With the establishment of the three divisions of Liaodong, there were many vacancies in the yamen.

In the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the Xiucai Tongju people selected from the county examination and township examination in Liaodong almost directly obtained official positions, which was much faster than their participation in the general examination and the palace examination.

To tell the truth, the imperial examination field is basically the world of southerners, and these people know how much ink they have in their stomachs.

If it weren't for the shortcut of the Liaodong Imperial Examination, it would still be very difficult for them to become officials.

Especially those Xiucai, although most of them are petty officials of the eighth or ninth grade, the treatment of officials in Liaodong is much higher than that of Ming officials, so the attraction is still very great.

Especially in the bonus system, the bonus for a good job is even higher than the annual salary.

Although they also have thoughts about the gentry's payment of grain, but now that even Liao Guogong's own grange has paid field tax, there is nothing to complain about about this little thin field in their family.

In fact, there are not many large landlords in Liaodong, and the largest landowner is Li Xianzhong himself, and then the Guantian subordinate to the Wei Institute, and now the Guantian is also taxable.

Most of the rest are local bureaucrats and their relatives, who are now vested interests in the Liaodong system, and will not turn against Li Xianzhong for this little land tax.

If you want to turn your face or try to turn your face, you must go directly to Lord Yama to report to the palace.

It is precisely because of this particularity that Liaodong easily completed the taxation of all land.

This is unique in Daming!

Thanks to Li Xianzhong's continuous development of commerce, in fact, officials in Liaodong know very well that business is now the main direction of local development.

With the continuous increase of the population of Liaodong, farming will definitely not meet the employment requirements of all people.

Despite vigorous development of new land, Liaodong now has less than 6 million acres of land, a population of 3.58 million and 120,000 North Korean laborers.

If it weren't for the high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes and potatoes, plus the continuous transportation of grain from Taiwan and Jiangnan to Liaodong, it would not be possible to feed these people at all.

Liaodong's industry is basically dominated by the government.

Most of the people of Pingyubao have now become the earliest workers in Liaodong.

The original workshop was integrated into a factory by Li Xianzhong, which was subordinate to the political envoy of Liaodong.

It is certainly impossible for the military industry to allow private capital to enter.

The Liaodong Arsenal, located in Pingyubao, is currently the largest factory in Liaodong.

It consists of a gun factory, an artillery factory, an arms and armor factory, a cotton clothing factory, a steel factory, an ammunition factory, and a research institute.

In addition, there are exclusive iron mines and coal mines, and there are more than 50,000 craftsmen and miners under the Liaodong Arsenal.

The Liaodong Arsenal, like the Yingkou Shipyard and the Lushun Shipyard, is subordinate to the Military Industry Department under the Liaodong Political Envoy Division.

Of course, there are also some civilian factories, such as cement factories, brick factories, ceramic factories, glass factories, copper products factories, wool products factories, briquette factories, livestock farms, etc., which are also subordinate to the industrial department under the political envoy of Liaodong.

These factories also recruit many people.

In addition, businessman Liang San was in charge of the Liaodong Trade Department, which was responsible for selling the products of the Industry Department and the Military Industry Department to other regions.

Of course, the trade in overseas areas was still handed over to the Dongliuqiu Company, and the Trade Department was only responsible for selling the products of Liaodong to the Daming Pass, the Mongolian steppe and the Korean region.

The influx of a large number of merchants has made Kaiyuan, Liaoyang these big cities have many inns, green buildings, wine shops, shops, and goods stores. As a result, these industries also need to recruit a large number of people to work in the service industry.

The movement of large quantities of goods also requires the employment of many manpower for transportation services.

In addition to agriculture in the primary industry, the industry of the secondary industry is also gradually taking shape, and the service industry of the tertiary industry is developing vigorously.

After Liaodong became a feudal town, the financial pressure suddenly increased a lot.

Therefore, Li Xianzhong signed trade agreements with Portugal, the Netherlands, and Spain, allowing them to trade in Liaodong.

Li Xianzhong gave them a tariff of two out of ten taxes.

Porcelain, wool carpets, glass and copper products produced in Liaodong were favored by them.

In particular, the glass of Liaodong far exceeded the glass products of the Italians in the same period in terms of transparency and size, which made them see huge business opportunities.

