In the distance, there is the slightly undulating green grassland with a hint of autumn yellow, and under the feet, there is a road no more than ten feet wide, but the current is fast, and the roaring waves hit the shore, exposing the rich gray and black soil and
It was starched until only khaki-colored river sand remained.
Zhu Qizhen, who was dressed in casual clothes, walked slowly on the river beach with his hands clasped behind his hands. Looking at the turbulent and roaring river water, he couldn't help but smile to the left and right: "Although this river is not wide, the water is very fast and it looks turbulent.
Such a river nourishes such a lush grassland."
"This so-called Chaohe River originates from the Nanshan Mountain of Caoniangou north of Mantao'er, passes through Luanping County to Gubeikou, which is the rear of Miyun. The Chaohe River goes straight south and joins the Tanghe River in Miyun County. The Chaohe River flows due to the flow of water.
It is so fast that it sounds like the tide, hence the name." Sun Zhirui, the commander-in-chief of Jizhou Town who was following Zhu Qizhen, echoed with a smile.
Mantao'er is where Zhu Qi Town's camp is now. Mantaoer, the specific origin of the place name is unknown. Mantaoer is located on the edge of the Chaohe River, and to the south is the Gubeikou area, which is also a transportation hub on the grassland.
One of the twists is that Han and Méng people gather here to conduct border trade, so the commerce here is quite developed.
After that, Zhu Qizhen stationed his main camp here, and the accompanying Xuanfu business group and merchants from various roadside towns also swarmed in. In addition to the great victory of the Ming Dynasty, countless trophies were collected.
, there are tens of thousands of horses alone, as well as countless cattle, sheep and other livestock.
In addition to livestock, there are naturally a large number of furs, as well as looted gold and silver. In short, it is precisely because the quantity is so huge that it is jaw-dropping. Therefore, although the number of merchant groups and trading companies that came is staggering, but
It did not cause vicious competition between them.
However, as the backer and backer of Xuanfu Trading Co., Zhu Qizhen was naturally secretly happy to be able to make huge war fortunes. He must know that after all the money earned was distributed according to proportion, all the remaining profits were
into his own pocket.
At least from the beginning of the war to last night, Zhu Qizhen already had nearly 890,000 taels of silver war treasure in his pocket. This is not over yet. There are still a large number of prisoners of war that have not been disposed of, and a large number of
If Zhu Qizhen's good horses were not sold, he would be more cautious and treat the prisoners of war as slaves to resell them. Zhu Qizhen believed that the silver he earned could be doubled.
That day, during the battle at Yidu Mountain, the entire grassland headquarters could be said to have been wiped out. Maoli Hai and Angke were both captured. However, the unlucky little Khan died together with his wet nurse because the carriage overturned.
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Nearly 30,000 prisoners of war were captured in this battle. In addition to those captured one after another, the total number was 80,000. This was definitely a large number. Many trading companies even came to the border town through the general soldiers.
Zhu Qizhen asked whether these strong prisoners of war could get some help from them.
However, Zhu Qizhen was not interested in selling these strong laborers. In Zhu Qizhen's eyes, these nearly 80,000 yuan worth of prisoners of war captured by the Ming army were far more valuable than being sold as slaves.
But now Zhu Qizhen is not in a hurry because he has more important things to take care of.
"Your Majesty, today, Ah Ci and others came to see you again. Do you think so?" Shi Heng also followed Zhu Qizhen with a relaxed expression. He entered the grassland and fought for ten consecutive times. Finally, he was able to see it with his own eyes.
The entire prairie surrendered at the feet of the Ming Dynasty. As a general, Shi Heng's mentality at this moment was naturally much more calm.
The only regret is that in thirty to fifty years, the grassland will no longer be useful. Thinking of this, Shi Heng glanced down at his long beard, which was thick and black as iron. Thirty to fifty years later, he was afraid that
His beard and hair have all turned gray, and there is no chance of him being employed in the battlefield.
Zhu Qizhen couldn't help laughing when he heard the smile: "It seems that these days, I have really choked Aci and Boyan Tiemu'er enough. Anyway, ten days have passed in the blink of an eye. Come to think of it,
They should have calmed down now. I can indeed go and talk to them. However, it is not yet time for me to appear. Wei Qing, are those things ready?" "Your Majesty, don't worry.
Everything is ready, but you still need to review it." As one of Zhu Qizhen's right-hand assistants, Wei Mingtong naturally has to follow Zhu Qizhen, but as for Yuan Bin, he has already dealt with the Xuan Mansion.
After carrying out various affairs, he had rushed to the grassland half a month ago, and then disappeared from Zhu Qi Town again. Also disappearing with him were Qian Ning and other hundreds of fierce and cold-blooded people who were against Zhu Qi.
Suppress loyal confidant guards.
As for their whereabouts, only a few people including Zhu Qizhen and the person involved, Yuan Bin, know clearly.
"Well, I'll go take a look soon. By the way, do you have any news about the old prospecting craftsmen that Haming and the others hired?" Zhu Qizhen stopped at the bend of the river and looked at the waves.
The turbid waves roared and slapped against the cliff beside the rock, which really made people feel a strong and powerful momentum.
"It is said that an old craftsman found a suspected mineral vein nearby two days ago. According to the old craftsman, it should be 80 or 90 years old. I think it should take at least three to five days of work.
