At that time, the population of the Ming Dynasty was between 150 million and 200 million, and the population of the northern provinces was nearly 100 million.

Li Zhiye said: "I am a southerner, afraid of the cold in the north, but I can't even afford rabbit skins. ”

Everyone followed the discussion again, Zhang Han had a very good temper, although the rules were strict, he usually didn't put up a fight, although everyone felt that he was majestic, but he didn't avoid him much when he spoke, the horses were walking in small steps, and the weather was not very cold, Zhang Han felt comfortable and listened to everyone quietly.

At this time, the horses turned over a gentle slope, and the scenery in front of them changed again, because there was a valley around it, and there was still a lot of green in the grass, and the grass was very long, always up and down people's knees, and there was a city surrounded by a wooden fence a few miles away, and many herdsmen rode in and out of the horse.

"This is the city of Grejurgen, where Omataiji is located." Liang Xing's hard work is getting more and more, and Mongolian is becoming more and more fluent, so it is difficult for people to imagine what he looked like when he was a tiger before.

Then came the barking of a hound, and a roe deer scurried through the grass in front of the people, and then a hound, with arrows on it, ran slower and slower, and after running in front of the crowd for a while, the hound pounced on it and bit the roe deer.

Then the hunter came running on horseback, and everyone found that it was a boy of ten years old, and his coat was a little large, and he rode over, and jumped off the horse with great agility, and then took the hound by the neck and told the dog to let go, and the dog whimpered in protest, and it took a long time before he let go.

"Interesting, interesting." Chang Wei grinned and said, "It's really fun to hunt with hunting dogs. ”

Chang Wei said to Zhang Han again: "Brother Han, this grassland is really interesting. ”

At this time, the little hunter had already taken the roe deer from the dog's mouth and put it on the side of the saddle, and when he heard Chang Wei's words, he said in Chinese: "You can't go out for three months in winter, your whole body is cold when you pee and pee, and the snow is deeper than your knees and you have to feed hay to the cattle and sheep. ”

At this time, everyone looked carefully at the child's appearance, his eyebrows were delicate, his demeanor was calm, and his Chinese was not like what he learned later, Chang Wei looked at him and said, "You are Han?" ”

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"Then why are you here?"

"My dad brought me here, don't ask me."

This kid has a stubborn temper, but fortunately, another team of hunters came over, and everyone looked at it carefully, and sure enough, they were all Han people.

"As long as Tartar Taiji keeps giving him furs, cattle and sheep, he will always let us live."

"It is better to be born in Liao than to die in Hu." Another Han said: "We would rather die here, and we don't want to go back to Liaodong." ”

They talked to each other, and they lived in a village, cultivated some land, and usually grazed and hunted, and were not much different from the Mongols.

At this time, Zhang Han knew that from Nenjiang Horqin to Alukorqin, and then to the old land of Fuyuwei and the boundaries of the Jurchen tribes, there were many Han people who fled from the capital of Liaodong, and even some of them went into exile to live further north, some of these Han people survived, and some died of hunger and cold, and the winter in Liaodong and Mongolia is not a joke, and the weather of dozens of degrees below zero is a heavy snowstorm for more than ten days in a row, and it is easy to freeze and starve the Han people outside the border wall to death, even so, these survivors never regret it.

"You don't know the suffering of our Liaodong military households......"

A Han people in his forties, his beard and hair are white, his back is very hunched at this age, but there is still a lot of relaxation in his eyes, he looked at Zhang Han and said: "Now at least we can live by our own hard work, when we are in Jinzhou, there are general flags, hundreds of households, command, layer by layer of exploitation, farming is already extremely bitter, and I have to go to the sea to boil salt, my family has been boiling their eyes for generations, and they have fled here with great difficulty, and they will not go back to Daming if they die." ”

A sturdy man spat on the ground and scolded: "The dog court, the dog emperor, and the dog official are all dead." ”

Everyone was silent for a while, Liang Xing and the others all looked at each other, and what they did was also illegal and prohibitive, but they had never been so angry in their hearts, but these Han people in front of them hated Da Ming very much. conAd2();

Chang Wei whispered to Zhang Han at this time: "This is the kid's father just now, the kid's mother called a thousand households to take it away, and for this matter to complain, the land passed down by the ancestors was also taken away by the commander, and the lawsuit was lost, his father turned into the yard of the conductor's house at night, first killed the commander, and then killed his mother, and then fled with him to the outside of the side wall......"

Hearing this, Duo'er said, "If I do the same, wouldn't I still be a man?" ”

Wang Ping'an sighed: "There are also eunuchs and noble families rampant in Beijing, but they can't be so excessive, I didn't expect Liaodong to be such a black law." ”

When everyone left this small Han village called Wangjiatai, they were all in an unusually low mood.

In the evening, everyone arrived in the city of Görjurgen.

The so-called city is nothing more than a large wooden fence surrounded by a fence, three or four miles in circumference, the same size as a small county in the interior, and this is already the core of many nearby tribes.

The Horqin tribe has tens of thousands of Dingkou, can mobilize two or three thousand armored cavalry, and its strength is considered medium among the Mongolian tribes in Liaodong, and the tribe is also a loose alliance of large and small tribes, and the current minister is Obataiji.

