On the south bank of the Heihe River in Kuku and Tun, it rained overnight last night, Li Yu ran early in the morning to see his crops, but he was already late, and there were already people busy in the field, Li Yu took off his shoes and walked into the field barefoot, and said to a person who was working with a hoe: "Brother Fugui, you came early!" ”

This man was in his early thirties, with a big nose and a pair of small eyes on his medium-sized, white and chubby face, and he didn't look like a farmer, he replied to Li Yu: "I came here last night, if you don't drain the water in the field, my baby will suffer, do you do this as a cropper?" It's raining so hard, you're still asleep, my baby is dead, and you can't afford to pay if you want to. ”

Li Yu didn't make a sound, he picked up a hoe to help dig a ditch and drain water, to be honest, he is indeed not a good farmer, he learned that little bit of farming skills in Wula Mountain can only be laughed at, Wula people farm and other places Zhushen is almost the same, in the spring rain immediately scatter the seeds into the ground, and then pat the ass and leave, and then run to harvest the grain after the autumn, as for how much can be harvested, everyone is confused, Kuru is knowledgeable, but only loosen the soil before sowing, usually weeding, nothing else.

There are also an old man and a young father and son in the field, and the old man is a little dissatisfied with this small-eyed guy: "Li Fugui, why do you say Yuzi, you yourself have never wanted to farm, and now you have to go to Yuzi's field to plant your yam eggs, and you want Yuzi to pay for you to buy eggs for seeding, you are embarrassed to say others!" ”

"It's not a yam egg, it's a potato, this is the big bansheng's Boss Zhang finally got it from the Jingshi of the Ming Kingdom." Li Fugui hurriedly corrected the old man, he said that the big bansheng is Kuku and Tun, the local Han people like to call it that, he said confidently, "Uncle Dabu, I am doing good things for the villagers, this yam egg, no, this potato is from Taixi, it is said that one acre of land can grow four or five hundred catties, and when I plant this potato, our whole village will no longer worry about not being full, Yuzi is the richest in the village, and he has strength, of course he should contribute more!" ”

"Forget it, you are a person who studied in the Ming Kingdom, I can't talk about you, anyway, I think you are relying on the elm, you have eaten the meat he got back, and you have not used his money less." The old man muttered that he ignored him and continued to do his job.

The old man's son Su He is an honest middle-aged man, usually he doesn't talk much, and he is most willing to spend effort to work, Su He quietly walked to Li Yu's side and whispered: "Yuzi, don't pay attention to him, he came to see him last night and left, I have already helped you do the work in the field, you can go back if you have something, I am here." ”

"Forget it, I'd better do more work, this year there is a cold spring, drought and flood, and the year is not good, so let's work harder." Li Yu replied with his head down.

Li Fugui saw that there were many people doing work, so he slipped aside to rest, he was a rare person in the village who had read a book, three years ago he fled here alone from Guannei, and was taken in by a Mongolian widow in the village, this guy took the opportunity to live with the widow shamelessly, no one can say anything about the origin of this guy, everyone speculated that he may have committed a big crime in the Ming Kingdom and fled here, but this person is really learned, and the words written in one stroke are more beautiful than the words in the Han books, and he eats and drinks in Kuku and Tun with this word, He didn't have to work in the fields to support the widow, mother and son, and the people in the village were quite envious of him. Not long after Li Yu arrived in the village, he was targeted by this guy, pestering Li Yu and saying that he wanted to do the most meritorious good deed, and asked Li Yu to partner with him.

Su He glanced at Li Fugui, and then whispered to Li Yu: "This Mr. Li is a learned person, I heard that the Erji Lama and the Ortai Zaisheng of the Khan's palace have praised him, why did he suddenly give up his good business of writing and copying books, but he was willing to work in the field?" That's weird, Elm, you have to keep an eye on it. ”

"Don't be afraid, Brother Fugui is not a bad person," Li Yu saw Li Fugui's Mongolian widow, the woman was lame on one leg, and there was an eight-year-old child by her side, Li Yu felt that Li Fugui was such a learned person who could honestly support this mother and son, no matter how he said it, he would not be a bad person, maybe he did a really good deed, "Brother Su He, I still have some property in my hand, enough for me to live with Hadari." ”

"You! You'd better fool around in Baita Village, and you don't want to think about spending money in the future. Su He shook his head and said nothing.

