Chapter 215: Grassland Economic Warfare
It is not surprising that once two belligerents start a game with each other, they will always improve each other's tactics because of the advantages and disadvantages of their tactics, and finally reach the final balance.
Previously, there had been no army to face an enemy flying overhead to reconnoitre, and there was nothing to guard against.
However, these hunters who hunt in the Northeast occasionally need to use animal skins to keep warm in the cold Northeast, and at the same time make cloaks that are used to camouflage with a snow-white side when approaching the prey, which is also a matter of life.
Li Xiangqian could only tell himself rationally how to deal with it.
"There are not many people, there are a lot of things, and these Jurchens are really difficult."
"Okay, don't care about these things, I'm more concerned about things that everyone doesn't care about, such as the recent security situation, the guarantee of our regime, not the victory or defeat of any external war, that is no longer the winner, and whether internal governance can provide the people with a stable and happy life, as well as basic nutritional security, these are the most important."
"Yes, Shenyang City has been very stable recently, and the people are all hard-working, and there are really not many people who are idle."
Li Xiangqian remembered what he saw in the military newspaper in his previous life, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the story of the transformation of lazy men and lazy women in the Jinchaji anti-Japanese base area, which was a sad story of ups and downs, in fact, after 2ooo years of evolution, the individual of human beings, with the "lazy" gene, had starved to death, and the real reason was naturally that the peasants who lost their land and hope even lost a channel to work.
The so-called laziness may be just the disillusionment of hard work without reward.
Li Xiangqian thought for a while and said: "According to this fast, the autumn harvest at the end of the year, it is estimated that there will be a wave of bumper harvest, at least the rations of each family are sufficient, but there must be problems with the surplus rations, from today on, let's start running classes, first from the wine-making class, to what carpenters, all kinds of craftsmen, all to find some, in short......"
Li Xiangqian said: "You must not give them leisure time, you can get busy every day or something, it is the loudest!" ”
This is his personal management experience, and it is also a spell to kill time that the masses can not play after entering the industrial era, so they come up with a spell to kill time, whether it is a TV series, a football game, or the Internet, its main purpose is to directly imprison the rich time of human beings.
You can't see this in any newspapers and television, even the most anti-establishment public intellectuals, because their masters in the United States also need to use all kinds of garbage TV dramas to brainwash and domesticate the people.
Of course, this trick is not evil, it is similar to the nature of the Egyptian pharaohs who built the pyramids to control the labor force and prevent them from running around when they are fine, when the average human only needs to spend a small amount of time a day to obtain the most basic food and water needed for survival, so much time a day, it is really difficult to fight.
Don't say anything else, don't touch your phone, computer, tablet, don't go out, don't do any entertainment activities, stay in the room, more than three days, it is estimated that the person is going crazy, people, it's such a tangled animal, isn't it.
Since they have been nurtured by the privileged life of the mid-21st century, the revolutionary spirit within the elders has long been gone, and naturally it is impossible for the people under their rule to be embarrassed to pay attention to any spiritual pursuits, but fortunately, it is still far away, as if they can't eat, except for the real sages, who cares about the problem of dog meat.
The efficiency of the interrogation is still very fast, as Li Xiangqian said, the Jurchen captives are all tough guys, but they are also young children who have not undergone anti-torture training, tough guys can look at the tiger chair, chili water without frowning, and shout that grandpa is not afraid, but in the face of the rats put into the clothes, and the toss of not sleeping for 12 hours with strong light, there are few tough guys who can stand up.
In fact, in the ultimate trick of torturing people, there must also be one, imprisoning a person, tying his hands back, rubber house, unable to harm himself, and then 24 hours a day without seeing people, not hearing sounds, for a few days, it is estimated that people will go crazy.
"In other words, the people who went to Bumu Butai were basically sent back?"
Li Xiangqian looked at this set of pictures, and he was also a little surprised in his heart, but after thinking about it, he already knew the reason: "Do you know that this world is a flat world?" ”
That person is an old man of the new government in Shenyang, and he can be regarded as having learned a lot of new words, but he really doesn't know what "flattening" is.
