Chapter 186
Emperor Chongzhen is no longer a novice when he just ascended the throne. He has actually thought about many things and understood them. If he didn't know about the gentry problem mentioned by Cheng Shijie before, he already knows it now.
Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the subjects have been opened more than 80 times (actually 89 times), and a total of about 25,000 Jinshi (actually 24,586 people) have been admitted, including a total of 267 first-class Jinshi. , there are 6,469 second-class Jinshi, and a total of 17,850 third-class Jinshi. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there have been a total of more than 108,000 people. Since the Chenghua Year, the average number of Jinshi alive in the world has been There are about 3,000 people. If you include Juren, the number is about 12,500 people.
This means that the Ming Dynasty now has 15,500 privileged gentry class. This is not 15,500 people, but 15,500 families. Among these 15,500 A family has formed an intricate network of relationships.
Zhang Juzheng's reform finally brought the concealed land to 1.16 billion acres. By the Chongzhen Dynasty, nearly half of it was lost.
Emperor Chongzhen knew about the gentry's problems, but he was also in a dilemma. At this time, Emperor Chongzhen was just like Bald Jiang. He also knew that the government was corrupt and corrupt, but the question was, what could he do?
Fight corruption and destroy the party.
If you don’t fight corruption, your country will be destroyed.
What lay before Emperor Chongzhen was actually just one road, leading to death in every direction.
After seeing the strength of Ning Haijun and seeing Ning Haijun re-create the slaves, the existence of Guan Ning's army was no longer necessary. Emperor Chongzhen just tried it out and wanted to use Liao's salary to reward Ning Haijun. This was a hornet's nest. , all civil and military officials collectively opposed it.
At first Emperor Chongzhen didn’t believe it, but the problem was that in fact, he had to believe that Liao’s salary had become a cancer of the Ming Dynasty. It was the Ming court that was hurt, but it was the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty who were fattened. Of course, it was actually the civil servants of the Manchu Dynasty who were fattened. and some military attachés.
The current annual income of the Ming Dynasty is only six to seven million taels of silver, but the Liao salary is almost six to seven million taels of silver. Half of the six to seven million taels, or even more, goes into the pockets of civil servants.
Faced with this dilemma, he only had to ask Cheng Shijie, hoping that General Cheng, who could manage the army on horseback and care for the people when dismounted, could answer his questions.
When he heard Cheng Shijie's method, Emperor Chongzhen was still a little embarrassed and said: "No one has ever done anything like setting up a factory. It goes against the ancestral system..."
Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "ancestral system? How many are left now?"
On the Internet, there are many haters who don’t understand history. They have been slandering the Ming Dynasty and also slandering Zhu Yuanzhang. In fact, the only emperor in history who can compare with the four emperors of Qin, Han, Wu, Tang Zong and Song Zu is Zhu Yuanzhang and only Zhu Yuanzhang. Comrade Lao Zhu.
Zhu Yuanzhang suffered a lot, so he was able to consider the people closely and established a series of policies to safeguard people's livelihood. The social welfare system was also very sound.
Zhu Yuanzhang fully understood the principle that "the king is the boat and the people are the water. Water can carry the boat or capsize it." Therefore, he hoped that his people could live a happy and secure life, so he attached great importance to the welfare development of the Ming Dynasty. Take the pension policy for example. The Ming Dynasty adhered to Confucianism and valued the principle of governing the world with filial piety, so it also paid more attention to the issue of pension.
Zhu Yuanzhang knew that it was not easy to provide for old age. His own parents did not escape the famine and starved to death on the streets. Zhu Yuanzhang could not even bury his parents properly at that time. This was also Zhu Yuanzhang's inner regret.
So after he became the emperor, he spread filial piety to parents as a traditional virtue, asking people to respect their elders and help the elderly in the Ming Dynasty take care of themselves. He also issued a special decree requiring the whole society to respect the elderly and treat them well, and local officials should often visit the elderly with daily necessities.
