"Five hundred and thirty-six military horses can be used, and three hundred and twenty-four military horses can be trained into military horses......"

"Two thousand seven hundred and fifty-six horses, one thousand six hundred and ninety-four ploughing oxen, and five thousand six hundred and fifty-two sheep......

"Four thousand two hundred and fifty-six stones, more than 1,725 acres of cultivated land, 1,765 men, 4,627 women, 2,716 children, 1,725 ......households."

On September 12, with the sound of Yishiha's accounting, the former Buyan Stone Castle, and now everyone in Andong City also had smiles on their faces.

Five days had passed since the end of the war, and in the five days, according to Zhu Gaoxu's instructions, Yizha counted the seizures of the battle and the amount of cultivated land in Andong City.

I have to say that Xiyangha's family background is still rich, although the city of Kulawin in the east has not been taken, but only taking Andong City is enough for Jilin City to become rich, it is no wonder that after Zhu Di took the throne, he took out three hundred and fifty military horses in one breath as tribute horses, in exchange for Zhu Di to stop encircling and suppressing him.

In Anton City, Zhu Gaochu listened to Yishu's report, and Zhu Gaochu nodded with satisfaction.

In this stone castle wooden house, Fu Rang, Yishaha, Zhang Chun and himself are a total of four people, if you add Lin Su and Wang Yi in the south, it is the current team of Jilin City.

"In this battle, we folded more than 20 military horses, but fortunately, we harvested more than 800 military horses, and there are more elite horsemen who can pull out to fight."

"Of course, pulling horses and ploughing cattle is what I care about." Zhu Gaoxu said his plan:

"The situation has also become clear in the past few days, and there are 164 Jilin City brothers who are willing to move to this Andong City, with more than 800 people."

"This is more than I thought, so the old Nanjing brothers who want to stay now can be reduced as appropriate."

During the conversation, he looked at Fu Rang: "This Andong City is in ruins, I can only let you stay here." ”

"Plus the Jilin City brothers who are willing to move over, and I will use the Nanjing brothers to make up for you with 500 people, as well as 2,000 horses."

"Yes!" Fu Rang did not shirk, but nodded in response, and put forward his own request:

"I don't want naturalized men, I can't trust them now, if you can trust me, leave the ten brothers who are also lost, and transfer a thousand single healthy women and five hundred ploughing cattle to me, and I can pull a horse with only a thousand."

A thousand single healthy women, this topic is very sensitive, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but ask Fu Rang when he heard this: "Healthy women can give it to you, but what if there are brothers in the army who don't follow the rules and molested them?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu can accept the marriage of the two parties, and he not only accepts it, but also strongly supports it.

But marriage and molesting women are two different things.

"If anyone dares to commit a crime, I will definitely be severely punished by military law!" Fu Rang looked at Zhu Gaoxu intently, and Zhu Gaochu also looked at Yi Chuan when he saw this:

"A little bit of you take someone to inquire about the Jurchens, those who are happy with each other, or those who are married, will return to Jilin with the team in the future."

"If there is no marriage, the 1,000 single women who are acceptable can stay, and tell them that if they are happy with their brothers in the house in the future, they can be immediately exempted from three years of hard labor, and from then on they will be renamed as Han women."

Supporting Jurchen women to marry Han men is the best means for Zhu Gaoxu to promote ethnic integration, and it is also one of the rules set by Zhu Yuanzhang in the fifth year of Hongwu.

There are many rules about ethnic marriage in the "Da Ming Law", such as Han women are not allowed to marry foreign clans, and women with colored eyes are not allowed to intermarry with their own clans, etc., all of which are ethnic integration.

In this regard, Lao Zhu's rules did not go wrong, even because of these rules, there were many rebellions of Tartar officials and Semu officials during the Hongwu and Yongle years, but with the passage of time, all ethnic groups were gradually assimilated and integrated by the Han people, and there was no such thing as the Qing Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty.

In this place outside the border, Zhu Gaoxu also had to use the same means to assimilate the Jurchens.

"Your Highness, the good news has been written, you can see it."

Yisha responded to Zhu Gaoxu's orders, and at the same time handed over the good news he had written in the past few days.

