Chapter 344: The world is shaking, planning the grassland

Last time, it was mentioned that Yuan Chonghuan led his generals to hold a meeting with the leaders and envoys of various tribes in Liaodi in the big tent to discuss how to effectively govern Liaodi?

During the Chenghua period, the Ming court and Li Chaojun twice conquered the "Jianzhou Jurchen", which caused the originally strong "Jianzhou Jurchen" to decline. Leaders with prestige, appeal, and the ability to command the concerted actions of the various ministries of Jianzhou were killed in these two battles. For many years after that, the "Jianzhou Jurchens" were in a state of dispersion and decline.

In a different time and space, the causes and consequences of the "Chenghua Plough Court" are nothing more than the bitter cold in the Northeast, the shortage of materials, and the inability to support too many people, and the "Jianzhou Sanwei" rose rapidly after receiving the support of the Ming Dynasty, but in order to continue to develop and grow, they went to loot the border land of the Ming Dynasty and kill the Han people. This completely angered the Ming Dynasty.

In February of the seventh year of orthodoxy in the Ming Dynasty (1442), the imperial court (Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen) agreed to the courtiers' request, so "divided the left guard of Jianzhou, and disposed of the right guard of Jianzhou". Moreover, this matter is recorded as follows in the "Ming Shilu": "Divide the left guard of the state and set up the right guard of the state." Dong Shan was promoted to "Governor Tongzhi" and was in charge of the "Left Guard"; Dong Shan took the old seal, and Fan Cha gave the new seal to take the palm. ”

So far, the "Jianzhou Jurchen" has appeared "Jianzhou Wei", "Jianzhou Left Guard", and "Jianzhou Right Guard", that is, the so-called "Jianzhou Three Guards". At that time, Li Manzhu, who was in charge of the seal of "Jianzhou Wei", married the widow of Agu (Dong Shan's brother); Dong Shan, who held the seal of "Jianzhou Left Guard", married Li Manzhu's daughter; The "Jianzhou Right Guard" seal letter belonged to Dong Shan's uncle Fancha. The "Jianzhou Sanwei" cohabited in the Suzi River and the Pozhu River, which was a symbol of the formation of the Jianzhou Jurchen clan consortium (tribal alliance).

Dong Shan was only 23 years old when he was in charge of the "Jianzhou Left Guard", brave and strategic, sincerely dedicated to the Ming court, and was promoted to "Governor Tongzhi" at the age of 25. In the second year of Tianshun (1458), the Ming court promoted Dong Shan to the "Governor of Zuodu", and continued to be promoted to increase officials, and his status was above the leaders of the guards, and he was powerful in all the Jurchen tribes.

During the orthodox period of Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty (1436 - 1449), due to the "Tumubao Change", the Ming Empire began to walk out of the era of prosperity, which led to the corruption of the government and government, the border officials had no way to appease them, indiscriminately killed tribute envoys, and corruption became commonplace, which caused serious dissatisfaction among Dong Shan and others.

In the eighth year of Tianshun (1464), the Ming court paid too many tributes with "Haixi" and "Jianzhou", and ordered "Jianzhou" and "Mao Lian" to pay tribute to 100 people; The "Haixi" and other health centers only allow 30 to 50 people to pay tribute, and the tribute must be inspected at the border before they are allowed to enter Beijing to ask for money. This restrictive policy on the Jurchen ministries caused even more dissatisfaction among the Jurchens. As a result, Dong Shan and others gathered Jianzhou, Maolian, Haixi and other departments, commanded more than 15,000 troops, and retaliated with "Kou plunder".

In order to achieve the goal of plundering people, animals and wealth, Dong Shan and Li Manzhu adopted a two-faced approach to the Ming Dynasty of "Yang is to be obedient and Yin is to plunder". "Ming Shilu" Jingtai 2nd year (1451 AD) recorded: Jianzhou and other Wei Jurzhen governors Li Manzhu, Dong Shan, etc., since the 14th year of orthodoxy (1449 AD), took advantage of the opportunity to steal the border, Liaodong was embarrassed. In the Chenghua years, it was even more looting.

In May of the second year of Chenghua (1466), Teng Zhao, the governor of Liaodong's "Imperial History of Zuo Yandu", reported to him: "The captives are tired of entering the Kaiyuan realm to loot people and animals. In June, the governor of Liaodong, the eunuch Li Liang and others, reported again: "Captives into Gray Mountain and other places to plunder people and animals." In September, the Jianzhou Right Guard Jurchen "supported 6,000 people to raid Kaiyuan, Fushun, Shenyang, Liaoyang and other places." This shows that since the "Jianzhou Jurchen" was divided into three parts by the imperial court, the overall strength has increased greatly through marriage.

