Chapter 796 895 Mongolia's Conditions

"So, Duke Dingguo Xu Wenbi, Left Vice Minister of Personnel Zhang Siwei and 22 others all thought that Mongolia's request could be accepted, Duke Yingguo Zhang Rong, Minister of Revenue Zhang Shouzhi and 17 others thought that the peace agreement could not be accepted, and Minister of Works Zhu Heng and 5 others thought that tribute could be implemented, but trade was not convenient to implement."

Emperor Longqing was in the Qianqing Palace, watching the result of the court discussion. Seriously speaking, although the voting result seemed to have the upper hand, in fact, including Zhu Heng and other court officials who agreed conditionally, they were essentially objecting to Wang Chonggu's plan.

From this perspective, the voting result was actually the same as the number of votes Wei Guangde had originally calculated, both of which were 22 votes.

From this point of view, considering that the attitudes of the five cabinet ministers were surprisingly consistent, that is, supporting Wang Chonggu's plan, Emperor Longqing finally stood firm in his heart.

Looking at the cabinet ministers and several ministers standing solemnly, Emperor Longqing finally spoke: "Send an order, let Wang Chonggu go to discuss, this matter should not be disputed in the future.

Wait until Datong has a result, the court will make a plan."

Yes, now Wang Chonggu just gave an idea, and no one knows how Altan Khan will react, but the court has already quarreled.

This is why the cabinet wanted to cover up the matter at the beginning. For such a matter, you must wait until Wang Chonggu has negotiated the matter, and you court officials can discuss whether it is feasible.

What a rush, what a look.

Unfortunately, almost no memorials from the court can be kept secret.

When memorials from the local areas are sent to the capital, as long as they enter the Tongzhengshisi, they will be like a pair of small wings, and will soon spread throughout the government offices in the capital.

Although Guo Gan, Zhang Shouzhi and others were dissatisfied and wanted to stand up and say a few words, Li Chunfang and Gao Gong would not give them a chance to speak.

Guo Gan was able to speak earlier because he was the host of this court meeting, and he was naturally the one to report the memorial.

"I obey your order."

"I obey your order."

The first and second assistants had already stood up to receive the order, and then Zhang Juzheng, Wei Guangde and others bowed and received the order, shouting loudly.

As the cabinet ministers received the order, the Minister of Rites Pan Sheng, the Minister of Punishment Liu Ziqiang and others also bowed and received the order. Even the Minister of Works Zhu Heng, who had objections to this, chose to receive the order at this time.

Although he had the same attitude as Guo Gan and others, after all, the emperor had spoken, and naturally he could not resist the order.

At this moment, the cabinet members were relieved. Their matter of letting Datong contact Altan Khan was finally endorsed by the court.

Before this, although they had the emperor's tacit approval, there was no clear order after all.

They let Wang Chonggu contact Altan Khan, and it was a major mistake to spread the word.

Looking at the opposition forces in the court, we can know that they may be overthrown directly.

Fortunately, no one outside the cabinet knew about it, because the people who knew about it were still in Datong, which allowed them to survive this disaster.

Not to mention that everyone in the cabinet had their own thoughts in secret, but this time was different. Everyone was in the same boat. If something went wrong, everyone would fall into the water, so they gathered together unprecedentedly to overcome the difficulties together.

Coming out of the Qianqing Palace, Guo Gan, Zhang Shouzhi, Ge Shouli and others were still dissatisfied, but there was nothing they could do at this time. They just snorted heavily at this side and strode out of the palace gate.

"Shan Dai, this time you are smart and helped us a lot."

On the way back to the cabinet, Zhang Juzheng praised Wei Guangde.

Zhang Juzheng's words were of course recognized by others.

The voting results this time were not unexpected, but the final conclusion gave people another feeling, that is, the supporters seemed to have the upper hand, and the reason was just a word from Wei Guangde.

He directly divided the opposition before the vote, distinguishing the opposition to Wang Chonggu's proposal from the opposition to the "mutual trade". The result was that the opposition's power was divided into two, becoming 17 votes and 5 votes, which made it seem that the 22 votes of the supporters prevailed.

Although it was just a word game, if the result of such a court discussion spread outside, it would probably make many people quiet down.

At this time, in the Khan's tent in the center of Altan Khan's camp, Altan Khan was also struggling with this matter.

In the past few days, he has had separate discussions with Mongolian powerful figures, including his son Xin Ai Huang Taiji and others. They are all tribal leaders with tens of thousands of soldiers under their command, and their influence on the grassland is huge.

