"Bang!"

"Bang!"

In mid-August, when the imperial court had decided to recruit more soldiers and horses to fight Zhu Di's father and son, Zhu Gaoxu did not continue to stay in western Liaoning, but after leaving Chen Heng and Chen Mao, Meng Zhang, Xu Sheng and others, he rushed to southern Liaoning with more than 100 horsemen.

After several days of traveling, he finally arrived in Golden State on August 14.

Jinzhou, which was once full of slaughter, has become prosperous after experiencing war.

Thousands of craftsmen from Jilin arrived in Jinzhou, where they expanded their shipyards and concocted trees pulled by the Bohai Navy from the mountains to the north.

Unlike the Jilin Shipyard, where wood can be easily obtained by cutting down trees and rolling into the Songhua River, the timber from the Jinzhou Shipyard needs to be pulled from the mountainous area more than 120 miles away, and then baked and concocted in a roasting yard at the foot of the mountain.

When the water is almost roasted, it will be pulled by a sixteen-wheeled carriage, pulled by eight horses, and slowly arrive at the Golden State Shipyard.

Since it had been a month and a half since he took Jinzhou, when Zhu Gaoxu arrived at the Jinzhou shipyard, he could already see hundreds of pieces of wood hugging each other here.

"How many warships and how many horse boats can be made from these woods?"

Standing in the crowded shipyard, Zhu Gaoxu asked Shipwright Liu and Shipwright Wang, who were in charge of this place.

In response to this question, the more experienced Liu boatman touched the wood in the timber silo with his hand, and then spoke:

"There is no problem with making horse boats from these woods, enough to make five horse ships with 2,000 materials, which can transport 4,000 stone of grain or 500 soldiers at one time."

"It's just that if it is to be used to build warships, it will have to continue to dry in the shade for about three months, but fortunately, the temperature in Jinzhou is higher than that in Jilin, and the sea will not freeze and cannot leave the port, so it will not delay the problem of testing ships."

"If these timbers are dried in the shade for three months, they can be used to make five warships of 2,000 materials."

"The roasting field in the north is on the right track, and now the royal capital commands the envoy there, and every day he can bring his brothers to bring thirty logs to the shipyard, which is almost the timber needed for a two-thousand-gauge horse ship and warship."

Boatman Liu said all this, and Zhu Gaoxu also asked: "Can this ship be built bigger?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu remembered clearly that although the treasure ship was not as large as the so-called 10,000 materials, it was also 5,000 materials large and had a displacement of more than 2,000 tons.

Although this is the result of Zhu Di's research for several years, the shipwrights of Jilin Shipyard have also been drilling for several years, and it is impossible to stay at 2,000 materials.

"You can try 3,000 ingredients." Boatman Liu opened his mouth cautiously, obviously this is a conservative attitude.

However, for his words, Zhu Gaoxu shook his head: "You are all my subjects, and I will not punish you at will." ”

"You say 3,000 materials, then build 3,000 materials of horse ships and warships to try, if you can make 4,000 materials, 5,000 materials, I am also very happy, will be rewarded to participate in the design and construction of the boatmen, the master rewards ten times, the boatmen are consistent."

"Remember." After Liu Shipwright and Wang Chuan's work cooperated, Zhu Gaoxu also took one last look at the timber warehouse, and then walked out of the Jinzhou Shipyard.

After a short time, he rode to the commanding envoy Yamen of Jinzhou City, and along the way, he could see that the people of Jinzhou were beaming.

The people outside the city are busy clearing wasteland, while the people inside the city are doing small businesses such as food and handicrafts.

Although the Bohai Navy is a multi-ethnic mixed army, there is nothing to say about the military discipline of the Bohai Navy.

