Chapter Ninety-Five: Dolgon Longing for Freedom
"Quick, the people of Gaizhou have made Tartars!"
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By this time, the Ming army had already launched an offensive.
Although they did not prepare enough siege equipment in a hurry, they did not need too much with a large number of artillery, mortars bombarded the city to suppress the Qing artillery, together with the second town of the left flank, plus the original of the Dangkou brigade, nearly thirty eighteen-pound and twelve-pound field guns were pushed to the west gate of Gaizhou, and the cannons processed by the boring machine were aimed at the city wall five hundred meters away. Each shell easily brought down a large area of rammed earth, and soon a huge sore was gnawed into the wall.
At the same time, the Ming army in array began to advance with flying ladders on their shoulders.
And the sound of the cannon was like a trumpet, and after knowing that the Ming army had launched an attack, almost all the Han slaves in the city joined the ranks of the Bao movement.
Men, women, gray-haired old men, teenagers of thirteen or fourteen, all of them were holding everything that could be used as weapons, swords and spears, axes and guillotines, and even sticks and sickles, and then vented their hatred to the bannermen who were high in the past.
Even before the Ming army could collapse the city wall, those who had defected in order to survive started a war with their original masters on the city wall.
When the Ming army rushed across the moat with a non-flying ladder, even those Han slaves rushed to the city wall, and the bombardment of the cannons became a waste, and before the shells could open the gap, a team of surrendered Baoyi killed the flag army guarding the gate, and then opened the city gate for the Ming army.
Gaizhou was recovered.
The speed of recovery was so fast that even Yang Feng was dumbfounded.
An hour ago, he was still working with his generals on how to break through the strong city wall, and after only an hour, he was already able to lead his subordinates into Gaizhou with the sound of bowing.
Of course, the battle is not over.
There are still a large number of banner people in the city who are resisting stubbornly, but their end is already doomed, with the influx of more than 10,000 people and horses from the Dangkou Brigade and the fourth town of the left wing, plus the armed Han people in the city, as well as the militarized coat itself, at least 20,000 people in this small city to beat up to 3,000 men of the Eight Banners, such a battle will not have any suspense, in fact, before it gets dark, 3,000 heads have been placed outside the city as a Beijing view.
As for women and shorter than wheels......
What wheels the emperor didn't say, if you want to say that those gun carts are also wheels, if you want to say that the carts are also wheels, which one is applicable depends on the consciousness of those soldiers and slaves.
In short, they have been treated magnanimously by His Majesty the Emperor, according to the law at this time, the laws of the feudal era are always so inhumane, but the prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people, not to mention that they are just a group of slaves, and they can be transported to Shanhaiguan by ship to sell on the line, of course, some necessary surgeries must be carried out before selling, this is a trivial matter that is not worth mentioning, this is also for them to better say goodbye to the past and start a new life.
Well, His Majesty the Emperor is still very thoughtful about them.
As for the coaters......
This is also very simple, they still retain the slave status, but from the banner people's house slaves to the emperor's house slaves, for the time being, because the location of the imperial tomb has not yet been determined, so they continue to plant the flag people's land owned by His Majesty the emperor in the Gaizhou area like ordinary people. When the location of the imperial tomb is determined and the construction starts, their adult men will be requisitioned and transferred to repair the imperial tomb in shifts, as for the old and weak women and children to continue their original lives at home, because they are the emperor's slaves, so they can be exempted from paying land rent and land endowments, and after the construction of the imperial tomb is completed, they will become ordinary people, no longer slaves.
Of course, they also have to pay taxes.
As for the original slaves, needless to say, the houses that belonged to the banner people who originally lived were given to them, and their private property that originally belonged to the banner people was also given to them, and the land that they originally cultivated belonged to the banner people was collected as imperial land, and they could continue to cultivate according to the rent of 10% plus 5 percent of the field endowment. Of course, because these people are actually from the Quang Ninh area, if any of them are willing to return to Quang Ninh, then they will also listen to the emperor, and after returning to Quang Ninh, the emperor will provide them with ploughing cattle and good seeds to reclaim the land, but the cultivated farmland belongs to the emperor, and they will pay 10 percent of the land rent plus 5 percent of the land tax for these farmlands in the future.
As for the rest, there will be no more taxes of any nature.
Nothing.
There are no such donations, such donations, conscriptions, etc., and all such and such salaries, and any official who dares to pick up a hoe and smash it to death.
In the future, Yang Feng will collect a total of 15 percent of the peasants' taxes, and give 10 percent to the government and 5 percent, the latter is actually different from place to place, but basically fluctuates around 5 percent, so it shows that the Chaotian tax can be rested, and the Ming Dynasty's field tax is actually pitifully low, and in some places it is even as low as 2 percent......
Uh, that wouldn't be where it is today.
