The Zhou army attacked outside the fortress, recovering the front and middle sets in one fell swoop, expanding the land for thousands of miles, which made the emerging Zhou regime, the government and the opposition quite excited.For example, today, although there is no war, everyone knows that peace will not last long.The general trend of the world will be divided for a long time, and it will be united for a long time, which has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people with the spread of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".Therefore, Zhao Ming, the regent of the Ming Dynasty, was busy integrating the resources within the Ming Dynasty, taming the forces of all parties, and stepping up the deposit of money and grain for the Northern Expedition.In the north, the two regimes are also preparing for war.Azig was busy dividing the land for the army and assigning banner slaves to win the hearts of the army, so that the Manchu and Han armies would fight to the death.The entire Eastern Qing Dynasty almost degenerated into the era of slavery, and the army controlled seventy percent of the land of the Eastern Qing Dynasty, as well as commerce and resources.This made the people miserable, but whether it was the Manchu army, or the Han army led by Shang Kexi and Geng Zhongming, after obtaining a large amount of land and interests, in order to protect the interests of the army, they were quite loyal to the Eastern Qing Dynasty.And the army was all facing Azig, and under the strong military pressure, the local gentry and common people did not dare to mess around, so they could only swallow their anger.After the Zhou State recovered the Hetao, Wu Sangui absorbed the Manchu Qing's means of controlling Mongolia, demarcated pastures for various departments, and at the same time, in order to prevent the Mongols from getting out of control, set up five guards in the Hetao, levied 500,000 people, and went to the fortress to build a city.However, the treasury of the Zhou State could hardly bear such a large expense.At this time, in Xi'an, inside the palace of King Zhou.Wu Sangui is discussing with the ministers how to solve the problem of stuffing grain and grass supply.At this time, Zuo Xiangsun Kewang said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the only way to solve the problem of food supply and enrich the treasury is to follow Zhao Ming's example, encourage commerce, and use merchants to solve the supply problem!"
”In terms of military affairs and grand strategy, Wu Sangui is more convinced of Hong Chengchou.After all, the old superintendent, Wu Sangui, had also worked under him, and knew that Hong Chengchou's army was very powerful.In the early years, he almost killed Li Zicheng, not to mention, and later fought with Huang Taiji, which also forced Huang Taiji to vomit blood, if it weren't for the lack of food and grass in the imperial court, the finances were bankrupt, there was no money to fight, and he couldn't drag it on, forcing Hong Chengchou to fight a decisive battle, Hong Chengchou might not be defeated.Moreover, Songshan was defeated so badly, Wu Sangui also had a share, he knew that if they hadn't been in a hurry to escape and dump Hong Chengchou in Songshan, Hong Chengchou might have been able to escape back.Therefore, militarily, Wu Sangui mostly adopted Hong Chengchou's opinions.This time to send troops to Mongolia and collect the Hetao, it was Hong Chengchou's suggestion.The result of sending troops did make Wu Sangui very satisfied, and he directly incorporated the Mongolian soldiers of three banners, obtained 21,500 fine cavalry, not to mention, and captured a large number of cattle, sheep and horses, as well as thousands of miles of pasture, which can be said to have greatly increased the strength of the Zhou State.In political affairs, Wu Sangui relied more on Zuo Xiangsun Kewang.Although Sun Kewang was born in a rogue, he is indeed very good at handling internal affairs.At that time, more than 100,000 remnants of the Western Army escaped into the barren land of Yungui, and Sun Kewang operated for three years, so that the Western Army could gain a firm foothold in Yungui and launch a counterattack, which showed its ability.Yungui is sparsely populated, Tusi is all over, the mountains and forests are undulating, the roads are impassable, and he does not see a shortage of soldiers and horses, but instead makes an army of 200,000 to counterattack Sichuan.This ability made Wu Sangui also admire it very much.At the beginning, Wu Sangui and Sun Kewang had been in Sichuan for many years, but finally had to give up Sichuan, he knew that he was not defeated by the Western Army, but because of the logistics ability of the Western Army, he was defeated undefeated.Wu Sangui defeated the Western Army's invasion of Chengdu several times, and several times beat Sun Kewang's army to scatter, but it didn't take long for Sun Kewang to organize more troops to come.Wu Sangui occupied the populous and rich Chengdu Plain, but was dragged down by Sun Kewang and could only retreat to Hanzhong.Therefore, Wu Sangui felt very frightened about Sun Kewang's internal affairs ability, and he couldn't fight this guy, otherwise with his internal affairs ability, the world might be his.Wu Sangui, the two prime ministers, is indeed one of the most powerful prime ministers nowadays, which makes Zhao Ming, who is far away in Nanjing, envious.Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians are stationed outside the Saiwai, how to solve the problem of money and food, Wu Sangui would reach out and ask for money before, he couldn't think of it."
Imitate Nanjing?"
