Jingnan Strategy

Chapter 136 Slave Mother and Handmaid
Fu Daha and Ge Duojie, these two leaders who belong to the Udiha Suanzhen tribe, may not be famous in history, but if the deeds they have done are told, it may be enough to make the Aixinjueluo family Zi was so angry that he gritted his teeth.

In fact, they were also very innocent. The origin of the matter was the defection of Yang Mu Awu, a naturalized Jurchen from the [-] Guards, and then repeatedly plundered Liaodong, triggering a manhunt by the Ming army.

During the search, Yang Mu Awu sent troops to attack a small group of Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers.

Aixinjueluo Mengge Timur was serving as the commander of the left guard capital of Jianzhou in the Ming Dynasty at that time. In order to consolidate his dominance in the Amu River area, Yangmu Dawu seduced Wudiha and Fudaha, the leaders of the Zhen tribe. Ge Duojie went to Jianzhou Zuowei to plunder, and killed the fierce brother Timur, his eldest son Agu and others in the battle.

After the war, only Chongshan, who was called Dong Shan by the Han people, Chu Yan, Buhua Tu and others in the Aixinjueluo family survived.

In the next seven years, they continued to be plundered by the Wudiha Suanzhen tribe. Finally, in the fifth year of Zhengtong, the whole family moved to Chalatu Mountain and took refuge with Li Man, the commander of the Jianzhou Guard.

After arriving there, Li Manzhu represented the two of them to the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, due to Dong Shan and Fancha's struggle for the Wei Seal, the Ming Dynasty added the Jianzhou Right Guards, forming the Jianzhou Three Guards since then.

After the Tumubao incident, the Mongols massacred the Jurchens in Six Cities who were close to the Ming Dynasty, and then took control of Li Manchu.

Li Manzhu, together with Dong Shan and others, immediately began to plunder the Liaodong border and invaded Yiju, Korea. They fought for more than ten years and massacred more than [-] Ming and Korean border residents. Finally, in the third year of Chenghua, he and Li Manzhu were captured by the Ming army. Kill...

It has to be said that without Fudah and Ge Duojie, Lao Nu and his family would probably have stayed in the Amu River area.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu felt the urge to laugh when he saw Fu Daha and Ge Duojie. He did not expect that he would meet the enemies of the old slave family in this way.

"How many furs do you have?"

Zhu Gaoxu rests his elbows on his legs and sits in a wild posture with a golden sword.

"There are a lot of them. We want to exchange them for food and iron pots."

Fudaha seemed to be the person in charge. He spoke about his transaction request, while Yishiha acted as an interpreter beside Zhu Gaoxu.

But even with the translation, Zhu Gaoxu still felt a headache.

Among the Jurchens in the East China Sea, the tribe named Wudiha is the most primitive. Wudiha is also known as the savage. Therefore, according to the translation, Fudaha and Gedojie should be the savage leaders of the Suizhen tribe.

They only know how to rob or trade furs, and are not very proficient in farming. Naturally, they do not have the culture and knowledge of the Jurchens in the Six Cities.

Therefore, from the "many" they said, Zhu Gaoxu had no idea what value they could bring to him.

Fortunately, Yishiha always stood up at this time and asked Fudah and Ge Duojie about the number of furs in a way they could understand.

At this moment, Zhu Gaoxu looked at Yishiha and Fudaha like an "illiterate" and they chatted for a long time. Finally, Yishiha breathed out a sigh of relief, turned to Zhu Gaoxu and said helplessly:

"They said they had enough furs to make clothes for 300 people, including mink skins, two bear skins, one tiger skin, and mostly deer skins."

"The more than 5000 people in their tribe have been saving for three years, but they have not been able to sell it successfully because of the obstacles of being able to leave the fort."

After Yi Shiha finished explaining, Zhu Gaoxu's eyes also lit up.

You must know that the "clothes" mentioned by the Jurchens in the East China Sea are different from the clothes of the Han people. The fur clothes in Jiangnan are mainly to show wealth. Although how warm they are, they are actually not as practical as cotton clothes.

Therefore, a piece of Donghai Jurchen fur clothing can at least serve as Jiangnan Mink clothing for two to three people.

According to the two of them, the value of the furs they have is probably not less than [-] guan.

This was a business, but after this business, Zhu Gaoxu also saw another business.

Nowadays, he can trade with the Haixi Jurchen tribes that are close to the Songhua River and Heilongjiang through the towers in the Six Cities, but he doesn't have much to do with the East China Sea Jurchens.

