Chapter 78                                                         

Side of Tianchi, Changbai Mountain.

There is originally a temple of the Goddess of Snow Mountain here.

But at this moment it was designated as the Temple of the Queen of Heaven in Changbai Mountain. It was matched with the emperor's etiquette.

This year, the new top student Fei Hong followed Zhu Qizhen on a tour, and the first job he received was Feng Changbai Mountain.

Move the mouth above and run the legs below.

Unlike the mountain gods in the Central Plains, there have been long-standing conclusions, such as who is the mountain god of Mount Tai? This is all classics, but although Changbai Mountain has a special status among the people of all ethnic groups in the Northeast, it is not true that Changbai Mountain has a personalized god mansion.

Changbai Mountain is so important that although the level of the mountain god is not as good as that of Mount Tai, it should be at the level of the emperor.

The cumbersome etiquette involved is really troublesome.

However, Fei Hong was indeed the top scholar. After a few days, he gave a complete plan. With more outstanding intentions, he boldly designated the God of Changbai Mountain as the goddess.

This is certainly a legend about Fei Hong’s visit to local legends, but there was a legend about the goddess of the Changbai as early as the Liao Dynasty. More importantly, it caters to Zhu Qizhen’s thoughts.

Does Zhu Qizhen care about the affairs of gods and ghosts?

No.

The reason why Zhu Qizhen enfeoffed Changbai Mountain was to curb the hearts of the people in Northeast China.

It is true that most of the Han people in the Northeast immigrated from the Central Plains, and these people were still very convinced by the Ming Dynasty. However, the Northeast was not an unmanned land. When Watami fought with the Ming Dynasty, he could summon more than 100,000 troops in the Northeast. This can be explained.

It is true that the tribes in the Northeast are different from the Ming Dynasty. Almost all the people are soldiers, and these soldiers are all their adult and strong men. Moreover, they were killed and injured in the war between the Ming Dynasty and Wats in the Northeast.

Although there are not too many of these people, they have no good opinions about the Ming Dynasty.

To enthrone the god of Changbai Mountain is to use faith to win over the hearts of local people.

Fei Hong understood this deeply and made his own efforts, defining the God of Changbai Mountain as a goddess. Generally speaking, women lack the spirit of resistance than men. Especially in Zhu Qizhen's original history, the Qing Dynasty originated from Changbai Mountain. It is more in line with Zhu Qizhen's thoughts.

Since the God of Changbai Mountain is the Concubine of Heaven and Zhu Qizhen is the Emperor, there are also indescribable hints.

So Zhu Qizhen handed over this matter to Fei Hong.

Fei Hong looked through some local information about Changbai Mountain and finally decided to set the Changbai Mountain God in Changbai Tianchi Lake.

It seems that this piece of Tianchi water is in line with the temperament of a goddess.

"Sir Fei, the auspicious time has arrived." said the local official around him.

Fei Hong nodded, looked up at the sun, stood in front of the Snow Mountain Goddess Temple, and read the imperial edict loudly.

The imperial edict was written by Fei Hong, and the four characters and six are so beautiful. It has been thousands of records. However, I hope that the god of Changbai Mountain can safeguard the northeast and protect the world of Ming Dynasty forever.

After reading the imperial edict, Fei Hong's work was not over yet.

He had to supervise the establishment of the Changbai Mountain Temple here, and choose a Taoist priest to preside over the long term here, probably from the Wudang Mountain Gate. After all, Wudang Mountain was the family temple of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty and had a close relationship with the royal family. Not to mention anything else, Hu Yi was a disciple of Wudang Mountain. Zhu Qizhen also asked Hu Yi about the method of maintaining longevity. In short, this method was also the secret of Wudang Mountain at that time.

Although there is no ability to fly and escape from the earth, it is OK to protect longevity.

Feng Changbai Mountain is just a small episode during Zhu Qizhen's trip.

Zhu Qizhen is heading on the Songhua River at this moment.

Following the Songhua River, Zhu Qizhen sat on the boat and felt much more relaxed.

This time it was not only Zhu Qizhen who was relaxing, but also tens of thousands of troops and attendants who followed Zhu Qizhen.

The Songhua River system is the main transportation route in Northeast China. During the Yongle period, it was already an important waterway to communicate with the Northeast. Otherwise, Emperor Taizong would not have had much effort and would have to establish a shipyard in Jilin.

However, this time, the fleet that could transport tens of thousands of people was a ship left by the Songhua River Navy at that time.

Although the Songhua River is an important waterway, the cargo transportation volume is not too high. The reason is that even though Zhu Qizhen immigrated for many years, it is still a vast land with sparsely populated land, especially in the north of the Songhua River, which is almost a barren land, and is the world of Siberian tigers.

In this way, although the water system is developed, the waterways are unobstructed, there are not many commercial exchanges.

On the contrary, the Ming Dynasty and Watsai warned, built a large number of ships in the Songhua River and established the Songhua River Navy. It was to ensure that the waterway could be kept open under any circumstances.

When the Songhua River Navy was most prosperous, there were so many people that it was comparable to the sea navigator at that time.

But now, it's useless.

In addition to retaining some, the extra ships were distributed to government officials in various places.

