Since the Ming Dynasty has always had strict restrictions on the number of tribute teams, Ye He's tribute mission was maintained at a total of less than fifty people, which included not only tribute envoys and accompanying guards, but also Ye He Gege who came with him.
Meng Guzhezhe.
However, when this mission left Tianjin Port and headed for the capital, its number soared to nearly three hundred. Of course, Ye He himself did not have the ability to make a big difference, and the extra ones were more than two hundred cavalry from the Jinghua Trading Company.
This cavalry was originally supposed to escort a batch of shipping equipment from Shandong to Tianjin Port, but after arriving at Tianjin Port, they were temporarily assigned the task of escorting the Ye He delegation to Beijing.
The Ye He delegation itself did not have such a reputation. The reason why it was able to enjoy such treatment was entirely because of the Ye He, Gege, Meng, Gu and Zhezhe who came with it.
Of course, Meng Guzhezhe's face does not come from herself, but from her employer in Beijing, the Minister of Household Affairs of the Ming Dynasty, Gao Pragmatic. After all, Ambassador Ye Hegong said that this Meng Guzhege did not come to Beijing to see the Ming Dynasty.
She came to the capital as Ye He's "sincerity" to "serve Situ's side".
After all, she is also the princess of the Ye He tribe, the most powerful Jurchen tribe at present. Of course, Sun Weifeng would not understand "Serving Situ Zhibi" as being a maid for the master, so she must be a wife.
This "Mrs. Ru" is not an honorific title deliberately intended by Sun Weifeng. Although Mrs. Ru is also a concubine, usually only concubines with a higher status can be called Mrs. Ru.
Of course, there is a more basic premise before this, that is, the man's social status must be higher. Let alone ordinary traffickers and lackeys, they cannot take concubines. Even if they do take concubines, their concubines cannot be said to be as good as ladies.
What Sun Weifeng cares about is only one aspect of Meng Guzhezhe's future status, and the key factor that makes him dare not underestimate the neglect is actually Gao Pragmatic himself - he has not taken concubines yet. Once Meng Guzhezhe can really enter the Gao family's backyard, then what will happen to him?
But there is only one person besides Madam.
Considering that his wife is far away in southern Xinjiang and rarely comes back, Meng Guzhezhe may have a great chance of being favored exclusively.
This is very unusual. Although Sun Weifeng is a close confidant and is highly used, after all, no matter how reused he is, he never changes his surname. No matter how close he is... he may not be able to kiss the person next to him.
After all, Sun Weifeng felt that he was not an irreplaceable figure in the eyes of the emperor. This was incomparable with the status of the emperor in the eyes of the emperor.
Therefore, he not only made an accommodation and no longer searched Meng Guzhezhe's room, but only searched the rooms of the rest of the mission, and also used the temporary full power of the port director to arrest a group of cavalry who were supposed to leave their posts at Tianjin Port and return to Shandong.
A new mission was temporarily assigned, and Ye He's delegation suddenly became extremely impressive.
The war horses of the Gao family cavalry are all carefully selected and provided by Tumote. They are not only strong and agile, but also maintain the consistent advantages of Mongolian horses such as strong endurance and easy feeding. No matter where they are placed, they are enough to make people covet them.
No, Sorguo and his son were discussing the excellence of the Gao family's cavalry.
Sorguo said with emotion: "I think that my ancestor Su Wan was so noble, but now I can only survive between Ye He and Wula. The situation is even worse now. Ye He relies on the mountain of Grand Master Gao, and I, Su
After finishing this film, I’m afraid I won’t have another chance to hold an arrow alone.”
Influenced by Mongolia, the Jurchens called important border ministers of the Ming Dynasty Taishi. Although Gao Pingshi had already resigned from the post of governor of Liao, the Jurchens were not only afraid of his majesty, but it was not only the top three, Ye He, Hada, and Jianzhou, but also the rest.
All the ministries did not dare to be disrespectful to him.
The young man looked at the Gao family cavalry around him, swallowed unconsciously, and said with greedy eyes: "Ye He used to dominate Manchuria with his cavalry, but he didn't expect that Gao Taishi's cavalry was so elite. Don't say it.
Ye He, I think even the elite cavalry of Chahar Khan's tent may not be able to defeat them."
Sorguo smiled bitterly and said: "The equestrian skills of Chahar Khan's elite cavalry are not necessarily weaker than theirs, but when it comes to weapons and equipment, they are really far behind. It's a pity that I, Su Wan, don't have the famous King Wanyan Zongbi of the Jin Kingdom under his command.
The kidnapping horse, the Iron Buddha Temple...alas!"
It turns out that Thor Guo is indeed an unusual identity, and it is not nonsense for Meng Gu Zhezhe to call him Baylor. This person is the Jurchen Su Wanbu Arrow Master. The Zhenger Ba Jing is called Su Wan Baylor, and his ancestor is said to be
Wanyan Zongbi, the famous king of the Jin Kingdom - he has a more famous name in Han people's records, called Jin Wushu.
