Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 184
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"Bang bang bang-"

At the head of the Daning Zhongwei City, following the order of the commander left behind, hundreds of ten-jin and five-jin cannons on the top of the city fired one after another.

Hundreds of large stone bullets flew out, repelling the Jin army who attempted to attack the fortifications of the moat outside the city.

The heavy [-]-jin shield chariot looked so fragile when faced with the [-]-jin stone bullet, and would often be pierced through in an instant if it was hit from the front.

However, after piercing through, the power of the stone bullet also decreases, often hitting one person, it has already exhausted its strength.

"Okay, retreat!"

"Clang clang-"

Following Mangurtai's voice, the sound of Mingjin appeared, and the army in front began to push back the shield chariot.

Looking down from the sky, the siege outside the northern city of Zhongwei in Daning was impenetrable. The [-]-strong army and the thousands of captured Mongols were like a black tide, which made people feel depressed.

Mangurtai was riding on horseback, and a bloody head hung on the horse behind him.

If you look closely, this head looks like a ferocious Zai Sai.

Unexpectedly, at this time last year, Zai Sai, who followed Mangui to conquer Qinghe Pass and acted as a pioneer, is now decapitated.

His death also means that the five major tribes of Tuman have become four major tribes, and the Ming army has also lost a pawn.

"Driving... woo~~~"

A Mince stepped forward immediately, and said to Mangurtai who was withdrawing from the army:

"Thirty miles to the south, the cavalry of the Ming army was found. The scale is not small. It is estimated that Man Gui has led people out of the fortress and rushed here."

"Well, if that's the case, let's retreat. The information collected this time is enough." Mang Gurtai responded, looking at the shield vehicles pierced by ten-jin cannons on the battlefield, frowning .

The Ming army not only improved the guns, but also improved the artillery. In this way, the gap between Dajin and Mingting was even greater...

Mang Gurtai thought about it, and then commanded an army of [-] to take the thousands of Mongolian captives and the tens of thousands of captured cattle and sheep, and began to evacuate the Daning Zhongwei.

At the head of the Daning Zhongwei, watching Jianlu's soldiers and horses retreat, the remaining commander also breathed a sigh of relief, and did not order everyone to rest until Jianlu's soldiers and horses disappeared into the distant skyline.

Half an hour later, when Man Gui rushed back to Daning Zhongwei with more than [-] cavalry from the three guards and three cavalry guards of Daning, all he saw was the appearance of being shelled outside the city, and the shattered cars. shield car.

Although there were some bloodstains, the corpses were taken away, which means that the Ming army did not get any heads.

However, Daning Zhongwei did not suffer too many losses, which makes Man Gui a little lucky.

After counting the casualties, Man Gui led more than [-] cavalry to chase for [-] miles along Houjin's retreat route. When he found that he could not catch up, he had no choice but to ride his horse back home.

Afterwards, he reported to the emperor and King Qi the news of the dismantling of Liaodong Town and the complete annihilation of the Zaisai Department.

It was already the [-]nd of June when the memorial was passed back to the capital.

Zhu Youjian, who returned to the capital, was summoned by Zhu Youxiao, and then took out Man Gui's memorial.

Sitting in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Zhu Youjian watched the memorials quietly, and on the main seat was Zhu Youxiao, the eldest son of the Ming Dynasty, who was waiting for him to speak.

Next to Zhu Youxiao is his new favorite Wang Liangfei, who looks very handsome and is beating Zhu Youxiao's legs.

"Some losses, but not too big..."

After a long time, Zhu Youjian closed the memorial, raised his head and said to his brother:
"Zai Sai lied to kill my Ming general at the beginning. He was used because no one could use him. Now he has been decapitated by the army of Jianlu and wiped out the tribe. There is no way."

"Seeing her nephew being treated like this by Jianlu, Chaohua will probably be more afraid of Jianlu, and will be closer to me, Daming."

