The dividends of war are undoubtedly the most abundant. After the Han army defeated the Manchurian Eight Banners this time, in addition to occupying a large area of land, it also seized countless booty, and the amount of goods hoarded by the Qing army's treasury really surprised Lin Feng.

As the Manchu Qing Dynasty "Longxing Land", Shenyang, Liaoyang, Fushun, Qinghe, Anshan, Haichengzi and other large areas outside the Guanxi have been the base camp of the Manchu Eight Banners for decades, of which Shenyang was renamed "Shengjing", before the Qing army entered the customs was the capital, and even after entering the customs, the city was also politically characterized as the "accompanying capital", in addition to being a military town to deter North China, but also recognized as the "ancestral ancestral hall" of the place, is the spiritual pillar of the Qing court, so its fall, The blow to the remnants of the Qing court was self-evident.

Since Beijing was captured by Lin Feng last year, the vast territory west of Shanhaiguan was occupied by the Han army, and in the past two years, trade between Guanwai and the interior of the Central Plains has been completely cut off, and at the same time, all-round and high-intensity war mobilization and Liaodong uprisings have been carried out one after another, and the economy of the Eight Banners regime in Liaoshen has long since collapsed. However, not many people could have predicted this kind of economic recession in advance, in fact, even Lin Feng did not think of taking advantage of this to give a hard blow at that time.

Judging from the collected data, the reason for the great economic recession is mainly due to the lack of grain and cloth. Extensive cultivation and high yield' is famous, not that it can not be self-sufficient, but it is a pity that since the Liaodong Uprising, most of the developed grain production areas are concentrated in Guangning and the Han settlement area west of Tranquility, and then most of them are occupied by the Han army, so after the autumn harvest of that year, Shengjing Eight Banners immediately fell into a food crisis, in addition, other living materials outside the customs such as cotton, salt and porcelain, etc. have always relied on the Central Plains, after the trade route was cut off, these materials can no longer be imported, As a result, the inhabitants of the Qing army's territory, including the Eight Banners, became increasingly embarrassed, panic spread everywhere, and merchants and large families hoarded supplies, which made matters worse, and after Lin Feng occupied the entire territory of Liaoshen, this vast area had retreated to the primitive state of barter.

In fact, this situation is not the first time in the history of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, in fact, decades ago, the outstanding commander of the Ming Dynasty, General Yuan Chonghuan, had already carried out a general economic war against the Qing court (Later Jin), the specific way was to block the trade routes, based on Ningjin to build a strong fortress in various military points, to encroach on the way to advance layer by layer, squeeze the living space of the Manchurian Eight Banners, and hit its internal economy, and finally forced the emperor Taiji to take the way of jumping over the wall to raise the country's troops. Bypassing the Liaodong Military Defense Area of the Ming Dynasty, entering the fortress from the Gubeikou of the Great Wall, besieging the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and breaking the economic blockade of the Ming army with the most extreme military means.

In fact, since the establishment of Nurhachi, the Eight Banners have always appeared in the form of saboteurs, and the survival state of this regime can be regarded as "the economy basically depends on robbery", and only from a sociological point of view, this so-called "genius-style" Eight Banners organization is actually a large-scale robbery gang, and its scope of crime covers the whole of North China. Almost all primitive tribes did this: men went out to rob, women gave birth at home, and if you find an analogy in the seventeenth century of the same era, the Eight Banners organization is not much different from those cottages that make a living by robbery, the only difference is only the size of the scale, the reason why these political bandits will make a fortune is actually a major political mistake in the Ming Dynasty in the past, and the internal collapse of an empire has created a jaw-dropping historical miracle.

This time, Lin Feng's Han army group inadvertently adopted similar methods to General Yuan Chonghuan in the past, when the economy collapsed and then suffered a military defeat, the collapse of this regime was more rapid than expected, after understanding the real situation, Lin Feng was indeed a little depressed, originally he thought he could be regarded as a national hero, but after the victory, he found that he was just exterminating a group of bandits who had been suffering for many years. However, this did not prevent him from receiving a large amount of booty, although the economy of the Eight Banners collapsed, but this does not mean that they have no money, on the contrary, the treasury of Shenyang, Liaoyang, Fushun, Xingjing and other places have stored a large amount of silver, plus the property of the Eight Banners of more than 200,000 yuan, the war seized a total of more than 14 million taels of silver, nearly 240,000 taels of gold, it is precisely because of the economic collapse of the relationship, in the Eight Banners ruled by the silver and other currencies greatly depreciated, this huge amount of money can be properly preserved, until Lin Feng safely received.

