Outside the Donghua Gate in the imperial city of Beijing, there is a palace with quite high specifications, which was originally called Chonghua Palace. It is one of the palaces where the prince of the East Palace lives, and if Zhu Cihong gets married when he is in Beijing, he will live here.

Now, the palace belonged to Dorgon, the regent of the Qing Dynasty, and the name was changed to the regent's palace. After the Shunzhi Emperor moved into Beijing, Dolgon moved into the newly renovated Regent's Palace.

And this has become the center of power of the Great Qing Kingdom!

"Minister Wu Sangui, respectfully invite the regent Jin An."

Although they are both princes, Wu Sangui still respectfully kowtows to the regent to say goodbye, which is of course the etiquette of the Qing Kingdom.

"Not bad, not bad!" Dolgon looked at Wu Sangui, who had already shaved his hair and changed into the robe of the Qing Dynasty, and nodded with satisfaction, "King Pingxi, how is Ningyuan's harvest this year?" ”

"Thanks to the regent's blessing, it's a rare harvest."

Lord Regent Dolgon smiled, "Good, good...... Since it's a bumper harvest, your people should be able to dispatch, right? ”

Wu Sangui asked, "Regent, are you going to go to war with Li Zicheng?" ”

Dolgon nodded and said with a smile: "Now that the emperor has also arrived in Beijing, he can send troops as soon as he reaches the pole in October." ”

Wu Sangui was stunned for a moment, "The emperor ascended to the pole? Didn't the emperor ascend to the pole last year? ”

"Ah, this is the second ascent." Dolgon said with a smile, "This king let people check, and Li Zicheng's thief went to the pole twice, once in Xi'an and once in Beijing." Our emperor of the Qing Dynasty can't lose to him, and he has to go twice! ”

Oh, and this one has a comparison.

"The Lord Regent has a point!" Wu Sangui nodded, "We can't ask Li Zicheng to compare, in the future, I will unify the northern land in the Qing Dynasty, and I can go to Xi'an to climb the pole again." ”

"Hahaha," regent Dorgon stroked his beard, "it doesn't have to be...... Xi'an will give it to you. Aren't you the king of Pingxi? Flat Xi'an, just there as king! ”

This is for Wu Sangui's people to take the lead...... But Li Zicheng is not easy to fight! If the iron is struck while the iron is hot in May, maybe Taiyuan will be taken in one go. But now it's October, and Li Zicheng has been operating in Taiyuan for another five months, so I'm afraid that the foundation has already been solid!

Wu Sangui frowned: "Lord Wang, although Ningyuan has a bumper harvest this year, it can't afford tens of thousands of troops to expedition to Shaanxi!" ”

"I don't need you to provide it," Dolgon smiled, "the court has food!" ”

"The imperial court has food? Could it be that the Southern Dynasty promised to pay tribute? ”

"Humph!" Dolgon snorted coldly, "The little prince of the Southern Dynasty hasn't seen Sun Zhiqi and Jin Zhijun until now!" I really don't know what I'm thinking? ”

Wu Sangui said: It must be his sister-in-law who is so powerful that she fascinates the prince, and she doesn't even want Dorgon's daughter!

It's a pity, if I had gone to Jiangnan with me, how rich would I be now......

"Lord, the grain ......" The one who asked was Zu Zefu, who was serving as an envoy in Dolgon's camp when Zhu Cihong defeated Duolong. So he voted for Tartar, and later mixed with Wu Sangui.

Dolgon smiled and said, "There is food in the borderless land encircled by the kings and soldiers of the Eight Banners from the east! Now it has encircled more than 10 million acres, and the rice and wheat obtained are no less than millions of stones. ”

Wu Sangui gasped immediately: This is taking the rations of the Han people in Gyeonggi! No, it's to take the lives of the Han people in Gyeonggi!

Gyeonggi is already short of food, and it relies on 4 million stone rice noodles transported from Jiangnan every year to eat. Now that the transportation has been cut off, Gyeonggi will definitely be short of food. And Dolgon moved millions of bannermen and coats from outside the pass, and also raised military rations to fight. Wu Sangui was originally anxious for Dolgon, but he didn't expect the solution to be so simple.

It is to use the occupation of houses and enclosures to drive the Han people out and starve to death, and save rations for the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers!

Wu Sangui immediately understood that when he met such a ruthless person, Li Zicheng was more than lucky. As for the Ming ...... I don't know what tricks my brother-in-law has to deal with Dorgon.

