Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

Chapter 263 Li Zicheng’s Changes
Chongzhen did not pursue the matter of Yang Songshan and Wang Chengen's loss of vassal status. He was relieved and defended them a few words.

Wang Chengen really felt the change in his emperor. It is really rare to receive such forgiveness from the emperor.

Chongzhen continued to ask: "Can Jiangnan's wealth guarantee the daily expenses of the Jiangnan Army?"

In fact, Wang Chengen's heartfelt sorrow for Li Chuang's massacre of the royal family was out of his simplest loyalty as a domestic slave of the royal family.

But the gentry who massacred Li Chuang loved him from the bottom of his heart.

This love also stems from loyalty to the royal family.

In his opinion, the gentry in the world did not pay for food and did not perform corvee labor, but they occupied vast land and watched their emperor's financial difficulties, so that they were ready to hang themselves without any money.

It would be best to kill these damn people, release the land, and increase income for your emperor.

So he reported: "After Li Chuang's ravages, more than 2 million acres of land in Jiangnan have become ownerless land. According to the regulations of our new policy, it must be contracted to the people. Although the people in Jiangnan were also massacred by Li Chuang for nearly Half of the war, but after all, there are still some states and counties in our hands. And the low land rent payment made the people, led by the Jinyiwei military work teams from all over the country, willing to pay to our court without default. The army's military expenses are still sufficient. At the same time, the slaves can bring over five million taels of silver to replenish the national treasury."

Here, he did not mention the issue of military pay, money and food supply for other Ming armies in Jiangnan, because they did not receive even a penny from Qian Tonghe and Wang Chengen.

The reason is still his loyalty and closeness to the emperor.

In his opinion, those corrupt and bastard armies never serve the country and are loyal to the emperor. He just blindly harms the people. Allocating money, food and military salary to them is not as cost-effective as feeding a dog. At the very least, if you have a dog, you can at least show your teeth when the owner is bullied. But they can't even do this, so why give them any money or food?

"You did a very good job this time. We are about to face the Manchu attack. We need to repair fortifications and strengthen the city defense. We also need to supply dozens of troops and millions of civilian expenses. Although the treasury has had a slight surplus in the past two years, we are still afraid The follow-up is not good. This time you escorted five million to the treasury, which can meet the long-term needs. When the war against the Qing Dynasty is over, I will let the officials in Jiangnan remember you for your first contribution."

Wang Changen quickly knelt down and kowtowed to thank you: "This is what a slave should do, and I don't dare to take credit. As long as the war is over and the world returns to peace, it would be a blessing to this slave to let me return to your hometown to accompany you and serve you all day long." This is a great reward, and the slave will be satisfied."

Chongzhen was rarely moved: "It is my blessing that you and my master and servant have such a fate. I promise you now. You don't have to go back this time. I will let Li An replace you. You will be our royal family. The chief eunuch."

Such a decision made Wang Chengen cry and kowtow in gratitude.

Although Wang Cheng'en was considered to be in charge of the government in Nanjing, when he came back this time, Chongzhen directly gave him the position of eunuch in charge of the royal family. In fact, his status could be said to have risen instead of falling.

Because the current royal family industry is booming. Not to mention anything else, the 20 acres of Huangzhuang's land have all been planted with tobacco and are exclusively supplied to the Royal Tobacco Factory. The wealth that brought to the royal family was like a flood.

And the royal family’s unique penicillin pharmaceutical factory made the entire royal family a lot of money.

Now, whether in terms of financial power or status, he is superior to others. In the royal family, he can be said to be inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people.

Ang Lee, who was sent to replace him, was also very happy. Because he could finally go out and control one side alone, taking control of the power of life and death in the south.

Although having a king with you is like a tiger with you, especially if you are with Chongzhen, who used to have a perverse and irritable temper, it is really commonplace for him to lose his life if he does not do well.

But with the King by your side, you have a huge chance to ascend to heaven in one step.

This is the internal personnel arrangement of the royal family, and Chongzhen has the final say. After this arrangement ended, Chongzhen never discussed political affairs again. Lu Mou asked Yang Songshan: "The soldiers you brought back this time are all southern soldiers. What does Zhang Huangyan think?"

The man is weak and short, so he is at a disadvantage when fighting against tall and strong northerners on the battlefield. For this reason, Lu Mou was a little disappointed and dissatisfied.

For more than a year, Lu Mou sent no less than 70,000 northern soldiers to Zhang Huangyan of the Southern Group Army. As a result, this was a battle related to the life and death of the country. Lu Mou originally thought that Zhang Huangyan would He sent the northern soldiers back to defend the Ming Dynasty in the north.

But he didn't expect that the soldiers he sent back to him this time were all southern soldiers. How can you satisfy him?
Yang Songshan quickly answered and explained: "Return to the words of the King of Assistant Government. When Wei Chen came, Mr. Zhang and Wei Chen made a detailed plan.

Mr. Zhang said that according to the prince's plan, this war of resistance against the Manchus would use dragging tactics. In the early stages of the entire war, as long as we hold on to various fortresses and delay the enemy, our plan will be considered successful. "

Lu Mou nodded: "Zhang Huangyan understands my heart deeply."

"Although the southern soldiers are short and thin, they are certainly not as tough as the northern soldiers if the two armies are fighting in the plains. But if they are used to guard the Great Wall, the southerners are more suitable because of their tough character and hard-working nature. At least as good as the northern soldiers. , there is no difference in its role during defense.”

At this point, Lu Mou had to admit that Zhang Huangyan was right.

Especially when it comes to defending the city, the hardship and resilience of the southerners are more advantageous than the impetuous character of the northerners. For example, Zhu Changxun always wanted to lead his troops to fight the Qing soldiers directly and knock the enemy's skull. This is inconsistent with Lu Mou's overall thoughts on this campaign.

Lu Mou once again had to admire Zhang Huangyan's military knowledge.

"At the same time, before coming here, Master Zhang and Wei Chen made a detailed plan. Master Zhang asked Wei Chen to report to the governor and the prince, and ask for the prince's approval."

The ruler asked: "What is your plan?"

Yang Songshan responded with deep concern: "Now Li Chuang is raging in the south. Except for a few isolated cities in our hands, most of them have been occupied by him. Now he is no longer the same as before. He is in the big policy. There is a huge difference in form and style.”

The governor frowned: "What kind of change is different?"

Yang Songshan reported: "Now that Li Chuang has established his capital in Wuchang, his bandits have also changed their past habit of occupying one place and abandoning it. They have begun to occupy a place and set up officials to govern it. He also followed the example and copied it. Our imperial decree began to implement the policy of contracting out ownerless land to the people, and also implemented our land rent and service payment system. "

Hearing this, Zhu Cihong and Lu Mou couldn't help but frown.

"At the same time, he no longer carried out bloodbaths and massacres against the gentry, and stopped the policy of torture and financial aid. Instead, he treated the literati who were gentry well. He also held an imperial examination that was not an imperial examination, and selected a large number of literati to do the Dashun. Officials. Let them serve as officials in various places."

Lu Mou was frightened. Rogues are not scary, but rogues are educated.

It seems that his actions touched a certain nerve in Li Zicheng, making him start to pay attention to literati and start real local management.

According to the current meaning, Li Zicheng has been reborn and is no longer a rogue, but really wants to be the founding king of the country.

In this case, things will become difficult to handle. Should he change his strategic goals and attack Li Chuang as soon as possible?

(End of this chapter)