When the five cabinet bachelors Jin Batai, Suo'etu, Duikana, Li Fei, and Wei Yijie and the two imperial bachelors Xiong Cilu and Chen Tingjing, as well as the Eight Banners' new army who came back from the Fengtai camp outside Beijing, When Prince An Yue Ledu, the president's military training minister, arrived at the south study room of Qianqing Palace. The map table was once again placed in the south study room, and it was covered with a map of the seven provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hunan and Chu, which Emperor Kangxi specially ordered Qin Tianjian to draw.
The young Emperor Kangxi also looked like a peerless general, standing by the map table with his arms folded, staring intently at this map of seven provinces, which was not accurate at all.
Young Guizi's father-in-law was standing next to the young Emperor Kangxi, holding a tray with brushes and red ink on it. Just now, Kangxi had used a "zhu pen" to draw five small tents symbolizing the camps on the map of the mountains and rivers of the seven provinces. He also marked "Chongqing Camp", "Chengdu Camp" and "Jingzhou Camp" next to the small tents. Daying", "Changsha Daying", "Guilin Daying".
Five bachelors, two Hanlin bachelors and a prince who trained in military affairs came to greet Kangxi. Kangxi smiled and waved at them: "Come, let's take a look. This is the dragnet I have prepared for Wu Sangui and Wu Yingqi. You all Give me some advice!"
When the seven bachelors and a prince heard this, they quickly got up from the ground and quickly gathered around the map table. They opened their eyes wide and began to look at it - in fact, there was nothing to look at, it was just on a very inaccurate map. Five camps were drawn.
But Emperor Xiao Mazi asked the big guys to help as advisers, so everyone has to be advisers! Otherwise, you are disobeying the decree!
But this has no beginning and no end. How can I give advice?
The seven bachelors were not good at giving advice, so they all looked at Prince An, Prince Yue Le, who knew how to train and fight.
Yue Le also knew that they didn't understand, so he had to come first, so he bowed and said to Kangxi: "Your Majesty, what you want to do is to base yourself on the difficulties first, and use the country's military and financial resources to weave a big net to connect Wu Sangui and Wu Yingqi." Trapped in a corner of the southwest, and then proceed step by step, advancing slowly?"
"Uncle Wang is mostly right," Kangxi said with a smile, "My strategy is to establish a foothold first! Set up five major camps: Chengdu Camp, Chongqing Camp, Jingzhou Camp, Changsha Camp and Guilin Camp, and Wu Sangui , Wu Yingqi blocked it. After the five major battalions were firmly established, they divided their troops into five groups and pressed against Yunnan and Guizhou from five directions respectively, making it difficult for Wu Sangui and Wu Yingqi to take care of both. They then used all the troops to escort Wu Yingxiong, the prince of Prince Pingxi, to the Yunnan throne. .
At the same time, I will also issue a clear edict to Wu Sangui and Wu Yingqi, father and son. As long as they hand over Ao Bai and go to Beijing to see him, I will forget about it and ensure that they will be rich men in Beijing for the rest of their lives. Moreover, I will not cut off the vassal of Pingxi Palace, but will let Wu Yingxiong continue to be the vassal king. In the future, it can be hereditary from generation to generation, just like the Mu family in the previous dynasty, they will retire with the country!
Uncle King, what do you think of my strategy? Can Yunnan and Guizhou be decided without a fight? "
Yue Le suddenly became a little confused about Kangxi's big plan. Is this "Trapped Wu"? Or go straight to "Wu Chao"? Do you want to use force to deal with the Wu family? Or do you want to subdue Pingxi Fan?
If you want to trap Wu, then these five camps seem to be far away from the Yunnan-Guizhou border. If you want to attack directly, you should concentrate more troops.
If you want to completely eliminate the Wu family, you need to dispatch enough troops! Wu Sangui and Wu Yingqi have 100,000 troops. To destroy them, at least 200,000 troops must be sent! If you want to go all the way and convince Pingxi Fan, you should make a deal with Wu Yingqi instead of asking Wu Yingqi to hand over all his power and come to Beijing to become a rich man with no guarantee. Doesn't this force Wu Yingqi to fight?
Thinking of this, Yue Le asked Kangxi: "Please make it clear, Your Majesty, should this Pingxi Fan be retained or should it be eradicated completely?"
Kangxi glanced at Yue Le and said in his heart: You are quite smart, you actually saw through my plan. No wonder my monk Ama wants you to ascend the throne and become the emperor!
