open sea

Chapter 959 The General Assembly
The so-called east is not the east of Changsheng, but the east of Jincheng, which is far away.

But it's not really urgent.

Because the fight took place last year.

Last year when the Ming-Xi War ended, Jincheng Governor Ma Guifang led Mongolian and Jurchen soldiers and a small number of banner troops who were proficient in cartography to the east. After that, they increased troops and dispatched them again and again, and recruited pioneers from among the immigrants. Together with Wu Zhongxing, the magistrate of Jincheng, Manage slightly Jincheng.

His starting point is not only to try to expand their knowledge of Asia on the map, but also to fulfill his promise to the banner troops under his command, that is, the reward promised before the Eastern Expedition-to be promoted according to meritorious service and set up a hundred households.

More than 200 households under the Ma family are waiting.

Not only Jincheng is developing eastward, but in Changsheng North, Hei Yunlong also led his subordinates to run eastward after the war. However, his development is much easier. Central Asia has long been included in the scope of New Spain by Spain. The subordinates will survey the general road and terrain in person.

Therefore, Heiyunlong arrived in Florida on the east coast early last year, and even visited the Spanish colony near the St. John River, the ancient battlefield site of Fort St. Augustine under the guidance of the Spaniards.

After sending people back to Changsheng with the terrain and knowledge along the way, Hei Yunlong demarcated the boundaries of New Spain in the north of Fort St. Augustine, and then led his cavalry northward along the sea to patrol the east coast of Asia belonging to Ming Dynasty.

However, it was not Heiyunlong who first fought in this land that was extremely unfamiliar to Ming Dynasty, but the Mongolian leader Hulan who ran all the way east from Jincheng.

In the past, Hulan was just an inconspicuous warrior on the Mongolian grassland. Although there were several like-minded warriors following him, he was not even a Batuer, let alone a tribal leader.

However, he followed Magui across the glacier, lived in Majiagang for more than two years, and later won the first rank in the battle with the Spaniards, and became one of the more than 200 people who survived the Eastern Expedition. Among the more than [-] people who can be counted, Hu Lan is also a cavalry officer, which makes him unique.

Now with the favor of the emperor, Hulan has his own tribe - this statement is wrong, the correct statement is Daming Jinchengwei Youqianhu, but in Hulan's eyes, this is similar to having his own tribe.

After the Mingxi War ended, Hu Lan received an order to lead his subordinates to expand the territory to the east until it faces the sea. When the flag army he marked finished surveying and mapping the map, he would be appointed as a command envoy, and he would be appointed as a commander on the land he had surveyed. Choose a piece of land as his guard, and guard this land for the emperor from generation to generation.

The name Magui has been chosen, and it will be called Hulanwei.

In the eyes of Hulan, the so-called "Hulanwei" is no different from the "Hulan tribe", and it may be like Genghis Khan's Chincha Khanate, Chagatai Khanate, Wokuotai Khanate, and Ilkhanate in the future , was canonized by the Wanli Khan and became the Hulan Khanate, paying tribute to the emperor from generation to generation.

With this dream in mind, Hu Lan first encountered a high mountain that could not be crossed, and he led his men along the foot of the mountain all the way to the north, at the gap in the mountain range to the east, and then encountered a plateau, and behind the plateau was an endless grassland. Summer goes and autumn comes.

In response to the winter cold, Hulan, who found himself too far north, went southeast again. On the way, he encountered one village after another. When he expressed his intention, no one attacked them. On the contrary, the local residents tried to use food. Relief them.

After all, they couldn't beat them. Not to mention that their army looked very scary, there were too many people.

Magui has been sending people to the east. At the beginning, it was Hulan’s thousand-man cavalry, and later sent hundreds of households to explore eastward from different positions in the north and south. They communicated with each other on the vast grassland. It doesn’t matter if they get lost. , as long as they go east to the sea at the end, they can always meet there.

It was quiet for half a year. In winter, they found a huge lake that could not be seen. Hu Lan thought it was the sea.

But the local aborigines who claimed to be the Botawatomi tribe who lived by the lake told him that it was a lake. In short, Hulan spent the winter of the sixth year of Wanli by the lake.

The name of Botawatomi is hard to remember. The Banner Army under Hulan called them the "Rice Washing Department", and Hu Lan introduced to the Rice Washing Department that they were from the Hulan Department of the Ming Empire. The Beiyang army tents and felts were unloaded from the caravan, and the trees were cut down to make dark green felt tents.

There are more women in the rice-washing tribe than men and less proficient in planting and fishing. The Hulan tribe is full of men and has bird guns in their hands. They are good at hunting. The two tribes just complement each other and can trade with each other to survive the winter.

In the coldest season, more than 100 young men from the Hulan tribe, including Qianhu Hulan, married the girls from the rice washing tribe. The two tribes held a grand wedding and married by the lake. Here we go.

Only at this time did he realize that they were not the only outsiders on the east coast of North Asia.

In the winter of the sixth year of Wanli, aboriginals riding tall horses rushed into the village of Taomibu and yelled at Hulan's old father-in-law. Before the arrow shot through the rider's throat, his wife from the rice department took the reins from the horse and told him: This is the war leader of the Iroquois Confederacy calling the army.

Iroquois Confederacy.

Neither Hulan's father-in-law or his wife, nor the father-in-law and wives of the more than 100 young men from the Hulan tribe who came from the rice-washing tribe could not tell Hulan exactly what the Iroquois Alliance is.

They only know that all the known powerful tribes are members of the Iroquois Alliance, and the Rice Washing Department?They were not members of the Iroquois, but this mighty and warlike confederation of tribes threatened war, calling up all the warriors they could to fight in the far northeast of Quebec.

Quebec means fjord, and Hu Lan's worried old father-in-law, holding a wooden pipe, said that it was the mouth of another large lake, which was far away. I heard that you can sail to the sea along the river.

sea!

This word moved Hulan's heart.

What father-in-law and wife said is "very far", in Hulan's view it means "not far", because they have no horses and no cars, no matter where they go, they rely on their legs, and the "not far" is basically only ten miles , more than ten miles is 'very far'.

He traveled long distances and made turns along the way, and walked more than 7000 miles all the way to get here. Now his father-in-law said it was far away, so Hulan estimated that he was less than [-] miles away from the sea.

The Mongolian warriors who came from the distant grasslands and experienced the severe cold of the Heishui Mohe Islands had already made up their minds.

But following his father-in-law's words made him change his mind.

The old Indian knocked the burnt tobacco stems in his pipe and said, "There are some invaders who came here a long time ago. They are very white and look different from us. They say that the land under their feet is not Quebec but Latvia." Then, claiming that this place no longer belongs to the Chinese monarch, but the people called New France, they hunted beavers at the mouth of the river, felled the forest, and attacked the tribes of the Iroquois Union."

Just as Columbus firmly believed that he had arrived in India, the French explorer who first arrived in the New World also believed that he had landed on the coast of China, and firmly believed that Quebec was a province of China.

Hearing the very white outsider, Hu Lan understood. He licked his dry lips and said, "Let's go too. The Iroquois Alliance is gathering soldiers and horses in Dahe. This is also a big gathering, right? In my hometown If there is a Naadam Conference, there should be one.”

"Don't worry about this, there are still many of my people who will come over later, I will leave some troops to meet them, and we will go to the Iroquois Convention!"

Hu Lan rubbed his hands and walked out of the longhouse belonging to the tribal leader, and said to the left and right: "Send someone back and tell the commander-in-chief that there is going to be a war here!"

(End of this chapter)