"Your Majesty, this Zhu Tiesuo is a native of Cangzhou, originally a local powerful family, and his ancestors once fought for the Jin State with the Mongol Mu Huali, and later made a contribution, and he has been the head of Hejian Mansion for generations."

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, his brows furrowed.

He said with a displeased face, "So, this Zhu Tiesuo is still a Han man?" ”

Since the Mongols came to dominate the Central Plains, many Mongolians who have lived in the Central Plains for generations have given themselves a lot of Chinese names and surnames, so just relying on one name can sometimes not distinguish between Mongolians and Han Chinese identities.

"Your Majesty is wise, this Zhu Tiesuo is from the Han people in Hejian, but they have served the Mongols for generations, and they already feel that they belong to the category of Mongols." The lieutenant said.

"In this way, this Zhu Tiesuo is a traitor, and Hejian Mansion can't fight it!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's personal expedition was almost bloodless.

I was already impatient at the bottom of my heart.

Now that this Zhu Tiesuo of Hejian Mansion is not aware of the high ground and jumped out to find death, Zhu Yuanzhang will definitely not spare him easily.

The 100,000 army led by Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, soon came to the city of Hejian Mansion, and Zhu Tiesuo, the head of Hejian Mansion, in order to prevent anyone from going out of the city and surrendering, had already blocked all the city gates at this time.

Zhu Tiesuo is planning to drag the people of the city to jump into the fire pit together!

Seeing that the Ming army was slaughtering under the city, the people and soldiers of Hejian Mansion were terrified.

But only Zhu Tiesuo, a stubborn traitor, is still arrogant.

"Zhu Chongba, you anti-thief, Da Yuan won't spare you!"

"My Hejian Mansion is full of loyal ministers of the Great Yuan, if you rebels want to enter the city, unless you kill us!"

Zhu Tiesuo was like a mad dog, standing on the wall of Hejian Mansion and shouting loudly.

Hearing Zhu Tie's shout of not knowing whether he was alive or dead on the wall of Hejian Mansion, Zhu Yuanzhang showed a mocking smile.

"Zhu Tiesuo, how can this traitor be worthy of giving us a surname, and now being a traitor here openly and openly is simply a shame to the ancestors."

Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head to look at Zhou Dexing next to him and asked, "Zhou Dexing gave you five days to take Hejian Mansion, it is best to capture Zhu Tiesuo, a traitor, can you do it?" ”

Zhou Dexing heard it next to him and immediately said in a loud voice.

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, it won't take five days, three days is enough time to break through Hejian Mansion!"

"Okay, then you go and prepare for the siege!"

As the first battle of the Ming Emperor's personal expedition, Zhou Dexing's contribution to the first battle was that he couldn't run away no matter what.

In order to fight this battle perfectly, Zhou Dexing, as the founding prince of the People's Republic of China, personally went into battle to arrange artillery positions.

Today, the Ming army has a large number of newly minted artillery.

The guns were all cast in the latest brass!

Although it is a little heavy in terms of weight, it is definitely a well-deserved king in terms of power.

To deal with the rammed earth city wall of Hejian City, Zhou Dexing arranged twenty siege heavy artillery.

Thundered!

Thundered!

With a loud bang, the rammed earth city wall outside Hejian City collapsed like a tofu slag project.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Dexing mobilized another 4,000 infantry and launched an encirclement and suppression of Hejian Mansion.

Because the firearms of the Ming army are really sharp.

In this case, it only took half a day to completely break down the defense line of Hejian Province.

After breaking through Hejian Mansion, Zhou Dexing sent soldiers to start cleaning up the city and searching for the traitor Zhu Tiesuo.

There were about 4,000 Yuan troops in the city of Hejian Province, and after being defeated, these people surrendered one after another, and disarmed them according to the will of the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.

At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang also sent people to raid the Zhu family in Hejian and found a large amount of food and materials inside.

At this time, the Ming army also found out......

The big traitor Zhu Tiesuo has locked the whole family in the backyard of his house and set himself on fire.

"Stubborn, recognize the thief as his father, and die innocently!"

Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty gave a twelve-word evaluation to Zhu Tiesuo.

Since the surrender of the Jurchens, the Zhu clan in Hejian has been helping other races to do things, so the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang hated this family, and immediately ordered all the surviving Zhu clansmen to be sent to Tuntian, Guangdong, and did not allow the people of this family to continue to be surnamed Zhu, but ordered them to change their surnames to widows.

"Shame on the incorruptible!"

"Widow clansmen, when will there be righteous people who serve the country and the people, and they will be able to play the court and change their surnames!"

