Jilin was the front line of the Ming Dynasty's rule in the northeast. After Emperor Xuanzong of Ming Dynasty Zhu Zhanji gave up Nuergandusi, Jilin City became the northernmost region that the Ming Dynasty could actually control.

Of course, at this time, Jilin City was not the second-level city with a population of 4 million in later generations, but a military base mainly for shipbuilding.

The name Jilin comes from a Manchu word, and its full name is "Jilin Wula", which means "a city along the river". Jilin is one of the important areas that humans live and develop in the northeast early, and humans lived in it 20,000 years ago. However, before the Ming Dynasty, Jilin was just a small fishing village near the Songhua River and had no special significance.

After the Ming Dynasty took over the large tract of land in the northeast of the Yuan Dynasty, in order to strengthen the management of the northeastern border, in the seventh year of Yongle, the Nuergan Commander Command Department, the highest local administrative agency in charge of the Heilongjiang, the Ussuri River, Songhua River Basin and other places, was responsible for collecting taxes and managing local administrative affairs.

In order to open up transportation lines with the mainland, especially to transport grain, cloth and military supplies to the vast areas of the Heilongjiang River Basin south of the Greater Xing'an Mountains, when land transportation was very difficult, they turned their attention to water transportation. Jilin is located in the middle of the upper reaches of the Songhua River. The water surface was wide at that time, and was suitable for large ships to sail. In order to build transportation ships and military ships, the Ming Dynasty sent Liaodong Dusi to Jilin three times in the 18th year of Yongle, the first year of Hongxi, and the seventh year of Xuande.

Although the Nurgandus was abolished, there were always Ming garrisons in Jilin. However, after the failure of Sarhu during the Wanli period, the Ming Dynasty gradually withdrew from the Northeast, and the Jilin Shipyard was abandoned. However, in the sixth year of Shenwu, Zhao Guodong, the governor of the New Ming Dynasty, re-occupied Shenyang. In order to control the vast northeast, Zhao Guodong reopened the shipyard in Jilin and built inland navigation ships for rapid transportation and dispatch of troops in the Songhua River and Heilongjiang River basins.

In the eighth year of Shenwu, Zhu Hongsan re-divided the administrative divisions, and the entire Northeast region was divided into three provinces, Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang from the original two capitals. The station of Jilin Province was naturally Jilin City.

In recent years, due to the court's emphasis on the Northeast, a large amount of funds have been allocated to the Northeast, and a large number of people have also come. Of course, these people did not come voluntarily, but the families of criminals sent to the Suzhou Incident.

With the addition of a large number of people and funds, coupled with the attention of the court, by the 12th year of Shenwu, Jilin City had become a large city outside the border with a population of 30,000. Because the city built during the Yongle period was too small to accommodate so many people, Jilin General Duan Fei decided to build a new city one kilometer southeast of the old city and Ashhatun.

In July of the 12th year of Shenwu, the season in the south was extremely hot, but Jilin is located in the northeast, and the Little Ice Age has not ended, and the residents of Jilin City are still wearing long-sleeved clothes.

At noon that day, three people came to the north gate of Jilin City, three strange people wearing furs.

Of course, there are many ethnic minorities in Northeast China, and there are many ethnic minorities wearing roe deer leather coats, but it is rare to see people wearing this kind of clothes in this weather.

The Ming soldiers guarding the gate saw these three strange people, picked up the musket and asked, "Wait a minute, who are you? Which tribe are from?"

There are many ethnic minorities in the Northeast, mainly Mongolians, Daurs, Ewenkis, Oroqen, etc., but there are many other ethnic groups with a small population, and their languages ​​are also very strange.

, Due to the isolation of the region, many people of the same race but cannot speak the language, so the common languages ​​in Northeast China are Mongolian and Manchu.

The Ming army soldier has been in the northeast for five or six years. He can still speak some of the basic Mongolian and Manchu languages. He just spoke these two languages.

The three people outside Jilin City are Tao Li, Yinji Khan and Hana, the young Ewenki tribe. After they came out of Daxinganling, they walked for half a year before they arrived at Jilin City. The three people had never traveled far away. The climate in Daxinganling was cold, and the highest temperature in the year was only around zero or ten degrees, so the three people had no clothes to wear in summer.

This was the first time Tao Li encountered such a hot weather. He opened his robe, carried the bow and arrow on his body, and with his empty hands, he signaled that he had no hostility. He walked to the Ming soldier and said in Manchu: "This Master Niu Lu, we are from the Taha tribe on the banks of the Ewen River. My name is Tao Li, and behind him is my wife and sister. Is Mr. Niu Lu Jilin City? "

Tao Li didn't know how to call the soldier opposite him. The biggest official he had ever met in his life was the Jurchen Niulu, who was stationed in the tribe back then, so he called the Ming army soldier Master Niulu.

Seeing Tao Li like this and hearing his words, Ming soldiers knew that these people were local buns from the mountains. In recent years, Jilin City has developed greatly and the transportation with Guanlin is convenient, so many merchants from Guanlin came to Jilin to buy fur, ginseng and deer antlers. In order to buy a good price, those ethnic minorities did not like to buy them at home, but came to Jilin City to sell them. These three children probably also came to sell things.

