After an earthquake, the capital's officialdom returned to peace. Less than half a month after the Chinese New Year, all the ministries were busy, but the various banquets and gifts from each carriage in front of the ministries were already unsatisfied.

Thousands of officials went to the Jinyiwei to have tea. Although more than a hundred people have been confiscated recently, many of them have become much more honest after experiencing this round of striking the tiger. At least now, no one will commit crimes against the wind.

It was a rare sunny day. Liu Jun was basking in the sun and drinking tea on the front porch of the hall.

Feng Sheng stood aside and reported to Liu Jun.

"The Dongyu army wanted to evacuate from the south and return to rescue, the Dacheng army was firmly stalked, and the two sides fought again a few days ago. Dongyu was unintentionally entangled, but the Dacheng army seized the opportunity and defeated the Dongyu army. The Dongyu army retreated step by step, and the Dacheng army advanced rapidly, seizing several border cities in succession. Not only did they regain the city captured by the Dongyu army over the past decade, but they also seized the Dongyu city, where the origin of the Dongyu Dynasty was born."

"In addition, the capital of Dongyu is still besieged. King Dongyu is drawing troops from Bagan and other places to rescue him, and he is unable to take care of our army's southward journey. However, Meng Yang, Mubang and other chieftains gathered local soldiers everywhere and wanted to resist the heavenly army."

Liu Jun smiled and said that even the Dongyu Dynasty was too busy to take care of itself. How could a few chieftains resist the Heavenly Army? Even if they wanted to resist stubbornly, they would not be able to resist for a few days.

"We can mobilize the bottom of the tribes such as Mengyang, or find some small leaders to divide and win over them, and promise those serfs to freely divide the land. We will do the things we have done in the southwest again, and this time we are tougher against the chieftains who resisted. If we dare to resist stubbornly, we will uproot them, destroy the village, confiscate the money and land, and take everyone to the north of Liao to open up land."

Myanmar is now full of war and chaos. For the Han Dynasty, after entering Myanmar, the biggest enemy was no longer the Dongyu Dynasty army, but only the former Liuwei chieftain. For more than a hundred years, these chieftains have become Burmese people, and they are not willing to surrender to the Han Dynasty. However, they cannot help but surrender or not.

The Han army came with guns and cannons. Those who surrendered could continue to survive on that land. Those who did not surrender would be ruthlessly crushed.

"How is it like in Liaodong?" Liu Jun is no longer worried about the southwest. In the current situation, unless the Burmese people go against the will of heaven, this dynasty that once had been strong and beaten the Ming Dynasty was about to come to an end.

This time, the person who answered Liu Jun's words was not Feng Sheng, but Liu Yunsheng, the right envoy of the Privy Councillor.

He took the speech and replied with a smile, "The situation in Liaodong is better than that in the southwest. The Mongolian Tartars are now enjoying robbing in Liaodong. They refuse to withdraw their troops on heavy snow. Just now, they received the report and Liaoyang City has been captured. All 200,000 people in the city have been captured. The Mongolian princes have handed over the city to our army to take over, and also given 48,000 prisoners."

"I remember that the population plundered by the Mongolian princes has always been 20% of the imperial court? Why did the population 200,000 be given to 48,000?"

Liu Jun seemed not too surprised that Liaoyang City had been destroyed, but instead he was concerned about the population divided by the Mongolian princes.

"It has always been based on two parts, but because they broke through Liaoyang this time, they asked the artillery to launch the city gate, so they gave an extra 10,000. In this way, it turns out that 200,000 is minus this 10,000, and 20,000 is 38,000. Adding to the ten thousand earned by the artillery, it will be 48,000."

"These Tartars have good arithmetics, and they know that they have spread the cost of the artillery in advance."

Several ministers laughed together.

"But we didn't lose, either." Fu Shan smiled.

It was indeed not a loss, and the court basically did not take action at all. It just transferred a bid for artillery, followed by a knights and a warrior order, and then a Jianzhou Town, as well as a group of staff officers and a group of Jinyiwei spies, and then Liaodong had already taken it down.

