Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 204
He Luohui's words are of course slander.

No matter how stupid Hauge was, he would never be so stupid as to question Nurhachi's tactics in the battle of the founding of the nation. What he said was actually: Duoduo painting a tiger is not an anti-dog.

But these are no longer important.

Because He Luohui provided Duo Duo with an idea.

Someone must be responsible for the disastrous defeat in the battle of Yunlong Mountain.

If no one can be found to take the blame, Duduo can only take the blame.

Duo Duo took the blame himself, and given how much Dorgon valued him, there would definitely be no major problems, but it would somewhat weaken Duo Duo's prestige among the nobles of the Eight Banners.

So if you don't have to recite it by yourself, Doduo still doesn't want to recite it by yourself.

And now, He Luo will provide Duduo with an excellent backer-Haoge!
He Luohui even arranged the crimes for Hauge: Hauge held a grudge because he failed in the battle for the position of Khan, and before the Yunlongshan battle, he made wild and contradictory remarks, questioning the old Khan's tactics in the battle of the founding of the country, which led to The soldiers of the Zhenglan Banner were separated, and eventually led to a disastrous defeat in the Battle of Yunlong Mountain, and the loss of troops will be worthless!

He Luohui was really vicious, and charged Hauge with three crimes at once.

The first charge was disrespect to the old Khan and making false comments on the tactics of the War of Founding the Nation.

The second charge is to disregard the overall situation and take personal revenge, leading to an unprecedented fiasco.

The third crime is to disregard human life, disregarding the life and death of the [-] Ba Yala soldiers of the Zhenglan Banner, the Zhenghong Banner, the Xianghong Banner, and the [-] Bannermen of the Zhenglan Banner, just for the sake of selfishness.

As soon as this memorial is published, Hauge might lose his life.

At that moment Duoduo smiled and said to He Luohui: "You dog slave, you have so many eyes."

He Luohui smiled and said, "No matter how thoughtful a slave is, he is still your master's slave. He will be your master's slave for the rest of his life. He will only consider your master's interests."

"This king knows." Duoduo smiled, "One day in the future, this king will never forget the contribution of your dog slave."

"The slave is here to wish the master what he wants." He Luohui smiled until his eyes narrowed, but in the end he still didn't have the guts to say it directly, but only dared to mention it cryptically.

Duo Duo smiled, and immediately picked up a pen to write a memorial to Duo ErGun.

Dodo did not hesitate to put the responsibility on Hauge.

Clan affection?There is no clan relationship.

Jiannu did not have such a concept as clan.

At least not now.

……

Daming does have the concept of clan.

However, Chongzhen may not necessarily think about the affection of the clan.

After reading the letter that Lu Jiude had just handed over, Chongzhen asked: "King Fu, King Lu, and the clan's children who fled to the south of the Yangtze River, are life really so difficult? Can't even eat?"

This letter was written by Fu Wang Zhu Yousong.

Zhu Yousong cried out his difficulties in the letter.

In the letter, he also stated the difficulties of the clan's children.

In fact, Chongzhen was well aware of these situations, but he kept pretending not to know.

Chongzhen liked the Ming Dynasty very much, but he didn't like the clan of the Ming Dynasty at all.

Lu Jiude said: "Wang Lu lives in Hangzhou, and there is an endless stream of gentry who come to the door every day to ask for calligraphy and painting. Living is not a problem, but King Fu and other clan children have no means of making a living. Right now, their livelihoods are indeed worrying."

In fact, Chongzhen knew very well that the clan children of the Ming Dynasty were divided into two classes. The first class was rice bugs like Zhu Yousong, Zhu Changxun and Zhu Youlang, and the second-class county kings like King Jingjiang were also millet bugs.

In fact, these princes and county kings have been greedy for most of the clan's salary.

The situation of land annexation is basically concentrated on these princes and county kings. It is normal for a prince to own tens of thousands of hectares of arable land. For example, the arable land in Henan Province is basically occupied by the kings of Zhou, Zhao, Zheng, and Tang. As well as King Lu's five vassals, the division was so complete that when King Fu became the vassal, Wanli had to personally seek the property for his son.

Therefore, the generals and lieutenants who have reached the county king and then down can only barely make ends meet.

The children of the clan who have no titles below the lieutenant are even struggling to make ends meet. Not only do they not get the Lumi of the clan, but they are deprived of the rights of ordinary people.

Even if you want to be a beggar, you can't do it, the local officials don't allow it.

The original version of Chongzhen actually thought about solving the clan problem very early on.

Regrettably, for the Ming Dynasty, the issue of the imperial clan was a problem left over from history, and it was not easy to solve it. The original version of Chongzhen tried it a little, and immediately gave up his mind.

The clan problem is difficult to solve for many reasons.

