Put a plate on the Kang mat, put a small charcoal stove on the Kang table, warm a pot of Shaoxing old wine, and then put a few side dishes on the table to go with the wine.
Fried peanuts, tofu, fungus, yuba and other vegetarian assortments, preserved eggs, pork skin jelly, plus a cold ear shredded ear, a fried steamed bun, it is very rich.
At this time, the location of the two of them was the former Ministry of War Yamen in Huaiyuan Gate in the southwest of Shenyang. This is now the Admiral Yamen of the 15th Imperial Camp Town.
Li Changxiang's administrative envoy Si Yamen was located in the original Hubu Yamen in the Fujin Gate in the southeast of Shenyang. Zhang Guowei's Liang Liao Governor's Yamen was located in the south of the city, and the Inspector General's Yamen was located in the northwest of the city.
The Tatars built a royal palace, a Khan's palace, eleven palaces, six government offices, temples, etc. in Shenyang City.
The royal palace, the six government offices, etc. have now been transformed into various government offices in Ming Dynasty and Liaodong. However, Zhang Guowei sent people to check and register the original imperial palace and the palace of the Khan, and then blocked them. They were converted into the palace of the emperor and entry was prohibited.
Shenyang City has eight gates and eight streets. The tic-tac-shape divides Shenyang City into nine palaces. The central area is the original imperial palace, the Khan's Palace, etc., which are directly blocked, leaving the other eight districts.
Naturally, the Chongzheng Hall, Phoenix Tower, Qingning Palace, Linzhi Palace, Guansui Palace, Yanqing Palace, Yongfu Palace, etc. built by Huang Taiji were all sealed off.
"Auspicious snow heralds a good year. I hope next year will be a good one."
The two of them drank wine and chatted, which was quite pleasant on this snowy and windy beginning of winter.
The door was pushed open, and the wind and snow poured in.
Wang Jiang, Feng Jingdi, Wang Zhengzhong and others came in, "Hey, you guys have already drank." The three of them came in covered with snow.
"Close the door quickly, all the heat has escaped."
After closing the door curtain, the three of them took off their martens.
"Fortunately there is a mink, otherwise how would you go out today?"
Wang Jiang is Wang Yi's younger brother. They studied together in their early years and became scholars, and then they joined forces to fight against the Qing Dynasty. Now they are also serving in Liaodong. Feng Jingdi was in Siming Mountain with him back then. He was a censor and is now the envoy of Liaodong. .
Wang Zhengzhong is Wang Zhiren's nephew. He started his career as a traveler and county magistrate, and is now also the commander-in-chief of Liaodong Province.
Several of them had fought side by side during the rebellion in eastern Zhejiang. Most of them were from Jiangnan, and it was really difficult to adapt to the snow in Liaodong.
"You guys just want to come here to enjoy the wine and food." Li Changxiang said with a smile.
"I brought elbows, good stuff." Wang Zhengzhong said with a smile.
Wang Jiang brought braised beef, and Feng Jingdi brought a braised pig head.
They are all tough dishes.
Several people took off their minks and hung them aside, still sighing that the minks were so good. There was no wind when they wore them, and even if the snow fell on them, they wouldn't get wet.
"That's the mink skin recovered by the King's Chamberlain in the Five Kingdoms City. The Sauron people hunted and processed the finest sable skin. In the cold winter months, if you put a bowl of water on the ice and cover it with this mink skin, the water will not freeze."
Mink skins are a specialty outside the customs. When Nurhachi and Huang Taiji were still outside the customs, they attached great importance to mink skins, and even went so far as to launch wars against Sauron, Daur and other tribes to conquer them, and asked them to pay tribute to mink skins every year.
The Qing court also specially stipulated that adult men such as Sauron must pay tribute to a mink skin every year. However, even so, Sauron and others only paid more than 3,000 mink skins to the Qing court every year.
According to the regulations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, mink skins are divided into three grades. The richest and pure black ones are the best, the yellow ones are the second, and the rest are the lower grades. When paying tribute, there is a very strict inspection procedure. After the grade is determined, a stamp will be stamped on the back of the mink skin.
Seal it and store it in storage.