Although Ezhen, who is good at leaving the fort, can also provide valuable furs, he will eventually refuse to accept the goods because of the hatred of the tribe.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't care about the grudges of these tribes. What he wanted was to do as much business as possible, collect the furs and ginseng from the entire north of Thirty Thousand Guards into his own hands, and then sell them to the south of the Yangtze River through Yang Bin, so as to achieve self-sufficiency. Self-sufficient.

The appearance of Fudaha and the others gave Zhu Gaoxu an opportunity to break into Wudiha. After all, Fudaha and the others were just a tribe among the Wudiha people. In addition to them, there were Gukan Wudiha and Supingjiang Wudiha. , Juzhou Wudiha, Huolawen Wudiha and Shenzhen Wudiha and other savage tribes.

These savages are not popular among the Jurchens in the East China Sea. After all, no one would like a tribe that likes to plunder to settle down around them.

But for Zhu Gaoxu, these Udiha savages who were good at plundering and hunting were good hunters of furs and ginseng.

"Your Highness, we can do this business. These two savages only sell five measures of grain for each fur."

Yishiha brought a piece of good news to Zhu Gaoxu, but at this time Zhu Gaoxu already had his own ideas, so he raised his hand to signal Yishiha to translate for him, while he turned to look at Fudaha Er who was in a worried mood. people.

Facing their anxiety, Zhu Gaoxu also showed a friendly smile: "I will not refuse any business here. As long as you don't plunder the Han people, I can trade with you peacefully."

"Let's do this. In the future, no matter how much fur ginseng you think you have, I can eat it. I will give you food now."

After Zhu Gaoxu finished speaking, he kept staring at Fudaha and Fudaha. Upon seeing this, Yishiha also conveyed his original words to the two of them. After hearing this, the two looked at each other, and finally bowed to Zhu Gaoxu in their own way.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu also looked at Yishiha: "Tell them, I know they live in poverty in the east, and they don't like to be called Wudiha, so from now on I can allow them to hang up the palace of Bohai Palace." Flag, accept the protection of Bohai Palace."

"In the future, I will not lower the price of the furs they hunt like other tribes do. You will pay whatever price other tribes do business with Jilin City."

"But if you plunder a tribe that also carries the flag of Bohai Palace, then I will disqualify you from trading with each other."

When Zhu Gaoxu said this, Yishiha hesitated and said:
"Your Highness, if you tell me this, I'm afraid they will live by hunting all day long in the future. Our food is a problem..."

"Don't worry about food." Zhu Gaoxu interrupted with a smile: "As long as there are enough fur tubes, are you still worried that Yang Bin can't buy food?"

With that said, Zhu Gaoxu also said: "What I just said, you also convey to Darshan out of the fort and all the Jurchen tribes doing business with us, as long as they are willing, they can hang up the flag of the Bohai Palace to win protection. Whoever invades them, I will ask people to raid the formation for them and regain their position."

"It's okay if you don't want to hang up, business is still going on, but if something happens to them, I won't stand up for them."

"Also, tell Fudaha that if other Udiha savage tribes are willing to do business, let their leaders come to Jilin City to discuss business."

Zhu Gaoxu was full of confidence. He wanted to tie the Jurchens in the Northeast together in the form of fur and grain trade, and then focus on attacking the Jurchen tribes that did not submit, and obtain labor from those tribes to speed up the mining of the three mines.

As long as these tribes get used to their protection, when the time comes, they can choose from them to form an army.

Zhu Gaoxu asked all his soldiers to study in order to prepare them for managing the Jurchen Yiding in the future.

"Long live Bohai..."

Suddenly, Fu Daha and the others stood up and knelt on the ground again. They kept kowtowing to Zhu Gaoxu and said a lot of words, but Zhu Gaoxu only understood the words Bohai and Long Live.

Zhu Gaoxu is already somewhat immune to the word long live, because after he came to Jilin City, many people said this word to him. Even though he had corrected himself, the Jurchens from outside still said this word. He has now Numb.

"Your Highness, they thank you and promise not to make a living from robbery in the future. At the same time, they want to receive your flag and then set a date for mutual trade."

Yishiha translated to Zhu Gaoxu and said awkwardly: "Your Highness, your flag has not been decided yet..."

"Uh..." Zhu Gaoxu was at a loss for words. He had never decided to get any flags, so he delayed the matter, but he didn't want to use it today only to find out that it wasn't available.

Thinking like this, Zhu Gaoxu could only fool them and said: "You tell them that they can return to their tribes at any time and bring their furs to trade with each other. As for the flags, wait until they come to trade with each other and then give them two brand-new ones, one to hang on the fortress and one to hang on the fortress." Used for mutual trading.”

