Zhu Youxiao's troops came all the way along the city built on the grassland. The supplies were all obtained in the city. One hundred thousand cavalry spread out on the grassland like locusts, which shocked people. It is unparalleled that most herdsmen on Zhu Youxiao's marching route could see this shocking scene.

This march, like an armed parade, completely suppressed the slightly restless grassland, making all the people with evil thoughts helpless and restrained themselves.

The Ming Dynasty had these 100,000 cavalry, which tribe could not be defeated?

The 100,000-strong army walked for two hours just to pass Zhenbeiguan, and then arrived at Shenyang, the capital of Liaodong Province at this time.

"Welcome to your Majesty." The governor of Liaodong, Xiong Tingbi, led the governor Yuan Keli, the general of Liaodong Luo Yiguan, and a group of Liaodong civil and military officials to greet him at the gate.

"Are the rewards and supplies ready?" Zhu Youxiao got off his horse and asked directly.

"Everything is ready, just waiting at the back." Xiong Tingbi replied.

"Li Yuyu." Zhu Youxiao called.

"The end will be here."

"Go and talk to Governor Xiong and let everyone have a good night's rest."

"The general will obey his orders."

So, that night, the entire army of 100,000 people had a bowl of wine and enough meat tubes for each person. They ate freely. After eating and drinking, they fell asleep loudly. There was no need to worry about enemy attacks or wolves. There was a city defense outside. The army is waiting.

The next day, after getting enough sleep, the soldiers began to wash up, tidy up their personal hygiene, wash clothes and so on. Zhu Youxiao's army was not a sloppy guard soldier, but an army of kings, the victorious army. Teacher, teacher of civilization.

In the days that followed, he maintained a relaxed state of half training and half rest, waiting for the final order to attack.

"How is the situation in Liaodong now?" After taking a short rest, Zhu Youxiao summoned the civil and military officials in Liaodong to inquire about the situation. Some things can only be seen clearly when you get to the place.

"Everything is fine now. There are no Jurchens outside to harass, no powerful landlords inside, and even the generals have been reduced by your majesty. Naturally, Liaodong develops smoothly." Governor Xiong Tingbi replied. At that moment, he told the specific situation of Liaodong one by one. , including the collection of commercial taxes, distribution of land, construction of prisons, construction of roads, and even the establishment of schools at all levels, all described in an orderly manner.

"Oh, your school has already been established here?" Zhu Youxiao almost asked. When he gave this order to the Ministry of Culture and Literature, he planned to cast a net with as many fish as possible, and let all localities adapt first and establish a foundation. , wait until he has his hands free and then comb it thoroughly.

But what I didn't expect was that Laidong was ahead of all others and had basically established a complete three-tier school system.

"Yes, Your Majesty. Thanks to His Majesty's large-scale immigration move, the last rebellion in Southern Zhili, and the various families of the gentry involved in the subsequent house raids, there are a large number of literate people here. Compared to the labor camps, Due to the circumstances, it is simply lenient to let them come out to teach." Xiong Tingbi said crudely and explained the reason for this.

After saying this, Zhu Youxiao suddenly realized that the family that was able to rebel in the first place did not have deep local roots and many talented people in the family. Now they are sent to such a wild and borderland place. The government wants to use their literacy skills, so naturally they don't have it. Reluctant.

Zhu Youxiao's prison was modeled after that built by later generations. All prisoners needed to work. Unlike later generations, which gradually turned to light processing of supplied materials, the most primitive farm labor was used here, and the location was a wilderness that no one had cultivated.

You can imagine the hard work involved in this place.

Being able to come out of it and gain limited freedom to teach and educate people is something these people naturally want. But for Xiong Tingbi, people like this are easy to use. They don't make irresponsible remarks and do whatever they are told.

Even the Chinese Pinyin, which many academics were unwilling or afraid to learn, they used it with great success, and it soon spread throughout Liaodong.

Zhu Youxiao figured out the reason behind this as soon as he thought about it.

When he retreated with great strides, he almost left the entire area outside the Pass to the Jurchens. All the Han people in Liaodong moved back. Under such devastation, everyone lost everything, even the most important generals. But after the homeland was recovered, the first

The governor was Sun Chengzong again. He fully understood the emperor's intention and took the lead in launching land reform and redistributing land to everyone.

Once the most important means of production in the feudal era were mastered, the rest would be easy to do, and Xiong Tingbi didn't have to do anything. He just had to follow Xiao Gui and Cao Cao and follow the path paved by Sun Chengzong.

Zhu Youxiao is quite satisfied with the situation in Liaodong. After two or three years of development, this place has begun to see prosperity, especially the fertile black soil, which has allowed rice cultivation here to produce bumper harvests year after year. Currently, there is enough energy to transport it to the pass.

Food.

"Okay, very good." Zhu Youxiao nodded with great satisfaction.

Xiong Tingbi was also very proud of the emperor's praise. Being recognized by the emperor meant that he was one step closer to the cabinet.

Unlike the previous emperors, the cabinet had rules for nomination. The cabinet members in Zhu Youxiao's era were completely decided by him. Even if you were just a white man before, as long as your ability is satisfied by the emperor, you can rise to the top and become the chief minister.

