Chapter 678 0673 [Return to Beijing to be granted a title]
The Kingdom of Jin was very busy and could not spare a large number of troops for the time being to attack Goryeo, who was stabbing him in the back.
Let’s go back four months before the defeat of Goryeo.
Yalu River Estuary.
"Boom boom boom boom..."
More than a dozen Daming warships aimed at the Jin warships one mile away and bombarded them wildly.
These Jin warships belong to the Posu Road. They usually cruise in the Yalu River. Their mission is to guard against Goryeo and also to eliminate pirates.
The ruling center of Posu Road is Jiulian Town in Dandong City.
Half of the Jin soldiers stationed here were transferred to Huacheng County (Jinzhou) to guard against Yelu Yujian and Zhao Li's troops.
"Come up to the side and seize the ship!"
Wuyan Puluhun shouted in hiss, he was the most adept general in water warfare in the Jin Kingdom, and he came from Haelan Road, which was attacked by Goryeo.
More than thirty small Jin Kingdom warships rushed towards the Ming Dynasty ships with oars and sails.
"Boom boom boom boom!"
There was another shelling, and four Jin warships were hit.
Three ships sank quickly and one was about to sink.
The Jin sailors were frightened by the beating, and Wuyan Puluhun still ordered the charge, so they had no choice but to paddle forward.
"Boom boom boom boom!"
The warships of the Ming Dynasty gradually sailed away from the mouth of the Yalu River. When the cannonballs were almost fully loaded, they began to turn around and conduct broadside bombardment.
This time, three Jin warships were destroyed, and the Jin navy was almost desperate.
Even if they rushed to engage in a boarding battle, it would be difficult for them to climb onto the taller Ming warships, not to mention that they would be beaten all the time during the charge.
"Deputy Commander, withdraw, we can't fight!" the generals under his command begged.
Wuyan Puluhun stared blankly at the sea ahead. He used to be a Jurchen fisherman and pirate.
He came and went freely along the coast of Korea and Japan. He had never fought such a naval battle. The artillery on the Ming warships was too stupid.
"withdraw!"
Wuyan Puluhun was forced to order a retreat, several miles upstream of the Yalu River.
Yingxuan has been transferred from Dongting Lake to serve as Li Bao's deputy.
He led several medium-sized sea-going ships, rushed out from behind Li Bao's large ship, and gradually moved towards the dock at the mouth of the Yalu River.
There was the Jin Kingdom's shipbuilding base. Although it could not build any large ships, Li Bao still came to sabotage it after getting the information.
As for the information provider, of course it is Gao Li!
When Li Bao decided to send troops, Monk Miaoqing had not even left Tokyo, and it was impossible to instigate the King of Goryeo to go north.
It was purely because the place where the Jin Kingdom built ships was too close to Baozhou City in Goryeo. They were worried that after the Jin Kingdom built a large number of warships, it would seriously threaten the security of Baozhou, so they took the initiative to provide the Ming Dynasty with the specific location of the shipyard.
"put!"
The reciprocating artillery on the medium-sized sea-going ship threw incendiary bombs at the dock, and then fired a salvo of rockets at the dock.
A raging fire quickly broke out, and most of the remaining coastal shipyards in the Jin Kingdom were burned down in this fire.
The Korean defenders on the south bank of the Yalu River had already heard the commotion and came across the river to watch the excitement. The worse the Jin soldiers were beaten, the happier they would be, otherwise they would be on tenterhooks all day long.
It was not until the Ming Navy left that the Jin Navy dared to come back and fight the fire with the Jin soldiers stationed at the dock.
They are almost burned out, and saving them is in vain.
The Ming Navy quickly returned to Lushunkou, and when passing by Dalian Bay, they fired a few cannons at the Jin Kingdom city to hear the sound.
On the same day, Li Bao resupplied at Lushunkou and returned to Juehua Island the next day.
Compared with the general decline of the Western Liaoning Corridor, the population of Juehua Island is actually larger than that of the Liao Dynasty.
