At the end of the training, Li Xin rode home on a deer.

In this season, it is still surprisingly cold, and the road has long been blocked by heavy snow outside the city, and the city has to keep clearing the snow to have a road. The deer of Li Xin was a gift from the Evenki patriarch Sherteku to thank him for healing his son.

A few days ago, while hunting deer in the snowy forest, Sherkut's son came across a hungry bear. The bear was supposed to be hibernating, but the bear was probably too hungry. Sherkut's son, Sorey, was a warrior who single-handedly slain the great black bear that weighed a thousand pounds, but he was also wounded.

He struggled to get home, not forgetting to let his people go to the woods to bring back his booty. But he started the fire casually, and the shaman of the clan used witch medicine, but it still didn't work, and Soray got worse and worse, and talked nonsense, and the shaman said that it was already difficult to save him, and he was going to cut off his injured leg and hand, saying that there might be some hope for this.

In the end, Sherkut found Li Xin, his son was still so young and heroic, and he did not want his son to become a cripple or even die because of it.

He had the last glimmer of hope for the Han doctors in Yilan City.

Li Xin personally diagnosed and prescribed.

Li Xin really knows medicine, and many scholars know how to use medical skills, and even many famous doctors are those who changed their careers to study medicine after the imperial examination was hopeless. Li Xin's medical skills are good, but he also happens to have a prescription for treating this kind of injury, and it works as soon as he uses it.

Sherkut asked for a large reward for Li Xin, but Li Xin finally accepted only one deer from Sherkut, a very strong deer, hardy and tame to ride.

Because of this incident, Sherkut praised the benevolence and righteousness of the Han people, the Han people's medical skills, and Li Xin's noble character. From then on, he asked all the people to send all the furs and furs to Li Xin's shop to sell, and the medicinal materials he collected were also specially sent to Li Xin's medicine shop to sell. Since then, Li Xin's business has been booming. This was something I didn't expect at the time.

After Soray recovered, he had to worship Li Xin as his teacher. From then on, this brave Evenki warrior became a student of Li Xin, who taught him Chinese characters and taught him medicine.

As soon as he arrived at the door of the house riding the deer, Li Xin found that Soray was coming again, so he stood outside the door and waited for him.

"It's so cold, why don't you sit in the house."

Soray smiled.

He knew that the teacher was not at home, so he refused to stay at home, but it was because the teacher was too young and beautiful. He was afraid that the impact would not be good.

"Teacher, my father asked me to ask you to come and discuss things."

"What's the matter?" Li Xin asked.

Soray spoke of the reason in a heavy tone.

It turned out that a tribesman had come from the east to ask for help from Sherkut.

Sherkut was the patriarch of Evenki, and was given the title of founding count by the emperor of the Han Dynasty. Sherkut and his people lived in the western part of the North Sea, where they lived with the Yakut and other tribes.

However, not all Evenks live here, in fact, they are only a branch of Evenks. At present, the Evenks have three major tribes, the largest of which is the Sauron, which lives in the area from the Shilka River to the Jingqili River. It is the largest part of the Evenks. There are several big clans such as Dural, Aola, Murdil, Buramu, Tukedong, Nahata and so on. They lived together with the Daur people, and established a number of wooden cities and villages on the north bank of the middle reaches of the Heilongjiang River, and their chief was Bomu Bogol.

The other is the Sauron Division, which is also known as the Envoy Horse Division. To the east of the North Sea, there are fifteen clans, including Namiyar, whose current leader is Ghentmur.

And the tribesmen of Sorei are called the Envoy Deer Tribe, and they have twelve large clans. Sorey's father, Sherkut, was a chief.

Of the three major tribes of Orke, only the Deer Department is currently attached to the Han Dynasty, and mainly lives in the west of Beihai Province in the Beihai Province of the Han Mobei Military Region.

The rest of the Sauron and Sauron Divisions. It is still in the upper and middle reaches of the Heilongjiang River.

The Solon tribe is also known as the Solon tribe because it lives with the Daur and Oroqen tribes. As early as the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Sauron and Sauron tribes paid tribute to the Mongol tribes.

Later, the Mongol tribes were subordinated to the Jurchens, so Sauron and other tribes also became tribes under the rule of the Manchus.

"The Jurchens were beaten by the Han army and retreated to the middle reaches of the Heilongjiang River, and after they arrived at the Heilongjiang River, they began to force Sauron and other tribes to increase taxes, and also forcibly conscripted the young and strong tribes of the tribes into the army, compiled into a cattle record, and accompanied them to conquer other tribes living in Heilongjiang."

"Ye Leichen, the leader of the Sauron tribe, was unwilling to be oppressed, and led his tribe to move north, but the Jurchens chased and killed all the way, and now Ye Leichen took the tribe to the Sauron tribe, but they were worried that the enemy could not be the Jurchen Eight Banners, so they sent someone to see my father and asked my father to lead the troops to rescue."

Sherkut has the heart to rescue, but he is now a vassal of the Han Dynasty and cannot raise troops without authorization. If you want to send troops, you have to get the consent of the imperial court. Moreover, the Deer Department is the smallest of the three Evenki tribes, and since Sauron's two divisions are no match for the Qing army, they may not be able to win if they go to rescue them alone.

The Evenks are of the same origin, but they are also quite complex.

The basis of the Evenks is the clan, also called Hala, and the people of the same Hala are all related by blood and have a common ancestor and surname. Each clan, in turn, has its own leader, called Harada, who is elected by the members of the clan.

