Say five thousand, even twenty thousand is easy.

Here, Li Huan, with the cooperation of Yang Yiqing, vigorously investigated corruption among Shaanxi officials, used the property of these officials to provide relief to the victims, and at the same time selected a group of relatively honest officials from among the local officials to preside over government affairs.

, finally stabilized the situation in Shaanxi.

On this day, a group of people appeared in front of the Great Wall that stretched thousands of miles. At the front was a caravan. There were hundreds of people in the caravan. The leader was none other than the ninth master of the Tang family, Tang Ding.

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Tang Dingwei was dressed in silk and satin and looked very rich, while Yue Buqun was dressed in a blue shirt and looked very elegant.

Behind them are some trustworthy people selected in the past few days, most of whom are almost from the Jin Yiwei, all dressed like servants.

The large carts were filled with sacks, seemingly filled with all kinds of goods.

Saburoguchi

Saburoguchi, who had already been replaced as guard guard, was now guarding the gate. The general manager respectfully opened the gate and let the convoy out.

The guard guarding the gate was none other than the captain Shi Erlang who had escaped with his life from Tang Ye.

Shi Erlang was obviously valued. Not only was he promoted to the commander-in-chief, but he was also appointed to guard Sanlang's mouth.

Shi Erlang had already received the news before, and was even allowed to leave the border with the army to seek revenge on the Tatars in Huli.

After watching the caravan dressed as members of the Tang family leave, Shi Erlang soon heard the news of the large group of people arriving.

Looking from a distance, the darkness was overwhelming, and it was a group of cavalry slowly approaching.

Needless to say, these cavalry are naturally the elites from the three sides recruited by Yang Yiqing.

In addition to the cavalry selected from the Beijing camp that followed Li Huan, the total number was almost 6,000.

Such a team may not seem like much. After all, compared to the Ming Dynasty, every time they went out to the grassland outside the city, there were often hundreds of thousands of troops. A mere few thousand people could not even be considered as vanguards.

But that also depends on the level of the opponent.

Back then, hundreds of thousands of troops were frequently dispatched. The Ming Dynasty's opponents were the overlords of the entire grassland and the remnants of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty. But now they are just fighting for a mere grassland tribe.

Thousands of troops are dispatched, which really means that the Hulibu can't be taken down by Hulibu even with so many troops dispatched, then we have to consider how much combat power the Nine-sided Army still has.

Riding on a war horse and wearing armor, Li Huan looked heroic, like a young general.

In contrast, Yang Yiqing's demeanor is obviously more mature and steady. There is nothing that can be done about it, because Li Huan's age is so bad.

Yang Yiqing did not change his armor like Li Huan, but was still wearing the governor's official uniform, and kept pace with Li Huan.

Shi Erlang looked at Li Huan, Yang Yiqing and all the troops approaching, and immediately led more than a hundred soldiers guarding the pass to come forward and salute Li Huan and others.

Li Huan looked at Shi Erlang and said with a smile: "Shi Erlang, leave some people to guard the pass, and the rest will send troops with me."

Shi Erlang's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this, and he said energetically: "Thank you, sir."

On the grassland

Although it has already entered the end of autumn, there is not much green on the grassland anymore. Wherever you look, there is only yellow withered grass.

The severe drought in Shaanxi has actually affected the grasslands adjacent to Shaanxi to some extent. At least the grassland occupied by Huli, which was originally lush with water and grass, has been seriously affected.

Considering the livestock originally raised in Hulibu, it was obvious that they could no longer retain so many cattle, sheep, and horses when they were already suffering from disasters.

This is one of the reasons why Hulibu would take the initiative to trade with the Tang family for 3,000 good horses. Otherwise, Hulibu would not choose to trade with good horses as long as they could raise so many good horses.

Anyway, a large number of livestock are destined to starve to death due to the disaster. It is better to exchange them for some living supplies from the Tang family so that more people can survive this cold winter.

If this were the case in previous years, if the Huli tribe could not cross the Great Wall and plunder the Ming Dynasty, they would inevitably suffer huge losses and injuries.

But this time, with the help of the Tang family, Hulibu robbed more than 10,000 stones of grain. With this grain, plus the grain they had accumulated previously, they could live more frugally, at least

There will be no problem for tens of thousands of people in Huli to spend this winter.

Just because they saw the hope of survival, Aliha, Solnit and his son took the warriors of Hulibu back to the tribe with tens of thousands of stones of food, and the whole Hulibu was boiling with excitement.

Even Hulibu celebrated this event with singing and dancing for several days, and the jubilant atmosphere was somewhat subdued.

A huge tent stands out among the many tents. This tent is where Aliha, the leader of the Huli tribe, lives.

As a figure opened the door curtain and walked into the tent, a cold wind blew in, bringing a bit of coolness.

Aliha, who was sitting in the tent drinking horse milk tea, raised his head and glanced at the visitor and said: "Sonit, you are here!"

Solnit said to Aliha: "Abu, what's the matter with you calling your son?"

Aliha motioned for Solnit to sit down and said: "Sonit, my father made an agreement with the Tang family before to trade with them tomorrow. I asked you to choose a group of horses. Have you made your selection?"

Upon hearing this, Sonit hurriedly said: "Abu, don't worry, my son has selected a group of bad horses, and the ones left behind are all good ones."

Aliha smiled when he heard this and said: "Yes, although we have no choice but to trade horses with the Tang family, it does not mean that we have to trade good horses to them."

Solnit smiled and said: "I heard that the Tang family will send us salt and iron this time, as well as cotton armor from the Ming army and a batch of weapons?"

