Yang Xiuqing also has a Chinese daily in his hand. He attaches great importance to intelligence work, and a group of people under his command send news from various places to his desk every day.

"Chen Ping, those gang of pirates have taken over Guangdong again. Have you noticed that we have done so much and it seems that we are all making wedding clothes for others?"

"This Dong Liang attacked Fujian Province just after we occupied Tianjing. Do you think this is a coincidence? When we attacked Jiangxi, he went to occupy Ganzhou. Now he suddenly occupied Guangdong.

.Now this group of pirates has controlled the two southeastern coastal provinces, and their territory is larger than ours. If they continue to collude with foreigners, won't they be able to secure the south?"

"As for us, along the Yangtze River, we have been fighting against the main force of the Qing Dynasty. The brothers from our hometown have sacrificed a lot, and we have not occupied much territory. On the contrary, we have held back almost all the Qing troops..."

Yang Xiuqing's single eye seemed to be filled with light.

"Dong Wang, I have something you don't know whether to say or not?" Chen Ping hesitated to speak. In fact, he had already seen what Yang Xiuqing said.

"It doesn't matter if you say..." Yang Xiuqing said.

"I think Tianjing should be abandoned. The current Tianjing City is useless to our Heavenly Army. As long as we still control Tianjing, the Qing Yao will always target us." Chen Ping suggested.

"No, absolutely not. Tianjing must not give up. Without Tianjing Holy Land, the hearts of our heavenly soldiers will be scattered."

Yang Xiuqing didn't get angry, she just shook her head and said.

It was his idea to march to Tianjing in the first place. In order to realize this strategy, he even invited Heavenly Father to come down to earth.

Everything Heavenly Father has said has been recorded, so how can it be overturned at will.

In fact, what Chen Ping said is right. Tianjing City is indeed like a useless place. Almost all the field troops of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties gathered around Tianjing. The Jiangnan Camp and Jiangbei Camp were stuck in Tianjing City and could not develop. They could only rely on the upstream.

blood transfusion.

And this place has become the gentle land of the Kingdom of Heaven. Every family of the princes of the Kingdom of Heaven does not have tens of thousands of servants and groups of wives and concubines. All these people have to eat.

Recently, Yang Xiuqing has reduced trade with Jiangbei, causing Tianjing City to suddenly be in shortage of supplies.

Even the price of soap has increased five times than before.

He thought that as long as the food reserves were sufficient, he did not expect that the capital would need more than food today. These people have already adapted to a wealthy life, and now they are asked to continue to live a tight life. How can they adapt?

Even Yang Xiuqing himself was like this, with fine clothes and fine food, a group of wives and concubines, and 20,000 people in the East Palace. The palace was getting bigger and bigger, with no end in sight, just like the Forbidden City.

The Tianwang Mansion is even bigger.

But these things cannot be mentioned. If Yang Xiuqing wants to reform, he must reform himself.

"We must increase the number of troops to attack Luzhou, capture northern Anhui, march towards the Han River, and then capture Guanzhong. Our Kingdom of Heaven must also have a corner place to establish itself." Yang Xiuqing thought for a while and said.

Chen Ping's eyes lit up and his face showed joy: "Dongwang Shengming, golden-edged silver horn grass belly, if our army can go to the northwest and capture Guanzhong, Chang'an is the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties and the land of Longxing. When the time comes, His Highness the Dongwang will move the capital to

Chang'an, all the heavenly generals won't say anything."

"First withdraw the soldiers and horses from Yangzhou, send people to find Zhuo Yiqing, and tell them that we will give Yangzhou to them." Yang Xiuqing said.

This is a conspiracy.

Yang Xiuqing knew that Zhuo Yiqing was Dong Liang's man. These pirates were very bad. In order not to attract the attention of the court, he asked his men to use new names.

But none of this could be hidden from Yang Xiuqing's fiery eyes.

