Chapter 121: Qingcheng

This city, is Altan Khan in the time and the three ladies built together, but also at that time in the Mongolian tribes of rare big city, a few miles of the periphery of the periphery are all made of green bricks, so it is also called Qingcheng, Mongolian called Kuku and Tun, the Ming side is called the naturalization city, in memory of the Altan Shunyi King, along the Xuanfu to Datong to Yansui thousands of miles of border pass to get the peace, and many of the Mongolian and Han people on the grassland call this city the city of three women, married to the three generations of the ancestors and grandchildren of this Han woman in the grassland is an out-and-out legend, If there were no three ladies, there would be no peace with the Ming Dynasty that my ancestors and grandchildren have always maintained, and there would be no legendary city located on the grassland in front of us.

For the Han people, the scale of a city like Qingcheng is insignificant, and any city in the interior is much larger than the city in front of them, but for the Mongolians who have no fixed place to live and have always been nomadic in pursuit of water and grass, the city in front of them is magnificent and their greatest pride.

Even if Lin Dan Khan, the co-ruler of the Great Khan recognized in Mongolia, built his Chahanhot at the foot of the Abagarhara Mountain in the Bahrain Department, it took a lot of effort and financial resources, but compared with the Qingcheng in front of him, Chahanhot is also a small town, and the difference between the two is too far.

In the distance, there were knights galloping on horseback, red cardigans and red tasseled helmets flying up and down the horizon, and the horses let out a thunderous roar as they galloped, and everyone was reminded by the silver ingots, knowing that this was the garrison that had come to investigate, so the Liangliang horses and the Tang horses, including the rear team, shrank up and merged with the home team.

Liang Xing, Wang Yikui, Li Laibin and others respectively led the guards of the dart division, and faintly set up an array to meet the enemy.

Even if they are outnumbered and go deep into the grassland, Liang Xing and they have no intention of being slaughtered, and the training given to them by Zhang Han has always been like this, no matter where they are or what kind of environment they are in, they must be vigilant at any time, and they can meet the enemy at any time.

Five Nights is the strongest, at this time, together with the Jiang brothers and others, they formed a small strong formation, if there is really an accident, their task is to escort Zhang Han to escape.

Everyone's horsepower is still very sufficient, each person is at least two horses, and these horses are high-class war horses, the average price is more than twelve taels, fat and strong, tall, thick soles, because of the rotation to ride, now is the autumn high horse fat season, each horse's strength is sufficient, light riding wildly, change horses to save horsepower, run in a straight line, two days can return to the Great Wall line near Datong.

This is also carefully designed by Zhang Han and others, although there are silver ingots and many big people related to the smuggling business, but the safety issue must also be as much as possible to think of more ways out, not to pin their own safety on the guarantee of others.

The military horse soon rushed to Zhang Han and others, more than a hundred people formed a semicircle, these Mongolians are wearing warm hats, under the hat is a fierce round face, short, strong as a wall-like body, riding on the horse is still very obvious Luo hoop legs, short and tight riding bow in the hand, two large and small pockets on the left and right, the armor on the body is made of leather, the shape is a placket, and the leg skirt, the leather armor from the chest to the position of the leg skirt has copper nails outside, showing that there are some diamond-shaped iron armor leaves inside, These leather or cotton armor can prevent deadly attacks on vital points because of the inlaid iron blades, the damage of bows and arrows is reduced, and the protection against slashing is not bad, but the damage to stabbing is almost useless, compared to the standard iron scale armor of the Ming army, this thing is far worse.

However, the army of the Ming Dynasty is generally leather armor and cotton armor, and the number of iron armor is also seriously insufficient.

"It's the silver ingot Taiji here!"

One of the silver ingot's guards also rode forward, announcing in a loud voice.

The cavalry who came didn't pay attention, obviously the status of silver ingots was very common here in Qingcheng. The ruling structure of Mongolia is very clear, the top is the Great Khan, with Lin Dan Khan of the Chahar Department being the highest, he is the seventh grandson of Dayan Khan, is the Great Khan of the lineage, and from the legal code, he is the co-ruler of the six Mongolian households.

Under the Great Khan, it was Jinun, who assisted the Great Khan in managing the right wing, and then Noyan and Taiji.

But in fact, the ministries have been thinking that they have been on the throne for many years, and Lin Dan Khan has inherited the throne for more than ten years, and it is also the intention of this Great Khan to unify the Mongolian tribes, but unfortunately it has little effect.

The only harvest is the alliance between Lin Dan Khan and the five ministries of Inner Khalkha, and the other is the management ministers in charge of the left and right wings stationed in Qingcheng and Inner Khalkha respectively, which are the minions sent by Lin Dan Khan, monitoring the loose ministries, and supervising the left and right wings are originally powerful Da Taiji, plus the appointment of Lin Dan Khan, how can a small Taiji like a silver ingot be looked at.

"Who are these?"

The cavalry officer leading the team raised the whip in his hand, deliberately ignored the ugly silver ingot, and loudly interrogated the silver ingot's guard.

"This is a Han merchant who has come to do business!"

