Jin Guo was very busy, and for the time being, he couldn't spare a large number of troops and horses to attack Goryeo, who backstabbed him.

Let's go back four months before the defeat of Goryeo.

Yalu River Estuary.

"Boom Boom Boom Boom ......"

More than a dozen Daming sea warships bombarded the Jin State warships one mile away.

These Jin warships belong to Posu Road. In normal times, he mainly cruises on the Yalu River, and his mission is to prevent Goryeo and suppress pirates by the way.

The ruling center of Po Su Road, that is, Jiulian Town in Dandong City.

Half of the Jin soldiers stationed here were transferred to Huacheng County (Jinzhou) to guard against Yelu Yujian and Zhao Li's department.

"Get up to the side and grab the ship!"

Uyan Puluhun hissed and shouted, he was the best general in water warfare in the Jin Kingdom, and he came from the Lazy Road that was attacked by Goryeo.

More than 30 small warships of the Jin Kingdom rushed towards the Daming Sea ship with oars and sails.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Another artillery bombardment, and four of the Jin warships were hit.

Three sank quickly, and one will sink unsinkable.

The sailors of the Jin Kingdom were terrified, and Wuyan Puluhun still ordered to rush and kill, and they could only paddle forward.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The Ming warship gradually sailed away from the mouth of the Yalu River, and when the shells were almost loaded, they began to turn their hulls and carry out sideside shelling.

This time, three Jin warships were destroyed, and the Jin navy was almost desperate.

Even if they rushed to a close place to engage in broadside battles, it would be difficult for them to climb onto the higher Ming warships, not to mention that they had been beaten during the charge.

"Deputy commander, withdraw, you can't fight!" The generals under his command pleaded bitterly.

Wuyan Pulu stared blankly at the sea ahead, he used to be a Jurchen fisherman and pirate.

He came and went freely along the coast of Goryeo and Japan, and had never fought such a naval battle, and the artillery on the ships of the Ming army was too poor.

"Withdraw!"

Uyan Puluhun was forced to order a retreat, all the way to several miles upstream of the Yalu River.

Ying Xuan has been transferred from Dongting Lake to be Li Bao's deputy.

He led several medium-sized sea vessels to rush out from the rear of Li Bao's big ship, and gradually arrived at the dock at the mouth of the Yalu River.

There is the Jin Guohai ship manufacturing base, although no large ships can be built, but Li Bao still came to sabotage when he got the information.

As for the news provider, of course it's Goryeo!

When Li Bao decided to send troops, the monk Myoqing had not even left Tokyo, let alone the northern expedition of the king of Goryeo.

Purely because the place where the Kim Kingdom built a ship, it was too close to the city of Baoju in Goryeo. They were worried that after Jin Guo built a large number of warships, it would seriously threaten the safety of Baozhou, so they took the initiative to provide Daming with the specific location of the shipyard.

"Put!"

The return cannon on a medium-sized sea-going ship drops gunpowder incendiary bombs at the dock, followed by a salvo of rockets at the dock.

The raging fire soon ignited, and most of the remaining coastal shipyards in the Jin Kingdom were burned down in one fell swoop.

The Goryeo defenders on the south bank of the Yalu River had already heard the movement and came to watch the excitement across the river. The worse the Jin soldiers were beaten, the happier they became, otherwise they would be afraid all day long.

It wasn't until the Ming Navy left that the Jin Naval Division dared to come back and fight the fire with the Jin soldiers stationed in the dock.

It's almost burned, and it's in vain to save it.

The Ming navy soon returned to Lushunkou, and when passing by Dalian Bay, it also fired a few shots at the Jinguo City.

On the same day, Li Bao resupplied at Lushunkou and returned to Juehua Island the next day.

Compared with the general decay of the western Liaoning corridor, the population of Juehua Island is larger than that of the Liao Kingdom.

