[In this battle, the seventeen forts north of the Taizi River were uprooted, more than 17,800 people were lost, 720,000 stones of grain were taken, more than 300,000 taels of silver were taken, countless stomachs were weighed, and more than 800,000 acres of cultivated land were burned, and more than 400,000 acres of green seedlings were harvested in Fengji and other places. 】

[The Zhejiang Military Department beheaded 1,247 true captives, and 897 people were lost. 】

[Shenyang went out of the city and beheaded 942 true captives, with a loss of 621 people. 】

[The general soldier Sun Yingyuan's troops broke through Gushan Fort and Xianchang Fort, beheaded 727 Zhenqing, and suffered 1,621 self-losses. 】

[Qinghe Guanmangui's department beheaded one hundred and forty-two true captives, and suffered three hundred and eighty-one self-losses. 】

[A total of 3,000 and 16 true captives were beheaded, and a total of 3,520 people were lost by the three soldiers and horses, and there was no beheading ...... in Guangning]

On June 12, the first year of the Apocalypse, as the siege of Shenyang was lifted, the Ming army also stopped attacking.

This note was written to the emperor by Xiong Tingbi after he arrived in Shenyang and confirmed Nurhachi's retreat, and now, it was handed to Zhu Youzhen by Zhu Youxiao.

"The Liao affair is temporarily lifted, how is my brother going to deal with the Liao affairs arrangement in the future?"

In the Heart Cultivation Palace, Zhu Youxiao looked at his younger brother who had grown a lot taller, and felt a little relieved.

The difficult siege of Shenyang was lifted, and although the seventeen forts of the Taizi River were burned down, and more than 17,000 people were killed in the total of the various departments, the situation in Liaodong was finally temporarily stabilized.

Now Zhu Youxiao wants to know how his younger brother will stabilize the situation in Liaodong.

Zhu Youzhen, who was facing the inquiry and sitting next to Zhu Youxiao, looked at the performance and thought carefully about the changes in the past few days.

First of all, after Nurhachi retreated, Sun Yingyuan's department on the east road did not continue to advance, but left more than 500 people to garrison and repair Xianchang Fort and Gushan Fort, and then left 6,000 catties of gunpowder and 3,000 stones of grain, making Gushan Fort and Xianchang Fort the first line of defense in Kuandian.

After the evacuation, he set up three more forts on the sixty-mile road from Gushan Fort to Kuandian, and left 300 to 1,000 soldiers.

When he completely evacuated and returned to Kuandian, he handed over the soldiers and horses of the third battalion of Kuandian and the third battalion of Phoenix City, and led the Seventh Guard Army to withdraw to Zhenjiang.

Qi Jin and Xiong Tingbi both arrived in Shenyang, especially Xiong Tingbi transported 130,000 stone of grain, which greatly alleviated the crisis in Shenyang.

At present, there are about 300,000 people in Shenyang City, less than 50,000 soldiers and horses, and the grain harvested in the autumn outside the city is burned, and the harvest is the same in Fengjibao and other places.

In this way, the more than 300,000 people north of the Taizi River this year will need help from the imperial court.

If the imperial court's relief is unfavorable, I am afraid that they will turn to Jianlu and Beiyu.

As for Man Gui, after Mang Gurtai returned to defend Tieling, he took the initiative to withdraw to Daning and continued to prepare to build a city in Daning Sanwei.

Therefore, what is now in front of him is first to replenish the troops and horses of the various units that lost troops in this battle, and secondly, to relieve the people of Shenyang and find a way for them to live.

In the end, I thought about how to trap Nurhachi and prevent him from attacking Liaodong next year, or not letting him attack next year, so that he could get such a rich spoils of this battle.

After thinking about it, Zhu Youzhen said:

"It's June now, Xiong Tingbi, Qi Jin, and Sun Yingyuan's three troops and horses only need to be stationed until September, and the old slave won't attack again."

