At the end of September in the second year of Wanli, Liu Yingjie, the governor of Jiliao, and Li Chengliang, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, met in Fushun to gather the Jurchen tribes.
At the meeting place, the Ming court cut Wang Gao, the Jurchen leader who had unified the tribes in the past, into pieces with a thousand knives, and liquidated his crime of disemboweling and killing three hundred Ming troops in the first year of Wanli.
Amid Wang Gao's miserable cries, Liu Yingjie issued an imperial edict, demanding that the Jurchen tribes immediately release Han and Korean slaves, and that before February 2 next year, all slaves should grow their hair and change their clothes to the right hem, just like the Han people.
After receiving the order, Nikan Wailan, the lord of Tulun City of the Hada tribe who was present at the time, directly asked General Li Rusong to shave his braid and remove his right lapel. Since there was no button under his right armpit, Nikan Wailan wore a riding whip around his waist to show his loyalty to the court.
Liu Yingjie was overjoyed to see him and gave him Hanfu, a pair of gold beads, and six hundred catties of tea.
Under his leadership, Jurchen chiefs such as Wangtai, Juechang'an, Nalin, and Takshi all shaved their heads, took off their clothes, and put on Hanfu to show that they had no intention of resisting the imperial court.
At that time, only two Jurchen tribes had slight objections. Dai, the head of Zhaojiazhai of the Hunhe tribe, and Suku, the minister of Jiaha. Because they were superstitious about shamans, they knelt down and begged Liu Yingjie, saying that there was no problem in changing clothes, but they refused to get ordained on the spot. I need to go back and ask my shaman.
Uncle Ning Yuan was furious and sent two generals, each with two thousand cavalry. Under the leadership of the guide sent by Nikan Wailan, they directly captured the two tribes, killed two shamans, slaughtered all the old and young, and put the young and strong tribesmen behind the horses and dragged them behind.
Three days later, when the cavalry returned to Fushun, the hundreds of young Jurchens dragged behind them were all dead, and most of the corpses had only a few leg bones left in their lower bodies.
At this time, Wang Gao took his last breath under the torture of Liu Xiaodao, who treated and cut the flesh at the same time.
This bloody road from Hunhe to Fushun and Wang Gao's tragic death completely shocked Baishan and Heishui. The Jurchen tribesmen and even the Tatar herdsmen were all horrified when they heard this. Li Chengliang's name can really stop children crying at night in the northeastern part of the empire.
The impact of this event spanned hundreds of years. In the vast territory north of the Yellow River in this time and space, different versions of the folk ghost "Le Leopard Who Eats Children" have been circulating in various places. And Li Laobao, who brought childhood nightmares to countless people, according to the research of idle historians, is Li Chengliang.
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After the Jurchen chiefs returned from Fushun, any shaman who objected to shaving and growing their hair was killed. By mid-November, Li Chengliang sent cavalry to various units to conduct inspections in the wind and snow, and found that all the Jurchens had lost their right hair, and the longest hair had grown to two inches.
After Zhu Yijun read the newspaper, he thought that it was a good time for him to travel through time. Although Wang Gao initially unified the Jurchen tribes, he did not instill national consciousness in the Jurchens like Nurhaci did later.
At this time, although some of the Jurchen civilization of the Jin Kingdom remained, most of it had dissipated in the harsh environment. After unifying various ministries in the original time and space, Nurhachi established the Eight Banners system and established various laws and regulations, which finally united the hearts of the people.
Now that the Jurchen tribes are scattered, the tribesmen, who are always hungry to survive, have no national interests in their hearts. Therefore, Zhu Yijun's hair growth order was implemented quickly, and the effect was beyond his expectation.
Now that the Jurchens have been killed and the salt auction has been completed, in order to firmly rule the Northeast, Zhu Yijun, who has a lot of money, followed up with a second move to return to his native land.
Chengzu once established the Nuer Gandu Division in the Northeast as the basis for the rule of the Jurchen tribes.
By the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the imperial rule was limited to the border walls. Although Nuergandusi was still there, it had long lost its practical significance except for using some place names when giving various ministries to comply with the edicts.
The fall of Wang Gao and the General Assembly in Fushun changed the situation in the entire Northeast. At this time, according to the emperor's wishes, the territory of the Ming Dynasty passed through the middle of Tumen Zhasak Tuhan's territory and merged with the Nuergandusi established by Chengzu. , a total of four provinces will be established in Northeast China.
