In the first year of Dongping Daxing, for Kunming Wuhua Mountain, it was really a bit unfavorable for the passing year, and the meaning of Dashun was not smooth.

The success of the Battle of Southern Shaanxi and the Dajianshan Uprising swept away the glamorous face of Dashun, a "peasant dynasty", at once. If we talk about the battle between the two armies on the battlefield, as well as the news that Shang Kexi, Shang Zhixin's father and son's head and Wu Sangui were wounded and died in front of the battle, the rulers of the Dashun Dynasty saw a little hope of victory. Then the defection of the people in southern Shaanxi and the uprising in Dajianshan, as well as the constant commotion in various parts of Sichuan, have smashed the gold-lettered signboard of "Yingchuang King" cleanly and thoroughly.

The people of southern Shaanxi and Sichuan no longer support the Dashun Dynasty, they are looking forward to the Ming Dynasty and the King of Ming! I hope that someone can smash the rule of the Dashun Heavenly Empire, drive out the landlord class that has oppressed them for more than 20 years, and start a vigorous land reform again......

According to the research of some historians in later generations, the cyclical law of Chinese feudal dynasties is actually quite related to the intensification and alleviation of the contradiction between man and land—not necessarily completely consistent, but there is definitely a connection.

If we make a more vivid analogy, the inevitable corruption, incompetence, external troubles, and natural disasters of the feudal dynasty are all kinds of bacteria and viruses, and the contradiction between man and earth determines whether the immune system of the feudal dynasty is strong.

If there are fewer people and more land, the output of land is enough to feed the vast majority of the people, and it is also enough to support a land military service system to defend the feudal dynasty. So as long as the upper echelons of this feudal dynasty don't toss around indiscriminately (brain damage is a terminal illness everywhere), Guozuo can always continue.

If the contradictions between man and earth accumulate to a certain extent, then the immune system of this feudal dynasty is already on the verge of collapse, and the turmoil that was not fatal can also kill the dynasty.

And in the process of dynastic change, it is usually accompanied by fierce competition and population loss...... After the loss of a large number of people, the land naturally appeared relatively abundant, the contradiction between man and land was resolved to a certain extent, and the new feudal dynasty was easy to prosper in peace.

And since the end of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, this round of external troubles and internal troubles happened to step on the point where the contradiction between man and land intensified. And it also hit a Xiaoice period that caused a large reduction in grain holdings - the decline in grain yield means that the population that the land can carry declines, and the contradiction between man and land is suddenly intensified!

Of course, if the politics of the Tianqi and Chongzhen dynasties are clear enough, and the monarch is wise enough, maybe he can carry it for a while longer to delay the arrival of troubled times...... However, it is only a postponement, and there are only two ways out to really solve the problem, one is population reduction; The second is the increase in land.

It is a pity that Tianqi and Chongzhen were not Ming monarchs, and the bureaucratic system of the Ming Dynasty also reached a time of corruption and rigidity, so there was the rise of Manchuria and the continuous growth of the peasant rebel army.

But the emergence of Zhu Cixun and the Age of Discovery, which had begun nearly 200 years, saved the life of the dying feudal dynasty of the Ming Dynasty by temporarily abandoning the northern regions that could not carry enough people because of the Xiaoice Age, giving the dying Ming Dynasty a temporary sigh of relief. And after the Ming Dynasty embraced the Age of Discovery, there was a tonic that continued to enhance the immunity of the dynasty!

So the troubled times are only halfway through, and they are stopped!

And this chaotic era, which has only been chaotic for half the time, has not completely resolved the intensified contradictions between man and land, especially the contradictions between man and land in southern China, which are not chaotic enough...... It also includes the contradiction between man and land in the Sichuan base camp seized by the Dashun peasant dynasty in the troubled times.

Although in the early days of Dashun's entry into Sichuan, through a land reform, the pain brought to the people by the intensification of the contradiction between man and land was greatly alleviated. However, land reform cannot cure the root cause of the contradiction between man and land, and can only cure the symptoms.

And the land military service system maintained by the Great Shun Dynasty will in turn exacerbate the pain caused by the land contradiction to the people—because the demand for land is too strong for the landlord class of the government soldiers who undertake military service, and their ability to seize land is stronger than that of the previous scholar landlord class!

One seizes the land with the pen, and the other is the handle of the knife and the pen together!

Therefore, in the first year of the Great Xing of Dongping, the Dashun Dynasty, which rose because of the intensification of the contradiction between man and land in the Ming Dynasty, was also facing the anger of the 30 or 40 million working people in Sichuan and southern Shaanxi who had lost their land...... Of course, after all, the Great Shun Dynasty has only been established for twenty-five years, and the first generation of entrepreneurs has not disappeared, and the second generation of Shun they have cultivated are very capable of fighting.

