Forbidden City, Wuying Palace.

"Your Majesty, if these bandits don't hurt them, they won't be obedient." Gu Junen, as Li Zicheng's mastermind, has become more and more stable. At present, Niu Jinxing is busy ascending to the throne, Tian Jianxiu and Song Xiance are busy chasing stolen goods and torturing them, and Li Zicheng's strategic problem is mainly to seek Gu Junen's opinion.

"You mean, send Liu Fangliang to fight?" Li Zicheng frowned: "Right now, Wu Sangui occupies Yongping Mansion and is clamoring to come to fight Beijing. Among the 60,000 people in Beijing, there are still many Zhu Dynasty troops, if Liu Fangliang is not transferred back, how can he go east to conquer Wu Sangui? ”

Gu Junen said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the city of Beijing has thick walls and a red-clothed cannon gate, so it should be on the defensive. Da Ke sent the Cihou army to the south, collect Jiangnan, and respond to Huguang. Once the south of the Yangtze River and Huguang are recovered, there will be abundant silver and grain, and then the whole country will attack a corner of Liao Town, which can be described as perfect. ”

Li Zicheng couldn't help but pace it. Niu Jinxing also persuaded him to ascend to the great ceremony first, obtain the name of righteousness, and then run Gyeonggi Qin and Jin, and attack Huguang Jiangnan...... However, seeing that there is only one elite soldier left in the world, Guan Ning, if it can be extinguished, there will be no possibility of a resurgence of the remnants. Jiangnan and Huguang can also be passed on, and he himself can leave Beijing with confidence. In his opinion, Xijing is a more suitable place to rule the world and live, at least in terms of language, it is more intimate.

"Your Majesty," Gu Junen saw Li Zicheng's hesitation, and said, "If Guanning is really pacified, I am afraid that we will have to divide our troops to defend it, and there will be insufficient troops for the south." ”

Li Zicheng's brows furrowed even tighter, and he asked, "How is the recovery of stolen goods in the city now?" ”

Gu Junen replied: "The minister has never been involved in this matter, but I heard that there are millions of taels the day before yesterday." ”

Li Zicheng stretched his brows and said, "I still have to level Wu Sangui first!" Otherwise, when he gains a firm foothold in the pass, it will be more troublesome to fight the four cities of Yongping. If he is acquainted with each other, I will give him a guard in Liaodong. but he must be reduced to a duke, and he must not be crowned king. ”

Gu Junen knew that this was Li Zicheng's concern that it would be difficult to balance within the Dashun army. If Wu Sangui and other generals can be crowned kings, wouldn't Liu Zongmin and Tian Jianxiu, who started with Li Zicheng, also have to be crowned kings? If you only crown Duke Wu Sangui, it will be enough to give those Hou Bo heavy generals to the first rank - it is still taboo to be crowned king with a different surname after all.

"And I still have two things on my mind that I can't let go." After Li Zicheng returned to the imperial case, he said slowly: "One is the abolition of Emperor Zhu Youzhen. If he arrives in Nanjing, he will still have the soldiers of Jiangzhen in his hands. Coupled with the strong army under Prince Zhu, it made me feel uneasy. The other was the capture of Manchuria. When the slave chieftain Huang Taiji died last year, they set up a six-year-old boy named Fulin, who is now the fourteenth son of the old chieftain Nurhachi, Dorgon, who is in power. ”

Li Zicheng paused and continued: "When we first conquered Shanxi, this Dolgon sent a letter from the Ordos Department to Yulinwei. Wang Liangzhi (Wang Genzi) sent a letter to me, which clearly stated that he would work together with me, take the Central Plains, and share the wealth. This reminds me of when Huang Taiji was not dead. Every time we meet our people from the customs, they are kind to each other, sometimes they give food to horses, and there is never a fight. In this way, it seems that these Manchurian Tatars are not worried about Han for a day or two.

"In the past two days, I thought about it, just thinking about the abolition of the emperor and the title of king of Wu Sangui, and suddenly figured it out: I am afraid that the abolished emperor has long known that the Manchurian Tatars have the meaning of infiltrating the world, and Wu Sangui is not afraid that he will surrender to me. Instead, he was afraid that he would abandon the gate and let the Manchurians in! ”

It was the first time Gu Junen had heard of this. Guessing that Li Zicheng didn't take Dolgon's letter to heart, so he didn't take it out for discussion. But that Dolgon is really delusional, does the world still need him to "conspire together"? The Dashun army is powerful, and it is only a matter of time to mix with one Yu, where will it be his turn to get a piece of the pie.

