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Chapter 1005 Mutual Market

Yang Zhen stayed at the mouth of the Datong River for a few days. During these days, Yang Zhen not only reached a secret agreement with Shen Qiyuan, but also sent people to lead ships upstream along the Datong River and mobilized troops to pick him up from Pingsifu City.

Here comes Shen Qiyuan's stepdaughter, Mrs. Shen.

On the fifth day of November in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Yang Zhen held a banquet in the temporary camp on Jiao Island with his subordinates who came from all over the place. Then he happily consummated the marriage with Shen and made her his concubine.

lady.

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Of course, she appears to be the fifth lady, but in reality she is just a concubine.

It's just that when it comes to Yang Zhen's treatment of his wives and concubines, except for Qiu Bihan as his main wife and Mrs. Jin Haibo, the others are side wives and they are all treated equally.

Except for the first-come-first-served order in terms of time, they are all the same in other aspects. There is no distinction between high and low, at least in Yang Zhen's mind.

Yang Zhen's fifth wife, Shen, was already over sixteen years old at this time, but less than seventeen. Her appearance and figure were both good and unlike ordinary court ladies.

His father, Shen Qiyuan, was tall and handsome, and his mother was Shen Qiyuan's step-brother, who was also a beauty. With such parents, Shen's appearance and figure were naturally good.

On the night of consummation, Yang Zhen liked it very much.

The next day, Yang Zhen, who was very satisfied with Shen, personally led her out and met with the generals from Anzhou, Dingzhou, Tieshan, Yuncong Island and Dongjiang Island who came to see her after hearing the news, and confirmed with the generals.

Shen's fifth wife's status.

Yang Zhen's approach also won the approval of Shen Qiyuan and his relatives.

Under normal circumstances, court ministers like Shen Qiyuan would not let their own daughters be others' concubines, and even their own stepdaughter would not do so easily.

However, the situation is different now. After the leader of the Li Dynasty, Li Zhuo, and his small court shaved their heads and changed clothes, and completely surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the court people who used to regard themselves as Little China quickly fell into a situation where etiquette collapsed and music collapsed.

After shaving one's hair and changing clothes, the queen of a famous family, a scholarly family, or an official family all became a joke for a while.

Maintaining the survival of the family has become the first choice of these famous families, and things like regular reputations are no longer important.

Yang Zhenxing mobilized the crowd and "married" Shen as promised, which could be said to have given Shen Qiyuan plenty of face.

Then Yang Zhen ordered Guo Xiaowu to take the fleet and send a large amount of money and food to Pingsi Fucheng, which gave Shen Qiyuan and his originally miserable and panicked subordinates some reassurance.

At first, Shen Qiyuan decided to marry a girl just to be tied to Yang Zhen and Jin Haizhen, hoping that he would have a way out when he was desperate.

But now, Shen Qiyuan exchanged a large amount of money and food support from Yang Zhen on the condition of giving away the second land in the north, including in exchange for Yang Zhen's support in deposing the Li family or even replacing him. In fact, he had no choice but to do so.

He, the marshal of the Second Military and Horse Command in the North of Ning Kingdom, sounds very majestic, but in fact he can control not many places. Except for some areas around Pyongyang Prefecture, other places are beyond his reach.

Most of the original southern coastal areas of Pingan Road, starting from the east of the Yalu River Estuary to the vicinity of the Qingchuan River Estuary, have all fallen under the control of the Andong Regiment Camp of Jinhae Town.

This control is not just about sending troops to garrison the city, but with the arrival of the Andong regiment army in Jinhai Town, batch after batch of settlers from Denglai, Shandong, and Beizhi of the Ming Dynasty were moved over.

Shen Qiyuan didn't know how many settlers Jinhai Town had sent to Tieshan, Dingzhou, and Anzhou in the past year.

But he knew very well that with the influx of large numbers of immigrants from Jinhai Town, there was not much land left suitable for farming along the southern coast of Pingan Road.

Especially when the local Korean population has suffered a huge loss and not even one out of ten is left alive, the result of this trade-off must be that Jinhae Town firmly occupies this place.

In this regard, Shen Qiyuan was powerless and could only do nothing.

After Pingyi took control, Shen Qiyuan successively gathered more than 100,000 people from the north, including thirty to forty thousand young people.

But these people were his only capital to support his troops and plan for great things. He was reluctant to use this only capital to fight for land with the soldiers and horses of Jinhai Town.

Because he knew he couldn't beat him at all.

The settlers in Jinhai Town continued to land ashore, and continued to expand their land to the west and north. Qinglu was neither blind nor unaware.

However, even the Qing prisoners stationed in Jiuliancheng could only turn a blind eye to this and did not dare to go to war and restart the war. Why did Shen Qiyuan have to fall out with his only escape route over this matter?

Furthermore, the north is dilapidated and sparsely populated. In addition to the southern coast where immigrants from Jinhae Town settled, Hamgyeong Province further north is always under threat from Qing barbarians, so it is not a land of kings.

If he could trade the Northern Second Path, which he was destined to lose, for the position of king of his family, it might not be a good deal.

Of course, Yang Zhen no longer cares about what Shen Qiyuan thinks.

With the secret agreement written in black and white in hand, Yang Zhen can already start vigorously supporting Shen Qiyuan and his family to rise to power.

