The Qing captives abandoned the city and fled, and the capital was restored!

In May of the sixteenth year of Yongli, this news echoed in the heavens and the earth like a summer thunder, and all the beings in the heavens and the earth were suddenly awakened with the momentum of thunder.

Once upon a time, in the face of the butcher's knife of a foreign race, people have sunk, they have bent over as slaves, and they have been bullied. And now, nearly 20 years after the change of Jiashen and the sinking of Huaxia, this day has finally dawned, and the haze and darkness of the past have disappeared without a trace overnight.

From north to south, from east to west, almost everyone, when mentioning the king of Chu, can't help but put up a big finger and shout hello to him. After all, people's thoughts are always simple, and in the eyes of many simple-minded people, this King of Chu "seized" Shenjing from the hands of the Qing Dynasty, that is, he made the first contribution in the world! It is the first hero of Daming Zhongxing!

In this way, people naturally touted the exploits of the king of Chu and boasted of the exploits of the Chu army. This seems to be taken for granted, and it seems to be perfectly normal. But not all places are like this, at least in Jiangbei, after the millions of people in Jiangbei learned that Li Chu "seized" the Beijing division, they were all indignant, and even said in the newspaper that Li Chu's entry into Beijing was just a "dog trip", the reason why they were so indignant was because they all knew that if it wasn't for the king to send troops to Shanhaiguan, and then regain Liaodong, and cut off the enemy's rear road, how could the Qing capture be in a hurry, abandon the city and flee, the original Beijing division should be recovered by Jiangbei's soldiers-the loyal and righteous army. But who would have thought that Li Chu would take advantage of it, this kind of behavior of grabbing meat to eat at the mouth of the bowl is naturally shameful for them, of course, another reason why they are so indignant is that the loyal and righteous army is a soldier of Jiangbei and their family, and now the honor of the family is taken away by others, how can it not be annoying.

Shameless!

Compared with Jiangbei's anger, Shanhaiguan was already angry at this time, in the eyes of those loyal and righteous officers and soldiers who were waiting to meet the 200,000 Qing captives desperately rushing to the pass, Li Chu's brazenness was simply beyond their imagination - the Jingshi should be their recovery! It should have been recovered by them after they defeated the Qing captives.

But it allowed Li Chu to take advantage.

"This turtle grandson, don't let Lao Tzu see him, see him, you have to ......"

When leaving the city gate, Xiao Renjie took the rifled gun and aimed into the distance, making a firing appearance. And the comrades-in-arms around him all said indignantly.

"It's too cheap to kill him with a gun, and if you want me to say, you have to bombard him with a cannon, and a cannon will blow him to pieces......"

The group of musketeers in green uniforms, despite their complaints, jumped on their horses as soon as they left the city, and then hurried towards the distant mountains, where they were ordered to search and reconnoitre.

When this group of "green uniforms" left the city, a group of men and horses also went out of the city, and the people who happened to be on the horse heard the complaints of the soldiers there. The resentment of the soldiers, for Zhu Mingzhong, as a commander, he did not see it, but apart from a wry smile, there was no other words. At most, it's like this.

"The Chu Domain is also the lord of the Ming Dynasty, so to recover the Shenjing, it is naturally for the Ming Dynasty, why do you need to start the dispute between Huai and Chu lightly because of this?"

Zhu Mingzhong showed his extremely generous side as in the past, not that he was really very generous, but because he didn't want to go over to capture the Beijing division at all, but although he had been mentally prepared for a long time, but after learning the news of Li Ziyuan's entry into Beijing, if he said that he was not disappointed, it would definitely be a lie, even he himself felt very pity, not to mention other soldiers?

"The king's lesson is extreme, but it's just ......"

Liu Can, who was riding on a horse, followed behind the king, and still said with some unwillingness.

"The king is doing this for the sake of state affairs, but those villagers and foolish people don't know the king's merits, and they only see Li Chu's trip to Beijing, but they don't see the king's legacy in the future, which is really unacceptable!"

Leave no future generations behind!

The Loyal and Righteous Army knew that the purpose of this Northern Expedition was to make the Qing captives become lost dogs, and to keep them from suffering future generations! For this reason, they abandoned a direct attack on the Jingshi, but attacked the Shanhaiguan Pass to cut off the retreat of the Qing army.

However, now the shamelessness of the Chu army has made the honor that originally belonged to them come to naught. In this way, it is understandable that the soldiers will be angry, not to mention that ordinary people do not even understand their deeds.

"Now that this is the case, what will be the situation if there is a strong fight?"

Zhu Mingzhong asked with a smile, and without waiting for Liu Can to answer, he pointed to the undulating grass in front of him and said.

"Rongze, look at this grassland......"

Pointing to the grass, Zhu Mingzhong's eyes looked at the lofty mountains in the distance, and then said in the calmest tone possible.

"From here all the way to Liaodong, there are such grasslands along the way, the soil is fertile black soil, it may be an exaggeration to have no people for thousands of miles, but it is also a fact that there are no people for hundreds of miles, the rivers here are dense, the water sources are abundant, it can be said that it is very suitable for reclamation......

