Win the Ding 1617

During the Grain Grain season, the land of the Central Plains is already scorching with heat.

Blowing by gusts of southerly wind, wheat waves, which have not been seen for many years, appeared on the plains of Shandong and Henan.Just as Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote in "Viewing the Wheat", "the fields are less idle and the moon is busy, and the people are busy in May. At night, the south wind blows, and the wheat is covered with yellow".

When the wheat is ripe, looking from a distance, on the Qianli Plain, under the hot sun, the endless wheat waves are like a vast ocean, with golden waves.In the cage and the mountains, the golden wheat is covered with layers of terraced fields like gold.Green hills, green trees and wheat fields constitute a colorful and beautiful picture scroll.

The wheat is already ripe, some have already been harvested, and the stubble is in full swing; some are still waiting to be harvested in the field. There is a very friendly smell in the wheat field, which makes people feel refreshed.

Wheat is a treasure, the lifeblood of northerners!

The farmers' silver sickles, golden ears of wheat, and black and red faces interweave into a magnificent picture of a good harvest.The farmer's heart was drunk.

From Xuzhou, Yanzhou to Dezhou, the so-called one hundred and eight counties in the ten prefectures of Kyushu, you can see farmers sweating profusely and holding sickles harvesting wheat everywhere. Put it in your mouth and chew it twice, tasting the aroma of the fruits of labor.

From south to north, groups of short-term workers from Nanzhili and Fengyang, carrying their own simple bags, are racing against the south wind with almost crazy steps. They want to arrive before the wheat is ripe and the scythes open Let those farmers who are eager to grab food from the dragon's mouth hire them in order to buy time.

They are very lucky. Not only the farms and farms controlled by the Southern Guangdong Army need a large number of short-term labor, but also some small and medium-sized landlords and farmers with varying amounts of land, also hire short-term labor to harvest the grains as soon as possible. wheat.

"After harvesting this stubble of wheat, we can also do what the gentlemen in the county said, and see if we can grow some sweet potatoes and corn!" Several small landlords were happily on the ground, guarding a bucket Mung bean soup to quench the heat and thirst for the guys.He sharpened the sickle with a whetstone, and was still chattering about the situation after the harvest.

According to Li Huayu's practice in Denglai and other places, if the soil loss is not large and the fertilizer is sufficient, the autumn corn will be planted after the summer wheat is harvested.If the soil loss is large and the fertilizer is insufficient.After the summer wheat is harvested, soybeans are planted to fertilize the fields.If the soil fertilizers are so-so and you are short of money, you can only grow potatoes and sweet potatoes.

"It's okay, isn't it just a lot of manure? I have already explained to my family that when I see manure when I go out, I will draw a circle around the manure. Throw a stone or straw stick, it's ours! "

The folk customs in the countryside are simple and simple. When you encounter manure and plan to pick it up, but there is no one for a while, you will draw a circle around the rice field, throw a stone or a branch, and tell others that this has already been owned.Passers-by will stop making up their minds when they see it.

But more of them are diligent and frugal to find ways to accumulate manure.

"I heard that the county wants to recruit river workers to repair some rivers."

"That's a good thing! The river has been repaired. Not only can the river mud be used, but it will be much more convenient to irrigate our crops!"

Both small landlords and ordinary farmers are extremely happy and looking forward to the good times in the coming year.Since they came under the jurisdiction of the Southern Guangdong Army, the entire money and grain collection system has been completely changed, and the original donated land has been returned to the original owner.Implement a unified and progressive grain collection system.

The system of one errand and one food payment makes these people who have no fame and cannot enjoy the preferential tax exemption policy suddenly feel a lot lighter.

While they were discussing, someone came flying from far away, their footsteps were as fast as if they didn't touch the ground, and they set off a cloud of smoke in the field.

"Father! Father!"

As the visitor came running wildly, he couldn't stop shouting in a hoarse voice.

In the blink of an eye, several people squinted their eyes and looked at the newly sharpened sickle blade.He glanced at the person who came—the third boy from the old Feng's family in the village, "Little boy, what's the matter? Are the Liao thieves coming to Shandong again, or is there something wrong?"

