Gui Zi Scroll Chapter 661: Solid Foundation, Wind Changes
Feng Ziying thinks she deserves her wife's flattery.
If he only wanted to defeat the Jianzhou Jurchens in one fell swoop and did not consider the future development of Liaodong, he actually did not need to take such painstaking efforts.
It was precisely because of the long-term plan for the future development of Liaodong and the need to completely eliminate future troubles for the Jurchens in Jianzhou that Feng Ziying went to such great lengths to come up with a set of strategies that combined large-scale relocation and construction.
In addition to the Hebei rebels, some landless farmers from Shandong and Fujian are also landing in Liaodong one after another.
Of course, compared with the large-scale insurgents in Hebei, the number of immigrants from these two provinces is much smaller, but after all, it is also a measure to diversify the sources.
Feng Ziying didn't want the whole of Liaodong to turn into a den of rioters. Even if the thinking of these rioters would change over a long period of time, he still needed to prepare for a rainy day.
In order for a place to develop in this era, it is actually enough to have enough and fertile land for them to grow food and to provide it with the necessary safe environment.
Liaodong is undoubtedly such a place, but in the early stage due to the threat posed by border nomads and the relatively bitter cold climate, it was abandoned. In fact, in the Bohai Kingdom during the Tang Dynasty, and the Jin Dynasty during the Song Dynasty,
Liao, the development of this region is not bad.
Now that once the sea transportation is opened, the entire Liaodong will have such a strong logistical support as Da Zhou. Coupled with the rotation of the army stationed in the battle, the entire Liaodong, as long as it is not on the front line, especially the line from Niuzhuang to Liaoyang, has become
A paradise for landless peasants.
The five-year rent-free tax policy announced by Feng Ziying and the policy of owning the farmland for ten consecutive years aroused great enthusiasm among the rebellious people. Many of the rebellious people have even written to their relatives in their hometown, bringing this policy to their hometown and inviting those in their hometown to invite them to work.
Relatives who find it difficult to make a living in a crowded place come here to make a living.
Even without this policy, road construction, wharf construction, and the subsequent construction of coal and iron complexes, cement factories, lumberyards, wood processing plants, vehicle factories, horse farms, and vehicle dealers have also placed more demands on labor. In addition,
You can collect ginseng, pan for gold, dig medicine, and hunt fur in the forest. It can be said that it is much easier to make a living in Liaodong than in the Central Plains.
This is also the reason why landless farmers in Shandong and Fujian slowly accepted this place and began to move here one after another. If it is really a bitter cold place where it is difficult to make a living, even if the Anfu merchants can coax them to come, they will still stay in the end.
Can't live.
The construction of the road from Niuzhuang to Liaoyang should be said to have played a big role. On the one hand, the construction of this road provided the most basic way for these people to make a living in the early stage, allowing these disorderly people and their entire family to make a living.
At the mouth of the lake, in the later period, they could open up wasteland and build houses along the roads. The forests covering all directions also provided them with inexhaustible timber resources.
Up to now, it can be said that the construction and development of Liaodong has basically been on the right track. Of course, the ongoing war does not count, and the chaos is still coming in one after another, but there is not much follow-up, and they are replaced by landless farmers from all over the country who have voluntarily moved here.
This once caused dissatisfaction among the provinces in the Central Plains, but with the clear support of the imperial court, this policy was still implemented.
Without the support of this policy, it would be difficult for Liaodong to continue to maintain such a rapid growth and development momentum.
Although there is no precise calculation yet, if we add in the rebellious people who moved in and the Anfu merchants who organized themselves to move into Shandong and Fujian, the landless farmers in Niuzhuang-Liaoyang and Jiuliancheng, the population that has settled down is only 10,000.
In three years, the number reached more than 90,000 people. In the first five months of Wantong's fourth year, more than 30,000 people moved in one after another. At most times, seven or eight ships would arrive in Niuzhuang, Jinzhou and Jiulian City every day.
port.
In the later period, the number of rebellious people decreased and the number of farmers who moved voluntarily increased. According to Feng Ziying's prediction, if this trend can continue, especially after the Jurchens in Jianzhou are solved and the original cities of Shenyang, Tielingwei and Anlezhou are regained, the population of Liaodong can be
It will reach about 800,000 in the next ten years.
A population of 800,000 is not worth mentioning for an inland province in the Central Plains, but for Liaodong, the peak of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it only had a population of 300,000. This includes a population of 100,000 garrison troops, which is already a quite astonishing increase.
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"Okay, with Yourong Yan, your husband deserves it. The situation in Liaodong has indeed changed a lot in the past year, but it is not yet satisfactory. According to your husband's prediction, at least
It will take three years to see some initial results, five years to come and a small amount of success, and ten years to come before we are expected to reach a higher level, but now we are still far from it.”
Feng Ziying's words made Xue Baochai also smile slightly, "I believe that your husband can achieve this goal the most. If the court can choose your husband, it is because you trust your husband to take on this important task. But your husband will not just be limited to the old pattern. He will always
We must achieve results that will attract the attention of the imperial court."
Feng Ziying couldn't help but hold Baochai's catkins in her hands and said, "The one who knows me is my wife."
