Chapter 28: King Horqin's Mind
"Gelon under the command of Boshuotu Khan of the West Mongolian, I would like to meet Zhuoshuotu Khan of the East Mongolian!" (Geldan went to Lhasa in his early years to worship the fifth Lama and practiced the monk's method. Later, he had the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains. The fifth Lama believed that Galdan was unique, so he gave the title "Boshuotu Khan".)
In Zhuosutu's tent, Galdan's envoy stroked his chest with one hand and bowed to Zhuosutu.
"Gron, welcome your arrival. But if you are not here in Ulan Butong to accompany you Galdan Khan, why do you have time to come to me?" Zhuo Suotu sat upright and said with a smile.
"We Boshuotu Khan have a few gifts. We wanted to give them to several great khans in Eastern Mongolia, but the villain was too lazy and afraid of walking far away. I heard that the Nadam Conference in Korqin was about to begin. I knew that the Khan kings nearby would come, so for the sake of convenience, the villain came here!" When the envoy named Gelong answered, he turned his eyes to Luo Xin sitting aside. His face could not hide his surprise. There was actually a woman who could sit so peacefully in the tent where Zhuosuo received distinguished guests. This was rare.
"Oh, what good things are you krypton? Take it out and take a look!" Wu Rigengun, who was standing beside Zhuo Suotu, shouted.
"Actually, there is nothing new. Just like the few times, it's just a little gold dug out from our Khan territory!" Gron smiled, turned around and shouted a few words to the back. Immediately, ten strong Mongolian men walked in with five boxes!
"It's gold again? Alas, I said Gron, you Boshuotuhan is really rich. This time, it's another 50,000 taels of gold, right?" Wu Rigeng's expression showed more than a little envy!
"That's right, Your Highness!" Gron said with a smile.
"This time, besides our Korqin, who else do you give to?" Zhuo Suotu asked.
"Return to Zhuosotukhan, there are also Xicun Guole League, Zhaowuda League, Zhelim League and Wendur Khan!" Gron replied.
"You carry hundreds of thousands of taels of gold along the way, and aren't afraid of danger?" Luo Xin finally couldn't help but ask a question when she asked Galdan's gift-giving behavior so generously.
"This one is..." Without answering Luo Xin's words, Gron asked ZhuoSotu about Luo Xin's identity.
"This is Princess Luo Xin!" Zhuo Suotu said.
"So it's a princess..." Gron gave Luo Xin a simple salute, but still did not answer Luo Xin's question. However, because he kept staring at him, Luo Xin still noticed that he squinted his eyes unnaturally when he heard his name!
"Since it was delivered by your knights from afar, I'm not polite!" Zhuo Suotu stood up and walked to the box containing gold and took a few shots, then said to Gron: "You have walked such a long way and are tired. Go and have a rest first. I'll drink with you tonight!"
"Xie Zhuosuo Khan!"
Gron was taken away by Wurijuan*.
Only Zhuo Suotu and Luo Xin were left in the big tent!
Neither of them spoke!
Zhuo Suotu looked at Luo Xin, Luo Xin looked at the mushy wine in front of her... wondering whether to try to take a sip!
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Finally, Zhuo Suotu couldn't help but ask Luo Xin first: "Princess, why don't you ask me why I accept Galdan's gift?"
"Why do you want to ask? Wouldn't you be too sorry for yourself if you don't swallow the fat meat you delivered to your door?" Luo Xin answered for granted, but her words made Zhuo Suotu feel heartbroken. Immediately, the Prince of Korqin asked again: "Princess, you should know that the emperor intends to expedition to Galdan in the west. He gave me gold. It is obvious that he is trying to win me over. You are the princess named by the emperor. Are you not afraid that I will be attracted to you and cause trouble to the emperor at that time?"
"Your Majesty, you can't do it!" After seeing Zhuo Suotu asks a few questions, he began to ask some questions. Luo Xin was a little funny. What's so nervous about such a simple thing?
"Why not?"
"No need for that!"
"Why is there no need for that? Galdan gave me Huang Chengcheng's gold!" Zhuo Suotu said.
"Is gold important to have life? Can Galdan give you more than your current status and wealth? I bet that Galdan must have not given gold to the Khan Kings near him. He is just playing the trick of "far and close attacks"! Prince, you are not a fool. Galdan did this to try to seize your Korma in the future. Then, it is not too much for you to collect some gold from him, right?" Luo Xin took a sip of the milk wine and immediately put it down! This thing is really unacceptable!
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"Prince, what's wrong with you?" Luo Xin looked at Zhuo Suotu standing there without saying a word, and shouted.
