Chapter 157: The Grand Plan for Founding the State, the Best Strategy for Security

I Truly Do Not Attend to Proper Duties: Chapter 167, The Grand Plan for Founding the State, the Best Strategy for Security. The Great Ming dispatched Tan Sima Tan Lun to Daning Guard. Nominally, it was to reward the troops, but in reality, it was to inspect military merit. This was the job of the censors, but they were idle and insisted on inspecting it themselves, so the imperial court sent them to inspect it themselves.

"Who is leading the censors to inspect the merit of heads?" Tan Lun looked at Liang Liang Menglong, Liu Liu Yingjie, Ma Fang, Ma Gui, Yang Wen, Chen Chen Dacheng, and others, and asked with some doubt. The heads of the Beijing Camp and the Jizhou military were all on his side, intending to go to Taotu Mountain to check the reserves of bentonite. Everyone was there, so who was receiving the censors?

"Li Li Rusong." Ma Fang tried his best to keep his face serious.

When the Beijing Camp was selecting generals, Li Li Rusong said that the military generals in the capital were treated like slaves by the civil officials. He didn't want to stay and wanted to return to Liaodong. After being taught a lesson by Qi Qi Jiguang and severely beaten by Tan Lun, Li Li Rusong's arrogance was slightly restrained.

It was like training a hawk. Li Li Rusong was that hawk. The more he disliked civil officials, the more Qi Qi Jiguang sent him to contact them. To a large extent, the greatest enemy of the Great Ming military generals and the Great Ming army was not the Northern Barbarians or Eastern Barbarians, but these people behind their backs.

Qi Qi Jiguang had high hopes for Li Li Rusong, so he spared no effort in cultivating him. Only through contact could one understand and skillfully deal with their mouths, and also know how terrifying those mouths were.

"Alright." Tan Lun heard this and revealed a smile. Training hawks—Tan Lun was also one of the hawk trainers. Being able to train this unruly hawk, Li Li Rusong, could be considered having a successor.

Qi Qi Jiguang took Tan Lun to Taotu Mountain. It was a mountain. The Great Ming's consumption of bleaching earth was indeed large, but for a mountain, it was negligible.

This was also the lock and key for the seven camps outside Daning Guard.

"Heading north from Taotu Mountain, there are three camps: Xinglong Fort, Qingshan Fort, and Xingshu Fort. These three camps are all west of the Laoha River. The time for the Northern Barbarians to attack is very certain; it is in the autumn. In autumn, the Laoha River is swift and difficult to cross. These three camps, upon hearing news of the barbarians, can ignite wolf smoke to refuse the enemy, and Daning Guard can sally forth to intercept the enemy." Standing on the hilltop of Taotu Mountain, Qi Qi Jiguang introduced the defense of Daning Guard.

Xinglong Fort is surrounded by mountains on three sides and is a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so it only needs a city wall of less than five li to defend. Heading north from Xinglong Fort is Xingshu Fort, named because it grows a forest of apricot trees. And if the Northern Barbarians come from the east, they will hit Xingshu Fort head-on.

Qinglong Fort is north of Yuanbao Mountain and is also the front line. It is also a mountain pass. The two camps occupy the traffic arteries. Any enemy who wants to invade Daning Guard must break through Xingshu Fort and Qinglong Fort.

After breaking through Xingshu Fort and Qinglong Fort, the terrain begins to become flat and belongs to the area of Quanning Guard, which is also the area directly controlled by the Hu Barbarians now.

Breaking through one camp, for the Great Ming with artillery, requires overwhelming force. For the Northern Barbarians, it is even more difficult.

These two camps are a type of irregular bunker, a sharp weapon for defending the city pioneered by Qi Qi Jiguang in Jizhou: the hollow enemy platform.

The enemy platform needs to protrude about 1.4 or 1.5 zhang outside the side wall and about 5 chi inside the side wall. The hollow enemy platform is three stories high in the middle, with artillery, observation windows, and arrow windows on the middle floor. The design of the bunker outside the city is the experience and summary of long-term fighting with the Northern Barbarians.

