Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 248
The mountains are like screens, with overlapping peaks, criss-cross ravines, and various poses.

The mountain is evergreen with pines and cypresses, green willows in the ditch, gurgling streams, green trees at the foot of the mountain, and blue waves reflecting.Looking at it from a close perspective, it is not like the wilderness, but like the Central Plains.

"The middle tower of Gaoxian Temple in the clear sky, the dawn and the bright city go upstairs. The noise of carriages and horses can't be heard, and the whip is slanted across Fengzhou."

The ruling center of the Mongolian right-wing Tumed tribe is on the other side of the Daqing Mountain.

In later generations, it was called Hohhot and it was the provincial capital of Inner Mongolia.The so-called "Hohhot" means "green city" in Mongolian, and it comes from the new city built by Altan Khan and San Niangzi in the ninth year of Wanli with blue square bricks.

But now, since the blue city has not yet been established, "Hohhot" is naturally out of the question.At this time and here, the old name of the Jin and Yuan dynasties is still used: Fengzhou.

Since Altan Khan, the leader of the Tumed Tribe, entered Hetao and soon unified Monan, this place was his grazing place, and now it has become the de facto Khan Court of the Tumed Tribe.

At this moment, at the foot of Daqing Mountain, a large-scale caravan is winding its way.

It was late autumn, the rice and millet in the Central Plains were ripe, and the grassland cattle were fat and horses were strong. If it were in previous years, it would be the time when Shanxi caravans collected goods and stepped into the grassland.

However, in April of this year, I Da sent troops to attack Xuanfu, Datong, and Shanxi, and the frontiers were alerted.In August, I Da and his son Xin Ai attacked Datong and Jinzhou separately.

Although Ma Fang, the commander in chief of Datong, Qi Jiguang, the commander in chief of Jizhou, and other generals were properly defended, the two key areas were both safe and soundly repelled the enemy in September.However, it has only been one month since our army retreated, which caravan would dare to enter the grassland blindly?Talking about the Han caravan going straight to Fengzhou, even the Mongols who went to Zhangjiakou to purchase goods are rare—after all, they just fought a battle, right?
But this caravan was different. Not only did they dare to go deep into the grassland, but they still swaggered when they reached Daqingshan, as if the Fengzhou City not far in front was not a dragon's pond or a tiger's den at all, but rather like wandering in the back garden of their own home.

This caravan stretched back and forth for two or three miles, with a total of six or seven hundred riders, which is really rare in Monan.However, they probably drove too far. At this time, the pack horses were quite tired, and their heads were drooping one by one. The load on their bodies made them unable to relax for a moment. The heavily armed caravan knights were still trying their best to wave their whips. Shouting loudly, threatening the horses that seemed to be on the verge of being crushed.

This caravan is not only large in scale, but also has a lot of horses to pull goods. If you look at it casually, it is estimated that there are more than [-] to [-] knights and pack horses. Even in Mongolia, it is not a small fortune.

A caravan of this size will inevitably have armed guards, so there are about two hundred strong knights at the front and back of the caravan. The horses under their crotches are obviously different from the pack horses. No difference.Immediately, the knights straddled their waists with swords and arrows in their backs. They all looked very imposing. They were obviously the armed guards of this caravan, but... the size of the guards was really too big.

At the front, middle, and rear of the caravan, the same flag was flying against the wind to indicate its identity: it was a giant wolf howling under the moon, and the wolf's body was embroidered with the color of blood.

Blood Wolf Roaring Moon Banner.

The blood is vermilion, this is the color of the Ming Dynasty; the sky wolf howling at the moon is the majestic appearance of the grassland!
It is said that it has only been half a year since this flag appeared. However, in this mere half a year, no less than a thousand Mongolian bandits have fallen under this flag.Especially in May of this year, a small tribe of thousands of people who had just been punished by Altan Khan for a trivial matter, because they were greedy for the large amount of goods carried by this caravan, sent out all their clans, intending to blackmail them with one hand, but they were punished by this The caravan guards carrying the Blood Wolf Roaring Moon Banner were defeated, and the entire tribe was killed with only two hundred people left, and they collapsed immediately.

The land of the grassland has always admired heroes and admired strength. This Han caravan who dared to fight back brazenly in the vast grassland and completely wiped out a large number of people, not only was not besieged by Altan Khan's army, but was recognized by Altan Khan afterwards. .Altan Khan, the lord of the right-wing Mongolia, publicly announced that this caravan was "worthy of the Khan's friendship", and strictly ordered all ministries to "remain friendly and not have evil thoughts in their own minds" when they came to do business. "If you despise the orders of this Khan, you will be punished."

Of course, the above words were "translated" by the Han people in Bansheng. In fact, I answered Khan's original words: "They are here to do business with Ben Khan, and they are friends of Ben Khan. Who of you dares to use force against the friends of Ben Khan?" , Ben Khan will kill all the men of your clan, and snatch your women, cattle and sheep, some of which will be rewarded to meritorious soldiers, and some will be used to make amends to friends."

It's rough, it's direct, but it works.

After all, even the "Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty", the titular lord of the Wanli Grassland, and the Mongolian left-wing Zhasak Tutumen Khan are all worried about I Da, for fear that he will try his best to spy on the "Great Treasure". Ignoring Alta Khan's strict orders?
Therefore, even if the flames of war in Mingmeng had just extinguished, this huge caravan, under the watchful eyes of the Blood Wolf Howling Moon Banner, still dared to come to Altan Khan's Hanting Fengzhou in a big way.

Blood Wolf Roaring Moon Banner, such an image and name of Secondary School, of course, only Gao Shidu, who has played too many computer games, can come up with it and be proud of it.And the guard cavalry carrying this banner is based on the former Bailixia thieves as the backbone force. After half a year of expansion and handed over to Datong General Soldier Ma Fang for more than three months of private training, it was finally carefully built!

Unlike most of the predecessors who "expanded the private army", Gao Yushi seldom personally intervened in his "private army" in the name of armed servants except for formulating some rules and regulations. He only focused on introducing Yuan Shikai's "advanced experience". ", his guards, regardless of whether they are on foot or on horseback, shout a slogan when they eat three meals a day and pay their monthly salary: "Eat the eldest son's meal and obey the eldest son's orders!"

If it is an additional reward, then one more sentence should be added: "Thank you, Eldest Young Master, for your reward, and work hard for Eldest Young Master!"

Although this method is almost simpler and cruder than Al Da Khan, after half a year of observation, the effect is unexpectedly good.In particular, according to the method drawn up by Gao Yushi, the chief officer of the "leader" must not personally pay the salary, but must be appointed by Gao Yushi. On the other hand, after the implementation of the system of "paying the individual on behalf of the prince", even though Gao Yushi did not directly interfere with the operation of the guard family, he enjoyed a very high reputation among the guard family.

It is no wonder that later generations once concluded that "whoever pays to support you is your father", which is really a wise saying.In the final analysis, Gao Pragmatic's method is nothing more than constantly reminding his guards and servants who is the one who "pays for you".

But right now, this team supported by Gao Shidu has been outside Altan Khan's court.

　Thanks to the book friend "fengjiyue" for the reward, thank you!In addition, after reading the title of this chapter, you may wish to guess what I am going to write about?
　　
　
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