Win the Ding 1617

"Shandong Cotton competes for wheat land, and a certain nobleman relied on his military power to fly domineeringly and force the people of Dongying and Rizhao in Shandong to plant cotton for personal gain. As a result, the wheat fields that the people of Shandong depend on for their livelihood have dropped sharply, and the price of food in the province has skyrocketed. It's miserable!"

"The competition for cotton and wheat land in Shandong is a move that harms the people? The competition for rice fields in the south of the Yangtze River has been going on for nearly 200 years. Why don't you mention it?"

This kind of mutual refutation and accusation was circulated everywhere in the capital.

The literati and speech officials have learned a lot after several turmoil in the court, and no longer conduct organized joint impeachment activities, which are easy to be caught.At

However, the brains of literati are naturally good at taking advantage of loopholes and creating public opinion.Now they have found another field where they can give full play to their talents.

newspaper!

In the capital, apart from several newspapers run by Long Shengxing, there is also the Sainty Times.As a result, a large number of insinuations and accusations against Li Shouhan appeared in newspapers one after another.

Faced with this kind of accusation, the stewards of Longshengxing naturally cannot stand by and organize firepower to counterattack!

In the newspapers, those snarky writers provided sufficient spokesperson services for the benefactors behind them, and when they justly accused a certain newly promoted honorable man for fighting for the wheat fields, they completely forgot that Jiangnan had already been fighting for the wheat fields. The rice fields are 200 years old.

The newspapers of the Longsheng system published texts in the newspapers, listing the location, area, and output of cotton plantations opened in various parts of Shandong since the 11th year of Chongzhen, and listed the owners of these lands. It was clearly stated on the board that the owner of the land was either Uncle Ning Yuan himself or a disabled honored sergeant of the Southern Guangdong Army.

Although not so straightforward.However, after being interpreted by the newspaper reader in the teahouse, everyone suddenly realized, "I don't care what I plant in my field?!"

Although a lot of cotton plantations have been established, less than half of the land bought from King De and other clans was used.on these lands.Also, many wheat plantations have been set up to implement interplanting (although there is no shortage of grain in Nanzhong, it does not produce wheat, but the demand for wheat and wheat bran is huge, so it has to import wheat from India). Under the joint action of various agricultural technologies, iron farm tools, primitive pesticides, and fertilizers, the output has been greatly improved.Coupled with the food imported into Shandong from outside, the price of food in Shandong has dropped sharply.

And because of the plantation, a large number of refugees disappeared.And because Uncle Ning Yuan voluntarily gave up the right not to pay taxes that he should have enjoyed as an honorary of the imperial court and a member of the army, he turned over the taxes.Shandong's taxes increased during the famine years.

"What the public and others are entangled in is nothing more than the taxes paid by Uncle Ning Yuan. They don't pass through the prefectures, counties, and provinces, but go directly to the inner treasury for the emperor. They have never passed through your hands!"

This is more explicit, but every time the newspaper readers read it aloud.But it can cause waves of resonance.Everyone knows what kind of quality the current officials of the imperial court are. If Uncle Ning Yuan didn't hand over the grain tax directly to the emperor and then the emperor would distribute it.Without the hands of officials at all levels and the Ministry of Household Affairs.Then it is a great conscience to be able to get one catty of ten catties of grain into the hands of the emperor.Of the grain distributed from the emperor, three or two out of a catty can be distributed to soldiers and victims of disasters, which is even more kindness of the officials.

Which of these ordinary people who listened to newspapers being read in teahouses did not understand the methods of court officials?When collecting tax and grain, kick the bucket with tip and add fire consumption.In the past few years, the silver was not accepted, and the silver dollar was changed, which made Xiaomin miserable.When distributing military pay and food, it will not be lost or consumed, so sorry!

In the East Nuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace.Emperor Chongzhen also flipped through the words of mutual attack and accusation in various newspapers with great interest.

On the desk table, two pots of narcissus are in full bloom. The clear water hibiscus-like branches and leaves, and the light yellow stamens send out bursts of fragrance to the room, which makes people feel refreshed.

Seeing the slight smile on Chongzhen's face, Wang Dehua quickly took a tangerine produced in Zhangzhou Prefecture from the tall silver fruit plate, scratched it with his nails, gently opened it, and handed it to Chongzhen.

