At present, Zhao Yan has put all 5 infantry brigades and 4 cavalry brigades of the 1st Division into the operation against Mongolia, 7 infantry brigades and 2 cavalry brigades of the 2nd Division, 01 Infantry Brigade and 01 and 02 Cavalry Brigades are in Nuergandusi, 02 Infantry Brigade is stationed in Liaodong and North Korea, and 03 and 04 Infantry Brigades are transferred to Shaanxi.

The 01 and 02 mountain regiments are currently in Yueben, and the 03, 04, and 05 mountain regiments are being transferred to the three southwestern provinces. 77,000 armed police officers in 14 provinces.

Han Sheng's Nanyang Infantry Brigade has already gone to Nanyang, and Xue Qing's American Infantry Brigade is still in Shandong, ready to go to the Americas or Nanyang at any time.

The number of troops that can be mobilized in Shandong is about 20,000. In terms of war potential, after the continuous expansion of the army, if there is a full mobilization, it can still pull up about 300,000 people.

Shandong's military resources are only about 300,000, and the population of the entire Shandong has reached about 10 million, and if the 300,000 people are recruited, 1/10 of the entire population of Shandong will join the army.

At present, there are only 300,000 troops left in Shandong, but these 300,000 people obviously can't move, because the quality of these 300,000 soldiers is not high, and all the good ones are picked out.

Later conscripts had to come from other provinces.

The population of Liaodong is currently about 2.8 million, and after continuous migration at the beginning of the year, 100,000 households have moved to Liaodong.

North Korea has migrated faster, with the Han Chinese population in North Korea growing to 560,000 and North Koreans remaining about 600,000.

There are still more Koreans than Han Chinese, but most of them live in the mountains, and Zhao Yan didn't pay much attention to these Koreans, now that North Korea has been destroyed, immigration must be stepped up, and the number of Han people must at least suppress the number of North Koreans.

At present, people from other provinces are constantly entering Shandong, among which there are more immigrants from the northwest, Sichuan, and south.

Zhao Yan is not only there for disaster relief, but also constantly recruiting people to immigrate, Sichuan's population is more, not to mention more than 20 million, but most of the land is concentrated in the hands of the vassal king, plus the governor of Sichuan is cooperating, it is also an area with more sources of immigrant population.

The people in the south are the largest, and the south is often plagued by disasters, and as the solar term gradually enters summer, floods in the south begin to become frequent.

In addition, Zhao Yan has nearly monopolized the entire commodity cotton market in the Ming Dynasty, and it is an impact on the self-sufficient cotton market, and a large number of bankrupt textile workers in the south have come to Shandong, and many people in the south have heard that Shandong's policy is very good, and they have also come to Shandong.

Now Zhao Yan has made a name for himself among the people of Daming and has become a golden signboard. In many cases, there is no need to publicize it, and many people have already gone to Shandong.

At the current rate, this year's resettlement target of 250,000 households in Liaodong, 150,000 in North Korea, and 20,000 in Northeast Island by the end of the year can be completed ahead of schedule.

However, the 250,000 households that migrated to Liaodong and the 150,000 households who emigrated to North Korea were only agricultural population, and the industrial population was also in great demand.

Workers are needed in the mining industry in North Korea and Liaodong, as well as in shipbuilding.

Workers are not given land, but they are obviously not badly paid.

First of all, living in the city often faces more opportunities than the agricultural population, and education and medical care do not cost money, and the salary is enough for the working family to live a good life.

Due to the shortage of troops, Zhao Yan immediately ordered the armed police forces to be sent to various provinces to extensively mobilize the people to come to Shandong for employment, and asked people to increase propaganda in the "Daming Yuebao".

If you come to Shandong to work, the salary may not be higher than in other places, but there is no tax in Shandong. Shandong does not collect taxes at all from workers, medical care and children's education are free, and the three eastern provinces of Shandong have a high grain and meat production and a much better quality of life than other provinces, among which Denglai is the most developed area.

