Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 583, Jianzhou Jurchen

In Guangning, Liaodong, in the mansion of General Jiang Ji.

Liu Jin chatted with Jiang Ji while drinking.

"Master Liu, what is your order for coming to Liaodong this time?"

Jiang Ji asked cautiously.

"Master Jiang, to be honest, I came to Liaodong this time mainly to inspect Liaodong."

"Presumably you also know that the Tatar tribes have been included in my territory of Ming Dynasty, and now the grasslands have settled down, Liaodong is so close to the capital, and they all belong to Bohai Bay."

"So His Majesty also wants to develop the Liaodong area."

Liu Jin looked at Jiang Ji, thought for a while and said.

"Develop Liaodong~"

When Jiang Ji heard this, he immediately regained his energy.

Yang Yu, Han Fu and the other generals of the Liaodong Capital Division who accompanied him immediately regained their spirits.

"Yes, Liaodong is so close to the Beijing-Tianjin area, and now there are so many seagoing ships, so it's very convenient to travel. How can such a good place be left alone?"

Liu Jin smiled and nodded.

"What Master Liu said is that our land in Liaodong is fertile and densely covered with forests. It is actually a rare treasure land, but it is too cold here in winter."

Jiang Ji nodded and said.

"How many people are there in Liaodong now?"

Liu Jin nodded, thought for a while and asked.

"Now in the entire Liaodong area, the number of Han people is about [-] households, and the population is about [-]. As for the Jurchen tribes, we have no statistics."

(The data comes from the records in "Quan Liao Zhi")

When Jiang Ji heard this, he quickly replied that these figures must be mastered by him, the capital of Liaodong, and must be reported to the court every year.

"Only [-] people?"

"Is that too little?"

Hearing Jiang Ji's reply, Liu Jin couldn't help frowning immediately. The population is too small, much smaller than he imagined.

In Liu Jin's view, there should be millions of people here, but there are not even half of them.

"My lord, there is no way to do this."

"Liaodong is a place of bitter cold, no one wants to come here at all, these [-] are still military households who moved here before, no one wants to come to our Liaodong at all."

Jiang Ji suddenly said with a helpless wry smile.

"I know it's cold, but if it's bitter, it's not necessarily so."

"I saw it when I came here. The land here is black soil. This is the most fertile land. The grain harvest here should be pretty good, right?"

Liu Jin thought for a while and asked.

"My lord, the land here is indeed fertile, but it's too cold. It's more comfortable now during the year. After a while, the weather will be so cold that the wheat production is actually very limited."

Jiang Ji looked at Liu Jin, and a light flickered in his eyes.

As expected, he is worthy of being a child of a master, and he even knows the situation in Liaodong very well. Although the winter in Liaodong is cold, the output of this kind of wheat is higher than that in Beizhili, Shandong, and Henan.

"Yeah~"

Liu Jin smiled, the three eastern provinces of later generations are big granaries, and you are lying to me by saying that the output is not enough.

However, Liu Jin did not delve into this issue in detail. With the reform of the military system, the garrison here in Liaodong Capital will soon be laid off, and those dispatched to other places will be dispatched to other places.

Anyway, they won't be allowed to stay here forever.

At that time, the military households here will become ordinary farmers, and their general soldiers, thousands of households, and the like will be transferred away, and everything will naturally be known.

"Master Jiang, the imperial court wants to develop Liaodong. I don't know what things you think need special attention?"

After thinking about it, Liu Jin continued to ask.

Jiang Ji is a local snake, he must be very clear about the situation here.

"Master Liu, it is a good thing that the imperial court wants to develop Liaodong."

"The forest resources here in Liaodong are very rich, and the land is also fertile. If it is developed, it will not be a problem to feed tens of millions of people here."

"However, if you want to develop Liaodong, one is that the grasslands in the west need to be stable, and the other is North Korea in the east. They are not very peaceful."

"The most important thing is that this is a place of bitter cold, and no one wants to come here at all, so talents are the key and fundamental."

Jiang Ji thought about it and replied.

"Hmm~"

Liu Jin nodded slightly after listening.

Then he smiled and said: "I remember that there are Nurgan Dusi and the three Jurchen tribes in the north. What about their situation?"

There must be something wrong with Jiang Ji. Although the three problems he mentioned are all problems, he didn't say anything about the most important Jurchen tribe.

There must be something wrong with it, this Jiang Ji definitely didn't have the benefit of less accepting the Jurchens.

Liu Jin, who came from later generations, knew clearly that the Jurchen tribe had always caused troubles, and the key point was the Jianzhou Jurchen.

Jianzhou Jurchen has three guards, namely the left guard, the central guard and the right guard. Among them, the left guard has always been controlled by the Qing Emperor.

Starting from Mengge Timur, this Jianzhou Zuowei branch has been under the control of the Aixinjueluo family. This Mengge Timur's full name is Aixinjueluo~Mengtemu, and he is the founder of the Qing Dynasty. ancestral.

When he was the leader of the Jianzhou Wei Zuowei, he was relatively honest, because Comrade Zhu, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty at that time, didn't even dare to fart.

