Beiyang new warlord

Enter from the entrance of the stockade, go all the way to the top, and finally arrive at the house of the head of Bai Zuobu. It is also a house built of wood. It is indeed much larger and larger than the houses at the bottom, but that's all, the inside is still dilapidated. It's dilapidated, but the main hall is quite big, with the opening directly facing the outside, and I don't know what the Song dwarf said in the past three days. The nobles of the tribe personally greeted them out of the door, and Mao Jue saw the aroma of a cow and a deer being grilled in the fire pit in the main hall with keen eyes.

What surprised Mao Jue even more was that the old man could speak Chinese, although it was not that standard.

"The old man Baizuo is a tiger, and I have seen Maohan Yaduo!"

"General, Han Yaduo means tribal warrior, this is an extremely high title!"

Shorty Song was translating there, but Mao Jue ignored him, and instead asked in surprise.

"You can speak Chinese?"

"Hehe, the old man also rushed to Maohan Yaduo's Yizhou border city. Every year, he sent more than a thousand mink furs and hundreds of catties of ginseng to Han Yaduo. With such dealings, the old man must learn Chinese. .”

"Han Yaduo, please come inside!"

After entering the inside, Mao Jue finally admitted that this tribe is quite sinicized, because the way of expressing etiquette is to offer cigarettes. The officers Wen Meng, Li Qianhu, and Wu Baihu who came in with Mao Jue, each of them I was respected by one and got angry. As for Mao Jue who doesn't smoke, the whole Dongjiang is also famous. This old guy didn't know where he was, but he just invited Mao Jue to the top.

Everyone smokes, and the relationship in this room is not so good. Even Wen Meng is smiling. The roasted animals are almost finished at this time, and there are women in deerskins coming up to cut the meat. The custom seems to be a bit similar to that of the Mongols. A piece of the best shoulder blade meat was sliced ​​off from the roasted whole deer, and then the belly of the deer was cut open, and a bowl of venison soup was released. These two things were offered to Mao Jue.

"Master Han Yaduo, I heard from Daoist Song that Li Chao lent the area north of Xianjing Road to Dongjiang, and it will be under your jurisdiction in the future, but is that so?"

"certainly!"

Before Mao Jue could speak, with a cigarette in his mouth, Wen Meng was already showing off excitedly.

"My family's martial arts master is world-class. He once killed a hundred thousand Japanese pirates with a three-foot sword and fled. The northern border of the Li Dynasty is entirely my family's territory."

He didn't seem to have any idea about this one hundred thousand, and the old guy didn't change much in his expression. While pouring wine for Mao Jue, he was still talking with a smile on his face.

"Since this is the case, my Baizuo department is willing to be the first to submit to Han Yaduo's command. Following the example of Lee's North Korea, respect Han Yaduo as the leader of Bilichao, and Han Yaduo will send troops to deal with Jiashan Department. My Baizuo department and the three The water tribes are also willing to send troops to support them, what does Han Yaduo think?"

It seems to be sure, although the old guy is asking, but his tone is completely affirmative, who knows, in this harmony, Mao Jue actually shook his head bluntly.

"not good!"

For a moment, the entire big wooden hall was silent, Shorty Song's face that had been laughing with him just now froze there, while tugging at Mao Jue's sleeve hastily, he forced a laugh while holding the wine glass.

"The general can really joke, come, let's drink"

"I never joke."

Standing up suddenly, Mao Jue said bluntly: "This time I am here to lead soldiers, not to make friends! I am a martial artist, and there is only one standard for being a man. Those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me perish!"

What imitated the example of Lee's North Korea, respected as the leader of Bilichao, in fact, they still do their own things, they are polite, call you big brother, symbolically give you something to offer, Lee's North Korea is very weak, those in Hamgyong The gentry lords who farmed in the Dao Plain just asked these savages not to go out to grab things, and they didn’t want to take the trouble to govern them. The Lee Dynasty ruled here for more than 200 years, almost as long as the history of Ming Dynasty, but look at them, Don't you still live the life of your own Jurchen?

