Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 799 The Northern Territory
Heavy snow is flying, rivers and seas are frozen.

It was only late October at this time, but it was already like an icehouse on the west coast of the North Sea.

The boat was parked in the bay and was frozen by the sea ice. Wang Chaoxiang was still feeling cold in his mink fur. He just wanted to stay in the log cabin all day and warm the stove, or just sit on the kang and drink tea.

But those local tribes like the ice and snow very much, they are not affected at all, the snow that goes up to the knees is not a problem for them, every man and woman in the tribe can easily make a pair of skis, and put them on their feet like a snowboard. Walk on flat ground.

Okhotsk Fort changed its name to Port of Misaki.

The original Orthodox church in the city was demolished, and the dynasty expelled those Raksha people to build Yuewang Temple, Guandi Temple and Confucian Temple.

These Raksha captives are very experienced in building wooden houses. In fact, the church just removed the roof and replaced it with a Chinese-style roof. The thick logs are well framed, and the gaps are filled with moss.

Raksha captives are treated like livestock every day, repairing castles, building houses, and chopping firewood. As a result, the treatment is not as good as that of the dogs of the Hezhe people. Their dogs can still eat those big dried fish, but they can only eat those broken fish Dry.

It can only be eaten dry, not even boiled.

"The ministries want to return to the tribe."

"It's snowing so much, it's so icy and snowy, it's not easy to go back, why don't you just stay here for the winter?"

"My lord, for them, this world of ice and snow is not a problem at all. They have dogs, and they can make sleds and let the dogs pull them all the way back to the tribe. They can run very fast. Even if they don't bring dogs, they can go very quickly with skis on. They I am not afraid of the cold, the fur on my body can protect against the cold, and I can even dig a snow hole in the wild overnight, bring dried fish or meat, neither people nor dogs will be hungry, and I can even catch minks and foxes along the way.”

The minister of the dynasty admired these natives very much.

There are too many tribes here, and even those tribes of the same ethnic group don’t have a leader or anything. Most of them live in clans, no matter they were called Savage Jurchen or Beishan Jurchen in the Ming Dynasty, or they were called by the Qing Dynasty. Sauron, or Daur, Hezhe, Fei Yaka, Evenki, etc., in fact, they themselves are not divided in this way.

For example, the same Feiyaka people, or the same Qileer people, although their internal languages ​​are roughly the same, they all live in clans as a unit. Different clans can only say that they have similar languages ​​and customs, but they are connected. Not tight.

Hallas with different surnames have their own leaders, and the Kazha villages below also have their own leaders, but there are no leaders above each Halla.

Even at ordinary times, they basically live in the Kazha unit.

According to language, it can be roughly divided into Daur and Buryats of the Mongolian language family, Yakuts of the Turkic language family, Ewenki, Hezhe, Oroqen of the Tungusic language family, and Feiyaka people who are different from them. and the Ainu people of southern Sakhalin.

In the northern part of the Outer Xing'an Mountains, there are Yukajir languages, Chukchi-Kamchatka languages, and even Eskimo-Aleut languages.

"Hold a celebration banquet and entertain them well."

The heavy snow in winter did not hinder these natives. Originally, autumn and winter were the best hunting seasons. After autumn and before spring, the fur of wild animals was the most valuable, and it was also a better hunting season.

An excellent hunter can even hunt hundreds of mink furs in one autumn and winter.

Although there are many people in the pioneer fleet, there is no shortage of food and clothing for the winter here. Unlike those poor Cossacks, they set off from Yakutsk or other castles to explore, and travel between the mountains and rivers. Because you are taking an unknown route, you can only advance along the river and switch between different rivers, so you can only take a small paddling boat that can take a few people, so that you can directly lift the boat when changing to other rivers. Go ashore.

Although such a small boat is light, it also means that it cannot carry too many things, and they explore, and sometimes they come out for two or three years at a time, basically relying on looting or trading along the way for food.

