Dashun Yongchang

Why do I say this, because the idea of ​​establishing slaves is to change Xia into barbarians, which can be seen from the fact that Chinese and foreign officers and soldiers who surrendered to establish slaves have to shave their hair forcibly.Jiannu regarded themselves as the Queen of the Jurchens and tried to turn China into the paradise of the Jurchens again. This is not just lip service, but they are doing the same.

From the time when the old slave Nurhachi raised his troops with the Seven Great Hatreds, to the end when Huang Taiji Yu Songjin encircled and wiped out the army that could fight in the north of the Ming Dynasty, Jiannu built a country with a population of one million in Liaodong today with a small clan of more than [-] people, and subdued the Mongolian kingdoms. Ministry, and broke through to occupy Beijing, its arrogance and arrogance can be said to be exposed.

If we continue to let this force go, and focus on the south, then Jiannu will inevitably stab us in the back, and eventually replicate the battle of Jin destroying the Northern Song Dynasty, but the south of the Yangtze River does not belong to us now, so if we If you lose, you will become a rogue with nowhere to stay.

Today is not the past. Since the establishment of Dashun, the family members of the army and the officials and people who have taken refuge in us have become responsibilities that cannot be abandoned. If we abandon them, the hearts of the army and the people will be lost.

Therefore, my Dashun must first defeat this arrogant enemy in the north, before I can calmly deal with the north and the south and lay the foundation of my Dashun.Once Jiannu is defeated, there will be no forces in the north that can compete with me, Dashun, and the southern provinces are currently in a state of their own, and no one has the authority to call on the south to be one.Not to mention, at this time Zhang Xianzhong was wreaking havoc in Sichuan, while the Ming troops in all provinces were just watching with cold eyes. From this we can see that the southern provinces are in chaos.

Therefore, as long as we eat Gao Jie's part, Ming's four towns in Jiangbei will be completely finished, and the only one in Jiangnan who has any strength is Zuo Liangyu in Wuchang.But Zuo Liangyu has no mutual trust with the Nanjing court now, and instead tries to unite with us to attack Nanjing in order to establish a new monarch.

I admit that Zuo Liangyu is a talent. If he is ten years younger and has the trust of Nanjing, then maybe he can do something.But now, once he leaves Wuchang, it may be difficult for him to go back..."

Qiu Lei in the corner seemed quite disturbed. Although he and Zuo Liangyu could be regarded as life-saving friends, he didn't owe Zuo Liangyu anything, and almost lost his head for the crime.After staying in the prison in Nanjing for so long, Qiu Lei also wanted to start a career now, but the Nanjing court really didn't seem to be able to accomplish anything, so after he voted for Li Zicheng, he was already ready to work for Li Zicheng.

Now hearing Li Zicheng's comments on his friend Zuo Liangyu, he also has mixed feelings in his heart, and some don't know which side he should stand on.It's just that he didn't notice his entanglement. Everyone listened to Li Zicheng's speech very seriously, because what Li Zicheng was talking about now was Dashun's future battle strategy. If he didn't listen carefully at this time, he would violate Li Zicheng's taboo in the future. It's just self-inflicted.

After briefly analyzing Dashun's current opponents and letting the generals know their priorities, Li Zicheng continued: "Although Jiannu is my Dashun's primary enemy, we can't think of the good thing that we can defeat the opponent once.

I, Dashun, started the army three years after Chongzhen, and I have been fighting for 14 years today. The combat experience of the soldiers can be regarded as rich.However, since Nurhachi rebelled against Ming Dynasty in 44 years of Wanli and established Houjin, Jiannu and Daming have been at war for 28 years.

Therefore, our primary enemy not only has much richer military experience than us, but even their construction in the Liaodong base area is much better than ours.If it is true, Dashun has only been established for less than a year. Except for the Jingzhou-Xiangyang and Guanzhong areas, there is no construction in other places.

It's not that I want to increase the prestige of others and destroy my own ambition.The current priority of my Dashun is not to fight Jiannu, but to implement the rule of Dashun to the counties and townships under my rule.If our roots cannot go deep into the counties and townships, then we cannot fully mobilize the population resources under our rule.

