"What? The Tartars were defeated miserably under the city of Datong? Really? ”

In the Imperial City of Chang'an, in the Wuying Palace, Li Zicheng, the son of Dashun, looked suspiciously at a messenger of the Datong Ming army who slipped to Chang'an disguised as a Jin merchant.

The messenger's name was Chen Yongxi, twenty-four or five years old, with beautiful eyebrows, and he looked like a white-faced scholar. He is a talent from Dingxiang County, which is subordinate to Taiyuan Prefecture, and of course he is a big landlord in his family. Because Li Zicheng implemented free grain and rent exemption in Taiyuan Mansion (the rent exemption was not carried out by Li Zicheng, but the peasants refused to pay the gentry grain), which caused them to be very dissatisfied, so they and their two brothers took some family property to Datong under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and invested in Wang Yongji's shogunate, experiencing the first siege of Datong.

Although the first siege of Datong ended in the "victory" of the Ming army, Chen Yongxi was not optimistic about the future of Datong Mansion at all.

Although the Qing army has now retreated according to the agreement, but outside the city of Datong is hundreds of miles of red land, everywhere are the villages, towns, forts and forts that were captured and burned by the Qing soldiers, only the two acropolis of Datong Right Guard and Wei Yuanwei are remote and the city defense is particularly strong has not been broken by the Qing army. But even if it is not breached, the farmland around Datong Right Guard and Wei Yuanwei has all been abandoned!

Chen Yongxi came out of the city of Datong Mansion until he entered the Luliang Mountains, and the places he passed through were all barren. On both sides of the official road, you can only see the dilapidated villages and towns and fortresses that have passed the fire, and the dry bones of people and animals, and you can't see a field where seeds have been sown

This spring's farming time is wrong, and there will be no harvest in autumn!

When the Tartars come to besiege the city again, how long can Datong last?

Although he knew that the situation in Datong Mansion was precarious, the object of Chen Yongxi's hatred was still Li Zicheng!

Because after the siege of Datong was lifted, he had already contacted the Dingxiang family - now the Dingxiang family can happily collect land rent again! One of his cousins voted for Tartar and served as an official in the shogunate of Prince Yu of Tartar, and with this backstage, the Dingxiang Chen family's farm house was insured.

Therefore, it is not only necessary to continue to collect rents and debts from tenants, but also to intensify it!

What the? Can Shanxi's landlords get even more aggressive now?

Of course!

This is still the credit of Dolgon, who enclosed land, occupied houses, and invested in the construction of land around the city of Beijing, and drove away many Han people. A considerable number of these people went to the Dashun Dynasty, which was exempted from taxation for three years, and only when they arrived in Shanxi, they became the people of the Qing Dynasty again.

These people who dragged their families from Beizhili could not be self-cultivated farmers, so they had to rent land and become tenants. As soon as there were many foreign tenants, the tenant rents in Shanxi naturally rose.

In addition, the Qing Dynasty still has to collect taxes - now there is no saying that the gentry are exempt from grain, and they all have to collect taxes! Of course, this land tax was passed on to the tenants.

The tenants of Shanxi finally took a breather under Li Zicheng's rule, and now they have become the fat pigs of the landlords and continue to be slaughtered!

By the way, it is also worth mentioning that because there were nine major Jin merchants who voted for the Qing Dynasty and did a lot of things for the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, the Qing Dynasty also took care of the gentry in Shanxi, and also made many Shanxi gentry have a good impression of the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, Chen Yongxi is a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty. This time, he took his wife and children with him, and he was going to take them to Jiangnan together, and he would not return to Shanxi in the future, and would go to the prince to find an official position. Their Chen family can't just hang themselves on a tree in the Qing Dynasty, and they have to bet on both ends.

However, Li Zicheng still has to be pitted - although Zhu Cihong really wants to join forces with Li Zicheng to fight against the Qing Dynasty, but the landlord class bureaucrats under him all regard Li Zicheng as a more vicious enemy than the Tartars!

So when he heard Li Zicheng's question, he said with a smile: "Emperor, there is no way to deceive this matter, if the siege of Datong is not solved, can the lower officials drag their families to Chang'an?" Besides, the emperor, you sent someone to Datong to see it, you know? The Qing troops have withdrawn south across the Sanggan River! If they hadn't been defeated in Datong City, would they have retreated so far? ”

Li Zicheng thought about it and thought it was this reason! The Tartars didn't eat the blood loss, and they were able to retreat from under the city of Datong? It seems that this Jiang Hao can really fight! I knew that I should have won him over and took his Datong army to Shanhaiguan together.

