Chapter 139
Looking at the map of Liaodong, it is not difficult to find that Liaodong is surrounded by mountains on three sides in the west, north and east, and faces the sea on one side, which is conducive for moist air to enter the inland and form rainfall.
However, Liaodong is a commanding height. Once the nomads gain a foothold here, they will form a overwhelming force for the northern region, especially the Gyeonggi Province. The rolling iron cavalry pouring down like a flash flood will be enough to crush all resistance in an instant.鑑粉.
In fact, the capital is still more. It is blocked by the Yanshan Mountains, especially the majestic Yanshan Mountains, which can block the charge of the cavalry. However, once the capital cannot be defended, the entire north will be overwhelmed by the roaring barbarian cavalry. This is why two thousand years ago Later, the Han people knew that the Songliao Plain was fertile and suitable for farming and animal husbandry, and that with a little management it would turn into an pastoral and pastoral place, but they never made great efforts to manage the Songliao Plain.
Including the Ming Dynasty, which owned the entire Liaodong, as early as the tenth year of Hongwu (1377), Zhu Yuanzhang deposed the prefectures and counties, leaving only the garrison and established the Twenty-Five Liaodong Guards. The presence of the Liaodong region has always been overwhelming, but in terms of administrative units, the Liaodong region is not an independent province, but falls under the Shandong Chengxuan Administrative Department.
The cities under the jurisdiction of Liaodong Dusi, except for Liaoyang, which briefly set up prefectures and counties during the Hongwu period, all cities in Liaodong Dusi are "guards" belonging to the military establishment. Therefore, it can be said that the entire Liaodong region in the Ming Dynasty can only be regarded as a military-controlled area attached to Shandong.
The reason why the Liaodong region was so out of place in the administrative divisions of the Ming Dynasty was not because this region was not taken seriously. On the contrary, the Ming Dynasty believed that the capital of Liaodong was "if the Liao Dynasty dies, the capital will not be able to rest in peace." It is really related to the rise and fall of China."
But another simple but easily overlooked issue is that the importance of a region is not directly related to the economic conditions and social development of the region.
The reason why the Ming Dynasty chose to establish the Liaodong Dusi to manage Liaodong and Western Liaoning was precisely because it could prioritize resources over military affairs as much as possible under the condition of limited resources.
It's not that we don't want this land, but it's just too difficult to defend.
With mountains on three sides, the Songliao Plain covers an area of 350,000 square kilometers, twice the size of Henan. As long as it loses its strategic fulcrum, it will collapse thousands of miles away.
After Shenyang fell, the entire Liaodong soon fell.
The climate in Liaodong is too cold. Different from the dry and cold conditions in the northwest, it is wet and cold here. Once winter comes, everything will be frozen. Let’s talk about agriculture first, although Northeast China has now become an important agricultural producing area. However, in the Ming Dynasty, due to the climate and geographical conditions in the Liaodong capital area at that time, it was not suitable for agricultural production, and even local self-sufficiency could not be achieved.
For example, the Liaohe Plain, which today is an important rice producing area in Northeast China, was limited by technology and population in the Ming Dynasty. Not only was most of the area not developed into farmland, but it was even the Liaoze area that divided the Liaodong capital area into western Liaoning and eastern Liaoning.
However, this Liaoze in the Ming Dynasty was not a large lake, but "there were many underground floods... There was no smoke in all directions, but the reeds were faint", which was similar to the meadow swamps that the Red Army passed through when they crossed the grassland. Not only would the area require extensive drainage operations, but the large amounts of stagnant water would also serve as a breeding ground for mosquitoes.
The shortage of cultivated land was only one of the agricultural problems faced by the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong Dusi. Another bigger problem was the climate. Due to the climate of the Ming Dynasty, the types and output of various agricultural products in Liaodong at that time were far from enough to meet the needs of Liaodong Dusi.
In particular, cotton, which was the main raw material for textiles in the Ming Dynasty, could not be self-produced in the Liaodong capital area of the Ming Dynasty due to climate and cotton planting technology. Therefore, in addition to food, local supplies such as cloth and cotton rely heavily on the Dengzhou area in Shandong and the Dengliao Seaway in Liaodong for supplies.
