Without waiting for the officials sent to Korea to return, Xu Hao took his soldiers and horses from the Great Wall of Hushan after a short march of half a day, returned to the territory of Dandong in the later world, ignored the Korean villages, directly crossed the frozen river of hundreds of meters to reach Pyongan Province, North Korea, and sent 500 cavalry to Pyongyang City.

Because of its important strategic position, Pyongyang has always been the largest gateway town on the Korean Peninsula, and after the establishment of the Goryeo Dynasty, it declared: "Although the ancient capital of Pyongyang has been abandoned for a long time, the foundation site still exists." In order to consolidate the feudal screen, it is the benefit of the world", so a large number of people of all ethnic groups were taken in, and the military and civilians of the states in the territory were relocated to the truth, and they were known as the protectorate of the capital.

Xu Hao, who was riding on the horse, felt very painful, no wonder that later generations had to call themselves the Republic of Korea even though they were a small country, this ancestor was a virtue at all.

Pyongyang as North Korea's Xijing also has the reputation of 'Liujing', after many years of operation in the Goryeo period, Pyongyang is very prosperous, the city is full of willow trees, the famous Goryeo poet Zheng Zhichang praises "Zimo spring breeze drizzle, light dust does not move willow silk slanting." ”

As an important town to defend against foreign enemies, Pyongyang is also considered to be plagued by repeated invasions and disasters by the Khitan, Jurchen, and Mongols.

During the Yuan Dynasty, Pyongyang was the Dongning Province of Liaoyang Province, which was under the direct jurisdiction of the imperial court, until 1290, at the request of King Chungyeol of Goryeo, the Northern Yuan of the Western Mountains of the Sunset returned Dongnyeong Province to Goryeo, but it was still an indirect territory of the Yuan Dynasty and controlled the King of Goryeo.

Xu Hao didn't plan to take Pyongyang back, some of them went too deep into North Korea, at least not for the time being, and the North Korean state, which had lost its important town, would definitely not be reconciled.

At night, the Yan army approached the city of Yizhou, and the merchants of the 50 Ming Dynasty who were mixed in the city immediately forcibly cut down the guards and seized the north gate.

Almost no resistance was encountered, hundreds of defenders immediately announced their surrender, Xu Hao rode on his horse and sneered condescendingly at dozens of North Korean officials kneeling in the snow: "Taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the suzerain, wantonly invade my territory, can you be convicted?" ”

Aha stood aside and watched coldly. When the majestic Korean officials saw the Ming general, they were as obedient as a slave to their master, but they saw that the Jurchens were more fierce than the wolves.

From Sipin's mansion, Yin Li Cheng hurriedly defended: "Report to the general, the lower officials came to contain the fleeing people on the order of the king and set up a commercial market, not intentionally encroaching on it. Besides, this place has been the hometown of our race since ancient times, how did it become the land of the kingdom? ”

Xu Hao sneered: "In June of the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, Li Chenggui recruited five hundred Jurchens to sneak across the Yalu River, wanting to invade Liaodong and prevent the first emperor from restoring Tielingwei in Ping'an Road, but is there such a thing?" ”

Li Cheng explained: "But it was not set up in the end. And the road of peace has always been my face to the land, and I hope that my lord will see it. ”

Xu Hao said: "During the Han Dynasty, this was the land of four counties, and your hometown was in the southernmost place, so it was reasonable to encroach on the land?" I didn't bother to argue with you, but someone came and skinned all these people and showed them to the public, and he drove them back. ”

When the North Korean officials heard this, their faces turned green, and many people shouted: "General, my ancestors are all Han Chinese, not two classes of nobles." ”

"Wait." Xu Hao waved his hand. After thinking about it, he ordered: "Temporarily put in prison, if Li Chenggui doesn't give me a satisfactory answer, set fire to the city!" ”

Not to mention Li Cheng's despondent and went to report the news alone, early the next morning. Xu Hao personally presided over the worship of the ancestors. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, also in this cold winter, 40,000 Red Turban troops crossed the Yalu River to conquer Jingzhou, Tiezhou, Linzhou and Xijing Pyongyang in order to retaliate against the Goryeo people for assisting the Yuan army in suppressing the uprising. Thousands of miles away. Due to the unfamiliarity of people and the lack of provisions, a large army was mobilized by Goryeo to counterattack, and a large number of soldiers were frostbitten. As a result, the combat strength was sharply reduced, and finally the entire army was almost wiped out, and only 300 people survived.

