Looking back

Yang Kang knew that he was in a legendary place at this time.

The land in the extreme north is colder, more fertile, and more dangerous than the white mountains and black waters where the Jurchens started. It has shorter days and longer nights. According to the legend of the Jurchens, it is where the gods rest after a battle. A place to sleep.In the endless forest and wasteland, there are some uncivilized tribes with different languages. They will migrate south when the severe winter comes, and trade precious furs and medicinal materials.

These tribes are mostly based on clans, and a tribe is a family. They migrate in the dense jungle and grass, and have little contact with each other.However, the power of Genghis Khan radiated to this barren land, condensing this land that had only scattered tribes into a unified kingdom.

The territory of this kingdom covers from the edge of the Arctic Ocean to the frozen Siberia Plain, all the way to the south to the vast Wusuli River basin and the continuous Daxingan Mountains. When the cold winter comes, it is frozen for thousands of miles. It is a veritable kingdom of ice and snow. People call it the Kingdom of Oirat.The people living in this desolate land, except for the Borjijin Mongols who started their family in the area of ​​the Onan River, are all tribes collectively known as the Woyitriti, which can be interpreted as "people in the forest".Unlike the Mongolians whose main livelihood is cattle and sheep, they rely more on gifts from heaven and earth. Animals in dense forests, fish in lakes, and birds in the sky are all their wealth, although they also need to feed Some livestock, but most of them are used to provide foot strength for riding and pulling carts, not for livelihood.

The actual leader of this kingdom is Genghis Khan's daughter, Tcha Yijian. In the past few years, her husband has spent most of his time fighting as Genghis Khan's personal guard, far more than staying in the tribe.The arrival and rule of Tcha Yijian actually brought great benefits to the people in these bitterly cold places.

Soft and smooth mink fur, precious antler and ginseng, rare wood, no longer can only be exchanged for the pitiful daily necessities as before, but at a fair price for strong cotton cloth, warm blankets, and Hard ironware, and even fine wine from the Western Regions.The internal disputes and killings were resolved by the majesty and justice of the leader. The capable hunters were gathered to hunt the rare birds and animals in the deep mountains.

It will take another few hundred years before the Russians in the West can get rid of the rule of the Golden Horde and extend the iron hooves of the Cossack cavalry to Siberia until later Russia. The residents of the Siberian Plain are still dominated by the so-called Tatars. That is, the descendants of the yellow race of the Oirat Kingdom.

The scenery here has a unique taste of a barren land. The creation of heaven and earth is breathtaking. Yang Kang and Hua Zheng ride horses and walk side by side on the snow field. Faint white light.The air was cold and pure, and every breath seemed to be washed by cold water. Huazheng said suddenly, "This is the rear of the Mongol Empire, and it has no contact with any enemies or wars."

Yang Kang smiled and said, "Of course, the Arctic Ocean lies to the north, so why not attack polar bears?"

Hua Zheng smiled slightly, "Unfortunately, it's too cold." Yang Kang guessed that the second half of her sentence was to say that living here would be fine otherwise, and said with a smile, "I'm not afraid of the cold, and neither are you. Not great. Just..."

"I'm afraid your mother won't be able to bear it." Huazheng said without hesitation, frowning slightly, looking at the frozen river, several children were competing on the ice to see who could skate the farthest, she watched and smiled up. "Xixia has officially surrendered, we can go directly from Mongolia to Xixia to find your parents."

Yang Kang reckoned that Yang Tiexin and Bao Xiruo should still be in Xixia at this time, feeling bad, Huazheng comforted him, "I heard that it was just a large army suppressing the border, before the war, the king of Xixia asked for peace and married the princess. Your parents There shouldn't be any danger. It's just that I'm going to have another little grandma."

After Yang Kang breathed a sigh of relief, although he didn't feel surprised after thinking about it, he still couldn't help sighing, "Another ally of the Kingdom of Jin." Hua Zheng asked, "Again? You mean?"

"Shatuo people, that is, the Wanggu tribe." Huazheng suddenly realized, "I said, I couldn't react at once. They formed an alliance with Mongolia when I was very young. I didn't know that they were allies of the Jin Dynasty before. ?”

