In August of the fourth year of Chongzhen, with the Houjin army approaching the Daling River, the Ming Jingshi was shaken again, they all remembered the feeling of panic when the Jin entered the Kou two years after Chongzhen, and everyone was relieved after determining that the Houjin army stopped at the Daling River. High-speed updates //

Everyone wanted to know about the battle situation, but the Houjin army quickly blocked the Daling River, and after Huang Taiji led the main force to arrive, a large number of sentinels blocked the vicinity of the Daling River, and the farthest sentinel had reached the south of Jinzhou.

Sun Chengzong was stationed in Ningyuan, and entrusted the front-line matters to Qiu Jiahe, the governor of Liaodong, Qiu Jiahe led the troops stationed in Jinzhou, and continuously sent out the night sentry to explore the Daling River, and reported that the army of Jiannu around Daling City gathered, more than 100,000 people, and there were more than 20 large and small camps near the official road outside the Daling River, and there were constantly follow-up Jiannu to come, and began to dig trenches around the Daling River, and the excavated soil was piled into a wall, and some places have formed a city-like shape. As for the situation in the city, Zu Dashou has not been able to send someone to escape to report the news, and the dead soldiers sent to deliver the letter in Xingshan Jinzhou and other places have also gone and never returned, and now even Sun Chengzong has no idea about the situation in Dalinghe City.

Different from the situation when Jiannu entered the Kou last time, this time it was outside the Guan, the road was far away, and the Shanxi Liukou had become a climate, the military department did not dare to transfer the troops of the three sides of Shaanxi and Xuanda, and the Sichuan Baipole soldiers must stay to ensure the safety of Shanhaiguan, and it seemed that it was not very safe to rely on the Guanning army alone, Liang Tingdong thought about it again and again, and only ordered the general troops near Beizhili to prepare to set off, and passed on Sun Yuanhua to mobilize the Dengzhou Town Zheng Barracks and the Governor Pacesetter Barracks to rescue Dalinghe City by sea.

In the midst of the turmoil, Lu Zhi's impeachment of Sun Yuanhua was no longer heeded. The Qin mission group that was originally going to be sent was also forgotten by everyone, and Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru in the vicious battle temporarily stopped and quietly observed the shape.

The Wenden battalion began to mobilize a third group of 2,000 auxiliaries, selected from among the people who had built the road last year. They had received basic training in winter, and now they can only be used as baggage soldiers for one month of intensive training, but the treatment of this group of soldiers is five dollars of silver per month, and there is no pension, but they have the right to give priority to land distribution or priority to supplement the soldiers in the future. With these two stimuli. Chen Xin hoped that their combat effectiveness would surpass that of ordinary Ming soldiers.

The pension scheme was enthusiastically embraced by the soldiers, and no one was reluctant to increase their income by a third, which made more young people want to join the ranks of soldiers.

After Wendeng County absorbed a large number of people for several years in a row, some of them successively sent back information to their original hometowns. The three prefectures in Denglaiqing have a lot of fame, especially for the Liao people have a great attraction, this year's drought in the north also affected Shandong, these three prefectures have produced more refugees fleeing the famine, the legend can eat enough Wendeng has become their first choice. There are endless people fleeing to Wendeng every day, and even many local households in Wendeng County have switched to Wendeng camp.

After June, the number of refugees reached **, with nearly 3,000 people arriving every month, and the total population of the Wenden camp system reached 80,000. These long-distance travelers are still mainly young men and women, and the Wendeng camp has changed the original model of resettlement first and then formation. Every day, the refugees are organized into military households, and they are classified into 10 and 1 according to the number of strong men. Fifty Ding is a total, 500 Ding is a tun, and a fort is set up when a tun is full, and 5,000 acres of land are divided.

Chen Xin snatched more than 60,000 mu of military land from the three guard posts, of which Weihai and Chengshan were barren, and the military land at the time of their establishment was only 87 and 74 hectares respectively, and these were slightly better land, and the fields that were later reclaimed were even worse, and the situation in Jinghaiwei was slightly better, and there were 15,000 mu of ripe land when they built the guard.

Chen Xin used this batch of land to set up twelve tunbao, which were distributed to the Yuanwei families according to ten acres per household for cultivation, and those military households were allocated their own land, and they were grateful to Chen Xin, and many families erected immortal tablets.

