Griffin Commander in the Late Ming Dynasty

"Chechen Khan wants to see General Dayan. Please speak in front of the battlefield!"

"Oh?"

191 It was a bit surprising. I didn’t know whether the Khan wanted to declare war or negotiate peace and withdraw his troops. Let’s go and see.

The two sides rode their horses in front of the formation, facing each other, with a distance of only 20 to 30 meters. At this distance, let alone guns, any bow and arrow could hit them, but obviously no one dared to cause trouble at this moment.

Red dragon flags fluttered in the wind. Facing the heavily guarded volunteers, Chechen Khan, who was riding his horse, broke out in a cold sweat and wanted to turn his horse around and return to the formation.

He gritted his teeth and saluted on his horse, saying, "I am the Khan of Chechen, Shuolei, and I would like to see General Dayan."

He wanted to come up and chat with him, but 191 was obviously not going to chat with him and said on the spot: "We are conducting military activities here. Are you bringing troops here to fight us?"

Chechen Khan was stunned when he heard this. It seemed that this was Mobei, his territory. Didn't you lead your troops here? How could you be right?

However, the Chechen Khan did not dare to act tough, let alone fight a forceful battle with the other side. After all, the strength of the Mongols south of the desert was not weaker than that of the Mongols north of the desert. This group of Great Yan troops could sweep across the south of the desert, so it should not be difficult to attack the north of the desert.

Furthermore, Chechen Khan heard a few days ago that after the Yan army destroyed the Zhaowuda League and the Aohan tribe in the south of the desert, they headed northward, aiming for their own territory in the north of the desert...

Facing the powerful 191, Chechen Khan replied with a choking voice: "General, please calm down. This is a complete misunderstanding. I just heard that there were troops entering Kent Mountain and thought that the Rakshasa demons from the north had come again. It was a misunderstanding! It was all a misunderstanding!"

I think Chechen Khan used the word "again" well, indicating that the three tribes in northern Mobei were all persecuted by the Russians, and everyone was also defending themselves, so it was understandable that they were a little nervous. After hearing this, the generals of the volunteer army nodded to each other. It seems that in the future they can form an alliance with the three Khans in northern Mobei, fight the Russians together and take over Siberia.

With this in mind, several generals came forward and had a brief chat with the Chechen Khan about the Russians and the northern desert.

After some hints, Chechen Khan very sensibly took the initiative to propose to rely on Dayan and become a vassal state of Dayan.

You Mo Nan are Da Yan's dog, but you don't take me with you? I want to be one too! Woof woof woof!

Everyone naturally realized that if they wanted to conquer Mobei, they couldn't be impatient and had to take it slowly. They agreed immediately and asked Chechen Khan to persuade Tushetu Khan and Zasaktu Khan, and the entire Khalkha Mongolia to come together and submit to Dayan.

In return, Dayan will build several cities in the south of the desert as trading posts between the Mongolian tribes, and will also open up the nine border areas to allow the Mongolian tribes to conduct tea-horse trade with the interior.

This policy was originally prepared for implementation, but now it is brought out as a condition. These old hooligans are just that.

The previous advantages of the Central Plains dynasties over ethnic minorities were iron smelting technology and national strength. Iron smelting technology made the Ming Dynasty strong and powerful.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty imposed trade restrictions on the surrounding ethnic groups that were eyeing it covetously, with the aim of preventing Mongolia from obtaining enough military supplies to threaten the Ming Dynasty.

The lack of sufficient food greatly reduced the scale and frequency of Mongolian invasions, which were the fundamental reasons why the Ming Dynasty restricted trade in the past.

Similarly, the Mongols were short of resources and survival was difficult, so they naturally risked going south to plunder to relieve the pressure of life, and this vicious cycle continued.

Now the times have changed. Unless the Mongols can also make guns and cannons, no matter how frequent the trade is, the military gap between Mongolia and the Central Plains will only get bigger and bigger.

