After an earthquake, the officialdom of the capital division returned to tranquility. Less than half a month before the Chinese New Year, all the ministries and yamen are busy in a hurry, but the original daily banquets, the gifts of a carriage and a carriage in front of the yamen of each ministry can no longer be seen.

Thousands of officials went to Jinyiwei to drink tea, although only more than 100 people have been exiled recently, but after this round of knocking on the mountain and fighting the tiger, many people are also much more honest. At least now, no one will defy the wind anymore.

It was a rare sunny day, Liu Jundo was basking in the sun and drinking tea under the front porch of the hall.

Feng Sheng stood aside and reported to Liu Junyu.

"The Donghu army wanted to evacuate from the south and return to the north for rescue, but the Ayutthaya army clung to it, and the two sides fought again a few days ago. Donghu was unintentionally entangled, and as a result, the Ayutthaya army seized the opportunity and defeated the Donghu army. The Donghu army was defeated and retreated, and the Ayutthaya army marched all the way, seizing several border cities one after another, not only recapturing the cities that had been taken by the Donghu army for more than ten years, but also taking the Donghu City, the birthplace of the Donghu Dynasty, in one go. ”

"In addition, the city of Ava, the capital of the king of Taungoo, is still under siege, and the king of Taungoo is sending troops and horses from Bagan and other places to rescue, and he is unable to take care of our army going south. However, Meng Yang, Mu Bang and other Tusi are gathering local soldiers everywhere to resist the heavenly army. ”

Liu Jun smiled, even the Donghu Dynasty was too busy to take care of itself, how could a few Tusi resist the Heavenly Army? Even if they wanted to resist stubbornly, they couldn't resist for a few days.

"We can mobilize the lower strata of the tribes such as Mengyang, or we can find some small leaders to divide and win them over, and we can also promise those serfs free land. Take what we did in the southwest, do it again, this time a little tougher on the toasts who resisted. If they dare to resist stubbornly, they will uproot them, break the stockade, and confiscate their money and land. Escort everyone to Liaobei to open up the wasteland. ”

Myanmar is now full of wars and chaos, for the Han Dynasty, after entering Burma, the biggest enemy is no longer the Taungoo Dynasty army, but only the former Liuwei Tusi. For more than 100 years. These Tusi have become Burmese, and they are not willing to submit to the Han anymore, but whether they want to surrender or not, they can't help it.

The Han army came with guns and cannons, and those who surrendered could continue to survive in that land, and those who did not surrender would be ruthlessly crushed.

"What's going on in Liaodong?" Liu Jun is no longer too concerned about the southwest. In the current situation, unless the Burmese are against the sky. Otherwise, this dynasty, which was once strong and beat the Ming Dynasty, is about to come to an end.

This time, it was not Feng Sheng who answered Liu Jun's words, but Liu Yunsheng, the privy envoy.

He took over and replied with a smile, "The situation in Liaodong is better than that in the southwest, and those Mongolian Tatars are now enjoying robbing in Liaodong, and they refuse to withdraw their troops on heavy snowy days." Just got the report, Liaoyang City has been captured. All the 200,000 people in the city were taken prisoner. The Mongol princes had already handed over the city to our army and gave 40,000 prisoners. ”

"Do I remember that the population plundered by the Mongol princes was always given to the imperial court? Why is it that a population of 200,000 is given 48,000? ”

Liu Jun didn't seem too surprised that Liaoyang City had been broken. But instead, he counted the population of the Mongol princes.

"It has always been divided into two parts, but because they broke through Liaoyang this time, they asked the artillery to blast open the city gate, so they gave an extra 10,000. In this way, the original 200,000 minus this 10,000 is left with 190,000. The two achievements are thirty-eight thousand, plus the ten thousand earned by the artillery, it becomes forty-eight thousand. ”

"These Tartars, their arithmetic is not bad, and they know that the cost of this artillery has been evenly distributed in advance."

The ministers laughed together.

"But we didn't lose anything." Fu Shan said with a smile.

It's really not a loss. The imperial court basically didn't do anything at all, just transferred a standard of artillery, then a knight regiment and a samurai regiment, plus a Jianzhou town, as well as a group of staff officers and a group of Jinyi guard spies, and then Liaodong had been taken.

