Li Zicheng reluctantly smiled and said: "You are your cronies and ministers, you have praised you over the years, and you have a long-term vision, which is different from a group of civil servants. Speaking of the things that Tatar Zinan committed, why didn't he think about it in his heart? I also thought about it many times on the way to the East. But ......"

Taking advantage of Li Zicheng's momentary silence, Song Xiance quickly gave Li Yan a look. The smile on the emperor's face disappeared, as if disagreeing with their concerns about the Manchu Tartars. Moreover, Ruhou's proposal to do something to Wu Sangui was not accepted by the emperor, and it seems that the emperor has already made up his mind for a long time. If something isn't going well, don't get it.

"However," Li Zicheng continued, "I think about it, the inside of the Tartars has not stopped, my Dashun soldiers are sharp, and the morale of the soldiers is booming, and at this time they may not dare to invade the south of the fortress." ”

The new dynasty must have a new atmosphere, if the Dashun Dynasty sits in the world, the Tartars enter the blockage, and they can break dozens of states and counties in a row like a storm and clouds, and win dozens of battles in a row, then what is the difference between the new dynasty and the old dynasty?

Li Zicheng absolutely disagrees with it, and he will never back down. If the Tartars enter the fortress, what they are waiting for will inevitably be a battle with the great Shun soldiers.

Are the Tartars really so arrogant that they dare to come south to commit crimes? Li Zicheng felt that was impossible.

Song Xiance saw that Li Zicheng already had his own thoughts in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is wise, and he is more far-reaching than the ministers. I would like to hear Your Majesty's wise opinion to relieve the worries of foolish ministers. ”

Li Zicheng was comfortable to listen to, and a smile finally appeared on his face again. He said confidently: "In the past seventeen years, Chongzhen has been corrupt in the government and lack of food, so that the soldiers have no fighting spirit, and the army is empty, so that the Tartars have invaded several times, broke through the walled city, and returned with plunder. And at present, my Dashun army has broken the northern capital and established a new dynasty. At a time when the soldiers are strong and the army is strong, the Tartars are not unexpected, how can they touch this moldy head? ”

"Chen Yan once had a recital, and the words were few and the soldiers were fine. Several times into the fortress, although coerced Yanjing, Ma Tajifu, went deep into southern Hebei, swept Qilu, captured a large number of people, plundered food and property, all returned with the whole division. It seems to be like entering a no-man's land, and no one can reach it. Actually, it is not. Every time the Tartars were able to succeed, it was because of the vastness of the Central Plains, and Zhu Ming could easily gather 100,000 troops in one place, but he could not arrange 5,000 or 7,000 people in all the large and small prefectures and county capitals.

It is true that the Tartar soldiers are sharp, but it seems that they can take the siege of the city, but in fact, they are avoiding the real and attacking the false, which can repeatedly break the city and succeed. If there are one or two cities, the officials and the people stick to it, and the Tartars will not attack it in order to avoid death and injury.

And the Acropolis of Rujin Gate, a heavy place of grain, with heavy troops stationed and heavily guarded, the Tartars will not attack at all. And the last time the Tartars entered the fortress, they also suffered a big loss under the city of Yanzhou in Lunan, and then they stopped fighting.

Because if they keep fighting, they will die more. Even if you can win Yanzhou City, in the end, the gains outweigh the losses!

It's a pity that such a city is at least? Zhu Ming was depressed from top to bottom, military discipline was corrupt, soldiers never practiced, they were defeated when they saw the enemy, coupled with civil and military discord, they were all united, and they could neither fight nor defend. It became an invincible reputation for the Tartars.

Lang Huaxia actually allowed the Tatars to wreak havoc, can Zhu Mingyan still dare to call the Son of Heaven and represent the herdsmen of Heaven?

Chen's speech makes a lot of sense. These Tartars are ferocious, but their biggest disadvantage is that they have few people, although the soldiers are elite, but if they die, there will be one less. Tartars can't afford to die.

