Beiyang new warlord

Since the Tokugawa shogunate beat him hard last year, no matter whether he or Li Chao, he was actually chewing fat while facing the northeast with a mouthful of bloody scars. Jue borrowed about [-] soldiers and sailors from Dongjiang, and left the two regiments of the Woongjin Mercenary Corps on Tsushima Island and Jeju Island. A year has passed, and the country of Wa seems to have no response.

It’s really called using people’s money to eliminate disasters! Taking Mao Jue’s benefits is also because he is afraid of getting into trouble. He just became a military judge, Li Shanhai did his best. Although the Li Chaoban house boat from Minglianghai did not cross the river However, there are always more than a dozen boats every day to transport the wood, volcanic ash, rocks, metals and other materials that Mao Jue wants to the two islands.

Most of the more than 5000 soldiers were also used as coolies. Mao Jue also spent 10 taels of silver to recruit local hired workers. Today, there are not small fortresses erected in the three port beaches of Jeju Island and the north of Tsushima Island.

After traveling south for seven or eight days, Mao Jue's fleet arrived outside Jeju City, twenty miles out to sea, when it was stopped by another 70-meter sail battleship Shuihu, which belonged to Tieyijun Town.

At this time, Jeju has changed a lot from Mao Jue's last visit. The low and dilapidated Jeju City was directly blocked by a mud-gray, eight-meter-high, and 400-meter-long military fort. In the former Jeju Port, a sea wall of several kilometers has expanded the port.

Under the leadership of Shuihu, Mao Jue's fleet sailed like the inner harbor.

Almost catching up with the fierceness of the Opium War, the inspector followed his subordinates to the tower. Under the shed, there were sixteen cast iron red cannon forts facing the sea, facing Dongshan of the port, facing the sea. In the woods at the port, there are concrete bunker-like bunkers hiding in layers. If you look closely, you can see the clear gray gun barrel protruding from the bunker head.

Mao Jue came from later generations. He has eaten and seen it. He has seen several versions of the Normandy landing movie. This kind of artillery bunker is also common. In fact, the navigation technology is not good enough. If you want to invade the Lee Dynasty Peninsula, you must go through Tsushima Island and Jeju Island, and use this as a springboard to attack the land.

However, there are not many places for the army to land. Even in World War II, they can only choose Normandy, a heavily defended beach by the German army, as a breakthrough point. There are reefs and cliffs everywhere. They can only land on the beaches of Jeju Port, Fangluo County, and Yanhai County. Even if the iron-clad ships of the size of the Japanese pirates last year were shut down, they would have to be hit by the Ming army on this beach like a torrential rain. When you go to the beach, you have to get rid of seven or eight out of ten stops.

A group of Japanese pirates who were still in shock under the artillery fire came to attack this tough fortress, and Mao Jue was not optimistic about the Japanese army.

He was quite relieved about the construction efforts of his subordinates. After inspecting Jeju Fort, he stayed here for two days before Mao Jue went south by boat again.

This time it's not going straight to Jiangnan.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was strange that Liao Town was under the jurisdiction of Shandong, so Mao Jue had to go to Denglai first to report to the governor of Denglai, Sun Yuanhua.

Later generations have the opportunity to visit Yantai once, but at this time, Dengzhou is completely different from the Yantai metropolis in memory. The vast urban area is now just a piece of wilderness, a few miles away from the coast, and only dilapidated buildings can be seen. The low Dengzhou City Wall stood tremblingly on the shore like a terminally ill old man.

The port was also very small and dilapidated, and Mao Jue's sailing battleship couldn't get in. He could only dock on the edge of an island in the open sea, and then take a big blessing boat to get close to the shore.

Not planning to stay here for long, Mao Jue simply left Su Yi on board the Black Pearl, and landed with dozens of his own soldiers. As soon as he disembarked, a large group of poor people in ragged clothes clattered The children surrounded him.

"Officer! Master! Do me a favor, if you have something to eat, give us some!"

