Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 491

Just when Sun Chuanting led the army to follow the Qing army retreating to the north, Zhu Youjian in Qianqing Palace was already planning the development blueprint after regaining the lost land.

Since the reports of the battles outside the customs are delivered to the capital by express horses every day, although Zhu Youjian has not been to the battle in person, Zhu Youjian is well aware of the progress of the current battle. The confidence to win.

Against the backdrop of huge advantages in the commander, morale of the army, military equipment, and logistical support, there is no reason for this decisive battle to fail. Now he has to think about how to deal with the aftermath.

First of all, the position of governor of Jiliao will be cancelled. Sun Chuanting will join the cabinet after resigning from office and returning to Beijing. Lu Xiangsheng, Chen Qiyu, and Yang Sichang will join the cabinet at the same time.

The Liaodong area was changed to Liaoning Province. Like other provinces in the pass, there will be a governor, a chief envoy, and other officials. Qiu Minyang will be the first governor of Liaoning Province, and the chief envoy will be elected by the cabinet.

Secondly, the issue of personnel placement after the end of the entire campaign.

It is easy to say that the Han people under the original name of the Eight Banners, as long as they survived the war, they should be placed on the spot, and then set up prefectures and counties to manage them.

The important thing is how to resettle the Eight Banners and the attached Mongolian tribes.

The surviving population of the Eight Banners will be scattered and moved inward, and resettled in each province. Each village is not allowed to have more than five households, and separate villages are not allowed to be resettled. This can effectively control and prevent unnecessary troubles in the future.

This mainly involves the question of how many people of the Eight Banners will be there in the end.

According to Zhu Youjian's analysis, the total population of the Eight Banners is now less than one million, and the total population is probably between 50 and 80. After this war that lasted for several months, the total population will drop by a large amount. piece.

War is cruel and dehumanizing, and the dark side of human nature will be infinitely magnified in it.

Although Zhu Youjian has ordered that, except on the battlefield, the officers and soldiers are not allowed to harm anyone who is harmless to them without reason, but in many cases this order will be ignored by the soldiers intentionally or unintentionally under special circumstances.

This is also something that can’t be helped, after all, the army in this period is still unable to do no harm to the common people like the later generations.

The placement of the Mongolian tribes is somewhat troublesome. The tribes such as the Han, Horqin, and Tumed tribes must be broken up, but due to the unique mobility of these tribes, management will be quite difficult.

Leave this issue to the cabinet. I haven't thought of any good ideas yet.

Relocating the population of the Eight Banners will cost a lot of manpower and material resources. Fortunately, the huge harvest after recovery can offset this problem, which can be ignored.

Third, the promotion of generals and soldiers after the war and the issue of how many troops to retain.

With the security situation at home and abroad basically stable, Zhu Youjian was going to adopt a strategy of elite soldiers, and stationed elite soldiers in key water and land key points and key points in Daming to deal with possible emergencies.

Soldiers are not expensive.

In history, the Ming Dynasty had an army of more than 100 million, but it still failed to withstand the blows of thieves and slaves.

As for the rewards for meritorious soldiers, they are nothing more than gold and silver fields.

For the vast Liaodong region, there is no shortage of fields, but people. As long as the basic supporting facilities such as water conservancy roads are gradually improved, the Northeast Granary of later generations will appear on the land of China in advance.

Promotion is something that requires serious consideration.

Zhu Youjian intends to improve the status of military generals after the great victory, change the traditional bad habit of using civil to control military, and restore the best court structure in which civil and military perform their own responsibilities.

Restoring the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, appointing nobles or generals to serve as the servants of the Ministry of War, opening martial arts halls, and popularizing the literacy rate among middle and low-level generals, etc., these series of measures are what Zhu Youjian wants to implement.

However, these articles will definitely be strongly opposed and resisted by the civil official group, including Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting and other capable ministers he trusts most.

This is the most important matter. Zhu Youjian has been thinking about it for a long time, and now he only has a preliminary plan.

Then there is the issue of road construction, not only to widen the official roads from the capital to the outside of the customs, but also to the official roads in other provinces.

No matter what age, road construction is the most basic national construction. Without roads, nothing can be done.

In ancient times, official roads were the main roads built by dynasties. Usually, the width only allowed two cars of standard size to run side by side. This standard size was set by the first emperor.

The reason for setting this standard is that in the era when there were no rubber tires, the wheels were easy to leave ruts on the dirt roads. After a long time, the cars followed the ruts, and the unified standard was more convenient for large-scale communication.

In the era when maps were measured by foot by foot, it was already a huge project to build a main road between Chang'an and Luoyang in the past dynasties. There will be very few roads, and more is to maintain the old roads.

Then it is easy to understand the siege if it is deduced from this.

For example, from the current capital city to Nanjing, there is only one road for the passage of large groups of people, horses, food, grass, and supplies. If you take this road, you can reach the Yangtze River in two months. Two years or more.

As the coach, if you don’t choose to take the main road, then the person in charge of logistics and logistics will probably have to do it for you first, because if you take the small road, the huge amount of food and grass materials cannot be transported at all, as long as you have common sense, you must take the main road.

Then the question arises: there is a city called Xuzhou on the main road, and the surrounding roads are all within the attack range of the Xuzhou garrison. Now it is occupied by the enemy. So, if you want to go to Nanjing, do you want to go to Nanjing? How about knocking down Xuzhou first?
Let's get far, let's go back to the issue of road construction.

Although Zhu Youjian has never left the capital, this does not prevent him from using Jinyiwei's reporting system to observe the status quo of the official roads in the prefectures and counties of Ming Dynasty. The appearance of being covered in soil on sunny days and muddy on rainy days, with uneven, narrow and difficult to walk, he You can imagine it with your eyes closed.

Now the manufacture of four-wheeled carriages has been put on the agenda. As long as the technology is more mature, Zhu Youjian will order to start building a new workshop and start mass production of this new type of transportation.

Now the width of the official roads in various parts of Ming Dynasty obviously cannot accommodate four-wheeled carriages, and it is imperative to widen and improve.

Of course, the mass-produced four-wheeled carriages are used to transport goods and materials, not to be used by officials, gentry and wealthy businessmen to show off.

There are also such luxury goods for passenger use, but the output is extremely small, and the ones that have been produced are all parked in the compound of the military prison warehouse. This is what Zhu Youjian plans to reward his favorite minister.

This epoch-making product is equivalent to the Rolls-Royce phantom suddenly appearing in the era of tractors, and no one can refuse that kind of glory and decency.

These luxury cars are currently owned by famous cars, and Wen Tirenhui is the first one to get such a luxury car.

Not for anything else, just for Lao Wen's obedience, irony, and discerning price.Every time Zhu Youjian reveals some intentions, Lao Wen basically spares no effort to do it himself. As a chief assistant who should have opposed the emperor in the traditional sense and worked for the well-being of the civil society, this is quite rare. , Lao Wen enjoys this honor as it should be.

The second place is Sun Chengzong.

This venerable minister deserves the glory that belongs to him.

Regardless of how he was evaluated in later history, after entering the customs against the Qing army, Mr. Sun Ge led his whole family to fight to the death in his hometown of Gaoyang. In the end, five sons, six grandsons, two nephews, and eight nephews died in battle. More than a hundred members of the Sun family were killed, and this alone is enough.

This kind of lofty national integrity will be placed in future generations. Ask yourself, how many people can do it?

Being loyal to the country is not just about lip service. It takes a lot of courage to really match words with deeds.

　Thank you Shushanqin for climbing

　　
　
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