"The fog is too thick, I can't see anything clearly."
"But you are a shaman, the middleman between the world of gods and the underground ghost kingdom, and the messenger of the god Tengger."
A group of savage Jurchens wearing animal skins and fish skins gathered together. In front of them was a Jurchen shaman, wearing divine clothes, a nine-bird divine hat, a bell skirt tied around his waist, and a shaman drum in his hand.
This is a shaman who can connect the world of gods and ghosts.
The shaman in front of him is the most famous shaman in various Jurchen dens in the East China Sea. When he was young, he suddenly contracted the shaman disease. He had a fever for several days, and then recovered without treatment. His recovery was complete.
The transformation of the shaman, becoming a shaman.
Shamanism is the original belief of various Jurchen tribes. In their legends, the Heavenly Mother Abu Kahehe created human beings. At first, the heaven and earth were in a bubble of water. In this water bubble, Abu Kahehe was later born.
Growing up in the water bubble, it separated the heaven and the earth further and further, until it was so big that it reached the sky and sank to the bottom of the water. It was everywhere and everywhere.
Later, her body split into three gods, she took a piece of flesh from her body to create a woman, and she used shoulder blades and armpit hair to create a man.
Later, the god Tengri was slowly born.
If you are in doubt, ask the shaman.
When the Jurchen tribe encounters important matters, they will seek advice from shamans and ask them to communicate with the gods.
"You are our most respected Shaman Longgetara. You will definitely be able to guide us in the future."
A group of tribal leaders made a very respectful request.
"I am already old. It has been sixty years since I was chosen by God to be a shaman. Now I feel farther and farther away from God."
"Shaman, you must help us show the way. We also followed your guidance and accepted Nurhaci's care and moved southward. After the Jurchens from Jianzhou moved into the customs, we moved to the birthplace of their Longxing.
, but now that the Jurchens in Jianzhou have been defeated by the Han people in the Central Plains, where should we go?"
The old shaman Longge Tala had a white beard and an old face as wrinkled as the bark of an elm tree.
Their current location is in the area of Tumen River and Suifen River, which is the place where the Jurchen dragon thrives in Jianzhou.
The Ningguta area of Mudanjiang where Nurhachi's ancestors lived.
Ningguta means six in the Jurchen language. It is said that the six sons born to Nurhaci’s great-grandfather lived here and established their own cities. Later they were called Ningguta Liubeile. Nurhachi’s grandfather Jue Changan was one of the oldest.
Four.
The Nurhachi family belongs to the Jianzhou Zuowei among the three Jianzhou guards in the Ming Dynasty. According to hereditary tradition, the command position has been hereditary for more than 200 years. The Jianzhou Zuowei is on the bank of the Tumen River, not far upstream of Hunchun.
The entire Jianzhou Sanwei lived in the Yalu River, Mudan River, Tumen River, and Suifen River basins. Later, Nurhachi raised his troops and continuously conquered the surrounding tribes, especially after wiping out the Haixi Jurchen tribe in the Jilin area, he finally entered Liaodong.
Finally, the capital was established in Shenyang, controlled the Liaohe Plain, conquered the Monan Mongolian left-wing tribes in the Songnen Plain, entered western Liaoning, and fought with the Ming army here for many years, and finally entered the customs in one fell swoop and moved the capital to Beijing.
After the Jianzhou Jurchens conquered the Haixi Jurchens and moved to the Liaoshen area, they also moved some tribes of the savage Jurchens who were originally in the Sanjiang Plain area to the original Jianzhou Jurchens' old lands.
Compared with the Haixi Jurchens Hulun Sinala and Jianzhou Jurchens who established an alliance in the late Ming Dynasty, the Jurchens of the Wilderness are relatively scattered. The Jurchens who gave birth to children recorded in the Ming Dynasty, the Qilemi, the Nüzhi Savage, the Beishan Savage, the Kuwu, Jiliemi and others are all savage Jurchen tribes. These are just some of the tribes scattered in the lower reaches of Songhua River and north of Heilongjiang.
