In the winter of the third year of Yongli in 1661, the land outside the pass was covered with snow.

In the Little Xing'an Mountains, near the source of the Nenjiang River, heavy snow covers the mountains and forests, the river surface is frozen, and the earth is as frozen.

At the foot of the foot of the mountain, outside a village in the West Sea, several Jurchen men were wearing bloated jackets and carrying large frozen fish to the village.

The wind and snow were very strong, and several people lowered their felt hats, stepped on the snow, making a creaking sound, and walked into the village.

This is a Jurchen tribe of about a hundred people. There are smoke rising from the low earthen houses.

"Sasubu, clean up the fur at home. You can go with me tomorrow morning and go to the south to see!" Everyone entered the village, and an old man ordered.

"Okay, Uncle Yaksa!" The Jurchen man nodded, then pushed open the Chai Dok and entered his own yard.

A woman in a torn jacket and her cheeks were red with cold cheeks in the yard. She was holding firewood when she saw the man coming back and saw the big fish in her hand, she showed a look of joy.

Sasu preached: "Have you cooked the meal?"

The woman said, "Not yet!"

"Kill that fish!" Sasubu carried the fish, pushed open the door of the main house, and walked into the main house with a few snowflakes.

The woman followed in and added some firewood to the stove, which made the room warm and thump. Then she picked up the big fish and made a basin of hot water to thaw.

Sasubu rubbed his hands, took a breath of heat, and asked the woman on fire, "How much food is there at home?"

The woman moved a little slower, "Only a few kilograms of meat left, it can't last for winter. This day is really harder than it is."

Sasubu comforted, "Put your furs at home and prepare some dry food for me. Tomorrow I will go to the south to find Ming people to exchange for some food. I will think about it next year and go to release horses for Ming people. The Dulan family went to Ming people's ranch this spring. Yesterday, I asked someone to send back a truck of food and mutton."

The woman complained: "I asked you to come with me earlier, but you must not listen~"

Sasubu moved the flint and sighed, "We have fought with the Ming people for so many years, and Ama died at the hands of the Ming people. Who knows whether the Ming people said it is true or false?"

A few years ago, the Ming army invaded Liaozhong and cut off the connection between the Jurchens outside the pass and the Qing Dynasty inside the pass.

This made the Jurchens living outside the pass, unable to get the food and supplies sent from the pass, and their lives became increasingly difficult.

Over the years, under the leadership of the Ningguta Commander, the Jurchen tribes outside the pass joined forces with the Eastern Mongols to harasse the Liaohe Plain from time to time, intending to open up the connection with the pass.

However, the efforts of the Jurchen tribes outside the pass ended in failure.

Two years ago, Zhao Ming conquered the Qing Dynasty and occupied Beijing. The Qing Dynasty forces inside the pass were completely destroyed. The Jurchen tribe outside the pass gradually split when he heard the bad news.

Some, led by General Aisin Gioro Ramb, Ningguta, continued to be enemies with the Ming Dynasty. Some, when the Qing Dynasty perished, were not the Jianzhou Jurchens, but the West Sea and East Sea Jurchens, gradually gave up their strategy of confrontation.

At this time, Du Yinxi came to Shenyang and began to take charge of Liaoning affairs. In order to change the external environment of Liaoning, he gradually changed his past one-size-fits-all strategy.

The Ming army implemented a strategy of blockade and attack against the stubborn forces headed by Ramb, but adopted a strategy of softening against the Mongols and the Jurchen tribes who were willing to surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

Du Yinxi allowed the Mongols and Jurchens to go to the border to trade, and at the same time recruited Mongolians and Jurchens to help the Ming Dynasty shed horses, so that the Ming army could obtain nearly 10,000 qualified war horses from Liaoning every year.

The next morning, Sasubu put the furs he packed with his wife, put them on a sled, and brought some jerky meat. He pulled the sled with the leader Yaksa and others and left the village.

The women and children stood outside the village, waved their hands to say goodbye to the men, and told them to come back soon.

Sasubu's village was at the foot of the mountain in the western foot of the Little Xing'an Mountains. Everyone took a sled for five miles before entering the Nenjiang River.

At this time, thick ice formed on the river surface, and everyone walked on the river, making it much easier.

Heilongjiang and Nenjiang are the main rivers in the northeast. They are separated by Xiaoxing'an and are the former land of Sushen.

