Chapter 105: The End of an Era

In the later generations of another time and space in history, because of ideological reasons, a certain dynasty had some positive propaganda for Li Zicheng, but for the people living in this era, he was a thief, and a giant, although he brought a positive impact to this era, but more of it was killing and destruction.

Once upon a time, when Yu Xiaotian read a book about Li Zicheng when he was a child, he once admired Li Zicheng very much, and it can even be said that he admired him, but with the growth of age and the increase of knowledge, he gradually had a new understanding of Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others.

Especially when he came to this era and understood the background of this era, he had a new understanding of Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and many leaders of the Exile Army.

Although many of these people were born in hardship (Zhang Xianzhong is not counted), when they embarked on the road of rebellion, because of their different angles and narrow vision, they were able to think about the people at first, and gradually began to embark on a brutal and unkind road, and their existence has completely had a negative impact on the society of this era, and gradually lost their justice.

They are more for their own glory and wealth, or power status, and have returned to the thinking mode of feudal monarchs, and no longer think about the so-called nation, and even after Li Zicheng invaded Beijing in history, he has completely abandoned his original intention of rebellion.

And Zhang Xianzhong later entered Sichuan in history and established a great western country, but he became a murderer, which can be said to be brutal to the extreme, and it can even be said that he completely stood on the opposite side of mankind, and each committed heinous crimes.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has fallen into the hands of his Yu Xiaotian, and his ideals are about to be realized, then for Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, they have completed their historical mission and should be swept into the garbage heap.

It can be said that Yu Xiaotian can now come to this point, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others can be said to have contributed a lot, if they have not been making trouble for the Ming Dynasty all these years, then he Yu Xiaotian has no chance, he can be safe and stable in a corner of Fujian, quietly expanding his strength, until he is growing in his wings, waving his army to the north to suddenly conquer the Ming Jingshi, and successfully steal the Ming Dynasty.

He knows very well his identity now, in the eyes of many people in the Ming Dynasty, he should be an absolutely negative and rebellious character, he is a minister of the Ming Dynasty, but he is disloyal to the Ming Dynasty, supporting the army and stealing the Ming Dynasty, coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, the whole is a copy of Cao Cao Cao Wende, and Chongzhen is the Emperor of Han Xian.

But so what? Yu Xiaotian didn't care about this reputation, what he wanted was the result, he suddenly went north to control the Jingshi, put Chongzhen under house arrest, and choked Da Ming's head with lightning speed, which made Da Ming immediately lose his mind, and the local government and officials were leaderless, and they didn't know what action to take to face such a situation.

If it weren't for this trick, although he was confident that he could rely on his force to conquer the world step by step and seize power, the process would be a long process.

Although the Ming Dynasty is corrupt in officialdom, the efficiency is extremely poor, and the court officials are incompetent, but after all, the hundred-legged insect is not stiff, and there is Chongzhen, the boss, who is in charge of scheduling, and the Ming Dynasty still has a strong counterattack force.

The reconstruction of a country will consume too much time and money, which is not in line with his needs, what he wants is to restore peace and stability in China, and then give him the strength to look at the sea, to the undeveloped land further away, instead of wasting his life on rebuilding the country and maintaining the stability of the country.

A person can only live for a few decades, he has now come to this era for more than ten years, God has not left him a lot of time, if once missed, then for the Chinese, it is missed this era, with the Chinese's habitual thinking and cultural accumulation, the Chinese are not good at expansion, once he is not there, a qiē may be stagnant, then the Chinese may lose this rare opportunity forever.

This is the reason why he braved the disapproval of the world, brazenly went north to control the imperial court, and even temporarily did not ascend the throne as the emperor, offered Chongzhen up, and continued to retain the shell of the Ming Dynasty.

The defeat of Li Zicheng represents the basic end of the era of the exile army, and only the remaining Lao Hui Hui Ma Shouying, Geli Yanhe Yilong and other exile troops operating in the area of Yinghuo Mountain, after losing all their peers, the fall is also instantaneous, and they only need to gather elite soldiers from Huguang, Henan, Nanzhili and Shandong and other places to completely surround the area of Yinghuo Mountain and give them a strong wall to clear the wilderness, then they can no longer continue to hold on.

