The Great Bandit in Kangxi Year

Chapter 222 Northwest Cavalry Regiment

Jiang Tao received the expedited memorial from Babaili, and he was pleasantly surprised. He didn't expect Jiang Shi and Jiang Xin to surrender each other so easily. What surprised him was that there were 35 cavalry in the Turpan and Tatar Tumed tribes, and 70 With such a powerful military strength, anyone would be afraid of three points. If there is a real fight, it will be difficult for Jiang Tao's cavalry to destroy the opponent in the vast northwest.

Finally, I learned that men over the age of 13 and under the age of 55 are eligible for conscription, and almost all the people are soldiers. Only then did I understand.

Jiang Tao attached great importance to this matter and rushed to Xining himself.

When he arrived in Xining City, Ismail Khan, the king of Yarkand, also came, and dozens of small tribes rushed to hear the news. The main reason was that they heard that Ming had powerful cavalry, so they dared not come.

Jiang Tao was overjoyed. After ten days of negotiation, he opened the way with silver dollars and military exercises, and finally got all the ministries to surrender. Jiang Tao did not hesitate to adopt the system that the Manchu Qing Dynasty had implemented for Mongolia in history, allowing each ministries to have kings with different surnames, but they had no military power and no fixed status. The fief is just a happy prince.

Of course, the various ministries are ranked according to their current strength. Among them, Tumet Khan of Tatar, King of Yarkand, and King of Turpan were all named dukes, and most of the other ministries were named earls or marquises. , their titles can be raised.

And maintain the system of half-feudal lords and half-slaves, and maintain the interests of the existing nobles, but Jiang Tao will never let go of the army.

All the strong men aged 20 to 35 from all the tribes present were recruited, and a total of 15 strong knights were obtained. Jiang Tao gave ten silver dollars to the leaders of each tribe to make up for the fear of losing soldiers and horses.

The 15 strong cavalry was named by Jiang Tao as the Northwest Cavalry Regiment, with Jiang Wudao as the main general. As the most important hero of the nomads, Jiang Lang, who has extraordinary force, was appointed as the deputy commander of the Northwest Cavalry Regiment.

Since then, the Northwest Cavalry Regiment has been used as one of the field troops of the empire, and the military salary is uniformly distributed by the empire.

Jiang Tao bought another 50 horses from various ministries at the price of 30 silver dollars per horse, of which 20 were given to the Northwest Cavalry Regiment for one person to ride in pairs, and the remaining [-] horses were distributed to the major military regions to improve Sharpshooter's mobility.

Now the leaders of every tribe became rich, and Jiang Tao rewarded a large amount of silk, porcelain and luxury goods, for which Jiang Tao spent nearly 3000 million silver dollars.

But the herdsmen did not get any benefits, because all the benefits were embezzled by the nobles.

This is also the result Jiang Tao wants to see, because their military pay is distributed by the empire, which further weakens the prestige of the leaders of the ministries, making it even more impossible for the leaders of the ministries to rebel. Because they could fight with peace of mind, Jiang Tao took out several million silver dollars again, but seeing the combat effectiveness of these cavalry, he didn't feel that he was at a disadvantage.

As for the daily necessities needed by the ministries, Jiang Tao agreed to trade them.

However, when the heads of various ministries worry about the mutual market, they always suffer losses.The Han people sold things to them at high prices, but the prices of the things they sold were deliberately lowered, so that the herdsmen's harvest for a year was often in vain, and there was not enough money to buy pot.As a result, many herdsmen lived in extreme hardship and were forced to take risks and become horse thieves to rob.

Jiang Tao is well aware of the power of horse thieves. They rob and kill people at every turn, and even enter the empire to rob in arrogance. The key is that they move fast and are difficult to be killed.

Now that the empire is recuperating, this is something Jiang Tao never wants to see. For this reason, Jiang Tao promised to provide daily necessities such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea and other daily necessities to the herdsmen of all ministries every year, and the price will be charged by the government according to the national average level.The herdsmen of each tribe also enjoy the treatment of tax exemption for three years, but each tribe is not allowed to sell war horses to others, only to the empire.

After three years, the tax paid by each household is a war horse. For the mainland, handing in a war horse is equivalent to making the people rebel. For the herdsmen, this tax is not very stressful, and the leaders of all ministries agree .

