The east and west cities of Yehe are not too far from the original, and they are roughly not far from the southwest of Siping City in the later generations (Yehe Town, Tiedong District, Siping City).

The west city was originally called "night black village", because the construction time was earlier than the east city, and it is located on the west bank of the Yehe River, so it is called the old city or the west city. It is the residence of Ye Hebu Chu Kongge and his descendant Qing Jia. It was built in the thirteenth year of Jiajing, and was expanded and strengthened by the Qing Jiatong, which is one of the symbols of Chengyehe. This city is divided into an outer city and an inner city, the outer city is surrounded by mountains on three sides, one is facing the water, and the plane is oval. The city wall is built with earth and stones, more than one zhang high, and the circumference is about 1,000 zhang. The east and west gates are opened, and the terrain inside the city is flat.

The east city was originally called "Taizhu Village", because the construction time was later than the west city, and it is located on the east bank of the Yehe River, so it is called the new city or the east city. It is the eldest son of Ye Hebu Chu Kongge Taizhu (also known as Tai Pestle or Tai Chu), the second son Tai Tan Zhu and his descendants Yang Jitong and others live. It was built in the 25th year of Jiajing, and it was also expanded and strengthened by Yang Jitong, which is what it is today. This city also has the distinction of inner city and outer city, the outer city is surrounded by water on three sides, one side is against the mountain, the plane is round and square, the city wall is built of earth and stone, the circumference is more than 1,000 zhang, slightly larger than the west city.

On this day, the two cities in the east and west were all gathered, and the two Baylors each ordered a thousand fine cavalry, gathered troops with some cronies and sons, and marched south with the banner of martial arts, preparing to enter the Ming realm through the North Pass, and discussed with Gao Shishi, the governor of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, the issue of the Kaiyuan horse market under the new situation.

The so-called Beiguan is actually the city of the Shangjian Palace, also known as the city of Shanyan Woh, that is, the city of Baishi Mountain. It was built for the third son of Yehebe the old Belchukonge, Nyani Yakha. It is inhabited by Niyani Yaka and his descendants Yanzhu, Nantai and others. Because it is close to the town of Beiguan of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming people call it "Beiguan".

The reason why this city was established was to provide post houses and intermediaries for the Jurchen tribes who lived far away in the Songhua River, Heilongjiang River and Tumen River basins to Kaiyuan Mashi Rongchang, and from which they "obtained the benefits of staying and stopping the master", so it was called the city of Shangjian Mansion.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the earliest horse markets established in eastern Liaoning included Guangning Horse City (Tuanshan Fort, Yixian County), Beiguan Jurchen Horse Market in Kaiyuan Town, Jurchen Horse City in Guangshun Guan, Dama City in Kaiyuan Xin'an Guan, and Fushun Horse City (east of Fushun City).

In the later period, there were Kuandian Horse City, Aiyang Horse City (Fengcheng), and Qinghe Horse City (Shijiabao after Kaiyuan).

In this Liaodong Eight Horse City, Kaiyuan alone accounts for four. Among them, Zhenbei Pass, Guangshun Pass, Xin'an Pass Sanma City is the largest, known as the "Three Passes and Three Cities" in northern Liaoning.

It can also be said that the Kaiyuan Horse Market is the longest-lasting and largest border trade market in Liaodong during the Ming Dynasty.

In the original history, Yehe, Hada, and Jianzhou, why could they develop rapidly? The main thing is to benefit from the three passes and three cities of Kaiyuan, Gao Shishi came here in the name of inspecting the military equipment and the horse market, in fact, it is not just talking, he does have some thoughts about the Kaiyuan horse market.

The founding time of Kaiyuan Horse Market is not the same, among which Zhenbei Guanma City was founded in Yongle four years, Xin'an Guanma City is Chenghua two years, Guangshun Guanma City is Chenghua fifteen years, and Qinghe Guanma City was founded in the early years of Wanli. In addition, the market outside the south gate of Kaiyuan City began in the second year of Chenghua.

"Market" is a modern economic term, but these two words have existed since ancient times, and in ancient times, the transaction of goods was called the market, and the place of trading was called the field. Therefore, it is often named after an item before the "city", such as Kaiyuan Horse Market, Fushun Wood Market, etc.

The horse market in the Ming Dynasty was normally controlled by the government and was strictly managed. Shandong's political division, according to the judicial department (as I said before, Liaodong administration is subordinate to Shandong), Kaiyuan military preparation road, etc., all sent officials to supervise in person.

According to the regulations of the city, it is not allowed to carry weapons, and "only horses and main goods will be sent to the other place for acceptance and entry". The market must be open at the prescribed time.

The original stipulation was that "Kaiyuan will be opened once a month from the first day to the fifth day of the new month". Later, it was stipulated that "it will be held twice from the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month and from the sixteenth to the twenty-second day of each month." Those who enter the market, if they hold the "edict" issued by the Ming government, will get the official of the horse market

"Preferential treatment for customs clearance".

