Chapter 186: Raised high and gently fell
As for Yu Zehu's assassination, he never admitted it, saying that he didn't know about it at all, and he didn't arrange for anyone to assassinate him, anyway, the murderer was not caught on the spot, so he couldn't sit on him at all.
Afterwards, this matter has been troubled in Beijing, in fact, everyone understands why Yu Zehu was killed, although Yu Zehu did this, it is indeed wrong, but Yu Xiaotian also did too ruthlessly, more than 1,000 Guangzhou defenders, dozens of warships, were killed by Yu Xiaotian like chickens and sheep in the lion ocean.
And Yu Zehu was in Guangzhou City, and he was actually killed by Yu Xiaotian, and Yu Xiaotian's revenge was too much.
Chongzhen was furious when he heard this, but in the end, he only gave an order and reprimanded Xiaotian, and did not dare to do anything to Yu Xiaotian, and now that he is using Xiaotian, he does not dare to deal with Xiaotian too much.
And Chongzhen let Yu Xiaotian go south to pacify the pirates of Liangguang this time, and Yu Xiaotian did have frequent good news, although there are bullets everywhere that accuse Yu Xiaotian of arrogance and domineering, but from the news sent back by Liangguang, this method adopted by Yu Xiaotian can indeed have a miraculous effect on pacifying the pirates along the coast of Liangguang.
The lesser of the two powers, now the matter of the pirates of Liangguang is big, and others have no choice, only by letting Yu Xiaotian do it, can these pirates be leveled, and these pirates are indeed on the shore and have a deep collusion with many local big families along the coast, and if they don't get rid of these big families who collude with pirates, they really can't pacify the pirates.
Even if this pirate is now flattened, but with these big families colluding with pirates, as soon as Yu Xiaotian leaves, these big gentry will immediately cultivate more pirates, and this pirate is like cutting leeks, cutting a stubble and growing a stubble, and it will never be clean.
So although Yu Xiaotian did too much, but the root solved the problem, even if Chongzhen couldn't think of this kind of thing, some people thought of it for him, among the Beijing teachers, there are Yu Xiaotian and a group of spokespeople, naturally they will speak for Yu Xiaotian and explain this kind of thing to Chongzhen clearly.
In this way, after Chongzhen listened to these people's advice, he also understood the benefits of Yu Xiaotian's doing, and some people played Chongzhen, saying that the current situation is like this, and it is necessary to take fierce medicine to control the chaos.
After Chongzhen figured this out, he naturally wouldn't be too embarrassed by Yu Xiaotian, and he also felt that Yu Xiaotian was still available, although this guy was domineering, but he was still willing to be used by the court, and he was still more dedicated to doing things for the court.
But it is not a way to let Xiaotian go on like this, so Chongzhen can only take a compromise method in the end, and reprimands the filial piety of the world, and offsets the original reward of Daya Bay's victory, and no longer gives another reward.
But this kind of disposal can be said to be painless, everyone knows that such a punishment is just a slap raised high, falling gently, similar to itching, this time the soldiers in Guangdong understand a truth, that is, don't provoke Yu Xiaotian, the evil god, if you kill it, otherwise it will definitely not be pleased.
Originally, for this matter, the generals of Guangdong who were still gearing up to turn their faces with Yu Xiaotian, from the general army and the others, all suddenly died down and decided not to mention the matter of Yu Zehu being killed, Yu Xiaotian also understood this matter, and really succeeded on the ground in Guangdong, so that everyone understood that they could offend anyone now, but they must not offend Yu Xiaotian.
In the next half a year, Yu Xiaotian no longer personally led the troops south to clear the pirates on the Liangguang Sea, and after he sat in Hong Kong for a period of time, he handed over the affairs of the bandit to the One-Eyed Dragon and others, and he himself set off to return to Waitou Bay.
Although this is a bit unreasonable on the surface, after all, the holy decree is to let Yu Xiaotian personally lead the army south to suppress the bandits, but now he has entrusted the matter to his subordinates, and he ran back to Weitouwan to stay, obviously a little bit of a loss of face to the court.
But everyone thinks that this is Yu Xiaotian is having a temper, he won a great victory in Daya Bay, but because of the conflict with the Guangzhou garrison, the court did not reward him, but gave him a reprimand, so Yu Xiaotian was unhappy, so he did this, which should have shown an attitude to the court and embarrassed the court.
But in fact, Yu Xiaotian did this because he returned to Fujian this time, and there were more important things to do, and now he saw that he had reached the eighth year of Chongzhen.
At the beginning of the eighth year, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Lao Huihui, Luo Rucai and other thirteen 72 battalions of the Liumin Army gathered in Xingyang, and then divided the troops into three ways to sweep Henan, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others led their troops eastward into Fengyang Mansion in the first month, and actually broke the Zhu family's hometown Fengyang and dug Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral grave.
