Chapter 483: The New Liaodong Army

There were less than 30,000 people left in the seven counties of Dengzhou after Kong Youde's rebellion, and the people who came from Laizhou and Shandong to vote for the seven counties of Dengzhou were less than 80,000 people.

The 170,000 Han people who migrated from southern Liaoning successively became Tuntian households under the arrangement of the resettlement envoys, and with such a large influx of population, the land around Dengzhou Mansion was difficult to accommodate, so Dayongcai restored the county governance of Penglai, Huangxian, Fushan, and Qixia counties, and used the wasteland of these four counties to accommodate the migrants, so that the 170,000 people could be digested.

The resettlement envoy took over the tuntian affairs from the local government, and all the tuntian households were managed by the resettlement envoy, and they could also be converted into registered residents under Dengzhou Prefecture after three years.

When all the land in the four counties is utilized, Dayong will restore the abandoned three counties of Zhaoyuan, Laiyang, and Wendeng.

The same was done in Lushun, with the prefect yamen in charge of the management of the freedmen, and the resettlement envoy taking over the Tuntian affairs and centralizing the management of all the displaced people.

In September of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Dayong asked the resettlement envoy Si Hedeng and the brigade official to make a preliminary census of the population, counting more than 112,000 free people, 240,000 tuntian households, and a total population of about 350,000. Among them, there are more than 90,000 young and strong people, and the rest are old and weak women and children.

In January of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Dayong set up a homeless shelter envoy in Dengzhou, intending to absorb more homeless people to enrich the population of Dengzhou.

In this way, the resettlement envoy has become a core yamen responsible for both recruiting and managing the displaced people, and the population under its management is greater than that of the local government of the Deng and Lu brigades, and it is responsible for more affairs.

Some people say that Song Guanglan, who is in charge of the resettlement of the embassy, is actually the governor of the Denglu in disguise, and this resettlement envoy is the yamen of the Denglu governor. Dayong did not say a word about this statement.

The influx of a large number of immigrants has made the demand for iron tools rise exponentially, Dengzhou and Lushun do not have iron mines, and immigrants need a large number of agricultural tools to reclaim the land, and the Liaodong Army itself also needs a large number of iron tools, in the case that he does not own iron ore, Dayong can only buy from Laiwu official mine at a high price, and buy it from Jiangnan through the relationship of the Zheng family in the south, so the cost is naturally a big head. Someone in the Liaodong Army suggested that Dayong simply occupy the Nalaiwu Guantai, and this proposal naturally attracted Dayong's reprimand.

Since Shenyang came back, there have been signs of disobedience to the imperial court in the army, especially the imperial court pretended to be deaf and dumb to the great victory in Liaodong, and the failure to reward the Liaodong army made the Liaodong army disappointed in the imperial court, but few of them would think about what the imperial court did not reward them, only thinking that the imperial court wanted to cook rabbits and dogs, and some radical generals such as Li Dashan, who was born in bandits, Geng Zhongming, who was born in the rebel army, and others even proposed to support the army and become a country in this brigade, and this kind of bastard was naturally condemned by Dayong.

For the court, for Chongzhen, Dayong has always had a sense of guilt, because it is not the court or Chongzhen that has caused the current situation, but he Shi Dayong.

For Chongzhen, the recognized leader of the Han people, Dayong is supported with a sincere heart, he has never had the view that the loyal monarch is ignorant in later generations, but believes that it should meet the needs of this era, since the people of the Ming Dynasty need the emperor, then he supports the emperor. In this era when the people's wisdom has not yet opened up and most of the people are illiterate, what kind of democracy and republic is completely nonsense. The most important thing now is to save the Ming Dynasty from the demise, and then restore the national strength, as for those idealized things, it is still left to the descendants to solve themselves. If later generations think that they don't need an emperor anymore, then they don't need an emperor, and if later generations think that without an emperor, the country will still be a mess, and those who advocate freedom and democracy are just for profit, then this emperor still can't be abolished. At least, in the face of imperial power, the center is still the center, not a tool of a group of guys for profit.

Whether the imperial power needs to be restricted, of course it is, but this is not something that Dayong is thinking about now. Chongzhen's character is certainly deficient, but it is undeniable that he is an acceptable emperor of the Han family, whether it is legal principles or people's hearts, Chongzhen as the Son of Heaven is accepted and recognized by hundreds of millions of Ming people.

The Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies.