In order to allow his children to serve the elderly with peace of mind, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that if there is an elderly person over seventy years old in the family, one person in the family can be exempted from chores and can serve the elderly with peace of mind. In order to commend the children who respect and love the elderly, the Ming government would also distribute clothes as rewards from time to time. For the elderly without children, Zhu Yuanzhang established a nursing home. All elderly people who had no children and could not take care of themselves could enter the nursing home.
Since Zhu Yuanzhang did not have the ability to bury his parents properly back then, he established a free cemetery system after he came to the throne to help people bury their relatives properly. Luzeyuan has become a system specially responsible for the government, so that the elderly can be provided for and the dead can be buried. This is also strictly implemented according to Zhu Yuanzhang's instructions in the "Da Ming Law".
Zhu Yuanzhang also established the importance of medical construction and set up Huimin Pharmacies in various places. People who did not have money to see a doctor could go to Huimin Pharmacies to see a doctor and get medicine. Not only ordinary people, but also the border troops also receive free medical treatment. Huimin Pharmacy runs through the entire social welfare system and has achieved outstanding results in people's livelihood.
In addition, Comrade Lao Zhu was the first emperor in history to propose free welfare housing. Of course, no one implemented these policies by the end of the Ming Dynasty. The only person who implemented them was actually Cheng Shijie, and Cheng Shijie's Ning Haijun welfare system. Many of them originated from the welfare system at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.
For example, the children of fallen soldiers are raised by the court, and the children of fallen soldiers can be hereditary (Ning Haijun did not implement this rule). Beheading the enemy can be rewarded with fields, and killing the enemy for meritorious service can lead to promotion and wealth. Fallen soldiers can receive pensions, free medical care, and houses to live in. Wait, this is actually part of the welfare system of the health center system in the early Ming Dynasty.
Emperor Chongzhen also knew that the ancestral system had been almost destroyed. The current ancestral system only had one function left, which was in line with the interests of civil servants. The ancestral system was just a fart. If it did not conform to the interests of the civil servant group, the ancestral system was a shield. It could also be said to be a chamber pot. , when it is useful, take it out and use it; when it is not useful, just throw it aside to gather dust.
The Ming Dynasty had too many shortcomings, but not just this one?
Emperor Chongzhen smiled bitterly and said: "It is good to set up factories, but...who knows which factory is profitable and which factory is not profitable? If the factory is not profitable, the craftsmen will have no food to eat, and farming will be abandoned..."
"In doing business, there are definitely risks. As the saying goes, the higher the risk, the greater the profit. Everyone can make a sure profit without losing money. Is there any profit?"
Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "What kind of factory makes money and what kind of factory doesn't make money? They can figure it out by themselves before doing it. Why should your majesty worry about it? Just lure the Kaizi over and give them a piece of land with no farming value for them to build factories. Then just charge the factory for tax management fees and garbage disposal fees, which is awesome!"
"Kaizi!"
Emperor Chongzhen asked in confusion: "What do you mean?"
“It’s just that people are stupid and have too much money!”
Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "Those gentry are actually mostly Kaizi. Now there are natural and man-made disasters, either drought or rain. The risks of farming are very high. Let them set up factories. There are many benefits to setting up factories. To build factories, you have to Do you have land? Do you need bricks? Do you need tiles? Do you need wood? "
Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said: "Not bad!"
"Also, you need people to build a factory, right? Only people can build a factory, right? In this way, the people who own the land will make money, the brick and tile workshops will make money, the lumberjacks will make money, and the local plasterers will also have a bite to eat. . If more factories are built and the brick and tile workshops are booming, they will definitely have to recruit more talents to keep them busy, which will absorb all the surplus labor. In the end, with so many factories, you have to pay taxes, right?"
Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "The more factories you run, the more money you make, and the more taxes the government can collect. In this way, the people who set up factories make money, the people who have no land have food to eat, and the government receives Our taxes will also increase, wouldn’t everyone be happy?”
Emperor Chongzhen said: "The common people have gone to work, and the bandits are..."
