New Shun 1730

The emperor's idea of ​​giving Ma Haochuan the opportunity to gain military merit was that the emperor was not prepared to let Ma Haochuan lead the army after he "left", at least not to let him take charge of the Beijing camp field troops.

But it has another use.

During the military reform, Liu Yu talked about the differences between field battles, battles, clearing up and public security reforms, and returning home wars.

I have also said that when the former dynasty fought against the Mongols in the northwest all day long, fighting the Mongolians without armor, their experience was that muskets did not need to break armor, but needed to fire rapidly in chaos, so things like three-eyed muskets became very popular. When waiting to deal with the "Hongwu Yongle Ming Army" created by General Longhu of the Ming Dynasty after learning from the founding military system of the Ming Dynasty, they were unable to do what they expected.

I have also said that Dashun’s actual combat experience in reforming the native land in the southwest resulted in a lot of detours: fighting the southwestern chieftains, the experience gained was a lot of weird cannons.

Small, big, and even there is a division between artillery and medium-caliber field artillery, or a bunch of small-caliber cannons that can be carried by two people are actually large guns to strengthen the firepower and "bully" the toasts without artillery. ; Or build something like a super-heavy siege gun specially designed to attack towers and city walls to meet the special needs of the southwest battlefield.

But this special experience of "security warfare" is really useful for fighting rookies.

However, the stinky chess basket gets worse and worse as it is played. If the chess match is really equivalent to the national strength, it can be beaten out by human artillery, so the effect is not good. If you really encounter an army with regularized field artillery, you will suffer a big loss.

The emperor was not good at fighting, but he still understood the principles.

Can a general trained in the reform of the Southwest and the suppression of rebellions in western Sichuan be able to command troops in large-scale field battles?

Will those field experience in the reform and return of the Southwest be beneficial or harmful in possible field battles in the future?

The key to being a handsome man and a king is to make the best use of everything.

Where should we choose generals to take charge of field armies such as the Beijing Camp?

Obviously, they should be selected from the battlefields of large-scale field battles such as Zhengzhun and Japan. Some things, especially those related to large-scale battles, cannot be learned from wars like wars against chieftains.

And where should Ma Haochuan's experience from the southwest to the west of Sichuan be used in the future?

The emperor had considerations.

To be precise, Ma Haochuan was one of the candidates left by the emperor to his son to be the "Grand Governor in India".

Because the emperor chose the first batch of new generals who had grown up with Liu Yu as generals to fight in India. Their relationship with Liu Yu was too deep.

After the field battle was completed and the outcome was determined, it was necessary to transfer back to the domestic one-stop service - to be granted a title, to be given a pension by the Privy Council, and to withdraw troops.

In the future, generals stationed in India may not necessarily be able to engage in large-scale field battles, but they must be good at small-scale suppression, surprise attacks, rapid maneuvers, early disintegration, etc.

In other words, India will need a master of public security warfare in the future, not a master of field battles.

The emperor was really interested in India.

The reason for interest is not trade.

No one told the emperor, or the emperor was not a time traveler, so it was impossible for the emperor to know that historically before the opium trade, the East India Company's first income was India's land tax, and its second income was India's salt tax.

However, Li Gan was the Emperor of Dashun.

Therefore, he did not need anyone to tell him, nor did he need a prophet to tell him: in such a large, wealthy, and populous place, if you want to make money, the top two must be the land poll tax and the salt tax.

Telling this truth to the Emperor of China is like telling the Emperor of China mysteriously: The sun rises from the east. It's pure fucking nonsense.

The emperor said to himself, "Do I still know that the most profitable things are collecting land tax, poll tax and salt tax?"

The awareness of making money through industry and commerce requires the emperor to have extremely high pioneering ideas.

The awareness of making money from land tax and salt tax only requires that the emperor is not an idiot.

Of course, this is also related to tradition and national conditions.

Therefore, it was Dupleix of the French East India Company who first thought of the idea of ​​setting up a land tax in India, not Britain, which was founded on commerce.

