Chen Qiyu has been in office as the governor of Fengyang and the governor of the grain transport industry for nearly two years. In addition to his normal duties, he also had additional tasks to supervise the thieves and prisoners of war dredge the canal silted sections.

After nearly two years of high-intensity work, more than 5,000 prisoners of war had died due to illness or accidents. The dead people were buried in a hurry, and there was not even a tombstone.

The prisoners of war dredged a total of more than 300 miles of river section, most of which were concentrated in the Huaian section of the canal, making the river channel that was originally severely silted became extremely smooth. Large ships with hundreds of materials could travel unimpeded and no longer use manual fiber pulling.

All the silt cleared from the river is transported to the fields on both sides of the canal as fertilizer.

These fields were newly reclaimed by the victims who migrated from Henan by the imperial court. Millions of victims from Nanyang Prefecture and Ruyang Prefecture, under the organization and management of local officials, have spent nearly two years to open more than 100,000 hectares of new fields in the wasteland on both sides of the canal.

Zhu Youjian once issued an order that the migrant victims would be given ten acres of land per person, and these fields were exempt from rent and taxes; in addition to the distribution of land, each family paid rent and taxes for new land in twelve yuan, which made the disaster victims' enthusiasm for land reclamation.

In order to allow the victims to survive the famine, Chen Qiyu was ordered to build a large granary every 30 miles, intercept millions of stones of grain to store it, and then distribute the grain, rice, salt and dried vegetables for each person every day to the victims to ensure that they have enough physical strength to support their daily work.

Fortunately, the severe drought in the north has not yet affected the Jiangnan area. The grain output in Zhejiang, Huguang and Nanzhili has not been greatly affected. The grain collection is still smooth. These large granaries are not vacant, and the food supply of the victims is guaranteed.

Chen Qiyu now devotes most of his energy to resettlement of newly relocated victims, coordinating the conflicts they have with the local governments, and has assumed more civil responsibilities as Governor Fengyang. He handed over the river dredging and the cabin transportation duties to the head of the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Revenue and the Dui official in the yamen to handle them; he brought two brothers and a group of followers to inspect the relevant matters of the settlement of the victims in order to calm the hearts of the victims and prevent civil unrest events caused by conflicts between the people.

Chen Qiyu was not interested in the matter of canal transportation. He knew that he would operate as usual after leaving the canal transportation yamen, and would not have any eye-catching contributions. Now, what he values ​​more is whether the resettlement of the disaster victims is appropriate. As long as he makes some political achievements in this matter, it will easily attract the attention and appreciation of the emperor.

The relocation of more than one million victims is a huge and arduous project. Although Zhu Youjian also allocated huge sums of money from the treasury to resettlement costs for the victims, it would cost a lot of manpower, material resources, planning and organization in every matter, including surveying the terrain, rationally building residences, and arranging the number of people in a village according to the wasteland.

Although there are many disaster victims this time, the resettlement was quite reasonable and there were no major omissions. This was mainly due to the assistance of local officials from Henan who had moved with the disaster victims. The supervision of the inspectors sent by the court and the large number of Jinyiwei's guards also made an indelible contribution.

That’s right, not only did the victims of several prefectures and counties in Henan move far away, but most of the local officials also followed.

Except for a few gentry and some self-sufficient self-cultivated farmers in the disaster-stricken areas, almost all the unreached people were moved to the Huaian section of the canal. Except for the chief officials and a few officials left behind in Nanyang and other places, the remaining people were led to the victims to the designated locations of the court as organizers. With the assistance of these officials familiar with the people's sentiments, this large-scale immigration was completed in batches.

Of course, with so many people moving, the events that happened during this period are complicated, and Chen Qiyu only mentioned it briefly in the memorial.

After receiving the imperial edict from Zhu Youjian for advice, Chen Qiyu immediately realized that this was a good opportunity for him to return to the center of power in the capital. Since the emperor could consult him on such military and national affairs, it fully demonstrated that the emperor valued his ability very much. This was originally a glory that only important officials in the court would enjoy. As long as he put forward unique and wonderful opinions and propositions in the document, he might also have the opportunity to participate in the war. As long as he has enough military merits, no one can stop his return to Beijing.

In the memorial, Chen Qiyu first described how he had settled the victims in the past two years, and then involved the war next year.