But Mao Jue came to Xianjingdao for the purpose of ruling. He didn't want to have [-] more savage Jurchens under his command. He had to admit that there were indeed foreigners who were loyal to Ming Dynasty, such as the Ming army The mainstay, Qin Liangyu's white-armed soldiers, is an army composed of Tujia people. I don't know how many people from the Qin family and Ma family died fighting for Daming, but this is just a special case, and more of them are nothing. However, the Mongols on the side wall have almost stopped rewarding silver every year, but when the gold rises later, shouldn't they reverse it or do they reverse it?

In the future, once the establishment of slaves goes eastward, Mao Jue doesn't think that these guys will be as happy as they are today, pouring wine for themselves and cutting meat.

"The Baizuo tribe and the Sanshui tribes, all the strong men between 45 and [-] are enrolled in the Dongjiang army, and [-]% of the tribe's income is used as taxes and turned over to Dongjiang! One line of law, with Dongjiang!"

"What, to collect taxes!"

The old man who was okay just now, his complexion suddenly became ugly. On the other side, more than 20 chiefs whispered to each other, and a few violent chiefs actually slapped the table and jumped up.

However, Mao Jue seemed to be waiting for this moment. Just as the heads of the savage Jurchens slapped the table and cursed angrily, the sound of ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, pong, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, and ping-pong sounded, and the six people and the wine jars in front of them all exploded. .

The revolver was emitting green smoke, and seeing the pale faces of the heads, who were as silent as the geese slaughtered in the New Year, Mao Jue blew the smoke from the muzzle of the gun in a cowboy manner, and inserted the gun back into his waist neatly.

"Who has an opinion?"

In the Tang Dynasty, there was Xue Rengui, who set three arrows on the Tianshan Mountains and suppressed more than [-] Tie Le. Mao Juezhao was far worse than General Xue. He fired six shots, but only suppressed a mere [-] people. A savage Jurchen.

The Baizuo Department seems to be a bit of a lure. Under the military power of the first regiment, flowers have blossomed on the banks of Sanshui in the past few days, and every household is facing smoking. They were pulled out and entered into the army. Among them, the strong men who reached the age of 16 were organized into an army alone. This is really a blood draw. Almost all the strong men of more than a dozen tribes were drawn out by Mao Jue, and Dongjiang got an extra 45 military.

Shorty Song's plan was also disrupted. Looking at the complaints in the narrow channel, those savage Jurchens in animal skins were forced by bayonets, and left home in tears. This big-headed son followed Mao Jue's patheticly and smeared endlessly.

"My general! Why bother? First agree to Bai Zuo's request, and then recruit the Hunyuan and Shumu departments, and the Xianjing Daoist Jurchen will be flattened. Now the general is using cruel means If we deal with Baizuo, it will be even more difficult for the other three to surrender!"

This guy was crying and mourning there, but Mao Jue stood in the Baizuo cottage and looked down indifferently, watching the savage and Jurchen strong men being driven out in the hustle and bustle, without turning his head, he just dropped a word like this coldly Come.

"This is Dongjiang!"

Shorty Song couldn't help being shocked when he heard this, but he was thoughtful.

Chapter 255. The Whetstone

In fact, Shorty Song's plan is quite good. First, he recruited the Baizuo Department with the deepest Sinicization. With this sign, the Shumu Department, which has a little bit of contact with the Koreans of the Lee family, and the Hunyuan Department can be easily taken down. Looking back, it was considered a Jurchen, and Jiashanbu, who lived almost entirely on safari, was naturally unable to support himself, so he just killed the chickens to warn the monkeys and cleaned them up.

What's more perfect is that he, Shorty Song, can become one of the important personnel in Mao Jue's shogunate by virtue of his achievements in pacifying the Jurchen of Xianjing Road.

But now, with Bai Zuobu making such a fuss, it can be said that all his plans have gone bankrupt. Who wants to have a father on his head, who will smoke the strong men of their tribe, collect their taxes, and have to be an ancestor. The Mu Department and the Hunyuan Department also talked about mobilizing many people to join Dongjiang, but looking at the fate of the Bai Zuo Department, it is estimated that no one is willing to come.

However, this is only the bankruptcy of Shorty Song's plan, not the bankruptcy of Dongjiang's plan. As Mao Jue said, he came to conquer with the army, not to make friends. Even when he planned with the civil servant Fan Wenju before, They are all crusades against the Jurchen of Hamgyong Taoism.

