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Chapter 523 Attacking Guizhou
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In April, Sun Changfu and Zheng Yongwang returned to the army and were immediately sent to fight in Hunan.

Hong Chengchou has been beaten out of Hunan, and retreated to Guizhou to join forces with Sun Kewang and Wu Sangui.

After the Qing government occupied Guizhou, it began to manage Sichuan. Hong Chengchou proposed to immigrate 100 million people in Sichuan to raise troops.

Dorgon did something even more thorough. He sent [-] Eight Banners children here, asked them to bring their own coated slaves, and told them that the land of abundance was encircled by them.

All of a sudden, the ambitions of the new generation of young Eight Banners who grew up were satisfied, but there was another province of slavery in China.

For Dorgon, these nobles of the Eight Banners are unwilling to pay taxes anyway, but they are all greedy for land.

Instead of letting them occupy the land that can pay taxes, it is better to let them take their own clothes and go to occupy Sichuan, and their family has to support them, contribute money and support, and leave the funds of the court. The piece of land became the land of the Qing Dynasty.

Yang Chao is very strange. It has been seven years in Longwu, and Dorgon has not died yet. He remembers that Dorgon died very early in history. It is said that he died suddenly while riding a horse to the grassland to hunt, maybe he fell off his horse and fell to his death. or died of disease.

But it is obvious that he must be in good health before hunting, otherwise it would be impossible to go hunting in the grassland, but in this time and space, Dorgon was held in Beijing by Yang Chao, and he had no free time to go hunting in the grassland, but let him escape Doomed.

Yang Chao also didn't place his hopes on Dorgon's sudden death. The Northern Expedition still depended on his own strength, and no one else could be trusted.

Needless to say Sun Kewang's kind, right now is the sinner Yang Chao wants to get rid of quickly, even Li Dingguo can't be trusted.

After Li Dingguo returned to Yunnan, he convened the old department, and with the aid of a large amount of supplies sent by Yang Chao, he quickly recovered.

Before Li Dingguo's Northern Expedition, he left tens of thousands of cronies in Yunnan, but he did not expect that when Wu Sangui called, the emperor ran away, and the remaining army was affected, and they all ran with the emperor. As a result, Kunming was occupied, and these people also Collapsed.

After Li Dingguo went back, he beat Wu Sangui away. As soon as the banner was opened, these people came back again. With Yang Chao's material support, Li Dingguo could afford to support these people, and equipped everyone with iron armor and steel swords. Even more gorgeous, Li Dingguo had an elite army of [-] in an instant.

Arming Li Dingguo originally wanted to join forces with him to attack Guizhou, but in the end Li Dingguo led his troops to Burma instead, wanting to welcome Zhu Cihuan back.

But it is a pity that the king of Burma refused to let him go. Li Dingguo made several checkpoints in Burma. The king of Burma asked the emperor to decree to repel Li Dingguo. He knew that the decree was written under the duress of King Burma, but Li Dingguo did not dare to disobey. It was not because he was pedantic. , but he knew that since King Burma could coerce the emperor, he could also kill the emperor.

Under the threat of rats, Li Dingguo could only return to Yunnan.

Yang Chao sold another 5000 million taels of bonds this year. Of course, he didn’t sell them all at once. Taking away too much currency in circulation would hit the economy too hard. He sold them in batches. Anyway, he was just buying supplies continuously, so he didn’t need to sell them all at once. Son gets so much money.

A well-functioning financial market has been formed. Although it is still very rough, the necessary functions are already in place, and you can get the financial support you want here.

As for the government debt reaching [-] million taels, this is not in Yang Chao's consideration. Anyway, as long as there is no inflation in the market, the money invested will stimulate the market. The number of newly opened shops this year has reached [-]% of the total number of shops. It is enough to explain the problem. It shows that the consumption power of the people is getting stronger and stronger. Otherwise, it will not attract so many merchants to open shops. It also shows that the merchants do not lack capital and have the ability to expand on a large scale.

First of all, any data is that Jiangnan's economy has entered a cycle of rapid development. As long as there are no major changes, such as the sudden capture of Nanjing by the Qing army, this development trend will not be interrupted. The more the economy develops, the more money it needs. Because the material produced has greatly increased, the corresponding money supply is needed to balance it, not to mention inflation. Yang Chao even wonders if there is some deflation in the Jiangnan area, because the price of food has dropped by a couple of times again.