As long as the wooden boats in the Sail Age were not cut corners when they were built, they could be used for decades or even hundreds of years.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty immigrants also needed these ships to transport them. So by trimming these ships, they could transport tens of thousands of troops.

Of course, Zhu Qizhen's boat is the best new ship.

Zhu Qizhen’s focus was not on the boat, but on the farmland on both sides of the vast Songhua River.

Generally speaking, immigrants in the Northeast range from south to north. Of course, except for Haixi, immigrants in Haixi are more likely to absorb North Korean immigrants. From Jilin to north, there are fewer and fewer immigrants. However, immigrants also travel through the Songhua River. The places where they are farmed are also near the Songhua River. On the one hand, it is convenient for irrigation, and on the other hand, it is convenient for transportation.

Just looking at the several miles of land on both sides of the Songhua River, although some swamps are inconvenient for cultivation, most of them are farmland.

However, unlike Jilin in the south, most of the farmlands here are grown from soybeans, sorghum, wheat, etc.

This is what the Songhua River flows. After the Songhua River leaves Changbai Mountain, it first goes west, then goes around, and then goes east.

Now the section of the river where Zhu Qizhen is located is heading west, and the more we go west, the drier it becomes. Even if you rely on a Songhua River, you are not very suitable for growing rice. The rice cultivation area in the northeast is in the middle and lower reaches of the Liaohe River, in the lower reaches of the Songjiang River, and in the watery places. But here is not.

As he sailed along the way, Zhu Qizhen looked at the farmland in the northeast and thought it was the best view.

We arrived in Zhaozhou Prefecture soon.

This is also the northernmost prefecture in the entire Liaodong Province.

The area is so large that it almost covers a large area of ​​land south of Nuergandusi and west of Little Khingan Mountains. Zhaozhou Prefecture was built on Zhaozhou City as the foundation, and the Zhaozhou Battle was a battle between the Ming Dynasty and Washu, which proved to Washu that the Ming Dynasty had the ability to launch a strategic decisive battle hundreds of miles away from the border. It can be said that after the Battle of Zhaozhou, the situation between the Ming Dynasty and Washu was very clear.

Therefore, after the war, Zhaozhou City was upgraded to a prefecture and became the core city in this area.

Compared with the location of Harbin, Zhaozhou Prefecture is a little west, but it is also the center of the Songnen Plain. It is suitable for agricultural development. The east of Zhaozhou Prefecture is the northernmost prefecture in Haixi Province, Songyin Prefecture. Its location is near Mudanjiang City in later generations. These two prefectures, in general, are large inland and sparsely populated.

When the population of these two places became denser, the Northeast became the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Qizhen no longer had to worry about the Northeast.

In Zhaozhou City, Ma Yong asked for a meeting and met Zhu Qizhen and said, "Please rest for several days in Zhaozhou City."

Zhu Qizhen said: "Why?"

Ma Yong said: "If you go west to Longcheng, you will enter Mobei. The northern part of the Mobei is vast and sparsely populated, hundreds of miles away, and cannot provide supply to the army. Zhaozhou Prefecture is the last stop for the army to be able to supply. I would like to ask Your Majesty to stay for a few days and wait for the army to rest and then set off again."

Zhu Qizhen actually doesn't understand a little.

In his opinion, Mobei is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty stationed tens of thousands of troops in Mobei. Is there any difficulties and obstacles? It is necessary to make the people below feel as if they are facing a great enemy.

However, Zhu Qizhen has one advantage, that is, he is willing to listen to the opinions of the people below for things he doesn't understand, so he nodded in agreement.

So the army stayed in Zhaozhou for a total of three days before starting to head northwest.

Most of the people had already got off the boat and changed horses, and there were only one person and a few horses. Zhu Qizhen, more than a thousand civil and military officials, as well as food, supplies and supplies were all transported on the road, and the rest of the soldiers were named and followed.

Zhaozhou Prefecture is also the intersection of the Chidao and the waterway. From Daning to the northeast, Chidao turned a big bend at this place and headed northwest. It went straight to Longcheng.

Zhu Qizhen did not walk on the road for long before changing the boat again.

But it is not a big ship, the ship is much smaller, and it is generally a little more comfortable than a carriage.

At this moment, they are not in the Songhua River system, but in the Yinma River, which is also the Kruren River in later generations. This river is an inward river. The uppermost stream of this river is near Longcheng, and the Chidao has been built along this river for a long time. Nothing else, even horses need to drink water.

With this river, the station established has enough water.

Zhu Qizhen took several ships in the river, while the army was guarding both sides of the straits.

Soon, we arrived at a big lake.

This lake is very famous, not because of anything special about this lake, but because of a war, this lake is famous for conquering the world.

The name of this lake is fishing sea.

When Zhu Qizhen saw this lake, he recalled Lan Yu. With his achievements as Lan Yu, he was awarded the title of Lan Yu Kingdom. He also ordered that the temple be built for Lan Yu be sacrificed here.

Overall, Zhu Qizhen's journey was quite pleasant, but it might not be so. Zhu Qizhen bypassed the natural danger of the desert and did not go through it directly, but even so, marching in the northern desert was not easy.
Chapter completed!