When Li Yan was saying this, Qian Qianyi, the Minister of Rites, and Bi Jiucheng, the Hanlin bachelor, had already arrived hand in hand, waiting to meet outside the lobby.
"Mr. Qian, Bachelor Bi, come in quickly." Zhu Cixiang had sharp eyes. Before the eunuch on duty outside came in to announce, he saw the two of them and greeted them with a smile.
Qian Qianyi and Bi Jiucheng came to report the status of the cabinet meeting to Zhu Cihong. During Zhu Cihong's expedition, the senior ministers who stayed in Nanjing had to maintain the operation of the court, so the cabinet meeting continued as usual. The decisions made at the meeting will be sent to Zhu Cixiang's army.
In addition, one or two cabinet ministers and Hanlin scholars will follow Zhu Cixiang on the expedition. They will be responsible for handling the cabinet reports sent to the army.
After Qian Qianyi and Bi Jiucheng saluted Zhu Cixiang, they sat down separately and began their routine reports.
Before the report began, a box containing a memorial had been brought in by the eunuch and placed on the table in front of Zhu Cihong. A small table was also placed in front of Bi Jiucheng, with the Four Treasures of the Study and a stack of blank notebooks placed on it.
"Your Highness," Qian Qianyi said first, "Gao Hongtu, the governor of Shandong, reported that Donglu had placed tens of thousands of so-called green flag soldiers on the ground in Dongchang, Yanzhou, and Jinan, and occupied countless fertile fields. One hundred thousand hectares...Except for the south of Tuhe River in Jinan Prefecture, the east of Qufu in Yanzhou Prefecture, and the Taiyi Mountains, all of them have been owned by the so-called Zhengluqi soldiers!
In addition, on the borders of Beizhili and Henan, Donglu was planning to teach the land method! Each family was granted ten acres, and a household of five could receive fifty acres of land. After the land is granted, the annual rent per acre will be four liters..."
Zhu Cixiang waved his hand: "Already know... Dorgon's movements are quite fast and resolute!"
When Jin Zhijun secretly visited Fengyang last time, he had already mentioned the establishment of the green flag and the plan to teach the fields. I thought it would be delayed for a while, but I didn't expect that under Dorgon's supervision, the progress would be very fast and smooth.
Li Yan said: "The Eastern captives don't need scholar-bureaucrats now, and the northern gentry can also leave and die... Naturally, there is no way to stop Dorgon from enclosing and conferring land."
Zhu Cixiang's brows furrowed. This was indeed a bit unexpected - it turned out that the Qing Dynasty did not have to be helped by a bunch of traitorous scholar-bureaucrats!
With their help, it would be easier for the Qing troops to move south, as they would have a leading party. But on the other hand, Dorgon's hands and feet were also restricted. This made it impossible for him to enclose more land, and he also had no way to devise plans to grant land to others.
Qian Qianyi sighed, and then reported: "Your Highness, Jingzhou Magistrate Du Yinxi reported that the bandits in Xiangyang have also made strange movements recently, and they seem to have plans to go south to Jingchu. Recently, there are bandits in various cities in Jingzhou Prefecture. We carried out detailed activities, posted notices, and also announced that we would take Huguang and then 'divide the fields equally'..."
"What?" Zhu Cixiang was startled, "Li Zicheng also wants to plan on equalizing the land? Why are they all here together? Is there something wrong with the discussion?"
"Your Highness the Crown Prince," Li Yan interjected, "Li Zicheng has always had this idea, but no one did it for him in the past, and he didn't know how to start. Now he has divided the land of Xiangyang, Yuanyang, and Nanyang. Here is I’m finally satisfied, and I’m willing to help with the task of dictating Tian.”
It turns out that the way of planning and dictating the land is like this. First, you have to have enough circles of people, and then you can give the ordinary people the dictation of the land! Otherwise, no one is willing to help implement it, and nothing can be done!
Dorgon is able to do this now, first of all, because of the "Thanos mode" in the North, the population has been reduced by 80%! Secondly, he circled the land twice, and now there are almost 200,000 households in the Eight Banners and Green Banners (not including the green ones), so there is someone who can help with things. Li Zicheng's situation was similar, and he also had a reliable team of feudal cadres.
"When will Li Zicheng send troops?" Zhu Cixiang frowned.
Li Yan thought for a while, "After the Autumn... he is also short of food! Before the Autumn, he will not be able to collect the military rations for the southward march. In addition, the soldiers who have just divided the land will have to live a good life for a few days." Bar?"
