Ming Jiajing: Starting from Immortality

Chapter 132: Learn from the barbarians to control the barbarians and create traitors!
Climb over the Great Wall.

The unique scene outside the Great Wall shocked everyone.

As the ambassador of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Jiaping, in accordance with the emperor's order and the court's official documents, led the deputy envoy Shen Weijing and twenty others to the Tatar Altan tribe.

Unlike other members of the delegation, Wang Jiaping received a secret letter in addition to an imperial appointment.

along the way.

Wang Jiaping and Shen Weijing rode side by side, but Wang Jiaping was racking his brains thinking about how to keep Shen Weijing in Tatar, but he could not find any good idea.

When it comes to persuading prostitutes to become good women, Wang Jiaping may have some experience. After all, scholars are romantic and they can make an impassioned speech from the moral high ground. If that doesn't work, they can spend some money to redeem the prostitute, marry her home and keep her as a beautiful woman, or take her as a concubine.

But when it comes to persuading people to become traitors, Wang Jiaping has no experience and doesn't even know where to start.

The ambassador was in a bad mood, and the atmosphere of the entire delegation was rather solemn. After all, the deputy envoy Shen Weijing was sensible and took the initiative to speak: "Ambassador, Zhang Qian and Su Wu of the Han Dynasty were trapped in the Xiongnu for more than ten years, but they did not forget their original intentions. Tell me, what made them stick to it? What made them return to the Central Plains at all costs?"

Hear the names of Zhang Qian and Su Wu.

The corners of Wang Jiaping's mouth twitched involuntarily. These two Han envoys were indeed revered by envoys of later generations, but if Shen Weijing made the titles of Marquis of Bowang and Marquis of Guannei his lifelong pursuit, how could he complete the tasks assigned by the cabinet?
The well-informed Wang Jiaping immediately gave a counter-example, "There were also those who did not return. Li Ling, also a Han minister, surrendered to the Xiongnu and never returned until his death.

Marquis Bowang and Marquis Guannei had their reasons to come back, and Li Ling also had his reasons not to come back.

All three of them have their own persistence, and all of them have their own reasons for doing whatever it takes.

However, heroes like Marquis Bowang and Marquis Guannei have always adhered to and fought for at all costs only the two words "family" and "country".

For a case like Li Ling, there were more things to consider. Emperor Wu of Han at that time was always suspicious of his subjects, and he even killed Li Ling's entire family.

The Xiongnu back then, like the Tatars today, were both large tribes on the grasslands, and the Ming Dynasty was just a small agricultural country compared to the Tatars. "

Someone who is good at debate.

Always get sidetracked by the last argument of someone who is better at debate.

Especially if there is more sophistry and more knowledge in the interlocutor's words, it is easier to be led astray.

Although Shen Weijing had little knowledge at the time, the fact that he could name Zhang Qian and Su Wu was already the result of his life's learning.

Wang Jiaping's words about Zhang Qian and Su Wu, "Heroes are always similar, but losers have their own misfortunes," and Li Ling's experience made Shen Weijing, who had a family but no country in his heart, nod his head in agreement.

Furthermore, when talking about the comparison between Tatar and the Ming Dynasty, Shen Weijing's sense of identification was even stronger.

In the Ming Dynasty, the emperor was the incarnation of heaven, and everything in the world had to change according to the emperor's will. As a member of the Qingxi Shen family, a famous family in Pinghu, one could only tremble in fear in the face of imperial power and power.

But the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the Ming court, these people who seemed unattainable to the famous Qingxi Shen family of Pinghu, trembled in fear in front of the Tatar cavalry.

Shen Weijing couldn't help but feel a little depressed. At this time, the grassland was just at the time when the wind blew the grass low and the cattle and sheep could be seen. He couldn't help but sigh, "That's right, it's just farming."

For thousands of years, farming has always been in a weak position in front of nomadic pastoralism, and nomadic pastoralism has long held the advantage over farming.

More importantly, in nomadic tribes, although the Great Khan and the Khan were powerful, they could not make all decisions on their own. Many things always required consultations among many tribal leaders, which was very different from the Ming Dynasty court, or the Central Plains regime.

If one could have a place in the nomadic tribe and become a noble, he would definitely be more comfortable than those dukes, marquises and earls of the Ming Dynasty who had just been ordered to return their hereditary certificates and titles.

He cannot become emperor, and the Qingxi Shen family cannot become a royal family. So, can he and the Qingxi Shen family become Tatar nobles?

Thinking of this, Shen Weijing's heartbeat unconsciously quickened.

Although they were both sitting on horseback and their bodies would rise and fall with the movement of the horse, Wang Jiaping still sensed the abnormal slight ups and downs of Shen Weijing's chest, and knew that Shen Weijing was somewhat moved.

Wang Jiaping smiled and continued with a guilty conscience: "Yu Yu (Shen Weijing's pen name), the Ming Dynasty regards the Tatars as northern barbarians, but don't the Tatars regard the Ming Dynasty as southern barbarians who can take whatever they want?
Since the Qin Dynasty unified the world, the Central Plains has gone through several unified dynasties. Hundreds of emperors have made it their responsibility to subdue the Northern Barbarians, but which emperor could truly subdue the Northern Barbarians?
Isn't it just surrender and then rebel again!
Emperor Wu of Han said that the country had surrendered, but the national strength was also depleted. Emperor Taizong of Tang said that the country had surrendered, but that was gained through generations of marriage alliances.

Since Emperor Taizu Gao of the Ming Dynasty, we have not adopted the policy of marrying off princesses, paying tribute, ceding territory, or making compensations. The emperor guards the national borders, and the king dies for the country.

But the result was that in the Battle of Tumu, the true colors of our Ming army were exposed, and our 500,000-strong army was destroyed by 30,000 Oirat cavalry.

More than half of the troops were injured, 30% died, and the rest were scattered. Even Emperor Yingzong, who led the army in person, was captured by the Oirat. The capital of the Ming Dynasty was almost crushed by the iron hooves of foreign races.

To this day, our Ming Dynasty is struggling to survive under the iron hoofs of the Tatar cavalry, and I don’t know when it will end.”

Having said this, Wang Jiaping sighed quietly and looked into the distance, as if he didn't know where to go in the future.

Shen Weijing's heartbeat was strong enough for people around him to hear.

Wang Jiaping, who was born in the Hanlin Academy and had a scholarly background, was a man of honor and a scholar, but his body and mind were bound by the Confucian values ​​of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness.

However, Shen Weijing, who had not received much education, had managed family property, and had acquired business habits, was a man who had no taboos at all.

Loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, those illusory things, what can they do?
Although he was accepted as a disciple by the Prime Minister Zhang Juzheng, how far could he go in the Ming court with his shallow knowledge that was not even that of a student?
His knowledge was not enough to support him to reach the top, so he had to find another way.

"Ambassador, after my mission is over, I want to stay in Tatar." Shen Weijing said bluntly.

Wang Jiaping almost couldn't hold it in anymore. He tried to hold back his smile with a tense face, a frown on his face, and fire in his eyes.

Shen Weijing quickly explained: "Ambassador, please don't misunderstand me. I want to stay in Tatar, not to be a traitor, but to be a spy, to secretly learn the skills of the Northern Tartar cavalry and bring them back to the court, so as to learn from the barbarians and defeat them!"

Wang Jiaping was silent.

This excuse is too crude.

But Shen Weijing saw this silence as a tacit hesitation, and he immediately said, "I will send a letter to my mentor to explain, and the ambassador does not need to be embarrassed."

Tatar nobles, he wanted.

He also wants to be a disciple of the Prime Minister of the Ming Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)