Winter has arrived, and the weather is getting colder and colder day by day.

At the foot of the Tuola Mountain in the northwest of the weak Luoshui, the camp of the Khitan Purian tribe is located here. The weather is getting colder and colder, and the first snow of the winter has fallen, and if it was in the past, the herdsmen of the Privy Department have already left this place and turned to the winter pastures by the weak Luoshui River. However, this year, the Ministry of Convenience is not in a hurry to transfer, and they still have a lot of things to do. The stool department was busy killing cattle and sheep, cutting meat and skinning, and taking horns and cramps. The camp was very lively, with piles of cows and sheepskins piled up, countless fresh meat being cut and dried, and large vats of freshly squeezed fresh milk were also pulled over by carts and pushed into large tents for storage.

The tribe has a total of more than 13,000 tents, nearly 80,000 people up and down, and the brave soldiers can recruit more than 3,000 regular troops at any time, and in the camp of the tribal leader Dahe Luluo, there is already a personal guard tart horse department of up to 500 people, which is a standing army of soldiers and horses. Since the opening of the emperor in the fourth year, after the Dahe clan went to Chang'an to meet the emperor of the Central Plains, the Khitan can be regarded as finding a strong backer, and in recent years, it has got rid of the oppression of the Turks and Goguryeo, and the tribe has also developed rapidly. Not only the Ministry of Convenience Department, but also the rest of the nine departments have developed rapidly, each department has more than 3,000 soldiers, less than 1,000 people, and the soldiers and horses of the ten tribes add up to more than 10,000 people, if each regular army is equipped with two auxiliary soldiers, then the Khitan Ten Department has a military force of more than 40,000 people, if it is full of soldiers, it is possible that even this number can be doubled.

For a long time, the Khitan has survived in the gap between the east, west and south. He was once bullied by Rouran, Xianbei, Goryeo, etc., and later finally waited until the Northern Wei Dynasty in the Central Plains and the Rouran forces in the grassland weakened. The Khitan seized the opportunity, and the Gu Eight Alliances at that time sent troops. First attack Rouran, and then send troops to the Northern Wei, as a result, soon after the death of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the newly established Northern Qi is still strong, the Northern Qi Emperor Gao Yang led the army to conquer the Khitan, that battle, the Khitan was defeated, suffered heavy losses, and was killed and captured tens of thousands. Hundreds of thousands of miscellaneous animals were lost. Subsequently, the Turks on the steppe also perished the Rouran people, and the Turks, who became the new masters of the steppe, continued to invade the Khitan to the east, and the Khitan tribes were defeated and retreated, and finally they were divided into three, which were attached to the Northern Qi, Rouran, and Gaoju Kingdoms. It was not until the establishment of the Great Sui that the Khitan found a backer, with the support of the Sui, and the ministries returned to their old land. Nearly twenty years later, the original eight ancient divisions have long since become the new Khitan ten divisions. And the Dahe clan, which used to be in the Ah Da He tribe, has also single-handedly established a new Su Bian department.

In the big tent, Dahe's Tara was in the prime of life, and he could eat a whole leg of mutton every day. After drinking half a bag of mare's milk wine, he was even able to count the girls at night, and he was less than forty years old. It's as powerful as the Toilet Department. Probably because he had been to the Jingshi of the Central Plains Dynasty and had seen the strength and prosperity of the Great Sui in the Central Plains. Therefore, over the years, Du Luo has always insisted on unswervingly following the Great Sui. Loyal to the Great Sui, the tribute continues. In the face of the Turks and Goguryeo, no matter how they were co-opted or threatened, they never wavered in their position.

"The things of the Central Plains are good, I hate to be born as a Chinese." He asked a Goryeo slave girl to beat his legs for him, holding a Huaihuang business newspaper in his hand, looking at this newspaper from a month and a half ago that was brought back by the merchants, looking at the contents of it, and feeling envious.

Luo is literate, he went to Daxing to meet the emperor of the Sui Dynasty in the fourth year of the emperor, lived in the prosperous Daxing city for more than half a year, and when he returned, he began to learn Chinese characters. After that, he went to the Central Plains several times to meet the Han family of heaven, in the ninth year of the Great Sui, when he returned from Guanzhong, he saved a Han scholar who fell ill on the way, and the Han scholar was very grateful after he recovered from his illness, and under his sincere invitation, he agreed to be his husband, taught him Han culture, and followed him back to Khitan. In a blink of an eye, the Han family had been in the Khitan for nine years. After studying Han culture with a Han teacher for so many years, he can not only speak authentic Chinese, but even write a beautiful Weibei font.

Some time ago, a group of Han merchants came to his camp and brought a lot of Han goods, exquisite silk, gorgeous Yue porcelain, and even fragrant spirits, sweet and beautiful rock sugar, as well as snow-white white paper, excellent sage classics printed and bound, famous poems, etc. Tara had bought all the merchandise in the hands of the merchants, and some time earlier the caravan had brought in another shipment, and before leaving, they had signed an order form.

