Southern Ming, my destiny is too abstract

Chapter 23: Fourteen Years of Family and Country
No grain or taxes are paid.

It doesn’t mean I won’t collect taxes.

Zhu Cixuan was very familiar with the concept of shifted tax before he traveled through time.

As a rural student who only had six pockets to support him, Zhu Zixuan started to study this after graduation when he saw the unaffordable housing prices.

Unfortunately, just as housing prices began to plummet, he traveled through time and became the last prince of the precarious Ming Dynasty.

Li Bai's two vassal armies came to the rescue of the emperor and plundered Hongshawadi, burning, killing and looting along the way for supplies and to motivate the soldiers.

This caused the Hongsha people in Ava Bagan Shizhi and other counties to flee and scatter.

Although Zhu Cixuan is a modern man, he has seen the real sacred army.

The looting behavior of Jin Gong's army was extremely shameful.

But we also understand that we cannot have too many extravagant expectations of feudal warlords.

According to that class historical view, there was not a single good person in the Southern Ming Dynasty.

It is very applicable to use the national historical perspective. As a Han Chinese, Zhu Cixuan has no good feelings towards Hong Shawadi.

Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia are the traditional radiation zones of China.

Hongsavadi is far inferior to Lancang Zhenla and is far inferior to Annan and Siam.

The most disobedient younger brother in China.

Before Zhu Cixuan traveled through time, he was almost joining the terrorist forces.

anyway.

The people fled.

When Zhu Cixuan conquered the city of Ava, the fleeing princes and nobles brought with them a large number of their own ahmutans and slaves, and together with the 100,000-strong army of Mangbai and Bimyuhou, they also took with them the people who went south.

There are as many as 200,000.

It would take more than a year and a half to recruit refugees, register them as citizens, cultivate the land, and collect taxes and grain.

The appeal of the monks in the temple is of great use.

In addition, Hongsha officials fled to Xiahongshawadi, resulting in a shortage of manpower.

It is very suitable for monks in temples to be tax farmers.

Let the people of Hongsha pay religious taxes.

Transfer conflicts.

Raise prices again and use clothing and housing to plunder food.

With the cooperation of [Ying Chuang Wang] and [Sanqing Education], the logistics can be considered complete.

After winning over the monks and masters of Hongsha, Zhu Cixuan returned to his residence outside the city.

If Emperor Jiajing's Mandate of Heaven came a few more times, the city of Ava would be reduced to ashes, and they would have no choice but to live in military tents outside the city.

An emergency meeting was held with the officials of Hongsha of the Ming Dynasty.

"Adayun, you used the gold and silver left by the nobles to buy grain from the monasteries at a very low price, and then transferred it to the Ming officials in the name of compensation for Hongsha Nation's century-long invasion of the Ming Dynasty."

"After next year, we will send the food directly to the Ming army in the name of tribute."

Adayun nodded his head and accepted the order, then hesitated.

"Your Highness, the Ming army entered Hongsha over a year ago. The Ava counties were embroiled in war and there was a shortage of grain. At that time, King Pingda raised an army of over 200,000 to resist the army. The traitor Mangbai and his men looted the grain as they advanced southward."

"Half of the country's grain and fodder has already been used up after supplying the 20,000-strong army of the Ming Dynasty's Prince Jin. I'm afraid we won't be able to support another 100,000-strong army to attack the traitor Mang Bai in the south."

"The mountainous terrain between Siam and Chiang Mai in our country is difficult to navigate, so there isn't much food that can be transported."

Zhu Cixuan laughed: "Who said I have an army of 100,000?"

"It's the king and the monks..." Adayun was stunned for a moment, then realized that it was another evil plot of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

After pondering for a moment, Adayun hesitated and spoke again:
"Your Highness, even if we don't have a hundred thousand troops, by truce in Hongsha and cultivate land to accumulate grain, we can only supply a maximum of fifty thousand troops."

The army of Li Bai and the other two vassals alone has 20,000 soldiers. If they want to counterattack Yunnan Province, or even Sichuan and Guizhou, 30,000 to 50,000 soldiers will not be enough.

Zhu Cixuan couldn't help but frown. He still wanted to use Hongsavadi as the foundation for restoring his country.

Upon seeing this, Adayun panicked and told the truth.

However, the rice in Hongsha Kingdom was not harvested three times a year like in Annan and Champa as Zhu Cixuan had expected.

Shanghongsha, which covers the largest area, can only grow rainy season rice and summer rice. The summer rice from November to February must be irrigated with water from canals, groundwater and water drawn from rivers.

Only when there is abundant rain in Xiahongsha can three harvests be harvested in a year.

This was also the time when the royal capital of Toungoo was in Pegu, Lower Hongsa, for most of the hundred years since its founding.

King Thalong moved the capital from Pegu to Ava, expanding the number of treasury akhmutans and distributing slaves from the monasteries to the banks of the Jinsha River to cultivate rice. Even so, to maintain military preparations for war, hundreds of grain ships were transported from Lower Hongsha to Upper Hongsha each year.

Xia Hongsha is rich in grain. In addition to supplying Shang Hongsha, it also sells a lot of rice to the Portuguese and Dutch in Southeast Asia every year.