Since the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty established the Bohai Governor's Office, the Heishui Governor's Office, and the Wei Governor's Office. During the Ming Dynasty, the Nuergand Office was established, and the Qing Dynasty established the Heilongjiang General and Jilin General were in charge.

Nowadays, with the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, the situation in the Northeast is relatively complicated.

With the Liaosong water division as the boundary, the Liaodong, the western Liaoning Corridor, and the Liaohe Plain are under the jurisdiction of Liaoning Province of the Ming Dynasty. The Songnen Plain, the Sanjiang Plain, and the Changbai Mountain are in the hands of the remnants of the Jurchens.

There are nomadic Khorchin Mongolians at the two foothills of the Greater Xing'an Mountains and at the source of the Liao River.

Recently, another force has been added in the Northeast, which is the Rakshasa Kingdom that penetrated deep into the Heilongjiang River Basin, which has made the situation in the Northeast even more complicated.

In 1652, the Qing Dynasty sent Melezhangjing to lead troops to garrison Ningguta. The following year, it was promoted to Zhangjing of Angbang, ruled the vast area north of the Songliao Watershed, as well as Changbai Mountain and other places.

After being defeated by Zhao Ming in the Qing Dynasty, Bele Aisin Gioro Ramb, who was stationed in Ningguta, became the leader of the remnants of the Jurchen tribe as Nurhaci's great-grandson.

However, without the support of the Qing Dynasty, and with the Jianzhou Jurchens, the East China Jurchens were not the same as the West Sea Jurchens, so Ramb's control and influence over the various Jurchen tribes were very weak, and the various Jurchen tribes returned to a loose tribal alliance state.

At present, Ramb's power cannot control the Heilongjiang River Basin. The Rakshasa people in the north took advantage of the opportunity to enter the Heilongjiang River Basin. The Ming army in the south also crossed the Songliao Watershed and entered the northern part of the Northeast Plain. At the intersection of the Nenjiang River and Songhua River, Songyuan City was built.

The destination of Sasubu and his group was Songyuan City. The Ming Dynasty established a border city here and purchased ginseng, mink and urlaw from the Jurchen tribe. The Jurchens came here to exchange for food, salt, cloth, iron pots and tea and other supplies.

Everyone followed the river and approached Songyuan City. When they approached, the river became lively. Hundreds of large sledges were parked in the river. This was a unique winter transportation tool outside the pass. It was spread by the Ming people and was soon learned by the Jurchens. Transporting goods on the river surface in winter can save time and effort.

Influenced by the Central Plains culture, as the New Year approaches, all the Jurchen tribes outside the pass come to the border market for sale with fur, ginseng and other goods, and purchase various New Year items at the same time, so sleds are parked on the edge of the river.

When Sasubu came to the border city for the first time, he watched the merchants and the Jurchen people bargaining around the sleds and buying mountain goods brought by the Jurchen people. The laughter, shouting, shouting, and bargaining made the river particularly lively.

This made Sasubu feel surprised. Uncle Yaxa, who was beside him, had a gloomy look and was really rebellious. They used to use robbery, but now they looked at the Ming soldiers patrolling with muskets in the distance, but they could only trade honestly.

"How do you sell them?" A Ming Dynasty businessman looked through the goods on the sled and asked casually.

Jaxa's face changed, she bent down skillfully, smiled all over her face, and said with a servile smile: "Uncle, they are all top-notch furs."

The group went out of the city to collect the goods and exchange them for silver dollars. Then they paid taxes and entered the city to purchase goods from Ming Dynasty merchants from shops.

Sasubu made a sledding fur, three ginseng plants, and changed it to a sledding food, a cotton cloth, and a quilt, and there were still three silver dollars left. Sasubu made a pot of wine, bought some small things and daily necessities, and returned with his tribe with his clan members.

Along the way, everyone cheered and laughed, sang from time to time, and sometimes they felt that enjoying the wine and food brought by their own labor was actually a pleasant thing.

In this way, everyone drank wine and sang the old Jurchen tunes, and returned to the vicinity of the village.

At this time, everyone was about to leave the river and pulled the sled to the shore. However, Sasubu and everyone stood up one after another, stretched their necks and looked towards the village. They saw thick smoke rolling there and gunfire sounds coming from time to time.

"Not good!" Sasubu's expression changed.
Chapter completed!