At dusk, the sun sets, the original autumn yellow grass is stained with a layer of red with blood, scattered arrows, and abandoned weapons can be seen everywhere.

The smoke of the fire soared, and the stripped corpses were pushed into the flames, and the corpses reacted in an instant when they encountered the high temperature.

In the heat of several hundred degrees, the skin of all the corpses was instantly carbonized and turned into a black patch.

As the furnace temperature also gets higher and higher, the fat in their bodies begins to burn and make a "sizzle" sound, like a piece of fat being pressed against a red-hot iron plate.

The stomachs of all the corpses were constantly inflated like balloons that were pumping under the gaze of the Ming army.

Some of the corpses began to twitch their limbs, and some of them sat up directly, making a sound similar to a cry for help from their mouths!

"Help me...... Help me......"

"Ghosts! It's a ghost! Hell! ”

Looking at the reactions after the corpse was burned, some of the prisoners in charge of the incineration ran away.

In the distance, nearly 10,000 Jurchen women and children and nearly 1,000 defeated soldiers huddled together, looking at this scene with heartbreak.

Not only them, but even the soldiers of the Bohai Navy who had just fought in front of this group of corpses were also frightened.

But in this situation, Zhu Gaoxu walked out and slapped the sitting corpse with the iron gun in his hand, and a large amount of gas gushed out from the carbonization gap, which was pungent and unpleasant.

Faced with this pungent smell, Zhu Gaoxu turned around indifferently, ignored Fu Rong's frightened gaze, walked in front of them and began to order:

"Gather all the things with iron, and take them back to Buyan City."

"After I go back, count the list of brothers who died in battle, and record the lost and disabled horses, the number and names of the brothers, and the situation at home."

After a brief explanation, Zhu Gaochu untied the armor on his body, and when he saw this, he also returned to normal, and hurriedly stepped forward to take off his armor for Zhu Gaoxu.

Looking at the armor full of arrows, Yishaha was extremely worried, but when the armor was all removed, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Although he was shot as a hedgehog, Zhu Gaoxu did not have any scars on his body, and the only scar was probably the soles of his feet stained with blood.

The primitive mountain road of dozens of miles is not so easy to walk, and even Zhu Gaoxu has paid a lot of price.

Rao is a person like him, and he couldn't help frowning in pain when he took off the socks with flesh and blood.

"Your Highness......"

Looking at Zhu Gaoxu's bloody soles, Yi Weiha felt a little distressed, even his feet were in unbearable pain.

Not only him, but Fu Rang and Zhang Chun couldn't hide their surprise and heartache.

Just shook it off casually, and there were no less than twenty arrows falling from Zhu Gaoxu's armor, and many more were still stuck in the gaps.

With a muffled snort, Zhu Gaoxu washed the soles of his feet with the wine he had brought with him, and then wrapped the soles of his feet with spare cotton and coarse cloth.

He had all these things prepared by him before the war, almost one for everyone.

"When I go back this time, I'll have to get the medics."

Putting on his shoes, Zhu Gaoxu endured the discomfort and got up, and walked to the side of the red man who had just been taken off his waistcoat.

Tears flowed from its eyes, and although the vest kept most of its arrows out, seven or eight of them were shot in places where the vest was not protected.

"I'll do it."

Zhu Gaoxu calmed the red horse with his hand, and then asked the soldiers who tried to take medicine on the red horse to take care of the other horses first, and began to carefully pull out the arrows for the red horse with wine and cotton coarse cloth, and disinfect and apply the medicine.

After he finished doing these things, Fu Rang next to him also stepped forward and glanced at the tens of thousands of Jurchens.

"What are you going to do with these tens of thousands of Jurchen women and children and thousands of men?"

With Fu Rang's idea, it would be best to bury them here with a knife.

But this is only his idea, not Zhu Gaoxu's idea.

Stuffing the distilled grain alcohol into the stopper, Zhu Gaoxu glanced at the group of people Fu Rang said, and asked rhetorically without thinking: "How many prisoners are there in Buyan Fortress?" ”

"I came in a hurry, I didn't rush to count, but there were about two or three thousand old and weak women and children and four or five hundred men." Fu Rang responded in a deep voice, and Zhu Gaoxu bowed his head slightly after hearing this:

"Send people back to Jilin City, and ask them to send ships to bring the Jurchen women and children to Jilin City, and tell the people of Jilin City that they are also our people from now on."

