Out of great fear that Jiujiang might be lost, Zuo Liangyu, the Marquis of Ningnan, immediately decided to cut off his arm's arms now in order to protect himself.

He hurriedly ordered that the Jin Shenghuan troops stationed in Luzhou Prefecture should not fight against the troops of the Tang army's Sixth Town, but the entire army immediately broke through the city and retreated west to Huangzhou Prefecture in Huguang, using Macheng as a stronghold to ensure that the troops of the Tang army's Sixth Town, were not allowed to continue to advance westward.

Wang Deren's troops stationed in Anqing Prefecture retreated to Susong City, where Anqing and Huguang were intersecting, thus shrinking the front line and using Leishui and Leichi Lake as their support to resist the Tang army's attack on the west.

Zuo Liangyu's arrangement was quite voluntarily abandoning the last two prefectures of Nanzhili, Luzhou Prefecture and Anqing Prefecture, so that Jin Shenghuan's tribes stationed in Macheng, Wang Deren's tribes stationed in Susong, and Hao Xiaozhong's tribes stationed in Jiujiang, could support each other and guard the Huguang border together to ensure that their basic foundation was not lost.

Zuo Liangyu responded in such a hurry, but the troops from the Sixth Town of the Tang Army basically won the Luzhou and Anqing prefectures without fighting. At this point, the entire Nanzhili finally fell into Li Xiao's hands almost intact.

When the entire army broke through, the Jin Shenghuan army had to fight a fierce battle with the besieged Tang army. In the end, after paying the heavy price of nearly half of the casualties or being captured, they finally escaped and retreated all the way to Macheng.

What Zuo Liangyu didn't expect was that now, the Tang army was not in a hurry to attack him. Instead, after Liu Zehan's troops entered Jiangxi, they began a new combat plan.

Zuo Liangyu was angry and found that the Tang army only asked Huang Degong's troops to concentrate all their strength to encircle Jiujiang City. Liu Zehan's third battalion soldiers were divided into two units, one by one, and one by one went straight to Ningzhou in Nanchang Prefecture, threatening Zuo Liangyu's lower unit of Huguang, making him afraid to draw troops to the three troops in the easternmost direction.

The other two battalions continued to go south and recovered Ji'an Prefecture and Jianchang Prefecture respectively, threatening the Ganzhou Prefecture where Zheng Zhilong's troops were located, using the force of supporting each other.

The Tang army's deployment was completely beyond Zuo Liangyu's expectations. However, the Luzhou Prefecture and Anqing Prefecture in Nanzhili, as well as the entire northern part of Jiangxi except Jiujiang City, have been lost, so how can I regret it!

At this point, all Li Xiao's combat plan that day was realized, especially now that the two towns of troops marched into Jiangxi, only Jiujiang City and Ganzhou Prefecture in Jiangxi were still in the enemy's hands, and the rest of the territory was all under the Tang army's territory. This combat result was much beyond expectations, which made Li Xiao very satisfied.

According to Li Xiao's strategic concept, until now, the main battles have basically ended, and the Tang army, Zuo Liangyu tribe and Zheng Zhilong tribe have formed a new confrontation.

This temporary suspension situation was of course caused and controlled by the Tang army. The reason for suspending the attack was because Li Xiao considered that if he continued to pursue Zuo Liangyu or Zheng Zhilong's troops, it would lead to the front line being too long and the troops were not sufficient to be used, and even logistics supplies might not be able to keep up.

If they cannot win quickly and become stalemate with Zuo Liangyu or Zheng Zhilong, then such as the bandits, the Tartars and the Zhang Xianzhong tribe in the Sichuan Basin, they are likely to be ready to invade their own territory and borders. In this case, the Tang army does not have enough troops to return to defense, and how to deal with the attacks of these foreign invaders will be a very troublesome thing.

Therefore, after the Tang army had obtained the most important part of the land in the Ming Dynasty, it was the most important and urgent thing to temporarily stop fighting with all parties and to digest and absorb these new territory.

Now, what is the most serious and urgent problem that Jiangnan in the late Ming Dynasty needs to be transformed?

Li Xiao believes that there are two most serious and urgent problems: one is serious land annexation, and the other is that there are a large number of refugees and unemployed people.

