Preface to Sunflower Collection:
In the sixth year of Chenghua, Jixiang met the Supreme Emperor for the first time, and then returned to the palace. His Majesty asked him about the crime of concealment, and then used the crime as a crime to prepare for the trip to the East China Sea.
At the beginning of the ninth year of Chenghua, the fleet took over the East China Sea, with flags fluttering in the wind, strong ships and cannons, and a feeling of heroism.
Who says that eunuchs are not as good as men, they can still show off their country's prestige by threading needles, serving tea and pouring water.
Anyone who wants to become famous on the sea must start by wielding a sword from the palace.
This book was written in February of the ninth year of Chenghua, on the east coast of Korea.
Cao Jixiang, the eunuch admiral of the Ming Dynasty's long voyage fleet.
Cao Jixiang was in the cabin, leaning in front of the writing desk. After writing these, he put down the brush and sighed.
He made up his mind to carry forward the Sunflower Book and become the spokesperson of the incomplete group of eunuchs.
So at the beginning, a big secret about the royal family was exposed. He also thought that he would wait until a hundred years later to take out this book, otherwise he would die without a burial place just based on the first sentence. .
The Sunflower Collection is not only a logbook of voyages to the East Ocean, but also a bitter history of Cao Jixiang's three-year sea journey.
It is one of the important documents for later generations to study Emperor Chenghua.
After Cao Jixiang finished writing, he walked out of the cabin, went to the deck, and looked at the coastline in the distance.
After arriving in North Korea, he did not go ashore, but he allowed Zhu Yi and others to go ashore.
It took six days to get from Shanghai County to Anping County, Liaoping Prefecture.
According to the original plan, everyone wanted to replenish fresh water in Anping County, but Zhu Yi felt that they had to leave the land of Ming Dynasty. It was better to let the crew stay in Anping County for two or three days. Cao Jixiang agreed.
Most of the people Cao Jixiang recruited were people who drove ships and had to work. They couldn't set off and had no time to think about. They were all resting in the warehouse.
But the combatants led by Zhu Yi, who were more than 300 combat officers and soldiers of the former Fujian Navy, had no work to give them. The first such long voyage gave them some time to spare, so they took a small boat. , wandered around Anping County.
The reception desk is quite large.
Shi Biao.
If it had been anyone else, he would have been able to carry the president around at most, but Zhu Yi was the future Duke Cheng.
Although there were rumors of disagreement between Shi Heng and Cheng Guogong, he did not dare to be too rude and asked Shi Biao to receive Zhu Yi and others.
Pu Ning'er and Li Tiechui also followed Zhu Yi's officers and soldiers and collectively disembarked from the ship.
Cao Jixiang only gave him two days of leave. Zhu Yi couldn't wait to take her brothers to experience the style of Jurchen women. But after landing, she found that it was not what she thought.
He originally thought that the newly added land, where the Jurchens were rampant, and the Koreans would be very chaotic, and it would be very easy for them to have some fun, but when they actually set foot in Anping County, they found that the system here was very strict. Oh, no one can be seen except in the plowed fields outside the hundred households.
A very eerie peace.
This made Zhu Yi unable to speak.
If Zhu Yi didn't say it, Shi Biao certainly wouldn't say it either.
Zhu Yi and his party did not stay full during the original two-day holiday. They only rode horses. After two or three hours, they returned to the ship and set off.
On the coast, Shi Biao watched Zhu Yi and his party leave. After their boat went away, Shi Biao's expression suddenly changed.
He glanced at a soldier behind him and said, "Speak."
"Yes, General. Two brothers did not return to the camp last night. At noon today, their bodies were found in the river. Their weapons and armor were missing."
This was news we had just received, but since Zhu Yi was present at the time, it was not convenient for the soldiers to tell it.
Shi Biao raised his eyebrows lightly: "Who has the chance to take action?"
"People from the three surrounding 100-household offices are all suspected."
"Move troops."
"yes."
After Shi Biao finished speaking, he got on his horse and said, "Take all the people from the three hundred households to the Thousand People's Pier, and find the murderer of our brothers right there."
"Yes, General."
The so-called Thousand Man Traps, as the name suggests, is a burial place for thousands of Jurchens.
After Shi Heng led an army of 20,000 people into Anping Road in the former North Korea, the Jurchens on Anping Road not only did not raise their hands to surrender, but also had the urge to resist. Then, the most ferocious one was chased for hundreds of miles, and they were chased for several hundred miles. Thousands of people were killed and buried on the spot.
There are more than ten such thousand-man pits in Liaoping Mansion, almost all of which were places where wars took place.
The permanent population of these three hundred-household residences, including children and women, is more than 700, and the number of strong adult men is less than 100.
Weapons were strictly controlled. Their original bows and arrows were confiscated and could only be distributed when they went out hunting, but they could only receive five knives at a time. Five bows and arrows.
Hiding weapons privately is a serious crime in Liaoping Mansion. Once discovered, the entire family, young and old, will be killed.
The Baihu residence where the Jurchens now live is just like their previous camp. The outermost perimeter is a built earth wall, and inside are the houses. Outside the Hundred Houses, there are 500 acres of fields for them to The settlements for farming are relatively sparse on the East China Sea. There are only three hundred settlements within fifty miles.
Each hundred households were guarded by three armored soldiers.
In the middle of the three hundred households is a permanent camp of the Ming army.
There are more than two hundred soldiers.
These soldiers are replaced all the year round. Most of them are newly transferred from Fushun or transferred from Beijing Camp. They are proficient in various military formations and weapons, but do not have much actual combat experience. They are an alternative. Elites, or alternative recruits who have never seen blood.