In addition to grain prices, the price of iron has increased slightly, and the price of textiles has remained at the same level as last year. Only the price of grain has dropped significantly.

After investigation, it was found that it was the Mekong Delta that began exporting grain to Jiangnan on a large scale last year.

Yang Chao was still very surprised. Although he had already sent 30 captives there, the intensive cultivation of rice required too much labor. A strong laborer only planted about ten acres, which was too much to bear.

Therefore, Yang Chao estimates that 30 people will reclaim 300 million mu of land. The best Shangtian in Suzhou can only produce five or six dans of rice a year. The newly opened land on the Mekong River will definitely not reach this level. Take three tans to calculate It is already topping the sky, and that is only an output of 1000 million tons.

But last year alone, 1000 to [-] million dans of grain were sent somewhere, which made Yang Chao feel incredible.

He quickly asked Huang Yuan to investigate, and Huang Yuan reported back that the reason why so much food can be produced in the Mekong area is because many former captives picked up knives again, and they developed a new economic model.

This economic model made Yang Chao dumbfounded. It turned out to be the coating system of the Qing Dynasty.

That's right, among the captives, there were hundreds of bannermen, and it was they who first promoted the coating system.

In the area of ​​the Mekong River, they really couldn’t find their opponents. The king of Cambodia could not protect himself, and the country was in chaos.

In the first two or three years, they were relatively honest, obediently opened up planting spots, and obediently reclaimed wasteland and farmed land.

The balance was broken because of a violent conflict. They opened up wasteland, had food, kept warm and longed for sex, and wanted a wife. This area can be found in Vietnamese villages tens of miles to the north, so there are people from time to time Where to go to ask for a wife with something.

Once again, the Vietnamese frontier army intercepted a group of guys who were going to buy a wife, and killed a few of them. But this group of Heat prisoners who had recovered their spirits, those who escaped immediately called the big guys to pick up their knives. Greeting one by one, tens of thousands of people finally gathered and rushed to the border of Vietnam.

Vietnam was in the period of the Southern and Northern Dynasties at this time, and the south was the territory of the Ruan Group. They sent people to Yunnan to negotiate with the emperor, but it was strange that they did not seek Yang Chao.

It's just that the emperor couldn't manage it at that time, and the Vietnamese blocked the attack of the prostitutes, but the surrounding area of ​​​​the border town was looted, and property and women were the main objects of looting.

But among the Eight Banners captives, they also captured some Vietnamese youths, of course, for the purpose of coating them for farming. As a result, these Eight Banners captives quickly reclaimed more land and became rich.

This made the Han soldiers jealous, those under Zuo Liangyu's men and Gao Jie's men immediately followed suit and began to wantonly loot the coats.

However, the Nguyen Group has stationed heavy troops in the Bien Hoa area, and it is not so easy to plunder, but the Cambodians have no resistance, so they began to develop southward, robbing the villages and cities of the Cambodians, and robbing their women and men.

In this way, 30 people managed to control millions of strong laborers, and reclaimed tens of millions of acres of land, most of which were cultivated fields directly robbed by Cambodians and Vietnamese. With advanced planting skills, more than 2000 million tans of grain are produced a year, which is simply not enough to consume.

The price of grain sold from Saigon has fallen to two renminbi, and it can be doubled to five renminbi when transported to Daming. After the grain merchants bought it, the price was increased to seven or eight renminbi, and it was still profitable.

Although he despised the misdeeds of his compatriots in the Mekong River area and could not bear the harm caused to his compatriots in Cambodia and Vietnam, but Yang Chao could only endure it because of the face of tens of millions of grains every year. At the beginning, Yang Chao began to call for planting mulberry and silkworms. He no longer needed the land of Suzhou Prefecture to grow food. How could the Mekong River create another Suzhou Prefecture.

Low inflation, high growth, such a good economy can support Yang Chao's continuous use of troops, and it cannot be said that the sacrifices of the Cambodian and Vietnamese people are not involved.

However, in the face of the righteousness of attacking Guizhou and capturing Sun Kewang, Yang Chao chose to turn a blind eye. Not only did he not allow Huang Yuan to suppress him, but he transferred Huang Yuan to Taiwan as the magistrate.

He was a governor in the Mekong River, but he was just a prefect in Taiwan, but Huang Yuan was still very happy, because a prefect meant a third-rank official, and the governor had no rank, he felt no different from a prisoner guard.

