This Qing is wrong

Chapter 211 Attacking the heart is the top, attacking the city is the bottom

In the city of Kabul, Emperor Kangxi was feasting his ministers and the chiefs of various ministries in Afghanistan who had just been brought under his command.

The battle to win the Afghan region was as predicted by Emperor Kangxi, and it was so simple that it was beyond imagination.

Because the number of Mughal Empire troops in Afghanistan was only [-], the governor Amir Khan sent by the Mughal Empire was able to control Afghanistan, mainly relying not on military suppression, but on silver coin offensives.

The Indian subcontinent is really too rich, because the untouchables under the caste system are a group of low-cost labor force, which leads to the wealth that the ruling class on the Indian subcontinent can earn more than the Han land in East Asia!
Because the Han dynasty in the East Asian continent still needs to share the benefits with the local gentry and wealthy families, and they cannot let the people at the bottom go hungry, otherwise the world will be rebellious!
Who said that in the history of the Han land in the East Asian continent, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang came out, shouting out the famous saying "the princes and generals are better than each other"?

Since that sentence was handed down, the people at the bottom and the gentry and aristocrats no longer have much awe of imperial power, and everyone generally agrees.

Being an emperor is not based on blood, but a man with a strong army... Oh no, it is a man with abundant martial virtues who gets it!
This made the East Asian dynasties dare not oppress the grassroots to death.

On the other hand, in the Indian subcontinent, unless foreign enemies invaded, the untouchables at the bottom would be as safe and secure as possible, and there was no market for rebellion at all. Even if there were so-called uprisings, those of high caste were often the ones who took the lead.

Many uprisings were essentially religious wars.

Of course, the fighting power of the Tubang kingdom on the Indian subcontinent is too weak, which has a lot to do with the untouchables in the Indian subcontinent choosing to lie down.

In the eyes of Indian untouchables, dynastic change is a matter for high-caste figures, and they are not qualified to participate.

Enduring hardships and cultivating the next life is the most important thing!
Naturally, it is almost impossible for the Indian army, which has little combat effectiveness, to suppress the Afghan people who are strong and rule the people and believe in Tianfang religion for a long time.

Therefore, the Mughal dynasty could only use silver coins to attack.

There is only one reason for the sturdy folk customs in Afghanistan-the capitalized poor characters!

A bunch of poor people can naturally be bought with money.

Moreover, Afghanistan is mountainous, with many tribal chiefs and feuds with each other. Aamir Khan started the war behind the scenes while sprinkling silver coins. The tribal chiefs in Afghanistan had no time to think about resisting the Mughal Dynasty.

Until Emperor Kangxi came with the Eight Banners army!
The chiefs in Afghanistan have always had a common goal - to print.

The reason is simple - India is so rich!
Originally, they did not have a unified boss, no one would obey anyone, and there was a rich and bad governor, Amir Khan, so the chiefs in Afghanistan naturally did not dare to expect extravagant printing business.

But now Emperor Kangxi, who looks like a Mongolian face, has come (For foreigners who have never seen Orientals, all Asian Asians of yellow race are regarded as Mongolians), easily beat Amir Khan away, Amir Khan The Indian army under his command was even powerless to fight back, and the chiefs from all over Afghanistan naturally rushed over happily and planned to make a fortune.

Emperor Kangxi was also magnanimous, and he was the one who least disliked the large number of cannon fodder.

To put it bluntly in war, doesn't it depend on who is more powerful?

As long as the number is large enough, even if you can't win the first battle, you can still play a war of attrition.

At the beginning, Daqing was beaten away by the demon Taoist Li Changqing, isn't it because the demon Taoist wars are endless?
What's more, Emperor Kangxi had already learned from the natives of Afghanistan that the combat effectiveness of these Afghan tribesmen is still very strong. As long as they are equipped with good equipment, their will to rob... oh no, they have a very active sense of war!
The army that actively demands war and the army that passively copes with war are two extremes, and Emperor Kangxi is very aware of the gap.

When the Qing army faced the Tang army, it was beaten like a broken bamboo. To put it bluntly, the Qing army's will to fight disappeared.

Even those who fled after seeing the enemy became Shangyong!
It just so happened that these Afghan people were also followers of the Tianfang religion. Emperor Kangxi directly expanded the organization back to the Eight Banners, and included the Afghan armed people who took the initiative to seek refuge and wanted to follow the printing into the Eight Banners.

The tribal chiefs in Afghanistan are the co-leaders, participating leaders and even the deputy capital commanders of the tribes under their command.

How much official position you can get depends on how many capable men you can bring.

