Ming Dynasty: My Brother-in-law is Zhu Youxiao - Chapter 425

  Chapter 425 The situation of the Han people outside the customs, destroying the foundation of slavery!

  Zhang Gui had previously negotiated with several other Ministers of the Policy Department about the decision to completely exterminate the Jiannu, so the arrangement for the complete extermination of the Jiannu was already in progress.

  Zhou Yuji has been transferred back to Liaodong, and according to Prime Minister Qi Jiguang’s command of the general troops of Jiliao towns, the Prime Minister of Liaodong’s township commanders marched to Hetuala.

  At the same time, Sun Chuanting, the Liaodong economic strategist, also left Beijing ahead of schedule and went to Shanhaiguan to coordinate the recruitment of grain, ordnance, and local civilians, and even followed up with Zhou Yuji’s command of the army to attack Hetuala at any time.

Now, after Zhang Gui cleared up some disharmonious voices in Daming, and suppressed the unfavorable voices by getting rid of Ma Guangyu, Zhang Gui also completely put all his energy into the complete extermination of Jiannu matter.

   Tianqi himself is also very concerned about whether the Jiannu can be completely wiped out.

   After all, this is also a heart problem since he took the throne, and he also wants to solve this heart problem gracefully.

  For this reason, Tianqi also directly ordered Zhang Gui to go to Liaodong to supervise the division in person, so as to avoid the officials and generals who would play with the bandits when it was appropriate for the remaining brave to chase the poor bandits.

  So, not long after that, Zhang Gui went out of Beijing again and left for Liaodong under Shang Jinghui’s tearful farewell.

  This is the first time for Zhang Gui to go north and leave customs.

   While admiring the snowy scenery outside the customs, he found that after several years of exile and migration of Han outside the customs, the major towns outside the customs are basically densely populated.

   It’s just that the Han people who migrated came from all over the Guan, so the accent is a bit mixed.

   Zhang Gui, who went for a stroll in a densely populated area on purpose, discovered that there had been no less than three fights and quarrels before he had walked a few steps.

Obviously, these migrated Han people have not yet fully integrated into the people of the same place. In addition, in addition to bureaucrats and scholars who were exiled for political crimes, ordinary Han people were exiled here because of crimes, so how brave they are. Fighting is ruthless, which makes the folk customs here extra sturdy.

  As for the local Liao people, the farther they go to the east of Guangning, the fewer they are.

  The main reason is that a lot of them were slaughtered by the Tartars. In addition, the generals of the Liao region also suffered a lot of disasters. Some of them crossed the sea or entered the customs and fled to the inland. Now they don’t know where they went.

And because of this, when Zhang Gui passed Guangning and went east, he found that the further east the town was, the more chaotic the law and order, and the more sergeants were patrolling, and even some sergeants took the lead in rebelling. Zhang Gui Even the supervisor himself had to deal with a few thorns in person temporarily.

   “These Han people are so brave and ruthless, can they be directly recruited as soldiers and let them go to destroy Jiannu?”

   Zhang Gui also asked directly after seeing Zhou Yuji.

Zhou Yuji said: “They are not willing to join the army, and the supervisor doesn’t care how aggressive and murderous they are when they are ordinary people, but they are just fighting with their neighbors. If they really want to try life in the army for a while, they often die when the battle starts. The fastest runners are not as good as those who are honest and dull and look easy to bully, our recruits are still recruiting honest peasants in the pass, and we don’t recruit those who ignore the laws of the country.”

   Zhang Gui nodded after hearing this, and said: “So, it’s not okay to let them be civilian husbands and take care of the transportation?”

Zhou Yuji said: “The supervisor is wise, if they are civilian husbands, there are a hundred ways to steal, **** and play tricks, so even civilian husbands can only be recruited from inside the pass and the locals. Now these Han people who are exiled outside the pass, if they want to be used by the imperial court , I have to be disciplined for a while, and I have to wait until the children of the Han people here grow up. It’s good to be able to force them to farm the land honestly. After all, they used to be thugs who didn’t do production, only stealing Abduction.”

