Lu Shanji has been appointed as the governor of Liaodong for more than two years, and he can be regarded as one of the longest-serving governors of Liaodong since Wanli.

In the more than two years and nearly three years that he supervised Liaodong, the various armies in Liaodong Town did not take the initiative to move north in the direction of Liaoshen.

To put it bluntly, not only did he not go north or take a step east, but he also took back the two fists that had stretched out from the Ningjin defense line in the past, and abandoned Guangning and Daling River.

But it has to be said that compared with the situation of continuous wars in the entire Liaoxi Corridor until the end of Wanli until the Apocalypse, since Lu Shan succeeded to supervise Liaodong, the Ningjin defense line has been calm.

After Huang Taiji sent troops to Guangning City and Dalinghe City, because Dongjiang Town was growing east of the Yalu River, he was only in a state of confrontation with the officials and troops of Liaodong Town on the Ningjin defense line.

Since the Zhenglan Banner garrisons in Guangning City and Dalinghe City did not take the initiative to attack, then Lu Shanji, Man Gui, He Kegang and others were also happy to defend the city and did not take the initiative to provoke.

Since Guangning City and Dalinghe City were all abandoned by the Liaodong officials and troops before, then when the time came, of course they would not take the initiative to attack and recapture these two cities and the fortress in between.

Although there are constant voices of impeachment of Lu Shanji and others in the court, the current Chongzhen Emperor has never put such pressure on the Liaodong Governor's Mansion, on the contrary, he has passed secret decrees to Man Gui, who has repeatedly written to ask for war, to obey Lu Shanji's moderation and not act rashly.

Including the critical moment when the Jianyu army went around to Mongolia and broke through the border from the Xuanda region, Emperor Chongzhen still did not let Liaodong Town return to the division to rescue.

In this way, the Liaoxi Corridor, which has been in full swing in previous years, has rarely maintained relative calm in the past two years.

Originally, the military conflicts and wars caused by the rebuilding of Dalinghe City by the Ming Dynasty and the rebuilding of the castles east of the Dalinghe River naturally disappeared in this life.

However, in the past two or three years, under the command of Lu Shanji, the governor of Liaodong, the generals of Liaodong Town have not done nothing.

He Kegang, the commander of the front road of Liaodong Town, withdrew and collected the Liaodong official army of Guangning City and Dalinghe City, and the unified army of more than 12,000 people was stationed in Jinzhou City, and together with Zu Dale, Jin Guofeng, Cao Wenyao and other generals, the Jinzhou City was operated inside and out.

The same is true of Lin Maochun, the commander of the left road of Liaodong, together with Chen Renxi, the imperial history of the Liaodong Town Supervisor who sat in Yizhou, not only managed Yizhou City as solid as a rock, but also rebuilt the Yingzhou Wei Ancient City when the Ming Dynasty once operated Saibei, that is, the three towers at this time (Liaoning Chaoyang in later generations).

Relying on the three Tayingzhou cities after the rebuilding of the old city, Chen Renxi, the imperial historian of the supervising army, handed over to Zuo Guangxian, a fierce general on the left side of Liaozhen, to guard it, and on the one hand, he distributed a large area of mountains, forests and fields to the soldiers on the left side of Liaozhen, and on the other hand, he recruited people from Guannai to reclaim and receive the military households and displaced people who were relocated from the guards in Gyeonggi from the imperial court.

Under the guidance of the Italian missionary Wei Kuangguo, Jin Guan, the commander of the right side of Liao Town, who commanded the sailors and defenders of Juehua Island, also brought his subordinates to recruit a large number of Liao people, and under the guidance of the Italian missionary Wei Kuangguo, he built a masonry city on Juehua Island, and built a fortress around the city.

In less than two years, Jin Guan, Wei Kuangguo and others spent millions of dollars to build the entire small Juehua Island into a sea fortress with two ports, east and west, cement concrete with blue bricks and stones, four huge fortresses outside, and six huge warehouses inside.

In addition, on Juehua Island, a Zhenhai city built around the sea on the mountain, its walls and fortresses are equipped with forty heavy Hongyi cannons, which can cover the sea from the coast outside Ningyuan City to Juehua Island.

As happened with the three towers and Juehua Island, several castles between Jinzhou and Ningyuan have been vigorously renovated.

Liaodong Town's Chief Military Officer of the Five Roads Soldiers and Horses are all under the command of Mangui, and under the full support of Lu Shanji, with a large number of troops and people, from south to north, Tashan City, Xingshan City and Songshan City have all been rebuilt, not only the city wall has been strengthened and heightened, but also without exception all the fortresses and urn cities have been added outside the city.

