Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 173 The Leading Party Among the Jurchens
The next day, Wang Daoqiu first designed it, with a giant dragon coiled on the front of the bright sun and moon flag.The back is the same as the fifty-cent coins of later generations. A cluster of plum blossoms is set against the four characters "Jiajing Longyang". It is a model of the first kind of ocean in the Ming Dynasty and was given to Emperor Jiajing for review.

When Emperor Jiajing agrees, this model will be used to create the Ocean Queen of the Ming Dynasty.Wang Daoqiu asked Lu Fang to arrange the craftsmen in the palace to carve molds, while he himself changed the coin-making method of the Minting Bureau from pouring water to using hydraulic stamping to improve work efficiency.

I was busy in Xiyuan during the day, and planned the future with the Ming Dynasty nobles at night. I was busy for several days. Just two days before the 40th birthday of Emperor Jiajing on September [-]th, Lu Bing came from the northeast with a group of people. Thousands of Northeast veterans who have experienced white mountains and black waters are back.

As soon as Lu Bing came back, Emperor Jiajing took the young eunuch and went to the Ministry of Household Affairs to summon Wang Daoqiu.After not seeing each other for more than two months, Wang Daoqiu and Lu Bing were naturally affectionate and told each other their sincere feelings about parting.

After speaking politely, Wang Daoqiu asked about the relationship with the Jurchens. Upon hearing Wang Daoqiu's question, Lu Bing quickly started to show off: "I didn't go to the Haixi Jurchens and the Savage Jurchens this time, so I didn't care about those two Jurchens." I don’t know much about Zhi Jurchen. I only heard that the Haixi Jurchen tribe is divided into four tribes, collectively called the Hu Lun Four tribes. The Barbarian Jurchen tribe is loose and there are three larger tribes. The Haixi and Yeren Jurchen tribes occupy a vast territory, but their population is very small. Few, if you add them together, it’s only ten thousand people.”

"This time I went to the Jurchens of Jianzhou. Our imperial court divided them into three guards: Jianzhou Guard, Jianzhou Left Guard, and Jianzhou Right Guard. They appointed the leaders of their respective ministries and assigned them to their respective tributaries according to old customs. They are divided into eight tribes internally. Those who live along the Suzi River are called the Sukesu River Tribe; those who live at the confluence of the Suzi River and the Hun River are called the Zhechen Tribe; those who live in the upper reaches of the Hun River are called the Wanyan Tribe; Those living in the middle and lower reaches of the river are called the Hunhe tribe; those living on both sides of the Dayarhu River are called the Dong'e tribe; those living in the upper reaches of the Yalu River are called the Yalu River tribe; those living in the Songhua River area are called the Neyin tribe; and those living on both sides of the Vermillion Leng River are called Zhusheli. The first five of these eight divisions are the Five Divisions of Manchuria, and the last three divisions are the Three Divisions of Changbai Mountain."

"The members of the Jianzhou Jurchens are mainly Jurchens under the jurisdiction of the three Wanhu Prefectures of Huli Gai, Ao Duolian and Towen in the original Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties. Of course, when the Jianzhou Jurchens were formed, they were not simply our enemies. After destroying the Mongolian and Yuan forces in Liaodong, these Jurchens broke away from the control of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty and united themselves. Instead, they experienced a long period of scattered migration. After several changes, driven by external pressure, they gathered together to share the common destiny. To resist foreign enemies. So the Jianzhou Jurchens emerged as a coalition. In just over a hundred years, our dynasty first set up Jianzhou guards in the hometown of Jianzhou. Later, they fought fiercely for power among themselves, and our dynasty added Jianzhou guards. The left guard of the state and the right guard of Jianzhou help them separate their families, which is the origin of the three guards of Jianzhou."

