To the west of the Tumen River, the reaction of the people of the Buyan Dynasty in the territory of the Houjin Kingdom naturally fell in the eyes of the departments of the Tumen Town Guard, and also fell in the eyes of You Jinghe.

In particular, some Mongols, Koreans, and Han Chinese, who fled from the west bank of the Tumen River at intervals and scattered times, brought the situation in Houjin on the other side to the side of the Tumen Zhenshou Mansion.

All of this was enough for Shang Kexi and You Jinghe to make up their minds and cross the river to the north.

At the end of the third year of Chongzhen and the beginning of the fourth year of Chongzhen, for the people of all ethnic groups living in the territory of the Jurchens in the northeast outside the Guanwai, like the people in the nine border areas of the Ming Dynasty, they all endured the test of severe cold and famine.

For the Jurchen Eight Banners nobles in the Liaoshen region, as well as many Eight Banners armor people and their families, the situation is a little better.

In any case, these people had more or less some of the reserves they had accumulated through conquest and looting, and at least some grain and livestock.

But for the Han Chinese and Korean clothed slaves at the bottom of the Jurchen Eight Banners, they are facing another cruel juncture in their lives.

They were faced with a time when they wanted to be slaves but couldn't.

In the past, Han Chinese and Koreans, who were once regarded as a wealth by the Jurchens, became a burden for many Jurchens in the winter of the third year of Chongzhen, especially when the fourth year of Chongzhen was approaching.

The trade in coatings, which was once forbidden in Daikin, is once more popular.

Some Jurchen Eight Banner armor-clad people who lacked food or property at home began to sell their Han or Korean clothes in exchange for a little gold and silver to buy grain whose domestic prices had skyrocketed in the future.

In addition, some of the noblewomen who had more servants in their families simply drove away the worthless old, weak, sick and disabled or sat back and watched them die of cold and starvation, so as to save food and feed the rest of the young and strong.

Speaking of which, the price of grain in the Later Jin Dynasty, since its founding, was much higher than the price of grain in the Ming Dynasty, and was often five to ten times that of the grain price in the Ming Dynasty.

This point is an important reason why the Jin merchants collaborated with the enemy, and it was also an important reason why some generals in Liaodong Town and Dongjiang Town secretly collaborated with the enemy and resold grain to the Jurchens.

In this life, now the Chongzhen Emperor has long recognized the extreme importance of economic warfare, and has become more resolute and strict in the economic blockade of the Houjin State.

Therefore, in the winter of the third year of Chongzhen, especially after November, in the city of Shenyang, where the Jurchen nobles of the Later Jin Kingdom gathered, the price of a stone of rice reached the point where it was difficult to buy.

At the turn of the spring and summer of the third year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the spring and summer of the fourth year of the Later Jin Tiancong, shortly after Huang Taiji returned from the defeat of Monan, he straightened out the internal affairs and stabilized his position, and then decisively implemented the policy of dividing the land and reclamation of the Eight Banners in the territory of the Later Jin State.

The Jurchens under the Eight Banners of the Jurchens drove the Han and Korean-clothed servants in their respective families to reclaim a large amount of wasteland on their respective banner fields.

However, the action of dividing land and cultivating land from top to bottom in the country did not achieve much effect.

First, during this year, the northeastern land where the Jurchens were entrenched, like the northwest and northern parts of the Ming Dynasty, experienced a severe drought that lasted for a year.

Second, the spring in the Northeast is shorter, the autumn is shorter, and the cold is earlier, so there can only be one season a year, and once the agricultural time is missed, there will be no harvest in a year.

Under such circumstances, although the Han and Korean clothed servants who naturalized the Jurchens in the Later Jin Dynasty were very good at farming, there were no drought-tolerant and cold-tolerant high-yield crops to grow, and they were also difficult to cook without rice.

Including sorghum rice, the main crop in Northeast China in this era, although it is quite drought-tolerant, no matter how drought-tolerant it is, it can't withstand the rain from spring to summer and then to autumn!

As a result, most of the sorghum fields that had been painstakingly planted in the Jurchen Eight Banners were cut off due to the continuous drought, and the rest were also seriously reduced.

At the same time, after the end of the war in the winter of the second year of Chongzhen, the nobles of the Eight Banners of the Later Jin Kingdom completely cut off contact with those traitors and Jin merchants from the Xuanda region, and there was no longer trade from the Xuanda region of the Ming Dynasty.

Although the tributes from the various affiliated tribes in the north, such as Dongzhu, ginseng, deer antler velvet and other things, were piled up in Huangtaiji's warehouse in Shenyang, there was no trade with those traitors and merchants of the Ming Dynasty, although these things were valuable, but they could not be fed by hunger and cold, and had no other use except for rewarding the tribes.

In particular, in the face of the famine that swept across the territory of the Houjin Kingdom, these things that were once incomparably valuable suddenly became worthless.

On the same day that You Jinghe led the Tumen Town Guard Mansion Right Association to recruit and train north, heavy snow also fell in Shenyang City.

