Liaodong Bingcheng is roughly the same location as Harbin in later generations. It is the northernmost city in Liaodong Province during the Ming Dynasty, standing on the banks of the Songhua River.
Ice City is the northernmost area developed by the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong. Currently, the Songnen Plain area has not been developed by anyone. It is still a vast, unknown, swampy land.
As a new type of immigrant city, although Bingcheng's population is only about 300,000, there are huge immigrant towns around Bingcheng based on Bingcheng.
The population of each immigrant town is about 10,000. Calculated, with Bingcheng as the center, there are more than 3 million immigrants gathered around it, forming Liaodong Bingcheng Prefecture.
Bingcheng Railway Station, with the sound of whistles, a train slowly drove into Bingcheng Railway Station and slowly stopped. Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin, who had been riding the train for two days, couldn't wait to get off the train.
Although it is said that taking a train is much more comfortable than taking a carriage, taking the train for two days in a row will soon make you tired of riding. I can’t wait to get off the train and prepare to spend a few days in this ice city.
"This is the Ice City!"
Emperor Hongzhi got off the train, walked out of the station, and looked at the ice in front of him. At this moment, people on the street were shoveling snow, and it was a lively scene.
The city here in Bingcheng is still very different from the cities in other parts of the Ming Dynasty. There are not many high-rise buildings here, and there are not many reinforced concrete buildings. Most of the buildings are houses made of wood.
Rows and rows, piece by piece, the neat planning is a typical Ming Dynasty immigrant town planning. The building materials also make full use of the rich forest resources in Liaodong area.
"This is my first time coming to this ice city. The last time I came to Liaodong was when I was pacifying the Jurchen tribe, but at that time there was no such ice city."
Liu Jin also looked at the ice city in front of him with great interest.
The Harbin of later generations, a super metropolis with a population of over 10 million, is still just a small town with a population of 300,000, and there is no trace of a super metropolis at all now. It is just an ordinary, slightly larger immigrant.
City.
"Are there still Jurchens harassing people in Liaodong now?"
When it came to the Jurchens, Emperor Hongzhi also asked quickly.
The Jurchens are not good people. Although they said they would submit to the Ming Empire in the past, they were capricious and often plundered border towns in Liaodong, which seriously affected the Ming Dynasty's development of Liaodong.
Later, Liu Jin also led the army to sweep away the Jurchen tribes in Liaodong. Liu Jin learned the lessons of later generations and went on a killing spree, with no intention of sparing these Jurchens.
That raid and killings played a very crucial role, killing almost all the Jurchens in the Liaodong region. The few remaining Jurchens fled deep into the mountains and forests, or headed north to the deserted areas.
Outer Xing'an Mountains and other areas.
"Occasionally, we receive relevant reports from Liaodong Province. There are a few cases of Jurchen tribes causing trouble. The garrison and officials in Liaodong have also continued to suppress them. Now there are fewer and fewer of them."
Liu Jin also replied quickly.
Regarding these Jurchens, Liu Jin has no intention of letting them go. Later generations have misled China for three hundred years, which directly caused us to lag behind the world and be bullied for hundreds of years. This crime must be blamed on them.
In order to consolidate their rule, they adopted the policy of obscuring the people, strictly restricting education, strictly prohibiting the spread of knowledge, and closed the country in isolation, clinging to self-improvement and missing the most golden period of development.
Hundreds of years of humiliating history have broken the foundation of the nation, so much so that later generations almost almost abolished the Chinese characters passed down by our ancestors.
Now that we have traveled through time, we will naturally not let this kind of history happen again, and we will definitely not give these wild boar skins any chance.
Therefore, Liaodong has always maintained a high-pressure situation. The garrison in Liaodong has only one task, which is to wipe out these Jurchen tribes and kill them cleanly to avoid leaving any future troubles. At the same time, it is also strictly forbidden for anyone to do anything through them.
business activities.
Salt, iron, medicines, clothes, cloth, etc. are strictly prohibited from flowing into the hands of these wild boar skins, and they are not given any chance to develop and grow.
Even if you are hiding in the deep mountains and old forests, it doesn't matter if we can't find you. As long as they don't have contact with outside civilization, they will never be able to grow.
Coupled with the fact that muskets are getting stronger and stronger now, their powerful force no longer has any advantage. Now, there are fewer and fewer Jurchen tribes in Liaodong.
