Out of the great fear that Jiujiang might be lost, Ningnan Hou Zuo Liangyu immediately decided that he would now break his wrist for the strong man in order to protect himself.

He hurriedly ordered that Jin Shenghuan's troops, who were stationed in Luzhou Mansion, should no longer resist the soldiers and horses of the Sixth Town of the Tang Army, but that the whole army should immediately break through the siege and withdraw west to Huangzhou Mansion in Huguang, using Macheng as a base to ensure that the soldiers and horses of the Sixth Town of the Tang Army would not continue to advance westward.

Wang Deren's troops, who were stationed in Anqing Mansion, retreated to Susong City at the junction of Anqing and Huguang, so as to shrink the battle line and rely on Leishui and Leichi Lake to resist the Tang army's westward attack.

Zuo Liangyu arranged this way, quite took the initiative to give up the last two prefectures of Nanzhili, Luzhou Mansion and Anqing Mansion, so that Jin Shenghuan Department stationed in Macheng, Wang Deren Department stationed in Susong, and Hao Xiaozhong Department stationed in Jiujiang could be each other's horns and guard the Huguang border together to ensure that their basic territory would not be lost.

Zuo Liangyu responded in such a hurry, but let the soldiers and horses of the sixth town of the Tang Army basically win Luzhou and Anqing without a fight, and so far, the entire Nanzhili finally fell into the hands of Li Xiao almost completely.

When the whole army broke through, Jin Shenghuan had to fight fiercely with the besieging Tang army, and in the end, after paying the heavy price of nearly half of the casualties or captured, they finally escaped and retreated all the way to Macheng.

What Zuo Liangyu didn't expect was that now, the Tang army was not in a hurry to attack him, but started a new battle plan after Liu Zehan's troops and horses entered Jiangxi.

Zuo Liangyu was annoyed to find that the Tang army only let Huang Degong's troops concentrate on encircling Jiujiang City, and Liu Zehan's three battalions of soldiers and horses were divided into two divisions, one battalion of soldiers and horses went straight to Ningzhou in Nanchang Prefecture, in order to threaten Zuo Liangyu's lower Huguang and make him dare not send troops to aid the easternmost three troops and horses.

The other two battalions continued to move south, recovering Ji'an Mansion and Jianchang Mansion respectively, threatening Ganzhou Mansion, where Zheng Zhilong's troops were located, with the momentum of each other's horns.

Tang Jun's deployment was completely beyond Zuo Liangyu's expectations. It's just that now the Luzhou Mansion and Anqing Mansion in Nanzhili, as well as the entire northern part of Jiangxi except for Jiujiang City, have been lost, so what is the point of regret!

So far, Li Xiao's battle plan for that day has been fully realized, especially now with the soldiers and horses of the two towns marching into Jiangxi, so that only Jiujiang City and Ganzhou Mansion are still in the hands of the enemy in the entire Jiangxi, and the rest of the territory is the territory of the Tang Army.

According to Li Xiao's strategic concept, up to now, the main battles have basically ended, and the Tang army has re-formed a new confrontation with Zuo Liangyu and Zheng Zhilong.

This temporary pause was of course caused and controlled by the Tang Army. The reason why the offensive was suspended was because Li Xiao considered that if he continued to pursue Zuo Liangyu or Zheng Zhilong's troops hard, the battle line would be too long, and the troops would be insufficient, and even the logistics and supplies might not be able to keep up.

In case of a quick victory, and a stalemate with Zuo Liangyu or Zheng Zhilong, then such as the Liukou, the Tartars, and the Zhang Xianzhong Department in the Sichuan Basin are very likely to be ready to move and intrude on their own territory and borders.

Therefore, after the Tang army had already obtained the most elite part of the land of the Ming Dynasty, it was the most important and urgent thing to postpone the war with all parties and make every effort to digest and absorb these newly acquired territories.

Now, what is the most serious and urgent problem in Jiangnan at the end of the Ming Dynasty?

Li Xiao believes that there are two most serious and urgent problems: one is the serious land annexation, and the other is the extremely large number of displaced people and unemployed.

