The Greater Xing'anling Mountains, at the turn of winter and spring.!

Wei Du picked up a bowl of milk tea and took a pleasant sip. In this early spring when the snow had just melted, the weather in the wild was still very cold. It was really a different enjoyment to be able to drink a sip of hot soup or hot tea anytime and anywhere.

The tea is a milk tea with sugar, which is a little surprised with the customs of the grassland, but the taste is pretty good, of course it is just "not bad". As the eldest grandson of Wei Ai, one of the early army veterans, Wei Du Wei said that he was born with a golden spoon in his mouth. In addition, the great wealth of local material life, Wei Wei never lived such a hard life as a child. However, he went to the Far East to experience and made achievements in the Hulunbuir grassland. He could not blame others. Therefore, no matter how much hardship, how much fatigue, or how much discomfort, he had to bear it himself. He could not do anything to give up halfway!

His current location is located in a small village called the southern bank of the Mengkuyi River. It has a small population and is quite hidden. It was established about a year ago. Currently, there are more than 600 people from Han, Mongolia, Daur and Oroqen who traveled south from Yaksa. They mainly rely on grazing, hunting and small-scale mountain plain planting to make a living.

Logically speaking, life like this is definitely not easy. Because this village is located deep in the Greater Xing'an Mountains, the transportation is inconvenient, the climate is cold, and the population is sparse, and there is not even a trade partner, it is quite hard to say. Fortunately, the Heishui Regional Administration knows their hardships and sends two batches of mules and horse teams here a year to transport essentials such as weapons and ammunition, daily necessities, medicines, and wool. Even because of the lack of food transport, the extra capacity also sent some high-end foods such as liquor, tobacco, spices, canned fruits, canned food, biscuits, chocolates, etc., but the quantity is relatively rare.

These two groups of mules and horse teams all started from Yaquesa. One team was in the late spring and the other team was in the early summer. It was not large in scale, but the maintenance cost was not low. Every year, it cost a lot of the government's fiscal budget. After crossing the river from Yaquesa, the mules and horse teams, led by the guide, followed the roads opened up in the Daxinganling Mountains for many years, and passed through Mohe Fort (established more than two years ago, it has no food self-sufficiency, but it has complete military defense facilities) along the relatively flat Laocao River Valley and finally arrived in Manguitun.

There is no doubt that the areas where the mule and horse teams traveled along the way have never penetrated the strange areas that have influenced the East Coast people. Most of the local natives are mountain tatars that live in the mountains for generations. They are extremely brave and fearless. They were the most popular fan that Huang Taiji liked to capture decades ago. In other words, the Qing court also had a certain influence on the tribes living in the mountainous areas. Although this influence has been greatly weakened over the years, it is an indisputable fact that its "mass base" on the east coast is good.

Therefore, the two mule and horse teams starting from Yaquesa must be equipped with a certain number of elite soldiers every time, otherwise they may not be able to walk. In this way, the expenses will inevitably increase sharply, which is a considerable burden for the Yaquesa Regional Administration and even the Blackwater Development Team government, which is very expensive.

However, who made it possible to cross Heilongjiang and advance into Hulunbuir Prairie a grand strategy set by Chen Ke, the captain of the pioneer team? Since it was the supreme leader, no matter how difficult the people below were, they naturally had to dispatch personnel everywhere to raise materials and piece together funds to share the worries of the leaders. So, Mohe Fort hanging south of Heilongjiang was established, and Manguitun, further south, was also barely established with the support of Yaksa. For this reason, Hailanpao, Jieya, Huma and other places also supported a batch of money and goods, and naturally they were to cross the barrier of the Great Xing'an Mountains and enter the Hulunbuir Prairie with abundant water and grass, and border the local Mongolian forces.