After receiving the promise of opening up trade with Dayan, Chechen Khan's face was full of smiles. He felt like he was dreaming and he patted his chest to guarantee that the three Khalkha Mongolian tribes would never cause trouble for Dayan.

During the standoff between the armies, both sides chatted for a long time and returned satisfied, both feeling that they had made a profit.

Chechen Khan thought that after the trade, his tribe had money and iron tools, so he could develop a large army and make it the strongest and biggest. With a strong military, couldn't he do whatever he wanted?

The volunteers thought that after the trade, there would be a large number of caravans traveling between the Mongolian tribes, and then they would decide the direction of infrastructure construction based on the commercial trade routes and slowly erode the territory. From Jiang Han's point of view, Mongolia could be continuously controlled through trade. This place did not produce much grain, and when their lives got better and the population increased, the current resources would not be enough. By then, they could only rely on the supply from the Central Plains. By that time, would they still be able to fight a war?

The volunteers marched around the Wolf Mountain and took a few moments to commemorate the occasion. Then, both sides withdrew their troops and arranged for officials to negotiate matters of tribute and military assistance.

In terms of military garrisons, some volunteer armies followed the regulations of the Dongfan and carried out rotations, while the armed forces of the Urad, Khorchin, Ewenki, Daur, Balhu Mongolian, and Oroqen tribes south of the desert were all gathered together for re-education by the military political commissars. A group of soldiers were selected from them to join the volunteer army to guard the border, defend against the invasion of Tsarist Russia, ensure the smooth flow of commerce and post stations, and maintain tranquility in the border.

Seventy years ago, the Ming army occupied Helin, the seat of the Lingbei Province of the Yuan Dynasty, and successively set up garrisons such as the Buludan River Guard and the Qita River Guard in the Outer Baikal Lake and Heilongjiang River Basin to govern the local people.

The Ewenki, Daur, Balhu, and Oroqen tribes, the indigenous peoples of the Heilongjiang region, are called the Solon tribe. The Ming Dynasty called the Ewenki people "Northern Mountain Savages" or "Wild Jurchens."

These natives are brave and good at fighting. Ten years ago, the Qing Dynasty replaced the Ming Dynasty to rule the Solon tribe, and forcibly incorporated them into the Eight Banners to capture cities and use them as cannon fodder.

This time the volunteer army was completely different. They were allowed to freely decide whether to join the Northern Expedition Protectorate to defend the border and protect the people.

Of course, the court will give pastures with abundant grass and water to the tribes that join first, on a first-come, first-served basis.

After destroying the Jirim League and robbing all their pastures, cattle and sheep, the thing the Mongolian government has the most now is lush pastures, with at least one million square kilometers of land under its jurisdiction.

As long as you join Dayan, everyone will work together to protect our beautiful home and make their own fortune. If anyone finds fault and tries to grab territory, please come to the government to file a complaint and we will beat him up together!

If you don't join, then I'm sorry, you are not our noble citizen of Dayan, and you cannot enjoy the corresponding benefits. Please find another place to develop...

After the establishment of the imperial court in the Mongolian region, leaders of all ethnic groups and tribes within a thousand miles around vied for membership in the court in order to gain an official position. The size of the position did not matter; the main purpose was to buy peace and get some pasture land.

Everyone knows that the power of a small tribe is limited after all. Facing the Rakshasa ghosts and the three Khans of Mobei, they have no ability to fight back at all. Instead of being slaves to the Rakshasa ghosts and the three Khans of Mobei, it is better to become the people of Dayan honestly, seek survival, and live a decent life.

Several years later, an Ewenki scholar recorded this great journey in writing!

"The Ewenki people have created a great historical process and made great contributions in the vast land of Eastern Mongolia!

