Chapter 2346
Chapter 2346
Chapter 2346
Even a powerful army like the Haihan Army can hardly fight against the harsh natural environment.In the next few months, both sides facing off on the Liaodong Peninsula will be subject to cold weather, making it difficult to carry out large-scale military operations, and the northern border will also enter a true truce period.
But this does not mean that the two sides have nothing to do at this stage. At least for the Golden State authorities, there are still many tasks to be completed this winter.If this period of time can be used efficiently, then the situation in all aspects of the local area will improve after the spring of the coming year, and it will be easier to deal with the enemies in the north.
The resettlement of the thousands of Han refugees brought back by the snow stepping operation is naturally the top priority at the moment. Fortunately, as long as the accommodation problem is solved, other resettlement measures will be carried out in an orderly manner with the cooperation of relevant agencies.Haihan's civil administration system has rich experience and mature plans for the resettlement of immigrants, and will soon be able to turn these people into members of the local social system and engage in productive labor under the arrangement of the government.
Due to the special environment of the Jinzhou area adjacent to the Qing Dynasty and surrounded by the sea on three sides, coupled with the limited population size, production and preparations are almost always in progress every year except for winter, which is the time when the labor force can be organized to build public facilities and infrastructure projects , there are only a few months of winter fallow and truce.
There are a lot of infrastructure projects in Jinzhou that are well planned and waiting to start. In addition to building a large number of housing for the recent sharp increase in population, water storage and irrigation, road traffic, production facilities, and routine repairs, maintenance and reinforcement of the Jinzhou Isthmus defense line , are engineering projects that require a large amount of labor.
The Han people who were moved to the Liaodong Peninsula by the Manchu Qing Dynasty were almost all young and strong, regardless of gender. Input to get maximum output.
Such an approach is of course extremely cruel to these people who were enslaved by the Manchu Qing, but the result is that Haihan is cheap by mistake.Whether engaged in infrastructure projects or agricultural cultivation, these refugees are undoubtedly high-quality labor.
What really makes Liu Shang feel a little powerless is that there are fewer local civil engineering technicians in Jinzhou, which makes the construction time of many infrastructure projects have to be extended to years.Most of the artisans that can be obtained from the refugee community are craftsmen. It may be okay to build a wall and build a house, but it is difficult for these folk artisans to preside over large-scale projects.
Of course, there are some engineers in the army who specialize in civil engineering, but the isthmus defense line that is several kilometers long is where they work. The workload of daily maintenance alone makes it difficult for them to manage private infrastructure projects.
Although Liu Shanxia, the head of the Ministry of Construction, came to Liaodong in person in 1636, he left after hastily deploying the defense line of the Jinzhou Isthmus and the construction plan of the Dalian Bay Port. Not much, and to be honest, the effect it can play is very limited.
Of course, this is not because the executive committee does not pay enough attention to Jinzhou. The Ministry of Construction has a limited number of technical personnel, and there are too many large-scale projects in the Haihan area, so there is no way to send many professionals. Long-term stationing in overseas colonial areas like Jinzhou.In this way, a group of people was selected to go to North Korea last year to coordinate and direct the infrastructure projects of those cooperative projects in the Datong River Basin.
So the situation Liu Shang is facing now is that although there is no shortage of labor, there are too many vacancies for positions such as foremen and engineers, so that many projects may have to be delayed until the next winter.
Within the scope of Liu Shang's authority, it is basically impossible to satisfactorily resolve this issue.He was unable to exert influence on the personnel arrangement of the Ministry of Construction, nor could he persuade the military generals to immediately transfer the engineering personnel back from North Korea, which made him quite helpless.He could only tell the truth to his boss, Chen Yixin, and let Chen Yixin come forward to coordinate with all parties.
"You mean, because of the lack of engineering and technical personnel in the local area, most of the infrastructure projects cannot be started this winter?" After listening to Liu Shang's report, Chen Yixin couldn't help but frowned, and said with some displeasure: " What were you doing before? Also, when I asked you to arrange people to go to the salt field two days ago, why didn't you report the situation?"
