"What did you say?"

Chongzhen didn't react for a moment, and asked with a blank face.

"Close the door and let Li Zicheng go!"

Yang Qing said with a happy smile.

"Your Majesty, no matter how you talk to them, they will not agree, even if they resign, even if they find a scholar to make trouble, even if they incite the local gentry to make trouble, they will definitely not agree, they will never accept such a reform, or Your Majesty will issue a holy decree, and whoever opposes it will let the ministers take the brocade clothes to raid the house.

Kill him and get his head rolling.

But then they are expected to clear the king's side.

If you don't want this situation, then there is also a very simple way, let Li Zicheng soldiers on the Yangtze River, let those gentry know that if the reform does not solve the financial problem, then Li Zicheng will fight across the Yangtze River, just like he did in Beijing to clamp up all the Jiangnan gentry to help them pay, and those gentry will either accept His Majesty's reform, or wait for Li Zicheng to come and destroy the house, and then they will make a reasonable choice. ”

He then added.

"How can Li Zicheng listen to His Majesty?"

Wang Chengen said.

"It's very simple, it's tempting!"

Yang Qing said.

"Li Zicheng is short of food, very short, as far as I know, there are still places in the north where people are starving, even in the city of Beijing is short of food, he used the way of beating local tyrants, it is true that the famine has been alleviated to the greatest extent, but this way can not change the fact that the grain production in the north is insufficient, he urgently needs more food, and even his merchants have begun to buy grain in the south. According to the information obtained by the minister, at least 100,000 stone of grain was smuggled to him by coastal merchants from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the 1 million stone we gave him according to the agreement has been delivered in Suqian, and he still buys grain by himself, which means that his demand for grain is still urgent.

Then it's simple.

Let's pick a place to stock up on a batch of food.

It's in Jiangbei.

Then agreed with them to let them fight and rob it, didn't Gao Jie do something recently, and sent someone to cross the line to attack Gao Yigong, is Li Zicheng still trying to explain? Then don't explain it to him, just let his people attack south, but they can't attack Huai'an, even if they attack, we won't let him go in Huai'an, so as to avoid his southward destruction of the canal, let him break through from Gao Jie or Liu Liangzuo's defense area, and then use grain to induce him to continue south.

They will definitely raid the homes of the Huainan gentry along the way.

We exaggerate the tragedy.

Then at about the same time, the minister led the elite to counterattack it, and His Majesty forced it to withdraw to Huaibei with a great sense of righteousness, and after they left, His Majesty ordered the reform on the grounds that the court was not financially sufficient and could not resist Li Zicheng, and it was estimated that the heads of the gentry who were cut off by them would make the Jiangnan gentry pinch their noses and agree, and we can also put the responsibility on Gao Jie or Liu Liangzuo, and by the way, he will be confiscated to solve these more and more presumptuous guys. ”

Yang Qing said sinisterly.

The clarity of his brain hole stunned both Chongzhen and Wang Chengen, and the two of them watched in amazement as he devised an invasion with relish.

But it's a good idea.

There is nothing more effective than Li Zicheng's clamping stick, leading Li Zicheng's army south, but controlling the key point of Huai'an, and Fengyang is better to keep it, after all, it is the central capital, so the remaining choice is Gao Jie's defense area, it just so happened that he went to provoke Gao Yigong again, and he also alarmistly scared Chongzhen that Li Zicheng's army was going to invade the south, so it would be good to make it fake directly.

Li Zicheng is currently on the northern line from the east from Gao Yigong, Yuan Zongdi and Tian Jianxiu, Gao Yigong Canal Road, Lu Zhenfei and Gao Jie, Yuan Zongdi is against Fengyang Liu Liangzuo and Xinyang's Guan Ningjun, and Tian Jianxiu is against Hubei's Zuo Liangyu, and Tang Tong, Bai Guangen, and Ma Ke are driven to Hanzhong to compete with Zhang Xianzhong. Although the latter was proclaimed emperor in the CD, he was recaptured by the new Sichuan governor Ma Gan, and the counteroffensive of Wang Yingxiong, a bachelor who had originally retreated to Zunyi, also recaptured a lot of territory in southern Sichuan. Zhang Xianzhong led his subordinates to expand northward and began to compete with Li Zicheng for Hanzhong, and at present, his actual control area is centered on CD, and it is a bit of an exaggeration to say that he controls the whole of Sichuan, he only controls the Dujiangyan irrigation area, and even the northeast of Sichuan is controlled by Ma Gan.

This shows that the Qing army planted a false accusation.

Because when Zhang Xianzhong died, there was only half of Sichuan at most.

Ma Gan's initial control area was Dazhou, then captured Chongqing, and then captured Neijiang, and then he has been guarding Neijiang without moving, this Yunnan governor of Sichuan, was originally martyred in history after the Qing army captured Neijiang in the first year of Yongli. At this time, Li Zicheng was under the banner of being ordered to beg for thieves, and used Li Guo to sit in Xi'an to drive the surrendered three general soldiers to the south to face Zhang Xianzhong, and formed a north-south flank attack with Ma Gan, who counterattacked.

