"If Yang Qing recovers the northern capital, how can it be controlled?"

Chen Mingxia said.

At this time, he was already sitting on a painting boat on the Qinhuai River, the hometown of our Qing Dynasty Rite Lang Lang is Changzhou, the famous scholar of the Fushe Society, the idol of the southeast scholar, Chongzhen's sixteen years of exploration, he wants to sneak back to Jiangnan or even sneak into Nanjing, it is very easy.

"Guys, it's been almost two years, haven't you seen his true face yet?"

He looked at Zhang Guowei and the others and said.

"He wants to be the regent of the Ming Dynasty, he is not the savior of the people of Jiangnan, on the contrary, he is the demon who troubles Jiangnan! The land rent of Huangzhuang is up to 40%, and no other taxes are paid, so you can think about it, when the reform is completed, when the south of the Yangtze River is full of Huangzhuang, will those tenants take the initiative to serve Huangzhuang? And when the tenants all invested in the Huangzhuang to plant the official land that did not pay 40% of the land rent and did not pay taxes, who would plant the fields of the gentry? If they want to keep the tenants, they can only reduce the rent, so how much can the gentry reduce the rent to compete with the imperial estate? I'm afraid that more than thirty percent will not retain people, but how can thirty percent of the rent gentry live?

You even have to pay taxes.

At that time, he would say sell it to him!

If he didn't sell it, he continued to squeeze it like this, squeezing the land in the hands of the gentry into chicken ribs, and finally had to sell it unprofitable, and then the land in Jiangnan fell into his hands step by step.

Any idea what I'm seeing?

Jia Yidao's public field law!

The infamous Gongtian Law in the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty.

It's just that he is more treacherous than Jia Yidao, he didn't do it all at once, but laid out step by step first, silently covering the Jiangnan gentry with the net of Huangzhuang and the militia, and when he completed this layout, the Jiangnan gentry didn't even have the strength to resist.

Who would dare to resist?

The militia of Huangzhuang is right next to you!

Therefore, you need a force that can restrain him, a power that can say no to him, but not within the Ming Dynasty, whether it is the army or the factory guards, he controls it, and there are those northern ministers who are in the same party as him. Then you need outside power, Li Zicheng can't do it, he has now completely entered the devil's path, and he has gone further than Yang Qing, who can help the Jiangnan gentry, one is King Gui in the south, and the other is the Qing Dynasty in the north, but the strength in the south is too weak, at most it is containment, and the Qing Dynasty is the only one who can restrain Yang Qing for the Jiangnan gentry.

The stronger the Qing Dynasty, the more scruples Yang Qing became.

The more the Jiangnan gentry have to fight with him and limit his misdeeds. ”

He said.

"The stronger Dolgon, the more ambitious he is to invade the south, right?"

Yuan Jixian sneered.

"Duke Linhou, what did he take to invade the south?"

Chen Mingxia said with a smile: "The population of the Eight Banners is less than one Shuntian Mansion, and the young and strong people who can fight can be cobbled together with a maximum of 200,000, and those half-sized children have to be counted together." The land obtained is nothing more than a Beizhili, after famine, plague, and war, there are only a few million people left, and the population of Beijing is currently less than 300,000. And it can't produce enough food, people in the city starve to death every day, and the money in the north is even more looted by Li Zicheng, no one wants food, no food, no money, what does he use to invade the south to defeat the Ming Dynasty, which has a population of nearly 10,000, sufficient money and food, and hundreds of thousands of new troops?

What they want is simple.

Liaodong can't survive in the bitter cold, they want a place for the tribe to live, they already have this place of survival, and all parts of Beizhili are enough to accommodate them, so why should they risk the danger of the tribe to continue to the south? ”

"Did you guess that, or did Dorgon say it?"

Zhang Guowei said.

"The Lord Regent said it."

Chen Mingxia admitted it very calmly.

"He wants me to tell you that they entered the customs just to survive, and they never had the intention of touching the south of the Yangtze River, and all the gains of the Qing Dynasty were taken from the rebellion, and there was no inch of land taken from the Ming Dynasty, and the battle of Henan was just a misunderstanding, and the purpose of the Qing Dynasty to the south was only to sweep away the rebellious remnants of Henan. Since the Qing Dynasty inherited the Jin State, what it asked for was only the old land of the Jin State, but since Henan had entered the Ming Dynasty, there was no need to fight for it, and it was sent to the Ming Dynasty to show sincerity. From then on, the Qing Dynasty is willing to live in peace with the Ming Dynasty as the Song and Jin Dynasty and the north and the south, and the Qing Dynasty respects the Ming Dynasty as a brother, and the brothers are in harmony and trade with each other. ”

He continued.

The meaning is clear.

The two sides ceased fighting in the area under their current actual control, and then Dolgon respected the Ming Emperor as his brother, as for this emperor in Chang'an, Nanjing is just a princess and supervises the country, which is not worth mentioning. In the future, Dolgon was willing to be a thug for the Jiangnan gentry, and one day Yang Qing wanted to do something, as long as the Jiangnan gentry invited him, he would go south and threaten with force, and finally the internal and external partners forced Yang Qing to return to the cage. But the southern gentry had to feed Dolgon, or sell him food, and if there was no food, Dolgon starved to death in the north and became a thug, which was the most important thing.

It's been a tough winter in Dolgon.