Let’s first briefly explain the situation of land annexation at the end.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the land concentration reached an unprecedented level. Wang Gongxun and landlords and gentry frantically annexed land, and most of the farmers lost their land one after another. From a national perspective, an ordinary landlord occupied dozens of tenants. In Zhejiang and Fujian, one-tenth of the land had land, and nine-tenth of the people who had people were able to serve as food. Most of the fertile land in Beijing, Zhili, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Huguang and other places were occupied by Wang Gongxun and gentry.

Generally, landlords and gentry took advantage of the robbery and "seek the land and ask for houses without any end." The wealthy gentry in Jiangnan occupied hundreds of acres of land, and the most were thousands of acres, or even tens of thousands of acres. The wealthy gentry in Henan accounted for five to seventy thousand acres of land, and the most were more than ten thousand acres (Volume 2 of Zheng Lian's "The Record of the Changes of Yu Break").

In this situation, the situation is even more serious in this rich Jiangnan area. Moreover, this kind of land annexation has a relatively common land annexation model in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas.

This model is that a powerful family in a certain place occupy a place, then excludes non-parents, occupys the land of non-parents, and forms a land annexation in a region.

In the "Huizhou Prefecture Chronicles", many famous families recorded in this way have established a certain family to establish a foothold in one place. This is why, in the southern regions, many villages in many places only have one surname. Because those small families without power have been run away by a local family in various ways.

But the Jiangnan area did not happen, like the northwest area, with large-scale natural disasters, and the rise of refugees, which caused a rise. Why is this?

At this time, in the wealthy areas represented by Jiangnan, a large number of bankrupt farmers left the land due to their livelihoods and turned to the nearby industrial and commercial center to become a new group of employees, thus temporarily solving the imminent survival problem.

In the northwest region, the consequences of land annexation are much more serious than those in the Jiangnan area.

After land annexation in the northwest region, although the degree is not as serious as in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, it is more destructive, which lies in the land annexation in the northwest region. First, it is prone to occur during natural disasters, and second, it causes a large number of refugees after land annexation.

Due to natural disasters and land annexation in the northwest, a large number of farmers lost their land, but the economy and environment in the northwest cannot provide a way out for farmers who lost their land, thus creating a large number of refugees. These refugees have no land and no other economy in the northwest. In order to survive, refugees have to serve as servants for landlords, but the number of servants is always limited. Landless farmers who lack a way out often have to choose to become bandits or be forced to rise up. This will undoubtedly cause serious disasters and tragedies to the entire country.

Therefore, the consequences of land annexation in different regions of China are not the same. We must never use the land annexation situation of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to understand the land annexation in the northwest generation.

Moreover, in a sense, land annexation in the Jiangnan area actually has a certain promoting effect on the formation and development of the entire urban society.

"Collected Works of Mr. Lin Ciya": "Today's people, those who are engaged in merchant skills and snatching food are ten or five or six."

"Siyouzhai Cong Shuo": "There were few people who were pursuing the last days in the past, but now they left farming and changed their business to business, three times the previous one. There were no ones who were vain in the past, but now they left farming and were vain in the past, two or three more people. Generally speaking, in ten people, they had already left farming and had 6 or 70% off the farming."

"Market of the March 11th year of Jiajing": "There are few people who are wandering around, and few people who are heretics work hard. ... The common people have no benefits for farming, and they think that eating can still be a solution to seek perfection... The people who are today have one or two, but there are eight or nine."

"Suzhou Prefecture Chronicles": "Four or five people live in cities and towns, three or four people live in towns, and one or two people live in villages."

According to a large amount of historical records in the Ming Dynasty, the agricultural population in the entire Jiangnan region gradually increased from 40% to 50% in the middle of the Ming Dynasty to 100% in the late Ming Dynasty, and a large number of people flowed into cities, providing a sufficient labor population for urban development.

With the development of urban society and commodity economy, China's early prototype capitalism has had an extremely powerful impact on the entire world. Even the author was not surprised to see the following information.

These materials come from Fan Shuzhi's "History of the Late Ming Dynasty".

"At the late 1580s, Chinese silk had already threatened the sales of Spanish products in the Americas. In the early 17th century, Mexicans wore silk more than cotton. The so-called silk was mostly worn by Chinese silk."

