Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 282 The Sorrow of the Subjugated Slave
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In the newly established county government office of Changguo County, Zhu Yihai was looking at the letter sent back by Mr. Yan through the secret intelligence line.

The letter is encrypted, and Zhu Yihai and Yan Wogong have the code book to ensure that even if the letter is lost, it will be safe.After translating the content bit by bit, Zhu Yihai watched it seriously.

These contents are very precious, from Yan Wogong's interview with Dorgon after he entered Beijing, to the new deployment of the Qing court, and how he tried to delay time after he went south.

This information is worth tens of thousands of dollars, more than tens of thousands of horses.

Dorgon's response can be said to be rapid. Since the Qing court was overconfident before, it depends on the South's propaganda, which caused strategic mistakes and gaps, which are now being quickly filled.

The first wave of reinforcements was the [-] and Eight Banners elites from the former Pingnan Generals Le Ke Dehun and Ye Chen from Jiangning and other places. They were quickly transferred to Wuchang upstream to reinforce the Huguang battlefield and go to relieve the siege of Wuchang in Jingzhou.

The second wave of reinforcements came from the north and went south with Yan Wogong. There were Bashan, Kangkala, Zhumala, and Tuo four generals who unified the Wanmenghan Eight Banners and went south. They will be stationed in Jiangning, Suzhou, Songjiang, and Hangzhou. And it will be used intensively first, and then go to Shaoxing first.

The third wave of reinforcements was to draw [-] Mongolian and Han Eight Banners and [-] Han Army Banners from Beijing and outside the customs. From the Xianghuang Banner, Gushan Ezhen Tantai was recruited to conquer the Southern General, and King Sanshun was dispatched to march south.

In the west, Dorgon also transferred Wu Sangui and his Guan Ning Army from Jinzhou to cooperate with Li Guohan's Han Army Banner, about 2 people, and rushed to Hanzhong.It is necessary to cooperate with Shaanxi governor Meng Qiaofang to take down the restless He Zhen and other Hanzhong four generals, and use this strategy to intercept Zhang Xianzhong and Yunxiang's Ming army in Sichuan, and prevent them from rushing into Hanzhong and Guanzhong areas.

A total of four groups of troops, a total of 6 troops went south for reinforcements, and 1 troops sent reinforcements to Huguang.

If it is counted as the green flag soldiers in Huguang, Jiangnan, Jiangxi, Henan and other places, their strength is already amazing. It can be said that their strength is not weaker than the last Southern Expedition of Duduo and Azig.

Divided into two major areas, the west has Hong Chengchou, Tong Dai, Luo Xiujin, Wu has Beilelk Dehun, Pingxi Wang Wu Sangui, Sun Dingliao, Zu Kefa, the east has Yan Wogong, and Wu has two Gu Shan Ezhen, the four Mei Le Zhang Jing, and Chen Jin, Zhang Tianlu, Li Chengdong and so on.

Burn the secret letter in a brazier, then sprinkle it with water and mash it.

Zhu Yihai fell into deep thought.

He expected the Tatars to have this reaction, but it was a bit unexpected that they attached so much importance to it.This also shows that his strategy did pose a threat to the Tartars, and even hurt the Tartars, which is why the Tartars reacted so strongly.

This is both a good thing and a bad thing.

The good news is that his strategy is working.

The disadvantage is that it has only been more than three months since he raised the flag to raise troops. Whether it is his imperial camp, or the Ming army in Huguang, Jiangxi, Anhui, Susong and other places, they have just put up a shelf, and there is still no front at this stage. duel strength.

Just like Jin Gongyu, the commander-in-chief of Huzhou Town, who fought against Zhang Cunren last time, three thousand beat one thousand, and he still waited for work to ambush and beat Zhang Cunren's exhausted and fleeing troops. High, but the result is still a huge disparity in strength, with more than a thousand casualties and less than a hundred losses to the enemy. Three times as many troops attacked the enemy, and the result was ten to one in battle losses. The actual battle loss ratio should be thirty to one.

At present, the generals and soldiers in Huzhou Town are considered to be pretty good Ming army, with a [-]% armor rate, full of soldiers, and high morale of the generals, but so what?

In a short period of time, it is still impossible to become a real elite team, and the gap is too big when facing the Tartars.

This gap is due to the huge gap in equipment between the two sides. The Qing army, especially the main force of the Eight Banners, had a very high armor rate, perhaps even reaching [-]%. Some armored soldiers even wore double armor. Their supplies and pensions were very good. Fight bravely, and even always have an advantage psychologically.

However, the Ming army has lost to the Qing army for so many years, and it has been psychologically shadowed, and its morale has been severely suppressed.

This has to be regained bit by bit by victory after game.

Since Zhu Yihai started his army, he has indeed fought many victories, but none of them has been a real head-to-head confrontation, let alone a head-to-head confrontation with equal strength. Wait, these victories have really boosted the morale of today's imperial camp, and even when facing the Qing army, they did not have the fear of the Ming frontier army in the past.

However, the Ming army is still not trained enough, and the armor rate is only [-]%. He is also stepping up to build armor ordnance, but this thing cannot be completed in a day.

Fortunately, it's not all bad news.

Yan Wogong broke into the enemy's internal high-level and learned many secrets.

For example, the treasury of the Qing court in Beijing is also empty now. The princes and nobles and the bannermen have all made war fortunes, but the court has no money. Now Dorgon is still enclosing land for the bannermen in Beizhili, and deliberately made a deposit The method is to allow the banner people to enclose the land, and then take the original owner of the above land as their slaves. It is said that they are voluntary, and they are slaves in essence.

