Aji Khan of Turpan once suspected that his fifth blood brother had really surrendered to Liu Chengzong.
Otherwise, why would you keep tricking yourself into transporting things eastward? I kindly sent 500 horses to support Hami, and a letter came back very quickly, saying that his mother had been robbed by horse bandits.
Aji Khan was wondering, didn't you just say that there was only one horse left in Hami? Where did the horse bandit come from? Could it be that the horse bandit you are talking about is not a bandit on horseback, but a bandit who specializes in robbing horses?
Then the communication between Turpan and Hami became a one-way channel. Every time Aji Khan wrote to Hami, it seemed as if he had not received it from the Hami direction. Even the person sent to deliver the letter never came back.
On the contrary, from the direction of Hami, Babai Khan's letters came one after another, rushing towards Turpan without any hindrance. He opened the letters, all talking to himself, asking for horses, equipment, and Hami again. Many strange people came outside the city.
He always blamed Aji Khan for not replying to him, and said angrily that the Marshal's Office had sent more troops to Hami, why didn't you send troops over? They all put me under house arrest!
Aji Khan only felt that the strangest thing in this land was that his younger brother Babai seemed to be a man who had been dead for two months. All his letters were written while he was alive, and he was indifferent to what happened after his death.
After thinking about this problem, Ajihan figured out that most of the letters sent from the east were fake, and his fifth child was probably gone. Regardless of whether it was true or not, it would be better for him if the fifth child was gone at this time. .
Because his territory is in Turpan, and Turpan is only three hundred miles away from Verum in Oirat, with only a Daban in the Bogda Mountains in between.
Daba is the Oara Mongolian dialect, dabaya. Because of the large Mongolian population in Oirat, it is also called Dava in some places. Davaa actually means the same thing, pass or mountain pass.
In Monan Mongolia, this word means mountain.
This is probably related to the different living environments between the Oara and Mongolia. Monan Mongolia do not need to climb mountains and ridges. The mountains are just mountains. You can just go around them. However, the Oara Mongols live in a densely populated area with high mountains, and they often need to cross passes.
Azi Khan in Turpan has learned that Oirat is raising armaments and has established twenty Otoks, or Qianhubu, while the eastern Khan of Yarkant is also preparing for internal strife in the west. All Turpan's energy needs to be focused on guarding Daban, to prevent Oirat from going south, had no energy to take care of Hami.
After all, from the Flame Mountain to Hami City, there is more than 700 miles of Gobi Desert in between. The rivers coming down from the mountains will be dried up before they can run very far. Only the strongest plants can grow on this land. Even if the Han army wants to come over, You have to bring your own water, so there is no need to worry.
But in Hami City on the other side, Babai Khan was really angry because Hami City had been occupied by the Chijin Guards from the south.
He Chongan, the Chijin Guard, was very nervous about what he was doing. For a governor like Cao Yao, it was normal for him to give people official positions, but he never dreamed that he would threaten him and say that he would be killed if he ignored military discipline.
A whole bunch of bandits.
To Chijinwei, the little bandits who were restrained by the big bandits were considered their professional counterparts.
He Chongan knew military discipline, but he didn't understand the military discipline of the Marshal's Mansion, let alone what Cao Yao said about "good job" and "bad job".
For this reason, he specifically consulted the three hundred marshal soldiers Liu Chengzong left in Chijin Guard to see what kind of military discipline the marshal's mansion had. These people were all from the old Ming army, and there were even several Ningxia fellows among them. It was easy for He Chongan to carry out his work. .
But the answer he received did not satisfy him, because there was a mixture of abstraction and straightforwardness. The veteran said that the laws of the Marshal's Mansion basically copied the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and the military laws were also the same as those of the Ming army.
When He Chongan heard this, he frowned and said, "Don't tell me it's useless. The military laws are there. But if you don't give military food and military pay, isn't it just a matter of forcing people to do something difficult?"
The military laws of the Ming army were strict, but this could only be ensured by sufficient logistics, adequate food management, and adequate salary management. Even if there were a group of horse bandits under his command, He Chongan was confident that he would use money and food to stabilize the minds of most people first, and spend a few If you kill dozens of people in a month, military discipline can be improved.
But there is nothing you want right now, so what can you use to improve military discipline? The army did not let go of looting because no one
In the beginning, once someone started, everything would be in chaos if he didn't care. This Hami city would be eaten alive by thousands of bandits. If he didn't care, Liu Chengzong's Chijin Guards might be gone.
Of course, whether or not Chijin Guard was still there at that time had nothing to do with He Chongan. If a mutiny was triggered, he would be the first person the horse bandits wanted to kill.
