At the end of Ming Dynasty: I, Sun Kewang!Desperate comeback!

Chapter 195

Since there is considerable certainty that this decisive battle can be won.

The management of Hunan has naturally been put on the agenda.

"There is not much grain in Hunan, and when the Tatars entered Yunnan and Guizhou, they tried their best to plunder it. When I first arrived in Hunan with the front army, it was not appropriate to exhaust the lake to fish."

Sun Kewang said in a deep voice: "However, if it can be managed properly, Hunan will be able to harvest in the autumn after Dorni's army is defeated. Therefore, during this period, the administration of Hunan cannot be relaxed."

"What the Lord said is true." Wu Fengsheng said slowly: "It's just that Hunan is different from Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi. There are many people's fields here and the gentry is powerful. Although there are [-] elite soldiers, for the sake of local stability, the Lord's camp is The law has to be relaxed."

Sun Kewang nodded.

“In Yunnan, there are officials, four people, and five landowners, one. In Guizhou, there are seven people, three. In Guangxi, there are five people, four people, and one landowner.”

"Hunan is different from Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi. In this case, except for the confiscation of guard posts, nobles, and ownerless land."

"According to the old rules in Guangdong, for land owned by an owner, four to six bushels per acre are required, and the income of the cultivator is higher than that of the camp."

The yield per mu in Hunan was about one stone and five dou, and Sun Kewang collected four to six dou, which was about [-]%.

As for the common people, basically [-]% was reserved, and of course [-]% was reserved for the gentry.

Although these policies were greatly restricted compared to the [-]% to [-]% income from land rent, the landlords and gentry were greatly restricted.

But compared to the policies in Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi, it is undoubtedly much friendlier. After all, the gentry in those places only get [-]%.

Of course, the main reason is that the Hunan gentry is relatively strong, and spring plowing is approaching, and the Qing army is about to counterattack.

Therefore, the united front value of the Hunan gentry has been greatly improved, and they are naturally more tolerant compared to Sun Guozhu.

"The king's policy is very good. There is a lot of arable land in Hunan. We simply don't have that many manpower to carry out the old work in a short period of time. The best policy is to collect fixed grains per acre." Wu Fengsheng nodded.

In the early stage of Sun Kewang's camp in Yunnan, he completed the proportional share.

But in this way, the manpower needed for the camp will be greatly increased.

Because during the autumn harvest, the camp must arrange for people to go to the mountains and countryside to conduct statistics.

Otherwise, how would the camp know exactly how much food is produced from one acre of land?

Not to mention the gentry, even the common people are greedy for cheap!According to the proportion of sharing, if there is not enough administrative supervision, concealing output will 100% happen.

Therefore, in Guangxi, Sun Guozhu was based on shareholding, but in Guangdong and Hunan, he had to set a fixed tax amount.

Because there are hundreds of thousands of hectares of cultivated land in Guangdong and Hunan, he simply does not have that many manpower to count the output one by one.

According to the fixed amount, the tax amount is four to six bushels per mu. Four bushels is four bushels, and six bushels is six bushels.

It is clear how much farmland there is in an area and how much grain must be paid.

All in all, if the food supply is not enough, Sun Kewang and Yingzhuang will not let this area go.

Of course, Sun Guozhu was still wary of the gentry's habit of suffering the common people.

If a civil uprising breaks out in a place, the local gentry will have their homes confiscated and their entire clan exterminated.

This is what Xiying’s old business does, so there’s no need to say more about it.

In short, the land of Hunan is basically like this. In front of Lord Sun's 10,000+ army, few unsighted people dare to jump out and die.

Therefore, the spring plowing in Hunan went smoothly, and a large number of mountain people came down from the mountains and came to the plains to cultivate.

At the time of initial stability and construction in Hunan.

The war between the thirteen families of Kuidong was full of ups and downs.

In December, after learning that the main force of Wu Sangui's tribe went south.

Liu Tichun and others once again raised their troops and marched westward, intending to attack Chongqing again and hold back Wu Sangui.

The navy of Santan and Shunjun took the lead, while Liu Tichun and others, under the coordination of Wen Anzhi, marched towards Chongqing by land.

Hao Yaoqi, Li Laiheng, and Yuan Zong's third division continued to harass Huguang, and Hao Yaoqi's division even succeeded in a surprise attack on Xiangyang.

However, at this critical moment.

Earth-shaking changes have taken place within Santan, which has been resisting the Qing Dynasty for more than ten years.

In early December, Tan Wen and Zhenbei General Mou Sheng led 150 troops and arrived in Chongqing on [-] eight ships, which opened the prelude to the Second Battle of Chongqing.

Seven thousand Ming troops were divided into three groups, attacking Chaotian Gate, Linjiang Gate and Qiansi Gate.

Attack Nanji Gate, Chuqi Gate, and Jinzi Gate all the way.

Gao Minzhan, the governor of Sichuan in the Qing Dynasty, commanded Cheng Tingjun, the commander-in-chief of Chongkui, and Wang Mingde, the commander-in-chief of Jianchang, resisted.

