The Mongols frequently harassed the front lines of the Great Wall. In addition to robbery, they also plundered the young and healthy population outside the Great Wall.
At this time, Lin Dan Khan had greatly strengthened the strength of the Chahar tribe because of his reconquest of Monan Mongolia last year.
Because Monan has not experienced war for decades, it has a large population and rich tribes. This time everything is easier for Lin Danhan.
His western expedition brought great disaster to Monan. The adult men were killed, and the women and children were captured as slaves and distributed to the Modong Mongolian warriors.
Millions of war horses, cattle, sheep, and livestock were driven back to Chahar. The various princes, Taiji, and herders in Monan suffered huge losses.
They once again knelt in front of Lin Danhan tremblingly and swore allegiance to Changshengtian. They rushed to send their most beautiful wives and daughters to Lin Dan Khan.
After Lin Danhan suppressed Horqin, he was interfered by the Manchus and retreated after failure. As a result, his prestige suffered a huge blow. After the centrifugation of various departments intensified. His power grew again.
The whole of Mongolia is trembling. In front of Chahar's 100,000 cavalry, none of them dared to disobey Lin Dan Khan's will.
When Lin Dan's order for Han slaves came, the tribes breathed a sigh of relief. This is better than asking for women and cattle and sheep.
They were afraid that if they were too late, the Great Khan changed his mind and quickly collected all the Han slaves in the tribe and escorted them to King Kong White City. So as not to give Lin Dan Khan an excuse to hide Han slaves and start a war against them.
On the grassland, tribes from all directions sent out escort teams, converging towards one place.
Lu Shouli was shocked early in the morning. He was on duty last night and didn't sleep all night. He held an iron fork and faced off against the wolf all night in the sheepfold. In order to frighten the hungry wolf who came to take the sheep, he shouted until his voice became hoarse.
He must risk his life, otherwise if one sheep is missing, it will be a severe beating.
He has already had three broken ribs this year.
Nothing could happen again, he felt like his body couldn't bear it anymore.
Cursing in my heart, I could only get up.
This is the territory of Buryatia, and this camp is on the shore of Lake Baikal in later generations.
The Buryat people were called Buriyati in the Yuan Dynasty. Ethnically, they are a close branch of the Erut Mongols. They were originally nomadic in the Transbaikal region. At this time, they had developed northward to the area between the Yenisei and Lena rivers. .
This was the northern boundary of the Mongol sphere of influence.
They are further north than Khalkha Mongolia (Outer Mongolia). To the south of Buryatia is the Chechen Khanate of Khalkha Mongolia. To the east is the Savage Jurchen region. To the west is the edge of the castle built by Tsarist Russia's recent exploration of Siberia.
The Savage Jurchens were widely distributed south of the Waixing'an Mountains and north of the Second Songhua River at this time. The area east of the Ergun River. The area is equivalent to today's Heilongjiang Province, plus the area north of Heilongjiang, east of the Wusuli River, and south of the Waixing'an Mountains ceded by the Aihun Treaty and the Beijing Treaty of the Qing Dynasty, about 1.5 million square kilometers.
Lu Shouli was already numb. He had cried all his tears when he was a boy. He didn't know how far this place was from Lulong County. Just take it one day at a time.
He thought about running away, but he knew that human legs could not outrun horse legs. You can't escape by running away. Moreover, in this desolate prairie, lonely people are just food for wild animals. No one can cross the Gobi without food and water.
Going east is the savage Jurchen, how dare he go. Going south is the territory of the Chechen Khan, and once you get there, you will still be captured as slaves from the north. After passing the territory of the Chechen Khan, you can go northeast to Horqin and Shenyang. Are you going to be a slave to the Jiannu?
You have to go all the way south through the Great Desert and Gobi to reach the territory of the Tumut people. Through here you can go to Datong and Zhangjiakou. This is almost impossible.
He was taken away at the age of sixteen, and now he is thirty-six years old.
Tribes closer to the Ming Dynasty only used the youngest and strongest slaves. Because they are close to the Ming Dynasty's frontier. You can catch them every year.
