Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 272 Great Mercy and Great Compassion Hong Chengchou

"Ding... ding... ding..."

When the bell rang, while Daming carried out further reforms, Ciluwei, which was more than two thousand miles away from the capital, experienced the process from barrenness to prosperity again.

Assassin Guard, or Shangjing...

As the capital of the Kingdom of Jin [-] years ago, this place has gradually become prosperous under Huang Taiji's management.

After Huang Taiji's remonstrance in the third year of Tianqi, Nurhachi designated the Ula city in the south as Xingjing, and Ciluwei as Shangjing.

This preparation basically showed Nurhachi's attitude towards the two cities.

The Ula City of Xingjing, which is located in Jilin in later generations, is more like an offensive bridgehead, while Shangjing has instead become the rear.

After all, it has the foundation of the Kingdom of Jin. Although the four hundred years of vicissitudes have changed some terrain, when Huang Taiji first came here, the birth girls here had already reclaimed a lot of arable land, and the vast plain area was full of weeds and trees. .

However, within two years, Huangtai Ji took advantage of the [-] Han people who had been distributed to successfully expand the area of ​​cultivated land.

Unlike in Ula City in the south, where Daishan, Manggurtai, and Nurhachi violently used the Han people as consumables, the Han people under Huang Taiji's men were treated very well.

Through combat and trade, Huang Taiji obtained a large number of farming cattle from various tribes in Mongolia, and he distributed the farming cattle to more than [-] Han people, and even slaughtered sheep as military rations for some Han people to eat.

The savage Jurchens were captured, and he ordered them to hunt in the mountains.

Banner Jurchen was strictly trained by him. At the same time, males with better qualities were selected from the raw Jurchen to add to the two white banners.

With such supplements, in two years, the number of two white flags recovered to more than [-], and the number of fifteen cattle records.

Although this is insignificant compared with the forty Niulu before the Battle of Restoring Liao Dynasty, Huang Taiji's means are not limited to the two white flags, but to Mongolia and Han.

In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, after the war broke out between the Horqin Ministry and Chahar and Waikalka, they urgently needed foreign aid support, and Huang Taiji played this role.

In two years, he not only used the war to obtain more than [-] Mongolian males from the Horqin Alliance, but also took advantage of the opportunity of the Monan Mobei Alliance to marry Bumbutai, the daughter of Belzai Sangbuhe of the Horqin tribe. ...

For this reason, his good father-in-law also gave him a thousand Horqin cavalry, and in this way, while Huang Taiji had fifteen Liangbaiqi Niulu in his hands, he also had twenty Mongolian soldiers. , the number of people in the early six thousand.

This is only the power directly belonging to him. If you count the [-] Han soldiers in the hands of the two brothers Fan Wencheng and Fan Wencai, and the [-] Mongols led by Ji Erhalang, the strength in his hands has reached [-]. many people.

When Daishan and Manggurtai were still engaged in power struggles, Huang Taiji had successfully developed himself into the largest military leader among the Eight Banners in two years.

Daishan and Manggurtai looked down on the Mongols and Han people, and Huang Taiji took advantage of their arrogance and vigorously developed the Mongolian and Han Niulu.

Not only that, but he attaches great importance to agriculture.

"jingle……"

The bell under the cattle's neck was ringing, which woke up Huang Taiji, who was a bystander.

Watching the cattle dragging the carts of harvested grain slowly towards Shangjing not far away, Huang Taiji couldn't help but glance around.

There is a huge amount of cultivated land on both sides of the road outside Shangjing, but if you carefully observe the scene of harvesting, you will find that the grain production in this huge cultivated land is pitiful.

One family harvested one mu of grain, and only after harvesting the grain did they realize that the grain yield of one mu of land was only sixty to seventy catties...

This kind of harvest made Huang Taiji under the white tent on the side of the road frown slightly, while Jierhalang sitting beside him also frowned and said:

"Brother, you let these Han people have enough food and clothing. After two years of intensive farming, they only cultivated more than [-] mu of arable land, and the food is also very low. Five mu of land can support one person."

"If things go on like this, even if we have the cattle and sheep for this trade, we won't be able to survive next year's autumn harvest."

"It's two hundred and seventy-four thousand three hundred acres..." Huang Taiji took a sip of water unhurriedly, and then said to Jierhalang:

"Although there is a foundation of previous gold, don't forget that it takes at least three years of intensive cultivation to reap grain before reclaiming new land."