Huang Taiji, the Tiancong Khan of the Later Jin Kingdom, stood tremblingly on the Phoenix Tower of the Shenyang Khan Palace with a cane in his hand, overlooking the city of Shenyang in the heavy snow.

Huang Taiji wears a black fox fur hat and a black mink cloak, and his figure is still tall, but he is already a little rickety.

His body is no longer as fat as before, but his cheeks are a little loose, which makes his whole person no longer look as heroic as in the past.

At this time, Huang Taiji looked at the railing, frowning, squinting, his face was sallow, his eye bags drooped, and his serious and deep face revealed a deep sense of decadence and exhaustion.

"Isn't there an old saying among the Han people called Ruixue Zhaofeng Year? I hope that the new year of my Dajin Kingdom will be a good year! ”

Counting up, Huang Taiji at this time is only forty years old.

But when he said this at this time, he looked like an old man in his last years.

Huang Taiji had already learned the fate of the Shanxi merchants who traded with the Jurchen Eight Banners, and he had also realized that if there was no trade with the Shanxi merchants of Xuanda in the future, the Dajin Kingdom under his rule would only rely on the Jurchen Eight Banners themselves.

Or there are Horqin and Mobei Mongolia.

"Yes, Your Majesty! That's exactly what the Han people say in their books! Now that spring is about to bloom, the snow is falling from the sky at this time, which is an excellent omen! Congratulations to Your Majesty! ”

Behind Huang Taiji, there stood a group of women who accompanied the snow in the harem.

At this time, the person who answered was a slender, fair-skinned and beautiful young woman, also wearing a mink fur, and under the mink fur was a flag suit.

This woman looks to be only seventeen or eighteen years old, with bright eyes and bright teeth, even if she is wearing a thick mink fur, she can't hide her youthful atmosphere.

"Da Yu'er is right! Your Majesty need not be overly worried! If it snows today, when the spring flowers bloom, the situation will definitely improve, whether it is in the capital or in the country! ”

At this time, it was another graceful and luxurious flag-clad lady behind Huang Taiji who spoke.

I saw her say this, while stepping forward, reaching out to hold the back of Huang Taiji's hand holding the guardrail, and standing shoulder to shoulder with Huang Taiji.

The woman who spoke at this time was Huang Taiji's Zhonggong Dafujin at this time, that is, Huang Taiji's third concubine, Borzigit's Zhezhe.

And the big jade that Borzigit Zhezhe said in his mouth is the West Palace side Fujin Borzigit Bumu Butai, which is actually ranked second in Huang Taiji's harem.

When Huang Taiji heard this, he looked back at his Zhonggong Dafu Jin Zhezhe, shook her hand, then looked back at Da Yu'er, who had just spoken, and then turned his head and looked at the fluttering snow outside the building, and said without looking back:

"Zhonggong Dafujin and Xigong Fujin will stay with me, and the others will all retreat!"

As soon as Huang Taiji's voice fell, the palace ladies behind him left one after another, and after a while, only Huang Taiji and his eldest concubine Zhonggong Dafu Jin Zhezhe and one of the side concubines Xigong Fujin Bumu Butai were left on the Phoenix Tower.

Huang Taiji now has a total of three side concubines canonized, and the eldest concubines in front of him, Zhezhe and Bumu Butai, are two of them.

In addition, there is also an East Palace Fujin, who is the daughter of Xinna's Korqin Bel Kongol after returning from the defeat of Monan a year ago.

Although Kong Guoer's daughter is known as the Fujin of the East Palace, she is not very favored after being included in the Shenyang Palace by Huang Taiji.

First, the daughter of Kong Guoer is still young, only thirteen or fourteen years old, not only has her body not yet grown, but also all aspects of her scheming, resourcefulness and other amorous styles, are not the opponents of Zhezhe and Bumu Butai.

Second, this time, Huang Taiji welcomed the side Fujin, and even made him sit above the Xigong Fujin, purely for the purpose of Huang Taiji to win over Horqin's right-wing Bel Kongor.

Now that this goal has been achieved, the Donggong Fujin who is new to this new Na will soon lack interest.

And at this time, what Huang Taiji wanted to say to his eldest concubine Zhezhe and Xigong Fujin Dayuer was not something that anyone else could know.

After the others left, only Huang Taiji, Zhezhe and Bumu Butai were left on the Phoenix Tower.

It was only at this time that Huang Taiji once again said in a deep voice without looking back: "I have recently heard that Hari Zhula, the eldest daughter of Beile Zhaisang of the Horqin Left Banner, is quite favored by the little emperor of the Ming Kingdom, and is already the noble concubine of the Ming Kingdom!"

"I heard that even with the Manzhu Xi Li, this person I used to be familiar with, is also quite trusted in the court of the Ming Kingdom, and he also served as a pedestrian of the so-called Li Fan Yuan of the Ming Court! Do you two know these things? ”