The main resistance still comes from the civil service group.

On the surface, the civil official group’s reluctance to abolish the benefits of the clan and push the clan to the society is due to the Confucian thought of respecting relatives, but in fact there are deeper reasons.

The deep-seated reason is still interests, and in the final analysis it is still a conflict of interests.

The civil official group is very worried that once the welfare benefits of the clan are cancelled, and then the children of the clan are pushed into the society, they will have to be allowed to work in commerce, agriculture and the army, and they will have to allow the children of the clan to take the imperial examination.

The first few things are fine, and it is not acceptable to allow the children of the clan to take the imperial examination.

What if a seed of reading emerges from Emperor Taizu Gao's son and grandson, and then he becomes the chief assistant all the way, wouldn't that be the end of it?What if we usurp the throne?Even if they don't usurp the throne, it will be troublesome to set up a cabinet of the Zhu family. What can they do with their civil servants in the future?Didn't Daming's world become the Zhu family's world again?This is intolerable to the civil service group.

All in all, co-governance by literati and bureaucrats is a political principle. The ownership of the Ming Dynasty can be given to the descendants of the Zhu family, but the management power must belong to the civil official group. All factors that may damage or threaten this political principle must be resolutely eliminated, so let the descendants of the Zhu family participate in the imperial examination Exams are absolutely impossible.

The Zhu family can only have one emperor.

If you want to train a chief assistant, then forget about it.

Of course, Chongzhen was well aware of these.

So Chongzhen wanted to kick the ball back to the cabinet.

Chongzhen said: "The Lumi of the clan is distributed, they should go to the cabinet."

"I've looked for it." Lu Jiude said, "I don't know how many times King Fu has presented his case to the cabinet. This time, I really have no choice but to write this letter to you, Long Live Lord."

"Lu Banban, King Fu must have written to you too, right?"

Chongzhen looked at Lu Jiude with a half-smile, his eyes seemed to penetrate Lu Jiude's heart.

"Long Live Lord." Lu Jiude knelt on the ground with a puff, and said sincerely, "This old slave has committed a crime of disrespect. Long Live Lord will kill or cut this old slave without even a word of complaint, but this old slave never Without the slightest selfishness, I really don't want Long Live Lord to leave you with a bad name for being harsh on the clan, and I hope Long Live Lord will see clearly."

Chongzhen smiled, and asked Lu Jiude again: "Why can't the cabinet think of a way?"

Lu Jiude said: "The cabinet didn't say that it didn't want to do anything, it just made people wait, saying that when the household department has money, they will distribute the Lumi of the clan."

Chongzhen laughed out loud when he heard the words.

When the household department has money to distribute Lumi to the clan, I don't know that it will be the year of the monkey.

Immediately Chongzhen said: "Forget it, before Jiannu is surrounded on all sides, send flying cavalry to Nanjing as soon as possible, and let Ma Mingjiao arrange it as much as possible, but there is one thing, just treat them as ordinary people, and don't treat them just because they are clansmen." The disciples are treated extra generously, which is breaking the rules again."

The clan issue must be resolved after all.

Then use this matter as a bargaining chip first.

"Long live Lord Shengming." Lu Jiude cried.

"Okay, why cry." Chongzhen said, "Lu Banban, you are still kind and righteous, better than Han Zanzhou. As long as you do your job well for me, I will never treat you badly."

Lu Jiude was overwhelmed with gratitude, and went with a thousand thanks.

But Lu Jiude didn't know that what Chongzhen said was not wronged was not the same as what he thought.

What Lu Jiude and the others thought was to let them guard one side as before, and it would be fine to be a weaving eunuch, or a salt supervising eunuch.

But what Chongzhen wanted to treat was not limited to reputation.

As long as he is willing to work hard, he can still be considered a eunuch king. As for guarding one side, don't even think about it. From the beginning of his Chongzhen Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty will never have the right to eunuch.

With the Ministry of Internal Affairs, what do you still need to guard the eunuchs?
……

After sending Lu Jiude away, Chongzhen said to Wang Chengen, "Wang Daban, call everyone in."

Wang Chengen answered yes, and immediately went up to the ground to call in Jin Shenghuan, Ma Huabao, Wang Zuntan, and the lieutenants and generals who were waiting outside the bunker.

Ruan Dacheng and Li Xiangjun were also called in.

In addition, there are Xia Yunyi, Zheng Sen and Fang Yizhi and other senior scholars.

Li Xiangjun is now a third-rank military general in Zheng'er Bajing, and he is already qualified to participate in the military meeting.

After Li Xiangjun came in, she saw a sand table in the center of the bunker hall at a glance. She had seen this sand table in the lobby of Xuzhou, but the sand table here was not as big as the one in the line, nor was it exquisitely built.

