Chapter 1208 Post-War Situation
Because of political discord within the Qing court, there was an internal strife, and almost all of the people who fled from the Central Plains, such as Lou Qin and Luo Keduo, were executed by Fulin.
These Manchus, who escaped from the Ming army and finally returned to Beijing, died at the hands of their own people, which can be regarded as a ridiculous and ironic ending.
At a time when the Qing court had internal disagreements over how to deal with the Ming Dynasty, leading to a confrontation between swords and soldiers, there was also a huge shock within the Jin State.
The Ming army occupied the Central Plains and Shandong, and was connected with the Shanxi rebels, and the area that the Manchus could control in the Guannai was only the area around Beijing, which sooner or later would be driven outside the pass by the Ming army, or even wiped out.
Once the Manchu Qing Dynasty was defeated, the situation of three parts of the world collapsed immediately, and the Jin State could only fight against the Ming Dynasty alone.
Facing the great victory of the Central Plains of the Ming Dynasty, Jin Guo naturally trembled, but after the initial panic, Jin Guo began to fall into crazy preparations.
In early May, after crossing the Yellow River near Wubao County and withdrawing to Suidezhou, Shaanxi, Haoge did not immediately return to Chang'an, but stopped at Huangling County, south of Yan'an Prefecture, and held a grand sacrifice ceremony at the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor to worship the ancestors of China.
On the same day, Haoge wore a crown dress, with twelve chapters, a crown on his head, in Han costumes, according to the Central Plains etiquette, leading the ministers to worship, hoping that the country and the people would be safe, and the military luck would last forever.
In the Central Plains War, the Jin and Qing coalition forces were defeated, and the Jin court suddenly paid tribute to the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum, undoubtedly in order to unite the hearts of the people in Guanzhong and reduce the impact of the First World War in the Central Plains, which was the political response and efforts made by the Jin State.
In addition to encouraging the people in the country to reclaim and pioneer the land, he also reorganized more than 800,000 people who migrated from Shanxi into military tuns and settled them in Hexi and other places.
This move is to reduce the contradictions between various ethnic groups within the Jin country, but in terms of population base, the so-called Jin people are actually Han people.
The reason why he is called Jin and not Han is the result of a compromise between the high-level of the Jin State, because Jin Keyi is said to take into account the feelings of other ethnic groups to a certain extent, and can widen the gap between the Han people in Guanzhong and the Han people in the Ming Dynasty, which is conducive to the secession of the Jin State.
Militarily, the Jin State also made successive moves, reorganized the defeated army and the green battalion that broke into the Jin State, as well as the righteous army that was appeased in Shanxi, and then recruited 50,000 young and strong people in the country, and organized and trained the new army of the three towns, totaling 90,000 people, so that the strength of the Jin State was restored to 180,000. In addition, Meng Qiaofang, who had seen the equipment of the Ming army, asked to play, and the Jin State set up an ordnance supervisor to prevent and control the firearms of the Ming State and equip the Jin Army.
In addition, the agenda for reinforcing Tongguan and Wuguan has also been raised.
Diplomatically, with the decline of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Mongol tribes fell into a state of no master, and in the future, they will surely become the focus of tripartite contention between the Ming State, the Jin State, and the Qing State.
When the Jin State saw that the three Mongolian tribes of Moxi, Mobei, and Monan all had the intention of seceding from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Haoge immediately sent an envoy to contact the Mongolian tribes and persuade them to form an alliance with the Jin State to jointly fight against the Ming Dynasty.
In the southwest, the Ming Dynasty had already re-established the Duogandu Division in Qinghai last year, and at the end of last year, the Living Buddha was forced by He Tengjiao to send people to Nanjing to ask for the Ming Dynasty's canonization, and the Ming Dynasty's forces have been outflanked from the side.
In order to prevent the Ming Dynasty from colluding with Yarkand and forming a flanking attack on the Jin State, the eyes of the Jin State were once again turned to Yarkand, and Haoge asked Sun Kewang, the king of Guiyi, who was sitting in Hexi, to contact the Great Yuz and Middle Yuz Khanate in the west of the Yarkand Khanate, preparing to attack Yarkand before the Ming army attacked the Jin State.
The Ming army won a great victory in the Central Plains, the life of the Qing State was not long, and the Jin State knew that the time was urgent, and they urgently hoped that before the Ming Army solved the Qing State and digested the Central Plains, Shanxi, Hebei, and Shandong, they would expand their strength to the west and open up the trade routes.
For the Central Plains War, the Jin and Qing countries reacted completely differently. At this time, the king of Chu of the Ming Dynasty was still patrolling around Henan to calm people's hearts.
This time, the area recovered by the Ming Dynasty was too wide, and most of them were dilapidated to collect taxes, but needed the imperial court to transfer materials to come for relief.
After Nanjing was recovered from the Central Plains, Wang Fuzhi, a scholar and scholar of the household department, directly brought the cadres of the household department to Luoyang to liquidate the fields and population of Henan.
After more than half a month of continuous fighting, from the official copywriting of the Qing court that was confiscated, as well as the accounts in the palace of Liangshun, Wang Fuzhi basically straightened out the population and land in Henan.
This time, the Ming Dynasty obtained more land than imagined, and only from the hands of the king of Liangshun and other criminal officials, it confiscated nearly 100 manors and hundreds of thousands of hectares of fertile land.
