Nenjiang River, Songhua River, Heilongjiang River, Ussuri River, the most important rivers in Northeast China. Nowadays, in addition to the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, the Heilongjiang River Basin, in fact, the Songnen Plain and the Sanjiang Plain are all owned by the Han Dynasty, and the Liaohe Plain further south is completely controlled by the Han Dynasty.

In the face of the sweeping sweep of the Mongol cavalry, Dolgon retreated on the bank of the Heilongjiang River north of the icy and snowy Xiaoxing'an Mountains, not daring to turn back at all.

The Mongol princes first went down to Liaoyang, and then to Shenyang, and the Jurchens of the Songhua River, Ussuri River and other tribes surrendered one after another. Especially in the area of the Ussuri River, the Jurchens here are not Jianzhou Jurchens, and they have only been conquered by Jianzhou Jurchens in recent years.

The Han court issued an order to the Mongol princes in a timely manner, stop the sweep, accept the submission of the tribes, and send the Han army to station.

Therefore, after Xing'an Province and Liaobei Province in the south of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains to the east of the Great Khing'an Mountains, the imperial court established Jilin Province in the south of the Songhua River in the east of Liaobei, Heilongjiang Province in Jiangbei, and Haixi Province in the east of the Ussuri River.

All of a sudden, the northeastern departments surrendered, except for the middle and upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River north of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, and the remnants of the Jianzhou Jurchens were also entrenched, and now the northeast has been taken.

At this time, Liaodong was really developed in the Liaohe Plain, the Nenjiang River, the Songhua River, the Heilongjiang River, and the Ussuri River. Sparsely populated and difficult to survive, the core of the Han Dynasty in eastern Liaodong is still in the Liaohe Plain. Further north, although it has been taken and divided into provinces, it will take decades or even a hundred years to develop it into the Liaohe Plain.

For the subordinate ministries outside the Guan, the imperial court directly ordered them to move south and move them to Liaodong and Liaoxi to disperse and resettle. The four provinces of Jilin, Liaobei, Heilongjiang and Haixi are already sparsely populated. Now it's suddenly a no-man's land.

For such an order, if it was an order issued by the Manchu Qing, the departments would definitely dare to admonish it, but now that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has defeated the banks of the Heilongjiang River in the north of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, the Han Dynasty has driven the Mongolian iron cavalry to sweep around, and even the tribal leaders who said no to the Manchus in the past have now become panicked like lost dogs.

In the face of the holy decree of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, they couldn't even raise the courage to resist.

At first, a few other tribal leaders hesitated, and the Mongol cavalry slaughtered them. These tribes were uprooted at once, and men, women, and children were captured and made slaves.

After this example, no one dared to hesitate. Regardless of the cold weather, the tribes living in the vast northeast have dragged their families and moved their clans to the south, waiting for the assignment of the Han officials, and resettled in designated places.

Originally, after several years of repeated wars and the northward migration of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Liao River valley became empty. All of a sudden, it was lively again.

Right now, it has reached the end of the first year of Long Han. Many tribes are still on the way to the south, and the great migration in the ice and snow is extremely difficult. But no one dared to resist.

Daning City.

The castle in the north of Liaobei Province, which is adjacent to Xing'an Province in the east and Heilongjiang Province in the north, is the intersection of the three provinces. Because in the Ming Dynasty, there was a Daning capital division here. Therefore, after the Han Dynasty built a castle here, it was named Daning.

In the Ming Dynasty, this area was once the territory of the Wuliang Ha Sanwei. It used to be under the jurisdiction of the Nuer Gandu Division.

It is not far from Chu Hu'er's mining in the Camel River, and it is also the closest to his mining where the Han people stationed heavy soldiers. There is an elite army of the Han army stationed here, built close to the Nenjiang River, a prismatic castle, built with forts, and erected many artillery. This castle is also connected to an important post road station.

The castle is also the largest market station in the surrounding area, with many shops.

After Chu Hu'er captured Shenyang, he returned to his own miner, and his people also arrived in the miner. However, there was nothing left of the mining estates along the Camel River, and they all had to start from scratch.

He and several of his nephews traveled here to procure the supplies needed for the quarry.

