In the winter at the end of the third year of Chongzhen's reign, Baiyan Taiji, who was living in Juerwan, heard that something big had happened to the Lion Army.
Han Shuai Liu Chengzong and his dog Xiao Zhuanfeng, between them, there is only one single dog left.
Xiao Zuanfeng has found a partner!
The Shaanxi thin dog, whose black hair was as shiny as satin, wore new clothes given by the handsome man and ran out to play by himself for three days.
When I came back, my whole body was bruised and dirty, I still had one of my four legging boots, my new clothes were thrown away, I don’t know where I had thrown them, several pieces of hair on my body had been bitten off, and my ears were still bleeding.
However, when I was walking in the camp and looking at Zixiong, I looked like I had won a battle.
"Two!"
Chen Shifo was sitting cross-legged on the Kang in the ground floor of Taiji, holding a wooden pipe in his mouth. He held a Yaozhou porcelain tea cover and placed it beside the tea bowl. He put down the tea bowl and picked up the pipe and said: "Two four-eyed Spanish Mastiffs."
, just like that, Xiao Zhuanfeng brought him back to meet the commander."
Sitting opposite him, he took it all as a joke. He cared more about Master Chen in front of him.
This fake Han Chinese monk in red robes is different. He looked extremely poor a few days ago, but today he came to me wearing small glasses, and he was completely changed from a gun to a gun.
Wearing dark auspicious moiré satin, and accompanied by two Xifan students, he entered the den and laid out a camel hair blanket with silver thread on the kang. The texture was soft and the workmanship looked very exquisite.
Then he took out a finely carved pipe with six animals carved from his pocket, and pressed the tobacco slowly.
Then he placed white porcelain pots and bowls with carp and lotus paintings on the stove. He broke off large pieces of tea bricks and put them inside, saying that Taiji Xun thought that this bastard had never drank tea in his life.
And for each of these movements, the fake monk introduced to him what they were.
"Camel hair silver thread blanket, the silver thread is woven from a piece of silver bag on the weft thread, a serious palace craftsmanship."
"Tobacco comes from Lanzhou. It was first supplied to the border troops to keep out the cold. It was produced by Zhuangzi, Prince Su of the Ming Dynasty. The pipes, animal landscape reliefs, and goat horns are all clearly carved."
"This porcelain is from Yaozhou Kiln, Shaanxi Yaozhou Kiln, do you know it? Don't you know? The best kiln factory!"
After such an introduction, Master Chen sat down and suddenly changed the topic to Han Shuai's dog riding two mastiffs, which made Baiyan Taiji a little unacceptable.
He was still staring at the seat rug under Chen Shifo's buttocks. The camel hair silver rug was indeed very beautiful. He felt that it would be particularly suitable if placed under the saddle as a cushion.
But the more beautiful the blanket, the more he hates Master Chen.
Aren’t you here to show off to him? Why are you showing off!
I am not someone who has never seen Baobao. He followed his father when he was young. He was also a troublesome figure on the border for the Ming Dynasty's border troops. He was well-informed.
He has seen similar craftsmanship to things like what Master Chen took out.
Take blankets for example. He once had a pair of camel hair blankets, which he got from the Samarkand tribute caravan he robbed at the end of Wanli. It is said to be a Persian blanket and it is very comfortable to use.
However, precisely because he was well-informed and well-known, Huo Luochi received the most severe beatings during the battle with the Ming army. The blanket was burned by the Ming army, and his tribe was devastated.
Later he became a believer in Buddhism, had a peaceful mind, and had an open mind about everything.
Some Mongolian nobles like them believe in Buddhism because the Red Religion and the Yellow Religion can bring very practical benefits, and some people really think it is good to believe in Buddhism.
But no matter what the reason for their belief is, it is different from ordinary people. They, the nobles, are true believers, while ordinary people are false believers.
This is the same thing in Guanzhuang and Mongolian tribes in Fandi, and ordinary people are not worthy of trusting it.
They are illiterate and do not have any monks to teach and interpret the Dharma. They only know how to pray stupidly, kowtow when asked, and give alms when asked.
Ordinary people can only believe in monks.
He pretends not to believe the monk, but his younger brother is the largest reincarnated monk in Qinghai. He has already been reincarnated and still peed his pants when he was a child?
I don’t even look down on the fake monk Chen Master.
Baiyan Taiji chuckled and asked, "What do you want to do when you come here today?"
"I remember Taiji said that your tribe has more than 3,000 cavalry in the meander of the river? You must have a lot of livestock there, right?"
Baiyan Taiji became alert and frowned: "Why are you asking these questions?"
"Taiji, don't worry too much." Master Chen stood up, raised his finger and pointed around the things he brought, and said: "The commander asked me to tell you, the commander can make these things. If Taiji wants it, next year
You can exchange it for wool, cashmere, camel hair, and all kinds of skins."
