Nikan only took Sun Chuanyu, Zha Kedan and more than ten people ashore.

Seeing the boat approaching the village, the crowd of onlookers suddenly became commotion.

Nikan saw that some of them were holding daggers and wooden sticks in their hands, and surrounded a white-haired old man in the middle. Chakdan shouted loudly: "Aslan Khan is here, why don't you come over to pay homage?!"

What Chakdan spoke was naturally the Sauron language, one of the Jurchen languages, or the Sauron language of Nerchinsk thousands of miles away. Even so, the fish skin clothes that filled the air with the smell of fish were

Men, women, old and young still understood.

I saw the white-haired old man with a thick braid trailing behind his head, supported by two young people, walking forward and bending slightly towards Nikan and his party.

Compared with their fishskin clothes, Nikan and his bodyguards all wore two-layer cotton clothes and big hats. They looked like they came from a more "civilized" place.

Nikan stepped forward and saluted the old man, "Old man, may I ask what the name of this place is? How far is it from the sea?"

The old man looked at Nikan and asked, "Who are you waiting for? Where do you come from?"

Chakdan hurriedly stepped forward, "This is Aslan Khan who rules the west of the Great Lakes, the middle and upper reaches of Heilongjiang, and occupies the Hulunbuir Prairie, Horqin Prairie, Nen River, and Songhua River basins!"

The old man's eyes were a little confused, "Aslan Khan? What about Kundulun Khan? Where's the Chechen Khan?"

Nikan smiled slightly, Kundulun Khan was naturally the title used by the old Khan Nurhachi, and Chechen Khan was also called Yingming Khan. Many Mongolian and Jurchen people had this title, and Huang Taiji was one of them.

The old man was definitely not talking about Shuolei, but of course Huang Taiji.

It seems that the great achievements of Aslan Khan have not spread to the lower reaches of Heilongjiang.

Chakdan quickly started talking to the old man in detail. After a long while, the old man looked at Nikan in confusion, still looking a little unbelievable, and mumbling to himself.

"How is that possible?"

However, when he saw those "giant boats" on the river and his people parked on the riverside, which looked like ant canoes compared to the "giant boats", he realized that what the young man just said might be true.

"Plop", the old man knelt down, and as he knelt down, a large group of people knelt down behind him, their white fishskin clothes shining dazzlingly in the sun.

Nikan helped the old man up and held his hand.

"Great Khan", the old man was a little at a loss, "This place is called Zhumin, and there are two villages nearby, Valen and Morzi, both of which were moved from the upper reaches of Heilongjiang. There are Feyalko people and Oroqen people here.

,Heijinren”

The people are actually Sauron, the Jurchen transliteration.

Nikan nodded, most of these people were unwilling to follow the large group to migrate to the Kingdom of Jin, and they were afraid of offending the people of the Kingdom of Jin and causing disaster, so they migrated to the lower reaches.

"My name is Hutuli. I am a Heijin man. I am a Harada who is known as the city of Zhumin. There are more than two hundred households in the city now. I am the largest tribe in the lower reaches. It is still about fifteen days away from the sea.

, starting from here, the further downstream you go, the fewer Dingkou you will find.”

What the old man meant was that it would take them fifteen days to reach Haikou in their canoe. As for why there were fewer Dingkou the further down we went, it was naturally because the Heilongjiang flooded more severely the further down we went, and there were fewer places suitable for living.

Nikan thought to himself that the canoe would take fifteen days, but their big boat with sails and oars should be able to arrive within ten days.

However, Nikan would not let go of a place like Zhumin.

"Old man, I want to buy this place, but I don't know..."

Hutuli was shuddered when he heard this. He didn't want to agree at first, but then he thought about it, "Although the Aslan Khan in front of me is young and handsome, he is not like the people in my forest, but they have big ships.

They are all shining weapons, and the people on a big ship can wipe out all the people. Forget it, if the hero does not suffer the immediate loss, it is better to negotiate more terms with him."

"I need salt, a lot of cloth, and ironware." Hutuli looked at the cotton cloth on the other person's body with hot eyes.

"Okay, Harada, in this case, there are more than two hundred households in your village. If I count you as three hundred households, I will give you three hundred pieces of cloth, ten stones of salt, an iron pot and a short knife for each household. You see.

how?"

As soon as these words came out, the "fish-skin tartars" surrounding Hutuli suddenly became agitated.

Also, even if the Jin Kingdom set up a place to "offer minks and reward wolins" in the Sanxing area, that is, leaders like Hutuli would have the opportunity to receive rewards such as clothes, cloth, and ironware, but ordinary people would not have the opportunity to receive them.

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Nikan saw that Hutuli was still hesitant, so he pulled him aside and said to him secretly: "Halada, your family is naturally unique. Not to mention, you have a set of fine clothes, ten pieces of cloth, and iron.

There are three pots, one long and one short knife, and one hundred iron arrows. Look..."

Hutuli was overjoyed. He took Nikan's hand and came in front of everyone, and then fell to the ground.

"The two hundred and forty-five households of the people's tribe will be the subjects of Aslan Khan from now on, and they are willing to obey the orders of the Khan."

Nikan smiled and helped him up, then turned back to Sun Chuanyu and said: "Hurry up and move things."

Nikan brought a large amount of cloth with him on this trip in order to contact the "savage" tribes along the way. The most valuable thing in the five large ships was cloth. Each ship carried two hundred pieces of cloth, a total of one thousand pieces.

