Zheng Cai doesn't think it's a difficult thing to get more immigrants. Pen~Fun~Ge www.biquge.info Although the Zheng family has sent more than one million immigrants to Taiwan over the years, displaced people are still everywhere. Especially from 1638 to 1639, because of the Manchu invasion of the Qing Dynasty, Yang Sichang's strategy of "four positive and six corners, ten sides of the net" against the "rogues" in various places completely collapsed, and the domestic war became more and more out of control.

Strictly speaking, in the last invasion of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the losses of the pure army were not irreparable, although the fall of Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army left the Ming Dynasty with another army capable of fighting field battles. However, in terms of the military strength of the Ming Dynasty in various places, it still has a very big advantage over the "rogues" in various places. Whether it is the Qin army in Shaanxi, or Zuo Liangyu or the Guan Ning army, they can still gain the upper hand against those exile troops who cut wood for soldiers and unveil poles for banners. However, the Manchu Qing's entry into the army made one of the most fatal problems of the Ming Dynasty erupt, that is, the financial problems of the Ming Dynasty.

In a sense, the collapse of the Ming Dynasty was, first of all, a financial collapse. Yang Sichang's strategy of "four positive and six corners, and ten sides of the net" against the "rogues" in various places is actually a big gamble, a gamble with the last bit of money in the Ming treasury. As a result, although Li Zicheng and them were severely damaged, they were not able to eliminate them. After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Kou, the Ming Dynasty army was exhausted to come back to help. It consumed the already small amount of money, and a large area was seriously damaged, and the hematopoietic function of the Ming Dynasty was seriously damaged. Therefore, today's imperial court is not only unable to come up with the money for the local armies to fight the "rogue bandits", but even the military salaries that maintain the daily existence of the local armies are completely unable to come up. In this case, of course, Emperor Chongzhen could only let the garrisons in various places find a way to solve the problem of food by themselves. And this will inevitably have two serious consequences.

The first consequence is the complete collapse of discipline in the army. The army had to rely on its own violence to obtain money and food, so the army became a complete gang. The second consequence is that the military is becoming more and more private, and the generals are becoming more and more warlordized. Most of the time, the fundamental reason why the imperial court was able to control the army was the economic dependence of the military on the imperial court. Once an army is no longer dependent on the government's finances, what is there to fear about the government?

The outright banditry of the Ming army began to create more displaced people through their more efficient and persistent raids. Unlike "rogues" like Li Zicheng, officers and soldiers like Xiang Zuo Liangyu will not easily leave in one place. When Li Zicheng hit somewhere, (Li Zicheng basically has no base of his own, no production capacity of his own, so the supply of his army depends on the so-called "robbing the rich and helping the poor", of course, this "rich" standard is difficult to say, sometimes, as long as you still have a handful of rice in the rice tank, you can also be regarded as "rich") The common people still have to run to the mountains to hide, and wait for Li Zicheng to come back after they are gone (anyway, Li Zicheng will not stay somewhere for a long time). But when he met Zuo Liangyu, this trick was useless at all. Therefore, Zuo Liangyu's efficiency in creating displaced people is much higher than that of Li Zicheng. Therefore, although strictly speaking, whether it is Li Zicheng or Zhang Xianzhong, who has rebelled again, because they have suffered a major blow in the previous year, their strength is far from recovering, and the frequency of activities is not as good as before, but the speed of new displaced people is much faster than before. It is precisely because of this that Li Zicheng's strength, which was beaten to only a few dozen people in the previous year, was able to recover quickly.

Now Zuo Liangyu has just broken Zhang Xianzhong in the Agate Mountain in eastern Sichuan not long ago, and then squatted in the two lakes to make a fortune, so the displaced people in the two lakes are like spring water pouring towards the lower river.

"In fact, there is a more cost-effective way than recruiting ourselves." Zheng Cai said.

"What's the solution?" Zheng Sen asked.

"Looking for Zuo Liangyu." Zheng Cai said, "As long as you tell him that people can sell for money, Zuo Liangyu can sell all the people in Hubei, all of them left, and it is guaranteed to be cheaper than our own recruitment." ”

Zheng Sen frowned and said, "Although you can save a little money in this way, it will harm too many people, and in the long run, it may not be a good thing." I have heard of Zuo Liangyu, he is a bandit, he usually violates the place, and he is even more powerful than the rogue, if he is allowed to profit from the violation of the people, it is not a good thing. We can't just focus on money these days. ”

Zheng Cai heard this and said with a smile: "Ah Sen, you are really benevolent, but if we really do this, we have saved the local people." Ah Sen, do you think that if we don't talk about this business with Zuo Liangyu, Zuo Liangyu won't infringe on the people? I'm afraid that if I don't get the money, the harm will become more and more serious. Besides, Asen thinks that Zuo Liangyu has forced the people of Hubei into homeless, and we will recruit them as soon as these homeless people go to Jiangsu and Zhejiang. More than a thousand miles along the way, how many people should die along the way. The rest of those who are not dead will have to be raised for a while when they are in our hands, and they can recover before they can be sent to Taiwan or Luzon on the ship. In this way, not only do we spend more money, but we are also afraid of more displaced people who will die. On the contrary, we directly negotiated with Zuo Liangyu, and then sent a boat to Wuchang to fill it with people, these people have not been adrift all the way, and their health is not too bad. Wouldn't it be better if we loaded them into a boat and sailed down the river, and no one died on the way? ”

