A few people in the same boat are either begging and charming, or the rest of the East China Sea Jurchens, all have more or less the custom of eating raw fish, and they have cut the fish meat on the back of this salmon like Acton and chewed it, the meat of this Salmon is very tender, and there is a trace of raw sweetness in the mouth, and everyone eats some, and they all think of the days when they were in their hometown, and their eyes can't help but get wet. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Acton, how many years have it been since you were captured by Old Khan!" A rowing oarsman asked suddenly.

"Twelve, no, it should be thirteen!" Acton replied.

"Thirteen years!" The oarsman sighed: "I'm a little less than you, and it's been nine years, and I don't know how tall my little brother is now!" ”

Acton bowed his head and was silent, and after a while he whispered, "I hope I can find your little brother this time!" ”

The atmosphere on the boat became delicate, and the people paddled hard, and in a short time they reached the shore, where there was an earthen village, and beside the stockade were forty or fifty drying racks, on which were all disemboweled, cleaned and ready to dry. Acton and his party dragged the giant salmon ashore and were preparing to skin it. A man ran over and shouted, "Acton, Ahmat Daddy has something to look for you!" ”

"Well, I'll go over it!" Acton answered, washed his hands by the lake, and strode towards the stockade, where he walked into a wooden house and asked Ahmae, who was half-leaning on the bed, "Daddy, are you looking for me?" ”

"Well, sit down and talk!" Ahmat patted a piece of wood beside him: "How is the dry food prepared?" ”

"Almost!" Acton wrenched his fingers and calculated: "Actually, there are forests and water on the rest of the road, and there should be no problem with food, just in case." ”

"That's good!" Ahmat's face showed a smile: "In this case, let's pick a good day and set off quickly!" ”

"What about you? Is your body ready to go now? Acton asked in surprise, it turned out that Ahmat had a strange disease on the road, and he had a low-grade fever every day, so the group stopped after arriving at Hulun Lake, and came to build a foothold here to prepare dry food for the road; Second, he also let Ahmat recuperate.

"I'll stay in this village and continue to recuperate, you don't have to worry about me!" Ahmat's voice was not loud, but Acton could hear the firmness in it: "It's already June, the weather here is cold, and it may snow in September, don't delay the journey!" ”

"Yes!" Acton answered, but his face showed hesitation, he walked with Ahmat along the way, the relationship between the two sides was getting stronger, and he really couldn't bear to leave such a sick old man by this barren lake. Ahmat saw the other party's thoughts and sighed, "Acton, have you forgotten the purpose of our trip? My safety alone is a small matter, but the strategy of an adult is a big matter! ”

Actun suddenly came to his senses through Ahmat's reminder, and said in a low voice: "In that case, then I will set off again in two days, and I will take advantage of these two days to build the wall of this earthen village higher, and dig a trench, so that I can be a little more prepared!" ”

"Acton, put aside the matter of building walls and digging trenches, I have something more important to tell you!" Speaking of this, Ahmat struggled to roll over and get out of bed, and Acton hurriedly reached out to support him: "Daddy, you are not well yet!" ”

"Don't stop me, I can't die yet!" Ahmat pushed Acton away and walked out, Acton hurriedly stepped forward to help, and the two of them came out of the hut, came to the back, and walked to the stable, Ahmat pointed to the haystack on the side and said, "You push this haystack away!" ”

Acton pushed the haystack away as Ahmat had instructed, revealing the wooden boxes below, he glanced at Ahmat, opened the wooden boxes, and saw that they were full of arrows made of fine iron, shining with cold light, and he turned back in surprise: "These are—"

"That's right, these are the ones that Lord Jinong asked me to transport to your hometown!" Ahmat said in a deep voice: "Didn't you say that all of you beggars are all sharpshooters who wear through Yang in a hundred steps, and ten Jurchens are not as charming as one beggar, but they lack iron, and even few arrows are made of iron, so they are bullied by the Jurchens?" These arrows were given to you by adults to resist the Jurchens! ”

Acton was stunned for a moment, and then knelt down gratefully: "Thank you, Dad!" ”