A few strong and healthy people surrounded the front, bowing and bowing constantly. The accent made Mao Jue feel very familiar. The hairy lance was a little annoyed and wanted to drive away with a whip, so he reached out to stop it. .

"Everyone, I don't have any goods to move!"

Seeing Mao Jue making a bow, the bitter man couldn't help showing a look of disappointment on his face, but he didn't dare to complain, and couldn't muster up the strength to walk towards the house by the port, but Mao Jue stretched out his hand and grabbed the one who was considered to be the leader, and asked in astonishment.

"Listen to the accent, you are also Liao people?"

"The general is also from Liao?"

Hearing this, the leader immediately became excited.

Governor Sun Yuanhua of Denglai didn't deal with Dongjiang, and Mao Jue didn't have the heart to go to the city to use his hot face to stick someone's cold ass, so he simply sent Mao Qian to Dengzhou with his seal to exchange official documents and customs defense.

Because of the need to travel by water, the boat brought a lot of food, and Mao Jue ordered some to be brought down. He lit a fire in this port, and cooked corn cobs with the help of sea water. As if encountering an iron nail on a magnet, he salivated, gnawing desperately on the stick that was dripping with juice, regardless of the heat.

Sitting in the corner, a child who was only five or six years old was as thin as a reed stick. His withered hands reminded Mao Jue of the African disaster victims under the lens of later photographers. With the corn core in the middle.

While this scene was shocking, it also made Mao Jue rejoicing that Su Yi didn't go with her, otherwise this girl would have cried like a tearful person.

"Thank you General! Thank you General!"

The man who caught him just now was still a filial son, he didn't eat the food first, but sent it to the house. Mao Jue watched him stuff the corn to a thin old lady, and the two pushed back a few times , the man simply ran out of the shack, but ran directly to Mao Jue's side, knelt down on the ground and kowtowed a few times.

"Okay, they are all from my hometown! Who can help me! Hurry up!"

He stretched out his hand and pulled the man up. Seeing his embarrassed appearance, Mao Jue asked again in astonishment.

"You guys, how did this get so reduced?"

"General, it's hard to say!"

After more than 200 years of development in Liaodong, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, Dingkou was already prosperous, with a population of almost 200 million registered households. According to the urination of hidden households in the past dynasties, slaves and maidservants who did not register with household registration, the population ranged from 300 million to 400 million. It's all possible.

However, together with the Liaodong War, the most densely populated Liaoshen Great Plain was occupied by Houjin, and millions of people were displaced. In the Battle of Liaoyang, Nurhachi slaughtered 7 people. In addition, Xiong Tingbi, Wang Huazhen and Guangning were defeated. The people escaped the war and fled back to the pass. Liaodong Town belongs to Shandong, and a large number of people here immigrated from Shandong, so hundreds of thousands of Liao people fled to Shandong.

However, by this time, the Ming Dynasty was already full of disasters, and the annexation of land in Shandong was also to the extreme. At that time, the kind of local sentiment was almost indifferent, and most Liao people were not taken in at all.

Many Shandong people even blamed these Liao people for the war in Liaodong.

This person is called Yang Mengzi, who can live in Dengzhou, work as a coolie porter at the port, and earn a living ration that barely fills his stomach, which is already considered good.

"General, we Liao people are suffering! In our village, more than 400 people fled together. When we ran away halfway, more than 100 died of illness. Over the years, more than 200 died of hunger and starvation! There are only a few dozen left. one!"

Looking back at the hard-working brothers who were nestled together, eating corn, and the emaciated old lady, Yang Mengzi couldn't help but sigh.

"Are there many Liao people like you around?"

"I don't know about other places. We have at least 3 people in Dengzhou, right? Governor Sun is kind and recruited more than 3000 Liao troops. The rest are not like villains helping to move military food and goods at the port. They are hungry." Have a full meal, or be a tenant in the countryside for those local people, and make a living!"