Aliha followed Mingren's example and smoothed his knotted beard, nodded slightly and said: "Yes, Abu, I said this time, either trade with grain or soldiers, the Tang family

That person is the commander of the First Guard, and if he casually leaks some from his hand, there are hundreds or even thousands of soldiers."

Solnit said with a bit of excitement: "If this is the case, the warriors in my Huli are strong and strong. If they invade the Ming Dynasty again in the future, they will definitely look down upon them."

Ali laughed and said: "So this transaction is very important. In the past few times, the Tang family only promised to give us a dozen pairs of armors, but this time there are hundreds of them. I will personally bring Abu when the time comes.

When I go to meet with the Tang family, you just stay and take care of the family for Abu."

Hearing this, Solnit showed some hesitation on his face and said: "Abu, can't you take your son with you? People in the Ming Dynasty will not send out large armies to this grassland, so what's the use of my son staying here?"

After glaring at Solnit, Aliha said: "It is true that Ming people will not come to this prairie, but don't forget that we are not guarding against Ming people, but other tribes."

Solnit was stunned for a moment, then said with a look of surprise on his face: "Abu, are you talking about the Black Sea Tribe?"

The Black Sea tribe is adjacent to the Huli tribe. Because the tribe's strength is slightly weaker than the Huli tribe, the richest pasture in the vicinity falls into the hands of the Huli tribe.

In order to compete with Hulibe for pasture, conflicts of various sizes broke out between the Black Sea tribe and Hulibe more than once or twice.

Fortunately, both sides were relatively restrained. Although conflicts often broke out, due to the restraint of the heads of ten thousand households, the two tribes did not really fight to the death.

But even so, there has been a long-standing grudge between the two sides. The Huli Department was affected by this disaster, and the Black Sea Department was also affected.

Because the Huli tribe colluded with the Tang family and robbed tens of thousands of shi of food, they had the confidence to survive the disaster. However, the Black Sea tribe was different.

Aliha knew very well that once the news spread that their Huli Department had received a large amount of food, the Black Sea Department would definitely not react at all after receiving the news.

The border towns of the Ming Dynasty were already in a state of martial law due to their plundering. Even if the Black Sea Department wanted to follow their example, it would probably be difficult for them to successfully conquer the border when the Ming army was on high alert.

Moreover, even if the Kou Pass is really successful, I am afraid that the losses will not be huge enough for the Black Sea Department to bear.

In this case, it is very likely that the Black Sea Department will come to take advantage of their Huli Department.

Looking at Solnit, Aliha said solemnly: "I'm going to do business with the Tang family. Solnit, you must look after my home."

Sonite nodded.

After speaking, Aliha waved his hand and said to Solnit: "Go down."

Sonit stepped back, Aliha stood up and walked into a curtain in the tent.

Suddenly, there was a burst of women's screams and curses coming from within the curtain. Just hearing that voice and the curse words, it was clear that they were the Ming Dynasty women who had been robbed.

dongshanling

This is a barren hill on the grassland. Because it is obviously much higher, it is called Dongshan Ridge.

At this moment, a caravan was slowly coming towards Dongshan Ridge. Tang Dingwei, who was sitting on the carriage, said to Yue Buqun: "Mr. Yue, this is Dongshan Ridge."

Looking at the barren hill in front of him, Yue Buqun was stunned for a moment, with a look of astonishment on his face.

Tang Dingwei also said before that the transaction place agreed upon by both parties was Dongshanling.

In Yue Buqun's understanding, Dongshan Ridge should be a mountain range, but he never thought that the so-called Dongshan Ridge was just a barren hill.

If you are not familiar with the terrain on the grassland or even know the place names, you may not be able to find the place even if you really know the trading location.

After all, how many people would regard the barren hills in front of them as a mountain?

Seemingly seeing Yue Buqun's surprise, Tang Dingwei explained: "Mr. Yue didn't know that this barren hill had no name at all, but later our Tang family did business with Hulibu here several times, so it became

Naming this place Dongshanling, it can be said that except for the old people of our Tang family, not many people know that this is Dongshanling."

Yue Buqun nodded slightly and summoned a Jin Yiwei to order: "Go and tell your lord that we have arrived. We are just waiting for the people from Hulibu to come. Then we will ask your lord to see the signal and take action."

Watching the Jin Yiwei leave, Yue Buqun looked at the sky and said, "It should be almost the time agreed with Hulibu."

Tang Dingwei looked at the sky, nodded slightly and said, "It's almost noon. If nothing else happens, the people in the pot will be here soon."

It was almost time to drink tea when Yue Buqun, who was quite impatient, suddenly raised his head and looked into the distance.

Not only Yue Buqun, but also Tang Dingwei and others also looked towards the billowing smoke and dust in the distance.

The billowing smoke and dust are approaching at an extremely fast speed. At a glance, it is a huge smoke and dust. Especially as the smoke and dust gets closer and closer, the ground shaking becomes more and more obvious.

Just hearing this movement, I am afraid that there are thousands of cavalry coming.

If he hadn't known in advance that the two parties were dealing with thousands of good horses, Yue Buqun would have suspected that the Huli tribe had sent thousands of tribesmen here.

Tang Dingwei looked at the smoke and dust getting closer and said to Yue Buqun: "Mr. Yue, the people from the Huli Department are here."

Yue Buqun nodded slightly, glanced at Tang Dingwei and said with some warning: "Don't forget your Lord's instructions. If you can make a great contribution this time, then your grandson will survive, otherwise...
To be continued...