A group of savage Jurchen Woji tribe leaders, wearing animal skins and fish skin clothing, rode a raft down the Tumen River.
These rafts and boats also have some traditional characteristics of each tribe. At the front of the fleet is a sailing speedboat from the Ming Dynasty's vanguard fleet.
This kind of speedboat is only used for reconnaissance and communication, and is even kept on the big ship most of the time, but now it feels like it stands out from the crowd.
Muling Road Chief Uluka and several other prestigious leaders competed for the opportunity to ride on this Ming Dynasty's advanced speedboat.
Sitting on this sailboat, looking here and touching there, my eyes were full of envy.
"This ship actually has several cannons."
"I saw this cannon when I was on the expedition. One cannon can hit a long distance, just like thunder."
"That's right, Zha City can't stop it at all."
"The sails on this ship look so powerful."
The Jurchen leaders were envious and felt that this ship was really advanced.
When the boat left the Tumen River, it then went east along the coast and entered Mokuowei Bay. They were very afraid when facing the sea. If Zhao Shijun, who was very familiar with them, hadn't told them that the angels sent by the emperor of tomorrow had brought many gifts, they would have been afraid.
Stopping in that bay, they would never let the little raft sail into the sea.
Even though the wind was bright and sunny, they were still full of fear of the boundless sea. Fortunately, they were only about ten miles apart, and they soon reached the bay.
Follow the open-sail paddle boat as it sails into Donggang.
From a distance, I saw three giant ships anchored on the sea like hills in the bay.
The Prime Minister and others knew that Zhao Shijun had brought the Jurchen leaders here, so they ordered the three large ships to open the gun windows, and the cannons were pushed out of the windows by the gun carriages, revealing the black holes of the cannons.
It is a giant sailing ship with four masts and three gun decks. Each ship has more than forty cannons.
Many reconnaissance speedboats were also launched on the ship in advance and patrolled the nearby sea.
On the mast, the sky is blue, the ground is red, the sun and the moon are bright, and the flag is fluttering in the wind.
The sun emerged from the clouds, shining golden light.
Ulukana, the director of Muling Road, was the leader of the Jurchen branch of the East China Sea who had been to Ninggu Pagoda, Wula in Jilin, Shenyang, and Beijing to pay homage. He was considered a very knowledgeable person.
But when he saw these three giant ships and those cannons, he stood up involuntarily, his eyes full of shock.
Facing the sun and moon flag, my legs finally bent involuntarily, and I knelt directly on the bow of the sailboat, bowing respectfully.
The other leaders also knelt down involuntarily.
Zhao Shijun felt extremely proud as he looked at the inexperienced appearance of these leaders in animal skins.
Sudden.
There was thunder in the sky.
There were several continuous roars of bang bang bang, fire flashed on the sides of the three ships, smoke rose, and then shells were bombarded on the distant coast, causing bursts of dust to fly.
Uluka knelt there and shivered several times, he was very frightened.
"Don't be surprised, everyone. This is the great angel firing cannons to welcome the leaders. It is a very high courtesy."
"Oh." Uluka's voice was trembling. The power of the naval gun really frightened them.
Zhao Shijun invited them to board the ship for a visit.
Uluka was both excited and fearful. He was not an ignorant savage. When his father was the leader of the tribe, Nurhachi gave forty pairs of armor to the local tribe leaders Sengni and Kalili in Suifen.
Uluka's father Muleng Road Chief and Urguchen Road Chief jointly sent troops to attack and plundered, and plundered armor and many cattle and sheep. Bojili, the Minister of Hurha who had surrendered to Nurha, came to declare an order to return the plundered goods. How could Luka's father spit out the meat that reached his mouth and refuse to obey the order?
So Nurhachi ordered his seventh son Abatai, together with his ministers Fei Yingdong and An Feiyanggu, to lead a thousand troops to conquer the Urguchen and Muling Routes. They also brought several cannons with them.
They bombarded Zha City with artillery, defeated two troops, and captured more than a thousand people.
That's not a red-coated cannon, it's just a general cannon.
It was also at that time that Wu Lenglu was beaten and subdued, and he was very submissive after that. Later, Wu Lenglu was still in Shenyang as a hostage, and he even saw the power of Houjinwu Zhenchaoha's firearms.
But today, the Ming army's massive warships and densely packed naval guns shocked him again. Back then, Abatai's few general cannons broke through the city guarded by thousands of them.
Later he went to Shenyang and Beijing. Although he saw many cannons, the size of a city was only a few hundred cannons, but these three ships actually had so many cannons.
The leader of the savage Jurchens, who has always been very skilled, had a very difficult time climbing the rope ladder of the ship today. The other leaders were also similar. Some of the leaders actually fell into the sea and made a fool of themselves.
When he stood on the high deck, he was even more shocked.
The mast is as tall as a big tree, and the sail is as big as the clouds in the sky.