This type of irregular bunker requires a huge price in casualties to capture even one.

"Those who are good at attacking make the enemy not know what to defend; those who are good at defending make the enemy not know what to attack. Attack and defense are the spear and shield of war. Only by flexibly dealing with this contradiction can one pacify the barbarians and resist the enemy. One can be called a good warrior. Obviously, General Qi is a good warrior." Tan Lun heard Qi Qi Jiguang's arrangement and said sincerely.

According to Qi Qi Jiguang's arrangement, one cannot say that Daning Guard is solid as a rock, but only that it is impregnable.

Tan Lun is not a sloppy scholar. He is a Ming Jinshi who personally held a sword and fought desperately with the Japanese pirates for more than ten years. Standing from the perspective of the Northern Barbarians, attacking Qi Qi Jiguang's defense zone is not as painful as running to fight Altan Khan desperately.

Liang Liang Menglong took over Qi Qi Jiguang's words and continued, "As of now, Daning Guard has more than 11,000 qing of farmland, more than 20,000 qing of forest land, and 8,000 qing of pasture land. Just looking at the farmland, it can support 20,000 troops. If you count the output of the forest land, it can increase by at most 3,000 troops. Based on calculations such as land reclamation, it is about 30,000."

Counting five people per household, that's about 150,000 people.

The reason Liang Liang Menglong wanted to say this was actually to tell the imperial court that guarding this place is not as expensive and money-losing as imagined. During the Emperor Hongwu era, Daning Guard was first established, and 80,000 troops were filled in directly. These 80,000 troops were 80,000 households. People ate and horses chewed. The farmland in this place simply couldn't support it. The land was only so much. Therefore, if it is reduced to 30,000, it is just right.

30,000 troops are more than enough.

As long as 30,000 troops are nailed here, the Northern Barbarians will never be able to invade the border again. This place has extremely important strategic significance.

Liang Liang Menglong continued, "If Daning Guard is lost, then Kaiping and Xinghe will definitely be lost. Only the eight cities of Dushi will remain. If the Tumu Incident happens, the eight cities of Dushi will also be lost. If Daning Guard is here, the Northern Barbarians cannot go south. If Daning Guard is not here, the Northern Barbarians can break through any point along the long Great Wall. The Great Ming piles up heavy troops but is overwhelmed. If Daning Guard is here, the Northern Barbarians cannot enter the capital. This is the grand plan for founding the state, the best strategy for security."

After Liang Liang Menglong finished speaking, he looked at Tan Lun. Tan Lun has always advocated recovering the Ordos Loop and Daning Guard. Now Daning Guard has been captured by the Great Ming army.

"What is the public opinion in the imperial court?" Qi Qi Jiguang asked with a heavy face.

"Still the same, chattering without a proper word. It's not them who are fighting, it's not them who are guarding the frontier, and it's not them who are being held accountable. They can naturally nag. Do you see those twelve censors? They were sent by His Majesty. According to His Majesty's meaning, it's that the frontier road is slippery and there are many fierce beasts." Tan Lun talked about the public opinion in the court, and a smile appeared on his face.

"That won't do." Qi Qi Jiguang also laughed when he heard this. Dealing with civil officials, the most important thing is that you must never fall into their trap.

Taking these twelve censors as an example, they ran over to disgust people. They must not have any danger. Otherwise, the Beijing Camp and the Liaodong Army will immediately fall into the trap of "relying on military power and fearing vassal states," and then they will be unable to extricate themselves from this trap.

Qi Qi Jiguang will not do anything to them. He won't give them good food or drink, but he will let them see whatever they want to see.

Tan Lun, as the Tan Sima, the Great Ming's Tan Sima, personally came to Daning Guard. Of course, Tan Lun himself was stifled in the capital and wanted to come out for some fresh air. There was also the layer of bringing censors to watch them to prevent them from making false accusations. False accusations are equivalent to hurting people with sharp weapons and must be punished.