"My lord, this sweet and juicy water is the most refreshing and refreshing. Please taste it once or twice."

"There's an uproar in several newspapers, what is Li Aiqing doing now?" Putting a citrus in his mouth, Chongzhen asked Wang Dehua and Li Shouhan's recent situation very comfortably.

According to people's impressions in the past, if any official became the center of public opinion and was criticized by scholars all over the world, he would have made a plea for his crimes, resigned from office, and went home to eat old rice.In more serious cases, there is only one way to commit suicide.

It was Emperor Chongzhen's favorite minister, Yang Sichang, who was known as Admiral Yanmei, because Li Zicheng broke Luoyang and killed King Fu, and Zhang Xianzhong broke Xiangyang and killed King Xiang. Under the attack of the artillery expert, he committed suicide with hatred.This group of experts completely forgot the credit of Yang Sichang for beating Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others to the brink of death.But just blame him for his mistakes. (The unkind author imagines that if the romantic celebrity on the Qinhuai River, the leader of Donglin, his mentor and his disciples, commanded Zuo Liangyu and others to encircle and suppress Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others, would Chongzhen have to go there before 1644? Go to his brother and cry?)

"Returning to the emperor, Uncle Ningyuan is still in Ningyuan City, organizing and dispatching people. He doesn't seem to pay much attention to the public opinion in the capital."

Wang Dehua carefully organized his vocabulary, lest he say a word badly and cause big trouble to himself and Li Shouhan.

Chongzhen snorted, "This Li Aiqing is sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai!" After finishing speaking, he continued to read the text in the newspaper.

A text in the newspaper of the Longsheng system attracted Chongzhen's attention.

"Daming this year is still full of famines, even in Huzhou Prefecture in the south of the Yangtze River, there is also a large locust plague. The people eat it by peeling bark, sawdust, chaff, or digging white mud from the mountains, which is called Guanyin powder.

In Wu County, Suzhou Prefecture, the price of rice is as high as three taels of silver per stone, and two taels of money per stone.Su Songtai, Hangjiahu, has always been known as the most fertile place in the world, how can there be such a scene? "

First, a button was pressed, and then the article began to be analyzed for readers.

From the year of Longqing.Up to now, the Jiangnan area, which has always been known as the place where the wealth of the country is located, often suffers from famine, or the price of food soars, and the people suffer unspeakably.This strange phenomenon has troubled Chongzhen for many years.But in this article.He seems to have found the reason. In places like Suzhou and Hangzhou, which have the reputation of "Suhu is cooked, the world is full", the crops in the fields are replaced by raw silk, raw cotton, etc.!The folk song has also quietly changed from "Suhu is familiar, the world is full" to "Huguang is familiar, the world is full"!Jiangnan has changed from a grain export area to a grain import area.

Someone in the Ming Dynasty once wrote: "In Suzhou, in the past, there were very few people chasing after the end. Today, the number of people who go to agriculture and change to industry and commerce is three times that of before. It's two or three. Roughly speaking in terms of ten of the common people, six or seven of them have gone to farming."

The temptation of commerce has led the local people to switch to cash crops and rely on the sale of raw silk, cotton yarn, cotton cloth, etc. to buy food. In this era when transportation is relatively backward, buying food across regions can easily cause a food crisis, especially caused by natural disasters. When there is a food shortage.Even the affluent Jiangnan area has also suffered extremely serious blows.

Zhu Yuanzhang period.The price of a stone of rice is two cents and five cents of silver, which is equivalent to 250 cents of copper coins. It rose to five cents in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.The price of rice in the Ming Dynasty never exceeded one tael per stone unless there was a catastrophe.

Since the 12th year of Chongzhen, in Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places, the price of rice has been hovering between two and three.According to the price of rice in ancient times, if one tael of silver can buy two or three shi rice, it is a prosperous year, and one tael of silver can buy one shi rice, which is a normal year. Then there will be famine.

Therefore, the price of rice is unbearable even for the people in the south of the Yangtze River. In the past few years, a large number of people starved to death, and many luxury houses were sold at low prices and no one cared about them. It looked extremely weird.

"Hey! Companion, what's the price of grain in Shandong? How about the price of grain in the capital these days? Is there any report on the incidents going on everywhere?"

