"You no longer need to trade and pay tribute!"
"Your Majesty has issued a decree to appoint you as the commander-in-chief and propaganda envoy of the Fifth Cavalry Corps of the Chinese Army Dudufu. He will immediately lead his troops to receive training in Shenyang, under the supervision of Shenyang Admiral Xiao Du. After the training, he will go to Burma with Xiao Du, and then Go to Dacca as the second dispatched force to conquer the Mughals.”
Li Hualong responded to Yang Jinu at this time.
After hearing this, Yang Jinu stood up suddenly and looked at Li Hualong with sharp eyes:
"What if we don't agree?"
"The imperial court will first issue 200,000 taels of silver dollar coupons as your military pay to avoid mutiny."
Li Hualong only replied lightly at this time.
After hearing this, Yang Jinu was stunned for a moment, and then he had to hold his hands and said:
"Being able to serve the imperial court is a blessing for our Ye He tribe. But after our Ye He tribe withdraws, what will we do with the land given by the imperial court?"
"The imperial court will send officers and soldiers to protect you. If you are unwilling to come back after you have made great achievements, you can also ask the emperor to grant you new land."
Li Hualong said.
"I'm afraid that after we leave, other tribes in Haixi and the savage Jurchens will take the opportunity to come in."
"Can the officers and soldiers really protect us?"
Yang Jinu asked.
Li Hualong said: "Now the wall will be built to Xianjing. This is a huge project. Haixi and the savage Jurchens will be captured to do the work. They will have no chance to come to your Ye He tribe's territory to fish and hunt. Besides, they also Strong men will be mobilized to fight for the country."
Yang Jinu couldn't help but take a breath: "How much does it cost to build such a long side wall? Is it possible?"
"What the First Emperor can do cannot be accomplished by a talented and strategic leader like the Emperor of this dynasty?"
"You are already the emperor's appointed ambassador, and you should not question your majesty's wisdom."
Li Hualong said in a deep voice.
Yang Jinu raised his hand and said yes.
Soon after, Yang Jinu actually took the Jurchen Yiding of Yehe tribe into Shenyang City and began to receive training from the Ming army.
It’s said to be training, but actually it’s also selection.
In the end, Xiao Ruxun only selected eight thousand Jurchen Yiding from the He tribe and went south with his officers and soldiers.
The remaining Jurchen Yiding of Yehe tribe were organized to supervise the work and capture Haixi and savages and other Jurchens to build the border wall.
"do not run!"
"do not run!"
Zhen Buyinda, a daughter from Nuergan, just came back from hunting with a few companions that day. She started running in the dense forest because she met a Jurchen wearing a Ming army policeman's cotton armor.
As for why they ran away, it was because Buyinda and his companions thought these people were here to steal their prey.
You should know that because there is no unity among the various Jurchen tribes, robbing each other and even massacres often occur.
Therefore, it is impossible for Buyinda and his companions not to be afraid.
Whizzing!
But soon Buyinda discovered that his companions had been shot one after another, which forced him to kneel down and start begging for mercy.
The Jurchen police officers who were chasing them stopped shooting and began to lasso him like a horse.
As soon as Buyinda was captured, he was sent to build the border wall. Like other captured Jurchens and Mongolians, he was responsible for transporting stones and cement.
After Zhu Yijun ordered the expansion of the border wall in the north, there were many Jurchens and Mongolians like Buyinda who were captured from the dense forests by the Ming Dynasty officials.
After being captured, they will quickly adapt to the life of working for wages, eating from a big pot, and learning Chinese culture, and gradually they will no longer run away.
They would even smile at the new Jurchens and Mongols after they were captured, and persuade them to feel at ease, saying that this place is very good and not what they thought.
The reason for this is that digging ginseng and hunting are indeed not as stable and safe as the current work of building a border wall.
However, after the border wall was repaired, they would discover that the border wall they personally participated in building would become a wall that trapped them, allowing the court to easily drive them to the Nanyang Islands.
Unless they didn't want to live and were willing to be shot to death with firecrackers by the officers and soldiers lined up on the side wall.
certainly.
These barbarians still don’t know this result.
They are now indulging in this stable and beautiful life, enjoying the days of going to the bathhouse to take a bath every day and going to restaurants to eat wine and meat every day after receiving their work pay. Gradually, they have forgotten about riding and shooting, and their bellies have begun to grow. He stood up and even spoke as politely and politely as the Han people without realizing it.
As their wildness gradually faded away, they began to like storytelling, opera and other entertainment activities, and some even fell in love with Chinese poetry.
"Don't teach Huma to cross the Yin Mountains."
When Uler of the Hada tribe participated in the arrest and supervision of the wild Jurchen construction of the border wall in the Hetuala area in later generations, because he had watched too many dramas and had some foundation in Chinese culture, on this day, he had a banquet. above, recited such a poem.
And when he recited it, the Jurchens drinking with him below all started cheering.
Uler himself was also very happy, and he held up the wine bowl very proudly:
“Here’s to China for being able to convince the barbarians from all over the world!”
"Dry!"
These Jurchens echoed, all of them looking proud.
He happened to be passing by here incognito, and when he saw this scene, Li Hualong, the governor of Jiliao, just smiled lightly.
