Chapter 638: The Missing 280,000 Stones
Shi Qinming did not understand Liu Peng's logic. Chenyang was personally in charge, with tens of thousands of elite soldiers guarding it. Recently, it has hosted a large number of Mongolians and refugees. It can be said to be the leading city in Liaodong. Even if it is not considered a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is a man who is
Before, Jiannu rushed to Chenyang several times, but in the end he did not even have the courage to attack the city and retreated on his own. Even in the battle of Puhe, the Ming Dynasty was only 700 soldiers. How could Liu Peng be able to lose Shenyang now?
However, although he did not understand Liu Peng's logic, he thought that Liu Peng was not joking. Even if Chenyang City is not lost, it is still in danger. His lord is not an ordinary person, and he often makes extraordinary words but always makes mistakes.
Just like in Shandong, even if there are millions of people living in life, only he had Bixia Yuanjun who had sent a dream to reveal the secrets of the world in advance and made complete preparations to rescue millions of people living in the 43rd and 4th year of Wanli. In the past two years, Liu Peng's judgment on the Liaodong war and Shandong shipping were also hit every step. Therefore, he immediately asked: "Experience, since Liao is as dangerous as if it is exhausted, what should we do?"
"If the order is passed on, Guanglu Island will immediately enter a state of war. Denglai Prefecture enters a first-level strategy, Qingzhou Prefecture enters a first-level combat readiness, and everyone cancels their leave..."
Speaking of this, Liu Peng could only shake his head and said, "It seems that Liaodong has to go!"
But after seeing Shi Qinming away, Zhang Yuchan's ** full of infinite elasticity suddenly hugged Liu Peng: "Husband, since you have talked about the benefits of Sister Qiaozhi and Sister Yujun, why not talk about the benefits of Yuchan'er!"
Liu Peng enjoyed the youthful atmosphere of Zhang Yuchan's body: "I... just like your voice, I just listen to it for another ten years, and I won't get tired of it for a hundred years..."
Zhang Yuchan understood what Liu Peng was talking about. Her little fist hit Liu Peng's shoulder like raindrops, but there was no strength at all. She was shy and angry: "What are you talking about, my husband is so embarrassed! You compensate me, you compensate me... I want you to tell me about the benefits of Sister Yulan and others, and you have to make it clear!"
Because of Zhang Yuxiu's words, the small family banquet was immediately turned up. Whether it was Xu Qiaozhi, Wei Yujun, or Gu Mengyu and Zhang Yuchan, they all started to fight. Only Yao Yulan looked at all with a smile, but she was soon affected by Yingying's laughter and the fight.
But after enough fighting, Zhang Yuchan calmly pressed into Liu Peng's ear and said, "Husband, I know that I bully Yuchan'er, but Yuchan'er will no longer support me... Anyway, I want you to love Yuchan'er for a hundred and a thousand years. No matter how you want Yuchan'er to scream, Yuchan'er will follow you, so that you will never get tired of listening!"
It was a really happy night, and such joy was soon dissipated by bad news from Liaodong.
For the battle situation in Liaodong, the March and April of the first year of Tianqi can be described as collapse.
In fact, just the word "collapse" cannot describe the complete collapse of the Liaodong war situation.
On March 10, the first year of Tianqi, Nurhaci personally led a large army along the Hun River to move forward directly to Chenyang, and used Hun River boats to carry a large number of siege equipment.
On the 12th, Nurhaci arrived at the city of Chenyang. On the 13th, the Later Jin army and the Ming army launched a decisive battle. They first lured He Shixian to fight and annihilate him. Then they launched a response to break the city in one fell swoop. Then they defeated the main force of Sichuan and Zhejiang soldiers in Hunhe. In one day, they defeated the defenders and reinforcements and killed more than 30,000 prisoners of Ming army, and occupied Chenyang.
On the 18th, Nurhahe led his army south to capture Liaoyang. On the 21st, he captured Liaoyang. Yuan Yingtai saw that the city was broken, and the situation was over, so he hanged himself to death.
The two soldiers guarding Shenyang and Liaoyang, under the vanguard of Nurhaci, only lasted for a few days and fell. The Shenyang defenders had as many as 70,000 reinforcements, but the battle lasted for only one day but the Ming army was defeated to an end.
Liaoyang is the location of the Liaodong Metropolitan Office, and its strategic position is extremely important. Therefore, after Nurhaci captured Liao and Shen, he immediately moved the capital to Liaoyang and divided his troops to capture more than 70 cities east of the Liaohe River.
Even if the entire east of the Liaohe River cannot be all enemies, they will still be all enemies in the near future. For this reason, Tao Langxian, the deputy envoy of Dengzhou's coastal defense road, had run away three times in a row. However, Tao Lang was tired first and had a look of spirit: "Liu experience, what happened to what we said last time! It is absolutely no problem to have an additional magistrate in Dengzhou!"
When Liu Peng heard Tao Langxian say this, he was really surprised. He asked, "It's really okay? I can send troops at any time."
"Don't hurry to send troops!"
Tao Langxian is in good spirits now. Liu Peng has been with him for several years and has never seen his spirit be as excited as today: "The war situation in Liaodong is in deteriorating, and sooner or later it will be the enemy east of the Liaohe River. The four guards in southern Liaoning may not be able to support it, so we have to withdraw the military, civilians, money, grain, rice and grain first. With this great achievement, I can naturally go further."
Liu Peng immediately heard the meaning of Tao Langxian's words: "If you go further, then that's it?"