Today's Ningjin defense line, although it did not advance all the way to the north and east, compared with the original history, although the depth has not increased, it itself is more solid and complete.

Emperor Chongzhen successively confiscated a large number of eunuchs, salt merchants in the east and east of Changlu, and confiscated a large number of noble properties in the Fu Wangfu, Dewang Mansion and Liangjing, but still did not stop collecting Liao salaries, because of the increase in the castle on the Ningjin defense line, it has not stopped.

In this life, after Emperor Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, he relied on the income from repeatedly stealing his family to fill the huge gap in military spending, so he has not taken historical measures, that is, to increase Liao's salary.

However, the Ming Dynasty began to collect this salary from the whole country in the 46th year of Wanli, and Emperor Chongzhen did not issue an order to stop the collection.

Later generations said that the levy of Liao salary was the last straw that dragged down the Ming Dynasty.

This statement can be said to be true or not.

Because the issue of Liao salary is very complicated, such a generalization will not work to kill with a stick.

Speaking of which, the financial situation of the Ming Dynasty during the Wanli period was considered good after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, although many of Zhang Juzheng's reform measures were abolished, but the results of his Qing Dynasty Tianmu were still retained, and the regular annual income of the imperial court at that time was about four million per year.

However, in the last years of Wanli, the military situation in the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty began to deteriorate, and the military expenditure of the nine sides alone needed to pay 3.8 million taels every year.

After the defeat of Salhu, the Ming court began to invest heavy troops in Liaodong Town for defense, and the military expenses also increased gradually, and the military salaries originally paid to the towns on the nine sides were as high as 3.8 million, and the sudden extra cost of defending Liao and Pingliao became a huge hole.

Therefore, the Wanli Emperor accepted the advice of the courtiers and planned to levy Liaoyu, which was only levied in the wealthy areas of Jiangnan at first.

Later, in the year of the Apocalypse, the war in Liaodong continued, and the situation became more and more severe, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse gradually extended the salary to all provinces in the country.

According to the situation of Zhang Juzheng in the Wanli period, he was assigned to the political envoys of the provinces, and an additional nine cents of silver were levied per mu as the military salary of the imperial court to pacify Liaodong.

According to this standard, when the most Liao salary was collected, it was only a little more than 5.5 million taels of silver, of which the military silver paid to Liaodong alone exceeded 4 million taels a year, including military salaries, as well as expenditures for repairing cities and renovating armaments.

Originally, in history, after Emperor Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, if he continued to implement it according to this standard, there should not be too much crisis or chaos.

However, the problem lies precisely in the fact that after the historical Chongzhen Emperor succeeded to the throne, Wei Zhongxian and his eunuchs were killed, arrested, and dismissed.

At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen could not find any other way to quickly increase the financial revenue of the imperial court, so he had to increase the salary from nine cents per mu to one and a half cents per mu on the basis of the original Liaoyu.

It didn't take long for the imperial court to make ends meet, and the silver was not enough, so Emperor Chongzhen, at the suggestion of his ministers, added a salary in addition to the Liao salary, which was specially used to make up for the expenses of suppressing bandits.

As a result, not long after, the salary was not enough, and Emperor Chongzhen, at the suggestion of a group of ministers, added a training salary, which was specially used to train soldiers in various towns.

Next, needless to say, soon the world was in chaos, and the Ming Dynasty fell into a vicious circle.

Therefore, after investigation, the last straw that crushed the camel in the original history was not the Liao salary that had been levied during the Apocalypse, but the later Chongzhen Dynasty's additional distribution of Liao salary and the new levy of salary and training salary.

It is precisely because of this that the current Emperor Chongzhen knows the responsibility of the Liao suppression and training of the three salaries in history for the fall of the Ming Dynasty, so no matter how difficult the imperial court's finances are, he will no longer start to make money from the aspects of increasing the Liao salary, or the new levy and training of the salary.

Including any comprehensive reform of the tax system, he will not easily touch until the prisoners and thieves are dealt with.

In this life, the reason why Emperor Chongzhen has set the rule of never giving more money since the beginning of his succession is that before the incident, he blocked the opening of the court minister's request for additional salaries, salaries, and salaries.

And it was also this that made him have to rely on unscrupulous raids again and again to obtain a large amount of silver after getting rid of Wei Zhongxian and his eunuch members, so as to fill the huge gap in the imperial court's tax revenue.