Two days later, at noon on July 18, 1794, Zhao Xin and Deng Fei arrived at Kaiyuan County together, accompanied by the entire Eastern Front Command.

At present, two regiments of the Northern Navy have crossed Tieling and built fortifications on the north bank of Puhe River, more than 30 miles north of Shengjing. There are three regiments heading west along the northern bank of the Liao River, removing many fortress castles set up by the Qing army on the north bank of the Liao River one by one. Their ultimate goal is to occupy the Juliuhe Station a hundred miles west of Fengtian and set up defenses on the west bank of the Liao River to prevent the Qing army from escaping in the direction of Guangning, and at the same time preventing the 20,000 cavalry composed of Korqin and Kalaqin from supporting Fengtian in the north.

When the group rode a horse to Anyuan Gate in the north of Kaiyuan City, Zhao Xin, who was very interested, proposed to go to the city wall, and Deng Fei happily agreed.

Kaiyuan was actually called "Kaiyuan" before the Ming Dynasty. The Jin Dynasty was affiliated with Xianzhou Road and the Yuan Dynasty was affiliated with the Tokyo Xingzhong Secretariat. The administrative establishment level was very high. In the 21st year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, after the Ming Dynasty unified the Northeast region, it became the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. In order to avoid Zhu Yuanzhang's name, the word "Yuan" was changed to "Yuan".

At that time, Kaiyuan City was the garrison city of the generals of the North Road of Dusi on Liaodong. Its status was particularly important. It governed Kaiyuan, Zhonggu, Tieling, Fanhe, Yilu Five City and Twenty-One Fort, and was also responsible for guarding the six passes at the northernmost end of the Ming Great Wall. The famous "30,000 Guards" was set up in Kaiyuan after the 26th year of Hongwu.

The Liaodong area was repeatedly war-torn in the late Ming Dynasty, and many cities were severely damaged and were in ruins. The same was true for Kaiyuan City. During the 43rd year of Qianlong's Eastern Tour, when Qianlong saw that the city wall was in ruins, he allocated more than 100,000 taels of silver to rebuild the city, which took three years to complete. The new city generally followed the former site of the Ming Dynasty, and the city gate also used its previous name.

After Beihai Town captured Ninggu Tower, Shengjing raised the two-four-four-city wall to three zhang, strengthening three corner platforms and 24 forts; at the same time, widening the originally four-zhang wide moat outward to five zhang, and the water depth exceeded three meters. However, in the view of the Qing court, the fortress, which seemed to be solid, was useless to wash the city wall in the face of the North Navy artillery fire.

Zhao Xin walked up to the city and looked at the hills in the north from Weiyuan Fort to Yingemen like giant snakes rising and falling. The southeast is the remnants of Changbai Mountain, with lush trees; to the west is the rolling Liao River, like a silver dragon, running southward. He couldn't help but sigh: "Gu Yanwu once said that this place is a control of the Lieutenant, Yidai Town, and is located in the upper reaches of the entire Liao Dynasty, and is a dangerous village on the eastern front. When I saw it today, it was indeed worthy of its reputation."

Deng Fei nodded and said, "Yes! The northern gate of Liaodong. This place is a treasure land, with mines and grains. Lao Chen and others are busy. By the way, do you think it is necessary to open a canal to connect the Liaohe River system and the Songhua River system?"

Zhao Xin thought about it and shook his head decisively, "Don't make trouble, build the road first, it's just the serious. The railway will be connected in the future. Moreover, the Liaohe River is not easy to deal with. It will take a flood every few years. If you don't spend a lot of effort to rectify it, you will have to provide endless relief in the future. The Qing Dynasty is out of here, and we can only carry this burden."

Deng Fei laughed and said, "This is not right. Capture Shengjing and let those tens of thousands of prisoners build roads and river embankments!"

During the Qing Dynasty, the most important natural disaster in the entire Liaoning region was floods. In history, from the first year of Qianlong to the late Qing Dynasty, floods in the Liaohe River Basin occurred 294 times, commonly known as "the bottom of the nine rivers, and nine waterlogging in ten years."

The problem is similar to that of the Yellow River. The rivers in the Northeast generally have a large sand content, especially the Liaohe River and the lower reaches of the large and small Linghe Rivers. Due to the continuous rise of the sedimentary sedimentary riverbed, it is very easy to flood.

When floods came, food crisis and epidemics were followed. Bandits were rampant in the northeastern region in the late Qing Dynasty. Although there were other social backgrounds and economic factors, frequent floods were also the main catalyst for the occurrence of bandits.

At present, Beihai Town is extremely short of water conservancy talents, and Zhao Xin has planned to recruit several from another time and space. In addition, people from the Intelligence Bureau have also contacted a water control expert named Guo Dachang in Huai'an, but unfortunately they were rejected by the other party. Thinking about it, they are very familiar with the situation of Huanghuai, and when they arrive in the Northeast, they are completely disgusted, not to mention that the cold outside the pass is not something that anyone can tolerate.

