I, the Ming Dynasty, can still save me

Chapter 566 Zhu Youxiao’s Liaodong Plan
May [-], Forbidden City, Beijing.

The news that Amin led the Xianglan Banner to surrender and that Kaiyuan and Tieling had returned to the Ming Dynasty quickly spread from Liaoyang to Zhu Youxiao's imperial case.

Zhu Youxiao was naturally overjoyed after seeing this. It seemed that the situation in Liaodong was becoming more and more stable.Now that the Jianlu forces have been suppressed to the area east of Fushun, it will be even more difficult for them to break through the Ming army's defense line.

People in the official circles of the capital are not fools. They can naturally see the current situation. After the news was spread back to Beijing, the civil servants and officials also sent congratulations to the emperor one after another. They boasted to the emperor. In addition, Daming Daily and other Newspaper reports.Successive victories have allowed Zhu Youxiao's prestige to continue to increase.

This has also led to a lot less resistance to many of the policies currently being implemented, such as reserve warehouses, equalization of land and labor, etc.

However, there are joys and sorrows, and Zhu Youxiao has a lot of worries now.The first thing to bear the brunt is Liaodong's next plan to deal with Jianlu.

According to Xiong Tingbi's plan, in order to prevent another situation in the Battle of Sarhu, where the Ming army underestimated the enemy and divided its troops and advanced rashly, and was finally divided and annihilated by the rebels, he came up with a way to accomplish all the results in one battle.

He asked someone to estimate that Jianlu's food could only last for about four months at most. By then, Jianlu's food would be exhausted and he would be self-defeating.

Therefore, his plan is very simple. He can let Chen Liangbi's Beijing camp, Qi Jin's Zhejiang camp, Chen Ce's Sichuan troops and even Amin's troops with blue flags all gather in Fushun. While repairing the fortifications, they will continue to harass and attack the troops in Fushun. Erhu's troops and horses made him tired of defense and weakened his will.

Wait until Nurhachi can no longer hold on and take the initiative to attack, or after four months the Jianlu forces have run out of food and fodder, and then take the opportunity to go straight to Huanglong, storm Sarhu and Jiefan City, defeat the main force of the Jianlu forces in one fell swoop, and capture Nurhaci alive. It was built.

Zhu Youxiao was shocked when he saw it, and secretly thought that this was the Apocalypse version of the Battle of Songjin.

It's just that the roles are reversed now, and the offensive and defensive dynamics are different.The Ming Dynasty has changed from a defender in history to an attacker today, and it is time for the Jianlu to experience the pain of being besieged for a long time.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao naturally agreed with this plan. However, before the ink of his criticism was dry, Wang Yingjiao, the Minister of Household Affairs, came over to complain to him.

The only reason is that Xiong Tingbi's plan is too expensive.

At the beginning of the year, for the war in Liaodong, the Ministry of Household Affairs allocated 560 million taels of Liaoning pay to Liaodong.As of May, according to Xiong Tingbi's report from Yang Lian, there were only 150 million taels left, and nearly 400 million taels had been spent in five months.

If the plan to station troops in Fushun for confrontation is carried out now, the Ministry of Revenue will allocate Liao wages to Liaodong again.

And this is only part of the problem. According to Xiong Tingbi's words, there will be at least 8 soldiers and horses stationed in Fushun. The daily supply of food and grass and the deployment of ordnance for these 8 people are astronomical figures.

At present, the grain and grass in Liaodong are mainly obtained from Gyeonggi, Shandong and maritime trade.

These grains and grasses arrived at Gaizhouwei via sea and land, and then were transported by land, heading north through Niuzhuangpu, Haizhouwei, Liaoyang, Shenyang, and finally to Fushun.

This road is not only long, but especially the road out of Shenyang and to Fushun is muddy and difficult to walk.What's more, it was originally enemy territory, so the road there had long been destroyed. Although it is still usable after simple repairs, the damage on the road cannot be underestimated.

