Chapter 201

Huang Taiji knows very well that the consequences of the defeat in the battle of Liaoyang are very serious, in the final analysis, it is the myth that the Dajin Kingdom has lost the Jurchen and is not satisfied with ten thousand, and it is impossible to fight", and the elite of the Eight Banners is no longer an invincible opponent in the eyes of the defeated generals of the past!

This consequence is quite serious, because the grassland nomads have always had milk and mothers, and the enemies they can't defeat will take the initiative to join, just like the Xiongnu during the Han Dynasty, Xianbei, and the Turks in the Sui and Tang dynasties, whether it is the Xiongnu, Xianbei, or Turkic, they all rose very quickly and collapsed very suddenly.

The grassland people's intuition of strength is very accurate, once they find that the power they have taken refuge in begins to weaken, they will immediately turn their faces, and the rebellion is light, and attacking them in groups is the royal road to the survival of the steppe wolf clan!

After the defeat in the battle of Liaoyang, even if it was icy and snowy, even if there was a lack of food and grass, even if there was a lack of people and horses, Huang Taiji gritted his teeth and insisted, and from the 40,000 surviving Jianzhou elites, more than 4,000 elites were transferred, and among the more than 4,000 elites, there were as many as 640 white-armored soldiers alone, which was also the only remaining white-armored soldier in Dajin.

As a result, Huang Taiji made a big gamble, if the expedition to the Chechen Khan failed, Dajin would collapse in an instant. For this expedition, Huang Taiji personally led the army, and even did not hesitate to kill more than 5,000 war horses as military rations.

These more than 5,000 war horses, if it was in the past, Jiannu would not be the same thing, but in the case of the defeat of Liaoyang, the entire country of Dajin was only more than 50,000 war horses, of which one-third were small horses, and they could not fight at all, however, Huang Taiji was like a gambler who lost red-eyed, and pressed all the family funds of Dajin country in one breath.

This time, Huang Taiji won the bet.

The Khan King of the Chechen Khan Department is called Shuo Lei, he was originally an ally and brother-in-law of Lin Dan Khan, this Lin Dan Khan, I have to say, this is a wonder, Lin Dan Khan was also a man of the hour in the history of the late Ming Dynasty. He was nominally the co-head of the Mongol tribes, the master of the Chahar tribes, and was determined to unify the Mongol tribes and restore the glory of Genghis Khan's time.

However, this "Genghis Khan" was very unlucky, he encountered the rise of Houjin early, inevitably broke out a war with Houjin, and then was defeated again and again and fled, like Chongzhen, it is completely Huang Taiji's sandbag, punching twice when he is in a good mood, and kicking two feet when he is in a bad mood.

When the Later Jin Dynasty was strong, he adopted the strategy of Lianming to resist the Jin, which was wise, but after a fiasco again and again, he whimsically ransacked the Ming Dynasty's nine-sided region, trying to get a little compensation from the Ming Dynasty, this kind of action can only be described as "mentally retarded", not only failed to save his tribe, but also turned himself into a common target of the Later Jin and the Ming Dynasty.

Because in January of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Lin Dan Khan went east to the Xilamulun River, attacked the Alu Korqin Da Chu Hu Pasture that had been reduced to Jiannujin, Chu Hu was defeated by Lin Dan Khan, was killed more than 8,000 people, he asked Huang Taiji for help, Huang Taiji led the elite of Jiannu, and the Mongolian Horqin Department allied forces, a total of more than 40,000 men and horses to attack Lin Dan Khan. Lin Dan Khan's army only had more than 20,000 horsemen, and the equipment was very poor, so he was defeated by Huang Taiji and was forced to flee west.

As Lin Dan Khan fled to Qinghai, Lin Dan Khan's rule in Mongolia also collapsed instantly, and Lin Dan Khan, who was originally an ally of Lin Dan Khan, took the opportunity to establish himself as Chechen Khan, and Lin Dan Khan's subordinate Uzhumuqin, Sunit, Haozit and other departments took refuge in him.

In this case, Shuo Lei was actually very worried, he was ready to escape at any time, however, the news of the Battle of Baliwan and the defeat of Huang Taiji came, Shuo Lei was thinking that he should form an alliance with Cheng Shijie, but because of the heavy snow, he wanted to send people south after the beginning of spring.

