stubborn thief

Chapter 515 Chijin Guard

Aji Khan in Turpan once suspected that his fifth younger brother had really surrendered to Liu Chengzong.

Otherwise, why would you keep tricking yourself into transporting things to the East?I kindly sent [-] horses to support Hami, and a letter came back in a snap, saying that his mother was robbed by horse bandits.

Aji Khan wondered if you just said that there is only one horse left in the whole of Hami?Where did the horse bandit come from? Could it be that the horse bandit you are talking about is not a bandit riding a horse, but a bandit who specializes in robbing horses?

Then the communication between Turpan and Hami became a one-way channel. Every time Aji Khan wrote a letter to Hami, it was as if Hami had not received it.

On the contrary, in the direction of Hami, Babai Khan’s letters one after another, swished to Turpan, unimpeded, unfolding the letters, all talking to himself, asking for horses, equipment, and Hami Many strange people came from outside the city.

I always blamed Aji Khan for not replying to him, and said angrily that the Marshal's Mansion had sent more troops to Hami, why didn't you send troops over?They all put me under house arrest!
Aji Khan only felt that the strangest thing in this land was his younger brother Babai, who seemed to have been dead for two months. All letters were written before he was alive, and he was indifferent to what happened after his death.

Thinking about this issue, Aji Khan figured it out. Most of the letters sent from the east are fake. His fifth son is probably gone. Regardless of whether it is true or not, it is better for him if the fifth son is gone at this time. .

Because his territory is in Turpan, and Turpan is only three hundred miles away from Weilumu in Oirat, with only a Daban in Bogda Mountain in the middle.

Daban is the Oirat Mongolian dialect, dabaya, because Oirat Mongolia has a large population, it is also called Dawa, Davaa in some places, and they all mean the same thing, pass, mountain pass.

In Monan Mongolia, the word means mountains.

This is probably related to the difference in the living environment between Oala and Mongolia. Monan Mongolia does not need to cross mountains and ridges.

Aji Khan in Turpan has learned that Oirat is raising armaments and has set up [-] Otoks, that is, the Qianhu Department, and the Eastern Khan of Yarkand is also preparing for internal strife against the west. Turpan needs to focus all its energy on guarding Daban, on top of preventing Oirat from going south, has no energy to take care of Hami at all.

After all, from Huoyan Mountain to Hami City, there is more than 700 miles of Gobi in the middle, and the river will be dried up in the sun after running down the mountain. Only the strongest plants can grow on this land. You have to bring your own water, nothing to worry about.

But in Hami City on the other side, Babai Khan was really angry, because Hami City had been occupied by the Chijin Guards from the south.

He Chong'an, the commander of the Chijin Guard, was apprehensive about what he was doing. For Cao Yao, a great governor, it was normal for him to be given an official position, but he never dreamed that he would be threatened, saying that he would be killed regardless of good military discipline.

A whole bandit.

For Chi Jinwei, the small bandits who were restrained by the big bandits were also considered professional counterparts.

He Chong'an understands military discipline, but he doesn't understand the military discipline of the Marshal's Mansion, and he doesn't even know what kind of standards Cao Yao refers to as "good job" and "bad job".

For this reason, he specifically consulted the [-] marshal soldiers Liu Chengzong stayed in Chijinwei to see what the military discipline of the marshal's mansion is. These people are all from the old Ming army, and there are even several Ningxia fellows among them. It is easy for He Chongan to carry out his work .

But the answer he got didn't satisfy him, because there was abstraction in the straightforwardness, the veteran said that the laws of the Marshal's Mansion basically copied the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and the military laws were the same as those of the Ming army.

He Chongan frowned when he heard that, "Don't tell me it's useless, the military law is there, but don't give military rations and military pay, isn't it difficult for the strong to only mention the military salary?"

The military law of the Ming army is strict, but this can only be guaranteed with sufficient logistics, sufficient food management, and sufficient salary management. Even if he has a group of horse bandits and robbers under his command, He Chongan is confident that he will use money and food to stabilize the minds of most people first. If you kill dozens of people in a month, you can clear up military discipline.

But what do you want right now? What can you use to clean up military discipline?If the army didn't let go of the looting, no one started it. Once someone started, he didn't care about it, and it was all messed up. This Hami city would be swallowed alive by thousands of bandits. Maybe Liu Chengzong's Chijinwei would be gone.

Of course, by that time Chijinwei was still around, and it had nothing to do with He Chongan. He was the first person the horse bandits wanted to kill when they stirred up a mutiny.

