The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 717 I said whoever is the mastermind is the one
The first thing is to count the nearby farmland, count the soldiers, military households in the guards, count the number of people, and business information.

Fortunately, the information on the eight major Shanxi merchants has been firmly grasped by the intelligence department a few years ago. Ding Yi is not in a hurry to move them now that he has just arrived. Anyway, they are all meat on the anvil, waiting for him to eat at any time.

"Start tomorrow." Ding Yi ordered at this time.

All the generals in the tent looked at Ding Yi together.

"Yan Xiong, lead a battalion of [-] infantry and [-] cavalry to control the cities. After controlling the city gates, if merchants come in and out, it should be the same as before, and they will let them go if they give money. If there are eight Shanxi merchants passing through, pay attention to registration and attitude. Be enthusiastic, set up the barracks, wait until I have seen it before making a decision.”

"No." Yan Xiong grinned.

Master Ding said that enthusiasm will inevitably be a bloody sword in the future.

"Fang Duotai, you send someone to the Shanxi Metropolitan Command Division to ask for the roster of officers and soldiers to record the number of military fields. The Command Division will not give it to you. Find the governor Cai Maode. Cai Duxian will definitely help. If Cai Maode's face is useless, Just come back first."

"promise."

"Whether you want these things or not, you lead [-] soldiers and [-] soldiers and their family members to replace the forts and occupy their fields."

Below the Datong commander, near the border city wall, there are Tianchengwei (Yongjiabao, Baiyangkou, Wayaokoubao); Yanghewei (Huyukou, Yanghekou, Langmakou); settlements (Xujiazhuang There are also Zhenchuan Fort, Desheng Fort, Hongtu Fort, Juqiang Fort, Yunchuanwei, Yulinwei and so on.

There are five guards in Datong and three thousand households, a total of 46 piers, [-]% of which are on the edge of the Great Wall.

Ding Yi will use the more than 1 hoarded soldiers and family members he brought to distribute them to five guards, three camps, and 46 piers.

Simply put, replace the original people with those you trained yourself.

This is not a small project, and the resistance must be great.

But for Ding Yi, there was no difficulty.

These more than 1 hoarding soldiers and their family members are all old hoarding soldiers who have been drawn from Dengzhou hoarding fields for more than three years, and his hardcore confidantes.

In Dengzhou, they pay [-]% of the tax for more than three years, and each household has about five acres of grain fields.There will be more original castle masters.

When Ding Yi brought them here, he announced that although the original Dengzhou fields were stockpiled for others, the harvest in the next two years would still be theirs.

Newly arrived in Datong to store farmland, and the farmland of each household doubled.

What used to be five mu becomes ten mu, and what used to be ten mu becomes twenty mu.

Only then did a large number of hoarding soldiers willing to bring their families and him travel thousands of miles to Datong.

When all the people in the castles are replaced by his people, Datong will be as strong as gold.

The people who came to Datong with Ding Yi this time were not only generals, but also civil officials.

The civil servants were all trained by Ding Yi himself in Lushun.

Most of them are young, about 20 years old.

Ju grew up in Lushun when he was a teenager, and he regarded Ding Yi as a god-like figure in his heart.

The Confucianism they study is only a secondary subject, and they all have their own main career.

Some know how to hoard fields, some hoard craftsmen, some hoard firearms, and some know how to raise horses.

Ding Yi issued orders one after another, and everyone took notes one after another.

Early the next morning, another large number of troops moved in all directions.

Around [-] o'clock in the morning, Ding Yi, surrounded by his own soldiers and some generals, came to the south gate of Yongtai Gate.

The Yongtaimen Suspension Bridge is usually put down at around eight o'clock. The gate is six meters wide, allowing carts to pass through, and there are small gates on both sides for pedestrians.

Ordinary cities do not have this kind of small gate design, but in Datong, each gate has two small gates.

Because there are more merchants here, and there are many carriages coming and going to and from merchants, the small gate was designed to prevent crowding.

At this time, many people and businessmen have come in and out.

Most people go through the small gate, and those with carriages go through the gate.

Ding Yi had already ordered yesterday that ordinary people walked through the small gate on the left of Yongtai, and refugees who followed Ding Yi and the others walked through the small gate on the right today.

At the gate of the city, Dong Fuchuan from the Logistics and Infrastructure Division of Datong was in charge. The refugees who entered the city registered first, and then designated a place to live temporarily. Those with skills were taken away.

It is planned to enter 1 households in the city every day and digest it slowly. Considering that there are more than [-] people outside the city, it is estimated that it will take half a month to fully digest it.

Ding Yi brought a lot of food this time, but it was not enough. Now they have to support so many refugees, and food has become the most important thing at present.

But this kind of thing is not difficult for Ding Yi.

After entering the city, there was a post at five steps and a post at six steps on the street, and 2000 people from the Fangduotai Department went to each fort to handle errands.

The remaining 3000 people are now distributed in various streets in Datong.

The main thing is that this side is close to Jiannu Mongolia. Ding Yi just arrived and suddenly controlled the whole city, so he didn't dare to neglect.

There are places above the second floor in the whole city, and his soldiers and horses are watching from above, in case someone stands upstairs and uses bows and crossbows to sneak attack.

Many people even went to the roof to observe the surroundings with binoculars.

If there were no assassins, Ding Yi would be so careful when entering the city, the whole city would laugh at him.

But now, no one dares to laugh, and no one knows what will happen next.

Of course, Ding Yi deliberately created an assassin, not to make others not laugh at him, but to make him famous and to do something.

Now the whole city is trembling under his iron cavalry and sword, he wants to say whoever is the mastermind of the assassins, he is.

