Chapter 455: Find a Target

After the establishment of the Mongolian Kingdom, although the Eight Banners interest group represented by Emperor Qianlong and the local living Buddha princes had a lot of conflicts of interest, it was not yet to the point of life and death, not to mention, both sides knew that there was a behemoth and great ambition of the Han Empire beside them, for fear that one day Zhao Dutian's appetite would suddenly become unpicky and make a move against the Mongolian Kingdom that had nothing but the grassland......

If you want to make the two small animals next to an elephant feel at ease to fight each other, the best way is for the elephant to shift its attention to other places, fight with another beast of similar size, and fight the world upside down, and it will not stop for a while, so that the two small animals around them can rest assured that they will have an internal duel, and decide who is the boss of the small animals while the adults are fighting......

This truth is the basic common sense that a qualified politician must understand!

If Zhao Dutian wants to make the two Earth Snakes and Guojiang Dragons of the Mongolian Kingdom have a good fight, he must let the main military force of the Han Empire be aimed at another opponent of the same size, and then fight to the death, so that the two younger brothers of the Mongolian Kingdom can see at a glance that the Han Empire will fight for a long time!

Of course, this level alone is not enough, the Han Empire has no time to take care of the Mongolian kingdom around it, at most, it is just to let the Eight Banners group represented by Emperor Qianlong secretly compete with the local living Buddha princes, and it is still difficult to appear in the real sense of fire and rebellion, so Zhao Dutian also plans to add a fire to both sides of the Mongolian Kingdom in foreign wars!

This fire must not burn slowly, and the time must not be delayed for too long, otherwise, Emperor Qianlong is not a mediocre talent, give him enough time to divide and absorb the native living Buddha princes of the Mongolian steppe, it will not be good!

No one who can mix up with the boss position is a fool, Emperor Qianlong paid such a big price and was willing to be a dog of Zhao Dutian, what is the picture?

Not only because he was afraid that the Han Empire would destroy him, but also because the Mongolian base where he was located was not stable at all!

The three eastern provinces of the banner people have become provinces directly under the jurisdiction of the Han Empire, and in the Mongolian steppe, where the local power is not too weak, Qianlong Lao'er, whose strength is almost exhausted, is bound to need enough time to rectify internal affairs!

Because Qianlong knew very well that the reason why the Mongolian steppes were consistent in their attitude towards the Han army and was willing to obey his orders was only because the Han army was too strong, not that those Mongolian living Buddhas and princes were really willing to continue to be dogs for the banner emperor who had lost his country!

In order to take advantage of Qianlong's failure to straighten out the interior of Mongolia and detonate the fuse as soon as possible, Zhao Dutian pulled out more than 100,000 new Han Chinese troops after the Central Plains had just stabilized, and used troops against the Xinjiang region supported by the Russian Empire!

After inheriting the legal system of the Manchu Empire, the Han Empire divided the national army into two levels, the first level was naturally a field army with rich combat experience and equipment completely armed according to the standards before World War I, and the second level was the new Han army armed with a large number of flintlock muskets and smoothbore guns eliminated by the Han Empire during the American War!

These two levels are not static, but an advanced relationship!

As the name suggests, the Han New Army is recruited by the children of Han peasant families, Zhao Dutian used the establishment of the new dynasty, a very good military merit awarding system, confiscating the land obtained by those banner nobles, and the Han Empire government did not take a penny, all of them were used as military merits!

As long as you pass the recruitment standard, enter the Han New Army to complete the recruit training for several months, and officially become a private of the Han New Army, after signing the contract for 10 years of service, you can permanently obtain 5 acres of military merit award!

These 5 acres of military merit awarded land are all from the fertile land confiscated by the banner nobles, all of which are reclaimed, and the attraction to the Han people is quite great!

Of course, the minimum length of service can be delegated to 5 years, but if the service period is small, the fertility of the allocated acres will naturally be different!

In this era, the common people basically have more than one heir, and the Han families with more than two males can get 5 acres of fertile land as long as they contribute a son to serve as a soldier and fight for the empire.

The most important thing is that the Central Plains region has few people and many people, and the number of Han new troops recruited by the Han Empire is not large, which will not affect the reduction of the number of tenants of the gentry and landlords, and the land of China has been peaceful for hundreds of years, and the population has already begun to explode, and it is in the stage of population surplus, and the scale of the Han new army is not large, which will not cause a crisis between the imperial government and the local gentry competing for labor. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Unless, the Han Empire began to start the process of industrialization in the land of China, and only the factories were lined up, which was the real culprit that caused a large number of rural tenant population labor to flow into the city and become workers!

It's just that Zhao Dutian, who was reckless in military force, used all his money to fight the war, and he didn't have the extra financial resources to rebuild an industrial base in the land of China......

The establishment of several ammunition factories to supply the needs of the front-line army is already the limit of the Han Empire!

Therefore, although the Han Empire replaced the Manchu Empire, it did not have any impact on the small peasant economy of China, and the destructive power of the social class system was not strong......

The administrators of the Han Empire were similar to those of the Manchu Empire, but they reached the county level, and in the villages, they still relied on the clan management system of the gentry system, and it was precisely because the Han Empire had very little destructive power on this gentry system established with Confucian culture as the main body, that it won the support of the grassroots of the Han people, and completed the occupation and rule of the Han settlement in just one year!

Before the enlightenment of China's democratic ideology, there was a saying that could not be put on the table -- those who win the gentry win the world!

Although this sentence is a bit of a generalization, it also reflects how huge the resources of the gentry class connected by scholars in the land of China today are!

In the history of the earth, the reason why the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom fell was not because the Qing army had strong combat effectiveness, but because the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom completely offended the gentry class and indiscriminately cut off the heads of Manchus and Han scholars.

The rise of the Hunan army is not accidental, but the enemy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!