Autumn is brilliant in the Yunxi Gorge, and the Yangtze River is roaring. On the cliffs, pines and cypresses stand proudly, and on the hillside, azaleas bloom like a prairie fire.
The canyon is majestic and majestic. I saw a large group of people riding wooden boats and rafts, going up the river in a mighty and majestic manner. Among the queues of thousands of rafts and hundreds of boats, stood a brave general with battle scars on his face.
, he was wearing a light leather armor and a beige cloak, with an ox-horn bow slung across his back, and a quiver hanging from his waist containing about a dozen eagle-feathered arrows.
"Commander, we are almost at Hanzhong."
On the Han River waterway, the red sun shines high, the blue sky is like a wash, and the autumn wind blows on his face, making Lin Chengcheng feel relaxed and happy. The steep peaks and cliffs on both sides of the river are like King Kong lined up, welcoming the arrival of the Dashun Navy; the rushing river water,
He sang loudly, as if he was cheering for Lin to form a team of people.
The gusts of gorge wind increased their horsepower, as if urging the navy soldiers of the Dashun Army to speed up their pace and move forward bravely.
Lin Yangcheng was sitting on the bow of the boat. He had no intention of admiring the strange mountains and rivers along the two sides of the river. Instead, he had a lot of thoughts and it was hard to calm down. Lin Yangcheng recalled the past when he followed the rebel army commanders to gallop through the Central Plains, and thought of the Fifth Revolution of Revolution.
In the camp, He Jin died in battle in Qinghai, He Yilong was killed in Sichuan, and Ma Shouying died of illness on the way. However, he and Liu Xiyao, the two people with the least qualifications, came to this day smoothly under the guidance of His Highness the King of Jin.
The terrain around Yunyang is steep and the land is narrow, but once the fleet enters the boundaries of Hanzhong Prefecture, the landscape changes. It is hundreds of miles long, with high mountains and dense forests, but the land is fertile, and it has easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack areas.
The terrain, no wonder Liu Huangshu and Zhuge Liang spent so much effort and wanted to capture Hanzhong no matter what!
"Let's go ashore and take a look."
Lin Chengcheng ordered the navy officers to stop the fleet and take some people ashore to rest. Today, Dashun's Yangtze River Navy is divided into two strong forces, the east and west. The west navy is commanded by Liu Xiyao, and the main fleet is deployed in Poyang Lake.
The internal and external sides were to guard against Zheng's invasion from the west; the eastern navy was mainly stationed in the Dongting Lake Basin, under the command of Lin Chengcheng.
Originally, Lin Chengcheng was the most junior commander in the Gezuo Fifth Battalion, but because he was the first to join Li Laiheng and had the most positive attitude, his status is now slightly higher than Liu Xiyao's.
This time, he personally led a fleet to transport military supplies and supplies to Hanzhong. This was not because the Dashun Navy had no one available, but because Lin Chengcheng was also responsible for spying on the inside story of the "Xi Ming" regime.
The so-called "Xi Ming" regime is the internal view of the Dashun Army.
Within the Dashun Army, Li Laiheng had begun to call the Ming court in Beijing the "Northern Puppet", meaning that the small court of Emperor Tongzhi Zhu Cixi was completely a puppet of the Qing army. The Nandu regime was called the "Southern Ming", after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom entrenched in Sichuan
Emperor Zhu Youlang's regime was not only because of their geographical location on the west side of Dashun, but also because the actual controller of the regime was the Daxi Army, so Li Laiheng called it "Ximing".
The Ximing regime has now controlled most of Sichuan and Guizhou. It is said that some of its troops have even occupied northern Yunnan. Their strength is estimated to be 100,000. If left alone, the Dashun army will fight the Qing army in the Central Plains.
When the time comes, you may be in danger of being attacked from both sides.
The current ruler of the Western Ming Dynasty, the "King of Heaven" Zhang Xianzhong, is not a figure comparable to those incompetent party-fighting bureaucrats of the Southern Ming Dynasty!
"You have taken good care of the generals. By the way, since we have arrived in Hanzhong, we must first send people to Fucheng to inform the two commanders Miao Lichen and He Zhen."
After Li Laiheng took charge of the Dashun regime, he had already promoted Miao Lichen as the Marquis of Xing'an and He Zhen as the Marquis of Qian. His special rewards for the main figures of the Dashun Army soon extended to Lin Chengcheng. He himself was also granted the title of Marquis of Li by the Jin Dynasty.
In the words of Liu Xiyao's former colleague Lin Chenggong in Wuchang, this is the real "big bowl of drinking, large pieces of meat, and large scales to divide the gold." When they started to rise up to have a full meal, how could they have imagined that they would become marquises today? Things?
