Chapter 876: Three Strategies for the Death Yuan
Liang Laotai is Liang Chongru, the teacher of Zhu Chuyi, Taizong of the Qing Dynasty, and the supervisor of the Ming Dynasty stationed in the Qing Kingdom. Although the Great Qing State was created by Zhu Sijiu, it was Liang Chongru who was appointed by Chen Dexing to serve as a supervisor of the country who made the Great Qing State stable and economically developed.
Moreover, this Liang Dajian State does not only know how to bury his head in farming, but does not know the master of diplomacy and military affairs. He was a long-time ambassador to Rome and previously served as governor of the Atlantic. It can be called the first European school in China. Therefore, during his tenure in the Jianqing Kingdom, Liang Chongru was working hard for the destruction of the Great Yuan Kingdom early. Although throughout his life, until he finally died in the Jianqing Kingdom, he never fought a battle with the Great Yuan Kingdom. But the strategy of destroying the Great Yuan Kingdom had already been decided. In the end, he also told Zhu Chuyi, Taizong of the Qing Dynasty, through his testament.
Liang Chongru's strategy for the death of the Yuan can be summed up in three ways: the first is to be comfortable with the enemy -- because the Great Yuan State implemented the national policy of outnumbering the people and using the Eight Banners to defeat the Europeans. Its military affairs are also based on the Eight Banners, and the core force is the Eight Banners. In Liang Chongru's view, the so-called Eight Banners Brigade is a hereditary soldier who is becoming more and more abandoned, and there is no essential difference between it and the Sanya Forbidden Army of the Great Song Dynasty. They are all veteran soldiers who have been paid for generations, and there are quite a lot of upward channels for these veteran soldiers.
According to intelligence, although the children of the Eight Banners of the Great Yuan Kingdom accounted for less than 10% of the population (when the country was founded, it was 10%, and now it is only about 1/40), but more than 70% of the country's officials have called them to be. With such a wide path, naturally not many people have the heart to become a soldier.
Moreover, Liang Chongru himself is from a famous family in Yangzhou, and his relationship with the two Huai generals is very close. Naturally, I know that this kind of hereditary old soldier is easy to use if there is a battle between the two ends in three days. If you get comfortable, you can't manage it at all. Up and down are their own people. After a long time, everyone may be related to each other. Who can pull down their faces and control it strictly? Therefore, the best way to deal with the Great Yuan Kingdom is to let them be comfortable and slowly decay themselves.
Therefore, the Great Qing State under the guidance of Liang Chongru has always adopted a policy of harmony with the Yuan, and has also taken a defensive position militarily. It also built a fortress line defense system on the border with Bulgaria in the northwest (the Great Yuan Kingdom also took the same measures), showing the appearance of taking a defensive position as a shrinking turtle.
Of course, the Qing Kingdom's own army can't rot together, otherwise it won't be able to fight like shoulder to shoulder. Therefore, the second strategy of the three strategies of the Yuan Dynasty is to reform the military system, on the one hand, to organize a small but fine standing army. An elite army of no more than 50,000 (initially 30,000) was formed using "scouts" purchased from Georgia and Armenia and carefully selected soldiers from the children of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty (ordinary soldiers served for 20 to 25 years, followed by 5 years of reserve), under the command of the most professional officers.
Moreover, this small but elite army often participated in military operations organized by the Atlantic Governor's Office and the Great Food Governor's Office...... After the rise of the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom, he often participated in the Holy War led by the Divine Sect. For decades, it has been playing the role of an international mercenary, and in the Chinese world, almost everywhere a large-scale conflict breaks out, the figure of the Qing Army can be seen -- naturally it is not obligatory, and it is necessary to pay for the Qing Army to help the army. Going abroad to fight for others is almost the biggest extraneous expense of the Qing Dynasty's finances.
In addition, the Standing Army of the Qing Dynasty was not the only land force of the Qing Dynasty. In addition to the standing army. The Great Qing State also had a large militia with a large number of people. All the children of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, as long as they can hold the smoothbore gun, they are the militia of the Qing Dynasty. Under Liang Chongru's adjustment, the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty became a militia organization -- now the Eight Banners of the Great Qing Kingdom have a large number of disciples, accounting for more than seventy-five percent of the population of the lands directly under the Qing Kingdom. Naturally, there are no more privileges, and there is no salary to take. However, they are not the target of bullying, because everyone has guns and armor at home. I also have to participate in military training on a regular basis, and I am all armed countrymen!
Once a big war breaks out. 50,000 Qing State Standing Army can quickly absorb the Eight Banners militia, and 50,000 people can be expanded to 300,000 in the blink of an eye!
And the third of the three strategies of the dead is to support Freemasonry! The reason why Freemasonry was able to rise after Meng Yuan came to control Europa. To a large extent, it is the Heavenly Dao ticket provided by the Qing Kingdom that is making trouble. Liang Chongru hoped that the Freemasons would be able to organize an uprising within the Great Yuan, shake the rule of the Eight Banners of the Great Yuan, and create conditions for the Qing Dynasty to become the master.
