Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1038

Kaiyuan, which was called "Kaiyuan" in the Yuan Dynasty, was changed to Kaiyuan by Liu Bowen's suggestion in order to avoid the name taboo of Taizu after the Great Ming Revolution. It does not change the sound of the original name, nor does it change its pioneering, magnificent, auspicious and healthy meaning. .

Taizu agreed, and with its Liaobei Xiongcheng, set up 21 guards here in the 26st year of Hongwu (the first year was set up in Woduoli, which is the vicinity of Huichun in Jilin later, and the next year it was transferred to Kaiyuan), and in the [-]th year of Hongwu , and transferred the Liaohaiwei, which was originally located in Niuzhuang, to this place.

In Liaodong, the establishment of two guards in this area made Kaiyuan's garrison second only to Liaoyang and Guangning, and became an important town alongside Jinzhou and Shenyang.

On the second day of the second lunar month, the dragon looked up.

The governor of Liaodong District Zanli, who is highly pragmatic in military affairs, and Cao Yu, the deputy commander-in-chief who assisted Liaoyang, arrived in Kaiyuan, inspected the border preparations and horse market affairs, rectified Kaiyuan and garrisoned the horse government and military preparations, Wang Yan, and guarded Kaiyuan, etc. General Yang Yuan and other officials went outside the city to meet Gao Yushi and his party.

There was also a special person accompanying him, who was Annan's deputy tribute envoy, Annan's special envoy for trade, and Haidong guard envoy Huang Zhiting.

Huang Zhiting's first and second titles already existed, but the newly added "Trade Special Envoy of Annan Metropolitan Division" was temporarily added after arriving in Liaoyang under the instruction of Gao Yushi. The reason is very simple. That's all for the reason of being in Liaodong.

Anyway, Gao Pragmatism can be used in any name of Annan Metropolitan Commander, not to mention that no one would ask Mo Maoqia thousands of miles away, even if someone did, Mo Maoqia would not dare to deny Gao Pragmatism's decision.

Gao Yushi came to Kaiyuan under the guise of inspecting the military equipment and the horse market. Since he inspected the horse market, Huang Zhiting, the so-called trade envoy, of course has a reason to come - to see if there are any interoperable goods that can be traded. .

However, a pretense is a pretense after all, Gao Yushi's real intention here is to mediate the dispute between Ye He and Hada.

However, having said that, Gao Yushi is not optimistic about this mediation at all, because he knows that under the current situation, the two Baylors Qing Jia Ni and Yang Ji Ni of Ye He will never accept this mediation.

Time also, potential also.

What is the situation around Liaodong today?
Both guards on the left and right of Jianzhou were disabled by Daming, and none of the five ministries of Jianzhou could gather [-] soldiers. Just kidding, let alone five thousand, one of the five ministries of Jianzhou could produce [-] soldiers There are no horses, no family.

Jianzhou Jurchen Hunhe, Dong E, Su Ke, Su Hu, Zhe Chen, and Wanyan have only one Dong E tribe who can produce two thousand soldiers and horses. Most of the rest can only gather more than a thousand soldiers and horses, at most It is about [-], and like Nurhachi, the theoretical leader of the Su Ke Suhu tribe, because the interior has not yet been unified, there are only about five or six hundred troops under his command.

In the entire Jianzhou, the left and right guards add up to less than [-] soldiers and horses, and the Haixi Jurchen is much stronger.

First of all, the Haixi Jurchen covers an area three or four times larger than the Jianzhou Jurchen, and such a large territory is only divided into four, which are the so-called Haixi Four Divisions or Hulun Four Divisions.

Secondly, although there are differences in strength between the four Haixi Jurchen tribes, the weakest one can easily muster three or four thousand troops, while the strongest Yehe tribe has about eight thousand troops just as "relatively prepared" , At the same time, because it is close to the tribes of Mongolia, the tribe has more than [-] cavalry alone, which can be described as the most powerful Jurchen tribes.

Thirdly, the Yehe tribe recently took advantage of the death of the "Great Khan" Wang Tai of the original Hada tribe, the largest Jurchen tribe, and internal strife. Before that, they defeated Hada and took at least one-third of Hada's territory. Make further plans.

In the end, the Yehe Department has two major helpers: the Nuantu Department that split from the fried flower part, and the Trance Tai Suo Department that occupies the old part of Fuyuwei [Note: I thought I should talk about the history of the Trance Tai department. , but after thinking about it, there are not thousands of words that can’t be explained clearly, so let’s forget it, and interested readers can check themselves].

