Chapter 401: The Liu Brothers
Soon after Jiang Yueguang and his entourage entered the mouth of the Dadong River, they docked at a riverside wharf on the side of Hwanghaedo in North Korea. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
There was not a single person on the dilapidated and shabby riverbank dock.
I don't know if there was no one in the first place, or if those North Koreans fled after seeing Daming's fleet, in short, when Yin Xuan got off the ship, the dock was empty.
Yin Xuan got off the boat, and then took some of his cronies and entourage and headed towards Huangzhou City, which was located in the northern part of Huanghai Province and not far from the Datong River.
The so-called Hwanghae-do in North Korea is named after the two cities of Hwangju and Haeju.
The same is true of Hamgyong Province and Pyongan Road, which are now classified as Daming.
The name of Hamgyong Province comes from the joint name of the two cities of Hamgyong and Gyeongseong.
Pyongan Province is the combined name of the two cities of Pyongyang and Anju.
There are prefectures and counties under the province, which is basically a province with two or three prefectures, and then six or seven small county towns.
Yin Xuan, who has now lost his pastoral land, needs to return to Hanjing first to report the situation to his brother Yin Fang, the head of the Korean Consulate, and at the same time, he must first communicate with his comrades above the small Korean court in advance to try to sign this treaty smoothly.
If he can't do this, then Yin Xuan himself, including Jin Shangrong and Li Tinggui, and even Yin Fang, the elder brother who wrapped Yin Xuan, may fall because of this, or even die without a place to be buried.
This is not only understood by Jin Shangrong and Li Tinggui in their hearts, but even Jiang Yueguang can understand their worries.
After all, the Korean lord sent Jin Shangrong and others to the capital of the Ming Dynasty to meet the Ming Emperor, not to cede the lands of Xianjing Road and Ping'an Road, but to get these lands back from Dongjiang Town through the hands of Emperor Ming.
However, these people did not achieve such results, and returned with a treaty ceding the lands of the two realms.
Such a situation is a typical situation of losing his wife and losing his troops, if the Korean lord Li Liang refuses to accept it, for the Ming side, it will be a little more trouble at most, but for Jin Shangrong, the envoys who sent the Ming Dynasty, it is a big disaster.
Because although the small court of North Korea is small, it is also divided into two major factions at this time, one faction is the pro-Ming faction, and the other faction is the surrender faction.
The power of the pro-Ming faction is greater than that of the surrender faction, but it cannot completely suppress the voice of the surrender faction, after all, when Huang Taiji led the army to the east to conquer Korea in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the pro-Ming faction was the main battle faction, and the surrender faction was the main peace faction.
The result of the main battle was very clear, in front of Jianlu's Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, North Korea was vulnerable, and several key ministers of the main battle faction at that time were sacrificed by the Lord and sent by Jianyu to be executed.
After that, the lord and faction gained the upper hand, so Korea surrendered to Houjin, signed the Treaty of Ganghwa Island with Houjin, and changed to Houjin as a minister.
As soon as the Houjin army retreated, the Korean lord Li Liang, who was forced to sign the Ganghwa Island Treaty, with the support of the main battle faction, took down several captives who were willing to be the Houjin army to lead the party, and finally chose Yin Fang, the leader of the wall-riding faction who had always supported him and was inclined to the Ming Dynasty, to lead the government, which temporarily stabilized the small court of Korea.
However, the fierce struggle between the pro-Ming faction and the captive faction that emerged in Korea during the Jin State's conquest of Korea in the seventh year of the Apocalypse has never stopped.
Yin Xuan went ashore on the Huanghai Road, took some of his henchmen and attendants, and hurried to Huangzhou City.
At the same time, Jiang Yueguang and his entourage continued to swim upriver along the Datong River, but they didn't go far before they encountered the fleet of ships coming to meet them from the General Military Office on the right side of Dongjiang Town.
The general who led this inland river fleet was none other than Liu Xingxian, the younger brother of Pyongyang's Bo Liu Xingzuo.
Liu Xingzuo's Fuzhou army returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway, all cut off the ugly money rat tail, at the beginning were bald "monk soldiers", now half a year has passed, although the hair has grown, but it is still different from the normal Ming official army, with the Ming army's unified dome and wide-eaves iron helmet, no different from other border towns and Ming troops, but take off the helmet, revealing the short hair on the head, but it still gives people a different look.
It was these right-hand soldiers in Dongjiang Town, who were previously bald and now had short hair, that not only made the Koreans on both sides of the Dadong River bitterly hate, but also made them fearful.