However, the Ewenki people suffered from the cruel oppression and deprivation of the reactionary ruling forces of the Qing Dynasty, served as cannon fodder for the Eight Banners Army, paid a heavy price, and fell into an endless abyss of disaster! "

"Until the first year of the Great Yan Dynasty, under the powerful offensive of the Great Yan Heavenly Soldiers, the bloody rule of the Qing Dynasty in Liaodong and Eastern Mongolia was declared to have completely collapsed. With the rescue of Tiansheng Khan, the Ewenki people and tens of thousands of people from various ethnic groups and tribes got rid of the Qing Dynasty's decade-long shackles and started a new life."

"In order to fight for their rights to freedom, the liberated people of all ethnic groups in Eastern Mongolia and the progressive upper class of each tribe, under the call of Tiansheng Khan, gloriously joined the Great Yan and became a glorious member of the Great Yan!"

.......

After this attack, the power of the Qing Dynasty and the Mongols in Eastern Mongolia and Liaodong basically disintegrated, and their strength was greatly weakened. The Qing Dynasty was left with only the palm-sized Korean Peninsula and Kyushu Island in Japan. They were completely isolated and had to survive until they were destroyed.

After this battle, the Western Mongolian tribes would probably be so frightened that they couldn't sleep, because this military action of Dayan made all the Mongolian tribes clearly realize that this weak neighbor, who was in such a mess, now has a new strong master who is extremely powerful.

Moreover, their new emperor has a bad temper and is not someone who can be easily offended. He will start beating people without hesitation, without any ambiguity, and will not stop until the end, even exterminating the entire clan. He is very inhumane.

But, he gave everyone fresh pastures and told them they no longer had to be slaves. Does that seem good? No, it's not good at all. It's simply too good! With pastures and no need to be slaves, the Great Yan Emperor is my real father!

Volume 439: Chapter : Sparks

Northern Zhili, Hebei

"The commander gave us the order and then sent us out, but he didn't tell us how to operate. Do you have any idea about how to act specifically?" Inside the city, AA12 looked at the set up meeting place with a lollipop in his mouth, looking at the Mosin-Nagant beside him.

"Don't do anything." Mosin-Nagant's answer obviously caught AA12 off guard.

"No need to do anything?"

"That's right." Mosin Nagant had a nostalgic smile on his face. As an out-and-out political commissar, he was the one who could best understand Jiang Han's order at this moment. It was so familiar, everything was just like that time.

"We don't have to do anything. Just standing here is enough. The protagonists of this mission are not us, nor the troops under the commander's command, but precisely those poor people he wants to help."

Looking at the puzzled AA-12, Mosin-Nagant smiled and said, "The commander wants to tell these people that even with us, their own happiness must be fought for with their own hands."

Before, Jiang Han had thought about it. If there was a struggle in the late Ming Dynasty, since he was going to die, he might as well leave all the fighting to the humanoids, and ordinary people only needed to do their own production work.

After all, many people had died in the late Ming Dynasty. This would not only ensure production progress, but also reduce casualties among ordinary people, allowing them to recuperate in this war-torn era.

However, doing so comes at a price, and it has already begun to show.

Although, both Jiang Han's performance and the education received by the volunteers and ordinary students are that "there is no savior", but for these people, the savior is real, and Jiang Han is the savior, the wise and enlightened Lord in heaven, and the omnipotent god.

Their good life was not achieved through their own efforts, but was a gift from heaven and a blessing from the god Jiang Han.

So even though Jiang Han had been saying that everyone should stand up and not kneel, the common people had never considered the court staff and the volunteers to be on the same level as them, and did not think that their personalities were equal, not to mention those places that had just been recovered and had not had time to carry out ideological education for the people.

From one slave owner to another, this is the real thought of the common people of this land who have been exploited to the point of numbness. Not just the volunteers, in their hearts, their personalities are not equal to those of the landlords and bullies who enslaved them.

The volunteers helped them stand up, but in their hearts, they were still kneeling.

However, if they keep kneeling, they will not be able to embrace a new life, and everything will remain the same as before.

