: The title of Duke is hereditary and cannot be replaced

Author: tx Cheng Zhi

: The title of Duke is hereditary and cannot be replaced

Chapter 183

Sun Chengzong returned to Liaoyang, which is not considered a return to Liaoyang City, because Liaoyang City was captured by Nurhaci in the 44th year of Wanli, that is, in 1616 AD. Even when Sun Chengzong served as the economic and pacification envoy of Liaodong, he had never been there.

Liaoyang City.

But in fact, the first expansion of Liaoyang City was from the fifth year to the sixteenth year of Hongwu (1372), which lasted more than ten years. Based on the old city site, it was built and expanded several times to become a masonry structure with a circumference of 24 miles.

Many square cities.

At that time, there were more than 57,000 hectares of farmland in Liuwei, Liaoyang. The policy of collecting rent after ten years was implemented for immigrants to farm. Agricultural production developed rapidly, and handicrafts and commerce were revitalized accordingly. It was the political, economic, and cultural center of the Ming Dynasty in the Northeast, as well as the military

Command center.

It is a pity that in just a dozen years after the fall of Liaoyang City, Liaoyang, the economic and cultural center of Liaodong, has become dilapidated. Many courtyards are overgrown with weeds, and some houses have only their frames left.

Tired bones.

Sun Chengzong looked at the dilapidated Liaoyang City and cried and laughed: "Liaoyang City is considered destroyed. It will not recover for more than ten or twenty years!"

Cheng Shijie smiled disapprovingly and said: "As long as there are enough manpower, it will soon return to its former prosperity and even become more prosperous!"

Sun Chengzong said solemnly: "Difficult! Although we achieved a brilliant victory this time, it is undeniable that Huang Taiji's underestimation of the enemy accounted for a huge factor. When Jiannu calmed down, he did not take the initiative to attack and only sent light troops to harass.

Without too much killing, the people will panic and they will not dare to move here at all. Where can we find enough manpower?"

"This matter can be said to be complex, or it can be said to be simple!"

Cheng Shijie pointed to the road along the Taizi River: "Jiannu was not good at water warfare. I selected dozens of 400-gun gunboats from the Ning Navy Navy. Each gunboat was equipped with eight three-inch guns. Within two thousand steps along the river,

They are all within the strike range of our navy's naval guns. As long as Jian Nu comes close, I will let them know what justice comes from heaven!"

"What about winter?"

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly and said: "There are no crops in the fields in winter, and the grain has been harvested long ago. I am planning to build five cities including Baliwan, Shenjiaying, Tieling, Anshan, and Liaozhongwei along the Taizi River. They are at the corner of Liaoyang City.

, usually hundreds of households in each town are working in the fields, but once the autumn harvest is over, they are allowed to quickly return to live in the six cities. Are these six cities allowed to be gnawed by the slaves? "

"But where are the manpower?"

Sun Chengzong smiled bitterly and said: "As soon as this war started, the immigrants from southern Liaoning disappeared? Without people, everything is empty talk!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Back then, Nurhaci, the butcher, slaughtered more than four million people in Liaodong. Half of them became Houjin's slaves, and half fled to North Korea, Pidao and other places to fight guerrilla warfare against the Jiannu slaves.

, the Liao people in North Korea, I am ready to have people take them back!"

Originally, the Dongjiang Army fought well in guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines and recovered a lot of lost ground, which was like a festering hemorrhoid, causing Jian Nu to suffer terribly. However, due to the Ming court's constant strategic mistakes, Yuan Chonghuan was even more adept at making decisions and killed Pi Dao.

General Mao Wenlong, the originally good development momentum of guerrilla warfare came to an abrupt end. Without Mao Wenlong, the soul figure, the morale of the Dongjiang Army fluctuated, mutinies and internal strife occurred one after another, and the combat effectiveness was greatly reduced.

The Jiannu were also very angry that North Korea was shielding the Dongjiang army and civilians against themselves. They repeatedly sent troops to launch military attacks against North Korea. The situation of these Liao people became increasingly difficult, especially in Pidao, where people were eating each other. They used some supplies to go

Recruiting some homeless Liao people is not difficult, right?

