Early the next morning, after a good night's rest, Zhu Yunxi got up in good spirits, first punched, and waited for Li Qing, Xu Zengshou and several others to come over, and then went out after breakfast together. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhu Yunxi walked on the casually paved stone road, looking at the people who were working, and when he heard Li Qing say that last month, a Jurchen tribe attacked Vladivostok City, and after being defeated, the captured people were demoted to death row prisoners doing the hardest and most tiring work, and suddenly said: "Li Xiang, then these people in leg cuffs are the captured Jurchens?" He pointed to a few handcuffed, ragged men on the side of the road who were being watched at work.

"Your Highness, it is true. All those who dared to attack the Jurchens who were captured here were to do the hardest and most tiring work; This is not the case with other people who come to find work on their own, but because they are afraid that they will make trouble, they are still watched, but the salary is quite a lot. Li Qing said.

Zhu Yunxi nodded, and asked again: "I heard you say just now, the Mongols who defected to us can't beat the Jurchens?" This Jurchen is so powerful? Wasn't it the Mongols who swept the world back then? If the Jurchens were so powerful, why didn't they sweep the world? ”

What he said asked Li Qing. Li Qing is a literati, although he is not the kind of literati who is not diligent and does not distinguish between grains and grains, but where did he know such a thing, he suddenly didn't know what to say.

At this time, a man dressed as a military general behind Zhu Yunxi said: "Your Highness, if it is a one-on-one head-to-head competition, the Mongols really can't beat the Jurchens." Before, I heard from His Royal Highness the King of England, saying, 'In this war, farming cannot defeat nomadism, and nomadism cannot defeat fishing and hunting.' ’”

"We Han people are farming, and the Mongols are nomadic herders, so it is difficult to beat the Mongols in a head-on competition, and it is more with sharp weapons and a fierce courage at the time of the founding of the country to drive the Mongols out of the Central Plains. As the whole country gradually became comfortable, it would be difficult to deal with the Mongols without superiority in numbers and weapons. ”

"And the Jurchens are fishing and hunting, and the Mongols can't beat the Jurchens, but the Mongols grow on horseback and are far superior to the Jurchens in cavalry, so in the end the Jin Kingdom was destroyed by the Mongols. But even when the Mongols destroyed the Jin that year, the Jin soldiers who stayed in the northeast could still fight on foot, and the Mongols could not find the north. ”

"Farming can't beat nomadism, and nomadism can't beat fishing and hunting. This is a good thing to say, it is easy to understand and simple, but this is not like the words of the twenty uncles, but like the words of the imperial brother. Zhu Yunxi said.

Then he turned his head and said to the military general who had just spoken: "Qin Sen, when I went to Kaiyuan to visit him, Uncle Twenty strongly recommended you to come over to assist me, saying that you are very good at dealing with the Jurchens. Lone didn't believe it at first, but judging from what you said just now, you did study a lot about the Jurchens. ”

This person is Qin Song's younger brother Qin Sen. Qin Sen was not selected for the lecture hall at the beginning of last year, and was sent to the British vassal as a general. Although he had only been in the British vassal kingdom for a short year, he had already made a name for himself in dealing with the Jurchens. This time, it was Yunxi who wrote a letter to Zhu Song and asked him to send it to Zhu Yunxi, and Zhu Song reluctantly sent him over.

Qin Sen bowed down and said, "Thank you, Your Highness, for your praise." He didn't shy away from being modest.

Zhu Yunxi continued: "Gu intends to set up a new guard, mainly to suppress and use it to deal with the Jurchens, are you willing to be the commander?" ”

"Yes." Qin Sen immediately said loudly. Coming to Vladivostok, a place where the conditions are several times more difficult than Kaiyuan, if he can't be promoted, why should he come here? You must know that his own brother is the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and even the King of England does not dare to send him over against his own wishes.

Zhu Yunxi smiled and said, "Then you are the commander of Donghaiwei." He turned his head to face Xu Zengshou again: "Xu Xiang, Lone's appointment, Xu Xiang has no opinion." ”

"Qin Sen is very suitable as the commander of Jianzhou Guard, and the minister has no opinion." Xu Zengshou said.

The matter was decided, and Zhu Yunxi asked him about the Jurchens by the way. Qin Sen said: "Your Highness, although the barbarians in the northeast are all called Jurchens, in fact, they are not the same nation, and their customs and habits are very different from each other. ”

"Generally speaking, the Jurchens here are divided into three parts, one part is the Jianzhou Jurchens, and most of the Jurchens in the north of the British vassal country are Jianzhou Jurchens, they are not the same thing as the Jurchens in the Jin Kingdom, they should have migrated from further north."

"The second part is the savage Jurchens, and most of the Jurchens in our Yongvan Kingdom are savage Jurchens. Most of the savage Jurchens were the descendants of the Jin Kingdom left in the Northeast back then. ”

"The third part is the Haixi Jurchens, who lived close to the Mongolian steppe, and were of mixed blood from the remaining Jurchens and Mongols of the Jin Kingdom and the barbarians who moved from further north."

"There are other small tribes that have different customs from the above three barbarian peoples, but they are not large in number and are not worth mentioning."

