Zhu Yijun's various policies regarding the development of the Northeast are not friendly to the Jurchens. With the influx of a large number of Han people, Zhu Yijun predicts that ethnic conflicts in the Northeast will be unprecedentedly intense.
If politicians cannot maintain a high position, they will always be pushed away by contradictions, and sooner or later they will be overwhelmed by contradictions.
In order to solve the Jurchen problem, Zhu Yijun planned a three-pronged approach on the basis of eliminating ethnic differences. The first was to set up monk records divisions in various cities in the Northeast, and send monks from all over the country to Liaodong to preach the Dharma and fool the people.
They completely defeated the shamans; the two corrupted the top Jurchen ministries, rewarded them with luxurious things, and quickly built an upper-class group that lived a luxurious life but had no fighting spirit, creating class conflicts within the Jurchens; the three recruited soldiers at the bottom of the Jurchens, extracting their combat effectiveness from the roots
At the same time, they used military pay to disintegrate the resistance of the Jurchen bottom class.
The imperial court issued an express decree to release Jurchens from various tribes to Han people and Korean slaves, and the timing was also carefully chosen. It was carried out in the winter after the grain harvest, so the possibility of encountering fierce resistance from the Jurchen grassroots was slim.
Because they are not good at farming, although the Jurchen tribes occupy fertile land, their population growth is extremely slow. Most women, children and the elderly are hungry all year round. In good years, 23 out of 10 Jurchen children die from malnutrition every year; disasters
At that time, only one or two of the seven or eight children would survive.
The contradictions in the economic structure based on national characteristics can only be solved unless the political power can provide targeted enlightenment and adjust its production model.
Although countless knowledgeable people throughout the dynasties understand this truth. However, during the prosperous period of the Central Plains, very few people had the ambition to do this and put it into practice. Those who did the best in this regard were probably those who were most empathetic to this in the original time and space.
The emperors of the Qing Dynasty and the two founding ancestors of the early Ming Dynasty, Taizu and Chengzu.
During the Taizu and Chengzu periods of the Ming Dynasty, on the one hand, they used troops aggressively against the Mongols and Yuan Dynasties. On the other hand, they used naturalized Mongolians and Jurchens on a large scale and encouraged their tribes to move inward. At that time, a large number of Mongols and Jurchens were dispersed to the north.
Directly under the control of various health centers, it was finally completely Chineseized.
During the Yongle period, Zheng He's own tribe was a Hui, and Yi Shiha, who built Yongning Temple, was a Jurchen eunuch - his prosperity had its origins, and Zhu Di's ambition was not something that future generations should despise. Wu Jijue, who was deposed by Zhu Yijun, is the most typical one, and his ancestor is
The naturalized Mongolians during Chengzu's time were almost unknown to Wu Jijue's generation, except for the noble circle, as well as other civil servants and military officers.
But unfortunately, after Renzong, the simple policy of restraint and Confucian conservatism caused extremely slow progress in the transformation of the empire from the north to the south.
When the military strength of the Central Plains was strong, the policy of restraining ethnic minorities could still maintain the superficial appearance of "paying tribute to all barbarians". But when the military strength of the Central Plains became weak, the land that had not been converted back to its original state began to be lost on a large scale. The reasons will not be repeated here.
As the military power of the Ming Dynasty quickly turned from strength to decline after Tumubao, Nuergandusi's policy of restraining the emperor gradually became ineffective like other directions in the empire.
The Jurchens lost the suppression of a strong army. Based on the structural contradictions of their own national economy, they began to plunder the Han people on a large scale. On the one hand, it became inevitable to obtain basic production and living materials, and on the other hand, they plundered the Han people who were good at farming as slaves.
choose.
At that time, a farmer was considered good if he could serve ten acres of land a year. However, although the land in Liaodong was fertile, there was a serious shortage of means of production. The limit of ten acres of land a year in the best years was fifteen stones.
If the master mistreats the Han slaves and the Han slaves are not motivated, a Jurchen family that raises a Han slave every year will not even be able to collect seven or eight shi of grain. This is when the women and children at home work together to serve the farmers.
