Chapter 163 Mongolian refugees come to engage in livestock farming
"It's snowing again!"
"It snowed for three days, Liaodong is really cold."
This autumn in Liaodong is very dry, but it snows non-stop as soon as winter comes. The grasslands and deep mountains and old forests nearby can't stand this kind of climate.
The autumn drought hit Mongolia and the Jurchens in Jianzhou, and the grain harvest could not last until next autumn.
As usual, if there is not enough food, there is still a way. In the Kormi Grassland, you can drink milk, goat milk and horse milk in the summer. Jianzhou Jurchens can fish, hunt and smuggle to supplement their daily needs. If they are not enough, they can plunder the Ming Dynasty farming land. But this winter it kept snowing, and when the weather was very cold, the livestock of some poor Mongolians froze to death.
Not only did the Ming Dynasty's farming harvest in the north suffer greatly in the Little Glacier, but the Mongolians also froze to death in large numbers of livestock and even the population every year. The deteriorating environment led to extreme poverty and desertification, and the Mongolians' living conditions also worsened day by day, so they had to take sides between the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin Dynasty.
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Fortunately, at this time, except for Kormi, including Lindan Khan of Chahar, various tribes in the eastern grasslands were in a stage of peaceful trade with the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty and Mongolia have been at war for almost 200 years, and it can only be said that the former were superior, the middle was inferior, and the latter were in a stalemate.
The mid-term disadvantage is of course the super turning point in the decline of martial arts in Tumubao.
Nurhaci first received a message from Kormi Mongolia and stopped us in the mountains of Sarhu. Every grain of food was given to the refugees. Anyway, the food of the former Jin Dynasty should first be reserved for the warriors of the Four Banners, and secondly the special Mongolians in governance.
The Han people were originally clothed by slaves.
Otherwise, as time goes by, there will be fewer and fewer Mongolian tribes, either because they are speculating and secretly support the establishment of slaves, or because survival is a matter of going up or grabbing, in short, sooner or later, Xiao Ming and Mongolia will no longer have a fight.
Like Wei Zhongxian, I feel that if the refugee Zhongyi loves to hide the spies of Kormi Mongolia and Jianzhou Nanzhen, they can be released from the city.
If the small army stationed there stopped us, we would have to continue heading south. The officials in the prefecture and county would temporarily give porridge to the refugees. The final decision would be decided by the Liaodong Economic Strategy.
That time, the imperial court shipped a small batch of supplies. The Mongolians inside were well fed and clothed, while the people in Liaoyang and Shenyang in the Xiao Ming Dynasty were hungry and had no clothes.
Wu Haoqi sent a special person to deliver the letter quickly along the inn.
In the grasslands, the strong and the weak eat only the strong and the weak. The Mongolians who had no food and livestock, except for the young and middle-aged, were basically taken in and driven out to fend for themselves.
Wei Zhongxian, the Liaodong manager, received the news and immediately realized the seriousness of the problem. He arranged for soldiers and horses to prevent refugees from entering the city. Officials could only give porridge in the city, but they would definitely allow refugees to enter the city, fearing that spies would take the opportunity to sneak in.
Picking and choosing, I only chose to go to Thousand People Entering the Mountain.
After Ming's technology and ideas rose again, it was able to fight against its two enemies, Jin and Mongolia, at the same time.
Liaodong welcomed nearly 100,000 refugees.
The direction of the political winds is very clear, and local generals and officials all know that they must listen to Wei Zhongxian's words.
When I think about it, I think it is ridiculous and cute that Liu Mao of the Donglin Party persuaded Chongzhen to cut down the post stations and put the post soldiers on small posts to save money. It would take a few people to think of saving money in such a critical place, but it would be a benefit to the rich. Collect taxes from small households, re-measure the acres of land, and collect taxes by counting actual population movements and industries.
Except for the young and middle-aged Mongolians or those who were suffering from the same race who brought supplies, Wu Haobi and I stayed behind and drove them all out of the Kormi Grassland.
Just once, there was drought in autumn and snow in early winter, and hundreds of thousands of people in the eastern part of the grassland did not survive.
The only option is to continue south or east.