"You don't have to thank me!" Ahmat gasped twice: "These are all ordered by Lord Jinong, in order to avoid leaking the news, so I hid it from you, I can't continue now, so I can only hand it over to you, a total of 100,000 arrows." In addition, I was accompanied by several Han Chinese miners, ironsmiths, and blacksmiths. The Han people have a saying: It is better to teach people to fish than to teach people to fish, this iron ore is actually everywhere, I hope you can use the iron you smelt as soon as possible! ”

Hearing Ahmat's words, Acton had mixed feelings in his heart, and he didn't know what to say for a while. Ahmat patted Acton on the shoulder and said in a low voice, "Acton, I know that sometimes you always feel that Lord Jinong is taking advantage of your begging charm, and there is always a pimple in your heart, right?" ”

"No, no, I didn't-" The deepest secret of his heart was revealed at once, and Acton couldn't help but subconsciously deny it, but under Ahmat's forced gaze, he still lowered his head to avoid the other party's gaze, and his tone became weak. Ahmat smiled: "Acton, you are still young, there are some things you still don't understand!" Do you know where I'm from? ”

"Where are you from?" Actun looked at Ahmat's high-nosed and deep-eyed face and replied, "I only know that you are from the Yarkand Khanate, and nothing else!" ”

"Yes, my hometown is in the Yarkand Khanate!" Ahmat nodded: "But my ancestors are not Mongols, nor Turks, nor Uighurs, nor Persians, my ancestors are Sogdians, have you heard?" ”

Actun shook his head blankly, and Ahmat smiled slightly: "That was more than a thousand years ago, at that time, the most powerful in the steppe was the Huns, their leader was called Shan Yu, and the territory under his jurisdiction was tens of thousands of miles from east to west, and it would take a year to run from one end to the other on the best horses. And the emperor of the Han people ruled the Central Plains, and his people were as many as the stars in the sky, and you couldn't see the top of the high platform of the palace even if your neck was sore. They all thought that they were the greatest kings in the world, and a long and brutal war broke out between the Huns and the Han Chinese, with hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides, and they fought for hundreds of years, and the bones of the dead were piled up as high as mountains, and the blood shed was enough to flood the valley—"

Acton was confused by Ahmat's series of nouns, and he couldn't help but interrupt the other party's narration: "Ahmat father, aren't you going to talk about your ancestors?" Why are you talking about Han people and Huns! ”

"Huh!" Ahmat smiled: "Okay, good, it's about to be talked about, don't worry!" The emperor of the Han ruled the Central Plains, while the Xiongnu ruled the steppe, and my ancestor Sogdians lived in oases, when the Han and the Xiongnu were at war, my ancestors were merchants, and the Han people obeyed the Han when they were strong; The Huns obeyed the Huns when they were strong, and later the Huns perished, and the high posts where the tents were stationed in the past became the pastures of the Rouran people; The empire of the Han people also fell, and the emperor's magnificent palace became a fox's lair, but my ancestors lived well, still driving camels and mules and horses on the trade routes, and there was more and more gold and silver in the treasury, do you know what I mean? ”

Acton thought about it, and finally shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Daddy Ahmat, I still don't understand!" ”

Ahmat laughed and said, "Let me make an analogy: if the Han and Xiongnu are eagles in the sky, then my ancestors are just sparrows in the grass. But Allah created the eagle and the sparrow, and He gave the eagle a pair of strong wings and sharp claws. Also gives the sparrow alertness and flexibility. Different people and different nationalities have their own ways of survival. A jewel-encrusted crown is precious, but it is also dangerous; The purse full of gold coins may not be as dazzling as a crown, but it can avoid the prying eyes of others. Acton, the way we Sogdians have survived for more than a thousand years is not to be afraid of being used, use is a two-way street, you are being used by others at the same time, do you understand? Ahmat said this, and seeing that Acton was still so ignorant, he had to decide to speak more clearly: "Actun, do you know how Nurhachi got his fortune? ”

Acton shook his head.

This starts from the time of Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, when the Great Khan of Mongolia was the little prince Dalai Sun Kuden Khan, and the right-wing Altan Khan was the uncle of Da Lai Sun Kuden Khan. The little prince Da Lai Sun Kuden Khan was not as strong as his uncle, so he had to lead more than 100,000 people from his headquarters to move east to the east and west of Liao to graze in the Lamulun River Valley. Ming then supported and co-opted the Jurchen tribes to prevent them from uniting with the Chahars to invade Liaodong. ”

"Could it be that Nurhachi made his fortune through the power of the people of the Ming Kingdom?" Acton had a look of disbelief on his face: "But how did I hear that the Aixinjue Luo clan is the remnant of the Dajin Kingdom, otherwise why would they also establish the country as Jin?" ”

"Hahahaha!" Ahmat laughed as if he had heard something ridiculous.

