Chongzhen and I became partners

Chapter 756 Absolutely True

Batur Hunkhan looked at all the people in front of him looking at him, and said with a serious expression: "Wait!"

"Wait?" When I heard Ning Wan, I couldn't help being a little surprised and puzzled, and immediately asked, "What are you waiting for? How long will I have to wait?"

Batur Hunkhan didn't whet his appetite, but immediately explained seriously: "According to what I know, the Ming army has indeed become stronger and its armaments are also sophisticated. If we look at our current strength... "

Speaking of this, he glanced at Khabarov, and then continued: "...Even if there are [-] troops from Tsarist Russia, they will not be the opponent of the Ming army. Either they don't fight, or if they want to fight, they must fight. Only if we have the certainty of winning. We have to wait for the opportunity, and we have to wait for our strength to be strong enough..."

Whether it is the Heshuo Special Department or the Duerbert Department, they want to return to the Ming Kingdom, but Batur Hun Khan is not reconciled.

If it is said that the recognition of the Ming Kingdom as the suzerain is the same as before, only in name, and the tribal affairs are still independent, and at most it is only a tribute to the Ming Kingdom, then Batur Hunkhan probably recognizes it.

However, he got the news that if he returns to the Ming Kingdom, he will lose the power of the tribe, and he will just become an ordinary member of the civil and military officials of the Ming Kingdom. Mingren, from now on, the Zhungeer Department will no longer exist, which is completely unacceptable to him.

In fact, even Ozir Tuhan had concerns about this, not to mention that during this period, the strength of the Zhungeer Department was booming.

Batur Hun Khan has already understood the despicable strategy of the Ming Dynasty, which is to lure ordinary herdsmen and disintegrate the tribe from the root.

In this regard, he believes that the herdsmen of his own tribe will not be tempted by this.At the same time, he also believed that there were so many herdsmen from the three Mobei tribes, the Heshuote tribe and the Duerbert tribe, it was absolutely impossible for the Ming Dynasty to fulfill its promise and give those ordinary herdsmen a better life.

Based on this, Batur Hunkhan said to wait until those ordinary herdsmen finally found out that the Ming Dynasty had not fulfilled its promise, and they would be dissatisfied, prone to accidents, and easily defeated.

At this time, listening to Batur Hunkhan talking there, Ning Wan's ugly face obviously improved a little, because he agreed that if the situation is really as what Batur Hunkhan said, wait a little longer, it will be more serious. for the benefit.

However, Khabarov was surprised when he heard it, and immediately interrupted Batur Hunhan's long speech, questioning: "Didn't it mean that the Ming Dynasty is very rich, very rich? They won't be able to accommodate more than 10 yuan. population?"

If this is really the case, it is the people of the Qing Dynasty who were fooling him before.After all, in the past, they kept talking about how prosperous and rich the Ming country was.

The same is true. He also described it according to this after returning to China. Otherwise, the Tsar would not have given him the command of [-] troops and sent them to the Far East.

Hearing his doubts, Batur Hunkhan didn't say anything, and I said for him after Ning Wan: "Ming is prosperous and rich, but it doesn't mean that the Ming emperor is rich, or that the Ming court is rich! Don't say anything else, let's just say that five or six years ago, the court of the Ming Dynasty couldn't even pay the border troops, but there were so many rich people in the Ming Dynasty, this is all true!"

Upon hearing this, Khabarov suddenly realized.This situation also exists in Tsarist Russia.

Just because rich people have money does not mean that the tsar has money. Otherwise, there would have been no riots by salt merchants in the past two years.

At the end of Ning, I saw that Khabarov understood the meaning, so I turned my head to look at Baturhunhan, and asked him: "You can wait, just waiting for this matter?"

If this is the case, he feels that he still needs to persuade him, because he is anxious, and he feels that the Qing Dynasty will also be anxious.

As a result, Batur Hunkhan shook his head and said after hearing his words, "Of course it's more than that. There is one more thing, which is to have more allies. And I believe, we have."

Hearing this, Ning Wan and I became curious, so I immediately continued to ask: "Who else?"

"Gushi Khan!" Batur Hun Khan listened, and said with confidence, "I will personally go to Tibet, lobby Gushi Khan, and explain to him the powerful relationship. As long as Gushi Khan joins, then we will have a good relationship with the Ming Kingdom." It’s not just the barren Gansu’s naturalization and the like. And by taking advantage of the terrain, the possibility of defeating the Ming army will greatly increase!”

Upon hearing this, Ning Wan and I suddenly realized that there is indeed such a powerful force around the Ming Kingdom.In the original history, Tubo on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was able to fight the Tang Empire until it became close, because it had the advantage of terrain.

But he immediately came back to his senses, and said suspiciously: "But, didn't you say just now that Oqiertu led the Heshuote troops here to surrender to the Ming Dynasty? That Gushi Khan..."

