Deng Ming felt that the question raised by Xiong Lan really needed to be considered, although not all veterans were as calculating as Xiong Lan, but most people had their own little abacus, and with a precedent, it would be difficult to do the discharge work in the future.

"We can't let the soldiers who are the first to respond to the government's call for immigrants suffer," after a little thought, Deng Ming made up his mind: "All soldiers who sign to leave the army can automatically enjoy the most favored treatment for ten years." What is MFP? That is, no matter what preferential terms are negotiated in the next ten years, his treatment will automatically increase, and it will be on par with the best and latest conditions. For example, when a soldier signs to leave the army, the condition set is to compensate him with 200 mu, and someone talks about 500 mu, then he will automatically get a gain of 300 mu; For example, at the beginning, it was said that ten acres of mountain forest was converted into one acre of cultivated land, and later there were people who converted it into twenty to one, so he also had to get the same proportion of compensation. Moreover, this is only upward, not downward, and if the compensation conditions in the future are not as good as theirs, the government has no right to take back the land that has been granted to them. ”

Several participants of the "10-year ......" were hesitant, because they all felt that nothing would necessarily happen in such a long period of time, and that if the most favored terms were set, the government would only be able to suffer losses in the future, but it would not be possible to take advantage.

"Guogong's method is good!" Xiong Lan was the first to express his support, he clapped his hands and shouted: "This is really a salary draw from the bottom of the kettle, most people have no worries, and they will go to Mianzhu, Jiangyou and other places to enclose land first; Those who stayed and worked carefully with the government must understand that he did not take advantage of his hard work, and everyone was treated the same; And the land close to the county seat and the land far away from the county seat are definitely not the same price, when he bargained with the government, the best land was completely circled by the first person. ”

If there are many veterans who refuse to be compensated for discharge, the government will also have a great headache, because the lack of residents will make it costly for the Western Sichuan group to return to Jiangyou, and they are even more worried that their protests and dissatisfaction will affect Tong Xiucai's enthusiasm for joining the army. But if there were only a few people, the government would not be afraid at all: a few people would not accept compensation without compensation, their influence was limited, and the soldiers who were discharged from the army were one after another, and the idle land would only become less and less. Even without these few people, the Western Sichuan clique could still station troops in Jiangyou and other places to obtain daily necessities and necessary help from local residents.

"Just three years of most-favoredness is about the same." Xiong Lan proposed a revision, which in his opinion was too generous for ten years. Although these lands are still in the name of the Son of Yongli, many officials of the Western Sichuan Group believe that sooner or later this is the private ownership of Deng Ming; Therefore, being too generous now is tantamount to squandering one's future possessions: "A year may be a little short, and some people may think of finding a job in the capital first and seeing which way the wind blows; But three years is enough to dispel most people's wait-and-see mentality. ”

"There's no need to worry about our fellow showers." Deng Ming shook his head, he has never regarded the country's land as his private property, and the immigration work needs to be carried out in a race against time, the more people are willing to go to Jiangyou and other places at the first moment, the sooner and more benefits the West Sichuan Group can make.

Since Deng Ming, the master, doesn't care about the price, but thinks that time is more important, Xiong Lan and the housekeepers will not be stubborn, and the modification plan for retirement compensation has been determined.

The next step is to discuss the direction of attack in a short-term war, and now there are no offensive targets around Chengdu.

Jianchang is an ally, and it is constantly being attracted, moving closer and faster to Chengdu. Many Jianchang generals began to visit Chengdu, similar to Liu Yao and Yang Youcai's previous performances.

In Chongqing, there is no property worth extorting or robbing, and the most valuable thing is probably all kinds of gem processing tools, most of which were just sold to them by western Sichuan, and there is no place to sell them even if they are snatched back. Moreover, Sichuan also counted on this sales channel to sell cheap Burmese specialties to the Qing government-controlled areas.

Kuidong's situation is similar to Jianchang's, and because of Liu Jinge and Zhou Kaihuang's relationship, it is impossible for Chengdu to have an armed conflict with Kuidong even if it fights with Jianchang.

Further away is Huguang, Hunan is rich in rice, which is the most unwanted goods in western Sichuan, and the benefits of Wuchang as a sales channel are better than those of grabbing them, so Zhang Changgeng was also excluded from Sichuan's attack list.

Next up is Nanchang. There is porcelain here, but if you want to rob Jiangxi, it is better to rob Jiangnan, anyway, you have gone so far, Jiangnan is far richer than Jiangxi's products, and Jiang Guozhu can pay much more compensation than Zhang Chao. However, there is a problem of excuse in both places, and the suppression of Prime Minister Deng's yamen seems to be becoming more and more prosperous, and after Zhang Changgeng applied for the consent of the imperial court, a branch was also set up in Wuchang, and Zhou Peigong already hung the title of political envoy of the four provinces.

As long as he greets Zhou Peigong, the goods will be unimpeded all the way from Wuchang to Nanjing, and there is no need to negotiate with Wuchang, Nanchang, and Nanjing as before. Moreover, the goods in Chengdu only need to pay a tax to the prime minister's yamen, instead of before, where the cargo ships of the Ming army have to pay taxes to the local Qing court and local government everywhere they go.

But the disadvantage is that the Qing court governors in the southeast have become united, and now there will be no more the previous behavior of competing to harm neighbors. If Deng Ming had attacked Jiang Guozhu without any excuse, Erzhang in Wuchang and Nanchang would not have gloated as he had a few years ago, but would have been sad about the death of rabbits and foxes, and the injuries of things.

