"Letter to the Military and Civilians of the Ming Dynasty" was the result of Lu Si's careful consideration, because the development of the situation had already made reducing the harm caused to the country by war and became his top priority, Emperor Longwu.

With the successive surrender of Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Jiangxi and other places, the remnants of the Ming Dynasty have been compressed to a very small area.

Since Yunnan was not a political, economic and military center in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army in these three provinces had a handful of troops.

Although the Zheng family in Fujian has 200,000 troops and has the most powerful naval power of this era, Lu Si believes that Zheng Zhilong, the head of the Zheng family, is a person that can be fought for.

He had previously offered the bargaining chips for the Duke of China and the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, but in that era, the Dashun Army had not yet fought south, and Zheng Zhilong, who had not yet seen the current situation, was a bit waiting to be sold, so he did not clearly answer whether Dashun's surrendered.

However, now, the overall situation is even stronger than that of the Manchu army when Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and the Dashun Army should make up the mind.

For a long time, Lu Si was extremely polite to the Zheng family for the sake of the future development of the Zheng family and Dashun naval. The growth of the Huai army was inseparable from the early "ransom" of the Zheng family. If the Zheng family had not provided a batch of small cannons and muskets to the Huai army and a batch of firearm instructors, the Huai army's ability to attack would not have been improved in the short term.

In addition, in fact, the Zheng family also provided a large number of talents for the Huai Army.

For example, the current artillery army admiral Hong Bao, the 14th Army admiral Huang Zhao, the 29th Town Commander Yang Xiang and others all came from the Zheng family. Although the total number of officers and soldiers from the Dashun Army in Fujian is not large, there are as many as 76 people above the battalion.

The existence of these Fujian generals can undoubtedly bring the Zheng family closer to Dashun.

Jiangbei Province in Dashun has always had sea trade deals with the Zheng family. Many Huaiyang goods were shipped to Jiangnan through Zheng Hongkui's Yangtze River Navy, including a large number of antiques and treasures.

When he sent someone to Fujian to secretly persuade Zheng Zhilong to surrender, Lu Si gave a painting of calligraphy and painting of Song Huizong obtained from the Confucius Mansion in Qufu as a gift to Zheng Zhilong.

It can be concluded that even if Zheng Zhilong still refuses to make his position and changes his flag and surrenders, he will never be stupid enough to lead his private troops north to work hard for Hongguang Dynasty.

It is highly likely that when the dust settles in the Nandu, Zheng Zhilong will happily change into the Dashun official uniform and become a Dashun minister.

As for his eldest son of the country, no matter from which angle, the country's surname may only have the surname Lu in this life, but not Zhu.

After all, the Guo surname is still very young at this time.

Dashun is not the Manchu alien with braids.

After the Jin and Wang Group in Jiangxi were destroyed, the only remaining troops in the Ming Dynasty could be called a group.

One of them is the Huaixi Ma Shiying Group, which has about 60,000 to 70,000 troops. However, except for Huang Degong, the rest of the generals such as Liu Liangzuo, Yu Yongsui, Fang Guoan, and Zhu Daji are probably all secretly preparing to change their camps.

Another group was the Sun Wujin Group, who successfully used the pacification of Jiangnan slaves to successfully break away from the Nandu of Suzhou, Changzhou, Songjiang and Jiading, and was named King Kang of the Ming Dynasty, a good minister of Dashun.

In addition, there is no one that can be called a group.

The escaped governor of Huguang He Tengjiao and the governor of Hunan Du Yinxi now have no place for peace, so how can we make a comeback?

The situation is great.

According to the Yellow List and actual population data of Xinde provinces, after the two lakes and Sichuan and Guizhou were included in the Dashun territory, the population of Dashun increased from more than 19 million earlier to about 41 million.

However, the total population of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Huaixi, which were still in control of the Ming Dynasty, was generally the same as the total population of Dashun controlled areas.

