Chapter 366: The Founding Hero

Li Zicheng opened his eyes and rubbed his temples lightly with his hands, he drank a little too much last night, and he was still groggy now, so he didn't plan to get up and exercise early today.

"The Governor has woken up?" Chen Qiudie poked her head over and approached Li Zicheng's face infinitely.

"Oh, Die'er is there too?" Li Zicheng touched it with his hand, and there was indeed a Sun Mengjie on the right.

"Is the Metropolitan still angry with his servant?" Chen Qiudie smiled like a flower, but her heart was uneasy, she took the initiative to come over last night, but the Metropolitan Governor drank a lot of wine, and I didn't know that I didn't find out at that time.

"If I'm angry with you, I should have let Fen'er serve me last night," Li Zicheng pinched Chen Qiudie's nose with his hand, "I'm not allowed to show Governor Pontus in the future!" ”

"The servant doesn't dare anymore!" Chen Qiudie had just let go of her worries, and there were other thoughts over there, "The Metropolitan Governor, that Tian Fen, is he also serving the Metropolitan Governor like this?" ”

Li Zicheng "poofed" on her head, "You little brain, what do you think all day?" At a young age...... On weekdays, you have to focus on studying, and at critical moments, you have to help Governor Pontus, I think Jie'er is much better than you. ”

Sun Mengjie closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep, but she was slandered in her heart: Mr. is always outside, what else can students do besides studying? Like last night, even students can't study like they normally would......

Chen Qiudie even protested directly: "I can't beat my head, I was stupid by the governor, how can I learn knowledge?" ”

"I see, you're just underwhelming!" Li Zicheng rubbed her cheeks with both hands, "How was last night, how was Fen'er placed?" ”

"Don't worry, the Metropolitan Governor won't wronged your Fen'er!" Chen Qiudie's cheeks were squeezed out of shape, and she couldn't speak well, "Last night, my mother, Xiaomei, and Xiaolan cleaned a house overnight as Tian Fen's bedroom!" ”

"That's right, Fen'er is also your sister, you have to live in harmony in the future," Li Zicheng twisted Chen Qiudie's face, "If there is any incident again, beware that I will send you to the cold palace!" ”

"Don't dare!" Chen Qiudie grinned in pain, and her mouth was still unforgiving, "The maid feels ...... Your Fen'er looks so weird, and the servant always feels creepy when she is with her, and I don't know how the Metropolitan Governor is on her...... Luckily, it was night, so I couldn't see anything......"

"Got it now, right?" Li Zicheng stroked the place he had just screwed, and said, "The governor of your family, for the sake of the great cause, but he sacrificed his life to wait...... Buddhism has a cloud: If I don't go to hell, who will go to hell? ”

Thinking about it, I don't think it's right, the current Heavenly Mandate Army is promoting the belief in God and not getting along with the Buddha, but fortunately Chen Qiudie didn't notice anything unusual, "Does the Metropolitan still love Die'er as much as before?" ”

"Butterfly will always be my butterfly," Li Zicheng hugged her body tighter, "Look, just returned to Xining, don't you let you wait?" ”

"Most of the governors are bad!" When Chen Qiudie was also shy, she desperately buried her head in Li Zicheng's chest and refused to get up for a long time.

Li Zicheng saw that Sun Mengjie had been silent, and knew that she was pretending to be asleep, so he reached over and pinched her face.

"Wow......" Sun Mengjie shouted, "Sister Die'er is right, Mr. is a bad sir!" As soon as the words came out, it was equivalent to admitting that he had been pretending to be asleep, so he kept silent.

Li Zicheng and the second daughter stayed warm for a moment, and then said: "Jie'er, Die'er, Lord Liang and they will come over to report their work in a while, let's get up quickly, don't let Lord Liang and them see jokes." ”

Chen Qiudie originally wanted to fall in love with the bed, but when she heard this, she hurriedly got up, first dressed Li Zicheng with Sun Mengjie, and then got dressed and got out of bed.

