Chapter 894: The Battle of Ningxia (7)

After Ma Qing and Wang Bo tossed around, the prisoners and military households of the border army rushed to follow the Far Eastern Army to Hetao first, and the situation was very good. Although these border armies had all kinds of faults and vices, the overseas group armies cultivated by the Far Eastern Army were composed of the Ming Army as the main members.

Although the weaponry and investment are relatively low, the combat effectiveness is also very high, and the situation in all aspects has also been relatively good since the founding of the army. This also fully shows that the Far Eastern Army is a melting pot, even if you are a piece of broken copper and iron, you can still smash a good piece of steel when you enter the Far Eastern Army.

There are many people in the Northwest Frontier Army who are good at riding and shooting, and the people in the Northwest are fierce, and it has been a place for elite soldiers and fierce generals since ancient times. If these border troops are well trained, they will definitely be able to cultivate an elite cavalry unit.

After all, the Mongolian Legion cannot always be pointed to as the main cavalry force of the Far Eastern Army, and in the future, the Mongolian Legion must continue to advance northward and westward, not only to completely control Xinjiang, Mobei, and Siberia, but also to let the Mongolian cavalry expedition to Central Asia, the Middle East, Russia, and Eastern Europe, so that the Mongolian Legion will become the Cossack of the Far East. Wherever the sun shines, it will become a pasture in the Far East.

However, such a strong cavalry group must always have a certain amount of strength constraints. Just counting on the Outer Northeast Indigenous Cavalry Group, Li Ming felt that it was not enough. That's why he had the idea of forming a cavalry-based Northwest Field Army in the Hetao area as a mobile armed assault group in the Far East in the interior.

Although tens of thousands of border troops in Ningxia Town have rotted from top to bottom, the reasons are worth pondering.

Look at the days of those civil and military generals and military leaders at all levels in Ningxia Town, they are greedy for ink, drink the blood of soldiers, and communicate with foreign countries, which is not a family with thousands of wealth, and a group of wives and concubines. In such an environment. The Ming army in the vast border towns has been forced to be like this, do you still expect them to work hard for the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, the Hetao base area also needs a large population, and these border households and the displaced people from Shanxi will be the main immigrants in the Hetao base area in the future, so that the displaced people from Shanxi and Shaanxi can live in the Hetao and let the Shaanxi border army enrich the strength of the Northwest Field Army.

The Ningxia campaign launched in the Far East. A large amount of food and other materials was seized, and the amount was unimaginable. The ruling group of the clan in the Qingwang Mansion alone seized hundreds of thousands of stone grain.

Every family occupies the best military land in Ningxia, and each family has too much grain to fit, and a lot of grain has rotted because it has been hoarded for too long. Even so, they still have to enjoy a large amount of jue rice every year, and the local grain in Shaanxi is no longer enough to pay, so they can only transfer it from all over the south of the Yangtze River.

In the past two years, several northern provinces of Daming have continued to suffer from severe drought, and the land is thousands of miles away. Hunger was everywhere, but Daming couldn't take out much food for disaster relief, but he still had to take out a huge amount of Jue rice every year to feed the clan groups around Daming.

You must know that in this era, the kings of various places, after hundreds of years of tooth reproduction, have developed into a huge intertwined clan group behind them, and they are attached to various places, desperately devouring the flesh and blood of the Ming Dynasty. It seems to have become a cancer of Daming.

There are also civil and military generals in Ningxia Town, eunuchs guarding the town, and military leaders at all levels in the military town. Families are hoarding large quantities of food. Now it is a drought in several provinces in the north of the Ming Dynasty, and they are still counting on waiting for the grain to be fried to sky-high prices, and they will make a lot of money.

But they never dreamed that the large amount of grain and other materials they had hoarded would all become trophies in the Hetao base area. Because there is so much food, I expect it to be counted in a few days. Obviously unrealistic. However, according to conservative estimates, there is so much grain in the Hetao base area, which is enough to feed hundreds of thousands of people, and it is enough to eat for a year.

In addition to countless grains, the Far Eastern Army also seized a large amount of salt, tea bricks, iron tools, cloth, sugar, leather goods, wool, cattle and horses. There are also a lot of them, so they can only be transported back to the Hetao and carefully counted.

There is another seizure that is also relatively large, and that is gold and silver treasures. Don't underestimate this place in Ningxia, although it is located at the border and belongs to the poor countryside, there are really many rich families here.

Of course, it is not a big businessman, Quan Te is a civil and military general in Ningxia Town and a military leader at all levels in the military town. There are mountains of gold and silver jewelry, porcelain, calligraphy and paintings, antiques and other precious treasures are also countless.

Even if you don't know a military leader with big characters, you can find some valuable calligraphy and paintings at home, not to mention civil officials at all levels in Ningxia. Although this thing is not easy to value, after the operation of the Far Eastern Ministry of Commerce, it can be sold at a good price in the Daimyo Jiangnan area.

In addition to these civilian and military generals, there are also two super big families. One is the palace of the eunuchs, these eunuchs are all people without descendants, for fear that they will not have any money to cross the river when they are old, so they only recognize gold and silver. Especially the town guards and eunuchs stationed in various places, they are the fattest errands.

The eunuchs belong to the Ming Emperor's prison army stationed in various places, and there are many dirty things here in Ningxia Town, so the civil and military generals of Ningxia Town can only spend money to plug the mouths of the eunuchs, and these eunuchs not only collude with the local civil and military generals, but also take the initiative to participate in various transactions in Ningxia Town, and earn a lot of benefits every year. The Far Eastern Army basically had nothing else to gain from guarding the eunuch's mansion, all of which was gold and silver.

In addition to guarding the eunuch's mansion, another super big family, needless to say, everyone also knows. It must be the Qingwang Mansion and the clan group of the Qingwang lineage. King Qing has been enthroned for more than 200 years, and he doesn't know how much blood he has sucked from Daming, and the accumulated family wealth scared Li Ming and them.

Gold and silver are too vulgar, this thing can't be on the table at all in Qingwangfu, and ordinary calligraphy and painting antiques are embarrassed to put them out. Any bottle may be a plum bottle from the official kiln of the Song Dynasty, and a random pair of calligraphy and paintings are all priceless works.

What else pearl jadeite, gemstone agate and other treasures are available, not only the number is huge, but also are the best, Ningxia Town those civil officials and military generals in the family of the baby, and Qingwang Mansion in a comparison, that is, garbage. The accumulation of hundreds of years in Qingwangfu is not a joke.

The Hetao base is poor, so the means of looting can be described as ferocious. Like the god hangar and the military vehicle factory have been looted by the Far Eastern Army, they are all able to run rats.

Not only did they empty all the equipment, tools, and raw materials in the Ningxia General Town Miscellaneous Manufacturing Bureau, but they also forcibly looted the craftsmen and their families there. At the same time, the Far Eastern Army plundered the craftsmen of other guards, as well as various skilled craftsmen in the Qingwang Mansion, and the number of them was several thousand, including their families. (To be continued.) )

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