"There are still many Han people on the grassland? Those Tartars can't take care of their own food and clothing, why do they want to take so many Han people captive? Although Ye Guan was very angry with what He Guozhu said, he still had to ask things clearly.

The Baihu said here and sighed, and said to Ye Guan in a somewhat heavy tone: "My lord doesn't know, those Tartars not only often attack our border towns of the Ming Dynasty, but they themselves also fight each other. The population of the Tartars was already small, and the population has been even smaller. Therefore, the Tartars came to this town and plundered the women, children, and children of our Ming people. Women and children were snatched from them to and fro, and they bore children for them. Children were raised by them to kill people and set fires, and the young and strong became their slaves, helping them to farm and graze, if it was not for grazing and needing a lot of pasture, in the case of no fire, a family of those Tartars could have five or six or even seven or eight Han slaves, and there were many women for them to have sex and help them pass on their ancestors. Over the years, the Tatars have attacked Xuanfu, Datong, Yansui, and Jichang, and I don't know how many people have been robbed. They are just barbarians, but with the swords in their hands, they live better than our Ming people, my lord, I hate it! ”

"Hate those Tartars?"

"Yes, but I hate the officers and soldiers of the guard even more. The family of the Jinyi Wei who moved from Jiangxi with me was killed by Tartar and Na Ma Sheng. He Guozhu gritted his teeth and said.

"What's going on?"

"That friend of mine is also from the Jinyi Wei family, but they are from Juma Fort outside the city. In the eleventh year of Hongzhi, the Tatars attacked Datong, and the Fort was broken. Their families were taken captive. Last year, I heard from a man who had escaped that a fire broke out in the Banner Tartar near Datong, and many Han slaves took advantage of the chaos to escape, but I did not see the rest of the fugitives in Datong Province. Soon after, Na Ma Sheng reported to the court that he had killed more than 100 Tartars, and the court rewarded him with silver money. Ma Sheng held a banquet in the military camp outside Datong Mansion. When I went to deliver food and drink, I saw in the camp that the men were pickling the heads of the tartars to be sent to the capital. I took a casual look, but found that one of the heads was actually my friend's, although my friend looked like a cloak, but I don't believe that those officers and soldiers could not understand Shanxi dialect. And I've been here for so many years, and I don't know what kind of virtue these officers and soldiers are. But I didn't expect that our people in Daming would finally be rewarded by the officers and soldiers of Daming! When He Guozhu said this, he couldn't help but hammer his thigh with his fist, and the helplessness can be imagined.

"Why didn't Jin Yiwei get such news? You are a hundred households, can't you report Ma Sheng's behavior to the imperial court? ”

"Adults don't know. It's not that we didn't report it, we all reported it, but there was no movement at all. And several colleagues disappeared inexplicably after reporting it. Tongzhi Lord, maybe we are in Jinyiwei...... He Guozhu didn't say anything more when he said this, but Ye Guan already understood what he meant.

If what He Guozhu said is true, then Ma Sheng's corruption line must be buried deep and long, so Ma Sheng can be his deputy commander here.

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A grassland outside Datong Mansion.

It is said that the Yellow River has nine songs, and only one set of riches. Not only the Ming people knew that this was a place with abundant water and grass, which could be used to raise war horses, cattle and sheep. The Tatars, who are good at animal husbandry, have also coveted this place for a long time.

The Hetao region has been a battleground for farming dynasties and nomads throughout the ages. Whoever occupies this place will be able to seize the initiative in the war.

During the Warring States Period, after the Zhao Wuling King Hufu rode and shot, the power of the Zhao State gradually strengthened. The state of Zhao, which belonged to the Chinese cultural circle, established Yunzhong County here for the first time. Later, after Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms and the princes of Jiuhe ruled the world, he sent the general Meng Tian with 100,000 Qin elites to expel the Huns from the Hetao area, and immigrated 30,000 households here, and re-established the two counties of Yunzhong and Jiuyuan here. This is also what Jia Yi said in "On the Passage of Qin": As for the first emperor, the remnants of the sixth Fen Dynasty, Zhen Chang Zhi and Yu Yu, swallowed two weeks and died the princes, performed the supreme and controlled **, insisted on beating and whipping the world, and vibrated the four seas. Take the land of Baiyue in the south, thinking that Guilin and Xiangjun are the counties; The king of Baiyue, bowed his head and tied his neck, and entrusted his subordinates. It was to make Meng Tian build the Great Wall in the north and guard the fence, but the Xiongnu were more than 700 miles. The Hu people did not dare to go south and herd horses, and the soldiers did not dare to bend their bows and complain.

Later, during the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent the great general Wei Qing to defeat the two kings of Lou Fu and Baiyang of the Xiongnu again, occupy the Hetao area, and follow the advice of the master father Yan to establish Shuofang County and Wuyuan County here.

From the end of the Western Han Dynasty to the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Central Dynasty made a huge mistake, a big mistake that was almost the end of the country, and such a mistake was almost more than 100 times more serious than Qin Shi Huang's book burning and Confucianism and the XX Revolution of this dynasty. That is to give the Hetao area to the attached Southern Huns for survival. Since then, the descendants of the Huns have taken root here. And more and more Xiongnu, Xianbei, Qian, Qiang, Di and other ethnic groups have gradually become powerful by virtue of the abundant water and grass in the Weihe River basin of the Yellow River. So much so that in the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, it became the largest human tragedy in Chinese history. The Han people in the north were almost wiped out, and in the end, there were only about 10 million Han people left out of a population of 30 million, and most of them still lived in the south. It is known as "Central Plains Ding Shen" and "China Land Shen" by historians.