The strength of these two Mongolian tribes is not bad. On Nuantu's side, there are more than 2 tribesmen, of which the main force is three to four thousand elite cavalry. The strength has declined; Trance Tai did not suffer a big loss in southern Liaoning, so there are about [-] people in total, including about [-] elite cavalry.

This means that the alliance between Ye He, Nuantu, and Huotai has a strength of [-] to [-]. Especially if Ye He wants to, he can temporarily recruit more soldiers and horses, so that the entire alliance can reach a maximum of about two thousand. Wan Dajun.

It can be said that unless Daming is determined to fight, Ye He can walk sideways in the northeast of Liaodi with such strength.

Judging from the current attitude of Ye Hebu, it seems that they really intend to walk sideways.

After the death of two "Great Khans" (see above) in a row in the Hada tribe, Sister Wen, the concubine of the old Khan Wangtai, now pushed out her son Meng Gebulu and asked for the canonization of Ming Dynasty. This point Gao Yushi has already represented The emperor agreed - the attitude of the border ministers of the Ming Dynasty on this kind of matter would not be refuted by the court (mainly because the court did not pay much attention to the Jurchen, and usually relied on the judgment of the border ministers). The Ministry sent a message, asking the Yehe tribe to stop invading Hada, and the conflict between the two tribes was handed over to Daming for mediation.

However, Ye He refused.

In fact, in the original history, Daming also came forward to mediate the dispute between Hada and Ye He, and Ye He also refused. This is actually not surprising, because Qing Jia Niu and Yang Ji Niu are quite familiar with the situation of Daming. It is basically impossible for Da Ming to continue to launch a war against them.

In history, there was no Battle of Monan, and no Battle of Southern Liaoning. In this year or so, Li Chengliang mainly fought with Subahai, and then added a battle to pacify Gulezhai. In this way, Liaodong has Lost the spare energy to continue to force Ye He, so of course not to mention it now-this is Ye He's confidence.

Therefore, at the time when Gao Yushi was making plans, Ye He's two Baylors, Nuantu, and Trance Tai continued to rob the territory of the Hada tribe from village to village, and at the same time asked Daming to allow Ye He, Nuantu, and Trance Tai to fight against each other. The two parts entered the Kaiyuan Horse Market for trade.

When Gao Wushi came to Kaiyuan this time, the first thing he did was to send envoys to Yehe, telling them that he was willing to consider the mutual market, and asked Qing Jiani and Yang Jipi to come to Kaiyuan to discuss the details of the mutual market with him.

When the news reached Yehe, the two city lords, Baylor, quickly summed up.

What Qing Jianiu meant was that Gao Yushi was different from other Liaofus before. Although he had a great literary name, he himself liked to do business. Otherwise, there would be no famous Jinghua, so he felt that Gao Being pragmatic and willing to discuss the details of the mutual market with them should be more credible.

Yang Jipi agrees with Qing Jianiu's judgment that Gao Pragmatic "likes to do business", but he still has some doubts, mainly because he feels that Ye He is not the only person to be discussed in this mutual market, the key is to catch up with Nuantu and Trance too These two Mongolian tribes.

It doesn't matter if Gao Shishi is too likely to be in a trance, Yang Jipi can basically believe it, but if Gao Shishi has no other ideas about Nuantu, Yang Jipi doesn't think it is reliable.

At any rate, Nuantu went to southern Liaoning with Chaohua at that time. Although Chaohua suffered a big loss in that battle, Nuantu lost some troops. On the contrary, it was a big victory for Gao Yushi. From Yang Jipi's point of view, isn't this hatred still planted?

It stands to reason that Gao Yushi should wish that Nuantu would die sooner at this time. Why didn't he mention Nuantu in his reply?

Although Qing Jiani felt that Yang Jipi's worry was justified, he considered another situation, saying that perhaps the Ming people hadn't figured out the internal situation of the Huahua department at all, and Nuantu might have a good reputation among the Ming people. Unfortunately, Gao Wushi didn't know this guy at all, so he didn't take him seriously.

In particular, Qing Jianiu also mentioned Li Chengliang. He said that Li Chengliang must know about Nuantu, but Li Chengliang and Gao Wushi are at odds. He might just want to see Gao Yushi make a fool of himself, and it's entirely possible that he doesn't make a clear distinction with Gao Yushi.

