"The big boss, the red hair will come in the future. If the brothers meet the red hair, they still can’t resist. With the city wall, the brothers can retreat to the city, and the Ming army will protect the brothers in the city. Besides, the big boss’s generals The mansion has not been built yet, is it that the chieftain is going to build the generals' mansion outside the city? If the red hair comes, what will the chieftain do?"
It turns out that the city was built to deal with the red hair! The chieftain relaxed, "Okay, I must take my brothers to step up the construction of the city wall, and the construction of the city wall must be completed before the red hair comes again."
"Then I would like to thank the big leader first. After the construction of the city wall is completed, we will start building the barracks and generals' mansion."
Under the leadership of Barhu, the Buryats rebuilt the city wall. This time, they looked like a youthful young man. It took only half a month to complete the construction of the remaining city wall.
Hong Chengchou wanted to give the city a name. It could have been named after the river, but the city is located at the junction of the Angara River and the Irkut River. These two rivers do not resemble Han names. According to Zhu Youjian, Hong Chengchou Habit, he has to change the name of the river first.
Although Hong Chengchou was born as a jinshi, his years of military and horse career have made him respect the famous generals in history. Among them, the most admired of him are the sweating Wei Qing and the Datang’s Li Jing, Wei Qing, Zhi Zhongqing, officials and long waiters. ; Li Jing, the word pharmacist, official to Wei Guogong.
He changed the name of the Angara River to the Changping River, and the Irkut River to the Yaoshi River. The city at the junction of the two rivers is called Changping City.
While building the barracks in the city, Hong Chengchou began to recruit Buryats.
The Buryats have agreed to be naturalized as Han, and naturally they have to register under the Han name. Hong Chengchou gave the tribe the surnames Zhou, Wu, Zheng, and Wang, and Baerhu changed his name to Zhouhu.
According to the practice of Bei Dongcheng, the Buryats of Changping City were also distributed to various families. Zhou Hu was the leader of the tribe and took the initiative to submit. Hong Chengchou asked him to choose four women. The rest of the strong men were Yuming. The army is distributed, monogamy is practiced, and the children live with their mothers.
The surplus one hundred and eighty Buryat women were enrolled in the Fruit and Vegetable Camp by Hong Chengchou.
In this way, a total of more than 300 families were organized. Hong Chengchou settled more than 100 families in the city. They will have houses in the city in the future, but the cultivated land will be outside the city, not far from the city wall. They go out to work in the city during the day and return to the city at night. rest.
The other 200 households were divided into two villages, which were placed on the south bank of the Chengdong Yaoshi River and the west bank of the Changping River in the south.
Although Hong Chengchou divided the land for the people in the three villages, the planting period of the crops has now passed, and they can only open up wasteland occasionally. For the rest of the time, they continue to fish, hunt, and gather according to the original way of life. Various crops will be planted only in the beginning of spring next year.
Hong Chengchou believes that the crops that can be planted near Chita will definitely be available here. It doesn't matter if the output is not high. Now there are fewer people and more land. It is a big deal to divide more land for them. In addition, in the slack season, they can continue to do so. The fishing and hunting life, supplement some food and income.
It's just that Changping City lacks seeds and agricultural tools, and must seek help from Shi Kefa as soon as possible.
When Shi Kefa heard that Hong Chengchou had completely occupied the southern part of Beihu Lake, his blood boiled over. Hong Chengchou could only take away four thousand soldiers, but he was able to drive thousands of miles west for Chita Province.
On the one hand, he asked the government council to increase the number of seeds and farming tools, and at the same time, he decided to visit Beihu in person.
Chita is now calm, and the people of one government and two counties are in the period of free adjustment before the busy farming period.
Spring wheat is drought-tolerant. After sowing, as long as we occasionally weed it, it is basically harvested by the sky. The people are either grazing, preparing pastures for the animals for the winter, or hunting in the forest.
If in the autumn harvest season, various crops fail on a large scale, it will be a period of chaos for the people. Maybe it will be a civil riot. If it is this period, Shi Kefa will definitely not leave Chita for too long.
Accompanied by Hong Chengchou, Shi Kefa inspected the three cities of Beidong, Qingye and Changping.
After the inspection of the three cities, Shi Kefa decided to establish the Mansion in Qingye, and Beidong and Changping were two counties under Qingye Mansion.
He had two reasons: one is that Qingye is located to the south of Beihu Lake, there is Changping on the left, and Beidong, which is conducive to the management of the two counties; the other is that the south of Qingye is Khalkha Mongolia, which is usually called In Mobei Mongolia, Daming needs to station heavy troops here.
In this way, Lingbei Province has a second one government and two counties.
As for Qingye's underpopulation, currently only a thousand people, Shi Kefa is not in a hurry. There are still many idle fishing and hunting tribes around Beihu. In the future, they will be naturalized and will move to Qingye to increase Qingye's population.
For this reason, he transferred Ma Rulai, the prefect of Beidong County, to Aoba, served as the prefect of Aoba, and formally appointed Zhou Hu as a member of Changping County. He was responsible for contacting and naturalizing nearby Buryats. Once someone accepts naturalization. , Then moved to Aoba.
Originally, Hong Chengchou wanted to continue westward, but Shi Kefa denied his idea.
