Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 122 Four Families!Are you guilty? (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
When Jinbatai, Suo'etu, Duikana, Li Yu, and Wei Yijie, the five cabinet scholars, Xiong Cilu, and Chen Tingjing, the two Hanlin scholars, and the Eight Banners new army who rushed back from the Fengtai camp outside Beijing When the President's Minister of Military Training, Prince An, Yue Ledu arrived at the South Study Room of Qianqing Palace.In the south study room, a map table was placed again, and there was a map of mountains, rivers and communities in the seven provinces of "Dian, Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hunan and Chu" that Emperor Kangxi specially ordered Qin Tianjian to draw.

The little Emperor Kangxi also looked like a peerless general, standing on the edge of the map table with his arms folded, staring intently at the map of the seven provinces, which was not at all accurate.

Eunuch Xiaoguizi was standing next to the little Emperor Kangxi, holding a tray with brushes and red ink on it.Just now, Kangxi had used the "ink pen" to draw five small tents symbolizing the big camps on the map of the mountains and rivers of the seven provinces, and marked "Chongqing Daying", "Chengdu Daying", "Jingzhou Daying" beside the small tents. Daying", "Changsha Daying", "Guilin Daying".

Five university scholars, two Hanlin scholars and a military training prince greeted Kangxi together, and Kangxi smiled and beckoned to them: "Come on, let's have a look together. This is the heaven and earth net I prepared for Wu Sangui and Wu Yingqi, all of you Give me advice!"

The seven bachelors and one prince hurriedly got up from the ground when they heard the words, and quickly gathered around the map table, their eyes widened and they began to look at it—in fact, there was nothing to look at, it was just on a very inaccurate map Draw five camps.

But Emperor Xiaomazi asked the big guys to help with the staff, so everyone has to be the staff!Otherwise, it is resistance and disobedience!
But this has no beginning and no end. How to give advice?

Those seven bachelors were not good at serving as staff officers, so they all looked at the prince An, Prince An, Yue Le, who was good at training and fighting.

Yue Le also knew that they didn't understand, so he had to come first, so he bowed and said to Kangxi: "Your Majesty, what you mean is to get a foothold in the predicament first, weave a big net with the military and financial resources of the whole country, and tie Wu Sangui and Wu Yingqi together." Trapped in the southwest corner, and then... step by step, slowly advance?"

"Uncle Wang is most right," Kangxi said with a smile, "my strategy is to get a foothold first! Set up five battalions, including Chengdu Daying, Chongqing Daying, Jingzhou Daying, Changsha Daying, and Guilin Daying. Wu Yingqi and Wu Yingqi blocked it. When the five battalions are stable, divide the troops into five groups and press on Yunnan and Guizhou from five directions respectively, making it difficult for Wu Sangui and Wu Yingqi to take care of both. .

At the same time, I will also clearly order Wu Sangui, Wu Yingqi and his son, as long as they hand over Obai and come to Beijing to have an audience, I will let the past go, and ensure that their father and son will be rich in Beijing for the rest of their lives.And I will not cut down the vassal of Prince Pingxi's mansion, but will let Wu Yingxiong continue to be the vassal king, and it can be hereditary from generation to generation in the future, just like the Mu family of the previous dynasty, who will retire with the country!
Uncle, what do you think of my strategy?Can Yunnan and Guizhou be settled without a fight? "

All of a sudden, Yue Le made Kangxi's big plan a bit incomprehensible. Is this "trapped Wu"?Or go straight to "Wu Chao"?Do you want to solve the Wu family by force?Or do you want to subdue Pingxi Fan?

If you want to trap Wu, then these five camps seem to be farther away from the Yunnan-Guizhou border.If you want to go straight, then the troops should be concentrated again.

If you want to completely solve the Wu family, you must dispatch enough troops!Wu Sangui and Wu Yingqi have 20 troops, and at least [-] troops must be dispatched to destroy them!If you want to go all the way and subdue Pingxifan, you should make a deal with Wu Yingqi instead of asking Wu Yingqi to hand over all his powers and become an unsecured rich man in Beijing.Isn't this forcing Wu Yingqi to fight?

Thinking of this, Yue Le asked Kangxi more: "Please tell the emperor, should this Pingxi Fan be kept, or should it be completely eradicated?"

Kangxi glanced at Yue Le, and said in his heart: You are quite smart, and you actually saw through my plan. No wonder my monk Ama wants you to be the emperor!
Kangxi changed his mind: Now that he has seen through it, let's make it clear!
Thinking of this, Kangxi asked first: "What does Uncle Wang think?"