Kangxi then thought: Now that he has seen through it, let’s make it clear!
Thinking of this, Kangxi first asked: "What do you think, uncle?"
"Your Majesty, I think," Yue Le said thoughtfully, "it would be safer for the Pingxi clan to withdraw."
Kangxi smiled: "Why do you think it would be better for Pingxi Yifan to withdraw?"
Yue Le said: "The Pingxi clan is too powerful. There are fifty-three subordinates and subordinates alone! In addition, there are four towns to assist and the tenth camp of Zhongyi. The number of soldiers on the account alone is as many as thirty to forty thousand. The real number is probably more than 100,000! Anyone with so many soldiers will be a threat to the imperial court, so it is better to withdraw from the vassal."
Kangxi nodded, "I'm afraid Pingxi Fan is not the only one with more actual vassal towns than book figures, right? The populations of Ding, Ping, and Jing vassals have also grown quite rapidly in the past twenty years, right?"
Yue Le was stunned, "Your Majesty, the three vassals of Ding, Ping, and Jing only have fifteen assistants, and the number of people in the green camp under their jurisdiction is not large, so it's really nothing to worry about!"
"Your Majesty," Suo'etu quickly agreed, "Dingwang's Dingnan Gege is the adopted daughter of the Empress Dowager and has always been loyal to the court. Ping Fan's Shang Kexi has always been respectful. As for Jing Fan's Geng Jingzhong, he is also loyal to the court. of."
Kangxi smiled and glanced at the other ministers and servants present, "What do you think?"
Jin Batai smiled and said: "Your Majesty, it's gratifying that this servant also thinks that Dingnan Gege is reliable. Geng Jingzhong should not have any big problems."
He said to Kanna: "Your Majesty, the Pingxi Domain is indeed full of misdeeds, but the Ping, Jing, and Ding Domains have been quite peaceful in recent years. There is no reason to withdraw!"
Li Fei said: "Your Majesty, I feel that this vassal town is not a blessing to the country. In the long run, it is better to withdraw from the vassal. But for now, the court should focus on dealing with Pingxi Fan!"
Wei Yijie suggested: "Your Majesty, I feel that as long as Pingxi Fan is defeated, Ping, Ding, and Jing will never dare to fight against the imperial court again. Whether to withdraw or not is within the Emperor's words."
Kangxi nodded and looked at the two Hanlin bachelors.
"Your Majesty," Xiong Cilu said, "I feel that the root causes of the disasters of the four vassals are actually the same. It doesn't matter whether the lord is loyal or traitorous. As long as this root of the disaster is not eliminated, sooner or later there will be rebellion."
"Oh? Xiong Cilu, keep talking! What is the bane of these four feudal lords?"
"It's about population growth, it's about enclosing land and occupying land!" Xiong Cilu said, "There are no restrictions on male servants of the four vassals to marry wives, take concubines, and have children. The place where they are located is very open, and it is very easy to enclose and occupy land. , and they do not pay money or food, do not do corvee service, and have been engaged in military service for generations. Life is so good, so naturally they have more children!"
After listening to Xiong Cilu's analysis, the four Eight Banners disciples Yue Le, Jin Batai, Suo'etu, and Duikana were stunned.
The crime Xiong Cilu gave to the four feudal lords was actually "the crime of being too good at giving birth to babies"!
Kangxi's pockmarked face finally showed a smile, and he was indeed right about Xiong Cilu.
In fact, what really made Kangxi fearful of the four vassals was not the self-respect of the troops and the inability to lose the tail. But the population growth of the four vassals can exceed that of the Eight Banners' ten streets in Beijing!
The number of Eight Banners disciples has been stagnant since they entered Guan Dingding. There has been little growth in the past 20 to 30 years, and now there are only over 50,000 regular bannermen in Eight Banners in Manchuria!
When Kangxi saw this number, he was a little suspicious that the health of the Eight Banners disciples was "not good" and wanted doctors from Tongrentang Lejia to treat them!
But at the same time, the population of the four feudal lords was growing explosively!
Especially that Shang Kexi’s son and daughter together cost hundreds of dollars! Including grandchildren and grandsons, it’s more than a thousand!
There are so many yellow and red belts in the inner city of Beijing that may not have contributed more to population growth than him!
Although not every descendant of the Four Domains is as "highly productive" as Shang Kexi, looking at Lao Shang's "production", one can still imagine the speed of the population growth of the Four Domains.
Kangxi turned his attention to Chen Tingjing, who had the lowest official position among the ministers present. Chen Tingjing frowned and whispered: "Your Majesty, I feel that this vassal cannot be withdrawn at once!