When he thought that he was also a marquis who was revered as a "junhou" by people, and that this title would be hereditary to his descendants in the future - according to the reward given by His Highness the King of Jin, the founding marquis of the country would not have to be descended for three generations - Lin Chengcheng I felt happy in my heart, and the corners of my mouth could not help but be filled with smiles.
He and his men first unloaded the military supplies and grain from some of the ships. After meeting with the Hanzhong defenders near Xing'an, they handed over the supplies to the local defenders. The remaining grain ships also gradually sailed to the Hanshui pier to unload their cargo.
Before Lin Chengcheng and others arrived in Hanzhong, two high-ranking marquis generals, Miao Lichen and He Zhen, went to Fangshan Pass to greet him, creating a great scene.
After all, Lin Chengcheng was one of the powerful commanders of the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo. Even if his qualifications were the least among the Five Battalions of Gezuo, he was at least of the same generation as Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Luo Rucai.
It was precisely because of Lin Chengcheng's old relationship with Zhang Xianzhong that Li Laiheng ordered him to wait for an opportunity to spy on the inside story of the Ximing regime.
"The Marquis of Xing'an and the Marquis of Qian, if you come from such a distance to greet me, you will do me a disservice."
Miao Lichen still looked honest and steady, as if a stone could not make two splashes if he dropped it in. He Zhen's mind was much more active. He had already been in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty and had the ability to cater to people. Of course, it is far above Miao Lichen, and it is easy to deal with the cultivation of Lin.
He Zhen chatted with Lin Chengcheng along the way, introducing him to their various achievements in staying in the northwest. Of course, there were all kinds of boasts in his words, but he also mentioned a lot of real things.
"The terrain in Hanzhong is steep and easy to defend but difficult to attack. Although the Donglu have occupied Chang'an, Chang'an was burned to ruins by the Ji thieves long ago. When the King of Jin withdrew, he completely demolished the provincial city wall. Therefore, although the Donglu occupied Chang'an, they were unable to do so. Instead of entering Chang'an City, we moved all the provincial government offices to Fuping in Weibei."
Miao Lichen also added:
"In addition to the official offices, even the pseudo-righteous king Wu Sangui of the Donglu, who was stationed in the northwest of Jijie, opened a college to recruit scholars in Fuping."
The provincial government office is located in a corner, and its political status is not commensurate with its geographical location. After Dorgon returned to Beijing, Wu Sangui was temporarily stationed in Fuping, and the provincial officials under him lived in counties and counties. Many of them were involved in local affairs. Fuping Therefore, it became one of the political centers of the Qing Dynasty.
The reason why Wu Sangui chose Chang'an's county as the temporary headquarters of the provincial department was because Fuping's city wall was complete, which was conducive to security. In addition, Chang'an Prefecture controlled Guanzhong and could not make any mistakes. It required heavy troops to be stationed in other prefectures, which was a mistake. .
Fuping belongs to the county and is responsible for the operation of various government offices. It also needs to complete the task of tax collection in the county. The responsibilities are heavy. It has the responsibilities of the first county, but does not benefit from the first county. There are many examples of the first county exempting grain from taxation, which cannot be done in Fuping
, there was a lot of estrangement between the people of the county and the various ministers, and now the Qing army was brazenly implementing the hair-shaving order in the northwest, which had the effect of driving away fish from the Yuan, so that some local gentry and people who did not follow the Dashun army to evacuate Guanzhong also had no choice but to
Fleeed to Hanzhong for refuge.
Of course, Hanzhong is not a paradise either.
Dashun's reform of the camp system was implemented in all jurisdictions. Those immigrants from the north who fled after the implementation of the hair-cutting order originally had the idea of seeking refuge with their wealthy and powerful distant relatives or scholars of the same age in the local area.
But when they really came to Hanzhong, they suddenly discovered that "the thieves plundered our assets and shared our property. The thieves' heart has not changed, the thieves' nature is hard to change, and thieves are still thieves." They could only look at the righteous king Wu Sangui who only wanted to shave his hair.
Bupyeong City, where you can enjoy wealth and wealth just by wearing braids, sighs with sadness.
However, there is one thing to say: Although the Dashun Army still has various restrictions and suppression policies against the property-owning gentry, the severity of the policies is simply not as severe as the rumors spread by some traitors: "Thieves plunder our assets and share them with us."
"production" point.
Originally, in Huguang, after the camp-field system was implemented, landlords were generally left with only 10% of their land. However, when the camp-field system was implemented in the Central Plains, Li Laiheng even relaxed the system in some areas in order to speed up the completion of the reform and reduce the intensity of resistance among the gentry.