Take a look, take a look...... A corrupt official in the Ming Dynasty also had such insight!

Li Zicheng was a little desperate, he turned his head and looked at Liu Zongmin, do you understand?

Marquis Liu is still ignorant, "How can farmers be an industry?" They are not houses, they are not land, they are living people! ”

Still don't understand...... Li Zicheng turned his head again and looked at Tao Da's corrupt official viciously.

"Of course, farmers are an industry, not much different from land and real estate. It's just that you can't buy and sell openly......"

Tao Xingjin paused, and then said, "Anyway, this bit of peasant land, in the past, the landlord ate and gave a little to the imperial court." Now the gentry and landlords on the ground in Jingzhou Mansion, Chengtian Mansion, Xiangyang Mansion, and De'an Mansion have all asked you to sweep up.

The crown prince and his nobles in Beifu have blackened the rest again, so the households and farmland are the property of the imperial court, and the imperial court can only receive more than 2 million stone white rice in Huguang in the past, if there is no gentry and landlords to follow the fertilizer, I am afraid that a government will be more than two million, and the farmers' pay may be a little less than when they originally carried the work for the landlord, isn't this the joy of the upper and lower levels......

Tao Xingjin pointed out an unspoken rule that everyone knows about landlords and ladies - most of the peasants are working as cattle and horses, they are the labor force of the attached land, not the owner of the land, even if they have a title deed, it is useless, it is the same gentry and the food of the government.

The scholars and the court were the masters of the peasants and the land, but the shares of these two were not equally shared, and the scholars felt that they had a share of ninety percent, perhaps ninety-five. The imperial court accounted for only five to ten percent!

Of course, this is not only the cognition of scholars and doctors in Southeast Lake, Guangzhou, Fujian and Guangdong, but also the scholars and nobles in Beijing!

It's just that those northern nobles lost their property and went to Jiangnan empty-handed, so they followed Zhu Cihong and wanted to eat the share of the southern scholars, and then share a share of it...... Whoever thinks that the Beifu Army will be a revolutionary soldier is almost as wise as Emperor Chongzhen.

Zhu Cihong is a smart person, so he has been trying to satisfy the selfishness of the Beifu Group, and at the same time, he is also fighting for the largest share for himself.

He brought troops to Huguang this time to grab money, which is similar to Li Zicheng. But the difference between him and Li Zicheng is that he also needs the existence of the gentry and powerful groups in the southeast, Huguang, and Fujian and Guangdong.

It is not possible to destroy them all and turn them into a group of northerners to dominate the southeast...... Because the northerner group was more conservative, more backward, and more feudal than the gentry and powerful people in the southeast, Huguang, Fujian and Guangdong.

Such as Wu Xiang, Wu Sanfu, Li Yan, Hao Shaoqi, Feng San, Zhu Chunchen, Zhu Chunjie, Li Guozhen, Zhang Shize, these people, to put it bluntly, are feudal military aristocrats, if they rely on them completely, Zhu Cihong will not be able to lead the Ming Dynasty to jump out of the cycle of law.

The gentry in the southeast, Huguang, Fujian, and Guangdong are strong and strong, because the environment in which they live has reached the embryonic stage of capitalism, and they have relatively easy access to Western knowledge and technology.

For example, Li Zicheng, a native of Ningbo, Tao Xingjin is a talent!

Li Zicheng looked at Tao Zhixian and nodded approvingly, the prince of Zhu Thief is really full of talents!

"Go down first," Li Zicheng instructed, "go back and give him an official." ”

Talents can't be let go, they have to be arrested and sent to Sichuan to be an official!

Tao Xingjin was anxious when he heard it: "The king spares his life, the king spares his life!" The youngest one has an eighty-year-old mother and a three-year-old child, but can you ...... You can't follow the king to Sichuan! ”

"Wait," Li Zicheng waved his hand, stopping the old battalion soldiers who were about to capture Tao Dazhi County, "Tao Zhixian, how do you know that you are going to enter Sichuan?" ”

Tao Xingjin was stunned and stunned - I know everything! Who doesn't know that you can't get along in Huguang, so you're going to Sichuan to grab Zhang Xianzhong's foundation?

"Great, king," Tao Zhixian stammered and explained, "isn't this obvious?" Hankou had already called Grandpa Wu (Wu Sanfu) to fight down, and the poor peasants in Xiangyang and Nanyang were stirred up again. How can the king still gain a foothold in Huguang? Now that the thieves and the officials and soldiers in Sichuan are in full swing, doesn't the king just go to collect the profits of the fishermen? ”

"Nonsense!" Li Zicheng made a face, "How can you be a fisherman?" If you want to enter Sichuan, you will help Lao Zhang fight the Zhu thief and soldiers, and he will not take Lao Zhang's territory. ”

Tao Zhixian whispered: "King, "Three Kingdoms" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Ni (I) have also read ......"

