Yili River Valley.

The tent of Taiji Chechen used a three-meter-high wolf-headed flag as the gate. The golden knife pointed to reflect the light of early spring, promoting the noble force of the Oirat and the leader of the Junggar tribe, and a strange religious ceremony was held in the tent.

The human skin drum rumbling sound, and dozens of dance girls wore Buddha crowns made of bones, dressed in coolness, dancing tempting dances under the command of a monk holding an ivory pestle. The mystery of religion makes this primitive and intense dance look even more charming, while Chechnya Taiji sat on the side, enjoying the tender lamb meat.

Spring is here, and it is the mating season again. The animals on the grasslands of the Ili River Valley are ready to move. As a wise animal like humans, Chechen Taiji is naturally unavoidable. Especially when facing a group dance of women who are entertaining and committing adultery in the name of religious rituals, after a while, Chechen Taiji has eaten and drunk enough, and carried a gun and got on the horse, he can also explain to everyone that this is a dance of entertainment gods and Buddhas. Even Buddha can be tempted. How could he be a mortal like him?

What a convincing reason, isn't it?

The lamb is tender, and it is even more delicious after sprinkling some spices. The fruit wine from Hami is even sweeter. The choice between beauty and food. Chechen Taiji chose the food that is not common on weekdays instead of the dancer who can be used casually. However, his appetite was limited after all. When he had enough food and drank, wiped his hands under his robe and was about to untie his belt, a guard appeared in the tent.

"Taiji, Taiji..." The guard's shouting made the excited Chechen Taiji full of displeasure. Chechen Taiji angrily scolded: "Get out, you idiot!"

But the guards said, "Taiji, the Khan has arrived."

Chechnya Taiji snorted coldly and muttered: "I have known that guy is coming for a long time, but it's this time!"

"Let him come in!" Chechnya walked to the center of the tent, tweaked the dancer's long hair, and the bells on it made a crisp collision sound, and slapped the raised butt. Chechnya ordered, and then said to the many dancers: "You go down first, Taiji will love you later, haha."

The guard, however, looked embarrassed and said, "The Khan said, let you go out to greet him."

Chechnya Taiji said angrily: "There is no reason why the brother welcomes his younger brother!"

After cursing for a few words, Chechen Taiji did not have an attack after all. There was indeed no reason for brother to welcome his younger brother, but there was a rule for ministers to welcome the Khan. After thinking about it, Chechen Taiji lay on the sheepskin bed and said, "If you go back to the Khan, I will be sick and can't go out to welcome him. If he asks you what kind of disease I am, you will say it is a contagious blowjob. It is probably brought by the Central Plains merchants from a few days ago. Go."

The guards hurried back. Soon after, Sengge arrived in the tent. Unlike Chechen Taiji, who had a fat body and a round chin, the Great Khan of Junggar, Sengge's hands and feet are thick, muscular, burly and heroic. He stood beside Chechen Taiji, staring at Chechen Taiji, and lifted off the blanket on his body.

"Chechen Taiji, I heard that there were imperial merchants in your tribe. Where are they?" Sengge of course knew that Chechen Taiji was playing tricks. This guy kept calm after Sengge sat in the sweat position, but he had no choice but to be helpless. He couldn't beat himself and did not really surrender, so he played with these methods that he could not go on the road.

Chechnya Taeji simply stood up and pretended to be weak and said, "Here is the big khan coming, are you here for those businessmen?"

"Where are them?" Sengge asked again.

Chechnya Taiji said: "I have been doing business in my camp for a few days. After the transaction is finished, I will leave."

Sengge asked: "What did you sell to them, and what did you buy!"

Chechen Taiji picked up the blanket that was thrown on the ground by Sengge and said, "I bought a lot of good things. Dahan, you see, the same wool blankets are not only dyed well, but also softer than ours. There are also cotton robes and silk underwear on my body, by the way, tea bricks, spices, especially those spices, which are said to come from the other end of the sea. With them, the mutton has changed its flavor. I have lived so big and have never eaten such delicious mutton."

"Just bought these, why did I hear that they sold you a lot of knives?" Sengge's eyes widened.

Chechen Taiji laughed: "Don't listen to nonsense from outsiders. What they sold me was a kitchen knife for cutting vegetables, a guillotine for cutting grass, a scissor for women, a pedicure and a haircut, but the only one that was not used to cut people. Of course, their prices were very reasonable, and I bought two hundred pots in one breath."

