Chapter Ninety-Five: Rich is the Holy Lord
"Ladies and gentlemen, is Your Majesty the Holy Lord Mingjun?"
Yang Qing jumped directly onto the silver mountain and shouted at the surrounding Beijing camp generals.
"Holy Lord Mingjun!"
The generals roared excitedly.
The silver mountain shone brightly in the sun, and it shone brightly on them.
Indeed, as long as there is silver, then it must be the Holy Lord Mingjun, if there is no silver......
No money, that's a fart!
Five million taels of silver, according to the weight, it must be close to two hundred tons! At the moment, piled up in such an exaggerated way, there is nothing easier to buy people's hearts, no promise can compare to this, and no language is pale in front of this.
In other words, these camps are not insured!
Because most of them are southerners, they are inextricably linked with the gentry in Jiangnan, although the contradictions between the civil and military, as well as the gentry's natural contempt for the Qiu Ba, make the relationship between them not so close, but it is not opposite, and it is not difficult for the gentry to buy them. If Chongzhen wants to gain the loyalty of these generals and soldiers, it is not enough to rely on the twelve crowns on his head, he has to take out the silver to give these people a worry-free life, and give their families a worry-free life, otherwise why should people work for him?
Emperor?
The emperor can't do it either!
If the military households are like in the past, they have all become peasants and beg for food, then whoever is really loyal to him is a fool!
And now it is enough.
"There is a holy decree that each soldier in the Beijing camp will be given 50 acres of Yongye field, this field is not an official field, but a soldier's private land, and will never be paid, and an official school will be set up in the army, and the children and grandchildren of the soldiers in the Beijing camp will enter the official school, and the emperor will send someone to teach them to read, without spending any money, and set up a medical center, and the soldiers and their parents and children will receive free medical treatment and a nursing home, and the parents and children of the dead soldiers will be raised by the emperor ......."
Yang Qing continued to shout.
This was all his idea for Chongzhen.
To put it simply, he wanted to turn Jingying into Chongzhen's Eight Banners, and although the Eight Banners slavery was a regression of civilization, it must be understood that this system could isolate them from the gentry for a short time.
That's enough.
Although the experience of our Qing Dynasty has proved that they have become corrupt and degenerate, from fierce barbarian tribe warriors to a level of green camp, in fact, it is only a few decades, and basically the shelf life is not even thirty years, but thirty years is still enough for Chongzhen, even if His Majesty the Emperor is conservative in his plan, thirty years is enough for him to reorganize the rivers and mountains to rejuvenate the Ming Dynasty.
And Chongzhen actually didn't pay much.
The official fields in Jiangnan and Huainan are somewhat, and these people themselves are all guards in this area, which is nothing more than turning the official fields they cultivate into their own, and they have changed from peasants in the original army to homesteaders, and they are also yeoman farmers who do not have to pay taxes. Originally, most of their harvest had to be handed over, and their burden even exceeded that of ordinary tenants, and in addition, a large number of official lands were encroached upon by officials and nobles, and many military households did not even have land to support their families, so they finally had to choose to flee.
And now Chongzhen directly gave them the land.
Then compulsory education and free medical care were implemented in these military households, plus nursing homes and orphanages, a total of 120,000 people, Chongzhen was equivalent to receiving 120,000 household slaves, and the income of the family was no problem to support for two or three years.
It is said that Chongzhen also has tens of millions of dollars.
Fifty acres of land for 120,000 households is enough to support their wives and children, after all, these are the rich paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River, and the output of the rich paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River is not comparable to the north, and Chongzhen is only responsible for giving them monthly military salaries, and also undertaking education, medical care and nursing homes, which do not add up to too much, and the military salaries of 120,000 people are only two or three million taels per year, and Chongzhen's financial resources will not be under pressure even if there is no new income to support them for four years in the future.
In fact, two years is enough.
Two years was enough time for the army to really grow, and the remaining silver could equip them with better weapons.
This is important.
It is said that although the training is in accordance with Qi Jiguang's art of war, but the equipment must not be used with tiger squat cannons, this has to be replaced with a mountain splitting cannon, and the same large lifting rod and the arquebus that ensures the quality must also be matched, this problem is not difficult to solve, as long as the craftsman is paid more, and the quality supervision system is improved. In particular, the responsible person system is perfected, and the competent officials are punished first if there is a problem, and they are not interfered with by the civil system.
There must be a mortar, improved by the tiger squat cannon, and even the flowering bomb with a woodpipe fuse can not be missing, and more importantly, it must be accompanied by a grenadier, Yang Qing's tactic of throwing explosives bags has been widely spread, and it is said that even Li Zicheng has begun to train grenadiers, after all, this is very effective against our Daqing shield car heavy infantry.
If possible, it would be best to make a flintlock pistol.
But this estimate is enough to choke.
