"One-two...... Pull! One or two...... Pull! ”

On 27 June, amid shouts and shouts, 100,000 people on both sides of the Liao River were pulling 3,000 grain ships one after another.

The grain ships that departed from Tianjin received the order of Zhu Youxiao, who was far away in the capital, and sent 800,000 stone grain and 300,000 catties of gunpowder from Taicang.

The war was imminent, and the entire Liaodong was mobilized, and in such a transfer, nearly 300,000 men were conscripted as civil servants to serve the entire Liaodong army.

At this moment, there are only 100,000 people in the Shenyang area close to the Liao River, and more people are gathering in Kuandian, Phoenix City, and Liaoyang.

At this time, it shows Zhu Youzhen's grasp of the economy of Liaodong and the layout of the people's livelihood in Liaodong.

As of 27 June, more than 854,000 people had been killed in the Central Plains, including 420,000 men over the age of 15.

These men were already in need of relief, and now the work of the people is providing them with a way to survive.

For the victims, Zhu Youzhen gave them food, and told them in the form of a notice that after laying down Tieling and other places, he gave them land.

For the original people of Liaodong, Zhu Youzhen hired them at a price of 30 wen a day.

Due to the grain sold by the Imperial Horse Supervisor, the silver and copper coins in the market in Liaodong have long been insufficient, and even fell into a money shortage.

At present, he uses cash and copper coins as bargaining chips, instead of learning places, and directly recruits Liao people in the name of conscription, and in this way, the people of Liaodong are grateful to him, the so-called King of Qi.

Conscription can be dispensed without, but it cannot be without.

At this point, Zhu Youzhen very much agrees with his brother's words, and now that he thinks back, he was sometimes too ideal and detached from reality.

He wanted to exempt the world from servitude, but for the Ming Dynasty of this era, such an exemption was a hidden danger.

If the people are pampered enough, will there be a scene where some officials help the local people build roads, but still have to pay wages?

This kind of scene is normal and reasonable if it is placed in the future generations, but it is not possible in this era.

In later generations when trade was frequent, the state could mobilize resources to trade, to build factories, to dump goods.

However, in this era when it takes ten days and half a month to leave the province, such a speed of commerce and trade cannot become the main force of tax revenue.

This is why Zhu Youzhen woke up and said that "conscription can be dispensed without, but it cannot be without".

Just like now, he can use forced labor, but there is no need, so he is useless, and the people are grateful to him, to the court, and to the emperor.

Such an ending made Zhu Youzhen understand that he still has a lot to learn.

Maybe in the military, he is better than his own imperial brother, but in terms of manipulating people's hearts and balancing the situation, he still needs to learn from his imperial brother......

"Your Highness, this is the number of stone bullets prepared by each city, the gunpowder in reserve, the number of horses in each city, and the latest movement of the old slave soldiers and horses, please ......take a look."

At the mouth of the Liao River, Zhu Youzhen looked at the people who were pulling the boats, and Lu Wenzhao also rode a horse and handed over two important pieces of information.

Of the two pieces of information, Zhu Youzhen took over and took a look at the old slave's troop and horse transfer.

It has to be said that although the Jinyi Guards were unable to successfully invade the Jianyu, they noticed the difference in the old slaves' wariness of the merchants.

For the Liao people, they are an attitude, and they are another attitude towards North Korea.

After Li Ruolian noticed this difference in attitude, he immediately ordered Jinyiwei to oppose several Korean merchants, and then recruited them to become Jinyiwei's foreign aid.

At the same time, Li Ruolian asked these Liaodong merchants to go to Hetuala, which was built and captured, to sell grain and iron tools, and to sell contraband to gain the trust of Dai Shan, and found some information that was relatively easy to obtain.

However, there is more to it than that, so Nurhachi's trust in North Korean merchants is not high, but he is very guarded.

Korean merchants could only trade in Hetuala, and could not travel to any passes east or south of Hetuala.

It's just that despite this, the Jinyiwei of Beizhen Fusi still found out a lot of news......

Unpacking the information, Zhu Youzhen read the information at a glance, and the information mentioned in it was the news that Nurhachi ordered Daishan and Amin to move the craftsmen, old and weak women and children of Tieling and Kaiyuan to Wuyewuwei.

After reading the news, Zhu Youzhen was not shocked, and then glanced at another book about gunpowder and the number of horses in each city.

After reading the book, he spoke:

"Dai Shan's status is Jianyu's left and right housekeeper, which is as important as Huang Taiji's status."

"I sent such a character to the Uyewuwei, and I think the old slave is going to build the Uyewuwei into the second Hetuala."

