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

Chapter 60 The situation is very good

Lü Mou happily returned to the capital with more than 3,000 future Baizhan officers, and when he showed his proud masterpiece to his good brother Li Yan, Li Yan appeared worried.

Facing Li Yan's worry, Lu Mou couldn't believe it: "I have worked so hard to recruit basic cadres, which can improve the combat effectiveness of the new army. Why are you unhappy?"

This time, it was really the first time that Li Yan despised Lu Mou's military knowledge.

"My lord, you have no objection to what kind of generals bring out what kind of soldiers."

Lu Mou nodded: "I firmly agree. At that time, there was an army that was good at fighting hard battles. It was said that the artillery could not move. It must be ten columns. There was also a Scud army that interspersed and called the enemy mother. What's the matter?"

Now, Li Yan is immune to the inexplicable stories that this little Ding Wang always tells him.

"Now that the prince knows, the soldiers you brought back are already accustomed to defense. Then the troops they bring out will naturally implement their habits and will specialize in defense.

However, my prince, in the short term, our main goal is to expand our living space, and we need to attack. If you give me a group of officers with defensive expertise, how can I achieve the goal of expanding space? Defense cannot expand space, don’t you know? "

Lu Mou was completely speechless. When he first came back, he was excitedly congratulating himself on getting a group of core and essence hearts, and he was completely relieved.

Li Yan was right, what he saw was really accurate, he was worthy of being a military strategist, he could see the essence at a glance.

A group of generals who are good at defense can only produce soldiers who are good at defense. This is like Li Yunlong's team always having different characteristics from Kong Jie's team.

With soldiers who are good at defense, how can we complete the military plan that we and Li Yan aim to expand the space and seize the Shouguang Salt Fields? No chance.

What's more, when the conditions are ripe, to restore the Ming Dynasty, we need to move forward bravely, and we need to attack and attack again to regain every inch of the land. As a result, a group of soldiers are good at defending. What do you want him to do?
  It seems that professional matters should be handled by professionals.

"Then let's simply integrate all these generals into the Fourth Army and let them actively train to deal with possible failure of negotiations with the Manchu and Qing Dynasties in the future and the possible Manchu Qing invasion for the sixth time. How about that?" Now that we have grasped it, Such a defensive card cannot be wasted.

Huang Taiji entered the imperial capital five times, paving the way for the Manchu and Qing Dynasties to seize the Central Plains.

The successor Fulin was actually Dorgon, and it was impossible for him to stop replacing Daming.

History will not change the Manchu Qing's ambition to dominate the Central Plains just because Wu Sangui's rebellion and Lu Mou's re-establishment of the Ming Dynasty happened.

Li Yan made such a sudden decision for King Ding and admired his long-term vision: "Just follow the prince's method. Now, the Fifth Army, which is the main body of the royal family, is dedicated to protecting the ancestors and the country. Then, we will train the Fifth Army into a An indestructible sharp spear led them to attack the city." Li Yan punched the table, and then he was worried: "It's just that the prince cares about family ties, is he willing to do it?"

Lu Mou laughed indifferently: "For the rebirth of the Ming Dynasty, they should pay for it, instead of just relying on me and my son. What's more, they have nothing to do with me, Mao."

Thinking about what he said, his personality obviously collapsed, and he quickly made up for it: "It's because we have already released the fifth server. Haha, in the face of the danger of our ancestors, I can only ignore the family ties."

Your words are too pale. I have officially confirmed that you are not from the Lao Zhu family. Li Yan's unequivocal conclusion was more accurate than DNA testing.

In order to create a sharp sword, Lu Mou and Li Yan transferred a large number of meritorious soldiers who had participated in the Battle of Southern Zhili into the Fifth Army, also known as the Yellow Belt Army.

For this reason, Lu Yixing and Yang Songshan chased after the transferred precious soldiers, crying and pulling to retain them. This was their own fighting power, the core of the core. Prince, please keep some for yourself, but Lu The plot remains unmoved.

As a result, Lu Mou already had five armies, one independent division, and 160,000 soldiers in his hands.

Three of the corps have both offensive and defensive capabilities, two corps are invincible, and one corps and an independent division have a mountainous defense.

Now, the troops are well equipped and ready to display their ambitions.

