Forbidden City, Wuying Hall.

"Your Majesty, if these bandits do not hurt them, they will never surrender." As Li Zicheng's planner, Gu Junen's status has become increasingly stable. At present, Niu Jinxing is busy ascending the great ceremony, Tian Jianxiu and Song Xiance are busy recovering the stolen goods and searching. Li Zicheng's strategic problem is mainly to seek Gu Junen's opinions.

"What do you mean is to send Liu Fangliang to fight?" Li Zicheng frowned: "Now Wu Sangui has occupied Yongping Prefecture and is clamoring to come to fight Beijing. There are many Zhu Chao surrendered troops among the 60,000 people in Beijing. If Liu Fangliang is not transferred back, how can he fight Wu Sangui in the east?"

Gu Junen said: "Your Majesty, I think that Beijing is tall and thick, and there are red-clothed cannons in the gate, so you should take the defensive momentum. You can send a large army of Cihou to the south to collect Jiangnan and support Huguang. Once Jiangnan Huguang is recovered, there will be plenty of silver and grain, and then use the whole country to attack a corner of Liao Town. It is a complete complete."

Li Zicheng couldn't help but walk around. Niu Jinxing also advised him to ascend the Great Ceremony first, obtain a great reputation, and then manage the capital, Qin and Jin, and guide Huguang and Jiangnan... However, seeing that only Guanning is left in the world, if it can be destroyed, the remnant Ming will never be able to revive. Jiangnan, Huguang can also be issued an edict, and he can leave Beijing with confidence. In his opinion, Xijing is a place more suitable for governing the world and living, at least with a more intimate language.

"Emperor," Gu Junen saw Li Zicheng hesitating and said, "If Guan Ning is really pacified, I am afraid that the troops will be divided again, and the troops that can be sent south will not be enough."

Li Zicheng's brows frowned even more, and he asked, "How is the city recovering the stolen goods now?"

Gu Junen replied: "I have never participated in this matter. I only heard that it was a huge amount of one million taels the day before yesterday."

Li Zicheng then relaxed his brows and said, "We should try Wu Sangui first! Otherwise, it would be more troublesome to fight the four cities of Yongping when he gained a foothold in the pass. If he was aware of his qualifying and surrendering to him, I would still guard Liaodong, but I would be demoted to a duke and never be called king."

Gu Junen knew that this was Li Zicheng's concern that it would be difficult to balance within the Dashun Army. If all the surrendered generals of Wu Sangui could be granted the title of king, wouldn't Liu Zongmin and Tian Jianxiu, the important generals who started with Li Zicheng, also have to be granted the title of king? If only the Duke of Wu Sangui, it would be enough to give those Hou Bo's reign to be given first-class titles - it would be a big taboo to be granted to the title of kings in a different surname.

"And I still have two things I can't let go of." After Li Zicheng returned to the imperial case, he said slowly: "One is the deposed emperor Zhu Youjian. If he arrived in Nanjing, he would still have the soldiers from Jiangzhen, and the strong soldiers under Prince Zhu made me feel uneasy. The other is the Manchu Eastern Captain. Last year, the slave chief Huang Taiji died, and they established a six-year-old boy named Fulin, and now Dorgon, the fourteenth son of the old chief Nurhaci, is in power."

Li Zicheng paused and continued, "When we first conquered Shanxi, Dorgon sent a letter from the Ordos tribe to Yulin Guard. Wang Liangzhi (Wang Genzi) sent the letter to me, and it stated that he would cooperate with me and take the Central Plains to share wealth and honor. This reminded me of when Huang Taiji was not dead, every time he met our people when he entered the pass, he always spoke kindly, sometimes he gave food and horses, and never fought. In this way, these Manchu Tartars had been thinking about the Han area for a day or two.

"I have been thinking about it for the past two days, just to depose the emperor and confer the title of king Wu Sangui. I suddenly figured it out: I am afraid that the deposed emperor would have known that the Manchu Tartars had a meaning of affair with the world. I was not afraid that he would surrender to me, but that he would abandon the door and put the Manchus in!"

This is the first time Gu Junen heard about this. He guessed that Li Zicheng didn't take Dorgon's letters to heart, so he didn't come out to discuss it. However, Dorgon was really delusional. Does the world still need him to "compete for the joint efforts"? The Dashun army is powerful, and it is only a matter of time and time to get in the world. Where is his turn to get a share of the pie?

Li Zicheng continued: "If I don't capture Guanning first, what if the Manchu Tartars break into the border wall from Mongolia and harass the west of Beijing, and the army is nailed to Beijing and cannot move. How should we resist? If Wu Sangui is trampling on the inside and making an appointment with the Manchu Tartars to attack, and the deposed emperor echoes the south, can this Beijing city still be defended?"

