Dashun Yongchang

The population of the mainland is available, and the population of North Korea, Japan, and even Annan, Champa, and Cambodia can also be used.In terms of money, food and materials, the wealth of the south of the Yangtze River and the benefits of overseas trade are not incapable of spending money to expand overseas.In terms of force, such as Jiangbei Four Towns and Zuo Liangyu's tribe, they hate ghosts and hate people in China, why not let them go overseas to harm those natives? "

Chapter 202 New Deal Seventeen

After listening to the way out given by Li Zicheng, Lu Zhenfei felt a little more at ease, as long as the other party still needs a gentleman to do things for him, then the situation is not so bad that it cannot be undone.At this time, their cooperation with Dashun was not to support Li Zicheng, but to be unable to compete with Dashun's force.

However, the rebellious peasant army is different from the imperial government's division of economics and regulations. In the past, these rebellious peasant troops had an inexplicable dislike for the gentry and landlords, but when they became a member of the system, they still had to obey Institutional control.

As Li Zicheng said just now, house slaves will not desperately defend the property of their master, but when house slaves also become small landlords, will they still speak from the standpoint of those tenants and servants?

It is not a bad thing to distribute the land to these peasants, at least it shows that Li Zicheng still understands how to govern the country. The only problem is the upper limit of the number of people who are out of production proposed by Li Zicheng. It must be done, Lu Zhenfei actually does not object to this.

And since Li Zicheng proposed to transfer the population overseas to increase domestic land per capita, it means that the cooperation between the two parties can still continue. The target number of cleaning up the gentry class, at least the gentry family, which they regard as the elite part, should not be cleaned up.

So Lu Zhenfei and Zhang Fengxiang exchanged glances secretly, and asked Li Zicheng again: "Then how does His Majesty want us to cooperate? Or, how does Your Majesty plan to promote this overseas colonization plan?"

Li Zicheng looked at the two of them and pondered for a moment, then said: "It is necessary for someone to preside over such things as opening up wasteland and colonizing. Although the overseas natives have no weapons, it is impossible for the army to protect those farmers all the time, so the farmers who colonize overseas need to If they have the ability to defend themselves, they need someone to lead them to take the initiative to clear the nests of the natives around the village. This kind of thing cannot be done by a few farmers alone, and it still needs those landlords and gentry to come forward. After all, what they do every day is These.

Therefore, while relocating people overseas, we also need to relocate some gentry and landlords.Of course, these gentry and landowners are definitely not willing to go out compared to the wild lands overseas. After all, they can definitely live better in their hometowns than in the wild overseas.

Therefore, we need to take some coercive means.If such a thing is entrusted to the military, it will easily get out of control, so I need you to choose those gentry and landlords who should be exiled overseas.

Secondly, there are not many self-cultivating farmers in China at present. We have also calculated just now. Based on the average number of acres of cultivated land, my country should have a population of 1.5 million, but in fact only about half of the population has data.That is to say, nearly half of the population is not under the control of the imperial court. Except for those hidden households who hid in the mountains, the rest of the population is in the hands of big gentry.

Owner farmers were the main taxpayers of the imperial court, and they were also the main bearers of court labor. It was obviously uneconomical for the imperial court to relocate owner farmers overseas.Because what the imperial court needs is a new tax-paying population, rather than transferring the tax-paying population from one place to another.Therefore, in order to solve the current financial problems and shortage of materials, we must finally start with the population controlled by the big gentry.

Only by turning these hidden populations back into taxpayers can we solve the fiscal problems we face and eliminate the potential for social unrest.Of course, if those big gentry families are to hand over these hidden populations, they will inevitably resist, so this goes back to the previous question, we just need some gentry to go overseas to help manage the colony.

In the end, Dashun is people-oriented, and people are labor-oriented, so Dashun does not need so many useless people who are out of labor.Based on this point, I hope to conduct a detailed investigation on domestic taxation, land rent and farmers' labor income, and formulate a standard for national taxes, landlord's land rent and farmers' labor income based on the investigation reports from various places. , instead of collecting land rent taxes in such a chaotic manner as it is now, and ultimately leaving farmers with nothing..."

After all, this is a private conversation rather than a formal policy discussion. Li Zicheng said he was asking for the support of the two, but in essence he just informed them of his own policy thinking, so most of the time Li Zicheng said and the two Just listening.

