Dashun Yongchang

Duoduo was silent for a long time after hearing this, and then asked tentatively: "Or we can learn from Huang Taiji, and contact the Mongolian Heshuo Special Department to join the war, while plundering the Han land?"

Dorgon glanced at his younger brother and said, "I've sent someone to contact the Heshuo Special Department, but Gushi Khan has always been alert and cautious, and now that he's getting older, he's squatted in Lhasa and hasn't come out. I doubt whether he can still control the Heshuo Special Department.

Even if he still holds the power of the Heshuo Special Department, would he still have the courage to provoke the Han people?So I put my hope on his sons.As long as his son still has ambitions, at least Qinghai will have a force to help us contain the Shun army in the northwest.

As for looting Han land, where do you plan to start?During the Ming Dynasty, the frontier army was scattered, so Huang Taiji was able to take us to detour from Mongolia to attack the pass.These Ming troops have neither the will to fight nor good training, and there is no unified command above them. Of course, such a group of mobs can't stop us Eight Banners Jingqi.

But the Shun army is not the Ming army. They have high morale and good equipment. There is a unified command organization above them. They also like to build fortresses to block our offensive routes.What's more troublesome is that they will implement the strategy of fortifying the walls and clearing the fields, and organize the retreat of the people in the areas we are about to conquer, so where should we go to rob? "

Duoduo thought for a long time but could not find a route to plunder Dashun's territory. It is really rare to find an easy plunder like Daming. When entering the pass, the object of wariness was placed on the local gentry rather than the officers and soldiers. This is also the experience and lessons learned from the fourth and fifth entry.

Compared with the officers and soldiers who fled when they saw the flag of the Qing army, the country soldiers guarding their homes were obviously much braver.Under the city of Jining and Weixian, the Qing army suffered heavy losses, and the main force defending the city was the township soldiers.

As for the territory under Li Zicheng's rule, almost every city is Jining City and Weixian City. Dashun is much more determined than Daming in mobilizing the township soldiers to defend the soil, and the Shun army is also very good at absorbing various combat experience. The Qing army did not take advantage of the several small-scale battles that were launched in places where the two sides intersected.

As Dorgon said, where to go to loot is indeed a big problem.If there are too many people, the war may expand. For the current Qing Dynasty, a big war is obviously inappropriate, because no one knows who will win in the end. Even Duoduo can't make such a determination to gamble, because for the For the Qing Dynasty or the two white flags, there is only one chance to bet, but for Li Zicheng, he can retreat to the south of the Huaihe River in the Qinling Mountains to regroup.

The number of troops dispatched is reduced, and for the Shun Army that is now strictly defending to the death, it is a contribution to the Shun Army. A small group of troops going to harass the Shun Army will definitely not be able to support the military and civilian defense system on the Shun Army's border.

After thinking about it for a long time, Duoduo could only sigh to Dorgon: "I still say the same thing, it's not good for me to procrastinate like this. Li Zicheng is not Chongzhen, he can not only fight but also manage political affairs. The local people have really regarded themselves as the people of Dashun, and his strength will be stronger in a day."

Even though I know what my brother said is right, the gap between the Manchus and the Han in terms of foundation and national strength has now been revealed step by step. Cheng and Hong Chengchou can only give him some advice on the details now, but they have kept silent on the big picture.

Based on Dorgon's understanding of these two people, these two people are now trying their best to make suggestions for the Qing Dynasty. It may be difficult for them to come up with a theory that can break the Qingshun pattern.But think about it, if these two people really have such great abilities, they would have helped Daming to level the Jianzhou Jurchen long ago, how could they sit here and give advice to the Manchus?

Dorgon can only count on two things now, one is to seek help from foreign aid, and the other is a civil strife in Dashun. If these two things can occur at the same time, then it is true that God has blessed Manren.

It took nearly a year for the envoys sent by Dorgon to arrive in Lhasa after untold hardships. At this time, it was already April of the fourth year of Yongchang. Gushi Khan also fell into deep thought about the golden book and golden seal of "Complying with Wenyi, Minhui, Gu Shihan".

To be honest, the current Gushi Khan does not want to join the war in the Central Plains, not because he does not want to enter the Central Plains, but because he feels that the Heshuo Special Department does not have this ability.Just maintaining the rule over the three major Tibetan areas, the Heshuo Special Department has exhausted its energy, and how can it send troops to participate in the war in the Central Plains.

