Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 440 Preparing for Li Court
"Fall! Fall!"

"it is good--"

On the second day of the winter month, on the third day of Zhu Youjian's wedding, the Nuergan city, which had been expanded several times, was very lively, unlike the situation in the south where swords were fought and the smell of gunpowder was full of gunpowder.

Using the remaining cement and pig iron, Guo Sangdai built a new corner field, big enough to hold thousands of people.

In the arena, warriors from various tribes are competing for the three cows set by Guo Sangdai.

On the high platform, Guo Sangdai sat cross-legged with a few heads of most departments, eating boiled mutton, and looked at the ring from time to time.

"If we really want to fight a duel, it must be the brave talents of our Sauron department."

"Our Odolun is no worse than you."

"Both are strong, all are strong..."

The three chiefs were eating boiled mutton with Guo Sangdai, and they kept arguing in their mouths. The three chiefs were Bomu Boguer, the chief of the Sauron tribe, Gui Gudaryi, the chief of the Daur tribe, and Bomu Boguer, the chief of the Oroqen tribe. Rojill.

"According to the terrain, his intention should be to retreat to Udolun, and what Guochao has to do is to divide his troops into three routes and leave Nuergan's soldiers and horses to defend Beishan."

In Zhu Youjian's speech, he repeatedly couldn't let the Jianzhou Jurchen go, and even mentioned it three times, which is enough to show his attitude towards Jianlu.

"According to Jin Yiwei's news, the number of arable land in the four regions has exceeded 200 million, and among them, Huang Taiji has been specializing in Ordolun for a while."

Anyway, he was just conveying the truth. Besides, for now, most of the things His Highness King Qi promised in the past can be realized. Although the three 10,000+ cattle are worth five or six million taels of silver, His Highness can take them out whenever he wants.

"Your Highness, this Jianlu must be beaten. I guess they already know that Guo Sangdai is one of us!"

The leaders of the three ministries were unknown, so they really thought that His Royal Highness King Qi was going to send them three 10,000+ cattle, so he couldn't help but be surprised: "Do you have women and children too?"

"Everyone is invited to come this time, and there is one more thing, which is also a benefit for the clansmen from His Highness."

"We are willing to accept the management of the imperial court." The leaders of the three ministries had no reason to refuse, and raised their glasses one after another.

Seeing that his life was in danger, the gunsmith hurriedly kowtowed, and after a few down, his forehead immediately turned dark red.

"Brother, this group of Han dogs must have done it on purpose."

"Since this is the case, each city can also replace the Ming flag of Nuer Gandusi."

"Your Highness means that we will send people, or farm cattle according to the head, to cultivate land for us in the south of Beishan."

"The Governor's Mansion of the Eastern Army needs to send troops... 61." Xiong Tingbi was [-] years old, and he was considered a long-lived man in this era, so he was a little out of breath when he spoke.

Guo Sangdai seemed very calm about Huang Taiji's capture of the ancient city of Harbin. He was not in a hurry because he knew that when the snow season came, Huang Taiji would at most capture the ancient city of Harbin.

Beishan Jurchen can be said to be particularly obedient to Daming, or they are generally obedient to the Central Plains Dynasty.

In contrast, the Jin army, due to the lack of saltpeter, can only rely on boiling nitrate and scraping urine, and there is no good purification process, resulting in too many saltpeter impurities, and lack of gunpowder granulation technology. In Daming, it can only be used to set off fireworks.

To be honest, imitation is to bring together the countries of the world in this era. It will take decades to crack Daming's iron smelting technology, let alone Jianlu.

Even if he wants to develop, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice.

Although Lin Danhan is not difficult to deal with, but he is like an unbeatable Xiaoqiang, who can run and disgust people before running.

"As long as you stick to Beishan, Jianlu will not be able to escape."

The things he said were all things that His Royal Highness King Qi promised to the Beishan Jurchen ministries.

Even the captured riding guns are difficult for the current Jianlu to imitate.

"Yes..." Gao Tai responded, and turned around to let others handle it.

Xiong Tingbi helped Daming defend the Liao land for 12 years, and Zhu Youjian was very grateful to him.

Zhu Youjian asked Guo Sangdai to blow up the cannon because he didn't want the cannon to be used by the Jin army, not because he was afraid that they would imitate it.

The salary of the fifth-rank Sanjie is 800 taels of silver, which can buy four to five hundred shi if it is exchanged for grain, and can buy forty cows and two thousand sheep if it is exchanged for cattle and sheep.

