Li Guo finally became the late emperor!

He was also a late emperor who failed in the middle of his career, a bit like Liu Bei. However, there were some disadvantages, because today's world has long been divided into three parts. Dashun used Sichuan and Yunnan to fight against the whole country, and it has already endured the exhaustion of national power.

At that time, it can be said that it was really a critical moment of survival.

Li Dingguo, who was known as the "Reincarnation of Zhuge" in Dashun, was most deeply touched by Dashun's weakening national strength, because he spent most of his time on the front line of Shaanxi over the years, fighting against Sima Yi and Wu Sangui of the Ming Dynasty. Wu Sangui insisted that he was Cao Zhen of the Ming Dynasty.

Brave.

To be honest, Li Dingguo's fighting skills are as good as Wu Sangui's. Li Dingguo is good at fighting skillfully, while Wu Sangui is good at fighting hard. The two fought several times, but Li Dingguo used his troops cleverly to trick Wu Sangui in the beginning. In the end,

Again, Wu Sangui outnumbered the many in the battle formation, and Li Dingguo was defeated steadily, so he had to withdraw his troops with hatred.

However, Li Dingguo also learned the lesson from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in which Zhuge Liang always retreated after running out of food. He made long-term plans for farming from the beginning. He also used the strategy of leaving Qishan first and then attacking Guanzhong to seize many loess terraces at the northern foot of Zhongnan Mountain.

, and took advantage of the condescending terrain there to set up defenses, firmly encircling the main battlefield of the Ming and Shun battles at the junction of the Guanzhong Plain and the Qinling Mountains, which can be said to have taken advantage of the opportunity.

But it didn't take long for Li Dingguo to find that the advantage he had worked so hard to seize had turned into a tasteless and useless waste.

It turned out that after Wu Sangui led the army to Guanzhong, Li Dingguo discovered that his army was unable to defeat Wu Sangui's Ming army in the plain area under the platform. The latter's ability to fight in formation was too strong, including infantry, artillery, and cavalry.

Collaborative tactics of engineers. Moreover, under the four major arms of the Ming Army: infantry, artillery, cavalry, and engineers, there are more subdivided small arms, which can carry out various coordination and cooperation on the battlefield, which is very powerful.

Unable to win in plain field battles, Li Dingguo was unwilling to give up the large platform at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains. The platform he occupied in the northern part of the Qinling Mountains stretched for about 50 miles from east to west and about 8 miles from north to south, which was almost 400 miles square.

There are few ravines, so there is not that much land that can be cultivated, but it is still more than 100,000 acres. And it is all mature land, which looks relatively rich, at least much richer than the Shaanxi in Li Dingguo's memory.

Li Dingguo and the generals of the Dashun Army were really reluctant to give up such a rich land that could be cultivated and farmed.

Therefore, Li Dingguo arranged for his troops to build fortresses and cultivate fields on this loess platform as a long-term solution.

He originally had a good idea. With 100,000 acres of land, even if one acre produced sixty or seventy kilograms of flour, it would produce six to seven million kilograms a year, enough to feed an army of twenty thousand.

In addition, a lot of land can be opened up on the slopes of the Qinling Mountains next to these platforms to grow sweet potatoes. Exotic crops such as potatoes have also flowed into Dashun! Millions of kilograms of potatoes can be mixed with flour for consumption every year.

Wan Dajun can also support it.

If we transport some food from Hanzhong, Guanzhong can maintain an army of 50,000 to 60,000, which is enough to compete with Wu Sangui for a long time.

The idea was good, but in actual implementation there was a big problem!

After all, Li Dingguo is not Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang is good at civil affairs. He is a famous prime minister who can manage the Shu Han with few people and land in an orderly manner. But Li Dingguo is just a military general. It is said that it is a peasant uprising, but in fact he does not know how to farm at all. He was captured by Zhang Xianzhong and made into a farmer.

When I was a adopted son, I was still a little baby and didn’t understand farming at all.

He is actually a samurai who grew up in Zhang Xianzhong's army. He is similar to the second-generation Bamboo soldiers in his army, and neither of them know how to farm.

Li Dingguo, who did not know how to farm, took tens of thousands of second-generation soldiers who did not know how to farm to farm on the loess terraces at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain. You can only imagine what they could produce. Although those terraces looked quite wealthy, they were

It is difficult to run a business, and most of the wealth there is due to smuggling to Hanzhong.

