After bidding farewell to Wei Qu's illness, when the team arrived near Daning Mansion, it was a great surprise everywhere, but seeing grasslands, forests, mountain peaks, deserts, lakes, hot springs, stone forests, ice mortars, snow peaks and other unique geology gathered here, it seemed that in just a few days, it was as if it had crossed the entire Mongolian grassland, which benefited Xu Hao a lot and explained in detail at the same time, and also made Mu Ningxue fascinated by it.

"Sure enough, it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read 10,000 books, and the talent of the husband is unfathomable, this trip is really eye-opening."

The satisfied Mu Ningxue adored snuggled in her husband's arms, who let the half-hung level husband in the Ming Dynasty be enough to use as a living encyclopedic dictionary, such as where is the highest mountain in Shijie, why is the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau the roof of Shijie, Weishenme Mountain Peak Snow all year round, Weishenme will snow and rain in the sky, Weishenme Japanese people are so short, Weishenme grassland people like to give their wives to guests to enjoy, weishenmeweishenme？ In short, Xu Hao is absolutely alone in this area, and he is invincible all over the world, how can he not let the tireless Ning Xue be completely convinced?

Xu Hao also fulfilled one-tenth of his oath as promised, and traveled the world with his wife, and was able to travel thousands of miles to the depths of the strange grassland.

Along the way, the most exciting thing for Mu Ningxue is to see a lot of wild animals, sika deer, leopards, lynxes, green sheep, sables, etc., many can't even be named, all kinds of nomads with unique living customs, adhere to the ancient beliefs and habits, the fly in the ointment is that it is a cold and harsh winter at the moment, can not stop and linger for a long time, otherwise in spring and summer, you can see swans, red-crowned cranes, mandarin ducks and other countless water birds, and migrating nomads to live together for a period of time.

Braving the cold to cross the mountains on this day, when resting, Mu Ningxue, who got out of the car, immediately exclaimed, showing a beautiful giant picture in front of him, and the white snow scene was connected to the skyline. At the end of the eye, there is a misty Zimeng Lake, and the northeast forest stretches without end, and the husband said that it will always be connected to the large and small Xing'an Mountains in eastern Liaodong, which are all primeval forests that began to slowly form hundreds of millions of years ago.

In the northwest is the Ulan Butong steppe, which has the most abundant water and grass in Mongolia and the best scenery, close to the most powerful Horqin steppe in the center of Mongolia, and behind it is the Yanshan Mountain Range, which is full of dangerous peaks and steep peaks, and reaches the suburbs of Beiping. Being in the midst of the majestic nature, how small human beings are, although they were instilled with a lot of natural knowledge by her husband, Mu Ningxue was still deeply in awe of the vastness of heaven and earth.

On the plain at the foot of the mountain, a thousand-year-old capital was rejuvenated at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. In the past, the Liao State went to Beijing today's Daning Mansion, the strong city wall, the battlements and arrow towers and other defensive facilities are readily available, there is a wide moat flowing outside the city, there is a towering Daming Pagoda in the city, and the dwellings are surrounded by lakes and hot springs, compared to the majestic Ning Wangfu and the official office seem so insignificant.

There are countless military tents and yurts outside the city, and cattle, sheep and livestock are driven all over the hillside, and Xu Hao's first impression is beautiful. It's really beautiful, it's the shock that nature brings to him.

Mu Ningxue was wrapped in mink like a snow doll, and her pretty face was as white as jade, and she said movingly: "I finally know why the grassland people can reproduce for generations." I used to think that how could I survive in the bitter cold outside the Seychelles? Seeing is believing now, this place is really like a fairyland on earth, this scene is really beautiful and moving, no wonder the poet will write so many fascinating heroic verses. ”

Xu Hao rose up and said: "Thousands of miles of yellow clouds and daylight. The north wind blows geese and snow; Don't worry about the road ahead, no one in the world knows you. ”

Mu Ningxue said cautiously: "Come and tease me again, you are both my husband and my confidant." I'm not unfamiliar with others. ”

The tall and mighty old general Qiu Fu exhaled a breath of white air and said with a smile: "Childe, give us the old man an inspiring poem, don't patronize the lady and make me depressed." Seeing this, the surrounding soldiers immediately clamored loudly.

