Chapter 125: Forty-eighth Year of Wanli
In a blink of an eye, by the 48th year of Wanli, the defense line of Fushun Pass was completely stable. Seeing that he was powerless to prevent the Ming army from restoring Fushun Pass, Lao Nu and the Jianzhou Jurchens were unwilling to stay in the snow and were frozen, and they retreated to Hetuala one after another.
In fact, Fushun Pass has not been completely completed, but only a section of the city wall has been repaired. At this time, Guancheng was in ruins. A few years ago, because Li Yongfang acted as a traitor, Fushun Pass was conquered by the Later Jin Dynasty and Guancheng was also destroyed. At this time, Fushun Pass was in a mess and covered with rubble on the ground. The arrow tower of Guancheng was burned down, the city gate was demolished, leaving only an empty city gate hole.
The weather is very cold, and it is impossible to build Guancheng in such a climate. To build a civil engineering project, water is needed to mix mud and build a solid Guancheng. It also requires glutinous rice to be used. Pour the glutinous rice into porridge, pour out the glutinous rice soup on it, mix it with the mud evenly, and then use it to bond the stones. Such a glutinous rice mud mixture is as solid as the cement in later generations.
However, in the cold winter, the mud cannot be stirred. Whether it is water or glutinous rice porridge soup, it will freeze and become ice as soon as it is poured into the mud, and it is impossible to construct.
"At this time, we can only wait. The ice city outside can hold on until the beginning of next spring will not melt. When the weather gets warmer, we will repair the Guancheng inside." Xiong Tingbi said.
Looking at the destroyed Fushun Pass, Xiong Tingbi remembered the traitor Li Yongfang. He said angrily: "Li Yongfang is so thief who is so destined to die! Just for this thief, he destroyed Fushun Pass, which led to the loss of Tieling! It is easy to destroy the pass and it is difficult to repair the pass. I don't know how much silver it will cost to repair the Fushun Pass!"
"Zheng Zhengluo, there is a way that will prevent Jiannu from breaking through the city of Guancheng forever!" Gao Shixin said.
Xiong Tingbi asked with interest: "General Gao, what are your opinions?"
Gao Shixin brought a pen and paper and drew a floor plan of the castle on the paper: "Fushunguan City and the military forts to be built in the future are all like this. This is Taixi Castle. As long as there is enough food and water in a castle, even a million troops will have no choice but to take a castle with only a thousand people to guard!"
Xiong Tingbi leaned over and took a look at the floor plan. He saw that the floor plan of the castle was like two hexagons staggered angles together, with a total of twelve raised corners, with inclined surfaces and trenches on the outside. In the middle of the fortress, there is also a floor plan that looks like a snowflake-shaped fortress.
"There are all the forts of the Taisie people like this?" Xiong Tingbi asked.
"Yes, Mo Jiang had also met the Thais and talked to them. They were such a fortress. When the enemy attacked any side, they would be killed on three sides." Gao Shixin replied.
Xiong Tingbi looked at the floor plan carefully and showed joy on his face: "It's indeed a clever trick! The Thais' brains are not known how they have grown. They have made bird guns, turtledove guns, and cannons. They even made such a castle. It's like a man who can't open it!"
However, Xiong Tingbi turned around and said, "It's a pity that no matter how strong the castle is, it can't prevent internal thieves like Li Yongfang! If there are a few more thieves like Li Yongfang and open the castle from the inside, all our efforts will be in vain."
"Please rest assured by Xiong Zhenglu. Since the last general is a hundred households of the Jinyiwei, he will naturally arrest the traitor in Liaodong and make Jiannu impeccable!" Gao Shixin made a promise with confidence.
The internal enemies were actually not only the detailed works arranged by Jiannu in the Ming Dynasty, but also the civil servants in the court. They all wanted Xiong Tingbi to get out quickly and replace them with their people. Once Xiong Tingbi's strategy was implemented, Liaodong was stable, and those guys who were extremely high intra-fighting but were actually fools would squeeze their heads and try to get into Liaodong, treating the destruction of Jiannu as the capital for his promotion and wealth, and the situation deteriorated again.
