353 Chongzhen Thirteen
With secret weapons, more than 100,000 elite soldiers in his hand, and with natural dangers in Sichuan, Lu Haoshan's wings finally became hard. Not only did he resist the order, he also openly solicited officials. This is a great crime of irresistance. Zhu Chongba has a life, does not marry, does not pay compensation, does not cede land, does not pay tribute, the emperor guards the country's borders, and the king dies in the country!
Unfortunately, there is one missing "not bowing your head".
Lu Haoshan encountered a good opportunity. The raging of the small ice river caused damage to the strength of the Ming Dynasty. There were mobs inside and the rampant of the Later Jin outside. It can be said that he lost the other side, which allowed Lu Haoshan to successfully control Sichuan.
According to Li Nian's theory of mountains, rivers and chessboard, most of the places where the four corners and mountains and rivers can achieve hegemony, but whether it can become a great cause of unity depends on the right time and place and personal cultivation. In control of Sichuan, Lu Haoshan finally took the most firm step.
Although he was dominant, Lu Haoshan still claimed to be a minister, not dominating himself or breaking the soil as king, leaving the last fig leaf for the Ming Dynasty. In this way, Chongzhen could only pretend to turn a blind eye and let Lu Haoshan make trouble. The two formed a tacit understanding: Lu Haoshan obeyed the Ming Dynasty on the surface, and Chongzhen also adopted a laissez-faire attitude towards Sichuan affairs, and approved the people recommended by Lu Haoshan one by one.
Chongzhen was so good at "talking", in addition to Lu Haoshan's strong strength, it was also related to the changes in the situation. The rebel army mistakenly entered a dangerous road when he was in the Hanzhong Plank Road area. The mountains were high and steep, with sparsely populated areas. The exit was guarded by the official army like an iron barrel and could not be rushed out at all. Misfortune never came out. For more than two months, the crossbow was dismantled, the knife was eroded, the clothes and armor were soaked, the horse's hooves were worn, and the ammunition and food were exhausted. In desperation, people sent to secretly bribe Chen Qiyu to surrender successfully.
The innocence of the Ming Dynasty once again missed an excellent opportunity to wipe out the rebel army. After surviving this crisis, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others rose up again. From then on, the rebel army began to leave footprints in more places in the Ming Dynasty. First, a vigorous Xingyang conference was held, and then continued to divide the troops into multiple ways, leading the official army's noses, and the rebel army led by the King of Sweeping and King Taiping also captured Fengyang Zhongdu. The imperial tomb and the Longxing Temple with special significance were set fire to the emperor, and even the emperor's ancestral tomb was dug, threatening to assert the dragon vein of the "Old Zhu Family" and a heavy blow to the Ming Dynasty headed by Chongzhen.
Chongzhen was naturally furious and ordered the rebel army to encircle and suppress the rebels even more crazily, which also made Hong Chengchou, whose original position was the governor of the three borders of Shaanxi. Because of his effective bandit suppression, he was promoted step by step and promoted to the Minister of War.
This is the tradition of the old Zhu family. It has become a tradition to be mean to all officials. They are demoted and replaced at any time. Take the Minister of War as an example. In a few years, there were Zhang Fengyi, Zhang Jinyan, Zhang Heming, Hong Chengchou and others. Some of them became scapegoats because of their ineffective suppression of bandits, while others were punching bags. The officials changed too quickly, which shows the instability of the Ming Dynasty officialdom and the dangers of military situation.
Huang Taiji of the Later Jin Dynasty was also sharpening his sword. He carried out a series of reforms to the social contradictions during the Nurhaci period, known in history as the "Tiancong New Policy". He also continued to improve and expand the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of the Han Army, and established the Lifan Yuan to manage affairs in Mongolia and other places, and continued to accumulate strength. He continued to be eyeing the Ming Dynasty.
For the Ming Dynasty, this was an indestructible tiger. Although it enslaved it in its "younger" and made it act as a thug and cannon fodder. However, a tiger is a tiger and cannon fodder. It can never be regarded as a dog. When it strengthens its muscles and bones and sharpens its minions, it becomes a nightmare for the Ming Dynasty, just like an indestructible "Xiaoqiang", licking the wound again and again, causing greater damage to the Ming Dynasty again and again.
This was an extremely rare opportunity for Lu Haoshan, and it was also a rare honeymoon period for Lu Haoshan and Chongzhen. Lu Haoshan did not call himself the king and did not hide the thieves and bandits. On the surface, the Ming Dynasty took the action of his ministers, Chongzhen turned a blind eye to Sichuan affairs.
In fact, even if you are willing to interfere, you are also powerless.
The fighting outside was so lively that Lu Haoshan was just a bystander, focusing on developing Sichuan's production and people's livelihood, and using its unique position to monopolize tea and horse trading, using tea and rich utensils in the Central Plains to trade with the foreigners, using tea, porcelain, silk and other things to trade cattle, horses and sheep with the foreigners. Cattle can be used for farming, horses can be used for strengthening the army, transportation, and sheep can supplement the lack of food. It is worth mentioning that Wan'er Shawanhu Chang Pubu became stronger and stronger with Lu Haoshan's support, and Lu Haoshan also formed an alliance with Pubu.
There was a chaotic outside, and Lu Haoshan was operating in this rich land in Sichuan with great success and his strength continued to expand.
Of course, military development is the top priority.