It has to be said that Chen Qiyu's strategic vision is indeed excellent. In the memorial, he proposed a unique strategy of cross-sea combat, which was rare in the Ming Dynasty, which generally did not pay attention to landing wars at that time.

Chen Qiyu suggested that the court dispatch troops to the front line of Denglai this year. When the army left the pass next year to face the main force of Jianlu, Jinghaibo mobilized ships to transport the Denglai official army to Liaodong to land. Taking advantage of the concentration of Jianlu troops along Jinzhou and the strength of the Liaodong area was weak, the landing official army rushed directly to Hetuala, completely destroyed the Jianlu ancestral tomb, crushed the bones of slave chiefs of all generations and brought the morale of slave chiefs, and greatly depressed the morale of slave chiefs, and then retreated to the landing location and returned to the Ming Dynasty.

Chen Qiyu's move was both cruel and vicious. If the battle was true, in this era of great luck, when he heard that his ancestral grave was dug and his old nest was brought to his back, the descendants of the wild boar skin with the Ming army on the left wing would definitely be in chaos, and the chances of the official army's victory would increase greatly.

Hetuara built the Manchu ancestral tomb, which was later called the Yongling of the Qing Dynasty. It was built during the Wanli period and is now called Xingjing Tomb. It is buried in the sixth-generation ancestor Mengtemu, great-grandfather Fuman, grandfather Juechang'an, father Takshi, uncle, uncle and others. It was called "the spirit of the emperor" by Huang Taiji and others and was also the spiritual pillar of Jianzhou. Although Huang Taiji moved the capital to Shengjing after ascending the throne, thousands of elite troops still left behind in Hetuara to protect the ancestral tombs.

Chen Qiyu suggested to Zhu Youjian that the government troops landing in Liaodong must be selected to send generals, officers and soldiers who are fearless, and the number of them should be around 5,000. Before the war, they were given a heavy reward to inspire their ambitions. Those who fell into battle were kindly polite to their families, and generals and officials allowed to pay their labor with high positions. The so-called rewards must be brave men, and 5,000 people should not be difficult to choose, such as the thief Zhang Wenyao's tribe and Liu Guoneng tribe who surrendered in Shaanxi.

Chen Qiyu did not hide his contempt and hostile attitude towards the thieves and surrenders. The reason why he suggested that Zhu Youjian choose people from these two parts was obviously a sign of killing people with a knife.

In his eyes, these surrendered generals were unreliable. The reason why they surrendered to the court was a speculative act under the circumstance that they had no choice but to take, and their true intentions were questionable.

Moreover, Zhang Wenyao and Liu Guoneng's troops have not made any achievements since their surrender. The two ministries have consumed more than 10,000 people in the court's food and salary. Since they are officials, they should serve the country. Next year, almost all the elite Ming Dynasty officials will go out of seclusion to fight. It is really uneasy to stay in the mainland. It is better to choose them to be brave and sent to Liaodong. If they win and return, it is a surprise; if they fall to the enemy's territory, it is also a sacrifice for the country, which is a strategy for both worlds.

Zhu Youjian expressed deep appreciation for Chen Qiyu's thoughts in detail, which is actually a matter of old-fashioned thinking. Although he mentioned that such extreme cases are almost impossible, it is not a bad thing to prevent problems before they happen.

The combat strategy proposed by Chen Qiyu is generally feasible, and the specific combat plan needs to be discussed in detail by relevant personnel of the Ministry of War before it can be formulated. After the Ministry of War came up with the plan, Zhu Youjian will issue an order to select elite troops from Zhang Wenyao and Liu Guoneng's troops to garrison. Zheng Zhilong will send ships to the north to explore the landing point and the contact point, and carry the officers and soldiers to and from Denglai and Liaodong to conduct exercises so that the officers and soldiers will adapt to the environment in advance and will not lose their combat effectiveness due to lack of water.

When it comes to landing in Liaodong, Zhu Youjian's first thought was Pi Island run by Mao Wenlong. After the battle to leave the customs next year, the Denglai army should immediately seize Pi Island, and then use Liaodong Han people who are familiar with the terrain as a guide, from Zhenjiang Fort, along the west bank of the Yalu River, and directly drove directly to Hetuala. History has proved that Jianlu's troops were extremely weak in this area, which was directly related to the fact that neither side valued the navy and did not expect that there would be an army landing across the sea.
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