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History has proved that human beings are the best at learning species, including all races!
Of course, this does not include the kind of race that unites many with less, because once you learn advanced civilization, you are digging a grave for your own race.

Therefore, they will inevitably try their best to suppress the main ethnic group, making the country more and more ignorant and dark, so as to maintain their rule and seek long-term stability.

When the Chuang army attacked Kaifeng for the first time, although there were many thieves under their command, they lacked enough elite soldiers. With the cooperation of Zhang Cheng and the defenders in the city, they were defeated.

Since then, Li Zicheng hibernated in Funiu Mountain. In addition to wantonly expanding the army and training troops, he also deeply reflected on the previous events, and had an in-depth discussion on how to go in the future.

Under the advice of Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, Li Yan and others, after Li Zicheng broke out from Funiu Mountain this time, he changed his previous behavior of shoveling the city everywhere.

At the beginning, the dispatch officers will guard the various cities that have been captured, and some hungry people will be organized into battalions, and the fields will be distributed to try to restore production. There is a great momentum to establish a foundation.

At the same time, in order to further encourage production and let people spread his reputation, Chuang Wang even shouted the slogan "No food for three years"!

"Kill cattle and sheep, prepare wine, and open the city gates to welcome King Chuang. When King Chuang comes, he will not pay the food!"

"Eat his mother, eat his mother, if you don't have enough to eat, you will be King Chuang. If you don't work as an errand, you don't pay your food, everyone has a good time."

"The morning seeks promotion, and the evening seeks harmony. Recently, it is difficult for the poor to survive. Open the door early to pay homage to King Chuang, no matter how big or small, everyone is happy."

No matter the east of Henan, the west of Henan, or the south of Henan and the north of Henan, such songs are spread everywhere in the whole of Henan, inspiring the hungry people in Henan to look forward to the arrival of King Chuang day and night, destroying cities and killing officials, and opening warehouses to release grain.

These folk songs spread extremely quickly, and their lethality was also great, even worse than hundreds of thousands of bandit soldiers. It was these folk songs that made the reputation of "Chuang Wang" spread all over the world. For a while, there were so many followers, and it became a reminder for the destruction of the Ming Dynasty!

However, Yongningbo Zhang Cheng sneered at this: "Li thief has not paid food for three years? Do you want to starve yourself to death!"

After "Chuang Wang" became famous, hungry people from all over the country came to join him, and the bandit army under his command was also expanding at an extremely rapid speed, with hundreds of thousands or millions of people dispatched at every turn.

Not paying food?
Such a huge team of people, what do they eat?

King Chuang has dozens or millions of troops, what will he use to reward the soldiers who have made great achievements in battle?
In fact, the answer is also very simple and direct - "grab the big players"!
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, although hungry people were everywhere, especially in all parts of Henan, almost all of them were in a miserable state of eating after changing their sons, but there was also no shortage of big and fat households.

It's just that these big households mostly exist in the form of families, and they often form strong villages with deep ditches and high forts in dangerous places. There are many warehouses in them to store a large amount of grain, and there are hundreds or thousands of strong guards.

Not to mention ordinary hungry people, even a small number of thieves can't break through. When encountering large groups of thieves crossing the border, they will often donate some grains and grains in order to save money and avoid disasters.

And large groups of thieves rarely attack these villages with deep ditches and high fortifications, because they are guarding their own rations, so they often fight with their lives, even if they attack, it is not worth the loss.

But now Chuang Wang pursues the policy of "not paying food for three years". Every time he breaks through the prefecture and county, he even opens the official warehouse to release food to the hungry people in the city, in order to expand his reputation.

In this way, although the hearts of many hungry people at the bottom can be bought, it will become a problem for the army to eat food. Therefore, those gentry and rich merchants in the city who have surplus food have become the grain suppliers of Li Chuang's army, which is completely free.

It can be said that those wealthy "big households" are the real source of money and food for King Chuang!
Every time Chuangwang's bandits captured a city, the first thing they had to do was to immediately seize the ill-gotten wealth of the big households in the city. This approach was naturally a good thing for the hungry people.

Because, none of the so-called "big households" who were targeted by King Chuang became rich by squeezing the people. King Chuang's thieves confiscated the wealth they had accumulated for generations, and naturally they would not need the hungry people to "pay for food".

This kind of style is of course very effective in the early stage, because there are many big households for them to plunder, but the big households will rob less and less, until they finally occupy the world, but there are no big households to rob, so what?
But the hungry people all over the world are used to "not paying food". If they ask them for food at this time, they will turn from benefactors into deep-seated enemies in an instant.