Yang Kang shrugged, "They say they are allies, but after all, they are still separated by the Gobi Desert, and they don't have much contact, and they are also very weak. They turned their backs on the Jin Dynasty and formed an alliance with Mongolia more than ten years ago, and the Jin Dynasty did not take any action. It can only be said that their The leader really has good eyesight, and before Genghis Khan's rise, he stood up and became an in-law."

Hua Zheng shook his head and said, "Not only that, in fact, it was the most desperate time when my father Khan was defeated and fled, and there were many tribes stronger than him. But only the patriarch has good eyesight, and the rest of their nobles hope to continue Attached to the Jin Dynasty, so they rebelled and killed their father and son, that is, my third sister's father-in-law and husband, and my third sister managed to escape."

Yang Kang also heard about this rebellion. Later, Genghis Khan avenged his in-laws and son-in-law, and his daughter married the new ruler of the Wanggu tribe.Mongolian women don't know how to keep chastity for their husbands, and all of them have to remarry, especially the daughter of the Great Khan, who wants to use marriage to maintain one party's power, and the marriage between Hua Zheng and Guo Jing is considered the most free and willful.

After hearing his thoughts, Huazheng laughed, "There will always be new sons-in-law, but daughters will not change. This is the so-called 'hardened daughter and son-in-law'. He wants to marry Wang Han's Kelei tribe to be his granddaughter-in-law. After Wang Han's defeat, his younger brother sent his two daughters, one to marry my father Khan and the other to my younger brother Tuo Lei."

Yang Kang sighed, "This relationship is messy, can you still figure out the seniority?"

Huazheng said, "It's all like this, so it doesn't matter." After speaking, he sighed for a long time, and then changed the subject again, "Actually, I don't recommend letting your parents go south to Yunnan. Yunnan is mostly ethnic minorities. Closed and xenophobic, there are small wars and disputes among the various ethnic groups, the mountain roads are difficult to walk, and there are many miasma and poisonous insects. , but went north to my third sister. She married to the Wanggu tribe. The Shatuo people stopped nomadic a long time ago and settled down. They all lived in built cities. Their land is at the junction of the Central Plains and Western Regions. Many caravans come and go, there are various ethnic groups and religions, and they are not exclusive, and most importantly, there will be no more wars there for a long time.”

When Yang Kang arranged for Yang Tiexin and Bao Xiruo to escape, he told them that Yang Tiexin was a felon of the imperial court, so naturally he could not return to his hometown in the Southern Song Dynasty, so he went to a border area where the forces of the Jin Dynasty could not touch.Yunnan's terrain is closed and difficult to march, and it has always been the place farthest from wars, but he never dared to think about the northwest.

Are they going to be placed in the heart of the Mongolian Empire?Just like the eye of a typhoon is the calmest place, it will also be the most peaceful and prosperous place in the next few decades.

Seeing that he had no objection, Huazheng smiled and said, "The coldest winter is coming. There is no way for two people to go on the road, so we have to spend the winter in the tribe. When spring comes, we will go to Xixia. The surrender of Xixia is only temporary. Yes, we will take your parents out while it is still safe."

Yang Kang smiled and said, "Then go to Xixia to see if there are any relics of the Xiaoyao sect at that time?"

Huazheng snorted, turned his head and said, "Yeah, that's right, that's the main purpose, and I did everything else along the way, and pretended that I was doing favors to help you, don't be fooled by me. "Yang Kang teased her, "You want to help your father-in-law and mother-in-law, but you can't count it as a kindness to me."

Huazheng tilted his head, looked at him sideways, and said with a smile, "Speaking of which, I suddenly regret agreeing to you. I don't want a mother-in-law who is prettier than me." Yang Kang laughed, "What kind of exam question is this?" It’s not about falling into the water to save the mother or the daughter-in-law, but who is more beautiful, the mother or the daughter-in-law? I don’t want to be fooled, I pretend not to hear.”