What's more, it seems that the Heshuo Special Division has occupied the three major Tibetan areas, but it is actually the Oirat Allied Forces that have conquered the three major Tibetan areas. He has just taken the old places in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains and the status of Oirat's leader, and has reached an exchange agreement with the Zhungeer Ministry , thus gaining the power to monopolize Tibetan areas.

After the retreat of the Oirat Allied Forces, in order to suppress the rebellion in various parts of the Tibetan area, relying only on the strength of the Heshuo Special Forces, the fight lasted for six years, and finally stabilized the Tibetan area. It has not been a few days of stable life. Dorgon asked him to take the risk to fight the emperor of China, but Gushi Khan was naturally unwilling.

However, he still handed over this problem to his eldest son, Dayan Ozir, but facing the question raised by his father, Dayan Ozir was a little at a loss. If his father asked him to lead troops to fight, then Dayan Ozir Ready to go into battle immediately.But faced with the question of whether to send troops to the Central Plains, he thought and thought, and finally he could only reply to his father: "If father thinks it is okay to send troops, then I am willing to lead troops; The envoy of Ting is here."

Gushi Khan was very disappointed. Although he had ten sons, eight of them were left by him to graze in Qinghai, but none of them were politically knowledgeable. He could only mention some of his sons and said: "If we reject Dorgon , once the Manchus take over the world, they will definitely settle the matter of today.”

After thinking for a while, Dayan Ozier returned to his father and said: "Then we will obey Dorgon's request and send troops to take Qinghai back from the hands of the Han people. Didn't the younger brothers write letters to complain before that the Han people are in Daqing?" The purpose of building a city in Caotan is to use it against us."

Gushi Khan then asked: "Then what should we do if the Han people defeat the Manchus and take over the world?"

Dayan Ozier hesitated for a while, then looked at his father's face and asked tentatively: "Then don't send troops? After our tribe came to Tibet, it was extremely difficult to have children, and the population has not increased much. It is a good thing for the tribe not to fight and let them recuperate."

Gushi Khan thought for a long time, and finally told his son to leave. He began to take out the procrastination formula, hoping to postpone the answering time as much as possible, and then went to inquire about the situation in the Central Plains.

It's a pity that not all of his sons are unambitious. Da Lantai from Badai Jizhong in Qinghai Province was the first to be persuaded by the Manchus. The Han people built a city in Dacaotan closest to the grassland he wanted to control, so he was very dissatisfied. It's just that he negotiated with the Han people several times, and the Han people didn't stop building the city, which made Dalan very angry.

After receiving the promise from the Qing court, Da Lantai asked the Manchus for a batch of military supplies. While investigating the movement of the Han people in front of him, he contacted Huihui in Gansu. Hei Er in Suzhou immediately took the initiative to communicate with Dalan after hearing the news. Lan Tai contacted and said that Turpan Khan was also paying attention to the movement in Gansu and was sending troops to Suzhou.

So under the matchmaking of Hei Er, Da Lantai won the friendship of Turpan Khan, and the two sides also formally reached an agreement on declaring war on the Han people.Turpan Khan wanted to take Suzhou, Ganzhou, and Liangzhou together, while Dalantai wanted Dacaotan in Qinghai and Lanzhou in Gansu.

Dalantai also sent someone to send a letter to the Ordos Department, hoping that the other party could join him in sending troops to the Han people and open up the connection between Qinghai and Hetao.The Ordos Department had already done business with the Han people at this time, and dismissed Dalantai's request.

Chapter 575 New Trend of Thought

It is strange to say that from the beginning of Chongzhen's accession to the throne, there was an abnormal climate in the north, and the climate in the north began to return to normal in the last years of Chongzhen. It seems that the heavens are disgusting with Ming Dynasty.

However, the natural and man-made disasters and plagues of the Chongzhen Dynasty wiped out at least half of the population in the north, greatly eased the conflict between people and land in the north, and objectively restored the natural environment in the north.

From the first year of Yongchang to the fourth year of Yongchang, almost every year in the northwest was a good harvest, and there were no disasters.Because the Shun army resisted the Qing army and the rebellious former Ming army's frontier army entered the northwest region, the people in the northwest still obtained a relatively stable production environment, especially in Ningxia and Guanzhong regions, and the people's families began to have a certain amount of savings.