"My slave, take your orders." Yishiha looked at Zhu Gaoxu's embarrassed look and chuckled, then turned to Fudaha and conveyed Zhu Gaoxu's words.

After hearing this, Fudaha and the others kowtowed to Zhu Gaoxu again, and then led by Yishiha's guards down the Fortress Mountain.

Looking at their retreating figures, Zhu Gaoxu stood up.

He glanced at the sky, judged the time, and then turned around to inspect some of the granaries and water silos of the Fortress Hill military fort with Yi Shiha and the others.

After confirming that there were no problems, he and the two of them rode down the Fortress Mountain.

Not long after, after they returned to Jilin City, which was full of construction sites, they returned to the palace without stopping.

Zhu Gaoxu took the two of them to the study, where Yu Yishu Ha studied ink, and he himself painted the flag of the Bohai Palace in his heart.

When it comes to flags, no one can beat the college students rolled out by later generations.

In his previous life, Zhu Gaoxu had seen Han flags painted by many people on the Internet. Most of them were similar to the red background and black borders of the Qin and Han Dynasties, with patterns such as dragons, phoenixes, sun and moon from different periods added in the middle.

For the flag of the Bohai Palace, Zhu Gaoxu also chose a red background with black edges, and in the middle was the black Suzaku, the four gods of the Han Dynasty.

As soon as he finished painting, he explained to Yi Shiha and Lin Su next to him: "Red is blood. Soldiers must be bloody. The same is true for me in the Bohai Palace."

"This green dragon is the red bird of the four gods of the Han Dynasty. The red bird is fire, and my country, the Ming Dynasty, is fire."

"General, I understand!" Hearing what Zhu Gaoxu said, Lin Su, who had been reading for more than two months, slapped the table and said, "The red color is our group of soldiers, and the Suzaku represents the Ming Dynasty, so the black border should be His Highness, right?"

Lin Su suddenly realized and looked at Zhu Gaoxu. Zhu Gaoxu was a little speechless. The black border was just something he plagiarized from later generations.

"Not really..." He was about to explain, but he didn't want to. Yishiha looked at the black edge of the flag and smiled:

"Black belongs to water, and Bohai means water. The two waters add up to form Xuanshui. Your Highness's flag really has a profound meaning..."

"No..." Zhu Gaoxu still wanted to say, but was interrupted by the enthusiastic Lin Su: "I will ask the people below to get this flag out, replace all the flags in the army with this one, and prepare more to send out. Those Jurchens who came to seek refuge.”

After that, without waiting for Zhu Gaoxu to stop him, he happily left the study room with the flag design. Yi Shiha also bowed to Zhu Gaoxu after he left:

"Don't worry, Your Highness, I will ask the people below to inform the Haixi tribes that I will resign..."

Within a few breaths, Yi Shiha also left the study, leaving only Zhu Gaoxu, who was holding a pen, at a loss. "Black... Xuanshui..."

As he murmured what Yi Shiha said, he felt a little weird in his heart.

It's a pity that it was like this now. Even if he wanted to stop the two of them, it was too late, so he had to accept the situation and chose the black-bottomed Suzaku flag as the flag of the Bohai Palace. The Jilin Guards were also privately called Bohai Guards and Bohai Guards by the soldiers themselves. military.

Zhu Gaoxu's military flag inadvertently increased the enthusiasm of the soldiers. At the same time, it also increased the idea of ​​​​all tribes wanting to join Jilin City's trade.

The northeastern land outside the pass is not peaceful, and the strength of Jilin City is obvious to all, not only the more than 1000 armored soldiers, but also the Liaodong Dusi and the Ming Dynasty behind Jilin City.

Less than ten days after Fudaha and his two men, who came to ask for trade, returned to Suizhen with dozens of tribesmen, they rode draft horses and dragged furs to Jilin City for trade.

Zhu Gaoxu met them and asked Yishiha to count the number of furs.

It has to be said that the unpopular Suizhen Department did accumulate a lot of furs. Yishiha and twenty officials took an hour to count them. There were a total of 530, seven mink skins, eight bear skins, and tiger skins. Two pieces, and more than [-] deer skins and other furs.

In addition to furs, there are also supplements such as antlers, ginseng, and various bear, tiger, and deer whips that Zhu Gaoxu wants to purchase.

This huge amount made Zhu Gaoxu very happy. In the end, Zhu Gaoxu specially bought dozens of shi of grain for the Suizhen Ministry, and concluded a trade with them at a price of [-] shi and [-] iron pots.

