The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 670 Quadruple Troop Strength

Ding Yi seldom read books, but he kept asking the intelligence department to buy books in the capital and hand them over to Song Zhe, who would choose useful ones for him to read.

This time I took it over and saw that there was indeed a good book.

One of them is called "Wuzhong Water Conservancy Complete Book", which was written by Zhang Guowei, the later Minister of the Ministry of War.

At this time, he had not yet become Minister of the Ministry of War. He wrote this book when he was governor of Yingtian, Anying and other ten prefectures.

At this time, Zhang Guowei should be near Suzhou, with the right minister of the Ministry of Industry and the censor of the right capital, and the prime minister Hedao.

This person should be placed in the Ministry of Industry. For some reason, Chongzhen let him go to the Ministry of War in the future.

He is a very good science student. He wrote "Wuzhong Water Conservancy Complete Book", which is an important material for studying water conservancy construction in the Jiangnan area in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Guowei dedicated the book to the imperial court this year, and soon Ding Yi's people got the book.

There are two other books, one is called "Jingyue Quanshu" in 64 volumes, compiled by Zhang Jiebin in the 12th year of Chongzhen (1639).

"Jingyue Quanshu" is a comprehensive medical masterpiece.It is divided into "Zhuan Zhong Lu", "Mai Shen Zhang", "Treatise on Febrile Diseases", and "Miscellaneous Zheng Mo".A collection of 71 kinds of diseases such as plague, malaria, cough, cholera, and insect bites.There are also "Women's Regulations", "Children's Regulations", "Apocosis Interpretation", "Surgery Seal" and so on.The basic theory of disease treatment, treatment principles, acupuncture and moxibustion acupoints, and comments by famous experts in the past dynasties, with cases, more than [-] kinds of medicines, and many new and ancient prescriptions, are important documents in the history of Chinese medicine.

This is of great help in combating plagues and fighting in mountainous areas.

There is also a more important book called "Nongzheng Quanshu" in sixty volumes, written by Xu Guangqi, which was compiled and published by Chen Zilong in the 12th year of Chongzhen (1639) based on Xu Guangqi's posthumous manuscripts.

"Nongzheng Quanshu" is divided into twelve chapters, including farming book, field system, farming affairs, water conservancy, agricultural equipment, arboriculture, sericulture, broad categories of sericulture, planting, animal husbandry, manufacturing, and famine management.It not only summarizes and retains the experience of ancient Chinese agricultural technology, but also absorbs and develops new technologies at that time. For example, it gives a detailed description of the sweet potato that was just introduced to Ming Dynasty at that time and promotes it. "Nong Zheng Quan Harvest" not only had a huge impact on China, Japan, Korea and even Western Europe.

Song Zhe said that there are descriptions and promotions of sweet potatoes and potatoes in the Agricultural Policy Book, but there is no corn.

Ding Yi and the others were astonished.

Especially Ding Yi: "About how many years did Xu Guangqi write this book?"

Song Zhe hesitated: "It's around the first year of Chongzhen, I don't know the details."

Xu Guangqi died in 1633, and this book was first published in 1628, which means that before 1628, both sweet potatoes and potatoes had been introduced to Ming Dynasty.

Fujian also promoted sweet potatoes, but now how many years have passed, there are not many planted in the whole of Daming, and there is still such a shortage of food. Apart from the weather, the reasons for refugees, it is also because not many local officials pay attention to this kind of book and this kind of thing.

Officials who want to do things and are willing to do things for the people will not end well, nor will they be promoted.

Only corrupt officials who desperately earn money and flatter their superiors and subordinates can be promoted.

"These books have to be reprinted and sent to Lushun Logistics Department, Jeju Prefecture, Daejun Province, so that they can study hard and use them as school textbooks."

"promise".

Then Du Ruhai happily reported this year's results.

Since the collection of commercial tax and land tax last year, it has just been a year since last month. The two prefectures of Denglai and 100 states and counties have collected nearly [-] million taels of various commercial taxes.

All around civil and military uproar, everyone saw the power of business tax for the first time.

The land tax is usually calculated after the autumn grain is over, so I didn’t say it for the time being. Du Ruhai is very optimistic, because last year Master Ding invested nearly one million taels in the water conservancy channels of Denglai and Lai. It can resist disasters and is very effective.

