In the past few days, Hu Luozhen, as a messenger, has become the busiest person, shuttling back and forth between the Tartars and the Ming army camps, passing books for Song Nan and Bars Hongyan; Bars moved fast enough, and the fifteen-year-old boy showed his determination and courage beyond his years, and withstood the pressure to give the order for the whole army to retreat.

Wolf Mountain, Yin Mountain, and the Tatar settlements south of Daqing Mountain soon received orders to evacuate. Many people were reluctant to abandon this anointed land, and they also complained about the accession of the new Khan, and many tribes chose to refuse to evacuate; In order to cooperate with Bars's order, Song Nan divided his troops into two routes, one along the Kara River to the north, to take over a large area of land in the Urad Zhonghou Banner after Bars withdrew, and the other road swept through Wuyuan to sweep a large grassland north of Muna Mountain and south of Yinshan Mountain, and defeated all the Tartar soldiers and horses who resisted sporadically, and it took half a month to advance the army to the southern foot of Yinshan Mountain in Wolf Mountain, and completely included the Hetao area.

On the eighth day of December, the imperial court decreed that it arrived at the Ming army camp on the bank of the Niutou River south of Yinshan, and at the same time commended the army for recovering the Hetao area, appointed Yang Yiqing as the plenipotentiary and the Qincha, and launched peace negotiations at the southern foot of Yinshan and the Tatar State.

There was almost no controversy in this peace negotiation, adhering to the previous agreements reached by Song Nan and Bars, and made detailed and clear provisions, the two countries from the date of the conclusion of the peace agreement on December 8, the seventh year of Zhengde, the two sides to Yinshan Wolf Mountain and Daqing Mountain as the boundary, from now on each side of the east and west, no longer invade each other's territory.

Faced with the dilemma of the Tatar state, Song Nan and Yang Yiqing agreed to Bars's request and agreed to open border trade between the two countries at an appropriate time to alleviate the dilemma of the Tatar state's national strength and poverty and lack of resources. At the same time, Bars promised not to import firearms from the Grand Duchy of Moscow, expelled the trade envoys of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and never had contact with each other again.

After learning about the current shortage of food and the difficult situation of the national strength of the Tatar State, Song Nan separately summoned the Tatar State and the envoy Hu Luozhen, and privately proposed that before the border trade between the two sides was opened, he could sell grain, cloth and other materials to the other party in his private name. Hu Luo was so happy that he almost kowtowed to Song Nan, because in this peace negotiation, he always wanted to let the two countries implement border trade after the truce, because the situation in the Tatar country has been extremely erosive, this war has almost exhausted all the financial and human resources in the country, food and materials have been exhausted, if measures are not taken, hundreds of people will not survive until next summer. Song Nan's mention is really as precious as charcoal in the snow.

However, there was no money in the Tatar states to exchange for this grain, and what to buy it became a problem. Hu Luozhen tentatively asked if he could owe it for the time being, and when the time came, he would raise the interest rate and return it, but Song Nan mercilessly rejected it. Later, he proposed to exchange the war horse with a beautiful girl from the Tatar Kingdom, Song Nan was moved, but quickly dispelled this idea.

Maybe in exchange for hundreds of Tatar beautiful girls to return to the Ming Dynasty is a sought-after commodity, having a Tatar girl as a tool to vent and play with may become a fashion among the Ming nobles, but Song Nan thought that he was equivalent to a human trafficker or skin. Professions such as barbers are reluctant to wade into this troubled water.

In the end, Song Nan vaguely proposed that after exchanging the refined iron produced by a refined iron vein found at the northern foot of Daqing Mountain, Hu Luozhen understood the wishful thinking of this prince of Daming Town; This refined iron ore is the highest and highest quality vein among the more than a dozen iron mines in the Tatar State, and Song Nan's doing so is equivalent to indirectly restricting the increase in the armament and equipment of the Tatar State, which is not unintelligent.

Although the people of the Tatar State felt Song Nan's full malice, they had to seriously consider this issue in the face of the dilemma of lack of food and clothing throughout the country. In the end, it was concluded that Song Nan only asked for the exchange of refined iron produced, and did not ask to occupy this vein, which means that in the future, after the national strength is restored, this transaction can be canceled at any time, and there is no big loss. What has been lost is only that in the past few years of recovery, the whole country is afraid that it will lag behind in terms of military preparation. But since it has been decided not to fight, the lag in armaments is not too much of a problem, the only thing to worry about is that the Ming people tore up the agreement and brazenly launched an attack, if this is the case, with the current strength of the Tatar state, even if it is fully armed, I am afraid it will not be able to resist.

So, after several days of quarrels, Bars finally made a decision and signed a decision with Song Nan to exchange grain and cloth for fine iron and some horses in the country. In terms of price, Song Nan almost sold the grain to the price of pearls, and the Tatar country scolded from top to bottom, but also had to grit his teeth and sign an agreement.

