A person who is living in history can never see clearly the history that is happening in front of him.

Failure after failure brought Chongzhen only disappointment, but he would not admit that the Ming Dynasty was about to move towards the inevitability of history.

The anti-army has become a river in the world, and the more it is blocked, the more it will overflow.

Chongzhen for six years.

The rebel army attacked the boundary of the Beijing Division in March, and then went south, defeating the Henan Ming Army, the Sichuan Army, and the Baipole Army.

And then like a wild horse into the plain, like a wildfire burning the plain.

The opposition is almost impossible to resist.

After the defeat of the Sichuan army in July, the rebel army went south to the hinterland of Henan again, occupied Yiyang, attacked Ruzhou, and then went south, one entered Huguang, and the other entered Sichuan.

The momentum of the Shaanxi anti-army began to spread to the Jiangnan region.

Emperor Chongzhen convened his ministers every day to discuss a comprehensive plan, but it was obvious that there was no one to share his worries at this time.

The courtiers of the Ming Dynasty, there are not many people who can really contribute to the country and have the ability to turn the tide.

When the whole world is in turmoil, the tranquility of Shanxi is particularly precious.

There are no bandits, everyone has food and clothing, and even those who do not have a home can find a place to stay overnight.

The first time everyone opens their eyes every day, they know what they should do today and what they can get.

This is life, it is the rush to live.

Tang Xidong's ability is not strong, even if he has the eyes of the three hundred years of historical evolution in the future, but at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he is not enough to have the ability to let everyone live a rich life.

Datong society is just a record in ancient books.

It is a direction to strive for, but it must not be regarded as one's own goal, so that it is ambitious.

When the rebels and the Ming army, the Later Jin and the Ming army continued to fight.

Tang Xidong stole a short period of tranquility and was secretly accumulating strength and development with his head down.

After the Mongols began to trade and attracted a large number of southern trading houses to the north, Shanxi's economy recovered, although for the time being, it was not enough for Tangxidong to be financially self-sufficient and balance its payments.

But at least there is a glimmer of hope.

On the basis of developed commerce, Tang Xidong constantly encourages the development of industry and crop cultivation.

The promotion of new crops has achieved results in Binh Duong.

The people of the Ming Dynasty began to realize the huge yields and benefits of potatoes and maize, two crops brought by Xiyi.

So they planted one after another, although the greenhouses were far less advanced than those of later generations, but at least they could grow food on everyone's land.

With the support of soil greenhouse technology, new crops are spreading from Pingyang to the whole territory of Shanxi at a very fast speed.

In terms of industry, Tangxidong began to liberalize mineral resources and be exploited by businessmen themselves, but the premise was that all mining and production ports must be supervised by special personnel from the government, and all minerals produced by the government were purchased by the government at a price slightly lower than the market price, and then the demand and supply of minerals were arranged in a unified manner.

Businesses are encouraged to set up large-scale factories related to clothing, clothing, housing and transportation, such as textile mills, canneries, bicycle factories, etc.

Tang Xidong will open up related technologies, but it will invest in factories and workshops according to the value of the technology industry.

When all aspects are faced with everything waiting to be done, labor has become the most sought-after resource.

Although at the beginning, Tang Xidong's decree was to concentrate the people to live in the city and its surroundings, there were still a large number of people far away from the city who were unwilling to give up their farmland and family property that were nothing at all, and did not want to gather in the city.

However, with the development of commerce, when the people of the city began to be paid handsomely for their labor, those who were originally reluctant to live around the city began to move closer to the city for various reasons.

Tang Xidong has solved the livelihood problem of the people in Shanxi.

Those who do not have farmland can apply for farmland and provide livestock and farming tools free of charge when the farm is busy, and collect a small amount of grain during the summer harvest.

A large amount of mountainous land was mined and then distributed to the people for free, which naturally gave great pressure to the landlord class.

Because the hired farmers under their hands have a little insight began to apply for field lease certificates from the hands of the government, before everyone worked hard for a year, the grain harvested from planting was not enough to repay the rent of the landlord's family, but obviously not only free land planting, but also special personnel to provide planting technology, to provide new crops with huge yields, but also to supply livestock and farm tools for free, and finally the rent collected was not even a quarter of the harvested grain, everyone is not stupid, naturally know how to choose.

Tang Xidong's decree fundamentally put the landlord class in mid-air, and it was impossible to go up and down.

If you don't want to become a wasteland, you naturally have to pay more silver, enough to attract people to rent and plant.

In this way, Tang Xidong invisibly allowed the interests of the landlord class to circulate to the hands of ordinary people.

Of course, there is also the case of hired farmers who have been in debt for many years.

This part of the people is often directly bound into slavery by the landlords in the form of debts and forced debts.

For these people, Tang Xidong also introduced corresponding countermeasures.

These people can be provided with free money to help them pay off their debts. But the premise is that they are honest and can keep one acre and three points of land, not those who are idle and will either go to the gambling house or the brothel as soon as the money is in hand.

After renting the land, these people have to collect half of the grain they produce every year, and it is not absolute in the current year, but it must be adjusted according to the average output of the year.

Anyway, Tang Xidong is trying his best to dig into the corners of the landlord class.

On the other hand, the suppression of the landlord class is the strict criminal law that prevents the people from handling the old cases of the landlords and rich owners from being handled by special personnel.

While striking out the grievances and showing the snow to buy the hearts of the people, we also earnestly cracked down on those who have done evil and acted arbitrarily for many years.

Such a campaign began in June of the sixth year of Chongzhen's reign in various places, and almost every county seat was blocked by the accused people.

Tang Xidong could not beat these people to death with a stick, because he still needed to rely on the money and purchasing power in the hands of these people to stimulate the development of the city's economy.

Therefore, except for a few cases where the circumstances are serious, most of the other small cases are compensation for the victim according to the monetary money.

Moreover, the progress of accepting the case was deliberately delayed, and while giving hope to the people, it was not possible to make the landlord class despair.

Otherwise, everyone will run away, and it will be difficult to clean up.

Tang Xidong was very soberly aware of the pros and cons of the landlord class for him.

We must not blindly suppress it, we must control the situation, and we must also let the people's grievances be calmed down, buy people's hearts, and maximize our own interests.

And trade with the Mongols, at present, Tang Xidong felt that it was the most correct thing he had done after occupying Shanxi.

The Mongols brought him a lot of benefits, one of which was something that Tang Xidong could not have imagined.

All of this is thanks to Dolgon.