I, the Ming Dynasty, can still save me

Chapter 623 Jianlu’s follow-up measures
Zhang Siwei was not surprised when he saw Lu Xiangsheng coming, and immediately introduced him to the situation of the embankment.

After more than half a year of construction, more than 400 feet of this embankment have been built. If we work hard in the next two months, we can build at least another [-] feet. At that time, we can rest and renovate the river channel, and we can simply irrigate farmland.

Lu Xiangsheng was also a hard worker, and he didn't care about the muddy roads. He and Zhang Siwei divided the work and cooperated. While calculating the future construction route, he immediately called on everyone to start construction.

Everyone was already accustomed to seeing the county magistrate like this.This county magistrate can write articles with his pen, practice martial arts with his sword, and carry a hoe in the fields. He has no sourness of a scholar at all.

The subordinate officials who followed him and the civilian men recruited on the side did not dare to be lazy when they saw this, and immediately began to move, which did not end until the evening.

Seeing that it was getting late, Lu Xiangsheng and others did not go back, but stayed in the surrounding villages.

It wasn't until early the next morning that he and Zhang Siwei set off back to Liaohe County. However, as soon as they entered the city gate, they were informed by the government officials guarding the door.Xiong Shangshu and Yang Shangshu have arrived at the county government office.

"Liaohe County Magistrate Lu Xiangsheng and County Prime Minister Zhang Siwei came to see Xiong Shangshu and Yang Shangshu. They were out inspecting the dams and came back late. Please forgive me, Lord Shangshu."

In the county government office of Liaohe County, Lu Xiangsheng and his wife, who had arrived in a hurry, saw Xiong Tingbi and Yang Lian waiting in the lobby as soon as they entered the county government office. Upon seeing this, they quickly knelt down to greet them.

"Haha, it's okay. Your county clerk has told us the whole story just now. I'm very pleased that you two have personally worked on the dam."

Seeing the two of them like this, Yang Lian quickly waved his hand to let Lu Xiangsheng and the others get up.

Since Lu Xiangsheng took office as the magistrate of Liaohe County the year before last, he had only met Lu Xiangsheng once in Liaoyang when he took office.

At that time, he wanted to implement the plan of abolishing the Wei and setting up counties in Liaodong, but he never expected that Lu Xiangsheng, as the top scholar of Enke, would be selected by the emperor to take on important tasks in Liaodong.

Although he was very worried about the emperor's decision at the time, after one and a half years of practice, Yang Lian looked at him with admiration.

"I entered the country with Xiong Shangshu today. Along the way, I saw that although there were not many people in Liaohe County, it was well-ordered. I asked the people about their impressions of the county magistrate, and all of them praised it. Then I saw the appearance of the dock and the county seat. We couldn't believe it. I can’t even believe that Liaohe County is a new city.”

"Your Majesty has a keen eye, and he has indeed seen you right. When the two of us arrive in the capital, we will definitely tell you the truth and your merits."

Hearing Yang Lian's praise, Xiong Tingbi nodded repeatedly.Lu Xiangsheng felt frightened when he heard this.

"I don't dare to be greedy for merit in my humble position. Being able to come to Liaodong to serve is all because of His Majesty's trust in me; and I am able to achieve this result in Liaodong because of the strong support of Yang Shangshu and Xiong Shangshu last year, as well as the personal efforts of Zhang Xiancheng. The humble position is just a coincidence.”

Seeing Lu Xiangsheng's modesty, Yang and Xiong didn't take it seriously, and immediately asked Lu Xiangsheng and others to take their seats.

They didn't come to Liaohe County originally. The reason why they came here was because of the emperor's instructions.

Jianlu was destroyed last year, and although Huang Taiji and Yue Tuo were still at large, the situation in Liaodong was generally stable.

