"Having found his army in the east, Maudun immediately reorganized his army and counterattacked to the west. At this time, something went wrong with the Dayue clan, his king and the deputy king were at odds, and the deputy king took some of his men and horses with him. So the two armies fought for three days and three nights on the side of the Onen River in the hometown of the Xiongnu. At the most critical moment of the battle, Mao Dun drew a Ming Di and shot towards the King of the Great Moon Clan, and his subordinates rushed towards the King of the Great Moon Clan like a torrent, and the King of the Great Moon Clan saw the fierce enemy coming, and involuntarily became afraid, turned around and rode away from the battlefield. The Otsuki clan was defeated, and the soldiers and horses fled in all directions. The king of the Otsuki clan fled halfway and was killed by his own soldiers, and his head was given to Mao Dun Shan Yu. Shan Yu really fulfilled his oath and made the skull of the King of the Great Moon Clan into a wine bowl, avenging the shame of being attacked that year. ”

Kublai Khan applauded loudly and said: "In addition to the defeat, I can maintain a strong will for revenge, and reorganize the men and horses to fight again, and personally send the enemy to a dead end, there is nothing more pleasant in the world, I think if I were born in the era of Mao Dun Shan Yu, I will definitely become a good friend with him in life and death." ”

Hao Jing smiled and didn't comment, but continued: "That Da Yue's family ate a good meal, and then he knew that he was afraid. Under the leadership of the vice king, the whole clan fled to the west of the west, and the Xiongnu completely unified the grassland, and then sent troops to level all the tribes in the north, and conquered the Baiyang and Loufu tribes living in today's Hedong and Shaanxi and Gansu to the south, and developed a small Xiongnu department into a super strong grassland empire with a territory of thousands of miles and more than 300,000 people who control the strings. ”

"This Mao Dun Shan Yu is indeed the true hero of our ancient people," Kublai Khan said proudly: "But it is not as good as Temujin Khan, who is an even more ancient genius in the grassland, with a small beggar department, in such a short period of time, sweeping thousands of miles, sweeping the eight wildernesses." He has conquered more than 60 countries. The victory of the army of the country alone is not as good as it is today. ”

He asked, "What did Mao Dun Shan do later?" ”

Hao Jing said: "Later, Mao Dunshan raised 400,000 iron cavalry in the country and went south to attack the Central Plains. At that time, just as the Qin State was falling, Liu Bang won the dispute between Chu and Han and established the Han Dynasty. Liu Bang didn't know that he was too powerful to lead 300,000 soldiers to meet in a hurry. As a result, he was surrounded by 400,000 iron cavalry regiments in Baishan Mountain, and it was almost impossible to get out. Later, it was the Han Dynasty empress Lü Pheasant who used Chen Ping's strategy to bribe Mao Dun Shan Yu's Yan family and let her mediate. Mao Dunshan saw that the Han soldiers were also tightly guarded, and he couldn't attack it for a while. The troops could only retreat slightly, and Liu Bang asked the soldiers to slowly retreat with their bows and arrows, and escaped with their lives. Later, Liu Bang recognized the majesty of Mao Dun Shan Yu, and not only married Shan Yu as a princess of the clan to show friendship, but also gave a large number of cloth, gold, silver, food and other materials every year, and also made a brother with Shan Yu. ”

Kublai Khan puzzled: "This is Mao Dun Shan Yu, when waiting for the enemy to break through, you should continue to harass with elite soldiers and cavalry, and wait for the enemy's position to show signs of collapse, and then use ironclad cavalry to break in, the enemy will inevitably collapse, and the Great Khan named Liu Bang can be caught, and the land of the Central Plains is also Mao Dun Danyu." ”

Hao Jing was one of the so-called great Confucians in the north at that time, if there were not many scholars in the north who could beat him, but he could only know a little bit about the art of war. He could only smile awkwardly, trying to cover up the past.

Song Yichang stood aside and listened to their bumper Mongolian words, and he didn't know what the two were talking about. At this time, seeing that Hao Jing was in trouble, he quietly asked Hao Jing: "What problem did the king have that stumped you?" ”

Hao Jing had no choice but to roughly translate what Kublai Khan said.

"It's a simple question." Song Yichang said: "Because the Han people at that time had just experienced a fierce civil war, the wind of bravery still existed, and the Hun knights at that time, not only did not have iron armor, but also did not even have stirrups, even if they broke into the Han soldiers, they could only fall into hand-to-hand combat with the Han infantry, the two armies fought, who won and who lost. If Mao Dun had 30,000 assault cavalry equipped with iron armor and stirrups like Genghis Khan, he might have been able to capture Liu Bang alive and create an earth-shattering career. ”

"However, in terms of the strength of the Xiongnu at that time, Mao Dun had indeed fought this war in the best situation."