Because he didn't know what the sand table was for, Li Xiangjun was a little curious.

Seeing Li Xiangjun's expression, Chongzhen smiled and said, "Li Qing, this is a simulated sand table. The sand table in the lobby of Xuzhou Tour simulated the entire Xuzhou defense line, and this simulation is only Yunlong Mountain."

"So that's how it is." Li Xiangjun's beautiful eyes were shining brightly.

Chongzhen pointed to the sand table again and said, "Look, this is the Ninth Peak."

"Then this is the No. [-] gun platform where we are." Li Xiangjun asked, pointing to the model.

"Yes, this is the No. [-] gun platform." Chongzhen smiled, looked around and said, "Okay, now let's summarize the gains and losses of the day's battle, and all personnel can express their opinions."

"My lord, I have something to say." Xu Yingwei raised his hand first and said.

Chongzhen smiled slightly and said: "I will announce another rule. When the imperial meeting is held in the future, as long as it does not interrupt or hinder other people's speeches, anyone can express their opinions freely, and there is no need to ask me for permission to speak."

"Yes." Xu Yingwei cupped his hands, and continued, "The reason why Yunlong Mountain was in danger in today's battle is mainly because we underestimated the strength of Jiannu's first attack, so we were caught off guard."

"Yes, what Brother Youzhen said is very true." Zheng Sendao, "The strength of Jiannu's first attack is indeed underestimated, so we must learn from this painful lesson in the future."

Chongzhen turned his attention to Zhu Cijiong: "Jiaoer, remember that some people like to regard the first battle as a decisive battle, so you must not take it lightly when leading troops to fight in the future."

"Well, my son, please remember." Zhu Cijiong said solemnly.

Xu Yingwei went on to say: "Also, Jiannu white armor soldiers are really fierce. I'm afraid we have to find some usable tactics, or we will still be in trouble when we meet Jiannu white armor soldiers again in the future."

"Okay." Chongzhen said in his heart that he was finally summing up, and then said, "Then everyone may wish to discuss again, what method can be used to deal with Jiannu Baijia soldiers?"

Ma Huabao said: "Directly bombard with the Hongyi cannon!"

"This is inappropriate." Zheng Sen shook his head and said, "The Hongyi Cannon is too bulky."

"That's right, the Hongyi Cannon will definitely not work." This Xu Yingwei has experience, "We suffered from this loss today, we just barely fired two cannons, and we couldn't reach it by the third cannon."

Wang Zuntan said: "The Hongyi cannon can't do it, what about the tiger crouching cannon?"

"The tiger squatting cannon doesn't work either," Xu Yingwei said. "The blunderbuss fired by the tiger squatting cannon are not enough to penetrate the triple armor of the white armored soldiers. The power of the muzzle bullet is enough, but the accuracy is really too poor."

"Then use fire attack." Jin Shenghuan said, "burn them to death with kerosene."

"I'm afraid it won't work." Xu Yingwei sighed, "Jiannu's white-armored soldiers are too good at cavalry and shooting. If they use kerosene, they may be shot to death from a long distance before they get close."

Jin Shenghuan said: "Then wait for Jiannu to approach before pouring oil on the fire."

"No way." Xu Yingwei said, "Jiannu can use rockets to ignite the oil pot."

"Then there is only one way." Fang Yizhi said in a deep voice, "Enhance the lethality of the bird gun!"

After a pause, Fang Yizhi said again: "As long as you create a big gun that can penetrate triple armor with a single gun, Jiannu's white-armored soldiers will be nothing to fear!"

Chongzhen said: "This is the job of your Gewu Division."

"Yes." Fang Yizhi responded quickly, "After this battle is over, I will send someone to develop such a big gun."

"Okay." Chongzhen nodded happily, and at the same time thought to himself, it's good to have someone who can be used in his hand, no matter what he does, the emperor only needs to say a word.

But if there are no six thousand scholars, try without the House of Internal Affairs?

You asked those civil servants to help you find someone to develop a powerful bird gun?How much money and how much time will be spent is secondary. The key is that no one is sure what can be produced in the end.

If you don't have someone you can use, you really can't do anything.

Sitting in the palace and issuing a few imperial decrees, everything can be done properly, that is a fantasy.

Chongzhen looked at the others and asked, "Are there any other opinions on how to deal with the white armor soldiers who built slaves?"

"Your Majesty, I have a few methods." Seeing that no one else spoke up, Li Xiangjun finally mustered up his courage, "I don't know if it might be useful."

"How many?" All the scholars and generals looked at each other in blank dismay.

Do you think this little lady is so fierce?No one else can think of a solution, how many can you think of by yourself?Is there really such a big gap between people?Why don't you believe it?
(End of this chapter)