The three-year drought in Chongzhen was not specially arranged by God for the land in the Ming Dynasty, and the Houjin country in Liaodong was also facing the threat of drought.

Due to the snowmelt in spring, the drought in Liaodong was slightly better, but from spring to summer, a rain was not small, and the impact on the Houjin Kingdom should not be underestimated.

Because the farming date in the Tohoku is different from that in Kannai, where the seeds are planted in May and harvested in October, the snow and ice in the first winter are large, and if there is no light rain and snow until May in the next year, the drought will still be a problem.

After the Jianyu army withdrew to the hinterland of Liaoshen, the slave chieftain Huang Taiji was busy straightening out internal relations and reshaping his authority on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also had to solve the problem of food and clothing for the Jurchen Eight Banners.

The Jurchens of this era were a half-farming, half-fishing and hunting people, and compared to their northern relatives, namely the savage Jurchen tribe and the Beishan Jurchen tribe, because they learned to cultivate from the Han people, they appeared a little more civilized, and at the same time a little richer and more powerful than their poor relatives in the north.

But compared to the Ming Dynasty, they are not a little worse than they are farming.

Even compared with North Korea, which was closely adjacent to them, the Jurchens' agricultural work was also much inferior.

If it weren't for the coat Aha captured in the previous wars, then their agriculture would probably still be at the level of slash-and-burn farming.

These Baoyi Aha were mainly composed of Liaodong Han and Koreans, and after being captured by the Eight Banners, they quickly became serfs of the Bannermen, cultivating land and providing food for the Bannermen.

This grain became the military rations of the Eight Banners, so that they could go out to fight and continue to capture more Han Chinese, Koreans, and Mongols to be their slaves and cultivate or raise horses for them.

However, the food produced by these Eight Banners Baoyi Aha is far from meeting the needs of the Eight Banners nobles since Nuer Hachi, and it is just a supplement to them that is better than nothing.

Since the rise of Nuer Hachi, there are of course many reasons why the Jin State has been able to develop and grow rapidly after the establishment of the captivity.

But their financial problems, that is, the money and food problems of the Jurchen Eight Banners, were almost all maintained by robbery after robbery.

First robbed the Jurchen tribes in Liaodong, and then just after it grew stronger, it began to rob the Han people in Liaodong, the Mongol tribes, the Koreans, the Jurchens and other tribes in the north, robbed all the way, and finally made a detour through Mongolia, and repeatedly entered the territory of the Ming Dynasty, robbing the population, grain and grass, and livestock.

The Jurchens relied on robbery, and finally developed and grew, and by chance they actually entered the Central Plains, which is really not long-sighted.

This time, Huang Taiji's abacus crackled, and he thought about leading the army west to conquer Monan, and then go south to the Ming Dynasty, whether he could conquer the Ming Dynasty first, it was the worst result, and he also thought that he should be able to snatch back a large amount of gold and silver wealth, a large number of coated Aha, and a large number of grain, grass and livestock.

But he didn't expect that this worst result was far beyond his imagination, not only did he not grab anything, but he also broke his old book, and he almost couldn't even get himself back.

The originally expected wealth, food, population, and livestock were gone, and the problem of the Houjin Kingdom came immediately.

Because people have to eat and dress, and the same is true for the Jurchens.

These Jurchens, who were accustomed to making a fortune by robbery, once they could not rob what they needed, their survival plight was immediately highlighted.

Some of the bannermen who were born in Jianzhou Jurchen are relatively civilized, understand their savings, and follow the old slaves to fight early, catch up with the good times, and grab a lot of things, which can cope with unexpected needs.

And those newly filled Jurchen Eight Banners from the Jurchen tribes in the north, that is, the Dingkou captured by the Jurchen Eight Banners from the northern savage Jurchen tribe and the Beishan Jurchen tribe, suddenly fell into a predicament.

In August, some people in armor began to kill their own clothed aha in order to save food and clothing.

Some began to kill and eat their livestock in order to have something to eat.

In particular, those defeated troops who followed Huang Taiji retreated all the way to Zalut and other Eastern Mongolian banners in the north of the Houjin Kingdom, and they were even more destitute.

Not only did they lose their flocks and many tribesmen along the way, but they also received no reward other than the pastureland they had settled.

The upper reaches of the Songhua River have good arable land, but these Mongols are new to the country, and they are nomads on horseback and do not know how to farm.

