Chapter 332: The New Messenger of Dai Shan
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At night, there was a roar in Prince Li's mansion, and although the owner of the sound tried to keep his voice as low as possible, it still resounded over the entire mansion.
"Smack!"
A delicate holy porcelain vase was smashed to pieces, and the broken porcelain slag splashed on several side Fujin who rushed to persuade after hearing the news, and a side Fujin who looked a little similar to the deceased concubine Abahai relied on his usual honor and tried to go in to persuade him.
Unexpectedly, just when he pushed the door open, he slashed at Dai Shan head-on, which frightened the Fujin flower on that side, and fainted to the ground with an "oh".
"Get out of here! Whoever dares to bother Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will slash him with a knife! ”
Dai Shan completely lost his gentle and kind face on weekdays, and his face was full of murderous energy. Only then did people remember that his title of Prince of Rites and the soldiers and horses of the two red flags did not fall from the sky, but he followed his father Nurhachi, who had been in rebellion in Liaodong for many years, and exchanged his life for human life!
He flew up and kicked the door shut, and sat down on the only four-legged chair in the room with the handle of his knife in his hand, his mouth snorting and panting, his chest heaving like a bellows.
The scene of the day gradually appeared in front of his eyes again.
When the shopkeeper Huang said that the mortality rate of those who had never had pox could be reduced to an unbelievable level by planting pox, everyone looked incredulous.
It is important to know that in the outside of the Saiwai, the primitive medical and health conditions that can no longer be primitive, the infant mortality rate is very high. It is much larger than the mainland. Even a man who has already grown up will be turned into a prohibitive corpse in an instant because of smallpox and other virulent infectious diseases. These corpses often turn a once thriving tribe into a pile of bones in the blink of an eye, and the remnants of the surviving young, old, weak, women and children will be swallowed up by other tribes, and pastures, livestock, possessions, and women will become the wealth of others.
If it weren't for Huang Taiji here, I was afraid that those Eight Banners Mongolian banner owners would pounce on Huang Da Shopkeeper like wolves on the grassland in winter, and carefully interrogate him about what kind of mysterious skill this method was.
And the same look also flickered faintly in the eyes of several Eight Banner Manchurian banner owners, Prince Baylor. Every time they enter the customs or fight, there will be warriors who die of one kind or another, and many of them are due to smallpox.
And people like Yue Tuo and Dolgon tend to analyze problems from a higher perspective. Huang Taiji showed it today. Undoubtedly two powerful weapons.
If corn grass is successfully introduced in Liaodong, I am afraid that it will not have to feed several times more cattle, horses and alpacas? With these horses, more soldiers can have horses, and more warriors can have two or even three horses!
And the pox. It minimizes the number of deaths caused by the disease. The larger the population base. The more soldiers, the greater the potential for war!
Eight Banners of Manchuria, Eight Banners of Mongolia, plus the population of the annexed Sauron Tribe. These are the majority of people who have never had pox, and these people are the core and important components of the Eight Banners Army.
In the same way, these two weapons are not only powerful weapons for one's own prosperity, but also a sharp weapon for conquering the Mongolian tribes in the steppe who refuse to join them. As long as the idea of some clothes and utensils contaminated with smallpox patients is transmitted to these tribes, then the next step is for the Eight Banners army to go over and clean up the mess for them and bury the corpses.
However, some old people, led by Prince Daishan, expressed instinctive suspicion of such a new thing.
Dai Shan once again went out of class and knelt down.
"Your Majesty, in the opinion of a servant, this kind of pox thing still needs to be done cautiously, I don't have many people in the Eight Banners, every soldier is extremely precious, if the warriors are injured because of the pox, it will go against the original intention of Your Majesty. In the opinion of the slave, this matter needs to be more cautious. ”
"What did Prince Li say! If the old man is serious, Emperor Gao will not raise troops to attack Ming! Wouldn't it be safer to be an official of the Ming Kingdom honestly! ”
Duoduo, who has a fiery temperament in Perak, has long seen that this guy who relies on the old and sells the old is not pleasing to the eye, and the scene when he teamed up with Huang Taiji and others to force Eniang to death was deeply engraved in the hearts of the Duoduo brothers. Huang Taiji is very aware of how taboo this second brother is in his heart. But Dai Shan, I don't know what he ate wrong today, and he has repeatedly contradicted Huang Taiji, there is such an opportunity today, how can he not jump out and give the old immortal Dai Shan a bad medicine?
