I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 140 Marshal Zhang is really amazing

Chapter 139

Looking at the map of Liaodong, it is not difficult to find that Liaodong is surrounded by mountains on three sides in the west, north and east, and faces the sea on one side, which is conducive to the humid air entering the inland and forming rainfall.

However, Liaodong is another commanding height. Once the nomads gain a firm foothold here, they will overwhelm the northern region, especially Gyeonggi. Flour.

In fact, Gyeonggi still needs to be blocked by the Yanshan Mountains, especially the majestic Yanshan Mountains, which can stop the charge of cavalry. However, once the capital cannot be defended, the entire north will be overwhelmed by the howling barbarian cavalry. This is why for 2000 years The Han people know that the Songliao Plain is fertile, suitable for farming and animal husbandry, and a little management will present a pastoral beauty, but they have never made great efforts to manage the Songliao Plain.

Including the Ming Dynasty, which owned the entire Liaodong, as early as the tenth year of Hongwu (1377), Zhu Yuanzhang deposed the prefectures and counties, leaving only the guards and setting up 25 guards in Liaodong.The presence of the Liaodong region has always been overwhelming, but in terms of administrative units, the Liaodong region is not an independent province, but belongs to Shandong Chengxuan Political and Envoy Division.

Except for Liaoyang, which briefly set up prefectures and counties during the Hongwu period, all cities under the Liaodong Capital Division belonged to the military establishment of "Guardians".Therefore, it can be said that the entire Liaodong area in the Ming Dynasty can only be regarded as a military-controlled area attached to Shandong.

The reason why the Liaodong area was so unpopular in the administrative divisions of the Ming Dynasty was not because this area was not valued. On the contrary, the Ming Dynasty believed that the Liaodong capital was "the death of the Liaodong, and the capital would not be able to rest in peace", and even "therefore it separated and reunited. It is actually related to the prosperity and decline of China."

But another simple problem that is easily overlooked is that the importance of a region is not directly related to the economic conditions and social development of the region.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty chose to set up the Liaodong Capital Division to manage Liaodong and Liaoxi was precisely because of limited resources, it was possible to prioritize resources over the military as much as possible.

It's not that I don't want this land, but it's too difficult to defend.

Mountains on three sides are at the top of the mountain, and the Songliao Plain is 35 square kilometers, which is a full two Henan provinces. As long as the strategic fulcrum is lost, it will collapse for thousands of miles.

After the fall of Shenyang, the whole of Liaodong soon fell.

The climate in Liaodong is too cold. Unlike the dry and cold in the northwest, it is damp and cold here. Once winter comes, everything will be frozen.Let's talk about agriculture first, although the Northeast has become an important agricultural production area.However, in the Ming Dynasty, due to the climate and geographical conditions of the Liaodong capital at that time, it was not suitable for agricultural production, and even the local area alone could not achieve self-sufficiency.

For example, the Liaohe Plain, which is an important rice producing area in Northeast China today, was limited by technology and population in the Ming Dynasty. Not only was most of the area not developed into farmland, it was even Liaoze, which divided the jurisdiction of the Liaodong capital into western Liaoning and eastern Liaodong at that time.

However, Liaoze in the Ming Dynasty was not a large lake, but "a lot of water in the ground... there is no smoke in all directions, but the reeds are rustling", similar to the meadow swamp that the Red Army passed through when they crossed the grassland.Not only does the area require extensive drainage, but the stagnant water is a breeding ground for mosquitoes.

The shortage of arable land was only one of the agricultural problems faced by the Ming Dynasty in the Liaodong capital. Another bigger problem was the climate.Constrained by the climate of the Ming Dynasty, the types and output of various agricultural products in Liaodong at that time were far from enough to meet the needs of the Liaodong capital.

In particular, cotton, which was the main raw material of textiles in the Ming Dynasty, could not be self-produced in the Liaodong capital area of ​​the Ming Dynasty due to climate and cotton planting techniques.Therefore, in addition to food, the local supplies such as cloth and cotton are heavily dependent on the Dengzhou area in Shandong and the Dengliao seaway in the Liaodong area for supplies.

