【Chapter 314】There is only one year to go

In addition, there is another possibility for Helekin to ask Lin Dan Khan for help. Although before, in order to compete for the pastures in the areas south of Yinshan and Daqing Mountain, the Tartars of the Kylkin tribe and the Tumut tribe of the Mongols had a long continuous battle, and the deaths of both sides were relatively heavy, and the hatred between the two tribes was also very deep, but when the Kylkin tribe lived and died, Hylkin would definitely lower his figure and ask Lin Dan Khan for help.

It is estimated that Lin Dan Khan will not die without help, and the possibility of sending troops to help is very great. Because, from the point of view of blood, most of the Tatars and most of the Mongols are connected by blood. If Lin Dan Khan sees death and does not save him, it will not be good for his reputation. The current Lin Dan Khan, when he is young and strong, is in the prime of life, and he is ambitious and wants to do a big job, and he will definitely not easily tolerate his reputation being tarnished.

From the point of view of interests, the extermination of the Kylgin tribe by the Ming army, or the annexation by other Tatar tribes, did not benefit Lin Dan Khan. The biggest obstacle for Lin Dan Khan to unify the Mongol tribes was the Horqin tribe in the east. If a strong enemy appeared in the area south of Yinshan Mountain in the west, Lin Dan Khan would not be able to concentrate his main force to suppress the Horqin tribe. Therefore, solving his worries is the first thing Lin Dan Khan should do.

Of course, Lin Dan Khan is also a guy who can't afford to be unprofitable, and he will not easily agree to help Hellerkin. He was definitely going to make conditions. Among them, the most likely condition is for Helkin to move eastward and move to the surrounding area of Guihua City (Hohhot), directly under the control of Lin Dan Khan. In the area south of Yinshan, the Mongols were sent directly into the area, and it was directly turned into the grassland pasture of the Mongolian Tumut tribe.

In the end, when there was no other choice, Helgen still had a path to take, and that was to send people directly to the capital to ask the Wanli Emperor for his guilt, hoping to join and become a part of the Ming Kingdom. This practice seems ridiculous, ridiculous, and ridiculous, but in fact, its actual surname is still very strong, and even stronger than the previous two choices. If Helgen really chooses this path, the possibility of success is really not small.

You must know that the most fatal problem of the Han people is to die to save face and suffer crimes. Always consciously or unconsciously show the demeanor of the damn so-called great power, and the past is not to blame. No matter how serious the other party made a mistake or how much damage he caused to himself, as long as the other party said lightly "I know that I was wrong and regret it", there is a possibility of letting the other party go. This is called forgiveness and forgiveness. If you beat the water dogs, you will lose the demeanor of a great country, and it will also damage the Confucian golden mean, and you will be attacked by political enemies.

This is especially true for those in the upper echelons of the Ming court. They value fame and fortune too much, and they love fame too much. For those fat-headed and big-eared officials, they can't see the suffering suffered by the low-level military households in Ningxia Town. All they saw was the yellow and clear gold sent by Hellerkin, the silver with white flowers, and maybe there were beautiful women with all kinds of charms. It didn't take much brains to get them to agree to Hellerkin's request.

If the imperial court agrees to Helkin's request, Xu Xingxia will be a little difficult here. If Helkin really belongs to the Ming Kingdom, even if it is a hypocritical and fake annexation, he will definitely face pressure if he takes the white-clothed army to kill the other party. Those guys in the court who are vegetarian in the corpse are not interested in doing serious things at all, but the means of rectifying people are very powerful. God knows, what kind of guns and arrows will they unleash on themselves behind their backs?

Of course, this is not to say that Hellerkin is such a hand, and he Xu Xingxia has no choice at all. Books are dead, people are alive, and living people can still teach urine to suffocate to death? If the Hellergin tribe wants to be annexed, it will definitely take a certain amount of time to work. After all, this is a major event, and the court also needs to be discussed. In addition, the other Tatars, or Lin Dan Khan, would certainly not want to see the Khairergin tribe annexed to the Ming state. Whenever possible, they will definitely send someone to cause trouble. It is not even ruled out that they will preemptively take action and cleanse the Kellergin tribe.