Zhao Yan immediately set a new immigration target, and the population of Shandong does not need to grow to 12 million this year, but Liaodong must grow to 5 million. There is no need to move the population out of Shanxi, and Shanxi is now under the jurisdiction of Zhao Yan, and the task given by Zhao Yan to Shanxi officials is to transplant the Shandong system within this year, and to spread the free education system to the entire territory of Shanxi within next year.

It's not clear how many people there are in Shanxi, but there are three or four million.

Shandong's population growth of 2 million is all industrial. Now that the steam engine has come out, the industrial age is coming. Among the population indicators of Liaodong, there are also many industrial populations.

After Zhao Yan issued these indicators, he went to the women's school in Zhaojiabao to play.

Recently, there has been a lot of beauty in the girls' school.

As the principal, Yuan'er has become more and more radiant after marriage, and Salena is more stable in her innocence, although she is not fluent in Chinese, but there is no problem in communication.

Yan Yuyao, who is only eighteen years old, since coming to Zhaojiabao, Yan Yuyao often follows Yuan'er out for horseback riding and outing, and there are more outdoor sports, and a surging youth naturally radiates from the inside out.

Her breasts are much bigger than when Zhao Yan first saw her, and she is really getting better and better.

Now Yan Yuyao is Zhao Yan's royal secretary, and everyone can see that Yan Yuyao has become Zhao Yan's ban, and Yan Jizu's status in Shandong has risen in vain.

The last time Yan Jizu returned to Shandong, the civil and military backbones under Zhao Yan had changed a lot towards Yan Jizu, and no one paid attention to him in Shandong before, just a governor who had been stripped of power, and a group of people under Zhao Yan didn't feel anything about Yan Jizu.

But since Yan Yuyao became Zhao Yan's secretary and began to assist Zhao Yan in handling official business, even fools can figure out what will happen in the future. What's more, in such a big place as Zhaojiabao, Zhang's love for Yan Yuyao has also spread.

It's just that what many people didn't expect was that the position of the main wife still let Yuan'er sit up, but even if Yan Yuyao was a flat wife, she was extremely noble.

Although Yan Jizu was pretending to be confused, he didn't care about his daughter's behavior of staying with Zhao Yan, and it was not a shame anyway.

It's too late for others to envy, how many people want to send their daughter to Zhaojiabao have no way, but Yan Jizu succeeded, although Yan Jizu didn't deliberately do anything.

The reason why Yan Yuyao became Zhao Yan's secretary was that she originally came to Dongsanfu to play, after all, the new atmosphere of Denglai was something that could not be seen in other places in the Ming Dynasty.

When I came to Zhaojiabao to play, I found the women's school, and I was very interested for a while, and I got to know Yuan'er after going back and forth.

After that, Yan Yuyao often went to the girls' school to teach the girls inside to draw, Yan Yuyao not only has a solid foundation in writing, has a relatively high level in ink painting, but also can play the guzheng, and then became a teacher in the girls' school.

Since Zhao Yan became the family, there have always been no rules at home, sometimes Zhang's fasting and chanting Buddha, Zhao Yan is not at home. Yuan'er also took Yan Yuyao home to eat a few times, but was seen by Zhang's family, I heard that she was the daughter of the governor, and saw that Yan Yuyao had everyone's beautiful bearing and appearance, and couldn't help but like it very much.

Others gave their daughters or something, and they couldn't think of any good way to do it. Since Yan Yuyao's success, many of the gentry and wealthy businessmen who think of their daughters as good have also sent their daughters to the girls' school.

Now the women's school has been renamed the women's college, and the area has expanded to about 200 acres, which can be described as very spacious, and the number of students has increased to more than 1,000.

The female students are also of different ages, the oldest is about twenty, and the youngest is still seven or eight years old Lori. There are not a lot of teachers, but they are only officially prescribed teachers, that is, there are not many teachers who teach new learning, but there are many teachers in traditional education.

So many young ladies have entered the academy, and the cultural level of those young ladies is generally good, and they are proficient in many piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.

In fact, education does not simply refer to the acquisition of knowledge. There is such a thing as knowledge, and it is enough to use it.

