I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 350

Chapter 350

The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were very hard-working. The loyal and brave soldiers who fought for the country should have enough food and clothing and well-equipped armor, but they ended up living like beggars.Just like the Qi Family Army founded by Qi Jiguang, after Qi Jiguang was dismissed from his official position and died in depression, almost all the last three thousand Qi Family Army led by Qi Jin died on the banks of the Hun River.

However, this team has not received a penny of food and salary for thirteen months, so there is no mutiny, and they can be pulled out to fight. The skills of the old Zhu's family are really extraordinary, of course, even more ordinary. The skills of the gang of courtiers at home.

The military households in the Weisuo are hereditary. The descendants of the chief soldiers can only be the chief soldiers, the descendants of the thousand households are the thousand households, and the commanders are commanders for generations. ,

In fact, it was not that the Ming Dynasty did not attach importance to soldiers. For example, the rank of a hundred households was the sixth rank, the general banner was the seventh rank, the thousand households were the fifth rank, and the commander was the third rank. In later generations, they would be provincial-level senior officials.The problem is, these days, armed forces are automatically inferior to civil servants by three levels. A fifth-grade Qianhu, let alone a fourth-grade command official, can be subdued by even a county magistrate. Stick to sticker.

To put it bluntly, the real official in the Ming Dynasty was not the county magistrate, but the Qianhu.As for the hundreds of households and the chief officials, they don't even count as sesame officials.

Soon, more than 30 generals in Yanqing County and six generals of the Ning Navy at the level of Qianzong gathered together to hold a meeting without a theme.

At the meeting, Meng En said: "Everyone..."

Just as Meng En spoke, Cheng Shijie appeared behind Meng En. If Meng En suddenly summoned the officers of the Ning Navy in Yanqing, the supervisor of the Military Supervision Department would immediately report to Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie was fine, so he decided to attend the meeting.

When Cheng Shijie entered the conference room, some of the military officers saw Cheng Shijie. They wanted to salute Cheng Shijie, but Cheng Shijie signaled them not to salute, nor to explain to Meng En.

Meng En was not aware of the problem. He said excitedly: "Brothers, you must have heard about the series of things that happened during this period. Those damn civil servants did not hesitate to push this country down for their own selfish interests. Toward the bottomless abyss!”

The generals did not answer Meng En's words. He just continued: "For their own interests, they ordered the generals guarding the border to let go of their defenses and let the Mongolian Tatars break through. This is the case for Jingan Fort and Yanmen Pass. It was lost in this way, the Piantou Pass was lost in this way, and the Taiyuan Prefecture was lost in this way. Why do their civil servants selfishly think that this country is their private property and they can squander it wantonly, just because they have read a few shabby books. Book?"

Although Cheng Shijie was present, General Ning Haijun present was also very indignant.Because they have received too much similar information during this period, if Gansu Governor Tang Daoheng concentrates Gansu troops to confront the Jungar army in Weiwu City, of course there is nothing wrong with the confrontation in Weiwu. Run away at all times, sacrificing the main force of Gansu in the wild.

If the Gansu army refused to defend the city and let the Zhungeer army attack city by city, I am afraid that the Zhungeer army is still rushing to the state in the Hexi Corridor.

It is impossible to easily break through the Sixteenth City of Hexi and directly reach the city of Lanzhou. As for Taiyuan Town, it is even more difficult. Taiyuan Town governs three passes, 39 entrances, and [-] forts. Isn’t every pass a place that is easy to defend but difficult to attack?Which pass does not require a large number of human lives to fill it?

But the problem is, from Qiao Zhaolin to He Sui, if Cheng Shijie hadn't sent someone to patrol the Nine Sides with Qiao Zhaolin riding a wooden donkey, and frightened many half-hearted generals of the Ming army in this way, it would have been more than 3000 Lijiu. The border line is full of loopholes.

If Cheng Shijie hadn't sent Shen Mingyu to lead the Ning Navy to patrol the Nine Frontiers in time, the Nine Frontiers would have collapsed long ago.

"This general doesn't want to go on like this anymore, I've had enough, this damn civil servant!"

Meng En raised his arms and shouted: "We want to be in charge of our own destiny. We have an opportunity now. This opportunity allows you to show your strengths, fight side by side with countless heroes who are as brave and skilled as you, and open up new territories. You don’t have to worry about the master of meritorious deeds, you don’t have to worry about being restrained by civil servants, and you don’t have to worry about your clan being exterminated for an unwarranted crime after you die, are you willing to seize it?”

One general, Li Junhu, said: "This...how is this possible? Even the Han and Tang Dynasties couldn't do it!"

Two lightning-like flashes burst out of Meng En's eyes, and he said in a deep voice, "Now we have an opportunity. We can do better than the soldiers in the Han and Tang Dynasties. It depends on whether you dare to seize it!"

Li Junhu gritted his teeth and said, "I'm not being mean, I like to be kneaded repeatedly like dough!"

"If there is such an opportunity, I will definitely seize it!"