The Guanzhong area is rich because of the harvest of agriculture. The Guanzhong Plain was originally fertile, and only water can guarantee a high yield.After many years of war, almost all the big local landlords were demolished, and the land was once again dispersed into the hands of the self-cultivating farmers. One of the important reasons why Li Zicheng's invasion of Xi'an was able to pacify Shaanxi so quickly was that these self-cultivating farmers were eager to obtain the new regime. recognition.

The compromise between the Shaanxi gentry and Li Zicheng was precisely due to the hostility shown by these self-cultivating farmers who appeared during the war to the original owners of their land. After Li Zicheng’s army entered Shaanxi, some big landlords who refused to compromise were directly taken away by the local self-cultivating farmers The rebels came and wiped out the door.After realizing that they were unable to control the countryside, these Shaanxi gentry began to succumb to the Dashun policy, hoping to use the new dynasty to deter these lawless local villagers.

At the beginning, these Shaanxi gentry almost succeeded. When the gentry surrendered to the Dashun regime one after another, Li Zicheng finally eased the suppression of the gentry and landlord class, and launched the military campaign to conquer Shanxi under the advice of the gentry. This has delayed the clean-up of the old forces in Shaanxi.

Under such circumstances, a group of Shaanxi gentry and officials were retained. Although Shaanxi belonged to Dashun, it was still the old gentry officials who held power locally.In this way, what Dashun can control is only a few military garrison points, and most of the counties are still in the hands of the old gentry.

However, the situation began to change in the second year of Yongchang. After Li Zicheng repelled the Qing army that went south, he truly established Dashun's ruling power in the area between the Yellow River and the Yangtze River.Li Zicheng quickly changed the policy of compromising with the gentry when he was in Xi'an, and began to suppress the power of the old gentry in the local area, and then supported the voice of small landlords and self-cultivating farmers in the local area.

The clearing and confirmation of land rights, the confiscation of Wang Zhuang and the real estate of big landlords, the redistribution of land, and the recognition of the right of the owner farmers to reclaim land during the war, all of them completely turned the owner farmers in Shaanxi to the Dashun regime.

Because the gentry lost control over the peasants in the local area, after the war, there were few people and a lot of land in Shaanxi, and the landlords could not find anyone to cultivate the land. In addition, the Dashun regime encouraged tenants to reclaim some wasteland, so a large amount of land from the landlords was taken away. Abandoned.According to the decrees of the Dashun government, the government has the right to compulsorily expropriate the land that has been abandoned for three years and distribute it to landless farmers for cultivation, and the landlord has to pay the abandonment tax for the abandoned land.

Under such circumstances, a new mode of agricultural cooperation has emerged.Land is no longer used as a tool for landlords to control farmers, but is truly regarded as a production necessity. Landlords and farmers negotiate and cooperate with farmers with land, cattle, farm tools, and seed inputs, and then agree on the distribution of the two parties after the autumn harvest. Proportion.

In other words, farmers are transforming from tenants into agricultural workers, and landlords are changing from rent-collecting landlords to farmers who manage the land.Of course, this new production relationship was not born out of thin air. The tax policy and military ration orders adopted by the Dashun regime catalyzed the emergence of this new production relationship in Shaanxi agriculture.

In the second year of Yongchang, this agricultural cooperative system was only a demonstration in some villages around Xi'an; in the third year of Yongchang, the agricultural cooperative system spread to the entire Weihe River Basin; The agricultural cooperative system is almost the entire amount of land owned by large landlords on the Guanzhong Plain.

With the emergence of this kind of agricultural production cooperative system, there have been some new changes in the sermons of plowing and reading heirlooms that were popular among the gentry in the past, that is, the profit from operating the land is also part of plowing, and it cannot be regarded as engaging in the last business. And reading is not only readable by sages, but books on land management are also readable.

With the emergence of the council, this voice quickly became the mainstream opinion of the middle and lower classes, because they were too far away from the imperial examination system, but it was not out of reach to try to get a member of parliament.

此时大顺的选举权限定在18-60岁的男子，年纳税在2.4两以上，相当于拥有30亩良田的户主；被选举人则被要求年纳税在24两以上的18-60岁男子，相当于300亩良田的户主。前者的人数大约为1500万到1600万之间，后者则也有250万到300万人。

Compared with the only three to four hundred Jinshi places every three years, although the Imperial Council only has three to four hundred people, the ratio of being elected is close to ten thousand to one, but the difficulty of being elected as a county councilor is much easier than that of a scholar. The power of county councilors is much greater than that of scholars, because scholars can only influence public opinion, while councilors can directly propose policies.

The most important thing is that the councils at all levels are themselves a kind of redistribution of local interests. Members discuss issues related to their own interests, not just tea parties talking about morality.

For example, decide the direction of local roads, how to repair water conservancy, how to collect taxes for the construction of these public works, and how to compensate the landlords.In a word, the Council became the governing body of the native haves over the have-nots.Court officials can only intervene in some general directions, and cannot obstruct these economic problems too much.

To discuss these economic issues, it is not enough to talk about morality without knowing land management, water conservancy construction, and how to collect taxes.We must know that in the past, the gentry talked about morality to ensure that the court would not take benefits from themselves, but today they want to study how to plunder the people as much as possible to the extent that the people can bear it, so naturally they have to study some practical issues.

The purpose of the court's establishment of the council is essentially that it is unwilling to give political endorsement to the gentry's oppression of the people at the bottom. Therefore, if there is any mistake in the decision of the council, the local officials of the court can take action.Kill a few gentry to appease the people, restore social order, and establish a harmonious society.

So a new social value adapting to this kind of production relationship emerged. This school no longer regards benevolence and filial piety as the core of social governance, but takes land management as the core of stabilizing society. This school believes that people’s Food, clothing, housing and transportation all come from agriculture, so land is the source of all social wealth.

The long-term stability of a country does not lie in the establishment of a moral system, but in the growth of social wealth to support the entire society.This argument comes from all kinds of man-made disasters caused by natural disasters in Shaanxi during the Chongzhen period. Facing the hungry people who would starve to death if they did not rebel, no amount of morality is worth talking about. At the most desperate time, the hungry people have already changed their sons Now, in the face of such a tragedy of human relations, any idea of ​​benevolence and filial piety is just adding fuel to the fire for the hungry people.

It is precisely because of such painful lessons that the idea of ​​agriculture-oriented has become more and more influential among Guanzhong scholars, and a group of representatives have emerged among them, such as Dai Tingshi, Li Kai and other young scholars gathered in Guanzhong The academy gave lectures, advocating the idea of ​​emphasizing agriculture.Of course, the rapid spread of this idea is inseparable from the support of the Dashun regime.

These peasant scholars gradually formed a new school and began to occupy a place in the academic circle of Dashun.In contrast, the Mercantile School that emerged in the south of the Yangtze River advocated overseas colonization to supplement the shortage of gold and silver in China, thereby invigorating China's economy. This school is based in Yangzhou University.

The rise of these two factions has begun to attack the moral governance thought that has always ruled China in the past.Of course, although the Guanzhong Academy emphasized agriculture, it did not exclude commerce, because the trade between Shaanxi and the grassland area not only brought a large number of livestock supplements to Shaanxi, but also consumed part of the surplus grain for Shaanxi agriculture.

The trade with the Ordos Department, because Dashun's border trade is not oriented towards national security, nor is it purely considering commercial interests, but to improve the living environment of the border residents, so the trade scale between the Shaanxi border residents and the Ordos Department will soon decrease. Breaking through the upper limit of the Ming Dynasty.

Especially in the small-scale trade between low-level border residents and herdsmen, the Dashun frontier army has always adopted a laissez-faire attitude.Therefore, the trade between Mongolia and Han people was not limited to a few ports, which directly benefited many villages and towns on the border.

In fact, uncontrolled commercial trade often benefits the stronger party, and the Mongols soon split.Originally, the Ordos Tribe wanted to resume the tribute trade with the Han people, and essentially hoped to continue the unified trade method of the past. This method is actually more beneficial to the large Mongolian tribes and nobles, because under the restrictions of the Ming Dynasty, those small Mongolian tribes can only rely on it. Only large tribes can get the distribution of trade materials.

