As soon as Li Yu's family affairs are done, the Erji Lama and Yun Rong are leaving, Yun Rong must go back as soon as possible to resume his life, and when he left, he repeatedly instructed Li Fugui to transport the promised 2,000 stone grain and the grain he brought for cattle and sheep to Kuku and Tun as soon as possible, Chahar Khan is waiting for this batch of grain to go west to Ordos, Li Fugui is full of promises, but he is already thinking about how much difference to eat from Yun Rong's cattle and sheep is appropriate.

Li Yu was reluctant to give up on the Erji Lama, and repeatedly persuaded him to stay, but the old lama said that he couldn't go if he didn't go, he and Li Yu would be more attentive to Chahar Khan, and besides, Li Yu and a few young people did a good job, and he could only cause trouble if he left the old bones, and the old lama told Li Yu before leaving, they might be able to survive this winter, but the most difficult thing was that when he didn't receive the green and yellow after the beginning of spring next year, he would gather the lamas of the monasteries to discuss after he went back, and he would find a way to help his people no matter what.

Li Yu became the commander, and his nondescript Humba Tulu tent was also changed to the commander's mansion - Li Fugui specially found a few houses together, surrounded by a wooden fence, which became the commander's mansion, Ortai also told Li Yu, don't underestimate this commander, this is the official position of the Mongolian Great Khan, without this official position, others can treat us as thieves, now it is different, we have become a reasonable and legitimate official - Ortai disliked the official name in the past, and took advantage of the establishment of the Great Commander's Mansion to treat him and Li Fugui, The official names of Zhao Ji and Namur have been changed to the affairs of the Great Commander's Mansion, but the original dispatch remains unchanged.

The first thing the Great Commander's Mansion did after its establishment was to expand its territory, and the two thousand households of Terig and Yang Dazhi crossed the Yuma River and went straight to the east post, Qiu Xian and Borshu also ran back to their hometowns and occupied the south of the Heihe River, and the farmers and herdsmen of the four thousand households also drove out of the Barbarian Mountains to accept their land and pastures.

Ortai now turned his face and did not recognize his fellow countrymen, and proposed to Li Yu to bring the west post into his palm as soon as possible, Li Yu is the commander of the Tumut River canonized by the Great Khan, and if Taiji and Nuoyan of the west post do not return to the rebellion, Urden was ordered to enter the west post and encountered a lot of such rebellion, the Great Commander's Mansion immediately sent Zhao Ji, who was in charge of the army, to lead two hundred battalions of the guard battalion and a thousand young men into the west post, Zhao Ji and Urden fought in the west post, and the weak West Sentinel Taiji and Noyan were beaten to the ground, and the power of the west post soon collapsed, Taiji and Nuoyan either died or fled, and a large area of land from the south end of the Kundulun River in the north, the border wall in the south, and the Yellow River in the west fell into the hands of the Great Commander's Office, Ortai returned to his hometown with great vigor, and all the 3,000 people in the west who surrendered and captured were customized according to the Barbarian Mountain, and now Fengzhou under the rule of Li Yu originally had ten thousand households in the Barbarian Mountain, and then added a thousand households of the Chahar people, and now the West Post has made up another thousand households, and there are already 12 thousand households with a population of more than 40,000.

Li Fugui is more satisfied with the current situation, there are more lands and pastures controlled by Manhan Mountain, and his life is naturally better, but he does not plan to let the people of Fengzhou eat idle meals, this year's drought and rain are less, which affects the harvest in the fields, and even the drinking water for people and animals has been difficult for a period of time, Li Fugui has learned a lesson, he is ready to set off a wave of water conservancy construction before the snow, dig more canals where water can be dug to divert water, and vigorously build water cellars, and store rainwater and snow water for use in times of drought. He is still confident in his plan, it is good to plan and make up households and eat a big pot of rice, he has manpower and material resources to deploy, but the people are not stupid, sooner or later they will ask to work alone, so we must deceive the people to work more when they are still in the dark.

He excitedly took his water conservancy plan to Li Yu to discuss, but when he arrived at the main hall of the Great Commander's Mansion, he saw Li Yu being angry, as soon as Li Yu saw him come in, he didn't wait for him to ask, he pointed to a letter on the table and said: "Brother Fugui, look at this letter from the governor of Datong, is he talking about human words?" Why are you scolding me like that? ”

Manhan Mountain is now stepping on two boats, this side is fighting with Chahar, and that side is also closely related to Mingguo, the letters between the two sides are continuous, Li Yu reported the latest situation outside the pass in a timely manner to Yanghe and Datong, including Li Yu's acceptance of Hudun Rabbit Han and marrying Wulan and Wu Langha, these things can't be hidden, Li Yu simply explained honestly, but how the interests of Manhan Mountain and Chahar people are exchanged must be hidden.

