Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 741 Great Shaman

"Shaman, what did you see?"

"A cloud of fog!"

"anything else?"

"The fog is so thick that I can't see anything clearly."

"But you are a shaman, the middleman who communicates with the world of the gods and the underground ghost kingdom, and the messenger of the god Tengger."

A group of savage Jurchens dressed in animal skins and fish skins gathered together. In front of them was a Jurchen shaman wearing divine clothes, a nine-sparrow hat, a bell skirt around her waist, and a shaman drum in her hand.

This is a shaman who can connect the world of gods and ghosts.

The shaman in front of me is the most famous big shaman in the Jurchen nests in the East China Sea. When he was young, he suddenly contracted shamanism and had a fever for several days. The transformation of a shaman, becoming a shaman.

Shaman is the original belief of Jurchen tribes. In their legends, the heavenly mother Abu Kahehe created people. At first, the heaven and the earth were in a bubble of water. In this bubble of water, Abu Kahehe was born later. Growing up in the water bubbles, the sky and the earth were separated more and more, until she was so big that it reached the sky, sank to the bottom of the water, and was everywhere and everywhere.

Later, her body was divided into three gods, and a woman was created from a piece of flesh from her body, and a man was created from shoulder blades and armpit hair.

Later, the god Tengger was born slowly.

In all uncertainties ask the shaman.

When the Jurchen tribe encountered important matters, they would seek advice from shamans and ask them to communicate with the gods.

"You are our most respected Longuetara shaman, you will definitely be able to guide us in the future."

A group of tribal leaders made a very respectful request.

"I am old. It has been 60 years since I was chosen by God as a shaman, and now I feel farther and farther away from God."

"Shaman, you must point the way for us. At the beginning, we also followed your guidance, accepted Nurhachi's consolation, and moved all the way south. After Jianzhou Jurchen moved into the customs, we moved to their birthplace of Longxing , but now that the Jianzhou Jurchens have been defeated by the Central Plains Han, what should we do?"

The old shaman Longetara had a white beard and beard, and his old face was wrinkled like elm bark.

They are now located in the area of ​​Tumen River and Suifen River, which is the place where Jianzhou Jurchen Longxing was born.

The Ningguta area of ​​Mudanjiang where Nurhachi's ancestors lived.

Ningguta Jurchen language means six. It is said that the six sons born to Nurhachi’s great-grandfather lived here, and each set up a city, which was later called Ningguta Liubeile. Nurhachi’s grandfather, Jue Chang’an, was one of the elders. Four.

Nurhachi's family belonged to the Jianzhou Zuowei among the three guards of Jianzhou in the Ming Dynasty. According to hereditary legend, they all commanded the position for more than 200 years. The Jianzhou Zuowei was on the bank of the Tumen River, not far upstream from Hunchun.

The entire Jianzhou Sanwei lived in the Yalu River, Mudan River, Tumen River, and Suifen River Basin. Later, Nurhachi raised troops and continued to conquer the surrounding tribes, especially after destroying the Haixi Jurchen tribe in Jilin, and finally entered Liaodong.

In the end, Shenyang was established as the capital, controlled the Liaohe Plain, and conquered the left-wing tribes of Monan Mongolia on the Songnen Plain, entered the west of Liaoning, fought with the Ming army for many years, and finally entered the customs in one fell swoop and moved the capital to Beijing.

After the Jianzhou Jurchen conquered the Haixi Jurchen and moved to the Liaoshen area, they also moved some tribes of the wild Jurchen in the Sanjiang Plain to the former Jianzhou Jurchen.

Savage Jurchen are relatively scattered compared with Haixi Jurchen Hulun Sinala and Jianzhou Jurchen who established an alliance at the end of Ming Dynasty. Gillette fans and others are all savage Jurchen tribes, and these are only some tribes scattered in the lower reaches of the Songhua River and north of Heilongjiang.

Under Nurhaci's rectification, a large number of wild Jurchens moved to the Haidong area, and branch roads were established, Muling Road, Suifen Road, Namudulu Road, Nimacha Road, Huye Road, Wuerding Road, Yalan Road, etc. Road, Xilin Road, etc.

The shunt manages Qianliwoji.

Woji, also known as Woju, etc., means deep mountains and dense forests, and also generally refers to tribes living in the mountains and forests in the east of Heilongjiang, Wusuli River, Suifen River, and Tumen River. This area is narrow from east to west and long from north to south, reaching more than a thousand Li, called Qianliwoji.

All the dense forests along the coast are called Woji, and the women Yezhen who live in these nests mainly for fishing and hunting, whether they are Varka, Kurka, Chakhara or other tribes, are collectively called Woji tribe.

Each Woji is similar to a mountain forest, and also refers to the tribes living in the Woji mountain forest. The Qing court divided the tribes living in the Woji and the plains according to roads.

Each set up a road chief to lead.

"Please take a look at the great shaman and guide the way!"

The Nurhachi family was once so powerful that they not only unified the three tribes of Jurchen in Jianzhou, but also conquered the fourth tribe of Jurchen in Haixi, which was originally stronger, and even later conquered many wild Jurchen tribes, and finally conquered the Monan Mongols and North Korea.
It also broke into Guanzhong and almost conquered the Central Plains.

"Will the Jianzhou Jurchen come back to the old land? Will the Han people come to snatch it? What should our ministries do?"

The Aixinjueluo family founded Manchuria and brought all the Jurchen tribes into the Manchuria. However, for the wild Jurchen tribes, they did not have a high sense of identity with this Manchuria. They were defeated and conquered by Jianzhou, and even half-forced. Southward migration.

It's hard to gain a firm foothold here.

But now the situation has changed again.

