Frequent disasters made the people of Xuzhou as strong and aggressive as the frontier peoples of the Ming Empire, not afraid of life and death, not accumulating permanent property, advocating force, such a folk tradition was also one of the factors for Zhao Jin to organize a strong army. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

There is no geographical advantage to rely on defense is a disadvantage, but if you keep attacking, it becomes an advantage, you can pull out a considerable amount of strength at any time, when Zhao Jin has a force that can be used, you can threaten the source of wealth of the Ming Empire to the east - the two Huai salt fields, and seize the vast wasteland over there, this wasteland is to provide the salt field with boiling salt, this wasteland twice the area of Xuzhou became Zhao Jin's original territory, Zhao Jin set up a manor there, to collect the victims of the Ming Empire, Let them be their own slaves, let them produce food for themselves, and turn these slaves into their own soldiers, artisans, and even officials.

The Ming Empire attached great importance to the gentry, but this attention turned into a cruelty to the empire itself, and wanted to rely on the gentry as an extension of the regime, so they were given all kinds of preferential treatment, but this preferential treatment became a situation of only rights and no responsibilities under the operation of the civil officials from the gentry class.

The gentry took the benefits, and all the obligations and responsibilities were borne by the commoners, which led to an extremely vicious circle, which was about to destroy the foundations of the Ming Empire before Zhao Jin took over the world, and led to the total collapse, and the gentry class was regarded as the ruling companion and ally, but it led to such evil consequences, and this lesson will be understood by everyone.

The military class of the Ming Empire is also a joke, in the history of more than 200 years, there are few shining stars, and the garrisons and hereditary officers everywhere have become parasitic moths on the system, they don't know anything about military affairs, but they have become landlords who have embezzled military land, such a class has no essential difference from the gentry, they are all waste that only absorbs benefits, does not create value, and does not bear responsibility.

The outcome of the Ming Empire can be imagined, the common people who are constantly oppressed and destroyed under this vicious circle live extremely miserable, forced to leave their hometowns and wander, bankrupt and bankrupt, and the people who have nowhere to go have an official name "Wanderers" in the Ming Empire, and the official attitude towards the "Wanderers" is very cold, often driven and ignored, and even armed to kill.

Many of the composition of the displaced people are poor class, they do not have any resistance to tax changes and natural disasters, but there are also many yeoman farmers, their resistance is not much stronger than the former, their land and family property are also the object of embezzlement by the local tyrants, ironically, if the tax changes and natural disasters intensify, small and medium-sized landlords will also go bankrupt and break their homes, in this class, there are gentry, the military households of the guard, that is, the military serfs of the Ming Empire are also part of the displaced people.

With the participation of intellectuals and military personnel, the exile groups full of resentment against the system often become powerful saboteurs, not to mention the existence of evil cults with ill intentions everywhere in the Ming Dynasty.

From the time Zhao Jin took up arms to the time he unified the world, the enemies who personally participated in most of the battles and wars were homeless people and cult groups, and when Zhao Jin's group became strong, many battles were no longer involving him......

It is well known that Ms. Mu Shulan, the second queen of Zhao Jin, is the Holy Daughter of the Wenxiang Sect, also known as the Holy Daughter of the Chinese Orthodox Church, similar to the status of the Pope and the Great Patriarch, the current Wenxiang Sect is not much different from Buddhism and Taoism in doctrine, and the organizational system is very close to the Jesus Church but more advanced, and now the teachings of the Wenxiang Sect spread everywhere with the conquest of the Han Empire, and it is above board, but in the Ming Empire, it was a standard cult for the purpose of collecting wealth and achieving the purpose of careerists, But several major actions of this cult were destroyed by Zhao Jin.

We do not want to talk about the entanglement between Zhao Jin and the Wenxiang Sect, but to elaborate on a larger topic, Zhao Jin has grown stronger in the battles involving the displaced people again and again, and the reason why the displaced people are involved is because there is always the shadow of a cult behind every major uprising of the displaced people.

The homeless themselves have little combat effectiveness, and a large number of homeless people will loot the villages and towns along the way, and the death of the homeless will create epidemics, which is where his destruction lies.

In the face of a slightly organized and relatively well-equipped militia and regular army, it is not worth mentioning, but this is an ordinary situation, and it is completely different after the participation of a cult, taking the Wenxiang Sect as an example, in the process of the flow of displaced people, extremely cruel screening is carried out, and horse thieves, bandits, and exiled sergeants are recruited as the backbone, and there are standard weapons as equipment, and in the end it will become an action for a small number of elite armed forces to carry the brigade forward, and this situation is very close to the so-called "big army" of the Ming Empire.

