The Mongolians are not a big problem these days. Bailang is concerned about the Jurchens in the old forests of the Northeast - in the future we will enter the Little Ice Age. The drought and reduced food production in the north cannot be undone by manpower, and the fishing and hunting gangs
The Jurchens don't seem to be the kind that can survive the severe cold in the old forest. It will be really cold by then. "So we have to kill them all first," Bai Lang said.
This choice is perfectly normal. It was difficult for the Northeast to support the survival of so many people during the Little Ice Age. Even if Bailang killed all the Jurchens, the current population of millions in the Northeast would have dropped by more than half—unless
There is no need for modern industrial technology to feed agriculture, otherwise we would never even think about it. The sharp population decline in the Central Plains is already an established fact in the future. Think about it, even Hainan Island will freeze hundreds of people to death in a few decades.
Such was the power of the Little Ice Age.
"So we have to seize the Red River Delta and the Mekong River Delta, at least to obtain enough food imports." Bailang thought, otherwise he can only rely on potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes. According to the ancestral system, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty should regularly bring
The three major battalions patrolling nine borders and even the eighteen provinces of Han Dynasty once again have to at least regularly inspect and inspect the elite soldiers of the three major battalions. Unfortunately, this system has been abolished since Wuzong.
Bailang picked it up again. The Tatar chief could visit the south of the Yangtze River six times, so why couldn't he? Shanxi Shanxi merchants' handling method was the same as that of future salt merchants.
-Anyway, today's salt merchants in the Ming Dynasty are basically raising pigs, and the same is true for Shanxi merchants. They don't have to kill and eat them when they are fattened. Moreover, Bailang will definitely reform the salt law. His idea is to collect taxes on the production link and set a fixed price at the same time.
official price.
Bailang, escorted by tens of thousands of troops, arrived at Xuanda first. Going out along Guancheng is the territory of the Mongolians in the grassland. Bailang was not interested in killing the Mongols for the time being. He led his troops to march outside the pass, and even the Mongols did not dare to approach.
Because that is the flag of the Ming Dynasty, and the ferocity of this generation of the Ming Dynasty has been heard even on the grasslands. The average Mongolian people dare not approach, but the Tuman tribe still dare to touch the Ming Dynasty's tiger beard.
Three guys from the Tuman tribe gathered more than 20,000 cavalry and prepared to learn the story of the Yingzong. However, they never expected that the Ming cavalry had just set up the two formations, but they saw that the Ming cavalry actually launched an attack first. The leader of the armor was gorgeous and held a long-handled bone flower.
Who is this fierce general? This fierce general is extremely skilled in martial arts. Even though the cavalry behind him raised their three-eyed blunderbuss, he just used his bones to deflect all the arrows, and crashed into the array of Mongolian cavalry amidst the continuous sound of blunderbuss.
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The combat effectiveness of the Mongolian cavalry in this era has also declined. Bailang waved his long-handled bones and easily tore apart the opponent's formation - it seemed that there were still a dozen Mongolians riding horses and shooting arrows. Once they entered into a close-range hedging fight,
, it immediately showed that it could not be beaten. So the ground collapsed like this. Bailang just urged the horse forward, and when the bones were pounded forward, a Mongolian spurted blood from his mouth and fell upside down under the horse.
If the bones are swept across, the horse heads of other Mongolians will be smashed to pieces, and even the people will be beaten and deformed, especially this is a blunt weapon, even if they are wearing chainmail, they can't stop it. Bailang Breaking Formation
Even if he changed his body, the Mongols couldn't withstand the might of him - the only one who could compete with such fierce generals was the mythical Lu Bu. At this time, Ma Taishi had only been dead for a few years, and the Mongols did not expect that he would
Meet a more powerful and brave general than Master Ma.
When the Ming Dynasty cavalry and infantry saw how brave the emperor was, they immediately became highly motivated and chased the Mongols. The Tuman's head was now hanging on the victory hook in front of the white wave horse. His younger brother escaped, and 20,000 Tuman cavalry were killed.
The heads of the Ming Dynasty were gathered together a little, and there were more than 4,000 of them. As a powerful Mongolian tribe, the Tuman tribe was in ruins. This great victory of the Ming Dynasty was a great victory under the personal leadership of the emperor. Of course, it was a victory.
Praise to the world.
This is better than sacrificing prisoners to the Ancestral Temple. This kind of thing can only be done by the emperor such as Li Shimin. The master of Wumiao cannot do it. The master of Chengmiao can probably do it. Now we have to add the current emperor - this will happen soon.
The emperor is not someone who can be manipulated by civil servants. Moreover, this emperor has a cruel temperament and is said to be the king of Jie and Zhou in private. Of course, he is as brave as those monarchs in ancient dynasties who have the courage to go into battle personally. It is more difficult for such people to use etiquette and morality.
Go to restraint.
He even said the famous sayings of King Zhou, what else can you do?
It would have been good if Wanli didn't inflict torture on Guochi. He didn't even inflict any cruel torture. Even the punishment of beheading would be downgraded to beheading except for those who killed their parents and harvested their offspring.
.That is to say, the emperor was hard-hearted when he was killing people, but he was calm when he was watching. This is too normal. Taizu and Chengzu both have similar temperaments, especially Taizu, but none of the ministers have met each other for many years.
The emperor was a little unaccustomed to this kind of behavior for a while.
The first great victory against Mongolia since Shimiao was achieved by this emperor. He seemed to be so relaxed and easy. He captured the enemy with one charge and even killed the enemy chief himself. It is estimated that Wumiao would have dreamed of doing this. Lu Bu won the victory.
The document was not only sent to the capital, but also spread to all corners of the country. What Bailang wanted to do was to shock the officials from all over the country, and stop thinking about nothing.
To scare those scholars, most of the scholars these days are not their colleagues in the Han and Tang Dynasties. It is impossible for them to achieve the six arts of a gentleman. Probably the scholars in Jiubian can still do some horse riding and archery. As for the scholars in Jiangnan
Dressing up in strange clothes is fine, but stabbing people with a knife may not work. Also, when people gather to make trouble, they are just like literary hooligans. So Jiang Nan needs to scare them first. Of course, Bai Lang knows that they can't be scared.
Therefore, he wanted to use the method of memorializing the cases to deprive a large number of scholars of their honors, confiscate their properties and distribute them, and finally have to work as a group to pay food and abolish their preferential treatment policy. "The official law is like a furnace! How can they not have it?"
There is no room for nonsense!" Bailang marched outside the pass to expel the Mongols, then turned around and entered Shanxi from Datong, heading directly eastward to cleanse Shanxi merchants. "What crime do we have?" Many businessmen cried to the government.
Among them, there are many former Ge elders and even many in-laws from official families. However, even the Ge family has been raided, and a mere in-law from a noble family is nothing. "I am not interested in your lives, but more interested in your family property."
!" Bailang was too lazy to dry up the lake and fish. He left various amounts of capital to these businessmen, and he didn't even set fire to their houses. "Silver winter melon is really easy to use, and it's refreshing to move it!"