"It is impossible for us to relocate millions of people like Zhu Youjian in the south, raise them for three years, and accumulate land for three years before farming and harvesting."

"Intensive cultivation is planted in one year, and the soil cannot be cultivated. It is normal to produce less food."

"Counting the previous arable land, there are more than [-] mu of land in Beijing this year." Speaking of this, Huang Taiji looked at some Han people who were still cultivating new fields on the horizon.

They are cultivating land, but the temperature in Shanghai in September has begun to cool down, and the difficulty of land reclamation is becoming more and more difficult.

At most one more month of reclamation, they will usher in winter, and everyone will have to cut down on food and clothing.

"There are more than [-] mu of land. In addition to the previously cultivated land, the rest of the land can only be harvested with [-] to [-] shi meters. Adding the cultivated land, it can reach up to [-] shi meters."

"How can such a small amount of rice feed the [-] people in Xingjing?"

Jierhalang frowned and complained to Huang Taiji, but Huang Taiji made a calculation:

"Send half of the flock of sheep we traded to Xingjing, and there will be [-] to [-] left."

"There are more than [-] stones of grain in the granary, plus the [-] stones and [-] to [-] sheep. If you save a little, you can still survive until the beginning of spring..."

"What's going on here..." Ji Erhalang showed an ugly face, after all, if nothing else, two white flags with more than [-] soldiers and horses can't cut down on food and clothing.

No matter how little you eat, you need three catties of rice and half a catty of meat a day.

There are also Han soldiers and Mongolian soldiers. They must have at least three catties of rice a day.

But the problem is that Shangjing will not thaw until March next year. From October to March, it will be in winter for at least five and a half months.

In other words, with only [-] soldiers and horses, at least nearly [-] shi of food is needed.

If you continue to eat like this for a long time, your face will be yellow and thin, and your energy will be exhausted.

If the Ming army launched the Northern Expedition, such soldiers and horses may not be able to defeat the fierce Ming army.

Moreover, the [-] shi of grain, in addition to the necessary [-] shi, must be fed to the remaining more than [-] Han and Mongol Jurchens. Supporting them until next spring is just the beginning, and there will be farming in the future?
Half a catty of rice per person per day?It all sounds impossible.

"Let's consume a group of people..."

After thinking about it, Jierharang said something like this to Huang Taiji, and the meaning in the words was very simple, that is, to kill a group of Han people.

However, Huang Taiji frowned and vetoed this:

"No! The Han people in our hands are basically skilled farmers and craftsmen. If their relatives are killed, they will definitely resist."

The hundreds of thousands of Han Chinese, in fact, have already eliminated the elderly and weak in the process of migration, and the remaining [-] people are basically in good health.

[-] people, less than [-] households, means less than [-] adult males.

These men are all important craftsmen, and once they are gone, it will only be a matter of time before Daikin's downfall.

What's more, only with them can Dajin continuously manufacture ironware and unite the Mongols in the southern and northern regions to fight against the Ming Dynasty.

Huang Taiji knew very well that their action this time was undoubtedly a naked slap in the face for Daming.

Daming didn't have time to take care of them, because he was entangled in the continuous outbreak of disasters, and the population in Liaodong was not enough to support the Northern Expedition.

But as Zhu Youjian continued to move the people to Liaodong, the number of people in Liaodong had reached a historic peak.

More than four million people in Liaodong, tens of millions of acres of arable land...

Even if the yield of many of the cultivated land is frighteningly low, it will take several years of cultivation to increase the yield, which cannot support the large-scale Northern Expedition of the Ming Army.

But if Zhu Youjian made up his mind to form only a [-]-strong North Korean army, he could still carry out a Northern Expedition.

Don't look at the fact that Huang Taiji has more than [-] soldiers and horses in his hands, and there are more than [-] soldiers and horses in Dajin.

But their quality compared with the battle of Fuliao, is simply a heaven and an earth.

So far, the number of Bannerman Jurchen adult males has not recovered to [-], which is the result of supplementing more than [-] wild Jurchen males.

Now there are fewer and fewer savage Jurchens in the north, and the tribes are becoming more and more scattered, and it is becoming more and more difficult for Amin to capture them.

Huang Taiji knew very well that if the Ming army launched another Northern Expedition of [-] people, even if Dajin would not perish, the situation would definitely be ugly.

