Li Guo finally became the first emperor!

is still a former emperor who has not started a business and collapsed in the middle way, which is a bit similar to Liu Bei. However, there are also inferior places, because today is not three points for a long time, Dashun is a corner of Sichuan and Yunnan to resist the whole country, and it has been carried to the time when the national strength is exhausted, it can be said that it is really in the autumn of critical survival.

Li Dingguo, who is known as the "Reincarnation Zhuge of the World" in Dashun, felt the most deeply about the exhaustion of Dashun's national strength, because he spent most of these years on the front line in Shaanxi, fighting with Sima Yi and Wu Sangui of the Ming Dynasty (Wu Sangui insisted that he was Cao Zhen of the Ming Dynasty).

To be honest, Li Dingguo's fighting skills and Wu Sangui on the opposite side are really half a catty to eight taels. Li Dingguo is good at fighting skillful battles, while Wu Sangui can fight tough battles. The two fought a few times, but Li Dingguo skillfully used his troops to play Wu Sangui to start the game, and in the end, it was Wu Sangui who outnumbered the crowd in the battle formation, and Li Dingguo was defeated and retreated, so he had to withdraw his troops with hatred.

However, Li Dingguo also learned the lesson of Zhuge Liang in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that he always ran out of food and retreated, and made a long-lasting plan for Tuntian at the beginning, and also used the strategy of first going out of Qishan and then attacking Guanzhong, seizing many loess platforms at the northern foot of Zhongnan Mountain, and using the condescending terrain there to lay defenses, and firmly encircled the main battlefield of the Mingshun army at the junction of the Guanzhong Plain and the Qinling Mountains, which can be said to have taken the lead.

But it didn't take long for Li Dingguo to find that the opportunity he had worked so hard to take became a tasteless chicken rib that was a pity to abandon.

It turned out that after Wu Sangui led the army to Guanzhong, Li Dingguo found that his army was not capable of defeating Wu Sangui's Ming army in the plain area below the platform, and the latter's ability to fight in formation was too strong, and it was a coordinated tactic of infantry, artillery, cavalry, and engineers. Moreover, there are more subdivided small arms under the four major arms of the Ming army, such as infantry, artillery, cavalry, and engineers, which can carry out various coordination and cooperation on the battlefield, which is very strong.

In the case of the inability to win the field battle in the plains, Li Dingguo was unwilling to give up the large platform at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains - the platform he occupied in the northern part of the Qinling Mountains stretched for about 50 miles from east to west, and about 8 miles wide from north to south, which was almost 400 miles square, because there were many ravines, so there was not so much land that could really be reclaimed, but it was also more than 100,000 mu. And they are all familiar land, and they look relatively rich, at least much richer than Shaanxi in Li Dingguo's memory......

Giving up such a rich land that could be cultivated in vain, Li Dingguo and the generals of the Dashun Army were really a little reluctant.

Therefore, Li Dingguo arranged for the troops to build a fortress on this loess platform and reclaim the fields, thinking that it was a long-term plan.

He originally thought very well, 100,000 mu of land, even if one mu produces sixty or seventy catties of flour, it can have six or seven million catties a year, enough for 20,000 troops to eat.

In addition, on the slopes of the Qinling Mountains next to these terraces, a lot of land can be cultivated to grow sweet potatoes and potatoes - this exotic crop has also flowed into Dashun! There can always be a few million catties mixed with flour a year, and an army of 40,000 can also support it.

If you transport some grain from Hanzhong, you can maintain an army of 50,000 to 60,000 on the Guanzhong side, which is enough to fight against Wu Sangui for a long time.

I thought it was very good, but in the actual implementation, there was a big problem!

Li Dingguo is not Zhuge Liang after all, Zhuge Liang is good at civil affairs, he is a generation of famous ministers, and he can govern the Shu Han with few people and few lands in an orderly manner. And Li Dingguo is just a military general, saying that it is a peasant uprising, but in fact, he doesn't know how to farm at all - he was still a little doll when he was captured by Zhang Xianzhong to be a righteous son, and he didn't know anything about farming.

He is actually a samurai who grew up in Zhang Xianzhong's army, and he is almost the same as the second generation of government soldiers in his army, and he can't farm......

Li Dingguo, who can't farm, took tens of thousands of second-generation soldiers who couldn't farm to the loess plateau at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain......

