Wanli Xinming

Chapter 103 Recruitment
Zhu Yijun's policies on the development of the Northeast were not friendly to Jurchen.With the influx of a large number of Han people, Zhu Yijun expected that the ethnic conflicts in the Northeast would be unprecedentedly fierce.

If politicians can't build a strong position, they will always be pushed by contradictions, and sooner or later they will be overwhelmed by contradictions.

In order to solve the problem of Jurchen, Zhu Yijun proposed a three-pronged approach on the basis of eliminating ethnic differences by cultivating the right hair.One is to set up a branch of monk records in various cities in the northeast, and to transfer monks from all over the country to Liaodong to teach the dharma and fool the people, completely defeating the shaman in religious belief; the other corrupts the senior officials of the Jurchen ministries, rewards them with extravagant things, and quickly builds a life of extravagance but nothing The upper-level groups without fighting spirit create class contradictions within the Jurchen; the three recruit troops from the bottom of the Jurchen, extract their combat effectiveness from the root, and at the same time use the military pay to break down the resistance of the Jurchen bottom.

The court clearly ordered the Jurchens to be released to Han people and Korean slaves, and the timing was also carefully chosen.It is carried out in winter after the grain is harvested, and the possibility of encountering fierce resistance from the Jurchen grassroots is very small.

Due to poor farming practices, although the Jurchen tribes occupy the most fertile ground, their population growth is extremely slow.Most women, children and the elderly suffer from hunger all year round. In good years, [-] out of [-] Jurchen children die of malnutrition every year; in disaster years, only one or two of the seven or eight children will survive.

The contradictions in the economic structure based on the national character can only be solved unless the regime can educate them in a targeted manner and adjust their production mode at the same time.

Although countless people of insight in the past dynasties have understood this truth.However, during the prosperous period of the Central Plains, very few people were interested in this and put them into practice - the best ones in this regard are probably the Qing Dynasty emperors and the early Ming Taizu and Chengzu who have the best empathy for this. Second ancestor.

During the Taizu and Chengzu periods of the Ming Dynasty, on the one hand, they used military force against the Mongolian Yuan, and on the other hand, they used naturalized Mongolians and Jurchens on a large scale, and encouraged their tribes to move inward.At that time, a large number of Mongolians and Jurchens were scattered and resettled in various guardhouses in Northern Zhili, and finally they were completely sinicized.

During the Yongle period, Zheng He’s own family was Hui, and the one who built Yongning Temple was also a Jurchen eunuch.Wu Jijue, who was headed by Zhu Yijun, is the most typical. His ancestors were naturalized Mongolians during the Chengzu period. In Wu Jijue's generation, almost no one knows about the rest of the civil and military generals except the noble circle.

But unfortunately, after Renzong - the simple policy of restraint and the conservatism of Confucianism, the progress of reforming the land in the north and south of the empire was extremely slow.

When the military in the Central Plains was strong, the policy of restraining the ethnic minorities could still maintain the superficial appearance of "Tribute to the Four Barbarians".When the army in the Central Plains was weak, the country that had not changed its land began to lose a large area, and the reasons will not be repeated.

As the military power of the Ming court rapidly changed from strength to decline after the Tumu Fort, Nuer Gandusi's strategy of restraint, like other directions of the empire, gradually failed.

The Jurchen lost the suppression of the powerful army, and based on the structural contradictions of the national economy, she began to plunder the Han people on a large scale. choose.

At that time, a farmer who could serve ten acres of land a year was considered an old man.In Liaodong, although the land is fertile, there is a serious shortage of means of production. Ten acres of land can reach the limit of fifteen stone a year in the best years.

If the host family abused them and the Han slaves were not very motivated, the Jurchen family who raised one Han slave every year would not even be able to receive seven or eight stone of grain. ——This is still in the case of women and children at home serving Tianmu together.

After Wang Gao was overthrown, Jurchen was under the authority of the imperial court.Although the crisis of food shortage is not imminent, the ordinary people of Jurchen lost their Han slaves and fell into the panic of no one to farm next year.Although many impoverished Jurchen tribesmen are half-farming and half-pastoral, without the guidance of the Han people, they have nothing in their hearts.