According to Song Nan's request, the imperial court ordered the restoration of the original Daningwei, Dongshengwei, and Kaipingwei north of the Yellow River to form a three-point and one-line defense system, and at the same time planned to set up four guards on the deep side, including Wuyuanwei, Deshengwei, Pingbeiwei, and Shannanwei, to form a joint defense system of seven sons and beads, pushing the defense depth along the Great Wall to the north for more than 800 miles, and firmly controlling the Hetao area.

The allocation of troops has also been adjusted on a large scale, and the former border towns of Shanxi and Shaanxi have suddenly become inland towns, and the troops and horses deployed by them will also move northward accordingly. But in fact, the most fundamental problem lies in the money and future supply lines for the construction of these health centers, and if these problems are not solved, these health centers will be untenable.

But these problems will not be successful in a while, the big strategy will be decided first, and then the difficult construction process, Song Nan has a strategy in his heart, but it is not a matter of overnight.

Zhang An led the officers and soldiers of the four guards in the northwest to stay north of the Yellow River to stabilize the situation, and more than 20,000 soldiers and horses of the four guards were responsible for rebuilding the Dongshengwei and the Wuyuan Guard on the south bank of the Kara River, forming two barriers in the east and west. At the same time, he also supervises the actions of the Tartars, and it is better to have more eyes on the Tartars.

To ensure the supply of the four guards and horses is relatively simple, Yang Yiqing has established an efficient logistics supply chain, the east from the Shanxi channel, the west is more difficult, need to transfer from Ningxia Town, but because the entire Yellow River ferries are already in the Ming bag, there is no need to open up a road from the desert, from Ningxia Town to the waterway to supply by boat, although it is a bit difficult, but it is not impossible to do. In the future, it will be even more convenient to build a bridge over the river after the mainland is built, but I am afraid it will take a year or two to do it.

Song Nan is not worried about these things, what he is worried about is actually that these supplies are still used by his own silver, this hole is getting bigger and bigger, he has to go back quickly to solve this matter, otherwise he will become the biggest wronged boss of the Ming Dynasty.

On December 17, Song Nan led the Shenshu Battalion, Zhenwei Battalion, Lianwu Battalion, Wai Second Military Battalion, and other Gyeonggi soldiers and horses to return to the DPRK, on the day of triumph, it snowed heavily in the Hetao area, as if to send off the triumph of the army, in the midst of the snow, the army entered Shanxi along the southern foot of Daqing Mountain, and returned to the capital all the way through Datong Ulzhou.

On the twenty-ninth day of the New Year, the day before the New Year of the eighth year of Zhengde, the recruits returned, the soldiers returned to the court, and the triumphant warriors were full of spirit although they were all described as withered. This time, even the cabinet scholars and even the officials of the outer court also went out of the city to greet them, and it was the dream of the Ming Dynasty to seize the Hetao, and many people could not do things in this dynasty. Although this matter has almost nothing to do with these people, they will clear it up if the matter fails, and the matter is done, naturally it is the credit of everyone, as a member of the hundred officials of this dynasty, it will leave a mark in the history.

However, the marquis came, the civil officials came, and the eunuchs also came, but what was missing was the figure of Zhengde, the son of heaven, and in the sound of congratulations, Song Nan saw the opportunity to ask Zhang Yong why this was. Zhang Yong didn't say anything, and his eyes turned red when he said this.

"Grandpa Guo, why doesn't the emperor want to come, he talks about it every day, but he can't come."

Song Nan was shocked: "Why is that?" ”

Zhang Yong looked at the noise around him and said: "Wait for our family to talk to you in detail, it is not a matter of a few words to make it clear, there are many people here, after the grandfather of the country enters the city, he will directly follow me into the palace, and I will tell you a few major things in the palace on the way." ”

Song Nan felt that things seemed to be very strict, and there were ministers in front of him, so what did he say that there were many people? It's nothing if the emperor doesn't come to greet him, but at least there is a holy decree or something, but in fact, there is not even a verbal edict, which has to make people suspicious. It's only been three months since he left the capital to fight, so what happened to the DPRK and China? But this seems unlikely, if there is any change in the DPRK, why didn't the North and South Zhenfu Division pass on any news to themselves? Did Sun Xuan and Hou Dabiao eat dry rice? Even if the Jinyi Guard Yamen can't find out, the British Gong Zhang Lun should know about the major events in the DPRK and China, and he will definitely send someone to inform him, how can he ignore it?

Although he was full of suspicion, Song Nan still accepted everyone's congratulations with a smile on his face, and in the crowd, he saw the figure of Zhu Chenhao, King Ning, compared with before, King Ning seemed to be less enthusiastic about himself, and just politely congratulated.

However, seeing this person, Song Nan was unspeakably unhappy in his heart, before he set out on the expedition, this gentleman was in the capital, and now he is still there, which means that he has lived in the palace for the past few months, Song Nan suddenly remembered something, and his good mood was undoubtedly destroyed.