"The north wind brings coolness, the rain and snow bring mist", this is the unique desolation of the Spring and Autumn Period. History books say that one day, a tailed falcon fell from this desolate ancient sky and fell heavily in the courtyard of Chen State.
inside.
A long arrow was inserted into its body. Judging from the wound, the raptor was wounded for a long time and flew with the arrow until it was exhausted and fell into the yard.
At that time, the king of Chen State was very curious about this: Where did this raptor come from, and who shot this arrow?
So the ministers reminded the king that Confucius, the great sage in the world, was in the city now. Why not go and ask him for advice? The king of Chen nodded repeatedly and hurriedly asked someone to go and ask him.
Confucius, the editor of "Spring and Autumn", took the cold falcon and the life-threatening long arrow and looked at it carefully. The arrow shaft was more than a foot long; the blue-green arrow had a texture like wood and was as hard as iron...
He told the king of Chen Guo that this was a "shaft arrow" - a long arrow made of shackle wood and an arrowhead made of blue obsidian.
Confucius told him that this thing came from the north. Among the cold mountains and frozen waters in the north, there lived an ancient nation named "Sushen". Where did they live? According to the record of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas": "The Great Wilderness"
There are mountains in the middle, which are called Buxian, and there is the country of the Sushen family."
When Shun, the ancestor of the king of Chen, came to the world, they once traveled across mountains and rivers to come for pilgrimage. In the next thousand years, Sushen came several times, and each time the tribute was a shackle, arrow, stone and pottery.
After King Wu established the Zhou Dynasty, he divided the world's feudal lords. Shun's descendant Hu Gongman married King Wu's eldest sister Taiji, and was allocated a piece of land on the southern edge of the Central Plains to establish the Chen Kingdom. King Wu gave beautiful jade to the princes with the same surname; tributes from barbarians from all directions
It was given to princes with different surnames. And what was given to Chen Guo happened to be the arrows that Su Shen paid tribute to.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! So Confucius said to the king of Chen that if he sent people to look for it in the ancestral temple, they might still be able to find it. Chen people rummaged through the ancestral temple to pick it up.
I went there and found a gold box, opened the lid, and saw a stone arrow engraved with "Su Shen's Tribute Arrow".
In this way, Sushen appeared in the records of the Central Plains people. From then on, the Central Plains people knew that there lived a group of people who made arrows and shot arrows on the bitter cold land in the north. They were called "Sushen" in ancient times; they were called "Wo" in the Qin Dynasty.
"Ju"; in the Han and Jin Dynasties, it was "Yi Lou"; in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was called "Wuji"; in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was called "Mohe"; in the Liao and Song Dynasties, it was called "Jurchen".
They should be considered the same ethnic group, but not completely, because they are constantly infiltrating new bloodlines. They once went all the way south, destroyed the Liao and Song Dynasties, and established the Jin Kingdom in the Central Plains. There are too many stories about them in "Shuo Yue": Jin Dynasty
Wu Shu, Nian Han, Hami Chi, and the golden marble that was knocked off the horse by the young general Yue Yun.
When Mongolia rose in the desert, the Jin Kingdom and the Southern Song Dynasty perished one after another. Most of the Jurchens had already assimilated into China. Only the Jurchens who stayed in the white mountains and black waters still carried their ancestral arrows, and they were still a pile of scattered sand in the dense forests that blocked the sky and the sun.
If you could have set foot in this forest at that time, you might have seen a group of Kun-headed Jurchens, armed with long arrows and big bows, carefully approaching the beasts and birds hiding in the grass in the forest.
There are ten of them, arranged in groups of two, forming a "丵" character. The two groups of people form the "丨" on the left: the upper group is called Zuo Waiduan, and the lower group is called Zuo Wai Jian;
, naturally the right end and right shoulder; the "one" in the middle, called the bottom, is the remaining group.
The word "凵" is like a bag, with the opening facing the direction they are going, to put the foxes and rabbits into the pocket. When enough foxes and rabbits are put into the pockets, the two Jurchens at the bottom start to
Open your bow and shoot arrows to kill the surrounded prey.
At this time, the people on the left, right and shoulders did not take action, but carefully guarded against the prey escaping from their direction. When the hunting was over, the ten people dispersed the formation and gathered the prey.
This is the hunting method that the Jurchens have been accustomed to for thousands of years. It can always ensure that hunters kill a large number of prey, far more than they can hunt alone.
In fact, this hunting method is similar to the so-called "encirclement of three and missing of one" in the Central Plains military books, except that human opponents are smarter, so the missing party can be really missing, but the hunting may not be - this
Sooner or later the pocket must be closed.
Among these ten Jurchen hunters, one is very special. He is usually the strongest and calmest. In addition to the bow and arrow dagger that everyone has, he always carries an extra bunch of arrows on his body than others.