After such transportation of grain and grass, the loss is as high as [-]%. If it goes to Tieling, Kaiyuan and other places, the loss will be even higher.

Although Wang Yingjiao's words were very harsh, Zhu Youxiao had to listen.

Xiong Tingbi calculated military accounts, while Wang Yingjiao calculated economic accounts.Therefore, regardless of Xiong Tingbi's continuous victory, Wang Yingjiao and even the entire Ming Dynasty were actually supporting him.

After Wang Yingjiao said this, Zhu Youxiao was also settling accounts, but he was not settling economic accounts, but who was the first to fail, between him and Nurhachi.

This result is naturally self-evident. How can Nurhaci, who is short of food, compare with Ming Dynasty.So even if it costs a lot, he is still willing to spend this money. Even if he piles up gold and silver, he will kill Jianlu.

However, he is not taken advantage of, and he is not willing to see such high losses. After all, if you save more, the burden on the court will be smaller.

Thinking of this, he immediately called people from the Military Aircraft Department and the cabinet to discuss the matter, and asked the Ministry of Revenue to take out 300 million from the Liaoning salary reserved for next year in Taicang Yinzhong, and then allocate it to Liaodong for Xiong Tingbi's military use.

In addition, let Yang Lian start the construction of the canal between Liaohe County and Niuzhuangpu in advance, so that ships can go directly north to Niuzhuangpu via the Liaohe River, thus saving one-third of the distance and saving time and effort.At the same time, he also appointed Yuan Yingtai, the censor of Youqiandu, to inspect Liaodong. He gave the king's flag and Shang Fang's sword, and ordered him to investigate the farming, water conservancy and work-for-relief matters in Liaodong. At the same time, he would strictly investigate corruption in Liaodong. Once discovered, he would not take it lightly. Rao.

Yuan Yingtai can also be regarded as a Donglin person. Although he historically succeeded Xiong Tingbi in managing Liaodong, he blindly trusted the Mongols because he took the initiative to seek war.As a result, the Ming army was defeated, Liaoshen was lost, and the situation in Liaodong was corrupted. He himself also lived and died with Liaoyang, and burned himself to death.

And to be honest, if he had not been in charge of Liaodong management, he would have achieved quite a lot as an official.

For example, after he became a Jinshi in the Wanli period, he was first appointed magistrate of Linzhang County (originally part of Hebei Province and part of Henan in the Ming and Qing Dynasties). He mobilized migrant workers to build a long embankment of more than [-] miles to prevent the Zhang River from flooding.After he was later transferred to the county magistrate of Hanoi (now Qinyang County, Henan), he organized the people to drill through the Taihang Mountains, introduce Qinshui River, build [-] weirs, and irrigate tens of thousands of acres of farmland, benefiting neighboring counties as well. His political achievements were the best among the two rivers (Henan and Hebei). crown.

Later, after he was transferred to the positions of head of the Water Resources Department of the Ministry of Industry and doctor of the Military Selection Department of the Ministry of War, hundreds of people who had pretended to be in their posts were eliminated.

After Zhu Youxiao came to the throne, he had no chance to go to Liaodong, so he was appointed as the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and concurrently as the counselor of Huaixu Military Preparation, and was transferred to Shandong for disaster relief.

Unexpectedly, he worked hard after he left. He stayed in Shandong for the whole last year. Not only did he set up a porridge factory to relieve the victims, he also learned from Liaodong's "relief through work" and mobilized the victims to build city walls, dredge city rivers, and repair Confucius temples, so that the victims could live in Shandong. Can eat well.In the end, all the additional tax revenue and tens of thousands of taels of silver from Liaodong were used to provide relief to the victims, causing the Ministry of Household Affairs to impeach him.

However, Zhu Youxiao didn't care about the money. From this incident, he got to know Yuan Yingtai again and found that this person was really a practical person.So he was promoted again and appointed as the censor of Youqiandu to rectify the official administration.

