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Not only because they are unwilling to pay taxes, but also because if they don’t study the new business for a while, they don’t know how to collect taxes, pay taxes and evade taxes correctly...they won’t be able to do it!
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Xuzhou, Yunlong Mountain, Xinghua Temple, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty is here.
"Your majesty, I dare to use the head of the item to guarantee that Zhu San and his son are really rotten. After they entered Jiangning and before they entered Jiangning, they were different people! When I was doing hard work in Ming Xiaoling, I heard that Zhu Before the three fathers and sons entered Jiangning, they really shared weal and woe with the people below. Although they each had a few fake princesses, they were not too lecherous. But after returning to Jiangning, the two fathers and sons completely stopped pretending... "
Kneeling in front of Emperor Kangxi, weeping and narrating all kinds of corrupt deeds of Zhu Heqi and Zhu Tianwang after they entered Nanjing, it was the one who left the battlefield with his legacy when Sun Sike committed suicide Yue Shenglong.
After Yue Shenglong rushed into the woods that day, he first found a place to hide Sun Sike's secret book, and then went down the mountain to surrender to the Ming army.
He thought that he would get ten taels of silver as travel expenses immediately after surrendering, but he was told to "work for atonement" and to clean up the Xiaoling Mausoleum first, and then repair it to the best of his ability before he could be released.
Yue Shenglong had no choice but to bite the bullet and work hard.However, working as a coolie in Xiaoling also has its advantages. He easily retrieved Sun Sike's legacy that he had hidden before.
After two or three months of hard work, he finally received ten taels of silver before the twelfth lunar month of the 13th year of Kangxi, and was sent to Guabu Town, which had been controlled by the Ming army on the north bank of the Yangtze River, for release.
After leaving Guabu Town, Yue Shenglong immediately went to Yangzhou, which was still under the control of the Jiangbei Camp of the Qing Army.With Sun Sike's legacy, I found the local Qing Dynasty officials, and then was sent to Yunlong Mountain in Xuzhou, where Emperor Kangxi stayed.
After seeing Kangxi on Yunlong Mountain, Kang Mazi didn't read Sun Sike's legacy immediately, but asked about the situation in Nanjing, and what father and son Zhu Cijiong, Zhu Heqi were busy with?
Of course Yue Shenglong knew everything...Although he has been doing coolies in Ming Xiaoling Tomb.But because he can read and write, he can speak Mandarin that anyone can understand, and he treats people well.
So he was often sent to receive counselors who came to visit Xiaoling—from the conversations of these people, Yue Shenglong heard many rumors about the decay of Zhu Cijiong, Zhu Heqi and his son.
What a palace!What draft girl!The most exaggerated thing is that there is news that Zhu and Qi are still playing weaving...
"What? Weaving?" Emperor Kangxi was stunned, "What's so interesting about weaving? And he's a big man... playing weaving?"
This scene is really unimaginable!
Zhu Heqi, a big bearded man, is now sitting in front of the spinning machine "chirping and chirping"?
"Your Majesty, maybe Zhu and Qi are hiding their strengths and biding their time?" Xiong Cilu, Minister of the Southern Study, knelt down and said, "When Liu Bei was trapped at Cao Mengde's place, he planted vegetables."
"Can growing vegetables be the same as weaving?" Kangxi said, "If Liu Bei comes to 'chirp chirp chirp chirp, the emperor's uncle will weave at home', Guan Yu and Zhang Fei will have to go to Mingzhu!"
Then, Kangxi asked Zhou Peigong, who was walking in the South Study Room nearby, "Peigong, what do you think?"
Zhou Peigong hurriedly knelt down, "Your Majesty, I think that Zhu Heqi is debauched with the Weaver Girls... Their Zhu family often produces some absurd lords. Compared with them, the father and son Zhu Cijiong and Zhu Heqi are not too big." absurd."
Kangxi nodded, noncommittal.
