On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in the seventh year of Chongzhen, there was already a sea of people outside the Deshengmen Urn gate in Beijing!
The population of Beijing has decreased a lot in recent years, and I don’t know if the total number is 400,000? But now, no less than 100,000 people have gathered on both sides of the official road outside Deshengmen, which is really incredible!
There can only be one reason why so many people, not at home in the cold weather, went out of Deshengmen and drank the northwest wind on the edge of the official road outside the city...that is Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Youjian returned the favor!
This time the return of victory is not an ordinary victory, but a double victory!
One of the "Kai"s is that Long Live Lord personally conquered the Mobei grassland, overwhelming the Mongolian heroes, and finally won the unanimous support of the Mongolian tribes in Monan, Mobei, and Eastern Mongolia. He was elected as the 36th Great Khan of Mongolia and was honored as Tengri. Khan, that is, Tian Khan!
This means that the Ming-Mongol war, which lasted for nearly 300 years, finally ended with the complete victory of the Ming side.
The unfinished business of Emperor Taizu and Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty was finally completed in the hands of Zhu Youjian!
The other "kai" was the Nalin-Lokma River victory. The significance of this victory is no worse than Zhu Youjian's personal expedition to Mobei. This great victory can be called the Ming Dynasty version of the Battle of Sarhu. More than 60,000 Houjin soldiers were killed and captured in this battle. It can be said that this battle broke the back of Houjin.
The situation in the Mingjin battle has been completely reversed!
Shortly after the Nalin-Luomahe victory, Hou Jin carried out a large-scale contraction in western Liaoning. First, Jinzhou was abandoned after the mud season arrived, and then Yizhou and Guangning were abandoned one after another after the mud season in early winter, and a full-scale contraction was carried out on the Liaoxi-Liaodong battlefield.
News of the victory on both fronts, one in the north and one in the east, reached Beijing, which had gradually become the military center of the empire. Naturally, there was great joy.
Today’s Beijing is no longer the Beijing of Chongzhen’s early years!
Most of the idle nobles, hereditary military attaches and hereditary royal guards were sent away by Zhu Youjian for various reasons. Either go to the south to "make a fortune" or farm in Yanshan. Nearly two families left one after another, no less than 250,000 people!
At the same time, the number of eunuchs and maids has also been greatly reduced due to Zhu Youjian's "frugality", so the number of eunuchs' family members in Beijing has also decreased significantly. This group of people is also quite large, totaling around 100,000 people.
Two hundred and fifty thousand plus one hundred thousand equals three hundred and fifty thousand! After losing these "consumers", Beijing's handicraft industry and commerce also quickly declined. A large number of handicraftsmen and businessmen had no choice but to leave Beijing and move to Tianjin, the emerging commercial port of Haikou. This group of people, including their families, numbered hundreds of thousands.
In just a few years, Beijing has lost as many as half a million long-term residents!
But what goes there comes back. In the past few years, Beijing has also welcomed batches of "new Beijingers". The new ones who moved into Beijing were mainly the knights in front of the tent and their families, and there were also some children and family members of the Jiubian generals.
Although the knights in front of the account have other farms in Bafu, Xuanfu, Datong, Yanshan, Daning and other places in Beizhili, they will still settle down in Beijing if their financial resources permit. Primary place of residence.
And many generals from Jiubian, and even generals from Sichuan, Huguang, Henan, Shandong, South Zhili and other places, began to let their children enter Beijing.
The reason why they are like this is not only because it is convenient to seek official positions in Beijing, but also because the city of Beijing can provide their children with a good education - this is the school district housing!
Although Zhu Youjian did not attach as much importance to education as Nizi, he opened Nanjing Primary School early, and soon after opened middle schools and universities. But Chongzhen still opened the Junior Guards Corps and the Guards Corps, which were actually two military academies.
Among them, the Youth Guard Corps is a six-year youth military academy with six grade battalions. Those who enroll are young people who have studied elementary school and practiced martial arts. The instructors of the Young Guards Corps will go from easy to difficult, teaching military science, martial arts, mathematics, quwu, Confucianism, Latin, Mongolian and other knowledge - of course the military academy must teach foreign languages, the language of the enemy or the ally, both It must be learned, otherwise how can we know ourselves and the enemy? Someone sent out as a military attache can't even read a newspaper, how can he still collect intelligence?
