In the second year of Chongzhen, on February 11 of the third year of Jin Tiancong, the night was low in Shenyang, the lights in the dormitory were bright, there were several charcoal stoves in the house, melting like spring, several maids stood aside from afar to listen to the call, Houjin Khan Emperor Taiji was looking at the music with a calm expression behind the bookcase, his face was angular, the top of the freshly shaved head reflected the light under the lamp, the pigtail at the back of the head hung down on the left side of the chest, the left hand gently rubbed the wrench on the thumb, and the other hand turned the music.

This is the third year of his succession to the Khan's throne, Tong Guò his two years of fighting, compared with the time of the old Khan, the surrounding strategic shape has changed greatly, Lin Dan Khan in the northwest is holding his head and rats, and the Dongjiang town in the east is in decline, North Korea signed a brotherly alliance, and did not dare to blatantly fund the Dongjiang River, and Liaoxi only defended but did not attack as always. The situation of Houjin being attacked on all sides has changed.

What worries him the most is that although the external situation has improved, the national strength of the Later Jin is still not strong, the manpower and material resources are very scarce, there is no ability to continue fighting, even if the military strength is superior to the Ming army, it cannot form a strategic advantage, and the reason for the weakening of the national strength is the massacre of the Han people in the Nuer Hachi era.

When the sixth year of the Mandate of Heaven entered Liaodong, Nurhachi was not extremely vicious, and he also recognized the status of some Liao people as free people, but in order to solve the problem of Jurchen residence, he let him live in the same household with the Han people, and as a result, the original landlord unexpectedly became the slave of the tenant, and even his wife and children were also slaves, so that the contradiction between the Houjin and the Han people was sharply opposed at the bottom, and the Liao people were always fierce, unwilling to endure the status of slaves, and the resistance and defection were fierce.

In the same year, in order to prevent the Han people from defecting, Nurhachi forcibly relocated the Han people along the border and the coast, and the violators were killed, and neither arranged food and accommodation along the way, nor did they have enough land and houses to distribute, so that countless Liao people died on the way to migrate, and the hatred continued to expand, and the resistance of the Liao people became more intense.

In the ninth year of the Mandate of Heaven, Nurhachi was suspected of losing his mind, he had no way to face the resistance of the Han people, lost the last patience, and ordered nine orders to kill the people without grain, and the Han people had less than six or seven gold buckets per population (later changed to four buckets), all of them were hunted and killed, he claimed that "those who have no food are enemies, and there are friends among them", there is no thinking logic at all, and later it was even more straightforward, and the reason was not wanted, "go separately, go to the village fort, that is, dismount and kill."

After these tosses, most of the Han people have died, and the rest of the people are in panic all day long, and more have fled to Liaoxi or Liaodong islands, seeing that there are still people who want to resist, Nurhachi then came to another screening, this screening is even more terrible, even the Jurchens have to be convicted of hiding, and after screening, most of the remaining Han people have died, and it turns out that among all the talented people in Liaodong, only 300 people have survived the screening, and you can imagine the tragedy of the slaughter.

After these things were done, Nuer Hachi was still worried, so he organized the remaining Liao people into a village, and set up a village in thirteen dings, and gave them to the generals above the imperial level as slaves, and there were almost no free Han people in Liaodong, and the number of remaining Han people was less than one-tenth of the original five million Liao people in Liaodong. The trade routes are blocked, all industries are withering, materials are scarce, thieves are swarming, especially the price of grain is high, and the year of the Mandate of Heaven has reached ten taels and one stones. In the first year of Tiancong of Huang Taiji, Shenyang was hungry everywhere, not only Han people, but even many Jurchens could not afford heavy taxes and military service, and fled to Mongolia or the Ming Dynasty.

This is what Nurhachi did in Liaodong's administration, even if he does not count his several massacres of the city, it is also a horrific atrocity, the glorious history books are full of blood and tears, but there are still experts who read history books can sum up the "ten major merits", Comrade Nuer Hachi has knowledge under the spring, and he should rest in peace.

Huang Taiji didn't know what would happen after hundreds of years, he only had a headache at the mess at the moment, he had worked hard since he came to power, won many victories externally, improved the treatment of Han people internally, and increased Han "show talents" in the study. It is hoped that the Han people will also be included in the system and become the help of Houjin. Although the results were remarkable, the eight-king system set by Nurhachi was constrained everywhere, internal contradictions arose, and several Beylers were unruly and sometimes conflicted. He had to use his power tricks carefully, taking advantage of the contradictions between the various Baylors to achieve some of his own governance measures. The most important achievement was the establishment of eight banners under the banner lord Baylor, Gushan Ezhen and sixteen leading ministers, taking the first step in decomposing the flag power.

