For example, when giving a dowry, you should invite at least two to four female relatives, and these female relatives must be blessed people, which means that both parents are present, there is a husband, and there are children and daughters.

Zhang Mingxian and the others' families have not yet been picked up, and as for the refugees in Liaodong, there is no woman who meets the standard of a fully blessed person, so Zhang Mingxian can't do anything about this matter, so he can only let Yang He find someone.

Although Yang He doesn't care about these etiquettes, out of respect for the woman, he has to make a good appearance.

Fortunately, with Zhang Fengqi here, it is not a problem to find a few people who are fully blessed.

Zhang Fengqi even promised that when he was hired, he would ask his wife to come forward to the Liu family for employment.

Although the etiquette is complicated, the progress of Yang He's family business is extremely smooth.

After Zhang Ming went back first, the next day he arranged for soldiers to take Mrs. Liu's family to the county seat of Funing County, where Zhang Fengwu prepared a new home for Yang He.

After Mrs. Liu's family settled down, Zhang Mingxian took the matchmaker to propose marriage to Mrs. Liu.

For her daughter's parenting, Mrs. Liu didn't know how much time she had suffered, but this time she finally waited for Yang He to officially propose marriage, and she agreed.

Zhang Mingxian was even more resolute, Nacai, asking for names, Najib, and it only took three days to complete.

Two days later, the wives of the two brothers Zhang Fengqi and the two noblewomen of Funing County brought the matchmaker to the Liu family to hire them, completed the recruitment ceremony, and then set a wedding date.

So that's the last step left.

Soon after arranging Yang He's family affairs, Hei Yunhe and Zhang Mingxian each took a part of their soldiers to Zhangjiakou Fort and Xifengkou to take up their posts.

The day before leaving, Yang He and Li Maochun practiced for the two brothers. Dinner. Yang He told Hei Yunhe and Zhang Ming in detail about his analysis and judgment of the future movements of Jianyu. In the end, they repeatedly told the two of them to keep an eye on the two places of Jianjiakou and Xifengkou, and no matter what happened, they had to tell themselves as quickly as possible.

Hei Yunhe and Zhang Ming also knew that Zhangjiakou Fort and Xifengkou were important military towns, but they did not think that Jianyu would attack Daming from these two places, because the way to attack Daming from these two passes was too far, and if the pass was not broken, Jianyu would not be able to bear the consumption of the army.

In their opinion. If Jianyu wants to attack the Ming Dynasty, he will eventually choose to attack from the direction of Liaoxi.

In addition, there are several Mongolian tribes on the periphery of Zhangjiakou Fort and Xifengkou, all of which are attached to the Chahar Department.

Although the head of the Chahar tribe, Lin Dan Khan, did not unify Mongolia, he was the most powerful among the Mongolian tribes, and there were many Mongolian tribes attached to Lin Dan Khan, such as the Khalkha tribe, the Tumut tribe and several other tribes were directly under the command of Lin Dan Khan.

Although the Chahar Department has suffered repeated defeats in the battle against Jianyu in the past year, it still has strong strength, and the Jin State is now strong militarily. But it was not so easy to defeat the Chahar tribe completely.

Moreover, Lin Dan Khan is now friendly with Daming, and the two work together. Jianyu may not dare to attack the entire Chahar line.

After listening to Heiyunhe's analysis, Yang He sighed softly.

The senior generals of the Ming Dynasty, including Wang Huazhen, Zhang Heming, Wang Zaijin and others, spared no effort to win over the Mongol tribes, hoping that the Mongols could help the Ming Dynasty fight against the Jurchens, and the Mongolian tribes did agree to fight the Jurchens with the Ming Dynasty, and sent troops to fight against the Jurchens.

But this alliance is not a military alliance at all in Yang's view.

What a military alliance is, it is a joint operation, and how to attack and how to contain it must be closely coordinated.

However, Lin Dan Khan and the Mongolian tribes attached to Lin Dan Khan did not cooperate with the Ming Dynasty at all.

