Chapter 308: Preparing for Pingliao
Last time, I said that after everyone was persuaded to return by the "cabbage Taoist" and the "radish Taoist" from Liaodong, they went west along the "side wall", and saw that the lord of the Houjin Kingdom stole chickens and rice.
The situation is very clear, the Emperor Taiji, the lord of the Later Jin Kingdom, wanted to take advantage of the heavy casualties caused by the "Apocalypse Explosion" to raid the Ming Dynasty to cause the world to be terrified, but he did not expect to steal chickens and rice, and unfortunately was hit by a stray bullet on the way to the waist and bleeding heavily, and he drowned before he retreated to the halfway point, and the situation was not good.
The Ming Dynasty also reversed the strategic disadvantage through this battle, and also deeply realized that the steppe nomadic cavalry was not invincible, as long as the weapons were good enough and the army was well-trained, even a small number of infantry could be used to inflict heavy losses on a large number of cavalry, not to mention the continuous generation of new armies in the Ming Dynasty.
Half a month later, when the half-paralyzed Huang Taiji appeared in the main hall of Hetuala, the "capital of the Later Jin Kingdom", the whole person was so thin that only a skeleton was left, which immediately caused a group of brothers and the generals of the Eight Banners to feel uneasy. Huang Taiji died after announcing the succession to his son.
It didn't take long for the news of the fiasco of the Later Jin "military adventure" to spread throughout Mongolia and Liaodong at the same time, coupled with the fact that his son was too young and ignorant to suppress his uncle and cousin and coordinate military and political affairs, which led to the infighting of the Later Jin regime becoming open, and even many powerful factions directly and openly opposed Huang Taiji's will.
At this time, the most qualified to provoke the heir to the throne of the Later Jin (Manchu) Dynasty was either Dolgon or Hauge, and the two did not give in to each other, and there would even be a fight. As for the other uncles, brothers and nephews, they also sided with each other as needed, which gave Jin a good opportunity after the Ming Dynasty attacked.
When the crisis arose in another time and space, the ruling clique of the "Manchu" Qing Dynasty might compromise with each other with the efforts of Empress Xiaozhuang and defuse the biggest political crisis since the founding of the country. For example, they would choose Huang Taiji's six-year-old son, Fulin, to succeed to the throne, with Dolgon and Zilharang as auxiliaries.
It's a pity that there are multi-dimensional space-time in the vast universe, and in this space-time, history has not completely evolved according to the "Heavenly Machine", because of the secret intervention of the "cultivators". As a result, other Jurchen tribes that were originally suppressed and persecuted by the Jianzhou Jurchens secretly joined forces to prepare for trouble.
"Giggles, I didn't expect this trip to be very fruitful, it was so much fun." After all, after seeing the grasslands, deserts, and snow-capped mountains, they still think the "Great Wall" is interesting. However, through the scanning of spiritual power, everyone found that there were many treasures hidden in the Western Regions.
First of all, the "Altai Mountain" is also called "Altai Mountain", and it was called "Jinwei Mountain" or "Jinshan" during the Han Dynasty, because the Huns used to mine gold here. This is why when the famous general of the Han Dynasty, Huo Quai, blitzed the tribe of the Xiongnu Youxian Wang, he was able to capture as many as 12 of his sacrifice to Tianjin? Because the Huns have a lot of gold.
In the later Sui, Tang and even the Five Dynasties, Liao, Song, Xia, Jin and Yuan dynasties, most of the gold on the grassland was still mined from Altay Mountain, and entered the Central Plains through the "mutual market". Therefore, "Altai" means "gold" in both Turkic and Mongolian, attracting people from the Central Plains.
In addition, when the people flew to the "Guanxi Qiwei" and detoured to the "Green Ridge" to enter Central Asia, they found that there were a large number of "open-pit copper mines" in the southwest of the Pamir Plateau, and the scale was more than the copper mines of "Gansu Silver" on the "Hexi Corridor".
So, everyone decided that they would be free in the future, so they flew here to cast spells and mine. However, gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, lead, and other minerals are all mortal and of little use to those who cultivate the truth. Therefore, after being curious, he no longer paid attention, but took advantage of the setting sun to hurry back to the east to cultivate.
"I've seen my father/master/father-in-law/national teacher senior, I'll wait for it to come back." After everyone turned into a retreat from the sky, and fell into the "Stone Flower Cave", while reporting to the carpenter what they had seen along the way, they told the "cabbage Taoist" and "radish Taoist" about it, and finally did not forget to guess the situation in Liaodong.
"Haha, it seems that the matter of Pingliao can be prepared in advance, after all, it is easy to do things with money." The carpenter laughed, "What do you guys think about this?" ”
"Views? Giggles, marching and fighting are all men's business, and we women just need to teach our husbands and children. Zhu Youzhen's concubines took the lead.