When Lu Zhenfei and Zhang Fengxiang came out of Li Zicheng's yard, the light rain outside stopped at some point. Although the stars and the moon were still not visible in the sky, at least there was no need to worry that the rain would extinguish the lanterns leading the way.As the faint light emitted by the lantern was advancing on the stone road, Zhang Fengxiang suddenly sighed and said: "This Western learning is not the right way after all. If you calculate and calculate all day long, this person's heart will be broken in the end. If this continues, Who remembers the learning of saints."

Lu Zhenfei was thinking about something, but didn't realize what Zhang Fengxiang meant, but after the other party finished speaking, he waved goodbye to him, and the residence of the two happened to be parted here.Just after Zhang Fengxiang turned and left, Lu Zhenfei faintly heard the other party order to his entourage: "Find out the original geometry rewarded by His Majesty, I will go through it tonight..."

Under Zhang Fengxiang's straightforward suggestion, Lu Zhenfei finally came to his senses. The other party was reminding him that this was a contradiction between the sage's learning and the Western learning.Standing in the dark courtyard, watching Zhang Fengxiang's figure disappear in the darkness, Lu Zhenfei felt powerless in his heart.

Although he knew that Zhang Fengxiang's suggestion was correct, if we really want to go back to the source, the question is what kind of knowledge Li Zicheng intends to use to govern the country.Although the current Li Zicheng has not raised the banner of replacing Confucianism with Western learning, the way of handling affairs in the Marshal's Mansion is full of characteristics that are different from the normal order of ethics.

This kind of administrative management based on numbers and rules has greatly restricted the subjective initiative of officials, but it has greatly improved administrative efficiency.Although the administrative organization of the Ming Dynasty also talked about performing their own duties, in fact, the county magistrate has almost unlimited power in local affairs. The officials in the county can hardly oppose the official orders issued by the county magistrate. The way of the county magistrate is to file a complaint upwards, which only hinders the other party's career.

To put it simply, if the county magistrate really goes all out, he is actually unstoppable in the county.Therefore, the county magistrate is known as Bailihou, and there are also county magistrates who break the house, and magistrates who destroy the family.However, in actual operation, county magistrates all want to make progress, so they generally do not fight to the death with local forces, so the county has a situation where gentry and subordinates are governed together, and county magistrates also take care of the situation. Just manage the affairs of the city.

The Marshal's Mansion is not following the county system of the Qin Dynasty, but the organizational structure of local autonomy and central leadership that tends to give some power to the local area.The Marshal's Mansion also uses some people to take on special responsibilities, but for those daily affairs, it tends to build a department for unified handling.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the two different administrative management methods are probably just a matter of Emperor Yongchang's personal preferences, but in the eyes of some people, it has become a battle between Western and Confucianism.Speaking of the struggle between Western learning and Confucianism, the Nanjing teaching case in the 44th year of Wanli was actually the first full-scale conflict between the two sides.

This conflict ended with the overall victory of the defenders of Confucianism. It was not until Xu Guangqi and others proposed to Chongzhen during the reign of Chongzhen that they should learn from Western methods to strengthen the army, and the ban on the spread of Catholicism was lifted. The Western law faction that strengthened the country and reformed the law was once again driven into the abyss.

This time, these Western French sects made a comeback with the help of the Dashun regime.The only difference from the previous two times is that Li Zicheng is obviously closer to Xifa than the emperors of Ming Dynasty, and he also understands what Xifa is.

Therefore, in a short period of time, the Western Fa faction has successfully entered the core decision-making circle of the Marshal's Mansion, and this time they occupied a more favorable position.Most of the institutions established and government orders issued by the Marshal's Mansion since the establishment of the capital can be seen traces of Western law, which has greatly eliminated the moral human heart theory based on Confucianism.

Perhaps Zhang Fengxiang's reminder to him was hoping to arouse his vigilance, but Lu Zhenfei felt very speechless, how could they shake the current Marshal's Mansion.When Li Zicheng went all the way south, he bought the land in the name of the prince and then distributed it to the local people and retired officers and soldiers. The Marshal's Mansion has established a rudimentary form of local rule, because only the ruler has the right to allocate land.

Although it is unclear how much help these places will bring to the Shun Army in the future, for the local people, at least the seeds of the idea that the Shun Army is their own have been planted.If it is coupled with the news from the north that Jiannu is enclosing land in the outskirts of the capital, then it will be able to bring out the legitimacy of the Dashun regime even more.

