The entire Liaodong was already in a group at this moment, and the soldiers of each battalion were divided into company-level units and began to sweep the Manchurian Jurchens throughout Liaodong.

With Duoduo's run, the Manchu state was destroyed.

The Western Front Battlefield, composed of the 1st and 3rd Infantry Battalions of the Liaodong Army and the 2nd Cavalry Battalion of the Shandong Army, did not encounter strong resistance during the advance.

You Xuefeng led the 1st Infantry Battalion of the Liaodong Army to take Guangning first, and then along the Daling River to capture more than 20 Manchu battle forts, and then marched into Yizhou.

This Yiju is not the Korean Yiju, but an important city in the defense line of the Daling River, which was captured by the Manchus in the Battle of the Daling River in the fourth year of Chongzhen.

Wu Yongliang took 4,000 cavalry and Shi Yunyi, commander of the 3rd Infantry Battalion, directly across the Daling River and stationed on the other side of the Xiaoling River.

The garrison in Xiaolinghe was the opportunity of the imperial court officers and soldiers on the front line of textile Jinzhou and Songshan to steal the results of the Shandong army.

The battle between the Shandong army and the Qing army was too fast, only two days, the first day crossed the Taizi River and the Hunhe River, and the second day fought a decisive battle with the Qing army.

On the fourth day, Wu Yongliang and Shi Yunyi appeared on the other side of the Xiaoling River with their soldiers and horses.

This directly confused the officers and troops of Jinzhou and Songshan, and they didn't know what was going on, how did these Shandong troops come to Liaoxi?

The official army of western Liaoning was dispatched at night, and finally got a shocking news that the Shandong army had defeated 160,000 Qing troops at Hunhe.

And also conquered Shenyang. The Shandong Army is regaining lost ground everywhere throughout Liaodong.

Zu Dashou, who was guarding Jinzhou, hurriedly led people to visit the Shandong army stationed on the other side of the Xiaoling River, Wu Yongliang and Shi Yunyi and Zu Dashou exchanged greetings on the other side of the Xiaoling River for a while, and Zu Dashou quickly vaguely knew what they meant from the words of the two of them.

I don't want the imperial army to cross the river and make trouble.

In other words, Zhao Yan fell in love with the territory of Liaodong, and the court went to rest while playing.

Zu Dashou knew the meaning of the Shandong Army, and after returning to Jinzhou, he didn't make any moves.

…… As soon as the Manchu Qing Dynasty was extinguished, Zhao Yan only felt relaxed.

The situation is no longer as urgent as before, and there is no need to think all day about how to increase military strength as quickly as possible.

200,000 professional troops, it seems that it is still a bit much.

Zhao Yan suddenly had such an idea.

But without affecting the development, it is also necessary to have more professional troops, after all, Liaodong has been solved, and there is still a vast territory like the Ming Dynasty and overseas colonies waiting to be occupied.

Only with enough troops can it be swallowed. The professional soldiers fight in the front, and the compulsory soldiers defend in the back, this method is still good.

After Zhao Yan felt relaxed, he was more concerned about how much silver Liaodong could get and how many full slaves he caught.

As Liu Heng calculated, a coolie costs at least one or two silver wages in Shandong, and even higher in some areas in the south.

If you take a slave who doesn't need money, you can earn at least ten taels of silver a year.

Ten taels for one person, ten taels for a million people, and 20 million taels for two million people.

This is the reason why Zhao Yan is so keen on transporting Japanese slaves.

In this era when the steam engine has not been put into use on a large scale, slaves are valuable, and the profits are still very large, and they will not rob the people's jobs, after all, Zhao Yan still has to build a lot of projects, and the amount of labor is very large.

Using these slaves to build projects or something will create a lot of incognito income. This point was widespread in the Ming Dynasty.

However, the Ming Dynasty used its own people as the object of incognito income. Zhao Yan directly caught the alien race and came back as a slave.

There is no justice and fairness between countries, on this earth, countries only have the law of the jungle, and weak countries are either attached to strong countries or swallowed by strong countries.

Many people use this point to criticize the United States for being a fake boil, and the idea itself is wrong, regardless of whether it is a real boil or not, whether it is a fake boil or not, there is no open cooking between countries, even in the 21 st century. Otherwise, what else do you want to do with national borders? Simply erase the borders and create an earth community.

Countries in the 21st century, on the other hand, are divided into two categories: one is to constantly strengthen their own people, pay close attention to education, engage in scientific research, and create an environment in which citizens can realize their potential, so as to seek benefits from other countries.

One is to fool the people, not to pay attention to education, not to do much scientific research, to oppress the people and their fellow tribes as the goal, that is, to rule the country without thinking of progress. The ultimate end of such a country is only to perish, and under the continuous development, the strength of both sides is getting bigger and bigger, and it is only a matter of time before it perishes.

