After a great turmoil and a change of dynasty, the city of Beijing is still the same city, and the state of the city of Beijing is still the state of the city of Beijing. 【Reading.com】

There are some people in the world who have not done any practice, and they just sit there and talk about it. In their mouths, it seems that nothing in the world can stop them. It seems that anything in the world, as long as they do it, they can do it a thousand times better than others.

"If you say it, you will change the world, and if you do it, you can't do anything." This kind of person is actually a fool who lacks the basic understanding of materialism and does not have the ability to seek truth from facts.

One of the issues that Wang Shuhui repeatedly emphasized in the Baath Party is, "We can be stupid, but we must not be foolish." ”

Under the influence of this kind of thinking, in the rectification campaign that the Ba'ath Party conducts almost every year, many people who have a little culture and begin to make mistakes and become the kind of people who "change the world if they say it, but they can't do anything about it" have been found out by the Ba'ath Party's Rectification Committee. They were either sent to farms and mines for labor reform, or they were outright expelled from the party by the Baath Party.

Therefore, over the past decade or so, there have been many "fools" who have revived the party's ideology and dogma and acted mechanically, but there are very few "fools" who lack the spirit of seeking truth from facts.

Although the Baath Party, under the leadership of Wang Shuhui, was able to use strict means to ensure that its organization adhered to the materialist ideology of seeking truth from facts, it was unable to solve all the "foolish eggs" in the world.

In addition to the Baath Party, among the major forces in North China, the Ming Dynasty has been basically eliminated as the most "fools", followed by the Dashun Dynasty, that is, the army led by Gao Yingxiang in the past. However, because the level of productivity is relatively backward, there are not enough material conditions to support those useless "fools", which makes the "fools" in the slave tribal regime of the Later Jin Jurchen the least.

The newly established Dashun Dynasty, which is a bit of a monkey and has a crown flavor, is not without people who understand. For example, Li Yan, who has been snubbed by Emperor Gao Yingxiang of Dashun and squeezed out by the "civil officials" and "generals" of the Dashun Dynasty. For example, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, who had hurried back to Beijing to take charge of the defense of the surrounding areas of Beijing.

However, like all feudal dynasties that lacked a rebuilding process, Gao Yingxiang took over many of the original Ming Dynasty's officials and ministers because of his lack of experience in city and state management after taking over the city of Beijing.

You must know that all the ruling class that can stand firm in the change of feudal dynasties and lose almost any kind of interests is generally the most corrupt, backward, and reactionary vested interest group of the ruling class. Only those vested interest groups that have no concept of the state and the nation at all and do everything with the interests of their own group and family as their purpose will be particularly soft on their knees and thick-skinned.

Gao Yingxiang's command, including figures like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, who can take charge on their own, all lack the ability to govern the country and run the government. Let them fight, in the course of long-term practice, through a lot of real crawling and rolling, these people may be easy to say. But without any practice and experience, and without any rational understanding, it is a joke to let these people run the country and run the government.

The people under Gao Yingxiang's command did not want to seize power and occupy a place in the newly built six yamen as government agencies. But don't look at the matter of being an official, it seems very simple, but if you really want to get to that position, you can't do things without the corresponding ability.

Gao Yingxiang does not have anyone with this experience and ability, but there is no shortage of people in Beijing who have this ability.

The Ming Dynasty fell due to a sudden civil revolt, but with the exception of Emperor Chongzhen and a few loyal ministers such as Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan, most of the officials in the upper echelons of the Ming Dynasty remained in Beijing.

When Gao Yingxiang's army invaded Beijing, those court officials who had already secretly communicated with Gao Yingxiang immediately organized people to meet Gao Yingxiang. Among them, there are many high-level core officials of the Ming Dynasty such as Ge Lao Shangshu.

Gao Yingxiang has a "conscience". The court officials, who had previously been in contact with him, were soon rewarded and appointed by him. They also "reciprocated" Gao Yingxiang's acceptance. The reason why Gao Yingxiang's enthronement ceremony was able to be full of flowers was mainly because of the great efforts of these people.

The scale of the Great Rebellion in Beijing at the end of 1631 was indeed not small, but Gao Yingxiang's rapid intervention made the casualties caused by the Great Rebellion relatively small.

In addition to nearly 4,000 ordinary citizens and more than 20,000 Liaodong troops who were killed in this riot, and several fires broke out in various parts of the city, because most of the soldiers in Beijing who were the backbone of the riot were absorbed by the invading army, the loss of personnel caused by this turmoil was controlled within 30,000.

The fundamental factor that caused the riots in Beijing was the food crisis.

Relying on the Grand Canal as a supply route, the city of Beijing had to provide military rations for more than 100,000 troops in other places, in addition to providing food for millions of people in Beijing and its surroundings. It was under the hoarding of the upper interest groups of the Ming Dynasty represented by Zhou Guozhang that it finally led to this great riot.

The development and change of the material world is an objective process.