"I'm not afraid of death, I'm just afraid that they will settle accounts with us!"

"I can't sleep well!"

Hearing this, Cheng Shijie already understood what Meng En wanted to do, and he angrily said, "Aren't you afraid of killing the Nine Clans?"

"Hmph, I'm just a wife, I don't even have a son, but I can't gather nine clans to let them kill..."

Speaking of this, he heard Cheng Shijie's voice, and then realized: "Master!"

Cheng Shijie stared at Meng En and said, "Shut up!"

Meng En was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat.

Cheng Shijie heard Meng En's meaning and knew what Meng En wanted to do, but the problem was that he really didn't have the time now, because Cheng Shijie knew that these civil servants still controlled public opinion, and ordinary people didn't have the ability to distinguish right from wrong. They believe what the scholar-bureaucrats say. This is the inertia of cognition.

What Cheng Shijie was really afraid of was that once he broke up with the imperial court, the imperial court would not hesitate to let go of the beast in the cage in order to deal with Cheng Shijie, a traitor.

Are the scholar-bureaucrats of Ming Dynasty powerful?Yes, and this power is not small. They hold a large amount of land and also have a large number of tenants. Once the ban on the landlord regiment training military generals is lifted, in the current Ming Dynasty, the landlord's tenants will be loyal to the court and will do whatever it takes to fight with the court. Ning Haijun fought bloody.

At that time, Ning Haijun was the real enemy of the whole world, unless Cheng Shijie could directly wipe out the nearly 9000 million population of Ming Dynasty like the Qing Dynasty.According to the "Chinese Population History" compiled by Ge Jianxiong, after the Qing army entered the customs, the population of the whole of China decreased by about [-] million, that is to say, nearly [-] million people lost their lives in this catastrophe of dynasty replacement.

According to statistics, the population of the Ming Dynasty was nearly [-] million during the Wanli period. Why did the population of the Ming Dynasty increase significantly compared with the previous feudal dynasties?In addition to the long period of peace and not much fighting, the sweet potato and other crops introduced from South America during the Ming Dynasty also played a very important role. These crops have a high yield and are very suitable for growing on Chinese land, feeding a large number of people. .Therefore, the population of the Ming Dynasty increased significantly compared to the previous feudal dynasties.Although the previous feudal dynasties also had times of peace and prosperity, they still did not have a scale of nearly [-] million people.

According to statistics during the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, the number of people in the country was only 1000 million. Even if a family has six people, it is only 6000 million.The loss of more than 1 million people is not insignificant.

But, how can Cheng Shijie do it?
Would you really like to learn that the Manchus killed mountains of corpses and seas of blood, with white bones exposed in the wild, thousands of miles of bare ground, and vast lakes and rivers filled with rivers?

Cheng Shijie really didn't have such a cruel heart, and he didn't want to kill so many people. To solve this problem, what he needed was to break the ideological system established by Confucianism.

Among the five relationships, the natural relationship among family members accounts for most of it, and the relationship between monarch and ministers and friends is in essence an extension of the relationship between father and son and brothers.Among them, father and son represent all vertical relationships, brothers represent horizontal relationships, and husband and wife represent the relationship between the sexes.The traditional Chinese family takes the father-son relationship as the main axis rather than the husband-wife relationship. Chinese culture is developed and formed based on this family relationship of the father-son axis.

From the family country to the world, the family is the main axis first, the small family develops into a family, and the family develops into a clan. A clan is a small country, and a clan in Europe is the size of a country.Now when Cheng Shijie was actually in Liaodong, he was already corroding this system. He originally wanted to moisten things and solve this ideological system silently.

In Liaodong, the land, homesteads, including taxation, are never allocated according to the head, but according to the household registration. No matter whether the family has nine members or more than a dozen, the number of homesteads allocated is the same. In this way, It forced those big families to separate.

If you want a homestead and arable land, then divide the family and control the number of household registrations within a family of three to five. Just like the Tweet Order, as long as you become the head of the household, the family will be dispersed, and for the sake of profit, the local government cannot do it. A huge power like a clan, without the land to maintain this clan power, the Confucianism will collapse.

In particular, women are allowed to work, women earn money, and control the economy, which means controlling the right to speak in the family. Reversing the feudal ideology of more than 2000 years cannot be accomplished overnight.

In addition to this point, there is also the need to destroy the authority of Confucianism, just as Jianu used one victory after another to establish the myth and authority of "Jurchen is not enough to be ten thousand and invincible", Cheng Shijie used wild land in Baliwan The way of building slaves broke the myth of Jiannu, and Jiannu began to decline.

Of course, Cheng Shijie has more to do. He has already put forward the theory of "pot cover", explaining the causes of rain, weather and drought in the most superficial way, breaking the so-called "interaction between heaven and man" in Confucianism. Now the weather in Xiaobinghe , can just break the Confucianism's interaction between heaven and man.

When Confucianism can no longer be used, their authority and prestige will disappear. At that time, if they think about it, they will not have so many followers.

