Chapter 280 Fighting for the Nation
Many people may not know about Jiang Yan. But in history, this person was also a slave with a name and surname - a family member of the three surnames.
The Jiang family has been wise generals for generations, and the Ming court is particularly generous to him. By the generation of Jiang Yuan, he himself was the general of Datong, General Zhenshuo, his elder brother Jiang Rang was the general of Yulin, and his younger brother Jiang Xuan was the deputy general of Yanghe. He can be said to be a general in the whole family.
However, the Jiang family, which was particularly generous in the Ming court, did not send a soldier to serve the king when the Ming court was in power.
Not only that, in the original history, he surrendered to Li Chuang without a single shot, and then rebelled against the Qing Dynasty, and finally died in a rebellion against the Qing Dynasty.
Under the order of King Ying Yi of Xia, Zheng Jiu cleared away the remnants of the Ming court, established the Northwest War Zone, and immediately rushed to Datong after taking down Xuanfu.
Jiang Yan, a dirty guy with three inches of bones behind his head, surrendered immediately.
However, just like his fate in history, he eventually died at the hands of Zheng Jiu. However, this anti-bone boy thought he should gain greater power after surrender and had extremely high demands on this, but Zheng Jiu wanted to reorganize, dismantle his army, seize his capital, and send him to the capital to be a rich man. So he secretly planned to kill Zheng Jiu at the banquet, but he didn't know that Zheng Jiu was like a little superman, and killed him.
This time, Zheng Jiu also attached a letter to apologize, saying that he underestimated the thief and almost ruined the major incident in Ying Yi.
If Zheng Jiu had not been extremely strong and his personal soldiers were also powerful, it would have been said that he would have to be broken into Jiang Guan's hands.
Jiang Guan said that he was scheming and calculating. The Jiang family has been in the important town of Jiubian for many years and has colluded with the local people. Local gentry and merchants are mostly involved with them. They form a huge network of interests. This is also the fundamental reason why the Ming court is favored.
Because many people spoke for the Jiang family, but the emperor of the Ming court did not know how loyal the Jiang family was.
But I don’t know that the Jiang family’s crimes are endless on the land of Shanxi and Shaanxi.
After Zheng Jiu killed Jiang Guan, he collected many evidence of crimes. For example, he colluded with wealthy merchants in Shanxi and Shaanxi to smuggle important state materials and sell military intelligence, colluded with gentry to trick people's land, and bullied soldiers to deduct military pay. There are countless such things.
Among them, the so-called eight imperial merchants of the Tatars later were counted as one, and they were all in it.
From these sins, many things that can be guessed are extended - such as why Shanxi and Shaanxi are the cradles of thieves and why they are constantly suppressed. The deep-seated reasons here are closely related to them.
Gao Yingxiang, a native of Shanxi Province, Li Zicheng, a native of Shanxi Province, Zhang Xianzhong, a native of Shanxi Province. A great bandit, with famous and surnameds, is mostly from Shanxi Province!
On this land, the army, gentry, and merchants all colluded together to form dark clouds that covered the sky. In addition, natural disasters caused the people to survive and could only rebel.
The more the people rebel, the greater the benefits these people have. They greedily absorb the sweetness of blood and ignore everything.
If the court did not know, it would probably not be the case. It was just that the Ming court had no choice.
Because this earth is so dark that it cannot be cleaned.
But it was not a problem for Ying Yi. The Ming Dynasty in the past dynasty had to worry about gentry, scholars, army, and not move. Ying Yi was just the opposite, he wanted to clean up all this with blood and fire!
The establishment of the Northwest War Zone was to wash the filthy outside against the Tatars inside. After Jiang Yuan died, the gentry and merchants on the ground were counted as one, all of which were in the target of the army's cleaning. Even if the land was whitewashed, Ying Yi would do whatever he wanted!
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Jiexiu, Shanxi, the Fan family mansion.
The cannons roared, smashing the fortress, and strong soldiers like wolves and tigers rushed in, dragging them out, killing them on the spot!
Within half a month, the Fan Yongdou family, the Wang Dengku family, the Jin Liangyu family, the Wang Dayu family, the Liang Jiabin family, the Tian Shenglan family, the Zhai Tang family, the Huang Yunfa family and a series of merchants, gentry, border generals, and officials of the previous dynasty pulled out radishes and brought out mud, and killed them all!
When Huang Taiji learned the news, he vomited blood and fainted.
Half a month later, in mid-August, the slave chief Huang Taiji died in Shengjing. After a lot of internal struggles, the Manchu Eight Banners made his youngest son Fulin the slave chief, Dorgon was appointed as the regent, established Shunzhi of the Yuan Dynasty, and began military adjustments.
"Fan Yongdou and others were uprooted by Xia thieves, which made me lose my arms in the pain. My eyes were like dark night, and it was hard to know the situation of the southern people."
Dorgon said, "The situation of the Xia thief is about to be completed. If it is delayed, it will be difficult to enter the pass after it is sorted out. Now the situation of the Eight Banners of Mongolia, the Eight Banners of Han and the various divisions of Korea has stabilized. We must send troops immediately to interrupt their vigorous momentum, otherwise our Qing Dynasty will be in danger!"
The little slave chief Fu Lin sat on the dragon throne in fear, looking around in a panic, and was just a yellow-haired child who knew nothing.
After Dorgon finished speaking, he ignored Fulin and said to the important minister of the Eight Banners: "The regent wants to fight for the country's destiny with the Xia thieves."
Upon hearing this, the important officials of each banner all showed different expressions.
Dai Shan Laocheng was polite and said, "Although what the Regent said is not bad, the whole country's soldiers are too much. I am not as large as the Han slaves, with only one million people, and less than one hundred thousand elite soldiers. The Regent's move is tantamount to placing the fate of the country in a war, which is really dangerous. If there are any twists and turns, I am in danger!"
Even Dorgon's brother Ajige opposed: "It's better to take a quick look at it."
However, Haoge, who lost the throne, was even more radical and said, "The Regent said it right. We must interrupt the vigorous momentum of the Xia thieves to restore the hatred of Ama!"
Dorgon glanced over everyone and said lightly: "Prince Li's words are very reasonable. Just as Prince Li said, the Han slaves were numerous, and I was over one million."
When Haoge heard this, he glared at him, but saw Dorgon turning his voice and said, "That's why we have to send troops quickly. Han slaves have a deep foundation. If they don't send troops before the civil strife is settled, they will only be bleeding when they send troops!"
"What's more,..." Dorgon took a deep breath: "From the news coming from below, Xia thief Ying Yi has no good feelings for me Manchuria! If I don't send troops, he will also send troops to attack one day. At that time, he will be strong and will be strong, and hundreds of thousands of troops will be swarming. Prince Li, what are you going to resist?!"
Daishan's face suddenly turned pale.
Dorgon said: "We must take advantage of the fact that our foothold is not stable and we will lose our momentum. Otherwise, the ending of our Manchuria will not be very good. Instead of waiting for death, it is better to take a try. If it can be successful, imitate Temujin and enter the Central Plains, and that great country will be taken and asked for, wouldn't it be pleasant?"
Chapter completed!