Li Laoer, who had been in Ming territory for half a year, has become Li Guodong. He finally wants to return to his own Dadongyugou Castle outside the pass. Although Li Laoer failed to stay in the Ming Dynasty as he wished, he did not return without success. This time, Li Laoer gained a lot.

Although the two positions of General and General of the Cong and Envoy were only empty, this shows that the Ming Dynasty admitted that they were officers and soldiers and were no longer horse thieves.

The brothers under their command also obtained official positions such as guerrillas, thousands of households, and hundreds of households respectively.

Li Guodong's biggest gain was to exchange all the rewarded silver for physical objects. Emperor Chongzhen rewarded him with 30,000 taels of silver. With the help of Sun Chengzong, the batch of silver was exchanged for 5,000 stones of grain, 500 dan of tea, 1,000 kilograms of salt, 3,000 pieces of cotton and 2,000 kilograms of cotton. These goods were sent outside the pass, whether they were traded with the Chahars or the Tumotes, they could be exchanged for many horses and cattle and sheep, and then the replaced horses, cattle and sheep were sent back to the pass, which could be sold for a lot of money. Li Guodong also brought back two three-year field artillery.

In addition to the physical objects, Sun Chengzong also helped Li Guodong get tea and horse intake and salt intake, which were licenses that allowed him to trade with the Mongolians.

Portuguese missionary Lu Ruohan also sent Li Guodong a gift: fifteen pots of beautifully trimmed bonsai, which were all plundered by Lu Ruohan from the homes of several familiar wealthy families in the capital, and were all given to Li Guodong. As for the flintlock rifles, thousands of miles mirrors, artillery measurement and sighting equipment he promised to provide Li Guodong, he also needed to go to Macau to order goods, and then shipped thousands of miles from Macau by merchant ship. When the goods were delivered, it would take at least half a year.

After these bonsai were sent to Tongzhou, Li Guodong picked all the red fruits on the bonsai, took some fresh red fruits and cut them. He fried them with shredded pork for Sun Chengzong and others to taste. The meat was cut into shreds and fried. The taste was so harsh that Sun Chengzong was sweating profusely and said he was very satisfied.

Except for the fruits that were kept for the seeds, the other red fruits were dried by Li Guodong and brought back to the outside of the pass.

Li Guodong took 629 cavalrymen and drove a large cart full of cargoes from Tongzhou. After walking for five days and five nights, he left Da'ankou and returned to his castle.

"Boss is back!" News of Li Guodong's return spread in the city early.

He Xing led the people who had lived in the city for half a year and the surrendered Ming army soldiers who had been recruited out to greet him. Standing at the city gate, he saw a team of distinctly dressed and flag-shifting teams driving the carts towards the city.

He Xiuying also stood in the team, looking timidly at the team returning home with a load.

Xin'er, Li Xiaohui and other girls also stood in the welcoming team and watched the winning team return. From a distance, they saw a bright red flag of the central army, with a light yellow circle in the middle, with a black "Ming" character inside. Under the Ming Dynasty, there is a three-army army official flag, and there are also a flying leopard, flying tiger, flying dragon flag, gold, wood, water, fire and earth Five Elements Flag, and the Qinglong, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Black Tortoise Four Elephant Flag. These flags indicate that the boss is no longer a horse thief, but a officer and soldier recognized by the court.

"We are already officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty!" He Xing and others said excitedly.

The surrendered soldiers of the Ming army knelt on the ground and cried in tears. They were forced to surrender to the Later Jin Dynasty, but when they were shaved, the surrendered soldiers regretted and were very sad again. They thought they would never be able to return to the Ming Dynasty again. They were shaved with the hairstyle of Jiannu and could not even enter the ancestral tomb in the future. Unexpectedly, they were captured by the horse thief. In order to survive, they surrendered to the horse thief, and now they have become officers and soldiers.

"Brother is back and has become an officer and soldier of the Ming Dynasty. I don't know when we can return to the Ming Dynasty? After all, we were all people in the Ming Dynasty." He Xing walked up to ask.

Li Guodong said: "Dear brothers, we can't go back for the time being. This city is our home for the time being. The court gave me an official position, but I still need to make contributions to return to the Ming Dynasty."

Han Dashan next to him interrupted, "Our boss is now a general! I, Han, also rose with the water and the ship was already guerrilla!"

Li Guodong said to He Xing: "When I registered the court, I also added your names. Brother He Xing, you are now an official, the Qianhu, Wu Fugui and Tang Chong, you are already a hundred households."

When he turned around, he saw He Xiuying hiding behind his brother and looked at him timidly. She looked pale. Not only was she not fat, but she became thinner. When he looked at the village's people and surrendered soldiers, they all had a good face. So Li Guodong asked He Xing in confusion: "Brother, the food I left here is enough for everyone to eat for a year. How can you still lose weight like this? Their faces are not good-looking?"

He Xing replied: "Brother, we don't know how long you will take to go there. We are afraid that if Jiannu conquers the capital, we will have to prepare for living here for a few years. So we dare not use too much food, so we can save as much as possible."

"Don't worry, I've come back and brought back a lot of food." Li Guodong said with a smile.

Looking at the truckload of food, He Xing was overjoyed and said, "Brother brought back a lot of food!"

Li Guodong said with a smile: "I bring you a lot of good things! I will roast mutton tonight, so that you can taste the delicious food you have never tasted before."

Then Li Guodong asked someone to take the seeds of the red fruits to plant them on the open space outside the city. By autumn, the fruits will be harvested. When they are dried and sold to the Mongolians, they will definitely be very popular.

There are more than 5,000 people in the Dadongyugou Castle, including the surrendered soldiers of the Ming army, and there are more than 3,500 strong men. Li Guodong is considering building a second city, otherwise this small piece of land will no longer accommodate more people. Next, he plans to recruit a group of refugees in Shaanxi. On the one hand, it can reduce the harm caused by the thieves to the people, and on the other hand, it can strengthen his own strength.

That night, bonfires were lit in the village. Li Guodong asked someone to slaughter more than ten fat sheep that had been raised in the village for more than half a year. He cleaned the mutton and divided it, and divided it according to the thighs, lamb chops and lamb.

He Xiuying and several female family members, according to Li Guodong's request, put the dried red fruits into the pounding pot and crushed them. When he took the pounding pestle and hit the dried fruits, several female members were choked and shed tears.

"Brother Li, what is this? It's so spicy! It's much spicy than onion." He Xiuying wiped her tears with her hands.

But the fingers were covered with chili powder and it was so spicy that it was unbearable to be painful.

Seeing that the little girl was so painful that she couldn't open her eyes, Li Guodong quickly said with concern: "Miss Xiuying, don't rub your eyes randomly, come on, clean your eyes by doing those things."

Xin'er and Li Xiaohui cleaned He Xiuying's eyes with clean water according to Li Guodong's guidance.

"This thing is called chili, and it is native to South America across the sea. When we roast lamb, it tastes even better." Li Guodong introduced.
Chapter completed!