Not to mention now, even when Wanli came to Korea, North Korea said that it had prepared military rations. It was agreed that the Ming Dynasty would send troops to fight and they would be in charge of the military rations. However, as a result, the heavenly soldiers came and found nothing. The whole country was as clean as if it had been licked by a dog. .
Anyone who has just gone to war is no longer a son of a good family. In the past, people were chewed on pine leaves and dough to beat the Japanese. The domestic supplies could not be supplied, and the foreign vassals still hid military rations and weapons. What can we do?
Naturally, they raised money on the spot, and the enraged soldiers beat the officials of the foreign vassals. The Tibetan army rations were treated as collaborating with the enemy, and they were killed and taken when they should.
Now it is necessary to maintain military discipline, and there is no provision for chicken feathers. He Chongan is also facing the same problem. Chijin Guard is a powder keg, and he is sitting on the powder keg. This powder keg is entirely caused by the Marshal's Mansion's policy towards them.
He Chongan believed that the best strategy for Chijin Guards to implement at the moment was not to garrison troops in Hami, but to send troops to the west. Since the mission was to prevent a bird from flying over from the west, then go west and kill all the birds.
When Emperor Taizu crossed the Yangtze River in the early days of the Republic of China, he also faced the situation of insufficient food, so he gave an order to the army: Anyone who enters enemy territory must obey the provisions. If you attack the city and the enemy resists, let the soldiers inspect it and claim it as your own. If he surrenders, he will order the people to be at peace and nothing will be gained.
This means that when you enter enemy territory, you will carry out an organized and disciplined requisition of grain. If the enemy city surrenders directly, you will calm the people. You will requisition grain in an organized and disciplined manner without looting. If it is conquered without surrender, you will order an organized and disciplined requisition. Robbery means inspection and looting.
The veteran was happy when he heard his idea. The governor did not give you any salary, but he gave you an official position. You used to be a team leader. To put it bluntly, you were almost the same as a hundred households. How many levels were you promoted at once? Directly completing the fourth-level command is a test of your talents.
Opportunities are given to you. If you are capable, do it. If you are not capable, just give it up and leave. But if you choose to do it and you don't do it well, you will have no choice but to die.
He smiled and said: "The commander-in-chief must like your idea of killing birds, but Governor Cao is in charge of Gansu and will not support the war to the west. The commander-in-chief has his own order to provide grain, but it is not for the people, but for the people. noble."
"The governor said whether you can do a good job is whether you can manage the army's food supply."
After receiving such a reminder, He Chongan was relieved. He first reorganized the Chijin Guards outside the city. Veterans of the Marshal's Army were placed in each of the hundreds of households, and military disciplines and laws were agreed upon.
Of course, their military discipline and law are different from the normal army's agreement.
He Chongan has always been following the trend. Whether he was a captain in the Ming army, a soldier in Chahar, or a captain in Gansu, he never thought about what he should do or what he would do in this life. Plan for the long term.
He rarely used his brain. Being in the framework of the Ming army, his life as a warrior did not require the use of his brain.
No matter what problems arise in life, under the head-level gong system, as long as you chop off a few other people's brains, everything will be fine.
But as an independent little leader, living in the Gobi requires a lot of thinking. At this time, He Chongan was not only a grassroots officer who was familiar with the mentality of low-level soldiers, but also an experienced horse bandit leader.
He knew very well that using the army's method of reading out military laws and regulations was of no use to these horse bandits.
The army's military laws deal with new recruits, and what they want is to establish the supreme prestige of the generals, so many times they just need to obey without saying anything or explaining.
But these bandits have military experience, and they are veterans from various armies; without military experience, they are all practical players with rich experience in looting in the Gobi Desert. It is a fantasy to expect them to obey like new recruits. .
He had to compare his feelings and tell the entire Chijin Guard that even if Hami was robbed and the city was massacred, the things in the city would not be enough to support their garrison for a long time, so their long-term meal ticket would still have to come from the Marshal's Mansion - in the future there would be big Work.
For the big job in the future, this time we will first plunder the nobles in the city. We must be organized when doing so.
, No one can hide his or her secrets, and only by being disciplined and not hiding their secrets can the entire Chijin Guard be fully fed. Anyone who wants to hide his or her secrets should not be blamed for turning against others.
They all made an appointment and signed the agreement with various words and circles, and He Chongan began to prepare to enter the city... He was not stupid enough to talk about integrity with a group of gangsters. With the population base of Chijinwei, there were dozens of bad guys. Gangsters who promise to be taken seriously are normal.
He made a promise to kill people just to gain righteousness.
The righteousness means that even if people temporarily disagree with something due to their inner selfish desires, they still dare not understand the moral high ground for raising objections.
For Chijinwei, keeping everyone fed is the absolute moral high ground.
