When the five cabinet scholars, Jin Batai, Suo Etu, Zhuo Kana, Li Fei, and Wei Yijie, Xiong Cilu and Chen Tingjing, two Hanlin scholars, and Yue Le, the president of the Eight Banners New Army, who had returned from the Fengtai camp outside Beijing, arrived at the south study of the Qianqing Palace. In the south study, a map table was once again set up, and a map of the mountains and rivers of the seven provinces of "Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangdong, Xiangchu" specially ordered by Emperor Kangxi was specially ordered by Qin Tianjian to be drawn.

The little emperor Kangxi also seemed to be a peerless general, standing on the edge of the map table with his arms crossed, looking intently at this map of the seven provinces, which was not accurate at all.

Xiao Guizi's father-in-law stood beside the little emperor of Kangxi, holding a tray with a brush and red ink on the plate. Just now, Kangxi had used a "red pen" to draw five small tents symbolizing the big camp on the map of the mountains and rivers of the seven provinces, and also marked "Chongqing Daying", "Chengdu Daying", "Jingzhou Daying", "Changsha Daying", and "Guilin Daying" next to the small tents.

Five scholars, two Hanlin bachelors and a military training prince invited Kangxi to settle down, and Kangxi smiled and beckoned to them: "Come, let's take a look at this is the heaven and earth net I prepared for Wu Sangui and Wu Yingqi, you all give me a counselor!" ”

When the seven scholars and one prince heard this, they all quickly got up from the ground, gathered around the map table quickly, widened their eyes and began to look at it—in fact, there was nothing to look at, but they had drawn five camps on a very inaccurate map.

But Emperor Xiao Mazi asked the big guy to help the staff officer, so everyone has to work with the staff! Otherwise, it will be a disobedience!

But there's no end to it. How to staff officers?

The seven scholars were not very good at staff, so they looked at the prince Yue Le, who could train soldiers and fight.

Yue Le also knew that they didn't understand, so he had to come first, so he bowed down and said to Kangxi: "Your Majesty, what do you mean to first base yourself on the trap, weave a big net with the military and financial resources of the whole country, and trap Wu Sangui and Wu Yingqi in the southwest corner, and then. Step by step, slowly advancing? ”

"Uncle Wang is right," Kangxi said with a smile, "My strategy is to stand on the ground first!" Five battalions, including Chengdu Daying, Chongqing Daying, Jingzhou Daying, Changsha Daying, and Guilin Daying, were set up to block Wu Sangui and Wu Yingqi. When the five battalions were stabilized, the troops were divided into five routes, pressing Yunnan and Guizhou from five directions, making it difficult for Wu Sangui and Wu Yingqi to take care of both, and then escorting Wu Yingxiong, the son of the king of Pingxi, into the throne of Yunnan with troops along the way.

At the same time, I will also make a clear edict to Wu Sangui and Wu Yingqi father and son, as long as they hand over Ao Bai and join Beijing to meet him, I will not blame the past and ensure that their father and son will be rich in Beijing for a lifetime. And I will not cut the domain of the Pingxi Palace, but will let Wu Yingxiong's heir continue to be the vassal king, and he can be hereditary from generation to generation in the future, just like the Mu family of the previous dynasty, and rest with the country!

Uncle, what do you think of my strategy? Can Yungui be settled without a fight? ”

Yue Le's big plan for Kangxi suddenly turned out to be a little bit untidy, what is this "trapped Wu"? Or do you want to go straight to "Wu Nest"? Do you want to solve the Wu family by force? Or do you want to subdue the Pingxi Domain?

If you want to trap Wu, then these five big battalions seem to be far away from the Yunnan-Guizhou border. If you want to go straight ahead, then you should concentrate your forces more.

If you want to completely solve the Wu family, you must dispatch enough troops! Wu Sangui and Wu Yingqi have 100,000 troops, and they must send at least 200,000 troops to destroy them! If you want to go so far and subdue the Pingxi Domain, then you should make a deal with Wu Yingqi, instead of asking Wu Yingqi to hand over all his power to Beijing to be an insecure rich man. Isn't this forcing Wu Yingqi to fight?

Thinking of this, Yue Le inquired even more Kangxi: "Please ask the emperor to make it clear, should this Pingxi Domain be kept, or should it be completely eradicated?" ”

Kangxi glanced at Yue Le, and said in his heart: You are quite smart, you actually saw through my plan. No wonder that monk Ama wants to make you emperor!

Kangxi thought about it: Now that you have seen through it, let's make it clear!

