Chapter 807: Trilateral Proclamation
Three days after the city was broken, Yuan Chonghuan finally entered Guyuan City, and once again settled in the original trilateral governor's palace after more than two years.
Although there were two fierce battles in a few days in the original Trilateral Governor's Palace, and there were traces of killing and conquest everywhere, it was much luckier than the splendid and magnificent Saidaiji Temple in the city.
At least this original trilateral governor's palace, after two days of cleaning up, after cleaning up a large number of corpses, is still barely occupied.
And the Xidaiji Temple, whose scale and magnificence is second only to the Trilateral Governor's Mansion in Guyuan Castle, has now been reduced to a ruin under the attack of hundreds of fierce fire and oil bombs.
Saidaiji Temple burned for a day and a night before the fire was extinguished.
The old imam Sai Liangjun and the crowded Mu Suman in the Saidai Temple were reduced to scorched earth along with the large chapel of the Saidai Temple.
The fire of their prayers came down on their own heads.
After passing through the whole city under the command of the three governors, the Musu barbarians who failed to escape from the city with Yang Qizhuang, just like they slaughtered the helpless Han people that day, the officials and soldiers of the original Guyuan Town who were revenged, as well as those Mongolian cavalry who had no hatred and simply wanted their lives, were killed cleanly.
The day Yuan Chonghuan entered the city was the time when the officers and troops under the command of the Trilateral Governor's Mansion collected their swords.
With such an easy recapture of Guyuan City, a former important town in the northwest, Yuan Chonghuan and his left and right staff strategists also regained their self-confidence from a series of previous discouragements and frustrations.
After Yuan Chonghuan entered the city, he immediately sent a team of messengers, with the good news of the recovery of Guyuan and the next military arrangements, and hurried to Yan'an to report to Li Banghua, the Marquis of Dongsheng, the minister of military aircraft, and at the same time requested that a batch of grain, grass and ammunition be transported from Ganquanyu.
At the same time, Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of the three sides, led the army to recover Guyuan City, and killed in Guyuan City, and the news of the slaughter of tens of thousands of Mu Suman also spread, and quickly spread to Pingliang, Taomin Hezhou, and even Ganzhou in Hexi.
Like Po Ximu, after waiting for the imperial court to depose Yuan Chonghuan, as long as he had a step down, he immediately asked Ma Jinzhong, the commander of Hezhou, Ma Guangyu, the commander of Lintao, and Mi Layin, the commander of Ganzhou, and others, all of whom were dumbfounded, panicked, and recognized the situation.
Today's emperors are no longer the emperors who sought stability and feared chaos in the past, and today's Ming court is no longer the court that always exchanged concessions for peace a few years ago.
In their opinion, now this Chongzhen Emperor not only wants to save face, but also to have a heart, not only to collect their power, but also to take their lives!
After the news spread that Yuan Chonghuan did not accept prisoners in Guyuan City, opened a large-scale killing, and slaughtered tens of thousands of Mu Su Man, he had been fleeing westward, all the way to Ganzhou, and went to Ningxia Town, where he attached to Mi Layin and other Mu Su Barbarian officials and great imams.
After Yuan Chonghuan led his troops south, He Huchen, the chief military officer who still led the army to sit in the land of the five guards in Ningxia, not only did not stop it, but soon issued a proclamation of the trilateral governor's palace in the cities of the land of the five guards in Ningxia.
"Build my land in China, but Chinese people can live in it! Erjie Mu Suman has lived in the land of China for 300 years, and his heart is in other countries, he only knows that there is a religion, he does not know that there is Confucius and Mencius, he does not learn the Chinese etiquette and music system, and he does not follow the Chinese clothing and customs.
"My Taizu Emperor Gao once had an edict: Those who belong to me will always be in peace in China, and those who betray me will run outside the fortress! This emperor's ancestral teachings are applicable everywhere!
"Today, the trilateral governor's ministry issued a document announcing the Mu Su Barbarian of the three towns and said: The land of the three sides, the territory of China, the Mu Su Man came from the west, and this place is not the homeland of Er!
"Those who abandon their teachings, burn their scriptures, destroy their temples, change their customs and dress from China, can be regarded as Chinese people from now on, and they can still live in their places and still have their properties, and the government will also treat them as one with the Han people.
