Chapter 788: Serfs
Three days later, Xiao Yue led the army and set off from Yumen Pass and went straight to western Tibet.
There is still a long distance from Yumen Pass to western Tibet, and there is a journey of more than 1,000 miles along the way.
Fortunately, this is a march in the country, there is no need for much vigilance, and the journey along the way is still very fast, and half a month later, Xiao Yue's army has come to the edge of western Tibet.
At this time, the living Buddha of Jiluorong Dengba in western Tibet also knew that the soldiers of the Central Plains Dynasty had arrived on the edge of Tibet.
It is not for nothing that Ji Rigra dared to rebel against the Central Plains Dynasty so frustratedly.
The first thing he relied on was that Tibet has complex terrain and different weather from the Central Plains.
The second reason is his religious identity, because in the religion of Western Tibet now, he is a living Buddha, and in Western Tibet, he is convinced of this kind of thing.
Therefore, Luorong Demba was able to rule in western Tibet for a long time.
Luorong Dengba got a reward this time, knowing that the Central Plains was bound to win this time, and he must not take it lightly.
Luorong Demba Living Buddha. Immediately ordered 30,000 horses to advance to the Nagqu area, the status of Nagqu is the gateway to the north for Tibet, as long as it can be held here for a few months, with the harsh natural conditions of western Tibet, I am afraid that the people of the Central Plains will be wiped out by nature here.
Xiao Yue entered Tibet with his soldiers, and was immediately attacked by nature.
Almost all of his troops suffered from altitude sickness, and every step forward was difficult, panting and puffing, and his legs did not listen to commands.
Xiao Yue was a little unprepared for such a situation, so there was a large number of non-combat attrition in the troops.
Seeing this situation, Xiao Yue could only be stationed temporarily, and then ordered his men and horses to send those soldiers who really couldn't hold on out of western Tibet.
In this way, the army stayed for nearly a month, and the soldiers slowly adapted to the climate of the plateau, and at this time, Xiao Yue continued to march.
After Xiao Yue walked in western Tibet for a while and found people, he learned about the local situation and knew why Jia Ke hated these living Buddhas so much.
It turned out to be in western Tibet. These living Buddhas of Lamaism are a piece of heaven on the heads of the people, and this God has no mercy, and he brutally oppresses the people in the lower classes to the extreme.
It is precisely because this oppression is so cruel that the upper class has come up with a strategy of using religion to paralyze the people below, otherwise these unbearable slaves below would have rebelled long ago.
Xiao Yue discovered that there was a serfdom system in western Tibet that had been abolished by the Central Plains Dynasty for thousands of years.
The cruelty of this serfdom system shocked even Xiao Yue, as an upper-class ruling figure in the Central Plains.
In western Tibet, it is common to see that the houses of slave owners are tall and magnificent, decorated with various Buddhist ornaments, and the ornaments are solemn and solemn, and the houses of those slaves are a nest, so they are considered relatively wealthy families, and many people even lie in their kimonos in the courtyard.
And the land rent in western Tibet has actually reached eighty-two shares, which is of course eight for the serf owners, and the serfs only get two.
This is relatively merciful, some people directly give all the crops in the field to the serf owners themselves, and only give the serfs some pig food, so that they can barely live.
And what's even more cruel is that as long as the serf owners have a slight displeasure, they will take out their anger at these serfs, and they have come up with various methods, such as cutting off their hands and gouging out their eyes.
That's not all, there is also the fact that the monks in those temples are pure and have few desires to serve the Buddha on the surface, but in fact, they are all human-faced and beast-hearted.
These lamas did not have a single day without the service of women, and the source of these women was the serfs below, and the nuns who had taken refuge in the Buddha.
If the women and nuns were good, they would be able to save their lives, and if they did not comply, the lamas would immediately torture the women to death for fear that the matter would be revealed.
Xiao Yue's trip was frightened, if it was in the Central Plains, the common people would have rebelled a long time ago. In western Tibet, in order to have a good background in the next life, these peasants insisted on enduring it.
After learning about the local situation, Xiao Yue made up his mind to eliminate all these cannibal serf owners and turn Tibet into the most consolidated link of the ruling dynasty in the Central Plains.
So Xiao Yue began to transform the place he passed according to his own thoughts.
Xiao Yue killed all the upper-class slave owners in every place he went, and forced them to be reincarnated and reborn for the living Buddhas in those temples.
And the vacated land, Xiao Yue distributed it to those serfs according to the head.
And promised these serfs that in the future, as long as they paid taxes to the state on time, the rest of the income would belong to them.
Xiao Yue's policy was soon supported by the majority of lower-class people, and these miserable serfs had already regarded Xiao Yue as a living Buddha.
Therefore, there is an endless stream of serfs who come to join the army, and Xiao Yue naturally can't accept these people who come to defect, their army has undergone severe training, and these serfs can only cause chaos when they come.
