Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 463

Boluo led the army to advance rapidly and walked in the Yishu Valley.

The Qing army was actually very experienced in marching in the mountains. During the years of war with the Ming Dynasty, they often crossed the Yanling Mountains and the Great Wall. For them, the Yishu Valley was considered a very smooth passage.

"If the Ming army blocks Daxian Mountain, defends it with Muling Pass, and then takes Yizhou after going around Haizhou, we will be in danger."

During the march, many generals under Boluo's command persuaded him that this march was too risky.

But Boluo thinks that emergency rescue is like fighting a fire, and he can't take long detours, especially Qingzhou is dangerous, let alone make mistakes, and must rush to Qingzhou before the Ming army captures it.

As for the danger of marching in the valley, he is not afraid.

He even secretly expected the Ming army to intercept him at Daxian Mountain, so that he could have a real contest with the Ming army, and he believed that he could completely defeat the Ming army.

"If the Ming army dares to come, call them homeless!"

Boluo let go of his harsh words, and the situation has taken a turn for the worse this year, but it doesn't mean that the Eight Banners suddenly failed, but that they lost outside the battlefield.

This Zhu Yihai acted cunningly, always able to make Manchukuo have elites, but he couldn't hit anyone.

It was like this in Jiangnan, it was like that in the last Northern Expedition, and it is still like that in Zhu Yihai now.

As long as the two armies meet, Boluo will not be afraid.

As for explaining that the army seized his back and cut off his food and salary, he hadn't even considered it, because he didn't arrange for follow-up food and salary delivery at all during his trip, he just rushed on Qingqi.

Carrying dry food with the army, there is no retreat.

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Laizhou Bay.

Zhu Yihai is still personally directing the construction of the Laizhou Bay bastion and water village.

All kinds of detective horses and detectives spread out.

The atmosphere also became tense.

Huang Zongxi, the new governor of Shandong, was busy with disaster relief, helping the people, and restoring farming. At the same time, he called on the gentry from all over the country to form a Baojia regiment to train together and let them jointly defend and patrol to encircle and suppress bandits.

Even arrange people to go fishing in the sea, dry salt, etc.

The whole of Denglai was busy, but in Qingzhou and Jinan, the Ming army split up and marched together, singing all the way, and all over the country opened their cities one after another, and the momentum was overwhelming.

But what followed was a large number of hungry people who needed relief.

The Ming army did not have so much food, so they could only barely open some porridge sheds first. For those hungry people, they first transported those craftsmen and scholars to the two cities of Denglai, and then transferred them to Long Island, and then transported them back to Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Everyone will set a priority level, classify according to the talents needed in the rear now, and transport the high-level talents first.

Doing so is also an act of desperation.

At this stage, even if Zhu Yihai can win the defense of Denglai, this will still be a frontline battlefield, and it will be difficult to resume development in a short time. Therefore, some talents such as artisans and scholars have to be transferred first.

The temporary positioning here is to insert a sharp sword into the enemy's back, so that the Tartars can hardly feel at ease, based in Denglai, forcing Shandong, and threatening Beijing, Tianjin and Liaodong.

However, it is not easy to defend, and in future confrontations, the Ming army may only retreat to the coastal cities of Laizhou, Dengzhou, Yantai, Chengshan, Qingdao, Haizhou and other port cities, and the rest of the interior may not be taken care of.

But Zhu Yihai was not afraid. With the help of navy and artillery, it would be very difficult for the Qing army to capture the fortress.Even if they used the old method to siege the city, it would require several times their strength, and now it is no better than when they were in Ningjin and other places outside the pass, because they lacked food.

A siege of a city requires several times the strength of the defenders, and a long-term siege requires more food and grass.

Denglai is a peninsula, and the Ming army has the advantage of water and control of the sea. This means that the scattered strongholds of the Ming army are actually interlinked. Not only can they reinforce each other, they can even attack at any time. more threatening their supplies.

This will be a difficult and protracted battle. It is hard to say who will be unable to bear it first.

What's more, Zhu Yihai still had two Northern Expeditionary armies in Jianghuai. If the Qing army came to encircle Denglai with all their strength, Jianghuai would be difficult to defend.

Zhu Yihai could even send troops to attack Tianjin and Lushun. Even if these two cities were heavily defended, he could still plunder Beizhi and other places in southern Liaoning.

If pirate tactics were used, the Tartars would be hard to defend against.

In the land of Beijing and Tianjin, would the Tartars dare to move thirty or fifty miles to the sea?
Even if they moved thirty or fifty miles to the sea, it would be useless to the Ming army, unless they built another line of defense after moving thirty or fifty miles to the sea, erected fences and built forts and garrisoned troops.

But doing so would cost a huge amount, and now the Tartars simply cannot afford it.

