Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 615 Huang Taiji’s Troubles 1
The core of the later Jin regime, Shenyang.

Bao Chengxian, who was dressed as a merchant of the Han nationality, hurried through the streets and alleys with a few entourages and came to the palace.Along the way, he noticed that Shenyang seemed to be a little deserted. In previous years, a large number of Mongolian and Korean merchants gathered in Shenyang during this season. The Mongolians brought cattle, sheep and horses, and the Koreans brought high-quality rice, Korean ginseng and timber. The merchants of Ming Dynasty will also move upon hearing the news, bringing a large amount of grain, cloth, and ironware. The grand occasion of merchants gathering and goods filling is unique in the entire Northeast.But now, the presence of North Korean merchants has almost disappeared, and the number of Han Chinese and Mongolian merchants has also decreased a lot, giving people a feeling that the present is not what it used to be.

Alas, who told Daikin to lose the Battle of Lushun?

In fact, it’s nothing to lose Lushun. Dajin has been in Liaodong for more than 1 years, and it’s not like it hasn’t lost a battle, but... But it’s all about losing, don’t lose so many people!In the Battle of Lushun, more than 1 soldiers of the Zhenjurchen soldiers died in battle, more than [-] Mongols died, and more than [-] people surrendered. There were [-] troops, and only a little over [-] people escaped in the end. When the disastrous defeat caused Huang Taiji to vomit blood, it also triggered a magnitude [-] earthquake in the entire north, shocking everyone!After the Battle of Lushun ended, North Korea immediately announced that it would become a vassal of Daming again, and kicked the covenant with Hou Jin into the Yalu River. After crossing the Yalu River, they can't cross the river at all, and they can't help the damn North Korea.The reaction of the Mongols was not so exaggerated. So far, no Mongolian tribe has announced to sever ties with the Houjin and embrace it with another thigh. The pack team that traded with Houjin was significantly reduced.As for the Han merchants, they have also begun to change their nature. Even though Houjin offered a much higher price than before, many people were still unwilling to sell their goods to Liaodong, which caused the prices of cloth and grain in Liaodong to rise sharply, which hurt Huang Taiji. Brainstorming!In the final analysis, all these problems are due to the fact that the Battle of Lushun shattered the myth of the Houjin that "Jurchens are dissatisfied with [-], and they cannot fight when they are full."
The intuition of the power of the grassland people is very accurate. Once they find that the power they are relying on begins to weaken, they will immediately turn their backs. Rebellion is considered light, and the kingly way of the grassland wolf clan is to attack in groups!Now Houjin has not yet reached the point of being attacked by those who have milk and are mothers. The illustrious reputation gained by decades of battles still makes the prairie wolves jealous, but as time goes by, this little capital is also worthless. will be eaten slowly.Hou Jin must win a big victory over the Ming army before this capital is lost, to prove that he is still the number one army in East Asia and deter his centrifugal allies, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous.There is no way, the disadvantage of building a country by force is that once the surrounding forces find that your force is not as strong as they imagined, they will immediately change their minds. Only by continuously winning can your position be stable, so even if it is difficult to fight, you have to fight Go down——I have to finish the shot I made with tears.

"Those damned smart dogs!" Bao Chengxian murmured and cursed, and went straight to the palace.

Houjin’s imperial palace...has nothing to do with majesty and magnificence. It can only be said to be a larger-scale building complex. Although Houjin also tried his best to make his own palace more spectacular, at least it should not be too far behind the Forbidden City in Beijing. , but architecture needs to be accumulated. A group of savages who were chasing bears and tigers in the white mountains and black waters 30 years ago, what accumulation can they have?After repairing and repairing, it is just like a bird, and it looks like a sick cat according to a tiger, which is ridiculed.

The owner of this nondescript palace, Huang Taiji, is currently discussing state affairs with Zhongbaile.

When Bao Chengxian came in, he just heard Mang Gurtai angrily say: "Father, those Han merchants used to behave like dogs in front of us, and they would shake their heads and tails for a long time when they threw a bone. Now our army is just It’s just a small setback in Lushun, they immediately turned their backs and refused to provide food and cotton cloth to Dajin! Old Ba, you must show these merchants a little bit of color, otherwise they will forget who is their master!”

Duoduo also said: "Yes, we must show some color to those merchants. We spoiled them too much before!" In less than a year, tens of thousands of people from Shandong and Zhili were attracted to settle down, cultivate wasteland, and do business. Come down, catch all those Ming dogs and use them as coatings!"

Huang Taiji's face was a little dark.He knew the situation in Lushun. With the support of the Denglai New Army, the Dongjiang Army began to develop the salt industry with all its strength after stabilizing the situation. Taking advantage of its unique conditions, it quickly established a daily food service in Fuzhou. Large-scale salt fields producing thousands of stone refined salt, and in Jinzhou, Lushun and other places, small and medium-sized salt fields have also sprung up like mushrooms after rain.Salt in this era is very valuable. Due to the limited production, and the lack of transportation and storage technology, the price of salt is very expensive in most inland areas, and many people simply cannot afford it. Until the Republic of China, in many areas Salt can be used as currency, let alone the Ming Dynasty.The sea salt in Dalian is of good quality, tastes good, and most importantly, it is cheap. It soon became famous. There are a large number of salt merchants in Hebei, Shandong, and even Jiangnan. Seeing that the situation had improved, the Liaodong Han people who were struggling to survive in the Dongjiang Islands also returned to the Dalian area to cook salt and reclaim wasteland. The originally barren and dilapidated Lushun soon became densely populated.However, Duoduo only saw the population and goods in Lushun, but Huang Taiji saw the momentum of the recovery of the Han people in Liaodong... Yes, this extremely tenacious ancient ethnic group seems to have persisted from the devastating blow and began to recover .The Dongjiang Army is being reorganized with the great help of the Denglai New Army. According to the information he has, the Dongjiang Army will train [-] infantry and [-] cavalry that are close to the level of the Wuyang Army within two years. It will be a sharp knife inserted into the left rib of Houjin.With the deep-seated hatred of the Liaodong Han people towards Hou Jin, once they have the military strength to defeat Hou Jin, Hou Jin with millions of people will probably kill them all, not even a live chicken will be left behind. come down!
You Ge was at the mouth of the Yalu River, which cut off the possible Denglai navy that Houjin would attack North Korea.