"Even if you go out of the customs to attack again, it will be February or March next year, so what needs to be done now is first to replenish the troops of Shenyang, Sichuan and Zhejiang."

"According to what the younger brother has seen, Qin Liangyu can be promoted to be the ambassador of Shizhu and Youyang, and he will be issued with 300,000 taels of silver, 150,000 stones of grain, and 10,000 stomachs, and he will be asked to recruit another 10,000 soldiers."

"The 10,000 horses recruited before were ordered to send troops north to aid Liao in September, garrison Shenyang, and be under the control of Qin Bangping.

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"Then transfer the nine thousand soldiers of Yongping who have been raised for three months from Yongping Mansion to Shenyang, and hand them over to He Shixian and You Shigong."

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"In this way, even if the Zhejiang soldiers and Liaoxi soldiers are withdrawn, counting the original soldiers and horses, Shenyang will have 31,000 men and horses, so it will not be as embarrassing as this battle."

"In addition, the internal treasury issued 300,000 taels of silver, 200,000 stones of grain, and 12,000 stomachs, and ordered Qi Yuanbi to go south to Zhejiang, recruit troops in Zhejiang, and go north to Liaoyang in November."

"In addition, the soldiers and horses of the Shuntianfu of the seventh battalion of Sun Yingyuan's department are stationed in the third battalion of Phoenix City, the third battalion of Kuandian, and the first battalion of Zhenjiang."

"Qi Yuangong is the general soldier of Phoenix City, Qi Yuanfu is the general soldier of Kuandian, and Qin Minping is the general soldier of Zhenjiang."

"Then transfer Qin Banghan as the chief soldier of Jinzhou, lead the three thousand Sichuan soldiers of Shenyang to the south, and go to Jinzhou at the end of June to repair Lushun and other waters."

Zhu Youzhen finished talking about his first idea of replenishing soldiers and horses, but the more he spoke, the more embarrassed Zhu Youxiao's face became.

After a long time, Zhu Youxiao was embarrassed and said: "Although this plan is good, there are only more than one hundred and twenty taels of silver in the internal treasury at the moment." ”

"Brother, don't worry." When Zhu Youzhen heard that this was the reason, he comforted:

"I have asked Huachun to go to the Yanshan camp and escort one million taels to the interior."

"Where did you get so much silver?" Zhu Youxiao was stunned when he heard this.

In his opinion, if his younger brother wants to raise an army of 100,000, how can he take out a million taels of silver in one go just for the tax paid by the Imperial Horse Supervisor?

It's just that in the face of his words, Zhu Youzhen smiled and said: "Brother, has it been possible that I ordered Jinyiwei to go south to sell grain?" ”

"Take it with peace of mind, and when the time comes, I will send the silver to Shenyang and Liaoyang, and I will send the soldiers of the Wanping battalion to escort it, and my brother will send a messenger to the eunuch to preach the holy grace."

"It's like you pay for the money, and then the hearts of the army are all with me." Zhu Youxiao smiled bitterly, obviously a little reluctant to let Zhu Youzhen take the silver.

Zhu Youzhen didn't care about this, after all, his private salt farm was about to start drying salt, and as long as the illegal salt went through, he would not be short of silver.

At present, stabilizing Liaodong is the first, and if there is no silver, he will earn it, with his identity and soldiers and horses, if he operates properly, it is impossible to have no silver.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen continued:

"I calculated, plus the soldiers and horses of Qin Liangyu's department opened the silver, the Yongping new pawns opened the silver, and the military salaries of the soldiers and horses in Liaoshen and Shen in the second half of the year, a total of 300,000 taels of silver."

"In addition, the beheading of the true captives this time is three thousand and sixteen levels, and it needs to be issued three hundred and sixty-one thousand six hundred taels, for a total of six hundred thousand six hundred taels."

"Subsequently, the imperial court's arrears to Liaoxi and Liaonan, plus the salaries for the whole year of this year, totaled 1,368,000 taels."

"Humph!" Hearing the military salaries in western and southern Liaoning, Zhu Youxiao snorted coldly.

