Chapter 681 God's Arrangement
Huang Yan and his group walked north through a desert, and soon they saw the endless grassland.
Between the grasslands, a winding river that is dozens of steps wide, flowing into the Fishing Sea (Hulun Lake). There are large areas of reeds on both sides of the river, and snow-white reeds fluctuate up and down in the wind. Cattle and sheep, horse riders, and tents gradually entered their sight.
Suddenly, Huang Yan saw that there were two teams of horse riding in the distance and were surrounding this side!
"What do they want to do?" Huang Yan asked hurriedly.
The people of Wurianha made movements with their palms: "Eunuch Huang, don't be anxious, the leaders of Hulun River have received my benefits; Tutuo also knows some people. When they know that Tutuo is a person under Alu's account, they dare not do anything!"
Huang Yan nervously watched the original people on the grassland. Seeing that they were all carrying bow and arrow weapons, his face could not hide the panic that turned pale.
The Urianha people said again: "Eunuch Huang, don't run around, don't run, leave it to us! On the ranch east of the fishing sea, Arutai has a great prestige, which is more convincing than Benjali's loss of sweat."
After talking for a while, a team of horses had approached. They were all people wearing fur sewn robes. They saw Huang Yan standing there without taking out weapons, and they hung their bows and arrows, and gradually jogging over.
Tuotuo and the Urianha people came forward to talk, and the words they were rumbling were probably Mongolian. Huang Yan couldn't understand a word, so he could only observe their expressions and movements. The Urianha people gave the other party something.
After they finished speaking, they did not start a fight. The Urianha people turned to greet Huang Yan and continued to move towards the distant river.
Huang Yan then breathed a sigh of relief.
The Urianha people pointed to the river in front of them and said, "This river is Hulun River. Eunuch Huang can also be called 'Anju River' in Chinese|speaking of Alutai. We have to continue walking northeast to the Hailaer River to find the big tent of Alutai. The Hailaer River can also be called 'Snow Water River'."
Huang Yan nodded.
When he was in Peiping, he heard about Alutai. But Alutai is not a name, but a title, probably means "a powerful minister". The Mongolians all called Alutai, and the Ming government also wrote it like this.
Alutai had great power, equivalent to a person like the "General of the Grand Sima" who was the Han people before; now there is no such person in the Ming Dynasty, and there is no longer a powerful minister who can have such great power. It is said that Benjali was despised and had no strength to be the leader of various Tatar tribes, which was entirely supported by Alutai.
The group stayed in the tent by the Hulun River for a while and received hospitality from the locals. However, the language was not clear, and Huang Yan had to rely on the Urianha translation and the conversation was very difficult.
People all exuded a very strong and complex smell of intoxication. There was a river next to it and there was plenty of water, but the Tatars seemed to not like to take a bath. The Urianha people laughed and said that many Tatars only took bath twice in their lives, and when they were born and married... Of course, they were not much better.
The next day, Huang Yan and others continued to rush northeast, and there were more and more pasture tribes along the way. A few days later, they finally arrived at the big tent of Alutai.
However, Arutai is no longer here. Tuotuo told Huang Yan and others that Arutai had taken his men west ten days ago to the tent of Benjali's Khan, and went to see him.
Huang Yan increased the promised money from five times to ten times, and told several Mongolians that they could cash out at the money house in Peiping City. Tutuo found some people he knew and escorted Huang Yan to continue walking westward. According to the agreement, Tutuo first introduced Huang Yan to Alutai, and then paid a visit to Benyali.
The crowd almost walked around the Fishing Sea and detoured from the north to the northwest of the Fishing Sea. They finally found the Tatar leader, the headquarters of the Mongolian Khan Benjali, who was the Khan of the Mongolian Kingdom.
The Tatars seemed not as hospitable as the rumors. As soon as Huang Yan and others walked into a camp, they suddenly rushed out an angry man with a fur hat. The man said a few words in his mouth, suddenly waved his whip, hit the Urianha people "crack" on the face, then glared at Huang Yan, and spit out "pa".
Huang Yan was stunned, as if all the five-foot monks were ignorant. Tuotuo waited for the Mongolian man to leave, and then said in very difficult Chinese words: "Some Urianha people, traitors... look down on them."
"Oh! Our family understands." Huang Yan nodded quickly.
The Urianha people who were knocked over to the ground covered their faces with their hands and got up from the ground. Tuotu ignored him and took the two of them to a felt tent with flags. Tuotuo couldn't speak clearly in Chinese, and asked the Urianha people to tell Huang Yan: "Arutai went to the camp of the Khan. The person we are going to meet now is a general under Arutai's subordinate."
The three of them arrived outside the tent and said a few words to the Mongolians at the door. They then opened the felt curtain and walked in.
Huang Yan was surprised as soon as he entered. He did not notice the Tatar General at the first time, but was attracted by a woman.