There is a deeper meaning: is this Beijing Camp that can fight and win the Great Ming's Beijing Camp, or Qi Qi Jiguang's Beijing Camp? This is very, very important. It is so for the imperial court, and it is so for Qi Qi Jiguang.

His Majesty does not doubt Qi Qi Jiguang at all, but the officials in the court are a little afraid.

Qi Qi Jiguang is too good at fighting.

Tan Lun looked at Qi Qi Jiguang and others, thought for a long time very solemnly, and after deliberating again and again, said, "His Majesty's handling of the censors is becoming more and more severe."

"At the very beginning, when Jia Jia Sanjin and others knelt at the palace gate, His Majesty explained patiently. Later, when Jia Jia Sanjin missed the morning court, His Majesty dismissed him directly, not allowing him to sign official documents. Then there was the matter of Lu Lu Guangzu's request for retention, and His Majesty directly used the charge of false accusation to give the censors court beatings. Then there were Fu Fu Yingzhen, Liu Tai, Yu Yu Maoxue, and others who were convicted and imprisoned. His Majesty directly opened a public trial in the Huangji Hall. Liu Tai and Yu Yu Maoxue were sentenced to be beheaded, while Fu Fu Yingzhen escaped a disaster and went home."

"Facing the sophistry of the court officials, His Majesty found a way to deal with it. The first is 'one who acts, practices reality.' If you don't base it on reality, even if you talk about it brilliantly, it is hypocrisy. For example, men are men, and women are women. Recently, some actors who sing songs are effeminate, ghostly, and their makeup and clothing are very similar to women, and their makeup is even better than prostitutes. You can't distinguish their gender. The decline of customs has actually become a trend."

"Can men be women? The words spoken by these censors are all hypocrisy. Behind them, it's just profit coming and going."

"The second method His Majesty found is a sharp blade. Sometimes, a sharp blade can make things simple."

"And the Beijing Camp led by General Qi is the sharp blade in His Majesty's hand."

Tan Lun has dealt with too many military generals. Even his own political spectrum is more like a military general than a civil official. So he knows he must make his words clear, not bending and winding, ambiguous. Once the army understands it wrong, Tan Lun will die ten thousand times and still be unable to shirk his responsibility.

"Where His Majesty points, is where the Beijing Camp will break through." Qi Qi Jiguang was very calm, as if he were stating a matter-of-fact truth.

Qi Qi Jiguang is a vermilion-red Emperor's party. The political spectrum of the Zhang Party and the Zhe Party on him is fading.

Ma Fang breathed a sigh of relief. He stopped Qi Qi Jiguang's idea of continuing north. Actually, he was also quite worried. Once the public opinion in the court really formed a policy, and finally led to this expedition outside the frontier being the last swan song of the Great Ming Beijing Camp, how would Ma Fang face the soldiers of the Beijing Camp?

Now he is not worried. The Little Emperor is hitting hard in the court, and even cut down two censors. This is a very good signal.

Ma Fang has a strange and reasonable standard. He observes the direction of public opinion in the court by looking at whether civil officials, especially the mouthpieces of the powerful and wealthy, will be unlucky. To make these powerful and wealthy people unlucky, the Emperor must hold the knife tightly, and the Beijing Camp will inevitably continue to attack.

As for peace talks and enfeoffment, Ma Fang has been through many battles, and he simply doesn't believe it can be done.

War is something where any side can only decide the beginning of the war, but cannot decide the end of the war. More simply, the Great Ming and the Northern Barbarians have not fought enough, so just keep fighting.

Qi Qi Jiguang and Tan Lun talked for a long time before returning to the city of Daning Guard. After Ma Fang and others left, Qi Qi Jiguang took out a letter from his bosom. Qi Qi Jiguang had not shown this letter to anyone; it was a secret edict from His Majesty.

