On April 11 of the ninth year of Chongzhen (1636), Emperor Taiji of the Later Jin State Khan was called the emperor, changed the Yuan to Chongde, and took the year as the first year of Chongde; changed the country name Jin to "Daqing"; changed the name of the clan to "Manchuria"; The capital is Shenyang. The honorable title "Emperor Kuanwen Rensheng." "The next time, Qing Taizong led a hundred officials to sacrifice to the Taimiao, and honored his father Nurhachi as "Chengtian Guangyun Shengde Shengong Zhaoji Li Jiren Xiaowu Emperor", the temple name Taizu; Grandfathers and ancestors were all honored as kings. Ten days later, Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty made his vassals vassal. His brothers, sons and nephews, all the foreign vassals of Mongolia Baylor, and the Ming Dynasty named Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi as kings. The enthronement ceremony of Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty lasted for more than 20 days, and the etiquette was mostly imitated by the Han system.

At the same time, Huang Taiji ordered Azig to lead 50,000 Eight Banners to the south to plunder, and then ordered Dolgon to lead 20,000 Eight Banners to the west to press the Jinzhou defense line to relieve Azig's pressure.

The Liaodong Special Operations Brigade first mixed with the personnel of Shenyang as a caravan, and at the end of April the news was returned.

At this time, Zhao Yan and the General Staff were studying the topographic maps of Lushun and Zhenjiang, and according to the plan, the Liaodong Army would attack Liao in more than ten days, but the terrain had to be carefully studied.

"The Liaodong Special Operations Brigade sent back news that Jiannu is mobilizing people, and it is already May, which means that Jiannu may enter the army in June. The Denglai Legion is going to rush to the aid of the Beijing Division in June, but according to the plan, we will take advantage of the emptiness of Jiannu's troops to build a stronghold on the Liaodong Peninsula, this is the topographic map of the Liaodong Peninsula, let's take a closer look! Zhao Yan convened the General Staff to discuss the details of the specific attack on Liaodong.

"Didn't the lord say that Huang Taiji wanted to conquer North Korea in person?" Liu Heng looked at the map of Zhenjiang and asked.

"Where Hwang Tae-gil ascended the throne, he had to do something to convince the public, so he would definitely conquer Korea in person. And Jiannu conquered Korea, and Phi Dao was their real goal. Zhao Yan said with certainty that according to the original history, Huang Taiji did personally conquer Korea, although Zhao Yan's arrival made some changes in history, but it will not change the military movements of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

"If Huang Taiji really conquers North Korea in person, you see, North Korea and Liaodong are separated by the Yalu River, and the east is a continuous mountainous area, and only three trails can pass through. Therefore, Jiannu could only go to Zhenjiang (Dandong City) first, then cross the Yalu River, attack Yizhou, and then attack Phi Island by boat. Liu Heng pointed to the map and said.

"Hmmm! Definitely. Zhao Yan nodded, it was naturally impossible for the Manchu Qing to enter Korea from the eastern mountainous area, which was very long and steep, and it was not suitable for a large group of people to travel at all.

"Then we might as well postpone the time to attack Liao." Liu Heng said suddenly, making Zhao Yan stunned and asking, "Why?" ”

"Lord, you see, there are only four routes into North Korea, Zhenjiang is the main passage, and there are three more routes in the eastern mountains, and we will also take these four routes to return, and we will now send men and horses into North Korea to block the three routes in the east. As long as Huang Taiji crossed the Yalu River from Zhenjiang with his men, we immediately sent a fleet to block the Yalu River in this section of Zhenjiang, and then immediately sent troops to attack Zhenjiang. ”

"Shhh In this way, wouldn't Huang Taiji become a turtle in an urn? The top and bottom of the staff were suddenly shocked, Zhao Yan pondered carefully, and said: "Facing the Jiannu soldiers and horses, we still have a great chance of winning, but we are afraid that we will not be able to catch up with them running around." ”

Liu Heng also nodded and continued: "Even if Huang Taiji doesn't personally conquer, we can block Jiannu's soldiers and horses in North Korea, so that they can't return to Liaodong, and then slowly annihilate them. ”

"Isn't North Korea going to suffer?" Zhang Buyun was stunned for a while and said.

"What do we have to do with North Korea's life or death, if North Korea didn't have the protection of my Ming Dynasty, it would have been annihilated long ago, and my Ming Dynasty sacrificed so much for them, and it was time for them to pay." Zhao Yan sneered, "Zhongping, your plan is good, according to my speculation, Huang Taiji's personal surname may be very big, as long as Huang Taiji is blocked in North Korea, the Jiannu in Liaodong will definitely send troops to rescue, we will kill as many as we come, and hit them until they break their muscles and bones." ”

"My lord, we might as well postpone the attack on Liao until Jiannu invades Korea." Liu Heng suggested.

"If Jiannu does not conquer Korea before June next year, he will attack Liao according to the original plan." Zhao Yan agreed, Liu Heng's containment plan was really amazing, and he didn't have any reason to disagree.

"Order, the 1st Infantry Battalion of the Liaodong Regiment can enter the DPRK by ship, explore the passage of the western mountainous area, build a pass and fort in a dangerous place, and be sure to seal it." Zhao Yan immediately gave the order.

"On the side of the king of Joseon, the lord still has to say hello to them." Zhang Buyun said.

"The General Staff will write a letter on my behalf and deliver it to the DPRK in a moment." Zhao Yan didn't pay attention to the king of Korea, North Korea was the barrier of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty had the status of the suzerainty of North Korea, even he, the general soldier, could run rampant in Korea.

