The salary increase for civil and military officials was not a decision made by Zhao Han at once, but the result of his careful consideration.
From the first-grade official to the seventh-grade official, the monthly salary will increase as a whole, while the salary of other officials will remain unchanged.
First grade: 320 stones.
From the first grade: 310 stones.
Seventh grade: 45 stones.
From seventh grade: 35 stones.
Compared with the Ming Dynasty, the salary of the top officials has more than tripled. But the salary of the middle-level officials is much higher. The salary of the seventh grade of the Ming Dynasty is
7.5 dan, Datong's seventh-grade monthly salary is 45 dan, which is exactly six times the salary of the previous dynasty.
The major case that broke out in Shaanxi was just the introduction to this increase.
The fundamental reason is that the income of ordinary people has increased, and officials cannot continue to maintain the same status. They must be made more respectable. There is also an increase in government tax revenue. Not only has money become abundant, but food income has also increased, which can fully maintain higher salaries for officials.
This kind of adjustment is normal. When Zhu Yuanzhang first marched into the north, he couldn't come up with money and grain to pay officials, so he directly threw the wasteland to the officials and asked the officials to recruit people to grow grain in exchange for wages. After the finances were sufficient, he gradually
After the land is taken back, the government will distribute the salary normally.
Many policies of the new Datong Dynasty need to be adjusted in the future.
For example, all the military supplies and logistics in each province were in the hands of civilian officials. After a hundred years, the military attachés would be unable to raise their heads. The reason for this was because the founding generals were too powerful and civilian officials must be used to limit their power.
Zhao Han plans to continue this kind of restriction for more than twenty years. When all the founding officials are transferred back to serve in the central government, he will gradually release more power to local military attachés.
Just when Zhao Han announced the increase in official salary, the war in Liaodong also started.
Hetuala City, outside Guandi Temple.
People market.
There were shouts of hawkers coming from the street: "Young and strong man, with good teeth, work more and eat less..."
A Manchu nobleman, surrounded by his house slaves, pointed at the slave in front of him and asked: "What's the price?"
"Twenty taels," the trafficker said.
The Manchu noble shook his head: "It's too expensive."
The trafficker smiled and asked: "How much is this gentleman willing to pay?"
"One price, ten taels." said the Manchu nobleman.
"At least eighteen taels. It's not easy to catch slaves nowadays," the trafficker emphasized.
The two parties bargained and the deal was settled in thirteen taels.
It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. After the Manchu nobles who had been to Beijing returned to Hetuala, they found life increasingly difficult.
In the past two years, not only have there been many deserters, but also a large number of domestic slaves and serfs have fled. As long as they reach the Liao Great Wall, these domestic slaves will be safe. The Datong Army will let them pass, and the government will even allocate land to them.
When the Manchu dignitaries retreated, they took a large amount of gold and silver with them.
Now I have money in my hand, but I can't buy enough food, and even my slaves can't afford it.
As a result, the slave trade flourished. The Eight Banners Army stationed in the northeast did not focus on defending the city at all. Under the instructions of the general and led by Eight Banners officers, they went to the Heilongjiang River Basin to capture the natives and then transported them back to Henan.
Selling in Tuala.
Human trafficking has been done by the nobles of the Eight Banners, both in history and in this time and space.
Historically, when the Qing Dynasty first entered the country, many Eight Banners nobles entered the city like country bumpkins. They drove the Han people out of the inner city of Beijing, and then found that the house they robbed was so big that the original servants were not enough.
Some Manchu dignitaries recruited local gangsters as their lackeys. They let these gangsters deceive, abduct, and rob Han people to engage in the slave trade on Shunchengmen (Xuanwumen) Street. That street was dedicated to selling livestock, including mules and horses.
There was a market, a bull market, a sheep market, and the Manchu and Qing Dynasties created a human market.
Private transactions were nothing more than private transactions. Because the Eight Banners nobles had great demand for slaves, the Manchu and Qing courts directly permitted human trafficking in legal form.
It was completely chaotic at that time, and the situation worsened to the point where Manchu women and children were abducted and imprisoned. Human traffickers took the lead in practicing the national equality of the slave trade.
It was not until Dorgon's death that the Manchu and Qing court banned human trafficking.
But he couldn't help it. In the third year after the ban was issued, a human trafficking gang was uncovered. The main criminal Jin Chengyuan alone sold more than a hundred slaves in the year he was arrested, including even abducted Manchu civilians.
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The noble son went around the market and bought back six slaves in total, and then took a walk home.
He missed his days in Beijing very much. Although his father did not deal with Dorgon, he still allowed his family to run horses and enclosures in the suburbs of Beijing. At that time,
He lived in a large house in Beijing, and had more than seventy servants. Even when he went to the toilet, he had maids to take care of him.
"Ama, I bought the slave back," the noble son said.
Erke Daiqing sighed: "It's getting more and more outrageous. The number of escaped slaves is increasing day by day. Even the slaves in the capital (Hetuala) can escape."
The noble son said: "If you run away, you can buy it again. Our family is not short of that little money."
"Is this a matter of money?" Erke Dai Qing wanted to give him a slap in the face. His sixth son is really useless. He learned bad things in the two years in the capital. A lackey who fights cocks all day long, so just buy it.
It's still useful as a slave, but don't even think about leading troops in war or anything like that.
Erke Daiqing comes from the Borjijit family, which can also be translated as the Borzhijin family.
At first glance, you can tell that he is from Mongolia. His father's name is Ngodel, and he is Beile of a small tribe in Khalkha Mongolia. He was defeated in the internal fighting in Mongolia.
