[The history of this story is fictional, if there is any similarity is purely coincidental, please don't over-interpret it]

Hue has been liberated, and the marines of the Fubo army have marched to the line of the Nh Giang. ’

'What about Hoi An Harbor?' ’

'The area around Hoi An Harbor has been pacified, the local Japanese and Portuguese have surrendered to us, the Chinese merchants are not a problem, and as for the natives of Quang Nam, there is no decent resistance led by Pei Guangpao. ’

'What about Nguyen Phuc Yuan? ’

Nguyen Phuc Yuan led a small group of cronies to escape into the West Mountain and disappeared, and the prince Nguyen Phuc Ki led his troops to vote for Lord Zheng, and the rest of the water house, fire house and the previous Cham and other departments were all surrendered. ’

So this winter campaign is over? ’

It depends on what to say, after the defeat of Coconut City, Agung fought the trapped beasts, in order to get enough gold and silver to recruit troops to counterattack, he reversed himself and slaughtered the Chinese merchants who had previously surrendered in the port of Surabaya, and the vanguard of our army into Surabaya sent back the news that the situation was not very good, and it was probably difficult to recover in a year or two. Moreover, the Senate did not expect that the Dutch would go behind their backs to pay attention to the port of Daven. ’

'The fleet of the Dutch went south of the equator?' ’

"Yes, on the surface, they instigated a few families to be enemies of us, but they took advantage of the situation to sneak in and attack the new land where the Senate had just established a government in the southern continent. ’

'Is it a big loss?' ’

Fortunately, the militia did not let them succeed, but many people died, and we will have to avenge this revenge sooner or later, and it seems that Banda will not be able to stay any longer, and the ships of the Dutch East India Company will never appear in the South China Sea again. ’

'What about Aceh?' ’

'Aceh did not send troops directly, but there were substantial hostile acts, but it was at least a matter of the second half of the year to completely solve the problem, and the priority now is to digest and absorb. ’

So the situation is so good that I kind of want to go south. ’

'Why do you suddenly think that?' ’

'It's warm over there......

The conversation ended, and a familiar figure stretched out of the room.

This person is none other than Wang Xingping, who came all the way to the dust, he put his hands in front of his face and took a hot breath, thinking about the conversation between Fang Cai and Fu Xiaofei.

Today is a great cold, the temperature in January of the first year of Taichang is close to freezing, and he came to the northeast in this ice and snow, at this time on the way to and from this northern country in addition to the merchants who sell ginseng, mink and Dongzhu, there are only soldiers who aid Liao.

At the end of last year, Xiong Tingbi insisted on sending Yang Hao to Beijing for punishment, so he offended the Yang family, Yang Hao's uncle Yang Yuan and Yushi Feng Sanyuan, Zhang Xiude and Wei Yingjia and others in the matter, repeatedly impeached Xiong Tingbi, saying that he raised taxes under a false name in the border land, exploited the small people, and misled the country and bullied the king. List the eight crimes of the unconspiracy and the three deceitfuls, saying that if you don't quit the court, Biliao will not be protected.

Originally, Zhu Changluo had the intention to protect him, but he just issued an edict to the court, and if Xiong Tingbi had a little bit of self-cultivation kung fu, the matter would be over. But he didn't want Xiong Tingbi to be upright, not only did he resist alienation, but he also returned Shang Fang's sword, striving to reprimand. In its recital, there is 'discussion in the court today, and I don't know the soldiers.' …… It is difficult to come to Liao since then, and it is difficult to use military generals and civil servants, so why not build Bai in Taiwan Province, how can it have an effect. This sentence not only brought all the courtiers in, but also made the emperor unable to come to the stage, and finally had to let him return to his hometown to listen to the investigation.

And the situation in Liaodong, which was temporarily stable before he left office, gradually became unstable again, and from the beginning of Yuguan to Liaoyang, all kinds of bad rumors were endless. There are all kinds of signs that the Houjin will use troops again after the beginning of spring, and this time the troops are directed at Shenyang, the important town of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong.

For the Ming Dynasty is just a rumor, but for the Senate has almost become a sure fact, how to get benefits from it is the joint of this exit, Wang Xingping went out to inspect the military and political affairs of Liaodong in the name of the affairs outside the prison, and Fu Xiaofei came to investigate the Northeast 'commerce' channel by the way to build an intelligence network, in order to prepare for the future to absorb the population of the Northeast as much as possible, as for the banner, it is to transport sulfur for Liaozhen.

