Chapter 190: Hiding from the sky and crossing the sea

The residence of Gao Jie and his party was not far from Huang Taiji's bedroom, and soon, Huang Taiji led a team of personal guards, and with the support of Dun Ercha, they quickly came to the door of Gao Jie's bedroom.

Because Gao Jie is a close friend of Dai Shan and Huang Taiji, and he is also the shopkeeper of Pang Ji Firm, he is still arranged in a separate room in the small residence of the City Guard, and there are only Gao Jie and the "personal guard" Wukong in the room. And Luo Sigong and the others, as servant guards, were all crammed into a large room next door and slept in bunks.

Huang Taiji rushed to Gao Jie's door, hesitated for a moment, and finally decisively stepped forward and knocked a few times, shouting: "Xiaojie, Xiaojie!"

After calling a few times, and waiting for a while, there was no response or movement in the door, Huang Taiji's face was as calm as water, his brows were tightly locked, and he slowly took a few steps back, before he resolutely shouted: "Break the door!"

The guard behind him took the order, kicked open the door, and immediately rushed in.

Huang Taiji pushed away Dunercha, who was supporting him, and stepped into the door step by step. As soon as he entered the door, he saw a yellow-haired young man on all fours, prostrate in front of a large bed, barking his teeth and whispering at the guards, with a fierce look like a beast in his eyes, and a hideous face, completely different from the Wukong he had seen before who was silent and often smirked.

Huang Taiji had heard about the origin of this young man from Gao Jie's mouth before, and he was not surprised by his behavior at the moment, nor did he care, but directly set his eyes on the person who was sleeping on the big bed. Although it was just a back, at such a close distance, Huang Taiji could be completely sure that the person on the bed was Gao Jie.

Huang Taiji, who had tensed his body, instantly relaxed, rubbed his cheeks vigorously with both hands, eased the muscles of his face, bent down and said to Wukong with a pleasant face: "Wukong, I found a dangerous person breaking in outside just now, I was worried about Xiaojie's safety, so I rushed in, don't be nervous!"

When Wukong heard this, he didn't know if he understood it, his muscles were still tense, his hands and feet were clutching the ground, bowing to protect Gao Jie on the bed behind him, staring vigilantly at Huang Taiji and the guards behind him, without saying a word.

Huang Taiji smiled and didn't mind, slowly stood up, waved his hand to the guards and said, "Let's all go out!" After speaking, he smiled at Wukong, and then glanced at Gao Jie, who was "drunk and asleep but not awake", before turning around and walking out.

Outside the door, Huang Taiji stood beside a thick locust tree, looking up at the hooked crescent moon that broke through the clouds in the sky, silent, not knowing what he was thinking.

Dunercha cautiously whispered, "Do you want to go in and have a look?"

Huang Taiji retracted his gaze and said lightly: "No need, go back!"

Back in his room, Huang Taiji repelled all the guards, leaving only Dun Ercha alone, after inquiring in detail about the robbery of the prison, he waved his hand to sit down, and said lightly: "It seems that the person who robbed the prison is by no means an ordinary martial artist, I am afraid that he has a great background!"

Dunercha said cautiously: "What Baylor said is extremely true! The miraculous skills performed by those two are incredible, and the slave thinks that he cannot be compared!"

Although Dunercha is a Mongol, since he was loyal to the Great Golden Belle Emperor Taiji, he devoted himself to it and completely regarded himself as a Jurchen, not only changed his hairstyle to the Jurchens' unique "money rat tail", but also called himself a "slave" in front of Huang Taiji.

After Nurhachi established Dajin, he already implemented a policy of "shaving his hair" outside the border. The conquered Han Chinese and other ethnic groups were forced to change their hairstyles, and the surrendering Ming soldiers were also required to shave their hair as a sign of submission.

It should be explained here that the hairstyles of Manchu men are not as static as we see in film and television dramas, but have undergone several evolutions. The Han people no longer have the right to their own appearance and retain the original image of the Han people, and the conquered Han people changed the original Ming Dynasty hairstyle of tying up the whole hair on the top of the head and pulling it in a bun to shaved and combed the hair with braids and drooping hair overnight. In this fashion, which belonged to the post-Jin period, most of the man's hair was shaved off, leaving only a lock of the thin little finger at the back of the head, which was twisted into a rope and drooped, which was called the money rat tail style. With such a hairstyle, the beard can only be left and right on the upper lip for more than ten roots. In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, although the part of the hair on the top of the head has not changed, the area has been far more than a money, but there are four or five dollars in size, which is equivalent to the area of a palm, the number of hair has increased significantly, the braid has become a lot thicker, becoming the so-called "pigtail style", and the beard has changed from only a few left and right of the upper lip to all including the chin. After the Qing Jiaqing year, the men's hairstyle gradually evolved to shave only an inch around the edge of the top hair, and keep the long hair in the middle, braided into three locks and hang down at the back of the head, called braid or braid, which is the most familiar "oxtail style" in later generations.