"The Governor's Mansion of the Eastern Army still needs to increase its troops. The old man's idea is to divide the troops into three groups."

"Send homing pigeons to the brothers in the south, asking for artillery and gunpowder to go north to help defend the city. It would be even better if we could send some troops."

"If you want to cast it, you can do it, but you must increase the weight of the iron cannon and put on the iron hoop. The weight may be twice as heavy as the original cannon..."

Huang Taiji and the other major Baylors and Beizis have all seen it with their own eyes. Tianqi’s five-year riding blunderbuss has one appearance, six years has another appearance, eight years, nine years, ten years...

"You go out first, I'll be quiet..."

Gaotai handed the battle report to Guo Sangdai with a stern expression on his face, and the other three leaders' hearts sank when they heard it.

Also moving with time, there is also news that it was sent from Nuergancheng to the capital.

Only after six years, the quality of these riding guns is "uneven".

Similarly, Xiong Tingbi is also very grateful to Zhu Youjian.

The quality of the saltpeter is good, and the ratio of gunpowder is also very scientific, so the gunpowder is naturally not much worse.

They actually still have some fear of Nurhachi, Jin Guo, and Jianzhou Jurchen, even though their equipment has become better now.

"General, yesterday morning, Huang Taiji raised [-] troops to attack the ancient city of Harbin. The guard Mo Rideng held on for seven hours, and then retreated, losing more than [-] people."

After he finished speaking, he turned his head and said to the leaders of the three departments: "Look at this, Jianlu knows our details."

Even though he has already passed the age of forty, his hot temper still hasn't abated.

Let’s not talk about anything else, just say that the high-quality flints such as riding guns and rifles, as well as the high-quality gunpowder used, are things that the Jin Army cannot collect.

"Precedents come before, and we must observe them."

"You Shigong led [-] soldiers...from Jingcheng to attack Mowenhewei (Vladivostok) and sweep north along the Aso River."

What he has to pay attention to now is the lack of gunpowder on his side, especially the gunpowder in Youtie City and Green City.

To put it bluntly, this trick is to give the people below the head and let them know that after defeating Jianlu, everyone will have a better life.

As long as a person has a head, there will be no rebellion and defection.

"You dog slave must be lying!" 16-year-old Duduo heard the words and wanted to hack the gunsmith to death. Fortunately, Jierhalang stopped him, otherwise there would be one less gunsmith in the Kingdom of Jin .

"This campaign requires sweeping the ground and completely annihilating the Jianzhou Jurchens. In addition, after the beginning of the spring, a call to action will be issued. If the Haixi and Donghai Jurchens inside Jianlu are willing to make things right, the previous crimes will be past the past."

At the end of winter, Zhu Youjian received the news of Nuer Gancheng sent by the Supervision Department of Jinyiwei.

"Don't worry about food, explain to them about the imperial store, their fur imperial store will also charge according to the market price, and will not deduct from them."

"Okay!" Huang Taiji stopped the farce in a deep voice, and Duoduo also fell silent, but his eyes were still looking fiercely at the Han gunsmith.

"And..." Gunsmith looked at Huang Taiji, Jierhalang, Dorgon, and Duoduo, who were all black-faced, and could only bite the bullet and say:

Huang Taiji appeased the gunner, and the gunner quickly kowtowed a few times when he heard the words, and then scrambled out of the General's Mansion with that funny money pigtail on his back.

Huang Taiji signaled Jierharang and the others to go down. He needed to think carefully about how to preserve Jin Guo in the Ming army's next counterattack.

What he is more worried about is the variable Lin Danhan.

"Yes!" The leaders of the three ministries nodded repeatedly. They had communicated with Guo Sangdai a long time ago and knew that Guo Sangdai was sent by Daming to support Beishan Jurchen.

However, although the foreign affairs were arranged, he still needed to worry about one thing.

Seeing that Mo Rideng had blown up the artillery in the military newspaper, Guo Sangdai closed the military newspaper with satisfaction.

Whether it was the Tang Dynasty, or the Liao Kingdom, the Jin Kingdom, or the Yuan Dynasty, they were basically resigned. Whoever gave them benefits would go with them.

"Calculating the time, they have almost arrived at Nuergan City. When the next spring begins, if Huang Taiji still wants to fight Guo Sangdai, he will kill himself."

