In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 254 The Advantages of Han Heroes

Hong Chengchou's expression changed drastically when he saw that Lin Rui not only set the rent at such a low price but also exempted him from the corvee.

He wanted to give some advice, but seeing Lin Rui's unquestionable attitude and tone, he could only sigh.

Fortunately, when it comes to official salaries, Lin Rui is not as stingy as Ming Taizu, otherwise he would really want to give up his job.

Naturally, Lin Rui would not do Ming Taizu's kind of thing, which requires horses to run without giving them grass. Although he does not intend to pay high salaries to support integrity, he will not make officials work diligently. If they are not corrupt, they will not even be able to eat meat. .

The grades of Chinese officials are the same as those of the Ming Dynasty, with a total of eighteen grades ranging from the first grade to the ninth grade.

The lowest one, from the ninth rank, has a salary of 50 taels of silver per month, and the prefect and county magistrate also has a monthly salary of [-] taels.

After the official salary was settled, Hong Chengchou said goodbye and left.

As China's first administrative edict was released to all states and counties, people and military households everywhere immediately became excited. Countless people cried with joy, kneeling on the ground with the elderly and the young shouting "Long Live the King."

On the other hand, the landowners, gentry and military attachés from all over the country were wailing. They wanted to resist, but they were worried about being dragged out to scare the monkeys, confiscation of their homes and annihilation of their clans, so they had no choice but to turn their attention to those officials who came to measure the land and conduct a population census.

In the following days, as officials and groups of scholars arrived in their respective areas and began to work, the entire three counties were extremely lively.

The first thing that state and county officials and scholars did after taking office was to confiscate all the farm tools and cattle of the landlords and gentry. Then they asked the landlords and gentry to proactively report the number of acres of their fields, re-checked and measured according to the data, and issued new land deeds and land certificates. The lease contract, and finally the census of all the people.

The total number of officials and scholars in each state and county was at least 30. If their accompanying servant guards were added, the number would be more than 100. There were also garrison troops who could be mobilized to assist, so the progress was quite smooth.

After all, the scholars who came to seek refuge had not been influenced by officialdom. Most of them still had ideals and wanted to do something in their careers. Among them, there were even some angry young people who wanted to do real things.

For military attaches from various places, Lin Rui also gave them two options. One is to move out of the official hall where they live, build a house again, and become a local gentry landlord. For the land under their name, China will also pay rent every year. But he will be deprived of his official status.

The second is to give up the land and move the family to Datong. At that time, they will be granted the corresponding rank and official status, continue to eat imperial food, and will be properly resettled.

The military attachés and the local military households were all feuding. Almost [-]% of the hundreds, thousands households, and commanders chose the latter between land and official positions, intending to take their whole families, belongings, servants and The close servant Ding moved his family to Datong.

As for the food that could not be taken away, Lin Rui also sent officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs to various health centers to purchase it directly at market prices.

After the time entered June, Lin Rui no longer took care of the affairs of the three counties, but left everything to Hong Chengchou, and then took a cavalry battalion, an infantry battalion and the trap camp of the Guards Corps to set off for naturalization, planning to Go to Wuyuan to inspect the conditions in the fields.

Namuzhong stayed in Datong, the Second Army under Huang Ben was transferred to Xuanfu, the Third Army was transferred to Shuozhou, and the Fourth Army was transferred to Guangchang.

Seeing that the Chinese army did not attack Juyong Pass directly, nor did they take a detour from Zijin Pass to attack the capital, Chongzhen's tense nerves relaxed a little.

The Chinese army was invincible, and the Ming army abandoned their armor and completely occupied the Xuanfu of Datong. The Jurchens in Liaodong were also not idle. They also beat the Koreans and made them cry for their fathers and mothers, without any ability to fight back.

Since spring came out in March, Huang Taiji asked Dorgon to lead [-] cavalry and [-] Han soldiers, a total of [-] troops, to conquer North Korea on the grounds that North Korea failed to pay tribute.

It only took two months for the [-] horse infantry to defeat Hanyang, the capital of North Korea.

Different from the two previous Jurchen attacks on North Korea, which only wanted North Korea to surrender, this time Dorgon wanted to completely destroy North Korea and occupy North Korea.

If you want to destroy North Korea, the easiest and fastest way is undoubtedly to directly attack Hanyang, wipe out all the members of the Lee Dynasty from the top down, leaving North Korea leaderless, and then slowly conquer and occupy each province.

Last year, Liaodong was attacked by a surprise attack. The Jurchens suffered heavy losses and their vitality was severely damaged. Naturally, they could not hide it from North Korea, which was just around the corner.

This made the North Korean king Li Zhuo, who had no choice but to surrender to Huang Taiji, suddenly become more excited. In addition, Huang Taiji opened his mouth again and asked North Korea to pay tribute of 100 million stone grains and 20 young men and women, so he did not hesitate to do so. Without hesitation, he chose to rebel, and at the same time sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty again, hoping to return to the embrace of the Ming Dynasty.

In March of this year, North Korea was also actively preparing for war, recruiting troops from all walks of life. Who would have thought that it was not easy to gather 20 troops, but in the first battle, the corpses of Dorgon killed were scattered all over the field, and the army was defeated.

This frightened Li Shu and all the civil and military officials in North Korea. Seeing that the Jurchens were still so strong and capable of fighting, Li Shu also regretted a little. While he sent people to ask for help from the Ming Dynasty in a hurry, he also sent people to be humble. Go to negotiate with Dorgon.

However, at this time, Chongzhen himself could not protect himself, so he naturally did not care about the life and death of North Korea. Li Zhu and all the civil and military officials of North Korea saw that their father in the Ming Dynasty could not be counted on, and the Jurchen army came to the city again, so they had to agree to do so every year Offer millions of stones of grain and hundreds of thousands of young men and women to the Qing Dynasty.

