Daming pirates

In June, strong winds and floods occurred in Changzhou, Suzhou, and the rivers swelled. The battlements and oars were submerged in the huge waves, and corpses were scattered all over the place. News of earthquakes also spread in Shanxi, and dozens of prefectures and counties were affected by the disaster.

Including Fujian, it has not rained much since spring this year, and now it is a severe drought. Fujian itself lacks arable land due to terrain reasons, and cannot be self-sufficient in food. This has caused people in many places in Fujian to have no food.

In order to make a living, a wave of refugees formed, and a large number of refugees began to appear in various prefectures and counties.

Zhu Yifeng could not be considered a too bad official, and even had a pretty good reputation, but he still had to launch a campaign against Yu Xiaotian under such circumstances. The limited financial and material resources were invested in this time against Nanri.

During the invasion and suppression of the island, the relief provided to the local victims was far from sufficient, resulting in more people becoming refugees.

All in all, the current Ming Dynasty can be said to be in ruins from the inside out. Even if Chongzhen ascends the throne, Chongzhen's character will not be able to save it.

Therefore, the defeat of Ming Dynasty is only a matter of time. No one can save Ming Dynasty. At this time, since Yu Xiaotian has already achieved such a situation, if he is still thinking about peace, then he is not Yu Xiaotian.

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So after he just recovered from his injury a few months ago, he began to formally consider his next plan. In the end, he decided to make peace with it as it comes. Chaos in the world is not necessarily a bad thing. If the Ming Dynasty cannot be sustained, it will be even worse.

Well, instead of letting Houjin Tatar take over, it would be better to let him rule the world. He believed that no matter how stupid he was, Yu Xiaotian would not be inferior to the descendants of wild boar skin.

Speaking of the wild boar skin, Yu Xiaotian thought of the news he had received in the past few months. The wild boar skin led a large number of Tatars according to the original trajectory in history. In the first month of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, they went south to attack the Ming Dynasty. They first attacked Songjin and other seven cities.

Then they besieged Ningyuan, and Yuan Chonghuan led his troops to garrison Ningyuan. He really used the few red barbarian cannons he had on hand to severely injure the Tatars.

It is said that during this great victory at Ningyuan, Yuan Chonghuan used a Hongyi cannon to injure the wild boar Pinur Haci, which caused the wild boar skin to retreat and evacuate Ningyuan. This was encouraged by both the government and the public.

However, Yu Xiaotian did not dare to believe this news, although there are indeed records in history that Nurhaci was injured by a gun in Ningyuan, which led to his final death.

But in fact, the Ningyuan War took place in the first lunar month, and Boarhide died in August. If Boarhide was killed by Yuan Chonghuan's cannon, this Boarhide was too strong, and it actually took more than half a year to die.

, this matter makes little sense.

However, the wild boar skin was still dead in August, and Huang Taiji came to power. The impact of this incident was still quite large. It was precisely because of this Ningyuan victory that Yuan Chonghuan was finally favored by Emperor Chongzhen and made him take charge of Ji Liao.

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However, Yu Xiaotian didn't have any hope for Yuan Chonghuan. Others didn't know Yuan Chonghuan's abilities, but he knew better than anyone what Yuan Chonghuan did after he took office.

Ever since Yuan Chonghuan became the governor of Jiliao, a careful review revealed that he has never done anything decent. On the contrary, after taking office, the first thing he did was kill Dongjiang Town's commander-in-chief Mao Wenlong, leaving Dongjiang Town without a leader.

After eliminating a huge threat for the Tatars, needless to say what happened next. After the Tatars lost the threat of Mao Wenlong, they no longer had to worry about their nest being raided. Under the leadership of Huang Taiji, they began to attack southward year after year.

Daming.

If Mao Wenlong was around, the Tatars would definitely not dare to do this. However, it was only because Yuan Chonghuan couldn't stand Mao Wenlong's self-respect for supporting troops and overstepped his authority to kill Mao Wenlong that the Tatars had no worries.

There are two views in later generations. One view supports Yuan Chonghuan and says that Yuan Chonghuan is a national hero. The other view points directly to Yuan Chonghuan as the biggest traitor of the Ming Dynasty. Yu Xiaotian did not pay much attention to these two views before.

I feel like this fact is really hard to explain.

But one thing he was sure of was that even if Yuan Chonghuan was not secretly having an affair with the Tatars, then he, Yuan Chonghuan, was not really a capable person, otherwise he would not have been able to do such a stupid thing as killing Mao Wenlong and cutting off his arm.

Furthermore, after his observation of the Ming Dynasty over the past few years, he found that the Ming Dynasty was not without capable people. The Ming Dynasty actually had some very capable people, such as Sun Chengzong, Xiong Tingbi and even later Hong Chengchou, Lu Xiangsheng and others.

They are quite capable. As long as the imperial court can reuse these people, it should not be a big problem to deal with Li Zicheng and the Houjin Tatars. Moreover, no matter how difficult the Ming Dynasty is, if the foundation of more than two hundred years is left here, it will not be better than

Li Zicheng and Hou Jin Tatar were much stronger.