Li Yulai this village near a Liao Dynasty Tibetan scripture tower, everyone called this village Baita Village, it is said that this village in the Altan Khan time, there are more than 200 households, later the big plate rose out of the war, most of the Han people returned to the Guannei, now there are about 50 households left in the village, the Han and Mongolians have, no one planted a large area of land here has long been barren, Ulan casually pointed to Li Yu in a daze and ran here. Thanks to the help of Batu and Zhao Ji, Li Yu took Meng Ke to find an old house in the village that no one lived in and simply strengthened and renovated it, even if you live here, the land is there, you can plant as much as you want, as long as you have the strength to work.

Li Yu spent a winter here and became familiar with the people in the village - he has the ability to hunt, there is no work in the field in winter, every household has a tight grain, and the young people in the village like to follow him to hunt, Li Yu is generous, and every family has a share of the prey, and every family in the village has a share of the meat to eat.

Li Yu also did a thing that made the villagers grateful to Dade, he actually paid to buy a pair of iron plows, the village people need to use, in the past, the village people were poor and could not afford to buy the iron plow, the cultivated land can only use the wooden plow, the Kuku and Tun are cold and hard, the wooden plough is not easy to use and easy to damage, this time the iron plow is finally used, and it is a mirror plow produced in Shanxi, with this iron plow, Baita Village this year's spring ploughing is earlier than other villages, the people in the village like Li Yu too much, when he went out to do things, the village people consciously volunteered to help him do the work in the field.

Li Yu and Meng Ke also quarreled over the matter of buying an iron plough - Meng Ke blamed Li Yu for spending money indiscriminately, Li Yu patiently persuaded Meng Ke, you have food to eat, but the neighbors around you are hungry, can you eat this meal? Meng Ke replied without hesitation, I can eat it, who told them that they don't have the ability of our family, so angry that Li Yu kicked Meng Ke out of the door, Meng Ke followed Zhao Ji to Ordos this time, mainly because of this.

Li Yu planted potatoes in the field This matter is instigated and planned by Li Fugui, this year's spring is cold, the snow only began to melt in mid-March, everyone said that this year's harvest must not be good, Li Fugui immediately urged Li Yu to plant potatoes for him, Li Yu panicked, the snow has not yet melted, so he reclaimed a piece of land that no one planted, half of the land is used to grow millet, and the other half is used to plant potatoes with Li Fugui, but they are really not good croppers, Dabu father and son in the same village can't stand it, especially Su He, who is panicked if he doesn't work for a day, Their land is next to Li Yu's land, and the father and son can't help but do the work in Li Yu's field after finishing their own work, according to Li Fugui's words, "people like Dabu Ye and Ye can't see the crops in the field suffer", Li Yu can only help to do some hard work.

Everyone was immersed in their work, and Hadari suddenly came and shouted to Li Yu in the field: "Uncle Yuzi, Sister Wulan is here again, you should go home and have a look." An eighteen or nineteen-year-old young man who came with Hadari added: "Brother Yuzi, Batu Taiji is also here, and he is waiting outside your house." ”

"Jeddah, is there something urgent about Batu Taiji and Princess Ulan coming so early in the morning?" Dabu looked at the young man and asked, this is his youngest son, who is good at riding and shooting and wrestling, and was just selected to be Princess Ulan's bodyguard last year.

Jeddah nodded and agreed, and was about to go over to help his father and brother with their work, but Dabu drank back: "Go busy with your business, don't get in the way." ”

Li Yu had no choice but to say hello to Dabu and his son, and walked out of the field, Li Fugui's eyes narrowed into a slit with a smile, and immediately asked Li Yu to go back and wait for Taiji and the princess - the land in Baita Village is all managed by the Batu brothers and sisters, Li Yu planted the land in a daze without asking anything, Batu and Ulan didn't seem to submit the matter of rent and paying taxes, Li Fugui felt that it was best to let these two people be confused forever, who doesn't like the land of the white race.

