Chapter 263: Japanese pirates must die

Political figures should possess political ability. For instance, during the Xishan assassination case, faced with an emergency, the young Emperor personally led troops to rescue Zhang Juzheng without a moment's hesitation, causing the conspiracy of the "monarch-minister suspicion chain" laid by the enemy to collapse. Political ability is the decision-making capacity to adapt to circumstances and handle various emergencies.

They should possess political responsibility. Every political decree has its price; to achieve certain things, one must pay a sufficient price. For example, Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng, for the sake of the New Policies, turned themselves into cold political machines, always ruthlessly making various choices.

They should also possess political sensitivity. They must have keen observation of the political public opinion and the trends of the world. For example, San Niangzi keenly perceived the change in combat power between the Great Ming and the Northern Hu. The Great Ming's powerful national strength, under the Emperor's headstrong "exhausting the military," had already been transformed into combat power. The Northern Hu had to perceive this change.

They should also possess political credibility. If your word is not kept, no one will trust you again. To date, Zhu Yijun has only broken his word once, which was regarding the head of the Tax Inspection Institute. With Zhang Juzheng away from court, Zhu Yijun did not allow civil officials to intervene in the inspections of the Tax Inspection Institute.

A promise must be kept.

For example, Wang Chonggu entering the cabinet—his promise was that "50,000-word memorial on settling the hooligans." Wang Chonggu has been fulfilling his promise all along. Whether it is sincere or forced, he is fulfilling his promise. "If a person has no credibility, they cannot stand." Zhu Yijun cut off a strand of Wang Chonggu's hair; this was a contract. As long as Wang Chonggu continues to fulfill his promise, Zhu Yijun will also fulfill his.

They should also possess a distinct political stance. The political stance of Wan Shihe and Wang Chonggu is that of the Emperor's Faction, while the political stance of Lu Diaoyang, Shen Shixing, and others is that of the Zhang Faction. Wang Guoguang's stance is the most interesting; he seeks a wealthy nation and a strong people, not a wealthy nation and a strong military. His stance partially overlaps with Zhang Juzheng's but is not entirely the same. Hai Rui's stance is to guard the upright spirit of the Great Ming court and ensure the normal operation of the Great Ming's error-correction mechanism.

Political stance is the butt. If the butt is crooked, then everything done is crooked.

Political ability, political responsibility, political sensitivity, political credibility, and political stance all require political talent. Without a doubt, Zhu Yijun's own talent in politics far, far exceeds his military talent.

At the same time, under Zhang Juzheng's cultivation, Zhu Yijun maximized his political talent through means such as attending court, summoning ministers, responding to every memorial, and discussing Dao at lectures.

Zhang Juzheng never intended to cultivate an extremely outstanding emperor; cultivating an emperor of average ability who could hold onto the empire and the state was sufficient.

In the original historical timeline, the Wanli Emperor cultivated by Zhang Juzheng was an extreme failure because Zhang Juzheng overlooked the fact that the Wanli Emperor was a born noble—a supreme noble who was "different from the common man."

San Niangzi is undoubtedly a political figure, and when it is beneficial to her, even her own belly is not something that cannot be used.

She aimed at Qi Jiguang, but Qi Jiguang refused. Qi Jiguang is not a political figure; he is just a military general, and a man of temperament. For political figures, emotions appear superfluous.

Rather than saying Qi Jiguang is "afraid of his wife," it is better to say he respects her. After all, Qi Jiguang's wife, Lady Wang, was someone who could set up an "empty city strategy" in Taizhou to scare away Japanese pirates. Lady Wang's biggest problem is that she has no children, but Qi Jiguang has already solved this problem by taking concubines.

San Niangzi's gaze turned to the Emperor. The young Emperor is a ruthless politician. An Emperor who meets envoys on the foundation—looking at the history of the Central Plains dynasties, that is also an extremely explosive existence. This ruthlessness and San Niangzi's ruthlessness can be said to be "birds of a feather."

"Birds of a feather flock together."

As for Zhu Zaiyu, that Imperial Uncle of the Great Ming, San Niangzi does not consider him at all. He is not a political figure. She has no opportunity to see him at all. The "Doctor of Investigation" of the Academy of Investigation—the defense is strict, and the security is the same as the Great Ming Imperial Palace.

"I just don't know if the Emperor will dislike me for being old." The reason San Niangzi does not want to find the Emperor is not that she doesn't want to, but that she is an "old cow" facing the Emperor, while she is a "tender grass" facing Qi Jiguang.