Zhu Gaoxu took it and looked at it, and after confirming that there was no problem, he handed it back: "Just write it like this, and also write down the matter of recruiting more than 10,000 Jurchen people." ”

"Later, I will write another letter to my grandfather, asking him to transfer some military households to Jilin City."

Although he knew that Lao Zhu might not transfer military households to him, Zhu Gaoxu still wanted to give it a try.

"Although this battle was won, and so much livestock and grain were gained, winter is about to begin, and the ships in Jilin City cannot transport so many livestock and people."

Fu Rang listened to what Zhu Gaoxu said, and immediately said what they needed to face at the moment:

"The grain in Jilin City is only more than 52,000 stones, even if you count the more than 4,000 stones seized this time, and the grain harvested in Jilin City, it is only 57,800 stones."

"Originally, there were more than 8,000 soldiers and civilians in Jilin City, and now with more than 9,000 people here, the sum of the two is more than 18,000."

"People eat horses and chew, can these more than 50,000 stones last until the snow melts next year?"

Speaking of this, he looked at Zhu Gaoxu, after all, outside the customs, food is always a problem.

In this regard, Zhu Gaoxu did not groan and think, or he had already thought about it in the two days of rest.

Facing the gazes of Fu Rang, Zhang Chun, and Yisha, Zhu Gaoxu said loudly:

"Over there in Jilin City, the monthly expenses of 8,000 soldiers and civilians with military salaries and rations are 5,000 stones, and these more than 9,000 Jurchens are calculated according to five buckets per month for large mouths and three buckets per month for small mouths, which is almost 4,000 stone rations."

"Together, it's really only enough to eat until mid-March, which is half a month's worth of rations."

"I thought about it before leaving, although I didn't expect that there would be such a big gap, but Jilin has already pickled a lot of dried fish, and in addition, among the sheep captured this time, I am going to pick 1,600 to be slaughtered in cold food, winter solstice, Laba and Xiao Nian, Chinese New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, Lantern Festival and other days......

"Killing sheep?" Before Zhu Gaoxu's words were finished, Fu Rang interrupted in disbelief, and further said, "Do you know how much these 1,600 sheep can be worth when sold to the south?" ”

"Yes, Your Highness, it's better to drive the sheep to Denglai to sell and buy grain before it has completely entered winter." Zhang Chun couldn't help but persuade.

It's not that the two are stingy, it's really that mutton is too expensive.

Even at the price of mutton in Denglai, Shandong, 1,600 sheep can be sold for more than 1,800 yuan, which is enough to buy 5,000 stone of grain.

Although they are hungry for mutton, killing 1,600 sheep in order to survive half a month is really not something ordinary people can do.

In the face of their words, Zhu Gaoxu chuckled lightly and had a kind expression: "Thousands of soldiers and civilians have suffered for so many years, and now they have finally pacified the old slave and only took out 1,600 sheep to reward the army, I feel stingy." ”

"It's a comfortable winter this year, and we have to reclaim it next year."

He raised his head and looked at everyone, his eyes were open, so that Fu Rang and Yishiha couldn't help but avoid his gaze, and secretly scolded himself in his heart for getting into the eyes of money.

It was Zhang Chun, who did not feel ashamed at this moment, but felt warm in his heart.

Since he followed his father to Jilin, the officials who came to inspect over the years only asked them to prepare a banquet, and he had ever cared about the life of the military and civilians in Jilin.

Now that Zhu Gaoxu has given 1,600 sheep to the military family and their families to eat, Zhang Chun only felt that his nose was sore, and after rubbing his eyes, he lowered his head and shook Zhu Gaoxu:

"In that case, then the general will arrange for the brothers in the army to take the Jurchen men and the horses and oxen to the south."

"Well......" Zhu Gaoxu bowed his head, turned his head and instructed Fu Rang: "The 4,000 stone grain will stay here, and when we return to Jilin City, we will send a ship to send 4,000 stone grain to the soldiers and civilians of Andong City for the winter. ”

"Okay" Fu Rang nodded in response, and Zhu Gaoxu also waved his hand to signal them to retreat when he saw this.

Without staying too long, everyone left one after another, and the entire Andong City also became lively as they walked out of the wooden house.

Compared with the light equipment when they came, the returned Bohai navy was much larger, and more than 500 people with more than 1,700 Jurchen men escorted livestock across the river from noon.