First, let's talk about the situation of land annexation in general.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, land concentration had reached an unprecedented level. The princes and the landlords and gentry frantically annexed the land, and most of the peasants lost their land one after another. On a national scale, an ordinary landlord owns dozens of tenants. In Zhejiang and Fujian, one-tenth of those who have land and nine-tenths of them are tenants. For example, most of the fields in Beijing, Zhili, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Huguang and other places were occupied by the princes and relatives and the landlords and gentry.

Ordinary landlords and gentry take by grabbing and stealing, "asking for land and giving up without stopping". The rich and wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River occupy hundreds of acres of land, thousands of acres, or even 10,000 acres. Henan's gentry and wealthy rooms occupy less than 50,000 or 70,000 mu of land, and more than 100,000 mu (Zheng Lian's "Yu Chang Ji Luo" volume 2).

This situation is even more serious in this rich land south of the Yangtze River. And this kind of land annexation, in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there is also a relatively common land annexation model.

This model is that a powerful clan in a certain place occupies a place, and then squeezes out non-ethnic insiders, and occupies the land of non-ethnic insiders, forming a land annexation in a region.

In the "Huizhou Mansion Chronicles", many famous families recorded have established a certain clan in a place in this way. This is also the reason why, in many places in the south, villages have only one surname. Because those small clans that have no power have been squeezed away by a local big family in various ways.

However, in the area south of the Yangtze River, there has not been a large-scale natural disaster in the northwest region, which has led to a large increase in the number of displaced people, so that the problem rises up, why is this?

At this time, in the affluent areas represented by Jiangnan, a large number of bankrupt peasants were forced to leave the land for their livelihood and moved to the nearby industrial and commercial centers to become a new group of hired workers, thus temporarily solving the imminent problem of survival.

In the northwest region, the consequences of land annexation are much more serious than those in the south of the Yangtze River.

After the land annexation in the northwest region, although the degree is not as serious as that in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the damage is even stronger, because the land annexation in the northwest region is prone to occur during natural disasters, and the second is that the land annexation causes a large number of displaced people.

Due to natural disasters and land annexation, a large number of peasants in the northwest region have lost their land, but the economy and environment of the northwest region have not been able to provide a way for the peasants who have lost their land to live, thus creating a large number of displaced people. In order to survive, these displaced people have no land and no other economy in the northwest region, so they have to work as helpers for the landlords, but the number of helpers is always limited, and the landless peasants who lack a way out often have to choose to fall into the grass or are forced to rise up. This will undoubtedly cause profound disasters and tragedies to the entire country.

Therefore, the consequences of land annexation are not the same in different parts of China, and we must not use the land annexation situation of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang generations to understand the land annexation of the northwest generation.

Moreover, in a certain sense, the land annexation in the south of the Yangtze River actually has a certain role in promoting the formation and development of the entire market society.

"Mr. Lin Ciya's Anthology": "Today's people, engaged in business, skills and eaters, ten and five or six. ”

"Siyou Zhai Cong Said": "In the past, there were still few people who went to the end, and now those who go to agriculture and change their careers to business are three times as many as before." In the past, there were no wanderers, but now there are two or three out of ten people who go to the farm and take advantage of the food. In the words of about 10 people, 6 or 7 points have gone to farming. ”

"Jiajing 11 March Policy": "The people who travel are few of their strength, and those who are heretics or even farmers are rare. ......, the small people are not beneficial to the farmers, and they think that eating after art can be a way to survive. …… The people under today's population are counted at a large rate, and those who have land are one or two, and those who have no land are eight or nine. ”

"Suzhou Prefecture Chronicles": "Four-five out of ten people live in the city, three-four out of ten people live in the town, and one out of ten people scatter in the countryside." ”

According to a large number of historical records of the Ming Dynasty, the entire Jiangnan region, the agricultural population gradually increased from four or five percent in the middle of the Ming Dynasty to one or two percent in the late Ming Dynasty, and a large number of people flowed into the cities, providing sufficient labor population for urban development.

With the development of market society and commodity economy, China's early embryonic capitalism had an extremely powerful impact on the whole world. At this point, even the author was not shocked when he saw the following information.

These materials come from Fan Shuzhi's "History of the Late Ming Dynasty".

By the early 1580s, Chinese silk was already a threat to the sales of Spanish products in the Americas. At the beginning of the 17th century, Mexicans wore silk more than cotton, and most of the so-called silk wore Chinese silk. ”

"In fact, China's trade relationship with the Spanish colonial empire is the relationship between Chinese silk flowing to the Philippines and the Americas, and silver flowing to China."

