Chapter Eighty-Four: The Visit
Walking east from Jinzhou, once crossing the Liao River, it changed from sparsely populated to uninhabited, and when it reached the Yalu River, there were reckless primeval forests everywhere, almost every one of them was towering in size, so that Li Shiyi and others, who were born in the south of the Yangtze River, were amazed.
At present, this kind of territory, no map is easy to use, because there is no road at all, if it is not for the leadership of the old Ding Tou, an old horse who knows the way, they will bring things and have no place to exchange, who knows which one is not big or small in the cat, and the leader of the leader still looks old with the old Ding Tou.
"Se Ge, I'm here to disturb again, this is your little cloth, you can go to the ground, haha." Lao Dingtou spoke a half-baked Jurchen and greeted him, and the two did not hug each other, but arched their hands and then touched each other's shoulders.
"Ding, my friend, all the people of the Lost Department welcome you." The middle-aged man named Se Ge was very tall, with a dense beard covering his cheeks, and the entire top of his head was smooth from the temples to his temples, with only a small braid at the back.
"They are? Ding, do you have a new owner? Li Shiyi and the others were the ones he had never met, and he was stunned and made a joke, but it was already very close to the truth, the old Ding Tou smiled a little embarrassed, although Li Shiyi didn't understand it very well, but he also guessed that it should have something to do with him, so he raised his hand backwards, and the two subordinates came forward with a wooden box.
In front of them, the box was opened, and there were several brand-new knives and axes inside, and the good workmanship made Se Sugo and the others love it at a glance. Li Shiyi said a word in Lao Dingtou's ear in Chinese, and then looked at this small tribe with his hands, he always felt that something was not right, and glanced at the entourage behind him, and then suddenly came to his senses, and came out to greet them, including Se Jingge himself, there was only one adult man, and it was himself.
These people are different from the Jin people in the Central Plains and the entire Mobei in the heyday of their power, even when the Jin people were at their peak, they were only one of the lowest levels, and there were conscriptions and materials every year, and they would have no share in the money and territory, otherwise how could they still be nesting in this kind of ghost place? Now that it has been replaced by the Mongols, their fate is still the same, if they really want to develop, they will have to wait until the period of "I am the Qing Dynasty".
"Good things, but unfortunately there is nothing left in the tribe to exchange, they took our last fur, and the mountain ginseng. This was not enough, even the lads in the stockade did not spare it, and in order to entertain you, I had to send young women to fish and hunt, so that the guests from afar would not be blamed for being rude. ”
The middle-aged man's tone was a little low, this time the conscription was especially strong, all the adult men in the tribe were accepted, and if it was not enough, they had to take something to resist. With such a small tribe as they, a total of more than 100 people can be produced, but the Yuan people don't even let go of more than 100 people.
"Se Ge, you misunderstood, these are gifts from my owner, and you don't need to exchange anything for them." Lao Ding Tou said according to Li Shiyi's instructions, which made the middle-aged man suddenly turn his worries into joy, and rubbed his hands a little embarrassed.
"Then it's not easy for you to come here, and Se Jingge won't let his friend go home empty-handed." Lao Ding Tou translated this, Li Shiyi thought about it, and said a word to him.
"My host said that if he wants to ask for a glass of wine, how about it be a gift from his first visit?"
Se Suge didn't argue with him anymore, maybe they didn't care about these things, maybe they had other requirements, no matter what, they didn't have anything to plan for, he expressed his gratitude, and then took Li Shiyi and the others to his residence, a wooden structure.
The real Jurchens are not pure nomads, they often live by water, such as the banks of the Yalu River, the Datong River and the Tumen River at the top of the river, and even the seaside, they are not pure fishing and hunting people, they will reclaim the land to grow crops, they will also raise livestock, and they will also hunt beads and raise birds, in short, it is difficult to mind.
In fact, this title is only in a general sense, referring to the large and small tribes that live in this area, and now the Yuan people have just founded the country, and the control of the Liaodong area is not strict, and more often they are regarded as vassals, wantonly exploiting, nothing more than not letting them have a chance to grow.
Li Shiyi did not have a clear goal when he came this time, and he was dissatisfied with it, expecting such a small tribe full of women and children to raise the anti-flag? That's a fool's dream, maybe people are still dreaming of making a fortune after going south, so Li Shiyi is not in a hurry, he politely drinks wine with the master, and casually talks.
"Ding, you came too early this time, you saw what I look like here, and then go to the mountains, those places are similar to my here, I'm afraid you will have to run in vain, but if you can wait a little longer, maybe there will be a bigger harvest." Se was stunned to see the big car behind them, and had to tell the truth first, so as not to let his friend run away in vain.
Li Shiyi and the others knew that the mountain he was talking about was the Changbai Mountain behind him, and from here all the way to the Xing'an Mountains, there were such small tribes everywhere, and the Yuan people had set up a number of Xuanwei Divisions in the local area to take charge of the civil affairs of this vast area, and not long ago they had upgraded it to a province, intending to strive to become a rule like the Central Plains.
"After dealing with Xue Chan Khan, and the Ulus Khan in the north, Ding, do you know, because of the discord between them, we small people have suffered, you look at it, maybe tomorrow the nobles in the north will come to ask for the guilt, and I don't know what to hand over to avoid disaster at that time."
This time, not only Li Shiyi didn't understand, but even Lao Ding didn't quite understand, under his instructions, Lao Ding Tou patiently inquired with the same color, and finally understood the general meaning, he toasted the other party with a sip of wine, and then turned his head to Li Shiyi to explain in detail, the latter's heart moved when he heard it, and the wine glass in his hand almost spilled.
"Lao Ding, you can do the rest of the things, those things are all yours, no matter how many days, you can walk all over the mountains around here, you don't have to rush back."
"Boss, you're leaving?" Old Ding asked in surprise.
"Well, this will leave, you talk to him, and help so-and-so sue for a crime."
Li Shiyi stood up and politely refused the other party's hospitality, he did not go back the same way, but went down the Yalu River, turning on the microphone while riding his horse, trying to contact Jiang Ning at sea.