"Then I'll tamper with the poems of my ancestors." Xu Hao smiled and said leisurely: "Yanjiao Fang is late, and the remnants of snow freeze the border city; In April, the spring grass is combined, and the spring water in Liaoyang is born; The Han people worked hard, and the Hu people conscripted soldiers every day; The beacon fire was terrible, and the home was burned into the air.

Angry hair rushed to the crown, leaning on the railing Xiaoxiao rain rest, raising his eyes, looking up to the sky and roaring, strong and fierce.

The ancestors are ashamed, and they still have snow; Loved ones hate, when will they die! I am willing to drive a long car to step on the Mongolian steppe, be ambitious and hungry for Hulu meat, laugh and drink Tatar blood; When the dragon flag of the sun and moon breaks through this thousands of miles of foreign land, he will return to his hometown with the bones of his hands and feet. ”

"Good!" Qiu Fu looked excited, "The general's greatest wish is to be the commander of the army to avenge the shame of the ancestors and conquer the east and north of the desert." ”

Xu Hao frowned slightly, and said: "Poetry can be ambitious, but marching and fighting need to be cautious step by step, the Mongols are not idle people, they have their own powerful tactics handed down from their ancestors, and if they are a little careless, the whole army will be killed at every turn, and the general should also keep it in mind." ”

Qiu Fu said disdainfully: "The Mongolian iron cavalry encountered the fierce battle formation of my Ming cavalry infantry firearms, like a group of local chickens and dogs, this general has followed several generals, and has not tasted defeat in dozens of battles, just with the two hundred brothers in my hands, it is easy to defeat the so-called Duoyan Iron Cavalry with a scale of 1,000 people." ”

Xu Hao couldn't reprimand Qiu Fu, who was in his fifties, and nodded: "I admire the general's bravery. ”

After returning to the car, the group headed towards Daning City under the mountain, and Mu Ningxue said with concern: "Shicai saw that Fujun frowned slightly, why?" ”

Xu Hao said: "General Qiu is brave and brave, he is kind and a respectable elder, but unfortunately he lacks strategy, and he can only be entrusted with a pioneer and must not be a general." ”

Mu Ningxue said in surprise: "The old general Rong Ma has made great contributions all his life, is it too much for the husband to make this judgment." ”

Xu Hao didn't speak again, and said in his heart that I must not remember how many victories I had fought at the beginning, but how could I not remember the regrettable fiasco? 100,000 elite cavalry were buried in the hands of Qiu Fu, the first defeat since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Qiu Fu's defeat did not affect the overall situation, and Zhu Di started the first Northern Expedition after succeeding to the throne in order to avenge his own commander of 500,000 troops, completely reversing the shadow caused by Qiu Fu's fiasco.

Compared with the 500,000 casualties of Tumubao, which can be described as a national shame, the annihilation of the 100,000 Ming army in Salhu made the Manchu rise in one fell swoop, and the casualties of the 130,000 Ming army in the Battle of Songshan became a key turning point for the Manchu Qing to turn the Ming Dynasty from weak to strong.

Qiu Fu's defeat is indeed insignificant, but aside from the cold numbers in the history books, a full 100,000 cavalry, 100,000 Ming backbone Liliang, died too miserably. How hard is it to train a qualified cavalryman? It takes at least three or five years for the Han people to become experienced horsemen, or even more, when a warrior who is skilled in riding horses and raising horses dies, and the most valuable treasure, the war horse, is gone, and the children and grandchildren have no experience in teaching their elders, so it is likely that they will not be able to continue to become cavalrymen.

Throughout the next five Northern Expeditions of Zhu Di, all of them relied on firearms and large-scale infantry to defeat the enemy's main force, and in each battle, tens of thousands of cavalry under his command played a pivotal role, but the number of cavalry was always too small. Even if they pursued relentlessly, they only forced the enemy to sneak attack and admit defeat, and then the Fanren made a comeback a few years later, and there were several hearty victories during the Hongwu period, which made Genghis Khan's golden family completely collapse.

In any case, the death of Qiu Fu and 100,000 cavalry caused irreparable huge losses to the Ming Dynasty, and Xu Hao absolutely could not let the tragedy unfold.

At this moment, Zhu Quan in King Ning's mansion was very happy to learn that Xu Hao had come from afar with his wife. Not to mention that it is still winter when business travel is extinct.

Second, Xu Hao is somewhat famous in Shilin, and he is a well-known erudite person, Zhu Quan is not only praised by the government and the opposition as a young man, but also a scholar in essence. Or people call him "Virtuous King Qishi", Qishi refers to versatile, nine-rate sons, and ephemeris doctors. Huang Lao has dabbled in almost all aspects of opera.

