In the winter of the sixteenth year of the reign of Dashun, Arakan and Chittagong.

On the wide Gornopuri River, hundreds of warships of all sizes were moored one after another, end to end, from the newly completed Jida military port to the foot of the Jida Fort, which had also just been built.

These hundreds of warships were all Western-style sailing ships and Western-style galleys, the largest of which was seven or eight hundred deadweight tons, floating on the water like a castle! The small galleys also have hundreds of deadweight tons, slender hulls, and a combination of oars and sails, which are perfect for charging in the offshore and inland rivers!

If you carefully identify the flags on these Western-style warships, you can see that these Western-style warships actually belong to two countries. Among them, the flag of the Republic of the Netherlands is hoisted on the Western-style galleon, and a blue flag with the word "Chuang" is hoisted on the Western-style galleys - this is the flag of the Dashun Empire!

It's amazing, the Dashun Empire now has a real navy! From now on, they will no longer be scumbag rogues, but high-end pirates!

And the commander of this Dashun Pirate Army is the imperial grandson of the Dashun Empire, "One Piece" Li Jicheng.

On the wharf of Jida Military Port, "One Piece" Li Jicheng was walking with a young military attache of the same age as him. This young military attache is Luo Ke, the son of the Marquis of Tongguan, the son of Luo Hu, the former leader of Li Zicheng's children's battalion.

Luo Ke was transferred from the Shaanxi front, and his current official position is the deputy envoy of the Arakan Jiedu, because the Arakan Jiedu envoy was the original king, and now he has been moved to Ava by Li Jicheng, the grandson of the governor of Burma's military affairs. So Roko was the supreme governor of Arakan, and the cities of Chittagong and Myauu were under his rule.

Although he had been sent a good one, and he could stay away from the cloudy battlefield in the north, Luo Ke's brow did not unravel.

"Luo Ke, are you still worried about the war in Shaanxi? My grandson doesn't worry about it, you're just a Hou Shizi, what are you worried about? ”

Li Jicheng knew that Luo Ke's heart was still in Shaanxi - in fact, it was the same when he first came from Shaanxi! Although people have arrived in Myanmar, their hearts are still in Shaanxi. Every day, when I close my eyes, what I dream of is Qishan, Qiuchi Mountain, Wuzhangyuan, Monk's Yuan, Xihan Shui, Baishui River, Lianghekou Town, and Xigucheng...... Every place name is Li Jicheng's most unforgettable memory, because he fought in those places, and buried his comrades-in-arms and enemies in those places. He had enjoyed the joy of victory in those places, and he had wept of defeat in his heart.

Luo Ke smiled bitterly: "If the grandson really doesn't worry about it, why do you have to toss so many things out of Myanmar?" Even the fleet of sailors has a ......"

Li Jicheng, who was told what was on his mind, just exhaled lightly, "Luo Ke, what do you think?" Was my tossing in Burma in vain? ”

Luo Ke also sighed, "It's in vain, it depends on what the grandson wants?" He lowered his voice, "If you want to be the king in a corner of Myanmar and continue the Dashun bloodline, of course it is not in vain." But if Taisun wants to save the whole country with the income from running Myanmar......"

Li Jicheng frowned, "Is the situation really that grim?" ”

Luo Ke sighed again: "The front line in Shaanxi can still be supported, after all, after so many years of fighting, there are already fortresses and cottage passes everywhere, and it is not easy for anyone to break through." But my Dashun's national strength is gradually drying up! ”

"Not really, right?" Li Jicheng seemed to be unwilling, "The imperial court has insisted on it for so many years, hasn't it survived?" Now that Myanmar has made some gains here, it should be able to fill one or two, right? ”

Luo Ke shook his head: "The land of Bashu Yunnan is going to be exhausted!" In recent years, the granting of land has become more and more tight, and the imperial court has also begun to strictly limit rent, not allowing the government soldiers to overcharge, and I heard that the reform of sub-renting for public soldiers will also be implemented...... Now many government soldiers are already unable to make ends meet, and if they give another share to the government, I am afraid that they will go bankrupt in large numbers! ”

After all, Dashun is the foundation of the peasant regime, and the old people of the first generation are still there, and they are still sympathetic to the peasants, and there are also lessons from the subversion of Xiangyang Mansion and Nanyang Mansion because of the land issue. Therefore, after entering Sichuan, the Dashun regime still paid great attention to protecting the interests of the peasants, and at the beginning, it carried out the practice of granting land equally, and also left about 70% of the land for the peasants. Therefore, in the first ten years of Dashun's entry into Sichuan, there was really a little bit of a comfortable and well-off situation.