Zhu Cixiang breathed out: "Then there are still some days... At worst, we can send troops before the New Year. We just need to capture Wuchang Mansion before Li Zicheng!"
As he spoke, he glanced at Qian Qianyi and said, "Mr. Qian, is there anything else important?"
If nothing happened, Zhu Cixiang wanted to discuss with Li Yan and Wu Xiang how to defeat Li Zicheng!
"His Royal Highness, there is something else," Qian Qianyi said again. "The Magistrate of Shanghai, Grand Duke Luo, reported that recently Fan Damen, the governor of the Red Yi Kingdom, led a delegation of several hundred people and a business group to board two large Hong Yi ships. , arrived in Hong Kong accompanied by Chen Ding, who joined the army of Duke Quan."
"Fan Damen?" Wu Xiang couldn't help laughing after hearing Qian Qianyi's report, "What is this name?"
Qian Qianyi said with a smile: "The book written by Grand Duke Luo said that the Hongyi governor's surname was Damen, and his name was Edoni. Fan means Mr. Hongyi Chinese. If you want to translate it freely, it would be Mr. Damen."
"Mr. Gate..." Zhu Cixiang nodded repeatedly, "Okay, Grand Duke Luo is pretty good. He can inquire about this matter quite clearly."
Qian Qianyi said again: "Your Highness, I heard that these Hongyi people do not obey the king's rules and are afraid of power but not moral. Should we show them power first and then treat them with kindness?"
"It's easier to show someone with authority," Zhu Cixiang looked at Qian Qianyi, "What does it mean to treat someone with kindness?"
"That's it..." Qian Qianyi frowned and said in his heart: Treating people with kindness is a cliché, written in the history of history. Besides, we are a state of Ming Dynasty and a country of etiquette, so of course we must be a country of gentleness and distance. It’s not easy for Mr. Gate from the Hongyi Kingdom to come all the way, so he has to entertain him well... In addition, if the Yi people send tribute, the Ming Dynasty will have to give one in return according to the price. It's a matter of thinness and thickness!
Zhu Cixiang said: "Give Grand Duke Luo an order to quickly accompany Mr. Damen and his entourage to Nanjing by land. They must arrive before...the first day of August!"
"Before the first day of August?" Qian Qianyi didn't quite understand, "Why is it the first day of August?"
Zhu Cixiang said solemnly: "Because I will return the palace in triumph on the first day of August, and a grand military parade will be held on that day!
I want the people of the Hongyi country to see with their own eyes the grand appearance of my new army that has overcome difficulties! "
The Red Yi Kingdom is the United Provincial Republic of the Netherlands, also known as the Dutch Republic. It is the most powerful maritime power in this era, and it is also a powerful army! Although in China's offshore waters, the Zheng family's navy was not afraid of the Dutch, and they had won many naval battles in history.
But that was in offshore waters where hydrology and wind direction were very complicated. Liaoluo Bay, where Zheng Zhilong became famous in his first battle, was a bay located in the southern part of Kinmen Island. If we really go to the far sea, the Zheng family navy still can't get enough of it.
Otherwise, Zheng Ming in history would not have died trapped on the island of Taiwan...
Zhu Cixi now really wants to expand southward along the sea route. There are now 80 to 100 million people crowded in the southeastern part of the Ming Dynasty. Food supply and living space are tight. It is a matter of going to Southeast Asia to find some food. It is inevitable - Vietnam is now playing a "four-nation war", and its own people are having a great time fighting it, and the large part of the Mekong River Basin is almost "ownerless".
If the Ming Dynasty could travel by sea, even if millions of acres of paddy fields were cultivated, and one or two million stones would be transported back to Fujian by sea every year (Fujian is very short of food), hundreds of thousands more people could be fed!
In addition, there is a deserted Australian continent thousands of miles away, and no one wants it!
Prince Zhu really wants to circle him and build an "Aoming" or something. To travel such a long distance, the Zheng family's navigation skills are not enough, so he doesn't want to break up with the Dutch now.
But he also has to let the Dutch know how powerful he is! Knowing that the Ming Dynasty can take over the two Dutch strongholds on Taiwan Island at any time, and has a strong enough army to protect itself from enemy invasion from the sea or the north.
Only in this way can it be possible to reach an equal and mutually beneficial trade and diplomatic agreement between the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands.