It was not until the fifteenth of September that all the livestock were sent across the river, and at the same time, Wang Yi, the official of the hundred households, also arrived at Andong City with all the boats of Jilin City.

More than 2,700 children were picked up by him and returned to Jilin on a relatively labor-saving boat, while Zhu Gaoxu and his team began to lead more than 5,000 Jurchens south on 17 September.

When they came, the road was too rough, and now that the team has grown, they must not be able to go any further.

Therefore, they hung up the Bohai Sea flag, walked on the Liaojin Ancient Road, which connected several Jurchen forts, and returned all the way to the south.

As they made their way south, Xiyangha was killed, and news began to spread that Buyan Zhaibao had been captured.

For the Bohai Navy, they eliminated Xiyang Ha, a thief who had been with them for many years, but for the Jurchen tribes living outside the Guan, this was undoubtedly a reshuffle of the forces outside the Guan.

Although the sons of Xiyangha still occupy the land of Kulawin, everyone knows that Buyan Zhaibao is stuck in the valley between the two mountains and forests of Azhemi and Cuiha River.

If they want to get out of Kulawin, they must face the Ming army in Buyan Fortress.

Judging from the character and courage of Xiyang Ha's sons, they definitely didn't dare to come back.

That is to say, now the Songhua River basin has basically become a hall of words in the Ming Dynasty, or a hall of words in the Bohai Palace.

Whether it was the land of the Six Cities, or the seven Jurchens who originally opposed the Ming Dynasty with Xiyang Ha, they could not fight against the Bohai Navy alone.

If they don't want to be destroyed in the coming year, they will have to curry favor with the King of Bohai this winter.

Knowing this, the Jurchens began to send envoys to Jilin City, and when they came to Jilin City again after many years, the scene of Jilin City had changed to the point that they did not dare to recognize each other.

Grey stone canals, tens of thousands of acres of cultivated land, countless livestock and renovated urban areas......

These various changes have made Jilin City the most prosperous place outside the Guan, even if the land of the former six cities is in front of it, it is just a few slightly larger market towns.

Time flies, and nearly half a month has passed in a flash.

Before September 30, Zhu Gaoxu finally arrived in Jilin City with the Jurchens.

Because of the transmission of the message from the pond horse, many people in Jilin City are looking forward to it on the west bank of the Songhua River.

After seeing Zhu Gaoxu and their team, everyone burst into their biggest cheers.

"Chitose King of the Bohai Sea!"

"His Highness Chitose!"

"Bohai Navy ......"

On the west bank of the Songhua River, thousands of people cheered, even though Jilin was very cold at this time, but everyone's bodies were warm, and everyone's faces were red.

The pontoon bridge had already been built, and more than 500 riders crossed the pontoon bridge under the leadership of Zhu Gaoxu, followed by more than 5,000 Jurchens and nearly 10,000 livestock.

"Your Highness!"

"Daddy!"

"San Lang!"

"Second baby!"

On the west bank of the Songhua River, the scene of the triumphant return of the Bohai Navy is a spectacular picture, and people cheer for it, and the entire west bank is shrouded in a celebratory atmosphere.

Some people are looking for their fathers, others are looking for their sons, their husbands......

Some people found it, they hugged it, and cried with joy, while others didn't find it, they could only watch the advancing procession, trying to find their loved ones.

The people who found their relatives began to chant Zhu Gaoxu's royal trumpet, and the voice grew louder and louder, and finally turned into a burst of cheering voices.

When the Jurchen envoys in the city heard this, they poured out of the inn and trotted all the way to the city gate, and finally gathered at the city gate, ready to greet the king of Bohai who had never met before.

As Zhu Gaoxu's procession got closer and closer, the Jurchen envoys at the city gate knelt down on one knee one after another and offered the highest etiquette to Zhu Gaochu and his team.

In the middle of the procession, Zhu Gaoxu rode a tall red horse, wearing a simple mandarin duck jacket inside, and a bearskin coat seized from Xiyangha's property outside.

He held the reins of the horse in his hand, and the bearskin fur made his whole person look particularly majestic.

Facing the half-kneeling salute of the Jurchen envoys, Zhu Gaoxu smiled and waved to them.

