Chapter 161 The Nancha Troubles (Twenty-one) Get Closer
Gao Yimin was initially a little surprised when Nalin Bulu and Buzhai visited him together, but when he learned their purpose of coming, he was even more astonished.
Although judging from my wife's background, I don't think the master is someone who attaches great importance to family status, but although my wife comes from a family of Tongren Tusi, looking up her genealogy, it turns out that her ancestors were generals who followed Di Qing in the southern expedition in the Song Dynasty.
Although after entering Guangxi, his descendants and children intermarried for hundreds of years, but according to the Han custom of asking only the father's line of descent, in fact Huang Zhiting is still Han.
Menggu Zhezhe is obviously different. The ancestors of the current Yehe leader migrated all the way eastward from the Tumut area. "In the second year of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty, they moved to the edge of the Yeheli River and built a city, so it was called Yehe Kingdom. It belongs to There are fifteen tribes, and many of them are brave and good at riding and shooting."
Whether it is from the place of origin or its characteristics, it is very likely that the ancestors of this Yehe group are Mongolians. Of course, in the many years since they occupied Beiguan, through continuous marriages with local Jurchens, the bloodline The complexity is already very high, and it is probably a case of "national integration". From its own perspective, it must have regarded itself as a Jurchen.
But whether they are Mongols or Jurchens, they are all barbarians in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty. Even though Meng Guzhezhe was a noble person in Yehe, in the Ming Dynasty, this status was basically meaningless.
In other words, in Gao Yimin's eyes, Meng Guzhezhe's family status is obviously not comparable to his own. The master's status and family status can be said to be at odds with Meng Guzhezhe's, and they are not even comparable.
but……
Gao Yimin pondered for a moment, and felt that this point was not important, because even if Meng Guzhezhe was taken over by the master, he would only be a concubine. The Han people had high requirements for the status of a head wife, but they did not care about concubines.
After all, marrying a wife with virtue and keeping concubines is all about sex. Since it is just sex, the other things are not important.
The problem is, the master doesn't seem to be very interested in women. According to Gao Yimin, no matter how beautiful Meng Guzhe is, the master probably won't be tempted by it.
But at the same time, the master is also a person who is very concerned about the ebb and flow of the strength of various Jurchen tribes. Although Gao Yimin doesn't know why the master pays so much attention to these barbarians, he can see from the various arrangements of the master in Liaodong. The degree of attention paid to it. If nothing else, the fact that Jinghua deliberately built ironworks and other industries near Liaoyang speaks volumes.
So far, Beijing has only built three steel production bases, the core of which is of course always in Kaiping. Apart from Kaiping, the only two that can be considered large-scale are Hejing in Annan and Liaoyang in Liaodong. - Taiping Prefecture (later Ma'anshan) in the upper reaches of Nanjing also has plans to build a large ironworks, but due to well-known reasons, it has not been fully negotiated until now, so it is still a paper plan.
In addition to steel and military industry, the large-scale development plan that expanded from the Liaonan Plan to the Liaodong Plan is also a clear manifestation of the high pragmatic importance attached to Liaodong. What about the tussah industry, Liaonan salt fields, cotton bases, and corn planting; what about Liaohe River transportation, Liaodong shipping, Yingkou New Port, Lushun New Port; Annan rice trade, Guangxi sugar trade, Jingshi soap trade, Mongolian horse trade...
In short, industry, agriculture, and commerce are all encompassing, and each has its own emphasis. If it were not for the huge Dingnancheng construction plan in southern Xinjiang, Gao Pragmatic's overall emphasis on Liaodong might even be higher than that in southern Xinjiang.
As for the use of talents trained by the Craftsman School, Gao Pragmatic also has a clear focus on Liaodong. The simplest example of this is Gao Yimin himself. Originally, he thought that he would be sent to southern Xinjiang after completing his studies. After all, he "
"It is accessible by both sea and land", but he was sent to Liaodong, and Gao pragmatically even met him personally and gave him face-to-face instructions.
Therefore, Gao Yimin felt that the master was very concerned about every move in Liaodong and its surrounding areas. In this case, if accepting Meng Gu Zhezhe would be beneficial to controlling the Jurchens or balancing the Jurchen power, the master might really agree.