However, it is always a good thing that the Tartars suffered blood losses in Datong, and the front line of Yulin and Yan'an should be safe, and Datong should be able to contain some more Tartar troops.

After sending Chen Yongxi away, Li Zicheng immediately summoned his generals and ministers to the Wuying Palace for military discussion.

"Finally some good news!" Li Zicheng looked at a group of subordinates with a smile, "The Tartars suffered a blood loss in Datong, and they were defeated by Jiang Hao for a while, and there were thousands of people gone!" ”

"Really?"

"The surname Jiang is so powerful?"

"It shouldn't be wrong, didn't Yulinwei report that the Tartars relieved the siege of Datong?"

"That could be true!"

"This Jiang Jiu is still alive!"

Li Zicheng coughed, and the big guys stopped talking. Li Zicheng said with a smile: "The Tartars suffered a defeat in Datong, and it is also good for the foreheads, at least it is impossible for the Tartars in Beijing to reinforce the Tartars in the east of Fenglingdu and Tongguan."

In addition, it's okay for Wu Sangui's dog thief to go to Ningxia, otherwise there will be tens of thousands of more accomplices on the other side of Tongguan! ”

"Emperor, we really don't care about Wu Sangui?" Liu Zongmin asked hatefully.

"Don't care about him, he won't be able to beat Chang'an anyway!" Li Zicheng gritted his teeth and said to Gao Yigong, "Yigong, you take the new attached battalion to guard Chang'an!" ”

"Emperor, don't worry, the minister will definitely not let Wu Sangui's thief take Chang'an!"

Gao Yigong's new attached camp has 15,000 people, and it is indeed not easy to break it when it is used to guard Chang'an Jiancheng. And Wu Sangui doesn't need to knock Chang'an City to death, if he has exhausted his strength, will Tartar still make him the king of officials?

Li Zicheng nodded, and said: "Send a decree to the Marquis of Xiangjing again, tell him to garrison Nanyang, wait for the opportunity to march to Kaifeng Mansion, and copy the back road of the Tartars!" ”

It's still a trick to copy people's back roads! Huaiqing's counterattack last time was good, and he almost turned the tables, so Li Zicheng wanted to repeat his old trick.

"Emperor," Song Xiance said at this time, "Do we want to contact the Ming Dynasty again?" These days, Zhu Cihong, the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, has reorganized the army and experienced martial arts, and there is quite a bit of revitalization. ”

Li Zicheng snorted: "The little prince of the Ming Dynasty is treacherous and cruel, I'm afraid that the last forehead who is not so good will fall into his way and lose Shanxi in vain!" ”

Last time, he was pitted by Wang Yongji and Jiang Xuan, and he really had nothing to do with Zhu Cihong. But who made Zhu Cihong notorious, and everyone knew that he was treacherous and murderous? So the treacherous bad deeds must have been done by him!

Song Xiance smiled, looking confident, "This time he must not dare to deceive the emperor again!" ”

"Why?" Li Zicheng asked.

"Because Emperor Chongzhen's fifth son, Zhu Cihuan, is still in the hands of the emperor!"

"What's the use of this doll?"

"It's so useful!" Song Xiance said with a smile, "Does the emperor remember Zhu Cizhao who was sent to Zuo Liangyu's army by us?" ”

"Remember, what's going on with this kid now?"

Song Xiance said: "The minister just got the news that Zhu Cizhao is going to ask for a lady." ”

"What? Pleasing a lady? How old is this kid? Li Zicheng was stunned, "Whose daughter are you pending?" ”

Song Xiance said with a smile: "Zhu Cizhao's fiancée, the emperor, you know Zuo Mengmei!" ”

"Zuo Mengmei?" Li Zicheng laughed, "It's also thanks to Zuo Liangyu who can figure out that Zhu Cihong, the little rabbit cub, shouldn't be able to sleep now." ”

Song Xiance smiled again: "Zhu Cihong is now in power in the southeast, with money, soldiers, land and population, but he did not dare to usurp the throne and ascend to the pole, he must be worried that Zuo Liangyu will set up another court in Wuchang." However, compared to Zuo Liangyu's strength, the Tartar side is what worries him the most! If Zhu Cihuan falls into the hands of the Tartars, is made the emperor, and uses his name to march into Shandong, can Zhu Cihong still sleep in Nanjing? ”

"Wonderful! Wonderful! Li Zicheng stroked his palms and laughed, "The military advisor can be regarded as a second meter!" If Zhu Cihong, this kid dares to bully each other again, he will send Zhu Cihuan to Beijing to Dolgon! ”