Chapter 560: The South Beyond the Pass

Tielingwei in Liao Town turned out to be a poor place. Only those who offended Shangguan were sent to serve in the army. Although the Jurchens in Nurkandusi and the Mongols in the Three Guards of Duoyan had traded nearby, there was no oil or water in such a simple trade of local specialties and grain and salt. On the contrary, when the barbarians outside the wall couldn't survive natural disasters and man-made disasters, they had to come in to loot.

Compared with these barbarians, the Ming army in Liaozhen can be regarded as an elite army, but every time they defeated the other side, the Jurchens and Mongols were scattered in the mountains and forests outside the pass, and they made a comeback after the limelight. Such endless harassment is quite a headache. Moreover, Tieling is the northernmost place where the Ming army in Liaozhen is stationed. The weather is bitter and cold, and the battles are constantly. If you go there, it is not a lie to live for a few years or decades less.

However, ten years after Jiajing, the breeding business group appeared, which organized a large number of farmers and a large number of foreign tribes to cultivate land outside the pass and open a manor.

It turned out that the Jurchens outside the wall were either captured as slaves or driven further north by private soldiers from the reclamation manor to compete with the Ye Jurchens and Tungus tribes there for survival space, fighting with each other. The Tieling Guards basically had no battles every year, and they suddenly became much easier.

Moreover, the Beijing Merchants Corps used their relationship in the officialdom to recruit a large number of military households and soldiers to reclaim outside the pass. When passing by Tieling Guard, they always gave some benefits to the defending frontiers. Therefore, the officers and soldiers of Tieling Guards began to reap a lot of extra oil and water at that time.

Many soldiers were even recruited by the manor's owner to be guards and private soldiers in the manor. The money they earned and did much better than being a soldier in the garrison. Later, the Mongolian tribe of the three guards of Duoyan was defeated by Jiang Feng, and there was basically no force outside the pass that could threaten the manor.

The various productions of the reclamation manor outside the pass began to be sold in large quantities within the pass, and Tieling became a key point for transportation. There were many merchants and goods in the past. No matter how inflexible the officers and soldiers of the Tieling Guard were, they knew that opening checkpoints would charge taxes and fees. Tieling was a must-pass place. If you pay some money in exchange for smooth passage, the merchants were willing to do so.

The money collected by Tielingwei does not need to be paid. Except for the common sharing of the officialdom, the rest falls into the pockets of generals and soldiers. Three years later, Tielingwei, which was originally extremely poor, is already one of the richest places in Liao Town.

Here, the commander of the garrison station had already purchased a large industry in Liaoyang three years, and in Shenyang, Tianjin and Baoding, there were also his own business shops. The other thousands of households had been to the level of the General Banner Xiaoqi. At least one hundred acres of land was bought, and farmers from Shangguan came to farm. Some people also bought a lot of Korean slaves. They also had a small farm within the wall. Although the soldiers had too great benefits, they could not get it, but one year later, they could build a new house and buy some good land.

Such a good location was made in the first few years without any notice. A few years later, Liao Town was focused on this piece of fat. As soon as the goods entered the side wall, as long as the Tieling Guard was released, the other garrisons and guards actually didn't have much oil or water to get in even the checkpoints. To put it bluntly, the Tieling Guard had the most oil or water. The commander of the Tieling Guard was promoted to a place in southern Liaoning in the 13th year of Jiajing. The thousands and hundreds of households below were all promoted. However, they were not in the Tieling Guard.

The commander above arranged a group of people to continue making money, but at most he made money in this officer position for a year, because a large number of people were waiting in line there, hoping to make a fortune in Tieling.

There are 80,000 to 100,000 troops in Liao Town, and because the border is full of battles, the combat effectiveness is the leader of the nine borders. They also know the existence of the reclamation manor outside the pass and guard against it. The Ming Dynasty's policies outside the border are like ostrichs burying their heads in the sand. Except for the known Mongolians and Jurchens, they do not admit that there are other forces that can endanger the Ming Dynasty.

In other words, in the consciousness of the big bosses in the court, the opponent that Liao Town wanted to defend was still the Mongols in the north, to prevent them from invading from the direction outside the northern pass, and to the small-scale robbery of the Jurchens, they had to be wary of. As for the millions of refugees left by the Beijing Merchants Group, they regarded it as non-existent.

The bosses of the Eastern Party have always adopted this attitude in the court. Li Gufeng, the general of Liao Town, made statements several times, but they all ended in vain.