In addition, the Qing court set up a large number of horse farms outside the pass for Lin Feng to seize, the acquisition of war materials is indeed a bit dramatic, originally because of the defeat, the original responsible for guarding the horse farm most of the Qing court officials fled, a small number of them were unwilling to lose even more attempts to poison the war horses, but with the surrender of the Shengjing general Dakma, the Qing court's complete set of administrative team was also well preserved, after the occupation of Shenyang, Lin Feng quickly used these surviving administrative resources to raise horses around the Yamen issued a strict military order, And sent the Qing army general Lang Ning to lead a large number of cavalry to gallop to various places to supervise the reception of war horses, Rao is so, or there have been several cases of looting materials, stealing and selling official horses, of course, in the troubled times, the Han army will naturally not instigate these fools who have no money and are obsessed, and the whole family will be beheaded.

It cannot be denied that the ethnic minorities are indeed very different in raising horses, and the quality of these war horses hoarded outside the Liaodong Pass is indeed extraordinary, and there are more than 86,000 official horses in these dozens of horse farms, and after the selection of the Ma Ying troops, more than 15,000 war horses were actually selected, and the selection ratio reached an astonishing six to one, which is really not a miracle, and even if the other horses that have been eliminated, most of them are large and articulate, whether they are transported by the baggage troops or sold to the people as horses, there is no problem.

According to the practice of the Forbidden City, Lin Feng issued tens of thousands of residents of Shenyang, and dismantled the Shenyang Imperial Palace within a few days, a large number of gold and silver, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, silk and other copper and iron materials, as well as captured palace maids were loaded into carts, thousands of guards and accompanied by soldiers and civilians began to return south with a large number of booty, because the booty was relatively abundant, and Ding Zhuang, a man who fought with the Han army for nearly half a year, also received a generous gift from the King of Han. This group of people will enter Liaoyang, where they have slaughtered so much, as the victors, and receive the houses and land of the vanquished.

More than 80,000 honest and honest peasants happily carried the looted Liaodong cattle and sheep, furs, cloths, medicinal herbs, porcelain, pots and pots, and even female slaves, following behind the fiery guards in the forest wind. The army rolled forward, the king of Han arrived, tens of thousands of people prostrate on the ground regardless of the ice and snow and mud, and shouted long live in the dialects of the north and south in various tones, the crowd was surging, the cries shook the sky, the snow fell in a torrent, and the rivers and mountains trembled.

The quota of more than 10,000 recruits was easily recruited on the road back to the south.

Dozens of days later, Lin Feng's Chinese military crossed the Shanhaiguan, looking back, inside and outside the pass, as if two worlds, the land of Liaodong is covered with snow, and the pass is only a few inches, even the ice edge under the eaves of the cottage seems to be much shorter, at this time, the ministers of the Han army who stayed in Beijing have already received the news, and the civil and military officials under the leadership of Li Guangdi and Zhou Peigong have set up the royal honor guard to go out of Beijing for hundreds of miles to welcome the triumphant army of the Han King.

In this war, whether it is attacking or retreating, whether fighting or marching, Lin Feng has always resolutely not taken the kind of warm sedan chair, but rode like all other officers and soldiers, and after a few months, in addition to the calluses on the buttocks and thighs, a white face has also turned bronze, the armor is sonorous, and the horse's hooves are sparkling, and it is indeed a serious image of a general of the unified army.

The horse's hooves sounded sharply, the snow fell, and the large flocks of birds perched in the treetops flapped their wings and flew up together, and a horse flew on the official road, and when I saw the Han King Daxu standing aside, the knight was dressed in the uniform of a lieutenant colonel of the Guards, and immediately clasped his fists and reported loudly, "Lord Qiqi, Li Xiang, General Zhou and the lords are waiting for the king in Yongping City twenty miles away!" ”

In fact, as soon as Lin Feng's army entered Shanhaiguan, the informants sent by Zhou Peigong informed the itinerary one by one, and the rank of the knights from sergeant to officer was getting higher and higher.

Lin Feng nodded, and smiled at the lieutenant colonel, "It's hard work—you have a very good eye, did you use to be an errand boy in the Guards?" The widow doesn't seem to have seen you?! ”

The lieutenant colonel was taken aback, as if he didn't expect that King Han would actually think of asking himself, and immediately jumped off the horse, landed on one knee, and hugged his fists, "Ma Jinliang has seen the lord - back to the lord's words, the humble post was originally used under Sun Junmen, because of the Horqin thieves and thieves in the previous month, the General Staff ordered all armies to send officers back to Beijing to assist in defense, General Sun Sike said that the humble post had studied when he was a child, and the war also cost his life, so he let the villain ask for a background by the lord's side!" ”

Lin Feng was unhappy in his heart, the Guards were almost his own Praetorian Guards, but he didn't expect Zhou Peigong to dare to stretch out his hand here, it seemed that he had been a little negligent in personnel before, seeing that Ma Jinliang was speaking sincerely, with a look of eagerness on his face, he had to smile and said, "Your military rank is not low - what position was it in the Qing Army before?!" ”

Ma Jinliang hurriedly lowered his head and said a little embarrassed, "The last general should be damned-I used to serve as a cavalry guerrilla under Tu Hai...... Cough...... cough ......" Seeing Lin Feng frowning, he hurriedly asked for sin, "Before the lord entered Beijing, the last general didn't know the loyalty and filial piety, the defense of Huayi, and served the Tartars in a daze, it was really a crime that deserved death......

