Winter is coming, the northern line is silent, but Liaoyang is lively. As a military town, this city has a permanent population of 5,000, about 1,200 degraded soldiers, and the other is soldiers.

There are a total of 6 guards and soldiers in the front and back, left and right, the five guards and the Dongning guard, plus the capture houses and guards under the command of the envoys in the prefecture and the capital, there are a total of 20,000 people.

In addition, there are more than 1,000 Yuan Ma Jun and Tuntian Army under the Taifu Temple Division and the Tuntian Division of Liaodong Town, and there are more than 600 craftsmen under the Taichang Temple Division.

Liaodong is located in the border area, mainly military towns, the first person in charge is the commander of the capital, followed by the Xuanfu envoy.

All command the envoys to be responsible for the military, and the civil affairs and criminal affairs are in charge of the whole Liao Xuanfu Division (this is different from the previous Ming Dynasty, which placed the civil affairs of Liaodong under the jurisdiction of the Shandong Buzheng Envoy), and set up three sub-divisions in Liaodi, Liaodong, Liaoxi, and Liaonan (equivalent to the specifications of the government).

At this point, Li Dan felt that the Zhao family was much clearer than the old Zhu family, who thought he was smart, at least he didn't have to worry too much about the overlapping of institutions and redundant officials.

Although there are institutions such as the Guard, the Metropolitan Division, the Prefecture, the Prefecture, and the Xuanfu Division in Liaoyang City, and there are thousands of officials and family members, everyone performs their own duties, and it is rare that there is no such phenomenon of civil and military differentiation in other places.

Mr. Shen said that he knew that there were wolves in the surrounding woods, who still had the heart to fight? Li Dan felt very vivid when he heard it, the wolf he said should refer to the surrounding tribes, right?

Xuanfu made Master Du a person from Jingzhao, Shaanxi, claiming to be a descendant of Du Zimei (Du Fu), Li Dan smiled and did not pierce him, but this person was very kind, but he was not in good health and coughed often.

Li Dan thought that he had bronchitis and made a deputy list for him, and Du Changling took it for seven or eight days, so he was not polite, and turned to be very enthusiastic about Li Dan.

He was surprised that he had to emigrate 10,000 people at once this time, because the imperial court had not mentioned this topic for many years, and when he saw the merchants who were rushing to him, he gradually understood that this was a joke and not a joke.

"Dare to ask Zhongshu, now that the war is going on, why do you mean that the imperial court is emigrating at this time? Aren't you afraid of a whatever?" Du Changling asked privately.

Li Dan smiled: "This is exactly where Your Majesty is clever, showing his confidence in Liao affairs." He said, pointing to the three settlements marked on the map:

"Du Xuanfu, please see, the distance between these three forts and Liaoyang is very close, and the purpose is to add three acropolises to Liaoyang and strengthen Liaoyang's outer defenses. This is actually the intention of creating a new line of defense and making Liaoyang a strong fortress."

"Oh!" Du Changling nodded, but he was puzzled: "Why don't you make the castle more orderly?" This is the five corners and six corners, but what is the special purpose?"

"Each corner has a prominent horse face that allows defenders to echo each other and shoot cross-fire, making it more difficult to siege the city. Cooperate with the large slope of the city under the city, the wide blue brick city and so on.

It is quite difficult to siege a city, and even a ladder is not easy to build, and this setup can multiply the difficulty of attacking a city. For example, if you might lose 3,000 people in the battle, you'll probably have to lose 6,000 or more!"

After Li Dan finished speaking, he took him to a section of the wall that had been plastered with cement, which was next to the fort gate, and the outer wall was inclined to more than 60 degrees, looking smooth and smooth. Du Changling patted the wall and exclaimed:

"I never thought the city could be built so quickly, so beautifully, I couldn't even see a crack in the bricks! It is said that businessmen are profitable, but Zhongshu is a clever borrower.

It's an eye-opener for them to make money and achieve our goals at the same time."

"Actually, there is no secret, it is a matter of the interests of the family and the country. You can make money and leave a name, who doesn't want to?

What's more, he also helped the government, and in the future, there will be more things to build cities, temples, and houses in various places, and those who can enter the eyes of adults first will definitely have business to do in the future. The merchants are thinking about how to make money for their children and grandchildren, and we give them that opportunity.

