On the north bank of the Qinghe River, the Queen Mother and Amma of the Qing Dynasty were quietly gathering the cavalry, packing their bags, and preparing to escape as soon as dark... Oh, there is one exception, and that is the Qing fool who broke his head. Mamang Gurtai.
Everyone else was preparing to run away, but this stupid Mang Gurtai didn't know anything. After he returned to his camp from Gaizhou City, everything continued as before. He should eat and drink when he should, and he didn't forget to take medicine... He has a brain disease, and he can't stop taking medicine!
So when Degelei heard the news that everyone was running away, he hurried to Mang Gurtai's tent. When he opened the curtain and walked in, he was hit by the smell of the stinky soup. A Korean concubine was squatting beside a red clay stove with her nose covered, making medicine for Mang Gurtai!
Smelling this smell, Dege became very angry... I've been taking medicine for so many years, why doesn't my brother's brain disease get better? Now everyone is preparing to run away, but he seems to be nothing. Thinking of this, Dege walked forward in a few steps and kicked over the red clay stove. With a crash, the earthen jar containing the decoction shattered to the ground. The pungent smell of the decoction spread out immediately, making the entire tent smell of medicine.
Mang Gurtai was wearing reading glasses and holding a thick thread-bound book to read - not "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but "Don Quixote"...still in the semi-vernacular version of Bai Wenyan. "Don Quixote" was translated by Li Xianlu, a diplomat from the Ming Dynasty stationed in the United Provinces of the Netherlands, in his spare time.
Seeing that his brother kicked over his own soup, Mang Gurtai was not angry, but asked with a smile: "Old Shi, why are you angry with a red clay stove? You are treating it as a Ming army kicking it. ?"
Seeing his brother's confusion, Degerei stamped his feet and said, "Fifth brother, do you still have time to read? Do you know that a disaster is coming?"
"A catastrophe is imminent?" Mang Gurtai looked confused, "What happened? Why is a catastrophe imminent?"
"They are all packing their bags and preparing to escape..." Degerei yelled, "You are the only one who was kept in the dark!"
"Them? Who?"
Dege is very angry, why is his brother so stupid?
"Who else is there? The Queen Mother, the second child (Daishan), the twelfth child, the fourteenth child, the fifteenth child, Amin, Hao Ge, Yue Tuo... they are all running away!"
"You want to run away?" Mang Gurtai was stunned, "Can't you? Isn't the camp with the blue flag right next to it? There's no movement at all!"
"Fifth Brother, next to our camp are the camps of the Han Army with the Blue Banner and the Korean Army with the Blue Banner... Those are all infantry! What time is it now? Who will lead the Han Army if they are running away? , Korean army? Of course they escaped with their Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry!"
"Oh..." Mang Gurtai thought for a while, "Then the Han army and the Korean army will be leaderless?"
After hearing this, Dege was almost angry, "Fifth Brother, do you still have the mind to consider this? Do you want to control these Han and Korean armies?"
Mang Gurtai actually nodded: "We have to take care of them... Lao Shi, please make arrangements and wait for the Queen Mother, Lao Er, Lao Twelve, Lao Fourteen, Lao Fifteen, Amin, Hao As soon as Ge and Yuetuo leave, we will send Manchu soldiers to take over the Han and Korean troops under each banner. In addition, we will move our camp to Gaizhou City."
"What?" Dege was so stupid that his fifth brother cried. Everyone was running for their lives, but it was better for him... Not only did he not follow them, he also wanted to gather the remnants of those people and go to Gaizhou City. Be a royal warrior for them!
"Fifth brother, please stop making trouble, okay?" Degerei looked at his brother, "Hurry up and order people to pack their luggage. Let's run away too!"
"Escape?" Mang Gurtai glared, "Escape from what? Where to escape?"
"Of course... we ran away into the old forest of the Savage Jurchen!" As he spoke, tears almost flowed out of Dege's eyes.
Their territory is really remote and wild to the extreme. In addition to a dozen settlements scattered in the forest, there is a large pasture and a fortress on the edge of Xingkai Lake, and several small fishing ports on the Whale Sea... ....It’s too far to exile criminals to a place like this, but they actually want to go there themselves!
