Daming: Brother, there is no future for monks, let's rebel

Chapter 152 Establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Changes in the World Pattern

"Your Majesty Qizuo, this Zhu Tiesuo is from Cangzhou. He was originally a powerful local family. His ancestors once fought for the Kingdom of Jin with Mu Huali of the Mongols. Later, he made great contributions. He has been the head of the Hejian Mansion for generations. Will."

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned when he heard this.

He said with displeasure, "So, Zhu Tiesuo is still a Han Chinese?"

Since the Mongols entered the Central Plains, many Mongolians who have lived in the Central Plains for generations have given themselves a lot of Chinese names and surnames, so sometimes it is not possible to distinguish between Mongolians or Han people with just one name.

"Your Majesty is wise, this Zhu Tiesuo is of Han origin in Hejian, but they have served the Mongols for generations, so they already feel that they belong to the Mongols." Xiao Xiaowei said.

"In this way, this Zhu Tiesuo is a traitor, and the Hejian Mansion can't beat him!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's personal conquest on this journey was almost bloodless.

The bottom of my heart is already impatient.

Now this Zhu Tiesuo of Hejian Mansion jumped out to seek death out of nowhere, and Zhu Yuanzhang would never let him off easily.

The [-] troops led by Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty soon arrived at the city of Hejian Mansion. Zhu Tiesuo, the chief general of Hejian Mansion, had already blocked all the city gates to prevent anyone from leaving the city and surrendering.

Zhu Tiesuo is planning to pull the whole city into the fire pit together!

Seeing the Ming army rushing to the city, the people and soldiers of Hejian Mansion were all terrified.

But only Zhu Tiesuo, a stubborn traitor, is still arrogant.

"Zhu Chongba, you traitor, Da Yuan won't let you go!"

"My Hejian Mansion is full of loyal ministers of the Yuan Dynasty. If you rebels want to enter the city, you must kill us all!"

Like a mad dog, Zhu Tiesuo stood on the city wall of Hejian Mansion and yelled loudly.

Hearing Zhu Tiesuo's life-and-death clamor on the city wall of Hejian Mansion, Zhu Yuanzhang showed a mocking smile.

"Zhu Tiesuo, how can this traitor deserve to be given our surname. Now he is acting as a traitor here aboveboard. It is simply embarrassing to our ancestors."

Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head to look at Zhou Dexing next to him, and asked, "Zhou Dexing gave you five days to take down the Hejian Mansion. It is best to capture the traitor Zhu Tiesuo alive. Can it be done?"

Zhou Dexing heard it from the side, and immediately spoke out.

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, it doesn't take five days, three days is enough to break through the Hejian Mansion!"

"Okay, then go and prepare to attack the city!"

As the first battle of the Ming emperor's personal conquest, Zhou Dexing's contribution to this first battle was that he couldn't escape no matter what.

In order to make this first battle as perfect as possible, Zhou Dexing, the founder of the country, personally went into battle to arrange artillery positions.

Now the Ming army has a large number of newly cast artillery.

These guns are all cast in the latest brass!
Although it is a little heavy in weight, it is definitely a well-deserved king in terms of power.

To deal with the rammed earth walls of Hejian City, Zhou Dexing deployed twenty heavy siege artillery.

Rumble!
Rumble!
Amidst the loud noise, the rammed earth city wall outside Hejian City collapsed like a bean curd project.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Dexing mobilized another [-] infantry to encircle and suppress Hejian Mansion.

Because the firearms of the Ming army are really sharp.

Under such circumstances, it only took half a day to completely defeat the defense line of Hejian Mansion.

After the Hejian Mansion was breached, Zhou Dexing sent soldiers to clean up the city and search for the traitor Zhu Tiesuo.

There were a total of about 4000 Yuan troops in Hejianfu City. After these people were defeated, they surrendered one after another, and they were disarmed and not killed according to the order of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang also sent people to search Zhu's house in Hejian, and found a large amount of food and supplies inside.

At this time, the Ming army also discovered...

The traitor Zhu Tiesuo locked his whole family in his backyard and set fire to himself.

"Stubborn and unresponsive, if you recognize a thief as your father, you will die with more guilt!"

Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty gave Zhu Tiesuo a twelve-character evaluation.

Since the Hejian Zhu clan surrendered to the Jurchens, they have been helping other peoples to do things. Therefore, the Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty hated this family, and immediately ordered all the surviving Zhu clan members to be dispatched to Guangdong to guard the border. People continue to have the surname Zhu, but they are ordered to change their surname to widows.

"Shameless!"