Li Fugui hurriedly opened the letter to see, the letter had the seal of Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Datong, and it was indeed a letter from the governor of Datong, and the governor of Datong scolded Li Yu in the letter: You Li Yu was originally a son of the Han family of the Ming Dynasty, and you were the Jingyu guerrilla of Datong Town, but instead of Jingyu suppressing the Kou, you accepted the official position of inserting the Han, you are such a head rat at both ends, and there is no shame, not only that, you also married two vassal women at once, the daughter of Boshuo Ketu Khan, and the other is the sister of Hudun Tuhan, this woman is newly widowed and married, and does not abide by women's morals, He is ten years older than you, extremely fierce, and once led the crowd to break through the wall on my side, you dare to marry this kind of woman, you are simply cowardly, what is the difference between what you do and the northern captivity? After hearing that you are loyal and good, your brother is also famous, what face do you have in the face of your father and brother, your ancestors and ancestors, they are ashamed of you, this official is earnest, you must learn from the pain, sincerely repent, insert the Han in the desert, build a special honor outside the border, do not make a mistake again and again.

"Brother Fugui, Ming Guo only gave me a guerrilla title, did not give me food, did not give me military salary, I asked them to send troops but they did not dare, I think they are not allowed to attach to them, I kindly reported to them the things outside the border, but they want to scold me, do I have to take these tens of thousands of people and Chahar people to fight them to be happy?" Li Yu exclaimed angrily.

"Of course, we are the northern captives, the Chahar people are barbarians, we are all dead, and they will have peace of mind," Li Fugui coldly threw the letter on the table, and said with a disdainful face, "A group of wrecks only dare to take advantage of their mouths, and they don't dare to make a move." ”

Li Yu nodded, the letter from the governor of Datong only scolded him, and he didn't say anything else, and there was no abnormal situation in the horse market at present, it seemed that there was still room for it, Li Fugui thought for a while and said: "This time, I simply let them take advantage of it, I wrote a letter to apologize to them, and by the way, remind them that if they want us to fight for them, they have to give money and food." ”

Li Fugui wrote a letter to the governor of Datong in the tone of Li Yu: The governor is tolerant, the last general has been ordered to suppress the emperor, and there is no day that he does not want to serve the court, and the adult letter is always read, often ashamed, crying bitterly, hating to die Mingzhi, in order to repay the love of the adult, but the end will be no food and no pay, the horse is thin and hungry, the subordinates are hungry with porridge every day, the people's hearts are floating, and the end will have the intention to kill the thief, but there is no power to fight, the end of the general has driven the subordinates of the people known as the Ming Dynasty's military drum Yu Yong north to naturalize the shore of the Heihe, east into the Yang and the border, west to take the west outpost, want to fight to the death with the Han Dynasty, the Han is powerful, the end of the general can not support, so please adults or send troops to rescue, or quickly send food and wages, once the army is defeated, the end of the death will be small, but it will make the border wall crisis, Datong suffers, adults cut.

Li Yu was very satisfied, this time he and Chahar Khan's black box transaction was also whitewashed, Li Fugui was still unfinished, and wrote for Li Yu: The vassal woman is fierce, and the last general washes her face with tears every day, regretting it, if she is loved by the lord, she will not be vulgar and poor, and she will choose the daughter of a rich and good family in the pass as his wife for the last general, and the last general will be grateful to Dade.

Li Yu saw that he was gone, Li Fugui squinted at him and said, "Do you think that the officials of the Ming Kingdom will really find you a wife, you want to be beautiful, you just guard Wulan and Wu Langha." ”

"Then send it out like this," Li Yu said and walked out, shouting to the guards at the door as he went, "Find some rags to make some Ming army flags, and let's go to the side wall to train the troops." ”

"And what about me digging a ditch and building a water cellar?" Li Fugui asked after him.

"You find some crops and sum them up, and you can make your own ideas about what to do." Li Yu, as usual, shirked the responsibility with a big grin.