It's just that Shuo Lei didn't expect that Huang Taiji would lead more than 4,000 elites to raid the Balhu Grassland, the temporary residence of his Khan Court (now northwest of Hulunbuir City), when his vitality was greatly damaged. When Huang Taiji led the army to attack, Shuo Lei was defenseless at all, and the elites of the Mongolian tribes he had originally assembled were also scattered to various places.

In this way, Huang Taiji successfully raided Shuolei's sweat tent and killed more than 2,000 horsemen under Shuolei's command.

In February of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Shuo Lei gathered nearly 30,000 Mongolian cavalry in Kuku and Tun (the Ming court gave the name "Naturalization City") and launched a decisive battle with Huang Taiji. It's just a pity that Shuo Lei fell for Huang Taiji's strategy, and Huang Taiji saw that Shuo Lei had gathered a large number of subordinates, so he pretended to retreat.

Huang Taiji first retreated to the direction of Liaodong at a speed of fifty or sixty miles a day, and on the third day, at this time, the Huang Taiji Department was already more than two hundred miles away from Kuku and Tun, and Shuo Lei once again relaxed his vigilance. As a result, Huang Taiji went out day and night, and spent a night returning to Kuku and Tun again, and more than 600 white-armored soldiers under his command have been lurking near Kuku and Tun, and there is no lack of people and horses, and launched a night attack on Kuku and Tun.

It is said that no matter how powerful the white-armored soldiers are, there are more than 30,000 Mongolian cavalry in Kuku and Tun, how many white-armored soldiers under the command of Huang Taiji can kill even if they are tired to death? But the problem was that there was chaos under Shuo Lei in the dark night, and Jiannu was well equipped, and the weapons of the Mongolian cavalry could not cause damage to the white armor soldiers, and this kind of battle made the Mongols very desperate.

In desperation, Shuo Lei surrendered to Huang Taiji.

After the battle of Kuku and Tun, the Mongolian tribes who originally had different minds understood one thing, although the Ming army could defeat Jiannu, there was no problem for Jiannu to clean up their Mongols.

In this case, Huang Taiji not only stabilized the morale of Mongolia, the main ally, but also used the wealth of Shuoli to survive the saddest moment.

With the grain of cattle and sheep seized from the Chechen Khan, Jiannu now has no food crisis. But the problem is that the biggest problem of Shenyang as the capital of Dajin is that it is too close to Liaodong.

As the southernmost tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, Lushun is only more than 400 kilometers away from Shenyang, that is, more than 800 miles. As the administrative center of Liaodong, Jinzhou is only more than 360 kilometers away, that is, more than 700 miles.

It is only eighty kilometers away from Liaoyang, which is controlled by Cheng Shijie, that is, more than 170 miles, if Cheng Shijie wants to attack Shenyang, with the marching speed of the Ning Navy, he can even achieve morning and evening.

This made Huang Taiji very insecure, if it was before the Battle of Baliwan, Huang Taiji was not worried about this problem, because "the Jurchen is not satisfied with ten thousand, and ten thousand are invincible!" "With this powerful political legacy, even if he puts 10,000 or 20,000 horses in Shenyang, the Ming Dynasty does not have an army of 100,000 and does not dare to mention the idea of attacking Shenyang.

But the problem is that with the defeat of Baliwan, the defeat of Liaozhong, and the battle of Liaoyang, the Ning Navy tore off the disguise of Jiannu with tough and brutal means.

In fact, this can't be regarded as a disguise for Jiannu, their strength is really strong, Huang Taiji knows too well that losing the myth of "Jurchen is not more than 10,000, and 10,000 are invincible", Dajin and Daming changed their offensive and defensive positions in an instant.

Now that Cheng Shijie is strong and strong, he got the news that Emperor Chongzhen sent fifteen guards and eight independent thousand households to Cheng Shijie, which is nearly 100,000 troops.

According to the past, for nearly 100,000 Ming troops, he sent at most one banner, that is, tens of thousands of Jiannu cavalry, which could be easily dealt with. However, now, if Cheng Shijie attacks Shenyang, he will have to garrison a large number of troops in Shenyang City.

But the problem is that there are still 40,000 people in Jiannu, and a considerable number of them have a great fear of the Ming army, he is really afraid that Cheng Shijie will lead the army to attack Shenyang.