In Zhu Youjian's words, he was not sad about the loss of two thousand pawns. After all, Zai Sai's attitude towards Daming in his early years was not very good.

But compared to him, Zhu Youxiao frowned and said:
"Having said that, the loss of two thousand northern captives who could serve as pioneers, and the loss of tens of thousands of cattle and sheep may restore a lot of vitality to the Jian captives."

"After all, Liao Town was going to be abolished at that time, and Qin Bangping couldn't move, so Man Gui and Qi Jin could only cooperate, which was also a helpless move." Zhu Youjian replied:
"Right now, Liao Town is dismantled very smoothly. Except for a few stone forts that rebelled, after being quickly suppressed, the other Liao generals have already handed over their soldiers and horses."

"Afterwards, the third battalion of the twenty-eighth battalion in Liaodong will be transferred, and it will be enough to add the original sixth battalion to Liaoxi."

"Although they have a lot of care in their hearts, they can still be used after all. Right now, I, Da Ming, don't have many generals who can lead a battalion. Use it first, and it won't be too late to replace it later."

"Besides, now that Liao Township has been abolished, it is only natural that Liaodong should be established as a province, and the founding government of Liaodong should be declared a political secretary."

Zhu Youjian finally mentioned the establishment of a province for Liaodong, and after hearing this, Zhu Youxiao first grabbed the hand of Concubine Wang Liang next to him and put it on his shoulder, motioning Concubine Wang Liang to squeeze her shoulder, and at the same time said:

"How does my brother plan to set up the Liaodong Province?"

Regarding his brother's series of actions and questions, Zhu Youjian said calmly:
"Temporarily set the provincial government of Liaodong as Shenyang Prefecture, and Shenyang Prefecture governs five counties including Shenyang, Tieling, Kaiyuan, Fushun, and Fengji, and Liaoyang Prefecture governs Liaoyang, Haizhou, Gaizhou, and Anshan counties."

"Guangning Prefecture governs the four counties of Guangning, Yizhou, Linghe, and Ningyuan. Jinzhou is established as the prefecture, and Lushun prefecture prefecture governs Fuzhou and Guifu, a total of three counties."

"Followed by Daning Prefecture, the Daning Zhongwei was changed to Daning County, the Daning Front Guard was changed to Liaozhong County, and the Daning Guard was changed to Liaohe County."

"The last one is Zhenjiang Prefecture, which governs Zhenjiang, Kuandian, and Fenghuang counties, a total of six prefectures and twenty-two counties."

Zhu Youjian had already thought about the administrative area of ​​Liaodong, and promoted many resource-type stone castles and post castles to counties.

For example, Anshan, Fengji, Fushun, Linghe, Ningyuan, Lushun, Guifu, Kuandian and other stone castles have all been upgraded.

Needless to say, Anshan and Fengji are areas of iron ore resources, while Fushun is the gateway to Shenyang, Linghe and Ningyuan are two important cities in the West Liaoning Corridor, Guifu is arable land resources, and Kuandian is the east of Liaodong. Lushun is an important port.

Therefore, these are very important places. In the huge Liaodong, there are only six prefectures and twenty-two counties, which are relatively few. The main reason is that the local population cannot support too many prefectures and counties.

As far as Zhu Youxiao is concerned, he has no possibility of doubting his younger brother, and the scale of the six prefectures and twenty-two counties is not large, so he said to Zhu Youjian:

"Brother, is there anyone he likes who can be transferred to Liaodong?"

"It really is." Zhu Youjian said with a smile:

"In this year's imperial examination, my younger brother has long taken a fancy to Lu Xiangsheng, a Jinshi from Changzhou Prefecture, so I want to transfer him to Liaoyang Prefecture as the magistrate."

"In addition, Mao Yuanyi, who served as Yang Gao's staff before, is also good. He can be transferred to Shenyang County, Shenyang Prefecture as the magistrate."

"It's not bad that there is a man named Shen Tingyang in the Imperial College. I heard that he is proficient in shipping, and my younger brother plans to transfer him to Jinzhou Prefecture to serve as the magistrate of Lushun."

