In the next three days, Yang Chengying's main focus was on Chongzhen's funeral.

Due to the tense situation, it is impossible to be as grand as in peacetime.

Two days of preparation, one day of funeral.

The day after the event, August 15, the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Yang Cheng should set up a banquet outside the Imperial Palace, and invite the old and new ministers to the banquet.

The first is to reward them for their hard work these days, and the second is to appease those old ministers and let them gradually adapt to their new positions.

As before, the dragon chair was empty, and Yang Chengying sat on the side of the dragon chair.

As soon as the banquet started, Hong Chengchou's recital was delivered.

Yang Chengying opened it and looked at it, and was immediately happy.

Hong Chengchou devoted 3,000 words to a detailed description of the Datong Mutiny and the performance of all parties.

At the end of the article, he wrote a story he had heard.

Hong Chengchou didn't scribble, but came prepared.

"Mr. Fan, look at what Hong Chengchou said in the military intelligence recital."

Yang Chengying handed over the 3,000-character recital to Cao Huachun, who transferred it to Fan Wencheng.

is also a top Wenchen, Fan Wencheng should know the twists and turns of this.

After reading it, Fan Wencheng smiled: "In my opinion, Lord Hong mainly said three things in the song!"

After handing the song to Zhang Cunren at the adjacent table, he continued: "The first thing, the majority of the Datong soldiers are devoted to His Highness, and it is not Jiang Huang's work alone. The second thing, he decided to rest for a few days and go south, and the third and most important thing, to ask for help!"

Zhang Cunren was a halfway monk who was a scholar, and he couldn't understand some words, so he handed them directly to Dolgon, who was at the head of the next one.

Dolgon had no choice but to let the inner supervisor hand it to me.

Ning Wan glanced at me and said, "That makes sense!"

Zu Dashou couldn't hold back his curiosity, got up and looked at it for a while, and shook his head: "Profound!"

The reason why I feel esoteric is that Hong Chengchou only talks about the results of the investigation and does not analyze them.

On the face of it, he has no position. But between the lines, there is a tendency, constantly hinting that the world can be established.

"Li Zicheng retreated to Yuci, and the squire of Yuci took advantage of Yuci County to order Xiao Heng to go out of the city to greet him, and actually closed the gate."

Ning Wan said, "Combined with what happened in various places, it can be seen that Li Zicheng's control over the local area is very weak, and he is already at the end of his strength."

As he spoke, he got up and asked the inner supervisor to take the map in his hand and unfold it, pointing to the map and saying:

"Yuci is located in the southeast of Taiyuan, and the distance between the two places is only sixty miles, and Li Zicheng is so embarrassed, which shows the weakness of his rule.

If you don't take advantage of this great opportunity, you will march into Taiyuan. Let Li Zicheng recover, and he will be a strong opponent again."

"Having said that, Lee's defeat was deep, not a military defeat in the simple sense of the word."

Yang Chengying said: "We should see how terrifying the local squire's ability to manipulate the place is, and they dare to close the city and prevent Li Zicheng from entering."

Many people summed up the lessons of Li Zicheng's defeat and always blamed corruption, degeneration, and other factors, as if this was a common problem of the peasant army.

Analyzing from facts, the fundamental reason for Li Zicheng's failure was actually the failure to establish a new set of order.

Although the military has won, the local construction is about nothing.

"Uniform land and production" occurs only in a few areas, and most of the areas are in a situation where the old order is destroyed and the new order is not established.

This is very troublesome.

For example, the first thing that comes to the mind of a landless person after the physical extermination of the landlord is to take possession of the land.

Everyone must have thought that the peasants must be grateful to Li Zicheng, and he helped them drive out the landlords.

But anyone with a little life experience knows one thing, and that is how ruthless the local struggle is for land and water.

The head was broken and bleeding, and even died on the spot.

And there was no one to stop it.

Will the people who get the land be grateful to Li Zicheng?

No

Yes!

They will only feel that the land was grabbed by themselves, so why should they be grateful to Li Zicheng.

On the contrary, the people who did not grab the land hated Li Zicheng very much.

Because it was Li Zicheng who harmed them, they didn't even have the opportunity to work for the landlords, and they were forced to starve to death in the countryside.

What's worse is Li Zicheng's handcuff policy, which is unrestrained.

Because of the defeat of the war, there is still a tendency to expand, otherwise there is no place for military spending.

This is tantamount to offending both the upper and lower levels.

"Mr. Fan, is there any arrangement for the list of officials at all levels sent to Shaanxi and Shanxi?" Yang Chengying asked.

Fan Wencheng said, "It's all arranged. It's just that there may not be enough land surveyors."

"Arrange them in a way that brings the old with the new." Yang Seungying said, "Start with the Gyeonggi area and expand to the surrounding areas."

"Yes."

"In addition, the herald ordered Yue Zhen and Zhang Hongmo, who were stationed in Zhending Mansion, to temporarily assign Hong Chengchou to command the army to enter Shanxi, attack Taiyuan, seize Tongguan, and approach Shaanxi!"

"Yes!"

The person who responded was Zu Dashou, and the Privy Council was in charge of military dispatch.

Yang Chengying raised his glass and said, "Starting tomorrow, Gyeonggi and Shandong will complete the land conquest and division of all land, laying the foundation for local work."

At the same time, in the name of the regent, three major laws were promulgated.

The first is the abolition of slavery law, each family is not allowed to keep slaves, and if there is, it must also re-enter into an employment relationship. If there is a violation, it will be ordered to be corrected within three months, otherwise the family property will be confiscated and the family will all be mined.

The second is the reclamation law, which rewards the reclamation of wasteland, and the reclaimed area is recognized, but the clan land reclaimed in the name of the family is not recognized.

The third is to change the name of Tianfa, where the army has not arrived, the land obtained by the people, mainly the ownerless wasteland, etc., will be recognized after detailed screening by the army, and the title deed will be issued.

Industrial primitive accumulation was bloody, brutal, and came at a great cost.

Since there is a price to pay, let the beneficiaries of the old order pay.

The Mid-Autumn Festival banquet was the first time that the old ministers had a close look at the new regime, and they were immediately full of panic.

Redividing the land and abolishing slavery, this is not the second Li Zicheng!

No, it's even more terrifying than Li Zicheng.

He has an army of absolute loyalty, and a large number of officers with experience in governance.

Xue Guoguan thought to himself, hey! I just ask the court in Jiangnan to come quickly and save us from fire and water.

News came from Jiangnan that the old ministers of the Ming Dynasty who stayed in Yingtian were discussing who would inherit the throne of the Son of Heaven and revitalize the Ming Dynasty.

After the Ming Dynasty moved its capital to Beijing, it left six divisions in Nanjing in case of emergency.

However, it has not been used for so many years, and it has always been considered a "nursing home".

When I really needed it, I found that it was not good.

The nominally most powerful person in Nanjing was Shi Kefa, who had just been promoted to the post of secretary of the Nanjing Military Department this summer.

Shi Kefa, the word constitution, the number of neighbors. Born in the thirtieth year of Wanli (1602), Chongzhen was promoted to the first in the second year of Jinshi and served as the governor of Xi'an.

He has partnered with Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, and Hong Chengchou, mainly in charge of logistics.

In addition to the lack of actual experience in leading troops, Shi Kefa is still a person who has no ideas, and the bad things after that will be bad on this.