"In addition, all the men will be placed in Buyan Zhai Fort, and we will also leave 300 people from the soldiers in Nanjing in Buyan Zhai Fort, and Buyan Zhai Fort will be renamed Andong City from now on,"

As soon as Zhu Gaoxu's words were halfway through, Fu Rang frowned: "Are you going to garrison troops here?" ”

"Hmm......" Zhu Gaoxu didn't hide his thoughts, but Fu Rang was worried after hearing it:

"I've seen about the farmland here, but to be honest, it's not very familiar, and there are no canals and roads, and the defense of the walled fort is not good."

"This tens of thousands of acres of land, at most, can produce five or six thousand stone of grain, feed more than a thousand people, you want to station troops here, you have to transport grain here in the future, and we don't have a walled fort on this road, it is very easy to be cut off by waterway."

"Besides, if you want to leave these tens of thousands of people, then Jilin City will have tens of thousands of mouths, if the imperial court does not send more food, how many days can Jilin City last?"

Fu Rang has his reasons, after all, the current Jilin shipyard can't even be self-sufficient, and basically relies on the blood transfusion of Liaodong Dusi and Zhu Gaoxu.

Now there are tens of thousands of more people, and it is unreasonable to raise a walled fort across thousands of miles of waterway.

"I have my arrangement."

In the face of his doubts, Zhu Gaoxu smiled and comforted him, and pointed to the group of women and children: "Move the women and children to Jilin City, and let the women make cement and mine, so that we can save a lot of men." ”

"Leaving these thousands of female real men to farm and open up wasteland in Andong City can reduce at least half of the pressure on Andong City."

"Besides, I am going to use Andong City to appease the Jurchens in the north, and some small tribes that can't survive can join."

Zhu Gaoxu said his thoughts, and Fu Rang also understood what he meant, but he was still worried: "You deal with them like this, but how can you control them?" ”

"What's more, the military households in Jilin City have made enemies with them for not a day or two, they went to Jilin City, what if they are excluded and resentful?"

Fu Rang expressed his concerns, to which Zhu Gaoxu also explained:

"The wasteland they have cultivated within three years will be distributed to the people of Jilin City to atone for their sins."

"On the other side of the military household, as long as we do a good job in the ideological work of our brothers, they will not discriminate too much against these Jurchens."

"As for how to control this group of men and women, I want their children to enter the academy and learn Sinicization and Chinese characters, so that after more than ten years, they will be no different from the Han people."

The pull faction fights the other faction, and the pull faction here is to pull the enslaved grassroots Jurchens, and the fight is against the Jurchen heads and nobles who hate the Ming Dynasty.

There are hundreds of thousands of Jurchens outside the Guan, while the Han people are only 8,000.

If Zhu Gaoxu hated all the Jurchens, then he would only have countless enemies.

On the contrary, if he could win over ordinary Jurchens and let them live a good life, Zhu Gaoxu did not believe that they would resist.

Let all the Jurchen dolls have books to read, just to absorb Jurchen talents from them.

Why did the Qing Dynasty always revolt, especially in the later period, it was difficult to control the Han people.

In the final analysis, it is the exclusion of Han people that is too much, so that a large number of outstanding Han talents are not valued.

Ninety-nine people who keep to themselves are no match for one restless man.

Only by managing the Jurchen dolls in a unified manner, selecting their elites from among them to the Bohai Palace, sending the restless ones to the army, and giving them room to climb up, then the remaining Jurchens will be easy to manage.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu also continued to Fu Rang:

"The whole Guanwai knows how deep our hatred with Xiyang Habe is, and we can also show the generosity and tolerance of the Han people by doing so."

"We didn't kill Xiyang Habe and let their dolls read and write, do you think those tribes who don't have a grudge against us will worry about us?"

"Since I have come to this Guanwai, what I have to do is not just to deal with a Xiyangha, but to integrate all the people outside the Guan, so that the land outside the Guanxi will become a new Han land like Yunnan."

Zhu Gaoxu's words made Fu Rang understand him a little deeper, he admired Zhu Gaoxu's courage and heroism, but he also understood how difficult it was to do so, so he sighed:

"You are the King of the Bohai Sea, I can't stop you, but I want to remind you that this blood feud is not so easy to resolve."

"Don't worry, I know what to do." Seeing that Fu Rang no longer objected, Zhu Gaoxu responded with a smile, and at the same time looked at the big black mountain in the distance:

"How about counting the casualties of the brothers?"

