Can we plant the land next spring?
The current prairie is in chaos and there should be very few people farming.
It’s not that the prairie doesn’t meet the conditions for farming, it’s that farming is too troublesome and the Mongolians don’t like to do it or know how to do it. It’s also because they live in pursuit of water and grass, which is equivalent to having no fixed place and no way to farm.
The bigger reason is that there are wars every year, not just with the Ming Dynasty or with the Jiannu, but more often with random wars among various tribes.
How can I have the energy to farm?
After Sanniangzi built Guihua City, she vigorously developed agriculture and cultivated many wheat fields outside Guihua City.
That's because Sanniangzi was a "loyal and obedient lady" conferred by the Ming Dynasty. Her three husbands were all Mongolian kings and had the strength to build a city.
In later generations, Inner Mongolia had more than 100 million acres of cultivated land, which could not only grow wheat, sorghum, potatoes, potatoes, highland barley and other crops, but also hybrid rice in areas with ideal irrigation conditions.
Therefore, Huang Yi believes that not only animal husbandry can be done on the prairie, but agriculture can also be developed.
There are rich mineral resources here, and it is feasible to develop industry! Baotou, a grassland steel city, is an example!
It's just that construction is so difficult, destruction is instantaneous, and in an environment of constant war, without strong force, it is simply impossible to farm land, mine, and build factories.
How to survive and develop your own power is a difficult problem.
Areas that are left alone should have a chance.
Huang Yi knew a little bit about the history of the late Ming Dynasty. In the early years of Chongzhen, Lin Dan Khan's sphere of influence was compressed by Jiannu to the Hetao and Tumochuan areas west of the border wall of Xuanfu.
Jiannu entered the customs many times to plunder and massacre the city. The most puzzling thing is that he never attacked Zhangjiakou, where wealthy businessmen gathered.
It is estimated that there should be a tacit understanding between the traitorous Shanxi merchants and the slave builders.
They established slaves to attack Lin Dan Khan and rob the Ming Dynasty. However, due to the limited population, they all committed crimes on the run and did not occupy any city or place in the pass.
In the fifth year of Chongzhen, when Jiannu defeated Lin Dan Khan again and captured Guihua City, he did not send troops to garrison it. Instead, he set fire to the city and then abandoned it. This can be seen from this.
It seems that Huang Yi can find a base between Zhangjiakou and Guihua City in a mountainous basin with decent water resources and relatively hidden.
He was inspired after thinking about Guihua City. It doesn't matter if he doesn't know where he is now!
Guihua City is so famous on the prairie. You can ask Hedanbaatar in which direction of Guihua City and how far away is his current location.
Huang Yi also wanted to ask Hedanbaat'er which tribe belonged to the Thousand Households or Ten Thousand Households, because Huang Yi knew that the Thousand Household System and the later Ten Thousand Household System were the Mongolian military and political systems.
When I had an idea, Huang Dayong translated, and Hedan Barter told me everything I knew.
Huang Yi finally knew that this tribe originally belonged to the Ujimqin tribe, but Hedanbaatar was not sure how many tribes and people were left in the Ujimqin tribe, and where their Taiji went.
But Hedanbaatar knew that their largest king, Lindan Khan, was defeated by the Jianzhou Jurchens last autumn. Now many tribes surrendered and helped Jianzhou Jurchens attack the Mongolian tribes who were still loyal to Lindan Khan.
Sanniangzi City, also known as Guihua City, is located in the southwest. If the weather is good, Hedanbaat'er's tribe should be able to reach it in ten days or half a month by migrating southwest.
There were Han merchants in Guihua City, and there was a market outside the city, where Hedanbaat'er's tribe would exchange part of their cattle, sheep, horses, and furs for cloth, tea, ironware, porcelain, grain, and so on.
This is to open border markets with each other. The transaction is approved by the Ming Dynasty. However, ironware is a controlled product. Iron pots and shovels can be traded freely. Others are smuggled and entrained.
After understanding the current situation dictated by Hedan Battle, Huang Yi fell silent.
This small tribe only had about sixty young and middle-aged warriors who could fight on horseback. It was too weak to fight against the slave-building army.
It is right to move to the southwest or go as far as Mobei.
Unfortunately, it is not easy. If they are coveted by other more powerful Mongolian tribes, they will definitely be annexed by them.
How to avoid this situation?
They can only continue to annex smaller Mongolian tribes and strive to strengthen themselves.
This cannot be achieved through hard work, but also through good luck.
At the very least, you must ensure that you do not encounter large tribes before you have accumulated a certain level of strength, or that you should immediately offer cattle, sheep, and horses to express your surrender after encountering large tribes.
As long as we can still maintain the status quo of independent development, we will not lose.
Huang Yi hopes that the Hedanbaatar Department can grow stronger.
If not for anything else, it was because Hedanbaat'er had a grudge against Jiannu for killing his father and brother, and also because Hedanbaat'er refused to surrender to Jiannu.
How to grow?
The only option is to annex and unite other tribes.
This is also the most fundamental reason for the constant attacks on the prairie.
The establishment of order often requires power, and only a dominant force can maintain peace.
Wang Lindan Khan on the prairie is dying, the slaves are rising, and no one is convinced by the old and the new.
During the Republic of China, "If you have a gun, you are a grass-headed king." In the prairie of the late Ming Dynasty, people and horses were also grass-headed kings, so they fought fiercely.
It is absolutely possible to bewitch Hedanbaat'er to steal the population and expand the tribe and become a grass-headed king!
After thinking about it, Huang Yi advised Hedanbaat'er not to think about where the Taiji of the Ujimqin tribe had gone, and suggested that Hedanbaatar should be the Taiji of the Ujimqin tribe.
He also stated that he would fully support Hedanbaat'er and support him in uniting or annexing the dispersed small tribes originally affiliated with Ujimqin.
The law of the grassland is that the strong survive, and Hedanbaat'er knows this very well. Why doesn't he want to annex and unite other tribes?
Huang Yi, who had already killed five knights, was enough to prove his bravery. Hedanbaatar was very happy after receiving Huang Yi's support.
He said something similar to sharing blessings and sufferings.
With Huang Yi's wisdom, it was impossible to take such words seriously, but he still showed his willingness to fight for Hedanbaatar with all his heart.
However, Huang Yi did not expect that there were many tribal leaders with ambitions to annex and unite other tribes.
At this time, there was a tribe from the original Ujimqin who was pursuing the traces of the Hedanbaater tribe.
This tribe had been bullied during the years when Hedanbaatar's father was still alive.
However, thirty years to the east of the river and thirty years to the west of the river, one has declined and the other has increased. Now this tribe has a population of six to seven hundred, and its strength has far exceeded that of Hedanbaat'er's tribe.
The leader Bayan'er has the ambition to annex Hedanbaat'er's tribe and avenge its shame.
The weak have no right to speak. It is not only the Bayaner tribe that has been eyeing the Hedanbaat'er tribe for a long time, but also the old enemy Kachagute tribe. It is not clear whether there are other tribes.
Hedanbaat'er left his father's pasture and led his tribe to migrate to the southwest. The main purpose was to seek refuge with the largest king, Lindan Khan.
Small and medium-sized tribes can basically avoid being annexed by embracing Lin Dan Khan's lap, but they must offer sacrifices and even send young adults to participate in Lin Dan Khan's conquests.
