The spring is cold, and the early spring is still a little cold, especially after a day and a night of spring rain, the cold wind seems to be more gloomy.

The herdsmen, young and old, nested in their felt tents and burned cow dung to keep warm, and some women even invited them out to collect cow dung after the rain on the grassland had dried up a bit.

Cow dung has always been a herdsman to heat and cook fuel, the ordinary women on the grassland, when they are not busy, they carry a basket to go out to pick up cow dung, outside the large and small felt tents of the tribe, you can see the accumulation of cow dung everywhere, the daily life of the herdsmen is inseparable from the cow dung.

However, only Xin Ai and other departments still stubbornly maintain this tradition, in Dabansheng City and Guihua City, only ordinary herdsmen still use cow dung as fuel, and the descendants of noble golden families such as Dacheng Taiji have already used the honeycomb coal sold to the grassland from the Jinghua Datong Coal Mine.

Herders have heard that it is a good fuel without any smell and that it is inexpensive, much cheaper than charcoal. However, even if it is cheaper, they will not buy it - there is no shortage of cow dung on the grassland, what to buy honeycomb coal for, that smell is nothing, that is, the noble golden family needs to pay attention to this.

Datong Coal Mine is a new mine in Jinghua, in fact, it is not right to say this: first, the location of Datong Coal Mine is actually dozens of miles southwest of Datong City, and second, it should be said that it is a coal mine group, with more than a dozen ore sites of large and small.

The Datong Coal Mine in later generations was the first coal mine in the late Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China and the Red Dynasty for a long time, and Gao Pragmatic has been eyeing Datong for a long time, but although he has enclosed some land in Datong, he has only dug some coal so far, and has not considered supporting the metallurgical industry at the same time.

On the one hand, it is affected by the overall idea of steel development of "Kaiping for the north and Hejing for the south", on the other hand, because the iron ore resources of Shanxi are mainly concentrated in the central part of Shanxi, specifically the Wutai Mountain area and the Lanxian area on the east and west sides of Shuozhou, which are a little far away from Datong, and Shanxi is mountainous, and land transportation is not very cost-effective.

If you have to do it, of course, you can still make money, but the profit margin is not high enough, at least compared to other industries with high pragmatism, this rate of return is a bit ugly, so it will be postponed for the time being.

But the honeycomb coal business of Datong Coal Mine is very good, at the beginning, Gao Pragmatic is going to rely on the border military honeycomb coal heating, cooking to make money, who knows that Datong folk and even Taiyuan folk have businessmen to buy coal, and the amount is not small, later Gao Pragmatic sent people to investigate only to know that although Shanxi is full of coal mines, but the excavation level of this period is very limited, not to mention the high cost of labor, the safety is still very poor, resulting in the price is not cheap at all.

However, Jinghua has been digging coal for more than 10 years, and even has a special school to teach coal digging in Jianxinzhai, which has already formed a low-cost and safer mining operation, so Jinghua can sell the finished honeycomb coal cheaper than the raw coal of Shanxi soil coal mine, so naturally there is no business.

This kind of hot sales soon attracted the attention of the Mongols who had close contact with Shanxi, and some Mongolian nobles were very satisfied after trying Jinghua's honeycomb coal, and felt that this kind of "non-smelling cow dung" was very suitable for their noble golden family descendants, so they also began to buy it in large quantities.

Later, the Han people in Dabansheng City and Guihua City also began to like Jinghua's honeycomb coal, and gave up the cow dung they didn't like in the first place, and switched to burning coal.

Jinghua unexpectedly opened a small market. In fact, this is also a manifestation of the gradual sinicization of the Mongols, but it needs to be slowly covered from the top to the bottom.

Without further ado, while the herdsmen of the Xin'ai tribe were sitting in their tribal felt tents to keep warm, behind a hillside forty miles away, a cavalry army that had just been temporarily stationed in the rain was distributing ginger soup.

This cavalry army numbered 50,000 or 60,000 people, and there were many soldiers.

The Chinese army is the elite of the descendants of the Dacheng Taiji Department and the Naturalized Royal Court, with a total of 30,000 people; Behind the palace are the Gao family cavalry and the Ma family soldiers, a total of four thousand; The forward department is the 6,000 elite of Chataiji; The left and right wings are complicated, anyway, there are a large number of Taiji, in addition to the green generals Du Taiji, there are also powerful generals who are fighting Han and waiting for me to answer the past, a total of fifteen or six thousand horsemen.