In March of the following year, the Red Turban Army attacked the coast of Goryeo by sea with more than 70 warships, but failed for various reasons.

In order to take revenge, on October 20, more than 100,000 Red Turban troops crossed the Yalu River again, captured the land of Sizhou and defeated the main force of the Goryeo army. In November, the two armies met at Anju, Goryeo was defeated, two generals were killed in battle, and the commander surrendered.

As a result, the Goryeo army retreated on all fronts, and the Red Turban Army took advantage of the situation to break through the Mercy Ridge, forcing the King of Goryeo to escape Icheon, and the Red Turban Army captured Wangjing Kaesong and burned its palace, and many peasants who were deeply oppressed by land annexation joined the Red Turban Army, which is said to be as many as 100,000 people.

Li Chenggui laid the capital for usurping the throne and self-reliance in the future because of his exploits in breaking the Red Turban Army, and Xu Hao will not forget the death of nearly 200,000 Red Turban Army.

The past does not forget the division of the future, at this time, the Li dynasty, like the Ming Dynasty, had just been founded, and the royal family and nobles who had solved the high degree of land annexation and decay in the country were in the heyday of the country's thriving national strength, so Xu Hao could not lead the army to act arbitrarily.

The sudden dispatch of troops by the Ming Dynasty shook the Korean court greatly, and the abdicated Li Chenggui was no longer brave and sick, and he was far away from Seoul all the year round to recuperate in the countryside, and the wise and martial Emperor Li Fangyuan was killed in a coup attempt.

The 20-year-old lord of the country, Lee Fang-suk, then asked his grandfather, Chung Dao-chuan, who was in charge of power.

Zheng Dao legend said: "The general of the Shang Dynasty is Xu Hao, who helped the king to quell the rebellion, has been kind to the country, recently it is rumored that the king of Yan has repeatedly defeated the official army, and sent Xu Hao to lead the army to conquer Liaodong, but it was fought down in a month, during which there were two appalling massacres of the city, so according to the minister's opinion, the Han people in the territory should be released immediately, so Xu Hao will retreat from the army, otherwise it will arouse his anger, I am afraid the consequences will be unimaginable." ”

The talented Li Fangshuo groaned slightly, and said happily: "Then send an envoy to use this as a condition to solve the problem of Tielingwei, and let the Ming people promise that Ping'an Dao is the territory of our dynasty, and it is best to return to all the land south of Liaoyang." ”

But before the envoy could be sent, he heard that the Ming army had engulfed nearly 10,000 people around the city of Yizhou and retreated north of the Yalu River with everything, leaving only an empty city.

Because Xu Hao did not represent the Celestial Empire, Zheng Daochuan had no choice but to send a few Licao officials to Liaoyang to negotiate.

Xu Hao did not go far, but erected a signboard on the other side of the river with the Governor's Mansion of Andong, not talking about the territorial issue of Tielingwei, and leaving it as an excuse to blackmail North Korea in the future, demanding that all Han people be returned first, and then release the 8,000 Korean people in his hands.

Soon, after some bargaining, North Korea, in order to settle the peace, happily agreed to return 20,000 people, and the Yongle Dynasty returned 15,000 people in history. He also promised to provide 20,000 people with food and seeds, but he did not give cattle or anything of value to them. The officials of Licao valued this people's property more than their lives.

The North Korean state is a little richer than Liaodong, and the people's living standards are not mentioned, Xu Hao, who has an unstable foothold, does not want to have a stalemate with the DPRK, and promises not to interfere with each other and open trade with each other according to the current border along the Yalu River of Changbai Mountain.

When the Han people migrated, Xu Hao chose Sanshan Haikou, that is, Dalian in later generations, to settle 20,000 Han people who had lived in Korea for a long time, as a promise to give all the soldiers as tenants, and the cultivated barren land was counted as a reward. Xu Hao did not have the slightest consciousness to welcome his compatriots back to his homeland, and completely regarded it as his own private property.

