In the early winter of the second year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, just when Bruce, the envoy of the British Empire, entered Liaodong by land with their country's local specialty red cannon, and traveled day and night to Beijing, Dorgon, the uncle of the Qing emperor and the regent, had already I know the Qing Dynasty has been stabilized!
Having firmly established a foothold in the Central Plains, it is less likely to be expelled back to his hometown in the Northeast. The key to the stability of the Qing Dynasty was not the local products from England - Dorgon didn't know about this yet!
The key to stabilizing the Qing Dynasty was the smooth advancement of the Zhenglv Banner Enclosure and the Oral Grant of Land in Henan, Shandong, and Beizhili.
Since August, Dorgon has been touring Dongchang, Yanzhou, Jinan, Guide, Kaifeng, Hejian, Henan and other prefectures. Supervise the enclosure and land transfer in various places... This is a huge government project! At least hundreds of millions of acres of land will be redistributed, involving the vital interests of tens of millions of people.
In order to better promote the enclosure and grant of land, Dorgon also transferred from Beijing Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanwo, Ma Guozhu, Xu Shichang, Xu Mingyuan and other good slaves of the Eight Banners Han Army who followed from outside the customs to serve as "imperial envoys for enclosure" , "Imperial Envoy of Land Conferment", responsible for the two major matters of land enclosure and land conferment.
These slaves from outside the pass have no interests in the pass. No matter how they enclose the land or grant the land, they have no harm. With them as the backbone, and hundreds of officials selected from the Eight Banners Han Army and Zhenglu Banner as "little imperial envoys", the prefectural capitals of Henan, Shandong, and North Zhili that needed to be enclosed and granted farmland were controlled. Living.
Enclosure matters are easy to handle, mainly in the state capitals in eastern Shandong and Henan, where there are few people - the original residents either ran away or were killed in the back-and-forth tug-of-war, and the rest were completely gone. No matter how much, it is impossible to launch an uprising against the enclosure.
After enclosing the land, one hundred thousand Green Flag troops marched in and divided the fields among households - this division method was not exactly the same as that of the Eight Banners. The Eight Banners were divided among the kings and ministers, and the fields were divided among the banners. The land will not be directly allocated to soldiers for farming.
Zhenglvqi, on the other hand, allocates fields to households (Ding). Twenty million acres of land are divided according to the size of official positions, and everyone has a share.
After the distribution is completed, the food and salary will not be stopped immediately, but will be paid as usual for three years... What to do after three years will be discussed at that time.
The Green Flag Soldiers who were granted land were a squad army that was both a soldier and a farmer. They would use Niulu as a unit to build forts to live in. They would farm the land during busy farming periods and train troops during slack farming periods.
It's hard to say what will happen to these Green Flag Soldiers in the future, but they are all satisfied for now and have settled down for the time being. They are farming some land while waiting to attack Qufu again - there are mountains of gold and silver in the city of Qufu, and there are also the descendants of Yan Shenggong from all previous dynasties around it. Graves can be discovered!
The temptation is too great! Everyone is craning their necks waiting!
And the matter of dictating Tian's plan is a little more troublesome - after all, there are still many sporadic anti-Qing forces in various places! As soon as the decree on dictating farmland came out, there was a small upsurge of resistance against the Qing Dynasty.
However, under Dorgon's full suppression, there was no big trouble in Henan and Shandong. In fact, he did not have to confiscate the land of the scholar-bureaucrats. As long as the landlord agreed to pay the grain at the standard of four liters per acre, he could Just recognize the landowner's ownership of the land.
But the problem is that with the population in the north declining significantly and the land transfer plan being implemented, land is no longer valuable, and population is the most important means of production.
Under such circumstances, how could any farmer be willing to pay more than the imperial grain (four liters per mu)?
Without farmers renting land, wouldn’t it be useless no matter how much land the landlords have? And you have to pay for the food...
It is no exaggeration to say that this wave of land transfer was the final expropriation of the northern gentry and landlord class.
By the winter of the second year of Shunzhi, with the end of the autumn harvest and the arrival of the "grain season", the resistance in the "Qing-occupied areas" such as Henan, Shandong, and North Zhili had basically ended, but Shanxi was not very peaceful.
Because of the temptation of the "preferential tax rate" of paying four liters of imperial grain per acre, almost all farmers who were still renting land chose to become obedient citizens of the Qing Dynasty.
So in October, Dorgon returned triumphantly to Dongchangfu City, where Duduo's General Yamen was located.