Wei Duwei was one of the first people to come to Manguitun to build a forward base. This third generation of military service, who originally served in the army cavalry system, is probably a bit unreliable, because his father was just a director with a short future in the army department. After some operation, he became the captain of the so-called "Hulunbuir Advance Detachment". He had 100 soldiers and more than 500 farmers and herdsmen with complex sources (the largest group was the Mongolians who defected to, about 300 people). His main job was to gain a foothold in this mountainous area and then lay a solid foundation for the next step to advance into the Hulunbuir grassland.

In other words, the East Coast people have not yet entered the Hulunbuir grassland and intersected with the local Mongolian tribes. They are still "struggling" in the Daxinganling Mountains that stretch thousands of miles, trying hard to extend their tentacles to the relatively dense Hulunbuir grassland. As the captain of the Advance Detachment, which is "hard" in this "hard" condition, Wei Du has complained to some bureaucrats at all, complaining about the construction of hundreds of thousands of yuan. In some infrastructure areas such as roads, railways, reservoirs, ship locks, docks, etc. that he thinks are not so urgent. However, their Advance Detachment is difficult to raise even 5,000 yuan of funds. The difference is so big!

However, he also knew that such big money would only appear in the hands of the central government. It was already quite good to raise 10,000 yuan of funds to support a certain operation in a poor border area like them. Who made them poor? After all, the economic foundation is the main factor that determines everything. The Blackwater Development Team has so much income and limited resources to mobilize. There are so many places to use money, so naturally there will not be much more money, food, materials and personnel that can be used for expansion.

Therefore, it is an indisputable fact that they, the "Hulunbuir advanced into the detachment" who did not take responsibility for their own profits and losses and self-sufficiency, but it is an indisputable fact that a large part of the supplies has to be found by themselves. However, it is so difficult in the sparsely populated Daxinganling Mountains!

"Captain of the detachment, please have a meal." A second lieutenant staff officer ran to Wei Du happily and handed over a big name full of fish.

"Oh, look at our head fish banquet, we all eat something, not even a sturgeon." Although Wei Du said this, he quickly put the tea bowl aside, took the big names and chopsticks handed over by the lieutenant, and feasted. The fish meat in the bowl was connected with the soup, and a lot of ingredients were placed, and even some precious peppers were added, which made people feel very excited. After seeing Wei Du eating, the lieutenant immediately greeted him, so some officers and heads in the shed cheered and picked up the bowl in their hands and lined up to serve the fish meat and fish soup in a large iron pot.

There are a lot of fish cooked in the big iron pot, which were all caught by some Oroqen people or Mongolians in the army on the ice surface of nearby rivers. They followed the ancient customs of fishing and hunting. They used iron hooks to fish on the ice surface of rivers at the turn of winter and spring, and actually made a hole on the ice surface, and then used iron hooks to catch the gathered fish hooks to be called "head fish". It also means divining the good or bad harvest in a year. It was most popular in the Liao Dynasty in the past and has been transformed into an important custom of the local ethnic group.

"In the past, Wang Gongchen, the Minister of Personnel of the Song Dynasty, went to the Liao Kingdom. Liao Xingzong received him on the banks of the Huntong River and set up a fish banquet for him. At that time, whenever a big fish was hooked, Xingzong would persuade Wang Gongchen to drink, eat fish, and play the pipa for him to entertain him." Wei Du quickly finished the fish in the bowl, put the bowl and chopsticks aside, and signaled his subordinates to give him another bowl, and then said: "During the Tianqing period of Emperor Tianzuo of Liao, he hooked fish on the riverside of the Huntong River in Chunzhou, held a fish banquet, and ordered the Juzhen to order the meal to be held during the meal.

The tribal chiefs performed the dance, and the chiefs danced one by one (of course Aguda did not perform the dance...). Now think about it, how energetic it was. All the Jurchen tribal chiefs within a thousand miles were present. Whether it was on the river, on the plain or in the mountains, the emperor ordered them to come and support them one by one. When will our Great East Coast be able to achieve this level in Manchuria? You guys, let me talk. There is no need to be restricted. Today, everyone drinks and eats fish as a chat."