Liu Shang bowed his body and buried it a little lower: "My lord, I submitted an infrastructure project report to you in October, and that report mentioned these things. As for the saltworks, it is because The project is already underway, and there are several old salt workers sent from Sanya to sit here, so there is no need to send another foreman.”
When Chen Yixin heard it, he also vaguely remembered that he had indeed seen such a report two months ago, but he was busy with other business affairs at that time, so he didn't respond to it in time, and he procrastinated and forgot about it.Later, during this period of time, he was busy dispatching troops and generals to carry out the feint attack mission, so he even forgot the report submitted by Liu Shang.
Since this was not the negligence of his subordinates, Chen Yixin couldn't attribute the responsibility to Liu Shang any longer, coughed twice and said: "It seems that I was too busy a while ago, so I forgot about it...then you are right What are your plans for this?"
Liu Shangdao: "My lord, the local area has just absorbed a few thousand refugees, and the labor force is quite abundant. If we can transfer [-] to [-] technicians from other places, then we can at least repair the official road from Lushun to the front line of Jinzhou this winter, as well as Lushun The unfinished expansion projects of Hong Kong Port and Lushun Shipyard can also be completed. As for other relatively small projects, it is entirely possible for the foreman to lead the construction after the technicians survey the site and design the construction plan."
"Twenty or thirty technicians?" Chen Yixin clicked his tongue lightly: "I'm afraid we have to add the Datongjiang Base and Fushan County to gather so many people..."
Chen Yixin has a lot of contacts in Fushan County, Dengzhou, so there won't be any problems. He said he would transfer people, but there are no major projects there, so only a few technicians stay in the copper mine to deal with production. daily problems.As for the transfer of personnel at the Datongjiang base, he had to coordinate with Wang Tom and Qian Tiandun, and he might not be able to get people yet.
As far as Chen Yixin knows, those big projects in the Datong River Basin are also in the rush for construction deadlines.The turbulent political situation in North Korea has just stabilized. After taking office, the new king urgently needs to have good political achievements to build up his prestige, and the most practical political achievements are to improve the country's current poor fiscal revenue situation.Both the former king Li Yi and the current king Li Yan pinned their hopes on a series of cooperative projects in the Datong River Basin. As long as these projects start to be put into operation and make profits, then Li Yan can logically take the credit for himself.
And this arrangement is not Li Yi's wishful thinking. Since Haihan's senior management is determined to support Li Yi to the top position, they naturally want him to secure this position as soon as possible to stabilize the situation in North Korea.Therefore, on the one hand, the construction of cooperation projects in the Datong River Basin is being accelerated, and on the other hand, North Korea is being encouraged to send troops to Hirado, Japan, to plunder the local population and resources, and provide them to Haihan to pay off debts.
This two-pronged approach, at home and abroad, civil and martial arts, is enough to greatly increase the prestige of the newly enthroned Li Yi, and the prospect of ruling will be smoother.
Under such circumstances, the importance of the cooperation projects in the Datong River Basin undoubtedly surpassed the infrastructure projects in Jinzhou. Chen Yixin was also uncertain whether he would get a positive response if he asked Qian Tiandun for help. I can only bite the bullet and give it a try.
After Liu Shang was dismissed, Chen Yixin sent a telegram to Datongjiang base to explain the situation, hoping that they could provide support as appropriate.After dealing with this matter, Chen Yixin rushed to the military intelligence department to listen to his subordinates' report on the results of the recent interrogation of Manchu captives.
All the Manchus captured by the Special Forces in previous operations were also sent to Jinzhou first, and the Jinzhou authorities were responsible for handling them.Those worthless captives will soon be shipped to Fushan Copper Mine for hard labor.Those who the military deems to be of intelligence value will remain in Golden State for further interrogation.
The person in charge of the interrogation is Lieutenant Wei Lin, who belongs to the Military Intelligence Bureau. He has been in Liaodong for two years and has dealt with Manchu captives quite a lot. This also made the interrogation work a very onerous task.
The military intelligence personnel stationed in Jinzhou went all out, and after a few days of non-stop interrogation, they finally achieved preliminary results.As for the value of the information obtained, Chen Yixin had to judge it in the end.
