Daming Yinghua

Chapter 151

A good family reunion turns into farce.

Yi Lanzhu quickly realized how clever Zheng Haizhu, a merchant woman from the Ming Dynasty, retreated outside the house immediately to avoid embarrassment.

So she also stood up holding the hand of the old woman, saluted and said goodbye to Abahai.

On the horse sledge, Yi Lanzhu was silent for a moment, couldn't help it, and complained to Zheng Haizhu: "The front hand just took our good clothes, and the back hand scolded the Ming man as a bad old man in front of me. , In the words of you Ming people, don’t you point at monks and call them bald? What kind of people are they!”

Zheng Haizhu comforted her softly: "Madam, don't worry, a child talks nonsense, or is jealous of Madam's good life in the west."

Yi Lanzhu was pulled down by Zheng Haizhu, she took a few deep breaths from her sideways, and said with a hint of color: "That's right, look at that Abahai, you are a concubine, and her clothes are not as good as those of our Li family's." my housewife."

When Yilanzhu married far away, Nurhachi's concubine was Fucha Gundai, who was a good sister of Yilanzhu's mother. Now Fucha, who is in her 50s, is old and fading, and she lives in her son Manggu. In Ertai's house, the concubine's favor was taken away by Abahai, who was in his prime. After Yi Lanzhu came back and found out, she was naturally not very angry with Abahai.

The west of Jianzhou Jurchen is the most expensive, and several big Baylors live in the east of Nurhachi's harem.

Not long after Ma Paili walked eastward, Mangurtai greeted Yi Lanzhu and his party in the dark and took them back to his yard.

The Fucha clan, who had already shown signs of aging, embraced Yi Lanzhu when he saw Yi Lanzhu, then pushed her away lightly, took a closer look, and said, "It really looks like your mother-in-law when she was young", and then hugged her and cried again stand up.

Zheng Haizhu and Mu Zaohua lifted the last box full of gifts from the sledge and presented it to Mangurtai respectfully.

Due to the change of Nurhachi's attitude during the day, Mang Gurtai was not as cruel to Zheng Haizhu as a coat at the moment, he just said in a low voice: "According to Da Khan's order, tomorrow my guards will take you to the Zhenghuangqi yamen Find a pen post style. Your two maids will serve Ge Ge to worship, and they are not allowed to leave."

Zheng Haizhu bowed his head in response.She understands that this is a surveillance of their people from the Ming Dynasty, limiting their range of activities to the greatest extent to prevent them from spying on anything.

However, with Nurhachi's fox-like cunning character, he would never make a publicity before going out like the Ming court launched the Sarhu campaign a few years later.Historically, the day before Jianzhou Jurchen attacked Fushun City, Nurhachi announced "Seven Great Hate to Heaven and Ming" in Hetuala.At this time, even felling trees to make siege equipment was lied to the outside world by the Jurchens as building stables and raising horses to prevent news from leaking.

Therefore, it doesn't make much sense to limit the scope of activities of Zheng Haizhu and the others.

Moreover, Zheng Haizhu, as a person who knows the historical process, insisted on taking a risky trip to Hetuala this time, not to collect military plans she already knew, but to give herself a period of "being in the field of Jianzhou Jurchen lair". Zhang Quan and Mao Wenlong believed in her three-point record and seven-point framed report.

……

A good night's sleep.

Early the next morning, Mang Gurtai's personal soldiers came to escort Zheng Haizhu to the banner yamen south of the Khan Palace's big yamen.

The Yamen of the Eight Banners is also very crudely built. The bricks at the base of the wall are of different sizes, and it is not easy to build them together lovingly.The upper half of the wall is made of yellow mud, and the top is covered with straw, and there are not even tiles.

But the rows of arms racks in front of each yamen, in Zheng Haizhu's view, are the huge highlights.

Armor, long knife, smooth knife, step bow, heavy arrow.

The most impressive ones are the step bow and heavy arrows.

Jianzhou Juzhen was born as a mountain forest hunter. To shoot large beasts or wild boars and other tough prey, they did not use small bows and light arrows like the Mongols, but large bows with a length close to the height of an adult man. Up to three feet, the arrowhead is as sharp as a chisel, and has a strong armor-piercing ability.

When Zheng Haizhu saw such a shooting weapon, he roughly understood that before he had a siege weapon such as a cannon, Nurhachi took down Fushun City by "deceiving", tricking him into opening the city gate and shooting him at close range.In the later Battle of Sarhu, no matter how many times the Ming army came, Nurhachi's tactic was to target a Ming army, bully him to get closer, and strangle the opponent in the wilderness by hunting.

Their riding skills are certainly not mentioned, but most of the time they dismount and fight.However, no matter how inferior their house-building and weaving skills are, they are very good at making iron bows, and the cold weapons they make are very powerful.

Fortunately, Zheng Haizhu still didn't find any shadow of firecrackers in front of the yamen of the banners today, similar to what he saw in Wangcheng and Manggurta's house yesterday.

Entering the Zhenghuang Banner yamen, a small man wearing an animal skin waistcoat greeted him inside.