Although Emperor Yongchang didn't know "rituals", no one dares to say that he doesn't know "reasons" today.Even Lu Zhenfei himself felt very reasonable about what Li Zicheng said, "The gentry is not the representative of the people, but the assistant of the king in governing the people."

From this, it can be deduced that what knowledge the monarch uses to govern the country is the choice of the monarch, not the choice of the subjects.Faced with such a monarch who has his own principles of governing the country, running to teach him that he should use Confucianism instead of Western law to govern the country, isn't this making trouble for himself?

What's more, now is not a good time to deal with Xifa. The most important thing at the moment is to restore social order and drive away foreign enemies.The emergence of the four towns in Jiangbei has already shown that Nanjing has completely lost control of the situation. If Nanjing's central authority cannot be restored as soon as possible, then the south will automatically collapse without Li Zicheng doing anything.

Compared with the danger of Li Zicheng, the act of building slaves into the customs and occupying Beijing has brought Chinese civilization to the brink of a second fall.If the Ming Dynasty, which expelled the Hu people from China, finally died under Jurchen, then this would be the greatest humiliation for Ming Dynasty.After standing in the dark for a long time, Lu Zhenfei finally walked towards his courtyard.

Chapter 203 New Deal Eighteen

After tidying up the tea set on the table, Chen Yuanyuan walked to Li Zicheng's side, followed his line of sight to look at the courtyard, but it was pitch black and nothing could be seen.She couldn't help asking curiously: "What is Your Majesty looking at here?"

Li Zicheng, who was in deep thought, withdrew his gaze, took Chen Yuanyuan into his arms and said, "Oh, I can't actually see anything. Well, after tonight, you have to be more careful, the Statistics Department can no longer be ignored gone."

Chen Yuanyuan sat reclined in Li Zicheng's arms, feeling very comfortable in this position, and she said with a relaxed mood: "Anyone who wants it can take it, anyway, I am tired of reading those reports now. In the past, I saw those talented scholars and celebrities talking about it. Yes, the posture of becoming a dragon when one encounters a storm, originally thought that the imperial court was really stupid, which made so many great sages living in the countryside unable to realize their ambitions.

But after doing things with His Majesty, I realized that what is needed to govern the country is not high theory, but dealing with these boring numbers.No matter how beautiful articles and poems are, they are not worth the report made by a small official, and they are more useful to the monarch.If those officials really understood the usefulness of the Statistics Department, how could the concubine be reluctant to bear the power in her hands?

After all, it is these men who can help His Majesty rule the world, not weak women like concubines. "

Li Zicheng just chuckled when he heard this, and then said: "You are thinking too much, do you think they want the Statistics Department for better governance of the country? No, they just want to hide the statistics from the Statistics Department so that No one can see it."

Chen Yuanyuan's eyes widened and she turned to look at Li Zicheng in disbelief and said, "Why? If they don't know the role of the Statistics Department and regard it as Dongchang or Jinyiwei, it is possible, but now it has been proved that the Statistics Department It is not a spy agency used to spy on ministers, but an auxiliary agency used to let the monarch and ministers understand the people's livelihood so that they can formulate appropriate policies, why should it be destroyed?"

The corner of Li Zicheng's mouth rose slightly, showing a mocking expression and replied: "Because they are the landlord class."

Chen Yuanyuan looked at him with a confused face and said, "Can your majesty speak more clearly?"

After thinking for a few seconds, Li Zicheng replied: "For the landlords, no change is the best time, because as long as the land is still in their hands, they can continue to enjoy a carefree life, and the tenants will give them everything they need. Living materials are produced, and things that cannot be produced on the land can also be exchanged with the output on the land.

Therefore, what the landlord class pursues is that the sky does not change and the way does not change.In order to achieve this wish, we should use fixed rules to regulate the country, so that everyone can stay in their own place in peace.Therefore, the king and ministers do not need to know the people's livelihood in detail, but only need to know whether the people obey the etiquette.

Whether the people's life is good or not has nothing to do with observance of etiquette. To a certain extent, it is better for the people to have no desires and just live a lifetime of abiding by etiquette with peace of mind. This is a good people.Conversely, what the monarch and ministers have to think about is not to improve the lives of the people, but to teach the people to keep their own place, because the people who keep their own place will not cause trouble for the court.

