Chapter 219: We Still Have Hope
The ancestors of the Yehe tribe were the Mongolian Tumut clan, and later destroyed the Hulun Nala tribe and changed their surname to the Nala clan.
Yehe City is close to the Ming Dynasty town of Kaiyuan, control Jianzhou Gongdao, blessed with this city, after a hundred years of accumulation, Yehe is finally the head of the four Jurchen tribes of Haixi.
However, after the Battle of the Nine Divisions, Yehe, like the other three tribes in Haixi, was severely damaged by Jianzhou, and after his Beyleb village was killed in this battle, the body was cut in half by Nurhachi and sent back to Yehe, and the two families formed an indissoluble feud.
In the following ten years, Yehe and Jianzhou had several wars of varying scales, Yehe was defeated, and Huifa and Hada of the four Jurchens of Haixi were annexed by Nurhachi, and Yehe was no longer able to resist Nurhachi.
As a last resort, Buzhai's younger brother Narimbulu came up with the idea of marrying his niece and the first Jurchen beauty Dongge to Nurhachi in exchange for Yehe's peace, but this proposal was resolutely opposed by Dongge.
In order to avenge his father, Dongge asked his brother Buyangu to declare that she would marry whoever could avenge her from the Jurchen tribes.
Unable to stop the decision of Donggo and Buyangu, Narimbulu died of anxiety, and his younger brother Kintaegil succeeded Yehebel.
Jin Taiji's sister Menggu married Nurhachi twenty years ago and gave birth to her eighth son, Hong Tai, so Jin Taiji and Nurhachi are uncles.
It's just that Meng Gu died of illness six years ago, and Ye He and Jianzhou have a deep hatred, so after Jin Taiji succeeded to Baylor, his attitude towards Jianzhou was the same as that of Dongge.
In the past few years, Nurhachi has been busy conquering Huifa, Ula and Hada, as well as the Korean state, and the Horqin Mongols have not taken care of Yehe for the time being, so that Yehe can breathe.
But even so, Yehe's people can no longer prosper, and at present, even counting the old, weak, women and children, Yehe City is only more than 7,000 people, and there are only more than 3,000 soldiers who can fight. In its heyday, Yehe had more than 50,000 people and nearly 20,000 elite soldiers, which established the first position of the Jurchens in Haixi.
I have to say that Dongge has a very important position in the hearts of the Jurchens, and it is indeed a country and a city, after Xu Marriage was said, several men before and after raised troops to attack Jianzhou for Ye He, but the result was all defeated.
The head was lost, the head was captured, to this day, Dong Ge still does not have an official Langjun, in private, the Jurchens call her "old girl".
After all, Dong Ge is now twenty-seven years old, and at this age, whether it is placed in the Han people or in the Jurchens, she is a very old girl.
Jurchen men are useless, Dong Ge was not discouraged, she set her sights on Han men.
However, looking up and down Liaodong, none of those Han men seemed to be willing to die for her as a Jurchen, and there was a big mountain on the heads of those men - Li Chengliang One day, it would be impossible for the Ming generals in Liaodong to help Ye He against his will.
Willing to compete, Dong Ge still found a man who was willing to help her, although this man was a eunuch.
When she told her brother Buyangu that she had gotten along with Gao Huai, the Liaodong mine supervisor, and that Gao Huai was willing to help her deal with Nurhachi, Buyangu's heart was broken.
He can accept all the demands of his sister, and he is willing to fight his father's killer with his sister to the end, and he will go to sleep with those tribal men like a prostitute with his sister, but this does not mean that he Buyangu has to accept a eunuch as his brother-in-law.
The brother and sister argued all night, and the next day Fujin of Buyangu saw that her husband had red eyes, and went into the house without saying a word.
No one knows what the siblings were arguing about, but since then, Yehe's situation has improved.
Prior to this, Nurhachi's Jianzhou monopolized the benefits of northern mink, ginseng, and pearls, much to the dissatisfaction of the Yeheda, but they were forced to sell their goods to Jianzhou at a low price due to the strong military front of Jianzhou. Now, however, there are caravans of Han Chinese who have taken the initiative to come to Yehe to buy their goods, but the people of Jianzhou do not dare to ask about this.
In addition to the goods that can be sold at a high price, from time to time there are also food and weapons sent to Yehe City, and the Yehe people outside also heard that the tax soldiers in Liaodong often cross the border and force them to buy and sell on the territory of the Jianzhou people, so that the arrogant Jianzhou people dare not speak out.
These are undoubtedly great news for Ye He.
If it can continue, within ten years, Ye He will definitely be able to turn over the number of people.
In Liaodong, the population of the tribe decided everything about the tribe.
With people and sophisticated weapons, the tribe will continue to grow, and one day, it will be able to restore its former glory.
The Baylors finally knew who was secretly helping them, and what deal their Gegodonggo had made with that person.
There is shame, of course, but it is not worth mentioning compared to the prosperity of the tribe.
Jin Taiji even prepared to personally visit the Han eunuch at the tax supervisor yamen of Shanhaiguan to express his greatest respect.
However, the Ming Dynasty's military mutiny shattered all this, and when the news reached Yehe, Jintaiji and Buyangu knew that Yehe's good days were over.
