Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1207 Post-War Situation

Due to political discord within the Qing court, there was an internal strife. People who fled from the Central Plains, such as Lou Qin and Luo Keduo, were almost all executed by Fulin.

These Manchus who escaped from the Ming army and finally returned to Beijing died at the hands of their own people, which is a ridiculous and ironic ending.

When the Qing court had internal disagreements about how to deal with the Ming Dynasty, leading to swords and soldiers facing each other, there was also a huge shock within the Jin Kingdom.

The Ming army occupied the Central Plains and Shandong, and joined forces with the Shanxi Rebels. The only area that the Manchus could control in the pass was the area around Beijing. Sooner or later, the Ming army would drive them outside the pass or even wipe them out.

Once the Manchu Qing Dynasty was defeated, the three-point situation in the world would collapse immediately, and the Kingdom of Jin could only fight against the Ming Dynasty alone.

Facing the power of the Ming Dynasty's great victory in the Central Plains, Jin Guo naturally trembled, but after the initial panic, Jin Guo began to fall into frenzied preparations again.

At the beginning of May, after Hauge crossed the Yellow River near Wubao County and withdrew to Suide Prefecture, Shaanxi Province, he did not return to Chang'an immediately, but stopped in Huangling County, south of Yan'an Prefecture, and held a grand sacrifice at the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor Ceremony, to worship the ancestor of China.

On that day, Hauge wore a mian suit with twelve chapters and a crown on his head. He was dressed in Han costumes and followed the etiquette of the Central Plains.

During the Great War in the Central Plains, the allied forces of the Jin and Qing Dynasties were defeated, and the court of the Kingdom of Jin suddenly paid homage to the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor with great momentum. This was undoubtedly to gather the hearts of the people in Guanzhong and reduce the impact of the First World War in the Central Plains. This was the political response and response of the Kingdom of Jin effort.

In terms of internal affairs, the Kingdom of Jin also took action. In addition to encouraging the people in the country to reclaim and open up wasteland, he organized more than [-] people who migrated from Shanxi into military settlements and placed them in Hexi and other places. In addition, the Kingdom of Jin also actively Attract the few people to join in, re-count the population, and order the people in the middle of the country to be called Jin people regardless of Han, Manchu, Mongolian, and Tibetan.

This move is to reduce the conflicts between the various ethnic groups within the Jin Kingdom, but in terms of population base, the so-called Jin people are actually Han people.

The reason why it is called Jin and not Han is the result of the compromise of the high-level officials of the Jin Kingdom, because calling Jin Keyi takes into account the emotions of other ethnic groups to a certain extent, and can widen the gap between the Han people in Daguan and the Han people in the Ming Dynasty, which is beneficial The separatist rule of the Kingdom of Jin.

In terms of military affairs, the Kingdom of Jin also continued to take action, reorganizing the defeated army and the green battalion that were defeated in the Kingdom of Jin, as well as the rebel army recruited in Shanxi, and recruiting 5 young and strong domestic troops, and training new troops in three towns, a total of 9 people. The strength of the Kingdom of Jin was restored to 18.In addition, Meng Qiaofang, who has seen the Ming army's equipment, please play the book. The Jin State set up a military supervisor to prevent Ming firearms and equip the Jin Army.

In addition, the schedule of strengthening Tongguan and Wuguan has also been brought up.

In terms of diplomacy, with the decline of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, the Mongolian tribes fell into a state of ignorance, and will surely become the focus of competition among the Ming, Jin, and Qing parties in the future.

The Kingdom of Jin saw that Moxi, Mobei, and Monan Mongolian tribes wanted to break away from the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Hauge immediately sent his minister Sony as an envoy to contact the Mongolian tribes, lobbying them to form an alliance with the Kingdom of Jin to fight against the Ming Dynasty. .

In the southwest, the Ming Dynasty had re-established Duo Gandu Division in Qinghai last year. In addition, at the end of last year, the Living Buddha of Wu Sizang, under the pressure of He Tengjiao, sent people to Nanjing to request the Ming Dynasty's canonization. The Ming Dynasty's forces have come from the side. .

In order to prevent the Ming Dynasty from colluding with Yarkand and forming a pincer attack on the Jin Kingdom, the Jin Kingdom turned its attention to Yarkand again. Hauge asked Sun Kewang, the king of Guiyi who was sitting in the west of Hexi, to contact the people in the west of the Yarkand Khanate. Dayuzi and Zhongyuzi Khanates planned to attack Yarkand before the Ming army attacked the Kingdom of Jin.

The Ming army won a great victory in the Central Plains, and the fate of the Qing Dynasty is not long. Everyone in the Jin Kingdom knows that the time is urgent. They urgently hope that they can expand their strength westward and open up trade routes before the Ming army solves the Qing Dynasty and digests the Central Plains, Shanxi, Hebei, and Shandong. , Only when the commercial roads are opened up, and a steady stream of wealth is injected into Guanzhong, can the Jin Kingdom have strength, and the separatist Guanzhong can compete with the Ming Dynasty.

For the Central Plains War, the Jin and Qing countries made completely different responses.At this time, the King of Chu in the Ming Dynasty was still patrolling the Henan area to calm people's hearts.

This time, the area recovered by the Ming Dynasty was too wide, and most of them were dilapidated, unable to collect taxes. Instead, the court needed to send supplies to help.

After Nanjing was restored to the Central Plains, Wang Fuzhi, a scholar and secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs, rushed to Luoyang directly with the cadres of the Ministry of Household Affairs to liquidate the fields and population of Henan.