Among the three tribes, the Sauron tribe has the largest population, followed by Daur and Oroqen the least.

If His Royal Highness King Qi wants to grant them official positions, they will consider bringing people from the tribe to the south. After all, they also need to pay some money to resettle their families.

"If some tribes are unwilling to farm, tell them that the imperial court will arrange for them to go south, give them sheep to graze, or set aside a forest for them to fish and hunt."

Therefore, with the mentality of repaying his gratitude, he has been sticking to the bitterly cold Liaodong, thinking of helping King Qi destroy Jianlu before he becomes an official.

This is a huge fortune for the chiefs of the three major departments who live in Beishan and eat a sheep every day.

Seeing this, Xiong Tingbi breathed a sigh of relief, and Zhu Youjian also said to Sun Shoufa and others:
"How about the assembly of the sixteen guards?"

Duoduo spoke to Huang Taiji in disbelief, but Huang Taiji raised his hand to signal him not to speak.

Now that there are [-] guard battalions from Shangzhi, and nearly [-] soldiers and horses stationed there, he feels much more at ease.

He didn't believe that Huang Taiji could use some fragments to learn about the artillery of the Ming army. He had inquired about that thing a long time ago. Except for the Ordnance Bureau, other cannon foundries couldn't make such good iron cannons at all.

The war between the two countries can never be one side simply slapping the other side. Although the Tangqi of the Eastern Army of the Ming Dynasty caused a lot of damage to the Jin Kingdom, it does not mean that they can return south with zero casualties every time.

This time Huanglong returned to Daming with the hero of the Xiaoxiyang Expeditionary Army and the sixth guard of the navy, Ma Rong. This should have been something worth celebrating, but due to the transfer of the inland guard battalion, the troops of the Shangzhi Governor's Mansion in the pass were somewhat empty. .

"One hundred thousand, this amount is just right." Zhu Youjian nodded slightly, agreeing with Xiong Tingbi's words.

"The grassroots retire..."

"This battle is intended to wipe out the Jian captives, and no one should be spared."

The three of them stopped talking, and began to think about what they would do after the war.

"The old man and He Shixian will lead [-] troops to Yidonghe City to attack Yimihe City, and Sun Dudu will lead [-] troops to Jianzhou County to attack Huifa City."

Huang Taiji sat in the head of the general's mansion in the ancient city of Harbin with a gloomy face. A gunsmith who was once captured by the Jin army from Fushun nodded when he heard the words:

Huang Taiji intends to develop technology, but this plane does not have a "Shun King" like Kong Youde who comes to him with artillery and first-class craftsmen.

"The Ming country's iron smelting is better than ours. It's not like you haven't seen the Ming army's cavalry and armor that we have collected from the battlefield over the years. Their iron smelting is indeed improving, and it has made great progress."

"The iron quality of this cannon is too good. We have no means to make such fine iron."

It's winter, and the snow outside Nuergan City is piled high, so everyone is focusing on entertainment, and Guo Sangdai is also happy to do so.

In the Jiuzhou Pavilion of King Qi's Mansion, Zhu Youjian was sitting on the seat, with the sand table in the northeast in front of him, and the letter sent by Guo Sangdai was placed in front of him.

Guo Sangdai also promised them a lot of things, for example, after the sweeping of the acupuncture points in Liting, he would show his merits to the leaders of the various ministries, and strive to let each of them get a Sanjie or a martial arts honor.

"Stand back, and try to cast it according to their cannon shape first, it doesn't matter if the weight becomes larger."

He paid more attention to the governance issues after Nuergan than how to keep Nuergan.

"General..."

Even if Huangtai Ji made the Yanshan five-jin cannon according to the gourd painting, the range and power are still touching.

Seeing their appearance, Guo Sangdai felt relaxed and proud.

"Fifteen guards have been assembled, and only His Royal Highness's cavalry guards have not gone north." Sun Shoufa replied:
"In addition, the [-] Shangzhi Gongwei battalions are also stationed in the three prefectures of Taining. If Hutudun wants to take advantage of the war and go south to fight Caogu, then these [-] Shangzhi Gongwei battalions can just try their skills."

"The wind and snow are too strong, Huangtaiji can't reach Nuergan, let alone Youtie City."

"When will Huanglong arrive in the capital?" Zhu Youjian turned his head and asked Cao Huachun in the corner. Cao Huachun bowed respectfully after hearing the words: "About April..."

