Chapter Ninety-Fifth Forced Expansion of the Army VI
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Liu De calmed down and started writing as smoothly as he talked about the Three Kingdoms. Whether his life could be saved now depended on this map, so he painted very carefully. From time to time, he stopped and meditated, trying to ensure that the terrain he painted was unique.
A mistake. When he was drawing the map, Zhao Qiang, Guo Fei, and Zhang Yi all gathered around him, not daring to take a breath for fear of disturbing Liu De. The expressions on their faces were much more nervous than Liu De's.
In Liu De's eyes, this map is just a toy he drew to pass the time when he was idle. In the eyes of Zhao Qiang and others, this map is a matter of life and death for them and whether they can stand firm outside the pass. Throughout the history of dynasties,
Everyone regards the map as a secret, which is not accessible to ordinary people. It is no exaggeration to say that even ordinary people who have no knowledge of the art of war can command the army in a clear and logical manner as long as they have a map in their hands, for no other reason than
Because he knew where to send the army. In ancient times when information was extremely limited, being able to know your location and the surrounding terrain well was your greatest advantage.
Guo Fei and the others followed Zhao Qiangru to this Shouyi City. Except for Shouyi City and Songshan Fort, they knew nothing about other places. This kind of knowledge was very fatal. They did not know which direction the enemy would come from, and
Once they have the map, they can convert passive to active, and kill the enemy accurately before they come. Therefore, everyone is breathing calmly, quietly watching Liu De lying on the ground, and following him one stroke at a time.
The prototype of the map was drawn.
After touching half a stick of incense, Liu De breathed a sigh of relief and stood up from the ground a little tiredly. His knees were so sore from kneeling there for a long time. Without even moving his calves, he respectfully presented the map to the person standing by.
Zhao Qiang looked at him intently.
"The map has been drawn, please take a look at it." After handing the map to Zhao Qiang, Liu De obediently took a step back and lowered his head slightly, acting submissive and very conscious.
When Zhao Qiang took the map, he was already excited. He spread the map in his hands a little rudely and couldn't wait to go over. At a glance, a familiar feeling suddenly filled his heart, it's it, it's it!
What Liu De drew was only a topographic map outside the Pass, and it was completely different from the topography of the three eastern provinces visited by Zhao Qiang in later generations. It did not look like a rooster head at all. Zhao Qiang understood this difference, because the rooster map in later generations was just a castrated rooster.
Map! In the direction of the rooster's head, large tracts of national territory have become Russian territory!
The map of the country is definitely not a rooster! Looking at the map in front of him, Zhao Qiang thought sadly.
In order to distinguish the outside of the pass and the inside of the pass, Liu De deliberately circled the capital at the bottom, and then circled Shanhaiguan in the north. Towards the end, there is a complete map of the outside of the pass. Many place names of different sizes are marked, together with the places bordering Shengjing.
North Korea was also drawn in, but it was just a brief description, which was far different from the actual terrain. But Zhao Qiang didn't worry about this mistake. He only cared about how much territory the Manchus actually controlled outside the customs, and how much territory the Qing Dynasty actually controlled outside the customs.
Where cities were built and government agencies were established to govern them.
Shengjing, Kaiyuan, Tieling, Jilin, Ningguta, Heilongjiang, each familiar word jumped into Zhao Qiang's eyes. Zhao Qiang tremblingly crossed his finger slowly from the word Shengjing, and kept moving towards the north. He wanted to Do you know how big the outside world is now?
The location of Shengjing is too obvious, which is Shenyang in Liaoning in later generations. However, the area under Shengjing's jurisdiction is surprisingly large. On Liu De's map, the northernmost point of Shengjing is the end of Siberia, and there are two large signs on it. The words "Beihai".
Jilin is smaller than Shengjing, but the area under its jurisdiction is more than two or three times larger than that of Jilin Province in later generations. Vladivostok, Shuangchengzi and other places are all included in it, and it extends north to the end of Siberia. In addition, Liu De also carefully drew an island in the sea in the east of Jilin. Although it was not named, Zhao Qiang knew it was Sakhalin Island.
Although Ninggu Pagoda is the northernmost military and political point outside the pass, it is within the jurisdiction of Shengjing on the map. Like Shengjing City, Liu De drew a large circle to show the importance of Ninggu Pagoda. Moreover, on the map drawn by Liu De, except for the words "三surnames" to the north of Ninggu Pagoda, there are no city strongholds marked with any Chinese characters, and there are only vague drawings of mountain trends. Zhao Qiang stared at that time, Liu De A very knowledgeable person told him that the Qing government did not set up any important cities to the north of Ninggu Pagoda. It just managed the Oroqen people by setting up some hadas or granting some official positions to the natives, allowing them to take care of themselves, as long as they paid tribute every year. And just send young men to garrison the flag. The northernmost places were only nominally Qing territory. The Qing government didn't send any officials or soldiers at all, and it didn't even know what ethnic groups there were.