For the people at the bottom of the Jurchen who had lost hope at this time, they were suddenly told that the Liaodong Shuqi was recruiting troops, and the treatment was favorable. They did indeed feel the emperor's supreme favor.

The court promised that all Jurchen soldiers who led a horse to join the army would immediately distribute [-] shi of food for the family, and provide [-] shi of food and [-] catties of cotton every year.For those who join the army without a horse, the food for the family is halved, and the rest is the same.

For those who have served in the army for more than three years or have obtained first-level merit, the government will organize their families to form a helping pair with the Han people. The two farms will be merged.

These two policies, like a ray of sunshine piercing the dark cloud, gave the Jurchen people infinite hope of survival.

The effect was better than the most optimistic estimates of Zhu Yijun and the court: the young Jurchen joined the army enthusiastically, like a trickle of streams converging into a lake and sea.

Before the arrival of spring in the third year of Wanli, the number of Jurchen who participated in the selection and obtained the qualification to join the army had reached 5, carrying more than 8000 horses in total.In many Jurchen families, there have been touching scenes of wives sending off their husbands, mothers sending off their children to join the army and defend their families and the country.

There was a Jurchen tribe with many sons. Except for the younger son who stayed at home, the other six brothers joined the army together with their father. They were honored by Zhang Xueyan, governor of Liaodong, and set up as a model.

According to reports by Li Chengliang, who is most familiar with the situation of the Jurchen ministries, the number of men distributed between the Baishan and Heishui at this time is about 26 to [-], and about one-third of them have combat skills.After the court's siege, more than half of the Jurchen soldiers were fished out.

The enthusiasm of the grassroots Jurchen tribesmen to join the army caused severe panic among the captive chiefs.Due to the uneven distribution of the Jurchen warriors who joined the army, the small tribes with poor living conditions were almost emptied by the imperial court.

As a result, overt or covert resistance is almost inevitable.However, no amount of resistance could stop the people's desire for food.According to the stipulations of the recruiting order, reports of their own clan leaders who hindered their people from joining the army will be received by the Liaodong General Military House every day after the year.

The Liaodong General Military Mansion has set up reception points in many border towns to receive petitions from the sneaky Jurchen minions, which became a spectacle that made the court stunned.

According to the verified report, Li Zongbing raised the butcher's knife high, and set off a bloody storm in the northeast.

At the same time, civil servants from all walks of life, including Liu Yingjie and Zhang Xueyan, accompanied the Jurchen chief to sing songs day and night.Zhu Yijun once said jokingly that if any of Jiliao civil officials did not drink stomach bleeding, they would be considered negligent.

The emperor also changed the stingy appearance that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty gave to Jurchen. Jewelry, satin, fine porcelain, dazzling horse gear, including Rishenglong's exquisite daily necessities, were given to Wangtai, Nalin, Juechangan like flowing water. Headed by a large group of Jurchen nobles.

In the later period, if the Jurchen nobles did not have a fine jade wrench in their hands, they would be embarrassed to draw a bow, and they could not ride a horse without a whip tied with a golden pearl.Whoever married a daughter would be looked down upon at her husband's house unless a few silks and satins were hung around the horse's neck.

By the end of the third year of Wanli, it was formed by the emperor in Beijing, all composed of the children of Jurchen nobles. He also became a member of the glorious Yingyang Army.

　In this chapter, I consulted a lot of information on the number of Jurchens, and I only started writing after I had an understanding of their production and living conditions at that time.How to put it, dissatisfied - more like a paper than a novel.It would be better if it was written from the perspective of a grassroots Jurchen, but in Lao Mo's outline, there is no role for a grassroots Jurchen, that's all.

　　In addition, the number of words in this chapter is also a bit short, please forgive me.Some readers may have noticed that the update of Lao Mo has not been stable at work on weekends. The main reason is that he accompanies the child in class and has a long tutoring time. The mother of the child has been tired for five or six days, and the old Mo has to let Mrs. Mo rest on weekends.

　　
　
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