Chapter 114 Pull a family

For birds, it is not a high-tech thing in the late Ming Dynasty. Many Ming craftsmen have learned how to make birds, and the actual power is not too small.

A high-quality bird shot, in fact, is not bad in terms of range accuracy and power. In the hands of a good shooter, it can also exert quite good power.

However, in the past, the officials of the Ming Dynasty were greedy. The eunuchs and officials in charge of building weapons always deducted iron materials and filled their private pockets, so that the craftsmen had to cut corners and replace them with inferior ones, and delivered some unqualified birds to the Ming army.

As a result, many of the birds used in the Ming army are of poor quality and often explode accidents. As a result, the birds have never officially become the main battle equipment of the Ming army, and leave a notoriety. Few people are willing to use birds as weapons.

However, after these craftsmen were captured by Jiannu, they were selected and concentrated in workshops outside Shengjing City. Shenyang itself is rich in coal and iron. Many workshops have been built here, and a large number of blacksmiths have gathered to create various weapons and armors for the Jiannu army, forming a large production scale.

Jiannu has been fighting for years, and the demand for armor is also very large, and the management is strict. The quality of the armor made is far higher than the quality of the armor used by the Ming officers and soldiers before. They have formulated an extremely strict management system to supervise the craftsmen to create all kinds of armor. Once a craftsman cuts corners and creates unqualified armor, It will lead to severe punishment.

So when Huang Taiji ordered to build as many birds as possible at any cost, they did not cut corners and fill up the number of materials as before the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, after Jiannu successfully trial-produced the bird rifle, the quality of the bird rifle they produced was far higher than that used by the Ming army before, and the range power was also improved. There was a certain lethality beyond 70 steps, but it was limited to this. After all, they would not get the rifle's rifle, let alone understand the rice. The principle of Nirvana, so it is also an unbelievable move to achieve this step.

While paying attention to the situation of the Ming Dynasty in Guannei, Huang Taiji learned that Yu Xiaotian had no plan to use troops in Liaodong for the time being, but only retained the Guanning army to temporarily stay in the Guanjin area to monitor them. He is concentrating on cleaning the officialdom in Daming, replacing officials, controlling the situation in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, and concentrating on suppressing them. There is no sign of the use of troops outside the customs in a short period of time.

Huang Taiji knew that this was the last opportunity for him, so he devoted all his national strength and asked the craftsmen to build all kinds of artillery-guns day and night, trying to use these new firearms to compete with them when Xiaotian used gold soldiers against Liaodong in the future.

What Manqing established the country by riding and shooting? By this time, they had long been thrown out of the sky by the emperor Taiji. Through the lesson of slumping in front of their family's weapons, they realized the power of firearms on the battlefield and knew that they would leave the firearms in the future. No matter how brave warriors were, they could only be slaughtered.

They put down their previous dependence and pride on riding and shooting, tightened their belts and began to prepare desperately. In the past two years, they have really created a lot of Hongyi cannons and bird guns.

However, the golden days outside the customs are getting worse day by day, because after Yu Xiaotian came to power, Yu Xiaotian implemented extremely strict control over the export of materials inside and outside the customs, arrested and killed a large number of former colluding with construction slaves, smuggled food and other materials inside the customs and sold them to The profiteers of Jiannu and the officials who colluded with the profiteers have caused the destruction of many profiteers.

In this way, the root cause of grain export outside the customs was stuck from the source, and then gradually controlled the road from land to outside the customs. In addition, the navy also completely blocked the coast of Liaodong, and also blocked the sea, basically blocked all channels for Jiannu to obtain food from the customs.

Under heavy pressure, it completely suppressed the momentum of profiteers taking risks to deliver supplies outside the customs, which was equivalent to choked Jiannu's neck.

Due to the climate impact of the small glacier period, the Liaodong area has caused severe cold outside the customs. The frost-free period is extremely short throughout the year, which also seriously affects the production of grain and the development of the farming economy in Guanzhou.

This has also led to the fact that the food produced by Jiannu is not enough to meet their needs all year round. This is also the reason why Jiannu has been insisting on risking into the customs for so many years. First, they can obtain food or property through looting, and then turn these assets to buy grain cloth from profiteers in the customs. Necessities, and even they have made corresponding strict regulations on the varieties of imported goods. They do not want to enjoy luxury goods, but only buy their daily necessities.

Nowadays, Yu Xiaotian's strict control system has cut off their way to continue to obtain food and other daily necessities from the customs. Their insufficient grain production has also led to a serious food shortage outside the customs in the past two or three years.

Although Huang Taiji tried his best to order all the ministries to open up wasteland and grow grain, the frost-free period was too short to limit their grain production and could never fundamentally solve the food problem.

This is also the reason why Nurhachi slaughtered the Han people outside the customs. It was precisely because of the lack of food outside the customs that in order to survive, the wild boar skin came up with such an immoral way. By slaughtering the foreign Chinese people to reduce the diet and save food, even the first traitors who defected to the construction slaves were almost slaughtered. It can be seen that the food outside the customs The tension of food.

For three consecutive years, there has been a serious food shortage outside the customs, and even a large number of slaves have starved to death. Even the soldiers of the slaves have been semi-starved all year round, and they are no longer brave as before.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian also made a cruel move, that is, he tried his best to provoke the relationship between the Mongolian ministries and the Jiannu. After the Yu family army defeated the Jiannu army in Guan, the Mongolian departments also suffered serious losses.