"So far, we have received a total of 960 four Manchu captives, of which 250 have been transported to Shandong after trial, and the remaining 12 six have been detained in Jinzhou. In addition, [-] people have died of injuries during the trial process. died of serious illness."
"After verifying the identities of these people, we found two Niu Luzhang Jing, who are also the highest-ranking enemy officers found in this group of prisoners. The other armed personnel are basically ordinary soldiers, not too big. information value."
"After the trial, we got some intelligence information about the Daheishan defense line and the Qing army camp. The current Qing army stationed in Daheishan is still commanded by the enemy chief Azig, with a strength of about 5000 to Between [-] and [-], which is a decrease compared to the number we had before. If this number is true, then we can conclude that the Qing army transferred at least [-] troops from the Daheishan defense line before the winter of this year."
"However, the level of our capture of these people is too low, so it is not clear whether this transfer is purely of the nature of defense, or because the Qing army's winter supplies are insufficient, so we can only transfer part of the army back to the north where it is easier to supply. In addition By the time of their capture there had been no orders to prepare to fight in winter."
Upon hearing this, Chen Yixin added: "Actually, there is another possibility. They transferred the troops stationed in Daheishan because they planned to mobilize troops elsewhere."
It was completely helpless for the Qing army to deploy heavy troops on the front line of Daheishan. If they were not afraid of Haihan's expansion from Jinzhou to the north, they could deploy this part of their troops to the direction of Daming, and they could easily rob the population and resources from the border of Daming. supplies.
Once the military confrontation in Jinzhou has eased, the Qing army will naturally want to transfer the garrison of the Daheishan defense line to other places to perform combat missions. The casualties are less and the benefits are higher, which is far better than the long-term confrontation with the Haihan army and wasting food in vain.
"Your Excellency reminded us that we didn't get a solid basis for troop deployment during the interrogation, so we didn't include this possibility in the report." Wei Lin argued a few sentences to show that this was not an oversight by the military intelligence department.
Chen Yixin said: "In addition to the military strength of the Daheishan defense line, there should be other valuable information, right?"
Wei Lin knew what Chen Yixin was concerned about, and immediately responded: "My lord, the Qing army does have an established firearms unit. It is said that there are about three musketeers in the Daheishan defense line, but the specific weapons they use Where did the weapons come from, and whether they were manufactured by ourselves, we have not yet been able to confirm through the confessions of these prisoners."
"Three Niulu... that's a lot!" Although Chen Yixin had some mental preparations, he was still slightly surprised when he heard this number.
In the battle last year when the Marine Corps sneaked into the enemy's rear and wiped out the Qing Army's Musketeers, the strength of the Qing Army's Musketeers using the new muskets was less than one cow.A year later, the size of the Qing Army Musketeers has expanded, which is undoubtedly a very dangerous signal.
The source of the Qing army's acquisition of standard muskets was basically confirmed last year to be purchased from the Japanese Hirado clan.Later, Haihan attacked the Hirado Domain. Judging from the local weapons transaction records, the number of weapons sold to the Qing army was indeed more than enough to arm the Musketeers wiped out by the Marine Corps, but it seemed far from reaching three cows. record size.If you count the musketeers that were wiped out, the number of musketeers deployed by the Qing army in Daheishan already numbered a thousand. Whether the Hirado clan could have sold so many muskets to them is also a mystery.
Hearing such figures, it is difficult for Chen Yixin to maintain an optimistic attitude towards the situation.If there is no evidence to prove that these weapons were all purchased from the Hirado clan, then it is likely that the situation that Haihan least wanted to see has already appeared-the Manchu Qing obtained the corresponding weapon manufacturing technology from the Hirado clan of Japan, and It has already been able to mass-produce standard muskets and began to be installed in batches in the army.
If this is the case, then the weapon advantage of the Haihan army will also be reduced, and it will no longer be easy to form a dimensionality reduction attack on the Qing army using cold weapons as before.
Although even mastering the weapons manufacturing technology of the Hirado clan is not enough for the Qing army to defeat the Haihan army, if the Qing army uses such weapons in combat operations against Ming, it is very likely that it will speed up the frontier defense of Ming. collapse.