"No...... It should be said that it is a more complete acropolis. ”

When Zhu Youzhen said this, he thought about the later cities corresponding to Wuye Wuwei in his mind, and finally the word "Jilin" came to mind, and he also remembered its geographical features on the topography.

Although Wuye Wuwei is the territory of Jilin in later generations, it is located on the narrow plain in the western part of Jilin.

This place is located in the transition zone from Changbai Mountain to Songnen Plain, and the landform type is complex, with the trend of "welcoming Changbai from afar and surrounding Songhua".

The topography of this place gradually decreases from southeast to northwest, forming many terrains such as mountains, hills, canyons, lakes, river valleys, and plains.

In addition, this place has hundreds of miles of narrow plains, twenty or thirty miles wide, and has the advantage of being surrounded by water on three sides, if it is really developed by Nurhachi, maybe it can really feed the 100,000 army of Jianjiao.

It's just that if millions of acres of cultivated land can really be reclaimed, I'm afraid that the Han people in Tieling and other places will be exhausted to death......

As a result, Zhu Youzhen fell into the choice of whether to send troops or not.

Sending troops from the current Daning would require at least 500 miles to cut off Daishan's move to move the population.

Since it is a rapid journey, then it cannot carry artillery, and if you go deep into this place, you will also need to face the flanking attack of Horqin, Daishan, and Kaiyuan Mang Gurtai and other departments.

At present, Liaodong, although 40,000 iron horsemen can be transferred, it is ......

Zhu Youzhen roughly estimated some of the troops here, but in the end he was still reluctant to take a chance.

At present, the recovery of Tieling and Kaiyuan is the main strategic goal, if more than 40,000 iron cavalry are severely damaged, then the Ming army will not be able to maintain high mobility support in the sinking land.

It is difficult for Zhu Youzhen to guarantee that this is not Nurhachi's strategy to lure the enemy.

Therefore, after thinking about it carefully, he still gave up his plan to send troops and was ready to continue to focus on the upcoming battle of Liaodong.

"All the generals have arrived in the prefectures, right? The binoculars are also distributed, right? ”

Zhu Youzhen put away the two pieces of information, and Lu Wenzhao also replied when he heard this:

"They have all arrived, and the seven hundred and twenty clairvoyants made by Yanshan Tiangong have also been distributed to the commanders, commanders, generals, and guerrillas of various armies."

"What happened to the third and fourth schools in Yanshan?" Zhu Youzhen's questions are one after another.

"The third school has been built, and more than 30,000 students have enrolled in the school, and it should reach more than 50,000 in the future." Lu Wenzhao responded:

"As for the fourth school, according to His Highness's orders, the area to be built is 50,000 acres, so it will not be completed until April of the following year."

The third and fourth institutions represent the speed of Yanshan's expansion.

The first and second schools have more than 98,000 students, and the third school is close to 150,000 students.

But these are not what Zhu Youzhen cares about the most, what he cares about most is the fourth comprehensive school.

The area of 50,000 mu is enough to show Zhu Youzhen's dedication to it.

It can be said that it will be the largest in scale, the most disciplines, and the largest number of students among the institutions built by Zhu Youzhen.

According to the preparations, this university can accommodate more than 246,000 people, and this will be the first comprehensive university.

There are 1227 disciplines covering 10 faculties of science, civil engineering, military engineering, literature, history, political science, economics, linguistics, law, and medicine.

It can be said that the first three colleges all teach the knowledge of primary and secondary schools, and the fourth institution is the place that can really change the Ming Dynasty in the future.

This school is not a place to be prepared for now, but a place to be prepared for 10 or 15 years.

Once the 246,000 people have completed their studies, even if only one in a thousand people can become the people who can improve Daming Technology, it is still an incredible number and scale.

As for the remaining 999 out of 1,000 students, the mediocrity of the departments of science, politics, literature, and history will be sprinkled like seeds.

The world's private schools and government schools will be taken over and expanded, and finally spread to more than 1,500 counties in Daming in the form of primary and secondary schools.

As for the elite scholars of civilian workers, military industry, economics, languages, law, and medicine, they will become deans and teachers of universities in the form of a fourth university.

Ordinary students will become designers, operators, and doctors of officials and government-run institutions.

Zhu Youzhen has great hopes for it, not only for them, but also for himself.

He asked the kings of the world to become vassals overseas, and he could not be alone.

Compared with South Asia, which is relatively close, Zhu Youzhen is going to a place far away from Daming, and this place is needless to say.

Americas......

Thinking of those two continents, Zhu Youzhen's heart sank.

With the navigation of this era, exhausting his life and spending countless national resources of the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that he will be able to transport millions of people to live in the local area.

