Chapter 410

Sun Zhili is also a knowledgeable person, not in vain, Cheng Shijie just made a start, and he understood Cheng Shijie's true intentions.

At first glance, Zhao Kuangyin's "cup of wine to release military power" seems to be very chic and easy, which makes people really have the feeling of "talking and laughing, and the canopy is in ashes", it seems that it doesn't take much effort, and Zhao Kuangyin, who has a lot of skills, has done this thing that should have been very tricky.

But in fact, Zhao Kuangyin has paid a huge price for this, from the perspective of national or national interests, it should be said that Zhao Kuangyin was clever but was mistaken by cleverness, and "releasing military power with a glass of wine" was completely a major political failure for him, and it was the biggest political mistake he made in his life.

Here, not to mention that the "glass of wine to release the military power" will deprive a group of military generals who can fight well, let them stand aside, for the Great Song Empire, it is tantamount to cutting off one's own arm, self-mutilation, cocooning and self-restraint, the Song Dynasty's later bullying and ravaging by foreign people is completely related to this, just in terms of the generation of "wine to release military power", the consequences are really serious.

Think about it carefully, "a glass of wine to release military power" is actually a political game between Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin and the entire military general group, since it is a game, as either side of the game, it is naturally impossible for either party to have no profit and not pay the price. Obviously, in this political game, the price paid by the military generals group is to lose the "military power" in their hands, and this "military power" is certainly not lost in vain, but in exchange for the luxury and pleasure promised and rewarded by Emperor Zhao Kuangyin Chrysostom.

It was Zhao Kuangyin who issued a "corruption license" to the entire military general group. Because of the "corruption license" issued by the emperor himself, since then, the generals have been "justifiably" corrupt. According to historical records, almost all of Taizu's generals were greedy for money and lustful.

Ming Chengzu Zhu Di's strategy is almost the same as Zhao Kuangyin, Zhu Yuanzhang is an eloquent emperor, placed in all emperors, his ability is outstanding, especially the wisdom of knowing people, although Yan Wang Zhu Di has a good ability, Jing is difficult to succeed, the other eight Sai kings are not wine bags and rice bags, whether it is Ning Wang Zhu Quan, acting Wang Zhu Gui, Gu Wang Zhu Lu, Liao Wang Zhu Zhi, are all dragons and phoenixes among people, Yunwen Yunwu, if it is not for the accidental death of the prince Zhu Biao, even Zhu Di must be honest.

Zhu Di took the first step to destroy the helpers left by Zhu Yuanzhang for him, those vassal brothers, and later at the cost of corruption, in exchange for the military power of those vassal kings, in this way, Zhu Di is sitting firmly in the country, but let the Ming Dynasty be like the Great Song Dynasty, corruption has become a trend, and it has become a political atmosphere.

Sun Zhilan said with some surprise: "Your Majesty, even so, but now that the Jiannu army has been wiped out, and Huang Taiji has died, the nine border defense lines are ......."

"The pressure of the Nine Border Defense Line can be greatly weakened, it does not mean that there is no pressure, nor does it mean that the horse can be put into Nanshan, and the swords and soldiers are in storage!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Sun Zhili and said: "We have recaptured Beijing, but there are no concubines of Huang Taiji in Beijing, and there are no young children of Huang Taiji, including Daishan, Yue Tuo, Azig, Duoduo, the wives and concubines of their relatives and relatives are not in Beijing, have you ever wondered where they are?" ”

"Mobei?"

Cheng Shijie nodded and said: "It is very likely that the eldest son, second son and third son of Huang Taiji are dead, but the fourth and fifth sons should still be alive, Dai Shan and his eldest son Yue Tuo died, and the second son Shuo surrendered, but his third son also died, but his fourth, second, sixth, seventh, and eighth sons did not go south with the army, and there should be a great chance that they are still alive!" ”

"That's why the king ordered the third and fourth brigades to search for the remnants of Jiannu along the border?"

"It's just a pity, Huang Taiji's plan is superior, the third and fourth brigades did not find the real location of the remnants of Jiannu, Ben Shuai guessed, they should have fled, fled directly to Mobei, Mobei is big, several times larger than Monan, I am afraid it is not easy to find them!"

Cheng Shijie sighed and said: "Jinggi and the entire Beizhili, drought and little rain, it is difficult to grow grain at the moment, if you continue to use Beijing as the Ming Dynasty, the Ning Navy of Liaodong and its family members will be moved to Beijing, you will have to migrate dozens of millions of people to Beijing, so that the population of Beijing needs to consume a lot of food, Beizhili can not be self-sufficient in grain, can only transport grain from the south to Beijing, although the Ning Navy can take advantage of shipping, but the problem is that it is necessary to maintain the nine-border defense line, in Xuanfu East Road and Jizhou, Yongping Mansion is stationed in a large number of soldiers and horses! ”

Sun Zhilan sighed and said, "It's too difficult!" ”

"That's right!"