Everyone will be able to witness it next year, but there is no intuitive impression yet.

Du Ruhai estimates that there will be at least 100 million shi in Liangrui this year.

Denglai's side has entered a productive period, and its income has skyrocketed.

Not to mention Lingshanwei also has a piece of income.

Lu Chao had just arrived as the commander of the Lingshan Guard, and there were more than 2000 military households registered there, owning 11 fertile land.

There are actually more than 1000 military households, and the fertile land is in the hands of officials at all levels.

He arrived in August and now has complete control over the fullback.

"I killed a group and captured a group. Now there are 39 military households. Each household recruits one soldier, and then recruits more soldiers to make up the new [-]th Battalion. It has already started training and adding farmland. The stockpiling is very good, and there will be a harvest of autumn grain this year, but judging from my humble opinion, we still need to improve the water conservancy channels, in the words of Master Ding, to improve the ability to deal with natural disasters in the future."

Ding Yi couldn't help but look at Lu Chao, this Lu Chao is really ruthless, I heard that he killed many people over there, he is really ruthless, I like it.

"Then this year, based on two stones per mu, there will be 22 stones, and at a tax rate of 4%, there will be more than [-] stones in revenue." Ding Yi laughed.

Except for these two places that have income, four places like Jizhen, Tianjin, Linqing, and Jinan have not hoarded land and collected grain taxes before. I don’t think they will be able to collect much this year. Linqing is fine, and can collect commercial taxes. , but Wang Weizhong has just gone to the first year, and the focus is on hoarding land and land tax, and the commercial tax will not be collected until next year.

In this way, Ding Yi and Du Ruhai have the final say. This year, all places in Daming (including Denglai, Jizhen, Tianjin, Linqing, each guard, Jinan and other places) have commercial tax plus various commercial income for the whole year, totaling silver. Nearly 150 million, and the grain tax is about 100 million shi.

It sounds like an astonishing number, and all the civil and military officials at the scene were also extremely excited.

But this year is sure to be the year with the most money spent.

It started to be used to build water channels and roads last year, and it cost millions of taels before and after.

The Ming Dynasty used corvettes for free, but Ding Yi had to spend money to hire them, in fact, to feed the people.

This piece is estimated to take one to two years, and the investment will be around 100 million, and there will be more, not less.

Then this year, Jizhen, Tianjin, Linqing, Jinan, and Lingshan Institute will increase their troops, train elite soldiers, spend on military and equipment, farm tools, cattle, and feed a large number of soldiers, at least 150 million taels.

There are also a large number of his officials in the whole province, who drain and resettle the victims, and pay taxes to the court (Jinan's government needs to pay 30 yuan), which adds up to close to one million.

If this is the case, Ding Yi will become a blood loss again this year.

When Du Ruhai said these things, Zhu Wenwu, who was still happy just now, seemed to be poured cold water immediately, and many people felt cold in their hearts.

Now Mr. Ding spends millions of dollars in silver, and how many millions, who will bear it?
Just listen to it, everyone, from October last year to October this year, the Ming Dynasty will spend more than 300 million on such a large land in Shandong?

At this moment, Lu Chao hurriedly said: "So, it is really not easy for Mr. Ding to lead us to live."

Everyone nodded.

You, Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, can't afford to support the soldiers and civilians in Shandong now.

How much tax money did Emperor Chongzhen receive from the whole country last year?

A province on Ding Yi's side can surpass his whole country.

A civil servant couldn't help but said at this time: "There is a serious gap between income and expenditure."

He was afraid that Ding Yi would not be able to make ends meet, and it was difficult to explain clearly.

"It doesn't matter." Ding Yi said with a smile: "I don't need the support of Dongjiang and Lushun for the time being."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this.

Dongjiang and Lushun are their foundations, and now all the money there is posted to the officials.

Dengzhou has made money in the past few years, and Du Ruhai has saved nearly one million taels. This time he entered the customs and snatched more than one million taels, plus a yearly income of 100 million, just enough.

Then he will spend about 100 yuan in tax revenue of more than 60 million stone grains a year, and there will be 50 million yuan left.

