"Array!"

"Beep-"

In the camp, as Chen Chang calmly spoke, thousands of Ming troops formed a spear formation in the sound of wooden whistles, pressing forward step by step.

"Get out!"

Brother Meng's Timur looked at the picture of the spear forest slowly marching in, and hurriedly shouted to withdraw from the camp.

A large number of Jianzhou men followed the fierce brother Timur and began to retreat, but their retreat was not orderly, as if the gangs were scattered after a fight, and there was no formation.

"Heh......" Chen Chang laughed when he saw this scene, and immediately mocked the North Korean army in the south.

"This North Korea is still known as a powerful country in the East, but it doesn't want even this rabble to disturb them."

Chen Chang shook his head as he spoke, and at the same time made a note of this matter in his heart, preparing to pass the news to his Royal Highness after the war.

Obviously, the DPRK's armament has deteriorated so badly that it is now unable to defeat even such a rabble in armor.

"Beep-"

"Crackle!"

When the wooden whistle sounds, arquebuses are raised flat and shoot buckshot.

At a distance of less than 20 paces, the power of the arquebus of the Ming army does not need to be described too much, even if the Jianzhou men wore armor, they were still pierced by the projectiles, and more than 2,000 Jianzhou men fell no less than 200 people at once.

At this scene, seeing the scalp of the fierce brother Timur, he hurriedly shouted: "Withdraw!" Hurry up! ”

Under his urging, the lineup of Jianzhou men was even more dispersed, and many people dispersed to retreat to Haiyang City as soon as they walked out of the camp gate, and such a loose formation was simply a fish to be slaughtered for the cavalry.

"Kill!!"

Without thinking, the cavalry of the 500 Ming Army launched an assault, rushing back and forth in this loose line that seemed like an outing.

Even if the Jianzhou men wore the standard armor of the Ming Dynasty, they were just ordinary people who were stronger without training.

In the face of the charge of 500 cavalry and the thousands of Ming troops pressing from the camp gate, these two thousand Jianzhou men could not even do a little organized self-protection, let alone counterattack.

"It seems that Fudaha's words are true, when he went to loot the Korean market town, his Udiha Jurchens were the main force, otherwise with the performance of this group of guys, the Korean soldiers and horses would be too wasteful."

Chen Chang drove his horse out of the camp gate, looking at the more than 2,000 Jianzhou men who were divided and strangled by 500 cavalry in front of Haiyang City, and he couldn't raise any interest at all.

"Beep-"

"Follow me out!"

Brother Meng's Timur blew his bone whistle, and the surrounding Jianzhou men also gathered towards him when they heard the bone whistle.

This is their instinctive reaction to hunting in the jungle all year round, once they hear the bone whistle, it means that they have found their prey, and then they will calm down and gather towards the bone whistle.

Not only them, but many Jurchens outside the border had this reaction, so in terms of the quality of the soldiers, fishing and hunting must be better than farming.

After all, it is much easier for a hunter to turn into a soldier than for a farmer to a soldier.

It's just that no matter how good the source of soldiers is, if they are not trained, they are a bunch of rabble.

After they gathered, the five hundred cavalry of the Ming army did not attack them, but the mixed infantry of the Ming army behind them cooperated with the cavalry and surrounded them on the plain.

On the pitch-black plain, the Jianzhou men who had finally gathered only felt dry mouth.

In front of them, thousands of Ming troops surrounded them with torches, and the only gap was the cavalry of the Ming army cruising outside.

This kind of pressure makes Timur, the fierce brother who is the leader, seem overwhelmed, not to mention the ordinary men.

"Follow me to kill it, just like when we broke through Hezhou City!"

In order to inspire people, the fierce brother Timur chose to personally take the lead in initiating a breakthrough.

Seeing this scene, where could Chen Chang not know who was Brother Meng's Timur.

He pointed at the blurred figure of his brother Timur with his horsewhip, and commanded to the left and right: "Tell the brothers below, don't beat him to death, I am ready to capture him alive and send him to His Highness." ”

"Whoever captures him alive, I will personally reward him with ten yuan of money."

"Yes!" The commander made Xu Zhen have an obvious smile on his face, and like Chen Chang, he didn't take Meng's brother Timur in his eyes.

