Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 422 Centralization
Why doesn't the same system apply?Because there are two dangers.

Before entering the customs, Jiannu's favorite thing to do was to destroy borders and enter fortresses, and plundered wantonly, and when they robbed, they not only robbed cattle, sheep, livestock and property, but also robbed people.

Why are you grabbing people?Take it back as a coat and plant the land, so that the Eight Banners soldiers don't have to farm the land themselves.

This approach is very effective when the tribe is still poor, because it can greatly stimulate the Eight Banners soldiers' desire to fight, prompting them to rob more coats, cattle and sheep, and more goods.

But since entering the customs, especially after staking the land, the situation has fundamentally changed.

After staking the land, almost every bannerman was allotted hundreds of acres to thousands of acres of arable land, and each bannerman also grabbed as many as dozens of coats and as few as three or five.

At this time, the Eight Banners soldiers can live a very comfortable life, and their aggressiveness will be greatly reduced.

Think about it, soldiers of the Eight Banners no longer have to go to work in the fields, and can live a shameless life with their wives, concubines and slaves in their arms every day. Who would go to the battlefield to fight to the death?People are not stupid.

Because of this, after the Eight Banners soldiers entered the customs, their combat effectiveness avalanche in a short period of time.

In another time and space, the San Francisco raised its troops to cause chaos, and the Eight Banners soldiers had no combat effectiveness at all. Kang Mazi had no choice but to reuse the coated slaves and the green battalion.

Therefore, the first hazard of the Eight Banners system is that it will make the Eight Banners soldiers lose their aggressiveness.

The second harm of the Eight Banners system is that it greatly restricts the development of social productivity, because under the Eight Banners system, almost all the means of production are concentrated in the hands of bannermen, and a large number of Han people are just slaves in coats, and most of the Banners People treat the coated slaves very harshly, and they don't let them eat enough.

In this case, where does the coating get the strength to work on the land?
The same cultivated land, when cultivated by commoners of the Han nationality, can yield two or even three stones per mu, but once it falls into the hands of Jiannu, it is considered high-yield to harvest five buckets per mu, and three buckets or even two buckets are possible.

It is precisely because of this that Jiannu suffers from food shortages every year in Liaodong.

What is Liaodong?That is the most fertile piece of land in China.

Can you imagine that there are more than 30 Jian slaves guarding such a large piece of black land, and there is still a food shortage?
How low was the production efficiency of Jiannu before a food shortage broke out in Liaodong?The reason why the production efficiency of Jiannu is so low is because of the Eight Banners hunting system.

This system is only applicable to fishing and hunting tribes, not to farming civilization at all.

Huang Taiji had already realized this, but unfortunately he had just established the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and died suddenly before he could reform the Eight Banners system.

Now Dorgon is also aware of this.

It was also decided to reform the Eight Banners system.

Dorgon's words made the three of Hong Chengchou very excited.

Finally let them wait, the emperor's father and regent finally want to reform the Eight Banners system!
These three hard-core traitors are now completely in the position of building slaves, and they are always thinking of building slaves or the interests of the Qing court.

At that moment, Hong Chengchou suggested: "Master, the reform of the Eight Banners system is bound to be crazily resisted by the nobles of the Eight Banners, so the slave thinks that it is still necessary to divert the disaster to the east and use external forces to achieve the goal."

"With external force?" Dorgon asked, "Mr. Heng Jiu, how do you say that?"

Hong Chengchou said: "Through the war with Nanming, the military power in the hands of the Eight Banners nobles will be gradually lifted. As long as the military power of the Eight Banners nobles is lifted, the next thing will come naturally."

"Sir, do you mean to march south again?" Duoduo frowned, "I'm afraid it's not right?"

Dorgon also frowned slightly. Although he wanted to go south in his dreams, the current Qing Dynasty really didn't have the ability.

"No, no, the ten kings misunderstood the meaning of slaves." Hong Chengchou quickly explained, "The meaning of slaves is not to march south, but to constantly take Jiala and even Niulu as units, and give full play to the way our Qing soldiers come and go. Feng's superiority in riding and shooting continued to launch endless harassment wars against Nanming's Huanghuai defense line."

"Well, I understand what you mean sir." Dorgon suddenly said.

"It is to use Nanming's Huanghuai defense line as a hunting ground and let the Eight Banners warriors go hunting, isn't that right?"

"Yes, that's what it means." Hong Chengchou said, "There are two advantages to doing this. First, in the process, the military power of the Eight Banners can be gradually collected in a silent manner, and the banner affairs and military power of the Eight Banners can be separated."

Duoduo still didn't understand, and asked, "How to realize the separation of flag affairs and military power?"

"It's very simple." Hong Chengchou said with a smile, "Before sending troops, we only talked about plundering people in Henan and Shandong. Banner leader Baylor will definitely agree to share the military supplies. After all, there are benefits to share."

"Who doesn't want to have more coatings at home?"

"Wait until the military supplies are concentrated in the Ministry of Internal Affairs before announcing the specific combat strategy."

"At this time, it's a done deal, and it's too late for Baylor, the banner owner of each banner, to turn against Mei."

"Then use military supplies to gradually control the generals of each banner. To put it simply, those who obey the master or the Ministry of Internal Affairs can get enough military supplies, and those who refuse to obey will not get military supplies."