"Not only is it difficult for rogue bandits to recruit soldiers, but it is also difficult for gentry landlords to recruit tenants. The commissions will definitely increase significantly. As a result, the income from farming will be much thinner. I believe many landowners will lose interest in farming!"
Cheng Shijie explained patiently: "Since then, a virtuous cycle has been formed. Farming does not make money, and landlords can only set up factories. In this way, won't more people have farmland? In the end, it is still a question of the size of the cake. , the current cake is too small, even if it is eaten by one person, it is not enough to fit between the teeth. But if it is made ten times or a hundred times bigger, and everyone can eat it in one bite, there will be no need to fight so fiercely. !”
Emperor Chongzhen hesitated and said: "There are really so many benefits to running a factory?"
"Of course, there are many benefits!"
Cheng Shijie did not tell Emperor Chongzhen that in later generations, China's population exceeded 1.4 billion and kept growing, but the cultivated land did not increase by an inch. On the contrary, it kept decreasing, but there was no trouble. What did it rely on?
It relies on the words "world factory". The factories that are popping up all over the country provide farmers with another way to get rich besides farming. The income from working in a factory is ten times that of farming, and relying on this salary can solve the problem of food and clothing.
If we continue to rely entirely on agriculture as in the past and rely on 1.8 billion acres of cultivated land to support a population of 1.3 billion, even if we calculate based on an output of 2,000 kilograms per mu, the per capita income will only be more than 1,000 yuan.
Of course, if that's the case, war is inevitable. This is the law of survival, natural selection, and poor Chinese people are the most terrifying.
When industry develops to a certain level, industrial taxes will completely replace agricultural taxes, and agricultural taxes can be abolished, and some subsidies can even be given to farmers. For farmers, this is a great thing.
Emperor Chongzhen still had some doubts and said uncertainly: "If running a factory is really so profitable, I'm afraid no one will be willing to farm. Wouldn't this mean that farming and mulberry farming are wasted? Farming and mulberry farming are the foundation of the country..."
"Things are rare but expensive! On the grasslands, mutton like this is not as expensive as vegetables and salted fish. In coastal areas, salted fish is not as expensive as vegetables and not as expensive as grain."
"Furthermore, if there are more people running a factory, it will no longer make money. Growing food may be more profitable than running a factory! Of course, not everyone can afford to run a factory! To run a factory, you need to buy land and build factories. , it is necessary to purchase machinery and recruit workers, which costs too much. The more factories are opened, the more people will come to work and the more people will eat. As a result, the prices of grain and vegetables will naturally rise. Farming It’s still profitable. Since it’s profitable, is there any need to worry that no one will do it?”
Only then did Emperor Chongzhen realize that he had read a lot of books, but they were of no use at all.
Of course, he was embarrassed to tell Cheng Shijie.
"Listen to what you say, I have ten years left to study!"
Emperor Chongzhen lamented that he was far worse than Cheng Shijie.
However, Cheng Shijie knew that it was useless for him to tell Emperor Chongzhen about the logic of economic development, because Emperor Chongzhen was different from him. Emperor Chongzhen was dancing in shackles, but Cheng Shijie was not.
Cheng Shijie controls the army, and this military group already has its own interests. First, the Ning Haijun Business Group, headed by Xie Jinglin, began to take the lead in expansion.
After Cheng Shijie defeated the Jiannu slaves, Xie Jinglin went to North Korea in the name of Cheng Shijie's special envoy and received a high-level reception. He focused on North Korea's iron ore because Cheng Shijie once told him that North Korea's iron ore resources were very rich. Asia’s No. 1 iron ore mine.
Xie Jinglin didn't know the concept of Asia, but he knew that this iron mine was larger than all the iron mines in Ming Dynasty, so he would cooperate with North Korea and let North Korea sell the mined iron ore to Ming Dynasty, that is, Cheng Shijie.
When mentioning North Korea, most people think of isolation, backwardness, poverty, mystery and rigidity. Because North Korea is mostly mountainous, it is very rich in natural resources. It has nearly 200 kinds of useful underground mineral resources, such as iron ore and other ferrous metal minerals. As well as gold, silver, lead, zinc and other non-ferrous metal minerals, the reserves of graphite and magnesite are among the highest in the world.
