I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 410 Luzon’s Evacuation of the Cage and Change of Birds

Chapter 410

Sun Zhiwan was also a knowledgeable and talented person, and his reputation was not in vain. Cheng Shijie just made a start, and he understood Cheng Shijie's true intention.

At first glance, Zhao Kuangyin's "release of military power over a glass of wine" seems very free and easy. It really gives people the feeling of "while talking and laughing, the oars and oars are wiped out." What should have been a very difficult matter was solved.

But in fact, Zhao Kuangyin 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 misled by his cleverness. "Release military power over a glass of wine" was completely a major political failure of his. It was the biggest political mistake he made in his life.

Here, not to mention that the "cup of wine to release military power" deprived a group of generals who were good at conquering and fighting of military power and asked them to stand aside. For the Song Empire, it was tantamount to cutting off its own arms, mutilating its own feet, and tying itself up in a cocoon. The subsequent bullying and ravage suffered by foreigners in the Song Dynasty was entirely related to this. Just as far as the generational custom of "releasing military power over a cup of wine" was developed, the consequences were really serious.

If you think about it carefully, "a cup of wine releases military power" is actually a political game between Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin and the entire military general group. Since it is a game, neither party in the game can naturally make profits without paying the price.Obviously, in this political game, the price paid by the military generals group was that they lost their "military power". Of course, this "military power" was not lost in vain. What it received in exchange was Emperor Zhao Kuangyin's promise and The luxury and pleasure of reward.

It was Zhao Kuangyin who issued a "corruption license" to the entire military commander group.Because of the "corruption license" issued by the emperor himself as a shield, from then on, the military generals were "confident" to engage in corruption.According to historical records, Taizu's generals were almost all greedy and lustful men.

The strategy adopted by Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, was almost the same as that of Zhao Kuangyin. Zhu Yuanzhang was a talented and strategic emperor. Among all emperors, his ability was outstanding, especially his ability to recognize people. Although Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was very capable, it was difficult to achieve peace. Others The eight kings of Sai were nothing. No matter they were King Zhu Quan of Ning, King Zhu Gui of Dai, King Zhu Su of Gu, or King Zhu Zhi of Liao, they were all the best among men, capable of both civil and military service. If the crown prince Zhu Biao had not died unexpectedly, even Zhu Di would have been old. Be honest.

Zhu Di's first step was to destroy the helpers left by Zhu Yuanzhang, those vassal brothers, and later exchanged the military power of those vassal kings at the cost of corruption. Since then, Zhu Di has stabilized the country, but made Ming Dynasty like Ming Dynasty. Like the Song Dynasty, corruption became the trend and the political atmosphere.

Sun Zhili said with some surprise: "Your Majesty, even if this is the case, now that Jiannu has been wiped out and Huang Taiji is dead, the nine-border defense line..."

"The pressure on the nine-border defense line can be greatly reduced. It does not mean that there is no pressure, nor does it mean that we can immediately release Nanshan and stockpile weapons!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Sun Zhiman and said: "We took back Beijing, but there are no concubines or concubines of Huang Taiji in Beijing, nor are there any of his young children, including Daishan, Yuetuo, Azige, and Duduo. They are the emperors." The wives, concubines, and children of my relatives are not in Beijing. Have you ever thought about where they are?"

"Mobei?"

Cheng Shijie nodded and said: "It is very possible that Huang Taiji's eldest son, second son and third son are dead, but the fourth and fifth sons should still be alive. Daishan and his eldest son Yue Tuo are dead, and the second son Shuo Tuo has surrendered. , but his third son also died, but his fourth son, second son, sixth son, seventh son, and eighth son did not go south with the army, and there is a high chance that they are still alive!"

"Is that why the king ordered the third and fourth brigades to search for the remnants of Jiannu's army outside the pass?"

"It's just a pity that Huang Taiji had a better plan. The third and fourth brigades did not find the true whereabouts of the remnants of the slaves. I guess that they escaped and fled directly to Mobei. Mobei is so big that it can be counted. They are twice as big as Monan, I’m afraid it won’t be easy to find them!”

Cheng Shijie sighed and said: "Gyeonggi and the whole of Beizhili are suffering from drought and little rain. It is difficult to grow food now. If we continue to use Beijing as the Ming Dynasty and move Ning Haijun and his family members from Liaodong to Beijing, they will have to move dozens of people." Millions of people have come to Beijing. Since then, Beijing's population needs to consume a lot of food. Beizhili cannot be self-sufficient in food and can only transport food to Beijing from the south. Although Ning Haijun can take advantage of sea transportation, the problem is , then we must maintain the nine-border defense line and station a large number of troops on Xuanfu East Road and Jizhou and Yongping Prefectures!"

