It's November, and heavy snow has fallen in Liaodong, which is full of low, simple wooden houses, which are the dwellings of Han serfs.

These Han Chinese were taken to the unfamiliar Liaodong, where they were forcibly enslaved by the Manchus and forced to do all kinds of production matters.

Their status was so low that any Manchu could punish them at will, or even kill them at will, and a large number of Han Chinese fled to Phi Dao and Korea.

There were also some Han people who often poisoned the Manchus, blocked the road and robbed and killed, and the contradictions were very acute.

Since Huang Taiji came to power, he has made some reforms in this regard, which has reduced the contradictions between the two sides to a certain extent, but it does not mean that the two sides are in a moderate relationship.

Since the beginning of winter, these Han people have not been able to curl up in wooden huts and shiver as in previous years, but have been forced to work with their surnames.

Mining, logging, building cities, building forts, Huang Taiji issued a series of tasks, Shenyang city under the eighty miles of workshops, a large number of Han craftsmen and people are extremely busy building armor, weapons.

Every day, a certain number of Han Chinese are frozen to death, starved to death, and even died of exhaustion.

When the news of the defeat reached Liaodong, the Manchus were as if they had been slapped hard, and Huang Taiji's fat body rolled directly from the dragon chair that day.

When the Manchus learned of the whole defeat, they put the blame on Azig's head, as if they had received a great humiliation, and the Manchus were extremely angry.

That's 50,000 horses! The soldiers of the Qing Dynasty occupy nearly 30,000, and these people are all soldiers who follow Taizu Nurhachi to fight the world! Say no, it's gone.

Huang Taiji has never experienced such a tricky feeling now, since he was sensible, he has witnessed the whole process of his father's rise.

At that time, there were too many chickens in the house to eat!

Now it's a delicacies from the mountains and the sea! The people from top to bottom enjoyed the life of the nobility.

But all this is based on military strength, and now there are 50,000 fewer soldiers and horses in one battle, almost one-third of the troops.

At the same time, Huang Taiji obviously felt that a very tricky opponent had risen among the Ming generals, and it was probably not so easy to go south to plunder in the future, and at the same time, Zhao Yan said that he would return to Liao in three years, and there was a great tendency to attack Liao, which made Huang Taiji very nervous, and regardless of the harshness of the cold winter, he urgently began to restore manpower.

…… A large horse caravan roared from the west, and the caravan sent by Huang Taiji returned from Mongolia, and this was already the second batch of horse caravans.

In Shenyang, Fan Wencheng hurriedly entered the palace, and at this time, Fan Wencheng, because he successfully recruited Kong Youde and Shang Youxi and other Ming court rebel generals, and the official entered the second-class Lazhangjing, which is equivalent to the rank of a general.

Huang Taiji sat in the study in a dragon robe, frowned tightly, and said angrily to Fan Wencheng who came in: "The Mongols have only sold us 30,000 horses so far, and less than 20,000 men have been recruited. ”

"Holy Lord, the Mongols will submit to us, mainly because we have the ability to lead them south to plunder, and the sudden defeat of our army in the pass, the Mongols will naturally have some thoughts in their hearts. However, God bless the Qing Dynasty, this defeat is just careless, as long as my Qing Dynasty defeats the Ming people a few more times, the Mongols will not be so yang and yin. Fan Wencheng nodded and said as he stood below.

Huang Taiji was silent for a while, and suddenly stared at Fan Wenchen with sharp eyes and asked loudly, "Just careless?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, my Qing Dynasty and the Ming people face off head-on, both sides have each other's victories and defeats, but the reason why my Qing Dynasty can completely defeat the Ming people in Liaodong is because our soldiers are all fighting on horseback, and we can afford to lose, and the Ming people are mostly infantry troops, and they can't afford to lose." Fan Wencheng said proudly, only to see him pause, and then continued: "Azig obviously committed the taboo of my Qing Dynasty's use of troops, if he led the troops to retreat at that time, how could he be bombarded by the Ming firearms, the firearms are very cumbersome, if the Ming army did not set up an ambush first, our army would not have been bombarded by firearms." ”

Huang Taiji's face was very bad, whenever he thought of the defeat in Guannei, his mood was extremely bad, at this time he first ascended to the position of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, several Baylors were not very convinced of him, especially this defeat, even the big Baylor Amin who was under house arrest was a little impatient.

