Ao Bai knew very well that after the Qing court lost Hunan, it had lost half of the granary of the world. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoAt this time, in order to ensure the grain harvest, the Qing court planted sweet potatoes in a large area in the north on the one hand and developed the northern land, and Aobai was also vigorously promoting the prohibition of the banner people to enclose the land and return the land to the Han people for cultivation in order to increase grain production. In this matter, Ao Bai has offended many banner people, and Mulima also has a dispute with Bumu Butai.

Bumu Butai insisted on refusing to prohibit the enclosure of land, preferring a few more Han people to starve to death, but also to ensure that the banner people had enough land.

But Aobai persevered and eventually canceled the enclosure.

This is a bit similar to the real history, the order prohibiting the enclosure was given by Aobai, but in the real history Aobai was a sad loser, and as a result, the court decree of canceling the enclosure of the banner people and benefiting the Han people has become the credit of the first emperor Kang Mazi through the ages, so that the full legacy of later generations can sing the praises of the first emperor through the ages.

In fact, many decrees in favor of the Han people were issued by Aobai, and Aobai was very clear that the Manchus were not suitable to be magistrates, and the Manchus could not manage the land well.

The Ming army seized the grain and grass Hunan, so that the decree prohibiting the enclosure of the banner people was issued a few years earlier than in history.

In order to ensure the grain harvest, Aobai also adopted another countermeasure: to withdraw the mulberry fields in Jiangning, Anqing, Yangzhou and other places and restore them to rice fields. This decree is another decree that offends the banner people.

It is precisely because of the Huguang granary that the Qing court almost no longer grows grain in Jiangnan, but plants mulberry trees and tea forests, which is the most important financial income in Jiangnan! Mulberry trees can raise silkworms to obtain raw silk, which provides raw materials for Jiangnan manufacturing; Tea trees can grow a large amount of tea, which is also an important financial income.

Tea is a very important fiscal revenue, in fact, it is not less than the salt tax. The Qing Dynasty is not the Ming Dynasty, and the Donglin Party can still reduce the taxes of the profiteering ranks of tea and brewing to a negligible level? That's not a thought about it.

In fact, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, all kinds of textile, tea-making, wine-making and other workshops had blossomed everywhere, and the Donglin Party desperately reduced taxes for its own interests, which finally led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

But after the Qing court came, could these sheep shearing industries keep their taxes so low? Of course not! After the Qing court wielded a butcher's knife and killed a group of people, it established the Jiangning Weaving Mansion and set up tea as a monopoly, just like the salt introduction, the sale of tea must have a tea introduction, and at the same time raised the liquor tax.

As soon as these measures of the Qing court were implemented, the financial revenue compared to the Ming Dynasty came up like a rocket.

In fact, things like tea introduction and tea horse division have existed in the Song Dynasty, and Cai Jing came up with the tea introduction method. In the Ming Dynasty, the tea tax in Zhejiang Province during the Wanli period could still reach 200,000 taels. However, during the Chongzhen period, the tea tax was basically abolished. The Qing court also set up the Tea and Horse Division and set up the tea imperial history, which was just a restoration of the practice of the predecessors.

And these specially set up institutions, such as the weaving house manufacturing and the tea and horse division tea imperial history, those positions are all fat and poor, and naturally they are all held by banner people.

Aobai wants to return mulberry fields to rice fields and tea forests to farmland, and these policies are naturally very offensive to the banner people.

"Shi Junmen doesn't have to worry about the grain, the old man already has a countermeasure, and the grain output can still come up." Ao Bai said confidently.

Of course, Shi Lang knows those countermeasures, those are ways to reduce the financial revenue of the Qing Dynasty! So Shi Lang said very anxiously: "Although Zhongtang's method can increase grain production, the financial revenue will decrease. In order for the Qing Dynasty to defeat the thieves in the south, it also needs to strengthen the sailors. To strengthen the sailor, you need silver. If the silver is reduced, the sailor will not be as good as a person, and it will be difficult to deal with the pirates! It's a vicious circle! To solve this problem, you have to be proactive. ”

If the Ming army held Hunan and competed for silver for a long time, the Qing court would naturally not be able to fight. If Jiangning loses again, the entire south will fall into the hands of the Ming army.

In fact, the strategy formulated by Wang Xinyu to take Huguang first and then Jiangning is correct. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not seize Huguang, but only relied on the south of the Yangtze River, even if it cut off the Qing court's transportation, it could not do anything, and finally failed.

"Shi Junmen's method is to take the initiative? However, the pirates and thieves have sharp firearms, and they occupy the fortified city and hold on. If our army attacks and fights with the thieves, I am afraid it will be extremely unfavorable to our army! In the end, Ao Bai did not agree to Shi Lang's initiative to attack, but relied on Wuchang to defend the city.

In fact, Aobai's method cannot be said to be wrong, the Qing army lost several field battles in the south, and once the Qing army left the fortified city, there was a fear of the Qiongzhou army. If the Qing army is allowed to attack the Qiongzhou army stationed in the fortified city? Then don't even fight! The Qing army also saw the defensive techniques of the Ming army.

If it was held on to a strong city, the Qing army could resist for a while.

Moreover, according to Aobai's idea, as long as the Ming army attacked the Wuchang defense line, the Qing army could also use the fortification group to maneuver and carefully divide and eliminate the Ming army that broke through.

