Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 204
"One two...pull! One two...pull!"

On June [-]th, amidst shouts and shouts, [-] peasants on both sides of the Liaohe River were pulling grain transport ships with [-] materials.

The grain transport ships departing from Tianjin received the order of Zhu Youxiao who was far away in the capital, and sent another [-] stones of grain and fodder and [-] catties of gunpowder from Taicang.

The war was imminent, and the entire Liaodong was mobilized, and during this mobilization, nearly [-] men were recruited as civilian husbands to serve the entire Liaodong army.

At this moment, in the Shenyang area next to the Liaohe River, there are only [-] civilians, and more civilians are gathering towards Kuandian, Fenghuang City, and Liaoyang.

At this time, Zhu Youjian's grasp of Liaodong's economy and the layout of Liaodong's people's livelihood were revealed.

As of June [-], more than [-] victims from the Central Plains had entered Liao, including [-] males over the age of [-].

These men already needed relief, and the work of the civilian husbands now provides them with a way out.

For the victims of the disaster, Zhu Youjian distributed food, and told them to lay down Tieling and other places in the form of notices, and then distributed land to them.

For the original people in Liaodong, Zhu Youjian hired them at a price of [-] Wen a day.

Due to the grain sales by the Yumajian, the silver and copper coins in the Liaodong market have long been insufficient, and even fell into a money shortage.

Right now, he uses cash and copper coins as employment bargaining chips instead of learning places, and recruits Liao people directly in the name of corvee. With this method, the people of Liaodong are grateful to him, the so-called king of Qi.

Corvée can be dispensed with, but it cannot be absent.

On this point, Zhu Youjian agrees with his brother's words very much. Looking back now, he is sometimes too ideal and divorced from reality.

He wants to exempt the world from corvee, but for Daming in this era, such exemption is a hidden danger.

If the people are spoiled enough in the back, will there be some scenes where the government helps the local people build roads, but still pays them wages?

This kind of scene is normal and reasonable in future generations, but it is not good in this era.

In future generations where trade is frequent, countries can mobilize resources for trade, build factories, and dump commodities.

But in this era when it takes ten days and a half months to go out of the province, such a business speed cannot become the main force of taxation.

This is why Zhu Youjian came to his senses and said, "The corvee can be dispensed with, but it cannot be dispensed with."

Just like now, he can use corvee, but it is not necessary, so he is useless, and the people are grateful to him, to the court, and to the emperor.

Such an ending made Zhu Youjian understand that he still has a lot to learn.

Perhaps in military affairs, I am better than my imperial brother, but in terms of manipulating people's hearts and balancing the court situation, I still need to learn from my imperial brother...

"Your Highness, this is the number of stone bombs prepared by each city, the gunpowder in reserve, and the number of horses in each city, as well as the latest transfer of old slave soldiers and horses. Please take a look..."

At the estuary of the Liaohe River, Zhu Youjian looked at the peasants who were pulling the boats, and Lu Wenzhao also rode over and handed in two important pieces of information.

For the two pieces of information, Zhu Youjian first took a look at the mobilization of the old slave's soldiers and horses.

It has to be said that although Jin Yiwei could not successfully invade Jianlu, they noticed that the old slaves were different from their vigilance against merchants.

For the Liao people, they have one attitude, and they have another attitude towards North Korea.

After Li Ruolian noticed the difference in attitude, he immediately ordered Jin Yiwei to instigate several North Korean merchants, and then recruited them to become Jin Yiwei's foreign aid.

At the same time, Li Ruolian asked these Liaodong merchants to sell grain and ironware in Hetuala, Jianlu, and sold contraband to gain Daishan's trust, and obtained some information that was relatively easy to obtain.

However, it is limited to this, so although Nurhachi's trust in North Korean merchants is not high, his defenses are very strict.

North Korean merchants can only trade in Hetuala, and cannot go to any pass east or south of Hetuala.

But even so, Jin Yiwei of Beizhen Fusi found out a lot of news...

Taking apart the information, Zhu Youjian read the information at a glance, and the information mentioned in it was that Nurhachi ordered Daishan and Amin to move the craftsmen, old and weak women and children from Tieling and Kaiyuan to Wuyewuwei. information.

After reading the news, Zhu Youjian remained calm, and then glanced at another book about the number of gunpowder and horses in each city.

After reading the document, he opened his mouth and said:

"Daishan's status is Jianlu's right and left steward, and is as important as Huang Taiji's status."

"Sending such a character to Wuyewuwei, I think the old slave is planning to build Wuyewuwei into the second Hetuala."

"No... it should be said that it is a more complete acropolis."