After listening to Fan Wencheng's words, Huang Taiji's face improved slightly, and after thinking about it, he nodded slowly, but immediately said worriedly: "That Denglai Zhao Gou threatened to take away my Great Qing Liaodong Foundation within three years, and destroy my Great Qing Dynasty in ten years, so I have to guard against it!" ”

"Your Majesty doesn't need to worry, the Ming court is rotten, the Manchu officials are bought by money, Zhao Gou is just a small general soldier, judging from the news obtained, this person has made a lot of enemies in the court, if he dares to invade Liaodong, he will inevitably be dragged back by the Ming. In addition, if Zhao Gou wants to attack Liao, it is very likely that he will take the waterway, and His Majesty can let people set up a beacon tower ten miles along the coast, and each beacon tower will be furnished with 500 soldiers, and then order the navy to go to sea to patrol the outposts. As long as the Ming army comes, we will know immediately, and then let the beacon soldiers and horses go to resist, as long as the Ming army cannot go ashore within a day or two, our successor soldiers and horses will also arrive, so that the Ming people can not go ashore and will not be able to pose a threat to our Liaodong. ”

"What if they don't go by sea?" Huang Taiji asked.

"If they take the land route, Denglai is far away from Liaodong, the grain and grass will inevitably be consumed very much, and it will definitely not last, and Your Majesty will cut off their grain route when the time comes, and the Ming army will inevitably be defeated." Fan Wencheng talked eloquently, as if he had a chance to win.

"Having said that, you still can't underestimate the enemy!" Huang Taiji sighed, "Once Zhao Gou gains power, if I want to cut down the big tree of the Ming Dynasty in the future, I'm afraid it won't be so easy." ”

"Your Majesty, you said that dealing with Daming is like cutting down a tree, we have to cut it slowly from both sides, so that we will not be crushed to death by the tree. Now that we have dulled the axe, the most important thing is to sharpen the axe first, and then talk about cutting down the tree. That Zhao Gou is already a master of high merit at the moment, and when we have finished sharpening the axe, it will not be easy to deal with him again. Fan Wencheng said confidently.

"yes!" Huang Taiji stood up from his position, dragged his body, which was obese because of lack of exercise, and walked in the study, looking up and sighing, "Let's sharpen the axe." ”

"Your Majesty, in my opinion, that Zhao Dog is not to worry, why bother preparing for war in winter, now many Han people are tired and frozen to death, if this continues, there will be not enough food next year!" Fan Wencheng admonished.

"No, you can't be careless at this time, no matter how tired you are, you have to do it." Huang Taiji refused, and 50,000 soldiers and horses were wiped out in the pass, which had already made Huang Taiji full of vigilance, but Huang Taiji attached great importance to production, looked at Fan Wencheng with some embarrassment, and asked: "Aiqing has the best of both worlds?" ”

"The minister thought that he should personally conquer Korea as soon as possible. Most of the Han people in Liaodong fled to North Korea, and this time our Qing Dynasty was not a small defeat, and recently it was said that many Han people had disappeared, and it was expected that they would inevitably flee to North Korea. North Korea renounces faith and betrays the alliance, and it is not enough to establish its prestige if it does not please, and since ancient times, it must first establish its prestige by force. In addition, the conquest of Korea can allow the Korean people to also bathe in the blessings of the Holy Lord. In this way, even if some people die in Liaodong, there is no need to worry. Fan Wencheng nodded and continued to flatter. Huang Taiji listened with a smile on his face, obviously enjoying it.

Fan Wencheng rolled his eyes and continued: "At the same time, at the beginning of His Majesty's ascension to the throne, he also needs some merits to serve the public, and the minister thinks that it is advisable to conquer Korea as soon as possible, and at the same time, it can also boost the morale of my Qing Dynasty. ”

"Okay." Huang Taiji slapped the case on the table and said loudly: "After the beginning of spring, I will immediately personally recruit and hold North Korea accountable for the crime of abandoning the faith and betraying the alliance. ”

Huang Taiji decided that the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Liaodong would prepare for war in the winter, first, actively defend Liaodong, build various defense facilities, and at the same time build armor and expand the Eight Banners of Han and Mongolia to restore military strength.