It was called a secret edict, but it had Zhang Zhang Juzheng's signature on it. Obviously, the Grand Secretary knew about it.

"Whoa!" Tan Lun finished reading the letter, looked at Qi Qi Jiguang with a frown, looked him up and down for a long time, and then asked with some suspicion, "Is General Qi surnamed Zhu?"

"Why is the Tan Sima talking nonsense!" Qi Qi Jiguang was unhappy when he heard this and immediately retorted.

"You are in Daning Guard, and your power is greater than that of the Ning Prince at the beginning. And you still say you are not surnamed Zhu." Tan Lun pointed to the four characters "act according to circumstances," and clicked emphatically, "At the beginning, the Ning Prince was in Daning, governing ninety cities on the frontier, with 80,000 armored troops and 6,000 leather carts. How majestic! Even with the slightest movement, he had to send a letter back to the capital to ask Emperor Taizu."

"Hmm?" Qi Qi Jiguang frowned and looked at Tan Lun, asking, "Could the Ning Prince not act according to circumstances when he was in Daning Guard?"

Tan Lun slapped the table and said with a smile, "At that time, the 80,000 troops of Daning Guard belonged to the Daning Regional Military Commission, not the Ning Prince's mansion. The Ning Prince could only mobilize 200 Iron Forest troops. Now General Qi has 30,000 elite troops under his command, the capital is only 500 li away, and he can make peace with the Altan, lead the crowd to capture it, and rush straight to the capital!"

"Nonsense." Qi Qi Jiguang laughed, and Tan Lun also laughed.

Tan Lun's words were actually repeating some of the censors' unreliable remarks. This is typical of people who don't serve in the military. The Great Ming is not without vassal states: the Northwest Jin Party, the Northeast Li Li Chengliang, the Southwest Qian State Duke's mansion, and the Southeast Yin Yin Zhengmao.

If Qi Qi Jiguang really raised a flag to rebel in Daning Guard, before he could lead his troops south, Ma Fang, Ma Gui, and others would have cut off his head to claim credit.

Here, we must mention the beginning.

Qi Qi Jiguang sent a list of generals to be selected. On this list, the Deputy Regional Commander was Ma Fang, and the Assistant Regional Commanders Ma Gui, Ma Jin, Li Li Rusong, and Yang Wen were all on it. At that time, Zhu Zhu Yijun asked Qi Qi Jiguang if he wanted to operate in a black box and replace Ma Fang, Ma Gui, Ma Jin, and others. Qi Qi Jiguang's answer was no need.

From that time on, the Emperor showed high trust in Qi Qi Jiguang. It was also from the selection of military generals that it was decided that the Beijing Camp was never Qi Qi Jiguang's one-man show. Therefore, from the perspective of duty, the Beijing Camp had no conditions to rebel. When facing the Northern Barbarians, they could be of one mind, but what if they turned their guns against the Emperor?

This is not a technique of checks and balances. Zhu Zhu Yijun has never believed in that set either. When selecting military generals, he was afraid that the Jin Party would be tied up, so the Emperor wanted to operate in a black box, but Qi Qi Jiguang refused, so he gave up. Now, he even gave Qi Qi Jiguang a secret edict to act according to circumstances. This is typical of "using people without suspicion, and not suspecting those you use."

The entire Beijing Camp of more than 10,000 people, people eating and horses chewing, all need grain and grass. The grain and grass stored in Daning Guard are only enough for ten days, and they are all transported continuously from the rear. The Beijing Camp is the Great Ming's Beijing Camp, not Qi Qi Jiguang's alone. Once an army is financially independent, it will have its own political demands like the powerful and wealthy. This is a very dangerous thing. From the perspective of logistics, the Beijing Camp is naturally not qualified to rebel.

When the Emperor asked for strategies, Qi Qi Jiguang firmly opposed abolishing the military colonies and guards, because he knew clearly that relying only on recruited soldiers and guest soldiers could not complete the heavy task of the Great Ming's revival.