"Second uncle! Neither!" The third son picked up a bowl of mung bean soup and poured it down.His distressed old man kept yelling: "Slow down! Drink slowly! Be careful if you choke your lungs!"

"Come on! Old Feng, I think you are reluctant to part with the white sugar in it! Who doesn't know you, Old Feng, if a fly flies in front of your eyes, you will tear off both legs!"

"Father! Second uncle! Uncles! A notice has been posted in the city, and the price for the government's purchase of surplus grain this year has been announced!"

"What's wrong? Say it!"

"Can the government spend money to collect our surplus food? It would be nice if they don't make more donations!"

"It's stated in the notice that it will be bought at three times the market price!"

There was a loud noise.But a few uncles fell to the ground staggeringly, leaving water bowls and utensils everywhere.

"Little San, if you talk nonsense, I'll beat you up!" Old Feng didn't care about cleaning up the dirt on his body, he just yelled at his son.

"Father, if you don't believe me, you can go to the county seat by yourself. There is a notice posted at the gate of the city, and there is a gentleman there to help interpret it. They made it very clear that the price is three times the price, but they don't all give cash, double the cash , and the rest are industrial coupons that can be exchanged for all kinds of good things from Nanzhong."

It appears to be so!Several half-grown old men nodded to each other, shouting at their sons or long-term foremen who were sweating profusely in the fields, "Stay here and watch, I'll go back and let your mother cut the meat! Steam the buns! At noon we give Guys, eat and reward! Everyone work hard! Hurry up and harvest the wheat!"

Such good news immediately made the farmers in Shandong and Denglai go crazy again!

As the center of this madness, Jinan Prefecture in Shandong, which is surrounded by lotus flowers on three sides, half a city with mountains and a lake on three sides, seems very calm.

Daming Lake has long been a picturesque gathering place for literary and artistic youth. As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, Li Qingzhao, a famous literary and artistic young woman, left countless three cups and two cups here. Poor poems, and later became famous because of a painful novel by a Taiwanese writer. (However, the unkind author's impression of Daming Lake comes from a divine poem, Daming Lake, Ming Lake is big, there are lotus flowers in Daming Lake, and there are toads on the lotus flowers. One poke and one jump. This poem really makes people The aftertaste is endless and I can't help but laugh.) But Li Huayu at this time.Some are just petty bourgeois romance, he and Lu Mahong are holding hands, taking a rare leisure time, walking by the Daming Lake.From time to time, the sound of laughter reached the ears of the guards following them.

As they walked, Lu Mahong suddenly said: "Husband, although I don't understand right and wrong, I still disagree with your actions. Is it really okay to make peace with Jianu? Besides, you didn't discuss it with your father. You have made such a big decision. If the commander-in-chief blames you, how will you end up?"

Li Huayu smiled, waved his hand and said, "I've told you that this matter is beneficial but not harmful. Even if it doesn't work out, we won't lose anything. On the contrary, if it works out, I've been thinking about it for a long time. Even if it's half done."

Lu Mahong looked to the left and right, and after making sure that there were only bodyguards and a few female soldiers holding children around her.He asked in a low voice with a rather nervous expression: "Husband, your big plan is not to replace the emperor in Beijing?" Li Huayu laughed when he heard this, and then said disdainfully: "A wormy hardwood chair , who cares? If you want, the Beijing and Nanjing cities will have changed their surnames to Li long ago! I am too lazy to go even if I am invited right now. There is nothing in the name of the world, but there is no reality in the world, but it is just an empty shelf. You don’t know me yet, what I want must be visible long-term benefits such as population, land, food, weapons, gold and silver.”

Lu Mahong thought for a while and said: "But my husband, now we have enough food, soldiers, horses, gold and silver. Even if there is a slight shortage, we can make up for it very quickly. What else does this Jiannu have for us? Even if it is fur and ginseng , we can also engage with the Saurons."

At this moment, Li Huayu looked around, and then said in a low voice: "It doesn't matter if Jiannu has no money, he only needs to do one thing, and that is the enemy of the Central Plains regime!"