He ordered a lot of silk and cloth from the Han caravans, as well as porcelain, tea, jade, gold and silver jewelry, pen and ink books, and so on.

And those Han people didn't charge him too high a price, they just needed to exchange it for cow and horse skins, etc., and even air-dried dried meat and so on.

He heard that this caravan was the Sui people on the Sui border, and they came and went several times, and now the two families are trading more and more, and they trust each other very much. For example, now, those merchants in the Central Plains use the iron, tea, and cloth they need most to exchange their cattle and horses, dried meat, skins and other goods, and the price is very fair.

"The first snow has already fallen, and we slaughtered the last batch of cattle and sheep, and after doing this business with our Han friends, we have to move to the weak Luo River for the winter. This winter, you can have a good year. Elo smiled with satisfaction.

Although more cattle and sheep were slaughtered in his tribe than originally expected, basically all the bulls and rams were slaughtered, and there was not much meat left. However, Elo is not worried about this winter's food, the Han family's goods are good but cheap, the key is that in this area, they only trade with themselves, Tara bought a large number of Han goods, but he will not keep them all for his own use, part of it is reserved for his own tribe, and a large part, Tara only needs to sell it to other tribes, and he can exchange for a large number of cattle and sheep that are very cheap at this time.

"Where's the Mohui?" Elo asked, and he hadn't seen the figure of his eldest son for a whole day.

"The young patriarch accompanied Miss Chen to see hunting under the mountain." The maid replied.

The Goryeo maid also replied in Chinese. In fact, after he brought Mr. Xu back, he insisted on speaking Chinese. Even the maidservants and guards around him were all asked by him to do so. Therefore. At present, in the tent of Dahe Duluo, more often than not, what I hear is a Chinese answer.

Hear this answer. Dahe Duluo shook his head a little helplessly, Mohui is his eldest son, in his early twenties, but he is already a famous warrior in the tribe, at the age of eighteen, at the coming-of-age ceremony, he went into the mountain alone, and hunted a huge brown bear weighing more than a thousand catties back, and became the bravest young man in the Dahe family and the entire Umbian tribe in one fell swoop. Dala was satisfied with this son, and chose to make him his heir. In the future, he will succeed him to lead the Dahe family and the Kui tribe, and even secretly hope that his son will be able to lead the entire Khitan Ten Alliances in the future. But there is one thing about this son that makes him very dissatisfied, and it is difficult to rest assured that his son in his twenties has not yet married a wife.

The son is actually good-looking, very much like when he was young, tall and mighty. Many young girls in the tribe are fond of sons. But this rabbit cub ignored those girls, and instead pestered Mr. Xu's daughter Chen Xiaoniang all day long.

Mr. Xu has been coming to Khitan with him since the ninth year of Kaihuang, and it has been almost ten years in the blink of an eye. When he came, he didn't come alone, but brought his wife and a pair of children. Something strange though. Mr. Xu's two sons and daughters are different from his surname. The daughter and his wife have the surname Chen, but the son does not have the surname of either husband and wife. Rather, the surname Yuan. However, Mr. Xu is an extremely elegant scholar, and his wife is also very beautiful and gentle, and knows how to answer the courtesy, full of the temperament of the ladies of the Central Plains. Yuan Dalang is a very sensible child, Chen Xiaoniang is two years younger than Yuan Dalang, but she is a natural beauty, and she is already beautiful and generous at a young age. His son Mohui is very close to these two children, and he is a few years older than Yuan Dalang Chen Xiaoniang, just like the eldest brother of the two. There were a few times when the teenagers in the tribe bullied the two, and when the Mohui heard about it, they immediately helped them out.

Thinking of Yuan Dalang, Du Luo couldn't help but sigh, in fact, he also liked Mr. Xu's family very much. Especially for those two children, it's the same as for yourself. Originally, he had the intention to say goodbye to Mr. Xu and wanted to order Chen Xiaoniang for his son, but it turned out that Mr. Xu had already discussed with Xu Chen and promised Chen Xiaoniang to Yuan Dalang. It was also at that time that Luo Luo learned that Yuan Dalang was not Mr. Xu's son, and even Chen Xiaoniang was not the daughter of Mr. Xu and Xu Chen, he once asked about the relationship between them and the two children, but Xu Deyan only said that the two children were orphans he took in. But for this answer, how will he not believe it. Those two children, a pair like golden boys and girls, the weather is extravagant, how could it be an orphan who was taken in by him. But Mr. Xu didn't say much, so he didn't ask much.

However, he still told his son the result, but his son likes Chen Xiaoniang, and he also knows it, although he told his son that the eldest husband has no wife, but the kid's brain is like a rope twisted knot, and he can't listen to it at all.

If it weren't for the accident, maybe now that Yuan Dalang and Chen Xiaoniang have children, their son may have already faced the reality and married a wife and had children. Thinking about his son now following Chen Xiaoniang all day long, he couldn't help sighing. A few years ago, the Turks demanded that they attach themselves to the Turks, and Tara refused. Then it didn't take long for a Turkic army to raid the camp of the Privy Division, although the Turks did not take advantage of the battle and quickly retreated, but Yuan Dalang's child was also missing, no one was born, no body was dead, he sent people to find the Turks, and also offered to ransom people, but the Turks said that they did not have this person in their hands at all. Tara reckoned that the child had either been sold by the Turks or might have died.