Zhou Peigong continued to analyze: "Your Majesty, one thing is certain about Zhu Heqi's actions... He will not make a large-scale Northern Expedition for the time being. We can concentrate on dealing with Wu Sangui's Northern Expedition army!"
"Wu Sangui's army will make a northern expedition in winter?" Kangxi asked.
Zhou Peigong said: "Has the emperor forgotten that you once threatened to dig the embankment of the Yellow River...Wu Sangui dare not pretend that you are just talking!"
Only then did Kangxi remember that he had indeed said this!
And it's not just casual talk, if Wu Sangui dared to send troops when the Yellow River was full of water and drove Kangxi into a hurry, what would Kangxi not be able to do?
Kangxi thought for a while, and said: "It's fine to fight in the Central Plains in winter...Zhu and Qi's troops are all Cantonese and Fujianese, and they can't stand the cold. Most of them won't go north, so we can have a few months to fight with them." Wu Sangui has a good fight!
As long as Wu Sangui can be defeated...there will still be half of our Qing Dynasty in this world! "
"Emperor Shengming!"
"Your Majesty, as long as we can concentrate all our efforts, Wu Sangui will definitely be defeated!"
Kangxi frowned: "But the troops on hand are still a bit thin!"
Zhou Peigong reminded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, you still have tens of thousands of troops in Beijing who have not moved!"
Chapter 437 Kang Mazi, don't shake your hands, stud!
"What? Want to mobilize soldiers from Beijing? That's the foundation of my Qing Dynasty!"
When Emperor Kangxi heard that Beijing's soldiers were going to be mobilized, his brows were immediately knitted together, and he muttered something in a low voice.
What Kangxi said was right, the housekeepers he stayed in Beijing were the real foundation of the Qing Dynasty!
Last year, when Kangxi led the coated slave army to the south, he left a total of [-] eight banner soldiers, [-] coated slave soldiers, and [-] green battalion soldiers in Beijing, a total of [-].It doesn't look like a lot, but the twenty-five thousand and eight banner soldiers among them are all serious Manchurian soldiers!
And the total number of Manchurian males in the early years of Kangxi was just over [-]—really few!
When the Ding was judged in the 11th year of Shunzhi, the number of full-bodied males in Manchuria was only 660.In the 12th year of Kangxi, when Emperor Kangxi personally conquered it, the number did not increase much in more than ten years, that is, the number in the early [-]s.
Of course, this is the number of regular bannermen, excluding the coat-coated slaves, account-opening banner slaves (that is, the banner slaves who can set up another household under the banner), and the other bannermen (that is, the slaves who have mixed into the Eight Banners team). Excluding the Eight Banners Mongolia and the Eight Banners Han Army, they belong to the core backbone of the Eight Banners team.
In other words, Emperor Kangxi only took half of the Eight Banners to fight against Wu Sangui, Zhu Heqi, and left the other half in Beijing to watch the house.
But he didn't do it all because he was worried that his old home in Beijing would be taken out, but because the Eight Banners Manchurians who were able to take out to fight at that time were only [-] people, and the rest were really unable to take them.
So Kangxi left all the Eight Banners soldiers who were "unable to move" in Beijing, and Chang Ning, Suo'etu, Kabra and others urged them to train strictly.
At the same time, Kangxi also ordered Chang Ning and others to "strictly examine" another bannerman in order to increase the number of Manchurian bannermen.
After more than a year of "censorship", the number of people who stayed in Beijing as a flag has increased by another seven or eight thousand.Now it has reached more than 3 people, and after the age of [-] were absorbed into the coated slave army and some new slaves, the total number reached [-].
These 4 people were reorganized by Chang Ning, Suo'etu and others according to the model of the Eight Banners New Army, and they were organized into eight Eight Banners New Army Gushan (one for each banner).
And these eight solid mountains are the foundation of the Qing Dynasty!