Therefore, whether it is Daishan, Huang Taiji, or Dunercha after returning to Shun, and even all the Jurchens and Han people captured in Liaodong and Liaoxi, the current hairstyles are all "money rat tail style".

The term "slave" that Dunercha called himself was also very familiar to later generations, and the vast majority of Han people were uncomfortable listening to it, feeling that this self-proclaimed "slave" contained insulting elements, but in fact it was not. Among the northern peoples, the vassals and the servants belong to the same mind, and there is not much difference. Volume 136 of the "General Chronicles" has a cloud: "The northern group is said to be slaves to its masters, just as China is called a minister." The word "minister" and "slave" is false, originated in the north, and has a long history, which is the old custom of Manchuria, and the slave and the minister are equal, and do not think that it is insulting to the national body and degrading to the dignity.

Huang Taiji listened to Dunercha's words, nodded silently, and asked, "In your opinion, are those two people coming in a group with Black Cloud Crane, or do they belong to another group of unknown people?"

Dun Ercha took out the handkerchief in his arms, wiped the sweat beads on his head, and thought for a while before carefully replying: "The slave is dull, and it is really difficult to judge, so he does not dare to speak falsely!"

Huang Taiji smiled and said gently: "Tonight's incident is because the enemy is too strong, it is not your fault, there is no need to blame yourself too much!"

Dunercha's mood eased slightly, and asked: "Lord Schebel is relieved, the servant is ashamed! Since Lord Belle suspects that it has something to do with the Pang Ji firm, the servant is stupid, so he rashly asked, why didn't you go and check the room next door just now?"

Huang Taiji sighed and said: "Xiaojie is a young genius that my second brother and I met by chance in Shanxi, and the heroic and righteous style did not let me wait, so I will hit it off at first sight and become friends who forget the year." At that time, he knew the identity of me and my second brother, but he did not despise us because of this, let alone report it to a top master of the Ming court who suddenly appeared at that time, and he also told him frankly that he was not Han, but belonged to the Hui ~ clan, and had never had racial prejudice. At that time, although his martial arts were extraordinary, they did not reach the level of the two masked masters you mentioned, and he was just on a par with you and me. Thinking about it, it has only been a few months apart, and it is impossible for martial arts to improve by leaps and bounds to such an incredible extent. As for his entourage, firstly, according to Zong Songgege, there are two or three who are very skilled, and they are only about the same as Heiyunhe and Luo Junjie, and secondly, I have arranged more than ten secret sentinels around the residence in the special gate tonight, and I have not received any abnormal reports just now, so it makes no difference whether I check it or not!"

Dun Ercha suddenly realized: "Lord Belle is thoughtful, it turns out that there is a careful arrangement, and the slave admires it!"

Huang Taiji waved his hand and said: "No matter how careful the arrangement is, it can't be worth the casual blow of the peerless master! It's a pity that Archmage Drager was recalled to Tokyo by his father Khan ten days ago, otherwise he wouldn't have allowed the enemy to be so rampant tonight!"

Dun Ercha hurriedly nodded and said, "If there is any one of the Elder Masters of the Worship Mountain Sect or any of our Elder Masters of the Zoroastrian Sect, they will not be easy to succeed tonight!"

Huang Taiji sighed and said: "This is also a helpless thing, the number of martial arts masters of my Dajin is not as large as the number of martial arts in the Central Plains of the Ming Dynasty, Tokyo and Hetu Ala are the rear of my Dajin, this moment is the period of stable development, and there is no room for turmoil among those Han people, in addition to the army stationed, it is also very important for the masters of Zoroastrianism and Baishan Sect to be in charge!"

Dun Ercha stood up and saluted: "Please rest assured, from today onwards, the servants will definitely gather the disciples of the two sects here to practice diligently and take careful precautions to ensure the safety of Guangning City!"

Huang Taiji nodded with satisfaction, and also stood up and said: "You are loyal and loyal, I see it in my eyes, and I am very relieved." You've worked hard tonight, so retire and rest in peace!"

Dun Ercha "chirped" and bowed back.

