Wanli Xinming

Chapter 101 Expansion

At the end of September in the second year of Wanli, Liu Yingjie, the governor of Jiliao, and Li Chengliang, the chief soldier of Liaodong, attended the meeting of the Jurchen tribes in Fushun.

On the venue, the Ming court slashed Wang Gao, the former Jurchen leader who unified the various ministries, with a thousand swords, and liquidated his crime of killing [-] Ming troops by disemboweling them in the first year of Wanli.

In the midst of Wang Gao's miserable cries, Liu Yingjie produced an imperial decree demanding that all the Jurchen tribes immediately release Han and Korean slaves, and that they should all grow their hair and change their clothes to be the same as the Han people before February [-] next year.

After receiving the order, Nikan Wailan, the city lord of Tulum City from the Hada Department who was present, directly asked Li Rusong to shave his braids and untie his clothes.Because there was no button under his right armpit, Nikan Wailan wore a whip around his waist to show his loyalty to the court.

Liu Yingjie was overjoyed when he saw it, and gave him Hanfu and a pair of gold beads and [-] catties of tea.

Under his leadership, Wangtai, Juechangan, Nalin, Takshi and other Jurchen chiefs all shaved their hair and undressed and put on Hanfu to show that they had no intention of rebelling against the imperial court.

At that time, there were only two Jurchen tribes who had a slight objection. Dai, the director of Zhaojia Village of the Hunhe tribe, and Suku, the minister of Jiaha, both knelt down and begged Liu Yingjie because of their superstitious belief in shamans. I have to go back and ask my shaman.

Uncle Ning Yuan was furious, and sent two generals, each with [-] cavalry.Under the leadership of the guide sent by Nikan Wailan, they took the two tribes, killed two shamans, and slaughtered the young and old, and dragged their young tribe behind the horse.

Three days later, when the cavalry returned to Fushun, the hundreds of young Jurchens dragging behind them had all died, and most of the corpses had only a few leg bones left.

At this time, Wang Gao took his last breath under Liu Xiaodao's torture of cutting meat while treating him.

This bloody road from Hunhe to Fushun and Wang Gao's tragic death completely shocked Baishan and Heishui.All Jurchen tribesmen and even Tatar herdsmen heard it and were all shocked.The name of Li Chengliang, in the northeast of the empire, can really stop children from crying at night.

This event affects more than hundreds of years.In the vast territory north of the Yellow River in this time and space, there have been different versions of the folk ghost "Li Laobaozi who eats children".And Li Laobao, who brought childhood nightmares to countless people, is Li Chengliang.

After the chiefs of the Jurchen tribes returned from Fushun, all shamans who objected to shaving and growing their hair were killed.By mid-November, Li Chengliang sent cavalry soldiers to face the wind and snow in various ministries, and inspected them, and found that all the Jurchens had all the right buns, and the longest hair had grown to two inches.

After Zhu Yijun reported on the newspaper, he said in his heart that his timing was good.Although Wang Gao initially unified the various departments of the Jurchen, he did not instill a national consciousness into the Jurchen like Nurhaci later did.

The Jurchens at this time, although some of the Jin Kingdom civilization remained, have dissipated most of them in the harsh environment.After the original time and space Nurhaci unified the various ministries, he established the Eight Banners system, established various grammars, and finally unified the hearts of the people.

Now that the Jurchen tribes are scattered, the tribesmen who have always been hungry for survival have no national righteousness in their hearts.Therefore, Zhu Yijun's order was implemented quickly, and the effect was beyond his expectations.

Now that the Jurchen has been killed, and the auction of the salt field has been completed, Zhu Yijun, who has a big pocket, resorts to the second move to reform the land and return to the current state in order to firmly rule the Northeast.

Chengzu once established the Nuergandu Division in the northeast as the basis for the rule of all the Jurchen tribes.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the rule of the imperial court was limited to the border wall. Although the Nuer Gandusi was still there, it had already lost its practical significance, except that some place names could be used when giving orders to various ministries.

The collapse of Wang Gao and the meeting of Fushun changed the situation in the entire northeast. At this time, according to the emperor's intention, the territory of Ming Dynasty passed through the middle of the territory of Tumen Zasaktu Khan, and was merged with the Nuergandusi established by Chengzu. , to establish a total of four provinces in the Northeast.