And the most important thing is that Buddhism, which was originally a small religion, has developed rapidly because it is the religion of the Hu people. Since the introduction of Buddhism to China, all dynasties and dynasties have explicitly forbidden Han people to become monks, until the Later Zhao period, under the influence of Buddhism, those Hu monarchs in the Later Zhao court officially allowed Han monks to become monks. This edict led to one of the main reasons why Buddhism became one of the three major religions in the world.

In the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court occupied the area again and practiced farming. Later, after the death of the Tang Dynasty, the Later Jin Emperor Shi Jingjiao ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun, including the Hetao region, to the Liao State. Later, the sixteen states of Yanyun were changed hands several times by Liao, Jin, and Mongolia. It was the lack of this place that made the Song Dynasty suffer a lifetime of losses, and also made the Ming Dynasty suffer greatly.

After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, he took advantage of the military power of the Yuan Emperor outside the Saiwai. Zhu Yuanzhang mastered this Hetao area, which had been Xenasured countless times by the Western Xia Liaojin Mongol Wheel. And the establishment of Dongshengwei here, but later revoked. Attach the people to the area of Beizhili.

When Zhu Di was martyred, he borrowed the cavalry of Duoyan Sanwei, who belonged to the Mongols, to pay for the large grassland outside the pass after the agreement was completed. Although Zhu Di later repented partially. However, this place became an important place for the Tatars and the Ming army.

In the reign of Yingzong, the armament of the Ming army was relaxed. Duoyan Sanwei and the rest of the Mongol tribes advanced towards the Great Wall. With the great victory of the Tumubao Rebellion, the Mongols finally came to the Great Wall in the last years of the Ming Dynasty. Outside the Great Wall, it became the grassland of the Mongols, which gradually constituted the bad situation of the "southern and northern captives" of the Ming Dynasty.

And today, stationed in the yurt of the Prairie Eagle Fire Sieve outside the Great Wall, a man dressed as a merchant has arrived.

"Yang Tong, what is the purpose of coming to my yurt on this cold day?" Inside the yurt, a burly man with a square face and big ears and a red face, wearing a high-topped, flat-brimmed sheepskin hat, an aqua blue belt, a brown Mongolian robe with fat narrow sleeves and no slits and leather boots made of calfskin, was standing on a fire rack and cutting off a piece of tender meat from a freshly roasted lamb with a waist knife studded with gems and bringing it to his mouth. While playing with the precious report in his hand, he looked at the Ming man who was kneeling on one knee in the yurt.

"The Venerable Cherkut Fire Sieve Tabu Bag, the Eagle on the Prairie, the Mighty Menggol Banner Bannerman, and the Humble Yang Tong have brought you good news." The Ming man dressed as a merchant was the cronie of the Datong Five Lotus Hall Sun Qin Lin Xiang Master.

"Oh? In this cold day, what good news is not available? Did you send some knives or some tea in exchange for my tribe? When Huo Sieve heard Yang Tong say that he had brought good news, he asked his subordinates to hand Yang Tong a knife, signaling that he could come forward and cut the mutton with a knife to eat.

Since the nomads did not know how to smelt iron products, they generally exchanged things such as beef and mutton and beef tendon for iron salt and tea when they traded with the Han Chinese. And although there were frequent wars between the Ming court and the Tatars, the trade between the people was not interrupted. There were often merchants who were not afraid of death risking being killed by other tribes to trade with the Tatars.

And Yang Tong is such a person, after several times of business with Menggol Jinqi, and after revealing the movements of the Ming army to the fire screen, he gradually won a certain trust of the fire screen.

"Venerable Banner Master, this time I am not bringing those iron salt, but something that is a hundred times more expensive than iron salt." Yang Tong lowered his head and said to the fire sieve according to what Sun Qinlin had told him.

"A hundred times more expensive? You mean news, news like Hai Dongqing's sharp eyes? "The fire sieve can become the largest tribe among the many tribes in Southern Mongolia, relying not only on his bravery, but also on his wisdom. Therefore, as soon as he heard Yang Tong's words, he did not shout or have golden lights in his eyes like other banner owners or leaders, but sprinkled a little benzoin on the hind legs of the roasted lamb noncommittally, and cut off two large pieces of meat with his waist knife, one of which he sent to his mouth with the tip of the knife, and the other to Yang Tong, who was kneeling by the fire opposite.

When Yang Tong saw the mutton handed over by the fire sieve, he was suddenly surprised and scared in his heart. What kind of person is the fire sieve, the person who keeps Ming Ting awake at night. In the eleventh year of Hongzhi, the fire screen washed and plundered Datong, and Chen Rui, the chief soldier of Pingjiang Bo, learned that the fire screen was attacking Datong, and would rather go home on the charge of delaying the fighter plane, rather than dare to fight against the fire screen, and even after returning home, he did not drink hot wine in the winter in the capital. was ridiculed by the people of Jingshi: Pingjiang does not drink hot wine, just because he is afraid of the name of fire sieve.

And the fire sieve actually used his waist knife to cut off a piece of fat mutton and handed it to himself, which flattered Yang Tong.

"Yes, it's a hundred, a thousand times more expensive." Yang Tong carefully ate the mutton and replied respectfully to the fire sieve.

"What's the news, let's hear about it." Seeing Yang Tong's appearance, Huo Sieve laughed, and then asked a Han female slave to serve two glasses of mare's milk-wine. After taking a sip, he rested on the chest of the Han female slave girl who knelt beside him and served him with half-squinted eyes.

"Lord Banner, I have sent you a good news that you can break through Datong City, take away countless gold and silver treasures, salt and grain, male and female slaves, captive officials below the general army of the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial court and the king of the Ming Dynasty." Yang Tong's words are not shocking, and as soon as he opens his mouth, it is such big news.