The day after Sony, Lan Bai, and Dulan left Shengjing for the Pass, Shanhaiguan Angbang Zhangjing Heluo Hui from Duduo's side entered Shengjing City together with Bahana who came from Beijing, and they also brought Azig's personal letter.
Duduo immediately called all his confidants in Shengjing City, including Bolo, Nikan, Gang Lin, Alzin, Handai, Lang Qiu, Tan Tai and others, to his residence to discuss countermeasures.
"I know the temper of Old Twelve best. He is impulsive, irritable, and reckless." As soon as everyone sat down, Duduo scolded Azig helplessly, "If Brother Fourteen hadn't passed the throne to me, Old Ten Second, maybe I can still be allowed to form my own faction outside the customs. But now...it is inevitable that brothers will fight against each other. What do you think? Let’s talk about it!"
"Since Emperor Chengzong passed the throne to the prince, what else can the prince be polite about? Of course he should raise an army!"
Abatai's son Bolo was the first to speak. He is also the Eighth Prince of Zhenglan Banner. He has three Niulu. He followed Duduo when he left the customs to run Guanwai. Now he serves as the Gushan Ezhen of Zhenglan Banner. He is also the commander of the forward battalion of the General's Mansion.
The next person to speak was Nikan, who is now the commander of the firearms battalion of Ezhen and General Mansion in Gushan, Zhengbai Banner. His speech consisted of one word.
"beat!"
Then Zhenghuangqi Tan Tai spoke: "We must fight, but how many troops do we have on hand? Is it enough?"
Zuomele Erzhen Alzin of General Shengjing Mansion took the question and said: "Our Nine Banners outside Guanwai now have nine Gushan, twenty-seven Jiala, and one hundred and thirty-five Niulu. There are nearly 10 flags and 100 flags registered. Sixty thousand people!
In addition, there are no fewer than 150,000 tenant households in the name of landlords! "
"Hey," Tan Tai shook his head, "there are not many old Manchus among those 135 Niu Lu. The bannermen are said to be 60,000, and the Han, Barhu, and Sauron people are afraid of more than 50,000! The real old Manchus There are only ten thousand people, and two thousand of them have just come from the pass!"
As soon as his words came out, the atmosphere in the palace lobby suddenly became a little solid.
Dorgon's policy of having to desperately expand the bannerman team in order to fight against the Ming Dynasty has had sequelae!
Now Old Manchuria has become a minority among the banner people!
There are only 10,000 old Manchu bannermen outside the pass, but there are as many as 60,000 registered nine-banner bannermen. That is to say, 50,000 bannermen are not old Manchus, and more than 40,000 of them are Han people carrying the flag.
Duduo now wants to go to war with Azig, and also maintains military presence in the Heilongjiang River Basin, Jinqili River Basin, Sakhalin Island, southern Liaoning, western Liaoning and other places. It is not enough to recruit all 60,000 bannermen. Where can we find more? How can we tell the difference between old and new?
If he only uses Lao Manchuria, he will be able to support 10,000 people...
Duduo gritted his teeth and said: "We are all disciples of the Nine Flags, how can we distinguish each other? I treat everyone equally here!
In addition, as long as the strong men among the tenant farmers serve in the army and perform meritorious service, they can also be promoted to Nine Banners and allocate land! "
The problem he is facing now is a bit similar to Yuwentai in history. Yuwentai is not enough for Xianbei, and Duduo is not enough for Lao Manchu, and there is even more shortage.
There were only 10,000 strong men in Old Manchuria, and this was an era of playing with muskets and cannons. What use could 10,000 men do? The Han people must be recruited!
This is national integration!
With Duduo's words, Alzin continued: "Even if we can recruit strong men from the tenant farmers to join the army, it is still a long way off. All we can use now is a few standing troops. The general has 3,000 under his command, and Heilongjiang Ang There are 3,000 people in Bangzhangjing Yamen, and there are 1,000 people in each of the three Bangzhangjing Yamen in Liaonan, Vladivostok, and Shanhaiguan, a total of 9,000 people... Among them, 2,000 people in Liaonan and Vladivostok cannot move, and Sakhalin, Heilongjiang, and Jinggong At least 2,000 people must be left in the Qili River Basin and another 1,000 in Shengjing. Only 4,000 people can be used."
"How can 4,000 people be enough?" Zhenhan Dai, Youmeile'er of General Shengjing's Mansion, shook his head and said, "It must be at least tens of thousands, right?"
"Ten thousand is not enough!" He Luohui interjected, "The Emperor Chengzong's Mausoleum built by Zhuo Luo in Shanhaiguan is a fortress for garrisoning troops. It can garrison tens of thousands of troops at least!"
