I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Cheng Shijie didn't take Zhou Ning's words about Chi Zesheng to heart. In Zhou Ning's opinion, Emperor Chongzhen was the legitimate emperor of the Ming Dynasty and what the people wanted.

Once Emperor Chongzhen returns to the capital, unexpected changes will definitely occur.But the problem is that in Cheng Shijie's understanding, there are more than 20 Wanning naval officers in nine brigades. This is Cheng Shijie's confidence. No matter what the people want, it can't withstand a hard fist.

Cheng Shijie did not enter Beijing immediately. He also had some bad taste. As for the rebellious officials and traitors in the capital, he asked them to kneel for a while longer. Young and strong people could work hard. Kneeling for a while would not cause them to die or get hurt. But those grassroots on the wall, Let the frail old guys suffer a little.

Cheng Shijie was also thinking about a question. The Little Ice Age actually did not end immediately after the founding of the Qing Dynasty. In fact, this period lasted until the 50th century, especially the [-] years after the demise of the Ming Dynasty. One of the coldest periods in time.

According to historical records, in November of the Gregorian calendar in 1654 (the 11th year of Shunzhi), the ice on the Wujiang Canal was more than three feet thick, and it was frozen all the way from Wujiang to Jiaxing. It took strong men to cut through the ice to move 11-3 kilometers per day.In November of the Gregorian calendar, the South Canal was frozen, which was rare in history. It shows the cold weather in Jiangnan during the Shunzhi period.In addition, at that time, there were also records of the Yangtze River freezing.

From the first confrontation between the two sides in Fushun in 1618 to the overthrow of the Zheng regime in the Ming Dynasty in 1683, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties competed with the Ming Dynasty for more than 56 years. , there are also fierce battles under fortified cities.

The fall of the Ming Dynasty was indeed unfair, but it must be clear that the fall of the Ming Dynasty was mainly due to man-made disasters, and it can also be said to be an inevitable necessity of history.Political corruption, land annexation, natural and man-made disasters... It seems that the demise of the Ming Dynasty was just a natural result!

Now Cheng Shijie had to make a choice to clean up this mess. The Manchus could massacre the Han people, engage in ethnic antagonism, and use bloody methods to massacre them. Only in this way did they survive the long Little Ice Age.

During the Shunzhi period, the population was only 7000 million. It was not until the sixth year of Qianlong that the population increased to 1.4 million. In other words, it took nearly 100 years from the founding of the Qing Dynasty for the population to increase by 7000 million.However, from 55 billion to the 50th year of Qianlong's reign, that is, in less than [-] years, the population exceeded [-] million.

This shows the impact of Little Glacier weather on people across the country.

Cheng Shijie had to consider this issue. When he was in Liaodong, he discovered that the weather was cold. Although Liaodong had a large amount of available arable land, it was unable to carry out large-scale farming. The only way was to move the agricultural industry southward and plant grain. When it snows in Luzon, Indochina, and even the Guangdong and Guangxi regions, the Jianghuai region can barely survive.

What's more, Beizhili, especially the Beijing-Tianjin area, is short of water!Not only are the surrounding states and counties in short supply, but the capital city is also severely short of water. It is difficult to drink water, let alone farming!If we want the people in the Gyeonggi area to get out of poverty, they must have enough water to irrigate their crops. Otherwise, it will be useless to exempt them from taxes for many years, and those who deserve to be poor will still be poor!
Thinking of this, Cheng Shijie decided to move the northern population further south. From now on, he will start moving southward to Luzon and the Indochina Peninsula, allowing the people of the Ming Dynasty to farm in the Red River Plain of the Indochina Peninsula, where there is abundant rain, fertile land, and rich products. .

Thinking of this, Cheng Shijie began to enter Beijing.

Cheng Shijie saw the soldiers of the Beijing camp kneeling on the ground, as well as some Han Banners and Guan Ning troops. There were a total of 3 to [-] people.

In fact, the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty and generals at all levels looked at Cheng Shijie, hoping that Cheng Shijie would be merciful and pardon their crimes, but they thought too much.

Cheng Shijie looked at Zhou Ning and said: "Let's start with these weaklings. Ordinary soldiers will serve five years of hard labor, generals below the rank of general will serve from five to 15 years, and generals and deputy generals will serve from fifteen to 20 years. If there are no major misdeeds, you can serve as appropriate. There are exemptions, but I’m afraid not many people can get exemptions, and treason itself is the biggest evil deed.”

"The general will understand that they are just their family members?"

"They will be sent to Luzon together as a labor force to serve as a field army!"

Seeing that Cheng Shijie did not kill anyone, the civil and military ministers were relieved. In their expectation, Cheng Shijie would have to chop off at least a few thousand heads to finish, but they did not expect that he would just do hard labor.However, throwing all the more than 3 surrendered troops into hard labor sent an extremely tough signal.