After thinking about it, Zhao Yan continued to instruct: "The mountainous area in western Korea is long, so the first infantry battalion of the Liaodong Regiment should go south when choosing the pass, and don't make too much movement, so as not to alarm the Jiannu in Liaodong." ”

The note-keeper of the staff department hurriedly wrote it down.

"Next is the battle of King Qin, what is the status of each army?" Zhao Yan asked Zhang Buyun.

"After a few months of intensive training, the combat effectiveness has been greatly improved, but the spirit is also a little tense, I suggest that the soldiers rest for a few more days before the battle." Zhang Buyun said.

After the Spring Festival, each battalion was training for half a month and resting for one day, and training for four months in a row, and the spirit was already highly tense, Zhao Yan agreed: "First they will take three days off, and then train for three days and rest for one day, ready to go out at any time." ”

"My lord, since the Liaodong Army has postponed the attack on Liao, it is better to go north to King Qin together." Liu Heng suggested, "Presumably, Jiannu should not invade Korea before the return of the army of the Kou." ”

"No need, encircling the Jiannu side is the top priority, just in case, let the Liaodong Army be stationed in Dengzhou." Zhao Yan waved his hand and said.

King Qin's various matters have already been discussed, and various emergency response plans have been formulated, if the Liaodong Army participates in the battle, it will disrupt the plan, and if there is an accident on the way, it may lead to the miscarriage of the containment plan.

This is the advantage of the traverser, who can anticipate the enemy's actions in advance, so according to the development of history, the trap set for Huang Taiji has also appeared.

…… Then Zhao Yan convened a meeting of the Civil Affairs Bureau, and this year's entry of Qing troops into the Kou will inevitably lead to a certain number of refugees in Beijing, so Tuntian has more manpower.

However, there is not enough land in Tuntian, and since last year, most of the wasteland in Dengzhou and Laizhou has been swallowed, there is no more wasteland in Denglai.

The rest is all owned land, a few occupied by yeoman farmers, and most by landlords.

Denglai has recovered very quickly in the past three years, since Zhao Yandang put down the Denglai bandits, there is no [***] disturbance, and those yeoman farmers and landlords who are not under Zhao Yan's jurisdiction are actively resuming production.

"From February to now in three months, we have recruited 400,000 displaced people from Shanxi, 80,000 in Nanyang, a total of 150,000 young and strong, each of whom is given 50 acres of land, and now the wasteland in Laizhou has been reclaimed, but there are still more than 10,000 young people who have not been allocated land, if the refugees from Beijing come again, I am afraid that the land is even more insufficient." Tang Zhengze said.

"Has the amount of cultivated land of the landlords in Laizhou been measured?" Zhao Yan asked.

"Generally speaking, there are about 3 million mu, 2 million mu of idle ones, more than 1 million mu of self-cultivated farmers, and about 4 million mu of wasteland in Qingzhou."

The idle land of the landlords in Laizhou is surprisingly high, and although they are actively resuming production, they do not even have people, how can they recover.

Many of their tenants went to Zhao Yan's tundi to farm, or they went to Denglai to work, and Zhao Yan currently needs a lot of labor.

Roads and water conservancy, ordnance bureaus, textile mills, sand quarries, quarries, mines and other places all need labor, and the recruited refugees are generally placed in the tundi to farm, so most of the labor force in these places needs to be recruited from other places.

For those tenants, farming under the landlord is far less cost-effective than working under Zhao Yan, even farming.

The landlords' land rent is often tens of catties or hundreds of catties per acre, and the landlords' organizational ability is far less than that of Zhao Yan's tundi, so the productivity is naturally inferior (water conservancy, tools, production methods, etc.), and the government often sends labor to them, and many tenants can only barely make ends meet from beginning to end a year.

Farming under Zhao Yan, ploughing cattle, seeds, farm tools, etc. are all provided for free, young and strong participate in the exercises, often write meat to eat, medical treatment is free, as long as you can farm with peace of mind, you can practice seriously, and everything else is not necessary, I have heard that for a few years, all the children in the family can go to school.

Since the introduction of the policy of free education, more tenants have poured into Laizhou and Qingzhou, and some have even come from Jinan Prefecture, and some yeoman farmers have even taken the initiative to join.

For yeoman farmers, the Civil Affairs Bureau also has another set of management measures, if these yeoman farmers join collectively, for example, a village collective, then set up a cantonment on the spot.

If they join sporadically, then their original land will be taken under Zhao Yan's name, and Zhao Yan will be allocated the same amount of land in the tundi.

These yeoman farmers are all wheat and potatoes in terms of taxes, which is much higher than the land endowment of the imperial court, but even if it is such a field endowment, those yeoman farmers are willing to accept it, and after integrating all aspects of the policy, it is actually better than farming by themselves.

"Don't think about the wasteland in Qingzhou for the time being, we will swallow Laizhou first this year." Zhao Yan said.

"What about those landlords? If we rely on buying, there are landlords everywhere in the Ming Dynasty, and more than eighty percent of the land is in the hands of the landlords, even if it is sold to us cheaply, it will tie us up a lot of financial resources. Tang Zhengze asked, very troubled.

"It's hard to do!" Zhao Yan also felt that the landlords were tricky, and he really wanted to solve these landlords by violent means, although these landlords were said to be the elite of society, they did not contribute to the country at all, but were dragging the country back with their lives.

But if it is solved by violence, then the rebound will inevitably be huge, and if you buy it, even if you open a note, you still have to pay it back, which will be a very scary number.

At the same time, there is also the question, if the land is divided equally among everyone, and everyone is trapped in the land, how can the industrial revolution unfold?

If the land is not divided equally, it will be difficult to reconcile the current social contradictions, and at the same time, the most important thing now is to restore production, and the industrial revolution is still a little far away.

(To be continued)