The rebels only rushed into the governor's office, frightened the governor Wang Ji and fled over the wall. They attacked the governor's office and made the governor run out of the city.
Before they could recruit more guards to join the mutiny, they were quickly suppressed by a large number of guest troops entrenched near the town with thunderous force.
The incident only lasted for two days. The guest troops killed rivers of blood in the streets of the town. Hundreds of mutilated soldiers were turned into headless corpses thrown outside the city. Hong Chengchou returned to his governor's office again.
Except for some officers running away, Ningxia acted as if nothing had happened.
But more things that seemed to have far-reaching consequences were completed secretly by Hong Chengchou without any sound.
Zuo Liangyu was busy hunting down generals suspected of inciting rebellion, while Cao Wenzhao was busy searching the homes of those who had escaped.
Cao Bianjiao, as a humanoid weapon with a long sword, guarded Hong Chengchou, making the guards who stayed in the town tremble with fear.
Zhang Yingchang went from house to house to count the land. If the people were not around, he would directly take it back to the capital. If the people were still around, he would threaten them and then take it back to the capital.
The plains were irrigated by canals of the Qin, Han, and Tang Dynasties, and the grain production was the most abundant. The best people who were not afraid of severe droughts had more than 800,000 acres of fertile farmland, and they were officially registered in the Governor's Mansion.
The governor's office immediately distributed the official document throughout the territory.
First of all, military households are exempted from corvee service such as entering the guard squad, and military generals are prohibited from private missions and other orders.
Secondly, in the future, the taxation method will be adopted based on land and divided into acres, and the fields will be divided into five classes. One mu of first-class land will be counted as three acres, and three acres of fifth-class land will be counted as one mu.
On this basis, regardless of whether it is military or civilian land, one dou or two liters of grain, three catties of horse grass, and six cents of silver per mu will be collected.
Although this caused a huge shock to the upper echelons of Ningxia, the turmoil caused by the change of land holders did not have any significant impact on the family members of the remaining soldiers and the tenants who actually farmed the land.
Mu in the Ming Dynasty was a complex unit of measurement just like stone.
Sometimes it can be simplified, and in some places it can be very complicated.
For example, local policies such as land conversion per mu have long existed in vast areas.
Dividing acres according to land is a local policy and land planning method that has existed in some areas since the Ming Dynasty.
In some places, such a policy was implemented to increase the number of conquests. For example, during the Zhengde period, the eunuch Liu Jin carried out the reform and sent Zhou Dong, the young minister of Dali Temple, and others to Ningxia to clear the land. In order to please Liu Jin, these idiots simply and roughly destroyed Ningxia's land.
One acre of land is counted as two acres.
In some places, such a policy is implemented for the sake of fairness. For example, in the field measurement in Qingzhou, Shandong Province in the early Ming Dynasty, one acre of fertile land was converted into three acres of servitude land, then one mu was converted into two acres, and then one mu was converted into one and a half acres. According to the land conversion rate,
According to the principle of levying grain according to the mu, it is important to consider the importance and so on.
In some places, such policies are implemented to reduce tax collection.
Just like in Yuzhou, Henan during the Jiajing period, one fertile field is equivalent to one; two flat rocks and hill fields are equivalent to one; three hills and rocks are equivalent to one; five hills and rocks are equivalent to one; and ten are equivalent to ten hills and steep slopes.
Be one.
Even for a piece of land in one place, in different years, with different fertility conditions and different officials, its calculation of acres will be different.
Comparatively speaking, Hong Chengchou's expropriation of acres from land was not surprising. In fact, the amount of grain collected was relatively small because of the extra money collected for horses and grass.
The most important thing is that his orders are confusing.
Since you are planning to introduce such a policy, but you still have to go to great lengths to take over the land, what are you going to do by forcing people to mutiny?
This is because if Hong Chengchou doesn't get fertile land in his hands, he will encounter great resistance if he counts three acres of first-class land.
Instead, he mobilized troops first and collected most of the first-class and second-class land. The land in the hands of Ningxia soldiers and civilians was counted as one acre, or even two acres of land, so it did not appear that he had expropriated it.
The amount is too high.
With this, Hong Chengchou immediately began to reorganize the army and established three towns and thirteen battalions. Even three civilian officials were incorporated into the army as generals.
