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

Since Zheng Jun can't do anything to him, he can safely and boldly seek refuge with Wang Ziqi.

Although Fujian Lvying is not as bold as Wu Sangui, he still dares to have a good future as long as he is confident enough to defend the city.

In this way, the flags of the Great Western Army were planted in the entire Fujian area, but Wang Ziqi had not yet taken action.

Just like Dorgon in the past, he obtained large tracts of land in an instant.

As the New Year approached, he led tens of thousands of troops into Quanzhou City and accepted Ma Degong's surrender.

Zheng Chenggong took the main force up Fangshan Mountain and drove along the main road into Xinghua Mansion.

Prepare to lead troops to capture Xinghua Fucheng and establish a forward base for Fuzhou.

At this moment, Zhang Sheng defeated the famous king and won consecutive victories in North China.

Wu Sangui's troops left Yunnan and were still traveling through the thousands of miles of no man's land in Sichuan.

Li Laiheng was stationed in Xiangyang and was licking the wounds of the Battle of Nanyang.

Feng Shuangli and Zhang Hu captured Wuchang and Ganzhou, and cleared the Qing strongholds in Huguang and Jiangxi.

Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan were in the jungle, confused.

Ao Bai garrisoned in Nanyang and had nothing to do with Li Laiheng.

Wang Ziqi and Zheng Chenggong are competing for Fujian.

And Lord Sun, sitting in the south of the Yangtze River, was ringing the death knell of the Manchu Qing Dynasty with his own hands.

With a clang, the New Year's bell rang.

It was completed in 1659 and officially arrived in 1660.

"Report to the Lord that the Western Expedition has been accelerated for 800 miles. King Xing'an has captured Wuchang, Duke Chang has also captured Ganzhou, King Fengjie is taking over Fujian, and King Anning is stationed in Hunan. It is as stable as ever."

"In such a situation, the king has nothing to worry about. Waiting for all the troops to be reorganized and new soldiers to join the army one after another. With our five armies and forty-two towns, we have more than 500,000 men in armor and one million strong soldiers."

"The ruler of the country takes the world as if he were searching for something from a bag!"

In the main hall, Wan Niance announced various achievements this year with great enthusiasm.

In terms of the army, money, food, and territory, Lord Sun is in a great situation, showing a scene of great vitality and competition for all things.

"Not bad." Sun Kewang asked: "How is the money and food expenditure this year?"

"Report to the Lord that statistics from other regions have not yet been sent to Nanjing."

"But for this year's autumn harvest, our Sixth Administrative Department collected a total of more than 486 million shi of rice grain from more than 1.4 million hectares of cultivated land in Jiangnan and Zhejiang!"

"After deducting local reserves, there are a total of 40.63 million shi that can be put into the warehouse every year. As of now, the various armies have consumed only 6.38 million shi, leaving more than 30 million shi left. balance."

"And after the rebel gentry in the south of the Yangtze River was executed, grain and grass were seized from various places, amounting to 26.78 million shi."

"So far, in the entire Jiangnan, the king has a total of more than 60 million shi of grain. Because the warehouses in various places are small, he has to borrow various temples to store grain!" Wan Niance said with great interest.

As soon as these words came out, all the civil and military personnel took a breath.

The number of 60 million is really shocking!

Sun Kewang nodded slightly when he saw this, "Isn't it 60 million?"

There are more than 100 million acres of land in the south of the Yangtze River. Excluding those seized from the gentry, only four dou per acre is required!

It is not surprising that more than 20 million shi were exceeded from the rebellious gentry's family.

There are countless wealthy merchants and landowners in the south of the Yangtze River. Who doesn't have tens or hundreds of thousands of dan to store grain?

This is not the north. With the yield of two shi per mu in Jiangnan, there are tens of thousands of acres of land. If the harvest is 70% a year, one can save 100,000 shi of food and grass.

After saving for a few years and hoarding a handful, wouldn't it be possible to have hundreds of thousands of stones of food stored up?

When Lord Sun sends his troops to attack the enemy, twenty million will become a trivial matter.

If most things in Jiangnan were not intimidated, maybe Sun Ke would be able to find a small target!

After all, there is so much arable land in Jiangnan and so much food is produced.

The gentry were allocated not just 100 million stones but 80 million stones every year.

This was after Sun Guozhu’s restrictions.

Otherwise, relying on the paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River, which can produce more than two shi per mu, the more than 1.4 million hectares, more than 140 million acres of cultivated land, and the 300 million shi of grain and grass produced every year, the Jiangnan gentry would not have taken away 150 million shi. A thousand stones are not enough!

Of course, if it had been left to the past, and the economic development of Jiangnan was to convert rice into mulberry and plant crops on a large scale, it would have been impossible to have such a large output of grain.

After all, in the past, food was not as valuable as cash crops such as cotton.

But now are troubled times, and there is a food shortage all over the country.

In the areas ruled by the Qing Dynasty, one stone of grain was often more than three taels, and now it is even more difficult to count.

