Shi Kefa became more suspicious, "Hong Junzuo, you said, these women are not blue-eyed and red-haired? They are not a group of red-haired ghosts? Then who are they? They are not Han people, are they?"
"It should not be Han people, they don't know Chinese at all." Hong Chengchou shook his head, his eyes fell on the teapot in his hand, "According to the observations of the humble servants and the rangers, they look like people nearby."
"These damn red-haired ghosts should have shaved them alive!" Shi Kefa cursed casually, "Unfortunately we can't understand their language, can't ask questions, and can't send them back."
Hong Chengchou continued to play with the kettle: "Didn’t your Majesty say that the whole Mobei, all the way to the fishing sea, live in Mongolian tribes? The adults might as well ask Li Lun to ask, maybe Li Lun can understand them. if."
"Yes, let Li Lun ask questions tomorrow." Shi Kefa thinks about it. If Li Lun can't ask anything, he can't do anything. "Hong Junzuo, what about these captured red ghosts? We don't know how to red. Mao language people."
"Your Majesty once said that once Hong Mao's firearms are seized, they will be sent to the capital. He thought that when the Ministry of War brings the military rations, let them take the Hong Mao leader and Hong Mao's guns along the way. Your Majesty decides."
"Well, there may be people in the capital who can speak the language of the red hair. Since they are brought back, they will simply bring a few more red-haired soldiers, so that the red-haired leader will not be fooled and there is no testimony."
"My lord is right, take a few more soldiers."
"Hong Junzao, what about the rest of the red hair?"
"My lord," Hong Chengchou made a military salute to Shi Kefa first, "have an idea for the humble job."
"Hong Junzuo has something to say, you might as well speak straight!"
"The humble post thinks, after Li Lun asked these women, the humble post sent them back to their original tribe, together with the captured red hairs, for their tribe to deal with."
"Hong Junzuo means..."
"The humble job did this in order to gain their trust, to narrow the relationship between Daming and these people, and to lay a good stand for the official entry into the fishing sea next year."
Shi Kefa squinted his eyes and thought for a while, "Hong Junzuo, please tell me your plan in detail."
"My lord, humble hope, taking the opportunity of the red hair to send an army, in the name of protecting the local people, first enter the fishing sea."
"However, we don't have food to support them now."
"We don't have to support them now. While we are stationed in the fishing sea, we will not interfere with their daily lives. They will take care of their food. They will rebuild their lives in winter or next spring."
"Hong Junzuo, if you really want to reform them, they will inevitably incur their opposition. Who wants to change the habit of living for hundreds of thousands of years?"
"My lord, if you want to use powerlessness in the future, it will benefit a lot to move in now. At least we know their way of life, know their daily residence, know their number and combat effectiveness, and when it comes to military action, we won't lose sight of it. "
"Hong Junzuo made sense," Shi Kefa was still a little worried. After all, the people who fished in Erhai had a different lifestyle and language from the Han people. "How will Hong Junzuo approach them? You can't communicate with each other in language. ."
"My lord, even if I go again next year, I still cannot communicate in language." Hong Chengchou is not discouraged. He already has a brief plan. "In fact, these women and red-haired prisoners of war are the best language for communication."
Shi Kefa nodded, "I just don't know if Li Lun can ask where their tribe is."
"My lord, it doesn't matter if you can't ask. We are an army after all. We can at least retreat all over the body. Even the red hairs can sway in their land, but we have a complete victory over the red hairs."
"Well, I agree with Hong Junzuo's opinion. If the army can stay in the fishing sea, Hong Junzuo urges them to pay attention to the terrain and look for places where rivers meet, open terrain, and convenient transportation. Suitable settlements to prepare for the full takeover of the fishing sea in the future."
"Yes, sir, I am going to go fishing in the Erhai by myself."
"You go personally? What about Chita?"
"This, the humble post has already considered. Now the herdsmen in one government and two counties have gradually adapted to farming. There will be no major problems for the time being. Each of the two counties of Hengjiu and Beiwang will be stationed in a regiment, and Chita will temporarily live in three. The regiment, under the unified command of Commander Li Li, took the other four regiments with the humble position and rushed to the fishing sea. The situation is unknown, perhaps there are red hairs, and the number is too small to control the initiative."
"That's okay," Shi Kefa was still a little worried about the instability of the herdsmen. "However, Hong Junzuo, the garrisons in various places should strengthen their ties, and if there is an abnormal change, they can concentrate their forces."
"Yes, sir, during the autumn harvest season in one government and two counties, the humble position will try to allocate soldiers to strengthen inspections in the three places to prevent the local herdsmen from changing when the grain is short of harvest." Hong Chengchou clasped his fists in his hands and saluted Shi Kefa. "My lord Can you explain to the court that a portion of the grain will be delivered first, so that if the herdsmen fail to harvest the spring wheat, they will be guaranteed to survive the winter."
Shi Kefa nodded slightly, "This year is the first year of planting spring wheat in Lingbei Province. There are many unpredictable possibilities. I will explain the situation to the court."
