After the court meeting was over, Mo Di left Zhang Dongyuan behind and took him to drink tea in the Warm Pavilion of the Hande Hall in the harem. Although it was called a harem, the Warm Pavilion was poorly furnished, with only tables, chairs, wooden couches and a few low-quality items from large merchants.

It was just a vase, not even an incense burner. It was far less warm and comfortable than the harem of Dashang.

In fact, Mo Di is still not used to living in these tall palaces, but Zhang Dongyuan said before that sooner or later people in Daxia will get used to living in tall houses, especially Chanyu, who will one day learn to be an emperor, so Mo Di asked himself to try his best.

Adapting to these things that he was not used to yet, he looked forward to one day entering Yong'an, sitting on the golden dragon chair, and sleeping with all the beauties in the harem.

Both Mo Di and Zhang Dongyuan were sitting on chairs. A maid came up and respectfully offered milk tea to the two of them, then bowed to them and quietly left. Zhang Dongyuan saw the woman's clothes and skin color and knew that she was abducted from a big businessman.

It is not surprising that the slaves of Daxia Kingdom were at least hundreds of thousands, and most of them were female slaves.

Just as Mo Di was about to speak, a fair-skinned and beautiful woman walked into the Nuan Pavilion with her slender waist twisted from the outside. She sat on Mo Di's lap as if no one else was around and gently stroked Mo Di's unshaven face. Mo Di laughed loudly.

He reached out and pinched her delicate face. This woman was nearly forty years old, but she still looked like she was just over twenty. Her name was Yu Shilan, and she was the mother of Yi Yingjie of the Baochan Sect.

Mo Di smiled wretchedly, "Beauty, why are you here? I just heard at the court meeting that Yelu Chunlei died. In the past, the old man Yelu Chunlei often bargained with me. Now that he is dead, we can help Yingjie to the throne.

, from now on, the Baochan Sect will be completely under our control! Completely controlling one of the seven major sects is also a good thing for us!"

Yu Shilan looked at Mo Di with a resentful look on her face, and said coquettishly: "Da Shanyu, look at you, you just came back from the court meeting, why are you discussing those military and national affairs when you meet me? How can I, a womanly person, know such things?

The Great Xia Kingdom is yours, not just one sect, but all the sects. If you don’t let them live, how can they survive? Yingjie is originally just like your child. If you want him to be the sect leader, then

Just let him do it, and he will listen to you anyway! I belong to the Great Chanyu, as do we, mother and son. The Great Chanyu can do whatever he wants!"

Mo Di's bones were so soft, he kissed Yu Shilan's cheek, laughed loudly and said: "My little beauty, you are so kind! Okay, I will ask someone to announce Yingjie as Bao Chan later.

As the new sect leader of the sect, let him completely take over the affairs of the Baochan sect. I will give him as many soldiers and horses as he needs. Anyone in the Baochan sect who dares to disobey will be killed!"

Zhang Dongyuan drank milk tea calmly, as if he didn't see what was happening in front of him at all. Yu Shilan and Mo Di were intimate for a while before reluctantly leaving. When they left, they acted coquettishly and asked Mo Di to go there at night.

Looking for her, Mo Di promised with a smile on his face, "Beauty, I will definitely go, don't worry!"

After Yu Shilan left, Mo Di returned to his normal expression and asked with a smile: "Zhang Dongyuan, before you suggested that I lead people to continuously attack the big merchants and rob them of their population, property, food, salt and iron, so that those

The people of the Great Shang Kingdom are tired of coping. You have also seen that many of the maids in my palace are slaves snatched from the Great Shang. These are the benefits of robbing the Great Shang. But now you have changed your mind and said that we should be semi-farmers.

What about semi-nomads? I know you have read a lot of books and are very knowledgeable, but I don’t understand why you would change our long-standing national policy.”

Zhang Dongyuan saw Mo Di going straight to the topic and said with a smile: "Da Shanyu, do you plan to only care about this moment, or do you plan to care about hundreds of generations? If you only care about this moment, just lead your troops to rob the Dashang border every year.