When Li Yu was there, Ulan often came to the village, Boshuo Ketu Khan liked Batu and Ulan, the brothers and sisters, after their mother died, they were divided into pastures and subordinates early, and the Bansheng on both sides of the Heihe River was also handed over to Batu and Ulan brothers and sisters, but they preferred to go to their own pastures, and they had very little control over Bansheng - the vast majority of the people who lived in Bansheng were Han and Mongolian civilians, only paid grain and grass, and did not send messengers, and the brothers and sisters would not come as long as Bansheng did not have an accident. But since Li Yu came, Ulan said that she liked Hadari, and came to see Hadari every other day, not only brought Hadari delicious food, but also taught Hadari to read and write Mongolian, and often stayed for most of the day, Hadari was not stupid, and soon felt the taste, as soon as Ulan came, he went to call Li Yu, and the result was that Ulan and Li Yu stayed together, and Hadari stayed with Ulan's tail Namur - of course Namur wanted to be with Ulan, but Ulan did not hesitate to throw the task of teaching Hadari to him. However, Li Yu is also willing to stay with Ulan, he is grateful to Ulan from the bottom of his heart, when he is not in the village, he relies on Ulan to take care of Hadari, or he can only take Hadari and him out to suffer, Li Yu feels that Ulan is gentle and kind, and he is the same kind of person as him, being with her can make him have a calm and warm feeling, Erniu used to be very good to him, but Erniu was too domineering, and he didn't even take care of his home, Li Yu really didn't know what it would be like if he fell into the hands of Erniu.

Li Yu walked home quickly with Jida and Hadari, and sure enough, he saw Batu and Ulan brothers and sisters waiting outside his door, of course, Ulan was also indispensable behind Namu'er, Li Yu returned to Kuku and Tun, and went home as soon as the soldiers were handed over, these days the two have only met a few times, and they are all at the Xuerji Lama - the old lama doesn't know what's going on, he insists that Li Yu has a Buddha fate, and every time he teaches Batu, Ulan and Namur, he must call Li Yu too, although Li Yu often dozes off.

"Yuzi, you are Baturu of the Jin Kingdom, and you have fought with the Chahar people, tell me, how are the Chahar soldiers?" Without waiting for Li Yu to say hello, Batu opened his mouth to ask, seeing Li Yu's dazed look, he sighed and said: "Chahar Khan has brought more than 100,000 troops to the old upper capital, and the Chahar forward has also arrived in the area of Weining Haizi, the minister of the Karaqin Ministries, Bai Yan Taiji, is mobilizing the men and horses of various departments to block the Chahar people from going deep, and the Ulu Department and the Wushen Department of our Tumut East Outpost have also gone up, Bai Yan Taiji has sent people to ask us for help, it seems that Tumut has to prepare for a big war now." ”

Li Yu's heart was cold, and he ran thousands of miles to hide here, but he didn't expect that there would be a war here, this Chahar Khan is too hateful, he lost the battle in the east, and he wants to go to the west to scourge, Li Yu said a little angrily: "Chahar soldiers can't fight, a group of rabble who can't afford to eat, you don't need to be afraid of them, just beat them hard." Seeing Batu shaking his head vigorously, Li Yu sighed, slowed down and said: "The Chahar people are good at riding and shooting, and they are also fierce when they fight, but their military discipline is lax, their weapons are simple, and there is no discipline in the war, especially the toughness is too poor, they can't fight a tough battle, and they can't hold out for long when they encounter opponents who are more ruthless than them, you have to pay attention to their ironclad Konot cavalry, these people are the elite of Chahar Khan, well-armed, well-trained, and ruthless, but there will not be many such cavalry, Chahar claims to have 10 Sumu Konott cavalry, but I don't think there are more than 3,000 people, I heard that you have 100,000 men who control the strings, and we also trained our troops a few days ago, so we should be able to beat the Chahars away with a good deployment. ”

Namur couldn't help but interject: "That was a few decades ago, when Altan Khan, we had a population of 300,000 in Tumut Wanhu, and we were the leader of 30,000 households on the right wing, and the soldiers were strong and invincible, the Uliangha people and Oirats were all defeated under our horses, and the Dalai Khan of Chahar was forced to move eastward by us, and the Jingshi of the Ming Kingdom was also surrounded by us, and now we can't do it, the population is only about 100,000, where to find so many people who control the strings." ”

Li Yu shouted: "There are only a few hundred thousand of the 300,000 people left, where have so many people been made by you?" ”

After a period of silence, Batu sighed and said: "Altan Khan is dead, and the glory of Tumut is over, and the Han people here haven't told you about the battle of Dabansheng?" Well, I'll tell you. ”

Altan Khan was eloquent, conquered the east and killed most of his life, and finally took the Monan grassland into his arms, he recruited the Han people to reclaim thousands of hectares of fertile land in the Fengzhou River, built a library and tun on the shore of the Heihe River, introduced Lamaism into Mongolia, and negotiated the city with the Ming Kingdom, all of which brought peace and prosperity to the Fengzhou River, and also left a rich legacy to his descendants. But it is this inheritance that plunged Fengzhou River into war and chaos, the most important of Altan Khan's inheritance is the title of Shunyi King and Dabansheng of the Ming Kingdom, the former can bring hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year Ming City reward, the latter is Kuku and Tun, where not only there is grain production, but also with the Ming State of mutual market, around these two heritages, the Tumut leaders have been fighting openly and secretly for decades.