Far north by north, from the north of Heilongjiang to the ice sheet, there is Beishan Province. Its area is the largest among the seventeen provinces of the empire. The nearest point is more than 2,600 miles away from the capital. Including Kuwu Island (Sakhalin Island), all for its jurisdiction.
Therefore, most of the land was inhabited by the Jurchen savages of Beishan, and the Han people had not yet explored it, so they temporarily occupied it on paper - this was Zhu Yijun's plan for the future.
The governor's residence in Beishan Province is Yongning (Nurqian City). This castle has long been annihilated. Only the ruins of Yongning Temple built by Yi Shiha, a famous eunuch at the time of Emperor Chengzu, still exist. In order to occupy the great righteousness, Zhu Yijun renamed Nuerqian City Yongning.
From Heilongjiang to the south, Zhu Yijun divided the Northeast into three provinces according to the approximate location of later generations, namely Heilongjiang, Taining, and Liaoning. The governor's residences in the three provinces are Heilongjiang City (Aihui), Daning (Changchun), and Shenyang.
Except for Liaoning, there are very few Han people in the other three provinces, less than ten thousand in total. Therefore, Zhu Yijun decided that the governor of Beishan Province would not be in place for the time being, and he would only send 500 troops and 500 Han households from Liaodong to slowly build the city in Yongning.
In Heilongjiang and Taining provinces, the governor held the rank of general military officer and stationed troops in Heilongjiang City and Daning City, recruited Han people to reclaim wasteland, and was responsible for city construction.
The political and economic center of the entire Northeast is located in Shenyang. Zhu Yijun allocated millions of dollars and planned to expand Shenyang Zhongwei into a large city with a northern governor's office to govern the four provinces. After the rule is stabilized, he will go west to capture Tumen Zhasak Tuhan and Khalkha Mongolia to completely resolve the empire's northern border troubles.
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Zhu Yijun proposed a large-scale plan to expand the land by thousands of miles, with an initial investment of one million taels, which was fiercely opposed by the cabinet.
Both Zhang Juzheng and Lu Tiaoyang believed that the Jurchen tribe was no longer a danger to the empire. The imperial court should maintain the roots of Liaodong and expand its territory as far as Taining in the Songhua River Basin. Relying on Liaodong, it could build several more groups of castles and carry out land reform and return. Solve the troubles in the east.
Although the court now has a lot of money, there will still be a lot of internal chaos. At this time, a large sum of money was spent to move people and build cities in the Heilongjiang Basin, but the gains outweighed the losses.
Zhu Yijun's explanation for this is that when governing the world, one cannot blindly maintain the status quo. Full control of the Northeast is a golden key to solving the empire's chronic problems, and policymakers must see this.
First, the land in the northeast is fertile and crisscrossed by rivers. Best suited for large-scale corn production and becoming a large granary for the empire. The yield per mu of corn is slightly higher than that of wheat, and the stalks are tall and can be used as winter fodder for livestock and as firewood. It is most suitable for planting in the Northeast.
Judging from the results of promoting corn planting in Liaodong this year, self-sufficiency is more than enough. From then on, the imperial court no longer had to transport grain to Liaodong, which was a waste of national funds. ——Of course, this is not entirely due to the promotion of corn. Li Chengliang's trade in exchanging grain for Dongzhu was cut off, which also played a key role.
Agriculture is the foundation of the country and its importance is indisputable. Zhu Yijun traveled through time and the first thing he did after taking power was to ask Jin Yiwei to collect information on grains from all over the world.
Corn was introduced to China in the middle of the Jiajing period, and was planted in six or seven northern provinces in the first year of Wanli. Although corn and wheat have many advantages, without government promotion, the results are completely different.
This spring, Zhu Yijun asked the Ministry of Household Affairs to take charge of the general affairs and promote corn cultivation in the north - especially in Liaodong. Zhu Yijun asked Liu Yingjie to attach great importance to this matter and must implement it. Now that the results are out, Zhang Juzheng and Lu Tiaoyang are speechless.
Zhu Yijun believed that if the fertile land in the Heilongjiang, Songhua, and Wusuli river basins, including the great plains where these three rivers converged, were used to grow corn and wheat, the harvest would be as high as the rice production of Imperial Huguang.
If this can be done, the imperial court can open a northern canal - the northeastern grain transportation will first use rivers, and then be transported directly to Tianjin by sea, which will comprehensively alleviate the food shortage problem in the northern part of the imperial court. The benefits of this alone are worth the court's investment of one million taels of silver.
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