Zhao Yan traveled to this era, the world is still in the era of ignorance, how can he be worthy of such an opportunity if he does not take the opportunity to expand wantonly, just as Marx said, every pore of the capitalist is bleeding dirty blood, if you look at yourself from the perspective of Marxism, Zhao Yan does feel that he is quite dirty, thinking about capturing slaves and mutilating the people of the world all day long...... It stands to reason that with a population of 2 million in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there should be no problem in capturing 500,000 or 600,000 young men to work as coolies! Zhao Yan was thinking about the number of slaves in his heart, and he was planning to put how many slaves into the construction of the railway next year.

The situation in Liaodong is not very good, Liu Heng said in the report that most of the Han people in Liaodong are short of food.

In this icy and snowy season, there is a shortage of food, which shows what kind of life the Han people in Liaodong lived, and under such conditions, the deaths and injuries caused by hunger and cold must be relatively heavy.

At present, among the ships in Shandong, 30 clippers have been transferred to the Americas to support the colonies, and the merchant ships captured by the Nanyang detachment have already gone to Yuben to transport Japanese slaves.

The remaining seventy merchant ships seem to be constantly transporting grain, cotton clothes and other materials to Lushun for some time to come.

Zhao Yan immediately asked people to mobilize grain to Longkou, just a few months after the autumn harvest this year, the grain is very sufficient, although there is not much rice and wheat, but there is definitely a lot of dried sweet potato flour, piled up all over the warehouse.

With a wave of his hand, it is eight million stone powder, and eight million stones are generally about the same, after all, the Hanmin in Liaodong is estimated to be more than two million at most.

The Manchus were afraid that the Han people would rebel, so they first killed all the rich and then the poor ghosts, and then they were short of manpower, and they began to enter the customs and plunder the population again.

The Han people were taken captive to Liaodong, and they were naturally used as slaves.

The number of people who are grabbing back and forth, plus the new population that has multiplied, will definitely not exceed three million, and eight million stone grains will be enough for more than two million people to survive this winter and next spring.

Of course, such a big victory in Liaodong is a good time to increase fame.

Since Chongzhen did something to him, Zhao Yan naturally would not play foolish loyalty, and it was naturally impossible to return power to him in the future, so while using force, the propaganda offensive should also cooperate with the action, so that his reputation is higher than Chongzhen, which is the focus of propaganda.

"Daming Daily" is Zhao Yan's trump card at present.

The price of "Daming Daily" is very low, as long as a copper plate can buy a copy, so the sales volume is very large, but such a price for the newspaper, there is still a profit to be made.

Due to the use of movable type printing, and the paper production of Denglai started very early, it is also the top in terms of technology, and the cost is also the lowest, so the price is naturally low.

Movable type printing was not common in the Ming Dynasty, because the literati of this era bought books with that kind of engraving printing, because there was an artistic surname, and the books printed with movable type were not very good in sales.

Ancient literati! They all love to pay attention to some things, and the books printed by Denglai are sold at the lowest price in Shandong, which is lower than the 'flood edition' books printed in Jianyang and Jian'an, and the sales volume only replaces the part of the printing industry in northern Fujian, and those printed books with exquisite carved plates still sell well.

Although movable type printing is one of the four great inventions in later generations, it is very rare in application.

However, the "Daming Daily" still has losses in some provinces, after all, not every province is the same, and it occupies a large cost in the delivery of newspapers.

Newspapers have existed for a long time in the Song Dynasty, and they are also more common in developed areas. At the same time, the Song Dynasty also has an audit department, the Song Dynasty can be said to be the most sophisticated feudal dynasty in production management, many management methods are very advanced, the prosperity created, has become the pinnacle of the past dynasties can not be surpassed, but the emphasis on literature and light military force is too serious, has become Zhao Yan's negative teaching materials, this is the reason why Zhao Yan wants to build 200,000 professional troops without affecting production.

The newspaper that was sent out a few days ago with the article "Hit Shenyang for the Spring Festival" was sold out as soon as it was published in Shandong, and the sales in other provinces have not yet been transmitted, and some provinces have not yet sent out the newspapers, but it is also good.

Just as Zhao Yan thought, the war report of "Hitting Shenyang for the Spring Festival" made the sales of the Daming newspaper soar on the same day, and many people who didn't read the newspaper also went to buy a copy.

Since the Qing Dynasty, Zhao Yan's reputation has naturally been famous throughout the Ming Dynasty, but the reputation is not good, some people support Zhao Yan, and some people have a hostile attitude towards Zhao Yan.

For example, the two Huai salt merchants, the Jiangnan cloth merchants, the Zheng group, and some die-hard loyalists of the Ming Dynasty were very unhappy with Zhao Yan.

Seeing the battlefield report that hit Shenyang before the Spring Festival, many people thought that this was the Shandong army bragging about it, and soon this cowhide would be self-defeating.

Only the people of Shandong do not feel that their soldiers are bragging.

…… Soon, the new issue of "Daming Daily" began to make a special report on Liaodong's victory.

