Early the next morning, after a good night's rest, Zhu Yunxuan got up in high spirits. He first had a boxing session. After Li Qing, Xu Zengshou and several others came over, they had breakfast together and then went out for a walk.
Zhu Yunzhen was walking on the paved gravel road, looking at the people working, when he heard Li Qing say that last month a Jurchen tribe attacked the city of Vladivostok, and after being defeated, the captured people were demoted to death row and worked the hardest.
When he was doing the most tiring work, he suddenly said: "Li Xiang, are these people in shackles the captured Jurchens?" He pointed to a few shackles and ragged clothes on the side of the road, being watched.
said the living man.
"Your Highness, it is indeed the case. All Jurchen prisoners who dare to attack here will do the hardest and most tiring work. This is not the case for other people who come to find work on their own, but because they are afraid of making trouble, they still watch.
But the wages are quite high," Li Qing said.
Zhu Yunzhen nodded and asked again: "I heard you just now that even the Mongolians who defected to us couldn't defeat the Jurchens? Are these Jurchens so powerful? Weren't the Mongols who swept the world back then? If the Jurchens were so powerful, why weren't they?
Can it sweep the world?"
His words prompted Li Qing to ask. Li Qing was a scholar. Although he was not the kind of scholar who was industrious and indifferent to grains, he didn't know such a thing. He didn't know what to say.
At this time, a man dressed as a military general following Zhu Yunzhen said: "Your Highness, in a one-on-one competition, the Mongols really cannot beat the Jurchens. I heard His Royal Highness the King of England say something before, saying, 'In this war, farming
You can't beat the nomads, and the nomads can't beat the fishers and hunters.'"
"We Han people are farming, and Mongolians are nomadic, so it is difficult to defeat the Mongols in a head-to-head competition. Only with sharp weapons and bravery at the founding of the country can we drive the Mongols out of the Central Plains. As the country gradually became more comfortable, then
Without the superiority in numbers and weapons, it would be difficult to deal with the Mongols."
"And the Jurchens were fishers and hunters. The Mongols couldn't beat the Jurchens. It's just that the Mongols were better on horseback and were far better than the Jurchens in cavalry. So in the end the Jin Kingdom was destroyed by the Mongols. But even when the Mongols destroyed the Jin
, the Jin soldiers who stayed in the northeast could still fight the Mongols if they dismounted and fought on foot, but they couldn't find the north."
"Farming cannot defeat nomadism, and nomadism cannot defeat fishing and hunting. This is a good saying. It is easy to understand and simple in writing. However, it does not sound like what my twentieth uncle said, but rather like what an imperial brother said." Zhu Yunxuan said.
Then he turned to the general who had just spoken and said: "Qin Sen, when I went to Kaiyuan to visit him, Uncle Twenty strongly recommended you to come and assist me, saying that you are very good at dealing with Jurchens. I didn't believe it yet, but
Judging from what you just said, you have indeed studied a lot about the Jurchens."
This person is Qin Song's younger brother Qin Sen. Qin Sen was not elected to the martial arts hall at the beginning of last year and was sent to the Ying Fan Kingdom as a general. Although he only stayed in the Ying Fan Kingdom for a short year, he was very good at dealing with the Jurchens.
This time, Yunxi wrote to Zhu Song asking him to send Zhu Yunzhen some people who were good at dealing with Jurchens, so Zhu Song reluctantly sent him.
Qin Sen bowed and said, "Thank you, Your Highness, for your praise." He did not refuse to be modest.
Zhu Yunxuan continued: "I intend to set up a new guard, mainly to suppress and use it against the Jurchens. Are you willing to be the commander?"
"I am willing," Qin Sen said loudly immediately. Coming to Vladivostok, a place where the conditions are several times more difficult than Kaiyuan, if he can't be promoted, why would he come here? You must know that his brother is the commander of the Jinyi Guards, even the King of England will not
Dare to send him here regardless of his own wishes.
Zhu Yunxuan smiled and said: "Then you are the commander of the East China Sea Guard." Then he turned to Xu Zengshou: "Xu Xiang, Xiang Xu has no objection to this appointment."
"Qin Sen is very suitable to be the commander of the Jianzhou Guard, and I have no objection." Xu Zengshou said.
The matter was settled, Zhu Yunzhen asked him about the Jurchens by the way. Qin Sen said: "Your Highness, although the barbarians in the Northeast are all called Jurchens, they are actually not the same nation. In terms of customs and habits,
They are very different from each other, I have encountered them before when I was in the British feudal country."
"Roughly speaking, the Jurchens here are divided into three parts. One part is Jianzhou Jurchens. Most of the Jurchens in the north of the Yingfan Kingdom are Jianzhou Jurchens. They are not the same as the Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom. They should come from
They migrated from further north."
"The second part is the savage Jurchens. Most of the Jurchens in our Yongfan Kingdom are the savage Jurchens. Most of the savage Jurchens are the descendants of the Jin Kingdom who stayed in the Northeast."
"The third part is the Haixi Jurchens, who live close to the Mongolian grasslands. They are a mixture of the remaining Jurchens and Mongolians from the Jin Kingdom, and barbarians who moved from further north."
"There are also some other small tribes whose customs are different from the above three barbarian ethnic groups, but their numbers are not large and they are not worth mentioning."