Now Zhu Yihai's tactics are actually almost the same tactics that the Tatars used to deal with the Ming army outside the pass. They kept attacking, they couldn't defend against them, they kept consuming their military and financial resources, and finally caused them to collapse.

What's the use of the Guan Ning army built with a lot of money in the late Ming Dynasty even if it can defend Guan Ning?

If the Tartars bypassed you, entered the pass and plundered the pass, and even approached the city of Beijing, the Guan Ning army could only follow, and the Guan Ning line of defense became the Ming version of the Maginot line of defense.

Before the arrival of the Qing army, Kim Sang-heon came again.

This time he came secretly, and a larger North Korean fleet came, basically secretly, under the name of smuggling merchant ships.

In fact, it was organized by North Korean officials.

The last time Kim Sang-heon returned to North Korea, it triggered a major earthquake in North Korea.

The news is too scary.

After King Li Zhen knew what had happened, he was so excited that he even fainted, and almost drove west of Hexi.

At this time, the Manchu Qing stationed officials in North Korea, as well as some Qing troops, but the number was not large, and they played a monitoring role.Kim Sang-heon’s return to the country was actually sneaky, even the fleet docked secretly, because the Ming army claimed to have encountered and attacked the North Korean grain fleet off the coast of Dengzhou, and then captured the Koreans and used their ships to cheat Enter Dengzhou Port, seize Dengzhou, and annihilate Kong Youde.

They should still be in the Dengzhou Ming Army prisoner camp.

The North Korean officialdom was shocked by the drastic changes in the situation in the Central Plains, and was also very excited about the boatload of Tang goods brought back by Kim Sang-heon and the others.

These goods were quickly sold in North Korea, and the nobles basically divided them up, and then sold them for profit.

On the one hand, there are drastic changes in the Central Plains, and Ming ZTE is in sight. On the other hand, the huge trade profits, the attitude of the Korean nobles has also changed drastically. Anyway, Emperor Shaotian of the Ming Dynasty did not let them rise up against the Qing Dynasty now.

They can make a fortune in silence, and trade with Daming secretly.

This kind of treatment was not available to them when Ming Dynasty was still strong, so why are they so polite now.

Huaxia also met with the King of Korea under the introduction of Jin Shangxian.

Anyway, the process was pretty good.

Huaxia proposed to buy food from North Korea, or to trade the most popular Tang products in North Korea, such as silk, porcelain and tea from Daming, and they were naturally willing.

If this thing is resold, the profit will be several times. Only a fool would not do it. They had no chance before, but now they can do it openly. Who would not do it.

Not to mention that Daming ZTE is in sight, even if Daming is about to perish, they are willing to take risks with such a large profit.

The food that Huaxia needed, they quickly got together.

Even though North Korea was not actually rich at this time, the nobles never lacked food, and even the king directly mixed rice from the official warehouse.

Big boats and small boats come loaded with food.

The small boats of one or two hundred shi and the big ones of one or two thousand shi came in great numbers.

"This time, the minister transported a total of 30 stone grains."

When Kim Sang-heon met the emperor, he was very proud.

Zhu Yihai was also very happy to hear that, this is a large amount of food. The Northern Expedition Right Route Army had a total of 8000 auxiliary soldiers, and based on the most standard daily eclipse of rice for one liter of five, it would cost [-] a day. Twenty shi, [-] shi a month.

If the standard is raised a bit, two liters of eclipse rice is 360 shi, and [-] month is [-] shi.

This is not counting road wear and tear, etc.

Not counting the consumption of horses and mules.

One person needs one liter and five liters of salt a day, as well as pickles and other consumption.

In contrast, Zhu Yihai's imperial army had a dedicated auxiliary army, and because the right army of the Northern Expedition took the sea route, there was no need to recruit a large number of civilians to transport food and grass long distances, which also reduced the extra cost on the road. The army needs more than 3 stone grains a month.

Now 30 stone grains are shipped in at once, which can take about ten months. Even if some other consumption is removed, it should be possible to supply the army for half a year.

It has to be said that shipping grain by sea is indeed the most time-saving, labor-saving and least-loss.

When Emperor Yangdi of the Sui Dynasty conquered Goguryeo in Liaodong, he mobilized more than 100 million troops and mobilized countless people to transport grain. It is said that two Huainan peasants worked together to push the cart and pulled seven stones of grain, and finally transported them to Liaodong. Of the seven stone grains, only one stone remained.

In the earlier era, when fighting on the front line, one soldier needed three civilians to transport supplies. The farther the distance, the greater the consumption.

In the Song Dynasty, there began to be a transfer station, and the consumption of food and grass was much less.

But compared to Haiyun, they are all younger brothers.