Although Jiannu is only a small country with a population of one million, they can fully mobilize the population of one million to serve the war.And I, Dashun, seem to have occupied the Central Plains and the Northwest, with tens of millions of people under my rule, but even one-tenth of the tens of millions of people may not be able to mobilize.

Therefore, what we need to do now is to gather the hearts of the people under our rule and let them support Dashun, so that the next battle with Jiannu will not cause too much loss. "

Li Zicheng paused, glanced at the generals around the sand table, and saw that all of them looked serious, and then he continued: "I won't talk to you about the policies of civil affairs that unite people's hearts. Political and I want to talk to you seriously about the policy of uniting people's hearts in the military.

I have also said that the policy of political unity is nothing more than protecting the people. Only when the people feel the protection of the country will they realize that they are a member of the country.If a country treats its people as slaves and slaves, and treats them as playthings to please barbarians and foreigners, then it is impossible for the people of this country to love it.

Therefore, in terms of military affairs, we must submit to political opinions.In other words, a country's military operations should be based on protecting the interests of the people, rather than deciding wars based on the honor of the monarch and certain moral principles.

As for the current target of combat to protect the interests of the people, the number one target is to build slaves, followed by the Gao Jie army in front of us, and then the barbarians who killed our Chinese overseas.So what I want to discuss with you today is not only about fighting against Gao Jie’s army, but also about the crusade against barbarians who killed Chinese overseas.

Before, several generals showed great enthusiasm and tried to conquer Gao Jie's army for me, and I was very happy.However, I hope that you will continue to work hard to defend the interests of the people of our country and continue to conquer those overseas barbarians..."

Li Zicheng suddenly stopped to look at Xu Dingguo while speaking, and then praised sincerely: "Old general Xu is indeed a young man, and this time you are the one who is ahead of others. You really are my Lianpo."

"..." Xu Dingguo looked around in a daze, only to realize that the generals who had been closely surrounding Li Zicheng all took a small step back in unison, and then exposed him at once.He could really swear to God that he really didn't move a step just now, so those generals must have taken a step back, and the other one who didn't move was Zhang Nai next to Li Zicheng. Of course, he couldn't expect Li Zicheng to let Zhang Nai go to sea. To conquer the barbarians.

Xu Dingguo really wanted to deny it, but before he could say anything, the generals around him followed Li Zicheng's tone and praised him one by one.

Although his teeth itched with hatred for these colleagues around him, Xu Dingguo calmed down and made an excuse to Li Zicheng: "I am heartbroken after listening to your majesty's description of these overseas barbarians. That is, I am a landlubber." , I don’t know water at all, I’m afraid it’s not the opponents of those barbarians at sea..."

Li Zicheng immediately stopped him and said, "General Xu, you don't have to worry about this, I have already negotiated with General Zheng in Fujian, they will handle the battle at sea, and we will be responsible for the land battle.

Our goal this year is to take back the northern part of Taiwan. In the past, Taiwan was occupied by the Dutch and the Spaniards.However, the Dutch drove away the Spaniards stationed in northern Taiwan two years ago. I heard that it was because the Spaniards discovered a large gold mine in Taipei.

After the old general took over northern Taiwan, his first task was to find this gold mine.The imperial court gets 5%, the veteran general gets 2%, and the remaining 3% goes to the soldiers.In addition, after the soldiers of this expedition take Taiwan, they can grant soil in Taiwan. The award of raw land is tripled, and the amount of cultivated land is awarded twice.What did the old general think? "

Xu Dingguo never thought that Li Zicheng was fooling himself. He really thought that Taiwan had discovered a big gold mine, so Li Zicheng thought of sending troops to Taiwan.Also, if it is not for the gold mine, is it true that Li Zicheng sent troops to Taiwan to defend overseas Chinese?It's impossible even if you think about it.At this moment, his whole-hearted resistance suddenly became hot.

Chapter 206 New Deal 21

Seeing the benefits, Xu Dingguo was no longer as resistant to going to sea to fight as before, but he still asked Li Zicheng out of a cautious attitude: "How many Dutch people are there in Taiwan?"