In March of the third year of Chenghua (1467), Li Liang, a eunuch guarding Liaodong, reported that "thieves repeatedly entered the border and killed officials, soldiers, animals, and equipment and property." In April, Dong Shan and others "entangled Mao Lian and other people to invade the border, captured people and livestock, and destroyed tens of thousands of homes in 600 miles from Kaiyuan and Liaoyang." Because the "Jianzhou Jurchens" repeatedly violated the border, seriously threatening the rule of the Ming Dynasty in the Liaodong region, many ministers in the court were furious.

In the same year, the Ming court ordered Jinyi Wei to "take command of the capital" Wuzhong with the edict of Emperor Zhu Jianshen of Chenghua to envoy "Jianzhou Jurchen". Dong Shan and others expressed their repentance to obey the emperor's anger, and also promised to return the plundered people and property, and personally went to Beijing with other leaders to contribute horses, mink and other Liaodong specialties.

After Dong Shan and other "Jianzhou Jurchen" leaders arrived in Beijing, they were able to let Emperor Chenghua greet him outside the palace, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites read out the edict of Emperor Chenghua:

"You and the others are all guards of the imperial court, and they are rewarded by the world, and Rong Er lives on the side. Why did the court fail you? But he connived at his subordinates, entangled Mao Lian and others, violated the border, captured people and animals, and was ungrateful? On the law of the ancestors, it is difficult to forgive. But since you have confessed your sins, you will be forgiving. Today, we will return to the people, make sure that everyone has reformed their ways, admonish the tribe, respect the way of heaven, respect the court, and search and return the plundered population, and do not hide it. If you don't do it again, you will mobilize the army to ask for your guilt, and what will be the repentance! The precepts of its province are not allowed to remain wrong! ”

The "edict" was actually a warning to the Jurchen leaders of Jianzhou, telling them to "reform their ways", "respect the imperial court", and "not allow them to continue to do wrong", otherwise, "they will mobilize a large army to ask for crimes". Dong Shan and the others understood the meaning of the translation and expressed their willingness to admit their crimes.

However, on the issue of rewards in the Ming Dynasty, Dong Shan and others were insatiable, forcibly extorting python clothes, jade belts, golden hats, etc., and threatened to entangle the Jurchen tribes such as "Haixi" and "Savage" to continue to loot the border of the Ming Dynasty after returning. This directly led to the Ming Dynasty's resolute dispatch of troops to conquer the Jurchen's "Chenghua Plough Court".

In July of the same year, Gao Gang, the director of the Ministry of Rites, submitted a "two strategies to please the Jurchens", suggesting that Dong Shan and others be detained in Liaodong, and Zhu Jianshen, the emperor of Chenghua, also adopted this proposal. In August, Dong Shan and others returned from Beijing, passing through Guangning (now Beizhen, Liaoning), and were detained by Zhao Fu, the chief military officer. Dong Shan and 216 others were detained in Quang Ninh, and several of their family members were released and told to inform other people in power in their tribe to immediately and unconditionally return the plundered Han people and property.

Dong Shan and others were inexplicably surprised and furious, while scolding the court for treachery and backtracking; On the one hand, "a knife was put out of his sleeve and stabbed the general".

In this regard, the chief military officer Zhao Fu urgently "ordered the armor soldiers to capture him". After learning that things had changed, the other more than 100 Jurchen tribal leaders who stayed in the post house "also stabbed the pavilion with knives and accompanied the soldiers", and killed them out of the post house, but they were all intercepted by the Ming army that had been arranged, and killed 26 people on the spot, and the rest were also captured.

The chief military officers Zhao Fu and Li Bing believed that the matter had come to this point, and the conquest of the "Jianzhou Jurchens" was inevitable, after all, this was the order of the emperor Lao Tzu. Therefore, after Emperor Chenghua of the Ming Xian Sect received the report, he ordered Zhao Fu and Li Bing to immediately march into the "Jianzhou Jurchen", and on the other hand, sent people to Liaodong to tell the "Haixi Jurchen", "Savage Jurchen" and other tribes to prevent them from forming an alliance with the "Jianzhou Jurchen", and asked them to assist the imperial court in crusading against the evil deeds of the "Jianzhou Jurchen".

Emperor Chenghua of the Ming Dynasty issued an edict and ordered the requisition: "Since the ancestors, the 'Jianzhou Sanwei' has been set up, so that they can live near the border, manage their subordinates, and give me the rank of knight, give crowns and belts, and their tributes, and repeatedly feast and reward." The court has been kind to him, and it has been generous!

The 'Governor' Dong Shan and others are ungrateful, and they lead ugly people to invade our side, kill and plunder people's property, and they are invincible! The amount of heaven and earth in my body is not to be punished, and an envoy is sent to summon the captive population, and the captive population is returned, and he goes to Beijing to apologize, and instead of reforming himself, he comes to pay tribute, and treats him more thickly.