In the process of the post-war reorganization of Dongjiang Town, Liu Xingzuo served as the commander-in-chief of the right road of Dongjiang Town as the uncle of Pyongyang, and several of his younger brothers also served as generals at all levels in the general army office of the right road of Dongjiang Town.
Among them, Liu Xingzhi was appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief of the right road of Dongjiang Town, but just two or three months ago, Liu Xingzhi was recruited and transferred to Beijing by Emperor Chongzhen's order, and served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the 3,000 battalions in the Beijing camp, and he was replaced by no one else, it was Liu Xingzuo and Liu Xingzhi's younger brother Liu Xingxian.
After the Liu Xingzuo brothers returned to the Ming Dynasty in September of the first year of Chongzhen, they have now become one of the biggest winners after that war, and if you don't count the Fuzhou troops lost in the war, the Liu brothers can even be said to be the most profitable force on the Korean Peninsula after that war.
After the war, Emperor Chongzhen deliberately showed great importance and kindness to the Liu brothers, which made them feel at ease, and they and their Fuzhou soldiers were also very satisfied with the arrangement of the Liu brothers and their subordinates in Pyongyang City and the surrounding areas.
Compared with the other four roads after the reorganization of Dongjiang Town, the right road is not only far away from the construction of Liaodong and relatively safer, but the land on both sides of the Datong River is also more fertile and easy to cultivate than the defense areas of the other four roads.
Because this area was previously an early developed area in North Korea, most of them are plains and familiar land, and you don't need to sit back and enjoy the success of it, as long as you kill or drive away all the North Koreans who are already small in this land.
And Liu Xingzuo and Liu Xingzhi's subordinates, as early as when they followed Jianyu to fight North Korea, they had already killed a lot of sticks, and they knew the truth of the sticks, and they were even more unscrupulous and unscrupulous at this time.
Before, in the process of conquering Korea, the Fuzhou army, which followed the Jianyu army to take the lead, burned and looted most of the things that were burned and looted to be handed over to Jianlu, and there was not much loot at all, and at this time, it was different, whether it was the land encircled or the money and grain that was robbed, it was all their own family wealth and their own private property.
Everywhere they passed, all the men, women, and children who dared to resist were killed, and only the young women could stay, and the land, houses, grain, and livestock were all their own.
In just half a year, not only the land along the west side of the Datong River, which was originally planned, was all in the hands of the Liu brothers and their close generals, but a large amount of land and manors that originally belonged to the old Korean nobles became their private property, and many fertile lands east of the Datong Jiangnan River also became the military and civilian areas of the General Military Office on the right side of the Dongjiang River.
The city on this line naturally became the territory of the Liu brothers and their cronies, and the original Korean administrative divisions outside the city were all abolished, and all the Koreans on the land either fled, were killed, or became the domestic slaves of the soldiers of the Right Route Army in Dongjiang Town, and then were incorporated into the ruling system of the 36 Baojun Tun and the 64 Bao Mintun in the entire Dongjiang Town.
Among the 36 forts in Dongjiang Town, the Liu brothers' Dongjiang Town Right Road General Military Mansion occupies six of them, and among the 64 Forts, the Liu brothers' Dongjiang Town Right Road General Military Mansion occupies 14 forts.
The six forts of Juntun means that there are 6,000 soldiers under the command of the Liu brothers, and behind them are 6,000 military families, and the fourteen forts of Mintun means that there are 14,000 Han refugees in Liaodong under the rule of the Liu brothers, and if calculated according to the average of five people per household, then there are about 70,000 people.
Not only that, there was one Ding Zhuang per household, and in addition to the 6,000 regular soldiers under the command of the Liu brothers, they quickly had 14,000 township soldiers on the right road of Dongjiang Town who were equipped with the weapons of the Fuzhou Army that had been eliminated.
The reason why the Liu brothers ruled that the average number of households was much higher than that of the other four roads was that the land they occupied was not only easy to cultivate, but also far from the hinterland of Jianyu on the west side of the Yalu River, so it was safer and more attractive to the Han people of Liaodong to settle here.
On the whole, compared to the Liu brothers' Fuzhou on the Liaodong Peninsula, when they followed Jianyu to confront the Ming Dongjiang and Denglai, the situation is naturally much better now.
Although the land and property of the soldiers under their command in Fuzhou have now been lost, they have gained more from the weak and bullying Koreans, whether it is the officers and soldiers of the Right Route Army in Dongjiang Town, they have all become landlords of different sizes, and the Han people of Liaodong, who have been mixed with the Liu brothers for many years, have finally waited for the day when they can live and work in peace and contentment.