"Your Majesty, this servant thinks," said Yue Le thoughtfully, "it would be safer to withdraw the Pingxi feudal clan."

Kangxi smiled: "Why does Uncle Wang think it would be better to withdraw the Pingxi clan?"

Yue Ledao: "The Pingxi Fan is too powerful, there are 53 subordinate leaders of the Fan! In addition, there are four towns to aid and suppress and the Zhongyi Ten Battalion. The number of soldiers on the account alone is as many as [-] to [-]. The actual number is probably It has already exceeded [-]! Anyone with so many soldiers is a threat to the imperial court, so it is better to withdraw the domain."

Kangxi nodded, "I'm afraid there are more feudal towns than the Pingxi feudal clan, right? The population of the Ding, Ping, and Jing San feudal clans has also grown quite rapidly in the past 20 years, right?"

Yue Le was taken aback for a moment, "Your Majesty, there are only [-] assistant leaders in Ding, Ping and Jing, and there are not many people in the green battalion under their jurisdiction, so there is nothing to worry about!"

"Your Majesty," Suo'etu quickly echoed, "Prince Ding's Dingnan Gege is the adopted daughter of the Empress Dowager, and has always been loyal to the court. Shang Kexi from Pingfan has always been submissive. As for Jingfan's Geng Jingzhong, he is also loyal to the court. of."

Kangxi smiled, then glanced at the other courtiers and servants present, "What do you think?"

Jin Batai smiled and said: "Your Majesty, the slaves also feel that Dingnan Gege is reliable, and Geng Jingzhong should have no major problems."

He said to Kana: "Your Majesty, the Pingxi Domain is indeed full of bad deeds, but the Ping, Jing, and Ding San Francisco have been quite peaceful these years, and there is no reason to withdraw!"

Li Wei said: "Your Majesty, I feel that this feudal town is not a blessing for the country. In the long run, it is better to withdraw the feudal clan. But right now, the imperial court should focus on dealing with the Pingxi Fan!"

Wei Yijie suggested: "Your Majesty, I feel that as long as the Pingxi Fan is pacified, the Ping, Ding, and Jing San Fan will never dare to fight against the imperial court again. It is up to the Emperor to decide whether to withdraw or not."

Kangxi nodded, and then looked at the two Hanlin scholars.

"Your Majesty," Xiong Cilu said, "I feel that the roots of the disasters of the four vassals are actually the same. It doesn't matter whether the lords are loyal or traitorous. As long as the root of the disaster is not eliminated, there will be rebellion sooner or later."

"Oh? Xiong Cilu, continue talking! What is the root cause of the four feudal clans?"

"It's population breeding, and land occupation!" Xiong Cilu said, "Ding men under the four feudal clans have no restrictions on marrying wives, taking concubines, and having children, and the land is very open, so it is very easy to enclose land and occupy land. , and they don’t pay money and food, don’t serve corvee, and have been working as soldiers for generations. The life is too good, and the children will naturally be born more!”

After hearing Xiong Cilu's analysis, Yue Le, Jin Batai, Suo'etu, and Duo Kana, the four Eight Banners disciples, were stunned.

Xiong Cilu's accusation against the four feudal clans was "the crime of being too good at giving birth"!
A smile finally appeared on Kangxi's pockmarked face, and he saw Xiong Cilu right.

In fact, what really made Kangxi fearful of the four feudal clans was not the self-respect of the soldiers at all.It's that the population growth of the four feudal clans can outshine Beijing's Eight Banners and ten streets!
The number of Eight Banners disciples has been stagnant since entering Dingding.There has not been much growth in the past 30 or 5 years, and now there are only more than [-] people in the Eight Banners Manchuria!
When Kangxi saw this number, he wondered if the Eight Banners disciples were in bad health, and wanted the doctors of Tongrentang Lejia to treat them!

But at the same time, the population of the four domains grew like an explosion!

Especially that Shang Kexi's son and daughter add up to hundreds of dollars!Including the grandson and grandson for a lifetime, there are more than a thousand!
There are so many yellow belts and red belts in the inner city of Beijing that may not contribute as much to population growth as he does!

Although not every child of the Four Factions is as "prolific" as Shang Kexi, looking at Lao Shang's "production", one can still imagine the speed of the population growth of the Four Factions.