In this case, Gao Yimin would not be able to refuse directly. But this matter is the master's "private matter" after all. As a servant, he has not been authorized in advance in this regard, so he certainly cannot decide anything, which makes it a bit difficult to handle.
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After much thought, Gao Yimin had no choice but to say that he would report the matter to his master, but he could not guarantee how the master would respond.
Nalin Bulu and Bu Zhai breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this. It is said that the king of hell is easy to hide, but the devil is difficult to deal with. They were afraid that Gao Yimin would interfere with it. Now that Gao Yimin agreed to convey it, the chance of success of this matter was greatly increased.
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However, Nalinbulu and Buzhai also planned to make further efforts, saying that it was really difficult to send a message to make Master Gao know about the good deeds of Menggu Gege, so they "would like to send envoys to Beijing to pay tribute as a thank you to heaven for the reinforcements."
I’m also going to see the Grand Master.”
It's understandable that they want to marry, but there's something wrong with wanting to do so urgently. Gao Yimin immediately understood that these two Yehebels may have figured out that Cao Yun's sending troops must be behind the scenes, and they were eager to regain control.
Xicheng, so much so that he did not hesitate to use his sister as a thank you gift.
But after all, Gao Yimin's level was much higher than the two Yehebel who didn't study. Then he immediately thought of their deep meaning.
Perhaps it is not just for the urgent need to send troops this time, but they also have further considerations. Let’s not talk about other aspects such as changes in government affairs for the time being. Just talk about trade. If Gao Pragmatic is willing, Ye He’s strength may be
It expanded rapidly in a short period of time.
As mentioned before, in the early years, the Haixi Jurchen Hada tribe and the Ye He tribe built strongholds outside Guangshun Pass and Zhenbeiguan respectively, specializing in the intermediate trade in Kaiyuanma City, marking the formation of the North and South Passes.
There is a record saying: "...and the benefits of mink and horse tail are also produced by Dongyi. Some Dongyi people come from as far away as the Huntong River, and some come from as far away as the Heilongjiang River, maybe more than a thousand miles, or two or three thousand miles away. There are no
The nearby Yi people are the masters of residence, so why should they be re-translated? In the past, the Yi chiefs of the Southern Pass built a stronghold outside Jing'an Pass to benefit from their settlement. The Northern Pass followed suit and also built a stronghold here to compete for their benefits."
The advantage of staying here is to act as a trade middleman and engage in change-of-hand trade. This kind of change-of-hand trade is that the tribute rewards received from the Ming Dynasty and the cloth, handicrafts and agricultural tools traded in Kaiyuan Horse Market in the South and North Pass are trafficked to the Jurchen in the depths, in exchange for
A lot of leather goods and mountain goods.
At the same time, it guided the Jurchen tribes in the depths to come to Kaiyuan Horse Market for trading activities. The prosperity of Kaiyuan Horse Market trade, especially the mink trade, eventually formed the Haixi Jurchen South and North Pass strong chiefs and Kaiyuan generals, shared by powerful families.
The pattern of interests. "Kaiyuan and Fushun were divided into garrison and garrison officials, and they merged with powerful families. They often became relatives with the Hu people in Haixi and Jianzhou, and settled their fame and sex."
The Kaiyuan horse market trade was monopolized by powerful Jurchen chiefs and Kaiyuan generals, and the two parties even became relatives and shared huge trade benefits.
In fact, Ye He's idea of getting married to Gao Pragmatic was based on this, and it was not a sudden thought. It's just that this step is a big one. He is no longer satisfied with the level of "border general", but wants to "reach the sky in one step"
She wants to marry Gao Pangshi, a very influential court official in Liaodong.
As for the Ming court's control over the horse market trade, it used the issuance of imperial edicts and the binding of trade privileges to control the border. Nanguan controlled the horse market trade in Kaiyuan, and the foundation was laid by Wang Zhong. When Wang Zhong was at his peak, he learned that the Ming Dynasty
Confer all the imperial edicts to Jurchen.
"Everyone in Jianzhou, Haixi, Maolian and other 182 guards, 25 stations, and 56 stations were afraid of their military power, so they learned that Dongyi was given 1,498 soldiers at the beginning of the country.
"Edict." The imperial edicts he controlled at that time included not only all the edicts of the Haixi Jurchens, but also some of the edicts of the Jianzhou Jurchens.
