Before Liu Xiang got on the boat, he glanced at the scene behind him again. The dock behind him is now a busy construction site. Groups of farmers were busy building their homes with carts hauling earth, digging drainage ditches, and building houses, with rare smiles of enthusiasm on their faces, while some children ran around the crowd, leaving behind strings of laughter.

Among these peasants, who were busy building, there were not only his subordinates and relatives, but also Xu Min, who had just been recruited ashore.

Looking at this vigorous scene in front of him, Liu Xiang, who has always been hard-hearted, couldn't help but feel a little nostalgic. The place he chose to build the port village was a small fishing village that already existed.

Although the location of Xiangdao is good, it has not been able to develop because of the large number of water pirates and the distance from the mainland, so it is not very convenient to obtain daily necessities.

When Liu Xiang migrated his subordinates and relatives here, there were only about 10 families in the small fishing village, but most of the land on the island belonged to some large families in Xin'an County.

However, now the entire land of Xiangdao has been expropriated by the imperial court, and then the Guangzhou government has sent another person to serve as the civil governor of the Xiangdao District, which is independent from Xin'an County.

Liu Xiang stared at it for a while, and suddenly asked his younger brother beside him: "Ah Peng, why didn't District Mayor Zhao from Guangzhou Mansion show up today?" ”

Liu Peng, who became the garrison officer of Xiangdao, although he was standing on the dock, he had already put his mind on the garrison mansion he had built for himself.

Hearing Liu Xiang's question, it took a long time to react and say, "District Chief Zhao took people to inspect the whole island and left early this morning. ”

Liu Xiang said with some disapproval: "On the palm-sized island, it won't take a day to go around by boat, why do you want to climb the mountain?" There are a lot of these readers. ”

Liu Peng immediately explained: "District Mayor Zhao is not going to enjoy the mountains and rivers, he wants to see the river and terrain conditions on the island, and then arrange for people to build the pond to avoid water shortages." After all, if we continue to recruit manpower to expand the port area, we must at least ensure fresh water. ”

Liu Xiang was silent for a while, then waved his hand and said: "This District Chief Zhao can let him do whatever he wants, and he can meet him with less than 5,000 taels in terms of usage." He is the younger brother of Zhao Wansheng, the deputy envoy of Haidao, and is our top boss.

In my absence, you must not contradict him in any way. He has to go out to inspect and send more people, don't let him have an accident here, otherwise we won't be able to explain to Lord Zhao. ”

Liu Xiang confessed to his younger brother for a long time, and the sun was hanging high, so he stepped onto his boat, waved goodbye to his relatives and subordinates who saw him off on the dock, and sailed to the exit of the bay with the fleet.

In Shenyang, the second Beile Amin of the Later Jin Kingdom was in his mansion, discussing things with Gu Santai and Hu Shibu.

Gusantai was Nurhachi's son-in-law and had the best personal relationship with Amin, while Hushbu was Amin's trusted general. These two people are also the most powerful figures in the blue flag, second only to Amin.

Since he parted unhappily with Yang Hao that day, Amin always felt a thorn in his heart, and he never thought that Huang Taiji, who had always been kind, would attack him.

Because it was Huang Taiji who saved him from Nurhachi in the first place, he has always trusted Huang Taiji.

Although he chose to support the three Baylors of the Four Baylors, this was to counter the most powerful of the Great Baylors. And Huang Taiji also expressed his understanding of his choice in private.

What's more, even if he is one of the four great beylers, he has no chance to ascend to the Houjin Great Khan, because his father is Nurhaqi, not Nurhachi.

Amin's greatest wish is nothing more than to realize his father's ideals during his lifetime, pull out the blue flag, and become a country of its own.

Therefore, Amin thinks to himself that even if Huang Taiji wants to take the four major Baylors, he will not choose him in the first place, because he has no threat to Huang Taiji.

Yang Hao, the envoy of the Ming Kingdom, unabashedly carried out a clumsy strategy to sow discord against him in front of him, although this made Ah Min very angry, because he felt that Yang Hao was completely despising his own intelligence.

However, after Amin returned to the house to calm down, he couldn't help muttering in his heart. Last year, he went to North Korea, and originally wanted to take this opportunity to stay in North Korea and replace him, so that he could live the addiction of the king of North Korea.

However, because Azig and Yue Tuo took the lead in opposing and withdrawing with their troops first, the blue flag under his command became a lone army, and he was ambushed by Mao Wenlong and suffered heavy losses.

After returning to Shenyang, a North Korean beauty he fell in love with was not rewarded by Huang Taiji, he went to ask for it, but Huang Taiji did not give it, which made him feel a little bad about Huang Taiji, and he also complained several times in front of everyone.

But Amin always thinks that these are just small things, and Huang Taiji will not want to get rid of himself because of these trivial matters.

However, Amin couldn't help but gather his cronies and decided to test Huang Taiji's sincerity, so as to slap Yang Ho in the face.

Although a lot of property was seized at that time, Amin did not return to Shenyang in time because Amin had the intention of staying in Korea and becoming king.

When Mao Wenlong led the team to attack, most of the property was cheaper than the Ming army, and the blue flag also lost a lot of manpower.