When Zhu Youjian said this, he thought about the later cities corresponding to Wuyewuwei in his mind, and finally the word "Jilin" appeared in his mind, and he also remembered its geographical features on the terrain.

Although Wuyewuwei is the site of later generations of Jilin, it is located on the long and narrow plain in the west of Jilin.

This place is located in the transition zone from the Changbai Mountains to the Songnen Plain.

The terrain here gradually decreases from southeast to northwest, forming many terrains such as mountains, hills, canyons, lakes, river valleys, and plains.

In addition, this place has a long and narrow plain for hundreds of miles and a wide plain of twenty or thirty miles, and has the advantage of being surrounded by water on three sides. If it is really developed by Nurhachi, it may really be able to support the [-] troops of Jianlu.

However, if millions of acres of arable land can be reclaimed, I am afraid that the Han people in Tieling and other places will be exhausted to death...

In this way, Zhu Youjian fell into the decision of whether to send troops or not.

To send troops from Daning right now, it would take at least five hundred miles to cut off Daishan's migration of population.

Since it is a fast walk, you can't carry artillery, and if you go deep into this place, you still need to face the flanking attacks of Horqin, Daishan, and Kaiyuanmang Gurtai.

In Liaodong right now, although [-] cavalry can be mobilized, but...

Zhu Youjian roughly estimated the strength of some troops here, but in the end he was still unwilling to take the risk.

Right now, recovering Tieling and Kaiyuan is the main strategic goal. If more than [-] cavalry are severely damaged, then the Ming army will not be able to maintain high-mobility support in the land of Liaoshen.

It is difficult for Zhu Youjian to guarantee that this is not Nurhachi's strategy to lure the enemy.

Therefore, after thinking about it carefully, he still gave up his plan to send troops, and prepared to continue to focus on the upcoming battle of Liaodong.

"Have all the generals arrived in the prefectures and counties? Have the binocular clairvoyance been distributed?"

Zhu Youjian collected the two pieces of information, and Lu Wenzhao also replied when he heard the words:

"They have all arrived, and the [-] clairvoyances manufactured by Yanshan Tiangong have also been distributed to the commanders, generals, generals, and guerrillas of each army."

"What happened to the third school and the fourth school in Yanshan?" Zhu Youjian asked one after another.

"The third school has been built, and there are already more than [-] students enrolled, and there should be more than [-] students in the future." Lu Wenzhao responded:
"As for the fourth school, according to His Highness's instructions, the construction area will be [-] mu, so it will not be completed until April next year."

The third and fourth schools represent the expansion speed of Yanshan.

The number of students in the first and second schools reached more than [-], and the number of students in the third school was close to [-].

But these are not what Zhu Youjian cares most about. What he cares most about is the fourth comprehensive school.

The area of ​​[-] mu is enough to show Zhu Youjian's concern for it.

It can be said that it will be the one with the largest scale, the most disciplines, and the largest number of students among the institutions built by Zhu Youjian.

According to the preparations, this school can accommodate more than [-] people, and this will be the first comprehensive school.

There are ten colleges covering science, civilian engineering, military engineering, literature, history, political science, economics, linguistics, law, and medicine, covering [-] disciplines.

It can be said that the first three academies all teach primary and middle school knowledge, while the fourth academies are the places that can really change Ming Dynasty in the future.

This institution is not a place to be prepared for now, but a place to be prepared for ten or fifteen years from now.

Once [-] people have completed their studies, even if only one in a thousand people can become people who can improve the technology of Ming Dynasty, it is still an incredible number and scale.

As for the remaining [-] students who are [-]/[-], the mediocre students in the Department of Science, Politics, Literature, and History will sprinkle the Ming Dynasty like seeds.

Private schools and government schools all over the world will be taken over, expanded, and finally spread over more than [-] counties in Ming Dynasty in the form of primary and secondary schools.

As for the elite scholars of migrant workers, military industry, economics, language, law, and medicine, they will become the dean and professor of the university in the form of the fourth school.

Ordinary students will become designers, operators, and doctors of officials and government-run institutions.

Zhu Youjian has great hopes for it, not only for them, but also for himself.

He asked the world's vassal kings to become vassals overseas, and he couldn't be alone.

Compared with South Asia, which is relatively close, Zhu Youjian is going to a place far away from Daming, and there is no need to say more about this place.

America……

Thinking of those two continents, Zhu Youjian's heart sank.

With the voyage of this era, exhausting his life and consuming countless national power of Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that he can send millions of people to live in the local area.

It took Europeans two hundred years to migrate millions of people, but Zhu Youjian had to complete it within thirty years, and it would not waste Ming's national power.

