Chapter 16 Heart Eater King
It seemed that he was really scared. After Abatu rescued him from the wolf's mouth, the other party stopped playing tricks. All those who should be moved should not be moved were clean.
According to his story, their group of horse bandits really came from the south. However, it was not Linhuang Mansion in the south, but Shangjing Road and Tokyo Road further south. It was one of the few densely populated places in the northeast of the Jin Dynasty. Although after a series of wars, Dingkou was declining greatly. However, both the Dongliao and the Dongxia knew the importance of population.
Therefore, after restoring the local social order, we all paid attention to the restoration of local people's livelihood.
But somehow, at the end of this winter, the two countries fought in Hanzhou, Longzhou and Xinzhou. The farmers who usually live in this area suffered wars and had to flee.
Originally, he wanted to escape south to Liaoyang, but some people said that Meng'an in Zhaozhou recruited refugees, and there was food when he went there. In this dilemma where living was a problem, the horse bandit named Zhao Gouer fled to Zhaozhou with the refugee team.
But what he didn't expect was that Meng'an, who was helping them, took them to hunt grass valley after taking in nearly Wandingkou. This was not rare at first! But Meng'an led them all the way north and plunged into the Mongolian fiefdom.
To be honest, Zhao Gouer originally dared not provoke the Mongols. After all, the powerful Jin Kingdom was so beaten to such a slump. So at first he had the same intention as others, but after being killed by Meng'an, Zhao Gouer's thoughts disappeared without a trace.
After entering the grassland and destroying several Mongolian tribes in succession, Zhao Gou'er's worry was gone at all. In addition, the seizure along the way was pretty good, and he felt even more arrogant.
This is also the reason why Zhao Gouer was reluctant to tell the truth after being arrested and alive. Because he always thought that with their strength, he could soon wipe out this small village.
Then Ulutus asked about the number of horse bandits and the leader. Unfortunately, Zhao Gou'er was just a scout of the horse bandits, so he could only give a rough idea of the number of people. As for the leader, his original name was Wanyan Duosba, he was once a Meng'an who was enthroned by the Jin Kingdom.
Later, the Jin Kingdom was destroyed, and the Meng'an enthronement was useless. However, this person hated the Mongolians very much. After entering the Hulunbuir grassland, he would like to dig out the hearts of the Mongolian nobles to eat whenever he destroyed a tribe. This cruel behavior was also privately called the "Heart-eating King" by the people below.
Whether he was in the status of a Mongolian or his basic moral concepts, Ulutus had no favoritism for this so-called Heart-Eating King. And he was more vigilant about the starting point! He raised the alert level in the village to the highest level.
This way, after about ten days, the raids sent out even reported that no trace of the horse bandit was found.
"Did you go to Hulun Lake?" Wulutus thought with a frown.
This is not impossible! In terms of the density of the tribe, it must be Hulun Lake in the lower reaches of the Hailar River. It is the fief of his cheap brother Yegu. There are 50,000 people from the Ministry of Revenue, scattered on the east bank of the lake. According to the horse bandits' robbery, they naturally find the fattest sheep to slaughter.
And his fiefdom is in the upper reaches of the Hailar River, and it is hard to see people for a hundred miles. In the eyes of the bandits, it is indeed a deserted place without much fuel and water.
At this moment, Ulutus was a little grateful to those brothers for enfeoffing him here. He was a little bit off, but he suffered much less disasters.
However, he did not dare to completely relieve himself! He still sent people to the lower reaches of the Hailar River to check. At the same time, he reduced the guards by half. After all, people have to eat! Although the whole nation is good, he does not have the ability to offer.
As the weather warmed up, the snow began to melt on a large scale. The pioneering operations on both sides of the Hailar River must also be carried out.
In addition, the production of military equipment cannot be delayed! Especially in the production of large firecrackers, it must be accelerated.
It was soon, and May was coming. The horse bandits who had worried Ulutus before finally left the Hailar River Basin. According to the cavalry sent to investigate in the front, the horse bandits were defeated on the east bank of Hulun Lake and then drove to the southwest. It was another Mongolian king, Heqiwen, and it had nothing to do with their Hesar fiefdom.
After all, there are just a group of bitter bandits, and there is no gain if they are wiped out, so everything will be fine as long as you leave your fief.
Ulutus couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard the news, and cut the scale of the guards again. Except for the necessary and rotating guards, everyone else was involved in a vigorous production.
At this moment, Wang He also brought good news to Ulutus! That is, the large firecracker named Fire Thunder by Ulutus was finally made.
Ulutus, who was originally inspecting the progress of wasteland reclamation on the right bank of the Hailar River, didn't care about anything and hurried to check the results.
Considering the danger of fire thunder, the experimental site was located on the left bank of the Hailar River. At this time, the fire barrier had been made here in advance. A sheep was tied to the body, and a large black projectile was placed beside it. Long gray-white lines extended from the projectile, about two meters long.
When Ulutus arrived, Wang He and his two apprentices were ready. And beside him, there was a Hui Hui man standing. This was the Hui Hui craftsman sent by the caravan.
Originally, after returning to Montenegro City, the caravan wanted to give tens of thousands of gold as a reward as promised. However, after Ulutus received the treasures left by the Sixth Prince, he did not short of money, but sent people.
So he directly asked the Huihui caravan whether he could use craftsmen to offset the reward!
This proposal is not difficult for the Hui caravan.
In fact, when the caravans go out, they all carry craftsmen. After all, the horse team always has some quilting and repair work that needs to be processed along the way, and when certain expensive goods need to be traded, they also need to be identified by those who know the goods.
Therefore, the caravan only paid half of the reward and kept both craftsmen in the team. One was a craftsman who could make ordnance, and the other was a blacksmith who could deep-process rough iron.
And the other party agreed that when he returned to the grassland before winter, he would bring back a group of craftsmen to Ulutus.
Of course, Ulutus did not let them go for nothing. The tribe's skin was sold to Huihui caravans, and they also sold the sausages and bacon produced by the tribe, as well as the plush thread and plush sweaters made in the winter that the wool textile workshop had spent a winter.
Chapter completed!