The sources of recruited soldiers and guest soldiers are divided into two types: one is displaced tenant farmers and vagrants, and the other is soldiers from military colonies and guards. The Beijing Camp belongs to the latter. Once the military colonies and guards are abolished, it will be as difficult as ascending to heaven to recruit high-quality soldiers again. Abolishing the military colonies and guards is equivalent to the Great Ming losing its good sons, equivalent to the Great Ming perishing tomorrow.

Those with permanent property have permanent hearts. The soldiers from the military colonies and guards of the Great Ming should have been called "good sons" in the past.

From the perspective of the basic composition of the army, they are not qualified to rebel.

The Northwest Jin Party showed the essence of a vassal state, that is, the interests of the vassal state are higher than the state, higher than the Great Ming collective. When the interests of the vassal state and the Great Ming collective conflict, the vassal state will definitely choose to resist by any means.

The appearance of the Jin Party is a concrete manifestation of the Great Ming's decline; and the continuous growth of the Jin Party is a concrete manifestation of the Great Ming's continuous decline. Rites, music, expeditions, rewards, and punishments coming from the vassals is a concrete manifestation of the imperial court's inability to restrain, inability to control the local area, and loss of cohesion and prestige.

And the Beijing Camp, in the political spectrum, does not have the attributes of a vassal state.

The Great Ming raised 3,000 guest soldiers in Luzon, Lin Lin Afeng had 6,000 pirates, and Yin Yin Zhengmao and others were highly financially independent, yet they were still respectful to the imperial court. Yin Yin Zhengmao of Luzon was a de facto military governor, a complete vassal state, but Yin Yin Zhengmao never dared to declare himself king. Li Li Chengliang raised 3,000 guest soldiers. In today's increasingly powerful Beijing Camp, Li Li Chengliang has all the conditions of a vassal state, but he still stops and chooses to trust the Emperor.

Even the Northwest Party, which has already formed a vassal state, Wang Wang Chonggu has also become a capable Minister of Justice, trying to get rid of his own vassal attributes.

"His Majesty is slowly growing up. After returning to the capital next year, he should merge the afternoon martial arts practice time into the review, becoming a daily drill of military horses, rather than a review. In this way, he can also dispel some of the court officials' doubts." Qi Qi Jiguang put forward his own opinions to Tan Lun.

His Majesty is young, so it is a review, not a drill.

"General Qi has suffered losses for so many years. Do you still want to suffer this loss?" Tan Lun said something inexplicable.

"Hasn't the Tan Sima also suffered losses for so many years? Why don't you have a long memory? I believe in His Majesty, just as His Majesty believes in me." Qi Qi Jiguang pointed to the four characters "act according to circumstances" on the secret edict, smiling exceptionally brightly.

After being in the military for so many years, since taking charge of the Beijing Camp in the first year of Emperor Wanli, these three years have been the most relaxed for Qi Qi Jiguang. A military general only needs to study how to defeat the enemy. Isn't this a beautiful thing?

What Tan Lun said about suffering losses is not difficult to understand. Hu Hai Zongxian died in prison, but the Northwest Jin Party relied on the merit of enfeoffment to occupy the imperial court and become a behemoth. If Hu Hai Zongxian had played the trick of "raising bandits to respect himself" at that time, Yan Song would have died, and Hu Hai Zongxian would have had nothing to do. Xu Xu Jie would have had to curry favor with Hu Hai Zongxian.

The court situation at that time was so rotten, completely different from the court pattern at this time.

Being a gentleman is a very tiring thing.

"I have already sent a messenger. The Altan Khan should be willing to let people come over to talk." Qi Qi Jiguang said with a fierce look in his eyes, "However, the conditions proposed by the Altan Khan, the Great Ming is afraid it will be difficult to agree to."

Tan Lun shook his head and said, "It's just a gesture to let Altan Khan have some sense. It's not like he is the only one selling wool."

"It's okay, fight until the Altan Khan surrenders." Qi Qi Jiguang is very confident about this. Eliminating the enemy's resistance will and making the enemy completely submit to his own will is what Qi Qi Jiguang is best at.