In the future, each captive yang is obedient, ill-intentioned, and his party intends to support both inside and outside, intruding on the border, and the evil is getting worse! It seems that this deceit is repeated, the gods and men are angry, and heaven and earth do not tolerate it! As a last resort, I will send the general to lead the division and correct his sins. Re-read Er and other Su Shouchen Festival, and now send people to come to the court with the 'Governor' Wuzhong, and I am very happy. From now on, the 'Jianzhou Sanwei' rebelled, or made people tempt you to do evil, or ran around to hide, and all of them were sent to you.

If you can lead the people, correspond to our army, flank each other, and exterminate them, then the court will reward you greatly, and you will not be stingy. Wait for the map of the province. In this way, after the Ming Dynasty greeted the "Haixi", "Savage" and other tribes in advance, it was convenient for the Ming army to attack the "Jianzhou Jurchen" led by Li Bing and Zhao Fu in September and October of the third year of Chenghua (1467). At the same time, the "Haixi Jurchens" and the "Savage Jurchens" also cooperated after receiving orders from the imperial court.

The specific route of the march was divided into five routes: Li Bing and Zhao Fu commanded 26,000 troops as the Chinese army, "from Fushun, through Bodao Mountain, Sticky Fish Ridge, through Wuling, crossing the Suzi River, to the ancient city", that is, to the residence of the 'Jianzhou Left Guard' in Dongshan; The Li Dynasty dispatched the 'Governor of the Central Prefecture', Kang Chun, Yu Younuma, Nan Yi and others, to command 10,000 troops and block the retreat of the "Jianzhou Jurchens" from the East Road.

The army of the vassal state of the Joseon Li Dynasty was also divided into two routes: the general Nam Yi on the right flank, who entered the Pozhu River from Manchupo; On the left, the general Yu Younuma entered the attack on Umi from Gaoshali. The two armies of the Ming Dynasty and the Li Dynasty agreed to meet on September 29.

However, on the 26th, Li Chao's army first invaded Umi House (Liaoning Huanren Wunushan City) and raided Li Manzhu and other "Jianzhou Jurchen" stations.

The situation of the Li Dynasty's expedition to the "Jianzhou Jurchens" can be recorded as follows in the "Records of the Ancestors of the Li Dynasty": "Ren Yin, the main general Kang Chun sent a letter to the Chengzheng Yuan, in order to enlighten and say: On September 26, the minister led the army, and the general of the right wing, Nan Yi, entered the attack on the Pozhu River from Manchu, and beheaded Li Manzhu, Gu Naha, and Fu Luochong, the son of Douli, and other 24 people.

and his wife, and Gunaha, and twenty-four women. One hundred and seventy-five were shot and not beheaded. Obtained a Han man, five women, and soldiers with equipment, cattle and horses, burned the mound house to accumulate, retreated to wait for the Liaodong soldiers, and was silent for many days.

Therefore, he returned to the division on the second day of the first month of this month and crossed the river on the third day of the first month. The general of the left chamber, Yu Younuma, entered the Wumi Mansion from Gaoshali, beheaded twenty-one levels, shot and killed fifty without beheading, won a bite of the Han woman, and fought with weapons and cattle and horses, and burned the ninety-seven districts of the house. ”

This material is actually a report on the results of the Korean army's conquest of the "Jianzhou Jurchens" on the orders of the Ming Dynasty, from which it can be seen that the main general of the Korean army, Kang Chun, and the right general Nam Yi army conquered the "Umi Palace" Li Manzhu's lair, and the Li Manzhu family was either killed or captured alive, and has since been destroyed.

After the Ming army then attacked, the killing and plundering became very brutal. Zhao Fu, Marquis of Jinghou of the Ming Dynasty, recorded in detail the scene of the Ming army's brutal killing of civilians from the "Jianzhou Jurchen" tribe in the "Preface to the Pacification of Fu and Merge": "All the chieftains had and fled without recklessness. Cut their hearts and break their brains, powder their bones and apply their ointment, kill the strong, and kill the old and childish, if the earth collapses and the fire is extinguished, it still disintegrates and the ice disappears, it is empty and its house is hidden, and its hole is destroyed and its nest is fired. "Burn, kill, loot, and loot!

In this battle, the Ming army captured 97 "Jianzhou Jurchens", beheaded 638, captured 510 men and women, and recaptured 1,165 captive men and women. After Li Bing and Zhao Fu conquered the Jurchens in Jianzhou, they sent Dong Shan from Guangning to Beijing for execution.

According to Tan Qian's "Guoyi": in the third year of Chenghua (1457), on the second day of November Yiyou, "summoned the commander of military affairs, the left capital of the imperial history, Li Bing returned to the dynasty, and Dong Shan was ambushed". His younger brother and hundreds of brave men fought in Fujian and other southern provinces, so that they will always be in a foreign land! After this blow, the strength of the "Jianzhou Jurchen" was greatly weakened, but the act of revenge and disturbance of the border became worse day by day.

