Chapter 139

Turning over the map of Liaodong, it is not difficult to find that the west, north and east of Liaodong are surrounded by mountains on three sides, and one side faces the sea, which is conducive to the humid air entering the inland and forming rainfall.

However, Liaodong is also a commanding height, and once the nomads gain a foothold here, they will form a Taishan overpower over the northern regions, especially Gyeonggi, and the rolling iron horses pouring down like a flash flood are enough to crush all resistance in an instant.

In fact, Gyeonggi still has the Yanshan Mountain Range, especially the majestic Yanshan Mountain Range, which can block the charge of the iron cavalry, but once the capital cannot be defended, the entire north will be flooded by the roaring barbarian cavalry, which is why for two thousand years, the Han people know that the Songliao Plain is fertile and fertile, suitable for agriculture and animal husbandry, and a little management will show the beautiful scenery of the idyll, but they have never made great efforts to manage the Songliao Plain.

Including the Ming Dynasty, which owned the entire Liaodong, as early as the tenth year of Hongwu (1377), Zhu Yuanzhang deposed the prefecture and county, leaving only the guard and setting up the 25 guards of Liaodong. The presence of the Liaodong region has always been overwhelming, but in terms of administrative units, the Liaodong region is not an independent province, but belongs to the Shandong Chengxuan Political Envoy Department.

The cities under the rule of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, except for Liaoyang, which briefly set up prefectures and counties during the Hongwu period, all the cities of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division belonged to the "guards" of the military establishment. Therefore, it can be said that the entire Liaodong region of the Ming Dynasty can only be regarded as a military area under Shandong.

The reason why the Liaodong region was so unranked in the administrative division of the Ming Dynasty was not because this region was not taken seriously, on the contrary, the Ming Dynasty believed that the Liaodong Metropolitan Division "If Liao dies, the Beijing division will not be able to sleep in peace", and even "so its separation is really related to the prosperity and decline of China".

But another simple but easily overlooked problem is that the importance of a region is not directly related to the economic conditions and social development of the region.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty chose to set up the Liaodong Metropolitan Division to manage Liaodong and Liaoxi was precisely because of the initiative to prioritize resources over military affairs as much as possible in the face of limited resources.

It's not that you don't want this land, it's that it's too difficult to defend.

When the mountains on three sides are high, the Songliao Plain has 350,000 square kilometers, which is two Henan, and as long as the strategic fulcrum is lost, it will collapse for thousands of miles.

After the loss of Shenyang, soon the entire Liaodong was lost.

The climate in Liaodong is too cold, unlike the dry and cold in the northwest, it is wet and cold, and once it is winter, everything will be frozen in ice. First of all, the issue of agriculture, although the Tohoku has now become an important agricultural production area. However, in the Ming Dynasty, due to the climatic and geographical conditions of the Liaodong Prefecture at that time, it was not suitable for agricultural production, and even the local area alone could not achieve self-sufficiency.

For example, the Liaohe Plain, which is an important rice producing area in Northeast China today, was limited by technology and population in the Ming Dynasty, and most of the areas were not only not developed into farmland, but even Liaoze, which divided the jurisdiction of the Eastern Liaodong Prefecture into Liaoze in western Liaoning and eastern Liaodong at that time.

However, this Liaoze in the Ming Dynasty was not a large lake, but "underground flooding...... There is no smoke in all directions, but the reeds are scorching", similar to the meadow swamps that the Red Army passed through when crossing the meadows. Not only does the area require large-scale drainage, but the large amount of stagnant water can become a breeding ground for mosquitoes.

The shortage of arable land was only one of the agricultural problems faced by the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong, and another bigger problem was the climate. Restricted by the climate of the Ming Dynasty, the types and output of various agricultural products in Liaodong at that time were far from enough to meet the needs of Liaodong Dusi.

In particular, cotton, which was the main raw material for textiles in the Ming Dynasty, could not be produced in the jurisdiction of the Liaodong Prefecture in the Ming Dynasty due to climate and cotton planting technology. Therefore, in addition to grain, the local materials such as cloth and cotton are heavily dependent on the Dengzhou area of Shandong Province and the Dengliao Sea Road in the eastern Liaoning region for supply.

