"Chitose Lord, the ship is already moored at the dock of Wujiaxue Town. The soldiers of the forward division have already landed on the shore to beep, and the Jiujiang garrison Liu Kongzhao and several magistrates who ran out from Wuchang, Hanyang and other places are waiting to see them on the docks......"

It was Yan Yingyuan who spoke, he was a good jinshi, he was deceived by Zhu Cihong into joining the army, first studied in the Nanjing Martial Arts Academy for a few months, and after coming out, he followed him to the "Blood Stream", and served as the battalion deputy in Hao Shaoqi's former military division. Now he has been promoted to the foreman of the guard battalion, that is, the battalion commander.

His promotion speed is almost less than that of a rocket. But he has a Jinshi diploma, so others don't have anything to say - the Ming Dynasty has been emphasizing literature and light martial arts for more than 200 years, and if you count the three hundred years of the Song Dynasty, the idea of emphasizing literature and martial arts and valuing Jinshi has long been in the bone marrow! Therefore, Yan Yingyuan's exchange of literature for martial arts is considered to be a loss, and he should be promoted quickly.

"Let Liu Kongzhao come, the others told them to disperse!" Zhu Cihong commanded, and then looked up at the three white-bearded civil officials in his cabin.

These three are all great officials!

Two of them are old acquaintances of Zhu Cihong, one is Qiu Yu and the other is Fang Yuegong.

Both of them were former cabinet elders, and later stepped down as cabinet elders to serve as governors for more than a year - before Zhu Cihong set out on this expedition, he adjusted the administrative divisions of Nanzhili, abolished the five "small governors" of Susong, Zhenchang, Huaiyang, Fengyang, and Yingtian, and set up two big governors in Jiangbei and Jiangnan, respectively by Lu Zhenfei (governor of Jiangbei, governing Yangzhou) and Hou Sui (governor of Jiangnan, governing Suzhou).

Therefore, Qiu Yu and Fang Gongyue were laid off, and Zhu Cihong asked them to follow him on the expedition in the name of Zanxiang's military affairs.

Of course, it was not because there was no place to arrange them with these two old men, but because Huguang could use them here. Because both of them are from Xiangyang, Hubei, one is from Gucheng County and the other is from Yicheng County. The elder of the pavilion and the identity of the Count of Kenan are placed in Hubei, which is a proper leader of Shilin!

Another old man is from Jiangxi, named Yuan Jixian. When Beijing fell, when Chongzhen and Zhu Cihong's father and son went south, he was the right servant of the military department and the right servant of the imperial history, stationed in Jiujiang, and the governor of Jiangxi, Huguang, Anqing, Yingtian (Nanjing) and other military affairs.

It seems to be a big official, but in fact he is an empty governor. There was no army to supervise him, and he succeeded in lobbiing Zuo Liangyu to recover a little Hubei territory.

Later, after Zhu Cihong gained a firm foothold in Nanjing, he easily took off his official position, transferred back to Nanjing to guard the election, and finally had an errand after a year, it was also a military affairs of Zanxiang, and he went out with Zhu Cihong - he was also very familiar with Huguang, and served in Hubei twice in the tenth and twelfth years of Chongzhen, and both held positions related to military affairs, and fought against the Liukou.

In addition to this old man who praised Xiang's military affairs, there was also Wu Sanfu in the cabin - without him, Zhu Cihong would not have been able to fight. In addition, Zhu Cihong's military advisor Li Yan also left Nanjing, but now he is not in the army, but has gone to Fengyang Mansion and Runing Mansion to transfer troops.

Yan Yingyuan turned to leave, while Zhu Cihong exhaled lightly and said with a smile: "Liu Kongzhao is not waiting in Wuchang, but he ran to Wujiaxue Town, it seems that he was a beat slower, and he didn't take Wuchang and Hankou!" ”

The news of Zuo Menggeng's departure from Wuchang and Hanyang's "Western Expedition", of course, Zhu Cihong knew it as soon as possible!

At that time, Zhu Cihong had just left Nanjing with the forward division and the navy, and had not yet arrived in Anqing. However, Zhu Cihong did not order the fleet to speed up, but slowly ordered Liu Kongzhao's naval division stationed in Jiujiang to seize Wuchang City and Hankou City as soon as possible.

Now Liu Kongzhao has probably not completed the task, but Zhu Cihong is not in a hurry at all...... Wu Sanfu in the official cabin was not surprised, and knew that this master was holding back some bad water again. And Qiu Yu and Fang Gongyue, the two old men, also knew a little about Prince Zhu's personality, but they were just squinting their eyes and pondering.

