Chapter 884: Mirror
After Dai Shan finished speaking, he left, leaving Huang Taiji in a daze. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Haigaifu and other prefectures suffered a terrible massacre in the third year of the Apocalypse, and the hosts were Daishan and Amin and others, of course, they were also ordered by Nurhachi.
At the beginning of the seizure of central and southern Liaoning, Nurhachi still planned to make good use of the manpower of the Han people, severely punished the Jurchen officers and soldiers who killed the Han people without permission, and was not allowed to plunder the Han people's property and acres at will.
The most critical change is in the amount of food produced.
For many years of failed harvests and reduced outputs, disasters have led to grain shortages, and there has been an overall shortage of grain in eastern Liaoning, central Liaoning, and southern Liaoning, and the lack of grain has also caused people's hearts to fluctuate, and even the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners has been weakened a lot...... At present, the number of officers and soldiers who are out of production in the Eight Banners is still very small, and the main reason is that they are usually confined to the fields or sent to pick dried ginseng fruits, or fishing and hunting.
These agricultural activities will not increase the fighting power of the bannermen, and they are also the most worrying thing among the upper nobles.
The Jurchens are a purely military organization, it has not been a state for many years, this so-called state is a large bandit group, what they are best at is looting and annexing, which requires strong force.
When the upper echelons found that the looted land had not been harvested and the people under their rule could not support themselves, what did these so-called nobles, in fact, robber leaders, want to do, and how much more do they need to think about?
Huang Taiji was stunned for a while, until the Tang horse in the distance rushed over.
"Great Khan," said the Tang Horse, dressed in an arrow robe, half-kneeling, "the expedition to Mongolia has returned, and it is still nearly sixty miles away. ”
"Okay," said Nurhachi, smiling, "that's a coincidence, let's go and greet it." ”
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This expedition to Mongolia was one of a series of regular wars against Mongolia by the Jurchens in the past two years. The conquest was dominated by disobedient elements from the Nenjiang and Alu Korqin tribes, and their strength was weak, and the strength of the tribe was also very poor.
Belesotto and Beizidege and others were ordered to lead more than 3,000 armor men and bannermen to go out with the army, because it was a conquest of Mongolia, all the followers were horses with horses, more than 3,000 cavalry with a large number of horses from the steppe to return, they were in the middle of the spring, when the wheat had not yet set head, but now it was about to be ripe for harvest.
Nurhachi ordered the killing of two oxen to meet the marching army, and Shuoto and the others dismounted, prostrate on the ground, hugged Nurhachi's feet, and performed the highest courtesy hug.
The commander-in-chief Suo Haihai reported: "On this expedition, he defeated the tribes of Santutaiji, and obtained seven hundred horses, two thousand eight hundred and eighty-two cattle, thirteen thousand three hundred and thirty sheep, one thousand two hundred and eighty men, and fifty camels. ”
"Good." Nurha Chi showed a happy look on his face and ordered: "The eight banner lords Beyler and the capital hall will discuss and give the remaining cattle, sheep, war horses and dingkou to the meritorious Beyler Bezi and the elder brothers, and they will each reward the meritorious soldiers under their command. ”
Suo Hai said again: "Santu Taiji has a letter to the Great Khan. ”
Nurhachi was in high spirits today, so he asked someone to bring a stool, sat down and said, "Read it and listen to it." ”
At this time, the sky suddenly darkened, and everyone felt that the wind was gradually getting stronger, and the strong south wind blew the corners of people's robes and robes, blowing the wheat fields and bending downward, like waves layer by layer, whistles sounded in the distant woodland, and the sheep and cattle in the distance made one cry after another, and the captured Mongolian Dingkou looked sluggish, guarded by the Jurchens in armor, they were still a lucky group, they would not be slaughtered, and most of them would be the whole family together, women and children farmed, and the men were incorporated into the left and right wings of Mongolia. For the Jurchen Great Khan to conquer the south and the north.
"Lord of all nations......" Suo Hai began to read aloud, he deliberately used Mongolian, many Jurchens spoke Mongolian directly, most of the Jurchens could also understand Mongolian, Suo Hai read aloud: "Lord of all nations, Wise Khan, my wife, little people, and animals, were all captured by the soldiers you sent. I am not at fault, and I have to be held accountable, it was my father who offended the Great Khan that day, how can you blame me? It's like the fault of me, and it is also because of that time, my men hunted in the Wuertong River and met the envoy of Horqin, who was at fault and was arrested by my people. This matter has been made clear to the Great Khan. If the mistake arises because of this, I will be punished enough, and I hope that the Great Khan will have mercy and return my wife and children to me. I would like to give all my possessions to the Great Khan, and I don't usually have the opportunity to give a single gift, but this time I have no complaints. The Great Khan once told me not to worry about the bloody war in the future, and hoped that the Great Khan would remember those words and have mercy on me......"
The Jurchens around listened, Beile, Beizi, Brothers, and the general soldiers of the Dutang, the guerrillas to the Fengyu, Mel Zhangjing, Jiala Zhangjing, Niu Lu Ezhen and Niu Lu Zhangjing, all of them showed a satisfied look on their faces.