(End of this chapter)
Even a powerful army like the Haihan Army can hardly fight against the harsh natural environment.In the next few months, both sides facing off on the Liaodong Peninsula will be subject to cold weather, making it difficult to carry out large-scale military operations, and the northern border will also enter a true truce period.
But this does not mean that the two sides have nothing to do at this stage. At least for the Golden State authorities, there are still many tasks to be completed this winter.If this period of time can be used efficiently, then the situation in all aspects of the local area will improve after the spring of the coming year, and it will be easier to deal with the enemies in the north.
The resettlement of the thousands of Han refugees brought back by the snow stepping operation is naturally the top priority at the moment. Fortunately, as long as the accommodation problem is solved, other resettlement measures will be carried out in an orderly manner with the cooperation of relevant agencies.Haihan's civil administration system has rich experience and mature plans for the resettlement of immigrants, and will soon be able to turn these people into members of the local social system and engage in productive labor under the arrangement of the government.
Due to the special environment of the Jinzhou area adjacent to the Qing Dynasty and surrounded by the sea on three sides, coupled with the limited population size, production and preparations are almost always in progress every year except for winter, which is the time when the labor force can be organized to build public facilities and infrastructure projects , there are only a few months of winter fallow and truce.
There are a lot of infrastructure projects in Jinzhou that are well planned and waiting to start. In addition to building a large number of housing for the recent sharp increase in population, water storage and irrigation, road traffic, production facilities, and routine repairs, maintenance and reinforcement of the Jinzhou Isthmus defense line , are engineering projects that require a large amount of labor.
The Han people who were moved to the Liaodong Peninsula by the Manchu Qing Dynasty were almost all young and strong, regardless of gender. Input to get maximum output.
Such an approach is of course extremely cruel to these people who were enslaved by the Manchu Qing, but the result is that Haihan is cheap by mistake.Whether engaged in infrastructure projects or agricultural cultivation, these refugees are undoubtedly high-quality labor.
What really makes Liu Shang feel a little powerless is that there are fewer local civil engineering technicians in Jinzhou, which makes the construction time of many infrastructure projects have to be extended to years.Most of the artisans that can be obtained from the refugee community are craftsmen. It may be okay to build a wall and build a house, but it is difficult for these folk artisans to preside over large-scale projects.
Of course, there are some engineers in the army who specialize in civil engineering, but the isthmus defense line that is several kilometers long is where they work. The workload of daily maintenance alone makes it difficult for them to manage private infrastructure projects.
Although Liu Shanxia, the head of the Ministry of Construction, came to Liaodong in person in 1636, he left after hastily deploying the defense line of the Jinzhou Isthmus and the construction plan of the Dalian Bay Port. Not much, and to be honest, the effect it can play is very limited.
Of course, this is not because the executive committee does not pay enough attention to Jinzhou. The Ministry of Construction has a limited number of technical personnel, and there are too many large-scale projects in the Haihan area, so there is no way to send many professionals. Long-term stationing in overseas colonial areas like Jinzhou.In this way, a group of people was selected to go to North Korea last year to coordinate and direct the infrastructure projects of those cooperative projects in the Datong River Basin.
So the situation Liu Shang is facing now is that although there is no shortage of labor, there are too many vacancies for positions such as foremen and engineers, so that many projects may have to be delayed until the next winter.
Within the scope of Liu Shang's authority, it is basically impossible to satisfactorily resolve this issue.He was unable to exert influence on the personnel arrangement of the Ministry of Construction, nor could he persuade the military generals to immediately transfer the engineering personnel back from North Korea, which made him quite helpless.He could only tell the truth to his boss, Chen Yixin, and let Chen Yixin come forward to coordinate with all parties.
"You mean, because of the lack of engineering and technical personnel in the local area, most of the infrastructure projects cannot be started this winter?" After listening to Liu Shang's report, Chen Yixin couldn't help but frowned, and said with some displeasure: " What were you doing before? Also, when I asked you to arrange people to go to the salt field two days ago, why didn't you report the situation?"
