Outside the capital

A carriage was slowly driving into the capital.

The person sitting in the car was none other than Sun Chengzong.

After Xiong Tingbi and Wang Huazhen created a big mess in the second year of Tianqi, Sun Chengzong had to come to Liaodong to wipe his ass. Then, he found that the entire Liaodong was simply a mess.

Various factions, various constraints

As a last resort, Sun Chengzong had to ask for a lot of power from Zhu Youxiao, and he was appointed as the governor of Liaodong. He asked for money, people, and generals. At the same time, he quickly built various defense lines and pushed bit by bit towards the hinterland of the Jurchens.

Apart from anything else, Sun Chengzong still maintained full trust in the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.

They can do anything but win.

Build a fort, turtle tactics.

Progress little by little.

Sun Gong Yi Pawn!

The good thing about this strategy is that there are basically no big risks. The bad thing is that it burns money. In a short period of time, I don’t know how much money was taken from the imperial court.

Sun Chengzong naturally understood very well that the court's patience had its limits. If Liaodong could not be solved as soon as possible, the court's fiscal revenue would be ruined.

It's not that Sun Chengzong didn't want to decide the outcome in one battle and completely solve the big problem of Jurchens, but the field combat capabilities of the Ming army can really only be described in four words: "It's hard to describe."

As long as they can fight, they will not resort to this money-wasting turtle style of warfare.

I can only hold on for dear life.

However, what Sun Chengzong never expected was that Zhang Haogu would be killed in the court in the past few years.

He devoted himself wholeheartedly to raising money for the imperial court and implementing the New Deal, but Liaodong did not lack any money at all.

Not only was there no shortage, but all the military pay that was lacking before was made up for.

Now, Sun Chengzong had to admit that this guy Zhang Haogu was really good at making money, and no one could match him.

The most important thing is that the Ming Dynasty's national power seems to be really improving.

In addition, Zhang Haogu actually trained a new army. The combat effectiveness of this new army was initially ignored by Sun Chengzong. It was nothing more than flintlock muskets and invincible general cannons.

It's not that Zhang Haogu didn't give the Liaodong army a powerful and invincible general cannon, but... with this cannon, it's still the same. He doesn't dare to fight the Jurchens head-on. If you don't have the guts, even giving you a Gundam is useless.

, or we can only adopt the turtle style tactics.

However, it was not until he wiped out Nurhachi's 30,000-strong army and even captured Nurhaci alive that Sun Chengzong suddenly realized what a powerful army this was.

Simply invincible!

I really came to the capital.

Sun Chengzong immediately felt the difference here. The entire capital had undergone earth-shaking changes. The first thing to do was to build roads.

The roads are also open. In addition, there are not a small number of merchants coming and going.

The most important thing is that this place has just experienced a war, but now, there are no traces of the war at all, and only here in Yongding County can you see some traces of the war.

"The changes in the capital are so great!" Sun Chengzong got off the carriage.

"yes!"

The person who got off the carriage with Sun Chengzong was Sun Chengzong's good disciple Yuan Chonghuan. Yuan Chonghuan looked at the surrounding environment, stepped on the ground with his feet, and couldn't help but said: "This ground is really solid!"

"This is something called cement. It was sent to Liaodong before and can help us build city walls!" Sun Chengzong nodded: "This guy Zhang Haogu really did a lot for the Ming Dynasty!"

"The flintlock musket, the invincible general cannon, and this cement!" Yuan Chonghuan said in admiration: "Without this person's help, it would be really difficult for us to persevere in Liaodong!"

It has to be said that Yuan Chonghuan is quite lucky now. His most famous five-year Pingliao strategic plan has not been put forward. Otherwise, when the Yiji Incident occurs, Yuan Chonghuan will be left behind.

"This little brother!" Sun Chengzong stopped a young man and said quickly: "Are you from around here?"

"Yes, I'm from Muhuangzhen!" The young man said quickly: "My name is Wang Dayong, you two, are you political officers?"

"Government officers?" Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan were slightly stunned, and then Sun Chengzong smiled and said: "Yes, we are government officers!"

"What do you want to ask?" Wang Dayong nodded and then asked.

"Did you build this road?" Sun Chengzong looked at the surrounding cement floor: "How long did it take? How much did it cost?"

"We built this road!" Wang Dayong nodded, and then said: "Our young men from Muhuang Town Farm took advantage of the slack to build this cement road, and gave us a salary of 500 yuan a month. In addition,

I have to take care of three meals a day!”

"You still have to take care of the food?" Yuan Chonghuan on the side couldn't help but said: "Is this a joke?"

In the past, this was called corvée. Forget about paying, you had to bring your own dry food. Now they actually have to take care of your food?

"Why doesn't it work?"

Wang Dayong glanced at Yuan Chonghuan: "The emperor's new policy explained that we need to be paid for work. This is the imperial court calling us to build bridges, pave roads, and dig canals. This is to let rivers irrigate farmland and increase our production in the coming year.

Harvest, but this is also to increase tax revenue for the court, so the court wants to give us money!"

Sun Chengzong was stunned and couldn't help but ask: "Then, what are you going to do with these five hundred yuan?"

"What else can we do?" Wang Dayong glanced at Sun Chengzong strangely: "Flowers!"

Sun Chengzong: "..."

He felt as if he had asked an extremely idiotic question. At that moment, he coughed and asked, "What can I buy?"

"Buy whatever you want, including cloth, grain, sesame oil, and salt!" Wang Dayong continued: "This five hundred yuan is equivalent to half a tael of silver. We can exchange it for silver, but we can also

Go to our farm cooperatives for consumption, and the farm cooperatives can provide us with some things!”

Sun Chengzong took a deep breath and couldn't help but ask: "Can I buy anything?"

"There are some things that cannot be hacked, such as cannons and flintlock muskets. These are military items!" Wang Dayong looked at the two people with some vigilance: "Is there anything else you want to ask?"

Sun Chengzong asked again: "How big is your grain harvest?"

"The grain harvest is great..." Wang Dayong laughed.
Chapter completed!