As for Li Zicheng's main force, it is still in Hebei.

Because here you can recently get the grain that is shipped by sea and Chongzhen pays protection money.

Food is the most important thing to him.

At the same time, his main force has to warn Dorgon, who has recovered from his injuries and is still the regent with the support of Da Yu'er.

But Hauge made a comeback.

And Hauge and Zilharang are in an alliance.

There was even a fierce infighting in Shenyang before, but for Da Yu'er, Dolgon was more reassuring than Hauge after all, so she still supported Dolgon, and in the end it did not turn into a civil war in the Eight Banners.

However, because of the distance, Yang Qing can get the only information from there, and another point is that the Qing army is forcing North Korea to provide them with food recently, after all, they are short of food, which is even more difficult for them than Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng can get supplements from the south, and they even have no way to buy grain. It is even said that the Qing army entered the territory of Korea and looted, including those who looted people to use as food, and then North Korea will have to be invaded by the Qing army for the third time. Dolgon wants to get food, wants to make up for the losses in the early stage, and there is only this little lamb to slaughter at present, after all, there are a lot of Koreans in the Qing army's coat, and we have lost tens of thousands of people, and it is normal for us to quickly replenish the population and go to North Korea to rob people.

Besides, does he have any other choice?

After the Battle of Shanhaiguan, the Qing army was actually in Liaodong to retreat and defend, and the Qing army even gave up all south of Jinzhou, on the contrary, Li Laiheng alone led 10,000 Shun troops to sit in Ningyuan, re-took over the original Ming army's defense line outside the pass, and even advanced to Lianshan, Dolgon was afraid that Li Zicheng would continue to attack Jinzhou to the north.

In this way, Li Zicheng did not have any major military pressure except for Zhang Xianzhong to compete for the local battlefield in Hanzhong.

It is entirely feasible to go south to grab a wave.

If Gao Yigong and Yuan Zongdi attack in the two strategic directions of the east and west, then Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo will definitely not be able to hold on, both of them are frightened birds who were violently beaten by Li Zicheng, and in the face of Li Zicheng's old camp elites, they can almost be said to have fled 100%. And Cao Youyi can sit and watch in Xinyang and sell his teammates, and then Gao Yigong breaks through the Huai River and beats Gao Jie, and drives Gao Jie all the way south, it is best to let him hit the Tianchang Six-in-One Belt, and then be intercepted by Huang Degong and Huang Fei. He said that he was forced by Gao Jie, so in the end, everyone pushed the responsibility to Gao Jie, and Gao Yigong went back with the harvest of looting all the way and the military rations rewarded by the imperial court, and by the way, he left a bunch of gentry from the two places who destroyed the gentry in Jiangnan.

Chongzhen can use this to scare the Jiangnan gentry into implementing the new law.

Either accept the reform, or one day Li Zicheng's army breaks through the Yangtze River moat, and then all of them are raided and destroyed.

The Jiangnan gentry will know how to choose.

"Your Majesty, if you want to implement the new law neatly and neatly to make the Ming Dynasty start to prosper, this is the simplest and most effective way, otherwise you will have to entangle endlessly with the cabinet and local officials, and the entanglement will not yield any results, or risk a civil war. You can assure you that as long as you carry out the reforms I have mentioned, there will inevitably be a civil war, of an unpredictable scale, and it may just be a rebellion of local officials, or a rebellion against a certain clan, or a town with a heavy army will come to the side of the Qing monarch.

But then the situation will get out of control, because the scale cannot be estimated, and even the collapse of the situation is not impossible.

But let Li Zicheng's people go south, this is controllable.

The minister can guarantee this. ”

Yang Qing said.

Li Zicheng did not complete the preparations for the unification of Jiangnan at this time, and his main mind now was to help the victims to consolidate his rule, but he didn't mind making some extra money, so as long as he hoarded 300,000 stone military rations in Liuhe or Tianchang, it was enough to attract the army of Gao Yigong.

And it can also be looted by the way.

It is said that this area is full of fertile land by Hongze Lake, and those old landlords still have a lot of grain in stock.

But they won't be insatiable, the time has not come.

Chongzhen hesitated.

He also knows that it works.

But he doesn't look good in this way! But it's not a big deal, after all, he still has a fart to lose face at this time, and he has made people rush all the way from Beijing to Nanjing, and this time he can also find a substitute for the dead ghost, it was Gao Jie who deliberately provoked the war, although the Shun army was almost to the Yangtze River in the south, but after all, it was withdrawn under the emperor's careless reprimand, they still respected the emperor's authority, at most this is just the nature of a mutiny, if you don't consider the current relationship between the two sides, such a thing is really nothing in the Ming Dynasty in recent years.

The point is that it works really well!

The gentry in Jiangnan will definitely be afraid, the reform just makes them earn less, but Li Zicheng has fought the Yangtze River, that is, he is bankrupt and can't even save his life, the lesser of these two evils, it is more important to save his life through reform, after all, if his life is gone, there will be nothing.

But......

How awkward to think about this!

His Majesty the Emperor led the thief Kou south, the purpose of which was actually to frighten his ministers and force his subjects to accept his will.

It's also so weird!