Riding and chopping: Overlord of the Han and Hungarians

Chapter 47 47. Hulun Lake

After yesterday's wild rush with people flying in front and souls chasing after him, Zhang Qi planned to take it easy on his way today.

And this morning, after Ma San woke up, he checked the condition of the horses, sighed and said to Zhang Qi: "Mr. Lang, those grassland horses are no longer able to run, basically they won't be able to run from now on."

Zhang Qi was a little stunned. He knew that a long-distance raid would damage the horse, but he didn't expect it to be so serious.

After hearing Ma San's words, he also went to look at the nine prairie horses that he had snatched from the Huns before.

Each of them was just like what Ma San said, it didn't look like a big deal when it was standing, but its muscles trembled a little when it walked.

Helpless, Zhang Qi planned to take them into the world of riding and slashing, but he didn't expect to pay a toll for taking horses just like taking people.

There is no way, it's a pity to throw away these horses, and bring them into the world of riding and cutting alive. Zhang Qi didn't want to waste dinars, so he simply drew his knife and slaughtered the nine prairie horses on the spot under the distressed eyes of everyone.

A few hundred catties of high-quality horse meat were left for meat, and the rest were taken into the world of riding and hacking as army rations.

Live horses need dinars, but dead horses don't.

These few prairie horses were dead, and Zhang Qi lost some camels. Now that his dinar is increasing every day under Hutching's operation, he simply replaced the entire team of horses with To ride and chop horses.

Six prairie horses from the world of riding and cutting were brought out, and after loading supplies, they set off.

The situation was not much different from Zhang Qi's guess. As they got closer to the east, there were more and more Huns cavalry in formation.

Using the same excuse as his previous response to Aguru, Zhang Qing successfully deceived several batches of Hun cavalry, and finally arrived at the vast Hulun Lake in the early morning of the fourth day after the exhausted grassland horses.

Although it is now covered with heavy snow, the scenery of the Hulun Buir Prairie has already emerged.

After arriving at Hulun Lake, Zhang Qi stayed for a few days for observation.

The Zuo Tuqi tribe can be regarded as a rich tribe among the Xiongnu. There are hundreds of tribes, large and small, living here with various rich pastures.

Zhang Qi has visited a few of these tribes, and they are basically the direct descendants of Zuo Tuqi.

Small tribes ranging from hundreds of people to large tribes with thousands of people are scattered in every corner of the Hulun Buir Grassland. Basically, where there is sufficient water source, the scale of the tribe is larger.

And through several occasions of pretending to be a transaction, Zhang Qi discovered that most of the Huns here were operating in a semi-nomadic and semi-cultivating mode.

Through mutual trading, Zhang used oats, rye and other crops to exchange millet and millet with the Huns.

In fact, Zhang Qi didn't know what millet was and millet was what Lu Mu told him.

Millet is yellow rice, one of the main edible foods of the Han people, but it is not the main crop grown by the Huns here. They mainly grow millet. Millet is not a kind of crop, but a collective name for several kinds. There are various kinds of millet, And sorghum. p1
The other two kinds of Zhang Qi felt nothing, but when it was the turn of sorghum, Zhang Qi's eyes lit up. This is a good thing. To put it bluntly, sorghum once saved a country, although later it was planted in a large proportion. Amplitude attenuation, but there's no denying that it was important in that era.

No wonder the herdsmen here mainly grow millet, sorghum can be harvested every year no matter what happens.

Dibao players belonging to the crop world.

Zhang Qi generously exchanged a little bit of salt for a bag of sorghum and some millet and yellow rice. Because he pretended to be a Gaoche tribe, he was quite popular among the tribes of the Huns.

Grassland people move between various pastures every year, so there is no business. The fur and bone tools accumulated in the tribe can only be exchanged in the two Shanyu Courts in the north and south during the Shenshan Festival every year, or travel thousands of miles away. Try your luck in the mutual markets around the Great Wall.

Therefore, they are very welcome to the Gaoche people who are doing business in the grassland. This is one of the few opportunities for them to exchange for the supplies they want.

Now that he pretended, Zhang Qi simply pretended to be real.

After visiting four or five tribes of the Huns living in Hulun Lake, Zhang Qi gradually discovered that the people here are not only the Huns.

There are also Han people.

Not slaves, but Han people with personal status as real herdsmen.

When he was doing business with the tribe, he also asked Lu Mu to inquire, and found that these people were indeed residents of the Han region.

It's just that now, they are all accustomed to the living habits of the Huns. Although many of them are soldiers who were looted or defeated, many of them came here on their own initiative.

In layman's terms, for these low-level Han people, they don't have the concept of a country in their hearts, and they live wherever they can.

The main reason why the tribes here are half-farming and half-grazing is because of the joining of these Han people.

For them, Zhang Qi really couldn't say the word traitor. The feudal dynasty had nothing to do with these low-level people, and the country only belonged to those people in the upper class.

All they want is to be alive.

Two or three days of tribal transactions broadened Zhang Qi's horizons a lot. Now that he has seen and understood it, Zhang Qi and the others plan to continue heading east.

just before moving forward
"The surrounding situation has been thoroughly investigated. After Shanyu's order was issued, all the Huns who were able to fight in this tribe drove over. Now there are only women and children in their tribe."

Eagle whispered in Zhang Qi's ear.

"Are you sure? Their entire tribe that can fight has left, and they are not afraid of being annexed?"

Zhang Qi asked in surprise, yes, he did plan to make a vote before leaving, anyway, he came here and it was Chinese New Year, so he couldn't leave empty-handed, right?

Ying shook his head: "The women of this tribe are one of Zuo Tuqi's Yan family, so no one dares to touch them." (yan1zhi1) p2
"Because that woman is very much loved by Zuo Tuqi, several large pastures nearby were rewarded to their tribe, and no one would come over."

Zhang Qi nodded: "How is the personnel situation?"

There was an unusual burgundy on Ying's face, Zhang Qi knew that this guy was excited.

"I used the dates you gave me to make friends with a few more expensive boys. There are more than 300 women in the tribe, and only [-] to [-] men are left in the tribe. I also know the yurts where those men live. Yes, it's in the third, sixth, and ninth rooms near Hulun Lake."

"There are still a few scattered ones, how about it, do you want to get them?"

Ying looked at Zhang Qi expectantly. Zhang Qi thought for a while, then looked at the NPC soldiers guarding him, with a bright smile on his lips.

"Fuck them!"

"The moon is dark and the wind is high, killing night!"

"Have a rest in their tribe for one night, you let Harrier lead those warriors to live near the few yurts with the most men, and listen to my orders at night!"

"Understood! I'll inform Harrier!"

Ying suppressed the excitement that was about to growl, and quickly walked out of Zhang Qi's yurt. This was the last tribe they visited, and it was also the tribe on the easternmost side of Hulun Lake. Because the number of men here was surprisingly small, Zhang Qi only Got some ideas.

　p1: Sorghum existed in the Western Zhou Dynasty and has been planted in China for thousands of years.

　　If you want to refute my words with the words that were introduced into China only in the Song Dynasty, then the above is just made up by me.

　　p2: The wives and concubines of high-level Xiongnu officials can all be called Yanshi, and Yanshi means wives and concubines.

　　The eldest wife of the Xiongnu Shanyu was called Da Yan, which was a status symbol. There was a mountain called Yanzhi Mountain where a powerful woman came out.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)