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Forbidden City, Hall of Martial Arts.

"Your Majesty, if these bandits don't hurt them, they will definitely not submit." As Li Zicheng's mastermind, Gu Junen's position became more and more stable.Right now, Niu Jinxing is busy at the grand ceremony, Tian Jianxiu and Song Xiance are busy chasing stolen goods, and Li Zicheng's strategic issues are mainly to seek Gu Junen's opinion.

"You mean, send Liu Fangliang to fight?" Li Zicheng frowned: "Now Wu Sangui occupies Yongping Mansion and clamors to come to fight Beijing. Among the 6 people in Beijing, there are still many soldiers from Zhu Dynasty. If If Liu Fangliang is not transferred back, how can we conquer Wu Sangui?"

Gu Junen said: "Your Majesty, I think that the walls of Beijing are high and thick, and there are red-clothed cannons guarding the gates. They should be on the defensive. You can send Cihou's army to the south to collect Jiangnan and support Huguang. Once Jiangnan and Huguang are recovered, there will be plenty of money and grain. , and then use the power of the whole country to attack a corner of Liao Town, it can be said to be perfect."

Li Zicheng couldn't help pacing.Niu Jinxing also advised him to go to the Great Ceremony first, gain the name of righteousness, and then manage the capital of Qin and Jin, and attack Huguang and Jiangnan... However, seeing that there is only Guan Ning left in the world, if he can be wiped out, Remnant will never have the possibility of revival sex.Jiangnan and Huguang can also be passed on, and he himself can leave Beijing with peace of mind.In his opinion, Xijing is a more suitable place to rule the world and live, at least in terms of language.

"Your Majesty," Gu Jun'en saw Li Zicheng's hesitation, and said again, "If Guan Ning is really put down, I'm afraid we will have to divide up the troops to defend them, and there will be insufficient troops to go south."

Li Zicheng's brows frowned even tighter, and he asked, "How about the stolen goods in the city?"

Gu Junen replied: "I have never been involved in this matter, but I heard that it was worth a million taels the day before yesterday."

Only then did Li Zicheng stretch his brows, and said: "Wu Sangui must be pacified first! Otherwise, it will be more troublesome to fight the four cities of Yongping after he has gained a firm foothold in the pass. If he knows the other side, I will give him the guard of Liaodong. Degraded to a duke, you can never be called a king."

Gu Junen knew that this was because Li Zicheng was worried that the Dashun Army would find it difficult to balance.If generals such as Wu Sangui can be crowned kings, wouldn't Liu Zongmin and Tian Jianxiu, the important generals who followed Li Zicheng, also be crowned kings?If only the Duke of Wu Sangui was conferred, then it would be enough to give those Hou Bozhong generals a first-class title - it is still a big taboo to be crowned a king with a different surname.

"Besides, I still have two things on my mind that I can't let go of." Li Zicheng returned to the court case.Slowly said: "One is the deposed emperor Zhu Youjian. If he arrives in Nanjing, he will still have the soldiers of Jiangzhen in his hands, and the strong soldiers under Prince Zhu will make me feel uneasy. The other is The Manchurian captives. The slave chieftain Huang Taiji died last year, and they installed a six-year-old boy named Fulin, and now Dorgon, the fourteenth son of the old chieftain Nurhachi, is in power."

Li Zicheng paused.Continued: "When we first conquered Shanxi, this Dorgon sent a letter from the Ordos Department to Yulinwei. Wang Liangzhi (Wang Genzi) sent the letter to me. It clearly stated that he would cooperate with me and take the Central Plains. Sharing wealth. This reminds me of when Huang Taiji was not dead, every time we met our people from the customs. They were always friendly, and sometimes they gave food to the horses, and there was never any fight. From this point of view, It is not a day or two that these Manchurian Tartars have been thinking about the Han land in their hearts.

"I've been thinking about it for the past two days, and I'm thinking about Emperor Fei's appointment of Wu Sangui as king, and suddenly I figured it out: I'm afraid that Emperor Fei already knew that the Manchurian Tartars had the intention of meddling the world, and the reason why Wu Sangui was appointed is not to fear that he will surrender to us. But I was afraid that he would abandon the door and let the Manchurians in!"

It was the first time Gu Junen heard about this, and he guessed that Li Zicheng didn't take Dorgon's letter to heart, so he didn't bring it up for discussion.But that Dorgon is really wishful thinking, does this world still need him to "conspire and work together"?Dashun's army is mighty, and it's only a matter of how long it takes to get into the universe, so it's his turn to get a share of the pie.

Li Zicheng continued: "If I don't take down Guanning first, if the Manchurian Tartars break through the Mongolian wall and invade the west of Beijing, the army will be pinned to Beijing and cannot move. How should we resist? What if it happens, Wu Sangui Eat inside and outside, make an appointment with the Manchurian Tartars to attack, and the deposed emperor echoes in the south, can this Beijing city still be defended?"