A doll lands, from infancy to adulthood, to say the least it will take fifteen years, to be able to really go into battle to kill the enemy, swords, guns, bows and horses are all skillful, then let alone to twenty years old.

The Tartars have that little population, and if thousands of people die every year, they can't wait for the little doll to grow up, and their own men will die long ago.

Over time, the Tartars have developed the habit of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages.

Otherwise, why did Jinzhou surround and not fight in the first battle, and it took more than two years to make Zu Dashou have no grain left, so he could only open the city and surrender, so he succeeded?

It's because there are too few people in the Tartars. They can't afford it.

And at present, the forehead is Dashun Xinli, and the elite soldiers and fierce generals have everything, and the combat power is far from being comparable to Zhu Ming's bear soldiers.

If the Tartars had invaded south at this time and fought with the Great Shun Army, they would have been considered victorious, and their own casualties would have been smaller? Aren't the people in power inside the Eight Banners going to make trouble again?

In the end, no amount of money or grain in Gyeonggi will outweigh the losses.

And you must know that Wu Sangui went south from Ningyuan, but on Juehua Island off the coast of Ningyuan City, Zheng Zhilong still had a soldier and horse guarding there. ”

Wu Sangui retreated south, but Zheng Jun still insisted on not wavering, and everyone understood what Zheng Zhilong's plan was. The war between the Zheng army and the Manchus did not end with Zhu Ming's abandonment of the lands outside the Guan, on the contrary, the war between the two would continue.

This made Li Zicheng think of Yunyang, a little Yunyang, just because of Gao Doushu's hard bones, how many soldiers and horses did he contain in Jingxiang?

Bai Wang has an army of 70,000 or 80,000 under his command, and in the place of bombing, in addition to watching Zuo Liangyu, there is also an important person who is used to watch Yunyang. But Gao Doushu is really a character, relying on the little Yunyang, relying on the barren Yunyang, how difficult the situation has been in the past few years. Coupled with Zuo Liangyu's troubles, although Bai Wangjun has repeatedly defeated Zuo Jun, he can't really hit it hard. Instead, he was drawn to his attention, allowing Gao Doushu to see the opportunity and take Junzhou back. So much so that Li Zicheng had to let Yuan Zongdi, the former battalion general, lead his army south after the war in the northwest calmed down.

This Juehua Island is very similar to that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and Yunyang to Li Zicheng.

With the existence of this Zheng army on Juehua Island, the Manchu Qing Dynasty can't enter the customs in a big way. Otherwise, wouldn't Zheng Jun take the opportunity to turn their hometown upside down?

Li Zicheng, who didn't know that Zheng Zhibao had already led the army to North Korea, thought so.

You can't say that what he thinks doesn't make sense, it's just that some of it is taken for granted.

These words are still convincing, and Song Xiance was 'convinced' immediately, and said: "Your Majesty is wise and far-sighted, and the candle shines on the situation, which is really beyond the reach of the ministers." Ranchen and others are afraid of the incident, so if Wu Sangui and the Tartars collude ......, they really have to be prevented, so they should order Guangshan Bo (Liu Tichun, General Guoyi of the right battalion) to go straight to Jizhou from Tongzhou, and then let people immediately spy on the military situation in Shanhaiguan and Liaodong, and not be negligent. ”

"Well, that's fine. sent Liu Tichun to Jizhou. It is also to urge the two departments of Baima to capture Luanzhou. ”

Li Yan saw that Li Zicheng was still listening to what he said, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, I am in the new building, and if I want to recover the lost territory outside the Guanwai, there will be a battle with the Dongyu sooner or later, and I must not take it to heart." The Art of War: Those who are good at fighting in the past are invincible first, and then they are invincible to the enemy. You can't win against yourself, but you can win against the enemy. In the humble opinion of the ministers, they should be invincible, so that the enemy will not dare to attack. ”

Li Zicheng didn't want to fight with the Manchus now. Emperor Chongzhen is not dead, and Zhu Ming has not fallen, this is his biggest enemy at present. Li Yan said that it could make the enemy dare not attack, which greatly increased his interest.

