Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 649

History is surprisingly similar.

Apocalypse, in the early years, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and other gentlemen of the Donglin defeated the plot of Concubine Zheng and Li Xuanshi, and won the case of moving the palace. After getting rid of Wei Zhongxian, the power eunuch who had been a disaster for the world for many years, the world was restored to "peace". Now, for the third time, they saved the Ming Dynasty from the "warlord" Song Qingshu.

Song Qingshu really packed away when he left. Even the more than 200 imperial envoys and officials of the West India Company's core forces in the court also left. This left a huge political wealth. The entire Hongguang early December, The Donglin Party did not promulgate any effective decrees, and it was completely intriguing to compete with each other for the important positions left behind.

Who doesn't have an old friend or relative?This big move, but the entire Jiangnan landlord forces have been mobilized, and everyone wants to take a bite of the cake.

After several compromises, the political territory can be regarded as divided, but just before the Spring Festival, the leaders of the newly ruling Donglin Party gave Nan Mingxia another "holiday gift package"!
Since August of the first year of Hongguang, during Song Qingshu Ma Shiying's administration, all the land and field books that had been cleared were invalidated. Not to mention these things were thrown away and burned. Qian Qianyi also concluded that his coffin was a disaster for the country and the people. !However, what followed was a tyranny that had never been seen in the 200 years of the Ming Dynasty. In the cold winter and the twelfth lunar month, new taxes were imposed on the people who were approaching the New Year!

Cultivated land is two cents per mu, cultivated land is five cents per mu, and mountain ponds are one cent per mu. The people who had saved some money and food for the new year were all taken away, not to mention that even a lot of grain for the winter was taken away, causing complaints among the people. However, those landlords who lived in Qingzhang's land with their tails between their legs a while ago came alive again.

In addition, the citizen class that Song Qingshu managed to cultivate during his time also suffered heavy losses.

Except for destroying the core secrets of the begging army and the production equipment of the shipyard and arsenal, the remaining mulberry gardens, textile factories, canning factories, etc. Song Qingshu were all intact, and these were taken over by Tian Cheng. The original workers He was ordered by the Jinyi messenger to return to the factory and continue working.

Originally creating job opportunities was a good thing, but what made these workers uproar was that working under the hands of Tian Gonggong not only doubled the working hours, but also had no wages. They only gave out some black beans and coarse grains every month to barely survive. As for the previous New Year's rewards, rice oil quilt supplies, don't even think about it.

In the words of Eunuch Tian, ​​you are lucky in your three lives to work for the Holy One, what money do you want?Trouble!

Not only is there no wages, but the urgent needs that workers, small citizens, and small industrial and commercial owners have managed to save over the years, these greedy guys like gluttons will not let it go. Gao Hongtu, who is in charge of the household department, first tied them up The "treacherous sycophants" and the "tricksters" who were against the gentlemen of Donglin added a large sum of land taxes, and then the eunuchs who were originally blocked by Song Qingshu's iron fist also got in, and pasted the terrible yellow strips on the girls from house to house. On the forehead, if you don't pay the money, you will wait for the separation of father and daughter, and the separation of wives and children.

There are wolf-like servants everywhere, kicking open doors from house to house, collecting money and robbing food in the cold winter months. The land originally occupied is the least and most barren, and the taxes in the south of the Yangtze River have always been heavy. It has also reached a limit, and now this time, it has become the last straw that overwhelms the camel's camel. In the cold winter and the twelfth lunar month, there is even a situation in the south of the Yangtze River where whole villages and villages are abandoned like in the north, and the society is actively turbulent.

In the Spring Festival of the second year of Hongguang, the huge southern Zhili continued to Zhejiang and the prosperous places in Jiangxi, and the depression was like a plague. Tens of millions of people in the south of the Yangtze River, under the rule of Emperor Hongguang and the Donglin Party, passed A very dismal Spring Festival.

However, Gao Hongtu, Qian Qianyi, etc. are actually a little helpless. They have just come into power, and before they have finished dividing the fruits of victory, they are already facing an important threat, the feudal town!
No matter how much it plays, the main military strength of the Donglin Party is Chu Town and the Three Towns of Jiangbei. If the Ming Dynasty was more than 100 years ago, the generals would be running dogs. At the end of the war, the warlordization has reached an extremely serious level. When Song Qingshu was in power, the central government had a strong military force, which was enough to suppress various local factions. However, the military force of the Qihuo army retreated further south with Song Qingshu. The Hongguang court really had no military power. .

Without soldiers, there is no authority!
Tian Cheng, the eunuch force, asked Chu Town to return to Wuchang, Jiangbei Three Towns to return to Xuzhou, Huai'an Prefecture, and not to stay in Gyeonggi, but none of the four outer towns agreed. After passing the hurdle of Anqing, Zuo Liangyu's army accelerated instead. Speed ​​towards Yingtian. As for Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing and other troops, they only dispatched three or four thousand soldiers during the battle of crossing the river. Once Song Qingshu left, these guys regarded Yingtian as the fallen Central Plains, and they also sent heavy troops to Yingtian Gathered.

