The words were said in a tough way, and they immediately aroused the echoing voices of the relatives and nobles present. However, most of those who echoed it were also characters who ate the shadow of their parents and ancestors, and they did not have much understanding of the current problems of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, especially the predicament of the Eight Banners. More often than not, we are still obsessed with the glory and glory of the past, the glory and glory built on the blood and tears of the peoples of East Asia.

There are many people who are familiar with the practice, and they also have a deep understanding of the current situation.

In fact, as early as the sixth year of Yongli, with the great counterattack organized by the Ming army in the southwest and the fierce battle of Zheng Chenggong in southern Fujian, the Qing court had already felt the strong resistance from the major anti-Qing forces, or the Han people. Potential anti-Qing activists in various places began to show signs of imminent movement, and some even directly provoked a banner to fight against the Qing court. For example, the Korean courtiers believed that the Qing Dynasty "had seen the signs of its demise", and Japan originally had a cold attitude towards the beggars of the Southern Ming Dynasty. ”

The problem of the Manchu Qing's own core population base appeared, and the environment at home and abroad began to deteriorate, even if they won the battle of Zhoujiapu, it only curbed Sun Kewang's offensive pace. As for Li Dingguo's offensive against Zhaoqing, he could only take a defensive position.

For this reason, the Qing court immediately made a targeted response strategy. Hong Chengchou served as the Southwest Economic Strategy and vigorously appeased Zheng Chenggong, these are the most obvious things. In addition, they made economic concessions to alleviate the intensity of economic oppression in some areas where anti-Qing activities were more intense, such as exempting Hunan from arrears of money and grain for up to four years for sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth years of the "Kou Famine" in April of the 10th year of Shunzhi, and the arrears of money and grain in Fujian.

While economic repression is easing, politically they are also unleashing a relaxed attitude. Standing on the side, the progressive hereditary first-class uncle, promoted to the Minister of the Interior, and the Minister of Parliament, the General Manager of the Internal Affairs Office, was the chief minister of the Shunzhi Dynasty, Shunzhi's cronies and important ministers, he clearly remembered that when the news of Li Dingguo's two famous kings caused local commotion, the Qing court also did not hesitate to issue "Since May 25, the tenth year of Shunzhi, all those who have gathered in the mountains and forests to rob the roads and have been bandits, regardless of the number of people and the size of the criminals, can sincerely repent, surrender to sincerity, and be allowed to pardon the former sins according to the example of Cao Sidazi" In this way, in the name of forgiveness, the edict to dismantle the resistance forces.

Even, under the guise of advocating courtesy, righteousness, loyalty and forgiveness, the Qing court unexpectedly commended Li Zicheng for his martyrdom when he captured Beijing and the martyrs of Shunzhi Yuan and the Qing Dynasty in the second year.

In the final analysis, these were the measures taken by the Qing court to deal with the situation when the situation was unfavorable. In this regard, they are far more flexible than the Ming court, with a variety of tricks and methods. What's more, they respected and sacrificed Confucius in the Han Dynasty to create an orthodox dynasty posture. For Mongolia and Tibet, it is to worship the Yellow Religion as a link, which is to "rejuvenate the Yellow Religion and soften Mongolia and Tibet". According to the characteristics of different regions, completely different implementation strategies are implemented.

The current situation is even worse than three years ago, and now that Chen Kai's life cannot be found, then he can only make a strategy as soon as possible, at least to make more adequate preparations before the Ming army eases up.

"The four provinces of Nanjiang, Huguang, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang should send additional troops, and transfer more green battalions from the north to ensure the defense of these two places first, and then consider other things."

"The situation in Shaanxi has eased in recent years, and some of it can be transferred to the past. On the Shanxi side, since Jiang Pina Han dog is finished, it has also been relatively stopped. There are also Zhili, Shandong and Henan, and some can also be drawn. However, it can't be too much, otherwise it won't be able to deter the locals, and it may also make those Mongols in Monan think. ”

"Just tell the military department to do this." The Minister of Parliament is not only Shunzhi's cronies, the backbone of the Two Yellow Banners, but his mother is Nurhachi's daughter. His temperament is not as radical and upright as Aobai, nor is he as thoughtful as Sony, left and right, and there is always a little cautiousness. However, his status is far more valuable than that of Ao Bai and Sony, who are also ministers of parliament, and there is still a lot of weight in speaking in front of the Eight Banners relatives.

Kubilong casually set the tone for this matter, and the rest of the matter was nothing more than to hand it over to the Manshangshu Gadahun of the Ministry of War to deal with and dispatch, as for the Han Shangshu Li Jiqi of the Ministry of War, according to the system of the Qing court, it was just a decoration to accompany the food and painting, and it was nothing more than a notification, and there was no need for him to go.

