The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 619 Invite Naughty Island Soldiers to Help
Chongzhen used tactics to test the ministers, in fact, he wanted to see how many ministers in the court were willing to make peace with the slaves.

At the same time, Yang Sichang had already started the peace negotiation operation in secret. In March, Fang Yizao, the governor of Liaodong, sent the blind man Zhou Yuanzhong to Shenyang to test his words. Return to the East".After Yang Sichang received Fang Yizao's report, he immediately suggested that Chongzhen allow Fang Yizao and the chief eunuch Gao Qiqian to do it cheaply, which was acquiesced by Emperor Chongzhen.

In the original history, Huang Taiji should have never thought of entering the customs from the beginning to the end. He wanted to negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty many times, but Hong Chengchou, who still surrendered, tried his best to persuade his successor Dorgon to let the Qing soldiers enter the customs.

This time Huang Taiji was even worse than in history.

He was repeatedly defeated by Ding Yi in the Lushun area, and his reputation in Shengjing was weakening day by day. Coupled with the loss of harvest due to natural disasters, he was confused in the Qing Dynasty. It's great joy.

And he also knows that as long as he agrees to negotiate a peace, after destroying the peasant army with Chongzhen's virtue, he will definitely use the military giants like Zu Dashou and Ding Yi to attack him.

Of course he was happy to see Ming people killing each other, so Huang Taiji was very active and wrote a letter to Gao Qiqian just like in history.

Zhou Yuanzhong returned to Ningyuan and brought back the letter written by Emperor Taiji Gao Qiqian, in which he said: "We still talk about money, if we don't allow it, Xia Qiu will definitely take action."

This is the first time Huang Taiji was fooled by Chongzhen. He should have been looking forward to it at the time, so he told Chongzhen, you have to be trustworthy. If you don’t, I, Xia Qiu, will definitely send troops to beat you. I, Huang Taiji, keep my word. .

Huang Taiji hated Ding Yi the most, because he was shameless and lowly, without martial virtue.

But he felt that Chongzhen was the king of a country, so he should be very trustworthy.

After seeing the letter, Yang Sichang tried his best to persuade Emperor Chongzhen to seize the opportunity to negotiate peace with the Qing Dynasty, but Chongzhen dared not open his mouth for fear of being recorded in the history books as saying that he wanted to negotiate peace, so he only ordered Fang Yizao and Gao Qiqian to "drink carefully". I hope someone will speak up for me and take the blame.

Persevering, Yang Sichang continued to go up to criticize the officials for disregarding the situation of the court, and would only use empty words to mislead the country, and asked for "sacred lessons and permission to act", that is, to explicitly approve Fang Yizao and Gao Qi's potential peace talks.At this time, Yang Sichang's leading peace talks had been made public, which aroused fierce criticism from courtiers, and launched a movement to impeach Yang Sichang. Qing peace agreement.

On July 7th of that year, Chongzhen summoned a group of ministers on the platform to let Yang Sichang and Huang Daozhou debate in front of the imperial court. In the end, Emperor Chongzhen defended Yang Sichang and denounced Huang Daozhou and other officials who impeached Yang Sichang. They didn't dare to approve the peace talks between Fang Yizao, Gao Qiqian and Man Qing, so the matter was left alone.

Huang Taiji was short of food at first, and then he was ordered by Mingren Huang, what about the peace agreement?

Damn, Chongzhen, you and Ding Yi have the same virtue?When Huang Taiji received the news, he must have scolded him so much.

Huang Taiji was furious, so he launched another entry one month earlier than in history.

After the Qing soldiers entered the customs, Chongzhen once again called all the generals to join the Wei capital, but the fact that some people wanted to be cousins ​​and erect archways was actually known all over the world.

Do you want to talk to each other but dare not say it in person, do you think everyone is an idiot?
This is the same as when Li Zicheng's army was approaching the city, he wanted to retreat to Nanjing, but he was too embarrassed to speak up, and in the end he was hanged alive.

The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty knew that Chongzhen wanted to negotiate peace, and the civil servants scolded Gao Qiqian and Yang Sichang, but everyone knew who they were scolding.