After all, they are not Mongols, nor are they nomads. If Xingjing and Shangjing are lost, hundreds of thousands of people will starve to death.

Hundreds of thousands of people were starved to death, which was a painful blow to Dajin, who currently only controls a population of [-].

If the Ming army did not have the Northern Expedition, the situation would not be optimistic.

The struggle between Daishan and Manggurtai led to hundreds of thousands of Han people being treated as consumables and dying on the land that was reclaimed and cultivated in Xingjing.

As far as Huang Taiji knows, half of the Han Chinese who migrated from various places have died now...

There are less than [-] Han Chinese in Xingjing, and only a few hundred or thousands in other places.

That is to say, most of the Han people in the Kingdom of Jin gathered in Shangjing.

It is precisely because the Han people in other places have almost died, and the Ming army hunted down many old and weak Jurchen in Hetuala, which led to the fact that there was no famine in the Kingdom of Jin.

Huang Taiji was very dissatisfied with Daishan and Mang Gurtai's methods of killing hundreds of thousands of Han people in order to keep the Jurchens alive and stabilize their power, but there was nothing he could do.

At this moment, he was not valued by the two of them because of the lack of Jurchen bull records in his hands.

But he knew that if the infighting continued like this, Zhu Youjian would organize another hundreds of thousands of troops for the Northern Expedition in at most three years.

This Northern Expedition is not as strong as before...

"Zhu Youjian wiped out the three major ministries in Hetao, and I heard that he started to recover and appease the various ministries of Tubo. I am afraid that the number of horse and infantry in their hands is more than ten times that of the restoration of Liao."

Huang Taiji calmly spoke to Jierharang beside him, with a dignified expression:

"Once the four million people in Liaodong are settled down, the Ming army's Northern Expedition may not be far away."

"Last time we were able to fight with ease in the early stage because they lacked horse and infantry, but they could only slowly outflank and suppress on foot."

"But this time, their encirclement and suppression may not be the same way of fighting last time..."

The battle of reviving the Liao Dynasty was a pain in Huang Taiji's heart.

If the Weining camp fort was laid down in the early stage, and then rushed into the hinterland of Liaodong, retreated after collecting some supplies, with the number and mobility of their horse infantry, the Ming army would not even be able to eat the ashes behind their buttocks.

As a result, because they wanted to encircle and fight for reinforcements, they gave the Ming army infantry time to outflank. In the end, the encirclement was gradually narrowed, and a large number of the most elite soldiers and horses were ambushed and killed.

Those who survived also seemed to suffer from aphobia, turning a blind eye to the constant harassment of the Liaodong Ming army, and only dared to hide behind the city wall.

The number of Ming troops harassing the frontier is increasing, from twelve people per team after the third year of the apocalypse, to hundreds of people per team in the fourth year of the apocalypse, and this year, it can even organize three hundred people per team, with dozens of teams Disruption troops.

It can be seen that the number of cavalry in the Liaodong Ming Army is increasing, and the increase in cavalry naturally means that the number of cavalry and infantry is increasing.

Huang Taiji didn't know how many cavalry and infantry soldiers there were in the Liaodong Ming Army. Because of the presence of Jin Yiwei, the spies sent out quickly lost their news.

Jin Yiwei couldn't invade Dajin, and Dajin couldn't invade Liaodong. The intelligence spying fell into a stalemate for a while.

It's just that such a stalemate, if it drags on, is obviously not good for Daikin.

The population of Dajin is placed here, no matter how well developed it is, it is just less than [-] real captives.

But what about the Ming army?

The population of Liaodong has reached more than [-] million. After they are stable, it is not difficult to feed hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses.

What's more, such a population growth rate is still increasing with Zhu Youjian's migration methods, and Liaodong's strength will become stronger and stronger.

Thinking of this, Huang Taiji's heart sank.

He doesn't know how long his alliance with Monan and Mobei can hold back the Ming army, but he knows that with Zhu Youjian's character, as long as no sharp conflicts erupt within the Ming court, Zhu Youjian will probably be able to do so after the spring of next year. The second Northern Expedition was held.

Even where Zhu Youjian might fight, Huang Taiji probably guessed it.

Horqin Department...

This is obvious, as long as the Horqin tribe is gone, as long as Harawen Mountain is occupied by the Ming army, the Jurchen will lose allies, be cut off from other Mongolian tribes, and be surrounded by a large siege.