Only then did Gu Junen realize that Li Zicheng was worried. He also pondered: "There was also an allusion to borrow the soldiers of Tubo's foreign tribes during the Tang Dynasty. It is true that Wu Sangui had to make peace with the Donglu."

Li Zicheng said: "This is why I insist on beating Wu Sangui first. I don't have to fight to Guangning. As long as I go down to Shanhaiguan, our people will guard it. At least I don't have to worry about being beaten on both ends."

Gu Junen pondered for a moment, proposed a compromise plan, and said, "Your Majesty, why not let Cihou lead 10,000 troops south, you should be able to fight against the remnant Ming army." According to the news received by Gu Junen, there are almost no established Ming army in Shandong now, and there is no Ming army south of the capital until Xuzhou.

The Ming army guard was an old acquaintance. He was Gao Jie, who fled from Shanxi to Hebei, then into Shandong, and finally to Xuzhou. Such a frightened bird and thousands of remaining soldiers, Liu Fangliang led 10,000 people to destroy it.

Li Zicheng thought for a while and said, "It's good that this is good. It depends on where Liu Fangliang can fight. He will transfer the elite to Beijing first. The incident of the Eastern Expedition is urgent, so Wu Sangui cannot grow stronger again."

Gu Junen responded.

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"Your family has not registered yet? If you don't go, you will lose a lot!"

"What's the point of getting into that household registration? Maybe you'll be recruiting people again."

"Who are you recruiting? Don't you know? The imperial edict has been posted to the village. The emperor is now in Shandong, and all corvee labor in the province will be exempted! From now on, they will hire workers and pay for wages! The government will also use the household registration to refer to the land, grain and seeds. If you have less than one person in your family, you will have less than one piece of land! Qiantun is thinking about how to report more people to the population, but your family is still hiding it?"

"Really or not?"

"Why don't you believe it? The wife of Zhao Shitou's family in Qiantun just gave birth to a girl and went to register her household registration that day. This time she was also given acre of three cents of land, just like having a boy!"

"How much money does it cost to register for a household registration?"

"The government has already paid for it, so don't even have a penny!"

"Hey? Then I'll go and have a look."

"Bring more dry food, there are too many people waiting in line at the yamen to register." The neighbor yawned and said, "I've been waiting for three days."

...

In the Ming Dynasty system, military households were not counted as Dingkou. The land under the jurisdiction of the garrison, including military farmland and civilian fields within the jurisdiction, was not counted on the Ministry of Revenue’s grain book. This led to the collapse of the garrison system, military fields became private fields but did not pay taxes. Military households went bankrupt and became tenant farmers. Not only did they not enjoy the military pay allocated by the state, they also had to bear the land rent.

The resulting population and land are hidden, and the amount is so large that Zhu Cilang dared not imagine.

"The deposed and established a county starts with Lingshan Guard!" Zhu Cixuan announced at the administrative work meeting.

Lingshan Guard is a typical real-world guard, that is, a guard with land.

According to the design of Emperor Taizu Gao, the garrison was not a simple military institution, but an administrative system with military characteristics. The general administrative system of the Ming Dynasty was the six departments of the prefecture, county-prefecture, prefecture-administrative department, Zhili Prefecture, and prefecture-central department. The system of the garrison was the Thousand Household Office of the Dushi of the Wei, Zhili Dushi, Xingdushi, and Zhili Wei.

The garrison not only had the power to manage military households and households within the jurisdiction, but also had judicial jurisdiction involving military household cases. With the skills of Zhang Juzheng, the famous prime minister of Wanli, the land and the number of people in the clearance of the garrison were limited to the general administrative system and did not touch the garrison system. During the Shunzhi period, the Qing Dynasty had not yet unified the country, but the area of ​​arable land exceeded the number of arable land in the 30th year of Wanli.

Considering that the 30th year of Wanli was the peak of the Ming Dynasty, and during the Chongzhen and Shunzhi periods, the phenomenon of abandoning cultivated land was serious due to natural disasters and wars.

By entering and leaving, you can tell what a terrible number the land under the Wei Office is!

There are two sufficient reasons why Zhu Cilang started with Lingshan Guard.

First, Lingshanwei is located in Jiaozhou Bay. Jiaozhou Bay is the largest unfreezing port in Shandong. It is located in the southern part of the Shandong Peninsula. The materials transported from Jiangnan are mainly ashore at the entrance of Qingdao.

Second, Lingshanwei and Fushan Front will be the main part of Qingdao City in the future, locking the entire Jiaozhou Bay.

Qingdao’s significance to Shandong and even the entire eastern coastal coast, no one who has seen the map of China should remain indifferent. Zhu Cixuan of course spared no effort to control and develop such key areas. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile phone users please go to m. Read.)
Chapter completed!