"Fall! Stumble! Hit him hard! ”

"Urhan! You can't do it! If it doesn't work, get down! ”

"I bet on three sheep, if you lose, don't want to go to my house to buy goat's milk!"

"Fall! Don't be like a woman! ”

At the same time, when Li Dingguo went to look for relatives, Nuergan, more than 4,000 miles away from the capital, was holding a lively wrestling tournament.

Compared with four years ago, Nuergan is more prosperous.

Sitting on a throne similar to a gladiatorial arena, Guo Sandai watched the scene under his feet with great interest.

At this moment, although he is wearing a round-necked robe of the Ming Dynasty, he is wearing a brown bear fur offered by the Beishan Jurchens on the outside.

When the fur was put on, he looked a little bigger, and he was very burly.

He combed his hair into the braid of the Beishan Jurchens, did not shave his hair, and the beard on his chin added a lot of majesty.

After four years, he successfully built a city in the icy and snowy Beishan through the materials operated by Liaodong and Jingcheng, and took over many tribal cities of the Beishan Jurchens, leaving only five more important cities, and ordered people to strengthen them.

These five cities had only soldiers and horses stationed, and there was not a single inhabitant, and all the inhabitants moved to Nuergan.

At present, there are a total of 340,000 Beishan Jurchens gathered in Nuergancheng, some of them are the Hezhe tribe in later generations, some are Evenki, and some are Oroqen, Feiyaka and other tribes.

Not only that, but some of the Chukchi ethnic groups formed by the Siberian Chukchi, Yukagil and Eskimos also existed.

The reason why they came together is, to put it bluntly, because of two things...... Food and warmth.

Guo Sandai assured everyone that as long as one person from each family joined the army, he would give the family ten stone rice, two sheep, two pigs, and ten chickens and ducks.

Because of this promise, even the envoys and dogs who were far away in Eastern Siberia and Central Siberia all went south, not to mention the various divisions living in the outer northeast.

After they gathered, Guo Sangdai gathered more than 50,000 soldiers and horses, and this is enough to see that there are actually more Jurchens in Beishan than in the south.

It's just that because of geography and climate, they can't gather together and form a powerful force.

Otherwise, the late Ming will not face Nurhachi, but a more powerful fishing and hunting country.

At present, the Beishan Jurchen is very powerful, although Nuer Gancheng has a freezing period of up to seven and a half months, but in four and a half months, it can still grow some crops such as potatoes and millet .

However, even if it is a potato with a yield of four stones per mu, after coming to this land, it is only one stone and two or three buckets per mu, and the yield of Shu millet is only a pitiful four buckets of rice per mu, and the yield is only 60 catties, and after removing the husk of the crop, it is only less than 50 catties of millet rice.

In such a harsh environment, even if Guo Sangdai had the support of the Ming Dynasty, he only reclaimed more than 400,000 mu of cultivated land in four years.

Even if potatoes are planted on these farmlands, they will only produce less than 500,000 stone of food.

Even if it is one pound a day, they can only eat for 200 days at most, and the number of local livestock is not much, even if they eat it all, they will not be able to survive the winter.

From this, it can be seen that in Beishan in this era, without external help, there are not too many people gathered at all, even if it is a city of 10,000 people.

They can only survive hunting if they are scattered in the thousands, hundreds, and tribes of this vast area.

But realistically, if you have hot rice to eat, who wants to climb the ice and snow?

Therefore, the Nuer Gancheng, which has sufficient food, will become a "paradise" that the Beishan Jurchens yearn for.

Ten stone rice is the basic for survival, and two sheep and two pigs, ten chickens and ducks are the guarantee of a little luxury in the family's life.

The four-and-a-half-month thawing period is the fastest time for chickens and ducks to reproduce, and if they endure these four and a half months, they can harvest sixty or seventy chicks.

After raising it, they can basically eat chicken every six or seven days in winter, and a little pig and lamb in one winter.

Of course, if you want to eat better, you can only go out for dozens of miles and climb ice and snow to hunt.

This kind of hunting, which used to be relied on for survival, became a pastime for the Beishan Jurchens.

As for warmth, although Kitayama has many trees, it was difficult to store enough wood to survive the long winter of seven and a half months.