For the shortage of materials in Liaodong, you can refer to some records in the last years of Hongwu. For example, in terms of grain, the transportation volume of Hongwu in 18 years reached "more than 75 stones of grain and rice shipped to Liaodong by sea."The transportation volume of cotton is even more exaggerated. In the 21st year of Hongwu, "130 million cotton flowers and 56 catties were transported to Liaodong to give sergeants".

Under such a situation of strong dependence, the population growth and economic development of the Liaodong capital actually required the Ming Dynasty to conduct financial bloodletting in Liaodong, and it was also very vulnerable to weather, Japanese pirates, and pirates.Therefore, compared with the inland provinces of the Ming Dynasty, the Liaodong capital, which had frequent wars, had a far weaker economic foundation in its jurisdiction.

The four prefectures in southern Liaoning fell as early as the first year of Tianqi. Except for the short-term recovery of Lushun, Jiannu has always paid little attention to southern Liaoning, because it needs to be vigorously governed if it wants to develop here.

However, Jiannu had neither the ability nor the desire to develop southern Liaoning.

Cheng Shijie is willing to manage this ghost place because he has no other better choice.Cheng Shijie is now taking advantage of the climate of the Little Ice River, which is characterized by drought, little rain, and cold weather, to govern southern Liaoning and the Songliao Plain at a minimal cost.

Just like in southern Liaoning now, although the rain is not too much, the weather is also showing a tendency of drought, but with Cheng Shijie leading the field army and engineering military households, they have made great efforts to rectify and made gratifying progress.

In the Tuntian District of the Ning Navy, in order to enrich the rice bowls of the soldiers of the Ning Navy, Cheng Shijie did not plant all the fields with grain, but planted a large number of vegetables.Crops such as tomatoes, radishes, eggplants, beans, cabbage, cucumbers, etc., are very attractive.

Every day, people harvest the vegetables, and then transport them to the grasslands by truckloads to sell them. Vegetables cannot be grown on the grasslands. These vegetables can be sold for sky-high prices on the grasslands. It is common for a load of cabbage to bring back a few sheep. .

Who made those herdsmen not know how to grow vegetables?
You are the one who cheated!

Now Cheng Shijie owns two pairs of white gloves, Hu Erqi and Xie Jinglin, who are in charge of smuggling. They are all asymmetric transactions. For example, a briquette stove made of several catties of pig iron costs only two to three hundred yuan. It is equivalent to two or three silver coins, but it is sent to the grassland.

Wrap the cast iron with a layer of tinplate, that is, tinplate, which can be sold for seven or eight taels, or even ten taels of silver. In fact, most of the slave herdsmen have no money in their hands. They exchange cattle or horses, a horse or a cow for a white Tin stove, that's the normal deal...

In addition to this kind of briquette stove, the salt from southern Liaoning is the most popular among herdsmen. The wholesale price Cheng Shijie gave to Huizhou salt merchants was [-] catties and [-] yuan per pack, and there were certain discounts for large quantities.

But selling it to herdsmen, the salt price is a bag of a leg of lamb, four bags of eight catties of salt and a whole sheep, even the smallest lamb, that is more than ten times the profit.

Guangning Wei, in the first year of Jin Tianhui (1123), Liao Xianzhou was promoted to Guangning Prefecture. The site of the government is now Guangning Town, and there are four counties under it: Luyang, Wangping, Guangning and Zhongxiu.In the Ming Dynasty, Guangning became the highest military station of the Ming Dynasty in Northeast China.

The Liaodong governor's yamen and the Liaodong commander's yamen were both stationed in Guangning. It's a pity that after the fall of Guangningwei in the first year of Tianqi, they never regained it.

Taking Wangtai Town, the northernmost town of Haizhouwei, to the north, it belongs to the boundary of Guangningwei, which is also the Liaohe Plain. easy thing.

