Chapter 350

The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were very hard, and the loyal and brave soldiers who fought for the country should have had enough food and clothing, and the soldiers were well-armoured, but they lived as beggars. Just like the Qi family army established by Qi Jiguang, after Qi Jiguang was removed from his official position and died in depression, almost all of the last Qi family army led by Qi Jin died on the banks of the Hunhe River.

However, this one hasn't received a penny of food for thirteen months, so there is no mutiny, and they can still be pulled out to fight, the ability of the old Zhu family is actually really extraordinary, of course, it is more ordinary The ability of the courtiers of the old Zhu family.

The military households of the guard are hereditary, and the children and grandchildren of the big head soldiers can only be the big head soldiers, and the children and grandchildren of the thousands of households are all thousands of households, and the generations of those who are commanders are all commanders. 、

In the Ming Dynasty, it was not that they did not pay attention to the soldiers, such as the hundred households were the six products, the general flag was the seventh product, the thousand households were the five products, and the commander was the third product, and in later generations, they were provincial high-ranking officials. But the problem is that in these years, the armed forces are automatically three levels lower in front of the civil officials, and a thousand households of the fifth grade, not to mention a thousand households, is the commander of the fourth grade, and even a county order can clean him up and obey him.

To put it bluntly, the real sesame official in Daming is not a county order, but a thousand households. As for the hundred households and even the chiefs, they are not even counted as sesame officials.

Soon, more than 30 generals and six Ning Navy generals at the level of 1,000 generals in Yanqing County gathered together to hold a meeting without a theme.

At the meeting, Meng En said: "Everyone......"

Just when Meng En just spoke, Cheng Shijie's figure appeared behind Meng En, if Meng En suddenly summoned the Ning naval officers in Yanqing, there was immediately a supervisor from the Military Supervision Department to report to Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie was fine, so he decided to observe the meeting.

When Cheng Shijie entered the conference room, some of those officers saw Cheng Shijie, and they wanted to salute Cheng Shijie, but Cheng Shijie signaled that they didn't need to salute or explain to Meng En.

Meng En didn't realize the problem, he said with excitement on his face: "Brothers, you must have heard the rumors of the series of things that happened during this time. Those damned ministers do not hesitate to push this country into the bottomless abyss for their own selfish interests! ”

The generals did not answer Meng En's words, he just continued: "For their own selfish interests, they ordered the generals guarding the border passes, let them let go of the defense line, and let the Mongol Tatars break through the pass. Why should their civil servants selfishly think that this country is their private property and can be squandered on the basis of how many broken books they have read? ”

Although Cheng Shijie was present, the Admiral Ning who was present was also very indignant. Because they have received too much similar information during this time, if Tang Daoheng, the governor of Gansu, concentrates his Gansu forces to confront the army of Junggar in Weiwu City, of course, there is nothing wrong with the confrontation in Weiwu, he should not have fled at the most critical moment and sacrificed the main force of Gansu in the field.

If the Gansu army refuses to defend the city and lets the Junggar army attack city by city, I am afraid that the Junggar army is still rushing to the state in the Hexi Corridor.

It is also impossible to easily break through the sixteen cities of Hexi and directly reach the city of Lanzhou, as for Taiyuan Town, it is even more difficult, Taiyuan Town has jurisdiction over three passes, nineteen mouths, and thirty-nine forts, and each gate is not easy to defend and difficult to attack? Which pass doesn't require a lot of lives to fill?

But the problem is that from Qiao Zhaolin to He Sui, if it weren't for Cheng Shijie sending someone to inspect Qiao Zhaolin on a wooden donkey, and in this way he frightened many half-hearted Ming generals, I was afraid that the more than 3,000 miles of the nine-border defense line would be full of loopholes.

If it weren't for Cheng Shijie sending Shen Mingyu to lead the Ning Navy to patrol the Nine Frontiers in time, I'm afraid that the Nine Frontier Defense Line would have collapsed long ago.

"General Ben doesn't want to go on like this, he's had enough of it a long time ago, this damn Wenchen!"

Meng En raised his arms and shouted: "We want to control our own destiny, we have a chance now, there is such an opportunity for you to show your strengths, fight side by side with countless heroes who are as brave and good at fighting as you, and open up new territories, you don't have to worry about the high merits of the master, you don't have to worry about the constraints of Wenchen, and you don't have to worry about your clan being wiped out on a trumped-up charge after your death, are you willing to seize it?" ”

A general, Li Junhu, said: "This ...... How is this possible? Even Han Tang can't do it! ”

Two lightning-sharp lights burst out of Meng En's eyes, and he said in a deep voice: "There is a chance now, we can do better than the soldiers of the Han and Tang dynasties, it depends on whether you dare to seize it!" ”

Li Junhu gritted his teeth and said: "I haven't been cheap, I like to be used as dough and kneaded repeatedly!" ”

"If there is such an opportunity, I will definitely seize it!"