But the problem is that now Meng En has exposed this problem and put it directly on the surface. In this way, Cheng Shijie must unify the thinking of the Ning Haijun group so as to achieve the long-term strategic goal.

Cheng Shijie coughed, summoned all the soldiers of the army, and held a meeting immediately.

The problem is on the bright side. In fact, it is not a bad thing for Cheng Shijie. The truth becomes clearer and clearer. Some things must be faced head-on.

The soldiers of the Ning Navy stood in line in the cold wind. Following the officer's order to stand at attention, more than [-] soldiers of the Ning Navy stood upright, looking like a straight line anyway.

When Cheng Shijie stepped onto the platform, all the soldiers said in unison: "Greetings, Commander!"

"Take a break!"

Cheng Shijie took the microphone and used the speaker to transmit his voice to the ears of every Ning Haijun officer.

"Everyone, too many things have happened during this period of time, and you have also experienced a lot of things. I don't want to tell you any great truths. You don't understand. What I want to ask you is, what is your original intention?" ? Do you remember? What is the duty of a soldier?"

Cheng Shijie's voice made all Ning Navy officers and men start thinking.

"What is the original intention?"

"What are your responsibilities?"

When Cheng Shijie changed his statement, the Ning navy officers and men shouted: "The duty of a soldier is to fight. The Ning Navy officers and men only do two things, fighting and preparing for war."

"So you still remember, is this your original intention now?"

Cheng Shijie continued: "A soldier has only one duty, and that is to fight to the end. There is only fighting. Only by using the flesh and blood of us iron-blooded men to block the iron hooves of the slaves and Tartars. Only by using the belief and will of us warriors to build a line of flesh and blood The Great Wall, only if we use our swords and guns to stop the Jiannu, stop those Jiannu and Tartars who wantonly kill our relatives, only stop those beasts, can we protect our wives, daughters and sisters from being raped, and protect our property. Only in this way can we protect our homes, protect our houses, and protect our everything!"

Cheng Shijie's words caused everyone present to think deeply.

One of the things Ning Marines are very proud of is that they have dignity.

The other Ming soldiers were shunned by the common people like snakes and scorpions, like flood beasts, no matter where they went, they were despised everywhere, why did they encounter countless unfair treatment?

Why did they suffer so much staring and neglect?
The answer is that they are not soldiers, they are not qualified soldiers, and they have not fulfilled their obligations as soldiers.

Cheng Shijie didn't mention Meng En's name, nor did he mention Zhou Ning, but in fact the two of them were blushing with shame, because they remembered now that they had forgotten their original intentions and their responsibilities.

Cheng Shijie continued: "Zhao Wencai is still in Lanzhou, using their flesh and blood to stop the Mongols in Jungar, and Shen Mingyu is still in Yanmen Pass to stop the Mongolian Tatars. They are still doing their jobs. What about you? You are worthy of what you are doing. Military uniform?”

However, at this time, Meng En held his head and said: "Report, I will have something to say!"

"speak!"

"In just two months, hundreds of thousands of civilians, tens of thousands of soldiers, tens of thousands of lives, and countless outstanding officers and generals were buried in this way! And it was just a ridiculous idea that killed them. It is also a stumbling block for the commander, the selfish desires of a small group of people!"

Meng En knelt in front of Cheng Shijie: "Commander, even if you want to kill my head, wait until I finish speaking!"

Cheng Shijie opened his mouth, wanting to refute, but he didn't know how to refute.It can be seen that those civil servants have dealt too much blow to the officers and men of the Ning navy.

Meng En looked disappointed and said: "Now the Mongols and the Junggars have invaded one after another, there is turmoil in the south of the Yangtze River, and the flames of war are raging in the northwest. The direction is advancing at the same time, and Jiannu can't breathe! It's just someone's muddled idea, and these advantages that have been exchanged for the blood of countless soldiers have been ruined."

Speaking of this, Meng En became excited and said loudly: "This time, there is still the commander-in-chief who stepped forward to turn the tide. What about next time? If someone makes such absurd decision next time, and someone wants to do it for selfish gain Pushing the entire country into the abyss of destruction, commander, can you guarantee that there will be someone like you who will stand up and prop up this fallen sky?"

Cheng Shijie continued: "As long as I don't die, I will stand up!"

"Commander, you know how, but the problem is, their lives are lives, and the lives of our brothers in the Navy are not lives? In order to wipe the butts of those sons of bitches, we lost 1000 lives in Jingan Fort. There are many people, more than 2000 people were killed in Pingding Prefecture, and among the more than [-] brothers in Lanzhou, I don’t know how many of them can come back alive!”

Cheng Shijie frowned even tighter: "What exactly do you want to say?"

Meng En yelled: "I've had enough, why are they so superior? Look down on all living beings, how can they decide the fate of thousands of people with a single sentence, why do they, knowing that doing so is wrong, in order to show their strength Majesty wants to do it, even if it means sacrificing millions of lives!"

(End of this chapter)