Speaking of the Han people in Liaodong shaving their hair and making it easy to wear, Qi Jiguang fell into deep thought.

After the Battle of Guangning in the seventh year of the Later Jin Mandate, the Ming and Jin began to enter a state of confrontation.

It was from this year that the suspicious and murderous Nurhachi began his bloody rule over the Han people in Liaodong.

After Nurhachi became Khan, he had been ruling in Hetuala, and in the sixth year of the Mandate of Heaven (1621), he moved the capital to Liaoyang and built the city of Tokyo.

Later, in March of the tenth year of the Mandate of Heaven (1625), the capital was moved to Shenyang, and the focus of his rule was gradually placed on Liaodong.

Moving the capital means moving the Eight Banners to Liaodong, which involves the resettlement of hundreds of thousands of Jurchen soldiers and civilians.

In order to solve this problem, Houjin began to occupy 300,000 hectares of land.

Although Nurhachi openly said that "Zhushen and Nikan are both people of the Khanate"

However, the Jurchens of the Eight Banners all regarded themselves as conquerors, plundering Han livestock and poultry at will, and enslaving Han men and women.

In order to appease the Jurchen Eight Banners, it was bound to come at the expense of the interests of the Han people.

The Han people, who were plundered by the Jurchens in Liaodong, naturally launched an indomitable resistance.

They cooperated with the Ming army and fought guerrilla warfare from the Ningjin line, the coastal islands, and Korea.

He also sent a large number of spies to infiltrate Liaodong to carry out rebellion against the old officials and gentry.

Nurhachi's exhaustion in dealing with these problems, coupled with the frequent natural disasters in Liaodong after the relocation of the capital, all these unfavorable factors made the people in the Later Jin ruled area turbulent.

Frequent wars increased the burden of Han and military service, the greed of Manchu and Han officials, and the rapid collapse of the newly nascent Later Jin regime.

Hermes-Epitek did not have enough land and no minimum amount of time to work in agriculture (hard service, military service)

Later, the commodity economy on Jin's territory was backward (there was not enough food to eat), and they could not come out to work, and their livelihood was lost.

In the eighth year of the Mandate of Heaven (1623), people from the coastal areas of the East China Sea conspired with the Ming Dynasty to defect.

For this reason, Nurhachi forcibly relocated the households there, slaughtered the Han people in Fuzhou, and plundered his children and livestock to distribute them to the Eight Banners.

For the Han people in other regions, they were also concentrated in the tunpu and imprisoned and slaughtered.

Although Nurhachi appointed some Han officials, he was very suspicious.

The Han officials he appointed only chose those who hated the Ming Dynasty very much and could act as minions to suppress the Han people.

The more brutal and dark the rule, the fiercer the people's resistance, and the weaker the Houjin's dominance, Nurhachi also began to become angry and corrupt, and his "suspicious killing" also intensified.

He ordered Han officials to live in Shenyang and Liaoyang along with their relatives; Strictly order the Han soldiers not to sit back on those who are falsely accused of "defecting"; Severely punish those who flee and those who allow those who hide.

Even the poor who have no food are regarded as enemies and are arrested and killed, which is also called 'killing the poor'.

This perverse behavior naturally provoked a general righteous rebellion of the Han people in Liaodong.

In October of the tenth year of the Mandate of Heaven (1625), Nurhachi intensified his efforts and directly ordered the public massacre of the Han people.

The gentry who were hostile to the Later Jin were the first to bear the brunt, and the Han people who survived were all forcibly organized into Zhuangtun and assigned to the Eight Banners Zhubeile, ministers, and generals at all levels as slaves.

The "massacre" in Liaodong lasted until the eleventh year of the Mandate of Heaven (1626), when Lao Nu fell ill and died.

During this period, there were almost no Han Chinese in Shengjing and Liaoyang, and all of them were slaughtered.

The rest of Liaodong was also almost entirely slaughtered, with a rough estimate of more than three million killed.

Some of the survivors also became slaves of the Tartars, serving them day and night without pay.

By the time Huang Taiji and Dolgon came to power, the situation had improved slightly, but the surviving Han Chinese were still only Tartar slaves.

Whether the eastern captives sent troops to attack the Ming Dynasty, or the eastern captives of the Tartars were short of food, they would plunder the remaining Han people in Liaodong.

