Zheng Haizhu traveled to the ninth year of the late Ming Dynasty, and finally led a Zhengsipin Yamen in the top power center of the empire, her female subordinate, Mu Zaohua, also had a public house in Hetuala, the capital of the Later Jin regime.

Although the public hall has a thatched roof and earthen walls, it is close to the Eight Banners Office Yamen near the Khan Palace, and the treatment of Mu Zaohua in and out is completely different from that of the Han people who returned to the Houjin Dynasty.

Even the fierce and vicious Baya Lamas could only mutter a few words in their hearts, "How can this Nikan woman be so favored by her master?"

On the surface, they would never dare to drink Mu Zaohua like they did to other Han minions.

Because, since this woman went to Huining in North Korea with the master of Yue Zhi who was inlaid with the red flag in early summer, and brought back many copper mine lumps, the Great Khan Nurhachi personally issued an order to carry the flag for Mu Zaohua.

That is completely different from her original identity as "Yu Ding".

To a certain extent, some baba have to call this Ming woman "master".

"Raising the flag" is not counted, not long after, the woman of the Ming Kingdom actually got the official title of "Household Department Ezhen".

"Ezhen" is the Manchu word for "master", and the word "household" is said to have come from the proposal of Emperor Taiji, the lord of the Zhengbai Banner, to follow the example of a yamen in charge of money bags in the Ming Kingdom and get a lot of money for Dajin.

At this time, within the Jianzhou Jurchens, even for bannermen with high status like Niu Lu Ezhen, private trade was prohibited. All transactions are personally controlled by the owner of each flag.

If any Niu Lu Ezhen secretly exchanges things with other families, is found or denounced, is whipped and fined food, not to mention the title of Niu Lu Ezhen, he will also be taken off.

They are the masters in front of the Qiding and the Han people.

But in the face of the larger slave owners, they were nothing more than disobedient dogs who were beaten.

Among the slave owners who monopolized the post-Jin economy, the Four Beylers Emperor Taiji, who was the most popular with the Great Khan, jumped out this summer to contribute new ideas.

"Amma, we have to do more business with the outside, this outside, we can't just count on the caravan on the Shanxi side," Huang Taiji said to Nurhachi, "Yue Zhen has seen the richest Nanzhili in the Ming Kingdom, and now he is connected with the Koreans, let's set up a new yamen, let Yue take care of it, let him be the head of the household department, and the Mu Zaohua, who is quite reliable, will go to make a real thing."

The older Nurhachi gets, the more suspicious he becomes, and he is always worried that because he can't keep up, the owners of several other banners, especially Daishan and Mang Gurtai, will secretly squeeze the livelihood of the two yellow flags.

As soon as he heard Huang Taiji's idea, he thought it was good, so he nodded and said, "It's okay to set up a new yamen, and it's okay to imitate the name of the country, but the benefits they get back from the border pass and the mutual market, every time they go, they have to come to the Khan to report and pay an account."

"That is nature, Amma is the wise Khan and the backbone of our great gold. There is a saying in the Ming Kingdom, under the whole world, it is not the king's land. In Dajin, we should be like this, even if our children and grandchildren are blessed by Amma and become banner masters, they are also the kings of Amma."

Huang Taiji said it categorically.

Nurhachi, the head wolf who had been smoothed out of his fur, could have imagined that the most resourceful and seemingly loyal son to his father under his knees crackled in his heart.

Huang Taiji was inspired by his nephew Yue Zhi's account of the Ming government's political system and bureaucratic hierarchy.

He was confident that after Nurhachi's death, he would inherit the throne himself.

Therefore, from now on, Huang Taiji will draw and slowly establish an administrative system independent of the Eight Banners within the Houjin.

In this way, once he becomes the new Khan king of the Jurchens, even if the council of the four major beyles is still running, and the brothers Daishan, Mang Gurtai and other brothers can still be on an equal footing with his emperor Taiji on the surface, he can also use the new yamen at all levels to encroach on the power of several other great beylers, until only their right to lead the troops is retained, and then finally find excuses such as military commander's mistakes to deprive the brothers of their military power, and finally make his emperor Taiji no longer just the Khan king, but like the emperor of the Ming Kingdom - the emperor.

But such a household yamen appeared out of thin air, and it was involved in border trade, and the pass of the big Baylors was not so

Better.

