With a few simple Evenki guides, Zhou Huchen returned to his army.

Ahead is the Heihe River (let's use the current name for convenience), and when Zhou Huchen entered the Heihe River with part of his army, the mountains and the earth had already revealed a touch of green.

Just as Dolgon expected, Zhou Huchen could not move forward, with the Small Xing'an Mountains in front, the Great Xing'an Mountains on the west side, and the uninhabited land with dense mountains and forests to the east. Further east, near the sea, there are many former Daming guards, and there are also many ethnic minorities, who can reach Sakhalin Island in the sea.

The territory in the east is not in a hurry now, Zhou Huchen and Mo Xiancheng have time to occupy it, they now need to rush to the huge permafrost zone in the Outer Xing'an Mountains.

Zhou Huchen was not crazy enough to cross the Great Khing'an Mountains and the Little Khing'an Mountains, and the army began to turn back after resting for two days. Heihe also did not leave any troops, and Zhou Huchen did not want his army and the remnants of Jiannu to engage in guerrilla warfare in such an environment. Cleaning up these people who have lost Liliang is not in a hurry, time will put them in a difficult situation, as long as there is a threat of military liliang on the periphery, a small wave is just a wave, it will definitely not break out of the embankment.

"Don't you go into the mountains to chase after you? Keeping the remnants of Jiannu is not a complete achievement, Dashuai is an excuse to keep the troops, right? "It's still Zheng Sen's nagging, and he began to ask as soon as the army retreated.

"Where can I find it in the vast mountains and forests? Save it for Mo Shuai to play in the future, let's go do big things. Zhou Huchen admitted.

This time the army did not return directly to Harbin, but rushed to the east.

"You're going to Mongolia, aren't you?" Zheng Sen finally took off his bear-like winter clothes, but he was still wearing a thick one, and it seemed that he was really afraid of the cold.

"Of course, we have to go to Mongolia, so we can't cross the Khing'an Mountains, there are no people and roads there at all, except for getting lost, we will starve to death, so we can only take a detour, and by the way, let the Mongolian compatriots in Inner Mongolia conquer Outer Mongolia and Siberia with us. We need cavalry. Therefore, I want Inner Mongolia to be our ally. "Zhou Huchen is very confident and high-spirited. If you can't cross the mountain, you can bypass it, Zhou Huchen wants to take advantage of Wuliangha to go north, and by the way, he has to enter the Kolbi grassland.

"Will the Inner Mongolians become a hardcore ally with us? I heard that the territory of Outer Mongolia is extremely vast, the grasslands there are boundless, and we Han people conquered the steppes and could not occupy them. It seems that no one in the subsequent dynasties was able to do it. "Zheng Sen is a man of culture, he knows the general situation in Mongolia, and the head of his analysis is Tao.

"The Han people can't conquer the steppe, the Mongols can, the Inner Mongolians are also Mongols, they will conquer the steppe!" Zhou Huchen laughed at this answer, and his smile was a little sinister.

Zheng Sen understood that Zhou Huchen wanted to borrow a knife to kill people, and he wanted to use the Inner Mongolians to deal with the Outer Mongolians. This doesn't seem to be difficult, the Mongol tribes have been fighting endlessly in the past dynasties, as long as Zhou Huchen gives these Inner Mongolians some benefits, such as territory. For example, population, such as trade, as long as the price is right, Inner Mongolians are eager to expand their territory and population.

"In the future. What about the future? What will happen in the future? "Zheng Sen was not a scholar with a full mind, he had his own set of understandings of various situations, and the Inner Mongolians conquered Outer Mongolia. So what should the Inner Mongolian people do when they become stronger?

"It's too simple, trade is in place, garrisons like Chengde, Weichang, and Harbin, and as long as the trade routes are unblocked, the army won't have to worry about supplies. In addition, the Han people are also able to survive in the grasslands, where a lot of land is suitable for farming, and there is no problem in settling down, as long as the population reaches a certain percentage, the grasslands will not be the current grasslands, nor will they be the previous grasslands. ”

Or the encroachment policy, of course, Zhou Huchen could not encroach on the entire prairie, but he knew that once the Han people occupied the marginal land of those grasslands, they would continue to expand, and with the increase in population, these Han people who settled in the grasslands would seek the protection of force, and the population would increase, and the source of force would of course be easier. What Zhou Huchen needs is a cycle, and the execution of this cycle is long-lasting, but it is absolutely effective.

