Chapter 103: The Great Battle in the Capital At the end of November of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Dagukou, Tianjin In the era when the Ming Empire was powerful, the Dagukou area was once the headquarters of the Tianjin Navy and was tightly guarded.
However, during the Chongzhen period when the world declined and the military system collapsed, only a few beacon towers remained here.
However, the private port market for private maritime trade is quite prosperous.
However, as Dengzhou Town raised troops to rebel in the summer, attacked Tianjin's port, and blocked the Bohai Sea route, Tianjin's seaport quickly became depressed.
Next, about three months ago, the Dengzhou rebels and a group of unfamiliar southern troops landed in Dagukou and expelled the few local landlord regiments and yamen servants.
Immediately, they did not occupy the private port, but chose another remote coast to set up camp and established a stronghold.
If it were in the peaceful era, this would definitely be a major event that could shock the Beijing court and spread the word all over the world.
However, at this time, tens of thousands of Tartars have already broken through and invaded Beizhili, and are wantonly raiding Yongping Prefecture and Shuntian Prefecture.
The entire The North China Plain has turned into a huge battlefield, and the Ming Empire's rule in North Zhili has rapidly collapsed.
In the midst of the flames of war and chaos, no one could care about this small force that suddenly crossed the sea and squeezed into the battlefield.
On the other hand, the "rebels" entrenched on the coast also felt that after establishing the port stronghold, there were no signs of further expansion of the occupied area.
They did not even invade the nearest Tianjin Acropolis.
Instead, they summoned Many merchant ships set up markets on the beach on the edge of the battlefield and started food business.
Moreover, the price is quite fair: ten taels of silver per stone of brown rice, and five taels of silver per stone of wheat, which is even cheaper than the price of food in Jinan, Shandong Province at this time.
If it's still too expensive, there are corns priced at three taels of silver and one stone, and potatoes priced at one tael and one stone.
If you meet wealthy customers, you can also buy high-end foods such as bacon, salted fish, sausages, refined salt and even candies and pastries here.
As we all know, in troubled times, food is the most precious, and even mountains of gold and silver are not as valuable as mountains of rice and mountains.
After hearing the news that a large amount of grain was being sold in Dagukou, those wealthy Jin gentry families who had fled south with their families to avoid the war, all detoured here to replenish their "food supplies."
Even the families who were preparing to form a stronghold to protect themselves have sent their confidants to buy food.
In today's war-torn world, it is always a good idea to stock up on more food and rice in the cellar.
There are also some businessmen who are not afraid of death and find that the price of grain here is actually cheaper than that in Jinan.
Because the canal is cut off and merchants raise prices, the price of rice in Jinan has soared to forty taels of silver per stone, and they even started to come here to purchase goods. , and then sell them to the south to earn the price difference.
As for those refugees who really have nothing, there are ways to have enough to eat.
Dengzhou Town is currently recruiting refugees.
As long as they sign a five-year labor contract, they can have food and shelter: there are countless big pots in the "purification camp" day and night.
Turn off the heat and cook a paste made from grain bricks mixed with seaweed and wild vegetables.
As soon as any refugee comes in, he can get a wooden basin and a wooden spoon and go to the pot to get the hot paste to eat.
Although many refugees had to shave their heads and take a shower before entering the purification camp, which made many refugees feel hesitant, their hair was not as important as their stomachs, so they basically agreed without hesitation.
In fact, even if there was no food supply, many fleeing people subconsciously flocked to Dagukou.
This autumn, the North Zhili Plain was really raging with war.
It is incompetent to defend against the enemy and will collapse at the first touch, but it is also bloody and cruel when it harms the common people.
Even places that were not directly affected by the military disaster were plunged into extreme panic.
"Rogues" and bandits from all over the country took the opportunity to cause trouble and plunder everywhere.
In the midst of panic and chaos, ordinary people could only subconsciously drag their children with them and flee to towns and villages where there was still some order.
However, in those villages and towns protected by walls, the food reserves are also limited.
During times of war, even if you have money, you can't buy food.
Therefore, they cannot accommodate too many outsiders, otherwise they will wait to eat up the food reserves and everyone will starve together.
Die.
Under such circumstances, Dagokou, which was open to supply food, was like a paradise, attracting refugees from all directions.
In order to build a reputation, the "rebels" in Dagukou also selected a group of articulate refugees who had wives and children who were held hostage in the purification camps, and gave each of them some dry food and a handful of The daggers for self-defense allowed them to go around the area to publicize and kill people.
