The defeated Yan army fought and retreated under the command of the king of Yan, and in order to gain hope of life, it was necessary to rush through the defense line, so the Yan army launched a decisive charge, and repelled many main forces one after another.

On the third day of the escape, the chaotic Yan army recovered a little from the rout, and most of the sergeants who did not fall behind returned to their own camps, Yao Guangxiao and other officials were busy all night, dispatching generals to replace the dead, and temporarily appointing a large number of captains, so that the command system at all levels was gradually restored.

The king of Yan finally had the confidence to command the battle, so he personally induced the officers and troops to chase after him several times and then surrounded and annihilated him, so that the Yan army was repeatedly able to seize the road to the north, although the casualties were heavy, but also successfully crossed the river and returned to Hebei.

Wu Jie led tens of thousands of Hebei officers and troops to continue to rob and kill along the way, Yang Wen relied on the mobility of the cavalry to set up checkpoints everywhere to intercept, while Sheng Yong's main force of Shandong soldiers suffered serious casualties because of the successive battles, and there were still many remnants of the Yan army in the territory.

The Shandong army became famous all over the world because of this, and some literati and writers wrote poems to praise it, while the elite of the Yan army was almost lost, and there was not one Mongolian soldier left. In the three years since this uprising, the defeat has never been so miserable, and four or five generals such as Qiu Fu were killed, and hundreds of middle- and lower-level generals were killed, and their vitality was greatly damaged.

As a strategist, the superintendent of the imperial history Wang Du participated in the planning of the two battles, and was jointly recommended by Tie Xuan Sheng Yong to enter Beijing as a military squire. Unexpectedly, Li Jinglong was really guessed by Xu Wen, and Emperor Jianwen pardoned his crime instead of punishing him, but reused it.

Seeing Sheng Yong become famous in one fell swoop, Li Jinglong, who was slapped in the face continuously, was naturally very jealous, and since then, he has been gluttonous with Sheng Yong and Tie Xuan because of his jealousy, and even with Wang Du, he was gradually neglected by the emperor, and stayed in the yamen of the military department all day long.

The Yan army fled back to Hebei, but fortunately, Xu Hao defeated Xu Kai and other Hebei generals in advance, and deployed heavy troops to guard the main road back to Beiping. Along the way, there was a steady stream of defenders rushing to help, and the supply of grain and grass materials in the warehouse was sufficient, which made the fleeing Yan army suffer little damage, and they returned to Beiping safely in just ten days.

At the cost of losing the whole of Hebei, Zhang Yu and his son abandoned Dingzhou, Cangzhou and other important towns to garrison Tongzhou, which made the official army stop.

However, Yang Wenwen, who said that all the cavalry was a cavalryman, galloped across the northern land, and won many small victories one after another, and the king of Yan fled in panic.

Just when Yang Wenchun wanted to drive in and take Shanhaiguan directly, he unexpectedly received the news that Xu Hao's troops had entered Liaodong, and he was shocked and hurriedly urged the sailor to come to respond. Four days later, he returned with 30,000 men on hundreds of ships of various kinds, leaving 10,000 men to return to Shandong with their mounts.

The unfortunate night was met with a lightning storm, which damaged one-fifth of the warships and soldiers, and even more unfortunate was that in the waters near Qinhuangdao, it was strongly blocked by Mu Hui's fleet, and in the face of the artillery sailing ships whose range was far stronger than that of the imperial warships, the sailor fleet full of soldiers was too slow, and it was completely passively beaten, and Yang Wen was forced to abandon the ship and land.

When Yang Wenzheng, who was in a state of panic, was attacked by the 5,000 cavalry of Zhu Gaoxu and other Yan army generals. It was intercepted by thousands of heavily armed artisan battalions, and the entire army was wiped out in the First World War. The Liaodong army, which had no more than 30,000 war horses, saw that there was no way to escape, so they simply surrendered en masse, and Yang Wen fled to Shandong by boat with only 100 people.

Yanwang Mansion. Only Zhu Di, who was defeated all the way, was very shameless, and the generals who were humiliated by the lord were excused and pleaded guilty, facing hundreds of generals kneeling in front of him, Zhu Di sighed: "It's lost in me." Feel and so on. ”

King Yan sighed in his heart, he was defeated miserably, and Xu Hao used cruel and ruthless methods to deter the Davids in Liaodong, and there were exterminations in Fuyu City and Zhangwu County. Everyone is terrified, lest they follow in their footsteps. And because of the bold reduction and exemption of heavy taxes and labor, the removal of three-quarters of the military household and military registration, and the blood revenge for the Han people, thus winning the hearts of the army and the people, all the way invincible, whether it is the Mongolian Jurchen or the Han people, everywhere they go, they all surrendered.

