After that, Yunxi had another discussion with everyone. Everyone felt that although there was no conclusive evidence, it was probably the truth, so they all agreed that His Majesty should go and meet Guilichi in person.
All the ministers present were very happy. After the Mongolian Khan professed his vassalage to the Ming Dynasty, he took the initiative to ask for an audience with the Ming emperor. The Mongolian grassland was not stable. As long as it was handled properly, the Ming Dynasty could at least temporarily solve the Mongolian problem, and maybe even bring peace to the Ming Dynasty within a few decades.
The Mongols are no longer a problem. In their view, this is of great significance, far more than the victory in the Battle of Yiwu.
After all, in the eyes of most officials across the country, places like Yiwu are not important. The reason why Ming Dynasty had to fight Samarkand in the Western Regions was mainly because Timur sent people to assassinate the emperor of Ming Dynasty; if not
For this reason, I am afraid that some civil servants will give up and propose retreating from Yiwu; even those who support the defense of Yiwu will not agree to send troops to pursue or even attack the city of Samarkand.
However, Yunxi himself is not as happy as them. He has pinned his hope of completely stabilizing the Mongolian grassland on the Gelug sect. For the time being, the Ming army's combat effectiveness is still there and they are not afraid of the Mongolian guerrillas, so meeting Guilichi is just a matter of course.
It's a supplement, or a kind of adjustment when traveling around the mountains and rivers. It doesn't matter whether it works or not.
In the following days, Yunxi went east to Hualong where Xiaqiong Temple is located according to the itinerary set the previous day. Under the guidance of Tsongkhapa, he visited the Buddha statues in the temple and paid homage to the deceased Qujue.
Dundup Rinchen finally donated some money.
Later, Yunxi planned to go to Zhuanglang to visit the local scenic spots and historic sites, but suddenly news came back from Ganzhou: Guilichi agreed to meet with His Majesty the Ming Emperor in Lanzhou.
After hearing the news, Yunxi was a little surprised: "Oh, Guilichi agreed to come to Lanzhou to meet me?" But then he calmed down: "Then let him wait in Lanzhou City. After I visit Zhuanglang,
Then go to Lanzhou to meet him."
"Your Majesty, I think this move is inappropriate. Since the Mongolian Great Khan Guilichi has agreed to come to see your Majesty, your Majesty should immediately go to Lanzhou to meet you. If he leaves because of the long delay, all the efforts he has made will be in vain!" Chen
Ji immediately said.
"Well," Yunxi hesitated for a moment, and finally decided not to refute Chen Ji's face and said, "In that case, I will go to Lanzhou to meet him."
The group will pack their bags and head to Lanzhou soon.
Tsongkhapa took this opportunity to say goodbye: "Your Majesty, the poor monk has been away from Lhasa for a long time. Please allow your Majesty to allow the poor monk to return to Lhasa."
Yunxi refused: "Master Tsongkhapa, please go with me to Lanzhou. I have one more thing to tell you. After the incident in Lanzhou is over, I will ask the master to return to Lhasa." Tsongkhapa had no choice but to do so.
Follow him to Lanzhou.
On the way to Lanzhou, Yunxi prayed secretly: "Although it doesn't matter whether it succeeds this time, I still hope that the gods and Buddhas in the sky can bless the negotiation to be successful."
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"Eunuch Lu, has His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty arrived in Lanzhou City?" In a large tent, a tall, strong man spoke in blunt Chinese and spoke respectfully to a man in front of him who was wearing the garb of a seventh-grade eunuch of the Ming Dynasty.
"Your Majesty has arrived in Lanzhou this morning." The eunuch replied.
"Then I wonder when your majesty can receive me?" the strong man asked again.
"Why are you in a hurry?" The eunuch said sternly: "Your Majesty has just arrived in Lanzhou. He has to rest for a few days, take a bath and change clothes before he can receive you, at least three days later. This is not a matter of urgency."
"Eunuch Lu." The strong man couldn't speak Chinese well in his eagerness, so he switched to Mongolian and said: "His Majesty, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, has many things to do, and I know that. But I do have urgent matters to meet with His Majesty. Please be kind to Your Majesty, Eunuch."
Just a few words." As he said that, the strong man took out a piece of jade from his waist and stuffed it into his hand. "It's just a small thing, it's not respectful."
"Khan, how can this be so embarrassing!" the eunuch laughed.
"This jadeite is just right for my father-in-law, so please don't refuse me," said the strong man.
"In that case, I will accept it. In this case, I will go back and talk about it, and try to let His Majesty receive the Great Khan in three days, that is, October 18th."
"Thank you so much, father-in-law." The strong man said again.
