Dashun Yongchang

Chapter 551 Homecoming One

At the beginning of December, when Chen Yuanyuan heard that Li Zicheng was going south, he went down the mountain full of joy to meet him.It's just that Li Zicheng was watching Li Zicheng get off the boat on the pier, and she was about to go forward and talk about the pain of parting, "Your Majesty made a promise last year, and I almost thought that Your Majesty had forgotten me..."

Unexpectedly, a person appeared from behind Li Zicheng, took her hand and said, "This is Mrs. Wu, she is indeed a beauty. Oh, I was wrong, it should be Mrs. Chen now, look at my memory, My sister won't blame me for being rude."

Chen Yuanyuan was startled and couldn't continue her words. She looked up, and there was a beauty who was as beautiful as herself, and she looked at Li Zicheng sadly.

Li Zicheng said to her embarrassingly: "This is Yuhua, the queen asked her to come and take care of me. You should call her sister."

After hearing this, Chen Yuanyuan calmed down. As the director of the statistics department, how could he not have inquired about the women around Li Zicheng? Now Li Zicheng's famous side is actually Empress Gao. , the Dou family who was accepted in Beijing, like her, has not been formally canonized.

So she said a blessing to Deng Taimiao and said: "So it's Mrs. Deng, I've heard that my sister's poems are very good."

When Deng Taimiao heard this, her expression turned ugly. She was originally from a wealthy family. Although she was married once before being brought into the palace by Li Zicheng, she still felt that she was married.It should be said that when she first entered the palace, she was still favored by Li Zicheng, but soon Li Zicheng swore to go to war.

Originally, she didn't think Li Zicheng was so good. After all, the gentry had scolded him for so many years, and she entered the palace only to protect the family. Naturally, she didn't have any liking for Li Zicheng.It was only when Li Zicheng conquered Beijing and was really likely to become the lord of the world that she changed her opinion of Li Zicheng a little.

Based on the education she has received, the person who can become the emperor is naturally born from the stars in the sky, which is naturally her destiny.Naturally, one cannot fight against fate, so she naturally adjusted her mentality.The only thing she didn't expect was that Li Zicheng chose to go south instead of returning to Shaanxi after leaving Beijing, and even took Wu Sangui's concubine by his side, which made her deeply dissatisfied.

According to the moral requirements for the emperor in this era, is Li Zicheng a fool if he does this? Deng Taimiao thinks that Li Zicheng does not look like a person who is obsessed with women, so Chen Yuanyuan must have seduced Li Zicheng and turned Li Zicheng into a fool.That's why I persuaded Empress Gao to let her go to Xuzhou, trying to persuade Li Zicheng not to do anything against morality.

But Li Zicheng just coaxed her and refused to agree to him sending Chen Yuanyuan away, and after seeing Chen Yuanyuan himself this time, she felt that the other party was indeed a vixen.Now the other party is still mocking her face to face, and she is just a lady without a status, which is a bit exasperating.

Li Zicheng didn't want to watch the two women fight in front of him. He also knew that Deng Taimiao would definitely not be able to defeat Chen Yuanyuan. He was able to promote Chen Yuanyuan to the position of the Statistics Department, but being able to secure this position depended entirely on Chen Yuanyuan's own ability. Deng Taimiao is just a literary young woman who likes to write poems, and the combat effectiveness of the two sides is not at the same level.

So Li Zicheng quickly separated the two, and asked about Yangzhou and Nanjing on the way up the mountain.Seeing Li Zicheng started talking about business affairs, Deng Taimiao finally calmed down.Seeing the end of the crisis, the guards around him were relieved, but everyone felt that maybe Pingshan Hall would not be so quiet in the future.

On the other side, Zhu Cihong, who disembarked at the North Gate Wharf in Yangzhou in advance, once again set foot on the land of Yangzhou, his heart felt at ease.Now he feels more and more that only Yangzhou can make him feel at home.

Going north to Xuzhou this time is actually a good education for him.When the Wenhua Palace was opened before, everyone seemed to be loyal ministers of Daming, and they all tried to persuade him to go to Nanjing to rebuild Daming.But after Li Zicheng defeated the Qing army in the north, this voice disappeared in his ears.