"Hehe, Jinliang, don't get me wrong, the widow just wants to ask you what soldiers you brought before, not just the crime," he looked around and said with a smile, "If you want to say that you are guilty of being an errand envoy for the puppet Qing, then all of us - including the widow are all guilty, hehe, the so-called hearing has a sequence, as long as you know the mistake and can change it!" ”

"The Lord is benevolent, righteous and generous, and he is grateful for his humble duties!!"

"Get up, get up," Lin Feng raised his hand and motioned for him to get on his horse and follow him, talking while marching, "Jinliang, listening to you say this, it seems that you are very capable of leading cavalry?!" ”

"Don't dare to deceive the lord, the humble ancestral home is Liangzhou Gansu, since the age of fourteen, he has been a soldier and eats food, and the days on horseback have been nearly twenty years......" Seeing Lin Feng's kind inquiry, Ma Jin knew that the opportunity was coming, and said at the moment, "Although I dare not say that I have experienced a hundred battles, but I have fought dozens of battles large and small, no matter what bandits and bandits or Mongolian iron horsemen have fought face-to-face, except for the defeat under the lord, no one can bargain in the hands of the lowly position!" ……”

"Hey...... Gansu is amazing?! Seeing that Ma Jinliang was so ashamed, before Lin Feng could speak, an officer on the back suddenly sneered and mocked, "Fucking this thing is not an official in the yamen, you can count it by blowing and patting, and you can only take it seriously in this life!" ”

Ma Jinliang's eyebrows jumped, his anger flashed, and he turned his head to look, only to see that this officer was wearing the bronze rank of colonel of the Guards, with a black face with three or four narrow scars, crisscrossing red flesh and rolling, and his face was really hideous and terrifying. ”

"Hehe, then you have to ask about it......" The colonel officer stretched out his hand and patted the saber on his waist, "I heard that the Liangzhou Huihui only know how to gnaw on flatbread and brag about it, but I can't imagine that they still know how to fight?!" Looking left and right, the officers who followed behind him laughed in unison.

Ma Jinliang saw that in addition to his hideous face, the palm of his left hand was actually broken at the wrist, and only a meat handle was left bare.

"Ying Kui, Zhongxiao, your grandma, be careful of Lao Tzu cutting off your head!" Lin Feng reprimanded softly, turned back to Ma Jinliang and smiled, "These bastards have been spoiled by Lao Tzu, don't be surprised by Jinliang!" ”

Ma Jinliang touched his nose helplessly, angry in his heart, but he didn't dare to attack.

"Jinliang, the widow has been on the expedition for many days, and I don't know the situation in Beijing," Lin Feng diverted the topic and said with a smile, "What position do you hold in the Guards now?!" ”

"Back to the lord, the guards left behind in the Beijing division are all full, and the lowly post has not been filled since the report of the General Staff, and only occasionally do a few idle errands." Ma Jinliang smiled bitterly, at the beginning of the Horqin army pressed the border, the Han army was insufficient everywhere, Zhou Peigong ordered the transfer of officers to prepare for the expansion of the new army, in order to deal with a larger-scale war, but after Geerdan advanced eastward, the battle situation changed suddenly, Lin Feng quickly reached a political compromise with Buryagema, so this expansion plan was stillborn before Lin Feng could be informed, until now, this group of officers has been wandering around Beijing and doing nothing, and the life is really very boring.

Lin Feng was relieved, and then smiled and said, "Oh, Jinliang doesn't have to be like this, this time this king is going to expand the guards," he pointed to Zhao Yingkui, Wang Zhongxiao and other officers behind him, "At present, there is only one empty shelf left in the second army of our guards cavalry, see no, this king brought more than 10,000 war horse saddles this time, that is, the waist to re-erect the banner of the second army, you all have a chance to ......" He lifted the whip and tapped the saddle, laughed and said, "As soon as the recruits recruited from Liaodong are in place, whose soldiers are well trained, Who is the outnumbered guard lieutenant general!! ”

Ma Jinliang suddenly realized, no wonder these officers were hostile to him, and he was really famous, and immediately glared at Zhao Yingkui and the others, and hugged his fist towards Lin Feng, "Lord Qi, Jinliang thinks that if you want to form a cavalry army, the recruits still have to be selected well...... " He glanced at the unarmed recruits at the end of the team, and said hesitantly, "cough...... Cough...... I beg your pardon for being humble nowadays, these recruits are naturally wonderful if they are used in the infantry musket battalion, but if they are cavalry...... Cough...... Ahem......"