Mink skins are exclusive products for the royal family and cannot be sold to the public. Even if they are sold to the public, if the buyer dares to buy them privately after seeing the official seal, it will be a serious crime.
Just like ginseng, the Tatars have a royal monopoly on the trade, with huge profits. After the Tatar Ministry of Internal Affairs monopolizes mink skins, it will also win over ministers by giving minks. Every winter solstice, the emperor will give minks and enjoy treatment according to the corresponding grade.
Top ministers can get one or several mink skins.
Low-ranking ministers are not eligible to be awarded mink furs, and it is already a big deal to be rewarded with fox furs.
Ordinary soldiers and civilians, not only cannot wear mink, but also fox and lynx skins. Only princes, nobles, and civil and military officials can wear them.
However, mink skin is much cheaper than ginseng and dongzhen. Mink skin is not easy to store and is prone to insect infestation.
So sometimes the Tatar emperor would take out the stored mink skins and give them to the royal merchants for sale. This kind of mink skins were generally only allowed to be purchased by princes, nobles and civil and military officials. The best ones were three liang, the medium ones were two liang, and the lower ones were one or two pieces.
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A mink coat requires at least ten mink skins to make.
A fine mink fur garment costs about sixty or seventy taels of silver.
The Prime Minister of the Dynasty and others previously led three large ships to Haidong to appease the Jurchen tribes of the Xuanchi Barbarians. At the same time, they traded with them and purchased furs, ginseng, Dongzhu, etc.
Because Wang Chaoyang and others brought three large ships of good things, such as iron pots, shotguns, tobacco, tea, porcelain, etc., all the tribes in Haidong competed for them.
In Mokuowei and Vladivostok, the leaders of various ministries almost fought over the rush to buy. Later, Chao Xiang and the others went to Five Kingdoms City, which is the Tatar City of Three Surnames. This place was located in Yilan, Jilin in later generations, on the banks of the Songhua River.
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This was also where the Jin people were exiled to the Hui and Qin Emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty. Another special feature is that it is an important passage leading to the Sanjiang Plain. After passing by, it is the Sanjiang Plain with a vast plain.
Later, in the first year of Jin Tianming's reign, the three major surnames of the Hezhe tribe - Ge Yikele (surname Ge), Hu Shihali (surname Hu Xing), and Lu Yele (surname Lu) - got its name.
Three rivers meet here, the Songhua River, the Mudan River and the Woken River. This was also the original location of Wuguo Toucheng, one of the Five Kingdoms in the Liao and Jin Dynasties. During the Ming Dynasty, the two Jurchens living here, Audoli and Huligai, moved southward.
After that, it was in a state of desolation. Later, Tsarist Russia invaded Heilongjiang from the south. The Hezhe people living in Songhua River, Heilongjiang, and Ussuli River continued to migrate to the three surname areas in the upper reaches of Songhua River. When Nurhaci, Huang Taiji and his son unified the Heilongjiang Basin, the three surnames repeatedly
After achieving great military exploits, the four clan chiefs including Geikele were appointed as Shiguanzuo.
The Tatars also set up a post station in this area and garrisoned this land and water strategic point.
The Prime Minister of the Dynasty and others recruited various tribes in Haidong and achieved great success in mutual trade. They struck while the iron was hot and traveled from Mokuowei to Hunchun, then north to Ninggu Pagoda and along the Mudan River to Sanxing City, where they met Sanxing Hezhe.
, and the surrounding tribes formed alliances, issued edicts, granted rewards, and traded with them.
Three surnames, the Duhufu and the Dudufu were established here. Man returned wearing ginseng, mink fur, Dongzhen deer patch and others. He returned to Mokuowei before the port was closed, leaving a small number of people to guard Hunchun Post and Mokuo.
After visiting Vladivostok Port, we set sail and returned.
There were not many members of the vanguard fleet left in the three castles, only more than a hundred people. However, when Wang Chaoxiang and others were recruiting barbarian tribes in Haidong, they found many Han people who had been taken captive and forced to be slaves here.
The Prime Minister of the Dynasty and others negotiated with the savage Jurchens and agreed to redeem these Han people with goods. Finally, they reached an agreement and took them away. More than 2,000 people were redeemed one after another, and they were temporarily placed in three castles and allowed them to cultivate the wasteland nearby.
