Wuzhou City, New Year's Day, Mansion.

Li Chengdong had been in Wuzhou for two months, and the army had stopped and remained eerily silent.

Li Yuanyin gently pushed open the wooden door of the study.

In a private territory like the study, Li Yuanyin is the only one in the whole army who can come in without greeting.

Li Chengdong was pondering the map hanging on the wall, and turned his head at this time, "Yuan Yin." ”

"Father."

Seeing the military newspaper in Li Yuanyin's hand, Cheng Dong asked lightly, "Is there any news?" ”

"Yes, father. Emergency military situation on the Guilin front. ”

Cheng Dong sat down, leaned back in his chair, and closed his eyes. "Read."

"Yes, Father......"

After the victory in Jeonju, Geng Zhongming retreated 80 kilometers in one breath, and only stopped in Yongzhou to lick the wounds of Jeonju's defeat. It was the unlucky time that the Ming army sent him a super gift package. Because Chengdong captured Wuzhou, Guilin's southern gateway was opened.

The family members of Hao Shaoqi's old battalion were all in Guilin, and they were afraid that the rear would be lost, so they led their troops to evacuate the front line again. affected the battle situation, and Lu Ding and He Tengjiao retreated. Jiao Lian, the main army of Guangxi, left Tang Wenyao to reinforce the defenders of Quanzhou, and also withdrew.

Tang Wenyao and Wang Youchen, the defender of Quanzhou, saw that the main forces of each battalion were withdrawn one after another, and learned the news of the loss of Wuzhou. In desperation, he sent a messenger to contact Geng Zhongming. Geng Zhongming had just suffered a crushing defeat in Jeonju, and the Ming army, which had won a great victory, refused to accept it. It wasn't until a few days later, after a civil war, that the Ming army dragged Zhou Zhen, a prison soldier who resolutely refused to surrender, out of the yamen and killed him, and sent the head and seal to Yongzhou.

Geng Zhongming was overjoyed, and on December 17, a month after the Battle of Quanzhou, he took over the important town that had not been defeated before.

Geng Zhongming learned that Li Chengdong occupied Wuzhou in Quanzhou, and immediately sent people to make a detour to contact him.

"Father, Geng Zhongming said that Kong Youde and Shang Kexi's army has moved south, and the three kings are about to join forces to attack Guilin."

Cheng Dong listened but didn't say anything, his eyes were still closed. "Got it, is there anything else?"

"No, father. Shall we send troops? ”

Li Chengdong sneered, "Send troops? Why? I am just the governor of Guangdong, and I fought Wuzhou just to guard the gateway to Guangdong. Guangxi is not my defense area, why should I take the chestnuts for the three mines of the Dongjiang River? ”

A strange expression flashed across Yuan Yin's face, and Yuan Yin said cautiously: "Father, the Ming army in Guilin now has a lot of troops, if they resolutely resist, Kong Youde may not be able to defeat him." If we send troops, it's a sure win. At that time, it will also be able to share the credit of Guangxi. ”

"Credit, credit, hey." Li Chengdong opened his eyes and laughed, "When I defected to the new dynasty, I was already a general soldier with the general's seal, and there were nearly 10,000 elite soldiers under my account. I have made meritorious achievements in the Yangtze River, I have shed blood on the Huangpu River, and I have been wounded on the beach of Chongming Island. I wiped out 100,000 Ming troops, including the elite of the Dengzhou Naval Division. But what did I get? Songjiang is only a general soldier, Wu Shengzhao is from Liaodong, and his military achievements are far inferior to mine, but he is above me as the commander. ”

The more Li Chengdong spoke, the more angry he became, "I won the whole province of Guangdong, but I only got the post of governor of Guangdong." Tong Yangjia has no credit, just because he is from Liaodong, he can easily be the governor, or above me. You say, why do I have to earn the credit for this hot hand? ”

Li Yuanyin immediately echoed, "What my father said is very true. The new dynasty was the first to worship Manchuria, followed by the Mongols, the third Han army, and the fourth Liao. I can't wait to be at the bottom. Also go into battle to participate in the battle, the Eight Banners merit card is divided into three grades, and the triumphant merit is given to the world. We, the soldiers of the green battalion, only need to add 1 time to fight bravely, and we must add 24 times before we can claim the position of a mere cloud cavalry captain. 24 times in battle, damn it, it's the most powerful soldier, and a few people can survive! ”

Cheng Dong glanced at Yuan Yin deeply, "So, we don't need to go to Guilin to mix." What did you do with all the effort and no benefit? ”

"Yes, Father, I see."

