Under the influence of the price revolution, the urban commodity economy in Jiangnan, Huguang, and Henan has been highly developed, the cities are prosperous, and the citizen population is increasing, while the corresponding grain output continues to decline.
Since the grain production of rice and wheat is not very profitable, many farmlands in Huguang and Jiangnan areas have been converted from rice to cotton and rice to mulberry.
Under such changes, a large amount of grain needs to be imported from other provinces, which provides a broad market for grain and pork from Northeast China, Hetao, North China, and Sichuan.
Therefore, in the border areas, the camps originally established to meet the food and salary needs of the garrison began to sell grain to economically developed areas in the interior.
Along with the foreign wars and the expansion of overseas territories of the Sezu Dynasty, the commodity economy in the Jiangnan region further developed, and local agriculture was constantly impacted. Farmers' production costs increased and their incomes decreased. Most people were unable to improve agricultural technology, and the urban population further increased.
In addition, the Jiangnan and Huguang regions, which have always been known as the land of plenty, often face food shortages and even the threat of famine, causing social unrest. Therefore, there is an even greater need to import food from border areas.
With the recruitment of the Zheng Sen Pirate and Maritime Group, the amount of foreign trade of the Shun Dynasty increased significantly, silver continued to flow into the Chinese market, the currency economy developed, and commercial trade was facilitated.
During this period, the camp system was re-strengthened in Northeast China, Hetao, Hunan, Hebei, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Huaihai and other provinces.
Governments and field offices in various places have successively issued many laws to restrict farmers' freedom of movement, increase their super-economic exploitation, tie farmers to the land, and strengthen personal dependence. The purpose is to increase food production.
This will help solve the food shortage in Jiangnan and Hubei regions.
From an objective point of view, this is not friendly to the long-term economic development of North China, Northeast China, and Northwest China. However, at that time, due to many years of war since the late Ming Dynasty, many areas were already vast and sparsely populated.
In addition, because of the need to immigrate to the border, most of the immigrants to the newly expanded territory of the Shun Dynasty at that time came from the northern provinces of Henan, Shanxi, and Shandong, which further caused the scarcity of manpower in the land of North China.
The food gap in the Ening region injected new economic vitality into the once vast and sparsely populated North China region. Driven by grain trade, North China's economy also began to revive since the late Ming Dynasty.
Among these, the Shaanxi region is particularly prominent.
Since the decline of the Guanzhong area in the Tang Dynasty and until the early years of the Shun Dynasty, Shaanxi's economy has been in continuous decline for seven or eight hundred years.
Problems such as soil erosion, drying up of water sources, loss of trees, changes in soil quality, and population exceeding the carrying capacity of the land have all made Shaanxi's economy face the problem of being unable to develop.
However, the land of Longqi in Dashun, Shaanxi Province, is also the place where the tombs of the ancestors of the Shun Dynasty royal family are located. Since Shizu, during every major commemorative festival, the imperial court has organized large-scale sacrificial activities in Tianbaofu and other places.
Under such rigid requirements, the economic revitalization of Shaanxi Province has to be put back on the agenda.
Since the late Ming Dynasty, natural and man-made disasters and military chaos have lasted the longest in Shaanxi, and the Ji-Yang Rebellion also caused devastating damage to the originally relatively stable Weinan region.
After the Yang Rebellion, Li Laiheng personally organized a mass migration of millions of refugees and cut wages from the bottom, completely destroying Shaanxi's original natural economic system.
But at the beginning of Shun Dynasty, the imperial court was left with a vast land of Guanzhong where all kinds of wastes were flourishing, which could be called a blank slate.
In order to revitalize Shaanxi's economy and rebuild the provincial system, in addition to successive immigrants from Hubei and Sichuan provinces, more importantly, the imperial court carried out a comprehensive top-down replanning of Shaanxi's agriculture.
Due to long-term wars, famine and civil unrest in the late Ming Dynasty, Yang Chengzu's fire, Dorgon's hair-cutting order, Wu Sangui's massacre... the local gentry class in Shaanxi was almost devastated, and the local powerful forces were also destroyed.
Everything was clean and tidy, so when Shaanxi implemented a comprehensive economic plan, the imperial court was hardly affected by any resistance.
The Jiedu envoy who presided over the reconstruction work of Shaanxi Province was Zhou Zuoding, a native of Fujian. He was demoted in the Ming Dynasty and served as the magistrate of Fuyang County in the 14th year of Chongzhen. Later, he was demoted to Dashun and served as the county magistrate in Xintai, Shandong Province.
At that time, Zhou Zuoding rushed to Xintai and entered the county seat without losing a fight. He was well-organized and supported by the people. Later, due to the Battle of Huolu, armed rebellions by officials, gentry and landlords occurred in Tai'an Prefecture and Laiwu County, and only Xinxin
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In the history of another dimension, due to the Qing troops entering the customs, Li Zicheng hurriedly withdrew from Beijing, and the situation in Shandong was in chaos. In June, the Qing government appointed Fang Dayou as the governor of Shandong and marched into Shandong. Dashun Tai'an Prefecture Mu Shi Kebao heard the news
Abandoning the city and heading west, he was killed by local soldiers when he reached Feicheng. Tai'an, Laiwu, and Dongping prefectures and counties were successively occupied by the Qing army. In one month, almost all counties and counties in Shandong fell to the enemy.
When the Dashun and Shandong regimes were defeated one after another, Zhou Zuoding still led a lone army to defend Xintai. Historical records: "The Jiashen Dynasty (Qing Dynasty) had settled in Yanjing, and the 'Li Thief' (Li Zicheng) established the 'fake' Xintai Order
He was a 'thief' and defended the city vigorously." Facing the Qing army and the responding militia, Magistrate Zhou was not afraid. He led his army to fight against the militia's counterattack, and resolutely refused the Qing general's offer to surrender. Xintai City became the capital of the Dashun Dynasty.
The last bastion in Shandong.
On August 22nd of the first year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, Qing general Fang Dayou reported to the Qing court that the Dashun army was holding on to Xintai. He lamented in the title: "The city of Xintai is small but solid, and it is only three miles from the provincial capital.
For more than a hundred miles... I tried to appease you again and again, but I still refused to accept it. I wonder what happened to this situation." In response to this, the Qing court issued a directive: "If the false officials dare to resist, they should be appeased and captured by the law!"
In order to extinguish the Xintai Dashun Army, Fang Dayou secretly transferred Wang Guodong, the commander-in-chief of the town administration, and Zhang Anyu, the supervising military officer, commanded the horse infantry, thousands of returning soldiers and Fudao officers and soldiers.
Divided into two groups, "Starry Night went to Xintai for the purpose of attacking and suppressing". He also published a large announcement, claiming: "As long as Zhou Zuoding, Feng Kexing, Zhao Lan and several others are captured, the city will be full of good people and no one will be killed." Shi Yuan Ren.
After hearing the news that the Qing army was planning to attack Xintai, Niu Wen, a Xintai official in the Ming Dynasty, "ran more than three hundred miles day and night from Licheng", sneaked back to Xintai, "shooted books in the city", and colluded with the gentry in the city
, organized a rebellion and "surrendered the city" to the Qing Dynasty. According to the post posted on Wang Guodong in September of the first year of Shunzhi, there was a saying of "arrive in Xintai, capture the puppets and restore the city". It is known that Zhou Zuoding was finally captured and killed by the Qing army.
Although the Xintai Dashun Army was suppressed by the Qing army, they held on to the county seat for four months, which was the longest period in Li Zicheng's Shandong regime.