For example, in terms of grain, the transportation volume in the eighteenth year of Hongwu reached "more than 752,200 stones of grain and rice by sea to Liaodong". In the 21st year of Hongwu, "1.34 million cotton flowers and 560,000 catties of cotton cloth were transported to Liaodong to give sergeants."

In the case of this strong dependence, the population growth and economic development of the Liaodong capital actually required the Ming Dynasty to carry out financial bloodletting on Liaodong, and it was also very vulnerable to the climate, the attack of the Japanese and pirates. Therefore, compared with the provinces in the interior of the Ming Dynasty, the economic foundation of the Liaodong Prefecture, which was prone to frequent wars, was far more fragile.

The four states of southern Liaoning fell as early as the first year of the Apocalypse, except for a short period of time when Lushun was recovered, Jiannu has not paid attention to southern Liaoning, because if it wants to develop here, it needs to be governed vigorously.

And Jiannu has neither the ability nor the heart to develop southern Liaoning.

Cheng Shijie is willing to govern this ghost place, and that's because he has no other better choice. Cheng Shijie now takes advantage of the drought and lack of rain and the cold weather of the Xiaoice River climate, and can control southern Liaoning and the Songliao Plain at the minimum cost.

Just like in southern Liaoning now, although the rain is not too much, and the weather has a trend of drought, with Cheng Shijie leading the Tuntian army and the engineering military households, they have spent a lot of effort to rectify the situation and made gratifying progress.

In the Tuntian area of the Ning Navy, in order to enrich the jobs of the officers and men of the Ning Navy, Cheng Shijie did not plant all the fields with grain, but planted a large number of vegetables. Crops such as tomatoes, radishes, eggplants, beans, cabbage, and cucumbers are very attractive in their red, green, and green colors.

Every day, someone collects vegetables, and then transports them to the grassland to sell, the grassland can not grow vegetables, these vegetables can be sold at a sky-high price on the grassland, and it is common for a load of cabbage to bring back a few sheep.

Who told those herders not to grow vegetables?

You are the ones who pit!

Now Cheng Shijie has two pairs of white gloves, Hu Erqi and Xie Jinglin, who are responsible for smuggling, they are all asymmetrical transactions, for example, a briquette stove made of a few catties of pig iron, the cost of a briquette stove is only two or three hundred yuan, which is equivalent to two or three yuan of silver, but it is sent to the grassland.

Wrap a layer of tinplate around the cast iron, that is, white iron sheets, which can be sold for seven or eight taels, or even ten taels of silver, and most of the Jiannu herdsmen actually have no money in their hands, so they exchange cattle or horses, and a horse or a cow for a white iron stove, which is a normal transaction......

In addition to this kind of briquette stove, the most popular among herdsmen is the salt in southern Liaoning, and the wholesale price given by Cheng Shijie to the salt merchants in Huizhou is two catties and thirty wen per bag, and there are certain discounts for large quantities.

However, when sold to herdsmen, the price of salt is a bag of a leg of mutton, four bags of eight catties of salt for a whole sheep, even if it is the smallest lamb, it is more than ten times the profit.

Guangning Wei, in the first year of Jin Tianhui (1123), Liao Xianzhou was promoted to Guangning Prefecture, the site of the mansion is in today's Guangning Town, and there are four counties of Luyang, Wangping, Guangning and Zhongxiu. By the Ming Dynasty, Guangning became the highest military organ of the Ming Dynasty in Northeast China.

Liaodong Governor Yamen and Liaodong both commanded the envoy Yamen, both stationed in Guangning, but it was a pity that in the first year of the Apocalypse, after the fall of Guangningwei, it was never recaptured.

Counting from the northernmost Wangtai town of Haizhouwei, it belongs to the boundary of Guangningwei to the north, and it is also the Liaohe Plain, the Liaohe Plain of Pingchuan, there is no danger to defend, and it is not easy to gain a firm foothold in the Liaohe Plain.

Of course, Cheng Shijie's first step was to send Wangtai Town to garrison Hu Erqi, and Hu Erqi had more than 800 Jiannu soldiers under his command to form the Chaser Force of the Ning Navy.