Everyone takes what they need." Li Dan pointed to the wall: "Take this city building as an example, we use the bamboo tendon building method in the south, because there are many bamboos in the south.

But the north couldn't do it, so the merchants took the initiative to go to the construction site, and they tried the mixing ratio of soil with cement, shell crumbs, and wool again and again, and worked with the craftsmen to improve the construction method of combining the mud pouring of wood and the layer of rammed earth.

In the past, it would have been impossible for them to leave the comfort of their homes and run to the construction site to catch up with the workers' heads!

At the same time, the improvement was also developed, and an animal-powered sediment mixer and a hand-cranked tamping machine were developed, the latter having four wheels to push forward and backward and complete the tamping in the city.

It only takes four people to drag, two people to shake the wheel, and eighteen people in three shifts to complete the rammed earth work that can only be done by hundreds of people before. That's the effect of money and machines, not only quickly and labor-saving, but also better and faster!"

He is talking about the ramming machine that Chen Sanwen invented inspired by a trebuchet after listening to the suggestions of the workers.

"I've written to the Shuntianfu Iron Works to ask them which one can change this wood mixer to iron, and if it is successfully promoted in Liaodi, the construction speed will be greatly accelerated! I'm afraid a large residential area like this can be built in half a month."

Du Changling was dumbfounded: "Do you want to be so fast?"

"Yes!" Li Dan nodded: "We not only have to compete with the Ergu people, but also have to compete with them for time!"

He said this at the end of summer, and a few months have passed and things have changed a lot.

5,000 new immigrants from Hebei and Shandong have arrived, and each person has received 40 acres of land (30 acres of grain land, 5 acres of forest land, 5 acres of orchards or vegetable fields) and a homestead of 5 zhang square meters.

"First come, first served, first come, more" is the principle of recruiting people issued by Li Dan, not only the initial 10,000 people gave the most adequate and best conditions, but also allowed to pick up plots with good feng shui and good terrain first.

The selected homestead is allowed to be listed and circulated after 10 years (not a sale, and the circulation refers to rent, transfer of use rights or mortgage).

At the same time, it was also stipulated that if the new immigrants assisted the imperial court immigrants in the status of guarantors within three years of their arrival, they would be rewarded with donkeys or three sheep, and five households would be rewarded with one cow or seven sheep.

The local government didn't know where the cattle and sheep were, but Li Dan was full of confidence.

He sent Sun Qi (the third son of Sun Zongbing), who could speak the Egu language, and his attaché Gao Fei to the grassland to find the Seyan people who were like frightened birds, and made an agreement with them to exchange iron arrow clusters and leather armor for a large number of livestock from the chiefs, and raised them on the Mojia Mountain in the south.

Of course, there is a purpose for that.

Mould Mount was also called Anshan in the previous life! Li Dan has sent Sun Shu to take the students of the School of Geology and Mineral Resources to wander around for half a month, and finally discovered iron ore in Dagu Mountain, Dong'anshan, and Qi Mountain, combined with the coal mines that have been found in Fushun, a new steelmaking plant plan is taking shape in the hands of Chen Sanwen and others.

When Liaodong has its own steel industrial base, there will be no need to transport thousands of miles by then! Li Dan quietly wrote a secret letter to the emperor, and he wanted to change this status quo that was extremely labor-intensive and material-intensive.

On the surface, the mainland controls the border towns through resources, but in fact, the border towns have become the hinterland blood pumping machine, and everything is more than worth the loss. One of the purposes of making immigrants attract immigrants is to prepare a large number of workers for these future industrial bases.

To make the border towns solid, and even as Li Dan said, to feed back to the interior in the future, this is something that Du Changling and other civil officials are very happy to see, because only on that day can they take the lead and become the real managers of the land.

Under the impetus of Li Dan, two defensive lines were formed from Jinzhou to Shanhaiguan and from Liaoyang to Gaizhou.

After General Sun visited the Zhenfu Pacesetter Barracks, the old general, who was greatly shocked, agreed to Li Dan's suggestion: full staff, training and three meals.

