"What? The Tatars were defeated at the foot of Datong? Is it true or false?"

In the Imperial City of Chang'an, in the Wuying Hall, Emperor Dashun Li Zicheng was looking suspiciously at an envoy from the Ming army of Datong who had slipped into Chang'an disguised as a Shanxi merchant.

The messenger's name is Chen Yongxi. He is twenty-four or five years old. He has handsome features and looks like a white-faced scholar. He is a scholar from Dingxiang County under Taiyuan Prefecture. Of course, his family is a big landowner. Because Li Zicheng got involved in Taiyuan Prefecture.

The exemption of grain and rent (the rent exemption was not initiated by Li Zicheng, but the farmers refused to pay the gentry for grain) made them very dissatisfied, so they and their two brothers took some family property to Datong under the rule of the Ming Dynasty and joined Wang Yongji's shogunate.

Experienced the first siege of Datong.

Although the first siege of Datong ended with the "victory" of the Ming army, Chen Yongxi was not optimistic about the future of Datong Mansion at all.

Although the Qing army has now retreated as agreed, there are hundreds of miles outside Datong City. There are villages, towns, forts and cities everywhere that were looted and burned by the Qing soldiers. Only Datong Youwei and Weiyuanwei are in remote areas and have special city defenses.

The solid Acropolis was not breached by the Qing army. But even if it was not breached, all the farmland around the Datong Right Guard and Weiyuan Guard were abandoned!

When Chen Yongxi came out of Datong City and entered the Luliang Mountains, the place he passed was all desolate. On both sides of the official road, he could only see the ruined villages, towns and fortresses that had been burned and the withered bones of people and animals, but not a single place where seeds had been sown.

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The farming season this spring has been delayed, so there will naturally be no harvest in the fall!

When the Tatars come again to besiege the city, how long can Datong hold on?

Although he knew that the situation in Datong Mansion was precarious, the object of Chen Yongxi's hatred was still Li Zicheng!

Because after the rescue of Datong, he had already contacted the Dingxiang family. Now the Dingxiang family can happily collect land rent again! One of his cousins ​​voted for the Tatars and served as an official in the shogunate of the Tatar Prince Yu.

With this background, the Chen family's property in Dingxiang was insured.

Therefore, not only must we continue to collect rent and debt from tenants, but we must also intensify it!

What? Can the landlords in Shanxi become more aggressive now?

Of course!

This matter is attributed to Dorgon. He encircled the land around Beijing, occupied houses, and sold them as cash, driving away many Han people. A considerable number of these people went to join the big government who had been exempted from paying taxes for three years.

Following the dynasty, he finally arrived in Shanxi and became a citizen of the Qing Dynasty again.

These people who came from Beizhili with their families could not become self-cultivated farmers, so they had to rent land and work as tenants. When there were more tenants from outside, the rent of tenants in Shanxi naturally increased.

In addition, the Qing Dynasty also collected taxes. Now there is no saying that officials and gentry are exempt from grain. They all have to collect taxes! Of course, these land taxes were passed on to the tenants.

Shanxi's tenants finally took a breather under Li Zicheng's rule, but now they have become the fat pigs of the powerful landlords and continue to be slaughtered!

By the way, it needs to be mentioned that nine major Shanxi merchants joined the Qing Dynasty and did a lot of things for the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, the Qing Dynasty treated the Shanxi gentry with care, and many Shanxi gentry also treated the Qing Dynasty.

Qing has a good impression.

Of course, Chen Yongxi was a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty. This time he took his wife and children with him as an envoy. He planned to take them to Jiangnan. He would not return to Shanxi in the future and seek an official position with the prince. The Chen family

But you can't just hang yourself from a tree in the Qing Dynasty, you have to bet on both ends.

However, Li Zicheng still had to be trapped. Although Zhu Cixiang wanted to join forces with Li Zicheng to fight against the Qing Dynasty, his group of landlord class bureaucrats all regarded Li Zicheng as an enemy more vicious than the Tatars!

So when he heard Li Zicheng's question, he said with a smile: "Your Majesty, there is no way to deceive this matter. If Datong's siege is confused, how can I drag my family and family to Chang'an? Besides, Your Majesty, please send me

You know, you can’t see it when you go to Datong? The Qing troops have all withdrawn southward across the Sanggan River! If they hadn’t been defeated at Datong City, would they have been willing to withdraw so far?”

