At the same time as the alliance between the Chahar Department and the Ming Dynasty, Ulan Hada, which is a hundred miles away, that is, Chifeng, and the Mongolian Karaqin Department that occupies this place are also in full swing to prepare for Zhu Hongsan's ass.

Very simply, the news of the Ming Dynasty's seventy or eighty thousand troops out of the customs has already spread throughout Monan Mongolia, some small tribes can escape, originally the Mongols are living by water and grass, and it is nothing to graze in another place, but the Karaqin Department is different.

This place of Chifeng is very important, it was the royal court of Dayan Khan, and it has important political significance. At the same time, Chifeng is located in the southernmost part of the Mongolian grassland, is the main road to connect with the Central Plains, a large number of caravans set off from Zhangjiakou every year, they have to pass through Chifeng to enter the Mongolian grassland, when Lin Dan Khan developed and grew also to hold this important treaty port to develop, such an important place Karaqin Department of course can not be said to be lost.

There are several feuds in the Chahar tribe, the most important of which are Horqin and Karaqin, in fact, if you say by blood, Horqin and Karaqin and Chahar were originally brother tribes.

The history of the Korqin tribe is very long, and the earliest can be traced back to Genghis Khan's second brother, Hesar, who was in charge of Genghis Khan's archer troops, and the word Korqin means marksman in Mongolian.

After Genghis Khan became Genghis Khan, he divided his younger brother Hesar into the vast land around the Hulun Bell steppe and the Trans-Khingan Mountains, and became one of the "kings of the host". Genghis Khan placed the Korqin Guard under the command of Ghazal and was responsible for the security and vigilance of the court of the Great Khan. "Horqin" gradually evolved from the name of the military institution to the general name of the various ministries to which the descendants of Hesar belonged, forming the famous Horqin Department.

The well-known tribes of the Mongolian people, such as Nen Horqin, Alu Korqin, Sizibu, Maomingan, Ulate, Qinghai and Shuote, all belong to the Horqin branch. The most famous of these were the Nen Horqin tribes, the tribes most closely associated with the Manchu Qing dynasty, and their current base was in the area of Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia.

The origin of the Karaqin tribe is somewhat complicated, and the Karaqin tribe is one of the tribes of the Mongolian ethnic group with great historical changes and frequent changes of lords. The formation of the Karaqin tribe can be traced back to the time of Genghis Khan, when Genghis Khan's youngest son Tuo Lei went on an expedition to the west, the ancestors of the Ha Thorn Chi people living in Central Asia and West Asia, the Kipchak people were recruited into the army, and these Kipchak people with Western characteristics were brought back to the Mongolian steppe to form the Kipchak Guard, which gradually formed the Ha Thorn Chi tribe, that is, the ancestors of the Karaqin after the Yuan Dynasty.

In the Yuan Dynasty and the early middle and early Ming Dynasty, the Karaqin tribe has been free from the periphery of the Golden Family and has become the thug of the Golden Family. After the rise of Dayan Khan, the lord of Zhongxing in Mongolia, and the unification of the entire Monan and Mobei Mongolia, he divided several major Mongolian tribes into his sons to form 60,000 Mongolian households, and then the Karaqin tribe officially joined the Golden Family.

As the basic plate of Dayan Khan, the central Wanhu Chahar part was given to his eldest son Tulu Borot, and the Karaqin, Asu, Yongshebu and other tribes were given to the concubine Obu Xi Gunqing, so the Karaqin and Chahar were basically brother tribes.

Because of this relationship, the relationship between the two tribes was good at first, but as time increased, no matter how close the blood relationship was, it would fade. After the accession of the Chahar tribe Lin Dan Khan, the relationship between the two tribes completely became the same thing.

The timing of Lin Dan Khan's accession to the throne was not good, just in time for the rise of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and at this time the entire Mongol tribes were still in a situation of their own affairs. In order to restore his authority, Lin Dan Khan wanted to unify the Mongols, but Lin Dan Khan followed a wrong line, he failed to use his political influence and wisdom as the Great Khan of the Mongols to unite the tribes of his own clan, but instead fought in the same room and fought against each other to annex the Mongol tribes. As a result, the Mongol tribes in the northeast were annexed to the Manchus.

The Karaqin Department is located at the forefront of the right-wing Mongolia and is adjacent to the Chahar Department, and the geographical location determines that the Karaqin Department has always had conflicts with the Chahar Department before. In addition, the Karaqin tribe was nomadic outside the Xuanda border and occupied an advantageous position in the exchange market with the Ming, so it seized most of the share of mutual trade with the Ming Dynasty, and Lin Dan Khan was extremely dissatisfied with this, and once mobilized 100,000 troops to threaten the Karaqin tribe.

At the same time, Lin Dan Khan sent an envoy to Xuanfu to inform the Ming Dynasty that the land of Zhangjiakou originally belonged to the Chahar Department, and the Karaqin people would not be allowed to impersonate each other here in the future. The Karaqin tribe fought-for-tat, trying to unite the Ming forces and Lin Dan Khan to fight, but the Ming Dynasty has always treated the Mongols with a policy of harmony, so they adopted the practice of yang and yin and standing by in the two sides.

