After yesterday's wild rush where people flew in front and souls chased behind, Zhang Qi planned to take it easy today.

And after Ma San woke up this morning, he checked the situation of the horses, sighed and said to Zhang Qi: "Lang Jun, those grassland horses are no longer good, and they will basically not be able to run in the future." ”

Zhang Qi was a little stunned, he knew that a long-distance run would damage the horse, but he didn't expect it to be so serious.

After hearing Ma San's words, he also went to look at the nine steppe horses that he had snatched from the Huns before.

Each of them was like Ma San said, and they didn't see anything big when they were standing, but their muscles trembled a little as they walked.

Helplessly, Zhang Qi planned to collect them into the world of riding and chopping, but he didn't expect that collecting horses was the same as collecting people, and they needed to pay tolls.

There is no way, it's a pity to throw away these horses, and bring them into the riding and chopping world alive Zhang Qi didn't want to waste the dinar, so he simply drew his knife and slaughtered the nine grassland horses on the spot in the distressed eyes of everyone.

A few hundred catties of fine horse meat were left for meat, and the rest were collected into the world of riding and chopping as military rations.

Live horses need dinars, but dead horses don't.

These steppe horses were dead, and Zhang Qi was missing some camel beasts, and now that his dinar was growing every day under Khachin's operation, he simply replaced the horses of the entire team with riding and chopping horses.

Six steppe horses from the Riding and Chopping World were brought out, and after loading their supplies, they set off.

The situation was not much different from what Zhang Qi had guessed, as it got closer and closer to the east, there were more and more Hun cavalry.

Zhang Jian succeeded in evading several groups of Hun cavalry under the pretext of responding to Aguru before, and finally arrived at the vast Hulun Lake in the early morning of the fourth day after exhausting the steppe horses.

Although it is now covered by heavy snow, the scenery of the Hulunbuir grassland has emerged.

After arriving at Hulun Lake, Zhang Qi stayed for a few days to observe.

The Zuo Tu Qi tribe can be regarded as a rich tribe among the Xiongnu, with a variety of rich pastures, and hundreds of tribes of all sizes are entrenched here.

Zhang Qi has seen a few of these tribes, and they are basically the descendants of Zuo Tuqi.

The number of people ranges from small tribes of more than 100 people to large tribes of thousands of people scattered in all corners of the Hulunbuir grassland, and basically where there is enough water, the larger the scale of the tribe.

Moreover, through several pretended trading opportunities, Zhang Qi found that most of the Huns here were semi-nomadic and half-cultivated.

Through mutual trade, Zhang used oats, rye and other crops with the Huns in exchange for millet and millet.

Zhang Qi actually didn't know what millet was and what millet was, these were all told to him by Lu Mu.

Millet is yellow rice, one of the main edible products of the Han people, but it is not the main crop planted by the Huns here, they mainly plant millet, millet is not a crop, but several kinds of general name, there are various colors of millet, and sorghum. p1

The other two Zhang Qizhi felt that it was nothing, but when it was the turn of sorghum, Zhang Qi's eyes lit up, this is a good thing, to put it mildly, sorghum once saved a country, although later its planting proportion declined significantly, but it is undeniable that it was important in that era.

It's no wonder that the herders here want to grow millet, and if you throw sorghum into the field, you don't have to worry about anything, and you can get a harvest every year.

Belong to the crop industry of the subsistence player.

Zhang Qi generously exchanged a little salt for a bag of sorghum and some millet yellow rice, because he pretended to be a Gaoche tribe, he was quite popular among these Hun tribes.

The grassland people move from pasture to pasture every year, and it can be said that there is no commerce, and the furs and bone tools accumulated by the tribe can only be exchanged in the north and south of the mountain festival every year.

For the high-riders who trade in the grasslands, this is one of the few opportunities they can exchange for the supplies they want.

Since it was pretended, Zhang Qi simply pretended to be real.

After visiting four or five Xiongnu tribes that relied on Hulun Lake for survival, Zhang Qi gradually discovered that there were not only Huns here.

And the Han Chinese.

Not slaves, but Han Chinese who had a personal status as true herdsmen.

When he was trading with the tribe, he also asked Lu Mu to investigate, and found that these people were indeed once residents of the Han land.

It's just that now, they are all accustomed to the living habits of the Huns, although many of them are plundered or defeated soldiers, but there are also many of them who came on their own initiative.

In layman's terms, for these low-level Han people, they do not have the concept of the country in their hearts, and they live where they can live.

And the main reason why the tribes here are half-farming and half-pasting is because of the participation of these Han people.

For them, Zhang Qi really can't say the word traitor, the feudal dynasty has nothing to do with these low-level people, and the country only belongs to those people in the upper class.

All they want is to live.

Two or three days of tribal trading has broadened Zhang Qi's horizons a lot, and now that he has seen and understood, Zhang Qi and the others also plan to continue to march towards the east.

Just before moving forward.....

"The surrounding situation has been investigated clearly, after the summoning order was issued, all the Huns who could fight in this tribe rushed over, and now there are only women and children in their tribe."

The eagle whispered in Zhang Qi's ear.

"Are you sure? Their entire tribe is gone, not afraid of being annexed? ”

Zhang Qi asked in some surprise, yes, he really planned to do a vote before leaving, anyway, it was the New Year, so he couldn't leave empty-handed.

Ying shook his head: "The women of this tribe are one of Zuo Tuqi's clans, so no one dares to touch them. ”（yan1zhi1）

"And because that woman is so loved by Zuo Tuqi, several large grasslands nearby have been rewarded to their tribe, and no one will come."

Zhang Qi nodded: "How is the personnel situation?" ”

There was an unusual burgundy on the eagle's face, and Zhang Qi knew that this guy was excited.

"I used those dates you gave to me and a few extravagant cubs, there are more than 300 women in the tribe, and only thirty or forty men are still in the tribe, and I have figured out the yurt where those men live, which is the third, sixth, and ninth rooms near Hulun Lake."

"There are a few scattered ones that are very separated, how about it, do you want to get them?"

Eagle looked at Zhang Qi with some expectation, Zhang Qi thought for a while, and then looked at a few NPC soldiers guarding him, and the corners of his mouth also hooked up a bright smile.

"Get them!"

"The moon is dark and the wind is high, killing night!"

"Rest for the night in their tribe, and you let the harrier and the warriors stay near the most male yurts, and listen to me at night!"

"Got it! I'm going to inform the Harrier! ”

The eagle suppressed the excitement that was about to roar, and walked out of Zhang Qi's yurt quickly, this was the last tribe they visited, and it was also the easternmost tribe of Hulun Lake, because they found that the number of men here was surprisingly small, so Zhang Qi had some ideas.