When the whole army is added together, it is about 56,000 cavalry, which is almost half of the strength of the entire Tumut.

It was Ma Gui's idea to stop and camp, and originally according to the meaning of Dacheng Taiji and Cha Taiji, the "chief and deputy commanders", they should have rushed directly to the past and killed Xin Ai by surprise.

But Ma Gui disagreed, he felt that the whole army was originally attacking, and it was also rushing in the rain, and now it is not far from the Xin Ai Department, due to the rain, the Xin Ai Department did not even release the horses, and all of them were nested in the old camp and did not move.

At this moment, you don't have to worry too much about the failure of the sneak attack, but about whether the army will have an epidemic after the rain.

In this era, there is a chance to die of a cold and fever, even if this kind of unlucky ghost is not too big, but a large number of colds and fevers will seriously drag down the combat effectiveness of the army, and even if the army defeats Xin Ai, it must also guard against the elite of the Tumen Khan Chahar Department who do not know when, so it is necessary to camp in advance and drink some ginger soup and other things to ward off the cold, and the specific battle can be launched immediately after the rain stops - for the cavalry, the distance of forty miles is not very important.

In fact, Chataiji felt that Ma Gui's worries were a little redundant, because it was very common for Mongolian knights in this era to advance in the rain, and the number of people who could really die of a cold or fever in an army of fifty or sixty thousand would not exceed a hundred, and he didn't think that this would seriously affect the combat effectiveness.

As for Tumen Khan's movements, Chataiji didn't think he could have arrived so quickly, so he could have rested and recovered after defeating Xin Ai before going to face Tumen.

But Dacheng Taiji agreed with this point of view, as for whether he was really benevolent to his subordinates, or just to give Ma Gui a face on the face of high pragmatism, there is no way to know.

Ginger is provided by Ma Gui, Gao Jia Ding and Ma Jia Da Bing have brought a lot of this kind of "strategic materials", especially the wealthy Gao Jia Ding, each brought two catties of ginger to hang behind the horse's buttocks, and now they have taken half of it out to make soup, and some people even took out a little brown sugar from the oil paper bag and mixed it in their ginger soup, which made the Mongolians blush.

Ma Gui's so-called rear army was actually not far away, hanging the tail of Hannaji's army, and this arrangement was obviously deliberately arranged by Hannaji who was worried that the Ming army would suffer too much loss.

Now that he has set up camp, Ma Gui has come to the Chinese army to discuss the next military situation with the generals Hannaji, Chataiji, Qingjiangdu, Da'er Han Ruo Bulang and others.

In fact, the current military situation is relatively simple, because of yesterday's spring rain, the detectives of Chataiji's department carefully probed many times, and confirmed that Xin Ai's department was defenseless.

This is very simple, the Xin Ai Department that has not been summoned, theoretically even if this army is discovered at a distance of just a few dozen miles, it can at most summon about 10,000 subordinates to fight, and 50,000 iron cavalry can press up, and even Mangu tactics are not necessary, and they can be solved by directly charging into battle.

Even if you want to play a little tactic, you only need to outflank and close the siege for a while.

After all, everyone is a Tumut, and the difference in combat effectiveness will not be too big, once the battle is fought, the number of people will basically determine the victory or defeat.

In the eyes of the Mongolian Taiji, the Magui Department didn't even need to be dispatched at all, as long as they watched from a distance to win.

In fact, to be honest, Magui's own war ** is not strong, in his opinion, the Mongols beat the Mongols, and he is a Han?

Oh no, he's a Muslim.

The Hui people in this era did not have as many events as in a certain period, the Ming did not regard them as outsiders, and they did not regard themselves as outsiders, and the relationship between Han and Hui was relatively harmonious.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty seems to be quite generous to any ethnic group that is willing to naturalize, not to mention the early ones, just say that at present, the two families of Dongli and Xima are not authentic Han people - Li Chengliang himself is of Han blood, but his ancestors took refuge in North Korea during the Tang Dynasty, and only returned to the Ming Dynasty when they were ancestors.

But whether it is Li Chengliang, a descendant of overseas Chinese in Korea, or Ma Gui, a descendant of the Semu people in the Mengyuan and Yuan dynasties, they will definitely not see themselves as "foreigners".

Speaking of which, in ancient China, at this point, the courage is really not ordinary, whether it is the Han, Tang or Ming, it seems that "entering China is China" is a very normal phenomenon.

