Ortai's words made Li Fugui nod frequently when he heard it, he was also thinking about these problems, Li Yu brought tens of thousands of people here and didn't think much about the future, his plan actually had problems from the beginning, the people had a hard time, dragged their families and fled here, the food, livestock and household goods that could be brought were very limited, Li Yu couldn't come up with a way to let the people survive in the mountains, everyone was able to persist until now, he Li Fugui and Ortai made a lot of contributions, and there were many ways to read, The two of them first fooled the people with rhetoric, blowing the Ming Kingdom to the sky, as if they could live and work in peace and contentment after entering the customs, without worrying about eating and drinking, many honest and honest people fell into their traps, and left the Barbarian Mountain in a daze, and there were nearly 10,000 people who were instigated by them to enter the customs, and they also had a way to stay for the remaining people who refused to leave, and they could also stay, then hand over the grain and livestock, and all the people had to obey the orders of Humbatulu, that is, Li Yu, everyone had a war to fight together, and there was work to do together, Of course, they also eat together, and the Mongolians are very happy and immediately agree, this kind of thing is not new to them at all, and when has their tribe encountered natural and man-made disasters like this? The Han people in Bansheng are not stupid, if they don't hug together at this time, they won't even be able to live for half a month, so the barbarian Han Mountain began to eat a big pot of rice.

Li Yu appreciates this very much, he is not particular about this person, he eats what others eat, and he also starves when others are hungry, but Li Fugui and Ortai regret it a little, they only plan to let others eat a big pot of rice, and they are still ready to eat a small stove, but there is Li Yu This monster is stirred, and Ulan also insists on sharing weal and woe with everyone like Li Yu, so they have to be hard to accompany them, but in this way, the hearts of the people are united, although everyone lives hard, but they work harder, Ortai sometimes sighs, Tumut has been divided for decades since Altan Khan, and this time it is unified, but it is not happy at all - Taiji and Noyan are dead, fleeing, and the few remaining who hide in the Barbarian Mountains have almost become poor, and now no one wants to bully anyone, so they can only hug everyone and beg for a way to survive.

The biggest problem in the Manhan Mountain is how to survive, there is pasture here but it is too narrow, with the increase of population and livestock, it will soon be insufficient, there is a lot of land that can be cultivated but the irrigation conditions are too poor, now it can only be cultivated near rivers and streams, as for how much harvest will be there in drought-tolerant crops such as maize and potatoes that Li Fugui planted everywhere with people, even he can't say clearly, now in the spring when the flowers are blooming, sending people into the mountains to hunt and gather can always have some harvest, but what to do when the weather is cold, Li Fugui shuddered every time he thought of this.

"When we ploughed in the spring, we used cattle, alpacas and horses to exchange some seeds and farm tools from the merchants of the Ming Kingdom, and after the beginning of the spring, there were more cattle, horses, and sheep had more cubs, and we cleaned it up again, put together some and then exchange some food, and people always had to give food to eat when they came back," Ortai spoke again, seeing that Li Fugui was still pondering, he pointed to the outside of the tent and said, "We have more people, we must reorganize the household, just like the Ming State Guard, all the people are soldiers, while planting and grazing while training the army, and when we are relieved, we must go out to grab the pasture and grab the land, Otherwise, the Barbarian Mountain will have to collapse, and we don't need the Chahar people to fight, and we can lose half of our population in one winter, and there are ......"

"I figured it out, we can't feed many people just by farming and grazing," Li Fugui suddenly interrupted Ortai's words, he said a little proudly, "We have to do business, we can do what the merchants of the Ming Kingdom can do, we have iron and salt in the Fengzhou River, these are all good things to make money, we can gather the craftsmen in the mountains to make iron and boil salt, although these guys are almost skilled, but they are also our own people, if the merchants of the Ming Kingdom want to make money from us, they have to partner with us, doesn't the Ming Kingdom ignore us?" Wait for Lao Tzu to sell the illicit salt to his house and see what he can do to us. ”