"In addition, there is Sun Chengzong, the young Zhan. If the elder brother is willing to part with him, he can be transferred to Shenyang and serve as the prefect of Shenyang."

"Do you have the documents of these people?" Zhu Youxiao asked curiously, and Zhu Youjian had already prepared for Cao Huachun to bring them.

Cao Huachun took out four documents from his sleeve and handed them to Zhu Youxiao carefully.

After Zhu Youxiao took over, he didn't answer immediately, but read the life and history of this group of people, and finally said:
"Lecturer Sun's ability is not bad, but being a magistrate is a bit of a waste of talent."

"Since he has been promoted to be the chief political envoy, let Sun Chengzong be the right chief envoy of Liaodong, Yuan Yingtai be the left chief envoy, and Xiong Tingbi continue to manage Liaodong."

"I have an impression of Lu Xiangsheng's memorabilia. I remember that the Ministry of Officials transferred him to be the head of the household department. I wonder if he would like to go to Liaoyang Mansion to serve as the magistrate."

"If he wants to, it doesn't matter if he is transferred."

Having said that, Zhu Youxiao picked up the last two documents and said:

"On the contrary, Shen Tingyang and Mao Yuanyi, although they have some talents, but they are the magistrates of the two counties for the first time as officials, which is somewhat unethical. Let's temporarily act as the magistrates of the two counties. If they have meritorious service, it will not be too late to promote them."

"My brother, thank you, brother..." Hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, Zhu Youjian knew that the matter was over, so he immediately bowed and sang loudly, his appearance was extremely exaggerated.

Seeing his incongruous appearance, Zhu Youxiao shook his head helplessly, and then said:
"If the imperial decree for the establishment of a province in Liaodong is issued, I'm afraid I will be annoyed by those officials again."

"Brother is tired..." Zhu Youjian continued to chant loudly, raising his hands in a bow.

"Okay..." Looking at Zhu Youjian's appearance, Zhu Youxiao put down the paperwork and said:
"The red-haired barbarians withdrew before Shen Yourong arrived at Haojing in the south. The Huanglong you appointed has already landed on the Great Liuqiu and even fought a battle with the natives. You know about that, right?"

"My younger brother naturally knows." Zhu Youjian responded honestly.

Huanglong landed in Daliuqiu ten days ago, and landed in Beigang (Keelung) under Zhu You's test, and fought a battle with the local natives.

However, under the firearms of the Ming army, the so-called natives were often defeated in an instant.

According to Zhu Youjian's words, Huang Long let the natives go, and asked the translator of the Siyi Pavilion to tell the natives that Daming was not a red-haired barbarian, and that he came here to bring civilization and culture.

If they are willing to live in the prefectures and counties built by Daming, Daming can help them build houses, provide them with cattle, and teach them how to farm.

If they don't want to live in prefectures and counties, but want to go back to live in the mountains, there is no problem. Daming will give them a badge representing their identity. With the badge, they can come to Daming's prefectures and counties to sell things and buy supplies.

And the translation also explained that if Daming hadn't been stationed here, the red-haired barbarians would make a comeback and continue to plunder Ryukyu Prefecture.

Not only that, they also took out some albums about killings made by Europeans in Nanyang that Huanglong had prepared a long time ago.

However, even so, some tribes among the natives still attacked Ming soldiers.

Regarding these phenomena, Huanglong also followed what Zhu Youjian said before departure, ordered the whole army to fight back, and at the same time announced to other tribes that were more obedient, telling them why the tribes that were wiped out were wiped out.

The time now is still very short, but Huang Long probably used it for making connections in ten or so days.

As for the grain of the Yumajian, it will be transported to the temporary port of Beigang before winter, and then the idlers and orphans in the nursing homes of the three coastal provinces will be forcibly relocated.

The difference is that when lazy people migrate, they need to cultivate fields, while orphans will study in the new school in Beigang.