For example, Jin Riyan of the Han Dynasty, Ashina Sheer and Ge Shuhan of the Tang Dynasty, and the ...... of the Ming Dynasty Well, there are too many of them.

First of all, there is a pure bloodline, Naha, this person is the Mu Huali lineage of Genghis Khan's four masters, of course, he is also a high power in the Yuan Dynasty, and he is still named the prime minister in the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and his power is undiminished. In the twentieth year of Hongwu, he was named Haixi Hou, and after his death, his son Chahan changed to Shenyang Hou, and died because of the Lan Yu case.

Another one is also at the level of the emperor's relatives, Jin Zhong, is the sixth grandson of the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, Taibao, and King Hengyang, and his Mongolian name is also Xianmugan. Also first Mugan is a Mongolian prince, can be good at fighting, known as a murderer, surrendered in Zhu Di's fourth Northern Expedition, gave the name Jin Zhong, was named the King of Loyalty, and participated in the next two Northern Expeditions, because of the merit of the prince Shaobao, Taibao.

Then come to the level of a national prince, Wu Cheng, formerly known as buying a donkey, the Yuan Dynasty from the second grade of the right Cheng, Hongwu years to the Ming Dynasty, Jue to the Qing Ping Bo, after the death of the Qu Guogong, descendants of the earl to the Ming Dynasty.

Some friends may think that the princes and grandsons of these Yuan Dynasty princes and grandsons are only for the purpose of appeasing the old people of the Yuan Dynasty, so let's take a look at the following ones.

Dehuan is a common name in the Mongolian ethnic group, Yongle Dynasty also has a Dehuan, the Han name is Xue Bin, inherited his father Xue Tai's military position, followed Zhu Di to the north to make meritorious contributions, entered the capital governor Tongzhi, and later named Yongshun Bo.

Compared with Xue Bin, what is more heroic is his son Xue Shou. In the earth-shattering civil engineering change, when the Wara army launched the final attack, the general of the Ming army, Xue Shou, led the army to take charge of the palace, fought to the death, and continued to hold a bow to resist the enemy after the arrows were used up.

Knowing that you will die and not retreat, how heroic is this? The Warats hated him for not surrendering and brutally dismembered him.

Who doesn't admire such a warrior?

What even the Warat people don't know is that Xue Shou is a Mongolian, Shoutong is his real name, and Xue is the surname. The Mongols killed Xue Shou, and later found out that he was a native of the Mongols, and killed the warriors of his own tribe, and the Warat soldiers wept with regret and weeping.

"The string is broken, and the arrow is broken, and he still strikes the enemy with an empty bow. The enemy is angry, and it is dissolved. Even if they know their own Mongols, they say: 'This is my kind, I should be brave and healthy like this', and cry with each other. ”

Also in the civil engineering change, the two brothers who were ordered to lead the army to the palace and fought with the governor Wu Keqin and Gongshun Bo Wu Kezhong, who were also in battle, were also Mongols, and the two brothers were ordered by Yingzong to lead the army of 15,000 after being broken, and became the first target of the Wara army, and the brothers died in the battle.

Wu Keqin's son, Wu Jin, led several of his own soldiers to stop Cao Qin's rebels in Cao Qin's rebellion a few years later, and died in battle. From the earliest attached capital Timur, the Han name Wu Yuncheng, to his grandson Wu Jin and even later, the Wu family has many died in the king's affairs, loyal to the Ming Dynasty, the so-called full of loyalty, doesn't it refer to them?

And then there is Sun Bo, many people know him because he was the first in the Battle of Xizhimen in the Battle of Beijing, and a few years later he played an important role in quelling Cao Jixiang's rebellion. In fact, Sun Bo was also a Mongol, and he was born in Dongshengzhou, which is now called Totocheng - yes, it is the territory of Chataiji.

Mao Fushou, the governor of the left capital, who was also a Mongolian, was given a marquis after his death and passed on the knighthood until his death in the Ming Dynasty.

There are too many Mongolian officials in the Ming Dynasty, and I don't know when I can finish introducing them, so I can pick some more than three grades to briefly introduce them.

Li Xian, formerly known as the Ugly Donkey, a Tatar, an official to the right governor; Jin Shun, a native of Wara, whose real name is Alu Ge Li, is the official to the governor of the capital, and is named Shun Yibo; Rear Army Left Governor Mark Shun; Chai Yongzheng, the left governor of the left army; Governor Tongzhi Wang Bin; The Governor of the same city knows Ji Duo; The governor is also known to be loyal; The governor is the same as the high courtesy; Governor Tongzhi Chen Shouzhong; The governor is the same as Ding Shun; The governor is the same as Bai Zhong......

