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Volume 1: The Arms Dealer¡¯s Feast Chapter 294: Breaking Shenyang

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    If everything was done in accordance with the laws of the Ming Dynasty, then in the Ming Dynasty, except for a few officials such as Hai Rui, they should be executed. If decapitation was not enough in Zhu Yuanzhang's time, these corrupt officials would have to be skinned, first dead and then alive.  human.  It was stuffed with straw and framed for future generations to see, but such a red terror (who gave the Ming Dynasty the surname Zhu? Doesn¡¯t Zhu mean red) did not stop latecomers from becoming corrupt officials.

    When a person wins the Jinshi title, he or she is usually released as a seventh-rank county magistrate. How much salary does a seventh-rank county magistrate in the Ming Dynasty receive? According to the Ming system, the monthly salary is 7.5 shi or the annual salary is 45 taels of silver, which is equivalent to about 3 Ruanmei coins.  It¡¯s about 4,000 yuan, which is just the basic salary. Other income includes four Chai Xin Zao servants and one groom. The wages of these five people are paid by the state.

    Winter and summer official uniforms and pen and ink fees are subsidized by the state.  When a new officer takes office, he can also get 40 taels of repair money first.  It seems that the annual salary of 45 taels of silver for a Qipin county magistrate is similar to the 40 taels of silver for a groom. (The salary of civil servants in the Ming Dynasty was really very low. The salary income of civil servants in the Ming Dynasty was relatively small among all the previous dynasties.) But the housing of county officials, officials, etc.  Expenses on transportation, travel, staff, and food and clothing are basically paid and subsidized by the state, so the annual salary is basically net income, and the writing and ink expenses are fixed and allocated by the state on a two-year basis, and there is still excess.  Grooms and others do not have those benefits.

    Judging from the current living standards, Lao Zhu's salary level is actually very reasonable. As long as the county magistrate does not have to support a large family or a second wife, a third wife, a master, etc., it is completely enough. Hai Rui's family of more than ten people can live in poverty.  A little bit, but they are not hungry either - the salary of civil servants in the Ming Dynasty was low, but that was compared with the Song Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty.

    But there is a saying that cannot be resisted: the human heart is not enough. Who doesn¡¯t like gorgeous furniture, tableware, and stationery? Who doesn¡¯t want to have a master of official documents to help them handle official documents? Who doesn¡¯t want to have more time to rest, drink tea, and work?  Reading poems, reading books, playing with the second wife, the third wife, the fourth wife and the fifth wife Who doesn¡¯t want his family to be well clothed, well fed, and have enough money? Of course, it would be even better if he could save an inexhaustible amount of money for his children and grandchildren when he becomes an official - because  In the evil old society of the Ming Dynasty, being an official was not hereditary. There was almost nothing to do with whether you were elected and whether your children or grandchildren would be elected officials in their studies, unless they made great contributions to the court and favored their descendants or entered the Jinyiwei system.

    In short, for the sake of a better life for themselves and their descendants, the officials of the Ming Dynasty collectively roared: "I want to be corrupt."

    The Hongwu dynasty was relatively strict, but after arriving in Yongle, everyone has become accustomed to intertwining corruption and bribery with favors - for example, officials in the capital receive letters from officials from all over the country every four o'clock and eight festivals every year.  Gifts, ice gifts in summer and carbon gifts in winter.

    But the salary of local officials at the same level is not higher than that of officials in the capital. Where does this filial piety come from? There are only four words - people's fat and people's anointing.

    The meaning of these filial piety is also very simple, that is, I have committed corruption locally, and you will always take care of me in the capital.  Even if the Jin Yiwei knew about it, there was nothing they could do. Except for the Hongwu Dynasty, other emperors did not have the courage and courage to kill all the ministers in the court.  The unlucky ones who are occasionally caught for corruption are either losers in the political struggle, or they are patronizing themselves and forgetting to welcome their superiors - it can be seen that the DPRK has formed a huge corruption system, and if you don't corrupt, you will become corrupt in this system.  If you become an outlier, you won't be able to hang out, otherwise there won't be any drama about Hai Rui being dismissed from office.

    In the later Quanqing era, corruption was even legalized and was euphemistically called "Yanglianyin". However, officials who held the "Yanglianyin" should still take it without mercy.

    "Hahahahashould be killed, deserved to be killed" Now when Yuan Chonghuan heard Fan Yongdou say that he should be beheaded because of corruption and bribery, he felt dumbfounded. If he really should be beheaded according to the crime of corruption, besides those things  There are only a few candidates left in the entire court.

    Yuan Chonghuan's imprisonment brought a series of shocks. At the same time, the commander-in-chief Wu Xiangzu Dashou and others who came with the troops were also sent to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment.  For a time, everyone in Ningyuan's officers and soldiers outside the capital was in danger.

