Three days later, Xiao Yue led the army and set off from Yumen Pass straight to western Tibet.
It is still a long distance from Yumen Pass to western Tibet, with more than 1,000 miles of travel along the way.
Fortunately, this was a domestic march and did not require much vigilance. The journey was very fast. Half a month later, Xiao Yue's army had arrived at the edge of western Tibet.
At this time, the Living Buddha of Jiluo Rong Denba in western Tibet also knew that the soldiers of the Central Plains Dynasty had arrived at the edge of Tibet.
The reason why Jirigela dared to resist the Central Plains Dynasty so madly was not without some basis.
The first thing he relied on was that the terrain in Tibet was complex and the weather was different from that in the Central Plains.
The second reason is his religious identity, because in the current Tibetan religion, he is a living Buddha, and in Tibet there is no doubt about this kind of thing.
Therefore, Lörong Denpa was able to rule in Tibet for such a long time.
Luorong Denba received the report this time and knew that the Central Plains was bound to win this time, so he could not take it lightly.
Luorong Denba Living Buddha immediately ordered 30,000 troops to advance to Nagqu District. Nagqu's status is the gateway to the north for Tibet. As long as they can stay here for a few months, with the harsh natural conditions in western Tibet, the Central Plains people may be able to
will be wiped out by nature here.
When Xiao Yue entered Tibet with his troops, he was immediately struck head-on by nature.
Almost all of his troops suffered from altitude sickness. Every step forward was laborious, they were panting, and their legs did not obey the command.
Xiao Yue was somewhat unprepared for this situation, so there were a large number of non-combat attrition in the army.
Seeing this situation, Xiao Yue could only temporarily camp, and then ordered his troops to send those soldiers who really couldn't hold on out of Tibet.
The army stayed in this camp for nearly a month, and the soldiers slowly adapted to the climate of the plateau. Only then did Xiao Yue continue to march.
After Xiao Yue walked in western Tibet for a while, discovered the human habitation, and learned about the local situation, he realized why Jia Ke hated these living Buddhas so much.
It turns out that in Tibet, these living Buddhas of Lamaism are like a piece of heaven above the common people, and this God has no mercy at all, and cruelly squeezes the people at the bottom to the extreme.
It is precisely because this kind of oppression is so cruel that the people at the top came up with the strategy of using religion to paralyze the people at the bottom. Otherwise, these unbearable slaves at the bottom would have risen up and rebelled long ago.
Xiao Yue discovered that there was a serf system in Western Tibet that had been abolished by the Central Plains dynasty for thousands of years.
The cruelty of this serfdom system shocked even Xiao Yue, an upper-class ruling figure in the Central Plains.
In Tibet, we often see that the houses of slave owners are tall and magnificent, decorated with various Buddhist decorations, and the ornaments are solemn and solemn, while the houses of slaves are just dens. In this way, they are relatively wealthy families, and many of them even wear simple clothes.
Just lying in the yard.
Moreover, the land rent in western Tibet actually reached a crazy 82% share. Of course, the serf owners got 80%, and the serfs only got 20%.
This is relatively merciful. Some people directly give all the crops in the fields to the serf owners themselves, and only give the serfs some pig food to let them barely survive.
What's even more cruel is that whenever the serf owners are slightly unhappy, they will take it out on the serfs. They come up with various methods, such as cutting off hands and gouging out eyes.
Not to mention this, there are also the monks in those temples who appear to be pure-hearted and serve the Buddha, but in fact they all have human faces and beast-like hearts.
These lamas never lack the service of women for a day. The source of these women is the serfs below and the nuns who converted to the Buddha.
If those women and nuns are good, they can still survive. If they disobey even a little bit, the lamas will immediately torture these women to death for fear of being exposed.
Xiao Yue was terrified as he walked along. If this were the case in the Central Plains, the people would have risen up and rebelled long ago. But in Tibet, these farmers persisted and endured it in order to have a good background in the next life.
After Xiao Yue learned about the local situation, he made up his mind to eliminate all these cannibalistic serf owners and turn Tibet into the most consolidated link of the ruling dynasty in the Central Plains.
So Xiao Yue began to transform the places he passed according to his own thoughts.
Everywhere Xiao Yue went, he killed all the upper-class slave owners, and forced the living Buddhas in those temples to be reincarnated.
As for the vacated land, Xiao Yue distributed it to the serfs on a per capita basis.
He also promised these serfs that as long as they pay taxes to the country on time, all other income will belong to themselves.
Xiao Yue's policy quickly gained support from the lower class people. These miserable serfs already regarded Xiao Yue as a living Buddha.
Therefore, there was an endless stream of serfs coming to join the army, and Xiao Yue naturally could not accept these people coming to join the army. Their army had been rigorously trained, and these serfs would only cause chaos when they came.