You must know, not to mention the war, that is the grain transportation in the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years. Through the northward transport of the canal, more than 1 water boats transported grain to Beijing from eight provinces including Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Among them, six provinces in the south, and two provinces in Shandong and Henan in the north. , transporting more than 400 million stones and grains a year is a big project every year, requiring countless officials to supervise and command, and a large number of troops are responsible.

Every year, the grain is 400 million shi, and an additional cost of about 300 million shi is added. In addition, about 200 million shi is added to the monthly food and rations for transporting troops.

In addition, the maintenance of Caohe River is also very expensive.

This is still a fixed route, and the cost of transportation through the Grand Canal is already relatively low, but compared with sea transportation, there is still a huge gap.

Canal transport is less expensive than land transshipment, and sea transport is less expensive than canal transport.

Water ships can generally carry two hundred stones, and sea ships can carry one or two thousand stones.

There are various gates on the canal, but mature routes are more convenient.

It's just that for the imperial court, there are many other factors affecting canal transportation and many interests are involved, but the speed and efficiency of transportation alone are indeed extremely high.

For a small country like North Korea, their ships plus the ships sent by Zhu Yihai can transport 30 shi of grain at a time, which is equivalent to almost one-tenth of the amount of grain in the Ming Dynasty.

These Korean grains have all been transported to Changshan Island outside Dengzhou and distributed to the castles and fortresses in Dengzhou, Laizhou, Weihai, Yantai, Qingdao, and Chengshan.

"Jin Aiqing, thank you for your hard work!" Zhu Yihai pulled Jin Shangxian, thinking that this old man was extremely cute.

"I would like to introduce two people to Your Majesty. One is the mansion of the son of our country, and the other is the Lord Cui Mingji of Wancheng Mansion."

The son of Joseon is Lord Fenglin, and Zhu Yihai knew about this person. Historically, he had been planning the Northern Expedition. He wanted to train [-] Musketeers, enter Shanhaiguan, contact the Central Plains uprising army, and restore the Ming Dynasty. Unfortunately, he died young later.

As for Cui Mingji, he also knows that this is the peace faction, but this old man is not all traitors. After the Qing Dynasty invaded North Korea for the first time, he once asked North Korea to send troops to help attack Ming Dynasty, but he firmly opposed it. Shenyang redeemed many North Korean prisoners.

Although during the second Houjin invasion, they all advocated peace, but they only considered the situation at that time.

The old man was also arrested by the Manchus and imprisoned in Shenyang for three years. He was with Kim Sang-hyun, who denounced the peace faction, and the two reconciled.

As a minister who once served as the prime minister of the Lingyizheng, now he only participates in the government as the Wanchengfu Yuanjun, but he belongs to the reformist group in the original main peace faction.

After knowing the current situation in the Central Plains, he even suggested that the king step up ties with the Central Plains in order to get rid of the Manchu Qing's oppression of North Korea as soon as possible.

This time I came here in person, just for a dragon face.

"Didn't the Tartars stationed in North Korea notice that you have brought so much food?"

"We act very carefully." Jin Shangxian said.

And the young prince who was called in to meet the emperor even said bluntly that even if the Tartars found out, they would not be afraid. Now that the Ming Dynasty is thriving, North Korea is not alone.

This young Joseon son was also a hostage in Shenyang with his former son before, but unlike the poisoned son, although he had been a hostage in Shenyang for several years, he was not at all close to the Manchu Qing, even What's more is hatred.

Although he also saw Man Qing's strength, it didn't change his mind at all.

This time he also took the initiative to come to see the emperor, to thank the Emperor Daming for his canonization, and even wanted to show his loyalty and contribute to Daming.

This kind of "loyalty" can even be doubted, but North Korea's feelings for Daming actually have their roots, especially after the Japanese invasion, North Korea's gratitude to Daming's parents for rebuilding. After going through the years of the post-golden invasion and being forced to be hostage by the northern envoys, this feeling has become even deeper.

The son bluntly said that he brought [-] North Korean archers this time, willing to fight for His Majesty the Emperor.

He didn't even care about Man Qing's retaliation after discovering North Korea's anti-Qing rebellion.

This has to make Zhu Yihai admire him despite their small size and few people, but this son is really tough.

After admiring the prince, Zhu Yihai mainly talked with Cui Mingji and Kim Sangxian next.

The main thing to talk about is trade.

The trade between Daming and North Korea before was mainly tribute trade and mission trade, all of which were officially led and traded in the name of tribute, while private trade was basically prohibited.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the smuggling trade activities in Phi Island were relatively prosperous, but with the entry of the Qing Dynasty, the trade between China and North Korea basically stopped, and even private smuggling basically disappeared.

Zhu Yihai now hopes to reopen trade between China and North Korea!

(End of this chapter)