Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1384 Fei Yingdong

Since the Ming Dynasty has always had a relatively strict limit on the number of tribute teams, Yehe's tribute missions were kept within 50 people, including not only the tribute envoys, accompanying guards, but even Yehe Gege Mengguzhe who came with him. Zhe.

However, when the mission left Tianjin Port for the capital, the number soared to nearly three hundred.Of course, Ye He's family doesn't have the ability to make a big difference, and there are more than two hundred riders from Jinghua Trading Company.

This cavalry was originally to escort a batch of boats from Shandong to Tianjin Port, but after arriving at Tianjin Port, they were temporarily assigned a task to escort Ye He's mission into Beijing.

Ye He's mission itself does not have such face, the reason why they can enjoy such treatment is entirely because of Ye He Ge Ge Meng Gu Zhe Zhe who came with them.

Of course, Meng Gu Zhezhe's face does not come from her, but from Jinghua's boss, Gao Pragmatism, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Ming Dynasty.After all, the envoy Ye Hegong said that this Meng Guzhe did not come to Beijing to see the prosperity of Daming Shenjing. She came to the capital as Ye He's "sincerity" and "served Situ's side".

After all, he is also Gege from Yehe tribe, the most powerful Jurchen. Of course, Sun Weifeng would not understand "serving Situ's side" as being a maid for the master, so he must be coming to be Mrs. Ru.

This "Mrs. Ru" is not deliberately honored by Sun Weifeng. Although Mrs. Ru is also a concubine, under normal circumstances, only concubines who already have a high status can be called Mrs. Ru.

Of course, there is a more basic premise before this, that is, the man's social status must be higher.Ordinary traffickers and pawns don't say they can't afford to take concubines, even if they really take concubines, their concubines can't be said to be like wives.

What Sun Weifeng cares about is that Meng Gu Zhezhe's future status is only one aspect, and the key that makes him dare not underestimate or neglect is still Gao Yushi himself - he has not yet taken a concubine, once Meng Gu Zhezhe can really enter Gao's backyard, then But the only one other than Mrs.

Considering that his wife is far away in southern Xinjiang, and it is rare for her to come back, Meng Gu Zhezhe may have a great chance to be a special favor.

This is very unusual.Although he, Sun Weifeng, is a close confidant, he has been reused, but no matter how much he reuses, he has never changed his surname.

After all, Sun Weifeng felt that he was not an irreplaceable figure in the mind of the master, which was incomparable with the status of the master in the mind of the emperor.

Therefore, he not only made accommodations, no longer searched Meng Gu Zhezhe's room, but only searched the rooms of the rest of the mission, and used the temporary full power of the port supervisor to punish a cavalry that was supposed to leave Tianjin Port and return to Shandong. A new task was temporarily assigned, and the Ye He Mission became extremely impressive because of this.

Gao Jiaqiding’s war horses are all carefully selected and provided by Tumed. They are not only strong and agile, but also maintain the consistent advantages of Mongolian horses such as strong endurance and easy breeding. No matter where they are placed, they are enough to make people greedy.

No, Solgo and his son are talking about the excellence of Gao Jiading.

Suoerguo said with emotion: "Think about how noble my Su Wan ancestor is, but now I can only survive between Ye He and Ula. The situation is even worse now. Ye He leans on the mountain of Gao Taishi. I'm afraid there will be no chance to hold an arrow alone after finishing one."

Under the influence of Mongolia, Jurchen called the important border ministers of the Ming court the Grand Master.Although Gao Yushi had already stepped down as Liaofu, the Jurchens were afraid of his prestige, not only the top three Yehe, Hada, and Jianzhou, but the rest of the ministries did not dare to show him a little disrespect.

The young man looked at the cavalry of the Gao family around him, swallowed unconsciously, and said greedily: "Ye Hesu used to dominate Manchuria with his cavalry, but he didn't expect that the cavalry of the Gao family was so elite. Don't say it is Ye He, I think even Chahar Khan’s elite cavalry might not be able to beat them.”

Solgo smiled bitterly and said, "Chahar Khan's equestrian skills are not necessarily weaker than theirs, but when it comes to weapons and equipment, they are far worse. It's a pity that I, Su Wan, don't have the famous king of the Jin Kingdom, Wanyan Zongbi's ancestors. The Kidnapper Horse, the Iron Buddha... Alas!"

It turns out that Suo Erguo is indeed not an ordinary person. It is not nonsense that Meng Gu Zhezhe called him Baylor. This person is the arrow master of Jurchen Su Wanbu. King Wanyan Zongbi of the Kingdom of Jin - he has a more famous name in the records of the Han people, called Jin Wushu.

