Because of Li Zicheng's "pretend", the Dashun side is now in the fourth year of Yongchang. The Qing side is in the fourth year of Shunzhi. They are both "four years", which is quite a coincidence. What's even more coincidental is that the Daqing side is in the fourth year of Shunzhi.

The Qing Dynasty and Dashun Dynasty both chose similar development routes and were both the emerging models of Chinese feudal dynasties.

The Qing Dynasty and Dashun Dynasty were originally the newly emerging Chinese feudal dynasties!

The Qing Dynasty's ten-banner system (eight banners plus two green flags) was, to put it bluntly, an enhanced version of the Ming Dynasty's military household system. It was not a system that came from the grasslands and deserts.

Dashun's old camp military system is "conferring land to soldiers", which is similar to the early government military system. Early government soldiers had separate military status, and they were classified as civilians only after the reform of Emperor Kaihuang in the Sui Dynasty. Now Dashun also separates soldiers and peasants.

In addition to the ten-banner system and the old camp system, Dashun and the Qing Dynasty both successively chose the land system of equalizing land at the mouth of the land, which was considered by later generations to be a "magic trick".

This is actually a matter of course. The areas in Dashun and Daqing are not very densely populated. They are taking over the territories that are being fought over and over again. How many people can there be?

And isn’t having fewer people and more land a necessary condition for equalizing land according to population? Even a small-scale peasant economy requires a certain scale. If the scale of the small-scale peasant industry is too small, it will be difficult to maintain.

After all, it will take decades to achieve equalization of land, right?

If it takes three to five years to differentiate, and serious land annexation begins to appear again, then it is not a real success.

Or just a few years after the land was divided, the farmers left their homes and went to the United States to become colonists. This is not a sign of the success of land equalization by population.

Of course, it is normal for a farmer to find it difficult to maintain his land if he is allocated one or two acres. If a family of five or six people owns a few acres of thin farmland, it is not a sustainable economic scale at all, and differentiation will inevitably occur quickly.

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Today, the territories of Dashun and Daqing do not have much population, enough to create a sustainable farm operation scale.

Moreover, they have also broken up with the scholar-official class for various reasons and cannot get the support of the latter at all. If they continue to protect the land ownership of the nurse doctors without adopting the system of land equalization based on per capita, which is the easiest to stabilize, it will be impossible.

Are you stupid?

Li Guo and Dorgon are not stupid, of course they know what to do!

So in the fourth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, although the short-term trend of the Qing Dynasty did not look very good, the Qing army in Shaanxi lost Yulin and Yan'an. The Qing army in Shanxi still failed to capture Datong Prefecture, and even let Luliang Mountain

The anti-Qing base areas developed. In Shandong, the Qing army once again abandoned the Yishui camp and evacuated from Qufu City.

But people who can really see the situation clearly know that the rule of the Qing Dynasty in the Central Plains has been relatively stable!

Because by the spring of the fourth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, there were already 100,000 households of Zhenglv Banner officers and soldiers and more than 1.5 million households of poor farmers living in Henan, Shandong, North Zhili and Shanxi Provinces, who had obtained the land they dreamed of.

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Among them, the land granted to poor people is maintained at the standard of ten acres per mouth. Even taking into account the current climate conditions, this amount of land is enough for people to live, and they can live a relatively moist life.

Therefore, in the areas where the plan was completed, the resistance of the Han people has gradually subsided! Even the Caozhou Ming Army (Li Huajing, Palace Wencai Department), which had persisted for more than a year despite being surrounded by the Qing army, also lost power at the end of the third year of Shunzhi.

Defeated by Dodo.

Unable to gain a foothold in Caozhou, Li Huajing and Gong Wencai were forced to lead the remaining troops to break out and join Shi Kefa, who was entrenched in Qufu.

In addition to the defeat of the Ming army in Caozhou, another good thing also happened to Dorgon in the spring of the fourth year of Shunzhi. The envoy Bruce sent by General Cromwell, the protector of the Red Yi Kingdom, finally arrived.

He also sent the souvenirs of the Red Yi Kingdom to Dorgon, the uncle of the Qing Emperor and the regent, twelve three-pound Hong Yi cannons, plus twelve more imitations made by Eight Banners Han Army craftsmen in Shengjing (

A three-pounder guided by Bruce and other Englishmen).