Nine out of ten of the loyal ministers of Daming who surrounded him in the past went away as soon as he went. In Xuzhou's council meeting, even Qingliu like Qian Qianyi betrayed Daming.It can be said that this trip to Xuzhou has once again taught Zhu Cihong what it means to be unpredictable.

After the Xuzhou meeting, the only ones who stayed by his side were Li Shichun, teacher Yang Tinglin, Jin Sheng, Jiang Dejing, Chen Zizhuang, and Gu Xichou. Beginning to switch your allegiance.

And the reason these people stayed by his side was not to restore Daming. According to the views of Li Shichun, Yang Tinglin, and Jin Sheng, after the big meeting was held, if Da Ming wants to recover again, it depends on whether Li Zicheng will make mistakes. Well, as long as Li Zicheng doesn't make mistakes, the world will acquiesce in the general trend of replacing Ming with Shun.

Yang Tinglin and Jin Sheng told him bluntly that in the past, the rogues could not succeed because the rogues could not establish local rule except destroying the local economy.Previously, Li Zicheng's farms in Jingzhou and Xiangyang, and the founding of the country in Shaanxi can be regarded as attempts to establish Dashun's local rule, but these attempts are not better than the current Great Council.

It can be said that Dashun has established a brand-new country after the Great Council adopted the charter for the establishment of the four-level council, the election method of members, and the organization method of the central government. Although this country is not like that of Ming Dynasty, It has a strong control over the local area, because the council composed of local councilors and the local government dispatched by the imperial court form a mutual check and balance, which is obviously not in line with the dynasty's principle of centralization.

However, in such a chaotic situation as the present, this is indeed the fastest way to establish a country.Because the local government has a certain degree of self-government power, those regions that do not want to be involved in the war will not firmly oppose the new government. People who miss Ming Dynasty can live in the old way, without having to defend their own way of life and the central government. Resist with force.

Although there are voices of anti-Qing and anti-traitors in the local area, the participation of farmers is needed to turn this voice into actual resistance. Farmers have only one reason to join the resistance, fearing that their lives will be changed.Now that there is parliamentary autonomy everywhere, how can the peasants turn their targets to the court again?

Those gentry officials who had surrounded him before dispersed now because they had found another way to protect their own interests without having to engage in armed conflict with the Shun Army.Those who are still willing to stay by his side do not intend to fight again to rebuild Daming and the Shun Army, but just hope that the loyalty relationship between their family and Daming can come to a perfect end.

This is also the reason why Yang Tinglin and Jin Sheng suggested to him to go to Xi'an to visit relatives after the big meeting was almost over, because now his status as the prince of the Ming Dynasty can no longer help Li Zicheng, but has become an obstacle for Li Zicheng to annex the remaining forces of the Ming Dynasty In order to prevent him from being labeled as a banner against Li Zicheng after returning to Yangzhou, it is better to stay away from Yangzhou, a place of right and wrong.

If it is said that Yangzhou was famous all over the world because of its wealth, then now Yangzhou has become the new political and economic center of Dashun. Although geographically speaking, Xuzhou is actually more suitable as the center of the world, but in terms of the current situation, Yangzhou control To strangle the waterways of the Yangtze River and canals, and to deter the southern provinces, it would be more appropriate for Li Zicheng to sit here.

But in this way, the position in charge of the construction of Yangzhou New City has become a hot position. Everyone knows that the person sitting in this position will definitely occupy a place in the Dashun court in the future, because no one will be more powerful than him. Get to know the city.And there is no monarch who doesn't want it. The emperor's feet are the most benevolent place. If the people in the capital don't support the monarch, then what power in the world can protect you?

Regarding the defense of Beijing City, the Mongols and Manchus have attacked it several times, but none of them were able to capture Beijing City.But Li Zicheng only attacked once, and Beijing fell. Isn't it because the Beijingers are no longer willing to defend Chongzhen?

Therefore, the task of supervising the construction of a new city is a sweet treat for others, but it is a dose of poison for Zhu Cihong, because he really has a reason to rebel.That's why Yang Tinglin and Jin Sheng persuaded him to avoid this big pit. Zhu Cihong and Chongzhen had the opposite temperament, and he still listened to the persuasion of people around him, although he actually didn't want to leave Yangzhou.