"In addition, the three barbarians who call themselves Jurchens are divided into raw Jurchens and mature Jurchens. Raw Jurchens are people who have no contact with us at all and are still completely barbarians; mature Jurchens are people who have had contact with the Han people and have learned from the Han people.
people."
"It turns out that the Jurchens have so many Taoisms, which I never knew before." Zhu Yunzhen interrupted. "In this case, different Jurchens can be provoked to fight against each other."
"Your Highness is wise." Qin Sen said: "Different Jurchen tribes often fight over water sources, prey and even ancestral grudges. This can provoke them."
"..."
Qin Sen said a few more words, and Zhu Yunzhen said: "How to deal with the Jurchens, I will leave it to you, so I won't ask. However," he said in a more serious tone: "No matter how to deal with the Jurchens, our own army must
Strong enough! My own army is not strong, it is just fish and meat in the hands of the barbarians. You can't rely on the imperial court to rescue you for everything, so why are you entrusting me here?"
Xu Zengshou and others said: "Your Highness, rest assured, the army of Yongfan Kingdom will definitely not be weaker than the elite troops of the imperial court."
Zhu Yunxuan nodded and said, "It's up to you."
After that, they continued to walk, and Zhu Yunzhen and Li Qing discussed the establishment of the civil service yamen: "In my opinion, the only people who can be called ordinary people here are the family members of the original three guards of the King of Qi, and there are less than 20,000 people in total.
There are not many people who have been exiled from the upper class. What I want to do is to temporarily establish Yongming Mansion as the only local government office in Yongfan."
"There is no need to set up counties for the time being. We can directly manage the people with the government. We will recruit honest and responsible people in the army as police officers to replace the former subordinates. As for the officials, are they enough now?"
"Your Highness, if Yongming Mansion is established, it may not be enough." Li Qing said.
"In this case, first of all, all the generals with experience and experience will be transferred to serve as civil servants. Then I will make a memorial to the capital and request to send some officials." Zhu Yunxuan said.
Li Qing bowed and accepted the order.
While the two were talking, Zhu Yunzhen suddenly pointed to a person on the roadside and said: "Why does this person look so similar to the Uighur people in the Western Regions? Are there such people in the Northeast? They are descendants of Huihui brought here by the Mongols.
"Huh?" Just now, a farmer who was working on the roadside raised his head and happened to be seen by Zhu Yunzhen. Zhu Yunzhen saw that his appearance was somewhat different from that of Han people, Mongolians, and Jurchens, so he asked.
Li Qing took a look and said to Zhu Yunzhen: "Your Highness, this person is an Ainu from the other side of the sea. He is not Huihui."
"Ainu people? What do they look like? How come people in the east look the same as people in the west?" Zhu Yunxuan was even more surprised.
"I don't know about this," Li Qing said.
At this time, Xu Zengshou suddenly said: "Your Highness, I just remembered something. Last year, our commander mediated the war between the Fuso and the Ainu, allowing them to stop fighting separately with the Tsugaru Strait as the boundary. But our ship is exploring that area this year.
At that time, it was discovered that the Fuso people no longer obeyed the Ming Dynasty's mediation after celebrating the New Year, and crossed the strait to attack the Ainu people."
"What does this have to do with our Yongfan Kingdom?" Zhu Yunzhen asked.
"Your Highness, I would like to ask Prime Minister Li first if the Ainu are also fishers and hunters. How are they better than the Jurchens in fighting?" Xu Zengshou asked.
"Well, the Ainu should be considered fishermen and hunters. Their performance in previous battles was similar to that of the Jurchens," Li Qing said.
"In this case, I would like to ask Your Highness to intervene in the war between the Fuso people and the Ainu people. There is a sea between the Ainu people and our Yongfan Kingdom, so there is no need to worry even if their people arrive on the mainland; but the Jurchens are on the mainland.
, if there is a disobedient heart, it may lead to great turmoil. Isn’t that how the Jurchens got up in the last years of the Liao Kingdom?"
"So I think we should help the Ainu people to deal with the Fuso people, so that the Ainu people can be grateful to us, so that we can use them to deal with the Jurchens. Moreover, helping the Ainu people is in line with the mutual assistance of the vassal states in the Zhou Dynasty.
Reasonable." Xu Zengshou said.
In addition to the high-sounding reasons, the reason why Xu Zengshou was so enthusiastic about helping the Ainu people was because he wanted to be knighted. He assisted Zhu Yunzhen here step by step. Even if he defeated many Jurchen tribes, he would not be able to be knighted.
Unless he wants to stay here for decades, and finally be knighted by the court in the name of hard work; but why is he willing to wait until he is 70 or 80 before being knighted?
But helping the Ainu is different. They are foreigners after all. Although Fuso is a country that Taizu has decided not to conquer, as long as he wins the battle, the court will definitely not say much and will probably give him a title.
Lord.
Zhu Yunxuan didn't think about what Xu Zengshou was thinking for the time being, but said: "If it is to help the Ainu people, I dare not be the master. However, I can report the matter to the court in the name of the vassal king and let the court agree with me.
The eternal vassal state will attack the unconquered ministers."
Xu Zengshou was slightly disappointed, but thinking that His Majesty might not agree, he looked good and bowed and said, "I understand."
A few people talked about a few more things, and Zhu Yunzhen said: "My dear friends, although we are starting from scratch and have many difficulties, this is also an opportunity for me to show my talents. I promise you that I will never treat you badly."