His words revealed the most heart-wrenching part of this battle, and Fu Rang also lowered his voice: "There are thirty-seven people in the battle, twenty-four people are missing, and one hundred and twenty-six people are slightly and seriously injured, but they can all be saved." ”

It seemed that it was not good to only say that it was bad, Fu Rang raised his voice again: "But the results of the battle are also worth rejoicing, at least tens of thousands of people have been captured, more than 1,000 enemies have been killed, thousands of stones of grain have been captured, and nearly 10,000 cattle, sheep and horses have been captured." ”

"How much, you still have to take them back to Buyan Fortress, and you can only know when the warship goes south."

However, the casualties of thirty-seven people are already very remarkable for the results of this battle.

The battle losses of the two sides basically reached 1:30, which was even more exaggerated than what Zhu Gaoxu said before the war.

It's just that in this regard, whether it is Zhu Gaoxu or Fu Rang, they don't think it's strange.

In fact, the combat strength of Xiyang Ha's department was only those 300 armor soldiers, and most of the casualties of the Bohai Navy were caused by those 300 armor soldiers.

If it weren't for Zhu Gaoxu's timely shooting of Xiyangha and Fu Rang's timely arrival, the three hundred armor soldiers might have caused more casualties to the Bohai Navy.

"Leave a few brothers to continue to look for the missing brothers in the mountains, and the rest are ready to go south."

Seeing that the oxen and carriage that had previously been cut off the rope had been repaired, Zhu Gaoxu also issued a military order to return to Buyan Zhaibao.

Fu Rangzuo responded, and then their team of men and horses embarked on their way home to the current Buyan Fortress and the future Andong City.

On the way back, the joy of victory in the war was like a scorching sun, engraved in the hearts of every Bohai soldier.

In contrast, nearly 10,000 Jurchen captives were worried about their fate, and even though Yisha had sent someone to tell them that they would not do anything to them, they still couldn't stop worrying and fearing.

Because of this, people kept trying to escape along the way, but without exception, they were all captured by the cavalry of the Bohai Navy with a lasso.

For Zhu Gaoxu, they are an important productive force, something that Jilin City urgently needs at the moment.

On the fifty-mile return journey, Zhu Gaoxu and his team spent a whole night, and finally arrived at Buyan Zhaibao in the morning.

Tens of thousands of Jurchens were driven into the walled fort, and Zhu Gaoxu looked at this simple walled fort up close.

Beside him, Yishaha captured a centurion in the Xiyangha army, and he introduced Zhu Gaoxu's power to Xiyangha.

To put it simply, although Buyan Zhaibao has a good foundation, it is not the only territory of the Xiyang Ha family.

Before the battle, the eldest son of Xiyangha, Ataiwailan, returned to the city of Kulawan with more than 1,000 men and thousands of men, which was more than 1,000 miles away.

There are also Atai Wailan and more than 2,000 men, as well as nearly 10,000 people, it can be said that Xiyangha's power is greater than the information that Zhu Gaoxu and they had before.

The reason why Xiyangha was able to kill this time was purely because the fighter plane was properly grasped.

Because of this, Zhu Gaoxu could not give up the Buyan Fortress, so he began to do ideological work for the whole army from noon.

After the 500 elite soldiers who stayed in Jiangnan to guard the prisoners, Zhu Gaoxu called the more than 400 Jilin City brothers who accompanied the army to the Buyan Stone Fort where Xiyang Ha and other nobles lived before their deaths.

Buyan Stone Fort is not very large, only 200 steps from east to west, and only about 180 steps from north to south.

But even so, its open space can still gather more than 400 people.

In front of more than 400 people gathered, Zhu Gaoxu also walked onto the stone castle wall where Xiyang Ha liked to command his subordinates most during his lifetime.

This city wall was only a foot high, and Zhu Gaoxu stood on it and looked down at more than 400 brothers.

Some of them were wounded, some were unharmed, but whatever their condition, their faces were now full of smiles after the victory of the war.

Faced with such a smile, Zhu Gaoxu also bowed to them.

"His Highness Chitose!"

His performance immediately won everyone's response, and everyone sang Chitose and stretched out their hands.

It's just that in the face of his singing, Zhu Gaoxu also shouted openly and honestly:

"The war was won, and this time we killed the old slave and one of his sons, as well as the thousands of captives who had gone south."