The ideas that Jiang Han has always advocated have encountered many obstacles because of his nanny-like rescue of these suffering people.

In the late Ming Dynasty, when the illiteracy rate was ridiculously high and those who could write their own names were considered intellectuals, progressive people who could understand Jiang Han's ideas and were sympathetic and caring towards the people were rare after all. Most of them were ordinary people who had been kneeling for too long and could not stand up.

In their eyes, they prostrated themselves to the great and powerful new emperor Jiang Han, and never dared to imagine that they and this great new emperor were complete and equal comrades.

Just looking at the title of the new emperor, it is clear that it is not that Jiang Han does not want to abolish this tradition, but the resistance is too great, even within his own team.

This was contrary to what Jiang Han had always thought, and it also failed his expectations for this country and the word "Yan". This word, this red, should not be like this.

Only by making these ordinary people realize that they have their own power, when conditions are ripe, can they use their own hands to resist and overthrow this old world that enslaves and oppresses them!

Yes, these refugees, these impoverished families, these contract laborers, these tenants, are unarmed and have little ability. They are the ones who are not cared for, the ones who are abandoned. They have no power and no one cares about them.

But the power of one person is weak, so what about the power of ten, one hundred, or even a thousand or tens of millions of people?

When the flames of countless stars gather together, they can form a raging fire that can destroy everything in its path!

This raging fire was not a gift from God, nor was it brought by any savior, but it was caused by themselves!

"So I say, we don't need to do anything. All we have to do is maintain order and let everything develop without sliding into uncontrollable chaos."

At the same time, inside a big house.

"Hurry, hurry, move faster." A landlord was urging his servants to gather some tenants together. These poor tenants huddled together trembling with fear, watching the landlord pick and choose among their bodies.

The landlord picked through the crowd and locked onto a few, the old, the young, the frail, the disabled: "This one, this one, this one, and this one... Take them all out and bury them!"

The steward beside him looked worried: "Master, if this man is buried, who will farm our land?"

"You are still in charge of the land at this time!?" The landlord looked angry.

"Those crazy Dayan officers and soldiers are carrying out some kind of liberation movement all over the city. Are you blind or deaf? Let them find out that we have so many tenants. Will we still be able to survive? At this time, saving our lives is the most important thing. Put everything else aside!"

As he spoke, he waved at the servants: "Why are you all standing there? Why don't you hurry up!?"

The tenants who were called out felt as if all the bones in their bodies were pulled out, and they instantly collapsed to the ground. However, those cruel servants would not let you off just because you could not move. They walked up to these tenants with ease and picked them up like pigs, dragging them one by one to the "execution area" behind the yard. Obviously, this was not the first time they had done this kind of work.

At this moment, the threat of death is right in front of them. The servants have ferocious faces and are sharpening their knives. They are about to be slaughtered like pigs, buried, and then rot underground without anyone knowing, just because the landlords are afraid of the coming judgment.

Are you willing? Of course not. Do you want to resist? Of course I do.

However, just a glare from these cruel servants caused many of them to collapse to their knees again. After a long time, several more tenants were dragged over. Dozens of people present were stared at closely by several supervisors and did not dare to move at all.

The ground was filled with crying and wailing.

Yesterday, there was a power outage at home for no apparent reason. There was no repairman in the middle of the night, so he came during the day. But I had to sleep during the day, so I could only make up for it at night.

Volume 440: Chapter Chapter : The Crucial Push

Faced with the completely unreasonable purge policy from the Xin Dynasty, the landlords who were the targets of the purge were all considering how to protect themselves under this emperor who seemed to be not very smart, survive the early stage of this so-called purge, and hold on until the world was in chaos again and the Xin Dynasty was established again.

Yes, in the eyes of these landlords, the new emperor's move was obviously reckless and unwise. He actually dared to purge the gentry! ? He didn't care about his life? How dare you go against us?

