Chapter 409: Passing through Liaodong

Subsequently, the four generals escorted Huang Taiji, fought their way out of the encirclement from the left flank, and walked away.

Zhu Hao was furious when he saw this, and immediately ordered the Ming soldiers to quickly pursue.

However, the Houjin are nomadic people, and both the breed of war horses and the overall riding skills are superior to the Ming army.

One of the two parties fled, and the other side chased, but the distance was constantly pulled apart, and Zhu Hao was also very helpless about this.

After a while, the Ming army, which chased out for dozens of miles, was finally in sight, and could no longer see Houjin's men and horses.

Faced with such a situation, Zhu Hao could only helplessly issue an order to collect the troops, and then the army entered Liaoyang City.

In this battle, although Zhu Hao severely damaged the Houjin soldiers and horses, he did not kill them, leaving endless troubles for the future.

Zhu Hao knows very well that if you fight a snake, you will not die, but follow the truth on the stick.

As he entered Liaoyang City, he ordered the army to attack Shenyang and recover the surrounding towns, and at the same time ordered the Jinyi guards to spy on the location of the remnants of Huang Taiji's soldiers and horses.

But since Huang Taiji led the remnants of the Houjin army to break through, these Houjin soldiers and horses have evaporated as if the world has evaporated, and there is no news at all.

This made Zhu Hao feel very helpless, and there was a faint worry.

However, because of Huang Taiji, the remnants of Houjin's soldiers and horses were taken away, and Zhu Hao's army attacked Liaoyang, and after Hetuara City, it was not subject to too strong resistance, so the loss was not too much.

Three months after the end of the battle under Liaoyang City, in July of the second year of the Apocalypse, Qin Qiong was ordered to lead 50,000 troops to attack Shenyang City, and half a month later, Shenyang was recovered.

Half a month after the conquest of Shenyang, Zhu Hao ordered a sweep and went to Hetuara City, all the surrounding obstacle cities.

These defenders who occupied the city after the Jin, when they heard that the Ming army had captured the city of Shenyang, suddenly lost their will, and eight out of ten cities surrendered to the wind, and the rest only resisted slightly.

In July of the same year, Zhu Hao personally led 100,000 soldiers and horses to besiege the city of Hetuala, and at the same time swept all over the town, completely isolating the city of Hetuala.

In October of the 2nd year of the Apocalypse, the city of Hetuara finally couldn't resist, Zhu Hao's army besieged, the city was cut off from water and food, and Houjin Dabel Daishan, under pressure, had no choice but to go out of the city to beg and surrender.

Zhu Hao, on behalf of the Ming army, in the camp outside the city, accepted the letter of surrender of the Houjin, and at the end of October of the same year, Zhu Hao officially entered the master, the original Houjin Capital, Hetuala.

At the same time, he went to the imperial court, saying that the Houjin puppet regime was overthrown.

After Zhu Hao occupied the city of Hetuala, he ordered the generals to lead two armies of troops and horses, divided into north and south lines to capture the original Houjin and occupy the city.

In just three months, the entire territory of Liaodong was returned to the Ming Dynasty.

With the conquest of all the cities, Zhu Hao wrote to the imperial court for large-scale immigration, which was approved half a month later.

On the one hand, Zhu Hao scattered all the Jurchen people in the Houjin occupation area and placed them in the rich areas of Jiangnan.

At the same time, it was ordered that each village, each village should not exceed three Jurchen households, and that it should be supervised by the chief of security. Implement the three-household joint sitting system to divide the relationship between the three Jurchens in the same village.

On the other hand, Zhu Hao immigrated 1.5 million people from Shaanxi, Gansu, and Sichuan provinces, which have been hard-hit in recent years, to Liaodong.

At the same time, the Ministry of Industry was ordered to build farm tools and distribute ploughing cattle.

The meritorious soldiers in the Liaodong Expedition were all in Liaodong and got a piece of arable land that Zhu Hao promised before and rewarded according to military merits.

Of course, most of this arable land is still wasteland and needs to be cultivated manually.

Many Liaodong soldiers, after receiving the reward of the land, were a little dissatisfied in their hearts.

Because Liaodong has always been a wasteland, and there is no arable land. At the same time, the climate and soil of Liaodong are not suitable for cultivation in the concept of everyone in this era.

In the face of the discussion of the generals and soldiers in the army, Zhu Hao once again came forward to explain, and asked to plant cold-resistant and drought-resistant crops such as corn and potatoes on the land of Liaodong.

At the same time that Zhu Hao issued this order, he also promised all the farmers who planted and cultivated in Liaodong:

If it is planted next year and the harvest is not good, he will go to the imperial court, compensate each household, provide the whole household with a full amount of grain for the whole year, and reduce the taxes of Liaodong next year regardless of the harvest.

In the land of Liaodong, these nouveau riches, whether they are military exploits or migrant farmers, have stopped complaining under such a policy that will benefit them without harm.

At the same time, Zhu Hao also promulgated the land incentive policy of "opening a hundred to get one" in Liaodong, that is, to reclaim 100 acres of land in Liaodong, and individuals can get a scene.

In the context of this agriculture-oriented era, driven by the land plot of the Chinese people, as soon as this policy came out, the entire eastern Liaoning region instantly set off a reclamation frenzy.

Although it has entered at this time, in late autumn and early winter, the weather outside Liaodong is less than ten degrees, and it is somewhat difficult to reclaim the land, but it still does not dispel people's enthusiasm.

Zhu Hao also attaches great importance to land reclamation, because if this move is successful, it can be solved in one fell swoop.

Not only that, but when the Liaodong region is full of fertile land, the Ming Dynasty will no longer use money year after year, but can have good taxes year after year.

Zhu Hao looked at the reclamation action in full swing, and he believed that the feat of turning the "Great Northern Wilderness" into the "Great Northern Warehouse" in later generations would be completed in his hands ahead of schedule.

Time has come in a blink of an eye, in the first month of the third year of the Apocalypse, due to the influence of the Xiaoice River period, the weather in Liaodong at this time is even colder.

Farmers who are in full swing to reclaim their farmland have to stop and wait for the spring to start clearing.

Zhu Hao has not given up in the past few months, searching for the traces of Huang Taiji, but unfortunately the secret agents have sent a lot of help, but they have not gained any useful information.

This made Zhu Hao very helpless, as the farmland reclamation stagnated, Zhu Hao's civil and military affairs stopped, and he had been busy, and it was rare to usher in a short leisure time.

However, God didn't seem to want Zhu Hao to stop, and just after he had been idle for half a month, the imperial court suddenly issued an order to urgently order Zhu Hao to return to Beijing to resume his life.

Zhu Hao was afraid that after he returned to Beijing, Liaodong would have a big change like last time, so after receiving the order, he did not set off immediately, but wrote to Chen Qing's interests, saying that the military situation was urgent and it would be difficult to leave an inch.

Zhu Hao thought that if he said this, his eldest brother would definitely understand him, but he didn't want him to arrive in the capital before he arrived, so he received a holy decree to let him leave for several days.

This made Zhu Hao no longer able to shirk it, and at the same time, he also paid attention to this matter, and he had to entrust the military of Liaodong to Qin Qiong's generals and prepare to leave for Beijing.

Before Zhu Hao left, he summoned Qin Qiong alone.

Qin Qiong was ordered, so she came to Zhu Hao's study, and after seeing Zhu Hao, she hurriedly saluted:

"The last general, Qin Bao, see Your Highness!"