Daming Yinghua

Chapter 414 "Hubu Ezhen" Mu Zaohua

Zheng Haizhu traveled to the ninth year of the late Ming Dynasty, and when she finally led a fourth-rank yamen in the top power center of the empire, her female subordinate, Mu Zaohua, also had a hotel in Hetuala, the capital of the Later Jin regime. Public house.

Although the public house has a thatched roof and earthen walls, it is close to the Eight Banners administrative office near the Khan Palace. Moreover, the treatment Mu Zaohua received when he came in and out was completely different from that of the Han Bi Tie Shi who submitted to Hou Jin Dynasty.

Even the ferocious Bajalas could only mutter a few words in their hearts: "How come this Nikan woman is so favored by her master?"

On the surface, they would never dare to shout around Mu Zaohua like they did to other Han slaves.

Because, since the early summer, this woman and her master Yue Tuo, who was wearing a red flag, went to Huining in North Korea. After bringing back many copper mines, the Great Khan Nurhaci personally issued an order to carry the flag for Mu Zaohua.

That was completely different from her original identity of "Yu Ding".

To a certain extent, some bagaras have to call this Ming woman "master".

Not only "carrying the flag", but not long after, a woman from the Ming Dynasty actually got the official title of "Hubu Ezhen".

"Ezhen" means "master" in Manchu, and the word "Hubu" is said to come from the suggestion of Huang Taiji, the leader of Zhengbai Banner, to imitate a yamen in charge of money bags in the Ming Dynasty and make a lot of money for Dajin. .

At this time, within the Jianzhou Jurchens, private trade was prohibited even for high-status bannermen like Niu Lu'ezhen. All transactions are personally controlled by the flag owner of each flag.

If any Niu Lu'e really secretly exchanges things with others and is discovered or reported, not only will he be whipped and fined with food, Niu Lu'e's real title will also be stripped away.

They are masters in front of bannermen and Han people.

But in front of the larger slave masters, they were nothing more than dogs who were beaten if they disobeyed.

Among the slave owners who monopolized the post-gold economy, Sibeile Huang Taiji, who was most favored by the Great Khan, jumped out this summer to contribute new ideas.

"Amma, we, Dajin, have to do more business with the outside world. We can't just rely on the caravans from Shanxi," Huang Taiji said to Nurhachi, "Yue Tuo has seen Nanzhili, the richest people in the Ming Dynasty. Now that we are in contact with the Koreans again, we will set up a new yamen to take charge of Yue Tuo and let him be the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Mu Zaohua, who is quite reliable in doing things, will become an Ezhen. "

The older Nurhaci gets, the more paranoid he becomes. He is always worried that because he cannot keep up mentally and physically, the other flag owners, especially Daishan and Mang Gurtai, will secretly squeeze the livelihood of the two yellow flags.

Huang Taiji's idea sounded good, so he nodded and said, "It's fine to set up a new government office, imitating the name of the Ming Dynasty, but they must report and account to this Khan for the benefits they get from the border trade every time."

"That's natural. Amma is the wise Khan and the backbone of our Daikin. There is a saying in the Ming Dynasty that the whole world is not the land of the king. It should be the same in our Daikin. We, the children and grandchildren, can be considered as blessed by Amma , became the flag master and also the royal minister of Amma.

Huang Taiji said it categorically.

Nurhachi, the alpha wolf whose fur was smoothed, could not have imagined that the most resourceful and seemingly most loyal son to his father would be making plans in his mind.

Huang Taiji received a sudden inspiration from his nephew Yue Tuan's description of the political system and bureaucratic hierarchy of the Ming Dynasty.

He was very confident that he would inherit the throne after Nurhaci died.

Therefore, from now on, Huang Taiji worked hard to slowly establish an administrative system within Houjin that was independent of the Eight Banners.

In this way, once he becomes the new king of the Jurchens, even if the political meetings of the four Baylors are still running, and brothers such as Daishan and Mang Gurtai are still on an equal footing with him, Huang Taiji, he can also pass the new The yamen at all levels eroded the power of the other big Baylors until they only retained the right to lead the army.

Then he looked for excuses such as the military commander's mistakes to deprive his brothers of their military power, and finally made him Huang Taiji, no longer just a king, but an emperor like the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

But such a Hubu Yamen appeared out of thin air, and it was related to trade. The relationship with the big Belles was not so easy. Therefore, Huang Taiji proposed that Yue Tuo be the minister and Mu Zaohua be given the title of "Ezhen".

