I didn't know the bitterness in the heart of a soldier in the Li Dynasty, when Pu Ah drank the wine, Mao Jue was already in Tieyi.

Half a year has not seen, this Tieyi Town seems to have changed again, the farmland on the side of the road is more and more neatly planned, some scattered villages have been demolished, and rebuilt near the road, so that the traffic has become more developed and faster, and the biggest change is the Tieshan City Port Area, which is actually expanding to be connected with the Tieshan City Wall.

This is still Mao Jue's credit last year, although it is called the East China Sea group of pirates, but these guys are really a lot of maritime merchants, and they were cut by Mao Jue, and at the same time, they were beaten and confused, and these guys also suddenly discovered that there is a new port in the north, and if there is a port, you can do business and make a fortune.

In this war of war, when Mao Jue was still fighting hard under Edo Castle, these slippery heads were smeared with oil on the soles of their feet with the wealth that they had robbed of Kyushu Island, and some people simply did not return to their old nests, and came here directly to spend all their time drinking, and those with long-term vision still opened shops here to do business, and it is no wonder that the already prosperous port area has become congested.

The only disadvantage is that the law and order have deteriorated a lot, after all, pirates are all temperamental, and it is common to draw knives and cut people when they drink too much, and they have been making trouble for more than half a month, forcing the chief official Fan Wenju to have no choice, and specially drew an area in Dongbang, known as a place outside the law, and let these pirates tear it off by themselves.

Before leaving, the Dongjiang Academy also saw a lot of results at this time, when the army entered the city, there were many literati on both sides of the street, and it seemed that the cultural background of Dongjiang had also begun to rise, but it was somewhat similar to the Wa Kingdom, in Dongjiang, the mainstay of society was still the martial arts family, and the scarred iron warriors crossed the border, even if these literati showed talents, they had to applaud.

Or as usual, this has just arrived at the station, Mao Jue's first thing is to be a fortune boy, this time the Iron Righteous Army really fought a few tough battles, and the attrition has reached thousands, although the military family members who went home with a clean military registration card have brought a lot of sadness, but the Dongjiang style of merit must be rewarded, and there is a martyrdom must be compassionate The Dongjiang style still improves morale a lot, watching colleagues come out with silver, this scene failed to follow the generals to go out of the other regiment soldiers are all red like rabbits, and they can't wait to launch the next war tomorrow.

In fact, the society that is too martial is not a good society, historically, the Song Dynasty died in the weak, but the Han died in the strong, but Mao Jue's territory was sandwiched in the Jurchens, and there was no strong folk customs in the middle of the four wars of Li's Korea, and it was impossible to defend the prosperity that was built up with great difficulty, so now it can only make the entire Dongjiang iron and blood belligerent as much as possible.

But don't say it, not only are the martial artists here, but the literati are also strong enough.

"What, got through?"

After completing the triumphal reward ceremony, Mao Jue returned to the Yamen of White Horse City, and was startled by Fan Wenjie who came to the door.

Tieshan, Yizhou, was originally in North Pyongan Province, so, Mao Jue still spent more than a year, before he could finish encroaching on the northern part of North Pyongan Province, good guy, he Fan Wenju in the five months of his expedition, ate most of the Hamgyong Province in one go, and now the territory of Mao Jue's Dongjiang Town, just like an earthworm, completely separated the Northeast from Lee's North Korea, the northernmost point has reached the Sea of Japan, if it is a later generation, it is the place where China, Russia, and North Korea meet.

was really full of excitement, stretched out his hand and took down the map hanging on the wall, looked at it for a long time, and then put his finger on an island in the open sea.

"What is this place that our army has taken?"

"Master Hui, this is Lutun Island, north of Li Chao, there are no warships in my town, so the area controlled by the lowly is only in the area of mountainmaking and Guangxing!"

"Go back, I'll have someone row you three second-class sail battleships, ten third-class cruise sailboats, this area, you must occupy it for me, find land to repair the port, open the port and build ships, these must be fast!"

Mao Jue's words were full of excitement, what is the biggest problem of his Dongjiang River, lack of development space, no strategic depth, even if he eats most of Hamgyong Province in one go, the agriculture of this era can feed three or four hundred thousand people, even if it is one out of eight, Mao Jue can have 50,000 troops at most, and he has to give the people's necks to death, and seven people support a soldier, which is also a great burden.

More importantly, 50,000 people, even if they are all elites, really do not play much role in the collision of hundreds of thousands or millions of people in the 70 years of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. Even if the Qing army entered the pass, it was not only the Eight Banners Army of 60,000 or 70,000.

To the west, the Houjin conquered 400,000 Mongols, and hundreds of thousands of people fell into their hands in the areas occupied by the Han land in eastern Liaodong, Liu Xingzuo is the Han people who fled back from the Houjin territory, and there are several times to enter the customs, it is said that the population from the inside of the pass to the outside of the pass is full of millions, plus the ethnic minorities in other parts of the northeast, Mao Jue first looks very strong, but he is facing the Houjin with a population of between two million and three million.

But to raise people, you need land, and Li's North Korea is still notoriously mountainous, which seems to be a dead knot, so Mao Jue's ultimate hope is still in the area of this small Lutun Island.