"I'm not afraid of death, I'm afraid that they will settle accounts with us!"

"I can't sleep well!"

Hearing this, Cheng Shijie already understood what Meng En wanted to do, and he scolded angrily: "Aren't you afraid of punishing the Nine Clans? ”

"Hmph, I just have a wife, and I don't even have a son, but I can't make up the nine clans for them to ......."

Speaking of this, he heard Cheng Shijie's voice, and then he reacted: "Handsome! ”

Cheng Shijie stared at Meng En and said, "Shut up!" ”

Meng En was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat.

Cheng Shijie heard what Meng En meant, and he also knew what Meng En wanted to do, but the problem was that he really didn't have time now, because Cheng Shijie knew that these Wenchen still controlled public opinion, and ordinary people did not have the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.

What Cheng Shijie is really afraid of is that once he tears his face with the court, the court will not hesitate to release the beast in the cage in order to deal with Cheng Shijie, a traitor.

Do the Ming scholars have the power? Yes, and this force is not small, they control a large amount of land, but also have a large number of tenants, once the ban on the landlord regiment training generals is lifted, in the current Ming Dynasty, the landlord's tenants will be interested in the imperial court, and they will fight with Ning Haijun at all costs.

At that time, Ning Haijun was the real enemy of the world, unless Cheng Shijie could directly erase the Ming Dynasty's population of nearly 100 million like the Manchu Qing Dynasty. According to Ge Jianxiong's History of the Chinese Population, after the Qing army entered the customs, the population of the entire territory of China decreased by about 90 million, that is, nearly 100 million people lost their lives in this catastrophe of dynastic change.

According to statistics, the population of the Ming Dynasty in the Wanli period was nearly 200 million, why did the population of the Ming Dynasty increase significantly compared with the previous feudal dynasties? In addition to the fact that there were not many wars due to the long period of peace, sweet potatoes and other crops introduced from South America during the Ming Dynasty also played a very important role, and these crops were very productive and suitable for growing on Chinese soil, feeding a large number of people. As a result, the population of the Ming Dynasty increased significantly compared to the previous feudal dynasties. Although the previous feudal dynasties also had times of peace and prosperity, the scale of nearly 200 million people was still not available.

During the reign of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, the number of people in the country was only 10 million, and even if a family had six people, there were only 60 million people. The loss of more than 100 million people is not insignificant.

However, how can Cheng Shijie do it?

Really learn that the Manchu Qing Dynasty killed the corpse mountains and the sea of blood, the white bones exposed the wilderness, the red land for thousands of miles, and the lakes and rivers filled in?

Cheng Shijie really didn't have that ruthless heart, and he didn't want to kill so many people, to solve this problem, what was needed was to break the ideological system established by Confucianism, which prescribed five kinds of role relationships, namely monarch and minister, father and son, husband and wife, brother and friend.

Of these five relationships, the natural relationship between family members accounts for the majority, and the relationship between the monarch and the friend is essentially an extension of the relationship between father and son and brother. Among them, father and son represent all vertical relationships, brothers mean horizontal relationships, and husband and wife mean relations between the sexes. The traditional Chinese family is based on the father-son relationship rather than the relationship between husband and wife, and Chinese culture is based on this father-son family relationship as the starting point.

From the family and the country, first with the family as the main axis, the small family develops into a family, and the family develops into a clan, a clan is a small country, and a clan in Europe is the size of a country.

Now that Cheng Shijie is actually in Liaodong, he has been corroding this system, and he originally wanted to solve this ideological system silently.

The land and homestead land in Liaodong, including taxes, were never divided according to the head, but according to the household registration, whether the family was nine or a dozen people, the number of homesteads allocated was the same, so that those big families were forced to separate.

If you want homesteads and cultivated land, then divide the family, and control the number of registered people within a family of three to five, just like the Tui En Order, as long as you become the head of the household, the family is scattered, and for the sake of profit, the local area cannot become a huge power like a clan, and without the land to maintain the power of this clan, the Confucian system will collapse.

In particular, allowing women to work, earn money, and control the economy means that they have the right to speak in the family, and reversing the feudal mentality of more than 2,000 years cannot be accomplished overnight.

In addition to this, at the same time, there is also the need to undermine the authority of Confucianism, just like Jiannu used one victory after another to establish the myth and authority of "Jurchen is not satisfied with ten thousand, and ten thousand are invincible".

Of course, Cheng Shijie has more to do, he has put forward the "pot lid" theory, in the most superficial way, to explain the causes of rain, weather and drought, breaking the so-called "heaven and man induction" of Confucianism, and now the weather of the Xiaoice River can just break the Confucian heaven and man induction.

When Confucianism can't play this way, their authority and prestige will disappear, and when the time comes, they won't have so many followers if they want to respond to every call.

But the problem is that now Meng En has pierced this problem and put it directly on the surface, so that Cheng Shijie must unify the thinking of the Ning Navy group in order to achieve long-term strategic goals.

