Yang Fan was shocked. It had been almost two hundred years since Xuanzong abolished the slave Gandusi. There were actually Han people here. They were surrounded by the most ferocious fishing and hunting people. How did they survive?
"Raise the Ming Dynasty's sun, moon and dragon flag, raise the general's flag." Yang Fan ordered.
Three snow-white sailing boats docked steadily at the small pier on Temple Street, crowding the trestle.
This city was called Nurgan City, and the capital was named after the city.
Nurgan is also called Nuerge. It is a Jurchen language and means a picture, which means that the mountains and rivers here are beautiful and picturesque. It is the general name for the Heilongjiang River Basin in the Yuan Dynasty. It later became the Yuanzheng East Marshal's Mansion and the Minnuer Gandusi residence.
The specific location is where the Henggun River (Amgun River) in Russia meets the Heilongjiang River, and Tire (Tlin) is located southwest of Nikolayevsk on the opposite bank.
Today, this small Russian town is called Trin. It has a population of more than 20,000. It is poor and has no railway access. Although it has the convenience of sea transportation, the water is shallow and there are sandbars, making transportation extremely inconvenient.
The Nurgandu Division has a guard with more than 400 troops stationed there. Its jurisdiction extends to the sea in the east, Sakhalin Island in the northeast, the Onan River (Onen River) in the west, the Tumen River in the south, and the Waixing'an Mountains in the north.
.The total area is nearly four million square kilometers.
Five to six hundred people rushed out, including women, old men, and half-grown children. They wore Ming-style fox furs and fur robes, and otter-skin hats. They held rusty hands.
Some were armed with long spears and short spears. Some were carrying crossbows.
But suddenly they saw the sun, moon and dragon flags of the Ming Dynasty rising on these three white boats. They were all stunned.
Then, a dozen black flags were raised.
"The Governor of the Rear Army Governor's Mansion"
"Censor of the Right Capital of the Inspectorate"
"Commander of the Imperial Guards and Imperial Guards"
"General Dingyuan Boyang of the Ming Dynasty who conquered the west"
…
An old man with gray hair rushed to the front, knelt on the ground with a thud, threw away his knife and gun, and started to cry loudly. While crying, he opened the skirt of the fox fur coat, revealing the mandarin duck war jacket inside. This jacket didn't know
It has not been washed for many years and has turned black.
It has long been in tatters and has been repaired again and again with cloth. It is all patched, but the shape can still be seen as the standard military uniform of the Ming Dynasty.
The people behind him all threw away their weapons and knelt down crying.
For a moment, Yang Fan felt a little sad and cried. He ordered the gangplank to be put down and walked down with his followers. Donkey Dan was wearing armor, carrying a simple knife in one hand, and holding Shang Fang's sword in the other, following Yang Fan. A dozen elite servants
Guards left and right. Other officers followed and disembarked.
At this time, everyone saw it. These people should be the descendants of Han officials and people who did not leave when Xuanzong abolished Nuergandusi.
Yang Fan walked over and helped the old man up with his own hands. Wen Yan asked: "I see that you are wearing Chinese clothes, but you are the descendants of the officials and common people in the original Nuergandu."
The old man wiped his tears and said: "I and these people are all military households in the Ming Dynasty. I am a hereditary Qianhu Su Tong. We moved from Huaixi. It has been two hundred years, but I didn't expect the emperor to still remember us.
We can send more people."
The old man calmed down his emotions and immediately knelt down again when he saw the python robe Yang Fan was wearing.
"Su Tong, the hereditary official of thousands households in Nurgan City, pays homage to Uncle Dingyuan."
Nobles in the Ming Dynasty were rare, and no one could be knighted without military merit. Although after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, many concubines' fathers and brothers were knighted through nepotism. However, they were looked down upon by the orthodox nobles, who did not inform them of meetings or take them to play.
.
"Everyone get up, everyone get up, no courtesy." Yang Fan wiped his eyes with the back of his hand.
In ancient times, General Geng Gong of the Eastern Han Dynasty led 13 warriors to defend the Western Regions. Later, in the late Tang Dynasty, Zhang Yichao defended the Hexi Corridor alone for decades. Now, these descendants of the military households in the early Ming Dynasty have actually persisted until now. It cannot but be moved.
"You have suffered a lot. The imperial court has sent me to see you." As soon as Yang Fan finished speaking, the crowd roared and howled again.
Yang Fan waited patiently for them to finish crying. Then he ordered all the soldiers to disembark and enter the city under the leadership of Su Tong.
The city is full of adobe and thatched houses, as well as many wooden houses. Yang Fan listened to Su Tong's report. When the Nuergandusi organization was abolished, hundreds of soldiers did not arrive and boarded the ship to evacuate.
They all withdrew from various strongholds in the middle reaches of Heilongjiang. The order to retreat was very hasty, and many soldiers who were far away did not have time to board the ship. At that time, it was said that these people gathered at Nuergandusi to board the ship.
When these last group of people who were withdrawn arrived here, they found that Temple Street was already an empty city. The last boat trip had been gone for half a month. They were looking forward to the emperor sending a boat to take them home every day. But this time
That's two hundred years.
They have no choice but to survive.
The largest of these people is Qianhu Suhai. There are also seven hundred households. In the end, about seven or eight hundred Han officials and civilians who had not had time to leave gathered here, waiting for the boat and trying to find a way to live.
Over the past two hundred years, they have intermarried with the local Sauron people and the Beishan Jurchens. Their descendants have multiplied, and now there are more than 5,000 people here.
The climate here is cold and only some soybeans and sorghum can be grown. But it is these precious grains that ensure their survival. In the most serious famines and snow disasters, they rely on food to save their lives.
Sorghum was introduced from the Han Dynasty. It is native to Africa and has been commonly cultivated before the Ming Dynasty. Because it is delicious and sweet for making wine, it is also an important horse feed. Therefore, Nuergandusi is also planting it.
After these officers and soldiers became abandoned, they had no choice but to plant sorghum and soybeans to satisfy their hunger.
Fortunately, the Han people are good at weaving fishing nets, arranging pits, and traps for trapping animals. Among these people are shipwrights, carpenters, blacksmiths, grooms, bow and arrow craftsmen, farmers, and doctors. They can form a small self-sufficient society. So they survive and multiply here.
Come down.
If they were not constantly attacked by the Beishan Jurchens (now the Chukchi people in Russia) and the Saurons, they had lost too many men in two hundred years of fighting. Their population is estimated to be tens of thousands.
Yang Fan and others were led to the front of a small green brick courtyard with three entrances. It can be seen that this place has been regularly repaired and repaired. It is relatively well-preserved. Although the plaque of Nurgandusi was damaged by two hundred years of wind and rain,
, but the handwriting can still be seen clearly.
There is still one piece of the horse-mounting stone in front of the door. The two stone lions have been corroded by the wind and rain and are blurred. Yang Fan walked around the government office and was very emotional.
This official building is the final destination in the hearts of these people, so it has been well repaired.
"Is Yong'an Temple still there? I want to see it." Yang Fan said after looking at Nu'er Gandusi's government office.