The so-called hunting cavalry units are hunting-like troops.

Forty miles north of Wangtai Town, Cheng Shijie ordered the camp to camp here, and after the camp left, Xintai Town was built on the original site.

Cheng Shijie's strategy is still based on Tunpu, combining the ten reorganized Tuntian Hundred Households into a town, and the town set up a town fort, which is actually a city of the same level as the Thousand Households.

Because of the successful production of cement, Cheng Shijie no longer has to use precious glutinous rice to bond the masonry, and the construction of the city wall with cement is not only faster, more efficient, but also stronger.

Thirty miles east of Xintai Town, build a new town fort, called Danguan Town, because when Cheng Shijie arrived here, a gust of wind blew Cheng Shijie's hat off, Cheng Shijie picked up the hat and played the bullet soil.

After the construction of this town fort, the Wangtai Town, the front desk town, Danguan Town three towns and built a connected road, at this time to the north, the construction mode is according to the mode of the post station, every thirty miles or forty miles, along the road to build the town fort, the town fort and the post station function combined.

The army opened the road in front, and the three hundred tuntian and one hundred households in the back built castles, built roads, and built post stations little by little.

Meals should be eaten one bite at a time, and things should be done one by one.

Cheng Shijie led the Ning Navy's personal guard division, and cooperated with the 300 tuntian 100 households and the 100 engineering households, all the way forward, while building.

At this time, the morale of the Ning Navy was high, and when they were resting, they would also discuss how many good things there were in Jiannu and where to grab Jiannu.

"It's been Jiannu who have been robbing us for decades, and now it's their turn to taste what it's like to be robbed."

"Lao Tzu's big knife is already hungry and thirsty!"

Hu Erqi, who was the striker, walked through a primeval pine forest, and he saw many Jiannu herdsmen driving large flocks of round sheep to graze on the grassland.

Hu Erqi looked at the cattle and sheep everywhere and drooled: "A lot of money, a lot of food!" ”

The Jianzhou Jurchen cavalry under Hu Erqi all had green eyes and drooling.

In their eyes, sheep is food, no, now wool is also quite valuable, Ning Haijun didn't run a textile factory, specializing in weaving wool, a large number of wool that was originally not much use was sent in, into soft and exquisite wool jackets, woolen sweaters, wool coats, wool scarves and other exquisite fabrics sold inside and outside the customs, in short supply.

So in the eyes of these guys, those sheep running around are a bunch of silver that can walk and bark!

"Brothers, get ready to work!"

When they were in the woods, fortunately, when Hu Erqi's subordinates left the woods, Ning Haijun's black military uniforms would be able to see them from afar.

Before Hu Erqi started to act, the Jiannu herdsmen fell into a panic, and the children ran with the sheep to their deaths, taking out the horns and whining while running, and a Jiannu man rode a horse and roared towards this side, ready to meet the battle with a saber and a horned bow.

However, the disparity in strength is too great.

Don't look at Hu Er's genius of more than 800 people, but the other party even counts the children, and there are only about 200 people.

About an hour later, the vanguard of the Ning Navy arrived, and what they saw was a destroyed unit, the corpse lying on the ground.

Now these corpses have been collected, built into a small Jingguan, and a stone tablet has been erected, which is engraved with words: "The Ming Liaodong Economic Strategy Envoy, the Liaodong Commander Commander, the Zuo Governor, the General of the Expedition, and the Chief Officer of the Ning Navy, Cheng Gong, the watchtower guards Hu Erqi, and the broken slave is here......"

Cheng Shijie arrived on the bank of the Taizi River, which is almost 500 miles away from Jinzhou, in order to solve the problem of the supply of the Ning Navy, Cheng Shijie's principle is that if it can be solved by water, it should be the first to consider waterways.

As the naval division of the Ning Navy used 400 gunboats to transport grain, grass, building materials, and various materials to the temporary wharf of the Taizi River, this temporary wharf has been temporarily designated as the town fort of the wharf town.

This town fort was built along the riverbank, and the ground for 14,500 acres of open land began to be broken, and it was busy.

