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Chapter 235 Life will find its own way out
The back wave of the Yangtze River pushes the front wave, and the front wave dies on the beach.

However, there is really no need to save the previous wave, after all, the garrison system is already rotten.

Rebuilding is too expensive.

The official military system of the same standard is also rotten.

The cost of reconstruction is also very high!

It would be better to kick them all out and quickly form a new military system at the lowest cost in the shortest time. Facts have proved that in an era of competition for the worst, militia is the lowest cost and fastest to form. Although this system has serious consequences, as long as the goal is set low enough, it is not a big deal.

After all, our Qing Dynasty was able to survive for half a century relying on militia.

If it hadn't been for the dimensionality reduction attack, the group training could have lasted longer.

The old Buddha is wise!

What Yang Feng wants now is just to survive for a short period of time.

Of course, the main reason is low cost.

The establishment of a truly modern army requires huge financial support. Why was the Qi Family Army abandoned? It was because they had no money. It was not because the finances could not sustain it. If the Ming Dynasty's finances were really used well, it would still be possible to maintain a national defense army of several hundred thousand Qi Family Army-like troops. However, after layers of corruption, the remaining money for the army could not sustain it. Now the cost of truly establishing a de facto national defense army is even higher, because the tax problem must be solved first, and solving the tax problem requires ensuring the suppression of local tyrants, which also requires a large number of combat-capable troops.

If there is no money to build a new national defense force, then taxation must be increased, but increasing taxation first requires the use of force.

Very troublesome.

It may even lead to civil unrest.

For Yang Feng, who adheres to the principle of survival, the cost of this method is really insignificant now.

After all, the imperial court didn’t even pay the military salaries.

There is also no need to increase taxation to the point of provoking resistance from local tyrants.

As for the future...

Let’s talk about it later!
Prince Yang is not the emperor of the Zhu family.

He is currently the biggest local tyrant in the Ming Dynasty.

Others all learned from him.

The Northern Expedition Army was initially organized in this way. Currently, 15,000 people have arrived. The prefectures in Nanzhili that are still in the hands of the regent court are basically one battalion of 1,000 people, with their own equipment and their own pay...

Of course, you can also entrust it to Prince Yang.

But the money still has to be paid by the local elders' associations themselves.

Prince Yang only promised not to embezzle their money.

But the rewards for military merits are issued by the court, or more precisely, from the spoils. The more spoils are seized, the more they are awarded. However, the system of seizures is in accordance with Prince Yang, that is, everyone robs together and then hands it over to him for distribution. Everyone robs for their own is absolutely not allowed. An army can burn, kill, and plunder, but internal discipline must be strict. Fortunately, Prince Yang's reputation in this regard is golden, and everyone still trusts him. After all, he has enough records to prove his fairness and integrity.

Brigades are set up above the battalion level.

But the brigade is just a framework, which means it maintains a brigade command and some subordinate auxiliary units.

Heavy artillery, medical, engineers, cavalry, etc.

In addition, a staff team is also necessary.

The core infantry battalion is temporarily assembled and added according to the situation, and the number is not fixed.

This is also the optimal solution under this system.

After all, the infantry battalions are all regional in nature, but they will definitely be assigned to brigade commanders for easy command, and the militia in the Wu dialect area will not be assigned a commander from the Mandarin dialect area.

As for Yang Feng's direct subordinates, of course they are his 3,000 followers. These are 3,000 elite cavalry, the absolute main force on the battlefield. His model is actually the same as that of the Ming army in the past. The biggest problem is the field combat capability of large troops, that is, the ability to mobilize tens of thousands of people and cooperate with each other in field battles to engage in continuous combat with the enemy. Therefore, he also needs a decisive force like the retainers.

This Northern Expedition Army will undergo a six-month training period in Nanjing while waiting for other militias to arrive.

The standard is one prefecture and one camp.

But in reality it is definitely not achievable.

Nanzhili was able to achieve this because these prefectures were actually very rich.

Among all the prefectures in Jiangnan, Ningguo is the poorest, but its papermaking industry is unrivaled in the world.

Besides the prefectures, there are several states. These states can be merged with small prefectures to form a camp. For example, Guangde and Ningguo form a camp, and Taiping and Hezhou also form a camp.

Zhejiang can do it outside of Nanzhili, but Jiangxi is in trouble. After all, it is a bit difficult for Jiangxi to ask Ruizhou Prefecture and Nan'an Prefecture to send out a battalion, but they can unite, for example, Nan'an can be with Ganzhou, Ruizhou can be with Yuanzhou. As for the more distant Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, they can be divided into provinces, with each province sending out several battalions. In addition, there are exiles, who also have to represent their provinces, such as Henan, Northern Zhili and Shanxi.

This is the Northern Expedition.