You have to know that although they talk about how the world is, the people who hold power are basically the gentry and landlord class. Rebellion requires money. Where does the money come from? Can you really start from scratch by robbing people? Where does the startup capital come from? Isn't it still through financing?

Why would the landlords invest in your startup? Are they really angel investors? Of course, it’s because you can make them earn what they want. In history, many so-called peasant uprisings were backed by these landlords.

Since the death of Emperor Wu of Han, Guliang Confucianism continued to grow with the support of the new emperor, and finally strangled the Gongyang School. Their original advocacy of protecting one's relatives became the mainstream of Confucianism for thousands of years, because it was in line with the interests of the landlords.

The landlords represent the right to speak and the flow of finance. They are almost an aggregate of the entire old society. So, how ignorant and ridiculous is the Emperor of Dayan who wants to fight against the entire landlord class.

However, the chaos in the world has not happened yet, everything is too illusory, and the most important thing now is to save your own life, so how can you save it? Of course, make yourself look not so rich.

Isn't it just pretending to be poor? I know this! The landlords who were originally planning to take out the patched clothes in the warehouse and get some materials without meat suddenly found that these damn guys actually wanted to check the number of tenants in their homes and how much land they had occupied! They even wanted to take away their land!

It's not that no one had thought about resisting, but as soon as those people were about to cause trouble, they were shot dead by the Dayan soldiers who came in. Their heads are still hanging on the flagpole, and they make a rustling sound when the wind blows. It's really creepy.

If the hard approach doesn't work, then they can only think of a solution on their own, because the other person's fist is bigger than theirs, so these clever little ghosts started to take drastic measures, of course, they cut off the tenants' wrists.

Even at this time, these people's instinctive pursuit of resources still made them think of the genius idea of ​​the last-in-first-out system, which would physically eliminate those tenants who were unable or difficult to create surplus value. This would not only fulfill their determination to cut off their own arms, but also maximize the labor force on hand. It was simply perfect.

"Um... Do you think they can still rely on themselves in the current situation? I feel like these people don't have much will to resist..." Looking at the images coming from the scouts in the distance, AA-12 expressed concern about the plight of these tenants.

These guys just knelt down after being glared at. It's obvious that they have lost motivation. Is this really possible?

"Don't worry, they just need a little motivation, for example, the people in front of them are not invincible, and there is actually a country behind them that supports them."

There were only a few servants, and they were obviously incapable of digging a pit big enough to bury dozens of people. After digging for a long time, the tenants were also shaking with fear, but in the end they only dug a pit more than one meter deep, which was obviously not enough to bury so many people.

"Oh, damn it. These masters open their mouths and we servants run ourselves to pieces. How is it possible for just a few of us to dig such a big hole?" The servants complained while leaving the tenants sitting on a stone pier to rest.

"That's right. I think this master is so anxious that he has gone crazy. He has even gone insane! Only now has he thought of saving his life. I think this is bad. I have heard that the Great Yan Emperor is very ruthless."

"Oh, what shall we do? If the master is gone, it will be hard to find a job these days!"

"I don't know if the master is dead or not, but if we can't finish this job, we will be dead!"

"But how long will it take for us to dig out these dozens of big pits?"

"Or else people would say you're stupid and can't lead a team. You can only work yourself to death! See, aren't those ready-made laborers?" A servant pursed his lips and looked at the group of huddled tenants.

"Ah... Is this okay? Isn't this too immoral?" Another servant seemed to feel that asking people to dig their own graves was a bit...

"Immoral? Then why don't you take a hoe and dig a big pit for dozens of people, and see if you can finish it!"

“Then let them dig.”

"Hey! You!" The servant pointed at one of the tenants and said, "It's you, come here!"

The tenant looked at the servants, their eyes focused on him, and reluctantly moved forward. The servant had no intention of communicating with a dying man, so he threw a hoe to him and said, "Take a few people and dig a hole."

"Ah? This..."