Just when Zhu Hongsan's sons were vying for power, in the far north, 3,000 miles away from Beijing, in the Erguna River Valley, Tao Li, a young Evenki man, was hunting in the forests of the Daxing'an Mountains.

Tao Li is only 14 years old this year, but he is already considered an adult among the Evenki people, who generally live at 35 years old. Despite his short stature, Tao Li was an excellent hunter. Today, his task is to catch enough ten rabbits so that his mother and sister in the family will not starve.

Northeast China, a term that some people in the south could probably consider to be an administrative division of China, refers to the unexpected large area of land in Shanhaiguan. However, the word Northeast appeared very early, first appeared in the "Zhou Li Zhifang Shi", but it appeared in the official documents of the state or in the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty "Da Yuan Yi Tongzhi" said: "Kaiyuan Road, Nanzhen Changbai Mountain, North Immersion Whale River Sea, Sanjing Ancient Country, Five Kingdoms Old City, and Northeast City." At this time, the Northeast officially became a geographical term.

The Ming Dynasty inherited the Yuan Dynasty, and after Zhu Yuanzhang opened the country, most of the former ministers of the Yuan Dynasty in the Nuergan area in the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River returned to the Ming government. In the ninth year of Yongle, the usurper emperor Zhu Di gave the entire northeast region a majestic name, Nuer Gandusi, as the highest local administrative body of the Ming Dynasty government to govern a vast area north of Liaodong, Heilongjiang, and the Ussuri River basin.

The jurisdiction of the Nuergandu Division was very large, including Sakhalin Island, the Nan River, the Trans-Khingan Mountains, and the Far East of later Russia. There are Mongolian, Jurchen, Jirimi, Kuyi, Daur and other ethnic groups in its territory, and most of them make a living from fishing and hunting.

The Ming Dynasty government also appointed the leaders of each ethnic group to take charge of the guards, give the seal letter, still its customs, unify its belonging, and pay tribute at the time. The tributes include Haidongqing, mink, horses and other local products, which are equivalent to the taxes in the mainland.

On the basis of the post station in the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty government restored the post transmission of Nuergan to the interior, which strengthened the political and economic exchanges between Nuergan and the Ming court and the friendly relations between the people of all ethnic groups, and promoted the local social and economic development.

However, the Nuer Gandu Division existed for only twenty-five years, and after Zhu Di's death, his successor Ming Renzong Zhu Gaochi, as well as Ming Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji, abolished the Nuer Gandu Division, and moved the administrative office to Kaiyuan City, Liaoning Province, and after the country's regular army withdrew, the northeast region was transferred to the Jurchen tribe management. In this way, the Ming Dynasty was tantamount to abandoning the northeast region to the Jurchen tribes, laying the groundwork for their future demise.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji, as the emperor, could not know that the Ming Dynasty finally fell in the hands of the Jurchens, and according to the domestic and foreign conditions at that time, it was the best policy to give up the slave and the capital. The Northeast is a bitter cold land, with a sparse population and a lack of resources, which is completely a chicken rib for the Central Plains Dynasty. If you want this region, you can't bring benefits to the country's development, and you have to send troops to guard it, which wastes a lot of financial and material resources.

At this time, the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty did not have time to invade the Ming Dynasty because of internal strife. Therefore, Zhu Zhanji believes that the Nuer Gandu Division, which is for military purposes, loses its meaning when there is no war. And the most important point is that Zhu Zhanji believes that he should recuperate, no longer continue to develop the expansion of Ming Chengzu, and give up some wasted places. Under this kind of thinking, Zhu Zhanji first gave up Annan, and finally gave up Nuer Gandusi.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty handed over the vast territory of the Northeast to the Jurchens, which was the differentiation, disintegration and dilution that the Han people were good at. Under the differentiation of the Ming Dynasty, the Jurchens were divided into three major divisions in the early years of the Ming Dynasty: Jianzhou Jurchen, Haixi Jurchen, and East China Sea Jurchen, and later divided into four major parts according to geography: Jianzhou, Changbai, East China Sea, and Hulun.

These tribes do not talk about the same language and the same species, but attack each other, and often fight people's brains for a little bit of land and population. Of course, during this period, the instigation of Ming officials among several major tribes also played an important role.

The Han people had so much fun among the Jurchens that they forgot the saying that feng shui takes turns. After hundreds of years of bad luck, the Jurchens finally appeared a heroic figure, and this is Nurhachi.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty encountered internal and external troubles, the invasion of Korea by the Japanese abroad, the Mongols in Ningxia, and the rebellion of the ethnic minorities of the Yungui generation within the country, these conditions exhausted the financial resources and energy of the Ming Dynasty, so the appearance of Nurhachi was both inevitable and accidental.

What followed was the normal routine of the fall of a dynasty, Li Zicheng and others rebelled in the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming army was busy extinguishing the Liukou. At this time, the country happened to meet Zhu Youzhen, who claimed to be a wise man, and buried the last bit of hope for the Ming Dynasty. At this time, Nurhachi, who was far away from the pass, was already dead, but he didn't expect that the successor would be Huang Taiji, who was better than the old slave, and in this way, the huge and unshakable Ming Dynasty that was in front of the Jurchens before perished like this.

However, in this time and space, Zhu Hongsan, a fat butterfly, appeared, defeated the Manchu Qing in more than ten years and reoccupied the Northeast.

