When Deng Ming talked with the generals of the camp, he felt that they had a strong resistance to the governance methods of the Ming court, and Deng Ming was very understanding of this. The people who broke into the camp were forced to survive and then rebelled. They were all within sight of the people's miserable life. Since this is the case, they would naturally think that the rule method of the Ming court had great problems - it was indeed the case.

However, the governance methods of Chuangzhang were also lacking. After Li Zicheng took action, no literati defected to him until he entered Beijing. The only one, Niu Jinxing, was imprisoned because he had sued for a lawsuit. When Li Zicheng broke through the city, he joined Chuangzhang. Before joining Chuangzhang, Niu Jinxing had no experience in participating in administrative work.

Before traveling through time, Deng Ming had no idea about the speed of knowledge dissemination in this era. After he had personally communicated with people of this era, he found that in this era without media, newspapers, and a large number of cheap books, ordinary people were almost ignorant of management and administration. Liu Tichun and others knew the names of officials, but they were completely unclear about what functions the government had and how to realize them.

After Li Zicheng broke through Beijing, the solution he came up with was to not ask about the nationwide three-year exemption. The government's necessary maintenance funds were obtained by torture of senior officials of the Ming Dynasty. Not to mention the shortcomings of this plan, Deng Ming was not optimistic about the implementation effect. He heard from Wen Anzhi that Li Zicheng almost completely inherited the Ming Dynasty's official system. What would this exemption policy be implemented at the grassroots level and who would eventually benefit? Deng Ming was very suspicious of this.

Although the implementation effect will definitely be reduced, and Wen Anzhi hated Li Zicheng very much, when giving Deng Ming private lectures, General Wen still fairly commented: After Dashun widely implemented the tax exemption system, the hungry and refugees in the Yellow River Basin still returned to their hometown in large quantities, and social production began to recover quickly. However, in addition to tombing, Li Zicheng and Niu Jinxing had no idea how to maintain their government. Although a large number of farmers benefited from Dashun's policies, Li Zichengquan was completely unable to mobilize these beneficiaries to defend his regime. As a result, they were quickly driven away by the Qing Dynasty and the northern gentry class who were violated by interests, and they did not even have the opportunity to summarize administrative experiences and lessons from the action of recovering stolen money and assisting.

After the camp continued to be turbulent and displaced, and had never engaged in any administrative work. After being reorganized into the Ming army, the Nanming government was even more unlikely to hand over local governments to them. Xiying had construction and consolidated its experience in the base area, but the camp never had the opportunity to train.

When he was in Chengdu, Deng Ming had many headaches because Yuan Xiang, Liu Jinge and Xiong Lan had no administrative knowledge (common knowledge of modern people). Deng Ming could only comfort himself: it was precisely because these people had no basic concepts on the regime framework that Deng Ming could exert the greatest influence. For example, Liu Jinge's understanding of the government's work was completely blank, so he believed what Deng Ming said and regarded it as a golden rule.

Although Liu Tichun is more knowledgeable than his son, his administrative experience is basically zero. In the past, he was a simple military camp in the Badong base, and everything was managed by military management. After moving to Yiling this time, he had to face complex social elements at once. There were no administrative officials from the Southern Ming or Xiying around him, which was simply at a loss.

"It will take at least two or three years. Through repeated taxation and disputes, Liu Tichun can continue to summarize the lessons and understand various administrative problems that will arise. His aides will gradually grow." Deng Ming thought to himself that Deng Ming neither looked down on nor had much knowledge of the traditional management model of the Ming court. He could not help Liu Tichun in this regard: "Li Laiheng, Hao Yaoqi and others are probably the same. Now they are just messing around. But I may not listen to my fingers. I can only help them delay for two years, so that they should not let them collapse quickly. They can't make a mess in Hubei and make the gentry and the people begin to miss the Qing Dynasty. After two or three years, they have some understanding, and my talents in Chengdu have also been cultivated. At that time, let Liu Jinge come to tell Liu Tichun that they will definitely be much better than me."

At first, Deng Ming wanted to exert some influence on Liu Tichun, just like he did to Liu Jinge, but when he heard Liu Tichun's approach to Yiling scholars, this idea was also dispelled by Deng Ming. In his opinion, Liu Tichun was basically dealing with government affairs based on his mood.

