"The Jurchens established the Jin Kingdom in the past, and the emperor Taizu of the Jin Kingdom was Wanyan Aguda. Wanyan Aguda was not the chief of the Jurchen clan originally. At that time, Duboleji (the leader of the tribal alliance) of the Jurchen tribes was Aguda.
My brother Wu Yashu!"
On the way back, Chu Bingbei talked eloquently to Shao Yushang and Ding Dusi. Chu Xiao was the oldest among the three, and Shaoyunfeng was a special messenger from the imperial court with a special status. The two had some rivalry in private. Just now, Xia Xun
Shao Yunfeng said that he should take a long-term view, which he said very politely, but in fact he was criticizing him for being short-sighted. Chu Bingbei felt very proud and took the opportunity to show off.
"If this continues, Aguda will have to live in the shadow of his brother all his life and will have no chance of becoming the leader of the Jurchen tribes. However, in the seventh year of Wu Yashu's rule over the Jurchen tribes, Aguda's opportunity came.
A rare major famine occurred in the Jurchen territory in 2001. Many people had no food to eat and were forced to become bandits.
After the robbers were captured, Wu Yashu wanted to execute them, but Aguda objected, saying that these people were just ordinary people who had no choice but to become robbers to make a living, so they should be pardoned and fined to pay three times more taxes as atonement.
Wu Yashu agreed, and the lives of these people were saved, and they are all grateful to Aguda. But they were forced to steal because they could not survive, so how could they have money to pay taxes?"
Chu Bingbei twirled his beard, glanced proudly at the junior imperial envoy and Ding Dusi, a military commander, and continued: "So, Aguda suggested in front of the Jurchen clan chiefs: 'Today, the poor cannot live on their own.
Sell your wife to pay off your debt. The love of flesh and blood is shared by all people. From now on, there will be no conquests for three years, and in the next three years, it will be planned.'"
This request for tax exemption for three years was approved by the clan chiefs of each tribe. After Aguda obtained the consent of the clan chiefs, he rushed to the tribe before they could announce it and announced the matter to all the tribesmen. In this way,
Aguda won the hearts of the people, and he personally announced this order, which further established his authority.
Although he is not Duboleji, nor is he the head of any specific tribe, how can ordinary people understand this? They only know that after Aguda announced this order, their taxes were reduced, and Aguda
Not only did he win the hearts of the people, but he also established his authority and became a real leader in the eyes of the Jurchens, which laid the foundation for him to eventually become Duboleji. Don't you think that your actions today are similar to Aguda's actions?
Isn’t it wonderful?”
The Shao Yushi and Ding Dusi were fooled by him and nodded repeatedly. Xia Xun did not know this allusion, so when Chu Bingbei talked about ancient times, he did not interrupt and listened carefully. But when Chu Bingbei finished speaking, Xia Xun
Xun smiled. He slowed down his horse and said to Chu Bingbei: "Haha, Mr. Chu, I am not a Jurchen tribe. It is impossible to use this method to become their Du Bo Lie Ji. But to win the hearts and minds of the people,
, but it’s also good to establish authority and popularity.”
Xia Xun looked at the endless wilderness and the rolling mountains, and said with a sigh: "The difficulty in Liaodong is not that there are no people, but that it can't keep people, and who can't keep them? Jurchens, ***
No matter what, they have been living in such an environment for generations and will not have any strange ideas. What is difficult to retain is us Han people.
The Central Plains has its own prosperous and prosperous land, who wants to come here? This place has always been used as a place of exile for prisoners. The small population makes this place poor and backward, and there are few Han people. As a result, our Ming Dynasty has never been able to truly take root in Liaodong and cannot deal with it.
The various ethnic groups in Liaodong have formed effective control. This situation cannot be achieved by simply relying on the imperial court to force immigrants to immigrate to the border. Don’t you see that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty’s immigration to the border ended dismally?
Even the officers and soldiers who are stationed in the fields are trying their best to escape with their families. They would rather go back to the Central Plains to beg for food than settle in Liaodong. Wouldn’t the immigrants find a way to leave again? If we want our people to be willing to come, we must make this place rich.
Get up and make this place full of opportunities to make a fortune! Therefore, the court should only play a "promoting role" in it. Once it is profitable, people will flock to it.
You see, not long after the imperial shipping, the desolate Jinzhou was spontaneously built into a prosperous place by the people. This is a successful example. If we create more places like this, it will bring prosperity and population.
, when a place becomes rich and the population increases, it will lead to the rise of all kinds of industries. In this game of chess, the first and most critical step is to make this seemingly barren territory profitable!"
"There are more opportunities to make a fortune here, so the Han people in Liaodong are willing to settle here with peace of mind, instead of digging holes and trying to move back to the pass. Some people who are not getting along well in the pass will want to break into the east of the pass and seize this
Opportunities to make a fortune. In this way, we have taken root. Then, what should we do with these tribes who have surrendered?