From the middle to late Wanli period until now, the Ming Dynasty's policy of tolerance towards warlords has ended here. Whoever dares to cause unscrupulous rebellion as before will surely be extremely severely punished!

Cheng Shijie continued: "Starting from the Beiping Dusi and Peiping Dusi, including the nine-border army, all those who surrender to Jiannu will be dealt with in this way."

Cheng Shijie's first attack in Beijing was to attack the troops in the capital. Cheng Shijie initially tried to reorganize the garrison soldiers, but the result was not good. Instead, the Sanhe Arsenal was bombed, which was a wake-up call for Cheng Shijie.

Almost all of Ming's guardsmen were dead. Faced with this group of veterans and greasers, if they were sent to the battlefield again, they might not be able to do anything wrong.

"What if you surrender to us directly?"

"Soldiers don't need to be punished with forced labor. They can be directly organized into [-] farming households or [-] engineering households, and they can also migrate to Dayuan and Luzon!"

Hearing this, Zhou Ning was a little curious: "Commander, there are not many people in Beizhili since this!"

"The weather is getting colder and colder, and the north is not suitable for living in the first place!"

Cheng Shijie sighed and said: "From the first year of Chongzhen to the present, nearly ten years, in which year has Beizhili been able to have good weather? The era we are in now belongs to the Little Ice Age!"

Cheng Shijie explained to Zhou Ning what the Little Ice Age was. The first Little Ice Age in Chinese history was from the late Yin Shang Dynasty to the early Western Zhou Dynasty, the second was from the late Eastern Han Dynasty to the Western Jin Dynasty, and the third year was the Tang Dynasty. From the late years to the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty.Now it's the fourth time.

In later generations, global warming often raises a problem, which has also caused global panic. In fact, the temperature rise or fall is cyclical. According to Cheng Shijie, in the next 50 to [-] years, the world will have a fifth During the Sub-Little Ice Age, during that period, the concern was not about rising temperatures, but about falling temperatures.

It is still unknown whether an accident like the one in the movie "The Day After Tomorrow" will happen, but floods can occur in Beijing, and the water depth in Zhuozhou can reach 12 meters at its peak. Who would have thought of this?

As Cheng Shijie entered the city, the clouds of war finally dissipated, and the sun shone in Beijing, bringing a hint of warmth.

The residents of Beijing looked dull, crouching on both sides of the avenue, and allowed the army to pass through the center of the avenue in a mighty manner. The smoke and dust stirred up were sprinkled on their bodies, and they did not dare to raise their heads.Most of them have shaved their heads. Although Huang Taiji often forced open warehouses to release grain, these residents still have sallow and thin faces, dull faces, fearful and confused expressions. Obviously, during this period of being ruled by foreign races, their Life is not easy either.

Especially the braid on their head, which could barely feed their family a few days ago, but now it has become a life-threatening talisman. They are shaking all over, feeling that a disaster is coming.

As Cheng Shijie's first sword struck the surrendered army, it showed that the Ming Empire would not let the traitors go!

Cheng Shijie did not take a carriage or ride a horse, but walked into Beijing. He looked at the trembling people and could only sigh. Cheng Shijie walked to a person who was kneeling on the ground and looked at him curiously with a pair of big round eyes. in front of their children.Cheng Shijie knelt down and touched his head: "Little guy, why do you have braids?"

The child is not afraid of him at all, also, children of this age do not know what it means to be afraid.He sucked his finger, blinked and said, "Because we're hungry."

The child's parents were even more frightened and moved forward to cover the child's mouth, but Cheng Shijie stopped him: "Why are you hungry?"

The child said: "Because there is nothing to eat!"

Cheng Shijie felt that he was a little stupid, actually asking this question to a child. In fact, Cheng Shijie knew very well what happened in Beijing. The government did not care about the lives of ordinary people, while Huang Taiji only kept urging and coercing officials and gentry to pay food and donations.

Merchants also took the opportunity to drive up the price of grain. At the highest period, which is now, the price of grain in Beijing has risen to sky-high, with each bucket of grain costing 20 taels of silver.

Dou Mi Ten Thousands of Money is a record that often appears in history books. Now this record has been broken. Huang Taiji used food to assimilate the people of Gyeonggi Province in the same way as Cheng Shijie did in Nanyang. The slight difference is that Huang Taiji made the people shave their heads. Only by shaving your hair can you get affordable food. People can only try their best to survive, but they cannot starve to death.

Of course, in the Nanyang region, Cheng Shijie's method is to speak Chinese, wear Hanfu, and practice Chinese customs. For example, people who can speak Chinese may receive tax refunds after collecting taxes.During the Mid-Autumn Festival, daily necessities such as rice, flour, and oil will be very cheap, half the price compared to the market price. You can buy them while wearing Hanfu, or you can eat them yourself, but they cannot be used for profit. The same is true for other Spring Festival festivals. If you don’t wear Hanfu, you will be reported. A fine of ten times will be imposed,
Cheng Shijie was transforming Hu into Han, while Huang Taiji was transforming Han into Hu. This was the most successful thing Huang Taiji did. From 221 BC, Qin Shihuang unified the world and ended the slave society.In the following periods, China was a slave society for four periods.

