Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 754 Sacrifice the Change of Jiashen with the Flesh and Flesh of the Bandit Leader

The situation in the northwest region is now in a calm stage before the outbreak. With the full support and supply of the imperial court, Cao Wenzhao is leading hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians to build Xining City. According to the construction progress, the main project will be completed after the fall of this year. This strong city will become an important fortress in the Northwest Territories.

Cao Bianjiao and Luo Shifang respectively led guerrilla teams to move around the small tribes of Mongolia or other ethnic groups to the south near Xining City. Some of these nomadic peoples will be transformed into farming peoples, and the rest will be engaged in work under the control of the government. our bank.

In the face of powerful force, these Shaomin tribes were obedient or obedient. Some unruly men who tried to use bone arrows and rusty iron knives to show off their strength in front of their fellow villagers fell asleep with the earth in the blink of an eye.

Their bone arrows and iron knives did not cause any harm to the Ming army who was covered in iron armor.

The disadvantage lies in being dishonest.

The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are here to rescue you poor people who wear tattered leather robes and cannot eat a bite of green vegetables for many years. Why do you say you rushed up with a broken knife?
It is not a lie to say that he is rescued.

It wasn't until a group of Shaomin who were fearful or resentful were brought to the vicinity of Xining City under construction, that they realized that they were being driven here by those wolf-like military masters like sheep. , It really made them live a good life, but the military men's methods were too rough.

Every tribal man and woman who comes will receive a brand-new robe and skirt, a catty of tea, a catty of salt, a stone of barley flour, and each household will receive an iron pot.

These things are all treasures that they dream of and can't get, they didn't expect to get them suddenly like this.

Without a trace of defense or preparation, it just appeared suddenly.

Of course, these things are not given for free.

The government will take away livestock such as horses, cattle and sheep from each family according to the situation of each family. However, the price is very fair. Although the tribal people do not know how to count, they know that what they get is basically equal to what they pay.

The following series of arrangements were all ordered by the leaders of the tribe according to the instructions of the official.

The leaders had long fallen into the arms of the Ming court under the grace and power of the officials. With their help, the southward migration project of dozens of tribes, large and small, progressed quite smoothly.

The fundamental purpose of Zhu Youjian's entire plan is to nip in the bud all the factors that may lead to instability in Northwest Qinghai, Mongolia and other places in the future, and take a step ahead to gather together those Mongolian tribes that may gradually grow in population and strength in the future. Then differentiate and monitor it, and slowly assimilate it completely.

In the area bordering Qinghai and Mongolia, there have always been some tribes of the Heshuote and Tumed tribes. Although most of the Tumed tribes surrendered to the imperial court in the tenth year of Chongzhen, some tribes did not move south together. , this time it happened to be gathered together.

After Qinghai and western Mongolia are completely stabilized, with the completion of Xining City, this vast area will be completely stabilized. At that time, Cao Wenzhao's troops can concentrate all their energies on the direction of Xinjiang for future generations, and strive to pacify this vast area as soon as possible. ethnically mixed areas.

Zhu Youjian has already issued a special decree to Cao Wenzhao, ordering him to wipe out all the gangster Li Zicheng's troops at the beginning of the 17th year of Chongzhen, and to capture Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin and other bandit leaders alive and escort them to the capital.

On the day of Jiashen Tianbian's sacrifice, Zhu Youjian wanted to execute Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin Ling Chi to comfort the last emperor of the Han people who had been splashed with countless dirty waters.

Let alone Nanming in the south of the Yangtze River is not considered a dynasty at all.

A 17-year-old youth, who hastily ascended to the throne without receiving any education in the emperor's mind, took over the dilapidated country left by his ancestors. He didn't know anything about governing the country. Deceived and deceived, and finally died for the country with unwillingness and humiliation. Hundreds of years after his death, he was still criticized by many mouths.

Zhu Youjian really couldn't understand why later generations were so demanding on a high school student who was only in his second year of high school.

Even in the era of information explosion, if you let a sophomore in high school become the emperor, no matter how much he knows, won't he still be manipulated by those adults?By the time he grows up and understands what's going on, it's too late.

What's more, he is a young man who grew up in a deep palace and knows nothing about the outside world. He can only do his best, relying on his own observation and cognition, to try to save the family that has been sold by interest groups in private. career, but the doomed tragedy has been irreversible.

The current Li Zicheng is still the same as in the original history, he is an unbeatable Xiaoqiang. Of course, there is a reason for this.

Under the continuous siege and interception of Cao Bianjiao and Luo Fang, Li Zicheng led more than [-] elite veterans of the old battalion. Young and strong, strengthen your own strength.

What Li Zicheng and the others didn't know was that it was the deliberate connivance of the officers and soldiers that he led the main force to escape in time at critical moments. Otherwise, with the strength of Cao Bianjiao and Luo Shifang, it would only take a matter of minutes to destroy him.

According to the information collected by the government and army, after Li Zicheng's tribe entered the sphere of influence of the four towns of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty, it has successively fought with the Durbert tribe, the Turghut tribe, the Huite tribe, and the Uighur tribe. In order to compete for food and territory, all parties fought fiercely. Although the casualties were not great, but depending on the situation, a series of battles between the parties was about to be staged.

Under the pressure of Cao Wenzhao, Cao Bianjiao and Luo Shifang had no choice but to resist the idea of ​​participating immediately, and led their respective subordinates to run back and forth to various places to test the bearing capacity of the military stations along the way and collect terrain data of various places by the way. .

The westward military depots are built on a standard of one hundred miles, and all kinds of food and materials are also stored according to the standard that each military depot can be used by [-] cavalry for five days. Among them, grain and beans are the most.

Under the orders of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household Affairs, Lintao Prefecture, Pingliang Prefecture and other places have been transporting the huge amount of grain after years of bumper harvests to the west every day. Except for some of these grains, half of the taxes that have already been paid for land reclamation In addition, most of them were purchased from farmers at the expense of the imperial court.

War is the act that consumes the most wealth and the fastest.

According to the data obtained by Zhu Youjian, from Cao Wenzhao's order to build Xining City, to the construction of many military stations in the west, and the various expenses incurred by immigration to the west one after another, since the 12th year of Chongzhen to the present, the Ming Dynasty has been in the northwest. The total value of the investment in the direction has exceeded 600 million taels of silver.

Fortunately, the current financial situation of the imperial court is good, and the threats from other directions of the Ming Dynasty have basically been eliminated. The bulk of the imperial court's taxation is mainly concentrated on improving people's livelihood, and the rest of the military expenditure can be ignored. Otherwise, this protracted strategy of burning money in the Northwest , will soon bring Daming down.

Judging from the current situation, the northwest direction will launch an offensive in the second half of the 15th year of Chongzhen at the latest. Twenty thousand cavalry plus [-] infantry will sweep away all the forces in the Western Regions who do not accept the kingship. The troops will be stationed in various dangerous places, and the immigrants will follow suit.

The new province will naturally be named after Xinjiang, but it will not be given the suffix of the autonomous region.

　Thank you for the rewards of Floating Life Ruomeng Ruomeng, Fengyueqingmeng.

　　
　
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