"After the Ming Tumu Fort incident, the Jianzhou Guard thought that the Ming Dynasty was weak, and its leader Li Manzhu began to lose sight of the Ming Dynasty. During the years of Jingtai and Tianshun, he began to treat North Korea and our country Bandits in Liaodong are unpredictable. During this period, if my army sends out a large army to suppress it, they will admit their mistake and surrender, pay tribute every year, and even the slave chief Li Manzhu personally goes to Beijing to plead guilty. But once my army withdraws from Liaodong, they will conspire again. They looted and looted Liaodong, captured the border residents as slaves, and killed and wounded the officers and soldiers."

"During the third year of our dynasty in Chenghua, our Ming emperors and ministers were really intolerable to the female guards of Jianzhou, so they asked North Korea to send troops together, and killed Li Manzhu and his son in September of that year. During the period, the guards of Jianzhou had young and strong men. Most of them were beheaded, and women and children were plundered and enslaved. Only a few people fled into the Changbai Mountains, which was known as Chenghua Liting in history. After this, the Jurchen population in Jianzhou was severely damaged. Therefore, despite the 20 years of the Chenghua Dynasty, the Jurchen population in Jianzhou was severely damaged. The Hongzhi and Zhengde dynasties lasted more than 26 years, and our dynasty lasted 80 years, plus [-] years of restoration. Now they have three guards and eight tribes plus two thousand households and ten thousand Dingkou."

"So when I went to Liaodong this time, I recruited [-] young men from the Jurchens in Jianzhou, and another [-] brave men from the Han people in Liaodong, intending to organize them together. Anyway, among this group of people, the Jurchens would say There are dozens of people who can speak simple Chinese, and there are also dozens of Han people who can speak some simple Jurchen dialect. Put them together and they should be able to communicate simply. As for what you said before, Liangzhen, give me the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, and every It is unrealistic to have [-] Jurchen cavalry in one place. After all, if the Jianzhou, Haixi, and Yeren Jurchens are put together, they probably won't be able to get these four to five thousand young men."

Lu Bing talked about the current situation of the Jurchens. After listening to Lu Bing's words, Wang Daoqiu knew that he had taken it for granted before.But in this way, Wang Daoqiu became even more afraid of the Jurchen, a northern wolf tribe.

Before this happened, who would have imagined that in the 26th year of Jiajing, there were not even four to five thousand young Jurchens who could gather together.However, with this little foundation, they managed to achieve a population of 90 people and 20 soldiers 200 years later.The Han nation, which had a population of hundreds of millions at that time, was slaughtered to only tens of millions. All Han men were turned into cattle and horses, and all Han women were turned into military prostitutes. The entire Han nation knelt at their feet and screamed. "Grandpa" for more than [-] years.Together with the Mongolians of the former Yuan Dynasty, they effectively exterminated the Han nation in terms of blood.

What's even more fierce is that the Jurchens not only subdued the entire Han nation with their [-] direct descendants, they also subdued another famous fighting nation in the world with a population of millions, the Mongols. The unruly descendants of Genghis Khan were domesticated and became their watchdogs.

Moreover, when the Jurchens' martial arts were at their peak, they not only ruled the Han nation, the Mongols, but also all the other ethnic groups next to them. In the end, they all knelt at the feet of the Jurchens, who only had [-] direct troops of their own, kowtow and scream. "grandfather".

The brilliant achievements of the Jurchens in the 20th century are simply magical!Before this happened, it was said that the Jurchens could rule tens of millions of square kilometers of East Asia with only their [-] population and [-] direct soldiers, as well as the hundreds of millions of people in this territory. Who can say that? Can you believe it?Anyway, if Wang Daoqiu told Emperor Jiajing and Lu Bing these awesome things about the future Jurchens, they would definitely not believe it.

Knowing that Emperor Jiajing and Lu Bing would not believe this, Wang Daoqiu is not here now, bragging to Emperor Jiajing and Lu Bing about the future of the Jurchens.Instead, he casually asked Lu Bing, "Lord Lu, His Majesty's 40 birthday will be in two days. This time, the Jurchen ministries should also send people to congratulate His Majesty on his birthday!" The three guards and eight tribes, namely the chiefs of Haixi and Savage Jurchen tribes, they either came by themselves, or sent their sons as representatives, and they all came to Beijing with me, planning to pay homage to His Majesty in two days."

