Chapter 159: The Calm Before the Storm
Zhang Yu has rich experience in his life, ups and downs in the sea, was a high-ranking Mongolian official in his early years, and became the highest official of the Privy Council. After Casting Ming, he started from 100 households and achieved the position of commander of the guard, which shows that his ability is very strong, and his upward spirit will never be extinguished. The importance of the position of the Privy Council can be seen from an example, when the later generations of Ghost Li Chi called Khan, as his important subordinate, Arutai, his position was the Taibao Privy Council, and later Arutai expelled the Ghost Lichi, and established Ben Ya Shili as Khan, appointed himself as the Grand Master, and controlled the power.
Zhang Yu, who was familiar with the tactics of the Mongols and the Ming army, was not optimistic about the decisive battle of Mobei, which deeply affected Zhu Di. After thinking about it, Zhu Di felt that he would adopt his opinion and write to the imperial court to retain some of the Uliangha prisoners, and at the same time garrison Kaiping in case of accidents.
As the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yunwen has been drowned in a sea of official documents recently, and the old emperor has been in poor health recently, so most of the things are decided by him. Zhu Yunwen named Wang Du, Xie Jin, Huang Zicheng, and Zhuo Jing as bachelors of Hanlin, plus Liu Sanwu and others, so they can support it. After the baptism of imperial court affairs, Zhu Yunwen has a deeper feeling for these people, Xie Jin is young, energetic, talented, and malleable; Huang Zicheng is a scholar, knowledgeable, and has poor practicality; Zhuo Jing has both civil and military qualifications, has a wide range of knowledge, is very comprehensive, and has the greatest potential for training; As for Wang Du, he is the oldest and not as knowledgeable as others, but he has a flexible brain and does not have so many rules. In general, Zhu Yunwen's favorite is Wang Du, followed by Zhuo Jing, and the other two can be supplemented by knowledge, but it's a pity that he reads too much, thinks about retro all day long, and admires the rule of antiquity.
Regarding the issues that Zhu Yunwen is most concerned about, such as the horse farm, the Tuntian envoy, and the water army, the four people have different opinions, Wang Du is all in favor, which is what Zhu Yunwen is most satisfied with, and it is also the most dissatisfied with Wang Du in the other people, thinking that he is a slanderer. Zhuo Jing expressed his support for the racecourse and tuntian, but did not support the development of the navy, and felt that it was completely unnecessary to send boats to sea to catch widows.
Xie Jin and Huang Zicheng did not support these few, thinking that the exchange of tea and horses and the raising of horses by private households were very good, and there were groups of horses in the suburbs of Jingshi every spring and autumn, and there was nothing bad about it; As for the Tuntian envoys, they thought that they might as well try it in the interior, but they strongly opposed it in the border areas, feeling that the gains outweighed the losses, and that it might also cause dissatisfaction among the frontier soldiers; For the water army, it is the same as Zhuo Jing's idea.
Zhu Yunwen was just an ordinary code farmer in later generations, a typical master who was not diligent and did not distinguish between grains, and the methods of governing the country he knew were all the experience of later generations and the baptism of novels, so he was very self-aware, and his fear of Zhu Di was real, because he knew that he would not be able to fight and had to count on soldiers, so he made great efforts to win over the sons and daughters of the nobles of the imperial court, hoping that they could help him defeat Zhu Di; He knew that the guard was completely corrupted in the late Ming Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty completely canceled the guard, so he had the idea of the Tuntian envoy and planned to slowly cancel the guard, but now he only dared to pilot it in small steps; The thing about the horse farm is that it is a pity that the large grassland is not used, and the horses raised by the people are only suitable for pulling carts, not suitable for galloping on the battlefield, so there is the idea of running a horse farm, and at present, Zhou De, the supervisor of the Hetao Horse Farm, has divided the Hetao into 24 horse farms, and recruited military households from Shaanxi, Ningxia and Gansu who are good at raising horses to raise horses in the horse farm; Gao Wei, the supervisor of the Liaodong Horse Farm, set up 24 horse farms from Jinzhou Wei to Shenyang Wei, and recruited military households from Liaodong, Beiping, and Shandong who were good at raising horses to raise horses at the horse farm; In addition, the method of opening in the middle is applied to horses, and the horse farm opens a salt guide according to the quality of the horses. As for the navy, it's even simpler, anyone who is a little interested in military affairs will know Mahan's "Theory of Sea Power", but unfortunately Zhu Yunwen can't build ships, and the visit to the Longjiang Shipyard made him completely extinguish the idea of drawing drawings, and he can't understand the craftsmen's drawings at all, and he can't understand which ship is better.
