Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 367 The Ming and Qing Dynasties People's Different Feelings About War (Eighth)

There are two flowers on each table.

The death of the academician Feng Quan caused a great shock to the Manchu Qing court. A large number of Han officials who had surrendered to the Manchu Qing were outraged and strongly demanded that the murderer be severely punished. Such as massacres and the like.

In fact, the cruelty of the second devils towards their compatriots has never been inferior to that of the real devils.

The traitors in the late Ming Dynasty were the same. Many massacres in the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty were carried out by traitors in the late Ming Dynasty, such as the Three Massacres in Jiading.

The Qing court buried Feng Quan generously.

And Dorgon also slapped the table angrily, and ordered people to strictly investigate the spies in the city, but in order to take care of the emotions of Han officials, only the middle and lower levels were strictly investigated, and a deputy capital like Zhou Ze was naturally unnecessary.

On October 80th, Hong Chengchou was conferred the title to appease the southern governor, a bachelor of military affairs, and Luck Dehun was conferred the title of general who conquered the south, officially leading an army of [-] to march south to Daming.

Zhou Ze, the deputy governor of Luck Dehun's confidant, was also appointed as the admiral of Henan, and he first arrived at Weihui Mansion in Henan.

Not long after, in late November, Hong Chengchou's main force also arrived in Jixian County, Weihui Prefecture, Henan Province.

Along the way, the number of civilians who were forcibly ordered by the Qing government to transport military rations amounted to one million.

Some officers and soldiers ransacked villages directly along the road, and it was relatively easy to steal chicken and meat after eating the overlord's meal.

The entire 80 army went south like locusts crossing the border, causing mourning and grievances from Baoding Mansion to Weihui Mansion.

The Manchurian iron cavalry in the past also had the habit of soldiers and bandits of the Ming Dynasty's officers and soldiers. Maybe they thought that the country belonged to the Qing Dynasty, so there was no need to be jealous, and the commander was just a slave of the Han people, so naturally there was no need to be jealous.

Fortunately, Hong Chengchou Dorgon supported and persuaded Luck Dehun to support himself, and then killed a few Manchu soldiers and Han army leaders, and finally did not let the military discipline be too loose, making the military discipline of the 80 troops slightly It's better, at least no one was killed.

Hong Chengchou is very satisfied with this status quo. In his opinion, this can be regarded as strict military discipline.

After all, as a veteran who had led the officers and soldiers of the Ming army to fight, he knew the current situation of the officers and soldiers when they wiped out the bandits in Shaanxi.

However, what Hong Chengchou didn't know was that the guards at this time were different from the former official army. Each battalion had a special military law office, and there was even a general army law office directly to the Grand Marshal's mansion.

Every camp is hung with the heads of violators of discipline and the statues of imitation officers and soldiers who abide by discipline. Basically, those who leave the army at will without asking for instructions are dealt with as deserters and killed directly. Much discipline.

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The civilian husbands who undertake the transportation task for the Qing army are conscripted to perform corvee service, the obligation that the people of the Qing court need to fulfill due to being ruled. Therefore, once the officers and soldiers of the Qing army who supervise the food find that these civilian husbands are lazy, they can freely put them in salt water. The whips were whipped on these civilian husbands, leaving several bloodstains.

The civilian husbands naturally did not dare to resist. If they were beaten to death, they would at most be dragged out and thrown outside to dig a hole and bury them.

Now it is the area under its own rule, at least it needs to be buried.

Three years ago, it was directly violent in the wilderness.

But it doesn't mean that the people are not opposed to this war in their hearts.

After finally being stable for three years, having a wife and children who make trouble, and finally having to bear the corvee brought by the war, anyone will have complaints in their hearts.

Hong Chengchou would not have thought of these things. As an official from a traditional gentry background, even though he had excellent strategies, he would not consider the feelings of ordinary civilians.

In his mind, this is the obligation that the common people should fulfill. Although it is a little bit hard, it is also for the great cause of the Qing Dynasty's unification of the world. It is only natural for soldiers to die, the people to contribute their strength, and their own wisdom.

Of course, as a literati, Hong Chengchou would have written a few poems at most to explain the pain brought by the war to the people if he had a little conscience, such as "Poor bones by the Yongding River, still in the dream of a spring girl" or something.

But Hong Chengchou didn't do this, his mind is full of fame and career now.

Literati who denounced or even just described the cruelty of war are already considered great literati in this era, such as Du Fu.

Most of the literati in this era belong to the privileged class, so it is difficult to sympathize with the lower class.

Different from the Qing army, because of the infiltration of Zhu Youjian's military-civilian theory, the Ming army not only strictly enforced discipline, but also changed the way of using people's power, no longer expropriating people's power but mobilizing people's power.

Although only one word has been changed in the text, the meaning is quite different.

First of all, there was a fundamental change in the system. The Ming Dynasty abolished the thousands of years of corvee system, which meant that the people no longer had the obligation to pay for the violent wars between the rulers.

The war zones of Ming Dynasty can only use the power of the people at a paid price, and the governors of the war zones have to organize people to promote and appeal to the common people.

In this way, the common people know why their rulers are fighting, and they are even forced to do so, so as to gain the sympathy and support of the common people, and let the common people know that their participation in this war is beneficial to them. Adding material rewards has greatly increased the enthusiasm of the people to participate in the war.

The ferrymen on the south bank of the Yellow River have already moved their boats away, and consciously gave up farming the fields along the river, and even consciously built castles in various villages.

The Third Army of the Guards now does not need to allocate troops to undertake military food transportation. When it arrived in Kaifeng, Henan Province, the entire Kaifeng had already been transported by business groups and people from all over the country, and the food and grass that could be used for half a year was purchased by the military.

In order to earn more wages, almost all the people in Henan, Huguang, and Shandong voluntarily joined the transport army coordinated by the Ministry of War, even women, children and children.

And some ordinary people also took the initiative to undertake the task of intelligence collection and dissemination. These medicine farmers and woodcutters who visited the world were no less capable of discovering the traces of the Qing army than Jin Yiwei did not accept them at night. After all, they were all locals.

The Ming military will give cash rewards based on the intelligence value.

Now that the domestic treasury of the Ming Dynasty is full of reserves, a large amount of silver coins still needs to be put on the market, so it is not stingy at all to stimulate the economy by increasing money supply by rewarding the people with cash.

Anyway, once the war machine is turned on, there is no need to worry about the economy collapsing, and it will be adjusted after the war is over.

And in this way, before the war started, a large amount of silver was poured into Ming from the Manchu ruled area, because the Manchus did not intentionally store gold and silver like the Ming Dynasty did.

Unknowingly, the price of goods in the Manchu Qing ruled area began to rise sharply. Coupled with the massive use of people's power in the war, the price of food increased significantly, the cost of war increased, and domestic conflicts almost became more and more intensified.

After all, at the beginning of the founding of a dynasty, it was necessary to rest with the people, but now that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has begun to do so for its own great cause of unifying the world, a collapse is inevitable.

Of course, Hong Chengchou, who couldn't even notice the common people, naturally couldn't notice the changes in the economy.

He now only knows that the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River are very disgusted with Zhu Youjian's rule, and he can win this war by recruiting and adding military strikes.

(End of this chapter)