Of course, Li Xianzhong's asking price is not low, and it is estimated that glass alone can increase the income of millions of taels of silver for Liaodong every year.

Li Xianzhong also successfully resold to Europe through glass!

In fact, they were equally interested in cement and steel, but these were military products, and Li Xianzhong refused to sell them to them.

Once they are given these things, it will inevitably strengthen their colonial rule, and it will also make it more difficult for them to seize the colonies in their hands in the future.

Li Xianzhong built a commercial port near the Lushun military port as a trading port for these foreigners.

Jinzhouwei, where Port Arthur is located, was originally the most populous and economically developed among the guards in southern Liaoning.

It's just that the rise of Yingkou Port has made the Gaizhouwei and Yaozhouwei around Yingkou have been greatly developed.

Jinzhou is the later generation of Dalian, in fact, the port conditions are much better than Yingkou, I believe that over time, the potential of the development of Jinzhou as a port city will be stimulated.

After seeing the powerful warships of the Liaodong Naval Division, these European bandits finally understood who was behind the "East Ryukyu Company" that suddenly appeared.

Since the Portuguese occupied Macao and could conduct stable trade with the Ming Dynasty for a long time, they naturally gave up the idea of using force.

The Spaniards have been honest since they were beaten up by the East Ryukyu Company in Taiwan.

The Dutch were different from them, although the strength of the Eastern Ryukyu Company and the Liaodong Navy made them abandon the use of force.

However, these cunning Dutchmen were keenly aware of the delicate relationship between Liaodong and the Ming court.

Thinking of the previous drawings of the Ming court asking for flintlock pistols and medium-sized Galen ships, Song Ke quickly guessed that the imperial court was to deal with Liaodong.

Therefore, in order to reverse the trade deficit, the Dutch began to sell artillery and a large number of guns to the Ming court at high prices.

When thousands of flintlock muskets and 20 18-pounder redcoat cannons were delivered to Yanzhou, the firepower of the Yulin battalion was unprecedentedly strengthened.

After Sun Chengzong received Zhu Youxiao's instructions, he mobilized 30,000 Ming troops from Shandong, Henan, Nanzhili and other places to Yanzhou and handed them over to Zuo Liangyu's command!

In this way, the Ming army under Zuo Liangyu reached 50,000 people.

After receiving reinforcement of troops, Zuo Liangyu resumed the encirclement and suppression of the White Lotus Sect.

However, the rebels of the White Lotus Sect still used the range advantage of the Lu Mi gun in their hands and the terrain of Shuibo Liangshan to effectively block the attack of the official army.

But the appearance of these heavy guns upset the balance.

With the help of the 18-pounder Hongyi cannons, the dangerous cottages occupied by the rebels were soon blasted open.

Later, the official army attacked with absolute superiority in strength, and only a very small number of these White Lotus Sect members were the Liaodong border army, and most of them were only peasants who had been trained for a while.

It's okay for them to defend against the danger, but once they enter this kind of brutal hand-to-hand combat, they still can't resist it with less and more fighting.

At this moment, I saw Cao Wenzhao taking the lead with a spear in his hand, taking the lead in the village, his eyes were sharp, and his eyes were full of murderous energy.

The spear in his hand shone in the sunlight like a silver snake dancing. Every time the stab was stabbed, it was accompanied by a scream.

In a short time, dozens of White Lotus Sect disciples died tragically under his gun.

Soon the official army completely occupied the wall.

"Bang, bang, bang"

With a puff of white smoke rising, more than 20 officers and soldiers fell in a pool of blood!

Even Cao Wenzhao's right arm was pierced by the firecracker!

Cao Wenzhao shouted bitterly: "The immortal cave is where the bandit leader is, the brothers will kill into the cave and capture the bandit leader with a heavy reward!" ”

Soon, the officers and soldiers shouted slogans and rushed to the immortal cave not far away.

At this time, several personal soldiers grabbed Cao Wenzhao, who was about to continue to charge, and said: "General Cao, there are no more thieves, you better treat your injuries first!" ”

And Shouyu, the king of the Nine Rank Lotus Sect of the White Lotus Sect in front of the Immortal Cave, shouted: "Smash Lu Mi Gong, everyone will fight with me with the officers and soldiers!" ”

Soon after, more than 20 White Lotus Sect members wearing lotus white robes rushed towards the official army with swords and guns in hand.