Cheng Shijie muttered: "Ben Shuai wants to move the capital to Liaodong, Liaodong has more advantages than Beijing, Liaodong is different from Beizhili, although the weather is cold, but there is no shortage of rain, at least drinking water is not a problem, the Ning Navy has a strong navy, the Liaodong Peninsula is within the scope of the naval guns of the Ning Navy, if there is no Beijing as the capital, the Great Wall defense line can be turned from passive to active, it only takes three or five years, even if you can't kill Jiannu, at least you can let Jiannu escape far away!" ”

Sun Zhili also knew that the current chaos in the Ming Dynasty had become a pot of porridge, especially the Guan Ning army on the Shanhaiguan side refused to surrender, and threatened to enter the customs again and set foot in Beijing, they also knew that the crimes they committed were unforgivable, even if they surrendered, it was only those ordinary soldiers who were pardoned, and the Liaoxi generals would never be able to escape, and there would be no wrongs after the retrial.

Therefore, they put on a posture of stubborn resistance to the end, wanting to scare Da Ming, bargain with Da Ming, and try to escape punishment. In response to them, the two armies of the Ning Navy approached step by step with a large number of heavy artillery, and the naval fleet had no way to fully encircle Shanhaiguan because of the ice in the Bohai Sea.

The second group of officials who went to Shanhaiguan to negotiate were expelled back, and Cheng Shijie saw that there was no shovel in the negotiations, so he told the Guanning Army in Shanhaiguan with a tougher attitude: There is no possibility of negotiation between the Ming Empire and the traitors of the Guanning Army, either surrender or wait to be crushed into powder!

Such a tough attitude has made the remnants of Guan Ningjun feel broken, is this still a Ming Dynasty? In the past, they made a fuss and bombed the camp to make the Beijing division shake, and the emperor was busy ordering appeasement, asking officials to officials, and asking for money to give money, but now they have put on a posture of fighting with the Ming Empire to the end, why are they waiting for them with a thunderous iron fist? It's not scientific!

Not only was Jiangnan chaotic, Guanzhong was also unstable, the Qin army of Li Zicheng's army after occupying Guanzhong, westward into Hexi, Gansu, Qinghai, and east, taking advantage of the Shanxi army and Dolgon's almost completely annihilated army, seized four of the five prefectures in Shanxi, even including Ningxia Prefecture, and seized the Hetao area instead.

Li Zicheng took advantage of the bloody battle between Cheng Shijie and the Qing army, but became the biggest winner, eating a mouth full of oil, Li Zicheng's biggest shortcoming is that there is no food, lack of capital for the confrontation between the two armies, but the small Nanjing court in the south of the Yangtze River is not all fools, they know that they can't defeat Cheng Shijie with their strength alone. If you don't want to wait for death, then you can only unite with Li Zicheng's Qin State Army.

Li Zicheng is short of food, they have food, the only problem is that the distance from Jiangnan to Guanzhong is too far, and there is no shipping channel, so it is very difficult to transport grain, however, they copied Cheng Shijie's operation, dismantled the wheels of the carriage, and transported grain to Guanzhong on the ice and snow in the way of a bloody boat.

In comparison, Guanzhong is calmer, Jiangnan is even more turbulent, and the scholars and gentry in Jiangnan probably feel that they are already dying and are staging apocalyptic madness.

They erected one emperor after another, established one country after another, sealed a bunch of big officials, and squandered the wealth accumulated in the south of the Yangtze River for two hundred years, completely ignoring the army of the Ming Empire in Shandong.

Jiangnan is the base camp of the Donglin Party again, these Donglin Party pens jumped up and down, buckled the basins on Cheng Shijie's head, frantically attacked Cheng Shijie's new policy, cursed everything related to Cheng Shijie, and tried their best to slander them, as if the hundreds of millions of Li people who chose Cheng Shijie and the Ming Dynasty were all wrong, only they were right, and the truth was on their side!

However, no matter how much they preached the correctness of the small court in the south of the Yangtze River and the great light of the gentlemen of Donglin, nothing would help.

Because the small imperial court in Jiangnan needed to transfuse blood to Guanzhong, and those gentry officials in Jiangnan were using this channel to make money crazily, Cheng Shijie sealed Wusongkou, that is, Jiangnan's outlet to the sea, which was equivalent to putting a dead buckle on Jiangnan's neck, and Jiangnan's economy, which relied on the textile industry and maritime trade, collapsed suddenly.

Previously, Xie Jinglin used the economic warfare methods learned from Cheng Shijie, as soon as the economic war came out, this hand played Jiangnan to death, I don't know how many people have lingering fears about the grain shortage in Jiangnan, and now they are horrified to find that as the small imperial court in Jiangnan began to support Guanzhong, a large amount of grain was consumed in transportation.