So this time, Zhu Youxiao approved of sending him to Liaodong to supervise farming, water conservancy and combat corruption.Liu Yishen, Ye Xianggao and others naturally had no objections. After all, Yuan Yingtai's achievements were there.

In addition, Zhu Youxiao specially discussed with Liu Yisui and others that since Tieling and Kaiyuan were captured, Shenyang was no longer the northernmost point of the Ming Dynasty, but Kaiyuan was.Therefore, it is necessary to station troops and horses in Tiel and Kai as soon as possible, and more importantly, to immigrate.

The various atrocities committed by Nurhaci led to a sharp decline in the number of Ming people in Tiekai.Therefore, in order to re-consolidate the two places of Tiekai and encourage the people to expand further north, it is necessary to establish large-scale farmland and guard the border, and the number of immigrants to these two places cannot be less.

Ming Dynasty is in short supply of everything but people. After the trial immigration last year and the first five months of this year, the migration routes from Shandong, Henan and other places to Guizhou and Liaodong have matured. Basically, the number of immigrants every month is [-]. about.

Therefore, in order to further promote the immigration plan, Zhu Youxiao decided to expand the entire immigration scope to the entire north.

Two destinations have also been added, from Guizhou and Liaodong to Guizhou, Liaodong, Kaitie and Taiwan.

The Liaodong here actually refers to the four prefectures of Haizhou, Gaizhou, Fuzhou, Jinzhou and Dingliao Youwei south of Liaochen.These places are areas under the actual control of the Ming Dynasty, and water conservancy projects are constantly being built. Therefore, the living environment is much better than that in the north of Liaoshen, and naturally more people go there.

Kaitie and Taiwan are both vast and sparsely populated, especially Kaitie. They were just massacred by the Jianbu and now recovered by the Ming Dynasty. Now it can be said that the bones are exposed in the wild and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles.But this also has an advantage, that is, because there are fewer people, if you go there, you will naturally be allocated more land.

Under the temptation of land, Zhu Youxiao didn't believe that no one would go.

So with Zhu Youxiao's decision, the matter of expanding the scope and destination of immigrants was quickly settled.

In addition, in order to reduce the loss of food and grass and to mobilize troops faster, Zhu Youxiao also asked the cabinet to order the Liaodong Capital Division to allocate funds to improve the roads north of Shenyang. Road construction is a matter of contemporary benefit and will benefit the future. Taking advantage of the current military needs, as soon as possible If it is repaired, it will be of great benefit to the development north of Liaoyang. Zhu Youxiao will never save money on this kind of thing.

From this, the overall political policy of Liaodong was determined, but Zhu Youxiao's troubles were far from over.

Although the situation in Liaodong was excellent, according to Xiong Tingbi's report, Huang Taiji actually went to Horqin and persuaded Horqin to fall out with Chahar.

The Dutch fleet from Guangdong finally appeared. Before they could attack Macau, they sailed to Penghu and imprisoned the people from the Fujian Penghu Inspection Department. It seemed that they would be stationed there for a long time.Fortunately, the day before their arrival, the Fujian Chief Secretary's second batch of immigrant fleet had just set off from Penghu to Taiwan, and they were not caught by the Dutch and became coolies.

What's even more disgusting is that the Dutch sent a ship to Fuzhou to find Yuan Keli, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and said that they hoped to follow the example of the Portuguese in leasing Penghu as a trading place. Finally, they threatened Yuan Keli that if it was difficult, they would attack the Ming merchant ships as a punishment.

When Yuan Keli heard the news, he was furious and immediately arrested the Dutch messenger and imprisoned him.He felt that these red-haired barbarians were ruthless and unreasonable. They started wars in the Ming Dynasty and attacked court officials wantonly. Now they dared to threaten the court. They really had the courage to take advantage of them. They must be punished, otherwise These barbarians will not be afraid of the Ming Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)