However, Jirigela, the leader of the Eight Banners, did not agree with Xiao Yue's view. He raised two objections.
First, these serfs were born and raised in Tibet, and some of them could even survive overnight in heavy snow. They naturally had a way of surviving on the Tibetan Plateau, and with them they could significantly reduce the non-combat casualties of the troops.
Second, although these serfs could not fight, the yaks and other livestock they brought could help the troops transport food and supplies.
Third, the Central Plains army lacks guides when it enters Tibet. These herdsmen have lived in Tibet for many years. If they serve as guides, they will know where the water sources are and which valleys are difficult to march.
Attacking western Tibet has a very good effect.
After thinking about it for a few days, Xiao Yue felt that Jirigela's idea was very good. In the past, he only thought about marching to quickly reduce casualties and didn't think so much.
So Xiao Yue allowed these serfs to accompany the army on the second day, helping the army transport food and grass, acting as guides, and helping the army spend the night in the wilderness of western Tibet.
With the help of these serfs, Xiao Yue's army's non-combat attrition was greatly reduced in the following days, and its marching speed was also much faster than before.
When the New Year was approaching, Xiao Yue's army finally arrived near Nagqu.
The army of the Living Buddha Luorong Dempa has been waiting here for several months. At the beginning, they were still prepared, but as time went by, these people gradually slackened off and began to act recklessly nearby.
During the Spring Festival in the Central Plains, the army that was originally a round number has now herded sheep. Even the commander of this army, Silang Jiangcuo, is indulging in joyful songs and laughter every day.
When Silang Jiangcuo received the news that the Central Plains army had arrived nearby, he suddenly woke up.
So the commander immediately hurriedly summoned his generals to organize a defense. At the same time, he ordered the serfs under him to start strengthening the defense of the city wall. As a result, this order cost his life.
It turned out that among these serfs, there were the original serfs sent by Xiao Yue. As soon as these people arrived in this thick center, they began to spread the word about the benevolence of the Central Plains troops and their division of land.
These serfs who had not yet been liberated heard that people like themselves who could only be used as cattle and horses in the past were now divided into fields. The lack of envy in their hearts was false, and grass began to grow in their hearts.
This time Silang Jiangcuo ordered these serfs to strengthen the defense on the city wall and transport supplies, which gave them the opportunity.
After all the Tibetan soldiers fell asleep in the middle of the night, these serfs suddenly gathered hundreds of people and rushed to the city gate, killing all the dozing defenders.
After that, he quietly opened the city gate, and there were already preparations outside the city gate. Xiao Yue immediately ordered the cavalry to enter the city.
So that night, Xiao Yue's army rushed into Nagqu City.
After Silang Jiangcuo received the report from his soldiers that the Central Plains army had entered the city, he was so frightened that he didn't care about the other people. He turned over and wanted to escape with a few soldiers.
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But he ran a little too late. Before he reached the south city gate, he was already blocked by the cavalry of the Eight Banners of Manchuria.
The cavalrymen of the Eight Banners of the Manchus saw a very gorgeously dressed general among the ancients. They looked like a noble man, so they swarmed forward.
Silang Jiangcuo. It was okay for these Qing soldiers to usually bully the common people, but this time when they faced the Eight Banners warriors, they were immediately wiped out like melons and beans.
At the end, only Silang Jiangcuo was left. This general looked very mighty, but now he turned into a quail. As soon as he saw that he had surrounded him, and all his soldiers had been killed, it was obvious that
He was covered in blood and had been scared to death for a long time.
So Silang Jiangcuo knelt down on the ground without waiting for the opponent to approach, "Dear gentlemen of the Central Plains, I am the commander-in-chief of Nagqu City. I am willing to surrender. Please spare my life."
As soon as these Eight Banners soldiers heard that this man was the commander-in-chief of Nagqu City, they naturally gave up the idea of killing him immediately, swarmed up and tied up the big man, and then happily went to the rear to report their merits to their commander.
It was not until the second day that the entire Naqucheng area calmed down and Xiao Yue led his men and horses into Nagqu that he received the news that Silang Jiangcuo, the commander of Nagqu City, had been captured alive.
Xiao Yue didn't take this person seriously, because now he had no shortage of guides, and he had already made up his mind to wipe out all the upper-class people in Tibet, so leaving him alone would not be of much use.
So he immediately ordered the man to be beheaded in public.
Next, Xiao Yue ordered the rectification of public security in Nagqu City, and then redistributed the wealth in Nagqu City in accordance with the original policy.
Those who did small business were naturally unconcerned, but they carried out bloody purges against the big landowners, big serf owners, and the living Buddhas in the temples.
Only when these people are purged can the serfs below them be able to safely accept the fields assigned to them. Otherwise, these people will be frightened, thinking that these nobles will come back, and will not dare to take refuge easily.