After easily defeating the local snake in Hejian, the remaining action of the Ming army was naturally to fight the local tyrants and divide the land to benefit the local people.

Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the three armies to be rewarded, and at the same time, he also rewarded the people of Cangzhou who went out with the army this time with a hundred catties of grain.

In this era, a hundred catties of grain is not a small amount.

In particular, the grain yield in this era was low, and the average yield per mu was about one or two stones, equivalent to two hundred catties.

For a time, the people of Cangzhou Prefecture in Daming were grateful and knelt on the ground, saying that the Holy Monarch was merciful.

The southernmost tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, that is, Dalian Lushun in later generations, is now the military division of Liaonan in the Ming Dynasty.

Hu Dahai, the commander of the Liaonan Prefecture, had already led a large number of troops to wait on the dock.

Because the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Daming East Road, under the leadership of Zhu Han, has crossed the sea from Shandong.

The Eastern Route Northern Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty was divided into two branches, left and right.

The army led by Zhu Han belonged to the left road, mainly starting from southern Liaoning and attacking Fuzhou and Tokyo Prefecture in the north.

On the other right, Mao Gui and Guo Zixing led the north from Goryeo to attack Baishan Huligai.

As one warship after another sailed into the bay of southern Liaoning, the 50,000 troops led by Zhu Han also began to land in southern Liaoning.

"The last general, Hu Dahai, greets His Royal Highness." Hu Dahai bowed and said.

At this time, Zhu Han, who was standing at the bow of the boat, heard the voice and saw Hu Dahai, "Okay! Hu Dusi has worked hard. ”

"I don't dare." Hu Dahai hurriedly agreed.

Hu Dahai has been operating here in southern Liaoning for more than half a year, and it has begun to take shape.

After Zhu Han got off the ship, he inspected inside and outside the Liaoning Southern Capital Division and felt that he was quite satisfied.

"Yes, General Hu has done a good job here in southern Liaoning, and we are now about to march into northern Liaoning, and southern Liaoning can already become our rear base." Zhu Han praised him.

"The last general is ashamed, thanks to His Majesty and His Royal Highness, the minister can make contributions here." Hu Dahai hurriedly replied.

Hu Dahai has indeed made a lot of contributions in southern Liaoning.

Many fortresses were built here in southern Liaoning, and the border tuntian was also garrisoned, so that thousands of soldiers in the capital of southern Liaoning could be self-sufficient.

This time, Zhu Han personally led tens of thousands of troops, with thousands of soldiers from the Southern Liaoning Division under Hu Dahai as the vanguard army, and rushed directly to the Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo of the Yuan Dynasty.

Aru Timur, who was stationed in Liaoyang Mansion, heard the news that Zhu Han was leading the Ming army to attack, and immediately fell into a panic.

Because the Mongols in Liaoyang Mansion at this time did not have many soldiers and horses at all, not long ago, Wang Baobao ordered all the Mongols to move to the northern steppe, and almost all the people and things that could be moved away.

And the Mongolians here in Liaoyang Mansion are now only more than 5,000.

More than 5,000 people simply could not withstand ten times the strength of the Ming army.

And the most important thing is that the Mongols looted a large number of gold, silver, treasures, grains and grass in the Liaoyang area, and hoarded them in Liaoyang Mansion.

These gold, silver, treasures, grain, and grass that did not have time to be transported were the things that Aru Timur was most concerned about.

Therefore, when Zhu Han led the Ming army to kill, the Mongols in the entire Liaoyang city were panicked.

Scattered and fled, there was no way to organize a decent resistance.

Aru Timur looked at the gold and silver treasures all over the city, and regretted in his heart, regretting that he had not moved these earlier.

couldn't help but face the menacing Ming army, even if Aru Timur wanted to resist with Liaoyang City, he couldn't find many soldiers and horses.

In desperation, Aru Timur could only lead his men to take away a batch of gold and silver treasures.

Then when he was leaving, he set fire to the granary of Liaoyang's treasury, wanting not to leave a grain of grain for the Ming army.

Aru Timur was sure that he would not be successful, running all the way, leaving the Ming army behind him far away.

However, in Liaoyang City, there are still many people who are reluctant to go to the steppe with the Mongols.

They immediately mobilized to extinguish the raging fire, and then opened the city gates to welcome the arrival of the Ming army.

Zhu Han led the army and occupied Liaoyang in one go.

After capturing Liaoyang, Zhu Han immediately sent the Ming army to take over local power in the surrounding small counties.

