The main residence in Ye Hedong City is the so-called Baylor Mansion. In fact, the word "mansion" is not very suitable to be used here. Whether it is in terms of architectural specifications or the status of the owner, this house is far from being a "mansion".
The emergence of "fu" as a residential function was first recorded in "Zhou Li Tianguan Dazai": "The residence of hundreds of officials is called a mansion". The subsequent development will not be discussed in detail here, but by the Ming Dynasty, according to regulations, "the vassal king called the government, the officials called the house, and the common people called the family."
That being said, it is well known that the etiquette system will become looser in the later period of the dynasty, so during the Longwan period, many things changed.
Some deliberately avoid the word "mansion" and use other honorifics. For example, the residence where Gao Jingshi returned to Jinggongfang in Zhaohui was called "Zhuangyuandi" earlier. This is avoidance.
Some are purely due to changes in culture and disregard of regulations. For example, the same old No. 1 scholar, after Gao Pingshi became the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, began to openly change its name to "Shang Shu Gaofu" - using the word "Fu".
This is a new change brought about by the second surge in the status of civil servants during the Longqing period. I have never heard of any commander-in-chief who dared to call his residence "General Military Mansion" or "General Rong Mansion" or even "Commander's Mansion". As an important minister of the country, his residence can now be called a "mansion" by default, such as the Grand Scholar's Mansion, the Shangshu Mansion, and the General Constitutional Mansion - the regulations still do not say that it is allowed, but even if the emperor knew it, he would not pursue it.
This is not surprising. How many civil servants in the early Ming Dynasty were able to wear python robes? Not to mention those who wear sitting python robes. Now that I'm even wearing a python robe, what's the big deal about living in a "mansion"? The only thing that can still be strictly restricted now is probably the "Palace".
Yes, in the early years, only the residence of the vassal king was called the government, but what was the status of the vassal king at that time, and what is the status of the vassal king now? To be blunt, except for Zhu Yixuan, the emperor's direct brother, which of today's vassal kings would dare to be rude in front of Gao Pangshi? No, not one.
What's more, in fact, even Zhu Yili probably wouldn't dare to do so - because he can only take profits from the feudal king's fiefdom and cannot directly manage it. The direct management power of these fiefdoms lies with the local yamen, while the top management power lies with the Ministry of Household Affairs, in the hands of Gao Pragmatic.
Because of this, when Cao Yan was about to walk into the gate of Nalinbulu's "Belle Mansion", he couldn't help but sneered when he looked at the plaque, stopped, and said to Nalinbulu and Bu Zhai who were walking beside him. : "I have been an official for many years, and this is the first time I have seen such a desolate mansion."
Although Nalin Bulu and Bu Zhai were angry, they obviously did not dare to act wildly in front of Cao Yun. The landlord Nalin Bulu accompanied him with a smile and said: "This... this is just that we and other Yi people admire the Celestial Empire and have no other intentions."
Cao Yu snorted: "It's better not to have any." He said and walked in.
Nalin Bulu and Bu Zhai looked at each other cautiously, each thankful that although Cao Yan was domineering, he raised it high and put it down gently without going into details.
It is common for the Ming army's border generals to be overbearing, not to mention the deputy general of Liaoyang who is responsible for the area east of the Liaohe River. Nalinbulu and Buzhai were not surprised by this. They were a little surprised that Cao Yu just mocked them and stopped pursuing them. According to the general situation, Cao Yu should have at least beaten or even intimidated them at this time.
But Cao Yun didn't. Nalinbulu and Buzhai always felt that something was wrong, but they didn't dare to delay at the moment, and followed them into "Baylor Mansion" with their own thoughts.
There is no doubt that Cao Yu will take the seat, and even if purely based on official positions, a number of Ming army generals have to sit closer to Cao Yu than Nalin Bulu and Bu Zhai. However, Cao Yan considered that these two Baylors were landlords after all, so he moved their positions forward and sat in the position second only to Kaiyuan General Ma Chengxun, opposite Shenyang guerrilla general Qi Jin.
