On the same day that Liu Chenglong arrived in Kaesong, Nurhachi's group encountered trouble 30 kilometers north of Kaesong.
They massacred a village here and encountered some insignificant resistance. After the resistance, they killed the men who didn't have time to escape and captured the women to vent their bestial desires. After a good time, they were poisoned.
More than 300 Jianzhou soldiers were collectively poisoned. Nurhachi was furious. After investigation, he found that the well in the village was poisoned.
Helpless, he could only watch as more than 300 people were poisoned to death. This was the heaviest loss he had suffered since he went south.
He had not encountered such casualties even when he dealt with Guo Zaiyou's more than 3,000 troops.
He didn't know who had poisoned them, and he couldn't find the culprit. Left with no choice, Nurhachi could only order them to leave and go to the next place. Before drinking the water again, they had to carefully test whether it was poisoned before drinking it.
The poisoning incident had seriously delayed Nurhachi's march. It took him two days to finish the 30-kilometer journey. He had to find a reliable water source to quench his men's thirst, which made him very angry. If he saw any North Koreans again, he would kill them all, leaving no one alive.
On the 16th of October, the messenger ship sent by Xiao Ruxun arrived in North Korea. The messenger went straight to Kuantian Fort and conveyed the emperor's order to Liao Zhong and Ma Chong.
They were ordered to immediately gather at Sinju in North Korea and immediately send troops south. The army's provisions had already set off from Tientsin and would soon arrive at Sinju.
Xiao Ruxun also told Liao Zhong that Nurhachi had followed him south to North Korea and was very familiar with the terrain of North Korea. It was very likely that he would take the same route as Liao Zhong.
In addition, on the 16th, Xiao Ruxun also received a message from a Black Water agent in North Korea. The message was sent on the 10th of October.
The message said that he had heard the news that the King of North Korea was planning to leave Seoul. He also said that the people of North Korea were in a panic. Many people were saying that 100,000 barbarians were invading south and many cities in the north had fallen.
This news surprised Xiao Ruxun. He did not expect Nurhachi to be able to make such a big move in North Korea. When he thought of Li Zhi's character, he had a bad feeling.
Li Gui could abandon the capital for the second time at any time.
Last time, he had fled to the northernmost city of Uiju and even sought refuge in Daming. This time, he would most likely head south to Pusan.
This was not impossible. It was a reasonable guess.
But thinking about it, for more than five thousand people to create such a great momentum for Nurhachi, it seemed that a cornered beast would not be so easy to deal with.
Looks like North Korea is going to be a useless teammate again.
After thinking for a while, Xiao Ruxun once again ordered the navy under Jiang Dahai to send out a fleet of 5,000 elite soldiers toward Incheon in North Korea. They were prepared to enter the capital of North Korea and stabilize the situation in North Korea. At the same time, he ordered them to spread the news that there were only 5,000 soldiers in Jianzhou to calm the hearts of the North Koreans.
If North Korea's political situation becomes chaotic, it is absolutely not what he wants to see.
There are still a lot of things to be done in the country. How could he have time to deal with North Korea?
Nurhaci really knew how to choose a place. Instead of going north, he chose to go south. He didn't even think about the ocean to the south. This region of the ocean, from the southern seas to the northern seas, was Great Qin's territory. Four years ago, after Xiao Ruxun had driven out the Spanish fleet, no one else had been able to take control of this region.
Where else could he escape to if he fled to North Korea? Was it just for the final madness, to drag North Korea down with him?
It was really possible …
There was no other way. Now, he could only hope that Liao Zhong and Jiang Dahai could crush Nurhachi in North Korea from both land and sea.
Fortunately, with his death, most of the original Jurchen nobles were also dead. The number of people Xie He had to deal with was also reduced by more than half. She could easily subvert the original social structure of Jianzhou, beat them into a pile of loose sand, and assimilate them into the common people.
As for Donghai and Haixi, they were really not difficult opponents to deal with. Xiao Ruxun did not take them seriously at all. Recently, however, Black Water's secret agents in Sichuan sent news that the Sichuan chieftains were slightly restless. Yang Yinglong, the chieftain of Bozhou, seemed to be somewhat dissatisfied with Wang Xiangqian, the Sichuan Inspector sent by Xiao Ruxun. The two seemed to have some conflicts.
Is the battle of Bozhou inevitable?
Xiao Ruxun thought so.
Fortunately, at present, the land reform had advanced to Guangdong, Guangxi, and Sichuan. In order to deter some of the local restless people, the Black Turtle Camp had already stationed half of its men in Xiangyang and Changde Prefectures. They provided a huge force for the land reform working group and set off waves of land reform in the Han land.
Presumably, these waves were inevitably known by the chieftains. While the chieftains were watching a good show, they were also somewhat worried that the Daqin would make a move against them.
Yang Yinglong was not an honest person to begin with. However, if he wanted to jump up and down, it was not difficult at all to suppress him.
Not to mention, Ma Qiancheng, who was appointed as the new Sichuan Army Commander, was a fierce general. His wife, Qin Liangyu, was also wise and brave.
After the two of them went to the capital with Deng Zilong's army to pay their respects to Xiao Ruxun, Xiao Ruxun conferred Ma Qiancheng the title of Shizhu Marquis and Sichuan Army Commander. He appointed Qin Liangyu to take over Ma Qiancheng's position. She was given the post of Proclamation Envoy of Shizhu Prefecture and was given the official seal, which was considered as an official of the Daqin imperial court.
This news surprised many officials in the imperial court. However, Ma Wei, Liu Da, and the others agreed wholeheartedly. They even praised Qin Liangyu's bravery and thought that she was completely qualified for this position. Xiao Ruxun even personally inspected the white stick troops and praised Qin Liangyu greatly, saying that she was good at training troops. He rewarded her with 10,000 taels of silver and 1,000 bolts of silk.
Not only that, but she was also given twenty thousand men's worth of military expenses, allowing Qin Liangyu to return to his hometown and train an army of twenty thousand men. Ma Qiancheng and Qin Liangyu were pleasantly surprised by this. They repeatedly thanked Xiao Ruxun for her kindness, accepted the official seal of the Great Qin Empire, and became the new nobility of the Great Qin Empire's military.
Of course, they also returned with 100 military secretaries, who were used to teach the soldiers how to read.
Xiao Ruxun also thought of the fact that there were many chieftains in the Sichuan region. There were many different tribes and it was not easy to deal with them. If he met one or two who were loyal to the Daqin Empire, of course he had to rope them in. He also asked everyone to reward them and give them titles. This was to let the people of Sichuan know the kindness of the Daqin imperial court.
At the same time, he took in good generals for his own use to prevent the stirring chieftains around Sichuan.
If Xiao Ruxun did not show his great fighting strength during the northern expedition to deter these chieftains, one could imagine how chaotic they would be. After the Daqin Empire was established, the world was not completely stable yet. Now was the time when troops and horses were needed everywhere to suppress the unrest.
It was the same in the past when dynasties changed. The emperor in the capital was replaced and the new dynasty was replaced. Then the new dynasty's army would go out to suppress the bandits, occupy the land, and announce the rule and tax rates.
Xiao Ruxun did it to the extreme. He directly carried out the land reform. It was a little slow, but there were no gentry or tyrants in the land he conquered. There were only officials representing the central government and common people.
The places that were not affected by the land reform needed to be guarded by the army. It was the same for Ma Qiancheng and his wife to return to Sichuan. They were locals and had a reputation. With their reputation, they could deter the restless people in Sichuan and create an opportunity for Wang Xiangqian to take office.
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