Chapter 1329 Winter Is Coming, the Empire Is Gone

"God bless us! May we go south smoothly, trade with the Ming Dynasty predicted by His Majesty, and obtain the craftsmen and doctors that the alliance urgently needs... We come with goodwill and gold! If five hundred kilograms of gold is not enough, five thousand kilograms of gold is also available. Yes, we just have to wait for the subsequent fleet to arrive..."

Zuwaro prayed for a long time in Yongning Temple, and enshrined a golden talisman of the main god on the altar of Buddha. Then, he looked at the stone tablet in the corner, then turned and left the temple. There was a lot of confusion and a lot of urgency in his heart. And when he found Aguda, the chief of the Maha tribe, the first thing he said was to ask where the river leads to.

"Where does the river lead?... Uh... doesn't it lead to the south?... What? You ask where its end is? How do I know?... I came from the north to the south, and I only know Haizi in the north!..."

Maha Agu was confused and looked at the somewhat excited "shipman shaman". He didn't know what hallucinations the other party had witnessed when he offered sacrifices to the "mountain god".

Jurchen tribes always have the habit of divination, eating some poisonous mushrooms, and then shouting excitedly when praying and offering sacrifices. It's a pity that as a barbaric "born girl", there are not many shamans in the Yuskin tribe, and the fighting during the migration is too fierce, and the shaman inheritance cannot be preserved at all...

"Shipmaster, don't continue going south! The south is in chaos, and there are killings everywhere...I tell you, your few men will be eaten by people as soon as you get to the south! Those tribes who went south before can't You’re not as easy to talk to as I am! It’s so hot! This iron pot cooks the porridge very quickly…”

Maha Aguda smiled happily, gulping down the freshly stewed meat porridge, and gnawing on the chili pepper bit by bit. He has completely forgotten how "kind" and "easy to talk" he was when they first met this morning, carrying a twenty-pound stone hammer.

"Maha Aguda, I saw the stone tablets left by the big tribes in the south! They arrived here by water and established this community... If you keep walking along this waterway, you will definitely encounter them!..."

"Ha! Go south along the waterway? We, the Maha tribe, don't have boats, but other tribes do! However, even if there are no boats, many tribes are good at swimming and climbing! ... You are here If you spend the night on the river, you will inevitably fight with those tribes! "

Maha Aguda took a big gulp of the can of porridge, and then licked the corner of his mouth like a tiger or leopard that had eaten its prey. Then he looked at Zuvalo with a sneer and laughed loudly.

"Shipmaker! You know nothing about the cruel fight between the dense forest and the river. You are like a seal dog that climbed onto the shore, thinking that the front is as flat as the sea and easy to swim!... Why do you think that powerful southern tribe? They have to leave! That’s because the endless cold and fighting in the north are unbearable for them and all the tribes can’t bear it…”

"Do you know how many tribes from the northern forests and seas have gone south with Man as far back as I can remember? Do you know how many years the tribes have been migrating, how many tribes they have fought with, and how many people have died? …”

"You don't know anything! The cold mountain gods are driving us, rushing south like a herd of wintering beasts! Every forest here is buried with the blood and bones of the tribe! ...Except for the dog tribe hiding in the corner of the seaside, No tribe can stay in one place for a generation! Those tribes that took the lead to go south have already been like violent giant bears, smashing into pieces and bleeding all the tribes in front..."

"Haha! Going south? Ask these captured local slaves, what kind of terrible fighting is it like in the south?... The tribes going south kill the local tribes and take away the territory and hunting grounds. But after a few years of stability, Another tribe went south, one after another! ...In the end, everyone gathered together and headed south together..."

"And those original local tribes, those tribes with pigtails and more farming than hunting, had long been frightened by the tribes from the north and south, and were driven southward no matter how far they went!..."

Zuwaro's eyes widened, and gradually his heart grew cold as he listened to Maha Aguda's detailed description. The chaos and fighting in this vast land was only revealed to him at this moment...

Yes! At the end of the fifteenth century, just like the two Jin Dynasties more than a thousand years ago, it was the beginning of the cold Little Ice Age and the era of great migrations of barbarian invasions!