Tao Lang laughed first: "Of course it's the governor. Xiong Tingbi knew that Chenyang fell, so he asked someone to bring me a letter as soon as possible, saying that if he recovered, Tianjin and Denglai would set up a governor to prepare for the enemy. He would definitely recommend me to the candidate for the governor of Denglai. Now that Liao Chen is lost, who else can the court use if Xiong Tingbi?"
Although Xiong Tingbi is the Chu Party and Tao Langxian is an outside figure in Donglin, Xiong Tingbi has a bad personal relationship with many generals in the Donglin Party, and his relationship with Tao Langxian can be described as good as saying. Now that he has not yet recovered, he is ready to push Tao Langxian up.
However, Liu Peng felt that Xiong Tingbi was so inappropriate, but he was not suitable for saying such disappointment: "Yes, Xiong Tingbi will be restored sooner or later... I heard that the court said now that if Xiong Tingbi did not go to this matter, Xiong went to Yuan Dai, lost dozens of cities and hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and the country suffered another major setback."
For the Ming Dynasty, this was another major setback since the Battle of Fushun. Moreover, this battle was not like Sarhu, but only a field defeat, nor was it like Kaiyuan. Tieling only lost a few cities.
Before the Later Jin Dynasty revolted, it had a population of 600,000 to 700,000 people, which can be said to be an enemy country. In the past two years, it has captured cities and land and recruited rebels, and even destroyed its mortal enemy Ye He and received tens of thousands of dollars, and its population has increased to more than one million. However, the population obtained from this series of battles is far less than that of this Liaoshen Battle.
Liao, the sinking was lost, and the enemy was all east of the Liao River. There were at least one or two million Han people trapped by the army of the Later Jin Dynasty. If Nurhaci could successfully digest the new population of one or two million, it would be a great enemy like the Liao and Jin Dynasty. So Tao Lang first took over Liu Peng's topic: "Yes, if Xiong Tingbi was here, the matter would never come to this point. But now it is too late to regret it. Now, we should take advantage of the fact that the Jurchen army and people and money and food to withdraw the military and civilians in southern Liaoning before the army of the Jurchens arrived. How many people can the Guanglu Islands accommodate?"
Liu Peng immediately said: "If you don't make a long-term plan, it will be no problem to accommodate tens of thousands or even more people for a long time. Although the incident happened in a hurry, my father-in-law has already prepared and is worried that it will be difficult to deal with money and food."
"Don't worry about money and grain issues. Gaizhou now has food. Before we get caught in the enemy, we quickly ask General Manager Jiang to transport the rice and beans back. No matter how many ten thousand stones are transported back, they can be handed over to Guanglu for use first. Unexpectedly, I will be 1.8 million stones in front of and behind, but now I will throw them in Gaizhou to pay for all the enemies."
According to Liu Peng's original plan, starting from the first year of Tianqi, 20,000 shi of rice beans were transported to Liaodong every month. At that time, Gaizhou and Beixinkou admitted to receiving 50,000 shi each month, but the appetite of the Ming bureaucrats was amazing. It was only three months after the beginning of spring this year. Tao Langxian asked Liu Peng and Haiyouhui to transport at least 100,000 shi to Liaodong every month. If 150,000 shi could be transported, it would be the best.
Therefore, the rice beans shipped to Gaizhou every month are slightly more than Liu Peng expected. Now the rice beans in stock on paper in Gaizhou are as high as 50,000 and 600,000 shi, and even the real inventory is an astonishing number. Therefore, Liu Peng slapped his thigh and said, "Why didn't Qianxian notify me earlier? The rice beans in Liaodong are very urgent. You want to send at least 100,000 shi per month. I just ordered to go to Liaodong to release 100,000 shi a few days ago. Their fleet had just finished unloading the goods and returned from Gaizhou. He arrived at Longkou yesterday."
When Tao Lang heard Liu Peng say this, he felt a little cold, but he quickly calmed down: "It's only 100,000 stones, right? No other rice beans are transported out, right?"
The Ming Dynasty has always served as the transport brigade leader in Liaodong. Many times, the Later Jin army accelerated the next step of action after obtaining the grain from the Ming warehouse. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty was used to the loss of bulk rice beans, but the problem is that the number of rice beans lost by the Gaizhou Wei was too large, and it was even enough for a strategic group in the Later Jin Dynasty to use for one or two years.
"If Lord Qianxian wants, I can transport another 100,000 200,000 shi to Gaizhou. At that time, it will be much more convenient for Lord Daotai to use money when he is in the position of governor."
Hearing Liu Peng say this, Tao Lang understood immediately: "Yes, yes, that's the case. We Denglai followed the order of Yuan Jingluo and the ministers of Liaodong, and urgently transported 280,000 stones of rice beans to Liaodong. Now we have rushed back some of them... What do you think?"
Tao Lang didn't care how many tens of thousands of stones could be robbed back at this 100,000 stone. He was concerned about his own mobile funding. Although the Ministry of Revenue could definitely solve some of the funds, everyone knows how difficult the court's finances are. Instead of relying on the court, it is better to rely on himself to generate more income.
But Liu Peng quickly frowned and said, "Daochen, I heard it right? You said we temporarily transported 280,000 stones? It's not 80,000 stones! It's not easy to deal with even 80,000 stones!"
Twenty-eight thousand stones are definitely not a small amount! But Tao Lang was immediately excited when he thought of this number: "That's right, it's 280,000 stones. If the above is investigated, Benfu will naturally sue the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War."
Chapter completed!