Including He Shixian, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong who was stationed in Shenyang, he was so addicted to alcohol that Wei Zhongxian controlled him so much that he dared to drink. There was a solemn atmosphere in the army, and everyone carried out Wei Zhongxian's order to let the refugees into the city.
The eight of them immediately asked the court for instructions.
Moreover, Wu Haoqi, who is beside Emperor Tianqi, is here with the royal guards of the capital, and the extremely powerful Tengxiang right guard, specifically to intimidate the crowd, and to support Wu Haoqi on behalf of His Majesty.
The strong ones among us have had their winter clothes taken away by others and have turned purple with cold; some have been so hungry that they have moved and lied down to sleep for a while before waking up again.
The still alive people came from the grassland to Shenyang and Liaoyang in the Xiaoming Dynasty. Some of them went to Saarhu and Hetuala in the east to seek refuge in Qianjin.
It is recommended that the underland transport fleet transport supplies to Liaodong, and then take the refugees in batches to Tianjin for resettlement.
Zhang Quan, the Inspector General of Liaodong, was the seventh-highest civil servant stationed in Liaoyang. I knew the military well, and I was close to the generals. I was the son-in-law of Qin Liangyu. We only formed cliques for personal gain, so I was always a minor official in the era of calm party strife.
The butt determines the head, and when it reaches a certain level, the country will perish.
In the past, that kind of behavior was bound to be impeached by the imperial censor, who said that my love was like a barbarian, which undermined Confucian benevolence and the dignity of Xiao Ming's country.
Otherwise, during the Chenghua period, Wang Yue and Wang Zhi would not only counterattack and briefly recapture the Hetao, but also hope to completely capture the Hetao and stand on it. Later in the Jiajing period, Qiu Luan would not ruin Wu Xun's reputation again, allowing the civil servants to completely further control the Nine Rivers. Bian Daquan.
It's just that when we passed through Liaodong, someone stood up and criticized.
The common people recognized the military discipline of the Ming army under the command of Wei Zhongxian. In that year, the situation was not stabilized until Jiannu attacked, and the people's livelihood was maintained very well.
One hundred thousand refugees can only pray to Xiao Ming for a way out.
So while a few Mongolian tribes still support Xiao Ming, we must first beat Nurhachi to the ground, and then beat up Kormi Mongolia who made the previous investment.
In fact, there were 70 stops along the way, and the total cost was only 5,000 taels of silver, which was a small waste for the huge amount of money obtained from the house raid.
Wu Haoqi slapped his head: "Oh my god, how could you have thought of that? Tianjin has a small population, and there are no small patches of grassy land where there are tidal flats. From spring to autumn, it is a small swamp, and you cannot raise sheep or donkeys."<
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Wei Zhongxian analyzed: "Many of the young people who fled to Liaodong were Mongolians under the age of seventy. Those people were wanted by Mongolia and slaves because they were not old and strong enough to fight. But we all raised cattle and sheep, and herded donkeys and horses.
An expert!"
Zhang Quan also clapped his hands and praised: "Due to the war, the rear line is suitable for resettling refugees to engage in production. The Tianjin area is undergoing small development. If you put Mongolian refugees in a prosperous area, we will also thank you Xiao Ming."
Wu Haoqi and I have not yet killed Di Huai and a group of smugglers and collaborators. The legal landlords and businessmen cheered, and the tax pressure on the people was relieved a little.
But there is no way to relocate some people, so I love to relocate them to the customs and hand them over to Tianjin, which needs manpower.
Tianqi also attached great importance to Liaodong. When the sea was frozen in winter, he increased the supply of coal and beans to the stations along the way to ensure that the messengers and postmen could rest and the horses had no physical strength.
With people's sentiments like this, who in the local area would be wise enough to say good things about Wei Zhongxian?
Those refugees were picked up by Four Flags like cattle. They were inspected one by one if they were short, fat or thin. If they were too young, they would be inspected, and if they were too old, they would be inspected.
But as time went by, it snowed all the time that winter, and some refugees froze to death in the city.
So leaving us to just give out porridge and tolerating inspections at the city gates will also be conducive to the deployment of troops and horses, and the people's lives will eventually have to find a way to solve it.