Li Dingguo's position of power within the Great Western Army is General Anxi, this Western word shows that it is very valued, although people in their thirties, they are very prestigious, and it is effective to speak, in the case that Zhang Xianzhong occasionally mixes sand with each other's righteous sons, even Sun Kewang's subordinates also have his subordinates, when he learned that he lost contact with the rear, Li Dingguo's army was very entangled.

Of course, the elders sent someone to send more than one letter of persuasion to Li Dingguo, for Li Dingguo, he was still very grateful, this time he went deep into Nanming alone, because of the profiteers in the imperial capital who were constantly making trouble behind him, but at the same time, he felt that those elders were very honest and reasonable, and they didn't have any sense of anger.

Moreover, if he still fights against the Presbyterian Church, the soldiers of the people only go to the South Seas to fight, and it is not that they will not come back, and at the same time, he is also very familiar with the situation in the south, where there are few people and more land, he is on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and he can often see the whole ship of immigrants, and he is encouraged to go overseas to find his own survival opportunities, and everyone has hundreds of acres of land, even the veterans under his command are tempted, and the only way to maintain morale at present is how desolate the ancestral tomb can not be seen overseas.

Looking at these strong men who ran away from the mainland, none of them were not greedy and helpless, especially Nanming started his own fragmented road, that is, constantly dividing into different warlords, the five princes attacked each other, they didn't expect that everyone was fighting the same idea, in fact, this was also caused by the Elders' Council intentionally or unintentionally, under the constant harassment, they suddenly thought that maybe only by hiding in the barracks can they ensure safety. And the heroes and powers, big and small, have also begun to call themselves generals, which is even more of a source of chaos, especially when some people's holy decrees are actually true.

After reading the letter given to him by the elders, Li Dingguo looked at the simple military map, sighed, ordered that the migrant ships on the Yangtze River should no longer be monitored, and then prepared to abandon Jiangyin at any time, put the main battlefield on the land warfare that he was most familiar with, and began to contact the five princes at the same time.

In fact, Li Dingguo knows very well that whether it is King Fu, King Lu, King Tang, King Lu, King Gui, or the leaders of more than a dozen self-reliant families, they have no will to fight for the imperial army (emotionally they can't accept the title of the Central Army).

He knew that the son of the Xiaofu Wang's family, in order to beg the imperial capital to support him as the emperor, sprinkled out I don't know how many official positions, even if it was the revenge of killing his father, he didn't care, and the other kings were similar, in their opinion, the emperor did not have an emperor, as long as he accepted himself as the emperor, then he could do anything.

But right now, including his troops in Jiangyin, although they can also make up 100,000 men who serve as soldiers to eat food, they eat the salt sold to them by the elders of the imperial capital, and they are all proud of being equipped with imperial weapons, even if there are no warships of the imperial capital in the entire Yangtze River, and the transport ships of the imperial capital flag are also respected to the greatest extent, and no one dares to provoke.

This battle can't be fought at all, even if he insists on fighting, he is afraid that the morale of the soldiers will collapse, so to speak, as long as the elders really send their own warships to bombard for a while, it will be difficult for the whole city to muster the courage to fight, this is not because of cowardice, but the difference in strength is too large, and resisting is a waste of time.

It is absolutely impossible to hold it, and in the end it is just a vain tear face, and he ends up with a defeat, rather than this, he might as well be wise, and the most important thing is that after the formation of Jiangxi, Zhili, Yangzhou, Anhui and other groups, although everyone is fighting with each other, they are all resisting Li Dingguo, a rebel, of course, this boycott is also with the pull.

Of course, it is not without good news, the escape of the landlords allowed Li Dingguo to directly grant the peasants land, it can be said that without a single shot, he entered the surrounding areas of Jiangyin, and soon radiated this influence to the outside world, and those who led the way The party was also very powerful, although there was no big war, but in the small-scale battle, Li Dingguo's elite veterans still taught these rotten Jiangnan people a good lesson, and with a stable territory and tax sources, they could start doing business in the imperial capital and purchasing arms.

