I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 23: A Gun Is The King Of Grass

Can it be planted next spring?
In the current turmoil on the prairie, there should be very few people farming.

It’s not that the prairie does not meet the conditions for farming, but that farming is too troublesome. Mongolians don’t like to do it, and they don’t know how to do it. It’s also because they live by water and grass, which is equivalent to having no fixed place and no way to farm.

The bigger reason is that there are wars every year, not just with Daming and Jiannu, but more often with various tribes.

How can I have the energy to farm?

After San Niangzi built Guihua City, she vigorously developed agriculture and reclaimed many wheat fields outside Guihua City.

That's because San Niangzi is the "Mrs. Zhongshun" granted by the Ming Dynasty. Her three husbands were all kings of Mongolia, and they have the strength to build a city.

Later generations of Inner Mongolia have more than [-] million mu of arable land, which can not only grow wheat, sorghum, potatoes, yams, highland barley and other crops, but can even grow hybrid rice in areas with ideal irrigation conditions.

Therefore, Huang Yi believes that not only animal husbandry but also agriculture can be developed on the prairie.

There are rich mineral deposits here, and industrial development is also feasible!Baotou, a grassland steel city, is an example!
It's just that the construction is so difficult, and the destruction is instantaneous. In the environment of constant warfare, it is impossible to farm land, mine, and build factories without strong force.

How to survive and develop your own strength is a difficult problem.

Areas that don't care should have opportunities.

Huang Yi knew a little bit about the history of the late Ming Dynasty. In the early years of Chongzhen, Lin Danhan's sphere of influence was compressed by Jiannu to the Hetao and Tumochuan areas west of the Xuanfu side wall.

Jiannu entered the customs many times, plundered and slaughtered the city. The most puzzling thing is that he never attacked Zhangjiakou, where rich businessmen gathered.

It is estimated that there should be a tacit understanding between traitorous Shanxi merchants and Jiannu.

Jiannu attacked Lin Danhan and robbed Daming, but due to the limited population, they all committed crimes on the move, and did not occupy a city or a place in the pass.

In the fifth year of Chongzhen, Jiannu once again defeated Lin Dan Khan and did not send troops to garrison Guihua City after he captured it. Instead, he set fire to the city and abandoned it, which can be seen.

Huang Yi seems to be able to find a relatively secluded mountainous basin with decent water resources between Zhangjiakou and Guihua City.

He was inspired after thinking of Guihua City, it doesn't matter if he doesn't know where he is now!

Guihua City is so famous on the prairie, you can ask Hedan Battelle in what direction and how far is it from Guihua City.

Huang Yi also wanted to ask which thousand or ten thousand households Hedanbaatar belonged to, because Huang Yi knew that the thousand-household system and later the ten-thousand-household system were the Mongolian military and political systems.

With ideas and Huang Dayong's translation, Hedan Battelle knows everything.

Huang Yi finally knew that this tribe originally belonged to the Ujumqin tribe, but Hedanbaatar didn't know how many tribes and populations remained in the Ujumqin tribe, and where their Taiji went.

But Hedanbaatar knew that their biggest king, Lin Dan Khan, was defeated by Jianzhou Jurchen last fall, and now many tribes have surrendered and helped Jianzhou Jurchen to attack the Mongolian tribes who are still loyal to Lin Dan Khan.

Sanniangzi City, also known as Guihua City, is located in the southwest. If the weather is good, Hedan Bateer's tribe should be able to reach it after ten days or half a month's migration to the southwest.

There are Han Chinese merchants in Guihua City, and there is a market outside the city, where Hedanbaatar's tribe would exchange some cattle, sheep, horses, and fur goods for cloth, tea, ironware, porcelain, grain, etc.

This is the mutual open border market, the transaction is approved by the Ming court, but ironware is a controlled product, iron pots and shovels can be traded freely, and others are smuggled and entrained.

After understanding the current situation dictated by Hedan Battelle, Huang Yi fell silent.

This small tribe only has about [-] young and middle-aged warriors who can fight on horseback. Their strength is too weak to resist Jiannu's army.

It is right to migrate to the southwest or go to Mobei.

It's a pity that it's not easy, if they are coveted by other powerful Mongolian tribes, they will definitely be annexed by others.

How to avoid this situation?

The only way is to keep annexing smaller Mongolian tribes and strive to strengthen ourselves.

This is not something that can be achieved by hard work, but also good luck.

At the very least, you must ensure that you do not encounter a large tribe before you have accumulated a certain strength, or immediately send cattle, sheep, and horses to express your surrender after encountering a large tribe.

As long as the status quo of independent development can still be maintained, it is not a loss.

Huang Yi hopes that Hedan Bateer's department can grow stronger.

Not for anything else, but because Hedan Battelle had a feud with Jiannu who killed his father and brother, and also because Hedan Battelle refused to surrender Jiannu.

How to grow?

The only choice is to annex and unite other tribes.

This is also the most fundamental reason for the constant attacks on the prairie.

The establishment of order often requires power, and only a single power can maintain peace.

Wang Lindan Khan on the prairie is dying, Jiannu is rising, and the old and the new are changing.

During the period of the Republic of China, "If you have a gun, you are the grass head king."

It is entirely possible to confuse Hedan Battelle and snatch a tribe with a growing population to become a grass-headed king!

Huang Yi, who had figured it out, advised Hedan Bateer not to think about where Taiji from the Ujimqin tribe had gone, and suggested that Hedanbaatar be the Taiji from the Ujimqin tribe.

He also stated that he would fully support Hedanbaatar and support him in uniting or annexing the scattered small tribes that belonged to Ujimqin.

The law of the prairie is the survival of the strong, and Hedan Battelle knows it well. Why doesn't he want to annex and unite with other tribes?
Huang Yi, who has killed five knights, is enough to prove his bravery.After receiving Huang Yi's support, Hedan Battelle was very happy.

He said something similar to saying that blessings and hardships are shared.

With Huang Yi's wisdom, it is impossible to take such words seriously, but he still expressed his willingness to do his best to fight for Hedan Battelle.

It's just that Huang Yi didn't expect that there were not a few tribal leaders who had the ambition to annex and unite with other tribes.

At this time, a tribe of the former Ujumqin was looking for the traces of the Hedanbaatar tribe.

This tribe was always bullied during the years when Hedanbaatar's father was still there.

However, 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi, one has ebbed and flowed, and now this tribe has a population of six to seven hundred, and its strength has far exceeded that of Hedan Bateer's tribe.

The leader, Bayaner, has the ambition to annex Hedanbaatar's tribe to avenge his shame.

The weak have no right to speak. It is not only the Bayaner tribe that has been eyeing the Hedanbaatar tribe for a long time, but also the old enemy Kachagut tribe. It is not clear whether there are other tribes.

Hedanbaatar left his father's pasture and led his people to migrate to the southwest. The main purpose was to seek refuge with the greatest Wang Lindan Khan.

Small and medium-sized tribes can basically avoid being annexed by hugging Lin Danhan's thigh, but they must be enshrined, and even young and middle-aged people must be sent to participate in the conquest launched by Lin Danhan.

(End of this chapter)