Why doesn’t the same system apply? Because there are two major harms.
Before entering the customs, the favorite thing of the Jiannu slaves was to destroy the borders and plunder, and during the robbery, they not only robbed cattle, sheep, livestock and goods, but also robbed the population.
Why are you robbing people? Take them back to be used as coats and farm land, so that the Eight Banners soldiers don't have to farm their own land.
When the tribe was still very poor, the effect of this approach was extremely obvious, because it could greatly arouse the Eight Banners soldiers' desire to fight, prompting them to rob more coats, cattle, sheep, and more property.
But since entering the customs, especially after entering the horse racing enclosure, the situation has undergone fundamental changes.
After the land encirclement, almost every bannerman was allocated hundreds of acres to thousands of acres of cultivated land. Each bannerman also grabbed dozens to three or five coats of land.
At this time, the Eight Banners soldiers can live a very comfortable life, and their aggressiveness will be greatly reduced.
Think about it, the soldiers of the Eight Banners no longer have to work in the fields and can live a life of shamelessness with their wives, concubines and slaves in their arms every day. Who is still willing to go to the battlefield to fight life and death? People are not stupid.
Because of this, the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners soldiers collapsed in a very short period of time after entering the pass.
In another time and space, the Three Feudatories raised their troops to cause chaos, and the Eight Banners soldiers had no fighting power at all. Kang Mazi had no choice but to reuse the coated minions and the Green Battalion.
Therefore, the first harm of the Eight Banners system is that the Eight Banners soldiers will lose their enterprising spirit.
The second harm of the Eight Banners system is that it greatly restricts the development of social productivity, because under the Eight Banners system, almost all the means of production are concentrated in the hands of the bannermen. A large number of Han people are just slaves, and most of the bannermen
The slaves were treated very harshly, and they were not even allowed to eat enough.
Under such circumstances, where can Bao Yi find the energy to work in the fields?
The same cultivated land, when cultivated by Han civilians, could yield two or even three shi per acre, but once it fell into the hands of the Jian slaves, it was considered highly productive to harvest 5 dan per acre, and it was possible to harvest 3 dan or even 2 dan.
It is precisely because of this that Jiannu suffered from food shortages every year in Liaodong.
What is Liaodong? It is the most fertile land in China.
Can you imagine that there are only more than 300,000 Buddhist slaves guarding such a large piece of black land and there is a food shortage?
How low did the production efficiency of the Jiannu have to be before a food shortage broke out in Liaodong? The reason why the production efficiency of the Jiannu was so low was because of the Eight Banners hunting system.
This system only applies to fishing and hunting tribes and is not applicable to farming civilization at all.
Huang Taiji had already realized this. Unfortunately, he had just established the Ministry of Internal Affairs and died suddenly before he had time to reform the Eight Banners system.
Now Dorgon also realizes this.
It was also decided to reform the Eight Banners system.
Dorgon's words made Hong Chengchou and the other three excited.
The wait was finally over, the emperor and the regent finally wanted to reform the Eight Banners system!
These three die-hard traitors are now completely on the stand of establishing slaves, and they are always thinking about the interests of establishing slaves or the Qing court.
At that moment, Hong Chengchou suggested: "Master, reforming the Eight Banners system will inevitably meet with crazy resistance from the Eight Banners nobles, so I think it is necessary to divert the disaster eastward and rely on external forces to achieve the goal."
"With external help?" Dorgon asked, "Mr. Hengjiu, how do you say this?"
Hong Chengchou said: "Through the war with Nanming, the military power in the hands of the Eight Banners nobles was gradually lifted. As long as the military power in the hands of the Eight Banners nobles is lifted, the rest will fall into place."
"Sir, do you mean to march south again?" Duduo frowned, "Isn't that inappropriate?"
Dorgon also frowned slightly. Although he dreamed of conquering the South, the current Qing Dynasty did not have the ability.
"No, no, no, the ten kings have misunderstood the meaning of the slave." Hong Chengchou quickly explained, "The slave does not mean the southern expedition, but the continuous use of Jia La and even Niu Lu as units to give full play to the coming and going of our Qing soldiers.
Feng's superiority in cavalry and archery continued to launch endless harassment battles against Nanming's Huanghuai defense line."
"Well, I understand what you mean, sir." Dorgon suddenly said.
"It's just to treat Nanming's Huanghuai defense line as a hunting ground and let the Eight Banners warriors go hunting, right?"
"Yes, that's what it means." Hong Chengchou said, "This has two advantages. One is that it can gradually take away the military power of the Eight Banners in a subtle and silent way in the process, and realize the separation of the flag affairs and military power of the Eight Banners."
Duduo was still a little confused and asked: "How to separate flag affairs and military power?"
"It's very simple." Hong Chengchou said with a smile, "Before sending troops, we only talked about plundering the population in Henan and Shandong. The flag owner Baylor will definitely agree to share the military supplies. After all, there are benefits to be divided."
"Who doesn't want to have more wrappers in their home?"
"We will announce specific combat strategies after military supplies are concentrated in the Ministry of Internal Affairs."
"At this time, the deal is done, and it's too late for Baylor, the leader of each flag, to rebel against Mei."
"Then use military supplies to gradually control the generals of each banner. To put it simply, those who obey their masters or the Ministry of Internal Affairs can get enough military supplies, and those who don't obey will not get military supplies."