The fall of the hometown, the uprooting of the hometown, and the feeling of living under the fence, this kind of feeling would be miserable for anyone. Sitting on a log next to Mao Jue, it was rare for someone to listen. While shaking his head, Jue pinched his chin and thought again.

After a long while, Mao Jue raised his head, and stared at this skinny man outside the customs very solemnly.

"Do you dare to be a soldier?"

Chapter 167. The People of Liao Return to Liao

It's really like Mao Jue's piss, this Sun Yuanhua is very disrespectful to himself, Mao Li got stuck at the first pass of entering the city, handed over the name card for half an hour, and finally entered the governor's yamen, but the servants in the mansion went to the governor's office again. He was so cheeky that he was too lazy to move, and told him lazily that Mr. Sun went down for inspection. As for when he will come back, I don’t know! When we can exchange Guanwen, I don’t know!

In short, you wait!

If it had been the case, Mao Jue would probably have been so anxious and scolded his mother, but he met Yang Mengzi and a group of Liao people at the port, but he found some meaningful things to do for him.

The Dafu boats took turns approaching the shore one by one, and brought them out from Liaodong. The corn cobs, sweet potatoes, and potatoes that were originally intended to be sold to the south of the Yangtze River as a rare item were brought ashore in bags one by one, and they were stored in a broken warehouse in this port. , as the bread of life for the Liao people.

Here I would like to thank Sun Yuanhua. Many of the guards in Dengzhou were recruited by the Liao people. After all, they are all degenerate people in the world, and the fellow villagers did not shoot at the fellow villagers! Knowing that the food is for the Liao people, Dengzhou Dongying guerrilla Liu Xiude specially sent more than 100 people here to protect the place, and also sent people around to help and contact the scattered Liao people.

Mao Jue has seen the extent of the chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty. He learned that the food that came ashore was still in the hands of these sojourners from the Liao people. These days, the big local households in the nearby Zhuangzi actually sent several groups of people to snatch it. Fortunately, these more than 100 Liao soldiers , They fought five times on this barren beach before killing them all.

Such a dozen can be regarded as a prestige, and after hearing the news, groups of Liao people gathered in Dengzhou from all directions. In a few days, more than 2 people gathered.

Mao Jue gained a deeper understanding of the living conditions of the Liao people in Daming. There are almost no elderly people over 50 years old, and there are very few children. Even if there are, they are all skinny and skinny. Women wear tattered clothes. Faces full of vicissitudes, some in their twenties are already in their 50s and [-]s. These Liao people fled their hometown with anxiety, hoping to get help from their compatriots, but they were greeted with indifference, exclusion and enslavement.

The supply of soldiers in the Dongjiang River has been exhausted. This time when he went to the south of the Yangtze River, Mao Jue went to the legendary Qi Jiguang Yiwu soldiers. However, when he met local people here, how could he stand idly by? Most of the food and cloth he brought with him , Mao Jue was left behind by these Liao people.

And these Liao people are indeed worthy of help. Under the warm sun, the young and strong pushed the wood in an orderly manner. Tools, among them, although more than a dozen people are dressed in tatters, it is rare to ensure that the clothes are clean and tidy. Snakes without heads are not good, and people without heads are not possible. The work of building wooden huts on the tidal flats was carried out in an orderly manner. After being treated like this, the accent was very kind, looking for a sense of belonging, and everyone wanted to make some contributions to the collective.

Jiannu’s invasion destroyed the entire social class in Liaodong. Here, no matter the poor or the rich, everyone is equal. Among these commanders are students who have studied, scholars, and generals of the Ming army who have been dispersed. Despite their previous halo, they are also conscientious in their work.

At present, Dongjiang's development has also entered a bottleneck, and Mao Jue needs such high-level talents.

The crowd was busy, and suddenly the shouts of panic started to boil, and a dozen children ran in excitedly, shouting while running.

"The general is here! The general is here!"