"Returning to the emperor, the price of brown rice in the capital has been two or three and one stone in recent days. The situation in Shandong is different. It is generally cheaper on both sides of the canal, and the farther state capital is more expensive. It’s near the sea, so it’s easier to transfer food and the price is cheaper.”

"How much is the food price in Shandong, Denglai, etc.?"

"After all, the japonica rice in various parts of Shandong costs about two taels of silver a stone, and the price of Denglai's prefectures is about one tael to eight dollars a stone."

In order not to make Chongzhen too angry, Wang Dehua carefully changed a concept, comparing the price of brown rice in the capital with the price of japonica rice in Shandong and Denglai.

However, this small trick still cannot be deceived by Chongzhen.

"Why has the price of food in the capital skyrocketed in the past few days? Is there some profiteer hoarding it, planning to make a fortune during the spring famine?"

"My lord, it's not that there are traitors hoarding money. Please take a look at the weather outside!"

Pushing open the window, snowflakes were falling one after another outside, inside the palace garden, the eunuchs for cleaning kept sweeping the snow aside with brooms in their hands, exposing the corridor.

"It has been snowing for several days. According to records from Xuanda, Jimen, and Liaodong, there is snowfall everywhere. The roads are difficult to travel, and it is difficult to transport food naturally. The memory of the governor of Tianjin says that Nigu is frozen and the sea is frozen." It is difficult for ships to dock, not to mention that as usual, sea ships go straight into the North-South Canal. As a last resort, connecting and transshipping with small boats will naturally consume time."

"That's good! The auspicious snow heralds a good year! This heavy snowfall will ease the drought in various places. As long as the spring is over, when the summer grain is harvested, it will be the beginning of peace in the world!"

Chongzhen was very optimistic, he took two deep breaths against the cold air, looking forward to the bright prospect of being the master of ZTE.

But, can he really do what he wants?At this time, Li Shouhan, Wu Sangui, Shi Lang and others who were outside Ningyuan and Liaoyang City looked at the large snowflakes flying all over the sky with cold eyes.

The heavy snow has been falling for seven or eight days in a row, and there is no sign of stopping.Not to mention the muddy and slippery roads in several ports, and a large piece of ice appeared in the harbor, making those wooden sea ships afraid to approach.

Sea ice is not the worst.

The natural rubber tires used in a large number of equipment in the Southern Guangdong Army are a great help for the personnel who transfer materials on weekdays, and you can walk no matter how rough the road is.However, the disadvantages of natural rubber when it encounters low temperature and cold weather are also fully revealed at this time.

The rubber tires that were originally wrapped around the iron wheels were frozen hard and shattered.The heavy wheels are crushed on the muddy snowy road, and the walking speed can be imagined.

"Should we temporarily shrink the line of defense and let the troops stop attacking. Wait until the snow stops?"

Looking at the number of supplies in the army that is decreasing day by day, as well as the secret letters sent by Wang Chengen, Li Guozhen and others in the capital, they are silently reminding Shouhan that it is not just the supply of supplies on the Liaodong front that is in difficulty. .It is in the capital.Food is also increasingly scarce.

However, if the attack is stopped at this time, I am afraid that the crows in the court will immediately shout like a woman who has been beautiful by others, and keep blaming the defending man. Kou Zizhong and other words of death will come like snowflakes.Although it is said that you are not afraid of these people, but a group of flies are flying around your ears all day, what else can you do?

"It seems that we can only wait for the news from Uncle and Zunhou to come, and then decide whether to stop the attack!"

Wu Sangui and Shi Lang, who have now reached near Liaoyang, have become the vane for Shou Han to decide on his next strategy.

However, he was full of hope to force Huang Taiji's main force to return to help by attacking Liaodong, so as to achieve the goal of mobilizing the Qing army, but it could not be realized at present.

Huang Taiji really held his breath.Faced with the urgent documents sent from Shengjing one after another, he only had one attitude.If you feel that you can't hold it, you will withdraw.As long as people are here, I will not blame you!

It's not that he saw through Shou Han's actions, but that he really didn't dare to withdraw his troops to help Liaoyang!

It's fair to snow all over the sky.

The severe cold weather not only brought a large number of non-combat attrition such as frostbite and frostbite to the army defending the Han Dynasty, but also caused big troubles for Huang Taiji's army.

