.Chapter 209 Border Defense, Ming Dynasty

The farmers in North Sidao, North Korea found that their lives were getting better after the autumn harvest in 1571. Although the Ming government took half of the tax on grain, they left behind a bunch of miscellaneous tickets. It is said that these things can go to a place called a supply and marketing cooperative in the town to exchange for supplies. The rumors were the fastest circulating. The first to receive various tickets were the coolies in the mines and officials from all over the country. This was much better than the previous North Korean king who only collected taxes and did not care about things.

The farmers can collect these tickets in different categories. They may as well collect cloth and meat at the end of the year. The new clothes for the family during the New Year and the meat for the New Year are still missing. Others that cannot be used, such as a few cigar tickets, you may as well exchange them for some cash. Most of the cigars on the market, which are 20 cents a day, cannot afford them. Those who are addicted to smoking can usually smoke some of their own dry tobacco to relieve fatigue. Those who can smoke hookahs are already the landlord class.

In addition to the new economic reform, the army was not idle this year. There was Qi Jiguang there on the south four roads, so there was no need to worry. This man was Zhang Juzheng's confidant general, unless Zhang Juzheng broke the contract and turned against me. However, the two border lines of Yalu River and Tumen River were to worry. Although the ninja who came back swore to kill a child named Nurhaci, the harassment of the villages near the border by the Jiannu Juzhen tribe has never stopped this year. These Jiannu Juzhen cavalry came and went like the wind, stolen things and people and ran away, just like every time the police officers

In the bandit movie, when the large army came in a hurry, they only saw the messy scene after the incident. It is said that the various departments of the Jiannu Juzhen were nominally under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty. I sent someone to negotiate with Liaodong Governor Hao Jie and Liaodong General Li Chengliang. Liaodong Governor Hao Jie's answer made me laugh and cry, "Do you think we have not been robbed here? Similarly, except for several cities such as Shenyang, I don't know how many times the nearby villages have been robbed. Those Jiannu even act as treasures. Can you still expect them not to rob?'

Liaodong General Li Chengliang is a great good person in this regard. Every time the negotiation documents are sent, Liaodong General Li Chengliang always takes the army to clear out a few times, and every time he returns with gold, silver, treasures, fur, humans, cattle, sheep and women. As for the effect of these clearances on the stability of the North Korean border, at least I have not seen them. These Jiannu Juzhen tribes are like they can never kill them. Occasionally, they ambush and destroy several small teams invading the border. News came from a place where there were no ambushing people in a few days - they were robbed again.

There are not many people who come to the country to grab iron and human food and other items. The larger team is only a few dozen people, and the few are only a dozen people. But it is okay to grab a village with just this little force. This is the power of the nomadic people. I have learned riding and shooting since I was a child. Nomadic people are equivalent to the whole nation being a soldier against the farmers of the farming nation. There are always barbaric victory over civilization in this world because the barbarians are too destructive. In fact, there will be nomadic people in this world in a few hundred years. Tell me what else can you do to make me worry and feel sad every day.

The Sino-North Korea border is more than 1,000 miles in total, and I have only more than 3,000 troops in my hands. Even if I have all arranged to guard the border, I can't defend it no matter how I see that only three people can defend one mile or five hundred meters. And it is impossible to arrange all these more than 3,000 people on the Sino-North Korea border. What should I do if the defense of various prefectures and counties such as Pyongyang? Kim Soo-cai took time to make a plan for me. According to this plan, it takes about 40,000 troops to defend the Jiannu Jurchens and Pyongyang on the northern border and the prefectures and counties. In fact, I only have less than 4,000 Japanese troops, and more than 5,000 Korean troops have been reorganized, which means there are still more than 30,000 troops. However, in my opinion, these North Korean troops holding three iron forks really have no combat effectiveness. It is still a good job to deal with the unlawful and tax-resistant people, and it is not enough to deal with the cavalry of the Jiannu Jurchen tribe.

Fortunately, the Whale House finally started in 1571. The mass production of Type 70 water-cooled machine guns was improved in technology. The cast rifle and extended barrels could make the effective killing range reach a hundred steps. Six barrels were added once to fire tens of thousands of bullets without red. Although the total weight of the gun body after adding water was ten kilograms, reaching a full hundred kilograms, as a defensive weapon, it was much lighter than the smallest cannon in the Ming Dynasty. In this era, a Western Franchise musket and its supporting equipment weighed twenty kilograms.