Therefore, Huang Taiji proposed that Yue Zhi be a scholar, and Mu Zaohua should receive the title of "Ezhen".

He is the owner of the white flag to avoid suspicion, and he is the son of the owner of the red flag Dai Shan, and Mu Zaohua is the "supernumerary Fujin" of the blue flag master Mang Gurtai, what else can Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai say? As for Amin, the owner of the white flag, his father is Shuerhaqi, who was imprisoned to death by Nurhachi, and Amin, who can still have military power and be the owner of the flag, has never intervened much, just fighting.

So, in the early autumn of the seventh year of the Mandate of Heaven, Mu Zaohua became the first female Ezhen in Houjin.

On this day, after listening to the report of the banner Gushan Ezhen about drawing the flag to grab the west, in addition to the flag owner's office, he came to the household office.

Mu Zaohua seemed to be tracing something on the rough birch paper, and when she saw Yue Zhen coming in, she hurriedly got up, held the birch paper, and walked to the door.

"Yue Belle, the slaves have something to discuss, but it's too dark in the house, let's go outside and talk about it, okay?"

Although Mu Zaohua claims to be a slave, her tone is distinctly assertive.

Yue Zhi thought more carefully than most Jianzhou men, and after a little turn of thought, he understood.

This Ming woman is avoiding suspicion.

If it comes to the relationship between ethics and normality, since she will be accepted into the house by Sanbeile Mang Gurtai sooner or later, it will be her little aunt.

Aunts and nephews of the same age, although they have changed from the edict of the Great Khan to above and below the authorities, still do not get along alone on weekdays.

The two of them then walked into the bright sunlight outside the earthen house, and Yue Yu beckoned a guard servant to bring a wooden table and a wooden bench.

After Mu Zaohua sat down, she said with a worried face: "Yue Beile, the Koreans are willing to sell our white ginseng and medicinal herbs, and they are also willing to come over from the Japanese country by boat with copper, but when it comes to selling grain, they will push back and hold back, so how can they hoard grain and fight?"

Yue Zhen was also worried about this matter.

Later, there was a famine again in the spring of the Later Jin, and the Ming side heard that the construction of a military town began outside the Xifeng Pass, and the Han female caravan selling grain in Shanxi did not dare to take the goods, and the Koreans near the Tumen River refused to take the goods, and there was no grain and salt input at both ends of the east and west, let alone fighting, and it was difficult for the Jurchens to survive.

At the council meeting the day before yesterday, Nurhachi also gave an order to Yue Zhi that the household department should get more grain.

"Jujube Flower, do you have any ideas?"

Mu Zaohua spread out the birch paper: "The spies we planted in Zheng Haizhu's concubine sent back a piece of news, saying that the surname Zheng was going to the north farther north than Mongolia to meet the barbarians coming from the west. I remembered that when I returned to Hetuala, I told the Great Khan that those barbarians, called Rakshasas, had leather goods and grain, and one day they would fight to the east, and they would ask the Ming Kingdom to open a mutual market and exchange tea and porcelain."

Speaking of this, Mu Zaohua pointed to the crooked map she had drawn on birch paper, and continued, "Yue Beile, why don't we take the initiative to go to them, use our Dongzhu and the white ginseng of the Koreans, and ask them for food?"

Yue Zhuang stared at the words "Ming", "Mongolia", "Daikim", and "Joseon" written in Manchu

and other maps corresponding to the words, and then looked at the Horqin tribe and North Korean Huining specially marked by Mu Zaohua, and muttered: "Well, where the Tumen River in Huining is, I have already had a relationship with the Great Khan, rebuilt, and led troops to station, and in the future it will be the place where my Dajin forced the Koreans to open a mutual market, and there is no need to sneak to Yizhou, which is within the reach of Mao Wenlong's power. As for the Rakshasa...... If they can fight all the way east, they will be very fierce, and they will lead to Korqin, is it too close to us?"

Mu Zaohua pretended to wake up to the danger, thought about it and said, "Then, what about a little further north? Our Daikin, is there a place called Muroweibe?"

Yue replied, and pointed to a blank space on the map: "Probably here, a little further east, is the Black Water Department, and outside the Black Water Department, there is the vast sea."

Mu Zaohua was secretly happy in her heart: It was the same as what Mrs. said.

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