Under Nurhaci's rectification, a large number of savage Jurchens moved to the Haidong area and established separate roads, including Muling Road, Suifen Road, Namtulu Road, Nyimacha Road, Huye Road, Urfixing Road, and Yalan Road. Road, Xilin Road, etc.
The branch manages Qianliwoji.
Woji, also known as Woju, etc., means deep mountains and dense forests. It also generally refers to the tribes living in the mountains and forests east of Heilongjiang, Wusuli River, Suifen River, and Tumen River basins. This area is narrow from east to west and long from north to south, reaching more than a thousand people. Li, called Qianliwoji.
Any place with lush forests along the coast is called a Woji tribe. The women who live in these nests and mainly fish and hunt, whether they are Warkha, Kurkha, Chakara or other tribes, are collectively called the Woji tribe.
Each Woji is similar to the mountain forest land, and also refers to the tribes living in the Woji mountains and forests. The Qing government divided the tribes living in Woji and the plains according to roads.
Each road captain is appointed to lead the way.
"Please ask the great shaman to take another look and show you the way!"
The Nurhaci family was once so powerful. They not only unified the three Jurchen tribes in Jianzhou, but also conquered the four Jurchen tribes in Haixi, which were originally stronger. They even conquered many savage Jurchen tribes later. Finally, they conquered the Mongols in Monan and Korea.
He also entered Guanzhong and almost conquered the Central Plains.
"Will the Jianzhou Jurchens come back to their old land? Will the Han people come to rob this place? What should our tribes do?"
The Aixinjueluo family created Manchuria and brought all the Jurchen tribes into the Manchu tribe. However, for the savage Jurchen tribes, they did not have a high sense of identity with Manchuria. They were previously loose and were defeated and conquered by Jianzhou, and they were even semi-forced of southward migration.
It was hard to gain a foothold here.
But now the situation has changed again.
The Tumen River area is much better than the Sanjiang Plain where they lived before, because it is warmer and even trade is convenient.
It was already midsummer.
The Central Plains is in full swing, but it is very cool here. The riverside plains are full of swamps. To the Han people in the Central Plains, this may not be a place on earth. There are tigers, leopards and wolves everywhere, and there are dense jungles all over the place. The plains along the rivers are full of The swamp can be swallowed up accidentally.
It is winter for most of the year, and people freeze to death in winter.
But a place like this is really a good place for the savage Jurchens who moved here. It is much better than the nests and paozi they stayed in before.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Although the Sanjiang Plain is a great plain, it also had a name in later generations. Beidahuang, although it is a great plain, is a large basin where the three rivers gather. It is undeveloped, heavily silted, and full of large swamps.
Not to mention the Sanjiang Plain, there is also the Liaohe Plain. This land has been managed by the Han people since the pre-Qin Dynasty. The Liaohe Plain area at its core is actually a bad land. It is said to be hundreds of miles across the Liaohe River. It is difficult for even carriages to pass, let alone anything.
granary.
When Yang Guang and Li Shimin conquered Goguryeo, they were even trapped by Liaoze.
By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the real grain-producing area in Liaodong was not the Liaohe Plain, but the four southern Liaoning provinces, that is, the southwest coast of the Liaodong Peninsula.
What is a hell place in the eyes of the Han people is a treasure in the eyes of the savage Jurchens.
Holding it in your hand, how can you give it up?
The thoughts of the leaders were all in the eyes of the great shaman.
He closed his eyes, started to ring the bells and drums, and continued to dance.
During this ceremony, the seventy-year-old shaman actually danced for three days and three nights, non-stop. All the leaders respectfully surrounded him, and no one dared to leave carelessly.
When the old shaman collapsed from exhaustion, everyone quickly gathered around him.
"I saw it, I saw it!"
The old shaman murmured.