Cheng Shijie coughed and said, summoned the officers and men of the whole army, and immediately held a meeting.

The problem is on the bright side, in fact, for Cheng Shijie, it is not a bad thing, the more the reason is argued, the clearer it is, and some things must be faced head-on.

The officers and men of the Ning Navy stood in line in the cold wind, and with the officer's order, more than 6,000 Ning Navy soldiers stood straight, looking horizontally and vertically, all in a straight line.

When Cheng Shijie boarded the platform, all the soldiers said in unison: "Meet the commander!" ”

"Take a break!"

Cheng Shijie took the microphone and used the speaker to transmit his voice to the ears of every Ning Navy soldier.

"Ladies and gentlemen, too many things have happened during this time, and you have also experienced a lot of things, I don't want to tell you any big truths, you don't understand, what Ben Shuai wants to ask you is, what is your original intention? Do you remember? What are the duties and responsibilities of a soldier?"

Cheng Shijie's voice made all the officers and men of the Ning Navy start to think.

"What is the original intention?"

"What is your role?"

When Cheng Shijie changed his statement, Admiral Zhongning shouted: "The duty of a soldier is to fight, and Admiral Ning only does two things, fighting and preparing for war." ”

"So you still remember, this is your original intention now?"

Cheng Shijie continued: "A soldier has only one duty, that is, to fight to the end, only to fight, only to use the flesh and blood of our iron-blooded men to block the iron hooves of the Jiannu Tartars, only to build a flesh-and-blood Great Wall with the faith and will of our warriors, only if we use our swords and guns to stop the Jiannu, to stop those who wantonly kill our relatives Jiannu and the Tartars, only to stop those beasts and animals, we can protect our wives and daughters from being humiliated, to protect our property, In order to protect our homes, protect our homes, and protect everything we have! ”

Cheng Shijie's words aroused deep thought among everyone present.

One of the things that Captain Ning is very proud of is that they have dignity.

Other Ming troops, avoided by the people like snakes and scorpions, like floods and beasts, no matter where they go, they are disliked everywhere, why do they suffer countless unfair treatment?

Why are they so blinded and neglected?

The answer is that they are not soldiers, they are not qualified soldiers, and they have not fulfilled their obligations as soldiers.

Cheng Shijie didn't mention Meng En's name, nor did he mention Zhou Ning, but in fact, the two of them were already blushing with shame, because now that they think about it, they have forgotten their original intentions and their responsibilities.

Cheng Shijie continued: "Zhao Wencai is still in Lanzhou, using their flesh and blood to block the Mongols in Junggar, Shen Mingyu is still blocking the Mongols in Yanmen Pass, they are still doing their duty, what about you?" Do you deserve the military uniform on your body? ”

However, at this time, Meng En stumped his head and said: "Report, there will be something to say at the end!" ”

"Speak!"

"In just two months, hundreds of thousands of people, tens of thousands of soldiers, hundreds of thousands of lives, and countless outstanding officers and generals were buried like this! And what buried them was just a ridiculous idea, in order to also make a stumbling block for the handsome, the selfish desires of a small group of people! ”

Meng En knelt in front of Cheng Shijie: "Dashuai, even if you want to kill my head, then wait for me to finish!" ”

Cheng Shijie opened his mouth, wanting to refute, but he didn't know how to refute. It can be seen that the blow of those Wenchen to the officers and men of the Ning Navy is too great.

Meng En said with a stunned expression: "Now the Mongols and Dzungars have entered the Kou one after another, the Jiangnan is in turmoil, the northwest is in flames, and there is a great tendency for Shenzhou to sink by land, and three months ago, we were still winning in various battlefields, advancing from several directions at the same time, pressing Jiannu out of breath!" It was just a confused thought of someone, and these advantages that had been exchanged for the blood of countless soldiers were buried. ”

Speaking of this, Meng En became excited, and said loudly: "This time, there is also a big handsome you who stepped forward and turned the tide, what about next time?" If the next time someone makes such a ridiculous decision, and someone wants to push the whole country into the abyss of destruction for their own selfish interests, do you dare to guarantee that there will be someone like you who will stand up and hold up the falling sky? ”

Cheng Shijie continued: "As long as Ben Shuai doesn't die, he will come forward!" ”

"You will, big marshal, but the problem is, their lives are lives, and the lives of our Ning Haijun brothers are not lives? In order to wipe their butts for the brutes raised by their sons, we killed more than 1,000 people in Jing'anbao, more than 2,000 in Pingdingzhou, and more than 20,000 brothers in Lanzhou, I don't know how many of them will come back alive! ”

Cheng Shijie's brows tightened: "What do you want to say?" ”

Meng En yelled, "I've had enough, why are they on top? Looking at all living beings, how can they decide the fate of tens of millions of people with one sentence, and why do they know that it is wrong to do so, and they want to do it in order to show their majesty, even if they sacrifice millions of lives for it! ”

(End of chapter)