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

Chapter 447: Cossacks with bad intentions

Chapter 447

Unlike Europa, the influence of the Ming Dynasty in East Asia is not comparable to that of them. Even when the Ming Dynasty sunsets, there are still a few fans.

In fact, long before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, North Korea was forced to surrender to Jiannu. After Lu Shen of China and Yi Ding of the Central Plains, Xiaozong of North Korea even formulated an action plan that seemed feasible. For him, resisting the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty were not just slogans, but A kind of practical action. To this end, they secretly trained the army, connected with the anti-Qing people in the Central Plains, re-established good relations with Japan, and even proposed a plan to attack Northeast China under the guise of North Korea to Ming Zheng and the Japanese army.

The influence of the Ming Dynasty can be surpassed by that of the Europeans. Of course, before the Ming Dynasty had no strength, it naturally depends on how capable it is and how many things it can do. Now Cheng Shijie has full strength and power, completely defeating the Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and British. Expelled from East Asia.

However, some people care about food rather than fighting. For example, the Toungoo Dynasty blatantly invaded the Ming Dynasty with three declarations and six comforts. Annan is similar. These are two white-eyed wolves that cannot be dealt with unless they are dealt with.

Moreover, Cheng Shijie was not prepared to simply teach him a lesson, but was prepared to leave no one behind like Luzon Island.

Of course, in the densely populated Henan, Shandong, Hebei, and Sichuan, large-scale population migration is also taking place. First, Sichuan people want to occupy the space left by the Yun, Gui, and Sichuan chieftains, while Hebei, Henan, and Shandong have to fill it. The land and living space left behind after the slaves left.

Now the Dingxin Dynasty finally launched such a massive population migration project. After the situation in the three Far Eastern provinces stabilized slightly, the imperial court couldn't wait to issue a notice calling on landless farmers in Henan, Hebei, and Shanxi provinces to migrate to the Far Northeast and settle there. There is plenty of fertile land waiting for them.

Although the three Far Eastern provinces have been established, the current total population of 20 counties in the three Far Eastern provinces is less than 2000, and the average population of each county is less than 500.This small population occupies [-] million square kilometers of land, which can be said to be thousands of miles away from any human habitation.

However, the problem is that this migration is not easy. The Chinese nation has always relocated, especially farmers, who value their one-third of an acre of land more than their lifeblood, and want them to leave their hometowns and move to a completely new place. It is not easy to settle in a strange place.

But it doesn't matter. After the chieftain's army conquered Annan, it inspired Cheng Shijie that the climate in the three provinces of the Far East is indeed more bitter and cold than that of the Northeast. But the problem is that here has a greater advantage, that is, more land and more resources. Rich.

Step by step, the first step is to organize hundreds of rural bandits and prisoners of war who have not been granted amnesty in Liaodong. There are more than 600 such households in Liaodong. Together with their families, the total number is about 80. These field troops, who have no freedom of status, first moved to Trin Province and were resettled. However, their labor reform period was shortened, and the wasteland they reclaimed belonged to them, and they only needed to pay a 5.00% agricultural tax.

As for the cultivated land reclaimed in Liaodong, people from Henan, Shandong, and Hebei moved there. These settlements not only cultivated farmland, but also established complete living facilities, including houses, wells, warehouses, roads, and There are schools.

It was completely prepared in the past. After publicity and mobilization, the people of the three provinces were first allowed to see it. If they found that it was exactly as the court said, they could live a life of small landlords.

Although it is colder in Liaodong, there are fire walls, fire pits and cheap coal to burn. Although the cold wind blows outside, the room is as warm as spring. In addition, there are endless vegetables, fruits and food in the room. These conditions make Henan, Shandong, and The people in the three provinces of Hebei are very excited. After more than a year of mobilization, a total of 25 households in Henan, a total of 23 households in Shandong, and a total of 18 households in Hebei, totaling 66 households, about 300 million people are willing to move to Liaodong.

In fact, most of the more than 300 million people were resettled in the three provinces of the Far East. Of course, the court did not completely deceive them. It indeed gave them ten times the compensation. For example, the cultivated land in the Far East was based on one hundred acres per person. If there was land, they could According to the original number of acres of land multiplied by ten, for example, Zhang San originally had eight acres of land and his family of six would be allocated 680 acres of land when they arrived in the Far East.

In addition to such a large area of ​​land, additional agricultural tools, cattle, and seeds were provided. The immigrant people who found out that they had been deceived by the court came here and found that there were frighteningly many wild beasts in the Far East. They beat roe deer with sticks and scooped up fish.