The common people have no food in their hands, panic in their hearts, and the quick-witted people flee to the Central Plains or Liangguang in panic, and those who react slowly can only enjoy the feeling of riding a roller coaster when the price of grain changes every day.

It only took a month, the price of grain in Jiangnan was 12 taels of silver and one stone of rice, not to mention ordinary people, even the well-off families with considerable savings could not hold on, they took out all their savings and rushed into the grain store to buy everything they could eat, trying to turn these metals into living materials before they turned into waste.

As a direct consequence of this, a huge amount of silver poured into the market from the cellars, exceeding the upper limit of the market's demand for the currency in a very short period of time, and rising in a somersault. It was only now that the greedy gentry in Jiangnan understood that the currency itself was not of much value, and if there was no corresponding material to support it, the gold and silver in their hands were not as valuable as a piece of cotton cloth or a bowl of brown rice.

It's a pity that not many people can see through this. Even Bismarck, the iron-blooded prime minister, known for his wisdom and sagacity, made the same mistake in the Franco-Prussian War, demanding five billion francs in war reparations from France.

As a result, it took less than half a year for France, where banks were opened all over the world, to pile five billion francs in front of him without browning.

However, Bismarck's occupation of Alsace and Lorraine, which refused to be returned, made France feel painful, and finally recaptured this territory with extremely rich coal and iron ore resources at the cost of destroying a generation of young people. For individuals, money is wealth;

But for the state, money is just a bond, and their issuance of currency is equivalent to borrowing from the people, and this debt must be repaid with the corresponding materials, otherwise it will only be a soaring price and the people will not be able to make a living.

The situation in Jiangnan is turbulent, silver has become extremely depreciated, and the once prosperous Jiangnan has now become like purgatory, and all the people are living in dire straits.

Cheng Shijie looked at Xie Jinglin's methods, the soldiers and horses did not move, Jiangnan was in chaos first, Cheng Shijie patted Xie Jinglin's shoulder: "Jinglin, good job!" ”

"Your Majesty, this is actually only a symptom, not a cure!"

Cheng Shijie nodded and said: "That's right, the people in Jiangnan are just temporary chaos, as long as they calm down, this dilemma can be solved, especially the outlets of Liangguang and Fujian, they can export textiles through the outlets there!" ”

"Then it's better to let the Third Fleet ......"

"No!"

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "Economic war is only an auxiliary means, our Ming Dynasty is different from the countries of Europa, they have less territory and less population, but Jiangnan has a large population and a lot of arable land, silk and textiles cannot be exported, they can be used for their own use, they can be completely self-sufficient, forming a closed market, so that economic means are not of much use to them!" ”

This is the advantage of China's unique pastoral economy, where ordinary people can make their own clothes, farm their own land, grow grain, and grow vegetables, and do not need to rely on outside goods.

"Is that a problem?"

Sun Zhili said: "It's a big trouble!" ”

The problem that makes Sun Zhilan feel a headache is that, on the one hand, the stubbornness and unruliness of the Jiangnan Jinshen Group really make people angry, and they can't wait to kill them;

On the other hand, Jiangnan is a place where humanity gathers, every inch of land is gold, and the war is together, even if this anointed land is destroyed, I don't know how much effort it will take to develop it again.

They also used their connections to try to communicate with the Jiangnan Jinshen Group, trying to find a way to get the best of both worlds, but the result was very disappointing to them.

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "Iron striking still needs its own hardness, he strongly recognizes that he is strong, the breeze blows the hills, let's solve the problems in the north first, and first solve the people's livelihood problems in the north!" ”

Cheng Shijie's Ning Haijun Group now controls all areas of eastern Liaodong except Shanhaiguan, Yongping, Shuntian, Baoding, Zhending, Daimyo, Guangping, and Shunde, as well as Shandong, Henan, which are the hardest hit areas of ice and snow disasters in the north.

Cheng Shijie decided to migrate the victims to Luzon first and complete the plan to vacate the cages and exchange birds on Luzon Island.

In later generations Luzon has a population of nearly 60 million, and now the total population of Luzon is just a little more than one-fifth of the later generations, for the time being, there is still a lot of space, not to mention, Luzon is just a bridge jump, after the northern immigrants of the Ming Dynasty arrived in Luzon, they first adapted to the tropical climate for several years, accumulated a lot of tropical climate survival and life experience, and so on adapted to the tropical climate of Luzon, and can migrate to the Indochina Peninsula in the future.

Cheng Shijie only needs land and no population, so he can solve future problems once and for all.

Even if the Indochina Peninsula is not enough to feed the northern population of the Ming Dynasty, isn't there still Australia?

Now in this time and space, no one is competing with Cheng Shijie for Australia.

(End of chapter)