Due to the insufficient strength of the Ming army, the attack failed for several days.

But the military information coming back from Chongqing frightened the Qing Dynasty in Beijing for half a month.

The war ended on December 7000, when Tan Yi and Yuan Jinxiao's naval division of [-] men arrived in Chongqing by boat.

Gao Minzhan saw a steady stream of Ming troops, but there were no reinforcements in Chongqing, so he was so frightened that he abandoned the city and fled.

Thousands of Qing troops in the city saw the Ming army's reinforcements arriving, followed by Tan Hong, Liu Tichun, Wang Guangxing, He Zhen, Ma Chongxi, Ta Tianbao, Dang Shousu and other troops.

Morale suddenly plummeted, and I felt desperate.

However, at this moment, due to the Battle of Beipanjiang, Li Ding's army collapsed too quickly, and Tan Yi, who felt that the overall situation was hopeless, was disheartened.

So after arriving in Chongqing, he stationed troops on the bank of the Yangtze River. He behaved strangely and refused to send troops to attack the city.

Tan Wen was confused by his third brother's behavior, but more than ten years of brotherly love still did not make him think of the worst.

So accidentally, Tan Wen led several soldiers to break into Tan Yi's camp.

"Third brother! The war is in full swing. It's not like you don't know the significance of capturing Chongqing! Brother, my troops are fighting a bloody battle. How can you be afraid of the enemy and wait and see?" Tan Wen yelled angrily.

"Brother, what can we do if we capture Chongqing?" Tan Yi said slowly: "Li Dingguo's 20-strong army has collapsed. The Qing army has already entered Yunnan. What can we do with these men and horses in the hands of you and my brother?"

"Third brother, how can you think so?" Tan Wen said hurriedly: "It is precisely because the King of Jin's army retreated that we have to capture Chongqing, cut off Wu Sangui's retreat, and hold back the Tatars, so that the court can Protect Yunnan!"

"If we sit back and watch the fall of Yunnan, the Tatars will definitely come to Kuidong to encircle and suppress us in the future! How can we finish the eggs under the overwhelming force?"

"It's not like you don't understand the meaning of lips dying and teeth falling cold!"

"Brother, in the Battle of Beipanjiang, from November to now, Li Dingguo's 20-strong army has completely collapsed. What else can you expect from such a court?" Tan Yi sighed.

"It's not that I don't understand the meaning of lips dying and teeth falling cold, and the nest falling under the nest, but the building is about to collapse. This lip is destined to perish, and this nest is destined to fall."

"In this case, brother, we three brothers have to find another way out."

"Third brother, what do you mean?" Tan Wen was stunned.

"Li Dingguo's main force has been defeated. We three brothers only have a few thousand troops. The Qing army may have already invaded Yunnan."

Tan Yi looked up to the sky and sighed.

"There's no hope, there's no hope, there's no hope."

Just as Li Zicheng was defeated one after another, people in the Dashun camp were panicked.

Sun Kewang was defeated at the fork in the road, and his prestige was completely ruined.

Li Dingguo's disastrous defeat at Beipanjiang not only caused him to lose all the prestige he had accumulated from becoming a king.It also caused a devastating blow to the morale of the Nanming camp.

Under this situation, an atmosphere of despair began to spread, and Tan Yi had already concluded in his heart that the overall situation was hopeless.

"How could there be no hope!" Tan Wen said firmly: "The imperial court is still there, the emperor is still there, King Jin is still there, Supervisor Wen, Li Laiheng and others are still there!"

"Haha!" Tan Yi sneered.

"Brother, you and I have been officials for many years, can't you still see clearly the court? What hope can you and my brothers have from such a court?"

Unlike other commanders of the Shun Army, San Tan came from the Ming Dynasty official army.

And it is precisely because of this that they have no hope at all in our Ming court.

Because within the system, they have long known what the Ming Dynasty's court is like.

This is why the green camp generals responded more to Wu Sangui and less to our Ming Dynasty.

Because our Ming Dynasty is really unreliable!
Didn’t you see what happened to Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren?

King Jin is not the worst, the worst is Chen Youlong anyway,
They conquered Wugang and Baoqing in Hunan, and their troops were directed towards Changsha.

He Tengjiao stabbed him to death with just one stab.

Given this situation, the Green Camp heroes really didn’t dare to fight back!

Compared with Wu Sangui in such a court, King Pingxi is still the caring person of the heroes of Green Camp!
As soon as these words came out, Tan Wen was speechless for a while.

Although he was an officer and soldier of the Ming Dynasty who insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty, he also knew the national conditions of the Ming Dynasty.

"If the court is like this, there is no hope for the emperor. He is just a runaway emperor. If you and I put our hope in him, we will definitely die without a burial place!" Tan Yi said firmly.

Everyone knows that Yongli's deeds are outrageous, but they don't know how outrageous this emperor is.

Starting from October of the second year of Longwu, his transfer record is as follows:

From October to December of the second year of Longwu: Zhaoqing, Wuzhou, Deqing, Zhaoqing, and Wuzhou.