Anyone who could bring back a refugee would be rewarded with a certain amount of food, clothes and bedding.
Under the material incentives, these refugees worked very hard.
Within a month, the news that there was food in Dagukou had spread throughout Shuntian Prefecture.
In various villages and county towns, people who had exhausted their food reserves and could not find any work to do every day were so hungry that they could no longer survive.
They resolutely chose to say goodbye to their homes and embarked on the road to Dagukou.
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Even the Ming and Later Jin armies who were at war came to Dagukou to purchase military supplies.
These warriors with swords and guns in their hands naturally planned to rob them by force at first, but when they saw them on the beach Huang Shi and Chen Xin banner, I thought of General Huang's invincible sweep across Liaodong in the past, the reputation of defeating the Jurchens in every battle, and his "unparalleled martial arts" of riding into Liaoyang and killing Nurhachi alone, and I immediately felt weak in my legs. .
Later, when several "big iron ships" sailed into Dagokou and fired a round of incendiary bombs at the abandoned beacon tower on the shore as a demonstration from a distance of more than ten miles, there was no longer any military leader.
He didn't dare to take advantage of this place, but started the business in a friendly manner.
When he first took over Beijing, Huang Taiji was complacent for a time.
He wanted to send his troops to expel this group of "bold pirates" and seize the food and grass they left in the camp on the shore.
But when he learned that the "maritime leader" who came to Tianjin to do grain business turned out to be Huang Shi, he immediately recalled the horrific memory of being beaten to pieces by the Changsheng Camp in Liaodong in the past, and was frightened out of his mind.
They didn't dare to take advantage of Dagong Kou anymore, and they didn't even dare to ask the Jurchen Eight Banners to come forward directly when it came to purchasing food.
Instead, they ordered people from the Guan Ning Army to take care of it on their behalf.
In addition, Huang Taiji also withdrew all the Eight Banners soldiers originally stationed in Tianjin Acropolis and mobilized them to Baoding and other places further inland, just in case there was no other way.
During the war during the Tianqi years, the entire Jurchen Eight Banners army Any troops will be defeated in every battle once they encounter Huangshi, and Huangshi has already cast a psychological shadow on them.
At the same time, Huang Taiji even sent envoys in an attempt to recruit Huang Shi and Chen Xin to his banner to jointly fight against the Ming Dynasty.
According to the information obtained by the Hou Jin Kingdom, these two old rivals also rebelled against the Ming Dynasty.
So the relationship with Hou Jin seems to be no longer an enemy.
Therefore, in order to turn enemies into friends, Huang Taiji generously gave Huang Shi and Chen Xin the titles of King of Yue and Duke of Qi respectively.
However, for well-known reasons, both Huang Shi and Chen Xin were perfunctory and prevaricated, making this The negotiations did not yield any results.
No matter what, this battle can't be fought for the time being.
Therefore, relying on the huge amount of food input and the security provided by the landing troops, within just two or three months, a bustling market appeared on this deserted beach.
There are tea shops, restaurants, grocery stores, and even several secret kilns inside.
It is said that there are former official ladies in there.
In this world of prostitution and cannibalism, as long as they can exchange for a few handfuls of rice, their virginity is nothing. valuable.
As for those women who would rather be chaste than die, they have naturally starved to death or hanged themselves.
Of course, compared with the above-mentioned small businesses that are not worth mentioning, the most popular bulk business in Dagukou today is also the main purpose of the Chinese League to establish this trade stronghold, and the population trade is also important for the Jurchen Eight Banners and the Guanning rebels.
I mean, the common people everywhere are much cheaper than gold and silver.
On the navigation bridge of a Crocodile-class Russian landing ship, Wang Qiu wore a woolen hat and a thick military coat.
He held up a pair of high-power military binoculars and looked at the horizon on the west.
Countless poor people in ragged clothes and faces as pale as vegetables were killed.
One hundred people each of these "trading items" were strung up in a row with ropes, and were slowly approaching the Dagukou camp, driven by a group of Guan Ning Army cavalry.
Looking carefully, they were all in rags and rags.
Many of them simply walked barefoot in the snow.
Their skin turned blue from the cold.
The dense crowd and their expressions as numb as zombies made Wang Qiu confused just by looking at them.
My scalp feels numb and my heart feels blocked.
