Be the emperor from the postman

After hearing Fu Zonglong's words, Chongzhen fell silent again, not even coughing.

Regarding Xu Dingchen's situation, Chongzhen was extremely complicated.

Because Wang Xiangkun, the Zuo Buzheng of Shanxi Province, read a copy of Xu Dingchen before his death.

If Xu Dingchen hadn't been running around, the hammer bandit He Jinzhao would not have successfully conquered Taiyuan, and even hooked up with Lin Danhan outside the Great Wall.

But at the beginning, Xu Dingchen was forced to go to Shanxi because no one wanted to work there.

As the governor of Shanxi, he is many times stronger than Song Yintong, who did not work and directly ruined it. It is the governor's duty to actively mobilize people and horses to eliminate bandits.

However, he congratulates the current military capability, Xu Dingchen who fought directly ruined the northern part of Shanxi.

At that time, Chongzhen was extremely angry with Xu Dingchen's actions.

But looking at He Jinzhao's record in a few years, he felt that Xu Dingchen was still able to persist in resisting the front line of the bandits, which was commendable for his courage.

Now that he hears that I am going to negotiate peace with the hammer bandits, it is understandable that he feels distressed.

After all, after so many years of persistence, he is not even a fart in front of the monarch.

Therefore, Chongzhen's feelings for Xu Dingchen, a courtier, are complicated.

Not to mention happy, but also not to blame.

Overall, it is much stronger than most of the courtiers.

At least Xu Dingchen will not always ask the court for money, but mostly for food and soldiers.

Regarding the peace negotiation, Chongzhen was also very upset.

But now that the deal is done, he is glad that He Jinzhao has the intention to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight.

Otherwise, the hammer bandits would attack again, Zhu Youjian felt that according to the current trend, it would be really difficult to parry.

"Your Majesty, the hammer bandit He Jinzhao is ambitious and will definitely not stay quietly in the northwest."

Fu Zonglong clasped his hands again and said, "If the drought in the mountains and Shaanxi is a little better, maybe it will be the day when he marches east."

How could Chongzhen not understand Fu Zonglong's words?
But now the imperial court can't even wipe out Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng immediately, and now they have to beware of the hammer bandit He Jinchao.

The reason is to put it there, and everyone understands it.

But the current situation is, where does the imperial court have so much spare power?

To be able to maintain the Ming Dynasty's rule in this way is already burning high incense.

"Your Majesty." Chen Xinjia hastily brought up the topic:

"Li Zicheng conquered Luoyang, claiming to have 50 people, and then set his target on Kaifeng. He seemed to want to take down the king of Zhou. In my opinion, it is better to transfer Fu Zonglong to deal with Li Zicheng."

He was afraid that Fu Zonglong would work in the court again, and he was ordered by the emperor to be imprisoned again, or be executed directly.

Isn't that a waste of time to release him from the imperial prison?
Chongzhen was also extremely dissatisfied with Fu Zonglong's performance. As soon as he saw him, he remembered the peace talks between himself and the rebel He Jinchao, which made him extremely annoyed.

Now that Chen Xinjia wanted to send Fu Zonglong out to fight, he closed his eyes and agreed directly.

Just out of sight and out of mind.

Fu Zonglong, as the envoy to negotiate peace with the hammer bandits, was kicked into the muddy pit in Henan just after returning from Shanxi.

Since the Han Dynasty, the Guangdong area centered on the ancient Panyu (Guangzhou), that is, located on the coast, is conducive to the development of foreign trade and has its own economic characteristics.

In the hearts of the Central Plains people, this is the place to "get rich". From the Han Dynasty to the Tang and Song Dynasties, the agricultural level in the south of the Yangtze River developed rapidly, while the agricultural economic level of Guangdong lagged far behind the Central Plains and other areas in the south of the Yangtze River. .

It was not until the Southern Song Dynasty that Guangdong's water conservancy projects and advanced agricultural technology achieved greater development.

In the Ming Dynasty, Guangdong had already planted cash crops, sugar cane.

Rock sugar from Guangzhou, sericulture, ramie and tea from Chaozhou.

Not to mention that Zhao Xiaowu has never tasted citrus, lychee, longan, etc., and enjoyed the treatment of Concubine Yang.

And Zhao Xiaowu also discovered a new crop: peanuts.

Of course, what Yang Wenyue saw was that the Chaozhou area grows a lot of tobacco, which is said to have been passed down from Luzon.

Because of Guangzhou's geographical location, crops are no longer just for satisfying the hunger, but more for going to sea to earn "foreign exchange".

Yang Wenyue and Zhao Xiaowu visited separately in Guangzhou.

Yes, it's just a visit. The combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers is too poor.

Coupled with the hammer bandit's slogan that exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes will be abolished, most of the people have already turned against them.

This place is different from the inland of the Central Plains. The people don't have that much loyalty to the central dynasty. If they can't survive, they will go to sea.

