Chapter 2839

"It shouldn't be easy for you to find these people from the Jurchen tribe. If you only teach them military skills, it would be a waste of resources, right?"

After listening to Chen Yixin's introduction, Bai Kesi also expressed his own opinion: "Since these people and the tribes behind them have the idea of ​​​​attaching themselves to our country, can they be allowed to play more roles?"

Chen Yixin smiled and said: "Old Bai, we have actually thought of what you said. You will know it later."

Chen Yixin deliberately kept it secret and was not in a hurry to elaborate at the moment. Instead, he took Bai Kesi and his party to the officers' mess for lunch and inspected the base's logistics facilities.

After a brief lunch break, the group took a carriage out of Jinzhou Camp and headed to the official business center.

Although Haihan currently controls a large area north of Jinzhou, Jinzhou is still Haihan's financial and trade center in Liaodong. Most of the goods entering and leaving Liaodong are collected and distributed in Jinzhou, so there are a large number of commercial institutions.

They are gathered here. In order to integrate resources and facilitate management, the Northern Region Management Committee established the Liaodong Investment Promotion Bureau. This business center is a trading organization under the Investment Promotion Bureau.

The function of the business center is to publish supply and demand information for various commodities across Liaodong, and at the same time provide merchants with contract signing, settlement, transportation, warehousing and other supporting services. The most important thing is that this is an official organization, and the business activities it participates in are equivalent to

With government endorsement, merchants don’t have to worry about uncontrollable risks in the business process.

The business center connects with local governments and obtains first-hand information. Therefore, even those powerful business groups cannot be as timely as official agencies in collecting and summarizing business information from various places. Therefore,

It provides business opportunities for small and medium-sized businesses, allowing them to compete with large businesses on the same starting line.

At present, there are nearly a hundred merchants of all sizes stationed here, covering almost all walks of life related to people's livelihood. The monthly trade volume is also showing a gradually increasing trend. Although it is not yet comparable to the Denglai area in Shandong, no matter

Both the government and participating merchants are very optimistic about the development prospects here.

However, this model is nothing new in Haihan, and it pales in comparison to the scale of commercial operations in the south. Even Ning Zijing felt that there were still many areas for improvement after listening to the introduction.

But what Chen Yixin wanted to show Bai Kesi and others was not the operational level of the business center, but something else.

After sitting down in the reception room, Chen Yixin ordered to go down, and several people were soon brought in. Judging from the clothes and appearance of these people, they were all from the Guanwai tribe, and there were even Manchus with money rat tail heads, but their expressions were...

They are all very respectful.

"These people are all from the Jurchen tribe, and they all received military training at the Jinzhou Camp. However, it was later discovered that they were more talented in other fields, so they were arranged to switch careers to business."

Chen Yixin briefly introduced the background of these people, and then named one of them named Bachtan and asked him to talk about his experience and current work.

Bachtan looked to be in his thirties, and when he spoke he spoke in Chinese Mandarin. Although he had a heavy accent, you could basically understand what he said.

The Bakhtan are not Jurchens, but Jilie Charming. This ethnic group lives in the Sea of ​​Japan and the coastal area in the direction of the Tatar Strait, and the area of ​​​​their territory is even far larger than that of the Jianzhou Jurchens.

However, because the Jiliemi tribe lives far away from the Central Plains and is in a bitter cold area that is not easy to cultivate, their civilization has been stuck in the age of fishing and hunting for a long time. Of course, their strength cannot be compared with the Jianzhou Nuzhen who established their own clan and established the Later Jin Kingdom.

After the late Jin Dynasty changed the name of the country to the Qing Dynasty and formally established the country, a large area of ​​territory outside the customs that originally belonged to the Ming Nuergandusi was annexed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Naturally, the Jiliemi area was not spared. The tribe where Bakhtan belongs was even more

They were drafted by the Manchus before the Qing Dynasty, and young men were selected at a ratio of one out of every three to be forcibly enlisted in the army.

At that time, the soldiers of the Qing army were divided into three levels: bannermen, armored men, and Aha. Banners were Jurchens, with the highest status; Aha were composed of Han, Korean and other slaves, with the lowest status; and the armored men in the middle were the various

They are not soldiers of the Jurchen tribe, and Jilie Charming belongs to this group.

However, the long-term wars did not bring back wealth and honor to the Jiliemi tribe. Most of these war dividends went to the pockets of the Eight Banners Manchus. The Jiliemi tribe did not receive anything except a large number of men who were lost in the war.

What practical benefits.

Under such circumstances, the anti-war sentiment of the Jiliemi tribe gradually grew, and they were no longer willing to cooperate with the Qing court's recruitment measures. However, this not only failed to obtain better treatment for them, but also attracted punishment from the Qing court.

The number of Jiliemi tribe being recruited has increased, and after joining the army, they are often sent to the most dangerous areas to perform high-risk combat missions.

By around 1648, joining the army was almost a dead end for the men of the Jiliemi tribe. At this time, the Qing army was clearly on the weaker side in the military confrontation in the Liaodong region, and its ruling area was also on the weak side.

More and more people are beginning to notice this trend, and there are many people who are secretly contacting Haihan.

It was Jilie Charming who was a prisoner of the Qing army who built a bridge between Haihan and the Jiliemi tribe. Although the process was somewhat tortuous and took several years to make contact, the two sides finally established a trade relationship.

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For the Jiliemi tribe, they did not gain any significant benefits from being attached to the Manchus for more than ten years. On the contrary, they lost a large number of men, seriously affecting the reproduction of the tribe. The Haihan people are willing to submit to the Jiliemi tribe

Providing various living supplies without the need for war, the Jiliemi tribe can obtain everything they want through trade channels, even strictly controlled supplies such as salt, iron, tea and sugar. Under such circumstances, Haihan and

It is self-evident who is the Manchu and Qing party worth cooperating with.

However, it was quite troublesome to carry out trade activities between the Haihan and Jiliemi tribes during this period. The jurisdictions of the two sides were still separated by Manchu territory, so goods could not be transported by land. Haihan had to make a large circle from the sea.

Departing from the east coast of the Korean Peninsula, crossing the Sea of ​​Japan and arriving at the territory of the Gilemi tribe.

Later, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties gradually lost to Haihan's offensive and took the initiative to apply for an armistice and negotiate a peace. The two sides established trade relations at the border. Haihan encouraged Jilie to join in. As for his identity, as long as he spent a little more money, he had to become a bannerman.

It's not difficult at all. With the business resources specially provided by Haihan, businessmen like Baktan can quickly gain a foothold in the market and even start to establish connections with high-level people in the Manchu and Qing Dynasties.

Thanks to this special status, Bakhtan could enter and exit the two countries smoothly, so he sold Haihan not only Manchurian specialties, but also a large amount of intelligence information.

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