The patrolling soldiers were killed, which was a big thing in Liaoping Prefecture.
They didn't have the time to do what Detective Di Renjie did, and they all used the most primitive way to take revenge.
In the Ming army camp, the soldiers were still practicing as before.
A soldier rode in quickly on a fast horse.
"Where is Mr. Bao?"
The bearded commander of Qingshui Fort was wandering on the edge of the training team when he suddenly heard the shout, saw the soldier, and ran over quickly.
"General Shi Biao has an order to escort all the Jurchens from the three hundred-household stations to the Thousand People's Grave to find the murderer of our brothers."
This one always shouts: "Yes."
Then he turned around and shouted to the practicing soldiers: "Wear armor."
"Yes." The soldiers shouted in unison.
Then the soldiers ran back to their houses, put on their armor, picked up their weapons, mounted their horses, divided into three teams, and rushed to the three hundred households.
Among these soldiers, there was one named Miao Aibing. The eldest child Xu Youzhen brought to Jingying from Qinyang Mansion also had a child named Shi E, Shi Heng's adopted son. He was the child who was rescued by Shi Heng in a cellar outside Guangning City.
Miao Aibing was transferred to Guangning City in the eighth year of Chenghua, and then he asked the general to be transferred here. Miao Aibing had been training in the Beijing camp for a long time. I can't say that he was proficient in bowing, horse riding, and archery, but in It is also rare to encounter an opponent in the military camp.
Shi E had just reached the age of sixteen and had been in the army for two years. When he first entered North Korea, he had been working as a soldier with Shi Heng. He did not leave Shi Heng until the eighth year of Chenghua. When he arrived at the garrison camp below, he has been rotating in Anping County. Because of his own experiences and hatred of foreign races, he treated the Jurchens even more harshly than Shi Heng, Shi Biao and others.
And Shi Biao, leading more than fifty soldiers, had already arrived at the thousand-man pit first.
Looking back, I saw a large desolate dirt bag, with not even a tree to be seen for several miles.
An hour later.
The cavalry escorted the Jurchens from Baihu Station and arrived one after another.
The crowd of Jurchens looked at Shi Biao with unconcealable fear in their eyes.
Shi Biao looked at these people expressionlessly, and then ordered people to separate them.
The old people are in one team, the young adults are in one team, the young women are in one team, and the children are in one team. Women who are married to Ming army soldiers are also in one team, holding their newborn children, but the number is the smallest, only dozens of people. .
When the soldiers separated, the children kept crying and the young adults dared not speak out. They had no idea what was happening.
After dividing the groups into groups, the soldiers loudly yelled at the children to stop crying.
These Jurchen children were very afraid of the soldiers wearing armor. Under their loud scolding, they gradually stopped crying, but their eyes kept looking in the direction of their mothers.
After a while, Shi Biao asked the soldiers to let the women who were married to Ming soldiers leave first with the children.
Then several soldiers took the dozen women out of the Ming army's siege and waited outside for a while.
After these women left, they held their children and kept looking at the scene inside. They seemed to know what was going to happen next. They were a little scared because there were their parents and relatives among the old people, but they could not do anything. I can only bless it in my heart.
After Shi Biao watched the women being taken out, he shouted: "The Ming army came here to provide you with protection so that you can live in peace. However, you repaid kindness with vengeance and dared to attack the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty." , throwing the body into the river."
"This is a serious crime, a serious crime of genocide. Some of you don't understand, but some of you understand it very well. Come forward, lest the entire tribe be implicated because of you."
After Shi Biao finished speaking, he kept looking at these Jurchens.
No one in the crowd spoke, and no one stood up.
"General, how could any of us dare to kill Ming's heavenly soldiers? Is there some misunderstanding..." After a long time, an old man stood up and said.
His daughter married a soldier of the Ming Army, and he thought that one of these soldiers looked familiar, so he dared to speak out.
Shi Biao turned his head and glanced at the old man.
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Two soldiers immediately stepped forward and pulled the old man out.
"General, my daughter is married to Chang Hai, you can't kill me." The old man was shocked after being dragged.
Outside the encirclement, a dignified-looking Jurchen woman holding a child wanted to rush in, but was stopped by the soldiers on the outside.
"Please tell the general not to kill my Ama, I am Chang Hai's wife..."
"It's because you are Brother Changhai's wife that we brought you out. Don't cause trouble to Brother Changhai." The soldier said coldly.
"Look at your kids and stay out of trouble."
The soldier's words made the woman think of her children and her husband's situation in the army, so she calmed down.
Because of Shi Heng's dislike, those who married Jurchen women as their wives in Liaoping Mansion were considered inferior in the army.
Although her husband was older in the army and had made some achievements, how could he disobey the general's order for his father's sake?
And a soldier in armor kept looking this way. He was so scared that his wife ran in regardless of everything.
In Liaoping Prefecture, as long as you marry a Jurchen woman, you will almost never be rotated with the large army, and you will have no chance of advancement.
But Changhai is also an old bachelor. He has not found a wife at the age of thirty. If he hadn't beaten the Jurchens, how could he have married a beautiful wife under the age of eighteen, so it doesn't matter whether he makes progress or not. What do you mean?
Getting a wife is the right thing to do.
Therefore, he also cherishes his wife. When his father-in-law is killed, his heart is not greatly shaken. As long as his wife is fine, he will be dead if his father-in-law dies, and he does not have to spend his salary.
The old man's yelling had no effect.
The head was chopped off by Shi Biao's soldiers.
When the woman outside saw this scene, she burst into tears and collapsed to the ground, but she still held the child tightly in her arms and did not let go...
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