Although the main force and core of Shouhan's army are mainly soldiers from tropical and subtropical regions, the northernmost ones are only in Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi. Soldiers who can live a year in straw sandals and shorts are naturally faced with many difficulties in the ice and snow.But don't forget either.In comparison, although the Jiannu soldiers can be regarded as fighting inside the local area, and their ability to adapt to the environment and climate is much stronger than the southern soldiers under Shou Han, they do not have the terrible material support foundation of Shou Han!

Frostbite in the Shouhan camp.Among Huang Taiji's subordinates, there were not a few soldiers whose combat effectiveness was severely compromised by the severe snow and cold and lack of food.

Under such circumstances, not to mention whether the mobilization of troops will give the Ming army an opportunity, even if the mobilization is smooth, it is unknown how effective these troops who are plagued by hunger and cold will be able to return to aid thousands of miles away. It may be that the meat is delivered to the door for nothing!

"Mr. Fan, you make a decree for Prince Li who stays in Shengjing. Tell him that as long as Shengjing is not lost, even if Liaoyang is lost, I will not blame him. However, let him give Chen Banda of Liaoyang a blow." One order, if you can't keep Liaoyang, you should quickly retreat to Shengjing and defend the city with Prince Li! His craftsmen are the treasures of China and the Qing Dynasty! There must be no loss at all!"

After saying these words, Huang Taiji felt as if his whole body had been emptied, and he felt dizzy for a while.The obese body swayed twice, almost falling to the ground.Hauge, who was kneeling beside him, rushed forward to support him.

Fan Wencheng also took a few steps to come closer, "Master, why don't you ask Prince Rui to send troops back to Shengjing to defend Tokyo?"

Looking outside through the doors and windows, the flags, vehicles, and equipment in the camp were all covered with a thick layer of snow.Together with the Kabush virtuous soldiers who were on duty outside the big tent, there was a layer of snow and frost on their eyebrows and beards.The armor and weapon were covered with snowflakes, and the hand holding the weapon was almost frozen together with the handle of the knife.From time to time, officers yelled in a low voice, telling the soldiers on duty to move their hands and feet so as not to freeze.

It was like this outside the big tent, how could Huang Taiji's temporary residence be so strong?The ink on the inkstone that has just been ground has condensed in the ink sea after a while.Even Fan Wencheng was used to the Langhao, and the tip of the pen was hard from the cold.

Huang Taiji didn't even bother to answer Fan Wencheng's suggestion.

Not to mention whether Dorgon's withdrawal of the troops in Tashan and Songshan would allow Zu Dashou and others who were trapped in Jinzhou to break out of the encirclement, even if Dorgon would not take this opportunity to bargain with him and secretly wrestle with his wrists.Taking ten thousand steps back, even if Dorgon did not hesitate to lead the main force of the two white flags to return to the army for reinforcements against the wind and snow, Huang Taiji would definitely not understand Dorgon to go back!He would rather go back to the rescue with the two yellow flags and his son Haoge's Zhenglan flag, and hand over the fat of the besieged Hong Chengchou to Dorgon to swallow in one gulp!

"Dorgon, this slave, if he enters Shengjing, I will be left alone!"

At that time, the powerful Ming army was in front, and Dorgon, who had entered Shengjing and controlled the overall situation, was behind.At that time, I'm afraid that Huang Taiji's situation will be much colder than the current heavy snow day!

"Is there any news about Rao Yu Baylor?"

Suddenly, Huang Taiji thought of his seventh brother.The guy he sent to harass the hinterland of the Ming army has been cut off for some time.I don't know how he is?If he was able to stab Li Shouhan's confidants, would it also make the pressure on the Qing soldiers better?

"A few days ago, the slaves read from the battle report of the Ming army that the Jingying of the Ming Dynasty had a battle with Rao Yu Baylor in the territory of Qinghe, beheaded Rao Yu Baylor, and captured his dragon banner, armor and other things. However, The slaves don’t quite believe it. It’s not a new thing for the Ming army to lie about their military achievements. If it’s true that Yubaile has made a mistake, wouldn’t Chongzhen children celebrate it?”

Huang Taiji hummed, agreeing with Fan Wencheng's statement, but he also rejected the idea of ​​relying on Abatai to stab Shou Han in the back. (To be continued..)

ps: It has started to snow heavily, and an extremely important natural phenomenon is coming!