Chapter 672: Huang Taiji's Decision
Historically, Huang Taiji organized the Han Army Eight Banners, at that time it had its own historical environment to determine, when Huang Taiji had already invaded Gyeonggi for the second time, invaded the Central Plains, the Han people in Liaodong had completely lost confidence in the Central Plains Dynasty, and the rise of Huang Taiji had firm confidence, and Huang Taiji's policy of softness towards the Han people also began to appear, and the Han officials also filled the court and local governments, becoming important managers, although they were all deputy positions, but because these Han officials participated in the management of the Houjin, Let the Han people in Liaodong really psychologically belong to the Later Jin Dynasty, and at this time, there was no danger of turmoil in the compilation of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty. Ω 』Δ E*.』
And now no, now the Han people in Liaodong are still focused on the Central Plains Dynasty, and the sense of attachment to the Ming Dynasty is still very strong, especially the rise of Lu Hanqiang, and the successive defeats in the Houjin War, which has made the Han people who cherish their homeland have hope, if they now compile the Eight Banners, this method is tantamount to cutting flesh and mending sores.
Now, in order to prevent the Han people from taking advantage of the situation and prevent the Han people from fleeing to the thriving western Liaoxi, Huang Taiji has implemented a strict management policy against the Han people in the ruling area.
However, due to the sparse population of the Later Jin Dynasty, almost all the people in the Eight Banners of the Later Jin Dynasty were soldiers, so they strictly required the Han people in Liaodong to be only responsible for farming and production, and not to have weapons, bows, arrows and war horses.
However, now Huang Taiji has reached a dead end, in order to deal with the almost ubiquitous Lu Hanqiang burning and looting cavalry, when the troops are stretched and the gold is full of smoke, weigh the pros and cons, and can only do this.
However, Fan Wencheng and his clan brother put forward the opposite opinion, he couldn't help but worry and said, "Your Majesty, if you put weapons to the Han people, then there will be endless troubles, Lu Hanqiang is a person who can use all the weaknesses of the opponent to attack the opponent, not to mention that we have not completely closed the hearts of the Han people now, if Lu Hanqiang sow discord during this period and let the Han people with weapons confront us, then our consequences will be unimaginable." ”
Huang Taiji didn't think about such a suggestion, but at this time, if he didn't arm the Han people, there was really no other source of soldiers.
Fan Wendou once again stood up to refute his brother of the same clan: "Big brother, what is Lu Hanqiang doing now?" Burn and kill and rob all, his three-light policy is not to distinguish between the enemy and me, not to distinguish between the Manchu and Han people, in the face of the enemy who burned down his own houses and burned his own crops, can the Han people in Liaodong still have their hearts to Lu Hanqiang? Now is really the time to hate the enemy, it is a great opportunity to compile and train the Eight Banners of the Han people, the opportunity cannot be missed, once missed will be half the result. ”
Now Fan Wendou is no longer like the original, like a lost dog crouching under the wings of his clan brother all the time, trembling all day long.
After Huang Taiji could not loot the Ming Dynasty everywhere, and then faced the aggressive offensive of the Ming army Lu Hanqiang, he had to take out the treasury to support the army to fight, and the huge reversal of making money from the war to losing money in the war began to become tense financially, so Fan Wendou, who was good at financial management, and several other surviving Shanxi Bajia people who served Dajin with him, became the hottest need of Dajin, therefore, now Fan Wendou has been promoted by Huang Taiji to the head of the household department, and it is said that there is hope of being promoted to a squire at the end of the year. is very relied on by the emperor.
With the rise of his status, Fan Wendou also began to straighten his waist, and began to speak hard in the court, and he was no longer submissive to his brother, so the nature of the Han people's infighting began to sprout, and he had the momentum to compete with him.
For this clansman Fan Wendou, Fan Wencheng has begun to be vigilant in his heart, and he is also full of disgust with the plan he proposes now, but thinking about it calmly, in all fairness, it seems that it is also a way that is not a solution, so he will no longer argue with him. In Fan Wendou's view, this was the first victory in his challenge to the authority of his clan brother, so he was a little proud on his face.
After thinking about it for a while, Huang Taiji said firmly, "Now our biggest enemy is Lu Hanqiang, and as Fan Aiqing analyzed, Lu Hanqiang has now become the enemy of the Han people in Liaodong, and arming the Han people against them is a strategy we must take******. Either you take risks and become a rogue, the lessons of the Ming Dynasty are in front of you, and I can't let that situation happen. ”
Now that the major policy has been decided, no one among the ministers will oppose it, but since they have seen the ****** that will appear next year, they must be prepared, and they can't do anything without grain and grass, let alone enter the Central Plains.
Therefore, the head of the household, Jierharang, stood up and said: "Long live, next year's ****** is inevitable, and now we must stock up on grain from now on. Otherwise, even if Lu Hanqiang retreats, our Liaodong region will be completely chaotic, and if a large number of people starve to death, it will have a great impact on our national strength. ”
For beckoning to collect grain now, Huang Taiji also knew that this was a work that had to be done, so he turned his head to look at the original grain merchant Fan Wendou.
Fan Wendou stood up and said: "Long live Qiyu, in fact, there is food, and it is still massive. ”
Huang Taiji frowned, since there is a huge amount of food, where is it now?
Fan Wendou said with a smile: "Far in the south, all in Hulu Island, as far as the minister knows, in Daming, the drought in the north has caused many years of smooth weather in the south without floods, and this year the south of Daming has a bumper harvest again." Now in the hands of the people in the south and in the hands of the major families, there is a huge amount of grain in stock, if it is not for Lu Hanqiang to exchange coke for the grain in the south to adjust the north, then the grain in the south will be rotted in the barn in large quantities. Now Lu Hanqiang opened a port in Huludao, and used his inherent means to exchange grain with grain merchants in the south with timber, fur and other materials from western Liaoning, which not only provided a steady stream of grain for Lu Hanqiang's army, but also provided countless grains for the entire western Liaoning region, so that as long as we can buy grain and hoard it in Huludao by means, we can complete our reserve plan.
For this point of view, the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty sneered, your words are tantamount to nonsense, now the Manchurian Eight Banners are being held by Lu Hanqiang along the Daling River in Montenegro, it is simply passively beaten, and the grain of Huludao cannot enter the Houjin area in a large area in any case, even if you can buy high-quality grain smuggling, but it is just a drop in the bucket, and it can't solve any problems at all.