Garrison in Shenyang, but he does not have the strength to feed a huge army, which must be fed by each department itself, for this matter, Huang Taiji is getting thinner and thinner, he is now from a fat eight, has become a strong eight.

That's right, originally his saddle was plus-sized, otherwise he wouldn't be able to fit his fat ass, but now it's okay, he can ride a normal saddle, and he has lost weight invisibly.

However, Huang Taiji couldn't laugh.

Faced with Huang Taiji's hidden worries, Fan Wencheng was very relaxed: "King Khan, you don't have to worry! ”

"How does this make King Ben Khan not worried?"

Huang Taiji looked at the huge map in front of him, this is the deployment map of the Ming army, of course, this is not the real Ning Navy deployment map, but the deployment map of fifteen guards and eight thousand households.

The current fifteen guards and eight thousand households, from the east of the Liao River, south of the Taizi River, from west to east, have newly established fifteen guards, which makes Huang Taiji worried.

Fan Wencheng explained: "King Khan, when he was in Liaoyang, if Cheng Shijie continued to order the pursuit, what would King Khan think? ”

"The consequences are unimaginable!"

"Then why didn't Cheng Shijie pursue?"

"Is it difficult for the Ming army to sustain its grain and grass?"

"Definitely!"

Fan Wencheng said solemnly: "Cheng Shijie is not short of food and grass, nor is he short of soldiers and horses, the reason why he did not pursue is actually very simple, Cheng Shijie knows that he will accept it when he sees it!" ”

Huang Taiji understood.

Cheng Shijie is also playing with self-respect.

In fact, if Li Chengliang didn't play with self-respect, then Nurhachi would not have had the opportunity to raise troops with the Seven Hatreds, and now Cheng Shijie has become the original Li Chengliang.

Huang Taiji finally breathed a sigh of relief.

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In the middle of April of the sixth year of Chongzhen, the warm spring breeze blew the green land of Liaodong, and after a long cold winter, the dormant life began to sprout vigorously again. The ice in the river has long been turned into rushing water, the riverbank, the fields, the mountains and forests, the swamps, and put on green clothes, the mountain flowers are splendid, the butterflies are dancing and the warblers are flying, and the sky is blue and the water is blue.

After coming to southern Liaoning with Zhu Weiyuan, I learned that Cheng Shijie still has five righteous sons and daughters, namely Cheng Shi, Cheng Hu, and Cheng Jing and Cheng Anning.

The youngest is going to talk about Xiao Jiaxin.

When Zhu Weiyuan saw Xiao Jiaxin for the first time, she liked it very much, at this time, Xiao Jiaxin could already run around, and because of Cheng Shijie's favor, Xiao Jiaxin is not like most children in this era, she looks very bold.

When I saw Zhu Weiyuan for the first time, she looked at Zhu Weiyuan with big watery eyes and said, "Who are you and why did you come to my house?" ”

When Zhu Weiyuan proposed to let Xiao Jiaxin call her mother, Xiao Jiaxin asked instead: "What's the benefit of calling you mother?" ”

In the end, under the bribe of Zhu Weiyuan's three pastries, Xiao Jiaxin became Zhu Weiyuan's daughter, and Yang Yunniang became Xiao Jiaxin's aunt.

At the moment of spring blossoms, Cheng Shijie also felt that he had been very busy with work recently, and it was time to relax and relax, and his proposal was agreed by Yang Yunniang, Jin Qiaoer, Yang Waner, Wang Wei and others.

Cheng Shijie's so-called spring outing, in fact, is also to inspect the situation of Tuntian in southern Liaoning, just looking at the data and reports, Cheng Shijie naturally knows that the spring ploughing work in southern Liaoning has come to an end.

But in fact, you still need to see it with your own eyes.

After a few days of preparation, Cheng Shijie's team began to set off from Jinzhou, the first stop was to Xinghai City in southern Liaoning, on the way to Xinghai City, the farmers who were working in the fields were watching them drive by with hoes and joy.

The wasteland, which had been covered with tender green wheat and potato seedlings, was very green and pleasant, and the river flowed happily along the long ditch, bringing the necessary water to the fields.