The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates believed that the purpose of education is to do good. People pursue knowledge, virtue, and justice in no way to acquire a kind of "knowledge", but to achieve self-understanding, that is, to achieve the awareness of their own existence. When a person can think correctly and accurately about these things, he can do the right thing, do good things, and act rationally, so he becomes a good person and a just person.

To understand it from the word "education" is to teach people to grow correctly.

The thousands of students in later generations have been crammed education since kindergarten, wasting more than ten years of youth, not to mention being bitter and tired, and being cultivated into a group of high-scoring and low-energy existences, which is really sad.

In terms of women's education, Zhao Yan currently requires these students to learn more advanced knowledge, as long as they read the new school, the most important thing is to cultivate their minds and strengthen their quality.

And this women's college is used by Zhao Yan to cultivate feminist thoughts.

At present, there is a very stubborn patriarchal phenomenon in the Ming Dynasty, although it is said that some groups have been out of this category, but to a large extent, the whole society is this kind of atmosphere.

In this society, men and women are evenly divided, and there are slightly fewer female surnames. In a society where there is no freedom for female surnames, the creativity and labor force of female surnames will be more or less restricted.

For example, in the Middle East, women do not have any power and freedom, and many men believe that women should stay at home and let men go out and do things.

The situation in Daming will be much better, if it is not the middle and upper classes, the women of the lower classes have to go out to do things, but not everything can be done, only doing farm work, housework, the creation of female surnames and potential have not been fully developed.

A heroine like Qin Liangyu can be described as a rare occurrence in thousands of years.

Equality between men and women is necessary, and Zhao Yan now uses the women's college as a base for cultivating feminist ideas.

Zhao Yan often went to women's colleges to promote feminist ideas, but the equality between men and women he preached was not the same model as later generations.

Equality between men and women is not on par with men, after all, women's surnames are different from men's surnames, and it is still necessary to retain some women's behavior styles, such as self-love, self-cultivation, and so on.

The women of later generations, some of them are rude, many of them have no connotation, and they are generally unprincipled, or vicious and snobbish, and many women with a little appearance think about sugar daddy all day long, and they are not self-reliant at all. Many even went to eat youth rice, those men with the same level of origin, why can they live if they don't eat youth rice? Of course, so many people will go to eat the rice of youth, which has something to do with the money-first society in later generations.

Zhao Yan's current approach to women's education is to educate them to develop in all good directions, advocating self-cultivation and quality, self-improvement and chastity.

Since many young ladies came to the academy, the feminist ideas proposed by Zhao Yan have developed rapidly in the academy.

Of course, the academy is also full of beauty.

Zhao Yan walked into the classroom, there were dozens of daughters sitting below, and went directly to the podium, Zhao Yan raised his voice and said: "Today, the theme of my speech is 'women should be self-improvement', and Tianxingjian gentlemen should be self-improvement......"

Zhao Yan's speech was very exciting, and the students below listened to his speech very carefully, and many of them were taking notes while listening.

Zhao Yan brought feminist ideas that did not exist in this era, and Zhao Yan's speeches always flashed many sparks that made them feel dazzling, leaving a deep imprint in their hearts. A restless thought began to sprout in their minds.

…… In mid-March, the four cavalry brigades of the 1st Division received an order to move from the army headquarters to directly break through to Mongolia from western Liaoning.

Mengdong, that is a place where wild grass grows tall and grows in summer, it is a place where mosquitoes swarm, at this time it is still spring, there are no mosquitoes, and the cavalry brigade that broke into Mengdong was not disturbed by the environment.

The Mongol tribes living in eastern Mongolia are the Khalkha and Horqin tribes, and these Mongol tribes belong to the ranks of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

And it was the first to take refuge in the Manchus, after all, it was the closest to the Manchus, and the western Han tribe was aggressive before, in order to fight against the Han Dynasty, these Mongolian tribes all took refuge in the Manchus.

The Manchus had the refuge of these Mongol tribes, and when they fought against the Ming, the Mongols often led the way, breaking into the pass from the western border area and plundering.

The Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty in the east was the place where Qi Jiguang repaired, and the Manchus generally couldn't rush into it, but it was much more convenient with these Mongols to lead the way.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, Chahar Lindan (i.e., the Great Khan of the Han Dynasty, Hudun Tuhan) went west to Tu Baite (Tubert, Tibetan Province), died violently on the grass beach, and the Han Department also took refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which appeared in the north of Shaanxi that year, and plundered there.

Five cavalry brigades, a total of 65,000 people, 9,000 cavalry in each brigade, and a cavalry artillery regiment composed of 4,000 people, with such strength, the five cavalry brigades were directly dispersed, each drawing a line on the map, dividing the north and south of Mongolia into five spaces, each cavalry brigade is responsible for the area where one space is located, and after solving the area they are responsible for, they will cooperate with other cavalry brigades.

At the same time, the scouts of the five cavalry brigades searched intensively up and down, forming a huge reconnaissance network.

After the expansion, there were a lot of new recruits in the cavalry brigade, but this was no longer important.

Cavalry brigades equipped with mounted artillery regiments are no longer collisions between people and people, but with weapons **.

The five cavalry brigades of the 1st Division were like a terrible whirlwind, raging through the Mengdong steppe. Three days after the 01 Cavalry Brigade entered Mengdong, it immediately encountered the Horqin Division.

On March 18, the 01 Cavalry Brigade scouts found a large number of livestock in the front, and after in-depth reconnaissance, discovered the nomadic location of the Korqin Division.

The Horqin Department also discovered the 01 Cavalry Brigade, and in order to protect the transfer of cattle and sheep, the Horqin Department summoned 3,000 warriors to stop the Ming army.

The Horqin tribe is currently very weak, and since it was tied to a chariot with the Manchus, it has been defeated all the way since the ninth year, and the losses of the young and strong people in the clan are very serious. Therefore, the Horqin tribe did not have any intention of fighting, and just wanted to delay the time so that the clansmen had enough time to transfer.

More than 3,000 Mongols rode horses, waving their weapons in loose formation, directly in front of the 01 Cavalry Brigade.

The Horqin Department dared to come up, relying on their riding and archery skills.

However, as soon as they approached, they were directly shelled by the cavalry artillery regiment, and the Mongols' horses were frightened.

Lin Yi directly ordered the charge, and the Mongols immediately ran away as soon as they saw the brigade rushing. Lin Yi was not in a hurry, and after seeing that the Mongols had run away, he bit the Mongols who were transferring.

Horses run fast, but cattle and sheep can't!

Without cattle and sheep, what do the Mongols eat? How many people can be fed by yellow sheep?

The Mongols of the Korqin tribe panicked when they saw that the Ming army did not chase them at all, but pounced on those people who were moving.

In the end, they decided to fight to the death, so they turned back, only to be shelled again, and the 75mm howitzers of the mounted artillery regiment were very nimble, easy to keep up with the troops, and even more rapid to fire.

As soon as the cavalry artillery regiment was powerful, Lin Yi divided 3,000 people to launch a charge against those Mongols, and the 3,000 cavalry were like a torrent of steel, directly colliding with the Horqin Division.

As soon as the two sides approached, muskets and bows and arrows were fired.

As a result, to the dismay of the Mongols, their bows and arrows were not very effective against the Ming army in plate armor, and their bows and arrows were not very powerful and could not penetrate plate armor at all.

However, the cavalry guns in the hands of the 01 Infantry Brigade were killed and wounded one by one, and the two sides fired a round, and immediately collided together, and the loose formation of the Horqin Division was directly divided into many small units, and was quickly cut down by the Shandong cavalry. In the blink of an eye, the Korqin tribe was killed or wounded by two percent of the warriors.

The casualties were so large that the Horqin Department could not support it, and seeing that the momentum was not right, they hurriedly turned to flee. However, they left their backs to the Shandong army.

The result was naturally very miserable, the war horses of the Shandong army were strictly screened, and the speed was much faster than that of ordinary Mongolian horses, and the result was naturally to be caught up, and then cut down with a knife.

However, the Mongols ran more scattered, and because of the desperate galloping of their horses, while the Shandong cavalry pursued unhurriedly behind, they quickly opened a certain distance.

