Liaodong, the pain of the Ming Dynasty;

Liaodong, the wound of the Ming Dynasty;

Liaodong, the shame of the Ming Dynasty;

Liaodong, the humiliation of the Ming Dynasty!

The pain of the Ming Dynasty, the pain in the people of Liaodong, no matter how to cover up and confuse after the Manchu Dynasty, the facts are there, the residents of Liaodong in later generations are almost all the descendants of the people of North China during the "Guandong" period, what about the aborigines of Liaodong, disappeared for no reason?

When Nurhachi first entered Liaodong, the slogan was "Enyang Nikan", to eliminate the maladministration of the Ming Dynasty and save the people of Liaodong, but what was the result?

Will the aggressor treat the invaded equally? The land is occupied by the enemy, do you still want to live a stable life? Later, the people who believed in him basically died.

At the beginning, Nurhachi did something "Ji Ding to grant land", it seemed that he wanted to fight local tyrants and equal the land, but as a result, most of the good land in Liaodong was circled by him and awarded to the children of the Eight Banners. The rest is to "plan Ding to grant land", and to pay taxes, to serve labor, to give free labor to plant the emperor's land, but also to draw Ding to fight, more ruthless than the Ming court!

If this is the case, it will be enough, no matter how hard and tired the people are, at least they can still live, but when the true nature of the invaders is revealed, their end will come.

The Later Jin rulers Nurhachi and Huang Taiji were both known for their ferocity and cruelty, and they killed people for many reasons:

Under the oppression of their harsh government, there are always Liao people who rise up to resist, and their approach to the rebels is usually "the city gate is on fire, and the pond fish are affected", once they resist, Houjin immediately carried out brutal suppression, and whether you participated in the rebellion or not, all the Liao people in the rebellious areas were either slaughtered or all arrested as slaves!

Are you okay if you don't resist? That's wrong, Houjin will regularly send troops to check the Liao people, and those who beg for life will be killed directly, so that you will be lazy, do not farm, waste food, and kill; If the food stock does not meet the standard, it will be killed, why is there so little food stored at home? If you don't farm well, you want to escape back to the arms of the Ming Dynasty, you have bad intentions, what is the benefit of staying, killing; There is too much food at home, and they are also killed, everyone is Ji Ding to give the field, why is there so much food in your family, it must be Diao Min, kill!

Anyway, it is poor and killed, rich and killed, lazy and diligent, resistant and killed, not resistant, even if you don't kill, you will be arrested as a slave, Houjin has only been in Liaodong for more than ten years, the original inhabitants of Liaodong have almost been slaughtered, and those who escaped with their lives have all become slaves of the children of the Eight Banners, and only a few lackeys and traitors have been incorporated into the "Han Eight Banners", as a puppet army, and worked hard for Houjin.

Originally, the people of the fields were rich in valleys, the people of Ze were rich in fishing, the mountain people were rich in materials, the people of the sea were rich in goods, rich in food and clothing, and the rich and beautiful Liaodong was sharply reduced by the people of Houjin, the fields were barren, the houses were broken, the industries were withered, and the pain of the Liao people was almost unwanted.

The wound of the Ming Dynasty is in the finances, and there are various objective reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, but the most direct reason is that there is no money, and the financial crisis is the fatal wound of the Ming Dynasty.

Because there was no money for disaster relief, the victims rebelled; Because there was no money to pay food, the army mutinied; Because there was no money to support the border army, the combat effectiveness of the border army continued to decline, which led to the final collapse. The financial crisis of the Ming Dynasty began in Liaodong, began with the invasion of the Later Jin, and began with the military expenditure of Liaodong that was higher than one year a year.

The Later Jin invasion of Liaodong began in the forty-sixth year of Wanli (1618 AD), before that, although the Ming Dynasty was not very rich, but the life of the people was still quite good, which can be seen in the side description of some folk chapters.

Like there is a narrative in this romance: The Ming Dynasty passed to Wanli, not to mention other benefits, only to say that firewood, rice, oil, salt, chicken, duck, fish, meat and so on, which one is not cheap? For example, a family of several people, the daily big fish and meat, the cost is only two or three dollars, which is a big expense. There are also those small families, who shoulder the burden and earn twenty or thirty yuan a day, and they can live for a day. In the evening, you can also eat some wine, drunken jokes, sing Wu songs, listen to and listen to stories, arch the fire in winter and cool in summer, and play in every way. At that time, everyone's small households lived happily, and the same was true in the north and south of Beijing and thirteen provinces.

Before the Later Jin invasion of Liaodong, the army of the Ming Dynasty was not weak, such as the Battle of Ningxia to quell the rebellion of the Tatar Bobai, the Battle of Korea to resist the invasion of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the Battle of Banzhou to quell the rebellion of Tusi Yang Yinglong, and the Battle of Ming Burma that lasted for more than ten years, the Ming army won the final victory.

But since the invasion of the Later Jin, the situation has completely changed, the Ming Dynasty spends on Liaodong's military spending gradually increasing, Wanli forty-seven years (AD 1619) Liaodong military spending has reached three million taels, to Chongzhen sixteen years (AD 1643), Liaodong's military spending has risen to a terrifying nine million taels!

At that time, the tax of the Ming Dynasty was only more than 20 million taels a year, except for the officials' salaries, the daily expenses of the imperial court, and the food and salary of other armies, it was impossible to make up so much military expenses.

The depth of the financial wound can be said to have directly killed the Ming Dynasty.

The shame of the Ming Dynasty is the shame of those cowardly, incompetent, brawling in the nest and even the generals who surrendered directly to Houjin.

In the Battle of Salhu, Li Rubai, the main general of the Ming Army's South Road, was slow to act, delayed the fighter, and Hou Jin did not use a single soldier against him, but he led more than 20,000 Ming troops to flee in a hurry, resulting in trampling on each other, killing and wounding more than 1,000 people, shameful!