The Han civilization's ability to assimilate culture is indeed second to none among the world's civilizations.
Not to mention that even Western industrial civilization in later generations could not fully assimilate Chinese civilization, so much so that even some intellectuals of the Han people thought that Chinese characters should be abolished but did not do so in the end. Before the emergence of industrial civilization, even if it was conquered by foreigners by force, But it still has a strong ability to assimilate culture.
for example.
This kind of situation where foreign ethnic groups despised foreigners as barbarians even after being exposed to Han culture for a long time occurred during the Qianlong period.
Zhaohui, a famous general in the Qianlong Dynasty, also said in front of Qianlong that "the barbarians will not be taught to cross the Yinshan Mountains".
Although he also made Qianlong unhappy because of this, it can also be seen that at that time, Eight Banners nobles like Zhaohui already regarded themselves as Chinese.
Now, Qianlong naturally could not see that in this life, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, more Jurchens had begun to take the initiative to naturalize.
Non-my family, its heart must be different.
This is actually not obvious among ordinary Jurchens and Mongolians.
Because many times, ordinary people will actually become Han Chinese and Hu people at other times due to various circumstances.
If the rulers of the Ming Dynasty were severely exploited, some Han people would take the initiative to go to Mongolia or the Jurchens to farm and herd, and become Huhua Han people.
If the Mongolian or Jurchen nobles were heavily exploited, barbarians would come to the Ming Dynasty and take the initiative to become Han Chinese.
Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, even in the capital area, under the emperor's feet, there were actually more than 100,000 Han people who were naturalized Hu people.
And the idea of "Those who are not of my race must have different hearts" is actually reflected in ordinary Jurchens and Mongolian nobles.
Because if the Jurchen and Mongolian aristocrats choose to sincerely allow their tribesmen to assimilate into the Han people, it means that they will lose the power to independently enslave the tribesmen, and will change from a local emperor to a bureaucrat who is completely obedient to the imperial court, and will even lose the ability to compete for world hegemony in the future. Chance.
Therefore, many Jurchen and Mongolian nobles refused to assimilate, and were even more willing to promote hatred between clans. For example, after Nurhaci unified the Jurchens in history, he would rather create his own Manchu script than directly use the Mongolian script that had long been commonly used by the Jurchens. , in order to prevent the Jurchens from being assimilated and to facilitate their own control.
The struggle between tribes is essentially a struggle between classes.
However, Emperor Zhu Yijun of the Ming Dynasty did not allow the existence of an aristocratic class independent of his own rule in the north.
Therefore, these Jurchen or Mongolian nobles were either transferred to the south to fight in the name of being transferred to conquer the Mughals, or they had no choice but to accept being eliminated by force.
certainly.
In order not to affect the market demand after the Ming Dynasty steam industrialization, Zhu Yijun chose to focus on killing as little as possible.
After all, killing will reduce the population and affect the economy, so use huge profits to tempt people. After all, if the population decreases, there will be fewer people to consume.
There were so many cheap cotton-padded clothes in the Ming Dynasty that more people needed labor force to replace them.
Yang Jinu of the Yehe tribe embarked on the road to the Mughals because he could not refuse the temptation of 200,000 taels of silver coupons given by the Ming Emperor.
Moreover, when he led his troops to stay in Beijing, he specifically expressed to Zhu Yijun when he met the emperor that his Ye He troops would be loyal and loyal to complete the military tasks assigned to him by the imperial court.
Then, Yang Jinu first misappropriated most of the 200,000 taels of silver dollar coupons to buy a large number of subscription coupons, hoping to make a fortune.
But his subordinates didn't know that their military pay had been embezzled by their master, so they excitedly followed Yang Jinu onto the steam train.
"Niangle, how come this big iron lump moves without the traction of cows and horses!"
"He can also spit smoke!"
The Jurchen Yiding of Yehe tribe were stunned after seeing the steam train.
Everyone stared at the steam train as if they were looking at gods, chatting nonstop, and couldn't help but reach out and touch the outside of the train carriage. Some jumped directly to see if they could stop the train, and even wanted to touch it. He was on a railroad track and was run over to death on the spot.
"My Emperor Ming is truly worthy of being a celestial kingdom. He is extremely prosperous and prosperous. Even his carriages are as spectacular as Cui Wei!"
"This is the time for us to make great achievements."
Jin Taiji of Ye He's tribe also sighed after the train started. He looked at the steam train slowly heading south, like a big black iron dragon flying into the sky, and shouted to his sister Dong Ge who was bidding farewell to him. road:
"Brother Dong, you must serve His Majesty well and wait for news from me, brother!"
In order to better assimilate the Jurchen tribes and reduce their resistance, Zhu Yijun also accepted some Jurchen noble women as concubines, including Yehenara Dongge, who was born in the tenth year of Wanli.
Brother Dong, who came to see his brother off, nodded after hearing this, and soon waved goodbye to his brother Jin Taiji in the carriage.
And soon, Jin Taiji, Yang Jinu and other members of the Yehe tribe disappeared into the skyline together with the train carrying them.
However, when Yang Jinu on the train saw the densely packed towns and villages along the railway, he sighed: "What a pity!" (End of Chapter)
