In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 194: Swapping Prisoners
"You said that Dorgon is only willing to pay [-] shi of food?"

"You still want to trade women for Da Yu'er?"

In the commander's tent at the camp outside the valley, Lin Rui frowned slightly after hearing the news brought back by Liu Si. He did not expect that Dorgon was only willing to give [-] shi of food. This was really far from his heart.

"Yes, Marshal, he is willing to exchange the Han women he snatched this time, fifty for one, but I think he will agree even if it goes up to a hundred."

"You make another trip and ask them how many Han people they looted this time. If you want to replace them, just replace them all. Don't hide them this time. It's best to let all the Jurchens come. Know this."

Lin Rui pondered for a long time and said in a deep voice.

In fact, the reason why he kept those little wild boars under ten years old was because he wanted to exchange all the Han people they robbed from the Jiannu this time.

After all, keeping those little wild boars will only waste food, and the Jurchen women can do nothing except give birth to children.

Over the years, the women of the Eight Banners have been treated as pampered and pampered by Han slaves and North Koreans. They neither know how to farm, nor herd animals, nor how to ride a horse to fight. They are just a bunch of trash, not even a vase.

As for those little wild boars, it will take at least another seven or eight years to grow up. It is hard to say whether the Qing Dynasty will still be around after seven or eight years, so these little wild boars and women will not pose much of a threat to him. It will only become a burden and burden to the Eight Banners.

As for the Han people who came back, let alone craftsmen, men could farm and serve as soldiers, and women could also farm, sew, mend and build cities. Even pampered ladies and wives could help with management and teach knowledge. They were simply not comparable to those Jurchen women. .

What's more important is that the people who come back, whether they are men or women, ordinary people or wealthy people, will definitely be grateful to the Lin family army.

Dorgon obviously knew that the [-] Han people plundered were definitely more valuable than the Eight Banners prisoners in Lin Rui's hands, so he didn't want to exchange them at all, but he didn't dare to refuse them openly.

Indeed, ordinary Jurchens don't care about the value of anything. They just want to exchange for their wives and children. As for these Han slaves, they will just rob them in the future.

So when the news spread, everyone clamored for Dorgon to quickly agree to exchange with the Lin family army, even the senior officials were no exception.

After all, everyone is not childless like Dorgon, and they never care about their women.

It was difficult to disobey the public opinion, and Dorgon had no choice but to say to Liu Si: "Go back and tell Lin that you can change, but you must use all Han people to replace all Jurchens."

"This won't work. You only have 20, but we have [-]. We can only exchange one for another."

Liu Si immediately shook his head and refused, but cursed in his heart that these Jurchens wanted to eat shit. Not to mention that the commander would not agree, even he would not suffer such a big loss.

"It's impossible to replace one by one. We must replace all the clan members, otherwise we might as well not replace them at all!"

Dorgon gritted his teeth and said.

As a result, the two sides went back and forth, argued and bargained for more than ten times before finally reaching an exchange agreement.

That is, ordinary little wild boar and Eight Banner women, replaced by ordinary Han men and women, one for another.

The little wild boar and the Eight Banners women of certain status were exchanged for the maids and concubines of the wealthy Han families, and they were also exchanged one for the other.

The little wild boar and the Eight Banners woman with a higher status were exchanged for the ladies of wealthy Han families.

The wives, concubines, and children of Beilebeizi, the prince of the Eight Banners, had to be exchanged for scholars and Han craftsmen. As for the exchange ratio, it depended on their status.

If you are a scholar with a good reputation, you can exchange two for Beile's wife and children. If you are not famous, you can only exchange for Beizi's wife and children.

The prince's wife and children were more expensive, not to mention Huang Taiji's concubines and daughters.

Lin Rui clearly marked the price, and after some noisy discussions, all the princes, Belle, and their children had no choice but to exchange their youngest sons back. As for their wives and daughters, they really couldn't afford it.

After all, if they use a large number of ordinary Han people to exchange for their wives and daughters, it will inevitably lead to many warriors being unable to exchange their children, and there will definitely be riots by then.

Dorgon had no son, and his wife had no intention of having one. Instead, he chose to trade two juren and twenty blacksmiths for Dayu'er.

Even if Dayu'er comes back, he will still return to Huang Taiji, but Dorgon doesn't care that he can wait.

Anyway, after waiting for so many years, he believed that after this blow, Bago would never survive another two years.

Dorgon's willfulness made Yue Tuo and others very dissatisfied. They felt that it was regardless of the overall situation, but they tolerated it.

As for Huang Taiji's other wives, concubines and children, everyone surprisingly chose to ignore them. No one mentioned them. It was obvious that they had deep resentment towards Huang Taiji.

In order to complete the transaction, both parties sent 50 people to supervise and inspect each other.