Let’s not talk about the generals, you are going to negotiate a peace, and you are still playing a fart?

The generals of all the ministries used various excuses to stay still or move slowly. Generals like Liu Zeqing and Ni Chong did not rush to the position they should have been from receiving the order to finishing the fight at the end.

On August 8, Lu Xiangsheng arrived in the capital and summoned the Hall of Martial Arts.

Chongzhen asked Lu Xiangsheng, do you have any countermeasures to build slaves and enter the customs?

Lu Xiangsheng knew that the court wanted to negotiate a peace, so he said immediately: "I want to go to war."

It was obvious what he said, and Chongzhen, who was on top at that time, was blushing.

Presumably Chongzhen also hoped that Lu Xiangsheng would say: "The minister advocates peace talks."

Chongzhen was silent for a long time, still unwilling to reconcile, he could only say: "Appeasement is just the intention of the courtiers, I hope you go out and discuss with Yang Sichang, Gao Qiqian."

After Lu Xiangsheng worshiped the emperor, he turned and went out to look for Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian.

As soon as the three of them met, they first looked at each other in blank dismay, and glanced at each other a few times.

Yang Sichang first asked him what he said when he met the emperor.

Of course Lu Xiangsheng told the truth, the Holy Majesty asked me about my strategy, and I said I would fight.

Yang Sichang's face was also flushed, and after thinking for a while, he said: "What do you think, you can't fight."

Lu Xiangsheng said: "Jiannu is not terrible. To fight Jiannu, we only need to do a good job of defense. If we fortify the walls and clear the fields and defend the cities, Jiannu will naturally not dare to go deep and retreat without attacking. I am worried that they will approach the imperial mausoleum." To shake our people's hearts, the second is to worry that they will force the capital (affecting the mood of the Holy Majesty), and the third is to worry that they will cut off our food roads. I want to gather our soldiers and horses and prepare them. Find an opportunity to break it."

Of course Lu Xiangsheng was very good at fighting, and he also knew that the Qing soldiers came from afar just to grab one and leave.

So what he meant was to guard the various places well, fortify the walls and clear the fields, and the Qing soldiers would definitely divide their troops to plunder everywhere.

Gao Qiqian was terrified of being beaten by the Qing soldiers. When he heard that he was going to fight the Qing soldiers in the field, of course he kept shaking his head. We just need to guard the cities. Why do we have to fight the Qing soldiers?
Yang Sichang was naturally in trouble everywhere, but he didn't say that on the surface, and he pretended to ask kindly, is there anything that needs our help?

Lu Xiangsheng thought for a while, and said: "The Ding Yi tribe of Pidao is good at fighting and has defeated Jiannu many times. Please ask the soldiers of Naughty Island to help."

He also said, "Wang Weizhong, the general soldier of Qingzhou, is an elite and dare to fight." Can you also call it.

Yang Sichang fully agreed, and said that the Holy Majesty transferred the Guan Ning Army to come here, and it will also be under your command.

Lu Xiangsheng was quite happy at the time, but he didn't expect Yang Sichang to agree so readily.

After he left Beijing and returned to the camp, he waited left and right, but did not wait for the reaction of these soldiers and horses.

On the contrary, there was news from the capital that on August 8, Huang Taiji sent troops to Shanhaiguan to contain Liaoxi, and the imperial court wanted Lushun troops to attack Gaizhou to contain Huang Taiji from Liaodong.

He also said that there is a vassal king in Shandong who wants to send Qingzhou soldiers and horses to guard Jinan.

However, the Guan Ning army that Yang Sichang promised was dawdling, stopping and going.

In the name of controlling the world's soldiers and horses, Lu Xiangsheng sent people to reprimand the various ministries to speed up, but all the ministries asked him for food one after another.

Now Lu Xiangsheng understood that Yang Sichang was holding back everywhere, and deliberately confronted him.

In mid-August, Chongzhen rewarded Lu Xiangsheng 8 yuan in silver, and Yang Sichang saw him off on his behalf.