The self-generated firecracker of the Ming Dynasty was a retainer for ignition, which was very unreliable, and even in European history, there was no real large number of equipment, and it was during this period of time that European countries began to abandon their arquebuses in large quantities, and then replaced them with flintlock pistols invented by Mahan. However, it must be admitted that the firearms technology of the Ming Dynasty has lagged behind a lot, although the Ming Dynasty has a lot of firearms that are theoretically not inferior to Europe, but it has fallen behind in the two most important aspects of guns, but the Ming Dynasty has not stopped keeping up with the pace of Europe. Therefore, at this time, it is still difficult to guarantee whether the craftsmen in Nanjing can make the spring sheet used in the flintlock pistol, which is not only a matter of craftsman technology, the key to the steel industry is not only technology and raw materials, Daming does not have Sweden's god-level iron ore, and Daming's low-grade iron ore needs more advanced technology to reach the same level.
Seventy percent iron ore is not the same as thirty or forty percent iron ore.
Therefore, Yang Qingcai was worried about Shilu Iron Mine.
But it will not take a short time for this iron mine to be developed, first the exiled coolies must be transported and resettled, then the veins must be found in the tropical forests of Changhua, and secondly, the vegetation and soil on the surface must be cleared before development can be discussed.
Two years is not enough.
In two years, the coolies can be settled.
It would be nice to be able to dig up iron ore in five years.
Therefore, in the short term, Yang Qing can only provide Chongzhen with our Daqing version of the solution, using a combination of mountain splitting cannons and large lifting poles, and this combination has been proven by Zeng to shave his head is also the most suitable for southern water network and mountain warfare, and Chongzhen's Beijing camp is the same as the Hunan army that has shaved his head, and it is also the most suitable for transformation, as for the combat effectiveness of this Beijing battalion......
That's about Yang Qing's!
This is Chongzhen's army, not his.
At least 120,000 Beijing battalions beat Zuo Liangyu and those Jiangbei warlords without any pressure, and even in the face of the Qing army, it was enough to fight, the latter was to force the rotten guards on the eastern battlefield, and Li Zicheng could only be said to be slightly stronger. Originally, the battle of Shanhaiguan in history was not mentioned, even after the battle of Shanhaiguan, the Qing army did not crush Li Zicheng, and even suffered losses on the battlefield in Shaanxi, but such a thing will not be recorded, whether it is the history of our Qing Dynasty or the private records of the remnants, this kind of thing will not be recorded, but through the record of the Qing army's combat process in Shaanxi, it can be inferred that something is obviously covered up.
And let alone put it on a global scale.
If you put it on a global scale......
Second Master Gu will trample them on the ground and rub them.
The Ming army of Hunan is enough to deal with them, which has been proved by the Qi family army on the battlefield in Liaodong, although the number is small and the pig teammates are sold to fight alone, but the Qi army on the bank of the Hunhe River still makes it extremely difficult for the Qing army, which has several times the advantage, after seriously regressing without Qi Jiguang.
That's enough.
Could it be that Yang Qing really went all out to help Chongzhen?
Stop it!
He still understands the truth of rabbit dead dog cooking.
Now Chongzhen is indeed inseparable from him, and he needs to be a thug to make money, but once Chongzhen completes the layout and establishes his position and cleans up the threat, he will definitely ease the relationship with the gentry again, and then return to the era of the lord and the sage and return to the era of civil power. This is a feudal emperor's must choose, military generals can grab the country, but civil officials are impossible, Chongzhen is a feudal emperor after all, everything he does is just to keep his country, of course, you can't continue to do that in the past in the current extraordinary period......
It is said that Zhao Gou also delegated power to Yue Fei and Han Shizhong and others at first, but the first thing after the situation stabilized was still to rebuild the civil service system.
Chongzhen will not be an exception.
When the situation is stable, Chongzhen will inevitably choose to reconcile with the gentry, and if he reconciles with the gentry, he must kick Yang Qing aside to calm the latter's grievances.
So Yang Qing also has to keep a hand.
He can't really help Chongzhen improve his military strength without reservation, and the stronger Chongzhen's strength, the more dangerous he is in the Storm Pavilion.
It is the same whether he is faithful or not.
Besides, Chongzhen also knew that his loyalty was not pure at all......
He's got a fart loyalty.
When Chongzhen was knocked away by the shoulder, Chongzhen already knew that he was not a loyal minister, not to mention the eyebrows between him and Li Zicheng, there was only one loyal minister in Chongzhen's heart, Wang Chengen, Han Zan Zhou was stronger than him, his loyalty was just lustful, just because he was fascinated by his daughter, or this is also love! Chongzhen is sometimes very lucky, if it weren't for this daughter, it is estimated that he would not even be able to get out of Beijing City, fortunately, there is still a period of filial piety, and second, the horse booked by the princess has been abolished because the whole family surrendered to Li Zicheng, and the princess is only fifteen years old this year, so the honeymoon period of their monarch and ministers can still last for three years.
As for the future......
Who will know in the future!
Yang Qing looked at the cheering generals around him with embarrassment.