Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 436 The Han will seal Jiangnan, and Manzhou will seal Jiangbei

Boluo boarded the Drum Tower of Xuzhou City Tower alone.

Blue sky and white clouds, fine weather.

The summer wind was blowing slowly. This was originally a peaceful scene, but a few wisps of wolf smoke shot straight into the sky in the distance, and the beacon smoke passed from south to north.

Because of these few wisps of wolf smoke, Xuzhou City began to become chaotic.

Tulaizheng personally dispatched military officers to seal off the gates, put the whole city under martial law to guard against spies, and sent cavalry out of the city to scout and patrol.

Many people dragged their families and wanted to escape from the city, but were stopped by the Qing army. They took knife handles and spears and slammed the people fiercely, ordering them to retreat immediately.

Great view.

Surabaya winds its way from the north, and joins the Yellow River at the northeast corner of Xuzhou City. During the last expedition to the south, Boluo went boating and visited Surabaya at night, listening to famous prostitutes playing flute and drinking wine, and returning in the moon.

Now the scenery is still the same, but it no longer has that kind of elegance, and some are just soldiers panicking and panicking.

Xuzhou has always been an important town in the southeast.

After Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, the Grand Canal became a golden waterway, and grain from the southeast region was transported to the capital through the canal. Since Huai'an, Xuzhou, Dezhou, and Linqing had well-connected waterways, the grain was concentrated in these four places first, and then transported to Beijing by water.

The four places in Xuzhou have set up transfer stations along the canal, which are the country's four major water transport granaries.

Changying warehouse is set up in Huai'an, and Guangyun warehouse is set up in Xuzhou.

There are Yongfu Warehouse, Yongcheng Warehouse, and Reserve Warehouse in Xuzhou City, and Changping Warehouse, Xuzhou Weitun Warehouse, and Guangyun Warehouse outside the city. Guangyun Warehouse alone can store 100 million shi of grain.

Cangfu is one thousand, Dou-level is one hundred and eight.

When Shandong and Henan were fully cooked, grain and preparations were all levied for warehouses. In the Ming Dynasty, Xuzhou's water transportation was extremely busy. More than 1 ships passed through Xuzhou northward every year, transporting countless grains.

However, in the fourth year of Tianqi, the Yellow River burst its embankment and the Guangyun warehouse in Xuzhou was buried.

The canal used to be busy, and brawls often occurred in order to fight for navigation, but now, Xuzhou is like a dead city.

There are many patches of completely different colors on the outer city wall, which were demolished after Zhu Yihai invaded Xuzhou last time. After the Ming army left, the Qing army recruited a lot of manpower, and it took a lot of material resources to fill these gaps.

But the different colors of old and new make this big city look ugly.

In fact, this Xuzhou City is now a new city.

At the beginning of Hongwu period in the Ming Dynasty, Xuzhou City was rebuilt on the ruined walls after the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. On the third day, Xuzhou city was soaked by the flood for more than three years, and the accumulated sand was more than ten feet.

Until the first year of Chongzhen, Tang Huan, the Bingbei Dao, restored the old city, which was similar to and overlapped with Hongwu City, forming a spectacle of overlapping cities.

On the ground is Chongzhen New City, but underground there is an identical Hongwu Dungeon.

Although Chen Jiayin, a doctor of the household department, was sent by the imperial court to take charge of the Xuzhou warehouse and repair the warehouse city, but the canal was blocked and there was no grain to enter the warehouse. less than a boat.

The warehouse is empty, and the mice can't stay there.

Look at the four sides outside Xuzhou City, that is, the fields outside the city are cultivated, and a little further away, there are large areas covered with grass, and the people fled in large numbers, making it desolate now.

In this situation, how can Boluo fight Zhu Yihai?
When Xuzhou Guangyun warehouse was in full bloom, the warehouse was full of grain, which could be eaten by the people of Shandong and Henan for three months. During the Jingtai period, there was a flood in Shandong, Henan, and the imperial court used the grain from the Guangyun warehouse to rescue more than 55 disaster victims and help more than [-] bankrupts. People resumed business and resettled tens of thousands of refugees.

But now even if Boluo sent troops to collect food everywhere, they couldn't get it.