The leader quickly put a century-old ginseng in the old shaman's mouth and asked him to hold it.
for a long time.
The old shaman's eyes regained their luster.
"I saw it. Amid the fog, I glimpsed a glimmer of mystery."
"The god Tengger guided me through the fog. I saw the sun and moon flags fluttering on this land. I saw huge sailing ships, and many Han people came riding big horses and carrying muskets."
The leaders were shocked.
The old shaman added, "I saw them building a castle market here, bringing a large amount of Han goods, and trading ginseng, mink skins, medicinal materials, etc. to us. I saw peace between the two races..."
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The leaders were shocked.
Everyone looked complicated and had different expressions.
They wanted to ask again, but the old shaman had already waved his hand, "I am tired and need to rest. You go back. God Tengger guided us to welcome the arrival of the Han people and to live in friendship with them.
The god Tengger also told me that the Han people will not rob our Woji and the land, and this place will still belong to us."
After saying that, he ignored everyone and closed his eyes.
Muling Road Chief, who was wearing a tiger skin, left the old ginseng behind, then said goodbye, and the leaders followed him and left.
When everyone left, the old shaman opened his eyes.
He got up, wrapped the old ginseng with the knotted beard in a cloth, and then went into the back room.
In the wooden house, there is a young man, wearing fish-skin clothes and straw sandals, with a turban on his head. He is a Han Chinese, his name is Zhao Shijun, a secret agent of the Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty. He entered the Haidong area as a fur trader three years ago and started to contact it very early.
The leaders of each tribe.
He even had contact with some influential shamans.
Shaman Longgetala is an old friend he has made for three years.
"This ginseng is good."
Longgetala gave Zhao Shijun the old ginseng that Uluka, the head of Muling Road, gave him just now.
"The best Changbai ginseng is worth at least several hundred taels in the Central Plains."
Longgetala smiled and said, "In Haidong, such ginseng is of the highest quality and is worth at least ten suits of armor."
"If the great shaman is willing to bear the pain and give up his love, I am willing to exchange it for twenty bird guns, how about it?"
The great shaman smiled and handed over the best old counselor. He solemnly asked the young man, "We have known each other for three years. When you first came here three years ago, you told me that the Jurchens in Jianzhou were going to be defeated. I didn't believe it at the time.
Yes, I didn’t expect that I would really lose now.”
"Is the Emperor of Heaven really willing to hand over Haidong to the ministries for continued residence?"
Zhao Shijun nodded, "Of course, as long as each ministry accepts the canonization of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty will set up a Protector's Office and a Governor's Office in Haidong, and appoint the leaders of each ministry as the Protector and Governor, so that they can remain secular and manage their own affairs. The imperial court will appoint officials
They were given positions and allowed hereditary succession.
Customs, markets, wharves, and inns were also set up, and tribute exchanges were allowed. Horses, ginseng, mink skins, pine nuts and other local products were exchanged for inland cloth, grain, iron pots, salt, tea, tobacco, wine, porcelain, medicinal materials, and agricultural tools and weapons.
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It is probably still the same system that the Ming Dynasty had for the Jurchen tribes in the Northeast. They set up guard stations, appointed heads of each tribe, traded with each other, and governed the Jurchen tribes. In name, the Jurchen tribes were loyal to the Emperor of Heaven, but in fact they still led their own tribes, were canonized by the court, and were hereditary for their descendants.
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Of course, the imperial court will also restore inns in the northeast, rebuild customs cities, and even build ports and docks along the coast, all to facilitate the leaders to pay tribute to Beijing and facilitate trade.
Zhao Shijun even took out a royal edict, and the imperial court granted him the title of Great Shaman of Haidong and the title of Earl of Hunchun.
"If you have any other requests, Great Shaman, just ask."
But Longgetala stroked his beard and asked, "When will the fleet arrive?"
"The Great Shaman is ready here. The fleet can come at any time. They are already on the island outside Mokuowei Bay."