Lu Si recognized this data, and even if there is not much error, there will be many. After all, there are more than tens of millions of people in Jiangnan alone, which is more than a province in Dashun Jiangbei.

The Jiangnan slave revolution attacked the landlords and gentry forces. Although it caused some damage to the local economy, it did not suffer much population losses.

Therefore, Dashun now has completely overwhelmed the Ming Dynasty in terms of its economy, population, land, grain output, industrial and iron ore and other mines.

With Dashun achieving a series of major military victories, major divisions had already occurred within the Ming Dynasty.

The more than 500 happy edicts issued by Master Hui Shiyang outside Nanjing were ironclad evidence of the internal division of the Ming Dynasty. Lu Si now has two dukes of the Ming Dynasty, three marquises and six uncles, written by Emperor He Dashun's sutra of the Great Emperor.

It can be said that as long as Lu Si is willing, the Emperor Hongguang who was helped up by him will immediately fall.

However, Hongguang's legal principles do have problems. If Hongguang surrendered to Dashun like this, those officials loyal to the Ming Dynasty and some unwilling royal families would definitely guerrilla wars with Dashun to the end.

Although the result was destined, Lu Si still didn't want such a thing to happen.

In his decree to Li Chengdong, Governor General of Guangdong and Guangxi, Lu Si asked that once the Ninth Army enters Guangxi to fight, the first priority is to capture the King of Gui Zhu Youlang, and not give any illusions or hopes to officials loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

In August, after listening to the opinions of the Governor of Yunnan and Guizhou Li Dingguo, King Lu Guangyuan of Jin, who went to Chengdu, ordered Liu Wenxiu to lead an army of 50,000 to Zunyi.

Liu Wenxiu's troops, who strictly enforced military orders, did not commit any offense on the way to march. The people were all calm and fearless wherever they passed. They successfully occupied Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province, which had no soldiers to defend.

The Ming Dynasty Guizhou Censor Zhang Yao, the Chief Secretary General Zeng Yi, and the commander Chen Ruizheng fled to Dingfanzhou, and pieced together a group of scattered soldiers and chieftains to resist stubbornly.

Liu Wenxiu sent Tan Yi, the general who surrendered in Sichuan. Wu Dading led more than 10,000 troops to attack Fanzhou. He conquered Dingfan in mid-October. Zhang Yao was executed and Zeng Yi committed suicide. The commander-in-chief Chen Ruizheng led the remnants to surrender.

During the rest period in Guiyang, Yunnan Tusi Long led his troops to surrender in Tian, ​​and offered advice to seize Kunming while Yunnan Tusi Shadingzhou rebelled.

During the reign of Tian Chongzhen, Long led his troops to the Central Plains to fight against the peasant army. Later, when Zhang Xianzhong surrendered in Gucheng, the Ming Dynasty ordered Long to monitor Zhang Xianzhong's troops.

It was during this period that Long Zaitian and the Western Army secretly established a close relationship. Zhang Xianzhong even worshipped Long Zaitian as his adoptive father and obtained the much-needed horses and muskets from Long Zaitian.

Although the Western Army has become the Shun Army and Zhang Xianzhong, the adopted son, died at the hands of the Shun Army, the backbone forces of the Western Army have all become members of the Dashun Army, so the close relationship with Long Zaitian was naturally preserved.

With the help of Long Zaitian, Liu Wenxiu quickly ordered an march to Yunnan.

In order to reduce the difficulty of attacking Kunming, Liu Wenxiu sent a large number of detailed works to the south in advance, taking advantage of the people's dissatisfaction with Shadingzhou and spread false information that the Dashun Army entering Yunnan was to avenge the Mu family at the request of the wife of Jiao, the Duke of Qian of the Ming Dynasty.

This strategy has indeed achieved results. Yunnan is too far from the north, so few people know about the wars that took place in the north. Therefore, whenever the Dashun Army goes, local people will open the door to welcome them in, and they will drive straight in without any obstacles.

