Chapter 56 The Greatest Difficulty in Developing Northeast China

Xie Zaixing surrendered this head, and all his previous exploits were gone. Wait for Zhu Yuanzhang to defeat Zhang Shicheng. Up and down the Xie family, there is no one left alive. After all, with Zhu Yuanzhang's law, if he raises his noble hand against traitors. How to face so many people who have not betrayed.

And Ma Yun and Ye Wang are Xie Zaixing's subordinates. When Xie Zaixing rebelled, the two of them immediately pleaded guilty to Zhu Yuanzhang and were forgiven by Zhu Yuanzhang. But that's about it.

Although, the two of them were not implicated in the mutiny. But there are people in the DPRK who are good officials. The two of them had something like this going on in the back of their boss. Even if Zhu Yuanzhang is not punished. But in the court, he has also become a lonely ghost.

Important things, meritorious battles, it is not their turn, hard fighting, vicious battles. The war in the corners is their business.

For example, Liaodong. Ma Yun and Ye Wang have been guarding Liaodong since Hongwu conquered Liaodong in the fourth year, and it was not until last year that Ma Yun was transferred back to Beijing for retirement because of the merits of the Battle of Monan. And Ye Wang has been guarding Liaodong until his death.

They are the political fringe.

Although Zhang He is a navigation marquis, he is considered to be the old department of Tang He. Huaixi old man. It has its own confidence. But people like Ma Yun and Ye Wang, even if they are carrying a pig's head, they can't find the temple gate. can guard the corners of Liaodong for a lifetime. That's because Liaodong is indeed remote, and even if there is a war, most of the troops are transferred from the Central Plains.

Nor are they likely to intervene.

Therefore, it is no problem for He Xi to offend Ye Wang. Ye Wang didn't dare to say a word more.

Zhang He also understood this, and he secretly said in his heart: "I sent him to Liaodong, and it's none of my business." "I don't dwell on that. Rather, he said; "When the colt asked me to borrow a boat, he was looking for the wrong person. It is impossible for my boat to sail in the middle of the Liao River. It's not so much Liaohe as Liaoze. On the west bank of the Liao River, 200 miles from east to west and more than 1,000 miles from north to south, are all swamps. The water is not deep, the high is not topped, and the less is over the knee, and people are in it, trekking hard. Of course, there are also rivers that haunt and connect with the Liao River. The course of the Liao River has also not been remediated. Only small boats can be passed, and it can still be navigated from Niuzhuang to Laomi Bay. It is said that there are quite a few transshipment vessels. However, not a single big ship at sea can enter. ”

He Xi's heart sank, in fact, when he borrowed the boat, he already had a premonition. After all, sea ships are not the same as river boats. He Xi has known this for a long time. It was not surprising to He Xi that the sea ships could not reach the Liao River. But what surprised him the most was to get news from Liaoze.

Liao Ze, he had a vague impression. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao's northern expedition has a description of Liaoze. But it's all in memory. In his impression, it has always been the Northeast Plain, the Liaohe Plain. Now how to run out of a Liaoze.

And it is more than 200 miles from east to west, and more than 1,000 miles from north to south. What a concept it is.

He Xi felt that in his impression, the Liaohe Plain was probably so big.

This made He Xi don't know what to do a lot of things. Because of what He Xi said to Zhu Yuanzhang, He Xi was sure that there would be a round of great expeditions in Liaodong in the future. Especially for the Jurchens.

The most important thing in fighting a war is food.

Or the grain road.

If the Liaohe Plain can become a grain production base, then the limit of the Ming army's external attack will be greatly improved. Not to mention ploughing again, coupled with the operation of the slave Gandu Division, it is estimated that the army can really be stationed in the Northeast region.

But the word Liao Ze made He Xi suddenly feel as if a big stone had been pressed on his chest.

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Because of his concern for Liaoze, He Xi did not stay, and took a sea boat from Lushun to Niuzhuang Port.

Niuzhuang Port is an unfamiliar port to many people, but there is another port that many people are familiar with, that is, Yingkou. The rise of Yingkou Port was after Niuzhuang Port was silted up. Yingkou Port is downstream of Niuzhuang Port.

Today's Niuzhuang Port has just been established.

