Chapter 698 0693 [If this name doesn’t vote for the Ming Dynasty, what are you waiting for?]
The generals of the Bohai tribe who led their troops to surrender the city are very close to our Ming Dynasty.
This guy’s name is Da Mingzhen!
The royal family of the Bohai Kingdom has the surname Da. People with the Da family since the Sui and Tang Dynasties all have unique names: Da Wu Yi, Da Xing Guo, Da Ming Jun, Da Chang Tai...
There once was a famous doctor in Bohai, whose name was simply Daming.
During the Zhao Guangyi period, there was also a man called Da Luanhe who led 300 Bohai cavalry to surrender to the Song Dynasty.
The Manchu and Qing Dynasties shouted the slogan "Manchu and Mongolian family", and Aguda also had the saying of "Jurchen Bohai family".
This is because the Jurchen and Bohai tribes have the same origin, and both have been oppressed by the Liao Kingdom for a long time. With the Jurchen tribe’s sparse population, Aguda naturally chose the Bohai tribe as its allies.
Therefore, in the first few decades of the Jin Kingdom, the political status of the Bohai people was second only to the Jurchens.
The Bohai clan had the privilege of intermarrying with Jurchen nobles. Among the nine emperors of the Jin Kingdom, four of their biological mothers were Bohai women.
When the Bohai Kingdom was destroyed by the Liao Kingdom, more than 100,000 Bohai people fled to Goryeo.
When the Liao Kingdom was destroyed, tens of thousands of Bohai people fled to Goryeo.
The Jin Kingdom agreed to cede Baozhou to Goryeo. In addition to Goryeo's surrender, there was also a condition that the tens of thousands of Bohai refugees would be returned.
The Bohai general Da Mingzhen who surrendered this time was Qu Shuai who was repatriated from Goryeo.
At that time, Gao Yongchang rebelled against Liao and proclaimed himself emperor, and the entire Liaodong was plunged into war.
Damingzhen was forced to submit to Gao Yongchang. When he fought with the Liao Kingdom, his people had already suffered heavy losses. Soon he was stabbed in the back by A Gu. Damingzhen was defeated in several battles. Seeing that Gao Yongchang could no longer hold on, he led
As the remaining tribesmen fled to the south of the Yalu River, a large number of Bohai refugees were gathered during the migration.
In the past few years, Goryeo declared itself a vassal to the Jin Kingdom, repatriated about 10,000 Bohai people, and secretly hid 20,000 to 30,000 people.
Because Da Mingzhen was so famous, Goryeo did not dare to take her in.
He originally planned to take his people back to his hometown, but as a result, most of the land in his hometown had been divided up by the Jurchens, and the rest was also occupied by the Han and Khitan people who moved in.
It happened that Zhang Jue rebelled in the Western Liaoning Corridor, and except for Jinzhou and Zongzhou, the rest of the prefectures and counties there were massacred by the Jin Kingdom, leaving only ten houses and nine empty houses.
As a result, Daming Zhen and more than 3,000 Bohai people were collectively resettled in the Haibin County area of Xingzhou. (The Haibin County at this time was dozens of miles west of Xingcheng in later generations).
In terms of language and customs, these Bohai people are no different from the Han people in the North.
Most of them were thrown to farm, while the craftsmen stayed in the city. Several hundred young men were recruited and organized into an army and handed over to the commander of Da Mingzhen.
Just half a month after Li Bao returned from being sealed off in Tokyo, someone approached Juehua Island in a small boat.
The navy patrol ship found out and immediately kidnapped the person.
"The Coast Guard intends to surrender the entire city?" Li Bao felt outrageous upon hearing this.
The liaison envoy said: "My name is Da Mingyi, and my brother is Da Mingzhen. He is the deputy general of Xingzhou and has been ordered to station in Haibin County, Zhoucheng."
Li Bao thought he heard wrongly: "What did you say your name was?"
The messenger repeated: "My name is Da Mingyi, and my elder brother is Da Mingzhen."
Li Bao clapped his hands and praised: "This is a good name. If you don't surrender, your parents will name you in vain. Tell me, why do you want to surrender?"
Da Mingyi told in detail: "Because Haibin County has the largest salt fields in eastern Liaoning and western Liaoning along the coast, many ethnic groups have migrated there. The population of Haibin County is second only to Jinzhou. The salt workers are placed along the coast, and the rest of the craftsmen live in the prefecture.
