Chapter 285 The Wind of History (2)

The income obtained by fishing and hunting is not as good as the profits exchanged by trafficking special goods in the mountains and the Han people. Therefore, the number of Jurchens who are intermediary merchants is increasing. They are at least considered to be the same tribe in the Jurchen Tungus tribe, and they have the possibility of communication with those born in the Jurchen Tungus tribe in the deep mountains and old forests.

They took all kinds of supplies from the Central Plains to the mountains to exchange for these suddenly valuable supplies. The tribes of the Jurchens don’t know why they could only say that they were ordinary goods. Why did the prices of some dry goods and fungi have increased this year? In order to monopolize this profit, some powerful tribes simply sent out their own soldiers from their tribe members, and directly occupied the hunting grounds of the wild Jurchens and drove them further north.

After obtaining resources, they directly do business with merchants, which greatly increases profits. Moreover, due to the expansion of demand, although the Jurchens tried their best to expand production, the price gradually rose. Because of such a high price, even some North Korean production began to be shipped here for transactions.

If you spend more money on raw materials, you will naturally earn less profit. However, if you open a hotel and a restaurant in the Guan area, if you don’t have mountain delicacies like bear paws, you will be regarded as unclassified. Just like modern hotels without seafood, you won’t be able to talk about the level without this thing. However, if you use this thing, you won’t make much money. These merchants in the Ming Dynasty began to feel a little resentful.

Having a stable and suitable source of goods has become a consensus among the owners of various restaurants. The number of officials and nobles who can be related to the 12th floor of the capital is quite large. Since there is such a consensus, some people immediately took action. Most of the garrisons and immigrants outside the pass are criminals and people who have no way to go, and they have always had strong people. Therefore, the garrisons outside the pass have always been known for their bravery and good combat.

Immediately, someone brought a large amount of silver and promises to encourage the brave and brave people of the Liao people to cultivate outside the pass. During this period, everyone saw the rolling silver brought by the transaction of mountain goods, and naturally they were jealous of them. However, these things were controlled by the savages outside, and at most they would follow the money to make errands. If they really wanted to rob, the court said that it was strictly forbidden to provoke border provocations. Even if the border generals rashly went to fight or caused trouble, they would be punished, let alone border citizens who were married with their tails.

But no one expected that there would be merchants coming to the north to make money. The merchants were always lambs to be slaughtered in the garrison outside the pass. They were extorted by the army and generals, and they might even lose their lives. Naturally, it was a worry. But the merchants over the years were more like officials than the officials in the government. Those arrogant and domineering generals saw these merchants smiling and pleasing to the faces.

What is even more surprising is that outside the pass, it was like a military eunuch of the local emperor, and he also followed the merchants like a dog to please him on some occasions.

Although these border residents do not understand why, the merchants sent by these restaurants are often servants or confidants in the homes of a senior official in the capital. Such good things are naturally to be handled by trusted people. Although these people are not of any rank, their words often determine the future of life and death for officers in the border areas. The commander of Ningjin Guard drank too much wine and whipped a merchant from Baoding Prefecture on the street. Not long after, the documents from the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office came down to dismiss him and held him guilty of exploiting the military and civilians of the Guard.

I later learned that behind this businessman was from a marquis's mansion in the capital. As for those merchants who even the eunuchs in the military supervising were treated politely, most of the backgrounds were the backgrounds of the eunuchs in the twenty-four yamen, such as the imperial kitchen, the imperial horse supervision, and even the Silijian. They were not something that a small eunuch in the military supervising could offend.

The power of merchants gave these border residents great confidence. The land outside the pass was a vast and sparsely populated place. The border residents set out in groups with the food and money that were opened to migrate and reclaim the land suitable for hunting and gathering.

The Jurchens lived in bitter and cold places for a long time and had always been a hot and good warlike temper, but now they are still a scattered sand. The administrative structure is still tribes and tribes, and there are quite a few conflicts between these tribes, and the undeveloped areas in the Northeast are too big.

Even if they wanted to organize the Han people to reclaim their colonies, they were powerless. Moreover, as soon as these reclaimed border residents almost left the border checkpoint, someone would come to distribute weapons and equipment. Some people joined the city halfway through "coincidence". These people were often soldiers from the garrison.

A reclamation group often has hundreds of people. Although there are also old and weak inside, there are many males in the past and well-equipped. After they set off, several reclamation groups often respond to each other. If there is any slight disturbance, a large cart will form a circle, and the men will be ready with sharp blades.