Soon, Chen Chang's military order was conveyed in the army, and everyone knew that the Jurchen who took the lead in the charge and wore a tiger skin around his waist could not be killed.

If you can catch it alive, you can also get ten times of reward, which is a lot of money.

"Kill!!"

Brother Meng's brother Timur led the Jianzhou men to start the charge, still without any rules, relying entirely on personal blood to charge.

Such a charge, in front of the battle-hardened Liaodong soldiers, is undoubtedly sending them to death......

"Beep-"

The wooden whistle of the Ming army suddenly sounded, and the fierce brother Timur's scalp was numb in an instant.

Before he could react, he watched as the Ming army's pikemen crouched down, revealing the musketeers holding their arquebuses in the middle.

"Crackle!!"

Nearly 1,000 musketeers pulled the trigger, and in just an instant, countless Jianzhou men were planted, and the morale of the entire team was shattered in less than ten paces.

"I surrender!"

"No more fighting! Don't fight! ”

"Uhh

For a time, the whole battlefield was full of mourning, even though the fierce brother Timur led dozens of men around him to rush to the front of the Ming army, but they were not facing musketeers, but pikemen who stood up to probe the guns.

In just one shot, seven or eight Jurchen men were overturned by spears, and several pikemen even abandoned their spears, drew their short knives and tried to capture the fierce brother Timur alive.

Brother Timur was armed with two knives, and under the deliberate avoidance of the Ming army, he was put into the spear array.

Before he could swing a few double knives, he was thrown to the ground by five or six Ming soldiers, as if he was tied to a pig during the New Year.

"Master Hou, that fierce brother Timur was captured, then his subordinates ......"

Xu Zhen saw the fierce brother Timur who was tied up by the Ming army, and asked sideways about the disposal of Haiyang City and the current Jianzhou men.

"They are all good sources of soldiers, and it is not easy to migrate people to Donghai Province, with them here, it will be much easier to reclaim farmland."

"Anyway, they are just Jurchens from other tribes who were defeated and contained by Brother Timur, and we won't have much of a burden to surrender."

After Chen Chang's evaluation, he saw Timur, the fierce brother who was tied up by Wuhuada.

At the moment, he is very energetic, and he is still struggling, but it doesn't help.

He was brought to Chen Chang, who looked at him and said with a smile in Haixi Jurchen language: "Brother Meng, Timur, who gave you the courage to think that you can resist the court with the materials given to you by the imperial court." ”

"Humph!" Brother Meng, Timur, didn't speak, and snorted coldly.

Chen Chang didn't expect him to be able to say anything cultured, after all, judging from his ability to march and fight, he was just at the level of a grass coward.

"Escort it down, take Haiyang City, and send it to the capital with his wife and children, and hand it over to the imperial court for disposal."

"Yes!"

As Chen Chang ended the topic, Meng's brother Timur was escorted away like a defeated rooster, and the two thousand Jianzhou men on the frontal battlefield were also baptized by three rounds of guns, leaving only hundreds of people who squatted down and surrendered, and more than 1,000 people who lay on the ground and kept wailing.

The Ming army captured them, and those who could be cured were treated for medical treatment, and those who could not be cured were placed under the city of Haiyang.

In the early morning of the next day, the Ming army launched an attack, and Haiyang City, which had less than 300 men and 6 or 7,000 old and weak, could not resist at all, and the city was defeated......

"Just captured alive?"

At the beginning of June, holding the note in his hand, Zhu Gaoxu had the feeling of punching the cotton.

The note in his hand is about the results of Chen Chang's troops to fight against Meng's brother Timur, as well as the details of appeasing Shuangcheng, Helan, Hezhou and other places in the south.

Chen Chang, as always, wrote the song in great detail, including how the fierce brother Timur led more than 2,000 people to fight, and even wrote down to the details.

In addition to the fierce brother Timur, Fudha and Ahache were very cooperative, and the Korean troops in Hezhou and Shuangcheng in the south also withdrew their troops and immigrants early.

At the end, in addition to attaching the population and cultivated land of the four cities, Chen Chang also wrote in detail about his doubts about the combat strength of the North Korean army.