In this way, Du Ruhai estimated that by the end of the year, he would have 20 silver and 40 grain.

Not broke yet.

Of course, by this time next year, they are expected to make a good fortune and their income will rise again.

Next year, the land in Jizhen, Tianjin, Linqing, Jinan and Qingzhou will definitely exceed 200 million mu.

It can also collect a large amount of land tax.

At this time Ding Yi mentioned Qingzhou.

Because Qingzhou Mansion is now a very special place.

Denglai to the east of him was occupied by Ding Yi, Jinan Mansion to the west was also occupied by Ding Yi, and Qingzhou Mansion was sandwiched between the two mansions. Wang Weizhong was the general soldier of Qingzhou back then, so there were also Ding Yi's people there.

"The goal from this year to next year." Ding Yi said at this time: "Set up the 40th Battalion and the 41st Battalion, stationed in Qingzhou, occupying Qingzhou, and also hoarding land to collect taxes."

Ding Yi will station two battalions of [-] soldiers and horses in Qingzhou.

Qingzhou is adjacent to Yanzhou, which happens to be used to guard against Liu Zeqing.

Qingzhou's military training is different from other states. Ding Yi's new method is also a common method used by Ming Dynasty.

Recruitment system, recruiting soldiers from the people of Qingzhou Prefecture.

Because his hoarding troops have been used in large quantities in the past two years, and he has sent more officials and soldiers everywhere. Jizhen, Tianjin, Linqing, Jinan, and Denglai are all using hoarding soldiers as officials and soldiers.

So now he doesn't have many soldiers in his hands, and he has to keep hoarding fields.

Moreover, Qingzhou soldiers were once very famous in history.

He asked Zhou Yougen to cooperate with Lu Chao to deal with the Jiaozhou incident, including recruiting [-] soldiers in Jiaozhou, setting up a new battalion, and then immediately returning to Qingzhou to recruit and train troops in Qingzhou.

Before recruiting soldiers, it is still the old routine. First, the local agricultural tax and commercial tax are collected, and then those who have soldiers in the family are exempted from the tax by [-]%, so as to encourage the common people to sign up to join the army.

After the recruitment was successful, Zhou Yougen's 34th Battalion returned to Laiyang to garrison, led by Zhou's deputy Xu Honghai.

Zhou Yougen was stationed in Qingzhou, leading the 40th battalion, and the 41st battalion was led by Tan Qilong, the leader of Ding Yi's personal army.

One of the two was stationed in Qingzhou and the other in Juzhou. At the same time, they asked Chen Yang to have five thousand cavalry next year to guard Anqiu County.

The three of them will keep the pressure on Yanzhou.

At this time next year, if all the requirements of Ding Yi are met, the goal will be completed.

In the Ming Dynasty, there are [-] troops from Xu Fuzuo in Jizhen, [-] troops from Shen Shikui in Tianjin, [-] troops from Linqing Wang Weizhong ([-] troops stationed in Dezhou), [-] troops from Zhang Qidong in Jinan, [-] troops from Zhou Yougen in Qingzhou, and [-] troops from Tan Qilong in Juzhou. Thousands, three thousand from Liu Guoying in Jiaozhou.

In addition, 3000 people from Yang Duan guarded Laizhou, 3000 people from Chen Hongguo guarded Changyi, 3000 people from Zhu Shengling guarded Wendeng, 3000 people from Xu Honghai guarded Laiyang, 3000 people from Yanxiong guarded Dengzhou, and [-] people from Fang Duotai guarded Pingdu. Chen Yang had five thousand cavalry in Anqiu.

Throughout the entire Ming Dynasty, Ding Yi's army will reach a terrifying 7 soldiers next year.

This time, the requirement for military strength has almost quadrupled, and it is also Ding Yi's most conscription in ten years.

The reason for such a large increase in troops is not only Ding Yi’s preparations for sweeping the world, but also because Ding Yi’s controllable population already includes almost the entire province of Shandong, plus Tianjin and Ji Town, the total population in the territory should be about 1000 million superior.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the population of Shandong was 600 million. By the first year of Chongzhen, the population of Shandong Province was said to be around 2000 million. In the last 20 years of the Ming Dynasty, natural disasters and military disasters continued. In addition, the Ming Dynasty also immigrated 100 million people near the capital. It is estimated that now 500 million is still available.

