Dashun Yongchang

Of course, Li Laiheng would not refuse this request. It is impossible to reorganize the Daxi Army without starting with rewards, punishments and logistics.He immediately suggested that the other party need not completely copy the military laws of the Shun Army, but to establish a military council first, and the battalion leaders will first formulate the reward and punishment regulations.

Zhang Kewang readily accepted, because he immediately realized after hearing the composition of the Military Council that he could unite with the generals through the Military Council to fight against the chaos ordered by his foster father.If it had been set up according to the former Daxi Army, if the adoptive father ordered him to disobey, he might be abandoned by his subordinates, unless he immediately rebelled with his cronies. However, considering that the old camp is still in Sichuan, how many people are willing to It is really unknown to follow him against the foster father.

But with the Military Council House, he has a little capital to fight against his adoptive father's disorderly life, and he doesn't need to directly tear his face to rebel. This is indeed in the hands of Zhang Kewang.

Li Laiheng didn't care about Zhang Kewang's small thoughts. He understood one thing very clearly by Li Zicheng's side. If you want to eliminate other people's power, you must first eliminate your own power, and then put the interests of everyone first and concentrate power again. under the collective.

After the military government was established, although Zhang Xianzhong's influence on this army was greatly reduced, wouldn't Zhang Kewang's control over this army be weakened?

Zhang Dingguo was a little wary of Li Laiheng at first, because his mission, apart from monitoring Zhang Kewang, was to guard against Li Laiheng's interference in the internal affairs of the Daxi Army.But for a regime that controls the logistics of the Great Western Army, it is impossible not to interfere with the internal affairs of the Great Western Army, because the logistics arrangement must have a basic understanding and control of the army.

But even so, he still voted for the establishment of a military council to discuss whether to set up a merit examination and punishment department and formulate regulations on rewards and punishments.Because he felt that these two things were at least beneficial to the Daxi Army. After all, they couldn't ask Chengdu for instructions on everything, and Zhang Dingguo didn't like to listen to Zhang Kewang's command in everything.

However, in this way, Li Laiheng and Jia Hanfu, generals of the Shun Army, were transferred from the embarrassing position of the Supervising Army to a part of this army.The discussion that everyone is equal in the Military Council not only eliminates the relationship between superiors and subordinates in the army, but also eliminates the differences between the Shun Army and the Daxi Army.With Li Laiheng's support, Zhang Kewang strengthened his control over this army.

In February of the fourth year of Yongchang, the Daxi Army defeated Sha Dingzhou's subordinates in Chuxiong, and then defeated the reinforcements led by Sha Dingzhou himself, breaking the siege of Chuxiong. Yang Weizhi and other Yunnan officials went out of the city to welcome Li Laiheng, Zhang Kewang and others.Yang Weizhi and other Yunnan officials immediately handed in the seal issued by Daming to Li Laiheng, and Li Laiheng bestowed the seal of Dashun, which was considered to have completed the procedure of taking over Yunnan.

At the welcome banquet, Li Laiheng said in front of Yang Weizhi and other Yunnan officials and gentry: "Although our army has broken the siege of Chuxiong, we want to conquer Kunming, attack Shadingzhou's old nest Ami Prefecture, and completely solve the Shadingzhou chaos. We must first solve the problem of food and military pay. If we want to transport food and military pay from outside the province to Yunnan, this dynasty is not so rich.”

Yang Weizhi also knew that Li Laiheng was telling the truth. As far as the terrain of Yunnan is concerned, the food and wages brought in from other provinces would be astronomical. I guess Li Zicheng would rather lose Yunnan than fill in this mess. After all, Dashun has not yet taken back Beijing. Woolen cloth.

He positively expressed that the officials and gentry in Yunnan will support the imperial court in suppressing the rebellion, but now that Sha Dingzhou has robbed the Guizhou government's century-old accumulation, the matter of suppressing the rebellion should not be delayed, otherwise Sha Dingzhou can gain a firm foothold in Kunming. It's not easy to fight.

Zhang Kewang immediately said: "We have also heard about the situation of Kunming City. This city has been operated by the Qian State Government for more than two hundred years. It may be very difficult to attack by force. If we want to take Kunming back, we still have to lure Shadingzhou from Kunming." come out.

Sha Dingzhou's old nest is in the area of ​​Ami Prefecture and Mengzi. After he occupied Kunming, he did not move the whole family to Kunming, so we might as well start from this point and advocate that we should break his old nest first and then go to Kunming to besiege him. Even if Sha Dingzhou If the state can be stabilized, the soldiers and horses under him cannot be stabilized either..."