In order to buy enough winter food from the market in Dagukou and try to avoid consuming the limited gold and silver precious metals, although a lot of gold and silver were seized in Beijing, a considerable part of the gold and silver had to be used to reward soldiers and prepare salaries.
After preliminary negotiations with Dagukou, Emperor Taiji Khan decided to go on a " "Selling piglets", the army was ordered to dispatch the hundreds of thousands of refugees who had previously gathered in and around the capital, and were driven towards Tianjin.
Adult men and women were given eight bushels of wheat or equivalent potatoes and other "coarse grains" per person, and the elderly and children were given five bushels of wheat each. , the beautiful woman was dumped to the "sea merchants" in Dagukou at a separate price.
In this way, Huang Taiji could not only obtain a large amount of military rations, but also reduce the risk of civil unrest in the Gyeonggi region.
Since it was freezing cold at the time, and the Jurchen Eight Banners who escorted them did not provide much food rations, half of the refugees died on the way from Beijing to Tianjin, and many others escaped along the way.
It's just that in troubled times, human life is as cheap as grass.
This kind of plundering of people is what the Jurchen Eight Banners have been used to doing in recent years, so no one will be compassionate at all.
Even if it was Guan Ning's army that escorted them, the refugees would have suffered even more miserably and they would have been searched more carefully, and even some small items hidden close to their bodies would not have been saved.
In addition, officials from the old Ming Dynasty who had just surrendered to Hou Jin in various parts of Northern Zhili were also driving refugees from various counties to Dagukou, making the population market here more prosperous.
When the refugees finally were driven to the outskirts of the camp in Dagukou after going through all kinds of difficulties and dangers, a group of soldiers from the Dengzhou Army came up to them as usual.
On the one hand, they were counting the number of people and calculating the total price, and on the other hand, they were preparing for the escort.
Enemy soldiers took the opportunity to sneak attack several times.
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What was the result?
The scattered skeletons and broken swords and armor outside the camp fully illustrate the fate of these "brave men".
Therefore, the current group of Guan Ning Army cavalry escorting refugees to sell goods is generally quite gentle only when it comes to dealing with buyers.
Next, these half-dead refugees first drank a bowl of hot gooey around the fire, and toasted for a while.
Finally, they breathed a sigh of relief, and then they were forced to deal with them with swords and guns by a group of strange soldiers with short hair.
They had their hair cut short, and then they were collectively driven into several wooden sheds to take a shower.
This process was definitely not peaceful, and many people kept crying and crying, but in the face of those ferocious soldiers and dazzling swords and guns, everyone still had to choose to submit.
In the past few months, the bandits, rebels, government soldiers and The Tatars took turns raging in Beizhili, and the local people suffered a great disaster, being ravaged and massacred over and over again.
Those who had a particularly strong spirit of resistance had already been hacked to death by the Jurchen Tatars or the Guan Ning Army on the way.
The rest are people who just want to survive and don't dare to think about anything else.
After taking a bath, their rags and clothes were collected and burned, and then they put on blue cloth clothes provided by the purification camp.
Next, they were driven onto a long trestle, boarded a "big iron ship" moored at the port, and then passed through a secret door set in the cabin to arrive at the immigration destination on the other side of the earth.
From then on, they left the already reduced world forever.
As the homeland of hell on earth, they went to another continent to start their new life.
Through the surveillance screen in the cabin, watching another batch of more than 3,000 new immigrants being escorted onto the ship, Wang Qiu couldn't help but sigh, "In order to recruit these 3,000 immigrants, I'm afraid there are many people involved in the whole process.
Wouldn’t it be too sinful to have ten thousand people die?”
"This is totally wrong.
How can you think like this?
Without us, I'm afraid even the remaining three people wouldn't be able to survive."
Mo Ming, the Army Major General of the East Coast Republic who was responsible for supervising the immigration operation, immediately retorted after hearing this.
According to the prior internal negotiations of the Chinese League, the population collected in Tianjin would be exported to South America and South Africa, so the East Coast Republic of South America sent Major General Mo Ming came over to do business, "Not to mention that the Eight Banners soldiers would massacre every time they broke through the pass and went south.
Remember that in history, Two million people were killed in Shandong.
Even if they were able to escape the military disaster, there would be a ten-year drought in the late Ming Dynasty.
From Shandong to Shaanxi, no province in the north would be able to escape.
In addition, there would be plague.
Rather than letting them die meaninglessly here when the locust plague occurs at the same time, it is better to go overseas to fight for their lives and open up living space for the nation."
