Jin Taiji asked: "Why did Baylor say that?"
Yang Jinu pointed to the large number of farmland and houses outside:
"Look at these Han people, they are really rich!"
"Cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks are everywhere. They are very fat. It is obvious that there is no shortage of food to keep them so fat."
"Girls are as white as snow, even boys!"
"If we were not on the train and were only marching on land, we could have asked the people below to snatch some cattle and sheep for tooth sacrifices and snatch a few children to put out the fire. I don't think the court would have killed us all because of this. , it will only force us to hand over a few of our subordinates to take the blame."
"It's a pity."
"Now, we are all on this iron knot. If we jump, we will be crushed to death. The key is not to know how to make him stop."
Yang Jinu then spoke again.
After hearing this, Jin Taiji just smiled: "The appearance of this big iron lump has indeed prevented us from making any more money during the march, but I guess this is also the purpose of the imperial court letting us take this big iron car to go to the south."
"You're right."
"What I'm worried about now is whether Burma and the Mughals in the south also built such railways."
"In that case, wouldn't we have to stay on the railway all the way and listen to the storytellers on it talking about loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, and new etiquette and policies every day?"
Yang Jinu spoke worriedly.
Jin Taiji looked at the setting sun in the distance and replied: "Probably not. Burma and the Mughals are thousands of miles away from here. Where can there be so much iron to build the railway to such a distance?"
Yang Jinu nodded: "Yes!"
The Ming Dynasty's Beijing-Beijing Railway has indeed only been built to Yangzhou so far. Therefore, after the eight thousand Jurchen Yiding of Ye He tribe arrived in Yangzhou, they took an official ship and went to Myanmar by sea.
After all, Ye He's tribe only has 8,000 people, so shipping by sea is more cost-effective.
Of course, the Ming Dynasty bureaucrats were indeed worried that they would be harassed along the way if they traveled by land, so they strongly requested the emperor to let them travel by sea after taking the train.
In this way, Ye He's tribe had no chance to harass the people in China along the way.
The armies of ethnic minorities have always been recruited by the central court of the Ming Dynasty. When they go to fight in one place, they will disturb the people during the march, and military discipline is very poor.
This is the case for Guangxi Wolf Soldiers and Guizhou Miao Soldiers.
In fact, this is not only the case for ethnic minority armies, but also for local guest armies. Since they are not from their hometown, each one of them will let go and rob them.
However, the Ming Dynasty now uses railways and sea routes to transport troops, which can largely avoid this situation, thus reducing the people's disgust for conquests and reducing the internal stability maintenance costs caused by external expansion.
This can be regarded as one of the benefits brought by the steam industry.
Don't underestimate the destructive power of ancient armies on internal society during their marches.
According to historical saying, bandits are like combs and soldiers are like grates, which means that an army with poor military discipline is more terrifying than bandits in the eyes of the people.
It is basically difficult for foreign armies to maintain strict military discipline.
Therefore, troop transportation by rail and sea is really of great benefit to the people.
But for the Eight Banners Jurchen Yiding of Yehe tribe, they had to either take a train or a boat along the way, which made them very frustrated.
At first, they were still fresh, but as they were no longer able to rob and could only stay in claustrophobic spaces like trains and boats, they gradually became bored and wanted to go home more and more.
Especially on the ship, if it weren't for the fact that many of them were suffering from seasickness and the rocking of the ship was not conducive to their fighting, some of them would have been unable to resist launching a rebellion, seizing the navy and crew, and asking them to pull them back. .
This also means that Ye He's Eight Banners Jurchen Yiding has been suffering for more than half a year after arriving in the Mughals, but during this half year he did not release his ambitions.
Therefore, when they arrived in Mughal, they all let go of their nature and looted, which undoubtedly caused great damage to the feudal indigenous farms near Mughal. Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and even high castes were not spared. , and they specifically robbed the upper castes, because the lower castes had nothing to rob.
The Yehe Tribe is originally a part of the Haixi Jurchen tribe. It is not the tribe with the highest degree of Chineseization among the Jurchen tribes. It is still a serfdom. Therefore, it is impossible to expect how civilized their methods of plundering the local indigenous people will be. They can only carry out the most civilized methods. The crude and primitive method of plundering was to capture their people as slaves, rob their property and land, and exchange them for silver dollar coupons in the hands of the Ming army.
certainly.
The Ming army led by Liu Wei, the Marquis of Nanchang, did not directly plunder.
Because the Ming Dynasty's officers and soldiers were more civilized, there was no need for the crudest plundering methods, at least they didn't have to rob them themselves.
for example.
After the Ming Dynasty successfully occupied Dhaka, they focused on trade. At the same time, they coerced and lured some knowledgeable local Brahmins to actively join them as compradors and agents, selling cotton, silk, carriages and other commodities for themselves.
But not all Mughal Brahmins are so conscious. Since the Mughal Empire in this era was also at its peak, many high-caste Mughals are still very proud and do not welcome the Ming Dynasty official. The arrival of the Ming army attempted to organize a larger army to drive away the Ming army.
But when the Mughal Empire did this, the Ming army sent many Jurchen, Mongolian, Korean, and Japanese people.
The Jurchen Yidin of the Yehe tribe also came to the Mughals at this time, which was the Indian subcontinent in later generations.
The Jurchen Yiding of the Ye He tribe, like other foreign troops hired by the Ming Dynasty, were actually ordered by the Ming Emperor to strictly abide by military discipline.
