Weihai Wei, Lord's Manor.
"What is it? Huang Jitai was dead? Or was he angered to death by us?!”
When Lin Feng heard the news that Huang Jitai had died half a year earlier than history, a few days had already passed. Especially when he found out that his actions of plundering the Manchu cities and slaughtering the Manchu Tartars had angered Huang Jitai to death, he was very surprised.
He had never thought that Huang Jitai, who was praised by countless Tartars, would be so narrow-minded that he was angered to death just like that!
One had to know that for the Manchu forces that dominated Liaodong, Monan, and North Korea, what kind of loss was it to have two cities taken down?
It was just a drop in the ocean!
Huang Jitai was too petty!
This was infuriating!
However, when he thought about it, ever since Huang Jitai became the leader of the Qing Dynasty, he had first killed many Banner Lords of the Baylor and directly controlled the military forces of the Three Banners and Eight Banners. Those who obeyed him would prosper and those who resisted him would die. His words carried weight.
He had conquered North Korea and then Mongolia, and he had never failed. In addition, in the war against the Darming Dynasty, Song Jin had obtained an unprecedented victory in the decisive battle and completely dealt with the Darming Dynasty's forces in Liaodong.
In the pillaging of the northern towns in the Darming Dynasty's pass, they would be carried out once every two to three years. Every time, it would be successful, and they would directly become the wealthiest faction from Liaodong's bitter ha-ha.
Food, people, and warhorses were not lacking.
If not for the fact that there were too few people in the Manchu Dynasty, with the strength of the Manchu Tartars, they would have long been able to enter the Divine Prefecture and participate in the hegemony.
Everything seemed to be on the side of the heavens. How could Huang Jitai not be proud of a true "chosen one"?!
The prouder and more successful a person was, the more they couldn't stand setbacks.
Lin Feng's Weihai Guards, with less than a prefecture's worth of power, launched an unprecedented raid on the Manchu Tartars, causing them to suffer an unprecedented defeat.
How could Huang Jitai not be angry?
He was already in poor health, and he was so angry that he was about to die. It was not surprising that he died of anger.
"It's good that he's dead. Now, the Manchu Tartars are all focused on fighting for power, so they won't have time to seek revenge on me!”
Lin Feng muttered, gloating.
He knew that the Manchu Tartars would put all their energy into fighting for power. Especially the battle between Dorgon and Hauge.
The two brothers, Dorgon and Tuoduo, controlled the troops of the Second Banner, and Hauge didn't give up either. He directly controlled the troops of the Third Banner left behind by Huang Jitai.
Because of Huang Jitai, the three banners that Hao Ge controlled were far stronger than the two banners of the Dorgon brothers!
Logically speaking, Hauge's chances of winning were much higher than Dorgon's.
However, the Haoge people were not ruthless enough and did not inherit the ruthlessness of his father, Huang Jitai. On the other hand, Duo Er Gun was very similar to Huang Ji Tai. Under the combination of both sides, he finally killed Hao Ge and became the regent of the Qing Dynasty.
He even slept with the Empress Dowager's Concubine Zhuang, Bumubutai, who was also known as Da Yu 'er in later generations, and walked to the peak of his life.
However, this battle lasted for a very long time.
During this period of time, he would not have the energy to take revenge on Lin Feng.
Without any worries, Lin Feng relaxed.
It had to be said that the Manchu Tartars were really rich. In this month of looting, they had lost less than 1,000 people, but they had seized more than 100,000 people, all kinds of grain, silver, medicinal herbs, Tartar women, and other materials. If they were to use silver to price it, it would be at least 10 million silver!
Ten million silver coins was almost twenty million taels of silver.
What a huge number!
It could be said that from the hands of the Manchu Tartars, Lin Feng had become rich!
Compared to the Manchurian Tartars, the northern part of the Ming Dynasty was much poorer.
A large amount of resources and silver poured in, causing the development of Lin Feng's territory to speed up as if it was equipped with a flame-breathing engine.