However, in order to eradicate the root causes and avoid future troubles, the Liao aid troops led by Chen Liangbi, He Shixian, Chen Ce and others continued to station in Liaodong. On the one hand, they cleaned up the Jurchens in the original Jianru territory, and at the same time, they went north to clean up the savage Jurchens and let them return to the Ming Dynasty. .

On the other hand, the main task was to resettle the Jianlu captives and Jurchen camp soldiers. Sixty to seventy thousand Jianlu prisoners were all resettled in batches.Any Aixinjueluo bloodline that cannot escape.All of them followed Nurhachi and were escorted to the capital to wait for their fate. All the Jianlu women were married to Han Chinese who immigrated to Liaodong as wives and concubines.

The man gave him different choices. If he committed any act of massacre of Liao people, he would be handed over to the Liaodong Dusi Yamen and beheaded in public as a warning to others.

If there is no act of massacre of Liao people, and the strong and powerful ones are selected as criminal soldiers, their crimes can be pardoned as long as they make meritorious service to the court in the future.The remaining people were all demoted to coolies, and they could be exempted from punishment as long as they worked for five years.

As for the four Jurchen battalions that originally took refuge in the Ming Dynasty, due to their hard work in the battle, this battle was the most successful. Everyone's hands are stained with the blood of the Jianlu. They can never go back except to follow the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty also fulfilled its promise to them. First, all Han surnames such as Guan, Tong, Ma, and Suo were given to them, and they were organized into households and given land according to their military merits.

It's just that the location of the land rewarded to everyone is different, and it is widely distributed, from Liaonan to Kaitie, and from Guangning to Hetuala.This naked differentiation strategy also made Amin and Mang Gurtai very uncomfortable, but there was nothing they could do about it.

Because after this battle, the surviving soldiers in the Jurchen camp, encouraged by the Ming army's reward of twenty acres of land for every person they killed, became landlords and no longer wanted to die in the war.

Xiong Tingbi and others also followed the trend and encouraged these people to disarm and return to the fields and gave them silver rewards. In this wave, more than 4000 people retired and received the rewarded fields to prepare to become landlords.

At the same time, the Jurchens who had made military exploits and were assigned official positions, such as Soni and others, were also given official positions one by one, but just like the Liangshan heroes who were recruited, they were all assigned to serve in different places.

After doing this several times, the four Jurchen camps, which had suffered heavy losses, were dismembered and their strength was greatly reduced.

In the end, the four Jurchen battalions, which originally numbered [-], were finally dismantled and merged into one battalion, the Haixi Battalion, with a total strength of [-].

Among the Jurchen generals of the Ming Dynasty, the final winner was Heshun.

Relying on his loyalty to the Ming Dynasty and his military exploits in capturing Nurhachi, he was appointed as the commander-in-chief of Kaitie, in charge of the Haixi Camp and the Jianlu Crime Army, with a force of 1.

As for Amin and Mang Gurtai, Ming Dynasty also kept its promise and continued to appoint them as Jurchen commanders.

It's just that now that the Jurchens have been destroyed, their banner as the Jurchen commander has become a cover. It is of no use at all and cannot command anyone.

Among the two, Amin was very submissive, so he was recommended by Chen Liangbi, Xiong Tingbi and others so that he could go to Beijing to meet the saint. As for Manggurtai, he was placed in an office in Liaoyang and was not allowed to go out at will.

After waiting for the Jianlu incident to be completely dealt with and the situation in Liaodong to be completely stable, it was already the end of the second year of Tianqi.

So after the Beijing camp, Sichuan army, Zhejiang camp and other supporting Liao troops spent their last year in Liaodong, they began to return to the pass and go to the capital to participate in the prisoner presentation and canonization ceremony in the capital.

After the troops and horses to aid the Liao Dynasty set off, Xiong Tingbi and Yang Lian also received the emperor's edict.

The emperor promoted Xiong Tingbi to the position of Minister of the Ministry of War and Yang Lian to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Personnel respectively, and asked them to go to Beijing to take up their posts immediately without any mistake.

(End of this chapter)