Sure enough, Li Zicheng had just finished breakfast, and He Xiaomi rushed to report: "Governor Dadu, Lord Liang and Lord Shen have already arrived and are waiting in the study. ”

"You go over and wait for the tea, and I'll be there later!"

"Yes, Grand Duke!" He Xiaomi agreed and ran away quickly.

When Li Zicheng came to the study of the Central Government, Liang Wencheng and Shen Dao were drinking tea at the square table, and when they saw Li Zicheng, the two of them hurriedly saluted: "My subordinates knock to see the governor!" ”

"No need to be polite," Li Zicheng asked the two to sit down, "During the time when I was not in Xining, the two of you worked hard!" ”

"It's not hard, it's not hard, it's the duty of the subordinates!" Both of them hurriedly gave up their hands, and Liang Wencheng said again: "Zicheng, my subordinates will report to the metropolitan governor on the property of Xining and Ganzhou!" ”

According to Liang Wencheng's report, grain is a steady harvest, especially the "three rural areas in the Americas", which has been planted on a large scale in Xining, and has now been extended to Gansu, as long as the water and soil are suitable, within two years, it will be a bumper harvest.

Li Zicheng pondered for a moment and said, "Ship the excess 'Three Farmers of America' to Lanzhou!" He was ready to accept a group of thieves from Shaanxi and settle them in Lanzhou.

"Yes, Metropolitan Governor," Liang Wencheng frowned, "Although there is a bumper harvest of grain, the silver is still insufficient. ”

It turned out that Xining was the same as Longyou, the people were poor, all agricultural taxes were paid in the form of grain, and only Xining merchants paid 10,000 taels of silver, which was not enough to pay the soldiers.

Now Xining, commerce is extremely underdeveloped, Li Zicheng does not plan to levy much commercial tax, the main income still comes from a few factories set up by Li Zicheng, he nodded slightly, it seems that he has to summon a few factory directors.

"What else?"

"Self-contained, there is another problem, the population registration has been implemented for two years, but now it is basically in a state of stagnation, it is difficult for foreign races to naturalize into Han nationality, and they are not engaged in agricultural production, and even if they are engaged in agricultural production, it is difficult to pay agricultural taxes......

It seems that the expansion of farmland in the Xining area has encountered a bottleneck, and it must be a thunderous method, but the current Mandate of Heaven Army, the main energy is contained in the Guguan line, and the imperial court is the biggest enemy.

Li Zicheng didn't want to fight on two fronts, so he said: "What about the Han people? What about the Han people in the Xining area? ”

Liang Wencheng arched his hand and said: "The Han people are basically all registered and paid taxes normally. ”

The Han people pay taxes normally, but the aliens do not pay taxes, how does this balance the hearts of the Han people? Such an ethnic discrimination policy is exactly the opposite of Li Zicheng's wishes, if the Han people enjoy privileges, it is possible to lure foreign naturalization!

"Wencheng, dispose of the distribution of land, normal tax payment and naturalization of Han nationality separately, in two steps, if the alien race is not registered as Han nationality, as long as the tax is paid normally, do not touch them for the time being!"

"Yes, Grand Duke!"

Shen Dao whispered: "Governor Dadu, the Mandate of Heaven has sharp weapons, and soldiers are stationed on the front line of Triangle City and Kadang City, why can't you use thunder methods like Longyou and do it once and for all......"

"Shen Dao is right," Li Zicheng nodded, "If you want to solve this kind of thing, you have to use thunder means, but now his Heavenly Mandate Army is still mainly guarding Guanshan Dao, let these alien races jump for a few days first, and wait for Guanshan Dao to stabilize......"

Shen Dao repeatedly said that the current Heavenly Mandate Army, but thousands of troops, no matter how strong their combat effectiveness, are small in front of the millions of troops in the imperial court, and there is no need to constantly accumulate strength.