"Ah, nothing? The princess came from afar and was tired. We want a good creature to welcome you tonight. Please, please..." Zhuo Suotu came back to his senses and immediately invited Luo Xin outside, making Luo Xin inexplicable!
"What the hell?" Luo Xin muttered, and the servant who was summoned by Zhuo Suotu was taken to his "customer account"!
However, Luo Xin didn't know that after she left the tent, Zhuo Suotu sat down in the seat with sweat on his forehead, and looked glad: "Fortunately, all these were explained to the emperor. Even a little woman could guess Galdan's intentions. How could the emperor not see through? The emperor not only had many soldiers, but also many wise men and warriors around him. Galdan, Galdan, it's not that I, Zhuo Suotu, was it really you who planned to plot against me first. I took your gold and didn't help you with things, so you can't blame me!..."
While Zhuo Suotu muttered to himself, he wiped his forehead again!
It turned out that since Galdan killed his father and brother to seize the throne of Khan, and had a large number of annexed Western Mongolia tribes, occupying the two foothills of the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains and the four tribes of Qinghai, in order not to allow the Eastern Mongolia tribes to intervene in their expansion war, he distributed the gold produced in the gold mines in the occupied area to several more powerful Mongolian alliances that were not bordering him!
Zhuosutu's Kohlbi is one of them!
Moreover, due to Korqin's leadership among the Eastern Mongolia tribes, Galdan even gave Zhuo Suotu gold every other year! Zhuo Suotu accepted this happily and was happy in his heart! However, when Zhuo Suotu last saw the emperor in Fengtian, the matter was revealed! It turned out that several alliances that received the gold secretly submitted a secret copy to Kangxi, but Zhuo Suotu did not! For this matter, Kangxi scolded him hard and took the East Pearl on his crown, so he was not allowed to be inlaid! In this way, among the Khans who were enthroned in the Eastern Mongolian, there was no East Pearl on his crown. That day, Zhuo Suotu could be said to have lost all his face!
However, others were not aware that although Zhuo Suotu was taken away from the crown, he received greater benefits. Kangxi, in his confession and closeness to the royal family, asked him to make meritorious service and gave him a secret mission, which was...to continue to make friends with Galdan!
At the same time, in order to completely win him over to the camp of the court, Kangxi not only analyzed Galdan's strategic plan for "family and close attacks", but also secretly transferred the three banners of Kalaqin, the left, center and right, to the Korqin tribe, which had heavy troops, and all the Manchu and Han military camp flags, the armored people and the green camp generals there, were under his command of King Korqin to wait for dispatch - you should know that the three banners of Kalaqin are 500 miles from east to west and 450 miles from north to south, and the number of soldiers in the camp reached more than 70,000, and the strong men in the Korqin tribe were only 30,000, which was equivalent to letting Zhuo Suotu triple the strength overnight! With such great grace, Zhuo Suotu was of course the tighter it was behind Kangxi, and more importantly, Kangxi also gave him another "iron voucher for death"! (This story comes from Eryuehe "The Emperor Kangxi")
Therefore, under the two decks of light and dark cards of Kangxi, Zhuosutu became close to Galdan because of his reprimand and humiliation, which made Galdan win him even harder and constantly send a lot of gold. But secretly, Zhuosutu was paying attention to Galdan's movements for Kangxi at any time, and the 100,000 soldiers were waiting for Kangxi to dispatch them at any time!... It can be said that Zhuosutu made Galdan's voice, and Galdan was still counting money for him! This is also a big blame for Galdan, who underestimated Zhuosutu and the Khan Kings too much, and always wanted to expand, thinking that the Mongols promised a fortune, but they didn't consider that others were very strict with him!
However, Zhuo Suotu did not expect that he thought it was very secret and that what he didn't even tell his son was revealed by Luo Xin. Moreover, this little woman directly exposed his original intention of "just take money and not working"! This made Zhuo Suotu secretly admire him and was also frightened. Even this little woman could see through Galdan's plan, but he almost fell into the trap because of the gold. Thinking about it, if it weren't for Kangxi's instructions, his losses would be really unpredictable! If the court marched westward, Kangxi was annoyed that he secretly understood Galdan and took him and Galdan into a pot, wouldn't he die more unjustly? Thinking of the miserable scene after being surrounded by the imperial army and expelled the throne, his sweat couldn't stop raising his head!
"Fortunately, our Borjigit family has a person who can hold the scene in Beijing. Otherwise, the emperor would not have given me so much grace..." Zhuo Suotu thought about it and felt a little proud of his confession as a "wise"!
Chapter completed!