"Ah!?" Lu Mahong couldn't help but opened her mouth wide and exclaimed, although she also read a lot of books.But it is still difficult to understand the meaning of her husband's words.Seeing Lu Mahong's puzzled and surprised expression, Li Huayu explained: "Although what we say is boundless benevolence and righteousness, you should think about it carefully. How can we see anything in the business we are doing now? To Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, and Lao Huihui, these thieves, led military officers to the imperial court such as Zuo Liangyu, He Renlong, and Qin Liangyu, and even our good uncle traded with Jiannu openly and secretly, selling weapons, gunpowder and food, smuggling people, purchasing Horses, enclosing land. Of course, we have also done a lot of good things. But these good things are good things for the benefited people, good things for Nanzhong and the Nanyue Army, but not good things for the officials and gentry of Ming Dynasty! Otherwise, I would not use the sword of the Dragon and Tiger Camp to implement the New Deal! What we have done is an unforgivable bad thing for a regime that pursues stability and unity! Right now, Chongzhen is not strong enough. , or the title of Li Zicheng, a group of thieves who founded the country, how can the Tuntian District in Shandong exist? How can the independent armed forces in Shandong be tolerated? As for the customs, they will take back their management rights, and even the trade practices that are popular in Longsheng may also be punished. Strict restrictions. Because this is something that a normal regime would do? But if this is the case, who will protect the interests of our Southern Guangdong Army?"

Lu Mahong's color changed immediately when she heard it. She didn't know anything else, but she knew exactly how much money and energy her husband had invested in Shandong. Never reconciled.But she couldn't think of a solution for a while, so she could only hesitate and say: "Then, let's go to the emperor in Beijing, or Li Zicheng in the future, and let's tell them, as long as our interests can be guaranteed, we can give as much as we want. If it really doesn’t work, let’s disarm and pay more taxes, that’s okay.”

Li Huayu smiled wryly and said: "Madam, you are really simple-minded, giving more money? It's useless if you give them all the gold in the world. Money is important to a normal regime, but the people who live and work in peace and contentment are rich and fertile. Land, the sacred and inviolable state power, is more precious than anything else. Now we occupy the most fertile land of others, remove their good people, and violate their state power. You actually think that you can do it with money, How is it possible? This kind of thing is easy to talk about and discuss, we go back to Nanzhong by ourselves, if it doesn't make sense, then we can only let Huobao and Frangji to reason."

Lu Mahong was completely panicked at this moment, she could only say: "Isn't it all right now? It's all right now, maybe in the future." Seeing Lu Mahong's appearance, Li Huayu hugged her.Then he stroked her head and said, "Of course it's fine now, because there are rogues like Li Zicheng inside the Ming Dynasty, and there is a Jian slave outside Shanhaiguan. The Chongzhen old man has no soldiers, no food, and no pay. It all depends on our Nanyue Army. The money and food he enshrines hangs his life. If he dares to be dishonest, we just need to stop the supply of money and food, and I will strangle the Shandong section of the canal to death, and he will die immediately! However, if Li Zicheng wins in the future , there is no opponent internally, and if the slavery collapses outside, then we will have to fight to the death with a big country with a radius of thousands of miles."

Lu Mahong was touched by Li Huayu, she seemed to feel a lot more comfortable, so she thought of Li Huayu's confident appearance before, and said: "Seeing that you are not in a hurry, there is definitely a way, but I don't know if this way is special. bad."

Li Huayu smiled slightly and said: "The one who knows me is Madam. But it's not too bad. At least if everything goes well, the life of the people in the Central Plains will be much better than it is now." Lu Mahong asked quickly "What's the solution, tell me quickly." Li Huayu didn't speak, but found a piece of bluestone by the lake, wiped it a few times with the sleeve of his robe, and helped Lu Mahong and his wife to sit down. Li Huayu Then he said: "Actually, it's very simple. Ma'am, you know the Three Kingdoms, right?"

"I know! My father asked me to read it on purpose. My popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms is accompanied by a map. The gentlemen also told me the location of several key battles, the cause and effect. Why do you think of the Three Kingdoms again?"

