Time Travel — Episode 9

Manager Li, these past days, have you felt dizzy? No, I've felt no discomfort. Mr. Lin, since you've said so much,

please be direct. I want to open a shop in Guangning, with you running it. The profits,

how about a 50-50 split? You've helped me before. Let's do 30-70, giving you more. Then I'll gladly accept.

One more thing: Use all the earnings to buy salt, iron, grain, cloth, and basics.

Can you manage that? Easy. I don't know other regions, but smuggling in Liaodong,

as long as you've got silver, there's nothing you can't buy. Then I'll leave it to you. Take the empty carts back

and haul the first batch of smokeless coal. Master, you called for us? How many are in the fort now? 631 able-bodied young men,

489 women, 314 elders and children. That's 1,434 in total. Over 100 are in the Black Mountain.

Pick 300 strong men to form a new army. We've expanded, and both sides need manpower. General Zhao,

you traveled a thousand li yet were locked out by your own men. Is such a court worth dying for?

Why not surrender to me? A mere swordsman dares to recruit me? The Grand Khan sees clearly. We Kharchin aren't like Khorchin

or those big tribes of Aohan. We don't need to prove our might. At most, we can field no more than ten thousand riders.

For years, squeezed between Ming and Chahar, we've caught flak from both sides. Burqatu. I know your Kharchin tribe

has been Ming's vassals for generations. But now the Ming emperor is weak, while our Qing is strong. Do you want Ming's paper decree,

or your ten thousand heads? Great Khan, calm down. Kharchin will lead the way for you, through fire and water,

unto death. Now that's my good anda. Stop kneeling. Come eat.

Second year of Chongzhen. Huang Taiji borrowed the Mongols, with Kharchin as guides, flanking the Ningjin防线.

Later Jin cavalry smashed the border walls, torches flew into streets like locusts. Where blades flashed, blood sprayed, doors splintered.

Amid screams, Wushe fell to ash. A thousand homes turned to cinders overnight. Women and goods were swept away.

As flames swallowed the gate tower, the gateway into the pass swung wide open. Jizhen fell. Tatar troops drove straight for Zunhua.

If Zunhua is lost, the capital is threatened. Shanhaiguan commander Zhao Shuai rushed with 4,000 elite troops to aid Zunhua.