The ancients said that those who are not of my race must have different hearts, so what should I do? You have been on guard, on guard, and kept a distance from them. Of course, he will never be of the same mind as you. Once there is a chance, he will become yours.
enemy!
As far as I know from the court records, during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Jin Dynasty, nearly two million Jurchens moved inland to the Central Plains and spread throughout Beiping, Shandong, Henan, and Shanxi provinces. South of the Yellow River and north of the Huaihe River are the most concentrated areas where Jurchens live. Today,
Where are these Jurchens? After they moved to the Central Plains, they lived in different places with the Han people. They learned Chinese, wore Han clothes, changed their Chinese surnames, and were born in the Han area. After the fall of the Jin Kingdom, they naturally became Han people.
Nowadays in these places, Zhao Qian, Sun Li, Zhou Wu and King Zheng, in fact, many people were originally Jurchens, poor people, with small surnames and small clans without individual genealogy, and even they themselves did not know that their ancestors were actually Jurchens. This is
Assimilate! If we, the Han people, are willing to come to Liaodong, live together with them in Liaodong, and come into contact with each other in all walks of life, in one or two hundred years, who will be the Han, who will be the Jurchens, and who will be the Japanese?
?”
Xia Xun smiled and said, "Do you understand my governor's good intentions?"
Xia Xun's sermon actually included knowledge from many disciplines. Although these officials who were familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics were knowledgeable, they had never thought about these issues from these perspectives. Now Xia Xun said this from the simple to the deep.
, the more they tasted it, the more unfathomable it became, and they couldn't help but respect Xia Xun: "No wonder he was awarded the title of Duke for his merits at such a young age, and has repeatedly assumed the emperor's important responsibilities. He is really a very human being!"
Their immediate response to those ethnic groups that pose a potential threat to their own nation is to suppress, isolate, check and balance, and be on guard, but they never thought of profit-oriented and comprehensive assimilation. And their methods have been proven bankrupt by history.
This is what the Han and Tang Dynasties did, and they eventually went bankrupt. The Liao Kingdom also did the same to the Jurchens. From the time of the Liao Kingdom's Queen Mother Xiao Chuo, she deliberately used methods such as paying tribute to Haidongqing and Beizhu to instigate the Jurchen tribes to rob them.
Tribute resources and fight against each other; originally, the Ming Dynasty in history still did this, enfeoffing, instigating, checking and balancing, suppressing...
What's the result? The Jurchens are not idiots. How could they not understand your intentions? It's just that under power, they have to obey such a fate. But the more difficult the environment, the stronger they become. In the cruel temper of war,
The stronger the force, eventually, when they are strong enough, the accumulated feud will break out and in turn swallow up the smug ruler.
The Liao Dynasty died here, the Jin Dynasty died here, the Mongolia Dynasty died here, and the Ming Dynasty also died here. Xia Xun hated the Hou Jin Dynasty for their crazy killing of ordinary people after they invaded the Central Plains, and hated their backward culture for dragging down the progress of the entire Chinese nation.
But regarding the Jurchens' rebellion and Nurhachi's "Seven Great Hatreds", didn't the Ming Empire make any mistakes in its ethnic policies? Li Zicheng lost his job as a postman and went to rebel. It was perfectly justified. What about others?
The Jin rebelled against the Liao Dynasty, the Communist Party of China against the Jin Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty against the Communist Party of China, and the later Jin Dynasty against the Ming Dynasty. At which time did an innate saint suddenly appear and shout "We want the nation to rise!", so the ordinary people who lived a good life were promoted.
Just pick up swords and guns and follow him to rebel? From the initial discrimination and oppression, to the continued exclusion, checks and balances, and instigation of internal conflicts, the inducements for this outbreak have long been laid.
So Xia Xun came up with a completely different way to eliminate potential external enemies: assimilate them. If Xia Xun chooses to attack with force, perhaps thousands of years later, he will also be a hero who will shine in the annals of history and be praised by people.
, and the method he is using now seems to be without swords and swords, but this road is more difficult to walk, and it is difficult to leave his name behind him.
The effect of this silent method of moisturizing things will not be apparent until a long time later. Who will remember him then?
Forefathers planted trees, and later generations enjoy the shade. Those who enjoy the shade only know that the shade of the trees is there, but who knows who planted the trees?
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Tatar grassland, Zhelian River.
Drums and horns roared, hooves pounded rapidly. Sharp arrows pierced the clouds, and people surged like a tide.
The Ming cavalry and the Tatar cavalry who joined forces charged head-on and fought each other without giving in. In pure cavalry shooting, the nomads had an inherent advantage, but in this complete cavalry battle, the Ming army could not win.
It was impressive and did not fall behind at all. This shows how strong the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was in the early Ming Dynasty. Of course, the contribution of the Shenji Battalion before the frontal decisive battle was also indispensable.
