I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 58
When Li Dong's family invited Huang Yi to drink flower wine, they also invited Huang Yi's men to have a good meal.

It was impossible to have a banquet, but they were given [-] extra bowls of braised pork.

Herdsmen often have the opportunity to eat beef and mutton, but basically they cannot eat pork.

So everyone ate very happily, and they all said that pig meat is really satisfying.

Huang Yi did not treat the thirty knights sent by Hedan Bateer badly. When they returned, each of them gave five buckets of wheat and a jar of wine as reward.

The knights headed by the three captains, Dumahe, Tenger, and Jebilger, all admired Huang Yi and were willing to listen to Huang Yi's orders.

They ate and drank along the way, and the work was not hard, just helping to drive the car.

I was quite satisfied at first, but I got shochu and wheat by accident, and everyone was elated.

The three ten captains are all former Hedan Bateer's soldiers, and they are the most loyal knights.

The treatment given to them is of course different, and the gifts they get are double that of ordinary knights.

All in all, the knights that Huang Yi met when he came to the Hedanbaatar tribe, as long as they were not dead or disabled, are now at least ten captains, managing about five to ten Mongolian families.

These ten captains have a high degree of recognition for Hedan Battelle, and their loyalty is not a problem.

It also comes with respect for Huang Yi Batulu who has brought a bright future to this tribe.

Of course Hedan Battelle had to share some benefits. Huang Yi generously gave fifty stones of wheat and twenty jars of five-jin shochu.

All the grassland clans like Daming shochu, and Hedan Bateer also traded cattle and sheep for some, but he was not willing to trade too much, only ten altars.

Huang Yi gave him so much at once, which made him very embarrassed, and he couldn't think of anything to give in return.

He knew in his heart that Huang Yi was just a distinguished guest, he was never under his command, and one day he would go far away.

He really hoped that this day would come later.

Huang Yi also gave Kaletu two jars of shochu and five stones of wheat, and two jars of wine and three stones of wheat each for Geerlen's two sons.

It is not surprising that there are many people in the ceremony, and the other leaders also got two jars of wine and two stones of wheat.

Huang Yi has walked the road between Zhangjiakou and the grazing land assigned to Hedan Bateer twice, and he is basically familiar with the terrain.

This is the north of Zhangjiakou, the west foot of the Yanshan Mountains, the Xinghe Mansion in the third year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the Xinghe House of Thousand Households in the 30th year of Hongwu, and Shangyi County, Zhangbei County, and Guyuan County in New China.

There are three types of mountains, hills, and plain basins, of which about one third are basins.

Huang Yi didn't want to go to the Great Basin for the time being, and took all the Han people to find a relatively secluded small basin where he could have a temporary foothold.

Huang Yi led Huang Dazhi and Amu Guleng to investigate carefully for five days, led horses and walked where they could not go on horseback, and finally settled on a basin that was easy to defend but difficult to attack.

The reason why I like this place is because there is a river passing through it, and a lake with several thousand acres of water surface is formed. Of course, what I see now is not the water surface, but the ice surface.

Remnants of fortresses were also found at the dangerous point of the mountain pass.It is estimated that in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, this place might have been a hundred households or a frontier fort.

Because in the era of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, the Ming army near Zhangjiakou and Datong did not stick to the Great Wall at all.

The mountains here are not too high, so it is not a problem for infantry to climb over, but cavalry have to pass through mountain passes to enter this basin.

The road to enter the mountain pass is more than one mile, and only a carriage can pass through the narrowest part. After passing this mountain pass, it suddenly becomes clear that the Yimapingchuan basin is in front of you.

Huang Yi decided to bring the Han people to live here temporarily. There are water sources and relatively fertile land here, and those lands should have been reclaimed before, so it is much easier to reclaim them.

Without a measuring tool, I can only calculate the area that can be reclaimed by counting steps, which should be no less than [-] mu.

Huang Yi is an urbanite and has never cultivated land, but he knows that it is not easy to reclaim land in ancient times.

He didn't expect a few hundred Han people and one or two hundred large livestock to reclaim [-] to [-] mu of land in a few months.

This is unrealistic. We will be thankful to be able to reclaim [-] mu of land next spring to plant wheat.

This has to be safe and secure.

Outside the mountain is theoretically the pasture of Hedan Battelle.

In the future, this area can only be grazed by the Hedan Bateer tribe, and other nearby tribes must be wiped out and swallowed up, and the scattered herdsmen must be brought back to the Hedan Bateer tribe.

It seems that we still have to fight!It is difficult to gain a foothold without fighting.

It was snowing heavily one after another, and winter was coming. Hedan Bateer's department had never stored so many winter supplies in one year.

Huang Yi also added the icing on the cake, not only took dozens of people out to eat for more than a month, but also earned a lot of food.

Hedan Battelle was elated, he was sure that no one would starve to death or freeze to death this winter.

The tribe chose a place with its back to the mountain and facing south for the winter.

Except for the Han people who are still busy, the vast majority of Mongolian knights are drinking and warming up in the yurts.

Huang Yi has announced that he will find a good place to settle down and open up wasteland.

If you occupy a good place, you must hold it.

Otherwise, you cannot build your own home.

He called on all Han people, including young women, to learn combat skills, at least to learn to form an array, and to stab together with a two-foot-long white wax spear.

No one feels tired or tired, because they used to have to work as cows and horses without enough food and clothing, and they had to face wars and chaos.

Nowadays, if you can eat enough to eat, you can still eat meat and white flour cakes. No one whips their heads and faces, and there is a rush these days.

Why do you say that you are basically full?
There is a reason for that!

When food is scarce, don't let it go to waste!
In order to prevent people from overeating or eating stupidly, one catty of grain is enough, but they have to hold on to a catty and a half.

Therefore, all people are provided with rations of food, and they are [-]% full. It is even more impossible to eat meat without restraint. Give a few slices or pieces every now and then, three or four is enough!

This kind of distribution, no one does not understand, everyone knows that the days are long, how can they eat enough food?

But teenagers between the ages of thirteen and 15 are given preferential treatment. Others give two taels of meat and three taels of meat. Others have a biscuit and a bowl of batter. They are two biscuits.

There is a good reason, the teenagers are growing their bodies, let them eat more, maintain their physical strength and practice their fighting skills hard, so that they dare to sacrifice their lives in the battle to defend their homeland in the future, and they are willing to work hard.

Zuo Guanghu, Yue Mufei, and Yao Yongchao have all been slaves for more than three years, and they all escaped death, leaving psychological shadows.

They always have nightmares, often dreaming back to the miserable years of slavery, and often wake up in a dream, breaking out in a cold sweat.

They realized that they would rather die than be slaves in the future.They told everyone the sad stories of their personal experience, and they set an example and practiced hard.

There is reason to believe that with one hundred days of training, one hundred spearmen will be able to form combat effectiveness.

(End of this chapter)