In September, Lu Xiangsheng led his troops to Changping, and asked the eunuch to send 9 taels of internal funds, 3 royal horses, and [-] Taipu Temple horses.

At this time, the Guan Ning army who came to Beijing to help arrived. Of course, according to the old rules, Zu Dashou did not come in person, so he sent Zu Broadband to bring troops over, as well as Chen Guowei, the general of Jizhen, and Tang Tong, the general of Miyun. The Wang Tingchen Department of the Tunwei General Army, the Cao Bianjiao Department of the Yutian General Army, and the Make Department of the Shanhaiguan General Army, totaled about [-] troops.

After the ministries arrived, they all clamored for food and salary.

Yang Sichang quickly dispatched food from the capital and various places for the various ministries, but Lu Xiangsheng found that his ministry received the least food, Yang Sichang also comforted Lu Xiangsheng, they counted as guest troops, you were so good at hoarding land back then, the emperor ordered all the generals to learn from you , you should not be short of food.

In October, Qing soldiers passed through Gaoyang all the way.

Originally, before entering the customs this time, Huang Taiji had already told the generals that they would not attack fortified cities, plunder villages and small forts, and rob money, food, and population.

But I don't know who told the Qing soldiers that Sun Chengzong was in Gaoyang.

Sun Chengzong is the old bitter master of the Qing soldiers. Everyone in Liaodong fought against each other.

Dorgon was overjoyed and immediately ordered troops to besiege Gaoyang.

Sun Chengzong was 76 years old at this time, and immediately ordered the whole family to go up to the city wall, leading more than 2000 young and strong people in the city to defend to the death.

But Dorgon was eager to break through the city, and ordered not to break through the city within two days, and behead the vanguard.

The forwards of the Qing soldiers did not care about their own safety, and broke through Gaoyang the next morning and captured Sun Chengzong alive.

Knowing that Sun Chengzong had been captured, Dorgon was naturally overjoyed and came to persuade him to surrender, but Sun Chengzong refused.

Dorgon became furious and ordered him to be tied behind a horse and dragged to death. Then he beheaded Sun Chengzong's five sons, six grandsons, two nephews, and eight nephews. More than 100 people in the Sun family were killed. Flow into a river.

In the 11th year of Chongzhen, the Qing soldiers entered the pass, and the vicinity of Gyeonggi in the Ming Dynasty once again attracted the attention of the world.
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The outside world is turned upside down, and Ding Yi of Pidao is relatively stable in Chongzhen for 11 years.

After returning from Dayuan last year, he basically ran back and forth between Lushun, Pidao, and Dengzhou. He would occasionally visit Jeju to store farmland, train soldiers, and raise horses.

Jeju Island newly stocks [-] mu of sweet potatoes and potatoes a year, together with grain rice and wheat beans, which greatly eased his grain consumption.

Although the sweet potatoes at this time did not reach the output of several thousand catties in later generations, there were still at least five or six hundred catties, and the yield was relatively stable, and they were not afraid of severe cold weather. They also had low requirements for the planting environment, and planting was simple. Many mountainous areas were slightly flat It can also be planted under the same conditions, and it requires less labor. Pidao Lushun has also expanded the scale of planting.

By August of the 11th year of Chongzhen (1638), the area of ​​sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn in Ding Yidengzhou, Pidao Lushun and Jeju had exceeded [-] mu.

His population is about 50 in Lushun, 11 in Jeju, and about 68 in Dengzhou. A total of [-] people need him to support.

Now that he is using grain, he basically has no problems, and he can still sell some surplus grain every year to ease his investment in the staff.

Now the farmland in the three places is 32 mu in Dengzhou, and 62 mu in Pidao Lushun Jinfuzhou Changsheng Island. It is about 42 mu, and it is estimated that it will reach its peak by this time next year.) A total of 50 million mu.

Dengzhou is similar, because the rest of the fields are owned, unowned, and those that can be hoarded have been hoarded by Ding Yi.

His final land may be around 140 million mu, and there are another 160 million mu of taxable land in Dengzhou.