The Jurchen envoys who received the response began to follow closely behind the procession, hoping to present the Bohai King with gifts from their tribes today.

Such a scene made the people of Jilin City in the rear puff up their chests.

The triumphant return of the Bohai Navy not only brought the good news of victory, but more importantly, made people feel unity, glory and pride, as well as the strength of Jilin City.

Xiyangha has been destroyed, and now Jilin City will become the center of the land outside the Guan, and they will also usher in a day of peace and well-being.

"His Highness Chitose!"

"Okay, let's all disperse and go home to reunite with their families."

Before walking to the palace, Zhu Gaoxu issued a military order to the brothers behind him to disband, and when he heard the words, the soldiers and horses waved one after another: "Obey the order!" ”

After a while, more than 500 horsemen dispersed one after another, and Fu Rang also unknowingly broke away from the team, thinking that he was going to arrange the more than 6,000 Jurchens.

Zhu Gaoxu turned over and dismounted, and handed over the red horse to a left-behind soldier on duty in the palace: "Take good care of it." ”

"Yes, don't worry!" The soldier puffed up his chest proudly and led the red horse to the stable in the backyard of the palace.

Watching him leave, Zhu Gaoxu also explained to Yishaha, who had just dismounted beside him: "Summoning all the envoys into the carrier hall." ”

"Aren't you resting?" Yisha looked at Zhu Gaoxu worriedly, but he shook his head: "After finishing things today, I can have a good rest tomorrow." ”

After the words fell, he led Zhang Chun into the palace, and Yishaha was also waiting at the door for the envoys of the various ministries to arrive at the gate of the palace, and sorted them according to the strength of each department.

"Your Highness!"

As soon as he walked into the palace, Zhu Gaoxu saw Lin Su wearing a red fat jacket walking briskly, with a smile on his face.

"The last general will see His Highness!" Lin Su respected Zhu Gaoxu as always, and Zhu Gaoxu also helped him up: "Tell me how the more than 2,000 dolls were arranged." ”

"As Your Highness explained, they have all arranged to live in Xicheng, and the last general will go and bring someone to arrange for their parents to move in now." Lin Su said, and looked behind Zhu Gaoxu.

"Go ahead and get it back." Zhu Gaoxu smiled and patted him on the shoulder, and then walked into the carrier hall with Zhang Chun.

In the carrying hall, there are already three rows of twelve chairs on the left and right at this moment, a total of seventy-two chairs, obviously Lin Su was busy with this just now.

He knew Zhu Gaochu too well, and Zhu Gaochu was not the kind of person who would delay the matter until the next day, so he arranged these tables and chairs in order to facilitate Zhu Gaochu to convene the envoys of various ministries to discuss the matter.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Gaoxu glanced back at Lin Su, who had already walked out of the palace, and his face was warm: "I haven't read the books in vain in the past half a year, but now I am more and more organized." ”

In addition to complimenting, he also looked at Zhang Chun: "Father's revenge is avenged, you also have to study hard in military science, don't slack off." ”

"Your Highness, don't worry......" Zhang Chun's face showed a maturity different from that of his peers: "Your Highness avenges the last general, and the last general naturally wants to learn hard to repay you." ”

In the battle of the Northern Expedition to Xiyangha, although Zhang Chun participated in the battle, in fact, because of the outstanding performance of Zhu Gaoxu and Fu Rang, he and Yizhan Ha basically acted as subordinates and did not participate in the command.

After experiencing the war, Zhang Chun naturally longed to lead the army alone, so learning was not necessary.

Seeing that he was mature, Zhu Gaoxu didn't say much to educate people, he didn't like to educate others when he had nothing to do.

Walking to the main seat and sitting down with the golden knife, Zhu Gaoxu took off the big fur on his body and put it aside, Zhang Chun stood aside, took the big fur and put it on the wooden shelf next to him.

The soldiers on duty at the entrance of the carrier hall began to serve a meal, and needless to say, this scene was also arranged by Lin Su.

Zhu Gaoxu was very satisfied with all this, and he also made up his mind to take Lin Su and them with him in the war against Uliangha next year.