Li Xiangqian explained: "In fact, it is the epitome of globalization, for example, one of the reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty is that in the foreign countries thousands of miles away, they fought and killed for decades, and as a result, the treasury was empty, and there was no money to buy silk, tea and porcelain of the Ming Dynasty, which led to the blockage of Ming exports, a large backlog of goods, the bankruptcy of merchants and craftsmen, and the final reduction in income, which produced a chain reaction, coupled with the fact that the Ming Dynasty itself could not do well, naturally collapsed." ”
"It's too far."
"It's so far," Li Xiangqian sneered and said: "What's even more fun, in the imperial capital, after we executed the eight Jin merchants who trafficked contraband and grain to Mongolia, for the time being, the current people are very honest, at least for a few years, they don't dare to smuggle anymore, do you know what this has led to." ”
"Grain?"
"That's right, it's grain, Horqin's side, the food is almost not enough to eat, after all, the only place they can buy food is the Celestial Empire, haha."
"That relationship is good, are you about to surrender?"
Li Xiangqian shook his head and said: "What is this, this is a common thing, how many times in the past few years, Mongolia has had a food crisis, but before, if there was a real crisis, it came to rob it, so that's it." ”
"But on the Horqin side, even the Jurchens don't dare to accept it, so naturally it's not okay."
Li Xiangqian shook his head and said: "First of all, the grassland is difficult to survive in itself, and the destruction of aquatic grasses by nomads, although it seems small, is irreversible, especially for some animals, when eating grass, they even have to eat the rhizomes, and they cannot be recovered, which will lead to the population that can be carried becoming smaller and smaller, and the farming people, although many times, will exhaust the land and become unsuitable for farming, but the excess manpower has the opportunity to show science...... Science you know. ”
"Yes, Elder Xu's class said that science class is really an old god."
"The population is capped, and Horqin's own strength is too small, if the Jurchens really go to defect and reach a certain number, the final host and guest will be killed."
"Elder Li, when will I go to attack the place where the Jurchen woman is, the lower officials are willing to charge into battle and make new contributions."
"I know how to speak, it's great, well, learning new words is much better than making any contributions, just take your time, Bumu Butai is just a small prey, and there is still the whole earth waiting for you to occupy in the future, as for that woman, she can't run."
For the large and small businessmen who are in Shanxi, perennial foreign business, the drastic changes in the past six months are simply the product of surprises, and the eight imperial merchants who relied on certain forces and were very powerful in Mongolia were directly forced by the elders to ask for all their property and all their families, basically at the public trial meeting, they were directly cut down and eradicated, and there was not even a little blood root left, and most of their property was distributed to soldiers at all levels as a "bonus" by the elders, which was also a good way to gain morale.
What other "X family compound", watchtowers and the like, after thinking about it, they directly auctioned it, and the original business of the eight imperial merchants, the legal part, naturally has been assessed locally in Shanxi, especially Taiyuan City, which was slaughtered by Cao Xueqin's ancestors in history to the point that only a few death row prisoners remained, because of its "political" reliability, it was naturally treated more favorably.
Of course, it would be extremely difficult to ask them to really sell contraband to Horqin, anyway, in addition to food, there are more and more new gadgets in the imperial capital, the nail clippers, the small kerosene stove, are all good things.
Of course, the elders are not without benefits for the grassland, a large number of wool demand, resulting in a large number of orders to be sent to the grassland, raising cattle and horses is not as good as raising sheep to make money, although Mongolia's advantages are not as good as New Zealand or Australia, but in this era is still good, if the plan of several elders who manage the economy succeeds, through a large number of orders to shift the entire Mongolian production system to the production of sheep and wool, then that side can not become the border trouble of the Celestial Empire, it is also a good thing.
Of course, with a solid bilateral relationship, all kinds of complimentary consumption can slowly enter, epidemic prevention stations to be set up, agricultural technology stations to be opened, children to be vaccinated, as Li Xiangqian said, the changes brought about by modern society are the influence of the government is endless in all aspects.
