Chapter 54 Food, Military Reform and Operation Thunder!
Lin Danhan saw that the Ming Dynasty Industrial Zone was so prosperous and powerful, and he no longer wanted to fight for hegemony. Then, he directly announced that he would join the Ming Dynasty.
Then, a message was sent out ordering the grassland tribes to surrender.
At first, the grassland tribes were panicked.
Some people oppose it, some people agree with it!
An ambitious man tries to sever ties with Lin Dan Khan and angrily breaks away from the control of the Golden Family!
Lin Dan Khan asked the Ming Dynasty to send troops to quell the rebellion.
Soon, Cao Wenzhao led 5,000 New Army cavalry to conquer the grassland.
They used weapons that transcended the ages and defeated the grassland tribes.
In less than two months, the nomadic tribes in the Mobei grassland either fled farther west or chose to become members of the Ming Dynasty.
Unlike before, the grassland herders no longer wanted to join the Ming Dynasty in name only.
They also need to receive a certain amount of Ming education every year.
If you want to control the grassland and make countless herdsmen willingly call themselves Ming people, you can never achieve it through unlimited killing.
Grace and power can only be displayed in dual ways.
Only by being sincerely good to the grassland herdsmen can the rebellious herdsmen be absorbed into the people of the Ming Dynasty.
Unlike before, where the Ming Dynasty nominally controlled the grasslands, the New Army is now using a more three-dimensional approach to infiltrate the grasslands!
Military support, provision of agricultural tools, trade of daily necessities, treatment of medical treatment and diseases, and even allowing some criminals to build cities on land and water resources throughout the grassland are all means to control the grassland.
The grassland strategy is proceeding in an orderly manner!
At this time, the Ming Dynasty's New Army could be said to be the most powerful army in the world. No enemy could resist the attack of the New Army. Therefore, the grassland quickly stabilized.
Houjin was also wiped out.
All the captured Houjin people were included in the Jurchen clan.
They must work hard for national integration!
Due to the wars in recent years, the Ming Dynasty had the most severe education and transformation of the Jurchen clan. The slave-building soldiers who participated in the massacre of the Ming people became a construction team composed of criminals.
They do the hardest work.
Build bridges and pave roads, mine minerals...
However, the people of Ming Dynasty were quite generous with these construction teams composed of criminals.
As long as they work hard, they are never harsh on food.
The captured Houjin Jurchens had a population of about 920,000, including 570,000 young adults and 570,000 women. All the young adults were recruited into construction teams composed of criminals.
They want to build a road starting from the capital, passing through Shanhaiguan, passing through Liaoyang, and heading east, a distance of at least 3,000 kilometers.
The end of this road is the Port of Uelen in front of the Bering Strait. This is the shortest distance to America. This is also the migration route of one of the two roads of the Ming Dynasty!
This is a huge project.
There is no threat to the land frontier for the time being, and the waters of Ming Dynasty have been even more lively recently.
Zheng Zhilong and a group of Ming Dynasty merchants will be busy for at least several years.
Because the Ming Dynasty Great Migration Plan has begun.
Immigrating to America is a very huge project. Before immigrating to America, there is also immigration to Liaodong and occupying land.
In order to alleviate the impact of natural disasters and alleviate the food crisis of the people, Ming Dynasty launched a nationwide immigration plan this time.
If you want to immigrate, the first thing you should do is food.
At sea, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty accepted the unified command of Zheng Zhilong. Tens of thousands of sea ships moved.
They brought a large amount of spices, luxury jewelry, gold and silver, and backward firearms, and reached agreements with Annan, the Portuguese and other countries.
Zheng Zhilong will purchase grain worth tens of millions of dan and transport it to the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty's countless luxury ornaments and various arms were very popular with the Annan nobles and the Portuguese and Spanish.
The terrifying combat effectiveness of Zheng Zhilong's navy and the Ming Dynasty's new army also prevented these people from having other thoughts.
So all grain transactions go smoothly!
The people of the Ming Dynasty exchanged countless supplies for the food of the Annan and Nanyang people in the south.
As for the Little Ice Age, whether the people of Annam and Nanyang could eat well, eat well, and whether they starved to death was none of the business of the nobles and colonists.
All in all, the grain trade is going fast!
But money is consumed too quickly.
Even with the selfless dedication of the feudal lord, even if Miaoqu Pavilion produced countless fine industrial products, they could not withstand the consumption of Ming Dynasty's money.
Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen was forced to be a villain again by Chen Mu.
Zhu Youjian looked at the document in his hand, panting and looking excited.
"Master Hou, do you really want to take action against the military household?"
Chen Mu gnawed on the watermelon grown in the greenhouse and nodded silently: "You don't feel right?"
Zhu Youjian was a little worried: "There are as many as two million guards in the world! If one of them is bad, the world will be in chaos!"
Chen Mu chuckled: "How do you compare with the feudal lord?"
Zhu Youjian paced back and forth: "What's different is that the guards are too scattered. The Ming Dynasty has millions of soldiers."
"A military order to take the school exam will solve the problem."
Zhu Youjian was still a little undecided.
boom!
Chen Mu directly trampled the chair to pieces.