The artillery and muskets of the Shenji Battalion not only severely damaged the arrogance of the Tatar cavalry, but also severely damaged the charge formation of the Tatar cavalry. The Tatar army usually rushed out at high speed with light cavalry or heavy cavalry, using spears and sharp weapons.
Open the way with arrows, charge with fast horses, and forcefully break through the enemy's formation. In the era of cold weapons, the stability of the formation not only plays a role in stabilizing the morale of the army, but also has a great relationship with the command and mobilization of the coach. If the formation is chaotic, the opponent will have a tsunami.
The normal stratigraphic massacre is about to begin.
However, the power of the Ming army's artillery is amazing. When one cannon is fired, hundreds of projectiles are splashed in all directions. The lethality is amazing, and the range is long. Each cannon is equivalent to the firepower of a large group of long-range archers. The firecrackers must also be tightened.
At the right time, they took advantage of the gaps between artillery fires to launch intensive firepower. Such powerful firepower completely destroyed the Tatar army's superiority in mounted fire.
The men and horses of both the enemy and our side were piled on top of one another like a tidal wave, roaring and rushing towards each other, strangled into a ball, blood and flesh flying everywhere, trampled by horse hooves. Everyone was doing the same actions, lifting their horses, charging forward, swinging their swords, and chopping.
, weapons clashed, the sound of killing filled the ears, people kept falling off their horses, but no one cared about them, there was only endless killing.
In the far distance, the infantry and chariots of the Ming Army were covering the more than 10,000 prisoners and more than 100,000 livestock trapped in the middle, and were advancing rapidly along the Liao River towards Kaiyuan. The retreating terrain was very favorable to them.
They only need to protect three sides of the wide Liao River, focusing on the left wing and rear, to ensure that the entire team will not be attacked from all directions.
Behind them, the cavalry responsible for covering fought and retreated. Some of the bloody warriors continued to fall. The retreating formation seemed to be a little loose. However, when they retreated to a shallow valley formed by a river and a low mountain, there was a sudden sound of cannon fire.
Xiang joined the battle group, and another cavalry circled out from behind the low mountain, stabbing diagonally towards the left flank of the Tatar army.
This cavalry only has more than 3,000 people, but they are good at riding and shooting, and all of them are brave, especially at the critical moment when the equally exhausted Tatar army thought that they could break through the Ming army's defense line and completely defeat the Ming army.
The Tatar cavalry inflicted a heavy blow, and the Tatar cavalry's offensive suddenly slowed down, and the pursuit formation was also in chaos.
The troops that came out of the diagonal thrust were the cavalry of the Thirty Thousand Guards. The soldiers in this unit were mainly Jurchens. When they fought with the Tatars, they were enemies who saw each other. They were extremely jealous and rushed into the enemy's formation one by one like a desperate move.
, the morale of the Tatar soldiers and horses suddenly dropped to the extreme, the formation was loose, they were in a dilemma, their command was chaotic, people kept falling, blood spattered, and corpses littered the fields.
Suddenly, even the flag bearer was shot down. The surrounding soldiers were fighting with the 30,000 guardsmen who rushed in front of them. They had no time to dismount and raise the flag. The soldiers in the distance didn't know whether the commander had died in the battle.
Time was all messed up, and the slowly advancing formation turned into a scattered and individual retreat.
The general of this Tatar army who came to pursue after hearing the news was O Chijin Tuha from the Tatar Shangwanhu Prefecture. He was riding on his horse and watched coldly as his troops gradually turned from an attack to a rout. His face was gloomy and terrible.
In his jurisdiction, an entire tribe, a large tribe of more than 20,000 people, was wiped out. Can the Grand Master spare him?
The more Ochijin Tuha thought about it, the colder his heart became. However, with his rich battle experience, he knew very well that once a real defeat was formed, no one could immediately reorganize the team on the battlefield and reverse the decline. Unless he still had a weak force in his hand.
A fresh force that enters the battle, or a commander who knocks down the enemy at the right time, or he has a throat as big as thunder, and his roar can be heard by soldiers on the battlefield for miles around.
But he couldn't do any of this, so he could only watch as the army fell like a mountain, and no one could hold up a mountain.
"Darukachi, Lord Darukachi!"
A bloody general galloped in front of him with his armor crooked and his armor crooked. This man couldn't even think about it. The leather armor on his body was split open by a knife and the clothes inside were also cut open.
Fortunately, his body was not injured. Most of the blood on his body was from others.
"Lord Daruhuachi!"
The man called O Chijin Tuha's official name and hurriedly said: "Our army has been defeated. If the Ming army ambushes all the way again, our losses will be too great. Now we are getting closer and closer to the Ming Guards."
It is very likely that the Ming army will have an ambush in the near future. Your Excellency, it is better to order the troops to retreat!"
A gloomy spark flashed in Or Chijin Tuha's eyes, and he spoke coldly: "Brother Meng Tiemu'er, how dare you deliberately indulge the Ming army under my nose!"
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