At this time, Daning Guard is still a front line where every tree and shrub looks like an enemy soldier. Scouts have launched fierce confrontations on the vast snowy field, fighting for key mountain passes, ferry crossings, and bridges. Finally, after a heavy snow, everyone quieted down. The snow was too heavy, and even the mice on the grassland no longer came out.

And in early December, the Altan Khan sent his conditions.

First, absolutely no enfeoffment as a king. Enfeoffment as a king is surrender. Altan Khan is a traitor who defected to the Central Plains from the grassland and is the shame of the Golden Family. Therefore, regarding the imperial court's conditions for enfeoffment as a king, the Altan Khan expressed that it was absolutely impossible.

"Is Altan Khan's reputation on the grassland so bad?" Qi Qi Jiguang looked at this first article and was stunned for a long time. This first article is all about scolding Altan Khan for surrendering. From the perspective of the Great Ming, Altan Khan fought with the Great Ming for so many years and finally achieved his strategic goal—enfeoffment as a king and tribute.

But on the grassland, it doesn't seem to be the case.

"Yes, otherwise San San Niangzi wouldn't have come to power, pushing all the dealings with the Great Ming onto San San Niangzi." Tan Lun shook his head and said, "Altan Khan being enfeoffed by the imperial court is seen as Altan Khan's betrayal of the Golden Family."

In the narrative of Altan Khan, the blame for the tribute from the very beginning was all on San San Niangzi, this woman.

There is a key figure in the tribute from Altan, and that is Altan Khan's grandson, Bahandaji.

Altan Khan attacked the Oirat tribe and forcibly married San San Niangzi. The Ordos Ten Battalion Commander said that San San Niangzi had a marriage contract with him and asked Altan Khan to return San San Niangzi. Altan Khan was reluctant and wanted to compensate the Ordos Ten Battalion Commander with the wife of his grandson, Bahandaji.

Bahandaji was naturally unhappy and took his wife to defect to the Great Ming. For the sake of this grandson, Altan Khan had to agree to the imperial court's conditions for enfeoffment as a king.

It's all San San Niangzi, this woman, who is harming the country and the people!

Actually, everyone knows it well. It's just that everyone is tired of fighting and can't do anything to each other, so they are looking for an opportunity to make peace and give each other a step down.

The world is about the same. The Central Plains likes to blame Baosi, Daji, and Yang Imperial Consort, and the grassland is the same. It's all San San Niangzi's fault.

Qi Qi Jiguang looked at the second condition: the Great Ming must unconditionally withdraw from Daning Guard and return this land belonging to the grassland to the grassland. The grassland belongs to the grassland, and the Central Plains belongs to the Central Plains, without interfering with each other.

"If you have the ability, come and take it. I am here. Not convinced? What's the use of shouting if you can't beat me? It's snowing this year, so come again next year." Qi Qi Jiguang sneered. It is indeed a disadvantage to attack from a low position to a high position, but Qi Qi Jiguang won, and winning is winning.

This Daning Guard was originally Great Ming territory. During the Emperor Jingtai era, the Great Ming still stationed troops here, and the Uriankhai Three Guards could not enter within 200 li of Daning Guard.

The third article is to have a tribute market, refusing to accept the imperial court's enfeoffment, but still wanting to trade with the Great Ming, and also detailed some regulations, which looked quite decent.

Tribute trade is the ancestral law. Even now, the trade of the Portuguese from the West is also carried out under the name of the tribute country of Luzon, and the trade is divided. The Portuguese actually occupy Luzon's Mindanao Island and use the name of Luzon to trade with the Great Ming.

This third article is also impossible to agree to.

"What does this condition mean?" Qi Qi Jiguang pointed to the fourth article and asked with some confusion.

Tan Lun took a look, blinked, and said, "It means exactly what you see. Annual tribute: the Great Ming gives the Altan Khan 500,000 taels of silk and silver as military expenses, to be handed over at the Fumin Post outside Xifengkou."