These reclamation is very different from the current famine escape in Xiaguan. It is for the sake of making a living. Now these people come out to make money. Although some of the Jurchen tribes are not fishing, hunting, or trade, and are specialized in bandits. However, the other party can't afford to eat at all at this large scale.

Moreover, according to some so-called notes in later generations, it was vaguely revealed that the hands and feet of these reclamation groups were not clean, and there were so-called words "barbarians, innocent people, and they were all slaughtered by unscrupulous people." Of course, this sentence is a consistent tone of self-abuse literati, and an article by someone from the reflective school who was scolded by people in later generations.

In the official document and official history, the people of the reclamation group received great praise along the way. The Jurchen settlements passed by were very enthusiastic about borrowing money and grain, and they never had to return them. In addition, there were also Jurchen tribes who were willing to submit to Wang Hua and followed their families with their families. Even though the road was difficult, countless casualties were still followed.

During that period, the Jurchen tribe in the deep mountains accepted many compatriots who fled from outside and all said: The devil is here.

By the way, this history has a name called "Bloody Road" among modern researchers.

The Jurchen Ula tribe is the most powerful tribe outside the pass. The entire tribe has nearly 5,000 people, most of which are engaged in trade to get rich. In recent years, the ships have been rising and rising. There are thousands of soldiers who can fight and fight. As life is getting better and better.

But when they saw that the Liao border people who were never willing to leave the border lightly formed a colony group and entered the Baishan Black Water. The big merchants in the pass turned against the momentum of desperately raising prices and purchasing, and began to become cold. Later, the Ula tribe found out the trick.

Now these merchants are trading directly with the reclamation group outside the pass, or with the tribes of the Ye Jurchens. After a discussion between the elders and the patriarchs of the Ula tribe, they all think that if this continues, their tribe will be about to be destroyed.

The Jurchen tribe was not as powerful as the old Nu Nurhaci. They did not dare to do anything when they faced the Ming Dynasty Liao army with more than 100,000 people. However, since they entered the Sanwu area outside the pass, don’t blame them for being ruthless and destroying some small-powered farming manors to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys.

The place where the reclamation merchants are located is the so-called outer land. In the past, the imperial court and the army ignored the residents living in these places. Therefore, after a reclamation manor of more than 100 people was slaughtered by the Jurchen tribe, the other reclamation manors were waiting and watched, and if there was any disturbance, they immediately fled back to the guard station.

The guards in Liaoning, who had always been slow, reacted very quickly. The eunuchs in the military who had always regarded greed for money as their business and ignored military affairs, were immediately furious and said, "Why can the people of the Celestial Empire tolerate the barbarians to massacre?" Under the care of the military chief, under the supervision of the merchant regiments in the pass, the guards in Liao border sent troops to pursue the Jurchen bandits.

The border troops who have always been owed money to pay were rewarded by the merchants this time, and they also received the promises from the generals that they would return all their gains from the plunder outside the pass. Of course, there were also strict orders, who escaped at the battle, and were forced to be executed and their whole family became slaves. After retiring from the army, they were rewarded with 200 acres of land outside the pass, and were rewarded with cattle, horses, food, and fodder.

At this time, the Ming army was still very combat-effective. Compared with the Jurchens outside the pass, they were professional soldiers after all. Moreover, the guard station sent two thousand soldiers, and there were dozens of guard stations on the Liao border. Although not many troops were sent, there were still 20,000 people. Now the largest Wula tribe can go to the battlefield, only 1,55 white people can go to the battlefield.

In addition, this battle was made up of strict military law on the one hand, and on the other hand, it offered a large reward. Everyone really made progress and refused to fall behind.

On the restaurants in the north and south of the Guanneijiang River, the wealthy merchants and officials were at ease to enjoy the delicious delicacies from Baishan and Hei River, and the price was still so expensive, but they didn't know that the profits of the shops made in every delicacy now have increased significantly.

The reason is that the vast and fertile land outside the pass are all reclaimed manors controlled by various merchants. The money and equipment spent on opening the manors are provided by merchants and settled the accounts afterwards. The hard-working manors actually made wedding clothes for others.

At this time, the ingredients certainly brought income, but the profits generated by the manors outside the pass far exceeded the food. The large amount of fertile black soil developed by the manors and various abundant productions. What's even better is that the main labor force of these manors was actually Jurchen slaves, with almost no labor costs.

Of course, after truly determining this situation, it was fifteen years since the establishment of Huifeng Tower. Many conscientious young historians in later generations wrote articles to criticize:
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