After more than half a month of continuous fighting, from the confiscated official documents of the Qing court and the accounts of Liangshun Wangfu, Wang Fuzhi basically straightened out the population and land properties of Henan.

This time, the Ming Dynasty acquired more land than expected. Nearly a hundred manors and hundreds of thousands of hectares of fertile land were confiscated just from King Liangshun and other criminal officials.

The management of these lands is costly for the government. Wang Fuzhi suggested that in order to relieve the pressure on the imperial court, part of the land should be rewarded to the meritorious soldiers, and the other part should be transferred to the big families and families in the south by exchanging grain for land. Chamber of Commerce.

The Ming Dynasty once promoted the method of encouraging merchants to transport grain to the frontier fortress in exchange for salt, and granting salt sales patents to enrich the reserve of border military grain.

Wang Yan recovered a large area of ​​the country, but these places were severely damaged and needed all kinds of materials. It was too expensive to rely on the imperial court to transport them from the south.

Referring to the previous salt introduction system, Wang Fuzhi asked merchants and noble families in the south to help the court send grain, farm tools, cattle, cloth and other materials to the north, and the court exchanged the newly acquired land.

After these two policies, first of all, the 30 soldiers who went out this time, including the [-] volunteers who joined the conquest, each got a few acres of land. A great success.

On the other hand, as the imperial court and the people continued to deliver supplies, the conditions that restrained the Ming army from continuing to march no longer existed, and the Ming army could attack the Hebei Plain at any time.

With these two points, Wang Yan naturally did not object, and happily agreed to Wang Fuzhi's proposal.

On this day, Wang Yan, Wang Fuzhi, and You Youlun, the newly appointed Henan chief envoy, came out of Luoyang together to inspect a manor in the southern suburbs.

A group of people rode slowly on the road, and Wang Yan asked, "Brother, have the food and grass that Dai Zhifan urged us to prepare at the household department?"

Dai Zhifan's [-] troops have been staying in Daming Mansion for almost a month because of the shortage of military supplies.

Wang Fuzhi nodded, "The Ministry of Finance transferred [-] shi from the storage in Nanjing, and it has already entered the canal. However, the water transportation has been cut off for many years, and the Qing Dynasty has been neglected. Many sections of the river are blocked by silt, and the grain boats should still be there. In Shandong."

Seeing Wang Yan frowned, he hurriedly said again; "However, Sihai Company was entrusted by the household department to transport [-] shi by sea, and it has already arrived in Qingzhou. Now it is turning overland, because it should soon arrive at Daming Mansion."

Wang Yan nodded slightly when he heard this, and Wang Fuzhi couldn't help asking, "As soon as the food your Highness prepares arrives, will you let the army attack and recover Shenjing?"

"No, wait!" Wang Yan shook his head, and then asked again, "Has the food and grass distributed to Xie Qian been delivered?"

Wang Fuzhi rode his horse to keep up, "The fleet arrived in North Korea by sea and land, it should have arrived early!"

Wang Yan nodded after hearing this, and glanced around. There are large fields around, but weeds are overgrown.

It is now May, the war has ended for more than a month, and the local area is gradually returning to stability.The people should clear the weeds, tidy up the fields, and prepare for sowing. How can they let the fields go barren?

Wang Yan looked at a village in the distance, and there were a few shadows under the big tree at the entrance of the village, indicating that there were people in the village. He couldn't help frowning: "What's going on?"

Later, You You Lun, seeing Wang Yan pointing at the deserted fields, and pointing at the idlers in the distant village, understood what he meant, and hurried forward.

He is a student of He Tengjiao, he has served as the magistrate of Wuchang, the prefect of Yingtian, and the inspector of Nanzhi. He is very capable.

"Your Highness, this matter is about to be reported to you!" You Youlun rode his horse to catch up, half a horse's head behind Wang Yan, and clasped his fists and said, "These lands are originally lands under Shang Kexi's name, but they are cultivated. The people in Henan are the main ones. This time, the imperial court took these lands, rewarded them with meritorious service and used them to exchange food with southern merchants. The owner of the land changed, and the tenants who had cultivated these fields no longer dared to do so.”

Wang Yan frowned slightly when he heard this, and realized that although the land belonged to Shang Kexi and others, it was cultivated by tens of thousands of tenant farmers.Now the land is confiscated by the imperial court, and the land rewarded to the soldiers can be planted by the soldiers and their families themselves, and there is no need for tenants.The land exchanged by the big clan must be planted in a large area, and not many people are needed, and these tenant farmers will lose the opportunity to cultivate the land.

"Why didn't you report this to Gu earlier?" Wang Yan was a little unhappy.

You Youlun lowered his head and didn't answer, Wang Yan immediately reacted, he glanced at Wang Fuzhi, and he knew everything in his heart.

Rewarding land to the army is in the interests of nobles, and exchanging grain for fields will allow the gentry to reap huge benefits.

With the support of the army, bureaucratic gentry and big landlords in this matter, You Youlun naturally did not dare to offend them, so he persuaded Wang Yan to inspect the manor and let Wang Yan find out the problem himself.

Thinking of this, Wang Yan couldn't help but feel unhappy. Everything that is beneficial will be harmful. He was happy about his land policy just now, but now there is a problem, and his subordinates did not tell him the truth, which made him very dissatisfied.

"Your Highness, after Beizhi took over Henan, I found that there are already many tenants who have fled to the Kingdom of Jin!" You Youlun lowered his head for a while, then raised his head and said.

"Run to Jin Kingdom?" Hearing this, Wang Yan's face suddenly sank.

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