Sun Chengzong raised another question: "Almost all the Liao civilians in the Dongjiang Army have gone to southern Liaoning. Even if they still have tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians, they will undoubtedly be a drop in the bucket for Liaodong."

Cheng Shijie realized that Sun Chengzong had his own ideas.

"Why did the teacher teach me?"

"This matter is simple. Since Liaoyang has been recovered, why don't you ask for an order to reopen the 25th Liaodong Guard?"

Sun Chengzong smiled lightly and said: "Nowadays, the inland guard posts are in dire straits. There is no military field to support the army, and there is no way to prepare for the war against bandits and bandits. Instead, when the bandits attack, they surrender to the bandits. It is better to ask for an order to move these inland guard posts.

To suppress Liaodong, although you look down on the combat effectiveness of these guardsmen, there is no problem with their farming, right?"

When Cheng Shijie heard this, he suddenly became enlightened.

For Emperor Chongzhen, instead of being self-sufficient, the current guard posts in the mainland require local governments to provide food and money to support the guard posts. Although there are many soldiers in the guard posts, they cannot attack or defend them.

Living there is simply useless.

If Cheng Shijie spoke at this time, the court would definitely agree and leave the guards to Cheng Shijie. These guards had become a heavy burden for the Ming court.

The Liaonan and Liaozhong areas where Cheng Shijie was located occupied 11 of the original 25 wards in Liaodong, including the four wards in southern Liaoning, the Guangning siege, and the six wards in central Liaoning.

Although each fully-staffed health center only has more than 5,600 people on paper, the problem is that, like the Dengzhou Guard, almost all health centers in the world have a population that has expanded more than ten times. It is like there are only a thousand people.

The Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu Office with 120 people actually had more than 14,000 people.

Even if the imperial court does not need to move more towns, it only needs to move ten guards, which can increase the population of Liaodong by at least one million.

Cheng Shijie immediately asked Sun Zhiman to draft a memorial, requesting that the inland guard troops be moved to Liaodong.

On November 11th of the fifth year of Chongzhen, which was the seventh day after the Battle of Liaoyang, Gao Qiqian rushed all the way to the capital. You must know that this is more than 1,300 miles, and seven days is equivalent to two hundred miles a day.

This speed was already the highest speed in the Ming Dynasty.

"Win, win again!"

In the Forbidden City, the moment Emperor Chongzhen received the news of Gao Qiqian's success, he was so excited that he almost cheered wildly. He took the news, danced with joy, his whole face was full of smiles, and he shouted wildly.

He doesn't look like an emperor at all.

At this time, there were no blind censors or officials who asked Emperor Chongzhen to pay attention to his demeanor and appearance. If anyone dared to do this, Emperor Chongzhen would definitely beat him to death with sticks.

The emperor's power and prestige actually came from the army, from the army of the imperial court. In his later years, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty suffered from the witchcraft disaster and killed and injured hundreds of thousands of people. Whether they were military meritorious princes or nobles, they all lived with their tails between their legs. Even the princes and kings,

I don’t dare to blow my hair either.

That's because he has two Han armies that conquered Mobei and drove the Huns away. Li Shimin's prestige has reached the ceiling, and that's because he has an army in his hands that can destroy the country and capture the king at every turn.

Now that Cheng Shijie has defeated Jiannu, the civil servant group is worried, but there is nothing they can do because the military attaché is about to get on top of them.

Emperor Chongzhen was so happy. In the Battle of Bali Bay, Ning Haijun beheaded more than 8,000 people and captured more than 14,000 people. Emperor Chongzhen could laugh even in his dreams.

How long has it passed? Another good news came! This time the Ming army achieved a greater victory, defeating Guangning, Liao Zhongwei and Liaoyang, especially Liaoyang. Although the slaves had moved their capital to Shenyang, the political situation in Liaoyang Status is like Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty. If the Ming Dynasty lost the city of Nanjing, the sky would fall.

Although he was not on the front line, Chongzhen was still able to regain a large area of ​​territory. It is imagined that the Ming army almost beat up the lost dogs along the way. They chased all the way from Bali Bay to Liaoyang, and finally annihilated them between Liaozhong and Liaoyang. Twenty to thirty thousand slaves.

Jian Nu had more than 120,000 troops, but only four remnants were left and defeated. It can be described as extremely embarrassing!

