A.D. 1644, the leap year of Jiashen in the lunar calendar, is also the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the last year of the living treasure emperor Ming Sizong, and the first year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, or the first year of Li Zicheng's Dashun Yongchang.This year, China had three emperors and three era names.On April 11, 1644, the fifth day of the third lunar month, Wang Shuo set off from Lanzhou from Lanzhou with Shi Dazhu, the head of the guard regiment directly under him, and forty carefully selected guards.In fact, Wang Shuo doesn't know much about the history of the late Ming Dynasty, but he just relies on what he knows from TV and miscellaneous books, plus his own speculation.The TV director's freewheeling nonsense, the miscellaneous books' reins, and the real history have long been distorted, and even irrelevant.Before leaving, he found Hu Lianqi to inquire about the situation of Chongzhen's ministers to see if there were any talents with a sense of the overall situation that he needed.Hu Lianqi has been an official in Beijing, although he is a small official with a sesame mung bean, but he still knows that there are ministers in Beijing, and he said the names of more than a dozen officials in one breath.Wang Shuo asked what these officials had done, and Hu Lianqi picked it up and said a lot about what he knew.Wang Shuo made a judgment one by one based on what these officials did, and none of them he thought were talented.No wonder Chongzhen can't make any wise decisions, it turns out that the guys he uses are all a bunch of waste, and they can't do very simple things well, but they can make it more and more complicated It's not that these people are waste, but that Wang Shuo has been exercising for more than a year, and his thinking and vision are very different, and ordinary people can't see him anymore.The British lord will not use mediocrity, so the career will flourish.Like Huang Taiji, he will never use Yang Sichang, but a person like Hong Chengchou, he will try his best to win over, and he will not hesitate to catch his wife.This is also the reason why Han people like Fan Wencheng are loyal to him.And Chongzhen, how many talents will be wasted by him Yuan Chonghuan, Xiong Tingbi, Yuan Chengzong, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting, anyone who stands up can keep the country and society for him, but he didn't use any of them, let these famous ministers succumb to death one by one, and even die without a place to bury them, and the remaining ministers of Chongzhen, if there are really good ones, Chongzhen doesn't need to go to the coal mountain to hang himself.Great hidden in the city.A real talent who is not good at stammering, and who disdains to engage in party struggles that have ruined the country and lost the family, will not be able to become a big official.Perhaps, the person he needs, just like the ancient sages, guards the city gate at the gate of Beijing, or drinks and sings in which wine restaurant Hu Lianqi saw that Wang Shuo was not interested in these ministers he proposed, so he said: "My subordinates have not read any books, so they can't be officials."
His subordinates are related to the current abbot Zhou Kui and Zhou Taishi, and they are his distant nephews.The old father of his subordinates saw that his subordinates were fooling around with ordinary market scoundrels all day long, and he was afraid that his subordinates would learn badly, so he spent 10,000 taels of silver to send Zhou Taishi and found a position as a lieutenant for his subordinates in the East Factory.It turned out that when he was in Beijing, he often went to Zhou Taishi's mansion to say hello, because Zhou Taishi still remembered his subordinates.After the general arrived in Beijing, he could visit Zhou Taishi in the name of his subordinates.This man is quite rich, as long as he has money, he can ask for anything. ”Wang Shuo asked him to draw a map of the streets and alleys of Beijing, so that he could walk in the city in the future, and by the way, where Zhou Kui lived was also marked on the map, maybe he would use it in the future.It is most convenient to go to Beijing, from Lanzhou to Ningxia, and to Shanxi.However, Shanxi has Li Zicheng's two-way army of nearly one million horses, and if it encounters it, it will be troublesome to be caught in the battlefield.Wang Shuo still decided to go south from An, all the way west along the Wei River, out of Fuqiang, across Tianshui, through Chencang to Shaanxi, and then out of Tongguan, from Kaifeng to the Yellow River to the north.In this way, the places where the Dashun troops were densely populated, and these places belonged to Li Zicheng's Dashun regime, which was relatively peaceful, and there were no major battles.Although he was far away, the chance of an accident was obviously much less, and he picked some good horses and walked a little faster, which made up for the lack of a long way.Under the leadership of Wang Shuo, the group stepped up their journey and arrived at Tianshui Pass on the second day.Everyone did not enter the city, bypassed the pass far away, and ran to Chencang.In the evening, they arrived at Chencang.Wang Shuo still didn't let everyone enter the city, but found a place in the mountains to the south, and everyone slept overnight.Along the way, out of Fuqiang, it is the territory of Dashun.On Wang Shuo's territory west of Fuqiang, the people in the fields have already taken water from the Wei River under the leadership of the village officials and watered and fertilized the fields.The green wheat seedlings are all over the fields, and even on the banks of Goumao Mountain, layers of terraced fields have been cultivated.Wang Shuo has some knowledge of agriculture and knows that in winter it is necessary to accumulate fertilizer and build canals.Guarding the Wei River, he can't waste all the water, and in this era, the farmers know very little about fertilizer accumulation, which is very surprising to him.In this era, when everything was decided by grain, he gave full play to the agricultural knowledge he knew and forced the peasants to implement it.In addition, all the good farmers in the county have been gathered, special institutions have been set up, terraces have been built, and measures have been adapted to local conditions, fertilization has been accumulated, water canals have been opened, trenches have been dug, and the area of irrigated land has been expanded as much as possible.After the reunification of Longzhong, the peasants learned from the experience of Zhangxian County, and no longer gambled and talked about it in winter, but under the supervision of agricultural supervision personnel, they organized themselves, built river dams, dug canals, opened terraced fields, accumulated fertilizer, and manufactured waterwheels and other advanced agricultural tools, and worked hard for a whole winter.As soon as the weather warmed up the next year, the fields of Longzhong were a busy scene.After Fuqiang and entering the Dashun territory, the situation is completely different.Large tracts of land were unsown and barren, exposed with loess and newly grown sparse grass.Even if there is sowing, the seedlings are sparse.Only when he arrived in a more hidden place in the mountains could he see a small field with neat seedlings, and Wang Shuo shook his head and sighed all the way.If such a large piece of good land belongs to him, as long as he can get a season of grain, it is enough to support him to defeat the Manchu Qing and occupy the whole country, but it is a pity that this Li Zicheng, many people say that he has been a scoundrel since he was a child, he doesn't do anything, he doesn't know the grains, he really can't live, so he went to Yinchuan to be a post soldier, Wang Shuo still doesn't believe it.Li Zicheng was born in a peasant family, don't you even know the importance of the most basic farming It seems that what those people said is true, from the time to the present, he is more and more disappointed in Li Zicheng.Originally, he was still worried that after Li Zicheng's defeat, he tried to drag the Qing army and prevent this life from dying unjustly on Jiugong Mountain.Now, he doesn't even have that in mind.God didn't give Li Zicheng a chance, let him occupy the granary in Guanzhong, and let him own the hinterland of the Central Plains.Chongzhen was in internal and external difficulties, and it was difficult to deal with the Manchus, and his power had developed enough to compete with Chongzhen.He did not take advantage of the opportunity that the imperial court could not help him to develop production, govern the localities, and consolidate the base areas, but he blindly acted recklessly and went against the sky.When the rear was unstable, he not only did not strictly control his subordinates, but instead connived at the looting and burning of his soldiers, making Shaanxi thousands of miles of red land, but he gathered all the grain he grabbed as military rations.In doing so, the people's morale has been greatly discouraged.In this way, he still has the kung fu to think about destroying Chongzhen.Failure can only blame himself, self-inflicted, not lived: