Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 295

The banner owner may not be set up, but the population must be divided.

In fact, the most important thing in forming the Han Eight Banners is to distribute the population.

At that time, most of the Han people were slaves of the Jurchens. To form the Han Eight Banners, these slaves had to be taken out of the hands of the slave owners.Undoubtedly, doing so would definitely offend most of the Jurchens.

But Dorgon did have a way. He matched the colors of the eight flags, that is, the Zhenghuang flag of the Jurchens corresponds to the Zhenghuang flag of the Han people, and the bordered yellow corresponds to the bordered yellow...and so on, and then ordered the Jurchen Eight Banners to hand over the slaves Establish the Han Eight Banners, and at the same time tell those banner owners that the Han Eight Banners are under the leadership of the Jurchen Eight Banners.

In this way, this problem is solved.

Moreover, this method has received strong support from Huang Taiji, because in this way, Huang Taiji is actually the biggest beneficiary.

Because the owners of the Eight Banners are not eight people, the Zhenghuang Banner and the Bordered Yellow Banner are directly under the control of Huang Taiji, and there are no banner owners. The Eight Banners actually only have six banner owners.

The basic unit of the Eight Banners military system is called Niulu, and each Niulu has 300 people. , Wujiala set up one Gushan and one Gushan Ezhen. Gushan Ezhen was the banner owner (dutong) and two deputies, called the left and right Meile Ezhen.

(Some sources say that Wujiala is one Mele, Ermele is one Gushan, and the strength of each banner is 5000. In addition, the information consulted is not consistent. It was less than 6. According to other sources, the total population of the Jurchens at that time was no more than 40 to [-]. Based on population conversion, the total strength of the Jurchens before entering the customs was only more than [-].

In fact, after Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne, he also established three major battalions, namely the Xiaoqi battalion, the expanded army battalion and the forward battalion.Among them, the Xiaoqi Battalion and the Expanded Army Battalion have different banners. The Xiaoqi Battalion is directly under the command of the capital, and the Xiaoqi Battalion under the personal command of Huang Taiji is the Imperial Guard.The same is true for the expanded military camp, but the job is to guard the gate, and the Qianfeng camp is responsible for the security work of Huang Taiji.

If it is calculated based on 6 people, and then recruited into the army at a ratio of ten to one, the total number of Jurchens will be at least 60. In fact, it should be more, and more than 100 million should be reliable.

Now the number of Houjin troops used here is 500 people per banner, a total of 6 people in the Eight Banners, plus the three major battalions, the total strength of the Jurchens is about 7 people. )
Dorgon took the Han Chinese slaves out of the armored men (Jurchen soldiers are also called armored men) according to the corresponding relationship between the banners, and then formed the Han Eight Banners according to the Jurchen Eight Banners model. The strength of the two flags of the bordered yellow flag.

In addition, what Huang Taiji gains is not only military strength, but more income.

The Jurchen Eight Banners are characterized by the unity of the soldiers and the people. All the Jurchens belong to the Eight Banners.

In fact, Jurchen Eight Banners is not only a military unit, but also a household registration unit, as well as a geographical unit (the bannermen of each banner can only live in the designated area, and are not allowed to move to the place where other banners belong. The purpose of this is to facilitate the rule ).The Eight Banners are not only responsible for fighting, but also responsible for administration and production.

Let the Han people build their own flags independently according to the model of the Jurchens, and the food and materials produced will no longer be owned by the slave owners, and Huang Taiji can receive a large amount of taxes.

With the strong support of Huang Taiji, and Dorgon let the Eight Banners of Han belong to the Eight Banners of Jurchen according to the color of the flags, which easily eliminated the dissatisfaction of the banner owners, the generals below, and the armored people.

The secret lies in those two words.

Although the Jurchens fought bravely, not all of them were fearless.Especially when they have accumulated a certain amount of wealth, they begin to cherish life.

Although these people were deprived of their slaves and lost their property, they also knew that in the formation of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, the Han people would naturally be the vanguard in future battles.This means that their chances of dying in battle will be greatly reduced in the future.

The Jurchens are not stupid. Although money is important, compared with life, of course it is their own life that is more important.They lost their slaves in exchange for cannon fodder and their own safety.

And Dorgon said that in future wars, they will reward slaves for their meritorious deeds, and they can still dominate.

With the efforts of Dorgon, the princes and ministers of the Houjin finally accepted the method proposed by Dorgon. One month later, the Eight Banners of the Han Army were formally formed.

At this moment, news came out from Daming that someone had impeached Li Jing for secretly having an affair with Dajin. Many ministers asked Chongzhen to investigate and deal with Li Jing seriously.
Then there was news from Daming that Chongzhen issued an edict to praise Li Jing, and at the same time proposed marriage to Li Jing, and wanted to marry Princess Kunxing to Li Jing's son.

After hearing the news, Huang Taiji finally knew what Fan Wencheng was doing in Beijing.

A few days later, Fan Wencheng returned to Shengjing.

Back in Shengjing, the first thing Fan Wencheng did was to ask Huang Taiji for punishment.

Regarding Fan Wencheng's approach, Huang Taiji could be said to have understood it, and immediately passed down the decree: Fan Wencheng had made great contributions, and Fan Wencheng was dismissed from the third-class Jiala Zhangjing's post Specific position), Fan Wencheng is allowed to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds, and he is still in front of the imperial court.