In the first year of the Republic, in 1645, a huge order was sent to Mongolia, and after the news of the high price of wool purchased, the herdsmen were enthusiastic about raising a large number of sheep was opened, because the target customers were too large, it can be said that the presbyterian council could receive as many orders as they came.
In the end, it was definitely not a pleasant thing for Xiaozhuang, oh, that is, Bumu Butai, who was in the city of Zhurgen in Korqingrad.
Everything is very clear, the Central Plains Dynasty is willing to treat the tribes on the grassland equally, but it is full of hostility to Horqin, who has taken refuge in the Jurchens, and everyone has said that not a grain of grain is allowed to be sold to them, resulting in the tribes can only rely on grain storage, and there are many years of silver deposits, and they go to various tribes to buy, and this one out and one in is naturally to spend an extra sum.
This is a problem in the cost of living, and in terms of business, the tribe that has been hit once by the presbyterian ship's spaceship is also shocked three times a day, and once someone screams and makes a fuss, they will be shocked everywhere.
The action of trying to find a way to recruit troops was naturally frustrated.
Before, Mongolia had been torn apart by the kings of the Ming Dynasty, and how many tribes refused to unify, and Horqin and the Jurchens formed an alliance and directly became a "traitor", leading the way, relying on the strength of the Jurchens, and concentrating superior forces several times to convince Lin Dan Khan and other disobedient Mongol tribes one by one.
There is a problem here, unlike other social systems, the nomadic lineage, as long as there is no strong king's rule, then it will inevitably split into small tribes, hundreds of thousands of people, living in water and grass, this is the daily life here, therefore, even if you conquer people, the communication system is outdated, the command system and modernization are not the same, naturally it can only, temporary, a face of obedience.
Of course, if it's usual, say it, the big guy from the Jurchen side, erect a flag to recruit troops, and assemble to go to the customs to "make a vote", as a standardized robbery group, the Jurchens have played the art of sharing spoils to the limit, fair, open and just, it can be said to be very beautiful, and the natural servants are like clouds, and they have meat to eat with the boss.
This is not a joke, but an incomparable fact, in the past few years, all the people who have entered the customs and plundered, and the people who have gone have basically calculated the input-output ratio, that is, the return is much more nourishing than those who are diligent in grazing and doing things on the grassland.
If this continues, natural people are confused.
But now, everything is different, Bumu Butai's men have no money and no soldiers, and there are more than a thousand diehards gathered around him, but not to mention anything else, horses, armor, that set of equipment, is not a simple number, although he received some of the assets left by the eight imperial merchants outside the customs, but it is still a drop in the bucket, and the most important thing is that there is no hope.
Some details of the demise of Shenyang City are still known to the people in the city of Geljurgen, although the light is 6 away, but Shenyang City was indeed killed in seconds, this is no problem fact, the girl who married out of Horqin ran back from her mother-in-law's house, not only did not bring back any good things to share with her family, but also provoked such a powerful enemy in the sky, or an old rich guy, who could order the people of the entire grassland not to do business with them.
It can be said that a series of policies of the Presbyterian Church have hit the tiger's mouth of Xiaozhuang, the cost of conscription has risen, the cost of plunder has fallen, the income is unknown, the future is not good, and the soldiers naturally have no way to talk about it.
The power of economic warfare lies in this, in a certain year, the Celestial Empire destroyed South Vietnam, sent Guangdong businessmen, disguised entry, a large number of South Vietnamese tires, once the war, South Vietnam's transport team is now, its own tires are not enough to call, and when it comes to importing from overseas, it is already too late, all kinds of materials can not be transported in time, and the lone army in front will naturally be pressed on the ground by the troops of the Celestial Empire and slowly rubbed.
Economic warfare seems harmless, but in fact it is much more ruthless than killing people on the battlefield, just like you watch the first episode of the Great Qin Empire, after the defeat of the Qin State, the enemy country sent merchants to the Qin State to buy women, and if there are fewer women, there will be fewer newborns in the Qin State in the future......
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