Holding onto the weapon of righteousness, as long as someone breaks the law, he can kill and establish his authority.
After that, He Chongan made a plan to bring the army to the city, select a few hundred households to block Hami City, and not allow them to enter or leave. He requisitioned more than a dozen private houses and put all the nobles under house arrest.
Immediately afterwards, people were sent to seize the noble residences and manors inside and outside the city. All materials, regardless of whether they were useful or not, were recorded and requisitioned.
In the end, they didn't get much food, but they confiscated a lot of utensils and property. He Chongan didn't kill all the soldiers who hid the property, but only beheaded six heads and chopped off four hands.
As for the penalty for hiding, He Chongan carefully calculated the amount of execution and saved most of those who had no backers and those who had backers but had little influence. Of the six people killed, four had powerful backers and needed to be reduced. prestige; the other two have no backers but have large private collections.
After the other people handed over their private belongings, they all came out and formed a 100-person advance team, asking them to make meritorious deeds.
However, He Chongan's actual idea is that having a backer can weaken his wings, but it is better not to have a backer, which can create opportunities for him to benevolent.
After such a process, he finally asked the Chijin Banner Guards to divide the limited wine, meat, and grain. Morale increased greatly, and it began to look like an army.
As for the goods, Kang Liangfu sent someone to contact Song Xian of Suzhou Guard to discuss whether they could be sold in Suzhou.
Song Xian smiled happily at the news, but he was worried. The situation in Suzhou was different from that in Hehuang. Not only did the land allocation have little effect here, but the Marshal's Office's equalization of land and buying taxes could not be implemented here.
Because firstly, Suzhou didn't have that much money to buy grain, and secondly, with the money the Suzhou Guard had, they couldn't buy the grain and grass to supply the Marshal's Mansion army.
The Generalissimo also asked Song Xian to collect grain in Suzhou to supply military supplies. After thinking about it, he finally decided that Suzhou should use the Weisuo system, that is, the Weisuo would receive half of the grain.
Even if there are no good guard posts anywhere in the world, its land policy is still the best policy in Hexi, because the guard post system in Hexi was not implemented in the early Ming Dynasty. It was implemented in the Han Dynasty, but it was called Jun at that time. Tuen.
In fact, it means the same thing: the land is state-owned, and each soldier is given fifty acres to each household. They pay half of the grain they grow, and the remaining half is their own.
This policy will be used in the frontiers every dynasty and every generation, because the frontiers have fewer people and more land. However, as the intensity of wars escalates with the change of dynasties, the broken inland has become an environment with fewer people and more land.
By the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Han people, who had been essentially divided into two ethnic groups, the Southerners and the Northerners, merged and reshaped themselves in the Yangtze-Huaihe River Basin. Under the leadership of Zhu Yuanzhang, they launched a furious campaign to reconquer the lands of Yanyun, Guanshan, Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guangxi. Make the whole world full of guardhouses.
This itself is the product of the specific historical environment of that era when there were a total of four million people living in North Zhili and Henan.
The population of the Ming Dynasty was multiplying, and the policies conformed to the society and also transformed the society. At this time, Song Xian seemed to have done nothing but moved out the ancestral guard system, and Suzhou Guards immediately had enough supplies.
Just because of the internal strife in Suzhou when Liu Chengzong entered the customs, a group of people died. The remaining Suzhou was like a piece of white paper, which was particularly useful when it was put on the system of the guards.
Now that the soldiers and civilians of Suzhou have handed over the grain, each family still has a large amount of surplus grain. Song Xian cannot recruit more, and the soldiers and civilians can't eat it all, and they can't sell it. Just when he was worried, Chijin Wei suddenly got a batch of goods. , which made Song Xian extremely happy.
Within a few days, a batch of grain and grass was transported to Jiayuguan Pass, and Chijin Guard was asked to send someone to take it away. He slowly sold the remaining items.
Give as much as you want.
Immediately, the urgent needs of both sides were solved. The military households in Suzhou even reported to Song Xian that the goods they were most in need of were actually manure.
Suzhou is implementing Liu Chengzong's Farming Law. This year, the people have tasted the benefits of the Farming Law. They urgently need more fertilizer to fertilize other areas to fertilize the land.
However, just as he was mobilizing manpower to build the first fertilizer kiln outside Jiayuguan, the beacon fire from the east broke the tranquility of Suzhou. Although the beacon fire could not convey accurate military information, the Suzhou Guards, who lacked soldiers, entered immediately. In a state of alert, be prepared to defend against enemies or transport baggage to the east.
Then Cao Yao's letter was delivered to the Suzhou Guard, and the Yongchang Guard's defense line was breached. It was Cao Wenzhao!