But Chen Xiaoniang refused to believe that after a few years, Chen Xiaoniang had already reached the age of marriage, but she couldn't let go of her fiancé and firmly believed that she was still alive. Luo Luo is sometimes very puzzled, when the child disappeared, Chen Xiaoniang was only ten years old, although the two were married by the order of their parents, but what does such a young child know, where does the relationship come from. After so many years, she has really grown up, why do she still remember him.

Although he didn't understand, he believed that the child's feelings were real. The son couldn't understand this, and he had been thinking about marrying her all these years. Hey, I didn't expect that my son was still a lover.

Or, I should have a good talk with Mr. Xu again, and see if I can get Mr. Xu to come forward and talk to Mrs. Chen, so that she can forget about Yuan Dalang's child and accept the meeting.

"What is Mr. Xu doing?" Elo asked.

"Mr. Xu and Mrs. Chen also went hunting, but not with Chen Xiaoniang and the young clan master, the couple went out alone."

"Huh." Du Luo chuckled, "Mr. Xu probably went out to fight the tiger again!" He wanted to laugh when he talked about it, although Mr. Xu was very elegant, he actually had good swordsmanship. Soon after coming to the grassland, one day Mr. Xu and Mrs. Chen went out to play, but they encountered a fierce beast attack, Mr. Xu was eager to protect his wife, and actually killed several tigers with a sword. At that time, Du Luo knew that Mr. Xu was polite and polite, but three or five Khitan soldiers couldn't get close to him. However, after Mr. Xu came back, he had to point to his trophy and say that it was a tiger, but in fact, it was just a biao that looked like a tiger, although Biao was fierce, but it was much worse than a tiger. However, Mr. Xu insisted that it was a tiger, and often took his wife out to hunt tigers in the future, and even once hunted 38 'tigers' in one day.

"I don't know when Mr. Xu will be able to admit that it is Biao and not Tiger!" Elo smiled.

At this time, the curtain of the tent was lifted, and the tart horse guard who was waiting outside the tent was in a hurry, with a solemn face, a mouth, and a somewhat hoarse voice: "Mohefu, there is news from Shanbei, it is said that the Tiele Ba Yegu people have raided the Xi tribe, and they have broken several tribes in a row, captured thousands of people, and countless miscellaneous animals. ”

"The Tiele people are coming east?" Elo put away the smile on his face and raised his eyebrows.

Bayegu is a Tiele people, but now almost all of these Tiele people in Mobei are attached to the Turks, so they can also be called Turks, and compared with the real Turks who are mainly from the Ashina and Ashid tribes, these Tiele people are also called Turks with different surnames. Because the Ashina and Ashid tribes called themselves the Blue Turks, these Turkic people with different surnames who lived in the north were also called Black Turks. However, although these Black Turks are inferior to the Blue Turks in the eyes of the Blue Turks, these black people live in the cold and harsh north of the desert, and often fight, so although the Tiele people have a very large population, they are also extremely scattered, over the years, the masters of the grassland have changed from the Xiongnu to Xianbei, Xianbei to Rouran, and Rouran to Turkic, but these Tiele people have never really hugged the group, so they have always been the thugs of the kings of the grasslands.

These thugs are indeed fierce.

He still remembers that last year, there was a group of Bayegu people who crossed the border to the south, and at that time, they were only 1,000 cavalry.

"How many of them are there?"

"It is said that there are three thousand elite horsemen!" The guard replied.

Ohga Dura's face changed, three thousand fine horses, this is a lot. The regular army of his men was no more than 3,000, and there were only 500 guards in the camp who were usually guarding at any time. Why did the Bayegu people suddenly come to the east, did they just come to loot and plunder, or did they want to take advantage of the route to go south like last year? Recently, there have been rumors from time to time from the west, saying that the Dulan Khan of the Eastern Turks is preparing to deal with his cousin Tuli Khan. It is also rumored that Dulan Khan is contacting Datou Khan in the Western Regions and preparing to join forces to attack the Great Sui. What does it mean that Bayegu came out of Mobei at this time? If they really want to go south to attack the Great Sui, then they have to notify the imperial court as soon as possible and take precautions as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, Dahe Duluo couldn't sit still, "Send someone to ask Mr. Xu to come back, go immediately." "Mr. Xu is not only his Chinese teacher, but also his military advisor over the years. When encountering such a major event, you have to discuss countermeasures with Mr. Xu immediately.

Getting up and pacing around the tent a few times, Luo Luo drove the maid out with some irritation, and then called another guard, "Send a few more light horsemen at once, and go north to inquire about the situation, I want to know what the situation is now." ”

(My neck hurts a little today, and I didn't sleep well last night.) Send a big chapter.,That's all there is to it today.,Sorry.,Ask for a ticket! (To be continued......)