Farming, fishing and hunting, as well as assisting in fort defense, trading, purchasing, and processing Jurchen fur goods, etc.
Wang Chaoxiang and others bypassed the Korean Strait, and after replenishing supplies at the leased Jeju Port, sailed directly to Fengcheon Port. On three large ships, they brought back more than 15,000 mink skins and more than 10,000 kilograms of ginseng.
After unloading, they loaded up three large ships without stopping and passed through the Bohai Strait to Yingkou Port to deliver a large number of winter supplies.
In this batch of supplies, there are many cotton clothes, brocade robes, mink fur clothes, etc.
Yingkou's logistics troops also used Liaohe River water transportation to transport large quantities of cotton clothes, quilts, and even tents, charcoal, and coal to Liaoyang and Shenyang before the freeze.
Thanks to the convenient water transportation of the Liaohe and Hunhe rivers, and the imperial court's preparations, the officers and soldiers stationed in Liao, especially the Ming army who went deep into Shenyang, Tieling, Kaiyuan, Zhangwu and other places, were able to have cotton clothes, charcoal and food for the winter.
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Senior officials such as Zhang Guowei, Wang Yi, Li Changxiang, Wang Jiang, Wang Zhengzhong, and Feng Jingdi even had a mink coat and mink hat given to them by the emperor.
"Jilharang and Welfare must be feeling very uncomfortable in Chahanhot City now, right?" Wang Jiang said while busy slicing the pig heads.
Feng Jingdi picked up the jug and poured everyone a glass. He impatiently drank a glass, then picked up two braised pig heads and ate them with a satisfied look on his face.
"Don't worry about Jierhalang and the others for now. They are still far away anyway. However, those Buddha Manchus in the Shenyang prison camp who haven't had time to transport them should be looked after more, so that they don't freeze to death.
The sage has a decree to transport all these Buddhas from Manchuria to the south."
Buddha Manchuria, the Tatars called the Eight Banners Manchuria that was incorporated under Nurhaci, or the Eight Banners Manchuria that was incorporated before entering the customs, called Buddha Manchuria. In the ninth year of Tiancong's reign, Huang Taiji issued an edict requiring that from now on all their clan names should be called Manchuria.
Whether it is Zhushen, Manzhu or Manzhou, it is actually just another name for Jurchen, or the name of a certain tribe. For whatever reason, Huang Taiji insisted on changing Jurchen to Manchu, and later changed it to Manchu.
The country name gold is clear.
Later, the Jurchens were divided into Buddha Manchuria and Yiche Manchuria. Generally speaking, Buddha Manchuria was the Jurchens reorganized after Nurhachi and Huang Taiji conquered the Haixi Jurchens and unified the Jianzhou Jurchens. New Manchuria was basically
Above are the tribes of savage Jurchens who later conquered Songhua River, Heilongjiang and other places.
Relatively speaking, Buddha-Manchuria has been integrated for a longer time and has become closer, but New Manchuria is relatively less close.
For the Ming Dynasty, it didn’t matter whether they were Manchus or Jurchens, these people were all enemies anyway.
However, in order to destroy the Manchu Qing Dynasty as soon as possible, the emperor still issued an order to treat the Jurchens differently, and only regarded the Jianzhou Jurchens as enemies, and other Jurchens would not be prosecuted as long as they did not rebel.
However, because the Haixi Jurchens have been conquered and integrated for a long time, it is now difficult to distinguish them.
Therefore, after Shenyang was conquered, those Buddhist Manchus who participated in the resistance were directly treated in the same manner as the Jianlu. As for the New Manchus who did not participate, they were still treated separately.
The emperor requested that these captives from Buddha Manchuria should not be killed indiscriminately, but should be transported to Denglai and sorted there. All men, women, and children should be separated. All the men from Buddha Manchuria were sent to Yunnan, Guizhou, and Lingnan to mine as slaves. Work as a mine slave until you die.
Young women were sent to Taiwan, Jizhou, and Hainan Islands to grow sugar cane and cotton, and were given as concubines to the new local Han immigrants to help reproduce offspring and increase the population.
As for the younger children, they were raised in imperial estates in various places and continued to be slaves in the estates after they were raised.
