Daming Yinghua

Chapter 431: Divide the troops for Ning

After the seventh year of Jin’s destiny.

Winter, eastern suburbs of Hetuala.

Several fast horses galloped through the snow, and the leader was none other than Yue Tuo, the leader of the banner.

When the city wall was in sight, Yue Tuan raised his whip and signaled the team to gradually slow down their horses.

"Shout the good news!" Yue Tuo ordered.

There was a series of howls immediately behind him.

"There is food! There is food!"

"Yue Beile has brought back food!"

"The big car that Baoyi is driving is right behind us!"

Soon, the Jurchens inside and outside the city began to celebrate after hearing the good news.

This year is another difficult year for the alien group outside Guanwai.

The drought and cold show no signs of easing. No matter how hard the Han packers work on cattle and horses, the fields will not yield much harvest.

The shortcomings of the post-Jin Dynasty's system of integrating farming and warfare showed up during severe famine years, which immediately affected military conquests.

There was not enough military rations when setting off on the road, and the heavy task of foraging for food also required a lot of labor. Therefore, each banner could no longer deploy bannermen and wrapped slaves to follow their masters around Horqin to grab the west.

At the same time, the other way of blood transfusion for Hou Jin was not very feasible.

Those Zhangjiakou Shanxi merchants who had been able to sneak into Horqin and even Sarhu like loaches were either intercepted by the Ming army in the newly built Daning Town outside the customs, and were escorted north to trade in Lin Dan Khan's Chahar tribe, or , were targeted by the soldiers of General Du Song at Shanhaiguan, and were followed all the way to Liaoyang, Fushun or Kaiyuan, and they were only allowed to trade within the Ming Dynasty.

The harvests in Yiju and other places in North Korea were better than those in Houjin in the bitter cold in the north. However, these areas had long been tightly guarded by Mao Wenlong, the commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang River, and Houjin had no way to rob or trade.

The Han coatmen in each Niulu would starve to death. Anyway, slaves would always be captured, and slaves would always be born. It would be much easier to use famine to eliminate a group of old and weak Han people.

However, when Niu Lu'erzhen and other prominent bannermen began to complain that the price of food was so high that they were starving, the old chief Nurhachi and his most respected son Huang Taiji had to put the attack on Kaiyuan in the Ming Dynasty to The plans for the two important towns of Tieling and Tieling will be put on hold for now, and the Baylors will be summoned to discuss how to solve the immediate food problem.

Yue Tuo volunteered to take the young men of his banner and the Baoyi who had not yet starved to death, and went to the Huining area of ​​​​the Tumen River near the Jurchen's hometown in Jianzhou to look for food.

This year, Mu Zaohua handed over Japanese copper ore several times to North Korean dealers in Huining. When she came back, she told Yue Tuo that there were not even North Korean troops stationed there, let alone the Ming army. Private ships can cross the sea from Japan to Chongjin Port, then enter the inland river, and can travel directly to Jianju Zuowei.

Yue Tuo, the Minister of Household Affairs, believed in the intelligence of Zaohua Ezhen, a capable subordinate, so he took the initiative to ask for help.

Nurhaci readily agreed and also allocated a hundred strong men from his two yellow flags to accompany Yue Tuo's team.

Although Yue Tuo didn't take the Koreans seriously, he thought that they would always resist when faced with foreigners who came to steal food.

Unexpectedly, I met someone who offered to donate food.

It turned out that the North Koreans who had escaped from Busan, Tieshan and other places told Yue Tuo that they either couldn't stand the humiliation of Ming officers and soldiers in Dongjiang Town, or they couldn't stand the oppression of North Korean officials, so they simply went north to Huining.

Some of them, who seemed to be smart, sent their leaders to propose to Yue Tuo that they were willing to work with Hou Jin to jointly govern the area from Chongjin Bay to Huining, to form a port trade, and to exchange grain and other products from northeastern Korea with the Jurchens for East Asia. Pearls, mink skins, medicinal materials, etc. are then sold to Japan.

The condition was that Houjin would send troops to protect them, the Koreans, from attacks by the king's army.

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In front of the "Khan's Palace" in Hetuala, the 64-year-old Nurhaci personally walked down the steps to greet Yuetuo, who was exhausted from travel.

The old Khan patted his grandson's shoulder for his great contribution, and said to Huang Taiji who was beside him, "Well, there is a saying in the Ming Dynasty, 'If you are close to a red person, you will be red. Yuetuo has been following your uncle for many years, and he has indeed learned to be brave and resourceful, like a flag master!"

Huang Taiji followed up and talked about several past achievements that Yue Tuo and he had planned together. He had no intention of taking care of Yue Tuo's biological father and the leader of the Zhenghong Banner, Dai Shan, who was standing on the other side. Daishan felt angry in his heart, but it was a fact that Yue Tuan was abused by his stepmother when he was a boy, and that his biological father let it go.

Yue Tuan is now quite a powerful man, his biological father has been beaten in the face, Huang Taiji, his uncle who has always been close to his nephew, can pick peaches, but Dai Shan has nothing to do.

"Amma, it's windy outside, why don't you go inside and get warm on the kang?" Daishan said in a concerned tone.

