After drinking the tea, Wu Keshan tasted a different feeling.

The tea aroma is not very strong, unlike the tea with spices added on the grassland.

The aftertaste is very long and refreshing, without any stickiness.

Wu Keshan knew that this was indeed good tea. He closed his eyes and savored the tea carefully.

Zhu Youxiao was sitting there, also drinking tea, with a look of enjoyment on his face.

After a while, Zhu Youxiao seemed to have had enough tea. He looked at Wu Keshan and asked with a smile, "I wonder what brings you here today?"

"Your Majesty, I still want to talk to you about things on the grassland." Wu Keshan said with a smile.

"Oh, really?" Zhu Youxiao nodded and asked doubtfully, "What's going on on the grassland?"

After hearing this, Wu Keshan sighed helplessly, a sad expression on his face. He then said, "Your Majesty should know that I am actually a person who yearns for peace. There are fighting and killing on this grassland all day long, and the casualties are all the herdsmen on the grassland."

"There was no other way. We fought and killed just to survive. The grasslands are plagued by natural disasters and man-made disasters all the time. It's not easy for people like us to survive on the grasslands."

"Now that your wise and powerful Majesty has opened a trading post in Daning City, we've indeed gained a lot from trade over the past few years. This wool, in particular, is enough for everyone to support themselves. Besides supporting themselves, we can even live a good life."

"With the change of name and surname, the canonization by Your Majesty, and the opening of the school, the good times are about to get even better, and everyone is thriving. I am so grateful to Your Majesty that I can only look up to the mountains."

Zhu Youxiao looked at Wu Keshan.

You still look up to me like a mountain, why don't you say it's like the flooding of the Yellow River, which is out of control?

However, Zhu Youxiao did not complain about Wu Keshan's words. He probably understood what Wu Keshan meant and what he wanted to say.

This was a method that Zhu Youxiao had not expected, but it was very comfortable.

Wu Keshan looked at Zhu Youxiao's expression. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty seemed very satisfied.

Wu Keshan felt relieved.

Things turned out just as he had expected. This really satisfied the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and his idea was not wrong.

Wu Keshan continued, "But things weren't peaceful on the grasslands either. Everyone on the grasslands knew that the original ruler was Ligdan Khan. This guy claimed to be the legitimate ruler of the grasslands, saying he was a descendant of the Mongols and wanted to unify the grasslands, counterattack the Ming Dynasty, and restore the Yuan Dynasty."

Wu Keshan looked sad and angry, as if he felt the same way.

But Zhu Youxiao knew that no one believed in this trivial matter. Not to mention overthrowing the Ming Dynasty and restoring the Yuan Dynasty, no one thought that Lin Danhan could accomplish his goal of unifying the grassland, whether it was the Ming Dynasty or the Mongols.

How could it be so easy for the Mongols to unify after being divided for so many years?

In the original history, Lin Danhan did not succeed, but let Nurhaci and Huang Taiji take advantage of it and finally unified the Mongolian grasslands.

As for the fact that Huang Taiji and his men finally took control of the Central Plains and established the Qing Dynasty, many of these were due to the Ming Dynasty's own problems.

This is an era of competing to see who is rotten to the core. The Ming Dynasty, which lasted for more than two hundred years, was rotten to the core, and the Mongols, which lasted for more than two hundred years, were also rotten to the core.

On the contrary, the emerging Nurhaci was not that bad, so he won in the end.

But now Huang Taiji is gone, and only Ligdan Khan is left. Zhu Youxiao does not think that Ligdan Khan can become a better person, nor does he want him to cause trouble in the north.

From now on, I will devote more energy to the south.

There are still some issues to be dealt with domestically. Once they are dealt with, the next step is overseas and the South.

I won't invest any more energy in the north. After all, the ice age is coming soon, and there's not much development in the north. The overwhelming snow and temperatures of forty to fifty degrees below zero are almost unsuitable for human survival.

Zhu Youxiao never used the temperature in Northeast China in later generations to measure the present.

In his previous life, Guo Degang often mentioned "old times", which was only during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. At that time, the ice age had long passed, with only the tail end. Then came global warming, and the temperature was already unbearable.

Zhu Youxiao clearly remembered that when he was a child, the snow in his hometown would reach up to his knees, but when he grew up, it rarely snowed in winter.

During the Ming Dynasty, heavy snow fell across the north of the Yangtze River. It wasn't the kind that would stop falling, but rather the kind that snowed heavily. Imagine how cold it was in the Northeast at that time, and how cold it was on the grasslands.

The further north you go, the colder it gets. There's no development in the north. As long as you can calm Ligdan Khan down and let him freeze on the grassland, he'll come over on his own.

Wu Keshan had no idea what Zhu Youxiao was thinking, so he continued, "He's eyeing us covetously now. I'm really afraid that after the Ming Dynasty leaves Liaodong, Ligdan Khan will come east. By then, our eastern grasslands will be in disarray, and I'm afraid we won't be able to resist Ligdan Khan."

After saying that, Wu Keshan stood up directly, lay on the ground and said: "Your Majesty, please have mercy on me!"

"Then what do you want to do?" Zhu Youxiao asked Wu Keshan.

"Your Majesty and I hope that you can preside over the gathering of all the Mongols on the eastern grasslands, swear an oath of blood to jointly resist Ligdan Khan. Once the time is ripe, we will all fight against Ligdan Khan together." Wu Keshan raised his head and said with some excitement.

"Once they join the alliance, the Ming Dynasty will be responsible for supervising them. If anyone dares to betray the alliance, everyone will kill them together!"

Zhu Youxiao looked at Wu Keshan.

This guy is really very politically wise.

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