Although Yang Zhen wants something far more than the northern land of Ningguo, no matter how good the delicacies are, he still has to eat them one bite at a time.

He believed that as long as Shen Qiyuan opened this opening today, then if there is one, there will be two, and if there are two, there will be three.

Cut five cities today and ten cities tomorrow. Sooner or later, all the Korean Peninsula will be turned into counties.

After reaching a secret agreement with Shen Qiyuan, Yang Zhenxing mobilized his troops to "marry" Shen Qiyuan's stepdaughter in Jiao Island, and then ordered the delivery of money and food to Pinghe Fucheng, which completely strengthened the minds of Shen Qiyuan and his troops.

Later, before leaving Jiao Island, in front of Shen Qiyuan, Yang Zhen ordered Anzhou General Yang Zhan'ao, who came to see him, to open Anzhou to Shen Qiyuan's headquarters as a place for mutual trade between the two sides.

However, after Shen Qiyuan left happily and satisfied, before Yang Zhen boarded the ship, he solemnly restricted the types of items that could be traded between the two parties to Yang Zhan'ao and others.

Yang Zhen agreed to openly purchase giant trees, minerals, nitrate, sulfur, cattle, and war horses, but he did not want any Korean ginseng or East Pearl velvet antler.

On the one hand, Yang Zhen did not want to encourage people from North Korea to go north and dig things like Korean ginseng in the deep mountains and forests in the north.

On the other hand, Yang Zhen did not want his support of Shen Qiyuan and his troops to become a channel for the Qing Dynasty to carry out entrepot trade through the Korean people.

Correspondingly, Yang Zhen also set clear restrictions on the items that could be sold to Shen Qiyuan's headquarters, and Yang Zhan'ao supervised them in Anzhou. The settlers in Jinhai Town could sell items to them at market prices in Anzhou City.

The North Koreans sold salt, wine, sorghum, rice, wheat, dried sweet potatoes, dried potatoes, cloth, silk and even iron farm tools.

However, it is not allowed to sell sweet potatoes, potato roots, stems, vines and seedlings to the North Koreans, and offenders will be punished by death.

As for firearms such as muskets, artillery, gunpowder and air generals, private trade among private citizens is prohibited, and official trade must also be carried out upon request. Violators will be punished with death.

Yang Zhen still trusted Yang Zhan'ao very much. He was originally placed in the position of Anzhou General to deal with things like today.

Others may see that Shen Qiyuan has become Yang Zhen's father-in-law, so they don't dare to offend him and bend the law for personal gain in some matters, but Yang Zhan'ao definitely won't.

Because Yang Zhan'ao was Yang Zhen's earliest personal soldier captain, he was only loyal to Yang Zhen, and no one else was easy to use.

In addition to the mutual trade issues in Anzhou, Yang Zhen summoned Dingzhou guerrilla Deng En, Tieshan garrison Yang Dagui, Jiechuan Laocheng camp commander Shi Mingxiong and Qiu Bixian who came to meet on behalf of Qiu Zhenhai and others in Jiaodao, and asked them one by one

The situation in their territory.

It was only at this time that Yang Zhen learned that in less than a year, the refugees in the Pass who had passed through Dengzhou, crossed the sea to the north, and immigrated to Tieshan, Dingzhou, and Anzhou to the east of the Yajiang Estuary to reclaim wasteland had been classified into six groups.

There are as many as fourteen villages.

If we include the garrisons in Tieshan, Dingzhou, Anzhou, Jiechuan and the former settlers on nearby islands, the number of soldiers and civilians in the area east of the Yajiang Estuary of the Andong Regiment Camp has reached hundreds of thousands.

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Moreover, this does not include the islands on Heishan Island, Daqingdao, and Bailing Island that Yang Zhen passed by by boat before.

Because those islands and villages do not belong to the jurisdiction of the Andong regiment camp, but to the jurisdiction of the Denglai East Road Assistant General Military Mansion.

When Yang Zhen appointed Yu Liangtai as the chief military officer of Denglai East Road, he allowed him to recruit Shandong refugees himself and establish households and settlements on the eastern coast of Dengzhou and offshore islands.

However, the eastern coast of Dengzhou is different from the sea east of the Liaodong Peninsula. There are not many decent islands that can be colonized.

Fortunately, Yu Liangtai is not a stickler for rules. At the same time, he is familiar with the coast of the Wengjin Peninsula across the sea from the Dengzhou coast, so he immediately set the destination of recruiting people for farming to Bailing Island, Daqingdao and even Heishan.

Island area.

And these islands are indeed in the sea east of Dengzhou, so they do not violate Yang Zhen's order.

Yang Zhen learned the details from Qiu Bixian and others. He was dumbfounded and could only smile bitterly and acquiesced.

On the sixth day of November in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, after Yang Zhen made arrangements for the defense of Anzhou, Dingzhou, Tieshan, Jiechuan and other places, he said goodbye to the generals, took Xinna's side room, and left the mouth of the Datong River.

At this time, ice floes had appeared on the offshore surface to the north of the Datong River Estuary. For safety reasons, the small fleet led by Yang Zhenyingzhou did not continue northward along the coast, but went straight west from the sea outside the Datong River Estuary to Lushun.

It went in the direction of the mouth.
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