Yang Jipi couldn't think of any other reason, so he could only agree with this judgment.

Of course, the more important thing is that Ye He went to plunder and occupy Hada. On the one hand, of course, he wanted to occupy more territory, but in fact, the more important aspect was to snatch the imperial edict in the hands of the Hada tribe, so as to improve the "trade" between Yehe tribe and Daming. Quantity”——As I said before, the rise of Hada’s royal platform came from obedience to Daming, so Hada’s department actually took a lot of imperial orders from Daming in the past few years.

So, regardless of whether Yang Jipi still had doubts or not, now that Gao Wushi expressed his willingness to talk, he and Qing Jianiu would have to go to Kaiyuan no matter what.

After all, the mutual market is the foundation of power. If Ye He wants to replace Hada as the leader of Jurchen, it is not enough just to snatch the edicts. They must also persuade or force Daming to admit the legitimacy of these edicts. If Daming directly refuses to admit them, then they It's like just grabbing a batch of waste paper, isn't it a waste of so much effort?
So Yang Jipi first tentatively proposed that he and Qing Jianiu could go to Kaiyuan, but Nuantu and Trance Tai also had to send people to follow, because they were also parties to this negotiation.

However, this time, Gao Wushi refused cleanly, and passed a statement that surprised and delighted them to Ye He.

Gao Wushi said: The batch of edicts that you Yehe got from the Hada tribe were specially issued by the imperial court to the Jurchen ministries, and have nothing to do with the Mongols.

It is not impossible for the Mongols to come to open the original horse market, but they can only come under the supervision and guarantee of Ye He, so they do not need to participate in this matter.As for how to discuss this matter between you and the Mongols, that is your own question, and I, Daming, will not ask any questions.

This approach is so obvious that Ye He and the two Baylors immediately believed it was true, and laughed three times with joy—this means that in the future, Nuantu and Trance want to trade with Daming, so they must go through Ye He's hand, and this hand It means that they will have to act according to Ye He's face.

Ye He's strength is stronger than that of Nuantu and Trance, but the two Baylors know that if Nuantu and Trance join forces, Ye He is still at a disadvantage. However, once there is this advantage in the mutual market, Ye He is no longer afraid of them—this move has a very high-level and pragmatic style of controlling Tumed: if you master the economic base, you will control the superstructure.

Under such circumstances, Qing Jia Niu and Yang Ji Niu did not hesitate any longer, and immediately prepared to go to Kaiyuan.

However, Yang Jipi was still more cautious, after much deliberation, he finally decided that he could not just do it lightly, but had to go there with great fanfare.

Yang Jipi said to Qing Jianiu: "My two brothers have worked hard for 20 years, and finally we are in the situation we are today. Going to Kaiyuan to discuss the mutual market is not only a simple discussion, but we must also take this opportunity to let the Jurchen ministries know our strength, and let the Jurchen ministries know how powerful we are. They know that even Daming has to sell our face! Besides, bring more people so that Daming won't underestimate you and my brother!"

Qing Jianiu felt that this argument was very reasonable, and immediately agreed: "Well, you and my brothers each take a thousand elite cavalry to go. I heard that there are guard soldiers in Kaiyuan, and only the general of Kaiyuan, Yang Yuan has 2000 cavalry servants in his hands, and we bring [-] people, which is enough for Yang Yuan not to dare to act rashly."

Yang Jipi laughed loudly, and said: "Yang Yuan would never act rashly—Ahhun, don't you forget that Yang Yuan belongs to Uncle Li, not this Gaofutai man. Gaofutai's orders are in Whether Yang Yuan will work well or not here is anyone’s guess! His five hundred cavalry is just a display now, as long as we don’t go to open it, I expect him to stay put.”

Qing Jia Niu was overjoyed when she heard the words, she didn't hesitate and went to dispatch troops immediately.

And just when Yehebel, Qing Jiani and Yang Jipi, were happily dispatching troops to Kaiyuan to establish their names as the Jurchen masters of their two brothers, another Jurchen leader also brought [-] elite soldiers. Enter Liaodong from Fushun Pass, head north all the way, and head straight to Kaiyuan.

This Jurchen tribe is called the Sukesuhu tribe, and its leader is none other than Nurhachi, the commander of the Jianzhou Left Guard personally recommended by Gao Futai!
At this time, Nurhachi was actually very grateful to Gao Yushi. The reason for his gratitude was that Gao Yushi recommended him as the commander of Jianzhou left guard.