If you want to migrate more than one million people in thirty years, you must need something.

steam engine...

Without a steam engine ship, it is impossible to guarantee that while transporting people there in a short period of time, it can also transport enough food for several people for three years, as well as some cattle and horses.

Steam locomotives, steam boats, these are already the highest technology that Zhu Youjian can think of. Now that Daming's technology has been climbed, he can touch it in his lifetime.

As for whether it can climb higher?That depends on whether the education in the future is successful.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian shook his head and sighed, and put his mind back on the battle to recover Liaodong.

It is already June [-]th, and the soldiers and horses of Sun Chuanting and other ministries are taking the sea route one after another, landing in Gaizhou, Kuandian and other places.

In the case of sufficient food, the only thing that can affect the situation of the war is the rainy season.

In the rainy season in Liaodong in the late Ming Dynasty, I don’t know if it was affected by the small ice river. Except for a few rains in early June, there has been no rain in the past few days.

Such a change made Zhu Youjian a little uneasy.

At present, among the soldiers and horses in Liaodong, there are more than [-] people including the three guards of Daning and the soldiers of Zhejiang, as well as the three guards and four cavalry guards under Sun Yingyuan, who are equipped with cavalry guns and infantry guns respectively.

Once the rain is untimely, thousands of heavy artillery pieces and more than [-] firecrackers of the Ming army will be unusable.

Combined with the fact that Nurhachi has not shown any signs of action, Zhu Youjian is very suspicious. Nurhachi is waiting for a heavy rain, a heavy rain that is enough to make the weapons of the Ming army unusable.

"Your Highness, I don't understand a little about my humble position..."

While Zhu Youjian was thinking, Lu Wenzhao hesitated and asked:

"Look at "Sun Tzu's Art of War" for a humble position, in which it is said, "Those who attack and must take, attack what they do not defend."Those who defend and must be strong will guard what they do not attack. "

"Therefore, since the written letter is very clear, why didn't His Highness send troops to attack Jianlu's weak point in advance?"

The sentence that Lu Wenzhao asked was translated as follows:
The reason why the attack is sure to win is because the attack is where the enemy has no defense.

The reason why the defense can be strengthened is because the defense is where the enemy is unable to attack.

According to Sun Tzu, an army that is good at attacking attacks a place that the enemy does not know how to defend, while an army that is good at defending defends a place that the enemy does not know how to attack.

Therefore, what Lu Wenzhao wanted to say was, why not take the opportunity to send troops to attack places that Nurhachi may not necessarily defend, such as raiding Kaiyuan from the back, walking out of the Great Wall in advance, and raiding Hetuala along the side wall.

"Weaknesses, if you send too few troops, you cannot mobilize the old slaves. If you send too many troops, it will leave the interior empty and give the old slaves an opportunity to take advantage of it."

"Leading troops in mountainous areas must fight steadily, and be careful of any place where an ambush can be set up. However, our army is not familiar with the terrain outside the side wall, so we will lose our geographical advantages when we send troops."

"Besides, there is fog and water in the mountains, and there is light rain. Once it rains, our army's artillery will lose its effect, and it will be difficult to make achievements."

"As for the plains, what if Kaiyuan is captured? Manggurtai can go to the Qinghe Pass to cut off our army's food road. Even if Shenyang sends troops to contain Manggurtai at the same time, the opponent can still use the stones on the hills between Tieling and Shenyang. Fort delaying time."

"The art of war has changed from ancient times to the present, due to changes in ordnance, and some usages have changed, so it should be adapted to local conditions and changed with time."

Zhu Youjian explained to Lu Wenzhao eloquently, and then continued:
"Those who cannot be resisted further, rush at the void; those who retreat and cannot be pursued, are too fast to be reached."

"The advance or retreat of the army depends on the speed, like wind and lightning, so the enemy cannot control it."

"At present, most of the soldiers and horses of Jianlu are horse infantry. In the battle of Sarhu, they moved hundreds of miles in five days, which is faster than our army's infantry."

"Therefore, we should use a dignified formation to break it dignifiedly!"

"I understand." Hearing Zhu Youjian's explanation, Lu Wenzhao said he understood, and Zhu Youjian also rode his horse back to Guangning when he saw this.

In the battle of Liaodong, Zhu Youjian was not worried about losing, because with the size of the Ming army, even if the firearms could not be used, they could rebuild the captives.

The Ming army can die one thousand, ten thousand, one hundred thousand!But as long as Hou Jin died [-] in battle, it would be enough to arouse internal conflicts.

