Chapter 495: Huang Taiji in dilemma

Sixty miles west of the Liao River.

Pingxi Fort.

night.

Pingxi Fort was originally a military fortress in the Ming Dynasty, but now it is almost abandoned. The broken walls show that it was a city in the past, and the roads connecting the city are still clearly visible. Those roads that have been trampled on for more than a hundred years have long been steadfast. Even though they have been abandoned over the years, they are still clearly visible.

Now, this place is full of camps and has become crowded with people.

In a gorgeous camp, the lights of candles are very bright, illuminating the big tent.

Huang Taiji was holding his hands behind his back, staring blankly at the map. The Liaohe River that Huang Taiji crossed yesterday suddenly felt bad today, and he was a little dazed.

"Xiandou, when is the time now?" Huang Taiji asked.

"It's time for the Great Sweat, it's Xu." Fan Wencheng stood aside and answered immediately when he saw his master asking questions.

"Oh, it's Xu time! How far is it from Jinzhou?" Huang Taiji asked absent-mindedly.

"Returning to the Great Khan, this is Pingxi Fort, which is still two hundred miles away from Jinzhou, three or four days away." Fan Wencheng replied.

"Since the Ming Emperor attacked the Shanxi merchants, my Khan's news about the pass has become increasingly obstructed!" Huang Taiji sighed. Since the Ming emperor attacked the Shanxi merchants, the border guards have tightened their way to pass the pass, and they dare not let them pass the pass at will, because there are already guards involved in the Tonglu case and have been detained by the Jinyiwei and led the new army. God knows how many people will be involved, so they all became cautious and did not dare to let people enter and exit at will. They even captured some people who often entered and exit the pass and sent them to the Jinyiwei to eliminate the relationship between Tonglu and himself and do business outside the pass. The merchants who were involved in the caravans had no shelter from the caravans and wanted to get information. In addition, the Chinese New Year was covered with heavy snow, so the news was particularly blocked. Huang Taiji felt very uncomfortable and had a bad feeling.

"..." Fan Wencheng didn't know how to deal with it. The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty did hit the seven inches of the Later Jin Dynasty. In the past, most of the news about the Later Jin Dynasty had to be transmitted through the Shanxi merchants. Now that there is no news about the Shanxi merchants, they are becoming more and more vague about the situation inside the pass, and they are far less clear than before. Even if they can still get some news, it is not very accurate. When the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty took action against the Shanxi merchants, he put the hat of the Tonglu on the Shanxi merchants, which made many people who secretly communicated with them dare not let out, for fear of involving themselves.

"...The latest news is that the Emperor Ming Dynasty took action against the salt merchants and the Emperor Ming Dynasty was not very brave!" Fan Wencheng did not dare to answer directly, but could only mention this, what was the salt merchant? As a scholar in the Ming Dynasty and scholar, Fan Wencheng naturally knew the details and knew the complexities in it. According to his understanding, the eighteen-year-old emperor of the Ming Dynasty wanted to engage the salt merchants and fight with the salt merchants' backers. He was a little tender, which was simply seeking death. This was also seen as an excellent opportunity. He did not believe that the eighteen-year-old emperor of the Ming Dynasty could settle the salt merchants in a very short time.

There must be turmoil in the Ming Dynasty, and even the court will be suspended. In his opinion, this is an opportunity, so it is because the Later Jin Dynasty hurried to attack the Jinning defense line before the first month of the first month of the Later Jin Dynasty was rushing to attack the Jinning defense line. The Later Jin Dynasty's idea is now very obvious, which is to take advantage of the "civil strife" of the Ming Dynasty to squeeze out some benefits. Because once civil strife, the Ming Dynasty will be in chaos and everything will happen. If the Ming Dynasty is confused, the incident of Juehua Island two years ago may not be able to reappear. Grabbing Juehua Island once would be enough for them to eat for a year. That time, it was also the internal struggle of the Ming Dynasty that was too fierce, which gave them a chance.

"Although Ben Khan's attack on Jinning this time was related to the Ming Emperor's salt merchants, the form was not as good as others, so Ben Khan had to come!" Huang Taiji sighed. Although the Ming emperor's attack on salt merchants was very likely to lead to civil strife and disputes in the Ming Dynasty. Even if Jinning had loopholes, they could take advantage of loopholes. Just like last time Juehua Island, it would take a chance to eat one year, but more, Huang Taiji also had trouble saying that he had to come. The relationship with North Korea was completely screwed up last year, and the road to the east was completely blocked by Mao Wenlong.