Therefore, the Jiangnan gentry had already begun to turn mulberry trees into rice.

After all, in troubled times, food is the most valuable thing.

Although there is still foreign trade, more than 95% of the cultivated land in Jiangnan is still growing food.

That's why Lord Sun was able to have such a huge food income.

In addition to food income, Sun Guozhu's gold and silver income in Jiangnan today is also quite huge.

"In addition to the 60 million stones of grain reserves, salt, customs duties, and other miscellaneous items, a total of 14,840,000 taels of silver were received. In addition to the raids on fake and upright officials and rebellious gentry, a total of 3,600 silver was obtained. Two hundred and eighty thousand taels.”

"Excluding local reserves, daily expenses, rewards to the troops, and army expansion, there is still a balance of 26,320,000 taels!" Wan Niance said with great enthusiasm again, reporting this year's gold and silver balance.

As soon as these words came out, all the civil and military personnel took a breath again.

This Jiangnan is extraordinary. Even if Lord Sun only collects grain for the land tax, he can still produce so much gold and silver!

Especially those gentry who rebelled, their houses were full of gold and silver, just waiting to be looted by the front army!

Sun Kewang also sighed after hearing this. China's economy was booming during the late Ming Dynasty.

Not to mention anything else, just for the more than 700 million acres of land, the harvest per acre is more than 70 million.

If Chongzhen had more than 70 million per year, would he still hang himself?

As for other walks of life, if you tinker with it casually, you can get 20 to 30 million.

So middlemen like the gentry are really not good!

As long as 10% of the projects worth hundreds of millions per year are given to us, Daming will be able to keep them.

The Ming army can eat grass and milk cows!

Not to mention eating meat and sharing soup, as long as they are given some scraps, the Ming army can hold on with gritted teeth.

But they didn’t even give them grass to eat, so it’s no wonder they quit in the end.

"If the order goes down, the New Year will be auspicious. Every family in the south of the Yangtze River can go to the government to receive three measures of rice to celebrate the New Year."

"In all armies, the infantry can receive one tael and two stones of rice. The remaining cavalry, officers, and guards will be promoted and demoted respectively. Officials from all over the Yangtze River have also set standards and distributed them uniformly to celebrate the New Year." Sun Kewang said carelessly.

It's the New Year, and the new dynasty is about to be established.

New year, new atmosphere, new dynasty, new atmosphere, it’s time for Sun Guozhu to pay out the year-end bonus.

After the officials, soldiers and common people received their year-end bonuses, it was time to prepare for the Northern Expedition, so that they could contribute their best. "The benevolence and righteousness of the country's ruler are unparalleled in the world!" Wan Niance and others praised.

Sun Kewang smiled and said: "I have plenty of money and food now, so naturally I can't treat my loyal ministers badly."

"Now the old year is gone and the new year is here."

"The armies were victorious again and again, with overwhelming momentum, sweeping away the remnants of the Manchu Qing in all parts of the south in one fell swoop."

"Today it's time for me to talk about the Northern Expedition."

"We would like to hear the Lord's opinion!" All the civil and military officials saluted.

"When the spring plowing is over, the formation and training of the 42 towns of Gu's Fifth Army will be completed."

"With these soldiers and horses, even if we start a war with the whole world, I will still be invincible!" Sun Kewang said seriously.

Now Sun Guozhu's recruits are already in shape. The earliest recruits from Hunan and Guangdong and Guangxi have been training for half a year.

Thanks to the increasing military capabilities of Guangdong and Guangxi.

These recruits are not short of armor, artillery, and swords.

Unlike the recruits in the first year of Sun Guozhu's dismal management, they still need people and equipment.

Therefore, most arms are ready for battle after half a year of training.

The only drawback is that due to the lack of horse and mule cuirassiers, the scale cannot be raised.

Although Lord Sun implemented horse administration in Yunnan and Guizhou, he used Yunnan horses and Shuixi horses to arm a continuous cavalry force.

However, with the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Jiaoshui, the horse breeding land in Yunnan was completely lost, and the Shuixi horse base in Guizhou was also lost.

In addition to taking a group of young horses from Guiyang, Ma Zheng had to be restructured.

Therefore, in the past two years, Sun Kewang's cavalry seems to be powerful, but in fact it has insufficient stamina.

Once lost, war horses can only be replenished by capturing and looting, and there is no stable supply of war horses.

Although he, the leader of the country, has implemented a well-organized horse policy in Guangdong and Guangxi, things like horses cannot be achieved quickly.

It takes at least three years for a war horse to be cultivated and put into battle.

In other words, the war horses that Sun Guozhu started training in Guangdong and Guangxi at the end of 1657 will not be harvested until the end of this year.

Therefore, although Sun Guozhu, who had little horse-producing land, relied on the Sixth Department of Administration to cultivate a large number of war horses, he could not count on these now.

The cavalry force could only be replenished through capture and plunder.

