Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 743 Sealing the Bohai Sea
A group of savage Jurchen gathered tribal leaders, dressed in animal skins and fish skins, and went down the Tumen River on rafts.

These rafts and boats also have some traditional characteristics of each tribe. In front of the fleet is a sailing speedboat of the Ming Vanguard Fleet.

This kind of speedboat is only used for reconnaissance and communication, and it is even stored on the big ship most of the time, but now it feels a bit out of the crowd.

Uruka, the head of Muling Road, and several other well-known chiefs of the Ministry competed for the opportunity to ride on this advanced speedboat of Ming Dynasty.

Sitting on this sailing boat, looking here and there, touching, his eyes are full of envy.

"This ship actually has several cannons."

"I saw this cannon when I was on the expedition. One cannon can hit a long distance, just like thunder."

"That's right, the gate city can't stop it at all."

"The sails of this ship look amazing."

The Jurchen leaders were envious, thinking that this ship was really advanced.

When the boat got out of the Tumen River, they went east along the coast and entered Mokuowei Bay. They were very afraid when facing the sea. If Zhao Shijun, who was very familiar with them, said that the angel sent by the Son of Heaven brought a lot of gifts, they would have died. In that bay they would never have let the little raft go out to sea.

Even if the weather is sunny, they are still full of fear of the boundless sea.Fortunately, the distance was less than ten miles, and they quickly rowed into the bay.

Sail into Donggang with the sailing boat of Ming Dynasty.

From a distance, I saw three huge ships moored in the sea like hills in the bay.

Zhao Shijun and the others knew that Zhao Shijun had brought the Jurchen leaders here, so they ordered the three large ships to open the gun windows, and the guns were pushed out of the windows by the gun carts, revealing the dark naval guns.

Four-masted and three-story gun-deck sailing giant ship, each ship has more than 40 cannons.

Many reconnaissance speedboats were also put down on the ship in advance, cruising on the nearby sea.

On the mast, the blue sky is full of red sun, moon and bright flags, fluttering in the wind.

The sun emerged from the clouds and cast golden light.

Wulu Kanai, the head of Muling Road, was the leader of the Donghai Jurchen Department who had been to Ninggu Pagoda, Jilin Ula, Shenyang, and Beijing. He is also a very knowledgeable person.

But when he saw these three giant ships and those cannons, he stood up involuntarily, his eyes full of shock.

Facing the Sun and Moon flag, he finally bent his legs involuntarily, knelt directly at the bow of the sailing boat, and bowed respectfully.

The other leaders also bowed down involuntarily.

Zhao Shijun was extremely proud when he saw the ignorant appearance of these leaders dressed in animal skins.

Sudden.

There was a thunderstorm in the sky.

There were several consecutive roars of bang bang bang, fire flashed across the three sides of the ship, smoke rose, and then shells bombarded the far coast, setting off bursts of dust.

Wuluka knelt there and shuddered several times, quite frightened.

"Everyone, don't be surprised. This is the great day's envoy firing cannons to welcome the leaders. It is a very high courtesy."

"Oh." Wuluka's voice trembled. The power of the naval guns really shocked them.

Zhao Shijun invited them to board the big ship for a visit.

Uluka was both moved and fearful. He was not an ignorant savage. When his father was the leader of the tribe, Nurhachi gave forty armored suits to Seng Erni and Kali, the leaders of the local tribe in Suifen.

Wuluka's father Muling Road Chief and Urguchen Road Chief jointly sent troops to attack and plundered armor and many cattle and sheep. How could Luka's father spit out the meat that reached his mouth and refused to obey the order.

So Nurhachi ordered his seventh son, Abatai, together with ministers Fei Yingdong and An Feiyangu, to lead thousands of troops to conquer Urguchen and Muling Road, and at that time they carried several cannons.

He bombarded Zhacheng with artillery, defeated the two tribes, and captured more than a thousand people.

That's not a red cannon, it's just a general cannon.

It was also at that time that Wulinglu was beaten for fear of defeating him, and he was very obedient thereafter.Later, Wuluka was still in Shenyang as a hostage, and he also saw the power of Hou Jinwu Zhenchao's firearms.

But today, the battleships of the Ming army and the densely packed naval guns shocked him again.At the beginning, Abatai's general cannons broke through the gate city guarded by thousands of them.

Later he went to Shenyang and went to Beijing. Although he saw many cannons, the size of a city was only a few hundred cannons, but these three ships had so many cannons.

The leader of the savage Jurchen, who has always been skilled, was very uneasy when he climbed the rope ladder of the Ming boat. The other leaders were similar. Some leaders even fell into the sea and made a fool of themselves.

When he stood on the high deck, he was even more shocked.

The mast was as tall as a big tree, and the sail was as big as the clouds in the sky.

