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Chapter 286 The Great Harvest Before the War

Since the establishment of the Ming court and during the period of the Tumu Fort, the Ming court and the Tatar tribes were incompatible. From Emperor Hongwu to Emperor Yongle to Emperor Yingzong, every generation launched a war against the Tatars.

Until the Tumu Fort Incident, the Ming court's military power declined from prosperity and its relationship with the Tatar began to change from military offensive to political division and win over.

The Tatars got a breather, and by the generation of Dayan Khan, they unified the Tatar tribes.

The relationship between the Ming court and the Tatars was eased, and the two sides began to change their existence and whether they had or not. The Tatar tribes accepted the enthronement of the Ming court.

The last generation of Tatar Khan was Lin Dan Khan. Lin Dan Khan was canonized by the Ming court as King Shunyi and was more inclined to the Ming court. After the rise of the Eastern Governors, they wooed the Eastern Tartar tribes with military strikes and marriage policies, including Korqin Duoyan tribes. As a result, they were hostile to Lin Dan Khan.

During the Chongzhen period, civil strife broke out in Tumote tribes and split into the eastern and western tribes. Dongtumote was weak, so he surrendered to Huang Taiji, moved to Korqin by Huang Taiji, and stationed outside Xifengkou. Then Huang Taiji launched a war against Lin Dankhan and Xitumote.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, Lin Dankhan and Xitumot were defeated and surrendered to Huang Taiji. Since then, all the Tatars nominally surrendered to the Eastern Barbarians.

However, although Huang Taiji won victory over Lin Dankhan and Xitumot, the main forces of the Eastern Barbarians were in Liaodong, which was quite beyond the reach. Lin Dankhan's tribe and Xitumot did not really surrender completely.

Occasionally, they still had friction with Donglu iron Korqin and launched a war.

Ying Yi's northern expedition to destroy Ming, defeat Abatai, and as for Huang Taiji's death, there were changes within the Donglu, which greatly reduced the control of the Donglu's Lin Dankhan tribe and the Xitumot tribe in the northern grasslands of Xuanda.

Therefore, Dorgon launched a war of national destiny and demanded that the Tatar tribes raise troops to support them, but he could only tempt them with interests.

Not to mention Lin Dan Khan's tribe and Xitumot, even the eastern Tatar tribes must draw a big cake.

Abatai and Turge lost a lot, and the Eight Banners of Mongolia suffered heavy losses. Korqin's confidence in the Eastern Lu was also hit.

Otherwise, Wu Keshan and his brothers would send troops directly without saying a word, just like when Huang Taiji was reigned.

In fact, from this we can see the weakness of the tiger and wolf face of the Donglu.

However, although Abatai's death was damaged, Huang Taiji and Dorgon were powerful after all, and they quickly suppressed them. Although many followers were shaken, they quickly stabilized.

Through various means, either forcibly ordered or drawing cakes to lure, Dorgon quickly mobilized forces from all sides to form a siege against Ying Yi.

From Lin Danhan, Xitumot to Korqin, Dongtumot, and the Donglu headquarters, the eight banners of the Han Dynasty and the North Korea recruited the strong men, the wind and thunder were blowing, right in front of us.

This front extends from Xuanda to Shanhaiguan, which is thousands of miles long, from north to south, from east to west, forming a half-encirclement of the Gyeonggi area.

Ying Yi reacted quickly. Zheng Jiu's troops in the Northwest War Zone were responsible for the Xuanda Front. The main opponents were the western tribes headed by Lin Dan Khan's tribe and Xitumot in the western part of the Tatars. The main opponents of Qian Yue's troops who guarded the capital were Dongtumot in the eastern part of the Tatars. Zhu Bingkun, the Northeast War Zone, was the most pressured by the Korqin, the Donglu headquarters, the Han Eight Banners, and the North Korea all came from the east.

The Northeast War Zone is the key to determining the outcome of the war.

From the end of July to the beginning of August, there will be a great harvest around the capital.

The reform of agricultural affairs began in the vicinity of the capital. After Zheng Yunzhi arrived in the capital, he took on government affairs and transformed the Hebei region in comparison with Henan. The first batch of agricultural reforms were concentrated in Shuntian Prefecture, involving the cultivation of high-quality seeds of hundreds of millions of mu of land.

At the end of April, the land transformation of Shuntian Prefecture was successfully completed. By the end of July, the first batch of cultivated seeds entered the harvest period.

Even though the surrounding beacon was about to rise and the battle clouds were covered with battles, the entire Shuntian Prefecture began to have a carnival!

The unparalleled output, regardless of color, fragrance and taste, is far ahead. A great harvest, a great carnival, and the people in Shuntian Prefecture are determined!

Food is the most important thing for people, and eating is the first priority. Eating and drinking is the most basic requirement. Ying Yi met this and won the hearts of the people.

With the bumper harvest of agricultural work in Shuntian Prefecture, the condemnation that was already in full swing, then it ceased. The condemnation, the verbal and the privileges of scholars. Earlier, Ying Yi destroyed Ming and attacked the gentry class in all aspects such as agriculture and taxation, countless scholars took to the streets and even attacked the government offices.

So Ying Yi raised his butcher's knife and killed him.

This is a good way to kill, and the gentry class was frightened. So they turned to condemnation. They did not dare to fight directly, and slandered and criticized the praise and criticized them in the market.

The people are confused when they don’t know what they are. But as the order stabilizes, the people gradually realize the benefits, and as a great harvest, all doubts disappear.

No matter how bad or slander is, it is not as good as a full warehouse of grain.

The gentry's verbal strategy failed.

However, for the gentry, this was just the beginning, and a more difficult situation occurred - high yields and good varieties gave the people confidence, and the land left by many gentry after the agricultural reform began to face the dilemma of no one to cultivate.

Most of the gentry were a family, dozens or even hundreds of people. Their illegal land was confiscated, but the legal land was still there.

According to the policy of land of 1000 mu, if a gentry family has fifty people, it will own 1,000 mu of land. According to the traditional practice, these lands are employed to plough farmers.

However, the high yield and good varieties have made the people reluctant to become tenants anymore.

During the Ming Dynasty, many people even fought to apologize for their own land in the name of gentry just to evade taxes. The reason was that the Ming court had too heavy taxes and the land output was too low, and the people could not afford it due to natural disasters and man-made disasters.

Nowadays, good breeds are not afraid of natural disasters, droughts and floods, and the yield is high. Moreover, the King of Xia only collects agricultural tax once, and there are no other heavy taxes. The hard-working people can fully bear tax expenses and have a large amount of surplus.

And the gentry has the privilege of paying taxes.

In this case, which commoner would be tenants for the gentry if he was ill-minded? It would be even more impossible to affix the land he allocated to the gentry.

This puts the gentry everywhere in a situation where there is no land to farm.

Various policies have directly defeated the gentry's high status. Now they have to pay salaries to hire workers to farm. As before, they cannot not only do not need to pay, but they can also pay a sum from the tenants.

Agriculture is the foundation of everything. The gradually unfolding agricultural innovation has enabled the order of the Hebei land to rush through this ancient land like a torrent from the capital.

On the eve of the war, the governments around Hejian, Baoding, Yongping and other places also entered the harvest stage.

At the same time, the large amount of food generated by the tax on Shuntian Prefecture farmers also solved the dilemma of insufficient food in the capital, and there was no need to mobilize it from Henan.
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