Originally, I thought that these remnants of the White Lotus Sect were just fighting the trapped beasts, and they would be wiped out soon.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the two sides fought, the officers and soldiers were instantly slashed and killed by more than a dozen thieves, and the officers and soldiers of several hundred people were actually killed by more than 20 thieves and retreated.

To tell the truth, Cao Wenzhao has been following Zuo Liangyu to suppress thieves for more than half a year, and he has experienced dozens of battles, but he has never encountered such a fierce thief.

He was just about to fight again with a gun, but he was stopped by Zuo Liangyu on the side!

Zuo Liangyu said: "Fire Hammer Ready!" ”

Soon, hundreds of Ming musketeers on the walled wall raised their flintlock pistols in their hands.

"Bang, bang, bang"

The thieves who were like killing gods just now were shot and fell to the ground.

Although a few officers and soldiers who were entangled with the thieves were also killed by their own guns, this casualty was nothing at all!

A captured White Lotus Sect pointed to the corpse on the ground and said, "This is Shouyu, the King of the Nine Rank Lotus Terrace, he is the Great Protector of the King of Hejian, Wang Xifan!" ”

Zuo Liangyu said with a disdainful face: "I thought they were really invulnerable to the old mother, and they were invulnerable, but they only wore heavy cotton armor inside!" ”

This Wang Shouyu used the terrain to entangle with him for more than two months, and now he finally killed him, and finally got out of Zuo Liangyu's heart!

However, the casualties of the Ming army were not small, although it was annihilated and defeated nearly 20,000 remnants of the White Lotus Sect, but the official army itself also suffered more than 8,000 casualties.

Cao Wenzhao said: "The terrain of this immortal cave is narrow, and our army cannot deploy it, but this is already the last outer lair of the thieves, and then we can attack Wang Xifan's lair "Ghost Sorrow". ”

"Ghost Seeing Sorrow" is actually a fortress built by Wang Xifan on an island in Ansan Lake.

It is very dangerous to build on the mountain. Coupled with the fact that it is surrounded by water on all sides, the artillery of the officers and soldiers cannot hit there at all on the shore.

In desperation, Zuo Liangyu had to order the sergeant to land on the island by boat to fight!

Due to Cao Wenzhao's previous injury, the task of landing and seizing the island was handed over to Zhang Chao, the chief soldier of Henan.

Soon Zhang Chao commanded 5,000 officers and troops to attack the fortress where Wang Xifan was located in more than 200 small boats.

However, they soon discovered that there were not many suitable landing sites around the island, and the thieves had installed many stone pillars underwater.

They did not know the fairway, and most of the ships could not approach the shore normally.

Moreover, these thieves not only have long-range firearms, but are even equipped with artillery.

As soon as they got close to the thieves' lair, they were attacked by the thieves' firearms.

The officers and soldiers were unable to fight back at all, and they could only be beaten passively.

On the first day of the attack, more than 500 officers and soldiers were killed, but they couldn't touch the island!

The next day, Zuo Liangyu ordered the Yulin battalion to bring the Dutchmen with their guns and attack with Lu Mi.

However, the range of the thieves' firearms still exceeds theirs.

Even Zuo Liangyu was puzzled, they knew that these White Lotus Sect disciples were using Lu Mi Gong, but even if they used the captured Lu Mi Gong, it was still not as far as the thief's fire gun.

But fortunately, after a few days of temptation, they finally figured out the waterway of landing on the island.

But who knew that this was the beginning of the nightmare, and the fart landing field was full of traps dug by thieves.

They barely took a step before falling into a trap dug by the thieves and stabbed to death by the sharpened stakes inside.

There is no way to storm the city at all.

After more than ten attempts, more than 3,000 officers and soldiers were killed, and they never touched the walls of the thieves.

In the end, Zuo Liangyu had to give up.

This group of White Lotus Sects is really too difficult, he has confronted them in Yanzhou for half a year, and now he has been attacking them for several months and still can't take them.

His Majesty refused to listen to the good words of his gang of rogues, but now he has lost his troops and lost his generals, spent countless money and food, and delayed his future.

In desperation, Zuo Liangyu had no choice but to write to the imperial court and ask the imperial court to directly build a shipyard by the lake to build a giant ship.

