Qiu Bihan is not a petty person, otherwise she would not have forced her two dowry maids to be Yang Zhen's concubines.

In fact, for her, her own husband was a hereditary earl conferred by the emperor, and having several concubines or wives was unavoidable.

For example, she couldn't refuse the marriage with Chao Ren and Ning Guo, the youngest daughter of the marshal of the Second Military Command in the North.

At first, she was a little confused as to why her uncle, aunt, brother and even mother came to persuade her to accept this matter, but after these two months, she has completely understood.

In the past two months, while Yang Zhen was intensively transporting immigrants to Yingzhou Island, he certainly did not forget to massively immigrate to Dongjiang Island, Yuncong Island, Tieshan, Dingzhou, and Anzhou.

Especially after Yuan Jin led the immigration fleet back from Yingzhou Island in March, Yang Zhen began to arrange for the fleets led by Yuan Jin, Hu Changhai, Gao Chengyou, and Hu Dabao to regularly sail to Dengzhou and Yuncong Island.

routes between.

First, Yuan Jin and others boarded the ship from Dengzhou, and transported the immigrants together to Yuncong Island, and then handed them over to the Andong Tuanying Navy fleet under Qiu Zhenhai.

Finally, the Anton Tuanying Navy fleet under Qiu Zhenhai checked and verified the immigration status, and then distributed them to Tieshan, Dingzhou, Anzhou and other places for distribution.

Just from early March to the Jinhai North Road Naval Camp and back to the base, Yuan Jin and the others had made five round trips in nearly a month.

When they went there, the ship carried a large number of immigrants, and when they returned, the ship was loaded with a large amount of coal and high-quality ore.

Until now, Yuan Jin's West Route Navy fleet is still running between Dengzhou and Anzhou day and night.

Because of this, not only the smelting plant and cannon foundry in the northern city of Lushun fully resumed production and returned to the right track of day and night operations, but Jinhai Town successfully resettled more than 14,100 households of hungry people in the pass.

Forty-seven villages...

Not to mention that saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda, the most important thing is that now the newly organized forty-seven villages, with a population of nearly 70,000, are under the jurisdiction of Qiu Zhenhai.

And Qiu Zhenhai is Qiu Bihan's biological uncle, and he is Qiu Bihan's proper natal family member.

For this reason, Qiu Zhenhai and Qiu Bixian frequently mentioned these things in their letters home, and Qiu Bihan's aunt even brought her sister-in-law Shen, Qiu Bihan's mother, to her door every now and then to express her gratitude.

Although Qiu Bihan knew in her heart that the immigrants her husband ordered people to transport to open up wasteland and cultivate land were not members of the Qiu clan, she couldn't help her mother and aunt nagging her every day.

How important is the marriage and alliance between marshals and soldiers.

Because once your husband refuses to marry and form an alliance with others, let alone continue to settle the hungry people in the pass under the guise of mining like now, I am afraid that even the peaceful life like this can't be lived.

Naturally, Qiu Bihan didn't know about mining or not, but when Yang Zhen was not at Lushunkou, Zhang Degui would report various major events to her from time to time.

After going back and forth, she also figured out that without the iron mines on North Second Road, the smelting plant, gun factory and ammunition factory in Lushun North City would cease operations.

And if the smelting plant, gun factory, and ammunition factory in Lushun Beicheng are suspended for a long time, and the guns and ammunition in Jinhai Town cannot be sustained, then the existing foundation of Jinhai Town may be destroyed.

And if you want to avoid such a thing from happening, you have to have a good relationship with Chao Ren and the marshal of the Northern Second Army of Ning State.

The best way to build a good relationship is to agree to someone else's marriage request.

This is the situation, and the logic is not complicated, at least not so complicated that Qiu Bihan can't understand it.

And once she let go of the knot that her husband had planted in her by marrying the marshal of the imperial family for the sake of Jin Haizhen's future, she became able to see through many things.

Her husband is not an ordinary person, and she cannot keep him tied to her side or monopolize everything from him.

Although she really wanted to do this, she also understood that no matter what aspect, she could not do this and should not do it.

Thanks to Yang Zhen's promise to marry Shen Qiyuan's youngest daughter, although the betrothal gift and engagement have not been implemented yet, the impact of this incident on Qiu Bihan, the main wife, has not yet been confirmed. It's real.

Precisely because of the influence of that incident, Qiu Bihan did not have much resistance to the introduction of the Chen family given by the emperor, and accepted this unexpected reality by default.

Especially in the next few days, when Yang Zhen was sweating profusely and swaying his excess energy on her body again and again, making her exhausted and tired of coping, Qiu Bihan even took the initiative to move Yang Zhen to the house where the Chen family lived. Expelled from other courtyards.

Of course, Yang Zhen wouldn't be stupid enough to go right away, and he didn't have the leisure and energy to do so.

In the few days after Chu Xianzhang, Zhang Ruoqi and Fang Yizao arrived at Lushunkou, Yang Zhen made a series of important decisions under their urging and supervision.

What Fang Yizao, Zhang Ruoqi and Chu Xianzhang were most concerned about was, of course, the implementation of Emperor Chongzhen's order for Yang Zhen to send troops southward, led by Fang Yizao, the new governor of Denglai, to Zhongzhou to help suppress the rogue bandits.

In this regard, Yang Zhen finally made his own arrangements after "hesitating" for two days.