Of course, Cheng Shijie's first step was to send Wangtai Town to guard Hu Erqi. Hu Erqi had more than [-] slave-building soldiers under his command, forming the Chaser Troop of the Ning Navy.

The so-called Chaser troops are hunting-like troops.

Forty miles north of Wangtai Town, Cheng Shijie ordered the battalion to camp here, and after the camp left, Xintai Town was built on the original site.

Cheng Shijie's strategy is still to focus on Tunpu. Ten reorganized Tuntian Hundred Households will be combined into a town, and the town will set up a town fort, which is actually a city of the same level as the Thousand Households.

Because of the successful production of cement, Cheng Shijie no longer needs to use precious glutinous rice to glue bricks and stones. Using cement to build the city wall is not only faster, more efficient, but also stronger.

Thirty miles to the east of Xintai Town, a new town fort was built, named Tanguan Town, because when Cheng Shijie arrived here, a gust of wind blew Cheng Shijie's hat off, and Cheng Shijie picked it up and flicked the soil.

After the construction of this town fort, a connecting road was built between the three towns of Wangtai Town, Tiantai Town, and Danguan Town. For ten miles, town castles were built along the road, and the functions of town castles and post stations were combined.

The army cleared the way in front, and the [-] farms, [-] households and engineering households in the back built castles, roads, and post stations bit by bit.

Eat food one bite at a time, and do things one by one.

Cheng Shijie led Ning Haijun's personal guard capital, and the [-] garrison and [-] households and engineering [-] households that cooperated with him, to advance all the way and build at the same time.

At this time, the morale of Ning Haijun is high. When they are resting, they will also discuss how many good things Jiannu has and where to grab Jiannu.

"It has been Jiannu who have been robbing us for decades, and now it's their turn to taste what it feels like to be robbed."

"I'm already hungry and thirsty for my sword!"

Hu Erqi, who was the vanguard, was passing through a virgin pine forest. He saw many Jiannu herdsmen driving large groups of chubby sheep to graze on the grassland.

Hu Erqi looked at the cattle and sheep everywhere, drooling: "A lot of money, a lot of food!"

The Jianzhou Jurchen cavalry under Hu Erqi's command all had green eyes and drooling.

In their eyes, sheep are food. No, wool is quite valuable now. Didn’t Ning Haijun set up a textile factory to specialize in spinning wool? Sweaters, woolen coats, woolen scarves and other exquisite fabrics are sold inside and outside the customs, and the supply is in short supply.

So in the eyes of these guys, those running sheep are a group of money that can walk and bark!
"Brothers, get ready to work!"

When they were in the woods, fortunately, when Hu Erqi's subordinates left the woods, Ning Haijun's black military uniform could see them from a long distance away.

Even before Hu Erqi started to act, the Jiannu herdsmen fell into a panic. Those children ran desperately with the flock of sheep. Come, prepare for battle with saber and hornbow.

However, the strength is too great.

Don't look at Hu Erqi only having more than [-] people, but the other party even counts the children, only about [-] people.

About an hour later, the vanguard of Ning Haijun arrived here, and what they saw was a destroyed army, a corpse lying on the ground.

Now these corpses have been collected, built into a small Beijing temple, and a stone tablet was erected, with words engraved on it: "Daming Liaodong Economic and Strategic Envoy, Liaodong Capital Commander, Zuo Dudu, General Zhenglu , Under the command of Cheng Gong, the commander-in-chief of the Ning Navy, Hu Erqi was guarded by the watchtower, and the slaves were built here..."

Cheng Shijie arrived at the bank of the Taizi River, which is about [-] miles away from Jinzhou. In order to solve the supply problem of the Ning Navy, Cheng Shijie's principle is that if it can be solved by water, he will first consider water.

As the navy of the Ning Navy used [-] gunboats to transport grain, building materials, and various supplies to the temporary pier of Taizi River, this temporary pier has been temporarily designated as the town fort of Dock Town.

This town castle was built along the riverside. On the [-] acres of open land, the ground was broken and it was busy.

Cheng Shijie looked at Chen Guodong beside him and said, "How are you feeling, brothers?"

