There is a town under Helan Mountain, a small section of the Great Wall built by virtue of the mountain to keep this piece of Ming territory, which belongs to Ningxia Wei, when Duan Fei came to Zhenyuan Pass, Zhenyuan Pass has been called away by the sentinel he sent, and a car of military supplies was sent out from the pass.

A member of Xiao will take a large group of people out of the customs to greet him, and said to Duan Fei: "Lord Duan, the last general of Ningxia's former guard guard, Hong Gang, was ordered to lead 10,000 soldiers from Ningxia Wei to be dispatched by the adults. ”

Since the news of the Tatar defeat at the foot of Cailiang Mountain came back to the capital, Zhengde had dispatched several teams of soldiers and horses out of the pass to support, Duan Fei nodded and asked, "How many cavalry did you bring?" How many foot soldiers? ”

Hong Gang replied: "The soldiers selected by the last general are all good at horses, but the last general only brought out 2,000 cavalry, and the remaining 8,000 are foot soldiers. ”

Duan Fei said: "Now there is only a shortage of people on the grassland, not horses, you take these 10,000 people to continue to the north, and follow the convoy to reach the camp, where you can temporarily rest and wait for the official's order." ”

Hong Gang took the order and left, and Wang Zuo, who was beside Duan Fei, continued: "After the news of the great victory reached the capital, the whole city celebrated, and the emperor was even more overjoyed, and ordered the three scholars to draft a decree of commendation. ”

Duan Fei didn't say anything, Wang Zuo said again: "There is no vision in the capital, Li Hua said a lot of bad things to the emperor after returning to Beijing, but was reprimanded by the emperor, the power of this war firearm is fully displayed, the emperor has planned to set up more than ten firearms research and development sites throughout the country, and manufacture firearms in large quantities to supplement the army, but if you want to really spread firearms in the whole army, it is impossible to complete it without ten years of work." ”

Duan Fei bowed slightly, it seemed that the importance of firearms had finally attracted the attention of the imperial court, and he couldn't help but ask, "Where is Cen Xuan now?" Does the emperor often stay in Shude Palace now? ”

Wang Zuo replied: "Miss Cen has been arranged by the emperor to live with Princess Yongfu, according to the news heard by many lowly officials, she should have entered Beijing three months ago, and then disappeared somehow, it is estimated that Zhang Rui happened to meet and hidden. ”

Duan Fei sighed lightly and said, "The matter has come to this, it's useless to say anything, alas, ......"

Wang Zuo hesitated for a moment and asked, "Is the lord worried about the upcoming concubine, or are you worried about something else?" Now that the prestige of adults is growing, anyone who wants to be unfavorable to adults has to weigh the consequences, are adults too worried? ”

Duan Fei shook his head and smiled bitterly: "The sound of the wind and rain, the sound of reading, the sound is in my ears, family affairs, national affairs, world affairs, everything is worried...... Okay, don't talk about this, this official still has some things for you to do, now that the overall situation outside the customs has been decided, at least Dongtao is already very safe, and now a large number of immigrants are needed outside the customs, you go back and pass on my order, calling on the merchants of the business alliance to come to Dongtao to develop first, and give them certain preferential treatment. ”

Wang Zuo nodded and said: "The Yellow River is only rich and prosperous, and the trend of profit is not afraid that no one will come, but it will be difficult to go west and north." ”

Duan Fei said with a smile: "That's not necessarily, you think the north is a wilderness, the merchants may think that there are treasures everywhere, for example, the mink there is better than the production in Liaodong, although it is cold, but there are rich minerals buried in the ground, gold, silver, copper and iron are everything, the area here is seven or eight Ming Da, if the Ming can take this large piece of land, future generations will be grateful to us and obey incomparably, who cares what means we use at that time." ”

Wang Zuo said with a smile: "My lord is far-sighted and far-sighted, and his humble position is only breathtaking, and if he says that he can do it, he can definitely do it." ”

Duan Fei said with a smile: "You also praise me too much, in fact, if you want to occupy and hold the Northern Great Plains, there are three major problems, the weather is too cold, the road is far away and the cavalry outside the Guanxi is fierce, but now that we have sharp firearms, it is no longer a problem to deal with the nomads outside the Guan, with a down jacket, the weather is not afraid of cold, as for the long distance...... Soon that will be a thing of the past. ”

Wang Zuo sighed and said: "Any thorny problem can be solved in front of the adult, then what pressure cooker has been amazing, the adult ordered us to collect duck down and goose down into a small bag of small bags, and then sew into clothes, at first everyone was very unimpressed, but this down jacket really works, people who wear it know that it is much warmer than cotton, and now the down jacket is equipped with a large number of northern troops, which is the credit of adults, I don't know what way adults can solve the problem of long distances? It's really incomprehensible. ”

Duan Fei was proud in his heart, and couldn't help but offer treasures: "This official ordered people to collect black oil everywhere, should you think this thing can only be used to light lamps?" This black oil is a good thing, more than 40 craftsmen have studied its use for almost half a year, I heard that there have been a lot of results, one of which is a product called asphalt, mixed with gravel and used to pave the road with a wonderful effect, as long as this kind of thing is produced in large quantities, from Beijing to Guangzhou, it takes at least half of the time to go back and forth! ”

Wang Zuo said: "It turns out that the black oil still has such a purpose, no wonder the adults have traveled thousands of miles to get several large ships of black oil from overseas, and they are searching everywhere for where the black oil is produced, huh...... Didn't there be news outside the customs that a few places where black oil was produced had been discovered? Wouldn't it be possible to produce this asphalt on the spot outside the customs to pave the road? ”

Duan Fei smiled and said, "That's right, that's what the official planned." ”

After a short conversation, Duan Fei left Zhenyuan Pass, and the excerpt he wrote to Zhengde every day asked Wang Zuo to take it back to Beijing.