Zhao Qiang didn't say anything after hearing this, and continued to Heilongjiang. Heilongjiang has the largest area on the map. Shengjing and Jilin combined can only compare it. More than half of its jurisdiction is located in the territory of later Russia. In order for the map maker to understand, Liu De deliberately placed the area west of Heilongjiang. Two points were marked on the place, one is the Mongolian Chechen Khan tribe, and the other is the Mongolian Maoming'an tribe. In the open area in the south of Heilongjiang near Shengjing, the words Zhelimu League, Horqin Right Banner, etc. were also marked. In addition, he also painted Liu De drew a meandering river flow chart, and wrote this line of small characters on a corner: "The imperial court's new Heilongjiang city is called Aihun." Liu De marked Aihun city with a circle, which is obviously very important. However, when traveling along the river But I drew a few x's and didn't add any words to explain.
"What's painted here?"
Zhao Qiang didn't understand what the x meant. After hearing this, Liu De stepped forward and saw that Zhao Qiang was asking about the cities he painted in Heilongjiang, so he hurriedly explained: "Back to the heroes, those were cities built by the Rakshasa people. I don’t know what the city’s name is, so I put a cross in it.” After a pause, he told Zhao Qiang: “What a good man doesn’t know? The Rakshasa people have invaded our Qing territory since the Chongde period, and there are many people in the Heilongjiang area. There are very few people in this wild land, so the imperial court has no power here. Like Shengjing and the northern end of Jilin, it is left to fend for itself. I don’t know how the Rakshasa people are there, building forts and cities along the river. I really don’t know what their plans are. What." When Liu De said this, he also looked confused. It can be seen that he was also very confused about why the Rakshasa people were in those places.
One of these x must be Yaksa. Zhao Qiang didn't have time to explain the Russians' intentions to Liu De. After thinking about it for a while, he asked Liu De: "Where is Songshan Fort? Why can't I find it?"
"Oh, that's right."
Liu De pointed at a small dot on the map in Zhao Qiang's hand with a fawning look, and said in a flattering manner: "Hero, Songshan Fort is over here. The reason why the villain didn't mark it is because the status of Songshan Fort is not important. It is just a settlement of Baerhu people.
It’s just a land. Although the Dutong Yamen sent Yizuo Lingsuo Lun soldiers to garrison and planned to build a new city there, to be honest, General Bahai didn’t want to build any city here at all, so this place was in Ningguta officials
It doesn't affect my heart at all. If He Bao from Zhenghuang Banner hadn't sent someone to report this time, it would have taken half a year for the Dutong Yamen to find out what happened."
"Bahai doesn't want to build a new city, so why did he send us to build it?"
Hearing what Liu De said, Zhao Qiang was also confused. If Bahai didn't want to build a city in Songshan Fort, why did he send the young men of the Wu army over?
Liu De was overjoyed when he heard this. The more confused Zhao Qiang is, the more he can express himself and cope with it. Saving his life is secondary. There is no telling what Wu Ni can reward him. Liu De was overjoyed and said:
"It's not just a face-to-face meeting." A mysterious Chao Yi pointed out: "I heard Shu Mulu mention it before, saying that the emperor..."
Just as he was about to continue, he heard Zhao Qiang snort coldly. Liu De was very understanding and quickly changed his words: "Chao Mingzhu and others told Kangxi that they wanted to conquer the Rakshasa people in the north, but because the Zheng family was not in peace in the south, so
Kangxi was not in a hurry to deal with the Rakshasa people. However, allowing the Rakshasa people to act so wantonly would damage the prestige of the Celestial Dynasty, and Mingzhu was still an important minister of Kangxi. Kangxi had to listen to his opinion, so he ordered Bahai to prepare for war and choose the most important thing.
Build a city first to stock up on food and grass, and then move your troops to the north after the south is pacified."
At this point, Liu De pointed to the map: "The construction of Aihun City was started only last year, but it is a matter for the Heilongjiang capital, and Bahai has nothing to do with it. After receiving Kangxi's order, Bahai, although he was unwilling,
I couldn’t help but make a show of it, so I chose Songshan Fort to build it.”
After listening to what Liu De said, Zhao Qiang finally understood. He thought that Bahai was also a fool. I really don’t know how he became General Ningguta. He vaguely remembered that during the Shunzhi period, Bahai led troops to defeat the Russians.
, and achieved the "victory" of killing dozens of enemies. Now I must be older and no longer ambitious. I feel that it is just a border trouble, and there is really no need to recapture the area occupied by the Rakshasa people at the expense of troops, so I don't care about it.
for the sake of.
With Kangxi focusing all his attention on Taiwan, and the administrative officials below showing disdain, it would be difficult for the Russians to grow or not, Zhao Qiang thought.
Seeing that Songshan Fort was not too far away from Aihun City, if his judgment was correct, Zhao Qiang guessed that Songshan Fort should be around the national border of Heilongjiang in later generations, while Shouyi City was closer to the northwest, already within the territory of the Russians.