The knights and warriors were actually dug from the hands of the Mongol princes, and the town of Jianzhou was a Jurchen surrender, so in fact, the real troops of the imperial court were only one target artillery, plus a group of staff officers.

The Mongols braved the wind and snow and the severe cold to attack the city and break the wall, and as a result, all the land they fought was handed over to the imperial court, and even the stolen money, grain, livestock, and population had to be divided into two percent of the imperial court.

No matter how it is calculated, the imperial court is not at a loss.

"Your Majesty, this time the Mongolian tribes have robbed at least 500,000 people, and after removing the more than 100,000 people who have divided us, the various departments have divided up about 400,000, will this make the strength of the Mongolian tribes expand too quickly?" Fu Zonglong, who had just taken over as secretary of the military department, was a little worried.

After experiencing various wars since the end of the Ming Dynasty, there are only more than 2 million people left. Compared with the 200 million population of the Han Dynasty, that is, one percent. Last time, the imperial court took the opportunity to destroy Horqin and other four tribes, reducing 500,000 ding, which had a great effect on controlling Mongolia.

But now the Mongol tribes have conquered Liaodong and divided the Jurchen population of 400,000 at once, which is equivalent to an increase of 20% of the population at once, even if it is a captive, it can also greatly increase the strength of the Mongols.

"Then find a way to get these people over." Liu Jun said disappreliantly. In the last expedition to Horqin, most of the 500,000 people were killed, and the rest basically fell into the hands of the Han.

This time, the Mongol tribes knew that the population was valuable, and they were very careful not to kill or injure, but to capture as many prisoners as possible.

"Straight or not?" Fu Zonglong frowned, "Isn't that a tiger's mouth?" ”

Without waiting for Liu Jun to answer, Fu Shan had already answered for him.

"This soldier, in fact, there is no need to force it at all." Fu Shan said with a smile.

If he wanted to take these Jurchen captives from the Mongols, Fu Shan thought that it was not difficult, and there was an opportunity. Jurchen captives are now in high demand, worth more than cattle and horses. The Mongol tribes wanted to supplement the tribe with this, and the nobles such as knights and warriors who were newly subordinated to the imperial court were also desperate to fill their estates.

Each knight has a sacred reserve mission, and in addition to preparing his full set of equipment, a knight must also prepare five servants and fifty militiamen, and once the court recruits them, they must take their men to send troops according to the call.

But these newly canonized knights and warriors originally belonged to the Mongol princes, and although they were able to leave the original tribe, they could only take their families with them at most. These family members alone are far from enough, and it is enough to form their own subordinates. But it is difficult to pull up the ranks of the militia, they need the population, and even the Jurchen captives have become a sought-after commodity.

Now a strong Jurchen prisoner of war is worth a hundred yuan, and there is no market.

However, since the Jurchens have become goods with a clear price. Liu Jun thought that the imperial court had a lot of opportunities to get these Jurchen prisoners of war.

"How?" Fu Zonglong asked.

"There are many ways, for example, now that Mongolia is fighting in Liaodong, in addition to looting supplies and feeding the war with war, it is also necessary to rely on the merchants of my Han Dynasty to transport grain and grass to supply the army. In addition, they also have a high demand for weapons and equipment, and even all kinds of commodities of our big man, such as tobacco, alcohol, tea, clairtelescopes, pocket watches, and so on. These are the things they need. ”

As long as there is a need, it is easy to do, change. For those goods and goods that the Mongol princes desperately needed, they were not simply sold for silver, but let them exchange Jurchen captives for them.

It doesn't matter how high the price is, a little higher is a little higher, anyway, the profits of those goods of Dahan are higher. In short, it is necessary to find a way to get the Jurchen population of all parts of Mongolia. Then find a way to get it back little by little.

It was not a problem for the Mongol princes to have more money in their hands for livestock. Anyway, they will use it to buy all kinds of Han goods. In the end, the wool still came out of the sheep, as long as the Mongol princes did not bring all the Jurchen captives back to the tribe.

"Liaoyang City has been laid, who is Your Majesty going to send to take over?"

"Let Wang Qian go." Liu Jun ordered the old brother's general, and the Guanwai Military Region now has increased its jurisdiction from Liaodong and Liaoxi to Liaobei Province, becoming a large military region that oversees the three provinces. Wang Qian was the emperor's brother. In the past two years, it has been sitting in Liaodong. At present, it is natural for him to move from Lushun to Liaoyang.