After the trade was over, Fudaha accepted the flag of Bohai and returned to the Suzhen Ministry with the flag high.

On his way back, the Bohai flag was seen by all the tribes along the way, and the news released by Jilin City was also known to them.

In order to protect the tribes, many small tribes with only a few hundred members came to Jilin City to request mutual trade and asylum.

In just June, Bohai flags were distributed to 37 Haixi Jurchen tribes in Songhua River and Heilongjiang, as well as six Udiha tribes living in the mountains and forests in the east.

The roads left over from the Liao and Jin Dynasties in the early Ming Dynasty have long been damaged, so news can only spread quickly through the waters of Songhua River and Heilongjiang River. Many tribes living in the mountains cannot get the news. Therefore, Yi Shiha analyzed that this situation should continue.

By the tenth day of July, the number of tribes attached to the Bohai Palace had reached 54, ranging from more than a hundred to as many as [-]. Zhu Gaoxu only made a brief calculation and was surprised by the number of nominal tribes under his command.

"Nine tribes have more than 500 people, 32 tribes have more than [-] people, and [-] tribes have about [-] people or less..."

In the Bohai Prince's Palace, Yi Shiha took the statistics of the officials for more than a month and counted them. Finally, he raised his head and smiled at Zhu Gaoxu, who was sitting in the main seat holding a familiar pipa:

"Your Highness, based on this calculation, the number of tribal members who are attached to us is no less than [-]. If you just raise your arms, I'm afraid you can draw thousands of followers from these tribes..."

"It's not that easy." Zhu Gaoxu said without raising his head while adjusting the sound of his pipa.

"This group of people are attached to us mainly for business rather than seeking our refuge."

"Don't forget, Xiyang Ha killed Zhang Chun's father and dozens of people in Jilin City. We haven't avenged this revenge yet."

"Xiyang Ha's reputation among the Jurchen tribes has long been established. Even if I don't overwhelm him, I still have to pick a hard nut to chew on."

"Only when the hard bones are broken, will these Jurchens really be willing to rely on us."

"Today, they just want food..."

When talking about food, Yi Shiha also looked embarrassed: "In the past month, although we have collected a lot of furs, there are only more than [-] shi left in the treasury."

"If this rate continues, even if Yang Bin delivers more than [-] shi at the end of August, we will only be able to have food until the beginning of April."

"Food is indeed a problem..." Zhu Gaoxu put down the tuned pipa and echoed Yi Shiha's words.

Although he agreed, he couldn't stop. After all, the fur trade made money too fast.

For example, now, although they spent nearly [-] dan on furs, the return of the pelts to them was more than [-] dan.

"How many furs are there in the treasury now? How many can be sold based on the last price?"

Zhu Gaoxu asked Yi Shiha, and Yi Shiha also put down the book he was holding, found a book on a desk next to the conference hall, flipped through it and said, "More than 6000 pieces. It is estimated that the furs this time, Yang Bin You have to sell it as hard as you can, if you sell them all, you can make at least one hundred thousand gu."

The furs worth 14 guan were Zhu Gaoxu's profit. If Yang Bin's portion was included, the total value would probably exceed [-] guan.

Although there are many rich people in Jiangnan, not all rich people wear mink skins. These [-] pieces can be made into at least [-] pieces of various types of ready-made clothes. Although Jiangnan can eat it, after eating it, Zhu Gaoxu will Don’t even think about doing business next year.

This batch of furs still has to be distributed to the provinces of the Ming Dynasty, but the specific operation depends on what Yang Bin does, and Zhu Gaoxu does not need to worry about it.

What he has to do is to make good use of these [-] guans to take his strength to the next level.

This amount of money is not a small amount, it is enough to support the current Bohai Navy for three years.

If it is used to buy grain, Zhu Gaoxu can ask Yang Bin to buy 30 shi of grain. But if he really buys such a large amount of grain, let's not mention Lao Zhu for the time being. Zhu Yunwen alone will make him feel uncomfortable.

Zhu Gaoxu felt itchy when he thought that he couldn't spend it casually even though he had money. He couldn't help but want to scold Zhu Yunwen, but he held it back in the end.

After thinking about it, he couldn't think of any good solution at the moment. He could only bury the matter deep in his heart and carefully figure out how to spend the money in his spare time without letting Zhu Yunwen pay attention to him.

Zhu Gaoxu was thinking this, but Lin Su's voice sounded outside the Chengyun Hall...

"Your Highness, the report from Thirty Thousand Guards' Residence has been sent over. There are many important things happening. You have to take a look."