Huanglong also wrote back to tell Zhu Youjian about the situation in Ryukyu. Simply put, it is much better than Daning.

As long as there is enough animal power and manpower, the same arable land as in Liaodong can be reclaimed in three years, and the yield per mu will also increase through repeated cultivation and composting.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian also opened up to his royal brother:

"There shouldn't be any problems with the Ryukyu matter. Right now, I'm asking Brother Huang to transfer the qualification to open the sea from Yuegang to Nangang and Beigang."

Nangang and Beigang, these are the two big ports in the north and south of Ryukyu Prefecture, and their locations are Keelung and Kaohsiung in later generations.

If the qualification to open sea trade is given to these two ports, then Zhu Youjian will prohibit private sea trade in name, and Yumajian will monopolize offshore trade.

Zhu Youxiao didn't pay much attention to this. When he heard his younger brother's words, he turned his head and said to Wei Zhongxian who was standing at the door:
"Decree to dismiss Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Fujian Provinces and Municipal Shipping Departments, and open the North and South Port City Shipping Departments in Liuqiu Prefecture."

"The servant obeys the order..." Wei Zhongxian didn't dare to talk nonsense now, and he was honest about the emperor's orders.

Zhu Youjian saw that his imperial brother's decree was so powerful, and he set up a special shipping department for the North and South Ports, so he immediately said:

"If you want to set up a shipping department in the North and South Ports, then my brother, please transfer Shen Tingyang from Lushun to the Ryukyu Prefecture, and order Huanglong to be the secretary of the shipping department, and Shen Tingyang as the deputy."

"Huh? That's fine." Zhu Youxiao nodded when he heard that his younger brother wanted to transfer Shen Tingyang to the Ryukyu Mansion. Although he didn't understand, he still nodded in agreement.

But after nodding, he still reminded: "Let him act as deputy lifter for now."

"Thank you, brother, please rest assured, within three years, the Ryukyu City Shipping Department will be able to collect enough money for the construction of the three halls for my brother." Zhu Youjian also knows how to please his brother.

It can be said that if I hadn't insisted on it, I am afraid that my elder brother would have allocated money to build the three halls long ago.

Thinking about it, Zhu Youjian also got up and said: "This time, I will stay in the capital for three days, and then I will continue to return to Yanshan Camp."

"Huh? Is there something in a hurry to go back?" Zhu Youxiao asked puzzledly, while Zhu Youjian said with a smile:

"The main thing is to get some gadgets."

"Gizmo?" Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao's eyes lit up, and then he smiled at Zhu Youjian:
"Brother, why don't you leave it to me and let me develop it?"

"Brother to develop?" Zhu Youjian was stunned for a second, a little embarrassed.

"Brother, let's get out the bicycle, the textile machine, and the loom first."

"Those little gadgets, I can get them out after some time." Zhu Youxiao said dissatisfiedly:
"Brother, don't you believe I can get it out?"

"Not really..." Zhu Youjian replied hesitantly.

"Then it's settled, brother give me the blueprint, and I'll make it." Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, and then said to Zhu Youjian without giving Zhu Youjian a chance to refute:
"It's getting late, I have to talk to Concubine Yu about something today, brother, let's go down first."

"It's not early?" Zhu Youjian glanced out of the bright window, and then at the pretty red-faced Concubine Wang Liang. He immediately spat in his heart, then got up, bowed in return, and left with Cao Huachun.

It's just that before he walked out of the palace gate, he heard the voice of Concubine Wang Liang begging for mercy, and asked him to say to Liu Ruoyu and Wang Tigan at the door when he went out:
"If brother says what medicine to use, remember not to agree, just say I said it."

"Uh...yes..." Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, the two looked embarrassed, but they still bit the bullet and agreed.

Zhu Youjian asked again: "Have all the people in the Tai Hospital been replaced?"

"Return to Your Highness." Liu Ruoyu said:
"The few people invited by Commander Lu were all admitted to the Tai Hospital."