"Do you want to move the town now?"

Right now, it's freezing cold, and it's approaching the end of the year.

However, Liu Jun still asked Wang Qian to move to Liaoyang immediately, but there was no need to go north in a big way, just bring one or two troops to move to Liaoyang first. Liaoyang is also the core of Liaodong. Now that Liaoyang City has been defeated, it is necessary to take over and control it as soon as possible.

"The Mongolian tribes have just captured Liaoyang, and they are estimated to refuse to suspend their troops, and they are only afraid that they will fight Shenyang again."

Fu Shan estimated.

Liu Jun waved his hand, "Let them fight, as long as they are willing, it doesn't matter if they go to Heilongjiang." We continue to provide artillery and intelligence support, and we continue to send Hauge's town of Jianju and the Royal Knights and Samurai to assist. Let Wang Qian sit in Liaoyang and help them watch the point, but as long as Dolgon didn't take the Jurchen elite south to fight hard, there was no need to directly intervene in the attack of the Mongol princes. ”

This kind of situation of driving the tiger and devouring the wolf is what Liu Jun is most happy to see.

As for the Mongols attacking cities and plundering land in Liaodong, seizing a large number of livestock, money, grain and population, Liu Jun was not too concerned. Although the strength of the Liaodong Jurchens is weak, they are still trapped in the beasts, and the severe cold in Liaodong is also very troublesome.

Since the Mongols are not afraid of casualties, nor are they afraid of the bitter cold, let them go. Anyway, the land that was beaten down was handed over to the Han according to the agreement. The money, grain, and population can be traded by the imperial court, and then they can be brought back.

The key is the population, the imperial court must strictly control the number of Mongolians, whether it is the Mongols or their slaves, as long as they unswervingly control Dingkou, then even if the Mongols have more money and more food, it is just a very fat guard dog raised by the Han Dynasty.

Liu Jun didn't mind giving the Mongol princes more money, nor did he mind them robbing more livestock, but the captured population had to find a way to get it back.

"It's better to defeat Liaodong as soon as possible, so that the Jurchens will no longer be able to threaten the imperial court. The imperial court was also free to prepare for the westward expedition. ”

Dolgon retreated to Heilongjiang, and he had no ambition to compete with him in Han. Now the aggressiveness of the Mongol tribes is even more likely to be something he did not expect. The four tribes of Horqin were defeated quickly, and the Mongol tribes attacked suddenly.

Originally, Dolgon was afraid that he planned to move the main force north and run the new capital on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also wanted to defend Liaodong. But now the Mongol tribes have swept in, and all his plans have failed.

Most of the people and materials left in the south and did not move north in time are now in the hands of the Mongol princes. This is the Jurchens to add insult to injury, sprinkling salt on the wounds.

Now Dorgon could only pray from the north that the Mongols would not fight all the way to the Heilongjiang River.

Liu Jun has no plan to fight to the Heilongjiang River for the time being, at most after taking Shenyang, Harwin and other places, it is good to send a few Mongolian soldiers and horses to fight the Autumn Wind Grass Valley from time to time.

Heilongjiang is too far away, and it is urgent, and Dolgon is afraid that he will move to Jiangbei.

After taking Liaoshen, Liaodong will be stable, and then the Jurchen tribes on the Sanjiang Plain and the eastern coast will be conquered, and the imperial court will completely regain control of Liaodong.

"Moxi Mongolia is indeed a trouble, if you don't get rid of them for a day, the northwest will be unstable."

Compared with the dead rat of the Jurchens now, Moxi Mongolia is a greater threat to the imperial court, and their strength is also stronger.

After recovering Liaoshen, only 3,000 light horsemen were needed to drive the Jurchens across the north of Heilongjiang, and they would not dare to turn back for life. However, the Moxi Mongols had not yet seen the military might of the Han Dynasty, and if they did not concentrate on this battle, they would not be able to convince them.

"It's still the old way, after recovering Liaoshen, I will transfer the Mongolian princes to the west, let them charge and fight in the front, and then transfer Jianzhou Town to the west." Driving the tiger and devouring the wolf, Liu Jun has become more and more proficient in this trick. (To be continued.) )

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