Knowing that the envoys of the Ming Dynasty came to Qingshan City, the Jurchens of the Duolian tribe who lived in Qingshan City gathered on the side of the road, all wearing clothes made of animal fur, men shaved and combed their hair, women braided their braids into buns, and their hairstyles were all kinds of jewelry.

It was the first time for these Jurchens of the Duo Mercy tribe to see the Western-style military uniforms of the Xiaowu Army, and they had never seen the cotton clothes and cotton hats on the soldiers of the Suzaku Battalion, so they felt that the clothes of these Ming soldiers in front of them looked very strange.

It is worth mentioning that the clothes worn during the winter before the Ming Dynasty were called "winter clothes", that is, burlap or satin clothes were stuffed with kapok and other things to keep out the cold.

Kapok can not be used to weave cloth, can only be used to fill pillows, can not be used to weave cloth, before the Song Dynasty only with the word "纟" next to the "cotton", and not with the word "wood" next to the "cotton".

During the Yuan Dynasty, cotton was mostly planted in the border areas, and it was not until the Ming Dynasty that it was introduced to the interior and gradually became popular, making the cotton clothes with superior performance gradually replace the hemp clothes and become the favorite clothes of the people.

There are relevant records about the introduction of cotton: "Between the Song and Yuan dynasties, it was rumored that it was planted in China, and Guan, Shaanxi, Fujian and Guangxi were the first to get its benefits. ”

During the Xuande period, cotton was not promoted and planted in the Ming Dynasty, the reason is very simple, the people who are hungry who will plant cotton that can not satisfy hunger, naturally to plant grain.

Moreover, the performance of cotton clothing, although superior to that of linen, has not yet reached the point of indispensability, so that it cannot arouse people's interest in the face of ready-made linen and satin.

With the prosperity of the Ming economy, people will gradually understand and accept cotton cloth, making cotton cloth replace linen cloth as the most important clothing in the life of the people.

Li Yuntian specially asked the military households of the Xiaowu Hall to plant a large amount of cotton, and the cotton cloth woven by him was the first to be provided to the soldiers of the Xiaowu Army in the north, especially the Suzaku Camp in Liaodong, and all of them had changed into cotton clothes with excellent cold protection effect.

Therefore, not to mention the Jurchens of the Duoduo Division, even the Ming army of the Liaodong Capital Division rarely saw the cotton clothes and hats on the soldiers of the Liaodong Vermilion Bird Battalion of the Xiaowu Army.

In addition to the cotton clothes and jackets, the Jurchens of the Duoduo Mercy Department were also very interested in the big carts and small carts brought by Li Yuntian, and they didn't expect them to come from afar and bring so many things.

Brother Meng's Timur had already set up a sumptuous banquet in the reception hall, all of which were simply cooked meats, such as fish, venison, wild boar and mutton, etc., plus the brewed liquor and goat's milk, although it looked simple and a little unacceptable, but it was already the most luxurious banquet for the Jurchens, which meant that he attached great importance to Li Yuntian.

Most of the Jurchens' food was hunting or fishing, mostly fish, deer, wild boar, etc., and less vegetables, they raised pigs and were good at animal husbandry.

It is worth mentioning that the Jurchens were not nomadic but fishermen and hunters.

In addition, the Jurchens were addicted to alcohol, and the amount of alcohol was amazing, and the monarchs, ministers, officials and people of the Jin Dynasty often had accidents because of alcohol.

According to the literature, the Jurchens had to be tied up when they were drunk, otherwise the drunks were likely to kill people with knives, and they did not use dishes to assist them when drinking, or drank after eating, or drank before eating.

Different from the reception hall of the Ming Dynasty, the fierce brother Timur was covered with earthen kang in front of the hall and on both sides, and the guests sat on the warm kang to drink and laugh.

In order to adapt to the severe cold weather in the north, the ancestors of the Jurchens have always had the habit of cave dwelling, and the crypts or semi-crypts are mostly dug in places near mountains and rivers, digging as deep as possible, using ladders to get out of people, and covering the surface with beams and wood.

Before the establishment of the Jin Dynasty, the Jurchen Wanyan tribe still dug caves to live, and then in the process of gradually moving south to live with the Han people, they began to build houses on the ground to settle, and their forms were mostly fences as courtyards, and there were large kangs in the houses to ward off the cold.

Li Yuntian and Meng's brother Timur sat on the first earthen kang with their legs cross-legged on the hot kang and talked and laughed, and some Jurchen women danced the unique dance of the Jurchen people in the middle of the room to add to the fun.

The Jurchen officials of the Jianzhou Left Guard, who were sitting with them, cut the meat on the plate in front of them with knives, talking and laughing while drinking, and the military attachés of the Xiaowu Army brought by Li Yuntian also let go of the meat and drank in large bowls, although the two sides did not understand the language, they also toasted each other from time to time, and the atmosphere was very warm.

Li Yuntian knew that the Jurchens could drink alcohol, so the military attachés of the Xiaowu Army who appeared at the banquet this time were all veritable wine baskets, specially designed to deal with those Jurchen officials of the Duoduo Mercy Department.

The so-called wine basket does not only refer to people who can drink, but the kind of people who can break down alcohol into sweat and discharge it from the body while drinking.

Generally speaking, there are two active enzymes in the body of the wine basket, when the alcohol enters the stomach, an active enzyme breaks down its main component ethanol into acetaldehyde into the blood, and then accelerates blood circulation, which corresponds to the face will turn red, and then the second active enzyme will decompose the acetaldehyde in the blood into sweat and excrete it from the body.

In this way, the wine baskets will not only have red faces when drinking, but also sweat profusely on their foreheads and bodies, and if you meet such people at the wine table, then you should be careful, it is difficult to fight them if you fight for wine.

