I want to be emperor

Chapter 555
On September [-]th of the seventh year of Chengshun, Jinzhou Port, a newly built port, was filled with lights and festoons.

Admiral Zuo Yingzhe led a group of generals, together with hundreds of civil servants from Liaodong Province, arrived at an open space by the pier.

At this time, many ceremonial items for receiving the order have been placed on the open space, and the army flag with a black border and a red background with a black dragon holding a sword flag is fluttering in the wind.

Next to the army flag, there are blue-bordered red-bottomed blue dragon holding sword flags and the guards' blue-bordered red-bottomed blue dragon holding sword flags.

In the center of the army flag with three dragons holding swords, there is an even bigger red-bottomed yellow dragon stepping on wonton sun flag.

And at the pier, a large sea-going ship with many colorful flags was also moored, and it could be seen that a group of civil and military officials on board were also dressed in formal attire and waiting to disembark.

When I was young, first a group of guard soldiers came down from the ship to guard them, and then some low-level Hanlin officials disembarked for various inspections. After confirming that there was no problem with etiquette, a group of officials disembarked from the ship.

The leader is a man wearing a civil official robe, wearing a three-rank badge, and a peony flower pattern commonly used by officials of the Imperial Academy on his cuffs.

This person holds the imperial decree in his hand, and behind him is an entourage holding the yellow dragon flag and other special ceremonial guards for imperial envoys. As soon as this person stepped on the ground, Zuo Yingzhe on the shore came forward with a group of generals under his command, and saluted one by one: "Welcome! Imperial envoy!"

Wang Lin, who was holding the imperial decree in front of him, looked serious, looked around and nodded slightly.

At this time, another attendant from the Imperial Academy came out and sang: "The ministers of Liaodong accept the order!"

Immediately afterwards, many generals headed by Zuo Yingzhe raised their heads and chests high, while on the other side, Liaodong governor Ji Dehua, Bu Zhengshi, Jinzhou prefect and other civil servants of Liaodong province knelt down to the ground.

At this time, Wang Lin took a step forward, spread out the imperial decree in his hand and said loudly: "Fengtian Chengyun Emperor's Day..."

Wang Lin read the imperial decree in his hand almost word by word, so that others could hear it clearly.

This is a letter used to announce the condolences of the emperor Luo Zhixue to the soldiers who fought in Liaodong, and to appease the people. Highly positive.

Therefore, there can be no mistakes when reading this edict. It is an exaggeration to say that the more than [-] soldiers of the land and sea guards who fought in the Liaodong area, and the Liaodong provincial governor’s office who accompanied the army into Liaodong, and the officials of the prefectural and county yamen They are all eagerly waiting for this imperial decree.

Especially when they heard the sentence "My heart is very comforting", whether it is the army general Zuo Yingzhe or the governor Ji Dehua, all of them showed joy.

Even though they had expected today's scene long ago, they still couldn't help being overjoyed when they really heard the content of the imperial decree.

This is an important decree to set the tone and show your attitude.

With this imperial decree setting the tone, there will be a series of various rewards and promotions in the follow-up.

After the long imperial decree was read out, everyone still did not back down. Wang Lin still had a serious face, because at this time, Hanlin had already taken out the second imperial decree and handed it to him.

Continue to say: "Following the emperor's decree, the imperial court will return to the frontier and restore the soil, and the meritorious service will be promoted, and the courtiers will be careful... The commander of the third army, General Zuo Yingzhe... is loyal to the king's affairs... Another pile of pa la pa Lah, Tefenger is the Duke of Liaoxi, the original noble inherits three generations, and the reduced descendant inherits the baron instead."

This is an official decree to confer Zuo Yingzhe the Duke, otherwise the scene would not be so big.

Even though Zuo Yingzhe knew that he would be canonized as a duke, when this day came, he still couldn't help being excited, and immediately knelt down and shouted: "I kneel to thank the emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Although soldiers are given special treatment, military salutes can be used instead of kneeling salutes for daily audiences and receiving orders, but on important occasions such as conferring titles, he is not only a soldier, but also a courtier, so he should kneel salute in this way.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Lin, deputy director of the Imperial Academy, continued to be busy, and read out dozens of imperial decrees at one go, all of which were imperial edicts for the canonization of nobles, half of which were title promotions, and the other half were generals who were knighted for the first time.

After the imperial decree was read out, Wang Lin's mouth was dry, but he seemed much more relaxed. He took the initiative to go up to Zuo Yingzhe to congratulate him.

Before the imperial decree was read out, Wang Lin was an imperial envoy representing the emperor, so naturally he had to put up his airs, so as not to lose the emperor's face.

But after reading out the imperial decree, his task of proclaiming the decree canonization is considered complete. Although he still needs to represent the emperor to the front line for inspection and condolences, there is no need to be so serious.

After returning to his own identity, Wang Lin couldn't help but want to make a good impression in front of the fifth Duke of the Great Chu Empire.

Zuo Yingzhe was also in a good mood at this time, chatting and laughing with Wang Lin.

After everyone laughed and talked, they continued to go north to station in Songshan City.

At present, the headquarters of the Third Army and the governor's office of Liaodong Province are temporarily stationed in Songshan.

It was supposed to be stationed in Jinzhou, but when they besieged Jinzhou some time ago, the Chu army attacked the city too fiercely, not only the city wall was destroyed badly, but also when they entered the city later, they were met with tenacious resistance from the Dongyao people. In order to avoid a large number of casualties caused by street fighting, the Chu army simply burned most of the buildings in the city with a torch.

After the war, Jinzhou is now in ruins, and it is not suitable to stay at all.