"In fact, China's trade relations with the Spanish colonial empire are the relationship between Chinese silk flowing to the Philippines and America and silver flowing to China."

"So that the Mexican Governor called for a ban on the import of raw silk in 1611. However, by 1637, the situation became more and more serious. Mexico's silk industry used Chinese silk as raw materials, and the local silk industry in Mexico was actually eliminated. Peru, which is close to Mexico, is also a huge market for Chinese silk, and the price of Chinese silk to Peru is only 1/3 of that of Spanish products. From Chile to Panama, Chinese silk is sold and worn everywhere."

"Chinese silk not only flooded the American market, seized the sales of Spanish silk in the Americas, but even bypassed most of the earth and sold to Spain, where it directly destroyed Spanish silk production."

This is only in its infancy, still extremely naive and unstable, but it has caused such a strong impact and impact on the natural world economic order. It can be seen how great the potential for developing a commodity economy in the Jiangnan area is, and how high the achievements that can be achieved in the future!

Compared with the emergence of capitalism that began to emerge in the Ming Dynasty, and the vitality brought to society with new power, the so-called prosperous Qing Dynasty was so ridiculous and sad.

During the reign of Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, "the prosperity of the times was raised and the tuition never increased", and was promoted by later Tartar fans as a great achievement of peerlessness. However, is the true meaning of this history really as they said?

No.

Because, the so-called never adding tax means only levying a fixed cap tax, and then focusing the tax on the land tax.

Is this really a benevolent government? Why do most countries now pay personal income tax and instead adopt this "benevolent government"?

In fact, this policy is actually a major social regression, a cruel measure to strictly bind population and land, which has forced local governments, for so-called political achievements and governance, to suppress all new economic forces, and to convert as many people as possible into the most basic farming population, and to suppress the living space of landless people (such as workers, merchants, etc.). This ignorant and outdated cruel practice is completely opposite to the practice of enclosure movement in Europe in the contemporary era, forcing farmers to work in cities and transform the entire country into an industrialized society.

Therefore, Kangxi's approach was only to strongly control the society and prevent adverse factors that the Qing court could not control, which artificially reduced the living space of other industries, so that the people under their rule could only live in agriculture. Such a stupid approach of short-sightedness and ignoring the trend of the times was undoubtedly a big step back compared to the economic system of the Ming Dynasty.

It can even be said that the Qing Dynasty was a traditional Chinese occupational arrangement in which scholars, farmers, industry and commerce performed their respective duties. Through powerful artificial means, it became only two industries of scholars, farmers, and farmers, making China a complete agricultural country and completely exterminated the hope of industrialization. In the end, more than a hundred years later, China suffered unseen defeat and humiliation, and had that nightmare, full of bullet holes and blood and tears.

At this point, many readers will probably ask, then, as this is the case, since land annexation in the Jiangnan area has such a promoting effect on society, can Li Xiao, who is the actual rule, indulge in land annexation in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas and let it go?

Of course not.

Because, in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, although the land annexation problem is not serious and there are not many refugees, there are serious problems.

That is, the finance and taxation areas in the Jiangnan area are basically in a state of inability to collect.

Why can't I collect it?

Because of the land annexation, it was concentrated in the hands of the landlords and gentry class, and they could rely on their own privileges and legal loopholes to collectively evade taxes on a large scale. The taxes owed in the entire Jiangnan area for decades have caused serious financial deficits in the entire country. This problem is undoubtedly quite shocking.

The demise of the Ming Dynasty was not directly caused by land annexation. There was no problem with this statement. However, the root cause of the demise of the Ming Dynasty was that the excessively serious land annexation caused the country to completely destroy the internal structure of the dynasty after losing a large amount of fiscal and tax revenue.

The shortage of finance also determined that the Ming Dynasty could not establish an army that could resist foreign aggression and suppress the uprising from a system. This led to the continuous growth and inability to curb the central government's finances from both foreign troubles and civil unrest.

At this point, the entire country is like a patient who has suffered severe blood loss and has lost the ability to make hematopoietic. The entire body has no effective resistance to the invasion of the outside world. Any small external wound can cause him to be infected and die. This is a huge tragedy for the country and the nation.

Li Xiao, who came from later generations, was naturally as clear as seeing the fire and understanding it in his heart.
Chapter completed!