In Zhu Gaoxu's "Record of Military Training", the first sentence of the opening chapter is: "At home, most of them are ordinary people who farm. As long as you recall the hardships and hardships of paying for food and money when farming at home, you can understand how difficult it is for ordinary people to provide money and food for them today! ”

"The common people do not ask you to plough and plough, but to feed you for a year, but they expect you to win a few battles. If you don't do your best to kill the thief and protect him, but instead raise your sword at them and plunder, what's the use of raising you! ”

In addition to this kind of opening words, the "Military Discipline" used by later generations is something that the Bohai Navy has to memorize every day.

Zhu Gaoxu taught them to read and write, and he understood the reason, in order to train an army that would not only win battles, but also require them to "defeat battles".

Throughout the ages, many elite soldiers have won battles, so they have often followed moral discipline as they march forward.

But once they lose the battle, they will slowly become thieves who plunder the people.

The so-called ruthlessness of officers and soldiers over bandits is not just a joke, but a bloody reality.

Therefore, even if he was defeated, Zhu Gaochu would never allow anyone to take the people's things empty-handed, but if there were such people, Zhu Gaochu would be executed.

On the way south from Jilin, Zhu Gaoxu executed several petty thieves in order to rectify military discipline and let them know what they could and could not touch.

So when I arrived in Jinzhou City, the soldiers who could get here were already soldiers who had been tested.

Zhu Gaoxu's military salary for them was high enough, and they had nothing to afford, and they all behaved in strict accordance with the "Military Discipline".

Their arrival did not bring disaster to the Golden State, but brought prosperity.

Although Shandong cut off the shipping route to Jinzhou, the merchants were all profit-seeking, and after Zhu Gaoxu came to Jinzhou City, he saw many merchants.

"These merchants, they are all from Shandong?"

Zhu Gaoxu rode on horseback, looked at the merchants on the road and asked Cui Jun on the side, followed by more than ten cavalry from Zheng Jun and Bohai.

"There are also people from North Korea, and now there are frequent wars, and there are not a few smuggling businessmen."

Cui Jun explained, and at the same time said: "In the past month, just for business, Jinzhou has bought more than 3,000 stone of grain, although it is not much, but it is enough for the soldiers and civilians of Jinzhou to eat for a few days. ”

"That's good." Zhu Gaoxu nodded in approval, and then followed the road to the Jinzhou Command Envoy Yamen.

He turned over and dismounted, and walked in with Cui Jun, and while he sat on the main seat, his eyes also looked at Zheng Jun.

"Fu Rang mentioned you in the letter, Cui Junbiao you are the commander of Jinzhou, I recognize this, I know that your ability is more than that, but whether you can continue to climb up depends on your own performance on the battlefield."

Zheng Jun didn't expect Zhu Gaoxu to give such a high evaluation of himself, you must know that three months ago he was just a small hundred household officials, and now only three months have passed, and he has jumped from the hundred household officials of the sixth grade to the commander of the guard of the third grade in one go.

The number of people under his command has also changed from about 100 to 3,000 now.

He has been adapting to and learning how to lead 3,000 troops in the past few months, but now that the King of Bohai County is praising him so much, Zheng Jun is very encouraged in his heart.

"Your Highness, rest assured, I will respond to you with my military exploits!"

Zheng Jun has never read a book, because he does not have that qualification and family background, so he speaks a little rudely.

Cui Jun was worried that Zhu Gaoxu would be unhappy with what he said, so he stood up and said: "Commander Zheng is very good, but he has not read since he was a child, and there are some problems with speaking, Your Highness, don't care." ”

"What's there to care about?" Zhu Gaoxu smiled heartily, and while signaling Zheng Jun to get up, he also said solemnly:

"The children of the guard have no books to read, this is my failure of the Ming Dynasty."

"At present, there are 170,000 people in Jilin City, and 30,000 children have been able to go to health school, and then master knowledge, which is what I am most happy about."

"You didn't have the opportunity to study before, and when those children in Jilin City grow up in the future, I will let them go south to teach children everywhere to read and write, so that your regrets will not appear in the next generation."

"It's just that in the future, there will be no health schools in the mainland, and there are only schools."