"Han merchants?" The cavalry general sneered: "When will the Han Shang be able to bring so many subordinates and enter Qingcheng with weapons?" ”

"Bultai," said the silver ingot, "this is what our Great Khan has approved, and if you are not satisfied, you can go to Burangtaiji to sue me and confront our Great Khan." ”

The silver ingot said that the Bu Nang Taiji, that is, Lin Dan Khan appointed to manage the right wing of 30,000 households of the Yong Xie Bu Department of Taiji Chorestan Bu Nang Taiji, when Dayan Khan set up 60,000 households, the current Altan Khan's descendants Bu Shitu, that is, the Great Khan of the Tumut Department and the King of Shunyi are also the descendants of Dayan Khan, as well as the Ordos Wanhu and Yong Xie Bu Wan Hu, which is the right-wing 30,000 households, in the right-wing Mongolia is the strongest Tumut Department, followed by the Ordos Department, the Yong Shebu Department is the worst strength, And Lin Dan Khan's appointed minister to manage the right wing is precisely the Yong Xie Bu Department of Etok Bu Nangtaiji, in the ministry he is strong, but in the entire right wing he is very poor, can only rely on Lin Dan Khan to give him power, to contribute to Lin Dan Khan as a good lackey, such a role in Qingcheng is of course not a coincidence, the best this army was also defeated by the Houjin soldiers in the conquest of Lin Dan Khan, disappeared in the torrent of history.

However, at least at this time, Bultai did not expect that in the future, the details of Zhang Han and the Han people in front of him have been spread all over Qingcheng in the past few days, Bu Nang Tai Ji as a surveillance minister, it is impossible to be ignorant of such a major event, and the people below the battle of the nobles above do not know, Bu Le Tai is Bu Nang's personal general, he only knows that Bu Nang Tai Ji is very unhappy about this matter, and he has been waiting outside the city with people in the past few days, ready to intercept people, so that he can make it difficult.

There are a lot of people around, Qingcheng is the core of the entire right-wing Mongolia, Tumut's territory has developed greatly over the years, such as Huoluo Chitaiji dominates one side in Qinghai, Shunyi King is the co-lord of Western Mongolia, Ordos and other departments will often rush here to worship Bu Shitu Khan, Qinghai and Taobu Mongolia, as well as the western Oirat Mongolia will come here, every day there is an endless stream of caravans from the north and the west to come to trade with the Tumut tribes, The descendants of the Chagatai Khanate also occasionally came from places such as Hami and Ili, bringing with them special goods from the Western Regions and Central Asia.

The prosperity near Qingcheng, in the whole Mongolian steppe is also the first one, but also depends on the trade with the Ming Dynasty's horse market, here has a large number of various colors of wool, silk and satin, various grades of cotton cloth, piled up into a mountain of tea bricks, paper, gold and silverware from the Central Plains, as well as vegetables, fruits, medicinal materials, all kinds of goods are also available, although it is far less than Zhangjiakou that stretches for several miles full of commercial shops, but at least not far in front of Zhang Han and others, it is also gathered more than 100 shops, full of all kinds of goods, Most of them are shops opened by various Taiji, and many of them are opened by Han merchants, and now there are many people gathered, both Meng and Han, and everyone is looking at the situation here with curious eyes, and many people are talking to each other and whispering.

"Why is there still a lot of fields here, and they all seem to be growing vegetables?"

Sun Jingting ignored the dispute here, his Mongolian language background is average, although he has strengthened his study recently, after all, he still can't understand the overly eager quarrel-like words, and if he doesn't understand, he simply doesn't listen, he turned his head to the side, but suddenly found something new.

Zhang Han also saw that there were many vegetable fields, and quite a lot of vegetable fields were cultivated according to the city walls around Qingcheng, and some were wheat fields, which had already produced a layer of shallow green seedlings.

"This is one of the places of Bansheng, although it is not as good as Bansheng City, it is also a gathering place for Han people." Liang Xing, who was born in Lahu, knew about this, and hurriedly replied: "Qingcheng was originally one of the Bansheng lands, and the Han people lived more, so they slowly reclaimed the wasteland, planted grain and vegetables, we Han people, we like this farming thing, and there are also Han people who learn to herd sheep and horses, and we have done this to the Mongolians, it is better to grow vegetables and farm the land honestly." Tartars also learn to farm, and they farm just like we herd sheep, and they are not born with that piece of material. ”

"That's right." Li Zhiye on the side interjected: "Back then, I set up eight bansheng land, all for him to farm and grow vegetables, Qingcheng is the largest, the Han people are also the most, the villages are connected, thousands of miles, if you don't say it, I think it is our Chinese territory." ”

Jiang Kui grinned and said: "This old beheader will be happy." ”

Zhang Han glanced at him and said, "Therefore, King Shunyi, you dare to talk nonsense, and next time you will ride back to Xinpingbao by yourself." ”

Jiang Kui lowered his head, knowing that he had said the wrong thing, and he would bring the words that were often said by the border army to this side, if it was listened to, it would be really a big trouble.