Chapter 665: United
The peaks and mountains are like gathering, the waves are like anger, and the mountains and rivers are on the surface of Tongguan Road. Looking at the western capital, he hesitated.
Sad, the Qin and Han dynasties, the palace and thousands of rooms have been made of soil. Xing, the people suffer; Death, the people suffer!
On the road leading to Tongguan on the first line of Lingbao and Shaanzhou, the queue of the army was once again ushered in. The mighty soldiers, from east to west, rushed along the winding and narrow road in the direction of Tongguan. The red, white, yellow, and armored flags form a series of colorful and mighty torrents, which cannot be seen from the east to the west, and from the west to the east.
Infantry, horses, cavalry, baggage, and artillery filled the roads between the Loess Plateau and the ravines.
On a plain at the eastern end, under the banner of the eight-color army, hundreds of elite warriors were solemnly watching the fiery red river pass by, these knights were all wearing cloaks, and inside were long cotton armor, which was densely covered with thick copper nails. In addition to the cotton armor, everyone is wearing a stainless steel cuirass from Nanzhong. These elite soldiers all look as if they are wrapped in iron armor, giving people a strong sense of oppression. The long lightning rod iron helmet on his head, shining with the quality of metal in the sun, with the gust of west wind sweeping, all kinds of helmets fluttering up and down, left and right.
Not far behind them, a golden silk embroidered with the character Cao stood high on the plain, and Cao Zhenyan, who had just been promoted to Baylor by the regent Dolgon in the name of Emperor Shunzhi, was riding on a white horse, he was also wearing double armor, carrying bows and swords, and wearing a cloak, and was watching intently the magnificent scene of thousands of soldiers and horses rolling forward on the mountain road under his feet.
On the skyline, a touch of residual sun is like blood, the sun is slowly slanting westward, and there are even more people and horses under his feet, Cao Zhenyan can't help but feel a kind of pride in his heart overflowing his chest and abdomen, and he can't help but come to the original side. In order to get a closer look at this spectacular scene. He has just defeated the new army of the Dashun army, contained tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in one fell swoop, and turned these former Ming troops and the former Dashun army into an army that charged into battle for the Qing Dynasty and was crowned with the title of Baylor by Dolgon, and specially ordered him to lead the county king to use the county king's uniform and honor guard, everyone can see that as long as he wins a few more battles, such as taking Tongguan and breaking through Xi'an, the capital of Dashun, he can be justifiably promoted to the county king!
"Enter Tongguan, get promoted and make a fortune! Take Xi'an and add an official to the knighthood! ”
The guards around him suddenly roared in unison as if they were thundering, and the condescending location made this roar clearly heard even in the noisy marching brigade of chariots and horses.
On the road below, I don't know which general's team happened to pass by, and when they heard this slogan, the team immediately boiled. After all, Cao Zhenyan is the best example, a person who was originally a slave of Baoyi, because he can fight and fight, he is willing to work hard for his master, and in a few years, he quickly changed from the leader of Niu Lu Zhangjing to the current Baylor, and the king of the county soon after! Suddenly, in the battalion, whether it was a pikeman, a sword and shield soldier, or a firecracker artillery team, almost all the soldiers and officers raised their spears and broadswords in their hands and cheered in the direction of the original Cao Zhenyan banner.
"Cao Belle Wansheng!"
I don't know which officer took the lead, and a thunderous roar erupted in the ranks. They had already heard their own marshals boast that Qinchuan, eight hundred miles behind Tongguan, implemented the so-called new policy like Nanzhong when Sun Chuanting was in charge of Shaanxi, planting a large amount of cotton, the people were rich, and the treasury was full. Even if Li Zicheng entered Shaanxi, this Guanzhong Plain was also planted with a large number of cotton and other things, not only planting cotton, but also forcibly summoning Ding Zhuang to repair water conservancy under Li Chuang's tyranny, and gradually restoring the water conservancy facilities such as Zhengguo Canal, which were originally barren and annihilated, so that the 800-mile Qinchuan reappeared as a country of abundance.
As long as you enter Tongguan, don't you just let us grab any city?
Thinking about the bright prospects after attacking Tongguan, these Ming officers and soldiers who had just surrendered to the Qing army were all greatly boosted in morale and quickened their pace.