By the way, Li Dingguo also dismissed some of the old and weak generals, including the old brothers in Shaanxi and the people of Zuo Mengeng's family, and let them return to the farm to work, and in his heart he was not optimistic about the current situation he was facing, and his current situation was that the enemy was very weak and very vegetable, but he was so annoying.

During this period of time, the salesmen of the North Industries Company, who made him hate itchy, were crazy in the state capitals of the south of the Yangtze River, selling all kinds of weapons, from sharp swords to those terrible firearms, as long as they were willing to give money, the imperial capital could easily deploy them.

And the armed landlords, although those families are still very good, but they are also armed families, and the skirmishes of small forces soon made Li Dingguo stunned, although relying on elite soldiers to achieve victory, but such a victory will come hundreds of times, he can become a bare-bones commander.

The reason for the first conflict is very simple, although Jiangyin is not short of food, salt and other materials are sufficient, but the lack of nutrition for their demand for non-staple food is longing, and the cause of this conflict is very simple, Li Dingguo's army occupying Jiangyin, at this time there are more than 30,000, looking around at the enemy, their grain can also be maintained for a period of time, although they try their best, they can't satisfy the desire of these soldiers to eat some food in addition to a full meal, so they buy in various places, From the very beginning it was a process of dancing on the tip of the knife of military discipline.

Jiangnan does not have any vegetable basket projects, standardized chicken farms, vegetable farms.

Originally, in Zhu Yuanzhang's plan, a farmer could plant more than a dozen acres of irrigated land, and then match a few acres of land that was not very fertile, but could be used to grow vegetables.

But after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, this system immediately collapsed, and for Confucianism, any emperor who did not allow them to be corrupt was a tyrant.

Zhu Yuanzhang is a thorough peasant child, and after conquering the world, everything he does is worthy of the title of peasant child. Under the governance of Zhu Yuanzhang, the social productive forces have not only been restored, but also greatly developed, Zhu Yuanzhang personally ordered to carry out a national resettlement, to make the distribution of land and personnel more reasonable, and the government vigorously supports the peasants to open up the wasteland, the land is its own, the government also sent cattle and other wasteland equipment, today's so-called homestead law of the presbyterian meeting, but just follow the old system, as the son of a farmer, Zhu Yuanzhang deeply understands that if a farmer can have a piece of his own land, how happy it should be.

This is also how important it is for the stability of the regime.

However, it is very normal for people to die and relocate, and it is beneficial to the whole country and the common people, and it is not necessarily beneficial to the Confucian students who are in power.

Before Zhu Yuanzhang died, he conducted a land and population census, and the results of the census were that the total amount of cultivated land in the Ming Dynasty was more than 800 million hectares.

After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, his baby grandson Zhu Yunwen only served as emperor for four years, and was ousted by his uncle Zhu Di, but what Zhu Yuanzhang never imagined was that after Zhu Di came to power, a national land census was also conducted, and the land of the Ming Dynasty was only 7 million hectares on the books! Land, in the situation at that time, could not be wasted, let alone reduced for no reason, then the 1 million hectares of disappeared fertile land was naturally swallowed up by those nobles and tyrants, and less land meant that the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty would also be reduced.

The more a dynasty develops, the more pests parasitic the country has, the Ming Dynasty has a rule, the local squires and scholars who take the imperial examination do not need to pay taxes, originally under the guise of a few people have the power, but with the rules, there will naturally be people who drill leaks, those local high-ranking officials, heroes, in order to exploit loopholes began to annex a large number of land, and more and more children of the royal family also joined the invasion army, crazy to take the interests for themselves, corroding the foundation of the empire, to the middle of the Ming Dynasty, that is, during the Zhengde period, the figure on the books of cultivated land in the Ming Dynasty is only 3.8 million hectares, not even half of the period of Zhu Yuanzhang.

Naturally, the land cannot really disappear, it is just encroached upon.

