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Yuan Wailang snorted and said: "In the past, I only heard that the merchants in the border areas were colluding with the Mongols on the grassland, but I didn't expect that today I would see it with my own eyes."
The manager on the side looked embarrassed.
It is an open secret in the border areas that merchants bring convoys and goods to smuggle into the grasslands. Many soldiers and generals in the border areas make money from this kind of thing.
"Sir, this is the grassland. It's best not to talk about Tiger Flag's collusion with the Mongols here." Jin Yiwei Baihu suddenly spoke up to remind them.
Not far around them, in addition to Han people, there were more Mongolians.
Yuanwailang hummed with a cold face.
He knew in his heart that this was not the realm of the Ming Dynasty after all. Facing the Mongols, his status as a minister of etiquette might not be useful.
"Sir, let's go to the city first!" said the boss.
Yuanwailang nodded and urged his horse to walk towards the city gate.
However, he did not line up like others, but passed directly by the line in front of the city gate and went straight to the city gate, preparing to enter the city.
"Stop, go to the back and line up!"
The tiger-character flag soldiers guarding the city gate stopped them from entering the city.
When Yuan Wailang saw that the person blocking him was a Han man, his face immediately sank, and he said with official authority: "Who do you think you are? You dare to stop me, get out of here."
Seeing the Tiger Character Banner colluding with the Mongols here in Qingcheng had already made him extremely uncomfortable. Now that a Han dared to block his way, he cursed without mercy.
"It turns out they are causing trouble. Come and capture them all." The tiger-character flag soldier who stopped them greeted.
The other soldiers with the Tiger Flag in front of the city gate stepped forward one after another, surrounding the Yuan Wai Lang and others from the Ministry of Rites, and pointed their muskets at them.
The people behind who were preparing to enter the city saw someone making trouble in front of the city gate. Except for a few fearful pedestrians who quickly entered the city, most of them stayed outside the city gate to watch the excitement.
"Don't do it, don't do it." The boss next to Yuan Wai Lang hurriedly stepped forward and said, "This is Mr. Xu from the Ministry of Rites from the capital of the Ming Dynasty. Mr. Xu has come to enshrine the Tumote tribe in accordance with the decree of the imperial court. Lord Ombuhong is the new King of Shunyi, and he asked some brothers to let us into the city."
As he spoke, he repeatedly raised his hands to the tiger-character flag soldiers in front of him.
"I don't care whose order you are following. If you want to enter the city, just queue up at the back." A captain of the Tiger-Character Banner's military team walked out from behind the crowd.
Yuanwai Lang, who was riding on horseback, looked very ugly.
He didn't expect that his identity had been revealed, and the people who stopped them still refused to let them enter the city.
After all, he was also an official of the Ministry of Rites, but he was asked to line up to enter the city with those lowly Han Chinese and herdsmen. For him, this was a humiliation to himself.
"Do you know that if you do this and offend our lords, are you not afraid to wait until our lords see Queen Shunyi and ask King Shunyi to come forward and punish you?" Jin Yiwei Baihu scolded.
"Haha, if you have the ability, just go ahead and say it. We're really not afraid!" The captain of the Tiger-Character Flag laughed out loud.
At this time, the Yuanwai Lang riding on the horse felt something was wrong.
"Sir, these people are soldiers of the Tiger Flag. King Shunyi cannot scare them." The general from the Xuan Mansion reminded in a low voice.
He had dealt with the soldiers of the Tiger Flag more than once. When he saw that everyone on the other side had firecrackers in their hands, he recognized the identities of the people guarding the city gate.
"What! You said they are from the Tiger Flag?" Yuan Wailang looked surprised.
In any case, he never thought that the people of the Tiger Character Banner would guard the gates of the Mongolian city. At the same time, it also made him more and more suspicious of the relationship between the Tiger Character Banner and the Tumut tribe.
Mr. Ba said: "Sir, we'd better listen to them and go to the back to line up to enter the city! After all, this is a grassland, and the Mongols are the ones who have the final say."
Yuanwailang's face alternated between blue and white.
After a while, he gritted his molar teeth and said: "Okay, I will go and line up. When I enter the city, I will definitely ask King Shunyi for an explanation."
After saying that, he turned his horse's head and left.
The captain of the tiger-character flag waved his hand to the other soldiers, indicating that these officials and followers from the Ming Dynasty should be allowed to leave.
The tiger-shaped flag convoy entered the city, and the queue to enter the city was not too long.
Not long after, Yuan Wailang and others appeared in front of the Tiger Flag soldiers again.
"Dismount, register, and hand over all the weapons you carry." The tiger-character flag soldier in front of the city gate said expressionlessly.
Jinyiwei Baihu frowned and said: "You asked us to queue up already, and now you ask us to take off our armor. What do you mean? Tell you, it's best to let us enter the city immediately, otherwise you can't afford the loss."
"If you want to enter the city, hand over all your soldiers and armor, otherwise they will go back where they came from." The tiger-character flag soldier guarding the city gate said with an unchanging expression.
The commander on the side jumped off his horse, came closer in a few steps, and said with a smile: "These must be soldiers of the Tiger Flag!"
"Don't get too close, it's useless." The tiger-character flag soldier said coldly.
Mr. Jiang did not give up and continued: "We are all Han people. We came to Qingcheng this time. We are indeed following the imperial court's decree. We also ask our brothers to give you face. When we see His Highness the King of Shunyi later, we will definitely do our best to bring glory to your company." Words."
"No need." The soldier with the Tiger Flag said, "If you want to enter the city, you must follow our rules, and the horses you are riding now are not allowed to be ridden after entering the city. You can only lead the horse away. .”
Seeing the tiger-character flag in front of him, the soldiers were unable to get in, so he had no choice but to retreat to Yuan Wailang's side.
He said: "Sir, it seems that if you want to enter the city, you can only do as they say, leave all the soldiers and armor to them for safekeeping, and then lead the horse into the city."
"This is really unreasonable." Yuan Wailang's face looked as ugly as possible.
After coming all the way from the capital, he finally arrived in Qingcheng, but was stopped outside the city by private soldiers raised by a Datong company. Not only did he feel that he had lost face, but he also felt that he was being humiliated.
If it had been a group of Mongolian soldiers doing this in front of the city gate, he would have felt better, but it happened that it was a group of Han people who did this, and they were Han people under the Ming Dynasty.
He, an official in the Ministry of Rites, seemed to be nothing in the eyes of the people with the tiger character flag in front of him.
"If the people of the Tiger Character Banner do this, aren't they afraid that we will return to the Ming Dynasty, report to the Ming Dynasty court, and punish Liu Heng's crimes in the future?" Jinyiwei Baihu said with hatred.
The boss smiled bitterly and said: "My lords, this is the grassland. It's better not to say these words as much as possible. If something happens to us people on the grassland, it will make the sky and the earth unstoppable."
"Give them all your armor."
The Yuanwai Lang on the horse seemed to be moved by the general words and ordered the others to hand over their armor.