This means that the herdsmen of these small tribes not only have to bear the exploitation of their own tribe Taiji, but also accept the exploitation of the big tribes, and finally have to endure the risk of changes in the trade quota of Ming Dynasty.Therefore, those who often plunder the Han people at the border are those small tribes who have no right to directly participate in trade and cannot bear the exploitation of the big tribes. Just change the name and come to trade.

For those big tribes, because of the trade restrictions on Ming's side, they not only have the power to monopolize trade, but also have the power to dominate small tribes. They don't mind those small tribes plundering Han people. A few Han people turned against themselves, and they were really in a hurry, but they just wiped out a few small tribes and gave Daming an explanation, which increased the strength of their own tribe.

But Dashun's trade method is destroying the control of these big tribes over the small tribes. Since everyone can trade with the Han people, who wants to be skinned by the big tribes?Through trade with the Han people, the strength of these small tribes has gradually grown, and they have begun to be less submissive to the big tribes, and the big tribes cannot cause trouble for the Han people because of losing the support of the small tribes. The Han bowed his head.

Chapter 576 Xi'an

In the spring of the fourth year of Yongchang, Jinong Erlinqin of the Ordos Department quietly went to Sananang Chechen Hongtaiji's territory, and had a secret talk with the think tank of the Ordos Department.

A month later, Sananangchechen Hongtaiji arrived in Yulin with a small entourage. After staying in Yulin for three days, the Yulin defenders sent someone to send Sananangchechen Hongtaiji and his party to Xijing.

On May [-]th of the fourth year of Yongchang, Sananangchechen Hongtaiji arrived in the outskirts of Xijing. After discussing with Niu Jinxing, Empress Gao sent Yu Shangyou to meet him, and gave Sananangchechen Hongtaiji a very high courtesy.

After Yu Shangyou sent Sananangchechen Hongtaiji to the guest house, he went back to the Zhengshitang to report. Empress Gao and Niu Jinxing asked Sananangchechen Hongtaiji why he came.

Yu Shangyou replied: "The minister had a conversation with this Chechen Hong Taiji. According to him, he came here firstly because he was entrusted by Erlin Qin Jinong to submit to my Dashun; secondly, he hoped that my Dashun Shun can protect the Ordos tribe from being bullied by the Manchus; the third is to hope to formulate a charter for border trade and the relationship between border tribes and border residents."

Empress Dowager Gao then asked everyone in the Political Affairs Hall, "This Chechen Hong Taiji is very honest, and he made everything clear about his intentions. So how should we deal with it?"

Gong Xuan was the first to express his position: "Of course we should accept the surrender of the Ordos Department. The Ordos Department is located to the south of the Yellow River. Although the same as the Tumed Department is the right wing of Mongolia, the Ordos Department has a detached status among the Mongolian tribes and generally will not intervene. The struggle between the Mongolian tribes, so the relationship between the Ordos tribe and the Mongolian tribes is good.

In the past, the Ordos Tribe was able to occupy the Hetao area south of the Yellow River because it could get the support of the Mongolian ministries, so we did not dare to fight there because we were worried that it would annoy the Mongolian ministries.Now they take the initiative to vote, of course we should accept it, so that we can rely on the Ordos Ministry to persuade the Mongolian Ministry to surrender..."

However, Yu Shangyou said cautiously, "Gong Shangshu's idea is good, but the key to the request of the Erdos Ministry is that he did not sincerely surrender to me, but read the Sunite Ministry, Tumote Ministry, and Chahar Ministry. Suppressed by the Manchus, the Khalkha Mongols were defeated by the Manchus. They felt that the Mongolian tribes had no way out under the Manchus, so they wanted to join me. We should be cautious when accepting them, and we should not block them for nothing. "

After hearing this, Gong Xuan retorted unhappily: "Even if we reject the Ordos Ministry, wouldn't the Manchus not attack us? It would be better to bring the Ordos Ministry into our side than let them become the leading party of the Manchus, right? "

When Yu Shangyou was thinking about how to refute, Deng Yanzhong interjected, "The question is whether we can protect the Ordos Division? The Manchus defeated the Sunite Division and the Khalkha Mongol coalition forces last year, but they won quite easily. If we can’t protect the Ordos Ministry, it will only make the Mongolian tribes fear the Manchus even more, and it will be difficult to maintain trade in the future, right?”