The people under the four vassals of Ping, Jing, Ding and Pingxi are said to have ninety-eight neighbors, about 20,000 households and 100,000 people. But those were the numbers many years ago, and even if they have increased several times, they are still small. If we count the households under the four feudal lords, such as households, households, servants, and tenants, the number of people would be between two and three million! Where does the emperor plan for them to retreat?
If these subordinates are allowed to stay where they are and the feudal lord is withdrawn, then sooner or later the unruly lords and feudal households will become a serious problem for the country! Maybe the population and land in the four provinces of Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, and Fujian will be occupied. They are all armed, have leaders, and have their own system!
If they are allowed to withdraw to Liaodong, I'm afraid they will occupy the entire Liao land sooner or later!
Moreover, each of the four feudal lords now has its own territory. Although they have the potential to separate themselves, it is difficult to form a joint force. If they were allowed to settle in Liao, it would be possible for the four vassals to unite into one!
Then we'll start making trouble together."
This one is more ruthless!
According to his opinion, if the people of the four vassals stay where they are and continue to have babies, sooner or later they will swallow up all the four provinces they are in - that's a population of two to three million "warriors"! The lords of the four vassals can still control them, but if the four lords all return to Beijing to retire, who can control them? They are not only armed, but also organized and have a large number of military talents!
The local officials of the Qing Dynasty could only hide away when they encountered them!
If you move back to your hometown in Liaodong, the trouble will be even greater!
There are two to three million people!
The vast land and sparsely populated areas in the Northeast are just the right arrangements for them. If one household is granted a hundred acres of land, the population of two to three million can be divided into four to five million households, which is tens of millions of acres of farmland. When these fields are opened, won't the number of people in the vassal domain increase again?
By then, two or three million will turn into ten million or more!
In addition, for the two to three million people who were evacuated to Liao, did the Qing court require them to pay taxes and perform corvee service? Are they going to break up their organization? Or disarm them?
If they are not allowed to serve and pay taxes, but they are still allowed to maintain organizations such as Zuoling and Shenling, and they are still allowed to be armed, isn't this a replica of how Hou Jin and Qing Dynasty started in Liaodong?
After these people have multiplied for another twenty or thirty years, perhaps millions of troops will enter the country. Can the Qing Dynasty be saved?
But if we don't give them any treatment, and we have to disarm them and break up their organization, will they immediately rebel? Two to three million people rebelled in Liaodong and brought out an army of 200,000. Beijing's tens of thousands of Eight Banners soldiers couldn't hold it back!
Chen Tingjing's words had stopped here, and there was a dead silence in the south study room.
I don't know how long it took before Emperor Kangxi sighed and said: "Xiong Cilu and Chen Tingjing have already spoken to Uncle Wang, Jin Batai, Suo'etu, Duikana, Li Fei and Wei Yijie. Do you all understand?"
"The emperor's sage, servants (minions), etc. all understand."
Hearing the statements of these people, Kangxi nodded: "Then do you have a better solution?"
Several people shook their heads.
The original sin of the four vassals was that the population grew too fast - they were not isolated from ordinary Han people, and they were placed in a place with a vast land, sparse population, and humid climate, which was very conducive to reproduction. The children of the Eight Banners are crowded in Beijing and isolated from the Han people. Young girls from the ethnic group have to participate in the draft to meet the needs of the Eight Banners' powerful people. As a result, the children of the Eight Banners generally marry late and have fewer children, making it difficult for the population to grow.
Under this situation, the population growth rate of the children of the Eight Banners is not only unable to compare with that of the children of the Four Domains, but the gap will become wider and wider in the future.
As for putting the children of the Eight Banners outside Beijing and breaking the isolation between the bannermen and Han people at the same time, that is also impossible.
First of all, the Eight Banners disciples who have been accustomed to living a comfortable life in Beijing are not willing to leave!
Secondly, the population of Eight Banners disciples who have hard-core crops has increased a lot. Can the imperial court still afford hard-core crops?
Third, and most importantly, if the children of the Eight Banners were the same as the children of the Four Domains, could the Qing Emperor still have firm control over them? If not, would the world still belong to the Aixinjueluo family?
"Since everyone has no choice," Kangxi sighed, "then we can only use the method of using the best to deal with the four feudal lords. But you only need to know this matter in your own mind, and don't bother with anyone else." explain!"
Kangxi's discussion today with these bachelors, bachelors, and Yue Le, an elder of the clan, was actually to unify the thoughts of these people.