Here, the matter of troop transfer has further eyebrows, and Curb Pilon has no intention of continuing. However, things are not so simple, and there are some things that may be responsible, and Curb Pilon did not take the lead, but Ao Bai couldn't sit still.

"Your Majesty, the two feudal domains of Pingnan and Jingnan, which guarded Guangdong, were destroyed, but there are still remnants of the two feudal domains. How to deal with these two feudal domains, the slave thought that there was still a need to discuss. ”

Ao Bai said this, and there was a sudden silence in the hall, and then some Eight Banners relatives jumped out to accuse Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao, two minions, of misleading the country, causing Guangdong to fall into the hands of the Ming army, and even with that Zhu Mala failed to end well. In contrast, there are still people on Zhumala's side who defend it, after all, they are all Manchurian Eight Banners, but none of Shang Geng's two feudal domains have said good things, and even more, many of them directly blame the defeat on Shang Geng's two feudal domains. There is no way, who let them fail to solve Chen Kai in the past few years, which led to Li Dingguo's army marching eastward, and Chen Kai jumped out to cooperate with him.

Deliberation turned into an accusation meeting almost instantly. From the time Shang Kexi and Geng Zhongming took in the fugitives when they went south, the relatives and nobles who were full of resentment against them opened a chatterbox, venting their dissatisfaction with the two vassal kings one by one. Even, later, some people went to dig over the old accounts of the Dongjiang Army era, which was very indignant.

In this way, it is indeed not an atmosphere of discussing things, Shunzhi has already discussed this with a few cronies such as Aobai, Sony, and Suppilon, and seeing this, he simply coughed dryly, and immediately Aobai jumped out like the eagle dog of the protector to stop the complaints of these guys.

"Shang Geng's two feudal domains have contributed to the Qing Dynasty after all, which the first emperor has already made clear. What's more, this issue is not only a matter of these two feudatories, it involves a lot, and I hope that you can think about it carefully. ”

Here, what Shunzhi pointed out, everyone here naturally did not understand. The losses of the two feudal domains of Pingnan and Jingnan were so huge that their backbones had already been broken, and even the leaders no longer existed. The rest are nothing more than some scattered characters, and generally speaking, it is enough to ban them directly. But the problem now is that in addition to these two feudatories, there are also such as King Pingxi, Duke Xu Shun and a family that only one daughter is left after the death of the Qing court, but the Dingnan Domain, where the generals under his command are still there, has an improper handling of the two feudal domains, which is likely to lead to the collective chill of other Han powerful factions and even Han generals everywhere.

Nowadays, it is no longer the era when the Eight Banners Army conquered the world. After several years of struggle, the gap between the Ming army and the Eight Banners Army in terms of combat effectiveness has become smaller and smaller, especially the large-scale anti-Qing forces such as the Southwest Ming Army and the Zheng Group. There is the growth of the strength of the Ming army, and there is also the decline of the Eight Banners Army, under which they need to rely on the strength of the Han people to check and balance, or suppress the Han people, even if the so-called Han is used to control the Han.

Shunzhi's words caused these Eight Banners magnates to think deeply, and even those relatives and nobles who held the "Eight Banners are invincible" argument were more or less restrained. The discussion began to gradually return to rationality, but as it became so rational, there were more and more problems.

"The situation of the Pingnan and Jingnan domains is not the same, and the situation of the Dingnan domain is also uneven. Besides, the imperial court has just removed Shen Yongzhong's title, so I am afraid that it is not appropriate to make a big move at this time. ”

Shen Yongzhong was removed because his performance on the battlefield in Hunan was too bad earlier, which was three years ago, but the Qing court waited until three years later to move him, also out of fear of causing turmoil. The title of Duke of Xushun was still attacked by Shen Yongzhong's younger brother Shen Yongxing, and two Shen characters were not written in one stroke.

The title of Duke Xushun is not a problem, and the title of King Nan, Kong Sizhen, who was adopted as an adopted daughter by the Empress Dowager not long ago, of course has no right to inherit it, and the Qing court is still giving Kong Youde is still alive, but his son Kong Tingxun who fell into the hands of the Ming army is still alive, and there is no problem.

Similarly, the Jingnan Domain can follow this example, because when Geng Zhongming committed suicide by hiding a fugitive, the Qing court let Geng Zhongming's grandson and Geng Jimao's second son Geng Zhaozhong serve in the service, and at the same time assigned part of Geng Zhongming's cattle to Geng Zhaozhong's banner and included them in the internal affairs department. These Niu Lu are now in Jingshi, if they are rebuilt, with Geng Zhaozhong taking the title, and those Niu Lu as the backbone, you can have a basic structure.

