In the summer and autumn of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Zhejiang was hot and rainy, which led to a large-scale outbreak of rice blast in the province. Although the peasant association later curbed the spread of rice blast with copper sulfate and lime milk used to treat fruit trees in the north, the reduction of grain production in Zhejiang was inevitable.

The successive droughts in the north have also caused locust infestations to break out again on both sides of the lower reaches of the Yellow River. Fortunately, the previous imperial court's acquisition of locusts made this year's locust plague only limited to the territory of three or four counties, and did not form a mobile locust colony.

However, the successive outbreaks of disasters in the north and south also made the imperial court realize that the affected area was moving towards the area south of the Yellow River and towards the Yangtze River basin. Whether it is Henan or the Yangtze River Basin, it is the grain production heart of Daming. Although the Hebei Plain, the North Jiangsu Plain and the Hunan region are gradually forming new grain producing areas after continuous water conservancy construction, they are still not as good as the old grain production centers in the Henan and Yangtze River basins.

In order to ensure a timely response to the disasters that occurred in these grain production bases, at Chongzhen's suggestion, the cabinet passed a bill to guarantee grain production, established a grain production guarantee committee headed by Jiang Dejing, Fan Jing, and Li Banghua, and further increased the support of the Household Grain Bureau for the development of grain and cotton bases overseas.

Although the domestic agriculture suffered a large-scale disaster this year, the gross national product of this year still maintained a steady growth rate for the year, exceeding the amount of 2 billion yuan for the first time. Its industry and commerce provided nearly a quarter of its output, and its overseas import and export trade exceeded 150 million yuan.

and the first year of Chongzhen, almost doubled. The government's fiscal revenue in Chongzhen for ten years is about 100 million yuan in the national treasury and about 60 million in the inner treasury. Of course, these have been folded into taxes in kind, but even so, the state revenue is more than double that of the first year of Chongzhen.

Although the military expenditure of the Ming Dynasty still accounts for 55% of the fiscal revenue, the living money that the imperial court can use has increased several times in the past, and if the number of loans from various national bonds is added, the financial situation of the Ming Dynasty in Chongzhen's ten years has been the same as the best year of Wanli.

If you have money in your hands, you won't panic. Although this year's famine may not be lighter than that of the last year of the Apocalypse, the cabinet led by Qian Qianyi did not find it so difficult. The only thing they need to worry about is whether the food raised from overseas and the south can be transported to the disaster area in time, and whether local officials will do it when they are in the disaster relief, but these problems are some administrative troubles after all, and they do not have no rice to cook, so it is a rare time for the Cabinet to work together, rather than passing the buck to each other.

Although the value of the Ming Dynasty's GDP this year is extremely dazzling, it is not an outstanding achievement compared to the United Kingdom, which has a population of about 4 million. Chongzhen's ten years of British GDP is close to 40 million pounds, converted into the Ming Yuan is a little less than one-tenth of the Ming Dynasty, but the population of the Ming Dynasty is 40 times that of the United Kingdom, even after deducting the inflation factor, the labor of two Ming people is worth the labor of one British.

Obviously, even the United Kingdom, which is not the top in Europe, has far more developed industry and commerce than the Ming Dynasty. Compared with Europe, which has been on the road of mercantilism for nearly a hundred years, the Ming Dynasty at this time has just begun to catch up from the starting line.

However, with the Ming Dynasty, this year's Qing Dynasty is obviously a little difficult, and this is not a lack of food. The large number of Korean laborers obtained from the conquest of Korea not only accelerated the reclamation of domestic wasteland, but also provided sufficient labor for various industries of the Qing Dynasty.

However, in contrast to the economic prosperity, the political situation around the Qing Dynasty fell into the worst situation since the founding of the Later Jin Dynasty. Although Dongjiang Town in the east and the Korean State still maintained trade with the Qing Dynasty, the defense facilities of the officers and soldiers of Dongjiang Town in Tieshan County were becoming more and more tight, and it was obvious that Mao Long did not relax his vigilance because of Huang Taiji's overtures. Although the reform of the DPRK did not immediately make the DPRK rich and powerful, it made the pro-Ming forces in the DPRK stronger and stronger. Obviously, as long as the Qing Dynasty cannot maintain its current strong force, Donggang Town and North Korea will show their fangs.

The Ming army in the east and northeast had firmly mastered the coastal area and the tribes in the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River in these years, and these Jurchens, who were supposed to be the source of the Qing Dynasty's reserves, have now become another enemy of the Qing Dynasty. However, fortunately, the peace treaty between the Qing Dynasty and the Ming State has not yet broken out into a full-scale conflict between the two sides.

However, skirmishes have never stopped over the competition for special products such as ginseng marten in the mountains and forests. According to the rewards of the border people, these Shengjurchens, who were supported by the Ming merchants, were better and better equipped, and they completely fell into the disadvantage in such a conflict, and now they have been forced to give up many mountains and forests where prey flourishes.

In contrast to the turbulent dark tides in the east and northeast, the north and northwest have become completely open conflicts. Beginning this summer, after the surrender of the Ming Dynasty and the Jurchen rebels, and the construction of Ulaanbaatar City in the northern part of the desert, they began to reorganize and subdue the northern parts of the desert.

The Mongol tribes that Dolgon defeated Lin Dan Khan and subdued in Mobei are now being taken away by Amin one by one. By autumn, the area controlled by Amin in Mobei was approaching the edge of the Horqin tribe. Although the Horqin Department and the Jianzhou Jurchens are almost integrated, the Manchu and Mongolian nobles all know that this is not the case, because the Hailan Zhuge of the Horqin Department is still in the harem of the Ming Emperor, as long as the situation changes, the Horqin Department still has a way out.