Han men have become their slaves, and Han women have become their playthings, and they are not regarded as human beings at all.

Of course, those Ming troops who surrendered voluntarily were better, and they needed to be cannon fodder for the Eastern Invasion.

Thinking of the emperor's words before leaving, Qi Jiguang opened his mouth and said:

"Generals, when Qi Jiguang sent out his troops, the saint once said that if the Han people in Liaodong did not act for the tiger and were not allowed to pursue all of them, it would be difficult for them.

As for those tartars, they can be handed over to the people to deal with, and Dongzhu and Mengyuan have industries in Shengjing, and all of them will be given to the people, so that they can also raise their eyebrows and puff up......"

"Okay, that's a good idea!"

Everyone gave a thumbs up to Zhu Youzhen's hints, so that the Han people in Liaodong would be more suitable to deal with the Tartars than the Ming army to slaughter them directly!

"Report to the governor, the palace is surrounded by the people, go out and have a look!"

Hearing the report of the soldiers, several generals of the Ming army were shocked.

They were originally going to treat these people well, but they didn't expect the people to besiege the palace, could it be that the people of Liaodong have been assimilated?

"Let's go, let's go!"

Qi Jiguang raised his legs and walked towards the gate of the palace, and Yue Fei and the others immediately followed.

"We want to see the general, we want to see the governor of Qi Du......"

Before Qi Jiguang and the others reached the gate, they heard a commotion outside to see them.

The guards who followed behind several generals immediately drew their weapons to protect Qi Jiguang and the others.

Qi Jiguang waved his hand:

"Retreat, they shouldn't attack us, how to show that the army is better for them than the Tartars."

"Yes"

Although the guards promised to retreat, they did not put away their weapons.

When Qi Jiguang, Yue Fei, Sun Chuanting and others appeared at the gate of the palace, they were all stunned by the scene in front of them.

Qi Jiguang glared at the soldiers who reported the news, where is this besieging the palace.

I saw that the outside of the palace was kneeling with dense Han people, old and young, men and women, all of them were ragged, yellow-skinned, like beggars.

They shouted one after another, wanting to see with their own eyes Qi Jiguang, the daimyo commander who saved them from fire and water.

Seeing a few people who looked like generals coming out, the people immediately stopped shouting and all looked at a few people.

Qi Jiguang took a few steps forward, clasped his fists at the people and said:

"I am Qi Jiguang, the commander of the Ming Dynasty, if you have any requirements, get up and speak, now that the Tartar regime has been overthrown, Liaodong has returned to the arms of the Ming Dynasty, you are free......"

Hearing that the general in front of them was the commander of the Ming army, the people kowtowed to them three times before getting up.

"General, we are all ordinary people who survived the massacre, and there are many Han Chinese people who were captured and plundered by the Eastern Tartars.

After so many years, we are all living a life that is not as good as pigs and dogs, living without dignity, looking forward to it every day and night, and finally looking forward to the Ming army.

Thanks to the Ming army for beating away the eastern captives of the dog Tartars, and thanks to the Ming Emperor for not forgetting our Liaodong Han people, we are the people of the Ming Dynasty in life, and the ghosts of the Ming Dynasty in death.

Please make decisions for our people, we want to get back the land that belongs to us......"

Qi Jiguang smiled slightly:

"Everyone be quiet, the governor of Pontus announced that we will divide the land for you within three days, as long as I am the people of the Ming Dynasty, everyone has a field, tax exemption for three years, and after three years, the tax will be collected according to the mu production, and a hundred catties of grain will be taxed, and no other penny will be charged."

In the past, when the people harvested 1,000 catties of grain, they had to hand over about 700 catties, which was not enough to eat.

Now as long as you pay 100 catties, there are no extra charges, and the tax exemption is three years, and the people suspect that there is something wrong with their ears.

Without waiting for them to react, Qi Jiguang said something that made them even more unbelievable.

"The people of the Ming Dynasty, the Governor of Pontus knows the humiliation you have suffered for so many years, and now decides to hand over the Meng Yuan and the Eastern Prisoners in the city to you to deal with.

You can rob or kill, but don't burn.

You will divide the goods and shops of their houses equally, but the gold and silver must be handed over, so go! ”