In this Beishan area, where the coldest time of winter can reach more than 40 degrees below zero, the stove in the house cannot be stopped for twelve hours, and stopping means death.

This constantly burning stove burns at least sixty or seventy catties a day, or twenty or thirty thousand catties of firewood a year, and the time for them to collect firewood is less than one hundred and thirty days.

This means that they have to prepare at least 200 catties of firewood every day, which can be built into a firewood pile to dry naturally.

Two hundred catties of firewood is not much, even a teenager can quickly collect it, but for a fishing and hunting people like them, a child is also labor.

If this child goes hunting, he can hunt at least thousands of catties of meat in a year, and the same is true for fishing.

Therefore, the cold winter is an insurmountable existence for the Beishan Jurchens.

It's just that this insurmountable existence disappeared after Guo Sangdai's arrival.

Guo Sandai will distribute 3,000 catties of honeycomb coal to each household before the arrival of winter.

Although some people died in the first winter due to improper operation, this situation basically disappeared after Guo Sangdai led people to build fire walls, ondols and water canals, and began to use individual heating.

Three thousand catties of honeycomb coal is not much, but after the grain is sufficient, each family can use a few days to store thousands of catties of firewood.

This firewood, combined with honeycomb coal, is enough for them to survive the cold winter.

These changes are enough to show how much their quality of life has improved.

Therefore, the Beishan Jurchens living in Nuergancheng respected Guo Sangdai very much, but at the same time, they also knew that it was actually the Ming Dynasty who had been funding them.

The Beishan Jurchens were not fools, and the dozen or so large ships that came almost every ten days were carrying grain, iron and weapons, as well as some livestock and honeycomb coal.

Although those ships did not carry the banner of the Ming Dynasty, only the Ming Dynasty could build a ship of that size.

Backwardness does not have to be simple, but as long as there is a head, no one will be willing to collaborate with the enemy and betray the country.

The Beishan Jurchens hated the Jianzhou Jurchens in the south, which was a family feud, and Guo Sangdai distributed food and livestock, which was a favor.

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No one wants to leave behind the favors that are about to come and exchange information for wealth that may not be available.

In addition, Guo Sangdai's food distribution is basically based on eight buckets a month, which is not enough for a family to go south and cross nearly a thousand miles on foot to find the Jianzhou Jurchens.

This series of methods is the premise that Guo Sandai and Nu'er Gancheng's secrets have not been exposed.

To put it simply, everyone has a head, and every year the Jurchens who worked as slaves would increase half an acre of arable land, and many people thought that as long as they could hold on for twenty years, they would be able to grow their own grain to feed themselves, and raise many livestock in captivity, and live a life of eating meat.

In fact, all people are the same, and only class is evil.

If Nurhachi and the nobles of the Jin Kingdom did not want to rebel, then they could also live a more comfortable life in the feudal era, but they chose to rebel instead.

Guo Sandai didn't have that much ambition, because he knew that his lifeblood was in the hands of Da Ming.

It is true that Nuergan may be self-sufficient in twenty years, but twenty years is too long.

In Guo Sangdai's view, the survival of Jiannu is the past few years, and after the demise of Jiannu, as long as the imperial court wants to, the imperial court will soon be able to repair the city along the Heishui River (Heilongjiang) all the way to the north and firmly control the slaves.

Besides, Guo Sandai is not blind, he is a person of Jinyiwei after all, and in order to make him not have the intention of rebelling, Lu Wenzhao often signals Li Ruolian to release some news of Daming Technology.

Here in Guo Sangdai, what he currently knows is the existence of a railing carriage.

The fact that a railroad carriage can travel four thousand miles to Nuergan across four thousand miles in three months is already jaw-dropping.

In addition, there is also the North Island Province, which is close to the end of the country.

In June, Yang Wenyue sent people from the northern island province to Kugu (Sakhalin Island), and after greeting the local tribes, he appointed them as officials to manage the 30,000 labor reformers who had migrated to Kugu.

These labor reform unions cultivated farmland and built houses for the local Ku people, who were only a few thousand, so naturally they did not dare to be disrespectful to the more than 1,000 Ming soldiers who led 30,000 labor reformers, and they were willing to sit back and enjoy their success.