"What you said is indeed reasonable, but what I am worried about is that in the North China and Liaodong regions, on the one hand, the Han population has decreased sharply, and on the other hand, the Jurchens, that is, the Manchus have entered the country in large numbers in the future, and then There are still a lot of Mongolians coming in.
If it is done too much, it will lead to changes in the ethnic composition.
If the Beijing area becomes the territory of the Hu people, it will be terrible. " Wang Qiu shook his head and said, "It's good to open up a new world, but it's still a bit unacceptable to give up your homeland for this."
"This is simply unfounded worry.
The Mongols back then could not achieve this level, and the Eight Banners soldiers were even less able to do it."
Major General Mo Ming sneered at this, "Not to mention that we will launch a fatal blow to the Hou Jin regime no later than next summer, and we will not give Huang Taiji much time at all; not to mention the Mongolians and Mongolians who entered the Central Plains.
The Jurchens will eventually be completely Chineseized.
Beijing and even the whole of North China have become the horse pastures of the barbarians, so what?
For the entire size of China, it is just a few corners missing.
As long as the population of these places can be moved to the East Coast Republic, we can We can recreate a Chinese civilization overseas."
"It's up to you to recreate China overseas."
Wang Qiu was stunned for a moment, and then laughed out loud, "The Chinese-American Republic has robbed the foundation of future generations of bald eagles, and maybe it can really replicate a Chinese America.
But you guys In the small area of Uruguay in South America, it is still surrounded by the Portuguese Brazil and the Spanish American colonies.
It seems too exaggerated to talk about recreating China overseas."
There is no way.
Although it seems that the strength of the East Coast Republic is about the same as that of the Chinese and American Republic, considering the huge difference between the United States and Uruguay in the future, Wang Qiu still habitually believes that the East Coast Republic may not have enough development potential and will be difficult to keep up with.
The Chinese and American republics are comparable.
But Major General Mo Ming obviously did not think so, "You underestimate our development potential, Comrade Xiao Wang.
Indeed, the territory we actually control now is not large, and Uruguay in later generations does not have a great reputation.
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But this does not It does not mean that the conditions of this land are not good, it is just that the Latin Americans who rule this land are too unsatisfactory, and it does not mean that we will be satisfied with this little territory of Uruguay in the future.
In fact, our goal from the beginning was to seize the entire Rio de la Plata plain, including what would become Uruguay, Paraguay, and northern Argentina, which is the essence of the entire South America.
Enough to build another China.”
"Is the La Plata River plain so vast?
Can it accommodate a population of hundreds of millions?"
Wang Qiu asked with some disbelief.
"There is no problem at all," Major General Mo Ming said confidently.
"For example, in China, the entire Yangtze River Basin covers an area of only 1.8 million square kilometers, and many of them are mountainous and hilly areas that are difficult to develop. , the plains that can actually be developed are only about half, while the La Plata River Basin in South America has a large area.
The 4 million square kilometers of La Plata Plain alone, which is suitable for development into cultivated land, covers an area of 1.5 million square kilometers.
This land is basically in the subtropical and temperate zones, and the climate conditions are worse than the black soil in Ukraine and the three northeastern provinces.
Even better.
Throughout South America, there is no better land than here.
This is the Central Plains of South America.
As long as we Chinese people occupy this fertile land, we will definitely become the masters of the entire South America in the future."
"It's so powerful, but since this land is so uniquely endowed, why don't we have any powerful characters in our history?"
Wang Qiu still blinked in disbelief, "Moreover, judging from the map, your country is right above Brazil, the largest country in South America and one of the BRICS countries in the future.
No matter how you look at it, it belongs to Brazil.
Wouldn’t it be better to have a bigger site?”
"Brazil is a country that only looks very big on the map.
In fact, it has no basic conditions to become a big country.
To give a similar example, in Asia, Outer Mongolia is many times larger than Japan and South Korea.
But who thinks that Outer Mongolia can be as big as Japan and South Korea?
Japan and South Korea are on par” Major General Mo Ming shook his head with some disdain, "You may not know if you have never been to South America.
Brazil, a so-called big country, needs a lot of water.
In fact, from a strategic and economic perspective, Brazil is Russia, which is equivalent to South America, looks huge, but is it really There are not many places where people can live, and the city and population can only be squeezed into a small corner.
The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is like Siberia in South America.
It looks vast and rich in resources, but it is not at all.
A place suitable for human survival” oshow7: