Daming: I, the emperor who trains the carpenter

early spring on the prairie,

The ice and snow in the distant mountains melted, turning into flowing water from the mountains, turning into streams and lakes on the grassland.

The remnants of the ice melted, and the buds sprouted. Accompanied by the dots of greenery and the air with the smell of earth and green buds in the air, the slightly cold early spring represented the beginning of a new round of vitality for the grassland.

On the cruel grassland, every winter is a reincarnation.

The tribes that can survive the wind and snow winter bring their livestock and clansmen to welcome the spring, but the tribes that cannot survive are often covered by ice and snow, and people who come here will only find out when the ice and snow subside in spring. A tribe disappeared on the grassland.

The power of nature is so unstoppable, and the will of Changshengtian is unpredictable. The tribes on the grassland can only survive the severe cold if they report to the group to keep warm.

Not to mention the general small tribes, even the big tribes, when facing the cold winter, the wind and snow on the grassland will make them helpless, but the big tribes have more people and more livestock, so the chances of carrying them are more.

However, everything has unknowns.

For example, the current Baliannadu Grassland, with the support of the Ming court, is obviously much more comfortable than those helpless tribes.

On the thousands of miles of Baliannadu grassland, the herdsmen of a small ranch survived the winter safely with a hundred domes. With the help of the Ming court, they had potatoes and sweet potatoes for the winter, and their domes became stronger and more reliable. Winter insulation is better, and their livestock have their own pens and silage for the winter.

This winter, God gave Chen Yawan a lot of face. In his first winter as the prefect of Balianna, no herdsmen were frozen to death, and livestock were rarely frozen to death.

And such a change, for the herders in Baliannadu, is undoubtedly the blessing of longevity. All winter, everyone lives in a warm dome, eats enough, wears warm clothes, and has fodder to take care of their cattle and sheep. Let the livestock freeze to death, if it was left in the past, how could there be such a good thing? !
With the arrival of early spring, the ice and snow melted, and the grasslands thawed. The herdsmen couldn't help but smile happily when they saw the cattle and sheep coming out of the pens and starting to eat the tender shoots on the ground: no livestock died this winter, which means that the herdsmen will live this year. There is hope.

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The sound of horseshoes sounded not far away. The herdsmen looked up and saw a group of knights holding the flag of Ming Dynasty galloping towards the distance on war horses. Looking at the group of knights, many old herdsmen had complicated expressions, while young The herdsmen showed envious expressions.

To become a knight of Ming Dynasty, this is the dream of many young men in Balanadu.

An old herdsman slowly pulled out a cigarette pipe from his waist, lit it and took a deep puff. As the smoke lingered, the old herdsman said slowly: "This spring, the grassland will not be peaceful."

This is also true. In the early spring of the tenth year of the Apocalypse, Cao Wenzhao launched an attack again. Compared with the previous two-way attack on the northern grassland and the eastern grassland, Cao Wenzhao sent out two cavalry again this time. The second is to focus on dealing with the tribes between the Balian Nadu Grassland and the Chahar Grassland.

After the severe winter, I don't know how many small tribes died out, and how many tribes suffered heavy losses.

They couldn't refuse Daming at this time.

General Li Zhao of Huaiyuan and General Wang Lin of Dingyuan each set out with [-] cavalry each. Teams of knights who received orders rushed from various places to Zhongba Liandu. Gathering together, they converged into two torrents from a dispersed state, rushing towards the east against the cold wind of the grassland in early spring.

Cao Wenzhao stood at the gate of the camp and watched the cavalry leave, then turned around and said to the generals who followed him, "Last year, Lindan Bartu, the Khan of the Tatars, was severely injured by Huang Taiji, so he was powerless to stop our actions on the grassland. .”

"This spring, if he, Lindan Baltu, wants to restore the strength of the Chahar tribe, he must annex the surrounding small tribes to replenish his blood."

"What we are doing now is to compete with Lindan Baltu for the small tribe. No matter what method we use, we can't let Lindan Baltu recover his blood successfully."