"People with a widowed surname, when will there be a righteous man for the country and the people, will he be able to go to the court and change his surname!"

After easily defeating Hejian, the local snake, the remaining actions of the Ming army were naturally to attack the local tyrants and divide the land, so as to benefit the local people.

Zhu Yuanzhang ordered to reward the three armies, and at the same time rewarded one hundred catties of grain to each of the people in Cangzhou who accompanied the army.

In this era, a hundred catties of grain is not a small sum.

Especially in this era of low grain production, the average yield per mu is only about one or two stones, which is equivalent to two hundred catties.

For a moment, the people of the Cangzhou Prefecture of the Ming Dynasty all knelt down on the ground in gratitude, saying that the Holy King was benevolent.

The southernmost tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, which is later known as Dalian Lushun, is now the Southern Liaojun Commander of the Ming Dynasty.

Hu Dahai, the commander of the Liaonan capital, has led a large number of troops to wait on the pier.

Because the Daming East Road Northern Expeditionary Army, under the leadership of Zhu Han, had already crossed the sea from Shandong.

Daming's Eastern Route Northern Expeditionary Army was divided into left and right branches.

The branch led by Zhu Han belonged to the left, mainly starting from southern Liaoning and attacking Fuzhou and Tokyo Prefecture to the north.

On the other right, You Maogui and Guo Zixing led the attack from Goryeo to Huligai in Baishan.

As warships sailed into the Liaonan Gulf, Zhu Han's [-] troops also began to land in Liaonan.

"The last general, Hu Dahai, welcomes His Highness the King of England." Hu Dahai bowed.

At this moment, Zhu Han, who was standing at the bow of the ship, heard the voice and saw Hu Dahai, "Okay! Hu Dusi has worked hard."

"I dare not." Hu Dahai hastily agreed.

Hu Dahai has been operating here in southern Liaoning for more than half a year, and it has already begun to take shape.

After getting off the ship, Zhu Han inspected the inside and outside of the Liaonan Capital, and felt quite satisfied.

"Yes, General Hu has done a good job here in southern Liaoning. Now we are about to march into northern Liaoning. Southern Liaoning can already become our rear base." Zhu Han praised him.

"The last general is ashamed and dare not be ashamed. It is all thanks to His Majesty and His Royal Highness that I can make contributions here." Hu Dahai hurriedly replied.

Hu Dahai has indeed made a lot of contributions in southern Liaoning.

Many fortresses were built here in southern Liaoning, and they also guarded the border and farmed fields, so that thousands of soldiers in the southern Liaoning capital could be self-sufficient.

This time Zhu Han personally led an army of tens of thousands, with thousands of Liaonan capital soldiers under Hu Dahai's command as the vanguard, and went straight to the Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo in the Yuan Dynasty.

Alu Timur, who was stationed in Liaoyang Mansion, heard the news that Zhu Han led the Ming army to attack, and immediately fell into panic.

Because at this time the Mongols in Liaoyang Prefecture did not have many soldiers and horses at all. Not long ago, Wang Baobao ordered all the Mongols to move to the northern grasslands, and almost all the people and things that could be moved were removed.

As for the Mongols here in Liaoyang Prefecture, there are only a mere 5000 now.

More than 5000 people could not withstand ten times the strength of the Ming army.

And the most important thing is that a large amount of gold and silver treasures and food, grass, and supplies that the Mongols plundered in Liaoyang are still hoarded in Liaoyang Mansion.

These gold and silver treasures and food and supplies that had not had time to be transported away were the things that Alu Timur was most concerned about.

Therefore, when Zhu Han led the Ming army to kill, the Mongols in the entire Liaoyang City were panicked.

Fleeing in all directions, there was no way to organize a decent resistance.

Alu Timur looked at the gold and silver treasures all over the city, and he regretted endlessly, regretting that he hadn't moved these away earlier.

Facing the menacing Ming army, Alu Timur could not find many soldiers even if he wanted to rely on Liaoyang City to resist.

In desperation, Alu Timur could only lead his men to take away a batch of gold and silver treasures.

Then before leaving, he set fire to Liaoyang's treasury granary, trying not to leave a grain of grain for the Ming army.

Alu Timur was sure he would miss and ran all the way, throwing the Ming army behind him far away.

However, in Liaoyang City, there are still many people who are unwilling to go to the grassland with the Mongols.

They immediately mobilized, put out the raging fire, and then opened the city gate to welcome the arrival of the Ming army.

Zhu Han led the army to occupy Liaoyang in one go.

After capturing Liaoyang, Zhu Han immediately dispatched Ming troops to take over local power in various small counties around him.

