Unexpectedly, the Southern General, who looked younger than him, said similar words.

He said: "You are right. If you only have strength but no brains, you can't become a qualified general even if you can beat a thousand people. I didn't expect that you are so young and you still know these things very well."

After saying that, he kicked off his horse and said to Zheng Yunming: "Let's go, let's go over there and talk."

There were several stone tables and benches not far from the side of the road. Zheng Yunming also got off the horse. Everyone came to the table and benches. Tasi and Zheng Yunming sat down on both sides.

A guard handed over a cowhide bag and came up. Tasi unscrewed the lid, took a few sips, twisted the lid and threw it towards Zheng Yunming.

This is the custom of the Mongols' hospitality. Zheng Yunming unscrewed the lid, and the smell of Ma** wine rushing into his nostrils. It was incomparable to the sweet wine of the Southern Dynasty. However, in order not to lose its etiquette, he could only hold back his anger and drink it.

Tasi saw that his cheeks were red with Ma** wine, but he still laughed a few times. He took the cowhide bag thrown by Zheng Yunming and put it aside, and said in a deep voice: "I want to see you this time, and I have a few things to say."

Zheng Yunming sat upright and said seriously: "If you have anything to say, you might as well say it directly."

"The first thing I want to inform you as usual. Now that I surrender, I will let you be the Khan in charge of Jinghu. All the people in Jinghu will be your subordinates. In the future, your status will definitely not be low in front of the Khan."

"Go to the army and each is his master," Zheng Yunming said: "If I take charge of the grasslands and let the king surrender to the Song Dynasty, what should you make a decision?"

Of course, Tasi had known Zheng Yunming's answer for a long time. Even if he had been alone, he would not have surrendered so easily. At least he had to show how brave he was able to fight in front of Qu Chao to gain an important position in the future Mongolian army.

He said again: "I have another thing to do about this matter. Since there are Cang Wolves and White Deer in the world, people have used bows and arrows to fight swords and guns. How could they hear of fighting with fire? It makes no sense for you to make these fire-breathing guys come out."

Zheng Yunming laughed and said, "The firearm was not the first one used by me in the Song Dynasty. You were shocked by the thunder of the Jin people in the north. Do you also come to the city to scold them for being unreasonable?"

Tasi raised his eyes and said, "What if both armies do not use firearms and decide the outcome in the city with dignified decisive results?"

Zheng Yunming almost laughed out loud. He didn't expect that the general who ruled the troops could say such words, but he looked very simple and cute. He replied loudly: "If our army does not use firearms, the northerners will not ride horses. What if everyone is right in the wild with the infantry and army?"

Tasi shouted, "That won't work. The grassland man will grow up immediately. Only the most useless person will lose his horse." After a pause, he said, "You can use firearms as much as possible, but our Mongolian army seized the Sinansi soldiers who used firearms and executed them on the spot. We will never be lenient."

Zheng Yunming sneered: "If you dare to do this, every time we kill a firearm hand of our army, we will definitely propose a real Mongolian from the prisoners to kill him."

Tasi laughed loudly and said, "It depends on whether you can catch so many Mongolian soldiers."

Zheng Yunming also said: "We must first see how many live firearms the Mongolian army can catch."

The two of them were not talking about the speculation, and the atmosphere immediately became awkward. Zheng Yunming hurriedly changed the topic: "Your subordinate, Shi Weizhong, captured last year, was decided to exchange for Zhao Xiang, the garrison general of Dengzhou who surrendered to the north last year. I wonder what the king wanted?"

He clearly wanted Zhao Xiang's life to punish those timids who were resistant to the enemy. If this move really worked, no one would surrender easily in the future. But Shi Weizhong had to save him. Since Shi Weizhong was lost to the hands of the southerners last year, his brothers Shi Zhizhong and Shi Huanzhong fought for the leadership of the Black Army, so that the training of the Black Army was far less stringent than that in the past. The Black Army was under the control of Tasi, and in order to prevent his powerful army from sinking, he had to find a way to rescue Shi Weizhong no matter what.

Tasi rolled his eyes, changed into a slow look and said, "I can't make the decision on this matter. I have to go back and discuss with King Qu'er before making a decision."

Although he was simple by nature, he had the ability to negotiate with the army since he was a child.

Zheng Yunming also knew that this matter was not so easy to decide. For the Mongolians, both sides of the matter should be considered, but based on his consistent understanding of the Mongolians, they usually put immediate interests first.

The exchange of prisoners is likely to succeed.