Ding Yi rode a horse and led a group of people. Led by Ge Hongshan, he ran around Datong for nearly an hour. He visited almost all the places and looked at the architectural map of Datong from time to time along the way.

After hundreds of years of continuous renovation, Datong City is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It is very dangerous. There are three small cities and two forts on the outermost periphery.

They are Beiguan, Dongguan, and Nanguan. These three small cities are not only independent cities, but also united with Datong as a whole. When defending, they can be closed at any time and become independent castles.

Datong has more than 3 soldiers and horses, most of them are in these three cities, and a few are stationed in settlements and mountain forts outside the city.

"In the future, from the 40 frontier troops, we should select about 45 to stay. The main thing is to look at the strength. If it doesn't meet the standard, it doesn't matter if it is less. If it is more capable, it doesn't matter if it is more." Ding Yi said to the people around him at this time: "The rest of the old, weak and sick are eliminated, and those aged 1000-[-] are left to train as officials. The main leaders will all use our retired veterans. There will be about [-] people."

Ding Yi is still the old routine, choose the best, get rid of the chaff and save the chaff, and get rid of the [-] frontier troops first.

In this way, the infantry battalion in Ding Yi's hands can reach about [-], and the cavalry has [-].

Then there are [-] garrisons in the five cities in the city, and [-] garrisons outside the city.

"The Craftsmanship Bureau and armored equipment warehouses should be placed in Dongguan City, and the medical bureau, schools, and granaries should be placed in Nanguan City. Only 1000 people should be stationed in each city."

"The cavalry is stationed at Beiguan."

"Then build a military camp in the southeast and northwest of the city, with about [-] infantry in each camp."

Ding Yi pointed them out on the drawings, and the accompanying craftsmen took notes one after another and circled them with pens.

Someone immediately asked: "What about these shops, houses, and land?"

It turns out that there are shops, houses and even land in the area around Ding Yi.

Ge Hongshan groaned strangely: "This is all the property of the acting king."

"So what?" Ding Yi smiled: "It's all mine now."

Everyone was speechless, and then all laughed.

"First spend two months to train the officials, and then spend another month to count the permanent population of the city. Then, like Dengzhou, make and issue identity cards and levy business taxes."

Ding Yi moved the Dengzhou set here.

The business here is more developed than in Dengzhou. He just strolled around the city and saw Mongols and even Jurchen Manchus everywhere.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, these frontier generals were really fat. They completely ignored the war between the imperial court and the Manchus. Merchants came in and out casually, fattening the Manchus and Mongolia.

Ding Yi followed him for a while, and finally asked, "Where is Wang Pu's family? What happened after he died?"

Ge Hongshan said: "His younger brother is still a general, and he is also in the city for the time being. All the properties of the Wang family should belong to his younger brother."

Wang Pu's father, Wang Wei, was also a general of the Ming Dynasty, and also a second-generation official.

His younger brother Wang Quan is now a general, but he did not come to greet Ding Yi this time.

"Damn, the people here are all second-generation officials." Ding Yi scolded.

The three brothers of the Jiang family are all deputy generals, and the three of Wang Pu and his son are also generals at the lowest level, with the same virtue as Liaodong.

Everyone expressed helplessness. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was too difficult to get promoted without background. Liaodong generals were passed down from generation to generation, and outsiders were very excluded.

Only by following Lord Ding and doing meritorious service in battle can one be promoted, which is the real benefit.

"Do you want to ransack the house?" Civil servant Chen Minglin couldn't wait.

Before Ding Yi came, he decided that there were three big families in the city that could be copied, namely Jiang's family, Wang's family, and Daiwang's family.

There are still shops of the eight major Shanxi merchants in the city, but most of the hometowns of the eight major Shanxi merchants are in the Taiyuan area, including Qixian, Taigu, Xixiu, Pingyang, etc. It is a bit far from Datong, and there is Taiyuan General Soldier Xie Zhiliang's site.

Therefore, Ding Yi didn't want to startle the snake, and let the guards of the city gate deliberately greedy to lure the eight major Shanxi merchants.

The most urgent task is to rectify the army and horses first, expand the strength, and at the same time clear the land and hoard the land, and then deal with the three major households in the city.

Five days later, Yan Xiong sent people to Taiyuan to bring the Chief Secretary of Shanxi, both commanders and envoys, and the records provided by the two departments.

Sure enough, it was the governor Cai Maode who came forward to help get it. Cai Maode also asked Ding Yi's people, why do you Ding Zongbing want these?
Ding Yi's people replied that the commander-in-chief must hoard land, train elite soldiers, and, like Dengzhou, strive to pay taxes to the Chief Secretary of Shanxi.

When Liu Yuan was in Dengzhou, he paid tens of thousands of taels of tax every year. Officials all over the world knew that he was doing land clearing there, just like Zhang Juzheng, and he was very annoying.

Now Ding Yi said that it is the same as Dengzhou, and it is also ready to pay taxes.

Of course Cai Maode was happy. Shanxi's taxes and taxes have not been fully paid in the past few years, forcing the common people to suffer untold hardships. With Ding Yi to do it, there may be hope that they can be collected.

However, he was also worried that Ding Yi would act violently, so he quickly said, there is a acting king here, so please be careful with Ding Zongbing.

Don't worry about Ding Yi's humanity, Mr. Du Xian, we will definitely not make things difficult for Du Xian. (It’s really embarrassing you, and there’s nothing you can do about it.)
Cai Maode was also asked to support the hoarding of farming tools and other agricultural supplies.

Cai Maode naturally agreed.

(End of this chapter)