In addition, the Mongolian departments also realized that Jiannu was afraid of trouble, and they would come to a very tragic end if they continued to follow Jiannu. Therefore, after the second half of the 12th year of Chongzhen, the Eight Banners of Mongolia no longer listened to Jiannu's.

And Huang Taiji also sensed the uneasiness of the Eight Banners of Mongolia and decided to send troops to regularly attack and slaughter the Mongolian ministries, using this method to eliminate the threat of the Mongolian ministries to them.

This also caused the Mongolian tribes to completely turn against Jiannu, reverting Jiannu as a vengeance, and began to have continuous conflict and resistance with Jiannu for the survival of their own tribe.

Yu Xiaotian also ordered the government around Xuanda to deliberately throw some bait to the Mongolian provinces.

It is well known that after the Mongolian tribes were driven back to the grassland after the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, the economy and technology have seriously regressed, especially many necessities of life, which are heavily dependent on the supply within the customs.

The Ming Dynasty has restricted the development of the Mongolian departments through mutual market. Later, they stripped the Mongolian departments through mutual markets. Later, due to the construction of slaves, they also issued an order to close the mutual market. As a result, most of the Mongolian departments eventually turned to Jiannu, followed the Jiannu, and obtained various necessities of life through looting from the Ming Dynasty.

Not to mention anything else, two of them are always inseparable from the supply of Daming, that is, tea and salt. Mongolia does not produce salt, and it is not close to the sea. All salt is supplied by the customs. Without salt, people have no strength. Even their cattle and horses also need salt supplement, so they are for salt. Demand also leads to their high dependence on the customs.

In addition, tea. Because of the food structure, Mongolian people mostly eat meat, because they are nomadic people and do not cultivate themselves. Naturally, they have no vegetables and food to eat. They can only eat grazing cattle and sheep meat, which has led to their serious dependence on tea. Without tea, they are the same. I can't live either.

After Daming shut down the mutual market, the Mongolian ministries became seriously dependent on Jiannu and obtained tea salt and other things through Jiannu. In addition, they did not know how to make iron, and ironware needed to be obtained from Guannei or Jiannu.

Although Jiannu itself does not produce salt and tea, they have always been able to obtain these goods through profiteers in the customs, and they themselves produce iron. When the Mongolian ministries obtain these materials, they are indispensable to be stripped by Jiannu. Jiannu acts as two peddlers and obtains horses from Mongolian ministries. Make a profit.

However, with the change of the situation, Yu Xiaotian cut off the smuggling of materials outside the customs and cut off the channels for Jiannu to obtain tea salt. Jiannu himself was not enough. Of course, it is impossible to serve as a second-way trafficker for the Mongolian ministries.

In addition, Jiannu realized that the Mongolian ministries would not listen to their orders and guard against them as thieves. Naturally, they would not provide them with iron weapons, so that the Mongol ministries would be miserable.

In a year, the tea salt has been cut off, and the iron can't be supplemented. Without iron, there is no way to build weapons, so that in just one year, the Mongols returned to the primitive state. Weapons can't be replenished. Even the arrow clusters of bows and arrows are not made of iron, so they can only reuse the bones of some animals to act as arrow clusters. Not to mention weapons such as knives and guns, they can't be supplemented at all.

The Mongolian ministries also wanted to enter the customs and plunder in the old way, but after Yu Xiaotian controlled the court, they continued to use the domestic army to replace the border troops and guard the border gates in various places. It is no longer difficult for the Mongolians to enter the customs and plunder as before. Every time they take a ticket, they are beaten to the head and bloodshed, and the death and injuries are heavy, and they have not lose much money. It made them start to lose serious blood.

At this time, Daming threw out a bait, which was to spread the news and tell those Mongolian ministries that it was okay to get tea salt, but they must be out of the control of Jiannu and should not be used as a dog's leg in the future.

If they give up cooperating with Jiannu and continue to help Jiannu, then they can reopen the mutual market in the area of Xuanda and trade tea, salt and other things with them, so that they can survive.

At this time, the Mongolian tribes had been forced to a dead end and continued to hang out with Jiannu. Jiannu did not trust them and often attacked them and slaughtered them. They did not get any benefits. They had become a dead end to the Ming Dynasty, so they had to choose to give in.

Some Mongolian tribes began to submit to Daming, saying that as long as Daming provided them with tea and salt, they would be willing to submit to Daming and no longer serve Jiannu.

So Yu Xiaotian opened the net and agreed that some Mongolian tribes would use their cattle, sheep and war horses to go to the pass designated by Xuanda to exchange markets with Daming, and exchange tea salt for their horses, cattle and sheep, leather and other things. As soon as the Mongolians tasted the sweetness, they found that Daming was trustworthy.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian also ordered to release a group of Mongolians who had been captured and surrendered on the battlefield inside the customs, sent them out of the customs, returned to their tribes, acted as spies for the Ming Dynasty, and monitored the activities of various ministries. The Mongolians in the province used the tea salt obtained through the mutual market to trade with Jiannu.

These captured Mongolian soldiers saw the power of the family army in the Guan and were completely subdued. After being released, they did not dare to have two hearts and became loyal servants of Daming. They began to act as eyeliners and spies for Daming in various ministries, constantly spreading the power of the family army, intimidating the clans and making them I dare not have the idea of continuing to fight against Daming.