In the battle of Salhu, the Ming Dynasty attacked the Jurchens alone, and it was not until the end of the war that Lin Dan Khan mobilized the army.

By the time the Mongols arrived at the battlefield, the Jurchens had already occupied Kaiyuan and Tieling.

After that, the Jurchens attacked Liaoshen, and Lin Dan Khan's troops still appeared on the battlefield after the war, and then they were coerced by the Jurchens to win a big victory, concentrating superior forces and losing a big defeat.

When it came to the battle of Quang Ninh, Lin Dan Khan did not dare to move lightly.

With the Jurchens pressing forward step by step, the Chahar tribe has retreated from Liaodong to the Mongolian headquarters, and now there are only a few small tribes in the Liaodong region that are dependent on the Chahar tribe, and they are completely unable to compete with the Jurchens militarily.

Obviously, Nurhachi will definitely take these small tribes under the knife.

Yang He still knows more about Nurhachi's ability, and Yang He knows very well that in this era, no one is Nurhachi's opponent in terms of military talent.

And Nurhachi understands not only military affairs, but also politics.

Yang He didn't need to think about it to know that Nurhachi would definitely rely on force and political means to gradually disintegrate these Mongol tribes around Liaodong that were dependent on the Chahar tribe, and when these tribes were recovered, the Jurchens would completely occupy the military advantage, and at that time, they would definitely go all out to defeat the Chahar tribe.

In fact, since Lin Dan Khan had retreated to the Mongol headquarters, the Jurchens could cut off the connection between the Ming and Lin Dan Khan as long as they defeated or recovered the Mongol tribes around Liaodong.

Daming and Lin Dan Khan have never cooperated in the battle, and once they are cut off, they will be even more unable to cooperate.

Of course, Daming and Lin Dan Khan did not have any way to take the Jurchens, as long as both sides could do it, when the Jurchens attacked the Chahar Department, the Ming Dynasty sent troops from Shanhaiguan to attack the Jurchen headquarters, or when the Jurchens sent troops to attack the Ming Dynasty, Lin Dan Khan could send troops from Mongolia to attack the back of the Jurchens, then the Jurchens did not dare to act rashly.

But now that the Ming Dynasty has been defeated in a row, the army has no heart to fight, where can they dare to send troops?

And Lin Dan Khan, because he was defeated by both the Ming and the Jurchens, he took advantage of the opportunity to make a profit, and was finally defeated by Nurhachi several times in a row, and he also lost the courage to use troops against the Jurchens.

In this case, even if the Ming and Mongols wanted to fight together, it would be impossible.

And at this point, the generals of the Ming Dynasty still pinned their hopes on the Mongols, hoping that the Mongols could help the Ming Dynasty resist the Jurchens, Yang He really didn't know what these people's minds were thinking.

However, Hei Yunhe and Zhang Mingxian are Yang He's brothers after all, and Yang He is not easy to reprimand them, in addition, Yang He also knows that it will take two or three years for the Jurchens to completely recover the Mongolian tribes around Liaodong, and there is really no need to be all soldiers now.

Therefore, seeing that Hei Yunhe and Zhang Mingxian didn't care, Yang He didn't say more, and then turned the topic to selling salt.

When it comes to selling salt, Hei Yunhe and Zhang Mingxian attach much importance to it.

Hei Yunhe and Zhang Mingxian both knew that they had to have money to raise soldiers, and now their financial resources for raising troops all depended on Yang He's salt farm.

At present, there are nearly 1,000 salt workers in the salt farm, and the daily output of more than 10,000 catties of salt is guaranteed.

Therefore, the two of them worked together to ensure that the salt road would not be lost.

In this regard, Yang He is absolutely assured. Heiyunhe is the deputy commander of Zhangjiakou Fort and the highest military commander of Zhangjiakou Fort, as long as the salt is sent to Zhangjiakou, Heiyunhe can definitely guarantee the safety of salt.

And Zhang Ming was the highest military commander in Xifengkou first, and in Xifengkou, there was no need to worry about what problems would occur.