Sure." Wei Mingtong replied respectfully.
"That's very good. Haha, if gold is produced here, it would be an unexpected surprise."
Zhu Qizhen smacked his lips and was very satisfied. In his previous life, he had only heard that there were gold mines here. Therefore, when Zhu Qizhen decided to place the camp here after the war, he had already given the order.
Then Haming went to find some experienced prospectors.
To be honest, Ha Ming didn't understand what Zhu Qizhen wanted those prospectors, but he still obeyed Zhu Qizhen's order and found several experienced prospectors. He never thought that they would actually be there.
A place of great use.
But at this moment, after asking to see Zhu Qizhen again to no avail, Aci could only return to the camp angrily. He opened the curtain, ignored the inquiring eyes, walked to his case, and put the table on the table.
After finishing the kumiss on the table, he leaned back in his chair tiredly.
"Your Majesty, Prime Minister, His Majesty the Emperor still hasn't seen you?" A tribal leader stood up and said
asked cautiously.
"When we went here today, those people said that His Majesty the Emperor was inspecting the Chaohe River. Humph, it was clearly Zhu Qizhen who didn't want to see us.
"A Ci sat up straight and patted the armrest of the chair with an angry look on his face.
"Does he think we can surrender if he is dragging on like this?" Another tribal leader stood up with a look of resentment on his face. Why should our warriors be left to the control of the Han people and bleed for them for no reason?"
"But, if we don't agree, the consequences will be hard to predict." An old-minded tribesman stood up and argued. "Besides, it's not that there was nothing in the past, it's just that there were more
The tribes conquered by the Ming Dynasty or even the Duoyan Three Guards were assigned by Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty to be enemies of our prairie decades ago?"
"But decades have passed. Besides, is the Ming Dynasty as powerful as Emperor Yongle?"
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"I don't know if the Han people were as strong as Emperor Yongle, but what I know is that now, the prairie has been defeated by Zhu Qi Town, and there is no room for resistance anymore."
“What do you mean, do you think our grassland warriors are inferior to those Han people?
Huh! If it weren’t for the tricks of those sinister and vicious Han people, how could we Mongolians have been defeated?” “Nowadays, what effect will we have no matter how noisy we are here? Don’t forget, Troos is already here.
He is willing to send five thousand elites to serve the Supreme Emperor. He actually gave nearly 20% of the elite troops of the Choros clan to the Supreme Emperor of the Ming Dynasty." Batu, the elder of the Erqing clan, caressed
The sparse beard spoke expressionlessly, and with one sentence, the leaders in the big tent who kept complaining and grumbling could not help but be speechless.
Azhi had a bitter look on his face: "Yes, with Boyan Timur as a precedent, our tribes have been delayed for nearly ten days. If the delay continues, no one knows whether His Majesty the Emperor will
Will..." "Every small tribe must mobilize at least five million people and at least a thousand cavalry. And tribes like Zhuerqing need to mobilize one-tenth of their troops to serve the Supreme Emperor.
If things continue like this, how can we prairie people have any freedom at all?" A tribal leader who was still filled with unwillingness stood up and complained.
"That is still much better than the fate of the Duoyan Three Guards and the Grassland Headquarters. Now, except for the Nakalaqin tribe who saw the opportunity early and gave up resistance and surrendered in time, in exchange for a way out, other tribes have no chance of survival.
How to survive?" Great Elder Batu said with a cold glance at the tribal leader.
"" Hearing these words, some tribal leaders who wanted to jump up and incite Ah Ci could not help but be speechless. Seeing that the deadline set by Zhu Qizhen for himself and others was getting closer and closer, they had been making trouble for several days.
, but even the rightful owner cannot be seen. No matter how unwilling and reluctant he is, it seems that he can only be forced to accept such a result.
"I don't want to talk too much. Sooner or later, we have to obey the will of the Ming Dynasty Emperor. There is no benefit to us at all if we delay it like this. And the Chorus people have already been ahead of us. If
If we continue to push back and forth, we are afraid that the future will be even more difficult. Therefore, I would like to advise you to get the matter done as soon as possible, so as not to really make the Supreme Emperor unhappy.
You promise not to use weapons against us, but if you are assigned to a barren and barren pasture, the future of that tribe will probably be no better than those of the tribes that have already perished."
Hearing this, Azhi couldn't sit still anymore and slapped the desk with his big hand: "What the Great Elder said is that I have really lost my mind these days. The Chorus people gave out five thousand. Our Lord Erqing
Although our clan has suffered heavy losses these days, we cannot lag behind others. We, the Erqing clan, have sent out three thousand elites to follow His Majesty the Emperor and serve the Ming Dynasty."
"Our Huite tribe is willing to send two thousand elites to follow His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty." Am'er, the leader of the Huite tribe, jumped out not to be outdone, as if if it was later in the evening, he would not be able to eat anything in his mouth.
Meat can only be eaten in soup.
: Today is quite unlucky. I went out to do errands during the day, but something went wrong. It may take next week to get it done. That’s okay. I was able to access the Internet when I got home tonight, but at night the Internet was disconnected.
I called China Telecom, but the result was that it could be repaired tomorrow. Damn it, classmates, China Telecom is killing people!