Because this is the holy land of Buddhism in the Liao Kingdom, many nobles of the Jin Kingdom also believed in Buddhism and did not massacre on the island. Many survivors of the Liao Kingdom quietly fled to the island, either becoming monks or working as tenants for the monks.
Li Bao captured this island last year and transported nearly 2,000 monks to Shandong and handed them over to the prefect of Denglai for disposal.
Dalonggong Temple became Li Bao's military camp.
Li Bao sat down in the abbot's room, took off his hat and threw it away: "I'll leave this place to you, I want to go back to Tokyo immediately."
Yingxuan cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Congratulations to Brother Li on your promotion to a noble rank."
"It's easy to say, if you fight more battles, you will also get a title." Li Bao was in a very good mood. He would definitely be promoted to Duke this time when he goes back.
Yingxuan shook his head and sighed: "Well, the Jin Kingdom moved its people and banned the sea. How can there be any wars?"
Juehua Island used to be called Taohua Island. Since the name was changed, the area in Xingcheng City in later generations was renamed Taohua Island Town.
Last year, Taohua Island Town was looted by Li Bao, and the Kingdom of Jin moved away the remaining residents.
The nearest city became Haibin County, fifty miles away. In addition, all the coastal residents of the county were moved further north, and not a single once-bustling salt farm was left (the Haibin Salt Farm was looted once by Zhao Li and Li Bao).
"The prince said that the four seas are vast. Are you afraid that there will be no battles when you command the navy?"
Li Bao patted Yingxuan on the shoulder, walked out of the abbot's room, and ran around inside and outside the temple.
After Li Bao threw nearly two thousand monks on the island to Shandong, all the properties of Dalonggong Temple were confiscated. Juehua Island and several nearby small islands were all allocated land on the spot, and received land from Denglai Prefecture in Shandong.
Deed.
These survivors of the Liao Kingdom, who owned land in a daze, immediately regarded themselves as subjects of the Ming Dynasty!
In addition to land, there are also many treasures in Dalonggong Temple.
Because this was the center of Buddhism in the Liao Kingdom, the abbots of Dalonggong Temple in the past dynasties were all canonized as national teachers by the emperors of the Liao Kingdom. After the Jin Kingdom came to kill them, the Jurchen nobles also received rewards, and they were all stored in the temple and were picked up by Li Bao in one pot.
The value of those treasures alone was enough to fully pay the Ming army on Juehua Island for several years.
The snow has not yet melted, but the square outside Dalonggong Temple is already bustling with activity.
It used to be a place where Buddhist rituals were held, and nobles from the Liao Kingdom often gathered here. Now it is used for training of soldiers of the Ming army. If the soldiers are on vacation, the people on the island are also allowed to come for a walk.
The military drama troupe came here before the Spring Festival.
First we went to Lushun to perform condolences, and then we went to Juehua Island.
The soldiers have watched several performances, and today they are open to the public. Island residents brought their families to watch the fun.
Dang Dang should be kept. At this time, the repertoire on the stage is "Old Lisone Lisone", which is well -known in the Song and Liao countries.
"Gu" is the name of a character in the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, they were mainly officials, but in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, businessmen began to appear.
"Da" is a corruption of "Sister", which later evolved into "Dan", which is the Dan role in Qing Dynasty operas.
The roles of Mo, Jing and Chou have also been formed at this time.
"good!"
The residents of the island cheered loudly. It seemed that the drama had reached its climax.
This Zaju Opera Troupe was newly formed last year and is mainly composed of actors from Hebei Province. Zhu Ming had people save several scripts, which mainly exposed the brutality of the Jin rule and reflected the benevolence and righteousness of the Ming Dynasty.
But every performance will begin with a traditional repertoire so that the audience can concentrate.
The common people watch Zaju, Li Bao watches the common people.