Leave these things to Yu Peng to worry about, Dalian Lushun has the best natural harbor in Liaodong, which is the top priority of the foundation in the future, and it is the farthest away from the hinterland of Liaodong, facing Shandong across the sea, and is not afraid of generals rebelling.

He himself sat in Liaoyang and ordered Zhang Xin to go to Yingkou to join Mu Hui's fleet to prepare for the expansion of the port and the construction of a shipyard.

After returning to Liaoyang, the generals sent by the Yan Wangfu led 3,000 men to Jinzhou and Shenyang. Took over the defense of the city. Xu Hao began to transfer the thousands of households in Liaoyang's health centers, and installed his own people to replace a large number of positions vacated due to war deaths or surrenders, and gradually controlled Liaodong little by little.

After gaining confidence, he ordered 10,000 young and middle-aged people to be selected from the military households to form the Liaodong Army. Ordered Mu Hui to be the commander to seize the time to train the soldiers, familiarize himself with firearms, nominally prepare to enter the customs to participate in the battle, but in fact, he quietly wanted to completely get rid of the control of Yan Wangfu's control over him.

Yingkou is located in the center of the Liaodong Peninsula. On the left bank of the Liaohe River estuary, it faces Liaodong Bay of the Bohai Sea in the west, and faces Huludao across the sea. The four seasons are distinct. Rain and heat in the same season, mild climate, moderate precipitation, sufficient sunshine, farming conditions are very superior, is the mouth of the sea under the jurisdiction of Liaoyang Prefecture. Well, the above is Baidu!

Liaoyang Mansion has all the resources Xu Hao needs, patches of primeval forests and minerals such as gold, silver, iron and copper, enough to feed millions of people, just waiting to be explored and developed. Historically, Yingkou was the earliest modern industrial city in China and one of the birthplaces of national industry.

In addition to the construction of sea vessels, inland river shipyards have been opened in Shenyang and other places, and the development of river transportation must be prioritized to save manpower and material resources due to poor roads.

Xu Hao prepared to send Ma He and other royal officials to follow Aha to the Heilongjiang and Songhua rivers, draw maps and detailed river channels, and appease all ethnic groups.

Northeast China has a long history of shipping, from the pre-Qin period to the Liaojin period, the scope of water transport activities expanded year by year.

The basin of the two rivers has more than 2,000 kilometers of natural waterways, and water conservancy can be built to irrigate nearby farmland. Xu Hao believes that as long as peace and stability can be guaranteed, and there is no need for government mobilization, some Han people will continue to come to adventure, and then sell muskets for self-defense, and in order to live and work in peace and contentment, the Han people will continue to go north and north until they migrate to a region where they cannot survive.

Historically, even if the Manchu Qing Dynasty issued an order for the return of displaced people, it did not prevent a large number of Han peasants from North China from flowing into the Heilongjiang area of Jilin, not to mention the vigorous invasion of the eastern part of the country in later generations.

Xu Hao said to Ma He: "If you want to find the Guwei people who were conquered by the Yuan Dynasty, there is a very large island on the other side of the sea, and the Guwei people have a place to live on both sides of the river, so you have to find a way to recruit them, and there are other ethnic groups living on the island, which seem to be called Ainu." ”

The well-read Ma He said with a smile: "This matter is not difficult, the previous dynasty had sent an army of 10,000 people, thousands of ships to attack the Guwei people, and then fought for many years, and the Guwei King Shannu sent people to ask for surrender, becoming the border under the rule of Kaiyuan Road." With a precedent, it shouldn't be difficult to deal with, so I'll bring more tea, ironware, etc. By the way, it is recorded that Giri in that area is charming and good at shipbuilding, and can be hired as a boatman. ”

Xu Hao smiled and said: "It's all up to you, and when I get to the Changchun I drew on the map, there are tribes where I don't know who are enemies or enemies, and I have to obey Aha in everything, and then there will be fierce brother Timur and other Jurchens to protect you all the way, but you still have to be cautious." ”

At that moment, Xu Hao personally bid farewell to the 300-person expedition team led by Zheng He, and took light boats and other materials to the area where the Jurchens had bred for generations and Sakhalin Island, which had led to future generations. (To be continued......)