The arrival of Baochai solved Feng Ziying's situation of having no one in the middle. Miaoyu was a careless person, Tanchun was pregnant again, and only Xiuyan was left. Baochai came, and as the head wife, she naturally
shouldered the heavy responsibility.
As the principal wife of the Governor-General in Liaoyang, Baochai's job was not just as simple as managing the back house.
Maintaining contact with the wives of generals is also an important task.
The wives of many generals in Liaodong Town are in Liaoyang, including Guangning Road and Dongjiang Town. Their husbands are fighting on the front line, and their wives and children are in Liaoyang. As the governor's wife, Baochai would meet with these women from time to time and chat.
Well, drinking tea can also be regarded as a way and means of getting closer.
Although Xiuyan is doing well, as a concubine, she is somewhat unable to cope with external interactions. Baochai's arrival perfectly makes up for this problem.
Starting in May, the first batch of cadets from the Army Officer School have graduated one after another and began to go to the Liaodong battlefield for testing.
The first batch of trainees came from almost every border town, but the three towns of Denglai, Yulin, and Jizhen were the most numerous, and there were also many in the Jingying camp. There were also a small number of Dongjiang Town military attachés under preparation, because originally Denglai, Jizhen, and Yulin
The three towns are the border towns with the strongest control of the Feng family. In addition, after the major adjustment of the Jingying camp in the later period, the northwest faction entered the Jingying camp and the Shangsanqinjun in a large scale. Therefore, these four areas should be the basic base of the Feng family, and Datong will have to take a back seat.
Next.
The total number of students in the first batch is about ninety, and they are divided into two classes. One is an intermediate military attache class with more than 20 people, mainly members of the Qianzong and above, and the other is a junior military attache class with mainly people below the Qianzong.
More than sixty people.
After the two classes graduated, they were directly arranged by the Ministry of War to go to Liaodong for actual combat rounds.
Denglai Town and Dongjiang Town have a large number of troops here, so the original military attaches from Denglai Town can directly enter Denglai Town. After Liu Dongyang took over as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong Town, he also urgently needed a large number of middle and low-level military attaches to supplement and consolidate Liaodong.
The situation faced by the town after its adjustment, so this batch of military attachés can be supplemented.
The second batch of trainees is undergoing training in full swing, and the third batch of trainees has also entered the school to start training. It is expected that the second batch of trainees will graduate to Liaodong by October, and by then the fourth batch of trainees will have already entered the school.
This kind of short-term training is what Feng Ziying considers to do when the foundation of the entire Army Officer School is still relatively weak. He will not consider organizing a school until some outstanding students emerge in two or three years and can assume the responsibility of teaching.
A long-term training course lasting two to three years.
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"You mean the news that Chu Ying passed through your internal channels within the Jianzhou Jurchens?" Feng Ziying was a little disbelieving, looking at the indifferent Busiyama La, "When did you also establish the internal channels within the Jianzhou Jurchens?"
Is there a news channel?”
"Ziying, our Yehe tribe has always had contacts with the Jianzhou Jurchens. Don't you know, or are you pretending not to know?" Busiyamala raised her eyebrows, "Don't say that you don't have any with the Jianzhou Jurchens either.
Informant, Li Yongfang instigated tens of thousands of people to rebel. Could it be that they all willingly surrendered to the Jianzhou Jurchens? Didn’t they regret it? Didn’t they take advantage of the situation and sneak in? I don’t believe it.”
"Haha, that's right. Although your aunt Meng Gege died a few years ago, her son Huang Taiji is very favored and trusted by Nurhachi, surpassing people like Mang Gurtai, Dege Lei and Abai.
Yu Daishan, according to our information, if the Jianzhou Jurchens can survive, he is one of the most likely candidates to win the Jianzhou Jurchen Khanship. The other one is Daishan, so now you say that Chu Ying can still have it
The movement, I find it a bit unbelievable."
Feng Ziying laughed, her eyes wandering.
Although the Ye He tribe and the Jianzhou Jurchens are not in harmony with each other, they still have contacts. Dad was aware of this when he was in Liaodong, but it was within the controllable range.
Of course, Da Zhou also had his own information channels within Jianzhou Jurchen. Whether it was the Pingren Division, the Ministry of War Staff Division, Long Jinwei, or even Liaodong Town and Dongjiang Town themselves, they each had their own intelligence channels to break into Jianzhou.
Jurchen.
Jianzhou Jurchens have made great strides in expansion over the years. The number of Han people in Jianzhou Jurchens has exceeded 150,000. There are also a large number of Han businessmen who have overt or covert business dealings with Jianzhou Jurchens. Many of them are also with Jianzhou Jurchens.
The Jurchen nobles are directly on the line to make huge profits for them, so it is indispensable for them to use it for themselves.
Li Yongfang's rampant activities in Liaodong certainly caused a lot of damage to Liaodong Town, and Feng Ziying naturally wanted to treat him in the same way.
When he was at the Ministry of War, he also instructed Zifangsi and Liaodong Town to form their own intelligence networks to enter Jianzhou, while Long Jinwei had their own independent channels.