After all, the Sichuan soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers, as well as the Shenyang Liao soldiers and the Seven Guards Army combined, killed more than 3,000 real prisoners.

When the Seven Guards went out, the soldiers and horses of Liao Shen and Liao were only 3,670,000 taels a year, and the 76,000 soldiers and horses in western and southern Liaoning, there were not a few beheaded, but they had to eat 1,368,000 taels just for the military salary.

If you add the annual supply, the price of the horse is silver, and you have to get at least 2.5 million taels of silver.

With so much silver, it was inevitable that he would be angry.

In this regard, Zhu Youzhen could only say helplessly:

"Now is not the opportunity to dismantle Liaozhen, wait for Shanxi to aid Liao soldiers and horses to settle in Shenyang, and then wait for the Sichuan soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers to arrive in Liaoshen next year, and then transfer the Five Guards to settle in, it should be able to dismantle Liaodong."

"It's better to cut off this kind of soldiers and horses early, and I don't know how much vacancies this Xiong Tingbi has eaten with his connivance with his subordinates." Zhu Youxiao frowned and reprimanded.

However, he also knew that this kind of thing was not something that Xiong Tingbi could condone alone, and he was also one of the victims.

In this regard, Zhu Youzhen also explained:

"Replenish the Sichuan soldiers, Zhejiang soldiers, Shenyang He Shixian's department, plus the seven battalions of the three cities of Zhenjiang, there will be 75,000 guest troops in Liaodong, plus the soldiers and horses of the three towns in Shanxi, a total of 102,000 people."

"When the time comes, a part of the guards will be transferred to Liaoxi, and the vacancies will be found in one fell swoop, the vacancies will be abolished, and the empty salaries will be traced."

"At that time, the soldiers and horses in Liaodong should be stable at about 140,000 people, the military salary is 2.1 million taels per year, and the cost of grain and grass is 1.2 million taels, and the total will not exceed 3.5 million taels."

Reducing the original annual salary of more than 4.8 million yuan to 3.5 million taels is the most important thing for Zhu Youzhen in the next three years, in addition to rectifying the three towns in Shanxi.

"Three and a half million...... Liaodong alone ......"

Zhu Youxiao frowned, obviously very dissatisfied with the fact that the little Liaodong wanted to raise an army of 140,000.

His thoughts, Zhu Youzhen also understood, so he reassured:

"Brother, don't worry, not all of these 140,000 soldiers and horses are stationed in Liaodong, but more importantly, they are going north."

"As long as there are 140,000 soldiers and horses in Liaodong, plus the mobilization of the 16th Guards, then you can recover the Great Wall of Liaodong first, and after going north to Tieling to open the plains, you can defeat the Horqin Division!"

"Korqin?" Zhu Youxiao was puzzled: "That place is covered with snow for four or five months a year, what's so good?" ”

"It's better to be even!" Zhu Youzhen responded with a smile:

"Starting from the abolition of the guard, didn't the imperial brother find out that there are too many hidden households in my Ming Dynasty?"

"This is indeed true, but there are more acres of land in the middle of the court, and even the people can feed it." Zhu Youxiao was optimistic, but Zhu Youzhen was not.

Perhaps, as Zhu Youxiao said, the paper population of the two capitals and thirteen provinces is double, and it can be fed, or even tripled, and it can barely be fed.

But the premise of all this is based on the absence of natural and man-made disasters.

But the problem is that the Ming Dynasty not only has to face natural disasters, but also more than ten years of natural disasters!

Under such a natural disaster, the science and technology of this era alone cannot feed more than 100 million people in the Ming Dynasty.

What we have to do is to open the south and expand the north, and the west to the east!

The eastward expansion is for maritime trade, and the southern expansion is for the recovery of Cochin, Burma.

The westward expansion is the Western Regions and Wusizang, and the northward opening is dominated by the northeast, supplemented by the north.

