Chapter 1004

After the founding of the Chinese Empire, there began to be more things to face.

At the beginning, they seized the richest place in Daming. Naturally, it was easy for them to get a lot of supplies and become powerful quickly.

Daming is the poorer.

Now they have marched into the whole world, which means that the poor areas of Daming are also included in their rule.

Affected by the bad weather during the little ice age, many places are either drought or flood, and the people have no harvest. The most serious ones are Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi and other places.

These places also make the most trouble for the roving bandits. Often the government sends out elite generals to wipe out the roving bandits. In the twinkling of an eye, they quickly become stronger. This is because there are refugees everywhere. The people are extremely poor and have no food to eat. The government still forces them to pay taxes. This is called the government forcing the people to rebel, and the people have to rebel.

In the ten-year rampant bandit rebellion of the Ming Dynasty, the most tragic area is Shaanxi and Henan. The Ming Dynasty nominally still manages these two places. In fact, they only manage the provincial capital and some large government cities. Besides, the vast fields are already the world of the bandits.

Because there are so many refugees, wherever you go, open the granary and shout, and a large number of people will meet immediately.

Therefore, Liu Bu and they all realized that if they want to manage these places well, they must have enough silver and enough money and food.

The impact of the little ice age is comprehensive. Even in the southeast offshore area and the Jiangnan area, the grain harvest is in arrears, but the foundation of these places is very good and can barely pass. Places with poor geology fall into a situation of collapse. People in many places starve to death and change their children to eat,

The Liu family has no way to solve this problem. The bad weather and bad weather can not be changed by manpower.

Although Liu Bu knew that this was the little ice age, it did not stop until more than 70 years after the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.

But if he tells others this, it is estimated that most people will not believe him and doubt who he is, nonsense.

So we can only go all out to solve it. Liu Bu's way to solve it is to get more money and food. As long as we solve this problem, everything else is easy to say.

In the territory controlled by the Liu family, they began to plant drought resistant and high-yield potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes and other things in large quantities. When the local output could not be eliminated, they sent them to Henan and Shanxi.

Moreover, when production in Jiangnan, Huguang and other places began to decrease, they began to transport grain from large ships to the distant Nanyang region, which has also become a powerful weapon for their stable place.

There are so many rebellious places in the Ming Dynasty, which is called everywhere wolf smoke and everywhere anti king, but there is only one reason, that is, the people are hungry and will starve to death, so they can only rebel.

Therefore, Liu's father and son, as well as the whole Liu's group, understand a problem, that is, as long as the food problem is solved, we can solve the problem of the roving bandits. To deal with the roving bandits, we can not use military force to encircle and suppress them, but use the method of cutting off their root causes.

The Chinese army is also very speechless about the itinerant bandits. If they are engaged in a frontal battle, these people are not their opponents at all. The itinerant bandits have been defeated by sun chuanting in Shaanxi and have fled to Zhongnan mountain to be exterminated.

As a result, the imperial court took out the army to encircle and suppress them, let them escape from the sky, and quickly began to be strong again. These people are like terrible viruses. As long as they are not cleaned up, they will come back and kill you.

No, Li has been beaten to only a few hundred people since Chengdu, but it's time to flee in panic. As a result, after the main force of the Ming army retreated, he escaped from Zhongnan mountain and entered Shaanxi. In a short time, he pulled out more than 100000 troops. With these 100000 troops, he besieged Xi'an on a large scale.

Of course, these hundreds of thousands of troops are hundreds of thousands of people. They have no food to eat. In addition to revolting, they choose to revolt. Naturally, these troops can not be compared with the musketeers of the Chinese army, but they are numerous and difficult to eliminate.

If in the past, the roving bandits still had the courage to fight with the Chinese army, they suffered heavy losses. Even their important leader Zhang Xianzhong and others died at the hands of Liu Bu's Chinese army, but the other party was not afraid. After all, they did rebellious activities. They pinned their heads on their belts every day. They were greedy for life and afraid of death. How can they make a living like this?

Li Zicheng even threatened that when he gathered enough troops, he would go to Shandong to find Liu Bu's trouble.

Taking advantage of the decisive battle between the Liu family and the imperial court in Shandong and the emptiness of the northwest, Li Zicheng quickly gathered more than 100000 troops to besiege Xi'an, ready to control the northwest and be his northwest king before the results of both sides.

In Li Zicheng's eyes, the Ming army has millions of troops, not to mention millions of troops, even millions of pigs arch over, which is estimated to be enough for the Chinese army to eat a pot.