    Not only the officers and soldiers of Ningyuan outside the capital, but also Sun Yuanhua, who did not join Yuan Chonghuan in Liaodong's conspiracy to slander King Wuzhao Qin, also sensed the danger.  The last thing in the world is to be a loser. This loser seems to be able to stay out of the situation, but in fact, no matter which side wins, it is the loser who must be dealt with immediately.

    In the past, the officers and soldiers of Ningyuan could support the bandits and even threaten the court by surrendering to the Tatars. But now that the Eight Banners were defeated and they surrendered, they might be well-paid. Is it the right time to employ people? But this time, the new army of the court, together with the Tatars, annihilated this terrible thing.  What to do.  Sun Yuanhua knew that if Ningyuan's new army didn't perform at all, it would be unjustifiable.

    Before the imperial report arrived in Ningyuan, Sun Yuanhua had received the news earlier and sent 6,000 new troops to attack Shenyang City, one of the Tatar strongholds.  You must know that Shenyang is the hometown of the Tatars. Their wives, concubines, children and family members all stay here, plus there are hundreds of thousands of slaves and their families.

      Why is it said that Shenyang is only one of the base camps of the Tatars? Because there is a place farther away that makes later generations of Tatars shudder - Ninggu Pagoda.  In order to control Jilin and Heilongjiang, the Tatars have had the custom of garrisoning troops from Ninggu Pagoda since the Nurhaci period. According to historical materials, ministers who committed crimes often included in their judgments that Ninggu Pagoda was assigned to slaves in armor.

    This Ninggu Pagoda is located in a bitterly cold place in the northeast, which is not a good place for the Tatars.  Otherwise, why would generations of Tatar leaders be so determined to go south?  This armored man was the armored soldier of the Eight Banners, and he was assigned to the armored man as a slave. This fate can be said to make countless Tatar officials shudder - it is comparable to Russia's exile of prisoners to Siberia.

    Seeing that thousands of Ming troops dared to come to Shenyang City to show off their power, Daishan, who defended the city, immediately ordered 50,000 bannermen to go out of the city to fight the Ming troops.  The Tatars always mount their horses to march and dismount to fight. They are actually mounted infantry.  At such a small distance outside the city, even horses can't run fast enough, so Daishan's troops are all armored infantry.

    "Let these Nikans see the power of our Eight Banners." These people smoked dry pipes and left the city, but before they could form a team, the new army of Sun Yuan's Hua Department rushed forward. After several rounds of gunfire, these Eight Banners were killed.  They fought back.

    Sun Yuanhua laughed loudly when he saw the defeated Tatars returning to the city: "I thought the Eight Banners could do anything. It turns out it's not much harder than hunting rabbits."

    "What the adults are saying is that the target of this rabbit is much smaller than that of the Tatars. It is impossible to hit a few Tatars with ten shots. On the contrary, it is often the case that ten shots fail to hit a rabbit.  ."

    At this time, the Tatars were still relatively superstitious about horseback riding and archery. Everyone in the Jurchen tribe had been practicing bow and arrow shooting since childhood. However, these cold weapons were undoubtedly suicidal in the face of the new Australian steel cannons and fast guns.

    In fact, if you think about it, the Qin crossbow has a range of hundreds of steps, while the Tatar bows and arrows only have a range of dozens of steps. In terms of technological level, they are too far behind - the Ming army does not like to use crossbows on a large scale.  Yes, but there are many kinds of rockets like "hundreds of tigers rushing together like swarms of swarms". However, the accuracy of rockets in this era is not good, and the production, transportation and storage requirements of rockets are relatively high. They are generally used to defend big cities.  Rockets can only exert their power when the enemy force is large and the protection is poor - this is one of the reasons why the Ming Dynasty did not allow private ownership of armor.

    After Sun Yuanhua's new army used new firearms to defeat the elite Tatar troops in a field battle outside Shenyang City, they launched an attack on the strong city of Shenyang. Some seven or eight-year-old Tatars also went to the city to defend themselves with bows and arrows.  But the end result was heads being harvested piece by piece by cannonballs and musket bullets.  These Tatars will never understand until their death why these muskets can hit such a distance without exploding their chambers - Tatars don't like firearms because they are too dangerous and can explode their chambers at every turn, but there is no such risk in archery.

    The solid shells fired by the Hongyi Steel Cannon, which weighed more than ten kilograms, hit the city wall and dropped large pieces of bricks and stones. At this time, the city wall always shook like this, and one did not know when it would collapse.  There were also many big tiger steel cannons filled with loose powder, and they carried out covering bombardment on the defenders on the city wall. The Tatars who were knocked down by probing and shooting arrows turned the defenders into a cold war with new firearms.  The massacre of the weapon tribe.