After Li Fugui finished speaking, he ran away, Ortai was stunned and watched this guy start to get excited again, and he didn't discuss such a big matter, but then he also shook his head, now the head of the Barbarian Mountain is of course Li Yu, which is also the result of everyone's unanimous recommendation, although Li Yu said that he can share the weal and woe with everyone, the head of the Barbarian Mountain is still to choose someone else, but he is the Hongba Tulu on the grassland, and he has the title of the capital of the Ming Kingdom, he can't do it if he doesn't do it, and the other suitable candidate is Princess Ulan, the daughter of Boshuo Ketu Khan, but Ulan opened and closed her mouth and said that Li Yu was her Tabu bag, and everything was only Li Yu's obligation, so everyone felt that it was better to choose Ulan than to choose Li Yu directly, Zhao Ji was originally a little prestigious, but he was immediately scared when he saw so many people asking him for food and drink, he didn't slip away Daji, let him pick this burden is not going to be killed, as for him and Li Fugui, the two literati and officials are addicted, but this head is absolutely unwilling to get involved, so Li Yu didn't want to do it but was driven to the shelf, but Li Yu is self-aware, When making an idea, everyone must discuss it together, and whoever has the ability and experience will listen to whom, Li Fugui has read books and has many ghost ideas, so he is so public.

Li Nianfeng wants to toss it up to him, I still want to listen to what Humbatulu has to say, such a big matter can not be decided casually, Ortai thought like this and began to calculate the day when Li Yu came back.

Li Yu finally came back, but Li Fugui and Ortai were startled, Li Yu brought back not only his and Zhao Ji's cavalry, but also more than 3,000 people from the east outpost and more than 500 people from the Hu'er Mountain camp. ”

"Li Nianfeng, you don't talk nonsense, does Lao Tzu want you to raise it?" Na Mu'er was also mixed in the literati circle of Kuku and Tun, and recognized Li Fugui, and became angry when he heard what he said, "Lao Tzu has a strong man here, and it is almost the same to raise you." ”

"Who is this gentleman?" Ortai noticed Li Huai at a glance, Li Huai had taken off his armor and put on a round-necked arrow suit, but the elegant temperament on his body made Ortai feel that this person was his kind, and he was the same kind of Mingguo, which made him alert.

Li Yu introduced: "Li Huai Li Yushan, a person from Yulin in the Ming Dynasty, is also one of my eldest brothers, and the governor sent him to supervise military affairs. ”

Everyone was immediately dissatisfied, and muttered to each other in Mongolian, and the Ming Dynasty himself was embarrassed to send someone to supervise military affairs, thinking that if he sent someone to us, he would listen to them? Da Ming is a fart to us, Li Fugui shouted again: "Yuzi, what is Ming Guo giving us a lifter, is it bullying us No one here, what can't I do with Ortai?" You drive people back, we don't raise idlers here. ”

"Brother Yushan is not an idler, he is more knowledgeable than you." Na Mu'er couldn't get used to Li Fugui's arrogant face, and coldly sarcastically said to Li Fugui, he and Li Huai walked all the way, and he had a good impression of Li Huai, who could ride horses and was knowledgeable.

"We are not the territory of the Ming Kingdom here, what are they sending officials to do," Ortai also whispered his dissatisfaction, and he asked Li Yu, "You went to Yanghe this time, and how much grain did the governor of Xuanda promise to give us." ”

"Two hundred taels of silver, and a few dozen stones of grain will be allocated to us every month." Li Yu wanted to say a few words for Li Huai, but when Ortai asked, he was a little depressed, so he had to tell everyone what he talked about with Zhang Xiao and Song Tongyin. After Li Yu finished speaking, everyone was even more dissatisfied, Ming Guo was too stingy, just this little money and food still want us to guard the border for them, and at the same time have to contain the Chahar people, is there such a trick? Everyone started talking, but their eyes kept glancing at Li Huai.