"After everyone goes back, train the soldiers strictly. If there is no accident, we will definitely have a fight with Lindan Baltu."

All the generals clasped their fists and said in unison: "Here!"

Cao Wenzhao knew very well that if Lindan Baltu still wanted to preserve his position as the Great Khan of the Grassland, if he wanted the Chahar Tribe to continue to occupy the fertile Chahar Grassland, and if he wanted to deter the tribes in Monan, he would not be able to back down.

What's more, he lost two thousand cavalry in the battle with Huang Taiji years ago. Now that he doesn't annex the small tribes around him to recover his blood, his Chahar tribe won't be able to recover for a year or two.

The prairie is no better than the Great Wall. The huge size of the Central Plains Dynasty, not to mention tens of thousands of people, even 10,000+ people will not hurt the bones. It is also impossible to draw another 10 people from the Beijing camp, and another 20 people can be transferred to be used by the Japanese army to fight a battle to defend Beijing.

But for the grasslands, not to mention the loss of 10,000+ people, even the loss of thousands of people is a painful pain.

Lindan Baltu lost the battle years ago, and he still hasn't calmed down. Otherwise, the Balian and Nadu tribes would dare to fight on the grassland?
As long as they dare to fight, Lindan Baltu will dare to wait to reap the benefits of the fisherman, and after the Balian and Nadu tribes are both defeated, the Chahar tribe will be able to swallow the Balian and Nadu tribes in one go.

It can only be said that Lindan Baltu's overconfidence not only gave Huang Taiji a wave of blood back, but also gave Daming an opportunity to take advantage of the game of three people, the victory of two people, the only loser Lin Dan Baltu Huddled on the Chahar Grassland silently licking the wound, while silently shedding tears, saying something like "30 years in the east and 30 years in the west, don't bully the young and the poor".

Another move by the Ming army, tens of thousands of cavalry carrying the flag of the Ming army galloped across the grasslands, and it also made many small tribes sandwiched between Baliannadu and Chahar clearly see who is stronger and who is weaker now. .

For these small tribes, learning to be a weed is an essential skill to survive in the grassland.

Therefore, when it was discovered that Balina was obviously stronger than Chahar, these small tribes who had just survived a severe winter were indeed moved by the recruitment of the Ming army.

Now they have suffered heavy losses, and many herdsmen and livestock have stayed forever in the previous winter. If they want to live in peace this year, the best choice is to join a big force.

And with the support of the Ming court, Balian Nadu, which can get material support from the Ming court, is undoubtedly the most suitable choice at the moment. At worst, they will run to settle under the Great Wall.

Therefore, this time, many small tribes chose to leave the pastures with their livestock and go to Balanadu. For these active tribes, Cao Wenzhao chose to send cavalry to provide them with protection; as for those who have no eyesight, they still want to keep their tribal leaders Status, why would you rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail, those small tribes that still want to be free and independent, then there is nothing to say.

In the living environment of the grassland where the weak are prey to the strong, if you are weak, you are not qualified to talk about independence. Talk about being the head of a chicken rather than the tail of a phoenix.

The [-] cavalry on this pasture is an unstoppable force for these small tribes. When a few uncooperative small tribes were wiped out and all the tribes were taken away, some active small tribes also saw Nadu's attitude is here.

The tribes who still wanted to retain their independence fled one after another. They knew very well that this grassland would definitely become the battlefield for the next battle between Balanadu and Chahar.

Which of the small tribes that can survive on the grassland is not a human spirit?

Those old herdsmen have experienced too much wind and snow, and the wind and grass on the grassland can hardly escape their eyes.

This early spring has just arrived, and the cold and bleak air is already filled with the smell of gunpowder.

Of course, for the herdsmen of the small tribe who just joined Balanadu, these are not their concerns. They are amazed at the difference between Balanadu and other grasslands.

Full of order, full of hope.

Balianna is a special economic zone of Ming Dynasty, and everything here is well organized.