Possessions or something, with the savings he had plundered from the Ming people in the past, he didn't feel a shortage yet. However, the loss of manpower during the expedition of the blue flag led to a great loss of the strength of this flag, which has already made his name of the four major Baylors a little untrue.

The best way for the Manchurian Eight Banners to replenish their soldiers is to crusade against the savage Jurchens and convert those uncivilized savage tribes into their own population.

These tribes living in the mountains and forests of the northeast are still in a primitive state of using stone spears and arrows. However, they survived the harsh natural conditions in the northeast, and they had a simple temperament, hard-working, and quite good physical fitness.

Therefore, Amin sent someone to inform Huang Taiji that the barbarian Jurchen Tonggusol and his ministry had attacked the border village of the Jianzhou Jurchen, so he wanted to lead troops to conquer the Tongusol and his ministry to deter the savage Jurchen and protect his own border village.

However, Huang Taiji delayed and did not give him an answer until he broke through the Mongol Dorot Division, captured 12,000 people, and was about to return to Shenyang, then he sent someone to tell him that he was not allowed to send troops.

Huang Taiji's victory over the Chahar Mongols, and the complete elimination of the hostile Mongol tribes in the Liaohetao steppe, finally gave Houjin a secure strategic posture, which made his prestige higher than that of the other three Baylors.

At such a moment, Amin naturally did not dare to disobey Huang Taiji's order. At the beginning of April, Huang Taiji's army arrived in Shenyang, and Amin and other three beylers led a group of ministers to greet him and greeted Huang Taiji.

At the moment of welcoming the suburbs, Huang Taiji in front of everyone, with his younger brothers Dolgon and Duoduo, gave Dolgon the name of Morgan Daiqing and Duoduo Erke Chuhuer. Soon after, he canonized Dorgon as Gushan Belle.

After being woken up by Yang Hao, Amin finally felt something strange. Later, Huang Taiji ordered Sanbeile Mang Gurtai to conquer Tungusol and his subordinates, and also wanted to transfer Hushibu to assist.

Amin, who had already recovered his senses, immediately asked Hushbu to resign from the expedition on the grounds of illness, and the troops he had transferred were reduced by half.

It was undesirable for Mang Gurtai, after all, the captures obtained in the war were distributed according to the records of the troops dispatched.

Although Amin smelled that Huang Taiji raised the status of the Dorgon brothers in order to suppress the power of their three major Baylors.

But he couldn't think of how to deal with this situation at all, after all, the relationship between Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai was already on the same footing, and the two couldn't shake hands and make peace at all. And Guangguang relied on the power of the two blue flags, and it was impossible to resist the oppression of the other six flags.

By this time, he finally had some sense of crisis. Amin originally had a good IQ, but he was just blinded by the brotherhood between him and Huang Taiji in the past.

When he put aside unnecessary emotions and deduced purely with reason, he immediately realized that Huang Taiji was indeed going to attack the three major Baylors, and he was going to attack him first.

Originally, Huang Taiji took over the position of the Great Khan and set up a model of joint governance of the four major beylers, mainly to balance the power within the Houjin and not to completely split.

Huang Taiji and Dai Shan's alliance was to counter his and Mang Gurtai's two blue flags. But from another aspect, Huang Taiji also has to use the two blue flags to contain Dai Shan.

But now that Huang Taiji has supported the Dolgon brothers, it means that he has successfully won over the two white flags. In this way, he no longer needs the two blue flags to contain Dai Shan, but wants to take this opportunity to take the two blue flags into his own hands.

He is not Nurhachi's son, and the blue flag in his hand was greatly damaged during the expedition to Korea last year, so it is undoubtedly the most natural to take his blue flag first.

Without the support of the blue flag, the lonely Mang Gurtai would not be able to resist Huang Taiji's attack. After seizing the two blue flags, plus the two yellow flags led by Huang Taiji, the two red flags of Dai Shan will never have any other way out except to bow down to his subordinates.

In this way, Huang Taiji can truly become a veritable Great Khan, and the rule of the four great Baylors will become a piece of history.

Amin figured it all out, but he couldn't figure out how to break it. Although Gu Santai and Hu Shibu were extremely brave on the battlefield, they asked them to give advice, that is, to ask Yu Blind.

Moreover, although the two were his cronies, Amin didn't dare to tell them everything he thought about.

If they knew that he was facing an unsolvable death, who knew if these two would immediately abandon him and swear allegiance to Huang Taiji instead.

Amin had already seen when he was a teenager how the tribal generals who had sworn allegiance to his father turned their backs on him one by one when his father and brother were in trouble, and turned to Nurhachi.

Amin really wanted to get a hint from Yang Hao, he thought that no matter how bad he was, he was still the four great Baylors of Houjin, as long as he showed a little inclination towards Mingguo, these Mingguo people didn't lick their faces and ran over to support him.

Then at that time, whether it is to continue to fight with Huang Taiji after recovering his strength, continue to be his second Baylor of the Later Jin Kingdom, or see that the opportunity is not good, and flee to the Ming Kingdom, it is a way out.

However, since Huang Taiji returned to Beijing, Yang Ho was no longer willing to meet him alone, and this unconventional approach quickly broke Amin's mentality of waiting for the price to sell.