Dorgon pulled out the blade from the plane, held it in his hand and observed it carefully over and over again, testing the sharpness of the edge with his fingers.穇
"Hiss!" Dorgon accidentally made a small cut on his fingertips. Red blood dripped out. Dorgon put his fingers into his mouth and sucked away the blood.
There was a panic in the room, and the maid quickly found a white cloth to bandage him.
Old Wu was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and did not dare to raise his head.
Azig reached out and picked up the insert on the plane. With an incredulous expression, he studied it.
"Someone would use such fine steel to make carpenter's tools. What a waste of money."
"Brother Twelve, what do you think?" Dorgon waved the maids down and said again.
"Look at this steel mouth. It's better than my saber." Azig said.穇
Dorgon turned around and asked Lao Wu, "Where did this plane come from?"
Old Wu was so frightened that he trembled and quickly replied: "To tell the master, this is a product brought by a camel team from Zunhua. My second brother is a carpenter, so I bought one. I thought the blade was good, and I thought the master would like it. I wanted to eat thinly sliced mutton, so I sent the mutton to the ice cellar to freeze overnight, and then I shaved it with a plane. Unexpectedly, it was actually done."
Azig, Dorgon, and Duduo looked at each other. Dorgon asked: "When did this camel team come, where do they live, and how many people know about it."
Lao Wu replied: "I came here yesterday and stayed at the big car shop inside the north gate. Not many people should know, but my second son went to the big car shop to repair Datong shop and furniture, and he just happened to catch up."
Azige and others were suddenly overjoyed.
Now, Daikin is severely blockaded and all kinds of materials are in short supply. Under the slave system of the Eight Banners, each banner owner had independent land and tribesmen. The land of the Eight Banners is called flag land. Each of the Eight Banners has its own territory.
The flag owner is the slave owner of all banner people. He enjoys all the power, even taking life and death from his subordinates. The flag affairs of each banner were independent, and this tradition was still maintained until the end of the Qing Dynasty. The bannermen are all subordinate to the banner owner, the prince, and their respective subordinates.穇
Weddings and funerals have to go to the flag office to go through the formalities.
In this case, the social production and life of each banner are self-organized. If the flag owner is good at management, then the life of the subordinate bannermen will be better than that of other flags or even the subordinates of the flag.
In other words, the level of leaders such as the banner leader, assistant leader, and counselor leader determines the wealth or poverty of the group. The same is true in the military. If a capable leader takes his subordinates on an expedition and plunders more supplies, the quality of life of the people of this leader will improve. After capturing more weapons and armor, their combat effectiveness will increase.
The Eight Banners is actually composed of layers of relatively independent small groups. The wealth and military strength of these small groups are actually very different from each other.
Since this camel team can smuggle good steel from Zunhua, we must go and see it as soon as possible, and get this channel into our own hands before other flags discover it.
Now, the Ming Dynasty's blockade of Dajin is so severe that each banner owner relies on his own ability to obtain various scarce supplies for his tribesmen. This is also a basis for their support.
Just like Yexian, because he had a better relationship with the Yingzong, he received more rewards and conducted more tribute trade. Therefore, he gained widespread support among the Mongols.穇
Because this leader can bring them various daily necessities such as ironware, salt, tea, cloth, etc. that are in short supply. And they supported him. After Tumu Fortress, after Emperor Jingtai came to power, he cut off Yexian's trade channels and instead gave trade privileges to the puppet Mongol emperor. The Mongols soon abandoned Ye Xian. He also suffered a quick defeat first.
Although the three of them did not speak, they all realized that this was an opportunity to obtain supplies from the Ming Dynasty. Previously, Fan Yongdou came to Daikin to discuss cooperation with Fan Wencheng on behalf of eight Shanxi merchants in Zhangjiakou, which made the nobles of Daikin very excited.
Nothing excites them more than trade channels. However, sample essay
Cheng is from Huang Taiji. If this trade channel is negotiated, it will be controlled by Huang Taiji. He controls the channels of trade and has more supplies in his hands, which will help him gain the support of the Eight Banners.
At present, except for Pi Dao Mao Wenlong who secretly trades with them on the Yalu River Jiangxin Island, other trade channels are basically interrupted. Monan is now controlled by Yang Fan. Zhangjiakou was also destroyed. The trade routes to the west were broken.
To the south, the aristocratic families in western Liaoning, under the strict control of Yuan Chonghuan, no longer dared to trade with Dajin. Therefore, if the two white flags can find their own trade channels, their strength will develop rapidly in secret. The strength will be close to, or even surpass Daishan's two red flags and Huang Taiji's two yellow flags.
In this world where wild beasts roam, strength is everything.
Zhuzhu put the bait out and waited for the fish to take the bait.穇
He was sitting cross-legged on the kang. On the table were a plate of soy pork head, a plate of braised carp, and a plate of sweet and sour shredded radish. In a purple clay wine pot, there was a pound of boiled Shandong pear blossom liquor. Use your own discretion.
Hong'er knelt down beside him and poured him wine.
"Brother Zhuzi, tell me, will they come?"
"It will definitely happen. Let's wait here. Before it gets dark today, someone will definitely come." Old God Zhuzhu said calmly.
He knew in his heart that there was fierce competition for resources within the Eight Banners. Because they are also fighting cruelly among themselves. Under Ming's blockade, they were more like a zero-sum game. If you take one more bite, I will take one less bite.
Chu Ying was killed, which was a bad start. That is, the bloody internal fighting mode has started. Since the Qing Dynasty, the internal strife and power grabs within the Eight Banners have never ceased. Even the causes of death of most emperors remain a mystery.
When Johnston saw Puyi eating, the eunuch tasted the dishes before eating them. He persuaded him: "This way of eating is unhygienic and does not conform to the etiquette of modern civilized society."
Puyi told him: "Many of my ancestors were poisoned to death."
Before the two of them finished speaking, they saw Luo Changshan, the manager of the camel team brought by Xiaohong, hurried into the house and said: "Some people from the Eight Banners came and said they came to inquire about the products of our camel team. Among them. There are a few people who seem to have extraordinary temperament, and may be young men from the Eight Banners nobles."
Zhu Zhu smiled at Hong'er, meaning you see, they must be more anxious than us. They couldn't hold it any longer.
Zhu Zhu smiled and said: "Since the business has come, let's go out to greet it. Let's see if it's big business this time."
