Chongzhen asked: "Yang Qing means to kill them all?"
Yang Weizhi said: "There is no need to kill them all. They can be sent to the silver mines for hard labor."
Chongzhen said: "The silver mine can't use so many people, right? This is nearly 100,000 people."
Yang Weizhi pondered for a moment and then said: "Your Majesty can ask the governor of Guangxi to bring the wives and children of these 100,000 wolf soldiers to Yunnan, and then make them into a household for the common people and stay in Yunnan for the people!"
Hearing this, Chongzhen almost cheered loudly.
Because Yang Weizhi thought of going together with him.
The optimal solution to deal with these 100,000 Guangxi wolf soldiers is to integrate the people into households and resettle them in other places.
We definitely can't let them go back to Guangxi. If we really let them go back to Guangxi and rebel every minute, with hundreds of thousands of wolf soldiers rebelling together, it's really not a joke.
Killing them all is even worse. Population is the most precious resource.
In particular, the Ming Dynasty is about to usher in the industrial revolution. Once the industry develops by leaps and bounds, the demand for hired labor will increase dramatically. How can a hundred thousand strong men be killed in one go?
Therefore, they must be kept in Yunnan.
Why should we keep them in Yunnan instead of other provinces?
The reason is also very simple, because these Guangxi wolf soldiers have caused too many crimes in Yunnan. If they want to escape back to Guangxi, they must leave their place of residence and pass through the territory of the Yunnan natives. This is seeking death. Lin'an Prefecture and
The local people in Guangxi Prefecture will use hatchets and hoes to educate them, and there will be no way to escape.
Moving the families of these wolf soldiers to Yunnan would be an even better move.
Because in this way, these 100,000 wolf soldiers will be bound and it will be more difficult to escape.
Yang Weizhi's words seemed to open up the Yunnan officials' working ideas. Wang Xiyan suddenly stood up and said: "Your Majesty, I also have a suggestion."
Chongzhen raised his hands and said, "Wang Aiqing, please speak."
Wang Xigun said: "Your Majesty, I suggest that we take this opportunity to forcibly promote the reform of native land and return to local rule in Yunnan, abolish the chieftain system, and at the same time cancel the distinction between Han and native people, and treat Han and native people equally."
"I also seconded the proposal." Yang Weizhi said, "There is a cloud in the Spring and Autumn Period. If the Yi people come to China, they will belong to Huaxia; if the Yi people come to China, then the Yi people will belong to them. Once they change the land and return to the rivers, there will be no distinction between native and Han people. They will all be ours."
The people of the Ming Dynasty are all Chinese people and should be treated equally, and there should no longer be distinctions between natives and Han people to create ethnic hatred for checks and balances."
Distinguishing between native and Han people and creating ethnic hatred is the Mu family's strategy for governing Yunnan.
If it weren't for this, an exploiter like the Mu family wouldn't have lasted two hundred years.
Creating confrontation between natives and Han is actually beneficial to local officials, because the natives are busy with vendettas and forget about the malicious exploitation of them by the rulers, but it is harmful to the country because this is internal friction and will cause
Seriously weaken a country's potential and resources.
For the country, assimilation is the right path.
Tang Zhaoyuan also said: "Your Majesty, we need to vigorously promote Yi Xue. All people in Yunnan, regardless of native Han, can enroll in the school. In this way, within two generations, there will be no native people in Yunnan, let alone the disaster of chieftains."
This is even more powerful, not only to eliminate ethnic divisions, but also to unify culture.
Chongzhen felt a little emotional. It turned out that the ancients had already thought of these measures.
At that moment, Chongzhen began to think about whether he should make suggestions to the cabinet and establish a new governor of the southwest to govern the four provinces of Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi, and establish an admiral to oversee the military affairs of the four provinces and be responsible for suppressing Taiwan in the southwest?
There is no doubt that Wang Xigan is the best candidate to be the first governor of Yungui and Qianchuan.
