Taking history as a guide, it is impossible for Huang Yi to give allegiance to the stupid and willful Emperor Chongzhen and replace him sooner or later.
However, he would never take the lead in raising a flag to rebel. Instead, he would accumulate strength to establish an armed separatist regime and wait for the opportunity to clean up the mess.
It is important to have an army with strong mobility. If you want to increase the number of armored cavalry and improve the quality of the cavalry, you must conquer more Mongolian tribes.
Facts have proved that the effect of mobilizing the proletariat is immediate.
At this time, it is simply the right time, the right place and the right people. Is it complete to capture the winter camp of Se Lengbu?
Of course not, it is only in line with the actual situation that we continue to work hard to expand the results and maximize benefits.
It will take at least two days for Se Leng to return his troops, and this is if he immediately returns his troops after receiving the news.
Huang Yi felt that since the Seleng tribe had obeyed the call of Jiannu and jointly sent troops to attack the Hedanbaat'er tribe, it would be impossible for them to stay and leave at will, and they would definitely not be able to leave at will.
The slave-building general Zhaisalmu learned that the home base of the Seleng tribe was about to face a food crisis, and there were only two options to deal with it.
The first is to require the Seleng tribe to stay and attack Hedanbaat'er tribe regardless of casualties to seize grain, cattle and sheep.
The second is to give up the attack on Hedanbaat'er and retreat with all troops, concentrating on retrieving food, population and property.
Huang Yi didn't expect that Seleng, Zhaisalmu, etc. would not receive the news that Seleng's winter camp had been looted.
Because there were hundreds or even thousands of cavalrymen, men, women, and children who escaped from the Se Leng tribe, and more than half of them must have fled westward to find their master, Se Leng.
But what will happen if Se Leng knows that his lair has been ransacked by Governor Xuanda's pacesetter camp?
Huang Yi, whose strength is constantly rising, is more nervous. He is not worried about Zhaisalmu, Se Leng, etc. coming to kill him immediately.
His plan was to kill for a day or two in three directions: east, south, and north, and try to capture all the small and medium-sized tribes that could be found within 150 miles.
There is no way to be kind in a prairie that worships the strong!
It is impossible to gain prestige without killing a lot of people.
After killing all the surrounding tribes, all the food, cattle and sheep within three hundred miles were concentrated in Huang Yi's hands.
Let's see how the three thousand and hundreds of Jiannu and Haraqin coalition forces who are about to run out of food will choose?
He did what he said, and even Karitu was not in a hurry to go back. He happily took seven warriors to join the 3,000-strong conquest army headed by Huang Dazhi and Huang Dapeng.
A small half of these three thousand troops were soldiers, slaves, and prisoners of the Selu tribe and the small and medium-sized tribes that had been wiped out. The vast majority were young adults, with less than a quarter of them being teenagers.
There were three conquest armies that had just been formed, and the other two were personally led by Huang Yi and Geng Zhanghua.
There were many small and medium-sized tribes around, but none of them had a population that reached half of the conquering army.
This kind of war of conquest is purely about bullying the small. Huang Yi doesn't have to risk his own life. It is most appropriate to drive the tiger and devour the wolf!
The three conquering armies all adopted the method of supervising and driving the Selu tribe and the conquered small and medium-sized tribes to surrender and kill slaves.
The advantage of this method is that it gives the newly surrendered cavalry the opportunity to kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds, and distinguish them from the Karaqin people who defected to the slaves.
Facts have proven that using the low-level knights who supervise the selu tribe to attack nearby small and medium-sized tribes is more effective with half the effort, because the low-level knights are too familiar with their opponents.
The purpose of the tribes near Litingsou Cave was to seize all yurts, cattle, sheep, and grain found, and to kill all those who dared to resist or refused to surrender, regardless of age or sex.
The next step, of course, is to break up and reorganize the newly conquered tribes, and appoint proletarian knights who have made military exploits and performed well as new chiefs.
The proletarian knights who serve as chiefs must meet the minimum conditions.
That is, the nobles who had personally massacred the original chief or the Selu tribe in public.
It doesn't matter that the population of cattle and sheep is too concentrated in winter, but it's time to spread out their grazing in spring.
Although the Bashang grassland this winter has been war-torn, there is plenty of food.
Why?
The first reason is that Huang Yi's gang only killed people but did not set fires. The property damage was not large, and there was basically no loss of food, cattle and sheep.
The second reason is that thousands of people were killed in the battle and food consumption was much less.
The third reason is of course that Se Leng took away a thousand young knights, each with two horses, so there was no need to consume the food and fodder in the camp.
Next spring, the herdsmen assigned to the yurts for cattle and sheep will be less oppressed and their lives should be better than before. I believe it won't be long before these people get used to Huang Yi's rule of light corvee and low taxes.
Being frivolous in corvee and insignificant in gifts is not a matter of whim, but a matter of knowing what you are doing.
The vast majority of the tax revenue of the feudal dynasty came from agricultural taxes, with a very small proportion of industrial and commercial taxes, and mining taxes could not be collected.
Huang Yi's plan is to vigorously develop industry and commerce, not to mention supporting agriculture and animal husbandry, but also to reduce taxes on farmers and herders as much as possible.
The Ming Dynasty also repeatedly reduced taxes or even exempted taxes for areas that suffered from natural disasters and military disasters, but with little effect.
That's because the Ming Dynasty actually used extensive management. Government orders were not sent to the countryside. County magistrates had to rely on the power of clans and gentry to manage local areas.
The imperial court's good policy of tax exemption could not be implemented at all on the heads of ordinary people. Instead, it enriched the landlords, wealthy landlords and local officials.
In the last feudal dynasty, the divide between rich and poor evolved into incompatibility.
The short-sighted royal family members, dignitaries, and landlords would rather keep the black and long-haired silver in the cellar than take it out to help the proletarians who cannot survive.
The humble poor can only leave their homes and become refugees, and gradually develop into rogue bandits. The rogue bandits only destroy but do not build, causing more people to become refugees...
However, Huang Yi is completely different. He adopts a method in which every household is organized and has direct superiors for management. There is no middle-level exploiting class.
The Ming Dynasty's concept that the grassroots people only recognized their clans and village elders must be completely changed in the base areas.
The people in the base areas have long been without the protection of their clans and cannot see the village elders and gentry, and their clan concept has been lost.
The education we receive now is to obey orders, obey orders, be loyal to Huang Yi, and be loyal to the collective. After the establishment of the country, it will definitely evolve into being loyal to the country, loyal to Huang Yi, and observing disciplines and laws.
All in all, it is much easier to transform an old society than to build a new one from scratch.
With a certain strength, a relatively safe base, and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians.
The next main task is not to attack, but to open gold-finger factories to produce industrial products to earn taxes and reduce taxes on agriculture and animal husbandry.
The military is given priority and military personnel receive preferential treatment. Military families are not only an honorable family, but also the first choice of grassroots officials.
Priority and preferential treatment are not just words.
It’s necessary to use real money to subsidize it!
Therefore, Huang Yi, who has always believed that money is something external to the body and will not take it away until death, is particularly greedy for money during this period.
One of the main reasons for choosing to attack Haraqin was that the large and small tribes of Haraqin robbed too much of the Ming Dynasty's wealth and plundered a lot of people during the Jisi Revolution.