According to Shilin, King Yan is good at martial arts, King Ning is good at planning, and King Shu is good at writing. The king of Xiang is good at talking, among which the two kings of Yan and Ning are indisputably the strongest in martial arts among the kings today.

Twenty-one-year-old King Ning is good at planning, probably because he was sent to Daning at the age of only fifteen, no one was optimistic about him at that time, Zhu Zhi, the king of Liao who was a few years older than him, although he made great achievements, but he has not gone to live in the fief to this day, and Zhu Quan not only calmly led the troops into the Mongolian steppe, this residence is a full six years, without a single battle to win the support of the leaders of the Duoyan nobles, there are few swords and soldiers around Daning, just with this courage and insight, it is enough to praise King Ning for a good strategy.

The problem is that Zhu Di looks down on his younger brother and thinks that it is due to the prestige of the imperial court and the Yan Palace. And Xu Hao is not too cold, Xianwang Qishi he recognized, good strategy will inevitably have to put a question mark, who let the role of King Ning in the Battle of Jingyan is only equivalent to the task provider of giving soldiers and horses.

In addition, there is another unspeakable reason, according to the gossip rumors in the capital, his wife seemed to admire Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, when she was a child, because Mu Ningxue likes to play the piano, and Zhu Quan's attainments in this area can be called amazing, if it weren't for the old Comrade Zhu's concern about Mu Ying's father and son, and thought that Zhu Quan could be able to take charge of himself in the future, he almost sealed Zhu Quan in Yunnan at that time, in that case, now Ning Xue is likely to be the princess of Yunnan.

Anyway, Xu Hao has the confidence to face Zhu Quan, even if his talent is far inferior to others, he still happily brings his wife.

In the past six years, Zhu Quan has pursued frugal governance, opened up thousands of acres of gardens and trees, ordered soldiers to vigorously reclaim farmland, and frequently did business with local art plants and other specialties in the Central Plains, so that the country is rich, the soldiers are good and the food is sufficient, and there are more elite Duoyan Sanwei in the Ming Dynasty under his command, and the military strength has surpassed the fourth brother Yan Wang Zhu Di, who is the first person among the kings.

Looking at Zhu Quan, who was smiling, wearing a vermilion python robe with a white jade belt, a handsome face and a burly body, and walked out with a tiger's step, Xu Hao admired in his heart, and said with a smile: "Xu has seen King Ning Chitose. ”

Zhu Quan also had a good impression of the handsome young man in front of him, and secretly said that there was no vanity under the fame, and said cordially: "I don't know that Brother Xu came from afar, and this king can't go out of the city to greet him in person, I'm really sorry." ”

"It's just a grass people, and I can't afford to welcome the prince." Xu Hao said with a smile.

Zhu Quan stretched out his hand to invite, Xu Hao glanced at the dozens of civil and military officials around him, and said, "Lord Wang, please first." ”

In the palace, Princess Ning Zhang waited quietly for the guests with her stomach up, her father was the commander of the soldiers and horses Zhang Tai, the appearance of the child was beautiful, knitting female red, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are all connected, in the hometown known as the name of talent and appearance, is to be known by the first emperor after being recruited into the capital to meet, at first sight greatly appreciated, then the Zhang family Xu to Zhu Quan.

After marriage, the husband and wife are talented and beautiful, and the Zhang family has no complaints about living outside the Saiwai, and is dedicated to teaching her husband and children in the palace.

Within a few years of marriage, he gave birth to his eldest son Zhu Panyan and his second son, who had not yet taken a name, and in the blink of an eye, he was pregnant with a third son in the blink of an eye, so he was favored by King Ning.

Zhang's people are very kind, sympathetic to the poor and kind, and are known as the pearl of Daning by the people of the Hu and Han families.

Mu Ningxue changed out of the cyst's leather clothes, put on a set of ordinary women's clothes, and helped Zhiqing slowly walk down.

Just like Zhu Quan and Xu Hao outside who had a good impression of each other at first sight, Zhang said happily: "I have heard for a long time that the county lord of Yuning is not ordinary, and what I see today is really amazing." ”

"Ning Xue has seen the princess." Mu Ningxue smiled and saluted, "I have also heard of Princess Ning's virtuous name for a long time, and today I finally got my wish." (To be continued......)