Cheng Shijie looked at Chen Guodong beside him and said, "How are the emotions of the brothers?" ”

Chen Guodong said with a smile: "The brothers' hearts are high! ”

Cheng Shijie said: "Tell the new brothers, the land in Jinzhou is gone, the new brothers, Ben Shuai has no way to allocate land to them, next year we will focus on the development of Gaizhou, Fuzhou and Haizhou, Ben Shuai decided that the brothers' military fields, in accordance with the principle of voluntariness, can enjoy 60 acres in Gaizhou, 70 acres in Fuzhou, and 80 acres in Haizhou!" ”

Whether it is the military merit field of Wei Wushu, or the twentieth rank of the Qin and Han dynasties, or the government soldiers of the Tang Dynasty and the guard of the Ming Dynasty, only by ensuring the sufficient interests of the soldiers, that is, the fields, can the army ensure its combat effectiveness.

But the problem is that there are less than 40 million mu of land in Guanzhong, and there is a considerable amount of mulberry forests among them. Everyone knows that the terrain close to Chang'an is good, the development prospects are good, and the land is valuable.

In the future, Jinzhou is the commercial center of southern Liaoning, occupying the natural advantage of the seaport, which is not as good as Jinzhou in Gaizhou or Fuzhou.

On the issue of land, Cheng Shijie needs to lay out in advance.

"Although the official order has not been issued, it is necessary to give the brothers a briefing in advance, the military rank field can be adjusted, the military merit field can also be adjusted, and the adjustment ratio of the military merit field will be according to one to one point two."

"Yes!"

Cheng Shijie continued: "Shen Mingyu. ”

"Here!"

"Now can Zuo Dusi march a hundred and fifty miles in seven hours and immediately enter the battle?"

Shen Mingyu shook his head and said, "Dashuai, the last general doesn't know, and he hasn't tried it!" ”

Cheng Shijie used the standards of the 38th Army to ask the Left Capital Division of the Ning Navy, and of course, the Right Capital Division could not be left alone.

"Then let's try it when we go back, the Guards Division, the Left Division, and the Right Division, and after three days, everyone will be fully armed, carry three days of dry food, and carry out long-range maneuvers!"

Cheng Shijie did not necessarily have to train the Ning Navy into the 38th Army, if it reached that level, casualties in the training would inevitably occur. Cheng Shijie also had no choice, before the cavalry did not form combat effectiveness, he could only improve the mobility of the troops as much as possible.

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The Red Lady also arrived in southern Liaoning smoothly with the army of displaced people, but the smooth was only relative, and the displaced people she led were full of 30,000 or 40,000 people, arriving in southern Liaoning, only more than 29,000 people remained, and nearly 10,000 people died on the way because of illness or hunger.

There's no way around it.

After the great plague, there will be a great plague.

Those who can live, without exception, are all hard-hearted people.

The red lady is still dressed in a red wedding dress, a red cloak, a long knife hanging from her waist, a spear in her hand, and a longbow on her back.

The first stop when they arrived in southern Liaoning, they were placed in the resettlement camp in southern Liaoning, and the first thing they did when they came to southern Liaoning was to learn to line up.

Those who do not follow the discipline will be reminded by the staff who maintain order next to the team, and if they are reminded to ignore the reminder, then there will be security personnel to take people away, and the rest will be logical, such a scene will be played out every few days on the docks of Golden State Port.

After registration, they were given a bath, and the conditions in the resettlement camps were much better than the poor conditions of the original resettlement sites.

First of all, there are rows of red brick and red tile rooms, these rooms are actually bathrooms, and the men's bathhouse has a large pool, while the women's bathhouse does not......

The floor of the bathroom is paved with white tiles, and there are rows of showers, these showers, which are gourds, with small holes drilled at the bottom, can spray hot water like the shower heads of later generations.

In the case of women with children, children under the age of three, whether boys or girls follow their mothers, boys over the age of three follow their fathers, and girls follow their mothers, enter the women's bathhouse and begin bathing.

After the red lady took a bath, she felt a lot more relaxed, but when she came out, she found that her clothes were missing, and the red lady suddenly became nervous.