The Beishan Mountains in the north are bitterly cold, and food cannot be grown at all. The sea is in the east, and the Ming army is stationed in Liaodong in the south and Jingcheng in North Korea.

Now only the Harawin Mountains have no trace of the Ming army.

As long as the Harawin Mountains are lost, it will only be a matter of time before the Kingdom of Jin will be destroyed.

"Ama must be prepared to support Horqin next year..."

Thinking of this, Huang Taiji stood up and said to Jierhalang:
"I want you to go back to Xingjing and tell Han Ama some of my conjectures."

"Okay!" Jierharang nodded immediately without hesitation.

When Huang Taiji saw this, he simply asked a Han man to walk in front of him in this environment, knelt on the ground and exposed his back, spread the paper, and began to write his thoughts on the paper.

As the ink dries, he handed the paper to Jierhalang, and then said to the people around him:
"Have someone tell Mr. Fan, send someone to Horqin, and tell Obama to inform Lin Danhan and Bo Yungai that the Ming army may launch the Northern Expedition after the spring of next year."

"Yes..." Jia La forehead really answered, and then returned to Shangjing in person to tell Fan Wencheng the news.

After Fan Wencheng knew about it, he sent people to the Horqin Department without stopping.

It's just that while Huang Taiji was doing this, Daming was not simply carrying out reforms, but also ended a war that should have ended long ago.

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"Bang bang bang-"

On September [-]th, with the roar of artillery, the ancient wooden village in Lin'an Prefecture, Yunnan Province was captured, and Shadingzhou was beheaded by the rebellious army.

So far, the Shapu Rebellion, which spread to Yun and Gui, came to an end, and Hong Chengchou also took advantage of this battle to completely divide the military power of other chieftains and absorb them into the Governor's Mansion of the Western Army and the Governor's Mansion of the Southern Army.

In September, the weather in Lin'an Mansion was even more pleasant than that in Kunming. The weather of more than [-] degrees made Hong Chengchou, who was wearing official uniform, feel comfortable.

With his personal guards and many generals, he led his troops from Bazhai back to the Third Department of Education in the north, his skin was much darker visible to the naked eye.

After leading a group of generals into the garrison mansion of the Third Department of Education, Hong Chengchou sat on the main seat with a golden knife and a horse, then took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and then motioned for the generals to sit down.

At the same time, after everyone sat down, he glanced at the generals.

Mu Changzuo, Mu Qiyuan, Pu Mingsheng, Long Zaitian, Wang Yangzu, Lu Yongming, Diao Xun, and Mu Yi, the eldest son of Mu Zeng.

The quality of this group of generals is uneven, in the past, Hong Chengchou would not even use him.

But when the Sharp Rebellion ended this time, he felt that this group of people was pretty good.

The first is that they are greedy enough, and the second is that they are obedient enough.

When Hong Chengchou ordered the killing of prisoners, they would not refute like Ma Xianglin, but did it directly.

This is very useful for him who wants to use the number of heads to show his merits to King Qi.

Some time ago, the letter sent by King Qi made him even more sure of King Qi's views on dealing with alien races.

To be honest, news came from the capital last month that when King Qi fell ill, Hong Chengchou was still worried for a long time, so he stepped up his offensive against Shadingzhou.

But after hearing that King Qi was fine, he did not relax, but continued to express himself.

This kind of performance finally got the opponent's novice book...

Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou thought about the content of the handwritten letter sent by Zhu Youjian two days ago, and then he said to many generals:

"The rebel army has been completely suppressed, and now this strategy can also be used to show merit to the imperial court. The imperial court will distribute a lot of money for your achievements, as well as the rewards for beheadings."

"Although Zongbing Ma went to the Eight Passes of Tengyue to inspect, he also has his share of the credit, so naturally he has to list it."

"Here, this guide will first congratulate you."

After all, Hong Chengchou raised the teacup in his hand and replaced the wine with tea, while the others were flattered and raised their teacups one after another.

Among them, Qian Guogong Mu Changzuo, who was sitting on the seat with a pale face, looked at Hong Chengchou's face, and then said:
"Jinglue, the old man has been fighting recently, and he has fallen to the root of his illness, so I want to ask Jinglue to transfer the merits to my grandson, so as to continue the title of Duke, I don't know..."

The matter of Mu Changzuo's illness was basically known to everyone in the military camp, and most of the people also knew that he wanted to pass on the title to his grandson Mu Qiyuan without surrendering it.