Some savage Jurchen tribes can still be found only in the outer Xing'an Mountains, but they no longer dare to invade the Ming people's immigrant towns.
"Well, that's good. It's just these Jurchens here in Liaodong who don't make people worry."
Emperor Hongzhi nodded with satisfaction. He used to worry a lot about the Jurchens, but they calmed down after they were wiped out, which gave the Liaodong region a good opportunity for stable development.
Otherwise, a large number of people immigrated to Liaodong. If they were constantly harassed and robbed by these Jurchens, who would dare to immigrate here?
"Let's go. I read in the newspaper that people here in Ice City like ice fishing in winter. I don't know how ice fishing is done. Since I'm here this time, I must try it."
Emperor Hongzhi remembered something mentioned in the newspaper, that is, ice fishing is very popular in Bingcheng in winter.
“Ice fishing is definitely worth experiencing.”
"I haven't tried it either, but I can try it this time."
When Liu Jin heard this, he immediately became interested.
Ice fishing was also quite popular in later generations, and it was something that countless fishermen wanted to try.
When Emperor Hongzhi went out for fun this time, he really put everything aside and even talked about going ice fishing. This shows that Emperor Hongzhi is now living for himself.
The former Emperor Hongzhi put everything on national affairs and worked conscientiously and conscientiously every day, fearing that he would fail the Ming Dynasty and the foundation of his ancestors.
Those days were really tiring, and I didn’t look like an emperor.
He had only one woman and only one child. He was frugal and frugal, and the palace was not willing to repair it. He was so picky and fussy. The key is that the people of the Ming Dynasty did not live a good life because of his diligence and frugality.
In Liu Jin's view, this is obviously extremely uneconomical.
To be honest, such a huge empire will lack the food and clothing of you, the emperor?
Those are just things done by civil servants to fool you. These civil servants have gone to court one by one, have better food than you, the emperor, have a lot of women at home, and live a much more comfortable life than you.
So, you should enjoy it when you should, be happy when you should, and don’t wrong yourself.
Now Emperor Hongzhi has gradually come to see it as a matter of fact. It has been almost a year since he left state affairs behind and had fun. When he arrived at Ice City, he actually still remembered reports about ice fishing in the newspapers.
Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin first rested one night in the Ice City. They felt refreshed the next day and found a famous local ice fishing expert as a tour guide.
Then I brought my tent, small stove, ice drilling tools, etc. and went to the Songhua River.
At this moment, the Songhua River has long been frozen, the ice is very thick, and there are ice fishing tents everywhere on the ice.
"Haha, the newspapers really didn't lie. Ice fishing is really popular here. There are so many people ice fishing on the river."
Emperor Hongzhi looked at the tents everywhere and laughed happily.
Here, the entourage has already started to get busy, choosing a site, drilling an ice cave, setting up a tent, setting up a small stove, and even preparing bait, etc.
Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin each held a small fishing rod for ice fishing, drinking tea, eating barbecue and playing ice fishing.
The wind was biting and whistling outside the tent, but the warmth inside the tent was as warm as spring. It was a very comfortable and comfortable little day.
"It's a fish, it's a fish!"
After just fishing for a while, Emperor Hongzhi actually caught the fish. It was so heavy that it was very difficult for Emperor Hongzhi to pull it up. The guards at the small yellow gate next to him rushed forward to help, and it took a lot of effort and effort.
Finally, a big fish weighing several kilograms was pulled up.
"It's such a big fish, let's quickly use it to cook and drink with it."
Emperor Hongzhi looked at the big fish lying on the ice, and he was very happy. The ice fishing seemed to be really good.
"Yes~"
As soon as Xiao Huangmen heard this, he quickly got busy. There was an accompanying cook waiting nearby, skillfully opening the fish and scraping off its scales. Soon, a steamed cold water pike was served.
"Well, it's really good. It tastes extremely delicious."
Liu Jin took a bite and couldn't help but nod his head immediately. The fish was very fresh and tasted great. The steaming method brought out its freshness to the extreme.
Of course, the most important thing is that this cold water pike tastes quite good, without a trace of earthy smell, and has few bone spurs, which is very good.
"It's a fish, it's a fish!"
At this time, Liu Jin's fishing rod also felt a tugging force. The force was very strong, and it was estimated that it was another big fish.
“The resources here are really great!”
Liu Jin pulled hard and sighed in his heart, as expected, resources are king.
PS: Has anyone ever tried ice fishing? What do you think?
