Chapter Forty-Nine: Bitterness
To say that Yongping is still very much loved by King Yan, because on April 24, King Yan returned from Liaodong, did not see Yongping, and after inquiry, he let people out quickly, in his opinion, it was just a punishment of some subordinates, and besides, there were indeed thieves who stole among these people, and it was not a wronged person - but Princess Xu rarely rejected his opinion, and also told King Yan that her intention was to take this opportunity to restrain Yongping's temperament, otherwise after the surrender, she would not be with the guest of honor, and she would be unsatisfactory. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
King Yan's birthday is April 17, and in previous years he spent it in Fuzhong, but this year it was delayed because of the army, but Fuzhong held a feast on the day he returned, and everyone returned happily drunk and full.
Zhang Zhaohua also dedicated the recliner and rocking chair he commissioned Gongzheng to Yan Wang after the feast, and the benefits of this thing should be a few days later, Yan Wang slowly tasted it, and it was a big prize for Gao Chi, because Zhang Zhaohua put all the credit on Gao Chi's head. Now I heard Princess Xu say that King Yan even asked Gongzheng to build more such chairs, ready to be used in the round hall and the heart hall.
King Yan brought back a lot of wool goods, leather goods and pearls this time, all of them are good things, especially pearls, Zhang Zhaohua can see at a glance, this kind of texture is round and huge, thorough and crystalline, and can exude a colorful luster of pearls should be Songhua River or Ussuri River pearls, this thing is called East Pearl in the hands of the Manchu people, used in the jewelry and utensils decoration of the emperor and concubines, this thing is really because there is no plant-nucleated cultivation process, digging out one is one, it can be regarded as a hard-won, precious thing.
Zhang Zhaohua even saw sable fur in the fur goods, like this kind of precious leather goods in later generations are also precious at this time, especially favored by women, which does not need to be ordered by King Yan, Princess Xu personally allocated it, and it is also to be distributed to the subordinates and dependents who follow King Yan. In addition to sable skin, cow and sheep skin, mouse skin, deer skin, roe deer skin and other fur, Zhang Zhaohua also found a kind of fur that she had never seen, and only after asking did she know that this kind of skin was called "Sellesun skin", of course, Zhang Zhaohua didn't know what Silesun was, and invited the sea boy who followed King Yan to send troops to ask, so it was clear.
A few eunuchs around King Yan like Ma He, Li Xing, Ma Jing, Ma Qi, and Haitong are all very useful people, and they can't be regarded as ordinary eunuchs, like this kind of person who follows King Yan to fight on horseback, even if there are no two or two things under his crotch, anyway, Zhang Zhaohua doesn't think they are not men.
"Sheresun is a beast of prey," said the sea boy, who picked up the skin and rubbed it, "like a cat, but much larger than a cat, and weighs as much as half a child, and has a stout body, and has long limbs, and only a short tail on his body, and a handful of thick hairs on his big claws, and he can't hear a sound when he steps on the snow—this thing is very powerful, and it eats people, and when he passes by the cave at night, a sergeant takes it alive!" We made a noise, it put down the person and ran, and chased after it for a full two kilometers, but it couldn't catch up, and this thing didn't stop running, and it could go up the tree and still swim in the water, it was amazing!"
Zhang Zhaohua's mouth opened wide when she heard this, this time she knew what Sellesun was, if she expected it to be right, Sheresun should be a lynx, and Haitong should describe this kind of large beast.
"And this kind of hair," Zhang Zhaohua pointed to the snow-white long-haired material and asked Haitong: "They told me that this is rabbit hair, but I can't believe that the hair is so long, is there really such a long-haired rabbit?"
"The long-haired rabbit," said the sea boy, "and the snow rabbit is not the same, the hair is very long, the eyes are covered, and this rabbit is not good at taking care of its own hair, a mess of appearance, but it runs fast, and we can't find it when we drill into the snow, it's all white, but we don't have to catch it, Sheresun is used to catching this thing, and when he finds it in Sheresun's nest, this thing can hide dozens of hares in the nest, or bury it in a fixed place to be hungry for food." ”
Zhang Zhaohua thought about this thing, the rat skin can be sewn up piece by piece to make a cloak or something, and the rabbit skin can actually be seen to be sewn together, because the coat color will look white and gray in the sun, so simply use a piece of fur to make things alone, or make small things such as gloves and necks, which are just enough.