Kublai Khan listened to Hao Jing's translation, and patted Song Yichang on the shoulder convincingly: "Song, what you said is very right, today's Shan Yu country, not only has such good ironclad cavalry, there are Han infantry who are good at siege cities, and all kinds of siege equipment, we can, we should also create a more brilliant cause than Mao Dun Shan Yu." ”

He pointed his hand upwards and said loudly: "Immortal Heaven can see that I, Kublai Khan, will seize the throne of the Great Khan of Mongolia, and take the most brave and capable Mongols, as well as clever and methodical courtiers like you and Hao Jing, to establish a powerful country that has never been seen in history!" ”

Hao Jing excitedly translated these bold words, and said to Song Yichang: "Today's military power in the north is far better than that of the previous generation, King Kublai Khan will inevitably become an unprecedented emperor in history who is ten million times greater than Tang Zong and Song Zu, let me be Xiao He, you will be Zhang Liang!" ”

Song Yichang hurriedly thanked him a few words, and secretly laughed in his heart, Xiao He was Liu Bang's fellow countryman back then, and his status in the Peixian Gang was even higher than Liu Bang, and it was precisely because of this that Liu Bang was willing to hand over the entire rear to Xiao He to manage. With the attitude of the Mongols towards foreign races, Hao Jing is not to say that he will be Xiao He, but he is afraid that Chen Ping will not be able to do it, and what he can do is at best a fool's errand.

And what kind of status could he himself get in the Mongol Empire?

Song Yichang was blue-eyed by nobles in the north, and the spring breeze was proud, at this time, Bai Yijie didn't know anything about Lu Dao, he only knew that Lu Dao, an old classmate, was acting weirdly and erratically, and no one could figure out the true thoughts in his heart. So when Song Yichang suddenly disappeared without a trace in Daye County, he could only wait for Song Yichang to take the initiative to contact him.

Bai Yijie has a lot of tasks, although the role of the senator in the army was originally only to provide advice for the generals as the main think tank of the shogunate, but as Zheng Yunming's staff, the tasks are much more than others.

Zheng Yunming's position itself is quite a lot, in addition to the deputy capital of Jing'e, Zheng Yunming also serves as the county magistrate of Nanzhang County and the Jinghu promotion of Changping. In addition, he also had to assist in the preparation of Zhao Kui to deal with military affairs. As well as to meet the various needs of Jinghu Zhuhaoqiang.

No one can face so many government affairs alone, and behind every so-called famous minister and general who is proficient in affairs in ancient times, there must be a group of neat and resourceful staff members.

During the Tang and Song dynasties, government affairs were reduced, and ministers and generals usually only needed a few to a dozen staff. Hundreds of years later, the feudal lords had super staff teams ranging from dozens to hundreds of people to handle all kinds of complex affairs. There are even some ministers who are particularly fond of recruiting talents, and there are as many as 1,000 masters around them, which can be described as "a full house of 3,000 guests, and a sword is cold in 14 states".

According to the usual practice, Zheng Yunming must have at least dozens of people around him to share the heavy affairs brought about by the responsibilities of the governance system, the military affairs system and the economic system at the same time, but Zheng Yunming's shogunate is a little shabby, there are only two senators at present, one is Bai Yijie, a scholar who is about the same age as Zheng Yunming and still has bad deeds in the records of the Ministry of Rites, and one is Liu Kezhuang, who is a poet who works abroad but has little actual achievements, and has not been transferred to a formal official for many years in the shogunate. There is also Bi Zilun, who assists in acting military affairs, and these three people are all the think tanks in the Jinghu Deputy Metropolitan Mansion.

This situation was formed due to both internal and external reasons: inwardly, Zheng Yunming was reluctant to add incompetent people to enrich his shogunate, because the chances of the staff of the competent generals to obtain merit were very high, especially Zheng Yunming was stationed in Xiangyang, just at the forefront of the enemy against the Mongols, once the war started, as long as these staff members survived, they would undoubtedly accumulate a lot of merit in the Privy Council and the ministry, and the chances of transferring to official positions or transferring to local powerful positions in the future were almost ten. If you don't carefully screen and recruit people into the shogunate at will, you may be allowed to enter key local positions in the future, and if you are transferred to other places, it is fine, if you stay in Jinghu and continue to be an official, it is inevitable that Zheng Yunming will add to his own blockage.

On the other hand, even if Zheng Yunming really needs some talented scholars to assist him, it is not so easy to do. It has been a year since the Song and Mongolian wars officially began, and no one who is a little sensible and cares for life will choose to come to the border area to be an official at this time, if he is officially appointed to an official position by the state. If it is just to be someone else's staff, this kind of thing that has no honor and risks their lives, the vast majority of readers are not sensitive.

Even if a small number of people have ambitions to make some achievements in the troubled times, most of them do not look down on the military shogunate of the unified level, and they all earn to serve in the shogunate of the envoys in various places, and there is even a proverb on the rivers and lakes that "it is better to be a dog for the system than to be a dragon for the Rong Si". Not only Zheng Yunming, but also the shogunates of generals everywhere have a difficult situation in recruiting people.

Zheng Yunming's procrastination in dealing with the staff problem was so unbearable that even Wei Liaoweng, who was about to leave to face the saint, could not bear it, and he personally selected several capable talents for Zheng Yunming to enrich the shogunate.

The first to arrive in Xiangyang surprised Zheng Yunming.

"Uncle Mou, I haven't seen you for so many years, and I almost can't recognize you." When Xu Yuanjie was led into the side hall of the Metropolitan Department by the guards, the familiar loud voice reminded Zheng Yunming of the time when he was studying under Zhendexiu.

At that time, not long after Zheng Yunming was sent to Zhendexiu, he was still a young child in the general corner, and it was this loud senior who was responsible for announcing matters in the school at that time.