Lin Feng was slightly stunned, then nodded at Ma Jinliang, and said approvingly, "Jinliang is worthy of being in the army for a long time, and it is really old - to tell you the truth, these new troops were originally prepared to replenish the musket battalions in various places, and the widow had already issued an order to the Ningjin Governor's Mansion and the Nuergan Governor's Mansion a few days ago, ordering the yamen in various places to select Liao people who are good at cavalry and archery to enlist in the army, and in a few days, the recruits will be sent over." ”

Ma Jinliang hurriedly saluted respectfully and complimented loudly, turned his face and threw a glance at Zhao Yingkui and the others, and followed behind Lin Fengma triumphantly. Zhao Yingkui, Wang Zhongxiao and others were furious together, and were about to make a provocation, when suddenly firecrackers rang out in front of them, and the welcoming nest thundered loudly, dozens of drum groups played together, and hundreds of Han army ministers greeted him from afar according to the size of their official positions, and they had to hold back their anger and let him go for the time being.

"Minister, Han Wang Li Guangdi ......"

"Minister, Zhou Chang, Chief of the General Staff of the Han Dynasty......"

Li Guangdi and Zhou Peigong were the leaders of the civil and military forces, and the leaders fell to the ground and said together, "...... Greetings to the triumphant army of the Han King - my lord is mighty and invincible, and the thieves are the leader...... Han King Chitose Chitose Chitose Chitose ......"

Lin Feng hurriedly threw off the saddle and dismounted, helped the two of them up, and laughed, "Jin Qing and Pei Gong don't need to be polite - all Aiqing, please get up, please get up!" ......" He took Zhou Peigong in one hand and Li Guangdi in the other, strode among the ministers of the Han army, looked left and right, and smiled at the subordinates, "It's all my own family, why be so polite?!! ”

In the firecracker drum music shook the earth, hundreds of people sang praises together, Lin Feng smiled, and led the army into Yongping Mansion City.

Entering the prefect's yamen, Lin Feng's butt had not yet sat firmly, Zhou Peigong and Li Guangdi exchanged a look, and suddenly knelt down together, Zhou Peigong fell to the ground, "Zhou Chang's sin deserves to die - please give the lord his sin!" ”

Lin Feng was shocked, a mouthful of hot tea almost squirted out, and he looked at the two of them for a long time before he came back to his senses and waved his hand at the officials, and after only the cronies and important ministers in the hall remained, Fang smiled bitterly and said, "I said my lordship, are you not joking?!" ”

"Returning to the lord......" Zhou Peigonghe raised his head and said with a wry smile, "Zhou Chang committed the following offense and detained the lord's envoy without authorization, this crime is equivalent to complicity and rebellion, so please die in front of the lord!" ”

"Envoy?! ......" Lin Feng was stunned, and looked at Wang Shirong beside him, only to see Wang Shirong smiling slightly, twisting the short beard under his chin, as if he had expected it, and couldn't help but be even more strange, "What envoy?!" …… Pei Gong is talking about that time?! ”

Li Guangdi kowtowed, "Returning to the lord is the envoy who announced the corpses of Nurhachi, Huang Taiji and other rebellious chieftains, and spread the ...... of the world."

Lin Feng was stunned for a moment, then he was furious, and slammed the table, and the tea bowl on the desk shook down and shattered, and the important ministers and generals on both sides of the table changed color and knelt on the ground.

Regardless of the tea dripping on his cuffs, Lin Feng pointed at Zhou Peigong under the hall, looking angry, "So bold!! ”

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Concentrate:

1, Zhao Yingkui, Wang Zhongxiao, Ma Jinliang and others who appeared in the last volume and this volume are famous generals of the Kangxi Dynasty, twenty-four Chinese people, and the age in this book has been slightly modified, please don't blame those who have a heart.

For details, please refer to "Qing Historical Manuscripts • Biography 49~~54"

2. For the sake of convenience for readers to read and understand, the book has made necessary changes to the place names and administrative divisions of China in the seventeenth century, such as the "Beining" in the previous volume, which was called "Guangning" at that time, and the name of Beining died 49 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the relevant departments of the state changed its name to Beining because the northeast "Guangning" and Guangxi "Guangning" coincided, in addition, the first one, two and three volumes of this book have also carried out "modernization" modifications to the administrative divisions and place names of Zhili and Suiyuan provinces, such as the government, prefecture, department, and league flag.

It is explained here, and for details, please refer to "Qing Historical Manuscripts • Chronicles 29-34: Geography 1~~~5".