Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 154

The southward wind blowing from Siberia seemed to freeze the whole of northern China.

The Guanzhong Plain has also been covered by heavy snow, and the thick loess soil is covered with snow-white cotton wool.

The whistling north wind swept up the cotton wool, and the snowflakes flying all over the sky roared and formed a small tornado.

In such severe cold, the gate of a manor creaked open.

A strong man in a leather jacket was riding on a horse, walking forward slowly.

Behind him followed two servants.

They carried quilts, food, and armor respectively, and one of them was leading a tall war horse.

The strong man carried a matchlock gun on his back and a waist knife on his waist.

"My lord, why did you come in time for the winter this time? It's winter, could it be that Qing Da came here?"

The one carrying the armor was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy.

About 40 kilograms of armor weighed on the boy's shoulders, bending his body.

The feet are also deep and shallow.

The snow in the Guanzhong Plain is definitely not as thick as that in Haishengwei.

But walking in such snow with heavy armor on your back is also a severe test of physical strength.

The one who is called the master is a soldier of the Kingdom of Heaven named Liu Laoba.

Affiliated to Heavenly Right Guards.

Youweiwei has 800 soldiers like him.

And this kingdom of heaven imitated the military system of the Sui and Tang dynasties and produced twelve guards.

Each guard has 600 soldiers, that is [-] people.

Count the guard commanders, captains, school captains, captains and others of each guard.

It is about 3000 people.

But this is to divide Zhuangzi's mansion soldiers. The land in Guanzhong is definitely not as fertile as Hubei and Sichuan, and the mansion soldiers have to prepare their own horses, armor, weapons, and have slaves and auxiliary soldiers, and they don't receive military pay.

Therefore, each mansion soldier must be divided into at least 300 acres of Zhuangzi.

Use more than 300 acres of Zhuangzi to raise a Fubing.

Then the more than 2 government soldiers will need more than 600 million mu of land.

The Guanzhong Plain has a total of more than [-] million mu of arable land in the current statistics, which does not seem to be much at first glance.

But know.

That's just the cost of the bottom tier of big guns.

And officers at all levels.

There are also all levels of marquis and father-in-law from bottom to top.

The number of fields allocated to these people far exceeds that of ordinary soldiers.

Even the heavenly kings, earth kings, Wen kings, and Wu kings above have to divide the land.

Both are hundreds of thousands of starting area.

Used to support their own direct army.

The system of the kingdom of heaven is that four kings lead a group of princes and marquises, large and small.

Under each prince and prince, there are armies directly under them.

That is to say, apart from government soldiers like Liu Laoba, there are large and small lords scattered in Shanghai on the Guanzhong Plain.

Some lords have large territories.

For example, King Sanhuai of Daguo, who raised troops in Sichuan, has 4000 soldiers under his command, including more than [-] old battalion soldiers.

He is the father-in-law who has the most soldiers besides the four kings.

In order to support these more than 4000 old battalion soldiers, he has to go to more than 200 million mu of land!

Princes, princes, and marquises divided the Guanzhong Plain.

There is not much land left.

In addition, everyone did not expect that the land in Guanzhong, which claims to be able to dominate the world, is so barren.

Only wheat can be grown.

And the output is not high.

Therefore, after arriving in Guanzhong, everyone felt that this place was not good enough, and began to focus on Henan and Hebei again.

Guanzhong is not worthy of its name.

This Central Plains will not be the same as Guanzhong, right?

A group of father-in-laws and marquises who feel that they are nested in the Guanzhong without much money are eagerly counting on sending troops out of the pass, occupying the Central Plains, and dividing the fields.

The current system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is also related to the fact that the White Lotus Sect did not have a strong leadership group.

Liu Zhixie is only the nominal leader of the White Lotus Sect.

In fact, he has no control over the incense masters of the White Lotus Sect in various places.

After raising troops.

Liu Zhixie is the largest of them.

However, Wang Tianhuai and Xu Tiande, who raised troops from Dazhou, Sichuan, Zhang Zhengmo, who raised troops from Zhijiang, Hubei, and Nie Jieren, who raised troops from Yidu, Hubei, were quite capable of fighting.

Therefore, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is a compound feudal country headed by Liu Zhixie, enfeoffing princes and marquises of all sizes, and more than 2 soldiers.

It's the real feudal kind.

But don't think that you can't fight feudalism.

usually.

A feudal dynasty usually conforms to the general law of "its prosperity is also vigorous, and its death is also sudden".

And the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which had just been established as a state.

It happened to be in the stage of "excitement and excitement".

On the one hand, its military system has just been established and has not been completely corrupted, and the government orders from top to bottom are still smooth.

On the other hand, the "fubing system" based on its military strength has not yet collapsed.

Take Liu Laoba as an example.

Liu Laoba, who is the lowest-level mansion soldier.

In fact, it was part of the ruling class of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

He owns a farm that covers 320 seven acres of land.

There is a small blacksmith shop, a flour mill, and a stable in the farm, with 11 servants and three wives.

At the same time, there are also seven tenant households who also live in the village and come to rent and plant Liu Laoba's village.

In addition to the income from renting, Liu Laoba's small blacksmith shop can make farm tools, stone mills for grinding flour, and lend cattle and horses, all of which are a sum of income.

