Mao Bijiang and Xu Hua rushed to Changzhou Mansion to lay out first, which can be regarded as a pioneer for Fang Yuan.

Su Hongyu and Liu Ru went to Fujian for nearly a month, and no news came.

The Songjiang Mansion, which had just been pacified, did not make any more trouble, and the officials even collected all the first month's commercial taxes and handed them over to the Governor's Mansion of Fangyuan in order to invite merit.

Suzhou Mansion and Songjiang Mansion under its jurisdiction were calm and calm, but military reports from the north came one after another.

The battle between Zhang Xianzhong and the Shu army lasted for a year, and the two sides attacked and defended each other, but still did not distinguish the winner.

In the Manchu direction, since the great defeat in Shandong, Liaodong is calm. But Fang Yuan knew that an immeasurable storm was brewing under this calm.

Because according to the history books, Huang Taiji will die in less than five months, and this time in Shandong has lost the main force of the Zhenghuang and Zhenglan banners of the lineage, and now the strength of the Huang Taiji lineage will never exceed 80 Niu Lu.

And the two white flags of Dorgon and Duoduo have at least 98 ox records, plus the red and inlaid red flags of other wall grass swaying at any time, how can it exceed 110 cattle records.

Under the strength of the Dolgon line, which has surpassed that of the Emperor Taiji line, the ambitious Dorgon will not compromise again. Huang Taiji's son Hao Ge is completely out of play, it is that little cub Aixin Jueluo. It is also unknown whether Fulin can successfully inherit the throne.

If the Manchu Tartars could be caught in a fire outside the Guan, the Ming Dynasty would have several years of recuperation, which would be great.

After a few months of rest, Li Zicheng attacked Tongguan again, and learned the lesson of the defeat in the first attack on Tongguan, and sent 10,000 light cavalry and 10,000 foot soldiers to make a detour north of Weishui, preparing to break through the Weishui defense line, bypass the impregnable Tongguan, and go straight to Xi'an.

The king of Qin transferred another 10,000 Qin troops from Xi'an and camped on the south bank of Weishui, making every effort to prevent the intrusive army from breaking through Weishui. The two sides fought a bloody battle in Weishui for half a month, and the Qin army was struggling to support it, and it was almost overwhelmed. Fortunately, the Chuang army did not have a naval fleet, otherwise the Weishui defense line would have collapsed long ago.

Without Sun Chuanting's elite army, King Qin was able to support in Shaanxi for more than half a year, which was far beyond Fang Yuan's expectations, and a corner of Shaanxi alone would never be able to resist the strength of the invading army.

Chongzhen was also anxious about the war situation in Shaanxi, and gave Fang Yuan several holy decrees, asking whether to dispatch Sun Chuanting, Zhou Yuji, Liu Zeqing, Zuo Liangyu, plus Fang Yuan, a total of five routes, gather 200,000 or 300,000 troops, and jointly encircle and suppress Li Zicheng, who was attacking Shaanxi, and give Li Zicheng a complete break.

The problem of the Liukou is actually a more headache than that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, after all, the Ming Dynasty died to the Liukou, not to the Manchu Qing.

The Manchu invasion can be solved by directly opening the trunk; It's not that simple.

Yang Sichang poured out the military strength of the seven provinces of the country that year, no less than 400,000 or 500,000 troops, and built a four-square, six-corner, ten-sided net, but it still ended in a fiasco. It can be seen that this kind of large-scale encirclement and suppression, which is all about the work of a battle, may be able to pacify, or even kill Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong.

However, this is just a symptom, killing Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Zhang Zicheng and Li Xianzhong. The essence of the long-term suppression of the plague is that the enemies of the Ming army are not Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, the two specific symbols, but millions or even tens of millions of displaced people and ordinary people in Henan, Shaanxi, and Huguang.

The Ming army was trapped in the vast sea of the people's war, and the result was undoubtedly defeated. No matter how Yang Sichang, Hong Chengchou, Lu Xiangsheng, and Sun Chuanting struggle, they are just operating a fleet to fight with the entire sea, and occasionally they can ride the wind and waves, and the scenery is infinite, but they will eventually be completely swallowed by the sea.

Fang Yuan has been thinking about it these days, if he wants to control the vast ocean of Liukou, he must change the blockage to dredging and open a canal to release water!

He decided to write to Chongzhen to advise that Sun Chuanting and Zhou Yuji were the only two members of the Ming Dynasty, and they should not have a strategic decisive battle with Liukou. The scourge of the rogue is by no means overnight, and it can be solved by a strategic decisive battle, and it is still necessary to focus on defense, supplemented by extermination, attack the heart, and attack the bottom.

Fang Yuan's strategy was to completely abandon Henan, which had been tossed beyond recognition by Li Zicheng, and the imperial court ordered Sun Chuanting in Gyeonggi, Zhou Yuji in Shaanxi, and even Liu Zeqing in Shandong to send a small cavalry to plunder Li Zicheng's rear.

