The beggar emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty - Chapter 567

Qin Huan’s plan was to develop steadily for two years and then use troops abroad, but this stable development did not represent the grassland. In addition, there was a trend of alliance among the four western desert tribes. Therefore, after formulating the plan to control the grassland, he immediately ordered Lu Xiangsheng to move westward, kill the four western desert tribes and bring the western region into the rule.

Qin Huan was still interested in the Junggar tribe in Moxi. He didn’t see that Gerdan beat Kang Mazi and married his daughters in history. Although it was only played on TV, he didn’t care whether it was true or not.

While the Jungar Department has not swallowed up the other three departments, nagerdan is still sucking and does not send troops for conscription. When will he wait?

Anyway, he didn’t intend to recruit Lu Xiangsheng, so he would make do with the Mongols’ own wheat flour, and even save food and weapons. All Mongolian knights would participate in the war, and the dry food of horses and weapons would be provided by themselves. He could even take his mother-in-law to look after the war horses and build tents.

There’s no need to think about military pay, but after the war, they will reward money according to merit, or be promoted to rank. After all, the Han officials in each city had better be assisted by a herdsman’s adjutant.

As long as they are Mongolian adult men without disabilities, they can basically meet the standards of knights. In fact, this knight is specially designed for them.

Because many Han people can ride horses, but few people can shoot accurately if they want to shoot arrows on horses, and the standard of knights is riding and archery.

When Lu Xiangsheng received Qin Huan’s order, it was winter. The whole northern grassland was covered with snow, so he had to wait until next spring, but the call up order was issued immediately.

After all, the grassland is too big, and the herdsmen are too scattered. If you want to inform them one by one, and then gather in the designated place, you can’t do it in two or three months.

More than half of the five thousand cavalry were sent out by Lu Xiangsheng. They were responsible for a regional notice, directly celebrated the new year at the herdsman’s house, and gathered at the designated place with the knights in their own region after the Spring Festival.

After Qin Huan gave the order, he didn’t care any more. Anyway, it would be better for the Mongols to destroy the four western desert tribes by themselves. If they couldn’t be destroyed, they could lose both sides. Then they could regroup their troops and horses to fight for them. All they had to pay was some pensions. Anyway, in two years, the cubs on the grassland would grow up and be howling heroes one by one.

Therefore, after calming the western desert, we will recuperate for a while and continue to fight westward, against Persia, against the Ottoman Empire and against czar Russia.

Every time we hit the next place, we will liberate all the slaves in that place, then join the army and continue to fight until Europe and everyone is subdued. In this way, we ask those slave owners who are high above us. Are tribal chiefs afraid?

Of course, this move is mainly aimed at those barbaric and uncivilized tribes, tribes without their own culture, and for those who have cultural inheritance, it is to support them to build a nation.

This was Qin Huan’s strategy to conquer the world. Genghis Khan used this move to fight all over the world and all the way to Europe.

However, compared with Genghis Khan who only knew killing and looting, his combination of soft and hard work and differential treatment will only be more powerful and more conducive to nominal rule. Anyway, he is not in a hurry.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Han people to go on a ten thousand mile expedition alone. He would not do such a stupid thing. At most, he would send some people and horses by water.

Similarly, for the rebellion in the southwest, you don’t have to think about it if you want the Han soldiers to climb mountains, drill through the jungle and play cat and mouse with those chieftains.

Han soldiers can only guard in the city and the main traffic roads in and out of the mountains, cut off all personnel and vehicles, and go into the mountains to encircle and suppress. If 50000 people are not enough, they will recruit 100000, and if 100000 people are not enough, they will recruit 200000. Anyway, they have plenty of money and food, and weapons are not a problem.

As long as the roads and paths into the mountain are blocked and a grain of salt, grain and cloth are not allowed to be transported in, the chieftains can’t lift much wind and waves no matter how fierce they are.

He will not be like the previous dynasties. After being rebelled and killed by the chieftain, he will end up with a light obedience.

This time he does not intend to negotiate. All rebellious chieftains either unconditionally surrender or suppress them all. There is no other way.