The first year of Yongli: Pingle, Guilin, Quanzhou, Wugang, Fengtian, Tongdao, Jingzhou, Liuzhou, Xiangzhou, Guilin.

In the second year of Yongli: Xiangzhou, Nanning, Xunzhou, Wuzhou, Zhaoqing.

Yongli four years: Wuzhou, Xunzhou, Nanning.

Yongli five years: Tianzhou, Nanning, Xinning, Anping, Longying, Guishun, Zhen'an.

Yongli six years: Guangnan, Anlong.

The tenth year of Yongli: Xincheng, Pu'an, Qujing, Kunming.

Yongli 12th year: Anning, Chuxiong, Zhaozhou, Dali, Yongping, Yongchang, Tengyue, Nandian, Ganya, Manmo, Jinggan, and Awa.

Since Yongli took office as the governor of the country, his imperial throne has been moved a total of 48 times.

As Du Yonghe said, once the holy chariot moves, people's hearts will disperse.

Although Emperor Yongli has not reached the record of 48 moves yet, by now, people's hearts have been dispersed more than 30 times.

Now that they have broken up more than 30 times, in Tan Yi's heart, what prestige does he still have as the emperor?

They, the generals of the Southern Ming Dynasty, saw these things in their eyes. What could be said about an emperor running away like this?
"The imperial court and the emperor, you and I can't count on you. As for Li Dingguo, haha, in the battle of Beipanjiang, the 20-strong army collapsed in less than a month!" Tan Yi sneered.

"The King of Jin who became a king in two ways is nothing more than this. Back then, Qihou's 3000 men were able to defeat his 3 men. Judging from his behavior, I am afraid that Li Dingguo will survive."

"As for Governor Wen, Li Laiheng and others, since Yunnan is destined to be unable to defend itself, the best they can do is wait for death in Kuidong. What hope do they have?"

"Third brother, what on earth are you going to do!" Tan Wen had already had an ominous premonition in his heart.

"Brother, as of now, my three brothers still have more than 1 soldiers and horses, and the war in Chongqing is in an emergency. If we can surrender to the Qing court at this critical moment, and be granted the title of marquis and prime minister, we will definitely have no less!"

"You actually want to surrender to the Tatars!" Tan Wen looked at his third brother, dumbfounded and said in disbelief.

"Brother, there is no hope for anything serious!" Tan Yi's face was slightly red but he still gritted his teeth and said.

"If there is still hope, I don't want to leave that damn braid, but it's over, brother! For the sake of our three brothers, why are the brothers under your command, you just lead us to surrender!"

"Crazy! Crazy! Crazy!" Tan Wen pointed at Tan Yi and said, "Tan Yi! We three brothers have been fighting in Kuidong for more than ten years! Now you tell me that you want to surrender to the Tatars?"

"And you!" Tan Wen pointed at Tan Yi's generals and soldiers one by one.

"You will follow him and surrender to the Tatars and become traitors! Keep that damn braid?"

In the big tent, everyone lowered their heads.

"Commander, even Li Dingguo has been defeated. There is nothing we can do." One of Tan Yi's subordinates argued in a low voice.

In fact, Santan and the troops under their command are already very good in this era.

After the Qing Dynasty entered the Pass, the military generals of the Ming Dynasty surrendered like the minister across the river.

Only San Tan and a few others still persisted in resisting the Qing Dynasty.

Apart from this, it is difficult to find military commanders from the Chongzhen Dynasty.

Most of the generals either died or were killed in the battle sequence of the Qing army.

Compared with the generals of the Green Camp, the Santan brothers were able to persist in resisting the Qing Dynasty until this time, which is worthy of our Ming Dynasty.

Even during the San Francisco Revolution.

The tribesmen of Santan, led by the only remaining Tan Hong, tried their best to fight for the Han people.

Even after Wu Fan retreated to Yunnan and Guizhou, Tan Hong pretended to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and gave him a counterattack.

Joining forces with Ma Bao, they regained Chongqing and once reached Baoning, which reversed the situation in Sichuan and made Kang Mazi itch with hatred.

It can be said that as long as there is a little hope, Tan Yi and his subordinates will not surrender.

It's just that until now, I don't know that Sun Kewang has sent troops to Huguang.

Tan Yi and his subordinates lost all confidence in despair and decided to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

The shadow of the Beipanjiang defeat is engulfing Sichuan's originally good war situation.

"You bunch of traitors!" Tan Wen was furious, facing his brother's betrayal.

He angrily pulled out his saber and slashed forward.

In the big tent, a burst of sword light flashed.

Tan Wen fell down unwillingly.

"Brother!" Tan Yi shed two lines of tears.

Counting from the time when the Manchus entered the country, he and Tan Wen had been resisting the Qing together for 15 years.

If we count from the late Ming Dynasty, he, Tan Wen and Tan Hong, the three brothers, have relied on each other and struggled for 30 years in this troubled world.

After so many years, it would be empty talk if there is no brotherly love between the three Tans.

But this brotherhood eventually turned to ashes in this chaotic world of cannibalism.

(End of this chapter)