"Are you going to fuck your special girl?"
"I..." Zhu Youjian looked at Chen Mu's cold expression, clamped his legs and trembled violently.
"Yes, of course!"
Hearing what Zhu Youjian said, Chen Mu smiled happily: "This is so true!"
Seeing Chen Mu leave, Chongzhen's hands turned white.
Before his death, the emperor's brother asked him to follow their methods. Since he can't resist, he should continue to listen to them!
Anyway, Ming Dynasty has been getting better in a short period of time at a speed visible to the naked eye.
After leaving Chongzhen, Chen Mu pressed the earphone: "Everyone, Zhu Youjian is so familiar with us, I feel a little embarrassed to beat him."
Chen Aiguo's voice sounded from the earphones: "I know, we have been pretending to be a ghost for too long. He has received ideological education for such a long time, and he must be doubtful in his heart. It's time for us to show our cards."
"clear!"
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The first year of Chongzhen, the end of April.
The new army compiled by the Ming Dynasty suddenly moved on a large scale.
In addition to the 10,000 sergeants guarding the capital, the other newly-organized new troops were divided into nine groups with the help of four-wheeled carriages and headed towards the important town of Ming Dynasty and the companion capital of Jinling.
At the same time, Wei Zhongxian and Dongchang Fanzi, who had been leisurely for more than ten days, also received an order: anti-corruption!
This anti-corruption campaign mainly targets the nobles of the Ming Dynasty and the generals of the hereditary guards of the Ming Dynasty.
The reason why they targeted the generals of the Ming Dynasty was naturally because they had trained 100,000 new troops.
The firepower that surpasses this era is completely crushing against the warriors of the old era.
The Ninth Route New Army worked hard and finally arrived at the important border defense towns before June 1st.
Subsequently, the Ming Dynasty Weekly took action and issued two imperial edicts at the same time.
The first of the two imperial edicts is innovation.
Starting from July 1, the first year of Chongzhen, all military households in the Ming Dynasty were cancelled. The recruitment of soldiers was officially held using the recruitment system!
All the land in the guardhouse will be transferred to the Ming Dynasty, and the military households can rent it for free. Even if the tax holiday ends, the rent will be half cheaper than other land in the Ming Dynasty.
As for the land owned by generals, it is based on their official positions. The land that has been corrupted will be inspected and the excess will be given a small amount of compensation. The corrupted portion will be directly confiscated and returned to the public!
All generals and soldiers who want to serve as soldiers need to pass the test before they can continue to serve as the new army of the Ming Dynasty. In order to prevent the hereditary, middle and low-level personnel of the guard from being unable to adapt to social life, they can be provided with conditions for transformation and re-employment. Jiubian Important Town
You need to undergo reorganization and training before you can rejoin the team.
The second imperial edict is an anti-corruption announcement.
In the more than 260 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the military establishment has been corrupted, the nobles have suffered from cholera, and the soldiers and systems that once protected the country have gradually turned into bad governance.
In order to make the Ming Dynasty immortal, an anti-corruption plan has been launched. All Ming Dynasty guard generals whose corruption reaches a certain scale will have their titles revoked, and those who have committed the most heinous crimes will undergo lifelong reform through labor.
If you want hereditary generals to have a chance to be punished, then follow the feudal king and set out for the New World!
After that, any soldier who reports corruption to his superiors can be promoted. Those with outstanding performance can be promoted to three levels in a row!
As soon as the imperial edict was issued, the hereditary generals in the guard stations all over the world, thousands or hundreds of households, were in an uproar with their little flags, but the eyes of the military households in the guard stations were gleaming.
The health system system customized by Zhu Taizu was very good in the early stage.
It is a pity that the guardhouse in the later period became the private reserve of the hereditary generals of the Ming Dynasty.
The border defense is not bad, but the lives of the military households in the inland guard posts are worse than those of tenant farmers.
Now that I heard His Majesty the Emperor's reform of the guard system, I naturally welcomed it.
This is a battle between those who have vested interests and those who have immediate losses in Ming Dynasty.
Naturally, the generals in the hereditary garrison resisted.
Unfortunately, the fighting power of the Nine Route New Army was too fierce. The fire of resistance was easily extinguished before it was ignited.
At last count, Xungui and Jiangmen sacrificed more than 7,000 innocent lives to prove the powerful combat effectiveness of the new army.
Jinling, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, did not cause any chaos and was easily controlled!
Eighty percent of Wei Guogong's property and land, which was in Jinling, were confiscated.
All the descendants of the Jinling lineage were forced to move to the New World America with the vassal king!
Countless nobles who had made people angry and committed many evil deeds were controlled by the new army.
These parties must work their entire lives to gain the opportunity for redemption.
The property of nobles and generals was confiscated, and those who returned to the public were confiscated. This innovation allowed the Ming Dynasty officials to once again obtain 40 million acres of land and seize 150 million taels of gold and silver.
Capture corrupt Ming Dynasty nobles, hereditary generals, and their families totaling 70,000 people.
They will either follow the feudal king to the New World and open up the world.
Either stay in Ming Dynasty and undergo labor reform day and night, there is no choice!