Huang Taiji paced a few steps in the room with his hands behind his back, and said to himself: "My Jurchen is partial to the northeast, which is by no means a long-term solution, and now it is not easy to lay down Guangning, but my father Khan has no intention of staying for a long time, saying that he wants to settle down first, and then Xu Tu will chase the Central Plains." I really hope that my father's plan can be accelerated, for the fertile land of the Central Plains, the splendid mountains and rivers, my emperor Taiji can't wait!"

The Jurchen tribe, which originated from Su Shen more than 3,000 years ago, was divided into three major tribes in the early Ming Dynasty: Jianzhou Jurchen, Haixi Jurchen, and Savage Jurchen. Later, it was divided into four parts: Jianzhou, Changbai, Donghai and Hulun according to the region. The first ancestor of Jin Wanyan Hanpu, a native of the Sumo Jin Ya Department (Manchu ancestor). During the reign of Tang Zhenguan, Han Puzu avoided the war and entered the area of the four counties of Han (north of the Han River in present-day North Korea). Before the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there were a large number of Jurchens and their contemporaries. At the beginning of the Liao Dynasty, Hanpu moved from the "old land of Silla", which had just become the territory of the Goryeo Kingdom, to the hometown of the Northeast Ya and Hushui (now the southeast of Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province). Jurchen language "according to the tiger" is the meaning of "gold", according to legend, its aquatic gold, hence the name. The Jurchen tribe lives in this source of water, so it takes Jin as the country name, also known as Jinyuan country.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Jianzhou Jurchens were distributed in the Mudanjiang, Suifenhe and Changbai Mountains, the Haixi Jurchens were distributed in the Songhua River basin, and the East China Sea Jurchens were distributed in Heilongjiang and Sakhalin Island. The Ming court set up administrative institutions at all levels in the local area such as health and institutes to manage military and political affairs, which were under the jurisdiction of the Nuer Gandu Division. Later, the Jurchens of the East China Sea often invaded Haixi and Jianzhou. Jianzhou and Haixi, in order to avoid the intrusion of the Jurchens in the East China Sea and strengthen their economic ties with Liaodong and Kannai, continued to move south. By the Jiajing period (1522-1566), they were scattered and concentrated in the northeast of Liaodong: the Jianzhou Jurchens were distributed to the east of Fushun Pass, and the Haixi Jurchens were scattered to the north of Kaiyuan.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the Jurchen society in the Liaoyang Province produced and agriculture had developed to a certain extent, but hunting, fishing and fishing still occupied an important position. The Jurchens themselves belong to the forest-nomadic people, and unlike the Mongols on the steppe, they are steppe-nomads, so the Jurchens yearn for the fertile land of the Central Plains and covet the rich world of the Ming Dynasty even more.

Among the four major Baylors, in terms of martial arts, Dai Shan can be called the first, and the most thoughtful and farthest thinking is probably this Huang Taiji.

After Huang Taiji left, in the room next to Gao Jie, Xiong Zhaoqi asked quietly: "Since this Huang Taiji is suspicious of us, why did he only go to Xiao Jie's room but not come to us?"

Luo Sigong said: "First of all, he can't be sure if it was us who did it, and secondly, Xiaojie is his old friend after all, and he rushed into the room just now, which is also quite embarrassing, according to a calm and wise person like Huang Taiji, how can he make rash moves again!"

Venerable Zong Qing smiled lightly: "Even if he comes in, he will also find nothing, and he can't see any clues! He never imagined that Xiao Jie's light skills are not only very clever, but he can easily hide the soldiers of the whole city and the secret sentry outside the house, and the breath is endless, we are galloping with all our strength on the way out of the city and into the city, the old man is a little out of breath now, but he is like a nobody, this old man can't understand, and he can't understand it!"

Ji Longfeng snorted dissatisfiedly: "Who doesn't know that he is a freak, I am used to it, and I am lazy to express my surprise! The most infuriating thing is that this kid obviously said that he was going to be a scout, but in the end, he took care of everything in a package, which made us excited in vain!"

Luo Sigong shook his head and smiled: "Big head, you are wrong for this, Xiaojie, didn't I hear Master Zongqing say that the situation was urgent at that time, did they take the risk out of desperation?!Don't worry, this is just Guangning City, among which there are Zoroastrian masters hidden in it, and when you get to the hinterland of Houjin, I don't know how many unknown masters are waiting for your visit, so don't be scared at that time!"

Ji Longfeng patted his chest and said loudly: "I don't know much literacy, and I'm afraid that I don't know how to write two words!"

Amidst the laughter of everyone, Venerable Zong Qing suddenly spoke up: "This trip is full of dangers, and there are some important situations that should be told to you first! In addition to the Zoroastrian Sect that has been seen, has anyone else heard of the Worship Mountain Sect?"