Sun Zhiman sighed and said: "This is too difficult!"

"That's right!"

Cheng Shijie pondered: "I want to move the capital to Liaodong. Liaodong has more advantages than Beijing. Liaodong is different from Beizhili. Although the weather is cold, there is no shortage of rain. At least drinking water is not a problem. Ninghai Navy has a powerful navy , the Liaodong Peninsula is within the protection range of the naval guns of the Ning Navy. Without Beijing as the capital, the Great Wall defense line can turn from passive to active. It only takes three to five years. Even if the Jian slaves cannot be wiped out, at least the Jian slaves can be killed. The slave runs away far away!"

Sun Zhiwan also knew that the Ming Dynasty was in chaos, especially the Guan Ning Army at Shanhaiguan refused to surrender and threatened to enter the Pass again and crush Beijing. They also knew that the crime they committed was unforgivable. Yes, even if they surrender, only those ordinary soldiers will be pardoned. The generals of Liaoxi will never escape. They will not be wronged after being cut and tried again.

Therefore, they put on a posture of stubborn resistance to the end, hoping to frighten Daming, bargaining with Daming, and trying to escape punishment.In response to them, the two military brigades of Ning Haijun approached step by step with a large number of heavy artillery. Because the Bohai Sea was frozen, the naval fleet was unable to fully surround Shanhaiguan.

The second group of officials who went to Shanhaiguan to negotiate were expelled. Seeing that the negotiations were in vain, Cheng Shijie took a tougher stance and told Guan Ning's army in Shanhaiguan: There is no possibility of negotiation between the Ming Empire and the rebels of Guan Ning's army, or they must surrender. , or just wait to be ground into powder!
Such a tough attitude made Guan Ningjun's remaining liver and gallbladder split. Is this still the Ming Dynasty?In the past, they could make the capital shocked by raising money and bombing camps. The emperor hurriedly issued edicts to appease the emperor, asking for officials for officials and money for money. Now they have put on a posture of fighting to the end with the Ming Empire. How can they wait? Theirs is Thunder Iron Fist?This unscientific!
Not only was Jiangnan in chaos, but Guanzhong was also unstable. After occupying Guanzhong, the Qin army of Li Zicheng's army marched westward to Hexi, Gansu, and Qinghai, and in the east they took advantage of the Shanxi army and Dorgon's tribe to fight and nearly annihilated them. Four of the five prefectures in Shanxi, including Ningxia Prefecture, took over the Hetao area instead.

Taking advantage of the bloody battle between Cheng Shijie and the Qing army, Li Zicheng became the biggest winner, and his mouth was full of oil. Li Zicheng's biggest shortcoming was that he had no food and lacked the capital for a confrontation between the two armies. However, the small Nanjing army in the south of the Yangtze River The court is not all fools. They know that they cannot defeat Cheng Shijie simply by relying on their own strength. , If you don’t want to wait for death, you can only join forces with Li Zicheng’s Qin Army.

Li Zicheng was short of food, but they had plenty of food. The only problem was that the distance from Jiangnan to Guanzhong was too long, and there were no shipping channels. It was very difficult to transport food. However, they copied Cheng Shijie's work, removed the wheels from the carriage, and used it in a blood boat. , transporting grain to Guanzhong on ice and snow.

In comparison, Guanzhong was calmer, and Jiangnan was even more turbulent. The scholars in Jiangnan, Jin Shen, probably felt that they were on the verge of death and were going through a doomsday madness.

They established emperors one after another, established countries one after another, appointed numerous high-ranking officials, and squandered the wealth accumulated over the past 200 years in the south of the Yangtze River, completely ignoring the Ming Empire's army that was eyeing Shandong.

Jiangnan is also the headquarters of the Donglin Party. These Donglin Party penholders jumped up and down, slamming shit basins on Cheng Shijie's head, madly attacking Cheng Shijie's New Deal, cursing everything related to Cheng Shijie, and slandering everything. It seems that the hundreds of millions of people who chose Cheng Shijie and the Ming Dynasty were all wrong. They are the only ones who are right, and the truth is on their side!
However, no matter how much they advocate the correctness of the small Jiangnan court or the greatness and brightness of the gentlemen of Donglin, it will not help.