The Knights and the Warrior Order were actually corners dug from the Mongolian princes. Jianzhou Town was a Jurchen surrendered soldiers. Therefore, in fact, the actual soldiers sent by the court were only one target artillery, plus a group of staff officers.

The Mongols braved the wind, snow and cold, and attacked cities and villages. As a result, all the land they captured was handed over to the court. Even if the money, grain and livestock were stolen, they would be divided into 20% of the court.

No matter how you calculate it, the court will not lose money.

"Your Majesty, this time the Mongolian tribes robbed at least 500,000 people. The more than 100,000 people who divided our population, each tribe divided about 400,000. Will this make the Mongolian tribes expand too quickly?" Fu Zonglong, who had taken over as Minister of War, was a little worried.

After experiencing various wars since the late Ming Dynasty, Mongolia in the south and north of the desert have only more than 2 million people left. Compared with the 200 million people in the Han Dynasty, it is one percent. Last time, the imperial court took the opportunity to destroy four tribes including Korqin, and reduced the number by 500,000, which has a great effect on controlling Mongolia.

But now the Mongolian tribes were expeditioning Liaodong in the east and divided the population of 400,000 Jurchens at once, which means that they have increased by 20% at once. Even if they are prisoners, they can still greatly increase the strength of the Mongols.

"Then find a way to get these people over." Liu Jun said distractedly. Last time he conquered Korqin, most of the 500,000 people were killed, and the rest were basically all in the hands of the great man.

This time, the Mongolian tribes knew that the population was valuable, so they were very careful not to kill and injure, but tried their best to capture them alive.

"Do you just ask for it?" Fu Zonglong frowned, "Wouldn't that be a tiger's mouth to seize food?"

Before Liu Jun could answer, Fu Shan had already answered for him.

"I don't actually have to force my troops to seize them." Fu Shan said with a smile.

Fu Shan thought it was not difficult to seize these Jurchen prisoners from Mongolia, and there was a chance. Jurchen prisoners are now popular, much more valuable than cattle and horses. The Mongolian tribes want to use this to supplement the tribe, and the newly enfeoffed nobles such as knights and warriors of the court also urgently needed populations to fill their fiefs.

Each knight has a sacred reserve mission. In addition to preparing his own full set of equipment, a knight must also prepare five entourages and fifty militias. Once the court summons, he must lead his subordinates to send troops according to the call.

But these newly enthroned knights and warriors were originally Mongolian princes. Although they were able to leave their original tribes, they could only take away their own families at most. These families were far from enough. It was enough to form their own entourage, but it was difficult to pull up the militia team. They needed population, and even Jurchen prisoners, they became popular goods.

Now a strong Jurchen prisoner of war is worth 100 yuan, and there is still no market price.

However, since the Jurchens had become goods with clear prices, Liu Jun believed that the court had a lot of opportunities to get these Jurchen prisoners of war.

"How to do it?" Fu Zonglong asked.

"There are many ways. For example, now Mongolia is fighting in Liaodong. In addition to looting supplies and raising wars, we also have to rely on our merchants to transport food and grass with the army to replenish supplies. In addition, they also have a high demand for weapons and equipment. Even various products from our great men, such as tobacco, wine, tea, thousands of miles of mirrors, pocket watches, etc., which are all things they need very much."

As long as there is a need, it is easy to deal with and replace. For the supplies and commodities that the Mongolian princes needed very much, they were not simply sold with silver, but asked them to exchange for the Jurchen prisoners.

The price doesn’t matter, it’s a little higher, anyway, the profits of the goods from the Han Dynasty are even higher. In short, you have to find a way to exchange the Jurchen population that has obtained from Mongolian parts.

It is not a problem for the Mongolian princes to have more livestock and money in their hands. Anyway, they will use it to buy various Han goods. The wool will eventually come from the sheep, as long as the Mongolian princes are not allowed to bring all the Jurchen prisoners back to the tribe.

"Liaoyang City has been captured, who will His Majesty send to take over?"

"Let Wang Qian go." Liu Jun called out the old brother's general. The military region outside the pass now has also increased the northern province of Liaodong and western Liaoning, becoming a military region that governs the three provinces. Wang Qian is the emperor's brother and has been in charge of Liaodong in the past two years. It is natural to let him move from Lushun to Liaoyang.

