Ming Dynasty: My Brother-in-law is Zhu Youxiao - Chapter 468

  Chapter 468 Completely liberate the Han people, raise troops to fight against rebellion!

  The new emperor was quite shocked after knowing this. He did not expect that the officials and landlords in the south would be so disgusted with the exemption from corvee in the world, and he would not hesitate to turn against the court because of this.

   “Is it because I am too radical, Zhu Qing?”

  The new emperor couldn’t help asking about Wen Tiren, Bi Ziyan and others.

  Bi Ziyan resolutely came out at this time and said: “In my humble opinion, it is not that your majesty is radical, but that your majesty happened to meet such a time. The conflict between the central court and the local officials is inevitable!”

   “Because the wealth of the world, the people of the world, are not in the court, they are in the powerful, and the court wants to seize the wealth of the powerful, but the powerful will not let the court slaughter them like the common people!”

Wen Tiren also echoed and said: “That’s the truth. Your Majesty, war is inevitable. Moreover, the big families in the south who have lands have gradually become dissatisfied long before Uncle Guo left the customs, just because they knew that Uncle Guo would After leaving after His Majesty’s wedding, and endured the fact that there was no military encounter, they still pinned their hopes on His Majesty, hoping that His Majesty would be willing to give in to them, thus avoiding a fight.”

   “How can I let it go!”

“The 300,000 guards, the millions of tigers, and the bureaucrats in the world are waiting for me to send money to support them. If they are all let out, what else will I use to support the guards? What kind of money do the honorable clans and ministers of the world give to disaster relief?”

  The new emperor said.

   “We can only raise troops to fight for rebellion! The world cannot allow such a situation of betraying the king and resisting the order and disrespect!”

  Military Minister Sun Chuanting directly put forward his own views at this time.

   “Then ask!”

  The new emperor also gritted his teeth and said, “It’s just how to ask for it, how many soldiers need to be transferred, and how to fight?”

   “How about inviting Uncle Guo back?”

  Wen Tiren asked at this moment.

  Lu Xiangsheng said at this time: “No need, Your Majesty, from the perspective of my ministers, now is the time for Your Majesty to stand up.”

The new emperor also nodded: “Lu Qing is right, there is no need to let uncle come back for the time being, I have also been taught by him for many years, even if he is not here, I can basically guess what he will do. The current war, to put it bluntly, is caused by the landlords’ unwillingness to give up enslaving their compatriots, so what they said will restrict the free migration of the Han people in the south, and it will go against the court.”

Speaking of this, the new emperor said: “The more they are unwilling to give up enslaving their compatriots, the more our court should raise the status of all Han people. For example, let ordinary Han people have holidays and rest time , can also discuss politics, and can also enjoy the same treatment as scholar-officials. If you don’t kneel when you see an official, you don’t kneel when you see me. In a factory workshop, four hours belong to oneself, and four hours can be used for sleeping and so on.”

“Your Majesty is wise! But I think it is necessary to proceed step by step, because the purpose of doing this now is to distinguish it from the southern rebels, and to eliminate the southern rebels as quickly and thoroughly as possible. This kind of treatment for the Han people, that is, all Han people in the world who are willing to join the army to seek rebellion for the court can get an official status, can be treated with courtesy by His Majesty without kneeling, and can only be limited to four hours while working without reducing their salary. , and is protected by the imperial court, and workshops are not allowed to expel Ming scholars for this reason, once they are expelled without reason, they must compensate the expelled national scholars ten times the annual salary! And allow the national scholars to form their own social alliances.”

  The newly appointed Minister of Rites, Wen Zhenmeng, said at this time.

  The new emperor agreed very much after hearing this, and asked the Department of Planning and Strategy to implement it accordingly.

The population in the north of the Ming Dynasty was not as large as that in the south, but under the stimulus of the new policy of joining the army, that is, national soldiers, a large number of northern Han people actively joined the army, so that within a few months, the number of soldiers and horses in the newly formed rebel army broke through It has reached more than 600,000.

