Dorgon took out the blade from the plane, held it in his hand and observed it carefully over and over again, testing the sharpness of the edge with his fingers.
"Hiss!" Dorgon accidentally made a small cut on his fingertip. Dark red blood flowed out. Dorgon put his finger into his mouth and sucked away the blood.
There was a panic in the room, and the maid quickly found a white cloth to bandage him.
Old Wu was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and did not dare to raise his head.
Azig reached out and took out the insert on the plane. He studied it with an incredulous expression.
"Someone actually uses such fine steel to make carpenter's tools. What a waste of money."
"Brother Twelve, what do you think?" Dorgon waved the maids down and said again.
"Look at this steel mouth, it's better than my saber." Azig said.
Dorgon turned around and asked Lao Wu: "Where did this plane come from?"
Old Wu was so frightened that he trembled all over and quickly replied: "To tell the master, this is a product brought by a camel team from Zunhua. My second brother is a carpenter, so I bought one. I thought the blade was good, and I thought the master would like it.
I wanted to eat thinly sliced mutton, so I sent the mutton to the ice cellar to freeze overnight, and then I shaved it with a plane. Unexpectedly, it turned out really well."
Azig, Dorgon, and Duduo looked at each other. Dorgon asked: "When did this camel team come, where do they live, and how many people know about it."
Lao Wu replied: "I came here yesterday and stayed at the big car shop inside the north gate. Not many people should know. My second son went to the big car shop to repair Datong shop and furniture, and he just happened to catch up."
Azig and others were suddenly overjoyed.
Now, Daikin is severely blockaded, and all kinds of materials are in short supply. Under the slave system of the Eight Banners, each banner owner has independent land and tribesmen. The land of the Eight Banners is called banner land. Each of the Eight Banners has its own land.
Each territory.
The flag owner is the slave owner of all the banner people. He enjoys all the power and even takes over the life and death of his subordinates. The flag affairs of each flag are independent. This tradition was still maintained until the end of the Qing Dynasty. The banner people were subordinate to the prince and the banner owner.
The leader where he is.
Weddings and funerals have to go to the flag office to go through the formalities.
In this case, the social production and life of each banner are organized by themselves. If the banner owner is better at management, then the banner is even as small as a subordinate leader, and the lives of the subordinate banner people will be better than those of other banners or even
It's Zuoling who is living a good life.
In other words, the level of leaders such as the banner leader, assistant leader, and counselor determines the wealth or poverty of the group. The same is true in the military. A capable assistant leader will lead his subordinates to fight.
If more materials are plundered, the quality of life of the tribesmen will be improved. If more weapons and armor are captured, their combat effectiveness will be improved.
The Eight Banners is actually composed of layers of relatively independent small groups. The wealth and military strength of these small groups are actually very different from each other.
Since this camel team can smuggle good steel from Zunhua, we must go and check it out as soon as possible, and get this channel into our own hands before other flags discover it.
Now, the Ming Dynasty's blockade of Dajin is so serious, each banner leader relies on his own ability to obtain various scarce materials for his tribesmen. This is also a basis for them to gain support.
Just like Yexian, because he had a better relationship with the Yingzong, he received more rewards, and conducted more tribute trade. Therefore, he gained widespread support among the Mongols.
Because this leader could bring them the scarce necessities of life, such as iron, salt, tea, cloth, etc., they supported him. After Tumubao and Emperor Jingtai came to power, he cut off Yexian's trade channels and turned to
Trade privileges were given to the puppet Mongol emperor. The Mongols quickly abandoned Ye Xian. Ye Xian was also quickly defeated.
Although the three of them did not speak, they all realized that this was an opportunity to obtain supplies from the Ming Dynasty. Previously, Fan Yongdou, on behalf of eight Shanxi merchants from Zhangjiakou, came to Daikin to discuss cooperation with Fan Wencheng, which made the nobles of Daikin
Very excited.
Nothing excites them more than trade channels. However, Fan Wencheng is from Huang Taiji. If this trade channel is negotiated, it will be controlled by Huang Taiji. He controls the trade channels and has more materials in his hands.
, which will help him gain the support of the Eight Banners.
Currently, except for Pi Dao Mao Wenlong who secretly trades with them on the Yalu River Jiangxin Island, other trade routes are basically interrupted. Monan is now controlled by Yang Fan. Zhangjiakou has also been destroyed. The trade route to the west is cut off.
To the south, the wealthy families in western Liaoning, under the strict control of Yuan Chonghuan, no longer dare to trade with Dajin. Therefore, if the two white flags can find their own trade channels, their strength will develop rapidly in secret. The strength will be
It will be close to or even surpass Daishan’s two red flags and Huang Taiji’s two yellow flags.
In this world where wild beasts are rampant, strength is everything.
Zhuzhu put the bait out and waited for the fish to take the bait.
He was sitting cross-legged on the kang. On the table were a plate of soy pork head meat, a plate of braised carp, and a plate of sweet and sour shredded radish. In a purple sand wine pot, there was a pound of boiled Shandong pear blossom white wine.
Use your own discretion.
Hong'er knelt down beside him and poured him wine.
"Brother Zhuzi, tell me, will they come?"
"It will definitely happen. Let's wait here. Before it gets dark today, someone will definitely come." Old God Zhuzhu said calmly.
He knows in his heart that the competition for resources within the Eight Banners is fierce now. Because they are also ruthlessly fighting and fighting internally. Under the blockade of the Ming Dynasty, they are more like a zero-sum game. If you eat more, I will eat less.
have a bite.
The killing of Chu Ying set off a bad start. That is, it started a bloody pattern of internal strife. During the Qing Dynasty, the strife and power grabs within the Eight Banners never stopped. Even the causes of death of most emperors remain a mystery.
Johnston saw that when Puyi ate, the eunuch tasted the dishes before eating them. He persuaded him: "This way of dining is unhygienic and does not conform to the etiquette of modern civilized society."
Puyi told him: "Many of my ancestors were poisoned to death."
Before the two of them finished speaking, they saw Luo Changshan, the manager of the camel team brought by Xiaohong, hurried into the house and said: "Some people from the Eight Banners came and said they came to inquire about what products our camel team has. Among them.
There are a few people who seem to have extraordinary temperament, and may be young princes from the Eight Banners nobles."
Zhu Zhu smiled at Hong'er, meaning you see, they must be more anxious than us. They can't hold back for now.
Zhu Zhu smiled and said: "Since the business has come, let's go out to greet it. See if it's big business this time."