San Niangzi originally planned to go to the Huining Guard immediately. She hadn't had time to depart when snowflakes began to drift in the sky. When the snowflakes drifted, it was the day for the Great Ming army to attack. Attacking on a snowy day was not a path dependency formed by the Great Ming army's expeditions outside the Great Wall, but a pursuit of "heavenly timing, geographical advantage, and human harmony," in order to reduce their own casualties.

San Niangzi's itinerary was delayed. With this delay, she witnessed Qi Jiguang's terrifying ability to command large-scale military corps.

Under normal circumstances, the stronger a military general's ability to command small-scale corps, the more they will fall into trouble when commanding large-scale corps. That is, applying the experience and command of small-scale corps to large-scale corps often has extremely poor results, and the performance can be described as a destructive disaster.

"Generals are easy to get, but commanders are hard to find."

But Qi Jiguang was completely not like this. When he led a three-thousand-man infantry battalion, he could achieve a hundred victories in a hundred battles. When he led a ten-thousand-man Capital Battalion, everyone had to avoid his edge. But when he led ten thousand Capital Battalion soldiers to campaign, he could make the world look sideways.

Everything was proceeding in an orderly manner.

San Niangzi became more and more certain of her idea: the ferocity of the Great Ming Capital Battalion now was because Qi Jiguang himself was truly very strong.

When Qi Jiguang was with a ten-thousand-man team, he always did everything himself, personally asking about everything, because for a ten-thousand-man team, the affairs of three regiment battalions were not heavy enough to require him to choose what to handle. But when it reached a magnitude of one hundred thousand, Qi Jiguang's military talent was displayed again. He was able to figure out the priorities and knew how to make trade-offs.

Finding useful information in a complex sea of information and using that information to gain an advantage requires distinguishing the priorities of information. For example, on the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, a report from the beacon tower scouts was sent to Qi Jiguang's desk as usual. Qi Jiguang keenly perceived that the enemy had main forces gathering nearby. Qi Jiguang set an ambush, and sure enough, the next day, he fought an ambush battle, killing over four hundred enemies and completely occupying the No. 7 Manglong Mountain highland.

It was just because the report mentioned "hoof prints." The footprints left by the enemy scouts were horseshoes. The Northern Hu lacked iron, and San Niangzi's trade demands were very fond of iron pots. Therefore, horses with horseshoes must be fine steeds. More explicitly, they were "rear-mountain horses," so they must be elites.

Such talent is a passive talent. Qi Jiguang could always find such information and then give the enemy a fatal blow.

The battlefield changes in an instant. The ability to respond to situations is also a necessary talent for military generals. And Qi Jiguang's military orders could always be one step ahead. This benefited from the sacrifice of the beacon tower scouts and night scouts. On the grassland, night scouts represented extreme danger: jackals, tigers, leopards, mountain bandits, enemy scouts, etc. And the night scouts provided sufficient intelligence, allowing Qi Jiguang to make choices faster.

Knowing how to make trade-offs, being able to filter effective information from a sea of information, and being able to make correct decisions finally created a terrifying military talent: "anticipating the enemy first."

Before the enemy even acted, Qi Jiguang had already guessed the enemy's attack, retreat, grain, troop deployment, etc., through various information.

Fighting against Qi Jiguang, there was always a feeling of being seen through. Every step felt like walking on the steps Qi Jiguang had already set. One could only follow Qi Jiguang's footsteps to act.

And to activate this "anticipating the enemy first" military talent, one needs to remove shackles. For example, if a general is tossing and turning in the middle army tent and cannot get out, the Governor of Military Affairs has ideas, the Vice General has ideas, the Assistant Regional Commander has ideas, and the eunuch supervisor also has ideas, then this talent is a crippled military talent.

But the Emperor removed the last shackle for Qi Jiguang. After there were no figures of sufficient weight to hold him back, the power of Qi Jiguang's terrifying talent began to manifest.

Qi Jiguang's performance in commanding large-scale corps was at a crushing level.

After the snow, several confrontations ended in Qi Jiguang's great victory. The front line began to advance rapidly, and soon it pushed to within ten li of the Huining Guard.

Li Chengliang set out from Zhangwu, marched west continuously, and broke through the five major camps of Chaohua continuously. Li Chengliang even personally shot and killed the enemy general Yi'erdeng. Yi'erdeng's surname was Borjigin, and he was the Otog of the Jarud tribe—that is, the leader, the chief of the tribe. Yi'erdeng's death greatly deterred the ten-thousand-man leader Subahai, and the entire eastern battlefield collapsed completely.