It's not just that it's so simple to let others sleep soundly under the couch, Dongjiang's position is very embarrassing, and it lacks an enemy!

It is true that the Dongjiang army is well-trained and brave and good at fighting, but Mao Jue is still not enough here. He still needs a stronger army to compete with the 10,000+ cavalry of Houjin in the future, and the real elite soldiers can only be honed on the battlefield.

But Dongjiang, to the west is Houjin, Mao Jue can't be provoked now, and to the east is Lee's North Korea. Although it is a soft persimmon in Mao Jue's eyes, it is a pity that there is a big brother behind this soft persimmon, Daming! Losing Li Chao's own son is tantamount to betraying Daming. All the benefits from the customs will be cut off. Mao Jue really can't afford this price. Don't look at Daming as a stepmother to Dongjiang, but Mao Jue still treats Dongjiang like a stepmother. You have to carry the banner of the old Zhu family to get along.

Wa country is indeed a good enemy, but the distance is too far, it is like a high-difficulty dungeon, which can only be done once a year, and as Mao Jue wants to take a stand to support the Toyotomi family, the dungeon of Wa country has to become more and more difficult. Difficult, Mao Jue didn't want to leave recruits with no war experience on the Japanese battlefield. Population was too precious to him.

Just at this moment, the Jurchens from Xianjing Dao popped up, and they still met all the requirements of Dongjiang. They had no background. Don't talk about cutting him, the strength is still weak, a few tribes only have more than 3 people, unlike the Houjin, once they fight, the Han Eight Banners, the Mongolian Eight Banners, and the Man Eight Banners have 10,000+ people to find a place, and they can't afford to provoke them. When 2000 people came to burn a village, Mao Jue could fully bear the loss.

And these guys are also difficult to deal with. Xianjing Road is located in the remaining range of Changbai Mountain, deep in the mountains and wild forests, it is really difficult to completely wipe them out. This is exactly what Dongjiang needs, and it will not cause too many casualties. There was enough pressure on Dongjiang soldiers to force them to improve.

Just kidding, Mao Jue was so happy that he was an enemy of the Jurchens of Hamgyong Taoism. How could he make them surrender so easily?

Within a few days, the Baizuobu knew how lucky he was.

Originally, the situation became very tense after Mao Jue sent troops to forcibly subdue the Sanshui tribes. On May [-]th, Mao Jue issued an order from Xianxing Mountain City, which directly started the war again.

Jiashan Department, Jiashan Mountain City, more than a dozen bosses holding flintlock guns are majestic and majestic, but standing in the front, a military order is directly pulled away, and the old face of Shorty Song is as ugly as if he had taken cockroach medicine. thinking about it.

"It is said that the Dongjiang Tieyi Deputy General's Mansion ordered the Jiashan tribes to hand over all the bandits who looted Xianxing City within three days, make friends to the Tieyi Deputy General's Mansion, and hand over all civil registrations and pay taxes to the Dongjiang Tieyi Deputy General's Mansion [-]% of all income!"

It's even simpler than the chief hall of the Baizuo tribe. Listening to the sonorous voice of the Song dwarf, the savage Jurchen with fat, strong beards and messy braids in Jiashan more than a dozen tribes The chief couldn't believe his ears.

When will their Jurchens need to pay taxes?In particular, they are Jiashan Jurchen, the most stalwart of the Xianjing Taoist Jurchen, the men who beat the wild boar and elk, and they are not the mud-legged soft goods who are farming in Sanshui Baizuo. This time they not only robbed Xianxing City, Regardless of Li's North Korea or Dongjiang, they didn't plan to stop without pensions and rewards. They never thought that the lieutenant general of Dongjiang would do such a thing to them.

Listening to the translation, one of the fat Jurchen little chiefs who looked like wild bears roared and smashed a steel ax on the wooden table, penetrating three points, and then dragged the steel ax out, about to cut people, but here Mang Huoli, the head of the Toujia Mountain Department, stretched out his hand to block his chest.Don't look at this old man is already an old man, his body covered with thick animal skin is still as strong as a wild boar, his face is full of flesh, he looked at Shorty Song with gloomy and cruel eyes, he couldn't help shivering .

"What if our Jiashan Department doesn't agree?"

"Master Jiashan Mang Huoli, you should have heard of Li Chengliang, Master Li's reputation, right?"