king of war

Chapter 93 Liaodong Farming
As soon as they heard about the siege of Hetuala, the soldiers and horses gathered in Liaodong were excited and rushed to seize the opportunity to go out.

This is a rare opportunity to take credit for nothing, and everyone squeezed their heads up.

Qin Rongshuai led the new army on a slow march, and several troops had already reached the city of Hetuala.

These troops tried to attack the city once, but their heads were bruised and bloody. Zhejiang soldiers stood aside with cannons to watch the fun.

In the end, he had to wait honestly for Qin Rongshuai, to be precise, for the new army cannon.

After waiting for three days, the new army came late. After repairing, they gathered a hundred cannons outside the city gate on one side, lined up and started bombing.

The cannon barrels of Qin Rongshuai's new army are made of seamless steel pipes brought by him, and their strength is not an order of magnitude stronger than the bronze cannons of this era.

The gun barrel is good, the charge of gunpowder will naturally be more, the power is great, and the range is far.

These specially-made artillery are far beyond the cognition of people of this era. Their only impression is that the artillery of the new army is powerful and solidly cast.

Under the bombardment of more than a hundred cannons, the city wall of Hetuala was crumbling, and a hole was opened in just half a day.

The soldiers of Liao Town, who had already been unable to hold on any longer, swarmed in through the breach, and then started a fierce street battle with the remaining soldiers of Jianlu.

Qin Rongshuai, on the other hand, led the new army to watch outside the city, allowing the troops from all walks of life to attack the city.

Because he knew that except for some first-level credits, there was not much oil and water to scrape in the city, and he had already robbed them all last time.

The street fighting in the city lasted for three days and three nights. It can be said that it was extremely brutal. The city was littered with corpses, most of them were prisoners of war.

In fact, Qin Rongshuai knew very well why this happened. In fact, the real resistance only lasted for half a day.

Some remnants fled to the deep mountains and old forests, and Qin Rongshuai didn't chase them, because the war in Liaodong actually ended at the Battle of Hunhe.

Hetuala, the last stronghold, was washed back and forth by Zhejiang soldiers, Liao soldiers, and Baigan soldiers. Few survived, and the remaining stragglers could not make a difference.

After Hetuala was captured, Xiong Tingbi, the economic strategist of Liaodong, rushed to report victory to the capital at [-] li.

After getting the news, the people in the capital were very excited, and everyone in the city was celebrating for three days, and everyone was beaming.

Starting from the 46th year of Wanli, when Nurhachi rebelled against the Ming Dynasty with the Seven Great Hatreds, the war lasted for four years, costing more than 2000 million taels, losing troops and generals, and losing cities and territories.

During this period, the imperial court raised Liao's salary several times, which made the people miserable, but Jianlu became stronger and stronger, and it seemed that it was going to become a serious problem, but it ended in such a battle.

The chief of the bandits was given the head, and the lair was destroyed. Since then, there has been no more war in Liaodong.

After a complete victory, of course, rewards were given based on merit. The greatest contributor, Qin Rongshuai, was named the Marquis of Pingliao and added the commander of the Imperial Guards.

Under Xiong Tingbi's leadership, he was transferred back to the capital and promoted from Minister of War to Minister of War and Bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion. He would be able to enter the cabinet in two years.

The war in Liaodong subsided, and the post of Liaodong Economic Strategy was also abolished and no longer set up. The abolition of Liaodong's yamen gradually returned to its previous state.

After the war was over, the troops were supposed to go back, but this group of people started making trouble again.

The reason is still for silver. The soldiers of various ministries who had made a small fortune in Hetuala were thinking about the imperial court rewarding silver, especially the first-level silver.

At that time, the military law of the Ming Dynasty stipulated that if you captured the head of a Jurchen sergeant, you could get a reward of 50 taels of silver. But 25 taels of silver.

The heads of generals and important figures are even more expensive, ranging from 100 taels to 1000 taels.

But the imperial court obviously couldn't afford much money anymore, so all the troops couldn't leave.

If they didn't leave, Qin Rongshuai was secretly happy, but he would not show it on the surface. At the same time, he secretly encouraged the soldiers to make trouble and asked the court to honor the reward.

The number of Jianlu heads exceeded [-], and the court could not honor them at all.

Seeing that a mutiny was about to happen, Qin Rongshuai gave the court an idea.

Instead of rewarding silver with fields, there is so much land in Liaodong and the population is sparse, it is better to award the land in Liaodong to meritorious soldiers and let them farm here, killing two birds with one stone.

Seeing Qin Rongshuai's memorial, the cabinet bosses were overjoyed. As long as the court was not allowed to pay for it, any method would do.

This plan was quickly approved by the cabinet, and after the news reached Liaodong, the situation was immediately calmed down.

Qin Rongshuai's new army is the main force, and the other troops are drizzle in terms of numbers and combat achievements, so they can't make trouble if they want to.

The Zhejiang soldiers and the Sichuan soldiers were both guest troops and could not stay. They took the land and sold it without any intention of planting it.

After all the guest troops were sent away, only the local soldiers and horses in Liao Town remained, and Commander Qin Rong didn't care about them. He directly led the new army to occupy the land before Jianlu, and then started farming.

Qin Rongshuai directly reported to the cabinet, considering that Liaodong had been destroyed by war for many years, and the people were in dire straits.He applied to guard this place, disbanded most of the new troops, and let them open up wasteland and farmland locally.

Not only that, Qin Rongshuai also asked the imperial court to make Liaodong the first choice for resettlement of refugees and immigrate to the border.

Liaodong is a place of bitter cold and there is no oil or water. The cabinet was a little surprised by Qin Rongshuai's choice, thinking that he had broken his head in the war. .

Qin Rongshuai went to the table several times, and his words were sincere. The cabinet saw that he didn't seem to be cheating, so it was approved after a final discussion.

At the same time, Liaodong was exempted from taxes for three years. They all felt that Qin Rongshuai would have to come back in less than three years.

But Qin Rongshuai was overjoyed. From then on, the sky was high and the emperor was far away, and he could do whatever he wanted.

The first step in farming is prospecting, and then set down the base car, and start farming with this as the center.

Xiaosiping Village Dongshan is rich in iron ore. Nurhachi had set up an iron smelting workshop here before. There are also coal mines nearby, which is very suitable for a steel base.

So Qin Rongshuai launched a vigorous iron and steel smelting movement, and the indigenous blast furnace was launched.

All kinds of low-quality steel produced are turned into various living utensils and farm tools, and then exchanged with herdsmen on the grassland for livestock, especially cattle and horses, which are very useful and in great demand.

At the same time, Qin Rongshuai took out the seeds of various cold-resistant crops from his portable space. He first opened up wasteland and planted potatoes and sweet potatoes. At the same time, he planted some corn to see how it grew.

Then Qin Rongshuai began to think about how to climb the technology tree. At this moment, he thought of the golden apple he got before, and he was overjoyed.

With cheats like golden apples, the technology tree is not the same as making rockets, swish.

But when he opened the golden apple, his heart went cold.

The golden apple's technology has been analyzed, but he can't use it directly, and needs to pay the system to exchange it.

"No?!" Qin Rongshuai asked with a sore face, "If the golden apple is your thing, it would be fine to exchange technology, but this thing is mine, why do you need to spend money to exchange technology?"

"Come on, explain to me what this money means?"

[Golden Apple technology belongs to the Isu technology, and the stored data is in the Isu language, and this payment is for translation]

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(I’m a little stuck. The next chapter will be very late. You can read it tomorrow. Also please vote!)

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