Because of Li Zicheng's "pretending to be alive", Dashun is now Yongchang for four years. And the Qing Dynasty is Shunzhi for four years, all of which are "four years", which is quite a coincidence. What is even more coincidental is that the Qing Dynasty and the Great Shun both chose similar development routes - both were the initial model of the Chinese feudal dynasty.

The Qing Dynasty and the Great Shun Dynasty were originally the fledgling Chinese feudal dynasties!

The Ten Banners system of the Qing Dynasty (eight flags plus two green flags) is, to put it bluntly, a strengthened version of the military households of the Ming Dynasty, and it is not a system from the grassland desert.

The old battalion military system of Dashun is "granting land to soldiers", which is similar to the early government military system - the early government soldiers had a separate military registration, which was only classified into the civilian register after the reform of the Sui Dynasty, and now Dashun is also separating the soldiers and farmers.

In addition to the Ten Banners system and the old battalion military system, Dashun and Daqing successively chose Jikou Juntian, a land system that was considered by later generations to be a "fairy move".

This is actually a matter of course, the population density of the territory of Dashun and Daqing is not large - they are all taking the territory of the tug-of-war over and over again, how many people can there be?

And isn't a small number of people and more land a necessary condition for counting the land evenly? Even a smallholder economy needs a certain scale, and if the scale of the smallholder industry is too small, it is difficult to sustain it.

How can it be considered successful after a few decades?

If it splits up after three or five years, and serious signs of land annexation begin to appear again, it will not be a real success.

Or the fact that within a few years of the division of the land, the peasants left their homes and went to the United States to become colonists, which is not a sign of the success of Jikou Juntian.

Of course, it is normal for a peasant to be assigned one or two acres of one acre or two acres to be difficult to maintain. A family of five or six people with a few acres of thin fields is not at all an economic scale that can be sustained, and it will inevitably diverge soon!

Today, there are not many people on the territory of Dashun and Daqing, which is enough to produce a sustainable farm.

Moreover, for various reasons, they also tore their faces with the scholar class, and they could not get the support of the latter at all. Wouldn't it be foolish for them to defend the land ownership of the scholars and doctors, instead of adopting the system of equalizing land that is the easiest way to obtain stability?

Li Guo and Dolgon are not stupid, of course they know what to do!

So by the time of the fourth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, although the short-term trend of the Qing Dynasty did not look very good - the Qing army lost Yulin and Yan'an in Shaanxi. The Qing army on the Shanxi side still failed to capture Datong Mansion, and also allowed the development of the anti-Qing base area in Luliang Mountain. On the Shandong side, the Qing army once again abandoned the Yishui camp and evacuated the city of Qufu.

But people who can really see the situation clearly know very well that the rule of the Great Qing State in the Central Plains has been relatively stable!

By the end of the fourth spring of the reign of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, 100,000 households of officers and soldiers under the Green Banner and more than 1.5 million poor peasants living in Henan, Shandong, Beizhili, and Shanxi Province had obtained the land they coveted.

Among them, the grant of land to the poor people is maintained at the standard of 10 acres per mouth. Even taking into account the current climatic conditions, this amount of land is enough to live and live a relatively nourishing life.

Therefore, in the area where the dictation of the fields has been completed, the resistance of the Han people has gradually subsided! Even the Caozhou Ming army (Li Huajing, Gong Wencai Department), which had held out for more than a year under the siege of the Qing army on all sides, was defeated by Duoduo at the end of the third year of Shunzhi.

Li Huajing and Gong Wencai, who could not gain a foothold in Caozhou, were forced to lead the rest of the army to break through and take refuge in Shi Kefa, who was entrenched in Qufu.

In addition to the defeat of the Ming army in Caozhou, another good thing also fell on Dolgon's head after the spring of the fourth year of Shunzhi - Bruce, the envoy sent by General Cromwell, the protector of the Hongyi English Kingdom, finally arrived in Beijing, and also sent the local products of the Hongyi Kingdom to the Qing Emperor's uncle regent Dolgon, twelve three-pounder Hongyi cannons, plus twelve three-pounder cannons imitated by the craftsmen of the Eight Banners Han Army in Shengjing (guided by Bruce and other English).