Except for a small number of maritime merchants on the southeast coast, most Chinese at this time imagined overseas barbarians as ethnic minorities on the grasslands or in the southwest mountainous areas. Raise some livestock, but the places where they are located are not suitable for farming, which means they are not suitable for living.

This concept of using land as a standard to measure whether it is suitable for farming has become an instinct in the minds of the Chinese people. Even after hundreds of years, there are still some people who believe that overseas desert islands cannot be cultivated. farming, so useless for China.

Well, they also infer from this that overseas colonization is an unprofitable investment because they cannot farm land, so China failed to start the colonial era.In addition, the overseas colonies are all miasma-filled forests, so there are too many dead people to colonize.

But actually?Today's Hunan and Guizhou are also covered with vast expanses of forests, and it is normal to see no human habitation within a thousand miles.But in the next 200 years, these places were reclaimed, and at this time they kept silent about how many people died in the reclaiming of these inland areas.

The most ridiculous thing is that from Taiwan, Luzon, Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and even California on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, most of the fertile land and plantations were reclaimed by the Chinese.

So there are some weird talks like this. When colonizing overseas wasteland for themselves, there are always some people who shout that human life is precious, so overseas colonization is impossible. When the Chinese become slaves to colonize for European colonists, They also smugly declared that the civilization of these places was due to the Chinese.

The tone of these people is that the territory of New China is inherited from the Qing Dynasty. Without the Qing Dynasty, it would not be able to conquer such a large territory. Let alone this tone of national oppression, they just deny the Qing army. The fact that the green battalion and logistics are supported by the Han people is actually advocating racial discrimination that the Han people can only conquer the frontier minorities if they serve as slaves to the Manchus.

But in fact, the Chinese in the Ming Dynasty always regarded overseas as a barren land, and believed that the best place in the world was in China, and the best place in China was in Jiangnan, so they would rather stay in Jiangnan as slaves than run away The frontier opens up wasteland.Even a rebel leader like Zhang Xianzhong complained from time to time, thinking that being a rebel leader is not as happy as being a Nanjing cloth merchant.

Xu Dingguo would not have seriously considered going to Taiwan to fight if he hadn't been forced to do nothing now, but he really didn't know anything about overseas affairs, so he still asked Li Zicheng for advice nervously.

For the first person to eat crabs, Li Zicheng naturally wanted to comfort him with kind words. He said gently to Xu Dingguo: "According to Fujian Zongbing's introduction, there are more than 10 natives in Taiwan, and [-] to [-] Han people. As for the Dutch It all adds up to about a thousand.

The Dutch’s stronghold is Dayuan Port in Tainan, and the Han people live in the surrounding areas of Dayuan. At first, everyone lived in peace, but after the Dutch controlled the [-] to [-] natives in Tainan, they collected taxes from the Han people. This time They also attacked northern Taiwan and expelled the Spaniards from Taiwan.

We will not attack Tainan for the time being, but only want to control the northern part of Taiwan, especially the big river in the northern part of the island.Therefore, the enemies you have to deal with are only a few hundred Dutchmen and one or two thousand native mercenaries. The Dutch have armor and guns, while the natives mainly have bows, arrows, machetes and other weapons, and have no armor..."

After listening to Li Zicheng's introduction, Xu Dingguo immediately felt relieved. This task does not seem to be a difficult task, it is much easier than fighting the Qing army and Gao Jie army, and the reward is also very generous.Just when he was about to accept the order, Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing suddenly said: "Your Majesty, Old General Xu is so old. Although he has the ambition to be honest, he may not have the ability to be honest. The overseas turmoil is dangerous. , it would be better to send younger generals to go to war..."

When Xu Dingguo heard this, he was furious. He just heard that he was going to send troops overseas, and everyone hid behind him. Now that he heard that there was gold and his opponents were weak, he jumped out one by one. He really regarded him as a stick ?

But before he got angry with these colleagues, Li Zicheng had already stopped his words, and said to the generals: "Everyone, don't worry, there are many opportunities to go overseas to defend the interests of the people. Taiwan is actually a place where the interests of our people are relatively small.

