Chijin Town, Yumen City, Jiuquan City, Gansu Province is the hometown of Iron Man Wang Jinxi.
The word "chijin" comes from Chijin Mongolia.
In the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court set up the Chijin Guard between Yumen Pass and Jiayuguan Pass, and a large number of Mongolians lived here. With the rise of Yarkant, more than a hundred years ago, the Chijin Mongols were killed and returned to Jiayuguan Pass. The local religious beliefs
It just changed color.
Now, the Chinese imperial court has sent troops here again, and the leading tribe of 5,000 people has arrived outside Chijin Fort.
The name of the local nobleman is Ma Hemu, and his official position is Chijin Burke, which means Chijin Lord. He has been very prosperous in the past twenty years by collecting business taxes from the Silk Road. He never thought that one day he would be besieged.
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He sent his cronies out of the city to negotiate. The cronies soon came back and said, "Lord Burke, the Han generals want you to surrender immediately. They will not negotiate any terms for surrender."
"How can we surrender if we don't talk about it?" Ma Hemu was quite angry.
The confidant said: "They said that this is China's homeland and must be taken back. Last year, documents were sent to all the berks in the Western Regions, but no one was willing to donate the land, so this year they brought troops to collect it."
"Nonsense, my grandfather conquered this place!" Ma Hemu was furious.
Chijinbao and its surrounding areas belong to the flood plains of the Qilian Mountains. Compared with the generally barren Western Region, this area is suitable for farming and grazing. It has been identified as a resettlement site, and two thousand Han people will move here.
Ma Hemu made money by collecting business taxes. Although he did not expand his army significantly, he repaired his castle.
He stood at the top of the city, looking at the thousands of Datong troops outside, and said with a ferocious face: "My castle is strong and tall, and thousands of Han troops cannot defeat it!"
The reason why Ma Hemu did not want to surrender was that he was reluctant to part with the business tax here.
He has already tasted the sweetness. How can he go back to eat grass after eating meat? Once he surrenders, even if he survives, the right to collect taxes will definitely be taken away by Han officials.
The five thousand leading troops of the Datong Army, seeing that Ma Hemu really refused to surrender, immediately retreated several miles to camp. They were all cavalry and did not bring any siege equipment. They could only wait for the large army to arrive.
Instead of just sitting around and waiting, they started raiding the surrounding villages the next day.
As the Yarkand Khanate has developed to the present, it has implemented an aristocratic manor system. The land throughout the country belongs to the sultan and is then distributed to local lords, who in turn distribute it to small nobles.
Basically, every village has nobles, and all the land in the village belongs to the nobles.
Five thousand Datong cavalry were divided into ten groups to sweep the village. They did not disturb the civilians, but went straight to the best house, which must be the home of a minor noble.
Killing men and capturing women without saying a word.
There will definitely be no innocent people, because these small nobles were still living in Turpan more than a hundred years ago, and this land was snatched by their ancestors. The process of grabbing land at that time was extremely bloody, and the cruelty was far greater than that of the Datong Army.
The small nobles in the village who were not killed by the Datong army all fled to Chijin Castle, where they could eat everything at once.
The more the Datong army "robbed" villages, the more at ease Ma Hemu felt in the castle. He felt that China did not send many troops, so they must have robbed and left, and his castle should not be in danger.
After more than ten days like this, Ma Hemu saw the army in the distance and was stunned on top of the city.
How many people should there be?
Under the warm sun, countless armies marched forward, with war horses, livestock, and vehicles stretching to the horizon.
The five thousand vanguard troops had already circled to the west of the castle to prevent the enemy from escaping to Yumen.
"Siege the city!"
The fight started as soon as we arrived, no nonsense.
The coach of this battle is Jiang Liang, who is based in Xi'an. After he regains the Western Region, it is time to be transferred back to Nanjing to take up a post. If the battle is successful, he will most likely be named a Duke of the country - he is also a duke now, but he belongs to the county with a two-character prefix.