In fact, the rule of later generations did this, in order to rule, the migration of the Han people has been carried out, many pastures in Inner Mongolia have become fertile land, and the Mongolian people are no longer just herding, they can do business, they can turn their pastures into farmland, and they can also join the army. The change of life is actually a habit, and when the Mongols get used to living with the Han people, everything is not a problem. Zhou Huchen is walking the road after hundreds of years, and this road is undoubtedly the most correct one.

"Jihua is good! It's a pity that this can't be done in a short period of time, and the court is there later."

Zheng Sen admired Zhou Huchen's Jihua very much, and at the same time was worried, the views of those courtiers were not so simple, once there was an obstruction, did Zhou Huchen have the energy and Liliang to deal with them? Besides, Zhou Huchen can be like this now, but what about in the future? The people in the court will always change, and the people who come to implement Zhou Huchen's jihua will also change, Zheng Sen's concerns are not unreasonable.

Zhou Huchen continued: "I'm afraid we will only see a beginning in our lifetime, but I will let people grasp this beginning, as for how many generations later, who knows what it will be like?" But I know that the Mongols will lose their fighting courage when they adapt to trading with the Han Chinese and living together than just ignoring them after being canonized! Things are man-made, what we need now is to do, not wait, life is just a few decades, fleeting, we don't do it to ourselves, but also to future generations! ”

"The big husband should be like this!" Zheng Sen understood Zhou Huchen and the meaning of his life. He only had to sigh, Zhou Huchen's blueprint was too big, and the big one had gone far abroad, and in the future, he was afraid that he would be willing to become Zhou Huchen's right-hand man

To the east of the Heihe River is the territory of the former Nurgan Dusi Fuyuwei, where the main people live are the Oroqen people, and they are also a branch of the Beishan savages as the Ming people say, and they also belong to the Deer Department, but because of their proximity to the Mongol tribes, horses are also an important means of transportation. The Oroqen people were still in a primitive state of existence, and they hunted in the vast area south of the Trans-Khingan Mountains, east of the Ussuri River, west from the Shilka River to Sakhalin Island in the east.

The arrival of the overwhelming Ming army stunned the Oroqen people, not to mention hundreds of thousands of people, even thousands of troops are rare to see in this area.

This is a spectacle, the Oroqen people are as hospitable as the Evenki people, guests and friends come, in addition to the reception of good wine and meat, the guests are parting, but also to give their own local products. The Oroqen people are simple and sincere, and the hunter returns from the meat, whether they know each other or not, as long as you say that you want a little meat, the host immediately hands over the hunting knife to you, and where to cut it, how much to cut, all by the guests themselves, the host is very generous.

Now, the Oroqen people don't know how to treat so many guests, and these guests don't seem to have any intention of staying.

Hospitable people always have his merits, because they have no sense of fear, and in their consciousness the weapons in these hands are hunting tools, not murderous weapons. When Zhou Huchen learned that the local Oroqen had invited him as a guest, he also understood that the Oroqen people had not experienced war for a long time, and they did not know the cruelty of war.

Of course, he had to accept the invitation, and Zhou Huchen wanted to put up the great banner of the Ming Dynasty high, and let the Oroqen compatriots understand that they were subordinates of the Ming Dynasty.

The invitation and guest is undoubtedly another gathering, the generosity and heroism of the Oroqen people make Zhou Huchen remember deeply, and at the same time, although their gifts are insignificant to Zhou Huchen, but the true feelings make you unforgettable

According to his own style, Zhou Huchen once again left a large number of gifts, and the Oroqen people who were also in a backward period were grateful. At the end of the warm gathering, in the reluctance of the Oroqen compatriots, Zhou Huchen's army set off again.

After this territory of the Oroqen people, along the eastern foot of the Great Khing'an Mountains all the way south is Fuyuwei (Qiqihar), and three hundred miles south is Tainingwei (Xing'an League), which has entered the territory of Kormi Mongolia.

(To be continued......)