Liu Shang bowed his body and buried it a little lower: "My lord, I submitted an infrastructure project report to you in October, and that report mentioned these things. As for the saltworks, it is because The project is already underway, and there are several old salt workers sent from Sanya to sit here, so there is no need to send another foreman.”
When Chen Yixin heard it, he also vaguely remembered that he had indeed seen such a report two months ago, but he was busy with other business affairs at that time, so he didn't respond to it in time, and he procrastinated and forgot about it.Later, during this period of time, he was busy dispatching troops and generals to carry out the feint attack mission, so he even forgot the report submitted by Liu Shang.
Since this was not the negligence of his subordinates, Chen Yixin couldn't attribute the responsibility to Liu Shang any longer, coughed twice and said: "It seems that I was too busy a while ago, so I forgot about it...then you are right What are your plans for this?"
Liu Shangdao: "My lord, the local area has just absorbed a few thousand refugees, and the labor force is quite abundant. If we can transfer [-] to [-] technicians from other places, then we can at least repair the official road from Lushun to the front line of Jinzhou this winter, as well as Lushun The unfinished expansion projects of Hong Kong Port and Lushun Shipyard can also be completed. As for other relatively small projects, it is entirely possible for the foreman to lead the construction after the technicians survey the site and design the construction plan."
"Twenty or thirty technicians?" Chen Yixin clicked his tongue lightly: "I'm afraid we have to add the Datongjiang Base and Fushan County to gather so many people..."
Chen Yixin has a lot of contacts in Fushan County, Dengzhou, so there won't be any problems. He said he would transfer people, but there are no major projects there, so only a few technicians stay in the copper mine to deal with production. daily problems.As for the transfer of personnel at the Datongjiang base, he had to coordinate with Wang Tom and Qian Tiandun, and he might not be able to get people yet.
As far as Chen Yixin knows, those big projects in the Datong River Basin are also in the rush for construction deadlines.The turbulent political situation in North Korea has just stabilized. After taking office, the new king urgently needs to have good political achievements to build up his prestige, and the most practical political achievements are to improve the country's current poor fiscal revenue situation.Both the former king Li Yi and the current king Li Yan pinned their hopes on a series of cooperative projects in the Datong River Basin. As long as these projects start to be put into operation and make profits, then Li Yan can logically take the credit for himself.
And this arrangement is not Li Yi's wishful thinking. Since Haihan's senior management is determined to support Li Yi to the top position, they naturally want him to secure this position as soon as possible to stabilize the situation in North Korea.Therefore, on the one hand, the construction of cooperation projects in the Datong River Basin is being accelerated, and on the other hand, North Korea is being encouraged to send troops to Hirado, Japan, to plunder the local population and resources, and provide them to Haihan to pay off debts.
This two-pronged approach, at home and abroad, civil and martial arts, is enough to greatly increase the prestige of the newly enthroned Li Yi, and the prospect of ruling will be smoother.
Under such circumstances, the importance of the cooperation projects in the Datong River Basin undoubtedly surpassed the infrastructure projects in Jinzhou. Chen Yixin was also uncertain whether he would get a positive response if he asked Qian Tiandun for help. I can only bite the bullet and give it a try.
After Liu Shang was dismissed, Chen Yixin sent a telegram to Datongjiang base to explain the situation, hoping that they could provide support as appropriate.After dealing with this matter, Chen Yixin rushed to the military intelligence department to listen to his subordinates' report on the results of the recent interrogation of Manchu captives.
All the Manchus captured by the Special Forces in previous operations were also sent to Jinzhou first, and the Jinzhou authorities were responsible for handling them.Those worthless captives will soon be shipped to Fushan Copper Mine for hard labor.Those who the military deems to be of intelligence value will remain in Golden State for further interrogation.
The person in charge of the interrogation is Lieutenant Wei Lin, who belongs to the Military Intelligence Bureau. He has been in Liaodong for two years and has dealt with Manchu captives quite a lot. This also made the interrogation work a very onerous task.
The military intelligence personnel stationed in Jinzhou went all out, and after a few days of non-stop interrogation, they finally achieved preliminary results.As for the value of the information obtained, Chen Yixin had to judge it in the end.