Zhu Gaoxu inadvertently revealed a piece of information, and at the same time said to Cui Jun and the others: "A little bit, you call Wang Yi over,"

"Yes!" Cui Jun nodded, and then left the yamen with Zheng Jun.

When Zhu Gaoxu saw them leaving, he also studied ink and picked up a pen by himself, and took out a blank book to write.

Liaodong now has a population of one million, of which ninety percent are Han people and one percent are Jurchen people.

With the current population number, it can fully support a political envoy, and there is no need for other places to rely on Shandong except for food.

Therefore, for the 25 Wei of Liaodong, Zhu Gaoxu planned to change it to a prefecture and county, and many of the place names that were too long and complicated had to be changed.

For example, the name of the part in Liaoxi is complicated, so Zhu Gaoxu changed the names of Guangning Zhongwei, Guangning Zhongtunwei, Guangning Qiantunwei, Guangning Qianwei and other guards one after another according to the memory of his previous life.

For those who did not need to change, he did not continue to change.

After the end, the entire Liaodong was set up as six prefectures, including Dingliao Prefecture, Jinzhou Prefecture, Liaoyang Prefecture, Shenyang Prefecture, Guangning Prefecture, and Ningyuan Prefecture.

Ningyuan County, which governs Ningyuan County, has jurisdiction over Shanhai County, Suizhong County and Songshan County.

Quang Ninh Prefecture governs Quang Ninh County, under the jurisdiction of Jinzhou County and Yizhou County.

Shenyang County, the administrative office of Shenyang Prefecture, has jurisdiction over Tieling County, Kaiyuan County (30,000 Wei), Hanzhou County, Fushun County and Puhe County.

Liaoyang County, the seat of Liaoyang Prefecture, has jurisdiction over three counties: Anshan, Liaozhong and Haizhou.

Jinzhou Mansion is the seat of Jinzhou, under the jurisdiction of Fuzhou County, Gaizhou County, Lushun County.

These five prefectures have a total of 21 counties, of which Anshan, Liaozhong, Lushun, and Hanzhou are either post stations or thousand-household offices, all of which belong to the newly established and expanded county seats.

Of course, in addition to these five mansions, Zhu Gaoxu also cares about Dingliao Mansion.

He planned to place the seat of Dingliao Mansion in Jiulian City, where Liu Zhen was located, and changed Jiulian City to Dingliao County, and then set up about two counties on the road from Jinzhou to Jiulian City, and then set up a county in the future Jianzhou area to appease the Jurchens.

Under the overall planning, there are a total of six prefectures and 25 counties in Liaodong.

In order to facilitate the setting, Zhu Gaoxu also drew a map of Liaodong by hand, drew the location of each county, and wrote down its positioning and development.

For example, Anshan, which is only a post station at the moment, its main economic direction is nothing more than digging iron ore and making iron ingots.

Of course, except for this kind of county with obvious resources, the rest of the county still develops the agricultural economy normally, but incidentally cement yards will be built to ensure that the county's water conservancy facilities have enough cement to build.

According to Zhu Gaoxu's plan, as long as he is willing to invest and promote seedling fields, then in about seven years, Liaodong will become a small granary in Beiping.

However, the premise of this willingness to invest is that the annual investment of 4 million stones is almost equivalent to 7% of the financial revenue of the peak of the Ming Dynasty.

However, as long as this goal is achieved, then Beiping can be used as the capital, and the northeast will also become a self-sufficient small granary, and become a bridgehead for the Ming army to march from the northeast to Mobei.

All this was worth it for Zhu Gaoxu, but before that, he had to win the Battle of Jingjing, and use it to clean up a group of squires and obtain resources from them to develop Liaodong.

Thinking like this, a hundred household officials also walked into the yamen.

Unlike many of his soldiers, he did not have the tiger-backed appearance of the Bohai soldiers, but he was very emaciated, but it was very suitable for the task he was performing.

"Your Highness, Commander Hu has already taken root in Deng and Lai Prefectures."

When this hundred-household official opened his mouth, his identity did not need to be repeated.