In the city, farmers settled along the Liuzhou River."
"Last year, the general crossed the sea and robbed salt fields several times. The salt workers were killed and 30 to 40% of them were captured. Later, he followed the Liuzhou River mouth and robbed farmers in the lower reaches of the Liuzhou River. This made it impossible to collect salt in Haibin County.
, less than half of the county’s land tax has been lost.”
"There was a period of time last year when military rations passed through here. At that time, everyone still had something to eat."
"But later we didn't dare to use the seaside road to transport military rations. There was no food shipped to the county. The salt workers and farmers were moved away from the sea. The most fertile land was the Liuzhou River Estuary. They didn't dare to grow food. The salt workers couldn't boil the salt anymore.
On that day, the Jurchen nobles initially recruited them as soldiers, but later they were dismissed due to lack of food, and they were all driven to the mountains north of the county to open up wasteland."
"A number of salt workers have starved to death and frozen to death in winter, and the life of farmers is not easy. After the beginning of spring, everyone thought that grain would be shipped from western Liaoning. Unexpectedly, not only did the grain not be shipped, the Jurchen nobles also ordered a grain requisition, saying that grain would be shipped from western Liaoning.
There is a shortage of food, and the troops stationed in Haibin County can only collect food locally."
"We moved more than 3,000 tribesmen at that time (actually they were refugees from the Bohai Sea, these people put money on their own family), and now hundreds of them have died, and some have been kidnapped by the generals. If this continues, there will definitely be more
Our people are going to starve to death, so we discuss surrendering to the Celestial Empire."
"only……"
Li Bao already believed this and asked: "Just what?"
Da Mingyi said: "I just ask the general to bring some food. After taking the city, we can save the people here!"
Li Bao asked: "How many defenders are there in the city?"
Da Mingyi said: "In the beginning, there were two hundred Jurchen soldiers, five hundred Bohai soldiers, and a Jiangnan navy to protect the safety of the salt field."
"When the military rations came through last year, we added 500 Jurchen soldiers, 1,000 Han soldiers from Liaodong, and recruited 1,000 salt workers to form an army to prevent the generals from robbing the rations and seizing the city."
"Later, the army rations stopped coming here, and the newly recruited Jurchen soldiers and Han soldiers left, taking the excess army rations with them."
"Later, there was insufficient military rations, and all the salt troops recruited were dispersed, and all the Jiangnan naval forces defected to the general."
"Now there are only 200 Jurchen soldiers and 500 Bohai soldiers left in the city. However, if the general leads troops to attack, the city can recruit thousands of people to defend the city. If the general is slow to arrive, one or two thousand more militiamen can be issued."
Li Bao asked: "How do you plan to surrender the city?"
Da Mingyi said: "On the fourth day of next month, it will be my mother's sixtieth birthday. My brother plans to entertain Jurchen nobles at a banquet. By then, all the Jurchen generals will be killed, and the remaining Jurchen soldiers will not be afraid. But there must be some Jurchen soldiers who escaped to report the news.
With the hundreds of soldiers in my brother's hands, there is no way he can stop the Jurchen army from counterattacking. The general will lead his troops into the city on the sixth day of next month at the latest to defend the city."
Li Bao thought about it carefully: "When I lead the troops there, you open all the city gates and plant three flags on the south tower."
Da Mingyi said: "Don't go to such trouble. If the trap fails, my whole family will definitely die. If the trap succeeds, my brother will personally lead troops out of the city to meet the general. If the general suspects that we will rebel again, he can place my whole family there."
Shandong, please grant the Ming Dynasty a piece of land."
"You are a loyal and righteous man!" Li Bao was delighted.
These Bohai people really don’t want to live in the north anymore.
At first, they were violently conquered by the Liao Kingdom, and then there were successive wars. The Liao soldiers came, burned, killed, and looted, and the Jin soldiers came, and they also looted, burned, and killed. Tens of thousands of Bohai refugees would rather flee to Goryeo to open up wasteland, but they were repatriated by Goryeo again.
Moreover, they were not allowed to return to their hometown, so they were scattered and resettled in Haibin County. They were soon burned, killed, and looted across the sea by Li Bao, Zhao Li, and others.