In order to ensure the effectiveness of the experimental projects of the racecourse and the tuntian envoys, Zhu Yunwen sent to Shaanxi and Liaodong to supervise the imperial history, and these supervisors also brought a large number of supervisors of the Guozijian as assistants to inspect the results of the work of the racecourse and the tuntian envoys, especially for the resettlement of newly relocated military households, Zhu Yunwen attached great importance to it, and demanded that the inspectors of the imperial history must visit the people to obtain first-hand information, and if there is a phenomenon of falsifying information, they will be severely punished.
In order to encourage merchants to do business in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Beiping, Liaodong and other border areas, Zhu Yunwen lowered the commercial tax in these places, and lowered the toll tax on the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and reduced the tax card, but the time was still short, and the effect was not obvious.
These policies were announced through the "Minsheng Xunbao" hosted by Bai Wangru, Bai Wangru was a person with a big mind, he quickly found a way to make money through these policies, he asked the people of Guozijian to analyze these policies, and then wrote a review article to send out, which attracted many businessmen to buy and read; He also sent a number of reporters (as Zhu Yunwen called it) to the areas affected by the policies to investigate whether the local areas had really implemented these policies, and this practice immediately attracted some businessmen, who published their difficulties in the local areas and some customs and customs encountered in the course of doing business in the "Minsheng Xun Bao", so as to increase their visibility and find some potential partners.
The hot sale of "Minsheng Xunbao" quickly attracted the attention of many businessmen, and they did some research. By the 29th year of Hongwu, similar newspapers began to appear in Beijing, Suzhou and Hangzhou, they were small in scale and not authoritative enough, but they also had their own way of making money, grasping local local characteristics, and living a very nourishing life.
In order to ensure the safety of Jinzhouwei, Zhu Yunwen transferred a part of the ships from the Dengzhou Naval Division to form the Liaodong Naval Division, which was headquartered in the port of Jinzhouwei, and Zhu Yunwen named it Dalian Port. The responsibility of the Dengzhou Navy Division and the Liaodong Navy Division was to protect the safety of the Bohai Bay, because the development of Jinzhouwei and even Liaodong would inevitably arouse the covetousness of the Japanese Invaders.
In addition, Zhu Yunwen ordered the Fujian Navy Division to send ships to the Penghu Islands and land on the island of Taiwan to survey the situation on the island. Officials from the Ministry of Rites were sent to Ryukyu on a sea ship to discuss the concession port, and Zhu Yunwen planned to set up a supply base for warships in Ryukyu to cut off the route of the Japanese invasion, and then take the opportunity to occupy the islands south of the Japanese island of Kyushu.
Today's Jinzhou Wei has undergone great changes compared with a year ago, Zhu Yunwen has set up an agricultural branch here, an engineering branch, and a bank branch, and the agricultural college has helped military households build a biogas digester to obtain high-quality fertilizer, and also use the chemical fertilizer provided by the engineering college, and the output of last year's autumn harvest has been improved to a certain extent, and this year, everyone's enthusiasm is more sufficient. Hydraulic machinery was built to help military households complete repetitive tasks such as husking, grinding, and oil extraction, and new looms accelerated the efficiency of spinning and weaving. Workshops with new spinning machines also appeared, both from the south and organized by the locals themselves, which greatly changed the lives of local military families. In addition, there was also a canning workshop, which processed the fish and shrimp that the fishermen could not eat into canned food and fish floss and provided them to the army.
In addition, the Bank of Communications' silver bills are slowly becoming popular in the local area, and Cheng Benli plans to collect only the silver bills in the future, and then withdraw the cash from the Bank of Communications after the Yamen collects them.
Today's Jinzhou Wei Tuntian envoy Cheng Benli has stepped down, and the new Tuntian envoy is a prisoner of the Guozijian, named Yu Liren, who is Cheng Benli's right-hand man. Cheng Benli was appointed as a road builder to build a highway from Dalian Port to Shenyangwei with cement and floor tiles, which Zhu Yunwen jokingly called the "Shenyang-Dalian Expressway".
Guan'er River, originating from the nine ditches of Gaoyue Mountain at the southeast foot of the Great Xing'an Mountains, and finally flows into the Nenjiang River, its upstream is the camp of Wuliang Ha Sanwei, at the beginning Tainingwei was the most noble, its leader was the Liao King of the Yuan Dynasty, Aza Li, with the death of Aza Lost and Duo Yan Wei gradually became stronger, Duo Yan Wei's Deer Huocha became the leader of Wu Liang Ha Sanwei, but it is a pity that he did not do it long before he became a prisoner of the Ming army.