Let alone now, even when Wanli aided North Korea, North Korea said that it had prepared military rations, and it was agreed that Ming Dynasty sent people to fight, and they took care of the military rations. As a result, there was nothing when the heavenly soldiers drove over, and the whole country was as clean as if it had been licked by a dog. .

Who is not a son of a good family who just went to war? In the past, people gnawed pine leaf dough and beat devils violently. The domestic supplies could not be supplied, and the foreign domain still hid military food and weapons, so what can we do?
Naturally, it was raised on the spot, and the soldiers who were enraged beat the officials of the foreign vassals, and the Tibetan army rations were treated as collaborating with the enemy, and they should be killed and taken.

Now he has to maintain military discipline without giving them any feathers. He Chongan is facing the same problem. Chijinwei is a powder keg, and he sits on top of the powder keg.

He Chongan believes that the most important strategy for Chijinwei is not to garrison troops in Hami, but to send troops to the west. Since the mission is to prevent a bird from flying over from the west, they should go west and kill all the birds.

At the beginning of the country, the Emperor Taizu crossed the river, and he also faced the situation of insufficient food, so he gave an order to the army: Anyone who enters the enemy's territory, obey the small food.If you attack the city and he resists, let the officers and men check and scrape it, and listen to it as your own.If it surrenders, it will make the people safe and take nothing.

It means that when entering the enemy's territory, an organized and disciplined grain collection will be carried out; if the enemy city surrenders directly, it will be carried out to appease the people, and organized and disciplined grain collection will be carried out, but no looting will be carried out; To rob is to inspect and search.

The old soldier was very happy when he heard his thoughts. The governor did not pay you, but he gave you an official position. You used to be a management team. To put it bluntly, you are similar to a hundred households. How many levels have you been promoted all of a sudden?Directly directing the commander of the fourth rank, isn't this a test of your talent.

The opportunity is in your hands. If you have the ability, you will do it. If you have no ability, you will let go. But if you choose to do it and fail to do it well, you can only die.

He said with a smile: "Your idea of ​​killing birds, the commander-in-chief must like you, but Cao Dudu is in charge of Gansu and will not support the war to the west. The commander-in-chief has his own order to provide food, but it is not for the people, but for the people." noble."

"Whether the governor said that you can do a good job means that you can manage the army's food supply."

After receiving such a reminder, He Chongan was relieved, and first reorganized the Chijin Guards outside the city a little bit, and all the hundreds of households placed veterans of the Marshal's Army, and agreed on military discipline and military law.

Of course, their military discipline and military law are different from the normal army's agreement.

He Chongan has been drifting with the crowd, whether he was the captain of the Ming army, or a soldier in Chahar, or re-joined the army in Gansu and then became the captain, he never thought about what he should do, or what he would do in this life long term plan.

He seldom uses his brain, being in the framework of the Ming army, he doesn't need to use his brain in his life as a warrior.

No matter what problems arise in life, under the first-level merit system, as long as a few other people's brains are chopped off, everything will be fine.

But as an independent little leader, living in the Gobi requires a lot of brains. At this time, He Chongan is not only a grassroots officer who is familiar with the mentality of low-level soldiers, but also an experienced horse bandit leader.

He knew very well that the army's method of reading military laws and regulations was useless to these horse bandits.

The military law of the army deals with recruits, and what is needed is to establish the supreme prestige of the generals, so in many cases, they must obey without saying or explaining.

But these horse bandits have military experience, and they are all veterans from various armies; without military experience, they are all practical players with rich experience in plundering on the Gobi Desert. It is foolish to expect them to obey like recruits .

He had to compare his heart with his heart and tell the entire Chijin Guard that even if Hami was robbed and the city was slaughtered, nothing in the city would be able to supply them for a long time, so their long-term meal ticket had to be the Marshal's Mansion—there would be a large number of people in the future. work.

For the big work in the future, this time the nobles in the city will be copied first. When copying, there must be an organization. Just don't blame people for turning their faces and denying people.

After making an appointment and signing the agreement in various words and circles, He Chongan began to prepare to enter the city... He was not stupid enough to talk about honesty with a gang of gangsters. Bandits who promise to take things seriously are normal.

He took out the agreement to kill people in order to occupy righteousness.

Great righteousness means that even if people do not agree temporarily because of their inner selfish desires, they dare not understand the moral high ground of objecting.

For Chi Jinwei, letting everyone have enough to eat is the absolute moral high ground.

Holding the weapon of righteousness, as long as someone breaks the law, he can kill people and establish power.

