The eggless leader of the adventuring fleet, Wang Chaoxiang, was shirtless and holding an ax to chip away at a tree stump in the sun. This eunuch who once served as a valet to the saint, the heavy ax was very light in his hand, and he could cut a tree stump in just a few clicks.
Shaped into a sharp pile.
Lin Xuewu, who was born as a scholar, knew clearly that this eunuch Wang usually looked very gentle, but was actually very violent. It was said that when he followed the emperor, he often charged with a knife and was good at using two axes. He died under his pair of axes.
A lot of people.
This eunuch cannot drink. Once he drinks, he will be like a different person. He was originally from the Liao Dynasty. His family members died at the hands of the Tartars, and he hates the Tartars very much.
Lin Xuewu, who had only one eye, didn't know why this fierce eunuch was in the Vanguard Fleet, but he knew that the usually smiling Prime Minister should not be messed with casually.
"This place feels really good." He held on to a wooden stake, and Wang Qi, who was long and dark-faced, used a sledgehammer to hammer the wooden stake hard and drive the sharp stake into the ground.
On the beach of Mokuowei, the pioneer adventure team is building a fence. Thick tree stumps are driven into the ground, and a fence wall is taking shape.
Wang Qi is a tall man with a dark complexion. He was once a slave of a gentry family in Taicang, Jiangnan. Later, he became a scholar. When the Qing army went south, slave rebels were everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River. Wang Qi single-handedly persuaded an army of slave rebels to follow.
Raise the flag yourself to fight against the Qing Dynasty.
He joined forces with Wang Gongzhe, Zhu Feng, Chen Wenda, Feng Shengshun and others to attack the Qing army in the south of the Yangtze River and captured a city. The Qing army besieged it. Wang Qi led a death squad to fight every day, beheading many people in each battle, and fought for fourteen days.
Later, he was hit by a stray bullet and was burned all over his body, but he still persisted in fighting and saw defeat. Fortunately, Lu Jianguo led his troops to defeat the Qing army and rescued Wang Qi.
Wang Qi was rescued, but lost his left arm. Later, he was equipped with an iron hook and joined the imperial camp.
The three disabled captains all have amazing pasts. Chao Xiang was originally a refugee from Liaodong, and later became a eunuch of Prince Lu, but he was a fierce man who could wield two axes on the battlefield. Lin Xuewu was also a scholar, but he was also a
Marksman, Wang Qi was a scholar who was born as a serf, and was once the leader of the rebel army.
The camp was in full swing, with a sun and moon flag fluttering in the wind.
There are three large boats parked in the bay.
"Do you think this Haidong girl can accept the canonization and promotion?"
"There's no reason not to accept it."
"What if you don't accept it?"
"Fuck him!"
Mokuowei is a small fishing village located next to the estuary of the Tumen River, adjacent to the East China Sea. There are two natural harbors in the bay, which were called East Port and West Port on the map of the vanguard fleet that came here.
The small fishing village was in Donggang, and now they are in Westport.
Less than ten miles west of Xigang, there is a Jurchen village, Liudao Paozi Village. Paozi is a small lake among the mountains, forests and grasslands in the northeast, called Paozi, and comes in various sizes.
Between Donggang and Tumen River, under Laolong Ridge, there are many paozi scattered, from Erdaopaozi to Jiudaopaozi, like a string of necklaces, with the river on one side and the mountains on the other, and Mokuowei Bay across the mountain.
Not far upstream of Liudaopaozi is Hunchun City, located on the Hunchun River, a not far tributary of the Tumen River.
During the Tang Dynasty, the Bohae Kingdom, a prosperous country in Haidong, established five capitals, fifteen prefectures, and sixty-two prefectures. Among them, Longquan Prefecture in Tokyo and Longyuan County in Gyeongju were seated in Hunchun.
The Jurchens called it Hunchun in Chinese, and the Ming Dynasty set up Hunchun Guards here, which has always been an important border fortress.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was occupied by the Shumulu family.
Shumulu, which means coral in the Later Jin language, is said to have originated from the Khitan. Yangguli, one of the eight ministers of the Later Jin Dynasty, was a descendant of Lang Zhu, the minister of Huerka who lived in Hunchun. The Shumulu family joined Nurhaci and later moved to Liaodong.