"Northern wind is cool, rain and snow are foggy", this is the unique desolation of the Spring and Autumn Period.According to history books, one day, a tailed falcon fell from this desolate ancient sky and fell heavily in the courtyard of Chen State.

A long arrow was stuck in its body. Judging from the wound, the bird of prey was shot for a long time, and flew with the arrow until it was exhausted and fell into the courtyard.

At that time, the monarch of Chen State was very curious about this: where did this bird of prey come from, and who shot this arrow?

So the minister reminded the monarch that Confucius, the great sage of the world, is in the city now, why not ask him for advice?Mr. Chen Guoguo nodded again and again, and hurriedly asked someone to invite him.

Confucius, the editor of "Spring and Autumn", took over the falcon, which was already frozen, and the deadly long arrow, and looked at it carefully.The shaft of the arrow is more than a foot long; the blue-colored arrow has the texture of wood and is as hard as iron...

He told Lord Chen that this was a "shackle arrow and stone pea" - a long arrow made of shackle wood and an arrow made of sapphire.

Confucius told him that this thing came from the north.Among the cold mountains and frozen waters in the north, there is an ancient nation called "Sushen".Where do they live?According to the records of "Shan Hai Jing": "In the wilderness there are mountains, called Buxian, and there is the country of Sushen."

When King Shun, the ancestor of King Chen, came to the world, they traveled across mountains and rivers to come to the pilgrimage.In the next 1000 years, Sushen came several times, and the tribute each time was a arrow and a stone.

After King Wu established the Zhou Dynasty, he divided the princes of the world into feudal lords.Hu Gongman, a descendant of Shun, married Taiji, the eldest sister of King Wu, and got a piece of land on the southern edge of the Central Plains, and established the Kingdom of Chen.King Wu bestowed beautiful jade on princes of the same surname; tributes from barbarians from all directions were given to princes of different surnames.And what was given to Chen Guo happened to be the arrow that Su Shen paid tribute to.

So Confucius said to Chen Guoguo, if you send someone to look for it in the ancestral temple, maybe you can still find it.Chen Ren rummaged through the ancestral temple, and found a gold box. He opened the lid, and a shackle stone with "Sushen's Tribute Arrow" engraved on it came into view.

In this way, Su Shen appeared in the records of the Central Plains people. From then on, the Central Plains people knew that there was a group of people who made arrows and shot arrows in the bitter cold land in the north.They were called "Sushen" in ancient times; "Woju" in Qin Dynasty; "Yilou" in Han and Jin Dynasties; "Wuji" in Southern and Northern Dynasties;

They should be considered the same ethnic group, but they are not quite, because they keep infiltrating new blood.They once went all the way south, destroyed Liao and swallowed Song Dynasty, and established the Kingdom of Jin in the Central Plains. There are too many stories about them in "Shuo Yue": Jin Wushu, Nianhan, Hamichi, and the golden marble who was thrown off the horse by the young general Yue Yun.

When Mongolia rose in the desert, the Kingdom of Jin and the Southern Song Dynasty perished successively.Most of the Jurchen have already assimilated into Huaxia.Only the Jurchens who stayed in the white mountains and black waters still carried their ancestral arrows, and they were still scattered in the dense forest that covered the sky and the sun.

If you could set foot in this forest at that time, you might see a group of Jurchens with long arrows and big bows carefully surrounding the beasts and birds hiding in the grass in the forest.

There are a total of ten of them, in groups of two, arranged into a character "凵".Two groups of people form the "丨" on the left: the upper group is called the left apron, and the lower group is called the left apron; the one on the right is naturally the right apron and the right apron; It is called the bottom of the wall, and it is the remaining group.

The word "凵" is like a bag, the opening is facing the direction they are going, and the fox and rabbit are going to be put into the bag.When there were enough foxes and rabbits in the pockets, the two Jurchens at the bottom of the bezel began to shoot and kill the besieged prey with their bows and arrows.

At this time, the people on the left and right ends and shoulders did not do anything, but were careful to prevent the prey from escaping from their direction.When the hunting was over, the ten men dispersed to collect the prey.

This is the hunting method that the Jurchens have been accustomed to for thousands of years.It always ensures that the hunters kill a lot more game than they would if they were alone.

In fact, this hunting method is similar to the so-called "surrounding three lacking one" in the Central Plains military book, except that human opponents are smarter, so the missing party can be really lacking, while encircling hunting is not necessarily—this Kazuyoko will close the pocket sooner or later.

Among the ten Jurchen hunters there is one special.Usually he's the strongest and calmest.In addition to the bow, arrow and dagger that everyone has, he always carries more arrows than others.

Before hunting, each Jurchen would draw an arrow from his quiver, make a bundle, and hand it over to the temporarily elected leader.