"Really, there are so many people! Then Master Lu, who do you value most among these Jurchen nobles?"

"Oh this! Except for Jue Chang'an, the newly appointed commander of the Jianzhou Left Guard, no one else in that group can speak our Chinese. Therefore, I only did the courtesy with them on the scene and had no communication with them. . So I don’t know how much these people weigh, let alone how much they value.”

Lu Bing said that because of the language barrier, he had little communication with the Jurchen nobles. He didn't know how much they weighed.But the new Jianzhou left guard commander Jue Changan mentioned by Lu Bing made Wang Daoqiu's eyes light up.

Lu Bing and Emperor Jiajing didn't know who Jue Changan was, but Wang Daoqiu did.Because of this Jue Chang'an, he had a grandson that made all Han people gnash their teeth and hate him to the bone, that is Aixinjueluo Nurhachi.

Nuerhachi is a transliteration of Manchu, which means "wild boar skin" when translated into Chinese.A person's name means wild boar skin, which seems too funny to us Han people, but among the Jurchens, wild boar skin symbolizes wealth.Therefore, the Jurchens were named Nuerhachi, which is similar to what we Han people call Wangcai. It is a bit vulgar, but the meaning is good.

Without worrying about Nuerhachi's name, knowing that it was the future grandfather of the wild boar skin, Wang Daoqiu asked Lu Bing: "Master Lu, you just mentioned that among these Jurchens, the new Jianzhou left guard Commander Jue Changan is the only one who can speak Chinese, so what do you think of Jue Changan?"

Wang Daoqiu asked Jue Chang'an, and Lu Bing thought for a while and said, "Oh, Liangzhen, ask this Jue Chang'an! This Jue Chang'an is the former Jianzhou left guard commander Fuman, the third among the six sons. Four sons. Logically speaking, with his seniority as the fourth son, he would not be the successor to his family as the commander of the Jianzhou Left Guard. But this Jue Chang'an has always been intelligent and decisive, and under the guidance of his father Fuman When he was still here, he made the decisions on important matters in his family."

"And this man is different from other Jurchens who like to fight bravely and like fishing and hunting. This man likes to do business. He also likes to buy agricultural tools from us and bring them back to his tribe for farming. He often comes and goes when we open in Fushun He was in the horse market, doing business with us Han people, and he learned Chinese with a Liaodong accent. To be honest with Liangzhen, when I interacted with this Jue Changan, I felt that he was just a Han Chinese, not like a Jurchen at all."

Lu Bing works as a spy, and the way he looks at people can definitely penetrate into the depths of people's souls.Wang Daoqiu believed in Lu Bing's vision and lamented that just as recorded in history books, Nuerhaci's grandfather, Aixinjueluo Juechang'an, was a builder who liked to do economic work, not a plunderer who liked to hunt. By.

This is very good. If you want to eat meat, you are used to hunting in the mountains, and if you want to eat meat, you will breed it yourself. The mentality of the former is that of a destroyer or plunderer, and the latter is that of a builder.Builders and plunderers have completely different ways of thinking. In comparison, builders are more able to become comrades of the Han nation.

Thinking of this, Wang Daoqiu said to Emperor Jiajing in a very serious tone: "Your Majesty, if we want to conquer the Jurchens, we should build up among them the Jurchens and the Ming sect who are close to our Ming Dynasty. Your Majesty, I feel that Mr. Lu just now The Jue Chang'an we are talking about should be a Jurchen slave chief that we can win over."

"Don't you think that Jue Chang'an likes to do business? And I happen to have quite a lot of experience in doing business, so I and that Jue Chang'an should be of the same mind. So, Your Majesty, if Your Majesty can trust me, I would like to talk to you in private. I came into contact with this Jue Chang'an and developed him into a masterpiece among the Jurchens in my Ming Dynasty. For this reason, I plan to become brothers with different surnames with that Jue Chang'an."

(End of this chapter)