However, Ji Rigra, the leader of the Eight Banners, did not agree with Xiao Yue's opinion, and he raised two objections.
First, these serfs were born and raised in western Tibet, and some of them were able to survive overnight in heavy snow, so they naturally had a way of surviving on the western Tibetan plateau, and with them, they were able to greatly reduce the non-combat casualties of the troops.
Second, although these serfs could not fight, the yaks and other livestock they brought with them could help the troops transport food and supplies.
Third, the Central Plains army entered Tibet without guides, and these herdsmen had lived in western Tibet for many years, and with them as guides, they would know where the water source was and where the valley was not good for marching, which played a very good role in the Central Plains army's attack on western Tibet.
After thinking about it for a few days, Xiao Yue felt that Ji Rigra's idea was very good, and he only thought about marching quickly to reduce casualties before, and he didn't think about it so much.
So on the second day, Xiao Yue allowed these serfs to advance with the army, helping the army to transport grain and grass, acting as guides, and helping the army spend the night in the wilderness of western Tibet.
With the help of these serfs, Xiao Yue's army greatly reduced its non-combat attrition in the days that followed, and the marching speed was much faster than before.
When the Chinese New Year was approaching, Xiao Yue's army finally came to the vicinity of Naqu.
The army of the Living Buddha of Luorong Demba has been waiting for many months, and at first they were still in full battle, but as time went on, these people slowly slackened off and began to do anything in the vicinity.
When it came to the Spring Festival in the Central Plains, the army that was originally a whole number has now herded sheep, and even the commander of this army, Si Lang Zhancuo, is also indulged in singing and laughing every day.
When Si Lang got the news that the Central Plains army had arrived nearby, he suddenly woke up.
So the commander immediately hurriedly summoned his generals to organize a defense. At the same time, he ordered the serfs under his command to begin to strengthen the defense of the city walls. As a result, this command cost him his life.
It turned out that among these serfs, there were already the original serfs sent by Xiao Yue, and as soon as these people arrived in the middle of this thickness, they began to preach the benevolence of the Central Plains troops and their division of land and land.
These serfs, who had not yet been liberated, listened to the fact that people who could only be cattle and horses like themselves now had divided the fields, and the lack of envy in their hearts was false, so grass began to grow in their hearts.
This time, the serfs were ordered to strengthen the defenses on the city walls, and the delivery of supplies gave them the opportunity.
After all the Tibetan soldiers fell asleep in the middle of the night, these serfs suddenly gathered hundreds of people and rushed to the city gate to cut down all the soldiers who were still dozing off.
After that, he quietly opened the city gate, and outside the city gate, Xiao Yue immediately ordered the cavalry to enter the city.
So that night, Xiao Yue's army rushed into Naqu City.
After receiving a report from his own soldiers, saying that the Central Plains army had entered the city, he was already frightened, and he didn't care about the others, so he turned over and went on, and wanted to run away with a few of his own soldiers.
But he ran a little late, and before he reached the southern gate, he was already blocked by the cavalry of the Manchurian Eight Banners.
These cavalrymen of the Manchu Eight Banners, when they saw that there was a very gorgeously dressed general among the ancients, they looked like a nobleman, so they rushed up.
Slang descended. It's okay for these Qing soldiers to bully and bully the common people in normal times, but this time when they faced the Eight Banners warriors, they were immediately cut clean like peeling melons and beans.
In the end, there was only one person left in the middle, this general looked very powerful, but now he immediately turned into a quail, as soon as he saw that he was surrounded, and his own soldiers had been killed, seeing that he was covered in blood, he was already frightened.
So Si Lang didn't wait for the other party to get close and knelt directly on the ground, "Ladies and gentlemen, I am the commander of Naqu City, I am willing to surrender, and please spare my dog's life." ”
As soon as these Eight Banner soldiers heard that this person was the commander of Naqu City, they naturally gave up the idea of killing him immediately, rushed up to tie up this big man, and then happily went to the rear to find their commander to repay his merits.
It wasn't until the second day that the entire Naqu Cheng calmed down, and Xiao Yue entered Naqu with his men and horses before he got the news that the leader of Naqu City, Si Lang Zhencuo, had been captured alive.
Xiao Yue didn't take this person to heart, because now he didn't lack a guide, and he had already made up his mind to sweep away all the upper-level people in western Tibet, and it wouldn't be of much use to keep him.
He immediately ordered the man to be beheaded for public display.
Next, Xiao Yue ordered the law and order in Naqu City to be rectified, and then redistributed the wealth in Naqu City according to the original policy.
Those who do petty business are naturally not guilty of it, but for those big landlords, big serf owners, and living Buddhas in the temple, there is a bloody purge.
Only when these people are cleansed, can the serfs below accept the land allocated to them with confidence, otherwise these people are frightened, and they think that these nobles will come back, and they dare not take refuge easily.
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