In the past, North Korea was also an eastern power that could pull out 20,000 cavalry and tens of thousands of infantry more than ten thousand years ago.

At that time, not to mention the grass cowards like Mengge Timur, even Ma Yun, Ye Wang and other generals of the Ming army in Liaodong who were stationed in Liaodong needed to worry about whether North Korea would attack Liaodong by surprise.

Now it seems that the combat strength of the North Korean army has declined rapidly in the long period of peace and stability for more than ten years, and the border army, which it is proud of, cannot even defeat the Jianzhou Guard, which is hastily equipped by the Ming army.

Fortunately, it is poor enough, and the population of the Ming Dynasty really can't be wasted casually, otherwise Zhu Gaoxu really has the idea of annexing North Korea.

North Korea has a population of at least 3 million, but because the country has many mountains and few plains, and there is a lack of sufficient metal veins, the whole country is very poor in both agricultural and commercial resources.

During the nine years of Yongle alone, there were many local money shortages and local grain shortages in China, and the number of merchant ships going to Shandong to buy grain gradually decreased with the opening of the Ming Dynasty to the Japanese market.

A country that does not produce precious metals as its main currency and still needs to continuously import resources, if Zhu Gaoxu annexes it, then he really needs to make a plan to alleviate the poverty of 3 million people.

And even if poverty alleviation is not counted, with the size of North Korea, without migrating a million people, there is no way to assimilate it in the short term.

But if Zhu Gaoxu can really move a million people at will, then he might as well devote this population to Annam, Yunnan, and Sanxuan and Ten Comforts.

Zhu Gaoxu's positioning for North Korea is very clear, that is, to be the loyal dog of the Ming Dynasty and be optimistic about the gateway for the Ming Dynasty.

Although the current money shortage problem in the north of the Ming Dynasty has been alleviated, there is still a lack of currency in essence.

The problem of money shortage in the Ming Dynasty was not alleviated until the Jiajing period in history, and the reason was the inflow of overseas silver.

Today's Zhu Gaoxu really wants to mine overseas silver and gold, but the energy of the Ming Dynasty is destined to be limited.

Therefore, he will divide Xiaoxiyang into a private trade zone.

Not only that, but he also prepared to draw a metallogenic map of several major mining areas in Kunlun that he was familiar with, and with the help of going to the West, he would tell other countries about the gold and silver mines in Kunlun.

Close to the mining areas of Luzon, Southwest, Australia and other mining areas of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty can be laid out step by step, but Kunlun and the Americas are really far away.

Therefore, whether it is Kunlun or the Americas, local forces can be supported to mine gold and silver, and make the economic cake of the Ming Dynasty.

Countries with traditional Confucian cultural circles usually assess the situation.

It is impossible to migrate people to Kunlun, but it is possible to use the local population to dig for gold, silver and copper, and exchange them with artisanal goods from renewable resources.

This method, even later generations of Western countries could not stand it, and could only watch the real money and silver they had worked so hard to dig and smelt flow into the Central Plains, and finally they could only make an opium to fill the trade deficit.

If it weren't for the Qing Dynasty's mentality of defending the interior more than defending the outside, and not daring to mobilize the whole country to confront Britain and France, China would not have changed from a trade surplus country to a trade deficit country.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has a big fist, it should seize the world economic market and population, and at the same time support the local forces in Kunlun and the Americas to clamp down on Europe.

Zhu Gaoxu did not think that he could unify the world, and in his lifetime, he could eat the southwest, northeast, and South Seas, plus the Western Regions, he was already very satisfied.

It would be even better if future generations could expand the territory to the actual control of the three propaganda and ten comforts with the help of the trains that may be developed in the future.

As for the Koreans, if it were not for the Western invasion, they would have gradually leaned towards and integrated into the Central Plains Dynasty in the course of hundreds of years of cultural assimilation.

With regard to Korea and Japan, Zhu Gaoxu was prepared to assimilate them with culture, and with both the south and the West, he had to use both civil and military forces.

After returning from this voyage to the Western Ocean, once the North Koreans learned that the local power in Kunlun was weak and there were still a large number of gold mines, Zhu Gaoxu did not think that they would be kind enough to hire local people to mine gold and silver mines.

