Yun Zhao's war horse stopped outside Zhangjiakou and did not enter the city, he stood on a high slope in the distance and overlooked the empty city for a long time.

I can't say that I have any ideas, but I am a little embarrassed, and a bustling commercial town has disappeared like this.

It's not that Da Ming can't do business with people outside his mouth, but he just has to pay attention to ways and means.

Tea, silk, salt, wooden utensils, porcelain, pottery, cloth, spices these bulk goods business can be done, but also need strong support to become, in some cases, if you can exchange for the Ming Dynasty urgently needed war horses, fire, leather, beef and horse tendon, horn, leather rope, these businesses can be done even if they lose money.

As for the materials such as guns, gunpowder, cannons, swords, bows, crossbows, armor, and food, in the current state of hostilities, I am afraid that it is not appropriate to export them in large quantities, right?

Yun's Hengtong in Zhangjiakou is engaged in the business of tea, silk, porcelain, pottery, cloth and spices.

Fan Xiaoshan and his people did not seem to look down on these small businesses, and they transported a large number of pig iron, wrought iron, swords, grain, armor, feather arrows and other materials to the outside of the fortress.

In the past two years, Fan Xiaoshan has been very annoyed that Lantian County does not sell them gunguns, artillery, gunpowder, cannons and other materials, and this year, because of this contradiction, it has seriously affected their cooperation with Hengtong.

Now you don't have to worry about it.

Qian Shaoshao, Zhang Guozhu, Li Dingguo handled this matter very well, in the future, people want to do business with people outside the Saiwai, they can only go to Lantian City.

This is a matter of a chicken dying and a rooster crowing, and Lantian City has been doomed to the destruction of Zhangjiakou since the beginning of its rise.

This kind of competition is far more brutal than the competition between people.

Yun Zhao wanted to re-establish the rules of doing business with the Mongols, so any dissent was in his plan to purge them.

"County Zun, Yue Tuo's army is already fifty miles away, and this is not a place to stay for a long time." Xu Wuxiang was a little anxious.

Yun Zhao smiled: "Wait a minute, you see, Jiannu's sentry has entered Zhangjiakou, do you say, Qian Shaoshao will set a trap in this city?" ”

Xu Wuxiang shook his head and said: "Yue Tuo is not so stupid, he will not enter the city, if it were me, I would put the captured slaves into the city, on the one hand, it is convenient for guards, and on the other hand, it also threatens us not to launch traps, so that he will have enough time to clear the threat from the city."

Therefore, no matter how little money you have, it is useless to set up any schemes.

County Zun, let's go to Lantian City! ”

Yun Zhao held up the monocular and didn't speak, just looked at a black line that appeared on the horizon, this should be Yue Tuo's army.

"Lu Xiangsheng is still biting Yue Tuo's tail and not letting go?"

"He's less than thirty miles away from Yue Tuo's rear army, and their condition is already very bad."

"Didn't his two butlers already transport a lot of ordnance from Tongguan?"

"County Zun, even if his housekeeper travels day and night, he can't catch up with Lu Xiangsheng's pace of chasing Yue Tuo, it is not so easy to transport ordnance, there are all tigers and wolves along the way, it is difficult to say that these ordnance will not cause Liu Zeqing and others to covet it.

County Zun, now is not the time to care about Lu Xiangsheng, the person who really needs to face Yue Tuo's army is us, let's go! ”

The Jiannu army in Yunzhao's telescope became clearer and clearer, and looking at the Jiannu warriors who were carrying bird guns on their backs and wearing armor and riding horses, he felt like he had stepped into an old movie.

The appearance of the army was not as majestic and powerful as he imagined, on the contrary, this army appeared loose and sloppy.

"County Honor, the enemy's sentinels have discovered us, it's time to go."

Xu Wuxiang was very anxious.

Yun Zhao retracted the telescope, turned the war horse, and galloped straight towards Lantian City.

There are still 600 miles from Zhangjiakou to Lantian City, which is the confidence of Qian Shaoshao and others to insist that they can thwart Yue Tuo's army.

Naturalization City has become Lantian City, which will definitely make the Manchus angry, and in the current situation, it is most appropriate for Yue Tuo, the army closest to Lantian City, to conquer it.

Whether Yue Tuo wants to or not, he must use Zhangjiakou as a base and set off for Lantian City.

This is also the purpose of Fan Xiaoshan and others to store grain in Zhangjiakou.

Now, the 140,000 quintals of grain and grass that Fan Xiaoshan and others have collected with all their might are gone, and Yue Tuo no longer wants to calmly deploy his troops, there is no way, and the only way is to fight quickly and resolve quickly.

Yun Zhao heard the roar of firearms in the distance, which was the movement of his guards fighting against the Jiannu sentinels.

For this reason, he deliberately accelerated the speed of his horse, and the farther he went, the faster the guards could disengage from the Jiannu sentinels.

The situation in Zhangjiakou was as lifeless as depicted in the documents Yun Zhao received.