When he was about to leave, Zhao Xin suddenly slapped the city wall: "Hey, I just remembered that Ma Dashui is Kaiyuan."

"Master Ma?"

"Famous erhu performer and famous boxer, Erdaohezi Majiabaozi Village!"

Deng Fei realized who the other party was talking about when he heard this, which made him laugh and cry.

After the Eastern Front Command was moved, the command center was set up in the God Temple on the north bank of the Jin Line River in the city. Don’t get me wrong, this “God” is not that “God”, but the Emperor Zhenwu of Taoism. It is the god of the north, also known as “Xuantian God”. Therefore, the official name of the God Temple is “Xuanzhenguan”.

In the early Ming Dynasty, this place was the residence of Zhu Song, the 20th son of Zhu Yuanzhang, but after it was completed, he did not get a vassal until his death. Later, the second generation of Han King Zhu Chong lived here for fifteen years, and later changed the title of Pingliang. The Han Palace left behind was later converted into the Temple of God.

Because of Zhao Xin's lesson at the Qitaiguan Temple, the headquarters' guard camp simply drove most of the Taoist priests in the temple to the nearby Chenghuang Temple, leaving only one abbot and a Taoist boy.

When Zhao Xin walked into the temple, before he could even look at the golden body of Emperor Zhenwu, the staff officer in charge of communication handed him a telegram and said softly: "Anping Port, Director Xu called."

Zhao Xin took it and saw that the message was very dense. When he looked closely, it turned out to be Xu Dayong's request for Heshen's conditions. He glanced at it and swept it roughly, and handed it to Deng Fei with a smile and said, "Look, I'm having trouble with you again."

Deng Fei took it and looked at it for a few glances, and said in surprise: "It's such a big lion! I won't show the eagle if I don't see the rabbit."

Zhao Xin said: "Don't think that he doesn't understand military affairs, but his economic and political accounts are very good. He has seen that we are currently short of military strength and cannot care about Yunnan and Guizhou, so he wants to learn from Wu Sangui to be the king of Yunnan."

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content below! Well, although Heshen had a choice in his heart, if he thought he would willingly take out the money, it would be too underestimated to "Mr." The day after meeting Xu Dayong, he asked Liu Quan to send a letter to further refine the conditions proposed before.

Heshen said he could give him 50 million taels, but he could only pay half of the rest. Zhao Xin had to help him gain a foothold in Yunnan before giving the rest.

First of all, the Northern Navy had to send troops to Guangdong and Guangxi within one month, and open up waterways from Lianzhou to Nanning Prefecture and from Nanning Prefecture to Yunnan before the end of the year. The reason why I chose Lianzhou instead of Qinzhou to the west was because the shipping transportation there was extremely convenient, and basically I could take a boat to Nanning. In addition, Lianzhou also had a customs, and the sea trade was also OK. In the first year of Qianlong, the Qing court established Lianzhoukou Customs in Lianzhou Town, Hepu, which belonged to the branch under the Hai'an General Port of Guangdong Customs.

Heshen, who was in charge of the Ministry of Revenue and was well versed in the economy, knew that Yunnan and Guizhou had more mountains and few fields and dry land. Even in the year of bumper harvest, the output was only enough for a year, and there was no surplus grain left. In addition, because the number of green camps in Yunnan and Guizhou was very high, and there were also a large number of miners from other provinces, the annual grain shortage was about 16 million stones, and it was even more in short supply when encountering wars. Taking the Qing-Myanmar War as an example, 40,000 soldiers were consumed by 400 stones a day, which was 120,000 stones per day.

In the past, in order to make up for the shortage of food in Yunnan and Guizhou, the Qing court and local governments allocated or purchased them from other provinces every year. Now that he has betrayed the imperial court, he can no longer think about buying grain from neighboring provinces. But if the Northern Navy can help open up transportation from coastal to Yunnan, he can buy a massive amount of low-priced rice from Annan or Siam, and then transport the grain to Nanning Prefecture, and then transport it directly into Yunnan through the 700-mile Youjiang Water System.

The problem is that if you want to buy grain to raise soldiers and save the people, you have to have enough money. So he immediately proposed that Beihai Town should provide him with better mining equipment and smelting technology to increase copper production in Yunnan.

Today, the annual copper output in Yunnan Province exceeds 10 million kilograms, and the highest in history reached 14 million kilograms. Although the copper mine production in Shunning Prefecture, located in the west has gradually increased since the 38th year of Qianlong, Dongchuan Prefecture, located in the north of Kunming, is still the most important copper mine.

Heshen has been in charge of Shangyu's backup office for so many years, and has sent a large number of secret spies to conduct all-round spy on Beihai Town. Although there is very little military intelligence, there is still a lot of information on economy and people's livelihood. Not to mention anything else, it is Boli's three million tons "super-large" steel factory, which is only 3 million tons, and it cannot be concealed.

When he figured out what the "ton" in Beihai Town is, his heart was shocked. Looking at the court again, there was a lot of 10 million kilograms of copper a year, and it could only be converted into "ton" and only 6,000. Although Heshen did not understand the mining and smelting technology used in Beihai Town, it was definitely more efficient than the technology used in the court.

