Wanli Youming

Chapter 547 Han people are not slaves, defend the new ritual!

Chapter 547 Han people are not slaves, defend the new ritual!

With Zhu Yijun's order, the state machinery of the entire empire began to operate against Yang Yinglong's rebellion in the southwest.

Not long after receiving the order, Liu Ting rushed to Chongqing with [-] infantry who were good at mountain warfare. They traveled all the way day and night, using horse boats instead.

Over the years, Daming has increased investment in infrastructure construction, especially in the southwestern region. Many official roads have been added to prepare for future land reform and strengthen control over Uszang, so they traveled from Kunming by horse and boat. Going to Chongqing, an important city in the southwest, is no longer a problem.

At that time, Yang Yinglong was still attacking Fotu Pass in Chongqing.

Liu Chengsi, the defender of Fotu Pass, resolutely fought back against Yang Yinglong, causing Yang Yinglong's rebel Miao soldiers to suffer heavy losses at Fotu Pass.

Yang Yinglong intended to recruit Liu Chengsi, but Liu Chengsi refused, and even took advantage of his unpreparedness to attack his camp at night, causing Yang Yinglong to retreat back to Jiangjin in embarrassment.

This can be regarded as the beginning of Yang Yinglong's side effect of suppressing military children by catering to the old party.

After Liu Chengsi saw that many of his superiors and colleagues had transferred to important civil positions, he naturally wanted to transfer to important civil positions.

After all, if you become a civil servant, you will have more power, and you don't have to risk your life.

to this end.

He stayed up almost every day to study the modern learning theory compiled by Zhu Yijun in the name of Zhang Juzheng, and he also worked hard to practice the new rituals, just to let the new party in the court see how high his consciousness is, and transfer him to a civil post, so that the power will be great. Don't worry about dying in battle.

You know, military commanders are also human beings, and they cherish their lives.

If they could possess power and wealth without risking their lives on the battlefield at any time, most of them would naturally not be willing to go to the front line to gain merit.

Therefore, Liu Chengsi refused to surrender, and defended very tenaciously. Even if Yang Yinglong sent [-] Miao soldiers to Fotu Pass again, he failed to let Yang Yinglong capture Fotu Pass.

"Either you die in battle because of guarding Xinli and let your descendants go to Xingming Academy to be the emperor's disciples, or you return to Beijing to become an official because of guarding Xinli. No matter what the result is, it is better than surrendering the rebels!"

"So, brothers, our sons from military households can't betray your father just because they are afraid of death for a while, and let the world go back to the era when military households are not as good as domestic slaves!"

Liu Chengsi even personally cheered up the Han soldiers guarding Fotu Pass, and publicized why they should stick to Fotu Pass.

Because of this, the upper and lower government schools at Fotuguan were all fighting against the same enemy. With only [-] soldiers, Yang Yinglong was unable to break through Fotuguan and attack Chongqing.

"Now it seems that he, Zhu Yijun, raised his status as a military household and allowed military officials to specialize in civilian positions. He paid equal attention to both civil and military affairs. It's not a fool's trick. At least now, although the gentry don't embarrass us, he makes these warriors die one by one!"

"You can't even recruit to surrender!"

"We really can't give him a higher price than Zhu Yijun. At most, we can only promise to pay equal attention to civil and military affairs. But then the gentry will not support us secretly, and the generals will not support us because of this."

"After all, there's no need for them to betray the imperial court and end up being called traitors without much improvement in their status by taking refuge in my Yang family."

Yang Yinglong felt a headache about this, so he talked to Yu Maochang, Song Wenbin and other literati.

"What the general said is true! Since ancient times, you can't have both."

"But the general can only choose to restore the old system. After all, if he doesn't choose this way, why would the general rebel?"

Yu Maochang followed suit at this time.

After hearing this, Yang Yinglong said solemnly: "You're right! If it weren't for the new etiquette, the Miao people would not be obedient, who would want to rebel?"

"General, from my point of view, since it is to restore the old system, and those who are born and died for the general are all masters, and there are slaves to use, you might as well make it clear that after taking down the Fotu Pass, the bottom soldiers will be rewarded with three landless soldiers." The Han people are two-legged slaves, so the brave soldiers must fight bravely to be the first!"

Yu Maochang offered another poisonous plan at this time.

Yang Yinglong nodded after hearing this: "This strategy is very good! He Zhu Yijun knows how to lure him with money, and I, Yang, can't do it either."

As he said that, Yang Yinglong ordered: "Pass down the order to take down Fotu Pass, and reward three landless Han people as two-legged slaves for soldiers and bravery, and double the rewards for officials and schools!"

"Yes!"

The morale of the Miao soldiers under Yang Yinglong's command was indeed greatly boosted by this.

After all, everyone wants to be a slave owner, especially the Han Chinese.

Therefore, in history, whether it is the Mongols, the Jurchens or other ethnic minorities, they are particularly active in the matter of entering the customs to rob the Han people as slaves, and even bring their own dry food and armored soldiers, and everyone strives to be the first.

And the landlord class among the Han people also wanted to be slaves for the Han people, so Yu Maochang and others colluded with them.

Anyway, it’s still the same sentence, the history of the Han people is the history of being enslaved and resisting being enslaved, that is, the history of being eaten or not wanting to be eaten.

But now, the rebel Miao soldiers under Yang Yinglong's command were even more fearless in attacking Fotu Pass, one by one was even red-eyed. It seemed that behind Fotu Pass was a mine of Han people that was worth as much as gold.

"Han slaves are really easy to use. They farm fields well and weave cloth well. They have no temper and are very obedient. They are easier to use than dogs!"

"My father used it before, but he escaped later and was not caught. If I can catch more this time, I can also lie down and eat delicacies like the Yang family without doing anything."

Qin Dashan, a Miao soldier under Yang Yinglong, told his fellow villager Lou Wuniu the benefits of owning Han slaves.

After hearing this, Lou Wuniu said: "No wonder you rushed through the pass so desperately this morning, and you were injured on your head! It's just that the Han people in Fotu Pass are different. They are not afraid of death. What's the matter?"

"That's because they were poisoned by the new rituals, so the general wanted to raise troops to destroy the new rituals. Otherwise, we Miao people would not have Han slaves."

Qin Dashan said.

Lou Wuniu nodded, and then rushed up the ladder on the Fotu Pass without fear of death.

Not only Lou Wuniu, but many Miao soldiers felt as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, because they knew that Han men were more diligent, and Han women's skin was whiter and more supple.

Yu Maochang also burst into laughter watching the scene of these Miao soldiers charging. He seemed to have seen that in the future, the scholar-bureaucrats like himself can bring the world back again. Heavy, the era when I can gain both fame and fortune just by talking about my mind and nature every day.

"Hold on!"

"Only by letting these Miao people know how difficult it is to enslave us, will they know how to be afraid, will accept the new gift obediently, will obediently learn the techniques of farming, and will obediently come to buy our cloth and trade with us!"

"Brothers, if you don't want to die, you can't live or live a peaceful life!"

"We still have to be humiliated and beaten by a scholar and can't fight back, and we have to watch our wives and sisters being forced to serve as slaves to 80-year-old sour literati because of the Qing army's enlistment!"

"It's not like now, because of the new ceremony, you can get military medals, you don't have to kneel when you meet the Elder Lord, and you can report to the emperor about the dirty things about a scholar when you are wronged!"

But Liu Chengsi still didn't give up. When the firearms were about to run out, he personally hacked people at the city gate with a knife, and while beating the rushing Miao soldiers, he encouraged his soldiers.

(End of this chapter)