Now, army construction was left to Li Yan, and Lu Mou began to implement the land policy and began to inventory the unowned land in Zhili.

He cannot seize land from the gentry, landlords and bureaucrats.

Again, this was the feudal era, and the basis of the rule of all dynasties was the wealthy class who had the right to speak culturally.

It's easier to piss them off and overthrow you. No dynasty was truly overthrown by the common people. The Qin Dynasty was destroyed not by Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, but by Xiang Yu and his group of nobles.

Xiang Yu died not in the hands of the rogue Liu Bang, but in the hands of the declining nobles gathered by Liu Bang.

The Han Dynasty fell by force, not at the hands of the Yellow Turban Army, but at the hands of the declining aristocrat Liu Bei, Sun Quan of the Jiangnan family, and Cao Cao, the representative of the big landowners.

The Jin Dynasty died from the royal family, the Tang Dynasty died from the vassal towns, the Song Dynasty died from foreigners, the Ming Dynasty died from the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty died from the rising bourgeoisie. Which one has anything to do with the real people?
  In China, there is no dynasty that was truly founded by peasant uprisings.

Therefore, Lu Mou’s idea of ​​giving land to the tillers must be ownerless land that was wiped out during the war.

For this reason, Lu Mou, who had a dark mentality before, always complained to Li Yan, complaining that Li Zicheng burned too few of the real bandits. There was no bloodbath in Zhili to free up much of the annexed land.

But let’s count how many there are. Even if it is to allocate one acre to the landless people, as long as the weather has begun to become smooth again, the people will at least have a bowl of gruel to satisfy their hunger after autumn, and the court can also have some scattered money in its account.

Supervise officials and subordinates in various places to inventory the unowned land in Zhili and the land that can be reclaimed.

I didn't know the result, I was shocked when I checked it.

Not only did Zhili have unowned land, but there was so much unowned land that Lu Mou was shocked.

Although the Zhili area did not suffer from the abuses of rogue bandits, it was bloodbathed by Manchu invaders five times.

In order to weaken the Ming Dynasty, undermine the morale of the Han army and civilians, and satisfy the population increase of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty robbed and massacred the Han people more ruthlessly than the rogue bandits.

Everywhere the Qing Dynasty invaded, every town and village it destroyed was plundered, and every population was massacred or plundered.

Take the latest invasion in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen as an example. Abatai massacred countless people, robbed 360,000 people at one time, 12,000 taels of gold, 2 million taels of silver, and countless other supplies.

Therefore, almost all the current Zhili people and the original land-based households were looted and killed.

In this way, Lu Mou lamented that the rogue bandits did not come and the situation of Zhili with no free land did not appear. On the contrary, there was truly no owner's land everywhere.

After clearing out, it turned out to be as much as 30 million acres. There are idle fields almost everywhere.

Such terrifying figures made Lu Mou greatly worried.

The reason is that he does not have so many people to divide these 30 million acres of land.

Now, officials at all levels in Zhili have reported statistics on the population, including refugees, at 7 million.

But not everyone can farm. There are millions of people in Beijing alone, as well as in other cities, including the elderly and the weak, as well as people from all walks of life.

Also, due to the low farming efficiency in this era, a strong laborer can only farm up to fifteen acres, and the elderly and the weak are even worse off. If you give him too much, he will be too busy and will give up. You can't force them to contract for the land rent. That would not be to provide land to the tiller and stabilize the world, but to force people to rebel again.

In the end, Lu Mou only contracted more than 20 million acres, and even left 10 million acres abandoned.

Looking at the land that could not be contracted, Lu Mou felt distressed. That's all autumn's fiscal revenue. According to the land rent regulations, four million taels of silver were just thrown into the ground and could not be picked up.

I have no choice but to eat as much food as my stomach has.

The farming season is tight, so we must work hard to replant so as to strive for a bumper summer harvest and alleviate the food shortage in Zhili because food cannot reach the south.

For this reason, under the stimulation of double salary, the officials worked enthusiastically. Lu Jian also sent a large number of Jin Yiwei to the localities to participate in it. The effect of the entire land distribution was obvious.

The military and civil affairs were advancing hand in hand, and the situation seemed to be good, but the peace talks with the Manchus and Qing Dynasties were messed up.

(End of this chapter)