The biggest loss to the interests of our people was in Luzon Island occupied by the Spaniards. The Spaniards massacred Chinese immigrants twice in Manila, each time as many as 3 to [-] people. Do you know? "

Quite a few of the generals nodded their heads. In recent days, Li Zicheng would mention the Spanish massacre in Manila almost every time he held a military council meeting.Some people may feel angry, but those veterans who are used to seeing death feel that this is not a big deal. After all, after a battle in the north these years, thousands of people did not die that time, and it is even more difficult for civilians to die. Counted up.

But after Li Zicheng glanced at everyone, he went on to say: "The Han Chinese who were massacred in Manila were all engaged in local business. The Spaniards robbed tens of millions of taels of silver just by relying on this massacre. Shall we let those Spaniards swallow this money?"

Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing subconsciously clenched their fists and shouted, "Of course not, at least we have to get the money back."

Looking at the looks of most of the surrendering generals eager to try, it is obvious that this is much more serious than just taking the initiative to fight against Gao Jiejun. Li Zicheng coughed lightly to calm these people down, and then continued: "The court just wants to fight Gao Jiejun." To seek justice for the people, so the city of Manila was conquered, and half of all the seizures were handed over to the court. The other half was divided into 2% for the generals and 3% for the soldiers. Similarly, all soldiers who participated in the Manila crusade were given priority in the distribution of local land , the raw land is 3 times the soil grant area, and the cultivated land is 2 times..."

Because Li Zicheng contacted and threw out two heavy propositions, when Li Zicheng talked about the deployment of attacking Gao Jie's army, everyone became quiet instead, and everyone was thinking about granting land orders and overseas crusades. Gao Jiejun's enthusiasm has dropped a lot.

When the military council meeting was over, Li Laiheng was standing at the door and heard Liu Zeqing and his subordinates happily say: "It turns out that the people's interests are protected in this way...so your majesty is your majesty..."

When he followed Li Zicheng out of the courtyard of the General Staff Headquarters, Li Laiheng couldn't help but asked Li Zicheng: "Your Majesty, is it really good to lure them to sea with benefits? These people probably don't really want to protect the interests of the people."

Li Zicheng didn't turn his head back, he just answered him so bluntly, "Removing them from China is my way of protecting the interests of the people."

Li Laiheng was still thinking about Li Zicheng's intentions, but when he saw that he had turned into the Quartermaster Office next to the General Staff Headquarters, he quickly followed.Seeing Li Zicheng's arrival, several people in the Military Supplies Department hurried out of the house to greet him.

Li Zicheng walked into the room to look around, and then found a place to sit down in the main room, and then said to the staff standing aside: "Sit down, sit down, there is no need to be so restrained. From now on, everyone will work together , If you talk about etiquette like this, you won't be able to do much in a day, I hope you will spend your precious time on work, because your future tasks will be very heavy."

Wu Yiqing, Tang Diaoding and others looked at each other, then obeyed Li Zicheng's order, found a chair and sat down.Only then did Li Zicheng look at Wu Yiqing and the others and said, "The main reason for transferring you guys from Huai'an is because of the lack of manpower in the Marshal's Mansion.

At present, there are people responsible for the dispatch of military supplies within the Shun Army, but there is no one responsible for the distribution of materials between the Marshal's Mansion and the outside world. I don't plan to use the Ming method to collect materials.In my opinion, that kind of forced expropriation will only destroy the market and is completely unsustainable.

People have to live to be able to work and produce, and only to create value through labor and production.To bankrupt the people is a way of fishing out the water, not a long-term solution.That's why I want to establish a specialized organization led by the Marshal's Mansion to allocate materials with the outside world.

The focus of this organization is to reduce the cost of military supplies through unified procurement, but at the same time allow merchants and the public to obtain reasonable remuneration; secondly, by calculating the distance of the route, reasonably dispatch materials to reduce transportation costs.If necessary, you can invest in the construction of roads, bridges, tunnels, and ports to reduce the burden of transportation...

Do any of you understand the business of the Quartermaster Office? "

Wu Yiqing lowered his head and thought for a while and asked, "I understand, but where should I start?"

Li Zicheng nodded approvingly and said: "This is a good question. At present, you will take over the water warehouse along the canal first, and the Statistics Department will hand over the relevant information to you. In addition, in addition to you, the Statistics Department will also allocate some people to you , You can also recommend capable people, in short, first master the storage and tank ships on the canal line.