They were indeed satisfied, conquered a tribe, struck a Mongol Taiji who was not very obedient, and now the other party softened, knelt down like a dog in front of the Great Khan and begged for forgiveness and forgiveness, and expressed his willingness to give money, that is, in addition to the looting gains, this tribe will also squeeze out the last drop of goat's milk in exchange for peace, in exchange for the trust of the Jurchens, this feeling, so that all the Jurchens present feel unparalleled dignity and pride.
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It was dark, and there was a dead silence everywhere in Liaoyang City, and only the homes of the highest-ranking nobles were brightly lit and kept quite lively.
Huang Taiji received an invitation and was going to the Khan Palace for a banquet tonight.
He is carefully grooming himself, in the bronze mirror is a face with big ears and slightly fat, big eyes, resolute eyes, high nose bridge, not handsome, but from clothing to demeanor are very carefully designed, so that people are in awe at a glance, there is a very obvious military aristocratic atmosphere.
Fierce, heroic, powerful, determined and willful, very noble, but also full of power and resourcefulness, and knowledge, this is the information that Huang Taiji strives to reveal to people from his every gesture and speech and demeanor, and it is not easy to do this.
But Huang Taiji did it, compared to the somewhat decrepit and unenterprising Dai Shan, the reckless and rude and scheming Mang Gurtai, and the overly gloomy and self-righteous Amin, Huang Taiji's appearance and bearing have always been respected by his nobles, and his prestige is getting higher and higher, and he is already the only candidate for the deserved next Great Khan.
The matter of the Thirteen Mountains did not damage his prestige, and it was proved that Huang Taiji's judgment was not wrong, the Thirteen Mountains is a very important place, as time goes by, this judgment is becoming more and more accepted by the public, the Thirteen Mountains have been stuck in the Houjin Grain Road, and the news of the attack on the grain road has come every three or five times, although the scale is not large, and the loss is not unacceptable, but after a few months, it is a shocking number.
The area ruled by the Later Jin Dynasty was already very large, and only a corner of the western part of the Liaodong Prefecture remained, and the entire eastern Liaodong, central Liaoning, southern Liaoning, and half of the western Liaoxi fell into the hands of the Later Jin, as well as the land of the extreme north, most of the Songnen Plain, all the way to the Heilongjiang River basin and even near Sakhalin Island.
There are more than three million people under the rule, this is still a large number of Liao people after fleeing and being slaughtered, there are many Liao people, originally in the Taiping years can also rely on various methods to make a living, the Ming Dynasty has a complete set of economic cycle circle in Liaodong, food income is only one aspect, from the trade system on the other side of the sea, the trade system outside the customs in Liaoxi, garrisons and officials, as well as the related classes, gentry and student class, merchants and small and medium-sized landlords, all kinds of complex social classes form a huge system, Peasants are only part of the system, Daming is too big, Liaodong is vast and sparsely populated, the situation of poor grain harvest will not be worse than northern Shaanxi, nor worse than Henan, which is too densely populated, in fact, the Xiaoice disaster in northern Daming is only Henan and northern Shaanxi, northern Jin and other places are the most serious, the main force of the peasant uprising also comes from these places, Shandong, Hebei, half of Shanxi and Shaanxi, Fuzhou counties around the Beijing division have not broken out peasant uprisings, if Liaodong has not experienced several years of brutal war, not hundreds of thousands of people have been slaughtered, Two million people were displaced, the gentry and the student class, the small and medium-sized landlords and the merchant class almost disappeared, and the support and circulation of Liao Town from the center of the Ming Dynasty and the rest of the places also disappeared of course, and the rest was a dilapidated place and three million were almost all the people at the bottom, that is, the peasants and small citizens who were reluctant to leave their homeland. And not a richer war dividend.
Huang Taiji can see the long-term more than ordinary Jurchens...... Natural disasters and famines will always pass, and three million Han people can cultivate at least tens of millions of acres of land, and the war support they can provide is far from comparable to tens of thousands of banners, and now they can't support 60,000 banners from farming, but the war plus the destruction of natural disasters, as long as this period of time is passed, Houjin's national strength will be extraordinary. Even now, the national strength of the Later Jin is still far beyond the Mongolia, the Hou Jin armor has sharp weapons, beautiful and strong iron armor, strict upper and lower organization and wartime system, from peacetime training to wartime mobilization, command, the Hou Jin side has an incomparable advantage of the Mongols, from the perspective of the militaristic system, the Hou Jin's capable and efficient system also exceeds the big and inappropriate Ming Empire, from the level of civilization the Hou Jin is one level lower, and from the perspective of the militaristic system of farming and warfare, the Hou Jin is not backward than the Ming Dynasty, Even more than a notch.
Huang Taiji had no interest in the banquet to celebrate the conquest of Mongolia, but he could not help but participate in such an occasion, if the old khan did not pick him up, or if he did not show up, there would be rumors the next day that he had fallen out of favor, and Huang Taiji would never allow such a thing to happen, even once.
When everything on his body was finished and every detail was perfected, Huang Taiji took a deep breath and instructed left and right: "Go, go to the Khan Palace." ”
A flag slave with a white flag stepped forward and said, "Master, Fushun Forehead Attachment came earlier, and the slave asked him to wait in the living room." ”
Huang Taiji is on the march, what is Li Yongfang doing at this time?