Chapter 312

Affected by the weather of the Xiaoice River, the agricultural production environment in Liaodong is getting worse and worse, and from May to July, there has been no rain for more than two months, which is the season when the rain is most needed.

In fact, the drought is not only affected by Liaodong, but also includes Beizhili, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shandong and Henan, and almost the entire north has been affected to varying degrees.

According to the calculations of the Liaodong Agricultural College, the grain output in Liaodong has been reduced by nearly one-third, and fortunately there are many ditches in Liaodong, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable.

In Cheng Shijie's memory, the continuation of this Xiaoice period is not the most serious time, the most serious is in 1660, the temperature officially entered the coldest period. According to the Annals of the American Society of Geographers, 1660-1680 was the coldest period in northern and central China during the Xiaoice River.

According to relevant historical records, in November of the solar calendar in 1654 (the eleventh year of Shunzhi), the ice of the Wujiang Canal was more than three feet thick, and from Wujiang to Jiaxing, it took a strong man to dig the ice and move forward 3-4 kilometers a day. The South Canal was frozen in November of the solar calendar, which is rare in history, which shows the cold weather in the south of the Yangtze River during the Shunzhi period. In addition, at that time, there were also records of the Yangtze River frozen. There is even a record of snow in Guangzhou.

In this case, not only Jiannu Mongolia needs to go south to survive, but the Ming Dynasty also needs to go south, if it is only Cheng Shijie and the Liaodongning Naval Group, with Dayuan and Luzon, it can basically meet the needs of survival and development, but the entire north of the Ming Dynasty, then it needs more land.

Hold Liaodong, develop industry, and agriculture must move south as soon as possible, as for the destination of migration, Cheng Shijie thought of the Red River Plain of the Indochina Peninsula, where the weather is hot and the rainfall is abundant, of course, the Annam monkeys here are not so easy to deal with, the Ming Dynasty in Yongle five years (1407) June, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di sent troops to conquer the Hu Dynasty (Dayu State) in Vietnam, changed Annam to Jiaolu, set up Jiaolu Cheng announced the political envoy, and officially included Vietnam in the Ming Dynasty to rule.

However, the Ming Dynasty's rule over Vietnam lasted only twenty years, and in the second year of Xuande (1427), the Ming Dynasty abolished the political secretary of Lubu and officially renounced its rule over Vietnam.

The Ming Dynasty gave up its rule over Vietnam, mainly because the local people were extremely resistant to the Ming Dynasty officials and army, and they were also white-eyed wolves who were not fed.

In this case, Cheng Shijie needs Vietnam, but he does not need Vietnamese, and the only way is to adopt the same strategy as in Luzon for the Indochina Peninsula, leaving land but not people.

As the executor of the clean-up plan, the small day military soldiers are just right.

In the face of the change of strategic plan, Cheng Shijie carried out a new round of reorganization of the Xiaori Rabid Legion, first of all, among the more than 300,000 young men captive, selected the Xiaori samurai and ashigaru between the ages of eighteen and thirty, and took every one hundred and fifty people as a squadron, every three squads and a baggage squad, as a squadron. Each squadron has six hundred men under its command.

Every three squadrons and one baggage squadron, that is, 2,400 people are a brigade, a total of 22 brigades.

These 22 brigades were mixed with the death battalion and handed over to Sun Kewang, Liu Wenxiu, and Li Dingguo to lead respectively, with Sun Kewang commanding the 1st to 9th Brigades of the Annan Army, Liu Wenxiu commanding the 10th to 16th Brigades, and Li Dingguo commanding the 17th to 22nd Brigades.

Due to the serious shortage of equipment of these 22 brigades, Cheng Shijie could not look down on these tattered days of the small days, so he sold them to the Kumamoto domain and the Fukuoka domain for waste use, and Cheng Shijie prepared to train the samurai of the 22 brigades of the small days in Liaodong, and after they were armed into an army, they would carry out the strategy of going south to Annam.

After Cheng Shijie decided to retreat, he told the Hosokawa clan and Kuroda clan of the Fukuoka Domain and Kumamoto Domain about the preparation of the Tokugawa Shogunate to aid Nagasaki.

Hearing that the Tokugawa shogunate sent troops, both Kuroda Yukiji and Hosokawa Tadashi became nervous.