The father-in-law held the jade in his hand, smiled and said a few words to him, then turned and left the tent.
As soon as he left, a tall man in the tent immediately said: "Great Khan, this eunuch is really too much to deal with. If Batu hadn't pulled me just now, I would have cut off his head with a knife!"
"Don't be impulsive!" The strong man immediately said: "Zoliger, I am doing this for our tribe!"
"Great Khan," another person said at this time: "Although I held Zheliger just now, I feel that what the Great Khan did was still inappropriate. He is a little eunuch, why should he be so respectful to him."
Among these three people, the strong man is the current Mongolian Great Khan Guilichi. The other two are Guilichi's cronies. They are also from the Qilghis tribe. One is named Zheliger and the other is Ba
picture.
"Batu, you don't understand." Gui Lichi said: "He is not an ordinary eunuch. Didn't you see that he was wearing a seventh-grade official uniform? In the Ming Dynasty, it was difficult for eunuchs to have a grade. A seventh-grade eunuch is no longer
It's low, and it's worth winning over. Besides, even if he is just an ordinary eunuch, such a small person may not be able to accomplish anything, and may not be able to make the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty cancel this meeting, but if he adds one more word when speaking, he may be able to delay it for a few more seconds.
God, how can we delay now?"
Yunxi and Chen Ji guessed right. The reason why Gui Lichi was willing to come to Lanzhou to meet Yunxi was because he really couldn't hold on any longer.
Since he became the Great Khan of Mongolia, although he has been recognized by various ministries on the surface, everyone just listens to the instructions and not the propaganda. If it is beneficial, they will join in. If it is not beneficial, they will pretend not to know. Even if he becomes the Great Khan, he will be the same as before.
It was not much different when he was the leader of the Qilghis tribe. Later, the news that he was not a descendant of the Golden Family gradually spread, which made ordinary people in various tribes very dissatisfied with him, and his life became even more difficult.
Of course, if it were just like this, even though life was difficult, he would not be unable to survive. But the person who gave him the final blow appeared, and this was the Oara people in the west.
When Mahamu was actively preparing for the war with Timur, he also coveted the lush pastures in the east. However, he did not send troops because he was afraid that his war with Guilichi would become anxious and Timur would have no soldiers to resist his eastward invasion.
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But more than two months ago, Timur was defeated and died, and the Oara people were completely freed. Mahamu divided the work with his two younger brothers, and led his own troops to follow Qin King Zhu Shangbing to attack the city of Samarkand, and led the troops to capture Tupolo.
In the pasture near Lake Balkhash, Taiping attacked the Mongolian headquarters from the east.
Taiping led troops to attack. As the Mongol Khan, he had no choice but to fight. However, although there were many more tribal soldiers here than Taiping's soldiers, they were unable to work hard. Some even secretly communicated with Taiping, which made Taiping
He was defeated and had to flee eastward.
Even after Taiping's victory, Taiping did not give up and continued to advance eastward with his troops. This pushed Guilichi into a desperate situation. His tribe's pasture was within the range that Taiping wanted to capture. If he lost the pasture, how would he feed the tribe's cattle, sheep and horses?
?How can he support his tribe without these? Without his tribe, what else can he have left? But he couldn't defeat Taiping, so he decided to ask the Ming Dynasty for help.
It happened that when he was passing through the grassland north of Ganzhou City with his troops, he encountered hundreds of bandits led by Ma Buxiang and Sauraha. Although the two of them did not escape together, they had been prepared for this situation before, so they did not escape from Ganzhou City.
How long will it take to get back together again?
After Ma Buxiang discovered the group of Mongolians led by Gui Lichi, he wanted to send someone to communicate and let them go; but Gui Lichi was in a bad mood at the time, and seeing that there were not many of them, he wiped them all out with a wave of his hand. Ma Buxiang and Suo
Raha was also killed.
Then he sent people to Ganzhou City to ask for help from the Ming Dynasty. The people he sent saw the reward for the two of them on the wall of Ganzhou City. Only then did they know that they were fugitives from the Ming Dynasty. They immediately reported to Gui Lichi. Gui Lichi
At this time, they were already seriously ill and had to go to the hospital. Seeing this, they didn't care about the dignity of the Great Khan. They returned to the place where they fought, dug out their bodies and chopped off their heads, and sent people to Ganzhou City again to request an interview with the Ming Emperor.
Your Majesty. Later, he received the order from His Majesty the Ming Emperor, asking him to go to Lanzhou City to wait for an audience. After a slight hesitation, he decided to lead his own troops to Lanzhou to wait for an audience.
"Our Jisi tribe is now in an extremely critical situation. Every day that delays Taiping's chances of seizing the pasture increases. For the Jisi tribe, we must respect every Han envoy sent to talk to us.
