The mountains are like screens, the peaks and peaks are stacked, the ravines are vertical and horizontal, and there are thousands of postures.

The pines and cypresses of this mountain are evergreen, the willows in the ditch are stacked and green, the stream is murmuring, the green trees under the mountain become forests, and the blue waves are reflected. Looking at it, it is not like a reckless wilderness, but like the Central Plains.

"Clear Sky Gaoxian Temple Tower, Dawn Pingming City upstairs. The chariots and horses are noisy and dusty, and the whip slanted through Fengzhou. ”

The ruling center of the Mongolian right-wing Tumut tribe is on the other side of this Daqing Mountain.

In later generations, it was called Hohhot and was the capital of Inner Mongolia. The so-called "Hohhot" means "blue city" in Mongolian, and it comes from the new city built by Altan Khan and the three ladies in the ninth year of Wanli with large blue bricks.

Now, since the blue city has not yet been established, "Hohhot" is naturally impossible to talk about. At this time, the old name of the Jin and Yuan periods was still used: Fengzhou.

Since Altan Khan, the lord of the Tumut tribe, entered the Hetao and soon unified Monan, this place has been his residence and has long since become the de facto court of the Tumut Khan.

At this moment, at the foot of Daqingshan Mountain, a large-scale caravan is traveling.

It was late autumn, the rice millet in the Central Plains was ripe, the grassland cattle were fat and the horses were strong, if in previous years, it was the time when the Shanxi caravan collected goods and stepped into the grassland.

However, in April this year, I Da waved his army to attack Xuanfu, Datong, and Shanxi, and the border was alerted. In August, I replied and his son Xin Ai divided the attack on Datong and Jinzhou.

Although the generals such as Ma Fang, the general soldier of Datong, and Qi Jiguang, the general soldier of Jizhou, were well garrisoned, the two important places were unharmed, and the incoming enemy was successfully repelled in September. However, now that it has only been a month since I received my troops, which caravan would dare to blindly enter the grassland? It is said that the Han caravan went straight to Fengzhou, and even the Mongols who went to Zhangjiakou to purchase goods were already rare - after all, they had just fought a battle, didn't they?

But this caravan is different, not only dare to go deep into the grassland, but even to Daqing Mountain is still swaggering, as if the Fengzhou City not far in front is not a Longtan tiger's den at all, but like wandering in their own back garden.

This caravan opened two or three miles before and after, and there were six or seven hundred horsemen in terms of number, which was really rare in Monan. But they had probably gone too far, and by this time the pack horses were quite tired, and their heads drooped one by one, and the goods on their bodies weighed down on them for a moment, and the heavily armed caravan knights were still shouting with their whips, and intimidating the horses that seemed to be about to be crushed.

This caravan is not only large-scale, but also has a lot of horses pulling goods, and if you look at it at random, it is estimated that there are more than 1,300 or 400 knights and pack horses, even if it is placed in Mongolia, it is also a large amount of industry.

A caravan of this size will inevitably have armed escorts, so there are more than 200 sturdy knights in front and back of the caravan, and the horses under their crotches are obviously different from pack horses, tall and majestic, but they are not inferior to the regular cavalry of the Ming border army. Immediately, the knights straddled their swords and arrows on their backs, and they looked full of momentum, obviously the armed guards of this caravan, but they were ...... The scale of this guard is also a bit too large.

At the front, middle, and rear of the caravan, the same banner was flown in the wind to identify itself: it was a giant wolf howling under the moon, and the wolf's body was embroidered with blood.

Blood Wolf Howling Moon Banner.

Blood vermilion, this is the national color of the Ming Dynasty; The wolf roaring moon is the majestic posture of the grassland!

It is said that it has only been half a year since the appearance of this banner, but in this half a year, there have been more than 1,000 Mongolian bandits who have fallen under this banner. Especially in May this year, a small tribe of 1,000 people who had just been punished by Altan Khan for trivial matters, because they were greedy for the large amount of goods carried by this caravan, set out with the intention of eating black with one hand, but they were defeated and lost by this caravan guard with the banner of the bloody wolf roaring moon, and the entire tribe was killed to only more than 200 people, and it directly collapsed.

In the land of the steppe, heroes have always been admired and strengthened, and this Han caravan that dared to fight back and completely wipe out a group of people in the vast grassland was not only not surrounded and suppressed by Altan Khan's army, but was recognized by Altan Khan afterwards. Altan Khan, the right-wing Mongol lord, personally publicly declared that the caravan was "worthy of the friendship of Ben Khan" and ordered all his troops to "remain friendly and not to have any ill thoughts in their own hearts" when they came to do business, and those who violated the order were regarded as "contemptuous of Ben Khan's edicts and would be punished".

Of course, the above are all words after the "translation" of the Bansheng Han people, in fact, Altan Khan's original words were: "They are here to do business with Ben Khan, they are friends of Ben Khan, and if any of you dare to use force against Ben Khan's friends, Ben Khan will kill all the men of your clan, and rob your women, cattle and sheep, and reward some of them to meritorious soldiers, and some of them will be used to apologize to friends." ”

It's rough, it's direct, but it's effective.

After all, even the "Great Yuan Emperor", the titular lord of the steppe, and the Mongolian left-wing Zasaktumen Khan were afraid of Altan, for fear that he would peep at the "Great Treasure" with his coercion, and who would dare to ignore Altan Khan's strict orders in this desert land?

Therefore, even if the flames of the Ming and Mongolian wars were extinguished, this large-scale caravan, under the gaze of the blood wolf and the moon banner, still dared to swagger to Fengzhou, the Khan court of Altan Khan.

Blood Wolf Howling Moon Banner, such the image and name of the second middle school, of course, only Gao Shiyu, who has played too many computer games, will come up and be complacent. And the guard rider with this banner is based on the former Bailixia Xiangma as the backbone force, after half a year of expansion and handed over to Datong General Soldier Ma Fang for private training for more than three months, and finally carefully built!

Unlike most of the predecessors who "expanded the private army", in addition to formulating some rules and regulations, Gao Shishi rarely personally intervened in his "private army" in the name of armed family, but only focused on introducing Yuan Shikai's "advanced experience" back then. ”

If it is an additional reward, you have to add a sentence: "Thank you for the reward, work hard for the eldest prince!" ”

Although this method is almost more simple and crude than Altan Khan, after six months of observation, the effect is unexpectedly good. In particular, according to the method drawn up by Gao Pragmatic, the chief officer of the "leading troops" is not allowed to pay the salary in person, but must be appointed by the high pragmatic person, under the supervision of the chief officer of the troop at all levels, in front of every member of the guard, after the implementation of the system of "paying the salary to the individual on behalf of the eldest son", although Gao Pragmatic does not directly interfere in the operation of the guards, he enjoys a very high reputation among the guards.

No wonder later generations once summed up "whoever pays for you is your father", which is really a wise saying. Gao pragmatic's method, in the final analysis, is nothing more than constantly reminding his guards who is the one who "pays for you".

And now, this team, which is supported by the high attendants, has reached outside the court of Altan Khan.