Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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In the early morning of October 26th, a shocking news broke out at the same time in the camps where the strong men of North Korea lived outside the three cities of Asan, Yesan, and Dangjin in Chungcheong Province, North Korea.

North Korea is gone!

In every camp, a group of Confucian disciples wearing cloth kerchiefs and long swords and empty hammers loudly announced the great news to the gathered Korean strong men and the low-level officials who commanded these strong men!

Maybe the news was so good that the Korean people and officials below didn't react at once, and they all stood there dumbfounded, just staring blankly at the Confucian disciples who were talking to them.

And at this time, of course there will be better news to announce!

"From now on, all of you are citizens of the Ming Dynasty!"

Zhu Heqi did not regard North Korea as a colony—North Korea in this era is a small Ming Dynasty, with a high degree of "Ming Dynasty", the middle and upper classes have already regarded themselves as ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and the common people of the lower class know that North Korea is a part of the Great Ming Dynasty... And Confucianism is absolutely prominent in North Korea!

Even the law implemented in the Kingdom of Korea is the "Daming Law"... Although there are some laws with local characteristics of North Korea, such as the "Confinement Law", the main body is still the "Daming Law".

It is no exaggeration to say that the "level of enlightenment" in places such as Monan Mongolia, the snow-covered plateau, and the Yeerqiang Khanate in the Western Regions is almost [-] miles worse than that of North Korea. Why can't North Korea be incorporated into the mainland of Ming Dynasty?

Moreover, North Korea had a population of nearly 1000 million in this era, and there were at least 700 million people in the southern five lands under the control of North Korea's central government.

For New Daming with a population of less than 3000 million, the significance of having an extra 700 million people means that the national strength has risen to a new level.

Moreover... Zhu and Chi still knew the truth that if you want to enter North America, you must first conquer Japan, and if you want to conquer Japan, you must first assimilate North Korea.

Didn’t Japan in history also be able to further invade Northeast China after digesting North Korea and advancing the alliance between Japan and South Korea?

Now Zhu and Qi just reversed the process.

Compared with the new Ming Dynasty's withdrawal of the vassal state and the establishment of provinces in North Korea, the combination of Japan and South Korea is really much more difficult.

Because the Koreans have "entered the summer" by themselves in the past three to four hundred years, they not only consider themselves the people of the Ming Dynasty, but also consider themselves the country of benevolent saint Jizi, and fundamentally consider themselves the people of China.

Daming and North Korea are basically one world!

Originally, Zhu Heqi planned to let Li Wenji be a puppet for a while, but he didn't expect her to be so cute, so he threw himself into Father Ming's arms.What is there to hesitate about?If you don't strike while the iron is hot, when will you wait?

Who can bear to push such a well-behaved girl like Li Wenji away?

Of course, just relying on North Korea's "self-introduction to China" and Li Wenji's cuteness is still not enough to quickly "digest North Korea". Those who live in China are those who have "big copper coins" and "big cotton and silk"!

After announcing that "everyone is a citizen of Ming Dynasty", the "welfare" of being a citizen of Ming Dynasty followed.

"Come up!"

The Confucian disciples in each camp waved their hands, and baskets of copper coins and baskets of white cloth were lifted up and placed in front of the big guys.

Seeing these good things, the eyes of North Korean civilians and even officials are straightened.

"From today onwards, as the people of Daming, you have started to take money according to the standards of Daming's employment... What you are given are Ming Wang Tongbao of good quality and full weight, and there is no such thing as two, three, or ten. Yes, a penny is a penny!

Starting today, if you work five hours a day, you will get a basic salary of [-] Wen.If you work an extra hour, you will be given ten coins more, and there will be extra rewards for doing well and fast!

If you don't want to take money, you can also give you cloth!Look, this is Daming's Songjiang white cloth... a horse is worth [-] Wen. "

Now the Korean servants in the camp also know that it is better to be a Ming citizen!

In the past, ordinary servants had no money to do work for the king of Korea, and it would be good to give them food.Now I can earn at least [-] big coins a day, and it is full of Ming Dynasty coins, not the kind of North Korean copper coins that cut corners.

