But just because of this, Li Zicheng did not fail and left the capital sadly.

The biggest reason for Li Zicheng's departure was two. One was that he was unfavorable to fight with Tongguan and Liu Zongmin first, and then the Dashun army was attacked by Wu Sangui and Dorgon. With this defeat, there were no Dashun army around the capital, and Li Zicheng had to leave the capital in disgrace. The other was that they were talking about the plague.

In the 16th year of Chongzhen (1643), the autumn plague had already appeared in the capital area, because winter was about to begin, the temperature was low, and the spread of the plague slowed down, and it was still unaware of it for a while.

When spring comes, flowers bloom, peaches and apricots are white, fleas and mice begin to become active, and a large-scale plague plague is in danger.

After Li Zicheng's army entered Beijing, he was infected with the plague and his combat effectiveness was naturally greatly reduced. It is understandable that he could not defeat the Qing army.

Although the number of Qing troops was far lower than that of the Dashun Army, Li Zicheng actually responded to the battle hastily during the battle. This matter must be blamed for Wu Sangui. Wu Sangui's hypocritical surrender made Li Zicheng lose his vigilance. Of course, in Li Zicheng's view, Wu Sangui was a Han Chinese after all, so how could he expect Wu Sangui to surrender to the Qing court?

After this defeat, although Li Zicheng was rich and could recruit soldiers on a large scale, the new recruits lost their combat effectiveness when they joined the army. No matter how many troops were, it was useless and could never resist the tiger and wolf army of the Qing Dynasty.

The plague spread to the military camp and could not get rid of it for a long time. Li Zicheng's spirit was hit. In this era, people were still more faithful and even occupied the capital, but suffered such natural disasters. This made Li Zicheng think that God would not let him succeed, so he was discouraged and took the initiative to evacuate the capital. Therefore, Li Zicheng was not fleeing, but evacuating.

Li Zicheng even took Zhu Cilang away, which was also the reason why Zhu Cilang did not fall into the hands of the Qing court.

Cough, it's been a long way off.

Fan Yongdou's light words really blinded Wu Zheng and Mo Guaninian's eyes, 45 million taels!

This was the result of the inability of businessman capital to enter the industry at that time. The budding of capitalism in the Ming Dynasty did not thrive because of the seven voyages to the West in the Ming Dynasty. Almost all merchants were hoarded. For example, the two profiteers and the other six, the cash bank they hoarded was reliable, which is more than 40,000 taels. What is this? Based on a pound of 16 taels, more than 20,000 kilograms, and more than 10,000 tons, which is enough to pile into a hill.

Therefore, it is said that the lack of gold and silver in the morning is simply nonsense. Liu Zongmin extorted 70 million taels of silver in 20 days, which can be called lack of gold and silver.

It was just that because the Ming Dynasty merchants' capital was constantly hoarded, they could not enter the circulation and were buried in the soil.

But the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce is different. Under the operation of Wu Zheng and Mo Zhengnian, these capitals have been used in construction and circulation.

Yes, the capital of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce has indeed reached nearly 30 million taels, but this is not the capital of the cash bank, but the assets of stores in various places that contain nearly 300 merchants. If it comes to cash bank, it may be less than 30%, that is, it is only 90 million taels.

Moreover, after the past two years of investment, only 10% of the current bank has remained, and according to the economic theory of later generations, it has entered a dangerous range. Among them, Wu Zheng incited the investment in Xincheng land has exceeded 20 million taels (mainly because it is too expensive, with an average of 400 taels per acre of land, calculated based on the rice price, one tael of silver is equivalent to about 800 to 1,000 yuan in later generations).

Therefore, even if Wu Zheng hated Fan Yongdou and others the most, he was unwilling to be unable to get along with Yinzi.

Fortunately, after more than four years of hard work of "blood and fire", Wu Zheng is still good at endurance.
Chapter completed!