I saw that the woman was very beautiful, holding a wooden plate. She was naked and didn't even have a piece of cloth on her body! Fortunately, there was a fire in the tent, otherwise how could she bear it without clothes?
Tuotuo and Urianha did not look at each other, only Huang Yan stared at the woman blankly. Looking at her face and hair, she seemed to be a Han man, and there were still bloody scars on her body!
The Urianha man whispered: "I will tell the general that Eunuch Huang is a eunuch."
Huang Yan came back to his senses, hurriedly walked up to him and bowed with his fists, "Our family is the eunuch of the Zhao Prince's Mansion of the Ming Dynasty. I pay homage to the wise and powerful general. If you don't respect a little bit of politeness, please accept it with a smile."
The Urianha people immediately began to translate.
The red-bodied woman walked up and brought the plate to Huang Yan. Huang Yan hurriedly took out a small gin glass and put it on the plate.
"Hahaha..." The general above laughed.
Huang Yan suddenly discovered that the woman was staring at her with resentment and angrily. She must have seen that Huang Yan was a Han man.
Looking at her silent gaze, Huang Yan couldn't help feeling a little ashamed and hurriedly whispered: "Our family is not an envoy."
The Urianha man turned to Huang Yan and said, "I told the general Eunuch Huang's identity and explained that you are not a spy. The general asked you, what do you want to do when you come to Mongolia? Does King Zhao want to surrender?"
Huang Yan hurriedly said: "King Zhao is a clan of the Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty, and it is impossible for him to surrender to Mongolia when he dies. The Ming Dynasty is fighting for power and profit, and King Zhao wants to use our family as a scapegoat. Our family can't survive, so he came to join the Khan. There is news from our family that the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty brought an army of 300,000 to attack the Khan of Mongolia!"
The red woman looked slightly when she heard this.
The Mongolian general and Huang Yan were both translated through the Urianha people. The general smiled in Mongolian language and said, "You are late, we already know the news. Why did the Emperor of Ming come to the grassland? Do you want to steal our cattle and sheep, or do you want to have good grass covered with grass seeds?"
Huang Yan bowed and said, "Last year, the Mongolian army entered the pass, burned, killed, and robbed people. The emperor was very angry and wanted to come to revenge the Tatars. In the Ming Dynasty, the emperor claimed to be the father of all Han people and wanted to stand up for his people."
When the Han woman heard this, she looked at Huang Yan with complicated eyes.
The Mongolian general said: "The ancestors said that the greatest happiness of men is to kill the enemy's men and then sleep with their women. On the grassland, wolves will occasionally go to the sheep pen and take away some sheep. We Tatars are wolves, which is the arrangement of God.
It is useless for the Han emperors to be angry. They do not understand the rules of the grassland and cannot survive on the grassland. We just need to change places and wait until the food brought by the Han people is eaten up, they will go back. Zhu Yuanzhang's grandson would not be able to be the emperor of the Han Dynasty, because the Huns in the Han Dynasty did not have stirrups."
Huang Yan hurriedly bowed and said, "The general makes sense! Our family is willing to be a slave to the strong."
After hearing the translation, the Mongolian general immediately raised his head and laughed.
The Mongolian general was big and thick, with yellow teeth, but his small eyes were shining with a shrewd light. He had already noticed the eye contact between the Han woman and Huang Yan. The general smiled and pointed at the woman and said, "This woman's husband is an official from the Ming Dynasty. He was caught by the Khan's army in the manor. She said that in the Ming Dynasty, her fingers could not be touched by other men, but on the grassland, she had to abide by the rules of the grassland. Look at how obedient she is now!"
Huang Yan smiled and said, "Yes, yes."
At this time, the people of Urianha said, "The general will give Tutuo face and let Eunuch Huang live in the tent he arranged. If Arutai thinks you are useful, he will summon you."
Huang Yan said: "You have to talk to me. If I die, I will not get the money."
The Urianha people said, "At this point, I have done my own business and can't help with anything else. Eunuch Huang said something nice to Tuotuo."
Huang Yan had no choice but to bow to the Mongolian general with his fists.
The three of them retreated to the door of the tent, then turned around and walked out.
At this moment, I suddenly heard a sound of horse hooves. When Huang Yan looked in the sound, he saw a woman in a red robe riding a horse, carrying a few people, rushing around the camp unscrupulously.
"Get out of the way and kneel down on the ground!" the Urianha reminded.
Huang Yan hurriedly did as he did.
Tuotuo whispered: "Arutai girl, the woman Khan likes, the fast concubine."
When the woman in red robe rushed over, she suddenly strangled her mount and turned her head to look at Huang Yan curiously. Obviously, Huang Yan's clothes were very special here. She showed a contemptuous smile and said something in a murmur.
After taking a few riders away, Huang Yan asked, "What did she say?"
The people of Urianha said, "She said, it turns out that the Han officials were such a weak and thin person. She mistakenly thought that Eunuch Huang was an envoy sent to the grassland by the Ming Dynasty."
Chapter completed!