This was followed by two victories over the attack on Korea and the defeat of the Chahar, which strengthened his authority. Taking advantage of this momentum, in the first month of this year, he just used the names of Little Baylor and Bagushan Associate to set up a system in which the four Baylors take turns to take charge of state affairs in different months. However, the overall situation of the co-governance of the four Baylors still exists, so he still needs to respect the other three Baylors with the attitude of his brothers, the three brothers are conservative or domineering or arrogant, and they are not easy to get along, and their division of power makes many of his ideas of governance have to be postponed.

Huang Taiji couldn't help but rub his forehead with his hand, he himself understood that in the future, Jin's current weakened state can no longer be improved from the inside, and can only be supplemented from the outside, North Korea is barren, the output is very small, and there is nothing to grab, Mongolia is also a poor brother except for Maduo, and his only way out is to rob the Ming around him, or negotiate peace and trade with the Ming Dynasty.

Since he succeeded to the throne of Khan, there have been Han officials to build peace and negotiate peace, otherwise the trade routes will be impassable, the materials will be scarce, and the people will be scattered. He also took it as one of his countermeasures, and in the first month of the first month, he sent a letter to Yuan Chonghuan, explaining the conquest of Korea in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and expressing his desire for peace. But because of the problem of using the seal, it was returned by the other party. In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Yuan Chonghuan sent people to mourn Nurhachi, and congratulated the new Khan on his accession to the throne, and sent Lama Li and his party to Shenyang, since then, letters have been exchanged many times, all of which are to talk about some peace matters, he has never looked at Yuan Chonghuan in his heart, but it is a kind of mutual use, in a letter in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, he once directly reprimanded Yuan Chonghuan "like a woman in the boudoir, in vain for the ......" (Note 1)

Peace talks can be carried out, but what he knows better is that peace talks are only a temporary measure, and how can the other side be allowed to have room for relaxation if a small country is used to attack a big country.

Huang Taiji squinted and rested for a while, then picked up the next book, which was written by the Han official Gao Hongzhong, among the four major Baylors, only Huang Taiji knew Chinese characters, he opened it and took a rough look, and then his eyes lit up, his body sat up straight, and his left hand was also put on the song.

“…… I have no other plan, go straight to the capital, see the situation, attack or trap, and then make a strategy. If he sends someone to say peace because of his urgency to attack the difficulty, it is to seek peace, not to talk about peace, I will make peace and promise it, only talk about each other as emperors, and take the Yellow River as the boundary. ”

He picked up a brush and wrote on the song, "It is very accurate to persuade me to march into the army, it is very certain." He only affirmed the proposal of his march, and did not comment on the terms of the peace proposal, and after writing he got up and looked at it on a map.

Huang Taiji's fingers set off from Shenyang, all the way to the west, stopped at the Ningjin defense line in western Liaoning, Ning Yuan still stabbed his eyes, the old Khan and he could not overcome the two attacks, the six years of the Apocalypse broke a lot of forts, the materials were quite rich, the battle of Ningjin was much less, and the people who fought were quite complaining.

Huang Taiji's fingers continued to the west, the Karaqin Mongolian place, he took advantage of the defeat of Chahar last year, has subdued part of the Karaqin Mongolian tribes, Jizhen outside the mouth of the bundle also took refuge in Houjin last year, with his own sentry in Xifengkou to Lengkou line to see the local shape shì, and successively reported to him.

Then Huang Taiji's hand was fixed on the mouth of Xifeng, and he tapped it gently.

Finally looked at the mouth of the Yalu River, where the three words Dongjiang Town were written, Huang Taiji's eyes became cold, this Dongjiang Town, which is like a bone gangrene, it is a pity that the last raid on Zhenjiang failed to intercept this person, Hou Jin sent troops to attack at any time, he was going to come out to rob a pass, and when the main force of Hou Jin soldiers hurried back, he immediately retracted his head. The envoy sent for peace talks was also sent by him to Beijing, although Dongjiang Town was hit hard in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, but the bad habits did not change, and still came out from time to time to forcibly turn the fate, with this person, he could not rest assured that the expedition was not at ease.

