In the early winter of the second year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, when Bruce, the envoy of the English Kingdom, entered Liaodong by land with their country's native Hongyi cannon, and came to Beijing City day and night, the Qing Emperor's uncle, the regent Dolgon, already knew that the Qing Dynasty had stabilized!

has firmly established himself in the Central Plains, and it is not easy to be expelled back to his hometown in the Northeast. And the key to stabilizing the Great Qing is not a native product from England - Dolgon doesn't know about it yet!

The key to stabilizing the Qing Dynasty is the smooth progress of the Zhenglu Banner enclosure and the planning and oral teaching of fields in Henan, Shandong, and Beizhili.

Since August, Dolgon has been touring back and forth in Dongchang, Yanzhou, Jinan, Guide, Kaifeng, Hejian, Henan and other prefectures. Supervise the enclosure and granting of land in various localities...... This is a huge government project! At least hundreds of millions of acres of land will be redistributed, involving the vital interests of tens of millions of people.

In order to better promote the enclosure and grant of land, Dolgon also transferred Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanme, Ma Guozhu, Xu Shichang, Xu Mingyuan and other good servants of the Eight Banners Han Army who followed from outside the pass to serve as "enclosure and land granting", and were in charge of the two major matters of land enclosure and land granting.

These minions from outside the customs have no interests in the customs, and no matter how they enclose the land and how they grant the land, they are not harmful. With them as the backbone, plus hundreds of officials selected from the Eight Banners Han Army and Zhenglu Banner to act as "Xiao Qincha", the capitals of Henan, Shandong, and Beizhili Prefectures that needed to be enclosed and granted land were all controlled.

The enclosure is easy to do, mainly in the state capitals of Shandong and eastern Henan, and there are not many people - the original residents have either run away or have been killed in the tug-of-war back and forth, and there are not many left, and it is impossible to launch an uprising against the enclosure.

After the encirclement was completed, the 100,000 Green Flag Army drove in, dividing the fields one by one - this division is not exactly the same as the Eight Banners. One of the eight flags is to be distributed to the kings and ministers, and the other is to divide the fields to the flags. The land was not directly given to the soldiers to cultivate.

The Zhenglu Banner is divided into fields and households (d), and the 20 million mu of land is divided according to the size of the official position, and everyone has a share.

After the distribution, it will not be paid immediately, but will be paid for three years as usual...... What to do in three years' time, we will talk about it then.

After the field is granted, the Green Banner soldiers are also soldiers and farmers, and they will use Niu Lu as a unit to build forts and docks to live, farm when the farm is busy, and train soldiers when the farm is slack.

It's hard to say what will happen to these Green Flag soldiers in the future, but they are all satisfied for now, and they have settled down for the time being, while planting the land casually, while waiting to fight Qufu again - there are gold and silver mountains in Qufu City, and there are tombs of the Holy Princes of the past dynasties that can be excavated!

The temptation is just too great! Everyone is waiting with their necks stretched!

And the matter of dictating the field is a little bit hard - after all, there are still many sporadic anti-Qing forces in various places! As soon as Ji Dictation's decree came out, it set off a small upsurge of resistance to the Qing Dynasty.

However, under the full suppression of Dolgon, there was no big trouble on the territory of Henan and Shandong—in fact, he did not have to confiscate the land of the scholar, as long as the landlord agreed to pay grain according to the standard of one mu and four liters, he recognized the ownership of the landlord's land.

However, the problem is that in the absence of a large decline in the population of the north and the introduction of the practice of counting and dictating land, land is no longer valuable, and population is the most important means of production.

In this case, where would any peasant be willing to pay more than the imperial grain (four liters per mu)?

If there is no peasant renting land, no matter how much land the landlord has, won't it be in vain? And they have to pay for food......

It is no exaggeration to say that this wave of land is the final deprivation of the northern gentry and landlord class.

In the winter of the second year of Shunzhi, with the end of the autumn harvest and the arrival of the "grain season", the rebellion of Henan, Shandong, Beizhili and other "Qing occupied areas" has basically ended, but Shanxi is not very peaceful.

Because under the temptation of the "preferential tax rate" of paying four liters of imperial grain per mu, almost all the peasants who were still renting land chose to become obedient citizens of the Qing Dynasty.

So in October, Dolgon triumphantly returned to the city of Dongchangfu, where the great general Yamen of Duoduo was located.

His "southern expedition" is almost over, and it is time to return to Beijing to continue to be his regent.

