Chapter 286 A great harvest before the war

Since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, and during the period of the Tumubao Incident, there has been incompatibility between the Ming Dynasty and the Tatar tribes. From Emperor Hongwu to Emperor Yongle, until the Yingzong period, every generation would launch wars against the Tatars.

Until the Tumu Fort Incident, the military power of the Ming Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline, and the relationship with the Tatars began to transform from military offensive to political differentiation and co-optation.

The Tatars got a chance to breathe, and in 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 trade with each other. The Tatar tribes accepted the canonization of the Ming court.

The last Tatar Khan was Lin Dan Khan. Lin Dan Khan was canonized as King of Shunyi by the Ming court and was more inclined to the Ming court. After the rise of the Eastern Barbarians, they used military strikes and marriage alliance policies to win over the eastern Tatar tribes, led by the Horqinduoyan tribe. As a result, he and Lin Dan Khan were hostile to each other.

During the Chongzhen period, civil strife broke out in the Tumote tribe and it split into two parts: the east and the west. Dongtumote was weak, so he took refuge with Huang Taiji, who moved him to Horqin and stationed outside Xifengkou. Huang Taiji then launched a war against Lin Dan Khan and Xi Tumut.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, Lin Dan Khan and Xitu Mote were defeated and professed their vassalship to Huang Taiji. Since then, all Tatars have nominally surrendered to the Eastern captives.

However, although Huang Taiji achieved victory over Lin Dan Khan and Xitu Mote, the main force of the Donglu was in Liaodong, which was quite beyond their reach. Lindan Khan's tribe and Situmut did not really surrender completely.

Occasionally, there will still be friction with Horqin, the hardcore Donglu, and war will be launched.

Ying Yi's Northern Expedition destroyed the Ming Dynasty, defeated Abatai, and Huang Taiji's death caused internal changes in the Donglu, which greatly weakened the Donglu's control over the Lindan Khan tribe and the Xitumut tribe in the northern grasslands of Xuanda.

Therefore, Dorgon initiated the war on national destiny and asked the Tatar tribes to mobilize troops to respond, but he could only be tempted by interests.

Not to mention the Lindan Khan tribe and Xitumute, even the eastern Tatar tribes must draw a big pie.

Abatai and Turg were defeated, Meng Baqi suffered heavy losses, and Horqin's confidence in Donglu was also hit.

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

In fact, from here we can see Donglu's weakness behind his tiger-wolf appearance.

However, although Abatai's death was traumatic, Huang Taiji and Dorgon were powerful and quickly suppressed it. Although many adherents were shaken, they quickly stabilized.

Through various means, either forcible orders or temptations, Dorgon quickly mobilized all forces to surround Ying Yi.

From Lin Danhan and Xitumote to Horqin and Dongtumote, as well as the strong men recruited from the Donglu headquarters, the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty and the North Koreans, the wind and thunder are rumbling before their eyes.

This front stretched from Xuanda to Shanhaiguan, thousands of miles long, from north to south, from east to west, forming a semi-encirclement of the Gyeonggi area.

Ying Yi reacted quickly. The Zhengjiu Division of the Northwest Theater Command was responsible for declaring the war front. The main opponents were the western Tatar tribes headed by Lin Dan Khan and Xi Tumut. The main opponent of Qian Yue's troops who guarded the capital was Dongtumute in eastern Tatar. In the Northeast Theater, Zhu Bingkun was under the greatest pressure. Horqin, the Donglu headquarters, the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, and North Korea all came from the east.

The Northeast Theater is the key to determining the outcome of the war.

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

The innovation of farming initially started around the capital. After Zheng Yunzhi arrived in the capital and took on some government affairs, he started to transform the Hebei area by comparing it with Henan, starting from the capital. The first batch of agricultural transformation was concentrated in Shuntian Prefecture, involving the cultivation of high-quality seeds on hundreds of millions of acres of land.

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

Even though beacon smoke was about to rise and war clouds were gathering around the area, the seven to eight million people in Shuntian Prefecture started to revel!

Unparalleled output, both in color and flavor, are far ahead of the competition. Great harvest, great carnival. The people of Suncheon Prefecture are at peace!

People regard food as their first priority. Having enough to eat and drink is the most basic requirement. When Ying Yi satisfied this point, he won the hearts of the people.

With the bumper harvest in Shuntian Mansion, the denunciation that was still in full swing suddenly died down. Denunciation and rhetoric are the privileges of scholars. Earlier, when Ying Yi destroyed the Ming Dynasty and attacked the gentry in aspects such as farming and taxation, countless scholars took to the streets and even attacked government offices.

So Ying Yi raised his butcher knife and killed them all.

This pass was easy to kill, and the gentry were frightened by the killing. So it turned to condemnation. If you don't dare to confront them directly, you will slander them in the market.

The people didn't know what was going on and were mostly confused. But with the stabilization of order, the people gradually realized the benefits. When the harvest came, all doubts disappeared.

No slander or slander can compare to a warehouse full of food.

The gentry's rhetorical strategy failed.

However, for the gentry, this was just the beginning. A more difficult situation emerged - high-yielding and improved seeds gave the people confidence, and many gentry's remaining land after the agricultural innovation began to face the dilemma of no one cultivating it.

Most of the gentry were large families, with dozens or even hundreds of members. Agricultural innovation confiscated their illegal land, but their legal land remained.

According to the one-twenty-acre land policy, if a gentry family had fifty people, it would own one thousand acres of land. And these lands, according to historical practice, are cultivated by tenants.

However, the performance of high-yielding and improved varieties made the people no longer want to be tenant farmers.

During the Ming Dynasty of the previous dynasty, many people even fought to put their land in the name of the gentry, just to avoid taxes. The reason is that the Ming court imposed too many taxes and the land yield was too low. In addition, the people could not afford natural and man-made disasters.

Nowadays, improved varieties are not afraid of natural disasters such as drought and floods, and their yields are extremely high. Moreover, the King of Xia only collected agricultural taxes once, and there were no other exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes. The hard-working people can fully bear the tax expenditure and have a lot of surplus.

And the gentry no longer had the privilege of not paying taxes.

Under such circumstances, which commoner out of their wits would become a tenant of the gentry? It is even less possible to assign the land allocated to you to the gentry.

As a result, the gentry everywhere faced the situation of having land but no one to work it.

Various policies directly knocked down the gentry's high status. Now if they want to farm, they need to pay wages and hire laborers. Unlike in the past, not only did they not have to pay, but they could also make a fortune from the tenants.

Agriculture is the foundation of everything. The gradual spread of agricultural innovation has brought order to the land of Hebei. Starting from the capital, a torrent rushed through this ancient land.

On the eve of the war, the prefectures around Hejian, Baoding, Yongping and Shuntian also began to enter the harvest stage.

At the same time, the large amount of grain provided by Shuntian Prefecture's agricultural tax also solved the dilemma of food shortage in the capital, and there was no need to mobilize it from Henan.

No one could have imagined that it only took Ying Yi a few months to stabilize the new order in Hebei. At this time, the war was beginning to break out in front of Guangning garrison outside Shanhaiguan.