The Huai River, known as Huaishui in ancient times, is located in the middle of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River basin, and is one of the seven major rivers in China.

Huaishui in ancient times is the only flow into the sea, the Spring and Autumn period of the "Yu Gong" has said, the guide Huai from Tongbai, the east will be in Si, Yi, the east into the sea.

However, in the second year of Jianyan in the Southern Song Dynasty, in order to resist the Jin soldiers who went south, Du Chong, the defender of Bianliang City, commanded the army to break the Yellow River embankment, causing the Yellow River to be diverted, and the turbid waves were surging, all of which passed through Surabaya and diverted to Huaishui.

In the year of Shaoxi, the Yellow River burst its embankment again, the Yellow River water poured into the Huai River, and then it entered the sea through the Huai River, the turbulent Yellow River water brought a large amount of sediment, and finally the Huai River was blocked from entering the sea, between Xuyi and Huai'an, formed the later Hongze Lake.

Yang Jing is not familiar with geography, the change of dynasties, the vicissitudes of life, the past is different from the present, and he knows nothing about ancient geography, although Zong Yun and Ge Changgeng and others often tell some interesting stories and customs of traveling the world, but they have not seen it with their own eyes, it is difficult to imagine after all.

When the ram migrated to the north bank of the Huai River with himself, Yang Jing finally saw with his own eyes this great river that resisted the Jin people and the Mongol army!

Rivers are like mothers, nurturing human beings and human civilizations, but wherever there are great rivers, extremely ancient civilizations have been born, such as the Yangtze River and the Yellow River in China, the Ganges River in India, the Nile River in Egypt, and so on.

But the river is also like a barrier, protecting the human civilization in the basin from the invasion of foreign enemies, and it is also like a mother, selflessly raising her children, and when danger comes, the weak mother becomes a powerful shield wall and a great wall.

It was seeing this river with his own eyes that Yang Jing became more aware that the Southern Song Dynasty retreated again and again, but Huaishui could not be lost, and now Huaibei has already fallen, and the Mongols are divided and ruled, if Huaishui is lost again, the Southern Song Dynasty court can only retreat to the Yangtze River basin, relying on the Yangtze River natural danger to defend, and the territory will be reduced by half again!

The Anfeng army is regarded as a barrier on the bank of the Huaishui, but the Huaishui basin is very long, and it is impossible for every inch of the river bank to be guarded, and a large-scale army may not be able to smuggle over, but the "smuggling" activities on both sides of the river are very common.

After crossing the river, Yang Jing was taken to a small town south of Yingzhou, called Huai Shi, not too far from the north bank of the Huai River.

The town is also lively, but unfortunately it has changed beyond recognition.

There were all kinds of people walking in it, there were Mongols, Khitans, Koreans, and many Semu people were walking around the town in a hurry, and the streets were full of shacks and tents and the like, and there was no urban planning to speak of.

The streets are filled with sewage, cooking smoke smells of dried cow and horse dung, and from time to time people fight and kill in the streets, gambling stalls and shoddy kilns are everywhere.

Yang Jing even met a lot of Arabs wearing headscarves!

It is said that the Southern Song Dynasty was in Guangzhou and Quanzhou, and overseas trade was extremely developed, and the Arabs, people from other Western countries, also made a lot of money along the coast of the Southern Song Dynasty through ocean trade.

Arabs are also called Apu, in fact, most of the Arabs who settled in the Southern Song Dynasty have the surname Pu, which is their Chinese name.

Because many Arab names start with Apudullah and the like, the Southern Song Dynasty people call them Apu, of course, it is not easy for the Southern Song Dynasty people to distinguish the difference between these Arabs, and even some Europeans will be mistaken for Arabs.

Some people also say that in later societies, people surnamed Pu are descendants of Arabs who came to do business in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it is difficult to comment on whether it is true or not.

These Arabs should be operating along the coast, how did they go to such an inland place as Huai Shi Town?

Yang Jing even had to suspect that the Mongol army might be using these people to do smuggling, because although the Huaishui channel was blocked at this time, the ships could actually use it to enter the sea.

Don't look at the Mongols' conquest of the world, with a posture of being invincible in the world, but how many Mongols are there in total? If all the Mongols go to war, even if the territory is conquered, all the Mongols will be officials, but I am afraid that there will still be vacancies, right?

Therefore, the Mongols will use the armies of other nationalities as vanguard and cannon fodder, as mentioned earlier, in addition to the Mongol cavalry, there are also Han troops composed of Semu people, Jurchens, and Khitans, and the new annex army is the general of the Han people of the Southern Dynasties.

It can also be seen that in the eyes of the Mongols, the southerners were the lowest, not as good as other ethnic minorities, until the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, the Han people were still the lowest in social status.

What an infuriating but sad thing it is for this nation to learn the culture of the Han people while at the same time despising and trampling on the civilization and inheritance of this nation.

Genghis Khan is a peerless military strategist, but also a personal slaughter, there is no doubt, but he is only a military strategist, and he is also a Mongol, and I have another hairball relationship with the Chinese Han people, as for those who sang praises for Genghis Khan in later generations, and even said that Genghis Khan was Chinese, please let these people go and see what these Mongols have done to the Han people, and then consider this issue.

I didn't mention much gossip, but said that the ram migrated wild and brought Yang Jing to Huaishi Town, so he said to Yang Jing: "I'll take you to meet someone in a while, but I hope you are honest and behaved." ”

Yang Jing doesn't have much of a good impression of the ram migrate, because traitors are always more hateful than enemies, and in Yang Jing's eyes, ram migrating is an out-and-out traitor.