I have to say that the territory of the autumn leaves and begonias opened up by the Qing Dynasty can be described as very perfect, if you add the three Xuanliu and Jiaozhi in the southwest of the Ming Dynasty, and the old port Xuanwei Division in Malacca, it can be said to be the most perfect territory.

In this era, the population of Daming is definitely the largest in the world.

At present, the population of Europe is only 60 or 70 million, while the current Ming Dynasty has 60 million men alone, and it is not surprising that the population is between 100 million and 160 million.

With such a large population, in this era of low productivity, once the population density is too high, it will be a dead end to encounter natural and man-made disasters.

There is still a glimmer of life in the development, even if it costs a lot of money and food, Zhu Youzhen must also make up his mind.

Therefore, he explained to the imperial brother the advantages and disadvantages of the Northeast.

Generally speaking, the advantage of the Tohoku at the moment is that the land is fertile, very flat, and does not have the excessive miasma of the southwest.

The disadvantage is that the meadows are thick and densely forested, and it takes time and a lot of money to cultivate.

For example, in the middle and lower reaches of the Liaohe River reclaimed by Mangui, it takes three years to start harvesting grain, and five years to make the land yield comparable to that of the southern Liaoning generation.

In this era of low productivity, even with enough ploughing cattle, farm tools, and knives, 100,000 people will open up 200,000 mu a year at most.

And the price of these two or three hundred thousand mu is at least two stone of grain every three months.

100,000 people, 5,000 ploughing cattle, at most 5.6 million mu of land in three years, but need to eat 2.4 million stone grain and 6,000 stone salt, an average of 800,000 stone grain and 2,000 stone salt every year.

What is this concept? The current one-year field endowment of the Ming Dynasty can barely reach more than 28 million stone endowments after the handover of the Tian endowment under Zhu Youzhen's imperial horse supervisor.

In other words, it is necessary to allocate one-thirty-fifth of the fiscal revenue every year in order to obtain 5.6 million mu of land in three years.

If one million people reclaim the land, it will be possible to obtain five or six million mu of arable land in three years, but it will consume 24 million stone grain in three years.

Even if it is according to the military tun and the seven or three points of the imperial horse supervisor, it will take twenty years to pay enough grain and grass for the imperial court.

If it was an official of a feudal dynasty with a normal brain, he would not think that it was a good deal.

After all, this is twenty years, which is equivalent to one-fifteenth of the life of a normal feudal dynasty.

In normal times, Zhu Youzhen is not willing to do this kind of business, but Zhu Youzhen knows one thing, that is, Shaanxi will have a major drought for more than ten consecutive years, and other places will also suffer.

In a province, except for the fields near the water source, where grain may be harvested, the other fields can only be pitifully cracked.

Don't let them rebel, there is only disaster relief, and since you want disaster relief, you have to support them for more than ten years.

In this case, it is better to move directly to other places and distribute grain to them to reclaim new acres of land.

It's better to suffer for three years than to suffer for more than ten years, or even die in the world!

Moreover, now is the only opportunity for the Ming Dynasty to move the people outward, and this opportunity can be said to be only five years.

In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, there will be a major drought in Shaanxi, and then it will spread one after another, and the price of grain will soar, and at present, Shaanxi's grain is only four yuan a catty.

With the number of fields in the Ming Dynasty, the amount of grain cultivated every year is more than a billion stones.

Even if it doesn't cost money to buy it, as long as nearly 90 million mu of military tun land is settled, even if it is according to 73 points, and then pay taxes, there will be more than 40 million stones a year.

These grains, excluding the loss of transportation, can be transported to the north of 30 million stones.

As long as the imperial brother supports his plan, the Ming Dynasty can maintain three or four million people outside the Great Wall every year after the abolition of the Tianxia Guard, seven years before the Apocalypse.

Time waits for no one, and Zhu Youzhen can't wait so much, so after a simple calculation, he said:

"Outside the gate, brother don't worry, I'll solve it."

"What we have to do now is to reclaim Daning Sanwei first!"