Because of the wait-and-see of the Ming Dynasty, the Karaqin tribe suffered heavy losses in several annexation wars with Lin Dan Khan, and most of its army was scattered, and the Karaqin tribe that was forced to helpless could only fall to the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

By now, Lin Dan Khan had rebelled and left, while the Manchus had united the majority of the Mongol tribes. Finally, in 1632, Huang Taiji gathered Korqin, Zalut, Bahrain, Karaqin, Tumut, Alu Korqin, Wengniut, Asut and other tribes that were deeply harmed by Lin Dan, formed a coalition of 100,000 people, divided the army into three ways to chase Lin Dan Khan for 41 days, and finally wiped out most of the forces of the Chahar Department, and Lin Dan Khan also died in Qinghai.

After the war, Huang Taiji rewarded the original royal court of Lin Dan Khan, that is, Chifeng, to Karaqin, which contributed the most efforts, and Karaqin has gradually developed and grown by virtue of the advantage of trade arteries for more than 30 years.

Now the leader of the Karaqin Department is the second generation of the Karaqin prince Tuba Seling, he has long received the news that the Ming Dynasty army has left the customs, but he is different from those small tribes, he really can't give up such a piece of fat as Chifeng.

After careful consideration, Tuba Seleng was ready to take the means of harmony, after all, now that the Manchu Qing Dynasty had perished, and the big tree had fallen, a small tribe like them was the opponent of the Ming Dynasty? Low eyebrows and pleasing the eyes to be a submissive minister is the right way. Therefore, Tuba Seleng sent his son Bandar Shah to bring beautiful women and cattle and sheep to negotiate peace with the Ming emperor.

At the same time that Bandar Shah arrived with the team, Zhu Shengduo was watching the Mongols outside the camp on the high platform of the Ming army's camp.

Because of the alliance with the Ming army, the old and weak women and children of the Chahar Department began to slowly gather around the Ming army camp. Because all the men in the tribe had been sent to serve as soldiers, the old and weak were now mainly women and children.

Zhu Shengduo was born in the royal family, and it was the first time he had seen such a poor person. Zhu Shengduo saw that the Mongols were wearing gray sheepskin robes, and their faces were full of earth. You must know that it is summer, although the climate of the Mongolian steppe is colder than that of Guannei, but now it is more than 20 degrees, and a sheepskin robe can suffocate people to death.

Zhu Shengduo saw that those hard-working Mongolian women were the same as men, setting up tents, grazing cattle and sheep, and preparing food for the soldiers, Zhu Shengduo couldn't help but say with emotion: "This Mongolian woman is really amazing, she can do any job, and she can do it better than men!" ”

Zhu Ren sighed beside him and said: "Mongolian women are men's property, they don't have any status, but they do a lot!" ”

At this time, a man and horse came out of the Mongolian tribe, all dressed as herdsmen, and drove hundreds of sheep to the front of the Ming army camp. ”

The Ming army has always been the best supply, but now that it is located in the grassland, this fresh meat and vegetables are still relatively lacking. Now that hundreds of sheep have arrived, it is natural that they can feast in the evening. Of course, people give gifts to the Ming Army to return the gift, and the gift is salt and sugar, which are worthless compared to the Ming Army.

This kind of thing can be said to be worthless to the Ming army, but it is too valuable for the nomadic Mongols. Salt is easy to say, Mongolia also produces salt here, it is nothing more than the quality of salt in the Ming Dynasty, but they have never seen sugar.

This kind of snow-white sugar is hard currency in Mongolia, and one or two white sugar can be exchanged for a good war horse. Now the Ming army has given the Chahar Department a hundred catties of sugar, and even Ezhe has personally rushed to the Ming army camp to thank Emperor Zhu Hongsan, this gift is too valuable.

It was Zhu Hongsan's established policy to dump industrial products into the Mongolian steppe, but in order to prevent Mongolia from becoming bigger, strategic materials such as steel could not be sold, so the only products left were silk, sugar, salt, porcelain, tea and other products.

Sugar is worthless in the factory, but if you get it here in Mongolia, you can exchange it for precious war horses. Therefore, Zhu Hongsan only gave hundreds of catties of sugar this time, in order to seduce these Mongolian upper-class nobles to consume. Naturally, this is the first time to do not need money, but next time it will be exchanged for cattle, sheep and horses.

Zhu Ren's group of martial artists only cared about being able to eat meat tonight, but Zhu Shengduo saw that there was also a Mongolian girl who came with those Mongolian herdsmen.

This Mongolian girl is not very old, estimated to be only fourteen or fifteen years old, and she can't see her face from a distance, she can only see her head lowered and followed Jinyiwei into Zhu Hongsan's big tent.

The maiden was none other than Yatu, the daughter of Ezhe and Makata, and with her was her brother and mother, but not alive, but with two human heads.

Yatu saw with his own eyes that the kind father was like a demon, sending someone to cut off the heads of his brother and Eniang, and then put them in a box and give them to the Ming emperor. At that time, Yatu was scared to death, she thought she was going to be killed, but she didn't expect that she survived and was taken by her father's guards to the Ming army camp.

Zhu Hongsan was very happy to see the head of Makata's mother and son, and said with a smile: "Yes, it seems that Ezhe keeps his promise, you go back and tell Ezhe, I will also keep my promise!" ”

Ezhe's personal soldiers bowed down, and only Yatu and Zhu Hongsan were left in the big tent.

Zhu Hongsan looked at this Mongolian girl, she was not tall, her face was full of the grassland red unique to Mongolians, and her appearance was also mediocre, and she looked like a Mongolian cake face. Zhu Hongsan's stay in Yatu at that time was not because of the overflow of love, but because Zhu Hongsan was laying out the strategy for the future of Mongolia.