There was a lot of snow last winter, but there were only a few light rains after the beginning of spring, and there was some drought in various places, but southern Liaoning was not affected by the drought, at least, in Cheng Shijie's sight, whether it was a military field or a civilian field, there was no drought impact.

At this time, Jinzhou built a lot of factories, these factories without exception, a large number of coal, although has not officially entered the steam age, but the advantages of coal, in southern Liaoning has been fully exerted.

For example, imitation factories need to wash fabrics and also need to dry, which requires a lot of coal, and the same is true for woodsmiths, and of course there are some factories, purely for the welfare of workers.

Because of Cheng Shijie's requirements, there are almost no unkempt and dirty sloppy people in southern Liaoning, no matter what factory, we must establish collective baths, frequent baths, and hot baths, which can not only relieve fatigue, but also reduce illness, no spread of lice and other insects, and people's health and safety can be guaranteed.

But the problem is that there are gains and losses, although a large amount of coal is burned, there are already particles of dust in the air, even if Cheng Shijie is sitting in the carriage, there are ashes left on his white clothes.

Environmental problems are a necessary way for the development of the industry, and it cannot be bypassed, as for how much impact the environment will bring to people, Cheng Shijie thinks this is.

Hangang Group is a heavy industry group, especially the workers in the production line, who are directly faced with high temperature, strong magnetism and high radiation, so how many sub-health problems do steel workers have? Yes, but very few, at least healthier than the white-collar workers in the metropolis.

Entering the territory of Xinghai City, the situation is obviously different, this is Cheng Shijie as a pilot of agricultural science and technology, so everywhere you pass, you can see that the tuntian households in Xinghai City are carefully fertilizing the crops, and the fertilizers applied are of course varied, there are phosphate fertilizers produced in primitive ways, there are also plant ash, and there are organic fertilizers.

But the chemical fertilizer had a strong smell, and Zhu Weiyuan pointed to the military households in the farmland on the side of the road and asked, "What are they doing?" What a terrible smell! ”

"They are all fertilizing the crops, don't look at them sprinkling it little by little, this fertilizer is not easy to come by, and it is directly related to the harvest, and they cherish every bit of it."

This time when he came out, Cheng Shijie really found a problem. In the farmland, many children are pulling weeds in the field, this scene reminds Cheng Shijie of the past.

He is a native of the countryside, and when he was a child, because his father Cheng Weiguo was a veteran, he was placed in the Hangang Group, but his mother was a rural hukou, and at that time, their family did not have a house in the city, so they could only live in the countryside.

At that time, it had not yet entered the era of mechanization, and primitive harvesting methods were adopted, and Cheng Shijie needed to help his mother work in the field when he was very young.

This situation lasted until around 98 years, when Cheng Weiguo was assigned to a two-bedroom and 68-square-meter house for the last welfare division of Hangang Group, of course, this is the actual usable area, and there is no public sharing of 68 square houses.

Although Cheng Shijie has invested a lot of money in education, he also provides free school uniforms, free breakfast and lunch for children. The problem is that there are still too few schools, and school construction has not kept pace with the growth of immigrants.

This is a serious problem.

Zhu Weiyuan was very happy, there were still more than ten miles away from Xinghai City, and Cheng Shijie could enter the city immediately, but he suddenly thought that in such weather, wouldn't he be able to have a picnic.

As soon as he thought of it, Cheng Shijie ordered a stop in front of a river beach.

"Dashuai, what do you command?"

"The scenery here is good, let's have a picnic!"

"Yes!"

Dozens of palace ladies and eunuchs were immediately busy, although Zhu Weiyuan had a carriage and RV to rest, but they still set up a tent for Zhu Weiyuan.

To say that Zhu Weiyuan's princess shelf is really not small, these palace ladies and eunuchs took off the wooden planks from the carriage one by one, and built them directly in front of the river beach, these are all wooden planks that can be combined at any time.

The size of the wooden house is really small, about thirty or forty square meters, occupying half of the river beach, and there is a small terrace.

Cheng Shijie looked at his horse-drawn RV and suddenly felt a little unpleasant.

No matter how comfortable the carriage RV is, it is limited by space, giving people a very oppressive feeling, but this kind of wooden house is different, with a height of nearly one zhang, especially the roof of the wooden house, and a waterproof tarpaulin, even if it rains, it is not afraid.

