In the winter of the third year of Yongli in 1661, the land outside the pass was covered with snow.In the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, near the source of the Nenjiang River, heavy snow covers the mountains and forests, and the river surface is also frozen, and the earth seems to be frozen.At the foot of the mountain, outside a village of the Jurchens in the West Sea, several Jurchen men, wearing bloated jackets and carrying big frozen fish, rushed to the village.The wind and snow were very strong, and several people lowered their felt hats, stepped on the snow, made a creaking sound, and walked into the stockade.This is a Jurchen tribe of more than 100 people, and smoke rises from low earthen houses."
Sasubu, pack up the fur at home, and you will come with me tomorrow morning to the south to have a look!"
When everyone entered the stockade, an old man gave an order."
Yes, Uncle Yaksa!"
The Jurchen man nodded, then pushed away the firewood and entered his own courtyard.In the courtyard, a woman wearing a torn jacket with red cheeks was holding firewood, and when she saw the man coming back, she saw the big fish in the man's hand, and showed a happy expression.Sasu said, "Is the meal ready?
”The woman said, "Not yet!
”"That kills the fish!"
Sasubu carried the fish, pushed open the door of the main house, and walked into the main house with a few snowflakes.The woman followed, added some firewood to the stove, baked the room warm, and then picked up the big fish and made a basin of hot water to thaw.Sasubu rubbed his hands, took a breath of hot air, and asked the woman on the fire, "How much food is left at home?"
”The woman's movements slowed down, "There are only a few catties of meat left, and I can't survive the winter."
This day is really a year, and it is more difficult than a year. ”Sasub comforted: "Pack up the furs in the house and prepare me some dry food."
Tomorrow I will go south with Uncle Yaksa and find the Ming people to exchange some food and come back.I thought about it in the coming year, I went to release the horses for the Ming people, the Dulan family went to the Ming people pasture this spring, and yesterday I asked someone to send back a cart of grain, as well as mutton. ”The woman complained: "I asked you to go over with me earlier, you have to listen~" Sasubu stirred the flint and sighed: "We have been fighting with the Ming people for so many years, and Ama died in the hands of the Ming people, who knows if what the Ming people said is true or false?"
”A few years ago, the Ming army invaded Liaozhong and cut off the connection between the Jurchens outside the Guanxi and the Manchus in the Guannei.As a result, the Jurchens living outside the customs could not get the food and materials sent from the customs inside, and their lives became increasingly difficult.In the past few years, under the leadership of Ningguta Dutong, the Jurchen tribes outside the Guan, together with the Eastern Mongols, have gone south from time to time to harass the Liaohe Plain, intending to open up the connection with the Guannai.However, the efforts of the Jurchen tribes outside the Guanwai ended in failure.Two years ago, Zhao Ming defeated the Manchu Qing Dynasty and occupied Beijing, and the Manchu forces in the Guanguan were completely wiped out.Some of them, under the leadership of the Ningguta general Aixin Jueluo Lanbu, continued to be enemies of the Ming Dynasty, and some of them saw the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they were not the Jianzhou Jurchens, but the Jurchens of the West Sea and the East Sea, so they gradually gave up the strategy of confrontation.At this time, it happened that Du Yinxi came to Shenyang and began to preside over Liaoning affairs, and in order to change the external environment of Liaoning, he gradually changed the one-size-fits-all strategy in the past.The Ming army pursued a strategy of blockade and attack against the stubborn forces led by Lan Bu, but it adopted a gentle strategy against the Mongols and the Jurchen tribes who were willing to submit to the Ming Dynasty.He allowed the Mongols and Jurchens to trade on the border, and at the same time recruited the Mongols and Jurchens to help the Ming Dynasty herd horses, so that the Ming army could obtain nearly 10,000 qualified war horses from Liaoning every year.Early the next morning, Sasub packed up his wife's furs, loaded them on a sleigh, and brought some dried meat, and then pulled the sleigh with the chief Yaksa and others, and went out of the stockade.The women and children stood outside the stockade, waving goodbye to the men and telling them to come back early.Sasubu's stockade was at the foot of the western foot of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, and everyone pulled the sleigh and walked five miles before entering the Nenjiang River.At this time, thick ice formed on the surface of the river, and everyone walked on the river, much easier.The Heilongjiang River and the Nenjiang River are the main rivers in the northeast, which