Yang Wenyuan fought against himself in Shandong, and a large number of generals were no longer in Liaodong, and they had no backbone, which could be regarded as allowing Xu Hao to take the opportunity to pick up a big bargain.

With more than 5,000 people, he conquered the entire Liaodong and obtained hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians of all ethnic groups, which not only made Xu Hao sit on the reputation and status second only to the father and son of King Yan, but also this credit is too great.

Fortunately, the Xu family is full of family members in Beiping, Zhu Di is not worried that Xu Hao will take the opportunity to stand on his own, in fact, he understands very well the temperament of his nephew who is not attached to power, and there are all kinds of restrictions in reality, Zhu Di has never thought about it.

Zhu Di, who was about to publicly review it, had a hot face, and sighed in his heart, he always had to be rewarded for his merits, and said in his heart that if you kid has the ability, you will recruit 100,000 elites for Lao Tzu in Liaodong, and quickly resign from his official position after a year, so what if this king rewards you as a hereditary duke in the future? Otherwise, sooner or later, you will be liquidated for the heinous crime of changing the ancestral system without permission and killing innocents indiscriminately.

In this way, Zhu Di said stupidly: "Promote Xu Hao to the general of Liaodong, with full authority to command the military and people of all ethnic groups in the territory, and give him the right to arbitrarily conquer." ”

After finishing speaking, Zhu Di felt a sense of relief in his heart for no reason, and tasted the relaxed feeling that someone could share the pressure. On the occasion of this defeat, Xu Hao's occupation of Liaodong was obvious to the morale of the people, and the loss of the eastern corner of the harvest of Sangyu made the soldiers in Shandong not discouraged.

Slowly looking at the generals under his command, there are actually only a handful of generals who can really take charge alone, Zhu Di is deeply saddened by Qiu Fu's death, now only Zhang Yu's father and son and Zhu Neng and other three or five people may be called handsome, and the rest are just good generals.

Xu Hao, that bastard, if he was next to the king, why would he be a military counselor? Zhu Di scolded angrily, and had to admit that Xu Hao, who was only second-rate in leading troops to fight, had the courage to make decisions when he saw and dared to make decisions, as well as his unfathomable knowledge, no matter where he put it, he could bring great surprises to people, and he could be called an all-rounder who knew how to make good use of people.

In fact, Xu Hao, who was far away in Liaoyang City at this moment, felt that his sins were unforgivable, and there were too many people who had offended, so he simply didn't care about anything, completely delegated government and military affairs, and let the officials who were originally subordinate to the Liaodong Command Department worry about it, which inadvertently kept Liaodong running normally and did not fall into chaos due to the change of rulers.

All day he wondered what to do if a general rebelled or a man came to take revenge. Is it better to escape by water, or to flee to North Korea by land? In short, I didn't even think about how to occupy it for a long time.

Sent the Duoyan Wei cavalry, which had nothing to do with their own life and death, into Shenyang City and Jinzhou City, and strictly ordered them not to harass the place, so that they could wait patiently for the Yan army to come out of Shanhaiguan to take over, and the five thousand brothers of their own family stayed in Liaoyang City to share blessings and misfortunes, in short, grasshoppers on a boat. It's better to be together.

Shenyang is the provincial capital city of Liaoning in later generations, located in the core area of eastern Liaoning, with unique geographical conditions, but it is located in the plain and the river is not conducive to defense, it must be decades of continuous and stable operation, but Jinzhou has always been an important defensive town in history, and the importance of geographical location is no less than that of Shanhaiguan.

Liaoyang has been the central city of Liaodong since ancient times, that is, Xiangping in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and there are many Stone Age civilization sites in the Taizi River Basin with abundant water in the territory. Since the Han Dynasty, it has become the premier military and political town in the frontier.

There are many wealthy families living here in the city, such as the Bohai Li clan, the Liaoyang Zhang clan, etc., and any rising ethnic leader since the Tang Dynasty has to come to marry, and these powerful people were prominent for a time during the Jin period.

After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the county system of Liaodong Prefecture was abolished, and the military household system was changed to the military household system, and the policy of military reclamation was implemented. No one can disobey the military orders, and those who disobey will either flee or die, and they can mobilize all their forces as quickly as possible.

In short, there are many towns in the area of Liaoyang today. With a population of more than 200,000, agriculture and commerce are the most developed in eastern Liaoning, with an industrial and commercial economy that surprised Xu Hao.