In fact, Zheng Sen doesn't really want to save money, it's just that he doesn't want to have too much to do with a guy like Zuo Liangyu on the bright side. In the original history, because of collusion with the guys of the Donglin Party, although Zuo Liangyu did bad things, the guys of the Donglin Party still worked hard to wash him in vain. For example, when the Donglin Party participated in the compilation of the "History of the Ming Dynasty", when Zuo Liangyu took advantage of the "fake prince case" to rebel, he still worked hard to make up what Zuo Liangyu did not intend to loot Jiujiang, but the generals made their own opinions, and Zuo Liangyu vomited blood and died of guilt because of this. In "Peach Blossom Fan", Zuo Liangyu was portrayed as a great loyal minister, and all this mess was pushed to his son Zuo Menggeng, who became a traitor. But I didn't look at it, when Zuo Liangyu raised troops in Wuchang, he also slaughtered Wuchang again, burning Jiujiang or something, which is Zuo Liangyu's consistent style. In Zheng Sen's opinion, Zuo Liangyu didn't become a traitor in the end, just because he died early, and if he died later, he was afraid that this traitor would not be his son's turn.

Such a guy, in Zheng Sen's plan, will definitely fall to the ground in the future, step on 10,000 feet, and make him never turn over. And Zheng Sen's positioning of himself is a generation of saints, how can he collude with such a thief? Even if there is a need for collusion, it will have to be done through other people.

"Those guys from the Donglin Party are jumping up and down now, and it is when they need money to spend, especially Zhang Pu, this person dares to ask for any money, and he has a wide range of contacts, he should be able to get in touch with Zuo Liangyu." Zheng Sen thought so, so he said: "Zuo Liangyu has a bad character, he sees money and is not trustworthy. And he is arrogant, and the court is also dissatisfied with him, but he still has to borrow him, so he can't be moved for the time being. My family has money and soldiers, so it is natural that the court will be suspicious, if we hook up with him, the court is afraid that it will not know what to think. Although now, the imperial court does not have the energy to care more about us, but it is not good to let the imperial court have bad thoughts after all. Therefore, we can't deal with him directly, and even if we want to do business with him, it's better to find someone to make a transition. ”

Zheng Cai can understand this reason very well, although he also knows that the current imperial court has nothing to do with the military leaders in various places, for example, earlier this year, after Zuo Liangyu defeated Zhang Xianzhong, he deliberately let Zhang Xianzhong go, and made a big effort to raise his own dignity or something, and the court had no way at all. However, after years of accumulation, Zheng Cai still has some awe of the imperial court in his heart. This is also the commonality of people in this era, and it is estimated that there are very few people like Zheng Sen who regard the dry bones in the mounds of the Ming Dynasty.

"Arsen has a point." Zheng Cai nodded.

"Uncle Cai, leave this matter to me." Zheng Sen said, "I also happen to go to Nanjing, so I can do this by the way." ”

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Tongcheng, Anhui Province, Fang Yizhi home.

Gu Jiang has been staying here for several months, since the Spaniards sued for peace, Gu Jiang also knows that there should be no battle in the short period of time, he has also accumulated a lot of things during this time, and he needs to find a place and a friend to sum it up seriously. It's just that Zheng Sen can't see anyone running around all day long, and whether it's in Beigang or Anping, in Gu Jiang's opinion, except for Zheng Sen, there is no one who can really discuss knowledge. So he simply said goodbye to Zheng Sen and ran to Fang Yizhi. Fang Yizhi's family has been scholarly for several generations, and his collection of books is quite rich, and his level of knowledge is also very good. In addition, the atmosphere of reading in Tongcheng is also good, and it is relatively easy to find someone to discuss problems.

After Fang Yizhi left Taiwan, after returning home, he gave a big lecture on "heavenly teaching" and "evolutionary theory" in the local Shilin, which caused quite a stir. There are quite a few radical aspects of this kind of thinking, and naturally there are many people who don't like it. All of a sudden, people came to the door every day to debate. Fang Yizhi is very eloquent, his eloquence is not hindered, and it is not a problem to fight with his tongue, but it is like this every day, although he can sharpen his knowledge, but he is also really tired. At this time, Gu Jiang came, and Fang Yizhi was really a little overjoyed, because after that, Gu Jiang could be allowed to go up many times, so that he could be lazy and have some time to study the knowledge of Gewu based on "Heavenly Grant".

However, what he didn't expect was that Gu Jiang caused more trouble. Fang Yizhi's theory is basically just the operation of the way of heaven, and rarely involves personnel history, but Gu Jiang is different, when he debates with people, he often pulls things related to the "theory of evolution" over and uses various measures of the ancient saint kings to corroborate each other, and the result is naturally to transfer this debate from the way of heaven to the way of humanity and even the way of governing the country. This time the debate became even more intense. In addition, Gu Jiang is a little sarcastic, and he has to be unforgiving, but two days ago, he almost waved his old fist with another friend of Fang Yizhi, Hou Fangyu Hou Gongzi.