Since the winter and October of the second year of Chongzhen, Li Xin and his subordinate generals took the sea route by boat, attacked it unprepared, and regained Fuzhou City by surprise, he led the troops under the command of Lushun Town Guard, in Fuzhou and Jinzhou and other places, desperately hoarding grain, grass and ammunition, renovating the city, training troops and preparing for war, and ready to build a captive army to storm Fuzhou City or Jinzhou City at any time.

Li Xin very much agreed with Emperor Chongzhen's instructions to him back then, and after taking Fuzhou City, he thought that with the renovated Fuzhou City and the newly repaired permanent fortifications inside and outside Fuzhou City, he would destroy a large number of the living forces of the two white flags, at least until the living forces of the white flags were almost consumed, and then lead the army north to recover Gaizhou and other places.

But a year has passed, except for a few crazy counterattacks commanded by the white flag lord Dolgon in the first few months, in the next half a year, the Eight Banners army of the Jin State after the establishment of the captivity, as if they had forgotten the existence of Fuzhou City and the existence of the Lushun Town Guard, did not come to storm Fuzhou and Jinzhou again.

It was no longer like before, bypassing Fuzhou City or Jinzhou City, and going straight into the vast hinterland of Lushun Town's garrison to attack other forts and strongholds.

After taking over the inlaid white flag, Du Du, the new owner of the white flag, set up his yamen with white flags in Xiongyue City, which was 130 miles away from Fuzhou City (Xiongyue Ancient City, Bayuquan District, Yingkou, Liaoning Province in later generations), and put his main energy and troops on Yongning Fort, Fifty Zhai Fort, and other forts 80 miles north of Xiuzhou City.

Du Du has no deep feelings for Duoduo, an uncle who is more than 20 years younger than him, so it is naturally impossible to lead the army to attack Fuzhou City, which is now under the control of Li Xin himself and is run by Li Xin, in order to avenge him.

After Du Du got the position of the banner owner with the white flag, he was grateful to Huang Taiji, but like other flag owners, he also regarded the white flag he received as his own family business, and when he was not sure of victory, he would not pull out his own family business and consume it in siege warfare.

Moreover, while there was no rain in the Guannai, the country was also facing the threat of drought after the establishment of the captive.

At the same time, because of the severance of trade with Korea and Jin merchants, the difficulties of the Jurchen Eight Banners in the Later Jin Dynasty were not much less than the armies of the nine towns of the Ming Dynasty.

After the generals at all levels under the white flag, as well as the bannermen and armor-clad people, obtained the flag fields demarcated by Huang Taiji, they also focused on the distribution and reclamation of the flag fields, as well as instructing their own clothed minions to work hard.

Including Dolgon, the owner of the white flag, they also acquiesced in the occupation of Fuzhou City by the Ming Dynasty officials and troops guarding the Lushun Town.

In this way, in the first half of the third year of Chongzhen, after the owner of the white flag was replaced by Du Du, the southern region of the Liaodong Peninsula entered a relatively stable period rarely.

After the success of the adventure, Li Xin also strictly followed Emperor Chongzhen's will to occupy one place and consolidate one place, and did not lead the army north to attack the city and pull out the village, but chose to consolidate this hard-won base area on the eastern part of Liaodong as soon as possible.

Since the beginning of the third year of Chongzhen, he has continuously sent those generals and school officials from all over Henan to cross the sea and land from Dengzhou, return to their respective hometowns to recruit tenants, homeless people and unemployed, and go to the various places under the Lushun Town Shoufu to reclaim.

In addition to Li Xin's eldest brother Li Lun, as the eldest son of the Li family, who still stayed in Hanoi County, Huaiqing Province to guard the ancestral business of the Li family, Li Xin's second brother Li Zhong and third brother Li Jun also dragged their families to the jurisdiction of Lushun Town Shoufu through Dengzhou, and settled in this place.

Li Xin's second brother, Li Zhong, because he brought out a team of thousands of immigrants from Huaiqing Mansion, so in September, after the imperial court's reclamation order was transmitted to Liaodong, he soon became a civil official in Jinzhou City, which was under the jurisdiction of the Lushun Town Shoufu.

Jinzhou was originally set up in the Ming Dynasty with a guard system, but by the time of the Chongzhen period, the original Jinzhou Wei or something had long since ceased to exist.

Now it is under the rule of the Lushun Town Guard, and neither the Zhizhou nor the Guard Command Department has been re-established.

When Li Xin took Liu Guoneng to take over Jinzhou City from the General Military Office on the left side of Dongjiang Town, this lonely city in the north was almost an empty city.

After Liu Guoneng garrisoned the city with his men and horses, he immediately became the supreme military commander of Jinzhou.

At the same time, there were not many Hermes-Epitek in and around the city, so naturally there was no need for civil officials.

