"Is he seriously ill now?" Li Guodong received the news that it was five days later. A Clipper sent the news that Chongzhen was seriously ill to Wuchang. In this era, it took at least four days for a ship to go upstream from Nanjing to Wuchang.

"I am not very good-looking, why did I suddenly fall ill?" Cao Bianjiao felt incredible.

This incident was not surprising. In this era without antibiotics and backward medical technology, a small cold may cause a strong man to lose his life. But Li Guodong always felt that this incident was not that simple.

"No, I have to go back to Beijing to see Jin Shang. I always feel that someone has harmed Jin Shang." Li Guodong said.

Chen Zilong thought for a while and reminded: "Duke, be careful of this matter being deceitful. If there are really treacherous people who are insidious and harm the Lord, they will definitely have a backup plan and wait to trick the Lord back to the capital and harm the Lord again."

Li Guodong also felt that what Chen Zilong said was very reasonable. If someone really hurt Emperor Chongzhen, then these people must have made a secret plan! Maybe when Chongzhen died, the target of these people was himself!

Although Li Guodong threw the blame for the "disaster gentry" completely to Chongzhen and Jinyiwei, he was Chongzhen's gold medal thug after all, blocking the happy life of the land gentry to join the Qing Dynasty. Especially after Hong Chengchou threw out a series of preferential policies for the land gentry by the Qing Dynasty, the gentry began to be ready and began to target Li Guodong.

But no matter how dangerous Nanjing City is, Li Guodong must go back this time because he knows how serious the consequences will be if Chongzhen dies!

If Chongzhen dies, then Zhu Youlang, who was originally a rebel, will become a force to fight for one of the orthodox! The Ming Dynasty will become like the Southern Ming Dynasty in history. Zhu Youlang and Zhu Youjian are dissatisfied with each other, and the Ming Dynasty, who is about to quell the civil strife, will fall into a civil strife again!

According to Li Guodong's estimate, the three princes of Chongzhen should be still alive, and perhaps they had fallen into the hands of the Qing Dynasty. However, Chongzhen died, and no party holding the prince in his hand would return the prince, but would wait for the civil strife in the Ming Dynasty.

Hong Chengchou propaganda that Li Laoer defected to the eunuch party internally, charmed the pseudo-emperor of Chongzhen, harmed the upright gentry, united with bandits externally, killed gentry gentry, and robbed the gentry's fields.

Today, the Qing Dynasty did treat gentry well, and retained the old tradition of fame, tax reduction and exemption left by the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, in order to cooperate with the implementation of Hong Chengchou's strategy, Dorgon enlightenedly asked the Eight Banners who had landed land to return the land of the gentry to the gentry and re-encircle land. When re-encircle land, all the land of the gentry was marked in advance, and the Eight Banners soldiers were not allowed to encircle the land of the gentry.

Anyway, it doesn’t matter. After years of war, there are so many lands without owners.

In order to save military pay, the Green Camp soldiers became military households with half farmers and half soldiers, and distributed the fields to the Green Camps, allowing the Green Camp soldiers to cultivate the land by themselves. However, the Green Camp soldiers who became military households still had military pay, but the military pay of one tael of silver per month was reduced to four cents of silver per month, the military pay of one tael of silver per month was reduced to five cents of silver per month, and the military pay of two taels of silver per month was reduced to one tael of silver per month.

In order to solve the problem of food, Dorgon also adopted a large number of homeless victims in the northwest to coat the victims, turning those victims into coated slaves of the Eight Banners soldiers and sent them to reclaim wasteland outside the pass. Although the outside of the pass is cold, the land is fertile and the precipitation is abundant. The growing period of the wheat planted is still relatively high per mu. However, people in this era do not know how to plant rice outside the pass, otherwise the grain output can further increase.

A purified slave is a slave. Although he is a slave, it is much better than not being able to dig out a grain of food on the land. In addition, Dorgon also vigorously built water conservancy projects in the northwest disaster area, diverting the Yellow River water to irrigate the farmland, nourishing the farmland near the river, and then vigorously advocating the planting of drought-tolerant crops such as sweet potatoes and corn, which greatly alleviated the food problem.