"Uh...... This, Master/Father-in-law means ......? Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen looked at each other and said, "Maybe you can try it." ”
At this time, night happened to fall outside, so the carpenter and Zhu Youxiao suddenly stiffened, and turned around as women after being unrecognizable at the same time.
"Giggles, what are you trying? Can't you just start fighting? The baby mother sneered: "Why don't you guys hurry up and go to the battlefield to collect the corpse?" ”
"Giggles, thank you for reminding me, let's go!" After urging my brother, urging your brother, urging her brother and a certain "concubine sister" to get up and salute, they turned their faces and made a grimace at Zhu Youzhen and his concubines, and then turned into a light and flew away, leaving everyone, clones, and spirits to look at each other.
"Uh...... Now that my mother-in-law has spoken, the time must be ripe to send troops to Pingliao. I don't know how the 'cabbage Taoist' and the 'radish Taoist' responded? ”
"Giggles, those two old goblins are only cultivating in the 'late Yuan Infant Stage', what is there to fear?" The baby mother said disdainfully: "If you dare to stop it, the old lady will destroy it!" ”
"Son-in-law has an order! This is Pingliao! As soon as Zhu Youzhen's voice fell, he hurriedly bowed down to give a salute, and at the same time after pinching the mantra, he used the "mind induction" to inform his "soul clone", and immediately began to deploy troops and generals to lay out the affairs of Pingliao, and at the same time asked all localities to hurry up the preparation of various materials to supply the army, and issued an edict to seek talents.
The so-called "soldiers and horses have not moved, grain and grass go first". Since the Ming Dynasty decided to solve the Liaodong problem at one time, it must make adequate preparations, not only for the basic issues of troop transfer, armament, grain and grass, but also for some leading roles such as "military advisors", "strategists", and "fierce generals" who coordinate the overall situation, and the "nine soldiers" are the best candidates.
However, during this period, the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen's "parasitic doppelganger" had completely controlled the power of the court through various means, and at the same time, with its strong financial resources, it trained a "new army" with a scale of tens of thousands of people, such as the infantry who defeated the "nomadic cavalry" head-on on the grassland outside the pass of the Great Wall.
Although the number of this "new army" is small, accounting for only about one-tenth of the "Shenji Battalion," Zhu Youzhen believes that with the immeasurable wealth and massive resources of copper, iron, tin, lead, sulfur, and saltpeter under his control, he will be able to completely transform the entire "Shenji Battalion" into a "new army" within one year!
However, there is still a lot to do during this period, because it is late autumn, whether in the south or in the north, the people are preparing for the winter, and the "new policy measures" released before have only been implemented for less than half a year, and the effect is not obvious, and the government and the people still need to give feedback.
As a result, the "ministers of the Qin Mission" and the "factory and health secret services" from all walks of life have been busy. However, the so-called "external must first be settled internally" is also a good time to resolve the internal class contradictions in advance. Therefore, Zhu Youzhen decided to take a three-pronged approach to appease the law-abiding good people, not only further appropriately reducing taxes and forced labor, but also severely cracking down on rogues, robbers, and thieves. At the same time, he also ordered the reform of the "imperial examination" and relaxed the scope of the examination.
In the past, the "examination of the imperial examination" was called "Bagu Zhushi", that is, "Bagu Wen" was the only examination style, and the content of the examination was limited to "Four Books and Five Classics" and "Song and Ming Theory". After the "Imperial Examination Reform", the content was relaxed to "poetry and songs" and "art of war and tactics", with special emphasis on the "Yongle Grand Canon" as the focus of the examination.
In this way, "private schools" and "martial arts schools" began to rise in various places, after all, "Wenju" and "Wuju" are equally important, indicating that the imperial court is ready to reserve talents to do great things. As a result, some people who are active in their minds want to take advantage of this "east wind" to rise to the top, but more people at the bottom are satisfied with food and clothing.
At the same time, the surrounding vassal states also closely watched the suzerain's every move, especially the overseas vassals that were originally reluctant to leave the Ming Dynasty, and after hearing that the Ming Dynasty began to build sailors on a large scale, they began to panic all day long, especially those countries that were not friendly to the Chinese.
Of course, it has been more than 200 years since Zheng He's last trip to the West, and Western ghosts, South Sea pirates, and Oriental pirates seem to have forgotten the strength of the Ming Dynasty's sailors, and instead opened the "sea ban" to the Ming Dynasty government and encouraged trade to cheer, as if they felt that they could slaughter fat sheep again!
As for the various nomadic tribes in the Mongolian steppe and the large and small city-states in the Western Regions, it seems that they are not too sensitive to the changes in the Ming Dynasty, and always feel that "the mountains are high and the emperor is far away" and "the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake of the earth". However, these northwestern forces were puzzled by the Ming Dynasty's simultaneous "lifting of the sea ban" and "opening up the Western Regions".
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