Seeing that there was no threat, the Ming army soldier took away the musket and asked, "You three children belong to that tribe, where are your adults?"

Tao Li was a little unhappy when he heard that they were called to their children. Tao Li was already an adult in the tribe, and he felt that he was the only one who married his wife.

Tao Li did not answer the soldier's question, but continued, "Is this Jilin City? I want to see your patriarch!"

Seeing that Tao Li was not tall but not very small, the Ming army soldier asked with a smile: "Little baby, are you going to see our general? Is there anything you have to do?"

"The people from our Taha tribe were killed by all the white ghosts from the north, and only three of us are left. I will ask the patriarch to uphold justice for our tribe!"

Ming soldiers knew what happened after hearing Tao Li say this. These Ewenki people and the Oroqen people have a feud. They must have failed in the war with the Oroqen people and wanted to come to the Ming Dynasty to uphold justice. However, the court's policy to these ethnic minorities was to let them go. As long as you surrender to the Ming Dynasty, you can fight as much as you like.

"Boy, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty has an imperial edict to not interfere with the affairs of your tribe. You should not come here to ask for help, you should go to your Ewenk tribe for help." The Ewenk tribe is the largest tribe in the Ewenk tribe. There are thousands of adult soldiers in the upper reaches of the Ergun River.

"Master Niu Lu, our tribe was not slaughtered by the Oroqen people, it was a white ghost, a white ghost from the north!"

The Ming army soldier was really impatient by Tao Li. Now Jilin City is a material distribution center in the northeast. There are many people entering and leaving the city every day. He has the time to play with the Ewenki children.

The Ming soldier was about to drive Tao Li away when a platoon leader came out of the city, who was also the commander who was in charge of guarding the north gate. He heard Tao Li's noise outside the gate at the door.

As a grassroots officer, he knew some news that ordinary soldiers didn't know. Now a group of Europeans appeared in the north. He heard that they were burning, killing, looting everywhere. Many tribes in the Heilongjiang River Basin suffered losses. Many people came to Jilin to complain. Could it be that this Ewenk child was also in this way?

The platoon leader came out and asked, "Boy, what do you mean by the white ghost?"

Tao Li had never seen Russians. At this time, Yinji Khan, behind him, stood up and said, "They are very tall, even taller than you. Their hair is golden, the skin is very white, and some people's eyes are still blue, which is very scary!"

The platoon leader then asked, "What weapon do they use? Are they swords?"

Yin Jihan shook his head and said, "No, it's a kind of wooden stick, but it can emit fire and a huge sound. As soon as that sound comes out, our warriors fall to the ground!"

The platoon leader brought a musket from the soldiers beside him and asked, "Is this a weapon?"

Yinji Khan had close contact with Russia, so he was very clear about the appearance of the musket. He looked at the platoon leader's musket in his hand and shook his head and said, "It's similar to the one in your hand, but the weapon in the white ghost has a rope, and there are sparks on it, but yours doesn't."

It turned out to be a mezzanine. The platoon leader nodded and said, "Okay, you three come in with me, I'll take you to see our division commander!"

Although Jilin and Heilongjiang are provinces, there are no governors and three departments that should be included in provincial administrative divisions. Because this is a border region and everything is controlled by military control, the Jilin general is the Jilin general, and the same is true in Heilongjiang.

General Jilin was Duan Fei, the old subordinate of Zhu Hongsan. Duan Fei used to be stationed in Guangzhou and was responsible for protecting the Dongguan Industrial Zone of Guangzhou. However, he was transferred to the north during the Northern Expedition, which was considered to be the last wave of meritorious service. Although Duan Fei had not fought many wars after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was the first group of teaching groups to graduate from the first group of teaching groups during Guangzhou. Therefore, Duan Fei was named Marquis of Jing'an.

Duan Fei is now the General of Jilin under the rule of the Northeast Governor, responsible for the area of ​​tens of thousands of square kilometers in Jilin Province. He holds the power of life and death with a total population of more than 500,000, which can be said to be a member of the party.

Although the Northeast is in the same territorial region as Luzon, there were only a few wars in the northeast in the past few years. After all, the Northeast is the hometown of the Qing Dynasty, and there were several battles in Shanhaiguan and Shenyang. However, after occupying Shenyang, there was no battle. The ethnic minorities in the Northeast are different from the Mongolians in the northwest. The ethnic minorities in the Northeast do not have a complete ethnic concept except the Jurchens. The same is true for the Daur, Ewenki, and Oroqen tribes.

Although these ethnic groups are called one ethnic group, the hatred between the tribes within their ethnic groups is greater than that of foreign ethnic groups, and these ethnic groups have not formed a complete national consciousness. Therefore, the ethnic minorities in the Northeast have no resistance to the new Han people. Anyway, the ethnic minorities in the Northeast have surrendered to the strong in the thousands of years of history. They were Mongolians hundreds of years ago and Jurchens fifty years ago. Now it is no different to replace them with Han people.
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