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Zheng Kezhang knew that the basis of his rule was the economy, so after the Wuding Dynasty initially stabilized its rule in Jiangnan, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other places, the first thing he ordered to proceed was to clear the land and household registration. Of course, the purpose of clearing the land was not to emulate the policy of granting land without compensation in Dongning, but to quickly accumulate a large number of official lands directly under the Ming and Zheng regimes by confiscating the property of the "traitor" family.

This staggering amount of official land has a total of three uses. First, it was enshrined to Zheng Kezhang as a direct source of income for the inner court, and in the future, when the Zheng family opened the country, the princes and princesses should be allocated from it. As a result, the amount accounted for almost half of all the confiscated land, and Zheng Kezhang continued to order a large number of mountains and forests to be used as royal villages.

The second is to serve as a fief of the lord. Zheng Kezhang actually didn't want to implement the division within the scope of the big 6, but at present, the overseas colonial governor's mansion is not a climate, if he only directly divides the heroes into the past, it will not be a reward but exile, so he can only compromise to give the Yongye Tian and Yongye Lin that have been passed down from generation to generation. In view of the fact that Yongye Tian and Yongye Lin are exempt from land endowment, in order to avoid further losses in national taxation, all the fiefs of the Shijue are not large, usually a third-class uncle only has 1,000 acres of fields and 3,000 acres of mountains and forests, and the highest first-class marquis is only 100 acres of fields and 1,000 acres of mountains and forests.

In addition to the use of the above two parts, these confiscated official fields will continue to be distributed to the meritorious people in accordance with the policy of the Dongning period. The so-called meritorious people naturally refer to the officers and soldiers who participated in the Zheng army in various periods, including dignitaries of all ranks. However, since the bulk of the confiscation has been taken away by Zheng Kezang himself, the land allocated to these meritorious people also includes the wasteland originally controlled by the government, which is quite large due to the war, and it is not easy to distribute. Of course, in order to reflect the difference between the meritorious people and the ordinary people, and to encourage them to join the army, these meritorious people were exempted from land endowments for 30 years.

Because Zheng Fan was exempted from the poll tax at the beginning, and now he has lost a large amount of land tax, Zheng Kezhang can only focus on the industrial and commercial (salt and iron) industry. To this end, on the one hand, he personally operated the production of silk reeling, weaving, iron smelting, porcelain, lacquerware, paper, sugar, wine and other commodities in the inner court, and on the other hand, in order to encourage private exhibitions of industry and commerce, Zheng Fan also adopted policies such as reducing the tax rate, canceling all banknotes in the territory, abolishing the Jiangnan Three Weaving Manufacturing, acquiescing in the merger of large households, and prohibiting official and buying.

Maritime trade and tariff revenues were the key to maintaining the Ming and Zheng regime's fiscal insolvencies at this stage.

According to Zheng Kezang's instructions, after the Lianzhou Prefecture in Guangdong was transferred to Guangxi, the coastal provinces had five major foreign trade ports, Qinzhou, Guangzhou, Xiamen-Quanzhou, Ningbo, and Songjiang, and Wenzhou, Xinghua, Penghu, and Leizhou were also open to Thai and Western merchants. In addition, Zheng Kezhang also opened up trade with Japan and Korea, and although the loss of the franchise caused a lot of losses to the inner and outer domains, it promoted the sale of ships and the further prosperity of the coastal economy

In February of the fourth year of Wuding, Zheng Ming, Marquis of Ningyang, passed away, and before his death, Zheng Ming asked Zheng Kezhang to pardon Zheng Zhi and others who were living in Japan. But something unexpected happened, and the envoys who went to Japan to recall Zheng Zhi and others did not bring them back, but instead came envoys from the shogunate.