The first thing to do when you have wealth is to strengthen the border defenses in the north of North Four, and you can make money from reselling arms in the future. The Jiannu underground is really angry. And I, the commander of North Four, has no right to cross the border and chase the murderers. A series of machine gun bunkers have been established in the shallow areas of the Yalu River and Tumen River border. Machine gun bunker groups have been established in places where Jiannu often crosses. A 70-type water-cooled machine can block the border line about 200 meters. The border of more than 1,000 miles cannot be defended by these thousands of people in your hands, but at least they can block the places where the horses can cross the river. This move cut off one foot of the Jiannu Jushi tribe who came to rob. However, it also cut off two feet of the other group of people.

The border between North Korea and Ming dynasties is not traded. The same is true for the Jurchens. The materials that North Korea needs to sell and import every year are traded by the annual tribute envoys. Although the number of people in this envoy has repeatedly exceeded the number of thousands, it is impossible to meet the needs of more than 10 million people in China. At most, it can only meet the material needs of the upper class of North Korean society. In this case, the industry of smuggling through the border has begun to flourish. It is not necessary to say that Busan Port is the leading city of North Korea's smuggling, but now the sea ban is opened and falls into Qi Jiguang.

However, the sea ban was opened, and the road ban was not opened. It was still illegal to trade across the border by land. The northern border was blocked, and those who ran the single gang could walk by the river at night, but this was also very dangerous. The people in these machine gun bunkers were all nervous, and they would shoot and test it if there was a sound. As for the smuggling giants, they had to give a silver for their horse gangs to pay filial pills to the big-headed soldiers in the machine gun bunkers to buy safety. If they wanted to break through, they would be like the Jurchen tribes that were galloping on horseback, and they were instantly beaten into honeycombs by several flame tongues.

Looking at the amount of money that Hidena Kawajiri gave not too much, I waved my hand generously, "Forget it, I don't need to hand it over in the future. It's all because of the brothers' meals and drinks. Let's share a share according to the heads. Winter is coming, just think it's the cost of burning fire in winter." I was in a good mood during this period. Since the machine gun bunker on the border was established in the autumn, the robbery of the Jiannu Juma tribe has been greatly reduced. In the past month, the border has not even been robbed. Maybe I figured it out that the income and expenditure of the robbery are disproportionate. Now, 100 cavalrymen in Jiannu Juma tribe have come to invade the country. It would be good if I can go back alive and ten or eight.

‘Yes, then I will take my brothers to thank the Lord for the reward.’ Hidena Kawajiri nodded heavily. According to Hidena Kawajiri's request, he placed his son on the front line of the battle. However, after all, Hidena Kawajiri's biological son, I also need to take care of him. The machine gun bunker group that Hidena Kawajiri was responsible for was the most dense, and a firepower cross-net formed between the bunkers to support each other. In my opinion, unless Qiu Shaoyun, Huang Jiguang and Dong Cunrui led troops to attack, there would be no danger of falling.

After sending out Hidenaga Kawajiri, Yoshihide Ikeda ran in and pestered me to ask for a machine gun. Yoshihide Ikeda had seen the Type 70 water-cooled machine gun before, but I don’t know what it was, which was normal. Until autumn, after establishing a machine gun bunker group on the border, Yoshihide Ikeda saw that forty or fifty-year-old Jiannu Jushi were sieve by the flames of the machine gun while crossing the river. Since then, Yoshihide Ikeda came over every few days and begged me to send him two Type 70 water-cooled machine guns. In Yoshihide Ikeda, this thing can withstand a few iron cannon teams of thousands of people as long as it is equipped with several gates.

After all the good things were said, I explained to Hirohiko Ikeda, "It's not that I won't give it to you, but once you open a hole, will Your Highness Oda also give it to you, and will my group of Taishan and brother-in-law come to ask for it. This machine gun has not been sold in Japan. Haven't you had more than a dozen countries in the two countries collapsed? Don't you have to worry about security issues for the time being?"

Hokage Ikeda still remains obsessed with the Type 70 water-cooled machine guns, ‘That’s right, but the more than 1,000 troops in North Korea are equipped with cold weapons. It’s okay for me to add two machine guns to the troops here first. Most of the Huanghai Road and Gangwon Road are built by me. Even if the Ming Dynasty’s army has always been honest and has not crossed the border, I have to have some defensive power if the pirates come or something.’ In Ikeda Hengxing’s view, this machine gun is indeed a powerful weapon to defend the city. It’s okay if it is installed on a car and attacks on the ground, but this kind of attack is only on the official road. North Korea is mountainous, and slightly flattering places have been reclaimed into farmland.