It's just that Li Zicheng saw through his thoughts, and even Li Zicheng called Yang Tinglin and Jin Sheng to reprimand him, saying that they didn't think about doing things all day long, they only knew how to think about human affairs.Soon Yang Tinglin was sent by Li Zicheng to Jiangxi to take over as the governor of Jiangxi, and Yuan Jixian was transferred to the central government, but the exact position has not yet been determined.

Although Yang Tinglin left his side, Zhu Cihong was not very sad. After all, Yang Tinglin's appointment as governor of Jiangxi was not a punishment.As for Yuan Jixian's question, he didn't think much about it, because he was not familiar with this person.After all, when King Fu retired, Yuan Jixian wrote a letter expressing his opposition.Although Zhu Cihong didn't remember how many people supported him at that time, he had a deep memory of the few who opposed him.Therefore, he didn't care what position the other party would arrange when they came to the center.

When he saw his residence, Zhu Cihong's mood became even happier, but when he saw the people waiting for him outside the gate of the residence, his expression immediately turned down.After getting off the horse, he greeted his sister for a while, but turned a blind eye to the person standing next to her, making this person's face turn red and white, and he looked at a loss.

Seeing her younger brother's expression, Princess Kunxing had no choice but to say to the people around her: "My younger brother is exhausted from the journey and needs a good rest. Cousin might as well please go back first."

Zhou Shixian could only obediently agreed to leave, and sent his cousin away. Princess Kunxing accompanied her brother into the mansion. She was about to teach her brother that his behavior just now was a bit too much, but she heard her brother say to her dissatisfied: "Sister, now Although she is no longer a princess, it is not appropriate to associate with a man like this..."

Chapter 552

Auntie Zhu stared at her younger brother with wide eyes, and said angrily, "What are you talking about? Is my cousin an outsider? Besides..."

Auntie Zhu couldn't continue when she talked about it, her cheeks turned slightly red, but Zhu Cihong said unceremoniously: "It's three thousand miles away, when they pushed our brothers out the door, I didn't regard them as relatives Yes. Although the royal father intends to match you and your cousin's marriage, at the time, the royal father didn't know that their family would treat our brothers like this? Or, sister, you really can't let go of your cousin?"

Auntie Zhu finally got a little angry, she said with red eyes: "Why are you so mean now? My cousin and I have a clean relationship, even if my father said something in the past, it doesn't matter now I just thought that we no longer have parents to take care of us, so how could we lose all our relatives? If you keep talking nonsense, I'll just shave my hair and become an aunt. Anyway, I can't control you now. ..."

Seeing that his sister began to wipe away tears, Zhu Cilang immediately shut up, but he didn't intend to change his view of relatives' families.At this time, he was no longer the unworldly boy who was rejected by his grandfather, who only cried on the street with his two younger brothers in his arms.

Although he has only been with Li Zicheng for more than a year, he feels that he has learned more than in the past 16 years. At least he now understands a truth. Others can give you a lot of advice, but the road depends on your own legs to go.

Therefore, he has no resentment toward Li Zicheng now, because Li Zicheng has always shown that he has no personal enmity with Daming, and the death of his father is just to pay the debts for his grandfather and ancestors. Since Daming made the people unable to live Why can't the people rise up and resist?As long as Li Zicheng continues to follow this path, what else can he complain about?

After having his own opinions, Zhu Cihong's character naturally became stronger. Although the upbringing he had cultivated in the palace in the past allowed him to always maintain his demeanor, he would not be as weak as before on some issues.And this kind of character was cultivated in the tasks that Li Zicheng gave him. If you want to build a new city, if you don't have a resolute character and a firm opinion, then just listen to the people below quarreling every day.

Auntie Zhu looked at her stubborn younger brother and felt a little strange. She didn't know whether such a change would be good or bad for him.In the end, she could only sigh and submissively said to her younger brother: "Forget it, you go back and take a bath first, and I will ask someone to make you your favorite Jiusi soup..."