Therefore, isolating the direct contact between the Horqin Department and the Ming Dynasty is an extremely important key to *. In addition to Amin, who expanded from Mobei to Liaodong, the Yuya Alliance in the Heilongjiang and You regions to the north also began to invade the Nenjiang region this autumn, plundering the population and wealth of this region.

By the time Shenyang received the news, the Qing Dynasty's alliance of Saurons had captured the city of Aihui, downstream of the confluence of the Jingli River and the Heilongjiang River, and completely cleared the Qing forces from the left bank of the Heilongjiang River. And with the support of the Ming people, the Yuya Alliance built a wooden city in the residence of the Ao La clan on the north bank of the Heilongjiang River, called: Yaksa City.

As a result, 900 kilometers down the Heilongjiang River from the city of Yaksa to Hailan Pao at the mouth of the Jieya River, a tribal alliance covering an extremely wide area was formed on the north bank of the Heilongjiang River. Although this tribal alliance has not yet emerged with a complete centralized core, with the help of the Ming people, they have initially formed a military group. and the various tribes on the south bank of the Heilongjiang River that were suppressed by the Jianzhou Jurchens have formed a local military superiority.

These are not the only ones with bad news about Shenyang from everywhere, Gunchuk Taiji, who was still wavering under the pull of Huang Taiji, immediately found an excuse to cut off contact with Shenyang after Amin became famous in the Mobei grassland. The news from the front line of Beizhen is that the Ming Dynasty has expanded from the original Ningjin defense line to the Ningjin Yi defense line.

This line of defense not only obscured Shanhaiguan, but also the Chengde area behind Yizhou, so that the southern passage between Shenyang and Beijing was completely blocked. It is also said that now Shenyang wants to attack the Guannei region of the Ming Dynasty, either by taking the Wuliangha tribe in the middle of the country, and then turning to the Chengde area in the south; Either take the Xilamulun River in the north, detour through Chahanhot and detour through the Mongolian steppe to attack the Datong area.

However, with the current control of the Mongol tribes by the Ming Dynasty, no matter which road the Qing Dynasty takes, it will be attacked by the Mongols, so as to prepare the troops in the Ming Pass. Even the extremely adventurous Huang Taiji is now difficult to win such determination. The reason is also that in the second year of Chongzhen, the Houjin army made a detour through Chengde to raid Jizhou Pass, and when the situation was good, it was not able to bargain for anything from the Ming Dynasty, which made the Houjin no longer optimistic about this kind of risky action.

However, the more Hou Jin wanted to find a safe battle plan for entering the customs, the closer the Ming defensive front faced by Hou Jin became.

In the tenth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji, who had firmly sat on the throne of the Khan of the Qing Dynasty, found that the primary problem he needed to face now was not how to attack the Ming Dynasty, but how to break the blockade front built by the Ming Dynasty to encircle the Qing Dynasty.

After receiving a series of bad news from the north, Huang Taiji finally convened the Zhubeile meeting at the end of October to discuss how to deal with the current situation around the Qing Dynasty.

With the support of Dai Shan, Yue Tuo and his son, Haoge, who had recovered the vitality of the Yellow Flag, was the first to stand up and answer Huang Taiji's inquiry, and he said with great ambition: "Speaking of which, this is all due to the recent lack of force in our country, which has caused the surrounding countries to underestimate my Qing Dynasty.

Erchen thought that after two years of recuperation and recuperation, my Qing Dynasty had run out of food, and it was the time for the Qing Dynasty to show off its military might. Amin and those rebels formed by the rebels, with the support of the Ming State, kept attacking and harassing our borders, not to mention, and also ruined the image of the sincere unity of our Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, which should be the first to be attacked.

The retainers are willing to send troops with their own banners to capture the rebellion of Amin and his subordinates back to Shenyang, and let his father sweat fall..."

As soon as Haug finished speaking, Yue Tuo immediately stepped forward to support: "Haug Belle is exactly what he said, and I think so too. Amin turned his back on his ancestors and relatives and defected to the Ming Dynasty, so that I would be disgraced, and if I didn't capture this person, it was really difficult to make the heroes of the Quartet convince me of the Qing Dynasty..."

Seeing that after Yue Tuo took the lead in supporting Hauge, the other little Baylors also wanted to speak along, Huang Taiji quickly interrupted this momentum, and turned to Dai Shan beside him and asked, "What do you think, Prince Don't Know Li?" ”

After Amin fled and Mang Gurtai died, Daishan did not express his opinion in the government for a long time. Even if he supported Hauge, he would not say anything publicly. Therefore, in response to Huang Taiji's inquiry, he only replied a few words ambiguously, and then said: "... Such military affairs should still be decided by the Khan King Qiangang. The ministers are dull and willing to obey the orders of the Khan..."

Huang Taiji glanced at Dai Shan, looking at his submissive appearance with low eyebrows and lowered eyes, but it was not easy to have a seizure. He also knew in his heart that this was the sequelae of his overthrow of the Four Baylor deliberative systems. Otherwise, how could those Han people call the emperor a loner.

Huang Taiji, who withdrew his gaze from Dai Shan's body, asked Dolgon, who was standing below, with a calm face, "Prince Rui, what do you think of Haugbel's suggestion?" ”

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