Hu Lun, who chose to surrender to Zhu Gaoxu, was appointed by Zhu Gaochu as the commander of the West Factory, but from the beginning of the Bohai Sea to the present, he basically did not show up, and the West Factory did not give any valuable information.

All this is not that Zhu Gaoxu forgot Hu Lun, but that he inserted Hu Lun into Yang Bin's caravan early, and asked him to lead people south to Dengzhou to prepare for his future landing in the Denglai area.

It's only been less than half a year, and Zhu Gaoxu is very curious about what news Hu Lun has brought to him.

He took the information handed over by the hundred household officials, and after just a brief glance, his brows furrowed.

Hu Lun didn't know what method to use, but he actually got the instruction that Nanjing had just issued.

Geng Bingwen was stationed in Zhending and Hejian, and guarded the Shanxi Pass, continuing to maintain the geographical advantage of the Southern Army.

The Denglai Navy Division sent troops to prepare to rescue Wu Sheng, Liu Song, and Wu Shouan in Liaoxi.

The Yangtze River Naval Division went north, and the Liangguang Naval Division was also transferred north, and the commander of the two naval divisions was Chen Xuan.

In addition, there is also the move to transfer troops from the southwest, and what generals Geng Bingwen has.

This information is so detailed, Zhu Gaoxu just took a general look at it, and judged that Hu Lunxing may have won over someone with a high official position in Jinyiwei, otherwise it would be impossible to grasp such accurate information.

In addition, Hu Lun also said that there are still some Jinyi guards in the Yan army and Bohai, although their official positions are not large, they can pass on many basic news to the imperial court, for example, the current Yan army and the Bohai navy are a total of 170,000 troops, and the amount of food is enough to eat for half a year.

In addition, some basic information of various armies has also appeared, except for the information of the Shenji Battalion and the Jurchen Eight Guards, which have not been leaked, and other information has been roughly leaked.

"Grandpa......"

Seeing the information like this, Zhu Gaoxu's eyes were complicated, he knew very well that this was the handiwork of Lao Zhu before his death, because it was impossible for Zhu Yunwen to use Jinyiwei to such a point.

"This information is for someone to bring to my father."

Zhu Gaoxu put the information on the table, and while explaining, he also kept analyzing the battle situation in his mind.

Obviously, at present, the quality of the generals of Geng Bingwen's army has dropped too much compared with history, and the reason is nothing more than that too many outstanding generals have been pinned down in the southwest.

In history, Geng Bingwen should have been paired with Gu Cheng, a fierce general who was beheaded twice, and after Gu Cheng was captured by Zhu Di, although he surrendered after Zhu Di's persuasion, he was only responsible for defending the city, not for attacking.

The reason why Beiping City was able to resist the onslaught of Li Jinglong's hundreds of thousands of troops was not because Zhu Gaochi, who was not good at military affairs, could fight, but because of Gu Cheng's credit.

Now that Gu Cheng is not in Geng Bingwen's army, and Beiping does not have him, can he still hold it?

Zhu Gaoxu got up and walked, and at the same time felt a headache for the three sailors of Zhu Yunwen's northern faction.

Judging from the information he obtained from the "Di Bao" of the imperial court and the "Tang Bao" of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, Lao Zhu did not have anyone order to build a warship after 29 years of Hongwu.

The warships built before this were 2,000 and 70 warships, 1,500 and 50, and 2,000 horses and horses and 120.

These warships, together with the warships of the original three naval divisions, have a tonnage of more than 150,000 tons alone.

If all the navies and naval divisions in the world are pulled together, I am afraid that they will be crushed by the three naval divisions of the Ming army, let alone themselves.

If you want to cross Haidenzhou, you must take the Imperial City Islands in advance, and then destroy these three sailors.

In the face of them, it is difficult for them to win without the generals of the naval division, and the only place where they can win is artillery.

As long as there are enough naval guns, then he can completely use ten ships to shoot the firepower of a hundred ships of the Ming army.

