This Qing is wrong

Chapter 157

As the saying goes, the top speaks loudly, and the bottom runs broken legs. When Li Changqing convened the cabinet to issue orders, but when these cabinet ministers implemented them, they were too busy just to recruit scholars who knew the proposition.

There is no way, the Tang Empire has no shortage of soldiers who can kill people, but it is very short of educated literati!

Which of the scholars in this era is not a landlord with land at home?

Even the so-called poor families are small landlords!

The reason is very simple. Ordinary people are so busy with food all day long, how can they have spare money for their children to go to school?
If you can let your child learn a little and know a lot of Chinese characters, he is already a "high-achieving student" among ordinary people.

Therefore, scholars have to find them from the middle class of this era, that is, from the families of the landlord class.

Only the landlord class can feed their families and have enough money to pay for their children's education.

Throughout the ages, education has always cost money, and the money spent is not small!
Even for compulsory education in the 21st century, the sum of all kinds of expenses can overwhelm the parents of ordinary families, creating an embarrassing situation where they cannot afford education.

If the education expenditure is not enough, the child born will grow up to be a low-level worker like himself, so what is the purpose of having a child?
Just to cultivate leeks and labor for the society?

Working hard to raise a child, spending so much, just to cultivate a labor force who suffers as much as myself, what are you trying to do?

Therefore, it is not that parents are willing to spend money, but that education money has to be spent!

If I really choose to lie down, I won't get married and have children...

Families who are willing to have more children show that they are all parents who are unwilling to lie down and hope that what they failed to do can be found in the next generation.

This is actually a kind of hope, showing that those parents are different from salted fish...

This is the case in the 21st century with abundant supplies, let alone this backward parallel world?

Ordinary people have not even solved the problem of food and clothing, how can they support their children to study?

This is a very real problem.

It is also this problem that has caused the rich and landlord families to monopolize educational resources, so that the background of scholars is basically not too bad.

After the rich monopolized educational resources, they were admitted to the imperial examination and became officials, and they were able to feed back their landlord families, forming a virtuous circle and a stronger monopoly of resources, thus forming a deep-rooted gentry class!

Scholars refer to well-known scholars, and gentry refer to local rich and powerful landlords.

In addition, the opening of the imperial examination can also reassure the clan gentry in Guangdong Province.

To put it bluntly, don't scholars all come from those clans and gentry families?

This is determined by the general environment. Unless Li Changqing can solve the problem of food and clothing for ordinary families and have enough money for their children to study, otherwise the money can only be taken from the family of the clan and gentry.

National construction requires scholars to be officials. This is a rigid need. Even Li Changqing, who has a system, is not exempt. Even if he does not have a good impression of those clan gentry, he can only make choices that maximize his own interests.

If he killed all the scholars and drove them away just to satisfy his anger, he would really become a locust-like existence.

Li Changqing is still greedy for pleasure in essence, who doesn't like the good days when he is awake and in charge of the world, drunk and lying on the lap of a beauty?

Is it comfortable to travel and fight all day long with the dust on your face?
With the level of technology in this era, marching and fighting without planes and high-speed trains, you can only rely on your own body to hold on!
Unlike in modern society, it is enough for the commander to sit in a comfortable command post and give advice, and there is a beautiful female secretary next to him. In his spare time, he can even develop a super friendship with the beautiful secretary.

Marching and fighting in ancient times was really hard!
Even generals can only ride horses when marching, and eat better than soldiers when they go to camp.

Don't think that riding a horse for a long time is an enjoyment, that thing is not a Rolls-Royce, and it will be a pain to ride for a long time.

what?
By carriage?
Hehe, the carriages of this era don't have any good shock absorption system, just the bumps along the way are enough to shake the general's bones apart.

This is why many generals would rather ride a horse than a car.

I am afraid that the only thing that can make people feel comfortable on a long march is the sedan chair carried by people. Compared with riding a horse or a carriage, the bumps of the sedan chair can be controlled by humans (training a group of bearers with a very stable chassis).

It's just that it's not practical to let bearers carry it for a long march.

All in all, marching and fighting these days is very painful, so Li Changqing never thought of turning himself into a rogue.

The imperial examinations of the Tang Empire were very efficient. After the announcement was issued, they didn’t pick any dates. They estimated the travel time for the children of the gentry clans farthest from Guangzhou City, and if they were more relaxed, it would be time for the exams.