In Li Bao's eyes, the men here are soldiers, and the women here can also farm. Counting the two nearby islands, there are nearly 3,000 residents, many of whom fled from the Liao-Jin War.
In addition to farming, they also fish, and their lives are basically self-sufficient.
Li Bao returned to Beijing this time to receive the reward, and planned to ask the imperial court for some armor. He would get some for the residents of Juehua Island and some for the people in Lushun, and organize them into Baojia to practice during the off-season. If the situation arises, he can pick up weapons and fight.
He was able to raise at least 6,000 militiamen in two strongholds!
The western and southern Liaoning areas of the Jin Kingdom were depopulated, especially in Fuzhou. The cities were burned down and the people surrendered one after another.
As long as he gathers his troops to storm Huacheng County and Huacheng Pass, and asks the imperial court to send 10,000 troops, Li Bao can lead the army directly to Liaoyang.
A few days later, two supply ships arrived at Juehua Island.
After unloading a lot of grain, salt, wine, vinegar and other items, and leaving with the salted fish on the island, Li Bao also arrived in Shandong on the return supply ship.
When staying at the Dengzhou Hotel, Li Bao inquired casually and found out that all the monks he had thrown back had been scattered and resettled to farm in Shandong. Only the abbot of Dalonggong Temple was left, and he followed the officials with the Buddhist treasures in the temple.
Let’s go to Tokyo together.
Li Baoxing arrived in Jinan and met Deng Chun and Han Shizhong who were ready to go.
When the three met, Han Shizhong joked: "If Marquis Li doesn't come, General Deng and I will leave first."
Li Bao explained: "Before setting off, I went to fight another battle."
Han Shizhong said enviously: "Marquis Li is lucky and can always find battles to fight. Our journey last year was really boring. All we encountered were puppet troops, and we never fought a decent battle."
Li Bao smiled and said, "Can you please be transferred to the island to command the troops?"
"I have been transferred to Lin Mansion. Let's finish killing the gold thieves there first." Han Shizhong chuckled. He was a general of the Western Army, and now he has been transferred back to lead a Western Army, which can be considered a real feeling of pride.
Deng Chun asked: "What's going on in Liaodong of the Jin Kingdom?"
Li Bao said: "In western Liaoning, eastern Liaoning and southern Liaoning, Jinguo prefectures and counties are sparsely populated. I led troops to stir up the rebellion, and Yelu Yu saw the surrender of the Liao remnants. Most of the prefectures and counties there have been abolished. I will wait for the return from Tokyo.
When I come back, I will fight Huachengguan. Anyway, I won’t let the Jin people live a stable life."
"Let's thresh the wheat after harvesting," Deng Chun reminded. "Shandong is already empty of grain and grass. Even the grain merchants can't get much grain before the new wheat is harvested."
"Think about it." Li Bao is from Shandong, and of course he knows how much the war in Hebei will affect the people's livelihood in Shandong.
The three of them took a boat to the Gyeonggi region. The closer they got to Tokyo, the more lively the cities and villages became.
This year, the fourth group of large families has been separated and relocated.
The wealthy families that had not yet been split up finally stopped taking chances and began to divide their families and analyze their properties on their own initiative. After selling off their properties and shops, they applied to the local government and then went to various counties in Hebei to buy land.
The governments of Hebei and Gyeonggi Province received official documents from Zhu Guoxiang and even launched property replacement services.
That is to say, the wealthy families in Gyeonggi used the land in Kaifeng Prefecture to replace the land in Hebei counties. In this way, it can not only alleviate the land annexation situation in Kaifeng Prefecture, but also increase the scarcest resource in Hebei - population.
The land in the capital vacated by the wealthy families was first given to the soldiers who moved their household registration to Kaifeng, and the remaining half was given on credit to the landless peasants in the village.
In the entire Kaifeng Prefecture, basically all farmers have land.
Of course, it is not free distribution. Farmers buy land on credit at low prices and have to pay more grain every year to repay it in installments.
No matter what, everyone is full of energy and thriving.