Fortunately, the Mandate of Heaven occupies Longyou, whether it is land or population, Longyou is far beyond Xining, and will be able to feed more troops, "Dadu, the Mandate of Heaven army has won Longyou, the defense area has expanded, and now there is enough food, do you want to expand the army?" ”

The expansion of the army is inevitable, Li Zicheng already has a plan in his heart, he suddenly remembered that now that the Dadu Governor's Mansion has a military envoy, the specific work can be carried out by Shen Dao, and it also saves himself from being busy, so he said: "How is the craftsman's workshop, after I left Xining, how many rifles did they cast?" ”

"Back to the Metropolitan Governor, in addition to the rifles shipped to Guguan, Li Jibu has already distributed rifles from five hundred households, and they have been training for more than two months, and they are about to become an army," although Shen Dao did not go to the battlefield in person, he already knew the power of rifles on the battlefield, "In addition, there are more than three hundred rifles in the craftsman's workshop!" ”

"Okay," Li Zicheng was overjoyed, with a smile on his face, and said: "Immediately transport these rifles to Guguan, let the craftsman workshop step up production, Guguan still needs rifles from seven hundred households!" ”

"Yes, Metropolitan Governor, after the subordinates go back, immediately load the rifles into the truck, and strive to transport the rifles to Guguan before the new yuan."

"After the new yuan, let Li Jibu take a rifle to Ganzhou to garrison, and expand the army by ten hundred households on the spot," Li Zicheng said: "Let the Qin Danian Department in Ganzhou expand ten hundred households on the spot, and when Li Jibu arrives, immediately return to Xining for training." ”

Shen Dao was overjoyed, Li Zicheng expanded more than 2,000 soldiers in a few words, and opened a precedent of 2,000 soldiers under the command of 1,000 households, not surprisingly, all 1,000 households will be expanded to 2,000 households, and the Mandate of Heaven army at that time will reach 15,000 soldiers.

He didn't know that Ma Youshui's army had been expanded to 2,000 households, and that all of them would be issued with rifles.

"Self-contained," Liang Wencheng saw that the two had finished reporting, so he said tentatively: "I look at the topographic map, now the Mandate of Heaven army occupies Longyou, and between it and the West Sea, there is only a narrow answer to the Ma Wanhu Mansion, if it is taken together, it can connect Longyou and Xining into a ......"

Li Zicheng hurriedly unfolded the march map, and sure enough, as Liang Wencheng said, the straight-line distance between Longyou and the West Sea is only 100 miles, if this piece is completely collected, not only will Xining and Longyou be connected, but also can hold the "Tangbo Ancient Road", suppressing the Tibetans and Mongols in the west of the West Sea.

However, he had no impression of such a place in later generations, and if it was not possible to produce food on a large scale, how could soldiers be stationed? The Mandate of Heaven is seriously undernumbered, and if it occupies this land, will it clash with the Tibetans and Mongols?

Li Zicheng pondered for a moment and said: "Wencheng, after the new yuan, you send people, pretend to be pedestrians and businessmen, conduct field investigations here, and then make a decision according to the results of the investigation!" ”

"Yes, Zicheng, after I go back, I will immediately prepare manpower to investigate this land as soon as possible!"

"Wencheng, I have established a province in Longyou, and Mr. Mei Zhihuan is the governor." Li Zicheng said to the two of them in the original way, along with the setting of the provincial government, "In the future, the local government will follow the old system of the Ming Dynasty, divided into three levels: province, government and county, and the provincial government is the most important first-level government in the local area. ”

Li Zicheng himself is not good at government affairs, can only provide a general idea, by Liang Wencheng specific refinement, Liang Wencheng was originally a military attaché, but since the Xining incident, he has been serving as the prefect of Xining, should always accumulate some experience in government affairs, besides, such a management system, in the end, everyone has to brainstorm and discuss and pass.

"Self-contained......

"The Governor ......"

Liang Wencheng and Shen Dao were both surprised, if the opening of the Mandate of Heaven was only the beginning of the regularization of the Mandate of Heaven Army, then today's establishment of local provinces is to establish local power nakedly, and from now on they will have to fight against the imperial court with great fanfare.

If the Mandate of Heaven Army really succeeds, Li Zicheng will become the king of a country...... Isn't he a dragon and a founding hero?