Kuwu was taken, and with Yang Wenyue's means, it is estimated that thousands of troops will be garrisoned in the local area in three years.

What do the thousands of Ming troops represent? Guo Sandai knows better than anyone else.

As long as he dared to move the idea that he shouldn't move, the Ming army of Liaodong went north in an instant, and the Kuwu Ming army crossed the sea in an instant.

Under internal and external attacks, a few months will be enough for him to be wiped out.

There is no chance of rebellion, and there is no possibility of separating after rebellion, which is the reason why he Guo Sangdai is desperately loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

Without the intention of separating the territory, Guo Sandai did not need to put too much pressure on himself, so after getting the armor sent from the south and distributing the armor stomach to his soldiers and horses, so that they could hold the main road where Jianyu might flee north, Guo Sandai relaxed.

The Beishan Jurchens are actually the Sauron soldiers that the three dynasties of Kang Yongqian in the Qing Dynasty liked to use very much, although they were not well equipped, but the ability of individual soldiers was not bad, although it was not as good as the current Jianlu and Shangzhi, but it was also regarded as a world-class soldier.

Therefore, after Guo Sangdai used the training methods of the Ming army, they actually reached the level of a world-class army.

From this, we can see how badly the Eight Banners of the Kang Yongqian Three Dynasties were corroded.

An Amin with a few thousand Jianzhou Jurchens can sweep more than 300,000 Beishan Jurchens, and such Beishan Jurchens have actually become a top combat force in the Kang Yongqian Three Dynasties.

I'm afraid that Nurhachi and Huang Taiji know that they have a cerebral hemorrhage......

"General......

Just as Guo Sandai was thinking about the more than 30,000 Beishan Jurchen soldiers and horses he had placed in the south, a naturalized Jurchen Gaotai who had been trained with him to become a Jinyi guard walked up to him and lowered his head and said:

"There is news from the south, and it has something to do with Jianyu......

Gao Tai told the news brought by the guests in the capital one by one, and Guo Sandai frowned slightly when he heard this:

"I want to tell Your Highness about this immediately, when will the next sea ship go north?"

"Tomorrow." Gao Tai replied without hesitation, and Guo Sandai bowed slightly:

"Then bring the news to them, let them go south and tell Jingcheng about the matter, and Jingcheng will convey it to His Highness."

"Yes......" Gao Tai responded, and Guo Sandai set his sights on the duel in the wrestling ring.

It's just that in the next second, he reacted that the person next to him hadn't left, so he looked sideways at Gao Tai next to him with doubts: "Is there anything else?" ”

"Hmm!" Gao Tai's face was serious, and after thinking about what to say, he said:

"The envoys to the north were nomadic in the upper reaches of the Lena River when they found a trace of people, and they probed and saw a group of people with short heads, broad faces, high and large noses, yellow hair and wavy hair, I think they must be Europeans."

"Europeans?" Guo Sandai was slightly stunned, then frowned and said:

"Didn't this group of people come from the west, and they have traveled thousands of miles? How many of them are there? ”

"According to the words of the deer department to stay behind, there should be only thirty or forty people, but they feel that this is just a step pond to explore the way, so they want to ask the general to transfer troops to support." Gao Tai said the idea of leaving the deer department behind, while Guo Sandai frowned.

In fact, except for the Beishan Jurchens who were too far away and had not yet come to Nuergan, most of the Beishan Jurchens had come to Nuergan.

If it weren't for Zhu Youzhen's order to let Guo Sangdai arrange some people to stay in the north, he would not necessarily let the people from the Lubu stay in the local area.

At present, the defense of the Ming Dynasty in Eastern Siberia is even more empty than in history, and there are at least tens of thousands of Beishan Jurchens scattered here in history, but there are only seven or eight thousand people at the moment.

Guo Sandai arranged for 1,200 people from the Deer Department to stay along the Lena River, and arranged ten stone forts, each with 120 people.

These 120 people were basically wearing the cloth armor of the Ming Dynasty, holding some bird guns and short soldiers that were eliminated by the Ming army.

Not only them, but in the troops of the Beishan Jurchen soldiers, there are basically seven or eight hundred bird guns in each battalion, and the overall number is not small.

