From Tianjin City directly north to Baiye City, there are also roads that can be passed.

After Liang Tingdong, the governor of Zhili, moved the governor's palace from Tongzhou to Tianjin, in order to improve and strengthen the liaison between him, the governor of Zhili, and the border pass in the north of Ji, he also mobilized a large number of Xuanda refugees who came to resettle in the form of work relief, and renovated the road to Jibei in the north.

However, no matter how much this road is repaired, it can't catch up with the cement road official road from Tianjin to Tongzhou and then from Tongzhou to Baiyecheng.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't want to take a detour, let alone go back, but he spent more time on this straight road.

On the same day that Emperor Chongzhen did not listen to persuasion and had to set off north from Zhigu to Baiye City, You Jinghe, the general of the Tumen Town Guard Mansion Right Assistant, who was far away at the mouth of the Tumen River in the northeast, also led his army to the north in a sudden heavy snowfall.

In the far northeast, although it has entered the end of February, there is no hint of spring blooming, and the ice at the mouth of the Tumen River is still hard.

The weather was still good in the morning, although it was cold, but there were no clouds, but You Jinghe led the Tumen Town Guard Mansion Right Association soldiers recruited by himself, and just accepted the review of the Tumen Town Guard Envoy Shang Kexi, and the two thousand people had just finished swearing, and the sky suddenly became gloomy.

After You Jinghe walked across the ice on the Tumen River with a group of men and horses, guns and artillery, an unexpected heavy snow fell down.

You Jinghe's going north was not a whim, nor was it a whim, but it had been explored a long time ago, and with Shang Kexi's consent, he received Shang Kexi's support.

As early as October of the third year of Chongzhen, less than three months after You Jinghe took up the post of general of the right assistant of the Tumen town guard mansion, he sent a group of men and horses to cross the river to the north, along the coastline north of the mouth of the Tumen River, looking for giant trees suitable for felling and shipbuilding and fertile land suitable for recruiting people to reclaim.

When You Jinghe came to serve in the Tumen Town Guard Mansion, the land on the left wing of the Tumen Town Guard Mansion against the Tumen River, as well as the plain area of the middle road, were all occupied by the people and horses under the command of Shang Kexi, the town guard envoy, and Ban Zhifu, the general of the Left Association.

Shang Kexi designated the area on the right road that he recruited troops to garrison, because most of the area was close to the sea, and there was not much fertile land to use to recruit people for reclamation.

Fortunately, You Jinghe had served by Emperor Chongzhen's side for so long and knew that there were still thousands of hectares of fertile land to occupy in the vast area north of the Tumen River.

Therefore, he was neither picky nor complaining, but worked hard in the small town of Qingxing that Shang Kexi handed over to him to station.

In October, the two candidates recommended to Lu Daqi by Mao Weizhang when he left office, namely Lin Chuanbao and Chen Qiusheng, each arrived in Qingxing City as scheduled with their own teams to the north, and returned to You Jinghe's command.

It was also at this time that You Jinghe asked them to rest and recuperate for a while, and the troops were divided into two routes, one was led by Lin Chuanbao, and he brought his own letters to the south, and went to Tieshan and Lushun to recruit troops and horses, specifically recruiting Qilu Han people who crossed the sea from Dengzhou to the north to reclaim the wasteland.

On the other hand, Chen Qiusheng led 400 well-equipped men across the Tumen River to the north, and according to the task assigned by You Jinghe, he searched for giant trees suitable for shipbuilding and fertile fields suitable for reclamation.

Winter is not a good time to recruit people for reclamation, and Lin Chuanbao has no good news coming from the way of recruiting troops and people in the south.

However, it didn't take long for Chen Qiusheng and his people to cross the Tumen River and go north along the coast, but it didn't take long for good news to come.

They found not only large tracts of primeval forests with huge Korean pines, spruces and oaks, but also large tracts of flat and open fertile fields.

The most important thing is that their 400 men and horses really found the remnants of the legendary Shuangchengwei old city as the emperor told You Jinghe.

This place was occupied by Russian troops and named Ussuriysk, as early as the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there was a double city guard, which has been inherited by later generations and has been called Shuangchengzi.

This is also the origin of Ussuriysk's folk in northeastern China, which has always been called Shuangchengzi.

In fact, the meaning of Shuangchengwei is very simple, it is literal, it refers to the guard with two earthen cities.

The two cities were side by side, four or five miles apart, the one further east was called Fuldan, and the one to the west was called Jurgen.

Later, as the Ming Dynasty's ruling power in the northeast weakened, Shuangchengwei was also occupied by the Jurchen tribes of the East China Sea to the south.

And Shuangchengwei, a secluded guard in the north of the Tumen River estuary, was also changed to Mowen Hewei in the following years because of the relationship between the Jurchens of the Mowen River tribe who moved here, and then became the place of residence of the Mowen River tribe of the Jurchen tribe in the East China Sea, but it was still subordinate to the Nuer Gandu Division of the Ming Dynasty.