Nalinbulu and Buzhai first expressed their gratitude to the Ming army for the arrival of the heavenly soldiers, and thanked all the generals present one by one, and then said: "Thanks to the might of the commander-in-chief Hu, the Tumen thieves fled without a fight. I, Tarum, The guards, young and old, have all been saved because of this, and their gratitude cannot be expressed in words. Now they must change their past mistakes and guard the borders for the Celestial Empire."
Cao Yu didn't have much expression, nodded, and said calmly: "If the two ministers have such thoughts, I think this trip is worthwhile."
It turns out that the "official positions" of these two Yehe's Beile in the Ming Dynasty were just to command the general affairs, which was lower than the status of other Jurchen tribes such as Hada and even Jianzhou.
Ye He is now actually the most powerful among the Jurchens. Why is his official position so low? Of course it's for historical reasons.
After the Ming Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongolian nobles withdrew from the capital and returned to the grasslands. However, their political power was not lost, but the scope of their jurisdiction was narrowed. They still issued orders, which was known as the Northern Yuan Dynasty in history. At that time, the Northern Yuan Dynasty still ruled the vast area of Haixi, and the Jurchens were still subjects of the Yuan Dynasty.
In July of the fourth year of Hongwu, the capital of Liao was established. By October of the eighth year, the capital guard was changed to the Liaodong Capital Command and Envoy Division, commanding twenty-five guards and two states. In ten years, all prefectures and counties were abolished, and the health system was the basis for the administrative division of Northeast China. From the Ding Liao Duwei to the Liaodong Du Commandery Division, the scope of its jurisdiction is only "to the Yalu River in the east, to Shanhaiguan in the west, to Lushunkou in the south, and to Kaiyuan in the north". To the north of the Liao River, the Songhua River Basin, Heilongjiang River, etc. The north and south were not yet within the territory of the Ming Dynasty. This vast area was still under the jurisdiction of the "Haixi Xuanwei Division" of the Yuan Dynasty.
In the 16th year of Hongwu's reign, Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty wrote a surrender edict to Taishi Aluhui, the "Haixi Youcheng" of the late Yuan Dynasty who was guarding this place, urging him to surrender. After Aruhui surrendered, the Ming Dynasty's decrees arrived in the Haixi area.
The Yehe area in the early Ming Dynasty was basically an undeveloped desert land. However, after the orthodoxy, the Jurchen guards moved southward, and the Tarum guards moved around several times before entering this area.
In order to resist the resurgence of the Mongolian forces, after the surrender of Aluhui, they began to recruit the Jurchen tribe, set up guard posts, issued imperial edicts to seals, and established the "Nuer Gandu Division" to rule them.
At this time, the Haixi region implemented a different management system from the mainland. It was a subject of the Ming Dynasty but not within the territory of the Ming Dynasty. It was a typical "one country, two systems".
The Jurchen Naqibulu took advantage of this opportunity to establish the "Hulun Kingdom", which the Ming Dynasty neither recognized nor interfered with, thus forming a tripartite situation of the Ming Dynasty, the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and the Hulun Kingdom.
The Ming Dynasty always implemented its "restriction policy" with its own intention: "to cover up the feud between the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, and to hope that the barbarians would attack themselves." The Ming Dynasty took advantage of the racial hatred of the Yuan Dynasty to implement a special system in the Northeast, using the Jurchens to shield the Northern Fan.
However, after the disintegration of the Hulun Kingdom, four parallel Jurchen kingdoms appeared on the Songliao land, known as the "Four Hulun Kingdoms" in history.