Seeing and coming into contact with these naval guns at close range on the bow of the ship, as well as the well-equipped soldiers of the Ming Emperor with murderous intent on the ship, Uluka could not help but swallow his saliva, nervous and excited.
"This battleship is so majestic."
The Prime Minister laughed, and he specially put on the flying fish robe given by the emperor, tied with a jade belt, a goldfish bag, and an embroidered spring knife.
In this outfit, in the eyes of the savages, the flying fish looked like a python dragon, and the embroidery made the man even more surprised by its skill.
"These ships are nothing, they are just a few merchant ships. We are here for the first time under orders to avoid misunderstandings, so we did not come on a warship, but only came on a few merchant ships for the convenience of transporting rewards and transactions. goods,"
Zhao Shijun said from the side, "Indeed, these are armed merchant ships. Our Ming Dynasty has a Royal Navy with four fleets. The battleships of the fleet are divided into six-level sailing battleships. Its first-level sailing battleships have a five-story gun deck with one hundred and eight guns. The giant cannon (actually still in the drawing design stage), even a sixth-level battleship, can be equipped with thirty-six main naval guns and can be fully loaded with more than three hundred warriors.
Below the sixth-level battleships, there are also some patrol gunboats, reconnaissance speedboats, communication boats, etc., which are not ranked, but they still have two to more than a dozen guns.
Although armed merchant ships like this have thirty or forty guns, they are equipped with too few sailors. They are mainly used to carry cargo, so they cannot even reach the sixth level. The Ming Dynasty now has thousands of such armed merchant ships. His Majesty the Emperor The royal merchant fleet has dozens of ships.”
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Anyway, there are three warships here, and what follows is all made up, all based on one mouth.
False and true, how can the Jurchens be considered true or false?
But seeing is believing, these three battleships can never be fake.
All the leaders were trying hard to imagine the size of the Ming Dynasty's navy and the power of the Royal Merchant Fleet. Some leaders felt that their brains were not enough to imagine such a huge scene, and their heads hurt.
The fierce warriors who were the best at fishing and hunting in the mountains and forests of Haidong were originally all cautious, but now their toes were all curled up.
The atmosphere became very subtle.
Chao Xiang, Zhao Shijun and others controlled the rhythm throughout the whole process.
When the Prime Minister took out the emperor's edict, Uluka and all the leaders knelt down without hesitation. Before coming, many people had their own thoughts, but now, they have long been intimidated by the big tomorrow.
It is bounded by Changbai Lake, north of Tumen River, east of Tianchi, Hailanwoji and Sailanwoji in the west, Norowoji in the north, Akumiwoji in the east, and the sea in the southeast. This large area,
The Emperor ordered the establishment of Haidong Road and the Haidong Governor's Palace, which consisted of Ningguta Governor's Palace, Hunchun Governor's Palace, Suifen Governor's Palace, Vladivostok Governor's Palace, Xingkai Governor's Palace, etc.
To the west of Changbai Lake, it reaches Ji'an in the south, Alchuka (Harbin) in the north, Changchun in the west, and Hailanwoji in the east. The Emperor ordered the establishment of Haixi Road, the Haixi Protector's Office, and the Changchun Governor's Office.
, Jilin Governor's Mansion, Fuyu Governor's Mansion, Hunjiang Governor's Mansion, Five Kingdoms Governor's Mansion, etc.
Haixi Road and Haidong Road are combined into Bohai Province.
As the head of Muling Road in the ancient pagoda area of Dongning in Qinghai, Uruka originally had a low status, but he actively attached himself to it and was very loyal. The emperor specially granted him the title of Protector of Haidong Protectorate, and granted him the title of Marquis of Haidong as his eldest son.
Yalan was the governor of Muling and the earl of Muling.
Originally, the Qing court set up assistants and managed separate roads for the wild Jurchens, but now the imperial court set up provincial roads and set up governor's palaces to protect them. In the past, each road had a governor's palace.
The original Niulu was changed to Tunzhen.
There are prefectures, counties, towns, etc., each led by a tribal leader.
On the surface, it was just a name change, but in reality it remained the same. The leaders continued to lead their tribes and still occupied their existing territories.
But in fact, of course the Ming court would not travel so far just to preach and recognize their status.
This is just the beginning.
The imperial court has not made any demands now, but it does not mean that it will not be made in the future.
After reading the edict, the dynasty issued them imperial edicts, official seals, and even gave them official uniforms, leather hairtail fish charms.
Then give gifts.
Flint-haired muskets, swords, cotton armor, etc. were not in large quantities, but they were very exquisite. The leaders, big and small, received gifts of corresponding grades, and none of them could put them down.
Some leaders want more.
"We are willing to exchange it for ginseng, mink, Haidongqingniu, red deer or fox fur."
Lin Xuewu agreed, "No problem, we are the emperor's envoys, and we are here to trade with you and share what we have. You can go ashore with us to the camp to see the goods we have brought, and then trade."
At the end, he did not forget to say, "We only came with three ships this time, so the quantity of goods we carry is limited, and we also have to go to other places to declare seals and trade..."