As the commander-in-chief of Sichuan and the governor of Sichuan, Lu Haoshan is the uncrowned king of Sichuan. He can unscrupulously implement reforms with military power. In terms of soldiers, Lu Haoshan directly abolished the garrison system and combined the guards and farming, and turned the self-sufficient guards into professional soldiers, focusing on cooperation and training, and recruited excellent craftsmen everywhere to gather them together, and encouraged them to create better and better weapons. In addition, he also shouldered the responsibility of turning Lu Haoshan's "strange ideas" into reality.
Of course, the development of firearms is the top priority. Lu Haoshan set up a military weapon workshop to incorporate all the craftsmen into it, but the established firearms workshop is independent of the military weapon workshop and is directly responsible to Lu Haoshan. Xu Xiang, who has worked hard and made great contributions, is naturally in charge of the firearms workshop. Now he is the hot firearms manager in the eyes of all soldiers. Anyone who wants a good gun and cannon must nod his head to agree, so that when many generals see him, they feel like they see a beautiful woman and saliva flows down.
Time flies, and five years have passed without realizing it, and it seems that the thirteenth year of Chongzhen is coming in the blink of an eye.
The peaks outside were still there, and the wrinkled sad faces of the people still did not unfold. For the people, the most discussed every day was that someone rebelled and some place was harmed again. The one who was either soldiers or thieves were harmed. The guy named Huang Taiji changed the Later Jin to the Qing Dynasty two years ago, in the ninth year of Chongzhen, and the Qing Dynasty was officially established, and the Eight Banners expanded the Eight Banners to the Eight Banners and the Mongolian Eight Banners, which made them stronger, etc. The most talked about in private was how to go to Sichuan.
For them, as long as they enter Sichuan, they can live a good life of food and clothing.
Five years, precious five years, in the past five years, Lu Haoshan was not idle, but spent five years to change Sichuan according to his ideals: to clear away the bandits and bandits, arrange close friends to put Sichuan into a whole piece, increase its control and influence, develop the economy, train soldiers, with the help of Li Nian, Tang Qiang and others, Sichuan can go up against the current in a harsh environment, and the economy and production have developed greatly. In particular, land reform greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the people, and grain output was getting higher and higher every year. In just five years, there were no hungry prisoners on the streets of Sichuan, and there were surplus grains in the rice jars in the people's homes, and the smiles on the people's faces were getting brighter and brighter.
Sichuan is also the "Tianfu" in the eyes of the people of the Ming Dynasty.
Lu Haoshan has always focused on absorbing talents. After Sichuan has managed well, many people come to join us. However, Lu Haoshan stipulates that one must have strong skills to accept, which has absorbed a large number of talents.
Once a small seventh-rank county magistrate became the governor of Sichuan and the uncrowned king of Sichuan. Their confidants at the time all became famous, such as Tang Qiang, Zhao Gongchang, Li Dingguo, Sun Xiong, father-in-law, etc., either generals or guard commanders. There were more than a dozen officials in the Zhao clan, and even the old team in Jiangyou, such as Zhang Yunhui and Cao Hu, were also promoted and reused. This could be regarded as the "Thank Youth of the Dragon".
There is only one exception. This person is Li Nian. He was Lu Haoshan's military advisor back then, and now he is still a rankless military advisor. Although Lu Haoshan wanted to give him official positions several times, he refused to do so. To outsiders, this is foolish, but in Lu Haoshan's view, Li Nian is a very smart person.
As long as you gain your own trust, what can you not want?
In fact, Lu Haoshan also attaches great importance to Li Nian. The study room located in the Sichuan Governor's Mansion is where Lu Haoshan works. No one can enter at will without Lu Haoshan's consent. This place, which can be called the center of Sichuan's officialdom, is only an exception to one person: Li Nian.
Li Nian can enter and exit the study at any time without notice.
On that day, Lu Haoshan was reading secret reports from all over Sichuan in his study. Suddenly, footsteps came, and soon a familiar voice sounded: "Students have met Dongweng."
Without looking up, Lu Haoshan knew that Li Nian had arrived, so he said while instructing him: "Mr. Li, sit down, what's the matter with me?"
After years of relationships with the host and host, the two of them didn’t care about those etiquettes and were very casual when they were left alone.
Li Nian smiled and said, "When I say that, the King of Shu has come to donate again. Before the autumn grain was entered, he sent someone to send 5,000 stones of grain to the army, and there were also a lot of wild game, which was more punctual than those tenants who paid the rent. Oh, by the way, he also sent someone to send invitations. The student was bold and had already pushed it for Dongweng."
"Please push me, I'm too lazy to give him a false snake." Lu Haoshan said with a smile: "Last year, I said I wanted to marry the princess to my official position, but unfortunately I look average, hahaha."
Lu Haoshan was in control of Sichuan. Before he broke up with Chongzhen, the princes and grandchildren who were enfeoffed in Sichuan could not move for the time being. Each of them knocked a big pen and then conquered most of the fields enfeoffed by the princes and grandchildren. In order to protect themselves, these princes and grandchildren tried every means to please Lu Haoshan, fearing that they would die without knowing.
"Dongweng Gaojian."
"Okay," Lu Haoshan waved his hand and said, "Mr. Li, this time I'm looking for this official is not for this little thing, right?"
One day, the emperor and another day, the King of Shu was still the number one figure before Lu Haoshan seizure Sichuan. However, today is different from the past. His existence is just a symbol now. No one in Sichuan's big or small officials took him seriously, and Li Nian would not look for himself for a small matter.
It is definitely not a trivial matter to let Li Nian go out in person.
Li Nian said with a straight face and said with a serious face: "Dongweng, according to our spy, we have obtained the exact information. Zhang Xianzhong, the eight kings of Xiying, have had a gap with Li Zicheng, and have now moved to Sichuan, and have made a mistake." (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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