Therefore, the information collected by the Statistics Department is the beginning of all changes for the landlords. It is really strange that they do not eliminate this bad thing that has aroused the desire of the monarch. "

Regarding Li Zicheng's malicious speculation, Chen Yuanyuan could only be dubious in her heart, and she couldn't help distinguishing a few words for those honest gentlemen, "Your Majesty's words seem to overwhelm a boatload of people, maybe some people will be as unpredictable as His Majesty said, But I don’t believe that those honest gentlemen will do the same. They did a lot of things for the people when they were in the village and when they were officials. Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, so you should not suspect the ministers at will, this is not what a sage king does.”

Li Zicheng chuckled, lowered his head and touched Chen Yuanyuan's cheek. After teasing her for a while, he said, "Sage King? You are the only one who dares to think so. I am the leader of the rebels, and the word "Sage King" does not match at all."

Chen Yuanyuan was a little angry now. She stretched out her hands to fix Li Zicheng's cheeks, then looked at him seriously and said, "I feel that your Majesty is the same as Emperor Taizu Gao. Why can't you be called a holy king? With your majesty's Talent, will be able to clarify the universe, and then cast Kyushu, then who would dare to say that His Majesty is not a holy king?"

Li Zicheng looked at the beautiful woman in his arms praising him in a serious manner, and couldn't help but want to move for a while, but Chen Yuanyuan wanted to talk to Li Zicheng more at this time, so he immediately changed the topic and said: "Since your majesty thinks that they won't expect This country has changed, why do you have to talk so much with Mr. Zhang and Lu? Does Your Majesty expect anything from them?"

Li Zicheng, who was about to get close to the beautiful woman, finally became sober after hearing this question. He rested his chin on the top of Chen Yuanyuan's head, stroked it lightly, and said, "I don't have any expectations, but I have to let them treat you to me." Expect something.

Daming was dominated by the gentry and landlords. I fought for 14 years from the third year of Chongzhen, but the area where the gentry and landlords were truly wiped out was only two and a half provinces.Shaanxi, Henan and northern Huguang, in fact the area east of Xuchang in Henan was still under the control of the gentry.

For example, Shanxi, Beizhili, Shandong and other places were still devastated by the establishment of slaves, so the gentry class in the entire Ming Dynasty was actually hit in the north, and the area south of the Huaihe River was hardly damaged.

Although the population of gentry and landlords does not account for a large proportion of the national population, it is only 2% at most.But these 2% of the population own more than 4% of the land in the world, and the other 2% of the population owns only 2% of the land.Even among the [-]% of the population, only [-]% to [-]% are poor and landless, [-]% are owner farmers and [-]% are semi-owner farmers who need to rent land from landlords.

People with land think differently than people without land. What they think is not that they can get the land for rebellion, but that they worry that they will not be able to keep the few acres of land in their hands.Therefore, they are naturally allies of the gentry and landlords, and as long as the gentry and landlords do not want to annex their land, they will be used by the gentry and landlords.

Therefore, instead of taking [-]% of the world's population against the other [-]% of the population, I am taking [-]% of the world's population against the other [-]% of the population. This does not include our internal traitors. As long as the gentry and landlords offer some benefits to lure them, we will There will still be many people who will surrender to the opposite side.

Therefore, if you want to eliminate these gentry and landlords, you cannot let them completely despair. Once they unite and fight against me, then I will really lose.It is necessary to give them some hope, to make them feel that I only want to eat the weakest part of them, and that those who are strong can still share the world with me, so they will throw out their companions as my food.

I will give these two an explanation today, just to test and see where their limit is, so that I can decide how much meat to cut, so as not to let them resist me. "

After hearing this, Chen Yuanyuan thought for a moment, and couldn't help but said a little discouraged: "It may not be a good thing for Your Majesty to continue fighting with them. As Your Majesty said, even if these gentry and landlords are defeated, in the end, a new batch of new ones will be replaced." Gentlemen and landlords, is it possible that His Majesty will continue to fight? Both the left and the right need the existence of these gentry, why doesn’t Your Majesty back down a step?”

When Chen Yuanyuan was talking, she clearly felt that Li Zicheng paused, and then heard Li Zicheng say: "It's not that I don't want to retreat, but that I have no way to retreat. I started my career by rebelling, so I want to face the brothers below again." Are you talking about monarchs, ministers, fathers and sons?