And this time, the Freemasons, based in Athens, have noticed the rise of the Jesuits!
"King, Old Lady Liang's plan is likely to come true!" Ma Xiuying did not come in empty-handed, but held a white envelope with no words written. "This is a letter from Athens."
The envelope was torn open, and Ma Xiuying had apparently read the contents of the letter - she was the queen of the Qing Dynasty, half a king, and had the right to act as regent when Zhu Chongba went abroad (Zhu Chongba often led troops abroad). This is the authority of the monarch as stipulated in the "Chen Li". And Zhu Chongba also trusted her very much, allowing her to participate in some confidential matters, including liaison with Freemasonry.
"Freemasonry? Asking for money again? Zhu Chongba did not take the letter in Ma Xiuying's hand, but frowned. The Freemasons did organize many uprisings during this hundred years, but the results were not very satisfactory. Very few of the rebel armies were able to hold out for more than three months, and they could not shake the rule of Dayuan at all.
Therefore, since Zhu Chongba came to power, the support of the Qing State for Freemasonry has been much smaller. Eight out of ten of the Freemasonry letters sent to Shengjing were begging for money.
"I'm not here to ask for money," Ma Xiuying said with a smile, "At least this letter hasn't asked for money yet." ”
"Don't want money? What's that for? Zhu Chongba asked.
"I don't want anything, but I said that there is a newly rising Christian sect in the Great Yuan country, called the Society of Jesus."
"Jesuits?" Zhu Chongba has no interest, there are many Christian sects, and most of them are useless. "Jesus?"
"No, the head of the Society of Jesus is Jesus!" Ma Xiuying said with a smile, "This time it's Jesus. Christ came down to earth. ”
"What!?" Zhu Chongba laughed, "Jesus went down to earth?" He is Kublai Khan's elder brother, what does the current Great Yuan Khan have to call him? Grandpa? ”
"The King. The Masonic letter said that the name of the leader of this Society of Jesus was Sauron. He is a native of the Rhine Province of the Great Yuan Kingdom, and he has suffered from bald disease and does not die. After he recovered, he claimed to have seen God and received the apocalypse. At first, he drew talismans for people to heal the sick, but gradually became believers, so he organized a Jesuit Society, claiming to be Jesus, the firstborn son of God. ”
"Jesus, the firstborn son of God, came down to earth?" Zhu Chongba shook his head, "You can really make it up!" ”
"There are still people who believe it!" "The Freemasonry letter says that the Jesuits are growing rapidly in Essen County, Rhine Province, and that there are tens of thousands of believers. Most of them are miners in coal mines. ”
"Tens of thousands of miners? Blown, right? Zhu Chongba smiled, "It's good to have thousands." He paused, "What do you mean by Freemasonry?" Want to use these miners to rebel? ”
"King, do you want them to try it?" Ma Xiuying pondered, "Essen County is not far from the Netherlands, as long as we get to the coast of the Netherlands, we can send them arms...... Maybe it can really make a situation. ”
"You can try!" Zhu Chongba thought for a moment, "Give 10,000 smoothbore guns and 20 cannons...... If there is a channel for smuggling. You can also bring some short guns in first. ”
The technology of manufacturing smoothbore guns and bronze cannons has now spread to a pulp. Almost all Chinese countries are able to produce their own products. Venice and Genoa, which were part of the Holy Roman Empire, were also able to produce these weapons.
Even in the relatively backward Dayuan Kingdom of the handicraft industry, there are factories that can produce flintlock smoothbore guns and bronze cannons, all of which are directly under the management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the flintlock smoothbore guns and cannons produced are equipped with the Eight Banners. Other than that. Each province had workshops capable of producing arquebuses (without bayonets) and inferior artillery, and the products were supplied to the European New Army, which was arranged during Liu Xiaoyuan's reign to make the European New Army weaker than the Eight Banners.
And the Great Qing State was a military power in the Chinese feudal state. Naturally, it has not a weak military production capacity. The Shengjing Arsenal, established during the reign of Liang Chongru, is now the largest arsenal in Europa, and the arsenal in Shengjing is home to hundreds of thousands of muskets and thousands of cannons of various kinds. It's not a big deal to come up with some to support the Jesuits.
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The Jesuit priest Sarushan sits on top of a cart. On the way from Essen to Württemberg. He was the one who spoke to Sauron in a teahouse in Cologne House that day. In the Jesuit Society today, he is the number three person. The status is second only to Sauron Quan and Gan Xiufu. Soon, however, he would be one more descendant and become the fourth of the Jesuits. But this is good news for him, because he has managed to win over a miner named Guan Hegui in Essen these days. There are 2,000 bitter men who make a living from mining under their hands, who can fight and kill, and can be regarded as the hegemon of the Essen mining area. Now Guan Hegui has joined the Society of Jesus with more than 2,000 of his men. Such a character naturally has to be given a third-in-command.