Annihilated more than 200,000 Qing troops, 130,000 in the decisive battle of the Hunhe River, 70,000 in Fushun, more than 2 million Han people were rescued, and more than 2 million Jurchen savages were captured.

At the same time, Zhao Yan also announced in the "Daming Daily" that Liaodong will be fully recovered in less than half a month, and there is no place for Jianyu to turn over, and the disaster of the two Song Dynasty races will be roughly cut off. However, the remnants of Jian's captives, as well as the various Mongolian tribes, will still be the main security threat to the Ming Dynasty for a period of time in the future.

At the same time, if there were Han people who were captured in Liaodong, if they wanted to return to their hometowns, the Shandong army would send them back to Guannai.

As soon as this issue was issued, sales soared.

The destruction of Jianyu can be described as a great thing.

The official army of the imperial court was defeated again and again in Liaodong, which made the hearts of many Ming aspirants painful, and Zhao Yan threatened to restore Liao in three years, which was impossible in the eyes of many people.

But it only took Zhao Yan two years to recover Liaodong.

The voice of questioning before was dumbfounded, what hit Shenyang for the Spring Festival, after the Shandong army hit Shenyang, it didn't even pass the Spring Festival, and directly began to fully recover Liaodong.

Liaodong, a problem that had plagued the Ming Dynasty for nearly fifty years, was finally wiped out.

Zhao Yan used his actions to prove that he never said big things, and it only took him two years to recover Liao in three years, and even strictly speaking, he only used one year.

In the Forbidden City, Chongzhen received the news and had mixed feelings.

He had to admit that in military terms, there was no one in the Ming Dynasty who could compare with Zhao Yan.

Recently, Daming's government affairs have been taken over by the cabinet, which has given Chongzhen a long-lost ease, and at the same time has more time to study some things.

The most important thing is financial management, and Yang Sichang can do it militarily.

Since Yang Sichang was released by Zhao Yan, he has shown the spirit of hard work, hard work, and strong work, which makes Chongzhen very pleased.

Chongzhen also has military power, theoretically, the cabinet and the emperor divide labor, one holds power, the other holds military power, but how much military spending will the cabinet give is an intriguing question.

The cabinet has Zhao Yan's support, and he is not afraid of Chongzhen at all.

Therefore, in the past two days, the cabinet has been fighting fiercely with several eunuch departments, and there is no conclusion for the time being. Chongzhen felt that instead of counting on the cabinet, it was better to find a way to make more money.

He Zhao Yan can develop from a poor and white country tyrant to this point in a few years, and he can naturally do it, which Chongzhen has his blind self-confidence.

But he had little experience in this area, so he decided to visit Shandong when Zhao Yan got married next year.

…… Chongzhen's ten years can be described as an eventful autumn.

However, there was a more and more stable situation in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, first after the beginning of the spring, Zhao Yan attacked Liao, surrounded Huangtaiji in Korea, and completely annihilated the Qing army that entered Korea, and only part of the Qing army ran into the mountains.

After that, Zhao Yanxi recruited thieves, captured Wang Gao Yingxiang alive, and appeased Liu Guoneng.

Immediately afterwards, it became even more vigorous, Zhao Yan suddenly played the banner of the Qing monarch's side, directly attacked the Beijing division by sea, and took the capital in less than half a month, and then forced Chongzhen to sign the "Constitutional Law".

At the end of the year, the Shandong army launched another offensive in Liaodong and recovered Liaodong in one fell swoop.

The Northeastern Fortress has been wiped out. The thieves in the northwest, under the requisition and relief, also gradually disappeared. Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai and most of the thieves raised Xiong Wencan.

The thieves have been unable to survive in the northwest, since Zhao Yan conquered the northwest, most of the thieves have been defeated, and at the same time, they have immigrated in Shaanxi and transported grain for relief.

In the case of starvation, no one wants to be a thief. At the same time, Sun Chuanting mobilized more than 100,000 officers and troops in Shaanxi, and some of the Shaanxi thieves fled into Sichuan, and some into Huguang.

Sichuan has the second battalion of the Liaodong Army, as well as Qin Liangyu's soldiers and horses. There is almost no difference between entering Sichuan and looking for death, so the thieves in various ministries have been appeased, Xiong Wencan reported to him one by one, and the cabinet was stable, and he was given official positions one by one.

Those thieves are still very peaceful, naturally not because of Xiong Wencan and the official position of the imperial court, but because they are afraid of Zhao Yan's conquest and suppression, and Zhao Killxing's terror is well known among the thieves.

Zhao Yan once expressed his stance on these thieves in the "Daming Daily", if anyone dares to cheat, he will send heavy troops to exterminate them, which makes those thieves who have been appeased dare not mess around for a while.

It won't be long before it will be the eleventh year of Chongzhen.

Zhao Yan believes that by next year, the situation of Daming will be better.

(To be continued)