Thinking of this, Kangxi first asked rhetorically: "What does the uncle think?" ”

"Your Majesty, the slave thinks," Yue Le thought about it, "it's safer for the Pingxi Domain to be withdrawn." ”

Kangxi smiled: "Why does the uncle think it's better for the Pingxi Domain to be withdrawn?" ”

Yue Le said: "The power of the Pingxi Domain is too great, there are fifty-three of the Lords of the Domain alone!" In addition, there are also reinforcements to suppress the four towns and the ten battalions of Zhongyi, and there are as many as 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers on the account alone, and the actual number may have exceeded 100,000! Whoever has so many soldiers is a threat to the imperial court, so it is better to withdraw the feudal domain. ”

Kangxi nodded, "I'm afraid that the number of real numbers is more than the book of the feudal town, I'm afraid it's not just the Pingxi Domain, right?" The population of the Ding, Ping, and Jing domains has also grown quite rapidly in the past two decades, right? ”

Yue Le was stunned for a moment, "Your Majesty, there are only fifteen leaders in the three feudal domains of Ding, Ping, and Jing, and the number of people in the green camp under their jurisdiction is not large, so there is really nothing to worry about!" ”

"Your Majesty," Suo Etu hurriedly echoed, "Dingwang's Dingnan Gege is the adopted daughter of the Empress Dowager, and she has always been loyal to the imperial court. Shang Kexi, who was in the flat domain, has always been deferential. As for Geng Jingzhong of the Jing Domain. He was also loyal to the imperial court. ”

Kangxi smiled, and then glanced at the other courtiers and servants present, "What do you think?" ”

Jin Batai said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the slave also thinks that Dingnan Gege is reliable, Shang Kexi, and Geng Jingzhong should not have any big problems." ”

Said to Kana: "Your Majesty, the Pingxi Domain is indeed a bad record, but the Ping, Jing, and Ding Domains have been quite peaceful over the years, and there is no reason to withdraw!" ”

Li Fei said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this feudal town is not a blessing for the country, and in the long run, it is better to withdraw the feudal town. But for now. The imperial court should still concentrate on dealing with the Pingxi Domain! ”

Wei Yijie suggested: "Your Majesty, the minister feels that as long as the Pingxi Domain is leveled, the three domains of Ping, Ding, and Jing will never dare to confront the imperial court again, and whether they withdraw or not is between the emperor's words. ”

Kangxi nodded, and looked at the two Hanlin Bachelors again.

"Your Majesty," Xiong Cixu said, "the minister thinks that the root cause of the calamity of the four feudal domains is actually the same, and it doesn't matter whether the feudal lord is loyal or treacherous, as long as this scourge is not eradicated, sooner or later there will be rebellion." ”

"Oh? Xiong Cixu, you go on! What is the root cause of these four feudatories? ”

"It's the breeding of the population, it's the enclosure of land!" Xiong Cixu said, "There are no restrictions on the men of the four feudal domains who can marry wives, take concubines, and have children, and the places where they are located are particularly open, and it is very easy to enclose land and occupy land, and they do not pay money and food, do not accept conscription, and have been soldiers for generations. If life is too good, there will be more children naturally! ”

After listening to Xiong Cixu's analysis, Yue Le, Jin Batai, Suo Etu, and the four Eight Banners disciples of Kana were all stunned.

Xiong Ci's offense to Si Fan An is actually "too good at giving birth to a baby"!

A smile finally appeared on Kangxi's numb face, and he really didn't mistake Xiong Cixu.

In fact, what really made Kangxi jealous of the four feudatories was not that he was self-respecting and unable to lose his tail at all. It's that the population growth of the four feudatories can throw off the children of the Eight Banners in Beijing and ten streets!

The number of Eight Banners disciples has been stagnant since they entered the Guandingding. It hasn't grown much in the past twenty or thirty years, and now there are only more than 50,000 people in the Eight Banners of Manchuria!

When Kangxi saw this number, he was a little skeptical that the children of the Eight Banners were "not good", and they all wanted the doctors of Tongrentang and Lejia to treat them!

But at the same time, the population of the four feudal clans is growing like an explosion!

Especially that Shang Kexi's son and daughter, plus a hundred! plus grandchildren and grandchildren, more than a thousand!

There are so many yellow and red belts in the inner city of Beijing that may not contribute more than him to population growth!

Although not every child of the four feudal clans is as "productive" as Shang Kexi, looking at the "output" of the old shang, one can still imagine the rate of population growth in the four feudatories.

