"Jingle bells."

A car is driving on the road.

The sails are hung on the vehicles, and the wind is strong this season, so people sit on the cars and drive the sails, relying on the delicate parts to be very nimble.

The empty sail car arrived at the Miyun Railway Station, and outside the Miyun Railway Station, many sail cars were parked.

When the wind is strong, people can sit in the car and drive directly with the help of the wind, and when the wind is weak, they rely on a combination of manpower and wind to promote.

The production is very exquisite, and various angles and parts are mainly used to save manpower. This technique was transmitted back to the West in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries via Luzon Spain.

As the animal power increases, more and more sail carts will also use horses, mules and donkeys, and animal power when the wind stops.

The second battalion of the Daxing New Army has arrived at the Miyun Railway Station.

Thousands of horse infantry troops are setting off for Kaiping.

The artillery battalion had ten heavy guns, ten wheel guns, five bowl guns, and an average of eighteen people per gun.

The soldier had an armed belt around his waist, five grenades on the belt, and a straps of a bird gun on his shoulder, which had a bayonet already attached to the mouth,

Thin metal pliers were attached to the bird's body, and to the left of the belt was a pocket containing paper-wrapped gunpowder and lead.

Each soldier carried a kettle with a cold white boil, and a bag of dry food on his chest, which contained fried noodles and dried fish, and three days of emergency food, which could be eaten for five days if he saved food.

In front of the artillery were the car crews.

The carriages were loaded with more military supplies, with grenade ammunition boxes, gunpowder boxes, lead boxes, hemp rope, iron nails, cotton cloth, and so on.

The cavalry battalion was at the forefront, clearing the way and guarding the army.

The supply and marketing cooperatives next to the railway station in Miyun have special medicine cabinets, which sell drugs to stop bleeding, drugs to treat wind and cold, and medicines to treat coughs.

Medicines were only available to the aristocracy in the West, because the price of medicines was very high, but in Daming, because of the development of productive forces.

Whether it's cloth, tea, or medicine, the average person can afford it, and the price is very cheap, at least compared to the West.

In the current foreign trade of the Ming Dynasty, the most exquisite goods will not be exported, including porcelain and other best-selling goods.

Most of the best-selling foreign products are inferior quality, and the most exquisite and high-quality goods are first provided to the wealthy groups in China.

"It's really emotional."

The shopkeeper of the supply and marketing cooperatives was at the door, and when he saw that the shadow of the army was no longer visible, he couldn't help but sigh.

The young man beside him asked curiously: "The shopkeeper is well-informed, why is he still emotionally aroused today." ”

The shopkeeper smiled: "As you said, I have traveled all my life and settled here, and I am indeed well-informed, but it is precisely because I am well-informed that I sigh." ”

The young man from the supply and marketing cooperatives became more and more curious.

Supply and marketing cooperatives are different from private merchants.

There is no talk of the invisible status hierarchy in society, so the young man chatted with the shopkeeper confidently, and he didn't feel that he was inferior to the shopkeeper.

It is the person who respects the treasurer, not the identity of the treasurer.

When the shopkeeper was young, he ran a businessman, went to many places, and told some of his stories, which made the young man listen to it with great excitement.

The year before last, he joined China Heavy Industries, and relying on his outstanding achievements, he became the big shopkeeper of the first-class supply and marketing cooperatives such as Miyun Supply and Marketing Cooperative.

"When a large army fights abroad, the most difficult thing is logistics, you look at this army, not to mention the essence of armament, the most incredible thing is that no additional logistics is used, basically relying on the ability of railway transportation itself to provide eight or nine times out of ten."

"Since there is no logistical worries, as long as there is a railway, our army can go wherever it wants, stay as long as it wants, it's just a change of camp."

The young man didn't understand it halfway, but when he heard the shopkeeper say that his army was powerful, he couldn't help but smile on his face and look proud.

"Our army is naturally powerful."

The shopkeeper couldn't help but smile again, this is another powerful place.

……

"Woo woo woo~"

Outside the tent on the grassland, an old man from the grassland wept bitterly.

"Wise man, why are you crying?"

When Taiji of the tribe heard the news here, he rushed over with people and asked the old man with concern.

The old man wore a patched robe with a tattered silk tunic over it, and kept a few sheep outside his tent.

The old man's hands were full of mouths because of the harsh natural environment of the grassland, more than ordinary people.

He did not suffer when he was young, but began to suffer in middle age, and he was no longer accustomed to working with fine skin and tender meat, but life forced him to participate in labor in order to support himself.

"He's dead."

The old man pointed to a dead man.

"He's dead of old age." Tai Ji said indifferently, unable to understand the old man's sorrow.

The old man couldn't help but cry.

"I'm not crying for him, he is the last Han craftsman in the tribe, and there will be no one in our tribe who can make tools in the future."

The young Taiji couldn't help but be happy, patted the old armor on his body, and pointed to the bows and arrows on the people's bodies.