In March last year, the Liaoyang Gunpowder Bureau was burned, and the gunpowder explosion washed away the city buildings and civilian houses, and the casualties of soldiers and civilians were not counted. For this reason, the Ministry of Industry specially allocated 50,000 catties of 'fine medicine' to aid Liao, but it was still not enough, so it raised 500,000 catties of nitrate from many parties.

In the cold winter, people are traveling against the tide, and it is quite troublesome to hand crank the power generation, and they also carry so many fire-causing things, so the two of them are extra careful, and every time they go to the central city to stop in the central city, the radio station will be turned on, and the contact with the 'central' has always been Fu Xiaofei's responsibility, which is why there is a previous dialogue section, and the last time I communicated with Labuan was ten days ago in Guangningwei.

In addition to understanding the situation in the South China Sea, Wang Xingping is most concerned about his Guizhou.

Wang Zhongde's martial arts this year seems to have no problem, the joints of the conferrer have also been tied, and the command is confirmed, although the command of Zhenxiwei cannot be compared with the commander, but as long as the martial arts examination is passed next year, there will be no problem at all to replace the word "matter".

Another unexpected joy is that Xu Chengming, the garrison of Pu'an, has been officially promoted to a guerrilla general for his merits, and has become a military general under the control of the imperial court.

The new governor Li Zheng praised Zhang Heming's exploits in a recent recital, and there is a great possibility that he will be eroded if he leaves this southwest of Weng. Of course, he is not alarmist, only in the days when Zhang Heming left, there was a lot of famine in Guizhou, Li Zheng said in the song, the hungry Zhong (Shaomin) gathered in Shuixi, and the imperial court's edict envoy was also robbed in Guizhou, so there was a lot of conflict with An Bangyan in the local area.

Yunnan Governor Shen Jingwei also frequently complained because of the matter of aiding Liao with an additional 2,000 taels of tribute, and even had a few tricks to argue with the cabinet.

Guizhou Governor Shi Yongan and Imperial Governor Shen Xun took advantage of the current situation to jointly set up the post of governor to control the military and political affairs of the four southwestern provinces. As for the candidate for the governor, it is naturally Zhang Heming, and I won't say whether it will be successful or not, and I don't know if it was Zhang Laogong's own planning, or if these people have other purposes, but this is what Wang Xingping is happy to see. Li Zheng also very much agreed, because of An Bangyan's request for aid to Liao, he suspected that he wanted to multiply the incident, so he asked the imperial court to increase troops and pay for it, but because of the urgency of Liao, the cabinet has always ignored this. It was because he was quite disheartened, and he couldn't take a break from begging, so he turned to reconsider and wanted to pull Zhang Heming, a taller man, back to support the situation, which shows that he is not optimistic about the situation in the southwest.

For these things, Wang Xingping secretly told his own industry, on the one hand, he hoarded grain and grass to practice martial arts, and on the other hand, he was also widely connected with good karma. Last year, the harvest of chili peppers and grain in the various military tuns under his control was good, and in addition to keeping enough reserves for his own house and a few tuntian guards, many of them were used to trade with some smaller tribes in the surrounding areas, especially from the north to buy a lot of horses from the Longkeng Division. In addition, the promotion of chili pepper has also achieved very good results, Li Zheng once served as the Guangdong salt law officer, quite familiar with the salt policy, for Wang Xingping in Guiyang around the implementation of pepper instead of salt Huairou Shaomin very agreed.

The first batch of official governors privately minted Taichang money has been opened, which is undoubtedly a great news for Li Zong, who lacks soldiers and little salary, and Wang Xingping still has a 'group training' that should not be underestimated, so now Wang's influence in Guiyang is getting bigger and bigger, Li Xianggong has not long been in office, but he loves to go to Wang Mingde to sit and sit when he has nothing to do.

The only thing worth being wary of is probably Qian Qianyi, perhaps because he was tough on the Australians in the court before he was affirmed by the big guy behind him, and the news from Beijing that this person's filial piety period was not yet completed, so he was reinstated as the editor of the Hanlin Academy, it seems that the matter of blocking people's money is really a long-term struggle, and the backstage of those wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan will not give up.

After combing through the things in his heart and finding that there was nothing missing from the big things, Wang Xingping looked up at the distance.