Slaves don't have enough to eat, they work day and night, and their physical strength declines quickly. Generally, they use them for a few years before selling them to tribes further north. After a few years, the tribes further north will continue to resell them at a reduced price.
Just resell it step by step. Many slaves died, and those who survived went to the fishing sea.
Are you going to be sold again? He smiled bitterly.
He looked at the whole slave camp, and the Mongolian soldiers were searching out more than 300 Han people and concentrating them in one place.
These people have never had a bath since they were captured. His whole body stank and covered with scabies, his hair stuck together like felt. Everything he wears is rotten leather.
The commoner was stripped naked when he was captured. Mongolians wear leather robes in summer and cannot bear the summer heat, so they like cloth clothes very much.
These people have dull eyes and are skinny and skinny.
They all walked barefoot because they had no pants or shoes. Their calves and feet were cracked, and the soles of their feet were covered with thick calluses.
They also had no boots in winter.
You can only beg some mutton oil from the Mongols and apply it on your skin, then wrap it with a broken skin.
The Mongolian soldiers used spears to drive away these zombie-like people and told them to leave quickly.
Where is it further north? Are there still Mongols there?
He remembered that after crossing the Fishing Sea, the only people left were the nomadic tribes of the Evenkis.
They tame moose and roam the virgin forests. There are also the savage Jurchens outside Heilongjiang. They all wear clothes sewn from salmon and salmon skin.
They are the same as the savage Jurchens, savages more terrifying than the slaves.
He lamented in his heart, forget it, just live one day at a time.
As he was getting further and further away from his hometown, he felt sad.
Thinking of his elderly parents in his hometown and his wife who had only been married for a year when he was arrested, I felt sad. I haven't had time to leave a queen for my family yet.
He wiped his tears with the back of his bony hand.
"Brother Lu, where are the Tatars going to take us?"
Lu Shouli raised his head and saw Xiaocui holding the child, and asked in panic.
Xiaocui is only sixteen years old this year. Her parents are both slaves. The year before last, there was a quarrel, and a group of more than 200 Cossack cavalry came to kill them.
This fringe camp was raided. Neither her parents nor her husband ran out. Died during a Cossack attack.
That time the Cossacks almost massacred the entire camp. All the cattle and sheep were taken away.
Lu Shouli was tending sheep. He met Xiao Cui who had escaped from the camp and was holding a child. Xiao Cui informed him of the arrival of the Russians.
Lu Shouli made a prompt decision, abandoned the sheep, took the Mongolian mastiff shepherd dog Bale, pulled their mother and daughter, and ran into a hibernating brown bear cave.
The bear did not survive the white plague and died in the cave. After Lu Shouli found out, he didn't dare to say anything. He just secretly tanned the bear skin, washed the meat and sewer, smoked it and dried it, planning to use it as supplies when escaping in the future.
That time they hid in a cave and escaped the search of the Cossack cavalry. Until the Mongolian cavalry arrived and beat away the Cossacks. They just returned to the camp again. What they saw were corpses all over the ground and burned tents.
In the thirty-fourth year of Wanli, the Russians invaded the Balabin Grassland. In the following decades, from the Tara area to the Irtysh and Yenisey river basins, the Tsarist Russians encroached and devoured them again and again, and built important buildings in various places. Castle, and constantly sent missions to various Mongolian ministries to lobby in an attempt to persuade them to submit to Russia. At the same time, they also collected intelligence from various Mongolian ministries and the Ming Dynasty.
In the forty-seventh year of Wanli, the Russians established Yeniseisk.
In the first year of Chongzhen, Krasnoyarsk was established.
Tsarist Russia then formed two invasion directions, southward and eastward.
The Mobei grassland to the south is inhabited by the Erut tribe and the Khalkha Mongols. Each tribe has a large population and has strong resistance to the various intentions of Tsarist Russia. The leaders of the Tushetu Khan tribe and the Chechen Khan tribe of the Khalkha Mongols also once After sending people to Moscow for negotiation many times, Tsarist Russia's southward intention was blocked, so it aimed towards the east.
Therefore, in the past ten years, the Buryat Mongols have begun to bear more and more pressure from Tsarist Russia. Buryat Khan began to increase the population along the shores of Lake Baikal and consolidate border defenses.