It can be said that it is a country lying on the gold bricks. But the problem is that the current king of North Korea, Li Zhu, did not know that when Xie Jinglin arrived in Pyongyang, Li Zhu was actually no longer in North Korea. He was invited by the Ming Emperor to go to Beijing to participate in the prisoner sacrifice ceremony. This was a big event. Li Zhu I dare not ignore it.
For North Korea, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages is an instinctive choice. When the Jin Kingdom was prospering, even if the Ming Dynasty won less and lost more, North Korea still did not dare to completely fall to the Jin Kingdom until December of the ninth year of Chongzhen (1636) ), Huang Taiji personally conquered North Korea, and Shen Shikui, the last commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang Army, was ready.
In April of the 10th year of Chongzhen, during the second battle, the Pidao Dongjiang Army was defeated, and the commander-in-chief Shen Shikui was captured alive. In front of the Qing army commander Azige, he and another Qing general Ma Futa "sat together and squatted". No fear. Mafuta said: "Why don't you kneel down?" Shen Shikui said: "How could I kneel down? Kill me!" Mafuta asked him to take off his clothes, but Shen Shikui said: "Why should I take off my clothes? You guys His usual practice is to kill his people and wear their clothes. After you kill me, you can wear my bloody clothes. Why should I take off my clothes for you?" Mafuta was furious and ordered Shen Shikui to be pushed out and beheaded as a warning. "under its banner"
At this time, North Korea formally surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.
As a small country, it is actually more sensitive to power. Even in the second year of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty established slaves and broke through the barrier. In the fourth year of Chongzhen, it was defeated at Dalinghe. In the seventh year of Chongzhen, it broke through again. , North Korea has actually always believed that Ming Dynasty has the strength to turn the tide of the war.
Of course, in history, they did not wait until the Ming Dynasty turned the tide and regained the old rivers and mountains. However, at the same time as the victory of Haizhou Baliwan, Li Zhuo immediately sent a congratulatory letter to Emperor Chongzhen after receiving the news.
Xie Jinglin went to North Korea for two things. The first was to officially pass North Korea. In order to protect the security of North Korea, the governor of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, Cheng Shijie, the governor of Haiguo, incorporated the Dongjiang Army and established the Ninghai Navy Pidao Dusi, which was specifically responsible for protecting the security of the Yalu River. , considering that during the Spring and Autumn Period, the Yalu River would be frozen, and the Yalu River was not enough to serve as a barrier to North Korea.
For this reason, Hai Guogong, Zhenglu General, and Cheng Shijie prepared to take over seven towns in Huining, Qingyuan, Zhongcheng, Qingxing, Wencheng, and Funing Gongshan, and set up seven bureaus with 10,500 people. garrison troops to prevent the Jian slaves from invading North Korea.
Cheng Shijie did not notify North Korea in an official name whether this matter would succeed or not. Xie Jinglin was just a businessman. If North Korea disagreed.
Then, the Jiannu will definitely attack North Korea.
If agreed, these seven cities and Xianning North Road will serve as the Ning Navy's garrison to guard the southeast coast of Yalu.
When North Korea relied on the Ming Dynasty, it not only had relative autonomy. Whether it was the Japanese pirates in the south or the slaves in the northeast, the intention to get involved in North Korea was too obvious.
Especially during this period, North Korea was frightened by the slave establishment.
How could one disagree.
Not only did he agree to station Ning Haijun in North Korea, but he also agreed to bear the food and salary for Ning Haijun stationed in North Korea. Each soldier was paid one or two and a half taels of silver per month, and he was responsible for the annual military salary of 189,000 taels of silver, as well as 200,000 shi of food. Fifty thousand stones of fodder.
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Shenyang City, the Golden Palace.