With the addition of Gansyuv's men, the Jesuits were able to pull out more than four thousand thugs. In addition, the Masonic bandits in the old woods near Essen also agreed to join the gang, and they also had nearly two thousand good men.
A team of 5,000 people can rise in the blink of an eye! If you coerce the miners who have not converted to religion in the Essen mining area, there will be tens of thousands! Moreover, this time he also met with the leader of the Freemasons in Essen, who said that he could help smuggle a batch of arms! If this happens, haha, an army of tens of thousands of people will rise.
The man who drove the car was also a Jesuit figure, and when he saw Sarushan's thoughtful look, he smiled and said, "Uncle Saru, the road is going well." There are a lot of bandits in this place, but thanks to you, the road is safe! Depending on the situation, we will be able to reach Fort Fu tomorrow, and then we will be able to meet King Jesus, right? ”
Hearing his words, Sarushan couldn't help but chuckle. Most of the bandits in this area were Freemason brothers, and now his carriage was planted with a flag given by the Freemasons, and of course the road was smooth. Although this Freemason has been clamoring for something against the Yuan Dynasty and the restoration of Europe, it has not achieved anything great for a hundred years. Now he has fallen into the underworld, although there are millions of disciples, but they are not successful after all. It seems that this European country will have to rely on the Jesuits to recover.
Now, just wait for the Masonic muskets to arrive, and you can do something in Essen! The day when the Jesuits themselves will hold their own imperial examinations may soon come......
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It is not only the Freemasons who carry out secret activities in the territory of the Great Yuan Kingdom and establish contact with the Jesuits, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu of the Heavenly Taoist Sacred Sect is also busy in the area of Fubao these days, and he also secretly meets with Sauron Quan's younger brother Saurongan. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was, of course, a samurai of the Tendo Kingdom of Japan.
Because Ai Ohtani, the host of the Japanese Grand Sect of the Tendo Sect, forced all the male members of the Emperor to death after the Tendo Samurai Troupe unified Japan, severing the emperor's lineage. Japan became a religious country without a king, and the name of the country was changed to Tendo Province of Japan. Moreover, Otani Ai later accepted Kubalun's opinion, believing that Chen Dexing was the incarnation of Taiyi God, and also passed the position of presiding over the church to Otani Xun, who served Chen Dexing in the Daming Palace in Girls' Generation, on the grounds of "the practice of Taizu (referring to Chen Dexing)", thus finally establishing the system of the Otani family's monopoly on the political and religious power of the Japanese Heavenly Dao Kingdom. However, because of this, the Japanese Great Sect was regarded as an outlier by the orthodox Tendo Sect and had to join the Holy Sect.
However, the Japanese Tiandao Kingdom, which joined the Holy Sect, did not dare to offend the Ming Empire, not only officially declared itself a vassal to the Ming Dynasty, but also chose a beautiful girl as a saint in the Otani clan and sent it to the Daming Palace to serve the Ming Emperor, and implemented the inheritance system of the Holy Maiden in order to obtain the understanding of the Ming Emperor......
At the same time, the Tendo Sect of the Japanese Celestial Dao Kingdom stepped on two boats and paid homage to the Divine Sect of Sarai, and sent many Celestial Dao samurai to Sarai to listen to them -- Sarai needed some people from the Eastern Face to pretend to be the children of the Eight Banners of the Great Yuan and infiltrate the domestic activities of the Great Yuan, and these Japanese Heavenly Dao samurai were often used as cannon fodder by Yang Xiao, the left envoy of the Heavenly Dao of Sarai, and sent to the Great Yuan Country, and this Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was such cannon fodder.
However, cannon fodder Ashikaga seems to have good luck, and he didn't have long to be active in the Great Yuan country, and he discovered such a very unusual "cult organization" as the Jesuits, and he also got in touch with their leader.
He was now sitting in a small teahouse in the city of Württemberg, where he was meditating with a tea bowl in his hand. I saw the owner of the teahouse open the curtain and come in, and said flatteringly: "Master, the two gentlemen have arrived." Ashikaga Yoshimitsu sighed and smiled at him, "Let him come in and see him." ”
The boss nodded in response, turned around and went out. After a while, he saw Saurungan walking in with a tall man in his thirties with a nervous expression. When Saurungan saw Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, he first saluted, and then whispered to the tall man: "Brother, this is Mr. Li (Yoshimitsu's pseudonym) that I told you, he is a demon...... It's a big shot in the Heavenly Dao Sect! ”
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu smiled, it feels good to be regarded as a big person! His family belonged to the Eastern Army (Kamakura side) in the Heavenly War. Because of the loss of his territory, he can only be an ordinary Taoist with no background. Later, he moved to Sarai, and he was also a highly despised object, only in the Great Yuan country, because he looked like a banner man and was respected everywhere...... (To be continued.) )