Chapter 810: It's hard to return
In the time of Emperor Chongzhen, the Rakshasas in the far north had already begun their colonization journey all the way east.
At that time, the Chinese merchants had actually crossed the trade in the north of the Mobei Mongolian tribes to the territory of the Rakshasa people in the north.
Such a trade route naturally cannot be cut off because Fan Yongdou and other Jin merchants were raided.
If the merchants of the people were not willing to take such a big risk to go north, then Emperor Chongzhen had to organize a caravan funded and controlled by the royal family to continue to go north.
Of course, for the current Emperor Chongzhen, the direct purpose of setting up the Four Heng Companies is only to fill the trade gap left by the Jin merchants after they were copied.
As for going north to contact Mobei Mongolia in the future and jointly guard against the eastward invasion of the Rakshasas, it is far from a top priority.
It can be regarded as a top priority, in addition to the Jianguo Houjin State, which is now dormant in the northeast and accumulating strength, is the problem of displaced people within the Ming Dynasty.
Now that the solar term of spring ploughing in the north has arrived, the fields around Jingshi are full of busy farmers.
Whether it is the Xuanda area, or the newly entered Rehe and Hetao areas, the military merits of the soldiers and soldiers of various towns who have participated in the war before are being carried out in an orderly manner under the supervision and care of these places.
Winter is cold, but when the winter is over, its endless and vast fields are full of arable farmland, enough to house hundreds of thousands or even millions of landless peasants who have no livelihood in the Guannai.
After the end of the Zhengdan Dynasty in the third year of Chongzhen, the imperial court once again ordered the governors of all parts of the world to supervise the official offices, send people to send people under their jurisdiction, and go north to Xuanda Frontier and Jibei Rehe to open up wasteland and reclaim land.
Now, several months have passed, and groups of landless peasants from Hebei, Shandong, Huaibei, Henan, and other places are following the reclamation orders issued by the imperial court to various places, all the way north along the canal, from Juyong Pass and Bauhinia Pass to Xuanda in an endless stream, and from Gubeikou and Xifengkou to Rehe in the north.
A large number of landless people in Shandong and Denglai, under the solicitation of Lushun Town, Andong Town, and Tumen Town, crossed the sea to the north and went to these three places to settle for wasteland.
Tens of thousands of Datong refugees who were coerced north by Jianguo and rescued by Li Banghua on the way were brought to the Naturalization City and placed in the vicinity of the Naturalization City on the spot.
The batch of Xuanda refugees who had ordered Emperor Chongzhen to open the military capital gate at Juyong Pass were not allowed to return to Xuanda after several months of cash-for-work in the area of Dagukou Shipyard in Tianjin Prefecture.
Instead, he settled in Jinmen and was recently officially relocated to the Zhili Governor's Mansion in Tianjin, leaving the land reclamation directly.
Hundreds of years later, many people will think that a place like Tianjin must have been overcrowded for a long time, and there is no such thing as cultivating wasteland.
Actually, this is a classic misconception.
Until the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were still a large number of swampy fields in and around Tianjin, which had not been opened up as fertile fields, and now, with the support of Liang Tingdong and Shen Tingyang, it is more than enough to resettle thousands of refugees from Xuanda.
The factories and mines of the Wubei Institute in Tongzhou, Zunhua, Yongping, Baiyecheng and other places are now more like a bottomless pit to absorb the young and strong population.
No matter how many young and strong people were sent by the imperial court, the guns and cannon factories, cement factories, iron smelting plants, coking factories and other factories scattered throughout the area, as well as mines, iron mines, lime mines and other mines, always felt that there was a shortage of manpower.
Because of this, the homeless beggars that were common on the streets of Beijing a few years ago are now gone.
In the prisons of the Yamen of Suncheonfu and the yamen of the state capitals of Gyeonggi, except for the execution of beheading and hanging, all other crimes of all sizes were punished with hard labor, or confiscated into the army and exiled.
Those who committed more serious crimes were exiled to Yingzhou Town Shoufu or Tumen Town Shoufu, and those who committed less serious crimes were sent to work in the mines of Zunhua and Yongping.
Not only are the homeless beggars on the streets clean, but the prisons in the northern Zhili area around Gyeonggi are almost empty.
There are fewer idle homeless people, and the land of Gyeonggi is certainly as stable as Mount Tai.
And as long as the land of Gyeonggi and Beizhili are as stable as Mount Tai, then there is nothing to fear about this Chongzhen Emperor now.