In Liaodong, since independence at the end of the Tang Dynasty, no Han regime has been able to set foot here. In terms of history, Liaodong is actually more miserable than Youyun Sixteen Prefectures.

During the Tang Dynasty, Liaodong was still under the jurisdiction of Lulong Jiedushi. When the Khitan people rose, the local Bohai people took refuge in Khitan. Later, when the Jurchens rose to establish the Jin Kingdom, the local Han people here in Liaodong were completely overwhelmed by the Jurchens. They no longer regarded themselves as descendants of Yan and Huang like their ancestors, but migrated to the Central Plains as Jurchens.

Later, when the Mongols attacked Liaodong, they launched a new round of massacre and conquest of the local Jurchens.

Now that the Ming army is attacking Liaodong, there are basically no Han people living in Liaodong.

Therefore, the army and officials must be dispatched to quickly restore the control of grassroots power in various counties in Liaodong, and restore the identity of those who are more civilized as soon as possible. After all, it is difficult to rely on tens of thousands of Ming troops. A complete ruling order has been established here in Liaodong.

"Whether it is Liaodong or the Central Plains, there is a serious shortage of population. If we want to keep Liaodong forever, we must not only drive away the Mongols, but also drive out those barbarians. Only the obedient ones will remain. The Han people of the Ming Dynasty, as for those who don’t want to be Han people, let them go back to the mountains and old forests and become savages!”

For those locals in Liaodong who refused to cooperate, Zhu Han was not stingy with his cruel methods.

Liu Bowen, who followed Zhu Han to Liaodong, also deeply agreed with Zhu Han's strategy.

"Your Highness is right. Now that Liaodong is full of waste, the most lacking thing is people. If anyone can obey the teachings of Ming Dynasty, then the officials will send them food, grass and clothes. If anyone dares to disobey the intention of the imperial court, the officials will also I will not hesitate to use thunderous means against them!" Liu Bowen said slowly beside him.

When the Mongols planned to move north to the grasslands, they had already searched and plundered in Liaodong.

Those Liaodong people who refused to follow the Mongols to move northward to the grassland were either killed or driven away, and the best outcome was to be looted, so the local people in Liaodong are now extremely poor.

If the Ming army did not provide food and grass to these locals in Liaodong.

I am afraid that a large-scale famine will be staged here.

After all, it is just the beginning of the spring thaw in the Liaodong area. According to the usual season, it is the critical moment for sowing, but the grain in the hands of the Liaodong people has already been looted by the Mongols, and there are even no seeds for planting. .

If the spring seeds can't be sown, there will be no harvest when the autumn harvest comes. There will be no surplus food to survive the cold winter in Liaodong, and the only thing waiting for them is death.

Therefore, using the grain in their hands, the Ming army quickly re-established a complete set of Chinese etiquette system of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong.

Liaodong people in various counties moved their ancestral tablets one after another.

Xiang Mingjun stated that his ancestors were Han Chinese, and that he was different from the barbarians.

Anyone who can be recognized by the Ming army as a Han, these locals in Liaodong will get a sum of food for living, and a batch of the latest crop seeds from the Central Plains.

These weird seeds are all round and yellow, and none of the more than [-] Liaodong people have ever seen this kind of strange grain.

"Potato?"

"This is the Ming Dynasty. For your favor, it is the most productive grain in the Central Plains. As long as you plant this in the ground, the whole family will no longer have to worry about starving to death!"

In Daming, who was in charge of teaching Liaodong people to grow new crops, officials began to walk down the street to promote the benefits of potatoes.

The Liaodong people who were looted by the Mongols, even if they were extremely reluctant.

But in the face of such a situation, I had to sow these strange potatoes.

Zhu Han wants to use the fastest means to establish a stable ruling order in Liaodong. The first task is to make these Liaodong people have enough to eat. Only when they are full can they provide corvees to Daming, and then build roads and water conservancy projects.

Potatoes, a crop that grows fast and is resistant to drought and cold, naturally became the first choice for the great development of Liaodong.

King Zhu Han of the Ming Dynasty set up the Liaodong Propaganda Department in Liaodong, and Liu Bowen also served as the Propaganda Envoy.

Almost a month later, Zhu Han basically controlled all of Liaodong in his own hands. Now the scope of jurisdiction is equivalent to the entire Liaoning Province in later generations, most of Jilin Province and the northern part of the Koryo Peninsula. This is the Liaodong Xuanwei Department of the Ming Dynasty. all of the territory.