It is a pity that the mutual strife among officials prevented these capable officers from doing their jobs wholeheartedly. This group of capable officers had to face various criticisms all day long and were hampered at every turn. In addition, the paranoia of Emperor Chongzhen who came to power later

With such a character, he simply cannot do one thing wholeheartedly.

This can be said to be a stubborn disease of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty was not destroyed at the hands of a few emperors. On the contrary, it should be considered that it was destroyed by the so-called Qingliu faction of the Ming Dynasty. These people were full of food all day long and picked on others when they had nothing to do.

The problem is, whoever does a good job will immediately swarm up and beat him up. In short, if I can't do it, no one can do it. In the end, no one can do it.

On the other hand, when the Tatars entered the country later, many officials of the Ming Dynasty changed their masters. They all rolled up their arms and sleeves and worked prosperously. Nothing could trouble them. They were stunned by their new masters.

After building a huge empire in a few years, we realized that it was not that there were no capable people in the Ming Dynasty, but that there was no environment for capable people to do things. Therefore, it is really strange to say that the Ming Dynasty did not die.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian, a person from another time and space in the future, has no sense of awe for the Ming Dynasty. Now that he has a powerful army, Yu Xiaotian does not want to participate in this competition in the future.

The war in the Central Plains was really strange.

Of course, these things that Yu Xiaotian is thinking about cannot be told to anyone yet, not even the people closest to him, because although the Ming Dynasty is now in decline, few people can predict that the Ming Dynasty will be in a short period of time in the future.

Within more than ten years, the ice disappeared. Speaking of it now will only make people think that he is crazy. Even if some people have already felt that Yu Xiaotian has a desire to be independent, they only feel that Yu Xiaotian wants to

Occupy the island of Taiwan and establish himself as king, few people can imagine that Yu Xiaotian has already begun to plan the entire Ming Dynasty.

But as soon as he made up his mind, Yu Xiaotian knew what to do in the future. Although he now has a powerful army and fleet, facing the entire Ming Dynasty, which is still a giant in the world,

Man, his strength is still too weak.

If he spreads thousands of people on the land, he can only control a few states and counties at most. If he wants to take over the entire Ming Dynasty, it will be impossible.

And Yu Xiaotian knows better than anyone else that although the army he has created is very strong, it also has weaknesses, that is, the army he has created is too dependent on logistics.

This army's daily consumption of ammunition and supplies was several times greater than the same number of Ming Dynasty official troops.

If you want to maintain the operation of such a huge army, it is impossible to maintain their combat effectiveness without a solid foundation. Now, although it seems that he has controlled both Tamsui and Chicken Coop, and has reclaimed a large amount of land, but

Currently they do not have the ability to be completely self-sufficient.

Especially in terms of food, it seems that the food stored in their granary is piled up like a mountain. In fact, most of this food has been purchased from Guangdong, Zhejiang and even Nanzhili in the past two years. Now it is in Nanri Island and Tamsui.

The city's food output can only meet the needs of immigrants and can only provide a very small amount of food supply to the army. Most of the military's food needs to be imported.

It would be unimaginable to feed an army without being self-sufficient in food. Some people may say that the army can fight to support war and rely on looting to meet its own needs. Many rebel armies in history used this method.

Those outstanding men like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong who used plunder to meet their own needs never paid attention to farming. They just swarmed a large number of hungry people like locusts, stalking everywhere, and eventually overthrew the Ming Dynasty, didn't they?

But for Yu Xiaotian, the army he wants is not these peasant army beggar-style bandit armies. Although it is indeed necessary to smash many old things in the future, he does not want to get too much disgrace on his hands.

Blood should be shed because he is a human being, not an inhuman human monster.

Therefore, although Yu Xiaotian has made up his mind, it is not yet time for him to lead his army to attack the land and have a showdown with the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, although the Ming Dynasty has begun to decline, it has not yet reached the time when the oil is exhausted and the lamp is dry.

, accumulated over hundreds of years in the Ming Dynasty

The strength he has gained is not something he can easily defeat now. Once he forces Daming into a hurry, it will not be blocked if Daming counterattacks. The most fearful thing is that he worked hard in vain, but in the end he fought with Daming in a lose-lose manner.

The Tatars are cheap in vain.

After Yu Xiaotian thought about it carefully for a long time, he decided not to land for the time being and to participate in this battle for hegemony. The bad guys could let others do it, and he would reach out to pick it up when the time was right.

It’s not too late for peaches.

For the time being, the most important thing for him is to lay a solid foundation first and establish a military industrial system that can support the consumption of his army, so as to lay a solid foundation for the future large-scale explosion of the army. At the moment, his weapons factory seems to be in very bad shape.

Small, but such a scale is far from the ability to support a large army in the future. It can only meet the current needs, and even the current needs cannot be guaranteed.

(Special thanks to my wolf friends under the night light for the rewards! Your support is the motivation for me to crawl forward! Can the rewards be more intense?)