Such achievements made Chongzhen ecstatic. Not to mention Tianqi, even his grandfather, Emperor Wanli, had never achieved such amazing achievements!

Emperor Chongzhen was dancing and dancing on his throne, just like Fan Jin had passed the imperial examination, and his speech was incoherent, as if he was in a daze.

Fortunately, Empress Zhou used the excuse to persuade Emperor Chongzhen to return to his palace, which put an end to Emperor Chongzhen's absurd behavior.

Facing the empty throne, all the civil servants exchanged a somewhat helpless look.

"Shoufu Wen, what should we do now?"

Wen Tiren really didn't want Cheng Shijie to win again. In fact, he was not afraid of Cheng Shijie, but worried about Xu Guangqi and Sun Chengzong behind Cheng Shijie. He originally beheaded more than 8,000 people and captured more than 14,000 troops. He defended Haizhou and gained eight miles. The victory in Bay, such a result, has made Xu Guangqi feel like walking with wind.

In that case, Cheng Shijie's military exploits were not too conspicuous, and Jiannu was also severely weakened. He would be honest for a while. What a perfect result?

But they never expected that Cheng Shijie was so unreasonable that after the Battle of Bali Bay, regardless of casualties and exhaustion, he led the Ming army in a mad pursuit of three hundred miles, and finally destroyed the slave army under Liaoyang City, beheaded the prisoners and led them to surrender. , exterminated more than 80,000 Jian slaves.

Although many of them were Han troops, Mongolians, and servant armies such as the Sauron tribe and the Xibo tribe, this also meant that two-thirds of Hou Jin's troops were eaten by him.

Jiannu is no longer weakened, but has been seriously injured, and his vitality has been greatly damaged! This military exploit is enough for him to become a prince or even a prince!

It took the Wenchen Group nearly a hundred years to finally meet a strange emperor, and they ruined the founder of the Ming Dynasty. Only then did the Wenchen Group surpass the Military Attachment Group. Is it easy for them to do this?

Let Cheng Shijie represent the Wuxun Group to rise again and dominate them?

Not to mention sitting on their heads, even if they are on par with them, this is a shame for the Wenchen Group...

Aren't slaves by nature cruel?

How did Cheng Shijie do it?

How can we suppress him in the future?

Wen Tiren suddenly thought of someone.

Lu Xiangsheng.

Although Wen Tiren didn't like Lu Xiangsheng either, he was an outlier among civil servants. Civil servants were all men with pens, weak and incompetent.

But Lu Xiangsheng was good, he was good at both civil and martial arts, with twenty-five second-class scores, a proper academic master. But he practiced martial arts, and the sword he used to practice martial arts weighed 150 kilograms. In the second year of Chongzhen, he took the famous More than 10,000 militiamen recruited by the government arrived in Daxing and met two Niulu slaves who were besieging Daxing County.

Without saying a word, Lu Xiangsheng rode alone into the formation and killed dozens of elite Jiannu soldiers. He fought against the white-armored soldiers. One against three, he became famous in one battle.

From then on, Lu Xiangsheng no longer participated in literary clubs, poetry exchange meetings organized by literati, or even banquets hosted by the gentry. Instead, he spent all day in the company of Mujizi and Qiu Ba, which was simply a shame for literati.

But the problem is, even if you don't like Lu Xiangsheng, the pattern of using civil servants to control military officers cannot be broken.

Lu Xiangsheng went into battle despite being wounded. He attacked Xunyang with 300 elite troops, beheaded more than 2,000 people, and successfully repelled more than 20,000 rogue bandits under Gao Yingxiang's command. This was a great victory in itself, but could the rogue bandits be compared with Jiannu?

Therefore, Lu Xiangsheng did not look outstanding in this battle...

Now, the Gallic Elephant must be lifted up.

Under Wen Tiren's control, Lu Xiangsheng's great victory was revived. The civil servants coaxed and deceived 50,000 to 60,000 refugees and gave them to Lu Xiangsheng for resettlement. Therefore, this great victory became Lu Xiangsheng's attack on Xunyang with 300 cavalry.

Successfully defeated hundreds of thousands of troops under Feng Gao Yingxiang's command, captured 54,000, and beheaded more than 20,000.

This great victory almost sent Emperor Chongzhen away.
To be continued...