Li Zicheng, who had gone up the mountain, managed to appease the two women properly. Naturally, he did not need to think about the blessings of Qi Ren. He chose to live alone that night, avoiding the war between the two women.

The next day, there was a light snowfall on the mountain. Li Zicheng accompanied the two women to enjoy the snow scene for a while, and then devoted himself to work.Zhang Nai and other generals staying in Yangzhou, including Huang Degong, all came to the mountain. First, they came to congratulate Li Zicheng on his victory over the Qing army in the north; second, they came to report on their work and accept Li Zicheng's instructions.

Although the generals staying in Yangzhou did not follow Li Zicheng on the expedition, they still hoped to show their loyalty to Li Zicheng, mainly those generals who surrendered from the four towns. After Dashun defeated the Qing army, they had a wait-and-see mentality. , and now they have all been put away, and they really regard themselves as Dashun people.

In Pingshan hall, there are several charcoal stoves, which make the room as warm as spring.The difference from last year is that the charcoal burned this year comes from Taiwan, and the first industry to develop after taking over Taiwan was not the gold mining industry but the logging industry.

The population in the south of the Yangtze River is prosperous, and the people even have to plan carefully for firewood for cooking. Forest materials such as bamboo and wood are even more scarce and can only be transported from other places.The main source of timber in the south of the Yangtze River is the forests in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, the other is the forests in the upper reaches of the Qiantang River, and the other is the forests in Fujian.Because all the wood is from other places, the price of wood in Jiangnan is very expensive, and the price of fir boards from Jianchang shipped to Suzhou is ten times the price.As for charcoal, only rich people can burn it.

After the Taiwan-Shanghai air route opened, Taiwanese wood immediately became a representative of cheap and high-quality products in the Jiangnan market.Although most of the forests in northern Taiwan are miscellaneous trees, there are not many trees suitable for construction, but northern Taiwan is a virgin forest. Miscellaneous trees can be used for burning charcoal, and large trees can be used as building materials. The cost is negligible, which is very attractive. up.

The market price of a log with a diameter of 1 meter and a length of 20 meters in Suzhou is more than 100 taels, but it costs at most 3 taels to cut a log in Taiwan, and the cost price to transport it to Shanghai is less than 10 taels, and the selling price is 17.27 taels. Almost four-fifths of the wood price in Suzhou was hit.

As for the price of Taiwanese charcoal shipped to Shanghai, the price of medium-grade black charcoal was reduced by one-third, and the price of high-grade silver charcoal was reduced by half, which greatly stimulated Lianghuai Salt Company's interest in Taiwan land.

The Lianghuai Salt Industry Company was originally not interested in developing overseas land, but because the Marshal's Mansion granted them the right to operate the salt industry overseas, they hoped to find an overseas place that could produce salt to save transportation costs.Originally they wanted to use Taiwan's abundant fuel to cook salt, but these merchants soon discovered that instead of burning salt and selling it to the natives, it would be more profitable to cut wood and burn charcoal and bring it back to the south of the Yangtze River for sale.

This winter, Lianghuai Salt Industry Co., Ltd. has achieved great success in logging in Taiwan. Both charcoal and wood are very popular in Jiangnan.Although the initial investment and labor were a bit higher, the recovery of funds was quick. Because of the low price, the charcoal and wood from Taiwan were sold out almost as soon as they were shipped to Shanghai.

Compared with the strong demand in Jiangnan, the logging industry developed by the Lianghuai Salt Industry Company in Taiwan is really a drop in the bucket.Moreover, the Lianghuai Salt Industry Company is not only engaged in the timber business, they have also begun to get involved in the fertilizer business.The plant ash produced by burning charcoal is a good fertilizer for the farmland in the south of the Yangtze River, and the plant ash can also be used for dyes and making gunpowder, which has a wide range of uses.

The business activities of Lianghuai Salt Industry Company in Taiwan have attracted the attention of merchants in Jiangnan, especially Longyou merchants. Longyou merchants are mainly engaged in the wood industry, and Lianghuai Salt Industry Company suddenly attacked its own industry across industries. , naturally made them unwilling.However, standing behind the Lianghuai Salt Industry Company is the Marshal's Mansion, and the official network of the Ming Dynasty that they used to compile has lost its effectiveness.