The rations collected by soldiers sent to the countryside forcibly were not enough for the rations of those soldiers outside, and every time a family's rations were taken away, several hungry people would inevitably be turned into bandits.

When he went south, Dorgon also hoped that he could get some grain from Huainan, Shandong and other places to go to Beijing.

Boluo came all the way south, and found that the way he and he went back and forth last year has changed a lot. Before, it was only a little dilapidated, but now it is almost gone.

He felt that the most urgent task now was to recuperate, recruit the people back to their hometowns and return to farming, resume production, and even allow the garrison to garrison the land, but Zhu Yihai obviously did not give them this opportunity.

Bo Luo, who came from Beijing, knew very well that the princes in Beijing were also fighting fiercely. Everyone knew that Dorgon wanted to be emperor, and Emperor Shunzhi was just a puppet.

Everyone was unwilling to let Dorgon be the emperor. These battles greatly reduced the fighting power of the Manchus.

But he also admitted that if Nanming hadn't produced Zhu Yihai, it wouldn't matter if he fought. From Nurhachi to Huang Taiji, everyone had fought all the way. Nurhachi fought with his brothers, and Huang Taiji fought with his brothers just like him.

Dorgon wanted to entrust the provinces south of the Yangtze River to the generals of the Han Dynasty, and let them recruit soldiers and horses to raise money and food to fight the territory. But now, except for Wu Sangui who is actively marching into Hanzhong and killing Sichuan, the rest of them can't cross the river at all.

Kong Youde, who was named the king of Henan, can only go to garrison Dengzhou first, and Geng Zhongming, who was enfeoffed in Guangxi, can only guard Laizhou.

It is a good plan to use the Han people to attack Nanming and drive away the tigers and wolves, but the problem is that they can't get through now, but the Ming army killed them across the river.

He heard a letter from his family in Beijing saying that Dorgon intends to abandon Hubei, Hanzhong, and Huainan recently and entrust them to Han generals. He even plans to support a Zhu family prince or a Han general and make him the emperor of Han. .

Boluo thinks these rumors are too appalling, but thinking about it carefully, under the current corrupt situation, the enfeoffment of Jiangnan mentioned earlier is also difficult to implement. Wang even called the emperor a lure, and asked them to work hard to resist the Ming army's attack for the Qing Dynasty, so that the Qing Dynasty could rest in the rear for a few years, which is indeed feasible.

It's just that this kind of thing is too shocking after all. Even if Dorgon is thinking about the Qing Dynasty, once he brings it up, he will definitely be opposed by the two regents, Jierhalang and Daishan, as well as the left-behind assistant king of Beijing. .

It is reasonable to say that Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other places that were not captured were entrusted to Han generals and let them fight by themselves, but how can this be allowed in Huainan, Hubei, and Hanzhong, which are already under the control of the Qing Dynasty.

You gave it to the Han people, why not give it to the Manchus?

Although the Manchurian system, the world seal is Zuo Ling, that is, Niu Lu.

The real enfeoffment of Manchuria is not the princely title, but the two levels of banner and niulu. The banner owners and small banner owners of the Eight Banners, and the assistant leaders of each Niulu, are these two levels.

Now the eight banners and the two yellow banners are led by the emperor himself, so Shunzhi is the banner owner, and there is no small banner owner.

Dorgon is the owner of the two white flags, and Azig owns part of Niulu with white flags, so he is the owner of the small banner.

Doduo, who used to be the owner of the Xiangbai Banner, became the owner of the Zhenglan Banner instead, and Boluo's father, Abatai, owns three records of the Zhenglan Banner, and he is the owner of the Small Banner.

Shortly after Boluo left Beijing, in March, his father Abatai died of illness, and the imperial court let his son Yuedong succeed him. Prince Zheng, so he divided four Niulu, and Yuedong divided two.

Don't look at Boluo, there are four Niulu, but even if there are four Niulu, they are still the small banner owners, and even if there is one Niulu, they are also the small banner owners.

The banner owners and assistant leaders have great management power over the banner people in the banner and in Niulu. Simply put, the bannermen in Niulu want to call themselves slaves to the leader in Niulu. If you leave this Niulu, you No matter how great the official title is, no matter how great the title is, you are still a slave when you face Zuo Ling.

