The time entered 1648, the fourth year of the Ming Dynasty, and the fifth year of the Qing Dynasty.

The Western Wei Dynasty was enshrined in the Ming Dynasty as Zhengshuo, and the current Ming Dynasty era name was used on the surface, but in fact, in the official documents of the feudal government, the Yellow Emperor was used, and the chronology of the heavenly stem and earth branches was used, and only in the official documents with the Ming Dynasty, the era name of Zhu Cihong was used, intending to reduce the influence of the Ming Dynasty on the Western Wei Dynasty.

In China, vassals submitted to the Central Plains Dynasty, and the two main characteristics of the Central Plains Dynasty were to accept the canonization of the Central Plains Dynasty and use the era name of the Central Plains Dynasty.

Judging from the era name, the three major forces in the world are still divided into two camps, one is the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which is the foreign people, and the other is the loose alliance between the Western Wei Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.

The main tone of the world is still the contradiction between the Manchus and the Han people, or the expulsion of the Tartars.

However, as the Western Wei Kingdom became stronger, the contradictions between the Han regimes also rose rapidly.

In 1648, the year of Wuzi in the lunar calendar, the year of the rat, the major wars in the world have stopped, but the three forces in the world have moved frequently, and they have basically formulated strategies to cope with the current situation, and they are all accumulating strength to prepare for the next big war.

At this time, in the palace of King Wei in Xi'an City, Gao Yihuan stood on the martial arts arena, holding a hard bow, struggling to draw into a full circle, squinting and aiming at the arrow target in the distance.

After he saw it for a while, he suddenly let go of the bowstring, and the arrow immediately "swished" and shot out quickly.

"Hey, I missed the shot!" Gao Yihuan looked at the arrow, perfectly brushed by the target, and couldn't help but be a little surprised, not believing that he didn't shoot.

Gao Yihuan took another arrow, wound the arrow, and suddenly lowered his bow and arrow, smashed his mouth and said: "Daji, isn't this target a little small!" ”

Zhou Daji was busy with his acquaintance, "King, it's a little smaller, and the minister will change it to a big one for you." ”

As he spoke, he beckoned to a few guards, and brought a large dustpan that was a man tall and placed it in the distance.

This time, Gao Yihuan bent his bow and shot an arrow in one go, and the arrow hit the edge of the arrow target, changing the embarrassing situation of Gao Dawang's misses.

Gao Yihuan nodded with satisfaction, and did not let the target be lifted for him to see, but handed the bow to the guard, walked to the side and sat down, and said to Chen Mingxia, who was standing aside, "Sir, let's talk about it!" ”

Gao Yihuan sat on the big chair, and Chen Mingxia could only sit on the small horse on the side, "Wang, the feudal government has received news, Zhu Cihong has made a lot of moves recently, if it succeeds, Nanjing's strength may increase!" ”

Gao Yihuan's eyes narrowed, and he wanted to know what his brother-in-law had done?

As the Western Wei Kingdom became stronger and stronger, Gao Yihuan also swelled up, often feeling lonely because no one could make him say the words "The only heroes in the world are the kings and Cao'er".

Of course, he is hypocritical, and if someone can really make him say this, he is afraid that he will have trouble sleeping and eating again, and he wants to get rid of it quickly.

Gao Yihuan sat up straight and asked, "Let's talk about what Nanjing has done recently." ”

Chen Mingxia was a little uncomfortable sitting, he stood up and bowed down and said: "There are two main things, the first thing, Zhu Cihong has won over Huang Degong and is ready to take action against the Ming army in Jiangbei and implement the military salary system of our Western Wei Dynasty!" ”

Gao Yihuan showed a mocking look on his face, "Is Nanjing rich?" If this thing is not done well, there will be a mutiny! ”

Chen Mingxia said: "This is the second action." Zhu Cihong ordered the Weaving Bureau to preside over the trade with the Japanese State. Chen suspected that this was just a prelude, and Nanjing's ultimate goal might be to open the sea. The minister is a native of Jiangnan, when he participated in the examination and embarked on a career, he was funded by the gentry in the southeast, and the minister understood the sea trade, if he really succeeded in opening the sea, he set up a city to collect taxes, and Nanjing's annual income increased by millions, or even tens of millions. ”

At this time, the environment faced by the Ming Dynasty can be said to be the worst of the three, not only with a huge threat from the outside, but also with various forces intertwined internally.

At present, Zhu Cihong's strategy is to first stabilize Gao Yihuan, maintain a harmonious relationship with the Western Wei State, avoid the Ming Dynasty being attacked by the Manchu Qing and the Western Wei Dynasty at the same time, maintain a fairly controllable security environment in the Ming Dynasty, and continue to promote the Manchu threat to Nanjing, so that Jiangnan will be under pressure, so that the people and gentry will feel the crisis, and finally start reforms, and take back military and financial power into his hands.