In the material world, there are only objectively existing substances, and there are no differences due to specific people.

For example, if a primary school student does arithmetic, he calculates 1+1=2. When the math master Hua Luogeng calculated this problem, 1 plus 1 was still equal to 2.

1+1=2 is an objective reality. It doesn't produce different results just because the person who calculates it doesn't produce the same results.

Gao Yingxiang drove away Zhu Youzhen, took control of the city of Beijing, and was busy establishing a new dynasty. However, the food crisis in Beijing did not change because of the establishment of the new dynasty and the accession of Gao Yingxiang to the throne.

There was no food in Beijing City, there was no food when Zhu Youzhen was emperor, and now Gao Yingxiang is here, and he does not have the magic power to conjure food out of thin air, so there is still a lack of food in Beijing City at the beginning of 1632.

Zhu Youzhen became Gao Yingxiang, and the old minister became the new minister. In addition to the addition of a bunch of princes and uncles who further caused financial pressure, the vested interests of hoarding grain and raising grain prices are still that vested interest group.

However, the 50,000 Liaodong Army outside Beijing, which increased the burden of food supply in Beijing, has now become 200,000 new and old Shun troops. The Baath Party, which occupied the entire territory of Shandong and had begun to take over the banks of the Grand Canal from south to north, added fuel to the fire and completely cut off the north-south communication of the whole of China.

In other words, Gao Yingxiang, who nominally established a new dynasty and took over the baton of the Ming Dynasty, is now facing a worse situation than Zhu Youzhen, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Under the condition that the north-south traffic was smooth and the southern region was able to provide supplies to the northern region, Zhu Youzhen trusted the same group of crazy and paranoid civilian bureaucrats to provide supplies for the troops of less than 100,000 people, and the entire Ming Dynasty was put to rest.

And now, in the face of the complete severance of north-south communications, the cutting off of the supply line of the Grand Canal, and the fact that the same vested interest groups are holding the new regime and wants to provide supplies for more than 200,000 troops, can Gao Yingxiang, the emperor of Dashun, who has dressed himself in a shining golden light, be able to walk out of a different path from the Ming Emperor Zhu Youzhen?

The answer, of course, is no.

As one of the few and outstanding people under Gao Yingxiang's command, Li Yan made it clear at the beginning of the plan for Gao Yingxiang that after occupying Beijing, he must first clear out the surrounding armed forces that threaten the invasion army, and then it is necessary to stabilize the Liaodong Army, which is still honest. After that, the first thing to do was to take out the precious gold and silver left over from the Ming Dynasty and exchange supplies with the Baathists.

After obtaining supplies and supplies from the Baath Party, the first thing the army had to do was to organize the military cantonment itself on the one hand, and the local people to resume production on the other hand.

Didn't Li Yan know that making a deal with the Baath Party was a tiger for the skin, and that the Baath Party was the biggest threat to the army? Li Yan's understanding of this issue is not only clear but also unambiguous.

It was precisely because Li Yan had such a clear and unambiguous understanding that he knew the importance of trading with the Baath Party to bring in materials and supplies, resume production, and re-establish the supply system of the army itself.

This is also the main reason why Li Yan does not want Gao Yingxiang to rashly ascend the throne and become emperor. He feared that Gao Yingxiang's approach would offend the powerful and "ill-intentioned" Baathistists.

Because of this, when Li Yan saw Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong retreating to Beijing in a hurry, and heard the news that the Baath Party's army was heading north, he was completely disheartened and no longer worked hard to give advice to Gao Yingxiang, who was happily playing the game of "being the emperor".

After the main force of the Fuxing Army arrived in the Zhending area, it first connected with the Shandong Military Region and carried out material supply and rearmament on the spot. Then, seven divisions of the Revival Army split into two corps. One of the corps continued to march northward, while the other set out for the western part of Beijing, preparing to block the retreat of the innovator army to the western region.

It's also interesting to say. Probably in order to behave well in the "New Dynasty", those former Ming Dynasty magistrates who were slow to react when the army ravaged the Central Plains have now turned into officials of Dashun, and they quickly passed the relevant news to Beijing during the northward movement of the revival army.

The revival army appeared in the Central Plains region and frightened Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong into fleeing. Such news did not make Gao Yingxiang wake up from the beauty of the "Three Thousand Beauties of the Harem" in the palatial Forbidden City. But when he received the news that the Fuxing Army had taken over the Wanquan Division, Chen Bing's security and the border area between Shuntianfu, Gao Yingxiang suddenly sobered up.

Gao Yingxiang's essence is not a completely confused person. Gao Yingxiang, who was born as a horse dealer, was able to stand out among the piles of peasant rebels in the late Ming Dynasty, and his scheming and means were sufficient.