Then, there was Wang Huazhen, the governor of Liaodong, who talked about the army on paper, regardless of the actual situation, and advocated a counterattack on Houjin, and when the Houjin soldiers arrived, he abandoned Guangning and fled without a fight, shameful!

Of course, they are not the most shameful, and later there are Ming Dynasty generals Hong Chengchou and Zu Dashou who were defeated and captured, and surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty on their knees, resulting in the loss of the entire line of Liaodong, these two people are even more shameful.

To talk about the most shameless, when the four major feudal kings of the early Qing Dynasty, Wu Sangui, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, these four people can be said to be shameless, not only led the army to surrender to the Manchu Qing, but also helped the Manchu Qing to attack the Ming army, especially Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, led the Qing army into the customs, and as the pioneer of the Qing army, led the army to attack the Southern Ming, and led the troops into Burma, forced the Burmese king to hand over the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and finally hanged him with his own hands, the traitor did it to such an extent, it can be said that for thousands of years, no one can match, shameful, shameful, shameful!

The humiliation of the Ming Dynasty, the humiliation of being bullied by the Hou Jin slave, the Hou Jin Taizu Nurhachi is just a guard commander under the command of the Ming Nuer Gandu Command Envoy, like him The internal and external guard commanders, there are a total of 329 in the Ming Dynasty, and there are also commanders of the guards and the governors of the five armies, so it can be said that he is just a middle-level military general in the Ming Dynasty.

Although he later unified the Jurchen tribes and established the Later Jin regime, the total population of the Jurchen tribe was only about one million, and even if all the people were soldiers, there were only more than 100,000 young and strong men who could be gathered. At this time, the Ming Dynasty has a population of hundreds of millions, and there are no less than one million regular troops alone, so it can be said that the two are not at the same level at all!

If someone said before the Battle of Salhu that Houjin could defeat Daming, it would definitely be considered insanity, what are you kidding, one million against ten thousand, defeating an opponent who is a hundred times stronger than himself, is it possible?

However, Da Ming was really defeated by an opponent who was a hundred times weaker than himself, and almost lost the entire Liaodong in one battle! It can be said that Houjin has created a miracle of defeating the strong with the weak. And the Ming Dynasty also created a miracle, sitting on millions of miles of rivers and mountains, ruling hundreds of millions of people, and being beaten by a middle-level military general under his own rule without the power to fight back, shame!

The humiliation of Liaodong has almost become a taboo, a big taboo, few people are willing to mention it, even if it is mentioned, it will make the people who see and hear it dissatisfied, and even annoyed and angry, and even worse, they will even be instantly delirious and begin to .......

I won't talk about it here, I'm afraid it will be pointed out by thousands of households, so let's go back to the topic and continue to talk about Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong.

Liaodong Liaodong, our Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong came through time, so he naturally knew how much pain Liaodong had brought to the Ming Dynasty, and how much shame the Houjin had made the Ming Dynasty bear.

When he first ascended the throne, it was when the Ming Dynasty was in turmoil, infighting was continuous, and natural disasters continued, and the Ming Dynasty at that time could be said to be extremely weak, and he didn't dare to touch the taboo of Liaodong at all.

It's not that he doesn't want to recover Liaodong, but he doesn't dare to think about it at all, at that time, the Ming Dynasty couldn't recover Liaodong at all, there was no money, food, no army, he couldn't even control the situation, how could he fight with others?

Now it's different, in the past four years or so, he has successively cleaned up the eunuch group and the Jiangnan Shidafu group, and all the civil and military generals have been replaced by capable and trustworthy people, most of whom are his cronies, even if they are not his cronies, they are basically good officials who are dedicated to the country and the people, honest and honest, and upright, as long as he doesn't do too much, these people basically won't oppose him.

It can be said that the entire imperial court is already under his control, and the recovery of Liaodong already has a solid political foundation.

In terms of finance, he confiscated the eunuch group and the Jiangnan Shidafu group to obtain hundreds of millions of taels of silver, not to mention that he also established the Rixinglong firm and the Daming Western Commerce, and now these two huge entities have gradually embarked on the right track, with a monthly income of no less than 10 million taels.

It can be said that he Chongzheng Emperor is not short of money at all now, and he has a solid economic foundation for recovering Liaodong.

In terms of the army, he has successively promoted Qin Liangyu, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting, Shi Kefa and other famous generals, as well as Sun Chengzong, Yuan Keli, Yuan Chonghuan, Man Gui, Cao Wenzhao and other Liaodong generals. As for the number of troops, after several expansions, the Ming Dynasty now has 200,000 Jingying Praetorian Guards, 300,000 Liaodong Army, 100,000 Tianxiong Army, 100,000 Qin Army, 250,000 Northwest Defenders, and nearly 300,000 Southeast Defenders, plus the original border army of the Ming Dynasty is no less than 1.5 million!

It can be said that now it is possible to casually gather 100,000 or even 200,000 troops to expedition to Liaodong, and the recovery of Liaodong already has a strong military foundation.

Finally, the most important point is that with the improvement and application of muskets and artillery, the Ming army has completely suppressed the post-gold iron cavalry in field warfare, and thermal weapons have begun to dominate the battlefield, and the days of relying on cavalry to fight the world are gone.

Now, the Ming Dynasty has the conditions to recover Liaodong in terms of politics, economy, and military, coupled with the advantage of thermal weapons, the certainty of recovering Liaodong is even greater, and Zhu Cijiong naturally no longer hesitates:

When the ice and snow melted in the fifth year of Chongzheng, it was the day when the Ming Dynasty waved its army to Liaodong, and when the time came, all the pain and all the shame would be healed in one fell swoop!