Guangning, Liaodong, among the mansions of the chief soldier Jiang Ji.

Liu Jin chatted with Jiang Ji while drinking.

"Lord Liu, this time I came to Liaodong, I don't know what kind of dispatch he had?"

Jiang Ji asked cautiously.

"Lord Jiang, I can't hide it, this time I came to Liaodong, mainly to inspect Liaodong."

"I think you also know that the Tatar tribes have been incorporated into the territory of my Ming Dynasty, and now the grasslands have settled down, and Liaodong is so close to the Beijing Division, and they all belong to the Bohai Bay."

"So Your Majesty also wants to develop the Liaodong region."

Liu Jin looked at Jiang Ji, thought about it and said.

"Development of Liaodong~"

When Jiang Ji heard this, he immediately came to his senses.

Yang Yu, Han Fu and others, the other generals of the Liaodong Prefecture who accompanied him, also came to the spirit immediately.

"Yes, how close is Liaodong to the Beijing-Tianjin area, and now there are a lot of sea ships, and it is very convenient to come and go, how can such a good place be kept all the time?"

Liu Jin smiled and nodded.

"What Lord Liu said is that the land here in Liaodong is fertile and densely forested, which is actually a rare treasure land, but it is too cold in winter here."

Jiang Ji nodded and said.

"How many people are there in Liaodong now?"

Liu Jin nodded, thought for a while and asked.

"Now in the entire Liaodong region, the number of Han people is about 96,000, and the population is about 380,000, as for the Jurchen tribes, we have no statistics."

When Jiang Ji heard this, he hurriedly replied that these numbers must be mastered by him, the capital of Liaodong, and they must also be reported to the imperial court every year.

"Only 380,000 people?"

"That's too little, isn't it?"

Hearing Jiang Ji's reply, Liu Jin couldn't help frowning, this population is too small, much less than he imagined.

In Liu Jin's opinion, there should be millions of people here, but there are not even half of them.

"My lord, there is no way to do it."

"Liaodong is a bitter cold place, no one wants to come at all, these 380,000 are still military households who have migrated before, and no one is willing to come to our Liaodong at all."

Jiang Ji immediately said with a helpless wry smile.

"I know the cold, but if you want to say bitter, it's not necessarily."

"I saw it when I came, the land here is black soil, this is the most fertile land, and the grain harvest here should be good, right?"

Liu Jin thought for a while and asked.

"My lord, the land here is indeed fertile, but it is too cold, and it is more comfortable during the year, that is, now, and after a while, the weather will be cold to death, and the yield of wheat is actually very limited."

Jiang Ji looked at Liu Jin, and a slight light flashed in his eyes.

Sure enough, he is worthy of being a son of a master, and even the situation in Liaodong is very clear, although the winter in Liaodong is cold, but the yield of wheat is higher than that of Beizhili, Shandong, and Henan.

"Yes~"

Liu Jin smiled, the three eastern provinces in the future are big granaries, you actually said that the output is not good, and you are a liar.

However, Liu Jin did not delve into this problem, with the reform of the military system, soon the garrison here in the Liaodong Prefecture will be cut off, and those who are transferred to other places will be transferred to other places.

Anyway, I won't let them stay here forever.

When the time comes, the military households here will become ordinary peasants, and they will all be transferred away, and everything will naturally be known.

"Lord Jiang, the imperial court wants to develop Liaodong, I don't know what things you think need special attention?"

After thinking about it, Liu Jin continued to ask.

Jiang Ji is the head snake of the land, and he must be clear about the situation here.

"Lord Liu, the imperial court wants to develop Liaodong, which is a good thing."

"Liaodong is very rich in forest resources and fertile land, and if it is developed, it will not be a problem to feed tens of millions of people here."

"However, if you want to develop Liaodong, one is the grassland in the west and needs to be stable, and the other is North Korea in the east, and they are not very settled."

"The most important thing is that this is a bitter cold place, and no one wants to come at all, so talent is the key and fundamental."

Jiang Ji thought about it and replied.

"Hmm~"

After listening to this, Liu Jin also nodded slightly.

Then he smiled and said, "I remember that there seems to be Nurgandus and the three Jurchen tribes in the north, what about their situation?" ”

There must be a problem with this Jiang Ji, although the three problems he said are all problems, but the most important thing about the Jurchen tribe, he didn't say anything.

There must be something wrong here, and this Jiang Ji must have received no less benefits from the Jurchens.

Liu Jin, who came from later generations, clearly knew that this Jurchen tribe had always made trouble, and the focus of it was the Jianzhou Jurchen.

The Jianzhou Jurchens have three guards, namely the left guard, the middle guard and the right guard, of which the left guard has always been controlled by the later Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

Starting from the fierce brother Timur, this Jianzhou Left Guard is under the control of the Aixin Jueluo clan, the full name of this Mengge Timur is Aixin Jueluo ~ Meng Temu, who is the founder of the Mites Qing Dynasty.

When he was the leader of Jianzhou Wei Zuowei, he was still relatively honest, because of Comrade Lao Zhu, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty at that time, he didn't even dare to let go of a fart.