Maybe some people will think this is very good, but more brothers in the Dashun Army will be disappointed in me.They rebelled with me because they wanted a different world, and in the end, if I built a Dashun like Daming, why would they rebel against me?Even if you support the crown prince, it is better than following me. After all, he is still of the blood of a real dragon, and we are just farmers. "

The room was quiet for a few breaths, and Li Zicheng suddenly patted Chen Yuanyuan on the back and said, "It's night, wash up and rest..."

Feeling that Li Zicheng was in a bad mood, Chen Yuanyuan obediently agreed this time, and stopped pestering him to continue the chat.

On the morning of September 9, in a side hall in Daming Temple, Li Zicheng and the generals held an enlarged military meeting around a sand table.

Of course, Zhang Nai, Li Jing, Wu Ruyi, and Zuo Guangxian were the old men closest to Li Zicheng, and the newly surrendered generals Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing, and Li Chengdong were a little closer.

Facing the sand table created by the Shun Army staff officers, the newly surrendered generals still expressed their admiration from the bottom of their hearts.Although there are craftsmen who can make sand tables in their camp, few of them can make such fine sand tables. It seems that the area around Yangzhou has been shrunk down on the sand table.

Li Zicheng didn't correct the surrendering generals' compliments on the craftsmen of the Shun Army. In fact, this sand table has been separated from the craftsmanship of the craftsmen, but a mathematical model created under the latest surveying and mapping technology.Just starting from this sand table, the Shun army has already begun to leave behind these Ming generals whose military qualities have begun to degenerate.

Li Zicheng waited for the generals to finish appreciating the sand table in front of him, and then he said: "Although our army did not make any offensive moves in the past 20 days, it is not that we did nothing, but we are fighting for a decisive battle with Gao Jie's army." Prepare.

I have decided to deliver an ultimatum to Gao Jie's army today. If Gao Jie does not come to surrender to me within three days, then we will launch an attack on Guazhou in three days. "

Liu Zeqing saw the opportunity and said quickly: "Your Majesty is wise. From this sand table, we can see that Gao Jie's army is already under His Majesty's control. Our army will surely win this battle. I am willing to be Your Majesty's vanguard and let Gao Jie know what it means to be mighty."

Xu Dingguo glanced at the long-distance running general with some contempt, saluted Li Zicheng and then said: "Gao Jie is my enemy, and I want to ask His Majesty for a vanguard, so I happened to end my previous feud with Gao Jie..."

Chapter 204 New Deal Nineteen

These newly surrendered generals jumped out one by one and volunteered, obviously wanting to show themselves in front of Li Zicheng, so as to avoid being regarded as useless waste by the other party.

Li Zicheng stood there smiling and watching these people's performance, and did not interrupt them. He knew the essence of these people better than anyone here, they were just a group of warlords.

What is a warlord?A person who relies on force to rule the place and clamors that "the emperor would rather have a kind? He who has a strong army and a strong horse will do it for you".But don't look at all of them who like violence. In fact, this group of people is most afraid of being attacked by violence.

They behave like tigers and leopards in front of the weak, but in front of real tigers and leopards, they are as docile as dogs and sheep.If Gao Jie's army hadn't been trapped in Guazhou, it would have been a desperate beast, and they would certainly not have dared to fight for this vanguard officer.

It wasn't until the performances of these surrendered generals were almost done that Li Zicheng said slowly: "Gao Jie is just a bereaved dog now, and it is not my goal to clean him up. I have called everyone together today. The point I want to talk about is not to arrange how to attack Gao Jiejun, but I want to tell everyone why my Dashun Army will fight in the future."

"Of course I'm fighting for His Majesty." The generals who surrendered this time answered very simply. The generals of the Peasant Army hesitated for a while before following up. Now the generals of the Peasant Army have not yet clarified their position on this big issue of right and wrong. .

Li Zicheng stretched out his hand and pressed it in vain, signaling for everyone to be quiet, and then said: "Fighting for me is a big goal. What we are going to talk about today is a small goal. I believe that protecting the lives and property of the people is the most important thing for the army." Goals to understand first.

Why protect people's lives and property?Because without the labor of the people, the country cannot exist, and without the country, there will be no army.After all, the country cannot produce food, horses, armor, weapons and gunpowder, it is the people who produce them.