After finishing the official papers, Huang Taiji immediately called Fan Wencheng into the palace and asked Fan Wencheng what he had seen and heard all the way to Daming this time.

Fan Wencheng first told the story of his meeting with Li Jing, and told Huang Taiji that he came to Beijing this time to use a divorce plan, but Zhu Youjian saw through it, and the plan failed.At the same time, Fan Wencheng told Huang Taiji that he had sent people into Pingyang Mansion to wait for an opportunity to assassinate Li Jing.

In the end, Fan Wencheng recounted in detail what he had seen and heard all the way to Daming this time, as well as the news he had inquired about after arriving in Beijing.

After hearing Fan Wencheng's narration, Huang Taiji was silent for a long time.

Although Fan Wencheng failed to recruit Li Jing, he brought back a lot of useful information, which enabled Huang Taiji to fully understand the current situation of Daming.

Among the most useful information is undoubtedly about the rebellious rogues.

After the bandits escaped from the Chariot Gap, Chen Qiyu was dismissed and investigated.

Without the unified command of the officers and soldiers, the leaders of the peasant army suddenly regained their vitality and began to attack everywhere.Henan, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu and other places are full of wars.

Seeing that the rogue bandits were getting bigger and bigger, Zhu Youjian appointed Hong Chengchou as the governor of the five provinces to be in charge of the encirclement and suppression.

After Hong Chengchou took office, he began to organize the encirclement and suppression. Because of Hong Chengchou's decisive killings, in just a few months, the main force of the bandits was driven to Henan by him.

The scale of the rogues who were forced to Henan this time was unprecedented. There were at least hundreds of leaders, big and small, Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang, Chuang General Li Zicheng, Eight Great Kings Zhang Xianzhong, Cao Cao Luo Rucai, Ge Zuo Wuying and many other big names were there. Among them, the total force reached 30.

In order to wipe out this group of people, Zhu Youjian spent a lot of money this time, mobilizing nearly [-] troops from various places, including Cao Wenzhao, the general soldier of Datong.

After hearing the news, Huang Taiji sighed lightly. If it wasn't for the big defeat last time, how could he let go of such an opportunity?It is inevitable to send an army to Daming to take advantage of the fire and loot it.

Of course, a big fight is definitely not possible.

Huang Taiji was not stupid, he knew very well that if he sent a large army, Zhu Youjian would definitely send troops to deal with him.That would be tantamount to setting himself on fire and making a scapegoat for the bandits.

Although it would be a pity not to be able to go to Daming to grab one, but Huang Taiji was still very happy to see the officers and soldiers of Daming choking with the bandits.

Huang Taiji knew that every battle the Ming army fought with the bandits would consume one point, and if there were more battles, the strength of the Ming army would be greatly damaged.In this way, when he goes to war with Daming in an all-out way, the odds of winning will be a little bit higher.

After weighing it for a while, Huang Taiji immediately made a decision: sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, recharge your batteries and wait for the opportunity.

Just when Huang Taiji had time to watch Daming's excitement, Li Jing started to have a headache.

To be honest, he didn't take it seriously when the rogues made trouble everywhere, even if the rogues broke into Henan, he didn't really care.

What he cared about was that Cao Wenzhao was sent back by Zhu Youjian to fight bandits again.

Zhu Youjian's move is tantamount to disrupting Li Jing's strategic layout.

Li Jing now has two main strategic goals, one is to seize the time to cultivate talents, and the other is Mongolia.

After Li Jing planned to cultivate a group of talents, he asked Cao Wenzhao to wipe out the Mongolian tribes outside his mouth. After the situation in Mongolia was stabilized, he prepared to have a showdown with Zhu Youjian.

At that time, Houjin and Liukou were Li Jing's two most powerful pawns.

Li Jing knew very well that if he wanted to grasp the situation in the fastest time, convince the officials of Daming and the common people to believe in him, the fastest and best way was to destroy Hou Jin and the rogues.

If Li Jing could get rid of Hou Jin, the enemy who had been a headache for Daming for decades, his reputation would reach its peak, and the number of people who opposed him would be reduced by half.

When he solves the rogues who have troubled Zhu Youjian for many years, it will be clear at a glance which one is better between him and Zhu Youjian.

But now Zhu Youjian has transferred Cao Wenzhao back, which is tantamount to slowing down Li Jing's strategic pace.

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Pingyang Mansion, Jiangxian County Government.

Li Jing frowned in thought, and the officials and generals below sat silently on both sides, waiting for Li Jing's order.

Li Jing pondered for a long time, then suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Cao Wenzhao, "Brother Cao, what are you going to do?"

After Cao Wenzhao received Zhu Youjian's order, he rushed back to Pingyang Mansion as soon as possible, and asked Li Jing how to deal with it. He didn't want Li Jing to ask him about his plan.

Seeing Li Jing's serious expression, Cao Wenzhao knew that Li Jing was testing him again, and this time was probably the last time Li Jing would test him.

Wanting to understand this point, Cao Wenzhao did not hesitate, immediately got up and clasped his fists and said: "Commander, Cao will follow the command of the commander, and I will fight as you tell me to fight!"

Li Jingwen nodded silently when he heard this, then turned his head and said to Xiao Wu, "Hang up the map."

Xiao Wu took the lead, quickly took out the map and hung it on the wall.

(End of this chapter)