Originally, the Qing army marched south in a big way, just to take the opportunity to cross Huai to grab some food, and he really didn't think about taking Nanjing.

Li Zicheng scraped the Shuntian area clean.

The southern transport is also gone.

There is a shortage of food everywhere in Beizhili, and people are starving to death every day in Beijing, in this case, Dolgon urgently needs food supplies from the south, even if he can buy it with money, he still has some money in his hand after all. But now that Yang Qing does not allow peace talks, then he has to rely on smuggling, and smuggling must be with the cooperation of the Jiangnan gentry and the tacit approval of local officials.

This is the purpose of Chen Mingxia's secret southward journey.

He made it clear to Dolgon and these civil officials who represented the Jiangnan gentry, and let them know that Dolgon was willing to give them a thug to restrain Yang Qing in exchange for the Jiangnan gentry selling him grain.

As for the future......

That can only be said later.

Moreover, there is King Gui in the south, as long as these civil officials can operate it, so that King Gui's power will continue to exist, echoing the north and south of Dolgon, once Yang Qing and the Qing army start a war on the northern front, King Gui in the south can attack and contain it. Similarly, once Yang Qing tried to go south to destroy King Gui, the Qing army attacked on the northern front, and in this way achieved two existences, always restricting Yang Qing for the Jiangnan gentry, so that he would not carry out some more frenzied reforms.

It's a win-win partnership.

The Jiangnan gentry were actually not disgusted with the current political structure of the Ming Dynasty.

On the contrary, they love it.

There is no emperor, only women are in charge of the country, the nobles are wiped out, and the clan is all kicked out, such a Ming is simply a dream for them.

It's even hard to say that they are hostile to Yang Qing.

The changes that Yang Qing brought to the Ming Dynasty are obvious, first of all, safety is guaranteed, and there is no need to worry about the day when the war burns, the second court is more orderly, the chaos is gone, the third economy is more open, and some of the original economic drawbacks have been reformed. To put it simply, the Ming Dynasty has completed the normalization and even the law and order have improved a lot, the bandits have almost been wiped out, and the Jiangnan gentry know very well that Yang Qing gave them a normalized country.

They just don't like Yang Qing losing control.

And with Dolgon's thug, you can avoid this, the rest is just how to operate, anyway, the current situation is obvious, Dolgon will definitely not be able to beat Yang Qing, so you might as well pull Yang Qing's hind legs, let Dolgon recover his vitality and continue to threaten Jiangnan in the north.

"Don't talk about these mundane affairs anymore, just talk about Fengyue today!"

Xie Xuelong said with a smile.

"Drink, then?"

Chen Mingxia raised his glass and said.

Zhang Guowei and the others raised their glasses with a smile, in the painting boat on a snowy night, in the warmth of charcoal baking, a group of celebrities drank happily with the sound of silk and bamboo, they didn't notice that a servant girl standing next to them was silently sorting out the content of their conversation in their hearts.

Half an hour later, the celebrities dispersed.

The maidservant left under the pretext of leaving on the pretext, stepped ashore in the snow, and soon got into a carriage hidden in the darkness, and drove directly into the back door of the Marquis Zhongyong's mansion.

"It's all old foxes!"

Yang Qing said with emotion.

He didn't expect these guys to be so smart that they even guessed his true purpose, but there was nothing strange about it, after all, there was a precedent for Jia Nidao back then. Jiangnan has too many people, but only so much land, and the regime in Jiangnan has to face this problem of land distribution, although Jia Yidao's reform failed, he proposed the most effective means to solve this problem.

As soon as Huangzhuang comes out, you can basically guess the next step.

"Master Hou, do you want to arrest someone?"

He Kun, the envoy of Jinyi Weibei Town, who came with the maidservant, said.

He was cultivated in the original batch of canal slender men, and Yang Qing is now also the commander of the Jinyi Guard, of course, it is impossible to also serve as the Beizhen Fusi, and these trivial duties are handed over to his cronies.

"Arrest?"

Yang Qing groaned.

"No, they can sell grain if they want! Otherwise, Dorgon would have to loot the people of the north to supply him, and in the end it was the people of the north who were unlucky. The surplus grain in the hands of those gentry is also stored, first let them sell, and then keep an eye on who is selling, grasp the evidence, and one day just go over to raid the house! ”

Yang Qing said sinisterly.

If he doesn't sell grain, Dolgon will also pass on his hunger to the poor people in the north, and sell it to make the common people in the north bear a light burden, otherwise even if he is hungry, he will not be able to starve Dolgon's hardcore crops and those gentry, they will not go hungry even if they eat people. Li Zicheng besieged the city of Beijing for more than a month, and tens of thousands of civilians died in the city, and it is estimated that less than one-tenth of them died from accidental injuries from shells, and it is very difficult to say how the rest died, anyway, the food in the city lasted for half a month.

If you can help the people in the north, it's a little bit!

Anyway, whoever smuggles here is a crime, and it is a crime of collaborating with the enemy, this has to be raided, he has already ordered that anyone who transports grain north to Rizhao is a collaborator with the enemy, and only the military's supply ships can transport grain to Denglai. In this way, the silver earned by the gentry in Jiangnan smuggling grain from Dolgon can finally be obtained by raiding their own hands, why not do such a good business?

"As for you......"

He then looked at the maidservant.

"Go to the back and find Yuanyuan, she will give you what you want!"

Yang Qing said.