"Lord, we're back." Two Mongol riders jumped off their horses in front of the camp behind the hillside and saluted the slightly chubby middle-aged man who greeted them.

"How?" The Mongolian prince asked eagerly.

"There are a lot of farms outside the city, and there are thousands of sheep in those farms."

"Just over a thousand sheep?" The prince replied with a frown. After a moment of silence, he asked, "Isn't there a small city with wooden walls over there, how is the city?" ”

"Lord, we didn't go into the city." The spy hurriedly explained, "Lord Wang, what I'm saying is that there are many farms over there, and how many farms there are, I think there must be dozens. There are thousands of sheep in each farm. The total number of sheep in those places is only tens of thousands. ”

The prince's eyes were on an expedition, his face was hideous, and he shouted: "You say it again! ”

At this time, on the outskirts of the town in the distance, Ulan Tuge was directing seven border herdsmen to block the gate of the fence that had begun to grow grass, driving a large herd of sheep into the pasture. Seven of these frontier herders were only half their size, and even so, they still roared with all their might, intimidating the sheep from rushing out of the line. Maybe they weren't big enough, loud enough, or intimidating enough, but some stupid sheep still ran in the direction of the straight line.

Ulan Tug swung his long whip and smashed it into dust on the ground. The sharp whip and the sound of the sound finally made the stupid sheep stop, and the border herds went up and bit and roared, and finally drove the stupid sheep into the barn.

Even now, when the spring is cold, Ulan Tuge's face is also red. After closing the gate of the barn, she took off her cotton hat and dried her hair and forehead with a long towel around her neck. Putting on her cotton hat again, she took out the bottle from her bosom and fed them to the border herders who were bouncing around her for a while. Looking at these cute, reliable and trustworthy subordinates, she had a smile on her face.

Without this group of small things, she and the four members of the family would not be able to deal with hundreds of sheep no matter what. Looking into the pasture, the white-flowered sheep had already begun to bow their heads and gnaw grass in the pasture. Ulan Tug jumped on the horse tied to her side and led her men along the passage where the sheep were herding.

When they got to the well, her parents, brothers and sisters had filled the waterwheel with water. Two horses dragged the waterwheel in the direction of the pasture. In the past, shepherds had to find not only delicious pasture for their sheep, but also water sources. In the midst of this back and forth, the sheep lost weight. Now the pasture and water source are no longer a problem, and the sheep in Ulan Tuge's family are fat and big-eared. Sometimes even the half-sized border herds dare to rush.

Skillfully driving the carriage, Ulan Tug's father asked, "Daughter, I saw your teacher yesterday, and he said that you would not use your Chinese name. What's going on? ”

"I just don't want to use a Chinese name!" Ulan Tug replied unhappily.

In the face of his capable daughter, the father was reluctant to speak loudly, so he persuaded: "Those teachers are like Hao Ren Wangye, they know how to communicate with Changshengtian, you have to listen to the teacher." ”

Ulan Tug turned his face away and simply stopped talking. The sinicization of the Yuan State was based on Emperor Wei Wen of the Northern Wei Dynasty of the Xianbei Tuoba clan, and the leader of this 'foreign race' was only from a different background in the eyes of the Han people in later generations. After his reforms, the Xianbei people used Han surnames, spoke Chinese, learned and used Han culture, and followed the folk customs of the Han people. After the reform of Emperor Xiaowen, the process of Huhua in the north after the Wuhu Rebellion was completely reversed and became a comprehensive Sinicization.

Decades later, after Chen Qingyi, the general of the Southern Dynasty, captured Luoyang, he talked about the classics with the local Confucian scholars, and was also ridiculed by the local Confucian scholars that 'the Southern Dynasty did not understand Confucianism'. And Chen Qingzhi, the general of the Southern Dynasty, heard such ridicule, and also lamented that his previous view that the north was full of Hu people was wrong.

In the reform steps of Hao Ren, the ruler of the Yuan state, the entire Yuan state had to use a Han surname, not a Mongolian name. Ulan Tug knows that she respects her teachers and does well in her studies. That's why she insists on the name 'Ulan Tug'. If this name were translated into Chinese, she would be called 'Gou (you know) Red Flag'. For a girl who loves beauty, Gou Hongqi, a name that can be expected to be literally meaningful, is completely unacceptable.

When the waterwheel arrives at its destination, it is placed in place, and the wooden gate under the waterwheel is unplugged, and the clear water flows into the trough of the pasture. Some of the thirsty sheep smelled the water and ran to the long stone sink to drink.

As long as this is done, the Ulan Tuge family will be half finished today. Ulantug's father and brother then return to work on the farm, while his mother and sister prepare the dowry for her sister's marriage. Ulan Tug's future brother-in-law is a veterinarian on the nearby ranch, and his brother-in-law has such a good job, and his sister's house is only seven or eight miles away from his parents' house. It can be reached in half an hour on horseback. Ulan Tug was very satisfied with this family business, and her family was also very happy with this family business.

Then Ulan Tug heard the faint sound of a bell ringing in the distance. A large iron bell was newly brought near the ranch, and the bell-ringer would ring the bell with all his might when he encountered something. Ulan Tug jumped on his horse and shouted to his parents, "I'll go and see." With that, he urged his mount to gallop away. The border herds also wanted to run along, but Ulan Tug's mother said, 'You are not allowed to go,' and the border herds watched their mistress's mistress speak, thought for a moment, and then obediently stopped, or lay down or sat and waited to go back with the waterwheel.

The horse is a new breed recommended to the Ulantug family by Ulantug's future brother-in-law, and is said to have been bred in the royal capital of Kiev. The purchase of this horse cost the Ulan Tug family a month's income, the horse is not very fast, but it runs very steadily, and Ulan Tug is very satisfied with this horse mixed with the pedigree of the horse. Although he is only two years old, he is already very tall. If the Mongolian horse is described as a wild boy with a gloomy personality, this horse is like a warm man like a big brother, and he will not run around in fear for no reason at any time. Even when he heard the fierce gunshots, he at most calmly waved his ears and snorted to express his uneasiness.

When they came to the vicinity of the bell, they saw that there were already people gathered there. Stopping outside the crowd and jumping off his horse, Ulan Tug asked the man next to him, "What's wrong?" ”

"It looks like a group of Mongols are coming." The uncle with the Mongolian fur hat next to him said uneasily.

In the border areas between the Yuan and Kipchak khanates, 'Mongols' was not a good term. The people of the Yuan Kingdom represent wealth, stability, well-fed, warm-dressed, hospitable, and hospitable. The image of the Mongols is firmly tied to ragged clothes, hungry stomachs, unclean hands and feet, and even looting. In the past, there were receivers sent by the Yuan court on the border, and the Mongols who came from afar would be taken away so that they would not harass the place. Now is the spring ploughing season, most of the strong laborers who can come in handy have gone to participate in the spring ploughing, and the gang of ushers have also left clean. When everyone heard that the Mongols were coming, they felt unhappy, but they didn't know what to do.

At this time, I saw a horse running in the distance. But the rider on the horse swayed. The sharp-eyed man couldn't help but shout: "That's the son of the Basang family, he was shot!" ”