Chapter 186 Raise high and fall gently

As for Yu Zehu's assassination, he refused to admit it, saying that he did not know at all and did not arrange anyone to assassinate him. Anyway, the murderer was not caught on the spot, and this matter could not be true on him at all.

After the incident, this incident has been causing trouble to the capital. In fact, everyone understands why Yu Zehu was killed. Although it was really wrong for Yu Zehu to do this, Yu Xiaotian also did too hard. More than 1,000 Guangzhou defenders and dozens of warships were killed in the lion's ocean by Yu Xiaotian.

And Yu Zehu, who was in Guangzhou, was actually killed by Yu Xiaotian. Yu Xiaotian's revenge was too much.

Chongzhen was furious when he heard this, but in the end, he only ordered to reprimand Xiaotian. He did not dare to take anything to Xiaotian, and now that he is using it for Xiaotian, he does not dare to deal with Xiaotian too much.

And Chongzhen asked Yu Xiaotian to go south to pact the pirates of Guangdong this time, and Yu Xiaotian did have good news frequently. Although there are bullets everywhere to accuse Yu Xiaotian of arrogance and domineering, judging from the news from the two Guangzhou, this method used by Yu Xiaotian can indeed have a miraculous effect on pacing the sea pirates along the coast of Guangdong and Guangxi.

The two powers harm each other lightly. Nowadays, the matter of pirates in Guangdong and Guangdong is a big deal, and there is nothing others can do. Only by letting Yu Xiaotian let go to do it can they flatten these pirates. Moreover, these pirates are indeed in deep collusion with many large local households along the coast. If they do not eliminate these large colluding with pirates, they really can't be able to calm down. Pirates.

Even if the pirates are flat now, with these big colluding pirates, as soon as Yu Xiaotian left, these large gentry will immediately cultivate more pirates. This pirate is like cutting leeks, cutting a long and will never be cut clean.

So although Yu Xiaotian did too much, it solved the problem at the root. Even if Chongzhen did not think of this kind of thing, some people thought of it for him. Among the capital, there was a group of spokespersons of Yu Xiaotian who would naturally speak for Yu Xiaotian and explain this kind of thing to Chongzhen clearly.

In this way, after listening to the adgargans of these people, Chongzhen understood the benefits of Yu Xiaotian's doing so, and some people reported to Chongzhen that in the current situation, he had to take strong drugs to cure the chaos. On the surface, it was a little too much for Yu Xiaotian to do so, but it could make the coastal areas of Guangdong and Guangxi long-term stability. Thoroughly solve the troubles of pirates.

After Chongzhen figured this out, he will naturally not be too difficult for Xiaotian, and he also feels that Yu Xiaotian is still available. Although this guy is domineering, he is still willing to use it for the imperial court. He is still doing his best for the court. This time, he personally led his troops to the south to suppress the thieves, which explains the problem. Chong Instead, he felt a little relieved.

However, because Xiaotian is so domineering, it is not a way, so Chongzhen can only take a compromise method in the end. He reprimanded Xiaotian's decree, offset the reward of the original victory in Daya Bay, and no longer give another reward.

But such a treatment can be said to be painless. Everyone knows that such a punishment is just a slap and falling gently, which is similar to itching. At this time, the soldiers in Guangdong have understood a truth, that is, they should not provoke Yu Xiaotian, the evil spirit, if they die, otherwise they will definitely be punished. Not good.

Originally, the Guangdong military generals who were ready to turn against Yu Xiaotian for this matter suddenly stopped and never mentioned the killing of the tiger. Yu Xiaotian also really stood on the ground in Guangdong through this incident. Wei Chenggong makes everyone understand that they can offend anyone at present, but they must not offend Xiaotian.

For more than half a year, Yu Xiaotian no longer personally led his troops south to suppress the pirates on the two Guangzhou seas. After sitting in Hong Kong for a period of time, he handed over the affairs of suppressing bandits to One-eyed Dragon and others, and he himself set off to return to Weitou Bay.

Although this is a little unreasonable on the surface, after all, the imperial edict is to let Yu Xiaotian lead the army to the south to suppress the bandits, but now he has entrusted the matter to his hand and ran back to Weitou Bay to stay, obviously not giving face to the court.

However, everyone thought that Yu Xiaotian was losing his temper. He won a great victory in Daya Bay, but because of the conflict with the Guangzhou garrison, it attracted no reward from the court. Instead, he reprimanded him. Therefore, Yu Xiaotian was unhappy and did so. This should have shown an attitude to the court and embarrassed the court.

But in fact, Yu Xiaotian did this because he returned to Fujian this time and had more important things to do. Now it has been eight years since Chongzhen.