They are happy, naturally some people are not happy, Wendeng camp forced the original guards to hand over the land, most of these people are more afraid of Wendeng camp, after leaving their own share of the land, turn to do some other business, but some people are dissatisfied with Chen Xin, and they want to go to Dengzhou to denounce each other, but in late August, Deng Tongzhi of Jinghaiwei, Zhang Tongzhi of Weihaiwei, and Huang Gongcheng, a health worker in Jinghai, were killed on the same day, and the killers were all killed with a sharp knife, Wendeng Zhixian took Kuaishou to see it, and then there was no follow-up, Wen Deng had a private rumor that the three of them had offended Lord Chen and had ended up like this, and the officials of the various guards saw this situation and died down one after another, and honestly started other businesses.

At the beginning of September, the order of the military department to transfer troops came down, and Dengzhou was so busy that they were not ready for war, and suddenly they had to transfer troops where they could be mobilized, and all the materials were not complete, and more importantly, no one was willing to go to Liaoxi to die, especially in the eyes of the soldiers of the various battalions in Dengzhou, the soldiers of the battalions were naturally unwilling to sell their lives and fled one after another.

Chen Xin took advantage of this chaotic opportunity to wantonly occupy wasteland in Wendeng, whether it was a household or a gentleman, they all occupied it the same, Wendeng's magistrate helped Chen Xin to do the title deed, he took a lot of silver from Wendeng camp in recent years, and he knew a little about Chen Xin's person, and the magistrate also knew a little about Chen Xin, and he would never dare to do it against Chen Xin now. Even if the title deed is found in the end, he will not be beheaded, at most he will lose his official position and go back to become a rich man, if he does not cooperate, he is a little worried that he will not leave Wendeng. Chen Xin took advantage of the policy given by the emperor last year to occupy all the ownerless wasteland first, and he was also trustworthy and gave more silver to the magistrate.

This time there is an example of Huang Gongcheng and others, the local clans and gentry in Wendeng have not made any noise, after this batch of land income came in, most of the displaced people were resettled, Liu Minyou was greatly relieved, plus some land developed in the hilly areas, the refugees who came before June were basically settled, the land on the side of the mountain is mainly planted with corn and beans this year, corn is widely planted in Shandong, and it is more drought-tolerant than wheat, but the yield is not high in this era, and the only benefit is that it can increase the area of cultivated land, Liu Min hopes to enrich the fields while keeping the refugees full.

This year, the Agricultural Research Laboratory bought some sweet potato seeds, and Wen Xianming continued to study farming, and Liu Minyou told Wen Xianming what he had heard about the concepts of seed selection and grafting, and how to do it. can only rely on Wen Xian to show himself.

After the land was occupied, civilian workshops began to manufacture a large number of farm tools, windmills and other items, and the farmers who divided the land in Chongzhen for three years harvested their first crop of grain in June, and craftsmen, farmers, and military families began to have consumption power. The purchase of furniture, clothing, sugar and tobacco increased dramatically, and this qiē was due to the fact that there was enough land to house the population, reflecting the important basic position of agriculture at this time.

The sea trade, copper coins and cigarettes in Wendeng Camp were all highly profitable industries, and after the silver was imported into the Tong guò fleet, the military salaries and monthly money were distributed to the people, and their consumption capacity increased as their lives gradually stabilized. With the stimulus of money, the local business of Wenden began to flourish. There are businessmen in Jinan, Qingzhou and Laizhou who come to Wendeng to buy goods, and there are also those who come here to open stores and sell.

Liu Minyou was very pleased with the development of commerce, and built the headquarters of Qianzhuang in the old camp of Wendeng, and planned to open one in Qingzhou and Laizhou. His goal was to expand the money business to Jinan in the fifth year of Chongzhen, so that the connection between Wendeng and the canal would be completely opened.

In addition to the external part, he plans to develop the tertiary industry in Wendeng, so that more people can benefit from the high profits of the local area and resettle more people.

Wenden Camp has a unique demographic and economic makeup. This allowed Chen Xin to mobilize an army of nearly 10,000, but to maintain this size, it was necessary to maintain the sustained high profits of industry and commerce, as well as to acquire more land. Lay the foundation of the Wenden camp.

On the third day of the ninth lunar month, news came of the battle situation at the Daling River. The total strength of the Houjin army was about 70,000, of which there was a large number of coatings. And to the surprise of the Ming Dynasty, Jiannu put on a siege posture, they built dozens of miles of moats along the perimeter of the city, almost built an outer city around the Daling River, and there are trenches in front and back, and camp is set up behind the trenches, and the full eight banners are set up in each direction.