"In this way, over the course of a year, the generals of each banner will become accustomed to obeying their masters and the Ministry of Internal Affairs."
After saying this, Hong Chengchou continued: "When the master announces the separation of flag affairs and military power, no one will dare to object. Then the master and the Ministry of Internal Affairs will monopolize military power, and then the Eight Banners system can be reformed step by step."
Dorgon hummed slightly and asked again: "Mr. Hengjiu, what is the second benefit?"
Hong Chengchou said: "The second advantage is that we can take this opportunity to greatly consume Nanming's money, food and population. In less than two years, the Huanghuai defense line carefully built by Chongzhen will be riddled with holes, and then wait for our Qing soldiers to come again
During the southern expedition, we can destroy the Huanghuai defense line without any effort and take Nanjing directly!"
"Good!" Dorgon said, "Just do it according to Sir's method!"
After saying this, he shouted loudly: "Hou Fangyu? Hou Fangyu!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Hou Fangyu immediately walked in with hunched shoulders and asked: "Master?"
Dorgon said: "You immediately go and inform the flag owners of each banner, Baylor, to come to Prince Rui's mansion to discuss the government! Just tell them that there is a big event, it is urgent, and all the flag owners of each banner, Baylor, must be present."
"Hey!" Hou Fangyu immediately turned around and ran away.
"Huang Ama." As soon as Hou Fangyu left, Fulin walked in behind.
"Your Majesty?" Dorgon sat up from the kang in astonishment and asked, "Why are you here?"
"I will bow before the Emperor." Hong Chengchou and the other three traitors hurriedly paid homage to Fu Linxing. Duduo followed suit and knelt down to pay homage to Fulinxing with some reluctance. It was really unlucky.
"My son, I'm here to pay my respects to Emperor Ama."
Fulin said, waving his sleeves and kneeling on one knee: "Your Majesty, Ama is auspicious."
"Pingshen." Dorgon raised his hands and said, "Come and sit on the kang."
Fulin sat down on the kang and asked with a smile: "Huang Ama, can I participate in the political discussion later?"
Dorgon was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Of course you can, you are the emperor, you can do whatever you want."
Not long after, the flag owners of each banner, Beile, came to Prince Rui's Mansion one after another. They were a little surprised to see Fulin here, but they didn't think much about it.
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Let’s not talk about the Jiannu side for now, let’s talk about the Ming Dynasty later.
For the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty, they could really take annual leave after worshiping heaven and earth on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and they could rest until the 20th of the first lunar month before going to court.
After the fourth minister of the cabinet, Qian Qianyi, left the court, he returned to his hometown in Changshu with Liu Rushi.
From then on until the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, Qian Qianyi and Liu Rushi stayed in the Banshan Hall. The couple recited poems and composed poems every day, and their red sleeves were fragrant. It was really comfortable.
However, the beautiful life was broken on the evening of the Lantern Festival.
The moonlight was just right that night, Qian Qianyi and Liu Rushi were eating Yuanxiao and admiring the moon in front of the Hongdou Restaurant, when they saw the old butler Qian Kuan walking over quickly with a solemn expression.
"Master, the third master is here to visit." The old housekeeper reported.
"There is also Master Mao Qi from the Mao family in Rugao and the eldest man from the Xu family in Huating."
"The three of them actually came together?" Qian Qianyi's expression condensed for a moment after hearing this, and then he said to Liu Rushi, "Madam, come as soon as you go for your husband."
"Go." Liu Rushi said softly, "I'll wait for you to come back and eat Yuanxiao together."
Qian Qianyi said "Oh", then stood up and left in a hurry with Qian Kuan. Watching Qian Qianyi's figure walk away, Liu Rushi's pair of eyebrows slowly knitted together, and she had a very bad feeling.
At this time, three old men were sitting in the East Flower Hall of Banshan Hall.
These three people are all famous grain merchants in Nanzhi. One is Qian Qianli, Qian Qianyi's clan brother, the other is named Mao Jingzu, who is Maoxiang's uncle, and the other is Xu Ersui, Xu Jie's direct descendant.
great-grandson.
There were footsteps outside the hall, and Qian Qianyi walked in quickly.
"Mr. Ge." The three old men quickly stood up and greeted Qian Qianyi.
"No need." Qian Qianyi waved his hand, sat down and asked, "The three of us came to the humble house together, presumably to beg for a bowl of yuanxiao. Tell me, what happened?"
"Mr. Ge, something happened." Mao Jingzu stamped his feet and said, "Something big happened."
Xu Ersui continued: "The Wang family in Xiuning and the Hu family in She County want to destroy our fortune!"
Qian Qianli continued: "Since the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, grains from Huguang have been arriving in Nanjing, and the price is always one or two lower than our rice store."
"Our rice shop sells five taels, and they sell four taels."
"Our rice store sells four taels, and they sell three taels."
After saying this, he said with a dark face: "Isn't this deliberately trying to damage our plate?"
"The Hu family in Wangjiashe County, Xiuning?" Qian Qianyi asked, "Are these two families very financially strong?"
Qian Qianli said: "It's hard to say that we have strong financial resources. Although the Wang and Hu families have been engaged in the grain business between Huguang and Nanzhi for decades, their accumulated wealth is limited, and it will only be one million taels.
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"One million taels?" Qian Qianyi said angrily when he heard this, "How can a mere one million taels scare you like this?"