    "Everyone goes to the city to kill the Tatars. The man has been promoted and made a fortune, and the cute wife Yinzi is waiting for this." Sun Yuanhua rushed in first with a sword in his waist.

    After the Australian Hongyi Steel Cannon destroyed a large area of ??the city wall, the Ningyuan New Army entered Shenyang.  The enslaved Han people in Shenyang City also launched a riot at this time, killing and raping the Tatars, and actively led the Ningyuan New Army to inspect the Tatars' property, wives and daughters.  The city of Shenyang suddenly turned into a sea of ??vengeance. The Tatars were practicing slavery, and slave owners would naturally not look down upon their slaves.  Frequent killings were common, and even the massacres of Han people in Liaodong were carried out several times.

    Most of the Tatars in the Shenyang base camp are old and weak, and some of the elites were defeated by the New Army's artillery fire in the field battle the day before yesterday.  When a myth is shattered, people's hearts also disperse.

    In the battle of Shenyang, Sun Yuanhua captured the heads of countless real Tatars, especially the big jade, middle jade, and small jade of the Borjit family.  Among them were the wives and concubines of the bandit leader Huang Taiji. This was also the breakup battle between the Ningyuan New Army and the Tatars. The hatred of killing his son and taking away his wife was probably a life-and-death battle.

    There is also a distinction between superior and inferior in this game of women. A group of new officers and soldiers who wanted to kill Huang Taiji's beloved concubine Xiao Yu'er knelt on one knee in front of Sun Yuanhua and shouted loudly: "Master Sun, please go first."  Master Sun, please come up first."

    After Sun Yuanhua went up, he lifted up his belt and said, "This Mongolian woman from the Borjit clan is quite pretty. Come on, generals."

    "Thank you for your grace." This is how the so-called Four Irons came about.

      Xiao Yuer: "I want to drink milk."

    The herds are here, but is the milk still far away?

    The captured Jurchen female relatives of Houjin will naturally be sent to Beijing as gifts, and the male bannermen will naturally be killed. This is a curse that cannot be saved, but everyone does not have the habit of killing women - after raping them, they can also be sent to prison  Sifang has been a chicken for generations.

    There was even more money and grain stolen from Shenyang. After the imperial court seized Fan Wendou and other eight major Shanxi merchants in Shanxi, they only confiscated hundreds of millions of taels of gold and silver and over 100 million in real estate. The gold and silver stolen from Shenyang  The things can only be described as piles like mountains. This is also what two generations of Jurchen tribes have looted over the years. They got too much gold, silver, money, and relatively few weapons such as soldiers and armors, so they needed the eight Shanxi merchants to launder their money.  .

    The reason why the Tatars moved south this time was because Yuan Chonghuan blocked the money and food supply of Dongjiang Town, and secondly, they made a secret peace agreement with Yuan Chonghuan - of course, this agreement has nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty, but only between Huang Taiji and Yuan Chonghuan's Ningyuan officers and soldiers.  .

    Originally, the money and food taken from the enemy in this battle belonged to the soldiers, but this time Sun Yuanhua considered that the gold and silver he had obtained was too much, so he transferred a small part of it to Tatars, etc. worth about 40 million taels of silver.  More than 100,000 people's wives and daughters came to the capital to report the victory.  In addition to these Tatar wives and daughters, the traitor Fan Wencheng was also caught alive. Although Fan Wencheng also knew that there was only one way to die after being taken back to Beijing, and that he would be executed at Lingchi, but Fan Wencheng did not have the courage to commit suicide.  Together with his wife and daughter, who had been beheaded by thousands of people, they were put into a prison car being taken to Beijing.

    This time the Tatars went south and detoured through Mongolia to enter the customs. Naturally, they also had to detour back through Mongolia.  This time, because of the defeat of the Eight Banners, the Mongolian princes had more worries. The Mongolian soldiers who entered the customs with the Eight Banners all suffered heavy losses. Huang Taiji was originally a combination of kindness and power - sending his daughter to send additional troops to attack the conquered Mongolian tribes. At this time  The Eight Banners were defeated, and everyone did not take Huang Taiji's order seriously. Among them, there were inevitably those who wanted to take Huang Taiji's head to Beijing to exchange for two coins.

    It was really difficult to go back all the way. Huang Taiji's troops were constantly attacked and plundered by various Mongolian tribes. When they returned to Shenyang, only more than 8,000 troops were left out of the hundreds of thousands of troops.  There are less than one in ten, and most of them are still bannermen of the two yellow flags.  If it weren't for the loyal minions of the two yellow flags who protected them all the way, ten yellow Thai chickens would have surrendered.