Hong Chengchou let out a sigh of relief: "My lord, that's how it is decided?"
"Hong Junzuo is going to fish in the Erhai. You must be cautious. In case you cannot do anything, you must not use force. When one government and two counties are stable, it will not be too late to concentrate your forces to clean up the fishing Erhai."
"Humble job understands." Hong Chengchou replied cleanly, "Sir, this'fishing in the sea' seems to be the name of Meng Yuan, and it is not like the name of the Han people. The humble job seems to have heard your Majesty say that it is called Bei... what lake."
"Bei... Lake?" Shi Kefa closed his eyes in thought, and then slowly opened his eyes, "Before this province came to Lingbei, he had consulted the relevant information of Lingbei Province. Regarding the fishing in the sea, it was the place where Su Wu shepherd the sheep in the Han Dynasty. Dahan is called Beihai, and Tang is called Xiaohai. According to your Majesty’s custom, either restore the name of the Han and Tang dynasties, or take a new Chinese name."
"My lord, let's call it Beihu Lake. My Majesty said, this is the largest freshwater lake in the world. There must be many treasures in the lake that we have never seen before. Besides, My Majesty once personally called Beihu..."
"Beihu?" Shi Kefa muttered repeatedly, feeling more and more smooth, "This name is indeed good."
"Then we will call it Bay Lake from now on!"
The next day, Shi Kefa recruited Li Lun and asked him to interrogate the captured women.
Regrettably, Li Lun could not understand what the women said.
Zhu Youjian and Bumubutai, namely Wang Meiyu, made a historical mistake here. In fact, the Buryats living around Beihu are not descendants of the authentic Mongols. They are more closely related to the Wasa people.
The Wassa people are not direct Mongolians. They originally lived in the extreme north, fishing and hunting. When Genghis Khan unified the Mongolian plateau, they were the first local natives to be naturalized as Mongols.
When the Mongol Yuan Dynasty fell and Mongolia fell into division, the Wasse people became independent from the Mongols. Because they were not the direct Mongols, they were forced to live in Moxi, a place where aquatic plants were not abundant.
In the era of not sweating, but also first, the strength of the Wasashi people reached their peak, far surpassing the weakened Tatar Mongol tribes. In the "Turnwood Fortification", even the Emperor of Ming was captured. However, they do not have the blood of Genghis Khan's golden family, and they are not high in the prestige of Mongolian ministries, and they have never been able to complete the great cause of unifying Mongolia.
The Buryats living around Beihu Lake, although they are called the descendants of the Mongols from the Hans, are actually a broad term. They are only related to the Wasas. No wonder Li Lun can’t understand them. language.
Regardless of the language spoken by the Buryats, Hong Chengchou believes that the Buryats will learn Chinese sooner or later. Now that the Ming army is here, the Buryats will disappear in the dust of history.
He set off from Yashan and went west along the Uda River and the Shilok River. On the road, he would also encounter scattered Buryats. They looked at the Ming Army with suspicious eyes, probably seeing that the Ming Army was not blue-eyed and red-haired. , And there was no intention to attack, their fear gradually weakened, but they ignored Hong Chengchou, often avoiding the Ming army and walking alone in the grass and forest.
At the end of the Uda River is the Segereng River. From a distance, the Segereng River is like a white Hada lying in front. If the Mongols encounter such a river, I wonder if they would be grateful to Changshengtian. Gift.
Hong Chengchou saw that there were a large number of almost naked people holding wooden sticks in the Wuda River. They were spearing fish in the river.
The arrival of a large number of Ming troops attracted their attention.
Some fishermen looked at the Ming army. Maybe they thought that the Ming army was not hostile. Perhaps it was a critical moment when they were fishing. They ignored the Ming army. They just tied the fish basket on the river bank to their waist and continued. Their fishing plan.
Hong Chengchou looked around. On the other side of the Wuda River, there was a group of people who were pasturing their sheep leisurely. "How come there are pale yellow goats? Is this a variant of the sheep?"
The soldiers' eyes were also on the other side. Suddenly, a sharp-eyed soldier shouted: "Soldier, that's not a goat, but a deer. He is a reindeer."
"Reindeer? Only heard of herding cattle, horses and sheep, never heard of reindeer," Hong Chengchou smiled and shook his head. "No wonder some goats have spots on their bodies, and they don't seem to be the right size."
Looking at the large number of war horses of the Ming army, perhaps they think that the Ming army is a nearby tribe, as long as they don't interfere with their lives, they are too lazy to take care of the Ming army.
"Bring ten women here!" Linguistically unable to communicate, Hong Chengchou had no special way to do it. He had no choice but to pick up women's ideas, hoping that this last method could attract the attention of these fishermen. If this trick is not It worked, I'm afraid the swordsmen met.
The ten women wrapped in the middle of the team were brought to the forefront of the Ming army by soldiers. They could already see the fishermen in the river clearly.