Now the leaders of various ministries were anxious.
There are good things like muskets, cotton armor and even telescopes, not to mention bows, arrows, swords and guns. They are all good things. As for tea, tobacco, salt and iron pots, they are also good things they want, but they can't buy them compared to before.
The muskets that arrived, etc., were truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Leaders from all walks of life gathered together, and everyone wanted to seize the opportunity to buy, but there were only so many things.
So even before they landed, everyone started bidding for them.
Lin Xuewu and Zhao Shijun were still saying that everyone valued harmony and not to hurt the harmony, and said they would try their best to make peace with everyone, but none of the leaders wanted to suffer a loss, for fear that they would lose the next chance.
One after another, they reported their own good things, this one had Changbai old wild ginseng, that one had Haidong good deer bark, he had the best Haitung green, and that one was a BMW horse.
Other gold nuggets and Tana Dongzhu were brought out one after another.
An old mountain ginseng is exchanged for a musket, a nugget of gold is exchanged for a telescope, an Eastern pearl is exchanged for a nine-headed bird...
The price offered was too high and the goods were too few.
Finally, seeing these leaders roll up their sleeves and engage in a duel to fight for the right to trade, the atmosphere of the dynasty meeting was reached, so they came out to smooth things over.
"I would like to suggest that we trade quotas among various ministries."
The allocation quota is determined according to the size of the tribe. This is actually the same as the mutual trading quota for the Jurchens before the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty set up mutual markets in the border areas, and the Jurchen tribes had to rely on the imperial edicts given by the court to trade. Each edict represented a
A certain trade amount.
Now the dynasty declares that because the goods they carry are limited, each tribe wants to trade with each other and cannot satisfy them, so they have to allocate quotas according to the size of the tribe. This is a relatively fair approach to avoid the dissatisfaction of overpriced and unable to grab goods caused by constant bidding.
Those who have seen it have a share, and those who are strong will buy more.
As for the price, it's easy to say.
The red-faced leaders of the various ministries finally calmed down, and they were all eager to trade.
They want muskets, telescopes, gunpowder, swords, cotton armor, salt, tea, tobacco, wine, iron pots, porcelain, and other commodities, as small as needles, thread, and brains.
I wish I could sell all the goods on the three ships to the Ningguta tribes.
As Zhao Shijun said before, these savage Jurchen leaders were even more enthusiastic about the mutual trading of these goods than the title of Marquis and Count conferred upon them by the emperor.
When Wang Chaoxuan struck while the iron was hot and proposed to expand the port and terminal here, and even build a permanent commercial center, and even planned to build a mutual market and a post station along the Tumen River in Hunchun, these people agreed without hesitation.
When Zhao Shijun suggested that the Ming Dynasty's commercial goods could be used to hire some people from the leaders of various ministries to help build commercial and post stations, they immediately agreed.
If the Ming Dynasty directly set up border market stations in Mokuowei and Hunchun, it would be a dream. In this way, they would not have to travel all the way to Liaodong and other places to trade, and they could trade with each other directly at their doorsteps. The first to get the goods closest to the water, which means that they
Can trade more things with each other.
Not only can it meet your own needs, it can even be resold to the inland tribes in the north and east, and you can make a lot of money by reselling it.
And leaders like Uluka have always been worried that the Jianzhou Jurchens would be driven back to Jianzhou, their land of Longxing, by the Ming Dynasty. Wouldn't they have no place to stand by then?
If the Ming Dynasty established a city here, or even opened a government office to garrison troops here, it would have a solid backing. As for whether the Ming Dynasty would annex their land after coming, he was not very worried.
Because the Ming Dynasty was founded nearly 300 years ago. At the beginning of the founding of the country, it went deep into the Northeast, recruited Jurchen tribes, and established hundreds of guard posts. It only appointed the Jurchen leaders of each tribe to lead them. It was still hereditary and the court did not interfere in internal affairs. It was established in the early Ming Dynasty.
The water and land stations also greatly facilitated their communication with the mainland, especially trade.
With this history, the savage Jurchens are not afraid that the Ming Dynasty will come here to seize their territory. People holding golden rice bowls in the Central Plains, how can they look at this bitter and cold place in the east of the sea?
The camp turned into a big vegetable market, and each department was noisy for a long time. Finally, they all got their share of the good things. However, they were not prepared, so they could not take the good things back with them now. They had to rush back to get the agreed deal.
Ginseng, mink skin, deer cover, pearls, gold and silver, etc. were exchanged for these things.
In order to avoid causing trouble, they all personally stayed in the camp to look at the good things they had won, but asked their nephews and others to rush back to the tribe immediately to get the things in exchange.
Chao Chaoxuan warmly entertained them, asked them to put on the official robes given by the Emperor of Heaven, hosted a banquet for them, also invited them to watch the drill of the vanguard guard, and taught them how to fire muskets, etc., and there was harmony and joy.