The army rested at the foot of Helan Mountain for a long time, and the newly sent firearms were also distributed to each soldier, and the general of the crusading army, Alehan, was passed to Duan Fei, and Duan Fei handed over a letter of appointment to him, which was something that Zhengde had already written and stamped and then filled in the name of Duan Fei not long ago, but it was carefully handed over to Alehan as if it had just been sent from the capital.

Alehan knelt down with the appointment letter in his hand and thanked him, tears were silently weeping in his eyes, he didn't know whether he was happy or bitter in his heart, in the past few days, he saw with his own eyes how Daming dealt with those compatriots who refused to obey, and saw with his own eyes the power of Daming's firearms, for those compatriots who were captured, for the compatriots who had not yet been captured to suffer less damage, under Duan Fei's continuous brainwashing, he had realized that he really worked hard for Daming, although he had a lot of infamy, but he successfully saved many compatriots, Who can judge whether what he did was right or wrong?

In addition to this letter of appointment, there are many things that are paid to the 'crusading army' led by Al Han, the wine and bacon have lost their meaning to these lonely geese on the steppe, what really makes Al Han happy is a stack of family letters sent from the rear quickly, the people on the steppe are rarely literate, these letters are written by others, among them are letters written by Al Han's wife and children, after reading them, Al Han knows that the family is still safe, except that he is forced to build the city every day.

Alehan brought these letters back to the camp, and summoned the people who had letters from home, and told them their beliefs one by one, and after the news came out, the Tatar camp swept away the previous gloom, and everyone had a lot of smiles on their faces, the Tatar ethnic concept was very strong, but the limitations were also very large, when there was no great leader across the steppes, they were only loyal to their own tribe, at the beginning Temujin was also a tribe and a tribe conquered, and now Azhu has not had any great achievements, Although Arsaberrot, who controls the Mongolzin tribe, is the son of Dayan Khan, he is just an outsider to everyone, and Alkhan They heard that the tribe is unharmed, and there are many fewer psychological obstacles to attacking other tribes, and the only rule on the steppe is that the jungle eats the strong, otherwise the Tatars and the Thorns, and the Duoyan Sanwei will not need to fight around, everyone is the descendant of Genghis Khan.

Stabilize the Tatars' After the crusade army, the army set off again, this time the target is directly aimed at the Yiji Nai on the shore of the Juyan Sea, which is located in the upper reaches of the Zhangjiao River, between the Juyan Sea and the Yiji Naihai, the water source is abundant, it is the pearl in the desert, the Helan Mountain is coming in two days, it can be attacked and retreated, it is a treasure land outside the plug, if it can be successfully taken Yiji Nai, and a strong fortress is established here, the new style of attack and defense of the Ming Dynasty against the Tatars and the Tile Thorn will be completely reversed immediately, and when the time comes, the sword will point to Siberia, and the Tile Tartary and the Tartar will not be put in Duan Fei's eyes at all。

The army advanced by leaps and bounds, and did not encounter a single tribe along the way, and just as they were about to reach Yijinai, the front scouts reported the appearance of a Tatar squad of only a hundred men ahead.

Duan Fei ordered the hundred-man squad to be brought to the front, and the hundred-man squad obediently disarmed and came to Duan Fei, the leader of the Tatar was a young man, and he led the crowd to dismount and saluted Duan Fei: "Ryuda, the son of the leader of the Menggol Sect Arsaberot, is here to see Lord Duan, the marshal of the Ming Expeditionary Army. ”

Duan Fei raised his eyebrows and said, "Is your father already planning to surrender to this official?" What did he want to say when he asked you to come to the officer? ”

Ryu Dalai said: "Lord Duan guessed well, my father does have the intention of surrendering to Daming, but there are some conditions that need to be discussed with adults." ”

Hearing Ryu Dalai's words, the Alehan beside Duan Fei couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and Alsaberot surrendered to Daming like this? He's too bad, isn't he? If you change to yourself, you have to fight it.

Duan Fei smiled and said, "Dayan Khan's sons are really all smart people, what conditions does he have, you can come and hear it." ”

Ryu Dalai said: "My lord, my father hopes that after Xiang Toucheng, he will be able to be crowned the governor like Duoyan Sanwei and continue to lead the area from Helan Mountain to the east of Jinshan. ”

Duan Fei said with a smile: "The governor of the capital is a trivial matter, I can directly promise you for the emperor, but you must hand over the military power, and the official will send someone to lead, and as a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, you must plant the banner of the Ming Dynasty in the territory, and at the same time it will be assigned to the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Han people can freely come and go to do business and live for a long time, the official only thinks of these for the time being, you go back and discuss it with your father, or you can change places and talk to him in person." ”