Some of the old men who held the weight of Narimbulu moved out again, believing that without the support of the Ming Dynasty, it would be difficult for them to gain a foothold in Yehe City, so it would be better to marry Dongge while Nuerhachi had not yet raised troops to fight, and formally form an alliance with Jianzhou to preserve the tribe.
The old man's worries were reasonable, because of Gao Huai before, Nurhachi didn't dare to do anything to Ye He, after all, he was nominally a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, and Gao Huai was a close confidant of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and offending him Jianzhou would never end well.
But now that Gao Huai has lost power, Nurhachi has Li Chengliang's partial gang, how can he still ignore the growing Ye He.
Buyangu was shaken, but he had loved his sister since he was a child, so he decided to persuade Dongge well. It's just that Dong Ge disappeared during this time, and no one knows where she went.
Jin Taiji was still tough, but he couldn't stand the persuasion of the old people, so he said that everything was subject to Dongge's own opinion.
He would not force his niece to marry the enemy who killed his father.
Brother Dong came back last night, she seemed very tired, and fell asleep in her house as soon as she came back.
Before dawn, Jin Taiji, who knew the news, came over, and several old people also stood guard outside Dongge's house.
Dong Ge was woken up, and it was Fujin of Buyangu who woke her up.
"Brother Dong, in the past, the Hada Department was on a par with my Yehe Ministry, but the Menggebulu and the uncles and nephews of the Hada Department fought with each other, so that our Yehe could take advantage of its internal strife to dominate Haixi, but Nurhachi was not Menggebulu and the Gangster Shang, how could he be as easy to deal with as them! … It's been more than ten years, how many of us Yehe have given their lives for revenge, and seeing that the people in this city are getting fewer and fewer day by day, Brother Dong, we can't go on like this anymore! "Baidria is Yehe's old man, and he is also the most trusted subordinate of Dongge's father Buzhai, for the sake of the lives of everyone in the tribe, Baidria is determined to come over and persuade Dongge even if he needs someone to help him walk.
"There are tens of thousands of elite soldiers in Jianzhou now, and if he Nurha Chiruo leads the troops to attack our Yehe, what will we use to stop it? Just these thousands of old, weak, sick and disabled? Brother Dong, you have to understand, his Jianzhou's iron cavalry really killed him, and I just let them go back and forth in Yehe's territory! … Brother Dong, you better get married, don't do meaningless things anymore! ”
"You juniors don't have any skills, you only know how to speak big, thinking that Nurhachi is easy to deal with. But you must know that his Nurhachi father and ancestor were mistakenly killed by the official army, and he raised troops with thirteen pairs of armor, went back and forth thousands of miles to hunt down the enemy, killed Nikan Wailan, and the court gave him thirty edicts, thirty horses, and also sent back the coffins of his father and ancestor, and gave him the edict of the governor. This kind of ruthless person, can we Ye He deal with it? "Shuyin Anyu survived the battle of the Nine Divisions, and he is already a bird of frightening bow to Nurhachi.
As soon as his words came out, Brother Dong raised his eyebrows and said fiercely: "Nurhachi is my father-killing enemy, how can I forget the great enmity that does not share the heavens, and stoop to serve the thief!" … Don't say it anymore, in this life, I, Dongge, would rather marry those peddlers and pawns than marry him Nurhachi! ”
"Alas!" An Yu stomped her feet urgently.
Baidria and the others knew that Dong Ge had a big temper and didn't dare to force her to marry, but thinking of Nurhachi's aggressiveness, in case he raised troops to ask for it, Ye He didn't have the hand to parry it at all, and couldn't help but sigh continuously.
Seeing this, Buyangu hesitated, and couldn't help but step forward to persuade Brother Dong: "Sister, don't be temperamental." Nurhachi really wants to kill, our Yehe men, women and children are thousands of lives! Are you ruthless? ”
Brother Dong gritted his silver teeth and said: "Brother, don't persuade me, you don't want to avenge Ama as a son, but my daughter does!" ”
Buyangu is stuck there, he is bloody, otherwise he would not have agreed to his sister in the first place.
"Okay, since Brother Dong is unwilling, don't force her. Could it be that we, Ye He, are really going to be reduced to forcing women to exchange for a chance to live! Kim Tae-gil stood up and glanced at the old men fiercely.
"Even if Dongge doesn't want to marry, Baylor has to find a way to calm Nurhachi's anger. I've heard that Nurhachi often told people that I, Yeh, were his biggest trouble. Baidria shook his head, and reluctantly walked out with the old men.
After everyone left, Jin Taiji frowned, walked up to Brother Dong, looked at her, and said in a deep voice: "They are all gone, now you tell your uncle, what else do we have to rely on?" Have you been out there asking for news these days? Is it still possible for that high eunuch to be activated by the emperor? ”
Hearing this, Buyangu also looked at his sister with concern.
Brother Dong shook his head: "Gao Huai has been locked by the emperor, and it is impossible for him to return to Liaodong." ”
"If that's the case, we have to prepare for the worst." Jin Taiji's expression was gloomy, and Buyangu was also worried.
Brother Dong bit his thin lip and said, "Uncle, we still have hope." ”
"What?" Kim Tae-gil and Buyangu asked in unison.
"The reason why Nurhachi can rise is that Li Chengliang is helping him, but if someone is willing to help us deal with Li Chengliang, Nurhachi will lose the help of the Ming Dynasty, and we will have a chance at that time."