All sorts of reasons can make things very complicated and confusing. Even if Helekin was determined to join him, it would take at least a few months to complete the whole process. If it doesn't go well, it may take a year or more. As long as he, Xu Xingxia, made a move during this time period and killed the other party in one fell swoop, causing the established fact that the raw rice was cooked and matured, no one would have anything to say. The tribes don't exist anymore, so what else can we say?

"It's only a year." Xu Xingxia told himself silently.

…… The life and death of a small Hellerkin Tartar tribe inadvertently quietly stirred up the most important forces in the northwest of the Ming Kingdom at that time. It's like a pebble thrown into the lake, and the waves stir up, and you can barely see it. However, the ripples it stirred up spread outward in circles and circles.

In real history, the Helkin tribe only submitted to the Qing Dynasty when the Qing soldiers entered the prairie. Prior to this, they had been the main force of the Ming army that went south to harass Ningxia Town. Now, with the advent of Xu Xingxia, the Kyllegin tribe is going to extinction ahead of schedule. The change in the fate of this small Tatar tribe will mean that there will be more people and things, and the fate will change. The course of historical development will also be affected to a certain extent.

Of course, for the current Xu Xingxia, he is too lazy to think about this kind of too profound thing. As long as he lives well, as long as he does his own thing, it is enough for him. Now he is wholeheartedly managing his own one-third of an acre of land and training his white-clothed army, which is all his work.

The soldiers who died in the war need to be compensated, the wounded soldiers need to be treated, the chaotic battlefield needs to be cleaned up, the damaged firearms and appliances need to be repaired, the condolence team that arrives in the rear needs to be arranged, the released Han slaves need to be settled, and the three negotiation conditions need to be supervised and implemented...... All of this takes a lot of time. Therefore, after the end of the battle, Xu Xingxia stayed in Zhenyuan Pass and personally dealt with the aftermath.

After the Eagle Cavalry Army was expanded to 300 people, the number of registered white-clothed soldiers was still 1,120 people. As for the vacated flower heads, they are regarded as shadow troops, and they do not exist. The actual strength of the white-clothed army, it is estimated that only Xu Xingxia knows it. In Xu Xingxia's hands, there is another roster. The official establishment of vacancies on this roster must be drawn from the auxiliaries, and the most elite personnel must be selected to fill them.

These small tasks are actually very tedious and messy. All kinds of messy things are mixed together, and the entire Zhenyuanguan military camp is simply a mess. Someone suddenly discovered that things were not so chaotic when they were fighting. It's really strange that now that there is no war, things are more chaotic. At the beginning, big and small things needed Xu Xingxia to make decisions personally. Sometimes, Xu Xingxia still needs to be personally guided. There are many busy things, there are many people, Xu Xingxia is busy to death every day, after being busy during the day, he goes back to the tent at night, and he can fall asleep when he falls, and he doesn't even have a chance to dream.

Fortunately, with the passage of time, Zhang Quanfu, Chi Hu and others have gradually become more experienced, and they can take the initiative to accept ordinary affairs. After they got started, Xu Xingxia felt a little more relaxed. When I dream at night, I seem to be able to dream of the capital and dream of a familiar shadow. It's a pity that after waking up, all this is illusory. Looking at the dim tent dome, Xu Xingxia seemed to say something, but in the end he didn't know what to say, so he sighed softly and continued to sleep.

In a blink of an eye, it is the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, which is the day of the Qingwangfu Garden Party mentioned by Huyan Aobo. However, on this day, Xu Xingxia was speaking at the expansion ceremony of the Eagle Cavalry Army, and did not return until nightfall. What is certain is that Xu Xingxia will definitely not be able to participate in this garden party in Qingwangfu. However, it doesn't matter, the garden party is said to last for half a month, and during this half month, guests can go there at any time. When you have time, you can just go to the event yourself.

From the tenth day of the new year, negotiations with Tatars gradually began to be fulfilled. The Edun tribe fulfilled its promise the fastest, and 100,000 taels of silver were quickly escorted over. The hundred thousand taels of silver were divided among the fifty war horses, and each of them carried two thousand taels. Tartars have always eaten hard rather than soft, but this time he was really scared and crippled, and he really didn't want to be an enemy with the white-clothed army.