Kangxi turned his gaze to Chen Tingjing, who had the lowest official position among the courtiers present, Chen Tingjing frowned and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty. The minister thinks that this domain can't be withdrawn at once!

The people under the four feudal domains of Ping, Jing, Ding, and Pingxi said that there were 98 neighbors, about 20,000 households and 100,000 people. But that was the number many years ago, and now it has increased several times is considered a small amount. If you count the other households, account openings, coatings, house slaves, and tenants under the four feudatories, two or three million people are not certain! Where does the emperor plan to let them withdraw?

If all the people of the feudal clan were allowed to stay where they were, and only the feudal lords were withdrawn, it would be a great disaster for the country sooner or later, the unrestrained samurai and feudal households! It is not clear that the population and land of Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, and Fujian provinces will be encroached upon. They are all armed, leaderd, and self-contained!

If they are allowed to withdraw to Liaodong, they are only afraid. Sooner or later, it will occupy the entire Liaodi!

Moreover, although the four feudal domains are now divided into one side, it is difficult to form a joint force. If they are allowed to settle in Liaodi, then there is a possibility that the four feudatories will become one!

When the time comes, we will make a fuss together."

This one is even more ruthless!

According to his meaning, if the people of the four feudal domains stayed where they were and continued to give birth to babies, sooner or later they would swallow all the four provinces where they were located—that was two or three million "samurai" population! The lords of the four feudal lords can still manage them, if the four feudal lords all return to Beijing to retire, who can control them? They have not only armament, but also organization, and a large number of military talents!

The magistrates of the Qing Dynasty could only hide away when they encountered them!

If you move back to your hometown in Liaodong, the trouble will be even greater!

Two or three million people!

The vast and sparsely populated northeast is just arranged for them. If a household is granted 100 mu of land, the population of 2 to 3 million can be divided into 4 to 500,000 households, that is, tens of millions of mu of land will be granted. When these fields are opened, won't these people under the domain have to grow greatly?

When the time comes, two or three million will become ten million or more!

In addition, the two or three million people who were evacuated to Liaodi, did the Qing court want them to pay taxes and serve in forced labor? Is it to break up their organization? Or disarm them?

If you don't want them to serve and pay taxes, let them continue to maintain organizations such as assistant leaders and staff leaders, and allow them to have arms, isn't this a copy of the Jin and Qing Dynasty that started in Liaodong that year?

When these people multiply for another twenty or thirty years, maybe a million troops will enter the customs. Can this Qing Dynasty still be saved?

But if they are not given any treatment, and they are disarmed and their organization is disbanded, will they rebel immediately? Two or three million people rebelled in Liaodong and pulled out 200,000 troops, and the tens of thousands of Eight Banner soldiers in Beijing couldn't bear it!

Chen Tingjing's words had stopped here, and there was a dead silence in the south study.

I don't know how long it took for Emperor Kangxi to sigh and say: "Xiong Cilu and Chen Tingjing have already said everything through Shuwang, Jin Batai, Suo Etu, Kana, Li Fei, and Wei Yijie, do you all understand?" ”

"The emperor and the sage, the servants (ministers) and others have all understood."

Hearing the statements of these people, Kangxi nodded: "Then do you have a better solution?" ”

Several people shook their heads.

The original sin of the four feudatories was that the population was growing too fast—they were not isolated from the common Han people, and they were placed in a sparsely populated and humid place, which was very conducive to reproduction. The children of the Eight Banners were crowded in the city of Beijing, isolated from the Han people, and the young girls in the ethnic group had to participate in the draft to meet the needs of the Eight Banners magnates. As a result, the children of Baqi generally marry later and have fewer children, and it is difficult for the population to grow.

Under the situation of this and the other, the population growth rate of the children of the Eight Banners not only cannot be compared with the children of the four feudal clans, but the gap will become bigger and bigger in the future.

As for putting the children of the Eight Banners outside Beijing and breaking the isolation of the Qihan at the same time, it will not be possible.

First of all, the children of Eight Banners, who are already accustomed to living a comfortable life in Beijing, are not willing to leave!

Secondly, the population of the children of the Eight Banners has grown a lot, and the imperial court can still afford the hardcore crops?

Third, and most importantly, if the children of the Eight Banners are the same as the children of the Four Domains, will the Qing Emperor still be able to firmly control them? If not, then the world still loves the Xinjueluo family?

"Since the big guys can't do anything," Kangxi sighed, "then we can only use the method of hiding the bird bow to deal with the four feudatories. But you can know this in your own hearts, and don't talk to anyone! ”

Kangxi's discussion with these scholars, bachelors, and Yue Le, the elders of the clan, is actually to unify the thoughts of these people.