Even if all the Eight Banners new troops brought by Kangxi are wiped out, as long as the eight Eight Banners new troops Gushan is still there, the Qing Dynasty will be able to withdraw from Shanhaiguan, and Emperor Kangxi may still be a Qing Shun Emperor... With the Qing Shun Emperor, It's better than nothing, right?
Emperor Kangxi, who had suffered consecutive defeats, was no longer as vigorous as he was more than a year ago, and when it was time for him to bet on stud, his hands were shaking a little...
"Your Majesty," at this time someone knelt down for Kangxi again. It turned out to be Kang Mazi's uncle, Prince An, Yue Le. Now! Now that the Qinling Mountains are covered by heavy snow, the rebels in Hanzhong can’t attack at all, and our people can’t go south. Those four Gushan can just be transferred to Henan. Moreover, the soldiers of these four Gushan are near Xi’an. Henan is not far away.
In addition to the eight new Beijing Eight Banners Army in Gushan, Henan can gather 28 new troops in Gushan, which is enough to fight Wu Ni. "
The four Gushan Mountains in Shaanxi and Gansu were adapted from the Green Battalion soldiers stationed in the Eight Banners of Xi'an and Gansu and Shaanxi provinces. They were respectively controlled by Governor Mo Luo of Shaanxi and Gansu, General Dong'e of Xi'an, Admiral Wang Jinbao of Gansu, and Admiral Zhang Yong of Shaanxi.
In addition, Moluo, Dong'e, Wang Jinbao, and Zhang Yong each had thousands of green battalion soldiers, with a total strength of no less than [-].
"Your Majesty, you still have the warriors of Guanwai Eight Banners and Butha Sacrificial Eight Banners available!"
Ba Hai also knelt down to Kangxi, "Now there are [-] soldiers in the Eight Banners outside the Guanwai, and thousands of soldiers in the Eight Banners in Butha!
When training the new Eight Banners at the beginning of the year, General Fengtian and General Ningguta also got the order to train their troops... They have now based on the Eight Banners outside the Guanwai and the Eight Banners Butha Dashou, and have each trained a new army in Gushan. Can be transferred into customs. "
Kangxi counted with his fingers. There are sixteen Gushan mobile troops around him. He can mobilize another 15 Gushan troops from Beijing and Shaanxi, and two more Gushan troops from outside the customs, making a total of [-] Gushan troops. , [-] troops!
This is a gamble for the whole country!
"Thirty solid mountains, 15 heavenly soldiers... can we win?" Emperor Kangxi's tone was full of uncertainty.
"can!"
Zhou Peigong was still full of confidence as always, "Your Majesty, in fact, Sun Sike's legacy has already given me the way to win the Qing Dynasty!"
Sun Sike's last book is not a secret book, but it is not an inscription book either. It is in between, and Zhou Peigong is qualified to read it.Moreover, Kangxi had received many relics during this period, and he was a little depressed after reading them, so he asked Xiong Cilu, Zhou Peigong, Huang Zhisheng, and Wang Shirong to help them take a look.If those Qing loyalists have any last wishes that are not too troublesome to implement, they can write a note and hand it to Kangxi.
And most of the legacy is to say goodbye and ask for some treatment.Only Sun Sike's legacy, which was brought by Yue Shenglong and placed in front of Emperor Kangxi, was an exception.
Sun Sike, a good servant of the Qing Dynasty, hadn't forgotten Kang Mazi until the last moment... So he wrote all the lessons he had learned with his life in the booklet, and asked Yue Shenglong to pass it to Kangxi.
As soon as Kangxi was reminded by Zhou Peigong, he immediately opened the blood-stained will and read it carefully.
It turns out that Sun Sike proposed to Emperor Kangxi a method of "returning the other's way to the other's body" in the legacy...he plagiarized the Ming army's flintlock tactics and trench tactics!
In addition, Sun Sike also suggested that the Qing court cast a large number of black powder grenade hammers and light general Weiyuan cannons and Hongyi small cannons that can rely on "earth trenches" to fight...