Li Zicheng sighed, this is really ...... why doesn't the book of "Three Kingdoms" teach people well? It's all a conspiracy and trickery, and it has taught people's hearts badly! If you sit in the world, you must ban these books!

"Go down, go down...... Take good care of him, you can't let him escape! Li Zicheng thought that thousands of people knew how Uncle Liu Huang had cheated Liu Zhang, and his mood was so bad that he went home. didn't have the heart to talk nonsense with Tao Xingjin, and with a wave of his hand, he let people escort him down.

Of course, you can't let it go, and you have to be an official for him when you get to Sichuan!

When he was in a depressed mood, Li Guo, who stayed in Jiangling, sent someone to send an urgent military report to Li Zicheng.

Zhu Cihong's 20,000-strong army had crossed the Yangtze River and made a detour from Jiangling City to the west, heading to Huya Mountain!

"Huya Mountain?"

Li Zicheng gasped a big breath of heat (it was hot, there was no coolness), and the beads of sweat on his big forehead were scared.

It's not that Lao Li likes to be surprised, but Zhu Cihong made an extraordinary move this time, and he didn't panic when he wanted to seize Jiangling City. Because there is nothing of value in Gangneung Castle anymore, but it is just a bit of political symbolism.

The materials moved out of Jiangling City, including grain, gold and silver, cloth, ordnance (the accumulated good things of the Zuo family's army), chariots and horses, were all moved to the Huya Mountain camp for storage.

It can be said that the Huya Mountain camp is the fundamental place of Li Zicheng in Jingzhou Mansion!

Moreover, the area around Huya Mountain is still the main road for Li Zicheng to enter Sichuan in the west, which cannot be said to be a must-pass, but it is absolutely the most convenient for Li Zicheng, who placed the main force in Jingzhou, to enter Sichuan, but to take Huya Mountain, which was known as Yaoting in ancient times.

As soon as Zhu Cihong made a move, he pounced on Huya Mountain, this is to block his Li Zicheng's way to go west!

"Emperor," Liu Zongmin was also anxious, "You can't ask the Zhu thief to take Huya Mountain, otherwise the hundreds of thousands of brothers will have to end up!" ”

"Emperor, it's still too late to return to the army immediately," Gu Junen also said, "We have a large horse team, so we can let the horse team go first, and we can reach Huya Mountain in two days at most." The defenders on Huya Mountain are not too few, and the Marquis of Jiangling will also send reinforcements, so they can hold it for a few days......"

Grandma Qin Liangyu is right, Li Zicheng, who became the emperor, is indeed not as open as in the past, because he has too many interests to protect. If you have to defend here and defend there, the limited number of troops will naturally be scattered, and there will be fewer troops that can be used to cut people at the edge of the knife.

For example, there are only more than 30,000 elite soldiers in the old battalion (excluding auxiliary soldiers) who are now following Li Zicheng. After absorbing the rest of Zuo Mengeng's troops, the total number of Li Zicheng's old battalion soldiers has reached 110,000.

In addition to the 30,000 that Li Zicheng brought with him, Xi'an Mansion and Fengxiang Mansion also left 24,500 people, Xiangyang, Nanyang, Yunyang, Hanzhong, De'an, Chengtian and other six prefectures placed about 25,000, Hanyang Mansion had 10,000 people, and Jiangling (including Huya Mountain) placed about 20,000.

"No," Li Zicheng thought for a while, but still shook his head, "I can't go back to Huya Mountain!" ”

Liu Zongmin asked anxiously: "Emperor, what should we do?" ”

Gu Junen asked, "Do you want to fight Wuchang Mansion?" ”

"Don't go to Wuchang," Li Zicheng waved his hand, "There are at least 15,000 new troops of Zhu Thief in Wuchang Mansion, and there are 20,000 or 30,000 sailors nearby, and they can't be defeated...... Ehs, go and fight to the death with the Zhu thief! ”

"Fight to the death?" Gu Junen asked, "Where to go?" ”

"Go to the police!" Li Zicheng snorted, "If he pounces on Huya Mountain, he will go to the public security!" Pounced on the back road of the Zhu thief! He paused, "Send an order to Li Guo, telling him to abandon Jiangling and transfer the whole army to Huya Mountain!" ”