Huang Ting surrendered to Azig, and Zhao Ming actually didn't blame him.After all, the battle of Jiangbei was indeed powerless.It is not worthy of praise and moral indebtedness, but it is still better than those who surrender to the Qing army without a fight.Because of this, Zhao Ming was not too embarrassed at the beginning, Huang Ting and other dependents of more than 1,000 people who surrendered to the army were just removed from the military registration and no longer enjoyed the preferential treatment of military families.This time, Huang Ting was dedicated to Xuzhou anyway, which is a great achievement.However, if those who have surrendered repeatedly are reused, they will not be able to persuade good, and it will be difficult to lead the army.Huang Ting originally wanted to continue to lead the army, but after listening to Zhao Ming's words, he gave up his mind and could only thank him, and then went to Tuntian, Liaodong.The Ming Dynasty developed Liaodong for more than 200 years, and immigrated more than 3 million people, which was almost destroyed since the Liao incident.The land outside the Guan, for generations, has been really controlled by the Central Plains Dynasty, only the Ming Dynasty, and the premise of this direct control is that there are more than 3 million Han people outside the Guan.This is the merit of the Ming Dynasty, but since the Nurhachi uprising, more than 2 million Han people in Liaodi have been killed and injured, and Tunpu Prefecture and counties have been destroyed, and there has been no rooster crying for thousands of miles.In order for the imperial court to actually control a place, there are people first, and then land.Since a few years ago, Zhao Ming has set out to restore Liaodi, but the population in the customs has not reached saturation, so the immigration can only be forced by the government, otherwise let the people choose for themselves, then they will definitely prefer to live in the customs.At this time, after dealing with Huang Ting's affairs, there was a sudden commotion outside the hall, and after a while, Li Yuanyin and the others came in excitedly."
Your Highness!
Chen ambushed in the north of Xuzhou, killed 3,000 enemies, captured 4,000 enemy troops, and beheaded the Manchu Beyler Xihan!
”Li Yuanyin reported loudly.Zhao Ming said with a smile: "If it was a few years ago, such military exploits would be enough to seal the marquis!"
”Li Yuanyin said with a smile: "If it is not enough, please be the pioneer and conquer Beijing for His Highness!"
”Zhao Ming waved his hand and said in a deep voice: "Don't worry!
The army has just taken Xuzhou, so it will take a short rest, and then it is not too late to go north!
”After speaking, Zhao Ming stood up, "After a night of fierce fighting, everyone is tired, let's go and rest first!"
”All the generals clasped their fists together, "Wow!
”When everyone retreated, the scholar Gu Yanwu stayed behind and said to Zhao Ming: "Previously, His Highness was worried that Wu Sangui would join the war, and he was eager to recover Beijing before the Zhou army solved Mongolia.Now that Xuzhou is about to go down, just as it is going all out to defeat the Eastern Qing Dynasty, why did His Highness change his mind?
”Zhao Ming just smiled and said: "Although Xuzhou is restored today, the military and civilians of Xuzhou, although they are the people of the Ming Dynasty, have been ruled by barbarians for a long time, and they don't know the grace of the lonely king, and it is actually difficult to control it."
In addition, although there are many lonely divisions, the feudal soldiers have not yet returned to their hearts.Now in the land of thousands of miles in Huaibei and eastern Henan, Lone is ready to collect all the land given by Azig to the barbarians, reward the soldiers, rescue the people, make the army and the people grateful, and then go north!