North Korea and Japan are essentially a country of beasts that are polite on the surface but dirty on the inside.

Let them make trouble overseas, and it is a good way for the Ming Dynasty to use trade to reap the benefits of fishermen.

Of course, this method must be established in the situation of the Ming Dynasty's own strong force, otherwise it will be easy to be devoured.

However, it is also a good thing to train two vicious dogs to keep yourself awake at all times.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu also looked up at Yi Shuha, who was serving him beside him: "Put Donghai Mansion under the jurisdiction of Liaodong Mansion." ”

"In addition, look at how many criminals there are in the world this year, as long as it is confirmed that it is not an unjust case, all of them will be sent to Donghai Mansion."

"About ......" Yizha thought for a while, then walked to the bookshelf, and looked through the booklet handed in by the Criminal Department before replying: "More than 9,000 people." ”

"All the migrations." Zhu Gaoxu gave the order without thinking, and then lowered his head to deal with the recital.

Since the news that Zhu Di wanted to go north last time was politely refused, he didn't mention anything about the northern expedition after understanding the principle of the flintlock pistol, but just asked Zhu Gaoxu to show him after making a standard flintlock pistol.

In addition, Zhu Di will also deal with 150 pieces of music in the West Corner Gate every day, and the rest that can be distributed to Zhu Gaoxu is about 140 copies on average.

This not only satisfied Zhu Di's mind to understand the government and politics, but also reduced Zhu Gaoxu's own political pressure, and both sides were very satisfied.

"Your Highness, Muyang Bohulun asks to see ......"

Suddenly, the eunuch on duty at the palace gate opened his mouth, and Zhu Gaoxu also raised his head: "Xuan!" ”

At his call, Hu Lun walked into the hall and sang while walking towards the side hall: "Your Highness Chitose ......"

"If you have nothing to do, you will go to the Three Treasures Palace, what is the news of the West Factory?" Zhu Gaoxu got straight to the point, and Hu Lun also bowed down and said:

"The Hyakinohe Office stationed in Japan has found out that Ashikaga Yoshimori, the shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate, seems to be preparing to unilaterally end the relationship with the imperial court, but the Ichiboji can keep it."

Ashikaga Yoshimochi still made the same choice as in history, the difference is that he did not end the trade with Ming, but this is not surprising to think about.

The tax on the Japanese city was already a big part of the shogunate's financial system, and if the relationship between the city and the ship trade was ended, the shogunate would lose a piece of revenue.

It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift.

If Ashikaga Yoshinori really dared to break off trade relations, even his vassals who supported his abolition of the relationship between the monarch and his subjects would oppose it, and he would be isolated.

"Didn't the guardians of Kansai object?"

Zhu Gaoxu asked about Hu Lun, after all, the guards of the Kansai countries are also people who have eaten the benefits of the city's trade.

"They objected, but Ashikaga Yoshinori seems to be negotiating with them, insisting on ending the relationship between Japan and the imperial court."

"And I'm afraid this is only the first step, he should have seen the plan of the imperial court......"

Hu Lun respectfully told the information and analysis he had obtained, and Zhu Gaoxu also narrowed his eyes when he heard this.

In addition to the silk and porcelain needed by the nobles, there were also tea, sugar, silk cloth, rice, and coarse grains needed by the low-level samurai.

Zhu Gaoxu investigated this point clearly when Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was not dead.

For example, in the Iwami area today, there are nearly 30,000 miners mining silver mines for various countries, and their daily wages are ten wen, and ten wen can buy two catties of coarse grains such as millet and brown rice sold from Ningbo to Japan.

Because of the small number of fields and the small yield, rice that has been processed after finishing is an unattainable luxury for the average Japanese people.

In the Ming Dynasty, the ordinary 100 meters were called "silver relics" in Japan, and this elegant name raised white rice to the same level of preciousness as Buddhist relics, and it was an existence that only nobles and samurai could eat.

Today, however, even white rice is eaten once in a while by miners because it costs 10 wen per catty.

At present, in the trade between the Ming Dynasty and Japan, the largest import is undoubtedly grain.