His "Southern Expedition" is almost over, and it's time to return to Beijing to continue being his regent.
By the way, "Hauge's body" has also been displayed in Dongchang Mansion for some time, and it's time to bring it back to Beijing for a grand burial.
The person responsible for escorting Hauge's body was Obai, Hauge's loyal slave, and now it seems that he has taken refuge with Dorgon and Duduo. When I heard that Dorgon had returned to Liaocheng, he hurriedly went to the General's Mansion to see him.
"Slave Aobai, I would like to extend my sincere invitation to the Imperial Uncle and the Regent Jin An! I wish to congratulate the Imperial Uncle and the Regent!"
"A happy event?" Dorgon sat on the chair with a smile on his face and asked with a smile, "What's the happy event? Why don't I, the king, know about it?"
Oboi smiled: "I just read the newspaper sent by Tang Ma and found out that there are barbarian envoys from the Western Red Barbarian Kingdom of England coming to pay tribute."
"Oh," Dorgon smiled, "What good stuff is there?"
Duduo on the side also became happy, "Brother Fourteen, guess what is the specialty of the Red Yi Kingdom?"
"A specialty of Hongyi?" Dorgon said half-jokingly, "Is it the red-haired ladies?"
"Hahaha...Brother Fourteen, don't you have enough women in your family?" Duduo laughed, "Brother Fourteen, let me tell you, the specialty of Hongyi Yingji Country is Hongyi cannon!"
"Cannon? Old Fifteen, are you saying that the Hongyi people want to pay tribute to us with cannon?"
"Yes!" Duduo said with a smile, "Now our Qing Dynasty is stable... According to the report from Shengjing's general manager's office, the Hongyi Kingdom's mission sent us a total of ten horse-drawn horses. What kind of three-pounder cannon? It seems to be the same cannon used by the Confederate Army in the Battle of Clear Creek."
"Haha, that's really a blessing from God!" Dorgon smiled, "We were worried that we had no samples to copy, and the Hongyi Kingdom came to our doorstep... We have to reward them well!"
Duduo added: "The King of North Korea also contributed a lot. Those English people first arrived in North Korea by sea and then came over land. Thanks to the King of North Korea who sent people to escort them all the way."
Dorgon nodded: "This Li Zhu is a loyal slave. He sent Ying Erdai to lead the troops to Hanyang, which can be regarded as protecting North Korea from the invasion of Japanese pirates. As for that Jeju Island, there must be a navy That’s it, we don’t have any options now.”
"We can't go even if we have the navy!" Duduo said, "Shandong is still waiting for troops... We are busy enclosing and conferring farmland. Gao Hongtu, Shi Kefa, Zuo Maodi and Zhu Yihai are over there. I’m not idle either, I’ve been training troops and preparing for war these days!”
"Don't be afraid!" Dorgon smiled, "With the two tricks of Zhengluqi and Jiguotian, our Qing Dynasty will be stable in the Central Plains...Shandong will be captured sooner or later."
He paused and then said: "Old Fifteen, don't worry. When the British cannons arrive, we can imitate them a little more. Then we will be sure to attack Qufu."
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"Okay, okay, three hundred three-pound regimental guns... fifty artillery batteries! As long as half of them arrive, we can launch the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains! No matter how Dorgon organizes it, he is no match for the cannons. !”
At the same time, Zhu Cixiang was also talking about cannons, but instead of ten cannons, there were three hundred cannons!
An arms purchase document written in Chinese and French was placed on the table in front of him. The contract was signed by Archduke Luo, who was also in charge of the Shanghai Trade and Diplomacy Department, and Anthony Van Diwen.
According to this contract, the Dutch East India Company needed to provide 300 three-pound regimental cannons, 5,000 heavy Spanish matchlocks, and 10,000 light Spanish matchlocks to the Shanghai Trade and Diplomacy Department of the Ming Dynasty within two years.
Fifteen thousand matchlocks are nothing - matchlocks are consumables and have a short service life, so some must be kept in reserve. The three-pound bronze cannon is very durable. The number of three hundred guns is a full fifty companies!
If one regiment is equipped with half a company, these cannons can equip a hundred regiments...that is, more than 200,000 and nearly 300,000 new troops!
With so many new troops, can the Qing Dynasty still be stable? Can Li Zicheng be more arrogant? They were all reduced to rubbish!
He was feeling proud here when Li Yan's voice rang out from outside the door of the East Nuan Pavilion of Kenan Palace: "Master Qiansui, I have urgent military matters to report to you!"