As for the tax payment method of the leaders of each tribe, Jiang Tao learned from Huang Taiji's experience. Every year, each tribe pays "one white camel and eight white horses, which is called the tribute of nine whites." As for some tribes with only a few hundred people, Jiang Tao had to directly They were invited to the interior to help the empire graze war horses.

There were not many offerings, but only a symbolic tribute, which made the leaders of the ministries heave a sigh of relief. Now that they have a large amount of silver dollars, they can maintain a luxurious life. Who is willing to fight.

As for those small tribes who heard that they could settle in the affluent Central Plains, they were all elated. After all, in the Northwest, not only did they have to pay a large amount of protection fees to the big tribes, but they might also be annexed by other big tribes at any time.

As for the question about Galdan raised by the king of Yarkand, Jiang Tao also readily agreed that he would not let Galdan mess around. According to his memory, Galdan went to Tibet to become a lama in his early years.In the ninth year of Kangxi (1670), his brother Seng Ge was killed in the internal strife among the Junggar nobles.The following year, Galdan returned from Tibet, defeated his political opponents, and won the ruling power of the Junggar tribe. In 15 years, Galdan captured his uncle Chuhubu Ubash, and defeated the leader of the Heshuo Te tribe, Oqier Tuhan, in the following year, and his strength increased greatly.Then it occupied southern Xinjiang, and its power expanded to the north and south of Tianshan Mountains.It wasn't until the 18th year of Kangxi that the Dalai Lama bestowed the title of Boshuo Ketu Khan, that he really became a cow.

For this, Jiang Tao first sent a special envoy to reprimand him severely, ordering him not to make trouble, otherwise he would be wiped out. After more than half a month, Galdan did not dare to come, but sent a special envoy and gifts, begging Jiang Tao and him to deal with Mongolia ministries.

After all, Jiang Tao already has 23 elite cavalry at this time, which is far from comparable to the current Galdan tribe. He can mobilize up to 15 cavalry now, and adults and children go together.

Jiang Tao was relieved now, but he also saw Galdan's ambition, but it was not the time for a large-scale army, so he did not agree to his request.

The special envoy returned disappointed, but Jiang Tao ordered Jiang Wudao to reorganize the Northwest Cavalry Regiment immediately. As for the equipment of the Northwest Cavalry Regiment, Jiang Tao planned to equip them with plate armor that could only protect the chest and back, and tiger and leopard cavalry armor. Steel helmets and Qi's knives, as for bows and arrows, they will handle them themselves, and the empire will issue a certain amount of weapons subsidies.

The plate armor weighs only 25 catties and is five millimeters thick. It is made of pure steel. The entire armor is composed of a front armor and a rear armor. There is no armor protection for the neck and arms, which is convenient for drawing bows, archery and swinging knives.

This armor can defend against most arrows, and because the empire has a large number of hydraulic machines, it is very simple and quick to manufacture this armor. As long as there are large quantities of steel, it can be manufactured in large quantities. Jiang Tao couldn't prevent the shooting within 50 meters of the Mielu blunderbuss. This was done on purpose by Jiang Tao, just to prevent them from rebelling, and he couldn't control it at that time.

But with this armor, they are no longer invincible to ordinary Mongolian cavalry.

As soon as this matter was settled, Jiang Tao returned to Jiangning, but there was mixed news. The Wu army was divided into two groups, and it took three months to finally capture Yunnan, Guizhou and other places, but Wu Shifan ran to Burma, and Forced relocation of 300 million people to Myanmar.

What surprised him even more was that the Burmese king died in battle, the Burmese royal family surrendered to Wu Shifan, and the army of the Ayutthaya Dynasty in Siam was also driven back by Wu Shifan.

In other words, Myanmar has now become Wu Shifan's world.

The key point is that he moved millions of people to Burma. After a long time, those people were not familiar with the place, so they could only obey Wu Shifan's orders. With the advantage of their weapons, Dazhou might be able to rule the entire Southeast Asia.

Moreover, Jiang Tao signed a treaty with the Netherlands, and he could not intervene in the affairs of Southeast Asia. If you don't come back, you must not attack Burma.

Moreover, with the recent use of troops by many parties, the national government has become a little empty. Jiang Tao suddenly fell into trouble, and secretly vowed that when Jiang Wushang returns, he must solve the stumbling block of the Netherlands, otherwise the empire will not let go.

PS: The only wish is to recommend tickets and collect them in more places
(End of this chapter)