The Jurchens called this bunch of arrows "Niulu", which means big arrows and symbolizes power, just like the seals of the Central Plains people and the big banner of the Mongolian Khan.And farther west, kings wield scepters.

Since the ancient times when Sushen paid tribute to Shun and King Wu of Zhou, the arrows were the tokens of the Jurchens and a symbol of authority; and those who held the arrows were the ones who ruled their destiny.

Ten hunters who hunt together and donate an arrow temporarily form a "Niulu", which is an arrow.The leader who owns this bunch of arrows is called "Niulu Ezhen", which means the owner of the arrows.

There seems to be no book explaining the original use of this bunch of arrows. Perhaps this means that if the hunters' arrows are exhausted, this bunch of arrows is the weapon of last resort, and the arrow owner has the right to distribute it to those who need it most. Or the best archer.

Of course, sometimes the Jurchens will organize large-scale hunting.At that time, each group is no longer just two hunters, but no matter how large the team is or how many people there are, it is still a "凵" formation composed of five parts: the bottom, the left and right sides, and the shoulders.

There is always an end to the hunt. The hunters return with a full load, and return to their clan and village from the forest and the grassland. The bunch of arrows will be split into ten arrows and returned to the hunters.

When the arrow was disbanded, the arrow owner ended his mission.The Jurchen will form another arrow and choose the owner of the arrow until they go hunting next time.

However, with the passage of time, the hunting of animals may not have decreased, but the number of wars to kill the same kind has increased.In this way, the time for Arrow to disband is getting less and less, and finally it will not be disbanded at all.

The arrow master who was originally elected temporarily became the permanent leader. He possessed the force that the patriarch and the village head did not have, so he became the real leader of the clan and the village.

Hunters, or warriors, together with their families and servants, constitute an arrow.In the constant fights, conquests and mergers, the number of warriors controlled by one arrow master continued to increase, and most of them exceeded the traditional ten.

In the world where the weak prey on the strong, the arrow masters learned to work together vertically and horizontally.When forming alliances, they exchange long arrows with each other; when making oaths, they stick long arrows into the ground, or break arrows to make oaths; , as a token.

The arrow master gradually owned his own stronghold, and the stronghold developed into a city.The former arrow master became the village master, and then the city master.When the force and prestige of the city lord further increased, he would become the king of the entire tribe.

The king of the tribe is called "Baile" in the Jurchen dialect.Solgo is such a tribal king. He is Baylor of the Suwan tribe, and his surname is Guerjia.

It's a pity that although the Su Wan tribe is said to be the descendant of Jin Wushu, it is only a small tribe at this time, located between the Yehe and Ula tribes, and it is difficult to survive horizontally or vertically.

Especially during the period of Hada's decline and Yehe's rise, the pressure on Suwanbel Guerja Solgo was increasing.

Originally, the Su Wan tribe hoped that the Ula tribe would not allow Ye He to annex Su Wan, and would try every means to prevent Ye He from annexing Su Wan.This kind of hope originally existed, especially when Ye He was invaded by Tumen on a large scale, Ye He's power was suppressed by force, and it was even very likely that he could not protect himself.

Just as Su Wanbu took a breath, the bad news arrived: With Daming's help, Ye He took back the West City that had been occupied by Tumen for a while.And not much loss.To make matters worse, Ye He plans to marry his well-known Gege Menggu Zhezhe to Gao Taishi.

Upon learning of this news, Solgo finally gave up his fantasy and surrendered to Ye He with his son. Immediately afterwards, he was entrusted by Ye He with a mission to pay tribute.But under the skin of this mission, their real purpose is to protect Meng Gu Zhezhe and ensure that she can be handed over to Grand Master Gao safely.

From time to time, Sorgo thought back to the glory and splendor of his ancestors, but his son was obviously more willing to "look forward".The young man carefully observed Gao's cavalry for a while, then shook his head and said, "I heard that there are [-] cavaliers from Grand Master Gao's family. Although these [-] cavalry may not all be such fine cavalry, it is enough to show his strength. Ah Ma, Ye He got the help of Grand Master Gao, and I, Su Wan, have no choice but to seek refuge."

Solgo sighed, and asked softly, "Fei Yingdong, you are my bravest and smartest son. Su Wanbu's future depends on where you take them..."

It turned out that the young man was named Fei Yingdong, Guarja Fei Yingdong.
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PS: The computer was broken last night. I temporarily explained the specific situation in the chapter review of the previous chapter last night. Anyway, it was fixed this afternoon.Then I installed various custom applications, retrieved some lost data, maps and so on, and the update must have been delayed, and I was seriously short of sleep because of this, so I have to sleep quickly now.This... is really force majeure, Wanwang Haihan.

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