When he was in Chengdu, Deng Ming repeatedly told Yuan Xiang that the law was not out of favor, and the enforcement of the law must be flexible. The example of Deng Ming was the pass regulations he had just issued: In the city and suburbs of Chengdu, vehicles must drive on the right. Tingshi saw people going against the road and supervised the violators to recite "Driving on the right" loudly a hundred times. However, Deng Ming pointed out to Yuan Xiang that if a foul is because his son is sick and is eager to go to the doctor to see a doctor, Tingshi has the right to release the law first according to the situation, and then stare at him and recite the regulations a hundred times after he finishes the matter. This is the so-called law enforcement flexibility, which is also what Deng Ming said about "The law is not out of favor."

But human feelings are not moods. When telling Yuan Xiang the spirit of law enforcement, Deng Ming pointed out that when law enforcement was enforced in the Ming Dynasty, the mood of local officials had a great influence, which is what the saying goes: when someone is in a hurry to see a doctor and violates the law, if he is in a good mood, he can help him rob the way, and if he is in a bad mood, he will stand to death.

Liu Tichun is obviously still in this stage of handling government affairs according to his mood. If you like it, you will be exempted from taxes, and if you don’t like it, you will be bankrupt. In this era, it is natural to use power in this way. Perhaps under the influence of Deng Ming and him, Chengdu will think that this is an abuse of power.

After realizing that there were huge differences in concepts between them, Deng Ming took the initiative to give up as before. He no longer tried to interfere with Liu Tichun's administration, but simply said a few glamorous words of loving the people.

Since he knew that there would be no result, Deng Ming quickly turned the topic to blasting technology and asked Liu Tichun if he was willing to share new tactical skills with him. When discussing civil affairs just now, Liu Tichun kept frowning, but when he said blasting, his eyes suddenly shone and his eyebrows were stretched. Liu Tichun immediately took Deng Ming to see his blasting team with great enthusiasm and showed Deng Ming his new equipment.

At first, Deng Ming was a little surprised and was not optimistic about Liu Tichun's shoddy equipment, but Liu Tichun patted his chest to ensure its effect. Not only did he have a large amount of experimental data, he was also willing to demonstrate to Deng Ming on the spot. The experimental report showed that this was indeed a powerful weapon, and the subsequent demonstration did not disappoint Deng Ming.

Now the blasting team is Liu Tichun's heart, but Deng Ming still asked several members to leave Liu Tichun's hands, and took away several pieces of Liu Tichun's equipment and some gunpowder. With these things, Deng Ming was even more confident that Zhang Changgeng believed that he had the ability to lift his roof.

After leaving Yiling, Deng Ming arrived in Jiangling not long afterwards and met Li Laiheng, the commander of the Ming army in Huguang.

Like Liu Tichun, Li Laiheng also said that he had no extra troops for Deng Ming to send, and his troops also needed to monitor the gentry with ambiguous attitudes, and a large part of them went to Zhongxiang at the request of Hao Yaoqi. (The author pointed out that yesterday a reader pointed out that Deng Ming's arrangement was that He Zhen was responsible for Xiangyang. When I wrote yesterday's section, I remembered it wrong, and the subsequent repair work was followed). Originally, Deng Ming from Xiangyang Defense Zone was assigned to He Zhen, but later Hao Yaoqi exchanged defense zones with him. Now Hao Yaoqi basically moved the base camp to Xiangyang. He was no longer favored by the original base house and the Zhu area, and only a few left-behind personnel were left.

Although Li Laiheng couldn't provide much mobile force to Deng Ming, he was willing to provide Deng Ming with some guidance, gunpowder and auxiliary troops to support him. Li Laiheng also agreed with Deng Ming's plan to threaten Wuhan, believing that this could at least put pressure on Zhang Changgeng and force the Qing army in Zhongxiang to return to Wuhan.

"After all, Zhang Changgeng is still a thief who joined the Tartars." The previous transaction made Li Laiheng's impression of Zhang Changgeng once became good, but as the atmosphere between the two armies became increasingly tense, Li Laiheng's hostility towards Zhang Changgeng became stronger again: "There is also that Zhou Peigong, who is also a lackey of the Tartars."

"Oh?" Deng Ming saw Li Laiheng's angry face, and was a little puzzled by his attitude changing so quickly. When Zhou Peigong came to negotiate last time, Deng Ming remembered that he had also given Li Laiheng a private gift.

