I, the Ming Dynasty, can still save me

Chapter 60
Zhu Youxiao was aware of the issue of Liao people, and there were many disputes in later generations.

Xiong Tingbi also wrote many times, expressing his distrust of the Liao people and requesting that guest soldiers be sent to fight in Liao and that locals from Liaodong could not be hired.

The reason is that the Liao people are imbued with Hu customs and do not resent the thieves who kill them, their parents and their wives, but they complain endlessly when there are servants in the government.He was sent as a spy at the expense of his heart and life, and the government sent envoys to guard the city. Although the officials cried to express their gratitude, they did not move.

This is indeed true. In the early days of the Ming and Qing wars, the Liao army fled and collapsed at the first blow. The Liao people were willing to work as traitors for the Han Dynasty. There were indeed many cases where the Liao people were unwilling to serve the imperial court and had no intention of resisting the enemy.Of course, Zhu Youxiao also understood the reason.

According to what Yang Lian said, although the Liao people are indeed bad, it is not all caused by the Liao people being "immersed in Hu customs". It is caused by the Ming Dynasty's long-term harsh taxation and bad governance in Liaodong. It is not "all Liao people". "Thieves", but "the imperial court forced the Liao people to be thieves".

It is indeed true that the phenomenon of "the imperial court forcing Liao people to be thieves" was the result of Li Chengliang's greed in his later years and Gao Huai's rebellion in the Liao Dynasty.

In March of the 27th year of Wanli, Wanli sent the eunuch Gao Huai to "go to Liaodong to mine and collect taxes." Only one month after arriving in Liaodong, Gao Huai couldn't wait to plunder the people's finances and officials, and interfered in the political situation of Liaodong.

For example, in the 34th year of Wanli (1606), the bandit chief Ang led ten thousand people to invade the east of Shanhaiguan. The local defenders had successfully repulsed them. However, after Gaohuai got the news, he had to force the officers and soldiers of each city to pursue an all-out pursuit, which led to the defense of various towns in Liaodong. emptiness.

Later, Ma Lin, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, was dismissed, humiliated Han Ligong, and beat to death the patrolman Zhang Ruli, just because he "did not avoid participating" and regarded Liaodong officials as trivial.

The second is frantic searching.Gaohuai's specialty is extortion, but Liaodong is different from other places. "The only millet grown here is only once ripe every year, but the rain is not good, and everything is deserted." In addition, it is located at a frontier, so the economy is very backward.Now Gao Huai comes again to scrape the land, break bones and suck out the marrow, forcing the Liao people to become thieves.

Li Hualong, the governor of Liaodong at the time, once said that there were originally 47 large households in Liaoyang, all with thousands of assets, but "the search for Huai has been exhausted" and all of them were ruined.Big households can't stand it, but ordinary people can imagine it.Therefore, the people of Liaodong at that time sang, "Liao people have no brains, they all cut them out in the Huai River; Liao people have no marrow, they all drain them in the Huai River."

As the commander-in-chief of Liao Town, the prestigious Li Chengliang not only did not dare to oppose Gao Huai, but instead followed the trend, colluded with Gao Huai, and acted in collusion with him.There were even rumors at that time that the two were deeply in love, and that the Liao people were beyond their reach.Rumor has it that the Liao people have no brains, so they all dig them out in the Huai River; the Liao people have no marrow, so they all suck them out in the Huai River.In fact, the Liang Dynasty dug it out and sucked it out.

Under the combined effect of the two of them colluding and being ridiculous, the situation in Liaodong has completely deteriorated. The people of Liao said that we have no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth. No matter how long we don't give up (mine tax), they will all go to the barbarians. Just live your life freely.

Therefore, before Nurhachi raised his army, the Liao people already distrusted the imperial court, and the people's hearts had already turned to the slave chief. Some of them were in secret with the slave chief, and some expected the slave chief to conquer Liaodong to save the Liao people from the fire and water. Some even made suggestions for the slave chief. of Liao people.

Even during the Battle of Saarhu, they competed to send information to the old slaves. "The slave chiefs are good at colonizing the East and baiting the Liao people. The Liao people have been used for a long time, so the slave chiefs are fully aware of the actions in Liao."

