Chapter 588: Huang Taiji's Plans
A series of changes made Huang Taiji unable to hold his breath, although he thought that he could take advantage of this time to build the Great Qing Dynasty, but everything that happened in the Ming Dynasty directly stimulated his nerves.
Since the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the power of Huang Taiji has been further consolidated, and with the help of Fan Wencheng and others, many systems of the Qing Dynasty have been gradually improved, which are basically imitated in accordance with many systems of the Ming Dynasty, but the implementation of these systems is much better than that of the Ming Dynasty.
Especially in the policy towards Han officials, Huang Taiji made great changes.
A few years ago, there was a very ordinary situation, surrendered Han soldiers, as long as there is a chance, will inevitably rebel again, return to the Ming Dynasty again, in the face of such a problem, Huang Taiji once thought carefully, for what happened to such a situation, in fact, when the father Emperor Nurhachi was in power, he realized the importance of Han officials, and also specially formulated a policy to give preferential treatment to Han officials, it is said that such a policy is good.
After careful consideration, Huang Taiji finally discovered the problem, that is, the contradiction between the Manchus and the Han Dynasty became increasingly prominent, some Manchu magnates did not take the Han people in their eyes at all, and often said sarcasm and sarcasm, and even direct bullying and insult, and these Manchu magnates were all in high positions, which led to the system of preferential treatment of the Han people established by the father and the emperor, which was not implemented at all, which led to the gradual disappointment of the Han people who surrendered, and finally chose to leave.
Huang Taiji knows very well that the role of Han officials is very great, it can be said that the Qing Dynasty cannot be supported without the support of Han officials, because these Han officials are capable and familiar with many rules and things in the officialdom, and they also know how to grasp agricultural production and how to make the people have enough food and clothing. Relatively speaking, a large part of the Manchu officials can be described as big and coarse.
Huang Taiji once introduced a policy on the basis of his father, whether the Han officials surrender or not, and never force it. Those who surrender and flee come and go, and they are listened to and respected, and do not make demands or persecute them. At the same time, he began to limit the power of the Manchu elite, severely criticizing and even directly punishing those who discriminated against and bullied and humiliated Han officials. Dorgon suffered in this matter.
It was precisely because Huang Taiji resolutely implemented this policy that the Han officials slowly stabilized.
Of course, the Ming Dynasty also helped a lot, if it weren't for the weak national strength of the Ming Dynasty, Huang Taiji would not have such an opportunity.
This policy, when the Qing Dynasty was established, reached its peak, and Kong Youde, who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, was named the king of Dingnan. Geng Zhongming was named the king of Jingnan, and Shang Kexi was named the king of Pingnan.
Huang Taiji also conducted a special imperial examination. Employing Han people as officials is also an attempt to improve the status of Han officials.
After a series of efforts, the Qing Dynasty retained some talents.
But this situation, in the ninth year of Chongzhen, began to change again.
The reason for the change was when Azig led 100,000 Eight Banner soldiers from Manchuria into the customs. suffered a crushing defeat and was annihilated by 30,000 people by the Jiangning battalion of the Ming Dynasty, originally thinking of taking advantage of the opportunity to establish the Great Qing State to show off his strength, but who knew that Lu Dao backfired.
This also marked the beginning of the transformation of the Ming Dynasty.
Han people in the Great Qing Dynasty. Naturally, they were a little shaken, after all, they regarded the Manchus as aliens, serving the Qing Dynasty, it was originally a last resort, and they could not enter the ancestral hall of their ancestors after death, and the Ming Dynasty began to change, and these people naturally wanted to go back.
In the tenth year of Chongzhen, the situation began to become serious, with the Mongolian tribe some of the robbed Han people returned to Shaanxi, the Han people in the Qing Dynasty, also began to secretly go to Shaanxi, but these Han people, not discriminated against, but also able to cultivate the land and farm, can live a very stable life, which made Huang Taiji extremely annoyed, and had to change some strategies, began to strictly control the population.
The biggest problem of the Great Qing Kingdom is that the population is not large, and every time it enters the customs to fight, it is inevitable to plunder a large number of people to replenish it, which has almost become a system, and it is also thanks to this practice that the population of the Great Qing Kingdom began to slowly increase.
Population is the foundation of the Qing Dynasty, and it must not be less, so in the border area, the Eight Banners Army began to garrison the fortress and forbade the Han people to return.
Huang Taiji hated Su Tiancheng and Jiang Ningying to the core, and if he had the opportunity, he was almost willing to use most of the wealth of the Great Qing Kingdom to buy Su Tiancheng's head.
In the past few years, Huang Taiji has invested a lot of money, thinking of taking stratagem, framing and other schemes, but it has not succeeded, on the contrary, the Jiangning camp has become more and more powerful, and even directly conquered the Mongolian Xibe tribe and Daurian tribe, and started mutual markets in Anningbao and Jingbian.
This situation stung Huang Taiji's heart.