Of course, this is something to say later. For the Ming court, shortly after the new emperor promulgated the decree on cultivating national soldiers, he suddenly received an urgent battle report saying that the southern landlord armed forces had already marched northward under the leadership of Zuo Liangyu and other officials. , and has already crossed the river and captured Dongchang Mansion in Shandong, and at the same time divided his troops and went to Guide Mansion in Henan without a fight.

   What astonished the new emperor even more was that not long after, Jiang Yu, the commander-in-chief of Shanxi, and Jin Shenghuan of Datong also marched eastward, intending to enter the Qing Dynasty’s side in Beijing, and had already occupied Ningwuguan and Taiyuan.

  The new emperor felt quite a headache about this, so he could only ask Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting to try their best to keep Gyeonggi.

   Fortunately, the guards in Gyeonggi were not vegetarians either. They fought fierce battles with Jiang Yu and Jin Shenghuan in the Xuanfu area at Zijingguan, and finally repelled these two troops, making them difficult to defend.

At the same time, because there were too many Han Chinese who were willing to join the army on the imperial side, the imperial court quickly added hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in addition to the guards. In addition to enjoying the treatment of national soldiers, I just want to continue to earn military merits. After all, the military rewards of the imperial court have always been generous. For ordinary sergeants, there is nothing more cost-effective than earning more rewards.

  So, the new emperor quickly formed a 200,000-scale rebel army and went directly south, and directly defeated the southern rebels in Wuqiao, Texas.

  Many of the southern rebels were also veterans, and their combat effectiveness was not weak. The reason why they were defeated was mainly due to insufficient numbers, and the gap in industrial productivity between the two sides was too great.

  The Industrial Division on the northern side directly provided a large number of firearms, so that every rebel army could be armed to the teeth.

  Many of the firearms of the southern rebels were still stockpiled by the imperial court in the local government treasury. Due to the corruption of local bureaucrats and poor management, a large number of them rusted and rotted. The key point is that they cannot be replaced in time.

  In addition, the north side can transport grain to the front line by railway, and the logistics supply capacity is so strong that the south side was charged several times as soon as the camp was not stable.

Because of this, Zuo Liangyu kicked over his chair depressedly after returning to Jinan: “Why did the imperial court suddenly have so many extra soldiers and horses! A scout battalion is equivalent to the size of a regular army battalion in our south! Send a letter to the southern princes immediately Let them recruit more strong men, at least another 200,000! Now it is not a shortage of officers, but a shortage of soldiers, a serious shortage of soldiers! Before the arrival of new strong men, the commander will not attack again, and even return to Germany , so as not to run out of food and grass!”

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   “Recruiting brave men?”

After hearing this, Feng Xuexian, Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, couldn’t help asking a question, and then said angrily: “Tell him Zuo Liangyu, he can only recruit tens of thousands at most, and 200,000 brave men are absolutely impossible! Unless I stop spring plowing in the south, The key is not spring plowing, how can we support so many of them? Because of the excessive requisition of grain and soldiers, some unruly people have rebelled in many places! If we don’t let people do spring plowing, let them fight, there will be more rebellions!”

  Cheng Kegong couldn’t help saying after Feng Xuexian said at this time: “Originally, he wanted to strike first, and defeated the court in one fell swoop before the court reacted, but he didn’t expect that the troops were still insufficient!”

“The main reason is that the imperial court is despicable, and what is it like to join the army, that is, to be a national scholar. In order to make the Han people willing to serve him, the new foolish king did not hesitate to set a policy of not kneeling when he sees the emperor, and he can even not worry about being fired by the factory owner for no reason. The Han people all want to be national scholars, want to work for him, and want to keep the court!”

   Feng Xuexian said.

  Cheng Kegong said after hearing this: “Yes, this trick is really vicious!”

  (end of this chapter)