Under such circumstances, the Longyou merchants who knew that it was difficult to directly confront the Lianghuai Salt Company quickly organized themselves.While buying a large amount of war bonds, they expressed their support for the Marshal's Mansion; at the same time, they petitioned the Statistics Department, expressing that they would also participate in overseas land development projects.

Chen Yuanyuan informed Li Zicheng of this situation, and Li Zicheng said that competition is a good thing, and it happens that these overseas lands can be used to recover some public debts.And, not only in Taiwan, he actually hoped that the Longyou merchants would travel farther. The primeval forests in the north are more dense, and it is easier to cut wood in winter in the north.

Whether it is Sakhalin Island or Vladivostok, although these places are nominally under the control of the Manchus, in fact the Manchus only collect tribute from the local tribes, and have little governance over the local tribes.Because these places are really vast and sparsely populated, the distance between a village and a village is often hundreds of miles, and the distance from the cities where the Manchus settled is even farther, and they can’t be contacted several times a year, so why govern?

But it is not so difficult to go to these places by sea, at least it is much more convenient than going by land.If several settlements could be established in these places and the local forests and other resources could be developed, then Dashun would have at least established several fixed ports near North Korea and Japan, and could monitor the movements of the two places.

For those who travel through, they don't believe the claims on the map. As long as there is no economic connection with the local area, then this place will never be yours.The reason why the Russians were able to explore from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific coast in just half a century is that they established a fur road.

It is precisely because of this Siberian fur road that Russian immigrants established close ties with the local area, and eventually digested the entire Siberian region.The Manchus did not let go of immigration to Manchuria until the middle of the 19th century. Although it was too late, they finally retained most of the areas south of Heilongjiang by virtue of the superiority in the number of Han Chinese agricultural population.

Therefore, whether it is Sakhalin Island or Vladivostok, whether they belong to China does not depend on history, but on economic ties.Therefore, Li Zicheng naturally welcomes these Longyou businessmen who have the idea of ​​going out.

However, these generals sitting in Pingshan Hall did not realize the significance of the charcoal burned in the charcoal basin around them today. They just listened attentively to Li Zicheng's arrangements for the army.

What Li Zicheng said to these generals is that the army needs to be reorganized, those veterans who should be retired should be honored, and the army should still be measured by combat effectiveness.

However, he also said to the generals: "Of course, I also know that some soldiers are not old enough to be retired and honored. Let them go back to the countryside because they don't know how to farm. They still hope to stay in the army to make a living.

I can only say that this is a problem left over from history.We are not good at one size fits all.Therefore, I plan to divert these people. One is to be stationed overseas. At present, the combat effectiveness of the overseas natives is still relatively weak, so there is no problem for them to go overseas to maintain law and order; the second is to adjust to road construction. Troops, the country's traffic is currently inconvenient, we need a professional engineering troop to repair roads in various regions..."

After listening to Li Zicheng's request for the reorganization of the army, although the generals looked a little dignified, they also knew that their arms could not twist their thighs. In the previous division of the army, Li Zicheng had already selected the most capable part of the army. Most of the troops in the army cannot fight, so they also know that they can't protect these subordinates.

Chapter 553

In Pingshan Hall, Li Zicheng looked at the three people sitting on the left and right chairs in front of him. The old man on the left was Zhang Fengxiang from Dongchang Prefecture, Shandong Province. He was 68 years old. at home.

The first person on the right is also an old man, also 68 years old, Xu Shiqi from Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, Jinshi in the second year of Tianqi, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment in Chongzhen, was dismissed because of Jiang Cai and Xiong Kaiyuan, and lived at home when Beijing was broken. He came back and served as Minister of the Ministry of officials.

The second person on the right is a young man, Gong Dingzi, who is less than 30 years old, one of the three great masters in Jiangzuo, a Jinshi in the seventh year of Chongzhen, and served as a military officer when Beijing was destroyed.However, the person Li Zicheng remembers most deeply still compares himself to Tang Taizong, and he thinks he is Wei Zheng.