Only then did Gu Junen know that Li Zicheng was worried.He also murmured: "In the Tang Dynasty, there was also an allusion of borrowing soldiers from foreign tribes in Tubo. It is true that Wu Sangui made peace with the eastern captives."

Li Zicheng said: "That's why I insist on beating Wu Sangui first. You don't have to go all the way to Guangning, as long as you go down to Shanhaiguan and let our people guard it, at least you don't have to worry about being beaten at both ends."

Gu Junen pondered for a while, and proposed a compromise plan, and said: "Your Majesty, why don't you let Cihou lead [-] troops to the south, and you should be able to fight against the Canming Army." According to the information Gu Junen received, Shandong is now almost There is no Ming army with an established system, and there is only a Ming army in Xuzhou to the south of the capital.

The guard general of the Ming army was an old acquaintance. It was Gao Jie who fled from Shanxi to Hebei, then to Shandong, and finally to Xuzhou.Such a frightened bird with thousands of remnants, Liu Fangliang led 1 people is enough to wipe it out.

Li Zicheng thought for a while, and said: "That's fine, let's see where Liu Fangliang can fight, and transfer the elite to Beijing first. The Eastern Expedition must not be delayed, and Wu Sangui cannot grow stronger again."

Gu Junen came out in response.

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"Your family has not registered yet? If you don't go, you will lose a lot!"

"What's so good about having that account? Maybe we'll have to recruit people again."

"Who are you recruiting! Don't you know? The imperial decree has been posted in the village. The emperor is now in Shandong, and the entire province has been exempted from corvee! From now on, all workers will be hired, and they will be paid! The government will also provide food and seeds according to their household registration. .If you lose one person in your family, you will lose a piece of land! Qiantun is thinking about how to report more people, but your family is still hiding it?"

"real or fake?"

"You...why don't you believe it? The daughter-in-law of Zhao Shitou's family in Qiantun just gave birth to a girl, and she went to get a household registration on the same day, and this time she was also allocated one-third of an acre of land, just like the one who gave birth to a boy! "

"How much money does it cost to open an account?"

"The government has paid for it, and they don't want a penny!"

"Huh? Then I'll go and have a look."

"Bring more dry food, there are too many people waiting in line at the gate of the yamen to register." The neighbor yawned and said, "I waited in line for three days."

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In the Ming Dynasty system, military households were not counted as Dingkou.The land under the jurisdiction of the Weisuo, including Tuntian and civilian fields within the jurisdiction, is not counted in the household grain book.This led to the collapse of the guard system, and military fields became private fields, but no taxes were paid.Military households went bankrupt and became tenant farmers. Instead of enjoying the military salary allocated by the state, they had to bear the land rent.

The resulting hidden population and fields were so large that Zhu Cihong could not even imagine.

"The abolition of Weiwei and the establishment of the county will start with Lingshanwei!" Zhu Cihong announced at the administrative work meeting.

Lingshanwei is a typical real soil guard, that is, a guard who owns land.

According to the design of Emperor Taizu Gao, the Weisuo was not a simple military institution, but an administrative system with military characteristics.The general administrative system of Ming Dynasty is prefecture, county-fu, prefecture-government envoy, Zhili prefecture, prefecture-central government.The Weisuo system is the Qianhusuo of the Wei and Zhili Dusi - Dusi, Xingdusi, Zhili Wei - the Dudufu of the Five Armies.

The guard not only has the power to manage military households and civilian households within its jurisdiction, but also has jurisdiction over cases involving military households.With the skill of Zhang Juzheng, the famous minister of Wanli, Qingzhang Tianmu and combing people are only limited to the general administrative system, and the guard system has not been touched.During the Shunzhi period, when the Manchu and Qing Dynasties had not yet unified the country, the area of ​​cultivated land exceeded the number of acres of cultivated land in the country in the 30 years of Wanli just because of the abolition of the guards.

Considering that the 30th year of Wanli was the peak period of the Ming Dynasty, and during the years of Chongzhen and Shunzhi due to natural disasters and military disasters, the phenomenon of cultivated land abandonment was serious.

As soon as you enter and exit, you can know what a terrible number the land under the guard's jurisdiction is!

There are two sufficient reasons why Zhu Cihong started from Lingshanwei.

First, Lingshanwei is located in Jiaozhou Bay.Jiaozhou Bay is the largest ice-free port in Shandong. It is located in the southern part of the Shandong Peninsula. The materials transported from the south of the Yangtze River are mainly landed at Qingdao Port.

Second, Lingshanwei and Fushan Qiansuo will be the main part of Qingdao City in the future, tightly locking the entire Jiaozhou Bay.

The significance of Qingdao to Shandong, and even to the significance of the entire eastern seaboard, anyone who has seen a map of China cannot be indifferent.For such key areas, Zhu Cihong must of course spare no effort to bring them under control and develop them. (To be continued. Your support is my greatest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to m. to read.)

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