They could only lead their tribesmen and come to seek refuge with the Manchus. They were arranged to live and cultivate in Liaoyang and were subordinate to the Zhenghuang Banner. The land given to them was of course snatched from the hands of the Han people.
During Dorgon's reign, he asked Erke Daiqing to change his flag to Zhengbai Banner. However, this person was not attracted by Dorgon and devoted his life to Dayu'er.
Nowadays, he has achieved great success. He has been promoted to the first-class official position, has been granted the title of Shaobao, and is also the crown prince's Taibao.
These are nothing. The actual position of Erke Daiqing is similar to that of the Jiumen Admiral later in the Qing Dynasty. He was in charge of the entire army of Hetuala City. So it was funny. The servants of the Jiumen Admiral's family actually came from the city.
Several people escaped, which is why Erke Daiqing was angry.
Riding on a horse, Erke Daiqing and his men went out to inspect the city defense in person.
The streets in the city were very deserted. Due to the "Order on Treating Reformed Persons Kindly" issued by Liaoning, a large number of Han people fled from the areas under the jurisdiction of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties. Even the Han landlords who had played tricks for the Manchu Qing could be registered in the Great Wall of Liaoning as long as they fled and registered.
Liaoning was divided into fields and settled one by one under the crazy exploitation of the Qing Dynasty.
Some landowners abandoned their property and ran away.
Not to mention the residents of the city, the head tax is too high and they will flee whenever they get the chance.
Nowadays, even if the Han people go out of the city to stir up trouble, several households must act as security. If one household escapes, several households will be held accountable. The phenomenon of escapees has not been contained much. Instead, it has given the city guards an excuse to use cards to attack the people entering and leaving the city gates.
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It was precisely because the population of the "capital city" was getting smaller and smaller that the Manchu Qing court encouraged the human trade and tacitly allowed the Eight Banners Army stationed in the rear to leave their posts without authorization to arrest the natives. The tribes in Heilongjiang were greatly harmed.
He got off his horse and climbed onto the city wall. Erke Daiqing looked over.
He knew that the Manchu Qing Dynasty would be over sooner or later, but he had no other choice but to sink with this broken ship.
"Da da da da!"
A fast horse came from the mountain road and was stopped and searched when it came to the city gate. The man said anxiously: "Don't waste time, Sarhu is surrounded!"
Erke Daiqing quickly received the news and went to ask in person: "How many barbarians came to besiege the city?"
The messenger said: "Tens of thousands!"
Erke Daiqing said anxiously: "This is a decisive battle. Come with me to see the Queen Mother and Your Majesty!"
"Boom boom boom boom!"
Lu Xiangsheng was sitting in the camp, listening to the continuous sound of cannons coming from the west.
At this time, Sarhu City was far taller and stronger than it was in the hands of the Ming Dynasty. This was because Nurhachi had rebuilt it and moved the capital here for more than a year. It was built according to the specifications of the Houjin Capital City.
"The bloody battle in Saarhu."
Lu Xiangsheng thought of the war many years ago. Although he had not experienced it personally, he had heard people talk about it countless times because it was the beginning of the collapse of the situation in Liaodong.
"Da da da da!"
The sound of horse hooves came closer and closer, and a scout rushed over: "Commander, we met some Tatar scouts. We killed two of them and didn't catch any alive.
No enemy reinforcements were encountered.”
"Continue to explore." Lu Xiangsheng ordered.
This is a city defense fortress group. The main city is Sarhu City on Sarhu Mountain. There is an acropolis on the east and west sides of Sarhu.
Not far to the northeast, at the intersection of the Hun River and the Suzi River, there is another Jiefan City. Before Nurhaci moved the capital to Sarhu, he once made Jiefan City his capital. The city area was not as large as that of Sarhu, but the mountains were steeper.
, and sandwiched between two rivers, it is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Moreover, there is an acropolis on the east and west sides of Jiefan City.
In addition, there is also Gule City, which was once the royal city of Jurchen in Jianzhou.
These three cities form a tripod, and they were all built on the basis of the dangers of mountains and rivers. w
If you want to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty, you must pull out all these cities before you can attack Hetuala. Even if the Eight Banners Army's combat effectiveness has deteriorated, as long as you insist on defending, it will take more than half a year to slowly attack the cities.
At this moment, Lu Xiangsheng led his army to the East Guards City of Sarhu. His task was not to attack the city, but to keep an eye on the Tatar reinforcements. The Tatars from Jiefan City and Gule City might come to kill them at any time.
As for Hu Dinggui, he led his army to get stuck between the main city of Sarhu and the Western Acropolis, cutting off the connection between the two Tatars.
Xiao Zongxian was leading his troops to storm the Western Wei City, and all the artillery of several divisions was allocated to him.
One hundred artillery pieces bombarded the small acropolis, and the Tatar defenders were stunned. Even the Tatar artillery had to be forced by officers with swords.
Only then did they dare to use city defense artillery to fight back.
"Boom boom boom boom!"
"boom!"
Although the Datong Army's artillery was well protected by rammed earth bunkers, one was still destroyed by the city defense artillery.
The two acropolis of Saarhu are definitely almost gone.
This kind of small castle was built by Nurhachi when he first launched his army. How could it withstand the continuous bombardment of hundreds of cannons? The city wall can be destroyed in a few days. The next step is to besiege the main city of Sarhu and besiege the city for reinforcements. Waiting
The Tatars from Jiefan City and Gule City came to die.
Enemy reinforcements required military orders from the Manchu and Qing court.
When Dayu'er learned that Sarhu was besieged, her first reaction was to run away and wanted to take the little emperor Shunzhi to Heilongjiang.