"Daning Sanwei ......" Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Zhu Youxiao absentmindedly picked up a lychee and ate it:

"Can I land there?"

"Yes, although it takes a bit of effort, but at present, there are more than 3,000 ploughing cattle in Daning Sanwei, and when the time comes, there should be tens of thousands of ploughing cattle in the exchange market with the local man." Zhu Youjian discussed:

"What the minister thinks is to send all the able-bodied people in the North Zhili Nursing Home, as well as the people who committed crimes in the North Zhili, to Daning Sanwei."

"Huh?" Zhu Youxiao was stunned for a moment, and then said: "That's a lot of people." ”

"I've seen the list of Beizhili Nursing Homes, there are about 70,000 people, plus at least 100,000 prisoners, are you sure that Daning can support so many people?"

"Naturally!" Zhu Youzhen responded with a smile: "The grain of the Imperial Horse Supervisor is more than enough to support them for cultivation. ”

While responding, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but muttering in his heart what 100,000 people are.

At present, after exchanging grasslands with Zaisai, this land is equivalent to Xinmin, Tai'an, and Liaozhong in later generations, and millions of acres can be cultivated.

If Zhu Youzhen was worried that he would not be able to reclaim the land and cause a waste of money and grain, then now that he was affirmed by Man Gui and others, he made up his mind.

Immigrant! Reclamation!

Anyway, it is a waste of food for the lazy people in the nursing home to stay in the nursing home, and the same is true for the prisoners in Beizhili, so it is better to send Daning Sanwei to contribute to the development of the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

"If you think you can, that'll be fine." Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao did not force it, and greeted Wei Zhongxian, who was standing at the door of the Heart Cultivation Palace:

"Zhongxian, ask Wang Tiqian to draft the holy decree, and send the people with sound hands and feet in the Beizhili Nursing Institute and the people who commit crimes to Daning Sanwei one after another."

"Slave and maid ......" Wei Zhongxian heard the emperor call him, so after returning the salute, he left to inform Wang Tiqian.

But after he left, Zhu Youxiao said again:

"After talking about replenishing soldiers and horses, what about the more than 300,000 people in Shenyang?"

"The more than 300,000 people in Shenyang, according to what the ministers and brothers, should move all the 250,000 people in the city to Zhenjiang, remove the 27 forts from Zhenjiang to Jinzhou, and order the Seventh Guard Army to check the fields and distribute them to these 250,000 people."

"Didn't my brother say that he would stabilize the local generals and soldiers in Liaodong first?" Zhu Youxiao was puzzled, but Zhu Youzhen said:

"Liaodong is not as good as Liaoxi, especially from Jinzhou to Zhenjiang, most of them are hills and plains, and the number of mouths is only two or three hundred thousand, if it is carefully cultivated, there should be five or six million mu of cultivated land."

"At present, there are still a large number of hills in the Zhenjiang area that have not been cultivated, plus the five or six hundred thousand mu of military tun fields in the military tun, so the subordinate brother dares to say that these people will be relocated to the Zhenjiang area."

"However, for the matter of migration, I still need my brother to set up Zhenjiang as a state, otherwise with such a large population, it will be difficult to govern it with a fort."

"This matter is not difficult, but after they go to Zhenjiang Mintun, the food they need ......" Zhu Youxiao's face was embarrassed.

"Brother and I will pay the bottom, how much food is there in Taicang and Nei, Liubu, Taifu Temple, etc.?" Zhu Youzhen smiled helplessly, he didn't expect that this was just June, and Daming would fall into a financial crisis.

Regarding his inquiry, Zhu Youxiao could only say helplessly as a brother:

"If it is added together, it is only more than 4.6 million stones of rice and wheat, and more than 2.8 million taels of silver."

"Therefore, I still have a headache about how to pay the military salary of Liaozhen, the arrears and this year's military salary, horse price silver, and baggage, together with three million two hundred and twenty-three thousand taels, and a shortfall of four hundred and twenty thousand taels."