The secret agents of the Kingdom of Heaven have already figured out the relationship between the Red Flag Army and the Guards.

He knew that the Red Banner Army had invested a lot of resources in developing Jiangbei. So much salt was no longer produced. How much food would be consumed every day just to open up wasteland and build dikes there.

They will definitely not give up there casually. Now that the main force of the Qing army is surrounding Yangzhou City, they naturally have no energy to deal with them.

If the Taiping Army retreats from Yangzhou, no one will be able to stand in front of them.

The Taiping troops that retreated can be used to attack the Jiangnan camp with all their strength.

Without the Jiangnan Camp, Tianjing City can be connected with Wannan and Sunan, and Tianjing City will become the rear.

Outside the study, Fu Shanxiang was preparing to send the compiled materials to Yang Xiuqing.

I happened to overhear the conversation between Yang Xiuqing and Chen Ping.

What happened last time at the women's hall was like a thorn in Fu Qingxiang's heart.

Later, she advised Yang Xiuqing to abolish the separate library for men and women, but Yang Xiuqing neither agreed nor refused.

However, one time Fu Shanxiang heard the Taiping Army generals discussing the issue of the Women's Pavilion at a banquet in the East Prince's Mansion. They felt that Taiping Army generals should be allowed to enter the Women's Pavilion in the future.

Only soldiers who fought bloody battles for the Kingdom of Heaven are eligible to have children.

Women should be assigned according to their status in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Although these words were not immediately adopted by King Dong, they were heard by Fu Qingxiang.

During this time, Fu Qingxiang was also paying attention to collecting information about the Red Flag Army from the palace's intelligence.

They liberated Yanding in the north of the Yangtze River, redistributed land, built seawalls, organized land reclamation, and allowed everyone to live a new life. Wasn't it because the Kingdom of Heaven overthrew the Manchu Qing Dynasty not to let everyone live a good life, but to let some of the generals of the Kingdom of Heaven

Do you want to live a life of superiority with officials?

In today's capital, all the dignitaries and dignitaries of the Kingdom of Heaven are living a better life than the Manchu officials and wealthy businessmen of the past.

Ordinary people seem to live an equal life, but everyone works day and night, just like tools, to create wealth for the Kingdom of Heaven.

Is this really the life that people need?

The next day, Yang Xiuqing wanted to send an envoy to Jiangbei, and Fu Qingxiang volunteered to accompany him.

Her reason was very good, because she had met Zhuo Yiqing last time, and she was also a woman, which made it easier to communicate with the leader of the Red Flag Army.

In front of all the ministers, Yang Xiuqing did not refuse. Indeed, he did not think much about it. He just thought that Fu Qingxiang wanted to go out and relax.

Soon, the Taiping Army mission set off again. Zeng Lichang, the Taiping Army guard in Yangzhou City, also received Yang Xiuqing's order to retreat.

After receiving the order, Zeng Lichang immediately became furious and called Yang Xiuqing a villain.

Zeng Lichang was Lin Fengxiang's subordinate. After Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang led the main force in the Northern Expedition, they asked him to stay in Yangzhou.

Later, in order to open up the connection with Jiangbei, Yang Xiuqing added some troops. These generals under the East King did not obey Zeng Lichang's command after arriving in Yangzhou, so that when Zeng Lichang resisted Qishan's Jiangbei camp, he could

The troops deployed were stretched thin.

The Taiping Army has unknowingly begun to fight among factions.

Everyone knows that Yang Xiuqing is at odds with Lin Fengxiang. Lin Fengxiang can fight, but after all, he is not the king and has been suppressed by Yang Xiuqing.

Yang Xiuqing sent Lin Fengxiang to the Northern Expedition, setting him on a path of certain death. Now he began to suppress Lin Fengxiang and his troops. How could he make Zeng Lichang calm down?

But what could Zeng Lichang do? He couldn't surrender to the Manchus.