It took the Europeans two hundred years to move a million people, and Zhu Youzhen had to do it in thirty years, and it would not waste the national strength of the Ming Dynasty.

If you want to move more than a million people in 30 years, you need something.

Steam engine......

Without a steam-engine ship, there was no guarantee that a population would be transported in a short period of time, as well as enough food for an equal number of people to eat for three years, as well as some cattle and horses.

Steam locomotives, steam engine ships, this is already the highest technology that Zhu Youzhen can think of, and now Daming Technology can touch in his lifetime after climbing.

As for whether you can climb higher? It depends on the success of education in the future.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen shook his head and sighed, and returned his mind to the battle of Liaodong's recovery.

It is now June 27, and the soldiers and horses of Sun Chuanting and other troops are successively taking the sea route and landing in Gaizhou, Kuandian and other places.

When there is enough food, the only thing that can affect the situation of the battle is the rainy season.

The rainy season in Liaodong in the late Ming Dynasty, I don't know if it was affected by the Xiaoice River, except for a few rains in early June, there has been no rain in recent days.

Such a change made Zhu Youzhen a little uneasy.

At present, among the soldiers and horses in Liaodong, there are more than 80,000 people such as the three guards and Zhejiang soldiers of Daning, as well as the three guards and four cavalry guards of Sun Yingyuan's department, which are equipped with cavalry and infantry guns.

Once the rain falls out of time, then the thousands of heavy artillery and more than 100,000 guns of the Ming army will be unusable.

Combined with the fact that Nurhachi has not been moving, Zhu Youzhen is very suspicious that Nurhachi is waiting for a heavy rain, a heavy rain that is enough to make the Ming army's firearms unusable.

"Your Highness, there is a little bit of humiliation that I don't understand......

While Zhu Youzhen was pondering, Lu Wenzhao hesitated and asked:

Looking at "The Art of War", it is said that "those who attack must be taken, and those who attack will not defend it." Those who defend and must be solid, defend what they do not attack. ”

"Therefore, since it is already clear in the previous book, why didn't His Highness send troops to attack in advance from the weak point of Jianyu?"

The sentence that Lu Wenzhao asked translates to:

The reason why the attack will definitely win is because the attack is where the enemy is not defending.

The reason why the defense can be consolidated is because the defense is where the enemy is unable to attack.

Sun Wu believed that an army that is good at attacking attacks where the enemy does not know how to defend, while an army that is good at defending defends where the enemy does not know how to attack.

Therefore, what Lu Wenzhao wanted to say was why not take the opportunity to send troops to attack places that Nurhachi would not necessarily defend, such as raiding Kaiyuan around the rear, walking out of the Great Wall in advance, and taking the border wall to raid Hetuala.

"Weakness, too few troops to mobilize the old slaves, if too many troops are sent, it will make the internal emptiness and give the old slaves an opportunity to take advantage of."

"To lead troops in the mountains to fight, we must fight steadily and steadily, and be careful and vigilant against any place that can be ambushed, and our army is not familiar with the terrain outside the border wall, and it will lose its geographical advantage if it sends troops."

"Besides, there is a lot of fog and water in the mountains, and it rains lightly, and once it rains, our artillery will lose its effect, and it will be difficult to make contributions."

"As for the plains, what about Kaiyuan? Mang Gurtai can go to the Qinghe River to cut off our army's food route, even if Shenyang sends troops to contain Mang Gurtai at the same time, but the other party can still use the stone fort on the hills between Tieling and Shenyang to delay time. ”

"The art of war has changed from ancient times to the present, and due to the changes in armaments, some usages have changed, so it should be adapted to local conditions and changed with time."

Zhu Youzhen explained to Lu Wenzhao, and then continued:

"And then those who cannot be controlled, rush to their emptiness; Those who retreat and cannot be chased, and they are not able to reach quickly. ”

"The speed of the army's advance or retreat depends on the wind and lightning, so the enemy cannot be controlled."

"And right now, most of the soldiers and horses of the Jianyu are horse infantry, and the first battle of Salhu turned to fight hundreds of miles in five days, which is stronger than the speed of our army's infantry army."

"Therefore, let it be broken with a dignified array!"

"Humble duty understood." Hearing Zhu Youzhen's explanation, Lu Wenzhao said that he understood, and Zhu Youzhen saw this and rode back towards Guangning.

In the battle of Liaodong, Zhu Youzhen was not worried about defeat, because with the size of the Ming army, even if the firearms could not be used, they could be recaptured.

The Ming army can die a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand! But as long as Houjin died 10,000 in battle, it was enough to stimulate internal contradictions.