Like Xuanda, although the horse market is controlled by the government, it is also divided into two types: official and private. The market where the Ming court purchased military horses was called the official market; The private transactions between the border people and the Han people are called private markets.

The commodities it trades come from Jurchen products such as horses, deer antlers, mink, and ginseng; There are many people from Han areas, especially the means of production such as iron farm tools and various daily necessities.

The horse market in the Kaiyuan area is managed and taxed by the Horse Market Office located in Kaiyuan City; The military's guards and offices are responsible for maintaining order around the market.

In the early days of the market, bartering was carried out, and later currency transactions were gradually implemented, and the currency was mainly copper coins of the Ming Dynasty, but also included the direct use of silver.

For a long time, the Jurchen people participated in the trade of the horse market, not only the Yehe, Hada, Wula, Huifa and other tribes, but also the ethnic minorities in the Heilongjiang, Songhua and Tumen rivers. In the early years, the Jianzhou Jurchens also came here to enter the market, and later because of the new opening of other places, this made Kaiyuan specialize in the business of the four departments of the western part of the strait.

Well, Mongolia actually has it, but the government doesn't recognize it, or many times it turns a blind eye and lets the Mongols trade in Kaiyuan under the banner of Jurchen.

In fact, although Mongolia is nomadic, the areas close to the Ming Dynasty also have varying degrees of agricultural tendencies, not only need agricultural tools such as ploughshares, but also need cotton cloth, salt, iron pots and other means of life. And the most important thing is that the cattle, horses, sheep, leather and other things they produce have nowhere to sell, so they also very much need the Ming Dynasty to switch trade in the western border of Kaiyuan.

This time, the reason why Stewed Rabbit and Trance Tai intervened in the war between Yehe and Hada was very directly related to the horse market trade.

The key point of this connection lies in the irrational distribution of the current edicts.

Originally, according to the earlier regulations, the Haixi Jurchens occupied a total of 999 edicts, and the Jianzhou Jurchens possessed 500 edicts.

However, when Wang Tai called "Wan Khan" in Hada, Hada alone possessed about 700 edicts - what does this mean? Is there "two out of three in the world"? I'm almost going to start eating alone!

The strength of Ye Hebu is no weaker than Hada at this time, but Ye He only has more than a hundred edicts, how can he bear this? Whoever replaced Qing Jiatong and Yang Jitong had to fight with Hadabu, didn't they?

But this is only the reason why Yeh and Hada will inevitably fight, and the reason for the Mongols' intervention has not yet been clarified.

Why did the Mongols intervene in this matter? When you open the map, you can see that the Yehebu happens to be in the middle of the Mongols and Hada, and they are separated, so it is very difficult for the Mongols to use the edict of the Hada Ministry, to trade with the Ming Dynasty by obtaining the consent of the Hada Ministry, and the best and most trouble-free way for the Mongols is to take the "doorway" of the Yehebu.

But the edict in Yehe's hand is limited, and it is not enough for his own use, so how can he "rent" it to Mongolia? There are a lot of edicts on the Hada side, but they can't be given to the Mongols, and the Hada Ministry has relied on the care of the Ming Dynasty before, and the morale is relatively high, and the "rent" of the edict is not too reasonable - simply put, it is expensive, so the Mongols are not very willing to take the road of Hada.

So what to do? There are two ideas: the first idea is simple and rude, directly subduing Ye He, and then trading with Daming under the guise of Ye He.

This method seems to be child's play, but it is actually completely feasible - the current Duoyan Sanwei is no longer the previous Wuliang Ha Sanwei, but it is still under the guise of the old times and Daming from time to time to market with each other, Daming has always pretended not to know - Daming is not stupid, you always don't exchange markets with others, and people can only come to rob if they can't survive, which is to make trouble for yourself for no reason.

Therefore, from the perspective of Daming, it is not important who will come to the mutual market, the important thing is to control the scale and number of mutual markets, not only to let people barely survive, but also not to let people live too well.

Of course, Gao Shishi does not agree with this point of view, when he controlled Tumut through the mutual market on the Xuanda side, he did not rely on these at all, he relied on his strong economic strength to directly affect the life and death of Tumut to achieve his goal.

It's just that this method has very high requirements for "capital", and Liaodong really can't do it before Jinghua enters in a big way. It is like there is a "financial monopoly capitalist empire" in later generations, and that country can loot the whole world, but the "financial monopoly capitalist empire" is not something that anyone can do, and it requires extremely strong capital.

The official market in Liaodong is far from enough in the eyes of Gao Pragmatic.

"If you start a horse market, you must first find people to enter the market." Needless to say, the Han side did not need to go into details, the imperial court allocated funds to the Taifu Temple, the institution that managed the horse administration, and distributed the funds used to purchase horses to the horse markets such as Guangning and Kaiyuan, and the scale was generally tens of thousands of taels of silver, and the highest was 100,000 taels or 200,000 taels.