Then he entered the pass from the dragon and established the Eight Banners in Beijing.
By the Hunchun River there was Balian City in the Bohai period, and Wenhe Buzha City in the Goguryeo period. There were also eight Karen outposts in the Hunchun area.
After the Jurchens from Jianzhou moved away and the barbarian Jurchens moved south, the newly arrived Woji tribe here was relatively backward. The so-called cities were actually just fenced cities, with fences as cities and thatched houses as houses.
Mainly engaged in hunting and fishing, but also collecting ginseng and a small amount of breeding and planting.
The vanguard fleet of 500 people is not that many people, but when it comes to combat effectiveness, not to mention the three captains who are more powerful than the other, even among the 500 crew members, none of them are vegetarians, whether they are sailors or cooks in the fleet.
They were all retired from the imperial camp. Although most of them were either disabled or half-dead in their forties or fifties, they were absolutely tough and tough.
Not to mention the more than 100 cannons on the three large ships. Although they were anchored in Westport, they were parked dispersedly in three maritime forts. They also built forts, deployed artillery, and set up reconnaissance points in Hunchun Ridge and Laolong Mountain.
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With this kind of fighting power, if one or two thousand savage Jurchens come to us, they will be free. Even if they come to ten thousand, they are not afraid. As long as they erect the fence, they will be safe.
If they were given more time to set up a simple bastion on the delta along the coast and along the river, it would be impossible for the Jurchens to win.
A simple bastion is actually not difficult to build. The key is artillery and muskets as well as sufficient ammunition and food.
"If you ask me, we don't need to be so worried about the savage Jurchens. With our strong ships and cannons, we can directly frighten them. We should directly sail the ship into the Tumen River, set up camp in Hunchun, summon the leaders of various ministries, and declare the decree
Canonize them, erect monuments and stones, and then trade with them."
The fleet is a caravan under the name of the Imperial Young Master, and the ginseng and fur from Liaodong are also their targets.
Many people were relatively optimistic about this first stop, but the three captains insisted on setting up camp in Westport first, choosing a more remote place instead of the customary place at the mouth of the Hunchun River where it enters the Tumen River.
place of trading.
A few days later, the Zhazhai took shape. A simple bastion appeared. Dozens of cannons were unloaded from the ship and equipped to various angular forts.
Many sharp stakes were also laid in front of the fort.
There is no time to dig trenches at the moment, but it already has a strong fighting capacity, and five hundred men are more than enough.
Zhao Shijun was the first to visit this fortress.
"At that time, Nurhachi moved many barbarian Jurchens south to Jianzhou and Maoling, and compiled them into Niulu. He compiled Niulu for the Haixi Jurchens and other tribes, and basically brought the conquered Hulun Sinara to the tribes.
The tribes were scattered and organized into various cattle records, but the Jurchens, the savage people who migrated south, were relatively loose and basically maintained the original tribal form.
The Haidong Jurchens here have the 4th and 14th auxiliary collars of the Xianghuang Banner, which are composed of people from the Ningguta area, and the local people of Namutulu (Shuangchengzi) are composed of the 10th and 10th auxiliaries of the Zhengbai Banner.
The Sanzuoling, consisting of the Warkha people from the Muling River area, formed the third auxiliary collar, the seventeenth auxiliary collar, etc. of the Xiangbai Banner, and initially compiled eight Niu Lu."
Zhao Shijun, who has been in Haidong for three years, is now a Jurchen expert. He knows the Jurchen history and the current situation in recent years very well. He told the three captains at Mokuowei Fort in Xinjian City.
At that time, Nurhaci took advantage of the opportunity to avenge his ancestors and father. In more than ten years, he took advantage of the Jianzhou Jurchen Su Kesu Hu Tribe, Wanyan Tribe, Zhechen Tribe, Hunhe Tribe, Dong E Tribe, Changbai Mountain Tribe and the large and small numbers under his jurisdiction.
The ten tribes were all brought under their jurisdiction through the use of force to conquer or appeasement strategies.
While he used troops against the four Hulun tribes of the Haixi Jurchen tribes, he also sent troops many times to attack the Haidong Jurchen tribes.