"I am willing to be a pioneer!" Wu Sangui shouted to fight, "Pacify the thieves for the Qing Dynasty!" ”

Dolgon laughed: "King Pingxi, don't worry, this king wants you to take the lead not to consume the Guan Ning army, but only to contain the thieves...... This king still has a back move, this battle, I will win! The strength of your Guan Ning army should be used to fight Shaanxi! Shaanxi is defeated, and the surname is Wu, and your descendants will be in the town! ”

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"Uncle Tong Guan, how much money did the emperor give us?"

"You Chen Chuan, how do you know about money?"

"Alas, it's not me who wants money, it's the brothers below ......"

"Xiaochuan, you are also an old man in the children's camp, you have followed the emperor for so many years, you don't know for the sake of the emperor? Now the situation is so difficult, the emperor has to support so many people, and there is still a three-year period of non-levy, so the money is tight! ”

"However, everyone is occupying the house in the enclosure......"

"What do you say? Do you want to ask the emperor to learn from Dongyu and lose people's hearts? ”

"The human heart, the human heart, and the human heart...... I think our emperor just wants to win the hearts of the people too much! ”

Talking from the low tower of Guguan City were the chief and deputy commanders of the children's battalion, General Guoyi Tongguan Boluohu and Wuwei General Chen Chuan.

Luo Hu had just received a military order from Taiyuan to return to Guguan, and the 5,000 elite soldiers of the children's battalion would take on heavy responsibilities in the battle against the Qing army.

And Luo Hu's deputy Chen Chuan was very dissatisfied with Luo Hu's failure to bring back the rewarded silver!

The absence of additional rewards was taken for granted in Luo Hu's eyes, because Dashun's financial situation was very bad.

The three-year exemption period had not passed, and because the Dashun court advocated "free grain and equal land", and could not get the support of the landlord class, there was basically no tax revenue, and all expenses were supported by gold and silver brought out from Beijing.

Not to mention how the army is spent everywhere, the nearly 100,000 troops concentrated in Taiyuan Mansion alone spend no less than 400,000 taels of food and salary every month! In addition, Li Zicheng's imperial court also had to pay for the troops that were requisitioned and stationed everywhere, as well as maintain an increasingly large bureaucratic team, and Li Zicheng, the emperor, had to spend some money. Add a piece in all aspects, but the money is like flowing water!

From June to now, Li Zicheng's Dashun court has spent more than 3.5 million taels of silver!

In order to prepare for the upcoming decisive battle, Li Zicheng also had to spend money to purchase food, buy weapons and war horses, repair cities everywhere, and appease the Ming army generals who were not firm.

All kinds of expenses add a piece, more than 1.5 million taels are gone!

The speed at which money is spent can make Lao Li feel distressed.

And the silver he got from Beijing was lost in the two battles of Dingzhou and Zhending, and the silver he brought to Taiyuan was less than 20 million taels.

At such a rate of spending, next year will have to be the same as Emperor Chongzhen - he will die poor!

But when Li Zicheng was about to die of poverty, there were still too few people below.

Now in the Ming Dynasty, the heroes who followed Zhu Cihong were all dividing the fields, the land, the houses, the ladies and the silver.

On the Tartar side, it is the enclosure of land and houses to force the Han people to become slaves! The 300 miles around Beijing City are basically distributed to the Eight Banners.

Only Li Zicheng's Dashun army got the least...... Can this morale still be high?

And Li Zicheng is a "bodhisattva heart", thinking about what to win people's hearts all day long, and the old brothers under his hands who haven't caught oil and water are almost dying of hatred!

However, Li Zicheng felt very good at this time, because Yuan Zongdi, who was guarding Xiangyang, had just sent him Gu Junen's report.

Zhu Cihong doesn't want Li Zicheng to be a minister, but is willing to become a brotherly state with Dashun and fight against the East Capture together!

"Hahaha!" Li Zicheng laughed wildly, "Everyone, Da Shun, now that you have formed an alliance with the Ming Dynasty, you can fight against the Dongyu together!" The prince of the Ming Dynasty has promised that he will let Datong hold on, and at the same time order Shi Kefa, Gao Hongtu Chen Bing, Jinan Mansion, Jining Mansion, and will also send sailors to attack the Korean State by floating in the sea, so as to divide the heart of the Eastern Captives! ”

Li Zicheng paused, "I also got the news that Dongyu will send troops from Beijing on the second day of October, and they will arrive at Guguan on the fifth day of the first month...... On September 30, Er Dashun sent troops, divided into two routes, 60,000 elite soldiers, and went to Guguan! 40,000 elite soldiers go south to celebrate! ”