The chieftains who broke down the county, robbed and killed the Han people will not let go. Therefore, Qin Huan’s order to Qin Lihua is very simple. Don’t worry. Clean up one by one. If there are not enough people, recruit them. It’s not slow to settle in three or five years. It’s also allowed in ten or twenty years.

Anyway, the craftsmen in Daqin have to work. When there is no war, should the Arsenal stop working?

Qin Huan stayed in Kaifeng until the end of November before he was ready to go south to inspect the situation of Xiangyang and Nanyang, and then returned to Wuchang for the new year.

At this time, the commerce and finance of the whole North had already recovered. In order to earn money to buy rice bran and wheat bran to satisfy their hunger, countless young people left their homes again and dredged the old river channel of the Yellow River against the cold wind.

Although I didn’t give them a loan, I paid them a month’s wages in advance. Because millions of people in the north have completely run out of food, even some strong women are not idle. They help build warehouses and post stations locally to earn wages to support their families.

The people in Henan will undoubtedly be much happier. Basically, those who have suffered from the flood have changed to winter wheat. With an interest free loan of ten Liang silver and a lot of previous savings, they are destined to have a good year this year.

As for those ownerless places near Kaifeng mansion, the 100000 national guards who have been recruited and transferred have all been cleaned up and planted winter wheat. Now they are rebuilding the subgrade from Xuzhou to Kaifeng and strengthening the embankment of the Yellow River.

This winter, no one is destined to be idle. I’m afraid no one will have time to be idle in the future when meeting a king like Qin Huan.

In the future, the people will only have more and more money, the demand for cotton cloth will only be greater and greater, and the demand for food will also be greater and greater. Therefore, Qin Huan had to make adjustments in agriculture. After all, food is the most important thing for the people, and agriculture is the foundation.

Henan is not suitable for growing cotton, so it is better to plant cotton in Shandong instead. In the future, Hebei and Henan will mainly grow wheat, Shandong will mainly grow cotton, Shanxi and Shaanxi will mainly grow wheat, dry land will grow sorghum and soybean, Huguang and Sichuan will mainly grow rice, Jiangnan will increase mulberry and silkworm breeding, and Guangdong and Guangdong will increase sugarcane planting. Although it is not absolute, it can be distinguished in this way, It is more convenient for centralized development and industrial layout.

For example, if Shandong grows cotton, it can vigorously set up textile mills and weaving mills along the coast, and sugar mills in Guangdong and Guangdong. In addition, the silk industry in the south of the Yangtze River is close to the coast, which is conducive to ship transportation. I believe it will drive local industrialization in a few years.

Qin Huan was not worried about whether planting cotton, sugar cane, soybeans, mulberry and silkworm would lead to a reduction in grain production and insufficient food for the people.

In fact, the grain of all dynasties was enough to eat, but it was unevenly distributed. Most of them were stacked in the granaries of those tycoons and landlords.

In fact, the current population of Daqin is up to 150 million, and intensive cultivation is really realized. Even if the output of wheat and rice is limited, it is still no problem to feed one person with an average of two mu of land. After all, it is impossible for the people to sell grain in a short time. It is only 300 million mu of land. Henan alone accounts for 70 million mu. In addition, Hebei, Guanzhong Plain and southern basin of Shanxi, The wheat planting area can reach 150 million mu, and they are all plain areas, enough to feed 70 million people.

In Jianghan Plain, Chengdu Plain, and some plain areas in Jiangxi and Jiangnan, the area of paddy field can also reach 120 million mu. If it is well managed, it is enough to feed 100 or 200 million people.

Therefore, as long as the good farmland in these areas is managed well and intensive cultivation is realized, there is no need to farm in the mountains and valleys. The grain output within ten years will definitely meet the needs of the whole country, and there is still surplus.

Qin Huan’s idea was to move the people in the mountains out to work in coastal factories, to farm in plain areas, and to grow rubber and rice overseas. There was no need to dig in the mountains. It was a waste of manpower and inconvenient to manage.