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 venue, the Ming court cut Wang Gao, the Jurchen leader who had unified all 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, requiring the Jurchen tribes to immediately release Han and Korean slaves, and before February 2nd of next year, all slaves should grow their hair and wear clothes with right skirts, in line with 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 Li Rusong to shave his braid and unbutton the right skirt of his clothes. Because there was no button under his right armpit, Nikan Wailan tied a riding whip around his waist.
Show 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 Han clothes 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. They said 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.
Ning Yuanbo was furious and raised an army. He sent two generals, each with 2,000 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 reduced the tribe's youth to youth.
Zhuang is placed behind the horse and dragged along.
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 Hun River to Fushun and the tragic death of Wang Gao completely shocked Baishan and Heishui. Jurchen tribesmen and even Tatar herdsmen were all horrified when they heard about it. The name of Li Chengliang could really stop children from crying at night in the northeastern part of the empire.
The impact of this incident lasted for 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 the ghost that brought childhood nightmares to countless people
Li Laobao? According to Xian Dantuan's historians, he is Li Chengliang.
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After the Jurchen chiefs returned from Fushun, any shaman who objected to shaving their hair and growing their hair was killed. By mid-November, Li Chengliang sent cavalry to inspect the various tribes in the wind and snow, and found that all the Jurchens had their right skirts cut off.
The longest hair has grown to two inches.
After Zhu Yijun read the newspaper, he thought that the time for his time travel was good. Although Wang Gao initially unified the Jurchen tribes, he did not instill national consciousness in the Jurchens like Nurhachi did later.
At this time, although some Jin civilization 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, which finally united the hearts of the people.
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Now that the Jurchen tribes are scattered, the tribesmen are always hungry to survive? There is no national justice in their hearts. Therefore, Zhu Yijun's hair-raising 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, the wealthy Zhu Yijun resorted to his second move in order to firmly rule the Northeast.
Chengzu once established the Nu'er 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 orders to various ministries.
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, Beishan Province is located. 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 the Beishan Mountains, and the Han people had not yet explored it, so they were temporarily occupied 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 cause, Zhu Yijun changed the name of Nuerqian City to 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 governors' residences in the three provinces were 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 not to take up the governorship of Beishan Province for the time being, and only sent 500 troops, and transferred 500 Han households from eastern Liaoning to slowly build the city in Yongning.
In the two provinces of Heilongjiang and Taining, the governor also held the rank of general military officer. He 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 was stabilized, Tumen Zha was taken westward.
Saktu Khan and the Khalkha Mongols completely resolved the empire's northern border troubles.
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Zhu Yijun's large-scale plan to expand the land by thousands of miles, with an initial investment of one million taels, was fiercely opposed by the cabinet.
Both Zhang Juzheng and Lu Tiaoyang believed that the Jurchen tribe was no longer a threat to the empire. It was enough for the imperial court to maintain its roots in Liaodong and expand its territory as far as Taining in the Songhua River Basin. It would also rely on Liaodong to build several more groups of castles and carry out land reform and return.
Solve the problem of aggression in the east.
Although the imperial court now has a large amount of money, there will still be a lot of internal chaos. At this time, spending a large amount of money to relocate the people and build cities in the Heilongjiang Basin is not worth the gain.
Zhu Yijun's explanation for this is that when governing the world, one cannot blindly maintain the status quo. Comprehensive control of the Northeast is a golden key to solving the empire's chronic diseases, and policymakers must see this.
First, the Northeast is fertile and has crisscrossed rivers. It is most suitable for large-scale corn and has become a large granary of the empire. The yield of corn per mu is slightly higher than that of wheat, and the stalks are tall. It can be used as fodder for livestock in the winter and as firewood. It is most suitable for
Planted in the Northeast.
Judging from the results of the promotion of corn planting in Liaodong this year, self-sufficiency is more than enough. From now on, the imperial court will no longer need to transfer grain to Liaodong and waste national funds. - Of course, this is not entirely due to the promotion of corn. Li Chengliang exchanged grain for Dongzhu trade.
Being cut off also played a key role.
Agriculture is the foundation of the country, and its importance is undisputed. The first thing Zhu Yijun did after traveling through time and 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 has many advantages over wheat, there is no official promotion and the results are completely different.
This spring, Zhu Yijun asked the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Affairs to 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 have come out, Zhang Juzheng and Lu Tiaoyang have nothing to say.
Zhu Yijun believed that if the fertile land in the Heilongjiang, Songhua, and Ussuli river basins, including the great plains at the confluence of these three rivers, were used to grow corn and wheat, the harvest would be as high as the rice output of Imperial Huguang.
If this can be done, the imperial court can open a northern canal to transport grain from the Northeast first by river, and then by sea directly to Tianjin, which will comprehensively alleviate the food shortage problem in the northern part of the imperial court. For the benefit of this area alone, the imperial court will invest one million taels of silver.