"After changing the banner of Daming Nuergan Dusi, I asked His Highness to set up prefectures and counties for Nuergan. At the same time, I announced to everyone that after the war, cattle will be farmed according to human hair, and grain will be taken from the government treasury. Send an extra stone of rice."

This kind of life is very comfortable. There is no need to fight, and there is no need to be rounded up by the Jianzhou Jurchen in the south. There is enough food and it is very comfortable.

Huanglong and his group returned to Daming, at least 5 to [-] people, and these people were all stationed in Tianjin.

Talking too much in one breath, Zhu Youjian exhaled a foul breath, and then continued:
"Back then, Emperor Xianzong was purely benevolent and only attacked the evil leaders. As a result, Jianzhou continued to repeat itself."

As long as there are no traitors, Guo Sangdai wants to guard the slaves and trap the Jianzhou Jurchen to death, it is simply a piece of cake.

"Uncle, don't worry, we will definitely win this battle!" He Shixian was a little bit reluctant to hear Xiong Tingbi's breathless voice, and quickly patted his chest to make a promise.

Although the leaders of the three ministries knew that Guo Sangdai's move was to appease the people before the war, and used cattle and grain, arable land, pastures, and forests to buy off the troops of the various ministries.

"It's fine if the artillery blows up. Give him some residue, and he won't learn anything."

The total population of the three tribes is about 9000. Currently, more than 120 people are serving in the Beishan Jurchen army. Excluding them, there are also small and medium-sized tribes such as the deer tribe and the dog tribe. In short, there are a total of tribes in Nuergancheng [-] seven.

When Guo Sangdai said this, he didn't know that Zhu Youjian had arranged for people to transfer gunners, artillery, and gunpowder to the north three days ago.

At this point, Zhu Youjian took out the pear flower stick from his body and pointed it at four places including Shangjing City, Xingjing City, Huifa City, and Udolun City.

But I have to say, this trick really works.

It was the grumpy He Shixian who spoke just now.

His Royal Highness King Qi sent a letter to him as early as September on this issue, including the issue of the survival of the Beishan Jurchen Three 10,000+ people.

Right now, because of Daming's pressure, he has united all the tribes in Mobei, and the strength of the [-] to [-] Rangers under him should not be underestimated.

If he really went south to fight Caogu, then the three prefectures of Taining would still be in danger.

"And even if it is made out, I'm afraid the range will not reach the range of the original artillery..."

Amin only brought a few thousand Jianzhou Eight Banners, which was enough to sweep tens of thousands of Sauron.

As for whether His Royal Highness King Qi can do it?He didn't care about that.

In fact, there were quite a few cavalrymen from the Governor's Mansion of the Eastern Army who died in the burning wasteland and went out to fight. The Kingdom of Jin also often collected some cavalry guns from the Ming army.

At present, apart from the hundreds of Ming army cavalry guns and infantry guns captured by the Jin army, the most advanced soldiers and horses are only using bird guns.

What's more, what Guo Sangdai promised was to guarantee the bottom-up five-rank Sanjie. If His Royal Highness King Qi of Daming in the south was more generous and gave them a third- and fourth-rank Sanjie, then their life would be more nourishing.

Zhu Youjian was used to his irritability, so he put his hand on the table, tapped it lightly, and said to the generals:

It is true that the Sauron soldiers were very powerful in the Kang, Yong, and Qian dynasties, but in this era, they are not the opponents of the Jianzhou Eight Banners.

After finishing speaking, Zhu Youjian got up, picked up the pear blossom stick that he had used for ten years, put it behind his back, looked down at the northeast sand table and said:
"This time it's an enlarged version of Li Ting Sweeping Caves. The attention is to block Beishan and encircle and suppress Jianlu in the vast Nuergan area."

You know, when Nurhachi asked Amin to encircle and suppress Beishan Jurchen, they suffered a lot.

"That's good." Zhu Youjian nodded, feeling a little relieved.

Using bird guns to defend the city can only be counterattacked by the Ming army's rifle guns, so Huang Taiji wanted to get some Yanshan five-jin guns to imitate.

His attitude is so firm, Xiong Tingbi, Sun Yingyuan and others naturally dare not relax, so Xiong Tingbi also got up and said:

"Huifa City, Cilu City (Shangjing), Wula City (Xingjing), and Udolun are the four places with the most cultivated land in Jianlu's hands."

After telling his marching route, Xiong Tingbi looked at Zhu Youjian, hoping to get approval from him, and Zhu Youjian did not disappoint him.