"So far, we have received a total of 960 four Manchu captives, of which 250 have been transported to Shandong after trial, and the remaining 12 six have been detained in Jinzhou. In addition, [-] people have died of injuries during the trial process. died of serious illness."
"After verifying the identities of these people, we found two Niu Luzhang Jing, who are also the highest-ranking enemy officers found in this group of prisoners. The other armed personnel are basically ordinary soldiers, not too big. information value."
"After the trial, we got some intelligence information about the Daheishan defense line and the Qing army camp. The current Qing army stationed in Daheishan is still commanded by the enemy chief Azig, with a strength of about 5000 to Between [-] and [-], which is a decrease compared to the number we had before. If this number is true, then we can conclude that the Qing army transferred at least [-] troops from the Daheishan defense line before the winter of this year."
"However, the level of our capture of these people is too low, so it is not clear whether this transfer is purely of the nature of defense, or because the Qing army's winter supplies are insufficient, so we can only transfer part of the army back to the north where it is easier to supply. In addition By the time of their capture there had been no orders to prepare to fight in winter."
Upon hearing this, Chen Yixin added: "Actually, there is another possibility. They transferred the troops stationed in Daheishan because they planned to mobilize troops elsewhere."
It was completely helpless for the Qing army to deploy heavy troops on the front line of Daheishan. If they were not afraid of Haihan's expansion from Jinzhou to the north, they could deploy this part of their troops to the direction of Daming, and they could easily rob the population and resources from the border of Daming. supplies.
Once the military confrontation in Jinzhou has eased, the Qing army will naturally want to transfer the garrison of the Daheishan defense line to other places to perform combat missions. The casualties are less and the benefits are higher, which is far better than the long-term confrontation with the Haihan army and wasting food in vain.
"Your Excellency reminded us that we didn't get a solid basis for troop deployment during the interrogation, so we didn't include this possibility in the report." Wei Lin argued a few sentences to show that this was not an oversight by the military intelligence department.
Chen Yixin said: "In addition to the military strength of the Daheishan defense line, there should be other valuable information, right?"
Wei Lin knew what Chen Yixin was concerned about, and immediately responded: "My lord, the Qing army does have an established firearms unit. It is said that there are about three musketeers in the Daheishan defense line, but the specific weapons they use Where did the weapons come from, and whether they were manufactured by ourselves, we have not yet been able to confirm through the confessions of these prisoners."
"Three Niulu... that's a lot!" Although Chen Yixin had some mental preparations, he was still slightly surprised when he heard this number.
In the battle last year when the Marine Corps sneaked into the enemy's rear and wiped out the Qing Army's Musketeers, the strength of the Qing Army's Musketeers using the new muskets was less than one cow.A year later, the size of the Qing Army Musketeers has expanded, which is undoubtedly a very dangerous signal.
The source of the Qing army's acquisition of standard muskets was basically confirmed last year to be purchased from the Japanese Hirado clan.Later, Haihan attacked the Hirado Domain. Judging from the local weapons transaction records, the number of weapons sold to the Qing army was indeed more than enough to arm the Musketeers wiped out by the Marine Corps, but it seemed far from reaching three cows. record size.If you count the musketeers that were wiped out, the number of musketeers deployed by the Qing army in Daheishan already numbered a thousand. Whether the Hirado clan could have sold so many muskets to them is also a mystery.
Hearing such figures, it is difficult for Chen Yixin to maintain an optimistic attitude towards the situation.If there is no evidence to prove that these weapons were all purchased from the Hirado clan, then it is likely that the situation that Haihan least wanted to see has already appeared-the Manchu Qing obtained the corresponding weapon manufacturing technology from the Hirado clan of Japan, and It has already been able to mass-produce standard muskets and began to be installed in batches in the army.
If this is the case, then the weapon advantage of the Haihan army will also be reduced, and it will no longer be easy to form a dimensionality reduction attack on the Qing army using cold weapons as before.
Although even mastering the weapons manufacturing technology of the Hirado clan is not enough for the Qing army to defeat the Haihan army, if the Qing army uses such weapons in combat operations against Ming, it is very likely that it will speed up the frontier defense of Ming. collapse.
(End of this chapter)