"Promote Mien, fight Miqiu." The ancient saying has its own reasons.

Since ancient times, it has been a matter of course for the people of the world to reclaim wasteland and cultivate land, pay grain and tax, and it is also one of the important functions of the grassroots political power.

Although Li Zicheng is an old master, he is still very clever in tactics, but he is too short-sighted in terms of strategy.

"I bitterly hate pressing the gold thread every year to make wedding clothes for others." Many people in later generations jokingly called Chuang Wang Li Zi the king of wedding clothes, which is not unreasonable!
Of course, Li Zicheng's slogan "Don't pay for food" at this moment is still extremely inflammatory. Countless hungry people rushed to tell each other, and even flocked to join the bandit army.

And in Yu Province, he continued to attack the prefecture and occupy the government, expand the territory, and at the same time divide the land to eat the big households, which was very popular. Even when the officers and soldiers came to counterattack again, the hungry people desperately resisted and defended their land property.

In fact, in the original history, King Chuang really occupied half of the country by "not paying food". However, in the end, because of the practice of "snatching big households" for food collection, the army's morale was lax and the soldiers had no fighting spirit.

However, these so-called "history" that have not yet happened in this world, even King Chuang and his counselors Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance cannot predict.

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The 15th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty was the seventh year of Chongde in the Qing Dynasty. At the beginning of February of this year, the city of Shengjing was still very cold, but what was even colder was the people's hearts.

For the siege of Jinzhou, Huang Taiji planned for it for as long as a year. He spent almost all the manpower and material resources of the whole country.

But in the end, he became the Ming general Zhang Cheng—making him the only Ming general who defeated Qing warriors on the battlefield in decades, and the Yongyi Army was the only Ming army that had besieged and attacked the Qing emperor.

Zhang Cheng became a famous king, attacked Huang Taiji secretly, and defeated the warriors of the Qing Dynasty in a row, making him a legend in the Ming Dynasty!
However, Huang Taiji's reputation in the Qing Dynasty was greatly reduced. Fortunately, he left the Jinzhou battlefield early due to the critical illness of his concubine Hai Lanzhu, and put the responsibility for the final defeat on Prince Rui Dorgon, Prince Li Daishan, and Prince Zheng Jierhalang.

Although this operation was too insidious, it virtually protected the supreme correctness of the Qing emperor, so that the Manchurian Tartars headed by Huang Taiji could continue to suppress the various tribes of Mongolia and the slightly disobedient Korean kingdom.

Only in this way, Dorgon, Daishan, and Jierhalang suffered a lot. They were punished on behalf of the emperor. Not only were they fined a large amount of gold and silver, but they were also taken away a certain amount of Qizhong Niulu, and their strengths were weakened to varying degrees.

Although Dorgon was the one who was punished the most, he was secretly delighted in his heart!
Ever since he withdrew his troops from the Jinzhou city, he had never had a peaceful night's sleep. As wise as he was, he naturally knew where the danger was at this time.

The defeat of the Qing army under the city of Jinzhou severely damaged its dominance in the Mongolian ministries and the Korean kingdom. This was the first problem Huang Taiji faced, and it was also his top priority.

In this battle, Huang Taiji also almost exhausted his energy, but at the critical moment, his concubine Hai Lanzhu was critically ill. Under the double blow, his health also deteriorated.

At the beginning, when he was in court, he had to prepare a big bowl by his side to catch his nosebleeds at any time. Although it was not necessary now, in Dorgon's view, Huang Taiji's nosebleeds seemed to have run out, to the point where there was nothing left to bleed.

Just like an old man in his dying years, although Huang Taiji is no longer bleeding from his nose, his spirit is getting worse day by day. Sometimes the court meeting is halfway through and has to be interrupted. He can only continue after Huang Taiji goes in to rest and recover some strength.

In Dorgon's view, Huang Taiji's time is running out, almost one foot has stepped into the gate of hell, and maybe within this year, he will travel westward.

And since he could see this, how could Huang Taiji, the person involved, not know?

Dorgon knew clearly that at this time Huang Taiji could only think about one thing, and that was how to ensure that his son could take over smoothly!
Among Huang Taiji's brothers, Prince Li Daishan is in his twilight years, and there are no outstanding figures in the clan. Prince Zheng Jierhalang is the most trusted by Huang Taiji, and his prestige is not enough to pose any threat to the heir.