In recent years, as the Ming Dynasty gradually solved the Japanese pirates in the south, all its attention was shifted to the north, and elite soldiers and generals gradually gathered in the nine border towns. The gains of the Mongols from each harassment were getting less and less, and they were gradually unable to make ends meet.

The Mongol wars were all based on fighting to support the war. Once the Ming army's reserves in the border forts were reduced, even if they succeeded in the raid and captured the border forts, the gains were too little, and there was nothing left after the pensions were paid.

This situation has threatened Altan Khan's position, because many tribal leaders are no longer satisfied with the small fights on the border of the Ming Dynasty, and want to replicate the "Gengxu Change" again and enter the rich capital area of ​​the Ming Dynasty to plunder.

However, in the past twenty years, the Ming Dynasty did not do nothing.

In fact, in recent years, capable officials have been sent to the border towns, and the defense of each town has improved. At least the fortifications have been improved day by day, and it has become difficult to break through the pass easily.

Moreover, under the leadership of Ma Fang, the Ming generals seemed to be bolder, and dared to raid the grassland from time to time, so that the nomadic tribes did not dare to get too close to the Great Wall.

Of course Anda Khan can accept the death of people in a war.

But it was hard for him to accept such meaningless consumption.

What's more, because it is difficult to use force against the Ming Dynasty, and the Mongolians are now in a difficult situation of living materials, his status in Mongolia is also on the decline.

This time the grandson made Han Naji run away in anger, which dealt an even greater blow to his prestige.

Anda Khan even suspected that those tribal leaders who were still inciting the attack on the capital of the Ming Dynasty in front of him and forcing the Ming Dynasty to release Han Naji wanted the life of their grandsons.

Although the combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty's border troops has not improved much, the Mongols' military strength has not developed much in recent years. The strength of both sides has remained the same. He is not completely sure of rushing into the Ming Dynasty again to plunder property.

The living environment of the Mongols was too harsh, and their population replenishment was not as easy as that of the Ming Dynasty.

The key is that among the people who supported the war with the Ming Dynasty, there was actually his eldest son Xin Aitaiji, who completely ignored his nephew's life and death, which made Anda Khan feel very frustrated.

Those people in important positions were close to Zhao Quan and others in Bansheng City and were encouraged by them. He thought it was understandable to say these things in front of him. His son Xin Ai was not on the same page as Zhao Quan and others. He actually had such thoughts.

Just when Ada Khan was sitting in the big tent in a daze, he suddenly heard the guard at the door shouting "Hatun". He took back his thoughts and looked at the tent door. A charming figure opened the curtain and walked away. Come in.

The person who came was Zhong Jin Hatun, or in other words, it was Na Yan Chu. It was this woman who caused the current situation.

Of course, in later generations she also had a more widely known name, "Sanniangzi".

But Anda Khan is not a fool. He knows that it is actually him who made all this happen.

If he hadn't been obsessed with sex and forced that Yan Chu from Zhe Heng, these things wouldn't have happened.

It is not Ada Khan's style to blame all faults on others, but his attitude is very difficult to understand when he sees Zhongjin Hatun now.

"Greetings to the Great Khan."

Although she is a princess, when she sees Anda Khan, the third lady still has to bow first.

In fact, in the etiquette of the Han people, the three cardinal principles and the five constant principles are also regarded as the most basic human relations.

Three cardinal principles and five constant principles are actually two words: three cardinal principles and five constant principles, which come from the book "Spring and Autumn Fanlu" written by Dong Zhongshu of the Western Han Dynasty.

Dong Zhongshu believes that in human relations, there is a predetermined and eternal master-slave relationship between monarch and minister, father and son: the monarch is the master and the ministers are the slaves; the father is the master and the son is the slave; the husband is the master and the wife is the slave.

This is the so-called three principles: "The king is the guide for the ministers, the father is the guide for the son, and the husband is the guide for the wife."

Dong Zhongshu also believed that the five constant principles of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and faith are the basic rules for dealing with the relationship between monarch and minister, father and son, husband and wife, superior and inferior, and those who govern the country should pay sufficient attention to it.

In a centralized authoritarian system, in a patriarchal society, this theory is normal.

Even from a modern perspective, a country, a family, or a group must always have a master-slave relationship, a superior-subordinate relationship, and a leader-follower relationship. This is a natural principle.

After the third lady finished her salute, An Dahan asked her to stand up with an expressionless face.

Sanniangzi came here this time because she heard that an envoy from the Ming Dynasty was in the camp, so she wanted to find out about Han Naji from An Dahan.

Although she has no fate with him, he is also her grandson in terms of seniority.

"He lived a good life in Datong, and the people of the Ming Dynasty did not make things difficult for him."