Shi Kefa believes that Qingye has just established the government, and the people's support is temporarily not attached, and normal work must be carried out with the support of the army. Besides, Beidong County has started planting crops this year. In case of autumn harvest, the crops will fail, and the people will be short of food. It will be unstable, and only the military's pressure can maintain a stable situation.
However, Hong Chengchou worked hard, and finally reached an agreement with Shi Kefa: The southern half of Beihu Lake has been established as a prefecture, and the Ming army will gradually advance along the Beihu Lake to the north, and strive to capture the entire Beihu Lake. If the Ming army captures a small amount of the local area The common people moved to Aoba, and if they encountered a tribe with a large number of people, they would set up prefectures there.
Zhu Youjian, who was far away in the capital, received messages from Lingbei Province one after another. Although these messages were what he expected most, his mind had already turned to the gate.
It turned out that he was anxious to expand westward along the Bay Lake, mainly because he was worried about the big country west of the Ural Mountains, but the "two-headed eagle" sent him a message telling him that that big country is now being bullied by Poland in the southwest and Sweden in the west. With the support of the Ottoman Empire, the Kazan Khanate continued to erode its grasslands.
It can't take care of itself. Where can there be power to expand eastward
Those under the banner of the country are not actually the country’s army, nor the famous European Cossack cavalry, but some fur traders’ own armed forces. Because they are private in nature, the number of people will not be too large, and the combat effectiveness will not be too high. Strong.
These armed fur traders, using the advantages of firearms, can deal with the local people who live in fishing and hunting. If they encounter Da Ming's regular army, they will naturally fall into trouble.
Therefore, Zhu Youjian no longer cares about the affairs of Lingbei Province, he just instructs Shi Kefa and Hong Chengchou not to advance too fast, everything must be done according to his ability, and the good situation must not be broken.
His current thoughts are mainly in two aspects. One is domestic reforms.
The reforms he promoted are currently only piloted in the five northern provinces, but sooner or later they will be implemented in the five central and southern five provinces.
Maybe others can’t see it for the time being. If this kind of reform fails, then Daming will return to the original point of the Tianqi years. Then his hard work in the past few years has been completely wasted. Even if he accumulates some gold and silver for the court, he will sooner or later fail. In the hands of a certain emperor or minister, the large tracts of land that Daming regained outside the pass and the southwest will sooner or later be lost.
If the reform is successful, Daming will be a caterpillar that emerges, and will fly high from now on, not losing the bird.
Not to mention Spain and Portugal in the past, the Netherlands now is the future of Britain and France. In the contest between Ming and Ming, it will not have the upper hand. With Ming's size and at the top of the world's science and technology, it is Xiyi teaming up. , I am afraid that I can only look at Daming's back.
The sail of reform has set sail, and Zhu Youjian can't stop it.
Moreover, the reform this time is just the starting point, and more and more in-depth reforms are waiting for him.
The current Daming is the period when Zhu Youjian called "everyone is drunk and I am alone." Only after this period of time can Daming be on the right track.
Now Zhu Youjian is like a hen that is brooding eggs, especially beware of the eggs under her wings.
His other thought is Nanyang.
Daming’s domestic reform is inseparable from the accumulation of capital, that is, the lack of the first pot of gold. The current overseas trade is Daming’s first pot of gold, although this first pot of gold may fall into private hands in the future.
As long as the first pot of gold is in Daming's country, it will promote the development of Daming's industry and commerce.
Although the profits of overseas trade are huge, the number of people engaged in overseas trade is too small, mainly because they are stuck in their necks.
This main throat is in Nanyang.
To conduct overseas trade, Daming must pass through the South China Sea, especially the Strait of Malacca, but now the South China Sea has been completely controlled by Xiyi. Even if Da Ming’s maritime merchants go to sea, they can only pick up some other people’s leftovers.
For Daming, Zhu Youjian must open up the Malacca Strait. Even if Daming cannot fully control it, at least he must allow Daming's businessmen to freely enter and exit the Malacca Strait and earn the highest commercial profits.
After Zhu Youjian became the throne, he has been making relevant preparations. The formation of the South China Sea Fleet is the most important link.
The South China Sea Fleet is Zhu Youjian's only reliance on getting through Nanyang, so he pays special attention to Zheng Zhilong, the possible commander of the South China Sea Fleet.
Now he is spreading out a large amount of information about Zheng Zhilong. Most of these information are provided by the General Staff, and some of them are brought to the capital by the Jinyiwei flying pigeons from Guangdong.
"...Zheng Zhilong joined the Han pirate leader Li Dan in his early years. Because of his courage, he was reused by Li Dan. After Li Dan passed away, most of the property left by him was controlled by Zheng Zhilong, and he became the most powerful pirate in the southeast coast. There was an armed conflict with the Dutch East India Company, which operates maritime trade... ”
"...Zheng Zhilong sometimes robbed the residents of the coastal areas, but he used the purpose of stealing money and never hurt people..."
"In the first year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty (1628), Zheng Zhilong accepted the command of Fujian Governor Xiong Wencan, was awarded the post of coastal defense guerrilla, and commanded the southeast navy of the Ming Dynasty. After receiving the recruitment, he ceased to engage in piracy as a general of Ming guerrilla. And consciously take'cut off the bandits and suppress all the thieves' as their own responsibility."
"In the third year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1630 AD), Zheng Zhilong wiped out the former subordinates Li Kuiqi and Zhong Wenwu who had rebelled against him, took refuge in the Dutch, and continued to engage in pirate activities..."