Those who are old will be rewarded directly to ministers, soldiers, and servants.
This kind of treatment can be said to be very harsh, and it is the brutal counterattack and revenge against the Tatars over the years.
The emperor was very merciful by not killing him. It was merciful to the Buddha and Manchuria that they were all slaves, but this kind of mercifulness was not easy to bear.
As for New Manchuria, as long as they surrender and do not resist, they can be relatively forgiven, but it is not completely forgotten. They will have to be relocated and resettled, and their weapons and equipment will be confiscated. Intermarriage among their own tribes may even be prohibited in the future. These Jurchen men will not be able to marry their own tribe in the future. Women cannot marry men of their own ethnic group. They must marry foreign ethnic groups, such as Han and Mongolians. Children born after intermarriage with Han ethnic groups, whether they are born to Han women or Han men, are forced to be Han.
This practice was practiced in both the Han Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, for the time being, this kind of rule only applies to the Jurchens in provinces directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, such as the Jurchens in eastern Liaoning and western Liaoning. However, for example, the Jurchens in Bohai Province do not need to do this for the time being and let them do what they want.
The Jurchens in the directly-governed provinces had to change their Chinese surnames, cut their braids and change into Han clothes, and even learn Chinese.
Before the snowfall, many Buddhist Manchu captives had been transported south, but there were still many Buddhist Manchu prisoners who had recently been sent from Kaiyuan, Tieling and other places and had not yet been sent away.
"Shenyang City has been expanded, and now there are many large houses in the city. It is convenient to accommodate these captives. There is also a lot of wood reserves, and there is no shortage of food. There is no need to worry about these captives freezing to death and starving to death."
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"Don't worry, there won't be chaos. We have already separated men, women, old and young. Moreover, the men are separated and detained, and they are tied with chains. There is also a method of sitting together. If one person dares to escape or plots chaos, he will be chained All those on board will be put to death."
"Let me tell you, if it weren't for the mercy of the saints who refused to kill or injure them, I would have simply chopped off all the young and strong thumbs of these Buddhas in Manchuria. That would have ended once and for all, and there would be no need to worry about them causing trouble."
Li Changxiang sipped the warm wine and said, "This is not possible. Without the thumbs of both hands, you will become semi-crippled. If you send them to mines in the future, they will be much worse. These young men are very good strong laborers. Send them to the mines."
If you go mining, you can still mine for at least twenty years. If you die or become disabled, you will lose a lot of money."
"Indeed, those Buddhist Manchurians who surrendered must also be careful. These people will be a hidden danger sooner or later."
"The sage has a decree. As long as they are not the Jurchen Buddhas of Manchuria, they can be treated differently if they surrender."
The emperor's differential treatment was those Buddhist Manchus who voluntarily surrendered, such as the original Haixi Jurchens, or some savage Jurchens who had made flags very early. Although they were Buddhist Manchus, as long as they voluntarily surrendered, they could be distinguished from the Jianzhou Jurchens.
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They were not demoted to slaves, but were dispersed and relocated. The land they used to run their horse racing circles must be taken back. Even the Han slaves they had captured or bought must be returned and rehabilitated.
People with a Han surname could cut off their braids and change clothes, and even sent their children to the court as hostages.
The imperial court will transfer these hostages to the camps in the southwest, northwest and other frontiers for a period of three years. Every Buddhist Manchu family that surrenders and their children are over 16 years old are obliged to accept the selection, unless they are disabled, etc.
Under special circumstances, otherwise they will be transferred to the border camps and serve for three years, which is compulsory.
You can go home after three years. If anyone refuses to serve or escapes, the consequences will be serious and the whole family will be implicated.
If a family member rebels, his children serving in the Central Plains will also be implicated and punished with the same crime.
"When the snow stops, we can drive out these Buddhist and Manchu captives to clean up the snow in the city. We can't just cook by the fire and eat and sleep every day. That would be too enjoyable!" Wang Jiang said.
"Well, of course." Li Changxiang nodded.
None of this group of heroes from eastern Zhejiang felt pity for these Tartars. They invaded the Ming Dynasty again and again, plundered the Han people again and again, and even slaughtered the cities again and again, but they once pitied the people of the Ming Dynasty who were killed by them.