In the first half of the entire third year of Chongzhen, there was no major war in Liaodong. Jiannu remained entrenched north of Shenyang, while the Ming army controlled south of Liaoyang. The vast plain between Liao and Shen became a buffer zone between the two sides, and from time to time the cavalry of both sides galloped across the plain, watching each other's movements, and the sentinels of the two sides often came into contact with each other, but that was all.

The Ming army was busy managing the newly recovered territory, rehousing the rescued Liao people, reorganizing the army, and cultivating the land. In the great battle just experienced, although the Ming army won a great victory, it also cost too much, and the whole battle cost millions of taels of silver, and it no longer had the strength to carry out the next big war.

And Jiannu, after a big war, the loss of Jiannu's population reached as much as seventy, and he no longer had the ability to continue the decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty. Huang Taiji was busy annexing the Mongolian tribes on the right flank in order to quickly restore his strength, and he had no intention of attacking the Ming army.

In the winter of last year, Huang Taiji led his troops to successfully attack the Horqin tribe, killed the leader of the Horqin tribe, and distributed the cattle, sheep and horses of the leaders to the ordinary herdsmen, so he quickly won the support of the ordinary herdsmen, and then reorganized the Horqin herdsmen into eight banners and got more than 20,000 cavalry.

Throughout the spring of this year, Huang Taiji led his cavalry to conquer everywhere and annexed more than a dozen large and small tribes. Some Mongol tribes were originally vassals of Jiannu and were willing to merge with Jiannu. There are also some tribes who do not want to lose their independence and cannot defeat the Jiannu army, so they migrate south as a whole, come to the border wall of Guangning in western Liaoning, and defect to the Ming army, intending to resist the Jiannu with the power of the Ming Dynasty.

On behalf of the emperor, Lu Xiangsheng promised to reward the tribal leader Da Ming official position, absorb his tribal cavalry to join the Ming army, and then disrupt and settle his people in Liaonan in western Liaoning, and live with the Ming army. In this way, it will not take many years for these Mongolian tribes to be completely sinicized. Its ends and means are very similar to those of Huang Taiji.

These tribes were already at the end of their rope, and coupled with the strong deterrence of the Praetorian Guard, they could only choose to completely annex to the Ming Dynasty. The tribal leaders were rewarded with gold and silver fields, and although they lost control of the tribe, they were at least able to become rich and live a worry-free life from now on. Compared with the brutal Jiannu, Daming treated them much better.

After absorbing these Mongol tribes, more than 10,000 Mongolian cavalry skilled in cavalry and archery were obtained, and after being integrated with the cavalry of the Praetorian Guard, the strength of the Praetorian Guard was even stronger.

After the annexation of the Jiannu and Ming armies, the right-wing Mongol tribes near Liaoxi and Liaobei were almost empty.

Huang Taiji refused to stop the pace of expansion, and had the intention of leading the army to the west and attacking the Chahar Department of Lin Dan Khan, which was entrenched in the area of Yinshan Naturalization City.

After perceiving Jiannu's intentions, Lu Xiangsheng quickly reported to the imperial court, and personally went to Liaoyang to garrison, gathering 60,000 troops in Liaoyang City to coerce Shenyang. If Huang Taiji dared to send troops to attack Lin Dan Khan, Lu Xiangsheng would lead his army to attack Shenyang in order to recover the whole of Liaodong.

After more than half a year of reorganization, the Liaoxi soldiers and the Dongjiang soldiers were all included in the establishment of the Praetorian Guard. Now Lu Xiangsheng has an army of 100,000, including 20,000 cavalry.

Lu Xiangsheng had already gone up and asked for troops to be sent in the autumn to attack Shenyang and completely recover the entire Liaodong.

After the court arrived, many courtiers were moved, but Zhu Youzhen did not agree, because the court could not take out enough money and food for a big war now.

Although the tax department and the sea trade department make up for it, Zhu Youzhen's stall is too big, and he has to use money everywhere, so he really has no money to fight a big war at the moment.

"Focus on defense for the time being, stock up on grain and grass for next year." This is Zhu Youzhen's instructions to Lu Xiangsheng.

In the next year, Lu Xiangsheng will devote his main energy to the tuntian, thousands of miles of fertile soil in eastern Liaodong, although the weather is cold and can only be ripened once a year, the reclaimed fields are enough to feed hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in eastern Liaodong.

Liaodong can be self-sufficient in grain, and if the war rations are accumulated, the cost of the war will be much smaller, which Lu Xiangsheng can also understand, so in the next time, his energy is more used in farming, in the autumn to set fire to the weeds in the field, dig out the grass roots in the ground, plow deeply before freezing, dig out the soil and expose the sun, and wait for the next spring to plant seeds.

Liaodong is lacking in everything else, except for a large number of cattle and horses, and in the war with Jiannu, more than seventy percent of Jiannu villages were looted by the "Guiyi Army", and Jiannu's cattle and horses were brought back. At the beginning, the Guiyi Army was either recruited into the Praetorian Guard, or "unarmoured" and returned to the peasants, driving the stolen cattle and horses, pulling ploughshares, and ploughing on the black soil. Before the winter, millions of acres of land were reclaimed in the territory occupied by the Ming army.

In the rule of reclaiming the fields, Lu Xiangsheng also began to reorganize the Liao people. It is still to adopt the armor protection system, and all Liao people are organized into armor protection, and the chief of the first class is set up, all of whom are wounded and retired Praetorian Guard soldiers.

In the great battle against Jiannu, the Praetorian Guard suffered thousands of casualties, and those who were slightly wounded could return to the team after recovery, and those who were seriously injured could not fight again even if they were cured. It is also a good placement to appoint them as the head of the chief of the guard, who is the head of the eighth and ninth grades, and leads the court to Lu.

Moreover, in the battle with Jiannu, a large number of Hannu women were rescued, and tens of thousands of young Jiannu women were also captured, and these women were all issued to the military and civilians as wives.

With official positions, land, and wives, the treatment of these wounded Praetorian Guard soldiers was enviable, which also made the Praetorian Guard more cohesive, and everyone in Liaodong was proud to join the Praetorian Guard.

And using these retired officers to manage the people also made the entire people of Liaodong return to their hearts. The entire Liaodong Town, except for the Liaoxi Corridor, where the Liaoxi General Gate is entrenched, is a power vacuum. There are no gentry, no landlords, no local forces, just like a blank sheet of paper, which can be splashed with ink at will, and it is precisely the place where the new system is established.

And this is also the main reason why Zhu Youzhen did not let Lu Xiangsheng start a war.

First of all, Liaodong should be governed well, and a perfect rural system should be established like northern Shaanxi, so that his will can reach every village directly, and change the reality that the imperial power does not go to the countryside. To make Liaodong, like northern Shaanxi, become his reliable rear, this is Zhu Youzhen's idea.

With successful experience and a large number of grassroots officials, this model can be quickly replicated elsewhere in the future.

In fact, court officials had discussed many times to send liuguan to Liaodong to govern the newly recovered lands. According to the plan of the civil officials, Haizhou, Gaizhou, Fuzhou, Jinzhou and other prefectures and counties should be re-established, and the governors and counties should be dispatched, and the governors, political governors, inspectors, military guards and other officials should be dispatched.

However, the results of the court's deliberations were all vetoed by Zhu Youzhen on the grounds that Liaodong was undecided. Before completely controlling and stabilizing Liaodong, Zhu Youzhen categorically would not let these civilian officials interfere.