Therefore, the army cannot fight without the support of the people.Of course, this kind of propaganda alone is not enough. We must let the military understand that they are actually part of the people, and then they will defend the people just like protecting their own family members. "

In fact, most of the generals could not understand what Li Zicheng said. Some generals who came from the peasant army could arouse some sympathy because they were just ordinary people before joining the peasant army. Generals, they can't understand the saying that without the support of the people, the army cannot fight.

Because in their view, the officers and soldiers are the hounds guarding the sheepfold, and the people are the sheep in the sheepfold. If the hounds are hungry, they just drag one or a few sheep out of the sheepfold to eat. Over sheep's opinion?Food, horses, armor, weapons, gunpowder and other materials, of course, are to put pressure on the people to contribute, not to protect them in exchange for these things, because the people are too weak, so it is better to just grab them instead of protecting them. Their.

Especially those generals who came down from the Liaodong battlefield, they couldn't agree more with Li Zicheng's opinion, because they had witnessed how Jiannu relied on the people who plundered the people of Ming Dynasty to become stronger and stronger, and the troops who tried to protect the people of Ming Dynasty all died in the Liaodong.Many officers and soldiers transferred from inside the pass to outside the pass were actually killed by the local army and people. Those Liaodong people not only tipped off Jiannu, but were often bribed by the other party to open the city gate when Jiannu was besieging the city.

Therefore, judging from their life experience, Li Zicheng's relationship between the army and the people is wrong, and the army's attitude towards the common people should be strict and vigilant, so as to deter those traitors from reporting to the enemy.Of course, they would not say such things in front of Li Zicheng, because now Li Zicheng is their boss, and everything the boss says is correct.

As for Li Zicheng, he actually did not plan to gain the support of these generals immediately. If the army can take protecting the people as its philosophy, then this is not the Ming Dynasty in 1644 but the New China in 1949.

Therefore, these generals did not stand up to question him, so he felt that he had won a small step, and then he went on to say: "How to make the soldiers think that they are a member of the people, not a group outside the people, I think it should be done to the following two points.

First of all, a compulsory military service law must be established to allow the public to undertake military service and allow soldiers to retire regularly to become civilians. Only when there is a rotation between civilians and soldiers, will the soldiers not regard themselves as a group other than the public. "

As soon as Li Zicheng said this, the generals present panicked, and Liu Liangzuo couldn't help asking Li Zicheng: "Your Majesty, there are no serious people who are willing to serve as soldiers, even the Zhejiang miners recruited by the Qi family army. Only people who have given enough money will apply. If the compulsory military service law is implemented, I am afraid that there will be many soldiers who want to leave the army, but there will be very few civilians who will serve in the army. There will be a lot of vacancies in the army, how will they be filled?"

The other generals worked together this time, and they all raised their concerns one after another, or simply supported Liu Liangzuo's question.In fact, these generals are used to the benefits of the recruitment system, so they are not willing to make too many changes to what they are used to.

There are actually two types of conscription systems in the military of the Ming Dynasty. One is the military household system of the Weisuo system, which is similar to the compulsory military service law mentioned by Li Zicheng, except that this mandatory military service law implemented in military households is mandatory. That is to say, as long as you don't leave the military, all males from generation to generation must fight for the Ming Dynasty, and there is no time limit for their service.

The other is the recruitment system, which is divided into two types. One is that the entire army is recruited from the people, such as the Qi family army; the other is that the family members around the general join the army, which can be called partial army recruitment.After the Jizhou mutiny, the Qi family army model no longer exists, so the rest are the recruiting system of family members joining the army.

The complete abolition of the recruitment system means that the generals will no longer have a private military force that the country pays for the military. This not only greatly reduces the control of these generals over the army, but also makes them lose a military force that is only loyal to themselves. The private military force, this force can save their lives at critical moments.

The generals of the Peasant Army just kept silent. Although they could obey Li Zicheng's order, they couldn't say how much they supported the compulsory military service law.From the beginning of the Peasant Army Uprising in the third year of Chongzhen until Li Zicheng reorganized the main force of the Peasant Army into 22 Generals of the Fifth Battalion, there were many mountains inside the Peasant Army. Even Li Zicheng personally killed such famous rebels as Luo Rucai and He Yilong. leader.

Therefore, although there was no solidified class like the generals of the Ming Dynasty formed in the peasant army, various hilltops in the rebel army were still faintly formed.That is to say, the generals of the rebel army brought by Li Zicheng are either his cronies or the middle ranks of the rebel army. Although they can feel that the compulsory military service law is eliminating the power of the army, they will not jump out to oppose him.