According to the Mongol tradition, Altan Khan distributed his people and land to his children and grandchildren, especially left Dabansheng to his favorite grandson Hannaji, but ignored his young wife Zhongjin Hatun - the Han people called her "Three Niangzi", when Altan Khan died, he did not have time to leave an inheritance to Zhongjin Hatun and her young children, and Zhongjin Hatun made great contributions to the peace negotiations between Tumut and the Ming Kingdom and the construction of Kuku and Tun, and she was of course unwilling to gain anything, This laid the foundation for future strife.

This Zhongjin Hatun remarried after the death of Altan Khan, the son of Altan Khan, who inherited the throne of Shunyi, Xin Ai Huang Taiji, it was this woman who was unwilling to be lonely who was the first to provoke the incident - Da Bansheng suddenly fell to his death from Hannaji, and Da Bansheng fell into the hands of his widow Dacheng Biji, and Zhong Jin Hatun, who had long coveted Da Bansheng, immediately started to rob it, Altan Khan's adopted son Chataiji has always been unaccustomed to this showy Oirat woman, and immediately came to the aid of Dacheng Biji, both sides have armored cavalry, No one refused to show weakness as a result of the big fight, and also involved many right-wing 30,000 household leaders were also involved, the competition for Dabansheng led to the battle of Dabansheng, the peace of Fengzhou River was broken with the war, the battle stopped, noisy and noisy lasted for a year, causing many Menghan people in Dabansheng to flee Fengzhou to avoid the war.

Or this Zhong Jin Hatun, and then with the third Shunyi King Tulik (Xin Ai Huang Taiji's son) had a dispute, after the death of Xin Ai Huang Taiji, Zhong Jin Hatun privately hid the Shunyi King's big seal and military talismans, refused to hand over to the successor of Tulik, the two-for-tat each other, under the mediation of the Ming State, Zhong Jin Hatun and Lalik actually married, and was canonized by the Ming State as the Lady of Zhongshun, and Da Bansheng Han Naji's widow Dacheng Biji remarried Zhong Jin Hatun and Altan Khan's son is not rude, Ming and mud practices, Finally, everyone got a happy ending, Talik got the Shunyi throne, and Zhongjin Hatun got the big bansheng, but this succession struggle also became the source of the disaster of the Tumut split. This catastrophe happened after the death of Pullik, the heir of Pullik is his grandson Bo Shuo Ketu Khan, Zhong Jin Hatun repeated the old trick, once again detained the Shunyi King Great Seal and the military talisman, connived at his grandson Su Nang Taiji (not his rude and Dacheng Biji's son) to expel Bo Shuo Ketu Khan by force, Zhong Jin Hatun's evil deeds aroused the public indignation of the leaders of the 30,000 households on the right wing, Pull Lick's younger brother Ulu Taiji gathered the leaders of the seventy-three families of the right wing to denounce the ancestors and grandsons of Zhong Jin Hatun, the war was about to break out, and the Ming Kingdom once again came forward and diluted mud, Zhong Jin Hatun then remarried, this time to Bo Shuo Ketu Khan, Bo Shuo Ketu Khan then became the king of Shunyi, half of the big board was promoted to Bo Shuo Ketu Khan, and half to Su Nang Taiji.

Batu said dejectedly: "Altan Khan's Fengzhou has been tossed like this for decades, and most of the population has been lost, such as the Han people in Dabansheng, there were 50,000 or 60,000 people in the past, and now there may only be about 30,000 people, Zhongjin Hatun is dead, Sunantai Ji is dead, but Tumut is also divided, my father Khan finally took back Dabansheng after the death of Sunantai Ji, but the authority is lost, and it is no longer possible to order the twelve parts of Tumut, and now Tumut is scattered, and the son of Sunang Taiji, Xi Lingse, is still staying in Kuku and Tun ready to move, Resisting Chahar is easier said than done. ”

"It's all to blame on that Oirat woman, she is so shameless, she has married four generations of Shunyi kings for the sake of power," Namur angrily accused Lady Chungjin, "If she hadn't made trouble, Tumut would never be what she is today." ”

Li Yu was a little dazed, Fengzhou is the same as Jinguo, there are always people who fight for authority at any cost, is this thing really that important? There are so many people who rush to it, even at the cost of killing each other and destroying their lives, such a dirty and bloody thing, can't they live if they don't want to?