Tana asked Arutai's parents, "What do you think you will go to the steppe with the king in the next year?" ”

Arutai's parents glanced at each other and said with a smile on their faces: "Very good, very good, nothing else." ”

Tana glanced at Arutai again and said, "I think you are a good man, and I, Tana, am also a cool person, and there are no outsiders here, if you have anything to say, you can say it if you want to, don't scruple." ”

Arutai sighed and said: "It has been ten years since we moved here from the fishing sea, and we are used to everything, and now we are moving to the outside of the Saiwai, and we don't know how to live in the future, so we are worried." ”

Tana smiled, "Then do you think it's better to live in the grassland, or better to live here?" ”

Arutai's eyes lit up and said: "Of course it's a grassland, herding horses and sheep, free, we won't farm here, we won't build houses, we can't do anything compared to the Han people, and our lives are naturally poor." ”

Arutai's mother said urgently: "You can't buy iron pots, salt, or tea on the grassland, and life is just as difficult." ”

Arutai argued with her: "I can't marry a wife here." The imperial court stipulates that intermarriage is not allowed within the clan, and the family is so poor, which Han woman is willing to marry me. ”

Tana glanced back at Zhang Hao, who explained: "Emperor Taizu Gao in order to reflect the family of the world, Mongolia and Han are not separated, so it is stipulated that the Mongols are not allowed to intermarry. ”

Tana said: "We moved to Saiwai, and we don't have to abide by the rule that Mongolians can't intermarry, but don't worry, Grandma, iron pots, salt, and tea can still be bought, because we are still the Zhongning King of the Ming Dynasty, and we are the same people of the Ming Dynasty." Isn't it, Master Zhang? ”

Zhang Yu said with a smile: "That's nature. ”

Tana asked Arutai again, "Where have all the young men in your village gone?" ”

Arutai sighed and said: "Everyone doesn't know how to farm, and they don't have skills, so in order to survive, most of the young adults have gone to serve as soldiers." I was the only child in my family, and my parents were old and had no one to take care of me, so I stayed in the village to herd sheep for a living. ”

Tana said, "Are you familiar with all the people in this village?" ”

Arutai said: "Not only the people in this village, but also the Mongolians in ten miles and eight towns, because I often have to walk dozens of miles to herd sheep. ”

Tana said: "This is very good, I will now appoint you as the post of a thousand households, responsible for organizing these ten miles and eight towns to move to the outside of the Saiwai, not a single one is left, all of them must go with the king, if there is a disobedient person, you have the right to cut first and then play, do you dare to be?" ”

Arutai said: "Why don't you dare, if you are reasonable, if you are unreasonable, I will kill him." With that, he drew the dagger that was ready to kill the eagle.

Arutai's father thanked excitedly: "Thank you Queen Mother for cultivating." My ancestors also served as a thousand households, and now Arutai can still be a thousand households, which is really an eye-opener. ”

Tana summoned her retinue, wrote a letter of appointment on the spot, and handed it to Arutai.

While the few of them were talking, Zhang Yu quietly pulled Zhang Shixing out of the house, walked to a secluded place, and said with a worried face: "I don't know what Your Majesty thinks, put this Rou Concubine in Kaipingwei, and give it to ten thousand households, I think it will be a disaster for the Central Plains in the future." ”

Zhang Shixing said: "Zhang Gong is wrong, this policy was set by Emperor Taizu Gao, and Emperor Xiaokang accepted Concubine Rou for today's sake." ”

Zhang Yu stomped his feet and said: "Emperor Taizu Gao is wise and wise, but two things are not wise enough. One is that there are too many feudal domains, and the other is that the killing is too heavy. Now I think that my closest relatives can mix with Hu Han, and the north is peaceful, I think it is wishful thinking. ”

Zhang Shixing said: "There is no need for Zhang Gong to worry about it. At present, cutting the feudal domain is the top priority, the imperial court transferred the guards, and moved away Meng Yuan to reduce the number of households, this is a plan to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle, and it is expected that the king of Yan will not dare to act rashly. ”

The two of them suddenly saw Xu Miaojin walking out of the house, followed by Tana's mother and son, so they stopped talking.

The Arutai family sent Tana and her party out of the village until they reluctantly waved goodbye.

Zhang Shixing asked Tana, "Queen Mother Zhongning, where are we going next?" ”

Tana said coldly: "You follow, why do you ask so much?" ”

Zhang Shixing also said angrily: "Queen Mother, I have the emperor's order, I want to go to Yanqingwei to find someone, I'm afraid I can't accompany the Queen Mother to inspect the territory today." ”

Tana pointed to a forest at the foot of the mountain with a whip and said, "We are going to Donghulin, after that forest, you take your Yangguan Road, and I will take my single-plank bridge." ”

Zhang Shixing said: "Excellent. ”

As the saying goes: "Look at the mountain and run a dead horse." Everyone galloped for about 20 miles before they came to the forest, only to see the pine forest in front of them, the smoke locked the fog cage, the branches towering to the sky, the teeth and claws, like the momentum of a dragon and snake, a small road, winding, submerged into the depths of the woods.

The crowd followed the path and slowly entered. After walking for several miles, there is still no end in sight, the forest is quiet, only the birds are singing, the sky is dim, and it is a little eerie.

Suddenly, a wild boar sprang out of the woods, baring its two long fangs, and rushed straight at Tana's red horse. Tana pulled the reins, shielded little Battle, turned the horse's head, and ran backwards, signaling the group to go as she ran.