Therefore, Matsuyama Castle, which was not damaged by the war, was chosen as the resident.

As an imperial envoy, Wang Lin participated in another report meeting on behalf of the emperor after he arrived in Songshan City, mainly to listen to the progress of the military's war in the east of Liaodong.

Lieutenant General Song Qilin, Chief of Staff of the Third Army, gave a detailed introduction to the current situation in Liaodong to Wang Lin, the imperial envoy, and representatives of the Gyeonggi General Staff, Military and Political Department, Logistics Department and other Gyeonggi military agencies.

"At present, the main force of our Third Army has successfully joined forces with the Seventh Army that landed on the Liaodong Peninsula last year at the mouth of the Liaohe River. During this process, we have successively conquered many cities west of the Liaohe River, including Yizhou, Guangningwei and all the fortresses. Controlled the area south of the Great Wall in the northern part of the Liaoxi Corridor. At the same time, our army also controlled most of the area north of the Great Wall in Liaoxi, including part of the Liaohetao area.

Seventy-eight out of ten Mongolian tribes such as Duoyan Sanwei in the area north of the Great Wall have surrendered to our dynasty. At present, we are uniting with the tribes to continue to eliminate the Mongolian tribes in Liaohetao and other places, so as to completely cut off the Mongolian foreign aid for the remnants of the Dongyao people. "

"In the area east of the Liaohe River, our army currently mainly controls the three places of Liaohekou, Haizhou, and Gaizhou, and the eastern region has pushed the front to the front line of the Gouzi River."

"In other words, our army has completely recovered the Liaodong Peninsula."

"Our next strategic goal is to win Liaoyang, Shenyang, and Phoenix City, and take advantage of the trend to win Tieling and Liaohai."

"Advance the front line to the Great Wall of Liaodong in an all-round way, and fully recover and control the area within the Liaodong city."

Although Wang Lin doesn't know anything about military affairs, he can also tell from the map that if the military can really advance the war to the front line of the Great Wall of Liaodong, then basically the frontier can be restored to the early Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the East China Sea. The scale before the rise of kidnappers.

Although for the upper echelons of the empire, the recovery of the Liaodong region was not the end, but a starting point, but food had to be eaten bite by bite. First, the Liaodong region was conquered, and then the entire Northeast region could be talked about later.

Although Wang Lin is only a third-rank official, as one of the deputy directors of the Imperial Academy Secretariat, he has access to many important military and political documents on a daily basis. Naturally, he knows the high-level empire, and to be precise, it is His Majesty's huge ambition for the northeast.

In the imperial study of the emperor, on the large area hanging on the wall, there is a dotted line in the northeast direction, which was drawn by His Majesty himself.

This false title is directly drawn on the ice cap in the north...

Then they asked people to list all the guards set up by the Ming Dynasty in the Northeast region, and then put them on the map one by one. It doesn't matter whether the directions are accurate or not. have actual dominion.

This is not only done in the northeast direction, in fact, it is also done in the south direction.

In short, according to the official statement of the Great Chu Empire, from the Central Plains all the way north to the Arctic Ocean, it has been the territory of China since ancient times!

Therefore, this time Wang Shi killed the northeast and even the Mongolian grasslands in the southern part of the country. The official terms of the Great Chu Empire were never expansion, conquest or revenge. They were all in the name of regaining lost land.

What is important is that a teacher is famous!
As far as the Northeast is concerned, the recovery of Liaodong Town is just the beginning. The follow-up Wang Shi will continue to fight in the Northeast without any accidents, completely wipe out the Dongyao, and at the same time recover a large area of ​​land in the Northeast, and even cross Heilongjiang to Waixing'an ridge.

In short, it is necessary to take the entire Northeast region into the bag.

Moreover, the Great Chu Empire and the Ming Dynasty mainly played tricks. The Great Chu Empire basically did not play tricks. That set.

After all, after killing the Dongbang people, continuing to fight north is not a large-scale war, at most it is a small fight, and there is still a generation gap.

In the Northeast, not all the barbarians are as numerous and powerful as the Dongyao people, and they are quite capable of fighting. In many places in the north, especially the barbarians in the outer Xing'an Mountains and even further north, the population is actually very small, and many of them are still staying. In the savage stage, there is no civilization at all.

Even the captives in the east did not regard many barbarians in the north as human beings, and often plundered people and livestock as slaves.

Therefore, after killing the Dongyao people in the northeast, they will not encounter any large-scale enemies, and the follow-up will be small fights, which will not cost a lot of military expenses.

However, in the expansion of the Xing'an Mountains, the focus is not on the early military conquest, but on the subsequent actual control.

That place is icy and snowy, sparsely populated, and thousands of miles away from the Central Plains!

It is very difficult to maintain actual control in these places.

How to maintain actual control is a key consideration for the Great Chu Empire after the Northeast Campaign.

The courtiers under him didn't know about this, but Luo Zhixue already had a secret case.

Simply relying on frontier troops to garrison is not enough. Pure garrisons have no other effect except to consume military expenses. a lot.

The Ming Dynasty is a typical example... The expansion was extremely violent in the early days, but it didn't take long for economic factors to voluntarily give up.

There is only one way to achieve long-term actual control, and that is to immigrate there!
Although the Far East of Siberia is bitterly cold, some areas along the coast and along the river can still support a certain population. Luo Zhixue plans to mobilize immigrants to build immigrant settlements in the future.

When there are more immigrant settlements, actual control will become a matter of course.

This is much better than appeasing the barbarians, playing nominal obedience, and paying tribute regularly!

(End of this chapter)