"Those who do not want to abandon their teachings, burn their scriptures, destroy their temples, change their customs and dress from China, can go west on their own and return to their origins!
"From now on, the government, the military and the people in all parts of the three sides can give the people a full moon period, open the road, and let the people go west.
"Anyone who does not change within the time limit, and has not heard of the wood speedy barbarians who have ordered the westward journey, and the army will arrive in the day, it will be regarded as an invasion of China by Yidi, and there will be no forgiveness for killing!"
As soon as the official document came out, the people in Ningxia Town were boiling again, but fortunately, the Gansu Town Army led by Mei Zhihuan and the Ningxia Town Army led by He Huchen had not followed Yuan Chonghuan south to Guyuan, and it was precisely to prevent this.
More than 30,000 border troops from Gansu and Ningxia, as well as hundreds of Han soldiers all over Ningxia, were waiting for these rebellions.
For these border soldiers and Han people who emigrated here, this was not a battle of faith, and it was not even clear why the Trilateral Governor's Office issued such a proclamation.
In their eyes, this is a struggle for land, but also a struggle for homeland.
Over the past two years, a large number of tenant farmers from northern Shaanxi, Guanzhong, Guyuan, Gannan and other places have been attracted to the Wuwei area of Ningxia by the trilateral governor's notice.
This is also one of the reasons why there are not so many large and small thieves in the Guanzhong area of Shaanxi and the Gannan area of Longxi in this life.
At the same time, however, this was also the reason for the Musuman Rebellion in the trilateral region.
Where there is a cause, there must be an effect.
In this world, there are advantages and disadvantages in everything, and it is difficult to have the best of both worlds.
Now that Emperor Chongzhen has become a pot of porridge in the northwest, he still has not exempted Yuan Chonghuan, but he has taken a fancy to his reckless personality.
Such a thing, put on the head of Yang He, the good gentleman in history, he would definitely not dare to do it.
By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the situation in the northwest had been rotten to an extreme, and it was not enough to rule without great chaos, and it was not enough to stand up without great destruction.
Whether it was the abnormal climate during the Xiaoice River period, or the land annexation that often occurred at the end of a dynasty, in short, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, a large number of peasants and military households lost their land and became tenant farmers or displaced people.
And these landless peasants, who have become tenant farmers or displaced people, are the fundamental reason why the thieves in the northwest are more and more exterminating and endless.
Aside from large-scale wars, the most direct and effective way to solve this problem in a peaceful way is through resettlement and famine.
However, there is only so much land suitable for cultivation in the Ming Dynasty, who can you take it from?
The scholar class, the scholar class, this is the basic force that any Han dynasty in the Central Plains can rule normally.
If you don't obey your own powerful noble class, and if you don't obey your own powerful military machine, you will be able to cut yourself down if you don't listen to your own orders, and you will be completely killing yourself.
Besides, not all of the family's property and land are blown by strong winds.
While some of them have acquired large quantities of land and property by means of intrigue and cunning, most of them have been accumulated from generation to generation by a single family.
You are engaged in land reform, you are engaged in the cultivation of land, where does your legitimacy come from?
As an autocratic emperor in the imperial era, of course, you can seize a part of your property unscrupulously, without giving any reason, or on a random charge, but you can't make the vast majority of people stand against you at the same time.
You can be the enemy of everyone at the same time, and once you do, you're done.
At all times, one side must be pulled to fight the other, and at different times, the side that is pulled to support oneself must either have a majority or have an advantage in strength.
This is the basic routine of Emperor Chongzhen today.
In the past three years, every step that Emperor Chongzhen has taken now has followed such principles.
Some things are rather done slowly, a little more compromise, and even some concessions, all so that what he really wants to do can continue steadily.
However, if the problem of displaced people is not properly solved, the Ming Dynasty will be finished sooner or later.
However, there is no good solution to the problem of displaced people other than giving them land and allowing them to become yeoman farmers again.
But if you look around the area, where does the land come from?
North Korea, Jibei, Dongfan, Southwest, Monan, Hetao, but wherever the population is sparse and okay in or around the Ming Dynasty, he did it.
So, what's next?