As soon as Li Yu made a move here, Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Datong, couldn't sit still, Li Yu married Hudun Tuhan's sister and became the commander of the Han Dynasty, of course this matter angered him, but he didn't get dizzy, Li Yu and the Han Dynasty knew that Yang He and Datong knew that no one really believed that Li Yu would get on the same boat with the desperate Hudun Tuhan, but thought that Li Yu took it for granted to save his life, otherwise how could he panic to marry a widow in her thirties, and the requirements for Li Yu like a northern captive should not be too high, It's just that Zhang Zongheng couldn't swallow this breath without scolding Li Yu, so he asked the scribe to write to scold Li Yu, but he didn't expect Li Yu to be honest, and immediately repented, and swore that he would fight with the sweat, and a large number of barbarian mountain iron horsemen under the banner of the Ming army appeared outside the border wall of Datong Town, according to the report of the Ming army guarding the border wall, there were often shouts and fights outside the side wall, and it seemed that a fierce battle was taking place.

Zhang Zongheng suddenly woke up, Li Yu must have been panicked by Hudun Rabbit, he planned to use the banner of the Ming Army to provoke trouble, and move the disaster of the Han Dynasty to the south of the side wall, so that the pressure of the Han on the Barbarian Mountain would be reduced, and he Li Yu could find an opportunity to extort money and food from Datong, thinking about this, Zhang Zongheng was shocked into a cold sweat, and Song Tongyin of Yanghe also wrote to warn him, now Li Yu is at his disposal Zhang Zongheng, if Li Yu makes something happen, the responsibility is his, Zhang Yiming and Qu Jiazhen are lessons from the past.

Zhang Zongheng immediately sent a letter to Li Yu, asking him to immediately stop his behavior of swaggering and deceiving under the banner of the Ming army, and at the same time told Li Yu that there was also a drought in Shanxi this year, and Datong Town was short of money and food, so it was impossible to send troops to the outside world, and it was impossible to provide him with money and food, and if he continued to mess around, Datong Town would close the horse market to him. After Zhang Zongheng taught a lesson, he continued to comfort Li Yu, he understood Li Yu's current mood, it must be uncomfortable to be forced to marry a tough widow to go home by Hudun Rabbit, but the eldest husband can bend and stretch, just bear with it first, for the sake of Li Yu's dedication to the court, he will give Li Yu some benefits in the future, as for Li Yu's request for him to help find a wife, he said that there is nothing he can do, this is only Li Yu himself can find a way, maybe after Li Yu becomes famous, there will be rich and good people willing to marry their daughters to him.

Zhang Zongheng's letter just sent out, Li Yu's letter came again, this time it was to report to him, Li Yu said that the main force of the Han Dynasty has been transferred westward to the Ebuha River, and the life-and-death decisive battle with Ordos, Tumut and Yongshao Bu 30,000 households is about to start, he just got this gap, after a fierce battle, the barbarian mountain iron cavalry occupied most of the Tumut River, the Chahar people of the east post have been driven away, and the rebellion of the west post has also been cleared, and now almost all outside the border of Datong Town have fallen into his hands, but Li Yu is worried that the Han will turn around and beat him, Then he will definitely not be able to hold the territory he just obtained, so please ask the governor to send the elite soldiers of Datong Town out of the pass, and the right wing of 30,000 households before and after the attack on the Han, so that he will be able to win a complete victory, Li Yu said that if he is given enough food and ordnance, he is willing to take the barbarian mountain iron cavalry to fight the vanguard of the Ming army.

Zhang Zongheng was a little moved, and discussed the Datong general soldier Man Gui, whether to take this opportunity to send troops to destroy the Han Dynasty, Man Gui was angry with Zhang Zongheng, and the governor did not do anything serious, and tinkered with those useless three-eyed guns all day long, and once he did it, it was five or six thousand branches, and he was complacent to report to the imperial court, as if Datong had nothing to do with his broken guns, and there was nothing to do with him Mangui, the general soldier, and Datong Town began to default on military salaries again, in this case, Lao Tzu had a fart fight. Man Cinnamon smiled and said to Zhang Zongheng, it's no problem to ask me to go out of the customs to fight, but the governor has to give money first, if you don't make up for the arrears of the soldiers, and the money, food, and ordnance are ready to go out of the customs, then the officers and soldiers below don't want to move him, Zhang Zongheng immediately deflated, the money he brought from the Beijing division only paid two months of arrears, and most of the rest was used to build the three-eyed gun, and now he can't take out a few dollars, Zhang Zongheng then sent a letter to Li Yu, Daming does not participate in the internal fighting of the Mongols, you can defend the territory you rob, If you can't hold it, you will return to the old nest of the Barbarian Mountain, I have no soldiers to send here, and I have no extra money and food for you.