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Outside Chijin Fort, there is a small river coming from the Qilian Mountains.
The Datong Army had no intention of filling up the moat. The infantry protected the artillery and moved forward, setting up a fort on the other side of the river towards the castle.
A total of sixty-four cannons were placed in a row by the river.
When Ma Hemu saw the dark barrel, he almost peed his pants with fear.
Chijin Castle is just a small castle. Not to mention the sixty-four cannons, even six cannons can still destroy the rammed earth walls.
"I am willing to surrender. Hurry... open the city gate quickly!" Ma Hemu shouted.
The little nobles who fled from various villages stepped forward to stop them: "Lord Burke, you can't surrender. Those Han soldiers killed the nobles when they saw them, and they killed them even if they surrendered. They are totally unreasonable."
Ma Hemu said: "If you don't surrender, you will definitely die. If you surrender, you may still survive. Get out of the way!"
While they were struggling in the city, the Datong artillery had already begun test firing.
A cannonball fell in the city and smashed the roof, only about ten steps away from Mahemu.
The minor nobles were frightened and dispersed on the spot. They mounted their horses and fled towards the west of the city. They also knew that they could not defend the city, so they had to run as far as they could and fled all the way to Hami to seek refuge with He Zhuo.
Ma Hemu was stunned, surrendered without leaving the city, and ran away with his wife and children.
These 5,000 vanguard troops, who had only escaped ten miles away and were ambushing themselves in Dadun Mountain, suddenly rushed out from the only way they could pass.
"Kill all the men, leaving no one alive!"
Five thousand Datong cavalry instantly transformed into tigers and wolves.
But those red gold nobles were already frightened and did not dare to resist at all. They actually turned and fled towards the Gobi area.
Many nobles' wives and children were left alone and captured together with their belongings.
Chijin Fort was easily captured, and Mayor Chijin had already been appointed and set out with the army.
The town mayor used to belong to the official rank, but now it has been changed from the ninth rank official, and the more prosperous and developed places are the ninth rank. Many university graduates, who failed to pass the Jinshi examination, were thrown into local towns to be mayors.
Shen Jian was the one who failed the imperial examination last year. He has a university diploma and has taken the imperial examination twice. Now he only has one chance left.
If all three opportunities are used up, you will not be able to become a ninth-grade official, and you will have to take the civil service examination yourself.
Shen Jian didn't dare to take the exam again. Hearing that the imperial court needed a large number of grassroots officials to regain the Western Regions, he hurriedly ran to sign up. Officials in the Western Regions were also officials, and the newly occupied land was prone to political achievements, and they might be promoted faster.
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So, he drew lots and got the position of mayor of Chijin.
The castle was too small to accommodate the common people, so it was used as the official residence of the mayor from now on.
The market was outside the castle, similar to a Japanese castle town. Hundreds of craftsmen who accompanied the army, as well as merchants who accompanied the army, were placed in the market. They were the first residents of the town.
The two thousand civilian husbands with families and families who previously helped transport grain and grass can now stay and settle down.
The fertile land along the river was allotted to Han immigrants.
As for local farmers, as long as they come to the town to register and settle, they can also be allocated land. The nobles in the village have been killed, which means they are liberated. The government will not force them to change their beliefs, but if they are willing to change their religion, they will be allocated land.
Definitely better quantity and quality.
Shen Jian and several other officials were busy all day long.
The things in the town are finished, the resettlement is finished, and we still have to go to the countryside to preach the policy.
The two thousand immigrants were all distributed with armor, mainly spears, crossbows and leather armor. The land they cultivated was tax-free for five years and halved for ten years. They also had to practice during the off-farm period. To put it bluntly, it was like a military camp, except that all
Belongs to nationality.
There is a small foreign trader in the town who is very cooperative with the work. Shen Jian keeps him by his side as a translator and will apply to help him become a petty official in the future.