Even gunpowder is limited, so use it sparingly.

In contrast, the pioneering fleet departed from Vladivostok, took the route that had already been explored, and went straight to Nurgan Yongning Port, where it was replenished and then came here.

There are plenty of supplies in the cabin, rice and wheat, even flour and fried rice, as well as dried meat and fish, as well as tobacco, alcohol, tea, salt, sauce and vinegar, etc.

There are also a lot of charcoal and briquettes on board, which are very thoughtful.

The chancellor entertained the tribesmen in the newly built Yuewang Temple.

He directly asked the crew to set up a long table and set up a buffet.

Grilled whale meat, fried whale blubber, spiced beef jerky, baked dried fish, bacon and glutinous rice, black pepper mashed potatoes, boiled corn, buns, steamed buns, dumpling pancakes, seaweed egg soup...
Although the Koryaks who like to bury fish in the soil to turn them sour and take them out to cook with stones are not here, the diet of other tribes is definitely quite backward and primitive. For example, the Feyaka people never A group of people who wash their faces and also like to play with bears and fish skins. Although they are good at fishing and like raising dogs, eating fish is also very simple.

During the salmon migration season, the whole family went into battle to fish desperately, and then dried it in the sun, which was a year's ration. When eating, we soaked the dried fish with water and ate it.Usually live fish are caught, and sashimi is eaten directly.

There are several main reasons for the extremely high mortality rate of the Fiyaka people. One is eating sashimi, the other is dying of illness due to lack of hygiene, and the third is playing with bears.

The Feiyaka people also catch thousands of catties of cod, and sometimes even the tribes go whale hunting together, but generally small tribes do not have that ability. The main whale hunters are the Feiyaka people living on Sakhalin Island. .

A large piece of whale is fried and grilled, sprinkled with black pepper juice, and then sprinkled with chopped green onion. It is exquisite and beautiful. The Feiyaka people are a little bit difficult to pick up a piece with chopsticks, but it falls to the ground. Put it directly in your mouth.

Take a bite, the outside is slightly crispy, but the inside is very tender, especially the juice, which has a unique fragrance.

"Yeah, um, um," the leader kept nodding his head.

Fried noodles, fried noodles, Yangchun noodles, fried rice noodles, boiled rice cakes, dumplings, buns, wontons, those tribal leaders and children who are dressed in all kinds of fur and are always dirty like Brother Sharp, have you ever seen this? A variety of Central Plains delicacies.

But for the chefs on board, it was still in a world of ice and snow, and the materials were limited, otherwise they would have to prepare a hundred or so official dishes to show their level.

Seeing this group of tribal people rushing to grab it, Chao Xiang smiled all over his face.

These people are all dirty, but the furs on their bodies are all extremely precious, and many of them can be worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars.

It's a pity that due to the rough craftsmanship of their mother-in-law, the handling is mediocre, and the sewing is ugly, but the leather is good leather.

Sable skins, sea dragon skins, sea tiger skins, bear skins, whale skins, sea mink skins, and many ornaments such as walrus ivory and tiger teeth on their bodies.

Wait for this group of people to eat and drink enough.

The dynasty clapped hands, and the crew brought a lot of cloth for clothes.

There are woolen army coats, woolen blankets, exquisite cowhide jackets, sheepskin boots, and even cotton and silk sweaters that are very breathable and cool in summer.

Wang Chaoxiang proposed to exchange with everyone for their dirty furs.

A set of summer cotton clothes and a set of summer silk clothes, plus a winter woolen coat and woolen blanket, plus two pairs of boots, in exchange for the dirty clothes on them.

When this condition was mentioned, everyone waved their hands again and again, very embarrassed.

The flea-ridden flea-ridden clothes on my body are worth so many sets of such exquisite clothes. The patterns on them are so beautiful and the colors are so bright. It takes so much labor and skillful hands to make them.

"For us to be more united in the future!"