In the face of such a force, the self-defense forces of the villages and towns and the official armed forces of the county town are not worth mentioning, and several actions set off by the Wenxiang Sect, if there is no appearance of Zhao Jin, will cause great damage and shake the rule of the Ming Empire in the southeast.

Of course, after the defeat of the exiles by Zhao Jin, they caused greater and more profound damage to the rule of the Ming Empire, and this is what we will talk about next.

For various reasons, the area of Huai'an and Fengyang, which are adjacent to Xuzhou, is very huge, and most of these two provinces are plain terrain, and their plain area is almost equal to the flat land area of coastal provinces such as Fujian and Zhejiang, but Huai'an and Fengyang are not commensurate with the land area, so there is a large amount of wasteland.

Zhao Jin's victories again and again were not that the enemy had killed all of them; in fact, after the armed forces of the cult organization were defeated, the displaced people group had no combat effectiveness to speak of, and even without the coercion of the cult organization, it was possible to "defeat" a large number of displaced people just by relying on food and resettlement.

The victory brought a large number of captives to Zhao Jin, and these populations just made up for Xuzhou's manpower shortcomings.

Zhao Jin's successive victories brought him great prestige, and although he did not have any official name, in fact Zhao Jin became the real patron of Xuzhou and the surrounding region very early.

With his strength, it is very simple to get the official name, but Zhao Jin insisted on refusing, which is also a proof that he has a plan, from this point of view, Zhao Jin has long had the intention of replacing the Ming Empire, he is unwilling to accept the name, that is, he is not willing to be constrained by these names.

Back to the point, Zhao Jin's huge prestige and strength made the officials and private people in the neighboring regions very awe him, and he was often tolerant of his subtle and low-key intrusions, and some people began to resist, but this group of people was quickly and resolutely attacked.

Zhao Jin's possession of these "ownerless" wastelands was not predatory, but benefit-sharing, and he was willing to release part of the dividends, which often brought them greater benefits than the inefficient operation of local landlords and merchants, which made Zhao Jin's group of supporters expand rapidly.

Another point, even if Zhao Jin has overwhelming strength, he never acts blatantly, all the possession of land and wealth is officially recognized, and all killings and killings are kept as secret as possible, although these possessions and killings are known to everyone, but in the official caliber, this is all legal, no one can make accusations, as long as the face is passable, no one dares to make any accusations.

Zhao Jin has almost no young people's flamboyance and vanity, many heroes and heroes have suffered setbacks in this, but Zhao Jin has not, he still maintains the calmness that only old people can have when he should be agitated and restless.

Many researchers believe that this quality comes from Wang Zhaojing's father Wang Youshan, or some of the credit of Dong Bingfeng's father Dong Jike, one of whom is a rare high-ranking civil official in Xuzhou, and the other is a middle-level military general, who has rich experience in officialdom and social experience, and will make similar suggestions to Zhao Jin, but these statements are not so convincing, because at that time, Wang Youshan and Dong Jike, who were courtiers of the Ming Empire or vested interests, had no reason to have different intentions for the Ming Empire.

You must know that Zhao Jin's actions at that time were beyond the scope of earning wealth, and they were actually divided.

The stupidity and incompetence of the Ming imperial government undoubtedly reacted to Zhao Jin's encroachment, and the reaction of the local bureaucrats was that since there was no infringement of actual interests, since the city was still under their control, and since there was no reaction from the powerful people in the local area, then nothing happened, so why bother, besides, everyone benefited from this matter, the crisis of the displaced people was lifted, and the gray income increased significantly, why should they stop it.

In this case, Zhao Jin successfully achieved the division in the core area of the Ming Empire, and the methods he used seemed to be no different from the Ming Empire's guard system, but the use of these populations was extremely efficient, and more importantly, Zhao Jin established a huge industry and commerce, brewing industry, iron industry, textile industry, shipbuilding industry, salt industry, etc., etc., these huge workshops on the one hand created a huge amount of wealth for him, on the other hand, the labor working in the workshop will be trained, will adapt to discipline, The excellent among them will become the backbone of Zhao Jin's system, and the others will be the qualified foundation.

We all know that the Han Empire was a pragmatic empire, he was contemptuous of the classics, and he was very respectful of the traditional despised scholars and industrial and commercial studies, and most of the civil and military officials of the early Han Empire were born in Zhao Jin's workshops, and most of them were Zhao Jin's "slaves" in legal theory.

These refugees abandoned by the Ming Empire would have died as well as pigs and dogs, and their slightly attractive wives and daughters would have been sold like livestock, but they had food and clothing because of Zhao Jin's containment, and then had their own wealth and value in the new system, so they would naturally be loyal to Zhao Jin and become the most solid foundation of the Han Empire. (To be continued.) )