This war will not end in a short time. Even if it ends, both sides will suffer heavy casualties and have no spare power to deal with him. This is the time for him to take advantage of the opportunity to develop.

Li Zicheng had such a reverie in his heart. It was best for Daming to fight with the Liu family and die together. After unifying the northwest, he went eastward on a large scale, eradicated both strengths, unified the world and became an emperor himself.

If they don't fight and die together, they will be exhausted and can't fight against him again. Then there will be a pattern of three-thirds of the world.

Li Zicheng was thinking that Zhu Yuanzhang, a cowherd boy, could be an emperor. He was born as a postboy. Why can't he be? Anyway, Li Zicheng was born rebellious and unwilling to be ordinary. He would not join the Ming army, let alone the Chinese army. He wanted to live like a man and a dog.

There's an old saying, what's it called? It's called princes and generals. Would you rather have seed?

Who knew that the collapse of things was far beyond his imagination. The Ming army sent millions of powerful troops south to Shandong and made an earth shaking momentum. Who knew that they started with a thunderous start, but the result was extremely tragic.

The so-called million troops were not as good as millions of pigs. When Liu Bu landed from Tianjin Wei, the million troops of Daming quickly collapsed.

Then there was a great change that had not happened in the 300 years of the Ming Dynasty, that is, in a short period of more than ten days, the capital fell, the emperor died, Liu Yuanqiao ascended the throne and became the emperor in the southern suburb of the capital, and then the Chinese army marched on a large scale to dominate the world.

At this moment, Li Zicheng also failed to achieve his goal. He won Xi'an and unified the northwest. Although he had more than 100000 troops, there were not many elite generals. Most of them were deserters, and then there were some hungry and desperate farmers. Their weapons were extremely simple. The so-called cavalry were just thousands of people, And there are few heavy weapons, no artillery, no armor, no large siege equipment, so they take Xi'an, a huge city, and have no way at all. Although the defenders in the city are only about 5000 people, they stubbornly carry the fierce attack of hundreds of thousands of them.

Regardless of Li Zicheng's coercion and inducement, the prefecture magistrate Li Guanghai would rather die than surrender. The prefecture magistrate Li Guanghai is a native of Baoji, Shaanxi Province. He was a scholar in the fifth year of Chongzhen. He was a local rich man. When Zhang Xianzhong swept the area that day, he captured Baoji and killed all his family. Therefore, the hatred between him and the wandering bandits is a deep hatred of blood, He won't take refuge in the bandits anyway.

In his words, even the lives of all the military and civilian men, women and children in the city will not take refuge in the rogue bandits. After they take refuge in the rogue bandits, they will not have a good life.

Li Guanghai's situation at this time is also quite difficult. Hundreds of thousands of bandits are guarding outside the city, encircling the city and attacking day and night.

Fortunately, Xi'an city is extremely high and has a perfect defense system. The squires, soldiers and people in the city are all United. These people also know what will happen to them once the roving bandits capture Xi'an.

Li Guanghai told these people that once the bandits break through the city wall, they will kill all the men in your family, rob all your women and all their property, and then go to the next city to continue killing and setting fire.

This is not Li Guanghai. He is threatening, because this is also the style of the rogue bandits.

That is because the bandits are so cruel that the squires, officials and people in the city are very afraid. Even the king of Qin, who is a vassal here, is afraid to die. Therefore, they will send all their servants to give Li Guanghai the money and food they can take. He will arrange it uniformly, hoping to defeat Li Zicheng and save his life.

Now the people in the city have received news from Yanjing. The day has collapsed and the earth has changed color. They don't know where to go.

However, the magistrate Li Guanghai told these squires and people that even if they did not know where to go, they could not make peace with the wandering bandits, because these people were their sworn enemies. If they took refuge in them, they would be dead.

But someone is asking, what's the point of staying here when Daming is over?

Li Guanghai said coldly, "Daming is over, but you haven't died yet. You just live for yourself."

Li Guanghai, who is also difficult to ride a tiger, has no way back. He is an ordinary official of the Ming Dynasty. He has no lofty aspirations. He just wants to be a good official and honor his ancestors.

But his family was killed by the exile bandits. No matter what, it was impossible to make peace with those who killed his whole family. He also knew the terror and cruelty of the exile bandits. Once he entered Xi'an City, this ancient city would be completely destroyed.

As officials of Daming, they are naturally loyal to Daming, but there is no doubt that Daming is dead now. Where should they go?