For the shortage of materials in the Liaodong region, we can refer to some records in the last years of Hongwu. For example, in terms of grain, the transportation volume in the 18th year of Hongwu reached "752,200 grains and rice were shipped to Liaodong by sea." The transportation volume of cotton was even more exaggerated. In the 21st year of Hongwu, "1.34 million pounds of cotton cloth and 560,000 kilograms of cotton were transported to Liaodong to give to the sergeants."
Under this situation of strong dependence, the population growth and economic development of Liaodong Dusi actually required the Ming Dynasty to conduct financial bloodletting on Liaodong, and it was also very vulnerable to climate and harassment by Japanese pirates and pirates. Therefore, compared with the inland provinces of the Ming Dynasty, the economic foundation of the Liaodong Dusi, which was prone to frequent wars, was much more fragile.
The four states in southern Liaoning fell as early as the first year of Tianqi. Except for the short-term recovery of Lushun, Jiannu never paid attention to southern Liaoning because it required great efforts to govern if it wanted to develop.
Jiannu had neither the ability nor the inclination to develop Liaonan.
Cheng Shijie is willing to govern this hellish place because he has no other better choice. Cheng Shijie is now taking advantage of the drought, lack of rain, and cold weather in the Little Glacier climate to manage southern Liaoning and the Songliao Plain at the minimum cost.
Just like in southern Liaoning now, although there is not too much rain, the weather is also showing a tendency of drought. However, with Cheng Shijie leading the field army and engineering military households, they have made great efforts to rectify the situation and have made gratifying progress.
In Ning Haijun's Tuntian District, in order to enrich the jobs of Ning Haijun's officers, Cheng Shijie did not plant all the fields with grain, but planted a large number of vegetables. Crops such as tomatoes, radishes, eggplants, beans, cabbage, cucumbers, etc., are very attractive in red and green.
Every day, people collect vegetables and then transport them to the grassland for sale. Vegetables cannot be grown on the grassland. These vegetables can be sold at sky-high prices on the grassland. It is common for a load of cabbage to bring back several sheep. .
Who told those herdsmen not to grow vegetables?
It’s you who are being fooled!
Now Cheng Shijie has two pairs of white gloves, Hu Erqi and Xie Jinglin, who are responsible for smuggling things. They are all asymmetric transactions. For example, a briquette stove made of several kilograms of pig iron. The cost of a briquette stove is only two to three hundred yuan. It's equivalent to two or three coins, but it's sent to the grassland.
Wrapping cast iron with a layer of tinplate, that is, tinplate, can be sold for seven to eight taels, or even ten taels of silver. In fact, most of the slave herdsmen had no money in their hands. They exchanged cows or horses, and one horse or one cow was exchanged for a white iron sheet. Tin stove, this is a normal transaction...
In addition to this kind of briquette stove, the most popular thing among herdsmen is the salt from southern Liaoning. Cheng Shijie's wholesale price to Huizhou salt merchants is 30 cents per bag of two kilograms. There are certain discounts for large quantities.
But when sold to herdsmen, the price of salt is one pack of a leg of lamb, or four eight-pound packs of salt for a whole lamb. Even the smallest lamb is more than ten times the profit.
Guangningwei, in the first year of Jin Tianhui (1123), Liao Xian Prefecture was promoted to Guangning Prefecture. The prefecture is located in today's Guangning Town, and consists of four counties: Luyang, Wangping, Guangning, and Zhongxiu. By the Ming Dynasty, Guangning had become the Ming Dynasty's highest military headquarters in the Northeast.
The Governor's Office of Liaodong and the Commander's Office of Liaodong Dudu were both stationed in Guangning. It was a pity that after the Guangning Guard fell in the first year of Tianqi, it was never recaptured.
Counting Wangtai Town in the northernmost part of the Haizhou Guard, the territory to the north belongs to the Guangning Guard, which is also the Liaohe Plain. The Liaohe Plain is a flat area with no danger to defend. If you want to gain a foothold in the Liaohe Plain, this is not an easy task. An easy thing.