Yang Weizhi and others agreed with Zhang Kewang's proposition, so with the support of Yang Weizhi and the chieftain loyal to Daming, the Great Western Army quickly reached the vicinity of Kunming, and then went south around Kunming, with the potential to directly attack Shadingzhou's lair.

After all, Shadingzhou was still a bit small, and he refused to give up his hometown. Even if he was willing, his subordinates would not, so they had to move away the property in Kunming, and the whole army withdrew to Lin'an Mansion.As soon as the main force of Sha Dingzhou left Kunming, Sun Kewang entered Kunming City with his subordinates, and began to eliminate the bandits in the city and extinguish the fire set by Sha Dingzhou's troops.Kunming was then recaptured by the Daxi Army. Two days later, Li Laiheng entered Kunming and began to rebuild Yunnan's system.

Chapter 578 Yunnan II

Zhang Dingguo was sent to pursue Shadingzhou, and a military government headed by Zhang Kewang, Li Laiheng, and Yang Weizhi formed in Kunming City. Qian Guogong Mu Tianbo was still in Yongchang Mansion and had not yet returned to Kunming.

At this time, Kunming was ravaged by Shadingzhou for more than a year. Originally, there were more than 3 households and nearly 20 people inside and outside the city. However, after the war, nearly one fifth of the population was lost. , more people were forced to flee Kunming, because Kunming Fucheng is the place where the Han people live most concentratedly, and the sand soldiers were especially worried about the Han people after they occupied Kunming.

The sand soldiers' looting of Kunming was also a key factor in Sha Dingzhou's lack of confidence in defending Kunming, because the troops in his hands were not enough to really control this big city with a radius of ten miles.

After Zhang Kewang entered Kunming City, he immediately implemented military control over Kunming, registered the population of each household and implemented entry and exit controls. The Great Western Army is quite skilled in this regard, because they did this in Chengdu.

After Li Laiheng arrived in Kunming, he was not in a hurry to oppose the military control of the Daxi Army. Although he felt that this method was quite damaging to people's livelihood, this was Yunnan after all, not the mainland. After the Tusi rebellion, ethnic minorities became untrustworthy.Although Yang Weizhi and other Yunnan officials felt inconvenienced, they still supported Zhang Kewang's policy of military control.

However, after Li Laiheng arrived in Kunming, he prevented Zhang Kewang and Yang Weizhi from trying to execute thousands of people who stayed in Kunming and did not run away. A lot of credit.Most of these people were of native origin, some of them were afraid of surrendering to the soldiers in Shadingzhou, and some of them took the initiative to take refuge because of the oppression of the Mu Mansion.

Both Zhang Kewang and Yang Weizhi advocated killing these people. Firstly, it could deter those chieftains who followed Shadingzhou's rebellion, and secondly, it could appease Mu Tianbo who had not yet returned to Kunming. After all, almost all his family members who stayed in Kunming were killed.

But Li Laiheng resolutely denied the opinions of the two, and he said bluntly: "It doesn't matter to me what Lord Mu thinks. I was ordered by His Majesty to come to Yunnan to quell the rebellion and appease the people. My father avenged himself.

If he is dissatisfied with my decision, he can complain to me before His Majesty.In short, it is absolutely impossible to kill all these people. It will not do any good except to create conflicts between the Han people and the natives.

Since my Dashun has been established, all punishments will naturally be condemned according to the law. How can it be done based on personal likes and dislikes?If they were killed by Zhang Shuai while defending the city, I would not say a word, but now they have given up resistance and stayed at home, so naturally they have to be convicted according to the law.If they are guilty, they will be punished, if they are innocent, they will be released. How can they kill them all with one sentence? This is not like cutting crops in the field. "

Zhang Kewang remained silent for the first time. After all, he had no enmity with these people. Mu Tianbo and Yunnan officials had enmity. He proposed to kill these people just to please Yunnan officials, and by the way, to deepen the relationship between the natives and these Yunnan officials. hate.If Li Laiheng wanted to make such a move, of course he would not insist on it. After all, Li Laiheng had a much higher status than an outdated Duke of the State of Qian, and he was an upstart in the new dynasty.

Yang Weizhi was still a little annoyed, and said to Li Laiheng: "How can we have so many people to screen one by one now? If there is any disturbance, these people will rise up and respond again, isn't this the legacy of raising tigers?"

However, Li Laiheng had already made up his mind. He directly applied Li Zicheng's model of governing Yangzhou and said: "How can we have no one to use? The more than [-] people in Kunming are our people, and we just ask them to identify these people.