However, according to what Yan Wogong said, the staking of land is very aggressive now, and many people in the north are quite willing to vote for banner people. It is the same for the people to dedicate their land to the gentry, and even to turn themselves into slaves, all in order to avoid service.

After the banner people enclose the land, the property rights of the land changed, and they began to collect rent. But when the people also invested, they neither had to pay taxes nor serve in the army. Or at this time, the local taxes and duties of the Qing court were still light.

Many people don't care about temples, the world, or Manchus, because they can't even provide food and clothing, and they can't even support their wives and children. They have to take care of their immediate needs first.

So now the banner people are running to enclose land, the fact is that the banner people are very happy, and the Han people who have been enclosed are also happy, but the Qing court is not happy, because these lands have become the land of the banner people, and the population has become the slaves of the banner people , has nothing to do with the court.

There are also non-governmental opponents, that is, gentry in some places.

These people used to be in the privileged class in the Ming Dynasty, and they lived a very chic life. They lost business taxes, and they basically couldn't pay taxes and taxes on themselves. Although they had to give gifts and bribes to manage relationships and maintain their status, they said In the end, people are still superior to others.

Now that the Eight Banners are starting to enclose land, they don’t care about you. First, they have to shave their hair and dress easily, and let them be polite and sweep the floor. The officials of the Qing Dynasty also began to oppose this matter in the court, but they still thought it was in the Ming Dynasty?

Can the officials suppress the emperor?

Dorgon is not used to them.

In addition to this, there is also good news, that is, the area of ​​North Zhishanxi Henan Shaanxi Shandong and Huainan is basically the north of the Yangtze River. Now the local situation is very poor, hungry people are everywhere, and bandits are rampant. After occupying these places, the Tartars began to expropriate Taxes and labor are even more ruthless than in the Ming Dynasty.

They apportioned it layer by layer, anyway, they directly apportioned it to the provinces and governments according to the original tax amount in the Ming Dynasty, and distributed it layer by layer. Those demoted or newly appointed officials are now very active in responding to the orders of the Qing court, for fear of being questioned.

So the province spreads to the government to the county, the county spreads to the township, and the township spreads to Baojia. The most terrible thing about this kind of taxation method is that in the past, taxes were collected on the basis of households. If you can't pay taxes or die from disease and hunger, the fields are barren and your households are extinct, then you can't pay the original tax amount, and you can't pay it. At most, there is a record and reason for the default in the yamen.

But it doesn’t work now, if this household escapes or dies or fails to pay, then the other households of you and A will hand over his share and must be made up.

If A's payment is not enough, the co-guarantor must make up for it.

Then it’s completely like sitting in a row. It’s difficult for the family, but now because the neighbor ran away, you have to pay for him?What is this called?

If you don't pay, you can't.

So many people were forced to run away.

What are you waiting for?

There began to be a wave of refugees in the north. People left their homes, not only because of floods, droughts, and famines, but also because those who were oppressed by the tax were forced to leave the land they could grow, just to avoid taxation.

Even now many rich peasants and landlords and gentlemen can’t stand it anymore, because the Qing Dynasty is now increasing its weight layer by layer, and won’t talk to you about privileges and privileges. .In the past, officials and gentry colluded and talked easily, but now it is no longer possible, because the pressure from above is severe, and officials will lose their heads at any time, so whoever plays with you again, hello, me, everyone, hello, money is given and received, but nothing can be done.

The poor fled in large numbers, and taxes and levies were shared among the rich.

Local officials and local green camps still need to search again. You increase the tax and consumption, and I persuade you to donate the salary. Anyway, they come to collect the wool repeatedly, so that the gentry and common people can fully understand the sorrow of what is called a subjugated slave.

Mr. Yan went north and south, and what he saw along the way, from Huaiyang to Haixu, and then to Jinan Beizhi, there were barren fields everywhere. Even the fields on the edge of the county town, many of the originally good irrigated fields, had become Grass grows in patches.

No one farms.

The common people stay to farm the land, and your year-round harvest is not enough to turn in. In addition to the regular payment, there is an additional payment, and in addition to the additional payment, there is consumption, and the consumption will be added.Originally, since Liwan, silver has been used as a substitute for labor, and even part of it has been allocated to the fields.

But now, all kinds of new services emerge in endlessly in various places, and all of them have to be conscripted for service, such as collecting food and escorting food. The standard is actually several times that.

Especially those local people along the canals and along the official roads will be robbed as soon as they pass by the soldiers, and they will be arrested as civilians who transport food, grass and luggage, and they will even be pulled by strong men, and sometimes they may be robbed by those soldiers.

For those people.

The sky in the north has changed, the Ming Dynasty has been replaced by the Qing Dynasty, but the officials still seem to be the same people, and the exploitation and oppression have become even more ruthless.

Now the north has entered a vicious cycle, the burden of the people is too heavy to flee, so it is spread to those who did not flee, forcing more people to flee, a large number of fields are barren, and further aggravate the financial difficulties of the Qing government, so they have to further levy... ····

Yan Wogong also told Zhu Yihai that most of the green camps in various places were recruited by the original Ming army or peasant army or bandits and water bandits. They were resettled in various places. Most of them owed their wages for a long time. The combat effectiveness is very low, no different from the previous Ming army.

However, the Eight Banners were very effective in combat, and some of the Han Army Banners transferred from outside the Guan and Beizhi were also well-equipped with good combat effectiveness, so he should be careful.

(End of this chapter)