MTL - Number of People-Chapter 2638 Guizi scroll Liaodong prospect, mastered in one hand

  Chapter 2638 Guizi Juan Liaodong Outlook, mastered by one hand

The prospect of Liaodong is indeed exciting, especially to solve the threat of Jianzhou Jurchen in one fell swoop, and to bring Donghai Jurchen into governance. This ambition is not small, but for the court princes, this is to expand the territory and go down in history. A good opportunity, no one can not be tempted.

  In the future, it can be recorded in the history books that during the period when a certain person was in power, the country was prosperous and the people were peaceful, and they expanded thousands of miles from the east to the north, resettled millions of people, and the people admired them...

   But this is certainly fascinating, but for the princes, there is still a problem, and that is Feng Ziying's arrangement.

  Feng Ziying can continue to stay in Liaodong for a short period of time, which is what he himself means. To promote a series of military and political plans in Liaodong, the court officials are also happy to let him stay in Liaodong, but they also have to consider the next step.

   It is possible this year, and even next year, Feng Ziying can continue to be in Liaodong. After all, the term of the governor is at least three years, which makes sense, but what about the year after? You can't always keep Feng Ziying in Liaodong, can you?

   How to arrange it when I come back, at least I have to arrange a position as a minister, and I still feel a bit shabby no matter how I look at it, and there is no problem in joining the cabinet. Now the newspapers in the capital city and Jiangnan are blowing Feng Ziying like a heavenly man.

  The problem is that Feng Ziying is too young. Even if she comes back the next year, Feng Ziying will be under thirty years old, and she will become a minister and join the cabinet. I am afraid that many people will find it hard to accept.

   It is unreasonable not to let him come back, but there is no way to arrange for him to come back, which also makes the cabinet ministers feel a headache. Even Qi Yongtai himself found it difficult.

Of course, he hopes that his disciple can join the cabinet as soon as possible, and he can help him share some of the burden, but he also needs to take into account the emotions of other people, especially the feelings of the Beidi and Huguang scholars. If there is disharmony or the alliance with Huguang scholars breaks down, then it is not worth it.

   Besides, Feng Ziying is indeed young, and a few years later is justified, but he has to arrange a place for the other party.

Fortunately, there is still more than a year to go, and Qi Yongtai is also considering this year to see if there are any of the seven ministers of the DPRK and even the cabinet ministers who want to take the initiative to become an official, so that a decent position can be vacated, and at least it can be respected. Feng Ziying has an explanation.

  While everyone was worrying and thinking about how Feng Ziying would arrange it if she asked to return to Beijing, Feng Ziying enthusiastically began to consider how to build Liaodong into the grand plan of the next Shandong.

  Feng Ziying did not expect much support from the imperial court in terms of money and grain, which was actually unrealistic.

The civil unrest in Shanshan and Shaanxi, and the Bailian war in Hebei and Henan have basically overdrawn the imperial court's financial resources in the past few years. In addition to the Liaodong War in the past two years, it can be said that if Huang Ruliang hadn't worked hard to plan, and Feng Ziying's continuous planning and use The Ministry of Household Affairs has long been unable to sustain the financing by borrowing, national debt and other means.

  Now it’s hard to see that Liaodong’s troubles in building a state are coming to an end, and the court’s focus is on relief and support for the construction of Shanxi, Shanxi and Hebei. You suddenly jumped out and said that Liaodong should also support it. Isn’t this killing people?

  So Feng Ziying never thought about asking the court for support such as money and food. All he wanted was policies, and the court was never stingy with giving.

  As long as it is limited to Liaodong, let Feng Ziying go to trouble you, and save you from thinking about going back to Beijing and making arrangements. No matter how capable you are, you can come out as an envoy in Liaodong.

   Now that Liaodong is about to be unified, Feng Ziying is going to conduct a comprehensive statistics on the population of the entire Liaodong region soon, and the current preliminary estimate of the population is about 2 million.

Because in the Li Chengliang era, the Liaodong army would hide a large number of people, so the population of Liaodong on the imperial household registration was less than 900,000. Later, Anle Prefecture was taken away by Jianzhou, and nearly 80,000 people were lost. Tielingwei lost four Shenyang, with a population of 10,000, lost nearly 200,000, so the population dropped sharply to less than 600,000.

But in fact, even if Shenyang, Tieling, and Anlezhou are lost, Feng Ziying estimates that if the hidden population can be added, even if only 70% of the population is cleared, there will be at least about 1.3 million in Liaodong, which means more than half of them. The population actually has no household registration, and they are all concealed and overwhelmed by the behemoth of the army.

  So through this round of unification of Liaodong, Feng Ziying is preparing to clean up the population of Liaodong in an all-round way. He is the governor of Jiliao and the local emperor of Liaodong, so he has this power and resources.

  Population and land are the most important material bases of this era. Without these two things, everything is out of the question.

But now there is no shortage of land in Liaodong, especially after the Jianzhou Jurchen is completely solved, the security issue is no longer a problem. The black land inside and outside the wall over there has become fertile soil for cultivation, and potatoes and corn are used as belts. Come and bring all possibilities for the output on this land.