Seeing that Chechen Taiji said, Sengge was still distorted and asked, "Didn't you sell your weapons?"

"How can I do it! If you don't sell me weapons, can I sell the best mare and four-pocket sand to them? Dahan, they sold me this!" Chechen Taiji was not pretending to be sick, and took a long cowhide pocket from the weapon stand beside him with great enthusiasm. Judging from the shape, it was easy to carry or hang it on the saddle. The cowhide pocket opened, and there was a cowhide gun, a piece of cowhide and a cowhide pocket inside.

The black barrel of the mezzanine gun was also hung with anti-rust oil. Sengge touched it, and the buttstock was painted and smooth and reflective. Especially the stock, it was bent, with copper plates at the end, bent inward. And more than a dozen gadgets hung or bolted on the cowhide belt, from tin bottles filled with fixed-load gunpowder and lead bullets, ammunition clamps specially made for lead bullets, bristle brushes for cleaning the barrel and maintenance grease.

"Why is this gun so weird?" Sengge looked at the curved butt stock and puzzled.

Chechen Taiji smiled, and the mezzanine was demonstrated: "I thought at first that the Han people sold me defective products, but you see, this buttstock is very comfortable to use, and it is pressed on the shoulder, and the face can be placed here. This way, close the left eye and the right eye can be aimed at it! The copper plate behind it is also suitable for the shoulder. If you shoot it, it won't hurt!"

As he said that, Chechen Taiji turned on a small switch on the butt stock. The horse-head-shaped copper ornament inlaid with gems popped up. There was a small grid inside, neatly arranged six paper shells to load and clean velvet cloth.

When Sengge saw this, he said unhappily: "Just this animal, you gave them four pockets of golden sand? There are such gems in the Yarkand people. A horse in the river can be exchanged for ten yuan!"

Chechnya Taiji raised four fingers and said, "Four hundred pieces! I exchanged 400 pieces for two hundred horses and four pockets of golden sand. Except for the lack of this dark box and gem, the rest are exactly the same!"

Sengge, who was not worthy of Chechen Taiji just now, immediately changed his face. Such four hundred good guns have a huge increase in strength for Chechen Taiji! Sengge suddenly remembered that he was here to raise an army to ask for punishment, and said angrily: "Chechen Taiji, you actually trade weapons with the Han people on my back. Do you know how serious this is?"

Chechen Taiji pulled out the bayonet hanging on the cowhide belt and stuffed it into the muzzle. The medley turned into a short spear in an instant. He played with the gun and said indifferently: "Sin? I don't know that there is this in the code, and don't forget that the Junggar tribe is a vassal of the empire. What's wrong with me? Do you use the code to condemn me, or go to the Imperial House of Religious Affairs Court to accuse me? Humph, it's a sin for me to buy the weapons of the empire. What about you? Is it right to buy the guns of Russian smugglers?"

The code mentioned by Chechen Taiji is the "Mongolian-Verat Code", which is a code formulated by the four ministries of Khalkha in the northern desert and the Tianshan North Road. The purpose is to eliminate the war between Khalkha and Verat, maintain peace, and jointly resist external threats. Of course, as both Khalkha and Verat surrender to the Qing Dynasty, this code is of little significance. Now that Verat surrendered to the empire, Khalkha was annexed by the Qing Dynasty, the code has been destroyed in name only.

More importantly, the leader of the four tribes of Weilat was Orchitu Khan of the Heshuote tribe, not his Sengge. Although Orchitu Khan was Sengge's father-in-law, because of his weak strength, he usually interacted with brothers who did not accept Sengge to keep warm and prevent them from being annexed by Sengge.

Sengge was furious, but he couldn't come up with a decent reason, let alone this is a tribe in Taiji, Chechen. He couldn't use force. Sengge had to sit on the sheepskin mat and asked, "Tell me, why did the Han caravan sell you so many weapons and scarce goods, but he was stingy and no longer walked westward, selling combs and iron pots to my tribe?"

Chechnya Taiji also sat cross-legged across from Sengge. Before he could answer, Sengge interrupted him: "Don't tell me that the Han people's goods have been sold out, and they have made enough money!"