They were the ones fighting back to retake their homeland, so of course they had to contribute.

There are quite a few exiled scholars!

For example, Yang Feng was thinking of asking Yuan Jixian to bring his students over and lead the Shanxi Camp.

Master Fu Qing!

In this way, when all are gathered together in the end, it is estimated that the entire Northern Expedition Army will have 40,000 to 50,000 rooms.

that's enough.

Li Zicheng still needs to send troops to cooperate!

It is hard to say whether the real Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty that entered the Pass are still 50,000 strong!

"One hundred thousand, one hundred thousand Tiger Soldiers will march north to the Central Plains, recapture the capital, and welcome the emperor back to the capital!"

Prince Yang shouted with great passion and ambition.

In front of him, on the parade ground, battalions formed into huge square formations, with flags with dragons embracing the sun and the moon mounted on flagpoles fluttering in the sky. Soldiers wearing breastplates and helmets stood in awe...

Of course, after this flag-raising ceremony, the ongoing war in the Ming Dynasty was temporarily subsided.

Including the north.

Li Zicheng's so-called "Wu Sangui's invasion to the south" was just a cover. The real situation was that the two sides had not stopped fighting around Lingshi. Li Zicheng hated Wu Sangui deeply, and he had been trying to enter Taiyuan to tear Wu Sangui into pieces. In fact, it was Wu Sangui who was satisfied with the status quo and only wanted to protect himself in Taiyuan, and then he could only defend the Lingshi area. There was no such thing as Wu Sangui's invasion to the south.

After Li Zicheng withdrew his troops back to Xi'an, Wu Sangui was frightened and in a panic.

Invade the south again?
How could he have the courage!
However, Li Zicheng did not go north. After all, Li Zicheng's main force was still in Huguang.

Compared with Guanzhong, the agricultural conditions in Huguang are much better. Even the Chengtian area is better than the northwest where the sky is full of wind and sand. So he actually left troops in Huguang to cultivate land and collect taxes from the gentry to ensure the food supply in Guanzhong.

Dorgon was still in Fengyang, and he was also looking for food. After all, he had 200,000 Qing troops under his command, including those who surrendered. If they were to withdraw to the north, they would not be able to get enough food, and it would be difficult to transport food to the north by land. It would be better for him to eat in Huaixi and use food to control the north. He also cultivated land. After all, the surrendered Green Flag Army would be useless, and there was plenty of wasteland in Huaixi. The Green Flag Army cultivated land, collected taxes from the gentry, and fed 200,000 troops while also freeing up food for transportation to the north.

Of course, the Green Flag Army was dissatisfied with this.

After all, before the Qing dynasty came, they didn't even have to farm, and Shi Kefa could still feed them. But after the Qing dynasty came, not only did they not have enough food, they even had to open up wasteland and farm. Wasn't the Qing dynasty coming in vain?

It is obviously a loss to welcome the royal teacher.

But Dorgon had no choice. He could not solve the food problem and could only hold on.

The gentry in Huaixi are quite honest, which is better than that in the north. The gentry in the north are already very powerful, but they still complain about paying taxes, while the gentry in Huaixi pay taxes honestly. From this point of view, the massacre in Yangzhou was effective, and they also know that our Qing Dynasty is not the Ming Dynasty...

My Great Qing Dynasty would really massacre the city!

Pay your taxes honestly!

The war in the southwest, which had been ignored before, also subsided. Not only did Zhang Xianzhong and Wang Yingxiong's group give up fighting because of their previous cooperation, but even the rebellious chieftains in Yunnan became obedient. Without the constraints of civil officials, the Mu family was able to deal with the chieftains, especially because of the interests of Yang Zhan, who controlled southern Sichuan, and the Mu family were cooperating.

He is in Luzhou.

Whether Sichuan salt is entering Yunnan or Yunnan goods are exported, they all have to pass through his territory.

Yang Zhan even sent troops to help Mu Tianbo suppress the troublemaking chieftain.

Moreover, Zhang Xianzhong was actually communicating with the Mu family through the King of Shu...

He needs copper.

The development of military technology outside has made him feel the pressure. He urgently needs more cannons, and copper is definitely needed to cast cannons. Currently, the largest copper producing area is Yunnan, and a major factor restricting Yunnan's copper production is the unstable situation.

Failure to suppress the chieftains will affect copper production!
Zhang Xianzhong was using Sun Kewang's plan to carry out large-scale farming in Xichuan. Many Xichuan landlords had fled and been killed during the war, and the land they left behind included the land of the King of Shu. Of course, many of the land of the King of Shu was actually stolen by gentry. The legendary vassal kings who robbed the land of the entire province were actually mostly stolen by gentry. Most of these lands were also controlled by Zhang Xianzhong, and then continued to be cultivated by his soldiers and the remaining tenants and serfs, adopting a more reasonable collection method.