There were still no people in Dalinghe City who had no news to escape, and the people of Jinzhou could not enter, and they only heard a continuous sound of artillery on the periphery, sometimes very dense. The Ming army rescued twice in August, but both were driven back.

Jiannu wants to besiege the city and send reinforcements, it is not an unfathomable strategy and tactics, and the Guanning army also understands it from top to bottom, and Huang Taiji is to attract the elite of the Ming army to die. Sun Chengzong and Qiu Jiahe also understand, and they also know that most of them are going to have a big defeat, so Sun Chengzong himself stayed in Ningyuan, and let Qiu Jiahe command the nearest Jinzhou, and let Qiu Jiahe decide whether to reinforce or not.

When the Daling River was built, Sun Chengzong had a neutral attitude, and Qiu Jiahe was the most energetic, so now Sun Chengzong does not plan to carry this black cauldron, and let the blame be at the forefront, but his thoughts were clearly seen by the officials, and he repeatedly asked Sun Chengzong to go to Jinzhou to command.

The generals on the front line didn't want to save, just with the ability of the Guanning army, they had to be sent to death, but they couldn't withstand the supervision of the Ministry of War and the cabinet, and they still went, this time the Guanning army's appearance was not too bad, and the Songshan and Jinzhou defenders sent troops in late August, but it was just a show, and the Houjin army had a slight encounter, and then the wolf fled back, and both times was chased all the way to Jinzhou by Jiannu.

Chen Xin's information on the Daling River was limited to this, he did not plan to go on an expedition, and focused more on the direction of Dengzhou.

Sun Yuanhua's reinforcements from Dengzhou still did not set off, and the information Chen Xin received was that Sun Yuanhua planned to mobilize Kong Youde's pacesetter Zuo Battalion, Zhang Ke Dazheng Battalion, and Zhang Tao Dongjiang Battalion.

On September 4, news came from Dengzhou Station, according to the information provided by Lu Zhi, Sun Yuanhua really could not transfer troops, and planned to let the Wendeng battalion send 2,000 people to Liaoxi in advance, but he was also hesitating, because Chen Xin's victory or defeat might be unfavorable to him, so he had not yet made up his mind.

Chen Xin received the news in the office, and after reading it, he said to Zhou Shifa: "The thing I said last time, but all the things are ready?" ”

Zhou Shifa said respectfully: "Yes, it's all ready, the person who built the slave, let's choose Li Sizhong, this person is Li Chengliang's nephew, and he is also the highest official in his family who took refuge in the slave, he stayed in Zunhua in the battle of the four cities, and he was able to lead the army to escape, this matter is a well-known thing, and there should be people in the Nine Border Army who know him." Moreover, this person was captured in Iron Mountain, and his name was not announced after he returned, and even our army did not know that this person had been captured. ”

"Well, have all the letters been written?"

"It's all written, the subordinates found a few codex of Lord Sun, there are special people in the bureau who will imitate the handwriting, after the practice, there are more than eighty percent similar, the content is written according to the meaning of the adult, and the subordinates also plan to put a letter written in the feudal state Yi language in Li Sizhong's arms to increase its credibility."

"Yiyu? Who wrote it? ”

"The Wu Jianzhong brought back by Phi Dao, he is Liu Xingzuo's confidant for many years."

Chen Xin said with a smile: "There is no need to be foolproof, as long as the imperial court confirms that it is Li Sizhong and his person, plus those three people, with a few letters, Lord Sun is suspected after all, compared to smuggling and occupying land, this is the big problem, the civil officials are the best at looking at the direction of the wind, even if what he says is true, everyone will not pay attention to it, so that no one will stand on Sun Yuanhua's side to embarrass our Wendeng camp." ”

He said that he stopped here, in fact, he used this trick, not only to make Sun Yuanhua suspicious, but also to force Sun Yuanhua to send troops to reinforce the Daling River, in order to clear his suspicion of collusion with Jiannu, as long as the Dengzhou army moved, they would fight against Jiannu under the huge threat, and the grievances accumulated on weekdays would explode, but in that case, Sun Yuanhua was more suspected of collaborating with the enemy than in the original history, I am afraid it will be difficult to survive, Chen Xin recalled the process of interacting with this person, in general, He is still an old-fashioned bureaucrat, but he is better than the average official.

Chen Xin squinted and was silent for a while, Zhou Shifa didn't bother him, and Chen Xin finally said, "Go ahead and do it." ”……)