At the same time, the handover of those big cities and traffic points was carried out simultaneously. The Guangdong garrison, who had been bored near the city of Guangzhou, finally had a chance to go out.

They will be the first batch of troops to handover with the local armed forces such as the clan tyrants.

What Li Changqing wanted was only the big city and the main points of transportation. The surrounding villages, towns and even county towns didn't ask for it, and it didn't touch the core interests of the clan tyrants, so everyone was very cooperative.

No one is strong enough to dare to confront Li Changqing.

This is actually the trend!
As the court of the Tang Empire expanded its territory directly under Guangdong Province, the Qing army in the surrounding provinces suddenly became tense.

However, King Pingnan Shang Kexi fled back to Yue Le in Huguang Province at this time.

Later, King Shang Kexi of Pingnan received shocking news that he was deprived of his title by Emperor Kangxi because of the crime of losing Guangdong Province!
He was demoted to General Pingnan and stayed under Yue Le's account.

Of course, Emperor Kangxi gave Shang Kexi the opportunity to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds. If the rebellion of the puppet Tang rebels in Guangdong Province can be put down, Shang Kexi can restore his princely title.

Originally, when Shang Kexi had tens of thousands of troops under his command, Emperor Kangxi did not issue a decree to deprive him of the king's title, but when Shang Kexi fled into Huguang Province with more than [-] rout troops, the decree came down with incredible efficiency.

Obviously, the great Qing sage in the capital had already made two-handed preparations.

Shang Kexi can hold on in Guangdong Province, so let him continue to consume the 'strength' of the demon Daoist Li Changqing there.

If Shang Kexi is defeated, Shang Kexi's prince will be taken away to frighten Xiaoxiao's generation!
Shang Kexi was psychologically prepared for his prince to be cut off. He had long been trained to have a strong heart under Li Changqing's successive blows, and his psychological endurance was not what it used to be.

To Shang Kexi's surprise, after Li Ergou fled into Huguang Province with tens of thousands of Qing troops, he was praised by Yue Le in public, and was promoted to the commander-in-chief by leapfrogging his rank!
He also gave Li Ergou an exception and entered the Han army flag!

This is the chief soldier!
Yue Le did this, naturally because he had heard about Li Ergou's bravery, and Li Ergou's loyalty to the Qing Dynasty had also been tested. This time, he brought back tens of thousands of soldiers from the Qing army. The strength of the army is enough to be worthy of a general rank.

You must know that there are many officers and soldiers under Li Ergou's command. They were originally the banner-leading Han army under the command of Shangfan in Guangdong Province, and their combat effectiveness is a head higher than that of the Green Camp.

Of course, in the face of the monster Li Changqing's puppet, everyone is on the same starting line, no one dares to go all out...

Yue Le didn't do anything recently, the Qing army gathered troops in several provinces, if he didn't do anything, Emperor Kang Mazi wouldn't be held accountable?

The pressure behind forced Yue Le to start a war.

Therefore, during this period of time, under the connection of Yue Le, Sun Yanling and Kong Sizhen in Guangxi, as well as the ancestral army led by Zu Zeqing, have all assembled in Guangxi near the border of Guangdong Province.

Geng Jingzhong also obtained the command of the entire Green Battalion in Fujian Province, and gathered troops on the border of Fujian Province.

Leerjin in Jiangxi is also ready.

In the four neighboring provinces of Guangdong Province, all the soldiers of the Qing army (not counting civilian husbands and logistics auxiliary soldiers, these people are also capable of fighting) combined, the number has exceeded the [-] mark!

Even if so many Qing troops were divided into four groups, the daily food consumption would not be a small amount.

Some people may wonder, don't the four provinces of the Qing court usually have to raise so many soldiers?
However, before the gathering, the Qing soldiers stationed in various places were scattered and could rely on local government offices for support.

After gathering troops, if they want to feed these troops, they have to mobilize food and supplies from various places to support them. The consumption on the road is much higher than the previous period when they were scattered and stationed in various places.

This is why it is necessary to prepare sufficient food and grass in advance to gather troops in wartime.

The poor road conditions and backward human and animal transportation methods in this era often result in half of the grain and grass being consumed on the way.

If the journey is far away, I am afraid that there will be no grain and grass transported to the garrison site.

In other words, if the assembled army only eats one unit of food, ten units of food will be enough for the imperial court to transfer in the rear!