Bruce had actually arrived in Shengjing a long time ago, but Dorgon did not call them to Beijing immediately. This was because Dorgon did not trust these red-haired foreigners. Who didn't know that Zhu Cixiang was opening a business market in Shanghai to attract foreign merchants, and he and Hong-haired

We have a good relationship with yellow-haired foreigners!

How could this Hongyi country be on good terms with the Qing Dynasty? Is there some fraud involved?

So Dorgon listened to Fan Wencheng's suggestion and wanted to test the foreigners of the Hongyi country. Didn't they say that the specialty of the Hongyi country was cannon?

Then teach some cannon-making skills to the Zhengbai Banner Han army who stayed in Shengjing!

Not to mention, this group of Hongyi people are really interesting. After working hard for more than half a year, they finally helped the craftsmen of the Zhengbai Banner Han Army to create twelve three-pound Hongyi cannons. In fact, the three-pound cannons were technically inferior to the craftsmen of the Qing Dynasty.

What insurmountable difficulties.

In terms of casting difficulty, the twelve-pound Hongyi cannon is much higher!

However, the three-pounder gun had higher weight and accuracy requirements, and a special gun mount had to be built, so it took some time.

In addition, the efficiency of the Qing Dynasty's "banner" handicraft industry was also a bit low. The craftsmen were all banner slaves and were not willing to learn new things. They were already familiar with the twelve-pound Hongyi cannon, and there were various "rules"

I have figured it all out, such as the amount of materials consumed, the time consumed, and the scrap rate, all up and down.

Therefore, the risks for craftsmen casting cannons are low, they are unlikely to be punished, and their lives are stable.

The three-pounder was a new product. If it wasn't ready, who would be responsible if it exploded during the Prince Regent's inspection?

Nowadays, the laws of the Ten Banners of the Qing Dynasty are very strict. If this kind of situation occurs, you must be held accountable. Maybe someone will lose their head.

Innovation is risky!

However, after procrastinating for a long time, the twelve three-pound red cannons were finally successfully cast.

Moreover, during this period, Bruce also trained a group of "Red Yi Cannon" operators for Zhengbai Banner's Hongyi Cannon Niulu.

On the twenty-eighth day of the first lunar month of the fourth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, a test firing was conducted on the school field of Fengtai Camp!

"Boom boom boom"

The gunfire sounded intensively, and the muzzles of eight randomly selected three-pound cannons continued to emit fireworks, and they all fired at the same time. The shells flew in waves towards dozens of wooden targets three to four hundred paces ahead.

.After a while, more than half of them were smashed to pieces.

Sitting on a high platform watching the cannon, the smile on the face of Dorgon, the uncle of the Qing Emperor and the regent, could not be concealed.

Since the Battle of Bloody Creek, he has been worrying about being able to quickly move to the Ming army's artillery. He is a military strategist who has been fighting for half his life. He knows some artillery and is a master of cavalry. He also knows how to cooperate with cavalry and artillery.

Great use.

But he didn't expect that the Ming army could make cannons "fly"!

In previous battles between the Ming and Qing Dynasties, because the Qing army had an overwhelming cavalry advantage, it had the initiative on the battlefield and its troops could maneuver calmly on the battlefield. On the contrary, the Ming army needed to maintain a formation and found it difficult to maneuver.

In this case, the Ming army's artillery that was very troublesome to deploy (general artillery, tiger squat artillery, attack artillery, and Fo Lang machine cannon) basically could not exert its power. The Qing army, which could move quickly, would not give Ming an attack at all

Army artillery had too much time to deploy.

However, the Ming army's artillery that appeared on the battlefield of Xueliuxi was able to maneuver quickly, deploy quickly, and fire very quickly!

Their appearance can at least offset the Qing army's mobility advantage in the battle between the two armies, making the Qing army's assembly positions on the battlefield easy to be bombarded!

Moreover, the shield vehicles and artillery positions of the Qing army will also be destroyed by this new type of cannon that is extremely maneuverable and has an extremely fast rate of fire.

Therefore, Dorgon has been urging the Han army craftsmen of all banners to speed up the improvement of general cannons in the past half year, trying to use the general cannons with two-wheel gun mounts to fight against the new artillery of the Ming army.

However, the range of the general's artillery was too short. Even if the gun mount could be improved and it could fire quickly, it would still be difficult to fight against the Ming army's new artillery.
Chapter completed!