Therefore, the civil strife in the Ming Dynasty has basically come to a more perfect end, although there are still small groups of rebels in many places who have not yet been finally pacified, but these are just some small fights, and they are not enough to make a big moth.

With Yu Xiaotian taking control of the government, the entire Seawolf Group was completely busy, the navy and the merchant fleet all took action, and a steady stream of large quantities of grain that Xiaotian had spared no effort to reserve in the previous years began to be transported to the north.

Yu Xiaotian can be said to be prescient, and he has stored so much food in advance, otherwise even if he controls the government, but if he wants to calm the chaos in the north, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice without food.

The reason why Chongzhen has no way to take the exile army for so many years is not that the official army really can't defeat the exile army, there are not many fierce generals in the official army, and there is no shortage of capable officials like Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou, and Sun Chuanting, but a fundamental problem is still lack of food.

In history, whether it was Yang He or Xiong Wencan, they had recruited a lot of homeless people, but it didn't take long for the homeless army to surrender and rebel, causing both Yang He and Xiong Wencan in history to lose their heads.

In fact, the most critical problem is that the imperial court can't come up with money and food to settle these surrendered exile troops, even if they are barely able to raise some, but once they are eaten up, these surrendered exile troops have nothing to eat, so they can only choose to continue to make trouble.

But Yu Xiaotian is different from Chongzhen, he saw these problems very clearly in advance, made full preparations, and at the same time made several big moves, one is to severely punish the profiteers who hoard goods and raise grain prices, and stabilize the grain prices in the north;

The second is to vigorously implement the new policy, reduce the burden on the people, cancel the previous Ming Dynasty's continuous increase, so that the people can return to their land to cultivate, and no longer have to worry about the problem of making ends meet.

Third, he reorganized the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Jinyi Guard, went all out to clean up the officialdom, vigorously arrested and killed a large number of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, fundamentally rectified the atmosphere of officialdom, and stopped the greedy and contemptuous trend of the Ming officialdom by forceful means, and in a relatively short period of time, the officialdom began to present a clear scene, and the common people could fundamentally suffer a lot less unnecessary coercion.

Through these means, he dealt a ruthless blow to many profiteers, local gentry, and local tyrants and powerful relatives, and deducted a large amount of money and grain from them, so that he had the financial ability to invest in the relief of the victims.

After the implementation of these articles, it can be said that they had an immediate effect, and soon won the hearts and minds of the people, so that many displaced people who had lost hope and embarked on the road of rebellion saw hope and chose to return to their hometowns and start cultivating the land again.

But these are all need a process and time, the most important thing is to let these displaced people return to their land, we must first solve the problem of their food, even if they can't eat, just to be able to survive, but the north has been in war for many years, coupled with natural and man-made disasters, the entire social structure and agricultural production have suffered huge damage, a large number of farmland abandoned, even if the people are willing to go back to farming, but before a new grain harvest, the problem of food still cannot be solved.

Even if Yu Xiaotian hated the method of stealing his family, he pulled out some food from some of the rich and unkind families, but it was far from enough to meet so much demand.

This is also the reason why he has spared no effort to hoard grain in Fujian, Taiwan, Shandong, Jeju Island and other places for so many years, begging and buying food everywhere like a starving ghost, and then storing it like a mouse.

Now these preparations he made in advance were finally used, hundreds of large ships, loaded with all kinds of grain, were continuously transported from the sea to the north, first unloaded in Shandong, and stabilized the situation in Shandong and Beizhili at the first time.

Then, after he took control of the Yangtze River, a large number of sea ships entered the Yangtze River, forcibly requisitioned a large number of ships on the Yangtze River, and transported grain through the Yangtze River channel to the hinterland of the Central Plains.

In this way, in a relatively short period of time, those hungry people have obtained the most basic food supply, although Yu Xiaotian can't make all the hungry people eat well, and even can only let some people get a very small amount of food every day, but after all, this still allows the hungry people to get a rare respite, and they can find their own way to get some wild vegetables and other things to supplement a little, at least the problem of survival is not very big.