A while ago, that is, at the end of the second year of the Apocalypse, the Badutang of Houjin issued a joint announcement, which said: It is reported that Mao Wenlong sent 50 people to our country to stir up discord, and if anyone catches the person sent by Mao Wenlong and makes meritorious service, if he does not report it if he knows about it, or is sued by others, he will be punished with the crime of destroying the door, and the first accuser will be meritorious. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 To the south of Xiuyan, Adjutant General Aita is in charge, and in the area of Gushan, Zhao Yihe is in charge of guerrillas.

At the end of that month, Zhang Bingyi, the general manager in charge of ironmaking, with the cooperation of a blacksmith under his rule, seized a genuine Dongjiang fine work.

The matter was reported to Nurhachi's desk, and it was decided by the Great Khan to promote Zhang Bingyi to the rank of Qianzong and reward the blacksmith with ten taels of silver.

In addition to the reward, Nurhachi specially issued an order that between the two points of the garrisons in various places, they must strictly inspect and beware of the meticulous work of Dongjiang Town.

Today, when it was discovered that the village had been lured by Dongjiang Town and poisoned, Nurhachi issued another proclamation to severely punish the Han people who poisoned them.

These troubles are all brought by Mao Wenlong, these people in front of them are the most powerful people in the Houjin Kingdom, and when they mention Mao Wenlong, they can only shake their heads and smile bitterly.

"I and Wenlong were in Li Dashuai's house......" Nuer Hachi also had a look of reminiscence on his face, he was the proton of the Jianzhou Ministry in Li Chengliang's marshal mansion, his ancestors and fathers were eloquent, and knew that there was no good fruit to eat with the Ming Dynasty, at that time the Jurchens had Wang Gao's father and son rebelled, Li Chengliang often led troops to suppress, the situation between the Ming and Jurchen tribes was very tense, and the Ming army was also the strongest in that year, the Jurchens were not opponents at all, every time the Ming army came in, it was burned and looted, from this point of view, there was really a blood feud.

Since the enemy can't be beaten, according to the tradition of the Jianzhou Department, it is necessary to work hard!

In the Li Mansion, Nuerhachi's performance was very good, winning the trust of Li Chengliang, Li Rusong and Li Rubai and other children of the Li family also admired him very much, and established a good friendship with each other.

It is precisely because of these experiences that Nurhachi went particularly smoothly on the road of annexing various ministries, and there were many admirers of Nurhachi among the descendants, in fact, some heroes created the times, and more heroes were the products of the times, and Nurhachi was one of them. If it weren't for the Li family's forces cultivating Nurhachi, but according to the strategy of the Ming army, that is, when the Jurchen family took the lead to fight which, and Nurhachi only had a few thousand people, how could he be the opponent of the Ming army?

The old slave fought within the Jurchen for thirty years before unifying a mess, and all the tribes were in the Jurchen tribes during the tribal civilization period, and there was really nothing to be proud of in this achievement. As for the repeated victories with the Ming army, the Jurchens do have certain martial arts, but it doesn't take too long to advance, as long as Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou and Li Chengliang, the three border commanders of the Ming army, are there, Nuer Hachi and his Eight Banners have no room to jump.

It's nothing more than that, the time has come.

When heaven and earth come together, heroes are not free.

In front of his three sons, Nurhachi didn't mention much about the events of the year, after all, being someone's godson is not a glorious thing. At the beginning, he hugged Li Chengliang's thigh and called his father, worshiped Li Rubai as a brother, and married each other, but Nuerhachi saw that Daming was weak, and he turned his face when he said that he turned his face, and turned out the hatred of decades ago, Li Rubai was also forced to commit suicide because of his relationship with the Jurchens.

"Wenlong was inconspicuous at the beginning, and his martial arts and friendships were very ordinary," Nuer Hachi recalled for a while, and his impression of Mao Wenlong was not deep after all, he shook his head and said: "I just heard that he likes to read and can write poetry, but I didn't expect that decades later, he would actually become my opponent." ”

Nuerhachi still thinks highly of himself, he was a proton sent to Li Mansion by the Ministry of Jianzhou, and his own status is of course more than that of ordinary family members, Mao Wenlong was sent to Li Mansion by his uncle and Liaodong Jiangmen Pan relationship, after all, it was Hangzhou people who came to Liaodong to attack the post, and the foundation was very unstable.

If Mao Wenlong was a native of Liaodong, had a relative who was a civil official, and had the experience of living in the Li Mansion, I am afraid that he would not be just a garrison in the forty-seventh year of Wanli.

"Wenlong sent a businessman, who was not his person, but just passed the word for him." Nurhachi's nostalgia for the past didn't last long, he smiled and said, "Dongjiang Town wants to do business with us. ”

"Huh?" Mang Gurtai's mouth opened wide, and he looked a little incredulous.

Huang Taiji didn't say anything, and Dai Shan was also a little surprised, none of them looked like they were reckless Gurtai's gaffe, but the impact in their hearts was not small.

Mao Wenlong was before Guangning was conquered, resolutely led 200 people to Zhenjiang, from empty-handed to the current situation, on the firmness of the mind, the ambition is great, it must be far beyond ordinary people, at that time there were many soldiers and horses in Liaoxi, dare to lead the troops to go deep into the enemy, even if it is only to win fame of the generals, but really can not find the second.