Chechen Taiji smiled directly: "Khan, your eyes were affected by the chaos of Tianshan South Road, and your ears were blocked? You only know that the Imperial merchants came to me, but do you know that the caravan set out from Hami and went to your father-in-law's territory first, then the Dulberts and the Huits......, do you think I was the only one who bought weapons? Your father-in-law not only bought eight hundred identical mesh guns, but also two cannons, and our other brother, Zhuotbats, could fill this tent. Even so, when the caravan left me, there were still ten carriages of arms and more goods. They did not leave, but went to the banks of the Ertzis River and the Huits tribe, saying that they would go to the Khan's tribe when they returned!"

"Why am I the last one? Is there anyone spreading rumors to them?" Sengge stared at Chechnya and asked directly.

Chechen Taiji said: "No one told them your bad things, but I, Dowtbabatul, and your father-in-law, we all obeyed the orders of the Lifanyuan, took care of our tribes, took care of cattle, sheep and herdsmen, and did not get involved in the Yarkand people's affairs, but you sent troops to Yarkand City and supported the charlatan Apak. Unfortunately, the empire chose Sima Yi, the old fox.

People say I am arrogant, no matter how arrogant I am, at least I am not arrogant enough to be on par with the Central Plains Emperor, saying something like "the big talk of maintaining peace on the South Road of Tianshan Mountain" together."

"How do you know so much? Did those merchants tell you?" Sengge asked.

Chechen Taiji waved his hand: "Of course not. The merchants came to my tribe, with only golden sand and gems, or good horses and camels in their eyes. This time, there was an emissary of the empire in the caravan, representing King Cheng. Originally, he wanted to continue to follow the caravan to the Whitte tribe and come back to find you, but I moved him with my enthusiasm and asked him to wait for you here, because I knew you would definitely come."

"Then let him come to see me quickly." Sengge said directly.

In less than a moment, Rishte appeared in front of Sengge. Looking at this guy with blue eyes and fair skin, Sengge felt that he was a Uygur person no matter how he looked. It was not until Rishte took out Lin Junhong's handwritten letter that Sengge believed in his identity as an envoy.

"Your Highness's meaning is very simple. I hope you can give Ballsburke and Apark Tayji's heads." Risht directly explained the conditions.

Sengge nodded slightly and agreed. Since the empire occupied Hami and Turpan, it had the ability to intervene in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains. As long as he did not want to fight against the empire, he could only agree. The arrival of the caravan also brought pressure to Sengge, including combs, cannons, and unlimited firearms. These will greatly enhance the strength of various tribes. The empire's support for the tribes on the north road of Tianshan Mountain would destroy the situation of Sengge's dominance. Once the empire chooses a lord to fight against Sengge's tribe, Sengge's status is in danger.

"I understand, but I want to know, what can I get?" Sengge asked without being embarrassed.

Risht said: "Your Highness does not guarantee what this war will bring you, but you will not lose anything because of the intervention of the Empire. Do you understand? Of course, the premise is that you can remain loyal to the Empire."

Of course, Sengge understood Lin Junhong's meaning. He no longer interfered in the South Road of Tianshan, and the empire would not support others' opposition to Sengge's overlord status in the North Road of Tianshan.

Seeing that Sengge did not react too much, Risht said, "Khan, I know you are a very enterprising man, a real eagle warrior on the grassland, but you chose the wrong direction. As the Khan of the Junggar tribe, you want a plump grassland that can expand westward. Didn't the Junggar fight with the Kazakhs for a hundred years? Isn't the water and grass in the Qihe Basin rich? Is the land in the river not fertile? Why don't you rush your troops to the west instead of going south?"

Sengge was silent for a moment, and Rishte was telling the truth, but the domestic chaos in Yarkand Khan was a good opportunity. How could Sengge give up such an ambitious person?

Risht smiled and continued to persuade: "You have no conflict with the Empire. In fact, before your cavalry crossed the Tianshan Mountains, the Empire has always praised you well. After all, your righteous behavior in Mount Altai is what the imperial subjects are willing to see, and that is the style of a hero. If your horse whip goes south, you will become the enemy of the Empire. As long as your horse whip goes west and north, you will be the hero of the Empire. What do you think?"

It is a fact that Sengge has been fighting against the enemies of the Russian Empire, and the Kazakh Khanate in the west has no major stake in the empire.

"What would happen if my troops headed west and north?" asked Sengge.

"The empire's arms, silk and tea, and the food and iron tools from Tianshan South Road will continue to reach your tribe. You can choose and sell them at your disposal, and there is no limit on the quantity!" Risht said.
Chapter completed!