"Zhou Peigong, a thief, has been trusted by Zhang Changgeng recently. He presided over the reinforcement of Hanyang City. Although I have not fully explored the specific measures, many of them are aimed at our army's blasting methods." Li Laiheng did not know the conversation between Deng Ming and Zhou Peigong. In his opinion, Zhou Peigong must have used negotiations to spy on the Ming army's siege: "I just received the report yesterday. Zhang Changgeng recently organized several more poetry talks. Zhou Peigong jumped up and down, desperately persuaded the gentry around Wuchang to pay money and grain so that the Qing army could gather more powerful troops to attack us!"

"Zhou Peigong?" Deng Ming was confused when he heard it: "If I remember correctly, Zhou Peigong seems to have a lot of land in the hands of Hushang. Aren't he afraid that we will confiscate his property? In my opinion, Zhou Peigong is probably also dealing with errands. After all, he is the prefect of Wuchang, and he will definitely come forward to raise funds in Wuchang."

"The admiral doesn't know anything. This guy is definitely sincere and has made a desperate effort." Li Laiheng said angrily: "I have ordered the land of Zhou Peigong, the mad dog, to be confiscated into the official position and all of them are converted into our army's military."

"How long ago has this been done? Has it been executed?" Deng Ming didn't know that this was not the order just given by Li Laiheng. It was said that when he received the news yesterday, he would not give the order without verification. But Deng Ming Ning made the decision by Li Laiheng in a hurry, so there was still time to remedy it.

"About a month ago." Unfortunately, Li Laiheng disappointed Deng Ming. A month ago, Li Laiheng had already kicked Zhou Peigong's housekeeper in Jingmen back to Wuchang, asking him to tell Zhou Peigong that the land and the crops on it belonged to the Ming army.

"At least 200,000 taels of land, no wonder Zhou Peigong became a mad dog. If I were to fight Hu Shuai, I would have fought Hu Shuai." Deng Ming looked helpless. He didn't understand how Li Laiheng could do things so terrible. Zhou Peigong was the prefect of Wuchang. His ambiguous attitude would obviously be very beneficial to the Ming army: "Have Hu Shuai heard that the kidnappers all treat meat tickets with delicious food and drink, because if the meat tickets die, they would not want to get a son. Zhou Peigong's land in Jingmen is the meat tickets in our hands. If we wanted to copy them, why did we have to work hard to buy land for him?"

"What the admiral said is, but I just can't swallow this." The shame on Li Laiheng's face flashed and was replaced by deep hatred: "I know how much Zhou Peigong has. If he dares to come and cause trouble for me, I will pull his skin!"

"What the hell is going on?" Deng Ming felt that the conflict between Li Laiheng and Zhou Peigong seemed to be more than this.

"It's not for tax exemption. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Mr. Zhou Pei brought this bunch of things to wish me a happy New Year at the butler in Jingmen. He said a lot of nice words and asked me to take care of them on the taxes of the Zhou family. The treacherous butler never said half of the words, and I didn't know how much he wanted me to take care of. At that time, my relationship with Mr. Zhou Pei was good, so I agreed." At Deng Ming's request, Li Laiheng started the conflict between him and Mr. Zhou Pei from the beginning: "Two months later, General Liu began to post a bill, telling the gentry that the country is in trouble and the tax cannot be exempted; I had already agreed to act with General Liu, so I posted a bill notice, and all the big landlords sent a special notice. The Zhou family was a big landlord in Jingmen, and of course there was one from his family."

"Did you forget what you promised in the first month of the year?" Deng Ming sighed.

"How could it be?" Li Laiheng became more and more angry: "Of course I didn't forget it, so I told the Zhou family that I would charge 30% less tax. The good land near Jingmen belongs to his Zhou family, which is a lot of exemption from 30%. However, the Zhou family's housekeeper was shameless and came to make trouble again, saying that I was untrustworthy. I told him that I didn't know what he meant when giving gifts in the New Year was to exempt him. Later, he said that at least 70% was exempted. I disagreed with that guy and refused to leave. I begged for half of it. I was too lazy to talk to him, so I drove him away."

"What happened later?"