10,000 pieces of individual weapons, 3,000 pairs of barbarian armor (half-body plate armor), 8,000 new-style steel helmets, 1,600 steel-armed crossbows, and 20,000 sets of new-style combat armor and portable equipment produced by Linqing merchants were continuously replenished to Liaozhen from the beginning of autumn to the beginning of the year.

If you look down from the air, you can see that the land of Shandong, Hebei, Shuntian, and Liaodong is full of road repairs, and large convoys of horses and wagons are rumbling forward in dozens or hundreds, and they are transporting not these equipment, or grain, grass, or personnel.

The Eastern Front did not go well, while the Western Front was full of success. Summer Deng Jiang

The army finally surrounded the Kalco squad led by Marou and annihilated them at Lake Chahan with the assistance of Ula and Huifa warriors.

At the beginning of autumn, the trembling Seyan finally agreed to marry the Khan's niece, Ekelun, to King Ding's side concubine, and then Ulla formed an alliance with Huifa, and the two coalition forces of 70,000 men and 8,000 cavalry of the official army went north and burned down the transit station established by the Kaers.

This news strengthened the confidence of the people and merchants, and the second phase of the war bond of 4.8 million taels was still quickly subscribed.

Moreover, for the first time, a group of merchants from the south of the Yangtze River subscribed for 1 million taels, and they were interested in the imperial court's announcement that the Hanhai Protectorate would open the livestock trade, and that there would be no restrictions on the trade of weapons, armor, and gunpowder in the southern part of the country, and that it would be allowed to set up shops, factories and mines, especially the land parcel contracting rights of several large salt lakes.

With sufficient money, Li Dan is of course easy to do. With the emperor's consent, he decided to use 1.2 million taels as a reserve fund to open the "Royal Liaodong Development Bank".

A new version of the banknote is issued with gold and silver as anchors, and the president is Wen He (Zizishan), a new jinshi last year and a current secretary of the Ministry of Treasure Banknotes.

The banknote unifies the units of the old banknote such as two, through, and silk, and takes the yuan as the unit, and one yuan is equal to one silver penny.

Fifty yuan, ten yuan, and one yuan banknotes printed on copper plates, as well as five-corner, one-dime copper-nickel alloy coins, and five-cent and one-cent aluminum-nickel alloy coins. Zhang Wenhe (Zi Jinfu), who did not make the list, was appointed as the first director of the mint.

However, just ten days earlier, when the first sample of the mint had been handed to him, Shi Hao had failed, and the news had arrived that he had been asked to go to discuss military affairs.

Li Dan had no choice but to put down everything at hand, leaving Yao Huang to guard the shogunate, and he and Wu Mao rushed to Shi Hao's camp with the Shang Fang sword given by the emperor.

was brought out of the construction in full swing, Li Dan was full of anger and resentment, and rarely spoke along the way. But when he arrived at the camp and saw Shi Hao's situation, he was surprised! Shi Hao fell ill.

Unaccustomed to the water and soil and the rapid fire attack, Shi Hao suffered from cold and fever, and a handsome man who was originally quite burly, but now he was wrapped in fur and trembled, his lips were blue and his face was like paper. Li Dan's first thought was: "It's broken!"

The morale of the whole army was low, and as a result, the commander fell ill. How good is that? Li Dan touched Shi Hao's hot forehead, and his brows were twisted into a rope.

He asked Brother Mao to immediately call Gu Shuangcheng, who was accompanying him, to come in for a consultation, and he gave Wu Mao a look and turned around, and whispered, "I didn't expect this to be the case, we can be regarded as stepping into the mud, this is a big trouble!"

It's easy to just cut a bunch of generals and colonels, or beat every senior officer with a military stick, and Li Dan is easy to do with Shi Hao in the back, and that's what the army superintendents! But now it's different.

Shi Hao fell ill, soldiers complained, senior officers were worried, and tens of thousands ......of people were headless. What should I do with Liaodong? What's more, there is a large group of hungry wolves scratching the door at the door, intending to come in and bite them.

Li Dan felt that there was a small worm crawling from top to bottom on the back of his back, coolly. In order to stabilize his mood, he took a deep breath of the cold air on the Wulong Ridge.

"Mr. Wu, we have to be careful, these tens of thousands of people are tens of thousands of firewood, just a little!" Whether it is mutiny, trouble or civil strife, none of the results can be borne by Li Dan!