Zhang Zongheng's two letters fell into Li Fugui's hands, Li Fugui scolded "a bunch of waste" after reading the letter and threw it aside - Mingguo's reaction was expected by him, he wished that Mingguo would be nosy, the territory was in hand, but there were too many things to do, Li Yu and Zhao Ji carried out confrontation drills along the side wall against the young and strong of each thousand households, the hypothetical enemy's banner was the red flag of the Ming army, and the rotation training ended in seven or eight days, and now they are busy repairing canals, digging water cellars, and the most important thing is collecting forage for the winter, It's best if the Ming government doesn't come to make trouble.

The Manhan Mountain Iron Cavalry, which should now be called the Fengzhou Iron Cavalry, controls the territory beyond the border wall from the Tumut West Post to the East Whistle, and the Shuiquan Camp in Shanxi Town, the Tiger Killing Fort in Datong Town, the Victory Fort, the Shoukou Fort and the Xinping Fort are all under the overlook of the Fengzhou Iron Cavalry, and the Ming border merchants with a keen sense of smell soon realized that they had to deal with the Fengzhou people, and Li Yu's Commander's Mansion came to two uninvited guests.

"Brother Fang, your life is big, Xinping Fort has caused such a big disaster, why did the court forget to arrest you, God didn't open his eyes!" Li Yu said with a smile to the big-eared guy in front of him.

"Why didn't you catch it? The Governor and the Governor all want to arrest me, but fortunately, the old brother ran fast, or it would be miserable, and now the people in the government are still looking for me everywhere, brother, do you say a happy word, do you give the old brother a way out? Fang Zhikun, the former staff general of Xinpingbao, asked with a big grin.

"Brother Fang, I remember your affection, you can rest assured to stay here with me, the king of the court can't control here, I see who dares to touch you!" Li Yu waved his hand, then looked at a thin and weak middle-aged man beside Fang Zhikun and asked, "Who is this gentleman?" Look good at the eyes. ”

"You already knew him, but you haven't met him," Fang Zhikun pushed the man forward and introduced, "He is your old boss, you supervise the guerrilla March, we all call him Lao Ma." ”

Li Yu was startled, he never dreamed that the thin man in front of him was the guerrilla who he had not seen for several months, so he hurriedly left his seat to give a salute, and the thin man immediately returned the salute, and said very modestly: "I am no longer in the supervision, now I am a cloth cloth, you can just call me an old horse, I have to call you a guerrilla adult." ”

Everyone politely said a few words to re-sit down, Fang Zhikun talked about his experience during this time, the old party booby-trapped Gui Yingcha of Chahar in Xinping Fort, and soon realized that he had caused a big disaster, so he began his life in exile, first hid in a relative's house, and then went around to seek refuge with friends, life was scared, fortunately in the imperial court to save face, did not go to the sea to catch papers, the old party for a while and a half can not fall into the net, very coincidentally he met the guerrilla old horse, the old horse was also looking for a place to hide, Unlike the old party, he is hiding debts, the two have done business together several times, and they are very familiar with each other.

Lao Ma used to be a good soldier of the Ming Dynasty, in Jizhen also made several military exploits, can not stand the poor on the use of the opportunity to defend the side wall to do some business, at first or a small fight, and then do more and more bigger, not only do their own business but also help Shangguan out of the fabric business, he has read a few days of books and brains, business is good, and very good at pleasing Shangguan, the official position is also rising step by step, the old superior Zhang Xiao was transferred to the governor of Xuanda, deliberately transferred him to his own governor as a guerrilla, of course, it is not his business to lead troops to fight, His main task is to do business. When Lao Ma arrived in Yanghe, he was like a fish in water, the business was prosperous, and the Yanghe officialdom was praised for his benefits, and no one asked if he went to supervise the standard management. The old horse is unlucky in the invasion of the Han West, the chaos outside the border and the horse market immediately depressed, the old horse collected the goods are smashed in his hands, but the old horse is a man, not only did he not admit it, but also borrowed money everywhere and purchased a large amount of grain, cloth and pig iron, the old horse bet on the Ming Dynasty and the Han to start a war, as long as the war is fought, the court has to allocate military funds, he has a way to let the Ming army buy his goods at a high price, if then he can not only get back the old capital but also make a windfall, but unfortunately no one in the court considers the feelings of the old horse, this battle did not start, Lao Ma was completely planted this time, and the creditors came to the door in an endless stream to collect debts, and at first he relied on his identity as a guerrilla governor to resist for a while, but insisted until mid-August, and the imperial court finally issued an order to dismiss Zhang Xiao, the governor of Xuanda, and Lao Ma knew that the backer fell, and the creditors and officials who lost money could not spare themselves, so he threw down a letter of resignation and fled.