Bruce had already arrived in Shengjing, but Dorgon didn't summon them to Beijing right away. This is because Dorgon doesn't trust these red-haired foreigners...... Who doesn't know that Zhu Cihong opened a business market in Shanghai to attract foreign businessmen, and has a good relationship with red-haired and yellow-haired foreigners!

How could this Hongyi country be better with the Qing Dynasty? Isn't there a scam in it?

So Dolgon listened to Fan Wencheng's suggestion and wanted to test the foreigners of Hongyi Country - didn't they say that the specialty of Hongyi Country was cannons?

Then teach a little cannon casting skills to the white flag Han army left behind in Shengjing!

Not to mention, this group of Hongyi people is really interesting, they have been busy for more than half a year, and finally helped the craftsmen of the Zhengbai Banner Han Army to produce twelve three-pounder Hongyi cannons - in fact, the three-pounder cannon has no insurmountable difficulties for the craftsmen of the Qing Dynasty in terms of technology.

When it comes to the difficulty of casting, the twelve-pound Hongyi cannon is much higher!

It's just that the three-pounder gun has higher requirements for weight and accuracy, and it also has to build a special gun mount, so it takes a little time.

In addition, the efficiency of the Manchu "flag office" handicraft industry was also a little lower. The craftsmen are all flag slaves, and they are reluctant to learn new things - the twelve-pound Hongyi cannon is what they have cooked, and all kinds of "rules" have been figured out, such as how much material is costed, how much time is wasted, how much scrap rate is, up and down.

Therefore, the risk of craftsmen casting cannons is low, and they are unlikely to be punished, and their lives will be stable.

And the three-pounder cannon is a new product, in case it is not done well, who will blow it up when the regent inspects the cannon?

Now that the Ten Banners of the Qing Dynasty have strict laws, they must be held accountable for this situation, and some people will lose their heads......

Innovation is risky!

However, after a long period of procrastination, the twelve three-pounder Hongyi cannons were finally cast.

And during this time, Bruce also trained a group of "Hongyi Cannon" players for the Red Yi Cannon Niu Lu with the white flag.

On the 28th day of the first month of the fourth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, a test launch was carried out on the school field of Fengtai Daying!

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The sound of artillery rang out intensively, and the muzzles of the eight randomly selected three-pounder guns continued to spew out fireworks, and they all fired at the same time, and the shells flew in waves towards dozens of wooden targets three or four hundred paces ahead. In a short time, more than half of them were shattered.

The smile on the face of the Qing Emperor's uncle, Regent Dolgon, who was sitting on a high platform and watching the cannon, couldn't hide it.

Since the battle of Bloody Creek, he has been worried about being able to quickly move to the artillery of the Ming army - he is a military strategist who has fought for half a lifetime, he knows some artillery, and he is a master of using cavalry, and he also knows how well cavalry and artillery can be used together.

But he didn't expect that the Ming army could make the cannon "fly"!

In the past battles between the Ming and Qing dynasties, because the Qing army had an overwhelming cavalry advantage, it held the initiative on the battlefield, and the troops could maneuver calmly on the battlefield. On the contrary, the Ming army needed to maintain a state of formation, and it was difficult to maneuver.

In this case, the artillery of the Ming army, which was very troublesome to deploy (the general cannon, the tiger squat cannon, the attack cannon, and the Francophone cannon), basically could not exert its power - the Qing army, which could move quickly, would not give the Ming artillery much time to arrange.

However, the artillery of the Ming army that appeared on the battlefield of Bloody Creek could quickly maneuver, quickly deploy, and the rate of fire was very fast!

Their appearance can at least neutralize the Qing army's mobility advantage in the battle between the two armies, making the assembly positions on the battlefield of the Qing army easy to be shelled!

Moreover, the shield wagons and artillery positions of the Qing army will also be destroyed by this new type of artillery with strong mobility and a very fast rate of fire.

Therefore, in the past half a year, Dolgon has been urging the craftsmen of the Han army of various banners to speed up the improvement of the general's cannon, trying to use the general's cannon of the two-wheeled artillery carriage to fight against the new artillery of the Ming army.

However, the range of the general's cannon was too close, and even if it could fire quickly after improving the gun mount, it was difficult to resist the new artillery of the Ming army.

And this problem has finally been satisfactorily solved thanks to the help of friends in England!