By the way, the "corpse of Haoge" has also been placed in Dongchang Mansion for some days, and it is time to bring it back to Beijing for a grand burial.

In charge of escorting Haug's body was Aobai, Hauge's loyal servant, who now seems to have taken refuge in Dorgon and Dord. When he heard that Dolgon had returned to Liaocheng, he hurriedly went to the General's Mansion to meet him.

"Slave worship, respectfully invite the emperor's uncle regent Jin An! The slave said hello to the emperor's uncle and regent! ”

"Daoxi?" Dolgon sat down in a chair with a golden sword, but smiled and asked, "What's the joy?" How did this king not know? ”

Ao Bai smiled: "The servant also just read the newspaper sent by Tangma, and knew that there was an envoy from the Western Red Yi England to pay tribute. ”

"Oh," Dolgon laughed, "what's the good?" ”

Duoduo on the side also laughed, "Brother Fourteen, guess what this specialty of Hongyi England is?" ”

"Hongyi's specialty?" Dolgon half-jokingly said, "Are you the red-haired girls?" ”

"Hahaha...... Brother Fourteen, are your ladies not enough? Duoduo laughed, "Brother Fourteen, let me tell you, this native product of Hongyi England is the Hongyi cannon!" ”

"Cannons? Old fifteen, do you mean that the Hongyi people want to pay us tribute cannons? ”

"yes!" Duoduo smiled, "Now our Qing Dynasty is stable...... According to the report of the governor of Shengjing, the envoy of the Hongyi Kingdom sent us a total of ten horse-drawn three-pounder cannons. It seems to be the same as the cannon used by the Southern Army in the First Battle of Qingliuxi. ”

"Haha, that's a godsend!" Dolgon smiled, "We're worried that we don't have any samples to imitate, so the Red Yi Kingdom will send them to our door...... We've got to thank people! ”

Duoduo added: "The king of Joseon also has merit, those English people first came to Korea by sea, and then came by land, thanks to the king of Joseon who sent people to escort them all the way. ”

Dolgon nodded: "This Li Liang is a loyal minion, and he sent Ying Erdai to lead the troops to Hanyang when he turned back, which can be regarded as protecting Korea from the invasion of the Japanese invaders." As for Jeju Island, you have to have a sailor, and we don't have a recruit now. ”

"Even if there is a sailor, you can't go!" Duoduo said, "Shandong is still waiting for the use of soldiers...... We are busy enclosing land and granting fields, Gao Hongtu, Shi Kefa, Zuo Maodi and Zhu Yihai are not idle, they are training and preparing for war these days! ”

"Don't be afraid!" Dolgon smiled, "With the two tricks of the positive green flag and the Ji Dictation field, our Daqing Dynasty will be stable in the Central Plains...... Shandong, sooner or later, it can be won. ”

He paused, and then said: "Old Fifteen, don't worry, when the English cannons arrive, let's imitate a little more, and then we will be sure to fight Qufu." ”

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"Good, good, three hundred three-pounder guns...... Fifty artillery batteries! As long as half of the goods can arrive, we will be able to go north to the Central Plains! No matter how Dolgon rectifies, he is no match for artillery! ”

At the same time, Zhu Cihong was also talking about cannons, but not ten, but three hundred!

An arms purchase written in Chinese and French was on the table in front of him at this time. The contract was made with the Duke of Shanghai Department of Trade and Foreign Affairs and Anthony of the Shanghai Department of Commerce and Foreign Affairs. Fan. Signed by Devon.

According to this contract, the Dutch East India Company was required to provide 300 three-pounder guns, 5,000 heavy Spanish arquebuses, and 10,000 light Spanish arquebuses to the Shanghai Department of Commerce and Foreign Affairs of the Ming Dynasty within two years.

Fifteen thousand arquebuses are nothing - arquebuses are consumables, they don't last long, so you always have to stock some. And the three-pounder bronze cannon is very durable, and the number of three hundred guns is a full fifty companies!

With a regiment attached to half a company, these cannons can equip a hundred regiments...... That is, more than 200,000 and nearly 300,000 new troops!

With so many new troops, can the Qing Dynasty still be stable? Can Li Zicheng be more arrogant? All his N bombarded into slag!

He was proud here, and Li Yan's voice sounded outside the door of the East Warm Pavilion of the Kenan Palace: "Chitose Lord, Minister Li Yan has an urgent military affair!" ”