However, if the Ming army wanted to go further north and conquer the Jurchens in more remote areas, they encountered an insurmountable difficulty at this time.

Mao Gui, deputy governor of Daming Koryo, came to Liaoyang in person and reported the difficulties encountered to Zhu Han.

"Your Highness, the places like Guzhou, Kaiyuan, Huligai, and Yalan have already been captured by our Daming army, but if we go further north, those Jurchens will be much more difficult to deal with. This does not mean that they are more remote. The fighting ability of the Jurchens in the region is so strong, but the places where they live are not only deep mountains and old forests, but also lakes and swamps. Once it comes to spring and summer, they immediately turn into swamps and dark pits that devour human lives. , It is all a vast snowfield, once people and animals walk on it, they can't even tell the direction, even if our Ming army is brave and good at fighting, I am afraid that it will not be able to pass through these areas full of swamps."

Mao Gui was the vanguard official of Daming in Liaodong and Koryo.

He has fought the Jurchens no less than a hundred times, and has already figured out the strength and distribution of the Jurchens.

The closer the Jurchens are to the south, the more civilized they are, while the Jurchens going north are more barbaric and backward because of the remoteness of the countryside.

Moreover, this place in the Northeast became the black land of later generations, Bei Dacang, which actually happened after entering modern society.

In ancient times, the Northeast Plain was full of lakes and swamps, and there was not even a decent road.

Unless the local Jurchens lead the way in person, once outsiders step into it, they will easily lose their way in the swamp, or sink directly into the swamp and lose their lives.

After modern times, because millions of Han people from the Central Plains immigrated to the Northeast, a series of land reclamation and land reclamation were carried out, and a large number of swamps were wiped out.

It was not until the new establishment that millions of workers and peasants built the Northeast Plain that the Northeast was built into a real big granary.

Taking Zhu Han's current era of the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties as an example, the Northeast is a land of forests, seas and snow that everyone dreads.

The front line of the Ming army's attack could only stop near Huligai Wanhu Mansion.

That is, the southern part of Jilin Province in later generations.

"Your Highness, the general feels that the Jurchens further north are weak and not many in number, and the land is so cold and barren. It would be better for me, Daming, to set up a border fortress here in Huligai." Mao Gui finally proposed own advice.

Not only Mao Gui thinks so, but even Liu Bowen and others agree with him very much.

But even though everyone agreed with this point of view, Zhu Han expressed his firm opposition.

"General Mao, you said that the Jurchens going to the north are weak, but that's actually just an appearance. They are nothing more than because they are too closed and backward, lacking powerful weapons such as iron armor. If my Ming Dynasty sets up a frontier fortress in Liaodong and develops towns, the north These Jurchens will definitely develop through this, and when they get these weapons from Liaodong, they will not be under the control of our Ming Dynasty, and they will definitely grow into an unstable force after a long time." Zhu Han said slowly.

Trade and communication are almost inevitable for human society.

Even the backward Jurchens in the north still understand this truth.

And once Ming Dynasty's rule in Liaodong is stabilized, the Jurchens in the north will definitely use their special products to trade with the Han people in Liaodong. After a long time, the Jurchens will gradually master the use and manufacture of iron and other weapons. When they have the intention to invade the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty may repeat the mistakes of Jurchen's establishment of the Manchu Dynasty in history.

So Zhu Han's strategy for the Northeast is implementing the Great Liaodong Strategy.

Conceptually speaking, Little Liaodong only includes the Liaodong Peninsula, and then some parts of Jilin and Koryo.

And Zhu Han wants to implement the Great Liaodong.

This means that all the northeast land outside the entire Great Wall Pass belongs to the established Liaodong Province or Xuanweisi.

"I have already discussed with His Majesty. My Ming will implement the Great Liaodong strategy in Liaodong. As long as all the land from the north of Liaodong to the ice sea, whether it is barren mountains or tundra plateaus, all of them will be taken over. My Ming will own all of them. !"

"That's why the Jurchens in the north must not ignore them, and must bring them back under the direct rule of Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Han knew it.

This vast land from the northeast to East Siberia is not only the granary of the post-future, but also filled with countless timber, gold, silver, copper, iron ore, coal and other minerals.

It is not an exaggeration to say that this piece of land is a priceless treasure.

If the Ming Dynasty was unable to conquer this piece of land during the climax of the country's founding expansion, then it may be even more powerless when the descendants of the future generations.

Zhu Han knew it from the moment the Ming Dynasty was established.

The world pattern of the whole world has already entered the moment when it is about to be turned upside down.

This change is not only in the East, but also in the West!
(End of this chapter)