Liaodong this place, since the end of the Tang Dynasty since independence, no Han regime has been able to set foot here, if you talk about history, Liaodong is actually more miserable than the sixteen states of Youyun.

During the Tang Dynasty, Liaodong was still under the jurisdiction of the envoys of Lulongjiedu, and when the Khitans rose, the local Bohai people took refuge in the Khitan, and later when the Jurchens rose to establish the Jin State, the native Han people here in Liaodong had been completely Jurchenized, and they no longer regarded themselves as descendants of Yan and Huang like their ancestors, but migrated to the Central Plains as Jurchens.

Later, when the Mongols attacked Liaodong, they launched a new round of massacres and conquests against the local Jurchens.

Now that the Ming army is attacking Liaodong, there are basically no Han people living in Liaodong.

Therefore, it is necessary to send his troops and officials to quickly restore control of grassroots power in various counties in Liaodong, and restore those with a higher degree of civilization and civilization to their Han identity as soon as possible, after all, it is difficult to establish a perfect ruling order here in Liaodong by relying only on tens of thousands of Ming troops.

"Now whether it is Liaodong or the Central Plains, the population is seriously lacking, if we want to hold Liaodong forever, we must not only drive away the Mongols and forget it, we must drive out those barbarians, only those who remain obedient, that is, the Han people of the Ming Dynasty, as for those who don't want to be Han people, let them go back to the deep mountains and old forests to be savages!"

For those natives in Liaodong who refused to cooperate, Zhu Han was not stingy with his cruel methods.

Liu Bowen, who followed Zhu Han to Liaodong, also deeply agreed with Zhu Han's strategy.

"Your Royal Highness is reasonable, now Liaodong is in ruins, the most lacking is the population, if anyone can obey the Ming teachings, then the lower officials will send people to give them food, grass and clothing, if anyone dares to disobey the will of the imperial court, then the lower officials will not hesitate to use thunderous means on them!" Liu Bowen said slowly beside him.

When the Mongols planned to move north to the steppe, they had already looted and plundered the territory of Liaodong.

Those Liaodong people who refused to follow the Mongols to the north to the steppe were either killed or driven away, and the best outcome was also looted, so the local people of Liaodong are now impoverished and destitute.

If the Ming army didn't give these Liaodong locals grain and grass.

I'm afraid a massive famine will take place here.

After all, it is now the time when the spring has just thawed in Liaodong, and according to the usual season, it is the critical moment to sow seeds, but the grain in the hands of the Liaodong people has already been looted by the Mongols, and there are even no seeds for planting.

If the seeds of spring cannot be sown, then when the autumn harvest comes, there will be no harvest, and there will be no surplus grain to survive the cold winter in Liaodong, and the only way waiting for them is death.

Therefore, the Ming army used the grain in its hands and quickly re-established a complete set of Chinese etiquette system of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong.

Liaodong people in various counties have moved their ancestral tablets.

Xiang Ming Jun expressed his ancestry as a Han Chinese, indicating that he was different from the barbarians.

Anyone who could get the Ming army to recognize the Han Chinese identity would receive a sum of grain for the mouth of the lake, as well as a batch of the latest crop seeds from the Central Plains.

These strange seeds, one by one, have no one in Liaodong who has ever seen this strange grain.

"Potatoes?"

"This is the Ming Dynasty, for your favor, it is the most productive grain in the Central Plains, as long as you plant this in the ground, the whole family can no longer have to worry about starving to death in a year!"

Daming, who taught Liaodong people how to plant new crops, officials began to walk down the streets to promote the benefits of potatoes.

The Liaodong people, who were looted by the Mongols, were even extremely reluctant.

But in the face of such a situation, I also had to sow these strange potatoes.

Zhu Han wanted to use the fastest means to establish a stable ruling order in Liaodong, and the first task was to make these Liaodong people have enough to eat, and only when they had enough to eat could they provide forced labor for the Ming Dynasty, and then build roads and water conservancy projects.

Potatoes, a fast-growing, drought-tolerant and cold-tolerant crop, have naturally become the first choice for the development of eastern Liaodong.

Zhu Han, the king of the Ming Dynasty, set up the Liaodong Propaganda Department in Liaodong, and Liu Bowen concurrently served as the propaganda envoy.

Almost a month later, Zhu Han basically took Liaodong under his own control, and now the scope of his jurisdiction is equivalent to the entire Liaoning Province in later generations, most of Jilin Province, including the northern part of the Goryeo Peninsula, which is the entire territory of the Ming Liaodong Xuanwei Division.

However, if the Ming army wanted to continue north and conquer the Jurchens in more remote areas, it encountered a difficulty that was difficult to overcome at this time.