The artillery configuration of the Ming warships was well known, but they did not understand the power and quantity of their artillery, which was an advantage that they could take advantage of.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu sat back in his position and put his thoughts on the land again.

As for the army under Geng Bingwen's command, Zhu Gaoxu was worried about only three, one was the Shangliuwei and Tingcao Leopard Taowei and Hezhou Wei in Beijing.

The children of the former's sixteen guards are all from Huaixi, and Zhu Gaoxu, the strength of the Huaixi soldiers, has a deep understanding.

Not to mention, he first went north to Jilin and led his troops to attack Xiyangha's soldiers, and the most courageous were Fu Rang, Lin Su, Meng Zhang and other Huaixi soldiers.

Sixteen guards of Huaixi's disciples, with nearly 90,000 people, this elite army is the strongest corps that Zhu Di encountered when he went south in history.

The cavalry of the Yan army penetrated the Huaixi Corps three times, and as a result, the Huaixi Corps was able to regroup and beat Zhu Di to the point of falling and breaking his sword, if it wasn't for Zhu Gaoxu and Zhang Yu to save him successively, I am afraid that Zhu Di would have been in the battle.

In addition to the Sixteen Guards, Zhu Gaoxu was afraid of the Leopard Taowei and Hezhou Weijing who were listening to the exercises in Beijing.

The courage of the 7,000 elite cavalry is no less than that of the 6,000 Bohai elite cavalry, with them in the formation, plus the right cavalry, Zhu Gaoxu needs to be vigilant at all times to be attacked and cut off the grain route.

These two soldiers and horses are the most capable corps of the Ming Dynasty, followed by the Southwest Corps that Zhu Gaoxu was worried about.

The Southwest Corps is not all Southwest soldiers born in the mountains of the Southwest Plateau, but more Jiangnan soldiers who moved from Jiangnan to Yunnan.

They can fight plateaus, mountains and tropical rainforests, or they can have ten battalions and two water networks, and of course, more importantly, Zhu Gaoxu obtained a fatal news from intelligence.

"Mu Chun ......"

Zhu Gaoxu whispered the name, feeling a headache.

is also a child of three generations, but Mu Chun is undoubtedly the first person of three generations, even Li Jinglong cannot take his place.

Historically, Mu Chun died of illness in September last year, but now he is still alive and well, and he is at the peak of a person.

If Zhu Yunwen asked Mu Chun to replace Geng Bingwen, Zhu Gaoxu was not sure if he would be able to defeat Mu Chun, because he was not familiar with Mu Chun, but Mu Chun could understand himself through the Bohai Tang newspaper that had been stored in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

Needless to say, Mu Chun's ability has shown that he has led 50,000 troops in the current Battle of Luchuan, and can plan various troops and horses to intersperse encirclement and annihilation, and the only people who can play this effect in Yunnan in history are Zhuge Liang, Fu Youde and Mu Ying, and he is the fourth.

Of course, more importantly, Mu Chun and He Fu, the current group of southwest generals and the Southwest Corps under their command, are essentially Jianghuai people, not people who grew up in the southwest mountainous environment since childhood.

Among them, for example, Wang Xuan's father Wang Zhao was a member of the Xu Dabei Expeditionary Corps, and then because of the emptiness of Yunnan, he was collectively transferred to Yunnan by Lao Zhu to garrison.

Compared with the primeval forests in the southwest, they are actually better at fighting in the plains, for example, in history, He Fu led the southwest army to fight with the Yan army in the plains, and they drew twice.

In these two battles, Zhu Di's Yan Army, which was good at plain warfare, failed to bargain in the hands of the Southwest Army, and finally relied on Zhu Di to find that the Southwest Army lacked horses, so he gave full play to the advantage of cavalry, and made four consecutive high-mobility detours to carry out tactical deception, and finally succeeded in separating the Southwest Corps and the Huaixi Corps, and seized the fighter to defeat it in one fell swoop.

He Fu can do this, not to mention that since the age of seventeen, he has followed Fu Youde and Mu Ying to the northwest, and then accompanied the army to conquer Mu Chun in Yunnan and Jiangxi.