My Dashun Army came to Yunnan to protect them, not to suppress them. Why should we be afraid of the people of Yunnan?In order to maintain order in the city, Zhang Shuai imposed military control, which I think is very good.However, military control cannot be extended for a long time, but we can't just let it go, so the best way is to rely on the people.

This time in the Shadingzhou Rebellion, in name Shadingzhou rebelled against the Guizhou government, but the actual victims were not the people of Yunnan?I thought that as long as we gave these people the power to self-organize, they would be able to find out those bad guys themselves, and we just need to support the actions of the people. "

Yang Weizhi thought for a while, and finally swallowed the words back. He still felt that Li Laiheng was too soft-hearted, but he did not reject Li Laiheng's proposal, because giving power to the people of Kunming also weakened the Western Army's view of Kunming City from a certain point of view. control.Facing the decisive Daxi Army, Yang Weizhi was still a little uneasy.

These chieftain soldiers from Sha Dingzhou can be said to be the most capable group of chieftain soldiers in Yunnan, so when Sha Dingzhou attacked Kunming, Mu Tianbo only wanted to escape, and he didn't even have the confidence to organize a counterattack.After that, Yang Weizhi didn't dare to take Mu Tianbo in, and let him run to Jianchang Mansion, just to buy himself some time to build city defenses.

However, it seemed that the sand soldiers who had swept everything in Yunnan immediately faltered when they encountered the Great Western Army. Even the army led by Sha Dingzhou failed to resist the serial artillery attacks of the Great Western Army in the field.The tactics of the Great Western Army also imitated the Ming Army, using firearms as the core of the attack, but the military organization and ordnance maintenance of the Great Western Army far surpassed that of the Ming Army, which made it difficult for the chieftain soldiers who lacked firearms to withstand a part of the Great Western Army. Wave fire output.

In fact, the soldiers and horses of these chieftains in the southwest have not exceeded the cold weapon era. Occasionally, a few firearms are used as killers. In terms of organization, they are still integrated with soldiers and farmers. However, there are many mountains and forests in the southwest, and these natives are good at hunting, so their combat effectiveness It is better than the peasants of the farming nation.But their combat effectiveness is still far from that of the Manchus, because the Manchus have absorbed the technology of the Han people, and they are not behind the Han people in the manufacture of ironware, while the southwestern chieftains do not have this ability.

The two most powerful groups of Southwest Chieftains are nothing more than Shisi Chieftain Soldiers and Guangxi Wolf Soldiers, but the former are not real chieftain soldiers, but Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers trained after combining with Han officials and gentry, while the latter is a long-term As the non-registrant army of the Ming Dynasty's army, these two groups of chieftain soldiers are not at the same level as other chieftain troops.

When these chieftain soldiers and horses, who are still accustomed to cold weapons and the combination of soldiers and farmers, encounter the tactics of the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, they will naturally only be defeated. If they can beat the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, then the surname of Mu in Yunnan will not be long ago.But when the old forces in Yunnan were on the decline, such a force as strong as the regular army of the Ming Dynasty entered Yunnan, which is a bit frightening.

The hatred of these officials and gentry in Yunnan for these rebellious chieftains is probably rooted in this. They don’t really want to avenge Mu Guogong. He said that even if he lost his power to look after the house, Yunnan officials and gentry actually wanted to abolish the position of Duke Mu, otherwise the previous Duke Mu would not have poisoned his mother to death.

However, when Shadingzhou set off a rebellion at this time, it was against everyone. Because of the decline and fall of Ming Dynasty, it is time for everyone to sit on the fence and wait and see whose hands the world will fall into. Yunnan has a dangerous geographical situation. Just wait for the results of the world according to the situation.However, such a rebellion in Shadingzhou directly turned Yunnan, which can be watched, into a piece of loose sand, and had to let other provincial forces enter Yunnan.

Looking at the tyrannical appearance of the Daxi Army, can everyone retain the glory and wealth of the past?At this time, Yang Weizhi, the father's enemy, can't even care about it. As long as Li Laiheng can help contain the Daxi Army, then he will always give the other side some face.

After persuading Zhang Kewang and Yang Weizhi, Li Laiheng organized the Kunming Council with the local officials in Kunming. First, the control power of each street was brought into the hands of the Council, thereby eliminating the possibility of conflict between the local residents and the Daxi Army.Although the Great West Army gave up this power, it has received active support from the local residents in terms of military supplies and logistics.