Daning City began to be built as early as after the breakthrough of Horqin, after rushing to repair and build, now it is already a fortress that has begun to take shape, full of edges and corners, and the moats, inclined ramps, and suspension bridges outside the city are readily available.

Cannons were erected on the forts, and the dragon banner of the Han was fluttering at the top of the castle.

Although there is a Heilongjiang province in the north, at present, this castle can be regarded as a military town where the Han Dynasty is stationed in the northeast and northeast.

"Uncle, it looks far worse than Liao Shen here." The nephew who has been to Chifeng and Chaoyang, Liaoyang, Liaoyang and other places said.

After all, Daning City is newly renovated, and inside the sturdy defensive shell, it is a very simple street. The roads in the castle were not paved with stone slabs, and the frozen hard dirt ground was filled with the smell of cow and horse dung.

"After all, this is the northern country, and in a short period of time, it is already very good to have such a scale." Chu Hu'er was a little envious, when he got the fiefdom of Caiyi, the construction of this place had not yet begun.

There was only a tent and nothing in his own estate, but there was already such a strong castle here. It would be nice to have a castle of your own, even if it's small.

In addition to the many Han troops stationed in the castle, there were also many Han merchants, and more people walked around the streets were Mongol vassals like him. Most of these people were knights and samurai who were divided into nearby areas like him, and if they wanted to build a mining estate, they naturally got here to purchase various materials.

However, seeing a large number of knights and warriors pouring in to purchase, Chu Hu'er estimated that the things here would not be cheap. As he led his horse forward, he silently calculated what he was going to buy and the price of it.

The Jurchens surrendered too quickly, and as soon as Liaoyang was broken, Shenyang had no resistance. The Jurchens surrendered happily, but they disappointed the Mongol princes and nobles who were ready to rob and rob. After the imperial court accepted the surrender of the Jurchens, they did not allow the Mongols to rob them again, and Chu Hu'er also robbed a lot before, but it ended too quickly, making him feel that there was a fly in the ointment.

Chu Hu'er has already taken his brothers and nephews to his own miner, and there are more than 50 people in the family, but for that large area of mincing, there are still too few people.

It's okay to elect five of your own subordinates, but it's not enough to elect fifty militiamen. I heard that next year the imperial court will conquer the Moxi tribes, and at that time, as a knight canonized by the emperor, he will have to bring his own servants and militia to conscript.

As requested. He needed to provide five servants and fifty militiamen. If he fails to provide enough servants and militias, as well as prepare horses and equipment for his subordinates and militiamen, he may be punished as a knight and may even be cut down.

The hard-earned titles and mining estates, Chu Hu'er is not willing to lose them again.

In order to keep his title and fiefdom, he must now do two things, first, elect his servants and form a militia, and second, equip them.

Fortunately, in the previous Liaodong sweep. Grabbed a lot of Jurchen captives. plus more than 50 people in his own family, he can barely raise five servants and fifty militiamen.

But to equip them, it certainly won't be cheap.

But in any case, these days are definitely a thousand times stronger than in the past. No matter how much it costs to equip it, he will get this money and pull his militia up as soon as possible.

After thinking like this, he became more and more determined in his thoughts, and he no longer felt the cost of equipping this team. He led his horse and looked left and right at the shops along the street.

Daning Castle is a newly built castle. But the interior of the castle is well planned, there is an inner fort inside the castle, and the outer fort is a market, on both sides of the straight street. It's a shop.

"Lord Knight, if you want a sword, we have the best sword here, and the price is fair. Cheap and fine. ”

On the side of the street, in front of a shop with a sword sign in front of the door, a man greeted him warmly. This is a Mongolian child. It is estimated that he is only eleven or twelve years old.

"Well, show me." Chu Hu'er nodded, stopped, and prepared to enter the store to take a look.

"Lord Knight, are you going to choose a weapon for your militia?" The young man asked while inviting someone inside. In the past few days, a large number of Mongols have poured into the castle, many of them buying equipment for their militia.

"Hmm." Chu Hu'er nodded.

When he came, he had already thought about the equipment of his militia, one person must have a bow, the other must have two knives, one long and one short, and a spear, and preferably a leather armor, or a rope armor.

He had thought about equipping his militia with muskets or guns, but that would have been expensive.