Chen Guodong said with a smile: "Brothers are high-minded!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Tell the new brothers that the land in Jinzhou is gone. The new brothers, I have no way to allocate land to them. Next year we will focus on developing Gaizhou, Fuzhou and Haizhou. Shuai decided that, according to the principle of voluntariness, the brothers can enjoy [-] mu in Gaizhou, [-] mu in Fuzhou, and [-] mu in Haizhou on a voluntary basis!"

Whether it is the military exploits of Wei Wuzu, or the [-]th rank of the Qin and Han Dynasties, or the government soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, or the guards of the Ming Dynasty, only by ensuring sufficient interests of the soldiers, that is, the fields, can the army guarantee combat effectiveness.

But the problem is that there is only less than 4000 million mu of land in Guanzhong, and there is a considerable amount of mulberry forest among them.Everyone knows that the terrain near Chang'an is good, the development prospects are good, and the land is valuable.

In the future, Jinzhou will be the commercial center of southern Liaoning, occupying the natural advantage of the seaport. In this regard, neither Gaizhou nor Fuzhou can compare with Jinzhou.

Regarding the issue of land, Cheng Shijie needs to make arrangements in advance.

"Although the official order has not been issued, I need to give my brothers a heads-up. The military job field can be adjusted, and the military merit field can also be adjusted. The adjustment ratio of the military merit field is [-]:[-]."

"Yes!"

Cheng Shijie continued, "Shen Mingyu."

"To!"

"Now, can Zuo Dusi quickly march 150 miles within seven hours and immediately go into battle?"

Shen Mingyu shook his head and said, "Commander, the last general doesn't know, nor has he tried!"

Cheng Shijie used the standards of the 38th Army to demand the Zuo Dusi of the Ning Navy. Of course, the You Dusi cannot be alone.

"Then let's try it later. The Guards, Zuo, and You are all ready. Three days later, everyone will be fully armed, carry three days of dry food, and carry out long-distance maneuvers!"

Cheng Shijie does not have to train Ning Haijun into the 38th Army. If it reaches that level, casualties during the training will be inevitable.Cheng Shijie had no choice but to improve the mobility of the troops as much as possible before the cavalry formed combat effectiveness.

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Hong Niangzi also arrived in southern Liaonan smoothly with an army of refugees, but the success was only relative. She led a total of 4 refugees and arrived in southern Liaoning. There were only [-] people left, and nearly tens of thousands were Sick or hungry, died on the way of migration.

This is also impossible.

After the great disaster, there must be a great plague.

People who can live, without exception, are hard-fated people.

The red lady is still wearing a red wedding dress, a red cloak, a long knife hanging from her waist, a spear in her hand, and a long bow on her back.

When they arrived at the first stop in southern Liaoning, they were placed in the resettlement camp in southern Liaoning. The first thing they did when they arrived in southern Liaoning was to learn how to line up.

Those who do not obey the discipline will be reminded by the staff who maintain order next to the team. If they are reminded to ignore the reminder, then the security personnel will come forward to take them away, and the next thing will be a matter of course. Such a scene, in Jin It plays out every few days on the docks of State Harbor.

After registration, they are allowed to take a bath. Compared with the rough environment of the original resettlement site, the conditions of the resettlement camp are much better now.

First of all, there are rows of rooms with red bricks and red tiles. These rooms are actually bathrooms. The men's bathhouse has a large pool, while the women's bathhouse does not...

The floor in the bathroom is covered with white floor tiles, and there are rows of showers. These showers are gourds with small holes drilled in the bottom. Like the shower heads of later generations, they can spray hot water.

For women with children, children under the age of three, whether boys or girls, follow their mothers, boys over three years old follow their fathers, and girls follow their mothers, enter the women's bathhouse and start bathing.

After the red lady took a bath, she felt a lot more relaxed, but when she came out, she found that her clothes were missing, and the red lady suddenly became nervous.