Later, when they attacked the Ming Dynasty, they mostly relied on Liao people as spies to defeat Fushun, Liaoshen, and Guangning.It even appeared that after the city was destroyed, "many people's houses opened their doors and held torches in front of them, and women also decorated their doors to welcome them."

In the historical Battle of Liaoshen and Liaoyang, Liaoyang was captured due to the cooperation between the Liao people who surrendered to the barbarians and the Qing army. "The one who caused the fire in the turret was an internal response from the Liao people. Dozens of families who heard that Li Yongfang was having an affair with Li Yongfang in Liao City made an appointment to take action."

The same was true for the capture of Shenyang. It also showed that Yuan Yingtai was defeated. The surrender of the barbarians in the city and the Liao people in the city were clamoring for the city's destruction, which led to a great chaos in the morale of the army.Therefore, he will also send Jin Yiwei to Liaodong to pick up these spies.Yang Lian went on to say in the title book:

"Nowadays, there are rumors in Liaodong and other places that when the Jian captives saw how oppressed the Liao people were, they would spread rumors before the war, saying that they had seven major hatreds, and that the Liao people had four major hatreds. If they did not enter and abandon the Ming Dynasty, everyone who came would have a room with them. They live together, have food to eat together, and have fields to cultivate together. These rumors are widely circulated, so we must not ignore them!"

Yang Lian's title book allowed Zhu Youxiao to see another dark side of Liaodong. Liao people did not want to return to the court and were willing to be spies.The imperial court had gone too far. Since the imperial court wouldn't let them live, they would look for ways to survive. It's no wonder Xiong Tingbi didn't trust them so much.

This also allowed him to see some historical data in later generations.

It is talking about the capture of a group of post-Jin-Han troops in Datong, Xuanfu in 1634, most of whom were from the Liaodong frontier army.Asked about working hard for Mao and the Jurchens?The answer is that after the surrender, each person will receive a wife, 1 cattle, sheep, and a donkey.This is really in sharp contrast to the Liaodong Ming Army, which cannot survive every month.

But he also knew that Nurhaci's practice of pretending to win over the Liao people would not last long. In the next few years, there would be a severe drought in Liaodong, and the logistical pressure on the Jianlu would inevitably increase, and the butcher's knife would inevitably be turned towards the Liao people who took refuge.

This is also true in history. When the territory suffered from natural disasters and food was in short supply, Nurhaci actually "killed all the "grainless" Han people in Liaodong." He also killed all the Han people who did not engage in farming and were slaves of the Eight Banners.

So this war is not just about the military, but also about the economy, especially the people's support for it!
This made him more determined to farm in Liaodong and open up shipping. He must do it, and he also fought against corruption and hoeed out traitors. Only in sharp contrast with Hou Jin made people in Liaodong return to the imperial court.

He also wanted to reuse some Liao people. He knew in his heart that not everyone in Liaodong wanted to build the captives, and most of them were loyal to the court.There are also many talented generals, such as Cao Wenzhao, Cao Bianjiao, Zu Dashou and others, who are all capable generals.

After all, although the guest army is good, it is too expensive. To mobilize troops thousands of miles away, you need monthly rations, traveling rations, salt, vegetables, and silver. You also need to pay for settlement, build barracks, and require the Ministry of Industry to issue new weapons. There may also be a risk of mutiny. , to put it bluntly, using these Liao people to defend Liao soil is not to pacify Liaodong, but to save money and then use more money wisely.

money!money!money!
There is a joke in later generations that the Ming army is invincible if it is not satisfied with its pay.As long as the money is in place, anything can be said.

This was the case in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. During the Qianlong period, the Jinchuan and Jinchuan troops were conquered with only 15000 soldiers. The Qing Dynasty spent 7 years, suffered 3 casualties, killed four ministers, and consumed 7000 million taels of silver.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but think that if he had such financial resources, why couldn't he wipe out the Jurchens!

Therefore, tomorrow's edict with the cabinet and the six ministries is crucial.Only by coming up with ways to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, implement them, and have money on hand can we survive the crisis.

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