A person who suddenly realizes his dreams and climbs to the top of his own dreams that he did not even dare to fantasize about in the past, and then there are all kinds of confusion and beauty that anyone will show in the face of such a situation of indulgence and indulgence. Isn't a person with a high personal quality as Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, also intoxicated with the beauties of the Six Kingdoms in Afang Palace after breaking through Xianyang? So from this point of view, Gao Yingxiang's performance is indeed a little bad, but it is not bad enough.

Gao Yingxiang's biggest problem is that the environment faced by Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, is different. First, his opponent is not Xiang Yu's kind of monkey-like guy, but the Baath Party, an industrial revolutionary organization whose productivity and organizational level surpass their hundreds of years. Second, Gao Yingxiang's right-hand man is not a mature assistant team like Xiao He, Han Xin, Zhang Liang, and Chen Ping, who have followed him from the beginning, but a large group of decadent and reactionary vested interests such as Wei Dezao and Zhang Jinyan who only know that they are clinging to their own interests.

In this case, it is already a very rare thing for Gao Yingxiang to wake up from the illusory emperor's dream and the wonderful three thousand beauties.

The reason why the invading army is called a rogue is because the invading army without logistical supply capabilities can only conduct mobile operations. Although more than a decade of looting and destruction has made the Central Plains no longer able to provide a basis for mobile warfare. However, the idea of fighting and running while fighting in mobile combat is still deeply engraved in the head of Gao Yingxiang, the leader of the rogue bandits.

Even if the logistics supply of the army in the later period was relied on by trading with the Baath Party, Gao Yingxiang still had the same old-fashioned thinking in his bones.

The plan that Li Yan had formulated for Gao Yingxiang, Gao Yingxiang said on the surface that he would follow it all, but in his heart he only agreed with the first half of Li Yan's plan, that is, the part of the surprise attack on Beijing City that created chaos.

If it weren't for the eagerness of his head to ascend to the emperor's throne, Gao Yingxiang's idea was actually to plunder a large amount of money from Beijing, and then run back to Shaanxi with gold and silver treasures to establish a small imperial court. Because Gao Yingxiang himself knows that no matter how much he increases the number of troops, he is not the opponent of the Baath Party.

The bad thing is that Gao Yingxiang was completely fainted and confused after entering Beijing. The emperor's throne and supreme status were as inextricable as drugs for him. But even so, Gao Yingxiang left himself with the last way back, that is, to fight back to Shaanxi from Shanxi, and then with his wealth and army, become an independent local force subject to the Baath Party.

This is also the reason why Gao Yingxiang sent more than 50,000 troops to the direction of Shanxi.

However, Gao Yingxiang's retreat is not stable. A regiment of the Baath Army easily broke through the troops he had placed in the Shanxi area. Then, a second-line unit of about 30,000 people of the Ludong Military Region of the Baath Party was stationed at all major passes from Zhili to Shanxi. In this way, an encirclement to the southwest of the city of Beijing was completely formed.

At this point, Gao Yingxiang still hasn't completely recognized the reality that his retreat has been broken. Then he's a little too stupid.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, if the people of this era had not received the education and transformation of the Baath Party, and had not lived under the rule of the Baath Party, it would have been difficult for anyone to understand what kind of organization the Baath Party was.

Ming bureaucrats such as Sun Yuanhua and Lu Xiangsheng misjudged the Baath Party at the beginning, feudal hegemonic forces like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong did not understand the Baath Party clearly at the beginning, and Gao Yingxiang, the grass emperor, of course, did not understand what was going on with the Baath Party.

Gao Yingxiang used his own experience to look at the Baath Party, so he felt that as long as he gave the emperor's laurel to the Baxing Party and paid a fat amount of money to the Baath Party, then his small plan to flee back to Shaanxi to become a separatist force seemed to have a great chance of success.

After all, years of interaction with the Baath Party made Gao Yingxiang feel that the Baath Party was a mercenary villain.

Therefore, when the main forces of the two revival armies in the northwest and southwest continued to shrink the encirclement and gradually put the deadly sling on Gao Yingxiang in Beijing, Gao Yingxiang launched an action in Beijing that no one could have imagined.

He suddenly attacked the civil officials and nobles of the former Ming Dynasty who had taken refuge in his allegiance to him, and tortured and interrogated them very cruelly. Raided the homes of the bureaucrats and tycoons in Beijing.

Gao Yingxiang's approach, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong both understood what it was for.

For Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, Gao Yingxiang's hand can be said to be the first to be pioneered by the two. The "torture" of the rich was a preparation for a deal with the Ba'ath Party.

Gao Yingxiang didn't want to take out the treasures in the Forbidden City and use them for trading, which itself could be understood by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, who were rich in wealth because of such a process.

In April 1632, at the headquarters of the Second Army of the Central Plains of the Renaissance Army, the commander-in-chief of the legion, the political commissar Luo Kedi, and the main members of the legion team were receiving a stranger.

I saw that as soon as this person entered the barracks of the headquarters, he knelt on the ground cleanly, and then said loudly:

"Li Yan, the squire of the Dashun Household Department, is willing to serve the king!"