"Prince Yu! Don't be rude to Prince Li! Don't apologize to the second brother soon! ”
Dolgon, who was sitting on the top of Duoduo, scolded his younger brother before Dai Shan's attack, so that Dai Shan could not have a seizure, but Huang Taiji on the throne looked at this fifteenth brother with a smile in his eyes. He knew very well what Dolgon meant, and asked Duoduo to apologize to his second brother, which meant that this was a small contradiction and misunderstanding between our brothers, and you could at most put up some brotherly shelves to reprimand Duoduo, but you couldn't say anything else.
How could Duoduo not understand the meaning of his second brother? At that moment, he made a gesture to Dai Shan with a hippie smile, and said a few words of apology in his mouth, which was not salty or light, and apologized to Dai Shan.
"Prince Li's words are also reasonable."
Huang Taiji ordered the banquet to be removed, and the monarch and ministers began to deliberate.
"This matter really needs to be cautious and cannot be rushed. However, since Li was able to inoculate his own children and the children of officials close to him, and planted them for the military and civilians in the jurisdiction, he did not see anything wrong, so he had made up his mind. I, the soldiers and civilians of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, since I have been below, have to get pox. Those who dare not plant pox will be deprived of food and salary, and degraded to coating! Officers below the level of Jiala'e Town dare to shirk the procrastination, and they will be demoted by two levels! The lord of the banner, the lord, the prince, the prince of the county, the beylor, and the bezier shall not sow the pox, and shall take the cattle and record the population, and shall be fined two thousand taels of silver, and fifty horses! ”
Such a heavy punishment made these Manchurian and Mongolian ministers silent, especially those small lords who only had a few cattle in their hands, and they couldn't help but scold in their hearts, there were not many people in the first place, if they were deprived of a few more cows. In the future, will there be less time to divide the spoils according to the population of the cattle record? Where is this pox! This is clearly an excuse to attack the soldiers and horses in our hands!
However, how dare people not bow their heads when they are under the eaves?
"The minions obey the emperor's will! Pox on schedule is! ”
"Don't panic, your lords, since the emperor presented the method of pox planting a few days ago, he has selected hundreds of people from Shengjing Prison and the military and civilian people to inoculate first, and only 22 of the 500 people were infected with smallpox. You are all relatives and close ministers of the emperor, and with the blessing of the emperor's Monkey Sky, you are naturally safe and sound. ”
Fan Wencheng, a college student from the Third Inner Academy, gave a lecture to the princes with a smile, which made everyone's hearts settle down a little.
"Hooray! Banzai! ”
Under the leadership of Dolgon, the princes, ministers, and bannermen of Manchu, Meng, and Han all shouted long live. He kowtowed to Huang Taiji on the throne.
"God bless me Daqing!"
"His Majesty the Emperor is blessed with great fortune!"
The higher the voice of the princes, the higher the voice of the mountain. Dai Shan's face is more ugly, and the sound of shouting long live sounds to him like a crackling sound pumping his mouth, and the louder he screams. His old face became redder and redder.
His old face changed red and white. Although they tried to cover it up. But he could not hide from the two brothers, Dorgon and Dordor, who were younger than his grandson, and the two exchanged opinions with each other with almost imperceptible eyes, and each understood each other.
"Old thing! Let you be humiliated by the black fat man on this throne to your home today! ”
Made up my mind. The two brothers went their separate ways.
"Your Majesty's Holy Candle Shines, Prince Li's old man is seeking the country, and the things he was worried about have already been in His Majesty's hands, and there is a solution, so what are my Eight Banners army waiting for? Just waiting for His Majesty's next will, I am willing to be the vanguard of the white flag and break through the edge! ”
"I set a white flag and am willing to open the way for the army of the Eight Banners!"
At the initiative of the Dorgon brothers, the atmosphere became more and more enthusiastic. The blue flag with Haoge as the banner owner and the two yellow flags personally led by Huang Taiji were also not to be outdone, and a number of ministers and noble generals jumped out to ask for war, asking for new contributions for the emperor and the Qing Dynasty, and to enter the customs to snatch back the good things of the Southern Dynasty, beautiful women, and skilled craftsmen, so that they could serve the Qing Dynasty!
Seeing the Dolgon brothers on the road so on the road and so cooperating with themselves, Huang Taiji felt a burst of joy in his heart, although the white flag and inlaid white flag in the hands of these three little guys are strong and have always been afraid of themselves, but they can use it for themselves, weaken the two red flag system of Daishan, and at the same time create contradictions and cracks between the entire two white flags and the two red flags, which is a multi-kill thing!
