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The battle was won, and the battle was won.

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A few days later, another group of Mongolians from the grassland came to the city of Liaoyang, claiming that they had suffered a disaster and heard that Yuan Yingtai, the governor of Liaodong, was kind and righteous, so they came from the grassland to join him.

Yuan Yingtai was delighted to hear the news, thinking that his previous actions had achieved the merit of enlightenment, and that those foreigners had come to join him after hearing his name.

In the long run, maybe he could defeat the enemy without fighting and leave his name in history books.

For a while, there were also legends among the people in Liaoyang that Yuan Yingtai was generous and kind, and moved those foreigners, so that they took the initiative to join him, etc.

This made Yuan Yingtai even happier, and he was a little carried away. In order to show his sincerity and generosity, Yuan Yingtai specially gathered those Mongolians who came to seek refuge and surrendered soldiers, and gave them a speech in public and distributed food to them to show his kindness.

Because there were quite a lot of grassland people who came to seek refuge and surrendered soldiers and generals who surrendered recently, there was no suitable square in the city. Someone suggested to Yuan Yingtai to build a high platform outside the city gate, so that Yuan Yingtai could stand on the high platform to meet those surrendered soldiers and grassland people who came to seek refuge.

The high platform was soon built, and those Mongolians who came to seek refuge and surrendered soldiers also gathered together, there were thousands of people, and a large group gathered there.

Looking at the crowd below, Yuan Yingtai was obviously very excited. He walked to the high platform in a red official robe and hat, and spoke loudly to the people below: "All the herdsmen from the grassland, the soldiers who returned to the Ming Dynasty, I welcome you on behalf of the Ming Dynasty.

Don't worry, as long as you arrive in Liaodong, I have the obligation to provide you with food and clothes, and I will never let you starve or freeze. I will also treat you equally, as the people of Liaodong and the people of my Ming Dynasty."

"Your Excellency's kindness, we must repay you generously!"

"Thank you, Your Excellency, you are our reborn parents!"

Listening to the overwhelming gratitude from below, and looking at the herdsmen who sincerely surrendered, Yuan Yingtai was extremely satisfied, and a sense of pride arose spontaneously, as if he could already be on par with those ancient sages.

However, Yuan Yingtai was not a later generation, and he did not know a truth: those who applaud you may not be your friends, but may be preparing to kill you.

Just as Yuan Yingtai waved his hands at the people below with a smile on his face, more than a dozen feather arrows suddenly shot out from the crowd, several of which hit Yuan Yingtai directly, and one accurately hit Yuan Yingtai's throat.

The smile on Yuan Yingtai's face instantly turned into horror. He wanted to say something, but only blood spurted out of his mouth. Then he felt his eyes go black and fell heavily to the ground.

"Protect the adults!"

"There is an assassin!"

"Catch the assassin!"

For a moment, the scene fell into chaos.

There were also many real spies among the Mongols and surrendered soldiers below, but those spies did not expect such a thing to happen. There was no advance notice?

Then, someone in the crowd shouted in Mongolian: "Yuan Yingtai is dead, everyone hurry up!"

"Yuan Yingtai is dead, mission accomplished, hurry up!"

With a few shouts, the spies in the crowd immediately fled. After all, such a big thing happened, the Liaodong soldiers would definitely strictly check them, and they might even kill them all. If they stayed here, they would die.

So, the spies in the crowd fled first, and the others, whether they were spies or not, saw so many people running away, so they naturally followed suit.

Thousands of people fled in all directions in an instant. There were not many cavalrymen in Liaoyang City, and it was difficult to disperse and kill them.

You Shigong, the general guarding Liaoyang, immediately sent people to notify the generals, lieutenant generals, and commanders of all Liaoyang to strictly investigate all the surrendered soldiers and Mongolians.

Not long after, in the residence of General Dingguo of Haizhou Wei, Bao Wenlong, the head of the Intelligence Department, received a pigeon. After seeing the information on it, he immediately came to Lu Cheng's study and said, "Your Excellency, the information from Liaoyang has been transmitted back."

"How is it? Is it going well?"