"That's fine." Zhu Youjian heard that the matter was settled, so he stopped worrying.

After the reorganization of Jinyiwei, apart from his intelligence, perhaps Zhu Youjian was most satisfied with the fact that he searched for famous doctors from all over the world.

Li Zhongzi, Wu Youxing, Zhao Xianke, Zhang Jiebin, Chen Shigong, Wang Kentang, Wu Wangzhi, Miao Xiyong and more than ten famous doctors in internal medicine and surgery were recruited by him.

Zhu Youjian brought them to the capital for the purpose of teaching medicine, and then opened a Yanshan Medical School not far from Yanshan Institute, and placed more than ten famous doctors in it, and asked them to go to two Yanshan Institutes to select suitable disciples .

In the end, more than [-] people were selected to study medicine with them.

Among them, Zhu Youjian talked the most with surgeon Chen Shigong. After all, surgery is what Zhu Youjian needs most at present.

How many soldiers died of inflammation under the battlefield?And how many people are permanently disabled because of broken bones that cannot be healed?

Therefore, Zhu Youjian had a detailed chat with Chen Shigong about his understanding of surgery, and the most basic ones were blood type and blood transfusion.

Although Zhu Youjian didn't know how to do a blood test, he could put forward this opinion, and he also promised to get some dead prisoners' corpses for Chen Shigong and many students to learn how to dissect.

Zhu Youjian also gave these more than ten famous doctors a high enough salary, with an annual salary of five hundred taels, enough to buy ten yards in the capital.

However, they still need to be on duty in the palace in shifts, usually once a month, and each time they change shifts, three people will serve as envoys and judges respectively, responsible for the health of the emperor.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian is not afraid that someone will tamper with the medicine, because all family members are protected by the Supervision Department of Jinyiwei.

After the confession, Zhu Youjian took Cao Huachun back to his Xuqin Palace.

After returning to Xuqin Palace, he was ready to start improving some teaching materials of Yanshan Institute.

He was sitting on a chair, beside Yang Yuanai who was grinding for him, and Yang Ai who was holding tea.

Yang Ai seemed very interested in watching His Royal Highness write and draw on the paperwork.

While Yang Yuanai was making new tea, Yang Ai put her toes on purposely, and Zhu Youjian looked sideways when she saw this, Yang Ai immediately lowered her head cautiously.

"What? Interested?"

Zhu Youjian asked, but Yang Ai lowered her head in fear, wishing she could bury her head in her clothes.

Because it is tied with two sky-high gowns and tied with red cloth, it looks like Nezha in Zhu Youjian's impression, very cute.

"His Highness asks you something, you just say it."

Seeing that Yang Ai was timid and dared not speak, Cao Huachun, who was standing across from her, smiled and persuaded her, while Yang Ai raised her head when her admiral spoke, and nodded with innocent eyes.

Seeing this, Zhu Youjian took the tea from him, put it on the table, reached out and hugged her to his lap, and said to her:

"Are you literate?"

"Sister, I have taught you..." Yang Ai whispered, and at this time Yang Yuanai also walked back to the study with tea.

"Your Highness, forgive me, my younger sister is not sensible..." Seeing her sister sitting on her Highness's lap, Yang Yuanai was so frightened that she immediately knelt on the ground.

"I don't know what to do..." Zhu Youjian couldn't hold back anymore, and then said:

"Get up too."

After all, when Yang Yuan fell in love, Zhu Youjian said to Yang Ai:

"I said, you write, and if you don't know the words, you can ask your sister, do you understand?"

"Hmm..." Yang Ai nodded, and then Zhu Youjian handed over the pen to her, and began to say what he wanted to say word by word, and Yang Ai followed suit word by word.

I have to say that although she is young, Yang Ai's handwriting is relatively neat.

Although she didn't know some characters, when she raised her head, Yang Yuanai stepped forward cautiously, took the pen, and wrote the characters for her.