"Not only that, but we also captured thousands of ploughing cattle and lambs, as well as tens of thousands of Jurchens."

His voice echoed through the castle, and everyone listened intently, and when they heard of their victory, they all puffed out their chests with pride.

But this situation was quickly broken by Zhu Gaoxu.

Looking at everyone, Zhu Gaoxu continued:

"On the way back, many people asked me whether these captives were killed or sold to other Jurchens in the land of the Six Cities."

"Of course, killing them can vent their hatred, and they can make a profit after selling them, but I don't want to do that."

As soon as these words came out, many people looked at their colleagues around them, and probably guessed what their highness was going to say.

"It is true that many of them have gone south to fight against us, and even the father who commanded the affairs of Zhang may have died at the hands of one of them, but I want to say ......"

Zhu Gaoxu took a deep breath: "If there is a peaceful life, no one will want to live a life of licking blood with a knife." ”

"They were indeed our mortal enemies before today, but now we have won the war, and we have killed thousands of them to avenge our original revenge."

"Of course, some brothers may think that the lives of thousands of people can't offset the hundreds of brothers we have been killed for so many years."

"For these brothers, I want to say that the person who ordered the killing was Xiyangha and his sons, and now although we have killed Xiyangha, his sons are still in Khulawin in the east with tens of thousands of people."

"We should seek revenge against them, not the captured Jurchens outside......"

Zhu Gaoxu said this, but saw that some of the soldiers were still unconvinced, but he continued:

"Of course, the group of people outside are not necessarily innocent, and they should also make up for the mistakes they made back then, so I am here to tell you that for the Jurchens outside, they will spend the next three years to atone for your sins."

"From now on, Buyan Fortress will be renamed Andong City, and tens of thousands of acres of cultivated land outside Andong City will be divided equally among you as the capture of this battle."

"However, if you accept the land of Andong City, you have to give up the land of Jilin City, after all, there are more people in Jilin City."

"The brothers who participated in this battle will each be given 20 acres of land in Andong City, or 15 acres in Jilin City."

"If you don't have enough people in your family, you don't have to worry if you can't plant so much land."

"As I said, the people outside need to atone for what happened before, so they will be cultivating the land for you for the next three years, and clearing the land for Jilin City and Andong City."

"If they want to settle in Andong City and Jilin City, then they need to open up ten acres of land within three years, and I will share all these fields with no reservations!"

After Zhu Gaoxu finished talking about his own arrangement, it was impossible for him to do anything preferential to prisoners in this era, and even if he ate that set, it would be impossible for people in this era to eat it.

Therefore, letting tens of thousands of Jurchen people use labor to eliminate hatred is a way he can think of that can not only promote the economy of Jilin City, but also eliminate hatred, and also involve the interests of all military households.

"After I finished speaking, is there anyone who opposes me taking them to Jilin City, or staying in Andong City?"

He glanced at the more than four hundred soldiers of Jilin City, and saw that they were all looking at each other, but none of them stood up.

In the final analysis, people can be measured, and even if only half of the tens of thousands of Jurchens work, they can plant more than 30,000 acres of cultivated land in Jilin City, and they can also take time out to open up wasteland.

No matter how hard they try, with so much animal power in Jilin City, they can open up 20,000 or 30,000 mu of cultivated land, and when the time comes, every household in Jilin City will be able to get seven or eight acres of land, and they have no reason to refuse.

"Your Highness, those Jurchens help us work, what about their rations?"

"Yes! What about rations? ”

Suddenly, some people in the crowd raised questions, after all, outside this pass, food is more important than human life.

But in this regard, Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand: "This is what I want to say next." ”

"If you accept the previous conditions, you must promise me that you will never hurt or insult them, even if you cannot treat them as brothers, nor against them."

"In the three years that they have been working, all rations have been provided by the palace, and you don't have to give a grain of rice, of course, if you volunteer, I don't care, the palace provides them with five buckets of rice every month."

"In addition, I also said that after three years, they will be the people of Jilin City, and their children can enjoy the same treatment as our children."

"As long as they don't make any mistakes and actively participate in labor to correct their mistakes, then they will also become a part of us, continue to cultivate land with us, open up land with their own hands, and live a stable life, and their children will also enter the academy to study."

"Not only that, but if they are willing to join the army, then we will gladly accept it and not be excluded."