At the beginning of August, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Lao Huihui, Luo Rucai and other 13 72 battalions held a meeting in Xingyang, and then divided their troops to sweep Henan. Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others led their troops east into Fengyang Mansion in the first month, actually breaking through Fengyang, the hometown of the Zhu family, and dug Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral grave.

This incident shocked the government and the opposition. For this reason, Chongzhen issued an edict for the first time and vowed to cut off the exiled people. Ren Hong Chengchou as the governor of the five provinces of Shan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Lake and Henan, and was responsible for the comprehensive invasion and suppressing of the civilian army in several provinces.

In this year, the exile army has grown to an unprecedented level. The combined number of dozens of peasant troops has exceeded hundreds of thousands, and they are very mobile, like locusts, constantly flying from one place to another, eating up all the places they have passed, and wrapping more exiles in. Of course, most of them are forcibly held hostage.

In addition, they have seriously damaged the social foundation. Although they have destroyed the upper structure of society and robbed and killed many large landlords and gentry families, they have also completely destroyed the productivity of the whole society.

Although the people lived a very hard life in some places, they could still farm and provide food resources to the society. However, as soon as the peasant army passed, the production base of these places was completely destroyed, making more people unable to make a living. They could only flee or join the deminant army and eat together. Death.

With the expansion of the scope of the activities of the exile army, the exile army, which was previously limited to Shaanxi, has swept several provinces, and these provinces are all important grain-producing provinces in the Central Plains. Once the exile army passed, everything was destroyed, making the famine like a plague and rapidly expand to more places.

The exile army also continues to expand its power through this means. In terms of the government, the provinces used to fight separately. They only considered sweeping the snow in front of their respective doors and did not have the right, so they only considered driving the exiled forces out of their jurisdiction. As for the exiles running to other provinces, it is none of their business. .

Therefore, in the past few years, the government has basically not seen much results in suppressing bandits. On the contrary, the number of exiles has increased, so that it has developed to the extent that the ancestral tombs of the Zhu family have been dug.

Yu Xiaotian never denied that the exiles were forced to embark on this road, but most of the exiles were not voluntary, but later forced by the exiles and had to join the exiles. This situation is unimaginable for the serious damage to the foundation of the whole society. Of.

But this is another necessary way. At the end of an era, we must first destroy the overall social structure, especially these upper social structures. In the 300 years of the Ming Dynasty, the upper society has monopolized too many social resources, which has led to serious injustice in the distribution of resources in the whole society, which is heinous. Degree, so as the end of an era, this social structure must be dispersed and redistributed.

If he is involved in it now, he must go to do this kind of thing in person, which will certainly have some impact on his reputation and accumulate too much hatred value for him to calm down the country in the future.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Yu Xiaotian discussed with his counselors and finally thought that it was better for him not to intervene in this matter too early. Although Daming is now almost exhausted, there is still a breath left, which has not completely collapsed, so he still needs these exiles and even It was Jiannu who continued to dig out the Daming building until the foundation of Daming building was completely hollowed out.

At that time, it was time for him to kick over the Daming building.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian's most important thing at present is to keep a low profile and accumulate strength. After the battle of Daya Bay, the two important large pirates have been seriously hit, and there is no need for him to continue to lead troops to suppress them.

He then returned to Weitou Bay, essentially returning to Taiwan Island to urge the development of various basic processes.

Nowadays, throughout Fujian, Yu Xiaotian's power has penetrated into various places, as if it has become a secret manager. At this time, the open government has been overhead in many places. The decree can be said to be that it does not go out of the city, or even to the government office of the state capital.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian has not only paid attention to the development of infrastructure on Taiwan Island, but has turned his attention to the land of Fujian.

Fujian itself produces coal, and there are also large and small iron mines. These resources on Taiwan Island are barren, and coal and iron cannot be supplied by themselves. In the past, it could only be transferred from land to Taiwan, which requires a lot of manpower and material resources to transport these raw materials to Taiwan Island, and the transportation cost is not low.

Now that he has extended his power to all parts of Fujian, and the Fujian government has completely lost control of him, so he does not need to continue to export resources to Taiwan Island at all. Instead, the initial processing of many raw materials and even the processing of China can be completed on Fujian land.

In this way, he only needs to export processed raw materials, such as important steel raw materials, directly to Taiwan Island, which can reduce a lot of waste of transportation capacity.

So he began to operate this matter secretly since he was touched, arbitrarily, arbitrarily annexing and acquiring private iron farms and iron mines in Fujian, especially in Longyan, the main producing area of coal and iron in Fujian, which is the focus of his control. Whether it is official and private coal and iron mines or iron farms, private The people were basically annexed by him, and almost all the officials were put into his hands, and most of the iron ore produced fell into his hands.

(I will continue to thank the desert laughing spring breeze brothers for their rewards. At the end of the month, I will ask for a monthly ticket!)