Kangxi turned his attention to Chen Tingjing, who had the lowest official position among the courtiers present, Chen Tingjing frowned, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, I feel that this feudal clan cannot be withdrawn at once!

The people under the Ping, Jing, Ding, and Pingxi feudal vassals are said to be 98 neighbors, with about 300 households and [-] population.But that was the number many years ago, and now it has increased several times, which is considered small.If you count the separate accounts, account openings, coats, domestic slaves, and tenants under the four feudal lords, there may be two or three million people!Where does the emperor plan to let them withdraw?
If the population of these vassals are allowed to stay where they are and just withdraw the lords, then the lost leaders and vassal households will sooner or later become a major disaster for the country!If it is not done well, the population and land of the four provinces of Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, and Fujian will be invaded.They are all armed, led, and self-contained!
If they are allowed to withdraw to Liaodong, I'm afraid... sooner or later they will occupy the entire Liao land!
Moreover, each of the four vassal states now occupies one side. Although there is a tendency to separate the regimes, it is difficult to form a joint force.If they are allowed to settle in Liao, there is a possibility that the four domains will become one!

At that time, we will make trouble together."

This one is even tougher!

According to him, if the subordinates of the four feudal clans stay where they are and continue to have babies, they will sooner or later swallow all the four provinces they are in - that is a population of 300 million "samurai"!The lords of the four vassals can still manage them. If the four lords return to Beijing to retire, who can control them?They are not only armed, but also organized, and have a lot of military talents!
The magistrates of the Qing Dynasty could only hide away when they encountered them!

If you move back to your hometown in Liaodong, the trouble will be even greater!

What about the population of 300 million!
In the corner of the Northeast where the land is vast and sparsely populated, it is just right for them to arrange it. If one household is awarded a hundred acres of land, two or three million people can be divided into four or five million households, that is tens of millions of acres of land.When these fields come out, won't these feudal servants grow again?
At that time, 300 million will become 1000 million or even more!

In addition, for the 300 million people who were evacuated to Liao, would the Qing court want them to pay taxes and do corvee?Is it to break up their organization?Or disarm them?

If they are not required to serve and pay taxes, but also allow them to continue to maintain organizations such as Zuoling and Shenling, and allow them to have armed forces, isn't this a replica of the Jin and Qing Dynasties that started in Liaodong?
Waiting for these people to multiply for another 30 to [-] years, maybe a million troops will enter the customs. Can the Qing Dynasty be preserved?
But if they don't give them any treatment, and they have to disarm them and break up their organizations, will they rebel immediately?Two to three million people rebelled in Liaodong, pulling out an army of 300, and the tens of thousands of Eight Banners soldiers in Beijing couldn't hold it back either!

Chen Tingjing's words stopped here, and there was a dead silence in the south study.

I don't know how long it took before Emperor Kangxi sighed and said: "Xiong Cilu and Chen Tingjing have already explained everything thoroughly. Do you all understand?"

"The emperor's sage, the slaves (subjects) and so on all understand."

Hearing the statements of these people, Kangxi nodded: "Then do you have a better solution?"

Several people shook their heads.

The original sin of the four feudal clans was that the population grew too fast—they were not isolated from ordinary Han people, and they were placed in places with vast land and sparsely populated areas with a humid climate, which was very conducive to reproduction.And the children of the Eight Banners crowded in Beijing, separated from the Han people, and the young girls in the ethnic group had to participate in the draft to meet the needs of the elites of the Eight Banners. As a result, the children of the Eight Banners generally married later and had fewer children, and the population was difficult to grow.

Under the ebb and flow, the population growth rate of the children of the Eight Banners not only cannot be compared with that of the children of the Four Feudal Domains, but the gap will become wider and wider in the future.

As for releasing the Eight Banners disciples outside Beijing and at the same time breaking the isolation between Banners and Han, that is also impossible.

First of all, the Eight Banners children who are used to living a comfortable life in Beijing are unwilling to leave themselves!

Secondly, the population of the Eight Banners children with hardcore crops has increased a lot. Can the imperial court afford hardcore crops?
Thirdly, and most importantly, if the children of the Eight Banners are all the same as the children of the Four Domains, can the Qing emperor still firmly control them?If not, would the world still belong to Aixinjueluo's family?

"Since the big guys can't do anything," Kangxi sighed, "then we can only deal with the four feudal clans with all our strength. explain!"