Tian Fu is indeed pitifully low, but it can't stand the mess of those taxes keep rising, especially a fire consumption is very cruel, some of these taxes are indeed Chongzhen's pot, but a large part of it is still the pot of corrupt officials, of course, Chongzhen and corrupt officials combined, in fact, it is not as cruel as those landlords, the latter's rent is the mountain on the head of the peasants. And Yang Feng's gameplay is to directly cut off the roots of the former, and the tax quota is not allowed to change in any way, and the increase in the project is not allowed to increase the proportion, and the peasants are theoretically paid the land tax, and nothing else is paid, who dares to ask you for other taxes to be stoned to death with a hoe, so that the root of the tax increase will be eradicated whether it is the court or the corrupt officials.
As for the landlords......
Yang Feng's method was to snatch the landlord's land and bring it to his own landlord.
Nationalization of land for vests.
Regardless of the drawbacks of this system, the nationalization of land is the least bad system for the common people, and only this system can guarantee their most basic right to subsistence.
Of course, this is not to say that there is no possibility of the emergence of a large landlord class.
If you want to be a big landlord, you can, first, follow Lao Tzu to work hard, and after meritorious service, you can be knighted, he has officially changed the title to a real title, that is to say, directly according to the title to give the fief, these people can be big landlords, but the annexation will not exist, because they are all imperial fields, they can't annex, and they have to pay taxes according to law.
Second, go outside and grab it! Or go to the colonies and become a farmer!
Of course, that's going to come later.
In this way, the battle of Gaizhou quickly ended.
And then Yang Feng was not in a hurry to attack the north, Qingshi Pass was in his hands, there was no obstacle to the north, and there was nothing more than a Yaozhou post city between Haicheng, a small city with a circumference of less than four miles, and a cannon could easily blast away. He also needs to wait for the sailors to complete the assembly, and then the sailors will land at Liangfangkou, that is, Yingkou, and he will march together to Niuzhuang and Haicheng respectively, and at the same time, the Jinzhou army led by Gaodi on the west road will also reach the west bank of the Liaohe River, and then work together to capture Haicheng and Niuzhuang in one fell swoop, and then attack Liaoyang.
At this time, the other two roads are still early, Gao Di may not have left Jinzhou yet, and Huang Fei in Dengzhou is estimated to have just received the order, so of course he doesn't need to worry.
And he'd have to wait for Dorgon's reaction.
"That demon is so rampant!"
In the Wuying Hall of Zijin City, Beijing, Dolgon slapped the table and shouted.
Because of the speed of information transmission, he had just learned that his ninth brother had let the dog emperor chop him alive again, after all, after the Ming army occupied Guangning and Jinzhou, the information exchange between him and Shenyang needed to take a long detour.
"Lord Wang, what a chance!"
Fan Wencheng said sinisterly.
Of course, Dolgon knew that this was a good opportunity, the dog emperor was not in Shanhaiguan, and his chances of attacking Jidong would be doubled immediately, and he was now dreaming of avenging Duoduo who had not been able to get out of bed so far, but the problem was that this time he couldn't rely on the Eight Banners, his Eight Banners couldn't withstand the loss, and if he lost any more, he would have nothing to play, so this attack must be dominated by the Green Battalion, but if the Green Battalion is concerned, then it is not for him to have the final say.
Don't look at him as the regent of the Great Qing Dynasty, before the Qing Emperor came, Guannai was theoretically ruled by him, but in practice this is useless.
Those Han gentry are the bosses.
At best, he was hired as a bodyguard.
Theoretically, the Green Battalion was transferred by the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of War was under his control, but if he gave an order to the Ministry of War without the permission of the three cabinet assistants, Feng Quan, Wang Aoyong, and Chen Mingxia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Zhang Jinyan, promised to return him with an uncompliant system.
These Han bureaucrats in Beijing are all veterans of playing this.
They had already put a bunch of hangers on Dolgon, with the system, with the righteousness, with the etiquette, with the public opinion, and of course, the green camp of the local governor, so that this tyrant outside the border had to be the holy lord in the golden wire cage they designed, and then use time and false name to warm the fragrant nephrite, completely wear away his edges and corners, and honestly be their puppet.
But it was clear that Dorgon didn't want that.
He also longs to fly freely!
Including those cronies who entered the customs with him didn't want to do this, but if you want to get rid of the control of the gentry, the premise is that you have to solve the green camp first, otherwise the 300,000 green camp Qingjun side is not fun, and this is the best opportunity.
"Passing on the will of the king, Shengjing is in crisis, and the armies of the Eight Banners immediately assemble and prepare to return to Jinzhou outside the Guankou to relieve the danger of Shengjing."
Dorgon said with a sinister grin.
"Lord Wangming!"
Fan Wencheng also said with a sinister smile.
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