Who would have thought that Dorgon had no moral integrity and deceived Li Zhu and a group of high-ranking officials out of the city, then killed them directly, then took advantage of the situation to invade Hanyang City and began burning, killing, and looting.

For a time, the huge city of Hanyang was full of heads and corpses. Almost all the Eight Banners warriors vented their hatred of the Chinese army on the North Korean dignitaries.Just when Dorgon was triumphant and ready to continue sweeping across North Korea, he received orders from Huang Taiji.

Although he was very puzzled as to why Bage was sending him back to Liaodong at this time, he had no choice but to rush back to Liaodong with [-] cavalry and leave the war in Korea to Duduo.

It was already June when Dorgon returned to Shengjing.

"Bago, are you calling me back in such a hurry? Did something big happen again?"

Now that Huang Taiji has no heirs and his health is deteriorating, he also intentionally hands over all the power to Dorgon. Even Da Yuer was rewarded to Dorgon, so the relationship between the two brothers is still very harmonious.

Dorgon didn't think about replacing him now and killing Bage because it was unnecessary, so he knew that Bage would never transfer him back from North Korea at this time if there was no urgent matter.

"Fourteenth Brother, these are the news coming back from Datong Xuanfu. You should take a look first!" Huang Taiji picked up a large stack of information from his side and handed it over.

Obviously, Huang Taiji had always been very concerned about the war between the Chinese army and the Ming army in Datong Xuanfu. With the help of eight Shanxi merchants, he almost knew the entire battle situation, but it was a little late.

After reading this, Dorgon's expression changed drastically, and he said with disbelief: "This... how could the Ming army be defeated so quickly and so miserably? The two armies combined totaled 20 frontier troops. In one battle, Just kill it?"

Before attacking North Korea, the brothers had carefully analyzed the war in Xuanfu in Datong, and both believed that it would be difficult for both sides to determine the outcome in a short period of time.

After all, the Ming Dynasty had an absolute advantage, and neither Hong Chengchou nor Sun Chuanting were mediocre. No matter how strong the Chinese army was, they could still be firmly imprisoned in Datong.

"Hey, I didn't expect that Lin Rui would be so bold. He directly sent ten thousand elites to go around the capital and cut off the Ming army's food routes, forcing the Ming army in Xuanfu to fight decisively." Huang Taiji also sighed. tone.

"Even if there is a decisive battle, the Ming army won't be defeated so miserably, right? At the worst, both sides will have to fight to the death, right?"

Dorgon still couldn't believe it. Even if the Qing Dynasty faced the 15 elite border troops of the Ming Dynasty, it was not easy to defeat them.

"According to the information we gathered, the Chinese army only dispatched half of its infantry at that time, and the cavalry did not move, and the entire Ming army of 10,000+ was killed and collapsed."

Huang Taiji said slowly.

At the end of the sentence, a sense of powerlessness appeared on his face.

"Hey, how is this possible? Myna, could there be a mistake? The [-] infantrymen of the Chinese army were just recruited last year. How could they defeat the elite veterans of the Ming army in a field battle?"

Dorgon took a breath of cold air.

"Hey, the advantage of the Han people is too great. This is a set of Qi Jiguang's military books that I got. It records the military training methods of Qi Jiajun in detail. Lin Rui used this training method. In just a few months, Within a short period of time, an army of [-] people was formed.”

As Huang Taiji spoke, he took out a few more military books from the side and handed them to Duo Gun.

Dorgon looked through it for a while, and finally frowned and said: "Bago, what our Eight Banners emphasize is that the brave are invincible on the battlefield. You can't learn from Qi Jiajun's tactics, and you can't learn them. I'm afraid those Han soldiers can't do it either. Most Koreans are Not to mention weak and afraid of death.”

"Of course I know this, but Lin Rui now has 20 Han infantry and tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry at his disposal. If we don't train a real infantry, we will only have 2 cavalry and cavalry from the Eight Banners." Horqin's more than [-] cavalrymen may be difficult to compete with in the future."

Huang Taiji said leisurely, and Dorgon also fell silent. Although he had never seen how powerful Qi Jiajun was, he had heard Brother Bage and Father Khan say it before.

As long as Lin Rui's 20 infantrymen have [-]% of the strength of Qi's army, plus [-] Mongolian cavalry, no one can be their opponent in a field battle.

At this moment, both Huang Taiji and Dorgon felt a sense of powerlessness from the bottom of their hearts.

They worked hard for 30 to 20 years in the Qing Dynasty and only accumulated more than [-] horse infantry. But as for Lin Rui, in just half a year after entering the Ming Dynasty, the infantry easily grew to [-].

And this is only the capture of one palace in the Ming Dynasty. If he captures the entire Shanxi, or even Northern Zhili and Shandong, with Lin Rui's ability, he may not have to pull out a million troops.

Thinking of this, both brothers felt chills running down their spines, and Dorgon finally realized how terrifying the Han people were, and said with a pale face: "Myna, what should we do next?"

"This time the Ming Dynasty was crippled. Once the Chinese army takes advantage of the victory and directly attacks the capital, destroys the Ming Dynasty, and makes Lin Rui the emperor of the Han people, our Qing Dynasty will probably be close to being destroyed. So now we must do our best to prevent the Chinese army from destroying the Ming Dynasty, which is why I called you back."

(Something happened yesterday and I didn’t have time to type. I stopped updating for a day. Please forgive me, book friends. The two chapters I owed yesterday will be made up this month. Thank you for your support. It is impossible for eunuchs to be eunuchs. Please forgive me. rest assured.)
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