The real person is Tianshelang in the morning, and ascends to the emperor's hall in the evening.

"Is there any news on the Jurchen side?" After getting a general understanding of the situation in Liaodong, Zhu Youxiao turned to the topic. This time he was not here to inspect the place, but wanted to disturb the Jurchen.

He has never been able to let go of this nation that replaced the Ming Dynasty in history and became the last feudal dynasty in China. Perhaps due to some hidden influence, he has always regarded this tribe as a life and death enemy.

This feeling was one of the reasons for giving up the western expedition to Mongolia and traveling thousands of miles to come here, leaving the Jurchens unable to recuperate.

"Jurchen..." Xiong Tingbi pondered for a moment and then spoke slowly, "Since the new habitat of the Jurchen was discovered, Wei Chen often sent caravans there to explore the situation."

At that moment, Xiong Tingbi recounted the information he had obtained.

Today, the Jurchen's habitat is in the Qiqihar area in later generations. This city is relatively famous. It is the largest city in Heilongjiang Province after the provincial capital Harbin. Its economic influence is very strong. This was also the case in ancient times. It was probably during the Jin Dynasty that a city was built here.

, it was called Puyu Road City at that time.

Later, with the decline of the Jin Dynasty and the rise of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, the city here was abandoned. It was not until the Qing Dynasty that a city was built here again, and its official name was Qiqihar.

Now that the Jurchens have settled in this place, the name Qiqihar naturally appeared earlier.

This place is located on the Songnen Plain, with vast grasslands and flat terrain. After Huang Taiji, who was unwilling to fail, annexed the Horqin tribe, he also started a herding lifestyle, abandoning the Jurchen's once primitive fishing and hunting life.

It can be said that these wild boar skins have evolved.

During the period of recuperation, Huang Taiji was naturally not idle. Although the entire Northeast belonged to the Ming Dynasty's slave Gandusi, just like Uzangdusi, the official positions were all local native tribe leaders. The Ming Dynasty had a strong attachment to this place.

The rule of restraint.

This nominal relationship, maintained through mutual trade, was completely broken after the Jurchens unified. The life of these tribes was even more backward than that of the Jurchens, but the harsh living environment created their strong bodies and fighting will.

.And these people are the main sources of wild Jurchen.

After a year of constant searching, coupled with what he had found previously, Huang Taiji finally gathered an elite force of about 30,000 people. Apart from not being very good at riding horses, these wild girls are really the best warriors.

.

Of course, these tribes are not Jurchens, they are just a general name given by the Ming Dynasty. The entire Northeastern minority people are called Jurchens, but they are just different tribes.

"Under the leadership of Huang Taiji, the Jurchens were vigorously fighting foreign wars and annexing tribes. At this time, there were 30,000 wild Jurchen infantry and 30,000 Mongolian Jurchen cavalry, totaling 60,000 soldiers and horses. If it were not for the shortage of food and grass, this number would probably still be

Could be more."

Xiong Tingbi's words really surprised Zhu Youxiao. How long had it been? In the blink of an eye, another Eight Banners came out. Although Huang Taiji at this time seemed to mean that all the people were soldiers, this result was also very amazing.

"Not only that." Looking at the emperor's expression, Xiong Tingbi once again dropped an almost shocking news, "Recently, Huang Taiji has been trying to solve the food and grass problem, and seems to want to buy our cold-resistant rice seeds from the caravan, and

Some other pasture seeds seem to be intended to be promoted for farming."

planting rice!

To be honest, Zhu Youxiao was really frightened by this news. Why had the Jurchens not been able to develop before? Jianzhou Jurchens had developed for hundreds of years, but they still had a population of three to four hundred thousand. Without him, there was not enough support.

Their traditional fishing and hunting lifestyle can only feed so many people.

But things are different now. Xu Xi came from Mongolia to herd, and learned farming from the Han people. This... Huang Taiji wanted to go to heaven!

"Fortunately, we came early. No matter what, we must drive the Jurchens to the west this time and never let them stay where they are." Zhu Youxiao secretly made up his mind to drive away the Jurchens.

The harsh environment is not a disadvantage to the Jurchens. Instead, it is a training that keeps their spirit of fighting against the world and the earth. They do not deteriorate as quickly as they did in history. Thinking about it this way is a bit scary for the spirit. It cannot be

Appear here.

The Northeast is the Northeast of the Chinese, not the Jurchens.

Let them use this spirit to harm Westerners.

"It seems that my inducement action has no effect." Suddenly, Zhu Youxiao heard that he had asked Dongchang to take action years ago. He asked the informants buried inside the Jurchens to act and persuade Huang Taiji to voluntarily abandon the Northeast and move westward.

But now it seems that the other party did not take this approach, but chose another way.

"This minister doesn't know." Xiong Tingbi shook his head. He had heard about this plan. He knew who was the initiator. Now that the emperor asked about it, he couldn't tell the details, but it was

If you don’t take action, you still failed to take action.

"It seems that we can only wait for Wei Zhongxian to come." Zhu Youxiao said, it would be a good idea to take this opportunity to let the troops have a good rest. I am afraid there will be a big battle next.
Chapter completed!