"Our family has been guarding Nanjing for many years, and they have some savings. Li Meng, you have a big stall here and spend a lot of money. Take these savings..."

Before he finished speaking, Li Meng stopped him and said with a loud smile:

"That is the old man's pension money. My nephew has a province. If he wants to raise soldiers under his chest, he will be laughed at by the people of the world."

Seeing Li Meng's decisive words, Liu Fulai, the eunuch in Nanjing, said nothing more, but his heart was warm and he added another piece of warmth.

When Huai Yan was defeated, Lu Yan Xing, Li Meng's soldiers were about to enter Huaibei to defend the salt field for the two Huai salt merchants and protect the safety. They had an extra piece of land out of thin air, but they were still a fat and oily land.

One defeat and one prosperity, and one foundation expansion, there are countless money, gold and silver. Shandong General Li Meng, why bother to care about the small hundreds of thousands of taels of silver...

In Huguang area, Yang Sichang entered Xiangyang on the first day of October. In Xiong Wencan's army, he swore a lot of swearing to the three armies. At the same time, he issued an edict to arrest Xiong Wencan and imprison him. Speaking of which, Xiong Wencan was once the prime minister of five provinces. The governors and generals in various places had to follow his orders. The act of reunification and pacification was the instructions of Yang Sichang and Emperor Chongzhen.

Speaking of which, the reason why Xiong Wencan became a garrison minister on the side was because he recruited Zheng Zhilong in Fujian and used Zheng Zhilong to kill Guangdong pirate Liu Laoxiang, which was taken seriously by the court.

However, he was recruited at the beginning and was defeated. In the end, he was arrested and imprisoned by the court because he could not recruit him. As long as he knew the temper of Emperor Chongzhen, he could almost infer that Xiong Wencan was in danger this time.

After the rest of the recruitment period, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai's combat effectiveness were restored, and the official army was not prepared enough. Instead, they were the two armies of Eight Kings and Cao Cao. Not only Zuo Liangyu's troops were defeated by the Shaanxi chaos army, but two generals from Huguang also died tragically.

The chaos in the two lakes and one area has reappeared, but Li Zicheng, the king of treasury who has already damaged the foundation, has a chance to breathe again. Li Zicheng, who was originally only a dozen riders, gathered more than a thousand people again, hid in the mountains at the junction of Huguang and Shaanxi, and followed Luo Rucai's large group of people to operate.

The political situation of the Jurchen Qing Kingdom outside the pass became increasingly stable, and all forces that did not obey Huang Taiji no longer existed. Among all the princes, Prince Heshuorui Dorgon gradually became the most trusted by Huang Taiji.

It turns out that the various Mongolian tribes that were still fighting with the Jurchen Qing Kingdom could no longer be called a force. Some of them depended on the Jurchen Qing Kingdom, and the other part was beaten by the Qing army to travel far north.

The Qing Dynasty now uses the livestock looted in the pass to cultivate fields outside the pass to supplement the famine and losses caused by the disaster year.

While engraving the Han people who were almost Jurchen to become a Jurchen for many years outside the pass, they sent soldiers from the Manchu Eight Banners to search for the uncivilized Jurchen tribes and the Soren people in the old forest, forcing them to join the army and constantly increasing their strength.

The troops brought by Kong Youde in Shandong were originally chaotic troops, but they were gradually rectified due to the harsh military discipline of the Qing army. Huang Taiji attached great importance to this army, because the Ming rebels led by Kong Youde came to the outside world with cannons and other firearms. Artillery was the most powerful weapon of this era.

The Qing Dynasty's attention to firearms was not inferior to that of the Ming Dynasty. Since Fei Yanggu, one of the five ministers, died under the Korean muskets, the Qing army had to recruit North Korean muskets every time they went on a war.

On the side of the Ming Dynasty, on the one hand, they dispatched troops to encircle and suppress Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai's troops, and on the other hand, they urged the local people to collect wages. Hong Chengchou was the governor of Ji Liao, responsible for the battle in the direction of the Qing army, and Sun Chuanting was the governor of Baoding, responsible for the defense of the northern Zhili area.

The Shaanxi Army, which had the strongest combat power, was left in Northern Zhili as a guard. Although Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting strongly opposed it, under Yang Sichang's insistence, the Shaanxi Army remained in Northern Zhili.

As a result, the Ming Shaanxi official army, which defeated Li Zicheng repeatedly, was withdrawn from the front line of the battlefield, and the Shaanxi bandits became increasingly rampant. However, Zheng Chongjian, the new governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, lacked troops on the Shaanxi garrison because he did not have a suitable force in his hands and was short of troops.

Beizhili had just been ravaged by the Qing army's Jurchens. Shaanxi, Shanxi, Huguang and Henan were either suffering from disasters, or officers and soldiers fought with bandits for years, and were in ruins.

The She'an Rebellion in the southwest was a complete damage to the vitality. The population of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan was greatly reduced. The chieftains of the local tribes only returned to their original territory. The Shuixi'an clan is still the largest chieftain and force in the southwest. There is no sign of stability at all.

The areas of Nanzhili, Zhejiang and Jiangxi are rich in Jiangnan. They have relatively superior geographical conditions and few natural disasters. Because of the rise of handicraft workshops and foreign trade, they have increasingly shown a deformed prosperity. Guangdong also relies on trade with the countries of South China and is barely maintaining it. However, these places are called peace, but there are no major chaos and small chaos continues.
Chapter completed!