Such a person actually wants to secretly collude with Houjin?

"Wen Long doesn't want to secretly communicate with us." Nurha Equator: "It's just a pure business, he collects our furs, Dongzhu, ginseng and other specialties, and resells them." ”

Huang Taiji pondered: "I heard that the Great Tomorrow Son has authorized Dongjiang Town to do business, Dongjiang Town is a lonely island, and most of the places in his hands are barren places that no one lived in before, and he can get ginseng and leather goods himself, but the amount will not be too much, after all, his territory is too small, if he does not buy it from us, it is indeed difficult to do this business." ”

Dongjiang Town can do business is indeed a concession, the border towns have the imperial court salary, there are governors, patrols, and military supervision, in addition to eating some empty salaries and annexing the acres of military households, it is very difficult for the generals to make other wealth, otherwise Ma Chengen, the general soldier of Datong, would not have cooperated with Zhang Han, a small businessman, for silver.

Mao Wenlong did not have such restrictions, and Dongjiang Town could do business in a grand manner, but the reason was that the imperial court was in financial difficulties, and there was no way to pay military salaries to Dongjiang for the time being.

However, Mao Wenlong's business is also very difficult to do, Phi Island is a desert island, the rest of the Dongjiang Town control area is mostly deep mountains and old forests, there is no other production except for wild beasts and trees, a large number of Liaodong refugees want to eat, they are not effective in reclamation for a while, Mao Chenglu showed to He Yusheng that all the family resources in Dongjiang Town in the past two years, to raise tens of thousands of soldiers and take into account hundreds of thousands of refugees, Dongjiang Town's life is still very sad.

"It's so much fun." Huang Taiji chuckled.

"Categorically unacceptable." Dai Shan said at this time: "Wenlong is our big trouble, stabbing the knife behind us at any time, if Wenlong is here, we can't go west with all our might, if we trade with him, wouldn't it be a trouble to raise tigers." ”

"But we need trade ourselves." Huang Taiji immediately said: "The income from Guangning last year has been almost consumed, and now the price of grain has soared again, six taels of silver to eight taels of silver and one stone of grain, and the ten taels of silver that Father Khan rewarded the blacksmith the day before yesterday is not enough to buy two stones of grain, and the reason why the Han people fled in a big way is not because of poverty and hunger?" ”

Dai Shan said in a dissatisfied tone: "The Han people are not of the same mind as us in the first place, and it is actually a good thing that those who have no food escape." ”

Nuerhachi agreed with Dai Shan's statement in his heart, but at this time he said with a straight face: "Even if the Han people have no food, what if the Eight Banners are also short of food?" ”

Dai Shan said: "Doesn't the eighth have Zhang Han's line with Yusheng? ”

"Then it will cost money." Huang Taiji smiled and said: "How much grain can the silver stored in the public support?" Zhang Han's second brother didn't know about the transaction situation, taking cash is a price, and using fur has to be discounted for the transportation costs back and forth, we are too uneconomical. ”

Dai Shan said: "He will make another profit when he transports back the fur Dongzhu, his heart is too dark." ”

Huang Taiji still had a calm smile on his face, but his tone was not at all: "Second brother's words are bad, let's not talk about business, why do businessmen come here without making money, is it to help us fight the world?" In addition, it is said that transporting grain from Shanxi and then transporting furs back is thousands of miles away, and the cost can not be less. ”

Dai Shan was choked speechless, knowing that he couldn't compete with the eighth child in this matter, so he simply shut up.

Huang Taiji's current prestige in the banner, in addition to his own strength and consistent military exploits, the opening of a trade route with He Yusheng is also the top priority.

In the original historical records, during the second to third years of the Apocalypse, the Mongols robbed Houjin grain and destroyed the grain route There are many records, and then the Jin side maintained the grain route and attacked the Mongols many times. In the third year of the Apocalypse, Dai Shan and Amin, the two big beylers, were sent by Nurhachi to Jinzhou and Guangning, just to attack the Han people who sent food to the Mongols, and at the same time cut off the tentacles of the Mongols.

This is not an accident of history, but an inevitability.

The period from the second to the third year of the Apocalypse is also a period of more severe Xiaoice in the north, the disaster is particularly serious, has exceeded before, although it has not yet reached the extent of the five years and six years of the Apocalypse, but it is not far away, and not only Liaodong and other agricultural areas are affected, the disaster on the grassland is not small, from autumn to winter snow is continuous, the pasture is insufficient, the weather is cold, the Mongolians are also struggling to survive, and life is also very difficult and difficult.

In previous years, the Mongols were to the Ming Dynasty to loot, the west is the mutual market, the east of the departments or to the Ming Dynasty to wave the knife and gun, to the apocalypse two years later, Guangning and other large areas have been controlled by the Houjin, the Mongols can only go to the Jizhen place, that is, to seek the near and far, and the Jizhen has a complete line of defense, and it is not easy to break.

Especially in the first year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty gave Lin Dan Khan two silver, and he was the enemy of Houjin, before which Lin Dan Khan had fought with Houjin many times, and the situation was so far, of course, the friction between Mongolia and Houjin was inevitable.