This incident shook the government and the opposition, and Chongzhen issued an edict for the first time, vowing to cut off the exile army, and appointed Hong Chengchou as the governor of the five provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Lake, and Henan, and was responsible for the comprehensive suppression of the exile army in several provinces.
In this year, the army of displaced people has grown to an unprecedented extent, and the number of dozens of peasant armies together has exceeded hundreds of thousands, and they are very mobile, like locusts, constantly flying from one place to another, eating up and robbing all the places they pass, and coercing more displaced people to join the gang, most of which are naturally forcibly coerced.
In addition, they were extremely strict about the destruction of the social base, although they destroyed the social superstructure and robbed and killed many large landlords and gentry, but at the same time, they also completely destroyed the entire social productive forces.
In some places, although the people lived a very difficult life, they could still farm the land and provide food resources for the society, but once the peasant army passed, the production base in these places was completely destroyed, so that more people had no choice but to flee or join the army of displaced people, and eat together and wait for death.
With the expansion of the scope of activities of the Wandering Army, the Wandering Army, which was previously limited to Shaanxi, has swept through several provinces, and these provinces are all important grain-producing provinces in the Central Plains.
The Wandering People's Army also used this method to continuously expand its power, and as for the government, the provinces used to fight their own battles, and they only considered sweeping the snow in front of their own doors, and they had no rights themselves, so they only considered driving the Wanderer Army out of the territory under their jurisdiction, and as for the Wandering People's Army running to other provinces, it was none of their business.
Therefore, in the past few years, the government has basically not seen much success in suppressing bandits, but the number of displaced people has become more and more suppressed, so that it has developed to the point of digging up the ancestral graves of the Zhu family.
Yu Xiaotian never denied that the Wandering Army was forced to embark on this path out of desperation, but the vast majority of the Wandering Army was not voluntary, but was forced by the Wandering Army to join the Wandering Army.
But this is also a necessary way, the end of an era, it is necessary to destroy the overall social structure, especially these upper social structure, in the two or three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, the upper class of society monopolized too many social resources, has led to the entire social resource distribution is strictly unfair, to the outrageous Cheng dù, so as the end of an era, this social structure must be broken up and redistributed.
If he is involved in it now, he will have to take his arms and sleeves up to do this kind of thing in person, which will definitely cause some impact on his reputation and accumulate too many hatred points for him to pacify the country in the future.
So after thinking about it, Yu Xiaotian discussed with his advisers, and finally thought that it was better for him not to intervene too early in this matter, although now Daming is almost exhausted, but there is still a breath left, not completely to the point of collapse, so these homeless army and even Jiannu are still needed to continue to hollow out the building of Daming, until the foundation of the building of Daming is completely hollowed out.
At that time, it was the time for him to kick the door and knock over the Ming mansion.
Therefore, the most important thing for Yu Xiaotian at the moment is to keep his eyes on his own and continue to accumulate strength, seeing that after the battle of Daya Bay, the important pirates of Liangguang and Guangxi have been hit by Yan zhòng, and there is no need for him to continue to lead troops to attack them.
Only then did he return to Weitou Bay, in essence, to return to the island of Taiwan to supervise the development of various foundations.
Now in the whole of Fujian, Yu Xiaotian's power has penetrated into various places, as if he has become a secret manager, and the official government on the surface, at this time, has been hollowed out in many places, and the government decree can be said to be out of the city, and even to the yamen of the county seat of the state capital.
Therefore, Yu Xiaotian no longer only pays attention to the infrastructure development of the island of Taiwan, but has shifted his attention to the land of Fujian.
Fujian itself produces coal, and there are large and small iron mines, and the island of Taiwan is poor in resources, coal and iron can not be supplied by themselves, and can only be transferred to Taiwan by land, which requires a lot of manpower and material resources to transport these raw materials to Taiwan Island, and the transportation cost is really not low.
Now that he has extended his influence to all parts of Fujian, the Fujian government has completely lost its ability to control him, so he does not need to continue to export resources to the island of Taiwan at all, but the primary and even intermediate processing of many raw materials can be completed on land in Fujian.
In this way, he only needs to directly export the processed raw materials, such as important steel raw materials, to the island of Taiwan in the future, which can reduce the waste of a lot of transportation capacity.
So since he was appeased, he began to secretly operate this matter, in Fujian Province large-scale mergers and acquisitions of private iron yards and iron mines, especially in the main production area of Fujian coal and iron Longyan, is the focus of his control, whether it is official and private coal and iron mines and iron yards, private people are basically merged by him, and the official face is almost all in his hands, and most of the iron ore produced has fallen into his hands.
(I still continue to thank the desert laughing spring breeze brothers for their rewards, at the end of the month, ask for a monthly ticket again!) )