As for the special purpose of competing for the imperial edict, it was to obtain the power to pay tribute and exchange trade, as well as to obtain the authority and legitimacy of rule.
"Nang heard that all the barbarians were attacking each other, and they all regarded this imperial edict as a strange thing. The South Pass was destroyed, the North Pass was killed on sight, and the Western captives were not angry with the chiefs, and they were unreasonable."
As mentioned before, after the mid-Ming Dynasty, the Liaodong border established the practice of offering tribute to the market, and the Jurchen tribes competed fiercely for the imperial edict. The imperial edict was not only a symbol of the Jurchen internal status and power, but also used it to gain access to the horse market.
Trade rights. Therefore, the essence of the edict is a trade license, which is the privilege to obtain horse trading.
The border guards, especially the local officials in Kaiyuan, controlled the Jurchen tribe's power to pay tribute and trade. This laid the foundation for the union between the Kaiyuan border generals and the Jurchen tribe leaders.
The prosperity of the mink trade in Kaiyuan Ma City, the disintegration of the Jisi Guards and the rise of the South and North Passes formed a frontier system in Liaodong centered on the trade alliance between Kaiyuan and the South and North Passes: the Ming Dynasty formed the strong Jurchen chieftains of the South and North Passes by supporting them
Tribes such as Kaiyuan, Shanzhaiyi (Nanbeiguan), Jiangyi, Barbarian Jurchen, Ezo and Qilemi are advancing step by step to form an interdependent inland Asian economic circle to maintain the border order in Liaodong.
At this time, the real core of the Liaodong border system was also centered on Kaiyuan rather than Liaoyang, and its basis was the trade alliance between Kaiyuan and the South and North Passes.
At this time, Kaiyuan has become the intersection of the three economic forms of farming, nomadism, and forestry. If the horse market in Kaiyuan is cut off, it will be difficult for Mongolia and Jurchen to sell their cattle, horses, and mink ginseng products, and they will not be able to obtain cloth and handicrafts.
and agricultural equipment, which naturally affects their life and production activities, and may become unsustainable.
"I don't know that although there are many dogs and sheep, they are separate and not unified, and they all benefit from our market reward, which makes our market easy. If I retreat and cannot communicate with each other, my cloth, silk, pot, field utensils and other items are all needed by the barbarians for daily use.
Where can we get the cattle, horses, sheep, ginseng, mink, hazelnuts, pine and other goods, and where can we sell them? From this point of view, if the projectiles are opened to the original source, it is actually what the captives use to make a living.
Dare to deal with Kaiyuan Jue lightly. This is an opportunity."
Therefore, Kaiyuan became the economic center of the Liaodong border on the basis of the intersection of interests of Liaodong, Jurchen, and eastern Mongolian tribes. Kaiyuan horse market trade is not Mongolian. The Jurchen depends on Liaodong in one direction, but on more than three parties.
Interdependence, economic interest relationships of shared prosperity and loss.
Why did Gao Jingshi insist on taking Kaiyuan, Li Chengliang's hometown (Tieling returned to Kaiyuan) in his hands in such a short period of time when he took office as the governor of Liao, and let Ma Chengen and Ma Chengxun serve as Kaiyuan generals successively? The reason is that
The importance of Kaiyuan.
Although taking the post of Kaiyuan Counselor General does not mean that Li Chengliang's power is driven away - after all, his roots are in Tieling, it is enough to mean that Gao pragmatism has obtained the power of Kaiyuan trade, giving Jinghua the power to commercially suppress all parties inside and outside Liaodong.
The ability of power.
Now Ye He and the two Baylors may have seen this, but they saw it more deeply this time. They knew that when Gao Pragmatic got involved, it was not enough for them to just win over General Kaiyuan or Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Liaoyang.
, is not enough to ensure Ye He's status in this trading system. Only by obtaining high pragmatic recognition can Ye He's status be stable and his strength restored.
Of course, being recognized by Gao Jingshi also means that Nurhaci will no longer dare to covet Ye He easily - unless he dares to challenge Gao Jingshi.
Does Nurhachi dare to challenge Gao Pragmatic now? Let alone Ye He and the two Baylors, he would not believe it. Even Gao Yimin thinks it is impossible: Nurhachi has no more than 7,000 soldiers and horses in total, and his economic foundation is almost entirely based on the ginseng trade.