Immediately afterwards, the organized Kunming Council quickly conducted a screening trial for the rebels in Kunming.With the presence of local residents, the screening was quite fast this time, and everyone was convicted in less than a week.In the end, as many as 379 people were sentenced to death, and more than 1000 people were sentenced to hard labor. In addition, hundreds of people who slipped through the net were arrested in the city.

By the time Mu Tianbo rushed back to Kunming City, the dust had already landed.For this trial, Mu Tianbo was dissatisfied, especially Yu Xipeng, the counselor who persuaded him to escape, was not executed. This made him very angry, so he went directly to Li Laiheng and demanded that Yu Xipeng's family be executed.

Facing Mu Tianbo's visit, Li Laiheng just looked at him calmly and said, "Although His Majesty has announced that Duke Mu can inherit the title of Daming, I have no right to change the gold book for you. I suggest that the Duke should make preparations. It is more appropriate to go to Yangzhou to meet His Majesty, and then replace the gold book. Otherwise, in terms of the fault of the fall of Kunming, I am afraid that the position of the Duke will be given up."

The chieftains who followed Mu Guogong kept silent, Mu Tianbo's expression changed a few times, and finally he didn't dare to continue to confront Li Laiheng, so he could only leave bitterly.Because of this incident, both Dashun and Li Laiheng gained the favor of Kunming people, especially the thousands of people rescued by Li Laiheng, most of them became Dashun's supporters.

Mu Tianbo didn't stay in Kunming for a few days, and finally went on the road under the urging of Li Laiheng. Compared with the hatred of Kunming being broken, it is obviously more important to keep the title first, because with the title, there will be a future.

After Mu Tianbo left Kunming, Li Laiheng met with Zhang Kewang and Yang Weizhi, expressing his intention to reform Yunnan's land system.The Xuntian occupied by the rich and powerful of the Mu family nominally belonged to the military farmland of the Weisuo, the Tusi Zhuangtian and the civilian farmland, which constituted the land ownership system in Yunnan. The first three occupied most of the land in Yunnan.

Because of the Sha Dingzhou Rebellion, Mu's Xuntian fell into the hands of Sha Dingzhou. After Sha Dingzhou fled, these Xuntian fell into the hands of the Daxi Army. Li Laiheng forced Mu Tianbo to go to Yangzhou to face the saint. Zhang Kewang contributed to the flames, but he didn't want to Hand over these Xuntians.

Li Laiheng said about this: "Currently peace is the top priority, so food for the army is the top priority. Zhang Shuai suggested that these Xuntians should be converted into camp fields to supply food for the army. I think it is feasible. In addition, those military fields must also be checked. , as for the land occupied by the army, it should be taken back according to the situation. As for the chieftain farmland, some chieftains are no different from the Han people.

Chapter 579

In April of the fourth year of Yongchang, a group of Dutch immigrants stood by the pier on the southern sandbar, watching Peter Flack, the special envoy sent by Batavia, Taiwan Governor Caron and his deputy Overward, Taiwan District Prosecutor Snoke, Taiwan Regional councilors Kui Yi, Ni Daniel, Habart and other dignitaries dressed in costumes stood and waited in front of the stone pier.

From the northern mainland, three small boats were approaching the pier, with black, red and white tricolor flags flying on the boats. This flag was now familiar to the Dutch, and it represented the will of the powerful country on the opposite continent.

Looking at the slowly approaching ships, Overward said very sadly: "The company's era in Taiwan is over."

Caron glanced at Peter Flack's face, immediately corrected his deputy and said, "No, this is the beginning of a new era for the company."

Peter Flack cast a glance at Caron beside him, thinking to himself: It is his fault that he was able to escape the responsibility of losing Taiwan and get the task of building a new business office in Shanghai. Compared with the stupid pig beside him, this Bits are indeed much more interesting.

Coughing lightly, Flack said: "Indeed, this is the first time the company has set foot on the eastern continent. This step is as important as the first time we set foot on the Spice Islands. But I hope you will remember, The Chinese are not the aborigines in the south who are powerless as long as they leave the land. They are also civilized countries that can cross the ocean.

Therefore, I hope that you would better not cause trouble for the company in Shanghai. We have been working hard for decades to establish a stronghold in the Eastern Continent.This time, I talked with the Chinese on behalf of the company for half a year before I finally got the Chinese to make a concession. If the damage is in your hands, then you have to think about how to deal with the anger of the directors. "

Overward immediately fell silent, and Snoke began to compliment Peter Flack for his contribution to the company. Although Cuaron echoed a few words, he didn't take what Peter Flack said seriously in his heart.