Xu Miaojin saw that the wild boar had rushed to the front, too late to escape, brushed out the knife, leaned over and slashed at the wild boar, in the middle of the back, but the knife was stuck in the crack of the bone, and could not be pulled out for a while, the wild boar was in pain, and bit her green horse's leg with a sigh, the big green horse let out a long howl, and the person stood up, Xu Miaojin was unprepared, and was thrown off the horse, head down, back to the ground, but his feet stumbled in the stirrup, and he was dragged by the big green horse and galloped.

The crowd was stunned and shouted. As soon as Zhang Shixing saw that the situation was urgent, he quickly whipped his horse, caught up with the crazy big green horse, jumped up, flew to the horse, and the mission pulled the reins, and shouted and shouted before the horse stopped. He hurriedly jumped off the horse and helped Xu Miaojin up, only to see that her back was in tattered clothes, drenched in blood, and she was so frightened that her hair was scattered and her face was discolored.

Zhang Shixing took off his cloak and wrapped it around Xu Miaojin, Xu Miaojin tidied up his temples slightly, glanced at Zhang Shixing, and his face was red.

Zhang Shixing complained: "You eldest lady, so reckless, you dare to fight with wild boars, don't you want to die?" ”

Xu Miaojin said in a low voice: "I promised my sister and brother-in-law that I would always protect my sister-in-law." ”

Zhang Shixing said: "If you are really a tiger girl, don't be strong in the future." Guarding the Queen Mother, there are our brocade guards. As he spoke, he helped Xu Miaojin onto the big green horse, then flew on the horse, pulled the reins of the big green horse with one hand, grabbed the reins of his black horse with the other, and slowly walked towards the place where he came.

Xu Miaojin peeked at Zhang Shixing, and a different kind of affection surged in her heart, remembering her sister Xu Miaoyun's description of the past the day before yesterday, the little Tartar who bullied her back then was the Jinyi Wei who saved her now and knew Zhang Shixing, is this fate, as soon as she thought of this, she couldn't suppress it, she was shy, and asked softly: "Zhang Tongzhi, do you remember me, ten years ago, we had a relationship?" ”

Zhang Shixing glanced at Xu Miaojin, slightly felt that this girl was a little weird, and said, "Ten years ago, we met?" Where is it? ”

Xu Miaojin suddenly remembered what her sister said, she was pretending to be Sister Wu that day, and she must not be pierced at this moment, otherwise it will become a big joke. So he said lightly: "It's just déjà vu." ”

Zhang Shixing looked at her face for a while and her face was red and white, and he couldn't guess what the third daughter of Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, was thinking, but he would not think about the love between men and women and marriage anyway, Xu Miaojin would also be a princess after all, just like her sister Princess Yan and Princess Dai.

At this moment, a group of men rushed out of the woods, dressed in human costumes, armed with steel forks, and with bows and arrows at their waists, and surrounded the wild boar, shooting arrows and stabbing them, and in a short time they put the wild boar to the ground, apparently a group of hunters.

Tana urged her horse forward and shouted, "Who are you, who are you who have shocked the king, what crime should you be guilty of?" ”

The man at the head was about thirty years old, six feet tall, with big shoulders and a round waist, eyes like mung beans, and a wide mouth, and said proudly, "Who are you?" If you hadn't broken into the woods and startled the boar, we would have captured it alive. Now that a good skin has been destroyed, I have been asked about my sin. ”

Tana laughed instead of being angry: "Good boy, have guts." I am the Queen Mother of Chungning, and this is the King of Chungning. Which tribe are you from, and you still don't kneel when you see the prince? ”

When the man saw that she looked fierce and richly dressed, and that she was followed by a large group of guards, and knew that what she said was true, he led the people to kneel down and kowtow, and said, "The villain is Batu of the Warat tribe, and these people are my subordinate hunters. ”

Tana nodded and said, "Get up, the people of the forest, hunting for generations, and they are really skillful." Are you willing to follow me to Kaipingwei? ”

When Batu heard this, he said with a happy face: "We heard that the people of the Tatar Department said that they would move to Kaipingwei with King Zhongning in the future, and we were very envious, but we are in the mountains here, and no one has informed us, so we want to sneak along." Now that the Queen Mother is asking, she is naturally ten thousand willing, the beasts in the forest here are almost finished being beaten by us, and if we don't move the place, they will starve to death. ”

Tana asked, "I heard that the young men of the Tatar tribe have gone to join the army, why don't you go?" ”

Batu snorted and said: "Back to the Queen Mother, I have also been a soldier, but I always rush to kill in the front and make meritorious contributions in the back, and the officials don't treat our Mongolian people as people, I really can't stand that bird's spirit, it's better to be a hunter and be happy." ”

Tana asked, "How many men do you have?" ”

Batu said: "The 100 people in Donghulin Village all follow me, and dozens of people in Xihulin Village over there also listen to me. ”

Tana said: "I now make you a thousand households under the king of Zhongning, you will gather all the Mongolian people in this vicinity according to the roster, gather at the north gate of Changping City on January 20 after the year, and follow me north to Kaipingwei, are you willing?" ”

When Batu heard this, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly knelt down again and kowtowed: "Thank you for the cultivation of the Queen Mother, the villain will serve the dead." ”

Tana ordered her retinue to come up, write a letter of appointment, and hand him the migration roster. When everything stopped, Zhang Shixing also walked back with Xu Miaojin.

Tana turned her horse's head and walked over to Xu Miaojin's side to take a closer look at her injuries.

Everyone also gathered around, shushing the cold and asking for warmth.

As soon as Zhang Shixing saw Batu and the others dressing up for Orion, he stretched out his hand and shouted angrily, "Bring it." ”