He, the leader of the Zhengbai Banner, avoids suspicion. Yue Tuan, the leader of the Xianghong Banner, is the biological son of Daishan, the leader of the Zhenghong Banner. Mu Zaohua is the "supernumerary blessing" of Mang Gurtai, the leader of the Zhenglan Banner. Daishan and Manggu What else can Ertai say? As for the flag owner Amin with the white flag, his father is Shuerhaqi who was imprisoned by Nurhaci until his death. Amin, who still has military power and is the flag owner, never interferes much and just keeps fighting.

So, in the early autumn of the seventh year of destiny, Mu Zaohua became the first female Ezhen in the Hou Jin Dynasty.

On this day, after Yue Tuo listened to the report of Gushan Ezhen of this banner on selecting bannermen to grab the west side, he went to the Hubu Gongshe in addition to the banner owner's office.

Mu Zaohua seemed to be tracing something on the rough birch bark paper. When she saw Yue Tuo coming in, she hurriedly got up, holding the birch bark paper, and walked towards the door.

"Yue Beile, I have something to discuss, but the room is too dark. How about we go outside and talk?"

Although Mu Zaohua calls herself a slave, her tone is distinctly opinionated.

Yue Tuan was more careful and thoughtful than most of the men in Jianzhou. After a moment of thought, he understood.

This Ming Dynasty woman is avoiding suspicion.

If it comes to ethics, since she will be taken into the house by Sanbeile Manggultai sooner or later, she will be her aunt.

The aunt and nephew, who are similar in age, have become upright superiors and subordinates by the Khan's orders, but they still don't want to be alone together on weekdays.

The two then walked into the bright sunshine outside the earthen house, and Yue Tuo called on a guard slave to bring in a wooden table and stools.

After Mu Zaohua sat down, she said with a worried look on her face: "Yue Beile, the Koreans are willing to sell us white ginseng and medicinal materials, and are also willing to ship copper from the Japanese country. But when it comes to selling grain, they refuse to do anything. How can we stock up like this?" Food war?"

Yue Tuo was also worried about this matter.

There was another famine this spring in the Hou Jin Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty heard that a military stronghold was being built outside Xifengkou. The traitor caravans selling grain in Shanxi did not dare to take away the goods, and the Koreans near the Tumen River refused to take away the goods. Without the import of food and salt, it would be difficult for the Jurchens to survive, let alone fight.

At the political meeting the day before yesterday, Nurhachi also gave an order to Yue Tuo that the Ministry of Household Affairs should obtain more grain.

"Zaohua, do you have any ideas?"

Mu Zaohua spread out the birch bark paper and said: "The spies we sent to Zheng Haizhu's concubine sent back a piece of news, saying that the man named Zheng was going to the north further north than Mongolia to meet the barbarians coming from the west. I remembered it. , surnamed Zheng, when he returned to Hetuala for the first time, he told the Great Khan that those barbarians, called Rakshasa, had fur goods and food, and one day they would fight to the east and ask the Ming Dynasty to open a mutual trade in exchange for tea. and porcelain.”

At this point, Mu Zaohua pointed to the crooked map she drew on birch bark paper, and continued: "Yue Beile, why don't we take the initiative to find them, use our Dongzhu and Korean white ginseng, and ask them to exchange Food, how about it?”

Yue Tuo stared at the map corresponding to the words "Ming", "Mongolia", "Dajin", and "North Korea" written in Manchu, and then looked at the Horqin tribe and North Korea Huining, which were specially marked by Mu Zaohua, and pondered. : "Well, I have already informed the Great Khan about the Tumen River in Huining, rebuilt it, and stationed troops there. In the future, it will be the place where I, the Great Kim, will force the Koreans to open trade. There is no need to sneak around where Mao Wenlong's forces are. As for the Rakshasa people...if they can fight all the way to the east, they will definitely be very fierce. Will they lead them to Horqin, too close to us? "

Mu Zaohua pretended to be aware of the danger, thought about it and said, "Then, what about further north? Is there a place called Shiweibu in Daijin?"

Yue Tuo responded and pointed at a blank spot on the map: "About here, further east, is the Black Water Department. Outside the Black Water Department, there is the vast sea."

Mu Zaohua was secretly happy: It was indeed the same as what Madam said.