"Is there any need to escape when I go to the old forest of the Savage Jurchens?" Mang Gur said with a timid smile, "I won't escape. I want to see if Zhu Youjian will let me go to the old forest of the Savage Jurchens and become a Savage King. !”
Before Degerei could react, he frowned and said, "Fifth brother, what are you talking about? You are the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty..."
At this point, he realized something was wrong... What did Mang Gurtai, this silly Ama, mean?
Mang Gurtai picked up the thread-bound version of "Don Quixote" and read it again. While reading, he said: "I am old and stupid. I don't have so many ambitions anymore, so I just want to find someone who is far away from right and wrong." Place, live this life peacefully... If Zhu Youjian is willing to let me be a savage king, I will go back to the edge of Xingkai Lake and squint. If he is not worried, then I will not do this. The savage king, that’s alright.”
The king of barbarians is not a good king, who would be happy to be one! Moreover, the place where the Savage Jurchens are located cannot be settled by just anyone. The Savage Jurchens are not good people. Anyone sent there will be killed.
Mang Gurtai drove in with the Baturus from Manchuria under the Zhenglan Banner... The ability of those Baturus to drill into the old forest far exceeded Zhu Youjian's troops in front of the tent! Moreover, they are all good hunters. They can rely on the mountains to eat and catch some valuable prey from the old forest.
Moreover, Mang Gurtai also incorporated the Savage Jurchens and moved some Han and Korean people there. Now he has managed more than 20 thousand households on the territory of the Savage Jurchens, which is not bad.
If thousands of households from the Ming Dynasty were to drive in, they wouldn't even think about it if each household didn't have 500 taels of silver - that place is full of virgin forests, and there are heavy snowfalls that block the mountains and roads for several months every year, and there are floods every month. Traffic is difficult! To transport things, the shipping cost is at least several times higher than the value of the things!
So if you want to send 20 Thousand Households there, it will cost at least 10 million taels... and even if you spend this money, there is no guarantee that these 20 Thousand Households can gain a foothold in the old forest of the Savage Jurchen.
Unless Zhu Youjian no longer wants this land, letting Mang Gurtai become the Savage King is the best, or even the only option.
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"Long live my lord, the envoy of the slave and thief's pseudo-Ama Mang Gurtai has arrived."
After hearing the guard's report, Zhu Youjian, who was wearing plate armor and was being helped by Mao Guifei Mao Zhenzhu, who was accompanying the expedition, was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Take him to the military meeting tent."
Later, after Zhu Youjian put on his plate armor, he went to the military meeting tent surrounded by several guards. The purpose of wearing the plate armor was to command on the battlefield - he originally planned to launch a pursuit after the slave thieves, pseudo-emperor, pseudo-queen, and pseudo-amas escaped.
Unexpectedly, the slave bandit army in Gaizhou was not in chaos...it was a bit chaotic. There was a commotion for a while in the early morning, and the Japanese soldiers who fought jointly with the slave bandits also ran away.
Just as Zhu Youjian was happily waiting for the complete collapse of the slave and bandit camp, the situation of the slave and bandit camp was suddenly stabilized. Soon, the cavalry who crossed the Qinghe River to conduct reconnaissance in the early morning brought back some deserters who had slipped out of the slave camp. Through their explanations, Zhu Youjian learned that there was a foolish and fake Ama who did not escape. It was he who sent troops to temporarily stabilize the Han and Korean armies of the slave thieves...
Therefore, Zhu Youjian had no choice but to change his plan. He would not pursue the Queen Mother Taisong for the time being, but instead prepared to attack the slave thieves in Gaizhou.
Now the attacking troops had just begun to cross the river, and the messenger from the slave thieves arrived unexpectedly, and brought two pieces of news that were a bit beyond Zhu Youjian's expectations.
One news is that Mang Gurtai now controls the slave army in Gaizhou, but he is willing to abandon the dark side and surrender to the bright side, handing over most of the Han and Korean troops, and taking the original Zhenglan Banner troops to teach the savage Jurchens for the Ming Dynasty.
Another piece of news is the conditions for the surrender of Queen Mother Taisong... This woman wants the territory of three thousand households and Shenyang, Tieling, Liaohai and other places!