Therefore, Li Dingguo's farmland suffered a loss as soon as it started. In the first year, he only harvested less than 1 million jins of wheat, and after the wheat husks were gone, only more than 600,000 jins were left. It could not supply many troops at all, so the tens of thousands of troops in Guanzhong were only

It can be maintained by transshipment from Hanzhong and capture in Guanzhong.

The next year, Li Dingguo learned his lesson and recruited old farmers from Sichuan to come to Shaanxi. It turned out that these old farmers were all rice growers and could not grow wheat on the terraces at all!

As a result, we lost money again, so we had to continue transshipping from Hanzhong, and the transportation volume was several times more than the previous year because there were seizures that could be consumed before, but now there are none.

In the third year, Li Dingguo finally found the right person. He found farmers from the Gongchang area who could grow the northwest terraces. He used the correct method to farm the land, but he harvested nothing!

How can you find the right person and use the right method but still get nothing?

Yes, this is agriculture!

Li Dingguo and the others encountered a drought!

The terraces and ravines in Shaanxi are most afraid of drought, and drought is inevitable. A small drought occurs every three years, and a major drought occurs every five years. It is inevitable no matter what.

Moreover, the severe drought that lasted for fifteen years not only affected Guanzhong, but also seriously affected the agriculture of Hanzhong, Gongchang, Baoning, Songpan, Longan and other places under Dashun rule. Even the wealthy Chengdu Prefecture also suffered

Production has been reduced by more than 30%.

In this case, it seems that Li Dingguo should retreat, but he can't do this!

Because most of the more than 100,000 soldiers who followed him in the Northern Expedition came from drought-stricken areas, which meant that they were all suffering serious losses! Their ability to serve has been greatly reduced. If they are allowed to go home empty-handed, will they be able to survive next time?

It's hard to say when so many people are gathered together.

Moreover, Wu Sangui also knew about the drought in Dashun. In fact, Shaanxi, Henan, and Shanxi under the Ming Dynasty also suffered from drought.

However, the Ming Dynasty is no longer afraid of drought. The population of these provinces in the northwest and central plains has dropped sharply after years of war. Coupled with the large-scale development of the American Gulf and Liaoyang Province, the people in the disaster areas have a good place to go.

During the disaster year, the Ming court did not even provide relief to the three provinces of Shaanxi, Henan, and Shanxi, and did not even exempt them from land taxes!

Of course, the imperial court will provide subsidies to farmers who are willing to leave their hometowns to go to Liaoyang Province or to the Gulf of America during disaster years. This is truly spending money to buy peace!

Dashun has no money to distribute, so they can only launch a war to rob it!

During the 15th and 16th years of the co-rule, Li Dingguo, known as "Zhuge Liang," launched a series of offensives on the ground in Shaanxi, which made Wu Sangui panic. He did steal some property, but it still could not make up for the expenses of the soldiers below.

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Just when Li Dingguo was planning to launch a large-scale offensive after the autumn harvest of 17 years, the situation in Dashun changed dramatically!

Li Guo died, Li Laiheng came to the throne and Dashun suddenly became rich!

The miserable Dashun Dynasty suddenly started giving out red envelopes!

The "red envelope" was escorted by Li Dingguo's youngest son, Li Runxing, to the pristine Dingjun Mountain Camp. It contained a total of 880,000 taels of silver and 480,000 copper coins!

"Why do you give so much money?" Luo Hu, Li Dingguo's deputy general, looked at the baskets of silver and copper coins and was very surprised. "How old is the imperial court? If you give out money like this, you will not be able to survive in the future?"

Li Dingguo also frowned, "The late emperor has always been careful in his life. Although he picked a little, he can make the water flow smoothly! How can it be done like this now?"

Li Runxing smiled and said to his father and Luo Hu: "Ada, Luohou, you two can relax, the court is rich now! My grandson, no, it is the prince of Fujun who went to Tianzhu to plunder a lot and took back more than 800

Wanliang is why I can give rewards to my old brothers now. There are huge rewards for everyone, everyone is happy!"

"Eight million is not much!" Li Dingguo shook his head.

"Ada, don't worry about it. Prince Fujun will grab more next time and you'll have everything!"

"Is there a next time?" Luo Hu knew something about Li Jicheng's good deeds. His son was Li Jicheng's son!
Chapter completed!