"Is the girl's surname Zheng? This is the style of the pen post here. It has been ordered by the Great Khan, and the pen is subject to the girl's words."

The Bitie style referred to by the Jurchens is similar to the "document, book official" in Chinese.

Zheng Haizhu clasped his fists and saluted: "May I ask you how to address him?"

"My surname is Tong, and my name is Yangding. Yang is the one who cultivates true energy, and Ding is the one who cultivates integrity."

It's rare to meet someone who speaks Chinese in that post, so naturally I have to read the text to enjoy myself.

Zheng Haizhu chewed his name, showing sincere admiration: "Ah, what a good name, the mountains and seas are boundless, and only by cultivating one's nature and settling one's mind can one see it at ease. Such an ethereal mood, I dare to ask that my ancestors are from Liaodong. Scholarly everyone?"

Hearing this, Tong Yangding felt like ironing a small stove on a cold day.The pen post style was originally a low-level employee. Don't look at the ability to go in and out of the Yamen of the Eight Banners. In the eyes of generals and generals, it is similar to the coating in Niulu.

Tong Yangding, who has always been treated roughly, can suddenly speak a civilized language with a handsome Han man today, and he is complimented by elegant-sounding sentences on his background.

The two thin mouse mustaches on his upper lip seemed to be flying.

When a person is happy, the conversation box opens.

"Ms. Zheng is full of praise. Both my late father and my late father have never been educated. They have been doing business in Shanxi and Dongzhu in Liaodong. In my generation, several cousins ​​also inherited the family business. They only sent me to study a few times. The Nian Sage Book was intended to be a student in Fushun, but it was favored by the Great Khan, and it was recruited as a pen post. It was originally created Manchu together with Erdene Bakshi, so let’s count as half a scholar.”

Bakshi means "doctor, a person who can write" in Mongolian, and Erdeni is the leader who ordered Nurhachi to create Manchu on the basis of Mongolian.

Zheng Haizhu continued to show the reverence in his eyes: "It turned out to be Dr. Tong. Then Dr. Tong's uncles and brothers are still in the Ming Dynasty?"

"Yes, yes, there are several big fairs there every year. The horse markets in Fushun and Kaiyuan are very lively."

"Oh, what a coincidence," Zheng Haizhu said with a smile, "Actually, I am also a businessman. Where is Mr. Tong's house? I will visit next year to see if there is anything I can buy and ship to the south."

Tong Yangding was unprepared, clapped his hands together and said: "That's good. Our Tong family lives in Magendan, south of Fushun. Now the owner is a cousin named Tong Yangxing. I'll write a letter to the girl. Please treat her well. Oh my goodness. , Ms. Zheng can see that she is someone who does great things."

While Tong Yangding was talking, he eagerly turned to the desk to spread the paper, and began to write with a pen.

Zheng Haizhu looked at his enthusiastic and joyful appearance, suppressed a little bit of unbearable, and said in his heart: Ma Gendan, Tong Yangxing, remember, it will not be your cousin who entertains me well, but we will treat your cousin well.

Tong Yangding quickly finished writing the letter of recommendation and handed it to Zheng Haizhu.

Zheng Haizhu took it, praised the words first, and then asked if it was birch bark paper.

Tong Yangding said: "The paper in the Ming Dynasty is too expensive to use. It is made of Achnatherum splendens and Hemerocallis near the old city, which are called mulberry paper by the people. .”

Zheng Haizhu secretly rejoiced, what I want is your "only one".

So she sat across from Tong Yangding, and said politely: "Mr. Tong, let's start drawing the map. Before drawing the map, I will tell you some new names, please take notes. Outside of the Ming Dynasty, there are seven vast places The sea, the Westerners call it the Seven Seas."

"Seven-Great-Ocean."

Tong Yangdinggong neatly memorized the Chinese characters on the mulberry paper, and wrote a few Manchu characters on the side like earthworms wrapped around branches.

Zheng Haizhu leaned over with a studious face: "This is the Manchu script created by Mr. Tong and Erdeni? It looks quite difficult."

Tong Yangding said: "Actually, those who can speak Mongolian and Manchu are not difficult to learn. For example, the seven and Manchu pronunciations of 'Na Dan' are half and half of the Mongolian pronunciation... This big character, the Manchu word formation method It is also the same."

Zheng Haizhu showed a look of enlightenment: "That's how it is. Therefore, if you memorize the corresponding pronunciation of Manchu, you can read it when you see it, and then understand the meaning according to the read word? This is the same as our Chinese man-made characters. French, very different."

Tong Yangding nodded.

Zheng Haizhu said: "Continue to talk about the seven oceans. The largest is divided into the north and the south, named the Pacific Ocean, because sailors hate its deep and dangerous waves, and pray for smooth and clear exchanges."

Tong Yangxing wrote it down again in Manchu and Chinese.

Zheng Haizhu picked out the four characters "South, North, Hate, and Ming" and asked about the contrasting letters in Manchu again pretending to be probing.

Tong Yangding told them one by one.

In this way, after a whole day, Zheng Haizhu learned more than two dozen Manchu scripts that she wanted to plant on Nurhachi.

In fact, it is not framed, just a spoiler in advance.

(End of this chapter)