"The snow in Liaodong only melts at the end of February every year, and it stands to reason that the last general should have arranged to deliver you grain at the end of February......"

In the Liaoyang City Restaurant, Zhou Xing discussed the matter of sending grain to Zhu Gaoxu, and talked about the weather in Liaodong in this era.

"It's just that Your Highness, you don't know, although the snow in Liaodong melted early, the snow on the road from Sanwanwei to Jilin will not completely melt until early March."

"Although you can pass on this official road in mid-February, you have to wait until March to get a car, and sometimes the winter is long, even until mid-March."

"This point, His Royal Highness will naturally know when he goes to Jilin in person in a few days."

Zhou Xing said, the food in the restaurant was on the side.

I have to say that although Liaodong is sparsely populated, there are cooks who can cook everywhere.

At the dinner table, there are five or six plates of meat such as stewed sheep, stewed chicken, and barbecue, and even on other tables, there are one or two plates of meat dishes.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't say anything, but only continued after Zhou Xing finished speaking:

"I naturally believe in the old general, so let's do it, on the first day of April every year, I send soldiers and horses to 30,000 guards."

"According to what the emperor's grandfather said, the Liaodong Metropolitan Division gives one year's grain every year, and this time I brought about 1,800 soldiers and family members, as well as 200 war horses, 300 horses, and 20 horses."

"I don't need forage, it's enough for the old general to fold the forage into bean feed and distribute it."

Zhu Gaoxu said this, and several governors sitting next to Zhou Xing also took out a palm-sized abacus and beat it.

After a while, one of the leaders said to Zhou Xing:

"General soldiers, the previous quota of Jilin Shipyard was a total of 45,460 stone of millet and rice, 1,460 stone of horse bean material, 73,000 bunches, about 20,000 stone of grain per year, 14,000 catties of salt, 5,000 horses of cotton cloth, and 12,000 catties ......of cotton flowers."

The governor truthfully recounted the previous situation, and then continued to add: "Now, judging from the number of horses fed by His Majesty Zhu Pi under the Governor's Office, the number of horses fed by His Majesty Zhu Pi is 520 horses, the amount of corn newly guarded is 500 households, and the number of family members is 2,000, totaling 18,000 stones. ”

"If the grass bundle is folded into bean feed, 63,460 stones of millet and rice, more than 10,600 stones of horse beans, 7,500 pieces of cotton cloth, 17,000 catties of cotton, and 19,000 catties of salt are allocated every year."

"In addition, there is a quota of 30,000 catties of iron and 1,000 catties of gunpowder allocated every year, as well as 20 bowls and 200 copper guns that are additionally allocated this year."

The governor is reporting to Zhou Xing, but he is also reporting to Zhu Gaoxu.

There was no problem with this account according to the emperor's Zhu Approval, but for ordinary guards, what Zhu Gaoxu's Jilin guards could receive was almost equivalent to that of the Manchu guards.

In other words, the materials of the 5,600 military households of the other guards were equivalent to the materials of the 1,500 military households under his command, plus the materials of 600 artisan households.

Zhou Xing did not react to this, after all, this was agreed by Emperor Zhu Pi, and he only needed to do it according to Zhu Pi.

However, this does not mean that the matter is over, because the Liaodong Metropolitan Division still needs to be responsible for Zhu Gaoxu's Yulu.

Faced with this question, Zhou Xing turned his head to Zhu Gaoxu and said: "The last general heard that His Royal Highness has withdrawn this year's Yulu in advance, so the Liaodong Metropolitan Division will be in charge of the palace from next year. ”

What is Zhu Gaoxu's age, there is no need to continue to discuss, after all, it was the old Zhu Zhao who told hundreds of officials.

Zhou Xing opened his mouth, just to clarify the time.

"This year's worth will also be escorted according to the time of the first day of April every year."

Zhou Xing discussed, but Zhu Gaoxu did not refuse, and his head agreed.

Seeing this, Zhou Xing also happily poured wine and talked with Zhu Gaoxu, and the two chatted about some things about Wuliangha and Xiyangha.

However, as for the information on Xiyangha's side, what Zhou Xing knew was actually similar to what Yishaha knew, but on Wuliangha's side, Zhou Xing explained to Zhu Gaoxu a lot of information that he didn't know.