In the blink of an eye, it was the sixth day of the Lunar New Year. Although the Ming army remained vigilant in the past few days, it temporarily suspended routine training. After the food level was improved, the Ming army was already able to practice every day. The previous army, even the most elite Qi family army, was able to reach the level of training once every three days.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, the Ming army resumed drills, and the newly incorporated Guangdong army, Fujian army, and Gui army also carried out daily queue training and confrontation training, just like the Qiongzhou army. The auxiliary soldiers had to carry out weight-bearing marching training and chariot training every day, so as to lay a solid foundation for the Northern Expedition after crossing the river in the future.

In the future, when the Ming army crosses the river, it will no longer be able to rely on the sailors for transportation. The Ming army on the eastern front could pass through the canal, and could barely rely on the cooperation of the naval division to advance, but the Ming army on the middle road would eventually have to face the Qing cavalry maneuvering on the plain.

In fact, Wang Xinyu also had a Northern Expedition route, which was to use the navy to take the sea route, enter directly from the Bohai Bay, land in Tianjin, and directly attack the capital.

On the school field, two teams of Ming Army killers are fighting in teams. The firearms soldier in the back, with a musket in his hand and a brick hanging from the muzzle, was conducting aiming training. It was Li Tianzhi's Yue army and Lian Chengren's Gui army that were fighting against each other.

In the confrontation exercise, both sides wore cotton protective gear and held long or short wooden sticks in their hands instead of knives and guns, and the heads of the wooden sticks were wrapped in cloth with ash powder inside. After a confrontation, Li Tianzhi's people retreated in disgrace.

"Brethren! Fight for it! Don't lose to Guangxi people again! Li Tianzhi was obviously very anxious.

In today's three confrontations, Li Tianzhi's Cantonese army lost all of them, and they lost to the Guangxi soldiers, not the Guangxi wolf soldiers, but the ordinary Guangxi soldiers! It is the Guangxi Yuanjia Green Battalion Army.

The quality of the Lianjia Army is indeed not bad, and it is an elite army. The Lian family was suppressed by Kong Sizhen before, and even the military uniform was not in order. Now that they have joined the Ming army, they have changed into new military uniforms, and they look much neater and tidy.

Although the combat effectiveness of the Lianjia Army and the Qiongzhou Army could not be compared, the Guangdong Army was not an opponent at all. After three confrontation training in the morning, Li Tianzhi lost all three battles.

The fourth confrontation began, and this time Li Tianzhi was full of strength, but the result was disappointing, and the Cantonese army was defeated again. Whether it is individual skills or teaming up to cooperate in combat, the Guangdong army is not an opponent.

Lian Chengren said with a smile: "General Li, this army of a certain is actually not elite, if it encounters a wolf soldier, a certain is not their opponent!" ”

Next, the Lianjia army sent people to confront the wolf soldiers, and the result was a crushing defeat. Two hundred men from each side marched into a formation. With just a stick of incense, the Lianjia army was sentenced to be annihilated, and the wolf soldiers only lost less than 100 people.

Cen Jilu, the general of the Tusi Division, arched his hand and said: "General Lianxiao admits it!" ”

Lian Chengren blushed and saluted: "General Cen, this is just a training ground, if it really goes to the battlefield, I'm afraid that the wolf soldiers will lose less than twenty people, and our army will be scattered!" ”

If it is really on the battlefield, the losing side will be afraid, once the loss exceeds a certain amount, the whole formation will collapse, and finally lead to the rout of the whole army, the opponent will chase and kill behind, so the loss of the winning side will be smaller.

"Qiongzhou Army! It's the Qiongzhou Army here! At this moment, the soldiers on the school grounds shouted.

It was the soldiers of Wu Zhudan, and the Qiongzhou sergeants and soldiers lined up in neat steps and walked into the school field. This elite hand-to-hand combat force is composed of sword and shield men at the front, sword soldiers at the back, and heavy infantry with a mixture of spears and halberds at the back.

At the request of everyone, the Qiongzhou army launched a confrontation with the wolf soldiers.

The Qiongzhou army sent 200 people, and the wolf soil soldiers also sent 200 people, and the two sides lined up to conduct confrontation drills.

As soon as the confrontation between the two sides began, the Qiongzhou army had the upper hand. Although the combat effectiveness of the wolf soil soldiers is very strong, it is also strange to say that the elite wolf soil soldiers were beaten back by the Qiongzhou army in the same case of using cold weapons, and in less than a while, two hundred wolf soil soldiers were sentenced to be annihilated, and the Qiongzhou army only lost more than 50 people!

"Strong army! This is the real strongest army in the world! Li Tianzhi sighed.

I have heard for a long time that the soldiers of the Qiongzhou Army are more afraid of the commander than they are afraid of the enemy, and it is said that it is the strongest army in the world that can really fight to the death until the rest of the people do not retreat!

In fact, even if such an army uses cold weapons, it is also a modern army. The other armies of that year were still feudal armies. The loss of more than 20% of the feudal army will be defeated, the modern army can all be killed without taking a step back, and when the enemy comes up, the Qiongzhou army can die with the enemy!

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, in addition to the army began to resume training, the boatmen on the Hengzhou River also began to work. Oak wood brought from Canton was laid on the ground, first with a keel, and then with the construction of a chariot and ship.

Thousands of miles away on Dongfan Island, the gun factory was closed during the Spring Festival, and on the sixth day of the first lunar month, the gun factory started again.

The workers in the factory are in full swing, producing new guns and all kinds of ammunition. The ironworks and armor factories made sharp knives and guns, new steel armor. (To be continued.) )