After the rise of these four Haixi Jurchen forces, the Ming Dynasty still strictly guarded the border walls. As long as you don't disturb the border, let them make their own mistakes. Therefore, Tatar, Wala, and Duoyan (Fuyu, Taining) in the north can all be classified as "foreign countries", but the "four tribes of Hulun" are not in this case, and they still treat each other as guards, and Tonggong City remains as usual. And the leaders of the "four tribes of Hulun" also "know the Ming Dynasty, and they all lead and defend their troops, and when they order their tribes, they call the country".
Since Ye He and other "Four Hu Lun Tribes" are not recognized, theoretically, they should be regarded as military and political institutions within the territory of the Ming Dynasty. The place where they are located is the administrative area of the Ming Dynasty, and the people they govern are also the Ming Dynasty. people.
However, this was not the case. The territory of the Ming Dynasty listed in the "History and Geography of the Ming Dynasty" later did not include the Haixi Jurchen region. A census was conducted in the sixth year of Wanli. There were 10,621,436 households and 60,692,856 Dingkou (adult men with labor force and legal household registration) in the country, among which there were no Jurchens outside the border wall.
As a result, Ye He and other "Four Hu Lun Tribes" became a special area that was both affiliated with the Ming Dynasty's administrative system and free from the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty's regime.
During the Ming Dynasty, the title "Yeh" never officially appeared in official books, but was always recorded as "Tarumuwei" and paid tribute to it.
The Tarum Guard was first seen in the Ming Dynasty classics in the fourth year of Yongle. The Gengyin article in February of the fourth year of Yongle in "Records of the Ming Dynasty·Records of Chengzu" contains: "The leader of the Jurchen savages, Da Ye, and other seventy people came to the court and ordered the Tarum guard to be built. Wait for the four guards to take the command of beating Xu." This is the beginning of Tarumu's first appearance on the historical stage. However, the Tarum Guard officials at this time were not of the same line as the later Yehe leaders.
Regardless of whether they were beating leaves or catkins, they were not the ancestors of Ye He's tribe. Da Ye passed on to Nile'a, then to Sahada, and three to Narqiren and Tongha. The Da Ye family ended here and disappeared from history.
Tong Ha took office in the 14th year of Chenghua. Basically at the same time, another Tarum Guards girl Zhen Er Ha You also appeared on the stage of history, but the word "assume" was not mentioned, indicating that he was not a Leaf descendants or families.
Erha you are actually Qilhana, the ancestor of Ye He, who was later called Qilgani in the historical records of the Qing Dynasty. Qilgani and above only recorded two generations, but they were found from Tatar and Qing historical records. People in the Ming Dynasty probably did not care about Ye He at all, so there is no record of this in the historical records of the Ming Dynasty. These two generations are the ancestor Xinggen Darhan, the second generation Silk Minggatu, and Qilgani the third generation. At this time, the Yehe tribe had not yet been formed, and they were all just leaders of the Tarum Guards.
According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, the commander of the guard must oversee five thousand people. Qilgani is the commander, which shows that their unit has a large population and great power. However, the Jurchen Guards are different from the mainland guards. They have official positions but not Salaries can only be obtained through the tribute market, and the other source of income is the meager rewards from the court.
Of course, this cannot solve the problem of survival and development of the Jurchen guards, and their own productivity... is almost negligible. Therefore, plunder and robbery are inevitable, and the relationship with the Ming Dynasty becomes more and more complicated. Naturally, They will be severely suppressed by the Ming Dynasty.
At the beginning of Zhengde period, "Suchangjia (i.e. Qilgani) used the method of subjugating the Han Dynasty to open the original city" - he disobeyed and was beheaded in the city. So in the eighth year of Zhengde, "Haixi Yijia Hacha, Zhu Kongge and others blocked tribute."