Nurhachi's smile faded slightly, and he glanced sideways at Daishan and said coldly: "We, the warriors of Jianzhou, have never been in the ice and snow, so what does the northwest wind mean? Your Ama is not old enough to be useless!"

After a pause, he added an important sentence: "Are you the same as Mang Gurtai, who indulged in drinking and sex in autumn and wasted his body and bones because he couldn't raise soldiers to fight in the autumn? Are you afraid of the cold? Come back. Just like the third child, go to the house to rest."

Daishan lowered his eyes and listened silently to Nurhachi's lecture, feeling really aggrieved.

I don't know what happened to Mang Gurtai recently. He didn't seem to be infected with the cold, but he was a little weak. He didn't come to his father to discuss matters yesterday and today, so his father took out his anger on Daishan.

Yue Tuo watched coldly, and when his own father had been ridiculed by his grandfather enough, he cautiously said to Nurhachi: "Great Khan, the grains brought back by my grandson are piled in the granary, waiting for the Great Khan to distribute them. There are still a few things to do at the moment. Please ask the Great Khan to make a decision. Hubu’s forehead is really Mu Zaohua, and she is waiting there. Can the Great Khan also allow her to come into the palace and give her a reply?”

Nurhachi raised his old eyes and followed the direction pointed by Yue Tuan, and saw a figure wearing a flag uniform, standing respectfully by the Khan King's Well, his expression suddenly softened.

"Ask her to come in."

Mu Zaohua walked into the main office of the Khan Palace and knelt on the ground first, kowtowing.

Nurha Chidao: "Get up and stand behind Yue Tuo Beile."

After Mu Zaohua stood still, Nurhaci spoke again: "This Khan has always made clear rewards and punishments. This time, you, a slave, should have some share in Yue Tuo Beile's great work. I will reward you with a pair of Dongzhu and two coats." One, one cow.”

Mu Zaohua knelt down to thank her again, but Nurhachi waved his hand: "No need, you, the Ministry of Revenue, just talk directly."

Yue Tuo then reported to Nurhachi the request of the North Koreans brought back from Huining. Finally, he turned to Mu Zaohua and said, "You are familiar with the situation in North Korea. Please explain it in detail."

Mu Zaohua hurriedly said: "Great Khan, I learned from North Korean merchants that they actually hate the Ming army more and more, because after Mao Wenlong became the commander-in-chief of Dongjiang Town, he probably relied on the help of a bitch named Zheng in the court. He said that there are many private ports in Pi Island and other places, which collect and sell Ming products from Nanzhili, Dengzhou and other places, and monopolize trade with North Korea and even several Japanese islands. In this case, we, Dajin, not only want to control those North Korea. If you become the second Shanxi merchant, you can still achieve great things."

"How to make a big difference?" Nurhaci said solemnly.

"Garrison troops in Huining," Mu Zaohua lowered her head respectfully, but her tone was firm, "Great Khan, I have gone to collect copper several times before I realized that Huining was already far away from the original Jianzhou left guard. We were able to farm in the past, and we can do it now, not to mention that the Koreans are still willing to have good relations with us, Daikin. Why don't we move some cattle there and try to farm them? If we can really raise a lot of Ding, we can use that place. Once we have truly captured it, we can move southwest along the river and flank Hetuala's main force. One day, we can kill the Ming army in Yizhou and force Mao Wenlong's troops to retreat south, which will relieve our worries. "

Nurhaci listened more and more attentively. After Mu Zaohua finished speaking, he squinted his eyes and thought for a moment, then asked Huang Taiji: "Old Eight, what do you think, are these two children having wild ideas?"

Huang Taiji pretended to ponder the plan: "If you can pick up sea ships and grow food, you will definitely have to occupy the Korean land. By the way, there are many bannermen in Dabeile's flag who were formerly Mao Lianwei's. He also speaks Korean.”

Huang Taiji's last words were addressed to Da Beile Daishan.

A look of caution flashed through Daishan's eyes.

This insidious and cunning younger brother thinks that Ama's life is coming to an end, so he needs to disperse his troops as a big beile. Does he want to inherit the throne and monopolize Ama's two yellow flags?

Nurhachi said: "Daishan, how many people have starved to death in your banner since winter?"

Daishan didn't dare to hide it: "There are about twenty bannermen, Yu Ding, forty or fifty."

Nurhachi drooped his eyelids, but his tone was calm: "No banner will starve people to death, but the situation in your banner is indeed worse. Why not try Huining? When you were fourteen or fifteen, you followed me I know your ability to conquer the tribes one by one. If you build Huining into our granary, it will be a great achievement, right?"

"Oh, what Amma said makes sense."

Daishan worked hard to hide his anger.

Since it is a great achievement and a fertile field, why not let the white flag of your favorite Huang Taiji go out?

I'm afraid that in your heart, Mang Gurtai, Mang Gurtai, and Amin have long been unable to inherit the throne, right?

The rage was raging, and then a strange desire arose.

At this moment, Daishan wished that he was not in the meeting hall, but on the kang in Mang Gurtai's house, smoking the divine crow ointment with his third brother and enjoying the extremely relaxing pleasure that floated to the clouds. Let's curse Huang Taiji together, who is more cunning than a jackal or a fox.