Fengxiang Mansion, Qishan Camp.
Wu Sangui's confidant generals were invited to the Chinese army's tent early this morning to participate in a major event that affected whether everyone's wallets were rich.
It is already the end of December in the 20th year of Chongzhen, and it will be New Year's Eve in a few days. During the Chinese New Year, everyone did not go back to Fengxiang Fucheng to reunite with their young wives. Instead, they gathered at Wu Sangui's Chinese army tent. Of course something big happened.
There is not just one big event, but two big events that can change the direction of history.
One of them was the Qing Emperor Ama's overthrow in Qufu!
Although Dorgon did not dig up Kong Lin, he only let his subordinates dig the graves of a group of deceased bureaucratic landlords. However, the news that reached Qishan Camp was wrong. It was rumored that Dorgon personally presided over the excavation and archaeological work of Confucius, and the harvest was huge!
Although no bones of the late saint were found, a large number of relics and writings of the former saint were discovered... they were priceless!
However, the fact that Dorgon made a fortune by fighting in Qufu had little to do with Wu Sangui... Although he had no money and owed usury to Jabs, he would not have to make money by digging graves and fighting to repay his debts. .
And another big thing is huge!
Zhang Xianzhong is dead!
The Great Western Emperor Zhang Xianzhong, who ascended the throne twice, is now dead in an upright manner - this is a great thing!
When Zhang Xianzhong was alive, he couldn't defeat Wu Sangui, but now that he is in decline, why not let Wu Sangui bully him?
Just when Wu Sangui was gearing up to fight, the leaderless Daxi Kingdom sent another envoy to Qishan Camp. He was a Xiaolian Duke named Wu Xiaoyi, who was also the magistrate of Yanshi County in the Ming Dynasty and Daxi Dynasty.
It was because of his arrival that Wu Sangui convened a military meeting with his trusted generals before the New Year.
"...Zhang Xianzhong, the bandit leader, is really dead. He was seriously injured by Donglu's cannon and then died. He died in Xiaguan's walled city, or Xianguan found a thin-skinned coffin. Put him in it."
"As soon as the thief Xian died, the people below him became leaderless, and there was no successor to the pseudo-emperor. His four adopted sons closed the door and discussed for half a night, and they almost broke up. In the end, the pseudo-Daxi After the country, there will be no emperor, and the four kings will rule together. It is the four brothers Zhang Kewang, Zhang Dingguo, Zhang Wenxiu, and Zhang Nengqi who have the final say..."
"Zhang Xianzhong ordered them not to defect to the Eastern Han Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty, and told them to defect to Li Zicheng. However, the main road into Sichuan was occupied by the king, so they asked the official to come and borrow a way to survive..."
The Chinese army of the Qishan camp was located in a side hall in the Zhougong Temple. Wu Sangui sat high up, generals from the Guan Ning Army sat on both sides, and Wu Xiaoyi, the envoy of the Daxi Kingdom, stood under the hall, talking about Daxi to everyone. country’s current situation.
From time to time, the generals of the Wu Jiajun asked questions, and Wu Xiaoyi patiently answered them one by one.
After Wu Xiaoyi finished speaking, everyone had no more questions. Wu Sangui waved his hand and asked the soldiers to take Wu Xiaoyi down to rest.
As soon as Wu Xiaoyi left, Wu Sangui asked with a smile: "Everyone, do you think we should let the thieves' sons live?"
"We can't let them go! How can we let them go? They are all rogue bandits..."
"These thieves are all guilty of heinous crimes. They once excavated the Fengyang Emperor's Tomb! We are all the same and will soon be loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty. How can we let them go?"
"Yes! Everyone can punish these evil thieves. We should eliminate the thieves for the country and relieve the king's worries!"
A group of Ezhen and Zhang Jing who were holding the green flag of the Qing Dynasty were all very angry and wanted to fight against Zhang Xianzhong's four sons because of the excavation of the Fengyang Imperial Tomb of the Ming Dynasty! How loyal!
Wu Sangui turned his attention to his cousin Zukfa again. Zuk Kefa was finally no longer the marriage envoy with his head pinned to his belt. He was now the imperial envoy to Gansu and Shaanxi, and his task was to appease Wu Sangui.
Zukefa also shook his head, "Uncle Chang, we cannot let them enter Sichuan, otherwise the situation in Sichuan will be uncontrollable."
The situation in Sichuan is relatively stable now, and it is in a state of stable civil war! The civil war is still going on, but the lives of the people have become relatively stable. The Dashun Group led by Li Guo is very different from the Daxi Group led by Zhang Xianzhong. The latter is basically a bandit group, and the leader is a perverted murderer.