As a ruling group, the Great Shun Dynasty is still quite dynamic!

Now, a large number of vigorous soldiers from Hanzhong, Yunyang, and Gongchang are pouring into Sichuan and Yunnan like a tide.

"Emperor, King Li Jin's report said that there are at least 40,000 households, and more than 200,000 are on their way south to Yunnan, so the imperial court must find a way to settle them!"

"The emperor, Baoning, Kuizhou, Long'an three prefectures of the envoy to the report, recently there are a large number of soldiers from the north passing by, some of them have no food and clothing, along the way to disturb the households, ask for food and drink, the slightest disobedience, on the sword adds. Many households in many prefectures and counties fled to the mountains and forests because they were afraid of the soldiers coming from the north, and there were demons from the White Lotus Sect who provoked and instigated civil uprisings, and the situation was very chaotic......"

"Emperor, Chengdu, Tongchuan, Shunqing and Chongqing's left-behind envoys have reported that recently, there has been a lot of money in various places, prices are expensive, people's livelihood is difficult, small people are suffering from recruitment, government soldiers are suffering from military service, and people's hearts are floating, there are White Lotus Sect demons everywhere, and the situation is very chaotic."

"Emperor, the Songpan Army and the Xichuan Army have reported that the natives in the prefectures and counties under their jurisdiction have been in turmoil recently, resisting rent and levy, gathering in the mountains and forests, and some people are playing the banner of remnants, trying to resist the heavenly soldiers, please send a large army to suppress!"

"Emperor, the price of goods in Kunming Mansion has begun to rise again recently, and the price of rice has risen to 300 Wen, and there is ......a shortage of cloth, ironware, gunpowder and other military supplies."

Li Laiheng, the emperor of Dashun Dongxing, listened to the ministers below report bad news one by one, and walked around the Jinluan Hall irritably. He wore only a white-washed blue cloth robe, which was to promote frugality. Since Li Jicheng's triumph from Tianzhu, Kunming, the southern capital of Dashun, which had already shown signs of luxury, suddenly became extravagant. The higher-ups are all after Huma, orchids, and all sorts of Western playthings. The middle class was delighted in eating and drinking, and the demand for all kinds of meat and alcohol increased greatly, thus increasing the consumption of food.

At the same time, the industrial and commercial activities in Kunming, Dali, and Qujing were also intensified because of the "Tianzhu Gold and Silver" and the "Second Expedition to Tianzhu", which also further promoted the rise in prices. The rising prices and huge demand forced the Dashun court to withdraw materials from Chengdu, Jiading, Xuzhou and other prefectures, which in turn exacerbated inflation in those areas...... Inflation has caused difficulties for the middle and lower strata of government and peasant households, and the middle and lower strata of government and military households have done everything possible to pass on their losses to the peasants at the bottom, and as a result, the already very serious "contradiction between the government and peasants" has intensified.

At this juncture, Hanzhong, Yunyang, and Gongchang were occupied by the Ming army......

Dashun suddenly felt a little stormy!

"Damn," Li Laiheng scolded, interrupting the minister who was playing the report, "Isn't there some good news?" ”

"Yes, yes, good news!" Zuo Funiu Jin Xing hurriedly responded, "Emperor, the prince of the Fu army reported that the southern expeditionary army sailed to Madras in Southern Tianzhu in mid-January, and besieged Fort St. George, the stronghold of Xiyi England in Southern Tianzhu, for more than 20 days, forcing the British soldiers to surrender ......."

Madras was later Chennai, the earliest stronghold of the British East India Company in India, not on the territory of the Timurid Empire in India, but on the territory of the Roman Koder Kingdom in southern India. Because Li Jicheng stayed in the fortress on the territory of the Odisha province of the Timurid Empire and was broken by Aurangzeb at the end of last year, Li Jicheng and his Dutch friends decided to find a "weak chicken" to attack, and at the suggestion of the Dutch, Li Jicheng found the British......

"Don't mention Tianzhu!" Li Laiheng was angry when he heard Tianzhu now, and waved his hand, "Say something useful!" ”

"Emperor, Chongqing left behind the division to report that the Jiannan Division of the Zhu thief, which is adjacent to Shizhu Prefecture and Wanzhou, recently had a civil uprising, and the Jiannan Division Righteous Army played the banner of welcoming the king, and also sent people to Wanzhou and Shizhu for help!"