Chapter 560: The South Outside the Gate

The Tielingwei of Liaozhen turned out to be a poor place, and only those who offended Shangguan were sent here to serve as soldiers, although the Jurchens of Nuergandusi and the Mongols of Duoyan Sanwei had a market trade nearby, but such a simple trade in native products and grain and salt had no oil and water at all, but when the barbarians outside the border wall could not survive in the event of natural disasters and man-made disasters, they had to come in and loot.

Compared with these barbarians, the Ming army of Liaozhen can be regarded as an elite division, but every time they defeat each other, the Jurchens and Mongols are scattered in the mountains and forests outside the pass, and they make a comeback after the limelight, so endless harassment is quite a headache, and Tieling is the northernmost place where the Ming army of Liaozhen is stationed, the weather is bitter cold, and the battles are continuous.

However, ten years after Jiajing, the organization of the Reclamation Merchant Group appeared, which organized a large number of peasants and a large number of foreigners to come to the Guanwai to reclaim land and open up manors.

It turned out that the Jurchens outside the border walls were either captured as slaves or driven further north by the private soldiers of the reclamation manor to fight the wild Jurchens and Tunguska tribes there for living space, fighting each other. Tielingwei basically didn't fight every year, and suddenly it became a lot easier.

Moreover, the Jingshi merchant group used the relationship in the officialdom to recruit a large number of military households and soldiers to go to the border to cultivate, and when they passed by the Tieling Guard, they always had to give some benefits to the people who defended the border fortress, so the officers and soldiers of the Tieling Guard, at that time, began to fish for a lot of extra oil and water.

There were even many soldiers who were recruited by the owner of the manor to be the guards and private soldiers in the manor, and the money they earned was much better than being a soldier in the guard, and later the Mongolian tribe of Duoyan Sanwei was defeated by Jiang Feng, and there was basically no force outside the gate that could threaten the manor.

The various products of the reclamation manor outside the customs began to be sold in large quantities in the Guan, Tieling became an important source of transportation, and there were many commercial goods in the past, and the officers and soldiers of the Tieling Guard were no longer flexible, and they also knew that the opening of the checkpoint to collect taxes and fees, Tieling was a necessary place, and the merchants were willing to pay some silver money in exchange for a smooth passage.

Tielingwei did not have to hand over the money collected, except for the usual share in the officialdom that needed to give a part, the rest fell into the pockets of generals and soldiers, three years later, Tielingwei, who was originally extremely poor, was already one of the richest places in Liao Town.

Here, three years later, the commander of the health post has already established a large industry in Liaoyang, and there are also their own business shops in Shenyang, Tianjin and Baoding. The other thousands of households have always reached the level of the general banner and the small banner, and the least is to buy a few hundred acres of land and hire farmers from Shangguan to farm, and some people have bought a lot of Korean slaves, and they also have a small farm within the border wall, although the soldiers have not reaped the great benefits, but after a year, it is easy to build a new house and buy some good land.

Such a good position, the first few years to do quietly, no one noticed, to a few years later, Liao Town up and down are eyeing this piece of fat, as soon as the goods into the side wall, as long as the Tieling Guard is released, the other guards and guards are actually set up cards and there is not much oil and water to take, to put it bluntly, or Tielingwei has the most oil and water, Tielingwei's commander was promoted to a certain place in southern Liaoning to do the garrison in the thirteenth year of Jiajing, and the thousands of households below are also promoted. It's just that it's not in Tielingwei anymore.

The commander above placed a group of people in again and continued to make money, but at most he would be in this officer position for a year, because a large number of people were waiting there to line up, hoping to enter Tieling and make a fortune.

Liaozhen has 80,000 to 100,000 soldiers and horses, and because of the bitter cold on the border, the size of the battle is continuous, so the combat effectiveness can be called the head of the nine sides, for the existence of the reclamation manor outside the Guan, they are also well aware, and beware of it, the Ming policy outside the border is very much like an ostrich burying its head in the sand, in addition to the known Mongols and Jurchens, do not admit that there are other forces that can harm the Ming Dynasty.

That is to say, in the consciousness of the bigwigs in the DPRK, the opponent that Liaozhen has to defend against is still the Mongols in the north, preventing them from entering the border from the north, and the small-scale raids of the Jurchens also have to be guarded against, as for the millions of displaced people left by the Jingshi merchant group, they treat it as non-existent.

The bigwigs of the Eastern Party have always adopted such an attitude in the court, and Li Gufeng, the general of the Liaozhen General Army, has made several statements on the table, but to no avail.

