Chapter Forty-Eight: Farming in Liaodong

As soon as they heard about the siege of Hetuala, the soldiers and horses gathered in Liaodong were excited, and they rushed to seize the opportunity to go out.

This is a rare opportunity to pick up credit for nothing, and they all sharpen their heads and squeeze up.

Qin Rongshuai was marching slowly with the new army, and several troops had already run to the city of Hetuala.

These troops tried to attack the city once, but their heads were knocked and bleeding, while the Zhejiang soldiers stood by with cannons and watched the excitement.

In the end, you still have to honestly wait for Qin Rongshuai, to be precise, for the cannon of the new army.

After waiting for three days, the new army was late, and after repairing, they concentrated a hundred cannons outside the city gate on one side, lined up and began to bombard.

The cannon barrel of Qin Rongshuai's new army was made of seamless steel pipes he brought, and its strength was not an order of magnitude stronger than the bronze artillery of this era.

If the barrel is good, the charge of gunpowder will naturally be more, the power will be great, and the firing range will be long.

These special artillery pieces were far beyond the perception of the people of this era, and their only impression was that the guns of the new army were powerful and strong.

Under the bombardment of more than 100 cannons in turn, the walls of Hetuara were crumbling, and a hole was opened in only half a day.

The soldiers of Liaozhen, who had long been unable to hold back, swarmed into the breach, and then started a tragic street battle with the remnants of Jianyu.

And Qin Rongshuai led the new army to watch outside the city, allowing all troops to attack the city.

Because he knew that there was not much oil and water to scrape in the city, except for some first-class merits, and he had already robbed it all last time.

The street fighting in the city lasted for three days and three nights, and it can be said that it was extremely tragic, and the city was full of corpses, most of which were taken prisoner.

In fact, Qin Rongshuai knew very well why this happened, in fact, the real resistance only lasted for half a day.

Some of the remnants fled to the deep mountains and old forests, and Qin Rongshuai did not chase them, because the war in Liaodong was actually over during the Battle of the Hunhe River.

Hetuala, the last stronghold, was washed back and forth by the Zhejiang soldiers, Liao soldiers, and white pole soldiers, and very few survived, and the remaining stragglers could not become any climate.

After Hetuara was captured, Xiong Tingbi of Liaodong Jinglu immediately rushed to the capital for 800 miles.

After the news was received in the capital, the crowd was excited, and the city celebrated for three days, and everyone was overjoyed.

From the forty-sixth year of Wanli Nurhachi to the seven hatreds against the Ming, the war lasted for four years, spending more than 20 million taels, losing troops and losing cities and land.

During this period, the imperial court levied Liao salary several times, which made the people miserable, but Jianyu became stronger and stronger, and it was about to become a big trouble, so he died in a war.

The thief chief was awarded the head, the nest was destroyed, and there was no war in Liaodong again.

And after the victory, of course, it is a reward for meritorious deeds, and the greatest meritorious Qin Rongshuai was named the Marquis of Pingliao, and the commander of the Jinyi Guard.

Xiong Tingbi led Youfang to transfer back to Beijing, and was promoted from the squire of the military department to the secretary of the military department, and the scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, and he could enter the cabinet in two years.

The war in Liaodong subsided, and the post of Liaodong Economic Strategy was also abolished and no longer set up, and the yamen in Liaodong was abolished and gradually restored to its previous state.

After the battle was over, the troops and horses were supposed to leave for home, but the gang made a fuss again.

The reason is still for the silver, and the soldiers of the various tribes, who had originally made a small fortune in Hetuala, were worried about the court's reward for silver, especially the first-class silver.

At that time, the military law of the Ming Dynasty stipulated that if you won the head of a Jurchen sergeant, you could get a reward of 50 taels of silver, and at that time, a Liao army had a monthly salary of 1245 cents of silver, plus 5 buckets of rice (about 56 cents of silver), and the annual salary was only 25 taels of silver.

If it is the head of generals and important people, it is even more expensive, ranging from one hundred taels to one thousand taels.