Immediately asked, "Does the military advisor have a teaching place?" How to make the enemy dare not attack? ”

Li Yan replied: "The ancestors have a saying: Those who make good use of soldiers should cultivate the Tao and protect the law. The minister thought that this 'way' was benevolence and righteousness, that is, benevolent government, and that 'law' was the legal system, which referred to both the legal system governing the country and the strict military discipline. Therefore, the minister only hopes that His Majesty will "cultivate the Tao and protect the law", so he does not have to worry about the opportunity to commit crimes. ”

"The military advisor is the henchman, what else can't be said? Don't hesitate, say it all. To put it bluntly, Li Zicheng's knowledge level is low, and he can understand Li Yan's words, but he can't understand them.

"Your Majesty entered the Beijing Division, and God will rain down to relieve the drought in Gyeonggi for several months. This providence is also in me. At the same time, the officers and men of the three armies are strictly disciplined, and Yu Minqiu has not committed any crimes, so the hearts of the people of Qianshou have been fully satisfied. But the hearts of the people in the world lie more in the hearts of the people. In the past few days, Yihou (Zhang Nai) has sent hundreds of civil and military people, both large and small, and there is also goodness in them. Your Majesty should quickly select the best and the best, either to the central government or to serve as a locality, so that all the northern prefectures and counties may be in my hands. In this way, the government is good and harmonious. ”

To put it simply, this is Li Zicheng's initiative to resolve the contradiction between himself and the gentry class, just like the scientific expedition prepared by Niu Jinxing. But Li Yan also knows Niu Jinxing's character, no matter how upright others are, they will never mention scientific research.

However, Li Zicheng already understood what Li Yan meant. He wanted to quickly release goodwill to the gentry class, so as to completely pinch the territory occupied by the Dashun army into a whole.

Li Zicheng also hopes so, but how easy is this to say?

Before the three years of non-levy, there were still four words of 'free grain in the field'.

These four words are the fundamental program of Li Zicheng's establishment in the Central Plains, and he has always done so earlier. Everywhere he went, the gentry and bureaucracy all suffered, and Li Zicheng was full of evil deeds about the gentry class.

But it wasn't something he could completely erase with his words.

What's more, Li Zicheng hated the gentry in his heart, and before entering the Beijing Division, he and his core group had plans to torture and recover the stolen goods. It is mainly set by the Guanzhong Group and Li Zicheng's old brothers.

The reason is very simple, one is to solve the problem of money ringing, and the other is to retaliate.

It is not only a revenge against corrupt officials, but also a revenge against the entire group of officials. In their eyes, none of them are good things. If it weren't for the fact that all the officials in the capital had fled, there would have only been three or two big cats and kittens left in the city, and now the looting and recovery of the stolen goods may have been carried out.

Officials above the sixth grade can't escape. There are 100,000 pavilion elders, 70,000 or 50,000 or 30,000 brocade clothes in the Jingtang of the Ministry of Ministry, 50,000 and 30,000 in the Ministry of Science and Taoism, 30,000, 20,000 and 10,000 in Hanlin, and the subordinates are each in the thousands.

Liu Zongmin's 5,000 pairs of clamping sticks will make the officials all over the capital wail and shout that I am wrong, and I will miss Emperor Chongzhen very much.

Compared with Li Zicheng, who is no longer playing cards according to the rules, but directly flipping the table, Emperor Chongzhen's suspicious, mean-spirited and unkind temperament is so loving. I don't know how many officials will be heartbroken and regret their mistakes.

I am annoyed that I regard broken copper as gold and fish eyes as pearls.

To allow his subordinates to do such things, no matter how Li Zicheng is said, he can't erase the hatred of the bureaucrats and gentry in his heart.

Li Yan's suggestion was completely to let him be soft on the gentry class first and hand him an olive branch.

Li Zicheng's face was visibly serious.