In addition to the Jinghai Squadron's non-stop patrolling of the sea routes and fighting against pirates, the territory's sea trade developed rapidly. Weihai Wei had already become the most popular port city in the entire Ming Dynasty.
There were as many as 400 to 500 merchant ships arriving at Weihaiwei Port every day!
Even though most merchant ships were small in size, they could still trade a large amount of resources every day.
The salt pans, salted fish marinating factories, and fishing teams under the territory expanded and increased production.
Moreover, as the farms established in Wendeng, Chengshan, and Jinghai began to reap bumper harvests, these three places no longer needed Lin Feng to increase their capital investment. Instead, they could be self-sufficient and earn a lot of profits.
With the profits from these three places, Lin Feng's territory suddenly lost its financial pressure, and its finances suddenly became extremely generous.
The three new territories gained profits, and the sea trade volume increased crazily. The businesses in the territory gained a lot of profits, and the business tax within the territory also increased.
In addition to the nearly ten million silver coins he had seized from the Manchu Tartars, Lin Feng had more than twenty million silver coins.
Moreover, this was under normal development. Lin Feng did not squeeze the necessary development funds of the enterprises below, nor did he consume their development potential and naturally turn over the profits.
It had to be said that monopolizing was really making money!
Especially when he monopolized everything, the money would come in an endless stream.
With 20 million silver dollars in his hands, how could Lin Feng let it rot in his hands?
With a wave of his hand, he directly expanded his army!
And it wasn't a petty expansion, it was a huge expansion, expanding the Three Guards Field Army to ten guards in one go!
A regular field army consisting of ten guards, with a total strength of close to fifty thousand people!
At the same time, he also formed a cavalry force of two guards. The warhorses seized from the Tartars and the warhorses produced in the horse farms could form two guards and ten thousand cavalry.
However, they couldn't be as rich and imposing as the Tartars, with one person, two horses, or even three horses!
Currently, Lin Feng could only provide one person and one horse for the two newly formed cavalry guards, as well as two to three thousand warhorses to replenish their losses.
The cavalry of these two guards were extremely valuable.
This way, Lin Feng would have 60,000 regular field troops under him!
At the same time, he started to build local garrison troops in Weihai, Wendeng, Chengshan, and Jinghai. These troops would be used as second-line troops, mainly to defend the areas and replenish the field army.
The local garrison troops, each with one guard, had an additional 20,000 soldiers.
However, these 20,000 garrison troops did not all use their own people. Instead, they began to recruit the people under their command.
Apart from that, Lin Feng waved his hand and expanded his personal army from 1,000 to 5,000. These 5,000 personal army camps were all real military units produced by the system.
He placed great importance on his own safety, regardless of the cost.
As a result, there were ten guards with 50,000 field troops, two guards with 10,000 cavalry, four guards with 20,000 garrison troops, and five thousand personal troops.
Lin Feng's army had already expanded to more than 85,000 people!
As soon as the formation was formed, they immediately began to organize training to prepare for the next attack on Dengzhou Prefecture and Laizhou Prefecture.
Weihai Wei had been quiet for so long, it was time to move.
Soon, it would be the third month of the 16th year of Chongzhen. This month, a major event that would shock the entire Ming Dynasty would happen. Li Zicheng would make Xiangyang the capital, establish the Great Shun Dynasty, and officially become king!
Once he became king, it would mean that the Great Shun Dynasty led by Li Zicheng would fight to the death with the Darming Dynasty, and there would be no room for compromise!
And in March, all the attention of the Darming Dynasty would be focused on Li Zicheng's Great Shun Dynasty. Lin Feng naturally wouldn't give up this opportunity to expand his territory and strengthen himself.
There was only a month left until Li Zicheng became king in March.
Lin Feng only had a month to train his soldiers!
This time, his goal was to take down the two prefectures of Dengzhou and Laizhou!
To establish the foundation of dominance!
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