When he was in Central Asia, Emperor Kangxi reorganized and returned to the Eight Banners according to this routine. Except that senior generals such as Dutong were from Emperor Kangxi’s own people, that is, they were born in the Eight Banners. The incoming troops are calculated and do not interfere with each other.

Therefore, the Hui Eight Banners seem to have the same organizational system as the Mongolian Eight Banners, the Han Eight Banners, and the Manchu Eight Banners, but in fact the Hui Eight Banners are a very loose military structure.

Now that Emperor Kangxi went south, he placed all the family members of the original Eight Banners army in the Samarkand area, and left nearly half of the Eight Banners army guarding them, bringing pure troops.

The full eight banners are not counted here, because Emperor Kangxi has always used the full eight banners as a supervising team.

The combat effectiveness of the Han Eight Banners is slightly higher than that of the Mongolian Eight Banners, but the proportion of cavalry in the Han Eight Banners is relatively low, and the use of fighting in the plains is not as good as that of the Mongolian Eight Banners.

However, the fighting power of the Han Eight Banners and the Mongolian Eight Banners is higher than that of the Hui Eight Banners.

It is because the organization of returning to the Eight Banners is too scattered.

In addition, the Hui Eight Banners do not have their own coated slaves, while the Manchu Eight Banners, the Han Eight Banners, and the Mongolian Eight Banners all have coated slaves. The family is the unit, and the source of the coated slaves is the Qing Dynasty that ravaged Central Asia. captured captives.

However, most of the coat-coating slaves were left in Samarkand, where they were watched by the Eight Banners' families and helped them cultivate the land.

This time in the Afghan region, Emperor Kangxi captured many Indian prisoners and sent them to Samarkand one after another to enrich the team of coated slaves.

During Emperor Kangxi's war of conquest, the class of the Eight Banners uncle was gradually restored.

And because the Han, Mongols, and Manchus have all been reduced to minority groups, the barriers between them are gradually shrinking. There are also elements of Emperor Kangxi's win over the Hans and Mongols.

On the contrary, it is back to the Eight Banners, which is a bit like the political status of the Han Eight Banners when the Qing Dynasty was still in East Asia.

Regardless of the fact that the Qing Dynasty now directly controls only Samarkand and the surrounding areas of Kabul, the Qing Dynasty's sphere of influence has expanded to the east coast of the Caspian Sea!
Back to the Eight Banners, there are many Uzbeks and Turkmens, as well as a small number of Persians.

It's just that within the sphere of influence of the Qing Dynasty, it mainly relied on the enfeoffment system, which did not completely break the original political situation in Central Asia.

This is related to the surrender of local traditional forces in Central Asia too quickly.

Local forces in Central Asia surrendered to Emperor Kangxi not only because of the strength of the Qing army, but more importantly because Emperor Kangxi planned to take everyone south to print.

Who in Central Asia doesn't know that printing is a profitable business!
If it weren't for the fact that the Mughal dynasty was in its heyday and blocked the way for everyone to print, the bandits in Central Asia would have gone south long ago.

The Afghan region is the northern gateway of the Mughal Empire. After taking the Afghan region, the barrier of the Mughal Dynasty was opened, and the next step is to enter the hinterland of northern India!

The fall of Kabul also let the military commanders in northern India know about the powerful enemy of the Qing Dynasty.

Aamir Khan lost so badly, it's hard for everyone to know...

The Mughal dynasty also had a system of enfeoffment. The ancestors of Aurangzeb of the Mughal Empire also came from Central Asia, and naturally inherited the tradition of enfeoffment in Central Asia.

In fact, in the countries of the world in this era, feudalism is the mainstream, and there are not many countries with centralized power.

To put it bluntly, the feudal era is the era of enfeoffment. In this era, communication and transportation are too backward. If a country wants to expand its territory, it is difficult to establish direct rule in areas far away from the political center, so enfeoffment is the most cost-effective means of governance.

As long as the central government maintains its military superiority at the crushing level, the feudal officials who are enfeoffed will generally not rebel.

The reason why the Central Plains dynasty in East Asia disliked the enfeoffment system was mainly because the Tang Dynasty left behind a negative teaching material.

The enfeoffment system of Jiedu envoys in the Tang Dynasty left too bad a bitter fruit, causing subsequent dynasties to have a soft spot for establishing the rule of the central government directly under the central government, and would rather spend huge costs to establish the rule of the officials.

When the cost cannot be paid, it is better not to continue to expand externally than to adopt the enfeoffment system.

The Ming Dynasty is a typical example.

Zhu Yuanzhang listed so many countries that will not be conquered, not because of benevolence, righteousness and morality, but because Zhu Yuanzhang knew that if he continued to expand, it would be difficult for the court to pay the high cost of ruling officials. ' Positive image.