The result of this is that the Ming Dynasty's tax sources are getting smaller and fewer, and in order to maintain the operation of the empire, the imperial court can only levy taxes on the peasants, while those powerful people do not have to pay a dime, all the burden is on the peasants, and the pressure on the people is increasing. The phenomenon of a large number of land being annexed has lasted until the Wanli period, at this time Zhang Juzheng tried his best to disagree with the public, carried out the land clearance campaign, re-inventoried the land of the whole country, and finally came up with a figure of 8.9 million hectares, although there is still a lot of water, there must still be a part of the land that has not been inventoried, and Zhang Juzheng has been very satisfied with such results. However, after Zhang Juzheng's death, the forces in the imperial court that had been suppressed by Zhang Juzheng began to fight back, abolishing all of Zhang Juzheng's new policies, and as a result, the figure on the Ming Dynasty's cultivated land books quickly fell to 4 million.

Under such circumstances, the state fell into a vicious circle, and the constant loss of finances could only put tax demands on the peasants, and the peasants could not support them, so they fled and rebelled, making it even more serious, and the increasingly weakened state apparatus was further unable to prevent the frenzied encroachment of land.

At this time, most of the land in Jiangyin was concentrated in the hands of a few landlords, although they did not dare to confront Li Dingguo, but for the sale of various non-staple foods, it was also chaotic, and when it came to the surrounding state capitals, it was even more impossible to buy things with money.

Li Dingguo's military discipline is no problem, but the soldiers with the money, when they arrived at a landlord's Zhuangzi, they couldn't buy vegetables and eggs at all, and it was itchy, but after a while, they found that another group of people were triumphantly pulling the car away, but it was full.

When Li Dingguo learned the news, he was furious and immediately reprimanded the soldiers, but after hearing what happened, he also sighed.

It is important to win over the local gentry, but you can't chill the hearts of your own people, making outsiders more noble than your own people, and finally your own people are cold, and outsiders are even more arrogant and domineering, just like the problems caused by a certain office in the old time and space.

After this incident, Li Dingguo's army scolded all of them, after they took this city, they did not kill or rob, it can be said that they are stronger than the soldiers of the imperial court, these things are obviously bought with money, so that they can be used to fight with the official army, you know, compared to the Ming official army that can make the local economy fall after a place, their military discipline is already incredible.

This is simply a shameful and humiliating act, but Li Dingguo himself seems to be helpless about this matter, the surrounding enemy situation is too complicated, sometimes there are enemies on all sides, sometimes there are friends on all sides, some people even at the same time to more than a dozen families to express their support for someone to be the emperor, Li Dingguo knows that in this kind of chaotic war, it may not be a good choice to strike first, especially the activities of North Industry are becoming more and more frequent.

Fortunately, in order to take into account the overall situation, Li Dingguo summoned his generals, moved them with emotion and reason, and took advantage of the generals, and finally persuaded these subordinate generals and ordered them to suppress the generals under their respective commands, so that there was no big chaos in the local area.

With the start of the fight, how to stop, it just so happened that near Jiangyin, there were still ambitious guys, and the Council of Elders did not do anything for a few years, which did make some originally timid careerists grow up, and at the same time, the large-scale arms sales from the imperial capital certainly hollowed out their wealth, but also made a group of rabble look like a bit of a regular army.

Most of Jiangyin's wealth is based on the prosperity of the Xicheng Canal.

Xicheng Canal is a canal connecting Wuxi and Jiangyin, theoretically, it is also the port from Taihu Lake to the Yangtze River, I don't know how many people make a fortune with it, you know, it is Taihu Lake, is the most elite land in this era!

Although Li Dingguo has adopted an enlightened policy, he is not embarrassed by the merchant ships that go out of the canal in Taihu Lake, but anyone who looks at this place is very red-eyed, and only needs to collect taxes here, which is enough to feed everyone, not to mention the cheap salt brought by the elders, which also makes everyone very relaxed.

To the west of Jiangyin is Changzhou Mansion, to the south is Wuxi, to the east is Changshu, and they are the younger brothers of Tang Wang, Lu Wang and Lu Wang, and between the various prefectures, there are also soldiers pulling the holy decree that they don't know who gave it, and who supported it to be the emperor.

At present, there is no big fight, mainly because there is no clear distinction between priority and priority, the ghost knows that he will beat people, will he be surrounded by people in the next moment, compared to the "village chief" war of the Japanese Warring States who was ridiculed by later generations of military whites, the landlords of this era are not much smarter.

After Li Dingguo occupied Jiangyin, it was the first time that he encountered the stubborn resistance of the Ming army.

(End of chapter)