Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 957 Insufficient people
Seeing Tuotuo leave the tent and begin to block the surroundings, Aluta's originally uneasy mind finally calmed down.

He did not respond to Azhashiri's timid threat, but pretended to be wise, smiled slightly, and sat in the lower seat.

"After drinking this jar of wine from the King of Liao, it would be worth it for Alutai to die, hahahaha." He laughed. He even acted like a master, scolding the beautiful maids who were in charge of pouring the wine:

"Come on, serve some wine!"

The maid's face was pale, and she looked at Azhashili helplessly.

Azashili looked unhappy, but he didn't do anything. He just pursed his lips and signaled the maid to pour wine for Alutai. Alutai drank it in big gulps, but he didn't expect that the distilled liquor was so strong that he coughed repeatedly because of the spiciness.

After coughing, he looked at the wine bowl, his eyes brightened a little, and praised: "Good wine, good wine! The Ming Dynasty is willing to give the King of Liao such a good wine!"

"What on earth are you doing here?" Seeing that Aluta was really drinking, Azhashili lost his temper first and asked Aluta in a bad mood.

"Hahahaha." Aluta put down his wine bowl and said, "I am the Grand Tutor of the Great Yuan Dynasty. I am here on the orders of His Majesty the Great Yuan Emperor Ben Yashiri. What else could it be?"

His face turned serious and he said solemnly, "Of course."

"I'm looking for you, King Liao, to discuss the fight against the Ming together!"

Even though he had expected this, Azhashiri still felt shocked when he heard this.

"Anti-Ming?"

"You...are you crazy?"

"You...you don't know how powerful the Ming Dynasty is now! The army of Emperor Hongwu is invincible!"

"Emperor Hongwu's territory has extended to the end of the sea!"

"The gold in the Hongwu Emperor's treasury is more than the cattle and sheep on the grasslands combined!"

"How can you fight against such a powerful Ming Dynasty?"

"When Genghis Khan was being hunted by the Taichiwu tribe, he hid in a wool cart to save his life... At that time, who could have thought that Mongolia would become great because of him? A fearless hero would naturally be protected by the Eternal Heaven. The Ming Dynasty was powerful? So what? The Hongwu Emperor was old after all."

"The grasslands should be in the hands of the Mongols... King Liao, are you afraid of the Ming Dynasty, or are you attached to the wealth that the Ming Dynasty has given you?"

"Can these gold, silver and fine wine buy away your nobility and turn you from the great 'King of Liao' into a lowly 'Governor'?"

Azashili was silent. Alutai mentioned the word "dudu" again, which really hit the nail on the head for Azashili.

Azashili led the Shanyang Wanhu to surrender to the Ming Dynasty and killed the Northern Yuan Prime Minister Tuohuochi for the Ming Dynasty, which can be regarded as a great achievement for the Ming Dynasty.

However, when he surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, the outcome of the Ming Dynasty on the grassland had actually been decided. His surrender to the Ming Dynasty seemed to be a move according to the situation, so the Ming Dynasty was not completely unprepared for him.

The court divided the Shanyang Wanhu into three groups, and only one group was still under the command of Azashili, in order to prevent Azashili from surrendering and rebelling again. But even so, the court still gave Azashili great wealth. Taining Guard had the richest grassland among the three guards, and it had three excellent trading grounds, where many Han merchants came and went, providing Azashili with a steady stream of taxes and wealth.

It can be said that although Azashili has lost some of his military power, he is much richer than when he served the Yuan Dynasty. After all, during the Yuan Dynasty, as a peripheral prince stationed on the grassland, he actually lived in poverty.

However, although he was rich now and had achieved his previous dream, Azashiri was still unhappy.

Because, although he gained wealth... he lost his status.

During the Yuan Dynasty, he was the King of Liao. Although the title of the Yuan Dynasty was worthless, and there were many princes everywhere, and a brick thrown in the capital city could knock down seven or eight princes of the Yuan Dynasty... But at least in name, the princes were still noble and belonged to the ranks of the masters, different from other civil and military officials and the people of Qiandu.

No matter how poor one is in reality, at least when walking on the street, one feels that he is extremely noble, and even has lines running down his forehead.

But in the Ming Dynasty... he was no longer the master, and even his official noble status was stripped away. He was just a "governor" of the Ming Dynasty, a military officer, and a thug under the court.

In fact, from the perspective of the Ming Dynasty, this is understandable. After all, there are so many Mongolian princes, and anyone can be given the title of prince as long as their ancestors have some connection with Genghis Khan or one of his sworn brothers.

There are so many bastard princes. The Ming Dynasty took over. It is impossible to give them a kingship again, right? The princes of the Ming Dynasty are too worthless.

The tone was lowered by the Yuan Tartars for no reason.

Therefore, although the Ming Dynasty treated the surrendered ministers from the Yuan Dynasty well, it did not recognize the aristocratic status of the Yuan court at all.

Giving Azhashili a governor was already a great favor. After all, this governor was a powerful governor with soldiers under his command, and the court also intended to set up the three guards of Doyan, including Taining Guard, as an example to attract more grassland tribes to submit to the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, Azhashili's Taining Guard was given many preferential treatment.

However, human hearts are always unsatisfied. When serving the Yuan Dynasty in the past, Azashili was angry that the Northern Yuan Dynasty did not give them, the Wanhu of Shanyang, enough wealth and prosperity. He felt that the Northern Yuan court treated him harshly, so he was resentful.

But today, he is also depressed because the Ming Dynasty stripped him of his title of "King of Liao" and divided his Shanyang Wanhu into three parts. He feels that the Ming Dynasty has also treated him harshly.
Therefore, I drink to drown my sorrows every day...

Noticing Azashili's silence again, Alutai knew that he would definitely gain something from this trip. Having seen the bravery of the Doyan Guards before, he and the Khan Bayanshili wanted to bring the Doyan Guards, a Mongolian cavalry, under their command.

However, the Doyan Guards had received great favors from the Ming Dynasty, and their leader Bayan had close ties with the Xu family. All of them were loyal to the Ming Dynasty. No matter how they thought about it, it was impossible for them to be conquered by this group of defeated soldiers.

So they turned their attention to Taining Wei, which, like Duoyan Wei, originally belonged to "Shanyang Wanhu".

Taining Guard is different from Duoyan Guard. The leader of Duoyan Guard, Boyan, was originally just a chieftain under Azashili. With the grace of the Ming Dynasty, he led a part of the army alone, so he was naturally grateful to the Ming Dynasty.

However, the military power in Azashiri's hands was forcibly divided into three parts by the Ming Dynasty. It is hard to say that he had no resentment towards the Ming Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)