A few years ago, Liu Wenxiu reported that his troops occupied Pingyi on the third day of November, and then quickly conquered Jiao River. On the 11th, the troops were transferred to Qujing, annihilated more than 500 defenders from Shadingzhou, and captured the Yunnan inspector Luo Guobing of the Ming Dynasty.

In order to confuse Shadingzhou, Liu Wenxiu did not immediately attack Kunming after occupying Qujing, but went south to Amizhou and defeated more than a thousand reinforcements in Shadingzhou at Shehuakou.

Seeing that his soldiers could not defeat the Shun Army, Shadingzhou had to voluntarily give up Kunming at the end of November and flee back to his hometown in Mengzi. Before leaving, he killed Wang Xigun, a Grand Secretary of Ming who was under house arrest in Kunming Gongyuan.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty governor Wu Zhaoyuan and others who remained in Kunming City knew that the Shun Army could not have revenged the Mu family at all, but they had no soldiers at hand, and they hated Shadingzhou, so they led the gentry and people in the city to open the city to surrender.

After learning that Kunming had been captured, Li Dingguo immediately set off from Guiyang to Kunming to command Liu Wenxiu, Li Laiheng pacified the remaining troops of Shadingzhou, and some chieftain soldiers who were loyal to the Ming Dynasty in Yunnan.

In order to pacify Yunnan, stabilize the local area as soon as possible, and lay the foundation for Dashun to gain access to Guangdong and Guangxi, Li Dingguo not only sent people to negotiate with Yang Weizhi, the deputy envoy of Ming Yunnan who had always insisted on resisting Shadingzhou, but also sent people to contact Mu Tianbo, the Duke of the Ming Qian who fled to Chuxiong, hoping that the other party could recognize Dashun's occupation and rule over Yunnan.

The condition given by Li Dingguo was that he could submit a petition to the Central Committee of Dashun to the Duke of Qian and ensure that he would not harm the officials loyal to the Ming Dynasty in Yunnan. Those who were willing to be officials could continue to be officials, and those who were unwilling to be officials could give gold and silver to their own convenience. Those who wanted to return to the Ming army controlled area would also send people to escort them.

Yang Weizhi refused to cooperate with the Shun Army at first, but when he found that the Shun Army not only had many troops, but also had no offense to the people of Yunnan, the deputy envoy finally wavered, but only agreed to cooperate with the Shun Army to jointly eliminate Shadingzhou, and his army still used the Hongguang reign of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Dingguo considered that it was the urgent task of the Shun Army to pacify Shadingzhou, so he agreed with Yang Weizhi's conditions.

After learning that Yang Weizhi cooperated with the Shun Army, his family was destroyed by Shadingzhou, and Mu Tianbo, who had not many soldiers under his command, was also determined to take revenge with the Dashun Army. The cooperation conditions between the two sides were similar to those of Yang Weizhi.

Someone secretly reported Li Dingguo to the imperial camp that he had made a fuss about cooperation with the officials and gentry of the Ming Dynasty and did not make the other party surrender. Lu Si ordered: "Dingguo is the governor of the border, and the same envoy as the Duke of Qian, how could he have made a big fuss? Since ancient times, justice has been in the hearts of the people."

After cooperating with the Shun Army, Mu Tianbo sent his son to Kunming as a hostage and sent someone to persuade the Yongchang Prefecture Promoter Jin Teng, the Tongchang Prefecture Promoter Liu Tingdong and others to surrender to the Dashun Army, but Yongchang refused. Mu Tianbo persuaded the Yongchang gentry and people not to resist the Dashun Army. Because the Mu family was in Yunnan and had a high prestige, even though officials loyal to the Ming Dynasty refused to obey his opinions, the officials and gentry from all over the country followed Mu Tianbo's call and did not become enemies with the Dashun Army.