We must know that North Korea has always had "less money", so the purchasing power of North Korean copper coins is still very strong.If those North Korean copper coins that cut corners were not taken into account, and they were used as one penny, their purchasing power would be more than double that of the local copper coins of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Hechi paid these North Korean peasant husbands a wage of 30 Wen a day, which can buy about one and a half buckets of brown rice.If they work for 45 days, the copper coins they get can buy [-] buckets of brown rice. According to the number of "stones" in North Korea, it is a full three stones.

In addition, all their personal food and drink expenses on the construction site were provided by "Ming Dad" for free.

As for the salaries issued by the Kingdom of Korea to the officials of the ninth rank, if they were not discounted by [-]% or [-]%, it would be a mere five shi for brown rice, and they would not care about the rice.

"Long live Ming! Long live King Ming..."

The Korean civilian husbands in the camp reacted immediately, and all of them were so happy that tears filled their eyes, shouting long live.Shouting hooray, I can't wait to start working!

And everyone thinks that five hours a day's working time is too little, at least eight hours is required, so that you can earn [-] yuan a day!

I have to work overtime!

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"Long live! Long live! Long live..."

At the same time, outside Asan Palace, more than [-] North Korean men who had put on brand-new blue military uniforms of the Ming Army also gave out the loudest cheers.Zhu Heqi, who was standing on the wall of Asan Palace, showed a satisfied smile, and Li Wenji, who was standing beside him, also laughed.

Most of the [-] Korean strong men here are strong men selected from the Korean servicemen, and some are the original third-hand army officers and soldiers, as well as some local Confucian disciples in North Korea—those who wear the Ming military uniform The disciples of Confucianism in North Korea are all "middlemen", that is, "two classes of evildoers", and they have no future in the original system of North Korea.

Of course, it is impossible for Zhu and Qi to abolish the "Confinement Law of Consorts" in the first place. There is no bureaucratic group that can replace these two groups of waste.

However, the "Law of Confinement of Misdeeds" is only a "local law" of North Korea, not the law of the Ming court.

Therefore, the Ming army stationed in North Korea can disregard the "Confinement Law" to recruit officers and soldiers in North Korea... It doesn't even matter whether there are two classes or not, they can treat everyone equally and be promoted based on merit!

When these strong men and North Korean third-hand army officers and soldiers followed the Ming army for queue and musket loading training, they already knew the rules of "regardless of background, equal treatment, and promotion based on merit", but they were still a little skeptical at that time.

And today, Zhu Heqi and Li Wenji jointly announced to them the great news of North Korea's withdrawal from its vassal state and its prefectures and counties.

It also clearly announced once again that the Ming army of Korean nationality can receive the treatment of "regardless of background, equal treatment, and promotion based on merit".

At the same time, in accordance with the standard of "equal treatment of all persons", the welfare benefits of the Ming army of Korean nationality were announced... that is, an increase in money, a big increase in money!

Now the standard salary of a third-class soldier in the Ming Army is a regular salary of three silver dollars per month, one silver dollar for salt and vegetables, five buckets of rice and white noodles, and two sets of clothes from head to toe for one year, and double salary at the end of the year. Additional allowances, victories and various military rewards...

In short, the benefits and treatment are really incomparable to a petty official in North Korea!

Although North Koreans have never been known for being good at fighting, Zhu Heqi, who has led troops for many years, knows that as long as the money is in place, coupled with corresponding training and ingenious organization, these North Koreans can still carry flintlock guns to go to war. Play the legendary Queue Shot!

Chapter 538 The Celestial Soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, all brave and full of power, line up to shoot!

The tactic of queuing up and shooting has been spread on the Internet in later generations. It seems to be a very powerful tactic. Only soldiers who regard death as home, plus officers with extremely high tactical literacy and fearless spirit can organize it.

If we go deeper into the analysis, we will even go deep into the aspects of belief and social system.

However, Zhu Heqi, who had led soldiers for eight years in the 17th century, knew that queuing up to shoot was nothing more than a common tactic in which the back row led the front row, and the officers and non-commissioned officers led the soldiers, and then went into battle row by row to die... …

In fact, dense and orderly formations have been the pursuit of all commanders since humans learned to line up to fight.

Because the denser the formation, the easier it is to keep the formation in order, and the more orderly the formation, the easier it is for the officer to command.

