Zhang Xianzhong Chongzhen 17 years is from Jingzhou, Yiling through Wanzhou into Sichuan, now it is equivalent to returning the same way, and Hanzhong is different, although He Zhen here is Li Zicheng's old department, but the independence is very strong, Gao Yigong, Li Guonan retreated and was beaten by He Zhen, not to mention Zhang Xianzhong, who completely turned his face with Li Zicheng, He Zhen blocked Zhang Xianzhong's attack on Hanzhong half a year ago.

And behind He Zhen is still the entire Shaanxi Qing army, Zhang Xianzhong thought of this and retreated as soon as he thought of it: "The road back to Shaanxi is really not easy to walk, it is more appropriate to go to Huguang, Azig is ready to retreat north, Li Guo, Tian Jianxiu and He Tengjiao are like fire and water, as long as we get to Huguang, it will naturally be smooth all the way!" ”

Wang Zhaoling thought more far-reaching than Zhang Xianzhong: "The reason why the Sichuan people are opposing our Great Western Army now is mainly because they can't find a way out for the time being, but as long as they fight out, there will be a way out!" ”

Now the contradiction between the Great Western Army and the local forces in Sichuan and Shu has become like fire and water, so Wang Zhaoling is ready to launch a war against Huguang to divert the contradiction, and Zhang Xianzhong thought about the situation after he entered Sichuan, and also felt that this was indeed a way out: "If you go out of Sichuan, you have to hurry up, the river is just shallow in the past two months, and it is suitable for going out of Sichuan!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong occupied Wanxian County in Chongzhen's seventeenth month and February, and the first month and February happened to be the dry period, which was suitable for using troops, and Wang Zhaoling immediately said: "There must be no problem with using troops, and more importantly, if you return to Shaanxi, you can only give up the territory of Sichuan, Sichuan and Shaanxi can not take care of it, but it is different when you advance eastward, now Huguang has no owner, and our army can take into account the two provinces when entering Huguang!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong felt that what Wang Zhaoling said was very reasonable, with He Jin and the Qing army in Shaanxi, if he wanted to return to Shaanxi, he would definitely have to give up all the foundations in Sichuan, but if Azig gave up the Wuchang division and retreated north, then he could naturally hold the Sichuan territory at the same time under the situation of taking the territory of Huguang, he told Prime Minister Wang Zhaoling: "This matter will be handled by the Prime Minister with full authority!" ”

Wang Zhaoling knelt down and whispered: "Your Majesty, the key to whether you can win Huguang this time is still on your four righteous sons!" ”

As soon as he talked about his four righteous sons Zhang Wangguo, Zhang Dingguo, Zhang Wenxiu, and Zhang Nengqi, Zhang Xianzhong felt upset, although he said that he was a righteous son, but since they were in charge alone, they had conflicts with him, the emperor of Daxi, every day, and even Zhang Xianzhong had to point fingers at killing.

Moreover, after these four righteous sons took charge alone, they wanted to run their own territory, and they didn't take his orders to heart at all, and let them kill some Diao people was also shy back, not at all like his righteous son Zhang Xianzhong.

But Zhang Xianzhong must borrow the strength of these four righteous sons, who called them more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in their hands, and they are all the most elite soldiers and horses in the Great Western Army, so Zhang Xianzhong pointed to Wang Zhaoling and said: "I will solve the affairs of the four of them, and since you are my prime minister, you naturally have to be above Zhang Kewang!" ”

This is also the main contradiction between Zhang Xianzhong and the four righteous sons, whether it is Zhang Kewang or Zhang Dingguo, Zhang Wenxiu, and Zhang Nengqi, they all feel that the world of the Daxi Dynasty was brought down by their brothers, and naturally their brothers should assist the Daxi Emperor.

But Zhang Xianzhong's views are different, since Wang Zhaoling is the prime minister of the Western Dynasty, then Zhang Kewang, Zhang Dingguo, Zhang Wenxiu, and Zhang Nengqi naturally have to obey Wang Zhaoling: "Tell them that after they conquer Hubei, I will give them a special reward and a knight!" ”

With the orders of Zhang Xianzhong and Wang Zhaoling, the Great Western Army, which had not been able to find a direction, was mobilized again, and the mighty army was heading towards Wanzhou and Fuling.

Now Nanjing and Jiangnan are in a new dynasty atmosphere.

The current Yue Ming Dynasty is not just changing the name of "Chengtian", or giving Empress Zhang and Empress Changping the honorific titles of "Empress Yingtian" and "Empress Shuntian", but is carrying out a hidden revolution, and the emerging dynasty is communicating with all aspects and trying to get the full support of the entire Jiangnan.

The Hongguang Dynasty, which had just been destroyed, was the best lesson, although it had a good foundation, it soon lost the hearts of the people in Jiangnan, and finally the Qing army encountered almost no resistance when it went south, and the Chengtian Dynasty naturally hoped to mobilize the entire Jiangnan force.

And Taikang Hou Zhang Guoji naturally became a busy man, as the biological father of Empress Zhang, he naturally became the best way for the gentry and officials in Jiangnan to communicate with the imperial court.

And Taikang Marquis Zhang Guoji is also enjoying it, no matter how unreasonable these demands are, but he recorded them and handed them over to several cabinet ministers and scholars, and the imperial court also attached great importance to the transcripts he handed over, and a lot of good news came from time to time.