Thanks to Zhu Yuanzhang's killing of heroes, Yang Wen, who was not outstanding, stood out, and he was far from Guo Ying and others in terms of talent and military merits, but in the end he sat in the high position of the commander of Liaodong, which actually benefited from the change of Zhu Yuanzhang's employment strategy.
Zhu Yuanzhang's employment has gone through three stages, the first stage is his army to Hongwu six years, Wenchen such as Liu Bowen, Liu Ji and Zhu Yuanzhang are also teachers and friends, military generals such as Xu Da are brave and good at fighting, wise and far-sighted, is a well-deserved handsome talent; The second stage is the sixth year of Hongwu to the thirteenth year of Hongwu, that is, Hu Weiyong became the right prime minister until he was killed, at this time, the ministers were all followers, according to Zhu Yuanzhang's intentions, Zhu Yuanzhang began to reuse Fu Youde among the military ministers, Fu Youde was born as a general, did not dare to cross the thunder pool half a step, thousands of miles to fight, Zhu Yuanzhang also issued an order to let him pay attention not to drink unclean water, in essence, it is just a follower; The third stage is thirteen years after Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister and began to monopolize power, at this time, they used some white-faced scholars and secretaries, and Zhu Yuanzhang needed to tell them what to do, which was known from the fact that they were killed because of small mistakes, because these little things caused Zhu Yuanzhang's dissatisfaction; Among the generals, Xu Da died of illness, Feng Sheng was abandoned, and Fu Youde gradually faded out and reused blue jade, but unfortunately due to Zhu Biao's unexpected death, Zhu Yuanzhang raised the butcher's knife and killed tens of thousands of people, leaving only Geng Bingwen, who was good at defense, and Guo Ying, a rising star (Guo Ying was not the founding candidate, and was only named the Marquis of Wuding in the seventeenth year of Hongwu), and Guo Ying is also known for his prudence and loyalty.
Yang Wen and Geng Xuan took Shenyang Zhongwei, Dingliao Zhongwei and Jinzhou Wei, and 15,000 cavalry to the north along the Guan'er River and swept the three Wuliangha divisions, but unfortunately they fell into thin air, and the three Wuliangha divisions had already been transferred. This made Yang Wen very annoyed, and he sent scouts around to look for traces of the retreat of the Uliangha.
Geng Xuan rode on a horse, chatted with Yang Wen, and said, "Lord Commander, why did the Wuliangha people transfer? Did he know we were coming to sweep them down? ”
"This," Yang Wen thought for a while and said, "It's very likely, didn't Zheng Yi, the court's courtier, come here to let them trade with each other?" Maybe they thought Zheng Shilang was here to investigate, so as soon as he left, they hurriedly moved. ”
"Alas, my lord, it's not easy to make some credit." Geng Xuan was a little depressed, he followed Xu Huizu to the north soon after he got married, and then he was left in Liaodong, almost a year, but nothing was accomplished.
Yang Wen looked at Geng Xuan's appearance and laughed: "Brother, my brother said something unpleasant, you are young and ambitious, you have never experienced suffering, what's wrong with throwing yourself into the air?" Is it called trouble when you are ambushed? Now that I have an explanation to the emperor and nothing to lose, isn't it good? ”
Geng Xuan thought for a while, pointed to the west, and said, "My lord, do you think that the Wuliangha people will cross the Great Xing'an Mountains and run to the fishing sea?" ”
"Hehe, brother, this is also possible, what, do you want to chase it?" Yang Wen smiled and teased.
Geng Xuan paused for a moment, and really thought about it. Yang Wen looked at him and hurriedly stopped: "Brother, don't think about it, it's not so easy to cross the Great Xing'an Mountains, and that is the nest of the Mongols, once the Mongols find out, we can't run away with our wings." ”
After a while, Geng Xuan slapped his thigh, hugged his fists and said, "My lord, can you give me a cavalry, I will go to the west to have a look, maybe I can catch up with the Wuliangha people." ”
Yang Wen glanced at Geng Xuan, shook his head and said, "Brother, are you kidding?" You are now a guest of honor, and when His Royal Highness Taisun succeeds to the throne, you will be a concubine, if you have any mistakes, can the county lord of Jiangdu let me go? Can Your Highness let me go? He shook his head again and again.
In the end, Yang Wen couldn't resist Geng Xuan, but he didn't agree to Geng Xuan's request, but commanded all the cavalry to drive to the source of the river to see if they could catch up with the Wuliangha people.