However, with the gradual growth of the second generation of government soldiers and the beginning of the long-term tug-of-war between Ming and Shun, the demand for land by the government soldiers increased, and the Dashun court had to carry out "re-equalization of land", taking the people's land to support the government soldiers - of course, the re-equalization of land is not a simple plunder, but the maximum consideration of the people's ability to bear the land redistribution.

The usual practice is to take and make up, take the people's mature land, and supplement the people's livelihood land; Take the people's flat fields and supplement the people's mountainous land; Take the people of Kawada and make up for the land of Burma. Moreover, the Dashun Imperial Court also repeatedly strictly restricted rents, strictly stuck the upper limit of the rent taken by the government soldiers at 30% of the land output, and also prohibited the eviction of tenants.

Since the rent collected by the Dashun court also accounts for about 20% of the land output (not the actual income of the imperial court, but the actual burden of the peasants), Zai Juntian is still affordable for the ordinary people in Sichuan and Yunnan.

However, because the government soldiers did not pay rent to the imperial court, the more land the government soldiers occupied, the less income the imperial court would have. As the number of soldiers in Dashun exceeded 600,000, the land rent income of the Dashun court was close to exhaustion, and the Dashun court, which had lost the land rent, had no way to support the long-term war.

Of course, the sub-lease of this public soldier is not nominally to divide the income of the soldiers' households, but to collect another rent from the peasants who rent the land of the soldiers, which is theoretically 10% of the yield per mu. Thirty percent plus one achievement is forty percent, and the rent to the imperial court is to bear the freight, and the grassroots officials of Dashun have to "eat" a little, so the actual burden is higher...... The peasants under the rule of the Great Shun Dynasty are afraid that they will become more and more miserable.

Li Jicheng frowned and said: "The rent limit is to support the people, if the rent is not limited, the government soldiers will not eat the small people and wipe them out?" If the soldiers force the people to rebel, our Dashun Dynasty will have internal and external troubles!

As for the sub-rent of the soldiers, there is no way, such a large imperial court has to eat and use, and military rations have to be supplied everywhere on the front line, and the income of industrial and commercial offices is too small, so the imperial court can only collect another share from the peasants...... If we can gain something from this trip to Tianzhu, the situation should improve. ”

"It's hard, it's hard!" Luo Kelian said three difficulties.

Li Jicheng looked at Luo Ke, "Difficult? What's so hard? Are you worried about robbing, no, it's not robbing, it's the landlords and corrupt officials in Tianzhu who are unwilling to help? ”

"That's not it," Luo Ke shook his head and said, "Taisun will definitely be able to return with a full load this time, but...... What the imperial court lacks now is not yellow and white things, but real food and materials!

Tianzhu is so far away from Sichuan and Shaanxi, and the salaries of Tianzhu's landlords and corrupt officials can't be transported! ”

Li Jicheng laughed: "E, I have already thought of a way, what I got in Tianzhu can be used to buy flintlock pistols from the Dutch, with flintlock pistols, our soldiers will be able to defeat Wu Sangui, if they can capture Shaanxi, the situation of Dashun will be opened!" ”

Hearing Li Jicheng say this, Luo Ke could only nod, but he didn't agree with Li Jicheng's idea very much in his heart.

Now the Shaanxi front line has long been full of fortresses, and it is not at all possible that tens of thousands of flintlock muskets can open up the situation.

Moreover, the main problem that Dashun is encountering now is not in the military, but in the fact that the land in Sichuan and Yunnan really cannot afford as many as 600,000 military households and the long-term Mingshun War!

At present, the foundation of the government military system implemented in Dashun is to raise soldiers from the land, and if the land with economic value can be won through war, then the government military system can be a virtuous circle. But the problem now is that Dashun's enemy, Daming, has succeeded in Zhongxing, and has adopted a conservative strategy of stubbornness, blocking Dashun in the mountains of Sichuan and Yunnan. And the long-term war has made Dashun's government soldiers viciously inflated, and if it goes on like this, sooner or later they will swell themselves to death!