A giant pocket that "surrounds three and leaves one" had been completely tied up.

Qi Jiguang still commanded the thirty regiment battalions to advance in an orderly manner. The continuous offensive made the Tuman Khan complain endlessly. It was one thing to not be able to beat them, but sometimes, even when they won a battle, they didn't dare to pursue, fearing it was a trap set by Qi Jiguang.

This was Qi Jiguang's own deterrent power. As long as he was in the army, the Tuman Khan had to consider: Did I really win? Is this a trap deliberately set by Qi Jiguang?

Qi Jiguang stopped his steps when he pushed to within five li of the Huining Guard. His goal was to drive the Tuman Khan out of Liaodong. Now the Tuman Khan only had one path: to flee back to the west of the Great Xianbei Mountain from the Great Xianbei Mountain pass in a sorry state.

Qi Jiguang was not in a hurry either. He divided the thirty regiment battalions into ten waves, using combat as training, pressing the Tuman Khan's head and using him as an experience book.

"General is amazing. Li admires you." Li Chengliang came from afar, turned over and dismounted, spitting out a dragon of breath. Before he could stand firm, he said to Qi Jiguang in a hurry.

Li Chengliang and Qi Jiguang were both hereditary counts of the Great Ming. The two were of equal rank, and the title "Nan Qi Bei Li" (South Qi, North Li) resounded through the north and south of the Great Ming. Under the circumstances of almost identical conditions and equal status, Li Chengliang's "amazing" was a very high evaluation.

Hearing this, Qi Jiguang thought of the first year of Wanli, when the Capital Battalion was selecting military generals, and the Emperor asked the civil officials to line up in front of him and say this: "General is amazing, so-and-so admires you."

Li Chengliang had a complete report. He put himself in the Tuman Khan's shoes and thought about how he should respond. After thinking for a long time, the final conclusion was: "Cannot respond. Respond? Respond my ass! Just surrender directly, it wouldn't be this shameful."

"It is still the Earl of Ningyuan who is amazing. If it weren't for the Earl of Ningyuan coming from afar from Liaodong, the pressure on my side would be extremely great, and it would be difficult to win. Please come in quickly and warm up." Qi Jiguang took Li Chengliang into the middle army tent.

The most capable part of the Liaodong army was Li Chengliang's three thousand guest soldiers. As for the remaining seventy thousand guard soldiers, they remained still. But these three thousand guest soldiers, who fought three hundred li and had no defeats, broke the courage of the ten-thousand-man leader Subahai in the eastern battlefield, which made Qi Jiguang's main attack direction so smooth.

"In the past, this Subahai would come to Pinglu Fort to call for battle whenever he had nothing to do, humiliating my Liaodong soldiers. If I didn't pursue, I would appear cowardly. If I pursued, he would run without a trace, and even collude with Dong Huli to set an ambush for me. It was a dilemma. Even the old man in the mountains said, 'Li the brute, not a husband.'" Li Chengliang entered the middle army tent, sat down, drank a cup of hot tea, and said with great emotion about the past.

"Li the brute, not a husband" was a proverb widely circulated in Liaodong, saying that Li Chengliang was cowardly and timid. Facing Subahai's provocation, Li the brute was weak and incompetent, unable to respond to such provocation like a husband.

Now that he had come, Li Chengliang was full of anger. He wanted to see who was "not a husband"!

This expedition was the Liaodong locality cooperating with the Great Ming Capital Army. Li Chengliang's original duty was to contain the forces of the five major camps of Chaohua in the western line, so that the Capital Army could complete the attack on the Huining Guard. After the Tuman Khan fled, they would either encircle and suppress, persuade to surrender, or drive them away. But Li Chengliang fought very well, chasing two ten-thousand-man teams with three thousand men.

"Where is General Ma?" Li Chengliang looked around. There were only two Assistant Regional Commanders in the middle army tent, one was Chen Dacheng, and the other was the Daning Regional Commander Wang Rulong. Other Assistant Regional Commanders and Vice Generals were not in the tent.

"Went to the Huining Guard." Qi Jiguang said with a full face of smiles.

Ma Fang went to the front line to supervise the army. Ma Fang went to the battlefield to prove that he was still that "Ma Prince" who terrified the Northern Hu, had three heads and nine eyes, and eyes on the back of his head.

