Chapter 320: Arms Reselling (Subscription Requested)
The anti-smoking campaign is not only a single act against Australian cigarette paste in the Houjin region, but also a purge against internal opposition.
Although Huang Taiji has the desire to enter the Central Plains, this does not mean that all the nobles of Houjin think so, don't look at Houjin's repeated deductions are triumphant, especially this year's most victorious, even breaking more than 80 cities in Shandong.
In addition, the fifth Dalai Lama of Tibet, Lobzang Gyalmuco, sent Ilaguk, Sanhu Tuketu, Erut, and the Mongolian Daiqing Erji to communicate with the Qing Dynasty, and for a while, Huang Taiji's ambition also reached the extreme.
He hoped that he would be able to enter the Central Plains in his lifetime, but the nobles of the Houjin did not think so, for some people, going to attack the city of the Ming Dynasty was just a matter of looting and then returning to the gate to enjoy it again. Therefore, in many novels in later generations, Houjin is called a robber, which is how it comes from.
Since there is opposition, it must be eliminated, especially the succession of Huang Taiji is even more mysterious, there are many ulterior mysteries that have not been answered, on the surface he is the Great Khan of Houjin, but behind the scenes he can mobilize the army, that is, his own pro-army.
Although after a series of means, the flag was changed, and the strength of the original major Baylors was reduced, but there was no real centralization.
Baylor, the banner owner of the major commanders, still has relatively independent rights, and the banner people under each banner are more often only obeyed by the banner owner, rather than the Great Khan. Because of this, Huang Taiji will carry out a series of reforms to make his strength above the banner masters.
With this series of reforms, the overall strength of the Jin army has also improved, but since the emergence of cigarette paste, the situation has changed a lot.
As long as the wounded soldier on the battlefield takes a sip, the pain will immediately be reduced a lot, not to mention, the person can immediately calm down, but this thing is good. But it's addictive, once you smoke it, it's as uncomfortable as if you don't smoke it, and people will become a little ecstatic and don't know what to do.
After the research of those imperial doctors in the palace, it was found that this cigarette paste should have a certain calming and pain-relieving effect, but you can't eat more, and if you eat too much, you will fall into a state of addiction.
Huang Taiji, as the Great Khan of Houjin, can be regarded as a generation of Ming monarchs, how can he allow this to develop like this at this time, it must be stepped up to stop it, so as not to swallow the entire Houjin from top to bottom by this cigarette ointment. After some investigation and statistics.
There are a lot of smokers among the nobles and ordinary Eight Banner soldiers, and the most important point is that several generals under his command actually have smokers, which makes Huang Taiji very dissatisfied and shocked, and he really doesn't know if he doesn't investigate, and he is shocked when he investigates.
If this continues, let alone attacking the city and grabbing the land, it is these cigarette ointments that can crush the domineering elite of the entire Houjin.
The rectification of military discipline and the ban on smoking became the top priority of Huang Taiji, and he first issued a document requiring the entire Houjin region to prohibit the sale and sale of cigarette paste, and anyone who violated it would be punished. The second is to require all Eight Flags children to stop smoking within a specified period of time.
In addition to these, Huang Taiji has not issued any explicit regulations to prohibit other items in Australia. There is even a lot of interest in Australian firearms.
For the first time, the 24-pounder small artillery captured from the border army of the Ming Dynasty made the Great Khan of the Later Jin Dynasty see its power, and the border army of the Ming Dynasty relied on this kind of long return bar to resist the three-day attack of the Later Jin, and the explosion power of the shells was so strong.
It can be said that in the early days of the establishment of the Later Jin Dynasty, great importance was attached to the application of firearms, especially in the beginning of Nurhachi's attachment to the Han people. In the name of the Han people's proficiency in firearms, the Han people were allocated to put another army in the name of "Wuzhen Chaoha", which can be seen that the application of firearms has been attached great importance since the Nurhachi era.
After Huang Taiji ascended the throne. In order to balance the forces, the Han army flag was gradually expanded to the Han Eight Banners, which is enough to prove the importance of these Han people, who were originally proficient in firearms for the people, to be organized into an army.
If you don't pay attention to it, from this point of view. In fact, firearms were used very much in the Later Jin army, and it was not like what we saw in the history of the late Qing Dynasty, when foreign invaders were still used.
In fact, when firearms were banned later, there was a big reason for the ban on firearms for fear of the Han people's rebellion.
However, at present, Huang Taiji has not yet reached that level of stupidity, to say that it is still very difficult to buy Australian firearms, don't look at the Houjin area has so Australian goods, but to say that you can buy Australian firearms, few businessmen dare to say.
Through chatting with Aobai, Feng Zihai learned the news, although this is a business opportunity, but for Australia, exporting firearms to Houjin will definitely add a lot of trouble to himself in the future.
Once Houjin buys a large number of weapons, it is conceivable that it will not only make it more convenient for them to attack cities and seize land, but may also completely change the course of history.
But one thing is certain, Australia's weapons have flowed into the Ming border, according to the export orders, the buyers of the weapons sold in the Daming area are basically the Zheng family, combined with the Zheng family's increase in the number of orders within half a year, it can be guessed that they resold some of the weapons to the Ming border army, which was captured by Houjin on the battlefield.
The Zheng family can sell 24-pound small-caliber artillery, it seems that the price is not low, Feng Zihai sat in the courtyard and thought about Aobai's words and guessed the caliber of the artillery they captured.
Now that Huang Taiji has moved his mind to buy Australian firearms, I am afraid that the merchants of the Ming Dynasty will be mobilized, and this kind of thing will inevitably happen to the border army.
How did Houjin become stronger step by step, and the border army of the Ming Dynasty was actually inseparable, if it were not for their merits, there would be no feat of Nurhachi to unify the entire Jurchen.
This matter must be taken seriously, and Feng Zihai, who was lurking in Houjin, finally ushered in his first slightly valuable information.
It is necessary to find out as soon as possible which border troops of the Zheng family have sold arms to the Ming Dynasty, and the amount of trafficking, and at the same time closely monitor Huang Taiji's movements.
Although he can't stop this kind of arms reselling, it is still very necessary for Australia to have accurate information, and at the same time, he must ask the headquarters to cooperate with the operation, and this little man in his hands alone is not enough to find out anything.
After sorting out all his thoughts, Feng Zihai called Feng Er to explain, the other party nodded and said that he understood, and after nightfall, the other party took advantage of the dark night to leave Shenyang. (To be continued......)