Wuliang Ha is Duoyan Sanwei, although it has become the material for various marketing accounts on the Internet in later generations, such as Duoyan Sanwei is the strongest mercenary in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di relied on Duoyan Sanwei to win the Battle of Jingyan, Zhu Di ceded Daning Wei to Duoyan Sanwei and so on......

But in the history of the early Ming Dynasty, Uliangha's sense of existence and influence were not very strong, and it was said that mercenaries were considered to promote them, but in fact, their nature was not even that of robbers.

Just like at the moment, since Naha was defeated by Feng Sheng, the Wuliangha tribes immediately surrendered to the Ming Dynasty and were canonized as Duoyan Sanwei.

However, with the Liao King Aza lost his life and was defeated again by Fu Youde and Guo Ying in the area of the Zhuo'er River, the Wuliangha tribes, who were worried that they would follow in the footsteps of the Liao King, immediately took refuge in the Northern Yuan New Khan.

In order to prevent being swept away by the Ming army, the Wuliangha tribes also moved north to the Wuliangha Bald City to be stationed in the pastoral, which is thousands of miles away from the Quanning Weizu in Daning.

Although the two sides are thousands of miles apart, the pastures around the city of Wuliangha are not enough to feed the Wuliangha tribes, so from time to time there will be some small tribes who go south to graze, and by the way, they plunder Daning, Liaodong and other places.

The northernmost guard in Daning is the Quanning Wei patrolling along the Liaohe River, and the northernmost in the Liaodong Capital Division is the Jilin Shipyard.

However, due to the location of the Jilin shipyard being easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the property was not sufficient, the Wuliangha tribes generally chose to cross Liaoze in early spring and before winter to attack Sanwanwei and Kaiyuan.

At that moment, Zhu Gaoxu went to the Jilin Shipyard, if he could take the initiative to send troops to patrol the border, then he could prevent the cavalry of the Wuliangha tribes from going south to invade Sanwanwei and Kaiyuan.

However, the Liaohe River from Jilinwei to Quanningwei is about 460 miles each way, and 920 miles back and forth.

With the strength of Jilin Wei, it is obviously impossible to inspect such a large area, so Zhou Xing's proposal is that 30,000 Wei and Kaiyuan inspect the two hundred and sixty miles in the northwest, and Zhu Gaoxu only needs to be in charge of the area from Jilin to the former Jinlong'an Mansion.

This distance is about 200 miles.

Although Zhu Gaoxu's Jilin Wei only had 1,500 military households, after Zhu Yuanzhang's allocation of horses, he now has 400 military horses, which can be said to be not inferior to the number of cavalry owned by a normal guard, and it is not difficult for him to patrol 200 miles.

Moreover, the Uliangha was not a collective, but composed of several tribes, and the number of people who went south to plunder was generally only a few thousand, and most of them were women and children.

In such a situation, even if you meet the Jilin Guards in the wilderness, I am afraid that you will not dare to do it easily.

It can be said that Zhou Xing's arrangement has greatly taken into account the lack of strength of Ji Renwei.

However, in the face of his proposal, Zhu Gaoxu said more simply:

"It's no problem to inspect, but I want to restore the former Jinlongan Mansion in the future, I wonder if the city can be built there now?"

Long An Mansion is the Changchun of later generations, the local terrain is not only flat, the area of the plateau plain and alluvial plain in the territory is also quite large, and the amount of limestone in the territory is enough to build a cement yard with local materials.

However, its shortcomings are also very obvious, that is, because the terrain is too flat, the west and north are flat, it can be said that as long as Uliangha raids from the northwest and goes south, Long An Province will face the risk of being surrounded.

Because of this, the Ming Dynasty did not build post stations and guards in the local area.

"Your Highness has to think about it clearly, although the establishment of a stone fort in Long An Mansion can share the pressure on Jilin, but Long An Mansion is easier to attack and difficult to defend than Jilin."

Zhou Xing's words are not unreasonable, Changchun and Jilin are separated by hills and mountains, although holding Changchun can protect Jilin, but Changchun's terrain is not conducive to the Ming army to defend the city.

However, in this regard, Zhu Gaoxu smiled: "I will not build a stone fort in Longan at the beginning, at least until Jilin can be self-sufficient." ”

"I see...... "Hearing what Zhu Gaochu said, Zhou Xing was also relieved, after all, if Zhu Gaochu fell into the hands of thieves, then he, the chief military officer of Liaodong, would not be able to escape his involvement.

got the answer he wanted, and Zhou Xing also exchanged cups with Zhu Gaoxu.