Counting from the initial conquest of the Warkha tribe in the Muling River area to the formal establishment of the Eight Banners in Manchuria, Nurhaci used troops against the Jurchens east of the sea for twenty years. He would start from the sea in the east, reach the Songsong River Basin in the west, and end at the mouth of the Tumen River in the south.
The vast area in the eastern part of Northeast China as far north as the lower reaches of the Ussuri River was all brought under its own control.
After he unified the Jianzhou Jurchen, Haixi Jurchen, and Haidong Jurchen tribes, he then turned his attention to the Heilongjiang Barbarian Jurchen tribes, the Saha Company tribe, the Shima tribe, the Shilu tribe, and other dozens of large and small tribes. The first to attack
It was the Sakhalian tribe, followed by the Saharcha, then the Shima tribe, the Shilu tribe and more than a dozen tribes. After the conquest, many of their tribesmen moved south to Jianzhou.
Later Huang Taiji also divided Manchuria into Buddha Manchuria and Yiche Manchuria, that is, old Manchuria and new Manchuria.
Ningguta, New Manchuria in the Wula region of Jilin, has compiled a total of forty Niulu. In addition to New Manchuria, there are also Heilongjiang Solon, Daur, Baerhu Banner, Zuoling, etc.
"Nowadays, the area around Ningguta and Hunchun in Haidong is dominated by New Manchus, and there are also some Buddhist Manchus, such as the Anchulaguarjia family, who were originally from Anchula City in Changbai Mountain. They were under the banner of Xianghuang Banner and stationed in Ningguta. He
Sheli clan, formerly of the Hesheli tribe in Changbai Mountain, was affiliated with Xianghuang Banner and was stationed in Hunchun..."
The Tumen River, Muling River and other places are all under military rule, and the Eight Banners in Manchuria are all under military status. Every autumn when a child is born, he must go to the banner's general office to register and register. The general register of each banner is submitted to the superior. Each term lasts three years, and another
A list of names of three generations shall be forwarded to the Household Department.
Bannermen are allowed to farm freely within a hundred miles and are not allowed to do business. Anyone who goes beyond a hundred miles will be punished with the crime of escaping.
Regardless of the number of households or the number of people in each tribe, each tribe has a Mukunda (tribe chief) who is responsible for the administration of the affairs of the tribe.
The Jurchens are accustomed to naming their clans after the mountains and rivers in the tribe where they live, which is very different from the Han surnames.
"Although Nurhachi and his son moved the savage Jurchens southward to Haidong and organized them into the Niulu Banner, it was very different from Jianzhou Buddha Manchuria. They had been conquered and moved south, and they had no loyalty to the Qing court."
Zhao Shijun told the Prime Minister and others that he had visited all the tribes in the Muling River area of Tumen Jiang, and the leaders of each tribe were relatively active in abandoning the Qing Dynasty and joining the Ming Dynasty.
"This bastion, battleships, and cannons are enough to intimidate all the troops."
"How many commercial goods have you brought here? In addition to conferring imperial edicts, it is best to come up with some good things to trade with them for ginseng, mink skins, cattle and horses, etc."
When Zhao Shijun heard that the tribes here had already turned to the Ming Dynasty, the minister of the dynasty breathed a sigh of relief, and happily clapped his chest and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Lieutenant Zhao. Our three big boats are full of good things, including salt, tea, tobacco, wine, tea, porcelain, and
There are silks and cloths.”
"Do you have any extra shotgun powder? They are very rare for these firearms. It would be a great gift if you could give some to the leaders of the tribes."
"Yes, they just want to give them some when the time comes. It's not a valuable thing anyway." Lin Xuewu said bluntly that they were not too worried about the threat to the imperial court after the muskets flowed into the Jurchen tribe.
The soldiers were deployed, but there were not enough of them. In fact, they were not as big a threat as the Jurchens' bows, arrows and javelins.
The cost of making this thing in the Ming Dynasty military factory was also extremely cheap. After mass production, a blunderbuss cost no more than two silver dollars, which was much cheaper than bows and arrows.
The savage women are really rare treasures, so give them some, and you can also exchange them for ginseng, mink skins and other good things. Once you have a few ships of furs and ginseng waiting for you to go back, it will be at least ten times or a hundred times more profitable. This business must be done.