The sky gradually darkened, and the torches were lit in the marching procession, which at first were as few as morning stars, but in the blink of an eye, the stars spread among the ranks, and a huge fire dragon appeared in the mountains, and the firelight accompanied by a huge sound echoed in the mountains.
Watching the fire dragon on the mountain road swoop towards Tongguan in the west, Bolo, Suke Saha, Kubilong and others who were surrounding Cao Zhenyan couldn't help but put away the disdain for Cao Zhenyan in their hearts. After the defeat of the three Lushan Baofeng, Cao Zhenyan, as the commander of the first army, did not take the opportunity to make things difficult for them, but interceded for them in front of Dolgon. Second, seeing that Cao Zhenyan didn't spend a penny or a grain of rice, but just ordered his guards to shout a few times before the army and instigated their morale like wildfire, this kind of ability is not something they can have.
"The general is really good!" Bolo couldn't help but praise Cao Zhenyan from the bottom of his heart.
"That's it! The general is wise! Suppilon and Sukh Saha also gave a thumbs up to express their admiration for Cao Zhenyan's ability to win the lethal power of the soldiers.
"Huh! It's nothing! Don't praise the three of you! However, there is one thing to discuss with the three of them. Cao Zhenyan jumped off his horse under the service of the domestic slaves, walked to his temporary tent, and a copy of the manuscript was taken by the soldier, Cao Zhenyan read it several times to express his agreement, and handed it to Bolo.
"After our army captured Tongguan, a certain family planned to play the regent and make an enclosure order in the Guanzhong area of Shaanxi, what do the three of you think?!"
After capturing Tongguan, the enclosure order was implemented in Qinchuan, a famous and wealthy 800-mile area in Shaanxi? ! Cao Zhenyan's words, just like the slogan in front of the marching procession, suddenly made the nobles of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, such as Bolo and Pillong, Suke Saha, as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.
Eight hundred miles of Qinchuan! Rao is that these Eight Banners Manchurian relatives and nobles are all from Liaodong and are not familiar with Shaanxi and other provinces in Guannai, but they can't stand the fact that there are people around them who are familiar with these areas! What are the eight Jin merchants, Wang Pu and others who surrendered to the Qing army, and those loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in Beijing, they are very familiar with these places! The ground in this pass, but from the Qin Emperor and Han Wu period, it is a famous rich place, and in recent years, it has been repairing water conservancy canals, and planting cotton, and it is very rich! Let's enter Tongguan, and order our sons and daughters to ride good horses and put on flags, just go and run! The people of the land encircled within the hooves of our banner are ours!
After the Qing army entered Beijing, hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Eight Banners also entered Beijing. In order to solve the livelihood of the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners, it was decided to forcibly occupy the land near Beijing, and then issued an order to enclose the land. In December of the first year of Shunzhi, it was stipulated that all the ownerless wasteland of the Han people in all prefectures and counties near Beijing would be enclosed and distributed to the kings and soldiers from the east. In the first year of Shunzhi, Emperor Shunzhi "set up an order to set up a finger circle", "ordered to give the imperial history and other officials in the matter to survey the acres in the interior of the country, from the public circle." For example, the ownerless wasteland in 24 prefectures and counties such as Mancheng and Qingdu will be given to the banner at the discretion of the main land in Yizhou and other places, and the ownerless land in Mancheng and other places will not be given to the nearby residents.
"All civil graves in Manchuria are allowed to be swept by their descendants for three years at any time." The so-called "performance survey" actually means that it does not "perform" or "survey". It is a "horse race", and the horsepower is the range of "from the male circle". There are three main forms of enclosure: one is to enclose the fertile land in Beijing to the Qing nobles, and in addition, to let farmers cultivate outside the mountain customs is called "enclosure"; The second is that the original enclosure area is too far away from Beijing, or because of the "alkali salt barren" land, to make up for the farmers near Beijing called "full exchange"; The third is the "ownerless wasteland" left by the Fanming royal family in the prefectures and counties of Huangzhuang, which is all assigned to the Manchurian nobles and the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners, which is called "encirclement".
