The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 133
Liang Tingdong had a personal relationship with Zheng Guochang, and the reason why he was doing well as a minister of the Ministry of War was because Huang Han had repeatedly made meritorious deeds, and it was the result of their conspiracy to give the territory to the "Red Banner Army" to develop.

This means that Huang Han not only has a quota of 360 battalions, but also has a quota of [-] guards.

In fact, the Weisuo system had existed in name only by the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the Weisuo army was useless at all. It was just sent out to do coolies. It had almost degenerated into farmers and had no combat effectiveness at all.

But Huang Han, who has financial and material resources, owning a guard will make a big difference.He will not exploit the guards under his command, but will also distribute money and food to organize their production and training. After a year or two, the combat effectiveness of these guards should be no less than that of ordinary Ming troops.

In fact, the territory of a guard is really not small, and most of them have three or five thousand households.

One of the Qianhusuo cities is where the Acropolis is located, so there should be several hundreds of households under the Qianhusuo, and some hundreds of households should have several piers.

The Acropolis of Funing has been destroyed, so it is a matter of course to rebuild it. The financial difficulties in the year of Chongzhen were so difficult that the imperial court could not give money.

After Huang Han's repeated attacks, the Jin army has already made a fortune by seizing food from the mouth of its mouth. Of course, the money obtained must be used to enrich the country and strengthen the army. It is imperative to establish a base area for the "Red Banner Army" that is easy to enter and exit, and can attack, retreat, and defend.

He will not renovate Funingwei at the original site, but plans to build this acropolis to the seaside of Liaohai, which has a natural port.

There was originally a city of thousands of households here, even if it was dilapidated, it didn't matter. After all, the foundation was ready-made, and it would be no problem to become an acropolis after expansion.

In the future, Huang Han will have a city by the sea and his own wharf. It shouldn't be too difficult to buy some ships and use his relationship to ask the Ministry of War to approve a water battalion and give a total of seven or eight No. [-] and No. [-] blessing ships as warships.

The benefits of a strong city standing by the sea are self-evident. At least when there is no navy's Hou Jin army to attack, the city will never be surrounded to death.

The "Red Banner Army" can use the artillery and guns placed on the top of the city to kill and injure the enemies who are attacking the city in large numbers. They can get supplies from the sea, and they can send cavalry out of the city to attack the besieging enemy troops. Ning Weicheng's interest.

This city is on the coast of Liaodong, and the "Red Banner Army" with warships and cargo ships can completely ignore Shanhaiguan and go directly to the Houjin Army by boat. The enemy's exhaustion will naturally weaken Jiannu.

After the Jin army swept through the Gyeonggi area, it took 30 people to Liaodong. The loss of the Ming Dynasty was far more than this. The number of people who were massacred and froze to death or starved to death in the process of fleeing should be at least double. It is conservatively estimated that the total loss The population is no less than one million.

Jiannu gnawed over the land of Gyeonggi like locusts, and too many landlords and old fortunes lost their lives. Many officers in the Weisuo Army who embezzled the military fields were also killed, and many officers defected to the enemy.

In fact, this can be regarded as completely breaking the power structure of the Gyeonggi region. It is relatively easy for Huang Han to regain the former Funingwei's military field at this time.

After all, in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the guards in the north gave each military household 20 mu of land, so it can be seen that a full guard should have more than [-] mu of military land.

Huang Han adopted the method of calculating the general account after the autumn to investigate the crimes of the military officials at all levels and the rich landowners of the Yongping Mansion. There is no major problem in obtaining a large number of acres.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, land annexation was in full swing. There were so many landless farmers, and the land was concentrated in the hands of the bureaucracy. Because the scholar-bureaucrats had preferential treatment for land tax reductions, the number of acres that the state could collect taxes decreased year by year, causing the court to make ends meet.

There are no absolute bad things or good things in the world. The later Jin army plundered the capital and caused a population loss of no less than one million, which is conducive to alleviating land conflicts.

After all, many scholar-bureaucrats who owned a large number of acres also died in the chaos of war, and many people surrendered to build slaves. Even if they did not die, they would soon face settlement after autumn.

It can be seen that after defeating the Jin army, Yongping Prefecture should have more land and less people, and then there will be upstarts dividing up the unowned acres.

Sorry, Huang Han should also be one of the upstarts, and with Zheng Guochang, the right minister, and Liu Zhilun, the governor of Shuntian, covering up, it should be a matter of course to get big benefits when sharing the fruits of victory.

The reason why Gyeonggi in history was not rebuilt quickly after Jiannu’s first invasion and retreat was because the Ming Dynasty’s ruling power was extremely weak, and the common people could only fend for themselves without relief. Of course, it was impossible for many strong men Wait for death with peace of mind.

As a result, thieves, thieves, and mountain kings emerged one after another in the mountains and forests, and the local order began to become chaotic, which made the common people unable to produce with peace of mind.

This formed the ridiculous and sad status quo at the end of the Ming Dynasty. On the one hand, land mergers were serious, and ordinary people in Shengdou had no land of their own. On the other hand, a large amount of land was abandoned and no one cultivated it.

Huang Han, who has the big gold finger of modern people's knowledge, certainly knows the importance of order. He already has the "Red Banner Army" in his hand, and he will soon have a guard army. With such strength, maintaining good law and order in the local area is certainly not costly. Blow the dust.

With Huang Han's capital investment, technical support, and the military as the backing, as well as the support of the governor and chief envoy, it will not be too difficult for Huang Han to manage the land he has got his hands on into a king's paradise.

If you don't accumulate steps, you won't reach thousands of miles; if you don't accumulate small streams, you won't be able to form rivers and seas.With a site close to the sea, Huang Han will manage it with all his heart, and develop both agriculture, industry and commerce. Over time, he will surely achieve fruitful results.

The Zunhua generals not only received rewards, but also received new missions. Ma Shilong and Wu Zimian were about to go to Funing, because Sun Chengzong had already arrived in Funing to take command, and he personally ordered Ma and Wu among them.

Zheng Guochang is also ordered to march, Huang Han's "Red Banner Army" is about to rush to Fengrun County to gather, Deng Qi, the general officer of the Sichuan Army, is also ordered by Zheng Guochang, and the [-] white soldiers who are still on the road will also rush to Fengrun to join .

The new governor of Shuntian, Liu Zhilun, is still stationed in Zunhua. Although there are more than [-] people missing here, Liu Zhilun is not worried about the safety of Zunhua at all.

Because it has been confirmed by multiple sources that the main force of the Houjin army has returned home, and there are less than [-] troops remaining in the pass, of which the Eight Banners will not exceed half.

The post-Jin army has changed from active offense to passive defense. Except for the four cities of Santunying, Yongping, Qian'an, and Luanzhou, which are still in turmoil, the people in other places have already planted spring wheat while rushing to farm.

(End of this chapter)