Even Lin Fengxiang could only pinch his nose and accept the fate of Dongwang Yang Xiuqing.

Now the Northern Expeditionary Army is surrounded by Manchu and Qing troops in Hebei, and the Kingdom of Heaven has not even decided whether to send reinforcements.

Many people have ideas about this, but now that Yang Xiuqing has sole power, no one dares to offend him.

In particular, Yang Xiuqing controlled the money bag of the Taiping Army. If anyone was disobedient, his military pay and equipment would be deducted. Most of the generals and soldiers under the Taiping Army had a fixed relationship.

If a general can't feed his soldiers, why should they let everyone work for you?

Dong Liang, who returned to Fuzhou City, left the marriage matters to Xiang Bang, who rushed back from Ryukyu.

Xiang Bang gave up the position of Prime Minister of Ryukyu to the original admonishment doctor Cai Song. Cai Song was not as pedantic as Cai Qi. He had defected to the Chinese from the beginning and had been assisting Xiang Bang in his work for more than a year.

Xiang Bang's prestige within Ryukyu is too high, and the Xiang family's power is too heavy.

Dong Liang just took advantage of the wedding to transfer Xiang Bang out. After helping Dong Liang host the wedding, Xiang Bang will go to Luzon to serve as governor.

Luzon is preparing to establish a viceroyalty, which is a transitional first-level administrative unit that is different from ordinary provinces. Moreover, the system implemented in the viceroyalty is also different from that of the provinces.

For example, Luzon recognizes private ownership of land.

In the mainland Chinese provinces, including Ryukyu, the land state-owned system is implemented.

If Xiang Bang is going to Luzon to take up his post, he will definitely take a group of people with him. At this time, the Chinese can send another group of people to Ryukyu to gradually eliminate the differences between Ryukyu and the mainland.

Dong Liang's mother also arrived in Fuzhou, but the old woman didn't understand anything and could only go through the motions.

Xiang Bang presided over all major matters.

Dong Liang finally had his hands free.

Wei Yuan has been sent to Fuzhou by the Second Fleet for some time. This person has been living in Fuzhou University Hall, and sometimes communicates with Jiang Jingli and others in the university hall.

Wei Yuan's idea is actually very simple, "Chinese learning is the essence, and Western learning is the application." Jiang Jingli and others were influenced by Dong Liang and also came into contact with some Western learning.

But they have different opinions. They believe that knowledge does not distinguish between East and West, and the conceptual research methods in Western learning can be directly adopted.

As long as I take it over and absorb it into middle school, it belongs to me. Therefore, there is no need to distinguish between middle school and Western learning.

What I have come to here is middle school. If you force the distinction, it will give readers the impression that the concise and standardized things are Western learning, something that comes from other countries.

The two sides argued endlessly about this, so much so that Wei Yuan forgot that he had been kidnapped.

Dong Liang had been back for several days, and finally someone reported the matter to him, and then he remembered to see Wei Yuan.

When Wei Yuan met Dong Liang, it was obvious that he was relying on his elders. He immediately asked Dong Liang where he copied the things he wrote.

Dong Liang was not angry, but smiled and said: "Sir, where did you copy the map of the sea country from?"

Wei Yuan snorted coldly: "I wrote the Map of the Sea Kingdom to enlighten the people's wisdom and learn skills from the barbarians to control the barbarians. This is the result of compiling many documents."

Dong Liang said: "Yes, the "Letter to Chinese Compatriots" I wrote was also to wake up the Chinese people. Since it is just a tool to wake people up, sir, why should you be serious about its origin? Sir, you will care who wakes you up in the morning.

Who?"

Wei Yuan was speechless.

"Sir, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties are no longer able to lead our Chinese nation forward. We are now in a time of great strife, and there are many ethnic groups that have perished. If our Chinese nation does not rise again, I am afraid that we will not be destroyed in the end, but will be trampled under the soles of others.
Chapter completed!