The Ming Dynasty also invested a large amount of silver dollars in the North Korean financial and economic market through loans and trade, and invisibly controlled North Korea's finance.

However, the Joseon king and his civil and military officials did not realize the seriousness of the problem, and still sold large quantities of grain and other basic means of production to the Ming at low prices in exchange for some industrial products that were already considered waste to the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, the inflation rate caused by the excessive development of industry in the Ming Dynasty has dropped a lot, and the financial burden has not increased because of the war.

As a result, the income of the people has increased but the cost of living has not increased significantly, which has improved the quality of life and happiness of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the cost of the increased happiness of the people in the Ming Dynasty was transferred to the people of North Korea.

This is due to the decline in food in North Korea and the entry of a large number of luxury goods, which has led to an increase in prices and a decrease in happiness.

Many North Koreans had to gather in the Gyeongju area to work six or seven hours a day for the factories built here for the Ming merchants.

However, it is impossible to avoid the fact that countries that have mastered the most advanced productive forces and core science and technology can exploit countries that are weaker than themselves.

Therefore, the only thing that Zhu Youzhen can guarantee is to make Daming better and better.

The Northern Expedition continued.

With the news of the Second Guards Army recovering Liaoyang and Shenyang, it returned to Nanjing.

In addition, the Ming court effectively shifted inflationary pressures to the Manchu and Korean regions.

It made the people more and more confident in Zhu Youzhen's Ming court.

The value of the Northern Expedition continued to rise, and the people of the whole country recklessly concentrated their surplus wealth in the imperial court.

The Ming Dynasty could therefore use a larger scale of investment to carry out the Northern Expedition.

Tens of millions of people were requisitioned again, which means that for every soldier who participated in the Northern Expedition, there were ten people who served him.

And that's just in terms of people, not to mention financial resources and other aspects.

Since North Korea sent more than 50,000 soldiers and horses to start out of Yizhou, North Korea and enter the Liaodong region of the Ming Dynasty, the Second Army of the Ming Guards Army has indeed strengthened its wings in Liaodong.

Qin Zuoming officially ordered the Korean soldiers and horses to be divided into two divisions and act as the vanguard, and the two corps of the Second Army of the Guards Army attacked in the two directions of Quang Ninh and Fushun respectively.

The Second Corps of the Second Guards Army and the First Column of the Korean First Column officially left Liaoyang City on the 3rd day of May and entered the territory of Quang Ninh Wei on 20 May.

Guangning City was an important base for the Ming Dynasty to resist the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the past.

And the Manchus also placed heavy troops here.

After all, there are only three fortresses in the vicinity of Liaodong Town to Beijing: Shanhaiguan, Ningyuan, and Guangning.

However, Guangning Wei is the largest guard post in the western Liaoning corridor, and its defensive cities and walls are innumerable.

Therefore, the Second Corps of the Second Army of the Guards Army and the First Column of North Korea, with a total of 100,000 soldiers and horses, it is not easy to recover Quang Ninyeongwei.

Moreover, the Second Army of the Ming Guards Army wanted to recover the entire territory of Guangningwei and block the dead end of the Qing army, so they had to pull out these strongholds one by one like pulling nails.

However, the role of the main siege mission has changed from the Guards to the Korean Army.

Naturally, the soldiers and horses of the DPRK were to be sent to the head as cannon fodder, so as to achieve the purpose of reducing the casualties of the Guards.

After all, the training cost of an ordinary Guards soldier is very large, and the soldiers and horses of North Korea are naturally different, and even if they are sacrificed, they are only a few silver dollars.

And the North Korean army has no complaints about this.

Because the Second Guards Army gave these officers and soldiers of the Korean army who undertook the siege task of giving them a rich reward, as long as these Korean soldiers were willing to work hard, the Guards were not stingy with their money at all.

Anyway, what the Ming Guards have now is money.

As a result, the North Korean army became more and more desperate, and after seeing that the Ming Guards would use high-powered artillery and more advanced rifled guns to completely defeat the Qing army at the most critical time, these North Korean troops also had more courage, no longer feared the Qing army, and even broke out with strong combat effectiveness.

Just as the Ming officers and soldiers who surrendered to the Manchus in history suddenly showed strong combat effectiveness when they destroyed the Southern Ming Dynasty, the Korean army today is the same, stimulated by the silver reward and strict military discipline of the guards, they also surprised the Qing army, surprised when these Koreans were so fierce.

The Second Army of the Guards also tasted the sweetness of hiring the North Korean army as cannon fodder for itself, and began to continue to make suggestions to the Generalissimo's Office, hoping to let more North Korean troops participate in the war.

Naturally, North Korea did not dare to refuse the Ming Dynasty's request and began to send more troops to Liaoxi to serve as cannon fodder.

Unconsciously, the Ming Dynasty once again changed the way of the Northern Expedition and thus gained more benefits, because now the Ming Dynasty in the western Liaoning region is equivalent to transferring the cost of the war to Korea at the cost of a small amount of silver dollars.

Let North Korea provide manpower and material resources for the Ming Dynasty to recover the western Liaoning region, and the Second Army of the Ming Guards almost sat back and provided a way to hire North Korean troops to take over the major Guancheng fortresses in the western Liaoning region in the hands of North Korea.

Even, after teaching the Korean army the task of storming the city and taking the fort, the Second Guards Army was able to have more energy to strengthen its rule over the eastern and western Liaodong regions, and to gain more benefits from this land that had been ruled by the Manchus for many years.

Although the Korean king Li Hao now complains about his Korean army's participation in the Northern Expedition of the Ming Empire and the loss of many interests in Korea, in order to maintain his rule and consolidate it, he can only sacrifice the interests of the Korean people to get the support of the Ming Empire for his legitimate rule of Korea.

The Ming Empire could make Li Shi, the powerful figures of Korea, bigger by selling advanced warships to the naval defense, which was something that the Korean king Li Hao had to be wary of.

In June of the 23rd year of Chongzhen, the king of Joseon, Li Hao, was ordered by Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen to send an additional 30,000 soldiers and horses to support the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty outside the Guan.

The Second Corps of the Second Army of the Ming Guards also recovered the entire territory of Quang Ninh Wei on the ninth day of the first month of June, and surrounded the Ningyuan Zhongzuo with the Korean army.

"Kill!"

With the artillery support of the Second Guards Army, the North Korean army rushed into the Ningyuan Zhongzuo Station, and fearlessly fought with the firearms of the Qing army with the 19-style flintlock pistol of Chongzhen, and even started a white-knuckle battle.

I don't know if these North Korean troops are really short of money or if they also have resentment against these Qing army banner people, and they are even more ruthless than the guards to kill the Qing army.

In the end, Ningyuan Zhongzuo was recovered by the Ming Dynasty!

The 2nd Corps of the 2nd Guards Army suffered zero casualties, while the Korean army lost more than a thousand casualties.

The Second Corps of the Second Army of the Guards Army continued to attack the main city of Ningyuanwei.

And this time it was still the North Korean army that undertook the siege task, but because Ning Yuanwei still had more Qing troops defending the city, the Guards also sent an infantry battalion to participate, and finally took Ning Yuanwei within three days.

(End of chapter)