In early September, the first Liaodong Bureau meeting was held at Zhuanghekou Port, at which Li Miao's appointment was announced. Wang Daoqi was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Liaodong Bureau, and Hu Yong was appointed as the associate director. Li San was appointed commander-in-chief of the Liaodong Bureau, and Hu Wu was appointed deputy commander-in-chief.
In addition, the three-sailed large ship was temporarily under the command of the Liaodong Bureau.
Li Miao's first three-sailed large ship was named Zhuanghe Ship. The captain is Hu Yi and the deputy captain is Li Jiu. The ship is now fully staffed with 500 people, all of whom have extraordinary combat capabilities.
The current main task is to guard the security of Zhuanghekou Port and assist the Liaodong Bureau in maintaining the security of the Liaodong Bureau.
This time, there were more than 2,000 Liaodong Bureau personnel who came with the Zhuang River ship, and they all came with their families. There were a total of more than 500 households of slaves and farmers. In addition to the Zhuanghe ship personnel, there are more than 700 elite servants and Zhuangding. It can be said that the army is well-prepared.
But the imagined war did not happen. There were no Jurchens in Zhuanghekou Port and its surrounding areas for hundreds of miles. There are only more than a thousand local Tu people, scattered around the upstream river near Zhuanghekou Port, with more than 30,000 acres of land developed, and all of it is primitive and extensive farming.
The productivity of these local Tu people is low, and the land is basically waiting to be harvested after the seeds are sown. The labor tools are also extremely crude. Therefore, although the land is fertile, their life is not good. They are half hungry and half full, and they are still exploited by the Jurchens.
The Zhuanghe ship, together with the Liaodong Bureau and his party, made full preparations for the war, but hit the empty space with one punch.
The Liaodong Bureau then started the pre-planned work. The Zhuanghe ship guarded the Zhuanghekou Port. More than 2,000 personnel from the Liaodong Bureau, together with the conquered Tu tribe, began to build bastions.
In less than a month, according to the established strategy, we were on the main road and the mouth of the river. Five mausoleums were built. More than 3,000 people were also scattered among the five mausoleums, which looked empty.
This is also what Li Miao has prepared to resettle tens of thousands of refugees this winter.
The mausoleum was specially designed by Li Miao for the Liaodong Bureau based on the situation in Liaodong. It is a defense that is easy to defend but difficult to attack. The Liaodong Bureau can only adopt a defensive posture in the next few years.
With the Liaodong Bureau's more than 700 guards and the advantage of the bastion, they can definitely block the attack of thousands of Jurchen elite cavalry.
It can be said that the overall situation of the Liaodong Bureau has been decided at this point, and it is impossible for the Jurchens to pay such a high price for Zhuanghekou Port. After the Liaodong Bureau grew stronger, it was too late.
A large amount of grain is now stored in the mausoleum. It has been available to the current personnel for more than ten years, and ships continue to bring food, cloth, medicine and other supplies.
Now the local Tu people have returned home. The Northern Bureau did not treat them harshly and treated them as one of their own.
There were also many Liaodong Bureau personnel who intermarried with local people. The Tu people finally lived a life that they had never dared to imagine before, and the Liaodong Bureau quickly stabilized.
The Jurchens had no energy to take care of them. According to locals, the Jurchens will send people to collect rent after the autumn harvest.
Wang Daoqi is still considering whether to pay the rent first this year. It would save a lot of trouble. However, the senior officials of the Liaodong Bureau unanimously opposed it, and a big battle that was originally prepared did not start. Are the guards of the Liaodong Bureau holding their breath?
This time, many guards signed up on their own initiative. They wanted to gain wealth and wealth. Their purpose of coming to Liaodong was to show off their skills, get more silver rewards, and also to strive for a good future.
As a result, Zhuanghekou Port was peacefully accepted. The expected war did not break out.