In this situation, how could he have the guts to challenge high pragmatism?
Gao Pragmatic's strength, even if we don't talk about the huge energy he possesses in the court, even just talking about his arrangements in Liaodong, Nurhaci cannot overturn it at all.
Jinghua has a large number of industries in Liaodong such as Yingkou Saltworks, Liaoyang Iron Works, Liaoyang Coal Mine, Liaoyang Musket Factory, Gaizhou Clothing Factory, and Haizhou Feed Factory (producing corn-based horse feed).
Among them, the Yingkou Salt Works, Liaoyang Iron Works, Liaoyang Coal Mine, and Liaoyang Musket Factory have the largest plant protection teams and mine protection teams, with a total of nearly 30,000 mine protection teams. The daily production of these 30,000 people
The work is not arduous (but it is still there), and the main tasks are training and patrolling, even including cooperating with the local garrison to suppress bandits.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The Yingkou Saltworks is even more impressive. They not only have a factory protection team, but also an anti-smuggling fleet - various inland river vessels equipped with artillery and some of Jinghua's in Liaodong.
Offshore armed transport ships are all organized into this anti-smuggling fleet.
You have to ask why private companies can actually "anti-smuggling"? Because nearly half of the shares in the Yingkou Salt Farm are owned by the emperor.
The salt field was originally a military property, and the military property was actually an imperial property, allocated to them by the emperor. After Gao Pragmatic solved the original problem of "buying out" the salt fields of military households, the emperor was equivalent to using the salt field land to invest in shares, and this land
Very big - the military industry used to be huge, but Zhu Yijun didn't know how to make money by speculating on land, so he carelessly packed up a piece of land equivalent to the size of two inland counties and gave it to Gao Pragmatic.
Although the emperor did not care about the specific operation of the salt farm, he certainly could not tolerate someone smuggling salt to steal business from him, so he directly issued an imperial edict giving the Yingkou Salt Farm the right to detect smuggling on its own.
Thanks to the special nature of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty (the nature of military control), no one in the court cared about this. If it were left in modern times, the court would have to explode.
So after such a calculation, Gao Pingshi can pull out 30,000 and a half full-time professional troops at any time and anywhere in Liaodong. He has an armed fleet that can completely control the navigable rivers in Liaodong. He can be completely self-sufficient in food, clothing, feed, and weapons, and his horses can be self-sufficient.
Special supply, armor is provided or exchanged by Wang's Arsenal (Jinghua Steel Products is his main raw material)...
This is an army whose strength can overwhelm Jianzhou and can be mobilized to fight at the earliest opportunity. Why should Nurhaci resist?
Not to mention that a large number of generals east of the Liao River are Gao Jingjing's cronies. How could Nurhachi make a mistake? So as long as Ye He gets Gao Jingjing's favor, he will transform into the second Wanhan Khan in minutes.
After sorting this out, Gao Yimin laughed. He knew that Gao Wushi had not been too worried about Ye He. During the "face-to-face instruction", Gao Wushi wanted him to pay attention to Nurhachi.
From this it can be seen that what the master is really guarding against is Nurhaci, and any force that can restrain Nurhaci is probably one that should be won over. In this case, it is not a bad idea to be a middle-aged man.
"It's rare for the two Baylors to be so understanding of justice and know how to repay their kindness. Since you two want to pay tribute, I see nothing wrong with it. However, you two also know that you cannot take the initiative to enter the capital without receiving a reply from the court, so I must
Let’s go and talk to Mr. Cao first and ask him to go up to Shu and ask for a passage for you two. What do you think?”
Of course Nalinbulu and Buzhai agreed wholeheartedly and were extremely excited.
Gao Yimin then stood up and planned to see off the guests. Nalinbulu and Bu Zhai also stood up quickly. When they reached the door, Bu Zhai couldn't help it anymore. He coughed lightly and asked a little shyly: "Now that the matter has been decided,
I wonder... I wonder if Mr. Gao can persuade Marshal Cao. Right now, Xicheng is still being ravaged by the Tumen. As a Baylor, it’s really hard for me to explain to the following..."
Gao Yimin had already guessed that he would not be able to help talking about this matter, so he smiled and said: "Don't worry Buzhaibeile, I will mention this matter to General Rong."
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