"Later, those who have fame and fortune are looking for ways to give gifts to my subordinates and ask them to tell me, saying that after so many years of national crisis, no government has ever collected their taxes, and even the Tartars did not seek their wealth. We were the Ming Dynasty court, so we couldn't ask for it. Zhou Peigong's housekeeper jumped up and down, made connections, and tried his best to stuff my people, which made me feel bored. Humph, why did the people not live in the past? It was because they didn't collect taxes from those who had rich and food. Besides, Zhou Peigong got the fame of the Tartars, and it was not from the Ming Dynasty, and even if they were exempted from taxes from anyone, it was not his turn..."

At that time, many gentry yelled that at most half of them were taken. Li Laiheng had an objection to the scholars of the helpers. Now they dared to cause trouble, but they were not afraid of their own troops for some money. How could they swallow that? The butler of the Zhou family thought that the head of the family had a friendship with the Ming army, and they were indeed familiar with the way. They did the most small actions such as linking and bribery. Li Laiheng was angry and attacked the Zhou family, and even the Zhou family was a son.

Later, Deng Ming could guess a rough idea. Zhou Peigong was dissatisfied and became particularly concerned about rebuilding the Qing army. He also promoted the tyranny of the camp in the circle of scholars, and advocated that only when the Qing army recovered lost land could the gentry be fair. After hearing this news, Li Laiheng retaliatedly confiscated the Zhou family's land. At that time, the Zhou family's land was bought through Li Laiheng, and the details were clearly known, but the result was that it was completely copied, and even a mu of land was not left for Zhou Peigong.

"Okay, Zhou Peigong was just heartbroken and his income was reduced, but now he is irreconcilable with us. Well, Zhou Peigong has a land deed and a transaction book. As long as he gets Jingmen back, he can still take back the land." Deng Ming pondered for a while and said to Li Laiheng: "Ship Hu was relieved. I'll ask for a love for Zhou Peigong and return his land to him."

"For such a mad dog, it is free to give favors to others." Although Li Laiheng also knew that this was a enemy, he was not very afraid of Zhou Peigong, and he was even more unwilling to show weakness and lose face: "And he also gave Zhou Peigong land. He would think that if we were afraid of him, we would definitely gain a lot of urgency and demanded tax reductions."

"So that's it. I'll convince Zhou Peigong to agree to you collect the full tax. If he agrees, Hushuai will give me a face and don't confiscate his land." Deng Ming knew that the camp gang might be a general, but none of them were politicians, and they all regarded face as more important than actual interests.

Li Laiheng thought about it and thought that if this was the case, it would be considered that Zhou Peigong had surrendered and begged for mercy first. Deng Ming was not willing to give him any face, so he reluctantly agreed: "If this mad dog is really so sensible, then I don't care about him this time for the admiral's face, but his taxes will not be small."

"One point is no more!" Deng Ming promised.

After reaching a consensus with Li Laiheng, Deng Ming borrowed some auxiliary soldiers from Li Laiheng, and then continued to go down the river and pass through Yuezhou and other places.

After hearing that Deng Ming was driving straight in, ignoring the Qing army's outposts and heading towards Hanyang, Zhang Changgeng was shocked and quickly called his confidants to discuss. Zhou Peigong, as an expert on Deng Ming and the prefect of Wuchang, also attended.

"Deng Ming has only been away for half a year, why did he come to Wuchang again?" Zhang Changgeng and his confidants also did not expect that Deng Ming would come again so soon. Deng Ming's Yangtze River Navy was based on the Jiangsu and Zhejiang troops and had a large number of large warships seized from Susong and Jiangxi Navy. The Huguang Navy was quite weak and might be able to barely deal with the threat of Li Laiheng, but it was definitely not a match for the Yangtze River Navy.

"Deng Ming seems to have the intention of taking Hanyang directly and then attacking Wuchang." Deng Ming went downstream and turned a blind eye to the Qing army's outposts west of Hanyang. The military strategy said: If you abandon the small and don't take it, there will be a big picture. The Ming army is coming in a fierce manner, and the commander is also famous. Many of Zhang Changgeng's aides showed fear, and even Zhang Changgeng himself was secretly nervous.

At this critical moment, Wuchang Prefect Zhou Peigong stepped forward. Since his family property was confiscated, Zhou Gong devoted himself to military construction and wanted to fight back to his hometown with gritted teeth. Zhou Peigong had a calm face and assured Zhang Changgeng confidently: "Don't worry, Governor, don't worry, Hanyang City Defense was arranged by the officials. If Deng Ming didn't come, he would definitely not be able to get it."
Chapter completed!