For a period of time in the later period, even though the East India Company had controlled the salt tax, British industrial capital also asked the company to relax the salt tax so that British salt producers could sell salt. The reason was that "the salt monopoly has seriously damaged the Indian people." Health is inhumane." The East India Company was scolded by the East India Company in Parliament, but it was business in the hearts of the people.

For Dashun, collecting land tax and salt tax is simply more national conditions and tradition.

The cakes Liu Yu painted in India did not say that they would promote domestic industry and commerce, and they couldn't even say that. It didn't make sense.

Because if there had not been a natural disaster or man-made disaster that disrupted India's small-scale peasant economy and handicraft industry, going to India to sell cotton cloth would be about the same as going to Songjiang Prefecture to sell silk, going to Jingdezhen to sell ceramics, and going to Ezo to sell salted fish.

The cakes the emperor saw were also India's land tax and salt tax.

So this cake, after knowing that the central power in India has collapsed, the governors of India are fighting each other, and Afghanistan has once again rushed into India and robbed Delhi, the emperor's mind has been determined. When Jieduzhi conquered each other, Shi Jingtang was still missing?

After a little calculation, we know that the land tax is at least 20 million taels and the salt tax is 6 million taels.

each year.

How could the emperor not be careful in selecting talents for the future?

So the change in the southwest strategy this time is actually the emperor using the southwest as a test site to pick out a group of people who are good at governing this kind of "barbarian" area and good at taking the initiative to start a war.

The direction that the emperor grasped in this reform of southern Sichuan was completely different from the direction that Liu Yu cared about.

In the future, when the overall situation in India is settled and the group of people who are close to Liu Yu are transferred back to be given titles, stripped of power and thrown into the Privy Council for retirement, what kind of people are needed to go to India?

Military officer.

We need someone who grew up in another strategic direction that was not Liu Yu's commander and general.

If you need to be thrown to a place, you must have a proactive spirit, don't worry about starting a border provocation, but be good at seizing opportunities and taking the initiative to start a border provocation. After all, they are too far apart, and if you report everything, the cucumber dishes will be cold - for example, when the two governors of India fought each other and suffered losses, should they rush over to end it directly? Or should they report to the court first and wait for the court to decide?

It is necessary to fight small-scale wars frequently, and before the big war, through one small-scale war after another, make the opponent unable to gather strength and launch a large-scale field counterattack.

They need to have a certain strategic awareness, not only fighting, but also good at dealing with the complex ethnic relations in the southwest.

They need to be courageous, dare to gamble, and dare to fight for their origins.

They need to adapt to the complex hot and humid climate and be mentally prepared to fight in hot and humid areas.

All of the above determined that Ma Haochuan was definitely not the most capable young general of Dashun ten years after Taixing, but he must be the most suitable general to train in the southwest and go to India in the future.

Of course, the emperor did not choose only this pair.

Instead, he took the opportunity of the development of southern Sichuan and consolidated the gateway of Guizhou and Yunnan through the development of the salt industry in southern Sichuan. After that, the policy of the southwest should be fully transformed to a more radical initiative than the reform of the natives.

But Xuzhou Prefecture and Xuma Military Region are the beginning of all this, and it is also the easiest place to try whether new experience is applicable.

This is true for military officers.

The same is true for civil officials.

The candidate for Xuzhou Prefecture recommended by Liu Yu is also the one that the emperor thinks is more suitable for the future.

Because India is not the native land of Dashun.

To put it bluntly, how big is Xuzhou Prefecture? Just for this small place, two people of their age who can be made marquises and prime ministers in thirty years if they do a good job are promoted out of the ordinary? Of course, there must be a longer-term plan. Otherwise, if only Xuzhou Prefecture is changed, the emperor can just change it by picking a few radical ones. Why use these two young and promising people?

One is useful, and the other has done it before, but no matter whether he will do it in the future or have done it before, he must do it beautifully.