"Everything went well. Yuan Yingtai died on the spot. Our two people escaped in the crowd. The grassland people also fled to the Korqin grassland and left some traces along the way."

Lu Cheng nodded and said, "This is a good thing. Next, your Intelligence Department will cooperate with the caravan of the Logistics Department to go to the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang and the southeast coast. Buy some ships and bring them back. They should be larger."

"Yes

, sir. "

Once Yuan Yingtai died, the court would certainly send someone else to govern Liaodong.

But after such an incident, how many of those ministers who were afraid of death would dare to come to Liaodong?

What's more, this place was originally a big pit of fire. If you do a good job, you may not get any benefits, but if you do a bad job, you will definitely be punished.

If Lu Cheng's judgment is correct, the court will most likely re-employ Xiong Tingbi.

However, this incident also caused some not-so-good effects. For example, those soldiers who surrendered to the Later Jin may not dare to return to the Ming Dynasty again. Those grassland people who originally wanted to surrender to the Ming Dynasty may also turn to the Later Jin.

But these are minor problems and have no impact on the entire Liaodong.

Moreover, given the current situation in Liaodong, it is already very difficult to feed its own soldiers and civilians, so where can the food come from? To feed those outsiders?

However, after experiencing the incident with Yuan Yingtai, Lu Cheng had new ideas in his mind and adjusted his future plans in time.

According to Lu Cheng's original plan, he was prepared to take steady steps and grow step by step. Before his power was fully strengthened, some things would not be touched for the time being, and some technologies would be retained for the time being.

The advantage of doing this is that it is stable enough and has low risks.

Now the carpenter emperor Zhu Youxiao has just ascended the throne, the era of Emperor Chongzhen is still far away, and there is still a long time before the chaos in the Ming Dynasty, which is enough for Lu Cheng to develop.

But after experiencing this incident, Lu Cheng decided to change some strategies. He must blossom in many places and speed up development. He must not only focus on Liaodong.

Eggs cannot Even if you put them in the same basket, a cunning rabbit will have three burrows.

Rebellion itself is an adventurous thing. You can't always think about avoiding risks and blindly seeking stability.

Although Lu Cheng came from the future, he had never done such a thing as rebellion. Before, at most, he was in charge of a company or a special operations team. He had never done such a great feat of starting from scratch and establishing an empire.

Therefore, sometimes some of his ideas will inevitably appear a little immature.

However, successful people never make no mistakes, but learn lessons from mistakes and correct them in time.

Therefore, after receiving the message from other generals, Lu Cheng asked Ding Xiu to patrol with 1,000 cavalry to stabilize the security of his own territory. On the other hand, he began to focus on the various islands along the coast and set his sights on The only thing they invested in was Jiangnan, and even the southeast coast.

Since the number of regular troops is limited, the territory is limited, and the official title above is difficult to be promoted again in a short period of time, then change the idea.

Like pirates, bandits, horse bandits, those who can be eliminated can be eliminated, those who can be incorporated can be incorporated, and those who can be compiled can be compiled by themselves.

Anyway, the court has no time to care about those coastal pirates and so on. Liaodong is so rotten, let alone the navy.

There are so many islands along the coast, which are also good places.

The Liaodong Peninsula is now under the jurisdiction of Lu Cheng, and Changhai County in Houshi is also within the jurisdiction of Lu Cheng.

Changhai County alone will be an island border county with a population of 60,000 to 70,000 in the future.

Even if the current level of productivity does not meet the standards of the future.

If all the islands there are used, at least 10,000 people can be supported, plus one or two thousand garrisons.

After that, they can develop all the way south along the coastal islands, and even go to Southeast Asia to do things in advance.

Compared with Liaodong, the land in Southeast Asia is more fertile, and two or three crops can be harvested a year. If you can occupy a piece of land there, it will definitely be a good grain production base.

Lu Cheng sat alone in the study, with a huge world map in front of him, writing and drawing on paper with a pen in his hand, planning future development.

If you want to develop quickly, you can't just rely on the existing conditions. It's time to improve productivity and lay the foundation for industrial development.

Moreover, he controls four guards, so he can also make flintlocks and other things in advance...