He was bent on currying favor with Xu Xingxia, so that the butcher's knife from falling on his tribe would fall on his tribe. Therefore, in addition to the prescribed 100,000 taels of silver, he also enclosed a large number of sheepskins, cowhides, horse skins, as well as a large number of wool, bezoars and other gifts. He simply stored the tribe's warehouses, almost empty. Judging from the number of gifts, it is also sincere and sincere.

"Well, so be it! Go back, all of you! Xu Xingxia said casually. Since he knows what to do, it is not difficult for him to be the other party. Anyway, within a year, the white-clothed army would not have the ability to go to trouble the Eyudun tribe. As for a year later, that's another story. His response made the envoy of the Erdun tribe breathe a big sigh of relief. It seems that Xu Laomo's level has finally passed the danger.

Compared with Eyudun, the speed of the Kylgin tribe to fulfill the agreement is much slower. It was not until the fourteenth day of the first lunar month that the white-clothed army began to receive the first batch of slaves released by the Hellergin tribe, and the number was less than 3,000. Under the pressure of the White Army, Helkin had to release a large number of Han Chinese slaves to avoid being pursued by the White Army. However, he had to play a little trick and refused to free all the slaves at once.

Hellerkin's thoughts, Xu Xingxia knows best. It is estimated that such an old guy thought that the slaves could be used as hostages in his hands, and could be used to threaten the white-clothed army. This is simply childish to the extreme. With the current military strength of the Helkin tribe, do you want to continue to control these tens of thousands of Han slaves?

Xu Xingxia unceremoniously ordered the Eagle Cavalry to intensify the attack on the Kylgin tribe. At the same time, intensify the incitement of those Han slaves. With the support of Jinyiwei's intelligence network, it was almost impossible for the White Clothes to come into contact with Han slaves. As a result, a considerable number of Han Chinese slaves, with the support of the white-clothed army, launched a rebellion. Helekin, who couldn't support it, had to release all the Han slaves at once.

With this breath, the Tartars released more than 33,000 Han slaves. The Han Chinese slaves owned by the entire Hellegin tribe were all freed. With so many Han slaves, it is really a bit difficult to return to Zhenyuanguan from the Hellergin tribe. Especially walking through Ulan Bu and the desert is simply impossible. Without a war horse, it is absolutely not possible. On the side of the white-clothed army, there are no more than 30,000 war horses.

"Ask Helekin to provide war horses!" Xu Xingxia said coldly.

Under the pressure of the white-clothed army, Helkin had to provide a war horse for each Han slave as compensation. Of course, he compensated the white-clothed army with 100,000 taels of silver, which can be regarded as free. The slaves who want the Tartars, the war horses of the Tartars, and the silver of the Tartars, have too great an appetite to swallow, and they must make a choice.

With this breath, the white-clothed army took away more than 30,000 war horses from Heller's gold tartars. Although it is said that in the northwest region, war horses are not scarce at all, and the value of war horses is not very good. However, for the white-clothed army, obtaining more than 30,000 war horses at once still has a great effect, and there is no need to worry about running out of war horses in the future.

A large number of Han slaves, riding south, the mighty procession, at a glance can not see the end at all. After a long journey of five days, they finally reached the Montenegrin camp and entered the camp that had been arranged by the stewardship. The arrival of more than 30,000 Han slaves suddenly made the deserted Montenegrin camp extremely lively. The population of Zhenshuo Fort and Black Mountain Camp completely surpassed Pingyu City and became the most dazzling existence in the northern part of Ningxia Town.

There is no doubt that the arrival of a large number of Han slaves has greatly increased the labor force around the Montenegrin camp, and the hundreds of households in the stewardship will be busy with their work again. The white-clothed army has money and people, of course, they are desperately carrying out infrastructure construction. Weizhenbao, Zhenshuo Fort, and Black Mountain Camp all have a large number of infrastructure projects in full swing. The number of farms run by the Board of Stewards has also increased to more than 60.

(To be continued)