The copper wall is like an iron wall. Even if 10,000+ Manchurian Eight Banners are all smashed to death under the strong city, the Guanning line of defense cannot be taken down.

The Liaodong Han people who were fighting hard in Lushun and determined to take revenge.

The new army of Denglai, who was able to cross the sea in just one day and landed in Liaodong, was well-equipped with excellent soldiers.

In the Datong Basin, the Tianxiong army was ready to stab Houjin fiercely in the direction of Mongolia at any time, and indirectly bled Houjin.

Every time he looked at the map, Huang Taiji felt out of breath.He faintly felt that an invisible giant net was gradually forming, gradually covering Jin Houjin.This huge net will not kill Houjin all at once, but it will slowly squeeze from all directions. No matter how hard Houjin struggles, it will not help, and in the end he can only suffocate to death.Maybe the Ming army is not yet capable of defeating Houjin in an active attack, but they are already capable of curbing Houjin's expansion momentum.

All the vitality of Houjin comes from expansion, once the expansion is contained, they are finished!
But these idiots are still thinking about how to get a ticket in Lushun!
Dorgon saw Fat Laoba's displeasure, glared at Duduo, and shouted: "Stupid! Things are not as simple as you think!"

Dodo poked his neck and said, "I just don't like Lushun, so I have to flatten it!"

Dorgon said: "Shut up!"

Placing Lushun is the wish of the vast majority of Hou Jinbei Le, too many Manchurian athletes died there, how can this hatred not be avenged?However, Hou Jin had more than enough heart and strength, and the loss in the Battle of Lushun was too heavy. The four banners of Xianghuang, Xianghong, Zhenglan, and Xianglan have not yet filled up their troops, and launched a large-scale offensive against Lushun again. Isn't it courting death!Huang Taiji forced a smile, and said: "Young brother Wang is very brave, he becomes stronger the more he suffers, he is indeed one of my great gold generals. Lushun is definitely going to fight, but when and how to fight, we have to make a long-term plan..."

Duoduo said angrily: "Think long-term, think long-term, always think long-term! When you finish your plan, Minggou will..."

Dorgon's voice was stern: "Shut up!" He knew that this younger brother was talking openly. If he didn't stop him, who knows what ugly words he would say, making everyone present unable to step down!
After all, Duduo was a little afraid of this brother. Seeing that Duoergon looked so ugly, he didn't dare to say anything anymore.

The temperament is most similar to that of Duduo. Hauge, who is also full of muscles, has shrugged his head and said nothing from the court meeting until now. He seems to have changed his gender and is determined to be a quiet and beautiful man.First in the battle of Dalinghe, and then in the battle of Lushun, the performance of the son of King Khan was not satisfactory, and the right to speak was naturally weakened a lot.Adversity can temper people, at least now this guy knows to think before speaking.

Fan Wencheng said: "The top priority is not to fight Lushun, but how to stabilize the price of grain and cloth!" Waiting for the price of things to rise steadily, one stone of grain has already risen to five taels of silver, and if there is no way to do it, it will soon rise to six or seven taels of silver!"

Huang Taiji became restless for a while, isn't there too much bad news?First, the battle of Dalinghe suffered heavy losses, and then the battle of Lushun suffered a disastrous defeat. Shanxi merchants tried to help buy some new gunpowder, but they got a batch of fakes that would never explode. Now it is even worse, and the price of food has risen!He has lingering fears about the horrible food price of 20 taels of silver for one stone of rice in Shenyang in the Nurhachi era. He has been spared no effort to farm and cultivate wasteland for so many years, hoping to be self-sufficient in food, but the damn climate and the shortage of manpower have greatly reduced his efforts—— ——The Northeast of this era is not the big granary that was later, and the climate of the small ice river ravaged the Ming Dynasty, and it also tossed the Houjin. Who made them rely on the north?In addition, there are no good seeds, and the farm tools and farming techniques are not good enough. The yield of the fields he has worked so hard to reclaim is quite miserable. It can only be said that part of the problem has been solved. Once the Han Chinese grain merchants stop selling grain to Shenyang , they were about to run into big trouble.

The rise in food prices was a big problem for the Ming Dynasty, and it was a matter of life and death for the Hou Jin Dynasty. If this big problem was not solved, they would probably starve to death!

Huang Taiji was very irritable, and he felt exhausted in his heart.He was about to organize his words when the little eunuch came in and told him that Bao Chengxian was back!Huang Taiji lifted his spirits and said, "Please!"

I prayed silently in my heart: I hope Master Bao can bring back some good news!
(End of this chapter)