In order to hide from being discovered by the captives, they basically do not go out of the stone castle and the city, and they will also put animal skins on the outside of the cloth armor during the daily patrol at the head of the city, which makes people unable to see it and feels very primitive.

Compared to the south, the north is much bolder, and the armor stomach of the Ming army can be exposed.

However, because the armor of the navy and the infantry army are not the same, Guo Sandai is not sure whether the group of Europeans recognize the armor and flag of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, according to the description of the envoy deer, this group of people is not like the countries of Dark Elia, Francha, and Francis who have come into contact with the Ming Dynasty.

If it is really according to what the envoy Lubu said, those dozens of people are Butang, then there should be thousands of people in the follow-up, which is a bit of a threat to the order and task of King Qi.

"Send a battalion of soldiers and horses from Nuergan to garrison the forts, and let people go to the west of the Lena River to find out what this group of Europa people means, tell them that the east of the Lena River is the territory of my Ming Dynasty, and tell them not to be presumptuous."

"Yes...... Gao Tai responded, then turned around and mobilized the troops and horses according to Guo Sangdai's words.

There were four battalions of soldiers and horses in Nuergan City, with more than 12,000 men.

Gaotai mobilized a battalion of soldiers and horses, and after receiving the order to transfer, they prepared in large bags.

There are not many horses in Nuergan, only 700 horses, and all of them are transported from Mirror City, so in terms of material mobilization, except for summer, the locals use sleds most of the time.

It is summer now, although there is not enough horses, but the people of the deer department have domesticated more than 2,000 reindeer, and these reindeer are their companions in both winter and summer, and can pull more than 500 pounds of carts after a full load.

Gaotai brought a thousand reindeer from the stable, then loaded them onto a cart and brought bags of grain from the warehouse.

Each reindeer can pull four stone meters, as well as a sleigh cart and a soldier's armor.

"Four thousand stone rice, enough for us and our local brothers to eat for two months."

The cart was fully loaded, and the general of the Ming army, who was about to lead his troops north, smiled and patted the grain.

He was one of the naturalized Jurchens of Jinyiwei, and after he finished speaking, Gao Tai next to him also took the opportunity to say:

"From here to the stone fort at the northernmost end of the Lena River, it is almost two thousand miles, and it is estimated that when you go to the north, this grain will only be enough to eat for a month at most."

"You have people transport the grain to the northernmost stone fort, and then I will arrange for another 300 people to bring a thousand deer carts north tomorrow, and strive to have a month's and a half of grain in each stone fort."

"Okay!" The general nodded with a smile, then looked around again, and sighed:

"It's bitterly cold north of Beishan, and I don't know what His Highness is letting you do with it."

The general was a little deflated, and Gao Tai patted him on the shoulder: "Your Highness let him guard, there should be a reason for him, you and I can do what Your Highness says." ”

"You don't have to worry about food, there are still 3,000 sled dogs in the city, and when the snow season comes, these 3,000 sled dogs can pull 1,500 stone meters to the north."

"They run fast, it only takes more than 30 days to go back and forth, plus the reindeer, to ensure that your rations are okay."

"Hehe......" The general shook his head:

"I'm not worried about food, no, I can take people to hunt some wild deer and bears, I just think that kind of place can be eaten or not."

"Forget it......" Gao Tai patted him: "Okay, don't talk about it......"

Seeing that the general complained twice in a row, Gao Tai didn't have a good way, so he could only comfort him and turn away.

After he turned to leave, the general began to take the three thousand Jurchen soldiers dressed in cotton clothes north, and gradually disappeared from the wilderness.

At noon the next day, the southern material ship arrived as scheduled, and while Guo Sandai personally greeted him, he found an unfamiliar face.

"This time the ship is from Yingzhou, and the supplies for the slaves in the future will be sent from Yingzhou."

"You count the supplies, a total of 90,000 stone rice, 12 million catties of honeycomb coal, 3,000 catties of gunpowder, and ......."

On the wharf, Guo Sandai was holding a document booklet, and not far away were twenty merchant ships with 9,000 materials, which brought more abundant materials than the previous cargo ships.