After thinking about it over and over again, I still agreed. It would be good to put it on the city gate tower as a deterrent force. ‘This is better, there is no quota this year. I just paid off the debts of the Ming Dynasty’s national collapse in the first half of the year, and so many more machine gun bunkers were built in the second half of the year. Now I really have no goods in my hand. Next year, I will give you priority equipment next year. Is it better to have twenty? It should be enough to deal with ordinary pirates. One thing in mind...'

‘I know, I know.’ Yoshihiko Ikeda said impatiently, ‘Don’t take it to Japan for the time being, don’t worry, I just used it to train troops first, and I haven’t planned to use this thing in Japan yet. Besides, Japan is very stable now. There are not many Japanese pirates on the sea.’

‘Just know.’

Since the Ming Dynasty reopened the sea ban, fishermen were allowed to fish in the sea, and merchants went to the east and west to trade in South China, the Ming Dynasty, under the leadership of the Japanese Navy, carried out a series of anti-epidemic efforts on the pirates entrenched in China and the South China Sea islands. Some of these pirates were defeated in Japan (mainly Kyushu and Kansai and Shikoku areas). There is no doubt that these were Japanese pirates, but most of them were pirate gangs composed of fishermen who could not go out to sea to fish, and some were also in

The Celestial Empire committed a crime and ran away from sea to exile and became pirates. In addition, a small group of Western pirates occupied the South China Sea. Fortunately, their power was not very strong and they were wiped out one by one by the Three Kingdoms Navy. Of course, this fight against pirates was also a business of making a fortune. These pirates have been entrenched for many years, and some valuables that were difficult to deal with and gold and silver robbed were left in their nests. However, most of these yellow and white objects were taken away by Deng Zilong, the commander of the Ming Navy, and only a small part was in the hands of the three governments of China, Japan and North Korea.

Among them, the Korean Emperor Xuanzong of the Honglu Temple in the Ming Dynasty had already moved out. Zhang Juzheng placed the Korean king under house arrest in the capital on the grounds that there were Japanese pirates in the Korean countryside. There were so many large houses where officials in Beijing were confiscated. He found a palace to change it to a royal palace to invite the Korean King Xuanzong of the Korean Emperor to live in. They were delicious food, drink and treat them every day, and greeted the Ming emperor every few days. Every time at the ceremony, Xuanzong of the Little Mercedes and his wife were invited to attend as guests, but they were not allowed to leave Beijing. In the end, the Korean navy had to station in Tianjin Port, so that they were closer to the King of the Korean.

Emperor Longqing of the Ming Dynasty basically ignored the government affairs. When Zhu Zaiya was the crown prince, he was a famous cowardly deposed prince. He had never seen any political views published when he became the emperor. If it weren't for the Longqing era title, everyone would not know who the emperor was now. In fact, it would be better when the emperor was not doing things. In addition to the founding emperor, the revival of the dynasties in history was caused by the joint efforts of the inaction emperor and the ministers who held great power. The last emperor of the Ming Dynasty in history was a diligent lord, killing a group of ministers who did good things and forcing a group of ministers who retaliated for work, leaving behind a group of ministers who never did serious work, and eventually hanged the coal mountain and destroyed the country.

At this time, Zhang Juzheng had already firmly grasped the power of the government through the conquest of North Korea to quell the Japanese pirates, and also joined forces with a group of like-minded ministers to wait for the time to carry out constitutional monarchy.

Now Emperor Longqing has been hollowed out by the elixirs presented by Taoist priests. If you say that the elixir refined by the priest is also a good thing. After taking it, a part of the body is as hard as iron. If you don’t control more than a dozen concubines, it will definitely hurt your body. However, if you control more than a dozen concubines, you will also hurt your body. Since Emperor Longqing attended court twice in six years, we have known how domineering this elixir is. What’s more, the Longqing Emperor Zhu Zai’er also took this medicine-like elixir as a meal. This is a problem. Even if you eat Viagra, which is not very poisonous, it will cause death. In fact, the prime minister of the dynasty Zhang Juzheng was also counting when Emperor Longqing would travel to the west. These days, Zhang Juzheng has been constantly discussing the new constitutional monarchy with me. Although this system is quite perfect, it is always much stronger than the existing one.

In the spring of 1572, Emperor Longqing Zhu Zai'an, who was hollowed out by elixir, died of illness in the Qianqing Palace, leaving behind the ten-year-old Emperor Wanli and three ministers of life - Zhang Juzheng, Gao Gong and Gao Yi. The three ministers of life just finished the funeral of the old emperor and the ascension ceremony of the young emperor Wanli, and turned around and arrested the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue Li Wei, and confiscated the house and beheaded. As for the charges, it must be too numerous to be written. In fact, for the prime minister Zhang Juzheng, there was only one cotton coat for the Liaodong army to spend the winter with dry leaves and flocculents. This trick almost freezes hundreds of thousands of troops to death.