Watching and touching these naval guns from a close distance on the bow, as well as the well-equipped and murderous soldiers of the Ming Emperor on the ship, Wuluka couldn't help swallowing, nervous and excited.

"This battleship is really majestic."

The Prime Minister of the Dynasty laughed, and he deliberately changed into the flying fish robe given by the emperor, tied with a jade belt, wearing a goldfish bag, and hanging an embroidered spring knife.

This outfit, in the eyes of the savage, the flying fish looked like a python dragon, and the embroidery was even more surprising to the man with its skill.

"These ships are nothing, they are just a few merchant ships. I am here for the first time to avoid misunderstanding, so I did not come on a warship, but a few merchant ships, and it is also for the convenience of transporting some rewards and transactions. goods,"

Zhao Shijun said beside him, "Indeed, these are armed merchant ships. We have the Royal Navy in Ming Dynasty, and we have four major fleets. The warships in the fleet are divided into six levels of sailing warships, and the first level of sailing battleships has a five-story gun deck with one hundred and eight guns." Cannons (actually only in the blueprint design stage), even a sixth-tier warship can be equipped with 36 main naval guns, fully loaded with more than 300 soldiers.

Below the sixth-tier warships, there are some patrol gunboats, reconnaissance speedboats, communication boats, etc., which are not ranked, but they all have two to a dozen guns.

Although this kind of armed merchant ship has thirty or forty cannons, it is equipped with too few sailors, mainly for carrying cargo, so it can't even reach level six. Daming now owns thousands of such armed merchant ships, and His Majesty the Emperor There are dozens of ships in the Royal Merchant Fleet. "

Zhao Shijun bragged about not paying taxes.

Anyway, there are three big warships here, and the rest are all made up, all based on one mouth.

False and real, how can the Jurchens be halal?

But seeing is believing, these three warships will never be fake.

All the leaders were there trying to imagine the size of the Ming Navy and the might of the Royal Merchant Navy. Some leaders felt that their brains were not enough to imagine such a huge scene, and they felt headaches.

Originally, the fierce fighters in the mountains and forests of Haidong Woji were excellent in fishing and hunting, but at this moment, all their stiff toes were hooked up.

The atmosphere became very subtle.

Wang Chaoxiang and Zhao Shijun controlled the rhythm throughout the process.

When the prime minister of the dynasty took out the emperor's edict, Wuluka and other leaders knelt down without hesitation. Before coming, many people had their own thoughts, but now, they have already been overwhelmed by the Great Tomorrow.

Bounded by Changbai Lake, it is north of Tumen River, east of Tianchi Lake, Hailanwoji and Sailanwoji in the west, Nuoluowoji in the north, Akumiwoji in the east, and reaches the sea in the southeast. The Son of Heaven set up Haidong Road, Haidong Dufu Mansion, Ningguta Dudu Mansion, Hunchun Dudu Mansion, Suifen Dudu Mansion, Vladivostok Dudu Mansion, Xingkai Dudu Mansion, etc.

To the west of Changbai Lake, to Ji'an in the south, to Alchuka (Harbin) in the north, to Changchun in the west, and to Hailanwoji in the east, the emperor decreed to set up Haixi Road, the Haixi Protectorate, and the Changchun Governor's Mansion , Jilin Dudu's Mansion, Fuyu Dudu's Mansion, Hunjiang Dudu's Mansion, Five Kingdoms Dudu's Mansion, etc.

Haixi Road and Haidong Road are jointly located in Bohai Province.

As the head of Muling Road in the Dongning Guta area of ​​Qinghai, Wuluka originally had a relatively low status, but he actively attached himself to him and was very loyal. Yalan is the governor of Muling and the earl of Muling.

It used to be that the Qing court set up assistant leaders for the barbarian Jurchens and managed them separately, but now the imperial court has set up provinces and roads, and set up the governor's mansion to protect and guard the governor's mansion.

The original Niulu was changed to Tun Town.

Each set up prefectures, counties, towns, etc., each led by a tribal leader.

On the surface, it was just a name change, but in fact it remained the same. The leaders continued to lead their tribes and still occupy the existing territories.

But in fact, of course the Ming court would not have traveled such a long distance just to preach the Daoist edict and recognize their status.

This is just the beginning.

The imperial court has not made any request now, but it does not mean that it will not raise it in the future.

After reading the imperial edict, the imperial edict was issued to them, official seals, and even leather belt fish charms for their official uniforms.

Then give gifts.

Flintlocks, precious knives, cotton armor, etc. are not many in number, but they are very exquisite. All the leaders, big and small, received gifts of corresponding grades, and they couldn't put it down.

Some leaders wanted more.

"We are willing to change, ginseng mink fur, Haidongqing cattle, red deer, and fox fur."

Lin Xuewu agreed, "No problem, we are the envoys of the emperor, and we are also here to trade with you and share what you have. You can go ashore with us to the camp to see the goods we brought, and then trade."