The shogunate hated the widespread sale of hibiscus in Japan, which caused a considerable number of mid- and high-ranking samurai to languish and a large outflow of gold and silver. Yoshiho Yanagisawa, who was in charge of the shogunate, ordered the confiscation of the opium paste contained in the "Tang Ships" at the same time as he categorically declared a ban on smoking houses, but Japan had to send an envoy to explain the problem in view of the importance of Sino-Japanese trade. In addition, the Japanese side also mentioned several issues of great concern to wealthy merchants in Kansai, such as the reduction of silk prices and the repayment of mature loans. In this regard, although Zheng Kezhang was very angry with the Japanese side's practice of detaining Zheng Zhi and others, he could only endure it when the Qing court had not yet surrendered defeat and Sino-Japanese trade was in full swing. Immediately, Prime Minister Fanyang's Yamen for International Affairs was ordered to launch protracted negotiations with Japan

In April of the 35th year of Kangxi's reign, after receiving the first batch of 100,000 stone rice funded by North Korea, the Qing army, which had sufficient military rations, crossed the Yalu River with 25,000 banner troops under the command of Wang Nerfu of Doropyeong, and went straight to Pyongyang through Uiju. The Korean army was caught off guard and lost ground one after another, and in just over half a month, the Qing army, which was like a bamboo, had already reached the bank of the Han River.

At this time, the Korean side was already in a panic, and the king of the dynasty, Yi Yong, first fled to Ganghwa Island, and then fled to Gyeongju because he felt that it was not very safe. The parliamentary government that remained in Seoul sent envoys to the Qing army one after another to beg for mercy, but the Qing army ignored them and had no choice but to summon soldiers and horses from all walks of life. However, the previous army had been disbanded, and it was impossible to recall it immediately during the spring farming season, and the guards in various places lacked confidence in the face of the fierce Qing army, so the army of King Qin was delayed.

Seeing that the Qing army was about to cross the Han River, the North Korean side rushed to Jeju Island with a rush of envoys, hoping to completely cede Jeju in exchange for the Zheng Domain's troops. However, the envoys were still on the way, and the Qing army had already captured Seoul, and wantonly raped and plundered in the city, plundering all the savings of the Korean royal government for nearly a hundred years to Beijing.

Hearing that the Qing army sent troops to Korea, Zheng Kezang, who was worried about the defense of the unfinished Huai River defense line, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Therefore, Zheng Kezhang took advantage of this gap to fine-tune the existing 6th Division system again.

Under the new system, a class is 11 students; A team of thirty-five people; Each sentry had two infantry squads, one white (grenadier) squad, and a squad of fireheads, all of which numbered one hundred and twenty men; The regimental level was also reduced to only three outposts and one detachment of guards, totaling 425 men; three regiments and one artillery outpost formed brigades, each with 1,450 men; With the three brigades and artillery corps, the Artillery Corps, and the Middle Base Regiment each one, and one part of the Chinese Army organized into divisions, each division was about 6,000 men.

As far as field troops are concerned, the increase in the strength of the reorganized divisions is naturally a good thing, and the command of the regiment (brigade) at the outpost level has been strengthened, which is conducive to wartime scheduling. As far as the local Zhenrong troops are concerned, an additional level of command has been divided, which is also convenient for them to arrange local garrisons and dispatch troops in the vicinity.

In addition to the reorganization of the ranks, Zheng Kezhang also demobilized at least 3,000 Dongning veterans with the rank of lieutenant and below the rank of Zhengbapin Xiuwu and an equal number of Fujian provincial soldiers, and these demobilized veterans will be assigned to Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Jianghuai, and Zhili as meritorious people, along with the disabled in previous battles, to serve as the backbone of Zheng Fan's local affairs, so that Zheng Fan's local stability can be maintained after the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, it will take time for the troops to be adjusted, but the fighting in Hunan and other places has not stopped because of this. In order to undermine the enemy's economic base, in April, Hong Gongzhu and Mao Hongyan repeatedly launched small-scale attacks along the Yuan River and Zishui, and at the same time, the Red Single Boat of the Yangtze River Fleet of the Zheng Army's Naval Division, which entered the Dongting Lake and Jingjiang sections, also repeatedly threatened Lizhou.

Forced by the threat of Zheng's army cutting off the water transportation of the Yangtze River and breaking into the Lishui, Sige, who had retreated to Lizhou, had to continue to retreat across the Yangtze River. It was precisely because of the retreat of the four grids that the Sang Forehead Department fell into an isolated and helpless situation, and it happened that at this time, the governor of Guizhou, Gartu, once again asked for reinforcements to enter Guizhou to help suppress the anti-Qing rebel army, so Sang Er withdrew from the Yuping line into the Guizhou realm, and Hunan fell into the hands of Zheng Fan.