In this way, with the joint efforts of Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, Li Laiheng and others, most parts of Yunnan returned to Dashun without the war, and the forces in Shadingzhou were constantly eroded, and in the end, only the land of its old nest, Ami.

Li Dingguo reported to the Imperial Camp, and the troops stationed in Yunnan were rested for three months. In April, he planned to use the troops of four towns and tens of thousands of chieftains in Yunnan to attack Shadingzhou together.

Lu Si approved this plan and instructed Li Dingguo to pacify Shadingzhou, the promises made by the Ming Dynasty officials and Mu Tianbo and others in the previous period remained unchanged. After the Nandu surrendered, these people decided to decide whether to surrender completely or to bury the Ming Dynasty for their own sacrifice.

"Letter to the Military and Civilians of the Ming Dynasty" was promulgated by Yu Zhengdan, and a total of more than 14,000 pieces were printed. The word "peace" appeared for the first time in the inner world, with as many as seven places in the article.

Lu Si put forward six conditions for peace. First, it is naturally that all legal systems of the Hongguang regime in Nandu will be abolished immediately.

Second, in the Ming Dynasty area where the Dashun army arrived, the local governments that originally belonged to the Ming Dynasty immediately stopped their activities and abolished the Ming Dynasty's laws, and replaced them with the Dashun Law as the basis.

Third, all military forces (including naval divisions), local inspections, and township soldiers' bow capture should immediately return to the Ming Dynasty as a whole, and be adapted into the Dashun Army according to certain principles.

If the Ming Dynasty military force continued to resist the Dashun Army, it would no longer be regarded as a military force belonging to the Ming Dynasty and should be treated as bandits. Before the Dashun Army arrived and accepted, the local armed forces of the Ming Dynasty had the responsibility to maintain local order and prevent any sabotage incidents. Those who deliberately sabotage the local area would also be regarded as bandits.

Fourth, after the Ming Dynasty officials were presented to the Nandu regime, except for the six ministries of the court, the rest of the local governors and below should continue to serve and be responsible for transferring power to Dashun. After verification, the soldiers of the Ming army were old, weak and disabled, and should be treated as retirement, and that is, they should be given convenience and living place to go home, so that they can get their place, so that they will not be able to live without any life and cause bad behavior.

Fifth, all local minerals, imperial farms and other property belonging to the Nandu regime will be confiscated to the state-owned Dashun. In principle, Dashun will only remove the lords he received in the Ming Dynasty and recognize their family private property. However, if it involves embezzlement of the private property or domestic property, it is verified to be a criminal act, it should still be confiscated.

Sixth, the Dashun Dynasty officially announced that all additional taxes were abolished by the Ming Dynasty and only the basic land tax was retained. All remaining miscellaneous taxes were exempted. If any place still levys, it would be considered an attack on the Dashun regime.

Lu Si clearly requires the Nandu to recognize these six conditions unconditionally.

As for Emperor Hongguang, Lu Si also proposed preferential treatment for the first time. That is, as long as Hongguang surrenders to Dashun, Emperor Dashun will grant him the Ming King, and he and any member of his family will enjoy all the power equal to the people of Dashun.

After surrender, Hongguang and his close relatives could live in Zhu Ming’s hometown in Fengyang. The central government of Dashun allocated funds to build the Mingwang Mansion, which would subsidize 500,000 taels of silver for the Mingwang Mansion every year, and special subsidies 2 million taels to start the corresponding industry, giving priority to the appointment and recruiting members of the Zhu Ming royal family.

In addition, the Dashun government promised to worship forever for the Xiaoling Mausoleum in the Nandu, the Ming Mausoleum in Beijing and the Zhumingzong Temple, and sent guards to continue to protect it properly.

At the end of this book, Lu Si warned the world that if the southern capital surrendered, he would go to Xiaoling to worship the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang on the day he entered the city, and wrote a tribute to show his respect for the Han emperor who expelled the Tartars and restored the Chinese Han emperor.
Chapter completed!