These people are all of the same mind as him, and he can drive tens of thousands of Eight Banners disciples and the entire Qing Dynasty like a finger

Cangzhou Mansion, Tianjin Wei, small station and big camp.

When Emperor Kangxi and his confidants and ministers were scheming and digging out their minds, they wanted to use the method of hiding the bow to deal with the increasing number of children of the four feudal clans. A new army of 30,000 Han Chinese is rapidly forming in this large camp on both sides of the Grand Canal.

The recruits of the brigade are wearing the same style of clothing as the green battalion soldiers, and there is a "soldier" in the kind of clothing, and they practice combat formations, marching columns, or various weapons in the battalion as a unit on the wide colonel's field and under the command of the general and the commander.

When today's routine drill ended, the 10,000 officers and men of the new army of the Green Battalion did not disperse immediately, but energetically eliminated one battalion phalanx after another on the colonel's field. Waiting for their "Wang Dashuai" to pay them personally!

It turns out that today is an auspicious day for the "small station new army" to pay military salaries!

This army is said to be a "new army", but in fact it is not very new, and their equipment, training, and tactics are not much different from ordinary green battalion soldiers.

Their treatment is similar to that of other Green Battalion soldiers. There are horse soldiers, and each of them is given two taels of silver per month. There are no horseless soldiers, and each of them is given one or two or five dollars of silver per month. The guards were given one tael of silver per month. In addition to the silver taels, each soldier was given three buckets of rice.

However, due to Wang Fuchen's invitation, the "Xiaozhan New Army" can get the full amount of military salary in the training stage before it officially becomes an army, and will not be deducted from the "Peng Deduction Silver", "Xiao Jianyin" and "Medicine Silver" - these three "deductions" are not for officials to drink the blood of soldiers, but for the "legal deductions" stipulated by the imperial court.

Among them, the "Peng Deduction Silver" is the fund for raising horses, and a part of the storage camp is deducted from the salary of officers and soldiers to purchase horses. Below the adjutant general, the total is above the general, two cents per month will be deducted, the cavalry will be deducted one penny, the infantry will be deducted five points, and the defenders will be deducted three points.

The "small construction silver" is used to offset the military salary in the leap month year. Because there are leap months in the lunar calendar, that is, there are thirteen months in a year. However, the imperial court only paid 12 months' salary, and in normal times a little was deducted from the salary of the officers and soldiers, and it was returned to the officers and soldiers in the leap month.

The gunpowder and lead used by the soldiers of the Green Battalion for shooting training also had to be bought by the soldiers themselves - gunpowder and lead are not cheap! If you shoot a few more rounds during training, the military salary may not be enough to deduct! And no matter how good the quality of the shotgun is, it is easy to be damaged if it is played too much, and you will have to pay for it when the time comes

Therefore, the training of the Qing army's green battalion shotguns and artillery is usually about equal to zero.

However, the treatment of recruits in today's small station is much better than that of ordinary green battalions.

"Peng Buckle Silver", "Xiao Jianyin" and "Medicine Silver" are not deducted, and there is no need to pay for the damage of the shotgun, which is really a great grace of the emperor!

In addition, because Wang Fuchen grasped the Zhongjun town under his own leadership very tightly, he would personally supervise the payment of salaries every month to put an end to deductions. From time to time, the soldiers' meals were checked to make sure everyone was well fed.

So the morale of the current "small station new army" is still quite high!

The people who are responsible for the payment are all the students of the Jingwu Academy of the Martial Arts Hall in the camp, and almost all of them participated in the battle of worship, so everyone has an official body, and the youngest is also a general. Although there are not so many shortages to give them now, Kang Mazi still gave grace, so that these thousands of presidents and generals can eat a full amount of money as alternates.

Therefore, the new army in this town led by Wang Fuchen has a group of usable "young staff officers" who can manage all aspects of the troops. It can also assign one or two deputy posts or staff officers to the officers at all levels below.

Although the military literacy of these young staff officers is not high, they can do things seriously! And they all know a few words, and they have also learned the martial arts used in the battle formation with Wang Zhongxiao, Wang Zhongren, Wang Zhongxian, Wang Zhongyi, Wang An, and Wang Quan, and now they can also make a cameo appearance as the "head of the gun and stick teacher".

For the Green Battalion soldiers, the treatment, management, and training of the Zhongjun Town of this "small station new army" are already quite good, and they are a bit of a "descendant elite"!

(End of chapter)