And the denser the formation, the less likely it will be broken during the battle.Because most of the soldiers are crowded around and behind them, it is very difficult to turn around and squeeze out.Moreover, the soldiers in the back team can also supervise the soldiers in the front team and hold them to block bullets for themselves.

Therefore, in the era of queuing to shoot, the most annoying thing for officers was that soldiers refused to stand up after lying down or squatting during the battle.As a result, many armies that used line shooting later simply did not allow soldiers forming lines to squat or lie down.So that for a long time, the armies of Western countries have been arguing whether the horizontal formation of line infantry should be arranged in three rows or in two rows.

Because in the case of forming three rows, if the soldiers in the first row do not need to kneel and shoot, it will be difficult for the soldiers in the last row to fire because of the occlusion of the first row.In this way, when three rows of salvos are fired, only two rows can actually fire.

However, the non-firing third row can "push" the first two rows forward, which are more likely to be killed by enemy bullets, so at the end of the discussion, the three-row queue still became the mainstream.

And the reason why this kind of dense formation almost side by side appeared in the era of flintlocks is actually because of the flintlocks!

In the early matchlock guns, when the matchlock was fired, the matchlock might be blown away, thus igniting the gunpowder carried by the surrounding soldiers, causing unnecessary casualties.Therefore, the arquebus team cannot form a dense formation side by side, but can only form a relatively loose formation.

But the flintlock guns do not have a matchlock, so there is no possibility of the matchlock flying, and a dense array of flintlock guns naturally appears.The appearance of the socket bayonet made the flintlock gun also make do with it as a short spear.

Although a flintlock gun with a bayonet is definitely not as easy to use as a long gun when it is used to poke people and horses, but for the convenience of command and formation, the long gun was quickly eliminated.Therefore, in the era of line infantry, the soldiers of the entire battalion used the same weapon, formed a simple, dense, orderly, and easy-to-command formation, and used fairly simple tactical actions to fight.

In fact, the Qing army used long spears, bows and arrows, knives, musket combination formations, and arquebus soldiers’ nine-in-ten serial tactics in the Opium War, which was far more complicated than the British army’s queuing and shooting tactics, and it was also easier to be defeated. Dispersed—because the formation was already disbanded!

And the various arms are dispatched back and forth on the battlefield, and it is very easy to cause confusion in the process of taking turns to fight. The requirements for training and command are much higher than those for queuing up and shooting.Of course, the sparsely trained Qing soldiers could not exert the power that this mixed formation should have. It is not surprising that the British army was defeated.

Of course, if they were replaced with the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers of the early Qing Dynasty, they could give full play to the power of this mixed formation, but they would still be defeated by enemies using flintlocks!

This is impossible. After the superposition of the advantages brought by a single arm, dense formation, and intensive firepower, it has formed a dimensionality reduction blow to the old-age matchlock guns and corresponding tactics.

In fact, the Qing Dynasty in history had suffered from flintlock guns as early as when the patriarch Kang Mazi ruled the world.

During the second Battle of Yaksa, the Cossacks equipped with hundreds of flintlock guns caused heavy losses to Kang Mazi's Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers and the elite Green Battalion.

However, there was no Zhu Heqi at that time, and the San Francisco rebellion was put down by Kang Mazi, and even Taiwan was recovered, leaving only one Galdan who was a little threatening.But as long as the Qing Dynasty signed a treaty with Tsarist Russia, Galdan's access to the flintlock would be cut off.Therefore, dangerous things such as flintlock guns should not be brought into contact with the Han people, lest the third prince and grandson of Zhu third take it to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.

But the situation is different now. The Third Prince Zhu and the Third Grandson of Zhu have wiped out half of the Qing Dynasty with flintlock guns and sugar bombs.

Now Kang Mazi couldn't care less about guarding against his own Han people, so in the past two or three years, he had spent all his money on the three major projects of flintlock guns, granulated black powder and sugar medicine.

And the capital that Emperor Kangxi spent was finally put to great use in the Pyongyang Rebellion that occurred in early November of the 17th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty!

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"Hooray! Hooray!"

The pikemen and pikemen of the Qing army standing one after another under the peony platform let out deafening cheers.Standing on the Peony Terrace and looking at the tens of thousands of Qing soldiers standing on the hillside below, on the city wall near Xuanwu Gate, and in the open space outside Xuanwu Gate, I finally found some of the feelings of when Huang Taiji personally conquered North Korea.