She subconsciously touched the knife, and just as she was holding the handle, a young woman walked in with a piece of clothing in her arms: "Do you want to try to fit it?"

"Give me clothes?"

The red lady was a little surprised. It was a cotton skirt, soft and comfortable. Looking at the stitches, it was very fine. It seemed to be sewn by skillful workmanship. Cotton was expensive, and it cost a lot of money.

"Yes, our executive committee has already said that you are the leader, and this is what you should do!"

With the establishment of the Liaodong Management Committee, the government's airs have also been set up. Some important positions are no longer as sloppy as the original grass-roots team, but an executive committee has been established.

If the Liaodong Management Committee is regarded as a prefecture, then the executive committee is the county below. The current Liaodong Management Committee has a total of six executives in Lushun, Jinzhou, Gaizhou, Haizhou, Fuzhou, and Zhenhai. Committee.

Each executive committee has a deacon, a deputy deacon, a total of seven members, and a nine-member meeting as the sub-leading body of the management committee.

The red lady nodded and began to put on the new clothes in silence.

In all fairness, Hong Niangzi grew up so big, she really didn't wear cotton clothes, because cotton is easy to shrink, easy to fold, difficult to take care of, and expensive.

Wearing this dress, the red lady feels a sense of weight loss.

When she came out, she saw her clothes were in a big pot, and there was a raging fire under the pot. The water in the pot was already boiling and still boiling.

After a catastrophe, there will be a catastrophe. Cheng Shijie is worried that the immigrants will have viruses, so he will take a bath, sterilize and disinfect the new immigrants. The disinfection of clothes is simply boiled in boiling water. Although there are some viruses in the Boiling water of [-] degrees can survive, but more than [-]% of bacteria or viruses cannot be stored in boiling water.

"Cuckoo..."

The red lady's stomach growled.

She looked at the woman in charge and asked, "How do we eat, do we need money?"

"You don't need money. When you come to southern Liaoning, everyone will be given a new set of clothes, a set of bedding, and shoes. Within half a month, you don't need money for food, but after half a month, they will be distributed to you. Work, at that time, you need to work to eat, we don't support idlers in southern Liaoning!"

The red lady said: "But many of us are very weak and cannot work!"

"Do you have hands? Do you have feet? As long as you have hands and feet, there are jobs for them, unless you don't want to do it!"

Under the leadership of the maid, the red lady came to the cafeteria.

Since the weather is not cold now, but rather hot, these chefs are like rice, lifted from the stuffy cafeteria hall to a row of big trees.

There are sweet potatoes, soybeans, wheat, peas, sweet potatoes, and several other kinds of food cooked in each big pot, and the immigrants have already lined up to receive the food.

Hong Niangzi ate a big bowl of multigrain porridge. The taste was similar. The porridge had been boiled for a long time, and it was very soft. She was half full. Hong Niangzi began to stroll around the resettlement site.

Outside the resettlement site is the land reclaimed by hundreds of households in the Ninghai Navy. The crops that have been irrigated in time are growing green, and the ears of wheat are swaying in the wind, and the growth is gratifying.

The red lady looked at it quietly, her heart was filled with amazement, and she said after a while: "We came all the way from Luoyang and passed through several prefectures and counties. It feels like a paradise."

Unlike other refugee leaders, Hong Niangzi really thought about taking the refugees to farm. After all, although Tanlong Valley is called a valley, it is more than 30 kilometers deep and has water sources. The valley can reclaim 10,000+ mu of land.

It was only during the actual execution that she felt the seriousness of the problem.Seeds, land, cattle, and agricultural tools all require money, but the refugees have nothing, and there is no way to organize the refugees to farm.

If there is a one in ten thousand possibility, Hong Niangzi will not leave Luoyang, let alone come to southern Liaoning.

However, Hong Niangzi was very puzzled, why Cheng Shijie could do such a difficult thing?
PS: I’m very sorry. I wanted to finish writing before twelve o’clock, but I fell asleep again. I’ve been lacking in sleep recently. After dawn, I wake up and revise. Now I have double images when reading words.sorry.

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