Above the clans, there are tribes, which are made up of multiple clans.

For example, there are twelve major clans in the Deer Division.

At the same time, under the clan, there are lower level organizations, and each clan will divide into a number of large families, which are called Maojiao by the Evenks.

Maojiao is a patrilineal family commune based on public ownership, usually composed of descendants of the same patrilineal ancestor within ten generations.

From Mao Coaxing to clans to tribes, their composition is basically made up of families, clans, and tribes.

Sherkut is not only the head of his own family, but also the Harada of his own clan, and the great chief of the Deer tribe. Sauron called for help, and of course he was saved.

However, he hoped to get the support of the Han army, preferably by the Han army, and he led his troops to follow.

"Let's talk." Li Xin was still a little uncomfortable with the cold of Beihai, although he was dressed tightly, he could hear the sound of freezing as soon as the hot air in his mouth was exhaled.

Li Xin prefers to stay indoors, especially during such a cold season.

Moreover, there is a wife in the house who is satisfying and likes. His wife used to be a juggler, but when the world was bad, she organized a group of jugglers and peasants to rebel and survive. He was trapped in prison, and she led people into the county to break the prison and rescue him.

these years. Wherever he went, she never gave up following him. If a wife is like this, what more can a husband ask for?

He used to marry a wife, and he was also the daughter of a scholar's family, the daughter of the Tang family, virtuous and virtuous, but unfortunately his life was short.

The red lady is a completely different woman from the original partner, she is jealous and hateful, and she is so angry. is also brave and knowledgeable, and can use knives and guns. Even if he brings a few thousand people, all of them can obey her. She can live the hard days of walking the rivers and lakes and playing acrobatics, and she can also lead the people to rebel. But now that she followed her and came to this snowy region of the northern country, she abandoned those glory and wealth, and was just a trader in the frontier, and she could be at home with peace of mind.

Although the home is simple, it is always comfortable after her skillful hand arrangement. Hot tea and hot meals, clean houses, neat beds, no matter what time of year. The kang at home is always very warm.

And even at home, she always cleans herself up very neatly.

No matter how you compare it, this is a wife that makes men like.

Li Xin entered the house, and the red lady had already greeted her.

Soray hurriedly came up to meet his wife. The red lady also greeted him without seeing anything. Then she helped her husband take off his coat, brought him a light coat and put it on him, and brought him loose and warm wool slippers. Then she prepared the same clothes and shoes for her husband's disciples.

There was a large tin kettle on the tin stove in the house, and the room was very warm.

"I'll make you tea." Saying that, the red lady turned around and left.

Li Xin dragged a chair directly and sat in front of the stove, and motioned for his students to sit over as well.

"Soray, there is thick snow everywhere outside at this time, and I'm afraid it's hard to send troops."

"The snow is not terrible, we Evenks are called messengers, and the Yakuts are called envoys, and we are all used to this Sipor." ”

The Evenki people are called the deer tribe because of their reindeer skills. They usually have a lot of deer, and in winter, even if it is snowing, they can ride the deer or use the deer to pull the sled to and fro in the snowy forest. The Yakuts are good at raising dogs.

Every Yakutian has a pack of dogs in their home, and dogs are their best helpers. I usually take my dog to hunt and help find and hunt prey. In winter, it is difficult for horses to walk in the snowy forest, so they use dogs to pull sleds.

The Yakuts and Events, one of whom was called the Envoy Dog Division, and the other was called the Envoy Deer Division, and the neighbors were not afraid of the winter in Sipol.

Sipol is a Mongolian word meaning muddy, muddy place, and the entire vast area north of the Mongolian steppe is covered with snow for half a year, and then half a year is muddy after the snow melts.

However, Li Xin still felt that it was unrealistic to send troops to rescue at this time.

It's not just that it's a harsh winter, and thousands of miles of ice and snow are drifting. Even heavier is the distance.

From the west of the North Sea to the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River, where the Sauron Department is now located, the area of the Shilka River and the Erguna River, the distance is thousands of miles, and it is a real thousand miles away.

To travel from Beihai to the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River, the straight-line distance is more than 1,000 miles. And it can't go in a straight line, there is a high big Xing'an Ridge in the east in the middle.

They had to go around the southern tip of the North Sea from the city of Ilan to the city of Buryatia, then go south against the Selenga River to the Kent Mountains in the province of Beiting, then turn east and enter the Hannan River, all the way down the river to the Shilka River.

Or take the Luqu River from the Kent Mountains down the river to the Erguna River.

But no matter how you go, this is quite far away, just from Beihai to Kent Mountain in Beiting Province, there are more than a thousand miles, and it will be thousands of miles to the east. If you really want to go around, it's not much closer than three thousand miles.

In such a season, even if all these tribes of Sipol were to use either dogs or deer, even if they could ride the ice plough and sled along the river, it would be quite an arduous journey, and even not very realistic at all.

It's not hunting, you can go with a small team.

This is going to war, and it is useless to go with fewer people, and if there are too many people, logistics will become a huge problem.

Hearing Li Xin's words, Soray hung his head in frustration.

"Are we just going to die?"

Li Xin walked into the study and took out a map after a while. This is a rudimentary map, not a detailed military map.

He came out with the map, sat back in his chair, and spread it on his lap.

"Actually, there's another way!" (To be continued.) )