Because this is the holy place of Buddhism in Liao, many nobles in Jin also believe in Buddhism, and they did not kill on the island. Many remnants of the Liao Kingdom quietly fled to the island, either shaving their ordination to become monks, or serving as tenants for monks.

Li Bao captured the island last year and transported nearly 2,000 monks to Shandong and handed them over to the prefect of Denglai for disposal.

Dalonggong Temple became Li Bao's military camp.

Li Bao sat down in the abbot's room, took off his hat and threw it away: "I'll leave it to you here, I want to go back to Tokyo immediately." ”

Ying Xuan smiled and said, "Congratulations to Brother Li for becoming an official." ”

"Well, you also have a knighthood after a few more battles." Li Bao is in a very good mood, and he will definitely be promoted to duke when he goes back this time.

Ying Xuan shook his head and sighed: "Alas, the Jin Kingdom moved to the forbidden sea, how can there be any war?" ”

Juehua Island used to be called Peach Blossom Island, and since it was renamed here, it was renamed Peach Blossom Island Town in Xingcheng City in later generations.

Last year, Taohuadao Town was sacked by Li Bao, and Jin Guo moved the remaining residents away.

The nearest city has become a seaside county fifty miles away. And the coastal residents of the county have all moved further north, and there is not a single salt farm left that was once lively (the seaside salt field was looted by Zhao Li and Li Bao once).

"The prince said that the four seas are vast, and you are afraid that there will be no war in command of the navy?"

Li Bao patted Yingxuan on the shoulder, paced out of the abbot's room, and ran to walk around the temple inside and outside the temple.

After nearly 2,000 monks on the island were thrown to Shandong by Li Bao, all the properties of Dalonggong Temple were confiscated. Juehua Island and several nearby islands all distributed land properties on the spot, and obtained the land deeds issued by Denglai Prefecture in Shandong.

These remnants of the Liao Kingdom, who owned the land in a daze, immediately regarded themselves as the people of the Ming Dynasty!

In addition to the land, there are also a lot of treasures in the Dalonggong Temple.

Because this is the center of Buddhism in Liao, the abbots of Dalonggong Temple in all dynasties were canonized as national teachers by the emperors of Liao. After the Jin Kingdom was killed, the Jurchen nobles also had rewards, all of which were stored in the temple and served by Li Bao.

The value of those treasures alone was enough to pay the Ming army on Juehua Island in full for several years.

The snow has not yet melted, but the square outside the Dalonggong Temple is already very lively.

In the past, it was a place where Buddhist pujas were held, and the nobles of the Liao Kingdom often came in groups. Now it is used for the training of soldiers of the Ming army, and if the soldiers are on vacation, they are also allowed to run and walk on the island.

The military miscellaneous troupe came here before the Spring Festival.

first went to Lushun to perform condolences, and then came to Juehua Island.

The soldiers have already watched the show several times, and today it is open to the public, and the residents of the island have brought their families to watch the excitement.

The bang rang non-stop, and the repertoire performed on the stage at this time was "Old Lonely Dispatch", which was very famous in both Song and Liao countries.

"Lonely" is the name of the character in the miscellaneous dramas of the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, and the Song Dynasty was mainly an official, and merchants began to appear in the Yuan and Ming dynasties.

"Da" is a pseudonym of "sister", which later evolved into "dan", that is, the danjiao in Qing Dynasty opera.

The roles of the end, the pure, and the ugly have also been formed at this time.

"Good!"

The inhabitants of the island applauded, and it seemed that the acrobatic drama had been staged to a wonderful point.

This miscellaneous troupe was newly formed last year, and it is mainly composed of Hebei actors. Zhu Ming asked people to save up a few scripts, mainly exposing the brutality of the Jin rule, and at the same time reflecting the benevolence and righteousness of the Ming court.

But for each performance, the traditional repertoire is performed first so that the audience can concentrate.

The people watch miscellaneous dramas, and Li Bao watches the people.

In Li Bao's eyes, the men here are all soldiers, and the women here can also farm. Including the two nearby islands, there are nearly 3,000 inhabitants, many of whom fled during the Liaojin War.