Cao Wenzhao is the chief military officer of Zhongzhen, and has jurisdiction over the four battalions of Hexi soldiers in Ningxia: Ding Qirui, Cao Bianjiao, Bai Guangen, and Feng Ju.
Zhang Yingchang is the chief military officer of Youzhen, in charge of the four battalions of Ningxia Patrol Commander Yi Jingjing, Liu Shaozong, Xiang Xiyin and Zheng Jiadong.
Zuo Liangyu is the chief military officer of Zuozhen, in charge of the four battalions of Ningxia Hedong soldiers: Ge Rulin, Xu Yong, Wang Yuncheng and Zhou Shifeng.
In addition to the governor-general Biaoying Ding Zizhen, a total of three towns and thirteen battalions were formed.
This large corps with a strength of 33,000 men and 13 battalions is not fully equipped.
However, this was not a problem for Hong Chengchou. He asked the generals to recruit troops from the banner troops of the Ningxia guards to fill up the camp.
These decrees were issued one after another in two days, making it difficult not to doubt whether Hong Chengchou had planned it for a long time.
All twelve battalions were recruiting troops in a turbulent manner. Only Xu Yong failed to catch up with Liu Fangming and ran to the south to compete with Yang Yanchang across the border wall.
When Hong Chengchou received the news, he was furious in the Governor's Mansion.
The hell I asked you to chase the traitorous general. If you didn’t catch up, wouldn’t you have leaked the news?
Just leaking the news, why are you going to mess with Liu Chengzong's people?
Liu Chengzong is a dog. Even if you don't mess with him, he will fall out with you as soon as he says it, and you still go to hit his side wall!
However, Hong Chengchou did not dare to scold Zuo Liangyu.
There are very few people in the world who dare to take care of Zuo Liangyu.
This lawless guy went to Liaodong to serve as a soldier when he was young. If he went to Shaanxi to serve as a soldier, he would definitely be more Zhang Xianzhong than Zhang Xianzhong.
Because Zuo Liangyu's brain problem is that he doesn't bother to communicate.
In the year of the Ningyuan mutiny, Zuo Liangyu was also in Liaodong.
Normally, when a guest army owes pay, the first thing to do is to report the problem to the superior. After the reaction, some people will stop fighting. Others, who are more temperamental, will choose to go beyond the level and ask for an explanation.
That is to say, go to the governor.
These impatient soldiers will get together and the governor has no money. If anyone dares to attack, they will beat the governor.
At that time, things can be big or small. At the very least, if you injure the governor, it is considered a mutiny; if you accidentally beat the governor to death, it is considered a rebellion.
This is a normal process, and it is also the way normal people solve problems when they have demands and grievances in their hearts.
There is a gradual escalation process from accumulated grievances to communication and venting, until it turns into violence.
But Zuo Liangyu has poor communication skills and very strong mobility. He has his own way of looking at and solving problems, and often thinks of his own solutions.
When others were making trouble with the governor, Zuo Liangyu thought for a while and then took Qiu Lei to rob military supplies vehicles.
Hong Chengchou did not dare to scold this kind of person who obviously had a good brain but could only use it to think about how to solve problems with his hands.
No one knows what will happen if he holds a grudge against him.
In Hong Chengchou's mind, the best general in Ningxia right now is Cao Wenzhao, who is super capable of fighting and super obedient, and easy to command.
The next best general is Zhang Yingchang. Although he is not as good at fighting and not as obedient, he comes from the third generation of generals and is easy to communicate with.
The last general is Zuo Liangyu, who is completely superficial.
On the surface he is very good at fighting, and in fact he is very good at fighting, but he doesn't fight and just leaves when he encounters someone he can't beat.
He appears to be very obedient, and is actually very obedient, but he always has his own thoughts in his heart, and he doesn't speak out.
It's very difficult to do.
Hong Chengchou didn't dare to scold him, so he was so angry that he threw bottles and cans on the floor.
Only then did he regain his composure, and while having people pick up the debris on the ground, he wrote a letter of apology to Liu Chengzong and expressed his hope for a ceasefire and for the two families to negotiate peace.
Regarding this matter, Liu Shizi was right in his judgment, and it was indeed Hong Chengchou's temptation.
However, the main purpose of the temptation is not him.
But Zuo Liangyu, Zhang Yingchang, Cao Wenzhao and others.