This question must be explained a little bit: it stands to reason that Takshi was dead at that time. According to the regulations, his position can be inherited by his son, that is, he inherited his position and his son inherited his father's business. what is the problem.

But in fact, according to Jurchen's practice at this time, Nurhachi, the eldest son, should not inherit the position of Jianzhou Left Guard Commander, or the possibility of inheriting is not high.

why?Because compared with the Han nationality's "elogenish inheritance system", the Jurchens are doing the opposite, and they are more accustomed to the "young son inheritance system" handed down from the early Mongolia (this issue has been explained when writing Tumet pass).

In comparison, the eldest son inheritance system is to better maintain the stability, inheritance, and order of the family, and the youngest son's inheritance system is also easy to understand: parents prefer the youngest child, because usually the youngest child is young, so generally The ability is relatively weak. The main reason here is that the parents love the younger son, so they handed over the property to the younger son without considering too many other aspects.

Takshi's first wife gave birth to four children, one died prematurely, and there were three more, including Nurhachi, Shuerhaqi and Yaerhaqi.But when Takshi died, his youngest son was Bayara, who was born to his second wife, Nurhachi's stepmother, so according to the Jurchen practice, it should be this son who took over the post.

But Gao Yushi did not choose Bayara, but still chose Nurhachi, even "ignoring" future threats. Why?

Because at this time Bayara was only a seven-year-old child, could this orphan and widow be in charge of the declining Jianzhou Zuowei?The answer is obvious, when the time comes, it must be a struggle for power and profit.

But having said that, Nurhachi faced the same situation after taking over his post. If so, what is the difference between the two?
There is a difference.

Bayara's mother was the adopted daughter of Yehe's old Baylor. In theory, she was the younger sister of Qing Jiani and Yang Jipi.

For Daming, the standard for dealing with Jurchen affairs is very simple: support the weak and attack the strong, and whoever is the strongest will attack and suppress whoever, so Ye He, who has already defeated Hada, is now considered half an enemy, so how can Ye He Will the forces continue to grow bigger and stronger, and continue to pose a greater threat to Liaodong?
As for Jianzhou Zuowei orphans and widows, Bayara's mother is Ye He's daughter, how could Qing Jiapi and Yang Jipi, as uncles, stand by and not help their little nephew take care of Jianzhou Zuowei?

Taking care of it, this Jianzhou Zuowei is probably named Ye He, and this Northeast tiger has justifiably joined the Jianzhou Jurchen, and there are many tribes and scattered forces in Jianzhou Jurchen, and now there is no such thing as How could a well-recognized leader like Wang Gao, a typical group of dragons without a leader, be able to resist Ye He's annexation?
At that time, Ye He himself will be the top Jurchen in Haixi, and he will turn to unify and build the state, and his power will become stronger, and then he will turn around and attack the other three departments in Haixi. Ninety-five percent.

Therefore, for Gao Yushi, Nurhachi is at best a potential threat, and his current strength is actually not worth mentioning at all, while Ye He is already a threat on the table now. As long as his strength is not controlled, it will soon disappear. If there is a qualitative change, how can this be ignored?
Oh, Nurhachi can't bear the unification of Jurchen, but Yehe can bear it if he unifies Jurchen?
What a joke!Nurhachi has only a few hundred soldiers now!
In history, he unified the Jurchens, and it took him [-] or [-] years to do it after Daming fought the three major conquests in a row, and he had no spare time to deal with him. However, Ye He's current situation is obvious, if Daming doesn't intervene At least in three to five years, they will be able to keep their tails intact, and in as many as ten years, they will be able to unify the Jurchens!
Can it be ignored?Can this kill Nurhachi first?
Obviously not.

Nurhachi is not dead Gao Pragmatic does not care, but under the premise that he cannot mobilize a large number of servants to Liaodong, as long as Yehe is not under control for a day, Nurhachi will not die for a day!

Jianzhouwei was originally the chess piece that Daming used the most in Liaodong. Although he was taught by Daming for decades because he was not obedient, he also trained a Hada tribe, but the Hada tribe is obviously weak at present. Why don't you make good use of it, is it necessary for the court to spend a large sum of money to let Daming go off to fight Ye He again?
Three battles a year, this Daming is afraid that he will sell his kidney.
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