From the north to the north, from the north of Heilongjiang to the Icefield, Beishan Province is set up, and the area is the first of the seventeen provinces of the empire. for its jurisdiction.

Therefore, most of the land was inhabited by the Jurchen savages in Beishan, and the Han people had not yet developed it, so they were temporarily occupied on paper - this Zhu Yijun was a plan for the future.

Beishan Province set up the governor's station as Yongning (Nuergan City). This castle has long since been annihilated. Only the ruins of Yongning Temple built by the famous eunuch Yi Shiha when Chengzu was still there. In order to occupy the righteousness, Zhu Yijun changed the name of Nuergan City to Yongning.

From Heilongjiang to the south, Zhu Yijun divided it into three provinces according to the approximate location of later generations, namely Heilongjiang, Taining and Liaoning.The governors of the three provinces are located in Heilongjiang City (Aigun), Daning (Changchun), and Shenyang.

Except for Liaoning, there are very few Han people in the other three provinces, adding up to less than [-] people.Therefore, Zhu Yijun decided that the governor of Beishan Province would not be in place for the time being, but only sent [-] troops, and transferred [-] Han people from eastern Liaoning to Yongning to slowly build a city.

In Heilongjiang and Taining provinces, the governor holds the rank of general soldier, and the troops are stationed in Heilongjiang City and Daning City, recruiting Han people to reclaim the wasteland, and responsible for the construction of the city.

The political and economic center of the entire Northeast is placed in Shenyang.Zhu Yijun allocated millions of silver to expand Shenyang Zhongwei into a big city, with the northern governor's mansion in it, to govern the four provinces.After the rule is stable, take Tumen Zasaktu Khan and Khalkha Mongolia to the west, and completely solve the northern frontier of the empire.

Zhu Yijun's big plan to expand the territory for thousands of miles, with an initial investment of 100 million taels, was strongly opposed by the cabinet.

Both Zhang Juzheng and Lv Tiaoyang believed that the Jurchen tribe was no longer a problem for the empire. The imperial court defended the foundation of Liaodong, and extended the land as far as Taining in the Songhua River Basin. Relying on Liaodong to build more groups of castles, it was enough to improve the land and return to the current state. Solve the eastern prisoners.

Today, although the court has a lot of money, there will still be a lot of internal turmoil.At this time, spending a lot of money to relocate people and build a city to the Heilongjiang River basin is not worth the loss.

Zhu Yijun's explanation for this is that in governing the world, one cannot blindly maintain success.To take full control of the Northeast is a golden key to solve the chronic ills of the empire, and the rulers must see this.

On the one hand, the land in the northeast is fertile, and the rivers are vertical and horizontal.It is most suitable for large-scale cultivation of corn and becomes the granary of the empire.The yield per mu of corn is slightly higher than that of wheat, and the stalks are tall, which can be used for livestock fodder for winter and as firewood. It is most suitable for planting in the Northeast.

Judging from the results of promoting corn planting in Liaodong this year, self-sufficiency is more than enough.Since then, the imperial court will no longer need to transfer grain to Liaodong, wasting national money. ——Of course, this is not all due to the promotion of corn. Li Chengliang's trade in exchange of grain for Dongzhu was cut off, which also played a key role.

Agriculture is the foundation of the country and its importance cannot be disputed.Zhu Yijun crossed over, and the first thing he did after taking power was to let Jin Yiwei collect information on grains and seeds in the world.

Corn was introduced to China in the mid-Jiajing period, and it was planted in six or seven northern provinces in the first year of Wanli.Although corn and wheat have many advantages, but because there is no official promotion, the results are completely different.

In the spring of this year, Zhu Yijun asked the Ministry of Household to take charge of the general manager to promote corn cultivation in the north - especially in Liaodong. Zhu Yijun asked Liu Yingjie to attach great importance to this matter, which must be implemented.Now that the result is out, Zhang Juzheng and Lu Tiaoyang have nothing to say.

Zhu Yijun believes that if the fertile land in the Heilongjiang, Songhua, and Ussuri river basins, including the great plain where these three rivers converge, are used to grow corn and wheat, the harvest will be no less than the rice output of the empire's Huguang.

If this can be done, the imperial court can open a Beicao—the northeastern grain transportation will first use rivers, and then ship directly to Tianjin, which will fully alleviate the grain shortage problem in the northern part of the imperial court.For the benefit of this place alone, the imperial court's investment of the million taels of silver is worth it.

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