"In this way, after a year, the generals of each banner will get used to obeying the master and the Ministry of Internal Affairs."

Having said this, Hong Chengchou said again: "When the master announces the separation of banner affairs and military power, no one will dare to object. In this way, the master and the Ministry of Internal Affairs will monopolize the military power, and then the Eight Banners system can be reformed sequentially."

Dorgon hummed lightly, and asked again: "Mr. Heng Jiu, what is the second benefit?"

Hong Chengchou said: "The second advantage is that you can take this opportunity to greatly consume Nanming's money, grain and population. In less than two years, the Huanghuai defense line carefully built by Chongzhen will be riddled with holes, and then wait for our Qing soldiers to attack again. During the Southern Expedition, we can easily destroy the Huanghuai defense line and take Nanjing directly!"

"Good!" Dorgon said, "Just follow Mr.'s method!"

After saying this, he shouted again: "Hou Fangyu? Hou Fangyu!"

Hou Fangyu immediately walked in with bowed waist and shoulders and asked, "Master?"

Dorgon said: "You immediately go and inform the banner owners of each banner, Baylor, to come to Prince Rui's mansion to discuss the state affairs! Just tell them that there is an important matter, and it is extremely urgent, and the banner owners of all banners, Baylor, must be present."

"Hey!" Hou Fangyu immediately turned around and ran away.

"Huang Ama." As soon as Hou Fangyu left, Fulin walked in behind.

"Emperor?" Dorgon sat up from the kang in astonishment, and asked, "Why are you here?"

"Your servants will kowtow to the emperor." Hong Chengchou and the other three traitors rushed to pay homage, and Duoduo also bowed to Fulin with some reluctance, which was really unlucky.

"My son is here to pay respects to Huang Ama."

Fulin said, flicking his sleeves and knelt on one knee: "Huang Ama is auspicious."

"Pingshen." Dorgon said with a solemn hand, "Come and sit on the kang."

Fulin sat down on the kang, and asked with a smile: "Huang Ama, can I participate in the discussion of the state affairs later?"

Dorgon was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Of course, you are the emperor, you can do whatever you want."

Not long after, the banner owners Baylor from all the banners came to Prince Rui's mansion one after another. Seeing that Fulin was here, they couldn't help being a little surprised, but they didn't think too much about it.

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Let's not talk about Jiannu, let's talk about Daming.

For the civil and military officials of Ming Dynasty, they can really take annual leave after offering sacrifices to heaven and earth on the first day of the new year, and they can rest until the [-]th day of the first lunar month before going to court.

After Qian Qianyi, the fourth minister of the cabinet, left the court, he returned to his hometown in Changshu with Liu Rushi.

From then on until the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, Qian Qianyi and Liu Rushi stayed in the Banshan Hall.

However, the beautiful life was broken on the evening of the Lantern Festival.

The moon was just shining that night, Qian Qianyi and Liu Rushi were eating Lantern Festival and admiring the moon in front of the red bean restaurant, when they saw the old housekeeper Qian Kuan walking over quickly with a solemn expression.

"Master, the third master is coming to visit." The old housekeeper reported.

"There is also Mao Qiye from the Mao family in Rugao, and the grand master from the Xu family in Huating."

"The three of them came together?" Qian Qianyi's expression froze for a moment when he heard the words, and then he said to Liu Rushi, "Ma'am, just come here for your husband."

"Go." Liu Rushi said softly, "The concubine will eat Yuanxiao together after you come back."

Qian Qianyi let out an oh, then stood up and hurried away with Qian Kuan, watching Qian Qianyi's figure go away, Liu Rushi's willow eyebrows slowly knit into a ball, she had a very bad premonition.

At this time, in the East Flower Hall of Banshan Hall, there were three old men sitting.

These three people are all well-known grain merchants in Nanzhi, one is Qian Qianli, Qian Qianyi's elder brother, the other is Mao Jingzu, Mao Xiang's uncle, and the other is Xu Ersui, Xu Jie's son-in-law. great grandson.

Footsteps sounded outside the hall, and then Qian Qianyi walked in quickly.

"Ge Lao." The three old men hurriedly got up and saluted Qian Qianyi.

"No." Qian Qianyi waved his hand, sat down and asked again, "The three of you came to the humble house together, presumably to ask for a bowl of Yuanxiao to eat, tell me quickly, what happened?"

"Master Ge, something happened." Mao Jingzu stomped his feet, "Something happened."

Xu Ersui went on to say: "The Wang family in Xiuning and the Hu family in She County want to smash our game!"

Qian Qianli went on to say: "Since the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, grain from Huguang has been arriving in Nanjing, and the price is always one or two lower than our rice store."

"Our rice store sells five taels, they sell four taels."

"Our rice store sells four taels, and they sell three taels."

After saying this, he said with a dark face: "Isn't this deliberately throwing us at the plate?"

"Xiu Ning Wang Family She County Hu Family?" Qian Qianyi asked, "Are these two families very rich in financial resources?"

Qian Qianli said: "Financial strength is not enough. Although the Wang and Hu families have been engaged in the grain business between Huguang and Nanzhi for decades, their accumulated wealth is limited, and they only have one million taels if they die."

"One million taels?" Qian Qianyi said angrily when he heard the words, "A mere one million taels scares you like this?"

(End of this chapter)