I never had a peaceful day!
They no longer care about the hatred of the country and the family, they just want a place to live.
Da Mingyi said he was willing to take the whole family as hostages, but he actually wanted to pick a place to survive. His family went to Shandong, not to be hostages, but to "enjoy happiness".
Li Bao sent a boat at night to send Da Mingyi back and landed more than ten miles away from the city.
Da Mingyi was sent to the city to collect grain. He followed the Liuzhou River mouth and returned to the Bohai village at night. He forcibly collected a small amount of military grain and marched into the city.
The officials at the Xingzhou and Haibin County levels are all from the Bohai clan in Liaoyang. These guys must also be killed, there is no way they will surrender.
There were only two hundred Jurchen soldiers in total, and there were not many Jurchen generals. Even the junior officers were invited to a birthday banquet by brothers Da Mingzhen and Da Mingyi.
"We don't have enough food, wine, and meat, so I'd like to ask you to forgive me," Da Mingzhen raised his glass and apologized, "I have brought out all the fine wines in my family's collection today. You nobles will be drunk before you stop!"
There were only two tables in the inner courtyard, and they were all members of the big clans, Bohai civil servants and Jurchen generals.
There are five tables set up in the outer courtyard, which are composed of state and county officials, Jurchen grassroots officers and Bohai officers.
For a sixtieth birthday, there are only seven tables, which is really shabby.
This did not arouse suspicion. Now the entire Jin Kingdom was short of food, and the prefectures and counties in the Liaoxi Corridor were even poorer.
As long as you have wine, the civil servants and generals are all greedy, and they won't refuse anyone who comes with a glass of wine.
When everyone was almost done drinking, Da Mingzhen put down the wine glasses and said in a strange tone: "I miss my great clan, a descendant of the Bohai royal family, wandering around and being slaughtered by others. It's really a disgrace to our ancestors!"
The Jurchen general also served as the magistrate of the state, but he was too drunk to understand.
The county magistrate was the Bohai Li family from Liaoyang. Under the anesthesia of alcohol, he didn't think much, and said with a big smile: "There is also a Da family in Liaoyang. If you can wait, the general can go to Liaoyang to visit relatives."
The Liaoyang family is really awesome and can marry Jurchen nobles.
Da Mingzhen sneered and said: "The big clan there has a big family and a big business, so they won't pay attention to a small sect like ours."
"General, what are you talking about? We are both from the Bohai tribe and we are one family." Magistrate Li has not yet come to his senses.
Da Mingzhen pretended to propose a toast and walked behind the Jurchen general with a wine glass. His younger brother Da Mingyi was also toasting at another table.
The two brothers suddenly took out short blades from their sleeves, held down the heads of the two Jurchen generals and wiped their necks.
Da Mingzhen shouted: "Kill!"
The Bohai admiral, who was drinking with officials and officers in the outer courtyard, heard the shouts and took out the weapons hidden on his body.
Bloody birthday party.
Even the brothers' mother didn't know their plan and was so frightened that she backed away repeatedly. But the old lady quickly regained her composure because she had seen more terrifying scenes than this.
The Jurchen generals and officers were all killed in a drunken state.
The two brothers rode out to gather their troops and attacked the unsuspecting Jurchen soldiers. Not only were the Jurchen soldiers not commanded by officers, they were not even all together. At least a quarter of them were so frightened that they fled to Zongzhou.
The next day, Li Bao arrived in a boat with troops.
As expected, Da Mingzhen and Da Mingyi personally led their troops out of the city and brought the whole family with them.
At the same time, the four gates of the city opened wide.
Although Li Bao liked to take risks, he was cautious at critical moments. He first sent out several teams to enter from different city gates, carefully searched the city, and then climbed up the city wall to wave flags to indicate safety.
Seeing the flags waving on the city wall, Li Bao took Daming Zhen's hand and said: "Your Excellency has returned to normalcy, and the Ming Dynasty will definitely reuse him. Your family members don't have to go to Shandong, they can all go to Tokyo to enjoy their happiness."
Da Mingzhen and Da Mingyi both knelt down, probably rehearsed: "I am willing to die for Da Ming!"
The Liaoxi Corridor was cut off by Li Bao.
Next, I am afraid that the Jin State will make a crazy counterattack, and losing this city will simply put the Jin State in a chokehold.