On the pastures in early spring, families of herdsmen started grazing and cleaning their farms at the same time. These small tribes who migrated looked at these herdsmen in amazement.

Facing the foreign tribes, the herdsmen of Baliannadu seemed very calm. They had seen so many small tribes that were astonished, and they didn’t even notice it. A sense of arrogance had already arisen in their hearts: the herdsmen of the small tribes were I have no experience, and I don’t know how powerful I am.

That's right, they are very proud now and have a strong sense of superiority, because they are no longer ordinary tribal herdsmen, but subjects of Ming Dynasty.

They have their own cattle and sheep, pastures, and their own farms. They don't need to provide cattle and sheep fur to the headmen and leaders, and they don't need to treat them as cattle or horses. They also have the powerful Ming court to provide them with protection.

Therefore, they have a sense of superiority.

And these small tribes who just came to Balanadu saw a completely different scene from other places. The herdsmen of these small tribes fell into confusion and at a loss, and they didn't know how to integrate here.

Soon, a group of riders with the flag of Ming Dynasty arrived, but the leader of the team of Mongolian riders with the flag of Ming Dynasty was a Han Chinese and a young scholar.

This is a student from Datong Academy. He is now in charge of a pastoral area, and these small tribes have been divided into his pastoral area by Chen Yawan.

"You have already arrived in Daming's territory, don't worry, follow me, I will take you to the place where you live."

"My name is Li Ke, and I am the banner chief of the Three Banners of Nadu in Dongba. If you have any questions in the future, you can come to me."

The head of the banner named Li Ke told the herdsmen of these small tribes about the environment where they will live in detail. The herdsmen of these small tribes learned that there are now nine large pastoral areas in Balianna, and they are in Dongba. Even the Nadu pastoral area, and each large pastoral area is divided into ten banners, each banner has ten pastures, and each pasture is a hundred domes.

After they join the Three Banners of Lian Nadu in Dongba, they will become the new pastures of the Three Banners.

Narang is a herdsman of the Zhending tribe, and the Zhending tribe is just a small tribe on the grassland.

A small tribe like this with only a hundred or so huts is like weeds on the grassland. The smaller the tribe, the harder it is to survive on the grassland.

Every winter is a test of death for them.

After finally surviving another severe winter, this small tribe finally chose to join Baliannadu in order to survive in peace.

As soon as Nalang came to Balian Nadu with the tribe, he was assigned to the Three Banners of Dongba Lian Nadu and became the No.11 ranch under the three flags.

The hundred and ten huts of their entire tribe formed a pasture. The livestock they brought with them were not taken away by Balanadu. After the tragedy, they added a batch of livestock to them.

Li Ke brought Zhen Dingbu to their ranch, and said: "This ranch is now your settlement. The imperial court will send you materials and arrange ranchers for you. What do you need?" If you want to help, find your rancher, and if he can't solve it, come to me."

"Although you have your own domes, these domes are too old. You will use them for the first few days. After the new wood is delivered, you can build your own ranch."

"You don't have many livestock right now. The imperial court will allocate a batch of livestock to you. Just like other people, these livestock will belong to you after ten years of grazing, and half of the cubs born every year will belong to the imperial court and half to you."

"As for potatoes and sweet potatoes, I will draw a batch from the flag and give them to you, and you will plant them first."

"There will be no arrangements for you for the time being, you just need to live in peace."

After giving the order, Li Ke led the people to leave. Narang and the rest of the tribe looked at the pasture. You looked at me and I looked at you. Then, under the leadership of the old leader, they began to rebuild their own dome, and then surrounded the pasture. Form a circle, and stay like this for the time being.

Originally, Nalang thought that the imperial court would arrange for them for a long time, but the next day, a convoy arrived. Along with the convoy arrived, their owner was also a student from Datong Academy, a young scholar .

Narang looked at the lumber loaded on the carriages, the huts, and the carts of grain, followed by the cattle and sheep behind the convoy, and couldn't help but widen his eyes: the imperial court will really provide them with grain. Provide them with cattle and sheep? !

