"You don't want this wheat? What a sin!"
"Why don't we wait until the wheat is harvested this year before leaving!"
"After the wheat is harvested, it's winter and we can't leave."
"Oh, who told us to lose? Let's just leave. It would be nice to have a way to survive."
Listen to the complaints in your ears.
Liu Laoba squatted on the edge of the field and smoked a dry cigarette, his face a little gloomy.
As the first Laobailian sect to follow King Liu Zhixie to participate in the "revolution".
Liu Laoba owns a farm of more than 300 acres.
He also took a third concubine and gave birth to four second-generation male soldiers, all of whom were strong and strong. When they grow up, they will definitely be better than Liu Laoba in martial arts.
But now this farm has to be given up.
Because orders have been issued from above, all the soldiers of the government are to gather in Chang'an with their families, food supplies, and slaves. Soon they will march westward to the Western Regions. After driving away the former Qing Governor of the Western Regions, Lebao, they will continue to go west, and they will go to Central Asia. For home.
And Liu Laoba asked Shangguan about it when he was on duty a few days ago.
It was necessary to move westward, and it could not be delayed.
Because the Ming army general Luo Dingshan led two dragoon brigades and followed them all the way, and would not stop until they were driven to Central Asia.
Therefore, giving up this Zhuangzi is a last resort.
Watching the wives and concubines crying.
Liu Laoba was also very irritable and immediately scolded: "Why are you crying? The emperor has arranged a good place for us. That place is richer than Guanzhong!"
Wealth is rich, even if it is thousands of miles away, no one knows how many people will die along the way.
If only I could choose.
Of course Liu Laoba would choose Guanzhong.
Even if the land in Guanzhong is barren, it is at least close to the Central Plains.
We have gone to Central Asia, thousands of miles away, who knows what will happen in the future?
I heard that that place was surrounded by powerful enemies.
An accident.
There is no place to bury him.
But Liu Laoba also knew.
If I didn't go, there would be no place to bury him now.
He was also an old soldier who participated in the battle between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Ming Army in the Central Plains.
They have been frightened by the strong combat power of the Ming army.
Now they don't dare to turn around and fight the Ming army. They can only obey the orders of the Ming court and march westward.
In Guanzhong.
Things like what happened in Liu Laoba's farm have happened intensively everywhere in the past few days.
Now, under King Pingxi, there are only 12,000 soldiers left.
The total strength does not exceed 20,000.
Families and servants, the total population is hundreds of thousands.
There are 30,000 soldiers in Lebao, and the total population of Manchu, Han and Mongolian troops is almost 500,000. If the maximum mobilization is carried out, 50,000 to 60,000 strong men can be drawn out.
In terms of quantity, Pingxi Fan is not as good as Lebao.
But on the one hand, the old soldiers under Pingxi Fan are not too afraid of the army under Lebao - they are the Eight Banners soldiers. They have defeated generals, so there is nothing to be afraid of.
On the other hand, Pingxi Fan also obtained a preferential loan from the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty and used the money to purchase a large amount of advanced ordnance.
These included 5,000 rifled guns and 10,000 well-made flintlock muskets.
This way.
The vassal army under King Pingxi completely eliminated all kinds of cold weapons, self-made matchlocks, and flintlock guns of varying quality and caliber captured from the Qing army that were still in use before.
Achieved complete "musketization".
In addition, one hundred lightweight two-inch caliber field guns and a large number of artillery shells were purchased as frontline support firepower.
With such weapons and equipment, 20,000 soldiers were enough to capture the 30,000 remaining Manchus under Le Bao's command.
With the great migration of hundreds of thousands of people.
Luo Dingshan also led two dragoon brigades to follow these hundreds of thousands of "remnants of the Kingdom of Heaven" as they marched westward. He wanted to ensure that the remnants of the Kingdom of Heaven could clear the Western Region. By then, his two dragoon brigades of 10,000 people would also be in the Western Region. It was stationed at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains and served as the backbone of the Ming Empire's border defense forces on the western frontier.
In addition, the imperial court also wanted to organize farming at the foot of Tianshan Mountain, with Yili as the center, and completely turn the Jiangnan area outside the Great Wall at the foot of Tianshan Mountain into Han territory.
Western Province.
Ili City.
The terrain of the entire Western Region can be summarized as three mountains sandwiched by two basins.
From north to south, the Altai Mountains are in the north, the Tianshan Mountains are in the middle, and the Kunlun Mountains are in the south. The Western Region Province is divided into northern and southern halves, with the Tarim Basin in the south and the Junggar Basin in the north.