He didn't forget to say at the end, "This time we only came with three ships, so the amount of goods we carry is limited, and we have to go to other places to declare and seal the exchange..."

Now the leaders of all ministries are in a hurry.

There are good things like muskets, cotton armor, and even binoculars, not to mention bows, arrows, knives and guns. Arrived muskets and so on, it is a once in a lifetime opportunity.

Leaders from all walks of life gathered together, and everyone wanted to seize the opportunity to buy, but there were only so many things.

So before they landed, everyone started bidding for them.

Lin Xuewu and Zhao Shijun were still saying that harmony is the most important thing for everyone, don't hurt harmony, and said that they should try their best to make an appointment with everyone, but the leaders don't want to suffer, because they are afraid that they will lose the next opportunity.

One after another reported their own good things, this one has Changbai old mountain ginseng, that one has Haidong good deer fur, he has the best quality costin, and that one is a BMW horse.

Other kinds of dog head gold and Tana Dongzhu were brought out one after another.

A piece of old wild ginseng is only for a musket, a piece of dog head gold is for a telescope, a piece of Dongzhu is for a nine-headed bird...
The price is too high and the stock is too little.

In the end, seeing these leaders rolled up their sleeves to fight for the right to trade duels, when the atmosphere of the dynasty meeting was up, they came out to smooth things over.

"I suggest how about the quota transactions between our ministries."

According to the size of the tribe, the distribution quota is set. This is actually the same as the mutual market quota for the Jurchens before the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty set up a mutual market in the border areas, and the Jurchen ministries had to rely on the edict issued by the imperial court to go to trade. Each edict represents A certain amount of trade.

Now Wang Chaoxuan pointed out that due to the limited goods they carry, all the ministries want to trade with each other, but they can't meet it, so they have to allocate the quota according to the size of the tribe. This is also a relatively fair approach, to avoid the dissatisfaction that the price is too high and the goods cannot be obtained due to continuous bidding.

Those who see it will have a share, and those who are strong will buy more.

As for the price, it's easy to say.

The red-faced leaders of the various ministries finally calmed down, eager to make a deal.

They want muskets, binoculars, gunpowder, swords, cotton armor, salt, tea, tobacco, wine, iron pots and porcelain, as small as needles and threads.

I can't wait to sell all the goods on the three ships to the tribes of Ningguta.

As Zhao Shijun said earlier, the leaders of these savage Jurchens are even more enthusiastic about the exchange of these goods than the title of Marquis granted to them by the emperor.

Wang Chaoxuan strikes while the iron is hot, and proposes to expand the port here, even build a permanent business center, and even plans to build a mutual market and post station along the Tumen River in Hunchun, these people even agreed without hesitation.

When Zhao Shijun suggested that he could use Ming's goods to hire some people from the leaders of various ministries to help build the storehouse, they immediately agreed.

If Daming set up border post stations directly in Mokuowei and Hunchun, it would be a dream, so that they would not have to travel thousands of miles to Liaodong and other places for trade, but would be able to trade directly at the doorstep of their homes. Can exchange more things.

Not only can it meet your own needs, but you can even resell it to the inland tribes in the north and east, and you can make a lot of money by changing hands.

And leaders like Wuluka have always been worried that the Jianzhou Jurchen will be driven back to Jianzhou, their land of Longxing by the Ming Dynasty. Wouldn't they have no place to stand by then?

If Daming established a city here, or even set up government offices and garrison troops here, then he would have a solid backing.As for whether Daming would annex their land after he came, he wasn't very worried.

Because the Ming Dynasty had been established for nearly 300 years, at the beginning of the founding of the country, it went deep into the Northeast, recruited the Jurchen tribes, and set up hundreds of guards. They only appointed the leaders of the Jurchen tribes, and they were hereditary. The court did not interfere in internal affairs.The water and land post stations established in the early Ming Dynasty also greatly facilitated their communication with the mainland, especially for trade.

With this history, the savage Nuzhen is not afraid that Daming will come here to snatch their territory. They are holding golden rice bowls in the Central Plains, how can they look down on this bitter cold place in the East of Haidong?

The camp became a big vegetable market, and the various ministries were noisy for a long time, and finally they all got their share of good things, but they didn't prepare for it, so it's better to divide the good things now, and they can't take them back. They have to go back and get the agreed deal Ginseng, mink, deer fur, Dongzhu, gold and silver, etc. are exchanged for these things.

For fear of accidents, they all stayed in the camp and looked at the good things they had won, but asked their nephews to rush back to the tribe immediately to get the things in exchange.

Wang Chaoxuan warmly entertained them, invited them to change into the official robes given by the Emperor of Heaven, hosted a banquet for them, and invited them to watch the drill of the vanguard guards, and taught them how to shoot guns, etc., all in harmony and joy.

(End of this chapter)