"This ......" Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen was also speechless.

He is rich and good, but the military salary of the imperial horse supervisor is also paid month by month, although Lu Jianxing continues his life, but now the autumn harvest has not yet arrived, that is, the autumn tax has not been collected, so after transporting one million taels of silver to the imperial brother, there are only 980,000 taels left.

If you want to be here, Zhu Youzhen can only grit his teeth and say:

"There are still more than 1.2 million stone grains in the Imperial Horse Prison, and the younger brother first ordered people to transport 600,000 stone grains to Zhenjiang, and asked the imperial brother to let Taicang transport 800,000 stone grains to Zhenjiang, and then transport 400,000 stone grains to Shenyang."

"In this way, we should be able to hold out until May of next year, and when the Imperial Horse Supervisor will transport another 600,000 stone grains to Zhenjiang, it should allow the people to hold out until the autumn harvest."

"Alas......" Hearing his younger brother's words, Principal Zhu You sighed and said:

"It's a matter of letting my brother worry about family matters."

"What is that? Besides, my brother is going to have a new account. Zhu Youzhen smiled and spoke, making the imperial brother look surprised:

"What do you mean......"

"The younger brother is ready to make a move on the six prefectures and two prefectures between the rivers of Beizhili and the entire territory of Shanxi!" Zhu Youzhen's eyes were blazing.

He really didn't have the patience to wait any longer, there wasn't enough time for him to do what he wanted to do seven years before the Apocalypse, so he had to speed up.

"At the beginning of the year, I just abolished dozens of guards in the second government, and now I am doing it again, is it too hasty?"

Suddenly, Zhu Youxiao, who was in a hurry to solve the three towns in Shanxi, hesitated, and Zhu Youzhen said:

"Time is running out, if the old slave invades Liaodong again tomorrow, plus the soldiers and horses in Liaodong next year, the taxes of the imperial court will be difficult to afford."

"As long as the Seven Guards return to defense, they can use the knife after the autumn harvest!"

"100,000 soldiers and horses, can they suppress Beizhili and Shanxi?" Zhu Youxiao frowned.

This matter is very important, if the impeachment is successful, then according to Zhu Youzhen's previous changes, once the military tuns in Beizhili and Shanxi are abolished, the Imperial Horse Supervisor will collect at least seven or eight million stone grain and three or four million taels of taxes.

This amount of money can solve the problem of Liaodong.

But if it fails, then it may cause a rebellion in the three towns of Shanxi!

Although Zhu Youzhen assured that there were less than 30,000 soldiers in the three towns of Shanxi who could fight at the moment, no one dared to guarantee that there would be no accidents.

"Brother believe me!" Zhu Youzhen looked at the imperial brother with a serious expression.

"I ...... Alas...... Forget it, my brother will give me some time to think about it. Zhu Youxiao is still a little worried, so he needs some time to think about it.

However, Zhu Youzhen did not force him, but bowed his head slightly, and then said:

"The matter of Zhenjiang Prefecture, my brother can rest assured, and then I will let Qi Jin lead the Zhejiang soldiers first and escort the people to Zhenjiang."

"Well, if you do it, the officials won't be embarrassed, but there is one ......" Zhu Youxiao paused and said:

"Shenyang's millions of acres of cultivated land, if so many people are relocated, how can they be cultivated with only the remaining tens of thousands of people?"

"Brother, don't worry, you just need to let Xiong Tingbi move the people of Liaoxi to farm." Zhu Youzhen responded and calculated in his heart.

If Xiong Tingbi relocated the people of Liaoxi, then the population density of Liaoxi could be reduced.

When necessary, the people of Shanxi can go to Beizhili, and the people of Beizhili can go to Liaoxi.

However, he didn't say it, because it was too early, and the most important thing at the moment was to restore Daming's finances to positive.

As long as Daming's finances are normal, then many problems are not a problem.

As for how to solve the financial problem, the health center is one thing, but the more important one is to rely on one thing.

Illicit salt ......