The pretentious expression did not show the excitement that Master Chen imagined, and he asked in a calm tone: "You are going to fight with Lazun next year, and you still want to sell these to me?"
"The commander-in-chief said, Lazun is Lazun, and Taiji is Taiji."
"Ha!" He clapped and laughed, pointing at Chen Shifo and saying: "The heroic tiger method, the central strategy is to divide the fiefdoms, what do you Han people say? Learn it and apply it!"
He just laughed and said with a cold face: "I don't have many followers, but Lazun is my younger brother. I can't just sit back and watch you fight and still do business calmly."
"Whether we want to fight or not is not decided by the commander-in-chief, but by Lazun. If he wants a thousand horses, he can send troops to get them. If he doesn't want to fight, he can also exchange them."
Communicate what you have.
Huo Luochi fought with the Ming army for decades for the purpose of paying tribute. It was not the kind of tribute that I would give you a horse and you would give me some small gifts in return, but a mutual trade just like the time of An Da Khan. p>
If there is any other way, who the hell is willing to fight for a washbasin?
But Ming Dynasty was not even willing to sell them an iron pot.
Now you, Master Chen, open and shut your mouth and just talk about wanting to exchange information?
He pretended not to believe it and did not dare to believe it. He shook his head and said: "Shuai Han is Qinghai's ambassador and must fight with us."
"If you obey the commander-in-chief's orders, the commander-in-chief will still be the envoy of comfort, and there will be no need to fight. Fighting is not just about getting things. Trade can also exchange things without killing people."
Chen Shifo thought for a while and added: "The commander-in-chief said that the Han and Mongolian peoples are one and the same. I don't quite understand it. Anyway, you can see that the two Qi chieftains are both Mongolians. They have been doing well for hundreds of years.
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He didn't mention the two Qi chieftains in Xining, but he got very angry when he mentioned the pretense. He said, "That's great. They just helped the Han people beat us!"
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After cursing, he asked in a pretentious manner: "What you are talking about is too big. I won't count it. Let's ask Lazun in the spring."
But Master Chen kept pursuing him: "But you can be the master of your own tribe."
This was the first time Liu Chengzong had given him a major task, and he didn't want to go back and resume his life without any results.
"My own tribe, can you give me what I want?"
Master Chen waved his hand and swept the blankets and porcelain, saying: "The commander-in-chief said, you can get these in exchange for things."
"What my tribe lacks is not these. I want noodles, grain, leather boots made by Han people, wooden boxes, three-inch, five-inch, and seven-inch knives, iron pots, stirrups, horse trippers, iron shovels, iron prongs, and iron
Axe."
"I need hats, white handkerchiefs, large cloth and silk and satin, gold paper to stick to the Buddha, seasonings for meals, comb grates and hairbands, and I want you to make gold, silver, bronze and jewelry."
In a series of pretentious words, he stated countless needs and fixed his eyes on Master Chen: "I want sabers and bows and arrows, can you give them?"
"Don't worry!"
Master Chen's face was overjoyed. He was not afraid of saying too much, but he was afraid of saying nothing. As soon as he started to say something, he immediately turned around to ask for paper and pen from his entourage, and wrote down everything.
"Food may not be easy to say, but other things should not be a big problem, but what can you give me?"
Chen Shifo just asked, and added: "Let me tell you first, the price of some things has been set by the commander-in-chief, such as this blanket. If it is just a wool blanket, it will cost two or two; if it has the best workmanship, it will cost so much."
The big one costs twenty-two pieces, and there are better ones."
"If you bring wool, it will be charged at one tael per hundred catties, which is the same price in Xining."
In terms of purchasing raw materials, Liu Chengzong did not intend to lower the price as much as possible, because the price itself was false.
Silver is not important in this kind of transaction. If they can reach a trade, it is essentially bartering.
As for bartering, in this completely seller's market environment, their added value is so high that they can almost do whatever they want.
"Apart from food, there are no other big problems?"
Baiyan suspected that he had heard wrongly: "Iron pots and sabers, how dare you sell them to me?"
If he heard correctly, these Han people are crazy and poor.
"This is what the Marshal told me. As long as you are willing to rely on the Marshal and trade with each other, you can sell anything you can. It's just a matter of price. There must be a difference between closeness and distance."
Master Chen thought for a while and said: "Besides, the commander-in-chief doesn't have any iron in his hands. If you want iron tools, you have to get the iron first. The same goes for food. It's not that the commander-in-chief doesn't sell food, but he is also short of food, so I guess food
Won’t sell.”
"But if you bring grain or ground noodles, the commander can also make noodles for you."
The more I listen to the lies, the more I feel like Liu Chengzong is a liar.
When the Huo Luo Chi tribe arrived in Qinghai, their situation was similar to that of Liu Chengzong. They were all herdsmen and soldiers, unable to do anything. How come Liu Chengzong could do everything?