In short, it is necessary to use the "earth trench tactics" of "digging trenches at any time" as a basis to replace the original infantry formation!
I have to say, this method is quite effective!
Even if there is no flintlock gun, and there is no light general Weiyuan cannon and Hongyi small cannon, as long as the pit is dug well, plus a certain number of cavalry cover, plus the power of General Weiyuan cannon and black powder grenade hammer Firepower, there is a high probability that it can compete with Ming Jun and Zhou Jun.
"Okay!" Kangxi slammed the table, "Sun Sike is indeed a rare loyal minister of my Qing Dynasty, and also a rare talent..."
Speaking of this, his tears came down, "I actually put such a talent to death...I'm sorry Zhonglie!"
"My majesty... my condolences!"
"Your majesty... take care!"
A group of servants in Kangxi's study all knelt down, weeping and begging Kang Mazi to take care of him.
Kangxi took out a yellow handkerchief and wiped away the tears on his face, a resolute expression appeared on his thin pockmarked face, "Flintlock guns are not said to be available, but I have plenty of black powder, and cast iron hollow hammers... Order Huaibei, Henan, and Shandong provinces to immediately manufacture [-] short-handled shovels!
Pass the decree to Suo'etu, ordering him to lead the [-] New Eight Banners in Beijing to go south immediately!
Then pass the decree to Mo Luo, Dong E, Wang Jinbao, and Zhang Yong, let them immediately lead the Eight Banners new army from Shaanxi to march eastward to Henan!
Also, Bahai! "
"The slave is here!"
Kangxi said: "I ordered you to be General Fengtian, immediately go outside the customs to mobilize [-] new troops, and come to Henan to join the war as soon as possible!"
"Your servant complies with the order...Your servant will definitely bring the most elite new army outside the pass to the emperor!"
Kangxi looked stern, and his tone was deep: "Decree to the Mongolian princes in Chahar and Horqin, let them each mobilize [-] Mongolian cavalry to Zhangjiakou and Shanhaiguan to listen to!
This time, I will gather 25 elite soldiers from Manchuria and Mongolia, and use Sun Sike's method to fight Wu Sangui to the death! "
Kangxi is really stud this time!
Not only did the best soldiers from Manchuria come out, but even the Mongols outside the Great Wall mobilized as much as possible, and a total of 20 troops were assembled!
If this battle is overwhelmed, then the only option is to go to Meishan...
Thinking of this, Kangxi added another sentence: "Decree to the whole army, this battle, I will go to the front line in person, and share life and death with my soldiers of the Eight Banners!"
Chapter 438 Wu Sangui, as long as Beijing City!
The city of Jiangling is covered in ice and snow, and covered in plain silver makeup.
It was really cold during the Little Ice Age!Even Jiangling, Hubei, which is located on the bank of the Yangtze River, had a heavy snowstorm in the past few days, and the temperature dropped below freezing point.Even the surging Yangtze River has a large area of floating ice... It looks like it is about to freeze!
With this temperature, let alone Zhu Heqi, who was used to the warm climate, and his soldiers from Guangdong and Fujian couldn’t stand it, so they had to spend the winter along the Yangtze River. It's freezing enough.
He has lived in Kunming, where the winter is warm and the summer is cool, for these years, and he is used to warm winters. In addition, he is old and lacks yang energy. After winter, if he didn't pay attention, it was just a cold, and he coughed for half a month. It didn't get any better until these two days.
However, after Wu Sangui recovered from his illness, he didn't dare to show off his bravery anymore. He didn't even dare to go outdoors today to see off the generals Wu Yingqi, Wu Shicong, Wu Guogui, Ma Bao, Wang Pingfan, Gao Dejie, Liu Xuanchu, etc. who went to the Northern Expedition. There are two tables in a warm lobby in the presidential palace.
Now that the banquet is over, President Wu is sitting on a "presidential chair", giving face-to-face instructions to a few generals who are about to lead an army of [-] to the Northern Expedition!