"It's better to ask for others than for yourself, the governor has done his best, and the plight of Fengzhou has to be solved by ourselves," Li Huai finally spoke, and spoke Mongolian, in the surprised eyes of everyone, he continued, "Daming is no longer the rich and prosperous and powerful **** you imagined, on the contrary, today's Ming officials are greedy, the people are tired, and the soldiers are weak, and the officials are extravagant and erosive for the rich, and the people are struggling to live. Can you still count on Da Ming to help you? ”

Li Fugui's little eyes lit up, and he immediately asked with a smile: "Brother Li has this insight far beyond the reach of ordinary Confucianism, since this is the case, why are you here?" Brother Li shouldn't want to be loyal to that bullshit court, right? ”

"What does the Ming court have to do with me, I came here for the Ming Dynasty and the hundreds of millions of people, and I just want to help my brother," Li Huai patted Li Yu with a smile, and then continued: "The situation in Fengzhou is sinister, and it affects the whole body, but unfortunately no one pays attention to the princes in my court, and I Li Yushan is willing to work together with people of insight in Fengzhou to find a way to survive for the people of Fengzhou and the three towns of Xuanda, and also to guard this side wall for the people of Daming." ”

"Brother Yushan, there may be something offensive in my words just now, please bear with me," Ortai nodded, and deliberately said to Li Huai very politely in Chinese, "It's just that the western invasion of Chahar has made my Tumut tribes fragmented and eroded, and the Barbarian Mountain actually has no strength to fight, if the Ming Kingdom is also powerless, how should I deal with it, please advise Brother Yushan!" ”

"In the troubled times, a strong army is the first priority, Fengzhou River has strong warriors and excellent war horses, as long as it is trained and trained, we can train a strong army, we must fight out to feed the war, no matter what, we can't be trapped here, as for the money and grain, just rely on our farming and grazing how much we can harvest, the Governor has agreed to continue to open the horse market to us, here is an article to do, Altan Khan fought for decades to get the opportunity to exchange markets, we got it so easily, this is more effective than giving us how much grain, Although the Ming Dynasty is weak, but there are still enough manpower and financial resources to grab, it depends on how we do it, in a word, the Ming Dynasty and Fengzhou share weal and woe, there is the Ming Dynasty, there is Fengzhou, and there is Fengzhou The Ming border wall is stable, we must rely on the Ming Dynasty, but we cannot rely on the imperial court. ”

"Mr. Li, why do you speak our Mongolian language, you are also our Mongolian?" Buck was confused and couldn't help but inquire about Li Huai's private affairs.

"I am from a military household in Yulin, and some of the Mongolians attached to us there are many Han Chinese who can speak a few words of Mongolian, and my wife is also Mongolian," Li Huai replied indifferently, he glanced at everyone and said, "However, my mother was snatched from you by my father." ”

There was laughter in the big tent, the Ming people robbed the Mongolian women to be their wives, and the Mongolians robbed the Han women to be their wives, this kind of thing is not uncommon inside and outside the border wall, but an old lady who lifts people in the Ming Kingdom is a Mongolian, and it was robbed, which is rare. Buck felt that he was talking too much, and apologized to Li Huai vigorously, Borshu also said that the Northwest people are refreshing, and it is best for such people to make friends, and everyone agreed-Zhang Ding, the sky-fighting eagle from Yulin, left a very good influence on everyone, Zhang Ding and his party went to Fengzhou Beach to help everyone resist the Chahar people, and more than 20 people died before and after, but when they left, they didn't say a word of superfluity, and they also made up thirty taels of silver to give to everyone, although the money is not much, but it is also a charcoal in the snow, everyone has to receive this love, Even for Zhang Ding's face, everyone has to respect Li Huai, who is also from Yulin.

"You scholars go talk to yourself, I have to go back to sleep, I've been exhausted by the past two days." Zhao Ji laughed a few times, he heard it just now, isn't it just doing business, he can use so much nonsense, he yawned and went out after he finished speaking, as soon as Zhao Ji left, the others swarmed out, Li Yu wanted to sit for a while, but Na Mu'er dragged him to find Wulan.

There are only three people left in the account, Li Huai, Li Fugui, and Ortai, Li Fugui and Ortai look at each other and smile, these three of them are also the only people who read in the Barbarian Mountain, if you look for it again, probably Li Yu, Namur and Ulan can only be counted as one together. Li Fugui and Ortai now have a better impression of Li Huai, this person doesn't take the Ming court seriously like them, and it seems to be the same as what they all see as heroes, Ortai feels that Li Huai supports him to organize a strong army, Li Fugui feels that Li Huai supports him in doing business, anyway, everyone has something to talk about.