Some." Gui Lichi finally said.
"Hey, Great Khan, it would have been better if I had not killed Kun Timur." Batu said: "Anyway, Kun Timur was attacked by the Ming people. Timur suffered heavy losses and did not have the strength to interfere with our tribe. In that case, we
The situation will be better than now."
"If there is another chance, I will definitely not compete to be the Mongol Khan. But at this time, even if I want to retreat, I can't retreat. I can only hold on." Guilichi gritted his teeth and said: "As long as the Ming Dynasty is willing
Help me get rid of this great Khan, I am willing to pay any price!"
Hearing Gui Lichi's words, Batu couldn't help but nodded solemnly; Zoliger nodded like him, but his expression was a little weird.
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"The official, Lu Ming came back and told his slaves that the Mongolian Khan looked very respectful and did not have the demeanor of a king at all, and he was also very flattering to Lu Ming."
"And in order for His Majesty to receive him a few days earlier, he also gave Lu Ming an jade. I have seen it. This jade is not small. It would be worth hundreds of dollars in the Central Plains." Wang Gong stood aside and faced him.
Said Yunxi, who was lying on the bed with his upper body naked and enjoying the massage.
"Oh, this ghost Lichi not only agreed to come to Lanzhou to see me, he even treated a young eunuch with such respect. It seems that his situation is not good." Yunxi said.
He originally ordered Guilichi to visit Lanzhou, a city that was already relatively deep into the Ming Dynasty's ruling area, and asked Wang Gong to send a young eunuch to see him, all for the purpose of testing. Now from the results of the test, it seems that Guilichi's
The situation is very bad.
"Since his situation is so bad, I have to change my conditions. Wang Gong, please pass on the order and say that I will receive him on October 18th in three days."
"Yes, official." Wang Gong agreed. Seeing that Yunxi had no other instructions, he bowed and left.
Wang Gong had just walked out of the house when he saw Yun Zhi walking towards him. He quickly bowed and saluted: "I have met Her Royal Highness the Princess Huainan."
"I'm free of charge." When Yun Zhi said this, she had already passed by him and went straight to the room where Yun Xi was. Wang Gong stood up and was about to leave when he suddenly remembered something and turned around to remind Yun Zhi.
But before he could say anything, Yunzhi had already walked into the room, and then she heard her scream: "Brother, why are you taking off your clothes and lying on the bed in broad daylight!"
"Brother is enjoying a massage." Yunxi said with a smile: "Brother Huang's bones are aching from running all the way from Hualong. Let them massage and massage. It will soothe and soothe the muscles and bones."
"This is very good for your body. Do you want to try it? My brother will send some women who are proficient in this to give you a massage."
"Forget it, I think my body doesn't need this." Yunzhi sat on the bedside, picked up a winter pear and took a bite. "Brother, this pear is quite delicious."
"Lanzhou still has some specialties. The winter pear you are eating, as well as the black melon seeds and white melons on the table over there, are all local specialties. There are also some beautiful places near Lanzhou City that are worth seeing."
Yunxi said casually.
"Does Brother Huang know why my sister came to see Brother Huang today? Otherwise, why would she mention the scenic spots in Lanzhou City?" Yunzhi said with a smile: "We are indeed brothers and sisters, and we understand each other very well."
"Let me tell you, why did you come here to see your brother just after you settled down? It turns out that you want to go out for a walk." Yunhe said with a smile.
"Brother Imperial, my sister heard that Lanzhou is also an important town in the northwest. When I entered the city in the morning, I saw that the city is quite big. I thought there might be some places worth visiting, so I came to ask Brother Imperial for permission."
"Yes, brother, how could it be wrong? Just make arrangements for the guards. It's better not to go out of the city these days, just walk around in the city. After a few days, I will go out with you to see the scenery outside the city.
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"Thank you, Brother Emperor." Yunzhi had said this, and suddenly thought of something, and said: "Brother Emperor, my sister wants to go to Lanzhou Wei's school to ride horses. Please allow me to do so."
"You haven't ridden enough horses these days?"
"Where has my sister been riding horses these days? She rides in a car, rides in a car, rides in a car every day, and there is no chance to ride a horse at all."
"That's not possible!" Yunxi said in a gentle tone: "In a few days, the meeting between the emperor and the Mongolian Khan is over, and I will accompany you out of the city to ride horses. But you must not go to the guard school grounds."
"Yes, Brother Huang." Seeing his firmness, Yun Zhi could only agree. But she was thinking in her heart: 'Humph, after meeting Gui Lichi, it's already getting late, so it's time to rush to the capital.
Where is the chance for my sister to ride a horse? My sister must ride a horse in the city.'