The deputy capital of Daming Goryeo, Hu Maogui, personally came to Liaoyang to report the difficulties encountered to Zhu Han.

"Your Royal Highness, now Guzhou, Kaiyuan, Huligai, Yalan these places have been captured by my Ming army, but if you go further north, those Jurchens will be much more difficult to deal with, this is not to say how strong the Jurchens in more remote areas are in combat ability, but the place where they live is in addition to the deep mountains and old forests, there are lakes and swamps everywhere, once it is spring and summer, it immediately turns into a swamp pit that devours people's lives, and in autumn and winter, it is all a vast snowfield, once people and animals go up, Even the direction cannot be discerned, and even if our Ming army is brave and good at fighting, I am afraid that it will not be able to pass through these swampy areas smoothly. ”

Mao Gui was the pioneer officer of the Ming Dynasty in the Goryeo area of Liaodong.

He fought with the Jurchens no less than 100 times, and he had already figured out the strength and distribution of the Jurchens.

The closer the Jurchens were to the south, the more civilized they were, and the more northward the Jurchens were more barbaric and backward because of the relationship between the poor and remote areas.

Moreover, this place in the northeast became the black soil of the later generations, and it was actually a matter after entering the modern society.

In ancient times, the Northeast Plain was full of lakes and swamps, and there was not even a decent road.

Unless the local Jurchens themselves lead the way, once an outsider steps into it, it is easy to get lost in the swamp, or sink directly into the swamp and lose their lives.

In modern times, because millions of Han people from the Central Plains immigrated to the Northeast, a series of reclamation fields were carried out and a large number of swamps were eliminated.

It was not until the newly established that millions of workers and peasants built the Northeast Plain, and the Northeast was built into a real granary.

In the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty era in which Zhu Han is now, the Northeast is a forest and snow field that everyone is afraid of.

The front line of the Ming army's offensive could only stop near Huligai Wanhu Mansion.

That is, the southern region of Jilin Province in later generations.

"Your Highness, the last general feels that those Jurchens further north are weak, the number is not very large, and the land is so bitter and barren, it is better for me to set up a border fortress to defend this place in Huli." Mao Gui finally put forward his own suggestion.

Not only Mao Gui thinks so, but even Liu Bowen and others agree with his point of view very much.

However, even though everyone agreed with this point of view so much, Zhu Han expressed his resolute opposition.

"General Mao, you said that the Jurchens in the north are weak, that is actually just a appearance, they are nothing more than because they are too closed and backward, lack of powerful weapons such as iron armor, and if I Ming Dynasty set up border fortresses in Liaodong to develop towns, these Jurchens in the north will definitely take advantage of this development, and when they get these weapons in Liaodong, and then they are not under the control of my Ming Dynasty, and they will definitely grow into a force that is difficult to stabilize after a long time." Zhu Han said slowly.

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

Trade and exchange are almost inevitable for human society.

Even the backward Jurchens in the north still understand this truth.

And once the rule of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong is stabilized, the Jurchens in the north will definitely use their own specialties to trade with the Han people in Liaodong, and over time, the Jurchens will gradually master the use and manufacture of iron and other weapons, once they have the intention of attacking the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty may repeat the mistakes of the Jurchens in history to establish the Manchu Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhu Han's strategy for the Northeast is to implement the strategy of Greater Liaodong.

Conceptually, Lesser Liaodong only includes the Liaodong Peninsula, and then adds part of the Jilin Goryeo region.

And Zhu Han wants to execute the Great Liaodong.

This is the entire Great Wall, and all the northeastern land outside the pass belongs to the Liaodong Province or the Xuanwei Division.

"I have already discussed with Your Majesty, my Ming Dynasty wants to implement the Great Liaodong strategy in Liaodong, as long as all the land north of Liaodong to the Ice Sea, whether it is barren mountains or frozen plateaus, all must be recovered, and I will own it!"

"Therefore, these Jurchens in the north must not ignore them, and they must be recovered under the direct rule of the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Han knew.

This vast land from the Northeast to Eastern Siberia is not only the breadbasket of the post-future, but also full of countless minerals such as timber, gold, silver, copper, iron ore, and coal.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that this piece of land is priceless.

If the Ming Dynasty is unable to conquer this land during the climax of the expansion of the founding of the country, then when it comes to future generations, I am afraid that it will be even more powerless.

Zhu Han knew that from the moment the Ming Dynasty was established.

The world pattern of the whole world has entered the moment when the world is about to be turned upside down.

This change is not only in the East, but also in the West!