Wu Sangui's Eight Banners of Han also reclaimed wasteland in the northwest and vigorously planted grain. With the vigorous promotion of crops such as sweet potatoes and corn, Wu Sangui's army could not only support itself, but also provide excess food to the Central Plains.

Hong Chengchou, the five provinces, also vigorously built the Yellow River water conservancy project. He was inspired by the water conservancy project built by Li Guodong before, widened the Yellow River embankment, and added an embankment outside the embankment. This embankment not only prevented the Yellow River from breaking the embankment, but also filtered the Yellow River water between the two embankments, and introduced the filtered Yellow River water into the outside canal to irrigate the farmland. With Hong Chengchou's efforts, the Central Plains, which had originally become a barren land, restored agricultural production.

Under Hong Chengchou's advice, Dorgon was deeply welcomed by the gentry of the north, and by the domestic slaves and the Eight Banners' robber slaves.

Not to mention the gentry in the north, those traditional gentry in the south were ready to move when they saw the prosperity of the Qing Dynasty.

On the Yangtze River, a fleet of ships flowed downstream. Li Guodong sat on the flagship of the Central Army and was looking at the two sides with a telescope.

"The country is like a painting, but unfortunately, when will the war be calmed down?" Li Guodong put down his telescope and sighed.

"Yes, if the war is pacified, the people can live and work in peace and contentment." Chen Zilong said.

Li Guodong smiled and said, "After quelling the civil strife, we can develop domestic production and we can still send people to overseas to seek vast land! Our Yangtze River goes straight to the East China Sea, and on the other side of the distant sea, there is a large piece of land larger than the Ming Dynasty and richer than the Ming Dynasty! It is a chosen country carefully selected by the Creator, and we want to occupy that land."

In fact, under the promotion of the evil Ming bourgeoisie and under the efforts of Zheng Zhilong's maritime merchant group, the Ming Dynasty had begun sinister colonialism.

Zheng Zhilong Sea Merchant Group actually became the country among the country in Annan on the territory leased by Annan. The Ming army was stationed in that emerging city, built a fortress, a factory warehouse port, and the industrial products produced by the Ming Dynasty were continuously imported into Annan to dump, destroying the tradition of men farming and women weaving in Annan, and plundering Annan's grain in large quantities. At the same time, Li Guodong's arsenal in Tawau also transported a large number of outdated weapons to Annan in exchange for a large amount of silver.

The loss of a large amount of silver in Annan caused panic among the Zheng family of Annan. Later, the Ming Dynasty gave Annan advice and asked Annan to export women to exchange for the weapons of the Ming Dynasty.

The Huai Army Navy fleet set off from Wuchang went downstream and after a long journey of five days and five nights, they finally arrived outside Nanjing. After arriving at the pier outside Nanjing, Li Guodong immediately took his men off the boat and headed straight to Nanjing.

"Dude, please enter the city alone. Foreign troops are not allowed to enter the capital!" When he arrived outside Sanshan Gate, Li Guodong's team was stopped by the city guards outside.

Li Guodong did not care about those people either. He asked the army to station outside Nanjing City, and he brought only one hundred personal soldiers into the city. Although there were only one hundred personal soldiers, the hundred personal soldiers were well-equipped, each soldier carried two tiger-wing guns and six grenades, including ten rifled gunmen. The personal soldiers were wearing two layers of fine armor, which was invulnerable to swords and guns. Li Guodong also made a carefully crafted silk soft armor in his big red official robe, and there were close-fitting chain mail.

The silk soft armor presses together multiple layers of raw silk, with iron sheets inside. It is not only light to wear on the body, but also has excellent protective performance. Even bird guns cannot penetrate. The disadvantage is that they are too expensive and are not fire-resistant.

As for Li Guodong's safety issues, he was not worried at all. In addition to a hundred loyal, well-equipped and highly skilled personal soldiers, the Jinyiwei in the city was actually his own people.

Li Guodong took his personal soldiers to the outside of the Forbidden City. He handed over the jade waist sign. The Jinyiwei guard at the gate immediately sent him to the palace to report. Soon after, Wang Chengen walked out of it.
Chapter completed!