Wu Sangui couldn't help but be interested.Recently, the whole Zhou Kingdom, from Wu Sangui to the common people, has arisen a strong interest in studying the regent of the Ming Dynasty, Zhao Ming and Zhao Bo'an.All of this is a printing workshop controlled by the National Socialist Party, and a book about the regent Zhao Ming has been published.The book records the deeds of the regent, how he went from a small soldier to today, and unified the Ming Dynasty, recorded many quotations of the regent, as well as his performance and decision when experiencing some key things.The whole book deliberately describes Zhao Ming as a big hero who has grown up step by step, which can be regarded as his personal biography.Yes, this is exactly what Zhao Ming spent his own money, bought the topic, bought the hot search, and bought not Lin Shidawei and the water army to promote himself.The aim was to make his image deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so that the later unification of the north would not encounter fierce resistance.After Wu Sangui read it, he couldn't help but have a trace of admiration for Zhao Ming.Sun Kewang nodded, "The only way to solve the problem of food supply and increase the revenue of the treasury is to encourage commerce!"
”Wu Sangui couldn't help asking, "What kind of encouragement method?"
”Sun Kewang said: "It is true that Jiangnan has developed commerce, but the strength of Guanzhong businessmen is actually very strong.Qin Shang Dajia was the earliest merchant gang in the Ming Dynasty, and for a long time, the strength was much stronger than the Jin merchants and Hui merchants, and even the maritime merchants of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian were not as good as the Shaanxi merchants!
”"Really?"
Wu Sangui was a little puzzled, how could he feel that Guanzhong was very poor.Sun Kewang said: "The king knows that at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the strength of the Northern Yuan Dynasty was still very strong, and the Ming Dynasty stopped a large army in Guanlong in order to guard against the Northern Yuan.At first, Ming Taizu used the guards to guard against the Mongols, but later the guards were overwhelmed, so he transferred 240,000 troops and 70,000 horses to guard against the Mongols.Do you know, how to solve the military rations of these border troops?
”Wu Sangui couldn't help but be a little shocked, he didn't expect Sun Kewang to be a rogue who actually knew so much, it seems that after becoming the prime minister, he didn't read much, unlike him, he danced with guns and sticks, and he was sleepy.On the side, Hong Chengchou said: "At that time, the grain was in the south, and the government transported it by itself, and the consumption was too large, so the merchants were allowed to buy grain from the south and transport it to the army, and the army issued a certificate to allow the merchants to go to Lianghuai to get salt, thus completing the army supply."
It's for "grain for introduction"!
”Wu Sangui said: "Does Zuo Xiang mean to use this method?
But getting grain from the south is not easy to do!
”Sun Kewang said: "Your Majesty, since ancient times, there has been a saying that "a hundred miles do not sell grain".This means that if the grain is transported for 100 miles and the cost rises, it will be basically unprofitable.From Shaanxi to Jiangnan and Lianghu, it is not as good as the Grand Canal, and the distance of thousands of miles, the cost of grain transportation has increased several times.Merchants are also unprofitable.At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Qin merchants were able to stand out and compete with other merchants, because they adopted another method, that is, to buy land in Shaanxi on a large scale, recruit displaced people to open up wasteland, implement Shangtun, and directly transport the grain produced in Guanlong to the army in exchange for salt, thus greatly reducing the cost.So that the Hui merchants and Jin merchants could not compete with them.In the end, the Hui merchants, Jin merchants, and Zhejiang merchants sued the imperial court because they had the salt quotation because of the hot Shaanxi merchants, and asked the imperial court to directly buy and sell the salt quotation.The Ming court wanted money, and he could directly use salt to sell silver, so he naturally sold it, and once he sold it, he had no moderation, which made the salt in the world increase greatly, and the Qin merchants could not get salt, so Shangtun was deserted. ”Wu Sangui understood, "Zuo Xiang means to restore Shangtun!"
”Sun Kewang said: "The minister does have this intention!"
Now Guanzhong is withering because of the war and the interruption of trade between the west and the Mongolians, Tibetans, and the Western Regions.Merchants had no way to make money and kept large quantities of silver in the ground.Now it's time to wake them up.The minister thought that he could prevent the system of the early Ming Dynasty, encourage the merchants, and use the merchants' reclamation to solve the problem of military rations outside the Saiwai, and at the same time develop the place.After the merchants transported the military rations, the imperial court gave Sichuan Zigong salt guides.In this way, the imperial court can achieve the purpose of supplying the army and developing the outside of the fortress without spending much money. ”Sun Kewang read many county chronicles, as well as the files left by the Yamen of the Three Divisions of Shaanxi, and knew that as long as he did not learn to understand the over-issued salt citation, this matter was feasible.Wu Sangui couldn't help but admire, "In this way, you only need to use salt to exchange for military rations, this strategy is very good!"
”Sun Kewang continued: "In addition, it is necessary to open the border market as soon as possible, the tea industry and cloth are all urgently needed by the Hu people in the northwest, as long as the king encourages commerce, Guanzhong will inevitably prosper, and the treasury will naturally be full." ”(Ask for a monthly pass, recommend, subscribe, thank you for the reward of the ignorant little scholar in the world) ()