However, in the autumn of the third year of Chongzhen, more and more people from the interior of Jinzhou immigrated to Jinzhou through Dengzhou and Lushunkou, and the affairs managed by various immigrants often made Liu Guineng, a martial artist from a strong background in northern Shaanxi, anxious.

After Li Xin's second brother Li Zhong was arranged to the Jinzhou area with more than 1,000 Huaiqing Mansion immigrants, Li Zhong naturally served as the state judge of Jinzhou.

In the absence of Zhizhou, Tongzhi, and no Wei Commander, the position of Jinzhou Judge has become the highest-ranking civil official in Jinzhou City.

And Emperor Chongzhen's "Reclamation Order" announced to the world also broke the monopoly of the original Jinshi who were born in the imperial examination on the civil official positions of the Ming Dynasty to a certain extent.

At least in the Daming frontier where the self-proclaimed Jinshi from the right path are unwilling to go, those who have no fame but can take a large number of immigrants to the border land to settle down have ushered in their own opportunities.

Li Xin's second brother Li Zhong, relying on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and the convenience of his younger brother as the envoy of Lushun Town, jumped from a businessman who did not even have a reputation for talent to become an official of the Qipin Imperial Court in charge of land reclamation, water conservancy, litigation and other affairs.

As for Li Xin's third brother Li Jun, who has the fame of showing talent, soon after arriving at Lushunkou, he entered the curtain of Li Xin, the Lushun Town Guard, and helped Li Xin take care of the Salt Section Lifting Division jointly established by the Lushun Town Guard Mansion and the Changlu Salt Transportation Envoy.

The Golden Mountain Salt Farm and the East and West Jiguan Mountain Salt Farms set up under the Salt Section Lifting Division have opened up a large number of seaside salt pans, and the sea salt produced by the salt drying method is fine, white and crystalline, and does not contain impurities, which is the best sea salt.

Sixty percent of the Haiyan income of the Lushun Salt Division is at the disposal of the Lushun Town Guard, which also makes the Lushun Town Guard have a lot of funds to build castles and resettle immigrants.

Therefore, at the end of November of the third year of Chongzhen, Li Xin reported in a note to Emperor Chongzhen that there were two cities and twelve forts, including Fuzhou City, Jinzhou City, Qingniwa Fort, Sanjian Fort and Chengshan Fort in Lushun Kou, which belonged to Lushun Town, and the number of households reached 27,681 households.

Inside and outside the two cities and twelve forts under the jurisdiction of Lushun Town, the number of displaced people from Shandong and Henan provinces exceeded 100,000, reaching 100,08,867.

In just two years after the establishment of the Lushun Town Guard, the population of the Han people on the Liaodong Peninsula, which had been almost slaughtered by the old slave Nuer Hachi, recovered at an astonishing speed.

Although it is far from reaching the grand occasion when Jinzhou Wei and Fuzhou Wei were still in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, it is a good start after all.

It is precisely because of this that after Li Xin successfully recovered Fuzhou City with the men and horses of Lushun Town, Emperor Chongzhen did not order them to continue to attack north.

And there is no sense of blame for the unmoving troops of Lushun Town for nearly a year.

Because the current Emperor Chongzhen knows that in this era, the occupation or recovery of any place by the Ming army should be accompanied by the relocation and settlement of a large number of Han people, as well as the reclamation or development of the local area.

If there is no sufficient Han people population as a foundation, then any piece of land that has been conquered will sooner or later become someone else's pocket.

This is true of the land of Yungui, the land of the river, the land of Monan, and the northern regions of the Liaodong Peninsula and the Korean Peninsula.

Of course, the recovery of the Han population in various places south of Fuzhou City is also a double-edged sword.

If there is enough food for the winter, then these people are a fortune.

But if there is not enough food for the winter, then these sudden extra large numbers of people will be a heavy burden.

Fortunately, most of the people recruited by Li Xin from Shandong and Henan were immigrants who had come to divide the land with their families, and they were all recruited by the generals of various departments from their own hometowns, and they were not worried about their rebellion.

But it is precisely because many immigrants come from the hometown of the generals of the Lushun Town Shoufu that in the winter season, Li Xin and his generals have to take the initiative to help them, even if there is no will of Emperor Chongzhen.

Therefore, in the winter of the third year of Chongzhen, not only did the Jianyu inlaid white flag and Zhengbai flag in the north of the Liaodong Peninsula temporarily have no spare strength to launch an attack south, but even the Lushun Town Guard, which is relatively well-fed and well-fed, has no intention of launching an attack to the north for the time being.

The generals of Lushun Town, headed by Li Xin, also spent most of their time and energy on organizing households and dividing land for the newly arrived people in the mainland.

At the same time, Shang Kexi, Ban Zhifu, You Jinghe and others were in the Tumen Town Guard's Mansion, which also turned from offensive to defensive after entering the winter, and entered a state of strict alert, carefully guarding against the sudden attack of the Jianyu army on the other side of the Tumen River.