What’s more, the conditions are too good to be true.
If I remember correctly, no one has traded with them like this for nearly three hundred years.
Their smelting and manufacturing technology may be a little inferior, but it's not that they don't have the ability to make their own iron tools, or that they don't have iron ore, but they don't have the objective conditions to meet daily needs on a large scale.
This is determined by the nomadic production method.
Most of the minerals are in the mountains. In the Central Plains, a mine, in order to meet the survival of miners, will develop from small merchants selling dry food to villages, and then more people will invest in production, and then a handicraft market town will be formed.
The nomadic production method got stuck at the first step.
There are fewer people mining, enough to make a few knives a year.
If there are too many people mining, they will starve to death if there is no one to graze them.
They settle down and farm around the mines, regardless of the technical level of agriculture from scratch. They all farm and forge iron. They are just vegetables in the bowls of other nomadic tribes. Anyone who wants to take a bite can take a bite.
The Great Wall did not grow overnight.
But the feeling of lying was almost a lie, and there was a sense of adventure in my heart that I had not experienced in many years.
He saw a possibility, a possibility to revive the tribe.
Just like when everyone was unable to trade tribute with the Ming Dynasty, he was the first to get the qualifier. He exchanged tribute rewards and horse market transactions for wealth, gained greater advantages among many tribes, and attracted more exiles to rely on him. He closed his eyes and thought hard for a long time. If this was true, maybe next time he could break into Uzang and drive Zangba from Shigatse into India. He would become the Great Khan of Uzang.
Thinking of this, Baiyan Taiji looked at Master Chen and said slowly: "I can give you salt, gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, medicinal materials, cattle, sheep, horses, deer antlers, musk, leather and down."<
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After saying that, he took a deep breath: "But you only trade with me."
Master Chen was dumbfounded.
Now you just leave your younger brother aside and stop being an older brother?
Although this was a good start, Master Chen shook his head and said: "The commander-in-chief asked me to talk to you, but I don't want to lie to you. All those who join the commander-in-chief can communicate with each other."
"My family is the only one living in the small river south of the Yellow River in Guide."
Taiji waved his hand and said: "You don't care about Lazun. I advise him not to fight with Han Shuai. Our two families can be one family and keep in good contact."
After hearing this all this time, Master Chen finally confirmed that Baiyan Taiji was indeed planning to leave his younger brother and go it alone.
This is different from what Liu Chengzong had originally thought.
Liu Chengzong's plan started with the young Lazun, and then gradually divided Lazun's power through trade, dividing a relatively large alliance into small leaders who could dispatch hundreds of cavalry, and became no threat.
This way you can win over everyone.
But now this is a result that even Master Chen had not expected... Let alone him, I am afraid that Lazun also could not have imagined that the people he sent to negotiate with Liu Chengzong would soon go back to negotiate with him on behalf of Liu Chengzong.
This kind of argument made Chen Shifo feel very familiar to him, and he said: "Do you want to be a chieftain in Xiaohetao? The commander-in-chief doesn't like chieftains, and he may turn all chieftains into official officials in the future."<
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Judging from the enthusiasm in the military camp during this period, Chen Shifo believed that Liu Chengzong was very disgusted with the Sixteen Dharma, and the entire camp was studying how to defeat Zangba Khan's army.
Then the craftsmen began to become excited, it seemed because the commander-in-chief said in public that the craftsmen were very important to him.
From this point of view, even though Liu Chengzong holds the title of Qinghai Xuanwei Envoy, judging from the way he rides a third-grade red horse, this Qinghai Xuanwei Envoy probably does not recognize the imperial court.
Naturally, there is no possibility of canonizing new chieftains.
The most likely possibility is that in the future, the leaders who surrendered early will be given official positions and serve as floating officials in local management for a few years or even a lifetime.
But he pretended not to care. Although the pasture land in the Yellow River Hetao is fertile, his power is too small after all.
He wants to revive his family tradition and make his tribe stronger. As for how strong it will be, he has never thought about this issue.
If you can provide a large amount of daily necessities, you can gain the reputation of attracting a large number of herders to follow you.
With enough troops, he can enter Uzang again and fight Zangba Khan again.
He said: "It doesn't matter if you are exiled from the official position. As long as those things can be provided, I am willing to join."
Master Chen nodded slowly and said: "It's pointless for you and me to continue talking. What happens next is beyond what I can decide, but I will tell the commander everything you say."
"If he allows you to join, then this matter should be settled!"
Master Chen seemed to have suddenly thought of something, and said: "But before that, you have to let the brother who raises hunting dogs for you try to see if he can get rid of the two mastiffs that Xiao Zuanfeng turned around. They are dogs from Hequ. Don't recognize them."
People."
"The three of them have now taken over the commander's tent. They are not ashamed all day long, and the commander cannot go back."