, these two losers, I'm afraid they won't be able to hold out for much longer!"

"I'm afraid that the Central Plains will soon fall into Li Zifeng's hands!" Temujin said in a heavy tone.

At this time in the timeline, Tian Rangju had not yet been forced to surrender.

  What's more, it takes a long time for things in the Central Plains to spread to the grassland!

"The day before yesterday! Yuan Benchu ​​of the Han Dynasty sent out lobbyists, hoping to purchase prisoners of war from the Western Regions from our Yuan Mongols, so as to restore the power of the various vassal states of the Han Dynasty as soon as possible and fight against the Jin army."

"I think this matter can be agreed to!" Temujin said without hesitation.

Even before he listened to the opinions of his subordinates, he had already made the decision on his own.

Temujin was a monarch with a strong opinion. Many times, the reason why he asked for the opinions of his subordinates was not actually to listen to their opinions. In fact, before he asked, he often had already made his own decision.

All along, there were very few opportunities for him to change his decision. Moreover, in fact, there was no reason for Temujin to refuse this matter.

During the previous expedition to the West, a large number of prisoners of war were obtained from the Western Regions. For the Yuan Mongols, even if they were reduced to slaves, such a large number of prisoners of war still required a lot of manpower and material resources to manage.

If they could handle a batch of them, it would be something the Yuan and Mongolians would be very happy about.

Moreover, many things in the Central Plains are also needed on their grasslands.

In the past, the grasslands had the things needed for dignity, such as war horses, cattle and sheep, which were all needed by the Central Plains.

There is no need to say much about war horses, as this thing is directly related to the strength of a prince.

Cattle and sheep, especially oxen, are more valuable than human lives. Even the life of a cow is worth many lives. In most periods of ancient times, killing oxen indiscriminately would result in beheading. Although cruel, this is the true portrayal of this era.

The Central Plains also have things that the grasslands need, such as refined iron, salt... these are all what they need.

  In the past, the resources of the grassland were extremely expensive compared to the Central Plains, and the resources of the Central Plains were equally expensive for the grassland. Who made the profit from the price difference?

It’s all those damn businessmen!

They made a lot of money in just a few rounds, and each of them became rich.

But whether it is the grassland or the Central Plains, they have to spend several times or even dozens of times the price to get what they want.

At the beginning, there was an extreme lack of iron on the grassland.

Temujin, who was extremely short of iron, sold all his belongings to build an elite cavalry. He equipped them with javelin, a kind of throwing weapon. However, the entire javelin head was only wrapped with a layer of iron sheet, which could only be regarded as an extremely low-end version of the javelin.

Later, although Temujin found an iron mine on the grassland, which was later known as the Ulashan Iron Mine and several other large iron mines, it basically alleviated their iron shortage problem.

However, what the grassland lacks is not only iron, but also iron forging technology.

Although they had robbed a group of blacksmiths during their looting, it was still far from enough.

Therefore, if they could obtain a group of craftsmen from the Central Plains, they would be very happy to send a large number of prisoners of war from the Western Regions.

Besides these, they were also short of daily necessities such as salt.

Moreover, by selling these prisoners of war, not only could the Yuan Mongols themselves benefit, but they could also strengthen the power of the Han princes to fight against Li Zifeng.

Such behavior can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

"Your Majesty, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!"

"You Qin and Ji Yuan provided a large amount of weapons and armor to Tuoba Wei and the Qing Dynasty!" Yelu Chucai reminded Temujin.

These people, among the three major forces on the grassland, the reason why the remaining two forces were able to confront the Yuan Mongols was not only because these two forces had been in an alliance for a long time.

Moreover, it was because the three major princes in the Central Plains had been taking sides for a long time and constantly holding Temujin back.

The entire northern princes, plus Li Xiang, almost became arms suppliers for the Tuoba Wei and Qing forces.