In comparison, the Pingnan Domain's side was a little too miserable. Originally, the Qing court intended to let Shang Kexi's son Shang Zhixin serve in the service, but the war was delayed. Who knew that after this battle, the Ming army wrapped up the Pingnan Domain. If it is really calculated, probably the closest bloodline is Shang Zhizhi, who performed quite well in the first battle of Jiangmen.

"The rebuilding of these two feudals is an army of 20,000 at once. Now it is sending troops from the north to the south, and it is sending Jidu and Chen Tai to guard Zhejiang and Huguang, and the lack of soldiers is one of them, but I am afraid that the food and salary will not be able to keep up. ”

The Manshang Shulang ball of the household department opened his mouth to complain, and then took out a recital, first submitted it to Shunzhi, and then Shunzhi circulated all the relatives and nobles present, whether there were two sentences "This king doesn't know how to count" or "There are too many numbers to see the brain hurt", but the things referred to by the fold are obvious.

"Household play: Those who rely on the state pay taxes, and those who rely on officers and soldiers are paid, and the relationship is light. Today, it is about the ...... of Beizhi In the eleven provinces of Guangdong, the original amount of silver was 31,645,668 taels, in addition to the desolation and death of the desolation and exemption of 6,394,040,000 silver, the local reserve of silver 8,371,696,20, the silver of the various temples was 2,076,866,20, and the silver under the ministry was 1,4,83,884 taels. In the 11th year, 11,518,400 taels of silver should be allocated to the provinces and towns, 3,285,480 taels of silver should be relieved of the ministers' departments, 1,800,000 taels of silver should be allocated to Shaanxi, Guangdong, Huguang and other places, and 1,901,120 taels of silver should be paid to the officers and soldiers of the princes, civil and military forces, and the Han Dynasty. Not enough money to cover four hundred and fifty-five thousand six hundred and twenty ......"

This is a matter of addition and subtraction, and the final result is clearly stated in the recital, which is the fiscal deficit. These deficits can only rely on the treasury of silver as a turnover, but the deficit is no longer a year or two like this, the Qing court in Liaodong when the family funds are not much, after entering the customs looting a lot, among which Li Zicheng tortured the silver also fell into the hands of the Qing court, with these family funds can bear those financial deficits, but the family funds are limited after all, the expenses are more and more, more and more, more and more, we must try to open up sources and reduce expenditure, otherwise the Qing court's finances will not be able to do well than the collapse of local rule will be sooner.

"If there is a shortage of silver, then the tax burden will be increased. By the way, in the first two years, the provinces organized the resumption of production in Tuntian, and the taxes had to be collected, and those slackers could not be allowed to take advantage of the imperial court in vain. ”

The truth is very simple. It's just that there are actually a lot of ways to do this, and the specific where to levy and where to reduce taxes must be calculated, and many other factors need to be considered, especially if it is not good to collapse the local finances. In that case, it would have given the Ming army an assist, and the gains would outweigh the losses.

"At the same time of collecting taxes, we must also find a reason to pardon a group of potential thieves and rebels, and we must not let them be used by the puppet dynasty......"

"Those who are affected by disasters should also be routinely relieved, and those untouchables will always be hungry and will always cause chaos......"

"And Sichuan, where the annual tax revenue is not enough to give money to the officials of the Baoning Prefecture, let alone the army. If it really doesn't work, I will withdraw to Shaanxi first, and it will not be too late to get it back when the days are more relaxed. ”

"I'm afraid that those places will fall into the hands of the puppet dynasty again, and when the time comes, it will be difficult to clean up."

"What are you afraid of, isn't there more tigers than people in that place, could it be that Sun Kewang can still let tigers cultivate the land and farm?"

“……”

You say a word, I say a word, the relatives and nobles speak freely, and a lot of articles are raised, but what is really useful must be selected. At this time, Sonny thought about it, and immediately said to the powerful people: "The ideas of the masters, the minions think they are all excellent, and the minions below should study hard." After a sentence, Sony said with a straight face: "Regarding the affairs of Pingnan and Jingnan, the slave also has a foolish opinion, and I don't know whether to talk about it or not." ”

"You slave, you learn like a Han person, twist and twist, say yours."

A relative nobleman spoke, and Sony gave up with a salute, and then said: "I just heard that the reconstruction really cost a lot, and there is no way to have an immediate effect." Therefore, the minions thought that it was better to put up the shelves first, put all the surviving cattle together, practice for a while, and send them to the south to fight those thieves. If you fight well, you have military merits, and then you can rebuild. What do you think? ”