Of course, Li Zicheng also knew in his heart that it was not a good idea to use power to suppress dissenting opinions in the army.Therefore, after he motioned for everyone to be quiet, he nodded to the staff officer Zuo Yao, who immediately stepped forward and said to the generals: "According to His Majesty's order, the General Staff Headquarters has drawn up a soil grant order to reward those The meritorious soldiers who fought for the country..."

Zuo Xie opened the document in his hand, and read it in rhythmic rhythm.After the generals present heard this, some of them showed a gleam of joy, some remained blank, and some frowned tightly.

This land award order is exactly what Li Zicheng told Zhang Fengxiang and Lu Zhenfei last night. The brothers who rebelled with Li Zicheng in Chongzhen for three years, regardless of their official positions, will all grant [-] acres of land, and then use it according to the number of years. This method of granting land, which only considers years and regardless of official position, is naturally beneficial to the officers and soldiers at the bottom and not to the high-level.

But for the generals of the peasant army, they have not developed any special addiction to the land at this time. Although the peasant class has a strong desire for land, these generals of the peasant army who crawled out of the dead are still This desire can basically be suppressed.Because in their past combat experience, only continuous flow can survive and strengthen their own strength. Most of the forces that tried to stop farming in a certain place were wiped out or annexed by the official army or other rebels.

Therefore, they regard Li Zicheng's land grant order more as an honor than asking where their land is.But for those officers and generals who surrendered, although the land grant order is good, the land given to them is really too little.In fact, they felt that the method of granting soil to officers and soldiers equally was not correct. How could a general get the same amount of land as a soldier just because they were soldiers who surrendered on the same day.

Of course, the more sober generals will consider another issue. If the soldiers below know such a land division plan, can they continue to obey their orders?At this time, the land allocated to the soldiers suddenly became heavy.These lands are indeed too little for generals like them, but too much for a soldier.

Even the servants around them find it difficult to calm down in the face of such a plan of granting land.After all, the monthly salary, food, and clothing for the servants may not be less than the sum of the 200 mu of land rent in a year, but the land can be passed on to the family, and the treatment they give can only be used when the servants are useful, that is, They are at the best age, if they become disabled or die, their family will not get much pension.

Li Zicheng glanced at the expressions of the generals, and then said: "Do you have any opinions on this order of granting land? Afterwards, I will send this order to all the troops, and then listen to the soldiers. If everyone supports my opinion, then I will issue this decree on the order of Emperor Dashun."

Although Li Zicheng was asking for everyone's opinions, everyone felt that Li Zicheng was warning them not to object to the land granting order.Also, if this decree is still sent to the soldiers for comments, then their objections will reach the ears of the soldiers at the bottom.

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Li Zicheng waited for a long time, but in the end no one came forward to raise objections, so he said to the staff officer at the side, Zuo Yao: "Since there is no objection here, then copy and print the draft and distribute it to all armies. Ask them for their opinion on the grant of land."

Under the complicated gazes of the generals, Zuo Ye agreed and left to carry out Li Zicheng's order.Here Li Zicheng turned his head again, and said to the generals: "Then the second thing to talk about..."

Now the generals of the peasant army, including Zhang Nai, Li Jing, Wu Ruyi, Ta Tianbao, Ren Guangrong and so on, cheered up and were ready to accept Li Zicheng's order to attack Gao Jie's army.They didn't stand up to compete for the vanguard mission before, not because they didn't dare to undertake the vanguard mission, but because they felt that Li Zicheng would not entrust such an important mission to these untrustworthy surrender generals.

However, Li Zicheng's words surprised them again, "I said before that the Dashun army should understand who they are fighting for. After understanding this, let's talk about who is Dashun now Shun’s chief enemy. Zhang Nai, tell me, who should be my Da Shun’s chief enemy.”

Although he was a little surprised, Zhang Nai immediately calmed down after everyone turned their attention to him. After thinking for a while, he said: "It should be Jiannu, your majesty is the emperor, and the subjects of the world will naturally be protected by your majesty. Countless Chinese people have been killed outside the pass and inside the pass, and this is the number one enemy of our country at present.”

Li Zicheng nodded slightly, and said in praise: "Your Majesty Ying is right, my primary enemy in China is Jiannu, the others are just troubles of siblings, and Jiannu is China's confidant.