After all, Mu Chun was twenty-five years old and had already accumulated merits in the northwest, Central Plains, Jiangxi, southwest and other places, and was promoted to the existence of the military governor's office.

Looking at the entire early Ming Dynasty, except for Li Wenzhong, Zhu Wenzheng, Mu Ying, and Zhu Di, no one has been able to show such talent at such an age.

Thinking of Mu Chun's ability, Zhu Gaoxu regretted it.

Although he didn't know why Mu Chun had survived until now, his subconscious told him that this incident might have something to do with Wang Xuan, because he had only told Wang Xuan how to prevent miasma in the rainforest, how to save it, and what to do after walking out of the rainforest so as not to get the sequelae.

Mu Chunxing may have relied on Wang Xuan's methods to survive.

"Wang Xuan, you fool......

Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but complain about Wang Xuan, and his heart gradually became urgent.

In history, Geng Bingwen was able to be defeated by Zhu Di, and the quality of his generals was not good, but if Gu Cheng and Qu Neng were transferred to him, plus the sailors led by Chen Xuan, I am afraid that Zhu Di would also have a very difficult fight.

"We have to defeat Geng Bingwen in advance before they arrive......"

Zhu Gaoxu needs time at the moment, and defeating Geng Bingwen is undoubtedly the best choice to prolong the decisive battle.

He is not the only one who has such thoughts, but also Zhu Di in Beiping.

Yao Guangxiao's intelligence was more comprehensive than Hu Lun's, so Zhu Di learned about the movements of the Southern Army one step ahead of Zhu Gaoxu.

Not only that, but he also knew that Ping An led Yang Song, Pan Zhong and others to Xiongxian.

Sitting in the carrying hall of the Yan Mansion, Zhu Di silently glanced at the generals in front of him, and there was no longer the previous hesitation when he decided between Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaoxu, only Guo Yi, who was exclusive to the Yan King.

His gaze swept over the generals, from Zhang Yu to Zhu Neng, to Qiu Fu, Zhang Wu, and Meng Shan...... In the end, it was put on Fang Kuan, who came with 10,000 foot soldiers to listen to his moderation.

"There are fewer soldiers sent by the second child, but they are enough."

"Fang Kuan, I order you to lead your troops to garrison Yongping Mansion to guard against Wu Shou'an in Shanhaiguan."

"The last general commands!"

"Meng Shan, you lead 10,000 troops to garrison Juyong Pass, if Fang Zhao comes, don't pay attention to him, just stick to it."

"The last general commands!"

"Gao Chi, Zheng Heng, I order you to lead 20,000 troops to garrison Beiping, and support Yongping and Juyong Pass at any time!"

"The last general (son) takes the order!"

Zhu Di chose the people to be stationed and left 40,000 soldiers and horses to protect the important place in Beiping, he did not use the funny "I" as a self-title, but used the "I" that had not been used for many years, which shows how much he attached importance to this battle.

"Zhang Yu, Qiu Fu, Zhu Neng, you lead the troops and go south with me to break Geng Bingwen."

Zhu Di got up slowly, but in the face of his arrangement, Qiu Fu hesitated: "Your Highness, there are already 200,000 Geng Bingwen at the moment, and in a few days it will be 230,000, but we only have 40,000 troops that can be mobilized. ”

"40,000 ......" for his hesitation, Zhu Di raised his chin, not as honest as usual, but a little more rebellious, as if returning to more than ten years ago, he braved the heavy snow to run thousands of miles, and forced to land the Northern Yuan Taiwei Naier did not take the moment: "Forty thousand is enough!" ”

"I'm going to take advantage of the fact that the 40,000 reinforcements from the south have not yet arrived, and use 40,000 to defeat his 200,000 army from the front."

He pulled out the sword at his waist, gritted his teeth and looked directly at the blade:

"If the southern army is not broken, it will not be returned!"

A little more production of "Liaodong Political Envoy Situ" sent to the easter egg chapter

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