So much so that the Viceroy of Mexico called for a ban on the import of Chinese raw silk in 1611. However, by 1637, the situation worsened, and the Mexican silk weaving industry was made from Chinese silk, and the local Mexican silk industry was effectively wiped out. Peru, which is adjacent to Mexico, is also a huge market for Chinese silk, and the price of Chinese silk to Peru is only 1/3 of that of Spanish products. From Chile to Panama, Chinese silk is sold and worn everywhere. ”

"Chinese silk not only flooded the American market, seized the sales of Spanish silk in the Americas, and even bypassed most of the world and exported to Spain, where it directly destroyed Spanish silk production."

This is only in the embryonic state, and it is still extremely naïve and unstable, but it has caused such a powerful impact and impact on the world economic order, which shows how great the potential for the development of commodity economy is in the area south of the Yangtze River, and how high the achievements can be achieved in the future!

Compared with the germination of capitalism that began to appear in the Ming Dynasty and the vitality and new power brought to society, the so-called prosperous era of the Qing Dynasty is so ridiculous and pathetic.

During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, "the prosperous era is full of Ding, and it will never be endowed", which was praised by the later Tartar powder as a great achievement of the ancient times, but is the true meaning of this history really as they say?

Definitely.

Because, the so-called never increase refers to only collecting a fixed poll tax, and then concentrating the focus of tax collection on the field tax.

Is this really benevolent government? Why do most countries now have to pay personal income tax, but do not adopt this "benevolent policy"?

In fact, this policy was actually a great social regression, a cruel measure to strictly bind the population to the land, so that the local governments, for the sake of the so-called political achievements and political merits, had to do their best to suppress all new economic forces, and to convert as many people as possible into the most basic cultivated population, and to suppress the living space of the landless people (such as workers, merchants, etc.). This cruel practice of ignorance and obsolescence was diametrically opposed to the enclosure movement in Europe at the same time, which forced the peasants to work in the cities and transformed the entire country into an industrialized society.

Therefore, Kangxi's practice is only to have strong control over the society and prevent the emergence of undesirable factors that are beyond the control of the Qing court, thus artificially greatly reducing the living space of other industries, so that the people under his rule can only live by engaging in agriculture.

It can even be said that the Qing Dynasty was a traditional Chinese occupation arrangement from Shinong, which performed its own duties, and through strong artificial means, it became only two industries, Shinong, and farmers, making China an out-and-out agricultural country and completely extinguishing the hope of industrialization. Finally, more than 100 years later, China suffered defeat and humiliation that had not been seen for thousands of years, and had that nightmarish history, full of bullet holes and blood and tears.

At this point, it is estimated that many readers will ask, then, according to this, since the land annexation in the Jiangnan area has such a promoting effect on society, can Li Xiao, as the actual ruler, indulge in the land annexation in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas and let it go freely?

Of course not.

Because, in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, although the problem of land annexation is not serious, although there are not too many problems of displaced people, there are very serious problems.

That is, the finance and taxes in the Jiangnan area are basically in a state of not being able to collect.

Why can't I collect it?

Because the land annexation was concentrated in the hands of the landlord and gentry class, they could rely on their own privileges and loopholes in the law to evade taxes en masse on a large scale. In the entire Jiangnan area, the accumulated tax arrears have lasted for decades, causing the entire country to have a serious financial deficit, and this problem is undoubtedly quite shocking.

The demise of the Ming Dynasty was not directly due to land annexation, and there is no problem with this statement. However, the root cause of the fall of the Ming Dynasty was that the excessive land annexation caused the country to completely destroy the internal structure of the dynasty after losing a large amount of fiscal and tax revenue.

The financial constraints also determined that the Ming Dynasty could not systematically build an army sufficient to resist foreign aggression and suppress the uprising. As a result, whether it is external troubles or popular uprisings, they are constantly growing and cannot be contained, which also worsens the central government's finances.

At this point, the whole country, like a patient who has lost serious blood loss and has lost his ability to make blood, has no effective resistance to the invasion of the outside world, and any small external wound can make him infected and die, which is really a huge tragedy for the country and the nation.

For such a situation, Li Xiao, who came from later generations, knew it in his heart.

Therefore, he will never allow such a deformed social model to continue within the scope of his own rule.