Of course, Cheng Shijie's first step was to send Wangtai Town to guard Hu Erqi. Hu Erqi had more than 800 slave-building soldiers under his command, forming Ning Haijun's hunting cavalry unit.
The so-called hunting cavalry unit is a hunting-like unit.
Forty miles north of Wangtai Town, Cheng Shijie ordered the main camp to camp here. After the camp left, Xintai Town was built on the original site.
Cheng Shijie's strategy is still to focus on forts, and combine ten reorganized 100-household settlements into a town. The town with a town fort is actually a city of the same level as a thousand-household settlement.
Because of the successful production of cement, Cheng Shijie no longer had to use precious glutinous rice to bond masonry. Using cement to build city walls was not only faster and more efficient, but also stronger.
Thirty miles east of Xintai Town, a new town fort was built called Danguan Town. When Cheng Shijie arrived here, a strong wind blew off Cheng Shijie's hat. Cheng Shijie picked up the hat and flicked it with dirt.
After the construction of this town fort, a connecting highway was built between Wangtai Town, Qiantai Town and Danguan Town. At this time, heading north, the construction pattern was based on the post station pattern, every thirty miles or four For ten miles, a town fort was built along the road, which combined the functions of the town fort and the post station.
The army cleared the way in front, while the 300 farming households and 100 engineering offices behind built castles, roads, and inns bit by bit.
You have to eat the food one bite at a time and do the things one by one.
Cheng Shijie led Ning Haijun's personal guard, and cooperated with the 300 farming households and 100 engineering offices, to move forward and build at the same time.
At this time, the morale of Admiral Ning was high. When they were resting, they would also discuss how many good things Jiannu had and where to grab Jiannu.
"It has been the Jiannu slaves who have been robbing us for decades, and now it is their turn to feel what it feels like to be robbed."
"My sword is already thirsty!"
Hu Erqi, who was the vanguard, passed through a primitive pine forest. He saw many Jiannu herdsmen driving large groups of round sheep to graze on the grassland.
Hu Erqi looked at the cattle and sheep everywhere and drooled: "So much money, so much food!"
The Jianzhou Jurchen cavalry under Hu Erqi all had green eyes and saliva flowing from their mouths.
In their eyes, sheep are food. No, wool is quite valuable now. Didn't Ning Haijun set up a textile factory to weave wool? A large amount of wool that was originally of little use was sent in and turned into soft and exquisite woolen jackets and sheep. Exquisite fabrics such as sweaters, wool coats, and wool scarves are sold inside and outside the customs, and demand exceeds supply.
So in the eyes of these guys, those running sheep are just a bunch of walking and barking silver!
"Brothers, get ready to work!"
Fortunately, when they were in the woods, when Hu Erqi's men left the woods, Ning Haijun was wearing black military uniforms, and the other party could see them from a long distance.
Before Hu Erqi even started to take action, the Jiannu herdsmen fell into panic. The children drove the sheep and ran like crazy. Come, prepare to fight with saber and horned bow.
However, the disparity in strength is too great.
Even though Hu Erqi has more than 800 people, the other party only has about 200 people including his children.
About an hour later, Ning Haijun's leading troops arrived here, and what they saw was a destroyed unit with corpses lying on the ground.
Now these corpses have been collected and built into a small Beijing temple, and a stone tablet has been erected with the words: "The Ming Dynasty Liaodong Economic Envoy, Liaodong Dusi Du Commander, Zuo Dudu, General Conquering the Prisoners" , under the command of Cheng Gong, the chief military officer of the Ning Navy, the watchtower guarded Hu Erqi, and he was forced to build slaves here..."
When Cheng Shijie arrived at the Taizi River, which was almost five hundred miles away from Jinzhou, in order to solve the supply problem of Ning Haijun, Cheng Shijie's principle was that if it could be solved by water, he should consider water first.
As the Ning Navy Navy used 400 gunboats to transport grain, construction materials, and various supplies to the Taizi River temporary dock, this temporary dock has been temporarily designated as the fortress of Dock Town.
This town fort was built along the river. Groundbreaking began on 1,400 to 500 acres of open space, and it was busy.