Death, don't even think about the goods. At the end of last year, Emperor Ming suddenly attacked the Shanxi merchant and blocked another extremely important supply path for Dajin. Now he Dajin is really going to be a savage between the white mountains and black waters. He cannot produce too many things by himself, and he has to rely on obtaining them from others. To the west is Lin Danhan, who is even worse than him. He can only live by bartering with the Ming Dynasty. Now he is a mortal enemy of him, and it is impossible to sell him what Dajin urgently needs.

If Huang Taiji doesn't find a way, he doesn't need to fight others, he will still be able to survive this year. In the second half of last year, he fought a war of half a year. Although he gained a lot from Lin Danhan, he was consumed by Mao Wenlong. Tens of thousands of people fought for half a year, so how could he eat and drink less? He originally planned to cultivate and rest this year, but he knew that Minghuang would never let him rest quietly. The way of harassing more than a dozen people was afraid of being harassed every year, and this year's Dajin was indeed not afraid of fighting with the Ming Dynasty, but he couldn't resist the Ming Dynasty and ran away and harassed him farming and raising cattle. This cow record was only one or two hundred young and strong, and Mao Wenlong's killing talent, each team was thousands of people. It was not difficult to deal with these two hundred young and strong. The style of running after fighting was simply a robber, and he could retreat to the sea, which made him sigh.

This cow book is grazing, and there are not too many people who can be crowded together. People can be crowded together. Can animals be able to do it? If they want to graz, they must be dispersed. If they are dispersed, they will give Mao Wenlong the chance to kill.

Therefore, after hearing about the Ming Emperor's salt merchant, Huang Taiji immediately made a good excuse for himself, that is, to take advantage of the most likely civil strife in the Ming Dynasty to fight Jinning. If Jinning had flaws due to the internal civil strife in the Ming Dynasty, then the good things on Juehua Island two years ago might have happened again. So, after hearing the news that the Ming Emperor's salt merchant, Huang Taiji decided to attack Jinning. Of course, the actual situation was that he would not tell others, and he could only be kept in his heart. He would not take advantage of the spring before it started, so Mao Wenlong would have to

If he takes action, not only Mao Wenlong wants to take action, but he is afraid that Yuan Chonghuan will also follow suit, but Lin Danhan is also afraid that he will also take action. Once they take action, he will no longer be able to free up his energy and can only passively defend, which will be entangled. Therefore, in order to seize the initiative in the war, he insisted on attacking Jinzhou in the beginning of spring, so as to concentrate his energy and gain the initiative in the war. As for the entanglement between Mao Wenlong and Lin Danhan, he could only shrink his defense line and deal with it. He only hoped that he could find some gaps on Jinning's side.

"..." Fan Wencheng, as Huang Taiji's confidant, also knew the inside story. After listening to Huang Taiji's sigh, he couldn't answer for a long time. His current form is quite unfavorable to Dajin. He surrounded all sides and the cargo passage was cut off again. Dajin was about to become a pool of stagnant water, but it would soon become smelly...

"... In my opinion, the salt merchants are afraid that it is not easy to be beaten down like this. The salt merchants have been in charge of two hundred years of relationships in the Ming Dynasty. How could they fail easily?" Fan Wencheng could only comfort Huang Taiji in this way in the way of common sense inference. Within the Dajin, the Ming Dynasty scholars who defected to the Dajin were not the only ones. The scholars who knew the salt merchants very well agreed that the salt merchants could not be beaten down so quickly. The salt merchants would definitely have countermeasures. If there is a slight mistake, it would be the turmoil of the entire Ming Dynasty. Those salt merchants could do anything, and they would have many methods to stop. They would not give up if they did not force the emperor to give in or stop.

"Haha, Xiandou doesn't need to comfort Ben Khan like this. Although this is the case, based on Ben Khan's understanding of Minghuang, Minghuang is not a character who hastily taken action without preparation. Before taking action, he must have prepared thousands of techniques. Salt merchants..., the salt merchant wants to force Minghuang to shrink his hand,... I'm afraid it's difficult!" Huang Taiji looked at the candlelight on the candlestick and smiled reluctantly.