Then install all these heavy guns on the battleship, and use the battleship to suppress the firepower of the thieves, so that it is possible to break the city!

The battle in Yanzhou also affected the hearts of the generals of Liaodong.

Li Sanshun and others formulated several plans, some of which sent troops to pretend to be thieves to make trouble in other parts of Shandong, and even some of them pretended to be Japanese robbers to directly occupy Dengzhou.

However, for a while, Zuo Liangyu will not be able to gnaw at the fortress at all, so let's use these as alternatives first.

At this time, Belebhe of the Horqin Left Wing League came to Kaiyuan City.

The older generation of Horqin's Belle Mangus, Ming'an and others have passed away one after another, and now Buhe is Li Xianzhong's father-in-law, and after several years of conquest, he gradually controlled the Horqin Left Wing Tripartite Alliance.

Of course, Li Xianzhong didn't want the unification of Horqin Mongolia, so he didn't give his old man any substantial help.

He was only given a "Khur Khan" and let him nominally lead the Horqin tribes.

But now that he has accepted Hai Lanzhu as a concubine, Hai Lanzhu also gave birth to a son for herself, although she is not a son-in-law, she is also a mother and a son.

And his youngest daughter Bumu Butai is now 13 years old, and this little girl has been with her for five or six years, and it is impossible for her to marry someone else.

Even if Li Xianzhong is willing to let her go free, no one dares to marry!

Li Xianzhong needed to use the power of the Horqin Department to control the situation on the grassland, so Li Xianzhong still gave him a grand welcome ceremony.

Bu He said: "This time I brought 500 horses and 1,000 fat sheep, and I also asked the Duke of Liao to laugh at it." ”

Li Xianzhong is not short of these things now, but they are also a piece of his father-in-law's heart, and he can't refuse.

And I have to return the gift.

The emotional old guy is here to collect his own wool.

Buhe said: "Ben Khan came to visit his little nephew Li Yaozu this time, and secondly, the little girl Bumu Butai is now 13 years old. In your Han Chinese words, this is the 'cardamom years', and Ben Khan hopes that she will add another grandson to me!" ”

It seems that Bumu Butai, the little girl, can't wait, she can indeed cave at her age in Daming.

However, Li Xianzhong still feels a little small, he is not Lolicon.

Too young to get pregnant is easy to have dystocia, which is actually not good for both mother and child.

He said: "Bumu Butai has been with his father for so long, it is a matter of time, and Khurhan will be able to hold his grandson within three years." ”

Hearing Li Xianzhong's statement that he would marry his youngest daughter, Bu He's wrinkled old face smiled like a flower.

Said: "So good! ”

"Ben Khan came here this time because he heard a news, I wonder if the virtuous son-in-law has ever heard of the jade seal of the country?"

After the first emperor unified the six countries, he ordered Li Si to make the jade seal of the country, which was engraved with the eight characters of "ordered by the sky, both longevity and Yongchang", which was the first of the "seven seals of the Son of Heaven".

Although there are actually a total of seven jade seals, most of the jade seals referred to in the past dynasties are the "heirloom seals" made by He's Bi.

This jade seal is worth far more than the other six and is a symbol of orthodoxy in the world.

However, it is a pity that after 936 AD, the late Tang Emperor Li Congke saw that the army invaded the imperial city and was no longer able to return to the sky. He took the jade seal and the queen Zhou clan to set himself on fire together, and the final whereabouts of the jade seal of the country were unknown, and he never saw the light of day.

Since then, there has been no trace of this Heshi Bi.

Of course, since then, there have been people in all generations of the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties who claim to have found He's Bi, but they should all be imitated.

Li Xianzhong said: "What Khurhan said was 'He's Bi'? ”

Bu He said: "It is this treasure, there is news that this jade seal was brought to Mobei by Emperor Yuan Shun. Because he fled in a hurry, he finally lost this jade seal in the desert. ”

"A few years ago, a herdsman accidentally picked up this heirloom jade seal in the desert, and this heirloom jade seal was passed down several times and finally fell into the hands of Lin Dan Khan."

Li Xianzhong remembered that this jade seal finally fell into the hands of Huang Taiji, who changed the name of the country to "Qing".

However, in later generations, this jade seal was identified as a fake by Qianlong.