    Only when he arrived at the foot of Shenyang City and saw the dilapidated Shenyang City and the headless corpses of Tatars scattered inside and outside Shenyang City, Huang Taiji vomited blood again.  Huang Taiji, who has experienced the power of the new army of the Ming Dynasty, knows that the former glory of the Jurchen tribe of the Houjin slaves has passed. Now, thousands of Ming troops equipped with firearms can conquer the city of Shenyang with hundreds of thousands of people. Such martial arts was not possible last year.  The Ming Dynasty is unthinkable.

    Seeing the return of the Tatar troops, the surviving banner men lurking around Shenyang City came out to tell the story of Sun Yuanhua's destruction of the city, and the details of how thousands of new troops killed Xiao Yu'er by a thousand people (how could they do that?  knew).

    After Huang Taiji woke up from vomiting blood again, he couldn't stay in Shenyang. He immediately ordered the remaining defeated soldiers of the Eight Banners to be taken back to Ninggu Pagoda. Although the winter there was colder, the bad weather could effectively block the Ming army.  pace.

    It¡¯s just that all of this is a good thing for Australians.

    This time the Ming Dynasty really had a lot of money, and there was no need to buy arms piecemeal here and there - you must know that countries much smaller than the Ming Dynasty in later generations have an annual arms purchase budget of one billion or tens of billions.  Units are calculated.

    This time, the Ming court spent 15 million taels from the eight Shanxi merchants who were confiscated and Sun Yuanhua's contribution from Liaodong to purchase Australian arms and form a new army.  Of course, this must be done first by the central government and then by the local governments. Needless to say that new armies have been established in various places. Those that do not have to establish new armies one by one according to priority. These local new armies are the former Beijing Camp New Army.  From here on, it can be seen that Chongzhen wanted to strengthen his control over the place.

    For example, Guan Ningjun has created a large number of wealthy households, and Australian luxury products have also entered this area. After all, money cannot be used directly for food - now Australia has many other daily necessities besides arms and mirrors.  The small quantities that were sold in the Ming Dynasty were regarded as luxury goods because the prices remained high.

    Soap, perfume, glassware, cosmetics - they seem to be very close to girls' lives, and that's true. After all, no one wants to see the girl they love without cosmetics, soaps, etc. The chemical team has put a lot of effort here - there is such time  Why don't you get more three acids and two alkalis?

    After more than a year of continuous immigration on the Lushan Ship, the total population of Youth City finally exceeded the 80,000 mark at the end of 1629.  What is the concept of this population of 80,000? It is about the same as a small county in later generations.  Among them, there are more than 10,000 strong laborers, because Australians are very good at coordinating manpower.It is more scientific in terms of usage. This small town of 80,000 people is much cleaner and tidier than the average county town. There are people cleaning the streets and catching litterers all the time.

    Moreover, the houses in Youth City are of various sizes and specifications. The streets selling clothes are all selling clothes and fabrics, and the streets selling food are all selling food. Last year, the hypermarkets also expanded their scope - there has not been any private sex disorder here in Youth City.  This is the benefit of new development. As long as we explain it clearly to the people first, nothing will happen.

    This is also a classic example that time travelers remember, that is, a family opened a restaurant on the first floor of their own house. Originally, it seemed that they could do whatever they wanted with the house they bought.  It's just that the cooking chimney was quite disturbing to the residents. Several families upstairs didn't want to do it, so they called the police. The police didn't want to do anything, so they persuaded the family to open a restaurant on the first floor.  But they didn't listen, and the police didn't do anything and left.  Later, a family on the third floor couldn't stand the smell downstairs and threw a basin of water out of the window. The owner on the first floor came up to reason with a knife and killed three people in the third floor family with a knife.  Needless to say, this master must be sentenced to death, and the two families were ruined.  (Now that I think about it, it¡¯s really good news for families outside the first and third floors)

    "It would have been the same in the Ming Dynasty. Human relations were so intricate that if you wanted to demolish a house, it would be impossible without violence. Even if you demolished it with violence, something else might happen."

    Nowadays, many immigrants from the Ming Dynasty have also started to do some business on their own by relying on their craftsmanship. Of course, those who want to imitate the new Australian products have completely lost their money.  However, in some traditional industries, such as restaurants, masons, carpenters, tailors, barbers, etc., there are still many people who have real skills and have made a small fortune.

    The Bank of Australia as a business incubator was also built in 1629. Australians never thought of using banknotes to replace the currency function, because in the era when Australians came, there were only small-denomination banknotes on the market to replace some copper plates, and larger transaction bank transfers or  Checks and so on can be done, there is no need for people to exchange gold and silver for paper money - the Ming Dynasty issued treasure banknotes indiscriminately but did not collect treasure banknotes when collecting taxes, causing the treasure banknotes to be as cheap as paper, which was completely lost.  The people are even more disgusted with the function of currency.

    As for the Australian aborigines here in the past, they were a bit sorry. The iron artillery team that stayed in Australia drove these troops far away in several battles.  (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)
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