The center of the Tarim Basin is the vast Karamay Desert. The agricultural conditions are obviously not as good as those in the Junggar Basin between the Tianshan Mountains and the Altai Mountains in the north. The melted snow from the mountains left over from the Tianshan Mountains and the Altai Mountains, as well as the meandering flow of several large rivers, make this place It has become the most fertile farming land in Central Asia.
Yili is located at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains and is the core of the Qing Dynasty's rule in the Western Regions Province.
After defeating Zhungeer, the Qing government established a large number of military camps around Ili and moved hundreds of thousands of Han immigrants from the interior. After more than 20 years of reproduction, the Han population has reached nearly 20 fifty thousand.
But the fertile soil at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains from Yili to Dihua, the cultivated land that can be reclaimed is definitely more than that in Guanzhong.
The population that can be fed is far more than 200,000.
Even with current food production.
The land that can be reclaimed from this basin in the northern part of the Western Region Province can definitely support a population of no less than 10 million!
The current sparse population in the Western Region is due to the wars that lasted for more than a hundred years.
And because this place is at the crossroads where all forces converge.
Therefore, this excellent farming land has never had the opportunity to develop stably.
"More than 100,000 people, 20,000 soldiers"
Inside the Governor's Palace in Lebao.
Le Bao, the short and lean governor of the Western Regions of the Qing Dynasty, had a serious expression on his face.
"Sir, there are only 20,000 soldiers in the government. Let's just fight them in Dihua!"
Zhang Yulong, who once served as the commander-in-chief of the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Camp, said loudly, looking like he was about to shout and kill.
Instead, the faces of several bannermen generals showed fear.
"Master, you can't fight them in the Western Regions. Even if you win the Pingxi Fan, what if you provoke the Ming army?"
"Yes, yes, yes, if you save people and lose land, you will save both people and land; if you save land and lose people, you will lose both people and land. What we have to do now is not to fight tooth and nail, but to avoid its sharp edge!"
Everyone spoke out to stop Le Baodong from raising his troops to confront the Ming Dynasty Pingxi Fan Army.
In fact, they are not afraid of Pingxi Fan, but they are afraid of the big tiger behind Pingxi Fan.
"Report! Lord Governor, the British envoy Wood wants to see you!"
Hearing this, Le Bao looked at the generals present and said, "Zhang Yulong and Zhang Shenhe will stay. The others will leave for now, and then please invite Mr. Wood in."
Zhang Yulong was a general promoted by Le Bao when he was the governor of Gansu and Shaanxi, and now he followed him all the way to the Western Regions.
Zhang Shenhe was a Jinshi in the 40th year of Qianlong's reign.
He was promoted to the magistrate of Ganzhou Prefecture in Gansu Province.
Also related to Lebao.
Now he is regarded as the counselor around Lebao.
These two are Han people, but now they have become Lebao's right-hand man. In addition, Lebao also organized all the Han people in the Western Regions into the Eight Banners - although the old Eight Banners are gone, as long as there are people, it is not difficult to rebuild the Eight Banners.
The Eight Banners system was originally a system of looting and dividing accounts to unify the army and manage the people.
It is most suitable for use in this environment.
Now under Lebao's command, the Manchu, Mongolian and other black-eyed people are the Eight Banners, while the "colored eyes" of other colors have to be coated.
Lebao arranged it like this.
In fact, he was also ready to flee westward.
He had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses at hand, and hundreds of thousands of Manchus, Hans and Mongols who were unified into the Eight Banners.
Can't beat the Ming army.
Can't you defeat those monsters and monsters in the west?
Now Le Bao has proclaimed himself the Grand Marshal of the World's Military and Horses, and he has respected the obedient King Jin Yongyan who has gone to Zhongdu as the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. This has combined the power of the Qing Dynasty in the Western Region Province, and it seems to be a separate regime.
But LePaul knew it too.
The strength I have on hand is not enough for the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, you cannot fight. The capital will be reduced if you fight. If you are not careful, you may lose all your capital in the end.
Therefore, Lebao did not want to fight against the Ming Dynasty for the time being. Now it is obvious that the Ming Dynasty is prosperous and the Qing Dynasty is declining.
But back then, the Ming Dynasty could have a Return of the King, so why couldn’t the Qing Dynasty? So Lebao believed that what he had to do was to preserve the fire of the Qing Dynasty.
We can't beat the Ming Dynasty now.
It doesn't mean you can't beat it in the future.
Maybe this descendant of the Eight Banners will have a figure like Zhu Daohua, and he will lead everyone back east to rebel against the Ming Dynasty and restore the Qing Dynasty.
Surviving is the most important thing.
I must preserve the spark of revival for the Qing Dynasty!
So where to go?
This matter still needs to be carefully considered.
After all, it is a top priority related to whether the Qing Dynasty can be revived in the future.
(End of chapter)