What is the place from here to the north, Heilongjiang, the Great Northern Wilderness! One of the world's famous three black soil belts, think about how many people were fed by Heilongjiang in later generations.

And here is also staggered from the ruling center of the Later Jin, the core area of the Later Jin is mainly in the south of Jilin in the later generations, Liaoning, which was developed by the Han people relatively complete, in the process of going south, a large number of Jurchen tribes abandoned their homeland and followed the south, this place is also much simpler than directly competing with Huang Taiji for Liaodong.

You have taken my family's fertile field, and I will go and pick up the thin field you don't want, right? But of course, I've raised the thin field into a fertile field, and sooner or later I'll have to take back what you robbed.

Looking at the map, Mao Jue seemed to see that he had set up Harbin and Qiqihar in the future, and there were thousands of troops and horses standing on the fertile land, and then he carried a Maozi banner and laughed in front.

But just when his own family was about to flow out of his father's lustful hara, Fan Wenju poured a basin of cold water.

"General, no one!"

"First of all, when we control Hamgyong Province, we are only setting up checkpoints in dangerous places, and with our invasion, the local officials of the Li family and the people have also retreated in large numbers, and more importantly, there are not only Li Chao people, but also many real girls!"

"Master General, before we deal with these Jurchen tribes, even if we have a population, we can't afford to launch a large-scale reclamation ......"

To be honest, Fan Wenju was also quite helpless, before taking over, he really didn't expect that there were so many Jurchen tribes in the territory of Li's North Korea, and the number of people was probably no less than thirty or forty thousand.

In fact, it is no wonder that the Hamgyong Province of Lee's North Korea also said before that it was Li Chenggui, the Taizu of Lee's Joseon, who launched a war of conquest against the Jianzhou Wei Jurchens under the command of the Ming Dynasty, and successively swept the Yalu River, and the Jurchen strongholds along the Tumen River were established, and in the Yongle years, there were Jurchens who were unwilling to surrender to the book, calling this place the hometown of Liaojin, begging the imperial court to take it back, and Ming Chengzu also sent people to North Korea to ask for the ten people in this place, mainly the Jurchens.

In the past two hundred years, the development of Li's North Korea has been very limited, and there are not as many Koreans here as the Jurchens, so naturally they can't help them, and these Jurchens scattered between the mountains and cottages have now become a hot potato in Mao Jue's hands.

No wonder Wang Hua'an was unhappy with Fan Wenju at the beginning, Mao Jue had just imagined the future, and Old Master Fan smashed a lot of problems on his head, lack of people, lack of food, lack of money, and Jurchen robbers who did not surrender, seeing that for more than ten minutes, he took a red pen to depict more than thirty red dots on the map, and Mao Jue suddenly hit his head for three points.

The rice really has to be eaten in one bite!

The plan of shipbuilding and reclamation to the north can only be stranded aside, and Su Changmei, Kong Youde, Wen Meng, and Mao Jue first studied with them how to deal with the Hamgyong Jurchens in a down-to-earth manner.

But just when he dragged his tired body out of the mansion and wanted to stretch his waist, in the sound of hurried footsteps, Adriana came over, with a strange look on her face.

"General, it's not early, Madame has prepared a banquet in the house, please go back to the house for dinner."

"What's wrong?"

I know this girl too well, looking at her look, it's strange if there's nothing wrong, Mao Jue couldn't help but ask in surprise.

Who knew that Adriana's little brain was actually drooping, she didn't say anything, she just stayed there, and she knew this girl too well, she looked like this, probably don't want to ask anything, as soon as her head was confused, Mao Jue simply stretched out her hand.

"Lance, prepare the horse, go home!"

Not to mention, he didn't come back for four or five months, Mao Jue almost couldn't recognize the door of his house, he was used to living a modern life, Tieyi's vice general's mansion is also a two-story small building built of bricks and cement, a small garden yard in front, and a garage in the back. The black-bottomed gold-lettered Mao Mansion exudes majesty.

The only problem is that it doesn't suit Mao Jue's appetite.

"The old man changed it?"

Looking at his face, Mao Jue was stunned for a long time, but once again, Adriana couldn't help but shake her head.

As he spoke, more than a dozen subordinates greeted him, bowing respectfully and kowtowing at the door of the house.

"Welcome home!"

Mao Jue didn't know any of these people.

"Meet the master!"

In a daze, he followed into the main hall of the second entrance, and it was really as Adriana said, the banquet had already been prepared, and in the bright lights, Yu Le'er, who returned to the house first, was enthusiastic and came out with a skirt, but in front of her, the red skirt and the dignified skirt saluted were Chen Jiao.

"The concubine personally cooked, prepared thin wine and fruits, and congratulated the master on his victorious return!"

Not to mention, the banquet at this table is really golden enough, the tableware is either gold or silver, and the delicacy of Jiangnan side dishes and the pride of the Jiangnan family are also set off by the dishes on this table to the fullest, with a warm smile, Chen Jiao looked at Mao Jue with the corner of her skirt like a treasure.

However, Mao Jue's attention was not at all on the banquet, he looked around twice in amazement, and he suddenly asked in surprise.

"Where's the plain clothes!"

(End of chapter)