Qianlong's vision is not very good, and he often identifies fakes as genuine, and even he says that they are fake, which is estimated to be "fake at a glance".

But in fact, it doesn't matter whether the jade seal is true or false, where can ordinary people tell the difference between the true and the fake, what they lack now is just an excuse to oppose the obvious.

If you get the jade seal of the former yuan, doesn't it mean that you are destined to return!

When it is true, it is also false, as long as you enter the Forbidden City and sit in the Jinluan Palace, who dares to say that this jade seal is fake?

Lin Dan Khan and Zai Sai have been fighting each other for several years, and now they should be exhausted!

If he takes the land he occupies in the Yinshan Mountains and Hetao in Monan, he can directly border the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, and it is much easier to borrow Shaanxi at this time.

Li Xianzhong said: "He's Bi is the destiny of heaven, since I let my father know the news, naturally I can't miss this God-given opportunity." ”

"Khurhan, my father still needs Horqin's iron cavalry to help me!"

Buhe said excitedly: "The Horqin Left Wing Tripartite Alliance is willing to serve the Duke of Liao. ”

The Liaodong general was also extremely excited when he heard the news.

Li Sanshun even said: "The Duke of Liao is really the chosen one, with this heirloom jade seal, we are justified!" ”

Yan Mingtai and Fan Wencheng, of course, know that this heirloom jade seal is mostly unreliable.

However, their thoughts are the same as Li Xianzhong's, with this excuse, they can not only have one more proof of orthodoxy, but also win the first line of Yinshan.

Why not?

So everyone congratulated them and asked the Duke of Liao to send troops to recapture the jade seal as soon as possible.

Mao Yuanyi said: "Originally, Taier Khan Zaisai had already gained the upper hand, and once besieged Lin Dan Khan's Chahanhot City. I don't know what means Lin Dan Khan used, but now the Tumut Department and Urat in Monan have actually formed a coalition army with the Chahar Department, and now they have begun to counterattack Zaisai. ”

"Tens of thousands of cavalry on both sides are currently facing each other in the Xilin Gol grassland."

This is really a sleepy pillow!

They competed with each other, and they just cheapened their own fisherman.

Li Xianzhong said: "This operation pays attention to a quick battle, which is surprisingly not easy, we not only want to defeat Chahar, but also completely defeat MonanMongolia. ”

"I want not only Yinshan, but also the Hetao area occupied by the Tumut tribe. Therefore, this battle is all cavalry, and this battle will eliminate as many Mongolian cavalry as possible, so that they will lose their combat effectiveness in a short period of time, so that we can better control Yinshan and Tonghetao! ”

On the eighth day of the tenth month of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Li Xianzhong, the Duke of Liao, personally led 20,000 cavalry in Guangning, an important town in western Liaoning, together with 15,000 cavalry of the Horqin Mongols, 10,000 cavalry of Yehe's left and right guards, and 15,000 cavalry of the "Imperial Cooperative Army" led by Azig, a total of 60,000 cavalry to attack Chahar on the grounds of supporting the Inner Khalkha Mongol leader "Taierhan" Zaisai.

Lin Dan Khan has been fighting with Zai Sai for more than three years, and Li Xianzhong has never sent troops to intervene, so he has gradually lost his vigilance.

In autumn on the grassland, the trees are sparse, and the sky and the earth are golden.

The phalanx of 60,000 cavalry can be described as ruthless and endless, to be honest, including Li Xianzhong himself, he has never commanded once, or even seen so many cavalry.

The dust raised by countless war horses galloping can be described as boundless, and from a distance, it looks like a hurricane with no end in sight sweeping across the grassland, directly making the Chahar cavalry in charge of reconnaissance look stupid!

Soon they reacted that this was a sneak attack by the Ming army.

Lin Dan Khan's main force was far away in Xilin Gol, and he was also shocked when he received the news.

Now that his Chahanhot City is empty, with only 3,000 old and weak soldiers, how can he resist Li Xianzhong?

But at this time, he could not return to the reinforcements, his current Monan Mongol coalition army is only 25,000 people, if he returns to the city of Chahanhot at this time, he will inevitably be attacked by the Ming army and Zaisai on both sides, and he will only die faster.

After much hesitation, he made the difficult decision to retreat westward.

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