On the contrary, only he, Dorgon, was in his prime of life, not only full of energy, but also smart and wise. He had a group of followers both in politics and in the military.

Moreover, he and his elder brother Azig are in charge of two powerful white flags. Although Azig and Hauge are very close now, if there is a battle for position, which side Azig will fall to?

Therefore, this is what Dorgon is most afraid of and worried about at the moment. If Huang Taiji just finds a reason to deprive him of his position as the banner owner, what can he do!

Fortunately, Huang Taiji did not attack him for the time being, but in order to maintain internal stability, he only imposed a slight punishment and exposed the defeat of Jinzhou.

In fact, in Dorgon's heart, it's not that he has no idea about the throne of the Qing emperor, but he is very tolerant, and even the cunning and intelligent Huang Taiji was deceived by him.

Dorgon and the other three brothers always thought that the seat of the emperor of the Qing Dynasty should belong to Dorgon!
When Emperor Taizu Nurhachi passed away from illness, he had intentionally passed on the position of Khan to Dorgon. How could he have thought that Huang Taiji would create a four-star Baylor to govern the country and snatch it into his own hands.

Although the three Dorgon brothers were dissatisfied in their hearts, they had no choice but to suffer silently because of their lack of strength.

After the defeat of Jinzhou, the people were terrified, especially those outlying Mongolian tribes who were about to leave. Even the Korean Kingdom, which was completely conquered by the Qing Dynasty, had a little disobedience. This is the most troublesome thing for Huang Taiji at present.

More than 1 soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners of Manchuria alone died in the battle. In today's Shengjing City, almost every family wears hemp, and every household wears filial piety. This tragedy has never been seen before.

Because of this, there were also some complaints in the Eight Banners of Manchuria. Most of the grain in the banners was forcibly requisitioned, and now many warriors died in the Jinzhou battlefield. It is normal to have some complaints under multiple blows.

However, in this battle, all the tribes of the Outer Kingdom of Mongolia also suffered heavy losses, unlike in the past when they followed behind the warriors of the Qing Dynasty. Whether it was conquering Ming Dynasty or attacking North Korea, they all earned a lot of money.

But this time in the battle of Jinzhou, they sent both troops and food, not only did not earn any benefits, but also left many tribal warriors forever in the icy and frigid land of Liaodong.

You must know that these are all warriors in their tribe. Originally, the harvest on the grassland was not good, and they wanted to come to Liaodong to plunder, but they buried their lives here.

I am afraid that if there is no support from the Qing Dynasty, the life of many Mongolian tribes in the Outer Domain will be much more difficult this year. Some people have already moved their minds. Didn’t the Ming general who killed Prince Duoduo of Yu just let go and went to him if he couldn’t afford food?
Not to mention these Outer Mongols, which were already separated from the Qing Dynasty, even those Inner Mongolian ministries that were incorporated into the Mongolian Eight Banners also had some complaints.

Although they were conquered as early as the late Jin Dynasty and belonged to Nurhachi and Huangtaiji successively, they are still Mongolian tribes in the final analysis, and they are still not really of one mind with the Manchus.

The defeat in the Battle of Jinzhou made the Qing Dynasty's deterrence against the Mongolian ministries decline, and even Huang Taiji's own prestige was not as good as before, so they also had a little bit of dissatisfaction.

However, although they have some different thoughts in their hearts, they are still very afraid of the Qing Dynasty. Because the bondage was too deep and tight in the early stage, they are afraid that they will be annexed by other foreign vassals and Mongols after they are untied from the Qing Dynasty, and they are also afraid of being retaliated by the Ming Dynasty.

Not only that, North Korea was previously subdued by force by the Qing Dynasty. In the Battle of Jinzhou, they were forced to donate a lot of food and grass, and even sent more than 1 soldiers to help the battle, but more than half of them suffered casualties.

After the news of Jinzhou's defeat spread back to North Korea, there was an uproar between the ruling and opposition parties. The pro-Ming faction, which had been suppressed to the point of having no right to speak, rushed to the fore, eager to make a move, and seemed to be on the verge of a comeback.

At this time, due to the defeat of Jinzhou, the Qing Dynasty did not take advantage of the Ming Dynasty. Instead, it almost exhausted its own domestic grain and rice.

In this way, it aroused the dissatisfaction of the North Korean people even more, and gave the pro-Ming faction an excuse. (end of this chapter)