Chapter 40: The Golden Knife and the Horse

The next day, Tiemo met Kachin Khan Usuzha, the head of the Naiman tribe, and there was a rough man beside Azig, who was Azig's brother Bahanlie.

After a detailed discussion, it was learned that Usuzha had made some arrangements for the future.

Bahanlie will replace Azig and lead his troops to garrison Urge, and the safety of the camel team of Tiemo's department will be responsible for Bahanlie in the future.

Azig stayed in Naiman, which she had voluntarily requested.

As for what happened a few days ago, it was purely accidental.

Bayan Khan got the news from somewhere, and learned that Azig was following the camel caravan south, so he sent many cavalry squads to search everywhere, and finally he really ran into great luck. However, it turned out that Azig escaped.

Bayan Khan hated Azig for a reason.

Four years ago, Bayan Khan intended to marry Naimanbu, but was strongly opposed by Azig. It was also a coincidence that Bayan Khan's son Dolei drank too much wine and wanted to use force against Aqige.

Azig has a fiery temperament, how can he not be angry, and in a fit of anger, he cut off the roots of Dorey's descendants. Since then, the Naiman and Sunit tribes have become undying enemies.

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There is no banquet in the world that will not be dispersed, and Tiemo is also in a hurry to return to Dark Village Castle.

On the sixth day of the first month of the eighth year of the Apocalypse, the cold wind blew fiercely, and the sky was covered with snow.

The caravan that had rested for many days finally returned to the road, and Aqig and Bahanlie personally led people to send the caravan south to Zhangbeicheng.

Watching the caravan gradually move away, Akige's eyes were full of reluctance, she bit her pink lip and slowly tightened the scimitar at her waist.

Bahanlie looked at his sister beside him, smiled wryly and shook his head.

"Have you decided? Don't forget, he's a Han! ”

"Han Chinese? So what? Azig stared at him, and slammed his horse's back, and the horse ran forward in pain.

A distance, running by in an instant.

Seeing Azig catching up, Zhou Dingshan and the others hurried forward silently and left Tie Mo behind.

Tiemo looked at Azig and said softly, "Something?" ”

"Well, I see your knife is gone, this knife is for you!"

Azig handed over the gem-encrusted scimitar, turned the horse's head, and galloped away.

Looking at the beautiful back, Tie Mo shook the scimitar in his hand with a blank face. He was tempted to say that the knife was too light and small to use, but Azig didn't give it a chance.

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The caravan left Zhangbei, slowly turned southeast, and headed towards the border.

Zhangbei was nominally the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but since the Tumubao Incident, the border defense line has retreated, so that Zhangbei has actually become the territory of the Mongolian Chahar Department.

After the Chahar tribe occupied Zhangbei, most of the people in this area chose to flee south. The Mongols were not good at farming, and over the decades, the plains of Zhangbei were uncultivated and turned into patches of wasteland.

Riding on the horse, the cold wind rose, and the long withered grass bent down.

The Zhangbei Plain, which was once extremely prosperous in northern Shanxi, is now a desolate and overgrown with weeds.

What a land, and it has become an ownerless wasteland. These lands, with a little reclamation and irrigation, can produce a large amount of food.

The land is barren for complex reasons.

The owners of these lands did not want to be wasted, and in the beginning, some large landlords continued to let the farmers farm. However, in the golden autumn season, when the grain was harvested, the Mongols crossed Zhangbei City, went straight south, and directly harvested all the grain.

After months of hard work, all of them were given to the Mongols, and slowly no one did such stupid things.

Looking at so many good lands, Tiemo's heart became eager.

If you buy the wasteland in Zhangbei, open up the wasteland for farming, and divert water for irrigation, how much grain can you have in a year? 200,000 stones? 300,000 stones?

As soon as this thought came to me, it could no longer be suppressed.

What is most important in this era of cannibalism? Not money, but food!

If you have food, you can raise soldiers, because there are too many displaced people in this era, and the greatest wish is to have enough to eat.

Money, it's good, but sometimes no amount of money can buy food.

The horse walked slowly, and Tiemo's gaze became hotter and hotter. At some point, the gopher came to the side, staring at the scimitar on the horse's back.

"What are you looking at?"

"Oh, what a beautiful knife, Xiao Tie, you actually accepted this knife!"

"What's the problem?" Tie Mo's expression froze, and he always felt that the gopher's eyes were a little strange.

"Haha, the princess's knife is not given by everyone, you take a closer look at the hilt!"

Picking up the scimitar and taking a closer look, Tiemo's face slowly became complicated.

The handle turned out to be made of pure gold, inlaid with several beautiful gemstones.

At this moment, Tie Mo thought of a title.

Golden Knife Horse!

"This ...... This...... Golden knife, Azig has a crush on Lao Tzu? ”

The drill gopher raised his eyebrows, and he was immediately happy, "It seems that you are not stupid, can you see it?" This is a golden knife accessory for the princesses of various Mongolian tribes, and only when you meet your favorite warrior, you will give the golden knife to each other as a token of love. Once the other party accepted the golden sword, it became the golden knife colt of that tribe. ”

Is it really a golden knife horse?

Tiemo was a little confused, and he didn't know if this was a good thing or a bad thing for a while. I hadn't known Azig for long, and this woman dared to do this.

Presumably, Kachin Khan didn't know about this, otherwise, he wouldn't have let Azig act so rashly. However, judging from previous contacts, Kachin Khan seems to be unable to control this precious daughter.

Golden Knife Horse? Hey, it's a blessing or a curse, it's a curse that can't be avoided.

The caravan traveled for two days and headed due east. Directly south, too close to Wild Fox Ridge. Tie Mo didn't want to provoke the outlaws of Wild Fox Ridge at this time, so it was better to have fewer branches.

During the five-day trip, when they saw the familiar curling smoke, the soldiers in the team let out an earth-shattering roar.

They smiled and hugged each other, looking excited, but their eyes were full of tears.

The sound has already alarmed the Dark Village Fort.

At noon, the south gate of the Dark Village Fort was full of people. On haystacks, on high walls, and even on nearby trees.

Young and old, men and women, looked over the long convoy of cars, looking for the people they cared about.

Some people happily ran towards the caravan, while others began to look gloomy and wept silently.

Everyone understands that those who are alive have returned, and those who have not come back will never come back.

On this day, there was laughter and laughter inside and outside the Dark Village Fort, as well as pain and sorrow.

......

In the room, the monkey sat opposite Tiemo.

Tiemo was eating vegetable mush, and the monkey was talking about what had happened in the past few months.

During the period when Tiemo went north to barter, the monkey was not idle, and he used the money he left to dig up the leather master as much as possible. The hard work paid off, and a leather shop in Wei County changed hands because the owner owed gambling debts, resulting in the loss of leather masters and craftsmen.

When the monkey heard the news, he drove dozens of miles and brought these people to Dark Village Fort at a high price.

There is no leather mill in Dark Village Fort, there are no raw materials, everything has to start from scratch. But to build a leather workshop, you have to set aside a piece of land, and the monkey really can't be the master.

"Xiao Tie, during this period of your absence, Gu Chengliang came back several times, and it was clear that he was here to support Deng Kai. I wanted to find a piece of land to build a leather mill in the south, but I was stopped by Deng Kai. ”

"Deng Kai? Looks like we're going to get a good deal with him! ”

A hint of fierceness flashed in Tie Mo's eyes, he would never allow someone to ruin his plan.

At night, not long after the monkey left, a figure sneaked into the house, chatted with Tie Mo for a few words, and then left in a hurry.