Daming Military Empire

Chapter 125 The Death of Liaodong
Liaodong, the pain of Ming Dynasty;
Liaodong, the injury of Ming Dynasty;
Liaodong, the shame of Ming Dynasty;
Liaodong, shame on the Ming Dynasty!
The pain of the Ming Dynasty, the pain lies in the people of Liaodong. No matter how the Manchu Dynasty concealed the confusion, the fact is that the residents of Liaodong in later generations are almost all descendants of the people in North China during the "Crossing the Guandong" period. The aborigines in Liaodong disappeared for no reason. Yet?

When Nurhachi first entered Liaodong, his slogan was "Encourage Nikan", to eliminate the bad government of the Ming Dynasty and save the people of Liaodong. What happened?
How can there be no eggs in a full nest? Will the aggressor treat the invaded equally?The country has been occupied by the enemy, do you still want to live a stable life?Later, those who believed in him basically died.

At the very beginning, Nurhachi made some kind of "granting land by counting Ding", which seemed to be to beat local tyrants and equalize the land. As a result, he circled more than half of the good land in Liaodong and awarded it to the children of the Eight Banners.The rest is "Granting Land by Counting Ding", and you have to pay taxes, do hard labor, pay free labor to plant the imperial land, and draw people to fight wars, which is more ruthless than the Ming Dynasty!

If that's all, it's fine. No matter how hard and tired the people are, at least they can survive. However, when the nature of the invaders is exposed, their doomsday will come.

The rulers of the late Jin Dynasty, Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, are both known for their ferocity and cruelty in the annals of history. There are many reasons for their killing:

Under the oppression of their tyrannical government, there are always Liao people who rise up to resist. To the rebels, their approach is usually "the city gate catches fire, which will bring disaster to the fish in the pond". The Liao people in the rebellious area must either be slaughtered, or they will all be captured as slaves!

Is it okay if you don't resist?That's wrong, Houjin will send troops to investigate the Liao people regularly, beggars, kill them directly, tell you to be lazy, don't farm land, waste food, kill them; kill those whose food stock does not meet the standard, why is the food at home so so? few?If you don’t cultivate the land well, you want to escape back to Daming’s arms. If you have bad intentions, what’s the use of keeping it? Kill it; there’s too much food in your family, so kill it too. Everyone is granting the land according to the plan. Why does your family have so much food? It's a troublemaker, kill him!

Anyway, you will be killed if you are poor, you will be killed if you are rich, you will be killed if you are lazy, you will be killed if you are diligent, you will be killed if you resist, and you will be killed if you don’t resist. The original residents of Liaodong were almost slaughtered, and all those who escaped their lives became slaves of the Eight Banners. Only a few lackeys and traitors were incorporated into the "Han Eight Banners" as puppet troops, working for the Houjin.

Originally, the people in the land were rich in valleys, the people in Ze were rich in fishing, the people in the mountains were rich in materials, and the people in the sea were rich in goods. They had ample food and clothing. The rich and beautiful Liaodong, after the Jin Dynasty, the population decreased sharply. The fields were barren, the houses were dilapidated, and all industries were withered. , almost do not wish to live.

The injury of the Ming Dynasty was financial. There were various objective reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, but the most direct reason was lack of money. The financial crisis was the fatal injury of the Ming Dynasty.

Because there was no money to relieve the disaster, the victims rebelled; because there was no money to pay the food, the army mutinied; because there was no money to support the frontier army, the combat effectiveness of the frontier army continued to decline, which led to the final collapse.The financial crisis of the Ming Dynasty began in Liaodong, the invasion of the Later Jin Dynasty, and the Liaodong military expenditure that was higher than the previous year.

The post-Jin invasion of Liaodong began in the 46th year of Wanli (AD 1618). Before that, although the Ming Dynasty could not be said to be very rich, the lives of the people were quite good. This can be seen in the side descriptions of some folk chapters. come out.

For example, it is recorded in a novel: The Ming Dynasty was passed down to Wanli, not to mention other benefits, but to eat food such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, chicken, duck, fish, etc. Which one is not cheap?For a family of several, the daily cost of big fish and meat is only two or three dollars, which is considered a big expense.There are also those small families who carry the burden on their shoulders and earn twenty or thirty Wen a day to live a day.In the evening, you can still have some wine, tell jokes when drunk, sing Wu songs, listen to books, hold fire in winter and enjoy the cool in summer, and play in all kinds of ways.At that time, everyone's small households lived very happily, in the north and south, Beijing and thirteen provinces.

Before the Later Jin invaded Liaodong, the army of the Ming Dynasty was not weak, such as the battle of Ningxia to suppress the rebellion of the Tatar Bobai, the battle of Korea against the invasion of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the battle of Bozhou to suppress the rebellion of chieftain Yang Yinglong, and the continued In the Ming-Myanmar War that lasted for more than ten years, the Ming army won the final victory.

However, since the invasion of the Later Jin Dynasty, the situation has completely changed. The military expenditure of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong has gradually increased every year. China's military expenditure has risen to a terrifying 47 million taels!

At that time, the annual taxes of the Ming Dynasty were only over [-] million taels. Excluding the salaries of officials, the daily expenses of the court, and the food and salaries of other troops, it was impossible to make up so much military expenses. All expenditures were unsustainable, which led to the rebellion of the hungry people, the mutiny of the army, the lack of equipment, and the continuous decline in the combat power of the frontier army. The entire Ming Dynasty was unable to support it, and finally collapsed.

The financial wound is so deep that it can be said that it directly killed the Ming Dynasty.