Although there were only three people, they belonged to different circles. Li Zicheng called them over for the purpose of personnel adjustment.He cleared his throat, broke the dull atmosphere in the hall and said: "I have been back to Yangzhou for a few days, I think you should have heard some things, the country is newly built, and everything is destroyed. People advocate that peace is the most important thing.”

Although Zhang Fengxiang and Xu Shiqi disagreed in their political opinions, after hearing Li Zicheng's words, they unanimously advised him, thinking that the current country's internal and external troubles, it is really not suitable to go to war, and peace should be the priority.

Gong Dingzi always paid attention to Li Zicheng's expression. He didn't care whether to overthrow and start over or to make peace the most important thing. He only cared about what Li Zicheng thought.Ever since he compared himself to Wei Zheng under the sarcasm of others, his evaluation among scholars has plummeted.For him, since he no longer has the face, he should at least enjoy Wei Zheng's treatment.

It would be too sad if this side is ridiculed by Shilin and cannot be reused by Li Zicheng.He presides over the Dashun Times. Although this position is very noble, almost no different from the previous censors, he still feels that this position is a bit unscrupulous, after all, he is not a real official.

With the victory of the Northern War and the convening of the Great Council, the rule of the new dynasty gradually stabilized. Gong Dingzi naturally hoped to find a position where he could give full play to his talents, so how could he not pay attention to Li Zicheng's thoughts.

After listening to Zhang Fengxiang and Xu Shiqi's persuasion, Li Zicheng also nodded and said: "The suggestions of the two gentlemen are very pertinent, and I naturally agree. After all, the Manchus have even changed the names of the three halls. The Hall of Harmony, the Hall of Preserving Harmony, etc., they also know that they want to deceive the people and talk about the unity of Manchu and Han.

But deception is deception, and sooner or later a lie will be exposed.Didn't Dorgon issue another hair-shaving order in June this year?Although it was only implemented for more than a month, it was stopped again, but if there was no resistance from the soldiers and civilians in the north, would the Manchus order it to stop..."

In fact, in June, Dorgon proposed the hair-shaving order, mainly to suppress the attack in the meeting of the king's ministers who demanded that their brothers be responsible for the defeat.When the Manchus were outside the customs, they paid great attention to the differences between ethnic groups. They linked whether the Han people sincerely surrendered with whether they shave their hair or not. As long as they refused to shave their hair, they did not sincerely surrender. The imperial education promoted by the Puppet Manchukuo is exactly the same.

So when he just entered the customs last year, Dorgon ordered non-stop to shave his hair inside and outside the capital, but he was forced to stop within a month because there were too many people resisting, making it difficult for the Manchus to suppress them.However, most of these rebels were civilians, and the troops who surrendered shaved their hair without hesitation.

Dorgon stopped shaving his hair, of course, not because he accepted the persuasion of Han officials, but because he felt that the time was not ripe enough. This immaturity means that there are still resistance forces in China. Forced shaving can only make the Chinese people turn to Li Zicheng and others. The forces of human resistance.

But this year's Southern Expedition failed, why did Dorgon order to shave his hair again?Because Dorgon knew very well that the people who attacked him were mainly Manchus, and the Han people were not qualified to talk about the ruling power of the Qing Dynasty with their masters.However, this also led to the fact that the disputes within the meeting of the king's ministers are irrelevant to most Han people, because they are the family affairs of the masters.

Faced with such a situation, Dorgon could only issue a hair-shaving order to force the Han people to stand on his side.Although there are also smart people among the Manchus, who advocate the differences between Manchus and Hans, so there is no need to impose Manchu customs on Hans in order to ease the conflict between Manchus and Hans.But most of the Manchus are stupid. They find it difficult to distinguish those Han people who surrendered themselves, and those Han people who are just acting. Therefore, it is the easiest way to distinguish between real surrender and fake surrender by shaving their hair or not.

What's more, the Manchus encroached on the outskirts of Beijing aroused widespread resistance among the Han people. After Li Zicheng defeated the Azig army, such resistance became more and more widespread.Referring to Nurhaci’s experience in dealing with the Han people in the past, the Manchus believed that the Manchus were too kind to the Han people. If they dealt with the Han people as they did during the Tianming Khan period and killed all the disobedient Han people, then these Han people would be honest.