Xiao Yingkun suggested: "Otherwise, we will only provide armaments to the Ordos Department and not take responsibility for sending troops. If the Manchus really send troops to attack the Ordos Department, can we allow them to retreat into Ningxia and Shaanxi to escape the Manchu army?"

Yu Shangyou immediately objected: "How can this work? If we don't send troops to protect the Ordos Department, if we only sell ordnance, it will only increase the strength of the Ordos Department for no reason, and there is no way to control it to firmly resist the attack of the Manchus. It will be even more difficult to let them enter the interior." It’s nonsense, if there are a few Manchu spies among them, wouldn’t the people of Ningxia and Shaanxi suffer as a result?”

Empress Gao listened to several people arguing for a long time, and roughly understood what these people meant. They wanted to add a lot of money to Li Zicheng, but they didn't want to pay any price.Hearing this, Empress Gao couldn't help shaking her head. At this time, she roughly understood why Li Zicheng wanted to send these people back to Shaanxi. To be honest, these people either lacked initiative or the belief in taking responsibility.

This also makes Xijing value the army's defensive capabilities far more than its offensive capabilities. In contrast, the team formed by Li Zicheng in the south is much more active. Zhang Xianzhong was forced to remove the title of Emperor Daxi and bowed his head to Li Zicheng, thus unifying the south in name.

Thinking of Li Zicheng as her husband, Empress Gao also felt melancholy. Ever since Li Zicheng conquered Xi'an Jianguo, she had looked down on her a little bit, and once thought of abolishing her post.But later, because he was busy with the Eastern Expedition, this matter was put aside for the time being. Although Li Zicheng's attitude towards her was much more friendly after he left Beijing, it was more like a superior-subordinate relationship than a husband and wife.

Although Empress Gao sometimes feels dejected, she also knows that she cannot back down on this issue, because the Gao family is also a mountain top in the Dashun Army. One can imagine.Therefore, she would rather be a stranger couple with Li Zicheng, and also want to guard her position.

However, Empress Gao also admitted that judging from Li Zicheng's current actions, apart from being sorry for himself, the emperor is still doing quite well. At least so far, he has not heard many complaints from the army and the people against Li Zicheng.

Empress Gao calmed down and interrupted everyone's speech: "Inform Yangzhou of this matter and ask His Majesty for advice. Xiao Shangshu can talk to this Chechen Hongtaiji about trade matters first.

Anyway, it will be full at half past one and will not send troops to attack the Ordos Department. We still have time to fully discuss this issue.But don't talk about our internal conflicts with Chechen Hong Taiji, lest he look down on us.

Then, let’s talk about the information sent back by Governor Wang. The Heshuo Special Department is about to move in Qinghai, and it seems to be colluding with Turpan to attack our Hexi Corridor. What do you think of this matter? "

Gong Xuan was still the first to express his attitude, "The Heshuote tribe is only [-] Ding at a time, and they want to control Xikang, Weizang, and Qinghai. Unless he brings all four Oirat tribes, he will not be able to capture Lanzhou. Yes. As long as Lanzhou is still in our hands, it is impossible for the Heshuo Special Forces to capture the Hexi Corridor.

Therefore, the Heshuo Special Department just wanted to rob it.I think we can do the courtesy first and then the soldiers, while sending people to negotiate with the Qinghai Heshuo special forces, and at the same time sending troops to Lanzhou.If it can be resolved peacefully, it is naturally the best. If it cannot be resolved peacefully, it can be resolved by force. However, Qinghai is vast, so we had better not pursue it too deeply.

As for Turpan Khan, Turpan has cut off our trade route to the Western Regions. Although we have sent people to contact us before, the officials in Turpan have pushed back on our trade requirements. They only want us to trade with them, and we are not allowed to cross Turpan into China. In the northern and southern regions of the Tianshan Mountains, the traditional commercial roads of the Western Regions were restored.

For such people, if they don't give them a severe lesson, they don't know what the majesty of the court is.Therefore, for the Turpan Khanate, they should take advantage of the war they provoked this time to conquer the country in one fell swoop, so as to open up the passage to the Western Regions. "

This time, Gong Xuan’s proposition was supported by the majority of people. The main reason for this situation is that whether it is the Heshuo Special Ministry or the Turpan Khanate, it is far away from the capital of Xijing, and there are Gongchang Mansion and Lanzhou Mansion as barriers. , Xijing is always safe.