   There is no shortage of land, but population is a big problem. The area of ​​Liaodong is larger than Shandong, but the population is less than one-fifth of Shandong.

According to official statistics, the registered population in Shandong should be about 11 million, but the actual population should be around 14 million. If the population of Liaodong is not lost before the war, before the loss of Anlezhou, Tieling and Shenyang, it would be about 2 million. , If you add Jianzhou Jurchen, Donghai Jurchen and Haixi Jurchen, it will be about 2.34 million, which is really less than one-fifth of Shandong.

  That is to say, the area is now relatively larger, even after taking over the Jianzhou Jurchen and Donghai Jurchen sites, the area may be two to three times that of Shandong, but the population is only about one-sixth of Shandong.

Even if Liaodong is mainly forests, swamps and habitats, it is much easier to reclaim them and turn them into mature land than in Dongfan and Luzon. Fan and Luzon are more adaptable to them.

  Now there are potatoes and corn, two crops that are very suitable for planting in Liaodong, and it is much easier to promote. As long as the population problem is solved, Feng Ziying is really confident that he will rebuild Shandong in ten to twenty years.

   Weng Qiming, He Tingfa, Wang Shaoquan, Liu Keding and others were also full of curiosity when they arrived in Liaoyang.

When they came from the Liaoxi Corridor, they felt the atmosphere and pressure of war all the way. Liaodong was in an all-out war with the Jianzhou Jurchen. This war started last year and has lasted for more than a year, and now it is even more serious. Came to a climax.

   At this time, Feng Ziying suddenly invited them to visit Liao, which still surprised them.

   Or Feng Ziying thinks that the Liaodong War will not affect the overall situation? What is the intention of inviting a group of people to visit Liao?

However, Weng, He, Wang, Liu and others, as representatives of Jiangnan merchants, salt merchants, Shanxi merchants, and Anfu merchants, certainly could not refuse Feng Ziying's invitation, not to mention Feng Ziying's friendship with them over the years, but in Liaodong. In terms of cooperation, they have already been bound together, so several companies braved the wind and snow and headed north without any refusal.

  Feng Ziying greeted several people in the Liaoyang Governor's Mansion Yimen, and also flattered several people.

  Governor Xiao Feng greeted several businessmen in person, and if it got out, it might become news that shocked the world.

   Several people repeatedly claimed that they couldn't bear it, but Feng Ziying didn't care.

   "Waiting for you, I want to tell you a good news in advance..." Feng Ziying smiled.

  Wang Shaoquan was the most sensitive, "My lord, but Shenyang has recovered?"

   "Hehe, Shenyang was recovered more than ten days ago. I went there and came back." Feng Ziying said with a smile: "Tieling has also been recovered. The day before yesterday, Nurhachi led the remnants to flee northward, and Anle Prefecture has also been recovered."

  Anle Prefecture is actually the area from Kaiyuan to Changtu in later generations, next to Siping City, Jilin Province.

"Anle Prefecture has been recovered?" Several people were taken aback. Anle Prefecture was taken away by Jianzhou Jurchen a few years ago, and it was already the northernmost border of the Great Zhou Dynasty. At that time, they only controlled Qingyang Fort and Zhenbei Pass in the northern part of Anle Prefecture, like a protrusion that penetrated into the Jurchen-controlled area of ​​Jianzhou.

"Well, it has been recovered. I hope that Nurhachi can hold on in Anle Prefecture, but he is useless. Now Nurhachi has probably taken 10,000 to 20,000 people to the north. There are tens of thousands of Han people in Anle Prefecture, and there are even two. The 30,000 Jianzhou Jurchens have been thrown to us, hehe, I never thought that I would now manage the Jurchens for Nurhachi, it's really interesting."

  Feng Ziying's optimistic and cheerful attitude made several businessmen feel relieved. It seems that Zhou Jun really won a big victory in Liaodong, and according to this person, it seems that he is not satisfied with the current results.

"My lord, does that mean that the whole territory of Dazhou has been recovered by you?" Weng Qiming paid more attention to the political influence brought by this incident to Feng Ziying. He defeated Jurchen in one fell swoop and recovered all his homelands. This is of extraordinary significance. .

"Forget it, Li Chengliang's lost Kuandian Six Fortress has long been recovered. Last month, Mao Wenlong captured Hetuala, the false capital of Jianzhou Jurchen. Now it is under our control, so Nurhachi can't escape back to his lair. , can only run north to ask for help from Donghai Jurchen, well, Argan Mountain is probably his destination, I don’t intend to give him this respite, I have also informed Donghai Jurchen, and will send troops soon Going north, if there are no accidents, the Jianzhou Jurchen issue, well, it should be said that the entire Jurchen issue can be completely resolved before next spring,..."

   Several businessmen are excited, and it seems that the previous investment bets are really right.

"Now I'm still thinking about how to divide this Liaodong. Well, the territory of Nuer Gandusi in the former Ming Dynasty should be included in Liaodong, which means that the territory may be expanded several times, all the way to Kuwu in the north. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Polo River Guard was established on Kuwu Island, and now there is still Eizo next to it, which will most likely be brought under the jurisdiction of Liaodong. The land is too large, there are too many forests, and the population is not enough, so I I will find a few people to come,…”

  (end of this chapter)