"Is Altan Khan not awake? Or did I, Qi Qi Jiguang, lose the battle? Now I am riding on his head!" After reading the alliance document, Qi Qi Jiguang was a little stupid. Where did Altan Khan get the confidence to propose such conditions?

Now! It is he, Qi Qi Jiguang, who is going outside the frontier, captured Daning Guard, and beat the Altan Khan until he couldn't lift his head, forcing him to shrink to Quanning Guard! If Altan Khan takes another step back, he will retreat to the west side of the Greater Khingan Mountains, withdraw from Liaodong, and retreat to Song Yingchang!

Tan Lun picked up the alliance document and said with admiration, "The fifth article: he also wants to make a pact with His Majesty as uncle and nephew. His Majesty is young, so he wants to call Altan Khan uncle, and future generations will still follow this. Altan Khan's courage is not ordinary. Even the Grand Secretary wouldn't dare to let His Majesty call him uncle."

"Tsk tsk tsk."

Qi Qi Jiguang said with a face like frost, "Then we can only kill him."

"The struggle between Altan Khan and Altan Khan on the grassland does not allow Altan Khan to say anything weak, so he said this. This alliance document is just a statement of a hardline position to stabilize people's hearts. These words are not for us, but for their own people. Just fight back." Tan Lun looked at the alliance document and shook his head.

After Qi Qi Jiguang heard what Tan Lun said, he also nodded to show his approval of Tan Lun. This does not mean he approves of the alliance document. He said coldly, "Reasonable. Throw the messenger out, let them formulate an alliance document again, otherwise there is no need to talk. If this alliance document is sent to the capital, it will be the shame of our Beijing Camp."

Qi Qi Jiguang is very angry. The supreme Emperor of the Great Ming actually has to be a nephew to someone. When he couldn't beat Altan Khan in the past, there was no such humiliation.

Tan Lun's judgment was extremely correct. Altan Khan must be so tough, otherwise Subahai of the Khalkha Five Tribes would have started making trouble.

Qi Qi Jiguang stripped the Altan Khan's messenger naked, threw him directly outside Qinglong Fort, and beat the alliance document back. Not long after, Altan Khan sent an alliance document that was barely passable.

He would not accept the imperial court's enfeoffment, determined the boundary between each other with Qinglong Fort and Xingshu Fort north of Yuanbao Mountain as the boundary, established a tribute market at Qinglong Fort, no longer requested military expenses, but requested to buy 4,000 horses and 8,000 bags of wool every year. Each bag of wool is about 120 catties, and the price cannot be lower than Altan Khan's purchase price. They would be brother countries, and Altan Khan, being older, would be the elder brother.

Qi Qi Jiguang threw the messenger out naked again, and by the way, let the messenger bring back a sentence: "Piss and look at yourself, ask yourself if you are worthy!"

Qi Qi Jiguang's attitude was exceptionally tough. He held the secret edict. All affairs of Daning Guard were under Qi Qi Jiguang's jurisdiction. If this alliance document were sent to the capital, it would be his crime.

Qi Qi Jiguang's toughness made Altan Khan somewhat helpless. Qi Qi Jiguang was tough from the perspective of strength. What could Altan Khan do? He had to modify the alliance document again, deleting the part about not being lower than Altan Khan's purchase price and the brother countries. Only then did Altan Khan's messenger successfully pass through Daning Guard.

When Altan Khan's messenger left Daning Guard, it was also when the twelve censors led by Zhou Zhou Liangyin went to Liaodong.

Zhou Zhou Liangyin looked at Tan Lun and asked in surprise, "Is the Tan Sima not going to Liaodong?"

"I am just going to Daning Guard. You go to Liaodong, and I return to the capital." Tan Lun said as a matter of course.

Zhou Zhou Liangyin and these censors were directly stunned! They had to face the fierce Li Li Chengliang alone!

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