As for Li Wei, he is not an ordinary person, but the grandfather of Emperor Wanli, the father of Empress Dowager Li. However, after two days of doing this, the emperor's grandfather was pulled to Caishikou and slashed. For a moment, the capital was shocked. Zhang Juzheng was a master who was not afraid of trouble. He was fired without turning back. Since he did it, he had to do it to the end. After beheading the Minister of Revenue, Zhang Juzheng joined hands with two other ministers and a group of court officials to launch a series of political changes, which caused a bloody storm in the court and the land of China. However, Zhang Juzheng didn't care. Didn't that say that? There was no one who would not shed blood.

Because the emperor was too young and lived in the palace too lonely, Zhang Juzheng and other court officials issued an order to the princesses in the capital, asking these people to move into the palace to accompany the emperor. Although this was against the ancestral system, since it was an imperial edict, everyone still had to listen to it. The imperial edict of heaven and earth was the greatest. Most of these princes had no real power and lived in honestly. Zhang Juzheng's ultimate goal was the vassal kings and princes from all over the country. As expected, while the princes of various places were congratulated on the new emperor Wanli to congratulate him, they were placed under house arrest by Zhang Juzheng one by one in the palace. In fact, this palace was a large prison for the emperors of all generations. Emperor Wanli was still very happy to see so many relatives accompany him, but these relatives were not happy. Although they lived in the palace for free and could still see the Emperor Long live every day, it was better to be a local emperor at home. The life of kowtowing to pay tribute every day was really not a human being.

After knowing that Beijing City began to seize the vassal kings and princes, some people were dissatisfied in the local area. However, these Zhu and his troops had not yet arrived in the capital to clear the monarchy, and had been rammed by the army sent by the court. This period can be said to be the darkest period of the Zhu family. Countless Zhu Moumous from all over the country were beaten into hornets for raising the army to defend the king. And those Zhu Moumou who stayed in the palace had no good results. When Zhang Juzheng counted the relics of Emperor Longqing, he found that many immortal pills and recipes taken by Emperor Longqing. Zhang Juzheng thought about it and simply asked these Zhu Moumous to order them. Then the food in the imperial kitchen was mixed with these immortal pills, but the amount of the immortal pills in a dish was not large. Of course, a meal with a big appetite would still eat a lot of immortals.

The advantage of these elixirs is that they are never fatal. They just don’t find dozens of women to destroy the fire in time, which will damage the vitality. Of course, finding dozens of women will also damage the vitality. However, the first group of people who died and injured were not these princes, but the eunuchs in the palace who died first. This normal man took the elixir and found a few women to relieve the fire, but it would be fine if he found a few women to relieve the fire, but the eunuchs’ fire was far heavier than normal people, but he could not vent. Originally, these eunuchs used to transfer the target to relieve the fire, such as collecting some brother Kong Fang or yellow and white things. However, the imperial kitchen mixed the dragon and tiger medicine into the meal every day, and the palace was full of the sound of taking medicine to relieve the fire and beauties waiting to relieve the fire, which made the evil fire in the body of these eunuchs burn more vigorously, and finally the blood flowed all over the body and died.

The eunuch was also one of Zhang Juzheng's methods. It was proved wrong to use eunuchs since the Qin Dynasty. However, these emperors did not seem to have any awareness at all and summoned eunuchs into the palace in batches. The saints said that their bodies and hair were taken from their parents, but since these eunuchs could even harm their bodies, what else could they do? The Jinyiwei stationed in various post stations in the Ming Dynasty and the factory guards in the palace were originally supervised by each other. Of course, one side was too favored to overwhelm the other. Now Zhang Juzheng was the commander of the Jinyiwei, the prime minister and the minister in the court, and had great power. He naturally spared no effort to attack the eunuchs in the factory. After the eunuchs in the palace died, Zhang Juzheng issued an imperial edict, and the dynasty would no longer need eunuchs in the future.

The eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty were basically the kind of An Dehai on TV, and they did everything they wanted to do when they were there. Once this move was made, the people were relieved. They no longer had to live a nervous life. For more than two hundred years, these eunuchs forced to death in the name of the emperor and plundered how much money they had plundered. For example, the eunuchs in "The Charcoal Selling Man" written by Bai Juyi used half a piece of red gauze and a zhang of white silk to exchange for a cargo of charcoal. If they were replaced by eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, they would not only ask for a penny of carbon, but they would even have to ask for half a word "no", but they would have to take their lives. Isn't it just a final blow? This is too easy.
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