Guo Sangdai comforted the leaders of the three ministries little by little, then turned around and said to Gaotai like a show:

In fact, everyone knows that the combination of Xiong Tingbi and Yuan Yingtai is estimated to return home after sweeping the holes in Liting. It can also be said that this is their last battle.

During the three months from Dongyue to February, the boats from Jingcheng and Yingzhou could go back and forth three or four times.

"Does the imperial court have so many cattle?"

"According to human hair, they naturally have it, just like food." Guo Sangdai comforted the three chiefs with a smile.

"I am enlightened and enlightened, and I will not be as ignorant as the captives in Jianzhou."

"I guessed a month ago that he was going to deal with Guo Sangdai. At that time, he had sent artillery, gunners, and gunpowder to the north."

In addition, the Ming army adopted the nitrate method provided by Zhu Youjian to make nitrate, so the quality and output of nitrate are good.

"Hmm..." Zhu Youjian was a little relieved when he heard that thirty arch guard battalions were stationed outside the pass.

Especially the leader of the three departments, he will strive for a casual rank above the fifth rank for the three of them, and the leader of the three departments is also because of Guo Sangdai's promise, so he follows his lead.

"He can't eat Guo Sangdai, but we want to eat the entire Northeast."

Sitting in front of him were Xiong Tingbi, Sun Yingyuan, He Shixian, You Shigong, Sun Shoufa, Cao Meng and others who hadn't shown up for a long time...

Both the flints of riding guns and rifles come from overseas and the south, and the flint in the northeast is not up to the ignition standard of riding guns. Therefore, for the Jin army, matchlock guns are more effective than flintlock guns.

With the continuous improvement of the iron smelting technology of the Armament Academy, the quantity of iron smelted by blast furnaces is huge, and the quality is surprisingly good.

"Bei Zi, how dare I lie, we really can't forge this iron, this iron is better than the Ming army's cavalry gun captured on the battlefield before, we can't forge at all..."

For the current Jianlu, most of the Fushun craftsmen they captured were at the level of iron smelting during the Wanli period, which could not be compared with that of Daming, which had reached the iron smelting technology in the early [-]th century.

"There were repeated attempts to build captives. The government took them in during the Yongle period, and resettled them in the Xuande period. However, they have continued to harass the country's frontiers since the Chenghua period. This is a great hatred."

It's just that even such comfort will be broken by Huang Taiji...

But the gunsmith's words just now extinguished the fire in his heart in an instant. At this moment, he was helpless and didn't know how to deal with the next big battle.

"Of course there is. His Highness destroyed the three tribes of Tumed and got hundreds of thousands of cattle. After that, he drove away the tigers and rabbits and got a large grassland. Not to mention three 10,000+, even a million can be given."

"After this battle is over, the men of all ministries, those who want to be soldiers can stay, and those who don't want to be can also take the cattle to farm."

Zhu Youjian's letter did not mention the tractor, but he euphemistically said that he would send farm cattle, and he would have one of them.

When Gaotai came hurriedly and called Guo Sangdai from a long distance away, the four of them stopped what they were doing and looked at Gaotai one after another.

While he was thinking, the wind and snow outside the customs became bigger and bigger as time went by.

Clan?Soldiers?
These things are not worth mentioning to this group of people. If they can go to the capital, they can immediately leave everything behind.

"You mean we can't imitate it?!"

The four of them were eating hot pot, watching the game, and looking at the auditorium from time to time, where there were people of all ethnic groups wearing costumes of various ethnic groups.

As Guo Sangdai said, he raised the wine glass in his hand and motioned for everyone to toast.

Based on his character, if Zhu Youjian hadn't been helping to speak in the court, he would have been impeached and taken down long ago.

As the cups collided, Huang Taiji, who was thousands of miles away, also clenched his fists.

Zhu Youjian trusted Huanglong, but with so many soldiers and horses placed next to the capital, he was still quite uneasy, so after nodding, he still ordered:

"Just let the six navy guards be stationed in Songjiang Mansion. Huang Long and the generals above the garrison general banner will come to the capital to offer prisoners."

"Your maidservant takes orders..." Cao Huachun's expression was calm, as if he had guessed that His Royal Highness would make arrangements for Huang Long.

After Zhu Youjian finished his orders, he also turned his head to look at Xiong Tingbi and the others, and then looked down at the sand table in the northeast:
"continue……"

(End of this chapter)