"..." Fan Wencheng didn't know how to answer. After thinking for a while, he said: "... Although the Ming Emperor has won in the court now, there may not be any movement in the local area. Perhaps the salt merchants can't make a counterattack. As long as the salt merchants counterattack, it will definitely be a strike and a class strike. In this way, there will be a great chaos within the Ming Dynasty, which will be extremely beneficial to our Dajin..." Fan Wencheng could only express this expectation and pin his hopes on the counterattack of the salt merchants.

Of course, this is just an expectation. Nowadays, news is very scarce in the Dajin side. The news about the Ming Dynasty is still around the Chinese New Year. The Ming emperors and officials fought in the court. As for what happened to the Ming Dynasty now, they were all dark. First, it was winter, and the news was extremely inconvenient to pass on the news. Second, their source of information was uprooted by the Ming emperor. Without the source of information, the news would naturally be unclear. It would be extremely laborious to judge the cause.

"...... The Xiandou should not expect those salt merchants. They dare not stop the market. The reason why salt merchants can survive for two hundred years is because of their relationship behind them. Now the Ming Emperor will be punished by the crime of Dajin on the heads of those salt merchants, and then force them to abdicate. Could the relationship behind the salt merchants really force the Ming Emperor to abdicate? Don't forget, what is the reputation of the Ming Emperor in the Ming Dynasty? Without the protection of those relationships, the salt merchants are just a few merchants. Any county magistrate can handle them..." Huang Taiji smiled bitterly again. He was also a sensible person, so naturally he would not be stupid enough to believe such naive words. Such words can deceive other brainless barbarians in Dajin.

"This... what Khan said makes sense..." Fan Wencheng also knew that this set of rhetoric could only deceive others, but could not convince Huang Taiji.

"Ben Khan hopes that the Ming Emperor is young and is very young. He won the salt merchants and got the sweetness. He didn't know how to stop and just set up a salt merchant. If he did that, he would be too powerful. As long as the salt merchants deal with it passively, it would be enough to make the Ming Dynasty go in chaos..." Huang Taiji said with a wry smile.

"Oh, why did the Khan say so? Since Emperor Ming has won, the salt merchant is left alone, why are there any problems?" Fan Wencheng asked. In fact, he understood this question, but he was not willing to go into details, for fear that if he went through details, there would be no hope, which would make people even more disappointing.

"Xiandou is a sensible person, but he asked clearly that Emperor Ming Dou had destroyed the salt merchants. If it were not for the cooperation of the salt merchants, it would take time to take over the entire Ming Dynasty's salt industry. If it was suddenly cut off, could the people of the Ming Dynasty not eat salt? If it only took ten days and half a month to buy salt, it would be a chaos in the world! Unless Emperor Ming gave up the salt class..." Huang Taiji said with a little hope. Of course, it was only a little hope. He didn't know the situation in the pass now, so he could only guess that on the one hand, but another reason told him that the Ming emperor would not be so reckless and would definitely be prepared.

"The Khan is right. If he was a slave, he had been a salt merchant who had been in the Ming Dynasty for 200 years and had done something that the Ming Emperor had not done in previous dynasties, he would definitely be arrogant. He was afraid that he would not make any concessions to the salt merchants, and he would definitely be a dead salt merchant. In this way, as long as the salt merchants interfere with it, eating salt in the Ming Dynasty would be a problem. This would be enough for the Ming Emperor to have a headache. If the world was in chaos, it would be better..." Fan Wencheng said, now that the news is vague, he can only comfort him like this.

"Hahaha... I'm afraid things are not going well! Ben Khan always feels that Emperor Ming will be prepared and has a backup plan. Emperor Ming will definitely have experts around him, and he will definitely give advice. Emperor Ming will definitely compromise with the salt merchants and will not do anything recklessly..." Huang Taiji was looking forward to the civil strife in the Ming Dynasty, but on the other hand, he also had reason to tell him that Emperor Ming would not be so unbearable. If he was in the position, he might even think of the problems that Emperor Ming might not have thought of. Emperor Ming would not have thought of, and the masters around him might not have thought of.

"This, the Khan is right..." Fan Wencheng Ying said.

"...Ben Khan is now hoping that the salt merchant can take a few moves under the Ming Emperor. Even if he cannot turn the tables, he will cause some trouble for the Ming Emperor. As long as he can get one or two months or half a year for the Khan, it will be enough. Ben Khan does not expect them to turn the Ming Dynasty upside down..." Huang Taiji smiled bitterly again.

"..." Fan Wencheng had nothing to say about.