The shame of Ming Dynasty is the shame of those generals who were cowardly, incompetent, fighting in the nest, or even directly surrendered.

During the Saerhu War, Li Rubai, the leader of the South Road of the Ming Army, acted slowly and delayed the opportunity of the battle. Later Jin did not use a single soldier against him, but he led more than 2 Ming troops to flee in a hurry. As a result, he trampled on each other and killed more than a thousand people. shameful!
Later, there was Wang Huazhen, the governor of Liaodong, who talked on paper, regardless of the actual situation, and advocated a counterattack against Houjin. When Houjin soldiers arrived, he abandoned Guangning and fled without a fight. Shameful!
Of course, they are not the most shameful. Later, the Ming Dynasty generals Hong Chengchou and Zu Dashou were defeated and captured.

When it comes to the most shameless, the four great feudal lords in the early Qing Dynasty, Wu Sangui, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi, can be said to be the most shameless. Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, led the Qing army into the pass, and as the pioneer of the Qing army, he led the army to attack Nanming, and led troops into Burma, forcing the Burmese king to hand over Emperor Yongli of the Nanming Dynasty, and finally hanged him with his own hands. The traitors did so much , It can be said that through the ages, no one can match, shame, shame, shame!

The humiliation of the Ming Dynasty lies in being bullied by the slaves of the Houjin Dynasty. The Taizu Nurhachi of the Later Jin Dynasty was just a commander of the guards under the commander of the Nuer Gandu Commander of the Ming Dynasty. There were a total of 329 commanders of the inner and outer guards like him in the Ming Dynasty. One, and above the commander of the guard station, there are also the commanders of the capital and the governors of the five armies. It can be said that he is just a middle-level general in the Ming Dynasty.

Although he later unified the Jurchen tribes and established the Houjin regime, the total population of the Jurchen tribe was only a million or so. Even if all the people were soldiers, the number of young and strong men who could be assembled was only more than a hundred thousand.At this time, Daming had a population of hundreds of millions, and the regular army alone was no less than a million. It can be said that the two are not at the same level at all!
If someone said before the Sarhu War that Hou Jin could defeat Ming, they would definitely be considered insane. Are you kidding me, 100 million against [-] million, is it possible to defeat an opponent who is a hundred times stronger than oneself?

However, Daming was really defeated by an opponent who was a hundred times weaker than him, and almost lost the entire Liaodong in the first battle!It can be said that Hou Jin created a miracle of defeating the strong with the weak.And Daming also created a miracle, sitting on millions of miles of land and ruling hundreds of millions of people, he was beaten by a middle-level military general under his own power without any power to fight back, what a shame!
The humiliation of Liaodong has almost become a taboo, a big taboo, few people are willing to mention it, even if it is mentioned, it will make those who see and hear it feel dissatisfied, and even become angry with shame, what's more, even I will go into a nervous breakdown for a moment, and start...

I won't talk about it here, and I'm afraid it will be pointed out by Qianhu, so let's return to the topic and continue to talk about Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong.

Liaodong Liaodong, our Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong came through time travel, so he naturally knew how much pain Liaodong had brought to Daming, and how much shame the Later Jin had caused Daming to suffer.

When he first came to the throne, it was a time when Daming was in turmoil, internal strife, and natural disasters continued. At that time, Daming could be said to be extremely weak, and he didn't even dare to touch the taboo of Liaodong.

It wasn't that he didn't want to take back Liaodong, but he didn't dare to think about it at all. At that time, Daming couldn't take back Liaodong at all. He had no money, no army, and he couldn't even control the court. How could he fight against others?
It's different now. In the past four years or so, he has cleaned up the eunuch group and the Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrat group successively. Not his cronies, but basically a good official who is dedicated to serving the country and the people, upright and upright, as long as he does not go too far, these people will basically not oppose him.

It can be said that the entire imperial court is already under his control, and the recovery of Liaodong already has a solid political foundation.

In terms of finances, not to mention that he has obtained hundreds of millions of taels of silver by copying the Jiangnan Party Group and the Jiangnan Scholar-bureaucrat Group, he has also successively established Rixinglong Company and Daming Western Trading. The income is no less than ten million taels.

It can be said that Emperor Chongzheng is not short of money at all now, and he already has a solid economic foundation for recovering Liaodong.

In terms of the army, he successively promoted famous generals such as Qin Liangyu, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting, and Shi Kefa, as well as Liaodong generals such as Sun Chengzong, Yuan Keli, Yuan Chonghuan, Man Gui, and Cao Wenzhao. It can be said that Daming is now like a cloud of fierce generals.As for the number of troops, after several times of military expansion, Daming now has 20 Beijing Guards, 30 Liaodong Army, 25 Tianxiong Army, 30 Qin Army, 150 Northwest Guards, and nearly [-] Southeast Guards. In addition to the original frontier army, the Ming army is no less than [-] million!

It can be said that it is now possible to gather 20 or even [-] troops to expedition to Liaodong casually, and the recovery of Liaodong already has a solid military foundation.

Finally, the most important point is that with the improvement and application of muskets and artillery, the Ming army has completely suppressed the post-gold cavalry in field battles, and hot weapons have begun to dominate the battlefield. The days of relying on cavalry to conquer the world are gone forever.

Now, Ming Dynasty has the conditions to recover Liaodong in terms of politics, economy, and military. Coupled with the advantage of hot weapons, the confidence of recovering Liaodong is even greater. Zhu Cijiong naturally no longer hesitates:

When the ice and snow melted in the fifth year of Chongzheng, it was the day when the Ming Dynasty sent troops to Liaodong. At that time, all the pain and shame would be healed in one fell swoop!
(End of this chapter)