This is an especially important point.

He really charged two cents for the fire consumption!

This fire consumption was set by Hai Rui. When he implemented the Single Whip Law in Jiangnan, he personally determined through scientific tests that the fire consumption for recasting silver was 2%.

Then, as the governor of Yingtian, he ordered all places to collect taxes according to this standard.

Of course, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the rate had risen to more than 30% and even to 40%, and the proportion that established Ma Ge's status as a sage and wise ruler in the hearts of officials was 80%. However, Zhang Xianzhong's reforms under the leadership of Sun Kewang were truly based on the most reasonable standards set by Hai Rui to collect fire consumption.

It's just two points.

A fire consumption fee of two cents was levied for one tael of silver.

Two coins and one fenli are both decimal.

I have to say that this is also a very magical thing. The officials of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty could not do it. And in the Ming Dynasty, only the only Qingtian could do it. The bandits Zhang Xianzhong and Sun Kewang did it.

They will charge two cents for fire consumption.

In fact, Sun Kewang also used this standard when he followed the Southern Ming Dynasty later.

With his reforms, Zhang Xianzhong quickly gained widespread support, whether from farmers or businessmen. As for the gentry, another amazing act of his was to restore the imperial examination. Although the Jinshi exam was not possible, Sichuan could hold the provincial examination! According to the schedule, the provincial examination would be held in August next year. Even if the chances of passing the imperial examination in Beijing were slim, Sichuan could hold its own provincial examination. Therefore, the imperial examination was restored first in the areas controlled by Zhang Xianzhong, and Confucian scholars from all over the country were ecstatic...

I had to hold my nose and explain to him all the evil deeds that had happened before.

Just use the Jiangxi method!

The emperor is incompetent and corrupt officials are rampant. People are almost starving to death. Why won't they be allowed to resist and survive?

The people are the most important!
What the sages said.

So he was only forced to rebel back then.

As for burning, killing, looting, and even killing those descendants of the phoenix and the dragon, this...

Troubled times!

Isn't it just killing in troubled times?
If we really want to make a clear distinction, the government troops were no worse than them in burning, killing and looting. It is really hard to say whether Zhang Xianzhong killed more people in Huguang or Zuo Liangyu killed more people in Huguang! Zhang Xianzhong plundered Wuchang, but Zuo Liangyu also plundered Wuchang, so this is the tragedy of troubled times.

People are like duckweed, and will eventually be pushed along by the world.

Alas, he has no choice!

Anton Wei.

“So life will find a way.”

Prince Yang, who finally returned to his hometown, was in deep depression again.

In other words, as long as they are given enough stability, they will find their own way of development. In this chaotic world, everyone knows that they cannot sit back and wait to be slaughtered. They must find ways to develop and grow. Even if they have no ambitions, they must first prevent themselves from being slaughtered before they have bargaining power.

This is good.

At this time, there was already a spring scene in front of him.

This is a small village in the north of Andongwei. Because a dam was built in the mountains and a small reservoir was built, some water was stored in the winter, so even if there was no rain, farming was still possible. In order to minimize water loss, the channels were made of stone and cement was used...

Yang Feng cooked it himself.

It's just a matter of trying a few more times.

Even because there was a deep ditch that needed to be crossed, an aqueduct was used.

The five-mile-long stone channel, with ceramic pipes extending outward, brought water into the farmland.

Of course, ordinary farmers certainly cannot afford these construction costs. This is just the Yang family’s farm.

He had his own quarry for stone, his own cement factory, and even his own construction team, all of whom were refugees who had come to him for help. They ate canned fish and sweet potato pancakes, and built all these things with gratitude without any pay. Then, in this spring without rain, they planted corn in the irrigated fields, and they used modern seeds. The only regret was that they could only use homemade manure as fertilizer...

“But I don’t know the way out yet!”

The King of the East Sea then looked at a girl not far away with a melancholy face.

The latter was walking curiously in the field accompanied by Yang Xiu and Yang Ying, wearing a long skirt that didn't quite match the environment, holding a small round fan in her right hand and a colorful corn seed packaging bag in her left hand, looking at the manufacturer...

Casual look.

Prince Yang didn't have time to change the packaging.

As for his explanation, it is very simple. This was brought by immortals from another world. Who said there is only one world? Buddhism has three thousand worlds. It is all recorded in Peach Blossom Spring, which means that he went to another world. Therefore, there is also a place name of Ming Dynasty in another world. After all, even the Qin Dynasty had it.

It’s just that there is no war in that world, so it develops better than the Ming Dynasty.

As for these immortal seeds, they were obtained by the gods from them.

Of course, it doesn't matter.

Prince Yang has made up countless stories on his own, and this is no exception.

The important thing is...

This is his fiancée!
(End of this chapter)