My life skills in Daming Liver

"Chief, you can't go to Liaoyang City!"

In the Jurchen tribe in Jianzhou, a group of Jurchen nobles surrounded Li Rushe and begged.

After Li Ruzhen returned to Liaoyang with Li Rusong, Li Rusong always trusted him very much and asked him to lead the tribe to capture the Jurchen in the mountains.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Jurchen tribe in Northeast China was generally divided into three tribes. These three tribes were not three tribes. There were also large and small tribes among the Jurchen tribes. These three tribes were the aggregation of three different types of Jurchen tribes. They often fight and are hostile to each other.

The Jianzhou Jurchens lived in the eastern part of Liaoning and the southern part of Jilin, covering the area from Changbai Mountain to the Yajiang River Basin. In the early Ming Dynasty, the Jianzhou Guard was established to manage the Jianzhou Guard. The Jianzhou Guard was originally the Ming military guard post, but the northeast was bitterly cold and the guard post in the northeast was Like the Northwest Guard, it also underwent a contraction and was gradually withdrawn to the pass and urban areas. The Jianzhou Guard was gradually abandoned.

However, the Jurchen tribe that had contact with the Jianzhou Guards absorbed part of the Han civilization and communicated with the Han people in Liaodong, forming the Jianzhou Jurchen people who were half-cultivating and half-grazing.

The Haixi Jurchens live in the middle and lower reaches of the Songhua River and the south bank of the Heilongjiang River. The Haixi Jurchens are at the hub of water and land transportation. They are more influenced by the culture of the Central Plains. They are the earliest Jurchen tribes to rise. Before the Jurchens were established in the state, they were always more valued by the Ming court. Jurchen tribe.

The Haixi Jurchens are relatively powerful, so Li Chengliang has been continuously supporting the Jianzhou Jurchens and creating conflicts between the Jianzhou Jurchens and the Haixi Jurchens, in this way weakening the strength of the two Jurchens.

The last one is the Jurchen, also known as the Savage Jurchen.

The savage Jurchens live further north, or in the deep mountains of the Changbai Mountains. These tribes retain their primitive fishing and hunting lifestyle. Some tribes even have no written language and no unified tribal system.

However, these savage Jurchens have lived in bitter cold and high mountain areas for a long time, so they are physically stronger. Li Chengliang often had people capture these savage Jurchens and train them to be tenant farmers or soldiers.

When Li Rusong took office in Jiliao, Li Chengliang once warned his son that he must let the Han army capture the wild Jurchens. The captured wild Jurchens must also be incorporated into the Han army's servant army and cannot be handed over to Haixi Jurchens or Jianzhou. Jurchen does it for you.

Because although the savage Jurchens are primitive and backward, they are of the same race as the Jurchens and can communicate with each other in language and culture. If the Haixi Jurchens and Jianzhou Jurchens capture the savage Jurchens on a large scale, their tribes will gain a large population and grow rapidly.

At the beginning, Li Rusong did this when he was in Liaoyang, but with the Ming army's several captures and sweeps, the savage Jurchen tribes near the south moved north, and many even reached the ice sheet and tundra near Sakhalin Island.

Li Rusong was not willing to lead his soldiers to capture the virgin girls in those bitter and cold places. At this time, Li Ruzhen immediately asked his tribe to do the job for him. All the captured virgin girls would be given to Li Rusong, while the women and children would be left to their tribe. .

When Li Rusong heard this, he thought the plan was good.

My father was afraid that the Jurchen tribe would expand, because he was afraid that the Jianzhou Jurchen or Haixi Jurchen would absorb the population of the wild Jurchen, and wouldn't the population consist of young and strong men?

To capture these savage Jurchen tribes, the Ming army also needed young and strong labor force. Sometimes the elderly, women and children were left in the tribe to fend for themselves. What Li Rusong wanted was these young and strong men.

Li Ruzhen is willing to lead the Jianzhou Jurchens to attack the wild Jurchens, and then hand over all the young and strong men to him. Doesn't this prevent the Jurchens from becoming powerful, and at the same time, he can obtain the slaves of the wild Jurchens without marching in the cold northern winter?

Li Rusong immediately agreed to this request and issued a plundering license to Li Ruzhen's Jianzhou Jurchen tribe, allowing them to go to the north to capture the wild Jurchens.

Li Ruzhen and his tribe did what he promised. They captured a barbarian Jurchen tribe and immediately put the young men in shackles and escorted them to Liaoyang City, while the women and children were sent back to their tribes.

As for the old man, he should just stay in the cold and snow and commit suicide.

Li Ruzhen took these wild Jurchen women and children back to his tribe, and asked the men in the tribe to marry these wild Jurchen women and adopt their children. He took the lead in marrying two wild Jurchen women, one of whom was still pregnant. In body.

Li Ruzhen's policies caused the Jurchen tribe's population in Jianzhou to expand.

These savage Jurchen women could also work. Li Ruzhen asked people to instill hatred towards the Ming army in these children, telling them that the people who plundered them were the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Rusong indeed oppressed the Jurchens in Liaodong. Both the Jianzhou Jurchens and the Haixi Jurchens were treated like slaves, and even more like livestock to the savage Jurchens.

Li Ruzhen's policy was very effective. During the two years since Li Rusong arrived in Liaoyang, the population of the Jurchen tribe in Jianzhou doubled. Some of the savage Jurchen children have become teenagers. They are full of hatred for the Ming Dynasty and the Han people, and have been trained since childhood. , some people are already able to go to the battlefield.

In addition to population, when Li Rusong came to Liaoyang, Li Chengliang also told him not to give the Jurchens advanced weapons, and even to set up an arsenal of swords and armors.

At the beginning, Li Rusong also implemented this, but soon there were frequent battles in Liaodong, and then after Li Xun entered North Korea, Li Rusong asked the Jurchens to dress up as bandits to cut off Li Xun's supplies, and military operations were very frequent.

The work in the arsenal was heavy, so Li Rusong simply ordered the Jurchens to bring the weapons back to the tribe. He only sent officers to count the weapons every once in a while.

As a result, the Jianzhou Jurchens, who had obtained weapons and population, grew rapidly, and they began to attack and annex the Haixi Jurchens.

The Haixi Jurchens were originally stronger than the Jianzhou Jurchens, but Li Ruzhen, who obtained Ming army equipment, attacked several Haixi Jurchen tribes and annexed their populations.

Later, despite his father's objections, Li Rusong set up three banners near Liaoyang City and summoned Jurchen soldiers to guard the city.

Li Ruzhen obtained the position of one of the banner masters, and relied on the position of banner master conferred by Li Rusong to continue to strengthen the tribe's strength.

But last month, Li Ruzhen attacked a large Haixi Jurchen tribe. This tribe immediately united with three other large Haixi Jurchen tribes and went to Liaoyang City to file a complaint.

Immediately afterwards, Li Ruzhen received a military order from Li Rusong, asking him to go to Liaoyang City to meet him immediately.

The senior officials of the Jianzhou Jurchens all believed that this was a trap. It was Li Rusong who wanted to attack the Jianzhou Jurchens. They suggested that they start an army immediately.

But Li Ruzhen said: "The time is not yet ripe!"

Li Ruzhen liked "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" very much. He often used the Romance of the Three Kingdoms as an allusion. He said: "I will follow the example of Sima Yi's story, don't worry!"