There are really a lot of high-ranking Mongolian officials in the Ming Dynasty above the third grade, and it is difficult to list them one by one, as for the number of other low-grade officials and generals, you can naturally roughly estimate according to the proportion.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were always Mongolian warriors who fought side by side with the Han army, and until the end of the Ming Dynasty, when the Liukou rebelled, there were also many Mongolian generals who fought with them.

For example, as fierce as a tiger, the chief military officer of the Jizhen Central Association, the governor of the department, fought against Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng rebels, and later died in Nanyang, Henan; Hu Dawei, meritorious in the army, tired of Shanxi generals, Chongzhen as the deputy chief soldier, the governor of the department, led the army to suppress the peasant army, and then died in Runing, Henan...... As for the most famous Man Gui, this one probably doesn't need to be introduced.

In fact, this traditional thinking of the Han dynasty is also one of the bases for Gao Shipra's courage to consider using political and economic means to subjugate Mongolia, because in the eyes of the Han people at this time, no matter what ethnic origin you are, as long as you are "naturalized", you are your own person.

And what about the Mongols at this time? It's also very simple: I followed the Great Khan, and I am a Mongol warrior; I followed the emperor, and I am loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

Lineage? Fuck the bloodline, whoever gives it is the father.

So, bloodline is almost an inconsequential thing, and "naturalization" is important.

The royal court was given the name "Naturalization City" by Zhu Yijun, which is not as simple as giving a name casually, and there is a profound political significance behind it.

The reason why the Han people are strong is because the Han people don't care about the issue of blood at all, the Han people care about culture.

If you don't believe in Han culture, then "if you don't believe in Han culture, it means that "if you are not of my race, your heart will be different".

Why did Meng Yuan only rule the Han land for a few decades and then retreat to the grassland, while the Taqing Dynasty was able to sit firmly in the country for more than 200 years?

Because Meng Yuan refused to sinicize, and Taqing, at least it was quite completely sinicized in face - in the end, the Manchus sinicized their own words, and "Manchu Old Files" almost became a dead password in later generations, and Manchu almost became a "historical language".

Why did Inner Mongolia and Northeast China never appear in the border areas where there were many things in the world in the future? Without him,It's just a high degree of sinicization.。

Fighting a war is certainly one of the solutions to the problem, but it is obviously a "stupid solution" that should only exist when other means cannot solve the problem.

When economic and political means can solve the problem, those who think about fighting a war at every turn, one is less but more things, which does not need to be explained, and when the blood is strong, everyone will be more inclined to solve the problem violently, which is human nature; And the other is something else - such as Li Chengliang.

After it was determined that Hannaji would succeed him as Chechen Khan, Xin Ai was a figure who was difficult to solve politically, and Gao pragmatic believed that he could achieve some political goal by violent settlement, so he unfortunately became Gao pragmatic's chosen target for war.

Seeing Ma Gui enter the account, Han Naji and the others smiled, and Han Naji himself was the most affectionate, and stood up in person to greet him, and said: "Ma Zongrong, you came just in time, we are discussing military affairs...... Come, sit down and talk. Come on, serve tea to Ma Zongrong, good tea! ”

There was also a ban on alcohol in the Mongol army, especially before the start of the war, but Hannaji was a "Sven" who liked to serve tea to guests......

Ma Gui thanked him with a smile and sat down without being humble or arrogant.

After everyone sat down, Han Naji said with a smile: "Ma Zongrong, a few of us have a brief discussion just now, you are a guest from afar, and the journey is tiring, just take care of the baggage tomorrow, charge and kill the enemy, let's do it for a few people, what do you think?" ”

The current Mongolian army is not the same as when it was in the westward expedition more than 200 years ago, and there is still a lot of baggage, but it is relatively small. Letting Ma Gui take care of the baggage is actually telling him that he doesn't have to go to war.

Ma Gui didn't care about this, because in the order given to him by Gao Shishi, there was no saying that he had to participate in the war, and even faintly revealed a meaning of "bloody battles are avoided, and you might as well go up to fight the water dogs".

Therefore, Ma Gui responded with his head and said, "Ma understands." "He can't be called the last general, because his deputy commander-in-chief is theoretically a little higher than the current general of Hannaji.

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