The things that Xuzhou Prefecture Yin has to do may be similar to the mining supervisors of the previous dynasty in the internal evaluation of the people. But outside, such people who dare to take action are needed.

The resume of the Xuzhou Prefecture Yin can be regarded as the kind of officials that have emerged in Dashun in recent years and "took off" because of the shift of strategic focus to the south.

The official's surname is Niu, and his name is Congyun.

Niu Congyun's resume can also be regarded as a standard example of Taixing's rapid promotion after ten years.

First, he served as the county magistrate in Changhua County, Taiwan Prefecture, reclaiming wasteland, immigration, and absorbing rice plantations and sugarcane plantations. Or, in other words, because of the capital investment pushed by Liu Yu in Songjiang Prefecture, he performed very well.

The major plan was evaluated every three years, and he worked for a total of five years. He was rated as the best twice and was promoted to the governor of the Whale Sea.

He worked as the governor for less than two years. Because of the accumulation effect before, the cost of immigration was greatly reduced. In addition, the development of Ezo, capital went north to make oil, hunt whales and seals, and people fled north to reclaim wasteland to survive when something happened in North Korea, which made it more than just a daily life there. The population doubled directly within two years.

Although in fact, it would not be much different if it was someone else. At that point, as long as you follow the general trend, do not follow the old ways when it comes to benefiting the people, and do not follow the old ways when it comes to things, it is still easy to stand out.

Niu Congyun spent two years to directly cross the hurdle that many officials may not be able to cross in their lifetime. He did not go to Beijing to serve as a state governor. After being summoned to Beijing for an audience, he went directly to southern Jiangsu to serve as the deputy of the prefect and do things that offend people.

Because at that time, southern Jiangsu was undergoing tax reform, it was necessary to check the land and acreage and collect land tax at a tax rate of 11 but in fact 91%.

The court appointed many people to serve as the deputy prefect of southern Jiangsu, similar to the Tongzhi of the previous dynasty, but different, more like a department-level special commissioner, but nominally the deputy Tongzhi of the prefect.

The tax reform process is hard to describe, but it was finally completed.

He performed brilliantly and dared to offend people. This time he was promoted to prefect in his early thirties.

Of course, he was promoted to prefect in his early thirties because of his own efforts, but it was also closely related to the general environment. Whether he was a county magistrate in Taiwan Prefecture or a state governor in Jinghai, he was ahead of the general trend.

The emperor wanted Niu Congyun to be the governor of Xuzhou, on the one hand because of his good resume, and on the other hand because he had never worked in a "proper" place.

Whether it is Taiwan Prefecture or Jinghai, the ability to do things is not reflected in the direction of the internal officials of the prefectures and counties, but in whether they can understand the new policies and dare to let go and break through the previous shackles.

And either dealing with immigrants, or dealing with foreigners, and then dealing with local landlords and local gentry to investigate the land, in short, these three characteristics are applicable to Xuzhou Prefecture.

Especially the new well salt policy and the Yimin area south of Xuzhou Prefecture really need such a person who dares to cut the Gordian knot.

He and Ma Haochuan are both similar "heroes created by the times". Ma Haochuan's success lies in his understanding of the tactics of the new era and the change of the court's strategic strategy in the southwest region. People like him who dare to take the initiative to stir up trouble can be reused. If the strategic strategy of Dashun had not changed, such people who dared to stir up trouble would have been hidden long ago; or if Liu Yu had not presided over the military reform to emphasize rapid formation changes and battalion and regiment tactical units, his adventurous actions of brushing military merit twice might have become a negative example.

Much of Niu Congyun's success stems from the court's southward policy and the formation of the Songjiang Prefecture Industrial and Commercial Capital Group.

Much of Ma Haochuan's success stems from the court's military reform and the preparations for the southwest by the previous Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years.

They are not Liu Yu's people, but they borrowed from the side, but they are not the people Liu Yu actively helped.

This is exactly the young generation that the emperor likes.