Zhu Hongsan, as a traveler in later generations, naturally knows the importance of the Northeast to the empire, not to mention other resources such as timber and coal mines, but the oil field under the Songnen Plain, which is enough for Zhu Hongsan and anyone to work hard.

Therefore, after Zhu Hongsan occupied Beijing, he immediately sent Zhao Guodong to lead the elite soldiers to the north of Shanhaiguan to restore the rule of the Ming Dynasty over Liaodong.

In addition to these, the entire Tohoku * was separated and a governorate was established in the same way as Kannai. In the past, Liaodong was not an independent administrative unit, and the entire Liaodong Peninsula was under the management of the Shandong Buzheng Division, but now Zhu Hongsan divided the entire Northeast into three provinces, and the original Liaodong was divided into Liaoning Province, and the seat of governance was in Shenyang. Jilin Province north of Liaoning, the seat of governance is Jilin City on the Songhua River. The northernmost is Heilongjiang Province, which is located in Telin City at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River.

The Northeast is very vast, and the road traffic is very inconvenient, but the developed water system in the Northeast has become the key to domination, and the Jilin City and Terin City set up by Zhu Hongsan are all in the water transportation nodes. Of course, because the Northeast is vast and sparsely populated, there are only more than 2 million people in the entire Northeast, and more than half of them are Han people living in Liaoning. But Zhu Hongsan is not worried about this, now with the artifact of corn and potatoes, there will never be a food crisis in the Northeast again.

In the later Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Chinese could rely on corn and potatoes to make the population reach 400 million, and Zhu Hongsan, as a traverser of later generations, must be able to do better than the Manchu wild boar skin.

Zhu Hongsan's rule was all arranged along the water system, but the vast mountainous areas such as the Great and Small Khing'an Mountains were somewhat beyond the reach of the whip. And the Wulitun where Tao Li lives is at the source of the Erguna River, in the Daxing'an Mountains. This place is far from the control of the Central Plains Dynasty, and even Tao Li does not know that there is such a dynasty as the Ming Dynasty with a population of hundreds of millions in the south.

Tao Li's father's name is Alin, which means "mountain" in the Evenki language, and Alin lives up to this name, he is the number one warrior of the small and medium-sized Evenki tribe in the Great Khing'an Mountains.

But Tao Li hadn't seen his father for ten years, and when Tao Li was four years old, those Jurchens in the south came to the tribe to arrest the Jurchens, and his father, Alin, who was the first warrior of the tribe, was captured by those damned Jurchens, and I heard that he went to the south to fight for the Jurchens.

At that time, Tao Li was young and was not captured, so Tao Li made up his mind that he would defeat those Jurchens in the future and save his father.

In the past, the Jurchens set up Niu Lu in Tao Li's tribe, responsible for conscription and food, but I don't know what's going on, a few years ago those Jurchens left, and I heard that they went to the south to fight with people. The Jurchens left Taoli's tribe with a lot less burden, and more than a dozen babies have been born in the tribe in recent years, and it is estimated that the tribe will be able to regain its vitality in more than ten years.

Because the adults in the tribe were all captured by the Jurchens and went to the south to fight, a half-grown boy like Tao Li became the best hunter in the tribe. Tao Li means rabbit in Evenki, of course, this does not mean that Tao Li is timid and cowardly, but praises Tao Li as agile as a rabbit.

Tao Li was very lucky today, he hit a roe deer, Tao Li carefully peeled off the roe deer skin with a bone knife, and then looked at the perfect skin and smirked. Tao Li has become an adult, officially reached the age of hair * spring, Tao Li is the most beautiful girl in the tribe Yinji Khan, Yinji Khan means deer, this girl is also like a deer, with a pair of beautiful big eyes.

Yinji Khan also liked Tao Li, the first hunter of the tribe, very much, but Yinji Khan's father was a very annoying person, and in order to ask for more money, he even asked Tao Li to take out ten deer skins as a dowry in order to marry Yinji Khan to him. Ten deer skins are undoubtedly a huge amount of money among the Evenki people who are still in a slave society, but Tao Li can only grit his teeth and accept it in order to marry his sweetheart.

The roe deer I hit today is very large, and an arrow just now hit the eye, the skin is very complete, according to Tao Li's estimation, this should be able to top a deerskin.

Tao Li carefully put away the skin, which was the happiness of the rest of his life. Tao Li looked at the sky, it was already past noon, and the night in the Great Khing'an Mountains was very cold, even the indigenous Tao Li was not sure that he would survive in the wild at night, and now he should go home.

Tao Li cut up the roe deer meat, put it in his backpack, and then took the six rabbits he had hit, and took his bow and arrows and set out on the way home.

The tribe of Tao Li is located in a mountain col, the sun is windy, and it is a perfect campsite. Tao Li walked five miles away from home, and when he saw the smoke rising, Tao Li couldn't help but feel full of strength in his heart, and then there was his mother and sister waiting for him at home, as well as Yinji Khan's beautiful big eyes, thinking of this Tao Li began to giggle again.

Tao Li was walking through the forest with a huge backpack on his back, and suddenly smelled a burnt smell, as a hunter, Tao Li was too familiar with this smell, this was the smell of barbecued meat, but the meat was roasted.

Tao Li frowned, there is a shortage of food in the tribe, and he will definitely not waste food like this, if it is not his own tribe, what is it?

Tao Li's keen nerves sensed that something was wrong, and he gently put his backpack on the ground, picked up his bow and arrow, and approached the tribe lightly.