On February 9, the fourth year of the reign of Emperor Guangwu of the Ming Dynasty (1656), the blue sea was cloudless, with occasional ice drifting on the sea surface.
During the Ming Dynasty, the fleet led by Hu Bo and Ruan Jin, the governor of Liaodong, Kuang Lu, sailed hard on the sea. They sailed through the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Whales, and headed north.
The further north you go, the colder and harder it becomes, but there is also happiness. For Kuang Lu, the greatest happiness is seeing many strange creatures, such as dolphins, sharks and whales. When he first saw the whale, he thought it was Kun and was surprised.
He shouted: "There is a fish in the North Ming Dynasty, and its name is Kun. Kun is so big that I don't know how many thousands of miles it is." Later, I got used to it, so it was like that.
The beautiful Kuwu Island (Sakhalin Island) has arrived. It is a large island with an area of more than 76,000 square kilometers. What is even more rare is that there is no shortage of fresh water. There are more than 6,000 rivers and 1,600 lakes on the island.
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More than 100,000 people from Feyaka (Nivkh), Ewenki, Ainu, Hezhe and other ethnic groups live on the island.
"Log in!"
Ruan Jin calmly issued the military order, and generals Ruan Jun, Tan Bu, Yuer Duo, Ma Siwen, and Fulehe led their troops to disembark and land.
Kuang Lu was about to get off the boat, but Ruan Jin laughed loudly at him, "On the boat these days, the water is too little. I have wronged Kuang Fuyuan. After a while, I will let someone hunt a deer and serve Fuyuan a drink."
"Wonderful! The handsome man hunts deer, he plays the piano, and we know each other from all corners of the world. Hahaha." Kuang Lu also laughed. He is an open-minded and unrestrained person, and he is very close to Ruan Jin and other rough guys.
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Kuna and Mexi, strolling along the Aniva Bay.
Kuna wears a robe made of bearskin and a fishskin cloak with a feather in the cloak; Meixi's robe is made of deerskin, with brighter feathers, and leggings. They are brother and sister.
It comes from a small Ainu tribe with a population of more than 300 people in the southern part of Kuwu Island.
The Ainu mainly live on Ezo (Hokkaido) Island, south of Kugu Island, with a few also living on Kugu Island, Kuril Islands, and Okushiri Island.
This race is very special. They neither look like the Evenki, Hezhen or other Tungus peoples, nor do they look like the Yamato people in southern Japan. Their faces are a bit like Europeans, but their skin is darker than Europeans, and their hair is thick, long, and rippled.
They have a lot of hair on their heads and bodies. They were once called "hairy people" and are not tall. Their language is also different from their neighbors, but similar to Eskimos and North American Indians.
Those who are not of my race must have different minds. The Yamato tribe of Japan in the south thinks so. They call the Ainu "Ezo", which means Yi Di. After the Matsumae clan of the Yamato tribe settled in the southern part of Ezo Island,
The two sides fought many wars. It was not until decades later that the leader of the Ainu, Kosho Manyi, destroyed ten of the twelve Yamato merchant houses on Ezo Island that the two sides reached a peace agreement. The Matsumae Domain monopolized
trade with Ezo Island, but must not infringe upon the territory of the Ezo people.
"Kumamoto!"
Meixi shouted, and plop, a little bear popped out of the ice cave with a fish in its mouth. Hearing the shout, he placed the fish at Meixi's feet and licked Meixi's affectionately with his tongue.
Back of hand.
"Kumamoto is awesome!"
Mei Xi gave a sweet compliment and stroked the bear's head with her hand to show her praise.
The Ainu people have the habit of raising bears. They raise the captured cubs well and even let the women in the tribe feed the cubs with their own milk. However, they only raise the bears for sacrifice. When the bears grow up, they will hold
A grand sacrificial ceremony is held to kill the bear. Before killing the bear, the elders will apologize to the little bear and hope that it will return to its ancestors.
"Sister, run quickly, there are pirates!"
Kuna's eyes suddenly widened. He saw a fleet, many ships, dozens of ships. In the past, pirates only came with a few ships, but this time there were dozens of ships. He had to tell the elders quickly. p>
The boys and girls ran away desperately. Mei Xi panicked, her foot slipped, and she fell into a monkey chewing mud. When she got up, she saw a big foot and a strong figure.
Aixinjueluo Flehe appeared in front of Meixi. He was a nobleman. He had eaten well since he was a child. He was naturally tall. Compared with the short Meixi, he was like a giant and a child.
"Are you a human or a monkey?"
Fulehe asked strangely when he saw that Meixi's hair was very heavy and fluffy.
"Humph", Mei Xi snorted angrily. The most residents on Kuwu Island are the Ewenki and Hezhe Tungus races. Their language is very similar to Manchu. The Ainu people often communicate with the Evenki and Hezhe people.
, understand Manchu.
"Oh, you're actually a girl. Sorry! Sorry!"
Fuleh smiled sheepishly.