Although Hunan changed hands, the Tusi in western Hunan and southwestern Hubei had not yet returned to submission, so Hong Gongzhu and Mao Hongyan agreed to use one section to go north to the public security to control the southern Jingnan region, and confront the Shanahai and Sige departments across the Yangtze River, and the main force was Yuan and Chen to rest and recuperate, so as to suppress the Miao and Yi ethnic groups, and peep into eastern Sichuan and northern Qianbei.

But Mao Hongyan didn't expect that his stagnation on the Hunan and Guizhou borders caused the Guizhou rebels, who were already in full swing, to suffer great losses. The Qing troops transferred back from Guangxi, together with the Sange Division, went on a killing spree in Guizhou, killing almost the entire Guizhou into white ground. The rebels from all walks of life, who were shocked by the atrocities of the Qing army, had to withdraw to eastern and southern Sichuan, and some fled into Yunnan Province to join the local rebels, and some ventured over the mountains to join the Zheng army

The change of hands in Guangxi alarmed the Zheng lord of Thang Long, and the Zheng lord, who was already directly bordering the Ming Zheng side, hurriedly sent envoys to Nanjing for the pilgrimage. Due to the fact that the rulers of the two countries had the same surname, the Annan and Northern dynasties were keen to get the support of Zheng Kezang so that the Zheng dynasty could unify the whole of Annam. For this reason, Zheng Gentian, the king of Dingnan, who was old enough to become Zheng Kezang's uncle, shamelessly called himself a nephew on the worship table, hoping to win Zheng Kezang's favor.

Zheng Kezhang deserves to be ashamed of Lord Zheng's shamelessness, but the cheapness of the title is not enough for Zheng Kezhang to pay a big price to support the other party. Therefore, in accordance with Zheng Kezang's will, the Prime Minister Fanyang Foreign Affairs Yamen proposed two prerequisites for assistance to the envoys of Lord Zheng. The first condition was the cession of the coastal area of Hai Duong, which would later be named Hung Kai, which would be directly incorporated into the Lien Chau province; The second condition was that the Zheng dynasty was required to waive the additional fee of 1,000 taels per ship that Chinese merchants were forced to pay when they came to trade in northern Annam. As a compensation for Zheng's economic losses, the Ming and Zheng regimes could sell firearms such as bird guns, Hongyi cannons, and tiger squat cannons and gunpowder to Zheng Zhu at low prices.

Considering the absolute hegemony of Zheng's naval division in Northeast Asia, and the Ming and Zheng sides clearly promised to help transport Zheng's army around the "Great Wall" defense line in Zheng's war against Ruan Zhu in the future, the envoy representing Zheng felt that such a price was acceptable. In this way, on April 11 of that year, the all-powerful envoy of the Zheng Dynasty signed the "Treaty of the Princely Domain" in Nanjing, and Zheng Kezhang seized a huge treasure.

In fact, the significance of the "C-Zi Treaty" is not only that he obtained a coal mine with amazing reserves, but more importantly, Zheng Kezhang obtained the power to intervene in the affairs of Annam, and Zheng Gen did not realize that it was precisely because he called Zheng Kezhang his nephew that Zheng Kezhang had an ethical basis for interfering in the succession to the throne of the Zheng Dynasty and then annexing the Zheng Dynasty.

After the Zheng Dynasty was dealt with, the situation in North Korea also underwent new changes. Kangxi, who did not want to rule Korea directly, finally agreed to receive the Korean envoy after obtaining a large amount of gold and silver supplies. After the Korean envoy swore an oath to heaven and admitted defeat, the Qing army increased the number of annual tributes to 500 taels of gold, 30,000 taels of silver, 5,000 taels of cloth, and 200,000 stones of rice on the basis of the original annual annual tribute of 100 taels of gold, 1,000 taels of silver, 200 horses of white ramie, 2,000 horses of various colors, 400 horses of fine linen of various colors, 10,000 taels of fine cloth, and 10,000 bags of rice. How could the North Korean side, which was already meat on the chopping block, refuse to accept it and could only agree to pay, and thus the second "indiscriminate rebellion" (the so-called "propylene disorder" by the North Korean side finally came to an end.

The aftermath of the second "Bingzi Rebellion" had not yet subsided, and the Qing army had not completely withdrawn from Korea, and a great chaos began in Korea.

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