It was not until two days later that the Ming army chasing Xiyang Ha gradually arrived at the Mongolian mountain stronghold.
Of course, Xiyang Ha’s head was brought back.
However, after Yang Feng left, Zhang Fu was suddenly attacked by thousands of enemy troops who came from nowhere. Although the enemy troops were repelled after a hard battle, the injured Jurchen soldiers all died for the Ming Dynasty because they insisted on participating in the battle.
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nice!
They are all warriors of the Ming Dynasty!
When Zhang Fu reported this incident, many officers behind him cried.
Moreover, all the Jurchen warriors including Bo Luo who were chasing Xiyang Ha were killed.
They were ambushed by Xiyang Ha.
This kind of thing is not surprising. As for how the fleeing Xiyang Ha achieved these miracles, and why only three of Zhang Fu's subordinates died...
Are these important?
It's not important at all!
The Jurchen warriors sacrificed their lives for the Ming Dynasty. It was a worthy death for them. They would receive gifts from the Ming Emperor, and their families would receive rewards from the Ming Emperor. Ambassador Yang even suggested that the King of Liao take the initiative to allocate part of the captured livestock to
Their families, in short, the seven thousand Jurchens completed their glorious mission in this way.
It turned into a bunch of hard dead bodies in this frozen wasteland.
Waiting for spring to rot into mud.
Immediately afterwards, the Liao king's army quickly completed the conquest of other surrounding Wujie tribes.
The King of Liao led his troops on his first expedition and achieved a brilliant victory. Each tribe beheaded 5,000 people, forced 4,000 to surrender, captured countless livestock, expanded the land for thousands of miles, and opened the waterway to Nuergan City. But then they turned into
Rest and recuperation, after all, it is impossible to go further in this season. It is so comfortable to drink, eat meat and roast 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 cut wood and build ships.
What's more important is transporting food. After all, they need to go on a long expedition.
You must know that the waterway from Jilin to Nurgancheng is probably no more than five thousand miles.
Just a lot more.
After all, this is a river walk, and rivers are all winding.
Thousands of miles away and back!
Jilin.
"So I think there is no need for us to go to Nurgan City all at once.
You can first go to Huli Gaijiangkou.
Then build a fortress there as a transit station to Nuergan, transport food there and store it. Moreover, if you frequently travel to and from Nuergan in the future, you will indeed need to build such fortresses along the way.
It's really easy for us to go to Nu'er. We can just follow the current and arrive in one breath.
But coming back is a countercurrent.
The round trip probably takes years, and after arriving at Nurgan City, troops must be stationed, regular inspections must be carried out, and post stations must be set up. All these must be done, and it will definitely not work without food. Since His Majesty did not say how long it will take to complete, let's take it step by step.
Come, build a fortress at Huli Gaijiang this year, and then continue northward from Huli Gaijiang next year."
In Zhu Di's handsome mansion, Yang Feng said to the map in front of him.
This is based on his watch.
It’s not like Liaodong didn’t have maps specially drawn.
Just take your time.
Therefore, the mountains and rivers on this map are already very detailed. The changes in the rivers in the Songhua River Basin are actually not very big, especially those mountainous tributaries.
Their flow direction is already the only choice.
There are mountains all around, how can it change?
"What the ambassador has always been obsessed with is probably going to Xiguan City to seize Timur, the fierce brother, right?"
Zhu Di sneered.
Although he knew the true purpose of Yang Feng's attack on the black pine forest, the behavior of these bastards in the Wu Zhe tribe was still too bad.
Of course, Zhu Di didn't think they were bad.
In fact, for a hero like him, the standard of good and evil does not exist, but this approach is very bad in terms of benefits. It is impossible for Zhu Zhi to kill all the Jurchens. Some of them must have escaped. According to various ministries
In return, at least five hundred Jurchens escaped from their blockade.
This is inevitable.
It's not like it's surrounded by a city wall.
Both sides are cavalry, so even if they attack by surprise, they will inevitably be blocked.
And that doesn’t even include what they didn’t encounter or miss.
So what are the consequences of these people escaping?
No Jurchen dares to submit voluntarily anymore!
It is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to really station a large number of troops in this area, which means that there will be no owner's land in this area, and the Ming Dynasty's main enemy, the Mongols on the grasslands, will develop here. They originally had nomads in Liaodong
, although the climate in this area is severely cold, at least the water and grass are abundant, much better than the Mobei grassland.
At least for the Mongols.
The Ming Dynasty was unable to maintain a large number of garrisons, and the result was that Mongolia returned to nomadism, and new border troubles formed in a few years.
What if you caress Jurchen?
They would fill the unclaimed land and block the Mongols from entering.
It is equivalent to garrisoning for the Ming Dynasty.
This is to break an arm of Mongolia.
But now that Yang Feng has done this, even if the Ming Dynasty takes the initiative to show its kindness, no Jurchen will dare to submit. They may even cooperate with the Mongols. Even if they do not cooperate with the Mongols, they will separate themselves to protect themselves and plunder from time to time.
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In this way, Ming Dynasty gained a difficult enemy out of thin air.
Although the number of these people is small, it is difficult to eliminate them even if they hide in the mountains and forests.