The copper in this year is almost equal to money. As long as the smelting is completed, the coins can be minted immediately. The copper coins of the Qing Dynasty are spread throughout Asia. As long as you have money, what can you buy?

In addition to the above two requirements, Heshen also put forward a more important requirement, and Zhao Xin himself must be personally entrustted, that is, about his future.

Heshen meant that as long as you give me enough arms assistance, he could help Beihai Town win the northern Myanmar region. But the problem was that Zhao Xin had to give him and his family a guarantee like a "gold medal for death" and Yunnan would be given to him for twenty years.

Deng Fei returned the telegram to Zhao Xin, with a playful expression on his face and said, "He is going to build an independent kingdom! I remember you said that his son-in-law is still a royal family. With the copper mine, 50 million can be earned in a blink of an eye."

Zhao Xin shook his head and said, "I think I'm pretty good with the Lord, but do you think he's cheating Qianlong like this. Can Yongyan and Fukangan spare him? The copper mine in Dongchuan Prefecture is so important to the Qing Dynasty, and that's all money!"

"Do you think Fu Kang'an will send troops from Sichuan?"

Zhao Xin slowly walked to the gate of the main hall, looked at the statue of Zhenwu Emperor swaying with his hands behind his back, and thought for a moment, saying, "The total strength of the green camp in Yunnan and Guizhou is more than 70,000. Heshen thought he could use money to bribe everything, but he forgot that Fu Kang'an's prestige in the Qing army was too high."

"Seventy thousand?!" Deng Fei showed a surprised expression when he heard this number.

"Yes." Zhao Xin then gave Deng Fei a general explanation. These situations were caused by the Beijing Intelligence Station from a letter from the Qinglisi Department of the Ministry of War.

It is said that after the Three Feudal Rebellion, although the Qing Dynasty did not dispatch Eight Banners troops in the Yunnan-Guizhou area, due to the complex ethnic situation and the border, it has always maintained a huge green camp force. Especially the unprecedented scale of the Yongzheng era, in order to suppress the Miao and Yi Tusi, who were unwilling to be reorganized, and maintain the stability of the border, the number of troops soared to 68,000.

It should be noted that under the Qing Dynasty, 11 "military regions" at the level of governor were established in various places within the pass, including Zhili, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Liangjiang, Fujian and Zhejiang, Huguang, Shaanxi and Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, Guangdong and Guangxi, with a total of 66 towns and 1,169 battalions, with a total of 640,000 troops. The number of troops in the Yunnan and Guizhou area alone exceeded one tenth, which cannot be said to be taken seriously.

In the early Qianlong period, due to the problem of food and salary consumption, the green camp in Yunnan was slightly reduced. However, with the outbreak of the Qing-Myanmar War in the middle and the emergence of Beihai Town, the military strength of the Yunnan-Guizhou region, especially Yunnan, increased again, exceeding 50,000, while Guizhou also increased to 25,000; among which Yunnan had three bids, six towns, five associations, and four towns, and Guizhou had four bids.

From the 53rd year of Qianlong to the 58th year of Qianlong, the Northern Navy wiped out nearly 60,000 green camps in Ningguta, Jilin, Hunchun, the six towns in the north, and Jiaodong, and was the most combat-effective part. Therefore, the 70,000 army in the Yunnan-Guizhou area was definitely a very important military force for the Qing Dynasty, which was struggling dyingly.

Although He Lin was the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, the Qing Dynasty's power constraint system for the chief officials was quite mature. The governor had neither independent financial power nor civil rights nor military power. Among the 70,000 troops, only the governors were the governors, the guards of Kunming City, and the camps in Qu Xun Xiehe Xun Zhanzhan, and there were only more than 5,000 people. Without the emperor's orders, the governor and the admiral could not miss him.

To put it simply, Ma Bashisan led his men to fight the front station this time, in addition to notifying He Lin, he also wanted to win over local officials and generals from various towns.

After listening to Zhao Xin's analysis, Deng Fei frowned and said, "If this is the case, the combat plan of Guangdong and Guangxi must not only be advanced, but also needs to be greatly improved. Are you planning to let Lao Wang or Xiao Ding be responsible?"

Zhao Xin pondered for a long time and said, "Ba City is too important. Someone must guard it and stare at Manila. Ruchi went to war with the Spaniards at Kinmen. Manila will move sooner or later.

As for India... we still have to maintain heavy troops at present. We all know the virtues of the British. As long as the treaty is not signed, there are still variables. Moreover, the Danes' territory has not been taken down yet!

Alas~~ I originally promised Luo Fangbai and the others that could return to their hometown this year, but now it seems that it will be postponed. Let He Xiwen go."

At this time, someone from the staff following behind them suddenly said, "Chief, there is something that has not been time to report to you. The surrendered Kaiyuan County Magistrate had served as an official in Guangxi before."

"Oh? What's that person's name?"
Chapter completed!