Later, with the death of Li Chengliang and the losses and effects caused by the dispatch of troops to Korea during the Wanli period to quell the Renchen War, the military power of the Ming Dynasty in the northeast region rapidly weakened, giving Nuer Hachi the opportunity to conquer the Jurchen tribes.

After Nuer Hachi conquered the Jurchen tribes in the East China Sea, he brought all the Jurchen tribes in the East China Sea that could be found in this area, including the Jurchens born in the Mowen River tribe, back to Jianzhou and incorporated them into the Jurchen Eight Banners of the Later Jin Kingdom.

Whether it's called Shuangchengzi or Mowen Hewei, in short, this place was abandoned after it was conquered by Nuer Hachi.

It was not until more than 300 years later, because of the mild climate, fertile land, and abundant products, that it was occupied by the Russian Cossack cavalry, and then forced to cede to Russia and renamed Ussuriysk, that it entered the field of vision of the Chinese.

It's just that at that time, this place, which no one cared about more than 300 years ago, has become an eternal pain in the hearts of many Chinese.

Fortunately, this life is different.

Just before You Jinghe left the post of deputy commander of the palace Ouchi Yu Linwei and went to the Tumen Town Guard Mansion to serve as the town guard general, Emperor Chongzhen summoned him in the Wuying Palace.

Facing the huge sand table of the emperor's territory in the Wuying Palace, Emperor Chongzhen pointed to the north of the location of the Tumen Zhenshou Mansion, that is, the location of Vladivostok in the later generations, and clearly told him that after arriving at the Tumen Zhenshou Mansion, he would find a way to occupy this place in person.

Originally, You Jinghe sent Chen Qiusheng and a group of men and horses to the north, just to let them explore the way, and then go north to occupy this place after he recruited troops and bought horses to strengthen the horses in the future.

But what he didn't expect was that Chen Qiusheng and his men and horses went north in winter, and unexpectedly wiped out a savage Jurchen tribe that occupied the other place, and easily occupied the twin cities called Zhuergen and Fuerdan, which were called by the Jurchen and Mongol tribes.

At the beginning of the first month of the fourth year of Chongzhen, the news that Chen Qiusheng's army of hundreds of people occupied Shuangchengzi was transmitted back to Qingxing and Tumen Zhenshoufu.

It's just that You Jinghe's soldiers and horses are limited, and the first month of Chongzhen's fourth year is the coldest season of the year in the northeast.

At the same time, the news that the Ming Dynasty's Tumen guards suddenly went north to attack and seize the city of Fuerdan, and the news also spread to Buyandai, who was ordered to garrison this vast area, along with the birth of Jurchen who had fled the place.

However, after hearing about this, the Mongolian Belebuyandai hesitated, and in the face of the severe cold of the northeast in winter and the plight of hunger and cold within his tribe, he chose not to move.

Neither did they send an army north to retake the city of Fuldan, nor did they immediately launch an attack on the Tumen Garrison.

In the end, the Mongol Beyl Buyan Dynasty hesitated to come and go, and did not report the news to Huang Taiji, the Great Khan of Shenyang, and also did not report it to Ye Keshu, one of the Zhenghongqi Gushan Ezhen who was stationed in Dong'e City (later Jilin Tonghua area).

Instead, he directly incorporated the Shengkou of the Jurchen tribe of the East China Sea who fled to the area of Varga Mountain City (later Yanji, Jilin), that is, hundreds of people from the Mowen River Department, into his own command.

Because Buyandai knew that if he sent troops hundreds of miles north to retake the city of Fuerdan, he would probably immediately have to fight the Ming army guarding the Tumen town.

If he chooses to report the news to Huang Taiji or Ye Keshu, then the result will be the same, and he himself will immediately have to go north to fight the Ming army guarding the Tumen Town.

And these two choices are not what the Mongols of the Buyan Dynasty are willing to face when they are in a state of lack of food and clothing, hunger and cold.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with the vision of Buyandai, who was born in the Ulut Department of Eastern Mongolia, and his uncle Axitu, and his son Omubu, who was born and raised in the Later Jin country, did not think that the Ming army could pose any threat to them along the coastline north along the Mowen River.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the so-called Mowen River, also known as the Gate River or Mo River in later generations, is the Meligunovka River in the southernmost part of Primorsky Krai in the Russian Far East.

The river is not large, just one of many rivers that flow into the lake.

Therefore, neither Shang Kexi, who was in the Tumen Towns, nor the Varga Mongol Belebyandai, who was in confrontation with the Tumen Townskeepers in the Tumen River area, did not take this place into account.

Of course, if Emperor Chongzhen hadn't talked about this place to You Jinghe as if he had mentioned it, then You Jinghe, who was also born in this era, would not have had the idea of going north to occupy this place.

In this way, until February of the fourth year of Chongzhen, the Varga Mongol Belebyan Dynasty always maintained a silent attitude towards the incident of the Ming army moving north along the coast to occupy the city of Fuerdan.

He did not fulfill his duty and sent troops north to interfere with the actions of the Tumen Zhenfu Guard, nor did he inform the nobles of the Jurchen Eight Banners of the hostile situation in the far north of his jurisdiction in the vicinity of the Mowen River in the far north of his jurisdiction.