"Can Duke Shu still hold on?"

In the conference hall after the meeting, Yang Qing asked Liu Wenxiu, who was left behind, with a smile.

"The Duke of Shu is in good health, and he doesn't care about the Duke of the Country."

Liu Wenxiu said.

Of course, Zhang Xianzhong could not be in good health.

In fact, Zhang Xianzhong, the governor of Sichuan in the Ming Dynasty and the governor of Shu State, was already bedridden at this time, not that he was seriously ill, but that getting up was a very laborious thing for him. After all, his obesity and the accompanying hyperlipidemia really overwhelmed his heart......

Of course he doesn't understand that.

But he can't quit the life of wine and food, singing and feasting every day, and he himself is quite a bit of a short life and a happy time.

In a word......

Anyway, he's out of business.

The military leaders of his subordinates simply formed something similar to the council hall by themselves, Li Dingguo was designated as the host because of Zhang Xianzhong, and Sun Kewang, Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi and others were left to make decisions together. But in fact, Li Dingguo can't suppress Sun Kewang, he is just because of Zhang Xianzhong's designation, once Zhang Xianzhong is dead, then Sun Kewang will not listen to him, Sun Kewang has long been self-reliant in running Chongqing by himself over the years, and he also sent a representative of the council. And Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi are inclined to Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang, fortunately, Zhang Xianzhong is not dead, they still have to listen to the boss after all, even if the boss can't walk anymore, Sun Kewang doesn't have the courage to disobey Zhang Xianzhong's order.

They have likewise been reorganized.

After all, it is impossible for the army of the past to adapt to the battlefield of this era.

Yang Qing gave them the establishment of two armies, the 24th Army and the 25th Army, but they did not follow this establishment themselves, and Li Dingguo organized the elite of Chengdu into a Ming-style army, which topped the establishment of the 24th Army of the Army. Sun Kewang was in charge of the 25th establishment of the army, but in fact there were only 15,000 people, Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi one was in Jianmenguan and the other was in Luzhou, with 10,000 each, and the four families added up to 50,000. However, the combat effectiveness is not weak, and some of the flintlock pistols bought from Guangdong are actually purchased in large quantities from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and at this time Zhang Xianzhong became the relatives of those gentry, and they did everything possible to smuggle arms over. After all, Yang Qing himself doesn't care much about this, countless goods are transported on the Yangtze River every year, and the Han River can also be transported over, even by land in Yunnan, and Tang Wang, these Yunnan generals are not without taking the opportunity to make money.

Zhang Xianzhong is not short of money.

He offered high prices, and some people would try to get him a flintlock pistol.

In addition, he made it himself.

In the end, the technical content of the flintlock pistol is just that, there are samples that want to be imitated, but it takes a little time, Sichuan is not without good craftsmen, although the output is not high, but after all, it can be made. Moreover, he still had a hole of salt, and there was no shortage of copper, so the new army also had a lot of artillery, which eventually allowed him to maintain a new army of 50,000 men.

The same is the Gustav line.

Sun Kewang is still building a fortress in Kuimen, but it is only a small fortress.

However, these are useless, as Yang Qing cleans up his opponents one by one, except for the Jingjiang Domain, which has been completely useless, the remaining real separatist forces of the Ming Dynasty are in Sichuan. Zhang Xianzhong's 50,000 new army couldn't resist Yang Qing's 800,000 elites no matter what, and they didn't even have a chance to protect themselves, so they waited silently for Yang Qing to attack them in Sichuan as if they were waiting for the verdict. However, what they didn't expect was that Yang Qing not only didn't attack them, but also invited them to go to Myanmar together, although they knew that he wanted to consume their strength, but this move still surprised them a little.

After all, Yang Qing was completely unnecessary.

He just turned the 200,000 troops who went out to make a fortune to Sichuan, and the armies in Sichuan were absolutely unable to resist it.

"Don't always doubt me!

I told Li Dingguo before, unless you take the initiative to resign, I won't do anything if Zhang Xianzhong doesn't die, you can play by yourself as long as he lives, he will live for another fifty years, and I will wait for another fifty years.

I can afford to wait! ”

The Protector said very domineeringly.

"My principle for Sichuan is very simple, that is, to maintain stability there, no matter what way it is maintained, as long as Sichuan is not chaotic, nothing else matters to me. As for you, although you have killed a lot of clans before, Li Zicheng has killed more than you, and I haven't let it go, Yuan Zongdi has killed me once, and now he is still the marquis of my Ming Dynasty. Everything before has passed, and it is definitely not right for you to rebel, but it is not right for the court to not govern the country well and let you not eat, since they are all wrong, then no one should blame anyone. What happened back then was a tragedy, a tragedy that no one wants to see, but if it has become history, let it pass, and we still have to look forward.

If it is peaceful today, and the common people have lived and worked in peace and contentment, it is said that what you rebel and seek is nothing more than a prosperous era.

It's a prime time now.

Then live a good life!