On the morning of April 15, the 14th year of Chongzhen, Yang Zhen officially ordered the commander of the Zhongyi Gui Ming Army, An Yingchang, the commander of the fifth battalion of the Zhongyi Gui Ming Army, Shen Qicheng, and the commander of the Zhongyi Gui Ming Army, Yu. Hou Liulin led the battalion heads of each command unit as the main force, and transferred the Zhuanghe regiment battalion of Jinhai East Road and Yu Lewu's headquarters heavy cavalry as the vanguard to jointly form the Denglai aid and suppression advance force, under the unified control and command of Denglai Governor Fang Yizao , headed to the Zhongzhou battlefield to suppress bandits.

This team, temporarily named the Denglai Assistance and Suppression Advance Army, consisted of four large Korean loyalist army battalions, plus a smaller East Route heavy cavalry battalion.

The first of the four major camps of the Zhongyi Army was led by An Yingchang, the commander of the Zhongyi Army.

After An Yingchang's son An Yixin led his troops from Yingzhou Island and returned to Lushunkou by ship, Yang Zhen did not let him return to Yingzhou Island. Instead, he ordered him to go north to Zhuanghe Fort and return to the ranks of the Loyalty Army. .

In this way, the strength of the military camp of the Zhongyi Gui Ming Army led by An Yingchang, the capital commander, was further strengthened.

Together with Qingzhuang, the two commanders of the imperial court whom Yang Zhen allowed An Yingchang to recruit after the Zhenjiang Fort was relieved of the siege, the Chinese military camp led by An Yingchang personally gathered five commanders, reaching a scale of 2,500 people.

Correspondingly, the soldiers and horses brought by Liu Lin from the left camp of the Zhongyi Army and his son Liu Zhiman from Pingluo City totaled four commanders and a total of more than 2,000 people.

In addition to the soldiers and horses brought by Shen Qicheng and Shen Qicheng and Zhou brothers from Pyongyang City, which is the newly formed Zhongyi Guiming Army's front and rear battalions with more than 6,000 infantry under the Shen brothers, the troops of the Zhongyi Guiming Army alone were There are already almost twelve thousand people.

Of course, if you include the Youshui Camp of the Loyalty and Gui Ming Army under the command of Lin Qingye, then the total number of young and strong men in the entire Loyal and Gui Ming Army will exceed 15,000.

However, when entering Zhongzhou to pursue the bandits, Lin Qingye's navy fleet was not needed, so Yang Zhen did not add the Youshui Battalion of the Zhongyi Gui Ming Army.

But even so, it has far exceeded the expectations of Fang Yizao, Zhang Ruoqi and others.

Because in their impression, Emperor Chongzhen only gave Jinhai Town a salary of 10,000 yuan.

Moreover, the salary of 10,000 yuan was almost never delivered to Lushunkou in full and on time.

Under such circumstances, the imperial court asked Yang Zhen to send half of his troops to cross the sea and go south to join the battlefield of suppressing bandits. If Yang Zhen could provide 5,000 troops, they would be satisfied.

When Yang Zhen explained to them that An Yingchang's, Liulin's, and Shen Qicheng's troops had 12,000 troops, they were naturally overjoyed.

The only thing they felt was a fly in the ointment was that Yang Zhen made it very clear to them, telling them that these soldiers and horses were not the main force of the advance army for the Eastern Expedition, but the Korean troops who voluntarily surrendered and were determined to fight against the invaders.

However, in order to silence them, Yang Zhen quickly added a heavy cavalry team from Jinhai East Road, about a thousand people, to support the advance army in the suppression.

So in the end, the total number of soldiers and horses sent to Guanli to encircle and suppress the rogue bandits reached more than 13,000.

Although most of them were not the main soldiers under Yang Zhen's command, but servants or cannon fodder, for the peripheral troops chasing the bandits, they were evenly matched.

Yang Zhen originally planned to directly use the designation of Zhongyi Guiming Army, but when the words came to his lips, he changed his mind temporarily.

No matter what the status of the Zhongyi Gui Ming Army is, they are all his subordinates now. After sending generals out, they will all be his troops as the chief military officers of Jinhai and Denglai Towns.

If the designation of the Loyalty Gui Ming Army is given, it will appear as if it is a team sent by the Li Dynasty, the former tributary of the Ming Dynasty, to support the battlefield of suppressing bandits in the pass, which can easily lead to misunderstanding.

However, Yang Zhen also told Fang Yizao, Zhang Ruoqi and others the truth about the advance force for the Denglai suppression campaign.

In this regard, Yang Zhen felt that there was no need to hide it, and in fact he couldn't hide it either.

It was impossible for Yang Zhen to send the main force of Jinhai Town, especially several regiments and battalions of the Eastern Expedition Army, to pursue the rogue bandits in the pass.

And he also had good reasons. For example, if Jinhaizhen mobilized its main troops and horses, what would happen if the Qing rebels heard the news and attacked in large numbers?

In fact, Yang Zhenming didn't need to explain such an aboveboard and obvious reason. Zhang Ruoqi, who was a staff doctor in the Ministry of War, could completely think of it.

In fact, this was exactly the case. When Yang Zhen explained clearly the situation of supporting the advance army and dispatched a main cavalry battalion on Jinhai East Road, Fang Yizao, Zhang Ruoqi and Chu Xianzhang all nodded and approved Yang Zhen's plan. this arrangement.

In any case, on their own side, they are fully capable of communicating with Emperor Chongzhen.

On the eve of Zhang Ruoqi, Chu Xianzhang and others' departure from Beijing, many people in the government and the public believed that Yang Zhen was arrogant and domineering, supported his own troops, and was alone overseas. He had become an invincible force and could not easily send half of his troops.

But now, after they arrived at Jinhai Town, they persuaded Yang Zhen to send 13,000 troops without any extra effort.

In this way, not only did they successfully complete the seemingly impossible task, but the results far exceeded the expectations of both the government and the public in the capital.

In this case, what else do you want?
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