After the battle of Chenghua in the third year (1467), the Ming court began to manage the defense of the eastern region in order to prevent the Jianzhou Jurchens from taking revenge and invading the Liaodong region again, and began to build the "border wall" (Great Wall) of Liaodong.

The "Liaodong Border Wall" was built in the orthodox years, from Guangning to Kaiyuan, and was built along the east and west banks of the Liao River, mainly to prevent the Mongolian Uliangha and other harassment of the Liaodong region. As for the "Haixi Jurchen" and "Savage Jurchen" and other departments, after learning that the Ming army easily defeated the "Jianzhou Three Guards", they were unusually quiet.

The name "Haixi Jurchen" is derived from the "Haixi River". The "Haixi River" is a section of the "Songhua River" in later generations, that is, a section that flows through the west of Yilan County, Heilongjiang Province today. But later, the Ming Dynasty called it the "Haixi Jurchen", which was not the reason for its birthplace, as mentioned earlier, the Ming Dynasty was divided into Jurchens by region.

Comparatively, the Jurchens living in the northern part of Sakhalin in the Russian Far East were called the "East China Sea Jurchens", i.e., the "Nivkh" or "Gilyaks", "Feyaks", and also belonged to the "savage Jurchens", but they were not the "Ezo" ("Ainu") who lived in southern Sakhalin and Hokkaido, Japan.

The "savage Jurchen" was called "beggar fans" in the official documents of the Ming Dynasty, and his residence was more than 3,000 miles away from the "Nuer Gandu Division". During the Ming Dynasty, there were three kinds of "savage Jurchens": one was called "Jurchen savages", which hunted exclusively in the mountainous areas for a living, that is, hunting peoples, similar to the "Oroqen people" during the Qing Dynasty.

One is called "Beishan Savage", and "Beishan" refers to the mountains north of "Nuergan", that is, the northern branch of the "Trans-Khingan Mountains" and the mountainous areas on the northern shore of the Sea of Okhotsk. This part of the people in and out by deer, and the early Qing Dynasty made one of the "deer department", to catch all kinds of seafood to pay tribute to the Ming and Qing dynasties, for the "fishing and hunting nation".

There is also a kind of tribesmen called "savages" among the "savage Jurchens", who live in the west of the North Sea (Sea of Okhotsk) and are accustomed to building flat-roofed houses, making holes in the roof, entering and exiting by ladders, and neighboring the "beggars". On Sakhalin, there are also "Kugus" also called "Kuyi", which are "Ainu" or "Ezo".

The leaders or magnates of these tribes were now gathered in the tent of the Ming army, waiting for Yuan Chonghuan's orders, and actively agreeing to trade with the imperial court.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this court has said in advance, and those who abide by the laws of the imperial court will be able to enjoy peace and prosperity forever! Otherwise, the 'Jianzhou Jurchen' will be your fate! ”

"Uh...... The villains and others obey the orders of the Governor! If there is nothing else, then the villain will retire first......" When these tribal leaders or nobles thought that the "Jianzhou woman" whose strength was far superior to their own was exterminated because of their blatant rebellion, they were suddenly frightened, forgot to leave, and flashed directly.

"Haha, it seems that reasoning is ineffective against foreign barbarians, or using a sword to speak!" Yuan Chonghuan looked around at the generals in the tent and said, "What do you think?" "————" haha/quack/cluck/hehe/hee/hee/chatter...... What the adults said is very true, I don't know what to do next? ”

"Plans? Of course, it's to govern the 'Liaodi', and you still need to ask? Yuan Chonghuan sat on the main seat, looked around at the generals with his long beard, and was about to speak when he had a vision.

I saw a flash of yellow light in the big tent, and eight people rushed out of the soil, and laughed loudly: "Not bad, yes, everyone has arrived, but you can explain the matter." The person who came was Zhu Youxiao and his entourage, sitting in the air and spitting out the qi and saying: "The governance of Liao is handed over to the government, and you still need to continue to fight and sweep away Mongolia!" ”

"Who dares to be presumptuous? Do you know where this is? "Xiaguan and others have seen the emperor, oh no, the prince! "What? Continuing to fight? Sweep away Mongolia? ”

Although the generals reacted differently, Yuan Chonghuan knew it, quickly got up and introduced the people to the generals present, and the audience was in an uproar.

"There are many nomadic tribes in the Mongolian steppe, and they have always refused to accept the rule of our court." Zhu Youxiao said with a hideous face: "Just kill the chicken and set an example for the monkey, the obedient will prosper, and the rebellious will die, there is no need to scruple too much!" As for how much military money is spent? I have my emperor brother to worry about! The widow only cares about the soul and the corpse......"

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