However, based on their own interests, the Ming army only seriously protected the Brahmin feudal landowners who had surrendered to the Ming Dynasty and became compradors of the Ming Dynasty, and turned a blind eye to the Jurchens and other Yiding who did not obey orders and strictly observe military discipline.
Therefore, the Ye He tribe and other foreign troops transferred here by the Ming Dynasty wantonly massacred and plundered the Brahmin feudal landowners who were not protected by the Ming Dynasty.
As a result, many Brahmin landowners were massacred and plundered by the Yehe tribe and other Yiding people. Many of them had their entire families wiped out and their entire city massacred.
The Ming Dynasty was still transporting Yi Di to the Indian subcontinent.
The Jurchen Ula Tribe and Hada Tribe, and Mongolia's Uliangha Tribe and Khalkha Tribe were all sent here. Like the Yehe Tribe, they were unified into the Green Camp.
There were also Japanese pirates such as Tokugawa Ieyasu who surrendered and joined the sympathizer camp. They were also sent to this continent in batches after they finished wiping out the ronin in Honshu for the Ming Dynasty.
The Indian subcontinent is a very vast territory, with an arable land area of nearly 165 square kilometers, of which more than 600,000 square kilometers are plains.
Therefore, if the Ming Dynasty wanted to annex this continent, it would be impossible to eat it and digest it in one bite, so it could only call in the surrounding ethnic groups that it had conquered to sort it out for itself first.
It's just because India is so big that even if it sends many foreign armies that have been conquered by itself, it cannot be completely sorted out at once.
So.
Ye Hebu and other green battalions and Tokugawa Ieyasu and other co-defensive battalions have been trying their best to slaughter and plunder this continent as soon as they arrived. However, due to the vast area of India, they have not yet slaughtered and plundered enough to break India's muscles and bones. the point.
Therefore, for the big names in the Green Camp and the Xieshou Camp, they seemed to have fallen into the treasure house one by one. For a moment, they forgot about homesickness and only knew about robbing. They even began to have the idea of living here permanently, just like in history. None of the foreigners wanted to leave after entering the customs.
The Mughal Brahmin landowners who were preparing to deal with the Ming army had to give up dealing with the Ming army and instead dealt with the brutal Jurchen Mongols of the Green Camp and the Japanese troops of the Xieshou Camp.
However, the armies of the Brahmin landowners were no match for the Green Camp and the Xieshou Camp. This was mainly because the Jurchen Mongols and the Japanese army had the assistance of the Ming Dynasty after all, and also because they had closer exchanges with Han civilization and were superior in military thinking. , so the Brahmin landowners' army basically suffered a disastrous defeat when fighting against the Green Camp and the Associated Guards Camp.
At this time, Ming Dynasty often played the role of peace messenger.
on the one hand.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty reprimanded the troops of the Green Camp and the Xieshou Camp, ordering them to stop slaughtering and looting, and even threatened to cut off their supplies if they did not listen.
on the other hand.
The Ming Dynasty also took the initiative to send envoys to contact the Mughal feudal lords, extending an olive branch to them and expressing their willingness to provide them with protection, but they had to provide some protection fees and some preferential treatment conditions for their willingness to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty.
The Jurchen Yiding and the Japanese army needed time to digest the massacres and plunders caused by too much at one time. In addition, internal conflicts such as uneven distribution of spoils sometimes occurred and needed to be dealt with. In addition, conflicts with other tribes also occurred during the massacres and plunders, and they also separated. Without the secret support of the Ming Dynasty, they will also give the Ming Dynasty some face, appropriately stop the conquest of some Mughal feudal lords, or reduce the intensity of the massacre.
The Brahmin feudal lords of the Mughal Empire were naturally more willing to pay protection fees to the Ming Dynasty than to be slaughtered and plundered by the Jurchens and other Yidins, and they even gave the Ming Dynasty many preferential conditions. After all, this way they could keep half of their feudal economy.
Therefore, for a time, more and more Brahmin feudal lords began to become vassals of the Ming Dynasty, attached themselves to the Ming Dynasty, and became compradors and agents of the Ming Dynasty.
But because India is so big and there are many feudal lords, there are still many feudal lords who did not choose to join the Ming Dynasty.
The Jurchens and other Yiding continued to massacre and plunder these feudal lords in the name of their unwillingness to accept the king's transformation.
The Ming Dynasty also continued to add Yiding to the Indian subcontinent, making the Indian subcontinent a hunting ground for many foreign tribes.
However, after the Jurchens and other Yidins arrived in the Indian subcontinent, they began to be less and less willing to let the Ming Dynasty add new green battalions and assisting battalions. Therefore, they even began to express to the Indian governor stationed here by the Ming Dynasty that they could completely conquer the Ming Dynasty. The Mughals did not need the Ming court to add new troops.
However, the Ming court naturally refused to listen and continued to increase the strength of the Green Camp and the Associated Guards Camp here on the grounds that the conquering of the Mughal Empire was too slow.
The strategy of Zhu Yijun and his ruling ministers was to drive all the Yiding from the east of the northern Ming Dynasty here.
Yangjinu of the Yehe tribe also saw the Ming Dynasty's strategic purpose in the Mughals, and could not help but wipe the bloody knife while saying to Jin Taiji:
"We must conquer all the southern barbarians here who refuse to surrender as soon as possible, so that the court has no reason to send new tribes!" (End of Chapter)