In fact, Li Gufeng, the general of Liao Town, made the most money among refugees outside the pass. Among the ten taels of silver collected by Tielingwei, three taels belonged to him. Relying on the rich land of Liao Town and the income from Tielingwei, Li Gufeng raised nearly 10,000 personal soldiers and servants under him.

However, such generals were not only just about making money. Liao Town also had a spy, pretending to be refugees or small businessmen, and repeatedly pretending to be refugees or small businessmen to investigate outside the wall. However, three hundred miles outside the pass, all the manors seemed to be farmers who were farming in detail, and they could not see any military affairs. Walking inside, the people in the reclamation manor outside the pass were very fierce.

As long as you are not a person outside the pass, you will generally kill him. Moreover, there are only one or two roads between the cultivated manors. The land outside the pass is vast, so if someone lives in a place, they are just these manors. If you want to continue to go deeper and not be discovered, there is no way to replenish supplies. You can't go to those manors to replenish them and send your head to the edge of the militia.

Since there are no soldiers outside the pass, it seems to be a good target for robbery. Li Gufeng and other generals and schools in Liao Town also wanted to rob and take those manors into their own hands. However, to attack the land outside the border wall, it is inevitable that those rigid-minded characters in the court would say that they are good at robbing the border. In addition, the land in Liao Town is originally vast and sparsely populated, and there is no shortage of people to cultivate.

The plundering of more land is not very meaningful, not to mention that the Ming Dynasty traded with merchants outside the pass. The land controlled by Liao Town also brought a large amount of income to Liao Town. The people outside the pass, which is what Liao Town calls "Northern people" now, are a hen that lays golden eggs, and no one can bear to slaughter them.

Moreover, the people in Liao Town knew that the people in the manor outside the pass were trained together, especially those near the wall. Most of them were the military households and soldiers of Liao Town. These people had good combat power. Although they were just guarding the house and guarding the manor in the manor now, it would be really troublesome to fight.

However, Li Gufeng was scheming and always felt that something was wrong with this. He wanted to close the wall, but the money was much less and he was unwilling to accept it. Moreover, the relationship between the Eastern Party and the merchants above the court was closely related to their interests, which was touching their own bad luck.

Fortunately, when Emperor Jiajing regained power in the 20th year of Jiajing, he finally faced the existence of the people in the north and admitted that there was a very threatening force there. However, it was strange that Li Gufeng felt a little fussy at this time. If he had taken action against the refugees outside the pass, he would have done it. Why would he wait until today? Moreover, Li Gufeng was very confident about the 10,000 personal soldiers and servants in his hands.

Among the important towns of the Nine Borders of the Ming Dynasty, the generals under the generals were the largest, and the generals of Datong were the largest, which was three thousand servants. How powerful were the nearly 10,000 people? Who would you be afraid of?

At the beginning, he was among the people who responded to the court's orders. However, as the imperial court trained the mighty soldiers and soldiers in the powerful camp gradually took over, the local authority gradually returned to the central government, Li Gufeng also understood in his heart that it seemed that the hen that lays golden eggs was going to be killed.

The Ming army's roughness and caution outside the pass really made outsiders not know the reality of the pass, because every year the regiments and guards of each manor gathered in the plains near the East Fort of the Taer River to train soldiers. There were no private regiments outside the pass, and all goods and commodities outside the pass were concentrated near Tielingwei and were uniformly allocated by the Sanjiang Trading Company, a subsidiary of Huazhou Money House. Although it was in the name of many different shops, the manor was not allowed to trade privately with merchants within the border wall.

Therefore, the imperial court always felt that there was another powerful force on the grassland, and never thought that the land controlled outside the pass had long been connected to the grassland.

On the winter of the 21st Jiajing period, the military officers above the Liao Town Commander received news and were ready to clear the walls at any time. This was the intention of the Ministry of War. Li Gufeng, the general of Liao Town, had no objection, and even specially asked a staff member to submit a memorial to express his loyalty.

Privately, senior officers in Liao Town have argued about how to allocate the population outside the pass after they conquer the manor. In their hearts, no matter how strong the refugees outside the pass are, they are just refugees, and can still block the powerful soldiers in Liao Town that are worth the most in the world.

In the East Fort on the Taal River, the last base where Jiang Feng commanded his men and 60,000 soldiers in the Washi tribe fought bloody battles. It was already a big town - Beizhou. This is the hub of Mongolian grassland and logistics transportation outside the pass, but now it has become a busy military camp. In the center of this military camp, there is a temporary tent of King Hua, and there are loud quarrels inside:

"Liu Shisan, I have given it to you in Liao Town. Tianjin must be fighting!"

"Then Baoding must belong to me..."
Chapter completed!