For example, Fengyang as the hometown of the Emperor of Heaven, Taizu asked his neighbors and friends to go to Beijing every year to meet the emperor, which was originally a heavy burden, but after Yongle moved the capital to Beijing, it became extremely difficult for Fengyang to meet the emperor.

After all, it is only a few days to set off from Fengyang to Nanjing, but it often takes several months to travel from Fengyang to Beijing, but this kind of maladministration has never been canceled in the Ming Dynasty, because this is the ancestral family law.

And when it came to the Chengtian Dynasty, the situation was naturally different, many of the maladministrations that lasted for tens or hundreds of years in the Ming Dynasty were either directly canceled or comprehensively reformed, but Zhang Guoji flipped through the edicts issued in the palace recently and finally understood what was going on, and the Hubu Shangshu Tong Yili opposite him said very directly: "Although our majesty was born in the family of Zhongding Jade Food, he will live like Taikang Hou!" ”

Taikang Hou Zhang Guoji was originally from a bitter background, and he agreed with Liu Yongxi's set of ideas: "That's right, it should be done this way, anyway, the court has not received actual benefits, it is better to have both the government and the people!" ”

He has now understood that the series of malpractices canceled by this dynasty are actually malpractices that the imperial court has not received actual benefits, for example, Fengyang's father and elder went to Beijing to meet the court, if Hongwu may have some meaning to allow Emperor Taizu to meet his old friends, Yongle no longer has any meaning.

But it is precisely because it is the ancestral family law, so this kind of maladministration has lasted for more than 200 years, and although the Chengtian Dynasty has inherited the political heritage of the Ming Dynasty in name, it is actually no different from entrepreneurship, and naturally throws off the burden accumulated by many history.

Tong Yili, as the head of the household, knows the operation best: "It is indeed not as good as the government and the people, and I have discussed with His Majesty that after the country is set up as the capital of Nanjing, it will reduce the waste by at least one-third!" ”

The so-called "one-third of the waste" is naturally like Fengyang's father and elder entering Beijing to see this kind of court can not get any benefits, but it is a big burden for the local and Shengdou small people, and this situation is everywhere and even far higher than the regular tax.

However, Liu Yongxi did not intend to abolish all the tribute and miscellaneous taxes, but grasped a few key points, such as the Yangtze River anchovy, which was most ridiculed by later generations, and the Ming generation did not know how much civil power it had to consume in order to transport anchovies from Zhenjiang to Beijing, and he did not know how much ice cubes were consumed just by replacing them all the way, and sometimes the escort officials embezzled and saved the ice cubes and brought a boatload of stinky fish to the emperor.

And now that the imperial court has set the capital in Nanjing, it has naturally reduced the consumption of countless people's manpower, and the imperial court has tried to wrap up all the burdens that can be wrapped.

Many systems of the Ming Dynasty have long been meaningless, but because the ancestral family law must be maintained, now that it is the atmosphere of the new dynasty, it is natural to throw it out directly.

Therefore, Tong Yili, the head of the household, originally thought that he would not be doing it for a long time, but after following the operation of the imperial court, he suddenly became relaxed, and he even had the heart to instruct Taikang Hou Zhang Guoji: "Taikang Hou, you don't want to play all the turns, you see if there are any suitable suggestions and it is more difficult to do, let's play the imperial court together, and we will also leave a name in history!" ”

Taikang Hou Zhang Guoji also relaxed when he heard Tong Yili say this: "Tong Shangshu said this, that's the best, but we have to stop this matter in moderation, and the food and salary of the front-line soldiers must be paid in time!" ”

Although Liu Yongxi used a quick knife to cut through the mess, but the Chengtian Dynasty now has to support at least 100,000 field troops and tens of thousands of state and county soldiers, and solving the food and salary supply of these troops is still the top priority of the household department, and Tong Yili also became serious: "Fortunately, they are all using troops in the south of the Yangtze River now, and they are not like the border battles that worry people just by transporting grain, and the key now is to pacify the south as soon as possible, if Jiangxi and Huguang cannot be pacified as soon as possible, the situation will be completely different!" ”

Although the Yue Ming army has now taken Xuzhou and controls the whole of Jiangnan, Jiangnan and the whole of Jiangnan are completely different things.

The Ming Dynasty has a saying that there are 63 provinces in the south and north, and in addition to the original southern Zhili, the seven southern provinces only took a complete Zhejiang Province and a small half of Jiangxi Province, which is still a long way from unifying the south.

Moreover, although Huguang and Sichuan belong to the six northern provinces, they actually belong to the south, not to mention that there is also a Longwu Dynasty that is fighting with the Yue Ming Dynasty for orthodoxy.

But when he heard this, Zhang Guoji lowered his voice and asked, "I heard that Zheng Zhilong in Fujian is ready to accept the land?" ”

Although Taikang Marquis Zhang Guoji is considered to be the top imperial relative in the Chengtian Dynasty, he only heard a little rumor about this matter, and Tong Yili said very clearly: "There is indeed such a thing, but it is a pity that although this Zheng Zhilong is a hero, he is just a maritime merchant after all, and the pattern is too small!" ”

Tong Yili said this, Zhang Guoji was naturally taken aback: "Did Zheng Zhilong make any excessive demands with His Majesty and Niangniang?" ”

Tong Yili smiled bitterly: "The problem is that this Zheng Zhilong not only didn't ask much, but he didn't even dare to take on the responsibility of guarding Fujian, he was just a maritime merchant after all!" ”

Zhang Guoji has already understood: "This Nan'an Marquis only wants the glory and wealth of the Zheng family not to be affected?" This is too unenterprising! ”