In terms of military power, learn from the experience of the Chongzhen Dynasty to rebuild the army's confidence in the imperial court, and at the same time avoid the phenomenon of taking money and not obeying orders.

In terms of finance, the focus of tax collection was shifted from land to overseas trade, learning from the experience of the Southern Song Dynasty.

After the Southern Song Dynasty retreated to Jiangnan, in order to gain the support of the Jiangnan scholars and large landowners, they levied less land taxes, and many scholars could pay less taxes, or even no taxes, and connived at them to conceal their acres, and a large part of the finances were maintained by sea trade.

Reducing the land endowment was conducive to gaining the support of the common people and some of the gentry and landlords.

If Nanjing wants to gain a foothold in the south of the Yangtze River, it must have the support of someone, and reducing the collection of land and three salaries can attract a large number of people, which is convenient for the imperial court to attack the smuggling of maritime merchants in eastern Zhejiang.

Zhu Cihong put the imperial court on the side of the majority, took care of the interests of the landlords, and focused on cracking down on smugglers.

Gao Yihuan frowned slightly, there are all kinds of vested interests within the Ming Dynasty, and the reform in any direction will suffer from the opposition of a large number of vested interests, unlike the Western Wei State, which broke the reconstruction, the royal power is dominant, and there is no strong vested interest group in the country.

The reform of the Ming Dynasty will inevitably encounter strong resistance, but if it is effective, the strength of the Ming Dynasty will definitely be improved.

Gao Yihuan bowed slightly, his heart was a little interesting, and then he suddenly asked, "Have you made any recent moves in Beijing?" ”

Chen Mingxia hurriedly said: "King, the Manchu Qing Dynasty vigorously suppressed the anti-Qing forces in the north, compressed the scope of the rebel army's activities, and forced it into lakes and mountains, and only General Liu, General Yuan and the Yuyuan Army we supported were still insisting, and the other rebel armies were either exterminated or surrendered to the Manchus." The minister thought that the Qing court's current strategy for Guannai was to maintain local stability, and to focus on managing the newly acquired Lianghuai land, reducing its dependence on grain from the south, and improving the deteriorating finances! ”

Gao Yihuan nodded, and said in a deep voice: "The feudal government must increase its support for the righteous army, and cannot let the Manchus exterminate them." In addition, it is necessary to think about whether we can create turmoil in the prefectures and counties controlled by the Manchus, and not let the Manchus be peaceful. ”

"Yes, the minister will find a way to do it!" Chen Mingxia bowed and saluted, and then continued: "What the minister just said is internal affairs. If Dorgon's internal strategy is to repair political principles internally, then the external strategy is to block our Great Wei. ”

Gao Yihuan felt that he might have been happy too early, and his opponent was much more difficult than he thought.

Gao Yihuan sat up straight and asked in a deep voice, "How is Dolgon going to stop the Lone King?" ”

"Great King, we should have the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the middle of the court, and the foreign strategy formulated by Dolgon is to control the entire grassland to the west, compete with our Great Wei State for the Western Regions, sabotage the king's westward advance, operate the strategy of restarting the Silk Road on the way to the Western Regions, and strategically encircle our Great Wei on three sides." Chen Mingxia said in a deep voice: "If the minister is not mistaken, Dolgon wants to learn from the Mongols, first control the grassland, and then destroy the Western Liao entrenched in the Western Regions, and then destroy the Western Xia, destroy the Jin, and finally kill the Song Dynasty." ”

The corners of Gao Yihuan's mouth twitched, he just wanted to run the Western Regions, and Dolgon competed against each other, this guy is really a talent.

If the Manchus wanted to compete with the Wei army for the steppes and the Western Regions, it was obvious that the Manchus, who had nomadic genes and controlled Eastern Mongolia and Southern Mongolia, and had more than 200,000 cavalry, would undoubtedly have an advantage over the Western Wei State.

The 30,000 cavalry of the Western Wei State was difficult to fight with the Manchus in the desert and grassland, where the cavalry was the world of cavalry, and the cavalry of the Wei army was obviously insufficient.

Once the Wei army failed to fight for the Western Regions, it could only retreat to Guanzhong, and the Manchu Qing integrated the grasslands, at least hundreds of thousands of more cavalry, then the Wei army really felt a little desperate.

Dolroll was full of confidence in his strategy, and had already begun to implement the strategy of blocking the Western Wei.

Gao Yihuan suddenly laughed, "People really can't get carried away!" After speaking, Gao Yihuan had already stood up, stood with his hands in his hands, and asked: "How is the new policy strategy led by Mr. Li, how is the cabinet discussing?" ”

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