But when he died, and his son Dong Shan began to master the construction of Wei Zuowei, his ambitions began to be slowly exposed.

He first found an excuse to move to the south to avoid the Udiha savages, and then continued to integrate the Jurchen tribes to strengthen his own power.

In order to compete with his uncle Fancha for the position of the leader of the Jianzhou Jurchens, he killed and plundered the border people many times for no reason.

From the second year of Chenghua, the Jurchen tribes often committed border crimes, and in the third year of Chenghua, the Jurchens of Haixi and Jianzhou re-entered the Yahu Pass.

Ming Du commanded Shi Dengzuo to die in the ambush of the Jurchens in Shuangling, and re-entered Lianshan Pass in March, plundering Kaiyuan and Fushun, and peeping at Tieling, Ningyuan, and Guangning.

At the same time, this Dong Shan also fell on both sides, and at the same time asked the king of Korea to grant him an official position, and asked the North Korean side to open a mutual market and so on to obtain the iron, salt, grain and other materials he needed.

It can be said that since the beginning of the Chenghua Dynasty, although this Jurchen tribe still nominally respects the Ming Dynasty, it is actually an independent regime in essence.

On the side of the Ming court, because of the change of the civil fort, the military strength was weakened, and the military power fell into the hands of civilian officials, and the military generals and nobles were deliberately suppressed, so there has always been no way to take these Jurchens.

Until the late Ming Dynasty, the Jianzhou Jurchens gradually completed the unification of the Jurchen tribes, and gradually integrated the Jurchen tribes into a big alliance, and the strength grew rapidly, which really became the trouble of the Ming Dynasty.

Liu Jin is naturally very clear about all this, although this Jianzhou Jurchen is still nominally under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, it is only in name.

It is nothing more than to regularly pay tribute to the Ming Emperor some Haidongqing, Dongzhu, ginseng, tiger skin and the like, but all the power in these places has fallen into the hands of the command of the Jianzhou Jurchen Sanwei, that is, the tribal leader of the Jianzhou Jurchen.

Because the command of the three guards of Jianzhou has always been passed from father to son, son to grandson, hereditary succession since Brother Meng's Timur, plus all the power is in their hands, it will naturally sit big.

Now that Jiang Ji didn't even mention the Jurchen matter, Liu Jin expected that he must have received a lot of benefits from the Jurchens.

Since the Ming Dynasty wiped out the little Tatar prince and the grassland army, and now the grassland is included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, which means that the Ming army has begun to become stronger.

These Jianzhou Jurchens became much more honest, knowing that the Ming Dynasty was now strong in the military, so they chose to develop obscenely, and concealed some things by bribing the general soldiers and deputy chief soldiers of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division.

They have tried this trick repeatedly, anyway, there are still a lot of ginseng, mink and the like here in Liaodong, and this thing is very valuable when it is shipped back to Daming.

Hearing Liu Jin's words, Jiang Ji's eyes were a little evasive, and after thinking about it, he said: "My lord, the three Jurchen divisions, the Savages, Haixi, and Jianzhou, among them, the Jianzhou Jurchens have the strongest strength and the largest population, and the Savage Jurchens are in the northernmost place, and they have always been relatively peaceful. ”

"It's this Jianzhou Jurchen, who is not very peaceful, and sometimes robs our border people."

"Just sometimes?"

When Liu Jin heard this, he smiled and asked.

When Jiang Ji heard this, he immediately broke out in a cold sweat, and it was immediately clear in his heart that this Liu Jin in front of him was not easy to fool, it was estimated that he already knew everything, and now he was just deliberately asking himself.

"Tell me about the situation of Jianzhou Nuzhen?"

Liu Jin looked at Jiang Ji and said lightly.

"Yes~"

"Jianzhou Jurchen is divided into three guards, among which the left guard is the most powerful, the middle guard and the right guard are average, and now the commander of the left guard is Aixin Jueluo ~ Tuo Luo......"

Jiang Ji began to slowly explain the current situation of the Jianzhou Jurchens.

Because during the time of Dong Shan, the Jianzhou Jurchens were very arrogant, robbed the border people, and killed the officials of the Ming court, so in the third year of Chenghua, the imperial court carried out a blow to the Jianzhou Jurchen departments.

This blow also hurt the vitality of the Jianzhou Jurchen tribes, and when this Tuluo became the leader, he was smarter, so he chose to lead the Jianzhou Jurchen tribes to restore and develop production, oppose the Jurchen tribes to harass the Ming army and border people, and insisted on maintaining a relatively good relationship with the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, in the Hongzhi Dynasty, the Jurchen tribes in Jianzhou were quite honest, of course, mainly because of the great injury and the need for time to recuperate, but often the Jurchen tribes still had people to rob the border people in Liaodong, but they were far less arrogant and domineering than in the Dongshan period.

In the past two years, the Jurchen tribes in Jianzhou have been even more honest and peaceful, because they already know about the destruction of the Tatar army in the steppe, and they don't dare to provoke the Ming Dynasty, for fear of being attacked by the Ming army.