Kuang Lu was very polite to the captured young man and woman. As the governor, he naturally wanted to care for the people. He gave them many gifts, such as combs, bronze mirrors, iron pots, etc., and asked them to invite the elders to discuss matters.
Kusili, an Ainu elder in his sixties, has seen the world. "The Ming Dynasty?" I know that decades ago, the great elder of the Ainu people on Ezo Island went to Beijing to pay homage to the Ming Emperor.
There are still two monuments erected at Yongning Temple in Nurgan City opposite Wudao.
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The old man is right. In Nuergan City, across the sea from Kuwu Island, there are Yongning Temple built in the Ming Dynasty and two monuments of "Yongning Temple Record" and "Reconstruction Record of Yongning Temple" in front of the Nuergan Dusi Yamen.
This inscription declares the Ming Dynasty’s sovereignty over Nuergandusi.
Nurgandusi was officially built in the ninth year of Yongle (1411). It covers a very wide area, with Sakhalin Island in the east, Onan River (Onen River) in the west, Tumen River in the south, and Waixing'an Mountains in the north, including
Later Jilin Province (excluding the Siping area), Heilongjiang Province, northeastern Inner Mongolia, and Harchagya in the Russian Far East, east of Chita, north of Heilongjiang (river), east of the Ussuri River (including Sakhalin Island)
The vast area, even Jianzhou, the hometown of the Manchus, also belongs to Nuergandusi.
In fact, the north of the Ming Dynasty has no national borders. As long as it pays tribute to the Ming Dynasty, it is considered the territory of the Ming Dynasty. In some books, the territory of Nuergandusi actually reaches the Arctic Ocean. Therefore, it is difficult to say how big Nuergandusi is.
If it is small, it is more than one million square kilometers; if it is large, it is three to four million square kilometers.
However, the Nuergan Dusi was only a Dusi with the nature of restraint. The imperial court appointed the local tribal leader as the Dusi, commanding and commanding thousands of households, commanding the envoys, suppressing the governor, etc., and gave the imperial seal, making him belong to the Ming Dynasty in name, but in fact
In addition to expressing surrender and paying tribute as usual, it cannot be effectively managed. During the Wanli period, Nuergandusi had a total of 384 guards, 24 stations, seven on the ground, seven stations, and one stronghold. p>
Hundreds of tribes, large and small, competed to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, which greatly satisfied the vanity of the Ming emperor. However, it was too expensive to reward so many tribes! During the Xuande period, slaves were no longer recruited into various tribes; during the Zhengtong period, it was abolished
Nuergandusi; however, although it was abolished, until the Wanli period, the name Nuergandusi often appeared in various documents of the Ming Dynasty.
Hajj is a political need of the Celestial Empire. In order to facilitate these tribes to come to Beijing for pilgrimage, the Nuergandusi plank road was built for five thousand miles. However, the Nuergandusi Yamen has been abolished, and the tribute matters are managed by the Liaodong Dusi. It was not until the late Wanli period, after the Battle of Sarhu, that the tribute route was cut off, and Nurgandusi as a geographical concept finally disappeared.
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With the help of Ainu elder Kusili, Kuang Lu successfully recruited several Ainu tribes in the south, and was accompanied by some Ming and Korean merchants to trade and exchange goods with them.
However, we encountered trouble when recruiting the Feyaka (Nivhe) people in the north of Kuwu Island, the Evenki people in the center, and the Hezhe people in the middle and south.
These three tribes have a deep connection with the Manchus. The six surnames of Feiyaka, half of the Ewenki, and the Hezhe tribe were reorganized into households by the Manchus. They participated in the Wulin appreciation every year. Therefore, most of them were unwilling to betray the Qing Dynasty and surrender to the Ming Dynasty.
There were more than a hundred Ewenki in Ruan Jin's army. The Hezhe tribe surrendered. They sent these people to persuade them to surrender. They fought without heeding the advice. They used both kindness and power. After wiping out two Ewenki tribes and three Hezhe tribes, the Ewenki on the island
, all the Hezhe tribe surrendered.
The Ming army moved the captured 6,000 Ewenki and Hezhe people to the east bank of the Ullie River in the central part, and built the Ullie River City and Ullie River Port.
Then, continue to go north to attack the Feyaka people. Like the Ainu, the Feyaka people are also an alien race. Compared with the Tungus people, the pigments are darker and the outlines are prominent.
These barbarians were very ferocious. It took Ruan Jin a lot of effort and the loss of more than 70 soldiers before he defeated the six Feyaka tribes who were close to the Manchus, brought all six Feyaka tribes under his rule, and gained four more
With a population of more than 1,000, Nanghar City and Nanghar Port are located in the north.
Kuang Lu also ordered the surrendered tribes to pay a small amount of special products every year as taxes, and built the Polo River City and Polo River Port in the south.
At this point, the four tribes of Kuwu Island, with a population of more than 100,000, were all under the control of the Ming army.
Ruan Jin recruited 1,300 warriors from various ethnic groups and was gearing up to cross the Tartar Strait and capture Nuergan City.