The second is to prepare for the beginning of the next year Huang Taiji personally conquered North Korea, the last time the Manchu Qing entered Korea, North Korea has been much more well-behaved, but the Han people in Liaodong continue to flee to North Korea, which has caused strong dissatisfaction among the Manchu Qing, before Huang Taiji has planned to ascend the throne immediately after the conquest of Korea, but the defeat in the Guannai caused Huang Taiji to hesitate.

However, in order to capture more slaves, at the same time, although North Korea is a small country and the land is barren, it is also a country, and it can always get some food after fighting.

Before the army can no longer enter the pass and plunder, North Korea has undoubtedly become the only option. Huang Taiji needs to make some achievements that can convince the public.

Therefore, it is already an urgent matter to personally conquer North Korea.

Liaodong went up and down, and began to go crazy.

…… At the end of December, it also snowed heavily in Fenyi, Jiangxi, and in a school, Song Yingxing was telling students about the Guanxue of Zhang Zai, the four masters of the Song Dynasty.

"Zhang Zai said, the way of knowledge acquisition is divided into 'seeing and hearing to know' and 'virtue surname knowing', the so-called 'seeing and hearing knowing', that is, the knowledge obtained through experience and study, and 'virtue surname knowing', is another way to acquire knowledge, the surname of virtue knows, not budding to see and hear, but also ......" Song Yingxing was empty-handed, and kept talking about Zhang Zai's "Zhengmeng Daxin", as if he could memorize this book upside down.

That's right, Song Yingxing is the kind of person who can never forget, and the first academic he recommended was Guan Xue, one of the four great masters of the Song Dynasty, Zhang Zai, who was a materialist.

"Sir, what is a German surname?" A student stood up and asked.

"The so-called virtue surname, from the "Tao Te Ching", morality, morality, the original meaning does not refer to the good or bad behavior, these two words should be read separately, Tao, that is, the way of heaven, it transforms everything, representing the ultimate truth. Virtue, in fact, is the knowledge that people are born with, and the cultivation of truth that is talked about in the hidden world is to acquire this knowledge in order to find the true self and get rid of ignorance and ignorance. When Song Yingxing said this, he looked around at the students who didn't believe it, and continued: "In the Spring and Autumn Period, a hundred schools of thought contended, and the morality of Taoism was also quoted by Confucianism, but it was misinterpreted by Taoism. ”

"Sir, that is, morality does not refer to behavior, so how should the sixty-five chapters of the Tao Te Ching be understood?" A student asked.

"Chapter 65: Those who are good in the past will not be foolish if they are not enlightened people. The people are difficult to govern, and they are wise. Therefore, the country is governed by wisdom, and the thief of the country; If you don't govern the country with wisdom, the blessing of the country. Knowing these two is also a formula. The common knowledge of the style is called Xuande. Xuande is deep, far away, and the opposite of things, and then even Dashun. ”

Song Yingxing walked across and explained: "This sentence does not mean that the people are so wise that it is difficult to govern, but that a long time ago, the king who was good at governing the world did not think that he was smarter than the people, but that he was more stupid than the people. The reason why the people are difficult to govern is that the king has done too many intrigues, and it is difficult to govern. Therefore, governing the country with intrigue is called a thief of the country. It is a great blessing for the country not to govern the country with wisdom. This is the conclusion of a long-term comparison. The way to know the results of the comparison is to call Xuande. Xuande is far-reaching, it can make all things return to the basics, and knowing it can greatly return to nature. ”

"A saint can know the world without leaving home; Don't peep, see the way of heaven. If you don't know it, you don't see it, you don't do it, it's because of virtue. Song Yingxing concluded.

......At this moment, the sound of clapping hands suddenly sounded outside the school, and I saw several officers and soldiers in armor standing outside the door, and one of them was wearing an official uniform, smiling and clapping his hands.

"Your Excellency?" Song Yingxing looked at the people in front of him with some astonishment.

"I am the captain of the inspection brigade of the Shandong Salt Transportation Division, and I am hereby invited to go to Shandong to serve on the orders of my general." The hundred households said respectfully.

"Who is your general?" Song Yingxing couldn't help but wonder.

"Shandong General Army, Jianwei General Zhao Yan, is my general." ……

(To be continued)