Chao Chaoxiang didn't dislike those clothes at all, took them back to wash and process some, and removed the leather to make high-end fur furs again. That would cost hundreds of thousands of silver dollars, and those sets of cotton silk clothes and shoes were only worth a few dollars.

The benefits are a hundred times easier.

In the end, the leaders couldn't bear the temptation of those exquisite clothes, and they undressed in public.

Prime Minister Wang saw fleas crawling, and also saw that their bodies were dirty, but he still kept smiling. It was nothing but a waste of money.

After exchanging clothes.

The chancellor of the dynasty gave them some gifts, such as fire sticks, axes, machetes, iron pots, etc., as well as some tea, shredded tobacco and wine.

A set down, in fact, not very valuable.

But in the eyes of the tribal people, these gifts are too heavy.

They hurriedly returned the gift, and they didn't have much to offer, and others didn't care about bone guns and arrows, so they only gave away leather.

There is also a dog to send.

The Prime Minister of the Dynasty took one or two items from each person, not too much. Although the leather was dirty, it would be very valuable to process it, but he was not greedy.

Taking advantage of the good atmosphere, he once again talked to these tribal leaders about Da Ming's maintenance of regional peace in the future, and hoped that everyone could join Da Ming and pledge allegiance to His Majesty the Emperor.

He also said that Yongning City, Okhotsk and several other camps will become fur purchase points in the future, and even the price has been tentatively stated, which is much higher than that offered by the Tsarist Russians.

"Adult men who have reached the age of 16 will pay a mink tax in kind to the imperial court every year, and those who are over fifty and under sixteen, as well as women, do not need to pay tribute."

"Besides, there is no need to give gifts."

The leaders were startled.

Only one mink fur tax per year?

The Tsarist Raksha devils, however, collect eleven tickets a year from their young and strong men, and five tickets from minors, and ask them to give gifts, and even arrest them as hostage guarantees.

"You don't need to keep hostages, and this tax will not make you pay for nothing. We will station troops here in the future. If there are robbers who steal or rob everyone's property, or kidnap and attack, everyone can come to us. We will send troops to help everyone. Peace of mind."

"Everyone sent troops to help this time, and we will not forget that each person will be given another reward, five silver dollars per person, and you can also buy goods for five silver dollars."

"Also, if you have furs in the future, you can sell them here. You can exchange them for silver dollars, or for the pots, axes, swords you want, or salt, tea, tobacco, wine, rice, wheat, grain, cloth, clothes and hats, etc. The purchase price justice."

"You can also accept our employment and join our hunting team. We will provide better hunting equipment, and we will share the fur after catching the prey."

"You can also move to the edge of our castle to divide the fields for farming, or to herd and fish. Living here will be safer and more stable."

The Prime Minister of the Dynasty threw out one attractive condition after another, and took them to visit the warehouse in the castle, which displayed iron pots, iron axes, swords, scythes, candles, cloth, fishing nets, hunting nets, animal traps, salt, etc. Tea, tobacco, wine, rice wheat...

It's all good stuff, they're salivating.

Wang Chao took them to read it, and then told the transaction price of these goods, the price was in units of mink furs, and how many mink furs all commodities could be converted into.

As long as you take mink fur, you can exchange these commodities, and other furs, medicinal materials, etc. can also be exchanged for the corresponding amount of mink fur.

The leaders of the Hara clans, and even the chiefs of Kazha Village, come to the city twice a year to listen to the oracle, and there will be rewards.If you can choose to go on a pilgrimage to Beijing, you will be rewarded even more.

In short, there are plenty of good things. You can hang out with Ming Dynasty, eat delicious food, drink spicy food and wear silk, and you can also use iron pots, iron axes and fire sickles, and you don’t have to worry about looting by Tsarist Raksha devils or oppression by Jianlu Jurchens in the future.

With Daming covering them, everyone doesn't have to worry about that in the future, and they can go to the imperial court for anything.

(End of this chapter)