The hair-shaving order issued by Dorgon again naturally touched the hearts of those hard-line Manchurians. They were successfully diverted by Dorgon, and the accountability of the Dorgon brothers was transferred to forcing the Han soldiers and civilians to shave their hair.Even if some smart people tried to prevent Dorgon from diverting their targets, they couldn't stand the Manchurianism cultivated from Nurhaci to Huang Taiji. Most Manchus simply couldn't resist this kind of Manchurianism.

As a result, the situation has changed. After losing to the Shun army, some Han Chinese who surrendered to the Manchus were somewhat flustered, because they felt that they seemed to have made a wrong bet, and it seemed that it was not the Manchus who could really win the world.

After the military defeat, these Manchu relatives didn't think about how to defeat Li Zicheng, but started to make some hair-shaving orders, which made the dissatisfaction of the Han people suddenly louder.The Manchus established their country by force, which means that once the military myth of the Manchus is broken, the Manchus’ rule over the Han people will not be so secure once the Han people’s fear of the Manchus is gone.

The reason why there was no Manchu-Han break within the Manchu Qing after the defeat of the Qing army is that the Liaodong Han people played a mediating role.These Liaodong Han people have joined the Han Army Banner because they have lived with the Manchus for a long time, so they already regard themselves as the Eight Banners instead of Han people.But the education these people received was Confucian education, so there was no barrier between them and the Han people in the pass.

To put it simply, the Manchus eased the contradictions of the Manchus directly ruling the Han people through the artificially created special class of the Han Army Banner, similar to how the Japanese ruled the local area with the naturalized Korean emperors and Taiwanese emperors.

It's just that this time the Manchus once again proposed a hair-shaving order, which made it impossible for the Han people in Liaodong, the lubricant that eased the relationship between Manchus and Hans, to lubricate.The generals of the Han army headed by Wu Sangui directly wrote to Dorgon, thinking that the implementation of the hair-shaving order under the current situation is tantamount to encouraging the northern people to defect to Li Zicheng. If the northern people support Li Zicheng, then from whom and where will the Qing Dynasty get military rations and young men?

Wu Sangui and other generals of the Han army directly pointed the finger at the Manchu relatives and nobles, which made the Manchu relatives who were originally pursuing the responsibility of the two white banners within the Eight Banners have to compromise with Dorgon to ensure the unity within the Eight Banners.After all, only the unity within the Eight Banners can enable the Eight Banners to have enough force to suppress the Han people.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Dorgon threw out the enfeoffment system to appease the powerful figures in the Han army, and at the same time took the opportunity to punish several Manchu relatives who strongly advocated the hair-shaving order.In this way, he not only consolidated his own power, but also stabilized the situation in the Qing Dynasty.

If it weren't for Shunjun, he really couldn't beat him, he really wanted to play with Dorgon Stud.Li Zicheng didn't want to put all his capital on the Northern Expedition, because he didn't trust those local forces at all.And after repelling the Qing soldiers, everyone is more interested in the rewards after the founding of the country, so there is no reason to fight.

Li Zicheng shook his head at this thought and continued: "...our internal situation is also quite bad. The people want to live and work in peace and contentment, and they don't want the war to affect their hometown. Some changes, then the war cannot be stopped.

Therefore, we must not only emphasize harmony so that ordinary people can work and live with peace of mind, but we must also change the old and unreasonable system, which is also to enable ordinary people to work and live with peace of mind.

So where does a harmonious society come from? I think that the first thing is to stabilize the social order.A society where bandits are rampant and corrupt officials are plentiful is definitely not harmonious.Stabilizing social order requires at least two points, as reasonable laws as possible and a sound judicial system.

Let's not talk about the law, I called you here to talk about Daming's judicial system and the judicial system we need, and then see how we can improve it..."

Both Zhang Fengxiang and Xu Shiqi were quite seasoned officials, and they knew the Ming Dynasty's laws and regulations like the back of their hands. Among them, Gong Dingzi was a little weaker, and his main ability was in writing articles.