Then, your first task is to prepare materials for the expedition to Taiwan. The General Staff Headquarters will hand over the list of conventional materials to you. You only need to purchase according to the list they provided.

The only problem is that for the list of unconventional materials, Taiwan is a wasteland that has not been developed overseas, so we must prepare our soldiers for epidemic prevention.This requires you to discuss with the military medical office, ask about the medicines and anti-mosquito equipment needed for field camping, and then discuss with the staff headquarters about the quantity to be prepared.

Of course, the most important thing at present is to vaccinate against smallpox. According to the report of the Military Medical Office in the past few months, although we have not yet proved whether vaccinia can really prevent smallpox, the safety of vaccinia has been verified.Therefore, next, you must cooperate with the Military Medical Office to vaccinate those troops who are going to Taiwan..."

Chapter 207 New Deal 22

When Li Zicheng and Wu Yiqing explained the work of the Quartermaster Office, although Tang Tiaoding sat there bowing his head and listening in trepidation, his mind had already begun to wander.

This time, he was transferred to Yangzhou Capital Marshal's Mansion together with Wu Yiqing, which was indeed a bit of a surprise for him.It's not surprising that Wu Yiqing was remembered by Li Zicheng. Although Wu Yiqing came from a poor family, he has a strong knowledge and knowledge, and is quite impressive in miscellaneous studies. He is tactful but persistent in dealing with people, so he discusses matters in Huai'an. Among the members of the council, they gradually gained some influence.

If it was during the Taiping Festival, if Wu Yiqing wanted to make a sound in the local area, he would at least have to wait for his title on the gold list.After all, in my Ming Dynasty, the local government only recognizes two things: power and money. As for talent and learning, it really doesn’t matter. There are too many talented people in the world. There will be people of literature touting them.

But if you want to do something in the local area, you can’t just speak the vernacular. Either you can persuade the imperial court to allocate funds, or you have money to subsidize it yourself. As for you want to do something good for your hometown with your own talents, but you have to If the gentry paid for it, then everyone would not do it either.Why use your own money to promote your name, just because you want to do good?

Therefore, in the past, Tang Tiaoding didn't take these humble scholars to heart, because Daming is no longer the era when these humble scholars can stand out.Unless they can cling to an excellent teacher, but at the same time they become famous, they also become the thugs of the division. If they can't charge for the division, why should they support you?

Donglin, Fushe, and even the local Wenshe in Huai'an have such a group of scholars from poor families.They need the support of the wealthy people in the agency to promote their reputations. In return, they become the voices of these rich people, writing articles for them to attack their opponents or saying things that are not convenient for them.

As a prominent family in Huaiyin, Tang Diaoding naturally didn't need to pay attention to a humble scholar like Wu Yiqing, unless the other party passed the Jinshi examination.But who would have thought that Daming, who seemed to have suffered from a serious illness, would actually die.Although the north has indeed been like hell for more than ten years, the south of Ming Dynasty is still a peaceful life, that is, the drought broke out in the past two years, but the local gentry took action to quell the disaster without the court's intervention, although some died people, but the local order has not been destroyed.

Even though Tang Tiaoding and his father often talked about the decline of Ming Dynasty in private at home, they didn't think that Ming Dynasty would fall now, because as long as Emperor Chongzhen moved from the north to the south, it could last at least another 200 years.

After all, while losing the land in the north, Daming also unloaded a big burden.Since Emperor Chengzu moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijing, one of the biggest problems caused was that it greatly increased the burden on the people in the south of the Yangtze River.

Although Ming's taxes did not increase much after the capital was moved, under the system established by Emperor Taizu, sending taxes to Nanjing was the same as sending taxes to Beijing, which had to be borne by the people.There are regulations on the taxation of the imperial court, but there is no limit to the transportation cost. After the officials on the canal began to extort money from the water transport ships, the grain transported from Jiangnan to Beijing during the Chongzhen period was 1 shi for every regular tax. And other expenses reached eight or nine shi.