In addition to farming, they also fish, and their lives are basically self-sufficient.

Li Bao returned to Beijing this time to receive the reward, and planned to find the imperial court to order soldiers. Get some for the residents of Juehua Island, and some for the people over there in Lushun, and organize them as Baojia farmers to practice in their spare time, and they can take up arms to fight when they encounter a situation.

He can raise at least 6,000 militia in two strongholds!

The western and southern Liaonings of the Jin Kingdom were all sparsely populated, especially in Fuzhou, where the city was burned down and the people turned to Ming.

As long as he gathered troops to attack and take Huacheng County and Huacheng Pass, and then let the imperial court send 10,000 soldiers, Li Bao could lead the army to take Liaoyang directly.

A few days later, two supply ships arrived at Kyaw Wah Island.

After unloading a lot of grain, salt, wine and vinegar, and carrying the salted fish on the island, Li Bao also arrived in Shandong on a supply ship that sailed back.

When staying at the Dengzhou Hotel, Li Bao inquired casually and learned that all the monks he threw back were scattered and resettled in Shandong to farm. There was only one abbot of the temple left, carrying the Buddhist treasures in the temple, and following the officials to Tokyo.

Li Bao traveled to Jinan and met Deng Chun and Han Shizhong, who were ready to go.

When the three of them met, Han Shizhong joked: "Li Hou is not here yet, and General Deng and I will leave first." ”

Li Bao explained: "Before we set off, we went to fight again. ”

Han Shizhong said enviously: "Li Hou is lucky, he can always find a battle." Our journey, last year was really boring, all we met were puppet Korean troops, and we never fought a decent battle. ”

Li Bao smiled and said, "You can please transfer to the island to command the troops." ”

"I've been transferred to Lin Mansion, let's finish the gold thieves there first." Han Shizhong said with a smile. He was born as a general of the Western Army, and now he has been transferred back to command a Western Army, which can be regarded as a real high-spirited promotion.

Deng Chun asked, "What happened to Liaodong in the Jin Kingdom?" ”

Li Bao said: "In western Liaoning, eastern Liaodong and southern Liaoning, Jinguozhou County is already sparsely populated. I led the troops to stir up the unity, and Yelu Yu saw the surrender of the remnants of the Liao State, and most of the prefectures and counties there have been abolished. When I come back from Tokyo, I'm going to turn it into a pass, and I won't let Jin live a stable life anyway. ”

"Let's harvest the wheat and then hunt," Deng Chun reminded, "Shandong has run out of grain and grass, and even the grain merchants will not be able to get much grain until the new wheat is harvested." ”

"Think about it, too." Li Bao is a native of Shandong, and of course he knows how much the outbreak of the war in Hebei will have on the people's livelihood in Shandong.

The three of them came to the Gyeonggi area by boat, and the closer they got to Tokyo, the more lively the city and countryside became.

This year, the fourth group of people has been divided.

The big clans that have not yet been split have finally cut off the luck mentality, and have automatically separated their families and properties one after another. After they sold their land and shops, they applied to the local government and then went to various counties in Hebei to buy land and property.

The governments of Hebei and Gyeonggi received Zhu Guoxiang's official letter and even opened a field replacement service.

That is, the Gyeonggi clan used the fields of Kaifeng Province to replace the fields of various counties in Hebei. In this way, it will not only alleviate the land annexation situation in Kaifeng Province, but also increase the population of Hebei's most scarce resource.

The land vacated by the big clans in Gyeonggi was first rewarded to the soldiers whose household registration had moved to Kaifeng, and the remaining half of the land was given to the landless peasants in the village.

In the entire Kaifeng Prefecture, all farmers basically have land production.

Of course, it is not a gratuitous distribution, and the peasants buy land on credit at a low price and have to pay more grain every year to repay it in installments.

Anyway, everyone is very energetic and thriving.

(End of chapter)