Fortunately, the Ning Navy had a strong naval force, and sank two-thirds of the Shogunate's legion troop carriers on the expedition to Kyushu, and looking at the good news from the Ning Navy, the Fukuoka Domain and the Kumamoto Domain could only desperately expand their armaments.

Cheng Shijie pushed the boat down the river, and sold the captured equipment to the Kumamoto Domain and the Fukuoka Domain at a high price, this time Cheng Shijie's expedition to Xiaori, although it did not achieve the expected results, however, it also achieved rich results, and the young and strong labor captured more than 340,000 people, and also brought more than 50,000 Xiaori samurai.

On the whole, the population alone captured 400,000 people, and in addition to these people, the most important silver, together with the seizures and the proceeds from the sale of weapons, amounted to more than 18,500,000 taels, 280,000 taels of copper, and more than 164,000 taels of gold.

On November 19, the eighth year of Chongzhen, the Ming army boarded and retreated with the captured young and strong population and property, and the huge fleet sailed to the Liaodong Peninsula and returned a ravaged Kyushu Island to Xiaori.

Without the blockade of the Ning Navy and the Navy, when Tokugawa Iemitsu led 6,000 banners of samurai to Nagasaki day and night, all he saw was a ruin of bones and blood soaked to his ankles, and some samurai who burned and looted so much that they didn't even know that the Ming army had withdrawn, and they continued to kill people and set fires.

The shogunate army annihilated these drunken men without much effort, beheaded more than 6,000 people, and won a complete victory. However, such a victory was not what Tokugawa Iemitsu wanted.

Half of Nagasaki's population was either killed or robbed, the port was razed to the ground, and the castles of Kagoshima, Ogijo, and Osumi were killed, wounded, and captured more than 2 million people in this small day, and most of them were young and strong, and such losses were enough to devastate the southwestern feudal domains.

And the shogunate mobilized tens of thousands of troops and spent hundreds of millions of dollars on an expedition, but he didn't even touch the hairs of the Ming army, how willing was he to be in such a result!

In anger, Tokugawa Iemitsu led the Hachimoto samurai to attack Kumamoto Castle, however, the Kumamoto samurai also learned a lot of real skills with the Ming army, and they also learned to dig trenches and build chest walls, which is not difficult in itself, but if you are not stupid, you will be able to look at it.

The Kumamoto samurai first held the camp, no matter how provocative the shogunate army was, they just didn't come out, but they just shot a large number of shogunate soldiers with cannons and crossbows, and repelled the shogunate's offensive, just the first day of engagement, the shogunate soldiers lost nearly 3,000 people!

Later, when the shogunate and the Kumamoto clan were fighting to the death, the Fukuoka Domain took advantage of the fact that the shogunate army was fighting fiercely with the Kumamoto Domain's army, and the Fukuoka Domain's army took the opportunity to concentrate artillery bombardment, firing hundreds of cannonballs in an instant, and then attacking on all fronts, the Tokugawa Shogunate was defeated, with thousands of dead and wounded, and the survivors were driven by them to the farmland flooded by the sea, and fell into a desperate situation and had to surrender in humiliation.

After more than half a month of fierce fighting, Tokugawa Iemitsu had to recognize the reality, the Kumamoto Domain and the Fukuoka Domain joined forces, and they were able to resist the Tokugawa Shogunate to the death, so Tokugawa Iemitsu had to send envoys to negotiate with the Fukuoka Domain and Kumamoto Domain, and the Tokugawa Shogunate recognized the interests of the two feudal domains in Kyushu and recognized them as the price of annexing the Satsuma Domain, ending the war.

Since then, the Battle of Kyushu has finally come to an end.

However, the Battle of Kyushu caused Tokugawa Iemitsu to have a political existential crisis, which also made other daimyo see that the Tokugawa shogunate was too empty.

As for how Tokugawa Iemitsu stabilized the situation in Xiaori, this is not something Cheng Shijie is worried about.

In November, Liaodong has begun to drift snow, the cold wind is like a blade, the Liaohe River, the Yalu River and other famous rivers are covered with thick ice, especially the Liaohe River, which is about to freeze to the bottom of the river.

