I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 206
Taking history as a mirror, it is impossible for Huang Yi to give allegiance to the stupid and self-willed Emperor Chongzhen and replace him sooner or later.

But he will never be the first to raise the flag to rebel, but to accumulate strength to engage in armed separatism, waiting for the opportunity to clean up the mess.

It is very important to have an army with strong mobility. If you want to increase the number of armored cavalry and improve the quality of cavalry, you must subdue more Mongolian tribes
At this time, it is simply the right time and place, and the people are fully occupied. Will it be over if the winter camp of the Selen tribe is laid down?

Of course not, it is in line with the actual situation to make persistent efforts to expand the results and maximize the benefits.

It will take at least two days before Selen returns to the army, and this is the case when he returns to the army immediately after receiving the news.

Huang Yi felt that since the Selen tribe obeyed Jiannu's call to jointly send troops to attack the Hedanbaatar tribe, it should be impossible to go and stay freely, and it must be impossible to leave at will.

The slave owner, General Jaisalmu, learned that the Selen tribe's lair was about to face a food crisis, and there were no more than two options to deal with it.

One is to ask the Selen tribe to stay and attack the Hedanbaatar tribe regardless of casualties to seize food, cattle and sheep.

The second is to give up the attack on Hedan Bateer and retreat the whole army, and concentrate its forces to regain food, population and property.

Huang Yi did not expect that Selen, Jaisalmu and others would not receive news of the looting of the Selen winter camp.

Because there were hundreds of thousands of cavalrymen, men, women, old and children who escaped from the Selen tribe, more than half of them must have fled west to find their master Selen.

But what if Selen knew that his lair was ransacked by Governor Xuanda's pacesetter battalion?

Huang Yi, whose strength is constantly rising, is relatively nervous. He is not worried at all about Jaisalmu, Selen and others coming to kill him immediately.

His plan is to go east, south, and north for a day or two, trying to capture all the small and medium tribes that can be found within 150 miles.

There is no way to speak of kindness on the prairie that worships the strong!
It is impossible to gain prestige without killing people's heads.

After killing all the surrounding tribes, all the food, cattle and sheep within three hundred miles were gathered in Huang Yi's hands.

Let's see how the [-] Jiannu and Karaqin coalition forces who are about to run out of food choose?

He did what he said, and even Kaletu was not in a hurry to go back. He enthusiastically brought seven warriors to join the [-]-strong conquering army headed by Huang Dazhi and Huang Dapeng.

A small half of the 3000 troops were soldiers, slaves, and captives of the Selen tribe and small and medium-sized tribes that had been wiped out. Most of them were young and middle-aged, and less than a quarter of them were young.

There are three conquest armies that have just been formed, and the other two are led by Huang Yi and Geng Zhanghua himself.

There are many small and medium-sized tribes around, but none of them has half the population of the conquering army.

This kind of war of conquest is purely bullying the small by the big. Huang Yi can't afford to take the blame, and it is most appropriate to drive the tiger and devour the wolf!
The three conquering armies all adopted the method of supervising and driving the Selen tribe and the subdued small and medium-sized tribes to surrender and slaves to kill.

The advantage of this method is to give the newly attached cavalry the opportunity to kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds, distinguishing them from the Karakin people who took refuge in slavery.

Facts have proved that using the low-level knights who supervise the Selen tribe to attack the small and medium-sized tribes nearby is more effective, because the low-level knights are too familiar with their opponents.

The purpose of the tribes near Liting Sweeping Cave is to capture all the yurts, cattle, sheep, and grain found, and kill all those who dare to resist or refuse to submit, regardless of men, women, or children.
That is the nobles who personally massacred the former chief or the Selen tribe in public.

It doesn't matter that the population of cattle and sheep is too concentrated in winter, and it's time for scattered grazing in spring.

Although the Bashang Grassland has suffered from wars this winter, there is plenty of food.

Why?

The first reason is that Huang Yi's gang only killed people and did not set fire to them, so their property losses were not large, and their food, cattle and sheep basically did not suffer any losses.

The second reason is that thousands of people died in battle, and food consumption was much less.

The third reason, of course, is that Selen took away a thousand young and middle-aged knights, each with two horses, so there was no need to consume food and fodder in the camp.

Next spring, the herdsmen assigned to cattle and sheep yurts will be less oppressed, and their lives should be better than before. I believe it will not take long for these people to get used to Huang Yi's rule of light labor and poor tax.

Light corvee and thin Fu is not whimsical, but knowing.

The vast majority of the tax revenue of the feudal dynasty came from the agricultural tax, the proportion of the industrial and commercial tax was very small, and the mining tax could not be collected.

Huang Yi's plan is to vigorously develop industry and commerce, not to mention nurturing agriculture and animal husbandry, but also to reduce taxes on farmers and herdsmen as much as possible.

The Ming court also reduced taxes and even exempted areas that suffered from natural disasters and military disasters many times, but with little effect.

That's because the Ming Dynasty actually had extensive management, and the decree did not go to the countryside. The county magistrate had to rely on the power of the clan and squires to manage the place.

The imperial government's good policy of tax exemption cannot be implemented on the heads of ordinary people in Shengdou. Instead, it has enriched landlords, veterans and local officials.

In the last feudal dynasty, the polarization between the rich and the poor turned into incompatibility.

The short-sighted royal family members, dignitaries, landlords and old fortunes would rather guard the blackened and long-haired silver in the cellar than take it out to help the proletarians who cannot survive.

The humble poor can only leave their homes and become vagrants, and gradually develop into rogues. The rogues only destroy but do not build, causing more people to become refugees...

However, Huang Yi is completely different. He adopts the method that every household has an organization and a direct superior to manage, and there is no middle-level exploiting class.

The concept of Daming's grassroots people who only recognize clan and village elders must be completely changed in the base area.

With a certain strength, with a relatively safe base, there are tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians.

The next main job is not to attack, but to open golden fingers to set up factories, produce industrial products to make money and pay taxes, and reduce taxes on agriculture and animal husbandry.

The army is given priority, and the soldiers are treated preferentially. The military family is not only an honorable family, but also the first choice of grassroots officials.

Priority and preferential treatment are not lip service.

It is going to be subsidized with real money!
Therefore, Huang Yi, who has always believed that money is something outside the body, and Huang Yi, who does not bring it with him when he dies, is very greedy for money during this time.

One of the main reasons for choosing to attack Harqin is that the tribes of Harqin robbed too much of Ming's wealth and a large number of people during the Jisi Change.

(End of this chapter)