And what will the income of Zhuangzi, which covers more than 300 mu, be used for?
In addition to raising three wives and eleven servants.

Biggest expense.

It is the equipment that Liu Laoba now has.

The first is a musket.

This is bought in Chang'an.

The most sufficient material is used.

Now the Kingdom of Heaven cannot manufacture flintlock guns—mainly because there is no qualified steel and no qualified shrapnel can be found.

But the matchlock gun is the same.

Although this matchlock gun has a lot of weight.

But Liu Laoba, who has been full for more than a year and can often eat some meat, is now very strong and can definitely afford it.

In addition to matchlocks.

It is the waist knife slung around the waist.

Made of clamped steel.

It is five feet long.

This is Liu Laoba's main weapon.

But he is the most expensive.

It was still the war horse he was reluctant to sit on now.

That is very expensive.

Usually they are fed beans and wheat.

Except for horses.

There is also a suit of iron armor.

Knife, armor, matchlock gun.

This is equipment that takes into account both long-range shooting and melee combat.

Every soldier of the Kingdom of Heaven is a veteran who has survived dozens of battles.

It can be said that they are all decathlons.

Can shoot muskets from a distance, or shoot arrows.

Recently, he can wear cloth armor to fight hand-to-hand.

This is a typical first-generation feudal strong soldier.

"Perhaps Qing Da is going to attack Tongguan! Hmph, our Heavenly Kingdom will not trouble them, but they will take the initiative to send us to death!"

Liu Laoba said with a cold snort.

Of course he is a very loyal soldier of heaven - this loyalty is guaranteed by the manor, servants, and daughter-in-law.

So loyal it couldn't be more loyal.

Even the soldiers of the Ming army cannot be treated better than the soldiers of the kingdom of heaven.

The manor of more than 300 mu is also divided into servants and daughter-in-laws.

Unless Zhu Daohua confiscated all the land of the landlords and rich people in Jiangnan, South China, and Hunan, and then suppressed all industries and commerce, and built the entire Ming Dynasty into a military system based on cultivated land like the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

But how could Zhu Daohua do this?

Doing this in the short term can indeed get a group of soldiers who are extremely loyal.

But the military strength of this government is only two generations at most.

Moreover, such a system suppresses industry and commerce, and the only way to obtain advanced weapons is through purchase.

The imperial court also received no taxes.

How can it be long.

But whether long or not.

Now in history, it took the Qing Dynasty nine years and [-] million silver military expenditures to suppress the White Lotus Sect uprising army, which is now a thing of the past.

After enfeoffing a large number of manor warriors and noble territories large and small.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's rule in Guanzhong is now extremely stable.

Not to mention the current Qing Dynasty.

Even the Qing Dynasty, which ruled the world in history, would not be able to overcome such an opponent in all likelihood.

After all, even the chieftains in Jinchuan and Jinchuan were so useless in the Qing army's fights.

"You two don't slack off, if you can make contributions this time, you will have a future as soldiers!"

Liu Laoba encouraged.

The two auxiliary soldiers repeatedly said yes.

My heart is also a little bit hot.

This Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has a hole in it.

Want to be a master.

I want Fubing Manor.

There is only one way now.

It's military exploits!

Only by making meritorious deeds on the battlefield can one have the possibility to stand out in this Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Just when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was mobilizing government soldiers to enter the customs clearance.

At this time, on the Qing court's side, the green flag soldiers from Shandong and Anhui provinces led by Fukang'an had also stationed in Shanzhou.

There are more than [-] green flag soldiers in the two provinces.

The equipment is better than that of the green battalion soldiers, but it is not much better-because they are all weapons such as guns, sub-cup guns, and long guns selected from the green battalion arsenal.

But because the green flag soldiers in the two provinces were used to deal with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

So you don't need too good weapons and equipment.

The equipment is also sufficient.

After the green flag soldiers from the two provinces entered Henan.

Immediately, the whole province of Henan was thrown into chaos.

These Green Banner Soldiers are all organized on the basis of fellow villagers.

The squires are the officers, and the peasants from the same village are the soldiers.

They are very familiar with each other.

I still listen to restraint in my hometown.

When I arrived in other provinces, I completely let myself go.

Along the way, I don't know how many Henan counties have been looted.

After arriving in Shanzhou.

Many of the green camp soldiers in the two provinces have already made a fortune.

Under the bulging pockets.

Morale is naturally high to the peak.

In order to boost morale, Fu Kang'an, the governor of the green flags of these two provinces, did not stop the green flag soldiers from looting Henan.

In order to exterminate the religious bandits.

The people of Henan are a little more patient.

Also worth it.

"My lord, the religious bandits have recently increased their troops to Tongguan. It doesn't look like they are just guarding the pass?"

It was Zhang Ruoai, the training commander of the Green Flag Huai Army Corps, who spoke.

He is not well known.

But he has a very famous dad.

Zhang Ruoai is the son of Zhang Tingyu.

The Zhang family in Tongcheng is also a local rich family.

Relying on Zhang's children as military officers, Zhang Ruoai pulled out more than 6000 people this time.

The number of soldiers commanding this army can be regarded as something to talk about in front of Fukang'an.

(End of this chapter)