Holding the booklet in his hand, Yang Wenyue looked at the so-called Shatian, Yangtian, Xiantian, and Chaotian in the distance.

People of insight in Guangdong have set their sights on "the rest of Guangnan is in the sea", and believe that the offshore islands are like Nan'ao in the tide, Weizhou in Leizhou, and Snakeyangzhou in the sea. One county."

Most of the Cantonese gentry who were expelled relied on their own pirates and went to these islands to take refuge temporarily, waiting for the imperial reinforcements to recover Guangdong, and they continued to enjoy the blessings when they came back.

In the process of reclaiming these Shatian and Yangtian fields that often extend for dozens of miles, people have accumulated a wealth of experience.

Yang Wenyue looked at the tens of thousands of hectares of foreign land on the coast of Leizhou, and listened to the local small landlords who took the initiative to take refuge in saying: "With less effort, more income, Suideng will be ruthless, and the public and private will be sufficient; otherwise, the whole county will starve."

The key to a good or bad harvest lies in whether the coast is repaired or not.

The bank repair can prevent the flooding of salty tide from damaging the field seedlings, and can also ensure the normal performance of the water conservancy function of the canal and sluice.

Not only that, but Yang Wenyue has also been popularized by science that dredging the water vegetables in the embankment is also an important task that cannot be neglected.

The rectification of dikes and canals, which is a major project, of course requires the government to organize it as a priority.

Yang Wenyue nodded slightly, this kind of live government doesn't care, most of them are organized by local big landlords.

As for the construction of small-scale piers and dams, the coastal people in Shunde, Xinhui, and Xiangshan counties have already put them into action.

Now that they have all run away, these fields are naturally owned by the Hammer bandits, and they should be shared. He brought so many refugees, and they happened to be mixed with the local people to share the fields.

Of course, what surprised Yang Wenyue even more was that the area of ​​cultivated land in Guangdong continued to increase. Even on Mount Luofu, the natural flow of waterfalls and springs was used to transform the "Tian Tian Tian" that harvested twice a year.

Even in some places, rice is cropped three times a year, so the food for the local people is not enough to eat.

The rice they hold is imported from Cochin and Guangxi, so hunger is inevitable.

Because under the control of the official maritime merchants of Ming Dynasty, many fields are planted with cash crops.

"Longan, sugar cane, tobacco leaves, cotton, incense, indigo (dye) and so on, so that people's wealth is less than rice."

Yang Wenyue frowned slightly when he heard what the locals said. The people's wealth he mentioned should not include ordinary people, and even ordinary small landlords are not worthy of being called "people".

"Where are these things sold?"

"Take Yuzhang and Wuzhe in the north, Changsha and Hankou in the northwest, and the longan and lychee from Shunde and other places can also be sold to Yushan in the south of the Yangtze River.

As for the white sugar from Guangzhou, it goes south to Macau, and then goes to Hongmao, Japan, Ryukyu, Siam (Thailand), Luzon, and is exported to the East and West. "

Since ancient times, interests have moved people's hearts.

Once these cash crops go to sea, the value is many times stronger than that of rice.

Yang Wenyue thought about it, and felt that even if ordinary people grow these crops, they can't compete with those big landlords.

He flipped through the brochure, and looked at the endless family fields with a telescope.

This kind of situation is very common in Guangdong, almost one family in one village.

Many people immigrated to Guangdong from other places, with the same surname but divided into several clans. There are thousands of people in Dadingkou and dozens of people in Xiaodingkou.

Since Zhu Xi proposed in "Family Rituals" that family land should not be pawned, it has been written into family regulations and has the effect of private law. It became the law of the state in the period of Zhang Zong of the Qing Dynasty.

As a result, there are more and more family farms, and even occupying 60.00% of the farmland in a county is probably the norm.

But they have long forgotten the rule of helping the poor and weak in the clan, and have become exploiters at the top.

Even if they were from the same clan, many people left their homes and went to sea to become pirates to make a living.

Yang Wenyue knew about clan land, but he didn't expect the problem of clan land here in Guangdong to be so acute.

It really is a good place to "rebel"!

"Clan fields are multiplied in various ways, and my family's genealogy also records a warning to future generations not to leave more money and buy more land.

In order not to be robbed by robbers, or to release the floating money to earn interest, in short, don't keep too much floating money at home. "

Yang Wenyue glanced at him and said nothing.

He believed that those tribesmen who had no land would happily respond to the hammer bandits' policy of dividing up the land.

The current problem is to solve the problem of eating for everyone first, even if occupying Guangzhou can occupy such a large profit.

However, there are droughts all over the Central Plains. The rice here is harvested two or three times a year. Even if it is difficult to transport, they have to accumulate grain first, so as to jam the necks of the pirates, so that they can realize the reality, who is the master of this land.

Yang Wenyue dispatched spies on the Shanxi border in order to fight against the harassment of the government and the army.