After Zhu Youzhen calmed down, he looked forward to the rainy season.

If it really rains, will the old slave really send troops in a vain attempt to disturb the hinterland of the Ming army?

If he really dared to come, maybe he could really create an opportunity for Zhu Youzhen to encircle and annihilate tens of thousands of Houjin's soldiers and horses.

As for Nurhachi......

Thinking that Huang Taiji was now confined because Nurhachi was still alive, Zhu Youzhen would rather let Nurhachi live for a few more years.

The longer he lived, the more likely Houjin was to collapse.

A military madman, once he can't plunder the materials to meet the needs of the soldiers and horses, then after the exhaustive military force, he will lose the country and the race.

Historically, Nurhachi did this, and now he is oppressing the people under his command because he is being suppressed by himself.

The oppression is extreme, and as long as there is another fiasco, the internal problems will be revealed.

"Huh?"

Suddenly, Zhu Youzhen felt a cold on his face, and subconsciously touched it, and this touch was a trace of wetness.

He looked sideways at the river, and saw a little ripple on the river......

"Your Highness, it's raining."

Lu Wenzhao rode his horse to follow, and Zhu Youzhen looked at the rain, his brows began to wrinkle slowly, and finally said with a stern face:

"Eight hundred miles to urgently notify all the armies, be wary of the old slave to move troops, and the people from all over the country will return to the city, and the walls will be cleared!"

"Uh......" Hearing Zhu Youzhen's military order, Lu Wenzhao cautiously asked tentatively:

"Your Highness, it's just a rain, is it so serious?"

"Yan is not serious, call the Qin Tianjian officials who accompany the army to talk." Zhu Youzhen said to Lu Wenzhao with a straight face, and Lu Wenzhao also knew that His Royal Highness was not joking, so he immediately turned his head and asked people to notify the officials of Qin Tianjian to come.

At the same time, he also escorted Zhu Youzhen to Pingyang Bridge Fort not far away to rest.

It's just that this rain came suddenly, and it became heavier and heavier, and gradually the rain curtain became thicker, and Zhu Youzhen's face became more and more ugly.

"Hide from the rain!"

The people on both sides of the Liao River also put down the ropes in their hands and rushed towards the stone forts on both sides of the river in embarrassment.

Fortunately, the roads in Liaodong have been repaired, and the running is brisk.

The howling wind blew so that people could not open their eyes, and the crowd rushed into the Pingyang Bridge Fort before the heavy rain became a torrential rain.

When Zhu Youzhen and the others rushed to the door of the garrison mansion, they immediately turned over and dismounted, and entered the mansion with a wet and embarrassed appearance.

"Go and prepare warm water and dry clothes for His Highness to wipe his body and change into new clothes."

After Lu Wenzhao walked into the hall, he greeted the soldiers in the hall, and when they saw this, they hurriedly went to prepare.

Zhu Youzhen took off his soaked shoes and clothes, and only wore a set of middle clothes.

Finally, when the soldiers brought clothes and warm water, and did not give him time to change his clothes, the officials of Qin Tianjian who accompanied the army walked all the way to the meeting hall, and saluted Zhu Youzhen: "Your Highness Chitose......

"How long do you think this rain will be? Will it be for a few days? ”

Zhu Youzhen asked the officials of Qin Tianjian while changing clothes as if no one was around, and when the officials heard this, they also continued to respond:

"Your Highness, the heat has just passed, and this rain shouldn't be too long."

"Are you sure?" Zhu Youzhen frowned, and the officials of Qin Tianjian were also speechless, and hesitated for a moment and said:

"According to the 24 solar terms, as well as the astrological phenomena observed ten days ago, there is no change in the nine stars, and there will be no change in the solar terms."

"Ten days ago?" When Zhu Youzhen heard this answer, he found that the weather had been gloomy for several days.

He knew that it was the eve of the imminent outbreak of the Xiaoice River, and he knew that under the outbreak of the Xiaoice River, the climate would become very extreme.

Climate change, which is unlikely to occur in an ordinary year, tends to be very volatile during such periods.

Although the land of Liaodong faces the Bohai Sea, it does not mean that it will not encounter typhoons.

If there is really a small-scale typhoon landing, then for the Ming army, the combat power will be greatly reduced, and Nurhachi will not let go of this opportunity.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen ordered again:

"Three more orders, the people of the cities in Liaodong return to the city, wait for the end of the rainy season, and the armies prepare canopies, so as not to let the gunpowder get wet!"

"Humble command!" Lu Wenzhao understood the seriousness of the matter, and immediately sent fast horses to inform him.

It's just that at the same time as they are notifying, the weather is changing more and more strangely......