The Guard Corps is a three-year military academy. In addition to accepting graduates from the Young Guard Corps, it also accepts military meritorious students recommended by various armies.
In order to urge the teenagers to study hard, the number of people in each grade camp of the Youth Guard Corps is different. The lowest first-grade camp is 800 people, the second-grade camp is 750 people, the third-grade camp is 700 people, the fourth-grade camp is 650 people, the fifth-grade camp is 600 people, the sixth-grade camp is 550 people, and finally it can be obtained from the Junior Guards Corps Only 500 people graduated and were promoted to the Guards Corps.
Among these 500 people, only 250 could successfully graduate from the Guards Corps and become a former knight officer of the Great Ming Dynasty!
Of course, the elimination rate for military merit students is lower. Among the 500 students in each class, 350 can survive until graduation.
250 plus 350 is 600, 600 this year, and 1,800 in three years. Compared with the imperial examination quota, it is much more.
Of course, those who are eliminated in promotion after promotion also have a place to go.
The younger ones can join the cavalry regiment of the Youth Army in front of the tent, and the older ones can serve as cavalry or low-level officers in the army such as the tent front or the palace. Being a cavalry and low-level officer is a shortcut to becoming a knight!
If those who are eliminated are really not qualified to serve as soldiers, they can also take the imperial guard test and become secret agents. Jinyiwei does not have a special spy school, but it does have an entrance exam and an apprenticeship system. Now all new members of the Jin Yiwei must first pass the exam and then serve as apprentices. There is no way for the hereditary Jin Yiwei to earn a living.
In addition, low-level officials in Bafu, Datong Prefecture, Xuanfu, Taiyuan Prefecture, Yanshan Town, Daning Town, Liaoxi Town, Ji Town, Pingliao Town and other places in Beizhili will also be selected from the eliminated members of the bodyguard corps. .
In short, entering the Youth Guards Corps, the Guards Corps, or even the Youth Army is considered a good upward path.
There are two ways to enter the Young Guards, one is through supplementation and the other is through examination. Among them, those who enroll as supplementary students must pass the exam, and there are also places for elimination, but the elimination rate is relatively low.
And around the entrance examination for the Young Guards, a number of private martial arts schools have appeared in Beijing... This is to start from childhood to cultivate future military strategists for the Ming Dynasty!
Under such circumstances, the residents of Beijing have become increasingly militant. And these martial new Beijingers are now braving the severe cold of December to welcome the triumphant return of the Ming Emperor and Mongol Khan.
However, the first thing that caught their eyes was not the Ming Emperor and his cavalry guards, but large groups of prisoners of war with moneyed rat tail braids. They were dejected and lined up in a long line. Under the escort of fully armed cavalry, they walked towards the tall and towering Beijing City...the once arrogant Heavenly Soldiers of the Eight Banners have now become prisoners of the invincible Ming Dynasty warriors.
Seeing these slave soldiers begging for surrender from the heavenly soldiers in the Nalin City-Luoma River battle, the New Beijing people crowded outside the Deshengmen Wengcheng Gate suddenly gave the loudest cheers.
"The Ming Dynasty will be victorious, long live the Holy One..."
"The Ming Dynasty is invincible, and the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is invincible!"
"Kill all the slaves and thieves, destroy Jianzhou..."
The cheers shook the sky and soon reached the ears of Zhu Youjian who was walking behind a group of more than 20,000 slaves, thieves and prisoners of war.
The Ming Emperor, surrounded by a group of generals from the army in front of the tent and the army in front of the palace, and six Mongolian noble concubines with tens of thousands of households, led thirty to forty thousand triumphant troops and had already passed Beitucheng (the capital of the Yuan Dynasty). (city wall), and I also saw that both sides of the road outside Deshengmen were crowded with people to welcome their new Beijingers.
Zhu Youjian, who was already in a good mood, was even happier now. He smiled and said to Chen Qiyu, Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng and others around him: "Okay, now the people in Beijing finally know my benefits!"
That’s right! There has been a new batch of Beijingers...
Zhu Youjian said with satisfaction: "The emperor should be so brave and martial at his feet! Gentlemen, after I return to Beijing, I will also reward the three armies and the meritorious officials... I must let the people of the world know that, What I value is military merit, opening up new territories, killing thieves and pacifying captives!"