As the saying goes, governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh.
There are many problems in the Ming Dynasty, and many of them are difficult to return, in this situation, it is useless for you to be anxious, you can only solve them slowly.
The longer he came to this era, the more he understood it, and the Mu Suman problem was like this.
It didn't take long for these practices of Yuan Chonghuan in the three northwestern regions to be sent to Emperor Chongzhen, who was far away in Beijing, in the form of a report by Li Banghua, the Marquis of Dongsheng, the Minister of Military Aircraft, and a secret report from Jinyiwei.
Of course, Emperor Chongzhen also wanted to finish his work in one battle, and happily and completely solve the problem of wood-plastic barbarism in the Ming Dynasty.
However, he is also well aware that this is difficult to do.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the problem of Musuman was already very serious, not only in the northwest trilateral region there is a large area of Musuman settlement, but also in the Central Plains, Jiangnan, and southwest regions, and there are also many Musuman scattered all over the country.
This situation has been formed since the Mongols brought a large number of Semu people from Central Asia, West Asia and other places into China.
After nearly 100 years of rule by the Meng Yuan Dynasty and more than 200 years of rule after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the problem of Mu Suman is even more difficult to return
In this case, it is almost impossible to clean them all, or to evict them all.
How can a problem that has been precipitated over hundreds of years be completely solved within a few years, or more than a decade or a few decades?
This problem has to be solved slowly, to as far as it can be solved at the moment.
Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen basically approved of Yuan Chonghuan's current practice of combining grace and power.
At the end of April of the third year of Chongzhen, after receiving the news that Yuan Chonghuan led the army to recover Guyuan, Emperor Chongzhen quickly handed over the problem of Mu Suman in the northwest to Li Banghua, who continued to sit in Yan'an Mansion, to deal with it.
It was clearly made that in his capacity as the Minister of Military Aircraft of the Central Pole Temple, he would coordinate and command the military affairs of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ninghe, Zhongshan, Shanxi, Henan and other places, and encircle and suppress the Musu barbarians in the northwest and the bandit teams entrenched in Pingliang and other places.
At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen asked the Military Aircraft Department to send an order, ordering all the soldiers of the first town of the Guards to go to Juyong Pass to return to Tongzhou, and to order all the soldiers of the second town of the Guards to go to Bauhinia Pass to return to Baoding.
Correspondingly, Emperor Chongzhen also asked the Military Aircraft Department to issue an order at the same time, ordering Wang Guoliang, the chief military officer of Shanxi Town, to lead the army back to Daizhou after handing over the naturalized defense, and continue to guard the Inner Great Wall passes such as Ningwu Pass, Yanmen Pass, and Baoma Pass.
At the same time, Sun Yingyuan, the general of Datong Guard, was the deputy chief soldier of Naturalization Town, continued to lead his troops to garrison Datong City, and reorganized the brave foot soldiers of Datong Township recruited to resist Jianyu into battalions, and guarded the mouths along the Great Wall outside Datong.
After this arrangement was carried out, the time had already entered May, and Sun Chengzong, the elder of the cabinet and the minister of military aircraft, also explained the affairs of the preparation of the northern part of the country at this time, and set off from Ulan Hada City to the south, and returned to the long-lost Jingshi.
After Sun Chengzong returned to Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen immediately summoned him in the palace, and the ministers in Beijing, Li Guoyi and Xu Guangqi, as well as another minister of military aircraft, Zhang Weixian, and the new military minister Nan Juyi, accompanied him in the Wuying Palace.
Sun Chengzong has been out of town for so long as a cabinet minister, of course, it is extraordinary, but now His Majesty the emperor does not follow the routine in many things, and it is not surprising that the courtiers of the Beijing Division are not surprised.
And this kind of going out of the town is not in vain, and when they come back, they will already be the lords of the current emperor's majesty.
If this is concerned, I don't know how many people in the corner of the DPRK and the Central Minister Zhongzheng are envious, jealous and hateful!
Letting ministers with high prestige such as Sun Chengzong and Li Banghua go out of town, of course, there are considerations of Emperor Chongzhen, and now letting Sun Chengzong come back, naturally there are also his considerations.
Because as long as the first and second towns of the Guards return to Gyeonggi, he will have to perform another major operation on the current Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.
Such a big move, without the support of Sun Chengzong, would not be able to do it just by relying on a British public Zhang Weixian, who has little time to stay on the sickbed!