Chapter 31 Transactions with the Mongols (1) Suhe
Su He rode his horse and ran around and felt that there was no problem, so he rode back to the old man in the distance. He wasn't the first to come back, and several other test riders ran back. Only the man from northern Shaanxi who could speak a few strange Mongolian words was still running around on horseback with a musket on his back.
Su He looked at the man's strange riding skills, and through a few small habits he had on the horse, Su He knew that he didn't grow up on horseback. Su He recalled again, this person seemed to be called Xigui.
Xi Gui once told Su He that his family had been a guard at the Great Khan's side a long time ago (cowardly Xue Gang Ke Ig-tei). But Su He saw that he couldn't even use a bow and arrow, and from this point of view, Xigui's statement was very suspicious.
What's even more unconvincing is that when Su He asked Xigui's name in Mongolian, Xigui didn't understand what Su He was saying at all. So Su He didn't believe in Xigui's introduction to his own ancestors at all, but Xigui was not bad, and Su He was willing to be friends with him.
"Lao Su, what do you think of my horse, I think it's still very good. Wait a minute, just let Master Xiucai give me this horse. Xigui finally ran back after trying the horse, and came directly to Su He and asked.
Su He looked at the excited Xigui, and said in Mongolian: "My name is Axe, don't call me Lao Su." Seeing that Xigui was at a loss, Su He was sure that Xigui was definitely not a Mongolian, so he repeated what he had just said in Chinese.
"That's right, aren't you just surnamed Su. So you're Lao Su, I didn't shout anything wrong. Xigui felt quite strange about Su He's words, obviously Lao Su himself said that he was Su He, why did he call him Lao Su is wrong.
"Suhe means in Mongolian language, which is the axe in your Chinese dialect, and "Su" is not your Han surname. Su He saw that Xigui didn't understand the meaning of his words at all, so he had to explain it to him in more detail.
"If you don't have the surname Su, then what is your surname?" Although Xigui was still a little confused about Su He's words, he somewhat understood that Su He was indeed not surnamed Su, so he continued to ask Su He's surname.
"We Mongolians don't have the surnames of your Han people, we only call each other by their first names." Su He patiently continued to explain the habits of the Mongols to Xigui, and at the same time thought about it and continued: "We do have the difference between people according to the name of the tribe, and at this time, it is somewhat like your Han surname. ”
"Then the number of people in your tribe should be about the same as that of a large village of a few hundred people. If so many people in the same tribe don't have surnames, how can they tell who is from who's house, and how can they remember who their ancestors are? Xigui was very curious about his new Mongolian friend, and kept asking questions, not noticing that the other party had gradually lost patience.
Su He felt that it was too troublesome to explain these things one by one, so he didn't bother to deal with Xigui anymore, and just helped Xigui look at the war horse he had selected. After Su He didn't find anything wrong with the horse, he told Xigui that the war horse he had chosen was healthy, and then walked away regardless of it.
Xigui saw that Su He was unwilling to answer his words, so he didn't continue to ask. He just planned to go to Zhang Mengcheng, a scholar who knows a lot of things, to ask him later, Xigui's ancestors were also Mongolians, why his ancestors had surnames, but Su He, a real Mongolian, did not have a surname.
Su He was a Mongol descendant in his thirties, and he had lived in the Han Chinese for almost ten years. In the past, Su He's livelihood outside the border wall was to graze cattle for other wealthy herders, but once again, because he was not paying attention for a while, he lost several sheep in the herd he cared for. By the time Su He found the sheep, only the bones were left that had been gnawed by the wolves.
The wealthy herdsman who hired Su He was very angry when he heard about this, and he drank some wine at that time and had a short temper, so he rushed over with a knife to teach Su He a lesson.
Su He had to fight with the other party in order to protect himself, and when he resisted, Su He accidentally killed the other party, and then was wanted by the local lord. Su He had no choice but to flee to the place where the Han people lived to find a livelihood, and then he was recruited as a family member by the general of the Han people.
Later, the old man who took in Su He fell ill and died, and Su He became someone else's family again. After gradually changing the master a few times, Su He became a subordinate of Chen Sanhuai, the general of Ningsai, and came to Ningsai Fort. It's just that Chen Sanhuai was later killed by the rebels, and Su He was lucky enough to escape and was taken in by Zhang Mengjin, the big boss who entered the city, and became Zhang Mengcheng's subordinate after some transfers.
Su He didn't think much about it, he thought he was a different master again, and directly accepted the status quo with peace of mind. Because Su He is a Mongol, he should be very useful when trading with the Mongols, so this time he followed Master Xiucai to the territory of the Mongols outside the border wall in exchange for war horses.
Su He looked at the others around him again, this group of Mongols didn't know which tribe it belonged to. However, this year, the Chahar Khan in the east of Jingdong came to the Hetao to attack everywhere, and the changes in the tribes in the Hetao were indeed quite large, and Su Hedu could no longer distinguish what the current division of the sphere of influence outside the Saiwai was, and whose territory was in this area.
Although the situation outside the fortress was not peaceful, the Mongols who came to trade seemed to have some wealth, at least their horses seemed to be well fed. Su He saw that the other people who came out to trade with him had found a fairly good war horse, and Xi Gui had already run to their lord to tell him what he thought.
For his new master, Su He did not dare to despise the other party because he looked young. First of all, Su He heard Xigui say that this old man is a talented person among the Han people, and he is a very learned kind of person. Su He didn't know what knowledge could be considered very powerful, and he didn't understand why he was so knowledgeable. However, this new old man is indeed not an ordinary person, he can not only speak a lot of Mongolian, but also know a lot of historical stories that Suhe, a real Mongolian, is not very clear. Judging from this alone, this new old man is indeed very capable.
Secondly, this old man is the younger brother of the eldest master (Zhang Mengjin). The eldest master's men are strong and strong, and he easily defeated his previous master. The old man before him was a general, so the big master was even more powerful. If you want to live well, then you have to listen carefully to the instructions of this talented man.
Finally, I have seen a lot of warriors, and I can see how capable some of them are. The new old man should have a lot of skills, and he is very skilled in riding posture and movements. Coupled with the cocoons on the hands of the new master and his carefully maintained bow and arrows, I can be sure that this old man's bow and arrow skills are much stronger than ordinary Han soldiers.