"Prince Rui and Prince Yu are loyal and courageous. Reward, 50 taels of gold, 200 taels of silver, 2 python satin colored silk, 1 horse. Prince Su and others, loyal and brave, I also have a reward. Two fine muslin and one horse. ”
"All banners must seize the time after the wheat harvest to straighten out their soldiers and horses, tie their armor, and polish their weapons. Get ready to go. When the autumn grain of the Southern Dynasty comes down, my Eight Banners army will go to the Guannai to carry it! ”
"Hooray!"
"Your Majesty is wise!"
After agreeing on the military operation to enter the customs and plunder during the autumn harvest, Huang Taiji began the second step of the day.
"My Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, whether it is Eight Banners Manchuria, Eight Banners Mongolia, or the Han Army under the King of Sanshun, must complete all the pox before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and all the Mongolian departments of the Outer Domain, along with the soldiers who entered the customs, will start planting pox on the day they arrive in Shengjing, and there shall be no prevarication and delay!"
"Your Majesty, the servants think that this matter is related to the lives of hundreds of people in my Qing Dynasty, and I have to ask Your Majesty to appoint a prince to supervise this matter!"
Rao Bel Abatey had not spoken, and at this time he suddenly opened his mouth and asked a crucial question.
"Your Majesty will also give the special plane the right to decide, otherwise the Eight Banners and the Mongolian Departments of the Outer Domains will inevitably have people who will not be able to understand the kindness of His Majesty, and will speculate and slander His Majesty!"
"Rao Yu Baylor's words are very appropriate, and Weichen and others seconded it!"
Huang Taiji's henchmen Fan Wencheng, Bao Chengxian, Ning Wan and others echoed one after another.
"Prince Rui, what do you think?"
Huang Taiji kicked the ball at Dorgon's feet, and it was up to him to see what the fourteenth brother should do.
"Your Majesty, the matter of planting pox is a matter related to the luck of my Eight Banners, and the slave should have asked for help, but His Majesty said that after the wheat harvest, the flags will be reorganized and ready to enter the customs. The slave selfishly speculated, it was easier to negotiate the Ming Kingdom for the emperor's entry into the customs. The slave is willing to lead his athletes to make meritorious contributions to the emperor's killing of the enemy! As for planting pox for the Eight Banners, there is also the corngrass that the emperor said. The minions thought that Rao Baylor had a point. There must be a person of high moral character, adhering to the emperor's will to sow pox for the Eight Banners, organize the planting of this thing, and breed cattle and horses. ”
"The slave is willing to sacrifice his life to protect Prince Heshuoli to take on this important responsibility!"
"The slave is also willing to sacrifice his life with his wealth and work with Prince Rui to protect Prince Heshuoli on behalf of the good!"
The words of the Dolgon and Dordo brothers immediately resonated among the generals and officials of the two white and two yellow flags.
Even among the two red flags, there were many people who nodded slightly, expressing their appreciation for Prince Rui's public loyalty to the country.
If you want to say that you are highly respected, you can be worthy of these four words of evaluation. Among the high-level anti-thieves in Liaodong, there is no second person other than Dai Shan.
Let alone. In Liaodong, the corn grass planting test and its promotion, and in the Eight Banners and the Mongolian tribes of the Eight Banners, which is not a move that is beneficial in the present era? If Dai Shan does these two things well. It is the Buddha of countless families.
"Your Majesty! The minions are also willing to vouch for the prince with all their net worth with the blue flag! This piece of errand. Except for Prince Li. No one else can do it! ”
Under the repeated gestures from his father's eyes, Prince Su Haoge, the owner of the blue flag, hurriedly knelt on the ground and vouched for his father to guarantee his second uncle.
Among the Eight Banners of Manchuria, in the blink of an eye, the two yellow flags, two white flags, and the blue flags, the five flag owners, ministers and generals are willing to take care of this matter with their lives. Even if Dai Shan wants to push, it's hard to speak.
He was about to come out and say that he planned to lead his troops south to conquer the Ming Kingdom and other reasons, so as to get rid of this thankless matter, when Yue Tuo, the master of the Red Flag Banner, and his younger brother Shuo Tuo, who were out of class, fell to their knees.
"Your Majesty, the slave has the right to play."
"King Yuetuo, please speak."