Just a few years ago, Dongguan in Ming Dynasty once again experienced snowfall. The stable snowfall line has reached the Pearl River Basin in northern Guangdong. Even if there are slight recoveries from time to time, the overall trend is still cooling down. It was not until the Chongzhen period more than a hundred years later that the temperature dropped to the extreme. The scholar-bureaucrats in exile in Hainan can be happy because they can see the snow scene in Sanya all year round...

And in the extremely cold north, in the vast land of Tunguska, after the order of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties receded, the terrible period of chaos has arrived! The entire outer Northeast has become barbarian. The mature women's true tribes who originally lived in the middle and lower reaches of Heilongjiang were beaten by waves of barbaric kin who moved south, and the really powerful raw women's true tribes, and they could not stand at all. They were almost the vanguard of those who were driven south. They moved south to the Liaodong territory of the Ming Dynasty, seeking asylum from the Ming Dynasty, and became the two major Jurchen ethnic groups of "Haixi" and "Jianzhou"...

As for the Ming Dynasty, which once glorified the north, it shrank on a large scale for the first time during the Xuande period sixty years ago. The Ming Dynasty abandoned Nuergandusi and moved the government to Kaiyuan in the middle reaches of the Liaohe River, controlling only the Liaohetao and Hunhe River areas. However, the Ming Dynasty still retained the crucial "shipyard" Jilin and the starting point for operating the Nuergan region.

But the terrible cold not only drove countless Jurchens southward, but also drove the Mongolian tribes in the northern desert to the south. Under the cold white disaster, the Mongolian tribes were forced to unite into an alliance and seek a large amount of "tribute" in return from the rich Ming Empire in the south...

This was actually the extreme survival pressure, which pressed the Mongolian tribes, which had always been divided, into a group. They either "tributed and traded" from the south to obtain the necessary survival materials, or "went to war" to grab the survival materials and then consumed the excess tribes... Then, the Ming Dynasty rejected the "rude request". After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, the unprecedented cruel war began...

The ending of the war forty-four years ago, the Tumu Fortress Incident, and Yingzong's northern hunting changed everything. The Ming Dynasty lost the Hetao Mongolia forever and was forced to build a long Great Wall. At the same time, the Mongolian Wuliangha tribes, the former Doyan Three Guards, moved eastward and continued to invade Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty together with the Jurchen tribes in the north.

The second contraction began during the Zhengtong period and became a foregone conclusion after the Battle of Tumu. Under the invasion of the Mongolian Wuliangha tribes, the Ming Dynasty lost the Liaohe area and continued to shrink to today's Liaoning. With Liaoyang, the Liaodong Town, as the seat of government, it merged with the remaining Nurgan Dusi and began to build forts and walls. Guangning was an important town in the west, and the Great Wall was built to defend against the Mongolian "Hu". Kaiyuan was an important town in the north, and the Jilin "shipyard" further north was abandoned and handed over to the Jurchen tribes that moved south to submit...

At this moment, the Jurchen tribes that were forced to move south have officially submitted to the Ming Dynasty, from the Jilin area in the middle and lower reaches of the Liaohe River and Hunhe River to the north of the Yalu River east of Fushun, and began to accept the Hanized tributary rule. The Jurchens who moved to the Jilin area gradually formed the Haixi Jurchen tribes. As for the Jurchens who moved to the east of Fushun, the north of the Yalu River, and the upper reaches of the Songhua River, they became the Jianzhou Jurchen tribes...

The history of the southern Jurchen tribes also entered the era of rapid sinicization, rapid absorption of the Ming Dynasty system and technology, and fighting for the Ming Dynasty as mercenaries, with unspeakable loyalty...

This was the situation in the Northeast and Outer Northeast when Zuwaro arrived. Of course, he didn't know all this at the moment, but tried his best to persuade Maha Aguda to send several tribal guides to lead him to the upper reaches of the southern river until he pissed off the other party.

"Damn it! Boatman, are you possessed by evil spirits during the sacrifice?! What are you trying to do with that southern tribe?... Could it be that you want to collude with them to rob this place? Rob our Maha tribe's territory?!..."

Maha Aguda's expression became fierce, and he took out the sledgehammer again, and stood up like a big bear. He shouted at Zuvaro, swung a 20-jin hammer lightly, and smashed it fiercely.

"Speak! Otherwise I'll beat you to death!..."

Note: The easter egg chapter is a map of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty. The predecessor of Jilin was called "Shipyard".