Kangxi's discussions with these bachelors, bachelors, and the elders of the clan, Yue Le, are actually aimed at unifying the thoughts of these people.

These people are all of one mind with him, and he can drive tens of thousands of Eight Banners and the entire Qing court like his arms
Cangzhou Mansion, Tianjin Wei, Xiaozhan Daying.

When Emperor Kangxi and his confidant ministers were planning and racking their brains, it was time to deal with the increasing number of children of the Four Families by using the method of hiding everything.A new army of Han Chinese, numbering as many as [-], is rapidly taking shape in this large camp located on both sides of the Grand Canal.

The recruits of the brigade are wearing the same style of clothing as the green battalion soldiers, the uniform with the word "soldier" in the middle of the clothes. On the spacious large campus, the battalion is used as a unit, under the command of the general and the general. , Practice combat formations, marching ranks or various weapons.

When today's routine drills ended, the [-] officers and soldiers of the green battalion's new army formation did not disperse immediately, but vigorously eliminated battalion formations one after another on the large colonel field.Waiting for their "Dashuai Wang" to pay them personally!
It turns out that today is an auspicious day for the "Xiaozhan New Army" to pay the military salary!
This army is said to be a "new army", but it is not very new. Their equipment, training, and tactics are not much different from ordinary green battalion soldiers.

Their treatment is not much different from other green battalion soldiers.There are horse warriors, each of whom is given two taels of silver per month.Horseless warriors are paid one, two, five dollars a month for each soldier.The guards are given one tael of silver per month.In addition to silver taels, each soldier also gave Mi Sandou.

However, due to Wang Fuchen's request, the "Xiaozhan New Army" can get full military pay during the training phase before officially becoming an army, and will not be deducted from "Peng Kouyin", "Xiaojianyin" and "Pharmaceutical silver" - these three "deductions" are not for officials to drink soldiers' blood, but "legal deduction" stipulated by the court.

Among them, "pengkouyin" is the fund for raising horses, and a part of the storage camp is deducted from the salaries of officers and soldiers to buy horses.Below the lieutenant general, and above the general, two cents will be deducted every month, one cent will be deducted for cavalry, five cents will be deducted for infantry, and three cents will be deducted for guards.

The "Xiaojianyin" is used to offset military pay in years with leap months.Because there is a leap month in the lunar calendar, that is, there are thirteen months in a year.However, the imperial court only pays the salaries for twelve months, and usually deducts a little from the salaries of the officers and soldiers, and pays them back to the officers and soldiers in the leap month.

The gunpowder and lead used for shooting training by the soldiers of the green battalion also had to be bought by the soldiers themselves - gunpowder and lead are not cheap!If you fire a few more rounds during training, the military salary may not be enough to deduct!Moreover, no matter how good the quality of the shotgun is, it will be easily damaged if it is shot too much, and you will have to pay for it at that time.
Therefore, the training of shotguns and artillery in the Green Camp of the Qing Army is usually equal to zero.

But today's small station recruits are treated much better than ordinary green battalions.

"Peng Kouyin", "Xiaojianyin" and "Yaoziyin" are not deducted, and if the shotgun is broken, there is no need to pay for it. The emperor's grace is so great!
In addition, because Wang Fuchen has a tight grasp on the Zhongjun Town he personally led, he will personally supervise the salary every month to prevent deduction.From time to time, the food of the soldiers is checked to ensure that everyone is full.

So the morale of the current "Xiaozhan New Army" is still quite high!
Those who are responsible for paying the salary are all the students from the Jingwu School of the Martial Arts Hall accompanying the camp. Almost all of them participated in the battle to chase Obai, so everyone has an official status, and the youngest is a general.Although there are not so many vacancies to give them now, Kang Mazi still gave Grace, so that these Qianzong and Bozong can receive a full salary as an alternate.

Therefore, the new army in this town led by Wang Fuchen has a group of available "young staff officers" who can manage all aspects of the army.It is also possible to assign one or two deputies or staff officers to the military leaders at all levels below.

Although the military literacy of these young staff officers is not high, they can handle things seriously!And they all know a few words, and have learned the martial arts used on the battlefield from Wang Zhongxiao, Wang Zhongren, Wang Zhongxian, Wang Zhongyi, Wang An, and Wang Quan, and now they can play a guest role as a "gun stick instructor".

For the green battalion soldiers, the treatment, management, and training of this "small station new army" in Zhongjun Town are already quite good, which means "the elite of the direct line"!
(End of this chapter)