The more the three of them talked, the more they had fun, and they kept talking about the dark, at this time Li Yu came after reporting to Ulan, they lit the lamp and continued to talk, Li Huai did not expect to meet these two monsters in the Barbarian Mountain, although Ortai is a Mongolian, but proficient in Sinology, he understands the rules and regulations of the Ming Dynasty, and can also put forward his own opinions, and Li Fugui is well aware of the pros and cons of the Ming state system and the military system, and even knows a little about the secrets of the court, Li Huai is very suspicious that this guy is a high-ranking official of the Ming Dynasty who fled here because of a crime.

Ortai said in an impassioned tone, there is neither an official system nor a military system in the Barbarian Mountain, everyone lives according to the tribe and the village, and they live their own days on weekdays, and when they encounter an emergency, they blow the trumpet and sound the gong to gather people and horses, and they can maintain it until now It all depends on Li Yu's prestige to give orders, but can this last for a long time? Now the people who entered the border wall have been driven back one after another, and there are also a large number of people in the east outpost, plus the scattered people, we have almost 30,000 people, there are Mongols from various tribes, and there are also Han people from Bansheng, if they can't be quickly integrated, it will become a piece of loose sand, and then go back to survive is a problem, for today's plan, we must plan Ding to make up households, and integrate all the people into hundreds of households, thousands of households as military households, each hundred households, thousands of households are subject to the orders of Hongbatulu Li Yu, so that the upper and lower orders are unified, Military households in peacetime for the people to keep their own business, wartime for the soldiers to adhere to the sharp, so that it is possible for us to strive for a line of life, in this regard, the Ming State of the guard system provides us with an example, the beginning of the founding of the Ming State is to rely on the guard of this form of organization in the harsh conditions of the border towns to gain a foothold, we can learn from the Ming State of this practice.

Li Huai nodded and said: "I agree with Du Xing's proposal, with the current situation and status quo of the Barbarian Mountain, we must use the method of counting Ding and arranging households to integrate all the people, mobilize all manpower and material resources to overcome difficulties and overcome dangers and strive for survival, Han Min, you are from Jianzhou, the living conditions of Jiannu are also very bad, how did they do the Eight Banners system?" ”

"I heard Kurtang, Dahai two masters said, Zhushen was originally a piece of scattered sand, each family took care of their own affairs, the old Khan stayed in the Ming army and was very familiar with the Ming army's guards, and imitated the Ming **** system to establish eight banners, each of which set up five Jiala, each Jiala set up five Niu Lu, the ministry according to three hundred men into a Niu Lu, in fact, the situation of each Niu Lu is not very common, generally only about 200 men per Niu Lu, when I left, there were about 400 Zhu Shen Niu Lu, Master Kurtang said that Zhushen had implemented a similar Meng'an Mouke system during the Jurchen Jin Dynasty, but Meng'an Mouke was divided according to the tribe and clan, although the combat power was strong, but there were many contradictions and battles between each other, and the old Khan had in view of the lessons of the decline of Meng'an Mouke, and divided the tribes of Zhushen into each Niu Lu in a more balanced manner, which did promote the integration between the various tribes of Zhushen, and the Haixi tribes of Ula, Yehe, Hada and Huifa were swallowed up by the Jianzhou Department without a trace," Li Yu replied while thinking, He paused for a while and thought about it again and said, "I don't like the Jin country's approach, the Jin country is supported by the continuous plundering of population and property, Zhushen specializes in conquest and plunder, there is no military salary but the implementation of the plan Ding to grant the field, the daily food depends on Aha to work, without Aha to wait for them for a month can not be maintained, Zhushen does not have a standing army, the battle guard from the flags to draw the flags, and the flags are busy with livelihood training on weekdays, seriously insufficient, in addition to the hunting trick, it can be said that the eight banners of the Jin country do not have a set of training methods until now, The Eight Banners also excluded the Han people and the Mongols, except for a small number of garrison Han troops and the attached Mongol cavalry, the Han people and the Mongols could generally only be the Aha of Zhushen, and at most they would be the auxiliaries of the Eight Banners in wartime, which caused their lack of soldiers, they could not afford to die, and they did not dare to fight tough battles and vicious battles. ”