In other words, the capital of Liaodong is 200,000 taels at the highest.

200,000 taels seems to be a lot of money - if it is used to buy food, it is indeed a lot, this has already been calculated, and there is no need to elaborate. But in reality, 200,000 taels would be not much if it was used to buy horses alone—only 10,000 horses.

Although 10,000 horses is not a small number, if compared with today's Xuanda, this number is not enough, because in the three towns of Xuan, Da and Shanxi, the number of horses purchased from Tumut and Ordos last year was as high as 37,000!

This is not counting cattle and sheep, if cattle and sheep are also included, then the scale of Liaodong is ...... It's really just a fart.

So to put it simply, there is a problem with the system, resulting in the actual trade volume not meeting the standard of demand trade volume at all, so whether it is the Jurchen or the Eastern Mongolia, they are all impatient on this issue, in order to compete for the trade volume approved by the Ming Dynasty, you have to beat me, I beat you, and the dog's brain is out.

The idea of taking the edict to control the trade quota, and then controlling the difference in strength between the Jurchens, is not brainless, but it is too easy to "go out of tune" in the actual operation process, and many times if you don't get it right, you will drag yourself into the water - for example, the beating of the Hada Ministry this time, the original history dragged the Ming into the water, forcing the then Liaofu (first Li Song, then Gu Yangqian) and Li Chengliang had to directly suppress Ye He, and even directly attack Ye He in the end.

At that time, Li Chengliang still had the strength, and he did subdue Ye He, but that led to a series of variables, such as Ye He first defeated Hada, so that Hada's strength never recovered, and Li Chengliang turned his head and basically collapsed Ye He, causing Nurhachi to take the opportunity to develop, and later defeated Ye He's "Nine Coalition Army" - the situation in Liaodong at this time was already uncontrollable.

In fact, Ye He was engaged in the nine-part coalition army at that time, because Ye He found that after he was beaten by Da Ming, the original little brother Nurhachi actually sat up, and it seemed that there was a tendency to replace himself, in order to keep the position of the "Jurchen Lord", he had to meet Nurhachi for a real chapter.

This incident happened to occur during the period when the Ming Dynasty was fighting against Japan and aiding Japan (the twenty-first year of Wanli), and the Liaodong side was powerless about it at all, so they could only watch the two sides turn around their strength through a battle of Gule Mountain.

In that battle, Nurhachi defeated the Haixi Jurchen Yehe and other nine allied forces in the area of Gule Mountain (northwest of Gulou Village, Shangjia Township, Xinbin County, Liaoning Province in later times), and this battle was a turning point in the history of the unification war of the Jurchen tribes. It broke the nine-division military alliance of the Jurchens, changed the power balance between the Jianzhou Jurchens and the Haixi Jurchens, and showed that the core of Jurchen power began to change from Haixi to Jianzhou.

What's worse is that at this time, Daming had just fallen into the quagmire of North Korea, and he had been fighting for seven or eight years, and when he looked back at Liaodong after the fight, he looked back at Liaodong...... Oh, Nurhachi can't control it anymore.

However, at that time, Nurhachi was still afraid of Li Chengliang and Li Rusong's father and son - in fact, he may not have known that the Li family's army suffered huge losses in the Korean battlefield at this time, so he continued to be humble to the Li family, and very shrewdly let Li Rusong pay attention to the Mongols.

As a result, Li Rusong himself had an accident and died in a battle with the Mongols, and at this time Nurhachi was a little ready to move.

But after Li Rusong's death, the foundation of the Li family has been exposed, and it is no longer the Li family army that fought whoever he wanted in Liaodong, so the Ming Dynasty changed the Liaodong general soldiers for a while, but the Li family was not convinced, and several general soldiers were made lose their temper, and finally had to move Li Chengliang out to "town Liao for the second time".

Li Chengliang actually didn't have any momentum at this time, but fortunately, his prestige was still there, Nurhachi had worked under him for several years when he was a child, and he was very impressed, so he didn't dare to make a mistake, and waited until Li Chengliang died, Nurhachi felt that no one could suppress him now, so he raised troops with seven hatreds, and Liao couldn't do anything.

In this whole process, the key point seems to be that Nurhachi is lucky, and Daming is unlucky, in fact, this can only be said to be one aspect, in fact, there is a problem in the system, or in the means of controlling the Jurchens in Daming.

The biggest problem with Daming's control plan is that he needs to go out in person at every turn, which is very irrational in Gao Pragmatic's view, and it is only convenient for Liaodong generals to "brush up on credit", and when Liaodong's own strength is restrained by other things, or simply loses its strength, this method will not work.

Therefore, this time, although Gao Pragmatic also wants to hit Ye He, after all, Ye He is too strong now, but his fundamental purpose is to adjust the policy.

Suppression is suppression, after a stick, sweet dates are also to be given.

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