But the Monan Mongolia represented by the Ordos Department is different. These Mongolians know the situation in the interior too well. After all, the two sides have been fighting for nearly 200 years.The Manchus made many detours to break through the pass, all of which were guided by these Monan Mongolian tribes. Otherwise, given the unfamiliarity of the Manchus on the grassland, how could they be able to understand the deployment of troops guarding the pass after a long journey. So quickly launched an attack.

But at the end of the meeting, Gong Xuan was a little surprised by Niu Jinxing's silence today. In the past, Niu Jinxing would not have allowed him to show off so much. Obviously, the other party must have something on his mind to be so disturbed.

Empress Gao obviously also felt Niu Jinxing's abnormality, so she also asked Niu Jinxing when she sent her off: "Is Mr. Niu having something on his mind today? That's why he is so absent-minded?"

Niu Jinxing looked around, Empress Gao waved her servants back, and then Niu Jinxing said to Empress Gao: "There is something that I reported to the minister, but it is really difficult for the minister to judge whether it is true or not. Since Your Highness asked, Then I dare to ask His Highness to give you an idea."

Empress Gao saw that Niu Jinxing was so serious, so she also said seriously: "Mr. Niu, please tell me, I just need to listen carefully."

Niu Jinxing looked around again, and after making sure that the people around him couldn't hear his words clearly, he whispered to Empress Gao: "In fact, Jiang Yu sent someone over and expressed his willingness to bring Datong Town back to our dynasty. Request pardon for the crimes committed by him and his subordinates.”

"Jiang Tiao? Which Jiang Tiao? Oh, it's that Jiang Tiao." After reacting, Empress Gao couldn't help frowning and said: "When this person surrendered to the dynasty, His Majesty said that this person is not authentic You must give him a guarantee, but Tianxing died in his hands in the end. Now he wants to surrender again? Is this person shameless?"

After a moment of silence, Niu Jinxing said to Empress Gao: "This person's temperament is really not good, but this person's sense of smell is really good. The reason why he sent someone here to ask for surrender now is that he knows that the Manchu Qing will only get worse every day." , but this dynasty is getting stronger day by day, and it is better to go to this dynasty than to serve the Manchus; secondly, he knows that it is most valuable to surrender now, because we have not really been stronger than the Manchus, so he is now coming over , even if there are any sins, they will be forgiven, but it may not be the case in the future."

Hearing what Niu Jinxing said, Empress Gao also fell silent. She is not a lady from a big mansion who doesn't know anything about military affairs. Anyway, she is also a female general who has personally fought in battle.So she knew very well what kind of blow it would be to Man Qing if Jiang Guan came here now.After thinking about it again and again, Empress Gao said: "Mr. Niu can repay him. If he can really bring Datong and surrender to the dynasty, the past will not be pursued. I also ask His Majesty to grant him the title of Marquis..."

Chapter 577 Yunnan One

When turmoil started to rise in the northwest, the situation in the southwest began to turn from chaos to chaos.At the end of the third year of Yongchang, Zhang Kewang and Zhang Dingguo entered Yunnan with 23 battalions of 3 horses. Li Laiheng went out with the army to coordinate the relationship between the Daxi army and the Ming army in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, and to help raise food and wages.

It is said to raise food and wages, but in fact it is to allocate materials from Yangzhou and Huguang, exchange them for food and hire peasants locally, and transport salt from Zigong, and use it as currency to pay for labor and food for peasants.In the Yunnan-Guizhou area, cloth, tea, and salt are much easier to exchange for goods than copper coins. Because the local economy is closed, many ethnic minorities have no idea what copper coins are for, and their daily necessities are to take food and bacon to the market. exchange.

For Li Laiheng, this expedition was also an excellent exercise. After all, in the past, at most, he was urging the logistics for food and wages, but he had never tried this kind of experience in dealing with local governments.From a certain point of view, this also shows that the logistics system of the Shun Army has progressed from the stage of "dividing the local tyrants and dividing the land" to the stage of establishment. Dashun has truly become a political power, not a grassroots team.

Li Laiheng also distinguished this point from the attitude of the magistrates towards him and the generals of the Daxi Army. On the other hand, the General of the Great Western Army treated him as an outsider, only willing to provide the most basic supplies, and did not respond to other requests.