I still have that promise, you are willing to follow those people under Li Zicheng to learn, then you will be treated the same, Zhang Xianzhong's son will inherit his Duke of Shu, several of you are marquis, and the others are also uncles. The industries you have built up in Sichuan over the years, as long as they are not owned by the government, are still yours, and as far as I know, the land in your hands is 400,000 mu, so these fields are still yours.

Next is the crusade against Burma, and the gemstone company I run is also part of you. ”

He continued.

He really didn't have much interest in solving Sichuan.

At present, this state is very good, to ensure the stability there, and to use this currently the largest granary in Daming to continue to provide food, no matter who this granary is in his hands, the grain it produces will eventually flow to Daming.

He is not even prepared to enforce the Gongtian Law in Sichuan.

At least this batch is not prepared.

Because there are still too many wastelands in Sichuan, until the sixth year of Wanli, the number of fields in Sichuan is only the same as that of Fujian, which is 13 million mu, and even if it is turned over, it is only more than 20 million mu at most. Modern Sichuan plus Chongqing has 130 million mu, that is to say, it is equivalent to ten times that of the sixth year of Wanli, and the modern mu is larger, while the modern Shandong is more than 100 million points, but the sixth year of Wanli has reached 60 million, that is to say, the increase has not doubled.

This shows the degree of development in Sichuan.

However, in this era, Sichuan is the only province in the country that has escaped the drought except for the two provinces.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the drought began in the northwest, then spread to the east, and formed a hard-hit area in Guanzhong, Henan, Beizhili and Shandong, especially at the junction of the three provinces. Then the drought began to shift southward, and the Lianghuai River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta again formed a hard-hit area, but the latitude and the characteristics of the water town here have alleviated the threat of drought to the greatest extent. During this period, the peripheral provinces began to experience the same drought, and neither Huguang nor Jiangxi escaped, and even Fujian and Yunnan were not spared, and Hunan became a hard-hit area. But what is amazing is that in the surrounding drought, only Sichuan seems to be another world, and there is almost no news of drought.

It is as if the basin terrain surrounded by plateaus and mountains has given Sichuan a ring of walls, insulating the land from the drought outside.

Such a good place needs to be cared for.

It's best to maintain the status quo.

At least until this Xiaoice period is survived, there is no need to move Sichuan, that is, the Huangzhuang was built there to organize the people who do not want to be tenants to reclaim the land, and now those landlords, in order to avoid the loss of tenants, can only reduce rent, they have now reduced to 60%, more than 70% of the rent is gone.

In this way, the common people have a good life.

All that remains is to gradually reclaim the wasteland of Sichuan as the population multiplies, and then establish one imperial village after another, completely confining the gentry, Sichuan currently has a population of only 10 million, and it can be accommodated by four times, and there will be no population pressure there in a hundred years. With those imperial villages and enough uncultivated wasteland, those landlords will no longer have the conditions to pay rent for seventy or eighty percent, and the peasants' lives will get better day by day......

After all, it's a good place.

At present, the vast majority of the population in Sichuan is still concentrated in the Dujiangyan irrigation area, where even seventy or eighty percent of the land rent is not starved to death!

If it is mandatory to implement the public land law in Sichuan, these old bandits under Zhang Xianzhong, as well as the Sichuan landlords, may be desperate, and it doesn't matter if they die, but if they fight and cause a large number of ordinary people to die, the gains outweigh the losses. In the end, it was different from other places, and Yang Qing dared to do it in Jiangsu and Zhejiang because his Huangzhuang militia had put the landlords in cages, and the latter had no ability to resist. Even so, he had to do a lot of tricks, including that this southern expedition was actually to coax the Zheng family's small group and Wang Zhiren, a general from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, to Nanyang, so as not to be fooled by the gentry at that time.

But not in Sichuan.

His imperial village has not yet crossed the Qujiang River, and the old bandits and the old gentry group that have become landlords to the west of the Qujiang River are still the same as iron buckets.

These people are not like Jiangsu and Zhejiang, those gentry have other choices, and they are obviously more promising as emerging capitalists than local owners, but there is no other choice for these in Sichuan, they are still pure landlords, and they don't understand anything else. It can be said that the land is their lifeblood, dare to touch their life, they really dare to work hard, in the final analysis, we can't underestimate the resistance of these guys on this issue, our Daqing Dynasty is a problem that can only be solved by bloodbathing Sichuan.

Yang Qing didn't mind killing them.

But in the process of killing them, it will definitely cause a large number of population losses in Sichuan, since it is not a big deal to keep them, it is better to simply maintain the status quo.

After all, he can afford to wait.

Even if Zhang Xianzhong can really live for another fifty years, what can he do?

Still can't live him.

What's more, let alone fifty years, with the body of the Lich King, it is estimated that it will not last for five years, what else can Li Dingguo do if he dies? Li Dingguo couldn't control the situation again, so Sun Kewang ignored him! If you don't surrender, are you waiting for civil strife? Maybe when the time comes, Sun Kewang will be the first to offer Kuimen to invite merit!