"Daddy, why are you laughing, could it be that I said something wrong?"

"Naturally, it's wrong!" Ahmat took a while before he took a breath: "Think about how splendid the Central Plains are, after the establishment of Dajin by the Yan clan, its close branches naturally moved to the Central Plains, who else can stay in this bitter cold land, what else does it matter if there are hundreds of years of war and war and ethnic migration?" Aixinjue Luo's use of gold as the national name is nothing more than an attempt to use its prestige to attract the Jurchen tribes, if I am not surprised, when its foundation is stable, it will definitely change the national name! ”

"Change the country name?" Regarding Ahmat's judgment, Acton was a little skeptical, and then smiled bitterly: "No matter what, whether it's gold, whatever, what does it have to do with me, a beggar charming?" By the way, Daddy, where did you just go? ”

"Well, before I knew it, it was far away!" Ahmat said with a smile: "Actually, this Aixinjue Luo clan is not a noble breed among the Jianzhou Jurchens, if it is not as fierce and good at fighting as Ye He, if it is not as good as Ula in terms of many people, but its generations of chiefs have a strength, that is, they are proficient in the language of the various departments of the Fan and Han Dynasty, have a quick personality, and are good at planning, and they are born businessmen!" ”

"Businessman?" Hearing this, Actun's eyes widened, he was still a half-old child, so he was arrested by the Houjin army and became Aha, and he was said that the ancestors of the Aixinjue Luo clan were brave and good at fighting, fair and benevolent, and they were to lay this foundation, and after listening to it for a long time, they naturally believed it, but they didn't expect Ahmat to say that the ancestors of the Aixinjue Luo clan were businessmen, and they couldn't help but be surprised.

"Why are you so surprised? What's wrong with a businessman? Ahmat pursed his lips and sneered: "You barbarians just don't understand the power of money, if you take a sword against someone, others will pick up a sword, and if you take out money, others will sell you everything." Is there anything more powerful than money under heaven? ”

"Yes, yes, daddy said yes!" Acton was aroused by Ahmat's hook, and hurriedly laughed: "I don't have knowledge, so my father laughs, but how did Aixinjue Luo go from a businessman to a powerful woman?" ”

"Well, that's a long story!" Ahmat coughed twice: "During the Jiajing period, the little prince Da Lai Sun Kuden Khan led his troops to move eastward, and the towns in Liaodong were unstable, and the powerful people in the Jurchen tribes established the country one after another, wanting to establish themselves as a country and compete with the Ming and Mongolians. In order to stabilize Liaodong, the emperor of the Ming State appointed the general Li Chengliang as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, this person is a remarkable figure! At that time, the powerful men in the Jurchen tribes in Jianzhou Haixi raised troops one after another, wanting to take advantage of the situation and establish a country, but the Chahar people were attacking outside, and the Jurchen tribes were jumping off the beams, and the situation in Liaodong was already in danger, and Li Chengliang either used force to crusade or scheming to Huairou and discord, and forcibly reversed the situation. If you think about it, there are many places where it costs money to fight with soldiers, and Liaodong is rich in furs, pine nuts, golden sand, pearls, horses, ginseng, and all kinds of medicinal herbs; The Jurchens also lacked food, cloth, ironware, and utensils for the Han people, so Li Chengliang intervened in them, not only for military use, but also for a wealthy family, and there was still money to marry the bigwigs of the DPRK and China to consolidate themselves. Nurhachi's father and ancestor did business with the Han people, buying Jurchen goods from the deep mountains and transporting them to the Han people's bazaars to sell in exchange for the goods they needed. With the help of this relationship, they climbed to the high branch of Li Chengliang, and Nurhachi was raised by Li Chengliang and won Li Chengliang's trust. The policy of the Ming Dynasty towards the Jurchen tribes has always been to help the weak and hoe the strong, and Aixinjue Luo is Li Chengliang's lackey to eliminate the Jurchen strong, and Nurhachi also took this opportunity to gradually develop and grow! (To be continued.) )