Since Daishan said so, what else could Huang Taiji say?

He nodded and said, "Then let him in, big brother."

Daishan also nodded and waved behind him.

Not long after, a man walked in from outside.

You can tell at a glance that he looks exhausted and must have suffered a lot and endured a lot of hardships. He looks very embarrassed.

After seeing Huang Taiji, Agutai knelt down with a plop and said with a sad face: "Khan!"

After seeing this person, Huang Taiji first stared at him, and then asked in disbelief: "Are you Agutai?"

"Yes, Great Khan. It's me." Agutai said quickly, "This time in Zhangjiakou, all our people were killed. Only three of us escaped, and we barely escaped death. We almost couldn't come back."

"What happened?" Huang Taiji looked at Agutai and asked, "Where is Irgen Jueluo?"

"He's dead," Agutai said with a sad face. "The Ming emperor suddenly went to Zhangjiakou and arrested everyone in Zhangjiakou, even the merchants who did business with us."

"Now all those people's homes have been ransacked. We are stuck inside Zhangjiakou and can't leave. Irgen Jueluo has also been arrested. Although I was not arrested, I almost escaped the search."

"Later, because the Ming emperor left, I was able to escape from Zhangjiakou. I rushed all the way here to see the Khan. I didn't dare to slack off even for a moment."

"The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty actually went to Zhangjiakou?" Huang Taiji said with a somewhat grim expression, "So that road is now blocked?"

"The business there is still going on, but the people have changed. It's no longer those merchants who are doing the business, but other merchants have replaced them. We can't communicate with them at all, and the business is dominated by a government office called the Imperial Household Department of the Ming Dynasty."

"If we spend money to rebuild the relationship, it will still take a long time, and we don't know if it will work."

When Agutai said this, the expression on his face was very ugly.

In fact, he said this to Huang Taiji.

In Agutai's opinion, this matter was simply not feasible, and those people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs would never dare to do this.

Those merchants in Zhangjiakou knew without question that their fate would be disastrous. With these people acting as a deterrent, no one would dare to cooperate with them in the short term.

And this is not the key point, because once the Ming Emperor's plan succeeds, it will be even more impossible for us to go to Zhangjiakou.

Huang Taiji looked very unhappy, and this made life even more difficult.

"Great Khan, this isn't the worst yet." Aguthai looked at Huang Taiji with an even uglier expression and said, "Khorchin and the Ming Dynasty have formed an alliance."

After hearing this, Huang Taiji was finally shocked. He stood up and looked at Agutai in disbelief and asked directly: "Are you telling the truth?"

"Of course it's true." Agutai nodded and said, "This matter has now spread all over Zhangjiakou."

"Can't it be a trick of the Ming people?" Huang Taiji still said somewhat unwillingly.

If the news of Zhangjiakou being sealed off had already made things worse for Huang Taiji, then the news of the alliance between Khorchin and the Ming Dynasty was enough to be fatal.

Agutai didn't dare to hide anything and told Huang Taiji everything. He looked up at Huang Taiji and said miserably, "Because of this news, Irgen Jueluo could have left, but he chose not to."

"Also, Khorchin has already married Bumbutai to the Ming emperor, and many people know about this."

"How is this possible?" Huang Taiji said in disbelief, "How could the emperor of the Ming Dynasty marry a woman from Khorchin? This shouldn't be possible."

Huang Taiji still couldn't believe it.

After all, for so many years, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty has never done such a thing. If the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was easy to compromise, it would not have ended up like this.

Even if the emperor of the Ming Dynasty wanted to do this, what about the others? Did the ministers of the Ming Dynasty agree?

Daishan looked at Huang Taiji and said directly, "Great Khan, if this is true, then we may be in trouble. If the Ming Dynasty and Khorchin form an alliance, our way west will be blocked."

In fact, the Jurchens had already formulated a strategy starting from Nurhaci.

To the west, we should subjugate the Mongolian tribes and make them form an alliance with us. After the alliance has lasted for a while, we should find a way to swallow them up. This way, we can strengthen ourselves.

The Jurchens were few in number, so it was impossible for them to deal with the Ming Dynasty. Only by uniting with Mongolia could they survive, and only by annexing Mongolia could they expand their power.

With Genghis Khan as an example, everyone wants to retrace their steps. Who wouldn't want to expand their careers?

Nurhaci thought about it, and Huang Taiji thought about it too, so Huang Taiji understood deeply what he was going to do next.

If we want to go west, Khorchin is a very important point. Uniting Khorchin and then Inner Khalkha will basically increase our strength and enable us to march westward.

Huang Taiji was very clear about this point in his heart.

He married a Khorchin woman for this reason. Otherwise, he would have married a woman named Zhezhe and there would be no need to marry Bumbutai. To put it bluntly, it was to deepen the alliance between the two sides and consolidate the covenant between the two sides.

Of all the Mongolian tribes, Huang Taiji's family was closest to Khorchin. If Khorchin fell out, it would not be a good example.

Looking at Daishan, Huang Taiji said directly: "Send someone to contact Khorchin immediately. I want to know what is going on. If they really dare to ally with the Ming Dynasty, then war will begin."

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