Chapter 2603 The Guizi scroll consolidates its foundation and the wind changes
Feng Ziying thinks she deserves her wife's flattery.
If he just 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 rebels in Hebei, some landless peasants from Shandong and Fujian also landed in Liaodong one after another.
Of course, compared to the huge rioters 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 does not want the entire Liaodong to become a den of chaos. Even if the thinking of these chaos will change over a long period of time, he still needs to prepare for a rainy day.
For a place to develop, in this era, it is actually enough as long as it has enough and fertile land for them to grow food and can provide it with the necessary safe environment.
Liaodong is undoubtedly such a place, but in the early days due to the threat posed by border nomads and the relatively bitter cold climate, it was deserted. In fact, in the Bohai Kingdom during the Tang Dynasty, and the Jin Dynasty during the Song Dynasty, Liao, the development of this area is not bad.
Now that once the sea transportation is opened, the entire Liaodong will have such a strong logistical support as Dazhou. 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 farmers.
The policy announced by Feng Ziying of five years of rent-free tax and ten consecutive years of farm work aroused great enthusiasm among the rebellious people. Many of the rebellious people had even written to their relatives in their hometown, bringing this policy to their hometown and inviting those in their hometown to do so. Relatives who find it difficult to make a living in the crowded area come here to make a living.
Even without this policy, the coal and iron complexes, cement factories, lumberyards, wood processing plants, car factories, racecourses, and car dealerships that built roads, docks, and subsequent factories also put more demand on labor. In addition, 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. With this kind of livelihood, 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 momentum of rapid growth and development.
Although there is no precise calculation yet, if we add in the rebellious people who moved in and the landless farmers from Shandong and Fujian who organized themselves to move in from Anfu merchants, the population that has settled in the Niuzhuang-Liaoyang line and Jiulian City is only Wan Tong San. The number reached more than 90,000 people every year. In the first five months of the fourth year of Wantong, more than 30,000 people moved in. At most times, seven or eight ships would arrive at the port from Niuzhuang, Jinzhou and Jiuliancheng every day. .
In the later period, the number of rebellious people decreased and the number of farmers who moved in voluntarily increased. According to Feng Ziying's prediction, if this trend can continue, especially after the Jurchens in Jianzhou are solved and the original areas of Shenyang, Tielingwei and Anle Prefecture are regained, the population of Liaodong can be to reach around 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. .
"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 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 we are still far from it now.”
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 it trusts 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.”
The arrival of Baochai can be regarded as solving the situation of no one in the middle of Feng Ziying. Miaoyu is a careless person. Tanchun is pregnant again, leaving only Xiuyan. Baochai is here. As the head wife, 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 well.
Making connections with the wives of generals is also an important task.
Many generals’ wives 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 is also a way and means of getting closer.
Although Xiuyan is good at doing things, as a concubine, she is somewhat unable to cope with external interactions. The arrival of Baochai perfectly makes up for this.
Since May, the first batch of trainees from the Army Officer School have graduated one after another and have begun to go to the Liaodong battlefield for testing.
The first batch of trainees came from almost all border towns, but Denglai, Yulin, and Yulin towns had the largest number, and there were also many in the Beijing camp. There were also a small number of Dongjiang Town military attachés who were under preparation, because Denglai, Jizhen, and Yulin were originally 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. Secondly.
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 those with more than 1,000 generals, and the other is a junior military attaché class with mainly those with less than 1,000 generals. More than sixty people.
After the graduation of the two classes, 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 former 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 adjustment, so this batch of military attachés can be supplemented.
The second batch of trainees are undergoing training intensively, 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 is considering doing 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 calm Busia Mara, "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?" Busia Mara 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 Jurchen? Didn’t they regret it? Didn’t they take advantage of the situation to 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 I find the movement a bit incredible.”
Feng Ziying laughed and looked around.
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 all within control.
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 vigorous 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 in the Ministry of War, he also instructed the Zifang Division and Liaodong Town to form their own intelligence networks to enter Jianzhou, while Long Jinwei had their own independent channels.
(End of this chapter)