This banquet lasted from noon to dusk, although it was very long, but because Liaodong was in the land of four wars, everyone drank very slowly.

Until the banquet dispersed, Zhu Gaoxu and Zhou Xing didn't drink too much.

After personally escorting Zhu Gaoxu to the post house to rest, Zhou Xingcai led people away.

Early the next morning, Zhou Xing took people south by boat to Jinzhou to inspect the city defense, while Zhu Gaoxu and others rested in Liaoyang for several days before continuing on the road.

In Liaodong, where there are only more than 400,000 people, Mo said that it is difficult to see people on the official roads in winter and even summer, so they hardly saw anyone except Tangqi on the way north.

The farther they went north, the more they patrolled the pond horses, and even in the ice and snow, they could see some heads poking out of the stone fort from time to time, and the officers and soldiers who came to interrogate.

When they arrived in Shenyangwei, Lin Wuliu and the others could not even understand what the officers and soldiers stationed there said, and the local area was filled with a large number of Shandongfang dialects and Mongolian Tatars.

Zhu Gaoxu was born in Beiping, and he could still understand some words when he was in Shenyangwei, but when he arrived at Kaiyuanwei and Sanwanwei, he was blind in both eyes.

In the second half of the journey, they relied almost on Yishaha, who was fluent in many dialects and languages, to lead the way.

On February 17, Zhu Gaoxu and his entourage went out with 30,000 guards, and this was also the last northern border guard post directly under the jurisdiction of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, and further north there was only one pass and four post stations.

At the end of the 14th century, the Northeast did not have the infrastructure and prosperity of later generations, nor did it have the buzz of the Liaojin Dynasty.

Walking on the muddy official road after the snow melts, it is snow-white as far as the eye can see.

To the west is the endless Liaoze, which in later generations was a grain-producing plain, but in this era it was still a frozen swamp.

To the east of the official road, you can see a vast mountain range covered with snow.

In this mountain range, as far as the eye can see, there is no people, quiet and silent, a desolate scene.

Except for the sound of horses' hooves and the conversation in the procession, even the sounds of animals could not be heard.

In this boundless barren mountain range, all you can feel is the howling wind and the bleak scene of the creatures, and the feeling of desolation and uninhabited people arises spontaneously.

"Your Highness, the place we are going to will not be more deserted than this......"

In the team, many people retreated, even if someone like Lin Wuliu firmly chose Zhu Gaoxu, they couldn't help but come forward and ask nervously.

Zhu Gaoxu turned his head to look at the mountain range, looking at the mountain range where even birds and beasts were gone, but his face was full of smiles:

"In the future, if this place is full of people, I will engrave your names and deeds on stone tablets for passers-by to pay respects."

He didn't answer directly, but talked about the future.

It's a bit of a pie, but in a place that feels like the edge of the world, his commitment is enough to inspire everyone on the team.

For the next few days, they hurried through the barren mountains and mountains, hearing the howling of wolves and tigers every night, and feeling the cold wind.

Three days later, they came to the Long'an Mansion that Zhu Gaoxu and Zhou Xing were talking about, that is, Changchun in later generations.

As Zhu Gaoxu guessed, here they finally saw the traces of civilization, even if it was just a collapsed ruin, but it also made them a lot excited.

"This place is really flat, and the land is fertile, but it's too cold, and it's almost the end of February and hasn't thawed."

Lin Wuliu poked into the frozen soil with a spear, and when he pulled it out, it was rich in nutrient black soil.

All that remains of the former Long An province is a crumbling rammed earth wall and many ruins that have fallen in the snow and been buried by hay.

Looking at this group of ruins, Zhu Gaoxu felt embarrassed, and Yizha also followed Zhu Gaoxu into the city of Long'an Mansion in embarrassment.

"This place is not bad, if there are more people in Jilin in the future, maybe you can move some."

Yishaha didn't know what Zhu Gaoxu was going to do in the future, he only felt that the terrain of Long An Mansion was good.

