Huang Taiji didn't know that the confidence of the Khalkha Ministry to send troops was the Longmen caravan from Zhu Youzhen.

After receiving the reply of Zhu Youzhen, the old shopkeeper, Zheng Ming, completely let go of the operation.

Zheng Ming first rushed to the Duoyan Department and rented a piece of grassland land from Lao Huadang for the temporary placement of slaves at the cost of 1,000 taels of silver per year.

Immediately, the old shopkeeper began to send a message to the Zarut Ministry, officially opening the trade of slaves for grain.

The Grand Elder of the Zarut Department, Gessel, who was a little skeptical about the deal that Battle was talking about, was overjoyed when he received a message from the old shopkeeper.

At the urgent request of the Zarut Ministry, the first wave of slave-for-grain deals was quickly completed.

When the Zalut tribe saw that it was really in exchange for food, the whole clan was overjoyed.

It's just that all the slaves of the Zarut Department together are only less than 1,000 people. Among them, there are only a few dozen Han slaves, which really can't be exchanged for too much food.

Even if you add the grain that Battle got from the Longmen caravan last time, the reserves of the Zalut Department for the winter are still a little short.

What can I do?

Faced with the grain that the tribe exchanged for slaves from the Longmen caravan, the intelligent Grand Elder of the Zalut tribe, Gessel, immediately came up with a very clever approach.

Gessel began to buy slaves from the other four Khalkha ministries with grain.

The other four Khalkha tribes, which were harassed by Houjin, although they lived a better life than the Zalut department, were still relatively embarrassed.

The other four Khalkha departments were very happy to be able to exchange slaves who might not survive the winter for some food for the winter.

In this way, an industrial chain of exchanging slaves for grain initially began to take shape in the grasslands.

When the five Khalkha tribes all received a small amount of grain exchanged for slaves, the minds of the entire Khalkha tribe couldn't help but start to liven up.

In the grasslands now, grain is the hardest hard currency.

If you can exchange it for food, why not exchange it for some more?

At the meeting of the Khalkha Five Ministry, the Grand Elder of the Zarut Ministry, Gessel, calculated an account for the Khalkha Five Ministry.

If you want to exchange slaves for food, it is obvious that Han Nu is the most cost-effective.

A Hannu can exchange 10 catties of noodles (Zalut deducts 2 catties of noodles), and a Hannu can top 6 slaves who can't speak Chinese.

It is better to exchange slaves for food, of course, it is better to use Han slaves.

Although there are not too many Han slaves in the Khalkha Five Division, they all know where there are a large number of Han people.

As he spoke, Gessel's eyes crossed into the distance with a hint of cruelty.

Following the direction of Gussel's direction, the other tribal leaders suddenly realized.

The direction in which Gessel was looking, that was the direction of Liaodong.

It was Liaodong under the rule of the Later Jin.

It's only October and there's no sign of snow, so it's a great time to go hunting.

And according to the exact news obtained by the Khalkha Ministry, Houjin Laonu actually led the main force of the Eight Banners to fight the Ming Dynasty. The army was empty under the rule of Houjin.

Wouldn't this be a godsend?

As soon as the Khalkha Five Department discussed, the old slave harassed us for more than half a year, and now it was our turn to go back.

To harass Houjin, you can not only take this opportunity to take revenge on the old slave, but also grab some things for the winter along the way.

Even if you can't grab something, as long as you take a few more Han people back, you can always exchange for some food.

Whatever you say, everyone doesn't lose anything!

If you accidentally grab a few granaries in Houjin, then everyone will make a lot of money.

What a wonderful plan it is.

Since the news that the main force of the Houjin Eight Banners is not at home, the courage of the Fifth Khalkha Department has also increased.

Everyone, you give 3,000, I pay 5,000, and the five Khalkha departments quickly gathered nearly 20,000 cavalry, and swept towards Houjin.

Huang Taiji did not expect that such a change would suddenly occur in Khalkha Mongolia.

In the face of the harassment of the Khalkha Ministry, Huang Taiji still calculated according to the usual Mongolian habits, which led to a slight deviation in Huang Taiji's judgment of the situation.

Originally, Huang Taiji's most scruples were the Ming army of Mao Wenlong on Phi Island.

Because Mao Wenlong is over, the consequences of not growing an inch of grass are too serious. If left unchecked, the damage to Houjin is too great.

As for the Khalkha Department, it was usually just a matter of grabbing something, and compared to the lethality of Mao Wenlong's Department, it was not a level at all.

Therefore, according to Huang Taiji's original plan, he was originally going to use the main force of the white flag to drive away Mao Wenlong's department first. It was only because of Fan Wencheng's advice that his troops set off a few days late.

Huang Taiji never expected that there would be such a big change in Khalkha along the way.

The current Khalkha Ministry has a great posture of moving closer to Mao Wenlong's Ministry. They even started robbing people.

And the Khalkha Ministry, which made such a change, did more damage to Houjin than Mao Wenlong's Ministry.

Because the Khalkha soldiers are all horses.

The Khalkha Division, which had horses and were all cavalry, attacked the radiation range, which was far beyond that of Mao Wenlong's Division.

What's more, because of miscalculation, Huang Taiji also put the focus of defense on Mao Wenlong.

This caused the Khalkha Department to be even more happy, and soon put Houjin close to a large area of the steppe and looted it cleanly. Even people were taken away in large numbers, leaving nothing for Houjin.

After receiving the specific report, Huang Taiji was shocked, and he hurriedly arranged for the main force of Zhengbai Banner to drive away the Khalkha Department first.

Fortunately, the main force of the white flag has not moved!

Huang Taiji thought happily.

If the main force of Zhengbai Banner had already set off to drive Mao Wenlong, then Huang Taiji would really be making wax.

The current situation in Houjin is really in line with the urgent report sent by Huang Taiji to Nurhachi.

Before Huang Taiji rejoiced, it was over.

Nurhachi's reply finally returned.

On October 26, the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Huang Taiji received the news of Nurhachi's class.

At the same time as the news of Nurhachi's withdrawal, there was also an order from Nurhachi.

Preparing grain and grass, Nurhachi wanted to turn to the steppe Khalkha department.

Receiving the news of Nurhachi's withdrawal, Huang Taiji's mouth opened wide in shock.

Old Khan really failed to defeat Ning Yuan!

Now, when he went to drive away the main force of the white flag of the Khalkha Ministry, wouldn't he become the vanguard of the army.

It seems that the investment plan he discussed with Fan Wencheng really has to be implemented immediately.

Dakin's food shortage is really coming early.

Faced with this situation, Huang Taiji couldn't say in his heart whether he should be happy or sad.

Capital

Zhu Youzhen, who caused tremendous changes in the situation in Liaodong, did not know the latest situation in Liaodong at all.

Zhu Youzhen is now happily in the Changchun Palace, introducing the new things he came up with to Zhu Youxiao.

"This is the new thing you designed for your little nephew?"

Looking at these small bits and pieces in front of him, Zhu Youxiao couldn't cry or laugh.

It seems that the resentment caused by his blockade of the news is indeed not so easy to dissipate!

Wenchen kept writing books to vent their dissatisfaction.

Xiao Wu will use these little things to deal with me.

Zhu Youxiao stared at Zhu Youzhen's smiling face, but he was depressed in his heart.

"Well, forget it. Whoever called it was I who couldn't stand Xiao Wu first, and I can't blame him. Zhu Youxiao explained himself in his heart.