On this day, outside the valley, Dorgon led 3 cavalry and drove more than [-] Han slaves to the east bank of the creek, while Lin Rui led [-] cavalry to the west bank of the river.After the supervisors on both sides confirmed that everything was correct, Lin Ruicai ordered someone to wave the command flag. At a gate at the entrance of the valley, the first batch of [-] Jurchen children and a small number of women were released, and then under the leadership of the Jurchens Next, walked back to the Jurchen cavalry team.

After Dorgon confirmed that these children and women were indeed their Jurchens, he also waved his hand, and more than 500 ordinary Han slaves were brought into the valley by two supervisors of the Lin Family Army through the gate on the west bank of the creek.

Then came the second batch, and the third batch... The two sides traded from morning to evening, and then Dorgon returned to the camp with the exchanged tribesmen.

It continued on the next day, and it was not until the third day that all the [-] slaves who had been established as slaves were exchanged, and the transaction was concluded.

A total of more than 8 cubs and women were exchanged for this slave establishment, and nearly 12 captives were not exchanged. Almost all of these 12 were women, and half of them were girls under the age of 14.

This gave Lin Rui a huge headache. These people really had no taste for food and it was a pity to throw it away.

Those over 14 years old can still have children and force them to work, and good-looking ones can be rewarded to the Mongols. However, those under 14 years old have to be raised for another year or two, especially those under ten years old.

Thinking of this, Lin Rui said to Liu Si: "You make another trip and tell Dorgon that I still have 14 to [-] girls under the age of [-] here. I don't want to see their father and daughter separated. If they want to In exchange, I will give you a discount, a war horse for one, or half a stone of grain, twenty kilograms of iron, or even a carriage for one."

"It's handsome."

Liu Si had no choice but to run over again.

Yue Tuo and other senior executives with daughters were very moved, but Dorgon firmly disagreed.

Not to mention a war horse, half a stone of grain, and twenty pounds of iron, he wouldn't change it even if the price were reduced by half.

Because what the Qing Dynasty lacks now is war horses, food, and iron tools, not girls aged five, six, seven, eleven, or twelve years old. It doesn't matter whether these people are their relatives.

After Liu Si came back, Lin Rui didn't give up and wanted to discuss it again, but Dorgon didn't give him a chance at all. He directly uprooted the camp and left, completely giving up Yue Tuo and others' thoughts. He was very cruel.

"Rui Lang, these Jurchens are really beasts. They are not even willing to exchange such a small thing for their own daughter."

When Mrs. Niu saw the Jurchen leaving immediately, she couldn't help but curse.

Zhang Xiuying comforted Lin Rui, who looked disappointed: "Rui Lang, in fact, we can teach young girls slowly so that they will forget that they are Jurchens when they grow up. Then we can let them and It is also possible for soldiers to get married, and as for those girls, they can be married off if they are raised for another year or two."

"Don't I find it troublesome? How much food will be consumed to raise them? With this food, I might as well go to the Ming Dynasty and rescue more Han female babies and bring them back."

Nowadays, there are natural disasters and endless wars in the north of the Ming Dynasty. Countless people have starved to death, especially children, so they are really unwilling to use precious food to raise Jurchen cubs.

"Then...what are Rui Lang going to do with it? You can't just kill them all, right?"

"Let's lock them up for now. One meal a day, as long as they don't starve to death. Then we can use them to exchange for the 3 people in Shengjing City."

Lin Rui waved his hand and said, for the sake of his original promise, he decided to raise these girls and young girls for a while.

After all, the probability of Shang Kexi and the [-] traitor soldiers surrendering is still very small, and it is still worth a gamble.

Although the left Jiannu now only had more than 3 cavalry and more than 4 Han soldiers, which were not much stronger than them, Lin Rui still did not choose to catch up.

Although he brought a cavalry chariot and the young soldiers chased him, the other party would definitely not be able to escape, but he probably couldn't do anything to the other party. Once a battle was forced, both sides would suffer.

If Jiannu is forced to break the pot, he may have a hard time taking his trophies to the river.

Therefore, while the Jian Nu were besieging Shengjing, it was undoubtedly the most appropriate to quickly move the loot and rescued Han people to Hetao and settle down.

After all, Guihua City is still in Jiannu's hands, and it's not clear how many troops Jiannu has left.

As for staying here in Liaohe, he had not considered it, but finally gave up because it was too close to Liaodong. Once he stayed here to settle down, the result would be that neither he nor the Jurchens could live and develop in peace.

As the saying goes, porcelain should not touch tiles. Now that Marshal Lin is much richer than the Jurchens, he will naturally not fight with them anymore.

If you want to kowtow, you should wait until you have a strong territory and then kowtow.

Lin Rui also had to sigh, damn it, the more women, more money, food and supplies, the less courageous and less daring they would be.

So at this time, Lin Rui only wanted to go to the Hetao safely and had no intention of caring about Liaodong's affairs.

But before leaving, Zhezhe, Fulin and the tens of thousands of preserved heads must be disposed of. After all, if they are not disposed of, the weather will get warmer.

(End of this chapter)