Huang Taiji squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "Mao Wenlong!" ”

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"Mao Wenlong's side should be frozen, right?" Chen Xin was on the wharf of Mazi Port, looking at the wide sea and talking to himself, with Scar and Qin Lufang standing beside him.

Scar listened and said: "My lord, it is estimated that the Phi Island will not freeze until March, Mr. Song has almost bought the goods, tomorrow the ship will go to Tianjin, and we will go to sea in March." ”

Chen Xin nodded and said, "You go as far as you can, and the sailors choose a few to stay, and I want them to take those cargo ships." ”

Scar glanced at the three cargo ships anchored in the harbor, which were also in the style of small fortune ships, but it might be worse to go to Japan. These three are the three cargo ships that were just bought from Dengzhou in February, and since Yuan Chonghuan banned merchant ships from going to and from Dongjiang Town, many shipbuilders in Dengzhou were worried that business would not be good, and some of them had poor patience, so they began to sell their ships. Song Wenxian took this opportunity to buy a few ships, even sailors. But these sailors said that Liu Minyou bought them, and Liu Minyou became a businessman. After all, Chen Xin didn't dare to blatantly disobey the order.

Chen Xin bought some grain from Dengzhou and brought it back in these three ships, and just waited for Liaodong Island to freeze, so he transported grain to Phi Island to replace people. He planned to buy at least 300 people, these people are as deep as the sea with Hou Jin, and compared with the people recruited here in Shandong, they have a stronger will to fight, and they can communicate with them, and they can also make the current soldiers understand the brutality of Hou Jin, which can be regarded as a kind of subtle propaganda.

And the most important point is that the disintegration of the Dongjiang River is not far away, and with these hundreds of people here, they will be able to better receive the power of the Dongjiang River in the future. Judging from the later appearance of King Sanshun, the combat effectiveness of the Dongjiang Army far exceeded that of the ordinary Ming army.

Chen Xin said to Scar: "I won't go to Japan this time, you and Mr. Song will go, Qin Lufang and I have other uses." ”

Scar was a little surprised, but he didn't dare to ask anything, the discipline of the sailor he brought was lax, and he watched the several sorties of the infantry team, which was very different, so he was very careful in front of Chen Xin.

After Chen Xin explained a few more words to him, he took Qin Lufang back to his official room, Qin Lufang closed the door in the back, and Chen Xin lifted the kettle to pour him a cup of tea, which is also his habit, and he poured tea for his subordinates in his official room, showing a kind of respect.

After Qin Lufang took the teacup with both hands, he sat down behind the table.

"Legal Fang, have the people around Scar been placed?"

Qin Lufang said in a low voice: "Okay, he reciprocated, Scar doesn't have any other thoughts, it's just that the military exploits are all soldiers, and the last time he raised a small flag, he felt that the promotion was less." ”

Chen Xin smiled, corrupt officials are not a shortcoming, as long as there are no other bad intentions, anyway, the scar's family is watching in Weihai, and he is not afraid of him turning the sky, this time Chen Xin himself will not go to Japan, after all, his belongings are on two boats, and there are many yin people, and he is always worried about others yin himself, so he took advantage of the Chinese New Year to install several eyeliner in the sailor.

"You should let go of the scar first, and when you get to Tianjin, tell Mr. Song about the person next to the scar, and let him pay a little attention on the road, and don't tell him about the other eyeliner."

Qin Lufang was also born and died at sea, and after more than a year of training, he was much more capable, and he simply agreed.

Chen Xin continued: "After going to Tianjin this time, you won't come back for the time being, there are big things for you to do." ”

Qin Lufang stood up and said, "Please command." ”

"If you go to a few places to open a shop, you can open a clothing store, it doesn't matter if you make money or not, it's best to open it outside the city. The house is rented larger, and some grain is bought and stored in the zài, and the handymen are selected from those peasant households. A man who wants to have a family. ”

"Where are they?"

Chen Xin took him to a sketch map and pointed: "The first one is Zunhua, where only shops are opened and no grain is stored, and the second one is ......."

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Note 1: "Manchu Old Files" Tiancong first year April file: for the construction of Jinzhou City, the letter said: "Khan to the Lord Yuan: the reply to the book...... Since ancient times, all of them have been because of the generations of civil servants, such as Xiu in the boudoir, who are so arrogant and arrogant, causing the loss of soldiers and abusing the people to destroy the emperor's industry. Because the former ministers did not do, the east and west of the river were lost, and the soldiers were killed.