It is said to be a royal palace, but in fact it is not that big in scale. The Forbidden City in Beijing covers an area of 720,000 square meters, equivalent to approximately 1,090 acres of land. The imperial palace in Shenyang covers an area of 60,000 square kilometers, equivalent to ninety acres and nine cents of land. It is only one-twelfth of the size of the Forbidden City in Beijing.
Speaking of which, Cheng Shijie's General Military Mansion in Jinzhou City, the General Military Mansion, occupies one-eighth of Jinzhou City. Of course, Jinzhou City has now become the largest city in Liaodong, and the size of the city is even larger than Dengzhou City. It is big. In terms of population and city size, it is no less than large cities such as Kaifeng, Xi'an, and Luoyang.
Cheng Shijie's Ning Haijun Military Mansion now covers an area of more than 600 acres and more than 300,000 square meters, which is almost a quarter of the Forbidden City.
Of course, this is not Cheng Shijie's private residence, but an official office, which houses Ning Haijun's Military Supervision Department and Military Affairs Department, as well as the current General Staff Department and General Logistics Department.
But there are actually many private houses much larger than the Shenyang Palace, such as the ancestral house of the Zhang family in Laiyang and so on.
At this time in Shenyang City, almost every household was mourning, and banners with hundreds of filial piety were hung everywhere. The whole city was covered in snow. Of course, this was not because of the snow, but because too many people had died.
In the past, Shenyang City would be very lively when the New Year was approaching. Mongolians from the Mongolian grasslands, Koreans from North Korea, and many Japanese people. Of course, there were also representatives of Shanxi merchants. Many Mongolians came to visit relatives. , and some are doing business.
All in all, it was very lively.
But now there are almost no traces of Shenyang City, and there are also many fewer Han and Mongolian people, giving people a feeling that things are different from what they used to be.
Huang Taiji fell ill after retreating from Liaoyang. After being ill for nearly a month, he finally recovered. When he walked to the street and looked at the cold street, Huang Taiji couldn't help but feel sad.
But the question is, who told Daikin to lose the Battle of Baliwan?
In fact, it doesn't matter if we lose this battle. Dajin has been in Liaodong for more than 30 years, and it's not like he has never lost a battle, but... But it's a loss, don't lose so many troops!
In the battle of Bali Bay, more than 40,000 Jurchen soldiers alone died in the battle. The Mongols killed more than 10,000 people, and more than 8,000 people surrendered. Of the 120,000 troops before and after, only four people managed to escape in the end. 10,000 years ago.
This disastrous defeat caused Huang Taiji to vomit blood, and also triggered a magnitude 10 earthquake throughout the Jin Kingdom, shaking everyone to their cores. After the Battle of Liaoyang, North Korea immediately announced that it would become a vassal of the Ming Dynasty again. , kicking the covenant with Daikin into the Yalu River.
Of course Dajin was furious, and Huang Taiji wanted to wash away the Korean peninsula with blood. However, this matter could only be thought about. Although there were still more than 40,000 soldiers in Jiannu, the problem was that they lacked food, supplies, and armor. Not entirely, not to mention that Ning Haijun would not watch them attack North Korea. Even if Ning Haijun sat on the sidelines and watched, they would not be able to reach North Korea.
The reaction of the Mongols is not that exaggerated. So far, no Mongolian tribe has announced that it has severed ties with Dajin. After all, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Even if Jiannu is defeated again, there are still more than 40,000 men and horses, and only two troops are needed. With tens of thousands of elites, they can press the Mongols to the ground and rub them.
Although the Mongols did not dare to break away from Dai Jin or betray Dai Jin, the problem was that the Mongols began to change their gender. Facing the Jurchen warriors, the Mongolian warriors dared to show their knives at them and start fighting if they disagreed.
The most troublesome thing for Huang Taiji was that Fan Yongdou's family was raided. Although Shanxi merchants still dared to transport goods to Daikin, the problem was that the prices of these goods had increased three to five times compared with before, and some were even more than ten times higher. .
Now in Shenyang City, even the paper money burned for the dead has increased more than ten times, making it difficult for every household in the Jiannu family to save money, and some can't even afford to burn paper money.