He made a gesture, and Han Feng took a volume of documents and placed them on Shi Zhuozi. Tasi naturally didn't understand Chinese characters. He put his hand on the stone table and looked at Zheng Yunming with a little doubt.

"I won't say much," Zheng Yunming said: "If your army cannot capture Jinghu this time, we will have to continue getting along in the future. Since that's the case, it's better to continue to open business deals on the border after the war is over. Is this suggestion your army accepting?"

Tasi was stunned again, and then he realized that Mongolia's strategy, while conquering cities and territories, had to continue trade with the enemy. This seemed incredible, but in fact it was the inevitable way for the nomadic empire to survive. The grassland products were barren, and there was almost no production except for the six animals. If you want to maintain luxury living supplies, you must rely on outsiders.

The only way to obtain various luxury goods and daily necessities from outside is robbery or trade. To outsiders, robbery seems to be the best source for the Mongols to obtain materials. A large-scale expedition can obtain thousands of slaves, gold, silver, tea, cloth, cattle and sheep, which is much cleaner and neat than slow and limited trade channels. However, the side effects of the war also hurt the Mongols deeply. Years of siege and years of siege, the resistance of the occupied residents, and the increasing casualties are always increasing. These may not be anything when the Mongols were trapped in the north of the desert for a long time and had nowhere to do, but now everyone is rich and noble, thinking about how to enjoy some tenderness and wealth, casualties gradually become an unbearable thing.

What's more, looting was just a one-time transaction. After the ravage and killing was completed, the Mongols lacked effective means to restore the productivity of the occupied areas. Even if they recruited talents from different races widely, and even had generalists like Yelu Chucai who were well versed in Sinology, they had no effect on restoring the prosperity and stability of the Central Plains as a whole. The people were massacred and fled, the countryside was abandoned, and the cities were deserted. Even if they went south again, they could not find anything.

In comparison, trade is a good choice. The Mongolians are not short of goods used for trade. Whether it is the cattle, horses and sheep they breed themselves, or the goods produced by large-scale plundering craftsmen, they are all hot goods that have been sold for thousands of years in the mainland trading system. They do not have to worry about the sales of goods. As long as the caravans can reach the other party's market, the profits can be said to be safe in their pockets.

Regarding the robbery problem that has been plagued by long-term trade, since the Mongols began to establish a stable rule in one place, they have focused on eliminating the thieves who attacked the merchants along the way. This is the top priority for income in the palace tent. Even if they invest all their troops, the Khan will never be stingy. In fact, as long as they have seen the previous Khan Temujin being robbed by the border guards of Khwarezm for a team of business travelers, they invested 150,000 cavalry in anger, and the Khwarezm who had hundreds of thousands of victorious soldiers destroyed the entire country, no matter how bold the thieves of Youtian dared not take action directly against the Mongol Khan's caravan.

In fact, as the new overlords of the Central Plains, they had a better choice, which was to restore the Jin Dynasty's practices and continue to implement an effective tax system in the Central Plains. The Central Plains have been boasting about the vast land and wealth, which is enough to meet the needs of most of the rulers. Only a small part of them need to be shared. However, the Mongols despise Confucian scholars, ignore the cultural traditions formed by the Central Plains for thousands of years, and rigidly put the method of governing grasslands into the settlement areas of the Central Plains. This method will be proved to be unsuitable for the situation in the Central Plains in the near future and will be abandoned by the Mongols themselves. Similarly, the Mongolian ruling policies of conquered territories in the West have also been abandoned one after another.

Today, this stupid rule policy represents that the princes from all over the country only need to contribute some simple tribute to the Khan, at least it is an extremely thin tribute compared to local taxes. Then they can firmly grasp the power of taxation in the Central Plains in their own hands. Generals from all over the country, such as Zhang Rou, Yan Shi, Shi Tianze, etc., all live on their own and become rich families, but the benefits that Mobei can get greatly reduced.

Of course, Dahan is not really a fool. Since the past few years, Dahan has absorbed the advice of Han ministers such as Yelu Chucai and tried to establish a complete tax mechanism. However, this attempt was carried out as the starting point for the future of endless tax collection system. The result of the implementation of the tax collection system in recent years has not only caused dissatisfaction among the generals from all over the country, but the people from all over the ten roads in the north are even more miserable.

So if this guide to Jinghu ended in vain, Dahan probably really had to consider whether he would continue to maintain trade ties with the Southern Dynasties.
Chapter completed!