The big guys kicked out the surnamed Song together, why can't you civil servants eat dry food, and us warriors can't even drink the mouthful?
As a last resort, Qian Qianyi asked for help from his students Zhai Shixu, the governor of Guangxi, and He Tengjiao, the governor of Zhejiang. However, most of the troops in these two places were guards. The land was returned to the Weisuo and distributed equally to the military households of the Weisuo. Seeing that the land was about to be acquired, the Donglin Party hacked the land, and the acquired land returned to the hands of those aristocratic families. It's strange to sacrifice your life.

Since there is no strength to repel the outer towns, they can only give in to money. Gao Hongtu and Lu Daqi, the gentlemen of Donglin, really regard money as dung. The military expenditures requested by several towns have been doubled. Song Qingshu managed to get the land Not to mention all the money that was paid, the new tax increase of more than 400 million taels was also given to more than 300 million taels in exchange for Gao Jie and others' retreat

So, these low-level soldiers who were frightened by Shangguan's embarrassment and didn't get any benefits, still plundered the outskirts of Yingtian, and a small half of the originally bustling wharf area was reduced to ruins.

The people at the bottom of the society who occupy the least amount of social resources, but occupy the vast majority of the population, are forcibly retreated to the opposite side!

However, until the end of January of the second year of Hongguang, at any rate, the small court of Nanming returned to tranquility again.

But at this time, the bad news from the north came again.

Just when Qian Qianyi and others were planning internal fighting, Li Zicheng, who had been left behind, was quickly defeated again. In December of the first year of Hongguang, the Duoduo tribe went straight to the city of Tongguan, and with 11 surrendered Ming Army Henan troops as the vanguard, they stormed Tongguan attracted the main force of the returning Dashun army, and the army of Li Zicheng's relatives who returned to Shaanxi fought a bloody battle with Duoduo.

It is said that love is deep and responsibility is serious!At this time, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty really made people hate their teeth. They were weak under the Ming Dynasty, but they were behind the Jiannu bows and arrows. Those who didn't charge died, and they turned into tigers one by one. layman!On the second, third, and fourth day of the second year of Hongguang, Li Zicheng led the army out of the customs several times to fight. First, Hao Yaoqi was defeated, and then Liu Fangliang, Li Guo and others were defeated one after another. After six or seven days of hard work, they failed to break the siege of Tongguan.

At this juncture, Azig's army on the North Road crossed the Yellow River from Shanxi, and went straight to Shanzhou, Yulin, Yan'an Prefecture and other places. embarrassing situation.

On the [-]th, Li Zicheng abandoned Tongguan. On the [-]th, the Dashun army dragged all the officials and all their families in Xi'an to the south. On the [-]th, Duoduo occupied Xi'an, and the Dashun regime officially perished.

And just like the importance of Zheng Chongjian's army to Chongzhen and the capital, Li Zicheng was defeated, and Nanming's last fortress in the northwest, Pingfan, was completely taken down by Jiannu. Prince Azig, who had seized the victory of Xi'an, took the land of Jingxiang where Li Zicheng initially established his regime in one fell swoop.

You must know that Jingxiang must be guarded in the south of the Yangtze River. This is the Pingfan who defended the south of the Yangtze River, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. During the Three Kingdoms period, even if Cao Cao was eyeing the north, Sun Quan would fight for Jingzhou with Liu Bei. Because of this, in the Southern Song Dynasty, the battle of Xiangfan was also a Song-Yuan war. After Xiangfan fell, the Southern Song Dynasty quickly perished.

Today, although the Huaihe defense line in the north is still in hand, all the barriers in the west have been lost. As early as the first year of Hongguang, Dorgon had seen through the essence of Nanming's weakness. At this time, the enemy in the northwest has been resolved. With an arrow, he naturally aimed at Nanming, who was fat and fat but as bulky as a pig in a corner of Pian'an.

At the end of March, Gao Hongtu, Qian Qianyi and others from the Donglin Party, who were still celebrating their victory over the traitors and once again dismissed these vulgar warriors, suddenly opened their eyes and found that they had fallen into the crater surrounded by all sides In the middle, Duduo's troops returned from Xi'an, and once again began to march towards Yingtian from Henan. In the southwest, not only the Azig troops occupied Xiangfan and went down the river, but even the ally just now, the remnant troops of Chuangwang Li Zicheng More than 20 people were also brutally killed towards the east.

Li Zicheng had already seen through Nanming's weakness. Without Song Qingshu, instead of forming an alliance with him, he might as well occupy Nanjing. Maybe he still had a chance to fight with Jiannu. This reliance finally tore his face.

Embarrassed on all sides, the Nanming court finally made the first positive military action since moving south. Xu Dingguo, the former general of Shanxi, joined together and planned to recover Kaifeng to stop Jiannu's aggressive soldiers. He also ordered Zuo Liangyu, the town of Chu, to return to Wuchang quickly.

Just such a depressed envoy full of public grievances, Jiangnan, was pushed to the forefront!
(End of this chapter)