The obstruction of the news made Huang Taiji unable to learn about the news within the pass in time. If he knew that the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty had completely settled the salt merchants and had made compromises with the salt merchants, he would not have thought so and would not have placed any hope on the salt merchants to mess up the Ming Dynasty.

If he knew that the Ming emperor had already received five million salt classes in advance and successfully took over the salt industry, he would have to reconsider whether he wanted to come to Jinning. Unfortunately, many things are often unexpected, and there is no regret in the world.

The two were chatting, and suddenly there was a burst of rushing shouts outside the tent, which seemed particularly harsh in this quiet night.

"What's going on outside?" Huang Taiji asked immediately when he heard the noise.

"Returning to the Khan, it seems that someone has entered the camp..." a guard immediately reported.

"It's too late, who else can enter the camp? Go and take a look and give it back immediately." Huang Taiji frowned and gave a stern order, a bad premonition rose to his heart.

"Zhe..." The guard received the order and immediately went to check it out.

Huang Taiji was walking back and forth anxiously in the tent.

The guard came back soon.

"Report..."

"What's the matter? Can it be found out?" Huang Taiji asked sternly, and his heart became more and more uneasy.

"Returning to the Khan is the vanguard who returns to the camp, saying that there is something important to report," said the guard.

"Bring in." Huang Taiji shouted.

"Zhe..." The guard took the order and came with two people covered in mud. If it weren't for the clothes on his body, it would be hard to recognize that this was Dajin's elite stalker.

As soon as the two spies entered the sweat tent, they knelt on the ground and cried in tears: "Master, you must be the master of your slave!"

"Tell me, what happened to you? Why are you so embarrassed? Are you who are the banners, that um? "Huang Taiji said angrily. Something happened. Huang Taiji carefully identified these two people covered in mud and exhausted, and vaguely remembered that they were probing horses with great knowledge and often came back to report the news. In order to understand the reliability of the news, Huang Taiji often had to talk to the spies in person to avoid missing the details, so he was a little familiar.

"If you want to go back to your master, I will be a job at the Zhenghuang Banner.... Khan, the slaves were chased by two thousand Yuan Manzi, and twenty brothers, and only a few of them escaped. On the way back, they fell a few more times. Master, you have to make the decision for the slaves!" The two of them said, and they were already in tears.

"What, Yuan Manzi dared to send two thousand people to chase you? What's going on?" Huang Taiji was shocked when he heard the news. It was so abnormal that two thousand people chased twenty people, and he became even more angry.

"If you go back to your master, you can't make a mistake. Two thousand people chased us for dozens of miles, and the servants finally escaped..." When these two people talked about escaping, they burst into tears again. They were chased by two thousand people with sabers. It felt really uncomfortable.

"What about the person chasing you? Who is it? Where are you now? Where are you left?" Huang Taiji asked angrily.

"Reply to the master's words, it seems that it was Zu Dashou, a subordinate of Yuan Manzi. He chased us for dozens of miles and then went back. On the way back, the servants met Taze Ema again. Taze Ema said something was strange and asked the servants to report to the master first. Taze Ema had already chased us..." The two people said sadly.

When Huang Taiji heard this, he was furious. Yuan Manzi was crazy. Two thousand people chased him for twenty horses. Is this a matter of that? This is provocation, this is a demonstration. Thinking that Yuan Manzi, who had been forced to move in the city, dared to send people to chase him for his horse. He chased him for dozens of miles. Huang Taiji was almost furious.

"Sweeping up the anger, this also shows that Yuan Manzi is guilty. He just wants to give me Dajin a warning, and he is afraid that there are few people. Therefore, he sent so many people to chase me Dajin twenty cavalry, and two thousand cavalry chase me Dajin twenty cavalry, which is enough to show that I Dajin elite, Yuan Manzi is timid, and Dajin..." Fan Wencheng saw that Huang Taiji was on the verge of going wild, and immediately reminded him and gave another explanation to the matter.

After hearing Fan Wencheng's words, Huang Taiji gradually calmed down and said to the two spies calmly: "Yes, that's just that Yuan Manzi is guilty and afraid of my Dajin. Therefore, he had to send two thousand people to deal with my Dajin twenty cavalry. This is not a bad thing, but a good thing. You are tired, go down and rest. The Japanese Khan of Ming Dynasty will be rewarded..." Huang Taiji calmed down and ordered.
Chapter completed!