The prices of almost all supplies such as cloth, grain, salt, tea, and porcelain have risen sharply, which troubled Huang Taiji. Ultimately, all these problems are due to the Battle of Bali Bay, which shattered the Dajin "Jurchens cannot fight if they are not satisfied with ten thousand." "The myth of Dajin Eight Banners is no longer an invincible opponent in the eyes of the defeated generals in the past!
The prairie people's intuition about power is very accurate. Once they find that the force they have surrendered to begins to weaken, they will immediately turn against them. Rebellion is considered a minor thing, and attacking in groups is the way for the prairie wolf tribe to survive!
Now Dajin has not yet been attacked by those guys who have breasts and are mothers. The great reputation gained through decades of battles still makes the prairie wolves fearful, but as time goes by, this capital will also It will be eaten up slowly.
Daijin must win a big victory over the Ming army before all this capital is lost to prove that he is still a powerful Daijin and deter centrifugal allies, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous.
There is no way. The disadvantage of establishing a country by force is that once the surrounding forces discover that your force is not as strong as they thought, they will immediately have second thoughts. Only by constantly winning can your position be stable, so you have to fight no matter how difficult the battle is. Go down.
I had to finish the sex appointment with tears in my eyes.
Soon, Huang Taiji found a target, which was Khalkha Mongolia, because the Ujumqin, Sunit, Haqit and other tribes under Lin Dan Khan took refuge with Chechen Khan in order to escape the war.
Huang Taiji had no choice. They had no supplies for the winter, and no food for the winter. The remaining food in Shenyang City was less than 50,000 dan, but for the small Jurchen tribe of 200,000 people, how long could they last with this little food?
Twenty or thirty days at most, what about after twenty or thirty days? There is only one way for them to die.
If in the Central Plains dynasty, such a situation was encountered, the slave builders who focused on stability and could build a country by force could only focus on fighting: "The Chechen Khan dares to take in the remnants of Lin Dan Khan's command, and is disrespectful to the king, so he must send troops to conquer!" "
Under Dorgon's instruction, Duduo yelled: "Yes, we must show them some color!"
Regardless of his recovery from a serious illness, Huang Taiji hurriedly took advantage of the fact that the slave-building warriors still had some strength to go out in full force and send troops to the Chechen Khan tribe.
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On December 26, the fifth year of Chongzhen's reign, although it snowed in the sky and the cold wind howled, the cold wind could not stop people's enthusiasm. The people in the prefectures and counties around Beijing were dragging their families with their families and could not even live a single day. Some even traveled two to three hundred miles day and night to catch up to Beijing, specifically to watch the prisoner presentation ceremony held by Emperor Chongzhen.
In fact, it had been more than half a month since Cheng Shijie came to the capital, and he was already too busy. The real reason why Emperor Chongzhen never held a grand ceremony was because of a few international friends.
Among these international friends, the first one to arrive in Beijing was King Li Zhu of North Korea, and the second one to arrive was King Shangfeng of Ryukyu. King Shangfeng was more miserable. Before he succeeded to the throne, as early as the 44th year of Wanli, Shangfeng He went to the Satsuma Domain as a hostage, and in 1621 he adopted King Shōning and succeeded him because he had no children.
During his tenure as king, he had been bullied by the Satsuma clan. This time, thanks to Zheng Zhilong, a black-tailed ship under Zheng Zhilong sank in the waters controlled by the Satsuma clan. In fact, Zheng Zhilong also knew that this was an accident, and the ship sank on the sea. It is a normal phenomenon.
But the problem is that Zheng Zhibao lost money in gambling and insisted on asking the Satsuma Domain to give him an explanation. In order to intimidate the Satsuma Domain, Zheng Zhibao led more than a hundred large and small warships to bombard the coast of the Satsuma Domain.
As the two powers fought, they had no energy to take care of Shang Feng. Shang Feng was in no hurry to take a boat and ran north. He arrived in Beijing on December 16, the fifth year of Chongzhen, and asked Emperor Chongzhen to bring him justice.