In Liaodong, the Han people also ended a year's hard work and began to spend the winter. As early as September, they transported a large amount of coal and vegetables, and each household stored thousands of catties of honeycomb coal, pickled several tanks of sauerkraut, which they exchanged for sea salt, plus wheat and soybeans obtained from the tuntian, salted fish, bacon and so on, which were enough for them to survive the long winter.

Although Shandong has been affected by the disaster, the problem is that many people in Shandong have worked in Liaodong, and after making money, they have returned to Shandong with the purchased grain, canned food, salt, cloth and other materials, and their lives are not unbearable.

Only the people of Jifu South, they are very afraid, especially the rich and powerful, there are hundreds of thousands of Liukou gathered outside the city, and now the Dashun Army is replacing Zhang Xianzhong, becoming the second of the Liukou, even the new King Chuang also sent a messenger to Song Xiance, Li Zicheng hopes to form a brother with a different surname with Song Xiance, and advance and retreat together.

What the people of Jinan are looking forward to the most is naturally Cheng Shijie, the prince of Haiguo who they usually don't love the most, and they all hope that Cheng Shijie can lead the army to save them from fire and water.

Cheng Shijie arrived in Lushun, the current Port of Arthur has now changed its appearance, two trestle bridges built of reinforced concrete are majestic, a lighthouse as high as more than 50 meters is like an optimus pillar, every night, the soldiers guarding the lighthouse will light the whale fat, the blazing fire can be seen for dozens of miles.

The wharf has also expanded a lot, and dozens of huge warehouses are being built, as long as conditions permit, every month there will be merchant ships from North Korea, Xiaori, Shandong, Jiangnan and other places into the port, with cotton cloth, raw silk, wheat beans, medicine and other materials in exchange for refined salt, steel products, machinery, and of course, meat produced in Liaodong, making Port Arthur more and more prosperous.

It has already shown its potential as a major international trading port, and given it another ten years, it will surely become one of the largest cities in the whole of East Asia.

Cheng Shijie is very satisfied with this, isn't it money to fight in the war, and now Ning Haijun's money bag is getting bigger and bigger, and his confidence is gradually sufficient.

The flagship Zhili docked, Cheng Shijie jumped on the trestle, Sun Zhili and Yang Yunniang hurriedly greeted him, and nodded on one knee: "See Dashuai!" ”

"Meet the Commander!"

Cheng Shijie stepped forward to help Sun Zhiqian and said with a smile: "You, and you, you also give me this set?" ”

Sun Zhili said solemnly: "The upper and lower must be distinct, and the etiquette must not be abolished." ”

Sun Zhili looked at the fleet of ships that were entering the port one after another, and asked with some surprise: "Why are there so many ships?" How many things did you rob in your little day? ”

Cheng Shijie waved his hand: "Not much, not much, the place is poor in a small day, and it will only cost 10 million taels of silver, 340,000 young and strong, and more than a dozen boats of treasures, and it can't be put on the table." ”

The warships docked one after another, a large number of armor soldiers were fully armed, boarded the trestle and lined up and went straight to the pier, and in an instant the whole pier resounded with the sonorous sound of metal colliding, which was worthy of being a strong force tempered in the bloody battle.

"Yun Niang!"

"Dashuai!"

"You have someone count the silver, and it should be put into storage, and in addition, exchange it for two million taels of silver for me, and use ten taels of silver!"

"Okay!"

Cheng Shijie didn't get any benefits from this trip, so he naturally needed to be wet with rain and dew.

Although Gao Qiqian didn't use it, Cheng Shijie still gave him a deposit note of 300,000 taels of silver, which can be withdrawn from any Liaodong bank in Liaodong, of course, it is better not to take it out, and you can eat interest, and the interest alone is as much as 18,000 taels of silver a year.

In fact, this is a big account of the Liaodong Bank, and the deposit alone is as much as more than 800,000 taels of silver, and counting the 300,000 taels of silver, his deposit is as high as 1,120,000 taels of silver, and the annual interest alone is as much as 67,200 taels.

Of course, Cheng Shijie can earn more money by lending with these high-potential silver, and when the loan amount is only 80%, he can also make a net profit of more than 100,000 taels of silver.

In addition to the silver prepared for Gao Qiqian, there are 80,000 taels of silver for Cao Huachun, 60,000 taels of silver for Wang Chengen, and of course, silver for Emperor Chongzhen, which naturally needs to be sent by Cheng Shijie in person.