Huazheng was laughing happily at first, but suddenly became depressed again, "It's just a temporary skin, and it's not my credit for being beautiful. There's nothing to be proud of, and it doesn't matter if it's not beautiful..." Before he finished speaking, Yang Kang Interrupted, "I think it's still very important. If the skin I passed through is a wretched, fat and bald man, I'm sure you'll have nothing to do with it." After finishing speaking, Huazheng let out a laugh, and turned his gaze to his face again. Going around, "Okay, I really don't know how to refute it. But the skin is not that important, Ouyang Ke is more handsome and rich than you, but the virtue of shaking a fan in winter is still wanting to kick it once. .”

Yang Kang said in a deep voice, "People always need to know which things are their own and which things are borrowed. It's a pity that I don't know what is really my own except for the appearance and status of the original little king. Wu Bujiu, everything is half-baked, no matter what, he has never been outstanding, I even feel that maybe he is not as good as his deity in all aspects."

Hua Zheng looked at him sideways, and said with a half-smile, "Why do you want to be outstanding, not to participate in a beauty pageant? Why do you want to be better than the original one? It's not a PK competition. Maybe his martial arts talent is better than yours. It’s much taller. Having the opportunity to wear it is to give you another chance to live a good life, isn’t there something wrong with having trouble with a dead person.”

Yang Kang asked, "What about you? Aren't you worried about things that don't belong to you?"

Huazheng's expression froze for a long time, and finally said slowly, "If I don't want some things, they still don't belong to me. Some things, if I know how to use them, they will naturally become mine." She said it extremely Slow, and finally smiled, "I thought before, no matter what, let's fight for it first. As for whether there is life to share, then it doesn't matter."

The two walked slowly, the horse was a little restless, and seemed to want to gallop, but the rider kept holding the rein firmly.He still remembered that when the two met for the first time, Hua Zheng's hair and horse mane fluttered wildly in the wind, leaving him far behind, but now, he could only pick up the reins and walk slowly, and walking a little faster would be too much.

Sighing in Yang Kang's heart, he turned his head to look at the clouds in the sky. The sky in the Northland was exceptionally blue and lofty. There were clumps of round bushes covered with white snow, like exquisite yurts.Amidst the whistling of the wind, one could vaguely hear the rustling of the branches, and after paying a little attention, one saw an animal staring blankly among the bushes.

After he came here, he recognized quite a few wild beasts, and when he saw the big, round ears, he knew it was a roe deer.Yang Kang shot it with an arrow, but the roe deer suddenly jumped, leaped several feet away, and disappeared into the forest with a flick of white hair on its buttocks.

He has practiced bow and arrow since he was a child, but he seldom hits living things. Seeing that the arrow missed, Huazheng smiled on the horseback. After the smile subsided, she said, "The bowstring is stiff in winter. Why do you shoot like this?" Okay." After talking about the essentials, Yang Kang tried it out, and the accuracy was much better, but the roe deer had already disappeared.

Huazheng smiled and said, "Your basic skills are good enough, the next thing is just lack of experience. In a few days, you will go to play Dongwei, so you can go with us too."

Hunting should be carried out under the summoning of prestige and experienced old hunters, surround a mountain, and work together to collect all the prey in the enclosure.There are seasons for hunting, as the local saying goes, deer antlers are harvested in spring, and skins are harvested in winter. In autumn and winter, a new layer of fine velvet grows thick and soft fur. It is the most expensive luxury, ranging from small squirrels and foxes to leopards and tigers. , are the targets under the bow and arrow.

Yang Kang asked, "Are you going too?" Huazheng said with a smile, "You don't know my arrow skills. Besides, besides participating in hunting, I have to do something, and I need your help."

It didn't take long for him to know what it was. At this time, they had already arrived at the temporary camp set up in the deep mountains to fight the winter camp. The customs here were completely different from those of Tcha Yijian's camp. , instead of wool felt, and cattle and sheep are rarely seen along the way.Ordinary people in the forest mostly raise reindeer. These hardy creatures come from the Siberian tundra in the subpolar zone. After domestication, they are raised in the woodland and feed on moss.Both males and females have tall multi-pronged horns, which are distinguished from each other by colored ribbons. Their thick hooves are not afraid of ice shells, and their robust bodies are shaped like cattle, so they are effortless to pull and ride.