"The Han craftsmen are waste when they go to the grassland, they have never produced tools, they will only waste the food of the tribe."

The old man shook his head.

There are countless minerals in the grassland, but the tribe cannot develop them. In the past, a small part of the tribe was obtained through the Western Regions, and most of them were obtained through the Central Plains.

Now that the Western Regions are hostile to them, the Central Plains has become stronger, and the emperor of the Central Plains has blocked the supplies, and for decades, the old man is after all a nobleman who lived in the Central Plains back then, and he has learned a lot of knowledge, and he has seen the danger.

In the long run, their tribe may have nothing.

"Without the Central Plains, our bows will become weak, our horses will become emaciated, and the warriors will not have enough to eat......"

The old man muttered.

"Nonsense."

Taiji turned around angrily, thinking that the wise man of the tribe was already old and unconscious.

They have boundless land.

When the Central Plains is strong, they can go far, far away to continue grazing, and when the Central Plains is weak, they can continue to come back.

The next day.

The old man died in grief.

The wise man of the tribe died, and the people of the tribe did not feel sorry.

The old man's ability to work is not good, and he still needs to rely on the tribe to help, and it is also the craftsman he asks to treat the Han people well.

The young tribesmen could not understand.

What is the use of craftsmen?

Everyone is working hard for life, and the craftsmen are not as good as them on the grassland, and they need tribal help just like the old man.

The wise man worries about the tribe.

The living environment of the tribe cannot support the idlers, so it cannot support the people who are out of production, and everyone needs to graze.

If he had read Beiping's Technology News, he would have understood that this was the reason for productivity.

Only with abundant productivity can many industries and occupations that do not need to be involved in food labor be born in society.

The wise man is actually the real wise man, but ordinary people can't keep up with the wise man's train of thought.

Truly.

The grasslands have a huge amount of land, much larger than the area of the Central Plains, and countless mineral resources, which should have produced countless armaments and tools.

But in the future, there will also be enemies to their west.

Then they will no longer have a retreat and no more strategic space.

Also one day in the future, the Jurchen Taiji, who made his fortune by relying on the materials of the Ming Dynasty, will dislike the bow of the steppe people and shoot tiredly, and the horse is thin and can't run.

At first, he thought that the grassland tribes had fooled him and punished many of the conquered steppe Taiji, but later he learned that they were indeed so.

The death of the wise man, the people of the tribe did not grieve.

However, the tribes are poor, the climate and ecological chain of the grasslands are abnormally weak, and the disasters that began last year have made it impossible for people to eat enough.

An envoy from outside came, and contacted them to go south and plunder.

"No, King Yan is in the south, we can't beat him, we'll die." Taiji shook his head.

"King Yan was suspicious of their father, the emperor, and has been transferred out of Beiping, and now is the best time."

The messenger had a smile on his face.

"Under the organization of the great Ha Thorn Vultures, many brave tribes have joined us, are you cowardly?"

Hearing that the person he was most afraid of was gone, the young Taiji nodded bravely and agreed to join the Ha Thorn Vultures.

Everyone on the grassland is a soldier, and even women and children can get on their horses and shoot bows.

In the Central Plains, where agriculture is civilized, farmers can't ride horses or shoot arrows, and their occupation is to produce food.

Artisans also do not ride horses or shoot arrows, their profession is to produce tools.

Only soldiers could ride horses and shoot arrows.

This is a society with developed productive forces, with different manifestations of division of labor, and belongs to a more advanced social civilization.

One by one, they went to their destination and joined the alliance called by the Ha Thorn Wuhai to go south to plunder the Central Plains.

It's their tradition.

Proud of plundering the Central Plains, not proud of developing civilization.

The most cruel people, the heroes who kill the most people.

Ha Thorn Wuhai was only a minor nobleman in the Yuan Dynasty, and there were more famous people than him, but these people either died, or were captured by Zhu Di, or submitted to Zhu Di, or were defeated by Zhu Di.

The great nobles of fame withered, giving the rest a chance to rise.

Ha Thorn Wuhai was excited.

He never imagined that he was where he is today.

Taiji, who participated in his alliance, has gathered tens of thousands of warriors, and there is no need to be worse than the great nobles of the year.

From the beginning of the fear to luck, in the end, after a long time, he has been proud, although he has not defeated a Ming army, but his reputation is known even to the Ming people.

Right now.

He will lead tens of thousands of warriors south and continue to conquer the Central Plains.

rob them of their food, burn down their houses, humiliate their wives and daughters, enslave their craftsmen, and reforge their glory.

But Ha Thorn Wuhai was very vigilant, he was not carried away by the current situation, but sent many people south to find out the news.

Coercion and temptation, through those familiar departments to find out the details of the Ming army.

In the end, after learning that there were only more than 10,000 people in the Ming army, and not all the cavalry, Ha Thorn Wuhai smiled proudly.

"Warriors, follow me south!"

The mighty horses' hooves trampled on the land of the steppe and went straight to the wealthy Kaiping.

(End of chapter)