”Gu Yanwu frowned, and found that the regent's attitude had changed a lot today, but Zhao Ming didn't say the real reason, so he didn't ask, so he had to bow and leave.In the afternoon of the same day, the capture of the Battle of Xuzhou was counted.Of the 60,000 Qing troops in Xuzhou, as many as 40,000 surrendered and captured, more than 16,000 were killed, and thousands more followed the Manchu Yu prince Doni and fled to Luoyang.This made Zhao Ming regret for a while, Duoduo's house did not die in his hands, and he didn't expect his son to slip away from his palm.Two days later, the defenders of Guide learned that Xuzhou was captured by the Ming army, and the defender Li Guohan immediately led the army to break through to Luoyang.Li Dingguo took advantage of the situation to attack and kill, beheaded 10,000 people, and returned with thousands of prisoners.At this point, the end of the first battle in Xuzhou, 100,000 Qing troops, only more than 10,000 fled to Luoyang, the Ming army captured more than 60,000 people, beheaded more than 20,000 people, captured soldiers, and piled up military funds.Haizhou, Lianyungang in later generations.Nearly 100 sea boats were moored at the edge of the pier, waiting for the surrendered troops and their families to board the ships.More than 60,000 troops surrendered, Zhao Ming selected 10,000 people from them, organized three cavalry battalions, and sent the rest to Liaodong.At this time, on the edge of the wharf, Zhao Ming said to the plug Yinxi who hurried from Yangzhou: "Block the cabinet department, after these surrendered troops and their dependents arrive in Liaodi, they will be resettled separately.The ration is issued once every half a month, and it should not be given more, so as not to repeat!
”Zhao Ming could not immediately trust the surrendered army, and in order to avoid their rebellion, he instructed Gu Yinxi, who was in charge of the placement, to control the rations of the surrendered army.Nowadays, Liaodi mainly grows soybeans, and the scale is not large, and the grain is not self-sufficient, mainly provided by Nanyang and Huguang.Zhao Ming only needs to control the rations, which is equivalent to controlling the rebels.Du Yinxi didn't quite understand, Zhao Ming hurriedly called him from Yangzhou, and he was only responsible for the placement of the surrendered army, but he still bowed his head and said: "If only half a month's rations are issued each time, then even if the surrendered army rebels, at most half a month, it will collapse without a fight because the food is exhausted." ”Zhao Ming took Block Yinxi's hand, clapped his hands on the back and instructed: "Block the Pavilion Department!"
If Liaodi is well developed, it will be able to feed at least five or six million people.This is a thousand years of work, so I'll leave it to you!
”Du Yinxi felt that this matter could be handled by sending a cadre, but since the regent ordered the general, he still said seriously: "Your Highness, rest assured, the minister will definitely restore the prosperity of Liaodi." ”"Good!
So I'm relieved!
”Zhao Ming nodded, and then said: "It's not early, let's get on the boat!"
”At that moment, Du Yinxi boarded the ship, and Zhao Ming led everyone to wave goodbye to him.After sending away Du Yinxi, Zhao Ming did not return to Xuzhou immediately, but led a group of generals to gallop in Huaibei to check the fields in Huaibei.In order to maintain his rule, Azig adopted a banner field cultivation system close to serfdom, and occupied large tracts of land for the Eight Banners and the Han army.Zhao Ming looked around, under this system, the flag slaves who were responsible for planting the fields were miserable and lived like livestock.However, Zhao Ming did not plan to divide the land in Huaibei and eastern Henan to the banner slaves to cultivate, so that they could become yeoman farmers, but decided to take all these lands into the ownership of the imperial court, and then set up farms all over the north just like setting up a cotton company in Jiangbei and planting cotton in large estates.At present, the population of the south has not yet reached saturation, and the north is even more populated.In this case, Zhao Ming also had to continue to migrate to the Ming border area to consolidate the territory, and also carry out overseas colonization and move a large number of people out.At present, the population is obviously insufficient, and if you want to immigrate, you can only change the traditional farming mode of the people, carry out farm and large estate planting, and cultivate large areas of land with a small population, so as to improve the efficiency of the population.Otherwise, with China's territory, in the absence of drought-tolerant and high-yield crops such as corn and sweet potatoes, it can feed at least 100 million people, and now corn and sweet potatoes have been introduced to the south, and after they are widely planted, they can feed 400 million people.At present, the population of the Ming, Zhou, and Qing dynasties is less than 60 million, and according to the rate of population growth, it will be at least a hundred years before China will have an outward migration momentum due to the increase in the pressure of survival due to the excessive internal population.But at that time, it was too late for Zhao Ming and Daming.
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