Now the Liaodong Bureau is the only local bureau under Li Miao that implements military control. There are some things that Wang Daoqi, the head of the Liaodong Bureau, can decide with a single word. Wang Daoqi is currently only responsible for Li Miao.
Although they accept supervision from the top management of the Liaodong Bureau, they can also make temporary decisions on their own. This also shows how much Li Miao values him.
When Wang Daoqi served as the head of the Southern Bureau, he was mature and prudent and made outstanding achievements. He made the first contribution to the development of the Southern Bureau. This time he sent Wang Daoqi to the Liaodong Bureau to develop and develop. Li Miao first sought Wang Yonggui's opinion.
Wang Yonggui certainly knows the importance of the Liaodong Bureau. Li Miao actually didn't send Li Shui there. Li Shui must be closer to Li Miao, having been his companion and playmate since childhood. For such an important position, Li Shui was the first choice.
You must know that the head of the Liaodong Bureau controls nearly half of Li Miao's elite combat forces, and he is far away from the emperor. Even Wang Yonggui didn't expect anyone else to take on this responsibility.
In fact, Li Miao had been struggling for a long time. In view of the performance of Wang and his son in recent years, he finally decided to send Wang Daoqi to the Liaodong Bureau to take charge of the overall situation. It is okay to employ nepotism, but not rewarding high merit is the biggest taboo.
How could Li Miao turn a blind eye to the contribution Wang Yonggui made in Qingzhou, Shandong and the first ocean trade? How to mobilize the enthusiasm of Wang's father and son, a pair of capable men, while there are many other people watching?
In the end, Li Miao decided to put Wang Daoqi in that position, reflecting his principle of employing people who are capable and inferior. This can fully mobilize the enthusiasm of one's subordinates.
Besides, although the Liaodong Bureau said that the sky is high and the emperor is far away, there is still no problem with the loyalty of the Liaodong Bureau personnel to them. Even from a personal quality perspective, Wang Daoqi is more qualified.
The Liaodong Bureau needs a stable and experienced person to take charge. Wang Daoqi's qualifications are also old enough. He was the first head of the Southern Bureau under Li Miao. Moreover, the Southern Bureau developed rapidly under his leadership.
The main topic of this Liaodong Bureau meeting is to increase efforts to develop the Liaodong Bureau's security force. After all, it is already September. Grain production will be next year, and the main task now is to increase the armed forces of the Liaodong Bureau.
The young and strong among the local residents can be quickly trained into villagers, which not only allows the local residents to quickly integrate into the Liaodong Bureau, but also increases the strength of the Liaodong Bureau. Prepare in advance for the arrival of a large number of refugees at the end of this year.
After all, the Liaodong Bureau, which currently has more than 3,000 people, will expand to more than 20,000 people by the end of the year. Not only is sufficient materials sufficient, but management requires a lot of talents. While currently training the team, we also need to gradually develop some available talents.
With the end of the first high-level meeting of the Liaodong Bureau, various tasks began to be implemented concretely. No one took the possible Jurchen counterattack in winter at all. To a certain extent, the Liaodong Bureau still hopes for a big battle.
After all, morale is available. Wang Daoqi feels that the Jurchens are unlikely to attack. The Jurchens' strength in the Liaodong Peninsula is limited and it is impossible to launch a large-scale attack. A general-scale attack will not be enough for the Liaodong Bureau, and there will be no need for it in the future. Worried.
With the arrival of a large number of northern refugees at the end of the year, the strength of the Liaodong Bureau will only grow exponentially. Besides, the Jurchens can only attack in winter. After this year's failure, they can only wait until next winter. Then the Liaodong Bureau will still be afraid of you.
The Liaodong Bureau may not be able to take the initiative to attack, but it is really not afraid of using bastions to fight a defensive battle with you. After solidifying the defense, the Liaodong Bureau can vigorously develop food production, shipbuilding, smelting, etc. and quickly grow in strength. By then, the Liaodong Bureau will become a nail in the Jurchen tribe's throat.
