The next day, Tie Mo met Kachin Khan Usuza, the leader of the Naiman tribe. There was also a rough and arrogant man beside Aqige. He was Aqige's compatriot brother Bahanlie.
After a detailed discussion, we found out that Wusu Zha had made some arrangements for the future.
Lieutenant Bukhan replaced Aqige and led his troops to station in Urg. From now on, Lieutenant Bukhan will be responsible for the safety of the camel team led by Tiemo.
Aqige, on the other hand, stayed in the Naiman Department, which was her request.
As for what happened a few days ago, it was purely accidental.
Bayan Khan didn't know where he got the news. He learned that Aqige was following the camel caravan south, so he sent many cavalry teams to search everywhere. In the end, he really got lucky. However, it turned out that Aqige escaped.
sky.
Bayan Khan hated Aqige for a reason.
Four years ago, Bayan Khan intended to marry the Naiman tribe, but Aqige strongly opposed it. It also happened that Bayan Khan's son Dole drank too much and wanted to use force on Aqige.
Aqige had a fiery temperament, and how could he not be angry? In anger, he cut off the roots of Dolei's descendants with a knife. Since then, the Naiman tribe and the Sunit tribe have become unrelenting enemies.
.......
There is no such thing as a banquet that lasts forever, and Tie Mo is also in a hurry to return to Anzhuang Castle.
On the sixth day of the first lunar month in the eighth year of the Apocalypse, a cold wind blew and white snow drifted from the sky.
After resting for many days, the camel team finally got back on the road. Aqige and Bahanlie personally led the people to send the camel team south, all the way to Zhangbeicheng.
Watching the camel caravan gradually go away, Aqige's eyes were full of reluctance. She bit her pink lips and slowly tightened the scimitar at her waist.
Bahanlie looked at his sister beside him, smiled bitterly and shook his head.
"Have you decided? Don't forget, he is a Han!"
"Han people? So what?" Aqige's beautiful eyes narrowed, and he suddenly stepped on the horse's back. The horse was in pain and ran forward.
A certain distance was covered in an instant.
Seeing Aqige catching up, Zhou Dingshan and others moved forward silently, leaving Tie Mo behind.
Tie Mo looked at Aqige and said softly: "Is something wrong?"
"Well, I see your knife is gone, so I'll give you this knife!"
Aqige handed over the scimitar inlaid with gems, turned the horse's head, and galloped away.
Looking at that beautiful back, Tie Mo shook the scimitar in his hand with a blank look on his face. He wanted to say that the knife was too light and small to be used smoothly, but Aqige didn't give him a chance at all.
...
The caravan left Zhangbei and slowly turned southeast, heading towards the border.
Zhangbei is nominally the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but since the Tumubao Incident, the border defense lines have retreated, so that Zhangbei has actually become the territory of the Mongolian Chahar tribe.
After the Chahar tribe occupied Zhangbei, most of the people in this area chose to flee south. And the Mongols were not good at farming. Over the past few decades, large areas of plain land in Zhangbei were left uncultivated and turned into patches of land.
of wasteland.
While riding on the horse, a strong cold wind blew up, and the long withered grass bent down.
The once prosperous Zhangbei Plain in northern Shanxi is now desolate and overgrown with weeds.
What a wonderful land, it turned into an ownerless wasteland. With a little cultivation and irrigation, these lands can produce a large amount of food.
The land is barren for complex reasons.
The owners of these lands were not willing to leave them uncultivated. At the beginning, some large landowners continued to let farmers farm the land. But in the golden autumn, when the grain harvest was abundant, the Mongols crossed Zhangbeicheng and went straight south to harvest the grain directly.
It's spotless.
After months of hard work, it was all given to the Mongols, and gradually no one would do such stupid things.
Seeing so much good land, Tie Mo's heart became eager.
If we buy the wasteland in Zhangbei, open up wasteland for farming, and divert water for irrigation, how much food will we get in a year? Two hundred thousand dan? Three hundred thousand dan?