Any sea captain who has traveled in the East will understand that Peter Flack's outstanding service to the company is bullshit.In the process of negotiating with the Chinese, he sold the whole of Taiwan to the Chinese, which allowed the Chinese to allow the company to establish a business office in Shanghai, but the company cannot build its own castle and garrison like Taiwan.

In Caron's view, if Taiwan's cane sugar industry can operate well, it will surely replace the buckskin industry and become a stable source of income for the company.Losing Taiwan now just to start trade with the Chinese is actually not worth the loss.Only the governor who just came over from Europe would agree so impatiently.

Those Europeans who had never been to the East imagined that there was a rich country in the East where the roads were paved with gold bricks. Except for the big profits from trading with this country, everything else was just petty profits.This kind of imagination is obviously harmful, which makes the company ignore its long-term interests in the East.

Although the trade in raw silk, porcelain, and rhubarb is good, like spices, only a few people can afford it. What really deserves attention are bulk goods such as sugar and tobacco.However, these goods are more suitable for opening up colonies in the Far East for nearby trade, not for long-distance trade, so developing the colonial economy is the right way.

However, Caron can only think about this kind of thinking. First, the directors of the company are not interested in running a colony in the Far East, because the investment is too large and the harvest period is too long. Even if the funds invested are in vain, it is more appropriate to focus on business, after all, as long as one trade is completed, one can share a harvest.

The second is that even if the company does its best, it cannot beat the Chinese, even the Portuguese in Macau who are supported by the Chinese.In the face of a China that has begun to expand outward, setting up colonies in the Far East is just asking for trouble, because the Chinese can turn to history books to prove that their ancestors ruled these places if they want to.

For Europeans, the behavior of the Chinese is incredible, because there is no historical record in Europe except the genealogy of the nobles and the Bible, which means that they occupy other people's places and never turn to the history books since ancient times, Instead, he talked about what new continent he had discovered.But in the eyes of the Chinese, everything was discovered by their ancestors, which means that they have the jurisprudence to occupy these places.

Although the behavior of the Chinese is quite speechless, there is almost no force in Asia that can deal with this country with a huge territory and a large population. The population of this country is comparable to that of the European continent and the Indian continent, but the other two continents are all countries. In the state of Lin Li, only China is a single sovereign country, who can move it?

Even though the Dutch knew that the barbarians in the north were attacking the country in the center of the continent, they didn't think the north would win. The Spanish Empire failed to conquer the Federation of Seven Provinces. How could this country, which is hundreds of times larger than the Federation of Seven Provinces, be overthrown by the barbarians? occupied? .This is why the company is willing to accept the conditions put forward by the Chinese and give up Taiwan.

However, Taiwan is obviously not the end point that the Chinese are looking forward to, because the Chinese have raised the issue of Malacca and the right of navigation in the Strait during the negotiations.Of course, the company cannot let go of such a crucial place as the Strait of Malacca. In order to monopolize the trade with East Asia, the company and the Portuguese fought for more than ten years to win this place. How can the Chinese say that they have already bought it from the Portuguese? Hand over the city of Malacca to the Chinese.

However, Caron doubts whether the company can keep the Strait of Malacca under the continuous expansion of Chinese power in Southeast Asia.Even the Spice Islands and Batavia might be threatened.But looking at Peter Flack, who was elated by the arrival of the Chinese, Cuaron lost the idea of ​​suggesting to the company.

As a Frenchman, even if he was expelled by the King of France, he still felt that he was a Frenchman. He was just a part-time worker in the Dutch East India Company and had no sense of belonging.In fact, if he hadn’t communicated privately with the Chinese this time, he might have been accused of losing Taiwan. Based on what he knew about the company, the company would have kicked him out.So why do you want to get into trouble with the Chinese? Isn't this cutting off your own way out?

While Caron was distracted, the three Chinese ships finally approached the pier. Caron recognized it at a glance. The person walking in the front and wearing a gorgeous costume was Zheng Zhilong’s younger brother Zheng Zhifeng, but this name was too famous among pirates. , so when he returned to the mainland to become an official, he changed his name to Zheng Hongkui.Maybe other people will be confused by it, but as the person in charge of the Nagasaki Commercial Office, he has not dealt with Zheng Zhifeng before he became an official, not once or twice.

On the other hand, Zheng Hongkui was also quite proud when he walked onto the wharf on the southern sandbar and looked at the nearby market and the Zeelandia Castle in the distance.Originally, although he was an official in Zhenjiang, could a military official be considered an official in front of those Jiangnan gentry?He, the commander of the navy, doesn't seem to have as much face as the close servants around the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River.