In ancient times, ordinary farmers rarely had meat to eat. That is to say, when they went to a wasteland to reclaim the land, they could live a good life with meat every meal by hunting. Once the animals near the reclaimed land were almost killed, I think It will be difficult to eat meat again.

However, it can be cultivated artificially. The reason why the breeding industry was underdeveloped in ancient times was that there was not enough food for people to eat, and eating meat became a luxury product. But here in the Far East, you can eat and drink enough by just planting some land.

The imperial court did not just leave the immigrants alone in the Far East. In order to ensure their safety, it adopted the Liaodong model, using hundreds of households as fortresses and ten hundred households to build a town together.

Because the allocated land was too far away, only a small number of people lived close to the town. Most of the immigrants settled in wasteland far away from the town. They could only drive horse-drawn carriages to work in the fields and then return to live in the city after finishing their work.

Of course, it is necessary for all soldiers to be soldiers. Even children over 12 years old must receive military training and go to work in the fields with weapons and equipment.

But the problem is that even with a two-pronged approach, it is still difficult to solve the problem of serious underpopulation in the three provinces of the Far East.

When Cheng Shijie returned to Beijing from Guangdong, it was already October of the second year of reform. Thanks to the operation of the cabinet, Cheng Shijie's work was quite easy. Any resolution of the cabinet would be divided into three parts and one copy would be given to Cheng Shijie for review. Cheng Shijie was trying to show off, but there was still a lot of official business piled up.

Another copy will be given to Cheng Jialong for review. Cheng Jialong can put forward his own suggestions, but the cabinet will not give priority to his opinions for the time being. Instead, it will indicate what the prince thinks. Just like this population migration, when encountering difficulties, Cheng Jialong An opinion was put forward, the replacement method.

Even now, there are many landlords in the Ming Dynasty. Although the landlords have undergone land reform, the court did not seize the land from the landlords and distribute them equally. Instead, it purchased the land from the landlords in the form of bonds.

At the beginning, the imperial court thought of using future money to repay this debt, especially the attack on Jiangnan and the seizure of a large amount of money. The cabinet was ready to use this fund, but Cheng Shijie directly vetoed it.

Now Cheng Jialong proposed to use this bond to make a deal with the landlord to obtain ownership of the land in the Far East. Then Sun Zhiman agreed to Cheng Jialong's proposal and started to implement it.

A large number of landowners have never thought about obtaining the exchange of bonds from the imperial court. They all resorted to spending money to eliminate disasters. It is a pity that the imperial court has exchanged their bonds now.

They exchanged land from the Far East with them and created land deeds. With the title deeds for the land in the Far East, these landowners didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

However, the court mainly persuaded ordinary people, but mainly forced the landlords. First, the legitimate sons of the landlords' families were in charge of affairs, and each family had three people, and then they went to the Far East.

They set off from the sea route and first arrived in Vladivostok. After resting, they began to follow the coastline and arrived in Trin. After more than two months of wandering at sea, they finally arrived at their destination, which is also the seat of the Anton Metropolitan Governor's Office. Trin City.It was not until this time that the landowner's children and stewards discovered that the land in Trin Province was actually so fertile and had many rivers for easy irrigation.After returning from Trin Province, these landowners decided to develop Trin Province. If they did not develop the fields accumulated by their families for generations, they would be gone. In order to recruit enough labor, these landowners offered a salary of three silver coins per month, including Food and clothing, three meals a day and meat every day.

It’s true that farmers value their one-third of an acre of land, but who doesn’t want to live a better life?Soon, people signed up one after another to join the army of reclaiming wasteland. You carried the burden, and I drove the cattle, all the way north to fight for their future.

And the landlords did not disappoint them. Workers were paid in full and on time. Clothes were distributed four times a year, two sets at a time, all new, and they had meat to eat every day...

The population of Trin Province has skyrocketed rapidly.Of course, these are not things that can be solved overnight. This wave of migration will last for at least 30 to [-] years, and then it will take decades of development before the Far East and Northeast regions can become the new granary of the Ming Dynasty.

Cheng Shijie had been busy for more than half a month, and when he could relax and take a rest, Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Anbei, sent urgent military information. This military information was that the Jiannu slaves were forced to migrate to Siberia due to military oppression by the Ming Dynasty. When the Grand Governor cleared the Far East, there were still about hundreds of thousands of Far Eastern tribesmen who were forced to migrate to the northwest.