Only Yuan Jixian was the most honest, and the old man was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead, "His Royal Highness the Prince, Liukou has now learned to take root, and he uses Jikou Juntian to bewitch people's hearts, his ambition is not small...... Don't take it lightly! ”

Li Zicheng has improved...... It's not easy to deal with!

Zhu Cihong nodded, as if he felt the same way, "What Yuan Zanxiang said is extremely good...... Now the situation in Huguang is extremely critical, and we really can't take it lightly!

And the most critical part of this situation is not the gains and losses in Wuchang and Hankou, but the aspirations of the people in Huguang. In the eyes of this palace, it is easy to take Wuchang and Hanyang, and it is difficult to win the hearts of the people! ”

Wuchang and Hanyang are not difficult to fight, it is nothing more than to mobilize more model troops and artillery...... Li Zicheng's strength can be counted on his fingers. How many acres of land are there in Xiangyang, Shenyang, and Nanyang? How many "old camp warriors" can be raised?

Therefore, Li Zicheng's current capital is 70,000 or 80,000 elite soldiers, and he has to leave a little for Nanyang and Xi'an, and those who can come to Huguang are 40,000 or 50,000 elite soldiers.

And the number of model troops that Zhu Cihong can mobilize far exceeds this number...... Therefore, it is not a problem to defeat Li Zicheng here in Wuchang, Hanyang, and Hankou, but the question is what to do with the millions or even tens of millions of Hubei peasants who have been allocated land?

They all want to stand on Li Zicheng's side and defend the achievements of Ji Dictation...... That's a real million!

How many troops can Zhu Cihong put into Huguang? Supporting death is a 100,000 model army, and 100,000 can destroy a million?

"This ......" Old man Yuan listened to Zhu Cihong's analysis, his brows furrowed deeply, as if he was really worried about the country and the people.

And the two elders from Hubei, Qiu Yu and Fang Gongyue, just squinted their eyes and stared at Prince Zhu - although this young master is young, he has a lot of ghost ideas!

For the gentry and merchants in Hubei, this prince is slightly better than Li Zicheng......

Zhu Cihong smiled: "Let's take Wuchang first...... Wuchang Mansion is also quite large, among which there should be a lot of Guantian and Juntun, right? ”

"Ah......" Old man Yuan thought to himself: Why do you only have Juntian and Guantun in your eyes?

Zhu Cihong's words were not finished, he continued: "Bengong has been pondering on the way to Hubei, if Li Zicheng divides all the land in Hubei and divides the dictated fields, can we still get it back?" Millions of people...... If the law is not the rule, there will be many! And this palace is a benevolent monarch, how can he snatch the people's land in Hubei as soon as he ascends the throne? You are all virtuous ministers, let's talk about it. ”

"That's really not right......"

"But it's not right to dictate the field!"

"We can't just be wrong, can we?"

Zhu Cihong nodded again and again, "That's, that'...... Hongu is not unreasonable. That's why this palace wants to find out the official fields and military tuns of Wuchang Mansion! ”

What are you going to do?

The three old men all looked at Zhu Cihong.

Zhu Cihong said: "This is what the palace thinks...... The field given by Li Zicheng will not be taken back. In the future, it will be regarded as private land, and the average amount will be taxed according to one acre of nanometers and two buckets. All the Hubei gentry who suffered losses because of Li Zicheng's dictation of fields, the imperial court took Wuchang's official fields and military tuns to make up for them. The land compensated to them will settle in Wuchang in the future, and they will not return to their hometown. ”

It's too dark, isn't it?

The three old men, including Qiu Yu and Fang Gongyue, all took a breath of cool air.

Zhu Cihong is darker than Li Zicheng!

He came to Huguang not to fight the good people, but to eat black...... Li Zicheng seized the land of the good people and gave him the land, and Zhu Cihong was ready to beat Li Zicheng away and go to collect taxes from the peasants who were granted the land!

Two buckets of rice were harvested from one acre of land...... You're too happy to pay taxes, aren't you?

Originally, the total amount of land tax in the entire Huguang was only more than 2 million stones!

Now Li Zicheng wants to get at least 60 million mu even in circles...... One mu and two buckets of tax is 12 million stones! Even if 20% is deducted from the local magistrate's commission, there are still 9.6 million stones!

This is only Hubei, there is a bigger Hunan! Counting Hunan, wouldn't it be necessary to scrape away more than 20 million stones and rice from Huguang in a year? That's a tenfold increase from the original...... Are you able to live with your conscience?

Before the question of conscience could be discussed, Yan Yingyuan's voice came from outside the cabin: "Master Chitose, Liu Kongzhao, please see you!" ”

"Xuan!"