And the banner owner who owns multiple cow records, or even all the cow records in the whole banner, naturally has a higher status.

Therefore, no matter whether the Manchu clans or their courtiers, the real valuable rewards were actually the assistant leaders of the world. The clan kings competed for power, and it also depended on who had more banners and cows.

Dorgon now holds two flags alone, so he is naturally very powerful. Daishan and his sons hold two red flags, which are also very powerful. Jierhalang controls the Xianglan flag, so he is naturally powerful.

Hauge used to hold the blue flag, but Dorgon found an opportunity to snatch it to his brother Doduo, and then Doduo gave Dorgon the inlaid white flag.

It would be great for other heroes to be able to manage a Niu Lu for the world, that is, to be the leader of this Niu Lu for future generations.

Many of the cattle records of the Tazi are still managed by several surnames in rotation. In the past, some tribes came to join them, and the number was not enough. Several tribes made up a cattle record, so the position of assistant leader was taken by these leaders in turn. .

Of course, there are also some public leaders, but these leaders are not hereditary, but are ordered by the emperor and cannot be passed on to future generations.

There are also records of half a cow.

A powerful family can usually manage two or three, which is the real foundation of standing, and other first-class officials and third-class officials are all vain.

The so-called nobleness of the Eight Banners and the Han Army Banner does not depend on the title, but on the number of cattle recorded by the Shiguan.

To take care of one Niulu means to take care of the three hundred bannermen and the families behind them for generations, and even when the population increases, one Niulu can become two, and it is still your family.

The dignified auxiliary prince of Boluo has only four Niulu, but he is also the owner of the small banner. His brother Yue Dong has only two Niulu, and is also the owner of the small banner, but they manage too few Niulu, and they are in charge of it with Duoduo alone. Compared with dozens of Niulu, the difference is too far, so in Zhenglanqi's affairs, Duoduo is the one who really keeps his word.

Of course, in fact, the banner is not only in charge of Manzhou Niulu, the Eight Banners Mongolia, and the Eight Banners Han Army are also managed by the banner owner, because only the Eight Banners Manzhou has a banner owner, and the others do not have a banner owner, only Gushan True, but this is only an official position, not a master.

Now because the Dorgon brothers are in charge of the three banners, and even the two yellow banners of the emperor, everyone is afraid of Dorgon, and some people take advantage of this opportunity to propose that Manchuria should also be enfeoffed.

Take the places south of the Yellow River that are said to be undefended and difficult to defend, and give them to the meritorious Manchu clan and generals.

The original enfeoffment of the banner owners and assistant leaders remained unchanged, but the lands south of the Yellow River and north of the Yangtze River were enfeoffed, and the fiefs, together with the Han people above, were enfeoffed to everyone.

These Han people on the ground naturally do not belong to the Eight Banners Han army, and they do not even belong to the Eight Banners' wrapped collars.

But Manchuria belongs to Manchuria, and Han territory belongs to Han territory. The Eight Banners system remains unchanged in the directly occupied areas. In these places, it is the same as the feudal vassals in the previous Han dynasty. Half points with the imperial court.

For example, Boluo is the owner of the Zhenglan Banner, but there are only four records in the world, which obviously does not match his achievements and his status as the assistant prince. Then the Xuzhou Mansion will be entrusted to Boluo directly, and Boluo's title will be changed to Xu Wang, from now on, Xuzhou Mansion will be owned by his Boluo family for generations, and his status as the owner of the Zhenglan Banner will remain unchanged, and the four Niulu will still be managed by his family.

Isn't that great?
One more thing is that as King Xu, Boluo has the duty to guard the fief. If the fief is lost, it will be conferred back.In this way, Boluo would have to fight for his fief, and the imperial court could also reduce their expenses.

Is it a hundred times better than confiscating these lands to those Han generals?

When I heard this, Boluo was actually very moved. Why does he only have two Niulus as a grandson of the Qing emperor?It is not too much for the dignified auxiliary prince to be entrusted with Xuzhou.

The Han generals will seal Jiangnan, and the Manchu generals will seal Jiangbei!

(End of this chapter)