The upper reaches of the Songhua River are also good fishing and hunting places, but these newcomers to the Mongolian Four Banners are not qualified to compete with the semi-Jurchen Mongols who have settled here for fishing and hunting territory.

Besides, they are all nomads on horseback, and they will not go to the mountains and forests to hunt for a while, let alone learn to go to the rivers to fish.

After following Huang Taiji back to the Houjin Kingdom, the Mongols of the Four Banners who had been brought back and settled in the upper reaches of the Songhua River and west of the Changbai Mountains in the north of the Later Jin Dynasty did not take long for some people to flee north, and then fled back to the Mongolian steppe.

The few who fled were the minority, and those who remained were still the majority, but the majority who remained, after a few months, quickly ate up the few cattle and sheep that were already scarce.

By August, had to start killing the horses before.

The Mongols have a special affection for horses, and they will not kill them until they have to.

All these situations have also been reflected to Huang Taiji one after another.

Therefore, in mid-to-late August, Huang Taiji accepted the advice of Dai Shan, Yue Tuo and other banner owners, and led the household department of the Later Jin State and one of his cronies to divide a large number of plains and wastelands in the Later Jin Kingdom into flag fields, and at the same time encouraged the bannermen of the Eight Banners, the armor people, and their clothed Aha to go to the banner fields in various places to open up wasteland and cultivate land.

After some intrigue and planning, the areas where the banners were cultivated were assigned:

The area of Tieling and Kaiyuan was assigned to the red flag as the flag field;

The area of Guangning and Dalinghe City was assigned to the Zhenglan Banner as the flag field;

Liaoyang and Haizhou were assigned to Zhengbai Banner as Banner Field;

The area of Gaizhou and Xiongyue was assigned to the inlaid white flag as the flag field;

The area of Fushun, Qinghe, and Dong'e (Tonghua) was assigned to Zhenghongqi as a flag field;

The area of Zhenjiang, Kuandian, and Olehui (Huanren) west of the Yalu River was assigned to the blue flag as the flag field;

The old city of Shenyang, Hetuara and its surrounding areas were assigned to the Zhenghuang Banner and the Yellow Banner as the flag field.

After some adjustments, the Eight Banners Yamen, which were concentrated in Shenyang City in the past, were also ordered to go to the stations of each banner to manage flag affairs this time.

Only the yamen of the two yellow flags followed Huang Taiji and remained in Shenyang City.

After Huang Taiji established the Six Beile and Six Ministries of the Later Jin State, the status of the Eight Banners Yamen, which was originally in charge of the affairs of each banner, began to decline.

At this time, after being ordered to move out of Shenyang City, the Eight Banners Yamen was even more squeezed out of the central institution of the Houjin State in one fell swoop.

Huang Taiji accepted the advice of his advisors, and after such an arrangement, the nobles of the Jurchen Eight Banners, who had mainly gathered inside and outside Shenyang City, also began to mobilize, and ordered their bannermen and armor-clad people to take their respective banners and aha, and began to go to the designated areas to encircle their respective banner fields, and prepare to open up the wasteland and cultivate.

As for whether the Eight Banners of the Houjin State, who were originally mainly fishing and hunting and did not produce, could produce enough edible grain and grass through land reclamation and farming, Huang Taiji himself did not have a bottom in his heart.

It's just that this time from the Ming Dynasty withdrew all the way back from Mongolia, the loss was too great, just to learn from the past, continue to loot grain and grass resources in the surrounding areas of the Houjin Kingdom, and now the strength is also inferior, if he does not slow down this breath, he will not be able to send troops to the north or east.

As for the Mongolian direction and the Ningjin direction in the western Liaoning corridor, after this failure, Huang Taiji did not dare to think about it.

Although Huang Taiji does not trust Mang Gurtai, he still trusts Mang Gurtai's half-brother and his half-brother Beledeg.

It's just that he still trusts the information that Derge and others brought back from the Daling River.

Now the fortress group in the western Liaoning corridor, from Yizhou City to Jinzhou City, and then to Songshan, Xingshan, and Tashan City behind Jinzhou City, is not something that he can overcome with his current manpower and material resources.

In this way, after Huang Taiji led the army back to the Houjin Kingdom, he was anxious about a large number of internal affairs that needed to be dealt with urgently in the Houjin Kingdom, and for a while, he had no time to take care of the various actions carried out by the Ming Dynasty around the Houjin Kingdom, especially in the direction of Lushun, Dongjiang, and Tumen.