Although Hong Chengchou's defeated soldiers who had retreated from Shaanxi and Gansu could be said to be the Ming Dynasty's super die-hard elements in the northwest.
But how hard it is, Hong Chengchou doesn't know.
Because Liu Chengzong never killed all the Ming generals and Ming armies, many people were let go in Hong Chengchou's eyes.
Zuo Liangyu could run away, and he did run back by himself. Hong Chengchou knew that he was trustworthy, but this idiot was out of control.
Cao Wenzhao was defeated. His brother and nephew were all dead, which is also believable, but there were not many soldiers left.
Zhang Yingchang is not trustworthy. He looks like a transport captain.
He led five battalions to fight, but he didn't fight a single battle. He picked it up quite cleanly, and no one of the battalions was lost. However, of the remaining four battalions, only Cao Bianjiao was left as the commander-in-chief.
There are also Liu Shaozong, Xiang Xiyin and others who came from Gansu, and they were completely released by Liu Chengzong.
Hong Chengchou looked at the people who were the most angry, and Liu Chengzong didn't want them. I don't want them either!
The result of the test is hard to say.
Zhang Yingchang looked like Liu Chengzong's plate. He was not interested in testing Liu Chengzong's position. Instead, he smiled at the negotiation, supported him with both hands, and even wanted to lift his feet.
Cao Wenzhao was not bad, so he breathed a sigh of relief and said that if he could stop his troops for the time being, he would have a chance to reorganize his troops.
Zuo Liangyu was not so good. When Hong Chengchou asked what he meant, this guy shook his head and said nothing, but his meaningful eyes always made Hong Chengchou feel a chill on his neck.
As for Bai Guangen...he is a scientist.
There is no interest in negotiating peace or not, in testing or testing.
Everyone was restless in the hall, eager to go back to the military camp to receive the guests.
This is related to Bai Guangen's Rockets.
Of all the generals in the world, Bai Guangen has the most say on how powerful the rockets in the Marshal's Mansion are.
Bai Guangen was blasted by Zhang Tianlin's rockets twice and was quickly defeated by the simple tactics of cavalry charge.
Therefore, Hong Chengchou's major policies and military strategies were completely meaningless to Bai Guangen.
Even if you provide me with enough food, pay, armor and equipment, I still have to run when I see Zhang Tianlin's rocket taking off.
Unless...I also have a rocket.
He was so eager to have this kind of strange weapon.
But he has been thinking about it for almost half a year and can't do it.
Bai Guangen's soldiers also picked up a mute rocket tube.
I took it apart and looked at it, but there was nothing special about it, and I didn’t keep the tube afterwards.
As a result, because there was no blueprint, Bai Guangen tried it more than a dozen times, but failed to achieve the desired effect. He either couldn't fly, or couldn't maintain balance when flying, and even killed several craftsmen.
Because all the technical content of the Marshal's Mansion rocket is in the shape of the solid black powder column inside the barrel, it will burn up as soon as it flies out and lands on the ground.
Without this, the rocket will fly out with low combustion speed, uneven thrust, and naturally fly crookedly.
Just the day before the Ningxia mutiny, Bai Guangen's army craftsmen reported that they had finally made a working rocket.
This is a small rocket with a charge of three and a half kilograms, 30 iron particles, a range of 45 steps, and a coverage range of 80 steps.
The workmanship is very good. It is used by cavalry. It looks a bit like a thunder gun. It also has a shield, but the main body in the middle is a three-eyed gun with an enlarged tube and an enlarged caliber.
The method of use is to shoot arrows on horseback, run twenty or thirty steps in front of the formation, put the triple rocket into the enemy formation, and run away quickly.
After testing, even the best war horses cannot escape the range of the rocket before it explodes.
It's... more like suicide.
Fellow generals are full of ridicule for the weapons developed by Bai scientists.
This thing is even inferior to the flying cannon in terms of range and power.
But Bai Guangen said that you have never been bombed by rockets, so you know nothing.
Who doesn’t know the firing rate of a flying cannon? That thing goes off every time it clicks. Rockets are different. There is no shock when the cannon is blasted out. The firing rate is close to 90%. Do you know the fear of seeing a rocket take off?
As for what shooter can't escape the shooting range, is this a problem?