Li Zicheng thought about it and felt that this was the truth! Can the Tatars retreat from Datong City without suffering a loss of blood? It seems that this Jiang Yu is really capable of fighting! If I had known better, I should have roped him in and brought his Datong army with me.

Just go to Shanhaiguan.

However, it is always a good thing that the Tatars suffered a heavy loss in Datong. Yulin, the Yan'an front line should be safe, and Datong should be able to contain more Tatar forces.

After sending Chen Yongxi away, Li Zicheng immediately summoned his generals and ministers to Wuying Hall for a military meeting.

"Finally some good news!" Li Zicheng looked at a group of his subordinates with a smile, "The Tatars suffered a bloody loss in Datong. They were defeated by Jiang Quan and lost thousands of people!"

"Really?"

"Is the person named Jiang that powerful?"

"It shouldn't be wrong. Didn't the Yulin Guards report that the Tatars had lifted the siege of Datong?"

"That might be true!"

"This Jiang Yu is still promising!"

Li Zicheng coughed, and everyone fell silent. Li Zicheng smiled and said: "The defeat of the Tatars in Datong is also good for us. At least the Tatars in Beijing cannot reinforce the Tatars east of Fenglingdu and Tongguan.

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In addition, it would be better for that thief Wu Sangui to go to Ningxia, otherwise the Tatars on the other side of Tongguan will have tens of thousands more accomplices!"

"Your Majesty, do we really not care about Wu Sangui anymore?" Liu Zongmin asked bitterly.

"Leave him alone, he won't be able to capture Chang'an anyway!" Li Zicheng gritted his teeth and said to Gao Yigong, "Yigong, you lead the new attached battalion to guard Chang'an!"

"Your Majesty, don't worry, I will definitely not let that thief Wu Sangui take Chang'an!"

Gao Yigong's new auxiliary battalion has 15,000 people, and it is indeed not easy to break if it is used to guard Chang'an City. Moreover, Wu Sangui does not need to fight against Chang'an City. If he uses up all his strength, the Tatars will make him an official.

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Li Zicheng nodded and said: "Send an order to Bohou in Xiangjing and tell him to station troops in Nanyang and wait for an opportunity to march to Kaifeng Prefecture and steal the Tatars' retreat!"

It was still a trick of stealing someone's back! Last time Huaiqing counterattacked well and almost overturned the set, so Li Zicheng wanted to repeat his old trick.

"Your Majesty," Song Xiance offered advice at this time, "should we contact the Ming Dynasty again? These days, the Ming Dynasty's crown prince Zhu Cixiang has been reorganizing the army and military affairs, and there is quite a sign of revitalization."

Li Zicheng snorted: "The young prince of the Ming Dynasty was treacherous and cruel. I'm afraid we, who were not so easy to get along with, fell into his trap last time and lost Shanxi in vain!"

He was tricked by Wang Yongji and Jiang Quan last time, and he really had nothing to do with Zhu Cixiang. But who made Zhu Cixiang notorious and everyone knew that he was treacherous and cruel? So he must have done the treacherous and bad things!

Song Xiance smiled, looking confident, "This time he will not dare to deceive the emperor again!"

"Why?" Li Zicheng asked.

"Because Zhu Cihuan, the fifth son of Emperor Chongzhen, is still in the hands of the emperor!"

"What's the use of this doll?"

"It's very useful!" Song Xiance said with a smile, "Your Majesty, do you still remember Zhu Cizhao who was sent to Zuo Liangyu's army by us?"

"Remember, how is this kid doing now?"

Song Xiance said: "I just got the news that Zhu Cizhao is asking for a wife."

"What? Asking for a wife? How old is this guy?" Li Zicheng was stunned, "Whose daughter is he asking for?"

Song Xiance smiled and said: "Zhu Cizhao's fiancée, the prince, you know is Zuo Mengmei!"

"Zuo Mengmei?" Li Zicheng chuckled, "Fortunately Zuo Liangyu figured out that little brat Zhu Cixiang wouldn't be able to sleep now."

Song Xiance laughed again and said: "Zhu Cixiang now holds great power in the southeast. He has money, soldiers, land and population, but he has not dared to usurp the throne. He must be worried that Zuo Liangyu will establish another court in Wuchang. But compared to Zuo Liangyu's

In terms of strength, the Tatars are what worries him the most! If Zhu Cihuan falls into the hands of the Tatars, is established as the son-emperor, and uses his name to invade Shandong, will Zhu Cihuan still be able to sleep peacefully in Nanjing?"
Chapter completed!