In order to alleviate the pressure on the imperial court's money, a part of the land was rewarded to meritorious soldiers, and the other part was transferred to the southern clans and chambers of commerce in the form of grain for land.
The Ming Dynasty once implemented the method of encouraging merchants to transport grain to the border in exchange for salt, and gave patents for salt sales to enrich the reserves of military rations on the border.
Wang Yanguang recovered a large part of the country, but these places were seriously damaged, and all kinds of materials were needed, and the consumption was too great to rely on the imperial court to transfer them from the south.
Wang Fuzhi referred to the previous salt introduction system, and asked the merchants and clans in the south to help the imperial court send grain, farm tools, cattle, cloth and other materials to the north, and the imperial court exchanged the newly acquired land for it.
Under these two policies, first of all, the 300,000 soldiers who went out on this expedition, including the 10,000 righteous servants who went on the expedition, each received a few acres of land, and the army was thunderous for a while, and the morale was high, and they hated to attack Hebei immediately and make another great achievement.
On the other hand, as the imperial court and the people kept transporting supplies, the conditions that restrained the Ming army from continuing to march no longer existed, and the Ming army could attack the Hebei Plain at any time.
With these two points, Wang Yan naturally did not object, and happily agreed to Wang Fuzhi's proposal.
On this day, Wang Yan and Wang Fuzhi, as well as You Youlun, the newly appointed political envoy of Henan Province appointed by the imperial court, came out of Luoyang together and went to inspect a manor in the southern suburbs.
On the road, the group of people beat their horses and walked slowly, and Wang Yan asked: "Brother, is the grain and grass that Dai Zhifan is urging ready?" β
Because of the lack of military food, Dai Zhifan's army of 100,000 stayed in the Daimyo's Mansion for almost a month.
Wang Fuzhi nodded, "The household department transferred 100,000 stones from the Nanjing warehouse, and it has already gone to the canal. However, the transportation has been interrupted for many years, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has neglected to control, and many river sections have been blocked by silt, and the grain ships should still be in Shandong. β
He saw Wang Yan frowning, and said hurriedly; "However, the Four Seas Merchant was entrusted by the Ministry of Household to transport 50,000 stones by sea, and has already arrived in Qingzhou, and is now turning to the land route, because it is about to arrive at the Daimyo's Mansion."
Wang Yan bowed slightly when he heard this, and Wang Fuzhi couldn't help asking, "As soon as His Highness's prepared food arrives, will he let the army attack and recover Shenjing?" β
"No, wait!" Wang Yan shook his head, and then asked, "Did the grain and grass sent to Xie Qian be transported?" β
Wang Fuzhi hit his horse to keep up, "The fleet went to North Korea by sea and land, it should have arrived early!" β
Wang Yan nodded when he heard this, and his eyes scanned the surroundings, surrounded by large fields, but they were overgrown with weeds.
It is now May, more than a month after the end of the fighting, and stability is gradually returning to the region. The people should remove the weeds, tidy up the fields, and prepare them for sowing, but how can they let the fields be barren?
Wang Yan looked at a village in the distance, and there were a few shadows under the big tree at the entrance of the village, indicating that there were people in the village, and he couldn't help frowning: "What's going on?" β
Seeing Wang Yan pointing to the deserted fields and the idlers in the distant villages, he understood what he meant, and hurriedly stepped forward.
He is a student of He Tengjiao, who has served as the prefect of Wuchang, the prefect of Yingtian, and the envoy of Nanzhi, and has a very strong ability.
"Your Highness, the official is about to report this matter to you!" You Youyou talked about beating horses to catch up, half a horse's head behind Wang Yan, and said with his fists clenched: "These lands were originally all land under Shang Kexi's name, but the people of Henan were the main ones who cultivated. This time, the imperial court took over the land, rewarded it to meritorious soldiers, and used it to exchange grain with southern merchants, and the owner of the land changed, and the tenants who had originally cultivated these fields did not dare to plant any more. β
Wang Yan frowned slightly when he heard this, and understood that although the land belonged to Shang Kexi and others, it was tens of thousands of tenant farmers who cultivated it. Now the land has been confiscated by the imperial court, and the land rewarded to the soldiers can be planted by the soldiers' families themselves, and there is no need for tenants. The land exchanged by the big clans must be cultivated on a large scale, and it does not take many people, and these tenant farmers lose the opportunity to cultivate the land.
"Why didn't you report this to Gu Yu earlier?" Wang Yan was a little unhappy.
You Youlun lowered his head and did not answer, Wang Yan reacted immediately, he glanced at Wang Fuzhi, and his heart was completely clear.
It was in the interests of the nobles to reward the land to the army, and the gentry could reap great benefits by exchanging grain for land.
In this matter, with the support of the army and the bureaucratic gentry and large landowners, You Youlun naturally did not dare to offend them, so he persuaded Wang Yan to inspect the manor and let Wang Yan find out the problem himself.
Thinking of this, Wang Yan couldn't help but feel unhappy for a while, everything is good and harmful, he was still happy about his land policy, and now the problem is coming, and his subordinates did not tell him the truth, which made him very dissatisfied.
"Your Highness, after taking over Henan, I found that there were already many tenants who had run away to the Jin Kingdom!" You Youlun lowered his head for a while, but still raised his head and said.
"Running to the Golden Country?" Hearing this, Wang Yan's face suddenly sank.
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