Zhang Gui nodded and said: “From this point of view, we can only strictly discipline and teach first. And returning to our matter of exterminating Jian slaves this time, perhaps this also makes us more need to get the largest population of Jianzhou. After all, Jianu has been trained by generations of Aixinjueluo for so long, so he must know how to obey the rules, and he will be used as a labor force for digging Hanhai coal mines.”

  The Manchu nobles such as Jierhalang didn’t know that Zhang Gui had decided to arrange all of them, the bannermen, to mine. At this time, the Manchu nobles were still worrying about the more stringent surrender requirements of the Ming Dynasty.

   “Now it seems that there is only one way to fight to the death!”

  Ganglin told Jierhalang about this at that time.

Jierhalang sighed and said, “Yes, Haixi and North Korea have already stationed heavy troops from the Ming army, and unless we really want to abandon our ancestors’ old lands and risk being blocked by the Ming army, we will break out and become savages who drink blood. Otherwise, we can only desperately hold on to the land left by our ancestors.”

   Just when the Eight Banners nobles like Jierhalang and Ganglin were preparing to fight the Ming army to the death, the Ming army was approaching Hetuala step by step.

  Based on the lessons learned from the Battle of Sarhu, the Ming army did not divide its troops into multiple attacks this time, but instead marched in unison with more than 100,000 troops, step by step, without giving Jiannu a chance to defeat them in mobile warfare.

As a seasoned general, Zhou Yuji was not in a hurry to send a large army to capture Hetuala. Instead, he only cleared the surrounding stockades of Hetuala first, and set up villages along the river and roads, and set up heavy troops to garrison wherever he could run horses. .

After learning that the various armies of the Ming army did not advance aggressively, Jierhalang also keenly realized that it was impossible for him to pin his hopes on keeping Hetuala, so he resolutely chose to abandon Hetuala, and brought his Emperor and His Majesty together. A group of relatives of the emperor who built slaves fled into the deep mountains and old forests, and sent Bayala, an elite soldier of the Eight Banners, to attack the Ming army by taking advantage of the dense mountains and dense forests. chasing and fleeing.

“Except for reports from soldiers from various towns that we encountered a small group of slave-building elite soldiers, we did not encounter significant resistance. Therefore, it seems that according to this marching speed, it is estimated that we will arrive in Hershey before the planned date.” Tuara.”

  Zhou Yuji also reported the latest situation to Zhang Gui in the Sarhu area.

   Zhang Gui asked after hearing this: “Why didn’t Jiannu resist? Do they really want to hide in the mountains and fight with us?”

   “At present, according to what the supervisor said at the time, Jiannu is avoiding direct contact with our army, and trying to find our weaknesses in the battle, such as food and grass supply points, or when a lone army appears.”

   Zhou Yuji replied.

Zhang Gui said directly: “The general is a man who knows how to fight. From the general’s point of view, how should we deal with it? In addition, my supervisor still said that I should try to catch as many people as possible, so as to organize slaves to go to the vast sea to mine on a large scale in the future.” prepare for!”

Zhou Yuji said: “I understand! Therefore, I believe that the army should take the initiative to retreat! Tighten the outer perimeter, and only send a strong and strong army to the villages and villages of Jiannu to search for people and destroy the land. Regardless of gender, young or old, arrest them first.” Let’s talk about entering the prison camp! In addition, we have to destroy the fields and burn the seedlings. This will break the foundation of slavery. As the saying goes, if you can run away from a monk, you can’t run away from a temple. Although the Aixinjueluo clan and other Eight Banners nobles can hide in the mountains , but their farmland cannot be taken away, nor can their coated serfs be taken away.”

  Zhang Gui nodded: “If you lose your land, you will lose everyone’s land. If you save your land, you will lose all your land. Let’s do this! Don’t rush to Hetuala!”

   “Report! The latest “Residence Report”, there is a censor who impeaches the marshal and shrinks back, and is suspected of raising bandits!”

  At this moment, Zhou Yuji’s subordinate came in with a copy of “Di Bao” and showed it to Zhou Yuji.

  Zhou Yuji therefore looked at Zhang Gui rather helplessly: “Master, do you see?”

  (end of this chapter)