Thinking of the cost of equipping fifty militiamen, Chu Hu'er felt a little painful. But this is also his obligation as a knight, but thinking that he will go to the west to fight next year, and then he can grab another handful, maybe he can grab more, and he finally feels much better.

The young man is very attentive and has a very slippery mouth. After leading them into the store, he trotted to report to the big guy who was talking to another group of Mongols on the other.

The big guy hurriedly said hello to them, and then asked the little guy to make them tea and lead them to sit down first.

Chu Hu'er found that the store was very large, and the business was also very hot, there were several groups of people in the store talking about business, and the division of labor in the store was also very clear. A few clever young men are specially outside to greet customers into the store, and there are big guys in the store to introduce various sword equipment to customers, and there is a shopkeeper behind the counter to negotiate prices, and there is a book room to collect money, and there are several laborers in the back who are responsible for carrying goods.

Next to them, a Mongolian knight was haggling with the shopkeeper.

"It's too expensive, it's cheaper, I'll buy more."

The shopkeeper wore a bearskin hat, fox earrings on both ears, a bearskin robe, and a pair of hands in leather gloves.

However, no matter how the knight bargained, the shopkeeper unceremoniously refused in that smooth Mongolian dialect.

"It can't be cheaper, our goods have been transported from Beijing for thousands of miles, thousands of miles along the way, and the freight is extremely high. What's more, you have also seen that our sword and this sword are all first-class goods. You have also seen that this is not an ordinary sword, it is a steel sword and a steel sword, not a clad steel, it is an all-steel sword, forged by thousands of hammers, it can cut gold and cut iron, you have also tried, such a good sword, it is impossible to be cheap. Good goods are not cheap, cheap goods are not good, is this reasonable? ”

The sword is a good sword, and the sword is a good sword, but the price is indeed too much higher than the price in the heart of this knight.

"But twenty yuan for a knife, it's too expensive. When I was in Chifeng, there were sharp knives that only sold for eight yuan. ”

The shopkeeper smiled, "How can the Japanese knife be compared with our knife, not to mention that the Japanese knife is only forged with steel, but ours is all steel, and our knife is a thousand forging knife." ”

"Besides, this is Daning. It is thousands of miles away from Chifeng, and it has been trafficked all the way to it, how can it be the same. ”

No matter how much the knight bargained, the shopkeeper refused to lower the price.

When Chu Hu'er heard twenty yuan of a knife, he couldn't help but be surprised, a knife was about three catties, and it actually cost twenty silver dollars. If he wanted to equip each of his militiamen with one, wouldn't he get a thousand dollars just to buy a knife?

He asked the man for an all-steel knife that the shopkeeper said, this knife is a seedling knife style, and this knife is slender like a seedling. The total length is five feet, the length of the knife is three feet eight inches, and the handle of the knife is one foot and two inches, and it concentrates the characteristics of the two weapons of the knife and the gun, which can be used as both a gun and a knife, and can be held with one hand and both hands.

As soon as the knife came out of the sheath, it was dazzling, and I held it in my hand and felt it. Chu Hu'er estimated that the knife would cost more than three catties. The man brought him a thick wire.

"What should I do if I get a knife?"

"It's okay, you can cut it, if you keep cutting or hurt the knife, it's our knife is not good. It's none of your business. ”

Hearing that the guy was so confident, Chu Hu'er held the knife and slashed down.

The knife flashed, and the iron wire, which was thicker than the straw core, was directly broken into two, and Chu Hu'er lifted the knife to look at the blade carefully. But he found that there was no damage in the slightest, and he couldn't help but be surprised.

He glanced at the guy, who smiled and told him to continue.

He swung his knife repeatedly. It's still a knife that has been broken.

"Can I cut a wooden stake?" Although Chu Hu'er usually likes to use a battle axe, he also knows knives. He knew that sometimes the fact that a knife could cut wire did not mean that it would be easy to use, and that chopping wood and stakes could actually test the sharpness of a knife.

The guy took him out the door.

Chu Hu'er first cut the wet stake, and then cut the dry stake, no matter what kind of stake he cut, it was very sharp.

After slashing in the snow for a while, Chu Hu'er really fell in love with this knife, and it was really a good knife.

It's just that the price is too high.