Staring at the land in front of him, in later generations, he also went out of Shanhaiguan, at that time there was no difference between the outside of Shanhaiguan and the inside of the pass, the fields were full of corn as far as the eye could see, but now there is no end to the grassland as far as the eye can see.

"What the king said is very true, there were millions of people living in Liaodong back then, and there were also many people living here, the king, you look at the willow trees on the soil slope over there, if the lower officials did not guess wrong, it should be the river embankment left by the Liao people back then, but later most of the Liao people died tragically under the Qing sword."

When Liu Can pointed to the willow tree in the distance and talked about the past of Liaodong, Zhu Mingzhong would occasionally focus on Liu Can, the son of Liu Zongzhou, the last Confucian master of the Ming Dynasty and the palace army of Xinxue. He wrote extensively, complex and obscure. The Qishan School he founded has had a great influence on the history of Chinese thought, especially the history of Confucianism. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the great Confucians Huang Zongxi, Chen Qu, and Zhang Luxiang were all descendants of this school. In the 21 st century, many scholars even believe that after Liu Zongzhou's death from hunger strike, the lifeblood of the Chinese nation and the lifeline of Chinese culture have been in crisis, and this crisis has continued into the 21 st century.

Perhaps, this statement is a bit exaggerated, but Zhu Mingzhong, who was in this era, clearly felt the regression of civilization brought about by the entry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this regression is not only because many scholars were killed or martyred, but because of the overall destruction, how long does it take to restore the civilization that has been badly damaged?

Zhu Mingzhong doesn't have any answer in his heart, but he just wants to pass on the Chinese civilization as much as possible, but this inheritance needs to "go to the rough and extract the fine, and remove the false and retain the true". But how to take the essence and get rid of the dross, this is a problem, all that can be done is step by step.

Retracting his mind from this problem that could not be solved in a short period of time, Zhu Mingzhong continued.

"The blood debt owed by the Qing captives, even if they destroy their clan, it will not be able to calm the anger in my heart, but the capture of Liaodong is not only for the sake of cutting off the enemy's rear route, but also for the future! It's not Daming's, it's ......"

Looking at the guards beside him, Zhu Mingzhong said with a smile.

"It's for the future of the soldiers!"

Reining in the horse's reins, Zhu Mingzhong's eyes stared at the vast grassland, and then his expression became serious,

"Now, the Qing captives have fled into Mongolia, although they will definitely pursue in the grassland in the future, but the country has generally calmed down, although it is not to the horse to put Nanshan, but at present, the Huai, Chu, Jin, and Fujian feudal forces are not less than one million, such as today's population is only about 20 million, even if there are three percent of the people, it is only 30 million, how to support a million soldiers with 30 million people?"

How many people are there in the world today?

Is it 20 million, or 30 million? Or something more? Zhu Mingzhong did not have an exact number, but it is certain that the number of troops was too large compared to the population.

"Therefore, after the world is calm, it must be disarmed!"

"Disarmament!"

Looking at the king in surprise, Liu Can's eyes were full of incomprehension.

"Yes, non-disarmament cannot settle the world, and non-disarmament cannot restore prosperity! Millions of young and strong people are gathered in the army, and it is not a long-term solution to not produce, so they have to go to their old and weak to get the strong. According to Gu estimates, in the future, the Ming Dynasty only needs to maintain 400,000 elites, of which 30,000 are navy, 20,000 are stationed overseas, and the remaining 350,000 are stationed at the border, 10% are stationed in Beijing, and 30% are stationed in the provinces, and the province has a town to guard the government and a battalion under its jurisdiction, which can basically maintain the stability of the world......

Although his knowledge of history told him that the world would not be peaceful in the next few hundred years, and even the rise and fall of the national fortune would be determined by the next few hundred years, it did not prevent him from making up his mind to keep only 350,000 troops.

350,000 may not seem like much, but as long as it is a strictly modernized army, it is not only enough to maintain domestic security, but also the existence of 200,000 mobile regiments stationed on the border is enough to calm the Northern Kou in the future, whether it is the Mongols or the Manchus who escaped into the steppe, they cannot be their opponents - after mankind enters the age of firearms, barbarism can no longer conquer the nation, and the so-called "strength can fight tigers" is not worth mentioning in the face of muskets. The fact that a few hundred Russians with muskets in their hands can conquer and rule Siberia illustrates all this. 200,000 ...... Enough to level Mongolia, Xinjiang, Central Asia and Siberia in the future. As for the navy, 30,000 navies plus a few huge first-class ships as a deterrent, supplemented by a large number of cruisers, are enough to dominate the seas.

Four hundred thousand!

Enough is enough!

Staring into the distance and being silent for a moment, Zhu Mingzhong looked back at Liu Can, and then asked rhetorically.

"But the question is, what about the remaining 600,000? If it is abolished, then how will the reduction of soldiers be arranged? ”