His eldest son Wu Yingxiong, his son-in-law Guo Zhuangtu, and his confidants Fang Guangchen and Wan Sitong were on the sidelines. It was a scene of harmony and unity.
"Ying Qi, Guogui, Shi Cong..." Wu Sangui looked at the commander, deputy commander and vanguard general of the Northern Expedition, and said solemnly, "Remember the three of you...I only want the city of Beijing!
Only Beijing!You don't care about anything, you don't divide your troops, don't defend the city, let alone attack the enemy's strong city, just fight all the way to Beijing.
Unless the main force of the Qing Dynasty comes to seek death by itself, then ignore it.For the city where the Qing soldiers were stationed, just go around.The cities captured along the way do not need to be guarded separately, they can be handed over to local tyrants or officials who have taken refuge in us. "
"Father, with such a style of play, isn't the back road too empty? Will the Nanjing side..." Wu Yingqi didn't understand his father's "strategic thinking", so he asked.
"What can the one in Nanjing do?" Wu Sangui twirled his beard and looked at Wu Yingqi with a smile, "Yingqi, should you know what happened at the advisory meeting held by Zhu San and his son in Nanjing?"
"Nanjing Council?" Wu Yingqi was stunned, as if he had heard of it, but he didn't know what it was for?
Wu Sangui shook his head, this son can fight, but he really doesn't know anything about politics, and he is not interested... He was also present when Wan Sida reported this matter yesterday, but now it looks like heard nothing.
"Boss," Wu Sangui glanced at Wu Yingxiong, the boss, "tell me!"
Wu Yingxiong said with a smile: "Zhu Hechi announced at the Nanjing Advisory Council that they would share the land in the three provinces of Nanzhili, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang. They also announced that they would gradually abolish the imperial examinations and replace them with schools. They also announced that they would gradually strengthen the collection of commercial taxes."
"Is there anything wrong with this?" Wu Yingqi thought for a while, "Aside from abolishing the imperial examinations, we are also doing things like land equalization and business tax collection!"
Wu Yingxiong said with a smile: "It is true that we are in the average land, but our average land does not harm the interests of the landlord...at least on the surface. As for the commercial tax, of course we have to collect it, but we collect it very crudely. There are many people who can be exempted.”
Wu Zhou held a deserted Sichuan in his hand, so of course he didn’t need to cut off the land from the landlords… Although the tenants were converted into self-cultivated farmers, the land from the landlords couldn’t be rented out, so they had to grow them by themselves.
But the land is still there after all!
As long as you have more sons, they will come in handy in the future.
However, in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi under the rule of Zhu Heqi, although the per capita arable land area is not small, there are eight mu if not ten mu, which is the level of rich peasants per household-a family of five is allocated [-] mu of paddy fields Absolutely very happy!But after all, there is no large unowned vacant land to allocate.Therefore, the average land in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi must be an average stock, and many big landlords will inevitably lose their land!
In addition, the industry and commerce of the territory under Wu Zhou's rule are very underdeveloped!
Therefore, Wu Zhou didn't pay much attention to commercial taxation, and naturally he would not offend the literati in the territory for a little commercial taxation.
Wu Yingxiong went on to say: "However, Zhu Hexi's most offensive move this time is to gradually abolish the imperial examinations! He not only wants to gradually abolish the imperial examinations, but also to open schools and provide education...to make everyone have books, Let all talented and intelligent people have the opportunity to study and make progress. This is to dig out the roots of scholar-bureaucrats!"
In fact, in the era of progressive imperial examinations, those who can really get to the step of high school Jinshi are all academic masters with particularly good brains.
However, the monopoly of land and educational resources by the scholar-official class has also prevented a large number of smart children from poor families from robbing them of rising channels.
In addition, the imperial examinations are liberal arts, and stereotyped essays are relatively easy to "study the questions", so the literati class that monopolizes land and educational resources is also easy to "solidify".