If there is only one active enzyme, the alcohol will be broken down into acetaldehyde in the stomach and enter the bloodstream, but because there is no second active enzyme, acetaldehyde, cannot be excreted from the body, so their faces are very red but they cannot sweat.

If there are no two active enzymes, then it will pass through the stomach and enter the liver, and be decomposed and digested by the liver.

People whose face is getting whiter and whiter means that they have hoarded alcohol in the liver, relying on the liver to relieve hangover, although this kind of person does not see anything abnormal when drinking, but often after the alcohol tolerance reaches a limit, he suddenly gets drunk and becomes a mess, and it is difficult to recover for two or three days.

And people who have an active enzyme can relax the next day after getting drunk and can continue to drink with others.

In Li Yuntian's opinion, since the Jurchens like to drink, he made a fuss about drinking, and then won the trust of the Jurchens.

"Patriarch, Lord Qin sent someone to deliver the official document." When Li Yuntian and Meng's brother Timur were happily drinking there, a Jurchen official suddenly walked into the hall quickly, half-knelt on the ground and prayed to Meng's brother Timur in Jurchen.

"Your Excellency, the lower official is going to receive the official document of Lord Qincha." Hearing this, Brother Meng's Timur hurriedly got up and bowed down to explain to Li Yuntian.

"Brother Meng, Timur, the commander, this is not the Qin mission to come in person, if you go to greet a lower-level official who delivers official documents, won't it be a mess of etiquette?" Hearing this, Li Yuntian put down the wine glass containing goat's milk in his hand, smiled and said, preventing Brother Meng's Timur from going to receive the official document.

Although the status of the Qincha sent by the emperor to the local area is noble, the local officials are all polite and concede three points, and the entourage of the Qincha is usually polite, after all, it depends on the owner to beat the dog.

But the officialdom is strictly hierarchical, and even if the entourage of the Qincha shows off their might, they are only low-level officials after all, and they still have to salute when they see officials with higher ranks, otherwise they will mess up the rank and dignity of the officialdom.

Meng's brother Timur was not only the commander of the Jianzhou Left Guard, but also in the first year of Xuande when he went to the capital to meet Emperor Xuande, he was named the governor of the capital, and was awarded the crown belt.

It is worth mentioning that during the Xuande period, the status of civil ministers and military generals in the officialdom was still equal, and the civil officials of the third rank usually had to salute when they saw the military attachés of the third grade.

Obviously, Emperor Xuande will not send a member of the second grade to Liaodong to handle the case in a bitter cold place like Liaodong, which is undoubtedly overkill, and usually sends about seven civil officials to Liaodong to do errands.

What is especially important is that Li Yuntian is an important minister next to Emperor Xuande, so he naturally knows which officials Emperor Xuande sent to the local government to handle cases, so he knows very well who the Qincha in the mouth of Brother Meng's brother Timur is.

In fact, the Qin Cha in the mouth of Brother Meng Timur is not a Qin Cha in the real sense, according to the etiquette system of the Ming Dynasty, only Beijing officials like the Imperial Inspector are considered Qin Cha, with the edict seal issued by the emperor, and the rest of those who received the emperor's edict to do business can not actually be called Qin Cha.

However, in order to facilitate the handling of cases, and at the same time to raise their value, those who were ordered by the emperor to run errands often regarded themselves as messengers in the local area.

Brother Meng's Timur looked at Li Yuntian with a somewhat surprised expression, never expecting that Li Yuntian would stop him from receiving the official document, but since there was Li Yuntian, the deputy envoy of Emperor Xuande's envoy to Korea, he had a lot less worries, and after a deep sigh, he sat back, and asked people to invite the person who sent the official document.

Not long after, a stout Baihu wearing the official robe of the Ming military attache led a group of subordinates into the reception hall angrily, causing the Jurchen women who were dancing in the hall to subconsciously stop, attracting the attention of everyone at the scene.

"The bold brother Timur, who didn't go out to meet the official letter of Lord Qincha, what is his intention? Can't you rebel? Seeing that Yingge and Yan Wu were holding a grand banquet in the reception hall, the stout hundred households immediately sneered, pointed at Brother Meng's Timur and scolded loudly.

"Presumptuous!" Li Yuntian couldn't help frowning slightly when he heard this, he didn't expect the stout hundred households to be so domineering, it seems that the Ming army of the Liaodong Dusi and the Nuer Gandu Division is very contemptuous of the Jurchen and other clans on weekdays, so he put the wine glass in his hand heavily on the table, and shouted to the stout Baihu with an expressionless face, "Do you know what the crime is for offending Shangguan?" ”

"Who are you who dare to meddle with Lord Qincha's affairs?" The stout Baihu glanced at Li Yuntian, who was wearing cotton clothes, and asked with a sneer.

Li Yuntian also put on cotton clothes for warmth, and it was the first time for the stout Baihu to see this style of cotton clothes, so he didn't know the identity of Li Yuntian and the others.

"You are so bold, even if Pei Jun came in person, he didn't dare to say the word 'Qincha' in front of this official, you actually used his banner to show off your might, messing up the etiquette system of the imperial court, it is really hateful."

Li Yuntian had long known that the stout hundred households did not know his origin, so his face sank, and he stretched out his hand and pointed at him and shouted in a deep voice, "Come on, arrest this daring and reckless person and send him to the Yamen of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division to punish the crime!" ”

Hearing this, Brother Meng's Timur couldn't help but be taken aback, and looked at Li Yuntian with a surprised expression, never imagined that Li Yuntian would be so strong, and he would arrest the stout hundred.