Now the Great Ming army had already occupied the initiative on the battlefield, and the enemy's resistance will was already approaching weakness. It had already reached the stage of finishing touches.

"Big fire to collect the juice; tomorrow we should force the Tuman Khan to move west. If he refuses to move west, then let's have a decisive battle." Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang discussed military affairs. Launching a general attack was not something Qi Jiguang could shout "one, two, three, general attack" to launch.

His "big fire to collect the juice" was not to pull out the Great Ming army's one hundred thousand men and swarm them, but to use deterrent means to further weaken the enemy's resistance will.

"Big fire to collect the juice" was not to pull out the Great Ming army's one hundred thousand men and swarm them, but to send an infantry battalion to march toward the Great Xianbei Mountain pass with great fanfare, forcing the Tuman Khan to make a final decision.

The Great Xianbei Mountain pass was the only pass for the Tuman Khan to escape now. Once the Great Ming army blocked this "surround three and leave one" gap, the Tuman Khan would fall into a desperate struggle.

Sun Tzu's Art of War says: "Do not press a desperate enemy; this is the method of using troops." It also says: "Do not block a returning army, leave a gap for a surrounded army, do not press a desperate enemy."

Qi Jiguang was using this infantry battalion dispatch to test the intensity of the resistance will of the Tuman Khan's various tribes, and then formulate a combat plan.

This step, in the Tuman Khan's view, was to consider: Does the Great Ming army want to block his retreat, or not?

After this battle, the Tuman Khan would probably dream of the three words "Qi Jiguang."

"General, I have always had a doubt. Why are you always merciful when dealing with the Northern Hu? Just like this time, you could have sent elite soldiers to block the Tuman Khan's retreat, so why leave him a way out? But when pacifying the Japanese pirates, you never spared any effort." Li Chengliang had always been curious about this question.

The Great Ming army had the complete strength to completely surround the other side and finally eliminate them, but Qi Jiguang chose to "surround three and leave one."

Qi Jiguang pondered for a moment and said, "After I came to the north, I discovered that the situation of the Northern Hu and the Central Plains is 'you have me, I have you.' These Northern Hu don't even know how to use Mongolian script, not even the Anda Khan and Tuman Khan. But the Japanese pirates are different. Japanese pirates must die."

Qi Jiguang appointed Tatar officials, but he would absolutely never appoint Japanese officials.

Tatar officials were a type of appointment that the Great Ming had had since the Taizu Gao Emperor, which was to appease the Northern Hu tribes and settle them. Similarly, the Great Ming also had cases of fleeing to the Northern Hu, such as Saiyinhua in the fourteenth year of Zhengtong, and Zhao Quan, the leader of the White Lotus Sect in the Yanbei region during the Jiajing reign, etc.

The method San Niangzi mentioned was also a method of reconciliation.

They had been fighting for more than two hundred years, and everyone had their own advantages. It would be better to refer to the affairs of the Qian State Duke's mansion in Yunnan, set up a local Duke's mansion that was highly restrained by the court in politics, military, economy, and culture, and give each other a step down.

But Japanese pirates were different. Japanese pirates must die. Qi Jiguang spent his whole life pacifying Japanese pirates. If someone said they wanted to use Japanese officials, Qi Jiguang would definitely visit to ask for advice, asking for the reason. If they couldn't explain why, Qi Jiguang would definitely tie them up and take them to His Majesty, telling them of the crime of colluding with the Japanese.

Qi Jiguang's knife was pointed outward. He could only appeal to the Emperor for internal matters. This was also his consistent practice, not letting any lowly Confucian scholar have the opportunity to sow discord between the monarch and the minister.

The Emperor had already given the answer on how to deal with it. He would personally kill people. That was the "Pen-Correcting" Chen Youren, who slandered Qi Jiguang for pacifying the Japanese pirates in the east, and was directly chopped to death by the Emperor himself.

"Japanese pirates must die." Qi Jiguang repeated his words again.

Qi Jiguang could actually argue this conclusion from many angles, such as the aspect of morale cohesion.