After Zhu Youjian calmed down, he looked forward to the rainy season instead.

If it really rains, will the old slave really send troops in an attempt to disrupt the hinterland of the Ming army?

If he really dared to come, maybe he could really create an opportunity for Zhu Youjian to encircle and wipe out tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Houjin.

As for Nurhachi...

Thinking that Huang Taiji is now restricted because Nurhachi is still alive, Zhu Youjian would rather let Nurhachi live a few more years.

The longer he lives, the easier it is for Houjin to collapse.

A military madman, once he can't plunder the supplies to satisfy the soldiers and horses, then the country and the race will be destroyed after the military.

Nurhachi did this in history, but now he is oppressing the people under his command because he is suppressed by himself.

The oppression has reached the extreme, and as long as there is another fiasco, internal problems will be revealed.

"Ok?"

Suddenly, Zhu Youjian felt a chill on his face, and subconsciously touched it with his hands, and this touch was moist.

He turned his head to look at the small river beside him, and saw little ripples appearing on the surface of the river...

"Your Highness, it's raining."

Lu Wenzhao rode up and followed, while Zhu Youjian looked at the rain, his brows slowly wrinkled, and finally said with a serious expression:

"Babaili hastened to notify all the armies to be alert to the old slaves mobilizing troops, and the peasants from all over the country returned to the city to fortify the walls and clear the fields!"

"Eh..." Hearing Zhu Youjian's military order, Lu Wenzhao asked cautiously and tentatively:
"Your Highness, it's just rain, is it so serious?"

"It's not serious, call the officials of the Qin Tianjian who are with the army to come and talk to you." Zhu Youjian said to Lu Wenzhao with a straight face, and Lu Wenzhao also knew that His Royal Highness was not joking, so he immediately turned his head and asked someone to inform the officials of the Qin Tianjian come.

At the same time, he also escorted Zhu Youjian to the Pingyang Bridge Fort not far away to rest.

It's just that the rain came suddenly, and it became heavier and heavier. Gradually, the rain became thicker, and Zhu Youjian's face became more and more ugly.

"Hide out of the rain, hide out of the rain!"

The peasants on both sides of the Liaohe River also put down the ropes in their hands, and rushed towards the stone castles on both sides of the river in a panic.

Fortunately, the roads in Liaodong have been repaired, and the running is brisk.

The howling wind blew, blinding people's eyes, and before the heavy rain turned into a torrential rain, everyone rode their horses into the Pingyang Bridge Castle.

When Zhu Youjian and the others rushed to the gate of the garrison mansion, they immediately got off their horses and entered the mansion with a wet and embarrassed appearance.

"Go and prepare warm water and dry clothes for His Highness to wipe and change into new clothes."

After Lu Wenzhao walked into the meeting hall, he greeted the soldiers in the meeting hall, and when they saw this, they hurried to prepare.

Zhu Youjian took off his soaked shoes and clothes, and only wore a suit of middle clothes.

After finally waiting for the soldiers to bring clothes and warm water, without giving him time to change, the officials of Qin Tianjian who accompanied the army rushed all the way to the meeting hall, and bowed to Zhu Youjian: "Your Highness, thousand years old..."

"How long do you think it will rain? Will it last for several days?"

Zhu Youjian changed his clothes as if no one was there, and asked the officials of Qin Tianjian, and the officials bowed and continued to respond when they heard the words:
"Your Highness, the summer heat has just passed, and the rain should not last too long."

"Are you sure?" Zhu Youjian frowned tightly, and the officials of Qin Tianjian were also at a loss for words, hesitated for a moment and said:

"According to the twenty-four solar terms and the astrology observed ten days ago, there is no change in the nine stars, so the solar terms will not change."

"Ten days ago?" After hearing this answer, Zhu Youjian realized that the weather had been gloomy for several days.

He knew that now was the eve of the eruption of the small ice river, and he knew even more that the climate would become very extreme when the small ice river erupted.

Climate changes that are unlikely to occur in ordinary years are often very variable during such periods.

Although the land of Liaodong faces the Bohai Sea, it does not mean that it will not encounter typhoons.

If a small-scale typhoon really landed, then for the Ming army, its combat power would be greatly reduced, and Nurhachi would not let this opportunity pass.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian ordered again:
"Send three more orders, the townspeople in Liaodong will return to the city, and wait for the end of the rainy season. All armies prepare canopies, and don't let the gunpowder get wet!"

"The humble job takes orders!" Lu Wenzhao understood the seriousness of the matter, and immediately dispatched horses to notify.

It's just that while they were notifying, the weather changes became more and more strange...

(End of this chapter)