are separated by the Xiaoxing'an Collar and are the hometown of Su Shen.From the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty set up the Bohai Governor's Mansion, the Heishui Governor's Mansion, and the Muwei Governor's Mansion, the Nuer Gandu Division in the Ming Dynasty, and the Heilongjiang General and Jilin General in the Qing Dynasty for jurisdiction.Today, with the collapse of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the situation in Northeast China is more complicated.Bounded by the Liaosong Water Dividing Territory, the south of Liaodong, the Liaoxi Corridor, and the Liaohe Plain belonged to the management of Liaoning Province of the Ming Dynasty, and the Songnen Plain, Sanjiang Plain, and Changbai Mountain in the north were in the hands of the Jurchen remnants.At the two feet of the Great Khing'an Mountains, at the source of the Liao River, there are Horqin Mongolian nomads.Recently, there has been another force in the Northeast, that is, the Rakshasa Kingdom that has penetrated deep into the Heilongjiang River Valley, which has made the situation in the Northeast more complicated.In 1652, the Manchu Qing sent Mel Zhangjing to garrison Ningguta, and the following year he was promoted to Angbang Zhangjing, ruling over the vast area north of the Songliao watershed, as well as Changbai Mountain and other places.After the Manchu Qing were defeated by Zhao Ming, Beile Aixin Jueluo Rambu, who was stationed in Ningguta, became the leader of the Jurchen remnants as Nurhachi's great-grandson.However, without the backing of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Jianzhou Jurchens, they are not one with the Jurchens of the West Sea and the Jurchens of the East Sea, so Rambu's control and influence over the Jurchen tribes are very weak, and the Jurchen tribes have returned to a state of loose tribal alliance.At present, the forces of Lanbu cannot control the Heilongjiang River Basin, and the Rakshasa people in the north take advantage of the weakness to enter the Heilongjiang River Basin from the north, while the Ming army in the south also crossed the Songliao watershed and entered the northern part of the Northeast Great Plain, and built Songyuan City at the confluence of the Nenjiang River and the Songhua River.The destination of Sasubu and his entourage was Songyuan City, where the Ming Dynasty set up a border city and purchased ginseng, mink, and ula grass from the Jurchen tribe, while the Jurchens came here in exchange for grain, salt, cloth, iron pots, tea, and other materials.The crowd followed the river, all the way to Songyuan City, when approaching, the river became lively, hundreds of large sleds parked in the river, this is a unique winter means of transportation outside the Guanwai, spread by the Ming people, and was soon learned by the Jurchens, transporting goods on the river in winter, can save time and effort.Influenced by the culture of the Central Plains, as the New Year approached, all the Jurchen tribes outside the Guanwai came to the border market with furs, ginseng and other goods to sell, and at the same time bought various New Year's items, so the river was full of sleds.When Sasub came to the border market for the first time, he watched the merchants and the Jurchen people haggling around the sleigh to buy the mountain goods brought by the Jurchen tribesmen, and the laughter, shouting, shouting, and bargaining made the river particularly lively.This made Sasubu's heart full of surprise, Uncle Yaksa on the side, his eyes were gloomy, and there was this old woman in his bones who was really unruly, they used to rob, but now they looked at the Ming soldiers patrolling with muskets in the distance, but they could only trade honestly."
How do you sell these?"
A Ming Dynasty merchant asked casually as he looked at the goods on the sleigh.Yaksa's face changed, he bent down skillfully, his face was full of smiles, and he smiled servilely: "Uncle, they are all high-quality furs." ”The group received the goods outside the city, exchanged them for silver dollars, and then entered the city even after paying taxes, and purchased the goods of Ming merchants in the shops.With a sleigh of fur, three plants of ginseng, a full sleigh of grain, a cotton cloth, and a quilt, and three silver dollars left, Sasubu made a pot of wine, bought some small things and daily necessities, and returned with his people.Along the way, the crowd cheered and laughed, sang from time to time, and sometimes felt that it was actually a pleasant thing to enjoy the wine and food that their labor had brought them.In this way, everyone drank wine all the way, sang the old Jurchen tune, and returned to the vicinity of the village.At this time, when the people were about to leave the river and pull the sleigh ashore, Sasubu and the others straightened up and craned their necks in the direction of the stockade, where they saw thick smoke billowing and gunshots coming from time to time."
Not good!"
Sasub was discolored.
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