"The army of the Ming Dynasty, under the leadership of Wu Sangui of Pingxi Bo and Li Yutian, the governor of Liaodong, withdrew into the Guannei, and the general army of Tongshan Customs surrendered to the Dashun regime.

The Tartars of the Qing court took the opportunity to send Prince Zheng and Jilharang to collect the areas outside the Guan.

This led to a confrontation between the Dashun regime and the Qing regime.

Moreover, the remnants of the Ming Dynasty controlled Jianghuai, and the rest was that the Great Western Army was still on its way into Sichuan, intending to occupy the entire Sichuan and Shu. ”

Qin Zuoming paused: "Daxi is a potential fourth force competing for the world. ”

Wang Zhaolin said at this time: "We know this, so we don't need you to say more." ”

"It's been so long, so I'll get down to business." Qin Zuoming stretched out his finger and said:

"In the spring and early summer of this year, the Dashun army was invincible, occupying Beijing and many other areas.

The people of this area were ecstatic and welcomed the fear.

Even the gentry and landlords, except for a very small number of loyal to the Zhu Ming Dynasty, the vast majority of them believed that the Ming Dynasty was exhausted and turned to the Dashun regime. ”

Li Dingguo's head is headed, for a long time, people have been influenced by the concept of "the winner is the king, and the loser is the villain", and this situation is extremely normal.

"The king of Daxi should not think that the official gentry and landlords have always been in an incompatible position with the Dashun regime, which is not entirely correct."

"What's wrong?"

Zhang Xianzhong believes that there is nothing wrong with the two sides being incompatible.

Their policy was to strike at the gentry and landlords, protect the interests of the peasants, and plunder more property for themselves.

In a word, whoever has money will rob whomever it is.

Qin Zuoming further explained: "Although some Ming Dynasty officials rushed to take refuge first, hoping to be among the heroes of the emerging Dashun Dynasty;

Although some people are skeptical and afraid, they are forced by the situation to follow the crowd.

In short, before the Dashun army was defeated by the Qing army, a large number of civil and military generals among the Han officials and gentry took defection to the Dashun regime as the only way out.

It was impossible to take refuge in the Qing regime, which was dominated by Tatar aristocrats in Liaodong, whose language and customs were very different. ”

Zhang Xianzhong knew that Li Zicheng was defeated by the Tartars outside the gate and escaped from Beijing, so he was not very afraid of Li Zicheng.

"Why did the common people and many gentry choose to surrender to Dashun instead of the Tatar Qing Dynasty?"

Qin Zuoming stretched out his finger and said: "That is, in the hearts of ordinary people, there are two ways to destroy the country and the world. ”

"Is there a difference between the death of the country and the death of the world?" Wang Zhaolin immediately raised questions.

Zhang Xianzhong still cares about Wang Zhaolin, a scholar, and he doesn't say anything when he sees him asking questions for himself.

"Of course there's a difference, and it's big." Qin Zuoming looked at Zhang Xianzhong and said: "The surname Yi has been changed, which means that the country has died;

Benevolence and righteousness are congested, and as for leading beasts to eat people. People will eat each other, which is called the death of the world.

Those who defend the country are their kings and ministers, and those who eat meat seek them;

Those who protect the world are cheap, and they are responsible! ”

Wang Zhaolin was trying to remember who said this.

Li Dingguo bowed slightly, Zhang Xianzhong pinched his forehead and said, "I don't understand." ”

So that the king knew that in the eyes of the Han gentry, the replacement of the Ming Dynasty by the Dashun regime was just a "change of surname".

The struggle of the Zhu Ming Dynasty was a matter of "meat eaters" such as clans, imperial relatives, and hereditary lords, and had little to do with ordinary officials, gentlemen, and people. ”

Qin Zuoming then explained: "And the Tatars entered Beijing and entered the Central Plains, the principle is that "being sent to the left" (shaving the head and reforming) is "dying in the world";

The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband, and we should all rise up and resist! ”

"Are you saying that no matter whether Daxi and Li Zicheng's Dashun, or even Nanming, whoever fights for the world must first destroy the foreign Tartars?"

"Exactly." Qin Zuoming nodded seriously:

Therefore, Li Zicheng occupied Beijing, not only the people welcomed him, but only 20 of the two or three thousand officials of the Ming Dynasty in Beijing committed suicide for the Ming Dynasty, and the others all surrendered to Dashun.

At this point, the Ming Dynasty troops north of the Qinling Mountains and the Huai River had all been absorbed by Li Zicheng, and all the places except Liaodong were taken over by the Dashun regime. ”

"But Li Zicheng and he lost!"

Wang Zhaolin's face was ugly, he had read a lot of books, but he really didn't remember where Qin Zuoming's extremely reasonable words came from.

He is a serious reader of eight books, and he is not as knowledgeable as a bandit.

It really annoyed him.

Li Dingguo was secretly surprised, could it be that "Liu Huaqiang" was the only bandit in the entire Sichuan who had a good reading education?

How else could he have this insight?

What Fang just said in the hall can be understood as Liu Huaqiang repeating the appeal of the head of the Liu family.

But now, Li Dingguo believes that these words are all up to him Liu Huaqiang's own ability.

Zhang Xianzhong glanced at Qin Zuoming, worthy of being a person from a big dog family.

Everyone is a bandit, and you are so knowledgeable and knowledgeable, you have to think of a way to keep him and use it for me!

"Does the Great West King know why Li Zicheng was defeated?"

"Tell me."

Qin Zuoming raised his eyebrows slightly, whether it was Li Zicheng or Zhang Xianzhong.

On the three basic issues of "whom to unite," "whom to fight," and "how to do it," it can be said that they are all extremely unqualified.

"After Li Zicheng broke through Beijing and destroyed the Ming Dynasty, the task before him was: how to gain a firm foothold and achieve the goal of one world."

Qin Zuoming picked up the teacup and blew: "This task actually depends on two points. ”

"Which two?"

Zhang Xianzhong is also very strange, with Li Zicheng's ability, he is very afraid, why he was defeated in the hands of the Tartars, and only lost one battle, he gave up a large area of land and population, and fled to Xi'an in embarrassment.

This puzzled him.

"First, Li Zicheng should realize that the Qing regime established by the Tatar aristocracy that arose in Liaodong was the main opponent in the struggle for the world with the Dashun regime.

He should strengthen the defense against Liaodong, which is the key to the survival of the nascent Dashun regime.

Second, under the circumstance that a large number of Han civil officials and military generals have fallen to themselves, the Dashun regime must make major adjustments in policy.

The area of attack should be narrowed as much as possible, and the area of attack should be changed from cracking down on the gentry and landlords to protecting their interests.

The two are interrelated. ”

"Why is it related?" Zhang Xianzhong was a little unconvinced.

The woman who eats big dogs, drinks big dogs, and sleeps with big dogs, that's what he Zhang Xianzhong has been doing.

Now the second stunned posterior in front of him actually wants to let himself protect the interests of these landlords and old rich people, and his ass is really sitting in the position of the Liu family!

Even Qin Zuoming had bought it at the Shu Wangfu for zero yuan yesterday, but in terms of the current historical environment,

To fight the world, we need to first solve the external enemy, and as for the internal system, we must have no external threat before we can do it.

Zhu Yuanzhang is a good example, after conquering the world, he will make the system and make people!

Whoever dares to disagree will be killed, and this is also a correct path that conforms to the historical conditions at that time.