Shen Jian took his translator and headed to the nearest village, accompanied by a group of peasant soldiers.
He was afraid that the local farmers would violently kill people, but those farmers were also afraid of him. This was because the local farmers were all serfs under the aristocratic manor system. They were used to being bullied by the nobles in the past, and they would be beaten and scolded by anyone who came.
Several farmers talked to Shen Jian cautiously.
Asked what race they were from, these people couldn't tell.
The translator said beside him: "Lord Mayor, they are all Saltas."
The original meaning of Salta is "merchants", and it specifically refers to the Green Sect believers of various ethnic groups who live in Central Asia. Many of them have also moved to Xinjiang and Gansu. There are Turks, Tajiks, Kazakhs, Persians... After leaving their homeland, many
If you can't figure out which ethnic group you belong to, the outside world calls them Salta.
Those who could preach were all nobles, and all the nobles had been killed.
Facing this group of confused serfs, Shen Jiandi said: "This town needs some virtuous and eminent monks!"
Shen Jian returned to the castle and immediately briefed the court to introduce the situation here. He suggested that a large number of monks should be sent here. Now is the best time to preach. In a few years, the opportunity will be missed.
The imperial court attached great importance to this, and Zhao Han even personally issued an order to check the situation of temples across the country. Once a fake monk was found, he would immediately send it to the Western Regions and issue an ultimatum at the same time.
Moreover, it called on and encouraged monks across the country to go to the Western Regions to open up religious territory. The imperial court was responsible for helping them build temples. As long as they went there, they would have a great chance of becoming abbots. Even if they failed to become abbots, they would still be the second or third leaders in the temples.
According to history, eight thousand monks entered the Western Regions!
But he said that the imperial army advanced all the way to Yumen.
The Yumen Pass in the Han Dynasty has long been abandoned, and the Yumen here is Yumen County.
When the lords of Yumen heard that the Han army was coming to kill them, they had already fled in advance and fled to Hami to seek asylum. These so-called lords had a standing army of several hundred people at most, and they pulled up the small nobles in the village. When they were exhausted, they could have two to three thousand troops. They
Where do you dare to fight the Datong Army?
The Datong Army dispatched more than 50,000 infantry and cavalry this time, and more than 100,000 civilians (most of whom had to stay in the Western Regions to breed). On the Qinghai side, there were thousands of cavalry of various ethnic groups, and they were about to cross the mountain pass and enter Xinjiang.
The army quickly recaptured Yumen, Guazhou, and Dunhuang. All the nobles along the way fled and crowded into Hami in an attempt to resist.
The lord of Hami, Muhammetisha Hezhuo, was seriously ill and was lying on the hospital bed when he learned the news. He called his son Ebedullah: "We can't defeat the Han people, so don't try to defend Hami. You have only two choices. One is
The first is to lead people to seek refuge in Turpan, and the second is to surrender to the Han people immediately. I am too sick to walk, so you can figure it out yourself."
Ebedulla hesitated and said: "I heard from the nobles who fled to Hami that the Han army would kill the nobles on sight. After we surrender, will we also be killed by the Han army?"
Muhanmatixia Hezhuo frowned, and then said, "I don't know."
"I know." Ebedulla said.
Ebedulla planned to run away and lead his people to Turpan to ask for help. He would definitely not be able to win with his own strength, so he would lead the Han army to Turpan and force the governor of Turpan to join forces to fight.
Historically, this man first surrendered to Galdan, then stabbed him in the back, then surrendered to Kangxi in a stupid manner, and finally became the King of Hami.
In his heart, he actually wanted to surrender directly, as long as he continued to rule Hami.
He could even tolerate the imperial court sending troops to station, but the position of Lord Hami could not be lost. But the Nanjing imperial court obviously did not intend this. They killed the nobles they saw along the way, knowing that they wanted to eradicate the nobles and leave only common people of all ethnic groups.