As for Yang Weizhi, he was the perfect candidate to be the admiral of Southwest Zhentai.
At this time Wu Wenying stood up and said: "Your Majesty, if we really make the Guangxi wolf soldiers into civilian households and leave them in Yunnan, and also bring their wives and children to reunite, wouldn't it be too easy for them?"
Tang Zhaoyuan also said: "These wolf soldiers deserve severe punishment."
"This matter is easy to hear." Wang Xigun said, "One hundred thousand wolf soldiers can be heavily taxed. The land rent will be 50% for the first five years, and then it will be reduced by 10% year by year until it is the same as other households."
"Yes, just follow this method." Chongzhen said again, "Except for the native soldiers of Ami Prefecture and Mengzi Chieftain, all the other chieftains' native soldiers will follow this law."
The 30,000 native soldiers of the two chieftains in Mengzi and Ami Prefecture will definitely have to perform hard labor.
Let the soldiers from these two divisions go to the silver mines in Dali and Dongchuan Prefecture to mine silver.
Tang Zhaoyuan asked: "What does your Majesty mean, is that the farmland under the name of the Duke of Guizhou will be distributed free of charge to the Guangxi wolf soldiers and the local soldiers who rebelled against the chieftains for cultivation, and heavy taxes will be imposed? But there are no local soldiers and local people who participated in the war.
Then there is no need to impose heavy taxes, and you only need to pay official taxes as usual?"
"Yes." Chongzhen nodded and said, "Every mu of official land is taxed at five liters, three combined and five spoons."
"The Holy One, the Holy One." Tang Zhaoyuan was overjoyed when he heard this. This made it much easier for him as the governor of Yunnan.
"Holy, Holy Ming." Wang Xigun, Yang Weizhi and other civil and military officials from Yunnan also knelt down and sang praises.
Chongzhen added: "But there is one thing. There are one hundred thousand wolf soldiers and 120,000 fighting native soldiers. This field is not given to them for farming for free, but with conditions. That is, when the court needs troops, these wolf native soldiers have
It is the obligation to apply for the expedition, so during the leisure time, it needs to be intensively practiced, and I will leave the scholars to take charge."
They are also town soldiers. Yunnan town soldiers do not have the same treatment as Xuzhou and Guide town soldiers for the time being.
Because of Guide Prefecture, the town soldiers in Xuzhou do not need to pay taxes, but the town soldiers in Yunnan do.
One is because most of the soldiers in Yunnan have made mistakes, and the other is because Yunnan does not have enough land. If these soldiers are directly exempted from the grain tax, Yunnan's tax revenue will be greatly reduced, which is not feasible.
However, when there is more cultivated land in Yunnan in the future, it will be exempted.
Yunnan is such a big country, but there are only more than 3 million acres of cultivated land in the fish scale book. The potential for reclamation is huge, because Chongzhen vaguely remembered that in later generations, Yunnan had nearly 10 million acres of paddy fields alone.
If dry land is included, there are at least more than 40 million acres of cultivated land.
At that time, it would be no problem to give five million acres of cultivated land to the soldiers.
"There is absolutely no problem in applying for military service," Tang Zhaoyuan said.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Wu Wenying and other officials also agreed, after all, they had to apply before.
Chongzhen said again: "Tang Zhaoyuan, this matter will be left to your governor's office. First, the land will be cleared. Please listen carefully. We will only confiscate the cultivated land under the name of the Duke of Guizhou and the chieftains. The land owned by the local gentry and common people will only be cleared and not confiscated."
, and then count the total number of wolf soldiers, native soldiers, and native and Han people, and divide the land according to mouth. If any chieftain dares to obstruct it, report it to me immediately, and I will send new troops to persuade these chieftains to abide by the law."
"Your Majesty, take the order." Tang Zhaoyuan left happily with all the officials from the governor's office.