According to the above order, the banner people carried ropes and rode horses, and large-scale enclosures occupied the land of the Han people. Many peasants were displaced, starved and cold; At the same time, they forced Han peasants to "surrender" (i.e., attach themselves to the Manchu aristocracy) to replenish their ranks of strong men. In order to obtain political asylum, some Han landlords even took land to surrender. After the land was encircled, the nobles, officials, and soldiers of the Eight Banners were given varying amounts of land according to their respective status and the number of strong men they belonged to. Most of it fell into the hands of nobles and officials. The enclosure is mainly in Shuntian, Baoding, Chengde, Yongping, Hejian and other prefectures within 3,500 miles of Beijing
(Well, what about good temperance and backbone?) How can there still be Han landlords who bring land to charge? Just so willing to be someone else's minion? Probably also to be the local emperor of the soil, Zhuangtou, just like the two Zhuangtou of Wujinxiao and Wujinzhong brothers in the Dream of Red Mansions, don't look at the three grandsons who are inferior in front of Jia Zhen, and they are also stomping and trembling in all directions on his one-acre and three-point land. )
Since it was possible to enclose land in the Gyeonggi region, why couldn't the 800-mile Qinchuan land, which had been slaughtered and mutilated by thieves for many years, occupy those borderless lands? It is also necessary to let these lands give full play to their due role and provide military rations for the Qing court, and of course, first of all, to provide enough money for the nobles of the Eight Banners to purchase all kinds of luxury goods from the south.
Thinking that the fertile and fertile Qinchuan behind Tongguan was about to become his own Zhuangzi under the hooves of his own horses, Bolo and Ji Bilong and the others were all overjoyed. However, in the end, it was the figure who once became the four auxiliary ministers in history, and Sukh Saha's political acumen was much more shrewd than that of Suppilon and Bolo. Not only did he think that such a measure could certainly boost the morale of the current Qing army, so that they could frantically pounce on Tongguan regardless of casualties under the huge temptation of wealth and fields, and could take any city behind Tongguan, but enclosing land would also hurt the interests of others. And these people were what the Qing army had to win over at this time.
These people are the big officials and gentry in Shaanxi.
Back then, it was they who turned the clouds and rain with their hands and forced Sun Chuanting, who was working hard in Shaanxi to implement the new policy and train the new army, out of Tongguan to go to a decisive battle with Li Zicheng. In order to resist his single-minded new policy, of course, we welcome you to restore and repair water conservancy facilities in the Guanzhong area. Because, after the canal is repaired, it is natural to give priority to irrigating our land. If there is water, naturally we will have a lot of harvest in the fields, and if there is no water, we can get the fields in the hands of those poor ghosts. However, it's not right for your deaf grandson to promote the bullshit's one-in-one errand and one-in-one food! So, this is the scene where Sun Chuanting went out of Tongguan with hatred and was defeated in western Henan.
Sukh Saha thought of it and said that he had heard of the faces and energy of these people in many ways. If they clash with this generation because of the enclosure, and force them to throw themselves into the camp of Li Zicheng or the Ming Dynasty and the Southern Guangdong Army, then it will do the Qing army a hundred harms and no benefits to pacify Shaanxi.
"General, if the decree of enclosing land is implemented in Qinchuan, of course, the whole army will cheer, and my Eight Banners will be happy. However, what about the officials and gentlemen in the land of Qinchuan? As far as the minions know, this generation has always been loyal and righteous, and has been bullied and coerced by thieves for a long time, and they hate thieves to the core. Looking forward to my royal teacher, it can be said that it is like looking at the clouds in a great drought, and the baby is like looking at a nanny. If our army implements the law of enclosure as soon as it enters Qinchuan, it will inevitably chill the hearts of this generation. ”
Sukh Saha's words were half-literate and half-white, and Suppilon and Bolo didn't understand it too well. However, Cao Zhenyan heard it very clearly. Su Ke Saha is worried that once the land is enclosed in the Guanzhong area of Shaanxi, there will inevitably be a situation of encroachment on the interests of the local gentry, and these people can make good use of it, which can help us quickly pacify Li Zicheng's troops in the Shaanxi area, but if we act too hastily and have too serious conflicts of interest with them, then we will inevitably push them to Li Zicheng or Li Shouhan's side. Even if they're neutral, that's not a good thing for us. At the very least, the Allies who could fight for it did not get it!
After listening to Sukh Saha's words, a look of approval appeared on Cao Zhenyan's face. Although Cao Zhenyan didn't know that Sukh Saha had stood on the right side at critical moments many times in history, and finally climbed to the top of the auxiliary minister. However, the concern he had just shown was enough to see the man's political prowess. Know to pull in as many allies as possible!