"Can you move the town now?"

It's cold and the weather is approaching.

However, Liu Jun still asked Wang Qian to move to Liaoyang immediately, but there was no need to go north in large numbers. He could just bring one or two assistive forces to move to Liaoyang. Liaoyang is also the core of Liaodong. Since Liaoyang City has been captured, it is necessary to take over and control it as soon as possible.

"The Mongolian tribes have just captured Liaoyang, and they probably will not resign. I am afraid they will attack Shenyang again next."

Fu Shan estimated.

Liu Jun waved his hand, "It doesn't matter if they want to fight, as long as they want. It doesn't matter if they go to Heilongjiang. We continue to provide artillery and intelligence support, and continue to send Haoge's Jianzhou Town, the Royal Knights and the Warriors to assist. Let Wang Qian sit in Liaoyang and help them watch, but as long as Dorgon and the Jurchen elites came down to fight to the south, there is no need to directly interfere in the attack of the Mongolian princes."

This kind of situation of driving tigers and swallowing wolves is what Liu Jun is most happy to see.

As for the Mongols siege cities and plundering land in Liaodong and seizing a large number of livestock, money and food, Liu Jun was not very concerned about it. Although the Liaodong Jurchens were weak, they still fought with trapped animals, and the severe cold in Liaodong was also very troublesome.

Since the Mongols were not afraid of casualties or severe cold, let them go. Anyway, the land they captured was handed over to the Han Dynasty according to the agreement. The imperial court could trade the money and grain population and then take it back.

The key is the population. The court must strictly control the number of Mongolians. Whether it is the Mongolians or their slaves, as long as they unswervingly control Dingkou, even if the Mongolians have more money and more food, they will be just a very fat guardian dog raised by the Han Dynasty.

Liu Jun didn't mind giving more money to the Mongolian princes, nor did he mind robbing more livestock, but he had to find a way to get the captive population back.

"It would be better to defeat Liaodong as soon as possible, so that the Jurchens would no longer be able to threaten the court. The court could free up their hands to prepare for the Western Expedition."

Dorgon retreated to Heilongjiang and had no intention of competing for power with the Han Dynasty. Now the aggressive advance of the Mongolian tribes is even more afraid that he had never expected. The four Korqin tribes were defeated quickly, while the Mongolian tribes were attacking suddenly.

Originally, Dorgon was afraid that he would plan to move northward to start a new capital while he wanted to defend Liaodong while he wanted to defend the other side. But now the arrival of the Mongolian tribes has made all his plans fail.

Most of the population supplies left in the south and did not move north in time now fell into the hands of the Mongolian princes. This was the Jurchens who made the wounds worse, and salt was spread on their wounds.

Now Dorgon can only pray to the north that the Mongols will not fight to the Heilongjiang River.

Liu Jun has no plans to fight to the Heilongjiang River for the time being. At most, after taking down Chenyang, Harwen and other places, he will send a few Mongolian troops to fight Qiufengcao Valley from time to time.

Heilongjiang is too far away and is so anxious that Dorgon is afraid that he will move to Jiangbei.

After taking down the Liao Dynasty, Liaodong will be stable. At that time, the three river plains and the Jurchen tribes on the eastern coast will be conquered, and the imperial court will completely recover the control of Liaodong.

"Moxi Mongolia is indeed a big problem. If you don't get rid of them for a day, the northwest will be in peace."

Compared to the dead rat of Jurchens, Moxi Mongolia poses a greater threat to the court and their strength is stronger.

After recapturing Liaoshen, only three thousand light cavalry would be needed to drive the Jurchens across the north of Heilongjiang River and would never dare to turn back forever. However, Moxi and Mongolia had not yet seen the military power of the Han Dynasty, and if they did not concentrate their efforts to fight this battle, they would not be able to conquer them.

"It's still the old way. After regaining Liaoshen, the Mongolian princes will be transferred to the west to fight, and let them charge forward and attack the front line. Then, the town of Jianzhou will be transferred." Liu Jun has become more and more skilled in driving the tiger and swallowing the wolf. (To be continued.)
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