Listening to his words, Zhu Gaoxu patted the snow and grass clippings on his hands: "Change this place to Changchun on the map." ”

In order to facilitate his own recollection, Zhu Gaoxu decided to officially change the name of Long An Mansion to Changchun, even if it is not yet inhabited, but there will be in the future.

In this regard, Yizha has no opinion, after all, out of 30,000 Wei, basically under the jurisdiction of Jilin Shipyard.

Now that Jilin Shipyard has been relocated to Jilin Wei, its jurisdiction can be said to be completely up to Zhu Gaoxu personally.

If Zhu Gaoxu was willing, he could even claim that the entire northeast except Liaodong, and even Eastern Siberia, belonged to his jurisdiction, after all, he was the only civilization in this land.

For the Jurchens of the East China Sea and the Jurchens of the Western Sea, as long as Zhu Gaochu gave enough benefits, they could even call Zhu Gaochu the Great Khan.

However, this kind of rule is not what Zhu Gaoxu wants, what he needs is a Bohai Royal Mansion with a sound team.

"Let's go......"

Turning around and leaving Long'an Mansion, Zhu Gaoxu took Yishuha out of the collapsed city, turned over and continued to take Lin Wuliu and the others to Jilinwei.

From Changchun to Jilin, if you take the official road, you need to walk another 400 miles, but you are also familiar with the local terrain, so you are ready to take Zhu Gaoxu to cross the Great Black Mountain.

In this way, you only need to walk 180 miles to reach Jilin City.

During this period, it is necessary to cross fifty miles of the Great Black Mountain, but fortunately, there are not many real girls living in the Great Black Mountain, and the scale of their group is not small, so there is no Jurchen who is not long-sighted and will not want to attack them.

The fact is also the same, Rao is Zhu Gaoxu and they are fully prepared for battle, but during the night of rest in the Great Black Mountain, they really did not encounter any Jurchens.

The next morning, after packing a little baggage, they set off again, but at noon they left the Great Black Mountain.

After two days of traveling, they finally saw a stone fort standing between the Songhua River and the remaining veins of Changbai Mountain on the third day.

The stone fort is like a watchtower standing on the edge of the remaining veins of Changbai Mountain, and there are more than ten fiery red flags with the word 'Xi' written on the top of the stone fort.

The flag was waving in the wind, and the hunting sounded, but the moment it appeared, it soothed everyone's fatigue along the way.

"Beep-"

A piercing whistle sounded, and three or four figures suddenly appeared on the top of the stone fort, and they shouted at Zhu Gaoxu and others who were more than a hundred steps away: "Which side of the fort is there?!" ”

"Hang the flag." Without Zhu Gaoxu's explanation, Lin Wuliu beckoned the people around him to hang up a flag.

After a while, a banner with "Bohai" written on it was erected in the ranks, and Lin Wuliu personally carried the banner to the fort and waved it in front of the soldiers on the stone fort:

"The king of Bohai is here, and the thousands of officials of Jilin Shipyard will be sent quickly to welcome His Highness!"

Lin Wuliu shouted with a smile on his face, but he didn't want the soldiers on the castle to look at each other, and finally shouted at Lin Wuliu in embarrassment:

"Zhang Qianhuguan died, he was injured and died half a month ago, and we haven't had time to play the capital division yet."

When he said a word, Lin Wuliu was dumbfounded, he didn't expect him to come all the way to this Jilin Wei, but before he even saw Shangguan, the other party was already dead.

After being stunned for a moment, he turned his head to look at the northbound team rushing here, so he gritted his teeth and said, "Just ask the shipyard steward to prepare to greet him." ”

"Yes!" The soldiers on the fort should go down, and then they went down to the stone fort in groups of three or five and opened the stone fort gate.

Soon, more than a dozen soldiers walked out of the stone fort under the leadership of a general flag officer, and one of them rode a Mongolian horse to the rear to deliver the message.

They looked at Lin Wuliu and then at the team that was coming, and couldn't help but gasp.

Zhu Gaoxu alone has 200 Qin horses, which shows his strength.

Not long after, Zhu Gaochu led the team to the front of the stone fort, and one of the chief flag officers in his thirties stood up and knelt half-down, and the speed was so fast that Zhu Gaochu could not stop him.

"Jilin Shipyard Jixi Fort Chief Flag Officer Wang Yi see His Royal Highness, long live Your Highness, long live Long live Long live......"