At least seven out of ten government-run merchant ships from Ningbo to Yinqi were grain ships.

Last year alone, the Jiangnan region sent nearly 200,000 koku of coarse grain and 100,000 koku of white rice to Japan, in exchange for more than 300,000 koku worth of silver, accounting for 20 and a half of the total trade.

This was also a case where the grain was transported to Japan in less than five days during the windy season, which was specially chosen for the favorable wind season.

Of course, there are also a lot of grain ships that capsize and sink, often shipping 500,000 stones, and only 300,000 stones can be delivered.

But even so, the silver exchanged can buy nearly one million stone of grain in the market.

In the absence of a year of great calamity, it is still very necessary to appropriately send grain to the outside and keep grain prices in some areas of the Ming Dynasty from being too low to harm the peasants' interests.

And in addition to grain, grain wine is also an important commodity exported to Japan by the Ming Dynasty.

Every year, rice wine alone can bring more than 100,000 yuan of income to Daming, not to mention other various commodities.

The trade between the two sides lasted only seven or eight years, and the goods of the Ming Dynasty had already occupied most of the Japanese market.

Although there were also businessmen who went to find connections during the period and told about the current predicament of Japanese businessmen, businessmen with real backgrounds had already obtained the survey charms given by the guardians of various countries.

It can be said that the highest-ranking businessmen in Japan today are the ones who act as second-tier dealers for the protection of various countries.

Ashikaga Yoshinori sensed the harm this would cause to local merchants and the economy, but few were willing to stop.

In the past, they had to maintain an administrative team to collect taxes, but now they don't need it at all.

The silver ore mined in various parts of the country would be used by them to trade in the city of Hidden Ambiguity, and the price of the goods brought back by the trade would be raised and sold to farmers and miners who sold their physical strength at a high price.

The wages paid to the miners were taken back into their pockets.

In the long run, there will definitely be problems, but I can't stand the fact that the money comes too quickly and life is too nourishing.

What was once expensive rice wine can now be drunk in large gulps, even if it is knocked over on the ground, they will not feel distressed.

The so-called silver relics were eaten almost every day by the samurai, and there were also desserts made of brown sugar and white sugar from the Ming Dynasty.

Even if they know that their economy is being hollowed out, no one can stop.

If Ashikaga Yoshinori wants to end, it depends on whether he has the strength to do so.

Touching his mustache, Zhu Gaoxu leaned back on the chair and thought for a while, and then slowly spoke:

"Let your people go and make contact with the guardians of the countries in Kansai and tell them what Ashikaga Yoshinori thinks."

"In addition, tell the guards of the countries in Kansai that as long as they are willing to unite around Daming, then this business can still continue, and Daming will not send troops to interfere in their internal problems."

"If it really comes time to shed blood, I hope they can support Ashikaga Yoshiji, and Daming will give them a corresponding reward."

Dividing the relationship between Kansai and Gyeonggi and Kanto was the first step in Zhu's plan.

As long as the Kwantung region does not interfere, with the power of Gyeonggi alone, it can only compete with the Kansai at best, and once the Ming army enters the battlefield, the defeat of Ashikaga Yoshinori is just around the corner.

As soon as he died, Zhu Gaoxu could use Ashikaga Yoshiji to recover all the forces in the Gyeonggi region, and then unite the forces of Gyeonggi and Kansai to completely pass on the emperor's lineage to Ashikaga Yoshiji, so that the so-called emperor's lineage that has not been changed for thousands of years will end.

Even if the countries in the Kanto region are unwilling to defend them at that time, they will not be Ashikaga Yoshiji's opponents.

Once Ashikaga Yoshitsugu becomes emperor, he can support Ashikaga Yoshinoshi, who is also pro-Akira, as shogun, and then both the shogun and the emperor will be members of the Ashikaga family, and the guardians of Japan will be dissatisfied even if they don't say it.

The Ashikaga family has gained power and fame, and naturally they are not willing to let go so easily.

If you want to continue to maintain your rule, you need to rely on external forces, and the Ming Dynasty is this external force.

As long as it lasts for more than 100 years, Japan, like North Korea, will become a loyal dog in the hands of the Ming Dynasty......

(End of chapter)