Therefore, it seems that only Zhejiang can be hit. Zhao Guozuo, the governor of Zhejiang (because of the influence of Deng Ming, Zhao Guozuo has not been transferred to Shanxi), borrowed troops from Li Shutai, the governor of Fujian, to resist last time, but in the end he was defeated, paid the ransom fee and sent the Sichuan army away. I heard that he has been in private contact with Jiang Guozhu recently, and maybe in the future, he will ask the imperial court to approve the establishment of the Wenzhou Suppression Headquarters, so that Zhou Peigong will also lead the political envoy of Zhejiang.

Ren Tang and others all think that this is very likely, and it has not happened yet just because Fujian Governor Li Shutai is resolutely suppressed, so Zhao Guozuo is still hesitating, afraid that he will be discovered by Fujian's main battle faction by revealing his flaws, but he will cause himself to blame. The western Sichuan clique all believed that if Zhou Peigong was appointed as the political envoy of Zhejiang, the attack on Zhejiang would become the same as the attack on Nanjing, so it was necessary to attack as soon as possible; If you go and beat Zhao Guozuo now, it will not cause a fierce reaction from the governors in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

However, even if Wenzhou has not yet been set up, it seems that Zhao Guozuo still needs to find an excuse. Because the last time Ren Tang and Zhou Kaihuang collected the city fee, they made a promise that they would not come for three years. And Zhao Guozuo helped the Ming army to collect craftsmen, etc., and he also did an impeccable job. If he were attacked for no reason, it would also arouse the panic and anxiety of the Yamen of Premier Deng, and damage the reputation of the Sichuan army for doing what it said.

"Or just go to Fujian." Finally someone made this suggestion. Fujian is poorer than Zhejiang, and the road is farther; The level of Fujian Governor Li Shutai was relatively high, and as an important place for coastal defense, the quality and quantity of Qing troops stationed in Fujian were higher than those in Zhejiang. There is also Geng Jimao, the vassal king, whose private army is more effective than the garrison troops.

Therefore, attacking Fujian is a military activity with high costs and low returns. While the Zheng army of Jinxia could be counted on to help, the spoils of war would have to be shared with them, which would further reduce the benefits of sending troops - and Deng Ming had assured the members of the Imperial Diet that he would not launch any military action that would require the support of the Kawanishi fathers without the approval of the Imperial Diet.

"It's better to break your word to the outside world than to break your word internally, so let's make a plan with Zhejiang as an imaginary goal first." Deng Ming instructed the military to prepare a combat plan on this basis, and calculate the benefits that can be obtained by attacking Zhejiang again: "If Jiangnan is also calculated, if you must break your promise, then it is good to extort a sum of money when passing through Nanjing." ”

Although Deng Ming said that he was ready to tear up the agreement for no reason, in fact, he did not plan to do so at all. The reason why he asked his subordinates to prepare a plan to attack Zhejiang and Jiangnan was because Deng Ming felt that he might enter a state of war with Nanjing and Hangzhou at any time, and this reason was the "literary prison".

Although he is not proficient in history, and he does not know the names of the major cases of the literary prison other than the "Zhuang's Ming History" case, he is the only one who knows the name of this literary prison, and Deng Ming does not know the time of the outbreak. But he felt that the Manchu Qing would definitely persecute the Jiangnan literati on a large scale, and this was something that Deng Ming would definitely intervene in, even if it was not for the purpose of starting a war, he could not sit idly by and watch the Qing court do such evil.

The purpose of planning in advance is to avoid the Ming army being caught off guard by then, and not to find out that they are completely unprepared when they are close to the operation. However, Deng Ming has not seen any signs of the outbreak of the literary prison so far, which makes Deng Ming a little suspicious, wondering if it is because of his influence that the Qing court's tolerance of Han speech has become stronger than in his previous life.

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Beijing.

After a period of review, Ao Bai has uncovered several major cases. For example, last year, more than a dozen Xiucai in Wu County cried at the Confucian Temple and accused the county of embezzlement. In Deng Ming's previous life, Jiang Guozhu was dismissed because of the defeat of Zhenjiang and was replaced by Zhu Guozhi, and the county order of Wu County belonged to his cronies, so he arrested eighteen Xiucai together and finally executed all of them. But this time, Jiang Guozhu adopted a gentle attitude, accepted Xiucai's form, removed the Wuxian county commander who belonged to Zhu Guozhi's faction from his post and put him in prison, and finally executed him for embezzlement.

What caught Aobai's attention the most was that Zhu Guozhi had also concocted a sales plan before, planning to depose 10,000 to 15,000 southeast jinshi, juren and Xiucai on the grounds of taxes owed to the Ming Dynasty. For the Qing court, this was undoubtedly a good means of establishing authority, and it could also bring huge financial benefits. However, before Zhu Guozhi's recital entered the imperial court for discussion, the Battle of Gaoyou Lake broke out, and then Zhu Guozhi was also executed for betraying the first emperor, and the case was suspended.

More than 10,000 people were exempted from fame and fined, and the money was recovered, and Ao Bai certainly understood how much impact this would have. If Zhu's plan succeeds, in addition to huge financial gains, it will also deter local tyrants and make them fearful of the Qing court. However, Ao Bai also knows that if not handled properly, it can have serious consequences. Even if Ao Bai made up his mind, it was difficult to say whether Jiang Guozhu dared to carry out the orders of the imperial court when Deng Ming and Zheng Chenggong were still seriously threatening the security of the southeast.