While all the security personnel were still immersed in the joy of recovering Lushun, Zhang Chu was busy again. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The first to start construction was the construction of the Golden Mountain Fort, Zhang Chu was ready to build a small fortress-style fort on the Golden Mountain, which could be used to protect itself and use the artillery above to support Lushun City, the combination of cement and mountain stones made the project progress very smoothly, and it was very strong, Zhang Chu specially went to inspect it, if it was smashed with solid shells, as long as it was not a giant artillery, the Golden Mountain Fort built with cement stones would not be damaged. With the support of the Golden Mountain Fort, if ships were arranged in the bay to assist in the defense, Arthur City would be very safe.

Zhang Chu was not very relieved about this, and strengthened and transformed the city wall of Lushun, and the entire Lushun city was repaired as solid as gold before he was relieved.

These days, Zhang Chu has spent more of his thoughts on the construction of the Jurchen puppet army that he created.

In order to survive, Adali confessed everything he knew about the Houjin people, Zhang Chu saw that his performance was good, and asked him to manage the captured Houjin captives, he did this very handy, the captives couldn't help but lament their fate, before being captured, Adali was a nobleman, and he was a soldier who was sent to death, after being captured, Adali became an official here in the Ming people, and he was in charge of himself, and the captives inevitably scolded Adali for his soft bones. The captives worked tirelessly every day, and they did not have enough to eat. I don't know what the security army will do with itself when this project is completed, and I am confused about my fate.

These days, the prisoners have a little understanding of the policy of the security forces, saying that they do not abuse the prisoners, and they have indeed done it, as long as everyone works honestly, they will have food to eat, and they will not starve to death, but if someone resists or violates the regulations, the punishment is also unceremonious, and there is never mercy in killing people. After this project is completed, it is difficult to say whether they will be killed en masse.

At this time, Adalee, who was scolded by them as a soft bone, pointed out a way out for them.

Adali was to organize a Jurchen peace army, the purpose of which was to resist the tyrannical rule of Huang Taiji and find permanent peace for the Jurchens under the leadership of the security army.

Many people were moved when Adali announced that he would recruit soldiers among the captives, but the first batch of Adali recruited only a few dozen people, all of whom knew both the Houjin language and the Chinese language. However, Adali said that as long as everyone works hard, they will come to recruit in the future.

In terms of cold weapon warfare, Zhang Chu had to admit the strength of the Houjin people, who had lived on horseback since childhood, and participated in wars between tribes or with the Ming Mongols since childhood, and were almost perfect killing machines using cold weapons. Zhang Chu decided to use his strengths, and in the future, all the Jurchen Ping An troops would mainly use cold weapons.

Zhang Chu didn't have time to educate and train the Jurchen Peace Army, so he had to use the dozens of Jurchens recruited to fill the façade first. They were joined by a large number of security guards. This was also to spy on the Jurchens so that they had no chance of rebelling.

The Jurchen Peace Army began to operate, and the target selected by Zhang Chu for them was the Jurchen tribes around Lushun. Adali led the team to gradually expand the scope of their activities with Lushun as the center. When a Jurchen tribe was discovered, they immediately attacked, and the Jurchens were either captured or expelled and fled far away.

The captured Jurchen envoys gathered in the vicinity of Lushun and began to work under the supervision of the security forces. Zhang Chu took the opportunity to put all the arable land around Lushun under the jurisdiction of the Ping An Army, and established several farms to manage these cultivated land. These post-gold people became cheap laborers on the farms who had no freedom.

After the Jurchens who escaped the net ran out, they passed the news to Huang Taiji in Shenyang several times.

Huang Taiji was already very angry at the loss of Lushun, and then heard that a Jurchen team under the banner of the Ming army was specially against Houjin, and the anger in his heart was nowhere to vent, and the brave Jurchens were captured by the Ming, and they also surrendered to the Ming army, and turned around to attack the Jurchens, which is simply a shame.

Huang Taiji was thunderous in Shenyang, but there was no good way. The Houjin people had just lost the battle in the Dongjiang River, which had wiped out nearly 10,000 living forces in Lushun, and Huang Taiji wanted to gather a strong team to recapture Lushun but was powerless.

Due to the limitation of population, the Later Jin had to mobilize the whole clan in every war against the Ming Dynasty, and this mobilization was based on the promise to share the fruits of the war after the victory, but Lushun really had no interests that could make the tribes tempted now. Only Huang Taiji knew the importance of Lushun's strategic location, and it was not easy to explain the truth to the nobles of Houjin. Huang Taiji could only endure it for the time being, waiting for enough strength to recapture Lushun.

Gradually, the news of the Jurchen security army spread among the Houjin people. Most people were scolding these people for having no bones and losing the face of the Jurchens. However, there are also a small number of people who heard that the Jurchen security soldiers opposed the policy of Huang Taiji and the Ming Dynasty, and wanted the Jurchens to rejoin the Ming Dynasty's control, and felt that this also made some sense, the Jurchens were still too small for the Ming Dynasty, and only by returning to the Ming Dynasty would they not be retaliated by the Ming Dynasty, which would lead to the destruction of the whole clan.

Zhang Chu recaptured Lushun and felt that he had to get some compensation for his efforts, so he remembered Xie Lian, who had made a big deal before the war and said that there would definitely be a reward, and specially brought Xie Lian to theorize. However, this did not make Zhang Chu exert much effort, Xie Lian waited for Zhang Chu to speak and firmly stood on Zhang Chu's side. He thought that he should be rewarded for such a great merit as recovering Lushun, and the emperor was not stupid, so the reward given to the security army would definitely not run.

Xie Lian confidently wrote an excerpt to Emperor Chongzhen, he thought that the emperor would be sure that he would be happy when he saw the good news, allocate money to the security army, and promote Zhang Chu was a sure thing, so he bluntly said in the fold that he would ask for a reward for Zhang Chu of the security army.

When Emperor Chongzhen received Xie Lian's report, he was really happy and immediately summoned his ministers to announce this exciting good news.

The ministers were happy to see the emperor, of course, they congratulated him, and the entire court was peaceful, Emperor Chongzhen took advantage of everyone's happiness to mention Xie Lian's reward for the security army, but he didn't expect the ministers to immediately change their faces, and the main powerful figures were against giving the security army a reward, and even more against mentioning Zhang Chu's officials, the first assistant Wen Tiren keenly felt the direction of the wind in the court, and wisely chose to be silent about this matter.

Their reasons are very sufficient, they just gave Zhang Chu more than one million taels of silver a while ago, if they are unable to afford it to the national treasury, and it will also increase Zhang Chu's arrogance, this trend cannot be long. Zhang Chu was born as a thief and has now become the chief soldier of a town, such an official position is big enough, and there is no need to promote him.

In fact, the ministers didn't say anything to the emperor, Zhang Chu is too bad at being a man. The millions of taels of silver allocated by the emperor in the previous days were not distributed to the ministers. Seeing so much silver entering Zhang Chu's pocket, Zhang Chu didn't have any blood at all, and this time he asked the emperor for a reward, I really don't know who has the final say in this court.

Emperor Chongzhen saw the attitude of the courtiers and knew that it would definitely not be possible to reward the security army. I can't help but worry in my heart, this Zhang Chu has to see money every time to do things, and he can't get money for doing things this time, is he still willing to contribute to the court? (To be continued.) )