After finishing writing, Zhu Youjian also asked: "Do you remember?"

Yang Ai nodded her head, expressing that she remembered it, then took the pen and continued to write down Zhu Youjian's word for word.

Halfway through writing, Zhu Youjian raised his head and said to Cao Huachun:
"Have someone make some snacks to eat."

"Your servant takes orders..." Cao Huachun walked out of the study, greeted the eunuch at the door, and then returned to the study.

After half a quarter of an hour like this, Zhu Youjian didn't wait for the snacks and tea from the chef of Donggong, but Cui Yingyuan.

"Your Highness, Commander Tongzhi of Nanzhen Fusi, Cui Yingyuan asks to see you."

The accompanying eunuch walked into the study room and bowed to salute, but Zhu Youjian didn't raise his head and said, "Let him in."

The eunuch withdrew after hearing the words and returned the salute, and then Cui Yingyuan walked in.

"Your Highness is a thousand years old!" Cui Yingyuan bowed and saluted when he entered the room, and Zhu Youjian raised his head and said to him:
"Get up."

"Thank you, Your Highness." Cui Yingyuan looked at his Highness holding a little girl, and was a little puzzled as to why the girl was wearing a palace lady's clothes, but without thinking too much, he bowed and said:

"Your Highness, there are some clues about the matter of Wen Xiangjiao."

"Let's listen." Zhu Youjian frowned, and Cui Yingyuan also said:

"Then Xu Hongru hid among the disaster-stricken people in Yuncheng, and at the same time he secretly gave alms, he was preparing to start..."

"Wait." Zhu Youjian stopped Cui Yingyuan, then hugged Yang Ai from his lap, and said to Yang Yuanai: "Take your sister to make tea."

"Your servant takes orders." Yang Yuanai knew that the next words were not for her to listen to, so she decisively led her sister away.

After they left, Zhu Youjian turned to Cui Yingyuan and said, "Continue."

"Yes!" Cui Yingyuan lowered his head and continued:
"Xu Hongru and others recruited some disaster victims and water workers. After inquiring about Xiaoqi and other guards going to the north, Xu Hongru made an appointment with the deputy leader Wang Haoxian, Yu Hongzhi and others on the third day of October in Guide, Kaifeng, Henan, Yunfeng, Shandong, etc. The city and other places rebelled at the same time, with more than [-] believers."

Cui Yingyuan bowed his head and said his inquiry, and there were many turmoil in his heart.

To be honest, if King Qi hadn't reminded him, I'm afraid he wouldn't have paid attention to this Wenxiang sect in Shandong at all.

I never thought of investigating casually now, but this cult has grown to a level of more than [-] members.

Cui Yingyuan was horrified, not only him, but even Cao Huachun next to him had goosebumps all over his body.

In this case, Zhu Youjian was very calm.

If he remembers correctly, Xu Hongru's rebellion should follow the example of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, planning to rebel in Jizhou and Hejian in Northern Zhili, Yuncheng and Teng County in Shandong, Shanxi, Henan and other places.

However, like the Yellow Turban Rebellion, they were betrayed by traitors, so they could only rebel in advance.

Just because I have rectified Beizhili and Shanxi, most of the people in Beizhili and Shanxi were assigned to fields, so the contradiction of land annexation was greatly eased.

Therefore, there was no soil for the rebellion in Northern Zhili and Shanxi, and Xu Hongru increased his penetration into Henan.

From the current point of view, if Xu Hongru really revolted in Shandong and Henan, it would undoubtedly seriously threaten the imperial court's water transportation and cause Beizhili to fall into a food shortage.

But right now there are a lot of soldiers and horses in Beizhili and Shanxi, and there is enough food in the Yumajian. It is easy for Zhu Youjian to encircle and suppress Xu Hongru, but...

Zhu Youjian thought of the vassal kings in Shandong and Henan, as well as the group of high-ranking Jiangnan gentry, so he couldn't help but twitch.

"This is a good opportunity..."

(End of this chapter)