In the original history, in the early Qing Dynasty, there were only 1000 million people in Shandong province.

Now Ding Yi is running a good business in Shandong, and has attracted a large number of immigrants, so although Dongchang and Yanzhou are not in his hands in Shandong, the rest of the places have a combined population of about 1000 million.

But don't tell me, Dongchang Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion are still the two most populous mansions in Shandong, and they are not in Ding Yi's hands now.

Ding Yi is now trying to recruit soldiers, which is to form a systematic method of recruiting troops for future generations under his rule.

In the future, when the whole country reaches a certain age, all except college students will join the army and retire after three years, forming a virtuous circle and ensuring a steady stream of soldiers.

After serving as a soldier, the family will be exempted from tax for three years, which is a condition that greatly motivates everyone to serve as a soldier.

Another reason for the sudden increase of so many soldiers this year is that Ding Yi served as the commander-in-chief of Denglai. Fang took this opportunity to annex Daming's soldiers and horses for his own use.

More soldiers means more expenses, and Ding Yi's investment in Shandong next year will definitely be huge.

But next year, the grain fields in Jinan Prefecture, Jizhen and other places will be hoarded, and the land tax merchants will collect taxes, which will also be a huge income.

He had calculated with Du Ruhai privately that as long as there were no particularly major natural disasters and a certain harvest, he would definitely be able to support so many soldiers and horses.

After Ding Yi finished this meeting, he will enter Chongzhen for 13 years soon.

All parties are busy with their own affairs.

Ding Yi concentrated on training troops in various places, hoarding fields, building water conservancy, building armor, training sailors, and building ships.

And the Ming Dynasty was also unpredictable. First, Yang Sichang was asked to supervise the division, but the soldiers were not paid. Ding Yi loves and hates), and soon someone went to the chapter to impeach the center.

Then Fu Zonglong also impeached his successors to consume the country, but the emperor was angry with Zonglong.Later, on December 24, he was punished for the crime of enfeoffing officials in the frontier as a military officer.

After Fu Zonglong stepped down, Chen Xinjia took over as Shangshu of the Ministry of War in the 13th year of Chongzhen (1640).

On the side of the Peasant Army, it was also in December of the 12th year of Chongzhen that Li Xin, a Juren from Qi County, defected to Li Zicheng.

Li Xin said: If you want to achieve great things, you must win the hearts of the people.He drew up 36 military orders for Li Zicheng, and compiled ballads such as "Killing one person is like killing my father, killing one person is like killing my mother", "Welcome King Chuang, but don't pay grain", and put forward slogans such as "Equal land and no grain". The army has awe-inspiring military discipline and has grown rapidly.

Li Xin changed his name to Li Yan after defecting to Li Zicheng.

Not long after, Li Yan recommended Song Xiance to Li Zicheng. Even Niu Jinxing said he had heard of his name, and Li Zicheng was even more powerful.

Song offered strategies for divination, prophesied to Li Zicheng, and wrote "Eighteen sons, the main artifact", and Zicheng was overjoyed.

At this time, Li Zicheng's civil and military generals were basically assembled, and he began to enter a period of crazy development.

At the same time, after entering Chongzhen for 13 years (1640), Huang Taiji was also ready to move.

Since Beigou was defeated in the First World War that year, the Manchu Qing stopped in Gaizhou in Liaodong, and was completely blocked by Ding Yi in the north of Beigou City.

Then they first occupied Uiju, North Korea, and were defeated by Ding Yi. Finally, they attacked North Korea, but they were still defeated, and then they entered the customs the year before last and were defeated again.

Ding Yi has been defeated several times in a row. Ding Yi's soldiers and horses can attack them from the south (Beigou area) and the east (Korean direction) of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Coupled with the heavy losses of domestic craftsmen, Huang Taiji deeply felt the crisis of the Qing Dynasty.

He finally decided on the strategy of "Battle of Pine Brocade", which was very important in history, and prepared to open up space for the Qing Dynasty to develop westward.

(End of this chapter)