Therefore, Li Dingguo's tuntian was at a loss as soon as it came up, and he only beat less than 1 million catties of wheat in the first year, and only left more than 600,000 catties of wheat husks. There was not much army to be supplied at all, so the tens of thousands of troops in Guanzhong could only be maintained by transshipment from Hanzhong and capture in Guanzhong.

The following year, Li Dingguo learned his lesson and recruited old farmers from Sichuan to come to Shaanxi...... As a result, these old farmers all grow rice, and they don't grow wheat on the mesa at all!

As a result, they lost money again, so they had to continue transshipment from Hanzhong, and the volume of transportation was several times higher than in the previous year - because there were seizures that could be consumed before, but now there are none.

In the third year, Li Dingguo finally found the right person, found farmers from Gongchang who could plant the northwest terraces, and used the correct method to farm the land, and the results were ...... No harvest of grains!

If you find the right person and use the right method, how can you still get nothing?

That's right, that's agriculture!

Li Dingguo: They encountered a drought!

Shaanxi's plateaus and ravines are most afraid of drought, and drought is inevitable, and a small drought in three years and a major drought in five years are inevitable.

Moreover, the great drought that had been ruled for 15 years not only droughted Guanzhong, but also seriously affected the agriculture of Hanzhong, Gongchang, Baoning, Songpan, Longan, and other places under the rule of Dashun, and even Chengdu, which was so rich that it was full of oil, also reduced its output by more than 30 percent.

In this case, it seems that Li Dingguo should retire from the army, but he can't do this!

Because most of the more than 100,000 soldiers who followed him on the Northern Expedition came from drought-stricken areas - which means that they are all suffering serious losses! The ability to serve has been greatly reduced, and if they are allowed to go home empty-handed, it is difficult to say whether they will be able to gather so many people next time.

Moreover, Wu Sangui also knew about the drought in Dashun, in fact, Shaanxi, Henan, and Shanxi under the rule of Daming also suffered disasters.

However, the Ming Dynasty is not afraid of drought now, and the population of these provinces in the Northwest Central Plains has plummeted after years of war, coupled with the great development of the Gulf of America and Liaoyang Province, giving the people in the disaster area a good place to go.

In the disaster year, the Ming court did not even issue relief to Shaanxi, Henan, and Shanxi provinces, and even Tian Fu was not exempted!

Of course, farmers who are willing to leave their hometowns to go to Liaoyang Province or to the Gulf of America during the disaster year, the imperial court will issue subsidies - this is the real money to buy peace!

Dashun has no money to send here, so he can only start a war to rob it!

During the 15 years of co-governance and the 16 years of co-governance, Li Dingguo, the "Zhuge Liang", launched a series of offensives on the ground in Shaanxi, which made Wu Sangui scramble, and really grabbed a little property, but it still couldn't make up for the expenses of the soldiers below.

Just when Li Dingguo was planning to launch another round of large-scale offensive after the autumn harvest of the 17th year of Gongzhi, the situation in Dashun changed drastically!

Li Guo died, and Li Laiheng ascended the throne....... And Dashun suddenly has money!

The bitter Dashun Dynasty suddenly began to give out red envelopes!

The "red envelope" was escorted by Li Dingguo's youngest son, Li Runxing, to the camp of Dingjun Mountain, with a total of 880,000 taels of silver and 480,000 copper coins!

"Why do you give so much money?" Li Dingguo's lieutenant Luo Hu looked at the baskets of silver and copper coins and was very surprised, "How old is the imperial court?" If you send money like this, you won't be able to live in the future? ”

Li Dingguo also frowned, "The first emperor has been living carefully, although he has picked a little, but he can flow for a long time!" How can this be done today? ”

Li Runxing smiled and said to his father and Luo Hu: "Ada, Luo Hou, you two and relax, now the court is rich!" Taisun, no, it was the prince of Fujun who went to Tianzhu and plundered it and snatched back more than 8 million taels...... That's why we can give rewards to the old brothers today, and there are heavy rewards up and down, and everyone is happy! ”

"8 million is not much!" Li Dingguo shook his head.

"Ada, don't worry about it, Prince Fujun will grab a little more next time, and you will have everything!"

"Next time?" Luo Hu knows a little bit of Li Jicheng's good deeds, his son is Li Jicheng's person!

"yes!" Li Runxing smiled, "I'm going to follow...... Grab a little more! ”