, if you want to be long-term, want to dominate the Central Plains, or even want to build a century-old legacy, then

Well, it’s hard to do it just by relying on nomads. The great merchants have no power to fight back now because their monarchs and ministers have two minds. The vassal kings want to disobey their ministers, and even the eunuchs follow suit. We have internal and external troubles, so we have an opportunity!"

Mo Di nodded and agreed with Zhang Dongyuan's view. Zhang Dongyuan added: "But if one day, the political situation of Dashang stabilizes and there is enough time to train elite soldiers and generals, will we still be able to plunder them as easily as today? There are four thousand of them.

We have a population of 10,000, and our Daxia, even including the hundreds of thousands of slaves we robbed, only has a population of 3 million, not even one-tenth of the Great Shang. If the Great Shang is willing to give up a million people, it will be as good as ours.

If we fight a big war and kill a million of us or even more, can we afford to lose?"

Mo Di was stunned for a moment and shook his head.

Zhang Dongyuan wrapped himself in a mink fur coat, "We can still take advantage of their civil strife and plunder them, but one day, the great merchants' national strength will be restored. What will we do then? So the slave said that in the future we will trade with them and use cattle, horses and sheep.

In exchange for what we need. We also need to build more cities and start to transform into farming, at least half-nomadic and half-farming. Only when we can be self-sufficient in food and can attack and defend militarily will we have enough energy to attack.

Big businessman."

Zhang Dongyuan smiled and said: "It's an attack, not a robbery! After capturing Dashang, let the merchants manage those cities and the country for us. Dashang has too many talents to use, but the emperor of Dashang doesn't know how.

Yong. We don’t need to do everything ourselves, Da Chanyu, do you understand what I mean?”

Mo Di nodded and was silent in thought. Zhang Dongyuan took a sip of milk tea and asked in a low voice that only two people could hear: "Da Shanyu, what do you think of this woman Yu Shilan?"

Mo Di beamed, "This woman looks like a fairy descending from heaven, and she's very tasty. I like her very much!"

Zhang Dongyuan whispered again: "Then you don't want to join Dashang? In Dashang's Central Plains, there are many more beautiful, gentler, more virtuous, and younger women than her! In Dashang's Central Plains, there are gold and jewelry.

, there are beautiful mountains and rivers scenery, local customs, and more delicious food. Aren’t these all what you dream of? You are not familiar with these things, how can you manage them? "

Mo Di's eyes shone, and then he smiled and said: "Zhang Dongyuan, I have never understood it. Logically speaking, since you were once a member of the Great Shang Kingdom, there is no reason to hate it so much!"

Zhang Dongyuan stood up, put his left hand on his chest, and bowed: "I, Zhang Dongyuan, am a big businessman, but the life I lived in the big business was worse than death, even worse than a dog! I once swore that one day I would kill those people with my own hands.

The person who harmed me, I escaped from Dashang all the way to Daxia. It was you, Dashan, who gave me everything I have today. I have glory and status, and can live like a human being. You obeyed my words and became my leader.

My confidant, how can I not repay you, the Great Chanyu? There is a saying in Dashang that a scholar will die for his confidant. That is what I, Zhang Dongyuan, want to say to the Great Chanyu!"

Mo Di laughed, spread his hands on his thighs, raised his head and looked at the caisson in the Nuan Pavilion, and said loudly: "Having a counselor like you, Zhang Dongyuan, is a gift from the Holy God to me and to Daxia. Thank you to the Holy God!

"

Mo Di smiled and asked again: "Zhang Dongyuan, tell me, since we are not planning to go to war with the Great Shang court in the short term, what will we do next?"

Zhang Dongyuan sat back on his chair and smiled slightly, "Da Shanyu, we are going to war with Dashang, and we must fight until Dashang is in pain, and until they are willing to take the initiative to seek peace!"

Mo Di looked stunned, "Zhang Dongyuan, you were the one who said in public at the court meeting just now that you don't want to start a war with Dashang!"

