Chapter 319: Stone-Piercing Again
Kang Wannian nodded with a smile, and he was also blunt: "Uncle is going to achieve the merit of destroying the country this time, so naturally we can't let Hui Khan escape." Later, I learned that my uncle's spies had also arrived here, and they followed the Hui people to death, and we didn't need to point out the route for the Hui people to escape, so we could only dig pits on the road. ”
"The carriage of Gele Khan was sold to him by our family, and I only thought about making a sum of money, but I didn't expect that the Hui people would be useful one day. Uncle, you are really a person of natural luck, otherwise you wouldn't be so coincidental. ”
Ma Ling frowned and said, "What do you want to get by helping me like this?" ”
Kang Wannian smiled: "Where did my uncle come from!" The head of the family has only one daughter, and now with his uncle, we are naturally a family. The head of the family said that after I arrived in Anxi, I would follow the orders of my uncle, who is our master, and we only came here to do our duty. Do you still need to be paid to help your own family? ”
Ma Lan snorted, stopped talking to this guy, and directly got down to business: "I wiped out the Hui here today, and I seized a lot, can you eat it?" ”
Kang Wannian's face was happy, and he said continuously: "If you can eat, you can naturally eat!" Uncle, we are a family, and the money we make sooner or later belongs to my uncle, and I came to my aunt to buy these things. Uncle, this is to sell the captured in the army to our own family, the price can't be high, otherwise it will be my uncle himself who will suffer. ”
"Can you really eat it?" Ma Ling frowned and said, "How are you going to deal with so many livestock and war horses?" ”
Kang Wannian said with a smile: "Uncle, don't worry, just sell it to me, I have a way." ”
"What's the solution?"
Kang Wannian smiled and said, "Uncle." You've been killing people along the way. Large swaths of grass were empty. These creatures don't have to rush back to the Central Plains. It is here that the grass thrives. In the future, Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate will be moved to Mobei, will these things still be sold? As long as my uncle sells these livestock to me and gives our family a piece of pastureland, my uncle will have a foundation in the grassland, and he will have a steady stream of wealth in the future! ”
"Do you want to graze horses and sheep here?" Ma Ling frowned and said, "Where did you get the manpower?" ”
Kang Wannian said with a smile: "The Turkic people on the grassland, my uncle can't be killed after all. It's easy to find a few hundred escaped Turks around here. As for grazing land, this is a good piece of land. With so many people dead, the grass must be lush in summer, and it is enough for this land to be allocated to our family. The Turks were born to herd horses and sheep, and hundreds of people had no problem taking care of these animals. ”
"You mean, you now control quite a few Turks?" Ma Luan's face sank slightly.
Kang Wannian smiled and was not afraid: "We did take in five or six hundred people who escaped from my uncle's army, all of whom were teenagers. They were frightened by my uncle's army, and we gave them a bite to eat. They were grateful. There are these people who are here to herd sheep and horses for their uncle, and they will slowly breed in the future. It can also become a force loyal to our family. If my uncle doesn't want to, I'll bring them to my aunt and kill them, and then find another man. Anyway, grazing horses and sheep always needs steppe barbarians, but our people can't do it. ”
Ma Lan groaned for a moment, nodded and said, "Forget it, so be it." This land is given to you, and all the seizures are sold to you at a fair price. ”
If you want to sell these things for a good price, you can't agree to this. It is impossible to rush these things back to the Central Plains or Anxi, the road is too far and must be disposed of on the spot.
"Whatever my uncle says, let's do it. But we are all making money for my uncle, the price will not be too low, but it can't be too high, and it will be my uncle himself who will suffer if it is too high. Kang Wannian smiled.
Ma Lan snorted, he never paid attention to the amount of money, and there was no point in having too many things. Besides, these belong to all the athletes, how can there be any reason to take advantage of his brothers.
What's more, what Kang Wannian said about earning him money, he just regarded it as a fart, the Sogdians were all profit-seeking, and Kang Fatzi's money was Kang Fatty's, and it had nothing to do with him.
Inviting Duan Xiushi into the tent, Ma Lan explained his thoughts and the requirements of the Xinghu businessman. Duan Junzi was naturally extremely happy to see that there was a buyer for this batch of seizures. The seized things had been registered, and Duan Junzi negotiated the price with the leader of the Xinghu merchants.
The gentleman who set aside a piece of pasture land doesn't care, most of the Turks in Mobei will die, and the most important thing is land. As for the price of the seized items, Mr. Duan was reluctant to give in at all.
As a result, in the end, the Anxi New Army harvested a total of more than 500,000 yuan of wealth, which Kang Wannian paid directly, using the wealth notes issued by the Hezhong Commercial Bank.
Such a harvest is not much less, but not too much. The Uighurs did not have a treasury, and their livestock were all they had, unlike the Sogdians and the Great Cannibals, who had a large number of gold and silver coins and precious stones. Compared to the Sogdians and the Great Cannibals, the people of the steppes were in fact extremely poor.