These slaves were all acquired in the past two years. Only he and Xiaocui and his daughter survived from the previous slaves. So Xiaocui is very dependent on him. It seemed as if he was her backbone and she would come to him to discuss anything.
And he also took good care of this poor mother and daughter. After all, they were compatriots who spoke the North Zhili dialect. Let him feel like his hometown.
When he comes back from herding sheep, he often brings back some goat milk for Xiaocui's daughter. He secretly squeezed it from the ewes.
Because of heavy labor and malnutrition, Xiaocui's shriveled breasts did not have enough milk to feed her one-year-old child.
"I don't know, but it doesn't look like it. The masters actually asked me to pack my things and take all the food and leathers with me. It's really like the sun is coming out from the west. When I was sent to the hospital in the past, I almost always walked away naked. Because of the things It can be left to the next slave.”
After a while, a crowd gathered, and a centurion rode up.
"Listen, you slaves, the common master of the grassland, the king of kings protected by the Eternal Sky, the direct bloodline of Genghis Khan, the God of Gods, the all-wise Genghis Long Sheng Khan, Lin Dan Hutuktu Shengwu Genghis Daming Xue The Zen battle is invincible. The great Chakravardi Taizong, the Jade Emperor of the universe, the Golden Wheel King. The great Khutuktu Khan. The great Khutuktu Khan, Lindan Batur. There is a will, You humble slaves are going to the Vajra White City to work for the Great Khan. This is the blessing you have earned in three lifetimes and the supreme glory. Now join me in thanking the Immortal God for his care for you."
As he spoke, Centurion Bald Ma Chun put his hand on his chest and began to chant.
The slaves did not dare to disobey and cursed Bald Ma Dun in their hearts. Why didn't this villain fall off his horse and fall to death? Why didn't he drag him to death. But I had no choice but to read it in half-intelligible Mongolia.
Lu Shouli could hardly believe his ears. The escape plan he had planned for a long time actually didn't have to run away. Lin Dan Khan actually took these Han slaves over. We arrived at Jingangbai City, which is Chahanhot, which is less than 500 miles away from Liaodong and Jizhen.
The slaves were overjoyed that their master allowed them to take away all their belongings. All carrying large and small bags. The master didn't have so many good intentions, he just hoped that they wouldn't die on the road.
I hope they can all make it to Chahanhot City alive. There was enough quantity to satisfy the Khan's appetite. Lest he look with the greedy eyes of a hungry wolf on his women, children, cattle and sheep. The terrible fate of Monan Mongolia has frightened them.
Lu Shouli helped Cui'er and her child carry their luggage, and was about to set off with the large group of people when suddenly a dog barked. Lu Shouli took a look and saw that it was his shepherd dog, Mongolian mastiff Bale, and his wife Mongolian wolfhound Qiaona, running together.
The two dogs kept rubbing their heads against Lu Shouli and whining aggrievedly, as if complaining that Lu Shouli had abandoned them. These two dogs have large skeletons, one meter tall, and are Lu Shouli's helpers in shepherding sheep.
"Lord Centurion, can I take these two dogs away?" Lu Shouli asked respectfully, putting his hand on his chest.
Bald Ma Chun used his slender eyes to look at this slave who didn't know his condition with evil eyes. His hand touched the handle of the knife and he slashed him to death.
With murderous intentions, he suddenly felt a feeling of being stared at by evil wolves. He saw the two majestic dogs looking at him with cold eyes.
There are very few timid Mongolian Mastiffs. They are brave and fearless. What is especially dangerous is that this dog will attack silently without giving any warning.
Bald Ma Chun slowly released his hand from the handle of the knife. Maybe it was a good thing to bring two dogs. After all, the road was still quite far. I was unlucky enough to take on this bad job. There was no fuel or water at all, and there were a lot of dangers on the road. At least there are two fierce dogs, and you can call the police at night or something.
"Pay attention to your identity and don't anger me. Take these two dogs with you. From now on, you can sleep on the edge of the camp and keep vigil."
Lu Shouli didn't expect that the centurion actually agreed, and he quickly bowed with profuse thanks and took Bale and Qiao Na to join the team.