The expansion of the Ming Dynasty did not stop actively, but was forced to stop.

At the same time, other world powers had such a large territory, but their national power may not be comparable to that of the Ming Dynasty. The reason is that other powers adopted the enfeoffment system.

Needless to say in Europe, it was not until the era of Louis XIV that countries began to establish centralization.

The Ottoman Empire was so big that it was actually a combination of the governorship system and the enfeoffment system. This is why the Ottoman Empire's army was characterized by large numbers and poor quality.

The enfeoffment system destined the Ottoman Empire to be unable to maintain a large central elite, and could only summon the armies of feudal lords from all over the place.

However, the quality of the feudal lord's army is uneven, and the organization is not high. If they are forced to gather, the quality is naturally worrying.

Even so, the Ottoman Empire had almost no power to fight back in European countries.

Therefore, the feudal system is more appropriate in special periods.

This is why Emperor Kangxi was not obsessed with establishing a central government directly under the central government.

Emperor Kangxi knew very well that he now has hundreds of thousands of troops, which seems extremely powerful, but this is based on the premise that the local rule does not share much troops.

Once he wants to establish the rule of officials, he will inevitably turn his face against those local real power factions in Central Asia.

First of all, returning to the Eight Banners will lead to disintegration, and even turn the spearhead to become the enemy of the Qing Dynasty.

At that time, Emperor Kangxi, not to mention going south to print, can bulldoze the local snakes in Central Asia, and he doesn't know how much military power he will consume.

Even if it is flattened, because of the relationship between different beliefs and alien invasion, I don't know how many years of security wars will be fought!
Just like when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Han land, it took decades from entering the customs and occupying the capital to obtaining all the Han land!

Emperor Kangxi didn't want to spend decades in Central Asia.

Even if he can win, these hundreds of thousands of troops can't afford it!
The current finance of the Qing Dynasty has always been sitting on the mountain, and the main thing that unites the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty is the belief in invincibility.

In addition to feeding the Eight Banners army, Emperor Kangxi could hardly pay extra military pay. If soldiers want to make money, they can only get it on the battlefield.

This is also the reason why when Emperor Kangxi first entered Central Asia, there was no grass growing in the places he passed. What Emperor Kangxi did was to boost the morale of the Eight Banners of the Qing army.

The current printing is the place where Emperor Kangxi sought a foundation that could truly support hundreds of thousands of troops.

After Emperor Kangxi entered Central Asia, he knew that even if he swallowed the Persian Empire, he would not be able to support hundreds of thousands of Eight Banners troops.

It is not yet known whether there will be strong enemies further west.

It's better to go south to fight India, which is said to be rich and weak.

Facts have proved that Emperor Kangxi's decision is extremely correct!
At the celebration banquet, Emperor Kangxi gave a shot of chicken blood to many chiefs who had returned to the Eight Banners, and then retreated to the hut behind the scenes to discuss the issue of printing with scholars who were familiar with India.

Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you be invincible in a hundred battles!

"Your Majesty, Aurangzeb did not actually unify the whole of India.

Many trading towns near the sea in southern India are controlled by foreigners from the West. Even in the interior of southern India, there are large and small Indian kingdoms scattered. They even united to form a Maratha alliance. Together against Aurangzeb's invasion.

Aurangzeb has been fighting the Deccan Plateau and the Maratha Alliance armies for these years.

Although the Mughal dynasty was rich, its expenditure on military expenditure was huge.

However, Aurangzeb is diligent and frugal in his private life. He is a devout Tianfang believer, and his own food and clothing, as well as the food and clothing of those around him, all uphold the tradition of thrift.

Palace expenses can be saved if possible, and the entire officialdom of the Mughal Dynasty has been tossed by Aurangzeb into a thrifty look.

Because of this, even the officials of the Tianfang religion in the Mughal dynasty were not very satisfied with Aurangzeb's rule.

He not only saves himself, but also asks everyone to save with him!
In addition to frugality, Aurangzeb also believes that only Tianfang religion can exist in this world, and the persecution of other religions is very serious, and has been collecting poll taxes from heretics.

This made the territory of the Mughal Empire have always had Hindu and Sikh rebels.

If it weren't for Aurangzeb's real ability to fight, his Mughal Empire would have fallen apart amid internal and external troubles. "

After hearing this, Emperor Kangxi nodded slightly and said, "You mean, to defeat the Mughal Empire, we must focus on attacking the heart and attacking the city as the bottom."

The Indian scholar's face was full of smiles, and he felt that the Mongolian emperor was really a wise lord, and he understood the underlying logic of conquering India in a few simple words!

(End of this chapter)