At this moment, Xu Yingwei suddenly came in in a hurry: "Your Majesty, something happened. I just accidentally learned that there were not only thirteen chieftains who followed Sha Dingzhou in rebellion, but fourteen!"
"There are fourteen?" Chongzhen asked, "What kind of chieftain is there?"
"There is also the Xiwushidong Division." Xu Yingwei said, "Following Sha Dingzhou's order, they have gone deep into Guizhou to harass our baggage transportation channels. If nothing else, they should have reached central Guizhou by now."
"Ah?" Yan Yingyuan, Hua Xia, Wang Fuzhi and other scholars suddenly changed their expressions.
Although the overall situation in Yunnan has been decided, the caravans of the Wang and Hu families are still continuously transporting grain to Pu'an Prefecture on the official road in central Guizhou, and the caravans of the two families are only protected by 3,000 white pole soldiers and female barracks.
If we were to be suddenly attacked by soldiers from the Xiwushidong Division, we might not be able to protect it with just the white-pole soldiers and the female barracks.
At that moment, Yan Yingyuan said: "Your Majesty, I am willing to lead the new army to quickly return reinforcements."
Hu Guozhu also called for battle and said: "Your Majesty, the new army is too slow. It is better for me to lead the cavalry to return reinforcements."
Chongzhen said: "There are just not enough cavalry, and the new army is also going. Hu Guozhu, you lead the cavalry to go first. Yan Yingyuan, you lead 3,000 new troops to follow. Make sure to ensure the safety of the Wang and Hu caravans!"
There are about 500,000 shi left in the grain transferred by the two caravans, so nothing can happen to this batch of grain.
Without these 500,000 shi of food, the 100,000 wolf soldiers and the 120,000 surrendered Yunnan native soldiers would be hungry. Once these wolf soldiers and native soldiers are hungry, they can do anything.
For the overall interests of Yunnan, nothing should happen to this batch of grain.
At present, Hu Guozhu and Yan Yingyuan each mobilized troops and horses to return to Guizhou.
Hu Guozhu was particularly excited. He finally got the opportunity to lead the army alone.
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At this time, it is within the territory of Yongning Prefecture in central Guizhou.
Wang Pingshan was transporting grain to Pu'an Prefecture with a team of two thousand mules and horses.
I saw that the mules, horses and donkeys all carried heavy sacks on their backs. The sacks on the backs of the mules and horses weighed at least three to four hundred kilograms, and the sacks on the donkeys also weighed two to three hundred kilograms.
If the ground is flat, this load is nothing to the animals.
However, the official roads in central Guizhou are mountainous, not only rugged but also steep, so it is very laborious for animals to walk. If they are not careful, they may roll down the abyss outside the road.
Wang Pingshan also sighed, this business was really difficult to do.
Today, the Wang and Hu caravans have been late for nearly a month and have no hope of making a profit. They only hope that the Holy Emperor can fine them less so that they will not lose too much.
Otherwise, the two of them might go bankrupt because of this.
Even so, Wang Pingshan still had to cheer up the caravan.
"Hold on tight, everyone, and try to get to Chacheng Yi to have a rest before evening." Wang Pingshan said as he walked, "When we get to Chacheng Yi, I will treat you to a nice meal. Each of you will have a big bowl of steamed mutton soup."
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"Guys, did you hear that? The Young Master's family is waiting for us to eat haggis soup." The stewards shouted.
The hundreds of workers who were sweating profusely cheered loudly. They just wanted to get to Chachengyi earlier, have a good meal, soak their feet and have a good sleep. They were really exhausted these days.
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At this moment, the sound of horns suddenly sounded in the valley ahead.
"Young master, there's a horn blowing!" A steward said nervously, "Soldiers!"
Wang Pingshan said: "There are two chieftains, Dingyingsi and Muyongsi, nearby. These two chieftains are mature seedlings and have always been friendly to passing merchants, so they must not be chieftain soldiers!"