"Great Khan, there are still a large number of savage tribes in Woji on both sides of Heilongjiang. They are all dog-wielding tribes. Each tribe only has ten or twenty households, but the total is quite large. Some of them originally lived there.

On the riverside, since Kundulun Khan appeared, at least half of the people have moved to the jungle."

In Hutuli's mind, those who live by the river are naturally "civilized people", and those who live in the mountains and forests must be "savages". However, in the eyes of the Manchu nobles, people like them are still "savages"

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"Approximately how many people are there?" Nikan's eyes lit up.

"Great Khan, I used to live near Khabarovsk. There are two Wojis in the north and south. To the north is Qimuli Woji, to the south is Heluwoji, and further downstream are Kuluwoji and Kuluwoji.

Minggariwoji, to the north is Gelengwoji, and to the south is Zhuangaiwoji, both of which are dense jungles."

"There are many people in every settlement," Hutuli said leisurely. "From Khabarovsk to Haikou, the total number of households is probably no less than 2,000. If you include those on the seaside, the number is no less than 3,000."

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Nikan nodded. The so-called Woji originally meant jungle, but at this time it had evolved into "people living in the jungle" in the Jurchen language.

Woji, also called Wuji, is a descendant of Heishui Mohe.

Three thousand households may seem like a lot, but they are scattered over a vast land of nearly 500,000 square kilometers in the lower reaches of Heilongjiang. It is completely impossible to quickly gather these people.

However, it is still possible to gradually attract them to the river or seaside to settle somewhere through mutual trade, but that will take a lot of time.

Nikan left fifty people among the people and asked them to repair the people's city and lay the foundation for formal city construction in the future after Hutuli's tribe was relocated.

Seeing that Nikan and the others were going to continue traveling downstream, Hutuli asked his eldest grandson Suna (a dog leash in Jurchen language) to follow Nikan with nine boys around the age of 18. Suna had gone as far as Ku

On Ye Island, being a guide couldn't be more suitable. Moreover, when Nikan saw Hutuli taking the initiative to send people up, he ordered Sun Chuanyu to bring out ten sets of standing army uniforms for them to dress up.

Later, when I saw these ten people wearing cotton clothes and big hats, carrying bows and arrows with iron arrows on their backs, and carrying horizontal knives, other people in Zhumin Village were immediately envious.

"Great Khan, there is a village near the mouth of the Heilongjiang River. It used to be the Ming Dynasty's military base. It is called Miaotun. It has a small population and hundreds of households. They are all fishing on the seashore and hunting sea beasts. There are also some people from this village.

Due to the relationship, Harada is Suna’s uncle, and Suna follows him, so there should be no conflict.”

"There are not many people on Sakhalin Island. There are probably only a thousand or so households in total. The largest tribe is the Hairy Tribe. All men, women and children in this tribe have long hair on their faces. There are also some people who do this to us."

The language of the Kuyala people, the Feyalko people, the Oroqen people, and the Heijin people”

"I have been to that place more than ten years ago. There is a Japanese market in the south of the place. The people on the island exchange furs and other items with the Japanese for cloth, salt and other items. If the Khan wants to go there, I suggest you do it from the north first.

rise"

Nikan nodded. This long-haired tribe is also known as the "Ezo people" or "Bou Yi people" in the mouth of later Japanese people. It is also the origin of the name of Sakhalin Island. This type of human body hair is strong and spread to the Heilongjiang River Basin.

It became the "Long Hair Tribe", and when it spread to the Ming Dynasty, it became the "Long Hair Country".

The Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Fate of Flowers in the Mirror are not without origin.

A few days later, the fleet arrived at Qiji Lake, a large lake formed by the eastward flooding of the Heilongjiang River. It was only more than thirty miles away from the sea to the east, and on the edge of the sea was the Port of De Castries in Russia.

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It is thousands of miles closer to reach the Tartar Strait from here than to go directly to the sea along the Heilongjiang River. Naturally, Nikan arranged for someone to go down and investigate in detail, and asked Chakdan to record it in detail.

Arriving at Trintun, where the former Nuergandu Si Yamen was located, Nikan showed the local people the document that he was appointed as "General Ningbei, Commander of Nuergandu Sidu", which he did not expect.

However, this volume of silk book and a copper seal actually caused an uproar in the neighborhood.

The temples, pagodas and other physical imprints of the Ming Dynasty have almost disappeared nearby. However, in the hearts of local people, these overgrown ruins are still "sacred places" in their hearts. Seeing Nikan was astonishing. Needless to say, Su

When Na came forward, the Harada of the temple village took the initiative to come over and pay homage.

Nikan followed suit and bought both the place and Miaotun - not far from here is the seaport of Heilongjiang, so there must be a port.

"Record it down. All the temples, pagodas, and government relics of the Ming Dynasty along the way will be repaired in important places. In addition to Boli and other people, a city will be built to the north of the temple. Well, let's call it Temple Street.

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"The narrowest point between Qiji Lake and the sea on the opposite side is only thirty miles. Let's go back and ask Sun Laodao's Ministry of Industry to come and investigate and try to build a road directly to the sea."

Before going to sea, Nikan told Chakdan, who was holding a pen and paper, that the temple at this time was on the south bank of Heilongjiang, but Nikan wanted to build a city port on the north bank where conditions were better.

In this way, starting from Yaksa and passing through Black City, Khabarovsk, People, and Temple Street, there will be a city every five hundred to one thousand miles, and there are several local people's villages and docks in the middle.
Chapter completed!