These people are of one mind with him, and he can drive tens of thousands of Eight Banners disciples and the entire Qing court like an arm and a finger.
Cangzhou Prefecture, Tianjin Guard, small station and large camp.
When Emperor Kangxi and his close ministers tried their best to deal with the increasing number of disciples of the four vassals, they tried to use the method of hiding the birds and hiding the bows. A new Han army numbering as many as 30,000 people is rapidly taking shape in this camp located on both sides of the Grand Canal.
The new recruits of the brigade are wearing the same uniforms as the green battalion soldiers. There is a uniform with the word "soldier" in the uniform. They are united in the battalion on the spacious campus, under the command of the staff general and the commander-in-chief Qian. , practice combat formations, marching columns or various weapons.
When today's routine drill ended, the 10,000 officers and soldiers in the central formation of the Green Camp New Army did not disperse immediately. Instead, they energetically eliminated one battalion square formation after another on the campus. Waiting for their "Shuai Wang" to come and pay them personally!
It turns out that today is an auspicious day for the "Xiaozhan New Army" to issue military pay!
This army is said to be a "new army", but in fact it is not that new. Their equipment, training, and tactics are not much different from ordinary green camp soldiers.
Their treatment is similar to that of other Green Camp soldiers. There are horses and soldiers, and each one is given two taels of silver per month. Each soldier without horses will be given one tael or five cents of silver per month. Each guard will be given one tael of silver per month. In addition to silver taels, each soldier was given three measures of rice.
However, due to Wang Fuchen's petition, the "Xiaozhan New Army" can receive full military pay during the training stage before officially forming an army, and will not be deducted from "Pengkou Yin", "Xiao Jian Yin" and "Xiao Jian Yin". "Yaiziyin" - these three "deductions" are not officials who want to drink the blood of soldiers, but "legal deductions" stipulated by the court.
Among them, "Pengkou Yin" is the fund for raising horses. A part of it is deducted from the salary of officers and soldiers and stored in the camp to buy horses. Those below the deputy general and above the general will be deducted two coins per month, horsemen will be deducted one coin, infantry will be deducted five points, and guards will be deducted three points.
The "Xiao Jian Yin" is used to offset military pay in years with leap months. Because there are leap months in the lunar calendar, there are thirteen months in a year. However, the imperial court only paid wages for twelve months. In normal times, a small amount was deducted from the officers and soldiers' wages, and was returned to the officers and soldiers in the leap month.
The gunpowder and lead used by the Green Camp soldiers for shooting training also had to be purchased by the soldiers themselves - gunpowder and lead were not cheap! If you shoot a few more rounds during training, your military pay may not be enough! Moreover, no matter how good the quality of the shotgun is, it will be easily damaged if it is shot too many times, and you will have to pay for compensation when the time comes.
Therefore, the training of shotguns and artillery in the Green Camp of the Qing Army is usually about zero.
However, the treatment of recruits at small stations today is much better than that of ordinary green camps.
"Pengkou Yin", "Xiao Jian Yin" and "Yao Zi Yin" are not deducted, and even if the shotgun is broken, there is no need to pay compensation. This is a great kindness from the Emperor!
In addition, because Wang Fuchen was very tight on the Zhongjun Town that he personally led, he would personally supervise the payment of wages every month to prevent any deductions. The soldiers' meals were also checked from time to time to ensure that everyone had enough to eat.
So the morale of the current "small station new army" is still quite high!
The people in charge of paying are all students from the Jingwu School of Suiying Jiangwu Hall. Almost all of them participated in the battle to chase Aobei, so everyone has an official status, and the youngest is also a boss. Although there are not so many vacancies to give them now, Kang Mazi still gave him grace so that these CEOs Qian and General could receive a full salary as alternates.
Therefore, the new army in this town led by Wang Fuchen personally has a group of available "young staff officers" who can manage all aspects of the army. It can also assign one or two deputies or staff officers to the military officers at all levels below.
Although the military literacy of these young staff officers is not high, they can at least do things seriously! Moreover, they all know a few words, and have also learned the martial arts used in battle formations from Wang Zhongxiao, Wang Zhongren, Wang Zhongxian, Wang Zhongyi, Wang An, and Wang Quan, and now they can also serve as "gun and stick instructors".
For the green camp soldiers, the treatment, management, and training of the Zhongjun Town of this "small station new army" are already quite good, and they are a bit like "elites from the direct lineage"!
(End of chapter)