Later, Narang learned that their owner was Kong Zongfang, but he was not a member of the Shandong Kong surname.

He was just a child of an ordinary family in Shanxi. After the New Deal was extended to Shanxi, his family divided the fields, and Kong Zongfang also entered Datong Academy to study.

Now he came to the grassland just to fulfill his ambition.

People on the prairie still treat scholars with respect.

Kong Zongfang didn't mess around either. He first talked with the old leader to understand the situation of the Zhending tribe, and then led the herdsmen in the tribe to start building their own homes.

Under the leadership of Kong Zongfang, the Zhending Department first replaced the tribe with a new dome, but it was impossible to throw away the old dome. The wood that was brought in was roughly processed to form the tribe's fence and livestock. The old dome just became the roof of the livestock pens, protecting the livestock from wind and rain.

The cattle and sheep were also collected by Kong Zongfang and distributed to the herdsmen of each dome in the tribe, and potatoes and sweet potatoes, except for some edible ones, the remaining potatoes and sweet potatoes were also taught by Kong Zongfang how to plant and how to plant them. cooking.

These potatoes and sweet potatoes will become important food reserves for herdsmen.

Kong Zongfang’s governance reassured the herdsmen of Zhending. The owner sent by the Ming Dynasty knew a lot and took the lead in the work. The old leader’s family was not treated harshly. They also allocated cattle and sheep, and the old leader was highly respected. , and helped Kong Zongfang mediate the conflicts in the tribe, and Kong Zongfang's prestige in the Zhending tribe was also established.

Narang feels the deepest about the changes in his own life.

The seven members of their family lived in the new dome. They had their own herd of cattle and sheep. These newly replenished cattle and sheep gave their family hope of survival, and they also dug the cellar under the leadership of Kong Zongfang. Store potatoes and sweet potatoes, start learning how to grow potatoes and cotton on the prairies, and make silos to store fodder for livestock.

Not only that, Kong Zongfang also told Narang that a school should be built in the ranch to let the dolls read and write, and only by reading and writing can they have a better future.

Nalang and the herdsmen trust Kong Zongfang’s words very much. After all, Kong Zongfang is a person who can read and write. Therefore, Nalang and the herdsmen collected materials and collectively built a large dome as a school for the dolls. , Kong Zongfang also began to teach the dolls to read and write every day.

Narang also heard that in the future, not only will every pastoral area be built with a county seat, but roads and factories will also be built. At that time, the cattle and sheep can be handed over to the women, and the men can go to the factories to earn more money, so that the family has more good stuff.

County towns, factories, etc. are still far away for the current Zhending tribe, but all these tell the herdsmen that the future has been guaranteed and relied on, and the tribe really has a future, and there will be no winter die suddenly.

Stable survival is the most important thing for the herdsmen on the grassland. Only a long and stable life can allow the tribe to thrive and survive.

The herdsmen in Zhendingbu had smiles on their faces, looking at the cattle and sheep in the pen, watching the half-baked reading sound coming from the dome in the middle of the pasture, looking at the new dome and the potatoes and sweet potatoes in the cellar. The herdsmen couldn't help but smile.

These are the hopes, not only the hopes of the tribe, but also the hopes of the dolls.

The Zhending tribe has now become the Zhending Ranch of the Three Banners of Dongbalian Nadu in the Ming Dynasty. Like other small tribes that joined the Baliannadu, they began to settle down here, continue to graze cattle and sheep, take care of cubs, and look after dolls We rode sheep and had fun in the pasture, listening to the sound of the dolls reading, everything is so full of vitality. This early spring, we really have a better future.

Narang also found that the old leader's wrinkled face also wore a rare smile. In the past, when winter came and passed, the old leader's eyes were full of complexity and sadness, but now, the old leader finally I can unload the burden.

Breaking off a bud from the ground, the old leader slowly put it in his mouth and chewed it. Looking at the cattle, sheep, and dolls, the old leader's face was full of relief, really, it can continue to exist.