"The tower of the young man in Futijin City is lost, the young man in Towin City is Dol and Qi, the young man in Fusimu City is Nimacha, and the young man in Fuxi City is stabbed in the tower...... Wait for the envoys of the six cities to congratulate the King of Bohai on his victory! ”

Suddenly, the singing sound sounded, and then six young men with short stature and mink skins came to the carrying hall one after another.

After them, Yishaha continued to sing, and tribes with more than 1,000 people, such as Zhusheli and Neyin, were famous, and more than ten people entered in a row.

All this was just the beginning, and after that, they also lost dozens of salutes, and they also walked to the open space in front of the carrier hall and stood, waiting for Zhu Gaoxu's call.

With the last part of the palace into the palace, Yisha also walked quickly from the gate of the palace into the palace, and then crossed the envoys of the various ministries into the carrying hall, and made a gesture towards Zhu Gaoxu, who was sitting on the main seat:

"Your Highness, all the sixty-nine departments outside the border have come to congratulate you on your great victory, which is a gift from all the departments."

Yisha presented a post with both hands, Zhang Chun stepped forward to take it without thinking, and handed it to Zhu Gaoxu.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't look at the post, but raised his chin: "Let them all come in and sit down, if you wait too long, the food will be cold, and Lone still likes to talk while eating." ”

"Yes......" Hearing Zhu Gaoxu's self-proclaimed use of 'lonely' for a long time, although he was a little uncomfortable, he also knew that Zhu Gaochu was posing in front of the envoys.

It has been almost half a year since Zhu Gaoxu came to Jilin City, but during this period, only Shanchu Fort and Zhen Wu Diha, Fu Ti Jin City took the initiative to send people to visit, and the rest of the people visited after Zhen Wu Diha.

They visited the city of Jilin and obtained the flag of the Bohai Navy only to obtain a nominal asylum and substantial mutual trade.

Therefore, at that time, they did not really regard Zhu Gaoxu as the lord of the Ming Dynasty, the king of Bohai County.

But now, with Xiyangha being almost completely annihilated in the Great Black Mountain, everyone is facing the Bohai Navy.

Today, the Bohai Navy triumphed, and although Zhu Gaoxu himself did not wear armor, the more than 500 elite horsemen of the Bohai Navy were men and horses.

This kind of strength is enough to sweep any city in the land of the Six Cities, not to mention that this is only a part of the strength of the Bohai Navy.

Since Zhu Gaoxu's annihilation of Xiyangha, the Bohai Banner is no longer a nominal shelter, but a real deterrent.

Looking at the sixty-nine envoys who walked into the carrier hall and carefully sat down, Zhu Gaoxu didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

In the late Ming Dynasty, after Nurhachi unified the Jurchens, he could pull out 100,000 men over the age of thirteen to invade Liaodong.

After conquering the Jurchens of Haixi, forcing Korea to exchange markets with it, and seizing Liaodong from the Ming army, 60,000 armored soldiers repeatedly entered the customs and plundered millions of Han people.

On the other hand, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the so-called sixty-nine divisions may not even be able to gather 300,000 people, and the armored soldiers will not even be able to pull out 30,000.

Looking at them, Zhu Gaoxu should really be grateful to the Mongols.

If they hadn't slaughtered the Jurchens in the northeast, the enemy they faced would not have been so weak.

Just defeating one Xiyangha and beheading more than 1,000 people can deter the entire Songhua River Basin, which is a result he didn't expect.

He snickered in his heart for a moment, and then began to scan the sixty-nine envoys in the palace.

Seeing that none of them dared to move the chopsticks, Zhu Gaoxu picked up the wine glass and raised his glass to signal: "Drink a cup first, and talk while eating." ”

No one dared to speak easily, but they all raised their wine glasses, toasted Zhu Gaoxu with both hands, and then drank them all.

Seeing them like this, Zhu Gaoxu was also in a happy mood, and raised his glass and drank it all.

It's just that in less than two years, what he is pursuing has gone from saving his life at the beginning to powering now.

In this Jilin City, no matter how bitter and cold it is, he Zhu Gaoxu has always been the king of Bohai who is full of words.

Without Lao Zhu's suppression, he can rest assured that he can use his hands and feet to achieve what he once wanted to do but couldn't do one by one.

Now is the best time for him to expand his strength......

(End of chapter)