And the one hundred thousand that Kang Mazi brought to North Korea now, to be honest, is stronger than the first and second generation Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers brought to North Korea by Huang Taiji back then.

This is not a casual statement, there is evidence for it.

First of all, there are more Batulu warriors under Kangxi than Huang Taiji's Batulu warriors!And not a little bit more, but a hundred times more!

Back then, there were a dozen Batulu Yong numbers awarded by Huang Taiji.And Kangxi has awarded at least 1000 Batulus in recent years... that is really a lot of courage!

Moreover, in order to win over these Batulu, Kangxi also gave them the treatment of "wearing yellow jackets", and let them take turns to serve as bodyguards, so as to draw the relationship between the monarch and his ministers.

Secondly, Kang Mazi's army is now equipped with a large number of flintlock guns - some of these flintlock guns were imported through the "Haizhou Concession" in North Korea, and some were imported from the Ministry of Internal Affairs under the supervision of Kang Mazi himself. produced.

Kangxi's Ministry of Internal Affairs' Manufacturing Office not only gathered skilled blacksmiths from the land of the Qing Dynasty, but also hired a group of foreign craftsmen who were good at making guns and artillery with the help of the Dutch East India Company.

In order to provide high-quality iron materials for the arsenal of the Manufacturing Office, Kangxi also ignored the Fengshui of his hometown in the Northeast, and asked Nan Huairen to take a group of Dutch engineers to Liaoyang Prefecture, which was rich in iron ore in the Ming Dynasty, to find good iron. A good mine was discovered near Anshanyi and Benxi Hushan!

After collecting some flintlock guns, Emperor Kangxi began to study the infantry codes and regulations of Western countries that the Dutch East India Company had found for him... He soon discovered that after the 30-year war, the military powers of various Western countries Unanimously began to adopt more dense horizontal formations, and at the same time greatly increased the proportion of flintlocks and arquebuses (eliminating arquebuses at once is too rich, and ordinary countries cannot do it) in the proportion of infantry, generally reaching [-]% Sixty or seventy.

The archers, shield sword soldiers, and halberd soldiers have almost disappeared on the battlefield. Only the Ottoman Empire still has such arms.

Emperor Kangxi, who had fought "modern wars" with Zhu Heqi for several years, has also discovered that those miscellaneous arms are useless on today's battlefield.On the current battlefield, the arms of flintlock, arquebus, pikemen, grenadiers, cavalry, and artillery are still useful.

So he also decisively kept up with the trend and created a new Eight Banners soldier who used a mixture of flintlock and matchlock guns, and also used a large number of sugar medicine weapons!

And the first battle of this new Eight Banners soldiers took place in Pyongyang!

Emperor Kangxi's new army was indeed amazingly powerful, and it was defeated in less than a day. After learning that the Korean vassal state was withdrawn, they immediately sent troops to expel the Pyongyang civilian army stationed in the Qing army... These North Koreans under the banner of Ming Dynasty The soldiers are simply vulnerable, even leaning against the fortified city of Pyongyang, they can't stop the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty who are like wolves and tigers!

And after Emperor Kangxi announced the decision to "not seal the knife for three days", what greeted him was the sound of fanatical shouts.

Kangxi raised his fist high above his head, and pointed to the south suddenly: "Batulu of the Qing Dynasty, three days later, I will take you to Seoul...defeat Seoul, and the sword will not be sealed for ten days!"

Chapter 539 Kang Mazi, see you in Seoul!

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, urgently report to the Seoul Camp!"

When Da Boling's voice came into Zhu Heqi's bedroom, this King Zhu Daming had already woken up and just stretched himself, very satisfied.Look around, there is a petite and exquisite North Korean girl wrapped in a quilt, lying on one side with messy hair, a charming and somewhat coquettish face, with a smile on her face, giving people a feeling of success.

Of course, this girl is not Li Wenji, who is only thirteen or fourteen years old. She is so young, how can Zhu Heqi talk about it?However, this girl has something to do with Li Wenji. She was originally a palace maid of the Joseon Dynasty. Her surname was Zhang, and her name was Zhang Yuzhen. When killing, just "charge" with this Zhang Yuzhen.