From the map, Shouyi City has been separated from the jurisdiction of Ningguta, and the Qing army in Heilongjiang cannot control it, because from the distance of a few x from Aihun City, Heilongjiang is facing the pressing pressure of the Russians at this time.
Just trying to protect myself.
After reading it again carefully, Zhao Qiang felt a little emotional, because the Qing military cities marked by Liu De were pitifully few on the map. The cities were all concentrated in the southern part of Shengjing and later in Liaoning, and about 60% of the territory could only be said to belong to the Qing Dynasty.
nominal territory, but not actual control. The Russians only built a few cities in the Heilongjiang River Basin, while the Qing army only had one Aihun city, which shows how weak the Manchus' control over this land was. Another irony is that
, according to Liu De's map, there is still a large area of Qing land to the north of the Heilongjiang River Basin, which is equivalent to the territory under the jurisdiction of Shengjing. It is a pity that the Qing Dynasty has no control over the Heilongjiang River Basin, so why talk about it.
Zhao Qiang knew that there were Manchus and braided slaves in later generations who advocated "the great Qing Dynasty" and "the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong" with an area of more than 13 million square kilometers. Comparing such a large land area with the map of the late Ming Dynasty, it is naturally the Qing Dynasty. The territory of the Ming Dynasty was more than three times larger than that of the Ming Dynasty. This was used to promote the power of the Qing Dynasty and the insignificance of the Ming Dynasty. However, for Zhao Qianglai, this was simply a change of concept.
When Zhao Qiang compared the territories of the Ming and Qing Dynasties to those Manchus, why did the Ming Dynasty insist on using the so-called actual controlled area in the later period, while the Qing Dynasty used the so-called territorial area during the heyday of Kangxi and Qianlong? This is unfair in itself. As we all know, the Ming Dynasty The largest territory was in the Yongle era. Why did the Manchu emperors not use the Yongle era when comparing the territories of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but had to use later maps to compare? They are just deceiving themselves.
It always takes a process for a dynasty to rise, reach its peak, then decline and perish. Only at its peak is the country's largest territory. In the later stages, when the country declines, many marginal areas are often destroyed. Other powerful countries snatch it away. This has been the case in all dynasties since ancient times. There is nothing surprising. The Ming Dynasty's actual control area cannot remain the same size from beginning to end, and the same is true for the Qing Dynasty. Even the Tang Dynasty cannot avoid this kind of thing.
The Manchu relics like to explain how small the territory of the late Qing Dynasty was. Similarly, how big was the territory of the late Qing Dynasty? For example, take the Manchu Qing territory the day before Puyi abdicated. It was very pitiful. Puyi abdicated. The day before, all the provinces in mainland China, with the exception of Zhili, and more than a dozen other provinces, had declared independence and no longer belonged to the Manchu Qing Dynasty. In other words, at this time, the Manchu Qing territory, except for Beijing, only Zhili is a province. Compared with the territory of the Ming Dynasty at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it is very different. The Ming Dynasty still has half of the country in the south. When thinking of this comparison, Zhao Qiang really wants to slap those who advocate Manchu inheritance in the forum every day. Big slap, do you have any fucking shame?
Zhao Qiang had access to some information in later generations. He knew that the so-called 13 million square kilometers of territory in the Qing Dynasty happened after Qianlong. In other words, the area before this in the Kangxi era was actually very small. If someone said that in the Kangxi era The area is more than 13 million, so it is pure nonsense. Let’s not talk about anything else, let’s talk about the northeastern region where the Jurchens made their fortune. The Ming Dynasty’s greatest control over this area is suspected to be during the Chengzu era. You must know that the slaves The area controlled by Ergan Dusi extends from Kuye Island in the Pacific Ocean to the east, to Buryat Mongolia in the Lake Baikal region to the west, includes the entire Tunguska residential area to the north, and borders Liaodong Dusi to the south.
This slave Gandusi was more than double the area of the map drawn by Liu De in front of him. After sighing with emotion, Zhao Qiang turned around and put the map on the table. Strictly speaking, the map drawn by Liu De was only a rough outline. The orientation map can only be used as a reference. It's not that Zhao Qiang doesn't want a military map that is as accurate as later generations, but due to the limitations of the times, Liu De will never be able to draw that kind of map. He can draw such a map. , which is considered very rare.
"Go and find Duncan."
Author's note: The area east of Lake Baikal under the jurisdiction of Nurgandu in the Ming Dynasty was ceded to the Russian Lao Maozi by Kangxi after the Qing Dynasty invaded the country. The first equal territorial treaty, the Treaty of Nerchinsk, was ceded.
During the Ming Dynasty, although the Ming Dynasty could not fully and effectively control the Mongolian region, it could at least force it to surrender several times. Emperor Yongle's five conquests in Mobei made the powerful Mongolian tribes unable to raise their heads. Even in the Wanli era, the Ming Dynasty
Zhang Juzheng, the chief academician of the cabinet, still asked me to kowtow obediently and swear allegiance.