Those people are the real enemies of the Ming Dynasty.
As long as the city, pass and military fort were transformed according to the style of Gao Shixin's bastion, many people in Jianzhou Jurchens would not be enough to die. However, if Xiong Tingbi was destroyed by them and replaced with a candle, even the most solid fortifications would be useless.
However, this era is much better than the original time and space. Even though the Yehe tribe has not been destroyed, the Yehe tribe and the Jianzhou Jurchens are mortal enemies. Xiong Tingbi naturally knows how to use this to add a fire between the Yehe tribe and the Jianzhou Jurchens, so that they can kill each other more fiercely.
In addition, Kaiyuan was still in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, making it difficult for the Jianzhou Jurchens to reinforce the Korqin people. Lin Danhan's golden tent was already standing next to the Korqin people, and the Korqin tribe might be destroyed at any time.
As for the internal enemies, those who leave them to their good brother Zhang Yong. I believe that Zhang Yong will definitely have a way to eliminate those internal enemies one by one, so that he can save Xiong Tingbi and save the entire Ming Dynasty.
In fact, it doesn’t matter whether the Ming Dynasty will perish. Like any dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has been difficult to recover. Various ills have accumulated over time, and various serious problems and hidden dangers exist, just one natural disaster. If a disaster comes, various problems will emerge, and then there will be thousands of miles of naked land and starves everywhere. Then there will be peasant uprisings and overthrow the court.
The demise of the Ming Dynasty was not a pity. The most regrettable thing was that it was not the change of dynasties by the Han people, but the destruction of the world! It made the world fall into the hands of barbarians, and this barbarian is even more vicious than the Mongols.
The Mongols only conquered the Han people by force, while Jiannu not only changed the Han people by force, but also thoughtfully, turning the Han people into slaves, breaking the backbone of the Han people, making the Han people kneel on the ground and unable to stand up. This was extremely bad, and directly led to the changes in China's inability to keep up with the industrial era, from the decline of the former advanced civilization to the fact that it was far from being able to catch up with the world, and then being beaten by the great powers in various ways. It would be fine if it was beaten by the great powers, but it was beaten by the bald pigs in the east. This was called depressed.
Shortly after this year, Gao Shixin helped Xiong Tingbi to clear out the Jiannu fine work in Liaodong, and he would probably be transferred back to the Jinyiwei in the capital.
But at this time, various memorials impeached Xiong Tingbi in the court were already flying all over the sky, such as impeaching Xiong Tingbi to instigate the Jinyiwei to harm the people in Liaodong. Although this was done by Gao Shixin, ordinary censors would not impeach the Jinyiwei casually, so Xiong Tingbi, who was already very upset, became the target of those censors.
In addition, Gao Shixin set fire to the mountains and killed Jiannu and Baoyi, and was also used by the censors to impeach Xiong Tingbi, saying that Xiong Tingbi was cruel and ruthless. As a civil servant, he used extremely cruel means to kill innocent people, kill good people and make contributions, and even used extremely cruel means to deal with the Jianzhou Jurchens, who did not understand what Confucius said to repay grievances with kindness.
Repaying grievances with virtue is a kindness that is lenient. This sentence is not said by Saint Confucius, but by Zhu Xi, the Duke of Ashes.
The real sage Confucius was tall and powerful, and was a very capable guy. He was not the weak scholars since the Song Dynasty! In fact, Confucianism had deteriorated since the Song Dynasty. The so-called Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty was not a real Confucianism at all, but should be a group of people who believed in Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism.
Is the Han Dynasty weak when the Han Dynasty respects Confucianism? The original words of Saint Confucius meant to repay grievances with virtue. How can one repay grievances with righteousness? Repaying grievances with virtue and virtue, but it was taken out of context. Saint Confucius believed that if someone beats you, then just use a brick to beat him!
Some people even said something about spitting on their faces, that is, if someone spits a mouthful of spit on their faces, don’t wipe them off, because wiping off the spit is against its grudges and embarrassing them. Therefore, let other people’s spit dry on their faces! If the entire nation is like this, then it will be done.
Chapter completed!