"Shopkeeper, if I buy fifty, can it be cheaper?" Chu Hu'er asked.

The shopkeeper's hands were folded, and he said with a smile when he heard the words, "If you buy fifty, I'll give you a ninety-eighty discount, and you can give nine hundred and eighty yuan." ”

This is equivalent to buying fifty handfuls and paying forty-nine handfuls and giving them away. But Chu Hu'er just frowned, it was still too expensive.

When he attacked Horqin and Liaoshen before, he did gain a lot, but it was still difficult to accept that he had to spend a thousand just to buy a knife.

"I'll look elsewhere first." Chu Hu'er couldn't put down the knife.

The shopkeeper didn't care, "It's okay, I'll come back later." ”

Out of the store, Chu Hu'er's nephew couldn't help but say, "Uncle, that knife is really good." ”

"It's good, but it's also expensive."

"You get what you pay for." The nephew is reluctant to give up.

After turning around the shops in the city, Chu Hu'er found that the prices of all kinds were surprisingly high, whether it was a sword or leather armor, it was very expensive, even the spear was just as expensive, and the bow and arrow were also expensive. As for the firecracker, it is more expensive.

Cattle, sheep, livestock, fur and medicinal herbs are extremely cheap.

When he came, Chu Hu'er brought a lot of skins over, but the purchase price of each family was much lower than he expected. Although he still had a lot of silver dollar coupons in his hand, he couldn't buy the equipment he expected.

"No, let's sell some slaves."

Chu Hu'er had a lot of slaves in his hands, and after getting the knight's knighthood, he was reluctant to sell all the slaves he had obtained in several battles, and he was reluctant to sell them all and keep them and bring them back to the city.

"We don't have many slaves, and we're counting on a militia of those slaves to help with the herding."

"We left the young and strong, and the old and weak women were sold first. We have to get together the equipment first, and then we can't afford to delay the expedition to the west in the unknown year. ”

The purchase price of all kinds of cattle and sheep is very low, but the price of slaves is high. A young slave can be more than a hundred, even a young woman can exceed a hundred.

If you sell all the Jurchen slaves other than the young men in your family, it is estimated that you can sell a lot, and then sell the gold and silver jewelry you have accumulated, and then add the silver dollar coupons you have saved in your hand, which is enough to buy the equipment of fifty militiamen. However, the all-steel twenty Miao knife can't afford it, and it's enough to buy an ordinary one.

Buy good militia equipment, and have some money left, you can buy some tents, food, and some cows and lambs.

Thinking that all the money and slaves that had been accumulated with great difficulty would be spent, Chu Hu'er couldn't help but feel distressed.

However, he finally gritted his teeth and decided, he could only hope that after purchasing the equipment, he would seize the time to train this militia, and then go to Moxi next year to grab enough capital.

Fortunately, I and my brothers and nephews already have neat equipment, so I don't need to buy additional equipment at a high price this time.

"Uncle, slaves are really fucking expensive now, next time we go to the west, we must grab more slaves"

Cattle and horses are not as valuable as slaves, and a good Miao knife is twenty silver dollars, and the first reward given by the court is also this price. A head is just enough to exchange a sword, but if a captive is brought and sold, a young and strong slave here can sell it for more than a hundred pieces, which is six or seven times the reward of the head.

This account is very easy to calculate, and Chu Hu'er has already thought in his heart that he will definitely grab more prisoners when he goes west next year. Cows, horses, and camels are not worth much, but slaves are the most valuable.

Now in Daning City, a war horse is only worth thirty silver dollars, and if it is an ordinary horse, it is only worth a dozen yuan, and it can't even be exchanged for a knife, and cattle and sheep are even cheaper.

There are all kinds of goods to buy in Daning City, but they are very expensive.

"This time, we sold all the young female slaves first." Chu Hu'er decided.

Several nephews are a little reluctant, and there is a female slave in the tent, who can also warm the bed or something.

"When we go on our next expedition to the west, are you still afraid that you won't be able to grab a woman? Besides, if we train the militia well, if we can make a contribution to the next time we go west, we can send you to Beijing to learn Han etiquette and culture, and even marry a Han woman back. ”

Hearing Chu Hu'er say this, several young nephews were finally willing to sell the female slaves in their accounts. (To be continued.) )