Once this idea comes up, I can no longer suppress it.
In this era of cannibalism, what is most important? Not money, but food!
If you have food, you can support your army, because there are too many refugees in this era, and their biggest wish is to have enough to eat.
Money is good, but sometimes no matter how much money you have, you can't buy food.
The horse walked very slowly, and Tie Mo's eyes became more and more intense. At some point, the gopher came to the side, staring directly at the scimitar on the horse's back.
"What are you looking at?"
"Oh, what a beautiful knife, Xiao Tie, you actually accepted this knife!"
"What's the problem?" Tie Mo's expression calmed down, and he always felt that the eyes of the mole were a little strange.
"Haha, the princess's knife is not given as a gift to everyone. Look carefully at the handle!"
Picking up the machete and looking at it carefully, Tie Mo's expression slowly became complicated.
The handle of the knife is actually made of pure gold and inlaid with several beautiful gems.
At this moment, Tie Mo thought of a title.
The Golden Sword Consort!
"This...this...golden knife, does Aqige like me?"
The gopher raised his eyebrows and was immediately happy, "It seems you are not stupid, can you tell? This is a golden sword worn by princesses in various Mongolian tribes. Only when they meet their favorite warriors, they will use the golden sword as a token of love.
Give it to the other party. Once the other party accepts the golden sword, he becomes the golden sword consort of that tribe."
Is he really the Consort with the Golden Sword?
Tie Mo was a little confused. He didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing for a while. He had only known Aqige for a short time, but this woman dared to do this.
It is estimated that the Kachin Khan did not know about this, otherwise, he would not have let Aqige act so hastily. However, judging from previous contacts, the Kachin Khan seemed to have no control over this precious daughter.
The Consort with the Golden Sword? Alas, this is a blessing, not a curse, but a curse that cannot be avoided.
The caravan traveled for two days and headed due east. Going directly south, it was too close to Yehu Ridge. Tie Mo did not want to provoke the desperadoes in Yehu Ridge at this time, so it was better to avoid any trouble.
During the five-day trip, when they saw the familiar smoke, the military households in the team let out a roar that shook the sky.
They smiled and hugged each other, looking excited, but their eyes were filled with tears.
The noise had already alarmed Anzhuang Castle.
At noon, people were standing outside the south gate of Anzhuang Fort. On the haystacks, on the high walls, and even on the big trees nearby.
Old and young, men and women looked up, looking across the long motorcade, looking for the people they cared about.
Some people happily ran towards the caravan, while others began to look gloomy and cried silently.
Everyone understands that everyone who is alive has come back, and those who have not come back will never come back.
On this day, there were laughter and laughter inside and outside Anzhuang Castle, as well as pain and sorrow.
...
In the room, Zhao Hou and Tie Mo sat opposite each other.
Tie Mo ate the vegetables, while Yao Hou talked in detail about what happened in the past few months.
While Tie Mo was bartering north, Zoho was not idle either. He used the money he had left to dig up as many leatherworkers as possible. The hard work paid off, and a leather shop in Yu County changed hands due to gambling debts owed by the owner.
workshops, causing leatherworkers and craftsmen to lose their jobs.
After hearing the news, the monkey traveled dozens of miles and paid a high price to bring these people to Anzhuang Castle.
There is no leather workshop in Anzhuang Castle, and there are no raw materials, so everything has to be started from scratch. But to build a leather workshop, a piece of land must be allocated, and the monkey really can't take charge of this.
"Xiaotie, during your absence, Gu Chengliang came back several times and made it clear that he was here to support Deng Kai. He wanted to find a piece of land in the south to build a leather workshop, but Deng Kai stopped him."
"Deng Kai? Looks like I'm going to get to know him well!"
A stern look flashed in Tie Mo's eyes, he would never allow anyone to ruin his plan.
At night, not long after Zohou left, a figure sneaked into the house. The visitor chatted with Tie Mo for a few words and then left in a hurry.