In addition to fur goods and pearls, there are also bear's paws, flying dragons, monkey heads, ginseng, and deer tail antlers, all of which are pulled back by truckloads, this ginseng is of course not Korean ginseng on the Korean side, it is indeed a good thing produced in the deep mountains and old forests, but when I saw ginseng, these sergeants who carried things, and the eunuchs of Haitong, all showed a look of disgust mixed with disgust.
This can make Zhang Zhaohua look very strange, and he can't help asking. Hai Tong wanted to speak for a while, and then pursed his mouth and said: "This thing is from the savage Jurchen, you know, the savage Jurchen is really an uncivilized person, when she sees this kind of ginseng, she will perform the Zhou Gong ceremony on the side of the ginseng, whether it is brother and sister or father and daughter, they don't distinguish this, saying that as soon as this ginseng is trapped, it can't run away, and secondly, it is said that this kind of mating can give birth to a ginseng doll......"
Zhang Zhaohua felt that his hiccups were about to come out again in a few days, and he covered his mouth and coughed a few times before he said weakly: "This is all messed up, what can this give birth to, what kind of person is this savage Jurchen, and what does it have to do with Haixi Jurchen, please tell me again." ”
Before Zhang Zhaohua also told her about the division of savage Jurchens with Gao Chi, in Gao Chi's explanation, savage Jurchens are also called begging fans, and there are three kinds of beggar fans, one is called Jurchen savages, and they hunt exclusively in the mountains for a living. One is called Beishan Savage, Beishan refers to the mountain north of Nuergan, which is called the place of "East Jinshan", this place according to Gao Chi, according to the Jurchen called "Jin Alin", Zhang Zhaohua read it a few times and suddenly realized that this is the sound of "Xing'an Mountains", which should refer to a place in the north branch of the Outer Xing'an Mountains, because it is still facing the North Sea, Zhang Zhaohua looked at the map and felt that this "Beihai" should be the place of the Okhotsk Haishan Mountains in later generations, and the Beishan Savages who lived here were infested by deer.
There is also a kind called savages, who live in the west of the North Sea, and this is a complete savage, because the sea boy also said: "There are no domestic animals except dogs, and dogs are dragged and climbed by them, and they live in grass huts, and they fish for food, and they do not bathe in a straight clothes, and they use fish skins for the summer and dog skins for the cold, and they do not eat grains, and they never eat what is produced in the field, but only eat raw meat, all kinds of fish, and they are fished out and eaten raw, and they are bloody, and everyone's cheeks are protruding from the ground, and they are eaten by eating raw meat." Their custom is that people die and burn their bellies, and bury their ashes under the roots of trees - our army almost didn't go forward when they came here, because these were all wild people who drank blood, and they didn't understand the language, and they didn't speak Jurchen, and we didn't know it before, so let the Jurchens who could speak the dialects of various tribes go up and talk to them, but the donkey's head was not in the horse's mouth, and the Jurchens also said that they were not Jurchen. ”
"It is said that there were still people three thousand miles ahead," Hai Tong recalled: "The bun on the face, the hat with red tassels, and the clothes with brass bells, shot mountains for food." But it was too far away, and we didn't go any further. ”
Zhang Zhaohua was almost amazed at where he went, he was afraid that he had arrived somewhere in eastern Siberia, this ethnic group sounded like a foreign race, and he didn't know what Tungusic dialect it was. She asked, and then listened to Haitong say: "We met them on an island connected to the land, and I heard a thousand households sent by the King of Liao say that this island was called 'Guwei' in the former Yuan, and then it seems that the transliteration is wrong or what's going on, and now the map of the Liaodong Guard is marked with 'Kuyi', and the local indigenous people are also called 'Kuyi'." ”
Zhang Zhaohua turned the word "Kuyi" over and over again and chewed on the side of his mouth, and suddenly found that Kuyi was very close to the word "Sakhalin", and they also said that it was an island, and judging from the position of the deep march, it should be Sakhalin Island. Oh my God, King Yan and his army actually went to Sakhalin Island to play a circle and came back!