"This is indeed a plan."
Yang Feng said very frankly.
"The ambassador has killed all the Liaodong Jurchens. Who will stop the Mongols here in the future?"
Zhu Di said.
"Han people!"
"Does the ambassador think that a large army can be stationed in a place like this and military families can thrive?"
"Those Jurchens can do it, why can't they?"
"I'm afraid the ambassador doesn't know how many Jurchens starve to death every year. The Jurchens you see are all alive. You can't see the Jurchens who died of hunger and cold. Does the ambassador want me, a military household in the Ming Dynasty, to be such a savage?
Are you going to fend for yourself here?"
"So the king is accusing me of causing trouble for your Ming Dynasty?"
"snort!"
Zhu Di sneered.
Yang Feng looked at His Highness King Yan.
"Since it's me who has caused trouble for you, Ming Dynasty, let me solve this problem! I have a way to solve it, but it depends on whether your Majesty has the courage."
he said.
"explain!"
"It's very simple. There is no need for the Ming court to send troops here. As a Daxia citizen, I come to your Ming Dynasty to invest."
"Invest, invest?"
"Yes, invest!
At that time, we called it the introduction of foreign investment, which meant that foreigners invested and did business. I came to invest in you, rent the wasteland of your Ming Dynasty here, and hire your Ming Dynasty civilians to open up wasteland here. You can ask me to collect taxes and rent. These are all
It's easy to say, I'll give those civilian workers wages, and the grain I produce will be sold to you for military supplies.
Of course, considering how dangerous this place is, these civilians must carry weapons.
But only carry legal weapons.
That is, a cold weapon.
You shouldn't allow the private sector to possess armor, so they won't have it.
As for whether you can set up prefectures and counties here to dispatch officials for management, that has nothing to do with me.
In short, the land is yours, the people are yours, I only provide money, and finally collect grain to make money. If you agree, I am also willing to do other things, such as iron smelting, but I am sure that Ming Dynasty laws cannot do it.
Won't do it.
You still have officials watching over you.
And you must have garrison troops, and the food for these garrison troops will be supplied by my merchant villages.
Wouldn’t everyone be happy with this?”
Yang Feng said.
Cold weapons can also be used!
The steel crossbow is not much worse than the matchlock gun.
As for the armor, there is indeed no armor, but he can make thicker cotton-padded clothes for his men. This is okay? If you don’t wear thick cotton-padded clothes in a place like this, you will definitely freeze to death in the winter, so adding a raw silk lining to the cotton-padded clothes will definitely be fine...
The thick raw silk lining can be used as a junior version of body armor.
Zhu Di frowned and looked at him, probably not understanding what he wanted to do.
“What does the ambassador want?
Even the Jurchens would not want to stay in such a bitter and cold place. If they had no other choice, they would not even live here. Not only would they not be able to produce a single grain of food by cultivating wasteland and farming here, at least they would not be able to support themselves.
The ambassador built a commercial village here, but in the end he just filled it in for nothing."
Zhang Yu asked unbearably.
"What are you trying to figure out?
I only want such a good land, and I can't just throw it away to the barbarians.
I wonder why this great river and mountain cannot become a place where the people of the Ming Dynasty can thrive and live.
As for input and output, this has nothing to do with you. Yang paid for the gold himself. In the end, even if I pay compensation, I will pay it to myself. People always have to try, what if it can succeed? If I can succeed in building a commercial village,
Your garrison has rations, and the imperial court has gained new states and counties. Everyone is happy.
If it doesn’t work out, it will be my own misfortune!”
Yang Feng said.
In fact, he is also an adventurer.
After all, he could only confirm that soybeans and sorghum could be grown here.
There is no doubt about this.
But if we want to form a stable agriculture, we must adopt a certain degree of mechanization, otherwise it will definitely not work simply by relying on manual labor. After all, both soybeans and sorghum are widely planted and the harvest is low, so enough seeders must be manufactured.
Fortunately, this is not difficult.
As for livestock for farming, it is simple. Both cattle and horses can be easily obtained.
The other thing is recruiting people.
this……
Throw money!
It's not like he's short of money.
Later, he sold a batch of grenades to Zhu Yuanzhang.
"This matter is not something that Xiao Wang can decide. It needs to be reported to the court."
Zhu Di said.
"It would be faster, but if that's the case, I think we should go to Xiguancheng."
Yang Feng said.
"Do you really want to kill Meng Brother Timur?"
"Your Majesty, you have misunderstood. It doesn't matter to me whether Meng Timur dies or not. What matters is that he is really useful to me. If your emperor really agrees to my investment plan, then I can't recruit civilians from the south to go to Liaodong."
?That would take more than half a year, so I need sea transportation. From the south, I can take the southeast wind to the Tumen River and then to Xiguan City.
Then we changed the river from Xiguancheng to Huli, and the rest was straight down the river."
Yang Feng said.
Indeed, the easiest route from the south to the Songhua River Basin is by sea.
"For sea transportation, doesn't it mean that we have to go through Korea?"
"Why, Li Chenggui is not allowed? He has the right to know the state affairs of North Korea and is just a temporary worker. Does he have the right to dictate what Ming Dynasty should do?"