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Vladivostok.

In the local Jurchen dialect, it actually means "by the seaside".

In the Yuan Dynasty, Yongming City (Little Tucheng) was built here, but it was later abandoned.

A few years ago, this was an almost barbaric peninsula, with only a few Jurchen villages within a few tens of miles of which one did not know which region they belonged to.

They made a living by hunting seals, seabirds and fishing on the coast. They were not even known to the Qing Dynasty before and were not subject to Qing Dynasty restrictions.

However, a few years ago, Geng Zhongming went to the East China Sea on the order of Dorgon to find a suitable place to build a shipyard and chose this place, but the local Jurchens have suffered.

Qing Zhuangquan was captured and taught a lesson as a savage Jurchen. Like the Saurons, some of them died, and those who survived were recruited into the Eight Banners Manchurian Army as vanguards who dared to die.

Among the remaining people, most of the elderly were killed on the spot, and the women and children were beaten into slaves and distributed to the nobles of the Eight Banners.

Subsequently, the Qing Dynasty conscripted many Koreans as slaves to build shipyards and even cities here.

Over the past few years, an earthen city with a circumference of seven or eight miles has been built here.

Although the city wall is only more than one foot high, it is as thick as ten feet, and equipped with a variety of anti-artillery facilities - this is an earthen city built specifically to deal with the Yi army's artillery.

When Dorgon arrived here with the last group of confidants and a large number of Jurchens on sea ships, five to six million people had gathered inside and outside the city!

In addition to the more than 100,000 Koreans who were used as slaves, the vast majority of the remaining 4 to 50 million people were Jurchens.

There are Mongolians and Hans, but their proportion is very small.

Because the Tucheng was too small, only the Eight Banners nobles and their families could move in, and everyone else could only pitch tents outside the city.

Therefore, when Dorgon looked out from the ship, he saw a continuous line of tents outside the city.

These tents come in different colors, and many are even made of animal skins. Therefore, the scene in front of you is not only not spectacular, but also gives people a sense of dilapidation after a major disaster.

Dorgon had no time to sigh.

After getting off the ship, he rode into the city with his entourage and stayed at the temporary Prince Rui Mansion in Tucheng.

After a short rest, he summoned his confidants and key civil and military officials to discuss matters.

In the past, when he was in Shengjing and Xianjing, he would go to the "Chongzheng Hall" and let the little emperor Shunzhi sit on the dragon throne to show off.

Now that Prince Su and Prince Li have separated their families and headed north, almost all the remaining nobles of the Eight Banners respect him. Even Prince Zheng Jierharang respects him, so he is too lazy to pretend anymore.

Not long after, everyone gathered in the upper hall of his house.

There were not only the nobles of the Eight Banners such as Gushan Ezhen (dutong) and political ministers of various banners, but also Han people such as Hong Chengchou, Feng Quan, Fan Wencheng, and Ning Wanwo.

Speaking of which, Fan Wencheng was originally Huang Taiji's confidant and had no dealings with Dorgon - because Dorgon's brother Duduo did not regard Han people as human beings at all, even if he was a "Han slave" who was trusted by Huang Taiji. , and are often insulted.

Duduo even took advantage of the situation and repeatedly humiliated his wife, making him a cuckold.

Later, Huang Taiji died and Duduo was killed in a battle with Yu's army. He could only choose one of Dorgon and Hauge as his "master".

Although Dorgon and Duduo are brothers, he values ​​the Han people more than Hauge, is more intelligent, and respects literati like him more - at least on the surface.

In comparison, Hauge looked down upon Han Chinese and literati, and lacked wisdom.

In addition, in the subsequent political struggle, Hauge was completely crushed and rubbed by Dorgon, so Fan Wencheng had no choice but to choose Dorgon as his new master.

As for Emperor Shunzhi, although he was carefully protected by Bu Mu Butai, he was still young and not qualified to be Dorgon's opponent...

In this current situation, Dorgon doesn't follow any rules.

When he saw everyone gathered, he went straight to the point: "When I left Xianjing, the Wei army captured almost the entire Gangwon Province and began to send troops from multiple directions to attack Xianjing Province."