The tribes of Mongolia began to be chaotic, with the strength of the Xibe and Dauria tribes, the situation between the grassland and the desert began to be unbalanced, the Xibe tribes and the Dauria tribes were able to directly trade with the Ming Dynasty, and could easily obtain food, iron horses, salt and even knives, guns and firearms, and some of the surrounding tribes began to fear the Xibe tribe and the Dauria tribe, and began to take refuge in these two tribes, which completely disrupted the deployment of Huang Taiji.
It should be said that the Mongolian tribes, there are still a lot of strength, the Chahar tribe is the boss of the Mongolian tribes, but also the focus of the Huang Taiji, after a series of blows, the Chahar tribe surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, followed by Korqin, Zalut, Khalkha, Aohan, Karaqin and other tribes, as for the Xibe tribe and the Daurian tribe, they used to be two small tribes, and Huang Taiji has not yet seen it in his eyes.
Huang Taiji through the means of iron and blood, basically conquered all the Mongolian tribes, Mongolia's territory was also included in the scope of the Qing Dynasty, here became the rear of the Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji established the Mongolian Eight Banners here, every time the customs battle, the Mongolian tribes will send troops to contribute, the Mongolian Eight Banners are also as a brave and good fighting force, participate in many wars.
The Xibe tribe and the Daurian tribe are strong and have become a threat to Mongolia, Huang Taiji ordered the Horqin and other tribes to exterminate these two tribes, and provided firearms for the Horqin tribe.
However, last year, the Mongolian steppe suffered a snowstorm, countless cattle and sheep froze to death, and the war horses also lost a lot, many people could not survive, if there was no food supplement, they might encounter the danger of tribal annihilation, the Xibe and Daurian had a lot of food, and the two tribes were further strengthened.
Huang Taiji found the danger, if the Xibe and Daurian tribes conquered the various tribes of the grassland, the Houjin was in danger of losing the entire grassland, and the two tribes had already bowed to the Ming Dynasty.
At the beginning of spring, many tribes of the steppe, under the direct instruction of Huang Taiji, united again and began to attack the Xibe and Daourian tribes, including some small tribes attached to these two tribes.
In order to achieve the goal of defeating these two tribes, Huang Taiji even gritted his teeth and provided five general cannons for many tribes, which was a treasure that Huang Taiji regarded as his heart.
While trying his best to stabilize Mongolia, Huang Taiji did not forget to pay attention to the movements of the Ming Dynasty.
Fan Wencheng invested a lot of gold and silver treasures, although he was not able to deal with Su Tiancheng and Jiangning Battalion, but in the Ming Dynasty set up a powerful intelligence network, the role of this intelligence network played, so that Huang Taiji felt surprised, it is precisely because of the role of the intelligence network, Huang Taiji knew that the Ming Dynasty sent Su Tiancheng and Jiangning Camp to exterminate the Liukou, and Su Tiancheng served as the Ming Dynasty's military department Shangshu, the right capital envoy, and the governor of the military affairs of the five provinces.
It is also thanks to the intelligence network, Huang Taiji sent people to get in touch with the Liukou, of course, the Liukou does not know the identity of the contact person of the road, the Liukou of the Ming Dynasty, the personnel are complicated, as long as they are willing to join the Liukou team, those who come do not refuse, it is very simple to want to blend in, through the contact, Huang Taiji secretly provided the Liukou with an arquebus, a Fran machine run and a tiger squat cannon.
It's a little funny to say, the arquebus was actually bought by the merchants of Houjin from the market of the mutual market, but the ammunition is a little less, the Furlong machine gun and the tiger squat cannon were brought by Kong Youde, when Kong Youde surrendered that year, he brought a large number of artillery, these artillery, greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the Manchurian Eight Banners.
Huang Taiji always obtained the news of Sichuan Liukou through the intelligence network.
Huang Taiji, who has a far-sighted vision, is very aware of the importance of the Liukou, as long as there are Liukou in the Ming Dynasty, it can greatly involve the energy of the Ming court, and weaken the strength of the Ming Dynasty.
After getting the news that the rogue used firearms and almost annihilated the white pole soldiers, Huang Taiji was happy to laugh at the white pole soldiers, he had a deep impression of the white pole soldiers, this is a force that can fight, once fought with the Manchurian Eight Banner Army, gave the Eight Banners Army a great loss, the commander of the white pole soldiers Qin Liangyu, is a heroine among women.
It should be said that the arrangement of these two aspects of Huang Taiji has played a great role, if the deployment of both aspects is successful, it can greatly reduce the strength of the Ming Dynasty, if the mutual market is destroyed, the Liukou begins to develop and grow again, and the Ming Dynasty will soon fall into the situation of being attacked by the enemy, although there are Jiangning Ying and Su Tiancheng, but don't think that it can become strong in a short period of time.
It's a pity that all this seems to be taking an adverse turn.
Recently, the information obtained through the intelligence network has shown some abnormalities, and it is a very fatal anomaly, the fighting of the Mongolian tribes is still continuing, and the Liukou is also insisting, the big situation has not changed for the time being, but small changes have begun to appear quietly, Huang Taiji is anxious, if these changes really become a reality, he must make a decision, a decision related to the rise and fall of the Qing Dynasty. (To be continued......)