Hearing his doubts, Batur Hunkhan said decisively: "How can Oqiertu be compared with Gushi Khan! If I am not sure, I will not go to persuade Gushi Khan in person!"

"Really?" After I heard it, Ning got a little excited and immediately confirmed.

In the previous alliance in the naturalization of the regent of the Qing Dynasty, Gushi Khan was not included in the soldiers.If Gushi Khan can deal with Ming, that would be great!

When Batur Hunkhan heard his words, he firmly reaffirmed: "Absolutely true!"

His certainty comes from his understanding of Ming strategy.The Ming Dynasty fought against the chieftains of the Southwest, reforming the land and returning them to the people. In the territory of the Ming Dynasty, there were even no chieftains, even those who were loyal to the Ming Dynasty court before.

In addition, judging from the Ming Dynasty's policy on the grassland, it is also similar to the effect of reforming the land and returning it to the people.The emperor of the Ming Dynasty did not allow other chieftains or khans to exist, and all of them had to be brought under the governance of court officials.

In this way, Qinghai-Tibet, Gushi Khan and the religious leaders there will all face the same situation as the chieftain and Khan, which is absolutely intolerable there.

The same is true, Batur Hun Khan asserted, Gushi Khan will listen to his advice!
At this time, after he finished answering my words, he turned his head to look at Khabarov, and said to him: "The Ming army's firearms are sharp, but our Wacha's firearms are almost non-existent. I hope you Tsarist Russia can sell some. How about giving us firearms and strengthening our allies so that we can defeat the Ming army more easily?"

For a long time, the Zhungeer Ministry and Tsarist Russia have actually been in a state of love and killing each other. There were conflicts and trade; Bought a lot of firearms.

Compared with bows and arrows, firearms have a slower rate of fire, but if the difference in lethality is too great;

If the enemy is shot by a bow and arrow, the enemy may still be alive and kicking with the arrow hanging on his body; but if he is hit by a firearm, he will definitely not be able to fight again if he is not dead.

The impact of bows and firearms on the morale of the army is absolutely different.Especially after the firearm is scaled up, it can also make up for the lack of fire rate, and the power will be greater.

Based on this cognition, Batur Hun Khan kept avoiding fighting and even moved westward after knowing that the Ming army was equipped with a lot of firearms.

However, Khabarov was a little embarrassed when he heard it.

Originally, he excitedly led 1 people to the expedition, and his mind was full of rushing into the territory of the Ming Dynasty to make a fortune with his allies.This is also the expectation of the tsar and other domestic bigwigs; after running so far, they found that the enemy was strong, and they still had to wait.

This result disappointed him a little, and it also disappointed his [-] troops. If the Tsar knew about it, he would certainly be disappointed too.

However, Batur Hunkhan had analyzed it just now, and it sounded reasonable to him.He also wanted to give firearms, but the problem was that he didn't bring an arsenal here, and his own army didn't guarantee that it was full of firearms, so how could he sell the extra firearms to the Zhungeer Ministry!

Batur Hunkhan obviously knew his embarrassment, so he said to him again: "I want to buy with a lot of money, and the price will definitely satisfy you. As for the delivery time, as long as you give it before the war with the Ming Kingdom. I reckon, it should be It will be next summer and autumn."

He is going to Tibet here, talk to Gushhan Khan, and then adjust his troops. It is estimated that the climate will not allow it, and he will have to wait until next year.In this way, there should be time for Tsarist Russia to transfer a batch of firearms from their country.

This time, he also went all out, didn't care about money, and didn't care about it anymore.

Because he knew that if he didn't take advantage of this opportunity to defeat the Ming Kingdom, or at least get rid of the Ming Emperor's unreasonable thoughts about the Western Regions, then sooner or later, the Zhungeer Ministry would cease to exist. He will never allow it.

Khabarov's eyes lit up when he heard Batur Hunhan's words "heavy money to buy".

He was able to lead [-] troops to such a long distance, after all, it was not for money!

If Batur Hunkhan was really sincere and able to offer a price that would impress the czar, then he believed that the czar would not mind selling them firearms to fight against the Ming country, and by the way he could rob the Ming country again.

Thinking about it this way, he didn't care that Ning Wan, the envoy of the Qing Dynasty, was by his side, and I couldn't wait to bargain with Batur Hunhan, how much price, how many firearms to buy, what types, etc.

After this discussion is over, there is another question, that is, if the [-] troops of Tsarist Russia have been waiting here, what will happen to the military salary and food?
That's a lot of money!

The result of the final discussion between the several families was that those tribes who surrendered to the Zhungeer tribe, as well as the Turghut tribe, would raise the Tsarist Russian army together.Whoever refuses to accept it, just go and deal with him first!
During the whole process, neither Batur Hunhan nor Khabarov, or Ningwan me, ever consulted the Turghut Ministry for advice.

The reason is very simple, who made the Turhu Special Department not strong enough!

(End of this chapter)