In this way, there is no pressure at all to support 300 people on nearly 68 million mu of land.

In addition, he now has [-] sweet potatoes and potatoes. The logistics department estimates that after this year's autumn harvest, because of the high grain production in Jeju, this year's tax revenue will reach a new high.

Last year, the grain harvested by the three places was: Dengzhou tax and grain 52 shi. (Dengzhou has the most fields and the least grain, mainly due to low taxes. There are more than 100 million mu of fields that are not owned by Ding Yi.) Jeju taxes and grains are 93 shi (including 20 shi from North Korea), Phi Island Lushun 40 shi, The total of the three places is slightly less than the previous year. The less is because the weather has been getting colder and colder in the past two years, especially on the Pidao Lushun side. It is difficult for summer wheat to survive the winter, and the production will be greatly reduced in summer. Now Ding Yi relies entirely on sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn. support production.

In this way, Ding Yi got nearly 200 million stone grains last year, and today it is estimated that the amount is also the same, and there may be more.

This is already a very scary figure. During the Wanli period, the salary of the clan of the Ming Dynasty was 800 million shi. According to the history books, "the grain of the two provinces (Shanxi and Henan) is still less than half of the clan's Lumi."

In other words, the grain output of Shanxi and Henan provinces at that time was less than 400 million shi.

Of course, there is also a reason for this. There are too many provinces that don’t have to pay taxes. The food of all kinds of honored scholars and rich people basically doesn’t have to pay taxes, and it’s not included in the statistics. What’s paid is ordinary people’s. That’s why we say that the difference between the two provinces The food is less than half of the clan.

At this time, in other places in the Ming Dynasty, most of the yield per mu was two stones, or five stones per mu, or even less than one stone.

Ding Yi is doing well because he is serious about doing this, which is the foundation of his sweeping the world. In addition, his subordinates are also doing this seriously, because everyone wants to live with Master Ding.

The second is that Ding Yi attaches great importance to farming experts, and he specializes in searching for such talents to farm for himself. The school also professionally trains relevant talents, thinking of various ways to increase production, or to ensure production.

In this era, the biggest impact on the field is natural disasters, followed by weeds, soil fertility, and focus on farming.

Ordinary people will pay attention to these, only Ding Yi is desperately solving various problems, trying to find ways to ensure production.

Based on his current grain structure, the provision of meat and fish, the grain consumed by the 68 people under his rule is about 130 million shi.

This means that he has a chance of remaining 70 stone for the whole year.

In addition, the officers waited for Tian Duo, and if they couldn't finish it, they would sell it to Ding Yi in the end.

For example, their military officers, craftsmen and other technicians each have hundreds or even hundreds of acres of grain. Apart from giving to the tenants, they can’t use up the grain harvested by themselves. Most of them will be sold to Ding Yi at a low price in the end. .

Ding Yi estimates that he will eventually have about 100 million shi left this year. (Songjiang Xu's family is not counted)
If they can sell all of them, they can get at least 180 million to 200 million taels at this year's grain price.

Half of it will be used to support the construction of the staff.

This means that as long as the grain is grown well, it can still make money.

Especially in the era of food shortage in the late Ming Dynasty.

It's not yet the autumn harvest, and Ding Yi and Ruan Wenlong are calculating how much food they can get at the end of the year and how much money they can sell at the end of the year.

In the past, there was a shortage of food and money, but now they can sell food for money.

This is more profitable than running a business at sea.

But now he only has more than 60 people in his hands. He dares to say that the fields that can be planted can be sold. If there are 700 million people, he dare not say.

For example, Dengzhou and Laizhou are all under his control.

Dengzhou alone has more than 30 people and millions of fields.

No matter how Ding Yi's people publicize it, their farming efficiency and yield are far inferior to Ding Yi's.

This kind of thing must be done under oppression under the powerful system.

Just when Ding Yi was thinking about counting money in Pidao every day, his hands cramped.

At the end of September, the imperial court ordered that Pidao soldiers and horses attack Gaizhou to restrain Jiannu.

(End of this chapter)