But when he died, his son Dong Shan (Aixinjueluo ~ Chongshan) began to master the construction of Wei Zuowei, and his ambition began to be slowly exposed.

He first found an excuse to migrate to the south to avoid the Udiha savages, and then continued to integrate the Jurchen ministries to strengthen his own strength.

In order to compete with his uncle Fancha for the leadership of the Jurchens in Jianzhou, he killed and plundered the border people for no reason many times.

From the second year of Chenghua (1466 A.D.), various Jurchen ministries often violated borders. In the third year of Chenghua, Haixi and Jianzhou Jurchen returned to Yahuguan (now Sandaoguan, Weiziyu Town, Xinbin).

Commander Shi Dengzuo of the Ming Dynasty died in the ambush of the Jurchens in Shuangling. In March, he reentered Lianshan Pass, plundered Kaiyuan and Fushun, and took a look at Tieling, Ningyuan, and Guangning.

At the same time, Dong Shan fell on both sides. At the same time, he also asked the king of North Korea to grant himself an official position, and asked North Korea to open a mutual market to obtain the iron, salt, grain and other materials he needed.

It can be said that since the Chenghua Dynasty, although the Jurchen tribe still respected the Ming Dynasty in name, it was actually an independent regime in essence.

Because of the changes in the civil fortresses of the Ming Dynasty, the military strength was weakened, and the military power fell into the hands of civilian officials, and the military generals Xungui were deliberately suppressed, so there has always been no way to take these Jurchens.

Until the late Ming Dynasty, Jianzhou Jurchen gradually completed the unification of the Jurchen ministries, and gradually integrated the Jurchen ministries into a big alliance, and their strength grew rapidly, which really became the heart of the Ming Dynasty.

Liu Jin is naturally very clear about all this. Although the Jianzhou Jurchen is still under the jurisdiction of Daming in name, it is only in name.

It is nothing more than regular tribute to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, such as Haidongqing, Dongzhu, ginseng, tiger skin, etc., but all the power in these places has fallen into the command of the three guards of Jianzhou Jurchen, that is, Jianzhou Jurchen hands of the tribal leader.

Because the commander of the three guards of Jianzhou has been passed down from father to son, son to grandson, and hereditary succession since Meng Ge Timur, and all the power is in their hands, so they will naturally become big.

Now that Jiang Ji didn't even mention the Jurchens, Liu Jin guessed that he must have had the benefit of less accepting the Jurchens.

Since the Ming Dynasty wiped out the little Tatar prince and the grassland army, and now the grassland has been included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, this means that the military power of the Ming Dynasty has begun to grow stronger.

These Jianzhou Jurchens have become much more honest. Knowing that Daming is now powerful, they chose to develop insignificantly, and concealed some things by bribing the commanders and deputy commanders of the Liaodong Capital Division.

They also tried this trick time and again. Anyway, there are still a lot of ginseng and mink fur in Liaodong, and these things are very valuable when transported back to Daming.

Hearing Liu Jin's words, Jiang Ji's eyes were a little dodged, and after thinking about it, he said: "My lord, there are three Jurchen tribes, savages, Haixi, and Jianzhou. Among them, Jianzhou Jurchen is the most powerful and populous, and the savage Jurchen In the far north, it has always been more peaceful."

"It's this Jianzhou Jurchen who is not very safe and sometimes robs our border people."

"Only sometimes?"

Upon hearing this, Liu Jin asked with a smile.

When Jiang Ji heard this, he broke out in a cold sweat, and immediately realized in his heart that Liu Jin in front of him is not easy to fool, he probably already knows everything, and he is just asking himself now on purpose.

"Tell me about the situation of the Jianzhou Jurchen?"

Liu Jin looked at Jiang Ji and said lightly.

"Yes~"

"Jurchen Jurchens in Jianzhou are divided into three guards. Among them, the left guard is the most powerful, while the center guard and right guard are average. Now the commander who builds the left guard is Aixinjueluo~Tuoluo..."

Jiang Ji began to slowly explain the current situation of the Jurchen in Jianzhou.

Because during Dong Shan's time, Jianzhou Jurchen were very arrogant, plundered the border people, and killed the officials of the Ming court, so in the third year of Chenghua, the court launched a blow to the various ministries of Jianzhou Jurchen.

This blow also hurt the vitality of the Jurchen ministries in Jianzhou. When Tuo Luo became the leader, he was smarter, so he chose to lead the Jurchen ministries in Jianzhou to resume and develop production, and opposed the Jurchen ministries to harass the Ming army and border people. , Insist on maintaining a relatively good relationship with the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, in the Hongzhi Dynasty, the Jurchen ministries in Jianzhou were fairly honest. Of course, the main reason was that they needed time to recuperate because of their vital energy. However, from time to time, people from the Jurchen ministries would still plunder the border people in Liaodong, but they were far less arrogant than they were in Dong Shan’s time. Domineering.

In the past two years, the Jurchen ministries in Jianzhou have been very honest and peaceful, because they already knew about the destruction of the grassland Tatar army, and they did not dare to provoke Ming Dynasty, for fear of being attacked by the Ming army.

　You can't keep tigers infested~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)