Because the small court in Jiangnan needed blood transfusions for Guanzhong, and the gentry officials in Jiangnan were using this channel to make money crazily, Cheng Shijie sealed Wusongkou, the outlet to the sea from Jiangnan. This was equivalent to putting a death buckle around Jiangnan's neck. Jiangnan's economy, which was highly prosperous based on the textile industry and maritime trade, suddenly collapsed.Previously, Xie Jinglin used the economic warfare methods he learned from Cheng Shijie. As soon as the economic warfare came out, he played Jiangnan to death. I don’t know how many people had lingering fears about the food shortage in Jiangnan. Now they were horrified to find that as Jiangnan’s small The imperial court began to support Guanzhong, and a large amount of food was consumed in transportation.

The common people had no food in their hands and were panicking. The smarter people fled to the Central Plains or Guangdong and Guangxi with their families in panic. The slower ones could only enjoy the roller coaster-like feeling of daily changes in food prices.

In just one month, the price of grain in Jiangnan reached 12 taels of silver and one stone of rice. Not to mention ordinary people, even well-off families with considerable savings could not sustain it. They used all their savings to rush into grain stores to buy , everything that can be eaten, trying to turn these metals into living materials before they become waste.

The direct consequence of this is that massive amounts of silver poured into the market from the cellar, exceeding the upper limit of market demand for money in a short period of time, and spiraling upward.Only now did the greedy gentry in Jiangnan understand that currency itself does not have much value. Without corresponding material support, the gold and silver in their hands are 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 who was famous for his wisdom and wisdom 200 years later, made the same mistake during the Franco-Prussian War and asked France for 50 billion francs in war compensation.

As a result, France, which has banks all over the world, piled 50 billion francs in front of him in less than half a year without even blinking.

On the other hand, Bismarck occupied Alsace and Lorraine, which he refused to return, which made France heartbroken, and finally regained this territory with extremely rich coal and iron ore resources at the cost of a generation of young people.For individuals, money is wealth;

But for the country, money is just a bond. When they issue currency, it is equivalent to borrowing a debt from the people, and this debt must be repaid with corresponding supplies. Otherwise, prices will skyrocket and people will not be able to make a living.

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

Cheng Shijie looked at Xie Jinglin's methods. Before the troops moved, Jiangnan was in chaos. Cheng Shijie patted Xie Jinglin on the shoulder: "Jing Lin, you did a good job!"

"Your Majesty, this is actually just treating the symptoms, not the root cause!"

Cheng Shijie nodded and said: "Yes, the people in Jiangnan are only in temporary chaos. As long as they calm down, this dilemma can be solved, especially the seaports of Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian. They can export textiles through the seaports there. !”

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

"Need not!"

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "Economic war is only a auxiliary means. Our Ming Dynasty is different from the European countries. They have small territory and small population. However, Jiangnan has a large population and a lot of cultivated land. Silk and textiles cannot be exported and can be used for their own use. They are completely self-sufficient." , forming a closed market, so that economic means will not be of much use to them!"

This is the advantage of China's unique pastoral economy. People can make their own clothes, farm their own land, grain, and vegetables, and they do not need to rely on external products.

"Is this going to be troublesome?"

Sun Zhiman said: "We are in big trouble!"

The problem that gives Sun Zhiwan a headache is that, on the one hand, the stubbornness and unruliness of the Jiangnan Jinshen Group really makes people angry and makes them want to be killed;
On the other hand, Jiangnan is a place where people gather together. Every inch of land is valuable. With the flames of war, even if this sacred place is destroyed, I don’t know how much effort it will take to develop it again. I really want to destroy it. Everyone is reluctant to part with it and is quite a bit jealous.

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

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "To forge iron, you need to be strong yourself. If he is strong, he will be strong. The breeze is blowing on the hills. Let's solve the problems in the north first and solve the people's livelihood problems in the north first!"

The Ning Haijun Group represented by Cheng Shijie now controls all areas in Liaodong except Shanhaiguan, Yongping Prefecture, Shuntian Prefecture, Baoding Prefecture, Zhending Prefecture, Daming Prefecture, Guangping Prefecture and Shunde Prefecture in North Zhili, as well as Shandong, Part One of Henan is the hardest hit area by ice and snow disasters in the north.

Cheng Shijie decided to move the victims to Luzon first to complete the Luzon Island's cage-replacing plan.

In later generations, Luzon had a population of nearly 6000 million. Now Luzon's total population is just over one-fifth of that in later generations. For now, there is still a lot of room. What's more, Luzon is just a jumping off bridge. After the northern immigrants from the Ming Dynasty arrived in Luzon, they first adapted to the tropical climate for a few years and accumulated a lot of survival and life experience in the tropical climate. Once they adapted to the tropical climate in Luzon, they could migrate to Indochina in the future.

Cheng Shijie only needs territory, not population, so that he can solve future problems once and for all.

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

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

(End of this chapter)