"This ordinance is my iron law against all of us, as well as against the people outside the borders and the captives of the future."

"Whoever violates this order by our soldiers and civilians will be punished."

Zhu Gaoxu gave his bottom line, and the more than 400 people in the fort did not dare to speak out loud to refute when they heard this.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu also spoke: "After you go back this time, you must also tell your family and children these words, and once they violate this law, you will also be punished." ”

"Yes......" The sparse echo sounded from below, but Zhu Gaoxu didn't say anything, he knew that it wouldn't be long before these hatreds would gradually subside.

Looking at the more than 400 people in the fort, he also recounted the various events after the war: "Now I will repeat how to deal with the capture of this battle......

"All my soldiers, this battle will reward the field, those who are willing to move to Andong City will enjoy 20 acres of land, and those who stay in Jilin City will enjoy 15 acres of land."

"In addition, ploughing oxen and horses are all recharged to the army, so as to continue to reclaim wasteland in Jilin City and Andong City."

"The reclaimed wasteland, except for the horse feed field, is equally divided between the Jilin Wei army and the people on the first day of October every year."

"Do you understand?!"

Zhu Gaoxu shouted the last sentence, and he was greeted with a response like a tsunami: "Understood!" ”

"Disband!" Zhu Gaoxu spoke in a deep voice, and more than 400 soldiers in the fort also disbanded one after another.

After they dispersed, Fu Rang, Yishiha, and Zhang Chun walked onto the fortress wall, Zhu Gaoxu's eyes were on Zhang Chun, and Zhang Chun also noticed his gaze, and immediately made a move:

"Your Highness, rest assured, the hatred of the last general has dissipated since the head of the old slave was cut off, if there is any, it is all on the heirs of the old slave, and he will not care about these naturalized people."

Zhang Chun is not a fool, he will not fight against Zhu Gaoxu, not to mention that when he went south this year, he also saw a lot of Mongols and Jurchens who naturalized the Ming army, and the number of these people is not a lot.

You must know that after the end of the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty, the number of Mongols left behind by the Yuan Dynasty and surrendered to the south was as high as more than 700,000, plus the Semu people and Jurchens, the number of powerful ethnic groups in the pre-Yuan period was nearly 3 million.

But even so, the Ming Dynasty still accepted them, although there were often thieves among them who rebelled in Gansu, Guanzhong and Hebei, but Zhu Yuanzhang did not increase the punishment, but everything was punished according to the "Ming Law".

After seeing the situation in the south, Zhang Chun was not surprised to face today's situation.

He expressed his attitude, and Zhu Gaoxu also nodded with satisfaction, and set his eyes on Fu Rang.

In the face of this gaze, Fu Rang actually felt a little pressure, but his close relationship with Zhu Gaoxu was able to withstand this pressure and report:

"Da Heishan searched all over the place, most of the missing brothers were found, and most of the lost soldiers and civilians were also recovered, only three brothers were unlucky, and they fell and died in the mountains......"

"Falling to death......" Hearing Fu Rang's words, Zhu Gaoxu felt very uncomfortable.

He knew the situation in Da Heishan, and the group of brothers who had lost their footing probably did not fall to their deaths at the first time, but died of their injuries while waiting for rescue.

Thinking of the loneliness they faced before they died, Zhu Gaoxu took a deep breath:

"Now that we have more land in our hands, we have to change the previous rules."

"The brothers who died in this battle, as well as the brothers who died in the future, will receive 40 acres of bereavement fields and 20 stone of grain for each family, and the rewards for each battle will still be ......."

"In addition, if there is a doll in the family, an additional five acres of pension land will be issued."

If you don't want to come to settle in Andong City, you can get 60 acres of cultivated land even in Jilin City, and you can harvest at least 40 stone of grain every year, which is enough for a family of five to have no worries about food and clothing.

"Your Highness is benevolent ......"

In the face of the high amount of bereavement given by Zhu Gaoxu, Zhang Chun and Yishiha were moved in their hearts and made a fuss, but Fu Rang couldn't help but think of what he said to himself before after hearing his words......

"I won't be him, you can watch it."

Remembering that he said that Zhu Gaochu was like that person, and Zhu Gaochu refuted himself, Fu Rang also set his eyes on Zhu Gaoxu.

Although Zhu Gaoxu is very tired at the moment, what he shows is indeed different from the one in the palace.

"Hopefully, I didn't choose the wrong person this time......"

(End of chapter)