"Three Kingdoms struggle for hegemony. Who is the winner in the end? The Sima family. Similarly, if we want to win, we have to let the three forces of the world fight each other to the death. Looking at it now, Liaodong, where slavery was established, is relatively stable, and now Li Zicheng in Henan has also been busy selecting officials to govern the provinces and counties in Henan. According to reports from the spies, many tricks are vaguely in the style of our Southern Guangdong Army! In the future, the north will be owned by him, but as far as Jiangnan is concerned, the gentry of the Ming Dynasty has a strong foundation. It’s Donglin’s lair again, so they might not listen to Li Zicheng and us! If that’s the case, wouldn’t the world be divided into three parts? Although these three families definitely want to unify the country, they still lack something. This thing is Population, money and food! Jiannu is in Liaodong. Although he has always been known for being fierce and capable of fighting, it is said that he is now busy training firecrackers and casting artillery. The gap in population, money and food will be even greater; It is said to be hundreds of thousands, and there are millions of refugees under his command, but Henan is initially settled, and there is a hidden worry about the Yellow River. This huge population is a big problem for food and clothing. He did not turn Henan, northern Huguang, and Shaanxi into his Before the Iron Bucket came to power, he was bound to trade with our Southern Guangdong Army! This is why Henan has never had a single soldier come to Shandong to disturb Shandong during the wheat harvest season! However, Jiangnan has a flourishing style of writing, a weak atmosphere, and a hundred I don’t know about soldiers for the rest of the year, and the strength of soldiers and horses is even more of a problem. We only need to make some fuss properly, and then these three will be beaten! As long as they fight, we can gradually swallow their flesh and blood! "

Speaking of this, in Lu Mahong's eyes, although Li Huayu's appearance remained the same, he looked a little ferocious.

"But these three companies can also build their own! If they manage the economy of their jurisdiction well, won't they be able to unify?" Lu Mahong asked puzzled.

Li Huayu laughed again when he heard the words, and then he suddenly said with a sullen face: "It's beautiful to think about, and the construction is restored? They also need to be rich, capable, and have time! Let me tell the truth, they don't even dream about it." Want to do it. What's more, one family wants to build quietly, will the other two give him this chance? I won't tell you anything else, just talk about this peace negotiation, why did the Emperor Chongzhen in Beijing treat us without authorization? Liaodong Jiannu didn’t say anything at the beginning of the peace talks? He just asked the eunuch Wang Chengen to come forward and ask for some armor and weapons? Wasn’t he just planning to take advantage of the time between us and Liaodong Jiannu to give Li Zicheng a hard time in Henan? Then slow down Slow to think of a way? If I say I was not absolutely sure before, but after reading my father's rescue agreement, I was suddenly enlightened."

"How to say?"

"Father's bailout agreement sounds high-sounding, but it's actually the same thing as the usury from the country gentry and the forced borrowing of young crops by Wang Anshi in the Northern Song Dynasty. I will force you to borrow money that you can't pay back while you need money. , and then get all your land, house and children, and you still have to say that I am benevolent and righteous. The same is done for these three families. If they want to fight and unify, they need money and people. It’s just that the money is not for nothing. You have to use land taxes and mines to repay the debt, and you have to give up state power. As long as you agree to these, you can talk about anything, if you don’t agree..." Li Huayu paused and said: "Two Either someone in the family sent him to see the Tathagata Buddha, or the other two families suddenly lost a lot of money and food and elite soldiers."

Lu Mahong was stunned by Li Huayu's words, and it took her a long time to say: "If this is the case, won't everyone in the world hate us to death?"

"Hate us? They will only see the wealth of Shandong, Fujian, and Guangdong under our control, the businessmen who hang out with us are full of fat, and see the death of the country that fights against us. After a long time, they will have an idea, that is, to hang out with us. The only way to develop. Besides, who saw that we supported others to fight the war, didn’t they see that we have been persuading these three families to cease their military service?” After speaking, Li Huayu actually smiled happily at the non-existent reality, just like this matter It's the same as what's happening right now. (~^~)

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