Wang Yi hadn't seen any His Royal Highness, so he shouted long live without hesitation, and Zhu Gaoxu hurriedly corrected when he heard this: "I am the king of the county, I can call Chitose, and there is no need to kneel in the army in the future." ”

"Yes!" Wang Yi nodded in response, and when Lin Wuliu saw this, he also stepped forward and told the news that the Qianhu official of the Jilin Shipyard had died.

Zhu Gaoxu was a little surprised by this news, and he hurriedly asked Wang Yi: "How did your Qianhu official get injured and die?" ”

Wang Yi and the others were all military households who had migrated from Shandong, so there was no big problem in talking to Zhu Gaoxu and them.

In the face of Zhu Gaoxu's inquiry, he also said truthfully: "A few days ago, when Xiyang Halai in the north came to attack, Zhang Qianhu was hit by a wolf poison arrow in the face, and the heavy snow couldn't get out, and the herbs were gone, so he died. ”

Wang Yi's words are embarrassing, and at the same time, he also heard how grim the situation of Jilin Shipyard is.

Because Song Sheng was transferred to Yunnan, the encirclement and suppression of Xiyang Ha by Song Sheng and Zhou Xing in history was postponed, and Xiyang Ha saw that the Ming army did not react, so he went south again and plundered, so this Qianhu official died after the war.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu did not continue to delay here, but beckoned to Wang Yi: "You continue to stay here, and when I go to the shipyard, I will arrange various stone forts." ”

Zhu Gaoxu did not have a map of the Jilin shipyard in his hand, so he did not change his defense at will.

After asking Lin Wuliu to leave a jar of wine for Wang Yi and others, he took Lin Wuliu and Yishiha and others to continue to Jilin Shipyard.

Walking through the stone fort and along the Songhua River to the south, they encountered three stone forts in a row, almost each of which was garrisoned by only a dozen soldiers.

After walking for twenty miles, they came to the city of Jilin, which was built in a river bay.

According to Zhu Gaoxu's understanding, Jilin City is more than 367 steps long from east to west, and more than 200 steps from north to south is one mile wide.

There is a water village one mile away from Jilin City, and I think it is the shipyard of Jilin.

Although Jilin City is not large, it is built extremely strong, and the whole is made of stones on the river beach, even if you have not yet climbed the city wall, you can feel its weight.

As the team got closer and closer, Zhu Gaoxu also saw hundreds of soldiers guarding the city gate, as well as a group of military families who were pressed by the press.

When Zhu Gaoxu and the others approached, they could see the appearance of the soldiers in Jilin City clearly.

They were all in their twenties and thirties, and they were excellent soldiers, not as bad as Zhu Gaoxu thought at the beginning.

Behind them stood hundreds of men, presumably their sons or shipyard craftsmen.

"Visiting the ...... of the King of the Bohai Sea"

When everyone saw Zhu Gaochu coming, they fell to their knees, and Zhu Gaoxu couldn't tell them to stop kneeling, but just said a flat sentence, and then said to the crowd: "Who is the military attache in charge of this place now?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu asked, and suddenly a young man walked out.

He looks like he is only fourteen or fifteen years old, not as old as Zhu Gaoxu.

"The subordinate Zhang Chun, the son of Zhang Ben of the shipyard, attacked the officials of the thousand households according to the "Da Ming Law", but he has not yet reported to the capital."

"Is there a place to stay for me to wait?" Zhu Gaoxu looked at Zhang Chun, who was younger than himself, and suddenly had a headache.

"Back to His Royal Highness, the order of the Governor's Mansion was only delivered in the middle of last month, and the last general and the military households in the fort worked day and night, which can be regarded as completing a house and a military camp."

Although Zhang Chun is young, he speaks in an orderly manner, which makes Zhu Gaoxu's headache a little less.

He looked at the team behind him, and could only explain to Lin Wuliu: "Go to the barracks with them, and go to the house to find me for a while." ”

"Yes!" Lin Wuliu responded, and Zhu Gaoxu also took Yishaha to the house that took a month to build under the guidance of Zhang Chun.

As for Lin Wuliu and the others, they also went to a new military camp in the city under the leadership of several hundred household officials in Jilin City.

For them, ending that tiring journey is the happiest thing, even if this Jilin city looks simple, but it is better than sleeping in the open......

(End of chapter)