The reason why it is called Niuzhuang Port is because there is a big post station here, called Niuzhuang Station. This was the beginning of this port. Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was even forced to open the port to the outside world. At that time, it was also the most prosperous time for Niuzhuang Port, with the siltation of sediment, coupled with the increasing size of ships, the requirements for the port were getting higher and higher, Yingkou rose, and the drama of Niuzhuang's loneliness was staged.

However, at this moment, Niuzhuang Port is a land and water station.

It's not too big.

The so-called water transport on the Liao River sounds very powerful, and there are thousands of ships on the Liao River. But the Liao River itself is thousands of miles away. Coupled with the situation of the Liao River, the boats will not be too big. The carrying capacity of the Liao River can be imagined.

He Xi and his retinue were divided into five ships.

Without him, He Xi's entourage increased again.

He Xi's own guards and staff, etc. There were probably more than 200 people. But after knowing that He Xi was going to be transported from the water to Shenyang, Ye Wang, who was far away in Shenyang, stepped up his whip and issued a military order to send a hundred households to escort him.

couldn't help but make Ye Wang not nervous.

At this moment, there is no Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty. There is also no substantial boundary between the Ming Dynasty and the Remnant Yuan. Rather, it is a large buffer zone, just like the army stationed in Monan, which does not mean that it is completely controlled by Monan, which is a prairie. There are countless imports and exports. Unless you build a wall and wrap it all up, you can't actually resist the enemy's entry. However, many cities were built on the Monan grassland, and no matter how bold the Tartars were, they did not dare to easily cross these cities and go south, because it was easy to copy the back road.

The same is true for Liaodong.

Now the Daning Division, that is, the area of western Liaoning, is already under the control of the Ming Dynasty. It seems that the frontier of the Ming Dynasty has advanced far to the north. But in fact, the Liaodong Metropolitan Division was facing the Liaoyang Province in the north.

Of course, the Liaoyang Province of the Remnant Yuan is only a name, and the station is not in Liaoyang, but in Zhaozhou. It is the place west of Harbin.

From Liaoyang Province to the west bank of the Liao River, there was no military defense line.

After all, the west bank of the Liao River is a large swamp. Because there are thousands of years of travel, there are also several roads that can be passed. But it was very difficult to garrison troops in the swamp. In the future, to maintain the Liaoxi Corridor, there will be many thousands of households, and there will be swamps outside the city wall.

However, the Liaoxi Corridor, in the course of thousands of years of evolution, has gradually changed from a swamp to a land. And to garrison troops in the depths of the swamp, is it more difficult than that.

Therefore, the Liaohe River is actually the line of actual control of the Ming Dynasty. To the east of the Liao River, it is generally safe. But west of the Liao River, it cannot be said that it is unsafe. It can only be said that it is a buffer. It is a place where the enemy can go, and I can also go.

With Ye Wang's more embarrassing position in the imperial court. If something happened to He Xi on the Liao River, then a hair would be lost.

Ye Wang's matter is not small.

Therefore, the army was urgently dispatched to escort it.

However, the Ming army has its own charter. Even in the border areas, the army cannot be called up indiscriminately. can only send one hundred elites to escort them first, and there will be arrangements in the future.

This is a trivial matter for He Xi. After all, the guards around him are all from Luan Yiwei, the elite of the world's elite. Moreover, there are military forts on the east bank of the Liao River, which can be taken away from. In addition, although He Xi's boat is small, the Tartars don't even have many boats, and he doesn't think there is anything wrong with the water war.

And the flow of news has been slow these days. His identity and importance are estimated not to be passed on to the Tartars.

He had been observing Liaoze and even ventured deep into it.

In addition to a few roads, if you want to pass, you must use straw leaves and soil bags, layer by layer to pave a road, legend has it that when Tang Taizong conquered Goguryeo, it was forced to pad out two roads from here. Not to mention, it's summer, and in this swamp, there are so many mosquitoes, which are deeper than in Taiwan, and the layers of mosquitoes are almost the rhythm of eating people.

He Xi was careless, and he was hit several times on his body, and he had a lot of big bags. In the end, he had to hide in the cabin and put down the screens. To ward off mosquitoes.

He Xi was itchy all over. But he didn't pay attention to what was going on in him, and was laughing at himself more.

Laugh at your own idiots.

If there is one thing that seems obvious to you, but the ancients did not do it. The most likely reason is that there are factors that you don't know are holding back the idea. The second is the flaw in the thinking of the ancients.