Bai Guangen spent a lot of money to invite the most famous fortune teller in Ningxia, and when he returned, he would select a hundred of the best fortune tellers in the camp to serve as rocket cavalry.
Plus it comes with a shield, making it difficult to kill.
He planned to wait for the soldiers to be selected, then go to the west of Helan Mountain and randomly select a lucky Taiji stationed in the Alxa Desert to experiment.
In fact, there is nothing to choose from. There are not many nobles stationed in Changliushui, Pucao Spring and other places behind Helan Mountain.
One is that the leader is the second son of Zhutaiji, Huatuhuangtaiji, and the fourth son, Duoer, is only Jisheng. Together, the two of them have less than two thousand men and horses; the other is Guru Taiji, who also has thousands of men and horses, and usually has
In Zhongwei Mutual Market.
Both of these two groups belonged to the Ordos tribe, but Lin Danhan did not follow him when he moved westward and avoided Mingbian, so they have a good relationship with Ningxia.
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Went to the Liangzhou Mutual Market in the Marshal's Mansion.
Just when Bai Guangen was about to report to Hong Chengchou that he was going to Helan Mountain to test his new weapons, before he arrived at the Governor's Mansion, he received a summons from Hong Chengchou, asking all senior generals to go to the Governor's Mansion in Zhencheng to discuss matters.
Entering the Yamen of the Governor's Mansion, Bai Guangen found that the atmosphere was unusually solemn. The faces of the guests and generals had swept away the joy of acquiring military land earlier, and all of them were covered with a layer of gray.
"Liu Chengzong's reply was sent from half the city last night. He was furious about Xu Yong's attack on the border wall and planned to send troops to conquer Ningxia."
As Hong Chengchou said this, the expression on his face was relatively relaxed. He glanced at Zuo Liangyu and said, "But this is to be expected. The so-called sending troops to conquer is just an excuse."
"Liu Fangming leaked the news about the mutiny in Ningxia. Whether General Xu attacks the border wall or not, I guess he will not miss this opportunity and will definitely send troops. Therefore, this reply is a good thing for you."
"At least we are sure that Liu Thief is still in Xi'an Mansion at this time. He is gathering troops and horses to march north. Even if the vanguard troops are sent out, it will take three days, and follow-up support will take ten days."
"Therefore, I estimate that after six days, his vanguard troops and horses will reach the Yellow River line, and half a month later, most of his support will also enter Ningxia."
Hong Chengchou estimated that Liu Chengzong's troops were gathering quickly.
Hearing this, Zuo Liangyu shook his head, gritted his teeth and clasped his fists and said: "In the military sect, Liu Thief is cunning by nature. He is the best at using the force of men and force, and his troops are unpredictable. We should be strict with the enemy, and it is time to set up defenses now."
Hong Chengchou nodded when he heard this and followed the good advice.
This is what Zuo Liangyu learned from being beaten, so you must listen to it.
He said: "In this case, according to Commander Zuo's words, we will prepare for him to enter Ningxia in three days, and reinforcements will arrive in five days."
"The morale of our army is weak, and many military academies are afraid of fighting. Do you think that in these two days, can we take the lead in fighting south of the Yellow River, gather a large number of troops, encircle the vanguard, and quickly annihilate it to boost the morale of our army?"
Cao Wenzhao was about to ask for a fight when he felt someone was grabbing him from the back of his clothes. When he turned around, it was Bai Guangen, who was staring and shaking his head vigorously.
And make the mouth shape: Zhang Tianlin.
Hearing this name, Cao Wenzhao stared. His elite cavalry and his brother Cao Wenyao were both in Zhang Tianlin's hands. Liu Chengzong's imperial vanguard was the person he hated the most.
But the same name also calms it down quickly.
Zhang Tianlin's three axes are cavalry charge, rocket blast, and cavalry charge again. This unsustainable strategy is extremely powerful. Whoever is hit by his first wave will definitely be in bad luck.
The air in the main hall of the Governor's Yamen almost solidified for a moment.
Hong Chengchou was very embarrassed.
In the end, Zhang Yingchang, who still had a clear understanding of the world, stood up and clasped his fists and said: "In that case, I humbly ask for a fight. Our army will gather together to annihilate the enemy's vanguard first, and then retreat to the north of the Yellow River for a long-term plan!"