Since the 16th year of Chongzhen, the Dashun Group has been working hard to establish a new feudal dynasty to replace the Ming Dynasty. Although the Dashun Group has taken many detours in this process, after taking too many detours, it can still find some direction - peasant rebels like Dashun will take over the world if they are always correct without taking any detours. Sitting in the court, that is simply unrealistic.
In fact, Li Zicheng was just a real bandit thirteen years ago in Chongzhen, and he probably never thought about taking over the world. In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen's reign, he used part of the main force of the Ming army to pursue Zhang Xianzhong into Sichuan, and when part of the main force of the Ming army was transferred to Liaodong to fight against the Qing Dynasty, he promoted the banner of "equalizing land and exempting taxes", and also became the "King of Yingchuang". The ballads can be regarded as having a political program and the determination to overthrow the Ming Dynasty.
From this moment on, Li Zicheng's group really started to get on the right track. However, the subsequent victory came too quickly, leaving Li Zicheng with no time and neglecting political power construction and social reform, so he suffered a devastating defeat.
However, due to the rise of Zhu Cixiang, Nanming became the main enemy of the Qing Dynasty, and gave Li Zicheng's group a second and third chance of trial and error.
Therefore, although Li Zicheng died, the feudal revolutionary cause he pioneered became increasingly stable.
The Dashun Army that entered Sichuan also completely changed their style of rogue bandits (they were no longer rogue bandits). Not only were their military disciplines strict and they did not commit any crimes against ordinary people, they also paid great attention to the construction of base areas. In all the prefectures and counties occupied by them, they will spend a lot of effort to inventory the population and land, and then they will carry out planned land enclosures and land transfers.
Enclosure and land granting were land grants to Dashun Army officers and soldiers who entered Sichuan. They would be awarded 50 to 1,000 acres of honorary land based on their official position and rank or title. Among them, the postal land cannot be hereditary, and the land will return when the post is removed, while the xuntian is the land that can be passed down to descendants.
Moreover, the Dashun Army also learned the lessons from the fall of Xiangyang and Nanyang, and no longer concentrated the evil policy of enclosure (definitely an evil policy, but without enclosure there would be no feudal army, and without feudal army there would be no feudal dynasty). One place, but scattered to every state capital ruled by Dashun. In principle, the amount of land occupied by the Dashun Army in a state capital will not exceed 30% of the total acres of land in the state capital.
The remaining 70% was used to calculate the land and distribute it to the common people of the state.
However, not all common people could divide their fields, because the Dashun Dynasty also needed commerce and handicrafts. Therefore, after the Dashun Dynasty entered Sichuan, they also began to use their registration areas as scholars, farmers, industry and commerce.
Of course, the household registration in Dashun was not as detailed as in the early Ming Dynasty. It only divided the common people in Sichuan into three categories: farmers, workers and merchants.
Among them, farmers accounted for the vast majority, and they were all assigned land and were responsible for the corresponding rent and adjustment. In addition, farmers are not allowed to leave the county without the approval of the local government - people say that those who are born bandits must of course beware of new bandits!
Workers and merchants, on the other hand, are relatively free and can move freely within the state capital - industrial and commercial household registration is not vested in the county, but is directly controlled by the state government. They do not need to pay taxes, but they have to bear the "Hebuying" and "Changyong". The so-called "Hemai" means selling products at the price specified by the Dashun court! "Changyong", on the other hand, served as a corvee for a long time.
Among them, craftsmen households have to work for free in government-run workshops.
Merchants have to work for the government-run merchants - all commercial circulation across prefectures (Zhili prefectures) are controlled by the government-run merchants. Control does not mean that the government directly engages in business, but contracts the wholesale rights of a certain commodity in a certain state to several merchants, who are responsible for the operation.
In short, the Dashun regime adopted a steady and careful management strategy in Sichuan, so progress was very slow. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty was able to stabilize the situation for the time being.
Wu Sangui has also been keeping an eye on Sichuan, a land of abundance. Of course he knows the situation there. After the situation in Shaanxi is stabilized, he is also planning to send troops to Sichuan to deal with Li Zicheng's remnants on behalf of Zhu Cihong! Therefore, we are unwilling to let these unruly bandits from the Great Western Army go back to Sichuan.
He immediately nodded heavily: "Please tell the emperor that Sangui will never let the remnants of the Xian thieves return to Sichuan... Dashan Pass is a place of death for them!"