He developed the effective experience of a large number of people as farmers and soldiers as reserves and spies, distributed fields to them, and planted grain for a year first to solve the problem of food and clothing.

They will naturally help the guards to unite with each other.

As long as they are not provided with fresh water or food, if they want to buy things of economic value, they will go to Tuen Mun and Macau.

Yang Wenyue compiled what he saw and heard during his visits in Guangdong and the solutions to some problems into a thick document, and sent someone to escort the peanut seeds that Zhao Xiaowu found all the way back to Commander Quietly.

It was the first time in Guangdong to distribute land to the poor. Any Xu people who were not recognized by Ming Dynasty could be registered, and several people could guarantee each other, and they could go ashore to build houses to live in.

Although the hammer bandits distributed the clan land and confiscated all the land for redistribution, there was another resistance from the big landlords and gentry in Guangdong.

Because the hammer bandits started to attack the officers and soldiers, it didn't matter when they beat the Portuguese.

They all think that no matter who comes to Guangdong, if they want to gain a firm foothold here, they have to rely on them like Daming.

But when the Hammer Bandit's Hammer Bandit hit them, these people couldn't sit still.

But in dealing with these rebellions, Zhao Xiaowu seemed to be more handy. The people who worked for these big landlords and gentry were at least not a class better than the Ming army in terms of equipment.

You can even shoot artillery against the hammer bandits, even with good accuracy.

These news were all sent to him by Zheng Zhilong's brother.

Zheng Zhilong's eyelids jumped when he saw what the hammer bandit did. He felt that the hammer bandit was really good at buying people's hearts.

This kind of thing is more courageous than what he did.

"Father, there was chaos in the Central Plains. Li Zicheng attacked Luoyang and killed King Fu and cooked it. Zhang Xianzhong attacked Xiangyang and killed King Xiang."

Zheng Sen told the truth about the news he had just found out.

Zheng Zhilong, who was appreciating the hammer bandits' invitation to buy people's hearts, raised his head and sighed: "Da Ming is getting weaker and weaker, and this group of bandits is going to make a big deal."

"The hammer bandit He Jinzhao didn't get involved?"

"I haven't heard of any movement from them. They just occupied some territory in eastern Sichuan and guarded the border, as if they were watching a show."

Zheng Sen paused and said, "Father, is it too dangerous for Uncle Wu to travel thousands of miles to Shanxi?"

"Back then, people were fighting at sea with their heads hanging from their waistbands. How dangerous was traveling?"

Zheng Zhilong didn't take it seriously, but felt that He Jinzhao must have a big plan, otherwise he wouldn't watch the show calmly.

Based on what the hammer bandits are doing in Guangdong, Zheng Zhilong thinks there is nothing wrong with hooking up with He Jinchao in advance.

He didn't want to stay away from his hometown for the rest of his life and live in exile overseas.

As far as the current situation is concerned, the probability of He Jinzhao competing for the world is extremely high.

In addition, the Hammer Bandit did not show an appearance of "going to sea" in Guangdong, so the initiative of transportation was all in his hands.

He Jinzhao needed him and relied on him.

Zheng Zhilong just hated that he didn't have a daughter, otherwise he would have appointed He Jinzhao to marry him.

and many more.

Zheng Zhilong thought of his second brother who had the best relationship with him, and a youngest daughter who was never married.

At that time, the two brothers were expelled from the house by his father in public, and they fought at sea, and the praises of "long wisdom and tiger bravery" gradually spread in the world.

But in the eighth year of Chongzhen, he and his opponent Liu Xiang fought in the Guangdong sea. Zheng Zhihu jumped on Liu Xiang's main ship and killed all sides. As a result, he was caught in a fishing net and thrown into the sea to drown.

Even if Zheng Zhilong forces Liu Xiang to commit suicide and rule Nanyang, everyone who walks on the sea will have to buy Zheng's flag.

But Zheng Zhihu's body was never found even if Zheng Zhilong went down with someone who was good at diving.

This is also Zheng Zhilong's regret. After counting his brothers, only the two daughters left by his second brother are worth his troubles.

The second child married one wife all his life, gave birth to three boys and two girls, and all four of them have married.

After the fifth child comes back, let's see how he evaluates He Jinzhao first, and then see if this person has "the appearance of the Son of Heaven", otherwise he will never push his niece into the fire pit.

People who run ships on the sea believe in this kind of "superstition" very much.

"It's good luck for you to go to your second uncle's house these two days. Dad wants to say goodbye to his niece."

Zheng Sen is also a man with a keen mind. He looked at his father and said, "Father, you don't mean to marry your sister to He Jinzhao, do you? He is Daming's traitor!"

"I used to be a pirate, so don't make fun of someone's background!"

Zheng Zhilong didn't care. What the hammer bandits did in Guangdong and the weakness of the Ming court in the chaos in the Central Plains made him have to consider a few more options.