Chacha Yijian insists on keeping her living habits as a Mongolian. She insists on raising horses, cattle and sheep like a Mongolian woman. The horse team is her guard of honor when she travels, and the yurt covered with wool felt is her palace. People will salute the honorable "Bei Ji Hadun" when they see it. In Mongolian, Bie Ji is the title of a princess, and Hadun has the double meaning of the earth and the queen.

This is the largest winter siege carried out under her direct leadership, gathering the strength of everyone to hunt down dangerous bears and wild boars, the hunters dispatched first have detected the animals walking in the forest, and set up tents at the foot of the mountain, raised Bonfire, waiting for the follow-up peloton.Chacha Yijian and Huazheng rode side by side on the two tallest reindeer. She hired a highly respected old hunter as the headhunter. Leather robes also rode a reindeer not far behind the two princesses along the way.

Yang Kang, wearing an ordinary leather robe like all the hunters, followed further behind.The robe was thick and loose, reaching as long as the boots. Although it was inconvenient to mount a horse, it could protect the legs and feet from the cold wind afterwards. The loose front was bound by a leather rope, and there were dried meat, dried milk, wine bag and water bag in his arms. , enough for three or four days.The dressing customs of the people in these forests are very similar to those of the Mongolians. For hunters, they can be used to carry food to satisfy their hunger during hunting. Tracking cunning beasts may require them to lie down in the mountains, forests and grass for several days without rest. For herdsmen, it is not only necessary to carry food, but the most necessary thing is to be able to carry the frozen lamb in the snowstorm.

Chacha Yijian and Huazheng originally both wore towering turquoise inlaid silver crowns, and were dressed in sable fur that was smooth and luxurious, and the hands holding the reins were squirrel leather gloves.But as soon as he arrived at the camp, Huazheng changed into a set of vestments that were said to be used for worshiping gods.

The crown of the cassock is covered with glittering fish scales and beads, the top is nine-pronged reindeer horns, and there are many small copper bells hanging on it. The white bird feathers on the shoulders look like swan tail feathers, the god hat and skirt Thin belts cut from animal skins of various colors are hung on the top, the fur on the fur side remains, and the other side is dyed red and blue. The hem of the leather robe is decorated with polished and smooth bones of various beasts, and one side of the chest is shiny. The bright bronze heart-protecting mirror is very heavy at first glance.

Yang Kang was stunned by the avant-garde style of this suit, he even forgot how to make fun of it for a moment, and when he recovered, he still didn't know how to complain.Huazheng was originally tall, and the antlers on his hat made him look taller. There were glittering golden bells and small bronze mirrors around his waist, which clanged as he walked.

Before the Jurchens moved to the Central Plains, they also believed in shamanism, and all customs were similar. Shamanism believed that all things in nature had animism, and communicated with the gods through shamans, and animal skins, animal bones, fish scales, and bird feathers were all psychic objects for vestments.But the complexity and preciousness of this cassock still made him gasp, "Good guy, how much does it weigh?"

The author has something to say: I was despised to start the topic thoroughly and then asked to redo it, cheating, as expected, I was too lazy

It almost became a monthly update again. I’m really sorry for the children’s shoes for chasing the article. Since the end has not come, we still need to continue to update

I haven't written it for a long time, so I'll look for the transitional chapter first

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Reindeer There is no way to verify when the Ewenki people domesticated reindeer.In the Tang Dynasty, the residence of the reindeer Ewenki people was called "Ju Country".According to the "New Book of Tang" compiled by Ouyang Xiu of the Song Dynasty (Volume 210, Part [-]), it is recorded: "You have Ju, or say, living in the ancient northeast of Baye, there are trees but no grass, and the ground is mossy. There are no sheep and horses, and people keep deer like Cows and horses only eat moss, and are commonly used to drive. They also wear deerskins as clothing, gather wood to build houses, and live together.” Ba Yegu is the Barguzin area on the east coast of Lake Baikal. This may be the earliest written record of reindeer in my country. It shows that the reindeer Ewenki people at that time had domesticated reindeer and used it for production and life.Later Yuan, Ming, Qing and other dynasties, there were records of reindeer Ewenki people and reindeer.

Hmm, I went to check it out, it should be right to write that they raise reindeer at this time~

This chapter feels that the broken part is not right, so I will fill it up. It seems that it is not very good, so try to avoid it in the future~