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Chapter 459 Your Good Governance and His Tyrannical Governance
During the ambush in Miyun, the [-] vanguard cavalry of the Eastern Captives who broke into the Great Wall were wiped out, and none of them escaped on horseback.

And Hauge, the commander of Dongcap, could only watch his [-] vanguard cavalry besieged by the Chu army from several thousand meters away, and then all of them were killed!
Standing between Hauge and his forward was a seemingly thin Great Wall, but inside this seemingly thin Great Wall, there were more than 4000 soldiers from the Tenth Division of the Chu Army!

They used guns and flesh to block the impact of Hauge's cavalry!

It also blocked the retreat of the enemy's [-] cavalry forwards!

After this disastrous defeat, Hauge, the leader of the army, retreated on the spot. It is said that when he returned, he was reprimanded and cut down by Huang Taiji.

After the ambush in Miyun, the Dongyao people have temporarily stopped.

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In the ambush in Miyun, the cavalry led by Zhu Xingfa contributed a lot. Without the cooperation of the cavalry, the tactic of closing the door and beating the dog would not be possible.

No matter how good your first and tenth divisions can fight, they can’t run away from other cavalry. If you want to besiege and fight in Miyun, the [-] forward cavalry can’t beat them. Run dozens of kilometers and change places to go out...

But with Zhu Xingfa's cavalry, it's different.

You Dongyao cavalry dared to give up their formation and turn around to run away. Zhu Xingfa led [-] cavalry in a minute to charge. The Dongyao cavalry without formation at that time is a dead word!

The Yi Dong captive cavalry lined up to fight, but Zhu Xingfa led the cavalry and did not charge, but just watched... because there were a large number of gunners from the Chu army not far away, rushing over with cannons.

Even if you are beaten, you will feel uncomfortable, and if you don’t, you will also feel uncomfortable!
After repeated attempts to break out of the encirclement and failed, the three thousand cavalry from the east were finally completely besieged by the Chu army, and the entire army was wiped out!
This battle also made the Chu army pay more attention to the role of cavalry, and has begun to recruit cavalry soldiers in many places in order to train more cavalry.

Although the Great Chu Empire is now on the front line of Jiliao, if necessary, it can already gather tens of thousands of cavalry in a single battle, but this is still not enough.

Before the Battle of Tianjin, the Chu Army had only three cavalry brigades and some half-baked divisional cavalry regiments. During the Battle of Tianjin, Zhu Xingfa could only lead [-] cavalry to fight. During the battle of Tianjin later, the cavalry of the Chu army might fall into a huge disadvantage.

After the battle in Tianjin, the Chu army recruited more than 3000 Ming cavalry.

Immediately after the Battle of Youzhou, thousands of frontier cavalry from Miyun, Xuanfu and other places were successively incorporated.

Now, apart from those divisional cavalry regiments, the Chu Army has organized a total of ten cavalry brigades, two in Xuanda and eight in Jiliao.

Although the strength of the Chu army's cavalry is not as good as that of Dongyao on the opposite side, it is estimated to be stronger than the Ming army in the past.

This is not to say that the number is greater than that of the Ming army in the past, but that the quality is better. For example, in terms of treatment and equipment, the cavalry of the Chu army is far better than the cavalry of the Ming army.

The most important thing is that the cavalry of the Chu army is the cavalry of the empire, not the cavalry of individual generals.

This means that they can be mobilized smoothly when necessary, and there is no need to worry that the defense line of the Xuanfu in Jizhen will be torn apart by the enemy, and the cavalry in Shanhaiguan will still stand still...

Just like the Miyun ambush, Li Chengtong immediately transferred thousands of cavalry from Zhu Xingfa's troops in the direction of Shanhaiguan to Miyun with an order, so that the Miyun ambush could be carried out smoothly.

If it was changed to the Ming court, if you wanted to be the ancestor's birthday, Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui's father and son would not say a word, and directly lead thousands of elite cavalry to cooperate with other Ming troops and Dongyao people to fight for their lives... This is impossible.

The Chu army is different from the Ming army, and this is directly reflected in the battles on the front line of Jiliao!

Huang Taiji's attack on Shanhaiguan failed, and Hauge's detour to Mongolia to attack the Great Wall also failed. After two consecutive failures, the Dongyao people completely stopped...

If the fight continues like this, the casualties will be heavy, let alone entering the customs in the future, they will not be able to defend Liaodong in the future.

As soon as the Dongbang people stopped, the overall war in the north also pressed the pause button. The war machine of the Great Chu Empire, which had been running at high speed for more than half a year, was finally able to take a breather and refuel.

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In a small village in Jinan Prefecture, Shandong Province, Lu Tiancheng struggled to wield his hoe in the fields. Although he was a scholar in the eyes of outsiders, he was born in a farming family. Besides reading, he still rolled up his trouser legs and went to work in the field with a hoe on his shoulders. , and he is still the mainstay of the family.