Among the three major cavalry towns in the hands of Sun Kewang, Xiaoqi Town was the essence of the Qianqian Army. The Iron Cavalry was formed from the remaining war horses of Yunnan and Guizhou and the war horses scavenged from Guangdong and Guangxi.

These three major cavalry towns all suffered serious losses in the Battle of Baoqing. Fortunately, more than 20,000 horses and mules and nearly 10,000 war horses of Doni were captured, so they could be replenished.

Now, although among the new recruits in Guangdong, Guangxi and Hunan, the spearmen, musketeers, and artillery are all ready to go into battle, but the number of cuirassiers is seriously insufficient, with only 5,000 and only one corps. scale.

The training of new recruits, musketeers and other arms in Jiangnan has been training for more than three months, and it has begun to take shape.

However, for the cavalry troops, Sun Guozhu searched all over the south of the Yangtze River and only managed to gather more than 10,000 horses to form a Ruiqi town.

But even so, Lord Sun's military power is still extremely powerful.

Because at this time, he already owned more than 500,000 pieces of armor.

In the 42 towns of the Five Armies, plus the garrison forces from various places, as well as the green battalions and rebels recruited, the number of armored soldiers has exceeded 500,000.

In the five major field armies alone, there are more than 400,000 armored soldiers.

In the entire world, the number of Manchu armored soldiers in the Qing Dynasty was only on the order of 200,000, after deducting the remaining armored soldiers in the southeast.

Aobai's Shaanxi-Gansu Army had only 100,000 armored soldiers, and the area around Beijing had only 60,000 or 70,000 armored soldiers. Counting the 10,000 armored soldiers of the Eight Banners outside the Pass, as well as the remnants of Henan, Shandong, and Shanxi, the Manchu Qing's armored soldiers had almost dropped below 200,000. The pass.

As for Wu Sangui, the armored soldiers in his hands are on the order of 100,000, with a scale of about 150,000 or 60,000.

Li Laiheng and Zheng Chenggong both had armored soldiers on the order of 50,000.

In front of Sun Guozhu, a mammoth of the order of 500,000, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is now a lame Siberian tiger, Wu Sangui is an evolved southwestern leopard, Li Laiheng is a newly fed northwest wolf, and Zheng Chenggong is a southeastern dragon. It's just that he is a sea dragon. Once ashore, it degenerates into a snake.

What Sun Kewang said was true. Under his continuous violent attack, his strength had become unparalleled, enough to engulf the world and wipe out all dissenters.

Of course, arrogance is arrogance, and large-scale wars will have to be launched after spring plowing is completed.

As long as the five armies and forty-two towns are successful, then Lord Sun can ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor, taking the final step towards unifying the world!

"The ruler of the country even said that with my hundreds of thousands of talented people, why should we care about anything else? After the spring plowing, we can go directly north to attack the Qing Dynasty, kill all the Tatars, and dominate the world!" Yuan Taoan, Yang Silong, Sun Jiayao and others All the trusted generals are full of confidence.

"After the spring plowing, when summer comes, Gu is going to march north with an army of 300,000 to attack the Qing Dynasty, and wipe out the rest of the land in China in one fell swoop!"

Sun Kewang said solemnly: "It's just that the Manchu Dynasty is a centipede insect that is dead but not stiff. Although the sun is setting on the west mountain and he is old, he is still quite powerful."

"I am not afraid of a battle with 300,000 troops, but I am worried that the Manchus will take the opportunity to collect gold and silver and flee back outside the pass."

"By then, the lonely army will have to work hard for the people in the north and expedition to Liaodong, which will be a waste of people's strength."

"He is even more capable of eradicating evil and allowing the Manchus to escape into the white mountains and black waters and still survive!"

"So I decided to collect ships in the south of the Yangtze River, add new ships, and march all the way across the sea to attack Huanglong!"

As soon as these words came out, all the civil servants and generals were surprised.

The leader of his country plans to kill all the Manchus, leaving no one behind!

If this plan is successful, during the Northern Expedition, the front army will land in Liaodong first and seize the Manchu Qing's retreat.

Hundreds of thousands of Manchus were blocked outside the pass.

Then there will be no place for these women and children to evacuate.

The only way left for them was to leave Juyongguan and escape into Mongolia.

But when the wall falls, everyone pushes it, and when the drum breaks, thousands of people beat it.

These people fled into Mongolia with their gold and silver treasures. Will the Mongols let go of the fat sheep that got into their mouths?

I'm afraid that after a fight, the Manchus will be completely wiped out, and the Manchus will also disappear in the long river of history!

"The king's strategy is very good. I will land in Liaodong with the front army, dig the grave of the wild boar skin, and cut off the roots of their Manchu people!" Yang Silong cheered loudly.

"Yes, the Manchus massacred countless cities, from Liaodong to Yunnan. We only massacred one city in Nanjing. The Manchus in Hangzhou had already fled before we arrived."

"If we can land in Liaodong and wipe out the Manchu lair, I will be the vanguard!" Sun Jiayao said with a cupped hand.

For a time, many generals requested orders one after another. (End of chapter)