Not only did Huang Yuan leave, but he also took away a large number of Saigon management personnel, leaving a management vacuum there, and the group of gangsters in the Mekong River were left to fend for themselves and developed by themselves.

The sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the heaven and earth let them gallop. I don't know what kind of system they can play.

Yang Chao has no time to care about the development of a colony. He is now focusing on Guizhou.

Zheng Yongwang and Sun Changfu, led by many men, marched towards Guizhou with an army of 30.

Guizhou is definitely not an easy place to fight, the sky is not three feet high, and the ground is not three feet flat.

But the result was beyond Yang Chao's expectation.

The march went very smoothly.

Hong Chengchou's 17 Green Battalion soldiers, together with the [-] Shaanxi Frontier Army led by Li Guohan, Wu Sangui's [-] Han soldiers, and Sun Kewang's [-] Great Western Army, have a total strength of [-]. It is really difficult to gain an advantage without three or five times the number of troops in mountain warfare.

But it turned out that Yang Chao took the lead everywhere.

Well, the land is not three feet flat, and the transportation is difficult. The people in Guizhou offered to help as porters, carrying the rations of 30 people with the army on their shoulders, so that the 30 troops did not have any worries about lack of food or weapons.

Why are Guizhou people so cooperative? Is it due to their high awareness?No, it's because Sun Kewang is too unpopular.

When Li Dingguo beat him back then, it was not a fluke that he was able to beat him to 20 with [-], it was because he was so unpopular.

Sun Kewang implemented the same system in Yunnan in Guizhou, but the search was more ruthless. The tax here reached [-]%. Although the landlords were strongly suppressed, [-]% of the rent still had to be paid, and the burden of the common people reached [-]%.

Although Guizhou has a small population and a lot of land, given the agricultural productivity of this era, a strong laborer works hard to support his family. The whole family often has to work together, and the elderly, women and children have to work to live Under Sun Kewang's system, not starving to death is limited to not starving to death, but starvation is unavoidable.

However, Yang Chao was fighting against rebellion. The most pleasing slogan was the ten-year tax exemption. For Yang Chao, the cost of collecting taxes from Guizhou was too high, so he was spared. When I was low, I exempted the agricultural tax with a swipe of a pen and gave it back as a subsidy. Anyway, collecting taxes is not worthwhile, so why charge him.

But this trick is very beneficial to the common people. The common people of later generations are exempted from the agricultural tax and have to go out to work to support their families. There are no jobs these days, and their eyes are bloodshot. Well, especially under Sun Ke's tax rate of [-]% to [-]%, the people of Guizhou will be on fire at once, your grandma, I will help the Yang family army kill you son of a bitch.

Therefore, the powerful contribution, the rich, um, this is really not there.

However, under the leadership of the porter party and the guide party, Yang Chao's soldiers can advance and retreat freely, and their intelligence is more accurate than Sun Kewang's. His eyes were darkened.

Sun Kewang is like this, not to mention the foreign soldiers led by Hong Chengchou. After leaving the city several times and the entire army was wiped out, Hong Chengchou strictly ordered the soldiers not to go out to fight in the city. , Just like that, many men lead people to conquer city by city, nibbling away step by step.

In this way, the victory reports were continuously sent to Yang Chao, as many as three to five days, and as few as one a day, the city was occupied today, and the stronghold was taken down tomorrow.

It took three months to advance step by step, and by the beginning of August, many men had surrounded Guiyang.

It's a pity that Yang Chao couldn't judge Sun Kewang, because it is said that when he broke the city, he set himself on fire with his whole family in the palace, and the body was found, but it was completely changed. As a result, Yang Chao couldn't confirm Sun Kewang's life and death for a long time.

Before the siege of Guiyang, Hong Chengchou left Guizhou a long time ago. He fled back to Jiangbei and continued to sit in Jingxiang. He asked Li Guohan and Wu Sangui to retreat to Chishui to prevent Yang Chao from attacking Sichuan from here, and to protect the slavery manor of the masters. .

Yang Chao finally conquered Guizhou, and became one with Li Dingguo's territory. He can send troops to Sichuan when he enters, and he can rely on the Yangtze River when he retreats, so he doesn't have to worry about being attacked.

From the 17th year of Chongnian (1644) to the seventh year of Longwu (1653) this year, it took a total of ten years to finally reverse the disadvantages in the strategy. Next, it is time for Yang Chao to counterattack, but where should he fight next? ?
(End of this chapter)