The livestock and other seized goods have since belonged to Kang Wannian, and a large area of land near the battlefield has been given to Kang Wannian. After the business was concluded, the two sides made a quick settlement, and it was not long before the caravan men brought more than 500 Turkic young men and women to the bottom of the high slope to take over the large number of war horses, cattle and sheep.
These Turkic boys, men and women, all escaped from the swords of the Anxi New Army, and were later collected by Kang Wannian. They saw the Tang people in bright light armor again, and their eyes were full of fear. Now that an agreement has been reached with Kang Wannian, Ma Lan naturally will not do anything to them. The Turkic boys set up tents near the high slope and settled in this place.
Ma Lan didn't have any more contact with Kang Wannian, although Kang Wannian helped him solve a big problem this time, he still didn't have a good impression of this guy. This guy was also interested, and did not bother Ma Lu again, but only lived under the high slope with the caravan.
Chased all the way from the Hui Ya Tent in Yanran Mountain to here, and finally completed the set goal, and Ma Lu's heart was also relaxed. He gave the order directly, and the army rested here for five days, and then continued north.
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Five days later, the army set out again.
Kang Wannian stayed here to settle his newfound wealth, and his caravan did not follow further north. The overall situation has been decided, the success of destroying the country has been completed, and his caravan naturally has no need to continue to follow.
Ma Lan led a large army to cross the Dule River from the shallow part of the water, and walked along the road by the Kun River towards the north, and the road was extremely calm along the way. The small tribes of hundreds or thousands of people along the way were swept away by the army at will, and the capture was enough for the army.
The farther north you go, the colder it gets. The water flows to the end, and finally flows into the Suoling water, which is the Selenge River in later generations. There are more than 300 large and small rivers that flow into the North Sea, and the Suoling Water is the largest. When he arrived at this place, Ma Lan knew that it was not far from Beihai.
The Hui headquarters did not succeed in escaping to the North Sea, so there was not the slightest resistance on the way. Spring has arrived on the Mobei grassland, and the small tribes in the mountains and valleys have begun to prepare for a year's livelihood, but the small tribes living along the big river have ushered in the catastrophe one after another.
The army did not expand the scope of the attack, but mainly swept away some of the tribes it encountered. Far from the rivers and avenues, the New Army athletes had no time to take care of it. This time, the Son of Heaven named the Hokkaido March, and naturally he had to fight to Beihai, and only when he got there could he be killed. Once in the North Sea, it's time to turn west and look for the escaped Tielers.
The banks of the big rivers are rich in water and grass, and small tribes are everywhere, so you don't have to worry about supplies. In this way, I went all the way and killed all the way, traveled nearly a thousand miles to the northeast along the Suoling Water, and then followed the Suoling Water to the north for hundreds of miles, and the army finally arrived at the shore of the North Sea.
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At this time, the North Sea was also known as the Little Sea, and there were a large number of mountains and forests along the coast, and there were also large pastures around the lake. Where the water flows into the North Sea, the estuarine delta is a large swampy wetland.
This place is the land of Su Wu shepherding sheep in the Han Dynasty, and the weather is extremely cold. When Ma arrived with his army, the ice on the lake had just begun to melt.
This large lake is not in China in later generations, known as the bright eyes of Siberia, with 20% of the world's freshwater content, the deepest can reach more than 1,000 meters, there are many fish in it, the lakeside mountains and forests and grasslands are dense, it is a rare treasure in the far north.
Today, there are a small number of Turkic people living on the shores of the North Sea. They belong to the Hui headquarters, after the Hui became the lord of the grassland, a large number of people moved south, the tooth tent is far away from here, this part of the Hui people have been cut off from the Hui headquarters, and they don't know about the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Hui Hui.
After arriving at the edge of the Beihai Sea, Ma Lu asked Duan Xiushi to find a high mountain at the mouth of the river, and most of the athletes were sent out to sweep away the scattered small Uighur tribes near the delta of the mouth of the Suolingshui River. He himself joined in this matter with hundreds of athletes.
The Uighurs on the shore of the North Sea were also brave and good at fighting, and they desperately resisted in the face of attacks, but under the huge superiority of the new army of Anxi, all resistance was futile.
Within a few days, the army had swept the estuary within a few hundred miles, and Ma Ling returned to the estuary with the army, by which time the Le Shi Ji Gong had been completed.
On a high mountain on the shore of the lake, a huge cliff wall was smoothed, and the dense small characters on it recorded the march. However, the most conspicuous thing is that the eight big characters are Ma Lan's, which is still "Those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me perish", which is exactly the same as the one standing in the Strait of Hormuz.
The mouth of the Selenga River is on the southern shore of the Beihai Sea, and the area swept by Ma Lu's army is also near the mouth of the lake on the southern shore of the Beihai Sea. Le Shi Jigong is just to leave evidence and give an explanation to the Son of Heaven. There are also scattered Turkic people on the northern side of the North Sea, but Ma Lu no longer cares, these people are not a climate after all.
The army did not stop at the mouth of the lake, but marched west along the shore of the lake, preparing to go to trouble the remaining Tiele tribes according to the original plan.
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