From the fifth to the sixteenth year of Hongwu, it lasted more than ten years. From the east from the Yalu River to the east of the Yalu River to the Jiayu Pass long defense line, the Ming Dynasty set up a total of nine defensive border towns, Liaoyang is one of the Liaodong towns.

Xu Hao looked at the eighteen cities on the map. The proportion of the Han people's population is outstanding, and once again I feel sorry for the deceased Zhu Yuanzhang, leaving such a valuable legacy, otherwise how many years would it take to reach such a scale?

Staring at the Liaoyang city defense map with a circumference of twenty-four miles and a masonry structure, a sense of security arose.

Zhang Xin and Yu Peng, who came by sea, pushed the door in, because they had arranged to travel to North Korea and the Japanese Kingdom at public expense, they increased their knowledge and experience, and were influenced by Xu Hao's letters in the past few years, plus they were very young and easy to accept novel ideas, and they were born in Beiping Mansion, where the Confucian atmosphere was relatively weak, and they were considered 'new new humans' with relatively good ideological transformation.

The most important thing is the binding of interests, wearing a red and big Xu hat on his head, which is both an advantage and a disadvantage, and it is impossible to get rid of it for a while.

The two of them are Xu Hao's right-hand men who are personally named to come, so there is no need for anyone to prompt them, the two who passed the Jinshi examination know too well that if Xu Hao is unlucky, they will definitely follow the unlucky reality. There are also similar civil officials such as Yang Shiqi, Zhou Peng, Xue Wen and others, Xie Jin can also be counted as one, and the formation of factions is always natural intentionally or unintentionally.

Zhang Xin took a stack of documents and said: "Liaoyang Liuwei alone has more than 5,700 hectares of land, and after the date of ten years of rent-free, plus the adults have reduced half of the tax, this year is enough to be self-sufficient, that is, how to maintain the basic operation of the tax reduction?" It is important to know that two-thirds of the taxes in Liaodong can come from the Liaoyang area. ”

Xu Hao said indifferently: "The expenditure on military salaries without war can be reduced by half, and the household registration system can be completely abolished, and the people are encouraged to open workshops and shops, they can do business or reclaim wasteland, they can contract mineral deposits, they can go hunting and nomadism, they can also receive military salaries from the army, participate in shipbuilding and weapons factories to earn wages and learn a trade."

The reclaimed wasteland belongs to itself permanently, the government issues an identity certificate indicating the place of origin, the household introduction is cancelled, the people continue to be exempt from taxation for ten years as free people, the restrictions on the officially designated commercial markets are completely relaxed, and the merchants are allowed to trade all year round, and they are allowed to go to Korea to open a branch, you go to formulate a preferential policy, and my Xu family will set up a bank to lend money to the people to operate, oh, you are all shares. ”

No matter where Xu Hao thinks of it, success is gratifying, failure is not a big deal, whatever!

Xu Hao recalled the Third Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and so on, and said: "In short, Liaodong will implement mercantilism in the future, and the government will formulate macro indicators every five years to attract displaced immigrants to the north to open up the wasteland without restrictions.

Reward more children, give birth to more than five children, and give the title of wife. By the way, schools and hospitals have to be opened, and immigrants have to give farmland and houses to cultivate cattle seeds, and it seems that there are a little too many places to spend money. ”

Xu Hao felt that it was a bit too big, and hurriedly muttered: "The commercial tax will remain unchanged for three years, and it will be doubled in the fourth year, and two-thirds of the tax should come from business, even if it is half." At present, let's rely on gold, silver, iron ore and salt and iron monopolies to earn taxes, oh, if you don't have money, you won't grab it?

By the way, there is also a six-year universal education, pay attention to the miscellaneous studies that are not the Four Books and Five Classics, but the simple and active use of miscellaneous studies, and promote patriotic education. Regardless of the family background, outstanding students are selected to be officials, anyway, even if they become prefects, the imperial court will not recognize diplomas and facts, so there is no need to go through the imperial examination, the first emperor, you are really far-sighted! ”

After saying it in one breath, Xu Haomei sighed again, and suddenly realized that in fact, the war was endless, and it seemed that it was not bad, because Liaodong was a barren land in a remote corner, it seemed that no matter what he did, he couldn't attract the imperial court far away in Jinling to care, and sent officials to be officials? Question: Who wants to come?

When Zhu Di ascends the throne as the emperor, he will definitely not be able to do whatever he wants like now, and he will be able to say it alone, but he should be able to fight for four or five years of free development time, as long as he does not turn Liaodong upside down.

Let's take a step at a time, Xu Hao thought so, in fact, what he wanted to do most was to hurry home quickly, a bunch of beauties haven't been used yet, alas! (To be continued......)