But the imperial court obviously couldn't come up with much money, and the soldiers and horses of the various departments would not leave.

If they don't leave, Qin Rongshuai will be secretly happy in his heart, but he will not express it openly, and at the same time secretly instigate the soldiers to make trouble and ask the court to cash in the reward.

There are more than 100,000 heads of Jianyu, and the imperial court can't honor it at all.

Seeing that a mutiny was about to break out, Qin Rongshuai gave the court an idea.

Instead of rewarding silver with fields, there is so much land in Liaodong and the population is sparse, it is better to reward the land in Liaodong to the meritorious soldiers and let them cultivate here, killing two birds with one stone.

Seeing Qin Rongshuai's twists and turns, the cabinet bigwigs were ecstatic, as long as they didn't let the court pay for the money, they could do anything.

This plan was quickly approved by the cabinet, and when the news reached Liaodong, the situation was immediately calmed down.

Qin Rongshuai and these new troops are the main force, and the other troops are drizzling in terms of numbers and combat exploits, and they can't make trouble if they want to.

The Zhejiang soldiers and the Sichuan soldiers were both guest soldiers, and it was impossible for them to stay, so they didn't plan to plant the land at all, so they sold it.

After sending all the guest troops away, there were only local soldiers and horses left in Liaozhen, and Qin Rongshuai didn't care about them, he directly led the new army to occupy the territory before Jianyu, and then began to farm.

Qin Rongshuai directly gave a report to the cabinet, considering that Liaodong has been in war for many years, has been repeatedly destroyed, and the people are not happy. He applied to defend the area, disbanded most of the new army, and let them clear the land in the area.

Not only that, Qin Rongshuai also asked the imperial court to make Liaodong the first choice for resettlement of displaced people, and to immigrate to Shibian.

Liaodong is a bitter cold place, there is no oil and water, the cabinet was a little surprised by Qin Rongshuai's choice, thinking that he broke his head in the war, Pingliao He is the first merit, and he has the merit of saving the driver, and there will be glory and wealth in the future, why can't you think about it? .

Qin Rongshuai put on the table several times, and his words were sincere, and the cabinet saw that he didn't look like a fraud, so he finally discussed it.

At the same time, Liaodong was also exempted from paying taxes for three years, and they all felt that Qin Rongshuai would have to come back in less than three years.

And Qin Rongshuai was overjoyed in his heart, from now on, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and he can do whatever he wants.

The first step in farming is to prospect for minerals, and then set up a base car and start farming from there.

Xiaosiping Village is rich in iron ore in Dongshan, Nurhachi has set up an iron-smelting workshop here before, and there are coal mines nearby, which is too suitable for a steel base.

So Qin Rongshuai launched a vigorous steel-making campaign, and the Tufa blast furnace was launched.

The low-quality steel produced is then turned into various household tools and agricultural tools, and then exchanged with the herdsmen on the grassland for livestock, especially cattle and horses, which is useful and in high demand.

At the same time, Qin Rongshuai took out the seeds of various cold-resistant crops from his personal space, first reclaimed the wasteland and planted potatoes and sweet potatoes, and at the same time grabbed some corn to see how it grew.

Then Qin Rongshuai began to think about how to climb the technology tree, and then he remembered the golden apple he had obtained before, and his heart was immediately overjoyed.

With a cheat like the Golden Apple, the tech tree isn't the same as making a rocket, whoosh.

But when he opened the golden apple, his heart was half cold.

The technology of the Golden Apple has been analyzed, but he cannot use it directly, and he needs to pay the system to redeem it.

"Isn't it?!" Qin Rongshuai asked with a painful face, "If the golden apple is your thing, the exchange technology will cost money, but this thing is mine, why does the exchange technology cost money?" ”

"Come, can you explain to me what this money means?"

[Golden Apple Technology belongs to the Isu technology, and the stored information is in the Isu language, and this payment is the translation fee]

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(A bit of a cardin, the next chapter will be late, you can read it tomorrow, and ask for another ticket!) )