The first time was the Wu Hu Luan Hua. In this era, Han women suffered the most. Basically, they were "raped at night and used as food during the day. The second time was during the Jin Kingdom (1115-1234), and the third time was during the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368). ).

For the Yuan Dynasty, what many people are most impressed by is the "four-class people" system.In fact, the Yuan Dynasty was a standard "slavery"!The rule of the Yuan Dynasty implemented feudal feudalism and labor slavery, which are typical characteristics of a slave society!Objectively speaking, "exporting slaves" in the Yuan Dynasty was very common, and the scale of the "human market" in the Yuan Dynasty was very large!

In today's era, there are two dynasties that cannot be criticized, namely: the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty!Compared to the Yuan Dynasty, once you say "bad things" about the Qing Dynasty, you will receive greater backlash.However, from the perspective of historical reality, the Qing Dynasty was indeed a slave dynasty.The evidence is Baoyi, Aha, slave raiding wars, slave markets and trade. The plundered Han people were bought and sold at will.

Cheng Shijie did not blame these people. He was silent for a long time. Instead, he remembered an incident that happened in later generations. A couple met gangsters at night. The husband faced the gangsters and turned around and ran away. The wife did not run away. She was hit by that. Then the husband He immediately divorced his wife and put all the blame on her, thinking that her wife was dirty.

Cheng Shijie touched the child's head and said, "Go back and cut off the braid and keep the original sideburns. It's so ugly."

Cheng Shijie looked at Sun Zhiman behind him and said: "Immediately introduce a law. The price of grain and salt will be the same as that in Liaodong. Those who keep whips will not sell a grain of grain to them!"

As soon as this statement came out, the people kneeling on the ground were all stunned.

"Changyu!"

"The end is here!"

"Immediately send troops to take over all the granaries, and then open the granaries to release grain. We must ensure that every household in the capital has at least three days of food!"

Cheng Shijie guessed that there must not be much food in the capital, but Ning Haijun's army of more than 20 people only had half a month's food. If military food was used to supply the people in the city, three days would be the limit, but the problem was not big. It was just more transportation from the rear. For this battle, Cheng Shijie prepared more than 3000 and two million shi of grain in Liaodong, and there was more in Luzon.

Feeding the people of Gyeonggi is not a big problem.

Then Cheng Shijie ordered: "It is strictly forbidden for officers and soldiers to trespass into people's houses and harm the people in the name of searching for fugitives. Anyone who violates the rules will be punished. Those who are good and take credit will be killed. Yi people! Those who shave their hair and leave braids are not guilty. Those who don't like this hairstyle can do it as soon as possible." Cut it off and keep what you like, the court will not pursue it."

"Don't pursue it?"

"Yes, I will not sell my food to them. They have a way to live, and I have nothing to do with it!"

Sun Zhilan looked at the officials on the floor with confusion and said, "They are not in a hurry!"

As Cheng Shijie's order was issued, Ning Haijun's soldiers quickly took over the granaries in the city. However, as Cheng Shijie expected, the government's grain was only on the books, and almost all granaries had no grain, or only a very small part.There will definitely be a lot of food in the private granary.

However, Cheng Shijie did not send troops to seize the grain from these grain merchants. Anyway, Ning Haijun had plenty of grain.

As Cheng Shijie's order was issued, the originally lifeless city of Beijing suddenly burst into flames, as if a pot was boiling. Countless people who thought they would lose three layers of skin even if they didn't die cried with joy, and the whole family huddled together and cried bitterly.

The smarter one immediately found a pair of scissors and cut off the braid. Although Cheng Shijie said that the court would not pursue it and those who liked this hairstyle could keep it, but... Only ghosts like this kind of ugly hairstyle. It’s awkward. Cut it off earlier and you’ll feel better!
After Ning Haijun's soldiers pulled out the carts of food and distributed it on the street, the entire capital almost went crazy, and the shouts of "Long live our emperor" resounded throughout the sky!

If Chongzhen had been present, he would have been extremely depressed. Given the enthusiasm of the people, even if he came back with thousands of troops, he would not be able to enter the city of Beijing. The people would no longer recognize him!
At this time, Emperor Chongzhen and the remnants of the Northern Expedition Army also arrived at Shuntian Fukou North Road. Li Xin brought a dozen Ning Navy soldiers to the front of the army.

"Where is the champion?"

"You are……"

"I am Li Xin, the staff officer of the General Staff of the Ning Navy, and I have been ordered by Cheng Shuai to meet with the Champion!"

At this time, Li Xin had to use Cheng Shijie's banner, otherwise, he would not be able to see Lu Xiangsheng at all. (End of chapter)