After the fall of Wang Gao, the Jurchens were all under the authority of the imperial court. Although the crisis of food shortage was not imminent, the ordinary Jurchen people lost their Han slaves and fell into a panic that no one would farm next year. Although many poor people
The Jurchen people were already part-farming and part-grazing, but without the guidance of the Han people, they had no confidence at all.
For the lower-level Jurchen tribesmen who had lost hope at this time, they were suddenly told that Liaodong was raising flags to recruit troops and that they were being treated well. They really felt the emperor's supreme favor.
The imperial court promised: Any Jurchen who surrenders to the army with a horse will be immediately given fifteen shi of Anjia grain, and seven shi of cotton per year, and four kilograms of cotton. When joining the army, the head reward will be the same as that of Han soldiers. Anyone who surrenders without a horse will be given Anjia grain.
Food cut in half? Everything else remains the same.
For those who have served in the army for more than three years or have obtained first-level merit? The government will organize their families to form a support pair with the Han people. The farmland of the two families will be merged, and the Han people will guide their family members in farming techniques, and the rations they will receive will be 64%.
These two policies were like a ray of sunshine piercing the dark clouds, giving the Jurchens at the bottom of the country unlimited hope for survival.
The effect was better than the most optimistic estimates of Zhu Yijun and the imperial court: the Jurchen cavalry joined the army enthusiastically, like trickles of water flowing into a lake.
Before the spring of the third year of Wanli came, the number of Jurchens who participated in the selection and were qualified to join the army had reached 50,000, with a total of more than 8,000 horses. In many Jurchen families, wives sent their husbands, and mothers sent their children to join the army enthusiastically to protect their families.
Touching scenes of defending the country.
There was a Jurchen tribe member who had many sons in the family. Except for the youngest son who was left to guard the family, the other six brothers joined the army together with his father. They were received and commended by Zhang Xueyan, the governor of Liaodong, and were set up as examples.
According to a report by Li Chengliang, who was most familiar with the situation of various Jurchen tribes, there were about 260,000 to 70,000 men distributed among the white mountains and black waters at this time, and about one-third of them had combat skills. Once the imperial barrier was removed, more than half of them
All the Jurchen soldiers were fished out.
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The enthusiastic participation of Jurchen tribesmen at the grassroots level in the army caused severe panic among the captive chiefs. Because the Jurchen warriors who joined the army were unevenly distributed among various tribes, small tribes with poor living conditions were almost turned into empty shells by the imperial court.
As a result, overt or covert resistance is almost inevitable. However, no matter how strong the resistance is, it cannot withstand the people's desire for food. In accordance with the provisions of the recruitment order, the Liaodong General Secretary reported on the report of his tribal leader preventing the people from joining the army.
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The Liaodong General Military Office set up reception points in many border towns to receive petitions from sneaky Jurchen tribesmen, which became a spectacle that stunned the court.
Based on the verified reports, General Li raised his butcher knife high and started another wave of bloodshed in the Northeast.
At the same time, civil servants, including Liu Yingjie and Zhang Xueyan, accompanied the Jurchen chieftains to sing and dance for the first day and night. Zhu Yijun once jokingly said that if any of the Jiliao civil servants did not suffer from stomach bleeding after drinking, they would be derelict in their duties.
The emperor also changed from the stingy appearance of previous emperors of the Ming Dynasty in rewarding Jurchen. Jewelry and satin, exquisite porcelain, dazzling horse gear, and exquisite daily necessities from Rishenglong were all given to Yiwangtai, Nalin, and Juechangan like flowing water.
Led by a large group of Jurchen nobles.
In the later period, the Jurchen nobles were too embarrassed to draw their bows without a fine jade ring in their hands, and they could not ride a horse without a horse whip with gold beads tied on it. Whoever marries a daughter, if the horse does not have a few pieces of silk hanging around its neck, it will only be worn by the husband's family when it arrives.
Look down on your share.
By the end of the third year of Wanli, the Imperial Cavalry, formed by the emperor in Beijing and composed entirely of Jurchen nobles' sons, with the banner name "Ying Yang", completely collapsed the resistance of the Jurchen upper-level establishment. Nurhaci, who changed his Chinese name to Tong Chizhong,
He also became a member of the glorious Ying Yang Army.