"I heard from the detachment leader that, the Emperor of Liao is indeed powerful, and he is indeed a good move to rectify these native tribes. I don't know what they did. I think it's not very different from what we did, and it may even be worse than us!" The second lieutenant officer who just gave Wei Dushengyu smiled and said, "The Emperor of Liao is just powerful, and the supplies supplied by the Han area are in trade with the natives. He is military and economic, unites a large gang, isolates a small group, and divides and wins over. It takes decades to make everyone obey the orders."

"Xiao Song, what you said is in place." Wei Du took another bowl of fish and ate it happily and commented: "The Jurchen tribes back then were actually the ancestors of these indigenous peoples who now live in the Northern Manchuria. Just like now, they were bitter, ignorant, and poor at that time, but they were very strong in combat, and were very good soldiers. The Khitans ruled them, half of them with kindness and half of them with force, so that they could barely drive them. We should also follow this path now, but we should have to open a school to naturalize them, so that they can recognize us and not rebel easily. Aguda can rebel under the Khitans, and people like Aguda will not be allowed to appear on our east coast."

"That's natural, we will never allow it!" A group of rough Han officers agreed. It happened that some Mongolian waiters brought several jars of precious spirits, so the atmosphere in the shed became more and more intense. Some passionate people even began to shout that in a few years, "the native chiefs from thousands of miles away from nearby came to Manguitun to attend the headfish banquet", which made everyone laugh and cheered and drank to them.

"Haha! Well said!" Wei Du also picked up the wine glass and slapped a few times, then said with a smile: "We set this goal today! Not only the bald fish banquet, but also the head geese banquet! I heard that in the past, when the rivers blew away every spring, the emperor of the Liao Kingdom would bring his ministers to the river to catch the goose banquet. The servants beat the flat drums in their hands by the river, startling the geese, geese, ducks and other animals, and then released a famous eagle named "Haidongqing" offered by the chief of the native to catch the goose and ducks."

"I, Mr. Wei, are not afraid of being joked. Today I will say that I will go to Hulunbuir Grassland to hold a headfish banquet and a headgear banquet. If there are Mongolians within thousands of miles nearby, if there are people from Shandan tribes who have never arrived, I will send troops to destroy him! Everyone is my old brother. I hope you can help me, Mr. Wei, who will be promoted and wealth in the future, and you will be no problem to win a wife and a son!" Wei Du picked up the wine bowl in his hand, drank the bowl of strong wine, and said boldly.

What he said was not unexpectedly aroused a burst of extremely warm cheers from the officers under his command. These people left the relatively well-built Yaksa and came to a barren and dangerous base like Manguitun, where there was nothing, and accompanied him to eat ice and snow and lie in snow, fighting and killing. What was he looking for? Isn’t he a bright future for the future? Therefore, the words of Captain Wei’s detachment were really spoken to everyone’s hearts, so it was normal to make everyone cheer.

Of course, from a realistic perspective, their advancing detachment is still too weak. Not to mention that they have now completed the grand strategic goal of "advancing into the grassland for thousands of miles" set by Chen, even how to gain a foothold in this Daxinganling Mountains that are also stretched for thousands of miles and build it into a relatively reliable logistics base has already made them extremely shaking their heads. After all, do you think there is no hostile force in this mountain? How is this possible!

However, the development over the past few decades also tells everyone here that no one who is enemies of our Great East Coast thousands of miles away will end up with no good results. The same is true for the Qing Dynasty, and the Russians, not to mention these so-called tribal chiefs, they will have to come and bow down sooner or later. Therefore, everyone is still relatively enthusiastic and has no doubt about the final victory. At best, it just feels that the process may be delayed a little longer.

If they really succeed in advancing into the grassland with abundant water and grass, and then infiltrate, influence and even conquer a large number of Mongolian tribes, their strength will be snowball-like and become an important force. From then on, they either attack the rear of the Qing Dynasty's Daowen City governor's jurisdiction in the east, or conquer the wider Mongolian grassland pastures westward, and no matter which one will be much simpler.
Chapter completed!