The Tumen River area is much stronger than the Sanjiang Plain where they used to live, because it is warmer here, and even trade is convenient.

It is already midsummer at this time.

The Central Plains is in full swing, but here it is very cool. The riverside plains are full of swamps and bubbles. For the Han people in the Central Plains, this may not be a land of human beings. Tigers, leopards, and wolves are everywhere, and there are dense jungles everywhere. The swamp was swallowed by accident.

Most of the time in a year is winter, and people freeze to death in winter.

But such a place is really a good place for the savage Jurchen who moved here, much better than the nests and bubbles they stayed in before.

Although the Sanjiang Plain is a great plain, in later generations he still had a name, the Great Northern Wilderness. Although it is a great plain, it is a large basin where the Sanjiang Rivers gather. It is undeveloped and heavily silted up, and there are large swamps everywhere.

Not to mention the Sanjiang Plain, but the Liaohe Plain, this piece of land that the Han people began to manage in the pre-Qin period. The core area of ​​the Liaohe Plain is actually a bad land. It is known as Liaoze, which is hundreds of miles away. granary.

When Yang Guang and Li Shimin conquered Goguryeo, they were even trapped by Liaoze.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the real grain production area in Liaodong was not the Liaohe Plain, but the Siwei in southern Liaoning, which is the southwest coast of the Liaodong Peninsula.

The place of hell in the eyes of the Han people is a treasure in the eyes of the savage Jurchen.

Hold it in your hand, how can you give up again.

The minds of the leaders, the great shaman took them all into his eyes.

He closed his eyes, started to ring the bell and beat the drum, and continued to dance the gods.

In this ceremony, the old shaman in his 70s actually danced for three days and three nights, day and night, all the leaders surrounded him respectfully, and no one dared to neglect to leave.

When the old shaman collapsed exhausted, everyone quickly surrounded him.

"I saw it, I saw it!"

The old shaman murmured.

The leader hurriedly put a hundred-year-old ginseng in the mouth of the old shaman and let him hold it.

for a long time.

The old shaman's eyes regained their luster.

"I saw it. In the thick fog, I saw a ray of mystery."

"The god Tengger guided me through the fog. I saw the flags of the sun and the moon fluttering on this land, I saw huge sailing ships, and many Han people arrived on big horses with muskets."

The chiefs were shocked.

The old shaman said again, "I saw they built a castle market here, brought a lot of Chinese goods, and traded ginseng, mink and medicinal materials to us. I saw the peace between the two races... "

The leaders were startled.

Everyone has complicated expressions and different expressions.

They wanted to ask again, but the old shaman had already waved his hand, "I'm tired and need to rest, you go back. Tengger, the god of heaven, guides us to welcome the arrival of the Han people and get along with them in a friendly way.
Tengger, the god of heaven, also told me that the Han people will not rob us of our peaceful land, and it will still belong to us. "

After speaking, he ignored everyone and closed his eyes.

Wearing tiger skin, Muling Road Chief left the old ginseng behind, and then paid his respects, and the leaders followed.

When everyone left, the old shaman opened his eyes.

He got up and wrapped the old samurai with his beard pinched, and then went into the back room.

In the wooden house, there was a young man wearing fishskin clothes and straw sandals, with a turban wrapped around his head. He was a Han Chinese named Zhao Shijun. He was a secret agent of the Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty. He entered the Haidong area as a fur merchant three years ago, and he had been in contact with him for a long time. Chiefs of the tribes.

Even made contact with some influential shamans.

The shaman Longattara is an old friend he has been with for three years.

"This ginseng is good."

Long Getara gave Zhao Shijun the old ginseng sent to him by Muling Road Chief Uluka just now.

"The best Changbai ginseng is worth several hundred taels in the Central Plains."

Longue Tara smiled, "In Haidong, this kind of ginseng is also the best, at least worth ten sets of armor."

"If the great shaman is willing to bear the pain and give up, I am willing to exchange twenty bird guns, how about it?"

The big shaman smiled and handed over the top-quality old ginseng. He solemnly asked the young man, "We have known each other for three years. When you first came three years ago, you told me that the Jianzhou Jurchens were going to be defeated. I didn't believe it at the time." Yes, I didn't expect to really lose now."

"Is the Son of Heaven really willing to hand over Haidong to the various ministries to continue living in?"

Zhao Shijun nodded, "Of course, as long as all the ministries accept the canonization of the Son of Heaven, then Daming will set up the Duhu Mansion and the Dudu Mansion in Haidong, and appoint the heads of the ministries as the Duhu and Dudu, so that the customs will continue and each will rule. Officials will be appointed by the court. Give a job, allow hereditary replacement.

And set up customs, cities, wharves, and post stations, Xu Chaogong exchanged markets, and exchanged local products such as horses, ginseng, mink, and pine nuts for inland cloth, grain, iron pots, salt, tea, tobacco, wine, porcelain, medicinal materials, and agricultural tools and weapons. "

It is probably the same system that the Ming Dynasty had for the Jurchen ministries in the Northeast, setting up guards, appointing the heads of the ministries, trading with each other, and controlling them. In name, the Jurchen ministries are loyal to the Son of Heaven, but in fact they still lead their ministries. .

Of course, the imperial court will also restore post stations in the northeast, rebuild Guan City, and even build ports and wharves along the coast, all for the convenience of the leaders to pay tribute to Beijing and facilitate trade.

Zhao Shijun even took out a imperial edict, and the imperial court conferred him the title of Great Shaman of Haidong and the Earl of Hunchun.

"If the great shaman has any requests, just ask."

But Longuetara stroked his beard and asked, "When will the fleet arrive?"

"The great shaman is ready here. The fleet can come at any time. They are already on the island outside the Mokuwai Bay."

(End of this chapter)