As a result, these tribes attached themselves to the slaves. Under the command of Bolo, they used long swords and spears to seize the pastures and land of the Siberian natives, compete with the Cossacks for living space, and annexed the weaker tribes to strengthen themselves...

Their arrival turned the peaceful Siberia into a turmoil, and the conflicts and fighting never stopped for a moment. However, as the fighting continued, Bolo became stronger and stronger. So far, he has a population of 30 million under his command, and at least four Fifty thousand string control cavalry.

This military situation has no beginning and no end, making the Military Department and the General Staff feel inexplicably strange.

Cheng Shijie looked at the intelligence and finally found the key to the problem from this report. Bolo faced off against the Cossacks. Although he had the upper hand temporarily, he now lacked equipment. The loss of cold weapons was actually no less than that of hot weapons. Bolo He took the initiative to contact Lu Xiangsheng, hoping that the Qing State could surrender to the Ming Dynasty and that the Qing State would guard the northern border for the Ming Dynasty for generations.

Cheng Shijie thought of a TV series from later generations, Humphreyism, which was blown to the ceiling. To put it simply, this set is actually the most common basic routine and operation of the Ming Dynasty bureaucracy.

For example, a minister writes a memorial with tens of thousands of words, and the most important words are included in one paragraph. If this paragraph or the most important words are ignored, the result will be the supervisor's responsibility for negligence. Those who deserve to be said have done their part.

Zhou Ning asked in confusion: "What does General Lu mean?"

"He wants to negotiate peace and trade with Bolo, and use Bolo's hand to continue fighting with the Cossacks. To put it simply, he is driving away wolves and devouring tigers!"

"Is it necessary to do something that can be solved with just one punch?"

Cheng Shijie nodded and said: "It is very necessary. At present, we have not established a complete post road system for the three provinces of Mobei within the Anbei Metropolitan Governor's Palace, and there is no food. The army needs a lot of food to fight, but supply has become a big problem. It’s not that Lu Xiangsheng doesn’t want to fight, we don’t have the ability to transport supplies to them now!”

Zhou Ning asked: "What does the king mean..."

"The Anbei Army must be prepared to end at any time. These Cossacks are not good-natured!"

In the original time and space, Big Goose took advantage of the Ming and Qing Dynasties to invade Sakhalin Island in just 30 to [-] years. In this time and space, it was naturally impossible for Cheng Shijie to let them get their wish.

Zhou Ning said: "Are you making a fuss out of a molehill?"

"Absolutely not!"

"Goose is a crazy and paranoid country. They are bulls. They don't look back when they hit the wall, but they want to knock it down!"

Cheng Shijie now has money in his hands. There is no use in saving this money. Only by spending it can it form economic benefits. Following Cheng Shijie's order, massive supplies, equipment, food, and ammunition began to be sent to the Anbei Metropolitan Governor's Office. delivery.

At this moment, Cheng Shijie suddenly figured out that Lu Xiangsheng should have seen that the Cossacks were evil. In fact, just as Cheng Shijie expected, Lu Xiangsheng had indeed seen that Bolo was a tough guy, a tough guy who was forced to a dead end. The general was even more difficult to deal with than the Eight Banners generals Lu Xiangsheng encountered.

But the problem is that Bolo fought very hard. He defeated a wave of Cossacks, and then another wave. Fortunately, the climate in Siberia is cold, and the time of using troops in a year is not long. But the problem is that the Cossacks have increased their troops three times, and they still have nothing to lose. There was no sign of compromise or negotiation.

This made Lu Xiangsheng worried. It is undeniable that Cheng Shijie has deployed hundreds of thousands of troops in Anbei. But the problem is that Anbei is too big. An army of hundreds of thousands is actually far from enough. If the Cossacks consume such cheap cannon fodder, After all, it's time for their elite troops to arrive.

Lu Xiangsheng actually couldn't figure out Cheng Shijie's true attitude. The land in Mobei was unimportant to all dynasties. If Cheng Shijie didn't want it, then the problem would be simple, but if he wanted it, the investment would be huge.

Even if we start from Beijing, this is a supply line of more than 3000 miles. It is too long and too dangerous.

Must be prepared early.

In fact, Lu Xiangsheng was also preparing. He started farming around Hanhai. If he could be self-sufficient in food and just transport ammunition and equipment, Lu Xiangsheng was confident that he could win this battle. Of course, the prerequisite was how long Bolo could hold on.

(End of this chapter)