Zhu Youjian once said that as long as the military merit is sufficient, the title can be hereditary, so Mu Changzuo wanted to ask Hong Chengchou to give Mu Qiyuan enough credit.

In this regard, Hong Chengchou didn't feel anything, because he still needed the power of Qian Guogong's mansion to help him gain a firm foothold in the Western Army's governor's mansion.

"This matter is not difficult. Don't worry about the old man. As for everyone..." Hong Chengchou also looked at other people, and the content of Zhu Youjian's letter appeared in his mind.

After pondering for a long time, Hong Chengchou slowly opened his mouth and said:

"The imperial court has always been obsessed with the matter of recovering Annan. If the matter of Annan is done well, maybe everyone will have the opportunity to be awarded honors..."

Those words instantly lifted the mood of everyone present.

Awarding honors and titles, this means that what is true goes without saying.

Martial honor and title, the two things added together, it can really guarantee wealth for three generations.

However, why Hong Chengchou specifically told them this matter is a bit thought-provoking...

On the contrary, Mu Changzuo, the pale-faced Duke of Qian, saw some clues about this.

He found that Hong Chengchou especially liked to use his grandson Mu Qiyuan and the general reputation of being a chieftain of Yuanmou, and the biggest commonality between the two was cruelty...

Mu Qiyuan killed prisoners many times on the battlefield, while Pu Ming was often indulging his chieftain soldiers to plunder the rebel cities.

What the former did, Hong Chengchou basically didn't say anything, while for the latter, Hong Chengchou generally reminded not to hurt the people of Ming Dynasty.

As soon as the two were combined, Mu Changzuo immediately figured out what they have in common.

Isn't this just a way to catch up with seedlings and expand their careers?
Cultivating seedlings to expand business is actually to wipe out the local stubborn class forces and their henchmen, and then distribute cattle seeds to the squeezed ordinary people, immigrate Han people to open up wasteland, open government schools, introduce advanced medical technology, open roads, and set up road stations. Port trade.

These are all good things to increase productivity, but it is undeniable that the premise of these good things is the war damage caused by the Ming army in the southwest.

The original class power on the land was disintegrated, and then the Han people were relocated, some of the oppressed minority people were liberated, and then local rule was formed.

Without these methods, the southwest of the Central Plains Dynasty would not be so stable after the Ming Dynasty.

Without these methods, I am afraid that the southwest will still form a country with other cultures to fight against the Central Plains dynasty.

Now Hong Chengchou wants to use Mu Qiyuan and Pu Mingming to stage a war method similar to "catch up seedlings and expand his career" against Annan, but with his official position, I am afraid he has no right to make this decision...

After figuring out the ins and outs, Mu Changzuo's expression was uncertain.

He knew that his grandson was arrogant, unruly, brutal and incompetent. All these years, he had relied on himself and the imperial court's disregard for the Southwest to not cause any trouble.

If he left by himself, this guy still stayed in Yunnan, and sooner or later he would drag the Mu family into trouble.

Letting him out and using his brutality to deal with the Annan people not only failed, but also made merit.

After thinking about it, Mu Changzuo seemed to have confidence.

Based on Mu Qiyuan's brutality alone, as long as Daming sends troops to recover Annan and Dongyu, the title of Duke Qian's mansion will not be hereditaryly lowered.

After understanding everything, Mu Changzuo got up and said:

"The Annan people are brutal and incompetent. In the past few years, they often came to the border to slaughter our Ming people."

"If the imperial court orders to send troops, I, the Mu family, would like to be the vanguard, and my grandfather and grandson would like to guard Annan!"

Mu Changzuo's sudden statement caught everyone off guard, but Hong Chengchou had expected it, and said with a smile:

"Duke Qian is worthy of being the pillar of the country. With your words, I feel much more at ease."

Mu Qiyuan and Pu Mingming are actually under the control of Mu Changzuo.

Since Mu Changzuo saw what Hong Chengchou was thinking and was willing to stand up and express his opinion, then Hong Chengchou was not afraid that no one would take the blame.

There are too many millions of people in Annan. Only by making good use of the people below can Hong Chengchou successfully hand over an answer sheet to King Qi.

Now that there is this candidate, Hong Chengchou also began to think about how to reply to King Qi.

"It's better to write like this..."

　Four o'clock is still on time

　　
　
(End of this chapter)