Zheng Hongkui was not talking nonsense, he, the chief soldier of the Zhenjiang Navy, was going to visit some high-ranking official, and when he saw the servants around them, he would give red envelopes, begging him to say something nice to his master, and things would go smoothly.This is why Zheng Zhilong rebelled again after his first submission to the imperial court, and when he returned to the imperial court for the second time, he concentrated on managing his hometown in Nan'an and refused to move the place, because he had seen through the nature of these Ming bureaucrats, greedy, incompetent and cowardly. It is best to speak with gold and knives.

But now he is the Minister of Nanyang, who is in charge of Nanyang affairs. That is to say, all the overseas vassal states or foreign barbarians are managed by him. Now he doesn't need to kowtow to anyone.

However, Xu Er'an, who was walking behind Zheng Hongkui, was not in a good mood. Even if Zheng Hongkui was the Minister of Nanyang, logically it would not be his turn to take over the Zeelandia city, which was originally his father's honor.But who made his father unlucky, when the whole of Taiwan was about to be held in his hands, his father died of illness.

Although it is normal for my father to die at this time, it is bad news for the Xu family.Because Xu Er'an did not have the prestige to control the Xu family army, and with the transfer of the Jiangnan navy to Taiwan, a Jiangnan force independent of Xu's army also appeared.

Xu Dingguo died of illness in March last year, and Xu Jiajun and Jiangnan Navy split into four forces.This gave the Zheng family a chance to intervene in Taiwan's land affairs.According to the negotiations between the three parties and the arbitration by His Majesty Yongchang, Xu Er'an served as the admiral of Taipei, Wu Zhikui from Jinshan Dingbo Camp served as the admiral of Tainan, and Taiwan set up a governor's district, which was also led by Zheng Hongkui.

Although the Xu family kept the shares in the gold mine in Jilong, they also lost half of Taiwan. How could Xu Er'an have any affection for Zheng Hongkui who came to pick the fruits?

After meeting Zheng Hongkui and Peter Flack, they greeted each other affectionately. After the two exchanged pleasantries for a while, Zheng Hongkui said to the Dutchman: "While the weather is fine, let's hold the handover ceremony. Let's hand over earlier, everyone. Then you can sit down and drink and celebrate."

Peter Flack nodded and gave way to Taiwan's governor Caron. Under Caron's order, the road from the pier to the castle was cleared. More than 200 Dutch soldiers stood on both sides of the road and saluted them with guns .

Zheng Hongkui and his group walked into the castle, and then stopped in the atrium. At this moment, the Dutch started firing cannons and lowered the company's flag. When the Dutch put away the flag and walked aside, Wu Zhikui immediately stepped forward with two personal guards. , hoist the flag you brought.

As the black, red and white tricolor flag was hoisted inside the castle, the Chinese ships moored at sea also began to fire their cannons to celebrate.So far, Zeelandia Castle belonged to Dashun, and according to Li Zicheng's order, the castle was renamed Anping Fort.The Dutch business and military personnel here will be evacuated on board, some going to Shanghai and some returning to Batavia.As for Dutch immigrants, according to the agreement between the two parties, they can still live in the market.

Chapter 580 The New One of the New Government

After sending the Dutch away, Zheng Hongkui liked Anping Fort more and more. He thought it would be better to set up a Yamen here than Xiamen or Macau.

After all, Zheng Zhilong had to manage him in Xiamen, and he had to fight with Guangdong officials in Macau. Ever since Zheng Zhilong forced Liu Xiang, the representative of Guangdong maritime merchants, to commit suicide, the Cantonese didn't like the Zheng family very much.Therefore, if he could take root in Anping Fort, then he could really be the Emperor of the Earth.

Zheng Hongkui's occupation of Anping Fort will hurt Wu Zhikui the most, but right now he can only back down a bit. Who made Zheng Zhilong the Minister of the Navy now? The future of these overseas military personnel is in his hands, so he has to bow his head.

However, Zheng Hongkui, the governor of Taiwan, didn't just grab the territory of his subordinates. After the Dutch retreated, he also began to investigate the land of the entire population of Taiwan, and built cities and counties.Shufan, who surrendered to the Dutch before, surrendered to Dashun again this time. Together with the Han Chinese who migrated to Taiwan, the population has exceeded 15, including 2 old Han immigrants and 3 new Han immigrants.