Of course, some people have said that everyone has difficulties, traitors also have families, and there are people who need to be protected, when the enemy uses his family to threaten himself into submission, in exchange for you, how should you choose?

Even if you don't care about your life and death, when your family is in front of you, hurt or even killed one by one, can you stand by and watch?

Does this count as whitewashing traitors? Is everyone a traitor like this? If so, how busy must the enemy be?

Many people are simply for their own selfishness, either for a comfortable life, or for money, power, and wealth, and some even dislike and spurn their motherland.

Although everything cannot be generalized, the position must be clear and the ass must sit upright.

Yang Jing's ass sat very upright, so he didn't have any good feelings about the ram and those traitors.

However, the attitude of the ram migrating to the wild also made Yang Jing feel very surprised.

Because walking through the streets of the town, you can quickly see one of the most conspicuous buildings in Huai Shi Town, which is not a high-rise building, but an extremely large yurt tent!

This is a very inconsistent picture, the north and south of Huaishui is a typical Central Plains landform and environment, and the sudden appearance of yurts of this scale is really a bit weird.

And this yurt is very atmospheric and gorgeous, and what surprised Yang Jing even more was that the people guarding the outside of the yurt turned out to be cowardly Xue Xue with black rhino armor!

Earlier, when I talked about Yundu Chi, I had already mentioned that the Xue army was the most elite of the Mongols, and it was the personal guard among the relatives of the emperor and the descendants of the children of the generals and princes as the main members.

And the only ones who can mobilize these cowardly Xue troops are the people of the royal family!

Yang Jing narrowed his eyes slightly, and when he looked around, he could see that there were not a few of these cowardly Xue Jun, which showed that the people in this yurt still had a high status among the royal family!

When he arrived in front of the tent, Yun Duchi, who was beside the ram migrate, was not allowed to enter, so he could only stay outside, and the ram migrated ye and walked in with Yang Jing.

Although it was the middle of June, it didn't look stuffy inside, it was very well ventilated, but it didn't bring in the moisture outside, and the floor was covered with a soft wool carpet, which made people want to walk barefoot.

In the tent was a drapery-covered bed with a stabbed chair covered with a silver snow wolf skin, surrounded by a blanket of fox and sable.

These colors are too glamorous for a man, and the man in the seat is equally glamorous!

Yes, this man did not have braided hair like other Mongolian warriors, his face was white and beardless, and he did not have the strength of Mongolian warriors, but he was a bit like a scholar in the Central Plains.

During the Liao period of the Khitan people, the nobles of the Liao Dynasty took learning the culture of the Central Plains as the fashion, knew how to speak Chinese, and were able to sing the poems of the Song people, which was regarded as an extremely elegant thing.

During the Ming Dynasty, the costumes and culture of the Tang Dynasty were still popular in Japan, and some foreign races were indeed very fond of and even obsessed with Han culture.

But after arriving at the Jurchens, Wanyan Xiyin, like the Western Xia Dynasty, borrowed from the Chinese language and created his own language, and gradually lost so much importance to Han culture.

Although they still borrowed and used the Han people's imperial court and official system, and even borrowed from the Han people's political methods of managing the country, they no longer pursued language aspects.

The Mongol Empire's conquest of the four wildernesses and eight wildernesses, in fact, the focus has always been on the western expedition, and their interest in the Semu people is much greater than that of the Han people.

Therefore, the Mongols are no longer proud of learning Chinese, they are a people on horseback, they are almost the same as fighting wars, and there is not much market for poetry in them.

Of course, their religion is primitive shamanism, so they understand the role of religious belief in governance, and are relatively tolerant of religions such as Buddhism and Taoism.

In any case, the man in this big tent obviously didn't understand Chinese, he used Mongolian to communicate with the ram Xiye, nodded from time to time, and the ram Xiye bowed and saluted, and said to Yang Jing: "This is Yale Tailun Beji of the Great Mongolian Empire, you can call her Princess Hongyi." ”

"Princess?" Yang Jing was a little speechless, this princess of the Mongol Empire is so cheap?

"Your princess, what are you doing with me?" Yang Jing was not polite to the Mongols, and the Mongols did not have as much etiquette as the Song people, Yang Jing raised his head slightly, and looked at the body of the Yaltairun Beji.

He originally thought that the ram Xiye deliberately cut open the hole in order to test his surgical skills, maybe a Mongolian nobleman was sick and wanted Yang Jing to heal him, otherwise he could shoot Yang Jing directly.

But Yang Jing carefully observed Yale Tyren Beji at this time, but he didn't find anything wrong with her.

However, in a short moment, Yang Jing suddenly realized: "No, he's clearly a man, how can he be called a princess!!

From the time Yang Jing came in until now, he thought it was a man, but the ram would not joke about this kind of thing!

Yaltalon waved his hand and motioned for the ram to go out, the latter had already scavenged everything on Yang Jing's body, and Yang Jing was tied up with an oil-soaked cowhide rope, and the more he struggled, the tighter he strangled, and the ram went out.

The Hongyi princess Yale Taryn walked up to Yang Jing and said to him in the official dialect of the Great Song Dynasty, "Don't worry, I'll tell you." ”

Yang Jing also smiled bitterly, it turned out that people know how to speak Chinese, but in front of the courtiers, they need to use orthodox Mongolian dialect, and they are not allowed to speak lowly Chinese, and it is precisely because of this that the ram is allowed to go out of the wilderness.