The Mongols wanted to turn the tables with their cavalry, but the result was even more tragic, and the Shandong cavalry began to shoot at the Mongols with their cavalry.

The new cavalry gun is a flintlock pistol that is very lightweight, with an effective range of about 180 meters, while the Mongolian bow and arrow have a range of only seventy or eighty meters, and it has no lethality to the Shandong cavalry.

The Mongols were killed from afar, and if they wanted to turn around and play mounted shooting, they were even more desperate. After firing a shot, the Shandong cavalry immediately pursued at the normal speed of the horse, and then skillfully loaded the horse with bullets.

Those recruits are not very skilled, and some of them are messy, but they have time.

There is a place to put a musket on the left hand side of the Shandong cavalry, after inserting the musket, the muzzle is fixed upwards, and then bites through the paper bullet, and the gunpowder and bullets are loaded into the chamber, the new bullet is smaller than the muzzle, and it is easy to load it.

Load the bullet and bring the gun to your hand, and you can shoot again.

They pursued at normal horse speeds, the horses were well distributed, and the horses were better than those ridden by most Mongols.

The Mongols fled in a hurry, and the horsepower was consumed a lot, after all, long-distance running and sprinting are different.

The Shandong cavalry formed a team of three or two, biting towards their respective targets. When they reached a similar distance, they shot at them, and the Mongols could not outrun them, nor could they play them with a counter-fire.

Slowly consumed. Two or three people cooperated in the action, and the possibility of accidental miss was greatly reduced, which made the pursued Mongols hate one by one on the spot.

Lin Yi only sent 3,000 people to pursue, and the other 6,000 people directly caught up with the old and weak women and children of the Horqin Tribe, and soon surrounded them.

In the face of the Shandong cavalry that was eyeing the tiger, the group of old and weak women and children in the Horqin Department surrendered. When Lin Yi's adjutant asked how to deal with these people, Lin Yi replied: "Solve the problem in the way of their Mongols, this is the order of the military department." ”

"Yes."

The adjutant immediately led the people down, pulled a car over, and let the prisoners walk through the car one by one.

The men and boys who were taller than the wheels were directly pushed aside, and the sharp blades slashed through, and their heads were thrown away, and blood splattered three feet...... The women, and those who were taller than the wheels, survived.

According to Mongol custom, these women and children were already the property of the victorious side and could be disposed of and bought and sold at will.

The Mongols were ruled by nobles, they had no personal property, everything belonged to the tribal leaders, and the people of the Korqin tribe were very numb to the practices of the Ming army.

The survivors did not resist anymore, and were very obedient, just like the clan leaders they faced before.

When it came, the cavalry who went out to pursue also came back one after another, the casualties of the 01 Cavalry Brigade were very slight, only more than 100 people, but only eight people were killed.

The education committee of the cavalry brigade counted the booty overnight, and they snatched gold, silver, and jewelry, worth about more than 1 million taels, as well as more than 3,800 cattle, more than 50,000 sheep, and more than 10,000 horses from the Horqin troops.

Although the long-term trade allowed most of the gold and silver of the Mongols to flow back to the Ming Dynasty when they destroyed the Song Dynasty, they still grabbed a lot of things this year with the Manchu Qing Dynasty to plunder southward.

In terms of livestock, the proportion of horses seems to be relatively large, mainly because Zhao Yan buys horses everywhere, which leads to a very hot horse market at the border.

However, the Horqin tribe is a tribe of more than 20,000 people, far more than just a few livestock, and this is only a part of the people of the Horqin tribe.

Most of them were not caught.

The next day, Lin Yi divided five hundred people and asked those women to drive their livestock to Liaoxi, while he took most of them and continued to search for the Horqin tribe.

The scouts spread a wide net, scouting in all directions, and extending to the periphery.

It was easy to spot each other in the steppe, because the scouts were equipped with telescopes, which gave them far more advantage than the Mongols, and they could see the Mongols' movements from a long distance, and they were simply invincible in reconnaissance.

Soon, the scouts discovered other tribesmen of the Korqin tribe in the surrounding area......

(To be continued)