There is no need to occupy the city, the most important thing is to resettle the good people who have been displaced from Henan and do not want to be exiles to Gyeonggi, Shanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Gansu, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places.

The resettlement of millions of displaced people is a large expense, and the only people who can rely on it are the government, wealthy merchants, and the Zhu Ming royal family, vassal kings, and clans in various places.

The government officials live on their money, and the nominal money is still very meager, and the quarrel with these bureaucrats must be endless and extremely inefficient.

As for the wealthy merchants, it is a good name to practice benevolence and righteousness, but it is their duty not to practice benevolence and righteousness, and there is no reason to forcibly apportion the displaced people to these wealthy merchants.

The only people who can provide resettlement for displaced people in a short period of time can only be the vassal kings and clans of the entire Zhu Ming royal family. Each of these vassal kings was a feudal land; As for the clan, they received a large amount of money from the imperial court every year. Almost one-third of the Ming Dynasty's financial revenue was used to support these clans. The land, Yulu, is well documented in the Zongren Mansion.

Each Ming vassal king, the clan, according to the amount of land occupied, as well as the annual clan salary, must be fixed and fixed to resettle the displaced people. After the scourge of the exiles is quelled, this resettlement policy will be cancelled and the displaced people will be repatriated to Henan.

According to Fang Yuan's estimates, there were at least 220 vassal kings with fiefs in the Ming Dynasty, and an average of one exile per five acres of fiefdom could solve the temporary livelihood of at least two or three million exiles.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were more than 300,000 people in the Wanli period, and it should have exceeded 500,000 by this time. Each of these clans can settle one displaced person, and it can also solve the livelihood of 500,000 displaced people.

In this way, at least the floodgates were opened and the water was released, and Li Zicheng's potential military source of 3 million was withdrawn. When the time comes, the army will surround Li Zicheng, how can Li Zicheng jump? Even without attacking, Li Zicheng's army of rogues would collapse without a fight. If the displaced people have a livelihood, who will follow Li Zicheng to rebel, and maybe they can even arrest Li Zicheng to invite credit.

For those vassal clans who were unwilling to settle the displaced people, Fang Yuan also proposed punishment, immediately depriving them of the fiefs they had canonized at that time, the title of the vassal king, and the money that should be distributed by the imperial court every year after that.

His move to open the floodgates and release the water, and draw salary from the bottom of the kettle, is actually the final self-redemption of the Zhu Ming royal family.

The world is the world of the Zhu family, and even the Zhu family is unwilling to save themselves, so can they still count on the bureaucracy and the people who have nothing to do with themselves? Saving Daming is just Chongzhen and Fang Yuan's business?

Whether to be the king of Fu to be made into Fulu soup, or to be the king of Qin and the king of Lu, scatter all the family wealth, and fight back against the rogue, these vassal kings and clans are their own choices.

If Zhu Ming's vassal kings and clans really have hope and can implement this trick to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, then the Ming Dynasty may still be saved. If even the Zhu Ming royal family learns from other bureaucrats, rich businessmen, and has nothing to do with themselves, and even cries for poverty against the yang and yin, it is intolerable for the Ming Dynasty not to perish!

Any huge clan group has no right to sit and eat the blood and sweat of the people on weekdays, and consume three or four percent of the country's wealth, but in the face of national crisis, they are still unwilling to spit out a little bit and feed the people.

Fang Yuan just took advantage of this opening of the gate to release the water to wait and see, whether there was any need for support for this Zhu tomorrow. Whether to continue to assist Chongzhen, or to divide Jiangnan and establish himself as the king.

He wrote the fold and asked his confidant Qin Zhan to personally send it to the capital to be handed over to Emperor Chongzhen, if Chongzhen had any questions, Qin Zhan could also answer them in person.

After a few more days, Fang Yuan didn't wait for the news of Su Hongyu and Liu Ruyi, but waited for Blanc from the Franc Machine Chamber of Commerce. He also brought a red-bearded foreigner with him, burly, wearing a military uniform, and he looked like a soldier at first glance.

Blank was a native of the Netherlands, and was introduced by an intermediary, John Tong, to negotiate the trade of silk, porcelain, and warships for warships. He introduced Fang Yuan, and it turned out that this red-bearded foreigner was an envoy sent by Putsmann, the governor of the Dutch East India Company in Taiwan, named Cohen.

Cohen gave a military salute to Fang Yuan and stood straight, "I have come to meet Governor Fang on the behalf of Governor Puttsmann. ”

Fang Yuan ordered the two to sit down, but he was secretly speculating about Blank's intention of calling Cohen. The treasure island of Taiwan is still in the hands of these Dutch people, and one day, when Zheng Zhilong is pacified, Fang Yuan will also send troops to recover Taiwan and drive away these foreigners who have carved territory in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Both sides have their own hearts, and they are speculating about each other's hole cards, and the atmosphere of the scene falls into an embarrassing silence.