Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 632 The War Between Ming Dynasty and North Korea
Jiulian City in Northeast Province.

As the Ming Empire has been promoting the construction of the Northeast Province over the years, even this small border town in the Liaodong region has shown signs of prosperity.

It is different from the original historical Jianlu who set up customs bans in the early and mid-Qing Dynasty.

After the Ming Empire eradicated the remnants of the Northeast, the cabinet began to encourage the people inside the pass to immigrate outside the pass, and even encouraged the people outside the pass to form families and clans to move outside the pass, allowing the people outside the pass to own their own land and private property.

The former wanted to keep his ancestral property and had no intention of bringing a dowry. The latter, as the emperor of the Ming Empire, Zhu Youjian, did not think about taking the Northeast as his own private property, but wanted to take this opportunity to expand Han culture as much as possible. The circle and the Han Chinese live together in the territory.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty hopes that more and more Han people will go outside the customs to prosper.

As a result, "Crossing the Guandong" has become a popular social phenomenon in the Ming Empire. Most of the people in Shandong and Henan began to move to the northeast one after another. As a result, today's Jiulian City also speaks Chinese with a Shandong accent.

Tao An and his family have been rooted in Jiulian City for five years, specializing in soybean planting. With the improvement of the people's living standards in the Ming Empire, the people's demand for nutrition is getting higher and higher, the price of soybean food continues to rise, and soybean planting has also become an important factor. Many economic occupations that agricultural practitioners are actively engaged in, especially in areas outside the customs.

After all, the yield of soybeans per mu is not high, and the land requirements are high, and the cost of land outside the customs is low. Naturally, it is more suitable for soybean cultivation outside the customs. Tao An's family has their own [-] mu of fertile land in Jiulian City, and they specialize in soybean cultivation.

This day was another day of soybean harvesting. Tao An took his family and hired workers to harvest soybeans very early. Due to the improvement of water conservancy projects, especially the application of steam-powered water pumps, the climate brought by the small glacier With the resolution of the drought problem and the absence of turbulent wars, the Liaodong area has become a veritable piece of fertile land in the Ming Dynasty, and the black soil has officially become synonymous with rich and fertile land.

Even Tao An's family's soybean production is increasing year by year, and now Tao An has to ask his daughter to help harvest soybeans.

The Han people are always industrious, and they are keen on farming and construction rather than slaughtering outsiders like Genghis Khan to fulfill their ambitions. Even if the punishment for the Netherlands is severe, the Dutch slaughtered the Han people first.

Now the rulers of the Ming Empire are actively engaged in railway construction, and Han people like Tao An are also diligently building their new homes after taking root outside the customs, plowing the former wilderness into a fertile field for planting soybeans. Pieces of soybeans shining in the autumn sun and the sweat on Tao An's forehead all show the greatness of this nation.

"Girl, do you count how much these are? The money you received in exchange for the potatoes this year will be your dowry next year." Tao An threw an account book to his daughter, A Hong, who graduated from the No. [-] Elementary School in Jiulian City. The one called Ah Hong threw aside a handful of bean stalks that he had cut off, walked over, blushed prettyly and said, "You know how to make arrangements for others!"

At this time, a burst of gunshots rang out suddenly. As soon as Ah Hong finished speaking, she saw her father lying on the ground, bleeding from her chest. She couldn't help but looked back and saw hundreds of Korean soldiers walking out of the opposite mountain forest. The flintlock gun in his hand was smoking, and he walked towards Ah Hong, and smiled obscenely: "Han girl, it's really tender, hehe!"

The other farmers who were still harvesting soybeans for the Tao family also stood up. At this time, the North Korean soldiers shot without thinking, killing dozens of Han people on the spot, and the golden fields were dyed. With blood on, the peaceful and happy life that was originally a good harvest was broken.

The other Han people were either too frightened to know what to do, or they ran away, but a group of more North Korean soldiers chased after them and surrounded all the Han people here. One of the North Korean officers shouted: "No! Move! This is our territory in North Korea, and now you are our slaves, whoever makes a move will be killed!"

After all, these are common people, and they didn't know what to do, so they had to stay still, and these Korean soldiers began to force these Han people to carry the soybeans that had been loaded into the carts, and dragged them away with their own army. Those that were not installed or still growing in the fields were burned.

For a time, the whole field was on fire, and the Han girl named Ah Hong could only helplessly watch her property being plundered and destroyed in this way, and she was even raped to death by North Korean soldiers.

In the autumn of the 38th year of Chongzhen, such incidents continued to occur in the northeast Liaodong area adjacent to North Korea. Jiulian City was even caught off guard and was attacked and occupied by the North Korean army. The people in the city were coerced into slavery by the North Korean soldiers.

When such incidents were reported back to China, Zhu Youjian had just approved the cabinet's resolution on the construction of the main railway line from Shenyang to Beijing.

"North Korean soldiers raided the area from Tielingwei to Kangzhouwei, and Jiulian City fell?"

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian stood up quite surprised, and immediately ordered the generals of the Grand Marshal's Mansion to gather together, and said: "North Korea has been coveting the Tielingwei and Kangzhouwei areas of our Daming since the tribute. Because my Ming Dynasty has mainly focused on revenge against the Netherlands and expanding overseas rights and interests over the years, it has given the North Korean army a chance to grow stronger, and now it is attacking my Ming Dynasty's territory and killing our Han people. If the empire needs to enter Siberia, it must conquer North Korea first!"

The Ming Empire has also been increasing its troops to the Northeast, but because more than a dozen Mongolian tribes in the Northeast needed to be wiped out and relocated, the Empire’s troops in the Northeast did not have time to launch an attack on North Korea, and the military expenditure was mainly used to attack the Netherlands. The war and internal digestion.

But now, as soon as North Korea found out that the Ming Empire was in trouble first, Yan Yingyuan, governor of the Northeast of the Ming Empire, immediately transferred a B-type battalion of the Dingliao Right Guard to recover Jiulian City.

The commander of the battalion immediately rushed to the foot of Jiulian City with [-] Ming troops. The rifled cannons belonging to the Sanmen Battalion bombarded Jiulian City, and the [-] Ming troops rushed in on the spot. Two hand-cranked machine guns were defeated. When there were [-] Korean soldiers inside the city gate, the Korean army withdrew from Jiulian City, but Ming's offensive momentum did not stop because of this, [-] Ming soldiers chased them out of the city, captured a Korean soldier and shot them on the spot.

At the same time, Yan Yingyuan immediately mobilized the first army and the sixth army of the main guards to move from the two directions of Haizhouwei and Guangningwei to Jiulian City.

The Beiyang Fleet of the Ming Empire also began to gather at Phi Island. 130 warships plus a new steam and sail dual-powered warship had already blocked the coastline of North Korea.

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