Not only Lu Tiancheng is busy in the field, but his skinny old father and his 12-year-old younger sister are also working in the field.

Even the son left behind by his elder brother who had disappeared long ago and died unknown there, although he was only five years old, he was already helping in the fields with what he could do.

For farmers in this era, everyone has to work hard every day to have enough food.

Even Lu Tiancheng, who was regarded by his family as a seed to study and was expected to gain fame in the past, was no exception.

But when they were busy in the field, they didn't look as numb as they used to. Although they were sweating profusely, when they sat and drank water together at the head of the field after work, their faces were full of pain. Smile, talk and laugh.

After taking a sip of water, Father Lu said to the field, "Let's work harder later, finish the work on this field today, and start working on the east field tomorrow!"

Lu Tiancheng also forgot the so-called decency of a scholar in the past, but sat directly on a rock on the top of the field like his old father, took a sip of water from a bamboo tube, and said: "Go back later today, and go back after finishing."

The little girl on the side answered the conversation: "It's a little later, I'm working on my own fields now, it's worth it if I'm tired!"

But Lu's father put on a face: "It's not our family's land now, and it will be considered our family's land after paying another 15 years of money!"

But the younger sister said: "But your name is already written on the land deed."

After hearing this, Lu Tiancheng sighed and said, "From ancient times to the present, apart from me, Great Chu, there has never been such a good government!"

While Lu Tiancheng sighed, he couldn't help but recall the policy of installment purchase of official land that has been raging in their hometown recently.

After the Chu army arrived in Shandong, it also brought many policies of the Great Chu Empire, including a series of land policies.

Among them, there are two that have the greatest impact. One is to abolish all exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes, and only impose a unified agricultural tax. This agricultural tax is only collected on landowners, not on people.

Second, the officials continued to lease a large number of confiscated official land to the original tenants at a low price, and recruited landless farmers with little land to cultivate those that had no one to cultivate.

This is a general policy, needless to elaborate.

Thirdly, and this is the point that has caused the biggest commotion recently, that is, the government allows the lessors to purchase these lands in installments, the price is very low, and the payment can be made in installments of 15 or even 20 years.

However, some "smart people" have discovered that the annual installment payment for purchasing land in installments, plus the unified agricultural tax, the total of the two is slightly higher than the rent for renting official land, but it is basically the same. The rent for renting land from a landlord is about the same.

As a result, many farmers who rented official land directly chose to buy official land in installments and became self-employed farmers.

Although they are under a little more pressure than the self-cultivated farmers who already have land, they still live better than the pure tenants in the old days.

At the same time, the government is still using various methods to force the big landlords to sell their land, prohibiting the landlords from owning a large amount of land...the most critical of which is the stepped agricultural tax rate.

The more land you own, the higher the agricultural tax, and in the end it will be unprofitable or even lose money.

Some of the land sold by these landlords was directly digested by other farmers, and then a part was purchased by the government in installments, and then resold by the government to those farmers.

In the rural areas under the rule of the Great Chu Empire, a large amount of land that was originally concentrated in the hands of a few landlords was being redistributed to the hands of many farmers, initially alleviating the already intense conflicts over land concentration.

The Lu family is the beneficiary of the land policy of the Great Chu Empire!

The land policy of the Great Chu Empire is good governance for farmers like the Lu family, but it is a proper tyranny for those big landlords.

Your good government, his tyrannical government!
This is also why the Chu army is often very fast and aggressive when implementing policies in the newly occupied area.

It is because they know that there will be a huge backlash, so they want to cut through the mess and forcefully promote various policies while the army or armed tax police are still in the local area, so as to avoid troubles to death afterwards.

Compared with the former Ming Dynasty, the various policies of the Great Chu Empire are not just simple improvements, but almost reinvented, and will seriously damage the interests of the gentry, especially the traditional gentry, especially the big landlords.

And this kind of interest damage is bound to lead to large-scale bloody conflicts and even large-scale rebellions, and this requires the suppression of the army.

However, the time the army stays in the local area is relatively limited. Even the armed tax police will not maintain a large number of troops in a certain place for a long time.

Therefore, every time the Great Chu Empire captured a place, the administrative agencies would not wait to quickly implement many policies, and would not say that they would stabilize the situation slowly first, and then take it slowly.

Otherwise, what do you think is the purpose of pulling thousands or even tens of thousands of armed tax policemen to every place the Great Chu Empire goes... You don't really think it's tax collection...

People are going to steal the house...

The early administration methods of the Chu army in the newly occupied area are very simple. There are two tricks to come and go:
First use the army to kill and copy a batch in the name of 'suppressing the recalcitrant enemy and the remnants of the former Ming Dynasty';
Then the armed tax police killed another batch and copied another batch in the name of "armed anti-tax" and "tax evasion";
Basically, after these two processes are completed, whether the local scholarly family or the wealthy landlord family, they basically have to lie down obediently, and Da Chu will do whatever he says...

What, they still want to fight against the Dachu government?
The tax department is happy to repeat the second process above...

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