"You arranged for someone to write for me, well, that's it. The combat effectiveness of Shi Fu and other units of the Southern Ming Army that I surrendered was too poor to be used. Our army could not rely on more than 300 elite cavalry, and the losses were more than half of the battles along the way. ”

"I'll do it right away."

Cheng Dong leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes again, and asked faintly, "Yuan Yin, is there any news from our family?" ”

"No news, father. No, I count the days, if there is no accident, they should have arrived in the defense area of Jin Shenghuan in Jiangxi by now. ”

"Alas, the family is a matter of the military's heart, you have to pay close attention to this matter, and then send someone to Jiangxi to investigate."

"Yes, I'll arrange it later."

Li Yuanyin retreated, and it was not until he left the study that a touch of joy climbed on his face.

Since the suppression of Lingnan Sanzhong, his father-in-law has undergone some subtle changes in his personality and behavior.

On 19 September last year, Li Chengdong personally led Du Yonghe, Zhang Yue, and Ma Bao to capture Qingyuan, and Chen Bangyan was wounded and captured.

Li Chengdong did not embarrass him at that time and sent him to Guangzhou. Governor Tong Yangjia put Chen Bangyan to death.

Zhang Jiayu died in Zengcheng on the tenth day of October.

On October 25, Shi Fu captured Gaoming City, and Chen Zizhuang was captured. Shi Fu handed over Chen Zizhuang to Li Chengdong, and Chengdong's mentality was a little bad at that time, and he scolded both Shi Fu and Chen Zizhuang. scolded Shi Fu for why he didn't execute Chen Zizhuang on the spot, and scolded Chen Zizhuang for why he didn't commit suicide. After venting, he had no choice but to hand over the person to Tong Yangjia for processing.

Tong Yangjia announced to the public that after discussing with Li Chengdong, Chen Zizhuang Lingchi would be executed. Li Chengdong was helpless, he wanted to run Guangzhou as a territory, and he had always been courteous to the Guangdong gentry, but now he had a big black pot on his back.

Since then, Chengdong's mentality has been completely broken.

The Ming army in western Guangdong began to attack aggressively, but soon stopped at Leizhou Mansion. An old acquaintance in Qiongzhou contacted Li Chengdong through Li Yuanyin, and the two sides reached a certain tacit understanding. Cheng Dong led his army to attack Wuzhou and defeated Chen Bangfu, and then immediately stood still, even Shi Shangyi, who recovered the Gaozhou Mansion in Guangdong.

Li Yuanyin walked out of the mansion, and he knew that things were quietly changing.

At the beginning, the town went south, and all the family members stayed in Songjiang Province.

When the governor Tong Yangjia had the smallest troops in Guangzhou, he had only 200 men, and the situation was very critical in the face of the siege of Sanzhong in Lingnan, and it might be finished if he was not careful. It was Li Chengdong who led the army to arrive in time and saved Tong Yangjia's life.

Later, Li Chengdong said a few words of missing his family in front of Tong Yangjia, and Tong Yangjia reciprocated Li by asking for the return of Li Zhen's family, "so that the family of the Killer Rong Xing can be reunited, and there is no internal worries." ”

The Liao people are sparse, and Beijing is to give face, so they agreed. It's just that Guangzhou and Beijing are too far away, and it takes a lot of time to go back and forth, and thousands of old people, women and children in Songjiang have not yet arrived.

……

Yilan State Department, under the dim whale oil lamp, kept the order and worked hard to write.

A leather coat was suddenly draped on her shoulders, and a woman's soft voice came, "It's cold, don't freeze." ”

Shou Xuan gently patted the white fingers on his shoulder, "Thank you." ”

"What are you writing? It's rare to see you writing. ”

"Some messy ideas, not yet sorted out."

Hui Xiang curiously picked up the white paper on the table, and with a snort, the woman laughed, "This word, this word still has no progress at all." ”

Shou Xuan writes in a quill pen, in a horizontal row from left, and the text is all vulgar characters, which is not commensurate with his daily familiarity with historical books. People who don't know have always been an illiterate person who doesn't read, and only those around him know the truth. Hui Xiang is definitely one of them, but he often can't help but laugh when he sees the words of order.

The word "orderly" is naturally not enough in front of the cultural people of this era, and he shrugged his shoulders indifferently and refilled the cold teacup with hot water.

