Chapter 61 The Rise of Capitalists

It was not until two days later that the Ming army chasing Xiyangha arrived at the Mongolian mountain village one after another.

Of course, he brought back the head of Xiyangha.

However, after Yang Feng left, Zhang Fu was suddenly attacked by thousands of enemy troops from nowhere. After a hard battle, although he repelled the enemy, the wounded Jurchen soldiers sacrificed their lives for the Ming Dynasty because they insisted on participating in the war.

How might it be!

They are all warriors of the Ming Dynasty!

When Zhang Fu reported this, many officers behind him cried.

Moreover, all the Jurchen warriors such as Boluo who pursued Xiyangha were killed.

They were ambushed in Xiyangha.

This kind of thing is not surprising. As for how Xiyangha, who fled, did these miracles, and why only three of Zhang Fu's subordinates died...

Are these important?

It doesn't matter at all!

The Jurchen warriors sacrificed their lives for the Ming Dynasty, and they died as a place. They would receive the title of Emperor Ming, and their families would receive the reward of Emperor Ming. Ambassador Yang even suggested that the King of Liao be the leader to divide a portion of the captured livestock to their families. In short, the seven thousand Jurchens completed their glorious mission in this way.

It turned into this frozen wasteland, with hard dead bodies.

Wait for the coming spring to rot into mud.

Immediately afterwards, the Liao King's army quickly completed the conquest of other surrounding Wuzhe tribes.

The first time the Liao king led his troops to the expedition, he achieved a brilliant victory. Each unit beheaded 5,000, forced 4,000 to surrender, seized countless livestock, and expanded the land for thousands of miles, opening up the waterway to Nuergan City. But then they turned to rest. After all, it was impossible to continue to go deeper in this season. It was so comfortable to drink and eat meat and roast the fire in those villages. In this way, they rested until the beginning of spring. As spring returned to the earth, the army led by Zhu Di also arrived in Jilin, and then began to log and build ships, and more importantly, transport food. After all, they needed to carry out a long expedition.

You should know that the waterway from Jilin to Nuergancheng is probably less than 5,000 miles away.

Only more or less.

After all, this is a river channel, and the river channel is winding.

It's a journey thousands of miles away!

Jilin.

"So I think there is no need for us to go to Nuergan City all at once.

You can go to Hulihuaijiangkou first.

Then build a fortress there as a transit station for Nuergan, transporting grain there and stocking up. Besides, if you often travel to Nuergan in the future, you will indeed need to build such fortresses along the way.

It is indeed easy for us to go to Nuer, and we will be there in one breath.

But when I come back, I'm going to go back.

I am afraid that the trip will take years, and after arriving at Nuergan City, we will inevitably have to station troops, and we have to inspect regularly and set up post stations. All of these must be done. Without food, it is definitely not possible. Since Your Majesty has not said that it will be completed for a long time, let’s go step by step. This year, we will build a fortress in Huligaijiang first, and continue to go north from Huligaijiang next year."

In Zhu Di's general's mansion, Yang Feng said to the map in front of him.

This is drawn from his watch.

There is not a special map drawing in Liaodong.

It's nothing more than taking some time.

So the mountains, rivers and rivers on this map are already very detailed. The rivers in the Songhua River Basin are actually not very different, especially those mountain tributaries cannot change...

Their flow direction is already the only choice.

There are mountains around, how can it change?

"What the ambassador never forgets is probably going to Xiguan City to copy Mengge Timur?"

Zhu Di sneered.

Although he knew the real purpose of Yang Feng's attack on the Black Songlin, these bastards were still too bad in Wuzhe's army.

Of course, Zhu Di didn't think they were bad.

In fact, a hero like him, the standards of good and evil do not exist, but this practice is very bad in terms of interests. Zhu Zhi cannot kill all the Jurchens. There must be someone who escapes. According to the rewards of each tribe, at least five hundred Jurchens escaped their blockade.

This is inevitable.

There is no wall around it.

Both sides are cavalrymen, and even sneak attacks will inevitably lead to some unblocking.

And this hasn't been added to what they didn't meet.

So what are the consequences of these people escaping?

No Jurchen dares to surrender voluntarily anymore!

It was impossible for the Ming Dynasty to truly station a large number of troops in this area, which means that there would be no borders in this area, and the main enemy of the Ming Dynasty, the Mongols on the grassland, would develop here. They had nomads in Liaodong. Although the climate in this area is severely cold, at least the water and grass are abundant, which is much better than the grassland in northern desert.

At least for the Mongols.

The Ming Dynasty was unable to maintain a large number of troops, and the result was that Mongolia returned to nomadic countries, and then it would not take many years to form new border troubles.

What if I appease the Jurchens?

They would fill this land without avail and block the Mongols from entering.

It is equivalent to garrisoning the Ming Dynasty.

This is a broken Mongolian arm.

But now that Yang Feng has done this, even if the Ming Dynasty takes the initiative to show goodwill, no Jurchen will dare to surrender. It is possible that they may even cooperate with the Mongols. Even if they do not cooperate with the Mongols, they will separatist and protect themselves from time to time.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty added a very difficult enemy out of thin air.

Although these people are small in number, it is difficult for them to clear them when they hide in the mountains and forests.

“This is indeed a plan.”

Yang Feng said frankly.

"The ambassador killed all the Liaodong Jurchens. Who will stop the Mongols from now on?"

Zhu Di said.

"Han people!"

"Does the ambassador think that such a place can still garrison large troops and allow military households to reproduce?"

"Those Jurchens can do it, why can't they?"

"The ambassador probably doesn't know how many people starved to death by the snow every year. The Jurchens you see survived. You can't see those Jurchens who died of hunger and cold. Does the ambassador want me, the military household of the Ming Dynasty, to live in their own lives like such savages here?"

"So the king accused me of causing trouble for you Daming?"

"snort!"

Zhu Di sneered.

Yang Feng looked at His Highness King Yan.

"Since I have caused trouble for the Ming Dynasty, let me solve this problem! I have a way to solve it, but it depends on whether the king has the courage."

He said.

"explain!"

"It's very simple, and there is no need for the Ming Dynasty to send troops here. I will come to your Ming Dynasty to invest as a member of the Daxia country."

“Invest, invest?”

“Yes, invest!

At that time, we were called introducing foreign capital, which means foreigners investing in business. I came to you to invest, rent out the wastelands in the Ming Dynasty, and hired your Ming Dynasty men to open up land here. You can ask me to collect taxes and rent. These are all easy to say. I will pay for those men to start wages and sell the grain produced to you as military supplies.

Of course, considering that it is dangerous here, these civilians must carry weapons.

But only carry legal weapons.

That is, cold weapons.

You should not be allowed to hold armor among the people, and they will not have it either.

As for you can set up prefectures, prefectures and counties here to send officials to manage them, those have nothing to do with me.

In short, the land belongs to yours, and the people belong to you. I only pay for the money and finally collect grain to make money. If you agree, I am willing to do something else, such as iron smelting, but I will definitely not do what cannot be done by the Ming Dynasty law.

You and the officials are watching.

And you must have garrisons, and the food of these garrisons is supplied by my Shangtun.

Wouldn't everyone be happy?"

Yang Feng said.

Cold weapons are also OK!

A steel-sheet crossbow is no worse than a contrap gun.

As for the armor, he did not have one, but he made thicker cotton coats for his men. This is OK? If you don’t wear thick cotton coats in this kind of place, you will definitely freeze to death in winter. If you add a raw silk lining to the cotton coat, it will definitely be fine...
To be continued...