This has led to the fact that in ancient times, except for the nomads who went to eat wherever they went, they would consume a lot of national power if they wanted to go on an expedition.

The more a country relies on farming civilization, the higher the cost of expeditions.

The ability of the Mongols to conquer most of the Eurasian continent has a lot to do with their nomadic survival mode.

Although the nomadic civilization is poor, they can drive herds of cattle and sheep to follow the army. The family members of the soldiers follow the army, which will not make the soldiers feel homesick too much and ensure the stability of the morale of the army.

The cattle and sheep carried by the nomadic army are guaranteed supplies, and the supplies plundered from conquering new areas are performance commissions. Naturally, nomads have stronger combat effectiveness during expeditions!
However, after the age of gunpowder, war has evolved from knives and guns to guns. Guns and guns do not have enough ammunition to burn sticks.

The arsenal that produces ammunition cannot grow legs like cattle and sheep, and they run around with the nomadic army. As a result, wars rely more and more on logistics, which makes the expeditionary capabilities of nomadic civilization infinitely decline.

The ace cavalry of the nomadic civilization in the war was completely powerless to fight back against the guns of the farming civilization. This is why no nomadic civilization can re-emerge in modern history.

Of course, after the age of industrialization, the convenient transportation of railways has become the main force of transportation, making expeditions of various countries easier. As long as a few main railway lines are built, enough troops can be dispatched to ensure sufficient ammunition supply no matter how far away you are.

As a result, World War broke out...

The advancement of science and technology has naturally increased the scale of killing each other among human beings.

In modern society, it has even reached the point where human civilization on the surface of the earth can be destroyed just by pressing the nuclear button.

Nuclear deterrence is more vicious than Li Changqing's system plug-in.

Shang Ke's failure let Yue Le know that he couldn't wait any longer.

If there were other options, he really didn't want to confront the demon Taoist Li Changqing.

The war puppets cast by the demonic Li Changqing are really evil.

Therefore, Yue Le issued an attack order to the commanders of the Qing army in the other three provinces. According to the original plan, they invaded the territory of Guangdong Province from four directions and wiped out all the puppet Tang feudal lords who accepted the canonization of the demon Taoist Li Changqing.

Yue Le couldn't think of a way to defeat the endless stream of monster puppets on the frontal battlefield, so he could only use the scorched earth policy to destroy the foundation of the monster Li Changqing.

As for the heavy price that the people of Guangdong will pay for this, is it a question that the Qing court generals need to worry about?
If it wasn't necessary, the Qing government naturally didn't want their slave Han people to die too much, so that there would be no Han people to squeeze, but in order to wipe out the demon Li Changqing, Yue Le could only choose this way.

Emperor Kang Mazi of the imperial court was also a reasonable person. Although he didn't invent a purpose (Kang Mazi wanted to maintain the reputation of a benevolent emperor), he had sent someone to communicate with Yue Le in private and asked him to let him do it.

As long as Li Changqing, the demon Dao, can be wiped out, he can do anything, even if he slaughters the entire Guangdong Province into nothingness.

It is a waste of time for the army to dispatch, after all, a food and grass is needed first.

When Yue Le dispatched the four-way army, Li Changqing's Tang court was not only busy with selecting candidates for the imperial examination and accepting the big city of Guangdong Province, but also sent people to communicate with the Portuguese colonists in Macau.

"what?
The puppet Tang Dynasty regime in Guangzhou City asked us to hand over all our weapons and equipment, and also let Macau be merged into the puppet Tang Dynasty and pay taxes to the puppet Tang emperor?

How could he insult the people who believe in God like this! "

Don Quixote, Governor of Macau from the Kingdom of Portugal, was very angry and spat at his subordinate who had just received Datang's request.

It's not that his city is not deep enough, but that he really can't accept the Latin terms translated in black and white.

There are a lot of clauses, but it is very simple to sum up, let the whole of Macau put down its arms and surrender obediently, and then become obedient citizens of the Tang Empire!

The emperor of the Tang Empire was a very benevolent monarch, so as long as they agreed to this request, they were willing to accept them, the Western Yi people, as the first batch of foreigners under the rule of the Tang Empire.

Foreigners is a popular appellation set by the Tang Empire to distinguish them from the national Han people.

Of course, the nationalities of the Tang Empire do not have to be Han people. Anyone who is willing to accept the Han culture and speaks Chinese with black hair and black eyes can be regarded as a national group, collectively referred to as Tang people.

(End of this chapter)