Tang Diaoding heard his father say such a thing. The Taicang Wang family, known as the No. 11 family in the south of the Yangtze River, took the turn of the grain chief in the 12th year of Chongzhen. Wang Shimin asked for leave to go home and personally escorted grain to Beijing.In the [-]th year of Chongzhen, Wang Shimin escorted a grain ship to Beijing, because a grain ship sank on the way.It is the year of compensation for the grain and grain, and then reaches ten thousand gold.The field is not for sale, and all the clothing, wine and utensils are returned to the quality warehouse. It is indescribable.

The Wang family, known as the No. [-] family in the south of the Yangtze River, was devastated by transporting grain, and those ordinary families would only go bankrupt once they transported grain.What's more, if the pro-democracy campaign once carried out Beijing's grain, it would inevitably miss the spring plowing in the second year. Therefore, the people not only had to pay extra transportation costs, but also lost more than a year's income.

Because of this, the Jiangnan people were not really sad about the destruction of Beijing. They were terrified that the emperor did not escape from the capital, and that there was no one in the Ming Dynasty to make decisions.If Emperor Chongzhen was able to flee to the south without hesitation that day, the people in the south would not criticize the emperor because of this, but would be relieved because the emperor moved south to reduce their burden.

Therefore, when the news of Emperor Chongzhen's martyrdom reached Huai'an, he discussed with his father for a long time, thinking that Emperor Chongzhen had never grasped the key points of the matter during the 17 years since he ascended the throne. No, in the end, he and Daming were buried in it instead.

For Yongchang Emperor Li Zicheng, the father and son just admired his indomitable fighting spirit at first. Except for Li Zicheng in the peasant army, everyone else surrendered to the court.From this point of view, it is not a fluke that Li Zicheng was able to break into Beijing.

However, regarding Li Zicheng's stupid tricks after entering Beijing, the father and son felt that Emperor Yongchang was nothing more than Zhu Wen and his like.It wasn't until Li Zicheng chose to go south after abandoning Beijing instead of returning to his hometown in Shaanxi, where there are four fortresses, that they felt that there seemed to be some unknown change in the emperor of Dashun.

Huai'an is located between the north and the south, and as a hub of water transportation, the news here is far more than that in the south.Even if Tang's father and son don't deliberately collect information, merchants and officials traveling from north to south will bring some information to Huai'an.Therefore, they are quite clear about Li Zicheng's past deeds, and therefore after Li Zicheng gave up Beijing, both father and son judged that Li Zicheng would inevitably return his entire army from Shanxi to Guanzhong.

Because the areas where Li Zicheng fought in the past did not go out of Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi, and Jingxiang. Strictly speaking, Li Zicheng has always revolved around the Qinling Mountains, and seems to regard the Qinling Mountains as his safe nest.

After all, the Qinling Mountains lie between the Guanzhong Plain and the Han River Valley to the south, and are also the watershed of the four rivers of the Jialing River, Luo River, Wei River, and Han River.To the north are Gansu and Shaanxi, to the east are Henan and Huguang, to the south is Sichuan, and there are many old forests in the mountains, so it is difficult for the officers and soldiers to track down the whereabouts of the rebels.This is also the root cause of Li Zicheng's repeated defeats and battles in the past, but he was always able to recover.

Going south was really not a good choice for Li Zicheng, because the line of the canal was the lifeline of the Ming Dynasty, so no matter how violent the peasant army was, it could not cut off this transportation route.It was the Manchus who really dealt a devastating blow to the towns along the canal. The Manchus relied on massacres and relocation of population, and forcibly destroyed more than half of the eastern section of the canal. The so-called prosperous Linqing City was burned and killed by the Manchus. white ground.

Therefore, most of the towns along the canal were loyal to the Ming Dynasty, while the places south of the Huai River and close to the Yangtze River were even more opposed to the peasant army.It can be said that if Li Zicheng hadn't brought the prince and the first emperor's Zigong with him, the people in these places would not support the Shun army.Compared with Shanxi's internal and external mountains and rivers, Henan and Shandong actually do not have much geographical advantage in defense. Therefore, once Li Zicheng loses in Henan and Shandong, Nandu may stab him in the back.