Lin Su waved a newspaper-like Dibao and walked from the [-]-square-meter space outside Chengyun Hall. After entering the hall, he handed the Dibao to Zhu Gaoxu. Zhu Gaoxu also took it and looked through it curiously...

[Xia Liuyichou, King Su of Su came to Gansu]

[In the sixth month of the summer, Yihai, Liaodong, Jinfu, and Haigai were abolished and the four prefectures were established as guards, and the county school was changed to health school. Each of the four guards had a professor to train four members]

[Xin Mao in the sixth month of summer, I heard that Yunnan was stable, and ordered the three divisions in Zhili, Zhejiang and other places in southern China to compile [-] civilian households as military households. After the year, they moved to Jinji, Weimo, and Guangnan in Yunnan...]

[In the Sino-Japanese War during the Sino-Japanese War during the Sino-Japanese War in the sixth month of the summer, General Yang Wen led his navy to hunt and kill nine Japanese 720 people on Ganboluo Island, and captured more than [-] Japanese people...]

"I'm living like this. I can't read the June newspaper until the tenth day of July. It's not as well-informed as the Jurchens in the south..."

Looking at the Di newspaper with several major events written in his hand, Zhu Gaoxu could only joke that his life was not as good as the Jurchens in the south.

But ridicule is ridicule, there are still many of these four major events that can affect Zhu Gaoxu and Jilin City.

The first thing was that Su Wang Zhu Pang took over Fangan and Su Erwei. It seems that it was because Zhu Pang passed away and there was no one in control of Shaanxi and Shaanxi Province.

The second thing is to abolish the four prefectures in Liaodong, which means that Liaodong has completely become a military management area. If no changes are made, the situation in Liaodong will deteriorate in the future with the deterioration of the Wei system.

The third thing is that [-] households from South Zhili and Zhejiang immigrated to Yunnan, which shows that the aftermath of the chieftain rebellion has passed, at least on the surface.

Compared with the first two incidents, this incident will affect Zhu Gaoxu more. After all, he will also ask Lao Zhu for immigration in the future. At present, the only places where immigrants can come to Jilin are South Zhili, Zhejiang and Shandong.

Shandong has immigrated to the north many times, and its vitality has not yet recovered, so Zhu Gaoxu can only immigrate from South Zhili and Zhejiang.

At present, [-] households from these two places have immigrated to Yunnan, which means that I should not try to immigrate for at least a year, at least until the vitality of these two places where immigrants were restored recovers.

"Headache……"

Thinking about immigration, Zhu Gaoxu felt a little headache.

If he has enough food, once these [-] households move to Jilin City, Zhu Gaoxu can at least expand his power to Changchun.

There are 9 households, which means at least 9 people. There are a lot of things that [-] people can do...

Zhu Gaoxu felt a little sore, but fortunately, the last thing brought him back his strength.

Yang Wen made a great contribution, and the northern Japanese pirates were surrounded and wiped out. This speed and efficiency was something Zhu Gaoxu did not expect.

Yang Zhan and his son are both under Yang Wen's tent, and they may be able to gain a lot of military glory in this battle.

Thinking of Yang Zhan's appearance, Zhu Gaoxu showed a smile on his face, but he also knew that now that the Japanese pirates in the north were cleared, Zhou Xing would be able to return his attention from southern Liaoning back to northern Liaoning, and maybe he would strengthen surveillance on himself. This made He felt a little awkward.

But before he could open his mouth to communicate with Lin Su and Yi Shiha, there were rapid footsteps outside.

Before seeing anyone, Zhu Gaoxu subconsciously felt that something had happened and stood up immediately.

As he stood up, two officials from a hundred households walked into the open space in front of Chengyun Hall from outside the palace, with solemn expressions.

Zhu Gaoxu did not hesitate and walked out on his own initiative, followed by Yi Shiha and Lin Su.

"What's the matter?" he asked with a frown. The two officials who came over also bowed and said in a deep voice:

"Your Highness, Xiyang Ha led the troops to attack the Amutai Mountains, killed hundreds of people, and surrendered our flag..."

"Amutai Mountain?" Zhu Gaoxu frowned and looked at Yishiha next to him. The other party also bowed and replied: "The area on the Cuiha River in the north is the only place to go south to plunder Jilin City. I'm afraid this old chief is stepping in. Prepare for the autumn harvest and go south to thresh the valley.”

"Slave mother!"

When he got angry, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but blurted out the news that Xiyang Ha had killed people and wanted to go south to clear grass valleys, and immediately greeted Xiyang Ha's wife.

"Call me all the people above the general banner in the city, and teach them how to find death for this old slave who wants to be found by force!"

(End of this chapter)