"Your Majesty, although the slave Ama is old, he is still loyal to the country, and the so-called old man is determined to be thousands of miles away. Hearing that the emperor has made a move to enter the customs and cut down the Ming, he will definitely take the initiative to ask for help not to avoid the arrows. However, there was something to do with the children, and the two slave Yue Tuo brothers couldn't bear to see the slave's Ama driving thousands of miles between the artillery and knives with his old body. I implore the emperor to allow the two slave brothers to lead the two red flags on behalf of Ama to go out to conquer the Ming. I beg your grace! ”
The dirty matter between Yue Tuo, Shuo Tuo and Dai Shan's father and son was clear in the hearts of everyone present.
is in Huang Taiji's heart, compared to Dai Shan, he also prefers Yue Tuo.
As early as when there was a brief vacuum of power after Nurhachi's death, Yue Tuo actively supported Huang Taiji at that time, and did the work of his father to support Huang Taiji together.
At the beginning of Huang Taiji's ascension to the throne, his prestige was not high, and the other three Baylors were still on an equal footing with him. Yue Tuo also actively assisted Huang Taiji in strengthening the power in his hands and striking at and weakening the power of the three major Baylors. In the first year of Tiancong (1627), Yue Tuo accompanied Erbel Amin to raise troops to attack Korea. At the critical moment, Amin refused to negotiate peace with North Korea. Yuetuo, together with Zilharang, Azig, Dudu, Shuotuo and others, negotiated an alliance with the king of Korea behind Amin's back, leaving Amin in isolation. In October of the third year of Tiancong (the second year of Chongzhen, 1629), Huang Taiji personally led a strong army to launch the first large-scale attack on the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.
It was in this reversal that there was a complete break between Daishan and Yuetuo's father and son.
But with such a moving scene, how can you not let everyone cooperate with the performance? The son is so pure and filial, he can't bear to let Ama be accompanied by wind, frost, rain and snow, haunt the sword mountain and arrows, and is willing to lead troops for the old Ama to go to battle.
"Your Majesty, the slave thought that the pure filial piety of the king of Yuetuo County and Shuo Tuobeizi moved heaven and earth, so the slave dared to suggest that Yue Tuo lead the Manchuria red flag, and let Du Du lead the Manchuria red flag to go out to conquer the Ming. Prince Heshuoli can just sit in Shengjing to supervise the planting of pox by the military and civilians of the Qing Dynasty, and plant the corn grass offered by the Huang Da shopkeeper in the jurisdiction of our Daqing Dynasty on a trial basis, so as to benefit the people's livelihood and strengthen the country's strength. ”
With such a unanimous recommendation, Huang Taiji naturally has to take care of the opinions of the masses.
So, the emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom opened his mouth to deliver the decree.
"King Yuetuojun is so pure and filial, I am greatly relieved. You are all my brothers and nephews, and you are brothers, friends and brothers. The decree was that Fuyue Tuozhi Chengjun was the prince of Cheng, and he was given five camels, two carved saddle horses, and two silver dollars. Feng Rui Prince Dolgon is the general who was ordered, and Feng Cheng Prince Yue Tuo is the general of Yangwu, and he will lead the matter of entering the customs and cutting down the Ming this time! ”
"Prince Heshuoli is good, old and seeking the country, and more advice. The country has a courtier, and the courtiers are so peaceful. and five camels, and two horses with carved saddles, and two thousand silver dollars. Ordered Dai Shan to be the prince of Heshuoli, and to take charge of the military and civilians of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty and the various departments of Mongolia in the foreign domain. Soldiers and horses entering the customs, be sure to complete this matter before the day of departure! The trial planting of corn grass in various places will also be arranged by Prince Li, so as not to disappoint me and the Eight Banners! ”
Yue Tuo's original title was Prince Cheng, the year before last, that is, in 1637, in order to suppress Yue Tuo, Huang Taiji found a person to demote Yue Tuo's Prince Cheng to the King of Chengjun, and today it is considered to reward his merits and reward him with the title of prince.
In this way, Dai Shan was deprived of control of the two red flags by the conspiration of Huang Taiji, the Dolgon brothers and his two sons, and could not enter the customs to loot, not to mention, and could only be a very "humiliating" (at least he himself thought) engaged in the cultivation of cowpox and pasture.
As the saying goes, the clay man still has three points of fire, so even if Prince Li has a good temper, he will inevitably be angry in the mansion.
However, his temper can only be said to be angry, Huang Taiji's means of dealing with his brother are clear to him, not to mention that he has no soldiers and horses in his hands at the moment, if Huang Taiji deals with him, it will be like crushing an ant to death.
The eldest son, who was not treated kindly, became a prince, or one of the generals who entered the customs this time, but he could only stay in Shenyang, to plant pox for people and grass for horses, how could this not make Prince Li mad? (To be continued......)