Chapter 1022 Yuan Chonghuan's surprise attack on Jianzhou

In late September, Zeng Jing moved to the prince consort's mansion quietly.

The next day.

Su Mingzhe looked at the shy Zeng Jing and found it a little funny, but he still asked a question:
"Zeng Jing, do you prefer to have children and live an ordinary life, or be a fairy who can stay young forever?"

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Zeng Jing looked at the man in confusion.

If you can be a fairy who stays young forever, who would want to be an ordinary woman?

"I have a book of exercises in my hand. If you practice it successfully, it can help women stay young forever. However, they cannot have children. Otherwise, every time they give birth to a child, they will age by ten or twenty years."

Su Mingzhe told Zeng Jing about his situation.

Also because of the stimulation in the previous plane, in this plane, Su Mingzhe doesn't want so many children anymore.

It just so happened that he saw that most of his women were martial artists, so he simply passed on the [Formless Divine Art] to these women.

However, before teaching her martial arts, he still had to ask the woman's opinion.

If a woman wants a child, Su Mingzhe will satisfy her.

For example, Princess Shouning, Su Mingzhe made her pregnant and she gave birth to two sons.

Other women, between having children and staying young forever, chose the latter.

Facing the man's question, Zeng Jing thought again and again and also chose [Xiao Wuxiang Gong].

After all, after practicing [Xiao Wuxiang Gong], one can still have children, at most the effect is not that good.

In her opinion, this is not a multiple-choice question, but a ranking question.

Su Mingzhe immediately passed the [Small Wuxiang Gong] to Zeng Jing.

Ever since Zeng Jing entered the Prince Consort's residence, Su Mingzhe attended the morning court less and less frequently.

Everyone else thought that Su Mingzhe was satisfied with the status quo and began to lose his mind and become degenerate.

Only Jinyiwei commander Luo Sigong knew.

Although Su Mingzhe went to the court less frequently, his control over the court became more and more handy.

In the blink of an eye, it was the fourth year of Taichang.

The Ming Dynasty had already reduced the head tax and land tax.

However, due to the increasingly severe drought and locust plagues, the people in the north, with a large population and limited land, still have no food to eat.

Su Mingzhe had to increase the scale of "work-for-relief".

Infrastructure such as rivers, official roads, post stations, schools, and clinics were all renovated.

Su Mingzhe had to start industrial infrastructure construction again.

However, industrial infrastructure construction is different from infrastructure construction.

Building infrastructure is a must everywhere.

Industrial infrastructure construction requires focused planning.

The Ming Dynasty had a developed economy, and if it wanted to build industrial infrastructure, the best area would be near the Yangtze River Delta.

The previous exemption of land tax played a big role at this time.

There was a policy in the Ming Dynasty to reward land reclamation.

In other words, it is an unowned land, and whoever opens up the land owns it.

Before, common people could not afford the land tax and the head tax, so they did not dare to open up wasteland.

Now, the Ming Dynasty has abolished the head tax and the land tax. The common people are no longer under pressure. They all roll up their sleeves and mobilize their entire families to vigorously reclaim wasteland.

Things like enclosing lakes to create farmland and burning mountains to create farmland are all basic operations.

It can be said that the vast majority of ordinary people yearn to own a piece of land of their own.

Of course, not all ordinary people can grow crops well.

In the countryside, there are too many lazy people who don't even know how to farm.

Before this, these wastes rented their own land to the common people who had no land, charging high rents, and then made a fortune by relying on their status as scholars without paying taxes. However, now that the land tax has been exempted and there is no head tax, the common people are everywhere reclaiming wasteland.

Who has the time and money to rent land from a landlord?

For a time, "labor shortage" began to spread in the Jiangnan region.

In order to find people to rent their land, these landlords had no choice but to obey the court's call, contribute money and manpower, and ask the court for help in recruiting long-term workers from the disaster-stricken areas in the north.

Su Mingzhe also happened to be doing some side work and carrying out a large-scale population migration.

The fifth year of Taichang.

The temperature in the north continues to drop and there is severe drought.

Thanks to Su Mingzhe's command, the Ming Dynasty managed to maintain its national strength and even allowed the Jiangnan region to take the lead in industrialization.

The grassland tribes further north were also affected by the disaster.

There was no one from these grassland tribes to help them through their difficult times.

In desperation, they could only choose the most primitive method, starting a war to divert tribal conflicts.

The tribes on the grassland fought against each other.

The Jianzhou Jurchens took advantage of the traitor Khorchin to invade and took over most of the grassland in one fell swoop.

At this time, a grassland tribe asked the Ming Dynasty for help.

The wealth of the Ming Dynasty is obvious to all.

Seeing that the Jianzhou Jurchens were unstoppable, these grassland tribes would rather surrender to the Ming Dynasty than be conquered by them.

After all, after joining the Ming Dynasty, these tribes could only send some horses and grassland specialties to the Ming Dynasty every year.

If conquered by the Jianzhou Jurchens, they would become their vanguards and cannon fodder.

It's clear at a glance which option is better.

After receiving the call for help, Su Mingzhe ordered the border troops to support the grassland tribes, and at the same time ordered Yuan Chonghuan, the Fushun guerrilla general close to the Later Jin, to go out and attack Jianzhou.

In the original historical time and space, Yuan Chonghuan had just passed the imperial examination and was appointed as a small county magistrate in Fujian Province.

In this dimension, Su Mingzhe knew that Yuan Chonghuan was interested in the military, so he transferred him to Fushun to be a guerrilla general.

Li Yongfang, the former Fushun guerrilla general, foolishly accepted Daishan's persuasion to surrender and became the son-in-law of the Later Jin.

This guy didn’t even think about it. Since Su Mingzhe sent Dongfang Bubai to assassinate Ye Zhupi, how could he let him go?
No one else is as stupid as him.

As soon as Su Mingzhe received the news of Li Yongfang's surrender, he sent Zuo Lengchan with a team of troops to kill all nine members of Li Yongfang's clan.

To this day, the heads of Li Yongfang and his sons are all hung on the city walls of Fushun to serve as a warning to future generations.

The Later Jin had witnessed such a powerful counterattack from the Ming Dynasty, so no matter how scarce the supplies were, they only dared to invade the grassland tribes instead of going south to invade the Ming Dynasty.

Now, Su Mingzhe asked Yuan Chonghuan to take advantage of the fact that the main force of Jianzhou Jurchens was not at home and launch a surprise attack on Jianzhou, thus catching Daishan off guard.

Yuan Chonghuan came out of the pass in May, captured Jianzhou City in July, and looted all the Jianzhou Jurchens.

In July, Yuan Chonghuan led his army back to Fushun City.

The Eight Banners of the Jurchens, who were wreaking havoc on the grassland, learned that their anuses had been raped in August.

at this time.

As the Jurchen emperor, Daishan wanted to turn back with his army to bring back his family.

However, Huang Taiji insisted on continuing to invade the grassland tribes and not returning empty-handed.

After all, Jianzhou had been completely looted. If the army returned empty-handed, everyone would have to starve in the coming winter.

After discussion, the leaders of the Eight Banners finally agreed with Huang Taiji's resolution.

Now that things have come to this, there is no other option but to burn our boats.

If they really rushed back to Jianzhou, the Jurchens would be completely finished.

It has to be said that Huang Taiji's strategic layout is much stronger than Daishan's.

Daishan also discovered this. After the meeting of the flag leaders was over, he looked at Huang Taiji's back and felt deeply worried and fearful!

(End of this chapter)