Although Zhang Fengxiang and Xu Shiqi did not support Li Zicheng, the reason why they obeyed the orders of the Marshal's Mansion was because Li Zicheng destroyed their living environment.They are loyal to Daming, but Daming has died after Hongguang's abdication and the meeting of the Great Council. Even the two banner figures who can rebuild Daming, King Fu and Prince, are now contented under the framework of the Marshal's Mansion.

They had to follow their loyalty chain to connect with the Marshal's Mansion. At this time, there was almost no difference between opposing the Marshal's Mansion and Daming.People don't think they are loyal ministers, only that they are stubborn and pedantic people.

Since Li Zicheng asked them how to stabilize the people's livelihood instead of destroying the loyalists of Ming Dynasty, the two had no choice but to do their best to express their opinions.They knew very well that if they didn't say anything, Li Zicheng would not stop doing this, but would let "Wei Zheng" beside them do it, which would only hurt the local gentry.

Although he couldn't feel the respect of the two of them for him, Li Zicheng was satisfied with their understanding of judicial affairs.So he decided: "I have always thought that the judiciary in the Ming Dynasty was too chaotic, either manipulated by power, or reduced to a tool for party struggle, so I hope to separate the judiciary from the administration and strengthen the independence of the judicial system." sex, so that the procuratorate and the court can maintain the dignity of the law without interference as much as possible, do you three have the intention to assist me in completing this work..."

Chapter 554 New Government One

Ma Shiying, who returned to Yangzhou with Li Zicheng, soon took over the various institutions of the original Yangzhou left-behind department at Tianning Temple outside the north gate of Yangzhou, and began to establish a new court system.

It is said that a new court system has been established, but in fact many departments are expanded or renamed by various institutions left by the Yangzhou Left-behind Department.What has really changed is the establishment of a new cabinet.

Previously, the top floor of the Marshal's Mansion was actually more like a committee. Although Li Zicheng made the final decision in name, in fact Li Zicheng was mainly responsible for signing and reading documents besides presiding over meetings.

The Military Council, the Civilian Government, the Statistics Department, and the General Staff under the Marshal's Mansion divided Li Zicheng's work. After they made a decision, they reported it to Li Zicheng for review.Apart from conforming to the general line of the Marshal's Mansion, their decisions are discretionary.

Such a system is actually very different from the traditional way of organizing political power, and it is somewhat similar to the system of decentralization of nomads.However, such a system is more efficient when used in a smaller government or military organization. After all, the so-called checks and balances of power have been destroyed. Everyone is responsible, and those who make mistakes are responsible for stepping down.

However, for a large-scale government and a country with a vast territory, such a political organization method is not suitable. Excessive concentration of power in the hands of a few people or departments can easily lead to de facto separation of power.Civil wars or coups are inevitable until there is no monitoring of public opinion and universal education.

Although Li Zicheng didn't like Ming's cabinet system, it was at least better than Niu Jinxing's old-fashioned system, because everyone could easily accept familiar affairs without having to learn a patchwork of new things.The consequence of Zhu Yuanzhang's abolition of the prime minister system was that Jianwen didn't have the energy to handle state affairs on his own, and finally created a battle of Jingnan and Yongle created a cabinet, which can be regarded as repairing the system holes left by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Emperors who were born as commoners always wanted to hold all the power in their own hands, because they could not trust anyone, so they always naturally disliked the checks and balances that restricted imperial power.The first generation of emperors had this ability to control the situation, because he relied not only on the power of the system, but later generations must rely on the system to govern the country. If power cannot be checked and balanced, then Yongle will defeat the city of Nanjing all the way. A group of officers and soldiers from other places are waiting and watching.

The former Li Zicheng also had this kind of thinking in mind, so that Niu Jinxing came up with a nondescript system, nothing more than distrusting those officials and gentry, and wanted to come up with a new thing to restrict, after all, under the new rules of the game , everyone is a new player, so there is no need to worry about those officials fooling themselves.

But for time travelers, this is not necessary. People who have gone through nine years of compulsory education, as long as they don't study Chinese culture, at least know what is called the progressive force of society.Travelers only need to promote the growth of progressive forces, and naturally they can slowly turn those feudal literati into dust of history.