She subconsciously touched the knife, and just as her hand was holding the handle of the knife, a young woman walked in with a piece of clothing: "Try it out?" ”

"Give me clothes?"

The red lady was a little surprised, this is a cotton sewn Luo skirt, soft, comfortable, look at the stitches, very fine, it seems to be skillfully sewn, cotton cloth is expensive, which can cost a lot of money.

"Yes, our executive committee has already said that you are the leader, and this is what you should do!"

With the establishment of the Liaodong Management Committee, the shelves of the government have also been erected, and some important posts are no longer scribbled like the original grass platform team, but an executive committee has been established.

If the Liaodong Management Committee is regarded as a government, then the executive committee is the following county, and the current Liaodong Management Committee has a total of six executive committees under the jurisdiction of Lushun, Jinzhou, Gaizhou, Haizhou, Fuzhou and Zhenhai.

Each executive committee has a deacon and a deputy deacon, with a total of seven members and a nine-member meeting, which serves as the sub-leadership body of the management committee.

The red lady nodded, and began to put on the new dress in silence.

In all fairness, the red lady is so big, and she really hasn't worn cotton clothes, because cotton cloth is easy to shrink, easy to fold, difficult to take care of, and expensive.

Wearing this dress, the red lady felt a sense of weight loss.

When she came out, she saw her clothes in a large cauldron, under which was a raging fire, and the water in the pot was already boiling and still boiling.

After the catastrophe, there will be a pandemic, Cheng Shijie is worried that there will be viruses on the immigrants, so he will carry out the first step of bathing, sterilization and disinfection for the new immigrants, and the disinfection of clothes is simply rudely boiled in boiling water, although some viruses can survive in 100 degrees of boiling water, but more than ninety percent of bacteria or viruses cannot be stored in boiling water.

"Goo-Goo......

The red lady's stomach screamed.

She looked at the woman in charge and asked, "How do we eat, do we need money?" ”

"You don't need money, you come to Liaonan, everyone will be issued a new set of clothes, a set of bedding, and shoes, within half a month, you don't need money to eat, but after half a month, you will be assigned a job, at that time, you need to work to have food, we don't raise idlers in Liaoning!"

The red lady said: "But many of us are very weak and can't work!" ”

"Do you have hands? Do you have feet? As long as there are hands and feet, there is work for them, unless they don't want to do it! ”

The red lady, led by the servant woman, came to the canteen.

Since the weather is not cold, but a little hot, these cooks are like rice, from the stuffy canteen hall, to a row of big trees.

Sweet potatoes, soybeans, wheat, peas, sweet potatoes, and several other grains were boiled in each cauldron, and the immigrants were already lining up to receive their meals.

The red lady ate a big bowl of multigrain porridge, the taste, the taste of the porridge is actually about the same, these porridges have been cooked for a long time, very soft, and most of them are full, and the red lady began to wander around in this resettlement site.

Outside the resettlement site, the land reclaimed by the 100 households of the Ning Haijun Tuntian was irrigated in time, and the crops that had been irrigated in time grew green, and the ears of wheat swayed in the wind, and the growth was gratifying.

The red lady watched quietly, her heart was full of amazement, and she said after a while: "We came all the way from Luoyang, passed through several prefectures and counties, and the most we saw was the cracks in the scorched land of Hewheat, which was miserable. ”

Different from other homeless leaders, the Red Lady did think about taking the homeless people to the field, after all, although Tanlong Valley is known as a valley, it has a depth of more than 30 kilometers and a water source, and the valley can reclaim more than 100,000 acres of land.

It was only in the process of actual implementation that she felt the seriousness of the problem. Seeds, land, cattle, and farm tools all cost money, but the displaced people have nothing, and there is no way to organize the displaced people to settle their fields.

If there is a 1 in 10,000 possibility, the red lady will not leave Luoyang, let alone come to southern Liaoning.

It's just that the red lady is very puzzled, why can Cheng Shijie do such a difficult thing?

PS: I'm very sorry.,I originally wanted to finish writing before twelve o'clock.,As a result,Fell asleep again.,I've been lacking sleep lately.,After dawn.,I woke up and revised it.,I'm looking at the words now.。 Excuse me.

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