In the eighth month of the thirty-third year of Jiajing, Japanese pirates invaded Retainer. Assistant Regional Commander Li Fengshi and Supervisor Xu Guo led six thousand men to pacify the Japanese pirates and won a great victory. The Retainer County Magistrate, Yin Fenglin, blocked Li Fengshi from killing the Japanese pirates because "killing captives is inauspicious." Two hundred and thirty-one Japanese pirate captives escaped, colluded from inside and outside, leading to the Great Ming's great defeat in the Battle of Luodian. Over two thousand people were trampled, drowned, or assassinated. All grain and equipment were taken by the thieves. The sound of crying did not stop all night. Because the remaining three thousand-plus people had no food after the great defeat, they killed many commoners with widows and hair to claim capture, looting in the countryside. The common people were in an uproar, and finally, they were defeated and died.

Since then, Japanese captives were all killed without exception. This was a lesson of blood. This was to unite the morale of the soldiers. If you lead troops to fight and capture Japanese pirates but don't kill them, and don't send them to the capital's Jieku Institute to contribute to medicine, then the hearts of the guest soldiers will scatter. To speak more metaphysically, it is losing the "military soul."

For example, from the perspective of the hearts of the people, killing Japanese pirates had a broad basis of public opinion in the southeast. "The day of killing all Japanese pirates, the sons return home" exhausted the broad support for killing Japanese pirates. The guest soldiers also had fathers and mothers. Even the wolf soldiers from Guangxi were the main force in pacifying the Japanese pirates. The basis of public opinion for killing Japanese pirates was broad and solid in the Great Ming.

For example, from the perspectives of battlefield progress and ending the war, etc., Qi Jiguang could say a bunch of reasons. In the final analysis, it was just one sentence: "Japanese pirates must die."

During the stalemate, San Niangzi finally set out for the Huining Guard. San Niangzi would not stay overnight at the Huining Guard. After seeing the Tuman Khan, she would immediately head to Yingchang and then return to her hometown, Bansheng.

Compared with the high morale of the Great Ming army, the Tuman Khan's soldiers could be said to have low morale to the extreme. Everyone was dejected, but there was also a strange sense of relief. Being pressed and beaten by Qi Jiguang, perhaps, maybe, possibly, was not something shameful.

It wasn't that they had been pressed and beaten for a day or two; they had been pressed and beaten by Qi Jiguang for ten years.

San Niangzi first met Dong Huli. Dong Huli's nephew, Bukha Chu, had already been beheaded and displayed. Last time, Dong Huli killed the Daning Regional Commander Tang Kekuan at Beigukou, and the Great Ming Emperor immediately issued an edict to kill Bukha Chu. This was a reciprocal retaliation.

Dong Huli said with a full face of sorrow, "Alas, to tell the truth, Lady, in the tenth month of this year, I bumped into the Great Ming Capital Battalion and was defeated miserably. The Great Ming army's vanguard, Li Rusong—that reckless son of Li Chengliang—I originally thought Li Rusong would be greedy for merit and advance rashly, so I set up a net of heaven and earth. As a result, this guy Li Rusong, I don't know how he changed his nature, he was so difficult to deal with."

"He pinched my head, shook it left and right, and forcibly pulled my net of heaven and earth into four sides leaking wind. In one battle, I lost three hundred cavalry, and he lost seven."

"Alas."

Li Rusong was famously reckless. In his early years, he was "Heaven is number one, Earth is number two, he is number three." He didn't obey anyone. Subahai would call for battle at Pinglu Fort, and he couldn't call out the old fox Li Chengliang, but he could definitely call out the reckless Li Rusong. Li Rusong relied on his own martial arts, was always daring, and often didn't obey military orders.

But this time, Dong Huli had carefully prepared, yet he was fiercely humiliated by Li Rusong. Three thousand against three thousand, he lost three hundred men, and the vanguard infantry battalion led by Li Rusong lost seven.

Dong Huli originally felt that he could kill the Miyun Regional Commander Tang Kekuan at Beigukou. This Li Rusong, not to mention killing him, even if he won a battle, it would be good to boost morale. As a result, he was defeated and returned. It wasn't that Dong Huli didn't work hard; Li Rusong had been in the Capital Battalion for five years and was truly impressive.

"Li Rusong, he was beaten by the Great Ming Minister of War Tan Lun, and then he became much more honest. In the past few years under Qi Shuai, he was naturally very obedient. Qi Shuai is famous for his strict military discipline. If he doesn't obey military orders, Qi Shuai will kill him, and Li Chengliang will have to accept it." San Niangzi had a deep impression of Li Rusong and had also heard about Li Rusong being slashed by Tan Lun.