Even within two hundred miles of this city, there seems to be no human population, and those people who have benefited from Zhangjiakou have moved to the dam, and the matter of fortifying the wall and clearing the wilderness is very thorough.

Yun Zhao's team went all the way to the west, crossing the Sanggan River and the Huangyang River, and Yun Zhao had a practical understanding of this area.

The defense of Lantian City began on the west bank of the Sanggan River, and the first to greet Yunzhao was Qian Shaoshao.

"You're going to marry my sister, aren't you?"

The two had just met on the edge of the Sanggan River, and Qian Shaoshao asked Yun Zhao impatiently.

"The days are all chosen, July 18."

"Is my sister happy?"

She was ecstatic!

Now that you're making your own wedding dress, it's too late for you to disagree. ”

"Impossible, is my sister so unreserved?"

Yun Zhao glanced at Qian Shaoshao and said, "No matter which woman hears that I am going to marry her, she will be ecstatic." ”

Qian Shaoshao shook his head helplessly and said, "I know that you have had ill intentions towards my sister since you were a child. ”

"Can you not talk about your sister, let's talk about how the preparations are going here in Lantian City, I really can't settle down."

Qian Shaoshao spread his hands and said: "We are ready, as for success or failure, only God knows, but we are still sure of holding Lantian City." ”

Yun Zhao was silent for a moment and said, "Xuanfu, Datong may not be able to support us. ”

Qian Shaoshao said: "Xuanfu, Datong elite Taiban were taken to Hebei by Lu Xiangsheng, I just hope that they will not be broken by the Mongolian servant army, don't count on them." ”

"Has Lantian City completely become a city of Lantian people?"

"Six selections were made, and sixteen thousand households entered the city."

"The Mongols did not object?"

"No, our men have taken control of the Mongol cavalry, and the Mongol cavalry has become accustomed to enjoying the more reasonable way of fighting and the way of life that we have brought.

So ......"

"So, you're going to kill Battle, aren't you?"

"His mission has been accomplished, in order to raise a cavalry, he hurt the interests of too many Mongol princes, if we want to continue to expand our power in the steppe, Battle must die."

"Didn't you think that the poor shepherd slaves on the steppe would side with Battle, and that they would form a prairie fire?"

Qian Shaoshao shook his head and said: "That's not the case, Mongolian herdsmen can't do without Mongolian princes!" ”

"Why is that?"

Qian Shaoshao spread his hands and said: "There is no way, I try to let those herdsmen rule themselves, manage themselves, restrain themselves, and organize their own production and life...... As a result, it all failed.

Naturally, they re-elected a new prince and submitted to him loyally.

I thought that by giving the cattle and sheep to the herdsmen, they would be able to live happily...... As a result, a large group of robbers was born...... These bandits were also herdsmen, and when they understood that there were many people who began to support themselves as families, many of them formed bands of their own accord......

Then, a new prince appeared, and he was not very willing to listen to us, so Gao Jie had to send troops again and again to quell the rebellion.

In the end, we got a lot of Mongol blood on our hands.

It would be wrong to do so. ”

Yun Zhao frowned and said, "Why is the cavalry organized by Battle a special case? ”

Qian Duoduo said curtly: "The cavalry organized by Battle is basically a huge bandit regiment.

It's just that after our people participated, this bandit group appeared more united and more powerful, and it didn't change the nature of these Mongols from the bones.

Ah Zhao, I don't think you can count on this generation of Mongolians, they believe the lamas more than us, they would rather believe the nonsense of the lamas who are reincarnated and reborn, rather than believe that they can change their lives through their own labor with us.

They believed that the Mongol princes were the grass on the steppe, and when a batch withered, a new prince's grass would soon grow from the steppe.

If that's it, I can make our Han people become Mongolian princes, but unfortunately, people don't recognize it.

So, I'm going to kill Battle and replace it with a new Mongolian puppet leader, and when the next Mongolian puppet leader becomes less submissive, kill another one, change another.

If the Mongols are really grass, as they say, I am willing to be a sickle, and the grass will grow and be harvested. ”

Yun Zhao let out a long sigh, and now, he finally understood why the uprising of Gadamerin in later generations seemed so tragic and so failed.

The living conditions of the Mongols are harsh, and they cannot survive without huddles, and huddles to keep warm are the biggest enemies of a regime.

Such a scene is almost unsolvable, just as Qian Shaoshao said, if you want to completely divide the problem of Mongolian grouping, you can only change the natural environment, so that a Mongolian family can live safely on the grassland.

Yun Zhao thought to himself that he had not yet had the ability to change the world, and this matter could only be postponed.

"How's the homeless here?"

Yun Zhao was worried that the displaced people from Guannai would also be contaminated with this Mongolian custom.

Qian Shaoshao laughed and said: "Our people are very good, everyone likes to live in groups, but they don't like to eat in a pot, even if they are allocated to barren land, they don't want to!" ”

Yun Zhao finally showed a smile on his face, and said with a sigh of relief: "That's very good! ”