Just looking at this list of supplies, Guo Sandai's heart was like a mirror, and he knew in his heart that this was an arrangement for the imperial court to use Yingzhou to increase control over slaves, but he didn't feel uncomfortable in his heart, but said frankly:

"There are more supplies than before, thank you, Your Excellency, I just don't know if we will send the ship to Mirror City in the future, or ......"

He asked tentatively, and the chubby shipowner smiled and said, "The information is still sent to Mirror City, but in the future, we will transport the furs of the slaves to the south." ”

"Since Yingzhou has taken it, Yingzhou's rice and coal can be sent to Nu'ergan, and Nu'ergan's fur can be transported to Jingcheng, and some sugar and cloth from Jingcheng can be shipped to Yingzhou, so the general doesn't have to worry about anything, it's just a normal trade change."

"Naturally, naturally......" Guo Sandai didn't believe the nonsense of the fat shipowner at all, but took out the handwritten letter prepared early and sent it:

"This is information about Jianyu, please bring it to Mirror City, and ask Mirror City to send it to His Highness."

"Under the command." Hearing the information, a glimmer of light flashed in the fat man's eyes, and then he took the book with a smile.

"...... of the Department of Inspection"

They are all thousand-year-old foxes, and Guo Sandai can see at a glance that something is wrong with this fat man.

There is no need to change the Fusi of Beizhen, and the Fusi of Nanzhen can't manage the outside of the customs, so he doesn't need Guo Sandai to use his brain, he knows that this fat man is a person from the Supervision Department.

It's just that Nuergan, who was originally managed by the Beizhen Fu Division, has now been replaced by someone from the Supervision Department, which makes Guo Sangdai a little uneasy.

"Isn't something happened to Jinyiwei?"

Before Guo Sandai's thoughts could be answered, the fat man put away the handwritten book, and then said:

"Your Highness also happens to have a military order for the general."

As he spoke, the fat shipowner took out a handwritten book, and Guo Sandai took it with both hands and opened it to look at it.

The letter was written by Zhu Youzhen in June, and Zhu Youzhen instructed him to do two tasks, the first was to stick to the main road and not let Jianyu flee north, and the second was to let him be vigilant to the west of the Lena River, and if any Europeans appeared, he would be notified immediately.

"Huh?" Seeing this handwritten letter, Guo Sandai was stunned, he didn't expect His Royal Highness to be in Beizhili, but he could predict things thousands of miles away.

Although he did not know why his highness cared so much about the Europeans west of the Lena River, he still said to the owner of the ship, adhering to the principle of doing things well:

"To report to the deer department that there have recently been some Europeans with broad heads, broad faces, high and large noses, and yellowish and wavy hair, west of the Lena River."

"I thought it was a trivial matter, so I sent an additional battalion of soldiers and horses to the north, but I didn't want His Highness to let me inform me early, so I can only trouble you to convey it."

"This group of Europeans numbered about thirty or forty, and when they were discovered by the envoys, they retreated to the west of the Lena River, most likely the leading Butang."

"Okay, I'll pass it on below." The fat shipowner heard the new information and immediately returned the salute, and Guo Sangdai did the same.

When the two of them had finished their conversation, they talked about some of the things that the slaves were doing, and watched as a shipload of supplies was removed, and as bundles of fur filled a ship.

The fleet, which arrived at noon, finally headed south at dusk with a shipload of furs and nineteen empty ships.

Looking at their backs heading south, Guo Sandai touched his chin, and Gao Tai also noticed that something was wrong:

"Today's Owner ......"

Before he finished speaking, Guo Sandai preemptively explained:

"It should be someone from the Supervision Department, it seems that there are some problems within Jinyiwei, or His Royal Highness cares about Nu'er very much, otherwise he wouldn't replace the Beizhen Fusi who supervised Nu'er with the people of the Supervision Department."

"So what are we going to do?" As soon as Gao Tai heard that the Supervision Department had entered, he immediately felt a little dry.

It's just that compared to him, Guo Sangdai knows very well the status of slaves in Zhu Youzhen's heart, so after glancing at the fleet that has disappeared, he said calmly:

"You don't have to do anything, just do your own thing."

"It's better for you and me to retire early."

With that, Guo Sandai turned to leave, and Gao Tai also glanced at the vanishing fleet, and then followed his pace.