Zhu Cixuan nodded in sudden realization: "Mang Bai won't live long. The granary of Xiahongsha will belong to me sooner or later."

"After we collect food from the temples, we'll be able to feed our 30,000-strong army as we march south."

Adayun assured: "As long as the major monasteries work hard, it will be ready in less than ten days."

Finished dealing with the food problem.

Zhu Cixuan looked at Li Weizhuo who had changed into clean clothes.

"Li Qing, you've traveled back and forth between western Yunnan, southern Yunnan, and Hongsha. Do you know how many loyal Ming officials are still holding out in Yunnan?"

Li Weizhao was silent for a long time before he stepped out and bowed his head.

"Your Highness, since the Emperor's expedition to Hongsha, all the generals in Yunnan Province have lost heart and surrendered to the Eastern Tartars, with the exception of the Prince of Jin, the Prince of Gongchang, and the Duke of Guang who followed him from Guangxi Province."

"Yunnan Province, there is no longer a single general or soldier from the Ming Dynasty in Yunnan Province."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Cixuan was stunned.

Tens of thousands, nearly a hundred thousand Dashi troops.

I have so many troops!
"Where are Xianning Marquis Qi Sansheng, Huairen Earl Wu Zisheng, and General Gao Wengui? Didn't they come with Prince Gongchang to rescue the emperor last year?"

"There was also news that Duke Ying, Yang Wu, had recaptured Tengyue and was preparing to welcome the emperor?"

The Prime Minister Deng Shilian stepped out and said:
"Your Highness, forget what happened before."

"But I didn't know that the Duke of Qian, Mu Wangfu, has been guarding Yunnan and Yunnan for generations, and both the locals and the Han people have prestige. Although they advocated the southern expedition to Hongshawadi, they also proposed the division of civil and military officers into two."

"Half of them will follow the emperor into Hongsha, and the other half will serve as regent in Chashan to guard against the generals."

Zhu Youlang nodded and agreed to follow his plan.

Even if he hadn't traveled through time, he would still have at least 20,000 to 30,000 troops.

By joining forces with Li Bai's two armies, even if they could not defend western Yunnan, they would be able to cross mountains and rivers to Guangxi and Guangdong to join forces with Zheng Yanping.

Deng Shilian pursed his lips and said, "Your Majesty has not yet accepted it, and we will be in Jinggeng City, Hongsha State."

"Being imprisoned, the Duke of Qian wanted to march to Menggen, join the troops of the King of Jin, and go to Annan via Dasa."

"But he was stopped by the traitor Ma Jixiang. At that time, the traitor Ma Jixiang controlled the government and deceived the emperor."

"Hou Xianning Hou Qi Sansheng once invaded the Manmo Pacification Office and submitted a petition to welcome the emperor, but the emperor issued an edict saying he had already sailed to Fujian. General, make your own plans."

"Ma Jixiang also sent an edict in the name of the Son of Heaven to all the checkpoints of Hongsha State, saying that the emperor had sailed to Fujian to join forces with the Prince of Yanping, and that any remaining soldiers would be killed."

"I'm afraid the generals who pursued the emperor at that time were discouraged and surrendered to the Eastern Tartars after hearing this."

Zhu Cixuan lay back in the chair, his mind blank.

Not to mention the Dashi Army's troops guarding and crossing the river.

After hearing the imperial edict brought back by Qi Sansheng in April, the rest of the tribes surrendered to Dai Qing Gulun one after another.

Ministers such as Zhang Zuochen, Grand Secretary of the Dongge, Gong Yi, Minister of Revenue, and Sun Shun, Minister of War, also surrendered one after another.

The Yongli Emperor's escape immediately caused the remnant Ming Dynasty, which had lasted for fourteen years, to collapse.

Li Weizhao sniffed twice and when he raised his head, his eyes were already red.

"General Gao Wengui was unable to rescue the emperor and died of depression and vomiting blood after returning to Yongchang."

"Wu Zisheng, the Marquis of Huairen, was forced to surrender to the Qing."

"General Yang Wu acted arrogantly, annexing Gao Wengui's 800 elite soldiers and demanding the title of Duke. Still not satisfied, he took Censor-in-Chief Liu Ju and other civil and military officials hostage and surrendered to Wu Sangui."

Li Weizhao paused and spoke again:
"Although there are no soldiers or generals in central Yunnan, the loyalty and righteousness of the Central Plains are widespread throughout the world. The chieftains of Yunnan and Guizhou still appreciate the country's grace. Not only did I receive the volunteer soldiers of the chieftain of Mengding, but the chieftain of Ma Nai in Guizhou Province also received the seal of the King of Jin and still serves the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Cixuan raised his hand, then put it down, unable to utter any words of comfort and solace.

The ministers of the Ming Dynasty looked at the expressionless face of the Crown Prince and were filled with suspicion.

After a while, Zhu Cixuan finally took action.

Instead, he picked up the earthenware jar filled with water on the table and threw it to the ground in anger.

The tiles cracked and water splashed.

"Again and again."

"The Ming Dynasty was destroyed by this escaped emperor!"

"He has the nerve to ask me to release those treacherous officials who have harmed the country!"

(End of this chapter)