In fact, Li Gufeng, the general of the Liaozhen General Army, made the most money from the displaced people outside the Guan, and three taels of the ten taels of silver collected by Tielingwei belonged to him. Relying on the rich land of Liao Town and the income of Tielingwei, Li Gufeng raised nearly 10,000 pro-soldiers under his subordinates.

However, these generals, considering that things are not just as simple as making money, Liaozhen itself also has a careful spies, repeatedly pretending to be homeless or small businessmen, entering the border wall to investigate, but three hundred miles outside the pass, all the manors, it seems that there are some farmers who do their duty, and they can't see any soldiers.

As long as it is not the people outside the Guan, it is generally a killing, and there are one or two roads between the various reclamation manors, the land outside the Guanguan is vast, and the beware of people living in these manors is these manors, if you want to continue to go deep without being discovered, there is no way to supplement the supplies, you can't go to those manors to replenish, and you can send your head to the knife edge of the militia group training.

Since there are no soldiers or anything like that outside the gate, it seems that it is a good target for robbery, Li Gufeng and the other generals in Liaozhen have also thought of looting and taking those manors into their own hands, but to attack the land outside the border wall, it is inevitable that those rigid characters in the court will say what they want to provoke. There is also the land of Liao Town, which is originally vast and sparsely populated, and there is no shortage of people to cultivate.

It is of little significance to plunder more land, not to mention that the Ming Dynasty and the merchants outside the customs traded back and forth, and the land controlled by Liao Zhen also brought a large amount of income to Liao Town, and the people outside the Guan, that is, the "northern people" who are now called by Liao Town, are a hen that lays golden eggs, and no one is willing to slaughter them.

Moreover, the militia group training in the manor outside the Guan, especially the militia group training near the side wall, the people of Liao Town are all aware of it, most of those are Liao Town's own military households and soldiers, and the combat effectiveness of these people is not weak, although they are only in the manor to take care of the family and the courtyard, but it is really troublesome to really fight.

However, Li Gufeng is scheming, and always feels that there is something wrong with this, and he has the intention to close the side wall, but the money is much less, and he is unwilling, and the relationship between the Eastern Party and the businessmen above the court is inextricably linked, which touches their interests, so it is unlucky.

Fortunately, when Emperor Jiajing regained power in the twentieth year of Jiajing, he finally faced up to the existence of the people of the Northland and admitted that there was a very threatening force there, but strange to say, Li Gufeng at this time felt a little fussed, if the displaced people outside the gate had already done it, why wait until today, and Li Gufeng was very confident in the 10,000 pro-soldiers in his opponent.

In the nine-sided town of the Ming Dynasty, the private soldiers under the general staff of the general army, the general army of Datong is the largest one, that is, three thousand families, how powerful are the nearly 10,000 people, and who will they be afraid of.

At the beginning, he was one of the people who shirked the orders of the imperial court, but as the soldiers of the imperial court trained the mighty battalion gradually took shape, and the local authority was gradually withdrawn to the central government, Li Gufeng also understood in his heart that it seemed that this hen that laid golden eggs was going to be killed.

The carelessness of the Ming army and the caution outside the gate really made outsiders not know the reality outside the pass, because every year, the regimental training and escort members of each manor were gathered in the plain area near the east fort of the Taer River, and the military drill was three hundred miles away from the side wall, and there was no private regiment training outside the pass, and all the goods and commodities outside the gate were concentrated near Tielingwei, and were uniformly deployed by the Sanjiang Commercial Bank under Huazhou Qianzhuang, although it was in the name of many different shops, and the manor was not allowed to trade privately with the merchants within the side wall.

Therefore, the imperial court has always felt that there is another powerful force in the grassland, and has never thought that the land controlled outside the border has long been connected to the grassland.

In the winter of the 21st Jiajing Dynasty, the military attachés above the commander of Liaozhen all received the news that they should be ready to be ready to carry out a sweep outside the border wall at any time, which was the intention of the military department.

In private, the senior officers of Liaozhen are arguing over how to distribute the population manor after conquering the Guanwai, and in their hearts, no matter how strong the homeless people outside the Guanxi are, they are just homeless people, and they can still block the Liaozhen strong soldiers in the world.

In the east fort of the Taer River, the last base of the bloody battle between Jiang Feng's subordinates and the 60,000 soldiers of the Tile Spur Department was already a small town - Beizhou, which is the hub of the Mongolian steppe and logistics and transportation outside the Guan, but now it has become a busy large military camp, and in the center of this military camp is the temporary Huawang Tent, which also has loud quarrels:

"Liu Shisan, I have already given you Liaozhen, Tianjin must be fought by me!"

"Then Baoding must belong to me......"

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