Li Zicheng continued: "If I don't take Guanning first, in case the Manchurian Tartars break through the border wall from Mongolia again. Attacking the west of Beijing, the army was nailed to Beijing and could not move, how to resist it? In case of any event, Wu Sangui ate inside and out, and made an appointment with the Manchurian Tartars to fight with something. The abolished emperor echoes in the south, can this Beijing city still be defended? ”

Only then did Gu Junen know that Li Zicheng was worried in his heart, and he also muttered: "There are also allusions to borrowing foreign soldiers from Tibet in the Tang Dynasty, and it is indeed impossible not to prevent Wu Sangui from making peace with Dongyu. ”

Li Zicheng said: "This is the reason why I insist on beating Wu Sangui first. There is no need to hit Quang Ninh, as long as the Shanhaiguan is defeated and guarded by our people, at least there is no need to worry about being beaten at both ends. ”

Gu Junen pondered for a while, put forward a compromise plan, and said: "Your Majesty, if you let Cihou lead 10,000 troops south, you should be able to fight against the remnants of the Ming army." According to the information obtained by Gu Junen, there is almost no Ming army in Shandong now, and there is no Ming army south of Beijing until Xuzhou.

The Ming army guard was an old acquaintance, and it was Gao Jie who fled all the way from Shanxi to Hebei, and then fled into Shandong, and Zuihou fled to Xuzhou. With such a frightened bird and thousands of remnants, Liu Fangliang led 10,000 people to wipe it out.

Li Zicheng thought for a while and said: "That's fine, see where Liu Fangliang can hit, and transfer the elite to Beijing first." The matter of the Eastern Crusade cannot be delayed, and Wu Sangui cannot be allowed to grow stronger again. ”

Gu Junen came out in response.

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"Your family hasn't registered yet? If you don't go, you'll lose a lot! ”

"What's the haode in that account? Maybe we're going to recruit people again. ”

"What are you recruiting! You don't know? The holy decree has been posted to the village, the emperor is now in Shandong, and all the conscription in the province is exempted! In the future, it will all be hired laborers, and wages will be paid! The government also treats people according to their household registrations, giving land, grain, and seeds. One less person in your family, one less piece of land! Qiantun is thinking about how to report more, but your family is still hiding it? ”

"Really?"

"You're a man...... Why don't you believe it? The daughter-in-law of the Qiantun Zhao Shishi family just gave birth to a girl, and she went to get a household registration on the same day, and this time she was also allocated one acre and three points of land, which is the same as giving birth to a male baby! ”

"How much money does it cost to get an account?"

"The government has a bag, and I don't want a penny!"

"Huh? Then I'll go check it out, too. ”

"Bring more dry food, there are too many people waiting in line at the entrance of the yamen to get a hukou." The neighbor yawned and said, "I've been in line for three days." ”

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In the Ming Dynasty system, military households were not counted as Dingkou. The land under the jurisdiction of the guard, including the tuntian and the private land in the area under its jurisdiction, is also not counted in the grain book of the household department. This led to the collapse of the health post system, and the military land became private land, but no taxes were paid. Military households went bankrupt and became tenant farmers, and instead of enjoying the military salaries allocated by the state, they had to bear the land rent.

The resulting population and land are hidden, and the amount is completely unimaginable to Zhu Cihong.

"The abolition of Weili County starts with Lingshanwei!" Zhu Cihong announced at the administrative work conference.

Lingshanwei is a typical solid earth guard, that is, a guard who owns land.

According to the design of Emperor Taizu Gao, the guard is not a simple military institution, but an administrative system with military characteristics. The general administrative system of the Ming Dynasty is the six ministries of the state, the county-government, the state-the political envoy, the Zhili government, and the state-the central government. The health system is the thousand-household office of the Wei and Zhili Divisions - the Capital Division, the Xingdu Division, and the Zhili Wei - the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

The health office not only has the power to manage military households and civilian households in the jurisdiction, but also has jurisdiction over cases involving military households. With the skill of Zhang Juzheng, the famous minister of Wanli, Qingzhang Tianmu and combing people are only limited to the general administrative system, and have not touched the health system. During the Shunzhi period, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had not yet unified the whole country, just because of the abolition of the guards, the cultivated land area exceeded the number of acres of cultivated land in the country in the 30th year of Wanli.

Considering that the 30th year of Wanli was the peak period of the Ming Dynasty, and during the years of Chongzhen and Shunzhi, due to natural disasters and military disasters, the phenomenon of cultivated land abandonment was serious.

With this entry and exit, you can see what a terrible number the land under the jurisdiction of Wei is!

There are two good reasons why Zhu Cihong started from Lingshanwei.

First, Lingshanwei is located in Jiaozhou Bay. Jiaozhou Bay is the largest ice-free port in Shandong, located in the southern part of the Shandong Peninsula, and the materials transported from the south of the Yangtze River are mainly landed at the mouth of Qingdao.

Second, Lingshanwei and Fushan Qiansuo are the main part of Qingdao City in the future, locking the entire Jiaozhou Bay.

The significance of Qingdao to Shandong, and even to the entire eastern coast, as long as anyone who has read the map of China cannot be indifferent. For such a key area, Zhu Cihong naturally spared no effort to bring it under control and develop. (To be continued......)

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