Even Tang Risheng, the father of Tang Tiaoding, believed that Li Zicheng was desperate to go south, even if he easily subdued three towns and was about to force the last town to surrender.The four Jiangbei towns are not an army capable of fighting tough battles. If they can surrender to Li Zicheng today, they will naturally surrender to the Manchus tomorrow.Therefore, Li Zicheng looks very beautiful now, but in fact he is also dangerous.

However, in such a crisis, Tang Risheng also admired Li Zicheng's ability to adjust the local power structure without haste.He said to Tang Diaoding like this: "Although the new policy of the Marshal's Mansion has caused us gentry to suffer a bit, from the standpoint of the country, it is impossible for the gentry not to make concessions.

The wealth, land, and population of the world belong to our generation. If the new ruler does not want to take the wealth, land, and population from us gentry, but only cares about appeasing us, then this new dynasty will not be able to survive.Emperor Yongchang can see this, which shows that he does have the appearance of a monarch.

However, not every gentry in the world can understand it as well as we can see. They still live in the old era and think that their current life is justified, and if the court competes with the people for profit, it is treacherous.What's more, now that Emperor Yongchang has not been recognized by the subjects of the world, it is even more impossible for these gentry to obey the New Deal he issued.

Therefore, my family doesn't have to go too close to the Marshal's Mansion. We can obey the orders of the Marshal's Mansion. We pay for the food that should be handed over, and we pay for the labor that is assigned to us.However, before Emperor Yongchang and Bei Mian have decided the outcome, my family does not have to put our wealth and life on it.Wait a minute, take a look, and then talk. "

When he was thinking about his father's explanation to himself, Li Zicheng suddenly turned to him and asked, "You Jun, what do you think about arranging the army to be inoculated with vaccinia?"

Tang Tiaoding quickly withdrew his mind, calmed down and said calmly: "Return to Your Majesty, since the vaccinia vaccination technology has been successful, why not test it on the common people first? This way the army can feel at ease, and the common people can also get protection." The benefits of acne.

The land in the south of the Yangtze River has always been a place where smallpox outbreaks frequently occur. If your majesty can spread vaccinia vaccination, the people in the south of the Yangtze River will definitely belong to your majesty. This is exactly killing two birds with one stone. "

Li Zicheng nodded, but shook his head again and said: "Vaccinia vaccination is successful, but we have not found a way to quickly manufacture vaccines. Under such circumstances, it is easy to promote vaccinia vaccination to the people. If the vaccines produced cannot keep up , then we will be complained by the people instead; if there is a problem with the vaccine, it will increase the panic of the people, which is obviously not a good choice.

Let the army start the vaccination first. On the one hand, it can train the vaccinated manpower first, and on the other hand, it can test the safety of the vaccinia vaccine on a larger scale.If there is no problem with the army, it will be more convenient to vaccinate the people next.At that time, even if there are some who are not suitable, it will not cause panic among the whole.But your suggestion is still good…”

Chapter 208 New Deal 23

Compared with several other colleagues, Huai'an Juren Zhang Xinbiao is more concerned about the question of "when to start a course to obtain a scholar".Li Zicheng also felt a little helpless about this. Although he has not been in this era for a long time, he can also feel the enthusiasm of those scholars for the imperial examination.

This is like a later generation of online game companies changing bosses, but what players are most concerned about is not the future development of the company, but whether their character levels can be preserved, whether there are major changes in their careers, and so on.

Indeed, the continuous alienation of the imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years has led to the fact that the imperial examinations are no longer an exam for the emperor to select assistants, but an exam to determine who can be a master.This is also the reason why most officials surrendered directly to Dashun after the city of Beijing was broken, and few of them died for the Ming Dynasty.

If it wasn't for Dashun's policy of recovering stolen goods and subsidizing salaries, which directly violated the interests of these masters, and made these officials and gentry think that Dashun had no intention of inheriting the tradition of preferential treatment for scholars in Ming Dynasty, then everyone would not miss Emperor Chongzhen scene.Strictly speaking, what they miss is not Chongzhen, but their status as masters in the Ming Dynasty.