The white tower built in the Liao Dynasty has been repaired several times, the shadow is erected in the Zen courtyard behind the gable of Guangyou Temple, looking to the east, the Liaoyang city wall of more than ten meters high is like a shadow in the night, the corner tower and the pheasant moat illuminate a little spark, quite quiet, for a while he forgot that this is the place outside the gate.

He walked forward, and soon came to another meditation room, which was used by Guangyou Temple to operate a house for pilgrims, and there were not many people in the Guannai who originally came to Liaoyang in this season, and there were more post houses inside and outside the city for ordinary military and civilian exchanges. However, this Guangyou Temple does not need to give special money for the house, as long as a sum of incense and silver is offered, the temple will even prepare a charcoal fire, which is more comfortable than the city.

Speaking of the military forts from the north fell one after another, many Han people inside and outside the border walls fled to Shenyang and Liaoyang, and now there are more than 300,000 soldiers and civilians inside and outside Liaoyang City, a sickly prosperous scene.

Wang Xingping knocked on the door, and soon a woman came to open it.

"Sister Baozhu, I'm here to discuss tomorrow's matter with your father."

The girl blushed and hurriedly let Wang Xingping into the house, this red-faced girl was Zhang Yan, the daughter of Zhang Guoji, the student whom Wang Xingping met in Henan on the way to Beijing, and the uncle Zhang in Wang Xingping's mouth at this time was Zhang Guoji. Fu Xiaofei covered up the customs as a businessman, playing in the name of the imperial store, and wanted to find a reliable face to start, just Wang Xingping thought of the down-to-earth and reliable Zhang Guoji, but Zhang Guoji coincidentally had a fellow villager from Henan in the early years who is now in Liaoyang, and he also happened to come to do some goods to supplement the family.

So the two hit it off, and this time there was one more outsider in the team in addition to Wang Xingping's family. And Zhang Yan was worried that her father insisted on coming with her, and the few small ones in the family were all entrusted by Wang Xingping to the relatives of the Zhang family, but I don't know if this Zhang Yan had to come with her father or for the prince.

As soon as Fang sat down, Wang Xingping asked, "Is Uncle Zhang ready for tomorrow?" ”

Early tomorrow morning, the sulfur will be transported to the god hangar in the city for delivery, and he plans to go around with Zhang Guoji later, especially dealing with the merchants in the city.

"I remember Brother Cheng Xian's name, it's next to the general warehouse in the south of the city, and it won't be wrong to ask all the way." Zhang Guoji said, "I also asked the master in the temple about the Beicheng, and he also does business during the New Year, but it is different from the Nancheng, there is no need to wait until after the Shangyuan Festival, and there are a lot of merchants in the past few days. ”

Zhang Guoji said that it is the situation of this Liaoyang City, Liaoyang set up a city, the earliest is the merger of three small cities here, the northwest corner of the city is the Dingliao left, right, and back three guards to govern the place, it is the site of Xiangping County in the Han Dynasty, the southeast of the city is built in Goryeo, so it is called the Goryeo camp, and now it is the Dingliao Zhongwei Governing Office, and the northeast of the city is the former place of the Bohai City in the Tang Dynasty, and now it is the Dingliao Qianwei Governing Office. Khitan Liao changed and expanded Tokyo to unite the three cities, only to have the shape of today's Liaoyang City, the Taizu of the Dynasty and the new earth city in the north of the brick city, is now the so-called Dongning Acropolis of the North City, that is, the Dongning Weizhi and Zizai Prefecture (Note: Zizai Prefecture and Anle Zhou are the Ming Court set up in Liaodong, the institution of the attached Shaomin, and the Zizai Prefecture was moved from Kaiyuan to Liaoyang during the Chenghua period, specifically to accommodate the Jurchen, Korean and other ethnic groups attached to the people, it is said that there are nearly 30,000 Korean immigrants alone, and the Jurchen scale is not inferior.

Liaodong does not have prefectures and counties and political envoys, it is the administrative management system of the capital headed by the commander of the palm seal, the military suppression system headed by the general army and the administrative supervision system headed by the governor are jointly managed, the relationship between the three is relatively independent and mutually restrictive, the functions are different from each other and overlap with each other, and major decisions are all made after the same discussion and then ask the imperial court to adjudicate. At this time, in the entire frontier management system of the Ming Dynasty, the officials engaged in the administrative management system of the guard and the institute had the lowest status, but in terms of Liaodong, the power was extremely heavy.

If it is said that the situation in Liaodong should be investigated, it is very appropriate to start from Liaoyang.

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