Villager of Daming

Chapter 739 Comparison of hearts and minds in battle

Literary officials received one after another, and he only had a window. The Jurchen tribe did not look at the mutual trade, but in fact it was all completed by the leaders of each tribe.

In a small group of about a hundred people, it is impossible for everyone to come out and buy and sell alone.

The leaders, or chiefs and clan chiefs, take the lead and bring people out to trade.

If everyone needs something, discuss it first and then exchange it together.

In fact, there are not many groups. They are just exchanged at any time here in Fushun. The Ming, Goryeo, and Jurchen places set mutual trading dates, usually once a month in winter.

The day we chose was the fifteenth day of the month. Because there was a moon, we could still walk at night, and it was more convenient after it snowed.

Today is the third day of the eleventh month, where is the moon?You have to live here after exchanging things. If you don't live there, you can't go back.

I'm here in a hurry, can I change my things and leave on the same day?Some use horse-drawn sledges, and some are pulled by deer.

The tribes must gather their animal power and go to the county seat of Xuancheng County or Dangtu County, just like before in Xiaqiu Village. There are cars.

People have strong endurance and can bear it, but animals will die of exhaustion on the road without rest.

In the nearest place, the Jurchens help dig coal and cut ice. When there are fish during the ice cutting process, special people will use nets to pick them up and freeze them for everyone to share. The Jurchens have them, and the Ming people also have them.

This is called a combination of interests, not mutual trading, which is an exchange of interests.

Zhu Wentian's policy is to try to melt the other person's heart with warmth. If comparing heart to heart fails, then use the heat of gunpowder to melt the other person's cold heart.

Therefore, these leaders would take their people to stay, take a hot bath, the kind you would find in a large pond in the Northeast, and then rub each other's backs themselves.

Deer and horses were taken to the livestock shed to be fed, and Ming Dynasty provided fine feed.

The pool is divided into men and women. It is mainly used for washing hair, otherwise there will be lice and ticks. Some tribesmen bring women here, and they even hold babies in the summer!
The soap here is free and you are not allowed to take it away, or you can exchange it for something and you can take it back.

In the summer and autumn of this year, some Jurchen men and women before they got married came over and washed them separately. After washing, they wrapped up the clothes they came with and took out the clothes they brought back. In this way, it would be more pleasant to perform the ceremony of Duke Zhou after getting married. Clean and fragrant.

When encountering a marriage, the civil servants here will take everyone to congratulate and give a bunch of things as gifts.

Pots and pans, toothbrushes and tooth powder...

When a child is born or a hundred days old, people from the tribe will come over to say hello, and arrange for people to come and give gifts, so as to integrate as much as possible.

"Chun Qiu Zuo Zhuan Zhengyi" has a statement: China has great etiquette, so it is called Xia; it has the beauty of uniforms and seals, so it is called Hua.

After changing things, people should take a bath immediately and soak in the large pool. They are not allowed to scrub or soap in the pool, otherwise the water in the pool will need to be changed after a while.

If a woman is menstruating, she must take a shower and is strictly prohibited from entering the pool.

When women come to take a bath, they have sulfur soap to use, which is free, or they have to bring something to change themselves, but they can't use it every day.

One morning passed, and all exchanges were over, including lunch. Normal Jurchens also have two meals a day.

You can get three meals a day here in exchange for labor or taking things, and the Jurchens are willing to exchange.

For example, they can exchange two pounds of wild boar meat for a lunch, which includes fried wild boar meat, pickled eggplant strips, dried leeks and tofu, a piece of fermented bean curd, and cabbage soup.

The staple food is usually steamed buns. Sometimes people are diligent and make dumplings. Why pasta?Because there is a lot of wheat in the north, especially in Shandong.

If you were south of the Yangtze River, you might be given rice noodles, rice noodles, indica rice, and rice cakes.

Japonica rice is delicious. The key is that this crop is the main product of Northeast China, but the Jurchens don’t grow it much now!Japonica rice ripens once a year, so it is most suitable for the Northeast. Of course, wheat can also be grown in the Northeast, like coal-producing Fushun, where sorghum, millet, wheat, japonica rice, millet, etc. can be grown.

The key is to plant it!The Jurchens are not good at this. They leave the most famous rice-producing areas and insist on hunting.

Zhu Wentian has the most say. How delicious is the Northeastern rice from the 90s and [-]s?Just like the steamed buns in Shandong at that time.

There is no need to eat vegetables, just rice and steamed buns are delicious and can be used as snacks.

Later, the variety changed, in pursuit of yield, and then people were deceived about Northeast Japonica rice.

As a result, Northeastern rice became more and more unpalatable as I ate it, and the texture and taste of my childhood could no longer be found.

Even Northeasterners are confused when they eat it. Why is the steamed rice so sticky?Shouldn't Northeastern rice be steamed so that each grain is distinct?

Now the Jurchens guard a good place and hunt all day long. Yes, there are so many prey here that the Jurchens can't catch them all.

The Jurchens don't know the history and don't need to care about it. Anyway, they eat well. Two pounds of frozen wild boar meat can be exchanged for such a sumptuous meal.

"Liu Chaoguan! I have something to say." While eating, Wuerduo sat next to the clerk who received the goods today.

"I'm not a court official, okay! What's the matter?" The civil servant surnamed Liu didn't want to continue to clarify, tired!Tired!
"There is a man-eating fish in a small sea over there, a black fish spirit. People say it is ten feet long and can eat a cow with just one mouth.

I also saw it in the fall. I don’t know how old it was. Anyway, a group of wild ducks disappeared in the blink of an eye.

We don’t dare to go into the water there for fear of being eaten. The fish bites us when they get bigger. Some fish eat meat. If they bite your arm, can you still come up? "

Wuerduo felt that the other party had given too much today, so he provided information that he could not catch the fish. He believed that the Ming court could catch it if it wanted to.

"Even if what you said is true, it's already frozen. Can I dig a hole in the ice and jump in to catch it? Can I feed the fish myself?" The civil servant surnamed Liu was distressed and entangled.

He wanted to get a big fish to offer, but his ability was limited, and he couldn't drain the water out of the place where such a big black fish could grow.

"Don't you have gunpowder that makes a bang? The snakehead fish usually sleeps underneath in the winter. If you wake it up, it will come up.

Think about it!If you catch such a big snakehead fish and turn it into sperm, and then present it to the court, won’t the court transfer you back?
I know you don’t want to be an official here because we can’t give you anything, so…”

"So you are wrong. I asked to come here on my own initiative. Daming has never expected anything from you. Your Majesty just wants to make your life better.

I am not here for money as an official. Your Majesty sent me here because of his trust in me. I didn't say it before because I didn't want to say it. My father is the Minister of the Ministry of War.

When your Majesty ordered me to come, he told me: Mo Luo is the father's power. The Ministry of War, the survival of the country, and the border are the most important.

I replied to Your Majesty: My father is at the Ministry of War, and my son is going to fight.The intention to charge is to advance but not to retreat; the ambition to be trapped is to die but not to live.

I don't want to be here?What are you going to give me?what can you give me?
Why!I have taken note of the black fish you mentioned, and will write a question book next time it is sent back to ice to see how the court arranges it.

No matter how you say it, you are thinking of me. I will give you a few more eggs. If someone there has a sore throat, fry them in meat oil and swallow them while they are hot. Just scald them and they will be fine. "

The literary official named Liu got excited and felt insulted. Finally he calmed down and told Wu Erduo a simple way to treat a sore throat.

In fact, it is to use high temperature to sterilize, which has advantages and disadvantages. The main thing is to burn the 'little tongue', which is the tonsils.

　No more today.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)