Duduo said in a calm voice: "Then we have to bring more troops, at least 60,000 troops...we need to recruit 56,000 more people, of which 40,000 are from Nine Banners, and the rest are recruited. Be a tenant!
Arzin and Handai, do we have enough money, food, weapons and horses? "
Alzin said: "Your Majesty, there is not much silver in Shengjing's warehouse, only 180,000 taels in total. But there is enough food, more than one million shi."
Han Dai said: "We have enough weapons. The Spanish sailing ship recently sent us 2,000 matchlock guns and 20 red barbarian cannons. But the armor is not enough. The nine solid mountain foreheads are really good." According to the data reported by the yamen, two-thirds of the flag soldiers are not worthy of armor. There are only 1,500 pairs of armor in the warehouse of the General's Mansion, and the four Angbang Zhangjing yamen in Heilongjiang, Vladivostok, Liaonan, and Shanhaiguan have only 2,000 pairs of armor in total.
There are not enough horses either. We in Manchuria always have to bring our own horses. However, in accordance with the prince's order, each of the nine Gushan Ezhen raised 1,000 horses, all of which were ready for use as war and draft horses. "
Duduo nodded: "Barely enough...as long as we can win quickly!"
It’s really quite reluctant!
The current military system of the Qing Dynasty consists of a small standing army plus a large number of "landlord soldiers" who serve in turns. The standing soldiers are the forward battalion and the firearms battalion. Once you join the camp, you will get a share of money and food. The bannermen of the Nine Banners who have not entered the camp are "landlord soldiers". In Beijing, the Gushan yamen of each banner distribute money and food, and the main source of money and food is the income of the banner land. Those who served in the Yamen of Angbang Zhangjing in various places were distributed money and food by their respective Yamen. The bannermen who were stationed outside the pass were soldiers and farmers, and they relied on the land to bear the cost of military service. This is also the reason why Duduo had more Han troops and fewer old Manchus. Most of the old Manchus and even Chen Hanjun (the Han army before entering the Pass) were willing to live a stable life in Beijing or under various Angbang Zhangjing yamen in the Pass, as long as they had a fixed amount of money and food.
Those who are willing to venture outside the customs are mostly the New Han Army soldiers who carry the flag and carry the flag without any treatment, or the Zhenglv Banners who are used as cannon fodder on the front line. In addition, there are some Northeastern indigenous people such as Sauron and Barhu people or refugees from Siberia.
Because these so-called bannermen have no fixed income, their families rely on farming or hunting to survive. Therefore, the flag soldiers cannot serve without pay for too long, otherwise they must have trophies to grab...otherwise, they will become beggars and household soldiers in the Ming Dynasty!
However, Duduo didn't have much money and food on hand. It was very difficult to maintain the size of the 60,000-strong army for a long time, so he had to fight quickly.
"But in what name do we recruit an army?" Zhi Fengtianfu Ganglin asked another question at this time.
Gang Lin was Dorgon's confidant, and he also came out of the customs with Duduo. Duduo became the general of Shengjing, while he became the prefect of Fengtian Prefecture, the only prefecture outside the customs (excluding Lushun Prefecture in the Ming Dynasty).
Nowadays, the Qing Dynasty does not have provinces. If the local government does not include the Shengjing General's Office, then the prefect's Yamen, Angbang Zhangjing Yamen and Gushan Ezhen Yamen are the largest.
Here outside the pass, under General Shengjing's Mansion is Siangbang Jiugushan, a total of fourteen state-level yamen, headed by Fengtian Mansion!
"Use the Rakshasa people as an excuse!" Aixinjueluo Langqiu, Angbang Zhangjing, Vladivostok, also came to Shengjing. He escorted Sony and the others, and also sent a batch of guns.
He suggested: "Let's just say that 5,000 Rakshasa shotgun soldiers have arrived in Yaksa City and are about to invade in a large scale. We recruit a large army just to attack Yaksa City."
Of course, it is impossible for 5,000 Rakshasa shotgun soldiers to come to Yaksa City, not at all! Moreover, Moscow also knew about the "Japanese-Mongolian Entente". How could Tsar Alexei I dare to provoke the eastern allies of the Zhbanians?
Therefore, the Rakshasa Kingdom has been on the defensive in the Heilongjiang and Jingqili River basins in the past two years, retreating step by step and abandoning many strongholds.
"Good attention!" Duduo laughed, "We can also say this to the four ministers of Zukefa! That guy came to Shengjing to stir up trouble and wanted to take advantage of our Qing Dynasty. We can't let him succeed. .”
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