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Chapter 188 Controlling Liaodong
After visiting the Dafu Ship, Zhang Zongxian was very disappointed with the largest ship in the Ming Dynasty. The load of the Fu Ship is too low, and it can hold up to 200 people, which is completely unable to meet the requirements of future immigrants.

As for the legendary treasure ship, Zhang Zongxian has arranged for people to go to Nanzhili to search for the descendants of the original shipbuilders to see if the treasure ship can be reproduced.

In order to immigrate to North America on a large scale, there must be an ocean-going transport ship that can carry more than 1000 people at a time.

If you want to build an ocean-going transport ship that can carry 1000 people, you can't count on wooden sailboats, and you have to build a steam engine ship.

The problem is that the steam engines and steam locomotives that Zhang Zongxian and others built are basically handmade, and industrial production has not yet been fully realized.

We can only drive the ducks to the shelves and try to build a few small steamers first, and then gradually build larger ones. When it really doesn't work, we will build tens of thousands of Fuchuan as immigration ships.

Shipbuilding cannot be completed overnight. After arranging the training of the navy in Dengzhou, Zhang Zongxian took a boat to Jinzhou, Liaodong, which is Lushun in his previous life.

Zhang Zongxian wants to build a real naval base here. Dengzhou is only used as a construction base for civilian ships, and steam engine ships will be developed and manufactured here.

After arriving in Jinzhou, Zhang Zongxian first asked the disciples of the school to take over the local defense, designated the entire Jinzhou as a naval base, and planned to build a naval fortress in Jinzhou.

After leaving his disciple Liu Jiansheng in charge of building a shipyard and a fort in Jinzhou, Zhang Zongxian took a battalion of personal guards to Shenyang to receive the defense of the entire Liaodong there.

Although he is the Governor of Ji and Liao now, he does not plan to receive soldiers and horses from Ji Town. After all, Ji Town is guarding the capital, which is more troublesome than Xuan Town, and it is enough to slowly transfer the soldiers and horses of Ji Town to Liaodong.

After arriving in Shenyang, Zhang Zongxian first visited the outgoing Xiong Tingzhou, but Xiong Tingzhou didn't see any visitors behind closed doors, and just handed over his seal, presumably because he didn't want to have any contact with Zhang Zongxian, the eunuch.

At this time, due to the persistence of Kaiyuan and Tieling in Liaodong, the Tartars were unable to break through Shenyang as they did in their previous lives.

However, the original 500 million people in Liaodong were also afraid of being sacrificed by wild boar skin and blood because of the reason of "All Living Beings should be robbery".

Although the Tartars could not attack the fortified city, the Ming army was afraid of field battles, which made the Tartars go down like wind in the city, and the people could not go out of the city to farm.

Fortunately, because of supply problems, Jiannu only dared to go to Shenyang City, Liaoyang City, and Phoenix City were still safe.

Today, there are about 20 Ming armies from all walks of life in Liaodong. Among them, Zhang Zongxian's two sworn brothers naturally have the most soldiers.One led [-] troops in Kaiyuan, and the other led [-] troops in Tieling.

There are [-] soldiers and horses in Fushun, [-] in Shenyang, [-] in Liaoyang, and the rest are scattered in fortresses elsewhere.

For these Ming troops who had been frightened by Jiannu, after Xiong Tingzhou left, Zhang Zongxian mobilized ten cavalry brigades and five infantry brigades from outside the side wall, and detoured to Quanning to Shenyang.

Then three infantry brigades were sent to receive Shanhaiguan, Jinzhou and Guangning, all the soldiers and horses from these three places were mobilized to Shenyang, and then the remaining two infantry brigades were mobilized to Fushun and Liaoyang, and the soldiers and horses from Fushun and Liaoyang were mobilized Also call back all.

After concentrating these soldiers and horses in Shenyang, Zhang Zongxian began to abolish and count them, leaving all these soldiers and horses under the age of 20, and assigning [-] acres of land to each of them, and arranged them outside Shenyang City .

The demobilized soldiers are naturally happy, they can get so much land, and then look at the soldiers and horses brought by the governor, all of them are tall and big, and they look like elites, Jian Nu must not dare to come to Shenyang again.

As for the commanders and generals who led the troops, after cutting off a few ignorant goods, naturally there was no voice of opposition, and they stayed in their respective mansions with peace of mind and received full military pay, which Zhang Zongxian had given them. Subsidies from official positions
After dealing with these Ming troops, Zhang Zongxian began to encourage the people to go out of the city to farm, and re-divided the land outside the city to the people.

Each household was allocated [-] mu of land, and the people issued land deeds to promote potato planting to the people, and asked the Taiping to loan cattle and farm tools to the people. Whether it was the disbanded Ming army or the people who went out of the city, the taxation was equal to the average harvest. [-]% of the food, and exempt from corvee.

For the people in other places in Liaodong, under the auspices of the disciples of the school, the land was re-measured, the population was checked, and the land deeds were replaced.

In the process of checking the land, for local bureaucrats, Zhang Zongxian asked his disciples to check the accounts of the yamen by the way, and all those who had problems were dismissed for investigation. Except for a few who took refuge in Zhang Zongxian, most of them either resigned and went home or were dismissed for investigation.

Zhang Zongxian also posted a notice to encourage all Liaodong people to reclaim wasteland, and the reclaimed wasteland can receive a title deed after paying taxes for five years.

In order to promote the cultivation of potatoes, he also told the people that only potatoes are collected for taxation, and wheat is not collected.

During this period, Zhang Zongxian summoned his sworn brothers. Facing the governors of Ji and Liao, Du and Wang, the two commanders-in-chief naturally didn't dare to call him brother any more, and stood cautiously waiting for a lecture.

Zhang Zongxian didn't bother to greet the two of them, and directly stated that he wanted them to hand over their military power, and they would naturally give them corresponding credit when Jiannu was wiped out.

The two had experienced Zhang Zongxian's ruthlessness, and now that Zhang Zongxian had the power of life and death, he naturally did not dare to resist, and obediently handed over all his soldiers and horses. So far, three months after arriving in Shenyang, Zhang Zongxian completely controlled Liaodong.

After completing the control of Liaodong, another [-] new troops were recruited from Shandong and other places. Together with the abolished Ming army, ten cavalry brigades and ten infantry brigades were formed.

It not only recruited young and strong soldiers, but also took the Liao people living in Shandong back to Liaodong, and lent them food to rebuild their homes.

Zhang Zongxian also treated the landless people in Shandong who were willing to come to Liaodong to reclaim land.

Anyway, the most important thing in Liaodong is land, but there are no good cold-resistant crops, and the people plant more and get less harvest. Now that there are high-yield cold-resistant crops like potatoes, the people can eat and clothe themselves by planting the land. Can grow soybeans.

Zhang Zongxian will not do anything to them this year, but he will not make it easier for them. First of all, he will cut off the commercial roads, send cavalry to block all roads, and crack down on smuggling activities.

Shanxi merchants who originally provided supplies to Jiannu had given up the idea of ​​transporting supplies to Liaodong in the face of layers of blockades by the cavalry of the Legislative Army outside the side wall.

Jiannu now only has North Korea as the only channel to obtain supplies. When there are enough blessing boats to transport troops, they will send troops to recover North Korea and block Jiannu to death in the poor mountains and rivers.

At that time, not a grain of grain, a grain of salt, or a piece of cloth is allowed to flow into the hands of Jiannu, so that they can only wear clothes made of fish skin, and starve to death.

(End of this chapter)