And after Dashun won the area from Huai'an to Yangzhou, on the surface, Dashun is at least a big country with the Northwest and the Central Plains. Ming Dynasty candidates like Zhang Xinbiao naturally want to continue their imperial examination process , I realized my dream of being a Jinshi in Dashun.Passing such an examination can not only gain recognition of their status in the Dashun Dynasty, but also whitewash their experience in the Ming Dynasty. From then on, they are no longer Daming Juren with undetermined status, but Dashun Jinshi with a clear identity up.

Someone who just traveled over here planned to adopt the school system to replace the imperial examination system. The replacement here refers to the complete abolition of the imperial examination system.But this idea cannot be accepted by even the most radical advocates of the reform of the imperial examination system. They believe that the eight-part essay should be abolished, because the eight-part essay is not beneficial to the country, but they firmly oppose the abolition of the imperial examination system.

Even those scholars who introduced Western learning to improve Confucianism believed that the imperial examination system cannot be abolished, because Jinshi status is the greatest honor for scholars, and abolishing the imperial examination system would be an enemy of scholars all over the world.What's more, in order to be a Jinshi, some people have even studied hard for decades. In the end, if the emperor is changed, their past investment will be in vain. How can this be reconciled?

Seeing so many scholars objecting, someone finally understood it. This is the same as later generations. Everyone knows that a large proportion of English in the college entrance examination is completely meaningless, because those who are capable of studying abroad will not learn foreign languages, or simply do not. It is necessary to learn foreign languages, so everyone is complaining that English accounts for too much in the college entrance examination, but when someone really wants to abolish English in the college entrance examination, they are opposed by countless people, because the sunk cost of learning English is too high, and the abolition of the college entrance examination English in Chinese is equivalent to wasting time and money of many people learning English, which is of course unacceptable.

The same is true of the imperial examination system. Everyone does not think that the imperial examination system can produce talents, but everyone opposes the abolition of the imperial examination system, because they have already invested too much cost for the imperial examination system. Canceling the imperial examination system is equivalent to letting them invest time and money. It's all in vain. When this is a matter of self-interest, people will definitely choose options that are beneficial to themselves, not to the option that is beneficial to the country and the public.

Therefore, although Li Zicheng did not feel that now is the occasion and opportunity to talk about the restoration of the imperial examination system, he still calmly explained Zhang Xinbiao's question: "It is natural that the imperial examination system will be restored, but people's hearts have not yet settled down. Convening the imperial examination will only make those scholars in remote areas lose a chance to take a subject, so I want to wait a little longer, wait until I drive Jiannu back to the north, and then hold the imperial examination.

Of course, under the current situation, not holding the imperial examination does not mean that the imperial court does not need people, we still have to use people.However, for the time being, we will not select talents in the form of imperial examinations, but will invite some personnel to work for the imperial court through the recommendation system and the employment system. These personnel will set up a separate subject for the examination at that time, which is different from the common civil examination..."

Although they did not get a positive answer from Li Zicheng, the spirits of Zhang Xinbiao and others were still lifted.After all, their vision cannot be compared with figures like Wu Yiqing and Tang Diaoding. They can only see what is in front of them. Therefore, after the Shun Army easily captured Huai'an and regained the three towns in Jiangbei, they all thought that the Shun Army had already taken over. Standing still, the relationship between Dashun and Nandu is the relationship between Song and Southern Tang. As for the Jiannu in the north, they are still just barbarians.

From this point of view, persuading Li Zicheng to open a course to obtain a scholar and end all the chaos since Chongzhen's ascension to the throne has become the most urgent idea of ​​these scholars.This kind of idea of ​​not caring who is the emperor, as long as the world is peaceful, still has a lot of market among the northern people.Of course, this is also due to various natural disasters and man-made disasters in the north. After realizing that in the face of armed forces, ordinary people are just pigs and sheep waiting to be slaughtered. up.

At this time, only the people in the south of the Yangtze River who are still enjoying a peaceful life have the simple thought that Han and thief are not equal.Of course, this common people does not include the servants in the south of the Yangtze River. The servants who are oppressed by the gentry all look forward to being able to teach these old masters a good lesson after changing the world.

Coming out of the yard, Li Zicheng paused and asked Li Laiheng beside him, "Have you sent the letter to Cihong?"