When the wooden house was officially assembled, there were still a few steps, which could be directly extended into the river, several palace ladies pulled up the curtain, and Zhu Weiyuan sat on the steps and released her feet from her shoes.

Cheng Shijie saw the problem, the original Zhu Weiyuan did not bind her feet, but now she is bound her feet.

Cheng Shijie looked at Zhu Weiyuan and said, "You obviously didn't bind your feet, why do you want to bind your feet now?" ”

Zhu Weiyuan smiled slightly: "In the palace before, I deliberately didn't wrap my feet, I had a pair of big feet, so I couldn't get married, but now it's different, I married my husband, and I can't embarrass my husband!" ”

Only then did Cheng Shijie remember the legend of the so-called three-inch golden lotus. Foot binding, as the name suggests, is to wrap the feet with cloth to prevent their natural growth and development, so that the feet become sharp and small, which is an important criterion for evaluating women as beautiful or ugly in ancient times.

But the price of doing so is that the soft tissue contracture of the feet is contracture, and the feet seem to have been burned by fire, turning into a severely twisted and deformed flesh bump that even has an abnormal skin color, which is very ugly.

Of course, the ancients did not see it this way, they thought it was beautiful, but they did not realize that the price of this beauty was that women became disabled and incapacitated, and arthritis would accompany women for the rest of their lives, making them suffer.

The woman's feet are wasted, and it is inconvenient to walk, so she can only teach her husband and children at home, and the door is not out, and the second door is not stepping, which also meets the requirements of the ancients for women since the Song Dynasty.

In the Ming Dynasty, the wind of foot binding was not strong, mainly concentrated in large households, because they had people to serve and could bind their feet, but ordinary people were different.

There are many people who say that the foot binding of the dynasty is very heavy, which is actually a slander of the Ming Dynasty, and the wind of foot binding is really spreading, starting from the Qianlong period, the foot binding that was not very popular in the south has also become popular, and even some ethnic minorities in the northwest and southwest have also been infected with the custom of foot binding.

I have to say that this kind of request is perverted. From the pre-Qin to the Sui and Tang dynasties, there has never been a dynasty that requires women to be grounded, and there has never been a dynasty where literati have vigorously touted women's grounding, but since the Song Dynasty, the wind of grounding has spread.

Of course, it is not accidental that the wind of grounding flooded the two Song Dynasty, when the Song Dynasty was unusually passive in the war against the northern nomads, from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty, has been in a position of being beaten, which made the men of the Song Dynasty full of frustration, can only find their broken dignity in women, they have no way to make themselves stronger, but there is a way to make women weaker, since ancient times, men's strength is set off by women's weakness.

In later generations, the status of women has improved, and pseudo-mothers have become popular, because pseudo-mothers can reflect women's masculinity, to be honest, those sissies, a man will feel disgusting, because women like it, so they will operate commercially.

I have to say that this is the sadness of the times.

Cheng Shijie mentioned Zhu Weiyuan's footcloth and threw it directly into the river: "You are not allowed to bind your feet in the future." What kind of foot is wrapped well, this wrapping will not cripple the feet! ”

Zhu Weiyuan smiled bitterly: "If you don't bind your feet, you will embarrass your husband......"

"Haha......"

Cheng Shijie pointed at Zhu Weiyuan and said, "What kind of logic is this, you are bound for my face?" I don't believe in this evil, the face is lost to myself, the face is given by others, you are not allowed to bind your feet! ”

Zhu Weiyuan also wanted to explain.

Cheng Shijie said directly: "When you enter the door of the Cheng family, you are a member of the Cheng family, the Cheng family will never bind their feet, and I will also legislate, but whoever binds their feet will be fined one or two taels of silver a year." ”

"Is it only a tael of silver?"

"The next year will be fined two taels of silver, the third year will be fined four taels of silver, the fourth year will be fined eight taels of silver, and so on!"

Zhu Weiyuan said: "Now the people who bind their feet are all big households, and they are not afraid of fines at all!" ”

"Hehe......"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "No matter how much property they have, I can punish them for bankruptcy!" ”

"How is this possible?"

Zhu Weiyuan silently calculated in her heart, and she found that it was really as Cheng Shijie said, no matter how much money she had, she would be punished and bankrupt.

(End of chapter)