Cheng Shijie looked at Chen Guodong beside him and said, "How are the emotions of the brothers?"
Chen Guodong smiled and said: "Brothers are very excited!"
Cheng Shijie said: "Tell the new brothers that the land in Jinzhou is gone. I have no way to allocate land to the new brothers. Next year we will focus on developing Gaizhou, Fuzhou and Haizhou. The commander-in-chief has decided that, on a voluntary basis, brothers in Gaizhou can enjoy 60 acres of military land, those in Fuzhou can enjoy 70 acres, and those in Haizhou can enjoy 80 acres!"
Whether it is the military fields of Wei soldiers, the twentieth rank of nobles in Qin and Han, or the imperial soldiers of Tang Dynasty, or the guards of Ming Dynasty, only by ensuring sufficient interests of the soldiers, that is, fields, can the army ensure its combat effectiveness.
But the problem is that Guanzhong has less than 40 million acres of land in total, including a considerable amount of mulberry forests. Everyone knows that the terrain near Chang'an is good, the development prospects are good, and the land is valuable.
The future Jinzhou will be the commercial center of southern Liaoning, occupying the natural advantage of the seaport. In this regard, neither Gaizhou nor Fuzhou can compare with Jinzhou.
Regarding the land issue, Cheng Shijie needs to make arrangements in advance.
"Although no formal order has been issued, I want to give my brothers a heads-up in advance. Military career fields can be adjusted, and military merit fields can also be adjusted. The adjustment ratio of military merit fields is one to one point two."
"yes!"
Cheng Shijie continued: "Shen Mingyu."
"arrive!"
"Can Zuo Dusi now march 150 miles in seven hours and immediately enter the battle?"
Shen Mingyu shook his head and said: "Commander, I don't know, and I haven't tried it!"
Cheng Shijie used the standards of the 38th Army to demand Ning Haijun's Left Dusi. Of course, the Right Dusi couldn't be alone.
"Then let's try it later. Guards, Zuo, and Right are all ready. After three days, everyone will be fully armed, carry three days of dry food, and carry out long-range maneuvers!"
Cheng Shijie does not necessarily want to train Ning Haijun into the 38th Army. If it reaches that level, casualties during training will be inevitable. Cheng Shijie had no choice but to improve the troop's mobility as much as possible before the cavalry could form combat effectiveness.
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The Red Lady also successfully arrived in Liaonan with her army of refugees. However, success is only relative. She led a total of 30,000 to 40,000 refugees. When they arrived in Liaonan, there were only more than 29,000 people left. Nearly tens of thousands of people were left because of They died of illness or hunger on the way to migration.
This is also something that can't be helped.
After the catastrophe, there will be a great plague.
People who can survive, without exception, are hard-working people.
The red lady is still wearing a red wedding dress, a red cloak, a long knife hanging on her waist, a long spear in her hand, and a long bow on her back.
When they arrived at the first stop in Liaonan, they were placed in the immigration resettlement camp in Liaonan. The first thing they did when they arrived in Liaonan was to learn to line up.
Those who do not abide by the discipline will be reminded by the staff maintaining order next to the team. If they are reminded and ignore the reminder, then security personnel will come forward to take the person away, and the next thing will be a matter of course. Such a scene, in Jin It happens every few days on the docks of Zhou Harbor.
After registration, they are allowed to take a shower. Compared with the primitive environment at the original resettlement site, the conditions in the resettlement camp are now much better.
First, there are rows of rooms with red bricks and red tiles. These rooms are actually bathrooms. The men's bathhouse has a large pool, but the women's bathhouse does not...
The floor in the bathroom is covered with white tiles, and there are rows of showers. These showers are gourds with small holes drilled at the bottom. Like the shower heads of later generations, they can spray hot water.
If it is a woman with children, children under three years old, whether boys or girls, will follow their mothers, boys over three years old will follow their fathers, and girls will follow their mothers, enter the women's bathhouse and start taking a bath.
After the red lady took a bath, she felt a lot more relaxed. However, when she came out, she found that her clothes were missing, and the red lady suddenly became nervous.