The population in northern Taiwan is growing the fastest, because these new Han immigrants are different from the old immigrants from Fujian who came to Taiwan in the past. These new immigrants are mainly engaged in engineering construction, logging, gold panning, etc., and their food comes from Japan and Ryukyu. Or Tainan, Guangxi.

However, the arrival of new immigrants has increased the colonization of cultivated land in Taiwan, because the land in Taiwan is so fertile. The newly reclaimed wasteland yields 8-9 stones of rice per mu, which is twice a year, which is 3 to 4 times higher than the best fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River. Yield.In the four years of Yongchang, more than 4 arable land in Taiwan has been developed, and one arable land is equal to 14.55 mu in the mainland.

It can be said that one year's harvest in Taiwan's cultivated land can be equivalent to three years in the mainland. However, the biggest problem in Taiwan's agriculture is that the land development is too low, so the farmland is either flooded or drought.But even so, farming in Taiwan is far better than being a tenant on the mainland.

In the past two years, 2 million acres of land in Taiwan have been sold in the mainland, and 290 acres have been distributed to the garrison, which means that at least 10 million acres of land in Taiwan have been privatized.Except for the deep mountains and old forests occupied by the Shengfan, in principle, the land in Taiwan is already owned.The plains and river valleys in eastern Taiwan were auctioned off by the Shunjun survey.

However, Zheng Hongkui can only achieve this step, and he is still beyond his capabilities to develop Taiwan's industries.Therefore, Yangzhou soon sent a group of businessmen over to investigate and evaluate the development direction of Taiwan. However, these businessmen did not come up with anything new in the end, but continued the logging industry and the cane sugar that the Dutch strongly promoted. cause.But in this way, Taiwan has been absorbed by the mainland.

The hot sales of land in Taiwan also stimulated Ma Shiying's cabinet.If taxes were levied according to the number of electors and candidates, then Dashun’s tax revenue would not be less than 1 million taels a year, but now it’s only a little over 3000 million taels a year. Trembling.

Now Dashun's tax revenue for one year is just enough to pay the salaries of officials and the army. The country's public affairs expenditures mainly come from currency reform, income from state-owned enterprises, and borrowing.The sale of overseas land has gradually become an important part of government revenue.Compared with taxation and so on, the sale of overseas land can be said to be the fiscal revenue project with the least trouble and the highest return.

For example, Taiwan sold 290 million taels of land, of which 190 million taels of government bonds were recovered, and 100 million taels of silver were recovered.Although public debt cannot be used as money, it can be recovered through overseas wasteland. This is obviously a way to boost the confidence of public bond holders.

The balance of public bonds issued by the imperial government to the outside world is more than 3500 million taels, and the debt owed to banks is more than 1600 million taels. The annual interest payments alone exceed more than one million taels.Therefore, any opportunity to reduce public debt is to reduce interest payments. After selling the land in Taiwan, the interest payments for the past two years will be assured, so Ma Shiying is naturally concerned.

In order to solve the huge financial deficit, Ma Shiying said to the Minister of Finance Zhou Lianggong and his deputy Jiang Chen, "Borrowing old debts to pay new debts every year, in the final analysis, is to tear down the east wall and pay the west wall. This hole will only get bigger and bigger. .To really solve the debt problem, there are actually two paths, either repay the money or renege on the debt.”

Zhou Lianggong and Jiang Chen were immediately intimidated by Ma Shiying. They resolutely opposed the use of reneging on debts. The reason was that the government could still turn around by borrowing old debts to repay new ones. No matter how dare they lend money to the imperial court, once no one lends money to the imperial court, the imperial court's finances will go bankrupt immediately. Compared with paying high interest every year, they are more worried about the interruption of capital flow.

Naturally, Ma Shiying's purpose is not to renege on debts. He also knows that Dashun's current financial operation method is completely different from that of Daming in the past.As long as there is no money in the treasury, even if the disaster victims rise up tomorrow, the ministers in the court will have no way to change the money, because everyone knows that the emperor's reputation is not good, so no one in the court will borrow money.

To be honest, this kind of emperor's reputation problem cannot be entirely blamed on Chongzhen alone, but who made his ancestors first turn the treasure into waste paper, and then almost turn Yanyin into white strips, so Who would dare to lend money to the emperor?What's more, Chongzhen only wanted to borrow money, and he didn't even have a collateral or repayment method, so everyone was even more afraid to borrow.

On Dashun's side, Li Zicheng first paid compensation to the war refugees, and then began to reduce local taxes and customs, and rectified the salt industry and customs, thus restoring the people's trust in the court.Then it issued public bonds and borrowed money with commercial taxes and tariffs as collateral, and established a bank to issue bonds.As a result, the people's distrust of Emperor Dashun was greatly reduced.