At the beginning, Yang He asked Yuan Keli to arrange for Heiyunhe to be stationed in Zhangjiakou Fort, and Zhang Ming was stationed in Xifengkou first, in addition to military considerations, there was also a reason that there were horse markets in Zhangjiakou and Xifengkou, of which Zhangjiakou Horse Market was the largest horse market in Xuanfu.

Controlling these two horse markets will bring Yang He a lot of money.

In fact, when Yang He learned that Hei Yunhe and Zhang Mingxian had become the military chiefs of these two places, Yang He asked Fan Liu to immediately contact the salt merchant to prepare to receive the goods, and the first batch of goods was brought by Hei Yunhe and Zhang Mingxian in person.

In order to allow Hei Yunhe and Zhang Mingxian to gain a firm foothold immediately, Yang He decided to leave half of the money from the first batch of salt sales to the two of them to raise soldiers. At the same time, Yang He decided to give the two of them 5,000 taels of silver every month in the future.

With these five thousand taels of silver, plus the military salary allocated by the imperial court, at least three thousand soldiers can be raised.

After listening to Yang He's arrangement, Hei Yunhe and Zhang Mingxian immediately said that they would definitely train the soldiers to be combatable.

……

Not long after Hei Yunhe and Zhang Mingxian took up their posts, Yang He suddenly received an order from Sun Chengzong to rush to Shanhaiguan immediately.

Hearing that Sun Chengzong was going to see him, Yang He was a little puzzled in his heart.

Although Yang He is not in Shanhaiguan, he is still very clear about Sun Chengzong's strategic intentions.

Sun Chengzong's strategic concept is: if you want to secure the gate, you must first consolidate Liaoxi, and if you want to restore Liaodong, you must first consolidate Liaoxi.

Therefore, after Sun Chengzong took over the Liaodong Economic Strategy, he began to deploy the Ningjin defense line.

First of all, Sun Chengzong vigorously rectified the defense of the closed door.

At that time, there were nominally more than 70,000 garrisons in Shanhaiguan, but many of them were paid, and many of them were old and weak soldiers, and most of these soldiers had no military discipline at all.

After Sun Chengzong's military parade, he immediately eliminated hundreds of defectors and sent back more than 10,000 old, weak and disabled soldiers.

Then Sun Chengzong reformulated the military system, built barracks, and stipulated that five people were one room and three thousand were one battalion.

After the retrenchment, Sun Chengzong commanded a total of 15 battalions of soldiers, Sun Chengzong divided the 15 battalions into three divisions, and ordered the generals to take the battalion headquarters as the office, and the soldiers did not leave the generals, and the generals did not leave the commanders. This is conducive to the movement of troops, as well as to inspection and verification.

After rectification, the Liaodong army will be cleared.

Then Sun Chengzong focused on closing the door for defense.

Sun Chengzong's intention was: to divide the battle of the city, build the Guancheng, defend Haikou in the south, and defend Jiaoshan in the north. The water is from the Wanghai platform out of Zhima Bay, surrounded by the sea on three sides, and the cannon is a horizontal attack. Lu Ze is the stone city of the three passes, and tens of thousands of people can be killed, and the door will be broken through at night. Outside the Beishui Pass, there is a steep ridge to build a trumpet platform 11, and a cannon is placed to prevent an external view.

For Sun Chengzong's approach, Yang He deeply agreed.

If the Ming Dynasty wants to restore its combat strength, it must rectify military affairs.

And only after the Shanhaiguan defense line is stabilized, can it advance to western Liaoning.

It's just that Yang He doesn't understand what Sun Chengzong will do when he looks for him.

However, Sun Chengzong is a Liaodong Jingluo, an official residence of the second grade, and holds the sword of Shangfang, he is just a six-grade staff director, Sun Chengzong has a life, how dare he disobey.

Therefore, after receiving Sun Chengzong's order, Yang He immediately rushed to Shanhaiguan. (To be continued.) )