However, what Cao Zhenyan didn't know even more, Suke Saha's death was also related to the enclosure. That's because after Dolgon's death, the two white flags lost their backers and were fiercely counterattacked by the two yellow flags. The ministers and nobles of the two yellow flags, headed by Ao Bai, demanded that the land occupied by the two yellow flags be exchanged for the two white flags. The reason is that the land enclosed at the time of entry was distributed according to the order of the left and right wings, but because Prince Rui Dolgon was resting in Yongping Mansion, the area around Yongping that should belong to the yellow flag was given to the Zhengbai flag, and the yellow flag was divided into Baoding Mansion, Hejian Mansion and Zhuozhou at the end of the right wing. Now that Dorgon deserves it, the bad government of his reign must be reversed. Return the land that should have belonged to the yellow flag to its original owner. This is the famous battle for the encirclement of the flag land. It was this wave that caused Sukh Saha to die. By the way, according to the family dialect of a certain Baoyi, Lord Wei entered the palace before this trend and met Xiao Xuanzi.
"It's the son of Suna! Sure enough, it is better than the blue! Cao Zhenyan first praised Sukh Saha, but then immediately pointed his finger at a few lines on the paperwork, and ordered the military to read it to Sukh Saha.
"I encircled the land of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, and it was originally a land occupied by the borderless and the land occupied by the thieves. If there is a land occupied by thieves, it was originally owned by the gentry of good people, and the original owner was allowed to report to the government for the record and then take it back for cultivation and operation. ”
It's not a lot, but it's a lot of information.
After more than 2,000 years of farming, where is there any unclaimed land in the Guanzhong region? Who is the so-called Borderlands? Aren't those ordinary people who are fighting small people?! To occupy the borderless land is to clearly tell the Shaanxi gentry that your land will never move an inch in the Qing Dynasty!
Most of the land occupied by the so-called thieves was the land occupied by the Qin Dynasty in Shaanxi in those years. Since Zhu Fan was crowned King of Qin, there were 11 16 princes and 15 county kings in the Qin Wangfu line, and there were countless relatives from the general of Zhenguo to the lieutenant of the auxiliary state. Such a large group has occupied a huge amount of land in the Guanzhong area for 300 years. However, after Li Zicheng defeated Sun Chuanting and conquered Xi'an, most of these lands became the official land of the Dashun army, that is, the land occupied by the thieves mentioned by Cao Zhenyan. Most of these lands are now good and fertile, with canals for irrigation and crops such as cotton, wheat, millet, and sesame.
On the one hand, I said that the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty only occupied the land of the borderless and the land occupied by the thieves, which is equivalent to giving the Shaanxi gentry a reassurance, rest assured! We're not going to touch an inch of your land!
Not only will it not touch the land of the Shaanxi gentry, but on the other hand, Cao Zhenyan generously invited the Shaanxi gentry to share the fruits of victory after defeating Li Zicheng. "The land occupied by the thieves was originally owned by the gentry of good people, and the original owner was allowed to report to the government for the record and take it back for cultivation and operation." As long as you cooperate with us, then we can sit down and sit down together to share the fruits of the fields that were originally occupied by the noble eunuchs of the clan that were confiscated by the Dashun Army.
As a result, Cao Zhenyan's document of occupying the flag land in the Eight Banners in the Guanzhong area of Shaanxi Province after taking Tongguan has evolved into an agreement on the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty and the officials and generals of the Qing Dynasty to share the spoils with the Han landlords and gentry in the Shaanxi region!
Not only can they share the fruits, but Cao Zhenyan Baylor wants to restore law and order, and restore the Wanli preferential and exempt rules in Shaanxi, a land that has been poisoned by thieves, to rest and recuperate with the people. Of course, the premise is that you cooperate with me and the Qing Dynasty to take out our common enemy Li Zicheng together! After this purpose is accomplished and carried out, your property will be protected by me and the fruits of victory will be shared.
(Writing this, the unkind author remembered one more thing.) If the Japanese in 1937 had put forward similar principles or conditions for cooperation, such as making the principle of Japan and China working together to defend the Communists more detailed and protecting the interests of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang consortium and the four major families, would the president have kept sending people to negotiate armistice and peace with the Japanese from 1937 to 1941? If the Japanese can agree to the president's proposal to restore the situation between China and Japan before the July 7 Incident, will the president still go all the way west, from Nanjing to Wuhan, from Wuhan to Chongqing, and from Chongqing to Xichang? )