Regarding Sanniangzi's question, Anda Khan gave a direct answer without being secretive.

In fact, regarding how to deal with the relationship with the Ming Dynasty, Anda Khan not only consulted his son in power and the leaders of the large tribes, but he also asked his two wives.

However, he did not tell the third lady about this because he found it difficult to tell the truth.

"Did the people of the Ming Dynasty set any conditions for Han Naji's release? Why didn't he come back on his own, but the Ming Dynasty sent an envoy?"

Sanniangzi is not stupid. On the contrary, on the prairie, although the tribes are nominally under Anda Khan's account, there are no shortage of overt and covert fights for their own interests. However, there is no longer the scene of frequent military confrontations in the past. Khan mediates here.

After all, they are family members. When the third lady asked, Anda Khan would not hide anything and immediately told the conditions offered by the governor of the Ming Dynasty.

After listening to Anda Khan explain the conditions given by the Ming people, it took a long time before Sanniangzi asked: "Does the Great Khan think it is possible for us Mongolia to regain the capital?"

"Unless Akito is in civil strife, it will be difficult."

Anda Khan knew the strength comparison between the two countries, so he would not be foolish enough to think that the Mongols could defeat the Ming army on the battlefield, which meant that they still had the power to conquer the Central Plains.

If the Mongols were really that powerful, they would not have been beaten back to the grasslands by the Han people.

It was also because he understood the gap in national power between the two countries that he took in those from the White Lotus Sect, because it seemed that only they could cause civil strife in the Ming Dynasty.

It's just a pity that after so many years, his support seems to be of little use.

The many riots organized by the White Lotus Sect in Shanxi, Shandong and other places were easily suppressed by the Ming Dynasty officials, and they did not achieve the purpose of weakening the national power of the Ming Dynasty at all.

"But we on the grassland need the food from the Ming Dynasty to help us survive the winter, we need their cotton and cloth to make clothes to protect us from the cold, and we need their salt and tea to improve everyone's lives."

Sanniangzi said, “All of these require transactions with Daming.

We can live on this prairie for a long time.

The winters in recent years are too cold, and cattle and sheep can't withstand such severe cold.

If we can reach a reconciliation with the Ming Dynasty, when winter comes, our tribe can migrate south to the border of the Ming Dynasty to resist the cold.

Even when we lack food for the winter, we can ask the Ming Dynasty for help, so that I don't know how many people in the tribe will die. "

The third lady has a strong political sensitivity. What she said just now was absolutely unthinkable in the past, because once they approached the Great Wall, they would attract the vigilance of the Ming army.

The Ming Dynasty would mobilize a large army to prepare for the battle, and they naturally couldn't live there peacefully.

"You mean, this Khan should pay tribute to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty?"

When saying this, Altan Khan's white eyebrows moved slightly, showing his uneasy mood at the moment.

"Paying tribute is of course not such a cheap thing, at least the Ming Dynasty should give enough sincerity. "

The third lady smiled at this time, her charming face was as gorgeous as a blooming flower.

Altan Khan was distracted for a moment, then calmed down.

After all, he was no longer a teenager, and he had already tasted the sweetness of the marrow. What's more, no matter how beautiful she was, she was still at his mercy.

"What do you mean?" Altan Khan asked hesitantly.

"The Khan's mentality now should be the same as that of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, so they should not want to continue fighting."

The third lady began to analyze, and Altan Khan nodded.

This scene, which happened when Zhao Quan and others found the grassland, happened again in the big tent.

"You mean, we don't fight, and let the Ming Dynasty give silver every year?"

Altan Khan was moved when he heard the third lady's words at this moment.

"War costs money, and not fighting means saving money. Shouldn't the saved silver be shared by my Great Mongolia?

Moreover, we have to use these so-called rewards to buy the necessary food, cloth and iron pots, otherwise where can we get so much money to buy things from the Ming people.

If we are only asked to sell cattle, sheep and horses, the Han people will be too harsh on the price, and we may suffer a big loss. "

The third lady immediately explained, "With this silver, the merchants who do business with us will definitely mobilize their connections to help us persuade their court to agree.

After all, this silver will eventually fall into their pockets. If the negotiation fails, this business will not be able to be done. "

"Makes sense."

After listening to the analysis of the third lady, Altan Khan nodded again, and it was obvious that he had agreed with her words.

"Since the governor of Xuanda in the Ming Dynasty can put forward conditions, the Khan can naturally do so. The conditions are a little tougher, and let the Ming envoy take the message back that it is possible to negotiate.

By the way, send someone to follow and see how the prince lives in Datong"