Chongzhen has done this, so he deserves to be embraced bravely. If the ancestors of the Li family, the Zhao family, and the Sun family also rose up to overthrow the Tartars in the midst of tyranny, then their descendants can also be the emperor, and they are also worthy of great loyalty.

The reason why he refused to enter Beijing was not that Dayong was worried that he would kill his head, with his merits, Chongzhen would never wait to see him again, and at worst he would give him a pension title to raise him, Chongzhen has never been an emperor who has no merit and no reward.

Dayong's concern is that if he does enter Beijing, he will not be able to act according to his intentions. Dayong was already disappointed with the Donglin Party in the court, and if possible, he even wanted to raise troops to enter the side of the Qing monarch in Beijing, purge all the important ministers of the court, and wipe out all the power of the group they represented, but this is undoubtedly a rebellion.

Dayong didn't want to rebel, and he didn't want to be controlled by others, so he chose not to enter Beijing, he wanted to be transferred or not, he wanted to learn from his ancestor Dashou, he thought that his choice was right, at least he was willing to shed blood for Daming.

Under this contradictory motive, Dayong certainly didn't want his subordinates to be disloyal to the court, and he didn't want to be added to the yellow robe one day.

Thinking that his mutilated and hideous face would be hung in the temple for sacrifice, Dayong was indifferent

The reorganization of the army was two months before the establishment of the Deng Brigade Resettlement Mission, and Dayong changed the name of the army to the Liaodong New Army, referred to as the Liaodong Army, which consisted of three divisions: cavalry, infantry and navy.

The cavalry guard integrated all the light and heavy cavalry of the Liaodong Army, commanding Cao Bianjiao, deputy commander Peng Dazhuan, and having four battalions, each battalion with 2,000 soldiers, 4,000 horses, and 8,000 guards in the whole guard.

The first guard of the army was rebuilt by the original infantry army left battalion of two thousand households and the Ming army of Phi Dao, the commander was still gratifying, the deputy commander was Xiang Pet, stationed on Phi Dao, under the jurisdiction of five battalions, each battalion of 2,000 soldiers, and the whole guard had 10,000 soldiers.

The second guard of the army was rebuilt by the other two thousand households of the left battalion of the original infantry army and the new Han army in Shenyang and the captured Qingzhuang of the original Ming army in southern Liaoning, and the command was served by Huang An, who was rescued from the Jinzhou prison, and the deputy commander was Geng Zhongming, who also had jurisdiction over five battalions of soldiers, totaling 10,000 people.

The Third Guard of the Army was expanded and established on the basis of the right battalion of the infantry army, with Li Dashan as the commander and Lin Junyi as the deputy commander, and five battalions of soldiers under its jurisdiction, totaling 10,000 people.

The fourth guard of the army is composed of the Dayong personal battalion and the baggage battalion, and the young and strong men of southern Liaoning, with Shao Wu as the commander and Song Qing as the deputy commander, and 10,000 soldiers in the whole guard.

Lushun Guard was also set up, with Li Zhongfu as the commander and Zhang Cunren as the deputy commander. This guard is mainly composed of the young and strong people who moved from Lushun and a part of the Han army anyway, mainly to undertake the Lushun guard, and the whole guard is only four battalions of 8,000 soldiers.

The commander of the Dengzhou Guard, Qi Sanbao, and the deputy commander Wang Tiande, are composed of the original baggage battalion and the immigrants, and they are not field armies, mainly responsible for the defense of Dengzhou and local security, with 10,000 soldiers in the five battalions of the whole guard.

The original artillery battalion of the Jinzhou Army expanded the artillery guard, with Zhao Kegang who was rescued from Jinzhou as the commander, Lu Jiang as the deputy commander, and four battalions of light and heavy artillery, totaling 9,000 people in the three battalions.

The Dengzhou Artillery Command School was newly established, and Guo Cheng, who was originally from the Sichuan Army, was in charge.

The Dengzhou Firearms Research and Development Bureau was newly established, which was in charge of Ma Zhong, who was originally a craftsman from Jinyi Weinan Town.

The staff headquarters of the Liaodong Army battalion was newly established, and the commander Jiang Wanli was called Liaodong Town Government externally and the General Staff Department internally.

The new Liaodong Army battalion was set up to guard the personal guards, with Guo Yi as the commander and Li Gu as the deputy commander, and two battalions of 4,000 soldiers.