Hui Xiang took a sip first, and then looked down.

……

The immigrants of Yilan used rudimentary tools and struggled hard against nature, and the hard-working characteristics of the Chinese people were undoubtedly displayed here.

Sadly, both during the Ming Dynasty and the Tatar rule, China had the best natural farming conditions in the world, the best intensive farming techniques in the world, and they were also the most industrious people in the world. The combination of these three best creates the poorest people in the world.

In order to show the merits of the mission to the Holy See, the Catholic missionaries highlighted China as rich in various descriptions, which is seriously out of touch with reality. Except for a very small number of nobles, wealthy businessmen and gentry, we can only see countless compatriots who have no property.

Many people believe that China is very rich, but that only exists in fairy tales. Nowhere else in the world is there such a large number of extremely poor families on such a vast land.

Most of the bureaucrats in the Ming Dynasty did not pay attention to the interests of the country and the people, but only looked for objects of plunder and filled their pockets.

The Ming Dynasty supported a large amount of military force, although it is said that the military is unified by literature, but in fact, these hereditary military generals who hold military power, and at the same time, there are also a large number of children who have no inheritance rights to be admitted to the Jinshi Juren, becoming a local gentry with both civil and military skills.

It's terrible to have both civil and military and hereditary. The mainland's self-proclaimed developed education cannot hide the fact that the law is backward. Nowhere was there a wanton abuse of power as in China, where the gentry and eunuchs behaved unscrupulously, controlling local regimes such as the Guards and the Inspection Department, brutally punishing and torturing the common people with all kinds of lynchings and corporal punishments, and treating their subjects and military households as slaves.

The people were so poor that they couldn't survive, so Li Chuang and Zhang Xianzhong rose up and responded to every call. But Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are by no means the saviors of the poor, a few years ago, Duoduo entered Tongguan, and Li Zicheng fled to Dengzhou in embarrassment. In order to recover his vitality, the old and weak in the Dengzhou area were killed, and the strong were driven south. As a result, from Wuguan to Xiang and Han, there is no smoke for thousands of miles.

Warlords from all walks of life have risen, and the country's normal ruling order, the civilian bureaucratic system, has completely lost control over military generals. In the south, with the Ming court's current control over the economy, the contradictions between the generals who settled the grain and salary on their own could not be reconciled. Often, before the Tatars came, the Southern Ming army killed their own territory thousands of miles away. Zhang Xianbi and Liu Chengyin lost thousands of people each, the corpses were all over the field, and the water was red.

There was no difference between the Ming officers and the Tatars in this regard, and even objectively speaking, the military discipline of the Tatars was better than that of the Ming army.

These warlords either wandered or sat on the defensive, destroying the foundation of the Ming Dynasty's rule in all aspects of economy and society.

They still ravaged the continent, fighting the Tatars without victory, sweeping away the still stable southern regions like locusts.

……

Song Huixiang put down the manuscript and let out a sigh from the bottom of his heart.

"I grew up in Nanjing, but I have also heard of the last days of the Central Plains. Thousands of miles are uninhabited, and there are human bones everywhere. ”

Shou Xuan snorted coldly, "Now that the Central Plains has settled down and resumed production, the warlords have killed Huguang without people, and it will soon be Guangxi's turn." ”

The woman's head was buried in the arms of the order, and a soft voice came, "You have many territories in Nanyang, why do you care about the affairs of the Central Plains?" ”

Shou Xian stroked her hair and said slowly: "Of course, I want to criticize the Ming Dynasty thoroughly. ”

Hui Xiang raised his head, "Taizu expelled the Tartars, and won the righteousness of the country......"

"The mainland is lost, someone must stand up and be responsible, which has nothing to do with Zhu Yuanzhang hundreds of years ago."

"I don't understand", Hui Xiang's eyes flickered, and he said faintly, "No matter how much, I believe you." Keep writing, I'll polish it for you when you're done. ”

Shou Xiang gently kissed the woman on the forehead, sat down and continued to work.

The weapon of criticism cannot replace the criticism of weapons, but it cannot only be the criticism of weapons.

Propaganda remains the most effective means of attack in the world. Whether in Taiwan or in Nanyang, there were countless people in the Federation who maintained contact with the Ming Dynasty. Only by thoroughly criticizing this decadent feudal dynasty can they theoretically break off their ties with the Ming Dynasty.