"Although there are many mountains and dangerous passes in Hamgyeong Province, which is not conducive to the offensive of the Wei army and the use of artillery, the soldiers and horses we left alone may not be able to withstand it for long." "Therefore, our people in Vladivostok must move to Vladivostok as soon as possible. Go to Ezo Island.”

"Fan Wencheng, you are responsible for the intelligence on Ezo Island. Please tell us about the situation there."

"Cha." Fan Wencheng responded, cleared his throat, and started talking.

In fact, the Qing Dynasty has always had trade with Japan, but the trade volume is not large, but there is no problem in sending people to Japan's Honshu Island and Ezo Island to gather information.

Although the intelligence work of the Qing Dynasty was not as good as that of the Ming Dynasty, it was much better than that of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Ezo Island is remote, it took Fan Wencheng several years to understand everything about the island.

"Your Majesty, this Ezo Island was originally dominated by the Ezo people, also known as the Kubari people mentioned in the previous Ming Dynasty."

"The Kuyi are similar to Sauron and other savages in the old forest. They make a living by fishing and hunting. In addition to Ezo Island, there are traces of their activities in Kuwu Island in the north and even some places further north."

"In addition, according to the information we learned from Japan, their power once covered the northern part of Japan's large island (Honshu) two hundred years ago."

"It was only later that the war with the Japanese failed repeatedly, and they were forced to continue to shrink their sphere of influence northward."

"So far, the Japanese have occupied parts of the Toshima Peninsula in the southernmost part of Ezo for hundreds of years, and have built several cities such as Fukuyama and Hakodate."

"Probably during the Wanli period a few decades ago, the shogunate appointed the daimyo Matsumae Fan here."

"The current head of the Matsumae Domain is named Ujihiro Matsumae, and he is the second son of the previous lord, Matsumae Kohiro..."

Following Fan Wencheng's narration, all the Eight Banners nobles and ministers participating in the discussion had a basic understanding of Ezo Land.

Then they discovered that this Ezo land was not entirely a foreign land as they thought.

At least the Japanese have built several cities there.

Wouldn’t this save them the effort of building a city?
If the Qing Dynasty could not defeat the Yi army, could it be that they could not defeat a daimyo from a remote place in Japan?

As for finding a wasteland to land on the Ezo land, building a city from scratch, and slowly developing it, it is not suitable for the Qing Dynasty.

Before the Qing Dynasty, they were able to rise from the old forests and occupy the grasslands of eastern Liaoning, western Liaoning and even Monan, not by farming, but by their swords and guns!
Dorgon had actually known about the information Fan Wencheng mentioned for a long time, and even sent a small advance force a few months ago to find a suitable place to land in Ezo and establish a hidden camp.

As for how to conquer the Ezo Territory, he had already discussed it with Jirhalang and several other important confidants. Today, he only officially informed the other Eight Banners nobles and boosted the morale of the people.

The sea breeze of this season is perfect for crossing the sea from Vladivostok to Ezo.

So, a few days later, Dorgon sent tens of thousands of Qing troops on more than a dozen large ships to cross the sea and head east...
Ezochi, Toshima Peninsula.

There is a medium-sized river in the southwest of the peninsula flowing westward into the sea.

The land here is concave to the east. Because of the isolation by land and mountains, it blocks the cold wind coming from the north, making it warmer than elsewhere.

In addition, it is a natural harbor, so as early as two hundred years ago, the Japanese occupied this place and built a walled city.

At this time, He people called this kind of walled city a pavilion. In fact, the scale was similar to the market in the Ming Dynasty, even worse than some big markets. It was more like the Wubao, the manor of the big landowners before the Song Dynasty.

After more than two hundred years of development, Kazuto built three cities here: Huaze, Shengshan, and Zhouqi.

However, the Hanazawa Hall had long been destroyed in the war with the Ezo people. Now it is divided into two halls, the Katsuyama and Suqi halls, which are more than ten miles apart and located in the north and south of the river.

On this day, the weather was sunny.

Fishermen belonging to Zhouqi Hall are fishing on the seaside in small fishing boats.

After the fishermen on the easternmost fishing boat dropped their fishing nets, they raised their heads and glanced eastward subconsciously, and their eyes suddenly widened.

But there are more than a dozen large ships riding the wind and waves, heading towards Zhouqi Pavilion! (End of chapter)