Zhang Dongyuan kept laughing wildly,

"Great Chanyu, what can we do if we don't say this at the court meeting? Can we completely trust the people who stayed at the court meeting? We can't be afraid of deceit! We can't let the news leak. We must attack the great merchants like crazy and plunder as much as possible.

After frightening them with their property, food, and population, we forced them to make peace, and then trade with them. While we were attacking, we built cities and learned farming. In particular, we captured hundreds of thousands of big merchants as slaves.

, these slaves are the best teachers!”

Mo Di hesitated and asked: "Zhang Dongyuan, you also know that some people are just forced by my power, but in fact they don't really surrender to me in their hearts, just like those who will withdraw from the dynasty today, how can I deal with them better?

, and it won’t affect my strength?”

Zhang Dongyuan took a sip of the milk tea that had already cooled down a bit, and said with a faint smile: "This is very simple! We will start a war against big businessmen in a few days and plunder resources, so let these people rush to the front and act as thugs. On the one hand, we will fight against big businessmen.

If Shang goes to war, it will damage their strength, and of course it will also damage the strength of Dashang. If both of our enemies are damaged, wouldn't it be of great benefit to us?"

Mo Di nodded and shouted outside the Nuan Pavilion: "Change a bowl of milk tea for Zhang Dongyuan, this bowl is already cold!" A maid outside agreed and came in to change a bowl of hot milk tea for Zhang Dongyuan. Although Mo Di looked rough, he was rough in the middle.

Well, in Daxia, where the folk customs are fierce, this is already considered rare. If it hadn't been for Mo Di, it's unknown which ditch on the roadside Zhang Dongyuan would have died in.

Zhang Dongyuan was holding hot milk tea and said excitedly: "Dad Chanyu, I suggest that you proclaim yourself emperor directly and call him Beidi. You should make Beilangcheng your capital and compete with the emperors of Dashang. You should imitate the model of the Central Plains and set up official military towns.

, treat those slaves well, and make them willing to be used by me, Daxia, for business. Just like hunting, you don’t have to rush up to bite the prey yourself, you just need to train your hounds!"

Zhang Dongyuan took a sip of hot milk tea and said with an intoxicated look: "On the basis of preserving the culture of Daxia, we will plot the Central Plains and conquer the world. Let the people of the Great Shang Kingdom help you govern the world. In the future, our people on horseback will also

A powerful country will also be established, and with the fighting power of my Daxia warriors, it is only a matter of time before we can dominate the world!"

Mo Di stood up, walked over and patted Zhang Dongyuan on the shoulder, "Okay, I believe in my own vision, and I believe in yours, Zhang Dongyuan's! If it hadn't been for your suggestion, it would have been difficult for me to make up my mind to compete with several brothers for Shan Yu.

With my position, it is even more difficult to make up my mind to kill my father who no longer trusts me! You are right, kindness does not control the army, and those who achieve great things do not care about the family! Before, I was too kind and soft-hearted, so I was bullied by others!"

Zhang Dongyuan stood up again, put his hands on his chest, and bowed: "I suggest that Da Shanyu write another letter of credence to Emperor Shang, forcing him to recognize your status as emperor. The status of Emperor Daxia is as noble as his. Da Shanyu

There is a saying in Shang that if the name is not right, then the words will not go smoothly, and if the words are not right, then things will not happen! If he does not agree, it is a perfect excuse for us to go to war with him. Of course, if he agrees, we can find another excuse to go to war.

Well, as for the feudal kings of Dashang who are ready to move, they can also be used by us in the future, at least to contain their court!"

Mo Di clapped his hands and said, "Okay, Zhang Dongyuan, I will do as you say! I hope that after a lot of hard work, we can determine the Central Plains as soon as possible!"

Zhang Dongyuan bowed again, "Da Shan Yu Yingming! I, Da Xia, am blessed!"

Mo Di laughed heartily, "Come here, bring out the kumiss! I'm going to get drunk with Zhang Dongyuan today!"
Chapter completed!