Cheng Shijie had a brief exchange with Sun Zhili and others on the dock, and began to return home.

On the carriage, Cheng Shijie clearly felt that the population of Liaodong had increased a lot, and after Liaodong had passed the most difficult entrepreneurial stage, the population had ushered in a new production climax.

This era is different from later generations, there is no entertainment in these years, and contraceptive measures are not taken, the couple will do something as soon as the lights are turned off at night, and more importantly, Liaodong is not like the Central Plains, restricting ordinary people from taking concubines, as long as they raise it, it doesn't matter how many concubines you have.

If you are willing, you can learn from Chen Dayong, fifty-three concubines, even if you are alone a day, and the wheel is nearly two months, the iron-beaten man will be hollowed out.

Cheng Jiayue, who was sitting in the carriage, was obviously a little unhappy, she was full of interest to go to play a small day, but the result was good, just like a later travel, she went to Kyushu Island to make a card and got nothing.

However, Cheng Jialong still has a little gain, he originally wanted to treat a small day warrior who is more than one meter four, Cheng Jialong is actually wrong, it is not a child, but an adult, at least twenty years old, just a baby face, but the other party actually opened his mouth and bit Cheng Jialong.

Cheng Jialong was furious and picked up his fist and slammed dozens of punches at the other party...... However, the family dragon has changed, and it has not recovered until now.

Zhou Ning found Cheng Shijie and said, "Marshal, what are your plans for the Annan Army?" ”

"First of all, we must form combat effectiveness as soon as possible!"

Cheng Shijie sighed and said: "The weather is getting colder and colder, we must be ready to go south!" ”

Zhou Ning thought for a while and said: "The method of combining the Death Battalion and the Rabid Dog Legion is too simple and crude, if you want to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, you must continue to let the samurai use cold weapons these days, it just so happens that we have a lot of horizontal knives, spears, and crossbows in stock, and they are used to fighting with cold weapons, and if they change it rashly, it will definitely affect the combat effectiveness of the troops." ”

"What are you going to do?"

"It's okay according to the size of the brigade, but I want to add a firearms unit of at least 4,000 people, and many of the samurai are good at using iron cannons, so we can consider sending the muskets from our inventory to them to use!"

It's not that the Ning Navy doesn't have firearms, and there are quite a few of them, but Cheng Shijie doesn't like it, Sun Yuanhua originally cast as many as five or six thousand firearms, but considering that there is only an effective range of fifty to eighty steps, whether it is the rate of fire or the range, it is far inferior to the formation-breaking crossbow equipped by the Ning Navy.

"No problem, the equipment is ready, the auxiliary forces can be formed at any time, and we will be stationed in Haizhou during this time, but we don't have much time, and war will break out at any time!"

Cheng Shijie led the Ning Navy to quell the rebellion of the Dashun Army, if Song Xiance did not have the intention of establishing himself as the king now, this battle would be a passing scene, that is, a large number of prisoners of war and civilians would be accepted immediately, these are immigrants.

Some of them can migrate to Luzon, while others will be settled in the Red River Plain, and when Cheng Shijie returns from the capital, he will be dispatched, and a war will start in a month or two at most.

Time is of the essence.

Zhou An said: "Marshal, have you ever considered how many soldiers in the death battalion are still willing to continue fighting?" I suggest that the establishment of the death camp be retained, and the principle of voluntariness should be adopted, so that the soldiers can choose for themselves, and at the same time, the soldiers of the death camp can also be placed in Annan, compared with Shaanxi and Liaodong, Annan is simply heaven and earth! ”

"No problem, just do it!"

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said, "Let Shen Mingyu and Zhang Yu come back and ask their opinions if they are willing to move the place!" ”

"I do!"

Shen Mingyu is so moved that he wants to cry now, Cheng Shijie finally remembered him, although he has no feud with Xiaori, but the problem is that this is a military exploit, go on a trip, brush up on a wave of achievements, and you can be promoted and make a fortune.

Now Jiannu is more honest than Fuzi, and he is directly guilty in Liaodong.

"Annan is bitter!"

"I'm not afraid of hardship, I'm not afraid of tiredness, I'm afraid of being idle in Liaodong!"

(End of chapter)