335 Grand Chieftain (2/2)
The first year of might, early spring.
The chiefs of Jianzhou, Haixi, and Donghai, the three Jurchen tribes, came to the Golden Tent of Immortality on the grassland according to custom to carry out the annual spring sacrifice. Pray that in the coming year, the grassland will be rich in water and grass, and the sheep will be herded, and the annual "mutual market" will be carried out.
The so-called "mutual market" originally referred to the behavior of Han merchants who traded with other ethnic groups in border towns.
In the past, Han merchants would exchange salt, iron and wine for horses and lambs, which were transported back to the customs to make money. Although the road is long and there are many risks on the road, they can often make a lot of money, making the "mutual market" a traditional custom. Many border towns have also become prosperous for a time because of the "mutual market".
However, since the Yuan Dynasty, the alien races outside the Guanxi have mastered a certain amount of industrial technology. Armor and weapons no longer need to rely on the Han people, so the mutual market in the border towns was slowly canceled. However, the economy still needs circulation, and the "mutual market" between the major tribes came into being.
However, the significance of this spring festival, in addition to the "mutual market", is also an annual alliance between the three Jurchen ministries.
At this alliance, the three Jurchen tribes will sign many covenants, such as military alliances, trade exchanges, etc., all in the covenant.
But at this year's league meeting, a big event happened.
The chieftain of the Jianzhou Jurchens, during the Golden Horde, ambushed two hundred warriors outside the account, coerced the Haixi Jurchens, the chiefs of the two Jurchen tribes in the East China Sea, and formed an alliance with them to jointly crusade against the Ming army.
I saw that the Haixi chieftain and the Donghai chief who were sitting in the tent both showed a stunned look on their faces.
The warriors standing behind them, as well as the chiefs of some small tribes, did not expect that the chief of the Jianzhou Jurchens, "Li Gunaha", would dare to finish this Hongmen banquet and immediately draw his sword against each other.
"What do you want to do, Ligunah?"
"Outside the Golden Horde of Immortality, we have 10,000 warriors in each department, even if you kill me, my eagle-like children will eat your corpse as a gift to me!"
In the face of the threat of the two chiefs, Rigunaha did not show the slightest fear.
He stood in the middle of the golden tent, drank a bowl of goat's milk wine, and the tiger skin on his shoulder looked mighty.
"Brothers of the Immortal Heavenly Bloodline, since late winter, a cavalry of the Han people has come to our pasture."
"They killed the Mongols, they killed the Khitans, and they killed us Jurchens."
"When will our Jurchen pastures also be able to let the Han people gallop? The Ming Dynasty completely wanted to exterminate everything, starve our lambs to death, and kill all our men. Today I just want to tell you that I, Li Gunaha, want to restore the glory of my ancestors, exterminate this group of Han people, and grab more pastures. ”
The chiefs of the two major ministries couldn't help but fall into deep thought when they heard this.
They also have tribes under them, and unfortunately they encountered Zhou Xingzu's soldiers and horses, and naturally they were also tragically affected by the three-light policy.
For the Han people, every Jurchen person hated them to the core.
And the pasture is also something that the Jurchens are willing to snatch with their lives.
The world outside the gate is too cold.....
But the chiefs of the two major departments were not fools, and someone immediately retorted: "Li Gunaha, if you want to drive away the Han people and seize the pastures, we are willing to support you." ”
"But are your scimitars and warriors used to threaten us?"
"The bloodline of the Immortal Heaven is willing to kneel under the hooves of horses, but it will never give in under the scimitar."
Li Gunaha angrily smashed the bowl to the ground: "Without a scimitar, you don't have the guts." ”
"The Ming Dynasty divided our Jurchens into three tribes, and also set up a guard station and sealed your official rank, so that we can fight each other and annex each other."
"Under the dominion you become cowardly, and in the fighting, you become cowardly. Without my sword, do you dare to go to war against the Ming Dynasty? ”
Li Gunaha was also a hero, and under his remarks, the chieftains of the Haixi Jurchens and the East China Sea Jurchens couldn't help but be speechless and looked at each other.
You must know that in order to govern the Jurchen tribe, the Ming Dynasty divided the three major tribes into many guards.
In Jianzhou Jurchen alone, there are three David Institutes and more than a dozen small guard offices.
Perennial drove the various guards to annex each other, resulting in the population of the Jurchen tribe, none of which could develop.
The chiefs of the three major tribes are all people who know this.
And this strategy of the Ming Dynasty, although it limited the development of the Jurchen people, but also made the hatred of the Jurchen people become more and more intense.
The world has been suffering for a long time, and this sentence can be changed to "Jurchen has been bitter for a long time".
The unification of the Jurchen tribes is already the trend of the times.
It was precisely because of this that Li Gunaha dared to stage this big drama in the Golden Horde.
The chiefs of the other two tribes glanced at each other. They all know that now that the Ming Dynasty has just changed its emperor, it is a time of internal emptiness, and maybe this time, it is really an opportunity.
And after Li Gu Naha promised enough benefits, the three Jurchen tribes finally reached an agreement and were about to form a coalition to discuss together.
Rigunaha was renamed the Grand Jurchen Chief and nominally commanded the entire coalition army.
The tens of thousands of Jurchen warriors gathered outside the golden tent immediately burst into enthusiastic cheers after hearing the news.
The names of Rigunaha and the Great Chief resounded in the blue sky of the steppe amid the cheers of the crowd.
"First clean up the thieves on the grassland, and then I will lead the army to unify all the tribes of the grassland, take the grassland as the rear, and attack the Ming Dynasty in the pass. So that the land in the Great Wall has become my pasture, and the Han people in the Great Wall have become my lambs. ”
Standing on a high platform, looking at the warriors on the steppe and chanting his name, Li Gunaha couldn't help but feel a sense of mystery.
From now on, he is the great chief of the entire Jurchen clan.
As long as the plan in his heart is realized step by step, the current Great Chief may be the Great Khan for the future.
The founding of the country is called Khan!
As soon as he thought of this, a flush of excitement appeared on Li Gunaha's cheeks.
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Prairie, next to a lake.
Zhou Xingzu took a secret letter from a subordinate, and after reading it, he fell into contemplation: "The three Jurchen tribes formed a coalition to rebel against the Ming, and Li Gunaha proclaimed himself the great chief? ”
"Sure enough, as the luck presented, the dragon luck of the Jurchen clan has risen, and it is beginning to turn into a dragon."
"Hehe, the first battle of Li Gunaha was to come to encircle and suppress me?"
Zhou Xingzu knew that he himself had become the first level on the road to the Jurchen race's transformation into a dragon.
If he is exterminated, Rigunaha will be able to use this prestige to truly control the Jurchen coalition. Then he led a large army to sweep the grassland, and then it will be an evil Jiao, and he will become a great khan if he can't say that he is a big chief.
When the time comes, with the support of the destiny of heaven, the Ming Dynasty's national Zuo is afraid that most of it will be cut off, so it can only live in the south, relying on the geographical advantages of the south with more water, and establish the "Southern Ming".