Under Li Zicheng's arrangement, each department must first prepare a budget, and then the state allocates funds according to the budget. As for the state treasury funds are not enough, it is necessary to increase income, which is to live within one's income.

Comparing the two sides, the Minister of the Household Department of Daming really has no power, because he can only rely on taxation to adjust the country's fiscal revenue, and he can't find other taxpayers except farmers.But Dashun's Finance Minister is much more powerful than Daming's Household Minister, because they all have a say in the formulation of monetary policy and tax distribution.

Because of this, the relationship between the finance minister and the merchant is relatively close, because the finance minister needs the merchant to provide liquidity, and the merchant needs the finance minister to guarantee his own interests. From a certain point of view, this relationship is better than that of the Ming Dynasty. The relationship between government and business is more equal, because the businessman has no personal connection with the Minister of Finance, and will not be arrested and ransacked just because of a word from the other party.

And as long as the money is still flowing in the market, the fiscal deficit can be maintained. Even Ma Shiying is unwilling to go to war with the financial department, because once the financial department is in turmoil and the businessmen demand to call back their loans, the government has to immediately bankruptcy.Therefore, the financial department, which maintains the normal operation of finance, began to have more say in government affairs than the Ministry of Rites.

In the pre-Ming Dynasty, the Ministry of Officials was the most well-deserved number one. After all, the personnel affairs of the feudal dynasty were the first. Apart from personnel affairs, there was no major issue, followed by the Ministry of Rites, and then the Ministry of Household Affairs.The Ministry of Rites can overwhelm the Ministry of Households, because the Ministry of Rites controls the imperial examinations, which in essence also controls part of the personnel power. In addition, the Ministry of Rites also controls the handling of suzerain-vassal relations and ideological work. Obviously, it is not the Ministry of Households that maintains the old system. Yamen can be compared.

For example, the Yellow Book of the World held by the Ministry of Household Affairs claims to be updated every ten years, and the palace on Xuanwu Lake Island in Nanjing has these densely packed copy books.But in fact, most of these yellow books, which are updated every ten years, are copied from the previous books, so that the population of some places has not changed from the Hongwu Dynasty to the Chongzhen Dynasty.

This kind of behavior of copying the previous book is not only the irresponsibility of grassroots officials, but also a request from the Ministry of Households, because no matter whether the population increases or decreases, it is inappropriate for the wealth system established by Zhu Yuanzhang. It is the family of the family of ten thousand generations, so the children and grandchildren must govern the country according to the system stipulated by him, but this is a huge problem for the Ministry of Households, because the population and economy are constantly changing. If they count according to the actual situation, Then it will violate the system established by Lao Zhu, so the best way is to fool the emperor, the population of the world will not increase or decrease, and the expenditure will naturally not need to be adjusted.

Such a rigid department naturally cannot have a say in government affairs compared with the Ministry of Rites, which has multiple powers.However, in the new government, Li Zicheng untied the shackles on the financial department, and regarded finance as an important means of managing the country, while the power of the Ministry of Rites was split. under, but has become an independent department.

In this way, the new government has established the normal operation and development of the country as its main governance goal, rather than maintaining the survival of the Lee family as its main governance goal.As the policy department in charge of the normal operation of the country, the financial department naturally surpassed the Ministry of Rites, and even began to keep pace with the Ministry of Officials.

At the same time, the scale of the newly established internal affairs department to maintain social order also expanded rapidly. This department was originally intended to solve the problem of the drawdown of the army, but soon the Ministry of Internal Affairs became the main defender of social order, replacing Some of the responsibilities of the local government in the past.Local administrative power and judicial power began to be separated, and the power of the police station with both administrative and judicial responsibilities increased.

From the second year of Yongchang to the fourth year of Yongchang, the framework of the new government began to gradually emerge. It was at this time that Ma Shiying truly realized that the new government was not about personnel but about power functions.The so-called new dynasty in the past was nothing more than a change of surname in the country. In essence, it was old wine in new bottles, and the pattern of the family world would not change.But this is not the case in this dynasty. Li Zicheng is indeed correcting the problems of the family and the world from the root, intending to establish a new government centered on the state.

For Ma Shiying, this is both a good thing and a bad thing. The good thing is that the power of the government has grown, and the bad thing is that the government can no longer push its governance issues to the emperor.In the Ming Dynasty, there is actually only one person who bears unlimited responsibility for the corruption of state affairs, and that is the emperor himself.