Although the generals of the Great Western Army were extremely dissatisfied with the attitude of these local officials, they also went to Yunnan to rescue the former Ming officials and people, and they did not come to attack the areas they passed along the way.But Zhang Kewang and Zhang Dingguo knew very well what they were going to Yunnan for. They planned to turn Yunnan into a retreat route for the Great Western Army, so naturally they couldn't have any conflicts with these officials along the way.

If this caused the fear of the Yunnan officials and soldiers and directly joined forces with the rebel chieftains like Sha Dingzhou, then no matter how much their 3 people could fight, it would be impossible to pacify Yunnan.What's more, they didn't bring much military food and supplies with them this time, and they were all allocated and supplied by the Dashun regime. They offended these local officials. Do they still expect Dashun to throw them food from the sky?

As a result, Zhang Kewang strictly enforced military discipline several times, prohibiting the random killing habits developed by the army in Sichuan. Under repeated betrayals by the gentry, officials and people in Sichuan, the Daxi Army in Sichuan developed the habit of killing if they disobeyed.Killing people can indeed make the people who see them be honest for a while, and obediently obey the orders of the Great Western Army.But Zhang Kewang also realized that this kind of obedience was only superficial, and where the Great Western Army couldn't see, these common people became the main force to resist the Great Western Army.

It's just that this kind of action to deter Sichuan people is supported by Zhang Xianzhong. Even the adopted sons who are closest to Zhang Xianzhong are very afraid of Zhang Xianzhong now, because Zhang Xianzhong sitting on the dragon chair is no longer the one who can give them some A warm foster father.Although Zhang Xianzhong in the past was bloodthirsty, he would not kill his own people indiscriminately, but now Zhang Xianzhong is so ruthless that even his own people can't even think about living.

Zhang Kewang was not a heartless person either, he vaguely felt that his adoptive father was afraid of these adult adopted sons who had mastered the military power, so he used killing to frighten them.Therefore, he became more and more reticent in front of Zhang Xianzhong, but Zhang Xianzhong had to clap his hands to support Zhang Xianzhong first, just to prevent his adoptive father from taking himself as the first target.

Now that he has led the army alone, Zhang Kewang naturally wants to correct the wrong actions of the Daxi Army first. He does not want to be buried in Yunnan, where he is unfamiliar, and he has maintained enough respect in front of Li Laiheng, because He knew that this trip to Yunnan would depend on whether the two could sincerely cooperate.

Although Li Laiheng is seven or eight years younger than him, Zhang Kewang and Li Laiheng can still get along relatively well, because although Li Laiheng is young, he has a set of theories about governing the army and the people, and compared with his younger brothers, he is more mature many.

And Li Laiheng also agrees with Zhang Kewang's ability. After talking with Zhang Kewang several times, he regretted the other party and said: "Brother Zhang was delayed by military affairs. If he can study by His Majesty's side for a period of time, it will definitely be good for the governance of the country." Take it to the next level."

Although Zhang Kewang didn't like this sentence, he also admitted that Li Laiheng had such insight beyond his age, and he didn't get it from his own experience, so it means that these insights came from Li Zicheng's indoctrination.No matter how high he thinks of himself, he still has to be in awe of Li Zicheng. After all, this is a character that even his adoptive father feels helpless.

With Zhang Kewang's heart-to-heart friendship, Li Laiheng didn't put on airs as an imperial envoy, and the relationship between the two parties quickly became intimate.Li Laiheng supported Zhang Kewang's order of strict military discipline, but he suggested that Zhang Kewang should set up a special department to be in charge of military discipline, instead of still placing strict military discipline on generals at all levels, lest these generals protect the soldiers and make military discipline become an issue. A blank sheet of paper.

Zhang Kewang actually listened to this suggestion. He himself wanted to rectify the army. Although he had not been in charge of the army for a day or two, his authority still did not break away from Zhang Xianzhong's conferring. Zhang Kewang has been trying to protect himself since his adopted son's fear.

It's just that under Zhang Xianzhong's nose before, he didn't dare to make a big move. Now, with the help of Li Laiheng's suggestion, he happened to entrust the other party to set up a department in charge of military discipline in the army. This kind of thing is already common to the Shun army.