In addition, the three barbarians who call themselves Jurchens are also divided into raw Jurchens and mature Jurchens. The birth of a girl is a person who has no contact with us at all, and is still completely barbarian; Mature women are really people who have had contact with the Han people and have also learned from the Han people. ”

"The Jurchens still have so many Taoisms, and they never knew about it before." Zhu Yunxi interjected. "In this case, it is possible to provoke different Jurchens to be hostile to each other."

"Your Highness is wise." Qin Sen said: "Different Jurchen tribes often fight with each other over water, prey, and even ancestral grudges, which can provoke them. ”

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Qin Sen said a few more words, and Zhu Yunxi said: "How to deal with the Jurchens, I will leave it to you with all the powers, so I won't ask." But," he said in an accentuated tone, "no matter how we deal with the Jurchens, our own army must be strong enough!" His own army is not strong, but it is just fish and meat in the hands of barbarians. You can't count on the imperial court to rescue you in everything, so why are you separating me from here! ”

Xu Zengshou and the others said: "Your Highness, rest assured, the army of the Yongvan Kingdom will definitely not be weaker than the elite troops in the imperial court. ”

Zhu Yunxi nodded and said, "Then it's up to you." ”

After a few people continued to walk, Zhu Yunxi and Li Qing discussed the establishment of the civil official yamen: "From Gu's point of view, the only people who can be called ordinary people here now are the original family members of the guilty army of King Qi Sanwei, a total of less than 20,000 people, and there are not many who have been exiled. Lone means to temporarily set up Yongming Mansion, which is the only local yamen in the country. ”

"For the time being, there is no need to set up a county, and the government will directly manage the people, and the honest people in the army will be selected as police officers to replace the former officials. As for the officials, are the officials enough now? ”

"Your Highness, if the Yongming Mansion is established, I'm afraid it won't be enough." Li Qing said.

"In this case, the judges and experience of the first generals have been transferred to civilian officials, and then they will make a concession to the capital and ask to send some officials." Zhu Yunxi said.

Li Qing bowed down to receive the order.

As the two were talking, Zhu Yunxi suddenly pointed to a person on the side of the road: "How can this person look similar to the Wu'er people in the Western Regions?" Are there still such people in the Northeast? Is it the Hui descendants brought over by the Mongols? Just now, a working Fanmin on the side of the road raised his head and happened to be seen by Zhu Yunxi, who saw that his appearance was a little different from that of the Han, Mongolian, and Jurchen, so he asked.

Li Qing glanced at it and said to Zhu Yunxi: "Your Highness, this person is an Ainu from the other side of the sea. It's not a backlash. ”

"The Ainu? What do they look like? How can people in the east look the same as people in the west? Zhu Yunxi was even more surprised.

"This, the minister doesn't know." Li Qing said.

At this time, Xu Zengshou suddenly said: "Your Highness, the minister just remembered something. Last year, Fang Commander mediated the war between the Fuso and the Ainu, and asked them to withdraw their troops along the Tsugaru Strait. However, when our ship explored that area this year, it was found that the Fuso no longer obeyed the mediation of the Ming Dynasty after the New Year, and crossed the strait to attack the Ainu. ”

"What does this have to do with our Eternal Domain?" Zhu Yunxi asked.

"Your Highness, the minister will first ask Li Xiang, is this Ainu also fishing and hunting, and how are they better than the Jurchens when they fight?" Xu Zengshou asked.

"This, the Ainu should also be regarded as fishing and hunting, and their performance in the previous war was similar to that of the Jurchens." Li Qing said.

"In that case, I ask Your Highness to intervene in the war between the Fuso and the Ainu. The Ainu are separated from the kingdom of Eternal by the sea, and even if their people reach the mainland, they need not worry; But the Jurchens are on the mainland, if they have a heart of disobedience, I am afraid it will be a great turmoil, wasn't this how the Jurchens got up in the last years of the Liao Kingdom? ”

"Therefore, the minister thinks that we should help the Ainu people, deal with the Fusang people, and make the Ainu people grateful to us, so that we can borrow them to deal with the Jurchens. Moreover, helping the Ainu people is also in line with the principle of mutual assistance among the vassal states during the Zhou Dynasty. Xu Zengshou said.

In addition to the high-sounding reasons, the reason why Xu Zengshou is so enthusiastic about helping the Ainu people is also because he wants to be knighted. Assisting Zhu Yunxi here step by step, even if he defeated more Jurchen tribes, it is impossible to be knighted because of this, unless he is willing to stay here for decades, and finally the court will be knighted in the name of hard work; But how could he wait until he was seventy or eighty years old to be knighted?

But it's different to help the Ainu, they are outsiders, although Fusang is a country that Taizu set not to conquer, but as long as he wins the battle, the court will definitely not say anything, and it is very likely that he will be knighted.

Zhu Yunxi didn't think of what Xu Zengshou was thinking for the time being, but said: "If you help the Ainu people, you don't dare to be the master." However, Lone can give a report to the court in the name of the vassal king, and let the court agree to my eternal vassal country's crusade against the vassals. ”

Xu Zengshou was slightly disappointed, but thinking that His Majesty might not agree, the face on his face was fine, and he bowed down and said, "The minister knows." ”

Several people said a few more things, and Zhu Yunxi said: "Ladies and gentlemen, although we are now starting from scratch and have many difficulties, this is also an opportunity to show our talents. Lone also promised you that he would never treat you badly. ”