The leading cavalry had already galloped into the city, and soon after Zhang Han and the others entered, a group of small Taiji greeted them.

"This is Manggu Sitaiji, this is Erqi Taiji, this is Missai Taiji, this is Baiyin Daitaiji, this is ......"

In Oba's Taiji Mansion, there were more than 100 Taiji standing from inside and outside, Zhang Han walked all the way, listening to the introduction, he felt dizzy, and he couldn't remember so many at all.

In terms of the number of Taiji, the left-wing Mongolia here is far above the right-wing.

In addition to being the Taiji of Horqin, Oba himself is also the Jinong of Chahar, and his status is far above that of ordinary Taiji.

"I've seen Jinong in the next place. conAd3(); ”

Zhang Han had already learned Mongolian etiquette, stroking his palms on his chest and bending down.

Oba did not greet him like Bu Shitu, this Taiji had sharp eyes and a proud expression, and there seemed to be a lot of worry between his eyebrows.

"Please sit down," said Oba, "we have heard about you, and we will take care of it when a caravan comes, so we don't have to worry." ”

After a few words, it was as if Zhang Han's matter was finished, Oba frowned, and it seemed that there was a lot of trouble.

Zhang Han found a place to sit down, saying that it is a mansion here is actually very simple, not to mention that it can't be compared with the mansion of the noble in the Ming Dynasty, even ordinary rich people can't compare, compared to the richness and luxury of Qingcheng, left-wing Mongolia here is indeed a lot shabby.

"In Lower Kurtang, I have seen Zhang Dongzhu."

As soon as Zhang Han sat down, someone greeted him in fluent Chinese.

Zhang Han took a look, turned his head and looked, and the other party smiled.

This person has a white face, sparse eyebrows, sparkling eyes, a kind and friendly smile on his face, and relatively white teeth.

And Kuer's head is shaved and polished, three-quarters of the entire head is shaved, only a small handful of hair is left behind the head, very slender, Zhang Han understands when he sees it, this is a standard money rat tail, and the braid can pass through the middle hole of the copper coin, so it is a suitable Jurchen hairstyle.

Zhang Han subconsciously laughed back, and the complex emotions in his heart were really indescribable!

He didn't expect to meet the Jurchens here, and it was obvious that the other party had also received the message he had released earlier, and he already knew who he was.

The Jurchens with a thin handful of braided hair, even though Zhang Han has never paid much attention to history, is too familiar with this image.

Massacre, destruction of civilization, loss of power and humiliation of the country, and the unstoppable burst of words into Zhang Han's head.

In an instant, his emotions became extremely complicated.

There were more than a dozen attachés around Kuer's side, all wearing thick arrow robes, carrying bows and arrows on their backs, swords or swords at their waists, and some holding long weapons such as iron spears and long knives.

Zhang Han noticed that the eyes of these Jurchens were shining with indifference and cruelty, this group of people were looking at those Mongols, and also at Zhang Han and others, no matter who they looked at, they were all vigilant, in the eyes of these Jurchens, Zhang Han and the Mongols seemed to be dead things.

These people are unusually strong, with scary shoulder-width shoulders, and extremely flexible when they twist slightly, with broad hands, thick calluses on their knuckles, and a slight compass on their legs, all the details of which have evolved from a perennial career in riding and archery.

Among the many Mongols, these Jurchens were also more ferocious and powerful, and their momentum was superior.

Zhang Han doesn't know if these Jurchens are really extremely strong, or if he is preconceived, but in general, he is also experienced in a hundred battles and has fought many times, and these Jurchen men in front of him do give him a great sense of oppression, which is the keen intuition that only people who have experienced battlefield battles will have, and this group of people in front of him is indeed extremely dangerous.

There is a fat Jurchen on the right hand side of Kurtang, who looks very strong, and a step bow behind him is very long, and his strength is definitely not weak, this person is a big fat face, his beard is not luxuriant, his eyes are not big, and his eyes are shrewd, seeing Zhang Han looking at himself, the fat Jurchen smiled slightly, nodded his head slightly, and said hello.

Zhang Han nodded in return and turned back to listen to the group of Mongols.

The matter is very simple, the Zalut Ministry of Seben Taiji in Kuertang and other Jurchen envoys before the arrival of the secret contact with the Houjin State, a month ago Nurhachi sent envoys to send clothes and wool and other things to Seben Taiji, on the way to meet the left wing of Bahrain Taiji Ang'an, the Jurchen envoy's property was robbed, goods and letters fell into the hands of the Bahrain Ministry, Seben Taiji was afraid that Lin Dan Khan would be held responsible, in a panic with hundreds of his own people and property fled to the city of Geljurgen, asking Obataiji to take refuge in him.

Standing in the middle of the crowd with an unlucky look was Semoto Taiji, who looked at Obatai with pitiful eyes, and asked the rest of the many Taiji to speak for him.

Oba was also embarrassed, he had received a letter that Tsetsenoyan of Hongji's assassination had sent his subordinates to lead cavalry to chase Seben, and the men and horses might arrive soon.

And there was also a Jurchen envoy in his account, who directly refused Oba and didn't dare, and helped Seben and directly faced the pressure of Lin Dan Khan, which made him feel in a dilemma.

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