This is a normal thing, because his father Qilgani was killed by the Ming Dynasty. He wanted to avenge his father, so he joined forces with the leader of Feihewei, Jhacha, to block tribute. However, after all, Ye He's tribe could not defeat the Ming Dynasty, and in the end they had to surrender. Therefore, in August of the eighth year of Zhengde, the Ministry of War reported: "The Haixi Yi people Zhu Kongge and four other people paid tribute after being cared for, and they often asked for promotion and attack and were given seals." Follow the edict. If you follow it, you will show weakness, if you don't follow it, you will be resentful. I will discuss it with the court officials and think that you, the son of the father of Zhukong Ge, will be commanded by the Tarum Guards. In case the intruders are killed, they are temporarily allowed to attack his father. The post will be given to the governor of Liaodong to collect and store it, and it will be given to him after he has not disturbed the border for more than one year."
Okay, so the origin will be clearer. Here's the thing: Ye He's ancestors were not originally the heads of the "Ye He Kingdom (later called so)", one of the four Hu Lun tribes, but only important leaders of his country, that is, The commander of Tarum Guards.
Although the ruling family of this "country" later disappeared, everyone knows that the Ming Dynasty's habits were very particular about names. If you are not the king of the country, I will not give you this command, even if the king is gone. Therefore, Ye He's "Baylor (leader)" so far in the Ming Dynasty is still only a commander.
In other words, they actually performed the commanding powers of the "Talumu Guards" by commanding the Qianshi. As a result, they certainly could not compare with Hada, Jianzhou, etc. in terms of "official status." So just now they were able to sit across from Qi Jin because Cao Yu gave them special treatment in the name of their "landlords".
Facing Cao Yun's lukewarm words, Nalinbulu and Buzhai could only pretend they didn't see it. After all, on the one hand, there was a "disparity in status", and on the other hand, they still had others to ask for.
After all, Bu Zhai, who had lost his nest, was more anxious. He didn't care about the irreconcilable hatred for killing his father. He clasped his fists and said, "Commander, now Tumen are afraid of him like a tiger, and I, Xicheng, are still wreaking havoc on him. After being plundered, all the people in my tribe are looking forward to returning to the Ming Dynasty. Why doesn’t the commander send out the heavenly troops early to help me recapture the West City, so that I can guard the border for the Ming Dynasty for generations to come?”
To be able to speak so bluntly, this Bu Zhai is indeed a barbarian. Cao Yu thought this, but his expression did not change at all. He glanced at him and said: "Now that we are marching in winter, although the heavenly soldiers are powerful, they still need to rest. I have always loved my soldiers as my own children, how can I not show mercy and force myself to do so?" Let them continue fighting?"
Bu Zhai suddenly became anxious and said hurriedly: "Commander..."
As soon as the words left his mouth, Nalinbulu, who was next to him, quickly grabbed him and took over the words: "What the commander said is absolutely true. The heavenly soldiers came north to rescue me... Tarumu Guards, it is indeed very hard, and the pommel horse is tired. It’s okay to take a break.”
But this was obviously not his purpose, so he looked at Cao Yu's face and saw that he was not angry. He lowered his voice and asked respectfully: "I just don't know how many days the commander-in-chief plans to rest? Ah, I don't have a humble position. The other meaning is just to arrange supplies according to the commander-in-chief's plan, so as not to go wrong in the supply and neglect the commander-in-chief, the generals and the army under his command."
Seeing that he could speak, Cao Yu's face became much kinder, and he smiled slightly and said: "I accept your kindness, but how long this rest will last will not be decided until Tan Ma reports back on the situation in Xicheng. If Tumen plans to hold on to Xicheng, then we will have to wait for a few more days and make enough preparations before we can fight fiercely, don’t you think?"
Nalinbulu's smile froze, and he just managed to squeeze out a smile. Before he could speak, Bu Zhai couldn't help it anymore: "How can Tumen defend the West City? He has all cavalry under his command. How can he defend the city? I don't think so. The commander has hundreds of huge cannons under his command, and they will pull them under the city and blast them indiscriminately. The Tumen are afraid that it will be too late to escape, so why should they defend themselves?"
Cao Yan's smile faded, his face darkened, and he said coldly: "Are you teaching me how to fight?"
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