Before the hunt, each Jurchen would take an arrow from his quiver, put it into a bundle, and hand it to the temporarily elected leader.
The Jurchens called this bunch of arrows "Niulu", which means big arrows and symbolizes power, just like the seals of the Central Plains people and the great banner of the Mongolian Khan. In the farther west, the king uses a scepter.
Since the ancient times when Su Shen paid tribute to Shun and King Wu of Zhou, arrows have been the Jurchens' tokens and a symbol of authority; and the person holding the arrow is the one who controls destiny.
Hunting together, the ten hunters who sacrificed an arrow temporarily formed a "Niulu", which is an arrow. The leader who owns this bunch of arrows is called "Niulu Ezhen", which means the arrow owner.
No book seems to have explained the original use of this bunch of arrows. Perhaps this means that if the hunters' arrows are exhausted, this bunch of arrows is the last weapon, and the arrow owner has the right to distribute it to those most in need.
Or the most skilled archer.
Of course, sometimes Jurchens will organize large-scale hunting. At that time, each group is no longer just two hunters, but no matter how large the scale or the number of people, it is the bottom, left, right, and shoulder.
A "凵" formation composed of five parts.
The hunt always comes to an end, when the hunters return with their full load and return to their clans and villages from the forest and the grassland. The bunch of arrows will be re-divided into ten arrows and returned to the hunters.
When the arrow is disbanded, the arrow owner ends his mission. The Jurchens will have to wait until they go hunting next time to form an arrow again and elect the arrow leader.
However, as time has passed, the hunting of animals may not have decreased, but the wars of hunting similar species have become more and more frequent. In this way, the arrows have less and less time to disband, and in the end they do not disband at all.
The Arrow Master, who was originally elected temporarily, became the permanent leader. He had the power that the clan leader and village chief did not have, so he became the real leader of the clan and the village.
Hunters, or warriors, together with their families and slaves, constitute an arrow. In the constant fighting, conquest and annexation, the number of warriors controlled by an arrow master continues to increase, and most of them exceed the traditional ten people.
In a world where the jungle prevails, the arrow masters learned to unite vertically and horizontally. When forming an alliance, they exchanged long arrows with each other; when swearing an oath, they inserted the long arrow into the soil, otherwise they would break the arrow as an oath; when gathering men and horses, they passed the news
Arrows are used to gather troops; even when buying and selling livestock, they will carry arrows into the market as a token.
The Arrow Master gradually had his own village, which developed into a city. The former Arrow Master became the village master, and then the city lord. When the city lord's force and prestige further improved, he became the king of the entire tribe.
The king of the tribe is called "Baylor" in the Jurchen dialect. Sorguo is such a tribal king. He is Baylor of the Suwan tribe, and his surname is Guarjia.
Unfortunately, although Su Wanbu is said to be a descendant of Jin Wushu, at this time it was just a small tribe, located between the Yehe and Wula tribes, and it was difficult to live in it horizontally or vertically.
Especially during the period when Hada was in decline and Ye He was on the rise, the pressure on Suwanbele Guardja Solgo was increasing.
Originally, Su Wan's tribe had pinned its hope that the Ula tribe would not allow Ye He to annex Su Wan, and would definitely find ways to prevent Ye He from annexing Su Wan. This hope originally existed, especially when Ye He was invaded by Tumen.
, Ye He's power was strongly suppressed, and he might even be unable to protect himself.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Just as Su Wanbu took a breath, the bad news arrived: with the help of Ming Dynasty, Ye He took back Xicheng, which had been occupied by Tumen for a period of time. And he suffered little loss.
.What’s worse is that Ye He plans to marry his well-known Gege Meng Gu Zhezhe to Master Gao.
After hearing the news, Sorguo finally gave up his fantasy and took his son to surrender to Ye He. Then he was entrusted with an important task by Ye He and led a delegation to pay tribute. But under the skin of this task
, their real purpose is to protect Meng Guzhezhe and ensure that she can be handed over to Master Gao safely.
Sorgo thought about the glory and splendor of his ancestors from time to time, but his son was obviously more willing to "look forward." The young man carefully observed the Gao family's cavalry for a while, shook his head and said: "I heard that Grand Master Gao's cavalry has one hundred thousand cavalry.
Although it is impossible for these 100,000 servants to be all such elite cavalry, this is enough to show how powerful he is. Ama, Ye He has the help of Grand Master Gao, and I, Su Wan, have no other choice but to take refuge."
Sorguo sighed and asked softly, "Fei Yingdong, you are my bravest and smartest son. Su Wanbu's future depends on where you will take them..."
It turns out that this young man's name is Fei Yingdong, Gualjia Fei Yingdong.
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It's definitely been delayed, and I'm seriously sleep deprived because of it, so I have to get some sleep now. This... is really force majeure, I wish you all the best.