After that, He Chongan made a plan to pull the army into the city, pick out a few hundred households to block Hami City, allow them to enter and not allow them to leave, requisitioned more than a dozen houses, and put all the nobles there under house arrest.

Immediately afterwards, people were sent to seize the noble mansions and manors inside and outside the city, and all materials, whether useful or not, were recorded and requisitioned.

In the end, not much food was obtained, but a lot of utensils and goods were confiscated. He Chongan didn't kill all the soldiers who hid the goods, but only beheaded six heads and four hands.

He Chongan specially calculated the amount of execution for private possession, and saved most of those who had no backers and those who had backers but had little influence. Among the six people killed, four were backers with relatively powerful influence, and it was necessary to reduce them. Prestige; the other two have no backing but have relatively large private possessions.

Others, after handing over their private possessions, all pulled them out and formed a pioneer team of a hundred people, letting them commit crimes and make meritorious deeds.

However, He Chongan's actual thinking is that having a backer can weaken his wings, and it is better without a backer, which can create opportunities for him to show favor.

After such a process, he finally asked the Chijin Banner Guards to divide up the limited wine, meat, and food, and their morale soared, and they began to look like an army.

As for the goods, Kang Liangfu sent someone to contact Song Xian of Suzhou Wei to discuss whether they could be sold in Suzhou.

Song Xian beamed at the news, but he was worried. The situation in Suzhou was different from that in Hehuang. Not only did the division of land have little effect here, but the Marshal's Mansion's equalization of land and buying taxes could not be implemented here.

Because firstly, Suzhou did not have so much money to buy food, and secondly, because Suzhou Wei had the money, it was impossible to buy food and grass to supply the army of the Marshal's Mansion.

The Grand Marshal asked Song Xian to collect grain and supply military supplies in Suzhou. After thinking about it, he finally decided that Suzhou would still use the system of guards, that is, half of the grain harvested by the guards.

Even if there are no guards anywhere in the world, its land policy is still the best policy in Hexi, because the guard system in Hexi was not implemented in the early Ming Dynasty, it was implemented in the Han Dynasty, but it was called Jun at that time. Tuen.

In fact, it means that the land is state-owned, and the soldiers are allocated [-] mu per household. After planting it, they pay half of the grain, and the remaining half is their own.

This policy will be used in the frontiers in every dynasty, because the frontiers have fewer people and more land. However, with the escalation of the war intensity with the change of dynasty, the dilapidated interior has also become an environment with fewer people and more land.

By the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Han people, who had already been essentially divided into two nationalities, the Southerners and the Northerners, merged and reshaped in the Jianghuai River Basin. Under the leadership of Zhu Yuanzhang, they went on a rampage and reconquered the lands of Yanyun, Guanshan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangdong. Make guards all over the world.

This in itself was a product of a specific historical environment with a total of 400 million people in North Zhili and South China at that time.

The population of Ming Dynasty was multiplying, the policy conformed to the society, and also transformed the society. At this moment, Song Xian seemed to have done nothing, but moved out of the guard system of his ancestors, but the Suzhou Guard immediately had sufficient supplies.

Because of the internal strife in Suzhou when Liu Chengzong entered the customs, a group of people died, and the remaining Suzhou was like a blank sheet of paper, which was especially easy to use in the guard system.

Now that the soldiers and civilians in Suzhou have handed in food, each family still has a large amount of surplus food. Song Xian can't requisition, and the soldiers and civilians can't eat it all, and can't sell it. He is worried, and suddenly Chi Jinwei brings in a batch of goods. , made Song Xian very happy.

In just a few days, a batch of grain and grass was transported to Jiayuguan, and Chi Jinwei sent someone to take it away. He slowly sold the rest, and gave as much as he sold.

At once, the urgent needs of both sides were resolved, and the military households in Suzhou even reported to Song Xian that the goods they most urgently needed were actually excrement.

Suzhou is implementing Liu Chengzong's Pro-Field Law. This year, the people have tasted the sweetness of the Pro-Field Law. They urgently need more fertilizer to fertilize other districts to fertilize the land.

However, just as he was mobilizing manpower to build the first compost kiln outside Jiayuguan, the beacon fire from the east broke the tranquility of Suzhou. Although the beacon fire could not convey accurate military information, the Suzhou Guards, who lacked soldiers, entered immediately. In a state of alert, be ready to defend against the enemy or transport supplies to the east.

Then Cao Yao's letter was sent to Suzhou Wei, Yongchang Wei's defense line was broken, it was Cao Wenzhao!
　Good morning!

　　
　
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