Witnessing such an exciting event, everyone thought she was going crazy from fright, but she was acting like a normal person... And she didn't know what kind of background she had, so she was transferred to Li Wenji's side as a maid, and came together Asan Palace.

After arriving at Asan Palace, when Zhu Heqi entertained Princess Ming'an, Governor Hu Dedi of Daming Korea Province, Governor Yin Kai (Song Shiyeol was transferred to the central government and worshiped the left deputy prime minister) and other high-ranking officials, he took the initiative to dance for fun.Seeing her enchanting and charming, Zhu Hexi took a few more glances, but he did not expect Li Wenji to send her to accompany the king that night.

Although she is a filial "little widow", Zhu Heqi doesn't care about it.Of course he felt that Li Wenji liked him... Although Zhu Heqi looks like a "fierce bandit" like a bandit, he is especially fond of women, but Li Wenji recommends the beauties around him to him like this, which is still a headache one!How could he have the nerve to refuse?

So last night Zhu Heqi instructed Da Boling to arrange for Zhang Yuzhen to serve her.Only after holding hands did I realize that this piece of Yuzhen was still a virgin—that Li Wei was really miserable, because his wife Jin was a shrew, so she controlled him to death, and he was not allowed to favor the Queen and Concubine Ciyi The gifted beauty Zhang Yuzhen.So this Li Xuan could only look at the beauties around him drooling every day, and he didn't hold hands until his death. In the end, together with his three-thousand-mile country and his sister Li Wenji, they all made Zhu Heqi, the "third grandson of bandits", cheaper!

"Auntie, come in, the door is unlocked." Zhu Heqi sat up from the bed when he heard Da Boling said that there was an urgent military report.

That Zhang Yuzhen seemed to be in a light sleep, and was awakened by the sound of him getting up, so she also got up quickly, got out of bed before him, first found a pajamas to put on, and then silently waited for Zhu Heqi to get up, quickly help him dress and shoes.

Da Boling had already pushed the door open and came in. She was still holding a wooden box with military newspapers. The cover on the box had been removed. It should be Yan Yuan, the minister of the bodyguard, Liu Yan, the head of the bodyguard, and Yu Xiao, the military commander who was in charge of the palace. After the three of Qian and the others had seen it, they were sent to the inner court.

Zhu Hexi hurriedly took out a book with a red cover from the box - this is the color that can only be used by the highest level of emergency military situation!

He hurriedly opened the book, and there were only a few simple sentences in it, reporting that the Qing army had left Pyongyang two days ago and was heading south along the Pyongyang-Seoul road!Before this urgent military report was issued, the vanguard cavalry of the Qing army had already taken Kaesong, the ancient capital of Goryeo, only a hundred miles away from Seoul.

And this is the only information that this emergency military situation can provide.

As for the specific number of Qing troops?How is the equipment?Is the coach Kangxi himself?I don't know anything.

Of course, these "unknown" is very normal.Because on the Korean battlefield, the Qing cavalry had too much advantage!

There are a lot of Eight Banners cavalry and Mongolian cavalry, which can be deployed in front and on the two wings of one's own army. The small number of reconnaissance cavalry pawns of the Ming army dare not approach at all.

As for the "big spy" Huang Zhisheng sent by Zhu Heqi to the Kangxi camp, he is now the confidant of Kong Yuqi, the Confucian saint. , but left the center of Emperor Kangxi.

Moreover, Emperor Kangxi had also significantly strengthened anti-spies and anti-espionage work in the past two years, and established a sticky office in the Ministry of Internal Affairs to monitor all the important officials of the Manchu Dynasty, especially those who could enter and leave the South Study Room to participate in confidential matters.

Moreover, Kangxi also "purified" the South Study Room, and even slaves like Zhou Peigong could no longer participate in the confidentiality.

Now that Kangxi can still gain the trust, there is only one Wang Fuchen among the important Han ministers who participated.

Under such circumstances, it was really difficult for Zhu Heqi to figure out the specific situation of the Qing army.

But for Zhu Heqi, it was enough to know that there was a Qing army coming all the way to Seoul.

Because now the Qing army must know that Zhu Heqi arrived in North Korea, and accepted the request of Li Wenji, Quanzhi North Korea's state affairs, to withdraw the Korean vassal state and establish a Korean province-these things are enough to show that Zhu Hechi himself came North Korea!