In addition to these two overseas vassal kings, there were also Lin Dan Khan's envoys and several tribal leaders who could not survive.
The area outside Andingmen was crowded with people, and the most terrible thing was that people kept pouring in. This is the first time since the founding of the Ming Dynasty that the people of the Ming Dynasty have burst out with such fanaticism for the army to win a war.
In order to hold this grand ceremony, Emperor Chongzhen basically had to sell everything, but when he climbed up to the city tower and saw the huge crowds of people and thunderous cheers below, he felt that the money was well spent. No matter how poor you are, you have to organize such a grand event, and it has to be big. We should set up a special investigation to boost people's morale. Otherwise, there will always be endless bad news, and the people will go crazy if they don't go crazy.
The Mongolians who used to be as good as a pair of trousers with Jiannu were actually just outsiders. In the Battle of Daling River last year, the Ming Dynasty lost 50,000 to 60,000 troops, which was tragic. But the problem is that Ming Dynasty was too powerful. After a slap in the face, an army of 100,000 people was organized this year to press the slaves to the ground and rub them.
Following the Battle of Baliwan, the Battle of Liaozhong, and the Battle of Liaoyang, after these battles, Huang Taiji's 120,000-strong army only had 40,000 left. This news spread on the Mongolian grasslands, and it became more and more outrageous. Some people said that slave creation was The entire army was almost wiped out, and only more than 10,000 troops were left to flee back to Shenyang.
These Mongolian wallflowers immediately saw the problem.
Daming is still the same Daming. According to the Daming that Mongolia rubbed against the ground, Jiannu won countless times and Ming lost countless times. Daming could afford to lose. Jiannu only failed once and they couldn't bear it.
These outsiders quickly sent people with gifts to Beijing to apologize to Emperor Chongzhen. They did not come empty-handed, but brought war horses, furs, and precious treasures. Emperor Chongzhen unexpectedly received tens of thousands of good horses, which was considered a great gift. Returned some blood.
These grassroots expressed that they would join forces with Ming Dynasty to deal with Jiannujin as before.
what does that mean? This means that the prestige of Ming Dynasty has increased, severely overpowering Jian Nujin.
The face-loving Emperor Chongzhen was naturally very happy.
Of course, he also knew that these guys might just come here to get some benefits, so he offered to let them visit the military parade. If they dared to ask for benefits after seeing Ning Haijun's reputation, then they would be considered wise. .
As noon comes, which is the auspicious time, the bells ring loudly and the military parade is about to begin.
"Boom boom boom..."
Salutes were fired one after another. Although they were only salutes, the momentum still frightened the barbarians.
There are more than two hundred cannons in total, and each cannon represents a year. The ups and downs of the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years are condensed into the rumbling sound of the cannons.
Amidst the rumble of cannons, a large group of prisoners with golden rattails were escorted up. These were all slave-building warriors captured by the Ming army on the battlefield.
Some of them were captured in Haizhou when they had vomiting and diarrhea after eating sprouted potatoes, some were captured during the Battle of Bali Bay, and some were captured when they ran to Guangning Guard Road and could not move, and were tired and hungry. Some of them were captured because of their injuries.
No matter what kind of prisoners they are, they all have a common characteristic. When they hear the sound of cannons, their calves become weak with fear. In the Battle of Bali Bay, the Battle of Guangning, the Battle of Liaozhong, and the Battle of Liaoyang, Ning Haijun's artillery, mixed with the power of destroying the world, blew their souls out of their bodies and left their memories fresh.
The rumbling sound of the cannon made them terrified, their livers and gallbladders were split, their faces turned earth-colored, and some of them even became incontinent.
The Ming Dynasty officials and people who were watching the ceremony were stunned for a moment when they saw the cowardly appearance of these slave-building warriors, and then burst into laughter. The laughter was like sharp knives, repeatedly poking the Jurchen warriors in the heart and making them dizzy. Can't lift it up.
(End of chapter)