Li Rusong was in the prime of his life, while Tan Lun was old and sick, and full of illnesses. In the Emperor's eyes, Tan Lun was more fragile than a porcelain doll. As a result, Li Rusong, because of his arrogance, was beaten until he was dizzy by the scholar he looked down upon, and naturally became cautious.

Now Li Rusong could already handle things on his own. In small-scale engagements, it would be strange if Dong Huli could beat Li Rusong.

"After three days of separation, one should look at each other with new eyes."

"What is the Tuman Khan thinking now?" San Niangzi asked about the purpose of this trip. Before seeing the Tuman Khan, it was better to see the Tuman Khan's attitude first.

"He wants to move west from the Great Xianbei Mountain pass, but the Anda Khan won't allow it. He dispatched two ten-thousand-man teams to block the pass at Yingchang." Dong Huli expressed the Tuman Khan's concerns. Qi Jiguang was clearly driving the Tuman Khan west like sheep. But the Tuman Khan also had concerns. He was already fleeing, but the Anda Khan didn't care at all that they were all Tatars, and dispatched two ten-thousand-man teams to block the pass.

Looking at a problem from different positions will yield different answers. In the Anda Khan's view, this was taking advantage of the situation to see if he could gain some benefits. Whoever had the advantage, he would help.

The Tuman Khan believed that the Anda Khan was a traitor to the grassland, responding to the Great Ming court's call to block his way west, and even making the Tuman Khan and Qi Jiguang fight to consume each other's strength.

Qi Jiguang believed that the Anda Khan was here to help and was a threat to the Great Ming army, so he had to inquire about the situation of the Hu at any time, "raking the grass to hit the rabbit," and treat them as enemies.

"Then it depends on the Tuman Khan's idea. Is it to face Qi Jiguang's one hundred thousand men, or to face the two ten-thousand-man teams in Yingchang?" San Niangzi keenly grasped the core of the problem.

"Lady, you don't fight, so you probably don't understand. Fighting on two fronts is a military taboo. Responding to Yingchang on this side and responding to Qi Shuai on that side—if the Tuman Khan gives such an order, the ten-thousand-man leader will oppose it. Difficult, difficult, difficult." Dong Huli did not mean to mock San Niangzi's military talent. San Niangzi never liked fighting in her life and didn't understand battle formations. This kind of fighting on two fronts was a path to death.

The Tuman Khan didn't have many choices; he had none at all.

It must be said that the Anda Khan dispatching these two ten-thousand-man teams, even if they didn't fight, just standing there, could disgust the Tuman Khan to death.

Dong Huli, who was known for his wisdom, was also at his wit's end.

The Anda Khan was not a simple character. This move of his could be said to have occupied all the benefits.

"I can't give any promises." San Niangzi shook her head. The Anda Khan had always controlled the army. In the Anda Khan's view, no matter how San Niangzi jumped, she couldn't escape his palm. San Niangzi's influence on the army was limited, but here, it was just that San Niangzi was unwilling to help.

The Great Ming and the grassland were completely different. The Great Ming's division of labor was clearer: military was military, soldiers were soldiers, and people were people. The grassland was a combination of military, people, and bandits. San Niangzi's influence on the army was indeed not high, but she had great influence in the right wing. If San Niangzi was willing to plead, the Tuman Khan could still escape a disaster.

It was just that without benefits, San Niangzi wouldn't do things.

Getting a little from the Great Ming, getting a little from the Tuman Khan, and returning to Bansheng, San Niangzi could announce that her mission was a perfect success. The Great Ming Emperor gave iron pots, salt, and tea, and even conceded part of the price. Getting some benefits from the Tuman Khan was enough to make this trip worthwhile.

"What does the Lady want?" Dong Huli didn't hide anything and asked directly.

"Wool." San Niangzi revealed a successful smile, looked at the horizon, and said, "At sunset, if the Tuman Khan is still hesitating, then I will leave."

"For one year?" Dong Huli frowned. San Niangzi was truly opening her mouth like a lion.

"All of it from now on." San Niangzi's smile became brighter and brighter. She looked at Dong Huli and said, "In the past, the Tuman Khan's tribes didn't use those smelly felt blankets, did they? Just give them all to me. Treat it as if the Great Ming doesn't have this wool business. The annual wool supply cannot be lower than what was provided to the Great Ming court last year."

Dong Huli's eyes widened. This was truly opening his mouth like a lion! This was taking advantage of the fire to rob!

Still that sentence: Japanese pirates must die. Please vote for the monthly ticket, Aowu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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