She subconsciously touched the knife. Just when her hand was holding the handle of the knife, a young woman walked in holding a piece of clothing: "Try to see if it fits?"
"Clothes for me?"
The red lady was a little surprised. This was a skirt made of cotton. It was soft and comfortable. The stitches were very fine and it looked like it was sewn with skill. Cotton was expensive, so it cost a lot of money.
"Yes, our executive committee has already said that you are the leader, and you deserve this!"
With the establishment of the Liaodong Management Committee, the government's airs were also put up. Some important positions were no longer scrawled like the original grass-roots team, but an executive committee was established.
If the Liaodong Administrative Committee is regarded as a prefecture, then the executive committee is the county below. The current Liaodong Administrative Committee has jurisdiction over six executive committees: Lushun, Jinzhou, Gaizhou, Haizhou, Fuzhou and Zhenhai. committee.
Each executive committee has a deacon and a deputy deacon, a total of seven members and a nine-person meeting, as the secondary leadership body of the management committee.
The red lady nodded and began to put on the new clothes in silence.
To be fair, the red lady has never worn cotton clothes in her entire life, because cotton shrinks easily, folds easily, is difficult to take care of, and is expensive.
Wearing this dress, the red lady feels like she has lost weight.
When she came out, she saw her clothes in a large pot. There was a blazing fire under the pot. The water in the pot had boiled and was still boiling.
After a major disaster, there will be a major epidemic. Cheng Shijie is worried that there will be viruses on immigrants, so he will give the new immigrants the first step of bathing, sterilizing and disinfecting their clothes. He simply boils their clothes in boiling water, although some viruses are still present. You can survive boiling water at 100 degrees, but more than 99% of bacteria or viruses cannot be stored in boiling water.
"Gugu..."
The red lady's stomach growled.
She looked at the woman in charge and asked, "How are we going to eat? Do we need money?"
"There is no need for money. When you come to Liaonan, everyone will be given a new set of clothes, a set of bedding, and shoes. There is no need for money for food for half a month, but after half a month, you will be allocated Work, at that time, you had to work to have food to eat, we in Liaonan don’t support idlers!”
The red lady said: "But many of our people are very weak and cannot do the work!"
"Do you have hands? Do you have feet? As long as there are hands and feet, there is work for them to do, unless they don't want to do it!"
The red lady was led by the servant to the dining hall.
Since the weather is not cold now, but rather hot, these chefs are like rice, lifted from the stuffy cafeteria hall to a row of big trees.
Each large pot contains sweet potatoes, soybeans, wheat, peas, sweet potatoes, and other types of food. The immigrants have already lined up to receive their meals.
The red lady ate a large bowl of multigrain porridge. The taste was similar to the porridge. The porridge had been cooked for a long time and was very soft. After eating most of it, the red lady began to wander around the resettlement site.
Outside the resettlement site is the land reclaimed by hundreds of households in Ning Haijun's farmland. The crops that have been irrigated in time are growing green and the ears of wheat are swaying in the wind, growing gratifyingly.
The red lady watched quietly, filled with wonder in her heart, and said after a while: "We came all the way from Luoyang and passed through several prefectures and counties. What we saw the most was the scorched and cracked land of grains and wheat. It was so miserable that when we got here, there were actually some seeds. It feels like a paradise.”
Unlike other refugee leaders, Lady Hong really thought about taking the refugees to farm. After all, although Tanlong Valley is known as a valley, it is more than 30 kilometers deep and has water sources. The valley can cultivate hundreds of thousands of acres of land.
It was only during the actual execution that she realized the seriousness of the problem. Seeds, land, cattle, and farm tools all cost money, but the refugees had nothing. There was no way to organize the refugees to work in the fields.
If there was a one in 10,000 possibility, the Red Lady would not leave Luoyang, let alone come to Liaonan.
However, the red lady was very puzzled as to why Cheng Shijie could do such a difficult thing?
PS: I'm very sorry. I originally wanted to finish writing before twelve o'clock, but ended up falling asleep again. I have been lacking sleep recently. After dawn, I woke up and revised it. Now I can't read the words without ghosting. Forgive me.
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